Part One
ABBEY: “It is said by many that your work was illegally confiscated by the New Haven police and the state of Connecticut (CT) strictly because of its advanced nature. I was told that what they took includes your (at the time) soon-to-be-published book on how to solve humanity's problems, your EN corporate stock certificates, personal property and much more? And this happened only days after your Earth Network of Altruistic, Autonomous, Individuals stock corporation was founded.”
WILLIAM EASTWOOD: “Yes, and my question to you is, ‘do you want to know what the government doesn't want you to know?' The books, studies and curriculum taken were recreated and are now available to the public.”
ABBEY: “You have a huge nationally-significant federal case against CT, and United States federal judges are now reading your book, ‘Your Future,' which is about fundamental problems with government and how to solve basically all of humanity's problems. CT violated constitutionally-protected freedom of the press. That's not something to take lightly.
“It reminds me of what happened to the inventor of the alternating current generator, Nikola Tesla. The government confiscated his research and sealed the contents of his estate. History proves that without exception, there is always extreme conflict between great intellectual, moral or spiritual leaders, and social institutions. This is because all such leaders expose ignorance.”
EASTWOOD: “I can't accept your great compliments, however, in my case, the state thought they won, but they underestimated me. CT only managed to bring attention to my work, highlighting its importance by taking it, and like BP did, brought on federal and public attention as to their blatant and commonplace disregard for all the constitutional rights it's supposed to afford its citizens, but typically doesn't.
“I want to thank the unconstitutional state of CT because now I'm working through the federal courts to change laws in all states because of them.”
ABBEY: “They opened the door to success for you?”
EASTWOOD: “Yes.”
ABBEY: “It's amazing how you can use the science to turn the most negative thing into a positive thing.”
EASTWOOD: “When you know how to react, your problems or enemies can be your greatest treasures.”
ABBEY: “The science can solve any problem you have no matter what it is?”
EASTWOOD: “Yes. I ask the young at heart, ‘do you want to be a modern day wizard and a revolutionary?' because you can be both if you are willing to educate yourself. I always tell them that they are easily powerful enough to change the world for the better while they create their dreams. And when they respond enthusiastically I always give them one of my books for free. I love spreading knowledge and wizard-making.”
ABBEY: “Let's learn about you. What were you like as a child, or what traits set you on a course that led you to create EN?”
EASTWOOD: “I was a rebel as far back as age 12. I often skipped school to go to the library. At the time I knew far more about the new emerging scientific paradigm than my parents or teachers, and I certainly wasn't going to allow adults to compromise my life by dictating how I was to spend my time, and what to believe and think. So I stopped going to high school and Sunday school to learn the truth about reality, and because they made learning like work instead of fun.”
ABBEY: “Now that reminds me of Albert Einstein. He quit high school in the middle of a semester, because in Munich high school the attitude was rigid and required memorization and obedience over creative thought. He hated it because he was an original and creative thinker who insisted on pursuing his own ideas, and believed learning should be fun.”
EASTWOOD: “Yes. I was out of the loop, so to speak, and the qualities of strong-mindedness and stubborn outside-of-the-box thinking is precisely the qualities needed to create EN.”
ABBEY: “What did you study when you skipped school?”
EASTWOOD: “I was on an accelerated quest to understand reality. So much so that I brought a pile of books with me everywhere I went, studying morning, day and night. That level of dedication continued for my entire life so far. This work is my calling and purpose.”
ABBEY: “What books?”
EASTWOOD: “Every book I could get my hands on about consciousness-based science, and also on the subjects of solar design and visionary material regarding humanity's future. I particularly like the Seth-series by Jane Roberts being introduced to the world in the 1970's. I studied that revolutionary knowledge in depth. It is now required reading in EN courses.”
ABBEY: “But why skip school?”
EASTWOOD: “I was really upset with the world's current beliefs and resulting state of affairs. I knew it was all a kind of superstitious nonsense and I would have nothing to do with it.”
ABBEY: “As a blond-haired, brown-eyed little 12-year old boy, you already knew the secrets of the universe?”
EASTWOOD: “I knew that everything my teachers were trying teach me about reality was false.”
ABBEY: “You must have been intrigued by what you were learning as a boy?”
EASTWOOD: “One night at age 13, as I fell asleep gazing out my bedroom window at the full moon, something profound happened. I asked my soul to prove to me that what I was learning was true as I fell asleep that frigid January night. Right after I fell asleep I had not one, not two, but three false awakenings. The first time shocked me when I tried to move my body and couldn't. The third time I stood up in my astral body and looked back at my physical body on the bed.”
ABBEY: “Go on.”
EASTWOOD: “After that experience I knew beyond all doubt that my spirit existed independent of my physical body. I also knew that the truth about reality was FAR more beautiful than anyone previously supposed.
“I knew that consciousness formed matter, and that my teachers were stuck in their own illusion, formed by the hypnotic power of belief, and in this case, collective belief. I was upset because no one in my school knew that their consciousness formed their personal experience. As a result the entire curriculum in that school in all classes was in error.
“Most upsetting was being forced to memorize battle dates in history class, being forced to do a report on why boys don't date boys in health class, being required to learn ridiculous negative theories such as Darwin's, and being forced to accept deplorable preconceived notions about human nature, psychology, animal nature, sexuality and old science, all of which I knew beyond all doubt to be flat-out wrong, and so I drew a line, so to speak, and refused.”
ABBEY: “To you schooling was a kind of forced fiction, and negative. What you were learning on the other hand was factual, positive and fun to learn, so you skipped school to teach it to yourself.”
EASTWOOD: “Exactly. My focus would absolutely be positive. I would not allow my precious and personal mind to be polluted, and I would memorize ONLY quality information that I was certain was true.”
ABBEY: “Did this formula work? People who quit school are up against incredible odds, especially when trying to succeed in scholastic terms, so you certainly took a very difficult path. However, if thoughts create a person's reality, and if you applied the power of thought correctly, then perhaps you could prevail regardless of the odds that were against you.”
EASTWOOD: “The results came immediately—like ‘Instant Magic'—the title of one of my books. At 13, a woman client drove to my high school to pick up her custom solar home blueprints from me. My teacher didn't think highly of me because at the request of my mother I was attending summer school, making up a class I refused to go to, so when with blueprints in hand I asked the teacher to let me go to the parking lot to sell my plans, she was confused. This action shocked my teacher who had previously thought I was a slacker, a shy nobody.
“Soon after that, a picture of me working at my drafting table covered the entire front page of every newspaper sold in our CT shoreline town, so everyone in my school and town read all about me.”
ABBEY: “Teachers and students suddenly found out you were achieving way beyond what was considered normal for your age. In the 1970's 100% solar heated and cooled low income housing would have been an extremely significant social and environmental achievement even for an adult, but for a child it must have been profound. How did your teachers—whose classes you were skipping—react?”
EASTWOOD: “Not well. Many downplayed my achievements. Others said solar didn't work. Most were concerned with how other teachers and parents would perceive them for having failed or nearly failed me. My freshman drafting instructor, who gave me a ‘D-‘ grade for working on home plans rather than the required textbook agenda of drawing squares and circles, was embarrassed.
“Months later, I dropped out for good and instead attended a technical school. I took an accelerated course and by 17 was licensed by the state of CT to design, install and maintain solar heating systems.”
ABBEY: “From what I heard previously, the modular solarium systems you designed and manufactured were being installed all over New England, distributed by New England's biggest wholesale distributor of heating and cooling equipment, the American Supply Company?”
EASTWOOD: “Yes. And I was also working for a Yale professor, Everett Barber, on an invention, a spherical surveyor's solar compass.”
ABBEY: “So we can safely say that consciousness-based science worked for you despite the odds stacked against you.”
EASTWOOD: “Yes, it did.”
ABBEY: “I began this interview with a statement that many people are saying the government stole your book titled ‘Your Future' on how to solve humanity's problems because it was so advanced. But that was actually the second time something like that happened to you?”
EASTWOOD: “Yes. Because an AMSCO executive STOLE my solarium plans and distributor leads at the Hartford, CT coliseum energy show, where we were a phenomenal success otherwise, I was derailed at 18. For that reason, and also because society at the time wasn't ready to accept solar energy, and didn't believe in global warming, I knew the vast majority of people had to make a shift in consciousness before anyone could make real and positive changes in the world, and so I resubmitted to my original plan to make that happen.
“I set out to study consciousness-based science in a long-term manner, with greater zeal, and with determination to eventually raise humanity's consciousness. To do that, I supported myself as a siding contractor—siding over 500 upscale houses by myself. With the proceeds I bought several large homes on the coast of Maine. My commitment was so high that I actually ran my laptop out of a van that was set up as a mobile office on my construction sites. I spent over twenty years studying with the goal in mind of changing humanity's thinking. That plan culminated with a final ten years of study on a paradise island in the southern Gulf of Mexico.”
ABBEY: “You say you recommitted to your original plan because the direction you would take in life was established earlier—in early high school. And you noticed your psychic ability and visionary nature in grade school?”
EASTWOOD: “Yes. From birth on I was an empath, but also, throughout my youth I had clairvoyant experiences, saw future events, and often I heard clearly in my mind what people were going to say seconds before they would say it. There was also an unusual event. I believe it came from the spirit world to direct me. It was my inner self's direction and reassurance that I would be protected if I took this path; or the event may have been my future self communicating with its childhood self in order to bring about the most advantageous future. (Note: The science and EN's curriculum asserts that all time is simultaneous and that communications between time periods is common and always occurring, and this explains evolution in completely different terms.) The event is as follows:
“At age six a friend and I were playing along a beautiful country road. I had a sudden and strange urge to clean up the litter along the road. So I asked my friend if he would help me. As we each carried an armload of trash to a depression in the ground, an intrusive thought came out of nowhere and I said, ‘good things happen to you when you do good things.' And as my friend stomped his trash in the depression, I pointed to a specific rock in a centuries old crumbling stone wall and said ‘get that rock and put it on that trash.'
“As it turned out there was a shoebox full of old coins behind that rock in the stone wall. We both went ballistic! In our minds we had found actual pirate treasure!
“That was an early-life altruistic environmental action for which I was rewarded. Some part of me and/or a higher intelligence knew there were coins behind that rock. That intelligence may have been both the source of the altruistic impulse and the directive leading me to the reward.”
ABBEY: “You were a budding environmentalist at six years old, in 1969, one or two decades before the environmental movement got started. Is there more?”
EASTWOOD: “At 13 I fantasized I owned a global educational institution I ran from Brazil, spreading the new knowledge I in actuality began acquiring at age twelve (and never stopped studying every day of my life).”
ABBEY: “When you were young you questioned religion and science because you were very intellectual and not easily compelled to accept something just because others told you it was so.”
EASTWOOD: “Yes, and once you become intelligent you can't unlearn to satisfy government or those who want you to hold their belief system, nor would it be desirable to do so. That was my situation as a child and still is as an adult. Intelligence always has a lot of opposition, and obviously I can't choose ignorance even if I want to.
“I don't ‘sell out,' and my early life tendency was to question people's beliefs. And the built-in sensitivity of an empath experiencing the world's negative thinking on an emotional level, amplified that propensity. As a youth I strained my intellect to find the source of the acute emotional turmoil and confused beliefs I felt emanating from people. As a result I made my initial discoveries at ages twelve and thirteen.”
ABBEY: “You didn't have any advantages as a child?”
EASTWOOD: “No. No silver spoon in my case. I'm uniquely qualified for what I do because I've worked my way to where I am because of a life-long dedication to my studies and work, and because of a clear sense of direction and clear sense of purpose; and because I've worked through all the life difficulties typically encountered by the disadvantaged or those on the road from the bottom to the top. This independent/stand-alone, often difficult life experience is the highest qualification enabling one to respect, understand and help people solve their problems. Having studied all the most advanced authors in consciousness-based science for over 30 years and 50,000 hours is a qualification equivalent of having a Doctorate degree in physics, psychology and education. Over 30 years ago I was studying what the universities are only beginning to teach. My dedication is unmatched.
“The only advantages I had was that I was always intellectual, visionary, intuitive, and I considered myself to be an empath—meaning I was super sensitive to the emotions in others to the degree of actually taking on the emotions of whomever I talked to—and feeling their beliefs strongly, which often terrified me, and ultimately made me quite shy.
“Having a formal education or degrees doesn't necessarily imply that one's knowledge has value. In fact, what's taught in school is what everyone knows. It's knowledge that's rare or uncommon that has value, especially if it exposes common ‘knowledge' as being false or misleading.
“I don't hide behind a fancy title and spout clinical terminology and textbook theories to tell you what's wrong with you—that's not really—and charge $250.00 an hour to give you more to worry about and drag you down. I give clients immediate solutions that work, not because a textbook says it should work, but because it does work, and because it worked in the most difficult and extreme circumstances in my own life.”
ABBEY: “You actually taught yourself everything you know even though people were always there in every period of your life trying to force you to reject your philosophical beliefs and accept theirs instead? And your ideas were so advanced that immediately after you came back from your island paradise the government confiscated all of EN's writings and illegally censored your work?”
EASTWOOD: “Yes, and I appealed to everyone from lawmakers, to presidents, to the United Nations.”
ABBEY: “But even with tremendous resistance from extremely ignorant and manipulative people working for government later in your life, and even though your soon to be published writings were stolen, none of this stopped you?”
(“Interview with William Eastwood” continues next month with Part Two. Please return to http://www.earth-network.com/ next month to read it. Thank you.