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10:53 pm: Report From Philadelphia

Nikola Tesla Energy Independence Celebration in Philadelphia
by Michael Riversong

Philadelphia has a healthy street life. That helped immensely as we promoted this conference by handing out cards at a Friday night arts fair and a July 4th celebration. Several people came to the Tesla Celebration events because of these promotions, so standing there confronting apathy, antagonism, and occasional enthusiasm made a big difference. Not many cities offer such opportunities for public interaction. This is one of many reasons why Philadelphia was an ideal setting for a significant new Tesla conference.

The weekend began with a festive Friday night dinner at the Balkan Express Restaurant with authentic Serbian food. Speakers, invited guests, and some members of the public took advantage of excellent networking opportunities.

On Saturday and Sunday (July 11 and 12) during the days the Nikola Tesla Inventor's Club set up tents on the Independence Hall lawn. This included an art show, music, and informal instruction free to the general public. Many old and new friends stopped by. Only occasionally would someone kindly inform us that our efforts were useless, and discussions were always lively when that happened. Fast-paced and well-attended evening lectures were delivered in the historic Philadelphia Ethical Society hall on beautiful Rittenhouse Square.

Meanwhile on Saturday the Innovation Roadshow Workshop was presented at Two Liberty Place. This was a special, complimentary program for inventors arranged by the Nikola Tesla Inventor's Club and presented by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Valuable instructions on how to develop and market inventions were given.

Two petitions were circulated during the events. One was to advocate canonization of Nikola Tesla as a saint through the Serbian Orthodox Church. www.St-Tesla.com <http://www.St-Tesla.com/>The other will ask the City of Philadelphia to re-name a key freeway after Nikola Tesla. Also a Declaration of Energy Independence was on hand, read several times, and signed by many visitors.

Tom Valone of Integrity Research Institute started the lecture series off with an in depth analysis of technologies initiated by Tesla. He emphasized several medical spin-offs, relating how they work inexpensively on a number of conditions. Long experience in this field of research has shown that medical technologies are often the first to work. Tom also invited all of us to the Third International Conference on Future Energy to be held in Washington DC October 9-10.

Dr. Ljubo Vujovic of the Tesla Memorial Society provided several deep insights into Tesla's life and way of thinking. It was rare, and especially beneficial, to see the role that Serbian culture played in the formation and inspiration of this great man.

Only one of Tesla's laboratories is still standing, at Wardenclyffe on Long Island. Jane Alcorn and Chris Wesselborg had a hopeful outlook concerning the possibilities of creating a Science Center at the site. They gave a vivid photographic tour using recent and archival material and showed a number of plans for the site. Work on resurrecting the building has been going for 15 years and they are making progress among the multiple layers of Long Island government.

David Vujich gave a short briefing on various ongoing government efforts to facilitate the development of alternative and advanced energy systems.

Both evenings, Engineer David Rosignoli demonstrated a distinctive Tesla coil that was one of the most exciting parts of the conference. He allowed audience members to line up and use gas-filled glass tubes to create memorable lighting effects.

Some relationships between electricity and gravity are now known among scientists. It is not known exactly how much Tesla researched Electrogravitics. Russell Anderson has made a great deal of progress in the field by reliably building "lifters" that levitate entirely due to electric charge carried in threadlike wires connected to specially built power supplies. This technology promises to open up new methods of high speed air and space travel in the future.

Father Milorad Orlic is the parish priest of St. Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church in Philadelphia. His unusual credentials allowed great insight into Tesla's spiritual life and thus some of the underlying motivations for his inventions. Given his early exposure to religion as the son of a parish priest it is possible to see how Tesla developed the great generosity, ethics, and compassion for which he was known throughout his life. His great sacrifice in leaving homeland and family behind to pursue inventing for the benefit of all humanity was poignantly emphasized.

Any strong historical personality invites artistic portrayal. One of the most intense forms of art is opera. Miriam Seidel wrote such a work which was eventually presented in Serbia and the United States with director Terry O'Reilly. They both gave insight into their creative processes and then showed a long video clip from one of the performances.

While Tesla's name had been removed from school textbooks by order of J.P. Morgan, amateur radio enthusiasts always kept his memory alive. Yuri Blanarovich is president of the Tesla Radio Club in New Jersey, an organization with a long history and many plans to continue helping Tesla become more widely known in the future.

Mark Passio gave a well organized presentation detailing the current state of humanity and what needs to happen both technologically and ethically to change the situation. Many people need to raise their consciousness to Tesla's level in order for our species to make any progress.

The final presentation of the conference built on Mark Passio's talk by focusing on several specific and little known technologies that deserve further research and development. These include solar air systems, wireless transmission of electricity, and John Keely's Dynasphere which was invented in Philadelphia.

Everyone involved agreed that the first Tesla Celebration was successful. Many factors contributed to the success, including a number of dedicated volunteers, lots of networking throughout the East Coast, and special characteristics of Philadelphia as a city. Further annual conferences and monthly meetings are being planned. Cooperation between members of this group and other Tesla groups worldwide will be encouraged. Information can be found at:

Meetings web site:
http://ntesla.meetup.com/38

Main web site:

http://www.nikolateslainventorsclub.com
http://www.teslaacademy.info
215-253-5610 or
484-955-0545

The Nikola Tesla Inventor's Club was founded in 2004 and has the following mission statement: "The mission of the Nikola Tesla Inventors' Club is to bring awareness of Nikola Tesla’s innovations to the greater public. At this critical juncture of transition in human history, we recognize a moral imperative to initiate the development of new energy technologies that Tesla envisioned for the world. Through this event, we will bring together and inspire like-minded innovators and enthusiasts to advance Tesla’s legacy as the father of free energy and communications, and help bring his vision for these technologies to fruition for the betterment of humanity."

Michael Riversong, Founder, Tesla Academy

05:38 am: Medical Thread
You might have been wondering what's been going on lately.  Right now i'm near Philadelphia, about to celebrate Tesla's birthday.  For the past month i've been undergoing rehabilitation from surgery.  On one Mennonite list there's been a thread about various medical matters.  The rest of this post is my fairly long comments from this thread:

Someone wrote about a child who was hyperactive and occasionally going into intense fits of rage:
Food allergy tests can't always be accurate. There are too many variables. That's why ultimately a rotation diet ends up being the primary way to work. It is possible for someone knowledgeable in Ethnonutrition to speed up the process a bit by analyzing genetic background. That's not certain either but it can help. For some, Applied Kinesiology in various forms can work, although we have to be careful with that discipline.

All this said, it's also true that sometimes a person becomes incorrigible. That's a word we don't see used much any more but it still happens. I've had many experiences working, always briefly, with such students. Within the Anabaptist (Mennonite) movement there have always been discussions about the beginning of the Age of Accountability. It seems to vary a lot. All we really know is that at some point a person is completely responsible for decisions. If someone has made a definite decision to follow a wrong path, despite any good influences around, there's not much we can do. Medications will just gum up the whole process and generally make a person less aware of possible good influences.

We can't give up! Even if the only thing left is prayer, we have to do that. I've seen people turn around, sometimes after many years. I'm an example of that. In 1971 i became completely hooked on marijuana. From there on everything i did was influenced by the drug. I became someone you would not want to know. In 1981 i managed to quit. It was incredibly difficult, taking about 9 months before the last bit was smoked, and another 8 months for drug residues to get out of my body.

What made the difference for me was accidentally, through a series of miracles, joining a small Mennonite congregation in Southern Colorado. A few of them knew about my struggle and they were consistently praying for me. I'm convinced that was the critical factor.

One other thing -- anyone who has hallucinations on Adderall is unusually susceptible to stimulants. Such a person should not have any caffeine -- not even good old healthy black or green tea. Food colorings may also cause allergic reactions, as well as many spices. I would even suspect coriander, cinnamon, paprika, and caraway in a case like this!

When doctors prescribe anti-seizure medications in these cases, it is usually an indication they are desperate. Those always have unpredictable effects. It is impossible to say when or how they will work. When you start studying the chemistry of these drugs, and comparing them with normal human metabolism, you will encounter many surprises. I'm still trying to figure out why gabapentin, one of the mildest of these, has an effect by altering the way bodies use potassium. It just doesn't make any sense. When i've brought that up to doctors, the honest ones agree!


In any case where someone is "bipolar" an interview will quickly uncover someone in that person's life who is constantly and consistently invalidating.

Please do not infect other people with your praises of these deadly poisonous substances.  We have to eliminate them from our lives in order to save the lives of so many who have been brutally slaughtered by their effects.  If you have any caring at all or other people, you will do some research and find out how badly you have been defrauded.  That is part of what is suggested for people with these mental problems.  We need to find out who our real enemies are, and some of them are indeed principalities and powers in high places.

Other suggestions include educating ourselves about how we are affected by others, and by Satanic influences.  We also need to educate ourselves about nutritional and environmental factors.

I've seen a few cases for example where one small design element in a house was causing tremendous mental turmoil.  Once that element was changed there was immediate and dramatic improvement.


When you advocate the use of SSRI drugs, you are advocating a systematic program of MURDER. Approximately 6% (best estimate) of people using those drugs will commit violent acts. Pharmaceutical companies have found it cheaper to buy off affected families and doctors than to shut down these fantastic profit engines. Tremendous amounts of documentation are available. Included among the documentation are court records showing how manufacturers have covered up suicides and murders among their own employees who were testing the drugs. The sheer existence of these substances is testimony to massive and well documented corruption in the Food and Drug Administration.

It makes me extremely sad to see someone on this list advocating such horrible and destructive measures against children. I am hoping that this person is good hearted but has been defrauded by medical personnel and pharmaceutical company propaganda.


From CG:
"Actually, bipolar disorder, like depression, results from a chemical imbalance within the brain, which can be aided by medications. Certainly emotional and spiritual issues can exacerbate such conditions, or even aggravate an existing tendency to such imbalances to the point where symptoms occur, result in a clinical manifestation of such conditions.
Once the disease mainfests, medications are very useful in alleviating the symptoms and allowing the patient and his caretakers to correct any underlying emotional problems."

This is pure pharmaceutical company propaganda!  No Christian should be repeating this, as it will cause great harm physically, mentally, and spiritually.  Until you have read the original psychiatric research on these poisons, you have absolutely no clue that you are simply repeating harmful lies.  The fact is, the chemical working mechanisms of most commonly marketed poisons are not known.  Jargon is used to cover up this fact.  Examine pharmaceutical marketing literature carefully and in the fine print you will see plenty of "thought to" and "probably" statements, along with horrible side effects.

Go to a physician, and ask for the specific chemical mechanisms involved in any psychiatric medication you choose.  Record the answer.  Analyze this answer carefully in terms of the specific chemical reactions stated.  In most cases, you won't even get that far.  That's because NOBODY knows the specific chemical chains involved.  All that is known, is that in an acceptable percentage of the population there are no immediate deaths recorded as arising directly from the poison.

Depakote is well known among physicians as being unpredictable. You really never know what will happen with that drug. However, it does not create long-term damage in most cases, so it can be worth a try for many patients with bad diets and unknown neurological manifestations.


Would some hard experience help here?  I've gone into a lot of rages which destroyed 2 marriages and countless friendships.

Medicalizing anger won't work.  I think Scripture backs us up on that.  It's a normal part of the human condition, as is depression.  When we try to handle these things with drugs we always end up doing physical damage to the body.  That puts us in a worse position than before.

What i found, is that there are many direct addresses to the problem of anger within Scripture.  This is why i really enjoy using a computer for Bible study.  So it's a good idea to go through those references.  (If anyone needs the link to a good free computer study program, let me know.)  You will find many of the references in Proverbs.  Consistently Solomon wrote that we had to take conscious control.  My experience is that literally nothing else ever works.

Still that didn't always work out.  In early 2004 my lid came off at a guy who was letting his dogs run loose after a study meeting.  I made quite a scene out of it and was banned from the congregation.  But the teacher there sent me a book to work with, and for the first time in my life i had a way to really handle anger.  This 9 step program based entirely on Scripture actually WORKED!  Within 3 months i was back in the group, and have rarely had problems since then.

"Anger: The Inner Teacher" by Rabbi Zelig Pliskin


From CG:
"People who live near the equator have a very low incidence of depression; conversely, depression is more common the further north (or in the southern hemisphere, south) you get, peaking in Arctic Circle countries."

You hit on something very interesting here.  Magnetic fields are much more intense at the far northern latitudes.  Couple this with seasonal disturbances from lack of sunlight, and you can see some pretty hairy situations.

Also the so-called "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" and related Fibromyalgia are definitely more common in the North.

Probably it's the same in the far southern latitudes.  I know people in Tasmania and Tierra del Fuego get pretty twisted at times.

This should open the door to more intensive studies of magnetic fields.  That would help a lot.

People in the less developed southern countries are also not getting blitzed with pharmaceutical company marketing campaigns since they don't have much "disposable income".  That's probably a blessing...


In response to a question about why the hostility toward psychiatry:
In 1984-1987 i lived near Columbine High School. I knew about the problems there long before that tragic day in 1999. Also i had met one of the students who was killed -- he was a great musician.

That tragedy was directly connected to pharmaceutical products. And there have been many other such incidents where the connection can be found.

Another thing was that in 1982 i was in a mental hospital for 3 weeks. They largely left me alone and provided good food, so i got better. Then the psychiatrist prescribed some fairly nasty medication which made it nearly impossible to work. I quit the drug quickly and got curious about how these things work. Since i can understand medical language i burrowed into some of the original research documents involved. The lies and fraud contained in these things are absolutely amazing!

Did you know: The majority of psychiatrists graduated in the bottom third of their medical school classes.

Probably my next album will be called "Trenchcoat Mafia".


Well it's nice to see some support for my "position".

There is too much of a tendency within the medical community to regard humans as fancy animals. That attitude stems from Darwinism and leads to many abuses in itself.

Humans have one thing that animals don't have, which is our spiritual nature, or as some would say, souls.


From K.R.:
"Many diseases such as hypertension,diabetes, and some forms of cancer can be prevented with diet and lifestyle therefore limiting one s need for medicines to control the illnesses once we have them."

Absolutely! And we find that many mental disorders will clear up with good nutrition and exercise. I would also add, environmental handling. Which can sometimes mean going off to Cozumel or Patagonia to get over a tragedy. That's legitimate, if it harms no one in the process.

You might notice that i mainly come out against psychiatry and its procedures. I like nuerology and have recently gained a lot of respect for diabetes specialists too.

Most fields of medicine do not include diatribes against religion among their basic training materials. That should tell us something.


In response to a concern about Applied Kinesiology:
Applied Kinesiology (AK) is a difficult discipline.  If someone doesn't know it really well it is easy to make mistakes.  It's really at the approximate level of complexity as neurosurgery.  In fact a similar knowledge of neural pathways is necessary for competency in either field.

As for Quackwatch, they have little credibility.  Mainly they exist to trash anyone who does not fit into narrow guidelines for practice as established by the Rockefeller funded American Medical Association and allied pharmaceutical companies.  It's fortunate that on the other side we have www.mercola.com which presents a good balance.  Mercola points out similar quackery and outright abuse perpetrated by AMA/pharmaceutical practitioners.  In a just society, many of those doctors would be prosecuted for health fraud.

When examining health situations, we all need to step back and consider that abuses have existed throughout history in all medical disciplines.  Each case has to be examined carefully.  It is when one or another practitioner tells outright lies that we need to be concerned.  Certain pharmaceutical products run afoul of this criterion.  Many of those products happen to be psychiatric drugs.

02:39 am: Hospital
It has now been more than 8 days since i last was outside the door to this room.  It is a good place to rest and allow a wound to heal.  That process seems to be going acceptably well, but we will only know for sure after another surgery.  I have been told that for the past few days the weather outside has been miserable, which has appeared to be the case based on the small northward view out the window here.  Still, it would be a blessing to feel either rain or sunshine on my face.

My future appears uncertain.  Activity will have to be limited for an indefinite period after being released.  Some upcoming events will have to be canceled, and others may happen in a different form than expected.  I have some work to do, which will require some elaborate logistics, so that's good.  Meanwhile, i can't drive or walk very far after being released from here.  It may be a long time before i see my wilderness home again.

I decided to make the best of this situation by consciously doing several things.  One has been listening to spiritual audio programs.  Another is to provide humor for attending staff members whenever possible.  In fact, a few have become interested in parts of my work, which has brought joy in here.  It is obvious that certain thought patterns were associated with the development of my injury, and so changing those patterns has become a high priority.

For now, i continue to eat well, sleep when possible, get to know the wonderful people who come in here, and try to learn how to pray better.

09:54 am: Meeting La Llorona
If you've been around the Southwest much, sooner or later you've run into this character.  Sometimes children who grew up there were terrified of her when they were little.

Like many legends, there's truth behind this one.  Too many Native American moms were forced to abandon their children and often their tribes too.  They were given as a substitute the glamorous American material life, which implies no connection to family or tribe.  Since it was obvious they weren't "real" Americans at the time, they were shunted off into becoming non-specified Hispanics -- not really Mexican, but not really Native American either.  It also means, as a practical matter,  their children growing up as orphans supported only by siblings.  This can get so bad that nobody actually grows up.  Prisons, especially in Arizona, and full of people like that.

La Llorona is a real person.  You might have met her.  She sent her children off to boarding school or to be raised with relatives.  But she was never happy with the glamorous life that had been promised.  As she grows older she becomes ever more frightening.  Eventually you see only a wraith-like figure hovering around health care facilities on the edge of society.

We should recognize that, as with any cultural icon, there are women who are desperately trying NOT to be La Llorona.  These are the ones who never let go of their children, who smother them with affection and instruction, and manage to somehow keep men out of the house, or maginalized in some way.

Meeting a legend is always amazing, and can explain a lot.

02:54 pm: Suppression of Invention
 Today i'm safely in Arizona, working with Tesla Tech on several projects.

One of the things we have to deal with here is the suppression of invention.  This is worse than scandalous, in fact threatening the future of our planet.  The people who do this, like suppressives everywhere, remain covert and nasty.  We have to expose them any way we can, as part of what needs to happen for environmentally safe and humane technology to emerge.

So the rest of this post, which is rather long compared to most of what is in this blog, is passed on from a friendly source in the US military.  We have friends all over the place.  Hopefully one day i can delete this posting and look back on this period as a "nightmare which we survived."

** COPY THIS INFORMATION AND SAVE IT TO ANOTHER LOCATION ONLINE ASAP!!! ***

 

Jim Boswell has been a target of suppression in recent weeks (March-April 2009 timeframe).  Since articles were posted online several weeks ago discussing Jim's advanced energy technologies, Jim has experienced the following:

 

*  Jim has received multiple death threats over the phone.

 

*  Jim received a hard copy death threat - placed on the windshield of his vehicle.

 

*  Unmarked vehicles have been parked outside Jim's house at night on several occasions.  Whenever Jim walks outside to confront the person(s), the vehicles quickly drive away.

 

*  Two uninvited men interrupted a meeting in Texas between Jim and a prospective investor, one of which claimed he was former NSA, using a fake name to identify himself.  After one of the men briefly walked out of the room to make a phone call, this man walked back into the room and mentioned information that could only have been known by someone monitoring Jim's email/phone communications.

 

* The morning after Jim posted a video on youtube demonstrating his technology, a man parked his personal vehicle outside Jim's house, placed a PG&E cone behind the vehicle, and was loitering around Jim's house and accessed Jim's home electrical box outside.  Jim walked outside and confronted the man.  The man immediately walked to his vehicle.  Jim walked inside, grabbed his camcorder and recorded the man leaving.  In one of the videos, the man can be seen holding a taser close to his leg.  The license plates were recorded on the video.  The local police department said the gentleman has a long list of convictions, to include being hired as a hit man.  A private investigator identified the owner of the vehicle by name, and an internet search for the name brought up only one name on the Fresno area.  This individual's mother was also listed on the registration of the vehicle.  She was murdered in 2006 according to online articles.  This individual is considered very dangerous, so do not approach or contact him directly.  For the videos, see http://tr.youtube.com/user/JimBoswell2008 or http://www.youtube.com/user/JimBoswell2008

 

* PG&E confirmed that no one was scheduled for an appointment to work on Jim's house electrical box on that day.  The phone call is recorded.

 

* Jim received a death threat on paper the night after the abovementioned incident stating:

 

WE WARNED YOU!  

 

STOP TALKING ABOUT YOUR INVENTIONS!  

 

YOU WILL NOT MANUFACTURE YOUR

INVENTIONS OR THE NEXT TIME

YOU ARE DEAD!

 

Jim's phones are apparently monitored by an outside party with covert electronic surveillance capabilities, based on information conveyed in the threatening phone calls and from one of the two men who interrupted Jim's meeting with a prospective investor in TX.  Jim can hear a click shortly after he begins a phone call.  The measured voltage on his phone line increases from ~24V to ~40 volts when the click occurs, and the voltage returns to ~24V when another click is heard towards the end of his phone calls or when it is determined that he is talking about an unrelated topic that is not of interest to the monitoring party.

 

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Based on other advanced energy researchers' experiences of suppression, the next likely event is vehicular assault, where someone will drive into Jim, run him off the road, try to hit him in a parking lot or on the street, etc., in order to stop him from continuing his work and public interactions, to ensure his technology does not make it out to the public.  All of the abovementioned information can be confirmed upon request.  Simply repost this information somewhere on the internet with a request to be contacted via email (anonymous email OK), and within a few days the search engines can be used to identify keyword phrases from this original post, and a message will be sent to the email posted along with this message.  This information is intended to 'go viral', as a means of protecting Jim Boswell from future incidents, as local authorities and the FBI are not positioned to provide the protection necessary to ensure Jim's safety, so we must do it through the Internet - a million watt spotlight on these incidents will minimize the likelihood of future incidents.

 

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08:06 am: Possible Solution
My car is increasingly becoming a threat to my survival.  The driver door is broken in several ways, the transmission is starting to get a bit wobbly, the seat belts are broken, and it has over 222,000 miles on it.  This car, although wonderful, probably is getting ready for that great highway in the sky.  Besides, it's too small.

Many of the places i go are, or should be, overnight stays.  This also means that my vehicle has to include a small library and some musical instruments.

So my next vehicle has to be a bus or RV.  Can't really use a truck because it's impossible to adequately protect books & equipment in one.

Last night i attended a picnic with the Northern Colorado Vegetable Oil Co-Op.  That's where ideas began to fall into place.  Diesel engines can easily be converted to run on waste vegetable oil which is available almost everywhere.  In fact that was the original intention of Rudolf Diesel when he invented the engine.

So now it's a matter of obtaining that vehicle and getting it fitted up.  This might take a while, or it might go quickly.  Once it's in place, it will be possible to travel inexpensively all over the country teaching people about Tesla, music, and environmental handling.  This is a sort of "magic bus" career, which i am willing & able to do for the rest of my natural life.  I have a good base in Cheyenne with many friends and it's an ideal location relative to the rest of the continent.

Several people will help with this.  It can't and shouldn't be done alone.  This work is for a diffuse and diverse community of students all over the continent.  Every school is supported by a community.  Tesla Academy is in that way the same as any other school.  One of the good things about people contributing to a school like this is that they become part of the solution, and this makes them feel more connected to life.  Are you one of the people who makes this portable school happen?

10:09 am: Non, Violence?
 

06:05 pm: Being Old
 So now i'm 57 years old.  Which is older than my mom was when she died.  Some people would call this a victory, and maybe it is.

A few days ago had a conversation with a guy exactly my age, just before he got into his car for Oregon.  We agreed -- it's certainly not right to be like old people were when we were kids.  That won't work.  So we determined that we would find ways to enjoy the whole thing, any way we can.  There's always something new to learn, a new friend to find, and another place to check out.

Read a really interesting book lately which i don't have time to explain right now.  One of the best parts was about a guy who died at the age of 86, and had tons of people at his funeral.  His trick was, that every decade he made sure to find new friends.

What i got from the book is that any time i feel out of sorts in any way, all any real friend would have to do is find someone i can help.  Then everything turns around in about a millisecond.  Actually there's a lot of stress in my life, and of course i'm ultimately responsible for making sure it gets handled.  But, part of that is to be connected with people who can, sometimes unwittingly, reduce stress.  If anyone does any simple thing that reduces stress for someone else, it would be good for them to know that the effects go way beyond the person they did something for.  What's really cool about this is that many of the things that can be done to reduce stress don't cost anything.  In other words, there's no way to measure the good you can do, all on your own.

Here in Wyoming, we have to say: 

"If you ain't got a family, you gotta invent one!"

12:59 pm: Breakthrough Power
Someone recently turned me on to a site called GoodReads.com  It's a great way to set up reviews etc., and share the best with friends.  This particular book could save your life.  And many other lives, too.

<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6238472.Breakthrough_Power_How_Quantum_leap_New_Energy_Inventions_Can_Transform_Our_World?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Breakthrough Power: How Quantum-leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2838667.Jeane_Manning_and_Joel_Garbon">Jeane Manning and Joel Garbon</a><br/><br/>
  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45948176?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>This is the first book to be thoroughly endoresed by the New Energy Congress.  It covers many aspects of advanced energy research, and does so more thoroughly than anything published so far.  Many little-known technologies that involve getting energy from water, magnets, or the aether are covered.  Everyone who wants to do something about the ongoing energy crisis needs to read this book.  It makes an especially good starting point for young researchers.
<br/>
  <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1908798-Michael-Riversong?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>

02:26 pm: Dose of Inspiration
 Friday night i did something that i haven't done in many years.  Went out to a bar.  That morning, had gotten a copy of the newspaper at school.  In the "To Do" section, which has recently  been improved,  They had a listing for John Warburton performing free at a tiny bar nearby.

He's been one of my favorite musicians since i first heard him about 5 years ago.  I consider him one of Cheyenne's treasures.  His music is purely Americana; an innovative, dynamic mix of blues, rock, and folk.  Mostly solo he plays dobro -- 3 were used in the performance.  Does a lot of open tunings, which of course i appreciate immensely.  His Friday night performance was definitely worthwhile.  Hope to hear him a lot more in the future!

Here's his web site:  http://johnwarburtonmusic.com/

05:12 pm: New Year's Desires
Resolutions don't seem to do a whole lot.  So i don't get involved with them.  What's worked for me have been fundamental changes, like when i quit marijuana after 10 years of addiction and 9 months of resolutions to quit.  I had a powerful vision that shook me up big-time.  One one side, was me lying in a pool of blood on a street in Los Angeles about 3 years from then.  On the other was something intriguing -- a very long, golden road with thousands of people alongside.  Since that time (1981) there have been thousands of people, and i'm tnankful for each one.  Whether or not i remember them.

Today there was a strange incident.  Had a free period, and sat down at a computer in the school library.  A student sat next to me, and started playing an elaborate game of "mind-warp".  Actually that game has a different name but i won't use that here.  Anyway he tried to convince me that i had dinner with him & his father last week.  Sometimes my memory for events with people is faulty, and i explained that to him.  The dinner never came to mind.  Later, i asked his teacher about him, and got to understand that he really didn't know me at all.  She mentioned that he rarely does any work for his classes.  It's always fascinating to meet someone who is incredibly intelligent and flunking school.  That alone is a good reason to write "Network Education" which is a replacement for our current Dewey-Thorndike school system.

So one desire is to get that Network Education material in the hands of many people who can use it to help students.

There's a desire stemming from that "3-Dimensional Music Theory" DVD.  That's to make a video about how we can use music to handle anger.  Actors and other musicians will be required, since part of it should be a re-enactment of an incident that happened in 1990.  Of course some sort of funding is necessary to make this a professional production.

Another desire came up today.  I'd like to get paid for writing a blog.  Every day i have some thoughts that might be worth sharing.  Most of the time, as mentioned here earlier, those thoughts are forgotten before there's a chance to write.  There are people who are paid to write blogs, so perhaps that would be appropriate in this case.  Besides, my ordinary life has recently involved increased demands to make monthly payments for various things.  So some sort of stipend would be an appropriate way to handle that.

So, dear reader, if you happen to know anyone who pays people to write blogs, and you think that these thoughts should go out more often and to a wider audience, please get us connected.  Thanks in advance!

05:03 pm: Assessment
Welcome to the usual time for assessment! Whenever you don't see any posts for a long time on this blog, keep in mind that some of my enemies read this, and i don't want to trouble them with bad news.  November and December have been tough, and you are being spared the details.  December has so far been the coldest i can remember.  Left the cabin for a couple days late in November, and didn't get back until this past Sunday.  Even then, with 3 heaters running for 2 hours, the temperature had only gotten up to 35.  I'm very thankful to have cozy winter quarters in town right now!

2008 has been a big year for the Bardic work. Here are some of the accomplishments:

Riding Through a Rainbow was rearranged as an acoustic album. New material was added, and the album released in May. Its purpose is still unknown, but everyone who has a copy has given back a good report.

Electric Rainbow was released in May as my first techno creation. It appears to have usefulness in dealing with fatigue. Also young people tend to like it.

3-Dimensional Music Theory became my first DVD release in June. It is an expanded version of the classroom demo commonly given to music students. Each of the 7 musical scales in our Pythagorean system is displayed in a physical model and demonstrated on the harp, along with its healing purpose as re-discovered in research.

In June and July several classes on "How to Heal With Music" were presented in Maryland and New York. This was the most successful class run yet. Two are available as CDs: Basic How to Heal With Music, and Bards Evening.

Bards: Music for Community and Healing was printed and made available for the first time by a printer in Maryland. This is the key book explaining the background, reasons, and methods of my musical healing work.

Tesla Dictionary of Advanced Research Terminology was updated in September, with photographs added. Both the new and old versions are available for free download at www.teslaacademy.info

Tesla Academy Disk and MR Environmental Disk were released as a CD-ROM set in October. They can be obtained as a set or individually. They include complete PDF editions of my books, current files for books in progress, many educational photos, and resource listings.

You can easily obtain any of this year's products by emailing me: mriversong@earthlink.net

Hope we can all continue to work together on improving planetary conditions as we move forward in time!  Have a Happy New Year!

12:26 pm: One Power We Have
On Sunday at our church we looked at Luke 5:17-26. That's a fascinating incident. Before healing a paralyzed guy, Yeshua forgave his sins. A bunch of Pharisees at the scene thought this was total blasphemy. But i realized, ANYONE can forgive sins. Maybe not big ones, all the time, but still it's always possible for humans. At other times and places Yeshua told us that we could do this, like in Mark 11:25-26. Every human has this power.

I've studied a lot about what's known as Overt/Withhold cycles. Like when i left my first wife, i had committed a lot of sins against her. Basically i left her because i couldn't figure out any way to get her to forgive me, so i had to withhold myself from her in order to avoid hurting her any more. Sometimes this sort of thing gets people to withhold their health. If someone is disabled, it can become impossible to commit certain sins. When a sin is confessed, and a sense of forgiveness is obtained, healing becomes possible in these cases.

Sometimes it's simply not possible to obtain forgiveness from someone we have wronged. When that's the situation, we have to depend on our Maker to forgive us. That's the real value of the Christian relationship -- it's really the only known way on this planet for that to happen.

Getting to a point where we can recognize and confess to sins can be difficult. We have a tendency to forget things that we don't want to be responsible for. Some of those can be buried deep in childhood. It can take a lot of education, or extremely skillful counseling, to get at some of that stuff. If it's not possible at the moment to get the best counseling, then we have one option. Find a good church, and hang out there. The best churches are the ones that provide the best education. It doesn't have anything to do with denomination. My church happens to be Brethren, but you can find great churches within many organizations, or stand-alone congregations.

Main thing is, let's use our power to forgive. That can have awesome, even miraculous, results.

05:07 pm: ExtraOrdinary Technology -- 2008
It's time this is made available. Hope it helps. There's some pretty awesome technology here. You are encouraged to purchase DVDs of any or all the lectures at
http://www.teslatech.info/ttstore/conftapes/teslatech/etcframe.htm

EXTRAORDINARY TECHNOLOGY 2008
by Michael Riversong

Each year this conference is a new adventure. This time, part of the adventure was that we moved to a new location, the University of New Mexico Student Union Building (SUB). This meant that many new people were able to experience ExtraOrdinary Technology for the first time, but in the process we had to battle a number of technical problems.

Our conference started off with what has to be one of the most fascinating technologies yet -- the Moe-Joe Cell developed by Naturopathic Doctor Moshe Daniel. He specializes in the practice of Homeopathy, which helped provide the unique insights making this possible. Instead of cylinders, stainless steel spheres are used. Then, charged water is poured in. Once the unit is installed in a car, observations have shown that varying amounts of mileage and efficiency improvements occur. On Thursday afternoon, he gave a workshop showing how the cells are assembled, charged, and installed in a car.

The wild variability of Moe-Joe Cells is one characteristic of this technology. Therefore, it may never be a consumer market item. Apparently, an operator's level of consciousness partly determines how the cell will work once installed. Moshe has written extensively on the nature of consciousness, and gave a lot of information on that in his Saturday presentation.

Brooks Agnew gave an exciting talk Thursday evening. He covered many aspects of Arctic exploration and detailed some of the preparations he's making for an expedition to the Arctic. This has implications throughout many areas of science. He believes it is possible that there are spaces within this planet containing oceans and land masses. Some specific possible entrance points in the Arctic were shown.

Chiropractor James Bare has quietly been recovering and developing technology originated by Royal Rife. While Rife's work is legendary, the stories are not always accurate. Dr. Bare diligently deflated some myths while building up information on how frequency medicine works. He explained how we have now made enough progress to the point where curricula can be developed, and called for this to start happening.

Dr. Omar Amin gave us details on many parasites in our environment, which may reside in unexpected places. He said that few people anywhere have much awareness about the types, ranges, and prevalence of parasites. We all should take precautions, including avoiding walking barefoot, lying directly on beach sand, and kissing pets. Several widely available herbs can help.

Len Horowitz presented a rapid, wide ranging exposition of many topics, including specific information on frequency medicine protocols available through the ancient Solfeggio system. Proper conditioning of DNA is vital to improved health, and technologies such as the use of Solfeggio tones can work to make this happen. He makes it clear that disciplines including astronomy, crystallography, cymatics, and spirituality are essential to the development of effective healing practices. Much of his work is now oriented toward a worldwide concert in several locations scheduled for July 21, 2009. His hour was one of the most popular and talked-about parts of the conference.

Lightning is both a problem and a blessing. Ron Nott, a retired power engineer, gave both sides. He shattered many misconceptions about this natural phenomenon. Every lightning strike is preceded by a slow buildup of charge at ground level around the strike point. Some of the preventive measures he has developed are unique and unexpected. One looks like a silver pom-pom, and tends to disperse dangerous energies at ground level. This can easily be made by anyone.

Harvey Fiala has been experimenting with gravity phenomena for many years. His latest work has produced a rotating device that demonstrates precession. Unfortunately, his demo unit had gotten damaged in transit. He still gave a good in-depth explanation of how it works. Harvey is one of many researchers who is coming to the conclusion that the working of gravity is instantaneous.

Alternative fuels are a hot topic all over the world right now. In Tai Robinson's presentation, several important developments were updated. This includes biodiesel, hydrogen, and what he regards as the most important transition technology, natural gas. Once vehicles are converted to natural gas, running on hydrogen from cracked, produced, or on-board sources is a logical next step.

Thorsten Ludwig presented the work of several inventors in rapid succession. First, he explained the Casimir effect to provide a good background. Among the inventors he mentioned was Konstantin Meyl, a speaker from 2007 who demonstrated Tesla's remote control work with improvements. Some recent gravity research from Germany was noted. We were also updated on the EBM motor from Hungary.

Moray King ran through a number of projects by many inventors that are making use of the mathematical foundations he has written up in his books. This is an especially significant presentation because it ties together a number of important threads including fusion and water as a fuel.

David Yurth gave one of the most complex presentations of the conference. He went through highly technical material ultimately concerning various products under development. Part of his work is an excellent refutation of misconceptions introduced to science by Descartes, especially the idea that matter and spirit are separate environments. Other parts of his presentation showed possible improvements to our standard model of physics. Consciousness and materiality are reconciled in this theory, and the Zero Point from which all energy ultimately emanates is precisely defined. All this comes together to help develop new materials from common elements, for generating and using electricity more efficiently and in an environmentally safe manner.

Alternative methods of air conditioning have long been desired. Few people have successfully ventured into this area. Valeiry Maisotesenko did, and has come up with a selling product called "Coolerado" which uses zero-point phenomena connected with air flow.

Sir Charles Shults is connected with a vibrant community of workers on many levels who are all doing important research and building of alternative energy technologies in community contexts. He emphasized solar work in this presentation, including fresnel panels which are getting very good results.

Superlight is a concept being assembled and promoted by John Milewski. It explains many phenomena. There are many types and gradations of magnetism and light energies. He is definitely getting closer to sorting out and quantifying several types of energies that were previously dumped into a general classification called "Subtle". His explanations, while being personally distinctive, go a long way toward giving us exact concepts for previously vague terms. Superlight itself is a complement to normal light, being magneto-electric instead of electro-magnetic. It emanates from black holes and travels a lot faster than light. He is refining these concepts into single fiber crystals that potentially have a wide range of applications.

Bay Area researcher Charles Ostman has long been involved in many aspects of materials development. This is all coming together now as Nano materials make possible more ephemeralization in many areas of technology. In other words, we are learning how to do more work with less material. His work serves to make practical many of the other inventions presented at the conference.

It has too often been said that common sense is not common enough, Roulette Wm. Smith has made an intense study of cross-cultural attitudes, language, and customs in this area. From this we may be able to develop common sense more widely, especially as applied to science and invention.

The conference ended with a well attended seminar on GEET technology as presented by Forrest Pittman. Even though inventor Paul Pantone remained incarcerated in Utah, a problem which was addressed during a special evening meeting during the conference, his technology is out of the bag and finding applications worldwide now. Forrest is among many engineers rolling this technology out to an ever wider audience.

Some photos are available at: http://s93.photobucket.com/albums/l62/mriversong/Inventions/

01:18 pm: Insurance
Insurance
is a form of welfare
for smart people
who don't know what else to do.

04:27 pm: Pause
Sometimes it seems like a giant finger came down out of the sky and pressed the "Pause" button on my life. This is one of those times.

It's been way too long since there was an update here. In that time many adventures happened.

One of those was a stop in the Midwest on the way home. A friend who lives way out in the country invited us to make a detour there. So we did. Turns out a number of Amish families have moved into his area in the past couple of years. That's changed everything. Many of the "English" families are waking up. The economy is actually doing well, mainly because it's now become possible to trade for many common living items. In fact that's why i'm not disclosing the exact location or even the state -- this is one of those things that should be kept secret, even as other people do their best to emulate what's happening. My host took me around in his van to play harp for several families. In just 2 days, i did more than what usually happens in a week. As a reward, one of the Amish families gave me a late-night buggy ride, which was awesome. Why did we ever invent automobiles anyway?

There was a major Hydrogen Implementation Conference in Laramie in late July. Learned a lot there, as a correspondent for the New Energy Congress. My coverage has been posted to: http://pesn.com/2008/07/25/9501489_Hydrogen_Implementation_Conference/

Shortly after that was the ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference in Albuquerque. Hopefully within the next few days a summary of that event will be posted to this journal.

Since then, have been spending a lot of time in Denver. Much of that has to do with the MadeByKids Foundation http://www.madebykids.org That organization aligns closely with my own life purpose.

Now my main harp is in the shop, awaiting repairs. Don't know yet how long that will take, or how much it will cost. Prayers appreciated!

Often when my life is on Pause, i tend to record more. Maybe that will happen over the next few days. It's a real blessing to have so many musical instruments on hand!

09:49 am: My New York
Will start the long drive home soon. This past weekend, was in New Jersey, learning a lot about alcoholism, which seems to drive most of the economy here. Even on the short bus ride to the city the guy sitting next to me was chugging a beer. That's probably illegal, which doesn't seem to stop anyone. Got to visit some place where part of a TV series about some singing Italian family was filmed, which felt very strange. How can they keep a place so dark on a bright day? Felt like i was inside a deep mountain cave. All that UV lighting can't be good for the eyes.

Have always found New York City fascinating, and try to spend time there when possible. On Friday went to Celebrity Centre and studied for part of the afternoon. That turned out to be a key session, as i stumbled into a definition that had unknowingly been giving me trouble for years. The word is "postulate", which i always thought was some kind of vague desire. Actually, it's related to prayer, only with higher octane. When making a postulate, one is actually claiming something. This explained a lot about why i spent so many years apparently not getting anywhere.

But i did get somewhere. Every experience in those years is beginning to add up. There's now a body of music sufficient to help many people. Friends are scattered all over the continent. (Even in Illinois.) Stories built up over the time are good for almost any occasion.

As for New York, i'm starting to burn out on it a little. Maybe managed to get my dose this time. There's always a lot of walking, which isn't as easy as it used to be. Next time, will make a lot more phone calls before coming this way. There should be plenty of people around who can benefit from all that stuff i have.

11:05 am: What a Week!
At the beginning of my stay here, someone called me "The Einstein of Music". Oddly enough right after that my hair started frizzing out, to look just like his did!

Last weekend i attended and documented a great alternative energy conference. The report and photos have been published to http://pesn.com/2008/07/02/9501486_AEP_Conference_report/

This past week, was about to leave Maryland a couple of times but ended up extending the stay here. Many clients, new friends, and general joy here! Last night we finished up most of the accounting & orders, and went out to celebrate.

In the DC area there's a chain of restaurants called "Austin Grill". One is located about a block away from the store, and had live music. We walked over and got to hear Patterson Barrett, who lives in Austin. He was great! My first impression was that his voice sounded like what i always wished Neil Young would sound like. In fact he did a couple of those old songs, much better than the originals. One was "Cinnamon Girl", which fit the friend i was with just perfectly. His originals are much better though. Anyway here's Patterson's site: http://www.pattersonbarrett.com/

This whole area is endlessly fascinating. Silver Spring is located just off the northwest corner of DC. It's an old suburb with a newly revitalized downtown. They set it up ideally for walking. It had always seemed like DC was just a war zone, but that's not accurate. Last Thursday, attended a meeting to start off a new Urban Permaculture group. The vitality and variety of neighborhoods along Georgia Avenue was astounding! The meeting was good, and hopefully will result in a vital group forming. Their web site is: http://ecolocity.ning.com

Happy Fireworks, Everyone!

06:09 am: Mai Varamba
Yesterday was the all-day class in Silver Spring. It went well, with a lot of enthusiasm.

At one point, we were discussing the healing characteristics of a particular song, "Mai Varamba" by Oliver Mtukudzi. His 1999 album, "Tuku Music" is available through many sources, including http://olivermtukudzi.calabashmusic.com/

During the discussion, i expressed frustration at not knowing what the words to the song meant. I had found & downloaded them on the Internet, but only in the original language. Shona is spoken mainly in Zimbabwe and is little known outside that country. No translation had been found.

After the class was over, i had a long meeting with the class sponsor. While we were talking, a woman appeared outside the door and was trying to enter the store, which had been closed for the day. I had a strong feeling we should let her in. She explained that she wanted to buy some incense.

As she was looking around, we continued our meeting. I mentioned the difficulty with the song, and also mentioned where it came from. The woman turned around and said, "I'm from Zimbabwe". Turned out she knows the Shona language. For the next half hour, she sat down at the computer with the original words displayed on the screen, and translated the song.

In this song, Mtukudzi sings expressively and soulfully. I had always felt that the song had some significance to it, just from the way it was performed. This is true. It is about how a mother refuses to give up her son -- something that is asked of too many women in Africa today. So this is one of those songs designed to help change the world.

What a wonderful miracle!

04:47 pm: Quick Note from New York
Made it here, just ahead of the flood waters in Iowa. In fact, at one point i was admiring beautiful lakes by the highway, and then realized those weren't supposed to be there!

Ithaca New York is virtually a magical place. Went to a wedding there, involving a fellow i met last summer. Someone said, "This is the kind of place where, if you come in with some worthwhile musical talent, a place will be found for you." That was true. Met three extraordinary musicians, and hope to help advance their work too.

In Ithaca, you will find some musical genres that are rare anyplace else. That includes White Reggae and Acid Bluegrass. One of the musicians i met, Camilo Nascimento, is literally inventing new guitar tunings every day, and has been doing remarkable work with the Raga system. His site is http://www.ramiustech.com/mcn

Got a really good podcast interview with someone who helps manage the Ithaca Hours program, which is a locally generated currency. This could help with economic problems in many areas, as a prototype. It's especially good, as our source said, for artists, musicians, and creative health care providers.

Next stop is Silver Spring Maryland, where several events are planned over the weekend and through the week. Prayers are appreciated. Referrals about the events to anyone you might know in that area would be incredibly helpful.