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My Thoughts about Eric P. Dollard
Disclaimer: Spelling mistakes, especially names, reflect my ignorance and laziness, which is total. Every word here is my heartfelt opinion. I make no claims as what is actually the case. Everything I know about Eric I have learned from watching in videos and reading his work. This means I know precisely nothing about the man himself, simply the little that has been recorded.
I found this forum after "Googling" Eric Dollard and finding this classic thread which featured both the man himself as well as Peter Lindeman. My heart aches at the inhumanity shown to Eric by various individuals and institutions. It mirrors the way Tesla was treated in his later years and I for one am appalled at the way humankind treats its great inventive minds. All that aside, I see a recurring theme in the posts whereby people both praise Eric and then implore him to impart some "knowledge", as though he is a lone flickering candle that will leave us in darkness once it extinguishes. The problem I have with this is people are not listening to what he is saying. Repeatedly in both the videos I've watched and the papers I've read, he has said that he learned everything from the prior masters...
“Well it all goes back; you got to go to the library. I can give you some names. Steinmetz, Kennelly, Heaviside, Maxwell, Faraday, Bueley. Ah lets see who else, a mathematician by the name McFarlane who worked out of Austin Texas. Those are pretty much it, you work with those guys, and do your basic studies you know learn the algebra and dimensionalities. Takes about fourteen/fifteen years…”
The implication is that if all the references, papers, patents, books and videos are still in existence, including all of the new material which Eric Dollard himself has contributed, then why are you asking him to spoon feed you? He spent years researching, experimenting, building his knowledge. Yes he probably has that "Genius" capacity, but to what extent does calling him a "genius" belittle his hard work? To what extent, does calling him a “genius” shut your own mind off to the possibility of understanding the phenomena as he does.
Any cursory examination of Tesla always emphasises his gifts, notably his enhanced capacity for visualisation. I remember reading an autobiographical piece written by Tesla from his earliest memories onwards. What struck me quite profoundly was not his “gifts” but his discipline and sheer propensity for hard work. He speaks about spending thirteen hours a day while at university in the library studying. I may be speaking out of hand but I believe anybody who expends such effort is going to develop a comprehensive understanding of that which they are studying. It is obvious this kind of work ethic remained with Tesla throughout his days.
Eric had the intuitive intelligence to cut through the bull**** that the rest of us muddle our minds with, and maybe one man in million ever has the chance to do such a thing … but he did it. His contribution is enormous, a new algebra for understanding the full range of electrical phenomena. You have found the master, now show the proper respect, by learning as much as possible about his work before asking obvious questions and wasting his time.
I resonate with the sentiment that we all feel toward Eric. It is composed of love, awe, sadness and hope. It is also intertwined with love for Tesla making it all the more. I myself am ashamed to admit I used to wish that Tesla had “done more”, leave a clue, bury a device in the desert, something to that effect. However impractical and improbable, the sentiment reflected is that the “knowledge” is "lost forever" and only such a scenario would see it found again ...
I see the same sentiment reflected in posts written here and elsewhere on the internet.
Stop begging, regain your dignity. If the knowledge was discovered once it stands to reason it can be found again. I believe Eric Dollard does not want students, he wants contemporaries, people with a competent understanding of electrical concepts that can also contribute to the knowledge.
This brings me to what I guess is the main point of my thesis-in-post-form. Some of us must seem to Eric, as Edison seemed to Tesla. Brute force experimenters without enough basic understanding of the phenomena we are playing with. Its easy to just pick up some electrical components and start piecing them together. It takes discipline to sit down and learn equations, and do all the “boring” stuff which is so crucial to having a true understanding of the phenomena. We want Eric to dazzle us with his hard earned “knowledge” rather than learning the math properly ourselves.
I believe Eric Dollard has already provided us with everything we need, its all there. He has made his contribution to humanity. That he was rewarded with the worst humankind has to offer is cruel irony. Walk in his footsteps, if you dare ….
Postscript: It occurs to me that while I’m talking about Eric, he might in fact, by chance, read this. To you Sir, I say simply, “Amazing” and “Thank You”
Disclaimer: Spelling mistakes, especially names, reflect my ignorance and laziness, which is total. Every word here is my heartfelt opinion. I make no claims as what is actually the case. Everything I know about Eric I have learned from watching in videos and reading his work. This means I know precisely nothing about the man himself, simply the little that has been recorded.
I found this forum after "Googling" Eric Dollard and finding this classic thread which featured both the man himself as well as Peter Lindeman. My heart aches at the inhumanity shown to Eric by various individuals and institutions. It mirrors the way Tesla was treated in his later years and I for one am appalled at the way humankind treats its great inventive minds. All that aside, I see a recurring theme in the posts whereby people both praise Eric and then implore him to impart some "knowledge", as though he is a lone flickering candle that will leave us in darkness once it extinguishes. The problem I have with this is people are not listening to what he is saying. Repeatedly in both the videos I've watched and the papers I've read, he has said that he learned everything from the prior masters...
“Well it all goes back; you got to go to the library. I can give you some names. Steinmetz, Kennelly, Heaviside, Maxwell, Faraday, Bueley. Ah lets see who else, a mathematician by the name McFarlane who worked out of Austin Texas. Those are pretty much it, you work with those guys, and do your basic studies you know learn the algebra and dimensionalities. Takes about fourteen/fifteen years…”
The implication is that if all the references, papers, patents, books and videos are still in existence, including all of the new material which Eric Dollard himself has contributed, then why are you asking him to spoon feed you? He spent years researching, experimenting, building his knowledge. Yes he probably has that "Genius" capacity, but to what extent does calling him a "genius" belittle his hard work? To what extent, does calling him a “genius” shut your own mind off to the possibility of understanding the phenomena as he does.
Any cursory examination of Tesla always emphasises his gifts, notably his enhanced capacity for visualisation. I remember reading an autobiographical piece written by Tesla from his earliest memories onwards. What struck me quite profoundly was not his “gifts” but his discipline and sheer propensity for hard work. He speaks about spending thirteen hours a day while at university in the library studying. I may be speaking out of hand but I believe anybody who expends such effort is going to develop a comprehensive understanding of that which they are studying. It is obvious this kind of work ethic remained with Tesla throughout his days.
Eric had the intuitive intelligence to cut through the bull**** that the rest of us muddle our minds with, and maybe one man in million ever has the chance to do such a thing … but he did it. His contribution is enormous, a new algebra for understanding the full range of electrical phenomena. You have found the master, now show the proper respect, by learning as much as possible about his work before asking obvious questions and wasting his time.
I resonate with the sentiment that we all feel toward Eric. It is composed of love, awe, sadness and hope. It is also intertwined with love for Tesla making it all the more. I myself am ashamed to admit I used to wish that Tesla had “done more”, leave a clue, bury a device in the desert, something to that effect. However impractical and improbable, the sentiment reflected is that the “knowledge” is "lost forever" and only such a scenario would see it found again ...
I see the same sentiment reflected in posts written here and elsewhere on the internet.
Stop begging, regain your dignity. If the knowledge was discovered once it stands to reason it can be found again. I believe Eric Dollard does not want students, he wants contemporaries, people with a competent understanding of electrical concepts that can also contribute to the knowledge.
This brings me to what I guess is the main point of my thesis-in-post-form. Some of us must seem to Eric, as Edison seemed to Tesla. Brute force experimenters without enough basic understanding of the phenomena we are playing with. Its easy to just pick up some electrical components and start piecing them together. It takes discipline to sit down and learn equations, and do all the “boring” stuff which is so crucial to having a true understanding of the phenomena. We want Eric to dazzle us with his hard earned “knowledge” rather than learning the math properly ourselves.
I believe Eric Dollard has already provided us with everything we need, its all there. He has made his contribution to humanity. That he was rewarded with the worst humankind has to offer is cruel irony. Walk in his footsteps, if you dare ….
Postscript: It occurs to me that while I’m talking about Eric, he might in fact, by chance, read this. To you Sir, I say simply, “Amazing” and “Thank You”
as well to Mr.Dollard 
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