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he day of low-cost or virtu-ally free energy may be closerthan you think.

Andrea Rossi, the Italian in-ventor whose E-Cat low energynuclear reactor has been makingnews in Europe and in the alter-native energy worldwhile beingignored by the mainstream Amer-ican presshas announced plansto open his own plant in October.

One E-Cat reactor, it is reli-ably reported, can produce 4.4kW of energy. Multiple arrays can

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EARLY RAYS

orget about global warming; the very nearfuture could be very cold. That is the gist

of alarming news concerning the state of spotson the sun.

On June 14, scientists at the National Solar

Observatory and at the U.S. Air Force Re-search Laboratory reported that the Suns re-cent behavior indicates that a period of unusu-ally low solar activity is about to begin. Thelast time such a thing occurred was in the lateseventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Itwas called the Maunder Minimum and it hasbeen described as a mini ice age. Rivers,which today are ice-free, were frozen, andsnowfields remained year round at much

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Do Hibernating

Sunspots Portend

an Ice Age on Earth?

lower altitudes than now.This is highly unusual and unexpected,

says Dr. Frank Hill of the NSO. But the factthat three completely different views of theSun point in the same direction is a powerful

indicator that the sunspot cycle may be goinginto hibernation.

The news was reported by most of themajor media but was soon downplayed bysome scientists more heavily invested in theidea of global warming. Not surprisingly, Mi-chael Mann, creator of the notorious hockeystick graph which purports to show catas-trophically accelerating global warming, wasamong them. That (an ice age) is just not

going to happen, he told Wired Magazine.The key question is whether the domina

influence over Earths climate is human ativity or the interaction with larger, mocosmic, forces such at solar activity, ov

which we have little, if any, control. A correunderstanding of the problem is fundamento making proper decisions on exactly hoour resources should be allocated. Get thpolicy wrong and the result could be catclysmic. Though the notion of man-maglobal warming has become, in many quaters, the virtual equivalent of receivwisdom, the new solar data could prove to ba very inconvenient truth.

The frozen RiverThames in 1677

be connected in series or parallelto scale up the energy produced.Rossi says a hundred of his reac-tors are being tested around theworld. A million-watt heatingplant will ship to Greece soon.

Rossi and his colleague Dr.Sergio Focardi of the Universityof Bologna have created a lowcost, nickel-hydrogen desktop-size reactor. The technology hasgone through at least three publicdemonstrations, the most recentwhen two Swedish scientists con-

ducted a test. The chairman the Swedish Skeptics Society anthe chairman of the Energy Committee of the Swedish Roy

Academy of Science were both alowed to freely examine everthing in the setup except the cotents of the tiny (50cc) reactchamber. Both agreed that the energy successfully produced counot be explained by any knowchemical process.

More on this from Jeane Maning on page 17.

Italian Cold Fusion Heads Toward Hot FutureRossisE-Cat atwork


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ore question and fewanswers have emerged

from the latest robotic ex-ploration of the Great Pyr-amids enigmatic hiddenshafts.

The most recent attempt

took place in May says NewScientist.com. Equipped witha micro-snake camera, thecrawling camera-equippedmachine was intended tosee past the doors at theupper end of the narrowpassage from the south wallof the Queens chamber(there is another similarpassage from the northwall). Also known as Gan-tenbrinks door (after theoriginal discoverer, Rudolf Gantenbrink), ithad blocked previous explorations. Now, re-vealed on the back side is rough writing (nohieroglyphs), which Egyptologists are callingancient graffiti. The enigmatic metal handleswhich had been previously photographed onthe front of the door can be seen to end insmall, well-made loops on the back side,which is said by some to rule out the idea thatthey could have been part of some kind of an-cient electrical circuit.

The robot named Djedi was designed byengineer Rob Richardson from the Universityof Leeds, UK. Its camera was mounted to facil-tate seeing around corners, a plan which ap-

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Pyramid Robot Snaps Mysterious Graffiti

parently succeeded.The back side of the little door was pol-

ished, indicating to some that it may haveserved some kind of ceremonial purpose. Thegraffiti is reminiscent of markings found inthe so-called relieving chambers above theKings Chambers (which provide the only evi-dence which can be offered to link the GreatPyramid to the pharaoh Khufu), but so far noone has ventured to interpret the markings. Itis conjectured that their translation will ex-plain the function of the shafts and chambers.It is also thought that the shafts which arealigned north and south are related to stelleralignments, but no one knows for sure.

n Mexicos ancient city ofTeotihuacan archaeolo-

gists have discovered a mys-terious tunnel underneaththe Temple of the Serpent.Running to the east, thetunnel is about 130 yardslong.

Sealed off for more than1,800 years, the passage is45 feet beneath the surfaceand decorated with symbolsof the underworld. Re-

searcher Sergio GomezChavez with Mexicos Na-tional Institute of Anthro-pology and History reportedthe discovery originally de-tected with ground pene-trating radar. The tunnelleads, it is believed, tochambers providing the lastresting place of ancientrulers. Gomez Chavez saysthe discovery could be oneof the most important of the21st century.

IANCIENT TUNNEL FOUND IN TEOTIHUACAN

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ANCIENT MYSTERIES

BY OANA R. GHIOCEL M.A.& ROBERT M. SCHOCH, Ph.D.

eople the world over are familiar withthe Egyptian Great Sphinx, but there

is another Sphinx, this one found inmodern Romania. It is located on a

vast plateau, at an elevation of 7270 feet(2216 meters) atop the fortress-like BucegiMassif (part of the Bucegi Mountains of theSouthern Carpathians in Romania). Besidesthe Carpathian Sphinx, other enigmatic rockformations are found here, such as Babele(The Old Women Rock), Omu Peak (Omu re-fers to Person or People), the BeardedHead, the Emerging Head, and Mecet Rock (ahuge stage-like rock formation). At lower ele-vations, within a days walking distance of theSphinx, there are a number of natural caves,including Ialomita Cave (with the Ialomita

Monastery and Church at its entrance), Coa-cazei Valley Cave, Bats Cave, and Bears Cave(named after the extinct ice age cave bear re-mains found there).

The Carpathian Sphinx and its environs isthe site of mysteries, both real and imagined.Here various persons have claimed to detectenergy vortexes and experienced paranormalphenomena, including alternative states ofconsciousness. Here, too, it has been assertedthere is a mysterious bedrock chamber, pene-trated by the United States Pentagon and theRomanian Intelligence Service, containing aholographic Hall of Records left by an ad-vanced civilization and three mysterious tun-

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Ruzo spent much of his life searching forphysical evidence of this incredibly ancientprotohistorical culture. In early 1952 Ruzowas shown a photograph of what appeared tobe an enormous, but highly eroded, sculptedrock head located in the Peruvian Andes on

the Marcahuasi (Mar-kawasi) Plateau

From 1953 to 1960Ruzo intensively

studied the Marca-huasi sculptures

(the plateau is cov-ered with rock for-

mations that may beeither natural simu-lacra and/or highly

eroded artificial carv-ings), convinced theywere evidence of the

lost civilization. Ruzo ventured beyond Peru

determined to prove that the monuments ofMarcahuasi were not an isolated phenomenonbut part of a larger complex of very ancientsites found around the world. To this end,Ruzo explored areas in Brazil, Mexico, FranceEngland, and Egypt. In 1968 he traveled tothe Bucegi Mountains to see the Sphinx andassociated formations. Ruzo was stunned bywhat he found.

Dan Braneanu is also a subscriber to thetheory that the Carpathian Sphinx and asso-ciated monuments are the evidence of a pri-mordial lost civilization. Braneanu owns a

nels leading deep into the bowels of InnerEarth (back cover of the 2009 edition ofTransylvanian Sunrise by Radu Cinamar, withan introduction, epilogue, and editing byPeter Moon). Exploring this area, we havesearched in vain for any evidence of such awondrous Hall ofRecords. However,the concept of anadvanced civiliza-tion, together withthe use of tunnelsand caves in the Bu-cegi Mountains,might not be so faroff.

Serious scholarshave suggested thatthe CarpathianSphinx and asso-ciated monuments are evidence of a very old,

very advanced, lost civilization. Among suchresearchers are the Romanian investigator DanBraneanu and the late Peruvian esotericist,protohistorian, thirty-third degree Mason, andauthority on Nostradamus, Daniel Ruzo(1900-1991). Studies of legends and mythsconvinced Ruzo of the reality of a primordial,worldwide civilization that, with the excep-tion of a few survivors who took refuge in un-derground chambers, caves, and tunnels, wasdestroyed by a cataclysm long before the ear-liest civilizations acknowledged by modernconventional historians. (By mainstreamtheory, civilization originated a mere five tosix thousand years ago in the Middle East.) Continued on Page 59

Was the Lost Ancient World which We Seek, in Fact, Neanderthal?

The Carpathian Sphinx in the winter. (Photograph courtesy of the authors)

Daniel Ruzo

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sk any practicing psychologist orgraduate psychology student aboutthe contributions made by Frederic

W. H. Myers to the field of psy-chology and youll likely get a befuddled reac-tion. Like, Frederic Who?

And yet, some very distinguished scien-tists, scholars, and writers of his era lookedupon Myers as a pioneer in the field of psy-chology, being one of the first, if not the first,to seriously delve into the subconscious. Ac-

cording to Dr. Sherwood Eddy, a popularAmerican writer of the first half of the last cen-tury, Myers began to explore the subcon-scious, or subliminal self, simultaneously withand independently of Freud.

Myers greatest admirer may have beenWilliam James, who, along with Freud, Wil-helm Wundt, and John Dewey, is consideredone of the founders of modern psychology.

James wrote that Myers will always be re-membered in psychology as the pioneer whostaked out a vast tract of mental wildernessand planted the flag of genuine science uponit.

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BY MICHAEL E. TYMN

Theodor Flournoy opined that Myers nameshould be joined to those of Copernicus andDarwin, completing the triad of geniuses whohave most profoundly revolutionized scien-tific thought.

Popular author Aldous Huxley saw Myersas a classical scholar, a minor poet, a con-scientious observer, and a platonic philoso-pher, someone who was free to pay more at-tention to the positive aspects of thesubliminal self than to its negative and de-

structive aspects, as with Freud and othersinvolved in the study of the subconscious.With such accolades from esteemed peers,

why is it that Myers is not rememberedtoday? To begin with, Myers was not trainedas a psychologist, though the field was notreally established when Myers began his re-search during the early 1870s. However, theprimary reason he is not remembered is mostlikely his conclusion that brain and mind arenot one and the same. The conscious Self ofeach of usthe empirical, the supraliminalSelf, as I should prefer to saydoes not com-prise the whole of the consciousness or of thefaculty within us, Myers wrote. There exists

a more comprehensive consciousness, a pro-founder faculty, which for the most part re-mains potential only so far as regards the lifeof earth, but which reasserts itself in its pleni-tude after the liberating change of death.

By attempting to put the ghost back intothe machine, Myers was clearly bucking thetrend toward a belief in a purely mechanisticuniverse, one devoid of God, an afterlife, andmeaning. In the wake of Darwinism, suchideas as those presented by Myers were

looked upon by the intellectual aristocracy asa return to religious superstition and idolatry.To dare suggest something so ridiculous wasto invite smirks, scoffs, sneers, and sarcasm.

After graduating from Trinity College,Cambridge, in 1864 with degrees in the clas-sics and moral science, Myers, the son of aminister, earned a masters degree and becamea classical lecturer at his alma mater. In 1869,he began a career as one of Her Majestys In-spector of Schools. By that time, he had, likemost Cambridge intellectuals, lost his faithand his belief in the survival of consciousness

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Why Is He

Frederic William Henry Myers(William Clarke Wontner)



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ject. The name of this ambitiousdreamer was Nicholas Roerich.

What was so special aboutthe Shambhala prophecy thatmade it so attractive for variousspiritual and political seekers in

the first three decades of thetwentieth centurya time ofgreat turmoil on the vast spaces ofEurasia? Shambhala was aprophecy that emerged in theworld of Tibetan Buddhism be-tween the tenth and twelth centu-ries CE, centered on a legendabout a pure and happy kingdomlocated somewhere in the north;the Tibetan word Shambhalameans source of happiness.

The legend said that thepeople of this mystical land en-

joyed spiritual bliss, security, and

prosperity. Having mastered spe-cial techniques, they turnedthemselves into godlike beingsand exercised full control over theforces of nature. They wereblessed, it was said, with longlives, never argued, and lived inharmony as brothers and sisters.

At one point, as the story went,alien intruders would corrupt andundermine the faith of Buddha.That was the time when RudraChakrin (Rudra with a Wheel),the last king of Shambhala, wouldstep in and, in a great battle,would crush the forces of evil

BY ANDREI ZNAMENSKI

n the fall of 1923, a peculiarsage-looking European ap-peared in Darjeeling in thenorthernmost part of India

near the Tibetan border. A plumpman with a round face and a

small Mongol-styled beard, hemoved and talked like a high dig-nitary. He announced that he wasa painter, and, indeed, from timeto time people could see him hereand there with a sketchbook,drawing local landscapes. Yet,even for an eccentric painter, heacted strangely. To begin with, heargued that he was an American,although he spoke English with aheavy Slavic accent. He also dem-onstrated a deep interest inTibetan Buddhism, particularly inthe Maitreya and Shambhala leg-ends, which was notunusualexcept thatthe painter had a cere-monial Dalai Lamarobe made for himselfand donned it occa-sionally, hinting he wasthe reincarnated fifthDalai Lama, the famousreformer in earlymodern Tibet. His be-havior raised the eye-brows of local authori-ties who passed thisinformation along tothe British intelligence

service.As strange as it

might sound, thesage did strike achord with some localTibetan Buddhists, forseveral visiting lamasdid in fact recognizehim as the reincarnatedDalai Lama by themoles on his cheeks. Atthat time, no one ex-cept a few close rela-tives and disciples of the painterknew that he had formed a grand

plan, which included dislodgingthe sitting Dalai Lama and in-stalling instead the PanchenLama, second in the Tibetan hier-archy after the Lhasa ruler, re-forming Tibetan Buddhism, andestablishing in the vast spaces ofInner Asia a new theocracy, whichhe planned to call the SacredUnion of the East. On his occultmap, which was tied to Tibetan-Mongol prophecy of Shambhala,the timing was right, he declared,to launch this exciting new pro-

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ave you ever had the experience ofbeing out of your body? If it hasnthappened to you, its likely that ithas happened to someone you

know. People from all walks of life have expe-rienced feeling detached from their body andable to observe it and their surroundings withlucidity. For many people this happensduring or at the threshold of sleep, but it can

also happen when highly aroused such asduring a rock-climbing fall, a traffic accidentor to a mother during child-birth.

Fighter pilots can experi-ence out of body feelingswhen they go through highG forces. During G-LOC, orgravity-induced loss of con-sicousness, a pilot mightsuddenly feel himself out-side his airplane and be ableto watch his body in theplanes cockpit. Studyingfighter pilots in simulatedcockpits within giant centri-fuges, researcher Dr. James

Whinnery had 40 differentpilots, including himself, re-port an out-of-body experi-ence. After one test in thecentrifuge, Dr. Whinnery re-ported feeling groggy anddislocated. He wasable to see himselffrom behind as hewalked down the hallfrom the test facility.

Yet for most people, itdoesnt take a centri-fuge to create the ex-

perience. Many people canhave out-of-bedy experi-ences when they have a coldand a restless night.

The term out-of-bodyexperience (OBE) was in-troduced in 1943 by G.N.MTyrrell in his book Appari-tions as a way of distancingthe experience from thespiritualist states of astralprojection or spirt walking.In 1968, Celia Green pub-lished an analysis of 400firsthand accounts of out-of-

body experiences and put together the firstWestern classification of these kinds of expe-riences. In 1972, Robert Monroe also normal-ized the experience in his popular book, Jour-neys Out of the Body. He later founded theMonroe Institute to study and find ways tolearn how to have OBEs. Since then, the OBEhas become a known phenomenon.

In some cases, the phenomenon occursspontaneously; in others it is associated withphysical or mental trauma, dehydration, sen-sory deprivation, sensory overload, use ofpsychedelic or dissociative drugs, or perhapsa near-death experience. (SeeAR#81.) Recentstudies have shown that experiences some-

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sensations and body awareness, as if the bodis falling asleep. Then there may be percetions of movement, tingling, buzzing, or humming which, though strong, dont seem to transmitted by the physical senses. When oof the body, a person may experience complete freedom to move anywhere one wileven through walls or to distant locations. Fsome who are practiced at inducing OB

these stages may obscure or disappear.As with other altered states of consciouness, the OBEs are fascnating to many people anserve as a source of inspirtion and insight. There amany active discussigroups online for expeencers and those wanting learn how to induce tstate. There are also mandifferent techniques offeron how to have an OBE. Aa seeker myself, I have sucessfully experimented anhave had my own OBEs.

Not everyone believes OBEs. A large body people question the validiand even reality of thekinds of experiences. Sinthe experience is subjectivits hard to quantify. Ske

tics are quick to claithat the veridity of ouof-body experienchas never been provand that consciousnenever truly separatfrom the physicbrain. If you belie

that consciousness is product of the physicbrain, how could it be posible to have consciousneoutside of the physicbody? Proponents of OBsuggest that documented rports where people haperceived accurate informtion while out of boproves something is hapening. They also point othat the materialist potionthat consciousnearises from, or even resid

in, the brain, has never been proven.Skeptics sometimes suggest the out-obody experiences were caused by drug iduced states or forms of mental illness. This an easy way to write them off, without consiering that many people in quite healthy statexperience them. This issue also sidesteps treal problem. Even if they are caused by phyical alterations in the brain chemistry or thbody, it doesnt negate the possibility that cosciousness has left the body.

An implicit assumption of neurosciencethat all behaviours, and their concurrent exp

GREATER DIMENSIONS

what similar to OBEs can be induced by elec-trical and magnetic brain stimulation, particu-larly at the temporo-parietal junction.

As with near-death experiences, OBEsoften carry deep meaning. They may cause aperson to reevaluate what he is doing in hislife. Robert Monroe quit his corporate job andspent the latter half of his life researchingOBEs. Many people who have these experi-

ences report increased clarity and under-standing, and a feeling of remembering who

they are on a much deeper level. Whenpeople come back into their bodies, its oftendescribed as waking up; the experience isclearly not considered a dream. Some de-scribe the OBE as the truly awake state, andthe embodied part is the dream.

OBEs have similar characteristics. TheOBE may be more vivid than waking life. Theperson is aware of exiting one's physical bodyas a separate spirit or consciousness. Themorphing and bizarre qualities in dreams areless common. One often has an ability tocome back into their body at will. The periodof leaving the body may include a cessation of

EXPERIENCEEXPERIENCEEXPERIENCEEXPERIENCEEXPERIENCE

BY PATRICK MARSOLEK

Fails to Understand


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ANCIENT MYSTERIES

n 1968 Swiss author Erich von Danikenpopularized ideas previously suggestedby others when he published Chariots ofthe Gods. From the lofty terraces of Perus

Machu Picchu to the immense megaliths ofStonehenge in England, from the staggeringcomplexity of Egypts Great Pyramid to theadvanced plumbing of Mohenjo-Daro in Paki-stan, the remarkable technical achievements ofour primitive ancestors in every quarter ofthe globe millennia ago, could be explained, itis argued, only by postulating the guidanceand assistance of aliens from other star sys-tems. The idea continues to be promoted byvon Danikens fellow Swiss (of Austrian andGreek ancestry) Giorgio Tsoukalos, editor ofLegendary Times Magazine and host of the An-cient Aliens television series. It is entirely pos-sible, of course, that they are correct, althoughI would suggest that they consider not onlyother solar systems but our own planetaryneighbors Mars and Venus, which in the dis-

tant past were very different worlds from whatthey are today.

I would also suggest that, given the evi-dence for the extreme antiquity of our speciesand the evidence for advanced technology inthe remote past, we ourselves might be thoseancient aliens. For all we know, people re-lated to our ancestors may have achievedspace flight countless thousands of yearsagoin fact, the mysterious structures nowseen on Mars and on our Moon may havebeen built by people from right here. But ifaliens guided us, who helped the aliens de-velop their own technology? Other aliens?

Where did it all begin? Is it not possible that

we developed our own technology, that ourremote ancestors were not so dim-witted andprimitive as some imagine? There is a logicalprinciple called Occams Razor, developedby the English Franciscan friar and scholasticphilosopher, William of Occam (1288-1348).Simply put, it states that, as a general rule (butnot always), the simplest explanation for any-thing is the correct one. But there is yet an-other possibility.

Throughout the ages, many have believedin guiding spirits. The Greeks had their nineMuses, and many believed in daemons (notto be confused with Judeo-Christian demons).The Muses and daemons were seen as gener-

ally benevolent minor gods, who inspired, forexample, art, poetry, and music. Manymodern writers, artists, musicians, inventors,and scientists have felt that some of their bestideas came from somewhere outside them-selves. Perhaps the classic case is that ofGerman chemist Friedrich August Kekule,who figured out the structure of the benzenering in 1865 after a kind of waking dream ofserpents seizing their own tails.

Some ancient (and even modern) inven-tions seem fairly simple, and it is not hard toimagine how people could have hit upon theidea. Woven fabrics date back at least to

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BY WILLIAM B. STOECKER 28,000 BP (before the present) in that part ofEurope which is now the Czech Republic.Understand that fabrics do not age well,and all of the technologies I am de-scribing here may have been in-vented much earlier, and repeat-edly in different places. MichaelCremo and others have gatheredevidence of human beings and

even advanced culturesdating back literallymillions of years. Butas for fabrics, peoplecould, quite natu-rally, build sheltersof poles, bark, andgrass, as well as skins,and it would, it seems, be only nat-ural to weave the bark or grass around thepoles. From this, it would be a simple ad-vance to mats and baskets and then to truefabricslooms would come much later.

Fired ceramic figurines were found inthe same area of the Czech Republic and

dated to about the same time. Again, peoplemight easily mold clay into shapes; unfiredstatues of animals are found in some of thesame European caves that are also adornedwith ancient paintings. If the figurines weredried and left near the fire, or if a hearth wasmade of clay to shield the fire from the wind,true ceramics would be developed almost byaccident.

Dugout canoes, which can be quite largeand are actually stronger and less prone toleaking than plank-built boats, are anotherexample of a technology that could haveevolved gradually. People would natu-rally wade and swim in rivers, lakes,

and oceans to spear or net fish. Sit-ting astride a log would make thiseasier and safer. Flattening the topof the log, and later hol-lowing it out, would im-prove balance and com-fort, and graduallypeople would learn toshape the ends of thelog, especially the bow,to reduce water resis-tance. It would be onlynatural to paddle withthe hands, and then(particularly if the waterwas cold) with woodenpoles, and then to formthe poles into paddles,which are shaped likethe human hand andarm. The presence ofpeople in areas like Australia, Crete,and the various Pacific islands indicatesthat our species has been seafaring fortens of thousands of years. People wouldsoon notice that paddling against the windwas more difficult than traveling on a day withlittle or no air movement and traveling down-wind was easier. They would naturally try tohunker down going against the wind and learn


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set by lightning, and then to add fuel, but howdid they learn to make fire? We know thatthey were at least using small fires in Africa by1,000,000 years BP. We can imagine peoplemaking flint tools noticing sparks andsomehow making the connection, but this is apretty big leap; and anyone who has tried tostart a fire with flints knows how difficult thisis. And how could people have evolved thefire drill, or even learned to rub sticks togetheto produce a spark? Again, anyone who has

tried this knows how hard it is.The use of bows and arrows is almost im-

possible to explain. There is some evidencethat they were in use in South Africa around60-70,000 BP, and in Spain by 18-20,000 BPand certainly in Germany by 12,000 BP Thereis absolutely nothing obvious about the idea obending a pole with a cord attached to theends and using stored energy to fire arrows togreat distances. Consider that long bows andcomposite bows have an accurate and effectiverange exceeding that of eighteenth centurysmooth bore muskets, as well as a higher rateof fire. Bows are simple but very effective tech-nology, and it is impossible to imagine how

they could have evolved gradually. Equallyhard to explain are blowguns, used in Indonesia and parts of the Americas, mostly trop-ical South America, to shoot darts, oftenpoison darts. Stranger still is the boomerangthrowing sticks were used in many areas, busome boomerangs, certainly the ones found in

Australia (and dated to 10,000 BP) are trueairfoils with a flat lower surface and a curvedupper surface. This is very sophisticated tech-nology for people who, in all other regardsseemed to be primitive hunter-gatherers.

And, from the animal world, there is reaevidence that the Supreme Being, whether operating directly or through lesser spirits, hasinspired what can only be called technologySpace forbids a discussion of most of the evidence for intelligent design (as opposed toDarwinism), but it is, to many of us, very con-vincing. And if the Designer shaped the hard-ware, the physical structures of plants, ani-mals, and other organisms, He must also

have installed the software, the behaviorpatterns of animals. A bird, for examplemust have wings, control surfaces, fligh

muscles, etc., but must also be a skillfupilot. Like so many things in the naturaworld, this is all or nothing, irreducible complexity. Natures IQ, by Balazs Hornyanszkyand Istvan Tasi (Torchlight Publishing, 2009)lists many examples of what can only be de-scribed as animal technology.

Bees build complex nests with hexagonacells of wax, store honey, and communicatewith one another using a complex kind odance. They tell one another the distance anddirection (relative to the Sun) to flowers. Nu-merous other animals, although they may nocommunicate like the bees, dig burrows andtunnels or make nests. Many wasps make akind of paper to build their nests, but thepotter wasp makes nests of muda sort of un-baked ceramic. Swallows also build mudnests, surprisingly stable and durable, and

to sit up straight when the wind was withthem. From this, they would learn to hold upskins, then skins or fabric tied to paddles, andso masts and sails would naturally evolve.Dugout canoes and paddles dating back to9,500-10,000 BP have been unearthed innorthwestern Europe, and there is a paintingof a sailboat on an Egyptian vase dating to5,100 BP, but these are certainly not the firstones.

Even the wheel, as well as other basic,

simple machines like the lever and inclinedplane, could have evolved gradually withoutthe assistance of either aliens or spirits. Peoplewould drag heavy loads, and then learn to rollthem on logs, and then figure ways to attachthe rollers to the object or to a sledge holdingthe load. Then they could eliminate the heavyinside part of the log and attach the wheels toshort axles on the outside of the sledge, or re-

duce the inner part of thelog to a relatively slenderaxle.

Stone buildings couldevolve from crude, lowwalls of uncut stone to

higher ones of rocksshaped to fit. Agriculture,perhaps developed by

women, could have re-sulted from accidentallydropping seeds in a vil-

lage. Earlier develop-ments, like sharpening

sticks to use as spears, orusing sharp stones as

tools and weapons andthen learning to shape

them, could have evolvedgradually, and the fossilrecord shows just that.

Even writing could haveevolved gradually frompictures to stylized and

simplified pictures to theuse of the rebus principlein hieroglyphics to a true

alphabet.Some prehistoric

European paintingsinclude symbols

that we cannot decipher.The origin of the alphabet is still

a mystery, although examplesdate from Egypt (3,500 BP), Is-

rael (3,700 BP), and, possibly, inEgypt as far back as 3,900 BP.

But some developments arehard to explain, even allowing

people a great deal of intelligenceand creativity. People might learnto warm themselves around fires


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f, at this moment, you were to contact someone in Japan to in-quire What time is it now?, you could reasonably expect a re-sponse of exactly 13 hours difference (if you live in the U.S.Eastern time zone). If its 3.30 p.m. in New York City, then its

4.30 a.m. the next day in Tokyo. From the perspective of those of usliving in North and South America, it appears that the Japanese live in

the future; but how much more surprised would you be to learn that,not only is the hour different, but the era is also inconsistent with yourperceived present? Instead of hearing someone say Its four-thirty,you would be shocked to learn that it is also 1932.

Such scenarios exist throughout fantasy literature and films, yetmany contemporary researchers agree that what was once solely withinthe realm of science fiction is quickly becoming science fact. The prom-inent Tokyo physicist, Risa Imai, claims that many Japanese citizenshave experienced what she calls dilatory ripples in the fabric of thetime-space continuum. Professor Imai, as well as several other scholarsaround the world, believe this phenomenon results from the massivemeltdown of the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi facility, aprocess which began with the devastating earthquake and tsunami thatrocked Japan on 10 March 2011.

According to Einsteins Theory of Relativity, dilations in time occur

when independent observers simultaneously perceive noticeable differ-ences in objective reality. Such observations are generally due to somealteration in space-time resulting from differences in the rate of travelof independent observers, such as that which occurs during the famousthought experiment called the Twin Paradox.In this instance, one identical twin leaves theearth in a spacecraft traveling near the speed oflight while his brother stays behind. The astro-naut travels throughout the galaxy for severalyears, returning to find that while he has agedonly a few light years, his twin is now an oldman.

This concept of elastic time was, as PaulDavies notes, quite a shock when Einstein in-troduced it in 1905. Davies goes on to saythat: [S]ince then many experiments haveconfirmed its reality. The most accurate ofthese uses subatomic particles because they areeasy to accelerate to near the speed of light,and they often contain an inbuilt clock. Mu-mesons,or muons for short, can be created in controlled subatomic col-lisions, and have a lifetime of around two microseconds, before disinte-grating into more familiar particles of matter, such as electrons. Whenmoving at close to the speed of light, the dilation of time increases theirlifetime as measured by us, by several times. Of course, in their ownframe of reference they still live for two microseconds. A good checkon the effect was made at the particle accelerator laboratory at CERN inGeneva in early 1977, where a beam of high speed muons was createdand stored in a magnetic ring so that their lifetime could be measured.It confirmed the amounts of time dilation predicted by the theory ofrelativity, to an accuracy of 0.2 per cent. . . . One intriguing possibilityopened up by the time dilation effect is time travel. (Other Worlds, 41)

And such dilations do occur in everyday life. Each time one ofNASAs space shuttles enters into orbit around the earth, effects of thisnature are witnessed, albeit on a smaller scale. The lessening of gravity,however miniscule, means a measurable reduction in time. Thus, ob-servers on the ground and those inside the shuttle are never on theexact same time because, as Einsteins theory dictates, each partys per-ceptions of time will differ due to the relative perspective of each ob-server.

Although some scientists speculate that the sort of time travel Da-vies mentions requires the warping of space-time via a black hole orworm hole, others, like Professor Imai, feel that such radical changes inthe flow of magnetic energy could be disrupted enough to offer briefdoorways through which one might peer or perhaps even slip through

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for brief periods. Imai notes the tremendous quantities of radi-ation that leaked from the Fukushima power plant facility in

the weeks prior to its total collapse and how the introductionof uncontrolled radioactive stimulation results in a destabil-ization of geophysical conditions, including gravity (page 14of her report to the Japanese political group, the Diet). A Reu-ters article for April 12, 2011, describes the leak at the Miyagi

prefecture facility as equivalent to a tenth of the amount of radiationreleased in the Chernobyl disaster (para 1). A confidential source atTokyo Electric Power confided that the reported amounts of radiationleaked during the course of the facilities meltdowns was conservativein the extreme.

While human beings are constantly exposed to various forms ofradiation, the effects are often negated by the planets atmosphericshielding. But some earthbound phenomena do create situations whereexposure may result in radical effects just as deleterious to life as anynuclear disaster. Shannon Palus discusses how small-scale gamma ray

bursts occur regularly on earth via terrestrial gamma-ray flashes(TGFs) associated with lightning strikes and notes that lightning canemit far more energy than previously thought and release streams ofantimatter particles (Discover, April 2011). Such power might lend it-self to a disruption of matter down to the level of quanta or introduceenough analogous energy into the earths own natural system to makequantum teleportation possible (see Rules For a Complex QuantumWorld by Michael A. Nielsen, Scientific American November 2002).

Professor Imais investigation revealed several cases in point, in-cluding a group of survivors of the earthquake and the tsunami whosesmall coastal city of Sendai was flattened. When they were eventuallyallowed back into the area in order to check on the devastation and tosearch for lost family members, an entire van load of people reportedly

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