The video of this post is here.
Not long after I did my interview at Project Camelot with Brian O’Leary, Bill Ryan forwarded an email to me from Michael Hyson. Michael had been a colleague of Brian’s during their asteroid mining and space colony days, and Michael stayed with Brian back then at a conference. Brian remembered Michael fondly. Michael spent ten hours, in total, weightless, testing some of his space technology.
I began a correspondence with Michael, he soon invited me to Hawaii to swim with dolphins, I took him up on it the next year, and I had a spectacular encounter, which I discuss in the accompanying video. Michael had incredible dolphin encounters. I attended the 25th anniversary party for Michael’s institute that studied cetaceans. Michael discovered that dolphins sleep by putting one hemisphere of their brains asleep at a time.
Michael and I built a friendship, but we fell out of touch in 2019, after his home was lost in the 2018 volcanic eruption, when COVID-19 hit, which seems to have taken the wind out of his sails. He no longer has an Internet presence, or phone number, or working email. I saw a report that he was hospitalized for his longstanding heart issues in 2021 and that he died last year, which I am trying to confirm.
Early on, Michael did his homework. When he read the account that I posted of Mark Comings’s adventures in free energy, he asked his colleague Elizabeth Rauscher about Mark, as Mark studied under Elizabeth at Berkeley. Elizabeth replied that it happened just as Mark said. Michael contacted me one day, to tell me that Elizabeth had invented her own free-energy prototype. He asked me if the coast was clear for her to bring it forward, and I told him that it wasn’t. Michael checked into other free-energy tales and people, and was appalled by some of their behavior. He was also involved with free-energy inventions, and my tales rang very true to him, as he watched greed take over, etc.
Michael spent a morning reading an early draft of my big essay back in 2014 and was highly impressed, which was another indicator that I was doing a competent job of it. To this day, Michael is one of the only people that I could ever talk to about my work, and he instantly got it. We talked about once a year, with conversations that lasted at least an hour.
In one of our last conversations, Michael told about an event that happened in a deep meditative state, when he asked if his mission on Earth was to help bridge cetaceans and humans, and the response was earthshaking, seemingly from all of the cetaceans on Earth. If I have had my last conversation with Michael, I am saddened. He was a great man and I loved him.