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39 S TA LKI NG
T HE
Z ODI A C K I L L E R
By Michael Newton
British author John Brophy coined the term serial murder in 1966, in his book The Meaning of
Murder. American authorities would not adopt the label for another decade but in that same year,
a terrifying serial killer who called himself Zodiac debuted in California. Despite four decades of
intense investigation, his identity still remains unknown today.
47 A T R A DIT IO N
OF
T R IU MPH S : T H E H I STOR Y
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T A R OT
By Alexandra Diaz
A considerable factor in the appeal of Tarot cards is their fabled exotic background. Many people
have devised theories that attempt to explain their origins while others simply sustain the myths
that shroud them. Although these myths seize the imagination, the Tarots true history remains
equally captivating. In fact, Tarot cards, which were originally designed in the 15th century, were
not actually used for divination until the 18th century.
54 N AP O LEO N S B OOK
OF
F AT E
By Mary Franz
History remembers Napoleon Bonaparte as a brilliant general, fearless leader, and powerful
emperor. Yet few know that he was also influenced by the occult and actually based many of his
life decisions on advice from prognosticators, palm-readers, astrologers, and his unusual Book of
Fate, an ancient oracle that he supposedly found in an Egyptian mummys sarcophagus.
62 D ID N A PO L E ON E SCA PE S T. H E L E NA ?
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Letters to the Editor
A Nature Spirit, Not an Alien

Dear Editor,
n issue #7, pg. 76 shows a photo not
of an alien but of a forest friend, the
cousin of the Irish Leprechaun. It
looks similar to a squirrel, although
squirrels are smaller and the creature has
the natural ability to attract the attention
of mortals who have not had the veil of
this world removed from their minds,
such as holy men or those who live close
to nature.
The camera was in motion when the
photo was taken, separating the creature
from his natural ability to blend in with
nature. What most wont be able to see,
however, is that there is at least one additional creature in the shotin the dis-
I
Alexandra Diaz, a life-long resident of Miami, FL, recently
graduated from Florida International University with a bachelors degree in English. When
not busy writing, she enjoys
viewing the world through the
lens of her camera.
A freelance writer who lives just outside of Boston, MA, Mary Franz collects Tarot cards and is interested in mysticism and the occult. She
bought her first copy of Napoleons Book of Fate when she was 18, and
has enjoyed reading and consulting it ever since.
torted area behind the horse on the right

(figure 2).
Unlike squirrels, these creatures travel in pairs and are known to frequent
Japan, where priests have been known
to communicate with them. They live in
trees and especially groves, and can be
most easily detected near water sources
in the moonlight. They move in the
space just outside of human perception
and although they are not warm-blooded, they are indeed flesh and blood and
do die.
Based on this photo, I estimate that
there may be as many as 100 of these
creatures living in the park.
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Dear Editor:
oral decency compels me to
direct your readers to the
March, 2005 issue of Popular
Mechanics and the excellent ar ticle
9/11: Debunking the Myths.
After consulting several hundred
experts that are each named and identified, the editors at Popular Mechanics
collaborated to destroy ever y sacred
argument of 9/11 conspiracy buffs with
rational, simple explanations and common sense.
ROBERT A. GOERMAN
NEW KENSINGTON, PA
HENRY LEWIS, AKA SUN DRAGON,

PALADIN OF THE SILVER WHITE FLAME
HUNTSVILLE, TX
Ask Elvis for a Second Opinion!

Dear Editor:
urely William Lewis was writing in
jest when he came up with his fantasy article on the 9/11 terrorist
attacks in issue #8? If anyone believes
this garbage, maybe they should get a
second opinion from Elvis or John F.
Kennedy. Im surprised that Lewis didnt
mention the fact that Bigfoot and Nessie
were in one of the airplanes.
All joking aside, this kind of idiotic
junk does a great disservice to those who
lost loved ones on that tragic day. Lewis
and Mysteries Magazine should be
ashamed of themselves.
Working from his home in Tyler, TX, Kelly Bell has been freelancing
since 1981. Concentrating on history, his credits include articles published in many historical magazines as well as Georgia Magazine and
Travel & Leisure. He is also a regular contributor to East Texas Review
newspaper.
Michael Newton has published 174
books since 1977, with 11 more
forthcoming. While 143 of them have
been novels, he is best known for
nonfiction, including a history of the
Florida Ku Klux Klan (The Invisible
Empire (2001), The Encyclopedia of
Serial Killers (2000), and The FBI
Encyclopedia (2003). Upcoming titles
include The Encyclopedia of Unsolved
Crimes, The Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology, and The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories.
9/11: Debunking the Myths
TOM R. KOVACH
PARK RAPIDS, MN
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Noteworthy
Jumbo Squid Head North

S I G N I F Y I N G T H AT W AT E R S M AY B E W A R M I N G
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RANDY HENDERSON, AP
arine biologists are baffled by

the sudden appearance in
2004 of large Humboldt
squid along the coast of British
Columbia and as far north as Alaska, possibly signaling a major change in the
temperature of the waters along the
coastline.
James A. Cosgrove, manager of the
Royal British Columbia Museums natural history department, says that before
now, the farthest north the species had
been seen was off the coast of Oregon in
1997. The aggressive predatory squid are
usually found around Baja California and
farther south.
A five-foot-long specimen caught offshore from Sitka in September, 2004, has
been sent for further study to Californias Santa Barbara Museum of Natural
History. Since news of the squid captures
was made public, seven more were
reported seen from Oregon to Alaska, including
one sighting near Yakutak and Kodiak Island.
In an effort to determine their origins, Eric
Hochburg, curator of
the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
and a man who has been
researching the species
spread nor th, hopes to
compare the recent finds
with previously collected
specimens. Well try to get a
handle on if they are moving
north with warmer waters and if
they die out as they head north,
he said, or if the cold water constrains their northward movement.
Greg Cowling, a deckhand on the F/V Commander, holds up a jumbo flying squid that
he caught in the ocean near Sitka, Alaska, in September, 2004. The squid was
one of a school of thousands seen there by fishermen.
The Humboldt squid are

not the only forms of
marine life that appear to
be heading north. Also
sighted during the
summer of 2004
were a thresher
shark, two great
white sharks, a jack
mackerel, and a
hard-shell turtle, all
animals that are nor-
mally found much farther south.

Shifting currents and a water temperature increase of about two degrees Celsius over normal temperatures during the
summer of 2004 may be responsible, says
Bruce Wing, a biological oceanographer
with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
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FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, SEATTLE TIMES
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Implant Allows Email by Thought
y tapping directly into the brains

neurons, a computer chip has now
allowed a quadriplegic
man to change TV channels,
send emails, and play computer games with his mind, possibly revolutionizing communications and assistive devices for
the disabled. The BrainGate, as
the device is called, can be
connected to up to 100 neurons at a time, far more than similar
implants, allowing for far greater range of
functions.
Manufactured by CyberKinetics, a company in Foxborough, MA, the BrainGate
was first implanted into the cerebral cortex

of a 24-year-old patient in June, 2004.
Unlike other communicative
devices that require the
patient to use eye or tongue
movements which are difficult
to learn how to use, the
implant frees the patient to
move or talk while controlling a
television or computer. It may
also help patients who are
unable to use other methods of communication.
Other devices are also in the works,
many of which do not tap directly into the
brain, including conductive plates that sit
on the surface of the brain.

While these devices are promising, others caution that more research is necessar y before brain-computer inter faces
become widely used. Stephen Roberts, an
engineer at Oxford University, states, We
have to make something that works robustly and without a lot of patient training.
Most of these devices work well on a small
subset of patients, but theres a long way
to go before getting them to work for the
general population.
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Sleeping Dinosaur Discovered in China
recent discovery in China provides the first evidence of how

dinosaurs slept and, in the process, further bolsters the theor y that
modern birds are descended from
dinosaurs. Extraordinarily well-preserved, the fossilized specimen of a small, twolegged dinosaur was
found with its head
curled under one
forearm, just as
modern birds do.
This is the first
repor t of sleeping
behavior in dinosaurs,
says Xing Xu, a
researcher at the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing.
Named Mei Long, or
soundly
sleeping
dragon in Chinese,
the new species of
dinosaur also dis-
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played other avian traits, including the

light bone structure needed for flight.
Discovered near the city of Beipiao in
the Liaoning province, the specimen is
similar to other dinosaurs found in this
fossil-rich region, where a rock formation comprised of ancient river sediments and compressed ash
provide perfect conditions to preser ve
fish,
birds,
insects, reptiles,
plants, mammals,
and
dinosaurs,
from the late Jurassic
and Early Cretaceous periods.
In many cases, skin and internal
organs were also preserved, giving paleontologists valuable information about
these ancient life
forms.
Unlike many
other dinosaurs
found fossilized in a characteristic

death pose, with head and neck
thrown back and spine twisted, the 21inch-long specimen was curled up,
apparently in a sound sleep, when it
died. There is no disturbance. The
body is arranged in a life-like posture,
states Xu. It is one of the most complete skeletons I have ever seen. It is a
perfect preservation. We have almost
every bone in the skeleton.
Although Xu and Mark Norell of the
American Museum of Natural History
are unsure as to what caused the creatures demise, they think that the
dinosaur may have been quickly buried
under layers of volcanic ash or possibly
in a burrow or den that collapsed, contributing to its outstanding preservation. What you can see from the skeleton is that it died peacefully, quickly,
says Xu.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
SOURCES: PEOPLES DAILY ONLINE (CHINA),
PRAVDA, CNN
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Noteworthy
A Head Injury May Have Led

To the Red Barons Demise
severe head injury nine months

before the final flight of the Red
Baron may have impaired the ace
pilots ability to fly, setting the stage for
his eventual demise, states two neuropsychologists. Citing the dramatic change in
his behavior noticed by his friends and
familyas well as records of his
injuriessuggests that his judgment was
compromised by his injury, causing him
to make piloting errors that placed him
in the line of fire on April 21, 1918,
when he was shot down and killed.(See
Mysteries issue #5)
Credited with 80 kills, Manfred von
Richthofen was the most famous fighter

pilot of World War I, and was known for
his extraordinary abilities in the air as well
as his composure under fire. After a bullet
grazed his skull and left a four-inch gash
during a dogfight in July, 1917, he suffered temporary vision loss and loss of
motor skills, but regained them long
enough to crash-land the plane. The
effects of the wound were far-reaching,
however, and both friends and family
members noticed changes in his behavior
and personality as he recuperated.
Although normally reserved before the
incident, he was now brooding and tem-
What in the Heavens was That?

On the night of December 17, 2004, the
continuous web camera (CONCAM)
in Haleakala, Hawaii, saw something streak across the night
sky. Later, the Mauna Kea
CONCAM on the next
Hawaiian island recorded the same thing.
The NightSkyLive.net
team might have
disregarded the
streak as a satellite, but no record
of it was found at
www.heavensabove.com, a site
that documents
bright satellite
events. Current
candidates include
a satellite that was
somehow missed by
heavens-above, a rocket,
a passing space rock, or perhaps even an alien spacecraft.
KIM GUARNACCIA
peramental. According to neuropsychologist Daniel Orme, He is described as

much more immature after the injury,
and we have found that is common with
this type of brain injury.
Orme, a retired neuropsychologist
who once evaluated injured pilots for the
Air Force, and his colleague Tom Hyatt,
became intrigued by the subject after
watching a PBS documentary about the
Barons death. They described the
wound as causing a severe concussion,
bruising his brain and possibly causing
injury to the frontal lobe, where judgments and decisions are made.
People do things they wouldnt normally do after suffering this type of
injury, Orme says. They can be impulsive, have difficulty monitoring their own
behavior, difficulty recognizing if what
theyre doing is appropriate.
During his final flight, von Richthofen
displayed unusual flying maneuvers that
included fixating on a single plane in
front of him, breaking a rule he himself
had laid down in a flight manual he had
written. As he pursued the Allied target
in front, another Allied plane attacked
from behind, bringing him down in a
burst of gunfire.
The Red Barons actions and behavior
are classic symptoms of post-concussive
syndrome. In combat the individual
has to act quickly and make critical decisions, says Orme, and he just lost the
capacity to incorporate all that data
quickly and make solid judgments. He
didnt have the mental flexibility to realize he shouldnt pursue that plane.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
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Ghost Captured
on Courthouse
Security Camera
W
hen officials in Chestertown,

MD in July, 2004, decided to
install a new security system
for the Kent County Courthouse, they
were looking to deter vandals. To their
surprise, however, a ghostly entity may
have made its presence felt on several
occasions, at least two of which were
caught on a security camera in one of the
buildings stairwells.
A glowing orb of light was seen briefly
on the tape on July 29, less than a
month after the cameras were installed.
The next day, it appeared again, walking up and down the stairwell for more
than an hour.
Curious, security officer Phillip Price
went to investigate. Although he saw
nothing in the hallway, eyewitnesses
watching the camera feed saw the
strange light hovering directly ahead of
Price, apparently mimicking his movements and pausing and moving as he
did. At one point, the employees witnessed him walk through the spectral
light. Price reported that at that very
moment, an extreme chill gripped him.
The building is said to have had a long
history of peculiar phenomena, perhaps
relating either to its role as an execution
site dating back to 1746 or the fact that
part of the building was constructed
over a 19th-century cemetery.
Searching for a more scientific explanation, courthouse officials sent a copy
of the tape to Atlantic Security for further analysis. They concluded that the
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moving object was probably a bug

crawling on the surface of the lens, and
was distorted into a white spot by the
curvature of the lens. Ive seen it so
many times, its not funny, commented
Brooke Eyler, the companys general
manager. Its definitely a bug.
Members of the Maryland Ghost and
Spirit Association beg to differ, however.
Beverly Lipsinger, a resident of nearby
Randallstown and the president of the
Association, says that the descriptions

she has heard do not fit the insect explanation, although she has not yet seen the
tape for herself. She has offered to bring
in specialized equipment in an effort to
resolve the matter, but thus far, Kent
County officials have said that they are
satisfied with the more mundane explanation and that no further investigation
is necessary.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
SOURCES: AP, NETSCAPE, PARANORMAL
AUSTRALIA, MD GHOST AND SPIRIT ASSOC.
Ghost Investigators to
Explore Mining Museum
famous museum in County Durham, England, has invited a group of investigators to check out the seemingly supernatural goings-on on the premises. Staff at
Killhope, the North of England Lead Mining Museum, have become increasingly
concerned about strange activity at night, starting in late September, including a game
of checkers that seems to continue night after night, long after everyone has left.
At first, we thought it was someone playing a prank, but weve eliminated that theor y, said Pauline James, an information assistant at the museum. Some staff are
beginning to feel a little bit edgy about it all, so weve decided to call in a ghostbuster
team to investigate.
With its long reputation for being hauntedpossibly by victims of past mining disasters from the now-restored mines heyday in the 19th centuryKillhope seems to be a
paranormal researchers dream. Dean Maynard and two colleagues attempted to visit
the site last year in hopes of filming a ghost,
but peculiar activities and noises, capped by
the sound of screams emanating from an
unknown source, sent the investigators fleeing from the museum in fear, in the middle of
the night.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
SOURCE: BBC
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Noteworthy
Arctic Yields Evidence of an

Elizabethan Gold Swindle
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the largest Arctic expedition in history,

with 1,136 tons of black ore. But assays
proved that its gold content, if any,
was exceedingly small. In all,
Frobisher hauled nearly
1,200 tons of worthless
iron pyrite to England and the Arctic
Eldorado turned
into a financial
nightmare. Many
of the investors
went bankrupt and
Frobisher was publicly humiliated.
The ore was eventually used to pave the
streets of London.
For more than 400 years,
historians have speculated about
whether Frobisher and his assayers had
mistakenly believed that they had found
gold, or if the Arctic Eldorado incident
was a massive con job.
In the mid-1990s, using a combination of Elizabethan-era and high-tech
methods, Laval University geologist Dr.
Georges Beaudoin and historian Rginald Auger analyzed five coin-sized beads
of molten lead found in the assay workshops that were excavated on Koldlunarn
Island. Lead isotope analysis showed that
there were two sources of the lead used
by Frobishers chemists at the Kodlunarn
Island site to test the precious metal content of the rock. Analysis showed that
neither had detectable levels of gold,
which prove that Frobishers on-site
assayers did not tamper with the worthless rock. Even so, they must have known
that the ore was worthless. So the
researchers concluded that the gold must

have been deliberately added by the
assayers in London. (They estimate that it
would have taken only about two ounces
of gold to salt the samples.)
They say that even if Frobishers grasp
of metallurgy was so weak that he actually
believed that the original ore samples
were full of gold, by his third trip to Kodlunarn Island, when he had better testing
equipment, he and his chemists had to
have been parties to an elaborate gold
swindle. It has been suggested that they
did so, so that Queen Elizabeth would
continue to provide the financial backing
needed for additional expeditions.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: CANADIAN NATIONAL SCIENCE &
ENGINEERING RESEARCH COUNCIL, CANADIAN
JOURNAL OF EARTH, NSERC NEWSBUREAU BULLETIN
ROBERT MCGHEE / CANADIAN MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATION
n July of 2004, Canadas National

Science and Engineering Council
announced that drops of
molten lead from a 16th-centur y archaeological site
have provided conclusive evidence that the
infamous Arctic
Eldorado, an Elizabethan-era investment frenzy turned
financial nightmare, was nothing
more than a massive
mining fraud, deliberately perpetrated on
Queen Elizabeth I and
her court.
The notorious incident
began in 1576, when British
mariner Martin Frobisher (above)
returned from an expedition to the New
World with ore samples that contained
significant concentrations of gold from
Kodlunarn Island, a tiny, barren Arctic
island in what is now Frobisher Bay.
Frobisher returned to the Arctic in
1577 and hauled back more than 200
tons of ore, which was also touted as
gold-laden. Believing that she had a
source of gold equal to that of the Spanish in South America, Elizabeth put aside
her plans to discover a passage to China
and focused her efforts instead on securing as much of the precious ore as possible. The queen commissioned yet another voyage for Frobisher, who set sail in
1578 with 15 ships, 300 Cornish miners,
and enough lumber to build a colony.
Frobisher returned from the expedition, the first Arctic mining venture and
New Treatment
Reverses Paralysis
in Dogs
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n experimental treatment that is

chemically related to antifreeze
may revolutionize treatment for
paralyzing injuries in dogs, and possibly
in humans as well, according to scientists
at Purdue University. Over a two-year
period, 19 paraplegic canines were treated with the chemical polyethylene glycol. Of those treated, 13 regained partial
to complete motor function in their legs
within eight weeks. While
preliminar y, the results
give researchers hope that
spinal cord injuries may
be completely repairable
in the future.
Polyethylene
glycol or PEG,
apparently repairs
damaged cells in the
spinal cord when
injected into the
bloodstream, allowing nerve signals to
be sent to the limbs and preventing further tissue damage. How precisely this
occurs is still under investigation, but its
apparent effects are astounding.
In an earlier study conducted on
guinea pigs with severed spinal cords,
PEG was able to actually fuse the spinal
cord back together and restore mobility
to 90 percent of the guinea pigs.
According to Richard Borgen, a Purdue neuropsychologist who pioneered
the research, This stuff is kind of like a
radiator stop-leak for the nervous system. The polymer spreads out and forms
a seal over the damaged areas in the
ner ve cells and allows the membrane

below to reconstruct itself.
All of the injured dogs were treated
with the polymer within three days of
their initial injury, so rapid treatment
may have been a factor in their recovery.
Additionally, the polymer was used as
only par t of a series of treatments,
including surgeries and medications to
reduce pain and
swelling. The
dogs
that
received only
the standard
treatments for their
injuries had a
much lower rate of
recover y, with
about 62 percent
experiencing little
or
no
improvement in
motor function.
Of those who did receive the PEG injection, however, most were able to walk
again, some almost as well as before the
injury occurred.
The Perdue team has found a sponsor
to produce PEG for human trials which
they hope to begin within the next 18
months on individuals with recent spinal
cord damage. Other researchers are optimistic, but suggest that further animal
tests and long-term studies of the chemicals effects are needed.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
SOURCES: YAHOO NEWS, PURDUE CENTER FOR
PARALYSIS, SERENDIP AT BRYN MAWR
A Verse to Murder
Murder, murder, write me true,
Tap my keys, forget the clock.
Why did I get involved with you
When Ive got writers block?
Murder, murder too contrary,
Tell me how my novel grows.
With gun and club or poison berry?
Single gravestone? Grim, gray rows?
Murder, murder, fix my plot,
Find my setting, probe my theme.
Seethe my brain, make me hot,
Give me pages, ream on ream.
Murder, murder, fire my muse,
Write me fast, crush the doubt.
Give me suspects, leads, and clues.
Command my machine.... Print it out!
If I should die from prolix shock,
far better death than writer-s block.
by Carole Spearin McCauley
Graveyard Epitaphs
ERECTED BY THE
VIGILANTE COMMITTEE:
Here lies the body
of ARKANSAS JIM
We made a mistake
but the joke's on him.
(Culver City, CA, c. 1880)
EBENEZER PRICHARD
Here lies low
Having forsook life
Poisoned by his wife
and Dr. Eli Hornblow
(Tiffin Oaks, OH, c. 1840)
Sacred to the memory of
Major JAMES BRUSH
Killed by accidental discharge
of a pistol by his orderly,
April, 1831
Well done, good & faithful servant"
(Woolwich, England)
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Noteworthy
Noteworthy
he deadly tsunami that crashed

into southern India in December, 2004, has unearthed priceless relics, including two granite lions
that had been buried under sand for centuries off the coast of the centuries-old
pilgrimage town of Mahabalipuram, a
village famed for its rock carvings dating

back to the great Pallava dynasty (first
century BC-eighth century AD).
The six-foot rocky structures that
have emerged in Mahabalipuram
include an elaborately carved head of an
elephant and a horse in flight. Above
the elephants head is a
small, square-shaped niche
in which sits a carved statue
of a deity. There are also two
giant granite lions, one seated and another poised to
charge. The statues are each
carved out of a single piece
of granite, testifying to the
carvers skill.
According to archaeologists, lions, elephants, and
peacocks were commonly
used to decorate walls and
temples during the Pallava period in the

seventh and eighth centuries. These
structures could be par t of the legendary seven pagodas, said archaeologist, T Sathiamoorthy. With the waters
receding and the coastline changing,
we expect some more edifices to be
exposed.
The archaeologists are also excited
about a repor t from locals that just
before the waves struck on December
26, the sea withdrew a great distance,
baring a temple structure and several
rock sculptures on the seabed. Archaeologists have now begun underwater excavations on what is believed to be an
ancient city and parts of a temple.
Cartographers say the waves that left
nearly 16,400 dead or missing in both
southern India and the countrys farflung Andaman and Nicobar islands
have redrawn the
entire Mahabalipuram
coastline. One of a
group of temples in
the area is now partly
submerged but the
magnificent eighthcentury Shore Temple,
a UN World Heritage
site that is famed for its
carvings representing
characters from Hindu
scriptures, survived the
seas fur y, thanks to
Indias Prime Minister,
Indira Gandhi who, in
the
late
1970s,
ordered that huge
rocks be piled around
the building to protect
it from sea erosion.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCES: BBC,
THE INDEPENDENT
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Roman Cosmetics Found

to Be Amazingly Modern
height of beauty in the Roman world.
As far as I can tell, the tin oxide was
quite inert so it wouldnt cause any dermatological problems, said Richard
Evershed, a chemist at the University of
Bristol who helped to analyze the cream.
Its exceptional preservation, due to its
being sealed airtight under a heavy layer
of mud, has been a boon to archaeologists and historians, who have written
formulas for similar products but rarely
have access to something so unusual.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
SOURCES: WHATS NEW NETSCAPE, BBC NEWS
Virtual Tour of
Stonehenge Launched
remarkably well-preserved jar of

skin cream that is more than
2,000 years old is expanding our
understanding of the ancient Romans,
surprising scientists with its sophistication. Found in a ditch near an excavation
of a Roman temple just outside of London in 2003, the tiny jar, which still contains the fingermarks of the last person
to use it millennia ago, was subjected to
chemical analysis in October, 2004. The
result: the creamy mixture of animal fat
and finely ground minerals would have
given many modern cosmetics a run for
their money.
The cream would have probably been
used by an upper-class woman as a foundation or skin cream. The main mineral
component was a finely ground blend of
tin oxide and starch, which would have
given ones complexion the smooth,
pale finish that was considered the
n 2004, English Heritage launched an online virtual tour of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, enabling visitors to explore Stonehenge, its surrounding landscape, and
the many prehistoric monuments nearby. The interactive microsite, which can be
found in the Explore the Stonehenge Landscape section on www.englishheritage.org.uk/stonehenge,
centers on Stonehenge,
points out places of archaeological interest that surround
it, and includes a time travel
option. It features an interactive map of the area, leading
to pages that describe The
Cursus, The Avenue, Durrington Walls, Woodhenge, King
Barrows, Normanton Down
Barrows (including Bush Barrow), Winterbourne Stoke Barrows, Nor th Kite Enclosure,
and Vespasians Camp. For
each, there is a short description of the site, photographs,
historical information, a panoramic photo, reconstruction drawings, video clips with aerial views, a FAQ page, and a timeline to help make sense of the historical sequence in
which the various monuments were built.
CREDIT: ENGLISH HERITAGE / PAPICSELECT
Tsunami Uncovers Ancient Indian City
Another surprise was the use of tin

rather than lead as a component in the
cream. White lead was a common ingredient in Roman cosmetics, but tin was
more plentiful in Britain, so the creams
maker may have been trying to use local
materials to replicate a popular product
found elsewhere in the Roman world.
Perhaps they didnt understand the
chemistry of everything, but they obviously knew what they were doing,
explains Evershed. This is an ancient
technology and one that doesnt differ
so much from some of the cosmetic
technologies in use today, he added.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCE: ENGLISH HERITAGE
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Noteworthy
Cosmic Particles Used to Probe Pyramid
also be the last resting place of its rulers.

Now, Dr. Arturo Menchaca and colleagues from the physics institute of
Mexicos National Autonomous Uni-
SABURO SUGIYAMA, AZ STATE UNIV.
hysicists are using remnants of

space dust that constantly shower
Earth to unlock the secrets of the
Pyramid of the Sun, an ancient monolith
at Teotihuacan, north of Mexico City.
The name Teotihuacan (The Place
Where Men Become Gods) was given
to the city by the Aztecs, who inhabited
the area around 600 AD, 700 years after
the city was abandoned by its builders.
No one knows who originally founded
the city but archaeologists know that it
was inhabited for more than five centuries, having over 150,000 inhabitants
at its apogee, and that its influence
extended for hundreds of miles, at least
as far as modern-day Guatemala.
Scholars believe that the city, where
there is also a smaller Pyramid of the
Moon and a huge temple to a fierce serpent god, was ruled by a god of thunder
and four kings, and that as the citys state
temple, the Pyramid of the Sun might
versity are building the largest particle

detector inside a 2,000-year-old tunnel
that r uns beneath the pyramid, to
search for muons, harmless sub-atomic
particles that are created when cosmic
rays smash into molecules in the Earths
troposphere.
Muons travel at near the speed of light

and can pass through solid objects.
Depending upon the density of the
object, some muons are absorbed while
others pass through, leaving tiny electrical traces that can be measured by the
particle detector. There are more muons
where there is less matter, so the scientists hope that by tracking the particles
moving through the pyramid, they will
be able to detect density variations.
These variations could indicate where
there are royal burial chambers in the
ancient settlement.
The physicists hope to detect around
100 million particles in the coming year,
but say that it will be at least a year
before the experiment, which is costing
$500,000, yields tangible results.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: BBC, REUTERS, SCIENCE,
NATURE, PHYSICS TODAY
Evidence of Human Sacrifice Found at Teotihuacan
VICTOR CAIVANO, AP
ecently, a tomb filled with decapitated

corpses and the remains of pumas,
eagles, and other
animals was found within
the giant Pyramid of the
Moon, one of Teotihuacans largest structures,
indicating that it may have
been used for human and
animal sacrifices.
The remains were discovered by archaeologists within the fifth level
of the seven-layered pyramid, indicating that the
sacrifices must have
taken place fairly early on
during the period in which
the monument was erected and added to. Ten headless bodies were
tossed into a tomb at the center of the pyra-
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HOW TO
Atlantis Near Cyprus REACH
Says Researcher
US!
Noteworthy
mid, where two other sets of human

remains were also discovered. Buried with
them were five canines,
possibly wolves or coyotes, three jaguars or
pumas, and at least 13
eagles. All had been
bound before their apparent sacrifice.
Although the decapitated victims were tossed to
one side of the burial
chamber, two others were
interred with a variety of
ornaments and weapons,
including jade ear spools
and an unusual necklace
decorated with imitation
human jawbones, all
items associated with wealth and power.
As the ancient inhabitants of Teotihuacan
left no written records, archaeologists know

little about their society. While the site was
once home to over 150,000 people at its
height nearly 2,000 years ago, its monuments and cities were burned and abandoned around 650 AD for unknown reasons.
The remarkable find points to a complex
and warlike society that is far different from
that envisioned by earlier scholars. This is
the second significant find of sacrifice at
Teotihuacan, Mike Smith of the State University of New York at Albany stated.
"Nobody can say that this was just a one
off." archaeologist Saburo Sugiyama said.
We dont know who the victims were, but
we know that this ritual was carried out during the enlargement process of a major monument in Teotihuacan.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
SOURCES: WHATS NEW NETSCAPE,
NEWSCIENTIST.COM, DISCOVERY NEWS
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sited on a flat-topped hill where the

alifornia researcher Robert Sartemples of Atlantis once may have
mast says that the Mediterstood. The hill, as a whole, basically
ranean basin was flooded in a
looks
like a walled hillside territor y
deluge around 9000 BC. which subwhich matches Platos
merged a rectangular
description of the
land mass that he
Acropolis hill with perbelieves was Atlantis,
fect precision, Sarmast
which now lies a mile
explained.
beneath the sea
Not everyone is conbetween Cyprus and
vinced,
however, that
Syria. We have defithe
ruins
of Atlantis are
nitely found it, said
to
be
found
in the deep
Sarmast, who led a
waters of the Mediterteam of explorers 50
ranean. German physimiles off the southeast
cist Christian Huebschcoast of Cyprus in
er of the Hamburg
November, 2004.
Centre for Marine and
The team spent six
Atmospheric Sciences
days deep-water sonar
Researcher
Robert
Sarmast
told the German newsscanning the Mediterpaper
Frankfurter Allranean seabed. Readgemeine Zeitung that
ings indicated that
he and two Dutch colhuman-made structures exist on a subleagues had explored the same area at
merged hill, including a two-mile-long
which Sarmast claimed to have located
wall, a walled hill summit, and deep
Atlantis. The hill
trenches.
that Mr. Sarmast
We cannot yet
says
is par t of
provide tangible
Atlantis
is nothing
proof in the form
more than a natuof bricks and morral feature of the
tar, as the artifacts
ocean
floor,
are still buried
Huebscher said.
under
several
Its actually part
meters of sediof
a group of
ment, but the cirnow-extinct
volcumstantial and
canoes
that
long
other evidence is
ago erupted with
irrefutable, Sarmud and hot
mast said.
gasses.
At a news conference in the port city
TIM SWARTZ
of Limassol, Sarmast used animated simSOURCE: BBC
ulations to detail walls that appear to be
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Scientists Say Universe

Just a Computer Sim
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However, some academics are skeptical of the notion of a machine-created

universe. Seth Lloyd, professor of quantum mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said
such a computer would have to be
unimaginably large and use incalculable
amounts of energy. Right now this is
TIM SWARTZ
he possibility that what we see

around us may not actually exist
has been raised by philosophers
since ancient times. Now, Sir Martin
Rees, Royal Society professor of astronomy at Cambridge University, suggests
that reality may be no more than a giant
computer simulation, with humans
reduced to bits of software.
Over a few decades, computers have
evolved from being able to simulate only
simple patterns to being able to create
virtual worlds with a lot of detail, says
Rees. If that trend were to continue,
then we can imagine computers [that
could] simulate worlds perhaps as complicated as the one we are living in.
Rees suggests that the philosophical
question is that we ourselves could be in
such a simulation and that the universe
could be some sort of vault of heaven
rather than the real thing. Rees emphasizes that this is just a theory, but increasingly, eminent physicists and cosmologists are discussing the possibilities.
Among them is John Barrow, professor of mathematical sciences at Cambridge University, who points out that
the universe has a degree of fine-tuning
that makes it safe for living organisms.
Even a tiny alteration in such a thing as
in gravity would make stars burn out,
atoms fly apart, and the world impossible
to live in. Such fine-tuning, he suggests,
could be taken as evidence for some kind
of intelligent designer at work.
Civilizations only a little more
advanced than ourselves could have the
capability to simulate universes in which
self-conscious entities communicate with
one another, he said, suggesting that
this may be exactly what happened with
our own universe.
Air Force Releases

Study on Teleportation
the stuff that dreams are made of, he
said. Its interesting to speculate on,
but it still remains fiction.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: THE SUNDAY TIMES, LONDON
Last Speaker of Unique,

All-Female Language Dies
guages written for m, as complete

n September 2004, one of the last links
manuscripts are rare because they were
to a remarkable ancient language that
traditionally burned upon the authors
was spoken only by women was lost with
death or buried with the depar ted. Scholthe passing of Yang Huanyi. Huanyi was
ars have become particularly interested in
one of the only sur viving people to have
Nushu because the language bears a
fluency in the Nushu language of China, a
strong resemblance to
400-year-old set of characcarved letters and symbols
ters used by women with
found on tor toise shells
which to share their innerand bone ar tifacts in ruins
most secrets.
more than 3,000 years old.
Having learned the lanAlthough Huanyi, who
guage as a small girl in
was in her 90s, did not
Jiangyong province, where
pass her linguistic expersome scholars believe the
Yang Huanyi
tise on to her children or
Nushu tongue originated,
grandchildren, she regularly
she honed her knowledge
consulted with scholars in
through correspondence with
order to preser ve the
the eldest of seven sworn
unique, age-old tongue.
sisters who maintained its
Many of her poems and letsecrets. After their deaths in
ters were also published at
the 1980s and 90s, Huanyi
Tsinghua University in Beibecame the leading source
jing earlier in the year. Along
of infor mation on the lanwith the letters, a dictionary compiled last
guage, which has been used by women to
year by Zhou Shuoyia rare male student
convey their thoughts and feelings to one
of the languagehave sparked renewed
another without fear in a largely male-dominterest in the ancient language both in
inated society.
China and abroad.
Phrases, poems, and words were often
embroidered on handkerchiefs and other
linens or painted onto fans, so these have
RICHARD MACKENZIE
become a chief source of study for the lanSOURCES: CHINAVIEW.CN, LIVING NEWS PORTAL
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n a move that has excited some scientists and angered others, the Air
Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
published in August, 2004, a study on
teleportation (the ability to move oneself
from location to location through powers of the mind), in which they investigated the possibilities that material objects
could be teleported using unconventional methods; described teleportation as it
occurs in physics; and discussed its potential applications. The study also examined
teleportation phenomena that occur
both naturally and under laboratory conditions. Report author Eric Davis of
Warp Drive Metrics Davis states that if
verified, psychic teleportation could
offer potential military, intelligence, and
commercial applications.
In support of the idea, the report cited
Soviet and Chinese studies of psychics
and U.S. military studies of psychokinesis (PK), the ability to move objects with
only the mind. For instance, biologist
Zhu Yi Yi in a paper published in the
Chinese journal Ziran Zazhi (Nature
Journal), cited Chinese research in the
1980s with psychic children who exhibited extraordinary PK abilities. One girl,
for example, could make cigarettes vanish from a closed box. Four other young
girls were reported to be able to teleport
flowers into covered teacups.
Even though Davis offers no examples,
one can imagine the military applications
of being able to teleport military equipment, or even personnel, instantaneously
to a war-zone. Commercially, teleportation could replace more conventional
means of transportation and could generate a dramatic revolution in technology.
Davis notes that there are numerous
supporters within the U.S. military who
understand the significance of remote

viewing and PK. They believe that these
techniques could have strategic implications, from damaging an enemies computers by telepathy to mentally influencing enemy combatants to surrender.
objects through parallel universes.

Many physicists, however, do not
agree with the conclusions of the report,
calling into question the scientific quality
control of the Air Force. It is, in large
part, crackpot physics, says physicist
Lawrence Krauss of Case Western
Reserve University. He describes the Air
Force report as some things adapted
from reasonable theoretical studies and
other things from nonsensical ones.
The Air Force paid $25,000 for the
A teleportation machine, as envisioned in the movie Timeline.
The report also reviewed a range of

teleportation concepts and experiments,
including:
Quantum teleportation, a technique
that shifts the characteristics but not
the location of subatomic particles at
great distances.
Wormholes, whereby the intense gravitational field near black holes could
open entrances to distant locales.
Exotic (or Extra-Dimensions), the
conveyance of persons or inanimate
report, part of a $20.5 million rocket

and missile design contract. The report
calls for an additional $7.5 million for
conducting further psychic teleportation
experiments. Explaining why the lab
sponsored the study, AFRL spokesman
Ranney Adams said, If we dont turn
over stones, we dont know if we have
missed something.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: USA TODAY
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Archaeological Anomalies
Archaeological Anomalies
New Human Species Discovered

Skeletal remains unearthed
on a remote Indonesian
island may be the first
evidence in more than a
century of a new species
of hominid that shared the
Earth with modern man.
The archaeological site on Flores is

located on the eastern tip of Java,
midway between Asia and Australia.
by Judith Kane
n October of 2004, scientists
announced the discovery of a previously unknown, dwarf-sized human
species on the tiny island of Flores,
located on the eastern tip of Java, midway between Asia and Australia.
At first, archaeologists thought that a
skeleton found in a shallow limestone
cave in 2003 was that of a modern
human child. However, examination of
wear on its teeth, the growth lines of its
skull, and the shape of its pelvis showed
that the remains were from an adult
female who died 18,000 years ago at
around the age of 30. Fur ther tests
revealed that the woman stood only 3.3
feet tall, weighed about 55 pounds, and
had unusually long arms.
Subsequent excavations of the cave
uncovered the remains of six other individuals, both male and female, of the same
dwarfish size. The remains show that they
were bipedal, with shinbones similar to
those of apes, and had large, blunt teeth.
The skulls show that the species had big,
round eye sockets, but had a hard, thick
eyebrow ridge and a sharply sloping forehead. They also had a receding chin and a
brain about the size of a large grapefruit

(one-quarter to one-third the size of the
brain of a modern human).
Scientists have named the species
Homo florensiensis (Flores Man), after the
island on which it was discovered. As no
smaller species of human is known to science (the smallest previously known
humans are African pygmies, who average
less than five feet tall), archaeologists have
dubbed the skeletons the hobbits, after
the diminutive characters in J.R.R.
Tolkiens Lord of the Rings.
Sediment deposits in the cave were
found to contain stone tools and spear
points that were apparently used for
hunting. Also found were fossil remains
of dwarf elephants, giant rodents, Komodo dragons (giant lizards that grow up to
10 feet long), and a variety of other animals. Some of the animal remains are
charred, suggesting that H. florensiensis
used fire to roast their food.
The ar tifacts date from 95,000 to
12,000 years ago, when a massive volcanic eruption apparently caused the
extinction of both Flores Man and the
pygmy elephant, as well as several other
unusual species that lived on the island.
Flores Mans Ancestors
s stone tools previously found on
Flores date as far back as 840,000
years ago, experts speculate that
another species of early humans, probably
Homo erectus, may have migrated to the
island nearly a million years ago and
became marooned there, dwarfing and
evolving into H. florensiensis over hundreds of thousands of years, according to
Island Rule. (Island Rule is an evolutionary theory that postulates that in isolated
environments with finite resources, few
predators, and few species competing for
the same environmental niche, animals
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The skulls found on Flores (left) show that the species had big, round
eyes, a thick eyebrow ridge, a sloping forehead, a receding chin, and a
brain about the size of a large grapefruit (one-quarter to one-third the
size of the brain of a modern human, on the right). Right: A model of
what a Flores woman might have looked like.
that are smaller than rabbits grow larger

so that they can compete for available
resources while animals that are larger
than rabbits get smaller to minimize
energy requirements.)
Since the first evidence of modern
humans reaching the island of Flores
appears only 11,000 years agoabove
the layer of volcanic ashit is unknown
whether there was any interaction
between the two species. Contact
between the two species, however, might
account for the local legends of tiny, hobbit-like creatures called Ebu Gogo.
And if some of the tiny humans had survived the volcanic eruption and had
escaped the island, it might account for
the persistent reports of sightings of Ebu
Gogo living in the caves on Flores and
nearby islands as late as the 19th century.
(Cryptozoologists even believe that similar small, hairy creatures called orang pendek, or little persons, still live in the
remote jungles of the

Indonesian island of
Sumatra.)
Contradicting
Conventional Wisdom
cholars say that
the fact that H.
florensiensis survived for at least
10,000 years longer
than Neanderthalsa
species that co-existed
with modern humans
in Europe 30,000
years ago and was thought to have been
the last pre-modern speciescontradicts conventional wisdom that modern
humans systematically crowded out
other upright-walking species.
Scientists also say that Flores Mans
small brain is a major departure from the
general evolutionar y trend that the
human brain grew over time. They say

that behaviors such as making and using
tools and fireand hunting the dwarf
elephants, which would require planning
and communicationdemonstrates that
Flores Man was intelligent, despite his
small cranial capacity.
Some scientists argue that it is premature to classify Flores Man in the genus
Homo, which are generally characterized
by a relatively large braincase, erect posture, opposable thumbs, and the ability
to make tools. They argue instead that
Flores Mans diminutive stature, small
brain size, receding chin, the shape of its
lower mandible, and the shape of the
base of its skull are all reminiscent of
early Australopithecus, a pre-human
species thought to
have existed only in
Africa three million
years ago.
Proponents answer
that H. florensiensis has
a number of facial and
skull traits that closely
resemble a miniature
H. erectus. This, coupled with its surprisingly human behaviors, puts it firmly
within the Homo family, they say, despite its
smaller body size,
smaller brain, and mixture of primitive and
advanced anatomical
features.
As a result of their
age and the damp
conditions of the cave in which the
bones were found, the remains are not
fossilized (they have been described as
being like mashed potatoes). So scientists are hopeful that the bones might
yield DNA, which would help clarify
the relationship between the species
and provide a new perspective on the
evolution of the human lineage. z
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From the Skies
From the Skies
G R E AT B A L L S O F F I R E !
Did a Comet Cause the

1871 Great Chicago Fire?
New research lends
credence to a theory that on
October 7, 1871, a comet
crashed into the Earths
atmosphere, showering fiery
debris on parts of the Great
Lakes and sparking the
Great Chicago Fire.
A photo of the decimated city of

Chicago, after the Great Fire of 1871.
28
by Judith Kane
n March of 2004, engineer and
physicist Robert Wood told a conference of the Aerospace Corporation
and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics that his review of
19th-century astronomical observations
bolsters an old theory that the calamitous Chicago fire began when Bielas
Comet broke up and rained white-hot
debris over an area of the Midwest that
was already parched by drought conditions. Wood believes that the debris not
only started the Chicago fire but also
ignited a number of more devastating
blazes that burned in areas north of the
city on the same night, including a fire in
Peshtigo, WI, that still ranks as the deadliest fire in American history.
First sighted in 1772, the comet was
named for Wilhelm von Biela, who calculated its orbit around the sun in 1826
and discovered that it returned at regular

intervals of 6.6 years. During the comets
1846 pass, astronomers noted that it had
broken into two large pieces. The position of the fragments was recorded during subsequent orbits, until the comet
failed to appear in 1866.
The comet was never seen again but,
in early 1872, when it was scheduled to
return, a meteor shower radiated from
the part of the sky where it would have
appeared. Meteor showers of diminishing intensity continued at regular intervals for the remainder of the 19th centur y, leading astronomers to believe
that the meteors marked the death of
Bielas Comet.
Based on his analysis of the positions
of the fragments during the comets
final passes, Wood now concludes that
the comet broke into pieces after a
close encounter with Jupiters asteroid
belt in 1845. He also thinks that
Jupiters gravity affected the trajectory
and speed of the fragments again during the comets penultimate orbit,
sending the smaller of the two fragments on a path toward Earth.
Wood theorizes that the main body of
the fragment crashed into one of the
Great Lakes on October 7, 1871, and that
peripheral fragments and debris, including small pieces of frozen methane, acetylene, and other highly combustible chemicals, exploded from the friction of
entering the Earths atmosphere and
ignited the Chicago fire and dozens of
other fires that burned simultaneously in
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Above: Up until now, most have believed that the Great Chicago fire was caused when
Mrs. OLearys cow kicked over a lantern, catching the barn on fire. Right: a map of the
fires that burned in a V-shaped trajectory across Michigan in 1871. This pattern is identical to what one would expect to find if a comet had exploded in the upper atmosphere,
raining firey debris over many miles, catching hundreds of acres on fire.
Fires Across the Midwest

lthough most people have heard
about the fire that destroyed
Chicagos downtown area, claiming 250 lives and leaving 100,000 residents homeless, few know about the
other fires that burned concurrently
across the tri-state area and as far away as
Minnesota, northern Ohio, and southern
Ontario. Fires also blazed in Peshtigo,
WI, a town located hundreds of miles
north of Chicago. There, the fire jumped
over the waters of Green Bay and burned
both sides of the inlet town. The fire
spread to consume approximately 1.5
million acres of land, destroying several
smaller, nearby communities.
Across Lake Michigan, the towns of
Manistee and Holland also burned to the
ground and, during the same period, fires
also threatened Lansing, Muskegon,
South Haven, Menominee, Sturgeon
Bay, Saginaw, Grand Rapids, and Wayland. Flames blackened the outskirts of
Big Rapids and a steamship passing the
Manitou Islands that evening even
reported that the islands were all on fire.
In all, more than four million acres of
forest, prairie, and farmland were

destroyed and as many as 2,500 people
lost their lives. Fire department officials
say that the fires occurred during the
same 24-hour period; that all were very
hot and fast-moving, raging out of control within minutes; and that no cause
was ever determined for any of them.
The Comet Theory
he comet theory, first suggested
in 1882, has often been dismissed by scientists, who say that
meteorites cannot sustain sufficient heat
from their entry into the Earths atmosphere to ignite a fire on the ground.
Proponents of the theory, however, insist
that the fires must have been kindled by
fiery fragments from the dying comet
and argue that it cannot be a coincidence
that so many unexplained fires started
within such a short time and over such a
wide area.
Wood, who says that the orbital
parameters of the rogue comet have
never before been taken into consideration, cites eyewitness reports of spontaneous ignitions, lack of smoke, and
great balls of fire or fire balloons

that fell from the sky and exploded over
the trees. He believes that reports by
Chicago firemen that buildings burned
blue may be evidence that the Chicago
fire was caused by the methane that is
commonly found in comets.
Systems design engineer and Munsing resident Ken Rieli suggests additional evidence to support Woods conclusion, including a 58-pound
carbonaceous chondrite meteorite that
he found on the Port Sanilac shores of
Lake Huron several years ago. A huge
impact crater was also found by geologists in the early 1990s, nearly 200 feet
beneath the sur face of Lake Huron.
Meteorite-like rock was also discovered
at the same depth in Lake Huron by
crews drilling a water pipeline.
Reili also says that the fires burned in a
cone-shaped, north-to-south pattern,
emanating from the shores of Lake
Huron and fanning out in a V-shaped
trajectory across the lower peninsula of
Michigan (the area that suffered the
worst of the fires), to Chicago and
Peshtigo. He says that the pattern is
identical to the ballistic pattern of a shotgun cluster of pellets, suggesting that
there were hundreds or thousands of
pieces of debris. This would make Lake
Huron ground zero for the 1871
astral bombardment.
If correct, the comet theory may finally vindicate Mrs. OLearys cow, long
been blamed for starting the Chicago fire
by kicking over a kerosene lantern in her
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Mysteries on Exhibit
Midwest
American UFO Museum
NEW YORK, NY
WISCONSIN DELLS, WI
(212) 769-5400 I WWW.AMNH.ORG
(608) 253-5055 | WWW.UFOMUSEUM.COM
Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries (May 14, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006)

This exhibit presents reinterpretations of
the most persistent and puzzling myster-
Alien Planet Extreme 3D Adventure

(through Sept. 5, 2005) This walkthrough exhibit features 3D technology
that accents depth perception and incorporates animatronics, lasers, special
effects, and a complex sound environment to create an adventure that begins
in a hologram room where visitors are
welcomed by an android. Visit a botanical nursery where strange eggs are at various stages of hatching, and a cloning
laboratory where unusual experiments
are being performed. Other areas include
a toxic waste containment area and an
extraterrestrial morgue.
R. MICKENS / AMMH
American Museum of Natural History
ies about how dinosaurs looked, moved,

and behaved and why they became
extinct. The exhibit features fossil specimens and casts; interactive computer
simulations and animations; videos of
fieldwork; a large wall of mounted
dinosaur skulls; and a walk-through diorama that is the worlds most detailed recreation of a prehistoric environment.
COSI Columbus
COLUMBUS, OH
(888) 819-2674 | WWW.COSI.ORG
Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition

(through Sept. 5, 2005) This exhibit
features a chronology of the life of the illfated vessel, through recreated first- and
third-class cabins, a large simulated ice-
The Maritime Aquarium

NORWALK, CT
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Shipwreck Museum
South Carolina State Museum
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI
PARADISE, MI
COLUMBIA, SC
(877) 462-7262 | WWW.CRANBROOK.EDU/INSTITUTE
(877) 744-7973 I WWW.SHIPWRECKMUSEUM.COM
(803) 898-4921 I WWW.MUSEUM.STATE.SC.US
Strange Matter (June 4-Sept. 5, 2005)

From metals with memor y to micromachinery, discover the amazing world
of materials science. Use a bowling ball
to try to shatter a pane of heat-tempered
glass or swish a gloved hand through a
substance that morphs from fluid to solid
and back again, at the touch of a button.
The Haunting World of Shipwrecks

(May 1-Oct. 31, 2005) This exhibit
uses artifacts and first-hand accounts to
explore the perils of maritime transport
along Lake Superiors Shipwreck Coast,
the 80-mile stretch of rugged shoreline
that extends west from the museum,
which is located on the site of the Great
Lakes oldest active lighthouse.
Prehistoric Predators: Dinosaurs

Unleashed (through July 17, 2005)
This exhibit examines prehistoric life in
the forms of skeletons and fleshed-out
robotic dinosaurs, recreated environments, videos, and more. A full-sized
skeleton of the largest carnivore ever
foundand numerous hands-on activitiesare also featured.
South
HAMPTON, VA
TULSA, OK
(918) 596-2700 | WWW.GILCREASE.ORG
Machu Picchu:
Unveiling the
Mysteries of the
Incas (through
July 17, 2005)
This exhibit features stunning
panoramic photographs, interactive displays, Inca
art and artifacts, as well as replicas of an
ancient Inca road, a burial chamber, a
palace complex, and the house of the
Inca king.
Prince Conference Center

at Calvin College
(203) 852-0700 I WWW.MARITIMEAQUARIUM.ORG
Into the Abyss: Extreme Deep Discovery Zone (through Sept. 6, 2005) This
exhibit includes hands-on displays that
delve into the
geology, histor y,
biology, chemistry,
weather,
and
exploration of life
at the bottom of
the ocean and the
technology that
enables oceanographers to deal with
the crushing pressures of the deep.
Cranbrook Institute of Science
Gilcrease Museum of Art
MICHAEL LAWTON
East Coast
Mysteries on Exhibit
ATLANTA, GA
(404) 727-4282 I WWW.CARLOS.EMORY.EDU
Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries

From the Petrie Museum (through
Nov. 27, 2005) This exhibit presents
many of the most important finds of Sir
William Matthew Flinders Petrie, the
father of Egyptian archaeology, and
items from the Petrie Museum at University College, London. The exhibit
uses photographs, excavation notes, and
personal journals to bring the science of
archaeology and the early days of Egyptology to life.
The Lost Spacecraft: Liber ty Bell 7

Recovered (through Sept. 4, 2005)
See the only unrecovered NASA spacecraft, which was used in 1961 for the
U.S. second manned space mission.
Although it lay deeper under the oceans
surface than the Titanic and is only the
size of a refrigerator, it was recovered in
1999 and will be displayed alongside the
histor y of the space program and the
story of the recovery mission.
West Coast
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
LOS ANGELES, CA
(616) 526-7800 | WWW.CALVIN.EDU/PETRA
TAMPA, FL
(323) 857-6000 I WWW.LACMA.ORG
Petra: Lost City of Stone (through

Aug. 15, 2005) This exhibit tells the
story of the 19th-century rediscovery of
Petra, located at the
ancient crossroads of the
silk and spice trade
routes. The exhibit highlights new scholarship
and recent archaeological
discoveries that feature
more than 200 objects
found at the site, many of
which are on view for the
first time outside Jordan.
(813) 987-6100 I WWW.MOSI.ORG
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of

the Pharaohs (June 16Nov. 15,
2005) This exhibit
features more than
130 treasures from
tombs, royal graves,
and ancient sites in
the Valley of the
Kings, including 50
objects from the
tomb of Tutankhamun, which are on
exhibit in the U.S. for
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The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art

SANTA ANA, CA
(714) 567-3600 I WWW.BOWERS.ORG
Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in

Ancient Egypt (through Apr. 17,
2006) This exhibit illustrates the Egyptian ritual of preparing the dead for the
afterlife. It features 140 funerary objects,
including 14 mummies and coffins,
canopic jars, offering tables, and tomb
furnishings.
(757) 727-0900 I WWW.VASC.ORG
Michael C. Carlos Museum
Museum of Science & Industry
GRAND RAPIDS, MI
berg, and more than 200 artifacts recovered from the wreckage. Learn about the
technology, artistry, and incredible effort
needed to find and reach the ship that
now lies 2.5 miles under the sea.
Virginia Air & Space Center
years. Among the artifacts from King

Tuts tomb are his gold crown and the
canopic coffinette that contained his
mummified internal organs.
SPACE: A Journey to Our Future

(through May 30,
2005) This exhibit
features dozens of
interactive displays
that allow visitors to
feel the rumble of a
rocket
launch,
touch a piece of the
moon and Mars,
test their space survival skills, and walk in
the footsteps of astronauts.
Outside the U.S.

Canadian Museum of Civilization
GATINEAU, QUEBEC, CANADA
(800) 555-5621I WWW.CIVILIZATION.CA
The Artic Voyages of

Martin Frobisher
(through Sep.
11, 2005) This
exhibit presents
Martin Frobishers 1576-78
expeditions to
Nunavut in Arctic Canada, the
first European expedition to search for a
northwest passage to Asia, the
first large-scale mining venture in Canada, and the earliest English attempt to
establish a colony in the New World.
Hancock Museum
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, ENGLAND
(0191) 222 6765
WWW.TWMUSEUMS.ORG.UK/HANCOCK
Buried Treasure (through June 26,

2005) Learn how archaeological discoveries have enhanced historical knowledge
and have revolutionized our understanding of the past. z
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Urban Legends
Urban Legends
A WAVE OF HOAXES
Follows the 2004 Tsunami
N
Staggering devastation
always excites the
imagination and frequently,
people will tell tales about
the disaster that end up
being based not on fact
but on wishful thinking.
by Charles Rammelkamp
ot surprisingly, the recent
tsunami that devastated Asia,
immediately killing over a
quarter of a million people, has bred
many urban legends, from bogus photographs to tales of sea monsters stirred
up from the oceans depths, warnings
not to eat seafood from the area for fear
of being poisoned, and even tales of
unusual animal rescues.

Soon after the tsunami struck, the
internet was flooded with bogus images
of the waves crashing down on innocent
people, accompanied by a message saying something like,
I just received these photos from a
former business associate who was
vacationing in Thailand when the
tsunami struck. Fortunately, she was
able to escape.
In the rush to print compelling photographs of the disasterand boost
salesnewspapers from South Africa, to
India and Canada did not verify the pictures as real. If they had, they would have
found that these photos were actually
taken in 2002 of a tidal bore (unusually
high tides resulting in waters flowing
upstream at high speeds) on the Qian
Tang Jiang River, in Hangzhou, China.
Tidal bores occur at predictable times,
and watching these events is a four-day,
government-sponsored festival in China.
Other bogus photographs that have
been circulated are of sea monsters
that were supposedly dredged up from
the bottom of the ocean by the tsunami.
These are genuine images of strange,
deep-sea creatures, but the photographs
have nothing to do with the Indian
Ocean tsunami. Most actually were
taken as part of a joint Australian-New
Zealand research expedition conducted
in 2003, to explore deep sea habitats
and biodiversity in the Tasman Sea.
Poisoned Seafood
nother urban legend surrounding the recent tsunami disaster
is the assertion that consumers
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Above: This photo and the one on the previous page were circulated as depicting the 2004
tusnami, but they were actually taken in 2003 of a Chinese tidal bore. Right: Photos of
deep-sea fish that were circulated on the internet as fish dredged up by the tsunami. But
in reality, they were photos taken of fish found in the Tasman Sea in 2003.
should avoid eating seafood from tsunami-devasted areas because it may contain the Zulican virus. But according to
Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit of the
Philippine Department of Health, there
is actually no such thing as the Zulican
virus. (Who made up the term Zulican and why they perpetrated this
hoax is not known.)
A similar hoax that was spread in the
wake of the tsunami suggests that fish,
crabs, and prawns from the seas affected
by the tsunami are now feeding on the
human corpses that were washed out to
sea. This feeding, the story asserts, passes diseases from the decaying bodies to
the fish, and then to those who eat the
seafood.
But this is not true. Fish eat plankton,
plants, and other dead fish, not rotting
corpses. Yet this urban legend has caused
the price of seafood to plunge in many
countries, especially in Sri Lanka and
Tamil Nadu. There, fish markets have
become virtually deserted. Even though
seafood is now being sold for only onetenth of its price before the tsunami,
there are still few takers. In Singapore,

seafood prices have dropped by half.
Rumors of Unusual Animal Rescues
ouching rumors of animals rescuing humans during the tidal wave
have also circulated on the internet. One states that as the waves had subsided, elephants in Thailand broke free
from their handlers and returned to the
beach to rescue 42 people.
No doubt because the tsunami was
such an extraordinary natural disaster,
people struggling to make sense of it
looked for other equally unbelievable
acts, exaggerating actual occurrence into
tall tales. Certainly, some tsunami victims
were rescued by tamed elephants, but
urban legend trackers have determined
that they were not the heroic savings
reported in the press.
The most legitimate instance of a real
animal rescue was that of an eight-yearold girl who was riding an elephant on
Laguna Beach in Phuket, Thailand,
when the tidal wave hit. When the waters
receded, the elephant recognized some-
thing was wrong and, according to the

rescued child, ran with her on its back
away from the incoming sea, escaping far
enough inland that when the wave
caught up with them, the onrushing
waters reached only up its side, leaving
the little girl unharmed.
But the animals owner disputes this
account. According to Yong Chataisong,
there were actually two little girls, and
when he saw the wave coming in, he
placed one of the girls on the elephants
back, commanded the animal to grab up
the other child, then jumped up there
himself, and the elephant carried all three
to safety.
Overwhelming natural disasters such
as the tsunami last December inevitably
excite our imaginations, resulting in fantastic stories of danger and rescue that we
want to believe are true, simply to measure up to the reality of the event. This
tall-tale syndrome often comes into
play even when the reality is as devastating as any fiction could ever be. z
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Our Mysterious Universe
Our Mysterious Universe
Was the Tunguska Blast Caused by

a Comet Collision with an ET Craft?
On June 30, 1908,
something exploded in the
sky above Siberia. One
Russian researcher claims
he has proof that the
Tunguska explosion was
more than a natural event.
A photo taken in the Tunguska region

of Siberia, soon after the 1908 blast.
by Tim Swartz
fiery object streaked across the
morning sky over Tunguska,
Siberia, on June 30, 1908. Anyone unlucky enough to be in the forested
tundra that day would probably have
thought that the end of the world had
come, as a tremendous explosion burned
down hundreds of miles of forest and
ignited controversy among researchers,
who have struggled to discover the true
cause of the explosion ever since.
Up until now, scientists have believed
that the blast was caused by a meteor
that exploded in the atmosphere above
the forest. But in the summer of 2004,
members of a Russian scientific expedition announced that they had discovered in the Tunguska area a large metallic block that they believed to be
extraterrestrial in origin.
Researchers then chipped off a piece of

the object and sent it to an unnamed lab
in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk in
order to test its composition.
The head of the expedition, Yuri
Lavbin, who has spent 12 years working
on the mystery of the Tunguska blast,
believes that the explosion was caused
when a comet and a mysterious flying
machine collided 10 kilometers above
the Earths surface.
We were saved by a superior civilization, Lavbin said. They exploded this
enormous meteorite that was heading
towards us with enormous speed. Now
this great object that caused the meteorite to explode is found at last, he
added. But with little to go on other
than a few news reports, scientists all over
the world attacked the claims of the Russian group as a hoax.
A Light In The Sky
here is no doubt that something
extraordinary happened in the
sky over the Tunguska region in
1908. Witnesses reported seeing a fiery
object streak across the morning sky and
then explode with a force rivaling an
atomic bomb, flattening an estimated
60 million trees in an 800-square mile
area. Witnesses up to 40 miles away
even felt the blast of heat through several layers of clothing.
Ash and powdered tundra fragments
were then sucked skyward by the fiery
vortex. Caught up in the global air circulation, unusually colorful sunsets and
sunrises were reported from many countries, including Western Europe, Scandinavia, and Russia.
Almost 1,000 miles southeast of the
blast, the Irkutsk Obser vator y also
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reported unusual disturbances in the

Earths magnetic field, and magnetic
storms similar to the ones produced by
nuclear test explosions in the atmosphere also occurred. The seismograph
station in St. Petersburg even recorded
tremors from the blast, as did more distant stations around the world.
The first expedition to study the
Tunguska meteorite was organized in
1927 by Professor Leonid Kulik and
the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Kulilk
and his team then walked more than
100 miles through treacherous swamps
and bogs, forded countless streams and
rivers, and fought through dense masses of bloodthirsty mosquitoes to reach
their destination.
When they arrived, they found evidence that something extraordinary had
indeed happened. Kulilk was certain that
a huge meteorite had fallen, but was dismayed to discover that there was no
crater at the epicenter of the blast. He
speculated that the bulk of the meteorite
lay embedded somewhere within the
central epicenter, but magnetic probes
and drilling over the years failed to
detect a buried meteoric body.
Exploring the Blast
cientists were baffled by this
strange event, for nothing like it
had ever been seen before. If not
for the obvious devastation to the surrounding forest, most in the scientific
community would have dismissed the
Tunguska blast as a figment of the imagination of superstitious reindeer herders.
In fact, Tunguska was largely ignored
and almost forgotten, a curious footnote
in dusty academic journals, until after
World War II, when Russian scientist
Aleksander Kazansev began evaluating
the atomic bomb explosion at Hiroshima for the Soviet government. Kazansev
quickly noticed similarities between the
two events.
The American atomic bomb had
exploded at a high altitude and the
downward rushing shock wave had left
the trees directly beneath it standing
while flattening trees and houses further
out, in a radiating pattern, a similar pattern as found in the Tunguska region.
The mushroom cloud and the black rain
that followed the blast also conformed
to eyewitness reports from Tunguska.
Kazantsev then suggested that the
Tunguska event may have been caused
by an atomic-powered spaceship that
exploded in the area. While most scientists laughed at his explanation, some
took seriously his suggestion that the
blast was atomic in nature.
They also began to notice other similarities. For instance, both Tunguskas
reindeer population and Hiroshimas
human population had developed similar
skin diseases from the radiation fallout.
There was also evidence of accelerated
plant growth at both locations.
Over the years, other novel suggestions have been put forth as explanations
of the blast, including a comet hit, a
black hole, a small piece of antimatter,
and even an experiment gone wrong
from the laborator y of the electrical
genius Nikola Tesla. Most astronomers
were convinced, however, that the blast
was caused by a stony asteroid exploding
as it entered the Earths atmosphere several miles above the Siberian forest.
The Controversy Continues

uri Lavbin is certain, however,
that the Tunguska explosion was
not a natural event. He and his
team say that on their 2004 expedition
to the Podkamannaya Tunguska river,
they found two strange black cubes,
with each side measuring a meter and a
half in length.
These stones are manifestly not of
natural origin, Lavbin said. They
appear to have been fired and their
material recalls an alloy used to make
space rockets. Although analysis of the
stones has not yet been completed, he
believes that the cubes are the remains
of a flying machine, perhaps an extraterrestrial spaceship.
Lavbin also claims to have found a
huge white stone the size of a peasants
hut stuck in the top of a crag in the
middle of the devastated forest, which
local people call the Reindeer Stone.
Lavbin suggests that it is made of a crystalline matter that could have been part
of the core of a comet.
If chemical analysis shows it to be
from space, the Reindeer Stone could
reinforce Lavbins theory that the 1908
explosion was caused by a collision of an
atomic-powered extraterrestrial spacecraft with either an asteroid or comet.
However, most astronomers are less
than excited by the recent announcements, stating that the expedition went
looking for evidence of a UFO, ignoring evidence that the explosion was
caused by a comet impact. Science
writer James Oberg also points out
that the Tunguska area may be yielding
debris from a Russian space rocket that
supposedly crashed in the area sometime in 1960.
Hopefully, photographs of the fragments, as well as the results of laboratory
tests, may become available in the near
future. Until then, it is doubtful that the
controversy surrounding the Tunguska
blast will be settled anytime soon. z
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Treasures from the Deep
Treasures from the Deep
DOUG MCELVOGUE AND PA PICSELECT
states of Rome and Carthage.

As ar tifacts now on display at the
Marsala Museum are rapidly deteriorating from exposure to the air, experts are
concerned that excavating the recently
discovered ships would similarly damage
them. So they have proposed creating a
high-tech museum that would allow visitors to explore the wreck using underwater cameras.
To protect the site from unscrupulous
divers and treasure hunters, the exact
Missing Section of Tudor

Flagship Recovered
ivers returned to the wreck of
King Henr y VIIIs favorite
warship, the Mar y Rose, in
Englands Por tsmouth Harbor in
August of 2004 to recover a missing section of the legendary flagship and one of
the cannons that may have caused her to
sink during an engagement with the
French in 1545.
Discovered in 1971, most of the Mary
Rose was raised in 1982 before a live TV
audience of more than 60 million. However, the ships bowcastle (fortified front
section that housed archers and cannon)
remained missing and scholars had no
contemporary or reliable evidence of the
appearance of the bowcastle, which has
been shown in reconstruction drawings
as a fanciful turreted structure, similar to
a miniature medieval castle.
Then, in May of 2003, during the initial stages of a sur vey of the harbor,
divers located the front stem timber
from the keel only five feet from where
the earlier search had left off. The recent
exploration yielded hundreds of artifacts,
including a swivel gun that was mounted
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on the top rail of the front section of the

ship. In addition to 40 huge carved timbers from the lost front section and large
pieces of the hull, timber finds include
frame ribs, planks, and parts of cabins.
Other artifacts recovered include a gunners tool, lead and iron shot, and stone
cannon balls. Only the forecastle remains
to be found.
The majority of the timbers have
been reburied to preserve them while
decisions are made about the difficult
and expensive task of raising them.
Those brought up have been stored in
conservation tanks and will eventually
join the previously recovered portions
of the Mary Rose, which now sit in her
original cradle in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Ancient Punic Warships
Discovered Off Sicilian Coast
n August of 2004, archaeologists
exploring the shallow waters off the
Italian island of Sicily discovered the
remains of at least 25 warships that were
sunk in 241 BC during the battle of the
Egadi Islands at the end of the First
Punic War, between the ancient city-
location of the shipwrecks, which lies

only about 130 feet from the shore and
seven feet below the waters surface, has
not yet been revealed.
Ancient Trade Vessels

Found Off Naples
lso in August, archaeologists

exploring the bottom of the sea
off the island of Capri in the Gulf
of Naples, Italy, discovered the wrecks of
three ancient trade vessels that once plied
the Mediterranean between Rome and
the colonies in northern Africa.
Found at a depth of about 425 feet,
two of the wrecks are from the first century AD. Experts believe that one was
used to transport goods on the route
between Rome and present-day Tripoli,
Libya. The other sank with a load of
amphorae (slender terra cotta storage
containers) which the Romans used to
transport fruit. The third ship dates to
the fourth century, and was laden with
similar amphorae containing fish sauce.
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Medieval Ship Found in Norway
14th-century wooden ship was

discovered in Nor ways Skien
River near Telemark, in September by divers who were placing stones
along the bottom of the river to hinder
underwater erosion. First recorded in
the 1950s, when it was struck by a
dredger, the 65-foot-long vessel was
found at a depth of just 33 feet, largely
intact, and in a good state of preservation. Dubbed Blevraket, the ship is
believed to have been built during the
late 1300s in either Scandinavia or the
Baltic region and was sailing from Eidsborg in Lrdal when it sank.
Archaeologists planning a full excavation of the wreck say that the singlemasted vessel offers rare insight into ship
construction of the period.
Divers Locate Oldest Western
Ship Ever Found in Hawaii
ivers removing debris from
reefs around a remote atoll in
the Hawaiian Islands discovered in September the wreckage of at
least one of the two British whaling ships
for which the atoll is named.
Located 1,210 miles northwest of
Honolulu, the Pearl and Hermes Atoll
was named in 1822 after the ship Pearl
struck the reef and the Hermes raced to
help, but also struck the reef, both sinking as a result. The wreck site is scattered
across 700 yards of reef and ocean floor,
and includes anchors, whale oil cauldrons, cannons, gear for hunting and
processing whales, and even parts of the
wooden ships.
Civil War Ironclad Found

in Shipwreck Graveyard
uring recent survey work to stabilize part of the bed and banks
of the Mississippi River, archaeologists and engineers from the Army
Corps of Engineers were surprised to
discover that a long-forgotten wreck in a
graveyard of scuttled vessels upriver from

New Orleans French Quarter is the
famed USS Chickasaw, a hulking Civil
War gunship that played a heroic role in
the 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay. Until
now, there were no known examples of
the 1,300-ton Milwaukee class twin-turret ironclad river monitor that dominated the wars critical battle for control of
the countrys rivers and bays.
The Chickasaw was assigned to the
West Gulf Blockading Squadron and
remained on the bay for the rest of the
war, bombarding the Confederate-held
forts in the lower bay and participating
in operations to take the city of Mobile,
AL, in 1865. She was decommissioned
after the wars end and was sold in 1874.
The new owners sent the vessel to New
Orleans, where she was converted to a
coal ferry and later used to carry railroad
cars across the Mississippi under the
name Gouldsboro.
The ship was used briefly to protect
Dog Leads to Discovery

of an Ancient Wreck
n October of 2004, an Israeli

archaeologists dog led his owner to
the remains of an ancient ship,
including a huge stone anchor that is the
first artifact ever found from the era of
King David and his son Solomon.
Marine archaeologist Kurt Raveh was
watching his dog swimming and playing
in the shallow waters off the Mediterranean coast, near his home in Hof Dor,
about 25 miles north of Tel Aviv, when
she seemed to get into trouble. Thinking
that she was drowning, Raveh started
swimming toward her when she suddenly stood up above the water.
When Raveh went to investigate, he
found that she was standing on an
anchor and a number of wooden beams,
buried just a few inches beneath the
sand. Raveh also discovered a number of
wooden beams that are believed to be
from a boats keel that dates to between
The sinking of the

USS Chickasaw.
the Mississippis bridges from saboteurs

during WWII and in 1945, after construction of a new railroad bridge, the
historic ship was scuttled in the graveyard full of outdated and unusable vessels and barges, designated only as Shipwreck No. 2.
Although there are no immediate
plans to raise the vessel, the Chickasaw
will be preserved in situ and placed on
the National Registry of Historic Sites.
997 and 806 BC, which overlaps with

the rule of the ancient House of David
(1,000 to 925 BC).
Raveh will soon lead a team of
archaeologists from Haifa University in
exploring his discovery further. z
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*#"!%
* &!
!##(
British author John Brophy
coined the term serial
murder in 1966, in his
book The Meaning of
Murder. American
authorities would not
adopt the label for another
decade but in that same
year, a terrifying serial
killer in California debuted,
one who called himself
Zodiac. Despite four
decades of intense
investigation, his
identity still remains
unknown today.

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Cheri Jo
Bates
age 18
killed
Oct. 30, 1966
Betty Lou
Jensen
age 16
killed
Dec. 20, 1968
David
Faraday
age 17
killed
Dec. 20, 1968
Darlene
Ferrin age 18
killed
July 4, 1969
Cecelia
Shepard
age 22
killed
Sept. 27, 1969
Paul Stine
age 29
killed
Oct. 11, 1969
Donna Ann
Lass
age 25
missing,
Sept. 6, 1970
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The Reign of Terror

eventeen months later, that diagnosis
proved prophetic. On December 20,
1968, 17-year-old David Faraday was
parked with his date, 16-year-old Betty Lou
Jensen, on a rural road outside Vallejo, CA. A
night-stalking gunman found them there and
killed both teenagers, shooting Faraday in
the head as he sat in the drivers seat of his
car. Betty Jensen ran 30 feet before she was
cut down by five shots to the back, fired from
a .22-caliber semiautomatic pistol.
On July 4, 1969, 22-year-old Darlene Fer-
rin joined 19-year-old Michael Mageau for a

night on the town in Vallejo. Mageau
thought a stranger was following them at one
point, but Ferrin seemed to recognize the
other motorist, telling Mageau, Dont
worry about it.
Midnight found them at Blue Rock
Springs Park, where a second vehicle pulled
up alongside them, flashed a bright light in
their eyes, then opened fire with a nine-millimeter pistol. Hit four times, Mageau survived; Ferrin, with nine bullet wounds, was
dead on arrival at the hospital. Forty minutes
after the shooting, Vallejo police received an
anonymous telephone call directing officers
to the crime scene. Before hanging up, the
male caller declared, I also killed those kids
last year.
In retrospect, acquaintances recalled that
Darlene had received harassing phone calls
and intimidating visits from a heavyset
stranger in the weeks before her death. She
called the man Paul and told a girlfriend that
he wished to silence her because she had seen
him commit a murder. Police searched for
Paul in the wake of Ferrins slaying, but he
was never found.
This is the Zodiac Speaking
n July 31, 1969, the killer mailed
letters to three Bay Area newspapers, each containing one-third of a
cryptic cipher. Ultimately broken by a local
high-school teacher, the message began: I
like killing people because it is so much fun.
The author explained that he was killing in an
effort to collect slaves who would serve
him in the afterlife.
Another letter, mailed on August 7, 1969,
introduced the Zodiac name and provided
details of the latest killing, leaving police in
no doubt that its author was the murderer.
The police recovered at least five fingerprints of value from the killers July-August
correspondence, but they matched no prints
found in existing criminal files. Future correspondence typically opened with the stock
phrase, This is the Zodiac speaking.
On September 27, 1969, the killing continued. Twenty-year-old Bryan Hartnell and
22-year-old Cecilia Shepherd were enjoying a
picnic at Lake Berryessa, near Vallejo, when
they were accosted by a hooded gunman.
Brandishing a pistol, the man described him-
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WWW.ZODIACKILLER.COM

The Golden States most elusive predator

claimed his first known victim in Riverside, on
October 30, 1966. That evening, 18-year-old
Cheri Jo Bates emerged from the campus
library at Riverside City College to find her
distributor coil disconnected and her car disabled. A stranger approached with an offer of
help, then dragged her behind some nearby
shrubbery, where a furious struggle ended
with Bates stabbed in the chest and back, her
throat slashed so deeply that she was nearly
decapitated.
Near Bates corpse, police found a Timex
watch with a broken band, which was presumed to be the killers. They also found a
unique footprint, made by a shoe manufactured at Leavenworth prison and sold exclusively through U.S. military outlets. Neither
item was ever traced to its owner.
Days after the murder, police received a
typed confession of sorts, warning that Bates
is not the first and she will not be the last.
The author then described how he disabled
Bates car then choked and stabbed her. I
am not sick, he wrote. I am not insane. But
that will not stop the game.
On April 30, 1967, following publication
of an newspaper article on the case, three
identical letters were mailed to the newspaper, to police, and to Bates father. They
read: Bates had to die. There will be more.
In July 1967, a state psychiatrist profiled
Batess killer as,
obsessed and pathologically preoccupied
with intense hatred against female figures
or his own unconscious feelings of inadequacy, he is not likely to act out his feelings
sexually, but in fantasy, as a rule There
is a real possibility that he can become
homicidal again.
This letter was mailed to the San Francisco

Chronicle on April 20, 1970, postmarked San
Francisco, CA. The cipher is still unsolved.
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Losing Control
ut the killing spree did not stop
there. On October 11, 1969, San
Francisco cab driver Paul Stine
was shot in the head and killed with a

Then on March 22, 1970, Kathleen

Johns was driving with her infant
daughter from San Bernardino to
Petaluma, CA, along Interstate 5. Near
Modesto, another motorist signaled for
Johns to stop, flashing his lights and
beeping his horn. Reluctantly, Johns
pulled over and the man stopped behind
her, leaving his car to explain that her
left-rear tire seemed dangerously loose.
Johns later described the stranger as 30something, clean-shaven, and neatly
dressed, with shor t brown hair and
deadpan eyes.
The man worked briefly on Johns car
with a lug wrench but when she tried to
drive away, the wheel fell off. Her benefactor then offered her a lift to the nearest garage, but turned cold when she
asked if he often helped drivers in distress. When Im done with them, he
said, they dont need any help.
The trip then became a waking nightmare, with the stranger taking Johns on
an aimless drive through the countryside, threatening her life and that of her
child, before she managed to leap from
the car with her baby and hide in a roadside drainage ditch.
When she reached a local sheriffs station to report the kidnapping, Johns saw
a wanted poster bearing sketches of the
espite a collection of up to 40 fingerprints allegedly left by Zodiac, the

killer remains unidentified today. The
Zodiac suspects publicly identified to date
include the following:
Bruce Davis
one-time member of the Charles Manson family, Davis is presently ser ving
a life sentence
for two counts of
first-degree murder in California.
Although
a
proven killer with
a fascination for
occult symbolism, Davis does
not
fit
the
descriptions of
the crew-cut Zodiac and his fingerprints do
not match those alleged to be the Zodiacs.
Since Davis was in custody by the mid1970s, he has been ruled out as the writer
of the Zodiac letters mailed after that time.
This solved cipher was mailed July 31, 1969, to the San Francisco Chronicle by the Zodiac Killer.
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Theodore Kaczynski
he elusive Unabomber who is presently
ser ving life without parole in federal
prison on three counts of first-degree murder, Ted Kaczynski was named as a Zodiac
suspect after FBI agents arrested him in
1998. The evidence normally cited in suppor t of his candidacy includes his residency in the San
Francisco area during the late 1960s,
his penchant for
writing to the press
after various criminal acts, and his
exper tise at building bombs. (The
Zodiac never used explosives but one of his
letters did include a crude diagram of a
bomb.) However, fingerprint and handwriting
comparisons, together with his proven
absence from California on five specific
dates of known Zodiac activity, led both the
FBI and the San Francisco Police Depar tment to dismiss Kaczynski as a viable suspect.
nine-millimeter semiautomatic pistol. As

police descended on the area in force,
witnesses saw the gunman escape on
foot toward the Presidio. Crime scene
technicians lifted several fingerprints
from Stines cab that showed traces of
blood [that] are believed to be prints
from the suspect, yet once again, they
matched no prints on file with California
authorities or the FBI.
In the wake of Stines murder, the
Zodiac mailed a new barrage of letters,
some containing swatches of the cabbies bloodstained shirt. Successive messages claimed that he had killed seven
victims instead of the established five
and threatened to wipe out a school
bus some morning. He also vowed to
change his method of collecting souls
when he wrote, They shall look like
routine robberies, killings of anger, & a
few fake suicides, etc.
At least one letter (dated October 13,
1969) included several latent fingerprints believed to be the killers, but
again, they remained unidentified. Then
five days before Christmas, Zodiac
wrote to prominent attorney Melvin
Belli, pleading for help, with the chilling
remark that I cannot remain in control
for much longer. A meeting was
arranged, but the killer never showed.
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self as an escaped convict who needed

their car to go to Mexico. Producing
a coil of clothesline, he bound both victims before drawing a long knife and
stabbing Hartnell five times in the back.
Shepherd was stabbed 14 times, including four wounds in the chest as she
twisted away from the plunging blade.
Depar ting from the scene, their
assailant paused at Hartnells car to
scribble on the door with a felt-tipped
pen: Vallejo 12-20-68 7-4-69 Sept 2769-6:30 by knife.
The killer then phoned police to
report the crime, but by that time, a
fisherman had already found the victims.
Brian Hartnell survived his wounds but
Cecilia Shepard was doomed, another
victim of the phantom stalker. Officers
found the telephone booth from which
the slayer called them, isolating four fingerprints that remain unidentified to
this day. A clear palm-print was also
found on the telephone receiver but
technicians accidentally smudged it,
thereby rendering it useless.
Lawrence Kane
rofiled as a Zodiac suspect in 1998 by
the television program Americas Most
Wanted, Kane was 38 years old in 1962,
when he suffered brain damage in an automobile accident. Three years later, a psychologist declared that Kane was losing
the ability to control self-gratification.
Darlene Ferrins sister reportedly named
Kane as the man who followed and
harassed her sister for several weeks
before her murder, and Kane disposed of
his car five days after the 1969 Mageau-Ferrin shooting. Kathleen Johns also reportedly
identified Kane as the man who abducted
her in 1970.
Researcher Tom Voigt also claims that
Kanes surname can be easily seen in a
Zodiac
cipher
mailed to police
on April 20, 1970,
but other students
of the correspondence dismiss
that asser tion as
fantasy. Kane was
also living in Nevada as of early
1999, a fact
apparently unknown to producers of Americas Most Wanted when they broadcast
pleas for viewers to locate him. His present
whereabouts are unknown, but as no formal
charges have been filed against him, he is
free to travel where he will.
Rick Marshall
Texas native and 38 years old at the
time of the Zodiacs first known murder
in 1966, Marshall is linked with the crimes
more by geographic coincidence than anything resembling solid evidence, and even
though his fingerprints match none of those
collected from the
Zodiac crime scenes
or letters. Yet Marshall did live in Riverside at the time of
the Bates murder,
later residing in San
Francisco from 1969
to 1989. His apar tment stood within a
few miles of the Stine murder scene and the

call letters of a radio station where Marshall
worked in the early 1970s (KTIM) allegedly
resemble cr yptic symbols from one of the
Zodiacs letters. On balance, it is something
less than a compelling case.
Michael OHare
nitially named in 1987 as a Zodiac suspect by author
Gareth Penn and
later featured as one
of several suspects
on the Learning
Channels review of
the case, OHare is
linked to the crimes
only by a web of conjecture involving the alleged appearance of
Morse code and binar y mathematical symbols in various Zodiac letters. (Most
researchers attribute those ephemeral
clues to Penns imagination). Penns theory
also flies in the face of established evidence, as he also blames the Zodiac for
murders committed in Massachusetts as
late as 1981.
Charles Clifton Collins

amed as a suspect in 2002, Charles
Collins was fingered by his son, New
York journalism student William Collins, in a
report aired by televisions Primetime Live.
As the younger Collins explained, he was
reading a book on the Zodiac murders
sometime in the 1990s, when he saw photocopies of the killers letters and thought,
Oh my God, thats my dads handwriting.
Further research persuaded Collins that his
father, who died in 1993, resembled suspect sketches of the Zodiac, that his shoe
size matched the killers, and that he lived
in San Francisco when the murders were
committed. The suspects initials (CCC)
were also penned on one of the cards that
the Zodiac sent to police in his heyday.
William Collins appealed to the producers
for help, but subsequent DNA testing on an
envelope licked by Collins father formally
excluded him as a suspect.
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Zodiac and told police, Thats him!

Today, some students of the case
reject that identification, claiming the
Zodiac never strayed so far from San
Francisco. Others, however, insist that
Kathleen Johns and her daughter represent two more surviving victims of the
Zodiac.
The Last Letters from the Zodiac
he killer mailed nine more letters
between 1970 and 1971, but
police identified no further victims in the murder series. A San Francisco detective reported that fingerprints
found on a Zodiac note mailed on April
28, 1970, were not made by persons
handling the card after its receipt. But
still, they led nowhere. Then on January
30, 1974, a San Francisco newspaper
received the first authenticated Zodiac
letter in nearly three years, which was
signed off with the notation: Me-37;
SFPD-0.
One officer who took this estimated
body count seriously was Sheriff Don
Striepke of Sonoma County. In a 1975
report, Striepke referred to a series of 40
unsolved murders in four western states,
which seemed to form a giant Z when
plotted on the map. While tantalizing,
Striepkes theory seemed to fall apart in
1977 when serial killer Theodore Bundy
was named a prime suspect in some of
those cases.
The Zodiac mailed his last confirmed
letter on April 24, 1978, chilling Bay
Area residents with the announcement
that I am back with you. No traceable
crimes were committed, however, and
Homicide Inspector Dave Toschi was
later removed from the Zodiac detail on
suspicion of writing the letter himself.
Although Toschi confessed to writing
several anonymous letters to the press
that praised his own performance on the
case, handwriting analysts agree now
that the April note was indeed written
by the killer, not Toschi.
Arthur Leigh Allen, shown

in this photo taken in 1972,
is the most widely known
Zodiac suspect.
Allen: The Prime Suspect

he most widely-known Zodiac
suspect, Arthur Leigh Allen, was
publicly named as the Zodiac
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killer during his lifetime by several California detectives, and was investigated
by various law enforcement agencies
from 1969 until a week after his death in
1992. Although he pled guilty to child
molestation in 1975, serving 29 months
in a California state hospital, no charges
were ever filed against him in connection with the Zodiac case.
Arguments for and against Allens
guilt in the Zodiac murders include the
following:
1. While employed as a schoolteacher in
Calaveras County, CA, Allen missed
work on Tuesday, November 1,
1966, first claiming the time as
school business, but later changing
to it a sick day. Accusers suggest that
he took the day of f to recuperate
from facial wounds inflicted by Riverside murder victim Cheri Bates on
October 30. However, Bates was
killed on Sunday night, some 350
miles south of Calaveras County, and

Allen taught classes the following day
without incident.
2. A Royal typewriter with Elite type
the same kind used to write the
anonymous letters following Cheri
Batess murderwas seized in a
search of Allens home in 1991.
Although police specifically listed
the typewriter on their search warrant, for some unknown reason, no
effort has yet been made to match
the machine with the Bates correspondence.
3. Sometime in late 1968, Allen
allegedly told acquaintance Don
Cheney that he planned to commit a
series of random murders, shooting
couples in lovers lanes and taunting
police with letters signed Zodiac.
Allens off-hand discussion of the
crimes-to-be supposedly included
specific descriptions of his intended
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weapons and plans to attack a school

bus (which was also threatened in
one of the Zodiacs subsequent letters to the press).
However, Cheneys credibility suffers from the fact that he first revealed
the alleged conversation in 1971,
nearly two years after the last known
Zodiac murder made headlines. Even
then, he told an employer rather than
contacting the police directly, and
important details of his story changed
over time. Critics also note that
Cheney once complained of Allen
attempting to molest his daughter on
a camping trip, which might have
been a motive for accusing Allen.
4. On October 6, 1969, Allen was questioned by Vallejo police concerning
the Lake Berr yessa attack. In that
interview, he reportedly told authorities that he was going to go to
Berryessa on the day of the crime, but
changed his mind and went up the
coast instead. Allen cited a couple
from Treasure Island as alibi witnesses
but could not supply police with their
names. Accusers note that Allens
shoe size was identical to that of footprints left by the Lake Berryessa killer
(though the prints were never
matched to shoes owned by Allen).
5. Sometime in the mid-1970s, survivor
Br yan Har tnell allegedly viewed
Allen at work, and reportedly told
police that Allens physical appearance and voice were the same as
Zodiacs. However, several years had
passed since the attack, and Hartnell
supposedly never saw the masked
killers face.
6. A foot-long knife was seized at Allens
home during a police search in 1991,
but again, no efforts have been made
to match the blade with wounds suffered by the Lake Berryessa victims.
7. Four days after the Vallejo police interview in 1969, Allen allegedly told
acquaintance Ralph Spinelli that he
was going to San Francisco to kill a
cabbie. Although the Paul Stine murder occurred one day later, Spinelli
made no report of the conversation
until 1990, when he was facing a 30-
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year prison term for his part in an
armed robbery in Nevada. As in the
case of Don Cheney, Spinelli also had
a prior history of conflict with Allen,
which may have motivated this accusation.
8. In 1992, Zodiac sur vivor Michael
Mageau allegedly picked out Allens
mug shot from a police photo lineup, telling detectives, Thats him!
Hes the man who shot me! True
or not, the fact remains that no
charges were filed against Allen prior
to his death from natural causes in
August of 1992.
Allen Officially Exonerated
espite the public allegations
against Allen, cer tain facts
remain undisputed. A 1971
report to Vallejo police from the California Department of Justice stated that
Allens handwriting had been compared
to that of all Zodiac letters, and none
were found to match. A year later, Vallejo
police sought a second opinion from FBI
handwriting experts. They agreed with
the Justice Departments findings and
Allen was dismissed as being the author
of the Zodiac letters.
Additionally, a search of Allens home
in 1972 found nothing incriminating,
and he subsequently passed a 10-hour
polygraph test. His fingerprints also produced no matches when compared with
those collected in the Zodiac case.
Police took what may be their last stab
at solving the case in October of 2002,
when they submitted envelopes from
various Zodiac correspondence for DNA

testing. Their hope was that if the killer
licked a stamp or envelope flap, saliva
traces would contain enough genetic
material to identify the killer.
Dr. Cydne Holt, supervisor of the San
Francisco Police Departments DNA laboratory, did recover DNA samples from
one stamp on a Zodiac card, but the test
results were disappointing. When compared to brain tissue preser ved from
Allens 1992 autopsy, the DNA conclusively eliminated him as the man who
licked the stamp. The same test also
excluded suspects Charles Clifton Collins
and an unnamed San Francisco lawyer.
So Whodunit?
oes DNA testing clear Allen as
the killer? Dr. Holt equivocated, noting that the Zodiac
stamp bore only four of the nine possible
DNA markers plus gender indicators,
proving that the subject was male. Its
not enough to positively identify anyone
as Zodiac, Holt told reporters, but it is
enough to narrow suspicions, or perhaps
even eliminate suspects.
However, journalist Robert Graysmith, author of two books touting Allen
as the slayer, hedged his bets in a 2002
interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. Ive always wondered if there wasnt
more than one person involved, Graysmith said. Someone running interference for Allen. (Graysmith also speculates that Zodiac may have killed 40
additional victims throughout California
between 1969 and 1981, none of whom
is currently linked to Allen by any known
evidence.)
While the search for evidence continues, we can do no more than echo
author Don Rumbelows sentiment,
penned in 1975 with respect to another
elusive serial killer:
I have always had the feeling that on
the Day of Judgment...when I and
other Ripperologists ask for Jack the
Ripper to step forward and call out
his true name, then we shall turn and
look with blank astonishment at one
another when he announces his name
and say, Who? z
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considerable factor in the appeal

of Tarot cards is their fabled exotic
background. Many people have
devised theories that attempt to explain their
origins while others simply sustain the
myths that shroud them. Although these
myths seize the imagination, the Tarots
true history remains equally captivating.
In fact, Tarot cards, which were originally designed in the 15th century,
were not actually used for divination
until the 18th century.
A TRADITION
OF TRIUMPHS
THE HISTORY
OF TAROT
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BY ALEXANDRA DIAZ
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Both playing cards and the Tarot contain ten numbered cards and the page,
knight, and king court cards. Tarot decks
also consisted of four suits: Swords,
Cups, Batons (later called Wands), and
Coins (later called Pentacles). An important difference, however, is the Tarots
22 trump cards, bringing the total number of cards in a deck to 78.
Despite the popular belief that Tarot
cards were created for the sole purpose
of divination, they actually first emerged
in the first half of the 15th century in
Italy for playing the car te de trionfi
(Game of Triumphs), a fashionable card
game among Italian aristocrats.
Played similarly to todays Bridge,
these cards, unlike earlier numbered
playing cards, displayed symbolic figures
such as the Pope, the Devil, the Emperor, and the Sun. As the trump cards contained no actual numerical identifiers,
players were expected to familiarize
themselves with their order.
The Visconti-Sforza Deck
ilippo Maria Visconti, the Duke of
Milan, along with his illegitimate
daughters husband Francesco
Sforza, were among the first to commission a Tarot deck from Milanese court
artist Bonifacio Bembo sometime
between 1420 and 1440. Now known as
the Visconti-Sforza deck, the first cards
depicted a series of heraldic devices, such
as the Visconti family motto a bon droyt
(by legitimate right), and the recurring
emblem of a winding snake. Two later
decks commissioned by Visconti and
Sforza similarly portrayed several Sforza
family designs.
Some of these devices, as well as the
high quality of the cards designs, suggest that they may have been created to
be given as a wedding gift for Viscontis
marriage to Maria de Savoy. For
instance, the Lovers card in one deck
depicts a couple under a canopy, which
may represent Visconti and his bride,
for the fringe on the canopy alternates
with the Visconti shield (a white background with a black snake) and the
Savoy shield (a white cross on a red
background). However, because their
Cards from the 16th-century Tarot de Marseilles, illustrated by an unknown artist in Italy.
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The Marseilles Motif

y the 16th century, the Tarot had
spread to northern Italy, where
the Tarot de Marseilles was born.
Illustrated by an unknown artist in Lombardy, Italy, it became the most recognized Tarot pattern in the world.
The earliest known model of the Marseilles pattern was the Cary sheet, an
uncut sheet of Tarot cards that depicted
the Popess, the Emperor, the Empress,
the Moon, the Star, and the Magician.
When Napoleon conquered northern
Italy in 1796, the Car y sheet was
brought back to France by his troops.
French cardmakers quickly imitated its
design and began adding titles to the
cards. For unlike Italian Tarot players
who were well-acquainted with the
images, French players were unfamiliar
with the game and so required labels to
differentiate between the cards. The
existence of title banners soon standardized the cards order, the names of the
trumps, and their designs.
Filippo Maria Visconti (inset), the Duke of Milan, along

with his illegitimate daughters husband Francesco Sforza
(above), are believed to have commissioned some of the
earliest Tarot decks.
marriage was strictly political, the

sweetness of this theory is dubious.
With these first decks, the subjects
particularly of the trumpsfeatured
figures from renaissance and medieval
society, such as clergymen and political

figures of the time. For instance, the
Popess card may have been designed to
represent Sister Manfreda, a Visconti
cousin.
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In the Visconti-Sforza deck, many of the

images may have been designed after
Visconti or Sforza family members.
Although by the early 18th century,

Tarot games had faded out of fashion
among the French aristocracy, it
remained popular with the lower classes,
so local villages continued to produce
both the Marseilles Tarot as well as their
own regional versions. But when a new
breed of occultists published their
respective theories concerning the mysterious origins of the cards during the
second half of the 18th century, there
was a resurgence of interest in the Tarot.
Legends of Far-off Lands
he cards appeal star ted to
expand after Antoine Court de
Gebelin reintroduced the Tarot
of Marseilles to the French nobility during the 18th century. A Swiss Protestant
pastor and occultist, de Gebelin was fascinated with esoteric studies, mythology,
and ancient societies.
As a member of several freemason
organizations, he was introduced to the
Tarot when a member invited him to
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THE MEANING BEHIND

THE ORDERING OF THE
MAJOR ARCANA
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Antoine Court de Gebelin theorized that
the Tarot trumps were actually taken
from the Book of Thoth, an Egyptian book
of ancient wisdom. However, he provided
no evidence to support this theory and
most people now believe that this was
just pure speculation on his part.
play the game. Entranced by its intricate

illustrations, he asserted that he immediately recognized the symbolism as being
ancient Egyptian in origin.
Between 1773 and 1782, de Gebelin
published Le Monde Primitif (The Primitive World), a nine-volume collection
that attempted to recreate early civilizations by hypothesizing what occurred
during the daily lives of the Greeks,
Romans, and particularly the Egyptians.
In it, he also discussed the Tarots origins, theorizing that the 22 trumps were,
in fact, taken from the pages of a mysterious Egyptian book of ancient wisdom.
He also explained that the order of the
trumps was originally inverted to portray
the creation of the world, beginning
with the World card and the other celestial trumps. However, he provided no
evidence to suppor t his theor y, and
many historians maintain that his assertions were mostly based on speculation.
Another essay in Le Monde Primitif,
written by the Comte de Millet, a
French nobleman and cavalr y officer
with an interest in the occult, linked the
22 trumps to the 22 letters in the
Hebrew alphabet. He conjectured that
each trump, with its corresponding let-
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hough obscured by nearly 600

years of cultural change and endless layers of interpretation, the
medieval order of the Tarot can still be
found in the allegorical images of the 22
trionfi (triumphs or tr umps) now
known as the Major Arcana.
Individually, any given Tarot trump card
can seem ambiguous, with endless ways
to interpret it. Viewed collectively, however, and within the context of the Middle
Ages, it becomes clear that the Tarot
trumps have an underlying, sequential
design that would have been immediately
recognizable to its intended audience
educated 15th-century Italian nobility.
The late Middle Ages in Europe was
dominated by religion and a marked tendency to embody thought in images.
Most thinking tended to religious interpretation and instruction and, considered within the constraints imposed by
the intended sequence, the metaphorical figures of the Tarot tr ump cards
exemplified the medieval propensity to
correlate nearly ever ything to the stor y
of Christian salvation.
The sequence of the trump cards can
be divided into three sections. The first
consists of six cards that represent the
social hierarchy, or ranks of man,
which include two representatives from
each of the three estates of medieval
society (the traditional ranks of social
and political power: the clergy, the nobility, and the middle class). These cards
begin with the commoners (the Fool) and
end with the Pope. Since there is no
higher social station than the Pope, any
card ranked higher in the sequence is of
a different type.
The nine cards of the middle section
cycle through allegories that depict the
conditions of man. These include success, both individual (the Lovers) and collective (the Chariot); the hardships of
time (the Hermit) and fate (the Wheel of
Fortune); and mortality (the Hanged Man
and Death). This section is seasoned with
virtues and the habits of moral living (Fortitude and Justice), turns upon the Wheel
of Fate in the middle, and is climaxed by
Death and the promise of eternal life
(Time/Temperance).
The triumph of Time/Temperance over
Death provides a moral transition to the
"eschatological realm," which concerns
the second coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment,
and the nature of human existence at
the end of the world. Like the exalted
status of the Pope, the degraded status
of the Devil is an inescapable boundar y
of the internal design of the sequence.
As there can be no lower station than
the Devil in the eschatological realm, the
lowest ranking card necessarily begins
the final section.
In the initial triptych of the final section,
the lowest card (the Devil) is immediately
triumphed by fire from heaven (the Tower
of Lightning/the Tower of God) and Christ
(the Star). To a medieval audience, this
would have represented the triumph of
Christ over his two great adversaries
Death and the Deviland the Christian
promise of resurrection and salvation.
That promise, the "Triumph of Eternity," was a per vasive motif during the
Middle Ages, and is depicted by the final
cards of the trump sequence. Here, the
temporal lights of the world (the Moon
and the Sun) are triumphed by Christs
resurrection and the resurrection of the
faithful (Judgment/the Last Judgment).
In the final triumph, the Lord reigns over
all (the World).
Other layers of meaning may have been
lost through simplification of the allegorical images, reordering of the sequence,
and conflation with other ideas or
themes. However, considered within the
context of medieval theological doctrine,
the underlying design of the Tarot's Major
Arcana epitomizes the Christian mythos
of mans relationship to God and the
divine.
The French Fortune-Teller

n 1770, Jean-Baptiste Alliette, a
Parisian wine merchant who preferred the pseudonym Etteilla (his
surname spelled backwards), initiated
Tarots acceptance as a divinatory tool.
In that year, he published Etteilla, ou
manire de se rcrer avec un jeu de
cartes (Etteilla, or a Way to Entertain
Yourself with a Deck of Cards), in which
he discussed how to use regular playing
cards for divination.
Specifically, he advocated the use of
the piquet decka popular shortened
pack typically used for gamingto
which he added one nontraditional card
called Etteilla. To consult the cards,
one dealt them into a spread and then
interpreted each one. Each card carried
upright and reversed meanings. For
example, the Ten of Hearts meant a
town and, when reversed, an inheritance. Similarly, the King of Spades
meant a lawyer but, when reversed, a
widower.
In 1785, he published a book dedicated to divination with Tarot cards,
titled Manire de se rcrer avec le jeu de
cartes nomes Tarots (How to Entertain
Yourself With the Deck of Cards Called
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ter, forged a connection to the Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism that

interpreted Hebrew scriptures.
He also agreed with de Gebelins
conjecture that the set of trumps came
from the Egyptian Book of Thoth.
(Thoth was the Egyptian god of wisdom.) He then described how one
could read Tarot cards by using a layout
that he had adapted from a similar
model that was supposedly used by
ancient Egyptian priests.
However, like de Gebelin, de Millet
contributed no evidence to support his
theories, and when the Rosetta Stone
was discovered in 1799a stone which
decoded Egyptian hieroglyphicsit
soon became clear that there was no
Egyptian document that resembled the
images on the Tarots trump cards. Any
lingering doubts concerning the validity
of both de Millets and de Gebelins theories quickly dissolved.
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Etteilla believed that the Tarot originated

from a small Egyptian cult of 17 ancestors
of the Egyptian God Thoth. He was the
first to design a Tarot deck (above) specifically to be used for divinatory purposes.
Tarot). Although it was published after

de Gebelins book, Etteilla claimed that
he had been studying the Tarot since
1757 and had learned cartomancy from
an Italian who had divulged the secrets
of his folk traditions to him. He also felt
that the last seven trumps belonged at
the beginning of the Major Arcana (the
term used to refer to the 22 trumps) to
represent the story of Creation.
Etteilla also attributed the cards existence to a small cult of 17 supposed
ancestors of the Egyptian god Thoth.
He even went so far as to speculate that
the Tarot was created exactly 1,828 years
after Creation and 171 years after the
Great Flood of the Old Testament, making the Tarot 2,125 years old in 1757.
Nevertheless, he provided no evidence

to prove his claims, and his theories were
soon dismissed as inaccurate.
After the success of his books, Etteilla
published the first Tarot deck specifically designed for divinatory purposes. In
it, he reordered the Major Arcana to
reflect his views and reordered key
words around the subjects image in
order to assist the card reader in divining its meaning. He also assigned each
card a prescribed definition, whose
interpretation depended on the spread
and the individuals situation. Although
many of the cards meanings have
evolved since then, several of Etteillas
interpretations are still used to this day.
The Esoteric Radical
n the 19th centur y, AlphonseLouis Constant thrust occultism
and the Tarot into the forefront of
the esoteric community when he published La Bible de la libert (The Bible of
Liberty) in 1841.
It was during the turmoil of a failed
marriageand during the political
upheaval of the French Revolution
that Constant met Polish occultist
Hoene Wronski. Magic as an acceptable
spiritual path was generally scorned in
Europe, but Constant studied it diligently and eventually adopted the
Hebrew version of his nameEliphas
Levidue, in part, to his respect for the
Kabbalah but also because he desired to
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Alphonse-Louis Costant,
aka Eliphas Levi, harmonized
the principles of the
Kabbalah with the Tarot.
Arthur Edward Waite shaped the future of

the Tarot by designing the popular RiderWaite Tarot deck.
distance himself from his painful past.

As he immersed himself deeper into
magic, Levi wrote about his newfound
passion, developing what would become
a lifelong career as an authority in
occultism. He experimented with peculiar ceremonies, such as his alleged invocation of Apollonius of Tyana, a legendary magician and Jesus supposed
contemporary.
In his most influential work, Dogme et
rituel de la haute magie (Transcendental
Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual), published in 1855, he claimed that when he
prepared an altar, complete with ritualistic accoutrements, a specter of Apollo-
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nius would materialize in a puff of drifting smoke. Unfortunately, no witnesses

were ever present to confirm this claim.
In Dogme et rituel, Levi also fused
together several magical elements, such
as certain principles of the Kabbalah,
forms of divination (including the Tarot),
nature, and astrology. He also endorsed
magic as a legitimate spiritual affiliation,
claiming that in magic lay the potential to
unite science and Christianity.
Additionally, Levi eagerly praised the
Tarot, calling it the basis for all ancient
dogmatic principles, and encouraged his
readers to embrace the Tarot as a
prophetic tool. He also harmonized
principles of the Kabbalah with the

Tarot. For instance, he wrote that the
ten numbered cards in each suit correlated to the ten Sephiroth, or branches of
spiritual energy of the Kabbalahs Tree of
Life. He also paired each of the four suits
with one of the four natural elements of
earth, air, fire, and water.
Several of the Tarot images that he
described in Dogme et rituel, such as the
Empress as a Venus figure and the
Popess as the Egyptian goddess Isis,
shaped the visual representations on
some of the most popular Tarot decks,
such as the Rider-Waite deck. In fact,
Levis efforts to make the Tarot and esotericism acceptable to various occultist
communities that disregarded magic as a
viable spiritual outlet sparked renewed
interest in the occult, spawning new
organizations such as the Hermetic
Order of the Golden Dawn.
The Dawn of the Modern Tarot
he short-lived Hermetic Order
of the Golden Dawn was conceived in 1888 to focus on various magical disciplines, such as divination, alchemy, magic, and astrology, in
order to help its initiates achieve selfawareness. Members included Arthur
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Edward Waite, Aleister Crowley, and the

renowned poet William Butler Yeats.
Waite, who was initiated into the
Order in 1891, shaped the future of the
Tarot by designing the Rider-Waite
Tarot, the most commonly used deck
today. When the Hermetic Order disintegrated in 1903, Waite founded his
own organization, the Holy Order of
the Golden Dawn.
Waite was also the author of several
occult works, including books, articles,
and translations of an assortment of esoteric subjects. But his most valuable contribution to occultism was the RiderWaite Tarot, alternately known as the
Waite-Smith Tarot or the Universal
Waite Tarot (depending on the illustrator), which was published in 1909 with
its companion book The Pictorial Key to
the Tarot.
His deck later inspired hundreds of
decks, including Aleister Crowleys
Thoth Tarot, published in 1944, and its
complementar y Book of Thoth, which
described his interpretations of the
Major Arcana. Crowley also redesigned
several trumps to be more erotic. For
instance, the Judgment was replaced
with The Aeon card, and the Strength
card was replaced with the Lust card.
The fusion of Waites interpretations
and Crowleys postmodern aesthetic
inspired a fresh batch of Tarot
designers during the 1960s. Most
new decks adapted Waites universal
themes and symbols with different
artistic styles, such as the PoMo Tarot,
which depicts several postmodern
designs of the traditional trumps and
cour t cards. Other decks deviated
entirely from previous patterns. For
instance, the feminist Motherpeace
Tarot, released in 1983, introduced the
first circular Tarot deck.
Although the legends regarding the
Tarots origins are ripe with exotic
images of fortune-telling gypsies, history
reveals a European aristocracy who were
as captivated by the mysterious cards as
we are today. Although fragments of the
Tarots past reveal themselves slowly, the
cards histor y matters less than the
meanings we assign to them today. z
Aleister Crowleys greatest

achievement may have
been his design of the
Toth deck, shown below.
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NNAAPPOOLLEEOON N?SS
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REMEMBERS
N APOLEON B ONAPARTE
AS A
BRILLIANT GENERAL , FEARLESS LEADER , AND POWERFUL

EMPEROR .
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FEW KNOW THAT HE WAS ALSO INFLUENCED
BY THE OCCULT AND ACTUALLY BASED MANY OF HIS LIFE

DECISIONS ON ADVICE FROM PROGNOSTICATORS ,
PALM - READERS , ASTROLOGERS , AND HIS UNUSUAL
B OOK
OF
FATE ,
AN ANCIENT ORACLE
THAT HE SUPPOSEDLY FOUND IN A

MUMMY S SARCOPHAGUS DURING
HIS MILITARY CAMPAIGN
IN
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After her release from prison, Rose set about

establishing herself as a fixture in Parisian society, courting the admiration of wealthy and
politically powerful men. Rose and Napoleon
met when she arranged a meeting with him to
seek the return of her deceased husbands
sword, which was then in Napoleons possession. Napoleon fell instantly in love and, wanting Rose to have a Christian name, renamed
her Josephine.
Empress Josephine,
aka Rose Tascher, 1763.
The Celebrity of The Sibyl

ost-Revolution France was rife with interest in mysticism. The French were weary
of the bloodshed and turmoil of the
French Revolution and the occult provided
pleasant respite from the tedium of everyday
life. To serious believers, it was also a way to
divine the future and to make contact with
departed loved ones, many of whom had died
during the Reign of Terror. Rose herself
believed deeply in the supernatural, citing the
partially fulfilled prediction of the seer on Martinique as evidence of the power of clairvoyance.
She soon began to regularly seek the counsel of Parisian for tune-tellers, including
Madame Villeneuve, who practiced her trade
on Rue lAntechrist, and Monsier Martin, an
Italian palm-reader who concealed his legless
lower body in a wooden box and stocked his
reading rooms with skeletons and other
macabre trinkets of black magic.
However, Roses favorite reader was Marie
Adelaide Lenormand, a prominent psychic who
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Napoleon was born in the French-controlled
port of Ajaccio, Corsica, on August 15, 1769, to
Carlo and Letizia Bonaparte, Italian aristocrats
from privileged backgrounds. Both of his parents
were extremely superstitious, believing in the evil
eye, ghosts, and even vampires. His mother was
particularly sensitive to the callings of the mystical
world, heeding the hooting of owls and the howling of dogs in the night as omens of the approaching death of a loved one. These early influences
undoubtedly shaped Napoleons view of the world
and set the stage for his life-long curiosity about
the occult.
In 1779, Napoleon entered military school. He
was a voracious reader, and one of his favorite
books was The Art of Judging Character From
Mens Faces, by Jean Gaspard Lavater. Lavater was a
Swiss theologian, mystic, and proponent of physiognomy (face-reading), believing that a mans disposition and character could be determined by
studying his facial features. Napoleon was fascinated by this premise, and his exploration of Lavaters
work heralded his budding interest in the occult.
Napoleon graduated from military school in
1785, joined the French artillery, and soon began
his meteoric rise as a military strategist and leader.
His outstanding performance as an army officer did
not go unnoticed and in 1795, at the tender age of
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26, he was promoted to the rank of General of the

western division of the French army. Later that
year, he met Rose du Beauharnais, his wife-to-be
and the future Empress Josephine of France.
The Rise of Rose
osephines own life was colorful and turbulent. She was born Rose Tascher in 1763 in
Martinique, the child of struggling plantation
owners. When she was a young girl, an aged
soothsayer told Roses fortune, predicting that she
would suffer through an unhappy marriage and
widowhood, followed by a second marriage and a
rise to prominence greater than that of a queen.
Ambitious and bored with island life, Rose left
home at the age of 16 and traveled to Europe,
where she met and married French nobleman
Alexandre du Beauharnais. Although they had
two children (Hortense and Eugene), their marriage was not a happy one, and both partners
engaged in extramarital affairs.
By 1790, the French Revolution was shaking the
foundations of French society, and Alexandre was
executed, along with countless other aristocrats,
confirming at least part of the prophecy of the fortune teller in Martinique. Rose herself was imprisoned for a time and her health suffered terribly as a
result of her incarceration.
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commanded great respect in French society.

Known simply as The Sorceress or The
Sibyl, Lenormand had risen to fame by predicting the executions of Maximilien Robespierre and Jean Paul Marat, radical leaders and
spokesmen during the French Revolution.
She also claimed to be able to communicate
with the dead and practiced many forms of
divination, notably palm-reading, astrology,
and the Tarot. She also believed that the
behavior of birds and animals provided omens
about the future, and worked with fire, ashes,
water, broken mirrors, candles, hair, and fingernails, which she used in various ways to
predict the future.
Madame Lenormand was also gifted in
card-reading and even designed her own deck
of 36 cards, which bore cryptic messages and
brilliantly colored images and symbols. In fact,
the Lenormand deck is still used by card-readers today.
The Predictions of Lenormand
uring their courtship and marriage,
Josephine encouraged Napoleon to
seek the advice of Madame Lenormand, who had by then reached celebrity status
in Parisian society. Both consulted the seer,
who read their palms and cast their horoscopes.
She supposedly predicted that Josephine would
enjoy a life of privilege and honor and that her
husband would achieve status as an honored
leader. She also foresaw his great military career
and rapid rise to immense political power, fol-
Madame Lenormand designed her own deck of 36 cards, which bore cryptic messages and brilliantly colored images and symbols.
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The halt of the French army at Syene (Upper Egypt) in February, 1799.
Asking the Oracle
he 32 questions listed here are believed to mirror those found in the Oracle used by Napoleon.
The questions address a variety of concerns, including love and marriage, friendship and family,
health, business, and career, as well as issues of character, ethical behavior, and personal
responsibility.
After choosing a question, the querent was instructed to draw five lines of random dashes. The pattern formed by the marks in the lines was then matched to a key in the text of the Oracle, to provide
an answer.
Will the stolen property be recovered, and will the thief be detected?
Inform me of any or all of the particulars which relate to the woman I shall marry.
Inform me of all particulars relating to my future husband.
Shall I live to an old age?
Shall I ever be able to retire from business with a fortune?
Shall I be eminent and meet with preferment in my pursuits?
Shall I be successful in my present undertaking?
Will my name be immortalized and will posterity applaud it?
What is the aspect of the seasons and what political changes are to take place?
Will the marriage about to take place be happy and prosperous?
lowed by a crushing defeat and exile to a foreign

island. She finally predicted that he would eventually divorce his beloved Josephine, and warned him
to temper his lust for conquest. She noted that his
unusually long forefinger revealed his most troublesome character traits: egotism, pride, and a warring
nature. (Today, the finger of Napoleon remains
part of the jargon used by palm-readers.)
Legend has it that Napoleon was greatly angered
by Lenormands predictions and refused to believe
that his personal power and great influence could be
usurped. Nonetheless, he respected her opinions
and, when Napoleon was crowned Emperor of
France in 1804, she was given her own sumptuous
house on the palace grounds so she could be regularly consulted by members of the royal court.
Yet it is true that from the start, the Bonapartes
marriage was troubled. Napoleon traveled extensively, leaving Josephine to find amusement in lavish
parties and outrageous spending, and both took
part in extramarital trysts. Napoleon was soon frustrated by Josephines indiscretions, as well as her
apparent inability to bear children. As he desperately wanted an heir, in 1809, he divorced Josephine
to marry Princess Marie Louise of Austria.
Prior to the finalization of the divorce,
Napoleon had Madame Lenormand imprisoned
for two weeks, apparently fearful of further prognostications that might embarrass him. But her
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incarceration only served to make her even more

famous in French society. Napoleon, uneasy with
her ever-skyrocketing popularity, then had Lenormand expelled from Paris. She later took up residence in Germany and then Brussels, where she
continued to consult for Russian, German, and
English officers and aristocrats.
After my death will my children be virtuous and happy?

Shall I ever find a treasure?
What trade or profession ought I to follow?
Have I any, or many, enemies?
Will the prisoner be released or continue captive?
Shall I travel far by land or sea or reside in foreign climes?
Shall I be involved in litigation and, if so, shall I gain or lose in my cause?
The Rolls of Mans Fate

apoleons skill as a commanding officer
rapidly catapulted him to fame. His decisive squashing of an uprising against the
French government in 1795as well as successful
invasions of Italy and Austria in the following
yearsgave him almost unlimited popularity and
power. In 1798, he set sail for Egypt, accompanied
by an elite corps of scientists, historians, and
artists. The goal of the expedition was to seize key
Egyptian cities and por ts, thereby expanding
Frances empire.
But Napoleon was fascinated with ancient Egyptian culture, particularly the pyramids. It is said that
during a trip to Mount Libycus near Thebes, a
member of Napoleons party broke into a pyramids
inner chamber and found there a perfectly preser ved mummy inside an ornate sarcophagus.
Attached to the mummified kings breast was a
sheet of papyrus bearing hieroglyphics.
An Egyptian scholar was supposedly summoned
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Shall I make or mar my fortune by gambling?

Shall I ever inherit testamentary property?
Shall I spend this year happier than last?
Will the stranger soon return from abroad?
Will the friend I most reckon upon prove faithful or treacherous?
Will my reputation be at all or much affected by calumny?
Will my beloved prove true in my absence?
Shall I ever recover from my present misfortunes?
Does my dream portend good luck or misfortune?
Will it be my lot in life to experience great vicissitudes?
Shall the patient recover from illness?
Does the person whom I love, love and regard me?
Shall my intended journey be prosperous or unlucky?
Are absent friends in good health?
Shall my wife have a son or daughter?
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day in Egypt. From then on, the oracle became

Napoleons most closely guarded possession.
He kept it by his side in a locked box and
sought its guidance before ever y battle or
before making any major decision.
Napoleons career continued to flourish when
he returned to France in 1799. He was instrumental in helping to overthrow the French government and was appointed First Consul, a position that provided him with unbridled political
power. In 1804, he was crowned Emperor of
France, and renewed his campaign of conquest.
By 1808, France controlled nearly all of central
and western Europe.
However, Napoleons attempt to topple England led him into serious conflicts with Russia
and Austria. During the famed Battle of Nations
at Leipzig in 1813, Napoleons army was
soundly defeated. And when the tide of popular
opinion turned against the mighty Emperor,
Napoleon abdicated his throne in 1814.
From then on, his military success and political
power unraveled rapidly. He was defeated by
the British at Waterloo in June of 1815 and was
exiled to the island of St. Helena scarcely a
month later, where he supposedly lived until his
death from stomach cancer in 1821.
to decipher the manuscript. It was then translated

into German by Napoleons secretar y Herman
Kirchenhoffer, presumably in an attempt to secure
its most unusual contentsan oracle used by Egyptian priests to predict the future.
The ancient oracle, referred to as the Roll of
Mans Fate, was purportedly written by the high
priest Balaspsis of the Great Temple at the sacred
city of Diaspolis Parva, but the content of the oracle was believed to have come directly from the
god Osiris himself. Only priests were purportedly
allowed to see and touch the sacred oracle, which
was kept in an alabaster chest and stored beneath
the temples altar.
Using the Oracle
he text of the oracle consisted of 32 questions related to such topics as health, marriage, family, friends, travel, occupation, success, money, reputation, and character. Before a
question was asked of the oracle, an animal sacrifice
was to be made to the gods by the temple priest.
After asking his question, an individual was next
instructed to dip a quill into the blood of the sacri-
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ficed animal and to draw quickly five rows of horizontal lines, with each row containing approximately 12 lines. No thought was to guide this process;
the drawing of the lines was intended to be entirely
random. The priest then counted the number of
lines in each row; marking one dot to indicate an
odd number of lines and two dots to indicate an
even number. The pattern formed by the dots was
then matched to a corresponding hieroglyphic in
the oracles text, which provided the response to the
question. The answer was then communicated by
the priest to a prophetess, who sat at the door of the
temple on a sacred seat and proclaimed the findings
in a loud voice.
Napoleon reportedly asked the oracle the following set of questions and was so struck by the accuracy of the responses that he seized both the original
and translated manuscripts, pirating them for his
own personal use.
Even cynics might agree that the answers
Napoleon received from the oracle were eerily
reflective of his concerns during that period in his
life but for Napoleon, there was no doubt of the
value of the manuscript he consulted on that fateful
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A Battle Lost and a Book Found

apoleons demise is often portrayed
as the inevitable defeat of a maniacal
dictator who was undone by his
inability to control his thirst for world domination. Certainly this is true. However, one
startling and little-known piece of information casts a different light on the Emperors
fall from graceNapoleon and his beloved
oracle were separated on that doomed battlefield at Leipzig in 1813.
Distraught by its loss, he reportedly risked
his life attempting to find it, to no avail. The
oracle was later found by a Prussian soldier,
who failed to recognize its importance, and
instead sold it to a wounded French general
who had been captured in battle and imprisoned. The general, who understood the significance of Napoleons coat of arms on the cover
of the manuscript, planned to return it to
Napoleon when he was released. However,
when the general died from his injuries before
he could return the book, the oracle was sent
instead to his family.
Eventually the manuscript made its way
back to Napoleons second wife Empress

Marie Louise, who attempted to return it to
her husband while he was living in exile at St.
Helena. However, she was unsuccessful in this
endeavor and Napoleon and his oracle were
never reunited.
After Napoleons death, Marie Louise gave
the German translator Herman Kirchenhoffer
permission to translate the oracle into English
and to publish it. Public interest was so strong
that 17 editions of the oracle, in the form of a
book entitled Napoleons Book of Fate, were
released between 1822 and 1829.
Disputing the Books Authenticity
ince then, the authenticity of Napoleons
Book of Fate has often been disputed.
According to a preface to the book written by Kirchenhoffer, the oracle was discovered in 1801. But historians maintain that
Napoleon departed Egypt and returned to
France two years earlier, suggesting that he
would not have had access to the Oracle while
in Egypt. Other skeptics note that Napoleon
himself never mentioned the existence of the
oracle in his memoirs and that the verbiage of
The Book of Fate is more reflective of the language of 19th-century Europe rather than that
of ancient Egypt.
Even so, proponents of the books validity
insist that its strict attention to detail points to
its genuineness and maintain that the language
chosen by the German secretary demonstrates
his meticulous attempt to render an accurate
translation. They also note that the practice of
occult science was quite common in Europe
during the late 18th centur y, and that
Napoleons fascination with mystical phenomena was well known. Some even speculate that
had Napoleon heeded the stern warning
offered by the oracle (Abuse not the power
the Lord giveth thee), the direction of his life
might have taken a far different course.
Since its first appearance in 1822,
Napoleons Book of Fate has been published
many times in several languages. One fact
seems clearwhether truth or fiction, the
enduring popularity of the book demonstrates
the power of the occult to captivate and
intrigue us. It also offers a tantalizing glimpse
into the mysterious realm of divination which
may have guided Napoleon, one of the greatest rulers of all time. z
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BONAPARTE HAD
survived military campaigns that
saw millions of men fall, as well as
one of the worst military defeats in history
at Waterloo. By emerging alive and well
from this debacle, he created an awkward
situation for his enemies. He was still too
popular a figure throughout Europe for his
captors to execute him, so they imprisoned
him instead on the barren South Atlantic
island of St. Helena.
It seemed his vanquishers problems were
solved when, in May of 1821, Napoleon
died on St. Helena. His French guards were
certain he had not escaped, as he had from
his earlier confinement on Elbe Island. The
Royal Navy squadrons who endlessly
patrolled the waters around St. Helena were
likewise positive that their ward had stayed
put. Yet some historians believe that the
emperor actually managed to smuggle a
double onto the island to take his place, that
this impersonator later died on the island,
and that the real Bonaparte escaped to Italy,
where he lived peacefully for the next several
years, before being shot down as he
attempted to break into an Austrian castle.
APOLEON
by
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Did Napoleon Escape St. Helena?

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The island of St. Helena on which Napoleon was imprisoned.
Some said Napoleon lived a charmed

life, yet he went to great pains to frustrate would-be assassins by hiring men
who closely resembled him in his appearance and diminutive stature. Four men
eventually acted as doubles for the
emperor, giving the bewildering impression that he was in several places at once.
One of these impersonators was killed
by a bullet that may have been intended
for his master; one died by poison; and a
third was crippled in a riding accident.
The only surviving double at the time of
Napoleons imprisonment was Frenchman Franois Eugne Robeaud.
Although records in Robeauds hometown of Balycourt, France cryptically
recount that he died on St. Helena, the
date of his death is missing, obliterated
many decades ago by an unknown hand.
But what was Robeaud doing on St.
Helena in the first place?
The Search for Robeaud
lthough the garrison guarding
Bonaparte on St. Helena was
originally commanded by a General Gourgand, when he retired in 1818,
he was replaced by a general named
Ber trand, who had ser ved under
Napoleon and was a great admirer of the
former emperor. (The authorities may
have hoped that being guarded by one of
his adoring former generals would make
Bonapartes confinement sufficiently
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congenial that he would be less disposed

to attempt an escape.)
A month after the change in command, neighbors saw a glittering carriage
pull up in front of the house in Balycourt
where Robeaud lived with his spinster
sister. After a lengthy conference behind
closed doors, Robeauds mysterious visitors re-boarded their coach and drove
away. It was business as usual in Balycourt until autumn, when neighbors
noticed one morning that the Robeauds
were gone, apparently having left
furtively during the night.
Fearing foul play, local authorities
launched a search for the missing siblings. Two years later, two Balycourt
merchants saw Robeauds sister in Paris
and were puzzled when she pretended
not to know them. They informed their
hometown police, and a federal investigator named Ledru eventually managed
to locate her in Tours, where she was living quite well, despite having no visible
means of support.
When Ledru asked how she was supporting herself, she claimed to be the
paramour of a rich doctor who was paying all her expenses, but she refused to
give his name. Even if someone had fallen in love with the homely old maid, it
must have been a platonic romance, for
from what she told him, she had never
even seen her supposed consort. Rather,
the nameless surgeons punctual gifts of
money and delicacies arrived via courier.

When he asked where he could find
her brother, she said that Franois had
gone to sea and had not contacted her
since so she had no idea where he might
be located. Although it was painfully
clear that something odd had happened,
there was no evidence that any criminal
activities had transpired, so Ledru
returned to Balycourt.
Worried that Robeaud may have
attempted to swap places with Napoleon,
government leaders in both Paris and
London quietly checked on their star
prisoner. However, unwilling to make
the long, arduous sea journey themselves,
they contacted the island garrisons commander by mail, where General Bertrand
assured them that Bonaparte remained
secure on St. Helena.
The Appearance of M. Revard
t about the same time Ledru was
in Tours, General Bertrands wife
wrote to a friend, Success is
ours! Napoleon has left the island! Soon
after, an opulent-looking stranger arrived
in Verona, Italy. Calling himself merely
Monsieur Revard, he claimed to be a
widowed merchant from Normandy who
said he was now fulfilling his lifelong
ambition of living in Italy.
Revard soon formed a joint venture
with a man named Petrucci, and the two
opened an opticians shop that also dealt
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in diamonds. Interestingly, Petrucci

called his new friend emperor because
of his striking resemblance to Napoleon.
Revard turned out to be very generous, frequently walking the streets handing out expensive jewelry to impoverished people. Yet he seemed to have
inexhaustible personal funds with which
to repay the till.
Revard lived quietly in Italy for a number of years until August, 1823, when an
elaborate carriage arrived at the shop and
the driver handed Revard a letter. Petrucci later recalled that after Revard repeatedly perused this missive, he turned to
Petrucci to say that he had to leave at
once on important matters and that he
was leaving the shop in Petruccis hands.
A couple of hours later, Revard rode a
carriage to Petruccis home and gave him
a thick, sealed letter. He then told him
that if he was not back in three months,
he was to take his letter to the King of
France. Climbing back into the coach,
Revard rode out of Petruccis life forever.
An Ignomious Demise
t 11 p.m. on the night of
September 4, Napoleons son by
his second wife Marie Louise
Napoleon IIwas stricken with scarlet
fever while living in Austrias Schonbrunn Castle. According to legend, a
guard heard a rustling in the vines that
draped the walls surrounding the compound and seconds later, he saw a dark
silhouette drop to the ground and sprint
toward the palace.
The sentry fired at the interloper, who
collapsed and quickly died of a musket
ball through his abdomen. Guards carried the corpse into an illuminated hut,
took one look at him, and then sent for
their officers. Just after dawn, two highranking bureaucrats from the AustroHungarian government arrived to view
the body. These officials then surprisingly contacted the French embassy, which
sent emissaries to claim the cadaver.
Before the remains could be shipped
back to France, however, Marie Louise
insisted that the remains be returned to
the castle and buried in the Bonaparte
family plot. The officials complied and
Nineteen years after Napoleon Bonapartes supposed death at St. Helena, his casket was
opened before returning his body to France. Those who were present were astonished to
see that the emperors unembalmed body was almost perfectly preserved, as ostensibly,
the arsenic that may have been used to poison him had checked the processes of decay.
But was the person in the casket actually Napoleon or his body double Franois Robeaud?
the unknown man was buried on the castle grounds.

Before it was time for Petrucci to
deliver Revards missive to the King of
France, four French officials visited him
and paid him 100,000 gold crowns for
the enigmatic sealed letter, the shop,
and for his silence. He kept his secrets
for over 30 years, but he eventually told
his hometown authorities, under oath,
that he was certain his mysterious business partner indeed had been Napoleon
Bonaparte.
Could it be that the man killed at
Schonbrunn Castle was actually
Napoleon Bonaparte, who was attempting to visit his sick son?
Further Evidence
nother titillating piece of physical evidence sur faced. In the
spring of 1956, the British government announced that it had in its
possession a piece of Napoleons intestine. Although the intestine showed no
evidence of cancer, it bore a perforation
that could well have been made by a
gunshot wound.
Two years before the shadowy intruder was shot to death, the man imprisoned on the island of St. Helena was
stricken by what some thought was
stomach cancer and what others thought
was poison.
Before this, he was said to have had
serious trouble with his memory, forgetting numerous events that transpired
before his arrival on St. Helena. His
personality was also said to have
changed from that of his prior, urbane
inclination to that of an uncouth commoner. Most significant was that when
he wrote his will about a year before his
death, his handwriting differed greatly
from his pre-St. Helena days.
If Revard was actually Bonaparte, he
may have been promised that he could
remain at liberty as long as he stayed hidden. If it was Robeaud on St. Helena, he
may have been promised a munificent
reward for remaining on the island for
some set length of time, but by accident
(or design), he may have passed away
before this date arrived.
The circumstances surrounding
Napoleons death suggest that there are
some inconsistencies with the official
report that Napoleon died on the island
of St. Helena. His impact on the western
worlds course of history was immense,
and his accomplishments on the battlefield altered the conduct of warfare.
The image of Napoleons death from
illness and while under confinement is
hardly in keeping with his character. On
the other hand, a tale of escape and a
desperate attempt to see an unknown
son seems like a more fitting end for a
man who crowned himself Emporer of
France. z
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Ghost Hunters
An Interview with Sci-Fi Channels
he Sci-Fi Channels Wednesday night

program the Ghost Hunters has been a
resounding success. Viewers seem fascinated
by two plumbers who pursue ghosts for free in their
spare time. Team leaders Jason Hawes and Grant
Wilson both hold down full-time jobs in Rhode
Island and have eight children between them, yet
still find the time for searching out the supernatural
on weekends throughout New England with
other members from The Atlantic Paranormal
Society (TAPS). We were pleased to be able to
speak to these modern-day ghost-busters.
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Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, and Justin

Talarski search a cellar to see if the
haunting noises heard in the house
might actually be caused by noisy pipes.
Do you think people in Pennsylvania

are just paranoid about ghosts?
Jason Hawes: Many people who live
where there are hard winters, such as in
Pennsylvania, have a tendency to spend
more time in their homes. By doing so,
they tend to hear more noises and sometimes their imagination just kicks in.
Thats why more claims of paranormal
activity occur during the winter.
Grant: Yeah, as thats when ones house
is settling and expanding, so it makes a
lot of noise as it creaks and pops.
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What is the percentage of reports

to actual hauntings?
Jason: We actually disprove about 80
percent of all claims. The other 20 percent does not mean that there is a haunting. Paranormal means above the
norm, so it just means that we have
found activity going on that we just do
not understand or cannot explain.
Is there any moment in the series
Ghost Hunters that might convince a
skeptic that hauntings are real?
Jason: In one episode, Frank, one of our
sound guys, got knocked down. He was
a total non-believer. His arms were both
over his head holding his boom mike
during one session and his bag mysteriously rose up and struck him in his face.
All of this was caught on film.
We have also had cases where people
had actually built speakers into their
walls to try to fool us in believing that
their house was haunted.
Grant: Yeah, and we also had a woman
who thought she was being attacked by a
negative entity. When we interviewed

her, we found out that her symptoms
were actually menopausal, not demonic.
Another woman who thought she was
being possessed was actually taking two
different prescription drugs that actually
became hallucinogenic when combined.
Given that you are both plumbers,
have you ever been in the position of
explaining a so-called haunting as
noisy plumbing?
Jason: Absolutely. Once someone
claimed that a ghost was flushing their
toilet every night at 2 a.m. But we found
that it was actually just a bad flapper
valve leaking. Weve also had situations
where people who thought ghosts were
knocking on the wall but the sound was
actually just caused by air in the pipes.
How did you get interested in the
paranormal and how did you get
started as investigators?
Jason: We both have had unusual, paranormal experiences in which other witnesses could validate what happened. We
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It has been said that you find Pennsylvania to be particularly haunted. Is

that because it is an old state?
Grant Wilson: Theres a dif ference
between a place being haunted and
thinking that a place is haunted. Certainly there have been a lot of claims of
hauntings in Pennsylvania. Although we
have not been able to investigate all of
them, there is definitely a higher amount
of claims of the paranormal in this state.
Jason, Grant, and Justin search for

evidence of a haunting outside.
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TAPS team members Brian

Harnois and Steve Gonsalves
consult an ELF during a case.
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Grant: Most training in ghost hunting is
jaded. Really, all you need is common
sense, a bit of forensic talent, and some
knowledge of psychology. It is still a field
where there are really no experts.
Jason: TAPS is different than most other
paranormal groups as when we begin to
investigate a case, we go to disprove the
haunting. Most groups have a tendency
to try to prove a haunting so any anomaly that is captured on film is immediately
seen as proof of the paranormal. Rather,
one should attempt to reproduce the
evidence. Any anomaly that seems
impossible to reproduce or dismiss can
then be seen as proof of something truly
unusual and will most likely hold up to
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What are some of the devices you use

while on a case?
Grant: Although we used to just use
videotape, we recently purchased a digital video recording system. With videotape, when unusual activity really started
occurring, the tape would stop or the
batteries would drain so we couldnt
record it. So we moved to digital so that
theres no tape to stop. We can actually
have the computer recording the phenomenon be up to 300 yards away.
Jason: We also use electromagnetic frequency meters (ELF), thermal-imaging
cameras, and air ionizers.
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Jason: My five kids love it and are highly
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want to join us on an investigation when
they come of age.
Grant: And we have just started messing

around with microwave technology that
can sense movement in a room without
picking up wind movement.
Grant: I have three boys, the oldest of

whom is six, and they are big fans of
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Grant: We have been around for about
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Book Reviews
Lemuria and Atlantis

Studying the Past
to Survive the Future
BY SHIRLEY ANDREWS
ISBN: 0-7387-0397-4
$12.95, LLEWELLYN, 2004
emuria and Atlantis is a

fascinating look into the
lost civilizations of old. Not
only does author Shirley
Andrews link the civilizations of
Atlantis and Lemuria through
timelines and shared histories,
but she also describes littleknown facts concerning the
Maya in Mexico and the Native
Americans.
As Andrews is a noted
Atlantean scholar, it is not surprising that the majority of this
book focuses on Atlantis. In
fact, she relegates Lemuria to
the first two chapters and random, inconsequential sentences throughout the rest of
the book. Despite this flaw (and
the rather deceiving title of the
book), Andrews clearly uses scientific discover y, metaphysical
knowledge, and historical
research to present an easy-toread over view of the lifestyles,
societal structure, and hidden
knowledge of Atlantis.
Andrews does not clarify
where she found
all the descriptions
of life in Atlantis,
but the implication
is that much of the
infor mation was
obtained through
psychic techniques
and past life regressions, as well as
through the writings
of other Atlantis
scholars. Regardless
of the source, these
chapters are filled
with excitement and energy, as
Andrews
describes
the
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priestesses in their crystal temples, the ser vile lives of the
beings who were par t man and
par t animal, and the crushing
egoism of the late Atlantean
scholar-priest-scientists.
For those interested in geography, Andrews devotes five
chapters to the possible locations of Atlantis and the spreading of Atlantean culture.
She adamantly subscribes to
two possible locations for
Atlantis: in the Caribbean per
the trance-induced information
from psychic Edgar Cayce, or in
the Atlantic Ocean per information from psychic Madam Blatvasky. She combines these theories to for m her own
hypothesis that the Atlantean
culture began in the Atlantic
Ocean as a unified geopolitical
society, then subsequently,
spread all over the world when
the Atlantean landmass first
began to show signs of an
impending catastrophe.
Any Celtic and fair y scholars
will also recognize the names of
the Atlantean city-states of
Finias, Gorias, Murias, and
Falias, the same names of the
four fair y cities which reside in
the Celtic Other world of Tir na
Nog in Irish mythology. This is a fascinating connection
between Atlantis
and the British
Isles that may
shed additional
light on the
Atlantis
as
Lyonesse/Isle of
Avalon theory.
Andrews finally presents the
end of Atlantis
as a lesson for
all of us: do not become so
enamored of technology that
you forget the importance of the
human spirit. Andrews suggests

that the Atlanteans fell into this
trap, becoming so self-important in their ef for ts to acquire
knowledge and science that
even the best scholars were
taken by surprise when the cataclysm erupted, having ignored
natures warning signs.
Lemuria and Atlantis is a book

that ever y Atlantis enthusiast
should have in his/her librar y,
as it provides a fascinating look
into the lives of the Atlanteans.
If, however, your main focus is
Lemuria, this book offers little
insight.
MICHELLE SANTOS
Calling on Extraterrestials
11 Steps to Inviting Your Own UFO Encounters
BY LISETTE LARKIN
ISBN: 1-57174-372-3
$15.95, HAMPTON ROADS, 2003
n the sequel to her Talking to Extraterrestrials, Lisette Larkins combines two

best-selling genres: the how-to book
and the tale of a spiritual journey, drawing on the desire for self-improvement
and personal transcendence. In so
doing, Talking with Extraterrestrials is
nothing less than a pseudo-religious
manual, giving an 11-step program for
inviting the mystical experience of alien
contact into ones life.
What does spirituality have to do with
aliens? In our modern, scientific world,
where scientists debate not how many
angels can dance on the head of a pin but how many
quarks can fit into a proton, aliensat once plausible and
unknowableare the perfect representation of a Higher Power.
More importantly, those like Larkin who have been contacted by
ETs have been now given imprimatur to write their own books
and be held in awe by their peers at UFO conventions.
In the language of a self-help manual that is inflected with the
New Age accents of a Wiccan ceremony, Larkins thus sets out
her program: Call it forth. Remember soul connections. Forgive
the pain. Energize. Discern readiness in others. Shapeshift. Fear
not. Metamorphose. Her program reads like a democratized theor y of Calvins Chosen Electit is possible for ever yone to be
part of the spiritual elite if they just work for it.
Larkins, whose own experiences of being contacted by ETs
led, by her own admission, to a mental hospital, divorce, and
loss of custody of her children, is plainly looking for some sort of
salvation. Salvation, however, comes from within, not from the
stars.
In fact, Larkins premise is that aliens will only contact those
who are ready for them. The thing is, reality is not something
that one asks to happen to one; it just happens.
Masques of Solomon
C. BRUCE HUNTER
ISBN: 0-88053-095-2
$22.50, MACOY PUBLISHING, 2003
any of the historical

records of the Masonic
order are inaccessible
to non-members. Not only that,
but Freemason historians are
bound by oaths of secrecy, so
there has been little solid scholarship on the beginning and
development of Freemasonry.
C. Bruce Hunters Masques of
Solomon attempts to redress
this lack. The first in a series
that explores various elements
of Masonic ritual, this volume
concentrates on the famous
Third Degree of Craft Masonr y.
In it, various influences upon
this complex ritual are dissected
is an attempt to shed light on
the period when Masonic lodges
went from being a workingmans
Order to a speculative and philosophical society that claims as
members the bourgeoisie and
landed gentry.
Hunter's quest begins in the

17th centur y with scattered
complaints from Scotland about
a sinister "Mason word" known
only to initiates of a secret
cabal. Taking the date of the
earliest recorded complaint
1637he marks the beginnings of Masonry's change from
a craft guild to a fraternal order.
From here, he moves backward,
pointing to such subtle signs as
Lord Boswells 1600 mason
mark-a circle in a crossa
design that is far more difficult
to car ve into stone than the
straight lines favored by most
working masons. Hunter presents this as evidence that by
1600, Masonic lodges were no
longer exclusively craft guilds;
rather, these Mason's marks
were used to mark Masonic documents.
King James I of Britain, first
ruler of a united England and
Scotland, receives Hunter's
attention as well, as does his
mother Mar y, Queen of Scots,
and his son Charles. For
How to Be a Ghost Hunter

BY RICHARD SOUTHALL
ISBN: 0738703125
$12.95, LLEWELLYN PUBL., 2003
host hunting is not a generally accepted pastime, so a writer who seeks

to draw new practitioners into the field must write informatively and well.
Alas, this is only occasionally the case in How to be a Ghost Hunter.
With chapters ranging from paranormal photography (the most interesting
and well-written chapter) to how to form a paranormal group, there is much
opportunity for the author to teach and entertain his readers. Unfortunately, the
introduction to the book provides a valid indicator that neither teaching nor
entertaining is likely to be found here. Comprised of 38 pages of self-promotion,
the introduction largely references the Haunted Parkersburg Ghost Tours, of which Southall is co-creator. Meanwhile, his chapter on the history of paranormal photography is half as long. Such superficial treatment is also accorded to the topics in each of the books other chapters.
The writing, too, is disappointing. Words such as definitely and actually are overused and many
sentences end with prepositions. While Southall clearly has experiences worth sharing, he lacks the
structure and style with which to adequately convey them. Ironically, it appears that all Southall needed for this book was a ghost writer.
ANDREW AND JOCELYN COMENDUL
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Charles "Maister of Wark"

William Schaw, Principal Warden
and Chief Master of Masons, is
given credit for introducing many
modifications into the Lodge
system. Later, when James united the English and Scottish
thrones, many of these changes
were introduced into the English
craft lodges. These changes
were made per manent after
Londons Great Fire of 1666,
when many masons were
brought in to rebuild the devastated city.
However, Hunter's connections between the 16th-century
Masque Plays of Ben Jonson
and the Third Degree Ritual are
a bit more tenuous. Jonson
may have been a court favorite,
but there were many equally
popular playwrights at the time
and Morality Plays and Masques
were being per for med long
before Jonson enter tained the
Jacobean cour t with his own
productions.
Hunter does not provide
irrefutable proof of the origins of
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modern Freemasonr y, but he

gives readers a set of interesting theories on the Orders origins which are as believable
and as workable as anything
else available on the subject.
The Masques of Solomon is
an excellent addition to any
Mason's librar y, and will be of
interest to any student of alternate histories and conspiracy
theories.
KEVIN FILAN
JFK: The Second Plot

BY MATTHEW SMITH
ISBN: 1-84018-501-5
$16.99, MAINSTREAM PUBL., 2003
he assassination of John
F. Kennedy is an endlessly
fascinating episode in
American histor y. Already 41
years have passed since his
death on November 22, 1963,
and still the controversy over
the assassination rages on.
The conclusion drawn by the
Warren Commission, the official
repor t on the assassination,
was that Lee Har vey Oswald
shot the president and two days
later, he was, in turn, shot by
Jack Ruby. Yet from the ver y
beginning, many have rejected
this conclusion, believing
Kennedy to be the target of a
conspiracy masterminded by
Castro, the USSR, the Mafia,
the CIA, Texas oil men, or a
combination of all of these.
Matthew Smiths JFK: The Second Plot is a new attempt to
make sense of the assassination conspiracy.
The Second Plot is divided
into two par ts. The Main-Tier
Plot looks at the assassination
itself and analyzes the conclusions made by the War ren
Repor t, which Smith maintains
was written to aver t a war with
Cuba or the Soviet Union.
Smith then shows how eyewit-
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Book Reviews
Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye

Alchemy and the End of Time
BY JAN WEIDNER AND VINCENT BRIDGES
ISBN: 0-89281-084-X
ness accounts, photographs,

film, acoustic, and medical evidence all point to the existence
of at least one other gunman.
Part Two is an examination of
Lee Har vey Oswald, from his
bir th in 1939 to his death in
1963. Smith asser ts that not
only was Oswald not the lone
gunman, he was not even one
of the shooters. Rather, Oswald
acted as a patsy to enable the
real gunmen to escape.
As a Marine, Oswald had
been involved in naval intelligence in Japan, where he
learned Russian. Eventually he defected to

the Soviet Union, married
a
Russian
woman, and then returned to
the United States. Though
impossible to prove, Smith
speculates that Oswald was
working for the CIA while in the
USSR, recruited from the militar y for the express purpose of
becoming a double agent to the
USSR. But the Soviets were
suspicious of Oswald and he
was allowed so little freedom
that it was decided by the CIA to
Thoughts Through Space

A Remarkable Adventure in the Realm of the Mind
BY SIR HUBERT WILKINS & HAROLD M. SHERMAN
ISBN: 1-57174-314-6
$14.95, HAMPTON ROADS, 2004
houghts Through Space is part of Hampton Roads Studies

in Consciousness series, which reprints, under the guidance of physicist and consciousness research pioneer Russell Targ, several lost classics of consciousness studies
books that have largely been forgotten, despite the insights they
offer into human consciousness and science.
Originally published in 1951, Thoughts Through Space tells
the story of Sir Hubert Wilkins and Harold M. Shermans experiments in mental telepathy from 1937 to 1938. These experiments were conducted while Wilkins was on an Arctic rescue
mission and Sherman remained in New York.
The book is broken down into three sections. First is Wilkins
story, which entertainingly follows the trials and tribulations of
his expedition. Second is Shermans account of his attempts at
receiving the telepathic messages sent by
Wilkins, which is slightly less exciting, but no
less interesting, as Sherman attempts to pick
up both conscious and unconscious messages
from Wilkins. The final section features the
record of the experiment, including supplementar y letters, tests, and logbooks, all of which
serve to support the mens accounts.
Ultimately, Thoughts Through Space is a
thought-provoking look at two mens experiences, par ticularly regarding the existence of
ESP, the methodology and mechanics of sending and receiving
thoughts over wide distances, and the continuing quest for scientific proof for what many consider a "pseudo science."
DEREK ANDERSON
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bring him home.

Smith convincingly
develops his theor y,
but some aspects of
the crime remain murky, such
as Jack Rubys involvement in
Oswalds assassination and
Oswalds wifes possible connection to the KGB. To develop
his theory, Smith makes assertions about various par ticipants motives and actions that
are impossible to prove.
For instance, Smith claims
that J. D. Tippit, the police officer who was killed that day, was
involved in the plot to kill JFK,
although he suggests that
Oswald was not aware of what
was going on and was being set
up as a patsy. Tippit was supposed to take Oswald to Redbird Airport where he was to be
flown to Cuba in order to implicate Fidel Castro in the assassination. Since this never actually
happened and both Tippit and
Oswald were killed, it is impossible to prove. Still, his analysis
of the assassination seems
plausible and, to Smiths credit,
he does not finger any one conspirator.
A concise look at the crime
of the century, The Second Plot
is worth reading as much for its
factual research that highlights
inconsistencies in the "lone
gunman" theory as for the imaginative and plausible conclusions the author draws.
CHARLES RAMMELKAMP
True Vampires
BY SONDRA LONDON
ISBN: 0-922915-93-8
$16.95, FERAL HOUSE, 2004
hether the subject is

government conspiracies, Norwegian death
metal, or 1950s pulp fiction,
Feral House is a publisher that
every reader of Mysteries Maga-
zine should know. In keeping

with its tradition of publishing
high-quality weirdness, Feral
House has brought forth Sondra
Londons Tr ue Vampires, an
exploration into the darker side
of the human species.
The books title is somewhat
misleading, as Real Vampires is
not so much about vampires as
it is a catalog of some of the
more demented murderers,
sadists, and psychos of our
time. Besides their hor rific
crimes, all of the
subjects
from
Ed
Gein,
the
inspiration
for the movie
Psycho,
to
Issei Sagawa,
who, despite
having killed
and eaten a
female student
in Paris in 1981 is now a
celebrity in Japanhave one
additional thing in common:
They consumed, wore, or otherwise used parts of their victims.
London, for mer fiance of
serial killer Danny Rolling (who
is not mentioned in the book) is
cer tainly qualified to scribe
such an oeuvre, but her choppy
writing style (no pun intended),
unfor tunately does not hold up
through the whole book.
The book is ghoulishly illustrated by oil paintings executed
by Nicolas Claux, the so-called
Vampire of Paris, a convicted
murderer, grave robber, and
cannibal. Amongst Clauxs ar twork is a facsimile of his oath to
Satan, sealed with his own
blood. (Claux was released from
prison in 2002, having ser ved
just seven years of a 12-year
sentence for a thrill-kill crime he
committed in 1994. He is now a
professional ar tist, working in
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oils, acrylics, and tattoos.)

In our secular, atheistic age,
it is perhaps necessar y to be
reminded that evil is real. With
its detailed descriptions of horrific crimesand Clauxs disturbing illustrationsTrue Vampires ser ves this purpose
admirably. It will no doubt prove
extremely appealing to readers
with a sense of the outr, but
those with delicate sensibilities,
however, would be well advised
to give it a pass.
KEN MONDSCHEIN
After the Martian

Apocalypse
Extraterrestrial Artifacts and
the Case for Mars Exploration
BY MAC TONNIES
ISBN: 0-7434-8293-X
$14, PARAVIEW, 2004
here has been an enormous amount of information written about the possibility
that
anomalies
photographed on the Mars surface could be intelligently built.
Mac Tonnies has taken on the
unenviable task of presenting
an updated look at the controversy. The result is a well-written, even-handed book that is
sure to pique the interest of anyone even half-familiar with Martian anomalies.
Besides Ear th, out of all of
the planets in the solar system,
Mars was thought to be the
most likely to harbor life. But
when the first Mars probes
began sending back
close-up photos of the
sur face, scientists and
dreamers alike were
shocked to find a dr y,
crater-ridden planet,
seemingly devoid of even
the most r udimentar y
forms of life.
However, these same
photos also showed some
unusual things scattered across

the sur face of the red planet,
including formations of rocks
that looked like pyramids and
unusual tube-shaped features
that snaked through vast
canyons. As well, there were
or ganic-looking objects that
appeared to be giant trees or
growths of coral. More importantly was a human face that
appeared to be car ved onto a
hillside in an area of Mars
called Cydonia.
Since the first photos were
published, there have been
numerous books written about
the anomalies, most of which
have been either in favor of the
ET hypothesis or completely
skeptical. After the Mar tian
Apocalypse, however, takes a
refreshing look at these strange
features and finds that a number are, indeed, natural formations or tricks of light and shadow. Life-on-Mars proponents
should not despair, however, for
Tonnies also finds that other
Martian anomalies do appear to
be intelligently constructed.
Even though NASA has all but
written off the Cydonian Face as
a natural formation, Tonnies
spends a great deal of time reexamining the photos and presenting evidence on why the
face deser ves closer inspection. Additionally, Tonnies
insists that the features on
Mars, if artificial, are not necessarily high-tech, as the civilization that built the
Face may have
been technologically equivalent to
earthly Bronze Age
societies.
Yet
there seems to be
the impression
that evidence of
life beyond Ear th
is sure to plunge
$22.95. DESTINY BOOKS, 2003
an Weidner and Vincent Bridges may have started out with

an obscure monument in an equally obscure seaside French
town, but their Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye
takes us on a journey which starts in 13,000 BC and ends in an
apocalypse that the authors believe may occur in the next ten
years. Cathars, Merovingians, Tarot Trumps, Incan astrology, the
Black Stone of Mecca, the Freemasons, Kabbalists, and Surrealists all come together in a dizzying romp here.
You have to give the authors credit for their ambition. Starting
with the writings of Fulcanelli, a pseudonymous alchemist
whose theories on magical symbolism and architecture were
beloved by many Surrealists, the authors then go on to discuss
the various Gothic cathedrals of France. They then explore the
controversy surrounding the Cathars, and
later the Templars, as well as the secret
brother hoods of ancient Egypt, the
Troubadors, and Atlantis. One might easily get lost amidst the shifts in time and
place, were it not for their consistently
clear writing.
And what does it all mean, you may
ask? According to Weidner and Bridges,
2012 is going to be a ver y interesting
year. We may be looking at either cosmic chaos which only the select (and
those hiding in a small Peruvian village)
will survive, or at a profound shift in human consciousness.
Unfortunately, at times, the authors seem to be stretching the
evidence to fit their hypothesis. Yes, the Kabbalistic "Tree of
Life" design fits pretty well on the front of the Cathedral of Notre
Dame, but it would also fit on the front of New York's Trump
Tower. (Also surprising to read that Estonian is a dead language,
although not nearly as surprised as it will be to 1.1 million Estonians!) And it is doubtful that the authors interpretation of the
Great Cross will convince skeptics that Fulcanelli's work was not
just a witty Surrealist prank.
Still, in the best Surrealist tradition, this book is a star ting
point for their own flights of fancy. Once finished, readers may be
inspired to dig through dusty tomes to further their knowledge
on 10th-centur y Kabbalists, crop circles, and perhaps even
Tibetan monasteries.
KEVIN FILAN
our society into social chaos.

Maybe NASA just does not want
to be the one responsible for
instigating the collapse of our
civilization.
After the Martian Apocalypse
makes a good point for scientific examination of the unknown,
rather than presenting outright
knee-jerk dismissals. As Tonnies points out, only by sending

crewed missions to Mars will
we be able to answer once and
for all if Mars was once the
home of intelligent life or simply another dead planet that is
adrift in the darkness of space.
TIM SWARTZ
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Book Reviews
The Psychic in You

Understand and Harness
Your Natural Psychic Power
BY JEFFREY A. WANDS
(WITH TOM PHILBIN)
ISBN: 0-7434-6995-X
$24, ATRIA BOOKS, 2004
magine being able to develop

your sixth sense, to get into
your "blue zone" where spirit
communication becomes as
clear as speaking with your
friends and family. This is the primary objective of renowned psychic medium Jef frey Wands
book The Psychic in You. In it,
Wands traces his own psychic
development, from gut instincts
and prophetic dreams to meeting inspirational, mentoring psychics, such as Carol and Helen
Kraus, whom he af fectionately
refers to as "the Aunts."
Wands believes that everyone
is psychic and that our abilities
should be developed fur ther in
each of us. He relates how he
honed his psychic ability from his
childhood through present day,
and he turns his own challenges
and successes into lessons and
exercises for the reader to tr y.
He also deals with issues such
as how to open up and listen for
spirit communication, how to
deal with sessions that can be
emotionally and
physically taxing,
how to get validation that your
readings are correct, and how to
cope with criticism from nonbelievers.
H i s
approach is
honest and
straight-for ward,
religiously neutral yet emotional
and spiritual in every sense.
JEFF BELANGER
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Music Reviews
The Beginner's Guide

for the Recently
Deceased
A Comprehensive Travel
Guide to the Only
Inevitable Destination
BY DAVID STAUME
ISBN: 0738704261
$10.95, LLEWELLYN, 2004
ooner or later, we are all

going to shuffle of f this
mor tal coil and find ourselves on the Other Side. Yet
travel guides for the afterlife are
few and far between and tend to
contradict each other. Will we be
devoured by Kali or
wooed by black-eyed
virgins? Does Heaven
look like Dixie or is it a
place where nothing
ever happens? Should
we dress for the Summerlands or bring
along
asbestos
u n d e r w e a r ?
Thanks to David
Staume we can now
rest easier, for his
Beginner's Guide for the Recently Deceased gives readers a
guide to what we can expect
over there and offers ways in
which we can improve our afterlife experience.
The secret to any successful
trip is knowing what to bring.
Since the deceased cross over
without a body, they do not need
to worry about voltage adaptors
or clean socks. Instead, they will
be carr ying the karmic baggage
acquired in this lifetime. Spending centuries reliving ones
shor tcomings might well leave
the newly deceased longing for
fire and brimstone, even though
Staume reassures us that Eternal Damnation is a myth.
Yet despite what Shakespeare
says, good deeds are not
interred with your bones. Rather,
all the love, concern, and

positive ener gy that is
sent out to the universe
during ones lifetime will
be returned in death.
While Staumes book is
occasionally thought-provoking, it does not tackle
the tough questions about
death, suffering, and cosmic
injustice. Rather, it is a warm,
fuzzy, New Age take on death.
Still, this is a wor thy ef for t, in
which Staume provides a light,
easy-to-read version of socialist,
suffragette, and second president of the International Theosophical Society Annie
Besants philosophy on the afterlife.
(If you have ever
slogged through
Besants writing, you
will understand why
this is such an
achievement.)
The Beginners
Guide for the Recently Deceased entertains and instr ucts
without challenging or of fending. It is also a consistently
good read, if not a par ticularly
deep one.
KEVIN FILAN
The Seventh Sense

The Secrets of Remote Viewing
as Told by a "Psychic Spy" for
the U.S. Military
BY LYN BUCHANAN
ISBN: 0743462688
$14, POCKET BOOKS, 2003
n 1995, the Central Intelligence

Agency
publicly
acknowledged that a secret
unit had used controlled remote
viewing (CRV) which the author
explains "is a physically based
mar tial ar t with the body used
as an interpreter and communicator between the conscious
and subconscious minds."
After
more
than 17 years as
a psychic spy for
the U.S. government, and after
training more
than 300 students in CRV,
Leonard "Lyn"
Buchanan tirelessly points out that although
CRV was developed as an intelligence-gathering tool for military
and political espionage, he feels
that these techniques could
have many civilian uses today in
police work, medical diagnostics, business, and archaeology.
In The Seventh Sense,
Buchanan delineates the role
that CRV played during and following high-profile cases as the
1980 Iranian hostage crisis; the
1986 nuclear power plant meltdown in Chernobyl, Russia; the
kidnapping and murder of
Colonel Rich Higgins in 1988;
and the 1988 sabotage and
crash of Pan Am flight 103.
Did controlled remote influencing (CRI) sway Mikhail Gorbachev to end Communist rule
in Soviet Russia? Buchanan
explains that for two and a half
months, he worked to instill the
idea into Gorbachev's subconscious. Although ending communism in Russia was the only logical thing to do at the time,
Buchanan wonders whether his
psychic tinkering paved pathways that allowed thoughts of
democracy to flow more freely.
Although The Seventh Sense
is not a how-to book, readers will
appreciate the Remote Viewing
Sourcebook section at the end
that provides terminology, structure, and theory behind the CRV
process, as well as exercises,
methods for scoring, and a sample remote viewing session.
Spirit of the Healing Waters
BY RAVI
BY SHOCKEY
CD#: B00002500Y
CD#: 7-33792-47732-2
TERRA NOVA RECORDS
DIGITAL SOUND PRODUCTIONS
he vast oceans of our planet cover nearly two-thirds of its

surface, and their presence is integral to the existence of
all living things. All life needs water to survive, and considering that our bodies are made up of 95% water, it makes sense
that water has a power ful hold on our hear ts as well as our
minds.
A babbling brook or stream, the roar of the ocean surf, or even
the tap running in the bathtub has a powerful soothing effect on
us, and this power is used to great effect on Spirit of the Healing
Waters. As if washing away the stresses of a busy day, this CDs
mixture of nature sounds and soft music makes it excellent listening for yoga, relaxation, or meditation.
Conjuring up memories of a day at the
beach, this album
evokes the oceans
beauty without its sometimes frightening power
and changeable moods.
There is no turbulence
here, only the swirling of
sea foam and the circling
of gulls, as heard in the
song Seashore Drive. One of the best features of these pieces
is their balance of natural sounds with instrumental accompaniment. For instance, Quiet Waters combines the eternal beauty
of gentle sea-spray with silvery flute, guitar, and finger cymbals,
sounds that surge before dispersing in an undersea fantasia that
reflects the vast quietude of the oceans.
Other pieces seem to take the listener on a journey to sample
the different musical influences from around the world, all tied
together by the universal flow of water. For instance, Indian
Springs draws upon traditional Native American music and birdcalls to evoke the mystical qualities of nature. Dream Essence
cleanses the soul with its mixture of tropical rainstorms and a
unique Asian-inspired sound while Mediterranean Shore has a
crystalline quality that evokes the feeling of sunshine on a Greek
beach, occasionally punctuated with the roaring force of the surf.
In contrast, Ocean Rhapsody leaves Earth entirely in a spaceage ebb and flow of futuristic electronica.
The peacefulness that water grants us is amply evident on
Spirit of the Healing Waters. Resplendent with the timeless beauty of nature and outstanding musical accompaniment, this CD is
an exquisite fusion of both genres that is guaranteed to soothe
even the most tempestuous of moods.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
ROBERT GOERMAN
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Kora So Far
he use of time-honored
folk instr uments to
accompany modern compositions is nothing new. From
sitars to bamboo flutes to ocarinas, many instr uments from
many regions have had their
turn in the spotlight. Those from
the African continent, however,
rarely seem to get much exposure. Hopefully this will change
with the release of Kora So Far,
a tribute to the Kora, an unusual harp-like stringed instrument.
Truly eclectic and wildly imaginative, Kora So Far displays the
rich versatility of traditional
African music. The influences of
India, Asia, and South America
merge here with jazz and New
Age sounds to create an album
that is filled with depth, sincerity, and beauty.
Kora So Far contains so many
diverse elements that ever y
time one listens to it, nuances
are revealed, as seemingly
improvised elements gradually
give way to tightly structured
melodies and harmonies. For
instance, the
delicate plucking
of strings is
mixed with saxophone melodies
and dr ums in
Ngama, a fluid
piece that effortlessly blends
jazz and traditional musical
styles. There is a
sense of timelessness about
Ravis music, at
once modern yet
ancient, stirring
some primordial
feeling in ones soul. Joy and

peace emanate from ever y
note, especially in Childs
Eyes, a celebration of the wonders of childhood.
The universal ballad of forlorn
love is given a new twist with a
deliciously diverse combination
of Hindi vocals, accordion, guitar, and kora in Hari Bol. And
the waxy sound of the samisenlike strings in River drifts and
eddies around pounding drum
rhythms, its tempo increasing
and decreasing like the rapids
and pools of a mountain creek.
Delicate and forceful yet often
unexpected, Ravis music is
worlds away from other New Age
ar tists, who ser ve up an anarchic stew of sound and call it
fusion.
Imagine walking along the
path at a multicultural street fair
and reveling in the distinct musical styles from around the
worldsome closer, some
more distant, but all in glorious
harmony. Kora So Far contains
all the excitement and exuberance of this global celebration
in a form that, unlike the fleeting joys of the fair, can be
enjoyed again and again.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
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In the Theater
In the Theater
The Grudge (2004)
Californias Most
Haunted (DVD, 2001)
What the Bleep Do

We Know? (2004)
his surreal exploration of

the deepest-held convictions about the world
around us is a compelling and
eye-opening fusion of cinema
and documentary. What
the Bleep Do We Know?
examines the strangerthan-fiction world of quantum physics and its implications
for
our
understanding of life, our
place in the universe, and
even reality itself. Its unique
visual style and subject matter is sure to provoke discussion and contemplation,
regardless of ones beliefs.
Fascinating, disturbing, and
even beautiful at times, the film
goes a step beyond science
documentaries such as A Brief
Histor y of Time with a harderedged look at the strange theories that make up the cuttingedge of physics research. As
top physicists explain the basic
premises of quantum physics,
we see them in action through
vivid visual metaphors and
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unique computer-generated
effects.
Like Heisenbergs uncertainty
principle brought to life, ever y
thought, movement, and action
has a profound ef fect on our
reality and the
closer one
focuses on one specific detail,
the more one less understands
the big picture. Ultimately, reality is not necessarily concrete,
they explain, but fluid and
dynamic, constantly being
revised and rewritten.

Taking everything one learned
in high-school physics and turning it inside out, upside down,
and in directions yet unnamed
and undiscovered, this film is
disorienting yet thought-provoking. Traditional views of cosmology and religion are challenged
by much of quantum physics,
from theories of creation to our
societys abiding faith in science and rationality. Are these
ideas liberating or terrifying?
The theories presented imply
that total and absolute
responsibility for ever ything
in our lives is within our
grasp, a concept some may
not wish to face, although
others may see it as a declaration of freedom.
Both as an unparalleled
primer on the subject and
a springboard for further
discussion, What the Bleep
affords an uncompromising yet
enter taining glimpse into the
bizarre and brave new world of
modern science.
To order, visit www.whatthebleep.com.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
ripping at ones hear t

with bizarre imagery and
primal fear, The Grudge
is a masterpiece of horror that
proves that fear is universal,
regardless of its trappings.
The movie begins when an
exchange student studying in
Japan is drawn into a series of
nightmarish events after stopping in to check on a homebound patient as par t of a volunteer project. All who enter the
house soon become targets of
a lethal supernatural force
which is tied to a tragedy that
occurred there years before.
Directed by Takashi Shimizu,
who also directed the series of
four films upon which this
remake is based, the film
thrives on subtle twists and
implications that add up to an
exceptionally disturbing whole.
Striking visual ef fects pull
innocuous details from the
house and its occupants and
remold them in sinister and
chilling ways, from the sound of
a wind chime to the haunting,
staring silence of a young child.
One of the films creepiest
elements is the sheer inexorability of the curse. Brought on by
forceful emotions of hatred,
grief, and anger, it blights those
with even the slightest connection to itself and the house. The
gruesome fates they encounter
are made all the more disturbing by the irrationality of it all.
The use of implied horror heightens the impact of the films few
grotesque moments, making
them even more horrifying.
The visceral impact of The
Grudge cannot be denied, delving into ones darkest fears of
death, pain, and the unknown.
One wishes all horror films were
this good, but in the meantime,
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viewers may have many sleepless nights waiting for a sequel.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
The Village (2004)
. Night Shamalan has

garnered a reputation
in recent years for his
unique style of filmmaking,
including such films as The Sixth
Sense and Signs. All of these
movies share certain characteristicsnot all of them positiveand The Village is no
exception. In fact, it only exacerbates the faults of the directors
previous efforts into a drawn-out
melodramatic nightmare.
The stor y begins in a small
idyllic community that is marred
only by their uneasy truce with
the creatures that live in the
woods just outside the villages
perimeter. As long as the villagers do not venture into the
forest and follow cer tain other
rules, their safety is said to be
guaranteed and the creatures
will not harm them.
Despite its restrictions, life in
the village is believed to be better than that in the bustling,
crime-ridden cities from which
the inhabitants fled in the first
place, and the life of the townspeople goes on as it always has,
with the quiet passions, joys,
and grief that all must face.
When the creatures inexplicably (for the villagers), and predictably (for the audience),
begin to encroach on the village, harming its livestock and

threatening its inhabitants,
recriminations and suspicion
begin to spread. And when
tragedy necessitates a trek to
the outside world for much
needed medical supplies, even
more of the villages secrets are
exposed.
The Village is visually fascinating and attention-grabbing,
in keeping with Shamalans
previous films. Its use of color
to foreshadow events is especially interesting, with the contrast between the dark colors
worn by the villages inhabitants and the red associated
with the creatures and the forest. The acting, however, is
atrocious; a fine cast, including
Adrien Brody, Sigour ney
Weaver, and William Hur t, is
reduced to near-comatose plodding through a repetitive, boring script. The usual plot-twist
at the end of the film applies
here, which adds interest to an
other wise agonizing film, but
the lack of conclusion detracts
from its impact.
Maddeningly slow and utterly
lacking in conclusion or reward,
the film has little to commend it,
apar t from its cinematography.
In all, The Village is another disappointing outing into the realm
of the pseudo-supernatural.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
fter seeing many socalled documentaries

about ghosts, hauntings,
and paranormal events, I am
usually more than a bit war y
when presented with them.
Thus, I sat down to watch Californias Most Haunted with a
large bowl of popcorn and an
equal helping of skepticism. To
my surprise, this DVD turned
out to be one of those rare, gripping exceptions that presents a
genuine case for the existence
of ghosts.
Presenting five unique
accounts from all over California, the DVD runs the gamut of
ghostly activity, from comforting
spirits seen by the patients at a
Granada Hills hospice to vengeful,
violent spirits
who lash out not
only at the residents of the
homes
they
haunt but also
at anyone else
who enters.
Each segment is wellpresented,
providing
plenty of eyewitness
accounts.
The interviews with many of the
main par ticipants in the terrifying real-life story that eventually
became the basis for the film
The Entity is par ticularly fascinating. However, the lack of an
inter view with the woman
involveda person who suffered almost continuous
attacks over a several-year period from a par ticularly vicious
spiritleaves a void in the
stor y, and the excuse that she

could not be found for comment
also dampens the storys credibility.
The real draw for the documentary, though, is the promise
of actual footage of supernatural entities, and this one really
delivers. The footage from
inside a hospices pitch-dark
broom closet, a closet that had
so disturbed the nurses that no
one would enter is wor th the
price of admission when an
eerie human face materializes
out of nowhere, vanishes, and
then further materializes within
the space of a few moments, all
with no apparent camera trickery. The DVD presentation also
includes additional inter views
and photographic evidence for
those who wish to delve deeper
into these mysterious cases.
Another
segment
records
the frighte n i n g
encounter
an unsuspecting cameraman had
with an entity
on a paranormal investigation in San
Pedro, as the
spirit apparently picked him
up and left him
hanging on a
nail in the attic of a house.
Far better than most similar
documentaries of its kind, Californias Most Haunted is a
thought-provoking, hair-raising
ride, and I eagerly await its creators exploration of the other
49 states ghost stories.
To order, visit www.worldoftheunknown.com.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
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APOLLO & PROPHECY:
SACRED PLACES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
May 23-June 5; Greece
Contact: Archaeological Institute of America Tours,
PO Box 938, 47 Main St., Suite One, Walpole, NH
03608, (800) 748-6262 I Email: aiatours@sover.net
I Web: www.archaeological.org/ pdfs/tours/AIAtours_schedule
BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY SEMINARS
May 12-14, 2005; Santa Clara, CA
July 17-23, 2005; Northfield, MN
August 14-20, 2005; Portland, OR
September 8-10, 2005; Chicago, IL
October 25, 2005; Albuquerque, NM
Contact: Biblical Archaeology Society, 4710 41st St.
NW, Washington, DC 20016, (800) 221-4644 or
(202) 364-3300 I Email: bas@bib-arch.org I Web:
www.bib-arch.org/bswbTravel
BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY
SEMINAR IN THE AEGEAN SEA
July 5-18, 2005; Turkey and Greece
Contact: Biblical Archaeology Society, 4710 41st St.
NW, Washington, DC 20016, (800) 221-4644 or
(202) 364-3300 I Email: travel@bib-arch.org I Web:
www.bib-arch.org/bswbTravel I Led by Daniel
Schowalter.
BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY TOUR: EGYPT
IN DEPTH - FROM PHARONIC TO CHRISTIAN
November 2005; Egypt
Contact: Biblical Archaeology Society, 4710 41st
Street NW, Washington, DC 20016, (800) 221-4644
or (202) 364-3300 I Email: travel@bib-arch.org I
Web: www.bib-arch.org/bswbTravel
LOVELAND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

STONE AGE FAIR
September 24-25, 2005; Loveland, CO
Cost: Free I Email: info@stoneagefair.com I Web:
www.stoneagefair.com/stone_age_fair I Features
exhibits, live demonstrations, and speakers, including Dr. Dennis Stanford, Dr. Pegi Jodr y, Dr. Marie
Wormington, Dr. George Frison, Dr. C. Vance Haynes
Jr., Dr. Robson Bonnichsen, and many others.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY BIBLICAL
ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR
August 7-19, 2005; Oxford, England
ASTRONOMY
2005 RTMC ASTRONOMY EXPO:
THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
May 27-29, 2005; Big Bear City, CA
Contact: Rober t Stephens, 8300 Utica Avenue,
Suite 105, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730, (909)
948-2205 I Email: registrar@rtmcastronomyexpo.
org I Web: www.rtmcastronomyexpo.org
NEBRASKA STAR PARTY
July 31-August 5, 2005; Valentine, NE
Contact: Doug Bell, (402) 489-8197 or Eric Balcom,
Nebraska Star Party, PO Box 540307, Omaha, NE
68154-0307 I Email: NSP@4w.com I Web:
www.nebraskastarparty.org
OREGON STAR PARTY
September 1-4, 2005; Indian Trail Springs, OR
Contact:
(503)
306-2992
I
Email:
ospinfo@patch.com I Web: www.oregonstarparty.org
BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY TOUR:

ISRAEL WITH AVNER GOREN
October 2005; Israel
ROCKY MOUNTAIN STAR STARE

July 7-10, 2005; Lake George, CO
Cost: $20; single-day passes avail. I Contact: Al
Schlafli, (719) 471-2000 I Email: skyguy@compdyna.com I Web: www.rmss.org
BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY TOUR:

ROMAN BRITAIN
Fall 2005; British Isles
SAN FRANCISCO ASTROLOGICAL

SOCIETY LECTURE SERIES
Last Thursday of each month; San Francisco, CA
Cost: $10 I Email: cmckenna@powerfood.org I Web:
www.astrologyclub.org I Upcoming topics include
Compassion and the Problem of Astrological Prejudice, Traditional Astrology, and Astrology and the
Biblical End Times.
TABLE MOUNTAIN STAR PARTY
August 4-6, 2005; Ellensburg, WA
Email: thomj@icehouse.net I Web: www.tmspa.com
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CROP CIRCLES AND GLASTONBURY
July 18-27, 2005; Wiltshire, England
Cost: $2,577 I Contact: Denni Clarke, PO Box 2155,
Freedom, CA 95019, (831) 761-3655 I Email:
dclarke@cropcirclespirit.com I Web: www.cropcirclespirit.com I Explore the mysteries of Avalon, with visits to Glastonbury Tor, Chalice Well, Abbey and Wells
Cathedral, plus an extended visit to Glastonbury.
CROP CIRCLES AND SPIRITUAL RENEWAL TOUR
August 23-31, 2005; Southern England
Cost: $3,950 I Contact: Ron Russell, PO Box
460760, Aurora, CO 80046 I Email: ron@cropcircles.org I Web: www.cropcircles.org I Join Rev. Gail
Barrow Finlay, Ron Russell, and guest exper ts to
visit Neolithic temples, henges, stone circles, ley
lines, energy veins, barrows, great cathedrals,
labyrinth, Merlin's barrow, Avebur y, and more.
Includes a private access to Stonehenge and a private ceremony at the Chalice Well.
CROP CIRCLE TOUR
July 17-25, 2005; Southern England
July 26-August 2, 2005; Southern England
Cost: $3,950 I Contact: Ron Russell, PO Box
460760, Aurora, CO 80046 I Email: ron@cropcircles.org I Web: www.cropcircles.org
CROP CIRCLES TOUR
August 6-20, 2005; Southern England
Cost: $995 I Contact: Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site
Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563, Nevada City, CA
95959, (530) 740-0561 I Email: sacredsitetours@
tesco.net or wwithin@nccn.net I Web:
www.nccn.net/~wwithin/cropcir I Visit the the magnificent Tor, Chalice Well, gardens, abbey and village
at Glastonbury, West Kennet Long Barrow, Silbury
Hill, and the incredible stone circles and formations
of Avebury. Enjoy a private group entrance inside the
circle at Stonehenge.
CROP CIRCLE WEEKEND
July 30-31, 2005; Avebury, Wiltshire, England
Email: secretar y@gatekeeper.org.uk I Web:
www.gatekeeper.org.uk/gatekeeper/nationalevents.
asp I Francine Blake will lead an exploration of the
most recent crop circle formations of the season
and the mysterious and exciting world of these "temporary temples."
ENGLAND'S MYSTERIOUS CROP
CIRCLES AND STONEHENGE
August 9-16, 2005; Wiltshire, England
Cost: $1,975 for seven nights in England I Contact:
Dr. Chet Snow, PO Box 1738, Sedona, AZ 86339,
(928) 204-1962 I Email: chetsnow@npgcable.com I
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Web: www.chetsnow.com/cropcircles I Visit Salisbury cathedral, Avebury stone circles, historic town
of Marlborough, and the Barge Inn (called the "croppies" pub). Includes a flight over the major 2004
crop circle formations, special access to the inner
circle of Stonehenge for group toning and meditation, and admission to the Wiltshire Crop Circle Conference.
FIELD RESEARCH TRAINING INTENSIVE
August 8-16, 2005; Wiltshire and
Hampshire, England
Contact: Ron Russell, PO Box 460760, Aurora, CO
80046 I Email: ron@cropcircles.org I Web:
www.cropcircles.org I Use electrostatic and magnetic meters to plot energy fluctuations, construct a
legal test-bed formation, and participate in a skywatch on a sacred site using CSETI protocol.
Includes discussion and training in remote viewing.
Guest experts include Rodney Ashbury, Paul Vigay,
Busty Taylor, Dr. Simeon Hein, Lucy Pringle, Matthew
Williams, and others. All costs of this non-profit
research training, including air fare, hotel and
meals, and field training are tax-deductible. No previous experience necessary.
GLASTONBURY SYMPOSIUM: INVESTIGATING
CROP CIRCLES AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES
July 22-24, 2005; Glastonbury, England
Cost: 80; single-day 30 I Contact: Sheila Martin,
16 Chilkwell Street, Glastonbur y, Somerset BA6
8DB, England, +44 (0) 139 267 7462 I Email: glastonbur ysymposium@btopenworld.com I Web:
www.glastonburysymposium.co.uk
SACRED CIRCLES: STONEHENGE
& CROP CIRCLES
JULY 19-26, 2005; SALISBURY, ENGLAND
Contact: Power Places Tours, Inc., 1506 Costilla
Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80904, (800) 2348687 or (719) 448-0514 I Email: travel@powerplaces.com I Web: www.powerplaces.com/England_Crop_Circles_Conference I Experience the
magical energy of Stonehenge, Avebury, and Glastonbury. Feel the power and energy of Stonehenge,
including private access inside its inner circle. Walk
through crop circles to experience the thrilling vortex
of energy that created them. With Freddy Silva, John
Michell, Robert Bauval, and others.
SACRED CIRCLES: STONEHENGE
& CROP CIRCLES
July 25-August 1, 2005; Salisbury, England
Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80904, (800) 2348687 or (719) 448-0514 I Email: travel@powerplaces.com I Web: www.powerplaces.com/England_Crop_Circles_Conference I Experience the
mystical power and energy of the Inner Circle of
Stonehenge, with Freddy Silva, John Michell, Robert
Bauval, and others.
SIGNS OF DESTINY 2005: CROP CIRCLES,

MARY MAGDALENE & SACRED SPACE
November 18-20, 2005; Phoenix, AZ
Cost: $225 until August 30; $275 thereafter I Contact: Dr. Chet Snow, PO Box 1738, Sedona, AZ
86339, (928) 204-1962 I Email: chetsnow@npgcable.com I Web: www.chetsnow.com/signs I Speakers include Sir Laurence Gardner, Graham Hancock,
Margaret Starbird, Michael Glickman, sacred sites
photographer Santha Faiia, William Henr y, Linda
Moulton Howe, Francine Blake, Nancy Talbott, Jeffrey Wilson, Clarisse Conner, and Chet Snow.
SASQUATCH RESEARCH CONFERENCE

May 27-29, 2005; Bellingham, WA
Cost: $40 until May 14; $50 thereafter; Single-day
$25 I Contact: Jason Valenti, 2324 North Nugent
Road, Lummi Island, WA 98262, (360) 758-2443 I
Email: jason@sasquatchresearch.com I Web:
www.sasquatchresearch.com/src I Includes eye-witness forum, demonstrations, Bigfoot paraphernalia,
and speakers, including Lloyd Pye, Christopher Murphy, Thomas Steenburg, Jimmy Chilcutt, Al Berr y,
Ron Morehead, Robert Alley, Master of Ceremonies
Stephen Harvey, and others.
THE WILTSHIRE CROP CIRCLE EXPERIENCE

July 8-15, 2005; Wiltshire, England
August 6-13, 2005; Wiltshire, England
Cost: $1,777-$1,885 I Contact: Denni Clarke, PO
Box 2155, Freedom, CA 95019, (831) 761-3655 I
Email: dclarke@cropcirclespirit.com I Web:
www.cropcirclespirit.com I Focusing on first-hand
experience in the fields in the heart of crop circle
country, includes a private visit to Stonehenge and a
day in Glastonbury. Experience the magic of crop circles, the ancient landscapes, and the mysteries
that abound while exploring new formations and
ancient sacred sites with experts and researchers.
SASQUATCH SYMPOSIUM
June 5, 2005; Seattle, WA
Contact: Philip Lipson, Seattle UFO/Paranormal
Group, 623 Broadway East, Seattle, WA 98102,
(206) 328-6499 I Email: philiplipson@hotmail.com I
Web: www.seattlechatclub.org/museum I Speakers
include Chris Murphy, Matt Crowley, and others.
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
EAST COAST BIGFOOT CONFERENCE
September 24, 2005; Jeannette, PA
Cost: $5 I Contact: Eric Altman, PBS Director, 26
Cardinal Drive, Jeannette, PA 15644, (724) 3745555 I Email: bigfootboy_2000@yahoo.com I Web:
www.pabigfootsociety.com/6th_annual_meeting I
Features displays, memorabilia, auction of Bigfoot
collectibles, and speakers, including Mike Frizell,
Travis McHenry, Don Keating, and others.
INTERNATIONAL CRYPTOZOOLOGY
ART SYMPOSIUM AND EXHIBITION
October 28-30, 2005; Lewiston, ME
Contact: Loren Coleman, International Cryptozoology Museum, PO Box 360, Por tland, ME 04112 I
Email: lcoleman@maine.rr.com I Exhibition will feature the finest examples of cryptozoological art from
around the world, including native works, eyewitness drawings, forensic sketches, paintings, models, and sculptures of cryptids. The symposium will
include speakers and selected artists.
MOTHMAN FESTIVAL
September 17-18, 2005; Point Pleasant, WV
Email: jef fwamsley@eurekanet.com I Web:
www.mothmanlives.com
SOUTHERN CRYPTO CONFERENCE

June 18, 2005; Conroe, TX
Cost: $10 I Contact: Chester Moore, 101 Broad
Street, Orange, TX 77630 I Email: bigfoot@cryptokeeper.com I Web: www.cryptokeeper.com/conference I Speakers include Dr. Kent Hovind, Chester
Moore, Ken Gerhard, and others.
TEXAS BIGFOOT CONFERENCE
October 14-16, 2005; Jefferson, TX
Contact: Craig Woolheater, Texas Bigfoot Research
Center, PO Box 191711, Dallas, TX 75219, (877)
529-5550 I Email: conference@texasbigfoot.com I
Web: www.texasbigfoot.com/events5 I Speakers
include Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum, Jimmy Chilcutt, Rick,
Noll, I Loren Coleman, and others.
OTHER
CONTACTING YOUR SPIRIT GUIDES AND ANGELS
May 21, 2005; Sacramento, CA
May 21, 2005; Tampa/St. Petersburg FL
June 18, 2005; Los Angeles, CA
Cost: $150 I Contact: (408) 376-2124 I Email:
office@sylvia.org I Web: www.sylvia.org/home/
csga_reg.cfm I Learn angels names and functions,
and how spirit guides can infuse knowledge and
answer your personal questions. Learn to discern
real messages from your own thoughts and rule out
imagination. Classes taught by ministers of the
Society of Novus Spiritus, which was founded by
psychic Sylvia Browne.
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EXPLORING YOUR PAST LIVES
May 21, 2005; Denver, CO
June 18, 2005; Philadelphia, PA
July 16, 2005; Chicago, IL
Cost: $100 I Contact: (408) 376-2123 I Email:
pastlives.cfm I Classes taught by ministers of the
Society of Novus Spiritus, which was founded by psychic Sylvia Browne.
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR NEAR-DEATH
STUDIES (IANDS): MESSAGE AND MEANING
THE NDE AS A TOOL FOR LIVING
September 8-10, 2005; Virginia Beach, VA
Contact: IANDS, PO Box 502, East Windsor Hill, CT
06028-0502, (860) 882-1211 I Email:
office@iands.org I Web: www.iands.org/conf
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF DREAMS
June 24-28, 2005; Berkeley, CA
Contact: ASD Central Office, PO Box #1592,
Merced, CA 95341-1592, (209) 724-0889 I Email:
ASDCentralOffice@aol.com
I
Web:
www.asdreams.org/2005/index
M.A.R.S.MAGICAL ANCIENT REALMS
October 7-9, 2005; Metarie, LA
Cost: $55; $25 single-day pass I Email:
jam4pets@aol.com I Web: www.magickalancientrealms.com I Covering all aspects of the unusual,
including paranormal, alternative sciences, mysticism, magic, ancient mysteries, ancient technology,
UFOlogy, and cryptozoology. Speakers include Kiria
Gypsy, Monte Plaisance, Kalila Smith, Raymond
Buckland, Derek Bartlett, Malefica, Raquel Digati,
Ed Fitch, Trish Winkler, Jim Pacifico, Elliot Gorten,
Oberon Zell, and Shawn Poirer.
NINE GATES MYSTERY SCHOOL
May 13-22, 2005; Santa Barbara, CA
Contact: Ann O'Quinn, Institute of Noetic Sciences,
(707) 779-8236 I Email: mysteryschool@noetic.org I
Web: www.ninegates.org I Spiritual training for those
seeking life's mysteries, universal truths, and ways
of knowing. Tap into sources of consciousness, use
energy fields, and find hidden meaning and inner
guidance.
NO-NONSENSE PROPHECY CONFERENCE
MAY 13-15, 2005, Phoenix, AZ
Cost: $400; Master's Ball: $50 I Rain Morgan,
Prophecy Conference, (866) 575-1514 I Email:
rain@rainoftruthtalkradio.com I Web: www.rainoftruthtalkradio.com I Down through the ages we
have listened to the prophecies. What really is coming, what must we do to make the transition that all
the prophecies have foretold. Spend time with some
of the best-known master teachers to get the latest
information on the coming events of this millinneum.
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PROPHETS CONFERENCE SERIES:
WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW!?
June 3-5, 2005; Miami, FL
July 1-3, 2005; Portland, OR
August 12-14, 2005; Vancouver, BC, Canada
October 14-16, 2005; Phoenix, AZ
Cost: $375 (group disc. and single-day passes
avail.) I Contact: Mystery School, PO Box 567, Kula,
Maui, HI 96790, (888) 777-5981 I Email:
axiom@greatmystery.org I Web: greatmystery.org/
bleep5 I Bringing together filmmakers, scientists,
theologians, and visionaries, along with individual
presentations, panel discussions, a faculty delegate
reception, book signings, a large bookstore and merchandise area, and other exhibits and attractions,
these conferences examine the mysteries and marvels of our minds and bodies, showing ways to come
to a deeper understanding through beauty, genius,
and a life path in a complicated, fear-driven, and
rapidly changing world.
PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT
June 11, 2005; Detroit, MI
Cost: $150 I Contact: (408) 379-7070 x188 I Email:
pyschicdevelopment.cfm I Learn to increase your
innate psychic abilities and creativity and develop
confidence in your insights and a more positive, lifeenhancing attitude. This hands-on class, which
explores many areas of psychic ability, is taught by
ministers of the Society of Novus Spiritus, which
was founded by psychic Sylvia Browne.
SKEPTIC'S SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE:
THE BRAIN, THE MIND, AND CONSCIOUSNESS
May 13-14, 2005; Pasadena, CA
Contact: The Skeptics Society, (626) 794-3119 I
Email:
skepticmag@aol.com
I
Web:
www.skeptic.com
SOCIETY FOR SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION 24TH
ANNUAL MEETING
May 19-21, 2005; Gainesville, FL
Contact: Society for Scientifice Exploration, Department of Astronomy, PO Box 3818, Charlottesville, VA
22903-0818, (434) 924-7494 I Email: cr t@virginia.edu I Web: www.scientificexploration.org/
meetings.php
SYLVIA BROWNE PRESENTS:
SECRETS & MYSTERIES
June 24, 2005; Chicago, IL
June 26, 2005; Minneapolis, MN
August 15, 2005; Seattle, WA
September 14, 2005; Long Island, NY
September 16, 2005; Philadelphia, PA
September 18, 2005; Detroit, MI
October 2, 2005; Boston, MA
November 12, 2005; San Francisco, CA
November 14, 2005; Los Angeles, CA
December 4, 2005; Honolulu, HI
Contact: Hay House, (800) 654-5126 I Email:

office@sylvia.org I Web: www.sylvia.org/home/lectures.cfm I Psychic Sylvia Browne will satisfy your
curiosity about the unexplained secrets and mysteries of this world. From the Great Pyramid to Stonehenge, she will reveal amazing facts about some of
the world's most mysterious sites, as well as crop
circles, vampires, voodoo, magic, Atlantis, extraterrestrials, and much more. John Holland, Sonia Choquette, or Gordon Smith will also participate.
CHICAGO SUPERNATURAL TOUR

May 28, 2005; Chicago, IL
June 18, 2005; Chicago, IL
Cost: $37 I Contact: Richard T. Crowe, PO Box
557544, Chicago, IL 60655, (708) 499-0300 I Web:
www.ghosttours.com/halloween I Visit historical and
authentic Chicago supernatural locales of ghosts,
curses, the arcane, and more.
ernghosts.com I Web: www.southernghosts.com/

Events/Gettysburg.asp I Per form EVP and psychic
experiments at several haunted properties and the
Gettysburg battlefield using high-tech equipment.
Features private tours of the Gettysburg historic
downtown district and battlefield, a moonlight ghost
tour of Seminary Ridge, a walkthrough of the haunted Farnsworth House sniper's nest, investigation of
the Lightner farmhouse, and an exploration of Underground Railroad sites.
SYLVIA BROWNE PRESENTS:

VISITS FROM THE AFTERLIFE
May 24, 2005; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
October 4, 2005; Calgary, Alberta, Canada
October 6, 2005; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Contact: INprove Productions, 2005 Donald Street,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3L 2T4, (204)
255.4239 or (866) 743-7326 I Email:
events@inprove.ca I Web: www.inprove.ca/
events_sylvia I Psychic Sylvia Browne will answer
questions and discuss how she contacts loved ones
who have passed on, explain what life is like on the
other side, where angels and spirit guides are and
how to know when your spirit guide is around you,
how to take an active part in healing and protecting
yourself, how to expand your mind to enhance all
aspects of your well-being, and how to prevent negative influences that can keep you from staying well.
EASTERN REGIONAL PARANORMAL CONFERENCE

July 22-24, 2005; Baltimore, MD
Cost: $75; $50 single-day I Email: conference@paranormalweekly.com I Web: conference.marylandparanormal.com I Speakers include Troy Taylor, Mark
Nesbitt, Ed Okonowicz, Kelly Weaver, Rosemar y
Ellen Guiley, Charles Adams, Rick Fisher, and Dale
Kaczmarek.
HAUNTED VIRGINIA PARANORMAL CONFERENCE

August 19-20, 2005; Williamsburg, VA
Cost: $70 (lunch incl.) I Contact: Old Dominion Paranormal Investigators, c/o Ray Finchum, 6084 Lockett Road, Rice, VA 23966 I Email: odpifounder@virginiaparanormal.com I Web: virginiaparanormal.com
I Features ghost tours, displays, vendors, authors,
and speakers, including L.B. Taylor Jr., Dale Kaczmarek Rosemary Guiley, Mark Nesbitt, Ed Okonowicz, Patty Wilson, Scott Crownover, and others.
ROSE CITY PARANORMAL CONFERENCE

October 14-16, 2005; Portland, OR
Email: Catherine@trailsendparanormalsocietyoforegon.com I Web: rosecityparanormalconference.
bravehost.com I Speakers and guests include
Michael Jones, Martina and Todd Baker, Eric Byerly,
authors Jefferson Davis and Leonore Sweet PhD, Liz
Freske, and others.
HORRIFIC HAUNTED HALLOWEEN HOLIDAY

October 27-November 3, 2005;
Transylvania, Romania
Cost: $1,799 I Contact: Tours of Terror, 315 Derby
Avenue, Orange, CT 06477, (866) TERRORTOUR or
(203) 795-4737 I Email: TOURSofTERROR@aol.com
I Web:www.dractour.com I Follow in the footsteps of
Jonathan Harker from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.
Visit haunted hotels and castles, creepy graveyards,
and spend a night in Dracula's Castle.
SHIPWRECK HALLOWEEN TERROR FEST

October 29, 2005; Long Beach, CA
Contact: The Queen Mar y, Attn: Haunted Encounters, 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach, CA
90802, (562) 435-3511 I Email: ghostmaster@
ghostsandlegends.com I Web: www.queenmary.com
I The Queen Mary is transformed into "The Most Terrifying Place on Earth," with a new creation that will
deliver ultimate horror to daring mortals; mazes, 3D
Frightvision, the sexy Fright Mistress and her lair; the
Boiler Room Club; and live bands in a three-level
dance party.
VOYAGE OF THE SOUL:

A PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE AT SEA
August 17-24, 2005; Alaska
November 1-9, 2005; Western Caribbean
Contact: Mindbodytravel, (800) 874-1996 I Email:
info@hayhouse.com I Web: www.hayhouse.com/
event_details.php?event_id=151
PARANORMAL
CHICAGO SUPERNATURAL CRUISE
May 13, 2005; Chicago, IL
August 6, 2005; Chicago, IL
September 3, 2005; Chicago, IL
September 4, 2005; Chicago, IL
Cost: $24 I Contact: Richard T. Crowe, PO Box
557544, Chicago, IL 60655, (708) 499-0300 I Web:
www.ghosttours.com/cruise I Cruise the Chicago
water ways, river, and lakefront and hear tales of
myster y and wonder, such as the Lake Michigan
ghost ships, lake monster, jinx ships, haunts of the
skyline, the Eastland tragedy, the truth about
"Cement Overshoes," a Lake Michigan "Triangle,"
and more!
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GHOST CONVENTION INTERNATIONAL

September 9-11, 2005; Long Beach, CA
Cost: $100; $50 single-day; $25 per workshop I
Contact: Ghost Convention Intl., 44729 Fern
Avenue, Lancaster, CA 93534, (661) 723-0962 I
Email: info@ghostconint.com I Web: www.ghostconint.com I Meet paranormal researchers, attend
seminars, and tour the haunted Queen Mary.
GHOST FEST '05
August 5-7, 2005; Red Boiling Springs, TN
Email: ghostfest@apsociety.com I Web: www.apsociety.com/ghostfest/index I A festival devoted to
ghosts and hauntings, with speakers, workshops,
spirited tours, and more.
HAUNTED AMERICA CONFERENCE
June 23-26, 2005; Alton, IL
Cost: $50 (addl. fee for after-hours tours and workshops) I Email: ttaylor@prairieghosts.com I Web:
www.prairieghosts.com I The original ghost conference in one of the most haunted small towns in
America features lectures, workshops, tours, and
investigations of haunted locations. Speakers,
including Rosemar y Ellen Guiley, Alan Brown,
Stephen Graham, John Kachuba, John Brill, Len
Adams, hosts Troy Taylor, and others.
HAUNTED CASTLES OF IRELAND
October 25-30, 2005; Dublin, Ireland
Cost: $1,699 I Contact: Butch Hart, Fugazy Travel,
1550 Hendersonville Road, Asheville, NC 28803,
(800) 221-7181 or (828) 274-2555 I Email:
butchh@fugazync.com I Web: shadowboxent.
brinkster.net/ParaEx/Ireland/HauntIre
A HAUNTED WEEKEND IN GETTYSBURG
September 23-25, 2005; Gettysburg, PA
Cost: $550 (double occ.) I Contact: Southern
Ghosts, 1106 New Hampshire St., Orlando, FL
32804, (407) 234-6611 I Email: info@south-
MICHIGAN GHOST CONFERENCE

October 8, 2005; Westland, MI
Email: ghostwatcher@comcast.net I Web: ghostwatchers.org I Includes a buffet dinner, paranormal
investigators, a ghost photo slide show, a raffle for
paranormal prizes, a Tarot reader, an aura photographer, book signings, and guest speakers, including
keynote speaker Dale Kaczmarek, president and
founder of Chicago's Ghost Research Society.
NEW ENGLAND GHOST CONFERENCE
October 22, 2005; Lewiston, ME
Cost: $50 I Contact: Bill Washell or Nancy Caswell,
1260 Lisbon Street-2nd front, Lewiston, ME 04240,
(207) 782-2032 I Email: meparanormal@yahoo.com
I Web: www.mainesparanormalresearchassoc.
com/2005 I Speakers include John Zaffis, Rev. Larry
Elward, Deb Elward, Derek Bartlett, Carrie Shimkus,
Bill Washell, Keith Johnson, Sandra Johnson, Mike
Sinclair, and others.
PARANORMAL WEEKEND IN NEW ORLEANS
November 4-6, 2005; New Orleans, LA
Cost: $550 I Contact: Southern Ghosts, 2120 Black
Mangrove Drive, Orlando, FL 32828, (407) 6164697 I Email: info@southernghosts.com I Web:
www.southernghosts.com/main/Event.asp?event_id
=8 I Investigate the Ashley House and the existence
of genuine hauntings, residual hauntings, and psi

phenomena.
PARANORMAL WEEKEND IN ST. AUGUSTINE
May 13-15, 2005; St. Augustine, FL
Cost: $550 I Contact: Southern Ghosts, 2120 Black
Mangrove Drive, Orlando, FL 32828, (407) 6164697 I Email: info@southernghosts.com I Web:
www.southernghosts.com I Investigate the Ashley
House and the existence of genuine hauntings,
residual hauntings, and psi phenomena.
SOUTH JERSEY GHOST RESEARCH

GROUP LECTURE SERIES
May 18, 2005; Matawan, NJ
October 6, 2005; Franklinville, NJ
October 13, 2005; Bellmawr, NJ
October 19, 2005; Manahawkin, NJ
October 20, 2005; Bayville, NJ
October 26, 2005; Point Pleasant, NJ
October 27, 2005; Mt Laurel, NJ
Cost: Free I Contact: (877) 478-3168 I Email: pubrelations@sjgr.org I Web: southjerseyghostresearch.
org I Video and audio presentation with infrared
video clips, photographs, and EVPs from actual
cases, photo and equipment displays, demonstrations, and Q&A.
SOUTH JERSEY GHOST RESEARCH
GROUP SEMINARS
October 22, 2005; Washington Township, NJ
October 28, 2005; Glendora, NJ
Contact: (877) 478-3168 I Email: pubrelations@
sjgr.org I Web: southjerseyghostresearch.org I Use
our equipment in a haunted building with our investigators, plus video and audio presentation with
infrared video clips, photographs, and EVPs from
actual cases, photo and equipment displays, demonstrations, Q&A, and more.
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TULSA GHOST CONFERENCE
September 18, 2005; Tulsa, OK
Cost: $30 ($45 incl. ghost tour/hunt) I Contact:
Paranormal Investigation Team of Tulsa, PO Box
803, Broken Arrow, OK 74013 I Email: PITTfounder@cox.net I Web: www.pittok.com I Features
lectures, ghost stories, prizes, ghost photos, EVPs,
and speakers, including Troy Taylor, Darren Dedo,
Russell White, Tonya Hacker, and Ursula Bielski.
THE TWISTED NIGHTMARE WEEKEND
August 5-7, 2005; Middleburg Heights, OH
Cost: $25 in adv.; $35 at the door (single-day passes avail.) I Contact: Keith Kline, 1901 Marks
Avenue, Akron, OH 44305 I Email: info@twistednightmareweekend.com I Web: www.twistednightmareweekend.com I Guests include Bruce Campbell, JR Bookwalter, Patrick Desmond, Robyn Griggs,
Joe Knetter, Josh Medors, Debbie Rochon, Rune
Shepherd, Brinke Stevens, Tom Sullivan, and others.
VAMPIRE INFESTATION: OHIO STATE
REFORMATORY HAUNTED PRISON EXPERIENCE
September 30-October 31, 2005; Mansfield, OH
Cost: $13 I Contact: Mansfield Reformator y, 100
Reformator y Road, Mansfield, OH 44905, (419)
522-2644 I Email: info@hauntedx.com I Web:
www.hauntedx.com
VAMPIRE VACATION TO TRANSYLVANIA
July 10-17, 2005; Transylvania, Romania
Cost: $1,799 I Contact: Tours of Terror, 315 Derby
Avenue, Orange, CT 06477, (866) TERRORTOUR or
(203) 795-4737 I Email: TOURSofTERROR@aol.com
I Web: www.dractour.com I Follow in the footsteps of
Jonathan Harker from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.
Visit haunted hotels and castles, creepy graveyards,
supernatural sights, and spend a night of fun and
fear in Dracula's Castle.
WEST VIRGINIA PENITENTIARY
ALL NIGHT GHOST HUNT
May 14, 2005; Moundsville, WV
June 18, 2005; Moundsville, WV
July 9, 2005; Moundsville, WV
August 20, 2005; Moundsville, WV
September 17, 2005; Moundsville, WV
November 12, 2005; Moundsville, WV
Cost: $50 I Contact: Pat Kleinedler, c/o MEDC, 818
Jefferson Avenue, Moundsville, WV 26041 I Email:
medc@ovis.net I Web: www.majda.net/events I
Spend a night in the haunted WVs Penitentiary.
REMOTE VIEWING
EXPLORATION 27
May 21-27, 2005; Faber, VA
Cost: $1,695 I Contact: The Monroe Institute, 62
Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866)
881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 I Email: TMIpro-
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grams@aol.com I Web: www.monroeinstitute.org I
Provides intensive investigation into nonphysical territories in order to obtain information and personal
experience related to this different state of being.
FARSIGHT ADVANCED SRV AND
MONITORING WORKSHOP
June 23-26, 2005; Atlanta, GA
October 23-26, 2005; London, England
Contact: Lynda Cowen, Director, Farsight Remote
Viewers Association, 2140 East Southlake Blvd.,
Suit L605, Southlake, TX 76092, (817) 481-4262 I
Email: silentvisitor@char ter.net I Web: www.farsight.org/updates
FARSIGHT VOYAGER TRAINING IN BASIC
SCIENTIFIC REMOTE VIEWING
May 26-29, 2005; London, England
July 20-24, 2005; Atlanta, GA
August 17-21, 2005; Atlanta, GA
October 19-23, 2005; London, England
Contact: Lynda Cowen, Director, Farsight Remote
Viewers Association, 2140 East Southlake Blvd.,
Suit L605, Southlake, TX 76092, (817) 481-4262 I
Email: silentvisitor@char ter.net I Web: www.farsight.org/updates
GATEWAY VOYAGE
May 7-13, 2005; Faber, VA
June 4-10, 2005; Faber, VA
June 4-10, 2005 ; Petaluma, CA
June 25-July 1, 2005; Faber, VA
July 23-29, 2005; Faber, VA
August 6-12, 2005; Faber, VA
August 27-September 2, 2005; Faber, VA
September 10-16, 2005; Faber, VA
October 1-7, 2005; Faber, VA
Cost: $1,695 (incl. room and board) I Contact: The
Monroe Institute, 62 Roberts Mountain Road, Faber,
VA 22938, (866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 I
Email: TMIprograms@aol.com I Web: www.monroeinstitute.org I With the aid of Hemispheric Synchronization sounds, total immersion in a timeless
retreat, the guidance of senior trainers, feedback,
and group sharing of experiences, be carried into
four altered states of consciousness.
GUIDELINES
July 23-29, 2005; Faber, VA
September 17-23, 2005; Faber, VA
881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 I Email: TMIprograms@aol.com I Web: www.monroeinstitute.org I
Provides learning methods through which communication can be established with parts of one's selfawareness.
HEARTLINE
August 12-19, 2005; Faber, VA
November 12-18, 2005; Faber, VA
Explores your internal landscape that promotes selflove, self-trust, and self-acceptance. Learn to let go
of fear as you move into a greater sense of wholeness, balance, and harmony.
LIFELINE
May 14-20, 2005; Faber, VA
July 30-August 5, 2005; Faber, VA
November 5-11, 2005; Faber, VA
Learn to contact those who have made the transition
from physical reality and who need assistance in
moving forward.
MC2: MANIFESTATION AND CREATION SQUARED
Provides tools to experience the potentials of human
existence through expanding belief systems and
enhancing abilities to influence time-space events
through non-physical (energetic) means. Uses principles discovered in the practice of psychokinesis (PK)
and of directing energy for healing.
PLANETARY INTELLIGENCE WORKSHOP
October 22-23, 2005; Boulder, CO
Cost: $295 I Contact: The Institute for Resonance,
1942 Broadway, Suite 314, Boulder, CO 80302,
(303) 440-7393 I Web: www.mountbaldy.com I Get
in touch with planetary intelligence and inner awareness and practice exercises that allow you to connect with your body's intelligence and ability to
sense nature's intelligence.
REMOTE VIEWING PRACTICUM
Rober ts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866)
Training in the ability to perceive events and locations across distance and across time; employs a
team concept (a monitor/interviewer, a remote viewer, and a judge) with participants learning each role.
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STARLINES
Explore the mystery of energy systems throughout
our galaxy and beyond, moving gradually into new
states of awareness, being, and perception.
TIMELINE
June 25-July 1, 2005; Faber, VA
Provides opportunities to explore the adventures of
other selves in other times, in order to gain new perspectives on who you are and what is possible for
you in this present life.
WESTERN INSTITUTE OF REMOTE VIEWING
2-DAY WEEKEND WORKSHOP
May 28-29, 2005; Orlando, FL
June 18-19, 2005; Dallas, TX
July 23-24, 2005; Seattle, WA
August 20-21, 2005; Phoenix, AZ
September 17-18, 2005; Eugene, OR
October 1-2, 2005; Virginia Beach, VA
November 5-6, 2005; Sacramento, CA
December 3-4, 2005; Chicago, IL
Contact: The Western Institute of Remote Viewing,
218 Main Street #634, Kirkland, WA 98033, (800)
824-3730 or (888) 540-6085 I Email:
waynecarr@remoteviewers.com I Web: www.remoteviewers.com
WESTERN INSTITUTE OF REMOTE VIEWING 5-DAY
INTENSIVE TRAINING WORKSHOP
September 23-27, 2005; Seattle, WA
October 21-25, 2005; Stockholm, Sweden
November 25-29, 2005; Sydney, Australia
Contact: The Western Institute of Remote Viewing,
218 Main Street #634, Kirkland, WA 98033, (800)
824-3730 or (888) 540-6085 I Email: waynecarr@
remoteviewers.com I Web: www.remoteviewers.com
SACRED SITES/PILGRIMAGES
AMERICAN SOUTHWEST SACRED PILGRIMAGE OF
HEALING AND RENEWAL 2005
May 6-15, 2005; Sedona, AZ
Cost: $2,295 (double occupancy) I Contact: Mystery
School, 369 Montezuma Avenue, Suite 103, Santa
Fe, NM 87501, (888) 777-5981 or (505) 988-2223 I
Email: prophets@greatmystery.org I Web: www.greatmystery.org/sw05 I Venture into the Southwest for a
pilgrimage to some of the most sacred and beautiful
places on Earth for a time of transformation, healing,
renewal, and once-in-a-lifetime experiences.

ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF FRANCE
May 25-June 6, 2005; Auvergne,
Languedoc, and Provence
Cost: $2,500 for 12 nights in France I Contact: Dr.
Chet Snow, PO Box 1738, Sedona, AZ 86339, (928)
204-1962 I Email: chetsnow@npgcable.com I Web:
www.chetsnow.com/france I Explore the legends of
Mar y Magdalene and Jesus, the cult of the Black
Madonnas, and Nostradamus. Walk the Char tres
Cathedral labyrinth. Visit Clermont-Ferrand, Rocamadour, Saintes Maries de la Mer, Salon de
Provence, Vzelay, and Montsegur, plus mysterious
Rennes le Chateau, where Abb Saunier boasted
hoarding a treasure greater than gold.
ANCIENT MYSTERIES REVEALED CONFERENCE:
A MYTHICAL LOST CIVILIZATION
November 1-8, 2005; Malta
Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80904, (800) 2348687 or (719) 448-0514 I Email: travel@powerplaces.com I Web: www.powerplaces.com/maltahancock I Travel with Graham Hancock as he shares new
revelations concerning the neolithic temples and
ancient sites of Malta.
A PERSONAL INVITATION TO
MOTHER MEERA'S DARSHAN
June 29-July 6, 2005; Rhineland, Germany
Cost: $1,350 for 7 nights in Germany I Contact: Dr.
Chet Snow, Box 1738, Sedona, AZ 86339, (928)
204-1962 I Email: chetsnow@npgcable.com I Web:
www.chetsnow.com/mothermeera I Born in India,
Mother Meera is an Avatar who has changed the
lives of thousands since moving to Germany more
than 20 years ago. In addition to four evenings of her
darshan, visit Cologne and Limburg cathedrals,
medieval mystic Hildegarde von Bingen's convent,
and cruise down the Rhine.
AVALON TO CAMELOT: A JOURNEY
THROUGH THE MYTHS OF TIME
September 7-16, 2005; Glastonbury, England
Cost: 1,550 I Contact: Gothic Image, 7 High Street,
Glastonbur y, Somerset BA6 9DP, England,
+44(0)1458 831281 I Email: tours@gothicimage.
co.uk I Web: www.gothicimagetours.co.uk/arthurian I
Visit sacred shrines and spend time with some of
Britain's most respected teachers, authors, and ceremonialists, who share their knowledge of the history, myths, and legends of the sacred landscape of
the British Isles.
CENTER OF THE MANDALA
May 8-June 3, 2005; Tibet
Cost: $5,650 I Contact: Insight Travel Pilgrimages,
(800) 688-9851 or (937) 767-1102 I Email:
info@insight-travel.com I Web: www.insighttravel.com/mtkailas I A month-long journey to the
sacred sites of Lhasa, Gyantse, Shigatse, and

Mount Kailas, the great mythological mountain that
is the axis of the world in traditional Buddhist cosmology and the most sacred of mountains for Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, and Bonpos.
DIVINE ROYAL BLOODLINE & GRAIL
June 18-28, 2005, France
Cost: $2,865 I Contact: Vanessa Guillemot,
Antahkaranah Publ., (760) 329-5417 I Email: vanessa.antahkaranah@adelphia.net
I
Web:
www.antahkaranah.com I Follow the path of the
divine royal bloodline & integrate the Grail codes with
Michael El Nour. Visit Rennes le Chteau, Black
Madonnas & Magdalene areas, Chartres, Paris, and
St. Michaels Mount.
EARTH MYSTERIES, ANCIENT SITES,
AND CELTIC TEACHINGS
July 18-30, 2005; Wales, England and Cornwall
Cost: $2,295 I Contact: Sheri Nakken, Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563,
Nevada City, CA 95959, (530) 740-0561 I Email:
earthmysteriestours@tesco.net or wwithin@nccn.net
I Web: www.nccn.net/~wwithin/walesengcorn I Visit
Tintagel, Penwith, Snowdonia National Park, Anglesey Island, Conwy Castle, Tintern Abbey, Glastonbur y, Stonehenge, Avebur y, and crop circle formations. Explore the history of the land, with teachings
in Celtic history, practices; history's mysteries; earth
energies, ley lines, and stone circles; earth mysteries; sacred sites; and Welsh and Cornish history.
ENCHANTING SCOTLAND: A CELTIC JOURNEY,
SACRED SITES, MYSTERY & MYTHOLOGY
August 19-31, 2005; Scotland
ear thmysteriestours@tesco.net
I
Web:
www.nccn.net/~wwithin/scot I Explore the legends,
mysteries, and myths of Scotland, including Loch
Ness; the standing stones and ancient sites of Argyll,
Callanish, the Isles of Skye and Lewis, and the
Orkney Islands; mysterious Roslyn Chapel. With workshops in Celtic and pre-Celtic mythology and practices, fairy kingdoms, Scottish history and folk practices, and Roslyn Chapel and the Knights Templar.
IN SEARCH OF ORIGINAL WISDOM
June 17-July 8, 2005; Tibet
Contact: Power Places, 2509 #A Andromeda, Colorado Springs, CO 80906, (800) 234-8687 I Email:
travel@powerplaces.com I Web: www.powerplaces.
com/bradentibet I Join Gregg Braden in Tibet, a land
of mystery, memory, mystics, sacred mountains, and
ancient wisdom. Includes exotic Kathmandu; the
Yarlung Valley; Yumbhulakhang and the Temple of
Ten Thousand Pearled Tangkha; the Samye
Monastery, where Tibetans believe the souls of the
recently deceased travel; the Jokhang Temple and
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the Norbulingka; a week in Lhasa; stops at isolated
monasteries and towns near Mt. Everest; private
audiences with Tibetan Lamas; and more.
A MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR DE FRANCE:
IN SEARCH OF MARY MAGDALENE
May 25-June 8, 2005, France
Contact: 206 Tours, 289 East Main St., Smithtown,
NY 11787 I Email: Eva@206tours.com I Web:
www.seekerofthesacredtruth.net I Embrace the legend of Mary Magdalene as you explore medieval villages, Mediterranean hamlets and Cathar castles.
Reiki Master-Teacher & Spiritual Intuitive Joy
Malumphy leads this transformational, sacred
adventure across France. Visit Vezelay, Saintes
Maries de la Mer, Marseille, Carcassonne, Rennes
le Chateau, Collioure, & Rocamadour.
MYSTERIES OF FRANCE; THE CELTS, THE
GODDESS, THE BLACK MADONNA, ANCIENT
SITES, MERLIN, AND EARTH MYSTERIES
June 3-15, 2005; Languedoc-Roussillon, S. France
October 15-27, 2005; Languedoc-Roussillon, S.
France
Cost: $2,295 I Contact: Earth Mysteries & Sacred
Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563, Nevada City,
CA 95959, (530) 740-0561 I Email: sacredsitetours@tesco.net or wwithin@nccn.net I Web:
www.nccn.net/~wwithin/france2 I Visit Brittany,
Mont St-Michel, the Char tres Cathedral, and the
ancient sites, chateaux, castles, subterranean
rivers and caves, the Mediterranean Sea, the Pyrenees, Romanesque churches, abbeys, walled cities,
and sites of great mystery, including the Holy Grail
myster y, the Magdalene myster y, Rennes le
Chateau, the Cathars, ley lines and geometric alignments on the land, Nazi treasure hunters, and more.
MYSTERIOUS WALES
September 17-26, 2005; Wales
Cost: 1595 I Contact: Gothic Image, 7 High Street,
Glastonbur y, Somerset BA6 9DP, England,
co.uk I Web: www.gothicimagetours.co.uk/wales I
Explore the land of the Mabinogion, Merlin, stone
circles, holy wells, and secret magical places. Visit
Snowdonia and the Druid isle of Anglesey, as well as
Cardigan Bay, the Gower peninsula, Gwent, and the
ancient land of Dyfed, with its Celtic crosses, weeping yews, and misty Preseli mountains.
MYSTICAL BRITAIN
August 1-8, 2005; Salisbury, England
Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80904, (800) 2348687 or (719) 448-0514 I Email: travel@powerplaces.com I Web: www.powerplaces.com
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MYSTICAL IRELAND: CELTIC JOURNEYS,
ANCIENT SITES, & HISTORY'S MYSTERIES
June 25-July 7, 2005; Ireland
September 24-October 6, 2005; Ireland
earthmysteriestours@tesco.net or wwithin@nccn.
net I Web: www.nccn.net/~wwithin/irel I Explore
Celtic legends, folklore, and mythology, and the
mountains and lakes that are the homes of the gods
and goddesses. Visit ancient, magical, sacred, and
inspirational sites, with teachings in Celtic and preCeltic mythology and mysteries and Irish history.
MYSTICAL SCOTLAND
August 23-September 6, 2005; Scotland
Cost: $3,555 I Contact: Denni Clarke, PO Box 2155,
Freedom, CA 95019, (831) 761-3655 I Email:
dclarke@cropcirclespirit.com I Web: www.cropcirclespirit.com I Mysteries abound amongst heather-clad
hillsides, tranquil lochs, and sacred islands, including Kilmar tin Glen, with sites dating back over
5,000 years; the Isle of Iona, once a Druid
stronghold, now a pilgrimage site; and the recently
discovered Callenish stones on the Isle of Lewis.
Experience a Ceilidh with traditional song and
dance; attend the Oban Highland Games, folk museums, historical castles; sail to Fingal's Cave; journey
along Loch Ness; and more.
PILGRIMAGE TO ANCIENT GREECE: HOLY ISLES,
SACRED TEMPLES AND ORACLE SHRINES
September 1-15, 2005; Greece
Contact: Mar tin Gray, PO Box 4111, Sedona, AZ
86340 I Email: mar tin@sacredsites.com I Web:
www.sacredsites.com/pilgrimages/greece_2005 I
Join Martin Gray and Thanassis Vembos to visit the
holy islands of Patmos and Tinos, the oracle shrine
of Delphi, sites in and around Athens, and other little-known magical places in the Peloponnese, with
lectures on the archaeology, mythology, and culture
of ancient Greece and teachings on Nomadics
movement meditations.
RITES OF PASSAGE RETREAT IN TUSCANY
May 14-June 11, 2005; Tuscany, Italy
Cost: $975 one week; $1,659 two weeks; $2,550
three weeks; $2,950 four weeks I Contact: Barbara
Lange, 985 Toe River Road, Green Mountain, NC
28740, (828) 682-4684 I Email: laughinghearts@
yahoo.com I Web: www.ritesofpassageretreats.com I
Join Barbara Lange and friends for a journey to the
sacred sites of Tuscany and Umbria. Visit Assisi,
Arezzo, San Gimignano, and many other sites.
SACRED SCOTLAND: THE BLESSED ISLES
June 19-July 1, 2005; Scotland
Cost: 1,995 I Contact: Gothic Image, 7 High
Street, Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 9DP, England,
co.uk I Web: www.gothicimagetours.co.uk/scotland I

Visit the holy wells, stone circles, hermit cells, Druid
groves, enchanted woods, dramatic dolmens,
sacred rivers, majestic glens, and bonnie lochs of
Scotland and its islands. Be enlightened and entertained by authors, historians, musicians, and storytellers along the way.
SACRED SITES EXPERIENCE
June 10-12, 2005; Dorset, England
Cost: 165 I Contact: Lalitya, Osho Leela, Thorngrove House, Common Mead Lane, Gillingham,
Dorset, SP8 4RE, UK, +44(0)1747 821221 I Email:
info@osholeela.co.uk I Web: www.osholeela.co.
uk/3cal I Find ones connection to the ear th, to
ones inner essence, and to each other on this magical weekend. We will explore sacred sites and energize with shamanic dancing
SACRED SITES OF ITALY
May 15-28, 2005; Italy
Contact: Association for Research and Enlightenment, 215 67th S., Virginia Beach, VA 23451, (888)
273-3339 Ext. 7289 I Email: tours@edgarcayce.org
I Web: edgarcayce.org/tours/2004_travel_schedule
I Visit the holy and cultural sites of Rome, Florence,
Padua, Milan, Piza, Venice, Assisi, and more.
Threads of Roman mythology, early Christian experiences, and concepts from the Edgar Cayce readings
will be woven throughout the journey, which will be
led by John Van Auken.
SACRED SITES OF PERU
June 15-28, 2005; Peru
Contact: Association for Research and Enlightenment, 215 67th Street, Virginia Beach, VA 23451,
(888) 273-3339 Ext. 7289 I Email: tours@edgarcayce.org I Web: edgarcayce.org/tours/2004_travel_schedule I Visit the Nasca Lines and the ruins,
monuments, and temples of the sacred valley of
Ollantaytambo, including the Mother Earth Temple,
the Sun Temple, and the site near Machu Picchu
where the Incas chiseled the profile of the "face,"
through the eye of which the sun's light shines
across the valley and onto the altar during the solstice. Spend the solstice at Machu Picchu following
a shamanic cleansing-sound performance and experience a meditation ceremony in the Mother Earth
Temple. Led by Henry Reed and Thomas Morton.
SACRED SITES SLIDE SHOW WITH MARTIN GREY
June 17, 2005; Williamsburg, VA
Web: www.sacredsites.com/upcoming
THE SACRED IN NATURE AND NORSE MYTHOLOGY
September 7-18, 2005; Norway
Cost: $2,195 I Contact: Earth Mysteries & Sacred
Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563, Nevada City,
CA 95959, (530) 740-0561 I Email: wwithin@
nccn.net I Web: www.nccn.net/~wwithin/nor way I
Visit Viking burial mounds, Supphellebreen,
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Boyabreen glacier, the English church of St. Olav, the

Nor wegian Glacier Museum, and the mountains,
lakes, water falls, fjords, and glaciers of this land.
With teachings in the sacred in nature, Norse
mythology, history, and legend.
FIVE-DAY SOUL RETRIEVAL TRAINING

July 17-22, 2005; Santa Fe, NM
Contact: Raven Snow Inc., 2405 Figueroa NE, Albuquerque, NM 87112, (505) 271-9306 I Email:
info@shamanicstudies.com I Web: www.shamanism.org/workshops/schedule_advanced
SHAMANISM/SHAPESHIFTING
FIVE-DAY SHAMANIC COUNSELING TRAINING

August 22-26, 2005; San Francisco, CA
Contact: Journeywork Institute, PO Box 13160, Portland, OR 97213, (503) 282-6315 I Email: flanagin4@msn.com I Web: www.shamanism.org/workshops/schedule_advanced
ADVANCED MASTER SHAPESHIFTING INTENSIVE

May 11-15, 2005; Deer Isle, ME
Contact: (413) 665-0101 I Email: info@dreamchange.org I Web: www.dreamchange.org/projects/apr-jun2005
BASIC SHAMANISM RETREAT:
A SHAMAN'S WALK
May 27-29, 2005; Whitney, Ontario, Canada
Cost: $397 I Contact: The Edge, 100 Ottawa
Avenue, Box 329, South River, Ontario, Canada P0A
1X0, (800) 953-3343 I Email: edge@shamanismcanada.com I Web: www.shamanismcanada.com/
upcomingevents I This introduction to core shamanism teaches how to restore spiritual health and
power, the use of percussion instruments as doorways into the spiritual world, how to connect with
spiritual allies through shamanic journey to the
upper, lower and middle worlds, and how to tap into
infinite wisdom. Emphasis on applying core shamanism to daily life, to help heal oneself, each other,
and the earth. With Martha Lucier.
CIRCLE OF POWER:
MEDICINE WHEEL WORKSHOP
July 15-17, 2005; Sedona, AZ
Cost: $425 I Contact: Crossing Worlds Journeys and
Retreats, PO Box 623, Sedona, AZ 86339, (800)
350-2693 or (928) 203-0024 I Email:
journeys@crossingworlds.com I Web: www.crossingworlds.com/retreat I Learn to work with energy in
order to ground your hara line to Mother Earth; to
consciously use the flow of energy that comes
through the heart of Mother Earth, Spirit, and yourself to help balance and release yourself and others;
and to sense and clear imbalances in order to connect more fully and take in needed energy.
EARTH MEDICINE VISION QUEST RETREAT
May 14-18, 2004; Sedona, AZ
Cost: $1,250-$1,395 I Contact: Crossing Worlds
Journeys and Retreats, PO Box 623, Sedona, AZ
86339, (800) 350-2693 or (928) 203-0024 I Email:
journeys@crossingworlds.com I Web: www.crossingworlds.com/earthmedicineretreat I Experience communion with the spiritual energies of nature for personal vision and power. Includes shamanism
training, a vision quest, Navajo sweatlodge and fire
blessing ceremony, and visit with Hopi traditional
people, join a circle of power ceremony, soul
retrieval, and develop emotional healing practices.
FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE: A SHAMANIC

JOURNEY TO THE ANDES & AMAZON
July 14-24, 2005; Ecuador
Cost: $2,690 I Contact: Joyce Kendall, Earth Heart
Farm, (603) 524-7829 I Email: energyjk@att.net I
Web: www.earthsummitllc.com I Soar to higher levels of consciousness learning from Andean Yachaks
(shaman) and Amazonian healers. Learn from the
many spirit realms with which the Shamans are in
contact, explore sacred mountains and jungles, travel to indigenous markets, and work with the plant
spirit medicine magic.
HOPI AND NAVAJO INDIAN LANDS SOUL JOURNEY
June 25-26, 2005; Sedona, AZ
Cost: $495 (group discounts avail.) I Contact: Crossing Worlds Journeys and Retreats, PO Box 623,
Sedona, AZ 86339, (800) 350-2693 or (928) 2030024 I Email: journeys@crossingworlds.com I Web:
www.crossingworlds.com/retreat I Tour the Canyon
de Chelly, a beautiful and ancient sacred place of
spiritual connection; prehistoric cliff dwellings of the
Hopi ancestors; and a Navajo sweat lodge, with
vision-quest time and a blessing ceremony to help
connect with those who inhabit this mythical place.
LEARNING TO REMEMBER:
ANCIENT TEACHINGS FOR MODERN TIMES
November 3-13, 2005; Ecuador
Cost: $2,800 I Contact: Joyce Kendall, Earth Heart
Farm, (603) 524-7829 I Email: energyjk@att.net I
Web: www.ear thsummitllc.com I Focusing on the
teachings of the Quichua, descendants of the Inca.
Learn how to apply ancient wisdom to your life by
traveling deep into the jungle, visiting sacred waterfalls, and working with plant spirit medicine.
MASTERS' CIRCLE OF REMEMBERING:
LIFE EMPOWERMENT AND SHAMANIC
REIKI CERTIFICATION
Winter 2005; West Whately, MA
Contact: Lyn Rober ts-Herrick, (212) 674-0525 I
Email: shamanicreiki@aol.com I Web: www.dreamchange.org/projects/oct-dec2004 I Eighteen-month
intensive training emphasizes personal development/empowerment, and the natural and compassionate brilliance that arises from attunement to
spirit. The program focuses on cleansing the soul,

aligning with the deeper intentions of the soul, and
expanding awareness. It offers the information and
experience needed to develop and teach all levels of
Reiki, cultivating the confidence and inspiration to
trust innate wisdom in order to become uniquely gifted healers and teachers.
MEDICINE FOR THE EARTH GATHERING
June 17-19, 2005; Whitney, Ontario, Canada
upcomingevents I Explore the power of visioning and
learn to transform negative beliefs, attitudes, and
the energy that comes from emotions. Learn about
the beings of ear th, water, fire, and air through
shamanic journeying and work in cooperation with
spirits of the land to receive the abundance that the
earth offers. With Martha Lucier.
MEDICINE FOR THE EARTH WORKSHOPS
May 22, 2005; Whitney, Ontario, Canada
June 12, 2005; Whitney, Ontario, Canada
Cost: Free I Contact: The Edge, 100 Ottawa Avenue,
Box 329, South River, Ontario, Canada P0A 1X0,
(800) 953-3343 I Email: edge@shamanismcanada.com I Web: www.shamanismcanada.com/
upcomingevents
MEDICINE WHEEL: CIRCLE OF POWER TRAINING
November 20, 2005; Sedona, AZ
Cost: $425 I Contact: Crossing Worlds Journeys and
Retreats, PO Box 623, Sedona, AZ 86339, (800)
350-2693 or (928) 203-0024 I Email:
journeys@crossingworlds.com I Web: www.crossingworlds.com/wheel2 I Learn to work with ceremony,
spiritual healing, cosmic energies, principles of the
power of the circle, shamanic insights of healing,
drumming, sound healing, and balance direct from
the Source; universal earth-spirit ways and sending
our hear t wave out to the cosmos. Will focus on
deepening skills with setting intention, spirit-helper
communication, reading signs, shamanic journeying,
energy work, and sound healing.
NEW YEAR'S WEEKEND SOUL JOURNEY RETREAT
December 29, 2005-January 1, 2006; Sedona, AZ
Cost: $850 (group disc. avail.) I Contact: Crossing
Worlds Journeys and Retreats, PO Box 623, Sedona,
AZ 86339, (800) 350-2693 or (928) 203-0024 I
Email: journeys@crossingworlds.com I Web:
www.crossingworlds.com/retreat I Develop attention, intention, intuition, and presence, with a focus
on soul-retrieval, emotional healing, working with the
energies of nature, opening to vision, ceremonial circles, freeing innate body wisdom, shamanic journeying, reading signs, and native medicine principles.
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PEACEMAKING: SHAMANISM, PEACE & HEALING
August 26-28, 2005; Whitney, Ontario, Canada
upcomingevents I As peace-makers, we begin to
heal a history of trauma that spans the generations
and whose seeds live in the soil. This workshop
explores peace, justice, harmony, balance, and spirit from a variety of traditions. Discover what they can
teach us about healing conflicts and bringing peace
to our times.
SHAMANIC ASTROLOGY ADVANCED NIGHT SKY
SAMHAIN SCORPIO CROSS-QUARTER NIGHT
SKY TRACK GATHERING
November 2-6, 2005; Faywood Hot Springs, NM
Cost: $320 (incl. CD recording of classes) I Contact:
Carolyn Brent, (520) 744-0506 or Daniel Giamario,
(310) 281-7651 I Email: p3@shamanic
astrology.com I Web: www.shamanicastrology.com/
2004_Samhain I Features Samhain sunrise, sunset,
and night sky ceremonies at the stone circle overlooking the hot springs, as well as classes with
Daniel Giamario, Carolyn Brent, John Dumas, sound
healer Didgeridoo, and others.
SHAMANIC ASTROLOGY AUTUMNAL EQUINOX
NIGHT SKY WILDERNESS CAMP
September 22-25, 2005; Dyer, NV
Cost: $300 I Contact: Daniel Giamario, 11301 Vista
Avenue, Grass Valley, CA 95945, (310) 281-7651 I
Email:
p3@shamanicastrology.com
or
jdgiamario@shamanicastrology.com I Web:
www.shamanicastrology.com/events01 I Features
sunrise and sunset autumnal equinox ceremonials
and night-sky viewing at an ancient solstice petroglyph mystery school overlooking hot springs. With
Daniel Giamario, Carolyn Brent, John Dumas, and
the shamanic astrology staff. Includes classes in
experiential shamanic astrology, high desert mountain hiking, and wilderness hot springs.
SHAMANIC ASTROLOGY CHART ANALYSIS
INTENSIVE TRAINING
July 20-24, 2005; Portland, OR
October 15-19, 2005; Sedona, AZ
Cost: $420 I Contact: Carolyn Brent, (520) 7440506 I Email: p3@ShamanicAstrology.Com I Web:
www.shamanicastrology.com/events01 I Daniel Giamario, Carolyn Brent, special guest Tom Lesher, and
others will teach in-depth chart analysis, counseling
techniques, and the most impor tant tools of
shamanic astrology: the shamanic timeline of astrological cycles, the seven primary shamanic planetary initiation processes; and planetary aspect complexes of the outer planets.
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SHAMANIC EXTRACTION HEALING
July 30-31, 2005; San Francisco, CA
Contact: Foundation for Shamanic Studies, PO Box
1939, Mill Valley, CA 94942, (415) 380-8282 I
Email: info@shamanicstudies.com I Web: www.
shamanism.org/workshops/schedule_advanced
SHAMANIC JOURNEY TECHNIQUES
June 18, 2005; Hudson, NH
Contact: Joyce Kendall, Ear th Hear t Farm, (603)
524-7829 I Email: energyjk@att.net I Web:
www.ear thsummitllc.com I Learn the basics of
Shamanic journeying by using music and guided
meditationin order to meet spirit guides, obtain
sacred items, and better ones spiritual intuition.
Includes info on how to set up a drumming circle.
SHAMANIC PADDLING ADVENTURE
Avenue, Box 329, South River, ONT, CANADA P0A
upcomingevents I Awaken the dreamer within you
and explore your soul's landscape. Connect with
nature and all that stirs within you as you open your
awareness and learn to journey with your eyes open
and dialogue with the spirits of nature.
SHAMANIC REIKI MASTER PRACTITIONER
(Pre-Requisite to Apprenticeship Program)
October 7-9, 2005; West Whately, MA
Contact: Lyn Rober ts-Herrick, (212) 674-0525 I
Email: shamanicreiki@aol.com I Web: www.dreamchange.org/projects/oct-dec2004
SHAMANIC WELLNESS
July 15-17, 2005; Whitney, Ontario, Canada
upcomingevents I A healing shamanism workshop
and retreat with Martha Lucier.
SHAMANISM AND THE SPIRITS OF NATURE
May 21-22, 2005; Memphis, TN
August 20-21, 2005; Mt. Airy, MD
1939, Mill Valley, CA 94942, (415) 380-8282 I
SHAMANISM, DYING, AND BEYOND
June 11-12, 2005; Indianapolis, IN
June 11-12, 2005; Campbellford, Ontario, Canada
July 9-10, 2005; Nashville, TN
1939, Mill Valley, CA 94942, (415) 380-8282 I
A SHAMAN'S JOURNEY TO
ORACLES & SACRED SITES
May 30-June 6, 2005; Crete and Greece
Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80904, (800) 2348687 or (719) 448-0514 I Email: travel@powerplaces.com I Web: www.powerplaces.com/
GreeceWess05 I Join Hank Wesselman on a pilgrimage to Delphi, the fabled Oracle of the Dead, the
Tree Oracle of Dodona, and other ancient sites and
temples where oracular divination took place. Experience vibrational fields of energy and healing and
open your soul to the mystery of these places.
SUMMER SOLSTICE CEREMONY &
ANCESTRAL WISDOM CELEBRATION
June 22, 2005; Sedona, AZ
Contact: Crossing Worlds Journeys and Retreats, PO
Box 623, Sedona, AZ 86339, (800) 350-2693 or
(928) 203-0024 I Email: journeys@crossing
worlds.com I Web: www.crossingworlds.com/retreat
I This celebration will include a drum journey for a
power ful connection with ancestral guides and a
healing ceremony to help you release the old that no
longer serves, evoke the inner fire of your true spirituality, and call forth your soul's vision.
SUMMER SOLSTICE SOUL JOURNEY RETREAT
June 21-24, 2005; Sedona, AZ
Cost: $850 (group disc. avail.) I Contact: Crossing
Worlds Journeys and Retreats, PO Box 623,
Sedona, AZ 86339, (800) 350-2693 or (928) 2030024 I Email: journeys@crossingworlds.com I Web:
www.crossingworlds.com/retreat I Develop attention, intention, intuition and presence, with a focus
on soul-retrieval, emotional healing, working with the
energies of nature, opening to vision, ceremonial circles, freeing innate body wisdom, shamanic journey,
reading the signs, and native medicine principles.
TREE MEDICINE: CONNECTING WITH
THE SPIRITS OF NATURE
upcomingevents I Participants will be introduced to
a variety of ways to connect with the spirit in all
things. Learn how to communicate with the trees,
plants, and rocks and to nurture your relationship
with the spirit of the tree. Experience harmony with
yourself and the natural world.
THE WAY OF THE SHAMAN BASIC WORKSHOP
June 4-5, 2005; Port Clyde, ME
June 4-5, 2005; Montreal, Quebec, Canada
June 11-12, 2005; Montpelier, VT
June 25-26, 2005; San Francisco, CA
June 25-26, 2005; Toronto, Ontario, Canada
July 16-17, 2005; Lakefield, Ontario, Canada
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July 30-31, 2005; East Dundee, IL
July 30-31, 2005; Bellingham, WA
August 27-28, 2005; Ontario, Canada
1939, Mill Valley, CA 94942, (415) 380-8282 I
Email: info@shamanicstudies.com I Web:
www.shamanism.org/workshops/basicwk I Workshop introduces shamanism for divination, problemsolving, and healing. Initiation into shamanic journeying for awakening dormant spiritual abilities,
including connections with nature, restoring spiritual
power and health, and applying shamanism to help
heal oneself, others, and the planet.
UFOS/ALIENS
ANCIENT OF DAYS: UFO AND
ABDUCTION CONFERENCE
July 2-4, 2005; Roswell, NM
Cost: $99 until June 15th; $125 thereafter I Contact: Alien Resistance Headquar ters, 109 Nor th
Main Street, Roswell, NM 88203, (505) 625-8496 I
Email: seekye1@earthlink.net I Web: www.ancientofdays.net I Speakers include Stephen Bassett, Grant
Cameron, Richard Dolan, Terr y Hansen, William
Lyne, Jim Marrs, Peter Robbins, Guy Malone, Bill
Alnor, Jim Wilhelmsen, Norm Franz, Stan Deyo, Bill
Schnoebelen, David Flynn, Mike Heiser, and others.
ANCIENT TEXTS & THE ET CONNECTION...
WHO IS CALLING THE SHOTS?
June 15, 2005; Costa Mesa, CA
Cost: $5 I Contact: MUFON Orange County, 5267
Warner Ave. #275, Huntington Beach, CA 92649,
(714) 520-4836 I Email: info@mufonoc.org I Web:
www.mufonoc.org/program I Lecture presented by
Dr. Michael S. Heiser.
ANNUAL UFO CONFERENCE &
CAMP-OUT NEXT TO AREA 51
May 27-29, 2005; Rachel, NV
Cost: $105; $60 single-day I Contact: Ike Bishop,
Ph.D., PO Box 22310, Sacramento, CA 95822,
(916) 422-7400 I Email: ibishop10@hotmail.com I
Web: www.drboylan.com/rachel I Speakers include
Dr. Richard Boylan, Dr. Bob Cave, Dr. Louis Turi, and
Charles Hall.
BAY AREA UFO EXPO
October 15-16, 2005; Santa Clara, CA
Cost: $33/one-day pass, $59 two-day pass until
August 1; $38/one-day pass, $63/two-day pass
thereafter ($20 fee for each workshop) I Contact:
Victoria Jack, Executive Producer, 2351 Alexis Lane,
Tracy, CA 95377, (209) 836-4281 I Email: thebayareaufoexpo.com I Web: www.thebayareaufoexpo.
com I Sixty-five exhibitiors, hosts Robert Perala and
Ruben Uriarte, keynote speaker Dean Haglund, and
others.
AN E.T. BASE: DOLPHINS AND WHALES OF THE

AZORES ISLANDS
July 9-15, 2005; Azores Islands
July 17-22, 2005; Azores Islands
Cost: $1,699 I Contact: Joan Ocean's Dolphin Connection, PO Box 102, Captain Cook, HI 96704,
(888) 755-7750 I Email: dolphco@aloha.net I Web:
www.etfriends.com/Seminars
E.T. CIVILIZATIONS AND DOLPHINS CONFERENCE
July 10-12, 2005, Kona, HI
Cost: $295 I Contact: Joan Ocean's Dolphin Connection, PO Box 102, Captain Cook, HI 96704,
www.etfriends.com/conference/index
E.T. CONTACT SEMINAR
June 12-18, 2005; Kailua-Kona, HI
Cost: $400 I Contact: Joan Ocean's Dolphin Connection, PO Box 102, Captain Cook, HI 96704,
www.etfriends.com/Seminars I Use remote viewing
and dolphin consciousness to access new
paradigms, receive messages, sightings, and awakenings, and interact with extraterrestrials.
MCMENAMINS 6TH ANNUAL UFO FESTIVAL
May 13-15, 2005; McMinnville, OR
Email: specialevents@mcmenamins.com I Web:
www.ufofest.com/McHO/ufo I With both a serious
eye and a lighthearted tone, the festival welcomes
believers and skeptics, noted experts and trekkies,
and everyone in between.
MEET THE ANDROMEDANS SEMINAR
August 7-19, 2005, Kailua-Kona, HI
Cost: $1,699 I Contact: Joan Ocean's Dolphin Connection, PO Box 102, Captain Cook, HI 96704,
www.etfriends.com/Seminars
MUFON 2005 INTERNATIONAL UFO SYMPOSIUM:
UNCONVENTIONAL FLYING OBJECTS (UFOS)
THE BODY OF TECHNOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
July 21-24, 2005; Denver, CO
Email: rmm@freeway.net I Web: www.mufon.com
NATIONAL UFO CONFERENCE
September 2-5, 2005; Hollywood, CA
Cost: $49 per day until August 1; $55/day thereafter I Contact: NUFOC, 1621 West 26th Street, San
Pedro, CA 90732, (310) 514-1595 I Email: johnmiller@nufoc.org or lisadavis@nufoc.org I Web:
www.nufoc.org I Speakers include Richard Dolan,
Jim Marrs, Nick Redfern, Dr. John Miller, Lisa Davis,
and others.
NORTHWEST UFO PARANORMAL CONFERENCE

AND SASQUATCH SYMPOSIUM
June 4-5, 2005; Seattle, WA
Cost: $50 I Contact: Philip Lipson, Seattle
UFO/Paranormal Group, 623 Broadway East, Seattle, WA 98102, (206) 328-6499 I Email: philiplipson@hotmail.com I Web: www.seattlechatclub.org/
museum I Features exhibits; special presentations
by authors, researchers, and inventors on Nor thwest UFO histor y, electronic technology, and
Sasquatch evidence; and speakers, including Bill
Beaty, Dr. Nick Begich, Budd Hopkins, Lloyd Pye,
Charlette LeFevre, Philip Lipson, and others.
NWSURC UFO CONFERENCE
August 5-6, 2005; Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada
Web: www.cccrn.ca I Speakers include I Stanton
Friedman, Chris Rutkowski, Fern Belzil, Ken
Burgess, Paul Anderson, and others.
ROSWELL UFO FESTIVAL
July 1-4, 2005; Roswell, NM
Contact: (505) 623-5695 I Email: roswell@
uforoswell.com I Web: www.roswellufofestival.com
UFO DAZE
July 16, 2005; Dundee, WI
Cost: FREE I Contact: Bill Benson, (920) 533-8219 I
Email: director@ufowisconsin.com I Web:
www.ufowisconsin.com
UFOLYMPICS
August 13-14, 2005; Hooper, CO
Cost: $10/event I Contact: UFO Watchtower, 2502
City Road 61, Hooper, CO 81136, (719) 378-2271 I
Email: UFO-WatchTower@webtv.net I Web:
www.ufowatchtower.com I Speakers include Jim
Hickman, Chuck Zukowski, Debbie Zieglemeyer,
Christopher O'Brien, Pat Brady, Bill Cullen, Nancy
Red Star, Mar y Munoz, Priscilla Three Spirit Wolf,
Gloria Hawker, Paola Harris, and special guest: The
Perseids Meteor Showers.
TULSA GHOST CONFERENCE
September 18, 2005; Tulsa, OK
Cost: $30 ($45 incl. optional ghost tour/hunt) I Contact: Paranormal Investigation Team of Tulsa, PO
Box 803, Broken Arrow, OK 74013 I Email: PITTfounder@cox.net I Web: www.pittok.com I Features
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researchers concluded that the gold must

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n July of 2004, Canadas National

n experimental treatment that is

ner ve cells and allows the membrane

he deadly tsunami that crashed

village famed for its rock carvings dating

temples during the Pallava period in the

Roman Cosmetics Found

remarkably well-preserved jar of

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Tsunami Uncovers Ancient Indian City

Another surprise was the use of tin

Cosmic Particles Used to Probe Pyramid

also be the last resting place of its rulers.

SABURO SUGIYAMA, AZ STATE UNIV.

hysicists are using remnants of

versity are building the largest particle

Muons travel at near the speed of light

Evidence of Human Sacrifice Found at Teotihuacan