Foster Gamble
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| Residence | Aptos, CA, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Thrive: What On Earth Will It Take? |
Foster Gamble is an American filmmaker, researcher and heir to the Procter & Gamble fortune, best known as the creator and presenter of the 2011 documentary Thrive: What On Earth Will It Take?. He is a proponent of "free energy" concepts and of a toroidal ("torus") model that he regards as a fundamental pattern underlying nature.
Biography
Gamble is a great-great-grandson of James Gamble, a co-founder of the consumer-goods company Procter & Gamble, though he has stated that he has no role in the running of the modern corporation. He attended the Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut, and studied at Princeton University. A longtime practitioner of Aikido, he attained a third-degree black belt and taught the martial art for many years. He lives in Aptos, California, with his wife, Kimberly Carter Gamble.
Work
Gamble describes a formative experience at the age of fourteen in which he perceived what he believed to be a fundamental energy pattern of the universe, an image he later identified with the torus, and which he pursued for decades as a unifying principle in nature. In 1997 he co-convened the Sequoia Symposium, a multi-disciplinary think tank exploring perspectives on unification theory.
Together with Kimberly Carter Gamble, he produced and presented the documentary Thrive: What On Earth Will It Take?, released in 2011. The film draws on ideas including so-called free-energy suppression, and it spawned the associated Thrive Movement. Gamble has continued to promote his views on energy, natural geometry and social change through the Thrive project and related talks.