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The Life & Times of Tom Bearden, Pioneer Tom Bearden (center) and fans at a
BY JEANE MANNING “W
ho is Tom Bearden?” I asked a new friend at the second International Tesla Society Conference. It was
1986 and we were in Colorado Springs lis- tening to a speaker who revealed some new insight about “free energy” inventions. My friend was rushing away to find a fax ma- chine—to be first to send the news to this man Bearden. I also overheard others speaking the name with obvious respect. At similar conferences later, I met Thomas Bearden and once dined with him in Huntsville, Alabama. He’s gracious and gen- erous in teaching how society could have abundant energy. It requires the scientific community to depart from flawed and ar- chaic 1890s electrical engineering. For more than 40 years he researched energy break- throughs, focusing on energy from the vacuum of space and how—unknown to con- ventional engineers—every electrical circuit already uses it.
Bearden collaborated with free-energy in- ventors and saw novel effects firsthand on in- ventors’ workbenches. His own path in- cluded strenuous reading of the foundations of physics, to the point of concluding that scientists do not completely understand some basics such as what energy and force are.
His biggest discovery may be his finding that the electrical engineering model still used today was, in 1892, deliberately muti- lated and thus severely limited ever since. He infers that banker J. P. Morgan pulled strings behind the scene for that mutilation, so that tycoons could make vast fortunes within an energy scarcity paradigm.
The story in brief started in the nine- teenth century with Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell who included “quaternion- like theory” when he formulated classical electromagnetic theory. Those equations would have allowed tapping into energy from the vacuum of space. Later, electrical engi- neer Oliver Heaviside and others savagely simplified Maxwell’s equations. Dutch physi- cist Hendrik Lorentz later stole work already done by an unrelated mathematician with a similar name, Ludwig Lorenz, and published it as his own. Lorentz was much higher- profile and his publication of the symme- trized Heaviside equations changed our world. It discarded the possibility of elec- trical systems whose C.O.P. (co-efficient-of- performance) are greater than one, which means more output than input energy. Thus
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the electrical engineering model was crippled at its beginning.
Meanwhile, genius inventor Nikola Tesla had already discovered “asymmetric” Max- wellian systems. Tesla told technical groups that we don’t need to consume fuel to get energy but could freely harvest all the elec- tromagnetic energy we need directly from the “active medium” —the background en- ergy of the universe. One proof that Tesla had what he claimed is an article by T. W. Barrett published in a science journal and posted on Bearden’s website: “Tesla’s Non- linear Oscillator-Shuttle-Circuit Theory.” (http:// www . cheniere. org / references / Tesla OSC.pdf)
There’s much more to Tom Bearden’s findings, such as Morgan’s interference with the use of Heaviside’s later discovery of a giant hidden energy flow pouring out of the terminals of every battery and generator (in 1900 Lorentz was again brought in to math- ematically discard the energy flow as being of “no physical significance”). Bearden points to an area of optical physics and other establishment science that taps the hidden energy flows—although those physicists aren’t allowed to discuss the thermody- namics bluntly in publications but only use euphemisms such as the “reaction cross sec- tion is increased.”
However, this has been technical enough for a general readership. I just want to cele- brate Bearden’s milestone 80th birthday, De- cember 17, 2010, honoring his contributions while he is very much alive despite serious health challenges.
Next month at a conference in Idaho, in- ventor John Bedini will also honor Bearden.
Bedini was the “bench guy” who built devices that tested the electromagnetic theories re- sulting from Bearden’s research. The two are interviewed in Anthony Craddock’s Energy From the Vacuum DVD series.
“I didn’t let up on Tom,” Bedini told me. He phoned Bearden almost nightly for years, checking and rechecking. “Is this what you want to do?” Instead of generating electrical current conventionally, they wanted the non- linear imbalance that can tap into the vacuum energy. Bearden calls it “negative energy,” while Bedini uses Tesla’s term “Ra- diant Energy.”
What life experiences shaped Bearden’s larger-than-life persistence and courage? The earliest influence was “hard times.” For the rest of his life, no matter how heavy the ridi- cule and the “perpetual motion crackpot” name-calling he had to endure, and how ex- hausting the effort to change entrenched ideas, it couldn’t be more difficult than his early struggles to survive depression-era pov- erty. The term “dirt poor” was created be- cause starving people would eat clay or other dirt to stop the hurting in empty stomachs. His family homesteading near what is now Cheniere, Louisiana, Tom’s father at 12 landed a job driving a wagon pulled by draft horses or mules. At age 23 Tom’s father be- came foreman over the logging team. He met, fell in love with and married Tom’s mother.
They had three sons, Tom the youngest. Shortly after Tom’s second birthday, his par- ents drove to town in a rickety Model-T and were returning on a dark night on winding
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