REVIEW AND OUTLOOK THE DEVELOPMENT OF POST-RELATIVISTIC CONCEPTS IN PHYSICS AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ABROAD Rolf Schaffranke, Dr. h. c. Member A.I.A.A. "Far more is done to the progress of science by skepticism than by gullibility". (Dr. Wood, Director R & D, McDonnel-Douglas Astronautics Div., CA) NASA - Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA is named after Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906), an American astronomer, engineer and architect. Langley worked out the aerodynamic principles for manned flight. In principal, his calculations were correct; but the structural material he used for wings and engines were insufficient. In DECEMBER of 1903, the New York Times published an editorial complaining about his foolish dream and the associated waste of government money. The editorial predicted that: "man would not fly for a thousand years". Only 9 days after the editorial was published, the Wright brothers made their first successful powered flight at Kitty Hawk, Dec. 17, 1903. But, again, as late as 1905, the Scientific American suggested the happening was a hoax - two years after the event which changed history. Let's reflect for a moment on the fact that only in a single lifetime, man has journeyed from Kitty Hawk to the surface of the Moon! The analogy to the problem of alternative energies and their development is, of course, obvious. We are to educate the preaching orthodoxies. But orthodox solutions are no longer enough. Our system of education can only give from the past. The present must operate on inspiration and intuition, or the future will be lost. The past no longer has enough of the answers for arising crisis for which there are no precedents. To keep pace with the requirements of the future, we must begin to teach not only what to learn, but how to learn, how to analyze, how to search for the truth. Only then will we be able to recognize the discrepancies between experiment and dogma and to cope with the problems which appear to be just beyond the corner. History has shown again and again that no single individual can rise above the species without being persecuted. The reasons for that are: Some of the most powerful forces in homo sapiens have always been GREED, PRIDE, EGO, FEAR and, above all, the DESIRE TO CONTROL OTHERS. A brand new German book titled "Energy in Abundance", which is evidently creating a considerable impact in the European community, challenges the contemporary high priests of science, the "Guardians of the Status Quo" and uncovers an almost incredible narrowmindedness and ignorance in science, politics and economics, "approaching the criminal" as the author puts it. The contemporary waste of genuine intellectual creativity is castigated as a cultural scandal approaching barbarism. The book stresses that a truly promising approach to the so-called energy crisis requires a fundamental and thorough re-evaluation of the theories, dogmas and axioms which form the basis of present day science and the foundation of out technology. As in the past, the formidable inertia of the establishment is not only based on inaccurate, incomplete and outdated information, but also requires that we first demythologize generally accepted claims so-called experts of the past. An excellent introduction to this problem is the article "Resistance by Scientists to Scientific Discovery" by Bernard Barber in Science, Vol. 134, pp. 596-602, Sept. 1961, or the paper by Stephan C. Brush in Science of March, 1974, titled "Should the History of Science be rated 'X'"?, culminating with a statement of Huxley: "Authorities", "disciples", and "schools" are the curse of science and do more to interfere with the work of the scientific spirit than all its enemies". The former astronaut, Capt. Edgar D. Mitchell, one of our famous contemporaries, also stressed the need for an open mind! "History has shown time and again that important scientific discoveries generally happen only when someone steps outside the limits of his traditional disciplines and looks at something from a fresh point of view. Then what should have been obvious all along comes into focus". Those of us who are familiar with the pioneering efforts of Dr. Hans Nieper of Hanover will Appreciate this statement by an ex-astronaut. One of the most important cornerstones of today's scientific dogmas dates back to 1905, more than 3/4 of a century ago. Lest we forget, television and radar, jet aircraft and cyclotrons, moonrockets and close-up photos of the planets of out solar system were nothing but wild fantasies of science fiction then. The speed of light was assumed to be constant and the maximum possible speed in the universe; vacuum was to be a total void. In reality, the speed of light as measured in the Michaelson-Morley experiments was not at all the same in all directions. The "ether drift" still amounted to the respectable velocity of about five miles per second, and similar results were obtained by D.C. Miller in a series of experiments extending over 25 years, from 1902 to 1926. "Even worse, the measurements showed such marked discrepancies with previous results as to occasion a distress call to the US Coast & Geodetic Survey, whose surveyors repeatedly remeasured the length of the tube and found no error there," reported the Popular Science Monthly March 1934 issue. And it continued: "More recently, speed of light observations only emphasized the apparent erratic behavior of the light beam that the scientists were attempting to plot. On some days it seems to travel faster than others by as much as 12 miles a second. Its speed seems to vary with the season, also in a mysterious shorter cycle lasting about 2 weeks. Finally, the scientists ended by taking an AVERAGE of all the readings which has been announced as 186,271 miles per second". In his paper "A Critical Look At The Theory of Relativity", Library of Congress Cat. No. 77-670044, F.K. Preikschat compiled all known light velocity measurements during the past 300 years or so, from Olaf Roemer in 1676 to the Laser measurements conducted by the National Bureau of Standards (USA) in 1972. Of the 27 experiments undertaken in this field, 18 of them after the turn of this century, it must be concluded that the velocity of light as measured within the reference system of our Earth has changed as much as plus/minus 50 km/sec during the past century. Preikschat plotted a curve of these deviations and suggests a possible relationship between sunspot activities and changes of the Earths magnetic field during the time period in question. The "universal constancy of light" appears, therefore, as somewhat shaky "empirical evidence" for our cornerstone in physics, especially since Einstein himself has gone on record as saying: "If a single one of the conclusions drawn from it (relativity) proves to be wrong, it must be given up; to modify it without destroying the whole structure seems to be impossible". Another modification concerns the definition for the term "vacuum" in physics, as documented by a paper in the American Scientist, March-April 1980, titled "Is The Vacuum Really Empty?" by Prof. Walter Greiner, Univ. of Frankfurt, BRD, and Prof. Joseph H. Hamiliton, Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN. The authors conclude that a neutral vacuum is by no means as "empty" as the previously claimed in our textbooks, and suggests a new definition as follows: "The vacuum is the lowest stable state that a region of space can have WHILE BEING PENETRATED BY CERTAIN FIELDS". Because of the tremendous time lag in our educational system, many research projects and their ensuing experimental data have been withheld from public scrutiny. The scientific community tends to have a vested interest in preserving the system it created and of which it is a part. It responds to new situations through the coloration of this attachment. A case in point are the carefully conducted experiments of T.T. Brown with charged bodies in a high vacuum, as described in mt booklet Ether Fields (1977). These experiments suggest the actual presence of certain fields in vacuum, whether we call them gravitaional field, tachion-field, ether field, neutrino or Fermi-sea, etc. is of secondary importance at this moment. Although Brown spent, reportedly, more than $200,000 of his own funds over several decades on such experiments, he was nevertheless unable to have the results published in the scientific media of America. Things are even worse when it comes to experiments conducted abroad, which often tend to confirm disregarded experimental results on this continent, as we shall see shortly. To highlight the wide discrepancies between orthodox (and obsolete) dogmas and actual, physical realities pertaining to the true subatomic structures as we know them to be today, let us briefly review the structures of the matter: A molecule is the smallest division of a substance. Further division would cause it to cease being a substance. The smallest true molecules can be illustrated when we use the globe of the Earth for our standard. If a single drop of water were magnified until it was as big as the Earth, each molecule would be about the size of a tennis ball. On the next step down, an atom is the unit which makes up the nature of the molecule, consisting of the nucleus and the surrounding electrons to render the atom "stable". An atom of hydrogen contains one proton and one electron to balance or neutralize the proton. Matter then is divisible into electrons and protons. But - and here comes the rub: Between electrons and protons are spaces so vast, in comparison with the masses of each, that, if the proton in the carbon atom were the size of a golf ball hanging from a ceiling of the great hall at Pennsylvania Station in New York, its electrons would be represented by six small wasps winging in a little knot against the four walls of the gigantic structure of the building! In effect, one could claim there is a little final solidity of substance to anything: The Universe consists of "emptiness"' charged with electrical energy! If we translate the above to the measurements and terminology of the physicist and "magnify" the atom mathematically, with all its distances and dimensions kept in proportion so that the orbit of the electron would have a diameter equal to that of the Earth about the Sun, approximately 184 million miles, the diameter of the electron itself would only be 2000 miles, and the diameter of the nucleus, where mass and weight of the atom are truly concentrated, can be taken as 2 miles only. We thus obtain a picture of a central mass with a diameter of 2 miles (nucleus), another object with a diameter of 2000 miles (the electron in the case of the hydrogen atom) at a distance of 92 million miles away from it, orbiting the nucleus. Evidently, there is plenty of room inside this system. And "room" is not a vacuum, it is not nothingness, but space itself, spatial energy, a field which can be identified with the ether of the past - and the future. Nobel prize winner, Max Planck, during a lecture in Florence, Italy, once made a truly remarkable statement which describes the problem facing the physicist today: "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear- headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as the result of my research about the atoms this much: 'THERE IS NO MATTER AS SUCH!" All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter". This cosmic matrix is needed if we want to explain "action at a difference"' lines of force, stresses, a magnetic field and so on. When the concept of the ether was abandoned, it had to be replaced by the concept of "space" instead. In reality, we merely switched terminology. We used to say that "ether fills all space". But "filling" is no exactly the descriptive word to use. Perhaps we should rather define it: "Ether is a condition of space in which electrical manifestations for the atomic construction of material is possible". This primordial energy is "free" or in an uncondensed state. It exists in interstellar space but remains unrecognizable until it begins to coagulate or gets into a vortex pattern. The claim of our textbooks that the Michelson-Morley experiment "disproved" the existence of the ether is incorrect. It merely disproved the existence of a noticeable ether "drift" or "drag". As an analogy, if someone would postulate that the absence of wind disproves the existence of the atmosphere around our planet, the fallacy of this postulate would be immediatly apparent to all. "Michelson and Morley centered their attention on the Earth's orbital velocity (30 km per second). They had no knowledge of the existence of galaxies; of motions of galaxies in relation to each other; of the motion of our solar system in our galaxy.... Their negative results are explainable on the basis of pre-1900 classical mechanics, so provide no proof of the absence of ether or Louis de Broglie's 'subquantic medium'. Thus, the limited information to Michelson and Einstein is emphasized by recent findings, particularly in astrophysic", writes Dr. H.C. Dudley in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Jan, 1975, under the title "Michelson's Hunch Was Right". And Dr. Dudley continues: "In fact, 1929 saw Michelson still attempting to experimentally demonstrate the ether, which his intuition and reasoning told him ought to be present". "Today most persons are largely unaware that the ether concept began to be seriously reexamined by two of physics most notable laureates. The ether is now being called the "neutrino sea" by astrophysicists, and has been characterized as an energy-rich particulate, subquantic medium. A rather voluminous literature on the subject is accumulating as indicated by a recent review, The Cosmic Neutrino, with 655 references covering only the period 1965-1972..... It appears that an open-minded reexamination of this area of physics is long overdue in order to open up new avenues of approaching to this pressing problem. Michelson, Dirac, de Broglie were not the only Nobel prize winners in favor of a reexamination of the ether question. Others were Stark, Arrhenius, A.H. Compton, Lenard, H. Yukawa, and Fredrick Soddy, the British scientist who, during the convention of Nobel laureates in Lindau, 1954, described the current dogmas in physics as "an orgy of amateur physics" and "arrogant swindle" - with particular emphasis on the theory of relativity. It remained largely unknown, even to physicists, that Einstien himself had serious doubts. In 1949, he wrote to his old friend, Maurice Solovine, who congratulated him on his 70th birthday: "Now you think that I am looking back at my life's work with calm satisfaction. But, on closer look, it is quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm and I am not sure if I was on the right track after all". And one of my Canadian friends I believe is present here today stated quite correctly in a letter to me: "The myths around Einstien are really not of his making as he himself often questioned his own conclusions and I felt he was quite aware of his own limitations which others were covering up. The Physicists protect their members much the same way that the medical profession protects its own". The purpose of these remarks is not to spark another controversy about the merits of the theories of relativity. Rather, they want to show that so- called "scientific evidence" is a rather elastic term and that "verification" is always a relative affair. Or as K.R. Popper so aptly put it: "Only in our subjective experience of conviction, in our subjective faith, can we be `absolutely certain`". This symposium presents an excellent overview of research and experiments reported from English speaking countries, or experiments published in the English language, as for instance Japan. However, as Dr. Tenhaeff from Holland has formulated the problem: "It is important to pay attention to publications of colleagues in other countries. In the Netherlands and Germany, every academically educated man or woman know at least three foreign languages. English and American authors only pay attention to material in English. In my opinion, this leads to an `impoverishment' which puts a drag in science. Some seem very chauvinistic and seem to believe that only the researches done in their country are important. I regret this. Science is international, and international cooperation is of the greatest importance in science". In presenting some brief reports from abroad, I shall attempt to bring corroborative evidence in support of alternative technology developments discussed during our meeting here in Toronto. Let me start with the most sensitive and secretive society, with Russia. In his German original of the paper "Some Remarks on the Shielding Theory of Gravity", which was published in the Hanover Proceedings in more detail than the English abstract, Dr. Hans Nieper mentioned the Berlin engineer Levetzow, who was one of the first to postulate a combination pressure and shielding theory for the phenomena of gravity. Levetzow was soon overshadowed by the rising star of Albert Einstein, but one of his followers, Horst Pinkell, went to Russia in 1928 as an exchange student - and never returned. Together with Russian scientists, he was asked to prove the actual existence of the cosmic radiations postulated by Levetzow, now designated as neutrino sea or "tachion field". The work was done in Sterlitamak, south of the Ural mountains, and in 1938, sporadic reports reached the West about the discovery of extremely short corpuscler waves by Pinkell and Gorjew. These were the long sought "Hemmstrahlen" or drag waves associated gravity. Rumors have it that a metal alloy was soon developed which acted as a drag wave polarisor and, in 1947, agents reported experimental Russian aircraft using this discovery. In 1951, a former German Junkers aircraft engineer reported about his activity pertaining to a super-secret project code named COW-7 in Siberia, a disk- shaped craft which could rise vertically and which belonged to the secret weapons then developed by the Soviets. Whether it was related to the Canadian AVRO project or something entirely different remained unknown, only the Levetzow gravity theory was assumed in connection with the activity in question. JAPAN: My esteemed friend, Prof. Seike, who kept me informed about the research conducted by him and his co-workers, surprised me once with a significant statement, which I feel is important to repeat for the benefit of frustrated researcher's on this side of the Pacific: "In the early stage of my studies, physicists could not understand what I was doing, while actors and actresses did so by intuition". it was the private support of about 800 individual artists, etc., in Japan which allowed the support of the Japanese equivalent of a National Science Foundation or a similar bureaucratic institution in that country. Again and again, I was surprised how quickly and eagerly American experiments, as for instance the almost forgotten "Ionocraft" of the late Major De Seversky, were duplicated and explored even in Japanese secondary schools. Admiral Rickover has more than once complained about our intellectual complacency: "As a nation, we seem addicted to 'spectatoritis'. We sit in the bleachers and let the game of life unfold before us". The results are known: The Japanese have achieved top positions in science and technology, and not only with tachion beams melting stones, producing "biased" water with a freezing point of minus 4 degrees Celsius, and a G- power generator obtaining 400 VDC output from a 10 V input driving source. I wish to take this opportunity to thank Prof. Seike for sharing his work with us in this country, and wish him the best of success for the future. FRANCE: The work of SEPED was explained by M. Rene Louis Valee and some French publications in the area of gravity research have been translated by the NASA translation services, as for instance the theory of the electromagnetic Magnus Effect (of Marcel Pages). Specific mention must be made of the Raymond Kromrey G-Field generator, a French-Ferman-Swiss development which appears very closely related to the American "N" machine principle, the "Sunburst" machine and the "Permanent Magnet-Motor" Patent of Howard Johnson. Utilizing either permanent or electromagnetic modules, the generator output exceeds the input by far. One prototype delivers approximately 700 watts at speeds varying between 600 and 1200 RPM. Models with an output of 100 to 160 KW are presently in the planning stage. Several European patents have been granted against heavy opposition, especially from French industrial circles. The development was about 40 years in the making and the inventor stresses the need for a reinvestigation of electromagnetics and gravitic forces, as well as a reexamination of many cemented dogmas in present day physics. GERMANY: A system of rotating electromagnets and magnetic "stator rings" of the German "Kunel" Generator complement the general trend of the American and French generators mentioned before. The first prototype was reported to have been tested in April, 1980. Here again, very heavy opposition from the German orthodox science establishment. Of special interest is a comment by Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg, reported to have been made vis-a-vis the inventor: "I think it is possible to utilize magnetism as an energy source. But we science idiots cannot do that; this has to come from the outside". More details about French and German developments have been published in the new book already mentioned, Energy in Abundance by Hilscher and, hopefully, an English version of this important work will be available by next year. Generators which do interact with surrounding energy fields have been designated as "open systems", in contrast to our present "closed system" technology of gasoline and diesel engines, steam turbines, nuclear power plants and so forth. The theoretical basis for all "open systems" is the realization that there simply is no such thing as "empty space". In reality, space is filled with an extremely energy rich, subatomic and subquantic continuum. In short, a pre-physical state of matter, which can be tapped, as for instance by the spinning of magnetic systems which extract momentum via a vortex-formation of the universal "tachion field". AUSTRIA: This small heartland of Central Europe is proud of her native pioneers in science, among them Dr. Wilhelm Reich, Viktor Schauberger and Karl Schappeller. But after Dr. Reiche died in an American prison in 1957 and victor Schauberger died only five days after his return from the USA in 1958, where he received an incredibly unfair treatment from certain industrialists, there is little enthusiasm among Austrians to touch base with correspondents on this continent. Viktor Schauberger's son, Walter, refuses, as a matter of principle, to communicate with Americans, no matter in what language. To illustrate the type of "contract" Viktor Schauberger was forced to sign, it stated: that all of his patents would become the property of the "consortium"' that any future inventions or developments would also become the property of the consortium., that he would refrain from discussing any of it with third parties, that he would refrain from publishing, that all plans and models would remain with the consortium after his departure from America> There is a favorite saying in that small country which is to the point: "After the Greek philosopher Pythagoras had discovered his famous theorem, he sacrificed a whole hectatomb of oxen as a thanksgiving to the Gods. Ever since, all the oxen in the world are running scared whenever a new truth has been discovered". Knowledge of the ideas of Schauberger and Schauppeller appears to be essential for an understanding of our changing picture of the physical world. As an example, the former forest ranger Viktor Schauberger had watched numerous times some trout standing, apparently motionless, in the strong currents of Alpine mountain streams. This and many similar observations of nature brought him to the gradual development of his "Implosion-theory" and associated hardware (see Jensen Paper). His son is continuing the work in the "Pythagoras-Kepler" school in Bad Ischl. Another prolific researcher is the Viennese engineer Franz Seidl, known for his studies of the use of magnetic field effects as "trigger energy" for voltage and power multipliers. HOLLAND: A small country with a strongly developed intellectual independence appears to be Holland, where Prof. J.M.J. Kooy developed his space dynamics. His hypothesis of gravitaional action is based on the realization that all celestial bodies can be conceived as practically transparent in relation to the size of the elementary particles and their mutual distances in the structure of matter. Gravitons or tachions, coming from all directions of deep space, can pass through a celestial body like water passes through a fishnet, and only a minute fraction of the cosmic gravitons or tachions will be intercepted. Study of the effects of the tachion fields or space continuum of the fabric of material substances, magnets and crystal lattices can lead to development of converters and novel production facilities for readily usable, conventional E/M energy. When the American inventor Edwin V. Gray was blocked in his efforts to develop his "pulsed capacitor discharge electric engine" for which he had received U.S. Patent #3,890,548, he found open ears and open minds in Holland. The fact that Gray was named "Inventor of the Year" from the department of Patent Rights in Los Angeles, California, where Dr. Chalfin of Cal-Tech confirmed that: There does not exist an even distantly similar engine to this one in the world. Conventional electric engines use up power. In this system energy is used up for only a minute part of a millisecond. It operates without heat loss and there is no energy loss whatsoever with this system", had more meaning to the PHILLIPS and others in Holland than to energy establishments in his native America. ENGLAND: There is perhaps no more controversial inventor at this time than John R. R. Searl and his Levity Disc, powered by the Searl Effect Generator. It is claimed that model craft have been demonstrated with flight characteristics showing anti-gravitational and inertia-free properties. Demonstrations have been photographed and videotaped. Searl calls his generator a "Gyro-Flywheel High Energy Density Mechanical Device" and claims that the magnets used are not the common type, ordinary magnets. The Australian engineer Athol Park of Melbourne, who visited Searl a few years ago described it this way: "From a briefcase, Mr. Searl takes a bar magnet and two steel rollers. He places the rollers at either end of the magnet. They appear to be attracted to the poles - but, when they are pushed gently around the corners of the magnet, they chase each other round and round...." The engineer quotes Searl: "The crystal in the magnet are changed by putting it in a magnetic flux oven and by frequency control. The result is motion of a magnetic field - a completely new source of power. Unis (modules) based on this principle are what power my levity unit - the motor and generator built as one, fuelless unit". In one of his numerous newsletters he states further: "The power plant is a self-contained, onboard closed system of conversion elements with energy input from a latent storage source". Because Searl has never divulged all details and his explanations are generally of a non-technical, "unscientific" nature, many investigators have chosen to dismiss him as a swindler and imposter. In sharp contrast to this is the opinion of a well-experienced American engineer who reported after a visit with Searl: "I found it resfreshing to note the keen sense of moral respon- sibility which he feels for the use to which his discovery is put... The Searls live in modest circumstances. Luxuries are few. They do not own a car. Mr. Searl bicycles several miles daily to his place of work in Maidenhead. There he is an electrical technician and training supervisor in a bearing factory". But perhaps most significant was the following observation of the American visitor about Searl: "We were also interested to hear him say that many of his ideas came to him while he slept. He would go to sleep with question, and wake with answers... and refreshed. He seemed to have the ability to restore vital powers more quickly than most people". And the American concluded his report with the statement: "The impression we gained of Mr. Searl was one of a very sincere and generous person, a dedicated and tireless worker with perfect confidence in the outcome of his efforts, a man of high principle with a keen sense of loyalty to those who are helping him, and of responsibility for the future welfare of our planet and its people". In view of the very contradictory nature of comments and impressions by those who have met Searl, it might be wise to reverse final judgement on the Searl-Levity-Disc and its inventor at this time. NEW ZEALAND: Some of Searl's keenest supporters and observers of his work are in New Zealand and Australia. And one of the sharpest young physicists in that country (New Zealand), unhampered by calcified ideology, developed the mathematical foundation for a theoretical anti-gravity effect, using the hydrodynamic analogy of the ether. He uses the equivalent of the hydrodynamic Reynolds number, above a certain value of which the laminar flow past a solid surface breaks down and becomes turbulent due to shear rupture of the viscous cohesion of a fluid, together with his deduction that anti-gravity could be obtained by creating a "vacuum: in the ether in such a way as to correspond to the production of turbulence in a magnetic field. Turbulence in a fluid occurs when Reynolds number RE = 1, when the inertial shearing force equals the viscous cohesion force in the fluid in the vicinity of an approximately spherical body immersed in the fluid, resulting in separation of the boundary layer and formation of a wake i.e. vacuum or free surface around the body. He calculated the for turbulence in the ether, = a vacuum = and anti-gravity effect, using the refined value of ether kinematic viscosity which he obtained. His theory would confirm the observations of very high voltage produced in the case of the Searl Disc, and the very high voltage needed in the vacuum experiments with flying disc-shaped bodies of T.T. Brown, the ionocraft observations of Major de Seversky, the Electro-Field Rockets of Prof. Dudley, the observations of Northrup Corp. with Electro-Aerodynamics in Supersonic Flow and similar American documentaion and patents. Since the New Zealander is now in the process of attempting to publish his theory in a reputable British magazine, I am not at liberty to divulge his address prematurely. Interest in New Zealand and Australia is running high, and possible breakthroughs in energy technology should not come totally unexpected in these two countries with strong intellectual tiers to England. CONCLUSION: There is now overwhelming evidence for the actual existence of a very high density, energy rich space continuum formerly called "ether". This space energy can be concentrated, gathered, focused, magnified and compacted by magnets of magnetic materials, which appear as the new core material for converters of all kinds, utilizing the cosmic energy for new technology applications. Crystals are energy-sensing and channeling devices; they can serve as transducers, as for instance in the Moray-Device, or the "rock electricity" of T.T. Brown. Combinations of crystals and magnetic material appear to be the mainstay for the development of "hyper-space" - converters and generators of power - utilizing free, cosmic energy in our future. Unbiased, totally honest and impartial reexamination and reevaluation of ALL scientific theorems and dogmas, as well as unhampered opportunities for the pioneers of the new technology on the American and European continent appear to be the prerequisite of success. Those who accept that anything of the nature of ideas or ideology is permanent, use all their strength to hold on to it, and condemn all who do not agree. The next stage of this spiritual illness of the mind is to build a monument to what they perceive is Truth, and then to build a monument to their own permanence in the world. This, they do by seeking fame or fortune, and authority over others. This is the contemporary, planetary psychology situation, and thus are we losing the gift of perspective and horizon and are no longer able to discern what is important. Skeptics are on record as saying: "We are not running out of natural resources or intellectual talent, we are running out of the freedom of innovation that made the countries on the North American continent the most advanced nations on Earth". The future will show whether this freedom, which includes the freedom and the duty of taking risks, can be restored to the degree our founding fathers have been striving for. 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