This paper claims to show that energy locked up in, or being funneled through permanent magnets might yield a way to "free" energy. I have investigated the idea of self-rotating permanent magnet motors for many years, and through the coincidental discovery of that which I have identified in magnets as individual spin domains*, I believe the key to such a device is within the magnet itself. To answer understandable skepticism the following is a replicable experiment.

     The experiment requires three items: A large ring magnet (center hole) of more than two inches in diameter. A smaller, one-inch or so disk magnet. A flat, 4 to 6 inch-long wooden Popsicle-like stick, or other such implement that is made of a non-conducting material. (Measurements are only examples, and magnets can be ceramic.)

        Fig 1. Using tape affix the disk magnet to the end of the stick as shown. Make sure the disk hangs just slightly below the edge of the stick and that the tape does not cover this lower part of the magnet.
     Lay the ring magnet on a nonmagnetic table, positive (N) pole up. Use a directional compass to determine polarity. Later it will be shown how to find S or N polarity using only the implements already described.

     Fig 2. The ring and disk magnets must be in contact and at 90-degrees to one another. The disk's S pole faces the center of the ring magnet's N. Fingers grasp the stick at the top and prevent the magnets from adhering to one another except at the edges. The experimenter's grip keeps the magnets in an orthogonal relationship (at right angles).

     Fig 3

     Now the experimenter must master two actions.

     First: The fingers must keep the stick magnet twisted at that 45-degree angle relative to the ring's center as it moves. With finger dexterity practice, the disk will orbit the ring's outer rim.
     Second: Magnets must physically scrape one another while moving, but the operator can lift upward ever so slightly to minimize friction.

     Once these motions are mastered the operator will notice that on the N pole of the ring the disk will only orbit from its starting point 2 and 2/3 times (2.666). On the S pole it will be 3 ¾ times (3.75). At these points the disk will stop and will be reluctant to do anything else unless lifted apart and started over again.
     Skeptics will rightly note that this is not continuous motion. I ask them to bear with me. Magnet motor experimenters have complained in the past of an odd, perplexing phenomenon; spin, they report, is only sustained when a person is in the combined magnetic fields. A human being has to be "part of the circuit" to make the device function! Yet this experiment started with a hand out of the field holding a non-conductive tool, but then stopped after 2.666, or 3.75 orbits. Can the disk magnet be made to go around the ring continuously? Yes. And the answer to how is perhaps the strangest revelation of all.
Another coincidental discovery of mine is that the human hand seems to have some kind of weird quantum "switch" located perhaps in the wrist. So, assuming the ring is N up, the operator is male and holding the stick where it stopped in his right hand, he needs to touch the ring magnet's outer edge with a digit of the left hand, but if he uses a finger nothing will happen. When he touches the ring's outer edge with his thumb the disk will instantly resume orbiting and will continue to do so until he removes his thumb. If the ring is S up he needs to touch the edge with his index finger to make the disk resume orbiting. In both cases the hand must be relaxed so that the thumb and index finger have a natural distance between them of 45-degrees of arc. If attempting to activate the stopped disk with the thumb and index finger closed upon one another, or forced open to 90-degrees nothing is likely to happen.
     (I am convinced that this information once examined deeply will also have a profound influence in the field of human health.) If the operator is female, the order is reversed; index finger on N and thumb on S. Other variations may occur involving combinations of fingers, or depending on what wiring diagram was used in the womb.
     At all times during the orbit the magnets must continue to touch much like brushes on a communicator.
     The direction of orbit on the N pole ring's outer rim is always one way, CCW. When the disk is put on the inner rim of the N ring magnet and twisted 45-degrees the orbit rotation is CCW or CW depending on the direction the stick is twisted. The direction of orbit on the S pole ring's outer rim can be either CCW or CW. At the S pole inner rim the disk will not spin on the pole surface's edge, but tries to get down in the hole and spin there at another, different 90 and 45-degree twist.

NOTE: the N single direction spin and the S dual direction can be used to determine polarity without using a magnetic compass.

     If the ring circumference has a chipped surface the disk tends to skip over the gouges and will throw off the stop count. Engineers may be inclined to think of this skipping behavior at the imperfections as a way to continuous spin by forming gaps deliberately, and insulating them for a smooth transit. I probably won't discourage experimentation, but offer a cautionary note just the same. We're not speaking of a normal electric motor, so normal engineering approaches probably won't work to solve the more esoteric problems of field orientation.
     Happily, there is a way to stop the magnets from scraping against one another, and also a way to replace the thumb/finger in the circuit without complicating the basic mechanics. The demonstration offered here is only proof of principle and shows a strong probability that such a machine can exist. But it is also proof positive that the human being does have a measurable influence on magnetic fields. There is a veritable tangle of variances involving geometry, materials, numbers of armature increments placed with other numbers of stator increments, or the inherent different numbers involved in the opposite fields of the N or S poles of single magnets, and the distance ratios between everything. It is a confusing mess of variables that is almost impossible to keep track of, which gives a hint as to why others in the past have tread this path to success only to find it impossible to duplicate experiments. Yet, once the human is replaced in the circuit, the answer becomes a dumbfoundingly simple configuration of all the above-mentioned augmentations.
     With sharply defined optimism I continue on this path that daily lays itself out in greater clarity.

* The Golden Vortex, Conscious Publishing, 2000, by Nick Nelson.
The Motor in the Magnet, paper delivered to the International New Energy
Conference, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah.