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n an age of increasing polarization, the difficultyof presenting a balanced point of view on sensi-tive issues is much like walking a tightrope.Though this publication has challenged the

entrenched positions of many vested in-terests, it is not our intention to beidentified with their entrenched opposi-tion, because we usually see problemswith the other side as well.

Take the Darwinist-vs.-creationistdebate. Without getting into the arcanedepths here, either pro or con, itseems clear to us that there aremajor difficulties with both sidesand we have tried to point that out.Unfortunately, the subtleties of ourposition seem lost on many who, instead oftaking our point in support of a more enlightened middle way, believe that we are sidingwith their bitter enemies. Darwinists complain that we are promoting creationism, andcreationists suspect that we are siding with the evolutionists. Those facts alone, wethink, should lend some authority to our position.

Meanwhile, the scientific establishment, which, we are told, is committed to the pur-suit of facts without regard to consequences, draws its authority from a badly corruptedpeer review system exposed by recent headlines (i.e., a major Korean genetic scientist iscaught falsifying results, a Norwegian researcher manufactures 900 phony case studiesfor a cancer study, a Japanese archaeologist fakes the discovery of important artifacts,etc.). Yet simultaneously, important alternative research, often reported in these pages,is virtually excluded from the process.

Some advocates of mainstream science have taken our reporting on corruption inacademic ranks as something like libel and accused us of “backstabbing” and worse. Butironically, some fundamentalist parents cover their children’s eyes if a copy of AtlantisRising is about lest their innocent young ones be led astray.

On another front, as controversy over Dan Brown’s best-selling novel The Da VinciCode has grown, many defenders of orthodox Christianity have bitterly rejected whatthey call bogus history and angrily insisted that the origins of Christianity are just whatwe have been told, and indeed NOT the version suggested by Brown, with its goddessgospel, paganism, secret societies, etc. On the other hand, many who subscribe to whatmight be termed new age spirituality feel that Brown is actually misrepresenting and dis-torting a message which deserves to be more fairly and completely told. This magazinehas attempted to provide the missing pieces to the story, but our motives have beenquestioned here too.

The point is not to suggest that we can expect any other reaction to the type of re-porting we do. We would be the first to concede that it all comes with the territory. It isjust that the whole ‘process’ seems to be accelerating, and what was once called a debatehas become so shrill that, in most quarters, mindlessness itself seems to rule.

In times when the unfortunate cartoon depiction of a prophet can provoke riotsaround the world, when some believe our own elected leaders are out to destroy us, andothers argue that nature herself is in the employ of dark forces, one may be forgiven forthinking that reason has been driven into exile and rage itself rules.

Still, as has been said, “It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.” Itis also worth remembering Rudyard Kipling‘s famous advice, to keep our heads, thoughall about may be losing theirs.

The ‘process’, after all, we continue to believe, is nature's way of correcting long-standing imbalances and its active unfoldment remains more a cause for hope thanalarm.

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Making Sense of Thingsriting to Atlantis Rising,via snail mail or e-mail isthe best, but not the onlyway to make your views

known to our readers. There are also“forums” on the Atlantis Rising website (go to www.AtlantisRising.comand select “Discussions”).

Intelligent DesignMany thanks for your editorial,

opening up Issue #55. As usual, asensible idea has been co-opted by thedogmatists and power-mongers.There is, indeed, a “middle way,” ifonly we were left alone to take it.

It is said, I’m told, by the ancientphilosophers that whatever we chooseto call the creative force made thecreation “for play,” in order simply tohave experience. Surely, if onewanted to “play,” can you think of amore intelligent design for such playthan to let vibrations loose in thecreation with certain intelligently de-signed parameters and rules forchange (evolution, for example), justto see what might happen?

And don’t we often do just thatwith our own computers: input data,subject to existing programs, and seewhat comes out?

Keep up the good work!Bob FreedmanNew York City

Global Warming SourceI am coauthoring a book with one of the

smartest men on the planet titled Cosmolog-ical Ice Ages and Global Warming, It can beviewed on www.mittvmax.com very soon.

We are convinced we made the greatestscientific discovery of the millennium. Thebook started when we got the Antarctic icecore data on the carbon dioxide content ofour atmosphere dating back a million years.We noticed that it drops down near zeroevery 110,000 years like clockwork. The onlything that can mop up C02 is plant growth—massive plant growth, and there is nothingin our sun’s history to indicate that it sud-denly increases its output every 110,000years in the ultraviolet spectrum needed forplant growth. The plants that suck up themost C02 and turn it into limestone are dia-toms and coccolithophores in the world’soceans. Some other types are crinoldal, for-maminiferal, and globigerina limestone.

Animal life could not exist on this planetif it were not for these plants mopping up theC02 and releasing oxygen for us to breathe.

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you breathe, the coal you heat yourhouse with and the gasoline in yourcar. This is all neutron star energy.You can’t drive a car without a neu-tron star!

This book is about our future onearth.

Henry KrollKenai, Alaska

The Union of OppositesI have read some very interesting

things on power transmission andphilosophy which have relevancetoday. Everyone should rememberthe Northeast blackout a few yearsago. The last I heard it was blamedon either a branch on a wire or alarge 1000 MW swing in the load. Inhigh voltage engineering and testingwe find something very interesting.In August 1999, there was a solareclipse in England. During thiseclipse, there was first a drop in de-mand of 2200 MW and then an in-crease of 3000 MW. All of this hap-pened in less than an hour. Thepower did not go out. Load swingsare known and anticipated, but thisis a huge swing. It would be aboutthree nuclear plants going on andoff. Now around my house are power

lines installed in 1952. Voltage is 132,000. If Iunderstand the state of electrical transmis-sion, they were obsolete when installed. Thevoltage should have been higher. Lightningis less of a stress the higher the voltage. Sowe see that little has been done in half a cen-tury! I blame this on a lack of a theory ofknowledge. In fancy terms, this is called anepistemology. Now the best theory I haveseen is called dialectics, made famous byHegel. This was corrupted into dialecticalmaterialism. This is the foundation of theMarxist states. One must have a theory ofknowledge to build upon. In simple terms,dialectics is the union or pairing of oppo-sites. This is a huge thing in philosophy. Ru-dolph Steiner even hints at it in his Genesisexplanations. In the familiar tohu and bohuor forces emanating from a point and thenreversing from a sphere to a point one is re-minded of Reich and his work. Same force,two different effects. This too, is in the Gen-esis, from which the dry land appears. Inother words, it rains and then dries. The op-posites are joined again. Now one should seethe necessity of having a theory of knowl-edge. All sorts of opposites can be seen to be

Brad Guth started looking around in ourlocal group of stars to find a grow light andhe found one going away from us at 14 ki-lometers per second. It is only 1.5 diametersthe size of our earth but puts out 100 timesmore UV light than our sun. Obviously if it isgoing away from us then it was closer to usat one time. We started running the numbersand discovered that we come to less than .1light years of it every 110,000 years. At itsclosest point it effectively doubles theamount of incoming ultraviolet light hittingearth. We can compute that because weknow the output and distance. As we ap-proach it, it slowly takes us out of the iceages by doubling the invisible UV light whileits companion star of two solar masses meltsthe ice caps with infrared radiation warmingearth 14 degrees Fahrenheit.

The Sirius system’s total mass is 6.8E30which is 3-1/2 times our sun’s mass thereforeit has fourteen times our gravity. We are inorbit around it. We may not go into the nextice age cycle because we have burned up halfof the oil deposited during 500 million yearsthereby releasing all this stored UV energyinto our ecosystem in the form of CO2 andheat, and we did it in 100 years. The Siriusstar system is responsible for creating the air

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linked. Without this, it will be very hard tomake any progress spiritually or scien-tifically.

Tom BatorskiAngola, NY

The Shakespeare ControversyI find it somewhat amusing that Atlantis

Rising, of all publications, keeps publicizingthe canard that absolutely anybody (exceptShakespeare) wrote Shakespeare’s plays. Ihave addressed this issue before, and thoughtI had squelched it, but here it is again andthis time with the totally ridiculous idea thatit was Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, whowas the actual author. (This idea is not new,it has been floated before and conclusivelyshot down any number of times.) (And as forthe 46th word count, very probably youcould prove that George Washington wrotethe Bible if you selected words properly; thatmethod is as old as the hills, and can proveabsolutely anything.)

First, let us dispose of the Bacon idea.(Again). Bacon, as mentioned in the article“Bacon, Shakespeare, & the Spear of Athena”in AR #54, was a prolific author. He was alsoa Politician, a Courtier, (allegedly QueenElizabeth’s illegitimate son, although this isdoubtful), a financier, and very much a manof affairs. He also did his writing by hand,possibly with a quill pen, which is an agoniz-ingly slow process. Considering the volumeof prose he DID turn out, it is totally impos-sible for him to have written the plays, too!There was just not time.

Turning now to Shakespeare himself, justwho and what was he? Well, first of all, hewas emphatically NOT illiterate, as Sora im-plies. Ben Jonson, a contemporary, and em-phatically not a Shakespeare fan, said, sneer-ingly, that Will had “Smalle Latine and lessGreeke.” Quite possibly so but I submit thatif the Bard had any “Latin and Greek,” heipso facto had to have a considerable knowl-edge of English, in which tongue the playsare written.

Having disposed of the libel that he wasilliterate, just what was he? Well, first andforemost, he was a poet. The idea that Baconmight have written the sonnets is not worthyof consideration. He was far too serious ascholar, and, as mentioned, just didn’t havethe time. It is quite likely that Shakespeareand Wriothesley were at least friends, so the“Gay” argument is not pertinent, true or not.Second, and most important for our dis-course, Shakespeare was the Stage Managerfor the Globe Theatre. Now, a Stage Managerhas to have a good bit of practical politicalknowledge, be at the very least literate in-sofar as Staging (an extremely complex busi-ness), goes, and have, if not “the guts of aburglar,” at least considerable chutzpah.

Now, we turn to the question, Did Shake-speare write the plays? I believe the answer

to be an incontrovertible Yes. But, was hethe AUTHOR of the plays? Very likely not.But—but but—ah. Again we must touch onthe Idea of “Living Theater.”

The Furness “Variorum Editions” incon-trovertibly prove that the plays did notspring full grown from the brow of theMaster. They grew—evolved—changed fromthe moment of inception through many in-carnations before being “chiseled in stone,”as it were.

So how were the plays written? Someone,possibly Shakespeare, possibly not, had thebright idea of bringing History to the stage.(Comedy and tragedy were already standardfare.) So someone owned a copy of Plu-tarch’s Lives, and someone else had severalhistorical works, and so the grand design.Actors were assembled, given a plot, andturned loose to flesh it out. Shakespearetook the result down, turned it into blankverse, of which he WAS a master, and thus,the plays. It is really quite simple, and un-worthy of all the controversy. Shakespearehimself did not think much of the plays, con-sidering the poems to be his life’s work. Whyso, when the plays have incontrovertiblybeen influential in the formation of Britishand American (at least, and arguably Euro-pean) civilization? Simply because he verylikely considered them to be collaborations,rather than original works.

Now, please, let this make an end to thecontroversy. AR has much more importantfish to fry than continually beating upon ahorse that has been dead for centuries.

Shakespeare wrote the plays, but was notthe sole author. Period.

Edward G. RoblesFranklin, NC

The author replies:The argument against Shakespeare’s au-

thorship is not in danger of becoming a deadhorse anytime soon. Mark Twain, BenjaminDisraeli, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wen-dell Homes, Walt Whitman, John GreenleafWhittier and Samuel Taylor Coleridge haveall written on the subject. All doubt the like-lihood of a butcher’s apprentice suddenly be-coming well versed in the etiquette andpractices of nobility, the workings of lawand principles of medicine, military andnaval tactics, aristocratic sports and Frenchand Italian colloquialisms. Excellentmodern books on the subject includingPlayers by Bertram Fields and Alias Shake-speare by Joseph Sobran will insure the de-bate over just who did write these works willrage indefinitely.

Steven SoraAuthor of “Bacon, Shakespeare, & the

Spear of Athena” in AR #54 and severalbooks on esoteric history including The lostColony of the Templars.

Write to us at Letters to the Editor, At-lantis Rising, P.O. Box 441, Livingston, MT59047.

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he once lost civilization at the bottom ofIndia’s Gulf of Cambay is yielding more

secrets to researchers and providing newsupport for the authenticity of global floodmyths.

Now a new report from the chief geolo-gist with the organization which has been in-vestigating the region has drawn some star-tling conclusions about the age andadvancement of a previously unknown predi-luvian society which could be the oldest yetdiscovered. The term ‘prediluvian’ refers to atime predating the deluge or flooding whichaccompanied the end of the last ice age ap-proximately 10,000 years ago, and corre-sponds roughly to the date mentioned byPlato for the sinking of Atlantis. The new re-port posted in February by geologist Badri-naryan Badrinaryan of India’s National Insti-tute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) says theevidence clearly shows that a civilizationflourished in the Cambay area from about13,000 to 3,000 years ago, and that, indeed,there is strong evidence that human habita-tion there goes back as far as 31,000 years.Badrinaryan believes this is, in fact, the pro-genitor of the mysterious Harrapan civiliza-tion, once thought to be one of the oldest, ifnot the oldest in the world.

Based on survey data utilizing the latesthigh-tech methods including side scansonar, sub-bottom profiling, and multi-beam ecosounding, the report (currentlyposted at http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/BadrinaryanB1.php) makes a casewhich threatens to overthrow many conven-tional assumptions about the origins ofcivilization.

The original announcement in 2001 ofdiscovery of the apparent remains of an an-cient city along a six-mile stretch of the

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have been corroborated by sub-bottom pro-filing and advanced magnetic methods,which show even further indications of rela-tively sophisticated human engineering.Moreover, painstaking geochemical analysisof the artifacts, including pottery brought up,has shown them to be made entirely fromlocal materials and not washed in from someother region. As for dating, numerous arti-facts were subjected to analysis by radiocarbon, thermoluminescence, optically stim-ulated luminescence and other means insome of the most reputable laboratories ofthe world, including in Oxford, England andHanover, Germany. All results have lent fur-ther support to the original assertions.

The discoveries in the Gulf of Cambayseem part of a rapidly developing patternworldwide of newly emerging evidence forprediluvian civilizations. In the Bahamasclear proof for the existence of ancient portfacilities has now been produced in Biminiand at Andros Island (see Greg Little’s reportelsewhere in this issue). Near Japan, similarpatterns are now being scrutinized. To thenorthwest of Cuba still more anomalous un-derwater structures await definitive examina-tion. All of this comes as no surprise tomany, like researcher Graham Hancock, whobelieve the seeds of ancient civilization will

eventually be found in underwater regionswhich millennia ago were above sea level,once again vindicating accounts from in-

digenous peoples everywhere of ancientdestruction by flood.

Gulf ofCambay

CAMBAY CIVILIZATION ISOLDEST YET DISCOVERED

A Sub-bottom profile corroboratesauthenticity of the image above.

(NIOT photo)

A 40 X 19 meter side scan sonar ofbuilding with steps. (NIOT photo)

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continent

A potteryfragment from

Cambay

Cambay seabed off the Gujarat coast ofwestern India created a worldwide sensa-tion, raising, as it did, the possibility thathighly organized society had once ex-isted where the ocean is now over 130feet deep. Said to be detected were thestructures of a large community resemblingmajor cities of the Indus Valley or Harappancivilization with the regular geometric pat-terns of a well-developed culture, some ofwhich were taken to be a granary, a greatbath and a citadel. Canal-like features werealso observed. Water in the area, unfortu-nately, is murky and flowing with verystrong currents, making direct visual obser-vation virtually impossible; still, many smallhuman-made artifacts were dredged up,studied and cited in the report. Not surpris-ingly, reaction of the mainstream archaeo-logical community was, to say the least,skeptical. Many argued that the geometricpatterns mentioned were caused by thesonar system itself and that the artifactsprobably had been washed into the area fromwell-known civilized regions inland.

According to the Badrinaryan, though,extensive studies, carried out since on theevidence produced in the original survey, hasconfirmed the initial conclusions. The orig-inal side scan sonar images, for instance,

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harles Darwin argued that changes in aspecies occur very slowly over time—a

lot of time.‘Not so slow,’ now stipulates University of

Pittsburgh anthropology professor JeffreySchwartz. According to the professor and hiscolleague Bruno Maresca, professor of bio-chemistry at the University of Salerno inItaly, big steps in evolutionary history oftenoccur very quickly, virtually overnight, aftera mutation brought on by stress “saturates” aspecies. The two scientists published theirchallenge to Darwinism in the scientificjournal The New Anatomist in February.

If correct, the Schwartz/Maresca theorymight help to explain the many gaps in thefossil record—missing links—which havethwarted Darwinists for over a century. Bonyteeth and jaws in fish, for example, instead ofappearing one piece at a time, indeed, ap-peared suddenly and fully formed.

Schwartz acknowledges that the perva-sive influence of the Darwinian view makesconsideration, let alone acceptance, of histheory quite a challenge for many scientists,but, he points out, Darwin simply did notnot know many important things about celldevelopment that we do now. Schwartz be-lieves that indoctrination in Darwinism hasresulted in generations of scientists whodon’t know enough about the history of thetheories they have learned in order to teachproperly the different aspects of evolution. Itwas through exposure as a Columbia gradstudent to the ideas of influential scientistswho questioned Darwin that Schwartz be-came interested in exploring the issue.

The suggestion, of course, that signifi-cant changes to living organisms occurquickly, rather than gradually, points towardpreviously disregarded agents of change, andseems to leave the door open to ideas oncereviled by the academic mainstream, such asthose of bio-field theorists like Rupert Shell-drake or catastrophists such as ImmanualVelikovsky, to say nothing of the intelligentdesign school. That might be a pill too bitterfor the academic elite to swallow, no matterhow compelling the evidence.

wo academic researchers believe theyhave cracked both the hieroglyphic code

and cultural and mathematical understand-ings behind a 5,000-year calendar still usedtoday in Mexico and Central America.

UC Davis Native American studies pro-fessor Martha Macri and graduate studentMichael Grofe believe their study of the Me-soamerican calendar reveals how NativeAmericans were able to calculate with com-puter-like accuracy the movements of thesun, planets and the moon through time.

Macri matched Mayan hieroglyphs to the260-day ritual calendar and created a theorythat says the 260-day Mesoamerican calen-drical cycle is based on various segments ofthe lunar cycle.

To many scholars of the Mayan calendar,

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including FrankWaters, JohnMajor Jenkins,Jose Arguelles, WillHart and others, the work of Macri and Grofemay seem simplistic at best, ignoring, as itdoes, the evident insight of the ancientMayans into such phenomena as the transitof Venus and the larger galactic cycles. Manyin the world of academic orthodoxy, though,caught between an embarrassing ignoranceof ancient advancement and inescapable evi-dence of just how far the ancients were, infact, beyond us, may take some comfort froma theory more compatible with their ownmodern, albeit somewhat limited, powers ofcomprehension.

How long did it take theshark to gethis teeth?

MayanCalendarStone

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he dark side implicit in many of the newdevelopments in brain-scanning tech-

nology has begun to draw attention. A recentreport by biology professor Steven Rose pub-lished in the British Newspaper The Guar-dian warns of growing danger from govern-ment applications of the astonishingbreakthroughs now occurring in neuro-science.

Beyond the kind of clinical tools whichhave enabled surgeons to see more deeplyinto the brain’s internal functioning, as wellas to diagnose and treat its ailments, the newneuroscience also offers previously unheard-of capabilities for manipulation which arejust beginning to be recognized. While cor-porations like Coca-Cola and BMW explorethe possibilities in imaging the brains of po-tential customers, others are contemplatingmuch more imaginative, if not sinister, ap-plications of the technology, perhaps to beable not only to identify potentially psychoticbehavior but to control it at a distance. Justas the movie The Manchurian Candidatesuggested, technologies are in developmentwhich have the potential to do such things.

There is little doubt that in the pursuit of

T the war on terror, research has taken someremarkable directions. As the military hasmade strides toward developing a completelyautomated battlefield soldier, one civiliancompany, it is reported, has developed abrain fingerprinting technique which can de-termine the truth regarding criminal or ter-rorist intentions by reading the brain’s fluc-tuating signals—in other words, to readminds—and, moreover, claims to be makingprogress toward learning just how to do it ata distance, both with and without permis-sion.

As Rose points out, the history of govern-ment attempts at mind control, as in the CIALSD experiments of the 1960s, is not a prettyone.

For some on the political left, like Rose,the chance that the current U.S. or Britishadministrations might have such capabilitiesis nightmare enough, but even those who be-lieve the present governmental leadershiphas the best of intentions and, in fact, verygood reasons to take strong action, mightwell consider how such tools might be usedby less benevolent leaders in the future.

uddenly interest in whatmeditation can do for the

brain is hot. Some neurosci-entists are very excited aboutthe possibilities, and othersare just hot under the collar.

When the Dalai Lama wasinvited to address the 14,000attendees at the Society forNeuroscience’s annual confer-ence at the Washington Convention Centerearlier this year, the place was packed, butmany of the group complained, making thestandard debunker-style arguments—it is alljust not up to their high scientific standards.Nevertheless the Dalai Lama was a big hitand the spotlight is shining brightly now onthe possibilities which meditation offers toimprove brain function, even late in life.

According to a report from Wired Maga-zine new research by prominent neurosur-geon Richard Davidson has demonstrated

S that, when tested, TibetanBuddhist Monks show re-

markable mental capacities.Gamma waves from experi-

enced meditators, usuallyhard to detect, showed up as

much as 30 times strongerthan in students. Moreover

large areas of the meditators’brains—the ones thought re-

sponsible for positive emotions—lit up. Dav-idson believes meditation COULD improvebrain function through training and practice,something once thought virtually impossiblefor adults.

The Dalai Lama has long been an advo-cate for uniting Buddhism and science andhe has done much to encourage the researchincluding inviting Davidson to come to Dha-ramsala, in India to test several of the monksat his ashram.

MEDITATION AND THE BRAIN

A meditating & wired monk

n the 1993 movie Groundhog Dayactor Bill Murray finds himself a TV

reporter reliving the same day inPunxatawney, Pennsylvania over andover again. It turns out, that in reallife many people constantly experi-ence the feeling that they have livedthe current moment before. Suchpeople are not only overwhelmed by asense of familiarity for new experi-ences, they can provide plausible andcomplex justifications to support it.Some no longer watch TV or movies,feeling that they know what is comingnext. The feeling, say the experts, canlead to other, more serious, problemslike depression.

Now psychologists in Leeds, Eng-land are systematically studying thephenomenon of chronic déja vu. Ac-cording to Dr. Chris Moulin, the con-dition afflicts many people and thestudy, it is hoped, will help find waysto relieve the problem.

In Groundhog Day, Murray isforced to keep refining his behavioruntil eventually he stops reliving theday. Many who believe in reincarna-tion see a lesson for life in the story,believing humans are required to con-tinue repeating the experience of lifeon earth until they get it right, orelse, as Yogi Berra famously observed,“it’s déja vu all over again.”

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Bill Murray interviews Punxatawney Phil

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A model of cellsdeep within thebrain that relay

visualinformation.

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A model of cellsdeep within thebrain that relay

visualinformation.

(NationalScience

Foundation)

MIND CONTROL:IS THE THREAT REAL?MIND CONTROL:IS THE THREAT REAL?

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f a well known physicist is correct, a newsolution to Einstein’s 90-year-old Gravi-

tational field equation will soon make travelat near the speed of light possible. The newmath from Dr. Franklin Felber is beinghailed by some as the solution to two of thegreatest engineering challenges to spacetravel—traveling near the speed of light andidentifying an energy source capable of pro-ducing the acceleration.

A 30-year veteran of physics researchand development for the U.S. Military,Felber presented his equations to the SpaceTechnology and Applications InternationalForum (STAIF) in Albuquerque, NewMexico in February. Dr. Eric Davis of theInstitute for Advanced Studies at Austin andpeer reviewer of Felber’s work says theequations will “revolutionize space flightmechanics by offering an entirely new wayto send spacecraft into flight.”

The field equation of Einstein’s GeneralTheory of Relativity, experts say, has never

before been solved to calculate the gravita-tional field of a mass moving close to thespeed of light. Felber says his researchshows that any mass moving faster than57.7 percent of the speed of light will gravi-tationally repel other masses lying within anarrow ‘antigravity beam’ in front of it. Thecloser a mass gets to the speed of light, thestronger its ‘antigravity beam’ becomes.

Felber’s calculations show how to usethe repulsion of a body speeding throughspace to provide the enormous energyneeded to accelerate massive payloadsquickly with negligible stress. The payloadwould ‘fall weightlessly’ in an antigravitybeam even as it was accelerated close to thespeed of light.

In the ‘antigravity beam’ of a speedingstar, a payload would draw its energy fromthe antigravity force of the much moremassive star. In effect, the payload would behitching a ride on a star.

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FOUR FORCES TO UNITE?hysicists at North-eastern University and

University of California maysoon have the evidence theyneed to unite the four funda-mental forces of nature andprove that extra dimensionsexist. According to a reportfiled by Brian Trought of theEpic Times Ireland Staffearly results from a detector at the SouthPole called the “Antarctic Muon and Neu-trino Detector Array” (AMANDA) suggeststhat high-energy particles called neutrinosoriginating from space could serve asprobes to a world beyond our familiar threedimensions. This is according to researchpublished in Physical Review Letters.

AMANDA has so far discovered less thana dozen high-energy neutrinos, but a largerdetector with a greater detection rate andenergy range called IceCube is currentlyunder construction. This, it is hoped, may

P soon provide high-energyevidence to unite the fourfundamental forces using

one of the following physicstheories string theory, extra

dimensions and super-symmetry.

Such theories have allbeen developed in recent

years to bridge the gap be-tween Einstein’s general relativity andquantum mechanics.

Quantum mechanics can be used tounite three of the four fundamental forces:electromagnetism, strong nuclear (whichbinds atomic nuclei) and weak nuclear(which causes radioactive beta decay). Thetheory is incompatible with general rela-tivity, however, which is generally acceptedas an explanation of the fourth force,gravitational.

Uniting the four forces has been calledthe “holy grail” of physics.

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hile pole shifts for the earth, likethose envisioned by Edgar Cayce,

Charles Hapgood and others are rejectedby establishment science, no one deniesthat earth’s magnetic pole is on themove. In fact, scientists are now pre-dicting that the north magnetic pole islikely to shift far enough in the next fiftyyears that Alaska could lose its famednorthern lights (Aurora Borealis) tomore southerly latitudes in Siberia andEurope. A corresponding and comple-mentary shift can also be expected in thesouthern hemisphere for the AuroraAustralis.

The earth’s magnetic pole is gener-ated, it is believed, by liquid iron at theearth’s core, and is distinct from the geo-graphic poles which are determined bythe planet’s rotation. Scientists know thestrength of the earth’s magnetic field isdiminishing. It has dropped about 10% inthe last 150 years but the process appearsto be accelerating. Occasionally the pola-rity of the planet shifts completely but noone knows why. The suspicion in paleo-magnetic science circles is that the cur-rent movement of the magnetic pole ispart of a slowly developing pole reversal.According to Joseph Stoner, a researcherat Oregon State University, the pole mayeventually migrate back to its present lo-cation, but no one knows for sure what toexpect.

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ince a new book about David Hamel isout, I’ll introduce him to you. He’s an

unpolished old jewel, a crusty Canadian whosomehow glimpsed a technology whichworks on different propulsion principlesthan those used on earth today.

David Hamel could be called a contactee,but I won’t pin a label on his experience.Does it matter whether he was contacted byvisitors from the cosmos, or was astral trav-eling or whatever level of inter-dimensionalexperience he had? The fact is that informa-tion was somehow imparted to him during alife-changing evening in 1975. It resulted inHamel quitting his job the next day andeventually building a working, though un-controlled, version of a circular flying craftwhich—much to his frustration—disappeared into the sky. He has not repli-cated the feat but hasn’t given up either.He’s now working on a three-stage craft.

In the 1990s an electronics specialist inVancouver, Canada, Pierre Sinclaire, heardabout Hamel. Sinclaire’s first reaction wasdisbelief, but something about the storyspurred him to telephone Hamel. BothFrench-speaking, they communicated fairlyeasily. After more investigation, Sinclaire in-terviewed people in the Maple Ridge, BritishColumbia, neighborhood where Hamel hadlived 20 years earlier, and found some whoremembered their eccentric neighbor. Oneman was still outraged that television recep-tion in the neighborhood had blacked outduring times that Hamel had set his unusualmachines into motion. Other stories claimthat car ignition systems in the neighbor-hood stopped for the same reason.

Intrigued, Sinclaire traveled to northernOntario where David Hamel and his physi-cally handicapped wife Nora had relocated.The more he learned about Hamel’s life andtenacity, the more Sinclaire admired therough-spoken older man.

Back in Vancouver, Sinclaire hired me towrite a book. His motivation was to tellHamel’s story so that serious experimentersmight explore how a space craft could op-erate and how to generate unlimited cleanenergy.

We interviewed David Hamel over anumber of days. His experiences during thewar, shot in the chest, escaping from aprison camp, hiding in an improvised ham-mock under a railroad car headed east,sneaking out at night to forage food, ingeni-ously signaling Allied bombers, receiving ajeweled medal of honor from a Russian

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point that can observe the tiniest details,even between the strangely layered construc-tion. The ship is made with huge metal coneswhose broad ends descend into the lower rimof the ship. He notes the underlying shape issimilar to an angel-food-cake pan, on a giantscale. However, these cones are superim-posed on top of each other and supported bymagnetic fields. A continual imbalance keepsthem in motion. David experiences a tor-nado-like rushing of air. Between the giantcones he sees flashes like lightning enteringthe rush of wind. Then he’s taken to theouter rim of the spacecraft, where he seesopenings he names “breathers.”

The power source works via cones con-taining magnets, spheres and pinions, and aflat cable around three polished granite balls.He senses it’s somehow simple, although sodifferent from earth technology that he haslittle vocabulary for what he sees. One prin-ciple impressed on his mind is “weight intospeed.” And he senses that once the shipreaches the weightlessness of space, anotherforce would take over as the principle ofpropulsion.

The ship drops in altitude and flies over aregion he recognizes as rocky Canadian bush-land in Ontario, then cruises lower over anarea to which he would relocate years later.He sees a man carrying two buckets of waterhung on a wooden yoke. The man looks up at

doctor in an unusual ceremony, and facingpost-war disillusionments are a book or filmin themselves.

Back to the Future?I’ll fast-forward Hamel’s biography to

1975. One night he’s sitting in his favoritechair, ready to watch television with Nora.To his surprise, two beings appear on hisinner screen. They reassure him, and sud-denly he is out of his body, floating throughthe ceiling and observing the insulation inhis attic as he passes through it in his lightbody. The voice repeats “Do not be afraid.”Then he is walking toward what looks like a300-foot-diameter spaceship. Three beingsinvite him to step up nine open stairs totheir doorway.

They introduce themselves throughmental impressions. Except for their zipper-less silver one-piece clothing, they look liketwo normal men and one woman. At onepoint they convey that they had observed hislife.

When his hosts ask if he wants to see thespace ship, he’s quick to nod in the affirma-tive. The ship provides everything needed forhealth, from fresh air to water and a garden.

He wants to know the source of a gentlyshuddering vibration felt throughout theship. Through portholes he sees the ship isrising swiftly. His hosts give him permissionto go anywhere on their ship, and suddenlyDavid’s body-awareness shrinks into a tiny

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Reck’s Skeleton and the Olduvai Gorge Mystery lduvai Gorge in the East African nation of Tanzania is one of the most famous ar-chaeological sites in the world. It is especially renowned as the place where LouisLeakey discovered fossils of a variety of apemen, including Homo habilis. Thesediscoveries began in the 1930s and have continued to the present. They are men-

tioned in most textbooks. But these textbooks are usually silent about the very first skeletondiscovered at Olduvai Gorge, Reck’s skeleton.

At the time Louis Leakey began his work at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, now independent,was a British colony called Tanganyika. But before World War I, Tanganyika was part ofGerman East Africa. During that era, a German scientist, Hans Reck, came to Olduvai Gorgeto search for fossils. One of Reck’s African collectors saw a bone protruding from the earthand started to excavate. Reck came and completed the excavation. Using hammers andchisels, workers under Reck’s direction took out an almost complete, anatomically modern,human skeleton in a solid block of hardened sedimentary rock. The skeleton was found inUpper Bed II of Olduvai Gorge.

There are five beds atOlduvai Gorge, Bed V, theuppermost, being themost recent. According tomodern dating methods,Bed II is from 1.15 millionto 1.7 million years old.Was the position of theskeleton in Bed II the re-sult of burial or earthmovements? Reck care-fully studied the geologyof the site, and concluded,“The bed in which thehuman remains werefound . . . showed no signsof disturbance. The spotappeared exactly like anyother in the horizon.There was no evidence of any refilled hole or grave” (cited in A. T. Hopwood, Man, 1932, vol.32, p. 193).

Bed III, higher in the sequence than Bed II, contained layers of pebbles of a dark reddishcolor, and Bed V contained a layer of white calcrete. Reck noted: “The sediment. . . is so con-stituted that the artificial breaking of the bed with its visible layering by digging of a gravewould necessarily be recognizable. The wall of the grave would show in profile a divisionfrom the undisturbed stone. The grave filling would show an abnormal structure and heter-ogeneous mixture of excavated material, including easily recognizable pieces of calcrete.Neither of these signs were to be found despite the most attentive inspection. Rather thestone directly around the skeleton was not distinguishable from the neighboring stone interms of color, hardness, thickness of layers, structure, or order” (cited in Hopwood, pp.193-194).

So here we have evidence that anatomically modern humans were existing in the verydistant past, over one million years ago. According to today’s orthodox scientific opinion,

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Reck returned to Germany, taking the skeleton’s skullwith him personally, while the block of rock containing the rest of the

skeleton followed by ship. When his first reports on the skeleton came out, hewon the support of many scientists, including the American anthropologist

George Grant MacCurdy of Yale University, who wrote in his book Human Origins(1924, vol. 3, p. 423) : “The human skeleton . . . came from the next to the lowest ho-

rizon (no. 2). . . . The skeleton was found some 3 or 4 meters (10 to 13 feet) below the rim ofthe Olduvai gorge, which here is about 40 meters (131 feet) deep.The skeleton bore the same relation to the stratifiedbeds as did the other mammalian remains, andwas dug out of the hard clay tufa withhammer and chisel just as these were. Inother words, the conditions of the findwere such as to exclude the possibility ofan interment. The human bones aretherefore as old as the deposit.” Mac-Curdy also agreed that the skeleton wasof modern type and not like a earlierform of human such as the Neandertals.

Other scientists, including LouisLeakey, disagreed that the skeleton wasas old as Bed II. To settle the question,Leakey and some others went to OlduvaiGorge to personally examine the site in1931. After careful study, Leakey concluded thatReck had been right. Reck and Leakey, along with A. T.Hopwood of the British Museum of Natural History, published a re-port in Nature (1931, vol. 128, p. 724) affirming that the skeleton wasas old as the bed in which it had been found, Bed II.

Other scientists continued to object to the great age of Reck’sskeleton. Reck and Leakey held their ground, until in 1932an English geologist named P. G. H. Boswell published inNature (vol. 130, pp. 237-238) a report in which he claimedhe had found reddish pebbles from Bed III and white cal-crete fragments from Bed V in a sample of the matrix fromwhich Reck’s skeleton had been extracted. This is somewhatstrange, because both Leakey and Reck had previously re-ported that they had observed no signs of Bed III pebblesand white calcrete fragments in the matrix of rock sur-rounding the skeleton—in the course of carefully lookingfor just such evidence of intrusive burial.

The sample that Boswell studied had been sent to himfrom Munich. And there is no way of knowing if it camefrom the matrix that directly encased the skeleton or fromsome other sediments that had come in the crate alongwith the skeleton.

Nevertheless, Reck and Leakey, along with Boswell,jointly concluded in a report published in Nature (1933,vol. 131, pp. 397-398) that the skeleton was younger thanBed II, and had come into the position in which it was dis-covered by burial from the time when Bed V was being deposited. This would still give the an-atomically modern human skeleton an age of perhaps as much as 400,000 years, because theoldest part of Bed V is about that old. And 400,000 years is still far beyond the orthodox sci-entific estimates for the maximum age of anatomically modern humans.

Why did Reck and Leakey capitulate? It is hard to say. It could be that after 20 years, Reckwas tired of fighting. And perhaps Leakey was becoming more interested in fighting for ac-ceptance of his own discoveries in Africa, such as the human fossils he had found at Kanamand Kanjera.

So then what happened? During World War II, Reck’s skeleton, except for the skull, van-ished from the Munich museum housing it. In the 1970s, a German scientist named ReinerProtsch decided to use the carbon 14 dating method to determine the age of the skeleton.The skull was considered too valuable to use for testing, but eventually, claimed Protsch, themuseum provided him with a few bone fragments that were supposedly from the originalskeleton. Protsch got an age of 16,920 years from the bone (Journal of Human Evolution,


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1974, vol. 3, pp. 379-385). But thereare several problems with this date.

First, we cannot be sure that thebone fragments from which he got

his samples were really from Reck’sskeleton. Second, the sample he got

was only one third the size of thesample normally used in the

method he employed. Third, it ispossible that the sample was con-taminated with recent carbon 14,

which would cause the test to yield ayounger age. Protsch himself noted

that the bone fragments were coveredwith an organic (i.e. carbonaceous)

preservative.

There is one final reason to question theage obtained by Protsch—his competence and

character. In the 1994, Protsch was exposed forpublishing fraudulent dates. A report in the Au-

gust 16, 2004 edition of the German news magazine Der Spiegel announced that Protsch haddeliberately falsified numerous carbon 14 dates on human fossils. Protsch was also accused ofplagiarism and selling university fossils for personal profit. The Frankfurt University commis-sion that investigated the case said in its report: “Prof. Protsch has forged and manipulatedscientific facts over the past 30 years” (Deutsche Welle, Feb. 18, 2005). The commissionfound that Protsch was unable to work his own radiocarbon dating equipment (The Guar-dian, Feb. 19, 2005).

So where does this leave us? I think the original observations by Reck are the best guide tothe true age of the skeleton. Reck excavated the skeleton from Bed II in Olduvai Gorge. Hecarefully searched for signs of intrusive burial (especially materials from Bed III and higherlevels) and found none. Louis Leakey and other scientists, who personally studied theskeleton in Germany and investigated the Olduvai Gorge site itself, confirmed Reck’s reports.I think that the sample examined by Boswell was not from the actual matrix of the skeleton.It was probably from other materials that came in the box with the skeleton from Africa. Asfor the radiocarbon date by Protsch, it is not to be trusted. The most reasonable conclusion isthat we have in Reck’s skeleton evidence for the existence of anatomically modern humansover one million years ago.

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n episode from the old Twilight Zonetelevision series concerns an airlineron an otherwise ordinary cross-country flight, until the plane inex-

plicably accelerates into a cloudy void. Even-tually emerging from the overcast, everyoneon board is dismayed to behold a Jurassicjungle populated by hungry dinosaurs in-stead of the New York skyline. Reluctantlytaking his microphone in hand, the captaindourly proclaims the obvious by informingpassengers, “we have apparently flown backin time.” He guns the throttles and climbsthe lumbering Boeing 707 back through thecloud cover in an effort to find 1960 again.As a discernibly 20th century Manhattan be-gins to roll a few thousand feet below, he ap-pears to have succeeded. That is, until hetries to make radio contact with the airport.Its ground-controller informs him that thejetliner is just in time for the 1930s World’sFair, but still too early for the Kennedy Era.The Twilight Zone ends with the captainflying his bewildered charges back into theovercast, still searching for their lost place intime.

While this well-known teleplay was apiece of fiction by Rod Serling, it nonethe-less dramatizes similar events reported bycredible eye-witnesses who claim they havesimilarly visited the past or alternate reali-ties. Sometimes, these encounters with anotherworld are confined entirely to sound.The phenomenon is then known as clairaudi-ence. A case in point is illustrated by ThomasJanes, a classical history student at the Uni-versity of Wisconsin, who traveled alone toTurkey during the early 1990s. The chiefgoal of his visit lay outside the Dardanellescity of Canakale, an archaeological park fea-turing the ruins of Ilios, the fabled capital ofTroy. He spent two days at the site, relishingthe personal fulfillment of a dream nurturedsince childhood: to actually walk the battle-ments depicted in Homer’s Iliad.

The area today has changed much sincethe Bronze Age events portrayed in that epic.The bay where invading Greeks beachedtheir ships silted up many centuries ago, andthe Trojan pastoral realm has been replacedby modern farms. But as Janes sat on one ofthe ancient walls, he tried to envision theirmid-13th century B.C. milieu, with its glis-tening city of heroes surrounded by richpeasant lands. In the midst of this reverie,the light tone of a shepherd’s flute camefloating on breezes from the MediterraneanSea, about three miles away, in the west. Thesimple tune seemed to accompany histhoughts, until he realized with a start thatshepherding was a no less extinct form ofemployment in modern Turkey than it is inthe U.S. He made a thorough search of thearchaeological park. Perhaps someone wasplaying the replica of a Bronze Age pipe, aspart of some reenactment, as occasionallytakes place in archaeological precincts opento the public. But no one else was visiting

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that early week-day morning. He had the en-tire site to himself. Or did he?

The plaintive, unfamiliar strain con-tinued to come from everywhere and no-where. The farmer’s fields below were de-serted. Scrambling to the top of the ruinedacropolis, he could see clearly in every direc-tion for miles. Not another soul was around.The persistent, haunting refrain began tomake him feel uncomfortable. But just as ithad come, the reedy aire drifted away on thewind. He ran to the tourist building at thefar end of the park, near its entrance. No, thelone attendant on duty informed him, noone else was visiting today. And there werecertainly no musicians about! Janes neverforgot that memorable, disembodiedperformance.

“The sound was so ghostly and sad,” heremembered, “and so appropriate for such aplace. I know in my heart that the music Iheard was not of this world or time.”

More like the Twilight Zone episode, a fa-

ther and his 6-year-old son attended a CivilWar reenactment at Gettysburg, Pennsyl-vania, during the summer of 2001. FrederickCatalano and Fred, Jr. were thrilled to seehundreds of men and women dressed in au-thentic period costume and regalia at thevery location of a great event in Americanhistory. There was a re-creation of the fa-mous battle with military bands, boomingcannons, charging horse-soldiers, volleys ofsmoking muskets and troops in blue andgray marching under colorful banners.

After the commemorative confrontation,Frederick and Junior joined thousands ofother on-lookers in visiting numerous stallsset up to display Civil War era memorabiliaadjacent to a rather primitive but largegrandstand draped with red, white and bluebunting. At the center of this structure theday’s reenactment continued with a tall actorobviously portraying Abraham Lincoln deliv-ering the Gettysburg Address to a sizable

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n an intriguing section of a fascinatingbook entitled The Cosmic Serpent: DNAand the Origins of Knowledge, Frenchanthropologist Jeremy Narby includes

snippets from his personal journals from histime spent studying the healing practices ofAmazonian medicine men. One entry is ofparticular interest on the popular subject ofgenetic healing. “According to shamans ofthe entire world,” writes Dr. Narby, commu-nication with healing spirits is established“via music. For [shamans] it is almost incon-ceivable to enter the world of spirits and re-main silent. Angelica Gebhart Sayer dis-cusses the visual music projected by thespirits in front of the shaman’s eyes. It ismade up of three-dimensional images that

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Icoalesce into sound, and that the shamanimitates by emitting corresponding melo-dies.” In a provocative footnote to himself,Narby adds, “I should check whether DNAemits sound or not. “One school of thoughtinsists that humans are actually made ofsound and that DNA itself may be a form ofsound. Drawing on meticulously docu-mented research, Harvard-trained LeonardHorowitz explains that DNA emits and re-ceives both phonons and photons, or electro-magnetic waves of sound and light. In the1990s, according to Dr. Horowitz, “threeNobel laureates in medicine advanced re-search that revealed the primary function ofDNA lies not in protein synthesis...but in therealm of bioacoustic and bioelectric sig-naling.” In recent years a new artistic field

calledDNAmusic haseven begunto flourish. Ittherefore seemsappropriate, at thevery least, to compareDNA to a keyboard with a number of keysthat produce the music of life. But what if onsome level we are made of sound? What if inthe beginning was the Word? What if themusic of the spheres is no myth? What if weourselves are a harmonic convergence? Whatif the holographic grid of our being is a lin-guistic and musical interface between



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higher-dimensional light, which might beconsidered a form of divine thought or inten-tion, and sound in higher-dimensional oc-taves? After all, string theory posits the exis-tence of many different, theoreticallyaccessible dimensions that appear notation-ally linked much like strings on a guitar.Narby repeatedly makes the point that sha-mans use sound because this allows them totransform some aspect of the genetic code. IfDNA is indeed a text, a keyboard, a musicalscore, if it is true that this score can be re-written so that it plays a new type of musicand if we live not just in a holographic but ina harmonic universe, then it seems plausiblethat our bioenergy fields are at least in partcomposed of higher-dimensional sound.When my partner Leigh and I began devel-oping a method of DNA activation called Reg-enetics, we discovered through kinesiology(muscle testing) that each of the body’s auricor electromagnetic fields corresponds notjust to a chakra but to a third-dimensionalsound octave. Energetically, our research in-dicates that humans are built of a vertical se-ries of light-processing chakras interfacingwith concentric electromagnetic fields(which are sonic in nature) to form thethree-dimensional holographic matrix thatproduces our physical body. At the geneticlevel, sound gives rise to light. In a paper en-titled “A Holographic Concept of Reality” ap-pearing in Psychoenergetic Systems in 1975,a team of researchers headlined by RichardAlan Miller first outlined a compelling modelof “ener-genetic” expression resulting in“precipitated reality”: “Superposed coherentwaves of different types in the cells interactto form diffraction patterns, firstly in theacoustic [sound] domain, secondly in theelectromagnetic [light] domain.” This leadsto the manifestation of physical form as a“quantum hologram—a translation betweenacoustical and optical holograms.” Signifi-cantly, this sound-light translation mecha-nism that creates the somatic experience ofreality functions in the genome. This is notthe place to provide a full treatment of thescience of quantum bioholography. Rather, Iwish to emphasize that according to thismodel that is attracting many proponents asmore and more of its precepts are confirmed,it is becoming apparent that DNA directs cel-lular metabolism and replication not just bi-ochemically but electromagnetically througha chromosomal mechanism that translatessound into light waves, and vice versa. Soundand light, or phonons and photons, establisha sophisticated communication networkthroughout the physical organism that ex-tends into the bioenergy fields and back tothe cellular and subcellular levels. RecallingEdgar Cayce’s prediction that “sound wouldbe the medicine of the future,” JonathanGoldman in Healing Sounds: The Power ofHarmonics coined the following inspira-tional formula: sound + intention = healing.


If we define intention as a form of consciouslight energy roughly equivalent to thought,an idea consistent with many shamanic tra-ditions such as that of the Toltecs of Mesoa-merica, we can translate Goldman’s formulaas:

SOUND + LIGHT = HEALING.

Recently, the ability of sound and light toheal DNA was scientifically documented by aRussian research team of geneticists and lin-guists. Russian linguists discovered that thegenetic code, especially in the so-called junkportion, follows regular grammar and usagerules virtually identical to those of humanlanguages. This invalidates many modernlinguistic theories by proving that languagedid not appear randomly but reflects hu-

manity’s shared genetics. In The God Codebest-selling author Gregg Braden furtherdemonstrates that the ancient four-letter He-brew name for God (YHVH) is actually codefor DNA based on the latter’s chemical com-position of nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, andcarbon. This assertion, with its vast implica-tions relative to DNA’s universal role as a di-vine language spoken through the body, hasbeen peer-reviewed and accepted by manyscholars of Hebrew.

Fritz Albert Popp’s Nobel prize-winningresearch establishes that every cell in thebody receives, stores and emits coherentlight in the form of biophotons. In tandemwith biophonons, biophotons maintain elec-tromagnetic frequency patterns in all livingorganisms. In the words of Dr. Stephen Lind-steadt, this matrix that is produced and sus-tained by frequency oscillations “providesthe energetic switchboarding behind everycellular function, including DNA/RNA mes-sengering. Cell membranes scan and convertsignals into electromagnetic events as pro-teins in the cell’s bi-layer change shape to vi-brations of specific resonant frequencies.”Emphasizing that every “biochemical reac-tion is preceded by an electromagneticsignal,” Lindsteadt concludes, “Cells com-


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omicide detectives know that after48 hours, the trail to the perpe-trator starts getting cold. After fivehundred years the odds of solving

a murder are small, making the violentmurder of John Cabot a true cold case. It in-volves a Genoese merchant, a Spanish sol-dier and an English sheriff whose namecame to grace the North and South Amer-ican continents.

John Cabot, born Giovanni Caboto, was aGenoese navigator sailing for the British. Hewas a businessman who had accumulatedenough money to settle anywhere, and for abrief time lived in Venice where he receivedcitizenship. At heart he remained an adven-

Templar. He had sailed to Bristol in Englandwhere the citizens regularly sent out ships tofind cod in the remote waters of the westernAtlantic. And he sailed possibly as far as Ice-land where the Norse had also known of therich fishing grounds we know as the GrandBanks.

When he returned from the New World,John Cabot was in Spain, and made the deci-sion to find employment elsewhere. Heheaded to Bristol in England. Alreadywealthy, he had to conceal his affluence asBristol and Venice (Cabot’s adopted city)were often at odds in trade suits. To furtherhis connections to the powers-that-be, Cabotquickly made the right friends.

One of his new friends was RichardAmeryk. This merchant was a man who woremany hats including that of sheriff and cus-toms agent for the port. He regularly in-vested in ships sailing south to Spain andPortugal and west towards the rich fishinggrounds. He also exercised a certain amount

of control on local trade and benevolentlylooked out for his fellow merchants.

As a newcomer, Cabot quicklyrealized you were either with

this Bristol “mafia” or youmight as well find another

port. Cabot and Ameryk be-came quick friends.

Bristol had been sendingout ships for cod for dec-

ades, but the Hanseaticleague, an alliance of

traders, claimed the seaaround Iceland as their own

and regularly warredagainst interlopers. Bristol’smerchants devised a plot to

throw up a smoke screenaround their fishing trade.

They claimed each year to besending ships to search for an is-

land known as Hy-Brasil. This oddlynamed island may have been one of those

isles that had once sunk into the Atlantic. Orit could have been a subterfuge. The out-going ships were always packed with salt, anecessary ingredient in drying cod.

In 1497, Cabot made a real voyage of ex-ploration for the English king, and left fromBristol. Sheriff Ameryk was one of his inves-tors. Instead of discovering China, Cabotcruised the waters of what would become

How Did the GreatGenoese ExplorerReally Meet His End?and How Did AmericaReally Get Its Name?

Cabot sights Newfoundland in 1497.

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turer. He was sailing forcod and a route to China,and became the first Euro-pean to get credit for reachingNorth America.

Alonso de Hojeda was the epitomeof the brutal conquest of the Americas, andwas sailing for the king and queen of Spain.He had a reputation for being a brute and acutthroat, but in the eyes of Isabella and Fer-dinand, this added up to the efficient ser-geant that they needed to control Columbus.

By the time Columbus had set sail forAmerica, he had been a mapmaker fortunateenough to marry into the wealthy Perestrellofamily. Just after his wedding he was given agift of the maps and charts of the Knights ofChrist, the reincarnated Portuguese Knights

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the South American coastal villages?The year was now 1499. Hojeda, who was

a favorite of the crown because of his ruth-lessness and daring, took his more contro-versial orders through an intermediary. Thisman was the Bishop Juan de Fonseca whoadvised him to kill any Englishmen he cameacross. Fonseca was a capable administratorwhose spy network had tentacles thatreached as far as London and Bristol. A letterfrom the Spanish envoy stationed in London,Pedro de Ayala, claimed that Cabot had al-ready sailed into waters claimed by Co-lumbus. It also declared he was going to beheading again towards Spanish waters.

Through the de Ayala communica-tion, and through information by

John Day of Bristol, theSpanish understood that

not only was Cabotlooking for Cipangu orthe outermost island of

Asia, but that he wasprovisioned for a fullyear. This was much

unlike the quick firstvoyage. To the Spanishit was a threat. The or-

ders to kill were unfortu-nately typical as other

English and French colo-nists would later find out. The

cruelty of the Spaniards did not endwith the Native Americans.

Cabot’s expedition had set out with a“king’s ship,” that is, a ship provided by theEnglish king, and four merchant-ownedships. One had problems and quickly re-turned to England, the other four headedwest.

Hojeda’s ship sailed from Cadiz in May of1499. They reached South America aroundmodern-day Surinam and then coasted tothe island of Curacao. Their next landfall wasat Coquibacoa in August of that year. HereHojeda killed a handful of natives and raidedtheir village in search of gold. He reported inhis journal that they had indeed come across“certain Englishmen.” He didn’t state that hehad killed them, but his orders had been ex-plicit. Since there were no other English ex-peditions to the Americas at this point it ishighly likely that the certain Englishmen heencountered were none other than Cabotand his crews.

The reason for keeping a low profile in re-porting his actions is that England and Spainwere not at war. It was an act of piracy. Itwould actually be an offense that not onlydeserved hanging, but could be the catalystfor a declaration of war. No other witnessamong the Spanish produced any writtenrecord that detailed his encounter with theEnglish. And none of the English survived totell their side of the encounter.

Most likely, he first attacked Cabot’sships, then killed his men and finally lootedand sunk his ships. Immediately after thisencounter at Coquibacoa, Hojeda’s shipswere in need of substantial repairs, so it is

Continued from Page 29Canada’s Maritime Provinces. He broughthome a map that has not survived the centu-ries in good condition, but most likely hecoasted Newfoundland and Nova Scotia andpossibly even Maine. The place names he lefton his first map of the New World can barelybe read and others did not survive the effectsof age on the chart.

Around the same time Cabot reached theNew World, the king and queen of Spainwere getting impatient with their ex-plorer Columbus. He may havefound a New World, but hedidn’t find Cathay or Ci-pangu, China or Japan,nor did he bring homegold and silver. To makethe voyage pay, theSpanish did kidnap ahandful of Arawak na-tives, but they provedunsuitable for labor asslaves, inconvenientlydying.

The Spanish royals de-cided to send a more effi-cient agent. They picked Alonsode Hojeda. The Spaniard was morea pirate than an explorer. With little time towaste on moral issues or legal niceties, heactually attacked other ships on the way tothe Americas. Next he stopped at the islandof Lanzarote in the Canary chain where heplundered the house of the daughter of Co-lumbus’s Dona Beatriz! One of the men whowould regret taking passage on Hojeda’s shipwas Americas Vespucci. He was one of thebankers who worked for the Medici familyand as a merchant outfitted the expedition.Along for the journey was another whowould play an important role, Juan de laCosa.

John Cabot’s first expedition was to befollowed by a much longer voyage of explora-tion. He was a given a charter by King Henryto explore the New World although it specifi-cally dictated that he not travel into the landclaimed by Spain. There is reason to believethat the king knew exactly where he wouldbe traveling, but didn’t want to risk alien-ating the Spanish. He left England in 1498and never returned. There is evidence thathe may have started from his southernmostpoint of his first voyage and headed furthersouth. He would have coasted the still “un-discovered” Virginias and Florida and finallyreached the coast of what would becomeSouth America.

There, in South America, the firstcountry name that would remain on the mapof the America’s was Venezuela. Meaning“Little Venice” it had reminded Europeantravelers of the Italian Venice because ofhouses built out into the coastal waters. Wasit John Cabot who named it after his adoptedcity of Venice? Or was it the brute Hojeda orsomeone who had appreciated the beauty of

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• BY DR. GREG LITTLEn 1968 an 1800-foot long J-shaped for-mation of stone blocks was discoveredabout a mile off the west coast of NorthBimini, Bahamas by a Miami-based bi-

ologist, Dr. J. Manson Valentine. The forma-tion was initially thought to resemble a col-lapsed wall or a road, and the unfortunatename “Bimini Road” (or “Bimini Wall”) wasattached to it. The site was linked to a 1940prediction made by the famous “Sleeping

Prophet,” Edgar Cayce, whereinCayce related that a portion of At-lantis would “rise” or be found nearBimini in 1968 and 1969. Sensation-alized media coverage immediatelylinked the site to Atlantis. But notlong after its discovery, marine engi-neer Dr. Dimitri Rebikoff (1979) as-serted that the Bimini formation wasstrikingly similar to ancient harborworks in the Mediterranean. Thatidea was simply ignored by skepticswho focused on the Atlantis idea andonly archaeologist William Donato,writer Frank Joseph, and a fewothers have seriously considered Re-

bikoff’s harbor assertion.

The Skeptical Geologists ArriveShortly after the discovery of the Bimini

Road, a Virginia Beach, Virginia geologist,Wyman Harrison (1971), asserted that twostones of the formation were limestone,leading him to conclude that the entire for-mation was natural limestone that had frac-tured in place. Harrison added, “at no placeare blocks found to be resting on a similarset beneath.” Harrison also examined 30 cyl-inder-like columns found near the site. Hereported that two of the columns were flutedmarble and the others were probably ce-ment. He added that a chemical analysisshowed that neither the marble nor cementcylinders were from the Bahamas or NorthAmerica. He reasoned that the cylinder-likecolumns were probably dumped by modernor historic ships, but made no attempt tocompare the columns to similar artifactsthat had been discovered at ancient harborsin the Mediterranean. For example, a break-water at the ancient Roman harbor at Cosa,Italy, is littered with identical cement andmarble columns.

With funding from the National Geo-graphic Society, which openly supports theidea that Thera was Atlantis, Ball and Gifford(1980) began by relating that Harrison haddemonstrated the Bimini formation wascompletely natural—based on Harrison’s ex-amination of the two small stone pieces. Balland Gifford also observed that no blocks onthe formation rested on other blocks andthat no regular prop stones were presentunder any of the large blocks. In essence,they asserted that all of the blocks were ei-ther lying on bottom sand or the solid lime-stone foundation forming the seabed. In ad-dition, they reported that no toolmarks orartifacts were there.

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and Confirmingthe Archaeological Reality ofBimini’s Prehistoric Harbor

Archaeologicalreconstruction of theBimini Road as aharbor when sealevels wereapproximately15-feet lower(Dee Turman)

Updated schematic of Bimini Roadshowing only largest stone blocks.

(Adapted from Zink)

One of several stone anchors atProctor’s Road. (Photo, Lora Little)One of several stone anchors atProctor’s Road. (Photo, Lora Little)


One of several mortised stones atProctor’s Road. (Photo, Greg Little)One of several mortised stones atProctor’s Road. (Photo, Greg Little)

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Triple tier of stone blocks lying on rubble.Note the U-shaped groove on the undersideof the top block and groove marks on theends. (Photo, Greg Little)

Triple tier of stone blocks lying on rubble.Note the U-shaped groove on the undersideof the top block and groove marks on theends. (Photo, Greg Little)

Aerial digital video image taken from 500 feet,showing three of the stone circles at Proctor’s

Road—near the Bimini Road. (Photo, Greg Little)

Aerial digital video image taken from 500 feet,showing three of the stone circles at Proctor’s

Road—near the Bimini Road. (Photo, Greg Little)



cles—a paradoxical statement that has nowbeen confirmed. Archaeologist MarshallMcKusick published a 1984 article in Archae-ology relating that the Bimini hoax was per-petrated to increase tourism at Bimini and topromote Edgar Cayce. McKusick’s article wasa major turning point in academic archae-ology’s attack on what they term pseudosci-ence and cult archaeology. However, it isnow clear that Shinn and McKusick perpe-trated a hoax of their own utilizing pseudo-science and essentially a fabrication of the re-sults they desired.

Interestingly, few archaeologists and ge-ologists actually read Shinn’s original 1978article because the obscure journal, Sea

Another skeptical “geologist,” EugeneShinn, reportedly spent a couple weekendsat Bimini. Shinn had only a bachelor’s de-gree in biology and had worked a few yearsfor the U.S. Geological Survey’s new field of-fice in Miami. He published findings from 17stone block cores he allegedly took at theformation in the obscure magazine SeaFrontiers in 1978. Shinn’s later reports(McKusick & Shinn 1980, Shinn 2004)claimed that all 17 of his 1978 cores “tiltedtoward deep water” proving that the forma-tion began as a single piece of limestone thatformed on an ancient beach. This type oflimestone is commonly referred to as“beachrock.” Shinn is the primary skepticpromoted by those who assert that the Bi-mini Road is natural. However, Shinn’s ac-tual 1978 findings are never cited by skep-tics. Rather, the later summaries publishedin 1980, 1984, and 2004 are utilized. Thisfact is a key to understanding precisely howthe skeptics have perpetrated a hoax atBimini.

While the idea that Harrison proved theBimini formation was completely naturallimestone from only two samples is absurd,the summary from Shinn is the critical com-ponent of the skeptics’ beachrock explana-tion. Following a May 2005 expedition to Bi-mini a detailed examination of Shinn’sactual 1978 results was made. As is fully doc-umented later, Shinn’s actual 1978 resultsdo not remotely match what he asserted inhis later articles. Shinn alleged that a hoaxwas perpetrated at Bimini in all of his arti-

Some of the marble pieces removed from the block on the Bimini Road. Right: Large stone with aU-shaped cut possibly an anchor. Photos—Bill Donato

Frontiers, is difficult to find. Instead, skep-tics cite Shinn’s later (1980, 2004) sum-maries of his 1978 work, which were pub-lished in widely circulated journals. Forexample, Kenneth Feder’s popular archae-ology debunking textbook, Frauds, Myths,and Mysteries: Science and pseudoscience inarchaeology (Feder, 2006), asserts that theBimini formation has been shown to be theresult of “natural erosion processes,” citingonly McKusick & Shinn (1980) and Harrison(1971). According to Feder (private corre-spondence), he had not read Shinn’s actual1978 article and assumed the later sum-



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n 1858, inhabitants of the village of TresZapotes in the state of Veracruz on theGulf Coast of Mexico were digging whenthey encountered a stone object. Re-

moving more soil, they found to their aston-ishment that it had a polished, curved sur-face. They dug further and realized that theywere uncovering what appeared to be thehead of an immense stone statue. Supersti-tiously afraid of what they might reveal ifthey continued, they shoveled the earth backover their find and it remained hidden forthe best part of a century.

In 1938, the head of the Smithsonian In-stitution’s Bureau of American Ethnologywas Matthew Stirling, one of the world’sleading archaeologists and a specialist inMiddle American cultures. He was specifi-cally interested in sites where the variousprehistoric factions of Mexico had met andreacted and Tres Zapotes on the Gulf Coastemerged as a prime possible site.

A close colleague of Stirling was WilliamDuncan Strong, the head of Columbia Uni-versity’s Department of Anthropology and atone of their discussions, Stirling told Strongof his intentions to explore the Tres Zapoteslocation and asked if he knew anyone withknowledge of the area. Strong did not,pointing out that the area was undevelopedbut he suggested Clarence Wolsey Weiant,one of his most promising graduate studentswho was at that time completing his docto-rate—and hoping to make Tres Zapotes hisdoctoral fieldwork.

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Conventional ScienceStill Struggles to FindSatisfactory Anwers

Strong took Weiant on an Indian dig inNorth Dakota to observe his performance.He was sufficiently impressed that when ajoint expedition of the Smithsonian Institu-tion and the National Geographic Associa-tion was proposed and Strong was invited tobe its leader, Strong’s immediate choice aschief assistant was Weiant.

Strong must have known how Weiantsupported himself and his studies but itmust not have influenced him in any way.Nevertheless, that means of support was aremarkable contrast to archaeology—because Weiant was a chiropractor!

At the time, the discipline of chiropracticwas highly controversial and scorned bymost of the medical profession. Yet it was lu-crative and Weiant quickly built up a busypractice after obtaining his professorshipfrom the Eastern Chiropractic Institute ofNew York. Still in his twenties and with amind open to unorthodox disciplines, he be-came interested in parapsychology and as-sisted the well-known Hereward Carringtonin his experiments on thought-photography.In these, they were able to prove that it waspossible for human thoughts to produce im-


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Continued from Page 34ages on fresh, unexposed photographic film.Their results formed the basis for the workdone in more recent times—and morewidely publicized—by Ted Serios.

It was when Weiant was in his thirtiesthat he formed a passion for archaeology.This grew until it led him to be certain thatthis was to be his life’s work and promptedhis enrollment at Columbia University.

Weiant was forty-one years old when heand Stirling went to the site at Tres Zapotes.There, they encountered a swampy terrain,continual rain, waist-deep mud, tarantulas,snakes and interminable insects. Despitethese terrible conditions, they conducted athorough search of a two-mile-long stretchand during their four months there theymade several remarkable discoveries.

A number of stone tablets were excavatedand these later proved to bear the oldest re-corded date discovered in the New World upto that time. At first it was believed to be 291B.C. but later work adjusted this to the datethat still prevails to today—31 B.C. A figurineof what was believed to be a religious per-sonage was also found, also fifteen U-shapedstone sculptures, intensively worked and pol-ished. The purpose of these is still a matterof contention. An earlier belief, now less pop-ular but not yet discarded, is that they wereyokes to be attached to the necks of personsbeing sacrificed to the gods. This could havebeen to restrict their struggles when theirchests were cut open and their hearts re-moved or at least to prevent the victims fromspoiling the dignity of what was a religiousceremony in which they were the reluctantsacrificial ‘goats’.

Most current authorities disdain thistheory today and a more popular current be-lief is that the yokes were used in a ballgame—several of these were played in Cen-tral America in prehistoric times.

The most striking of all the discoveries,though, came after one of the locals relatedto Weiant the story of the find made manyyears before and covered over in supersti-tious fear. The tale had become a part of theword-of-mouth history of Tres Zapotes andpassed into local mythology. Weiant wastedno time in investigating the legend. Hequickly gathered together some men. Thedigging team cut a trench through the areashown to them and unearthed one of themost famous objects ever discovered on theAmerican continent.

It was promptly named ‘La Cabeza Co-losal’, the Giant Head. More than six feethigh and weighing over ten tons, it provokeda storm of controversy. The features aresomewhat negroid with a short broad nose,thick heavy lips with drawn-down cornersand slit eyes. These generated early sugges-tions that this indicated an African originbut it is now considered more likely thatthese characteristics were brought when the

first humans entered the Americas from Asiaand Africa.

The head is made from basalt, a hard, vol-canic rock with an almost glassy appearance.None of the digging team at Tres Zapotescould even conjecture how the people hadcarved such an effigy. Neither iron or copperoccurs in the area so tools of iron or bronzecould not have been used. It would be theo-retically possible to cut with other stone ma-terials—but which? It would also be an in-credibly time-consuming task.

These and other practical aspects werehotly debated when the expedition returnedto the USA in April 1939 but a much moreprofound discussion arose. Until that time,the Mayan civilization had been believed tobe the ‘mother culture’ of Mexico. Their areaof influence was in what is today the Yucatanpeninsula, stretching from Belize in the eastas far as the state of Tabasco in Mexico in thewest. The Aztec civilization was still furtherwest, from Oaxaca up to Hidalgo and Tlaxcalaand close to what is now Mexico City.

The findings at Tres Zapotes on this andlater expeditions to the area produced a re-markable shift in the thinking that prevailedconcerning pre-Colombian civilizations. Thisled to the astonishing conclusion that thethen-current conviction that the Mayanswere the ‘mother culture’ of Central Americawas wrong. In fact, the Olmecs, dominantfrom 1300 B.C. to about 400 B.C. most havebeen the true ‘mother culture’ and the rootsof both the Maya and the Aztecs must liewith the Olmecs. Much theorizing has takenplace about where the Olmecs came from butthe most recent work using carbon dating in-dicates that the region was inhabited as earlyas 1700 B.C.. These inhabitants were the di-rect ancestors, corn farmers who were alsoenergetic fisherman and hunters.

This meant that five hundred years before

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PHOENIX: MASONIC METROPOLIS?urquoise swimming pools when seenfrom above shimmer like a squashblossom necklace on a jet setter’stanned breast. Imported palm trees

tower over a surrendering army of native sa-guaros, while skyscraper mirages of steel andglass gleam in the distance. This western me-tropolis pushes out more than up, though,sprawling over 450 square miles.

With the sixth largest population in theU.S., the Valley of the Sun attracts all kinds:retirees golfing their way into oblivion, snow-birds fleeing subzero winters, young con-struction workers cashing in on frenzied eco-nomic growth. Shopping malls, parking lots,concrete cloverleafs, subdivisions, and apart-ments relentlessly eat away at the mesquiteand ironwood at the rate of “an acre anhour.”

Summer temperatures routinely soar over100 degrees. Before air conditioning, theSonoran desert must have been unbearable.Where once rattlesnakes, scorpions, centi-pedes, tarantulas, and gila monsters reignedover the sand, now gang wars, drug money,prostitution, Mafia murders and other urbanamenities civilize the asphalt. In other words,an aura of the foreign and bizarre pervadesPhoenix. What exactly attracted early settlersto this hard and uncompromising landscape?

A Local Habitation and a NameIn the autumn of 1867 Bryan Philip Dar-

rell Duppa and other founding fathers of thefledgling city were picnicking on the plat-form mound at Pueblo Grande near what isnow the intersection of East Washington and44th streets near Phoenix Sky Harbor air-port. Someone asked what this future mu-nicipality should be named. A Southerner inthe party wanted to call it Stonewall, afterthe Confederate general. Another idly offeredthe appellation Salina, meaning “saltmarsh,” but that too was voted down. ThenDuppa spoke: “This canal was constructed inan age now forgotten. Prehistoric cities lie inruins all around you. A great ancient civiliza-tion once thrived in this valley. Let the newcity arise from its ashes. Let it be calledPhoenix.”

Both the platform mound and the canalhad been built by the Hohokam who inhab-ited the basin as early as 300 BCE. The flat-topped mound (shaped like a Mayan pyr-amid) measures 300 feet long, 150 feet wideand 20 feet high. Lacking draft animals andwheelbarrows, these industrious NativeAmericans also dug 500 miles of aqueductsto irrigate over 25,000 acres. The main chan-nels were 75 feet across and 12 feet deep. H.M. Wormington, one of the first archaeolo-gists in the region, believed that the con-struction of this extensive system rivaled thearchitectural achievements of the Egyptian

pyramids or the Mayan temples. Duppawould have probably agreed.

Born into English landed gentry, “Lord”Darrell Duppa was one of the best-educatedmen in the American West. Classicallytrained in Paris and Madrid, he knew French,Spanish, Italian Latin, and Greek. The librarythat he carried with him into the wildernessincluded Ovid, Juvenal, and Homer in theoriginal. An eccentric and a loner, he occa-sionally was given to fits of eloquence andcould quote Shakespeare by the hour, espe-cially if facilitated by a shot or two of red-eye.

Months earlier Duppa had been seen inPrescott, the new prospecting town a hun-dred miles to the north. His ostensible busi-ness was to check up on some gold miningclaims owned by his prosperous uncle,whose New Zealand sheep ranch he hadhelped to establish. Before arriving in Ari-zona, Duppa had traveled extensivelythroughout Australia and was the sole sur-vivor of a shipwreck off the coast of Chile. Al-though water rather than fire was the threat-ening element, this event may give a clue tohis personal choice for the name.

Duppa was alluding to the description ofthe mythical phoenix by the Greek historianHerodotus. At the end of each temporal cyclethis brilliantly plumed male bird flies to He-liopolis in Egypt and builds a nest of cassia

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umbered among The New YorkTimes’ top ten books of 2005, Jona-than Harr’s The Lost Painting de-scribes the search for an Italian Ba-

roque masterpiece by Michelangelo Merisi daCaravaggio that had been missing for centu-ries.

The search for Caravaggio’s “The Takingof Christ” is a fascinating journey throughthe little-known worlds of art historians, col-lectors, dealers, curators, and restorers,which alone make Harr’s excellent book wellworth the read. But there are other, darkerworlds left undiscovered in the book. This ar-ticle is about those worlds.

I might never have read Harr’s book had aTimes review not mentioned that in 1802 awealthy Scotsman named William HamiltonNisbet had purchased the painting. Thanks toa personal investigation into the genealogy ofmy clan, I knew a few things about Williamthat the book does not touch upon—things Iwill reveal in due course.

But first let's look at the painting.Now known to have been commissioned

in 1602 by Ciriaco Mattei, one of Cara-vaggio’s wealthy Roman patrons, “The

that this pivotal Biblicalevent may have been meticu-

lously planned by the mainparticipant—an idea that has

found wider acceptance inthe last 40 years than it had

back in Caravaggio’s day.But I get ahead of myself.In Harr’s book two art re-

searchers, Francesca Cappel-letti and Laura Testa, gainrare access to the privately

held Mattei archives in order to authenticatethe provenance of a painting of St. John theBaptist. While there, they discover a mentionof “The Taking,” and follow the painting’spaper trail across two centuries, from thetime of its commission until the time it wassold to Nisbet. Along the way they discover ahighly flawed inventory of 1793 that switchesthe painting’s attribution to Gerard van Hon-thorst, a known Caravaggio imitator.

Laura then discovers Nisbet’s export li-cense in Rome’s Archivio di Stato, whichputs the declared value for a six-painting pur-

N Taking” depicts the momentJudas betrays Jesus with akiss, revealing Christ’s iden-tity to the soldiers sent to ar-rest him.

That Caravaggio hadpainted such a work wasknown to scholars through a1672 description by GiovanBellori, an art critic who hadseen it hanging in Rome.

“Judas lays his hand onthe shoulder of the Lord after the kiss,” Bel-lori wrote, “and a soldier in full armor ex-tends his arm and his ironclad hand to thechest of the Lord who stands patiently andhumbly with his arms crossed before him.”

Although it is discussed nowhere inHarr’s book, readers of this article will noticea major discrepancy in Bellori’s descrip-tion—Christ’s arms are not “crossed beforehim.” In fact, Caravaggio’s rather bored-looking Christ, one eyebrow raised, appearsto be doing little more than cracking hisknuckles. To the far-right Caravaggio, in oneof several self-portraits, holds up a lantern intrue Luciferian fashion as though suggesting

UNTOLD HISTORY

• BY JEFF NISBET

What Secrets Yet Remainto Be Unfolded Here?

The Taking of Christ,

Caravaggio

Beyond the Lost CaravaggioBeyond the Lost Caravaggio

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here did we come from? Is therelife in the interstellar void? Arethere beings that travel the“crystal halls” of God’s mansion

beyond our solar system? Was life broughthere in drops of water by comets as ancientmyths indicate? Are we really made of alienstars? What forces prompted the universe toform the primordial cosmic particles floatingin the sacred ocean into Paris Hilton?

These are not questions in a debate be-tween evolution and Intelligent Design. Theseare the complicated questions asked by scien-tists such as Dr. Don Brownlee, an astrobiolo-gist who, for the past 25 years, has beenscouring the depths of our oceans and theloneliest deserts for some of the prized cosmicmaterial—pristine cosmic dust—that containsthe answers to our most profound questions.

Tons of space dust rain upon the earthevery year. However, no one has ever beforebeen able to study verified comet dust and in-terstellar particles. Once, scientists were an-noyed by the way cosmic dust would get in theway when they were trying to observe othercelestial objects. Now, we know this is the“stuff” of the universe.

Science has shown us that our motherEarth, the sun and even human beings are allmade from regenerated stardust. The universe

recycles. All the atoms in our body—calcium,oxygen, potassium—were in stardust grainsbefore the solar system formed. Before thatthey were the nuclear fuel that powered a starand then fueled its supernova explosion. Nowwe know that cosmic rays from these stunningstellar events play our DNA like ’59 Gibson LesPaul electric guitars.

“The fundamental point is that we ulti-mately are made of this stuff—‘stardust’ fromthe interstellar medium,” said Brownlee.

Comets are believed to be relatively un-changed since the creation of our solar systemnearly 5 billion years ago. Any organic matteror other raw materials would literally be pre-served in a perpetual deep-freeze, meaning acomet is a library or time capsule of ancientdata, an ancient ‘hall of records’. What wasneeded was a spacecraft that could snag a fewbooks.

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sample could provide remarkable new ammofor discussion of Zecharia Sitchin’s analysisof the Atlantis-in-the-stars Sumerian myth ofTiamat, which states that the asteroid belt, aswell as the earth and moon, were createdfrom the splitting or sinking of a planet,Tiamat, by a collision with a marauding‘planet’, Nibiru.

On January 2, 2004 NASA expertly guidedSTARDUST to within 149 miles of CometWild-2, a daring close call by astronomicalstandards. During this fly-by, the craft’stennis-racket-shaped collector was bom-barded by millions of six-times-faster-than-a-speeding-bullet dust particles and small rocksthat ranged in size from as small as sand toas large as fish tank pebbles.

Whoosh! Thousands of these objects werecaptured on-impact using an array of mosaic-style aerogel collector plates. Aerogel is an

ultra-light silicon-based sponge that

looks something likea surreal blue holo-

gram of fog in a glassbox. It’s called ‘liquid

smoke’.After a seven-year

voyage in which therefrigerator-sizedspacecraft sailed

through space trav-eling nearly 3 billion

miles, STARDUSTheaded home.

ContactThree. Two. One.

In the early morninghours of January 15,2006 the STARDUST

spacecraft,Brownlee’s brain-

child, slammed intothe atmosphere above

the Western UnitedStates at a record 26,000 mph.

STARDUST was literally on fire—firstbluish in color and then becoming a deepred. As it streaked across the dark Utah skiesSTARDUST’s luminescent trail next paintedan almost unbelievable yellowish-orange linethat Brownlee said resembled a magic wandtracing across the sky. To emphasize thedrama two meteors accompanied it. Me ohmy, the only thing missing was Disney’s Tin-kerbell!

Brownlee and other scientists bolted fromtheir observation trailers screaming at thetop of their lungs with joy and excitement.They watched with child-like wonder as theparachute opened and a UFO shaped canisterfloated to earth. It bounced five times beforesettling and leaving a perfect ring in thedesert sand at the U.S. Air Force’s Utah Testand Training Range, about 400 miles north-east of Las Vegas.

For thirty minutes the capsule sat

Testing the Tiamat TheoryOn February 7, 1999 a Delta II rocket

carrying the STARDUSTspacecraft was launched fromCape Canaveral Air Station in

Florida. It was headed for arendezvous with a stream of

interstellar dust that isflowing into our solar system.The Galileo spacecraft discov-

ered this stream in 1993 onits way to Jupiter.

The first stop was AsteroidAnne Frank, about 253 mil-

lion miles away and almost inthe middle of the asteroid belt, which can befound in a wide band orbiting the sun be-tween Mars and Jupiter. The results of this

It was Brownlee, along with Dr. PeterTsou, who dreamed up the idea of sending aspacecraft to catch star stuffoff a comet. NASA’s ProjectSTARDUST was born withBrownlee as lead investigator.Scientists at NASA’s Jet Pro-pulsion Lab say the cosmicproject will open a window tothe past and could producefindings that will change theway humans think about theirorigins. Ancient mythic no-tions of our beginnings hangin the balance.

Dr. Don Brownlee



oogle the name “Fred Alan Wolf”and you get the semi-astronomicalfigure of 2,410,000 responses in0.24 seconds—an appropriate repre-

sentation for the theoretical physicist whoappeared in the runaway indie film “Whatthe Bleep Do We Know” and who calls him-self “Dr. Quantum.” Also a writer and lec-turer, Wolf earned his Ph.D. at UCLA in 1963and subsequently a reputation for simpli-fying science by putting complex conceptsinto layman’s terms. His book, Taking theQuantum Leap, won the National BookAward (1982) and is still selling nearly aswell as it did when first published (“my book,unfortunately, is probably one of the bestones out there. I hate to say it—it’s espe-cially good for people open to the mystical orconsciousness part of it.” It’s been listed bythe American Library Association as one ofthe top books ever—EVER—written on sci-ence!). Wolf is also the author of ParallelUniverses, The Dreaming Universe, TheEagle’s Quest, The Spiritual Universe, Mindinto Matter, Matter into Feeling and TheYoga of Time Travel: How the Mind Can De-feat Time. His latest book is Dr. QuantumPresents, A Little Book of Big Ideas.

Having taught at San Diego State Univer-sity, the universities of Paris and London,the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Birk-beck College and Hahn-Meitner Institute forNuclear Physics in Berlin, Wolf was well-known in academia for his contributionsthrough technical papers. He is now in de-mand as a lecturer, keynote speaker and con-sultant to both industry and the media. Inaddition to his memorable appearance inWhat the Bleep (remember the very ani-mated, slightly balding guy with a neatlytrimmed grey beard and glasses?), Wolf hasappeared as the resident physicist on TheDiscovery Channel’s The Know Zone and ontelevision and radio talk shows across theUnited States and abroad.

Calling himself “an introvert playing thepart of an extrovert,” Wolf has performedboth as a stage and a “close-up” magician, aswell as playing the harmonica in front of anaudience. “Part of me is very much an enter-tainer,” he admits. This comes across evenon audio media, where his energetic messageis delivered with punches of inflection that,while at times annoying, convey his pointsboth dramatically and emphatically. The no-tion (this is a word he uses frequently) ofcreating a memorable figure to help peoplegrasp the complexity of theoretical physicscame in the early 1980s, when Wolf and hiscousin came up with “Captain Quantum,”who attended conferences attired in a cape.Future magazine created a cartoon characterof Wolf as the captain. Then, when “TheBleep” came out, the producer wanted to useit, too. The moniker, however, had beentrademarked for a board game, “so it waschanged to ‘Dr. Quantum,’” says Wolf, who

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co-owns the new trademark with the film’sproducers. The expanded “Bleep” movie,Down the Rabbit Hole, has Dr. Quantumtraveling around “doing cartoon kinds ofthings.” Version two, according to Wolf, is 45minutes longer than its prequel. “It’s thesame storyline, and no acting parts wereadded,” he reveals. “Some speakers’ informa-tion has been updated and other speakershave been added.”

The film’s central tenet is that we createour own reality through consciousness andquantum mechanics, a theme Wolf endorseswith a caveat. “The ‘new-age’ thinking that‘whatever happens to me I’ve attracted tomyself’ is misleading and somewhat unfortu-nate, because there’s so much more thanthat,” he explains. “It’s more than the ‘moti-vational speaker mantra’ (you’ve got to getup and do your thing) that’s unimportantrelative to the deeper message. I try to teachthe depth of quantum physics.” His latestthoughts, encapsulated on CD in “Dr.Quantum Presents: A User’s Guide to YourUniverse” address the basics of quantum me-chanics, the nature and role of conscious-

ness, the possibility of parallel universes, theimaginal realm, time traveling through theuniverse and sex, magic and the shamanicworld, among other topics.

Wolf feels the movie’s success stems froma growing shift in the mood of the countrytowards a middle ground. “Neither the ex-treme left or right would find it appealing,”he notes, adding that “being from the mid-west may have contributed to my own ten-dency to see things from the middle.”Growing up in Chicago, his fascination withphysics began one afternoon when, aroundthe age of 10, he witnessed the world’s firstatomic explosion at a local matinee. Thoughhis major interest in sports lasted throughhigh school, he went on to study mathe-matics and physics at the University of Illi-nois, then attended UCLA, where, as men-tioned, he took his Ph.D. Having participatedin master classes with Nobel LaureateRichard Feynman, and conversed with one ofthe fathers of modern physics, Werner Hei-senberg (winner of the Nobel Prize for his

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as it synchronicity that broughtme to Los Angeles thatWednesday before Memorial Dayin 1977? Searching for a movie

that evening, my friends and I settled on thepremiere of Star Wars at Grauman’s ChineseTheater in Hollywood. A long-time sci-fi fan,I didn’t expect much, since no decent fare inthat category had appeared on screen since2001: A Space Odyssey nine years earlier.But, it turned out to be a memorable experi-ence. That was the first (and last) time I everwitnessed an entire movie audience stand upand cheer as the credits rolled. The rest, asthey say, is history. An amateur sociologistby instinct, I have puzzled over that sponta-neous eruption many times. Now, 30 yearslater, I think I may understand it. But let’sstart at the beginning.

A Rocket in the EyeIt began with an accident. In Paris in

early 1897, a stage magician turned movie-maker named Georges Melies was filming astreet scene in front of the Paris Opera whenthe camera jammed, as they often did in theearly days. Naturally, the continuity wasbriefly interrupted. As recounted by CarlosClarens in his classic book, An IllustratedHistory of Horror and Science-FictionFilms, “When he reviewed the developedfilm later on, Melies was astounded to see abus changed into a hearse. Film had stoppedwhile time had not. This wonderfully ma-cabre metamorphosis was the genesis of allfilm trickery. The fantastic film had beenborn.”

Melies quickly realized the possibilitiesand began to develop techniques that gavefree rein to his imagination. He becameknown as the King of Fantasmagoria, theJules Verne of the Cinema, and the Magicianof the Screen. In 1902, at the very dawningof the 20th century, Melies created hisgrandest production, widely considered to behis masterpiece, and became the father ofscience-fiction movies with his film, A Tripto the Moon. Based on Jules Verne’s FromEarth to the Moon, and H. G. Wells’ FirstMen in the Moon, the movie followed a sci-entific expedition to the moon and back.Clarens says, “It is, then, the movie’s firstventure into science-fiction and interplane-tary travel...As the rocket is fired from thegiant cannon atop the Paris roofs, the filmcuts to the spaceship (in miniature) trav-

Weling against a painted backdrop of the sky,then cuts to the moon from viewpoint of thecosmonauts, getting larger and larger, andfinally there is a cut or fast dissolve to themoon’s face wincing in pain as the bulletlilkeship enters the eye.”

From its very inception, the science fic-tion genre enthralled audiences. The filmwas an instant success. Bootleg copies weremade from the three prints Melies sent to hisAmerican agents, and were shown all overthe U.S. While the books of Verne and Wellshad also been very successful, the filmbrought a wider audience into the sci-fi foldbecause it was visual and could appeal tothose who were not fond of reading, andwere not capable of appreciating literary nu-ance. Like fast-food for the imagination, sci-ence-fiction film opened the world of the fu-ture to the masses. Most importantly, thewritings of both men, especially Jules Verne,portrayed the man of the future as a con-queror of space and the ocean depths, ex-panding his dominion through science topreviously forbidding places. The Time Ma-chine by Wells extended human reach intothe future. This was a hopeful and inspiringmessage for humanity, and had a powerfulspiritual appeal to fin-de-siecle audiences.But after this hopeful beginning, sci-fi filmgot lost in the shuffle as the world becameembroiled in war and economic depression.By the end of World War II, there was verylittle to suggest that the human race couldever aspire to the glorious dreams of JulesVerne, H. G. Wells and Georges Melies. Infact, it appeared that scientific advancementhad simply given us more efficient means ofslaughtering each other. But then, as we en-tered the second half of the century, thingschanged. Spacecraft from other stars, it wassaid, were appearing in our skies andcrashing in our deserts, and spacemen werehaving encounters and conversations withhumans. By their presence, the aliens wereproving space travel was possible, and thatperhaps science could save us after all. Andso the dream, in the popular imagination atleast, was revived, and a new and powerfulimpetus was given to science-fiction litera-ture and film.

Cat Women of the MoonThe resurrection of sci-fi film in the fif-

ties was startling in terms of both quantityand diversity. Films belonging to this genre,however loosely, numbered in the hundredsover the course of the decade, and most of

• BY LEN KASTEN

Could They Offer a Path to Self-Discovery?

SCIENCE FICTION MOVIESSCIENCE FICTION MOVIES

TheVoyage

to theMoon(1902)

War of the Worlds (1953)

Star Trek—The Motion Picture (1979)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

them were profitable. It started off appropri-ately and auspiciously. The first importantentry out-of-the-gate was Destination Moon,produced in 1950 by George Pal, based on theyouth novel Rocketship Galileo by RobertHeinlein, who also wrote the original screen-play. Taking up where Melies had left off 50years previously, the film depicted a moonjourney, but now as scientifically realistic aspossible. Director Irving Pichel consultedwith physicists and astronomers includingGerman rocket expert Hermann Oberth andemployed famed astronomy painter ChesleyBonestell for set design. It took 100 men twomonths to build the realistic moonscape set,which brought it the 1950 Oscar for SpecialEffects. It was followed, in 1951, by a moviethat is now widely considered the best Amer-ican sci-fi movie of the fifties, The Day theEarth Stood Still. The film was so good it gotaway with committing one of Hollywood’sunpardonable sins—exhorting the audiencewith a “message,” in this case a warning




about the use of nuclear weapons. Day wasdirected by Robert Wise, who later directedThe Andromeda Strain and Star Trek: TheMotion Picture. Another classic was For-bidden Planet, starring Walter Pidgeon,which could easily be mistaken for an earlyepisode of Star Trek, and might have inspiredGene Roddenberry. Some other noteworthyfifties films based on interplanetary dramawere Flight to Mars, Rocketship X-M, FlyingDisc Man from Mars, and The Man fromPlanet X.

Up to this point, filmmakers traded inlikely scientific advancement that would leadto space travel. Although fantastic, it was allbelievable because faith in science had beenrestored, and it all seemed possible, even be-fore Sputnik (1957). This was pure science-fiction, and its creators wrote for and ap-plauded these films. The aliens were allhuman-like and civilized. But then, thingstook a “horrible” turn. Succumbing to thepopular appetite for horror films, Hollywooddecided to populate the universe with mon-sters. The turning point was the HowardHawk’s production The Thing released in late1951, in which the threatening alien feels “nopleasure, no pain...no emotion.” It just wantsto survive and procreate. With this, the mon-ster cycle of sci-fi movies, largely dominatedby directors such as Roger Corman, began.The respected science-fiction writers of thefifties were appalled at the development. Theywere particularly enraged by the way scien-tists now became “mad scientists,” a throw-back to Dr. Frankenstein in the thirties. The

Thing was a well-made film and it also mademoney. Its success further emboldened the“monster sci-fi” movie-makers. Some not-able films in this sub-genre were The Beastfrom 20,000 Fathoms (1953), the first pro-ject of Ray Harryhausen, who went on to leg-

endary stop-motion animation fame, In-vaders from Mars (1953), Robot Monster(1953), Cat Women of the Moon (1953),Them (1954), This Island Earth (1955), andthe still famous Invasion of the BodySnatchers (1956).

Little Green MenBy 1959, a very clear dichotomy between

different types of sci-fi cinema had becomeevident. On the one hand there were thefilms that honestly sought to capture thedrama and excitement engendered by thepossibilities of space exploration, time traveland interaction with extraterrestrials. Thismainstream science fiction film tried to ad-here to likely future scientific developmentsand the implications thereof. The two menmost identified with this pseudo-documen-tary style were producer George Pal and di-rector Robert Wise. After Destination MoonPal went on to make When Worlds Collide in1952, War of the Worlds and Conquest ofSpace, both in 1954, and the H.G. Wellsclassic, The Time Machine in 1960. All thesehad the stamp of a visionary. Hollywood pro-ducer, Paul Davids (see below), who knewhim well, says in an AlienZoo essay, “GeorgePal began to understand that humankind’sultimate destiny could only be fulfilled bypeople freeing themselves from planet earthand venturing into space, to the planets.” Onthe other hand, the monster movies were pat-ently absurd, simply substituting space mon-

Forced perspective was used to turn a youngPaul Davids into a giant “Gulliver” about to liftup another teenage friend. These trickphotography techniques of long ago were thebeginning efforts for many of the “Sci-Fi Boys,”some of whom ended up taking Hollywood bystorm and transforming the entire field ofspecial effects.



“Swear not by the moon,the inconstant moon, That monthly changes

in her circled orb,Lest thy love prove likewise variable.”

Juliet, Romeo and Juliet,William Shakespeare

he ebb and flow of the oceansare part of the ever-changingconstants of life, and theMoon’s gravitational pull on

Earth’s waters is the biggest influenceon tides. It’s often been said that sinceour bodies are at least seventy percentwater (estimates vary), then the Moonmust have some effect on the wateryaspect of our nature, creating someversion of shifting tides within us.

In alchemical symbolism fire rep-resents projective masculine energywhile the element of water is seen asfeminine and receptive. Likewisewater symbolizes our emotions andlike the ocean can change its naturefrom calm and nurturing to violentand destructive. Water also representssubconsciousness and the part of ourpsyche that exists below the level ofwaking consciousness.

Terra and LunaSince astronauts have walked on the

Moon, and returned home with moon rocks,scientists have been able to study the Moon’sorigins firsthand. In the past multiple theo-ries competed to explain how the Moon cameto be circling Earth. As a result of analyzingthe geology of the Moon, and using high-tech computer-generated images, scientistsnow believe that 4.6 billion years ago therewere two planets circling the Sun where theEarth and Moon are now.

In this scenario, a Mars-sized planet, trav-eling in a tight orbit with Earth, collidedwith us, stirring up and jettisoning a greatdeal of planetary matter. After cooling andcoalescing our Moon formed and settled intoorbit around Earth. So rather than planetand moon, we are two planets, poeticallytermed Terra and Luna by astronomers,moving in a circular pas de deus around theSun. No wonder our bond with the Moon isso strong; she is more sister than satellite.

Astrological interpretation has long un-derstood this intimate and symbiotic rela-tionship. Astrologically, the Moon repre-sents our instincts, memories, the past, ourhabitual behaviors and our inheritance. TheMoon is seen symbolically as our lost psyche,separated from our waking consciousness aswe journey through time. The Moon reflectsour instincts and our evolving personality.The hidden side conceals our habitual selvesand unconscious patterns which need to behealed or reclaimed. The cycles and phases

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• BY JULIE GILLENTINE longer because the Earth is alsomoving around the Sun, and the Moonhas to catch up. There is a third andlonger lunar cycle, similar to the sol-stices of the Sun, which takes 18.6years to complete, in which the Moonslowly moves from its extremenorthern position to its most southernposition in the sky.

In contrast to the Sun’s annualjourney, the Moon passes through alltwelve signs each month, creating amicrocosm of the Sun’s apparent mo-tion. As the Moon orbits the Eartheach month her shape and place in thesky changes. This is a result of the re-lationship between the Sun and Moonfrom our perspective. If we could seethis motion from above it would re-semble an oscillating sine wave patternwhich has its trough at the New Moonand crests at the Full Moon.

Phases of the MoonEach phase of the monthly lunar

cycle is characterized by an angular re-lationship. At the New Moon the Sunand Moon seem to be in the same placein the sky and are in conjunction, or inthe same Zodiac sign. At the quartermoon they are separated by ninety de-grees or in square relationship whichplaces the energies at odds. At the Full

Moon they are on opposite sides of the skyfrom our perspective with Earth in theMiddle, creating 180 degrees of separation,and highlighting issues of polarity.

All the planets in the solar system orbitthe Sun on the ecliptic although Pluto’sorbit is more elliptical and erratic. This cir-cular plane of space is the apparent path ofthe Sun and gets its name because this iswhere eclipses occur. Whether by randomchance or divine design the Sun is manytimes the size of the Moon but is almost asmany times as far from Earth, so from ourvantage point the Sun and Moon appear tobe the same size. The Earth and Moon arealso tilted on their axes, so eclipses happenwhen the horizontal alignment of Sun, Moonand Earth is exact enough to cast a shadowon the Moon or block the Sun’s light, pro-viding breathtaking sky-watching events.

Moon SignsBecause the Zodiac is defined in four “ele-

ments” of fire, earth, air and water and three“qualities” of cardinal, fixed and mutable asplanets move through the signs, their ex-pression is enhanced or diminished based onthe relative combinations. The Moon’s na-ture is symbolically described as watery andreceptive so as she moves through fire or airsigns her nature is colored differently. Like-wise as she transits water signs or those ofmore receptive nature she feels more athome and expresses more easily. Everyoneis born with the Moon occupying one of the

of the Moon’s reflected light offer periodic il-lumination into our individual and collectivenature. Just as space travel has given us aglimpse of the Moon’s hidden side, the rela-tionship between Earth and Moon is ajourney of ever-changing, but ever-increasing, light and consciousness.

Constant of ChangeAs Earth goes around the Sun each year

it creates the illusion that the Sun is movingthrough the sky. Using the seasons of theyear as signposts, the Sun appears to travelthrough each of the twelve signs of the Zo-diac. These are divisions of space based onthe solar year, not to be confused with theconstellations which gave them their namesthousands of years ago. So as Earth movesin a year, changing signs, the dance of theMoon follows, highlighting a different kindof energy in turn. Each planet in the solarsystem likewise occupies a Zodiac sign fromour viewing perspective on Earth. There isintensity or focus of the energy of whicheversign they occupy.

Although Juliet’s remark about the in-constant Moon may seem true on the sur-face, the changing patterns of the Moon areremarkably consistent over time. The Moonhas two cycles each month. It takes about27.5 days to complete the Sidereal periodwhere the Moon moves through the com-plete Zodiac. What is termed the Synodiccycle of about 29 days is the time from NewMoon to New Moon. The second period is

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Can Monthly LunarMotions Reveal Insightsabout Our Inner Selves?


twelve Zodiac signs. Knowing this place-ment can shed light on unconscious motivesand automatic behaviors.

Moon in Aries Ardent, passionate, puttingthe force of feeling into everything with anemotional intensity that can be difficult tocontain. Can be a risk of emotional domina-tion and “my needs first” attitude whichcan’t see the emotional needs of others.

Moon in Taurus Taurus Moon seems to at-tract physical abundance. Sometimes thereis so much “stuff” that possessions become aburden. Here the receptivity of theMoon combines with the elementof earth in a fertile combination,but the inner motive is alwayssecurity.

Moon in Gemini Here the airynature of Gemini creates a rest-less search for truth and se-curity. The mind is in constantmotion, seeking a safe place torest. But even when at rest physicallythe mind still races.

Moon in Cancer The Moon is said to ruleCancer as the energy is most similar, so thefeelings are hypersensitive with strong tiesto home and tradition. The image of thecrab with the hard shell to protect a softcenter, scurrying sideways to avoid a threatis an appropriate image.

Moon in Leo Engenders a noble spirit with agreat deal of pride. Often desires to be the

power behind the throne, needing to wieldinfluence for change. The lion’s need to beruler is focused on the domain of feelingswhich are powerful and protective.

Moon in Virgo Proper and conservative witha desire to serve others. Analytical and po-tentially too fussy about details. Virgo’s in-nate quest for perfection becomes personalso there is frequently a deep sense of inferi-ority and lack of perfection which must behealed.

Moon in Libra Gentle and sweet on the sur-face, masking an inner strength.

Wants desperately to beliked and can desire peace at

any price which of course is notpeace at all. The will

is directed to maintainthe illusion of harmony while

suppressed emotions can even-tually be stormy.

Moon in Scorpio Brooding andoften impatient. This is the classic case

of still waters run deep. Tends to hold ontohurt feelings whether real or imagined.Needs to learn to forgive and forget and di-rect powerful emotional currents into con-structive channels such as healing.

Moon in Sagittarius Outgoing with a gen-erous spirit, restless and constantly wantsto be on the move. There is a tendency tooverdo because of a buoyant internal opti-mism, which believes anything is possible

and then runs out of gas on the metaphoricalhighway.

Moon in Capricorn Feelings crystallize as aresult of past hurts or erect shields in fear ofpotential hurts. The individual needs to feelvery safe to be vulnerable. The influence ofparents is strong for either good or ill andwill leave a lasting mark on the psyche.

Moon in Aquarius Original thinkers andoften progressive in outlook. The feeling na-ture in not engaged here and there is anemotional detachment which borders oncoldness. Get off the “head” and perceive thefeelings of others and cultivate a sympatheticoutlook.

Moon in Pisces Romantic, visionary, dreamyand sensitive. Can feel almost cursed with asort of “divine discontent” that nothing inearthly life will remove. Sympathetic andcompassionate to others. Often carries theemotional weight of the world.

KaleidoscopeThe Moon can be seen as a lens or a

magic mirror, continually reflecting sunlightthrough the colored panes of the Zodiacsigns, creating a spiritual kaleidoscope. If welearn to move in tune with these changingpatterns we can sense the resonance of Crea-tion, turning, shifting, changing form, butalways seeking a balance of light and dark.

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virtually ignored by the main-stream media—unless you countthe space given to hoaxers. Thehoaxers, of course, have done animportant service for the conven-tionally minded media, providingas they do a convenient argumentfor dismissing the entire phe-nomena as artificial in origin, andthus something not to be takenseriously, but rather to be deridedand dismissed. Nevertheless, un-deterred by the epidemic of denialcurrently passing for skepticism,serious researchers continue topursue a subject which—if it iswhat it seems to be—can benothing less than one of thebiggest stories of this, or anyother, time. Fortunately, severalindependent documentaries havefocused on the discoveries ofthese courageous, but unsung, re-searchers. Here are two worthconsideration for your library.And while the true meaning ofcrop circles may be for those whohave eyes to see, in this issue, wewould also like to include the doc-umentary story of a woman whodid not have eyes to see in theusual way, but did have a kind of sightwithout which we all may be blind.

STAR DREAMS: Exploring the Mysteryof Crop CirclesRobert Nichol

Filmmaker Robert Nichol believes thatmany crop circles are created by aliens andthat they act as a message to uplift humanityduring a point of crisis for this earth. Hesees this phenomenon as a communique tohumankind, inviting a greater human aware-ness to emerge. He has produced, written,and directed this documentary to helpchange people’s perceptions of crop circles,though he says he’s not trying to convinceanyone who refuses to be convinced; he justwants this before the public and they’ll eitherresonate with them or not. “I’ve fallen inlove with these crop circle images since1995,” says Nichol. “Here we are, being com-municated to by a higher intelligence, andwe’re ignoring it....I wanted to lift these cir-

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Whether or not one can accept the theorythat crop circles are caused by UFOs or thatenergy fields emitted by Mother Earthcreated the circles, there are some presenta-tions here that might challenge the rea-soning faculties, if not the beliefs, of many.

Says Judith Moore (co-author of CropCircles Revealed): “I believe the first thingthat each one of us has to do is get out of ourheads and bring our consciousness to ourheart chakra and then flow with the divinedance that is the phenomena of the crop cir-cles and allow ourselves to experience thegift.” As a contactee, Judith claims that theoriginators of the crop circle communique

are from the constellation Arc-turus. She states that Arcturianengineers are chosen by the Ga-lactic Federation to provide themeans of direct mind-to-mindcommunication with humanity atthis time. She further states,“Star glyphs are a form of divineintervention, a cosmic blueprintbeing integrated into the earth’sgrid and ley line points at criticalplaces on the planet to connect tofrequencies that were previouslyset into the grid system by starbrothers and sisters who camehere as far back as Neolithictimes. A matrix was prepared, aformula for the ascension of thisplanet, the awakening of MotherEarth, the birthing of Gaia. Eachcrop circle is a jewel of creation.Each crop circle carries a fractaland formula for healing the plan-etary crisis, for awakening higherstates of consciousness, for acti-vating our DNA from a two-strand DNA to the full 13-strandDNA. As each one of us scansthese through our neuro syn-apsis, it awakens an encodementin our DNA that interacts withthe formulas and affects the col-lective consciousness.

“The crop circles...work in therealm of quantum physics, butthe formulas go beyond anyquantum physics that is known to

earth science.... On the Arcturian mother-ship, there are holographic chambers (showsa crop circle that looks like four ships) thatcarry the blueprint of each crop circle. Theseformulas, then, are brought into the earth’senergetics and once they come into our bio-sphere, they actually become light andsound. This project is being carefully moni-tored by the Galactic Federation, which islike the United Nations in the purest sense ofmaintaining the planetary and galacticpeace.”

Then there’s the testimony of Alton Kam-adon, Publisher of Eagle Wings Magazine,and Founder-Melchizedek Method: “I comefrom Australia...but my particular experienceoccurred in England. We had the opportu-nity to enter into a fresh, newly manifestedcrop circle...we decided to lie on our backsand simply face the sky. I was taken out ofmy body; I was drawn up into what I would


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“They described themselves as being arti-sans, that their mission is to assist in thespiritual growth or awareness of the humansoul group and the planet. There was thissense of being very proud of the missionthat they had volunteered to do. Theywanted to bring the awareness of ‘fractality’to humans which is the real secret of expan-sion into a vibration of light, which is ourdestiny as a human race—to manifest thenext level of our creation, which is a lightbody. In other words, we are talking aboutthe process of ascension.”

While many other crop circle produc-tions offer a high energy presentation,Nichol presents a more subdued, almost rev-erent production of what he believes is anextraterrestrial language embodied in geom-etry. You will enjoy the spectacular footage

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CEREAL WORM HOLES: Investigatingthe Extra-Dimensional Aspects of CropCirclesWritten, Filmed, and Directed by MartinKeitel

During this documentary, you will seethat ALL crop circles are genuine, ac-cording to Martin Keitel. “They are gen-uine works of art,” he says, “sometimes verybeautiful and complicated, even if they pos-sibly are man-made. But also genuine in thesense that they are giving genuine, para-normal, spiritual, even healing experiencesto people visiting them, people researchingthem, and people making them.”

And hoaxing is considered here. ColinAndrews received criticism for his 20/80percent (non man-made/man-made) findingof 2000, stating that the majority of thecrop circles are man-made, and it’s themore complex ones, at that! However, ac-cording to Nancy Talbott, President of BLTResearch Team, Inc., whose primary focusis crop circle research, the Andrews 20/80finding was on the money. This informationcomes from the site, www.bltresearch.com.Their study examined specific clay mineralsin crop circle soils in an attempt to gather

further data which might inform them re-garding the hypothesized presence of micro-wave radiation at crop circle sites. The re-sults proved to be startling. The plants didshow the well-documented changes (elon-gated apical nodes, presence of expulsion cav-ities) regularly found in crop circles whichare NOT created by mechanical flattening(i.e., with planks and boards). The data ap-peared to indicate that whatever caused theplant changes also caused the soil changes atthe same sampling locations. The intenseenergy situation required to produce the soileffects would have destroyed the plants alto-gether. As Dr. Reynolds, the Dartmouth min-eralogist and recognized authority on clayminerals, stated, “We are apparently dealingwith an energy currently unknown to sci-ence.” As is often the case in science, newand intriguing questions have been raised.The notion of mechanical flattening, how-ever, is, without question, ruled out. Says An-drews, “The more simple the design, themore likely, I believe, you’re looking at anon-man interference in the phenomenon.”

So, what about those beautiful, complexdesigns—created by hoaxers? And how doesthis information fit into this picture?Simeon Hein, Ph.D., researcher and author,states: “For the longest time, I didn’t thinkhumans could actually make them. Ithought it was impossible to do..., but even-tually we encountered some human circle-makers and they showed us demonstrations



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interesting fields ofplasma physics, piezo

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netics, cymatics—subtle energy science,energies that are diffi-cult to measure. Says

Keitel, “What we knowfrom this research, es-pecially from the workof Dr. William Tiller of

Stanford, is thatshapes are the me-

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SHINING SOUL: Helen Keller’s Spiri-tual Life and LegacyProduced and directed by Penny Price forthe Swedenborg Foundation

Combining archival footage, interviews,stills, and dramatic re-enactments, this docu-mentary explores one of the most significantand defining factors in the life of this re-markable woman, her religion. In 1927 shepublished “My Religion,” her public affirma-tion of the impact of Swedenborg’s messagein her life.

In addition to Helen Keller, many re-markable people the world over found inspi-ration in the spiritual writings of ImmanuelSwedenborg, including Yates, Emerson, andthe Zen Master, D. T. Suzuki, who dubbedhim “The Buddha of the North.”

At age 13 Helen had a crisis of faith, andwhat she would later come to see as DivineProvidence intervened. At this time Alex-ander Graham Bell introduced her to JohnHitz, a former Consul General for Switzer-land, who had lost much of his hearing. De-voted to the philosophy of Swedenborg, hebecame her spiritual mentor—she called him“the foster father of her soul.” For Helen,John Hitz acted as a conduit to Swedenborg,spirituality, and philosophy, becoming thepivotal spiritual influence in her life. He gaveher a braille copy of Heaven and Hell, and

in the daytime and eventually at night.” Aninteresting thing to him, though, was that hefound that there was alternating negative andpositive current in these man-made circles—he believes the circlemakers are creating avery advanced form of technology that cancreate alternating fields of electricity. “Andthe circlemakers themselves may be channelsfor the energy from other sources,” he says.

Keitel adds, “Perhaps, even if the crop cir-cles are made by people, the people may havebeen used as a tool by the higher forces tocreate this certain kind of pattern in order tohave a certain effect on some other people,even if the people who make the crop circledidn’t know why they were inspired to makea particular shape. There have been peoplewho have seen certain shapes in their minds(not the circlemakers), but a couple of weekslater, a circlemaker is inspired to create thatshape, suggesting that there is a larger intel-ligence at work which everyone is connectedto that we need to investigate. And that’swhy even the man-made circles are myster-ious. We know that the human mind can af-fect reality.”

This presentation doesn’t seem to be asconcerned with the question of whether cropcircles are man-made or not, but rather whatis it about the shapes that creates the en-ergy—whether it’s the shapes of the originalphenomenon which made the simple circlesover 20 years ago, or the more recent com-



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cret inner will” to find the“analogies” that imply thefull sensorium.

She states in her bookThe World I Live In: “Theblind man of spirit faces theunknown and grapples withit, and what else does theworld of seeing men do? Hehas imagination, sympathy,humanity, and these ineradi-cable existences compel himto share by a sort of proxy ina sense he has not. When hemeets terms of color, light,physiognomy, he guesses, di-vines, puzzles out theirmeaning by analogies drawnfrom the senses he has. I nat-urally tend to think, reason,draw inferences as if I hadfive senses instead of three.This tendency is beyond mycontrol, it is involuntary, ha-bitual, instinctive. I cannotcompel my mind to say ‘Ifeel’ instead of ‘I see’ or ‘Ihear.’ The word ‘feel’ proveson examination to be no lessa convention than ‘see’ and‘hear’ when I seek for wordsaccurately to describe theoutward things that affectmy three bodily senses.When a man loses a leg, his

brain persists in impelling him to use whathe has not and yet feels to be there. Can it bethat the brain is so constituted that it willcontinue the activity which animates thesight and the hearing, after the eye and theear have been destroyed?”

Out of print for nearly a century, TheWorld I Live In is Helen Keller’s most per-sonal and intellectually adventurous work—one that transforms our appreciation of herextraordinary achievements. Here this pre-ternaturally gifted deaf and blind youngwoman closely describes her sensations andthe workings of her imagination, whilemaking the provocative argument that thewhole spectrum of the senses lies open to herthrough the medium of language. Standingin the line of Emerson and Thoreau, TheWorld I Live In is a profoundly suggestive ex-ercise in self-invention, and a true, rediscov-ered classic of American literature. Thoughbetter known for The Story of My Life, it’sbeen stated that The World I Live In is amore warm and beautiful work that brings usintimately close to (in her words) the mindof a woman for whom language was life.

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Helen’s being resonated with Swedenborg’swords. His two concepts of usefulness andthe sharing of joy were vital to her. Their im-print became visible in the entire way thatshe conducted her life.

Some readers may be aware of HelenKeller only from the movie, “The MiracleWorker,” and may have given her little morethought. They would be well advised to takeanother look now though. “Shining Soul” of-fers inspiration that goes straight to theheart.

Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in 1880,Helen had a normal childhood for the first 19months of her life, and then her world wentdark. How would one handle that? To viewthis documentary of her amazing accom-plishments might prompt a much-needed re-ality check! Religion seems to be in for a lotof criticism today (and perhaps deservedlyso), but here we’re reminded that it can helpone through the worst of situations, andHelen lived an exemplary life because of herbeliefs.

Language was of utmost importance toHelen. Though her three senses, particularlytouch, supplied her with a full account of theexternal world, it was the gradual unfoldingof the senses through imagination andanalogy that nurtured in her a thinking mindand a sense of self. Her fundamental argu-ment was that the deaf-blind person need notbe or be considered disabled. She believedthat an enterprising imagination will givethe deaf-blind person what she called “the se-



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Lewis - AR # 612) This appears to darken during an eclipse - Garcia - AR #

513) Speech14) After Christ’s birth - abbr.15, 17 & 20) The lost holy book - 3 wds.21) Tellurium - for short22) Every one - abbr.23) Otherwise/else24) Sixty minutes - abbr.27) A state in the southeast - abbr.30) For example31) Two letters used when ‘there’s a C’32) Addiction recovery fellowship34) The last days are found in this book35) Roentgenium37) 1/100th of a meter - abbr.38 & 40) According to 34 across, the last baktun ends at this

time - Garcia- AR 17 - 2 wds.42) Extra terrestrial vehicle - Kasten - AR # 14 - abbr.44 & 45) What the wicked Edmund was to the Earl of

Gloucester(King Lear) - Garcia - AR # 10 - 2 wds.46) College in Berkshire47) A system of cells able to ingest bacteria48, 49 & 50) Famous first words - Lewis - AR # 6 - 3 wds.52) He was ‘Hud’ in 1963 - init.53) ‘Smite the Earth With a Curse’ are the famous last

words of this - abbr.54) Map dowsing on location is used for this purpose - JDK -

AR # 1058) A Canadian province - abbr.59) The first U. S. President - init.60) Spoken in ancient days - abbr.61) A compass point62) A sweater style popular in the mid-fifties - abbr.63) Tesla bult a tower-topped laboratory in this state - Man-

ning - AR 4 - abbr.64) Nat’l park in Kenya - _ _ Donyo Sabuk65) Computer smarts - abbr.67 & 72) A form of ‘creationism’, along with the theory of

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Mehler - AR # 1075) Kingdom which once was Yunnan Province (var. name)76) Syllable used in past tense78 & 78) End of the world omens - Garcia - AR 17 - 2 wds.

DOWN1) A male monarch or emperor2) A royal scribe who had his heart weighed in the Egyp-

tian Book of the Dead - _ _ Nefer3) What the Egyptian verb A'Q or AQ means5) Of a thing - possessive form6) Short sleep7) Sick8) Upbeat style of Jamaican pop music9) A monotheistic practice (Jewish) - var. spell.10) Metric unit of volume eq. to 10 litres11) A lyric poem with complex stanza forms16) One of the five basic elements - Garcia - AR # 1217) Blend in18, 41 & 51) Sarcophagus in De Nile - Dunn - AR # 8 - 3 wds.

19) Refutation

25 & 36) The act of indicating by signs - 2 wds.

26) Body of salt water

28) Development

29) Lengthen the time

32) Come to exist; take form or shape

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38) Preliminary exercises

39) The Bat Creek Tablet was found here - Cyr - AR 14- abbr.

43) Baptismal bowls

46) Half the width of an ‘M’

48) Live within

52) Kind of nuts you get from P. pinea

55) Mischievous fairy

56) New stars - Garcia - AR # 10

57) Those with great intellectual ability

63) Someone who is critical of another's motives

66) Omnipotent beings

67 & 78) _ _ _ Believer

68) A small drink

69) Arrival time

70) A Romanian panpipe

71) Consideration and solicitous - abbr.

72) A U. S. Intelligence agency - abbr.

77) Fifth letter of alphabet

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them and faints, water splashing over him.(Years later, Hamel visits that area whilelooking for property, and sees the same yokehanging on a wall. The homeowner refusesto sell it—it belonged to her husband whodied of a heart attack.)

On the spacecraft his hosts siphon waterfrom the creek by causing movement in it. Awaterspout rises and lengthens into acolumn that reaches into the ship. They thenfilter it through unique laboratory equip-ment. These compressed-time adventureseventually end and the ship returns DavidHamel to his home. He’s back in his physicalbody in his upholstered chair—disoriented,overwhelmed and excited.

The next day David quits his carpentryjob and applies for retirement pension. He’sdetermined to build a machine like the onehe’d witnessed. First, he’ll build small experi-ments. He uses his savings on a shipment ofmagnets, digs in the municipal dump forscrap materials and begins years of trial-and-error experiments. “Butterfly” becomes hisdescription of a fluttering continuous falling-forward motion which he demonstrates via atumbling metal ball with magnet on it, keptin circular motion on a surface by the wob-bling of a large hand-held magnet above it.

Finally he feels ready to build a smallmodel. Bicycle rims serve as bases for hand-made aluminum cones and hold taped-onmagnets. Working in his garage, he placesthe apparatus inside a 45-gallon steel barrelringed on the inside with magnets. When theparts line up, he screws down the cover onthe barrel, which compresses the apparatusand begins the continual tumbling motion.After the wobbling circling motion reaches acertain speed, the vibration stabilizes.

David goes into the house to share hissuccess and attend to Nora. He doubts themotion of the apparatus could continue long.“It’ll never fly, but maybe I can learn fromit,” he tells Nora.

During the night the couple is awakenedby a loud bang and see a red glow comingfrom the direction of the garage. “Fire!” Noracommunicates.

The scene inside the garage is dismaying.His device had exploded out of the steeldrum and scattered all over. Apparently theglow had been from a buildup of some type ofenergy as the device operated. There’s nofire, but his magnets are destroyed. Roofingshakes on the garage are broken too, butDavid sees he could indeed build somethingwhich demonstrates power.

In the summer of 1977, he builds asecond model. When in motion, it createsunusual effects such as affecting photo-graphic film. Meanwhile he works on a largermodel, using a magnetic principle instead ofa falling ball to keep it in motion. The newmodel is to be tested outdoors in order toprotect the shed ceiling from another acci-

dent. The next summer he builds a ten-footraised plywood platform in front of hishouse. The platform not only hides his workfrom a nosy neighbor, it also isolates themodel electrically for David’s safety.

Neighbors laugh, call him Frenchie, andjoke about his tower and the contraption onit. David ignores them, certain the tech-nology could eliminate energy wars. In com-parison, what importance is an untidy yard?Working at night, he hoists pieces up a 16-foot ladder and onto the platform. Whencompleted, the model is more than sevenfeet in diameter at the bottom, and betweenthree and four feet high.

Late one night David is on the towerworking on the machine. It’s time to put onthe cap, a garbage-can lid with magnet at-tached. By the time he finishes screwing itdown, he feels a glow from the metal. It’schanging color underneath where his ab-domen touches it! Quickly he jumps backand slides down the ladder. A rushing ofwind around or in the machine tells himthat it’s seriously in motion. David runs intothe house, where Nora informs him the tele-vision set has gone dead.

“Never mind the TV. Where’s thecamera?” David shouts. A power failureplunges the neighborhood into darkness. Hegropes for the camera. As he rushes out thedoor, he clicks and advances the film. Abovethe platform the red glow becomes greenish,and the machine has become a flying craft,heading westward as it rises. It glows in-creasingly bright, and the light surroundingthe craft turns bluish.

When his machine disappears, David runsback inside and telephones nearby airports,asking if their radar picks up an unidentifiedflying object. No, the people on duty can’tsee it within their radar corridor.

David stomps around in frustration.Three thousand dollars worth of magnetsflying away! “All the time it took to build thething…”

When the camera film is developed, thefirst shots are exposed as a bright light overthe whole film. Others look like a double ex-posure. A half-dozen shots turn out, showingthe receding glow.

David relentlessly continues. To demon-strate the conversion of energy and yet en-sure his machine won’t fly away again, he de-cides to build a five-ton model—out ofconcrete. Today his building material isgranite and he’s working on a larger scale.

From Geometry to SpacecraftTo tell the Hamel story, Pierre Sinclaire

and I produced a small book. The GraniteMan and the Butterfly sold out and has notyet been reprinted, in deference to the nextbook Ill tell you about. That new book, byRobert Thomas, is listed in the AtlantisRising catalog.

Thomas is a contractor from Washingtonstate with a degree in civil engineering. Hisbook The Word Made Manifest Through Sa-cred Geometry contains a unique combina-tion of topics—sacred geometry, the energytechnology imparted to David Hamel, its con-nection to ancient artifacts, and clues said tobe contained in the Christian Bible. I wrotethe introduction to his book and I know howmuch of his life he put into the project—such as the frustrating weeks in Ontariotrying to nail down the engineering of what’sbeing called Hamel technology. His book in-cludes three blueprints for how to buildHamel’s latest design, but Thomas isn’t guar-anteeing the outcome if you build it. Hedoes, however, give much more value thanthe cost of the book. Color illustrations arecostly, but he included them and more than300 other pages of information generously.There’s a section by Dan LaRochelle on mag-netohydrodynamics, a longer chapter onsound circle frequencies, and geometry chap-ters that are too technical for me but fasci-nating to browse.

The best part is about Hamel technology.He explains why he’s building the ship hecalls Galaxy Trinity out of a common granite,containing mainly feldspar and quartz. It’s ahard substance with high compressivestrength and melting temperature. And theelectrical polarization characteristic en-hances the plasma field around the ship.“Once the ship is into power, its weight isneutralized. It doesn’t matter how much itweighs when contained within the field.”

For a lighter read, sandwiched into read-ings of theory-of-everything books thiswinter I enjoyed a novel break with a so-cially-aware futuristic action e-book by Mar-ilyn Milne, Universal Tides. One of her char-acters says, “There should be an island wherescientists from around the world can worktogether unhampered by government inter-ference or profiteers.”

In my opinion there should also be finan-cial and technical help for lone experi-menters like David Hamel, now alone afterNora’s death and aging, but still giving his allto his 30-year project. Bob Thomas is doinghis part to try to raise the money; his bookprofits will go to help Hamel.

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crowd of soldiers and ci-vilians attired in mid-19th century dress. Fredand son stopped to hearthe well-known words re-cited in a Midwesterntwang by the lanky “Pres-ident,” then applaudedwith the other listeners.

Afterward, some gath-ered around “Mr. Lin-coln” to congratulatehim, as he sat wearily atan outdoor table. Car-rying Junior in his arms,Fred made his waythrough the well-wishers:“See? That’s the manwho led the Union duringthe Civil War.”

“Lincoln” looked upat the father and son witha suddenly bright smile.“What’s your name, littleman?”

“Fweddie,” the boypiped up, and the tall,gaunt man laughed.

Getting into the spirit

of the occasion, the elder Catalano asked,“Well, Mr. President, how’s the war going?”

The actor fell back into character. “I fearit will never end,” he sighed authentically.

Before he could explain, he was hustledoff by a “general,” and thecrowd melted away. Fredtook his son to visit a few

other booths before thegrounds were closed.

As they were leaving,they were approached byan organizer of the event

who was also an oldfriend. “How’d you like

the presentation, Fred?”“Oh, it was great! Eve-

rybody played their rolesso realistically, except

that guy reading the Get-tysburg Address. He just

didn’t look very muchlike any of the photos I’veever seen of Abe Lincoln.

He was tall, but seemedtoo old for the part.”

The organizer stoppedin his tracks. “What areyou talking about? We

didn’t have anybodyreading the Gettysburg

Address or portrayingLincoln at the reenact-

ment.” Fred described indetail the large, appar-

ently improvised grandstand with its patrioticbunting, and crowd of listeners in blue uni-forms, top hats and gingham dresses.

“Nope,” the organizer insisted, “nothingeven remotely close to that was staged thisyear. I know everything that goes on here.It’s my job. Look at your program. It lists allthe events and facilities. No mention of Lin-coln making the Gettysburg Address at agrandstand or anyplace else. What you sawmust have been a ghost!”

But Fred’s experience seemed more thanthat. He and Junior had unknowingly steppedback in time though an event aimed at re-creating the same, long-gone era.

Some trips to the Otherworld are lessclearly identified or as pleasant, however. Inearly spring, 1983, Larry Miller and his wife,Claire, were driving from Alsip, a Chicagosuburb, to visit relatives in New Mexico.While traveling through a southwestern sec-tion of Missouri, Interstate 44 was closed forrepairs, so Larry exited an off-ramp and fol-lowed signs to a detour. The mid-afternoonwas clear and perfectly gorgeous, as theMillers enjoyed their unhurried trip overrolling countryside and broad pasture-lands.

Perhaps half an hour after leaving the ex-pressway, they arrived at a small, charmingtown of little shops and a friendly-lookingdiner, like the one in that famous painting,“Night Hawks,” with its big glass windowsand invitingly casual atmosphere. The mainsquare was dominated by an attractive, well-preserved city hall building with a tall, brick

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clock-tower. It was obviously constructedsometime in the late 1800s, and was now sur-rounded by its own park.

Claire observed that the big clock-facewith Roman numerals was wrong. Its Victo-rian hands had apparently stopped at 1:30 shehad 3:00. Traffic was light, the sidewalks un-crowded. A young, red-haired woman waspushing a stroller around the park, and somekids were playing hop-scotch, but that wasabout all. After a few stoplights, the Millersdrove out of town and were back on the road,speeding over the indistinguishably repetitivelandscape of endless farmlands. Again, thespeed limit dropped, as they approached an-other town. It seemed remarkably similar tothe one they just left behind.

“All these places look alike,” Larry saidwith a trace of boredom in his voice.

But as they arrived at the town center,they passed on the left what seemed to be thevery same diner with its big glass windows.Still more surprising, the old town squarewith its high clock tower appeared, as before,on their right. “How about that,” Larry ex-claimed, “they made an exact duplicate ofthat other place we came through!”

“Yeah,” Claire agreed, “but the clock isdifferent here. In the other town, it said 1:30.Here it’s 1:00.” Before her husband could re-spond, she exclaimed, “This IS the same

town! We must have driven around in acircle. Look! There’s that same lady pushingthe baby-buggy and those kids playing in thepark we saw last time.”

Larry was confused. “But how can thatbe? We drove in a straight line.”

“It just SEEMED that way. Pay more at-tention to the road next time,” she lightlyscolded, but did not mention the alteredclock-tower.

As before, they followed the main streetout of town, this time in silence. Larry wascareful, never missed a sign. He avoided allturns, and closely followed the indicated de-tour that must eventually bring them backto the expressway. About thirty minuteslater, the speed limit dropped at the ap-proaches to another town.

“It’s not possible!,” Larry exclaimed, as hepulled over to a curb in the same town theypassed through twice before. Claire crouchedin grim silence, gazing out her window atthe all-too-familiar street, while her husbandfuriously studied a road map. “Maybe weshould ask somebody,” he suggested.

“No!,” she demanded. “Let’s just get outof here!”

Larry pulled out into the light traffic onMain Street. In a few minutes, the classicdiner reappeared on their left, followedshortly thereafter by the main square withits old public building. The red-hairedwoman was still walking around the parkwith her stroller, and the children’s hop-scotch continued unabated. But when Claire



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“Let’s get out of here!,” she pleaded onthe verge of tears.

“I’m scared! I’m real scared! Go, go, justgo!” Unnerved, Larry put the pedal to themetal. Their car raced through the last fewstoplights, luckily avoiding any collisions.

Once out of town and on the open roadagain, Larry did not let up on the acceler-ator. While endeavoring to control hisspeeding car, he tried to console Claire. Shewas shuddering and tearful on the verge ofpanic, but he soon ran out of words. Hischest seemed to tighten with fear. Breathingcame hard and fast. But his anxiety eventu-ally began to subside with the expanding dis-tance being swiftly covered.

“Claire, we’ve been driving about eightymiles per hour for more than twenty min-utes. We should have arrived back at thattown by now, but were still on the road!”

She stopped weeping long enough to lookuncertainly at the uniformly similar farm-lands blurring passed her window. Maybe hewas right. But no. There were the samesigns, the same town!

Larry slowed down only enough to ma-neuver through the two-lane streets andavoid an accident. He was still doing 50 in 35mile-per-hour zones. In moments, the glassydiner was on their left. The park with its red-haired mother and stroller, together with thehop-scotching kids had not changed. Onlythe clock tower was different. Its immense,black hands pointed straight up at noon. Asthe careening car sped by the park, thebrazen lungs of the old clock rang out adoomsday tolling that seemed directed atLarry and Claire. It followed after them, asthey lurched at top speed out of town. Manand woman were filling the inside of theircar with screams. Larry did not care what orwho he might crash into. A collision wouldat least put an end to this endless horror.

The speedometer needle went passed 100,and the echoes of the big clock faded rapidlyin the distance. Larry was determined to flythrough the town at full speed this time.Terror and hatred for whatever it was that sofrightened him had somewhat unhinged hismind.

But soon the environment seemed dif-ferent. The countryside was not the same asbefore. Unfamiliar farmhouses appeared oneither side of the road. Larry slowed down tothe 55 mile-per-hour limit. Suddenly, therewas a sign announcing the end of the detour.Another one pointed toward Interstate 44.He pulled over to the side of the road, andturned off the engine, then took Claire in hisarms.

“I don’t know what happened,” he said,“but its over.”

While their powerful experience wassomething they would never forget, neithercould later remember the name of thestrange town, even after consulting a de-tailed road map of their travels throughsouthwestern Missouri. Not surprisingly,they took an alternate route on their returntrip to Illinois.

municate both electromagnetically andchemically and create biochemical pathwaysthat interconnect all functions of the body.”Russian scientists Peter Gariaev and Vlad-imir Poponin have also explored DNA’s ex-traordinary electromagnetic properties.Their research shows that DNA has a specialability to attract photons, causing the latterto spiral along the helix-shaped DNA mole-cule instead of proceeding along a linearpath. In other words, DNA has the amazingability—unlike any other molecule known toexist—to bend orweave light around it-self. In addition, it ap-pears that a previouslyundetected form of in-telligent light or in-tention energy (ema-nating from higherdimensions and distin-guishable from bothgravity and electro-magnetic radiation)which Dr. Eli Cartanfirst termed “torsion”in 1913 after itstwisting movementthrough the fabric ofspace-time, gives riseto DNA. Many decadeslater, the concept oftorsion energy wasstill alive and wellenough to inspire anentire generation ofRussian scientists,who authored thou-sands of papers on thesubject in the 1990s alone. “A unified sub-liminal field of potentially universal con-sciousness apparently exists,” writes Horo-witz on the subject of the Russian studies,“and may be explained as emerging from apreviously overlooked physical vacuum.” Theancient Greeks were well aware of this po-tent energy, calling it “aether” and under-standing that it is directly responsible foruniversal manifestation. In the 1950s Rus-sian scientist Nicolai Kozyrev conclusivelyproved the existence of this life-giving sub-space energy, demonstrating that, like time,it flows in a sacred geometric spiral that hasbeen called phi, the Golden Mean, and theFibonacci sequence. In the face of over-whelming evidence of its existence, modernscientists are returning to the notion ofaether using such phrases as “zero point en-ergy” and “vacuum potential.” Recently,physicists Richard Feynman and JohnWheeler went so far as to calculate that theamount of torsion energy contained inside alight bulb could literally bring the world’soceans to a boil! This breakthrough researchin the temporal physics of subspace estab-lishes that torsion energy permeates the en-


tire multidimensional galaxy and not only isresponsive to but may actually be conscious-ness creatively experiencing itself in time.“To put it as bluntly as possible,” writes re-nowned psychic and gifted scientific re-searcher David Wilcock, “you cannot separateconsciousness and torsion waves—they arethe same thing. When we use our minds tothink, we are creating movements of elec-trical impulses in the brain, and when anyelectrical energy moves, torsion waves arealso created.” According to the Russian find-ings, notes author Wynn Free, “this spiraling‘torsion’ energy could actually be the sub-stance of our human souls, and is thereforethe precursor to the DNA molecule. . . . It al-ready exists in the fabric of space and timebefore any physical life emerges.” Elsewhere,

Free remarks of trans-posons that these tinysegments of DNA can

travel along the ge-nome activating dif-

ferent parts of it whenprompted by con-

sciousness. In keepingwith Dr. Gariaev’s

“Wave-based Genome”theory, Free concludes

that DNA functions“somewhat like a com-

puter chip, with dif-ferent sections that caneither be ‘on’ or ‘off.’ ”Thus we can easily im-agine how the torsionwaves of human con-sciousness could pro-gram, or reprogram,

DNA’s binary code.Similarly, the Gariaev

group demonstratedthat chromosomesfunction much like

(re)programmable hol-ographic biocomputers employing DNA’sown electromagnetic radiation. Their re-search strongly suggests that human DNA isliterally a genetic “text” that chromosomesboth produce and receive the informationcontained in these texts in order to encodeand decode them, respectively and that chro-mosomes assemble themselves into a holo-graphic grating or lattice designed to gen-erate and interpret highly stable spiralstanding waves of sound and light that directall biological functions. In other words, ex-plain longtime genetics researchers IonaMiller and Richard Alan Miller in a superb ar-ticle based partly on Gariaev’s findings enti-tled “From Helix to Hologram,” DNA’s “codeis transformed into physical matter, guidedby light and sound signals.”

Decades of research by Dr. KikuoChishima, a Japanese scientist, suggest thatred blood cells are formed not in bonemarrow, as is commonly believed, but in theintestinal villi. Red blood cells appear to be 1)guided by systemic frequency oscillationsmanifesting in the bioenergy blueprint and 2)capable of synthesizing DNA in order to dif-ferentiate into specific types of cells, which >

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then migrate via the 90,000-mile-long capil-lary system to wherever they are needed.Writes Lindsteadt, “This open-ended systemthat connects to the lymphatic system, themeridian system and the connective tissueprovides communication pathways for theflow of information and cellular instructionsfrom the electromagnetic energy matrix.”

According to Iona Miller and RichardMiller, “Life is fundamentally electromag-netic rather than chemical, the DNA blue-print functioning as a biohologram whichserves as a guiding matrix for organizingphysical form.” Arguably the most far-reaching implication of the research cited inthis article is that DNA can be activatedthrough conscious linguistic expression(somewhat like an antenna) to reset the bio-energy fields, which in turn (like orbitingcommunication satellites) can transmit radioand light signals to restore the proper cel-lular structure and functioning of the humanbody.

The author is editor of DNA Monthly andco-founder of the Phoenix Center for Rege-netics. The preceding article is adapted fromBook One on the Regenetics Method, Con-scious Healing (Booklocker, December2005). For information visit or call 1-828-216-3982. Copyright (c) 2005 by SolLuckman. All Rights Reserved.

"The departure of John and Sebastian Cabot from Bristol on their first voyage of discovery, 1497."(Ernest Board, 1906)

Continued from Page 31possible that Cabot’s crew put up some resis-tance. After repairs in Hispaniola, Hojeda re-turned home as a hero and was rewardedwith the title of governor of the Province ofCoquibacoa. The document granting himthe title specifically mentions the discoveryof English exploration that he thwarted.

Did the English king find out? There is

no record of it, yet Cabot’s pension stoppedbeing paid in September of 1499. Neither theSpanish royalty nor the English king wantedwar, so if this brutal act of piracy did takeplace, it might have been best left behind.What happened in Venezuela stayed inVenezuela.

But one man was clearly upset with what-ever crimes were committed when he was

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Vespucci by firstname or last.

Then how didthe New World be-

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that became thebasis for the Cosa

map and the othercharts sent back to

Europe. Histo-rians, including

James Williamson,point out that thecoast of Venezuelaon the Cosa map is

highly accurate andthat it was not ex-plored fully by the

Spanish in the year1500. Cosa himself

has five flags thatare noted as places

explored by the Eng-lish, again in 1500,

when no English(outside of Cabot)

sailed that far south.In fact no part of Cosa’s map

is more accurately drawn than the coast be-tween Trinidad and Maracaibo.

Cabot, like many Italian explorers, wouldhave bestowed upon the new lands names ofhis sponsors, his partners and possibly hisown family. The name America could havecome from his good friend and occasionalpartner Richard Ameryk.

While spelling in the fifteenth and six-teenth centuries was not an exact art, the in-correct spelling of a name is not enough todisqualify it. A letter to Henry spells Cabot’sname as “Kabotto.” The surname Ameryk isactually derived from the Welsh surname ApMeryke. The sheriff’s family had additionalalternative spellings including Amyreke.Last, the Sheriff’s merchant seal is the mosttelling, spelling his name in a circular form,A-M-E-R-I-C and finally returning to the A.

The map drawn by Cabot may have ex-tended from the point of his first voyagesouth to Venezuela. It may have included thenames he left as acknowledgments of hispartners and sponsors. It may have thenbeen part of the booty taken by Hojeda whomentions his encounter with the English,but leaves out the details. Cosa, an inferiorin terms of cartography, was then able togive details even on lands far away fromthose navigated by the Spanish. Charts andletters from Cosa, Vespucci and others weresorted out by the mapmakers of St. Die, andsomehow a name Cabot left on his map be-came the name for the New World.

Steven Sora is the author of severalbooks on esoteric history including The lostColony of the Templars.

part of the expedi-tion. The Italian Ves-pucci decided not toreturn with Hojeda.In fact, Vespucciwould write two ormore letters re-garding the voyagewith Hojeda butnever mention hisname. He mostlikely refused to bea part of the atroci-ties which includedwantonly mur-dering Europeansand Native Ameri-cans alike. He re-fused to go onslaving expedi-tions that Hojedaplanned in the Ba-hamas. And finallyupon landing inHispaniola hetook another shipto Europe. Was ita moral issuewith Vespucci ordid he fear beinghung as a piratealong with theSpanish ma-rauder? He even refused to remain an agentto the Spanish after this voyage and switchedto the competition, Portugal.

Juan de la Cosa did stay loyal to Hojeda.Cosa would put together a map that not onlyshowed the coastline of Guyana and Vene-zuela; it also showed the coast from at leastMaine on down to Florida as well as islandsof the Caribbean. Since there were noSpanish ships that far north, and it wouldstill be fifteen years before Ponce de Leonwould map Florida, where was the source forCosa’s map? Hojeda’s ship is accounted forday by day, and had not departed from thesouthern Caribbean Sea.

Letters and certain charts of the expedi-tion fell into the hands of Martin Waldse-muller, a cartographer in the employ of ReneII, the Duke of Lorraine. On the first Waldse-muller map depicted the name AmericusVespucci, in letters twice as large as othernames. Did he intend to name the NewWorld after the banker? He knew Columbuswas the discoverer of the new lands. If hehad intended to name it after Vespucci, pos-sibly because of a relationship between theVespucci family and Rene II, why would theland be named America?

Why not call the New Land “Vespucci”?One reason might be that the word was de-rived from the Italian word for “wasp”(Vespa), not an appealing name for acountry, yet there are few place namesnamed for a first name outside of thosenamed for royalty.

There is evidence to bear that Vespucciwas not considered as a name for the newlands. When Waldsemuller revised the maps,

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‘SKEPTICAL’ HOAX


maries were accurate. Feder is now aware ofthe discrepancies and is examining the 1978article.

Furthermore, another aspect of the skep-tics’ hoax involves the marble and cementcylinders at Bimini, and Feder reports he isalso evaluating that aspect of the reports.While Harrison (1971) reported that thefluted marble and cement cylinders wereidentical in size and shape and that they didnot come from the Bahamas or NorthAmerica, the later geologists misreported andthen falsified the description of them. In1978, Shinn wrote that the cylinders “turnedout to be cement barrels...” and described thetwo marble pillars as “lengths of marble...”In McKusick and Shinn’s 1980 Nature ar-ticle, they simply wrote, “some submarinestructures described as pillars were hardenedconcrete originally stored in wooden barrelsand dumped overboard in recent times at theharbor entrance.” They didn’t mention themarble columns—perhaps because they werea complicating factor in their hoax. In McKu-sick’s 1984 article, he simply wrote, “templepillars are merely hardened cement in dis-carded barrels,” again ignoring the marblecolumns. In Shinn’s 2004 Skeptical Inquirerarticle, he wrote, “(Harrison) showed that so-called columns on a site about two milesfrom the stones were made of Portland ce-ment,” also ignoring the marble. But Har-rison never wrote that the cement cylinderswere Portland cement stating that they wereformed in an over burnt limekiln process. Inbrief, Shinn’s 2004 Skeptical Inquirer asser-tion about Bimini is a fabrication and the de-scriptions of all the cylinders as Portland ce-ment is a scientific misrepresentation—ahoax. The omission of the marble cylinders inthese articles led to acceptance by the archae-ological community—as fact—that all of thecylinders were cement. Proof of this is foundin Feder’s (2006) archaeology textbook:“Analysis of the so-called columns shows thatthey are simply hardened concrete of a va-riety manufactured after A.D. 1800.” Feder(private correspondence) reported that hehad not read Harrison’s report in some time.

The essence of the skeptics’ assertionsabout Bimini is that the formation is naturallimestone (beachrock) that fractured inplace. There are five critical components intheir argument:

1. That nowhere at the site are any blocksresting on the top of other blocks—they as-sert that there is not even a single example ofthis.

2. That all the blocks are laying on thebedrock bottom or on sand.

3. That no prop stones are present underthe blocks.

4. That no human ancient artifacts—ortoolmarks—are present on the site.

5. That all 17 cores examined from the Bi-

mini Road tilted towarddeep water showing theyhad never been moved.

Each of these asser-tions was directly and ex-haustively examinedduring a May 2005 expe-dition to Bimini.

In May 2005, an ex-tensive underwater andsurface examination ofthe Bimini formationwas conducted with con-stant film documenta-tion. Archaeologist Wil-liam Donato

accompanied Dr. Lora Little, Doris VanAuken, two dive operators at Bimini, and theauthor on the expedition. Photos and videowere taken both on the surface, in water, andunderwater.

Over 14 hours of scuba diving was madeby each of two divers (the present author andarchaeologist Bill Donato) to examine var-ious portions of the Bimini Road. All of theseactivities were continually videotaped by Dr.Lora Little while snorkeling on the surface.Over 1000 photographs were also taken sup-plemented by bottom videotaping.

• Issue 1—Multiple Tiers of BlocksResting on Blocks. Over a dozen multipletiers of stone blocks were quickly found indirect contradiction to the geologists’claims. These were found primarily in anarea of the formation that has a largeamount of coral and plant growth. Massiveschools of fish were present in this area tosuch a degree that it was difficult to actuallysee through the many fish. Sharks are oftenpresent in this area of the formation, and itcan be speculated that the skeptics may haveavoided this area or simply viewed it fromthe surface.

• Issue 2—All the Blocks Rest on the

Bottom. The May 2005 trip was Bill Donato’s17th Bimini expedition, while it was only ourfourth. The two perspectives at the site(snorkeling from the surface versus divingon the bottom) yield vastly different views.In many areas, the surface view clearlyshowed that in all areas relatively clear ofsand, there are many tiers of stone blockspresent.

One of the cement cylindersnear the Bimini Road. (Photo,Greg Little)

The area of the Bimini Road with elevated multiple tiers is covered in plant growth andobscured by schools of fish. (Photo, Bill Donato)The area of the Bimini Road with elevated multiple tiers is covered in plant growth andobscured by schools of fish. (Photo, Bill Donato)

One of several cube-like prop stones underthe huge blocks seen from the surface.(Photo, Greg Little)


were dumped was initially the most logicalexplanation. However, during the time weinspected under massive blocks, we wereastonished to find many of these rectangularslabs under the larger stones. In all thesecases, the massive blocks visible from thesurface were literally resting on top of thesmaller rectangular slabs. In several cases,we found rectangular slabs literally stackedon top of each other essentially leveling themassive block on top of them. There is noway that these slabs could have been dumpedfrom ships. It was one of the most importantdiscoveries and totally contradicts the skep-tics’ assertion that there are no prop stonespresent there.

• Issue 4—No artifacts—or Tool-marks—are Present at Bimini. A bottomsurface search confined to small areasyielded many artifactual finds. A unique “u-shaped” mortise cut into a 3-foot squarestone was discovered. It is possible it couldbe natural, but a few ancient stone anchorsfound in the Mediterranean are virtuallyidentical to it. In addition, we discovered a 3-feet-long, plumb-bob-shaped stone with a

large hole bored through its middle. On bothends groove marks were clearly discernablewhere a rope had been attached. The stone isidentical to several ancient stone anchorsthat have been recovered at Thera. It wascovered with a deep layer of coral and carbo-nate crust on the exposed side and was foundjust to the outside of the main J-shape, to-ward land. Lora Little also discovered an-other stone anchor within the main J-shapedformation. It was a large circular stone about4 feet in diameter with a large hole drilledthrough the middle.

• Issue 5—That all 17 cores Shinn ex-

• Issue 3—No Underlying Prop Stonesare Present. Prop stones were used in theconstruction of ancient Mediterranean har-bors to level the top layers of blocks formingbreakwaters. At Bimini, numerous cube-likeprop stones were found under many blocks.Skeptics who have addressed the presence ofthese blocks have asserted that they weredumped by modern or historic ships. Whenthese blocks were first encountered duringthe 2005 expedition, they were intriguing,but we immediately realized there was noproof where they came from or when theywere placed there. In brief, the idea that they

This photo weconsider as

definitive proofthat the

rectangularslabs were

placed underthe huge surface

blocks when abreakwater wasconstructed. The

underside of amassive block is

at the top of thephoto.

Immediatelyunderneath it is

a rectangularslab identical tothose scatteredaround the site.

Note that twomore

rectangularslabs are

stacked underthe top slab.(Photo, Greg

Little)

A rectangular slabat the Bimini

Road. The factthat this stone isembedded in itsside led skeptics

to concludeincorrectly that all

these slabs weredumped in

modern times.(Photo, Bill

Donato)

amined from the Bimini Road tilted towarddeep water showing they had never beenmoved. To understand the geologists’ posi-tion on the Bimini formation—that it is aslab of natural beachrock that fractured inplace—it’s necessary to briefly describe howbeachrock forms. Beachrock forms rapidlyin the Bahamas where constant wave motionand tidal flows push sand and small pebblesonto the gradually rising beach. The waterhas a high concentration of carbonate mate-rial in it, some of which settles onto the sandand pebbles that are accumulating on theshore.

In very simple terms, the carbonate mate-rial chemically fuses with the sand and peb-bles creating a cemented stone that gets, asShinn relates, as hard as iron. The stone isactually limestone, but on a beach it’s com-monly referred to as beachrock. Because themotion of the waves pushes the sand andpebbles upward onto a beach line, theforming beachrock almost always tilts towardthe water. If the rock is cut, the interior ofbeachrock often shows a distinctive beddingpattern of pebbles and sand layers that tilt to-

ward the deep water. Consistent in-ternal bedding of the sand and pebblesand the tilt of the internal layers towarddeep water are the critical factors thatare used to determine if a beachrockformation is in its natural location orwas moved. Shinn’s 1978 findings inSea Frontiers—supposedly finding thatall 17 of his cores tilted toward deepwater—is the critical point in the geolo-gists’ assertion about Bimini. If Shinn’sresults actually did show that all 17cores dipped toward deep water, itwould be a powerful argument that theBimini formation is completely natural.

In essence, what Shinn actuallyfound is simple. In his 17 cores, Shinnfound perhaps four (23.5 percent) thatdipped toward deep water. The re-maining 76.5 percent of his coresshowed no dipping at all. Thus, the as-sertion that the 17 core results from theBimini Road prove the formation is nat-ural beachrock is essentially a hoax fab-ricated by a deliberate misrepresenta-tion of the actual findings. As KennethFeder related, it is a “serious” charge.

The results of the 2005 Bimini expe-dition have been published in a 29-pageInternet article (Little, 2005a) and a 73-

minute DVD documentary. A two-hour docu-mentary now in production by NBC will in-clude these findings. But after the release ofthe article and documentary, a host of Euro-pean, Canadian, and American archaeologistscontacted the present author after evaluatingthe report. The vast majority agrees that theskeptics perpetrated a hoax and agree that Bi-mini was an ancient harbor.

Dr. Greg Little and his wife Lora are au-thors of several books on megalithic culturein the Americas, including their recent TheA.R.E.’s Search for Atlantis.


OLMEC HEADS

Continued from Page 36Rome was founded and as far back asTrojan Wars, the Olmecs werebuilding great cities and erecting pyr-amids bigger than those to be builtlater in Egypt. They were tradingthroughout Central America even asfar as Guatemala. From simple vil-lages, their world had developed intoa complex society governed by kings,shaped by strong religious beliefs andwith ceremonial centers, sportsarenas and many examples of artwork.

Over 170 Olmec monuments havebeen excavated in the Olmec domainand these include polished jade‘celts’—prehistoric axe-like tools re-sembling chisels, floors of coloredtiles and burial chambers containingsandstone sarcophagi, some of thesecarved to represent crocodiles. MuchOlmec art has been found damagedand broken, statues of rulers have been de-capitated and altars have been found withhuge pieces missing—though all of the‘Olmec heads’ are intact.

Early speculation was that this damagewas done by vandals and grave-robbers but itis the current belief that mutilation of mon-uments in this way was done by the Olmecs

Head foundat La Venta.

themselves, probably for ritualistic reasons.One popular theory is that when a ruler died,all the monuments associated with him weredamaged or destroyed. Two of the stoneheads found at San Lorenzo have been identi-fied as being originally altars. The domi-nating feature of altars in the Olmec worldwas the throne of a ruler and it seems likely

that when a ruler died, he was venerated byconverting his throne into a gigantic stonelikeness in commemoration.

The region comprising the centers wherethe heads have been found is densely popu-lated by thick forests of rubber-bearing treesknown as heveas. From a later Indian namefor rubber, ollin, the people who created this

OlmecScupture,Mother &Infant

OlmecSculpture,Wrestler


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OLD PUMPSPHOENIX


culture were known as Olmec.Though slow in gaining acceptance, the

theory of the Olmec as the mother culturegrew over the ensuing years and further ex-peditions contributed data and findings to fi-nally confirm it. Petroleum geologists beganto dig for oil in the Tabasco region and theyexhumed buried archaeological treasures.The advent of radiocarbon dating added con-firmation. Recent excavation (1991) hasyielded more information on the procedureof making monuments. A large unfinishedaltar was found at Llano del Jicaro indicatingthat the monuments were cut roughly toshape at the quarry then transported to thereligious site for finishing and assembly.

Further gigantic stone heads have beenfound over the years and, to date, the total isseventeen. San Lorenzo and La Venta, ashort distance along the coast from Tres Za-potas, have been the sites of most of these,and it is without doubt that more will be dis-covered.

All have conformed to that historic firstfind, ‘La Cabeza Colossi’ found at Tres Za-potes. The statues range from 5 to 11 feet inheight, weigh 8 to 12 tons and all are carvedin painstaking detail from basalt, the originalblock of stone weighing as much as 18 tons.Debate and discussion continue today onhow they were carved. It is speculated thatthe tools they used must have been of astone only a little harder than the basalt ofthe figure, making the work incrediblylengthy and tedious.

Some of the heads excavated have whatmay be a crown or a helmet. If it is assumedto be a type of crown, perhaps it signifiesthat the head is that of a ruler. Some of theseheadpieces have a symbol believed to be spe-cific to that particular sovereign.

The second proposal, that it is a helmet,stems from the theory that the statues repre-sent the decapitated heads of losers of a ballgame which had religious undertones. Smallhard rubber balls have been found at El Ma-nati near San Lorenzo, these being ratherlike squash balls. Helmets might well havebeen essential in such games as the ballsweigh as much as 4 lbs and some protectionmight have been necessary in this dangerousgame. Courts where this game might havebeen played have been found at variouslocations.

It is known that the Toltecs, at least athousand years later, played a similar game.We know much more about this fromSpanish accounts of their conquest ofMexico. Two teams played, using a hardrubber ball, and the object of the game wasto pass the ball through stone rings hung ateither side of the court. The ball could not bepropelled by the feet or hands, however—only other parts of the body. It is possiblethat the stone yoke around the neck and ahelmet would have helped the Olmec playersconsiderably. Scoring a ‘goal’ was very unu-sual nonetheless but, for both cultures, thepenalty for defeat was possibly beheading.

Another puzzle is that no basalt is avail-able near Tres Zapotes, La Venta and San Lo-renzo—the three sites that between them,

account for almost all the 17 heads. Thenearest basalt quarries are in the TuxtlasMountains, nearly a hundred miles away.(This is an intriguing parallel with Stone-henge where the bluestones used in itsbuilding were brought from the PrescellyMountains, 240 miles away in South Wales,and with the ten-mile-wide Bristol Channelblocking the way.)

It has been theorized that the blocks ofbasalt were roughly trimmed at the quarrywhere they were excavated then finishedafter removal to the site. Rafts along thecoast of the Gulf of Mexico is a possiblemeans of transportation though not withoutenormous problems of loading and un-loading. An alternate theory is that they weredragged overland on specially constructedsledges during the dry season, although sucha route is crisscrossed with massive riversand dense swamps.

The ability of the Olmecs to overcome allthese difficulties of quarrying, carving andtransport by land or sea suggests a fairly so-phisticated culture, and with the gradual ac-ceptance that the Olmecs were the earliestcivilization in Central America has followeda great amount of curiosity concerningeverything about them.

It has been learned that they had a bar-and-dot system for indicating numbers andthis was used to date many carved artifacts—the oldest of these is still one of the stonetablets found by Clarence Weiant, corre-sponding to a date of 31 B.C.. A bar repre-sented a numerical value of 5 and a dot rep-resented a value of 1. The Mayans lateradopted this system of counting in theircalendars.

The Olmecs had a writing system thatwas used as early as 1,000 B.C. that consistedof both hieroglyphics and syllabic signs. De-cipherment of this language has contributedvastly to an understanding of the Olmecworld. This has also indicated that two of thesites where the giant heads have been found,La Venta and San Lorenzo, were inhabited asearly as 1,700 B.C. and this has been con-firmed by radiocarbon dating of excavatedobjects.

Corn was farmed while hunting andfishing contributed importantly to their diet.They were builders and built aqueducts tobring drinking water and provide drainagesystems. These too were carved from basalt.

Pyramids have been found which servedas burial mounds, many containing stonesarcophagi and tomb chambers with basaltcolumnar pillar supports. Great numbers ofjade objects have been found, most of theseelaborately carved.

The fascinating world of the Olmecs andthe role they played in shaping the destiny ofCentral America is still being unraveled.Many aspects of the Olmecs’ life remain amystery to this day and one of the most mys-terious is, without doubt, Las Cabezas Colo-sales, the Giant Heads.

And as for the question of where the Ol-mecs, themselves, came from, the answer, sofar, is no one knows.

twigs in a myrrh tree as his pyre upon whichhe will be resurrected. Thus a new cycle is in-itiated. All this scholarship must have im-pressed the settlers, because the name beganto be used officially. Or so the official storygoes.

Birds of a FeatherPerhaps it is no accident that most of the

first citizens of Phoenix, including Duppa,were Freemasons.

John T. Alsap, for instance, was an at-torney, judge, first territorial treasurer andfirst mayor of Phoenix. He also served as thefirst worshipful master of Arizona Lodge No.2 as well as the first grand master of the Ma-sonic Grand Lodge of Arizona. Even earlier,he had been first master of Arizona’s first Ma-sonic Lodge called Aztlan, located in Pres-cott, the first territorial capital. (A lot of“firsts” here.)

Aztlan is a Nahuatl word meaning “placeof the heron.” The Aztecs inhabited thismythical land after emerging from the SevenCaves located in the bowels of the earth. Theheron is thought to be the naturalistic modelfor both the phoenix and the Bennu bird. Inthe Egyptian sun cult the Bennu was foundperched atop an obelisk or sometimes upon apyramid-shaped stone of meteoric iron calleda Benben.

Seen as an Egyptian symbol of morningand new life, the heron passes with flyingcolors (no pun intended). Likewise, theBennu embodies the morning star Venus, ap-pearing each dawn on the laurel tree in Heli-opolis. This ornithological curiosity is alsothe incarnation of the heart (ab) of Osirisand the soul (ba) of Ra, two primary deitiesrelated by a simple palindrome. In addition,the heron and the Bennu were among asmall number of animals, including the hawkand the serpent, in which a discarnate soulcould inhabit for as long as it wished.

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PHOENIX

The hieroglyph for bennu means both“purple heron” (Ardea purpurea) and “palmtree.” One denotation for the word “phoenix”is “purple-red;” consequently, the Phoeni-cians were known as “red men.” Even todayresidents of Phoenix are known as Phoeni-cians.

In a tome called Morals and Dogma ofthe Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite ofFreemasonry, 33rd-degree Mason Albert Pikestates that the phoenix was a quintessentialalchemical icon. In this regard J. E. Cirlot’sDictionary of Symbols remarks: “In alchemy,[the phoenix] corresponds to the colour red,to the regeneration of universal life and tothe successful completion of a process.”Some Arizona prospectors may indeed havebeen seeking spiritual gold.

Is it more than mere coincidence, then,that the phoenix, whose center of worshipwas the Pre-Dynastic City of the Sun, shouldlend its name to what would become thelargest city in the Valley of the Sun? Is thename something more than the whim ofsome erudite inebriate misplaced in the hin-terlands of America?

Aztlan is furthermore conceptualized asan island, and some speculate that the nameeven refers to the legendary continent of At-lantis. According to comparative linguisticsscholar Gene D. Matlock in The Last AtlantisBook, the Aztlán of Nahuatl mythology wasreally called Aztatlán, referring to the villageof Nayarit on Mexico’s western coast. TheSanskrit word Asta apparently means “Placeof the Setting Sun.” Matlock suggests thatthis could actually be the westernmost boun-dary of what was once Atlantis.

Did Lord Duppa and Judge Alsap con-sciously try to merge Egyptian and Mesoa-merican mythologies in the wilds of Arizona?Alsap’s Bachelor of Law and Doctor of Medi-cine degrees prove that he was no dummyhimself. Was the establishment of Aztlan(Masonic Lodge No.1) and Phoenix (MasonicLodge No. 2) an attempt to symbolicallymerge Prescott (the heron) and Phoenix (theBennu) in the same way they would soon ac-tually be linked by stagecoach? Was it a clan-destine Masonic intent that a new Atlantis(Aztlan) should rise in Arizona and a new He-liopolis (Phoenix) should be its heart?

Whose Story?Other questions about the initial territo-

rial capital come to mind. Why was Prescottnamed to honor the prominent 19th centuryhistorian William Hickling Prescott, whonever set foot in the town? Were the run-of-the-mill settlers really all that interested inhis book History of the Conquest of Mexico?According to its author, “The inhabitants,members of different tribes, and speaking di-alects somewhat different, belonged to thesame great family of nations who had comefrom the real or imaginary region of Aztlan,in the far north-west.” In other words, theArizona Territory. Is this why two major

thoroughfares in the town of Prescott arenamed Cortez Street and MontezumaStreet?

Why did the territorial capital suddenlyshift in 1889 from Prescott to Phoenix? Themercantile owner, postmaster, and territo-rial representative John Y. T. Smith greatlyinfluenced this movement. He too was an-other “pioneer Mason” of Phoenix. After gov-ernmental authority had finally rested withthe southern city, spiritual symbolism su-perseded natural potency. Did secret powersdictate that instead of the heron the phoenixshould arise?

Whatever the reason, Columbus H. Gray,who served as a territorial senator andmember of Maricopa County’s Board of Su-pervisors, began during Phoenix’s early yearsto construct a Masonic hall at the corner ofJefferson and First streets. Before it wascompleted, he sold it to Mike Goldwater,grandfather of Arizona Senator Barry Gold-water, himself a 33rd-degree Mason. Inci-dentally, Phoenix is located at 33 degreesnorth latitude.

By 1890 a number of the fraternal organ-izations were operating in the city: Masons,Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, AncientOrder of United Workmen, Grand Army ofthe Republic, Chosen Friends and GoodTemplars.

Darrell Duppa spent his last days in theValley of the Sun and crossed the bar in1892. He was initially buried in the Odd Fel-lows Cemetery but later re-interred inGreenwood Memorial Cemetery. “Member-ship in both the Masons and Odd Fellows hasbeen common as evidenced by numerouspins showing the square and compass con-joined with the three link chain.”(www.phoenixmasonry.org) The Odd Fel-lows’ symbol of three links represents theprincipal tenants of Friendship, Love, and

Truth, whereas Freemasonry’s square andcompass signify Earth (matter) and Heaven(spirit) respectively.

Further evidence of Duppa’s Masonic as-sociation comes from one source that con-nects him to Jacob Waltz, the famous LostDutchman, by identifying both men as Ma-sons. This German prospector supposedlydiscovered a fabulous gold mine in the Su-perstition Mountains east of Phoenix. As withmany lost treasures of the Wild West, its lo-cation remains a mystery.

Masonic influence in Phoenix continuedwell into the twentieth century. Arizona’sfirst governor, George Wiley Paul Hunt,served seven terms between 1912 (the year ofstatehood) and 1932. He was also a promi-nent and long-standing Freemason. As a pop-ulist and supporter of trade unions, he spokeand wrote in a simple and sometimes gram-matically incorrect style. Nonetheless, likeDuppa, he loved classical literature, whichgained him the moniker “Old Roman.” Aman of contradictions, Hunt had also beenknown to address Theosophical Society meet-ings.

His final resting place in Phoenix’s Pa-pago Park is within sight of an archaeo-astronomical observatory once used by theHohokam but now called Hole-in-the-Rock.Oddly enough, Hunt’s family mausoleum wasconstructed in the style of a white-tiled Egyp-tian pyramid.

The author is an independent researcherand writer living in rural Arizona. His book,The Orion Zone: Ancient Star Cities of theAmerican Southwest, published in late 2005,discusses an Orion correlation of Hopi vil-lages and ancient pueblo ruins in the FourCorners region of the U.S. (Copyright ©2005 by Gary A. David)

Mausoleum of Arizona's first governor,George W. P. Hunt Papago Park, Phoenix


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CARAVAGGIO

Continued from Page 40chase at 525 scudi, the Roman currency ofthe day.

Later in the book, Francesca makes herway to the U.K., where she finds a 1972 his-tory of the National Gallery of Scotland’s col-lection, written by then assistant keeper ofthe gallery, Hugh Brigstocke, which listed apainting named “Tribute Money,” by anotherCaravaggio imitator named Serodine, ashaving been “bought as by Rubens from thePalazzo Mattei by William Hamilton Nisbetin 1802.” The Serodine, Brigstocke wrote,was part of a 1921 “bequest of 28 paintings”from Mary Georgina Con-stance Nisbet HamiltonOgilvy, the last of William’sdirect heirs.

If “The Taking” was partof that bequest, the ScottishNational Gallery had let whatwould become, Harr writes,“the single most valuablepainting of the group slipthrough its hands.” It is notmade clear, however,whether the bequest actuallyincluded the misattributedCaravaggio. Most likely it didnot.

While there are indeed atleast two paintings of theoriginal six Matteis currentlyin the National Gallery’s col-lection, I have a bit of a problem with Brig-stocke’s description of the provenance ofSerodine’s “Tribute Money,” specifically hisclaim that Nisbet had bought the painting“as by Rubens.”

In Nisbet of That Ilk, a genealogical tomewritten in 1941, I discovered a list of the be-queathed paintings transcribed from the gal-lery’s 1929 catalog that attributes “TributeMoney” to Jusepe de Ribera, yet another Car-avaggio imitator. While I can appreciate thata painting’s misattribution might be discov-ered and rectified after its acquisition, itmakes little sense that Brigstocke’s 1972 his-tory of the National Gallery’s collection saysthat the Serodine painting was bought as aRubens while the gallery’s own 1929 catalogindicates it was bought as a Ribera. It is alsohighly interesting that the research projectthat initially drew Francesca and Laura tothe Mattei archives touched upon a disputebetween two respected Caravaggio scholarsover the attribution of a pair of almost iden-tical paintings of John the Baptist. One ofthe paintings, long thought to be by Cara-vaggio, is later found to have been by Ribera.Jusepe de Ribera, it would seem, was themost accomplished Caravaggio imitator ofthem all.

I also have a problem with the number ofpaintings in the bequest. Harr writes thatBrigstocke put the number at 28, while the1929 catalog put the number at 29. Thereare clearly issues here that should be investi-

gated: the number of paintings bequeathedto the National Gallery in 1921, and the attri-bution of “Tribute Money” at the time it wasbought by Nisbet.

If and when these issues are resolved an-other “lost” masterpiece is found, I am readyto accept my fair share of the finder’s fee,thank you.

But back to the chase.Three of the book’s investigators inde-

pendently find it likely that Nisbet’s Cara-vaggio was later sold at auction, but nonefind a record of the buyer. One of the investi-gators, however, finds an intriguing docu-ment in Edinburgh’s Scottish Records Of-fice—a receipt for the six paintings, signedby Duke Giuseppe Mattei in 1802, for 2,300scudi, more than four times the price de-clared on Nisbet’s Italian export license.

While the vast discrepancyin valuation would have

saved Nisbet a tidy sum incustoms duties, the misat-

tributions, I feel, would haveenabled him to take at leastone national treasure out of

Italy into the bargain.Although Nisbet remains

a man of mysterythroughout Harr’s book, I

will now put some meat onhis bones.

William Hamilton Nisbetwas the eldest son of Wil-

liam Nisbet of Dirleton, andMary, heiress of the wealthyHamilton family. He incor-porated the name Hamilton

upon the death of hismother, whose properties he inherited.

William’s only child, another Mary, mar-ried Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, in1799, three years before William purchasedthe Caravaggio. And while William wasstriking his bargain with Giuseppe in Rome,Thomas, as British ambassador to Constan-tinople, was arranging the removal of whathave become infamously known as the“Elgin Marbles” from the Athens Parthenon,underwritten in large part by the Nisbetfamily fortune and fueling a bitter debate be-tween Greece and Britain which has ragedever since. Indeed, the term “Elginism” hasbecome synonymous with the systematic andopportunistic plunder of the antiquities ofless-powerful nations by more-powerfulnations.

Moreover, while Elgin and his father-in-law were conducting business in Greece andItaly, Elgin’s secretary, William RichardHamilton, seized custody of the RosettaStone from the French following thatcountry’s 1801 defeat at the Battle of theNile. Key to the deciphering of hiero-glyphics, that great prize, along with theElgin Marbles, is among the British Mu-seum's greatest tourist attractions, and isstill as much a bone of contention withEgypt as the Marbles are with Greece.

Quite the family business.While British Admiral Horatio Nelson’s

victory at the Battle of the Nile greased theway for Elgin and his secretary to get the po-

litical leverage necessary to dismantle theMarbles from the Parthenon and relieve theFrench and the Egyptians of the RosettaStone, Napoleon’s 1798 occupation of Italy,on the other hand, had put the economicsqueeze on many of that country’s wealthierfamilies, forcing them to pay for the upkeepof the occupying army. It is at this point thatthe material wealth of the Mattei family be-gins to diminish, and just three years laterWilliam Hamilton Nisbet shows up with hismoneybags and strikes a bargain for “TheTaking of Christ” and five other paintings.

Could it be possible that the aforemen-tioned highly flawed inventory of 1793,which misattributed so much of the Matteicollection, had been compiled in anticipationof Napoleon’s occupation and ultimate de-feat, with the knowledge that multi scudiwould soon be forthcoming from Britain?

It follows that there is another interestingbond between Elgin and his father-in-lawthat begs our attention and, given an admit-tedly speculative clandestine connection be-tween all adversaries during the Napoleonicwars, it should not be taken lightly.

William Hamilton Nisbet’s father was the11th Grand Master of Scottish Freemasonryin 1746, and Lord Elgin’s grandfatherCharles was the 23rd GM during 1761-63,the first GM to serve what became the custo-mary three-year term. The significance ofthis relationship should become more ap-parent as we focus our attention on theItalian contingent of the Caravaggio saga.

I have little to say about Giuseppe Mattei,the man William bought six paintings fromin 1802, except that he wrote two receipts—one for William to take home to Scotland,and one for the customs man—and fur-nished some form of documentation thatconsiderably downplayed the true value ofthe paintings.

As the man who originally commissioned“The Taking,” however, Giuseppe’s ancestorCiriaco deserves a closer look. Like the Free-masons, Ciriaco Mattei seems to have held aconsiderably more than pedestrian interestin Egyptian symbology. Indeed, his gardenwas graced by the only privately owned Egyp-tian obelisk in Rome, first raised by RamesesII in Heliopolis and brought to Italy duringthe Roman occupation of Egypt to be erectedat a temple to Isis, the Egyptian goddess whoweaves her way in and out of freemasoniclore. It is for Ciriaco that Caravaggio paintsone of several depictions of John the Baptist,patron saint of both the freemasons and theKnights Templar, arguably the progenitors ofthe Freemasonic brotherhood. Interestingly,his “Beheading of John the Baptist” was com-missioned by the Knights of Malta, a Catholicchivalric order similar to the Templars thatCaravaggio was initiated into just two yearsbefore his death, and is the only paintingCaravaggio is known to have signed, intrigu-ingly placing his signature in the Baptist’spool of blood.

Ciriaco was the brother of Cardinal Giro-lamo Mattei, one of several cardinals to alsocommission works by Caravaggio. Consid-ering the rather revisionist Christian im-agery to be found in “The Taking” and other

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CARAVAGGIO

works, it is surprising that Caravaggio’s tal-ents would be much in demand by suchprinces of the church—and yet they were.

Let’s take just one other Caravaggio, “ThePenitent Magdalene,” as an example.

The repentant Mary Magdalene was a pop-ular subject of the day, but Caravaggio’s ver-sion should have been recognized as heret-ical, especially by the man whocommissioned it—a Catholic Monsignornamed Petrignani.

The painting shows a young girl seatedon a low stool,one tear run-ning down hercheek, with herhands in her lap.Once again, asin “The Taking,”it is the handsthat give thetelltale cluesomething isamiss here.

Unlike mostof his contempo-raries who drewtheir composi-tions from theirown imagina-tions, Cara-vaggio used livemodels whileworking, Hetherefore became a master at depicting natu-ralistic poses, and so it is surprising that inthis painting Mary Magdalene’s hands do notseem to be naturally placed in her lap, unlessCaravaggio had instructed his model to pre-tend she is cradling a baby. Mary has also setaside the jewelry a baby might grab, and evenhas on her lap a baby’s support cushion.

Who would be the likely father of this in-visible baby? Well, if we are to believe asser-tions put forth in such blockbusters as HolyBlood, Holy Grail and Dan Brown’s more re-cent Da Vinci Code, the most likely candidatewould be Jesus, himself—a theory that con-tradicts two-millennia of Catholic dogma,but which continues to gain ever more pur-chase in the popular imagination. If true,could it be that Caravaggio’s painting wasmeant to show a 16th-century Mary Magda-lene mourning a child who had been writtenout of history for the previous 1600 years?

Whether such a composition was Cara-vaggio’s vision or the vision of Monsignor Pe-trignani is a question well worth asking, andthere are certainly “alternate” paths of his-torical inquiry that will suggest that at theupper levels of the Vatican a suppressed his-tory of Jesus and Mary Magdalene had alwaysbeen known, but had not been considered agood fit with the church’s scrupulously con-sidered and ongoing business plan.

You might well wonder how evidence ofsuch a huge secret, if true, could possibly bekept hidden by so many for so long. The an-swer to that question may be that it has not

The PenitentMagdalene,Caravaggio

PortinariTriptych,Hugo vander Goes

been kept hidden at least from “those witheyes to see,” because it’s known that the vastmajority, with eyes that cannot or will notsee, has always ignored the same evidence.

Caravaggio was neither the first nor lastpainter to pictorially suggest that Mary Mag-dalene and Jesus may have had children.Just one example can be found in the right-hand panel of the “Portinari Triptych,”painted by Hugo van der Goes over a centuryearlier. Mary is the woman in white holdingthe jar. Saint Margaret of Antioch, patronsaint of pregnant women, tellingly stands byher side. On display at the Galleria degli Uf-fizi in Florence, countless visitors continueto view the painting annually without givingMary’s spectacularly distended abdomen asecond of serious thought.

As previously mentioned, Bellori’s de-scription of “The Taking of Christ” is woe-fully deficient when it says that the arms ofJesus are “crossed before him.” A 1999 ar-ticle in the Catholic Herald describesChrist’s hands as being “folded in a gestureof submission” and, although a tad closer tothe mark than Bellori’s description is still afar cry from the interpretation that Cara-vaggio’s composition begs upon viewing, no?

On February 17, 1600, Caravaggio’s Vat-ican patrons watched a Dominican monknamed Giordano Bruno burn to death inRome’s Campo dei Fiori. Giordano, an exiledDominican monk, had the temerity to agreewith the Copernican view that asserted theearth rotated on its axis once daily and trav-eled around the sun once yearly—an argu-ment that subverted, too soon, a timeline ofdiscovery perhaps already long set by thecognoscenti.

It is only nowadays that Bruno’s truedanger to the “spin” of his day can be recog-nized for what it was, and what it continuesto be—the danger that the unwashed massesmight occasionally become inclined to thinkfor themselves.

“Who so itcheth to Philosophy,” Brunosaid, “must set to work by putting all thingsto the doubt.”

Amen!

More of Jeff Nisbet’s articles can be readon his web site at www.mythomorph.com.

PROJECT STARDUST


awaiting retrieval. (Despite having the coor-dinates, infrared instruments to scan thedesert floor, and on and off beacon contactwith the capsule, recovery operations crew-members had some difficulty homing in onit. Hmm.)

Men wearing orange jackets and bluejeans picked up the canister and moved it byhelicopter to Michael Army Airfield (“thenew Area 51”) where men and womenwearing clean suits received it in a tempo-rary clean room until it could be safelymoved to a more permanent ultra cleanroom at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA went black with their cosmictreasure. No one was invited to witness thetransfer from Utah to Texas. The route toJSC was not publicly disclosed. A cloak of se-crecy was put on the cosmic library as ittraveled to the same building that receivedthe Apollo moon rocks. NASA’s magiciansmade it disappear.

CometsComets are the subjects of prophecies

from the Bible to Nostradamus to Fátima.Many worry that a massive doomsday orKing of Terror comet or asteroid is ap-proaching earth (but don’t worry, in the Hol-lywood version through technology we willbe miraculously saved). A comet has neverbeen intentionally brought to earth. CometWild 2’s stardust could have a deep impacton a number of different planes, especiallythe scientific and spiritual.

Closely monitoring these events weresome 150 scientists poised worldwide to grabSTARDUST’s samples and analyze them intheir labs. On January 17 all eyes were on agroup of clean-suit-clad scientists gatheredaround the mosaic of smoky blue aerogeltiles in a clean room more sterile than an op-erating room at JSC.

It was a scene straight out of Arthur C.Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, when primi-tive man encountered the giant evolution-stimulating black monolith that brings en-lightenment at the “dawn of history.” (Orwas it more like Moses encountering YHWHin the burning bush on smoking Sinai?)

In the blue aerogel haze scientists wereecstatic to see that thousands of tiny parti-cles of stardust had been captured. Seeingthe carrot-shaped trails, many of which werevisible to the naked eye, Brownlee flashed a Vfor victory sign for the successful arrival ofthe stardust material.

The collection of particles far exceededthe original expectations of the project. Thispristine cosmic dust—sacred grains from theheavens—represented literal first contactwith interstellar particles from deep space.

Ka Ching. We accessed the cosmic hall ofrecords.

“When you have the samples in hand, it’sa whole different universe,” Brownlee said



during a press briefing at the annual meetingof the American Association for the Advance-ment of Science. His words resonate onmany levels delivering an eloquent and stun-ning subliminal message: STARDUST repre-sents a new dawn. We are golden.

More than a million particles larger thanone micron (a millionth of a meter) in diam-eter is estimated to have been captured inice-cube-sized aerogel collectors. Today, inlabs across the globe the primitive, 5,000-year-old cosmological explanations for ourexistence, as recorded in “the holy books”(the Bible, the Torah, the Koran) meet scien-tific data as humankind lifts Prometheus-liketiny specks of stardust and rises to “go CSI”on God.

The stakes are high. Much of western re-ligion is based on the ideas of creationsketched in the first chapter book of Genesis.As we in America contemplate legislating thereligion of Intelligent Design in our class-rooms a whole flotilla of satellites and agrowing garden of space telescopes aims toreveal the secrets of the universe.

Bread from HeavenIndividual stardust particles will be sliced

up ‘like a loaf of bread’ for analysis, Mike Zo-lensky of NASA said. The metaphor stuck.Globally media outlets described how scien-tists at the Livermore Institute of Geophysicsplan to slice the particles open like tinyloaves of bread and examine the grains underthe world’s most powerful microscopes.

Bread. Grains. Broken pieces of a largerloaf. These words were music to my ears. Ifirst heard about Stardust in 2003 in a pres-entation on the biblical manna given by SirLaurence Gardner, the Holy Grail expert whohad cast his eagle eyes toward the STAR-DUST mission. He pondered the connectionbetween the interstellar dust collected bySTARDUST with the exotic fine white superpowder featured in the ancient tales ofmanna, the so-called bread from heaven ofthe Bible.

Pulling on Gardner’s golden thread, wefind that manna is an ethereal substancefrom the stars, described in Exodus 16:31 asbread, small, round, white and sweet, whichsustained life. Manifesting in the morningalong with dew it dove out of the Milky Wayat night and turned to a crystalline form onearth in the morning.

In the Egyptian Papyrus of Ani manna isreferred to as What is this? or “what is it”?Funny, that’s exactly what NASA scientistsare asking about stardust. “What is it?”

STARDUST’s resonance with ancientmanna myths is mythic, epic, even biblical.When I asked Dr. Brownlee about this di-mension of the mission in a “Dreamland” in-terview he responded by saying he thought itwas highly significant that we had to go getthis stuff. It wasn’t going to come to us.

Indeed, our species had to rise to ourpresent level of technology in order to re-trieve these secrets.

Our universe works in mysterious ways.The Egyptian glyph for ‘bread’, , is a conicalshape with a wedge in the middle. It often ap-

pears on the walls of Egyptian temples besidethe key of life symbol. Coincidentally, NASAprovided a ‘keystone cut’ (their term) of aparticle track in aerogel that almost perfectlymatches the Egyptian glyph in shape, sym-bolism and in meaning.

Early STARDUST reports show tantalizinghints of organic compounds, providing en-couraging hints that comets delivered key in-gredients for the development of life onEarth. This is another powerful match be-tween stardust and the ancient beliefs con-cerning manna (which sustained life).

The Greeks called manna “golden rain”and associated its appearance with Pallas-Athena, the goddess of wisdom. Manna inGreek means “mother.”

In Earth Under Fire, Dr. Paul LaVioletteproposes that Zeus signifies the Milky Way’sGalactic core. Athena, who springs fromZeus’ head, he says, signifies the outburst ofcosmic rays violently emitted from the Ga-lactic center during a starburst event. Dustdetectors on the Ulysses and Galileo space-craft have detectedinterstellar duststreaming into thesolar system, pos-sibly from the di-rection of the ga-lactic center,suggesting a pos-sible origin of thedust collected bySTARDUST.

As noted, theword manna iscommonly taken asderived from man,an expression ofsurprise, “What isit?” but alterna-tively it is derivedfrom manan,meaning “to allot,”and hence de-noting an “allot-ment” or a “gift.”This “gift” fromGod is described as“a small roundthing.” Similarly,STARDUST’scosmic particlesrepresent a giftfrom the galaxy, ananointing. It re-mains to be seenwhat we do withthis cosmictreasure.

NASA WordsIt is quite fascinating, from a mytholog-

ical perspective, to see how history appears torepeat itself and recycles names and ideas.NASA’s names and acronyms bear an inter-esting observation.

Two thousand years ago a research groupcalling themselves Nasara or Nasarenes wereled by a rebel prophet and visionary knownby various names Yeshua—Yehoshua, Jeshu,

Jesus. The Koran calls him Issa or Isa. Jesusrefers to the manna as the “true bread fromheaven.” This bread of God, he says, “camedown from heaven” and “gives life unto theworld” (John 6:33). Jesus also prophesied theappearance of manna and a white stone con-taining a “new name” at the “end of time”(Revelation 2:17).

This prophecy and the vibration of theproper names raise an interesting anomaly.The Nasara research group is obviously reso-nant with NASA. Issa resonates with ISS (In-ternational Space Station), the researchvessel in earth’s orbit.

Some of the most important informationthe STARDUST samples contain will be atthe atomic scale. Livermore Lab is using anewly designed, one-of-a-kind electron mi-croscope that will allow atomic scale anal-yses of the particles’ composition. The mi-croscope, known as Superstem, holds theworld’s record for the highest energy resolu-tion for an electron microscope, and canmagnify images well over a million times.

The initialwork on the sam-

ples shows theycontain glassy ma-

terials, crystalslike olivine and

various trace ele-ments, Brownlee

said. Interestingly,Revelation says

the throne of Godis made of crystal.

Assuredly, aswe break star-

dust’s seals newnames for these

pieces of the breador flesh of God

will appear. Godwill say with a

voice of thunder,“Come.” The

prophecy of Reve-lation will be ful-filled. Yep. It’s a

stretch, realpoetry. But the

underlying har-monic is real.

“Love is nowthe stardust ofyesterday, the

music of the yearsgone” wrote

Hoagy Carmichaelin the pop stan-dard “Stardust.”

Some critics have called “Stardust” the finestlove song ever written. It was one of themost recorded songs of the 20th century.STARDUST will certainly give new insightinto the specks of a mysterious glassy jewelcovered in the dust of our daily lives.

Most of STARDUST’s collection will bestored for future generations to study. Whenour lives are over and we have turned todust, STARDUST, one of the greatest humanachievements, will continue to sing.

The Egyptian key of life andbread symbol (left) matcheswhat NASA”s website calls“a keystone cut” (above) ofaerogel showing a particletrack.

Manna fallsalong withgoldenlight. “Donot prattleof theVoid,” saysa Taoistverse.“Within theVoid nograin of dust finds place to lodge. There’snought but golden light.”


FRED ALAN WOLF


formulation of the “Uncertainty Principle”),Wolf is currently researching a model of con-sciousness that investigates the nature of ob-servation. Are some people better observersthan others? This relatively new “weak meas-urement theory” still fits within the frame-work of quantum physics, but indicates wecan model what an observation is andwhether it is strong or weak. According toWolf, weak observations turn out to give usresults that are affected by what will bemeasured in the future; in other words, fu-ture measurements seem to have an effecton present observations. Working withmathematical formulations on questions likethis from his home in San Francisco, Wolfponders the relationship between humanconsciousness, psychology, physiology, themystical, and the spiritual. He points to dia-logues held in ancient times, explaining thatthere was no separation then between philos-ophy, religion and spirituality. “The Greekstalked about earth, air, fire and water,” hementions. They also talked about a quintes-sence [“fifth essence”], which they calledphysis, which was the spiritual aspect of itall, from which the word physics evencomes. So it seems to me that in our presentstate of consciousness, that kind of bridgecould be made, and be fairly firm.”

Constructing and walking across thatbridge is what he’s about, and he likes tokeep it simple and concrete. He’s earthy (Idon’t value a 24-carat diamond—I can’t eatit, I can’t even wipe my butt with it), yet be-lieves the physical world has a spiritual basis(“things change as a result of observing thatleads to the question of what is meant by ob-serving...what is mind? Once you get intomind, you can’t stay in the physical realm,because mind is not brain”). The only an-swers he’s found that deal with what he’s dis-covered in quantum physics exist in the vastwealth of literature of the ancient mystics. “Idon’t find anything in the literature ofmodern mystics; they’re overly complex andtheir ideas stray from the basic ideas I find inquantum physics. The new guys are off spin-ning their own stories and don’t relate backto science.” On the other hand, he notes thehost of new literature written by “highly in-telligent philosophical/scientific thinkers cir-culating the idea that maybe the answer isthat we really don’t know.” His game, hesays, “is that we have a science that has in-troduced a whole new notion of what ourworld is, and there’s no way to avoid thequestion of observation affecting reality. It’snon-mechanical...something magical, withan awe and wonder about it. To neglect thatis to neglect part of the awe and wonder ofbeing alive.”

While he’s living life to the fullest (he en-joys his senses in both waking and luciddreaming states and has taken the famous‘firewalk’), he finds that all spiritual tradi-

tions have a basic underlying notion (the “N”word again) that this reality is illusorial. Thepath is to wake up from the dream we’rewalking in. And while “some people thinkwe’ll be out in the cosmic boondocks in Nir-vana,” he doesn’t see it that way. But ratherthan expounding on his beliefs (not knowingis, after all, the closest thing he espouses), hestates succinctly: “Religion is a kind of avessel that hopes to hold a spiritual elixir,but mostly it’s just an empty vial.” In hisview, most people don’t receive the enliv-ening spiritual experience that religion issupposed to give them. His own definition ofa spiritual experience is akin to the “aha!”phenomenon—that sudden, lightning bolt ofenlightenment. “I’ve had many such awaken-ings,” he relates. “A lot of them have oc-curred during my travels to other parts ofthe world. Once, at a Buddhist temple inIndia, I had a spiritual awakening, believe itor not, when a fly landed on my foot. Whilethe Buddhists were chanting, a fly suddenlylanded on my foot. I felt as if my conscious-ness and the fly’s had become one. When Ilooked down to see wherethe Buddhists werechanting, I saw an infinityof Buddhist monks goingback all the way to the be-ginning of time. It waslike looking through aninfinity mirror and it allhappened in a flash, andwas very moving to me.”

Wolf had a close rela-tionship with the latephysicist David Bohm“My office was next toBohm’s when I worked atBerkbeck College inLondon. He’d come inand say he wanted to talkand, basically, you had tolisten. I saw him changeafter he had a heart at-tack. Six months or so be-fore he died, he seemed tohave a mystical quality; he had practiced sur-rendering, something we all have to do be-fore we die.” According to Wolf, many scien-tists experience a spiritual awakening whensomebody close to them dies. “Suddenly,they realize what life is about, and they beginto see the illusion of living forever—they’reopen to the possibility that your head may befull of demons when you think all that’s outthere is a godless universe of law and chaos.”

Death is something Wolf himself hasthought about since both his son and hismother died within six years of one another.He thinks it may be a return to what he calls‘the Big Elephant.’ “It’s a funny thing—spirituality is like an elephant in the room, ahuge thing that nobody can see.The elephantis your spiritual essence, your essential self.That’s different from your ego self, or theperson you identify with in body/mind con-sciousness. This other form of consciousnessmay actually be running the show, and wehave no idea who or what it is. The evidenceseems to be pointing to the conclusion that

there is only one true observer in this wholeuniverse. And what death seems to be is a re-turn to that one observer—whether youwant to call that God, the soul of the uni-verse, or just the Big Kahuna, I don’t care.But that’s what seems to happen.”

In spite of all the death and destruction inthe world, Wolf thinks it’s getting better. Inhis view, people are overly pessimistic.“Things have gotten better, though the fearshave gotten worse. I think a lot of the im-provement has come through our sensiblemanagement of money and trade; I thinkwe’re moving in the right direction. Tradebarriers have to come down—I don’t know ifthat’s Republican or Democratic—but we’removing into an international society and Ithink that’s good.” Having traveled exten-sively, he notes radical, positive changes inboth India and Mexico. His book The Spiri-tual Universe has been translated into twoChinese dialects and has been well receivedin that huge, emerging market. Not eve-ryone, though, appreciates his take on theworld.

Michael Shermer, acolumnist for ScientificAmerican and a profes-sional critic, comes to

mind. “I like him person-ally, though he doesn’t

agree with anything Isay.” In an essay titled“Quantum Quackery,”

Shermer went after Whatthe #$*! Do We Know?!

with humor and ven-geance. “The film's ava-tars are New Age scien-

tists whose jargon-ladensound bites amount to

little more than what Cal-ifornia Institute of Tech-

nology physicist andNobel laureate Murray

Gell-Mann once describedas ‘quantum flapdoodle’,”

he writes. Bring it on, invites Wolf. “I find skeptics

are interesting to talk with.” While he andUniversity of Oregon Quantum PhysicistAmit Goswami agree on most points, eventhey have their differences, and Wolf notesthat most scientists have “language prob-lems” (Dr. Candace Pert, credited with dis-covering the brain’s opiate receptor and au-thor of Molecules of Emotion, has quippedthat scientists would rather use each others’toothbrushes than each others’ terminology).“We tend to get caught in loving ourselvesand our own ideas rather than someoneelse’s,” says Wolf. “We all do it; you can’treally be a scientist without doing this.” Wolfnot only understands his critics, but em-braces them. “I think a lot of the things I sayshould be looked at skeptically. I don’t claimI have absolute truth here, I’m just puttingout ideas, trying to be as clear as I can.” Andwhether or not you agree with his “matrix ofpossibility,” Dr. Quantum offers plenty offood for thought and one thing’s for sure: it’sneither bland nor boring.


SCI-FI


sters for the more earthbound variety. Thesemovies worked very well and made money.They attracted audiences who might other-wise choose some other type of horrormovie, and so they really belonged moreproperly in the horror genre.

The fact that so many of the spacecraft inthe sci-fi films in the fifties are saucer-likeclearly establishes the link between the pro-fusion of movies in this genre and the re-ports of UFO sightings coming in from allover the world at the time. Since it is now be-lieved that the military clamped a tight lid ofsecrecy on all UFO-related reports in the fif-ties, it is not much of a stretch to assumethat they sought to use Hollywood to furthertheir aims of deception, obfuscation and dis-information. Author Bruce Rux in his bookHollywood Vs the Aliens: The Motion PictureIndustry’s Participation in UFO Disinforma-tion (Frog, Ltd. 1997) makes an excellentcase for the likelihood that the intelligenceagencies influenced Hollywood producers tomake the aliens so monstrous and ridiculousthat the public would cease to take the phe-nomena seriously. The ploy worked so wellthat even today, you are likely to get asnicker if you bring up the subject of UFOsor extraterrestrials in any politically correctsetting. The phrase “little green men” imme-diately springs to mind and you become clas-sified as some kind of gullible “weirdo.” Itwas, in fact, the first thought that occurredto the two astronomers who discovered thefirst pulsar signal in July of 1967 at Cam-bridge University, believing it to be under in-telligent control. Graduate student JocelynBell and her astronomy professor, AnthonyHewish, named the source of the signal“LGM 1,” an acronym for “Little Green Men.”

The Final FrontierAnd thus the situation remained in the

early sixties. Many more bad movies weremade, and sci-fi cinema went into a torpor.Then, on September 8, 1966 Star Trek burstupon the scene as a television series, andchanged everything. Through the genius andvision of Gene Roddenberry, all the olddreams of Verne, Wells, Melies, George Paland Robert Wise were resuscitated. The se-ries revived in character, style and tech-nology; the dramatic journey of the humanrace now graduated above greed and violencewith a new maturity of consciousness outamong the stars, exploring “space, the finalfrontier.” The original series ran for threeyears, and permanently changed the defini-tion of science-fiction film. In his secondbook, Star Trek Movie Memories (HarperCollins, 1984), William Shatner talks aboutthe years after the series was dropped, and hehad gone on to other things. But someoneconvinced him to attend a Star Trek conven-tion. Of that first convention experience hesays “...I threw open the stage curtain,

stepped out onto the hardwood and stoppeddead in my tracks. My jaw dropped. My facewent white, my eyes rolled up into my headand I was genuinely stunned. Five thousandpeople were now staring back at me, all ofthem cheering, all of them standing atoptheir chairs, all of them expecting me to becharming, full of absolutely fascinating Treklore, and unceasingly entertaining. I washorrified.” All of this adulation for an actor!Clearly, Star Trek had tapped into the pent-up dreams of an entire generation that hadbeen denied access to the truth of extrater-restrial contact by repressive, deceptive andmanipulative government policies. But nowthe dam was broken, if only in fictional film.The “people” knew better.

Stanley Kubrik’s masterpiece 2001: ASpace Odyssey came two years after the ad-vent of Star Trek, and added a spiritual di-mension to science-fiction film. With beau-tiful visuals and spare dialogue and dealingwith man’s journey up from the animal tothe godlike mastery of technology, and thento the inner journey to self-mastery, themovie was a tour-de-force and invested sci-fifilms with a new and well-deservedrespectability.

And then came Star Wars. I see now thatStar Wars put all the pieces together. It toldof a “time long ago on a planet far away”when humans had already transcended theshackles of planetary limitation and traveledfreely through the galaxy, and implied thatlife on earth here and now was a fall fromgrace and knowledge. It takes the positionthat man was a creature of the stars long be-fore he even arrived here, and implies thatwe are fighting our way back to that high es-tate. And, as in 2001, it reminds us throughYoda and Obi Wan Kenobe that the conquestof technology is only the beginning. The im-portant journey is within. Star Wars had fi-

nally explained the true condition of manhere on earth, and with that explanationcame the hope of redemption and restora-tion. At some deep level the audiences under-stood this and knew it to be true, and wereinspired by the new hope—and that’s whythey cheered. Science-fiction film had finallycome into its own and lived up to its bound-less potential.

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the Templars con-cerns the nature andwhereabouts of their

great treasure.Whereas many be-

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bloodline of Christ,the author shows

that it actually consists of an ancient science developed be-fore the Great Flood—knowledge discovered by the Tem-plars in the Holy Land during the Crusades and still extanttoday in Templar/Masonic ritual.

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TIME TRAVEL NOW! The LatestInformation, Facts, and Strange Storieson the Incredible Reality of Time TravelWilliam F. Hamilton III - “Cosmic Top Secret” - Add’l Mat.by Comm. X —This author (Former Air Force SecurityService member reporting directly to the NSA) says youdon’t have to be a scientist to ride the waves of time thatutilizing the formulas given in these pages, and withproper training and state of mind, it is currently possibleto go anywhere in the Universe. And while time, with itsrelentless passageway through our lives appears impossibleto conquer or even tame, deep down within the core of oursouls we have always realized that time is NOT insur-mountable after all, that the future is within our verygrasp.

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SACREDEMBRACE OFJESUS AND

MARYJean-Yves Leloup—Of allthe major religions,Christianity is the onlyone that has utterly re-jected sexuality as one ofthe many paths that canlead to enlightenmentand salvation. Drawingfrom the canonical andapocryphal gospels, theHebrew esoteric tradi-tion, and gnosticism, theauthor shows that Jesus did not come to save humanityfrom the life of the flesh, but to save the life of the flesh sothat it would truly transfigure all people. He explains thatwhen Saint Paul said it was good to be without women, hedid not cite any words of Jesus in support of this conten-tion. He argues that the elimination of the divine feminineand sacred sexuality set in motion by Paul’s words does notreflect the true teachings of Christ, and that the transfor-mation of Jesus into a celibate is the true heresy.

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SECRETS OF THE WIDOW’S SON: TheMysteries Surrounding the Sequel to“The Da Vinci Code” David A. Shugarts Edited byDan Burstein—This is a revealing look at the themes thatwill be explored in “The Soloman Key,” Dan Brown’s up-coming sequel to the cultural phenomenon known as, “TheDa Vinci Code.” Shugarts provides what Brown’s wide-spread admirers crave most—an enlightening glimpse intothe secrets behind Brown’s eagerly anticipated new book.Not a plot spoiler, this is an engaging piece of work thatwill pique interest in “The Soloman Key” while laying thegroundwork for the theories to be explored in Brown’scan’t-miss sequel.

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The Secret Teachings of Plants StephenHarrod Buhner—Reveals the use of direct perception inunderstanding Nature, medicinal plants, and the healing ofhuman disease. The author explores the techniques usedby indigenous and Western peoples to learn directly fromthe plants themselves, including those of Henry David Tho-reau, Goethe, and Masanobu Fukuoka, author of The OneStraw Revolution. The book Contains leading-edge infor-mation on the heart as an organ of perception as under-stood by the ancients.

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SHADOW OF SOLOMON: Lost Secret ofthe Freemasons Revealed Laurence Gardner—For Freemasons, Dan Brown readers, and others whomight wonder what secrets lie behind the mysterious andinfluential fraternity, “The Shadow of Solomon,” is the de-finitive insider’s account of the startling truth behind Ma-sonic history—and the centuries long search that the fra-ternity has undertaken to find its own lost secrets.Gardner, a past Grand Lodge of England master Mason for20 years, opens the door on the inner sanctum of the Ma-sonic Temple. Here, he presents the culmination of yearsspent in ancient archival research, with the result that thekey Lost Secrets of Freemasons and the elusive Lost Wordthat will unlock those secrets, are revealed.

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SIGNS OF INTELLIGENCE: UnderstandingIntelligent Design Edited by William A. Dembski &James M. Kushiner—Since the late 19th Century, Dar-winism has reigned supreme. But in the last ten years anopening has been wedged into the bedrock of evolutionarytheory. This book presents 14 essays by the main players.In clear and accessible language, with diagrams and rele-vant quotations, it provides an introductory overview of theargument for intelligent design.

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TRUE POWER OF WATER Featured in the film“What the (Bleep) Do We Know!?” Masaru Emoto—Explores the healing power of water—for example, the cu-rative capabilities of water, the capability of prayer tochange water, the response of water to music, and how anindividual can promote the purity of rainwater. He exploresthe limitations of Western medicine and explains howmany conditions that are thought of as hereditary may notnecessarily be so. This book shows how this most basicliquid that is called the foundation of life also holds the keyto sustained good health and well-being.

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TURNING THE HIRAM KEY: MakingDarkness Visible Robert Lomas—Drawing frompersonal spiritual insights, hidden Masonic texts, andmodern scientific knowledge, Lomas reveals why peoplejoin Freemasonry, what they expect to find, and how theybenefit. Lomas tackled the big unanswered questions aboutThe Brotherhood. In the past, these inner secrets havebeen preserved for a select few, until this book.

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UNDERGROUND!: The DisinformationGuide toAncient

Civilizations,Astonishing

Archaeologyand Hidden

HistoryEdited by PrestonPeet—Where did“modern” civilizationbegin? What lies be-neath the waves? Domyths describe inter-stellar impact? Howdid they lift thatstone? Was the Ark of the Covenant a mechanical device?Were there survivors of an Atlantean catastrophe? Whoreally discovered the “New” World? In this massive com-pendium, the editor brings together an all-star cast of con-tributors to question established wisdom about the historyof the world and its civilizations. Peet and anthology con-tributors guide us through exciting archaeological adven-tures and treasure hunts, ancient mysteries, lost or redis-covered technologies, and assorted “Forteana,” usingserious scientific studies and reports, scholarly research,and some plain old fringe material, as what is considered“fringe” today is often hard science tomorrow. Contribu-tors include: Graham Hancock, Michael Cremo, DavidHatcher Childress, and John Anthony West.

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VORTEX THEORY Russell Moon—Complete paperoffering the author’s challenge to Einstein. Includes “Endof the Concept of Time.” Moon’s work was presented andpraised in October at a major Russian Scientific Confer-ence. It is currently being taught in schools in China.

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THE WORD MADE MANIFEST THROUGHSACRED GEOMETRYRobert Thomas (Chapter 1contributed by Jeanne Manning, author of “The ComingEnergy Revolution”)—This is the story of David Hamel ofOntario and what he was taught by visitors from thecosmos. This book provides: the possibilities of advancedspacecraft the meaning of “Sacred Geometry” how the mu-sical scale, based on phi, connects metaphysics and sciencehow Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid and the EgyptianBook of the Dead tie in with the Christian Bible and new orancient energy technology. After visiting Mr. Hamel, theauthor used mathematics to discover underlying principlesin the Torah and Christian Bible which relate to the Hamelspaceship. Hamel says that Stonehenge was a jig on whichto build a flying saucer. Included with this book are threeactual blueprints of the Hamel device.

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three skeptical geologists published articles deeming it ahoax, and many people accepted the skeptics’ claimswithout question. Then in May 2005, a team of researchersre-examined the evidence and compared the results to theskeptics’ claims. After several of the skeptics were con-tacted, it became clear that a hoax had, indeed, been perpe-trated—by the skeptics who engaged in the outright mis-represention of their results.

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ANOINTING OF THE DOVE W. Henry—What ifMary Magdalene was an alchemist who learned her craft inEgypt? What if we are close to reproducing her anointingoil that will enlighten as well as protect us in the days tocome? Investigative mythologist and author, WilliamHenry, applies a serious and radical re-evaluation of the se-crets of the anointing oil of Mary Magdalene and its use inconjunction with the Ark of the Covenant and monatomicgold to prepare Jesus for his journey to the Netherworld.Presenting evidence from cutting edge science and ancientSumerian, Egyptian, and Early Christian alchemical art,he pursues the mysteries of this oil and the startling likeli-hood of its cosmic origin.

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AN EVENING WITH ZECHARIA SITCHINZecharia Sitchin, internationally acclaimed author of TheTwelfth Planet, The Stairway To Heaven and Genesis Re-visited to name a few, presents evidence for mankind’s ex-traterrestrial origins and cosmic connections. Sitchin dis-cusses some of the advanced knowledge possessed by theSumerians nearly 6,000 years ago. Not only did they havethe wheel and detailed writings on clay tablets but alsowrote of the planets in our solar system and knew the ac-curate distances between them.

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THE GREAT YEAR Narrated by James EarlJones—The Great Year. Investigates commonalities in an-cient beliefs and looks back into time for answers to ques-tions that still loom over science today. How far back dohumankind’s roots really go? What did the ancients knowabout the stars and their movements and what can welearn from them? How was the Precession of the Equinoxused to mark the rise and fall of these great ages by the an-cients? The Great Year examines this theory and finds thatperhaps these ancients were really onto something!

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HIDDEN MESSAGES IN WATER MasaruEmoto—On April 19th, 2004, Dr. Emoto appeared in Port-land, Oregon, to speak about his work and the material inhis new book, “The Hidden Messages in Water.” Learnhow you can affect water with your thoughts and wordsand what you can do to preserve this precious resource,water. Join Dr. Emoto to further understand his uniquewater research and its global implications for humanity.The talk is in Japanese with translation by NorikoHosoyamada.

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MESSAGES FROM WATER: WaterCrystals in Motion Masaru Emoto—By taking aphotographic look at water crystals, we are able to deter-mine the mysterious effects that music and words have onwater. Until now, researchers alone--with the use of theirmicroscopes--had the capacity to witness water crystalsgrow and expand. Not any more--caught on video for thefirst time: water crystals in motion. Refer to the DVD/VHSreviews in this issue for more coverage of this item.

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