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Guest: Jeane
Manning BA., New Energy Researcher & Author
'The New Energy Movement'
Radio
Streaming Broadcast: January 31, 2012
Jeane Manning
When she was born –
in Cordova, on Alaska’s pristine Prince William Sound – Jeane’s
father was a lawman. Later he moved the family
to a farm in northern Idaho, where she continued contemplating nature – and
human nature. She earned her way through the
University of Idaho and an honors B.A. in Sociology.
Marriage, a job in social work, and three
children – Teresa, Jay and Stan – followed. After moving
to the Okanagan Valley of western Canada, she parented while writing for newspapers
and a regional magazine. She’s also been
an editor, counsellor, Big Brothers’ executive director, and publicist
for a theater company that traveled in gypsy wagons pulled by
Clydesdale horses.
In 1981 Jeane had encountered an electrician who invented a potentially revolutionary
magnetic motor/generator. Through him and
his wife she met others in the “free-energy underground” from Germany
to South Africa, and discovered books about Nikola
Tesla and other unsung pioneer inventors.
The implications of their inventions included two of her concerns –
ecology and social justice. During the 1980′s, she began researching
for a book about this fascinating movement and its
people.
While editing a small-town newspaper, Jeane
used her vacations to fly to conferences to interview
frontier scientists and engineers. German Association for Field Energy, the
Swiss Association for Free Energy, Planetary Association
for Clean Energy, International Tesla Society, and even a magnet factory
hosted them.
In 1989, her birthplace in Alaska was fouled
by the Exxon Valdez oil spill. The horrific news strengthened
her resolve to research non-polluting energy sources.
The Explorations program
of Canada Council for the Arts in 1994 awarded her book project–
then titled Living Energy — enough funding for
gasoline and food expenses for a research trip. So that autumn Jeane steered her
little Nissan pickup onto cross-country highways to visit inventors
and other researchers.
After two months of travel, one morning
she awoke – in her sleeping bag in the Nissan’s
camper – to a white world outside the window. The chill she
felt, however, had more to do with what she’d learned on the trip than
with a Wyoming blizzard. Her upbringing
had not prepared her for the corruption in trusted public servants, and other obstacles,
faced by the people she had interviewed.
Much of what she learned
during that odyssey, on the other hand, was good news. She heard
that a multilingual architect in Australia was bringing
out a book titled Living Energies. He had
masterfully interpreted the works of her favorite energy pioneer, the late Viktor
Schauberger of Austria, so she gladly changed
her manuscript title from Living Energy.
Changing Power
Eight years
earlier in Colorado, she had met the publishers of a magazine entitled
Energy Unlimited. The Baumgartners sent her a book, Living
Water, introducing Schauberger and his knowledge of engineering in harmony
with nature’s creative movements. Schauberger had
pointed out that 20th century technology moves everything the wrong
way – exploding, heating, pressuring. His own inventions
used nature’s quiet cooling, inward-spiraling suction
motions instead, and the result rejuvenated instead of destroying.
Baumgartners’ next publication, Causes
newsletters, furthered Jeane’s understanding
of harmonious “implosion technologies”. Meanwhile, her
own evolving manuscript dealt with a wide range of unusual approaches
to generating electricity and their implications for
society.
Before
her energy book was published (in New York by Avery Publishing Group), the then-editor
of Auckland Institute of Technology Press asked Jeane Manning to
be a co-author of Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries.
AIT Press of New Zealand published the book in 1995. (The
North American edition was published in 2000 by Avery Publishing
Group. Avery was later bought out by Penguin Putnam.)
The Granite Man and the Butterfly:
The David Hamel Story, published by Pierre Sinclaire’s
Project Magnet, was Jeane’s next writing project. The
sole print run for this small book sold out quickly.
The third diversion from her main project came from meeting
Dr. Nick Begich of Anchorage, Alaska. Another researcher had sent Jeane
Manning a large file of science papers related
to experiments on Earth’s ionosphere, and to a specific project called the
High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP).
Dr. Begich had written an article about HAARP for Nexus magazine.
Concerned that such experiments might cause unforseen large-scale
effects, both Begich and Manning wanted to see the broader
topic brought out into the open, and hoped for an investigation
by all independent scientists.
Their co-authored book, Angels Don’t Play This HAARP,
was published in 1995 by Earthpulse Press, a company belonging to Dr. Begich and
his wife Shelagh. The book sold widely and was translated into Japanese, German,
Yugoslavian, and now French. The European Parliament
passed a resolution asking for that independent inquiry.
Jeane returned to her main project which was published
in 1996 by Avery under the title The Coming Energy Revolution:
The Search For Free Energy. In 2002 Penguin Putnam, the publishing
giant which took over Avery, took the English version of
The Coming Energy Revolution off the market. Jeane reclaimed the rights
to the book and is updating it. French and German editions
are still available.
Over the years, Jeane wrote articles about
frontier science for Explore New Dimensions; Dennis Weaver’s
Journal of Ecolonomics; Alive; Shared Vision; Atlantis Rising; Infinite
Energy, and other magazines.
Invited to speak at the Institute for New
Energy conference in Denver in 1996, she quickly
joined a Vancouver Toastmasters’ Club to develop speaking skills. The next
podium was, in contrast, an open-air rock concert
stage whose audience sprawled on a grassy mountainside. The ski hill venue
was organized by young political activists and musicians.
Other venues included meeting halls on a sheep ranch in Colorado and in
rural B.C., the Planetarium in Vancouver, and a university
campus in California.
Further invitations to speak have included
a panel at the Women and Sustainable Development conference
in Vancouver; the Climates of Change Congress (Victoria 1999); and conferences
in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. She
will be speaking at the New Energy Movement public conference in Portland, Oregon,
September 25-26, 2004.
One year, Jeane lived in a mountainside
log home beyond the power lines in the interior
of British Columbia. She emerged from the wilderness only for travels, such
as the Innovative Energy Technologies conference
in Berlin, where she gave a presentation. Now she’s back in the southern
part of the Okanagan valley. Her royalties from books
were plowed back into research travel, computers, and further educating
herself.
Recently, she reconnected with William Baumgartner and his
wife. He and Jeane began a book about his extensive knowledge
and experiments he’s conducted over a 30 year span. It’s
an opportunity to write about engineering in harmony with nature,
and she’s enthused. However, her need for an income
has postponed the project until the current book is published. It was delayed
by the same reason – the necessity for her
to do freelance writing for business publications.
Her motivations for the energy odyssey began
with her children and now include the newest
generation: Travis, Nicholas and Sarah. “I simply want my children,
grandchildren, and all of Earth’s offspring to breathe
clean air, on a rejuvenated planet.”
Jeane sees hope in grassroots campaigns
such as the New Energy Movement, which recognizes
the need for personal responsibility, sensible economics, wise governance and sustainable
agriculture, as well as clean water, oxygen-rich
air and ample non-polluting energy.
Her challenge is to put the issues into
plain language, in books full of compelling, true stories. You take
it from there!
