I'm a disabled RI native and I totally love going for walks with you man. I love learning about my New England home. Please keep making these, you're such a champ 🙏🙌
shout out! I'm also disabled, and here in NH. I really am enjoying the videos also. If you have a local historic society, they are often really nice about helping out with questions about local homes and history. Keene has murals, from a mural project (where a town is picked each year to have historic murals made), and it's a delight for people that visit as you can walk around town and just learn so much history from the beautiful murals.
Well, I think John Murray Spear sounds freaking awesome. If he really wanted to build an electric robot messiah and supercharge it with spiritual magic, I say they should have let him. He clearly seems to have had some delusional thoughts and ideas. But when you look at all the new inventions and discoveries that were being made in the field of electricity during his lifetime, you can see why it may have seemed like magic to him, and have gotten the idea that it had the potential to usher in a new golden age. Also I love the way he constantly repeats words in his writings- you can tell he learned his rhetorical playbook as a preacher, and almost hear him banging his fist on the lectern for emphasis.
I don't know what drives you as a creator, but I feel a kinship with you. I have a lot of difficulty with mortality and death, and often have been driven to create myself, sometimes to ensure I leave something worthwhile behind. Selfish, but, this thinking has led me to remember people who have been all but lost to the consciousness of their fellow man, but saddest of all, even their own loved ones. Hearing you tell so many stories, I can't help but see something like this in you. The asylum graveyard of numbers. The residents of Dogtown. And in this video, of Mr. Spear, who I will never forget, and I thank you for that. Your work, which is much more than I think you credit yourself for, is truly an antidote to the oppressor of all humanity: death, in the physical realm, but even worse, in the minds of those who remain. I have many of my own ways of remembering the stories of people and places, small, private, and generally in secret. You are a conservationist of the most wonderful sort for someone like me, and have found such a great calling to be able to have done it for the world to see. It makes me feel better, and in return, I will not keep you and your stories a secret, but share them whenever I can. From one storyteller to another, thank you.
Wow- really didn't expect this guy to be a serious person, let alone one of the most selfless and respectable people of his time. Makes me wonder what kind of spirits he was in contact with! Thank you for giving us heartfelt and thorough coverage instead of a 10-minute point-and-laugh.
As soon as you mentioned progressive my ears perked up. In 1851 Herbert Spencer published his first book Social Statics. Human history was interpreted as a process of species and societal progress. People had witnessed great change due to the industrial revolution. The idea of progress was present within society, but it was Spencer who developed a synthetic philosophy that provided explanation. Spencer theorized that the universe and all life operated under the general principle of progress. The connection to Spear is or could be; that a new great age is about to begin. This new age will be brought about by a spiritually powered, technological utopia for humanity. There were many utopian religious movements during the mid 1800s as well. Wishing it had worked - so true.
@@michaels5222 I checked the replies to @efdangotu to ensure I didn't duplicate your comment pointing out that glaring irony. Excellent play, shortstop!
Intention is everything. In the newly developing American materialistic culture Spear pointed the way simply to being a kind loving person helping the sick afflicted and unjustly sentenced, pointing the way to equality for all. And not caring about what others thought. Putting his own life on the line. I also wished his invention worked! Dime Store Adventures keep up your passion it spews right out of the screen. This idea of yours is going to keep growing exponentially! Please consider reading: Freedom from the Known Paperback by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Really appreciated that you left in the section where you became emotional about Spear’s channeling of a child harmed by slavery. You really cut to the heart of the humanity on display here, from over 150 years ago. Amazing and thoughtful stuff. There’s lessons here to take forward into the modern world.
Just found you today. I am binge watching. You are the best and I can’t believe I didn’t find you before. Your method of storytelling snd documentary research is top notch. Don’t ever give up!!!!!!!
I found this to be very potent and inspirational. Thank you for your powerful presentation on john Spear- surly a man of convictions, sorely misunderstood by today's perspective.
I've been watching a ton of your videos over the past couple days-- most recently this one and the one about the 6 day roller skating race-- and I just have to say thank you. This is probably going to make very little sense, but, as someone who went through a very violent near-death experience a couple years ago and who still deals with PTSD, it's been a struggle to still find meaning and beauty in the world. Sometimes, at my lowest points, everything good in the world has felt completely overshadowed by horror and ugliness-- by the knowledge that terrible things also exist. But stories like these provide an antidote to that kind of hopeless poison, somehow. The way you tell people's stories, including the stories of people who've been forgotten or misunderstood, reminds me how much a life can mean. And it reminds me that other people out there *also* see how much human life can mean. It's a kind of comfort I've found very few places. So thank you.
Interesting, every time someone talks of Spear they focus on the weird part of his beliefs (the Golem machine if you want) and when mentioned, his social ideas are told en passant. It is incredible how ahead of its time eh was, how compassionate he was. I confess that I found the video boring at first but Spear character was so galvanizing (pun interned) that I needed to see it all.
I really appreciate this, pal. It's so refreshing to hear a nuanced piece of history, with the man's foibles and strengths laid out with a non-judgemental and indeed compassionate voice.
Wow, could you imagine if John Spear heard or met Faraday or Tesla. I love your passion, I love how well researched all your videos are, your articulate, engaging and you seem like a genuine nice guy. Great Work you’re doing!
There are people with similar outlandish and supernatural ideas of potential endless free energy sources today and while I can't say of them have convinced me any of their ideas have merit their sincerity and honest desire to help the human race simply because of their love for their fellow humans is quite touching. He sounds like an amazing man disrespected by history and I found this story incredible and your respect for his life quite touching. I am perpetually amazed at just how awesome and interesting you videos are and while incredibly sad there are so few people as smart and curious as you are, I'm just so happy that you exist and are proof that there are still humans out here just doing what humans arguably best. Tell stories and remember the (almost) forgotten. Thank you for your work and I wish you all the best. I could honestly see your channel becoming huge if it just gets the right traction in some places. I know I am 100% a huge fan nowadays and am excited and impressed by the quality of every upload. Your videos are on par with any network tele tv shows.
some of what Spear was talking about reminded me of Nikola Tesla's more obscure beliefs and goals, such as using Wardenclyffe Tower to generate virtually infinite energy, and his general interest in trying to contact life on other planets (he supposedly received a signal from either Mars or Jupiter's moon Io).
Wow what a cool guy I don't understand how we learn so much about somebody like John Brown who was an important and instristing figure in history but then somebody like this guy is left completely out of the textbooks
Found this channel last week and i am so surprised that this channel isn't bigger. i love the editing style and the way it feels like your discovering stuff no one would know about and bringing these storys to a modern platform for future generations, thanks
@@dinosinspaceIt’s a reference to the Terry Pratchett Discworld novel Going Postal. In it there’s a system of semaphore towers which function analogously to a telegraph system in our world. The code GNU indicates that the message being sent should turn around and be retransmitted at the end of the line, essentially keeping it in permanent rotation. There is a tradition among the semaphore operators to transmit a GNU signal with the name of a dead colleague to keep them riding the system as “a man is not dead while his name is still spoken.” Good book. Good series. Give it a go if you like fantasy hijinks.
36th viewer, first comment-- wicky whaaaaa!? Awesome vid man. I saw someone post your last one on reddit with the caption "most underrated channel on youtube", couldn't agree more. Keep em coming.
Hey dude 😎🤗 way awesome history 😁 you gotta be what 20 something maybe 30 ❤❤❤ way cool dude Keep up the good work to help teach our youth learning more
This is insanely interesting and well done. I often fall into the trap of thinking all the best history is in other countries or something. But I love these stories, both large or intimate and personal. You've made me start exploring things in my area. In fact, I just hiked a trail with a monument to some fallen Chiefs on the island I live on in the Puget Sound. Anyway I love this channel.
Halfway through the video and I just needed to pause to say that this is fantastic. I really appreciate all the research that's gone into this. You are a great storyteller. and thank you for listing all the sources, I for sure am going to check some of these out. Cheers.
Amazing video, few have ever seen a more heartfelt and passionate rendition of a man who modern society has place wrongfully into a dismissive box of lunacy. I love the fact you are not afraid to let your deep feelings and emotions shining this video especially when men of weaker character would have edited this moments out of the video.
Idk how I stumbled onto this channel but I ABSOLUTELY love it!! Great story telling! Beautiful video… I love learning and this is a perfect format for education and entertainment..great job! Your passion and compassion for your content is contagious! (Here’s a drinking game! You gotta drink 🍹 everytime he says “right”… your welcome 😂)
You have a great channel, the topics and way you cover them is very unique. Are you a historian by any chance? This feels like the sort of thing a professional historian would do, but instead of presenting them on academic publications you do them on UA-cam. What an amazing man Spear was, despite being a spiritualist, despite being religious, he was arguably one of the most progressive people in existence at the time. It is kind of disappointing that this man existed about 200 years ago, preached about the equality of sexes and race, about the human rights everybody inherently has, even prisoners, and today we still debate about those same things, though of course we have advanced a lot since then I still feel like we haven’t done enough. If Spear were alive today he would still have a lot of work to do.
It's really enjoyable hearing these historical stories. Your format is cool man. Research something you find interesting and then share it with us. It's a great change of pace from what most content is like these days.
Found your channel through your video that went semi viral and I'm happy I did. You bring the memory of alot of unknown people of the past back to life and I find it very unique and interesting. I've subscribed and can't wait to see what other hidden gems of history you find and share. Keep up the good work brother!
Spear sounds like an awesome human being, thank you for humanizing him and telling us his story. It's unfortunate he got caught up in Spiritualism since so many of his important social ideas were lost in the nonsense. Based on the description of the aftermath of the attack in Portland it almost sounds like he received a traumatic brain injury at that time, which could have played into his later belief that he was receiving messages, which would be all the more tragic.
Really terrific video; watched it from beginning to end. I want to sincerely thank you for the time that you put into your research and filming. Your storytelling is wonderful. Keep up the great work!
I enjoy the passion, time, and energy you have put into telling us the story of John Spear. What an interesting story, sounds like he kinda wanted to make a utopia.
I really enjoy your storytelling and history adventures.I feel like Mr. Spear was just ahead of his time and the ideas and the mechanics available and society just hadn’t caught up yet. I like that, even though, his vision couldn’t come to life - he lived a life and ideals he believed in. Great story, thank you for sharing.
I could see 1800s me being drawn into Speare's ideas of the future. His vision must have been powerful during a time when society was separated by class and influence.
Thank you. You are a good storyteller, and are inspiring me to hit my local library and to finally stop and read the markers around my county. I think this path will lead me to whatever I'm supposed to be doing next.
He was a truly great man. Thank you for bringing this to us. We need a man, people like this now. People driven with the passion to save humanity from itself and help nurture us and encourage us to create a new world of peace, love, understanding and justice for all.
I cannot believe I haven’t found your channel until now, dude. This video is absolutely awesome! The amount of research and respect you put into this all while telling us a story in such an interesting way…that’s some serious talent man. John seemed like a good person with a very hopeful and optimistic outlook on humanity. He may have been a little…interesting, but it wasn’t right for his legacy to just be “the crazy guy who built a machine god.” Your dedication to looking beyond that one part of his life and making this incredible documentary about a man who fought for what was right even when society hated him for it…just so awesome. Sorry, I can’t gush enough about how much I love this channel lmao. Great work!!!
Well done. What an impressive display of story-telling, mastery of the material, and heartfelt presentation. Your tears touch me. I wish it had worked, too.
This was amazing and so moving! Totally subscribed! Your last words are haunting, because yes, imagine where we’d all be right now if this man’s idea had worked? It’s almost painful to think about, how many wars and deaths over resources that might never have happened…
Im in aw watching some of your videos. UA-cam recomendations are getting worse for me every day. So I'm thankful that for once it gets what I want. Trully passionate people talking about that "little" stories that make humanity an interest, beautiful place. A couple of hours ago I ended the roller skate video, and I was feeling so bad after that (I choose, just because, Danovan when you first put the names into the screan, so I was so happy, and then so, so sad...) that I wanted something to make me hopefull. And you did it for me.
This was great. Really happy you took the time to make this and give a man the respect he deserves. If anyone did a 10th of what he did just in regards to helping the enslaved, they would be held up as a great man. He did so much more and obviously cared about humanity and other people more than himself and at the end of the day what is better than that.
Excellent presentation on a person who was not known to me but will be a better role model than 99 and 44/100ths of todays chavs. This gentleman really personifies integrity, emotional intelligence and batsheet quazy but inna kool way. Thank you vry much and universal greetings to all the special spirits out gere showing love to dey fellows by dropping dimes down on us instead of peess - big big ups to all deh illuminated 1's
This was so amazing, interesting and informative. You are making some really cool and unique stuff. I've signed up for your Patreon because the world needs more of this.
He definitely had something not right mentally with everything related to spiritualism, but the strength of his convictions is strong and just. The world he envisioned is one I wish I lived in.
I think you vastly overestimate how busy we are. We are all sitting around waiting for your next hour long video. Television is nose diving into the toilet. There’s shit movies being mass manufactured. The world is starving for good content and entertainment. This video was beautiful.
love the music/the shift to B&W/ that great tower/ there is something of tom waits' "what's he DOING in there?"...flannery o'conner's "wise blood"... great job!
Really interesting story. I wonder how he must have felt coming back after the attempt at creating this wondrous source of energy failed. That's always what I think of when i hear stories like this, what the people might feel after and how they continue their work.
Absolutely fascinating story that I had NEVER heard about! Your articulation and research is incredible man, keep this up and you'll blow up in no time :)
What a wonderful man! I think if he truly healed people it is because he was true, childlike and purely unselfish. He did what we all should do if we can-instead of complaining about something he did what he could about it. Don't like homeless people? Pick someone and give them a home if you can! If it doesn't work out keep trying. When I housed a whole string of homelwss punk rockers not a single one stole from me. They knew I had been a homeless teen punk too so they respected that. I didn't just get lucky, they were family to me. Take care of people your heart goes out to and if one of them succeeds they will probably help someone in turn. I've seen it with my own eyes. I have a new addition to my all time favorite people list. Thank you so much for inttroducing me to him!
The closing statement really hit me as someone who'd heard the story and just laughed at him for his silly machine. I wish it worked, and I wish more people listened to him.
What an amazing researcher and presenter you are. Thank you. ..... I can't help but compare Mr Spears story to that of the incredible Nikola Tesla. Born more or less at the same time and both with a passionate obsession of electricity although with very different personalities. One can only speculate as to what the two of them could have come up with. I will now remember Mr Spears as I will you and your channel. Cheers.
An embodiment of the Beatitudes and a model for the way a true Christian should behave. Such a shame his kind is so rare. ...and it's also a shame his creation didn't work.
This is quickly becoming a favorite channel! Appreciate all the time it takes to do the research. Thank you! Can you imagine if the Electrolizers took off instead of Mormonism?
What a wonderful, fascinating human being! And I'm sure I never would have know about him if it wasn't for you and your great channel. I feel like he must have just spent most of his adult life on a constant daily search for ways to help those most in need and if nothing else I admire his determination. I wonder how his energy-woo beliefs would have played out had he been born in a different time? I conserve archival documents for a living and the sort of primary history research you do reminds me why I care about what I do. Because I'm sure there are still some life stories as worthy of telling as John Murray Spear's but they need to be discovered by the historians who still visit the actual archives and because people before us thought to retain the original documents, even the ones that don't seems so historic at the time. Anyway, I love your work and I'll be sharing and looking forward to all future updates.
Damn, Spear is going in the dream blunt rotation.
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I'm a disabled RI native and I totally love going for walks with you man. I love learning about my New England home. Please keep making these, you're such a champ 🙏🙌
shout out! I'm also disabled, and here in NH. I really am enjoying the videos also. If you have a local historic society, they are often really nice about helping out with questions about local homes and history. Keene has murals, from a mural project (where a town is picked each year to have historic murals made), and it's a delight for people that visit as you can walk around town and just learn so much history from the beautiful murals.
Well, I think John Murray Spear sounds freaking awesome. If he really wanted to build an electric robot messiah and supercharge it with spiritual magic, I say they should have let him.
He clearly seems to have had some delusional thoughts and ideas. But when you look at all the new inventions and discoveries that were being made in the field of electricity during his lifetime, you can see why it may have seemed like magic to him, and have gotten the idea that it had the potential to usher in a new golden age. Also I love the way he constantly repeats words in his writings- you can tell he learned his rhetorical playbook as a preacher, and almost hear him banging his fist on the lectern for emphasis.
Sufficiently advanced, for sure.
I, for one, welcome our new electric robot messiah
@@nothereanymore3941 I, for two, welcome our new Victorian robot god.
I mean...they did let him. It simply didn't work.
@@tgbluewolf So far as we know... clink... clank...
I don't know what drives you as a creator, but I feel a kinship with you.
I have a lot of difficulty with mortality and death, and often have been driven to create myself, sometimes to ensure I leave something worthwhile behind. Selfish, but, this thinking has led me to remember people who have been all but lost to the consciousness of their fellow man, but saddest of all, even their own loved ones.
Hearing you tell so many stories, I can't help but see something like this in you. The asylum graveyard of numbers. The residents of Dogtown. And in this video, of Mr. Spear, who I will never forget, and I thank you for that. Your work, which is much more than I think you credit yourself for, is truly an antidote to the oppressor of all humanity: death, in the physical realm, but even worse, in the minds of those who remain.
I have many of my own ways of remembering the stories of people and places, small, private, and generally in secret. You are a conservationist of the most wonderful sort for someone like me, and have found such a great calling to be able to have done it for the world to see. It makes me feel better, and in return, I will not keep you and your stories a secret, but share them whenever I can.
From one storyteller to another, thank you.
Mr. Spear, like so many others over time, longed for that which never was - and will never be.
This was/is extremely fascinating! Thank you!
ETA: Just wanted to add that your empathy and compassion for the subject was very touching.
"The Electric Infant" is a sick name, well done!
This video, particularly the end, brought me to tears. I'll be thinking about this for a long time.
Wow- really didn't expect this guy to be a serious person, let alone one of the most selfless and respectable people of his time.
Makes me wonder what kind of spirits he was in contact with!
Thank you for giving us heartfelt and thorough coverage instead of a 10-minute point-and-laugh.
As soon as you mentioned progressive my ears perked up. In 1851 Herbert Spencer published his first book Social Statics. Human history was interpreted as a process of species and societal progress. People had witnessed great change due to the industrial revolution. The idea of progress was present within society, but it was Spencer who developed a synthetic philosophy that provided explanation. Spencer theorized that the universe and all life operated under the general principle of progress.
The connection to Spear is or could be; that a new great age is about to begin. This new age will be brought about by a spiritually powered, technological utopia for humanity. There were many utopian religious movements during the mid 1800s as well. Wishing it had worked - so true.
...here we are speaking thru our sun stones. I think it worked.
19th century Spencer: General principal of Progress
20th century: Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot....
God bless.
TIK history has several lectures linking philosophically Marxism and Fascism. Which I was taught in college - 1986.@@michaels5222
@@michaels5222 I checked the replies to @efdangotu to ensure I didn't duplicate your comment pointing out that glaring irony. Excellent play, shortstop!
Spear sounds like a man who was willing to put himself on the line for his beliefs, you have to respect that.
Intention is everything. In the newly developing American materialistic culture Spear pointed the way simply to being a kind loving person helping the sick afflicted and unjustly sentenced, pointing the way to equality for all. And not caring about what others thought. Putting his own life on the line. I also wished his invention worked! Dime Store Adventures keep up your passion it spews right out of the screen. This idea of yours is going to keep growing exponentially! Please consider reading: Freedom from the Known Paperback
by Jiddu Krishnamurti
praise the Omnissiah. Blessings of the Motive Force, the Machine God, and the Omnissiah
I believe this was covered in Weird New Jersey and Weird Massachucette
Lol praise the omni messiah! Even in death i serve!
Recite the canticles and do not forget to appease the machine spirits! Praise the Omnissiah! Glory to Holy Mars!
Really appreciated that you left in the section where you became emotional about Spear’s channeling of a child harmed by slavery. You really cut to the heart of the humanity on display here, from over 150 years ago. Amazing and thoughtful stuff. There’s lessons here to take forward into the modern world.
Why does everyone act like America invented slavery? There's slavery going on right now in the world. Real actual slavery. In Africa no less.
how you can confuse something so grossly performative with spontaneously becoming emotional is bizarre.
@@kingkarlito yea that was very cringe.
Imagine being in prison for stealing a pencil. 😵💫
Just found you today. I am binge watching. You are the best and I can’t believe I didn’t find you before. Your method of storytelling snd documentary research is top notch. Don’t ever give up!!!!!!!
Me, too!! I think it took 3 plus days to get through the content. Now I am going back and absorbing them! Really impressed.
I found this to be very potent and inspirational. Thank you for your powerful presentation on john Spear- surly a man of convictions, sorely misunderstood by today's perspective.
I've been watching a ton of your videos over the past couple days-- most recently this one and the one about the 6 day roller skating race-- and I just have to say thank you. This is probably going to make very little sense, but, as someone who went through a very violent near-death experience a couple years ago and who still deals with PTSD, it's been a struggle to still find meaning and beauty in the world. Sometimes, at my lowest points, everything good in the world has felt completely overshadowed by horror and ugliness-- by the knowledge that terrible things also exist.
But stories like these provide an antidote to that kind of hopeless poison, somehow. The way you tell people's stories, including the stories of people who've been forgotten or misunderstood, reminds me how much a life can mean. And it reminds me that other people out there *also* see how much human life can mean. It's a kind of comfort I've found very few places. So thank you.
Interesting, every time someone talks of Spear they focus on the weird part of his beliefs (the Golem machine if you want) and when mentioned, his social ideas are told en passant. It is incredible how ahead of its time eh was, how compassionate he was. I confess that I found the video boring at first but Spear character was so galvanizing (pun interned) that I needed to see it all.
I really appreciate this, pal. It's so refreshing to hear a nuanced piece of history, with the man's foibles and strengths laid out with a non-judgemental and indeed compassionate voice.
Wow, could you imagine if John Spear heard or met Faraday or Tesla.
I love your passion, I love how well researched all your videos are, your articulate, engaging and you seem like a genuine nice guy. Great Work you’re doing!
There are people with similar outlandish and supernatural ideas of potential endless free energy sources today and while I can't say of them have convinced me any of their ideas have merit their sincerity and honest desire to help the human race simply because of their love for their fellow humans is quite touching. He sounds like an amazing man disrespected by history and I found this story incredible and your respect for his life quite touching. I am perpetually amazed at just how awesome and interesting you videos are and while incredibly sad there are so few people as smart and curious as you are, I'm just so happy that you exist and are proof that there are still humans out here just doing what humans arguably best. Tell stories and remember the (almost) forgotten.
Thank you for your work and I wish you all the best. I could honestly see your channel becoming huge if it just gets the right traction in some places. I know I am 100% a huge fan nowadays and am excited and impressed by the quality of every upload. Your videos are on par with any network tele tv shows.
Thanks so much for such a nice comment! Really appreciate it
some of what Spear was talking about reminded me of Nikola Tesla's more obscure beliefs and goals, such as using Wardenclyffe Tower to generate virtually infinite energy, and his general interest in trying to contact life on other planets (he supposedly received a signal from either Mars or Jupiter's moon Io).
Thank you for this illuminating study of Rev. Spear. Your programs are both educational and interesting.
Wow what a cool guy
I don't understand how we learn so much about somebody like John Brown who was an important and instristing figure in history but then somebody like this guy is left completely out of the textbooks
Found this channel last week and i am so surprised that this channel isn't bigger. i love the editing style and the way it feels like your discovering stuff no one would know about and bringing these storys to a modern platform for future generations, thanks
You are an excellent historian and story teller, thank you for facts well researched and a story well told. You've made my world a richer place.❤
A man is not dead while his name is still spoken. GNU John Murray Spear.
May I ask what GNU means?
@@dinosinspaceIt’s a reference to the Terry Pratchett Discworld novel Going Postal. In it there’s a system of semaphore towers which function analogously to a telegraph system in our world. The code GNU indicates that the message being sent should turn around and be retransmitted at the end of the line, essentially keeping it in permanent rotation. There is a tradition among the semaphore operators to transmit a GNU signal with the name of a dead colleague to keep them riding the system as “a man is not dead while his name is still spoken.” Good book. Good series. Give it a go if you like fantasy hijinks.
I cried big boy tears. Thank you for sharing this beautiful mans story.
This was amazing!! Thanks for the in-depth and sincere coverage of Mr. Spears remarkable life.
36th viewer, first comment-- wicky whaaaaa!? Awesome vid man. I saw someone post your last one on reddit with the caption "most underrated channel on youtube", couldn't agree more. Keep em coming.
Hey, glad you like the videos! Thanks for watching!
Hey dude 😎🤗 way awesome history 😁 you gotta be what 20 something maybe 30 ❤❤❤ way cool dude Keep up the good work to help teach our youth learning more
This is insanely interesting and well done. I often fall into the trap of thinking all the best history is in other countries or something. But I love these stories, both large or intimate and personal. You've made me start exploring things in my area. In fact, I just hiked a trail with a monument to some fallen Chiefs on the island I live on in the Puget Sound. Anyway I love this channel.
Halfway through the video and I just needed to pause to say that this is fantastic. I really appreciate all the research that's gone into this. You are a great storyteller.
and thank you for listing all the sources, I for sure am going to check some of these out. Cheers.
Thanks so much! Glad you like it
Amazing video, few have ever seen a more heartfelt and passionate rendition of a man who modern society has place wrongfully into a dismissive box of lunacy. I love the fact you are not afraid to let your deep feelings and emotions shining this video especially when men of weaker character would have edited this moments out of the video.
These are so amazing. Thank you for being a witness for these people.
Idk how I stumbled onto this channel but I ABSOLUTELY love it!! Great story telling! Beautiful video… I love learning and this is a perfect format for education and entertainment..great job! Your passion and compassion for your content is contagious! (Here’s a drinking game! You gotta drink 🍹 everytime he says “right”… your welcome 😂)
I like being educated. I am from New England so also like the hikes through the woods! Keep up the great work!
You have a great channel, the topics and way you cover them is very unique. Are you a historian by any chance? This feels like the sort of thing a professional historian would do, but instead of presenting them on academic publications you do them on UA-cam.
What an amazing man Spear was, despite being a spiritualist, despite being religious, he was arguably one of the most progressive people in existence at the time. It is kind of disappointing that this man existed about 200 years ago, preached about the equality of sexes and race, about the human rights everybody inherently has, even prisoners, and today we still debate about those same things, though of course we have advanced a lot since then I still feel like we haven’t done enough. If Spear were alive today he would still have a lot of work to do.
It's really enjoyable hearing these historical stories. Your format is cool man. Research something you find interesting and then share it with us. It's a great change of pace from what most content is like these days.
Found your channel through your video that went semi viral and I'm happy I did. You bring the memory of alot of unknown people of the past back to life and I find it very unique and interesting. I've subscribed and can't wait to see what other hidden gems of history you find and share. Keep up the good work brother!
He was a man hopeful for peace & equality, what a great man.
Spear sounds like an awesome human being, thank you for humanizing him and telling us his story. It's unfortunate he got caught up in Spiritualism since so many of his important social ideas were lost in the nonsense. Based on the description of the aftermath of the attack in Portland it almost sounds like he received a traumatic brain injury at that time, which could have played into his later belief that he was receiving messages, which would be all the more tragic.
You are just fucking fenomenal dude, keep up the awesome work. Thank you, and Spear
Thank you. Thank you for sharing his story with respect. He had a beautiful heart. So do you.
Really terrific video; watched it from beginning to end. I want to sincerely thank you for the time that you put into your research and filming. Your storytelling is wonderful. Keep up the great work!
I enjoy the passion, time, and energy you have put into telling us the story of John Spear. What an interesting story, sounds like he kinda wanted to make a utopia.
Maybe my favorite video of yours to tell a story i never would have heard otherwise- absolutely fantastic work. We could use some more john spears lol
I really enjoy your storytelling and history adventures.I feel like Mr. Spear was just ahead of his time and the ideas and the mechanics available and society just hadn’t caught up yet. I like that, even though, his vision couldn’t come to life - he lived a life and ideals he believed in. Great story, thank you for sharing.
Great video. Love the consistent citing of primary sources. This stuff is a goldmine for inspiration when it comes to fictional world building!
Thanks so much for providing backstory context to such a wild story.
I could see 1800s me being drawn into Speare's ideas of the future. His vision must have been powerful during a time when society was separated by class and influence.
Heck yeah. A new video! Thanks for the hard work and interesting stories.
Thank you for watching!
Thank you. You are a good storyteller, and are inspiring me to hit my local library and to finally stop and read the markers around my county. I think this path will lead me to whatever I'm supposed to be doing next.
Powerful video with a powerful message.
He was a truly great man. Thank you for bringing this to us. We need a man, people like this now. People driven with the passion to save humanity from itself and help nurture us and encourage us to create a new world of peace, love, understanding and justice for all.
Ugh im 35 seconds in and I’m so into this video already, thank you for all the effort you put in to make these so entertaining and informative ❤
I just found your channel and it is unbelievably good, the spirit John Murray Spear spoke to me and he agreed!
You're the most interesting/eclectic channel in my subscription feed :) I love it
Another beautifully kind video. ❤
"most underrated channel on youtube"
I cannot believe I haven’t found your channel until now, dude. This video is absolutely awesome! The amount of research and respect you put into this all while telling us a story in such an interesting way…that’s some serious talent man. John seemed like a good person with a very hopeful and optimistic outlook on humanity. He may have been a little…interesting, but it wasn’t right for his legacy to just be “the crazy guy who built a machine god.” Your dedication to looking beyond that one part of his life and making this incredible documentary about a man who fought for what was right even when society hated him for it…just so awesome. Sorry, I can’t gush enough about how much I love this channel lmao. Great work!!!
Well done. What an impressive display of story-telling, mastery of the material, and heartfelt presentation. Your tears touch me. I wish it had worked, too.
God, I cannot wait for your collab with Wendigoon.
I wish there was a channel like yours for the place I grew up. You've got a knack for telling a tale!
I almost expected him to say "The power of Grayskull!"
New subscriber. I really, really appreciate your injection of humanity into your tellings of history.
You're a good lad. Thanks for this video, I'm going to let more people know about him
This was amazing and so moving! Totally subscribed! Your last words are haunting, because yes, imagine where we’d all be right now if this man’s idea had worked? It’s almost painful to think about, how many wars and deaths over resources that might never have happened…
Love your passion for these videos, got me hooked!
Im in aw watching some of your videos. UA-cam recomendations are getting worse for me every day. So I'm thankful that for once it gets what I want. Trully passionate people talking about that "little" stories that make humanity an interest, beautiful place. A couple of hours ago I ended the roller skate video, and I was feeling so bad after that (I choose, just because, Danovan when you first put the names into the screan, so I was so happy, and then so, so sad...) that I wanted something to make me hopefull. And you did it for me.
This was great. Really happy you took the time to make this and give a man the respect he deserves. If anyone did a 10th of what he did just in regards to helping the enslaved, they would be held up as a great man. He did so much more and obviously cared about humanity and other people more than himself and at the end of the day what is better than that.
Excellent presentation on a person who was not known to me but will be a better role model than 99 and 44/100ths of todays chavs. This gentleman really personifies integrity, emotional intelligence and batsheet quazy but inna kool way. Thank you vry much and universal greetings to all the special spirits out gere showing love to dey fellows by dropping dimes down on us instead of peess - big big ups to all deh illuminated 1's
Much respect for people who interpret Christianity this way and live the directives of the Bible. Problem is you are so rare.
Damn, dude, this was beautiful. I'm stunned. Subscribed.
Great channel. I love your stories. Just found you recently. I predict rapid growth now.
Keep up the good work!
Well presented by you sir
Powerful ending, fantastic video
Thank you for the inspirational story and info! Truly a man worth emulating
I feel like I'm so early watching this, this channel should be huge
Very well done
I have a lot of interst in cults and I don't know how I have never heard of this! This is amazing.
This was so amazing, interesting and informative. You are making some really cool and unique stuff. I've signed up for your Patreon because the world needs more of this.
He definitely had something not right mentally with everything related to spiritualism, but the strength of his convictions is strong and just. The world he envisioned is one I wish I lived in.
I think you vastly overestimate how busy we are. We are all sitting around waiting for your next hour long video.
Television is nose diving into the toilet. There’s shit movies being mass manufactured.
The world is starving for good content and entertainment. This video was beautiful.
love the music/the shift to B&W/ that great tower/ there is something of tom waits' "what's he DOING in there?"...flannery o'conner's "wise blood"... great job!
Really interesting story. I wonder how he must have felt coming back after the attempt at creating this wondrous source of energy failed. That's always what I think of when i hear stories like this, what the people might feel after and how they continue their work.
crminally underviewed channel ! i sincerely hope you gain some big traction man, awesome style
This was AMAZING! Thank you!
Absolutely fascinating story that I had NEVER heard about! Your articulation and research is incredible man, keep this up and you'll blow up in no time :)
What a wonderful man! I think if he truly healed people it is because he was true, childlike and purely unselfish.
He did what we all should do if we can-instead of complaining about something he did what he could about it. Don't like homeless people? Pick someone and give them a home if you can! If it doesn't work out keep trying. When I housed a whole string of homelwss punk rockers not a single one stole from me. They knew I had been a homeless teen punk too so they respected that. I didn't just get lucky, they were family to me. Take care of people your heart goes out to and if one of them succeeds they will probably help someone in turn. I've seen it with my own eyes.
I have a new addition to my all time favorite people list. Thank you so much for inttroducing me to him!
This was so interesting.
Thank you for this video
The closing statement really hit me as someone who'd heard the story and just laughed at him for his silly machine. I wish it worked, and I wish more people listened to him.
This was really really interesting!!!! Good job. Thanks for posting this.
What an amazing researcher and presenter you are. Thank you. ..... I can't help but compare Mr Spears story to that of the incredible Nikola Tesla. Born more or less at the same time and both with a passionate obsession of electricity although with very different personalities. One can only speculate as to what the two of them could have come up with. I will now remember Mr Spears as I will you and your channel. Cheers.
Wow! Love the interaction between your story and the ORB in the tree ❤❤❤
An embodiment of the Beatitudes and a model for the way a true Christian should behave. Such a shame his kind is so rare.
...and it's also a shame his creation didn't work.
This is quickly becoming a favorite channel! Appreciate all the time it takes to do the research. Thank you!
Can you imagine if the Electrolizers took off instead of Mormonism?
Nice music selection! Love the stories 😀
thank you for this video!
What a wonderful, fascinating human being! And I'm sure I never would have know about him if it wasn't for you and your great channel. I feel like he must have just spent most of his adult life on a constant daily search for ways to help those most in need and if nothing else I admire his determination. I wonder how his energy-woo beliefs would have played out had he been born in a different time?
I conserve archival documents for a living and the sort of primary history research you do reminds me why I care about what I do. Because I'm sure there are still some life stories as worthy of telling as John Murray Spear's but they need to be discovered by the historians who still visit the actual archives and because people before us thought to retain the original documents, even the ones that don't seems so historic at the time.
Anyway, I love your work and I'll be sharing and looking forward to all future updates.
"Away, AWAY, with those old customs."
We do so much damage to each other because of the inertia of custom, and it's modern incarnation, nostalgia.