One of the things that setting up this cycles and harmonics forum has shown me is that although there are cycles there is also the relentless march towards death. Some very interesting people have died and/or their web sites have vanished, fate unknown. So I have a strong desire to save the work of these interesting people. To help in this there are two very useful websites.

The wayback machine keeps archives of the internet: (yes really!) https://web.archive.org but it is working intermittently at present.

The internet downloader / wayback machine downloader is also juseful for retrieving a whole web site websitedownloader.io/wayback-machine-downloader but it is only as good as the wayback machine lets it be and you may have to pay top get anywhere.

If you are interested in collectively setting up a way to save all of our works into the future, please reply to this message and say so. Maybe we can collectively fund a permanent website depository.

With all that said, here is the results of recording for posterity the work of some important cycles people.

Cycles Research: Obituaries and Legacies

A reference list of notable cycles researchers, ordered by death date (where known), for the "preserve alternate scientists" project. Martin Armstrong is deliberately excluded from this list given the harm he caused to FSC.

Edward R. Dewey (1895 – 1978)

Economist; founder of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles (FSC), incorporated 1941. As Chief Economic Analyst for the U.S. Department of Commerce under an assignment from President Hoover to identify the cause of the Great Depression, Dewey found economists gave no consistent explanation — leading him to study cycles in economic data directly. Documented reported cycles across more than 500 phenomena in 36 fields of knowledge, publishing Cycles: The Mysterious Forces That Trigger Events (1971) and the four-volume Cycles Classic Library Collection, and editing Cycles magazine from 1950. His finding that commonly reported cycle periods cluster around whole-number ratios (2s and 3s) is the direct historical seed of Harmonics Theory. Legacy status: Institutionally preserved via FSC/Cycles Research Institute, founded 2004 specifically to continue this work.

Theodor Landscheidt (1927 – 20 May 2004)

German author, West German High Court judge, and self-taught climatologist/astrologer who became one of the most substantive independent researchers into solar-planetary relationships. Founded and financed the Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity (1983, near Bremen, later Nova Scotia). Investigated solar inertial motion as a driver of sunspot cycle timing, publishing in journals including Solar Physics and Climatic Change. Forecast (1989) a solar minimum after 1990 with a deeper minimum around 2030 — now called the "Landscheidt Minimum" by others. A longstanding AGU member, though his solar-planetary work was often dismissed by mainstream solar physicists as "astrology." His death is described by later researchers as having relit interest that a new generation — including Geoff Sharp — has carried forward. Legacy status: Papers survive through a follower-maintained WordPress archive of PDFs. Not independently verified as complete or secure — a candidate for the "at risk" list.

Gabriel LaFreniere (d. 2012)

"Matter is Made of Waves" — independent researcher into the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM), presenting the case for matter as standing-wave interference patterns rather than point particles, at glafreniere.com. Legacy status: Fully preserved. The entire original site — images, optics section, program downloads, video demonstrations — was mirrored by volunteer "Mildred Ki'Lya" and remains at github.com/mildred/glafreniere and mildred.github.io/glafreniere.

Jerry W. Decker (6 Dec 1944 – 14 June 2017)

Founder and 29-year Sysop/Webmaster of KeelyNet, an archive/BBS (from 1988) dedicated to unconventional and "free energy" science, named after 19th-century inventor John Worrell Keely. Also founded sponsoring organization Vanguard Sciences. Found dead at home in Guadalajara, Mexico; U.S. Consulate confirmed natural causes following recent health issues. Announced by longtime collaborator Chuck Henderson; obituary ran in Infinite Energy magazine (Sept/Oct 2017). Legacy status: At risk. keelynet.com reported unresponsive as of July 2026. Partial, outdated mirrors exist: Swedish Association for New Physics (content to May 1995) and Bill Beaty's amasci.com (content to mid-1994). Chuck Henderson, who carried the site forward, is a likely contact — not yet reached.

Richard Mogey (d. ~2023)

Executive Director of the FSC from 1990, and Research Director/Chief Economist across two periods (1988–1997, then 2004–2010) spanning the Foundation's most difficult years, including its near-collapse in the late 1990s. Regarded as a direct heir to Dewey's approach — rigorous in determining cycle periods and phases, and a generous mentor to other researchers. Co-developed FSC's Techsignal software and later his own CycleTech software. FSC's own tribute called his passing "a great loss to the cycles community." Legacy status: Not independently assessed.

Gertrude Shirk (dates unconfirmed)

Editor of Cycles magazine and FSC Vice President, active in that role from at least 1974 through 1986. Retired from the position at some point, after which Jeffrey Horovitz took over leadership. Ray believes she has since died, though no specific date or source has been confirmed. Legacy status: Not assessed.

Not deceased (or status genuinely unclear) — included for completeness

Jeffrey Horovitz — psychiatrist who left his practice to lead FSC (based in Irvine, California) after Shirk's retirement, before leaving in the late 1980s to "pursue other interests," at which point Mogey took over. Personally significant to Ray: the two were in contact into the early 2000s and met in person in Florida around that time; Horovitz encouraged Ray to found CRI after FSC's collapse, and had appointed him to FSC's international board around 1990. Status since that contact is unconfirmed, but there's a real, warm personal history here worth following up on directly rather than treating as a cold lookup.

John T. Burns — Professor of Biology at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas; chronobiology/endocrinology researcher; served as FSC Executive Director for five years and later as a Board member. Author of Cycles in Humans and Nature: An Annotated Bibliography, cited on Ray's own site. Ray exchanged emails with him in the past, though not in recent years. Status unconfirmed.

Dr Yuri N. Ivanov (Rhythmodynamics, WSM) — Ray believes he may still be alive, despite mirit.ru having lapsed to a domain-for-sale page. Tracked in detail on the separate ongoing status list rather than here.

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