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Letters to the Editor
Stigmata a Sign of Reincarnation

Dear Editor,
he premise of the article The
Strange and Bloody Signs of Stigmata (issue #17) need not be
interpreted theologically. From the sixth
century BC to the fourth century AD,
crucifixion was a common form of execution by the Carthaginians, Egyptians,
Persians, and Romans. So perhaps this
stigmata is trauma from a past life emerging in our current life!
Letters to the Editor

symbolic rock and cave painting and jewelry-making appeared. Then, somewhere
between 45,000 and 35,000 years ago,
a light was mysteriously switched on in
our ancestors minds that thereafter, illuminated everything they did.
It seems puzzling that it took so many
millennia for humans to begin ingesting
botanical hallucinogens. Our biological
progenitors must have been incredibly
dull-witted and uninteresting indeed,
since our nearest non-human relatives
chimpanzeesshow considerable curiosity about their enviornment and seem to
enjoy the mind-altering effects of alcoholic beverages. Is it possible that our
most ancient, knuckle-dragging ancestors actually did consume psychotropic
plants, yet did not have the psychological/cognitive wherewithal to use them to
gain technical and spiritual insights?
Drug-taking without basic grounding
in an existent framework of knowledge
and wisdom typically produces shortlived, euphoric experiences that remain
unintegrated into an individuals daily
life, which is true of shamanistic cultures
as with modern ones. The suggestion is
that hallucinogens, correctly administered, can be an aid to enlightenment.

But it is not its necessary precursor, as
Hancock asserts. This, in turn, presupposes a wisdom-teaching tradition, no
less necessary in primitive shamanistic
traditions than in modern spiritual ones.
Perhaps this is a chicken and egg argument; nonetheless, some modicum of
wisdom and intuition must have been
present in the mind of the first individual
who decided to ingest a consciousnessaltering plant a second time after first
testing it as food. As we actually know little about pre-historical human societies, it
is presumptuous to dismiss them as the
very picture of brutishness.
Hancocks hypothesis is contexted in
classical Darwinian anthropology in this
respect, thus disregarding the growing
body of research pointing to the existence
of culturally and scientifically advanced
civilizations that are largely unknown to
us at present. And this brings into question the whole Darwinian model of who
was most advanced when.
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Reservations Over Hancocks Theory

Dear Editor,
ichael Lohrs interview with
Graham Hancock in issue #17
is a good over view of the
hypothesis that human evolution was
jumpstarted by hallucinogenic drugs.
Although the argument has considerable
merit, I have some reservations about his
theory.
Hancock asserts that during its first six
million years of existence the human
species was incredibly dull-witted and
uninteresting, after which, at around
100,000 to 110,000 years ago, following
an extraordinary expansion of brain size,
the quintessentially human abilities of
Reader Part of OBE Experiments

Dear Kim,
was fascinated by the article on astral
projection in issue #16 as, when I
was a student at UNC-Chapel Hill, I
volunteered for William Roll, who ran
the experiments at the Duke University
Parapsychological lab on astral projection.
Keith Hararay, who was a Duke student at the time (his nickname was
Blue because this was his favorite
color), had a small room in the back of
East House, with a single bed and walls
covered with psychedelic posters, his
launching pad, so to speak. The back
of West House had a room full of computers that they hoped would pick up
Blue on his astral excursions from East
House to West House.
Since that experience, I mostly project

during my sleep. Ive often woken up
with incredibly accurate and detailed
info about people and places I have never
seen or met, such as floorplans, names,
and addresses, which I was later able to
validate. And several times Ive actually
seen a projector (someone who is
astrally projecting in front of me) during
my waking consciousness! So yes, astral
projection is both quite real and anyone
can do it. (And astral sex is spectacular!)
PAT SINGLETARY
NEW YORK, NY
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During the sessions, I would sit on a

bar stool in front of the computers while
workers moved items around in the front
of West House. After his astral journey,
we would ask Blue if hed noticed any
changes in front of the house. As the
article stated, Blue was able to tell us
quite accurately what the workers had
changed in front of the house.
I also think that being around these
experiments jumpstarted my own latent
astral-projecting abilities. While Ive
never achieved anything approaching
Hararys mastery, Ive nevertheless had
some remarkable experiences. Twice
during the experiments, I spontaneously
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Franklin Street in Chapel Hill! With
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Noteworthy
T-Rex: Grandfather of the Chicken
or over a century, Tyrannosaurus

Rex has been the most fearsome
carnivore of all time. But if recent
research is to be believed, the descen-
dents of T. Rex are not bloodthirsty reptiles but humble chickens.

In 2005, researchers at North Carolina State University, led by Dr. Mar y
Higby Schweitzer, recovered soft tissue
from the marrow of the fossilized leg
bone of a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus. The bone had been broken for
shipping and when it was examined,
blood vessels and bone matrix tissue
were discovered, as well as microstructures resembling blood vessels.
After removing grit and other contaminants, the researchers were able to
recover a few peptides (fragments) of
collagen 1, the main
organic component of
b o n e .
These were
p i e c e d
together
into strands of
s e v e n
sequences.
Three
of
these resembled chicken
collagen while
two others appeared related to frogs and newts.
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The huge tyrannosaur thigh was discovered in 2003 by Jack Horner, a paleontologist at Montana State University.
Horner believes that the size of the bone
and the depth of its entombment
accounts for the unusual preservation of
the tissues. Thick bones afford interior
matter more protection from environmental degradation. Plus, this dinosaur
was buried in a virtually oxygen-free setting soon after death, further slowing
degradation of its soft tissue.
Before this find, the earliest ancient
proteins identified in a laboratory came
from mammoths which had died about
Ocean
Found Inside
the Earth
rom ancient times, hollow-earth theorists have spun fascinating tales concerning what awaits explorers beneath
the surface of our planet. In March, 2007,
seismologists Michael Wysession (Washington State University) and Jesse Lawrence
(University of California, San Diego)
announced the discovery of a vast subterranean ocean located beneath eastern
Asia. Based on the study of 600,000-plus
300,000 years ago. Scientists had speculated that organic matter could not survive longer than one million years without irretrievably degrading. Thanks to
this find, scientists now believe that it
may be possible to locate more soft tissue in large fossils buried under tens of
feet of rock.
But Mark A. Norell, a dinosaur expert
at the American Museum of Natural
Histor y, minimized the connection
between dinosaurs and chickens, contending that other data had already confirmed the dinosaur-bird relationship.
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seismograms, they describe the ocean

as being at least the volume of the Arctic
Ocean (5,440,000 square miles). The
researchers made their discovery by analyzing the waves generated by earthquakes
which are dampened by passage through
water.
Wysession and Lawrence say that the
ocean they describe may, in fact, consist
largely of water trapped within layers of
stone. As Wysession told LiveScience, It
would still look like solid rock to you. You
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A
A
1, 2007
S OF
UGUST
e at Mysteries Magazine are dismayed that the U.S. government is no

longer releasing casualty totals from the Iraq war, and that the mainstream media is not properly covering these totals either. So to rectify this
oversight, we have decided to provide these totals to you on an ongoing basis until
the war officially ends.
MICHAEL NEWTON
U.S. Military and Coalition

Deaths
Wounded
3,655
26,600
(as of July 5, 2007)
Iraqi
Police/Military
Reported Civilian Deaths
7,300
72,000
(approximate #)
Total # of Deaths/Casualties
109,555
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Noteworthy
Architect Says Pyramid

Built with Inner Ramp
rench architect Jean-Pierre

Houdin believes he has finally
solved one of the most puzzling
construction problems in history: how
the ancient Egyptians built the Great
Pyramid without the benefit of iron
tools, pulleys, or wheels.
Previous theories have suggested that
the pyramid was built using either a vast
frontal ramp or a ramp in a corkscrew
shape around the exterior, to haul up the
stonework.
However,
Houdin
announced in March of 2007 that
advanced 3D technology shows that the
builders put up an outer ramp for the
first 140 feet, then constructed an inner
ramp in a corkscrew shape to complete

the 479-foot-high structure.
The first recorded attempt to explain
how the pyramid of Khufu was built
came from Herodotus, the Greek historian, who traveled to Egypt in about 450
BC. Herodotus believed that thousands
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of slaves had dragged the stones to the

site, which were then lifted up from one
step of the pyramid to the next by a series
of machines. But mechanical engineers
today believe that it was unlikely that this
was done with the limited technology of
the time, especially when some of the
granite stones weighed up to 60 tons.
Another theory is that a giant external ramp was built to take the stones to
the highest points on the pyramid. But
such a ramp could not have had an
incline any greater than seven or eight
percent, which would mean it must
have been a mile long to build a 479foot-high structure.
Others suggest that the ramp may

have been built around the outside of the
pyramid as it grew. But such a ramp
would have been prone to collapsing
without being firmly fixed to the pyramid and there is no evidence of any fixing points on the outside of the pyramid.
An external ramp would also raise the

issue of where the waste products from
the building went. Houdins explanation
is that the spoil was left within the pyramid, along with the internal, spiral ramp
built inside the outer wall.
According to his theory, the first stage
of construction used a traditional external ramp that led up to a height of 50
yards from the base. The next stage
involved building the internal ramp in
the shape of a spiral. It was like a tunnel
with a covered roof, but open to the sky
at the four corners of the pyramid so that
the stone blocks could be turned,
Houdin said.
He has calculated that at a gentle
incline of seven percent, such a ramp
would be about a mile long as it wound
itself up to a point just shor t of the
pyramids summit. One-ton blocks were
hauled up this ramp by teams of eight to
10 men.
Houdin also claimed to have shed
light on a second enigma surrounding
the purpose of a grand gallery inside the
pyramid. The Frenchman believes its
tall, narrow shape suggests it accommodated a giant counter-weight to help
haul five 60-ton granite beams to their
position above the kings chamber. He
also believes that the five false ceilings
above the kings chamber prevented too
much weight being brought to bear on
the supporting arch above the chambers ceilings.
Although historians have said that it
took more than 100,000 to build the
pyramid, Houdin speculates that no
more than 4,000 people would have
been used to built the pyramid using
these techniques.
An international team is now being
assembled to probe the pyramid using
radar and heat-detecting cameras to see
if they can find evidence of this inner
ramp.
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Wi-Fi and Cell Phones a Danger?
ir William Stewart, the chairman

of Britains Health Protection
Agency, is seeking a formal investigation into the hazards of using wireless
communication networks in schools,
over fears that the radiation the networks
emit may damage childrens health.
Sir Stewartwho is a former chief scientific advisor to the government and has
chaired two official inquiries into the
hazards of cell phonesis adding his
weight to growing pressure for a similar
examination of Wi-Fi, which is used to
wirelessly connect computers to high-
speed Internet and is being installed in

classrooms across Britain. Some scientists fear that long-term exposure to WiFi radiation could cause cancer and premature senility.
The World Health Organization estimates that up to three out of every hundred people are electrosensitive, which is
described as a heightened physical reaction to electrical energy. When exposed to
electromagnetic fields, people who have
this condition suf fer symptoms that
include nausea, irregular heartbeat,
fatigue, loss of memory, headaches, dizzi-
Pakistani Phone Virus a Hoax
TIM SWARTZ
ell phone providers in Pakistan have moved quickly to calm subscribers after a
widespread rumor that cautioned cell phone users to not answer any call from a 12digit number ending in 0099 because of a virus which transmits a high pitch frequency that causes instant death. Text messages were also sent to cell-phone users warning of
mysterious calls in which a red-colored apparition of a woman appears on the display
screen. Anyone receiving such a call was said to die within the week. Other text messages
have been sent stating that the supernatural phone calls can also result in impotency in
men and pregnancy in women who receive a call. The rumor was so effective that some
mosques also made announcements that people were being killed by a cell phone virus and
to beware of Gods wrath.
According to the rumors, a mobile phone company set up a tower at a graveyard, which
enraged the spirits, causing them to wreak havoc among mobile phone users. in Punjab,
more than 20 unsuspecting cell-phone owners were supposedly killed by the weird calls.
A cell-phone service provider official said they received hundreds of calls from panicked
subscribers. They calmed down customers by issuing a joint statement that said: There is
no truth to the rumors circulating about cell phone
viruses on various networks
harming phone users.
Others have not fallen so
easily for the wild rumors.
They do not make any
sense in technological
terms, said graphic designer Shankar Khan. These
messages are probably the
handiwork of bored young
people who are doing it for
the kicks.
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ness, muscle pains, and skin problems.

Scientists, doctors, and some European governments believe that the electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell
phones, cell-phone towers, and Wi-Fi
antennas are contributing to an electric
smog of electromagnetic radiation that
is one billion times stronger than is natural. Children may be more vulnerable, as
their skulls are thinner and their nervous
systems are still developing, not to mention that they will be exposed to more
radiation over their lifetimes.
A recent Finnish study has found that
people who have used cell phones for
more than ten years are 40 percent more
likely to get a brain tumor on the same
side of the head as they hold their handset; Swedish research suggests that the
risk is almost four times as great. Further
research from Sweden claims that the
radiation kills off brain cells, which could
lead to todays children going senile in
their 40s and 50s.
However, Dr. Michael Clark, a radiation expert at the Health Protection
Agency, says that there is no danger from
a wireless network because typical Wi-Fi
radiation exposure is around 20 millionths of the international guideline levels of exposure to radiation. As a comparison, a child on a cell phone receives up
to 50 percent of guideline levels. Thus, a
year sitting in a classroom near a wireless
network is roughly equivalent to 20 minutes talking on a cell phone.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: THE INDEPENDENT, UK
Australian
Aborigines
from Africa,
Say
Geneticists
eneticists at the University of Cambridge recently concluded that both

Australia and Papua-New Guinea
were reached some 50,000 years ago by
a single group of people, who traveled
along the coast of India and down through
Southeast Asia, before entering the countries via a land bridge. Once settled in Australia, they evolved in relative isolation,
developing unique genetic characteristics
and technology. Previously, some scholars
argued that these unique characteristics
exist either because early colonists interbred with the local Homo erectus population or because there was a subsequent,
secondary migration from Africa. But the
latest research shows that settlers did not
mix with Homo erectus and therefore, the
early colonists share the same direct
ancestry as other Eurasian peoples.
According to the fossil record, Homo
sapiens emerged as a new species about
150,000 years ago in East Africa. Early
humans are thought to have migrated
from there into the Middle East, southern
Africa, Europe, central Asia, and the New
World, replacing older human species,
such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus.
Dr. Sheila van Holst Pellekaan, an Australian molecular anthropologist from the
University of New South Wales, agrees
that genetic evidence supports the Out of
Africa theory of a single, common origin
for modern-day humans. However, she
disagrees with the conclusion that modern humans only entered Australia at one
point, saying that the new data does not
exclude the possibility of people having
come down from a more northern route
and across different island crossings.
Unless DNA signatures from early
humans are discovered in modern
humans, this debate is likely to continue,
says van Holst Pellekaan.
TIM SWARTZ
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: PAKISTAN DAILY TIMES
SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK
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Holy Grail May Be

Under Roman Basilica
talian archaeologist Alfredo Barbagallo says that the Holy Grail is

buried in a chapel-like room underneath the sixth-century Basilica of San
Lorenzo Fuori le Mura (St. Lawrence),
one of the seven Rome churches that
Christian pilgrims used to visit when
they journeyed to Rome.
Barbagallos claim is based on the
medieval iconography in the basilica and
a description of a chamber in a 1938
guide to the catacombs by Capuchin
friar Giuseppe da Bra, who wrote:
In the corner of a wall-seat there can
be seen a terra cotta funnel whose lower
part opens out over the face of a skeleton. Giving liquid refreshment
(refrigerium) to the dead was part of
ancient funeral rites.
According to Barbagallo, the funnel is
the Grail. He also pointed to several
beautiful mosaics and frescos in the
basilica which feature images of the
sacred cup.
Barbagallo believes that in 258 AD,
during a Christian persecution, Pope

Sixtus V entrusted the treasures of the
early Church, including the Holy Grail,
to a deacon called Lawrence (Lorenzo in
Italian). Four days later, Lawrence was
martyred and with his death, all traces of
the Grail were lost.
However, Barbagallo says the Grail
was buried in St. Lawrences tomb.
Emperor Constantine constructed a
shrine on the site of Lawrence's martyrdom in the fourth century and the main
part of the Basilica of San Lorenzo Fuori
le Mura was erected in 580 AD on the
same spot.
The catacombs where the cup may be
found are under the authority of the
Vaticans Pontifical Commission for
Sacred Archaeology. A Vatican
spokesman said that an initial investigation of the area has been made, but there
has been no decision at this time to open
the catacombs.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: THE TELEGRAPH (UK)
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Brooks Agnew
Napoleon Died of Cancer,

Says New Report
n 1960, scientists examining hair

taken from Napoleon Bonapartes
corpse discovered toxic levels of
arsenic, findings that were confirmed by
by the FBI crime labs in 1995. As a
result, many have theorized that
Napoleon was assassinated and the postmortem diagnosis of stomach cancer was
either a cover-up or a misdiagnosis. But a
new study suggests that the theory of
Bonapartes assassination may have been
unfounded.
A team of researchers led by Robert
Genta of University of Texas Southwestern examined the autopsy reports, eyewitness accounts, and the memoirs of
Bonapartes personal physician on St.

Helena (the island to which he was exiled
after his 1815 defeat at Waterloo). The
evidence indicated that Bonapartes
stomach had two ulcerated lesions. One
was at least four inches long and reached
from the entrance of his stomach to the
exit; another, smaller one had pierced
through his stomach wall and had
reached the liver. Based on current medical knowledge, this suggests that
Napoleon had advanced gastric cancer
that had metastasized to other organs.
The researchers believe that
Napoleons health woes stemmed from
an ulcer-causing bacterial infection. The
STRUCTURE OF IRIS
REVEALS PERSONALITY
team from Swedens Orebro University has detected patterns in the irises of 428
people, suggesting that those with different iris configurations develop different personalities, which means that some aspects of ones personality are determined by
genetics.
Close-up pictures were taken of the study participants irises, after which they filled out
a questionnaire about their personalities. It was discovered that those with irises that
have more crypts (pits) are likely to be warm and trusting while those with more contraction furrows
(lines cur ving around the outer edge of the
iris) are more likely to be impulsive, neurotic, and prone to give in to cravings.
The researchers suggest that a neurodevelopmental gene called PAX6,
which also is responsible for the development of the iris, also plays a role in
shaping part of the frontal lobe of the
brain, which influences personality.
Previous research has shown that a
mutation of PAX6 is linked to impulsiveness and poor social skills.
TIM SWARTZ
diet on long military campaigns at that

time was full of salt-preserved foods and
was light on fresh fruits and vegetables.
This lack of dietary fiber and emphasis on
salted meats would have exacerbated his
symptoms and led to frequent flareups.
Helicobacter pylori, the bacteria
responsible for most ulcers, can be transmitted through close contact and poor
sanitation, conditions which Napoleon
would have encountered during his
career on the battlefield. And Napoleons
family history suggests a susceptibility to
stomach malignancies, as his father also
died of gastric cancer.
So where did the arsenic come from? It
likely came from medicines provided to
the emperor for his illness. One of the
most common purgatives of that time
was emetic tartar, an antimony-based
concoction that contained high levels of
arsenic.
Yet while the medicine provided to
Napoleon in exile might not have helped
his condition, it is difficult to fault his
doctors. Even today, with the availability of sophisticated surgical techniques
and chemotherapies, patients with gastric
cancer as advanced as Napoleons have a
poor prognosis, says Genta. Even if
treated today, hed have been dead within a year.
SOURCE: BBC
K. FILAN
SOURCES: LIVESCIENCE.COM, ENTREZ-MED
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#18
Trip Proposed
to Center of Earth
I
n June of 2008, physicist and futurist

Brooks Agnew hopes to board the
commercially owned Russian icebreaker Yamal in Murmansk, Russia, to
sail into the polar sea just beyond Canadas Arctic islands, in hopes of discovering
a fog-shrouded hole in the Arctic Ocean
that will lead to the center of the Earth,
where an unknown civilization lives. He
says that this is the first and only expedition to the North Pole opening ever
attempted.
Agnew is the latest in a long line of people to postulate the theory that the Earth
is hollow and that two undiscovered
openings near the North and South poles
connect the outer Earth with the interior
realm. In the 17th century, English
astronomer and mathematician Sir
Edmond Halley, who calculated the orbit
of Halleys Comet, advanced hollow-earth
theories, as did the German scientist
Athanasius Kircher. The theory that the
north and south poles had openings leading to the hollow earth was first suggested
in 1818 by John C. Symmes, an army cap-
tain in the war of 1812.

The inner earth expedition was originally conceived by Utah adventure guide
Steve Currey, who claimed to have pinpointed the Arctic opening at 84.4
degrees north and 41 degrees east, roughly 250 miles northwest of Ellesmere
Island. His expedition was scheduled for
the summer of 2006, with spaces offered
for $20,000. But when Currey died unexpectedly of brain cancer in 2006, Agnew
stepped in to take his place and the trip
was postponed to 2008.
While he insists that the journey has a
genuine scientific purpose, Agnew also
says the expedition will include several
experts in meditation, mythology, and
UFOs, as well as a team of documentary
filmmakers. Agnew says that no matter
what the outcome, it will be a grand polar
adventure. If the polar opening is not
there, the voyage will still make an outstanding documentary, he promises.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: NATIONAL POST (CANADA)
In Passing
Audrey Marie Santo, who believers said
performed miracles despite being in a
coma-like state, passed away on April 14,
2007, in her home
in Worcester, MA.
She was 23. Santo
fell into her family's
pool at the age of
three and was left
in a state called
akinetic mutism. Her parents refused
to place her in an institution and instead
cared for her at home. After her accident,
strange phenomena reportedly occurred
in her presence, including a faint scent of
roses, and the oozing of oils and blood
from religious statues nearby. Thousands
of people over the years came to visit her
to be healed by her presence.
Earl F. Slick passed
away in Winston-Salem,
NC, on May 13, 2007.
He was 86. Slick, a graduate of Yale University,
served as a pilot in World
War II and was linked to
the famed Flying Tigers
that transported cargo across the
Himalayas during the War. Earl, along
with his brother, millionaire adventurer
and Yeti hunter Tom, created the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical
Research (SFBR) in San Antonio, TX. The
brothers intended the SFBR to be the
research facility where a captured Abominable Snowman or Sasquatch was to be
taken. Today, the research center still
maintains the world's largest colony of
captive rhesus monkeys and has become
a leader in blood-born disease research.
Arthur Archie Buckley died on June 18,
2007 in Redding, CA. He was 89. Buckley
encountered Bigfoot in 1970 in the Trinity National Forest, CA. During fishing
trips and other visits, several Bay Areabased Bigfoot seekers, along with Buckley, had multiple Bigfoot sightings. The
group even claimed that the creatures
attempted communications using hand
gestures. In a report of his Bigfoot field
findings, Buckley wrote that he found evidence of a dozen different Bigfoot in the
Sierra Nevada and Trinity mountains.
TIM SWARTZ
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Pentagon
Considers
Developing
TIM SWARTZ
GAY
SPRAY
UFO Theme Park

E
Considered for Roswell
t is said that a UFO crashed there in

1947, and Roswell, NM, has used
this interplanetary fender-bender to
draw in the tourists for years. Now,
Roswell wants to take its commitment
to UFOs a step further with the development of a UFO-themed amusement
park, complete with an indoor roller
coaster that would take passengers on a
simulated alien abduction.
Designer Bryan Temmer pitched the
concept to city leaders in 2005. The
park, dubbed Alien Apex Resort, could
open as early as 2010. The city has
received a $245,000 legislative appropriation for initial planning, but the park
would be privately built and managed
and will cost several hundred millions
of dollars.
The proposed park initially will cover
60 to 80 acres, with room to expand to
150 acres. It will feature other rides and
attractions, including an exhibit hall
with information on scientific exploration of the universe.
Roswell has been cashing in on its
UFO notoriety for years. Paintings and
replicas of UFOs and space aliens adorn
the walls of several downtown business-
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es, and even the McDonald's and WalMart are UFO and space-themed. The
town's biggest tourism attraction is the
International UFO Museum and
Research Center, which has drawn 2.5
million visitors since opening in 1992.
The so-called Roswell Incident
happened in July, 1947, when William
Mac Brazel noticed some strange
debris while working on a ranch 70
miles from Roswell. Brazel notified the
local Sheriff who, in turn, reported the
debris to the Roswell Army Air Field.
The RAAF issued a press release stating
that personnel from the fields 509th
Bomb Group had recovered a crashed
flying disc, sparking intense media
interest. But later the same day, the
Commanding General of the Eighth Air
Force stated that a weather balloon had
been recovered, rather than a flying
saucer. But the story that Roswell was
the site of the worlds first UFO crash
refused to die, and the town has benefitted ever since from the tourists who
come to enjoy the towns UFO-themed
activities.
TIM SWARTZ
dward Hammond of the Sunshine

Project, a watchdog organization that
tracks military spending, recently
uncovered a bizarre U.S. military proposal
to create a hormone spray that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers more interested in sex than fighting. The documents
show that in 1994, the Air Forces Wright
Laboratory in Dayton, OH, asked for $7.5
million for research and development of
the project. However, Pentagon officials
claim that they eventually decided not to
build the weapon.
Hammond said that the idea was that
there could be a chemical present in low
quantities in the human body that could be
identified, and by virtue of either breathing
or having their skin exposed to this chemical, the soldiers would become gay.
Scientists also reportedly considered a
chemical weapon to attract swarms of
enraged wasps or angry rats towards
enemy troops; a substance to make the
skin unbearably sensitive to sunlight; a
chemical to cause severe and lasting halitosis, so that enemy forces would be obvious, even if they tried to blend in with civilians; and a chemical that would simulate
flatulence in enemy ranks.
Captain Dan McSweeney of the Joint
Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate at the
Pentagon said that while none of the 1994
proposals had been developed, the
Department of Defense is committed to
identifying, researching, and developing
non-lethal weapons that will support our
nations troops.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: BERKELEY'S SUNSHINE PROJECT
SOURCE: THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN
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NEW PROOF OF COLD FUSION
old fusion, the ability to generate nuclear power at room temperature, is considered by most
physicists to be scientifically impossible.
However, the prospect of creating a
potentially unlimited source of clean
energy is a tantalizing idea, especially in
a time when fossil fuels have become
increasingly scarce and expensive.
Now, a recently published paper by the
Navys Space and Naval Warfare Systems
Center (SPAWAR) in San Diego, CA
offers new proof that cold fusion works.
The paper, which was published in the
February 15, 2007 issue of the journal
Natur wissenschaften, claims that
SPAWAR scientists Stanislaw Szpak and
Pamela Mosier-Boss achieved a lowenergy nuclear reaction (LENR) that
they say can be easily verified by the scientific community.
The
dif ference
between hot fusion
and cold fusion is
that hot fusion uses
super heated plasma
and high pressure to
force two nuclei
together and thus
generate energy/heat.
Unfortunately, right
now,
substantial
amounts of energy are
needed to induce
fusion, which limits
the time that the
fusion process can be sustained to just a
few seconds. Cold fusion, on the other
hand, skips the part where extreme heat
and pressure (and therefore enormous
amounts of energy) are needed.
Research on cold fusion has languished
since 1989, after Stanley Pons and Martin
Fleischmann were unable to substantiate
their claims that deuterium nuclei could
be forced to fuse, thus releasing excess
energy at room temperature.

Szpak and Boss now claim that when
they coated a thin wire with palladium
and deuterium and then exposed it to
magnetic and electric fields, the temperature of the palladium electrode increased
by about three degrees.
The SPAWAR method shows promise,
par ticularly in terms of being easily
reproduced and verifiable by other institutions. Such verification is essential to

widespread acceptance of the apparent
breakthrough, an important precursor to
scientists receiving the necessary funding
for additional research in the field.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN
Ghost Caught on Camera
surveillance camera at the First Judicial District courthouse in downtown Santa Fe, NM
captured a strange image on the morning of June 15, 2007, that has left sheriffs
deputies, lawyers, clerks, and
judges wondering what it might have
been.
Deputy Alfred Arana first noticed the
image when he arrived at the courthouse
and began reviewing the surveillance
video from the night before. Sgt. Vanessa
Pacheco of the Santa Fe County Sheriffs
Department arrived half an hour later
and Arana asked Pacheco to take a look
of the strange image for herself.
When she watched the video, Sgt.
Pacheco was stunned. The image, which
starts at 7:27:11 a.m., shows a bright
light coming from either the roof or near
the courthouses back door on Catron
Street, which is used only by law enforcement personnel. The light then floats
toward the west, appears to move across
the front bumper of a parked police car, and then traces a small semicircle in a gravel area in
the frame s foreground, before leaving the frame at 7:27:23.
Perhaps the most bizarre aspect of the image is that it appears to cast shadows. Many
who watched the video said the shadows looked like legs. Lawyer Mary Marlowe said she
saw hands in the image.
Some have suggested that the anomalous light was the ghost of Andy Lopez, who was
killed at the courthouse in 1985 after bringing a rifle to the building and taking several people hostage. Others felt it had to be a reflection from a passing car or a piece of cottonwood
tree fluff. Candy Sisneros, a clerk, said she thought it might have been a ghost disturbed by
the construction of the citys new convention center across the street. She said her husband,
a sheriffs deputy, when he worked in the courthouse at night, used to hear odd noises such
as footsteps, doors opening and closing, and elevators going up and down.
State District Judge Stephen Pfeffer, however, thinks the image looks like a bug. But
whatever it is, it has to go through security like anyone else, he joked.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN
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osslyn Chapel, the 15th-century

chapel outside Edinburgh, Scotland, that was made famous by
Dan Browns book The DaVinci Code, has
seen its share of mysteries over the centuries. Now, there could be a link with a
series of unusual carvings found inside the
chapel and giant cloud formations photographed above Saturns north pole.
The link was made by Stuart Mitchell,
41, a composer who, with his father
Thomas, a former RAF codebreaker,
deciphered a musical score they believe
was hidden in the 13 angel musicians
and 213 cubelike shapes carved on the
chapel arches, shapes which mirror a
15,000-mile hexagon photographed
above Saturn.
After 27 years of research, they cracked
their code and in May of 2007, staged the
first public performance of the medieval
music they found hidden in the carvings.

The piece, known as the Rosslyn Motet, is
based on the deciphering of cube and
hexagon-shaped symbols using an
ancient musical system called cymatics, in
which patterns are formed by sound
waves at specific pitches. The shapes
appear when a note is used to vibrate a
sheet of metal or a sheet of glass covered
in powder. Different frequencies produce
patterns such as diamonds and hexagons.
The hexagon features prominently in the
chapel carvings.
Stuart Mitchell said the tunes could
have been hidden because it was a special
piece that contained properties that resonated in sympathy with spiritual beliefs.
This music may have been seen as dangerous, even heretical, by 15th-century
church authorities.
Mitchell was preparing for the first
performance when a Mexican astronomer

telephoned him and told about the same
hexagonal shape on Saturn. The coincidence suggests a universal significance for
the musical score, according to Mitchell,
even if the hexagon above Saturn is
15,000 miles across while the carvings
are measured in inches.
In musical terms, both shapes represent a B natural, suggesting to some that
the planets may have their own musical
score to be cracked. Now we are starting
to see that these symbols that everybody
found so magical and unique are around
us in a vast way, says Stuart Mitchell. If
the geometric figure in Rosslyn Chapel is
produced by the same principles as is
happening on Saturn vibration and
soundthen Saturn is literally singing a
piece of music to us.
The hexagon above Saturn was first
photographed by the Voyager missions
in the 1980s, but was captured in its
complete form for the first time earlier in
2007 by NASAs Cassini Orbiter. A
spokesman at the space agency said that
they are unable to explain what atmospheric forces are driving the unusual feature on Saturn, and that it was a very
strange feature.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: THE TELEGRAPH (UK)
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Joan of Arcs Relics

Egyptian in Origin
n May 30, 1431, 19-year-old

Joan of Arc was burned at the
stake in Rouen, France, for
heresy. For over 50 years, charred-looking bones, chunks of what appear to be
blackened wood, and a six-inch fragment
of linen reportedly found at the site of
her execution have been on display in a
museum in Chinon, the small town
where Joan first met Charles VII and
told him he was to be King of France.
But these bones have recently been
determined to be Egyptian in origin,
proving that the remains are not Joans.
According to contemporary records,
Joans remains were scattered in the
Seine River after her execution. But in
1867, a jar containing these fragments
and marked Remains found under the
stake of Joan of Arc, virgin of Orleans
was discovered in the attic of a Paris
pharamacy and turned over to the archdiocese of Tours. When scientists first
examined these relics, they discovered
that one of the bones was actually the
femur of a cat. But this did not necessarily disprove that the relics were from
Joans execution, for it was common
practice to burn a black cat on the pyre
when executing a witch or heretic; by
doing so, superstitious peasants hoped to
appease the devil. Hence, in 1909, scientists concluded that it was highly probable that the remains were indeed those
of Joan of Arc.
In 2006, a team led by forensic scientist Philippe Charlier subjected the bones
and ashes to more rigorous analysis. Perfume experts noted traces of a vanilla
odor, a scent associated with decomposition and decay but not with cremated
remains. The black substance on the

bones was found to be not soot but
rather vegetal and mineral matter. But
strangest of all were the carbon-14
results, which revealed that the cat and
human bones were not medieval in origin but rather dated from the seventh to
third centuries BC!
Philippe
Charlier
KENAZ FILAN
FOUCHET JULIEN / SIPA PRESS
Rosslyn Echoes to Sound of Saturn
presented them as the remains of Joan of

Arc. And the cat femur likely came from
a venerated feline whose remains wound
up in Paris alongside a human mummy.
During the second half of the 19th
century, Joan of Arc became increasingly
popular among conservative Frenchmen
who wished to identify French nationalism with Catholicism. It is likely that
Joans relics were presented to encourage her veneration and to speed along
the process of her canonization. In
1909, the year in which French scientists
declared the remains were likely authentic, Joan was beatified, the final step
before her 1920 canonization.
Although this finding may cause a
decline in attendance at the Chinon
museum, it is unlikely to affect the devotion of many faithful French Catholics,
who still see her as both a symbol of their
faith and their nation.
Intrigued by this mystery,

the scientists examined
the linen and discovered
traces of pollens native to
Egypt and the Middle
East, as well as embalming materials commonly
used by Egyptians in the
mummification process.
The original apothecary
likely took pieces of a
mummya common
ingredient in pharmaceutical preparations during
the 19th centur yand
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Bosnian Pyramid
Researchers
Lose Funding
he Ministry of Culture of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina wants to put an end to the
funding on research on the Bosnian
Pyramid of the Sun because there is no
evidence to prove the existence of the
pyramids. Opinions on the subject are so
divided in Bosnia that some officials have
said publicly that they would set themselves on fire if it turns out that the pyramids are real.
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The controversy began in 2006 when

researcher Semir Osmanagic claimed that
the 2,120-foot-high Visocica Hill, located in central Bosnia outside the small
town of Visoko, was actually an ancient
pyramid, built by an early people called
the pre-Illyrians at least 12,000 years
ago, making it one of the oldest manmade structures in Europe.
When excavation first began in 2006,
Osmanagic uncovered polished sand-
stone slabs that appeared to be cut in

cubes. The claims were further bolstered
by Egyptian geologist Dr. Aly Abd Alla
Barakata, who said after observing the
dig that, in his opinion, the structure
could not be natural and should be investigated further.
However, Culture Minister Gavrilo
Grahovac has decided to shut down their
funding because the credibility of the
people who collaborated on the project
was unreliable, and that it was not serious archaeological research.
Furthermore, it became
apparent to the Ministry
that the Pyramid of the Sun
Foundation was not excavating, but was instead carving out shapes in the natural
stone to create the pyramid.
Before coming to this
conclusion, the Ministry
consulted with the B-H
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the committee for the
preservation of national
monuments, the Archaeological Museum, the Tuzla
Faculty of Mining, Geology
and Civil Engineering, and
the Federal Geology Institute. Their opinion was that
the Visocica hill is a natural
geological formation.
Osmanagic has accused
his detractors of having
spent the last year amending
the law and increasing the
protected zones on the Bosnian Pyramid
of the Sun 98 times, thus making excavations on the pyramid impossible. They
are continuing to put pressure by threatening federal and cantonal ministries not
to finance or cooperate with the foundation and its projects related to protection
of the cultural legacy of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Osmanagic points out.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: JAVNO (BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA)
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Washington Families Getting

Mysterious Phone Calls
F
or months, the Kuykendalls,
Prices, and McKays of Fircrest,
WA, say they have been harassed
and threatened by mysterious stalkers
who track their every move and occasionally lurk by their homes late at night. The
families have been receiving death threats
and text messages at all hours of the day
and night, as well as phones that inexplicably turn themselves on and off.
The threats began with a strangesounding voice leaving mysterious messages. They tried changing phones, carriers, and numbers, but the threats keep on
coming. Heather Kuykendall and her sister Darci Price have saved and recorded
scores of threatening voice mails, uttered
in throaty, juvenile rasps. Kuykendall
says that the caller threatened to kill the
family on February 20, reciting the
names of all family members.
Messages received by the sisters
include bits of conversation overheard on
cell-phone mikes inside their homes,
replayed and transmitted via voice mail.
Phone records show many of the messages coming from 16-year-old Courtney
Kuykendalls phone, even when she is not
using it and it is turned off.
The stalkers know what the family is
eating, when adults leave the house, and
when they go to baseball games. They
even know the color of the shirt Courtney is wearing. When Heather recently
installed a new lock on the door of the
house, she got a voice mail telling her
what the new code was. In another message, they threatened shooting at the
school that the Kuykendall children
attended.
The Prices and Kuykendalls returned
all their phones to their wireless company
and replaced them with new ones and
new phone numbers. However, the
threatening messages kept coming. The
families and their friends now block the
cameras on their phones with tape and
take out the batteries to stop the calls.
The harassment seems to center on
Courtney, but it extends to her parents,
her aunt Darcy, and Courtneys friends,
James M. Atkinson, an expert in counterintelligence, says that technology in

cell phones allow for remote monitoring
of calls, whether the phone is on or off, as
long as the battery is installed. Known as
a roving bug, FBI agents have used it
to monitor meetings among mobsters.
As well, the GPS locator feature of every
phone sold these days can pinpoint a
phone to within a few feet.
Atkinson says that someone does not
have to have a strong technical back-
including Taylor McKay, who lives

across the street in Fircrest. Her mother
has received messages similar to those left
at the Kuykendall household, running up
cell phone bills approaching $1,000 for
one month.
ground to do this kind of harassment,

and the stalker could be a technically
gifted kid who probably is in their neighborhood.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: THE TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE
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From the Skies
From the Skies
SPACE BROTHERS, HAIRY DWARFS,
AND
GIANTS
The Many Manifestations of ETs

A
by Tim Swartz
ncient writings, folklore, and
religious texts are full of tales of
unexplained flying objects that
come in a variety of forms, from wheels
within wheels, columns of fire, to glowing spheres and floating discs. Much like
UFOs, the strange beings inside come in
an amazing range of extraordinary
shapes and sizes, from humanoid men to
hairy dwarfs and metallic giants.
Many UFO witnesses in the early
1950s reported seeing machines that
performed amazing aerial maneuvers
while the aliens who flew the craft acted
just like what one would expect from
astronauts from another planetthey
wore futuristic looking spacesuits with
helmets and took soil, rock, water, and

fauna samples. And when the UFOnauts
got tired of collecting specimens, they
began to actually initiate conversations
with their shocked human witnesses.
These space people were described as
tall, blond, and fair-skinned and claimed
to be from planets right in our own solar
system, such as Mars.
The Space Brothers, as they became
known, were supposedly here to help us
mend our evil ways, especially our use of
atomic weapons, which threatened the
balance of the entire solar system. But
just when it seemed as if an easy explanation for UFOs had presented itself,
the phenomena revealed that the blond
space brothers were not the only show
TIM SWARTZ
UFOs have been flying over

our skies as long as there
have been people to see
them. But they have not
always looked like the
grays that we think
of them as today.
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in town. For one of the more bizarre

groups of extraterrestrials seen, especially in the 1950s, was a creature that
looked like a hairy dwarf.
Animal-Like Hairy Dwarfs
n the early morning hours of
November 28, 1954, truck drivers
from Caracas, VenezuelaJos
Ponce, and Gustavo Gonzaleswere
driving to Petare, about 15 miles from
Caracas. Around 2 a.m., the men found
the road blocked by a glowing, discshaped craft that was about ten feet in
diameter, which was hovering about six
feet above the street.
Gonzales brought his truck to a stop
and both men got out and walked closer
to the object. When they were about 25
feet from it, they saw they were being
approached by what appeared to be a
hairy, dwarf-like man. Gonzales impulsively grabbed the creature and lifted him
off the ground, but the creature twisted
out of his grasp and gave Gonzales a
shove that sent him sprawling backward.
Before Gonzales could regain his feet,
the humanoid, whose eyes glowed yellow
in the headlights of the truck, leaped on
him and began to claw at him. Gonzales
later told police that he tried to stab the
creature with a knife but the blade
glanced off of the creatures shoulder as if
it were made of steel. At this point, Ponce
panicked and ran to seek help at a nearby
police station.
As Gonzales tried to fight off his attacker, another hairy little man jumped out of
the glowing craft and shot from a small,
shiny gun a brilliant beam of light which
blinded Gonzales for a moment. When he
could see again, the craft was rising above
the trees and quickly shot away.
Gonzales ran for the police station
and showed up a couple of minutes after
Ponce. At first, the police thought the
men were drunk or crazy. A doctor was
brought in, who determined that both
men were in a state of shock and that
neither of them had been drinking.

Gonzales was eventually treated for a
long deep scratch down his left side that
eventually healed but left a scar.
A few weeks later, on the night of
December 16, 1954, three young men
were driving on the outskirts of San Carlos, Venezuela, when Jess Paz asked his
friends to stop the car so that he could
relieve himself. Paz walked about 12 feet
from the parked car when he suddenly
screamed and dropped down into the tall
grass. His friends found him stunned and
lying on the ground. A short distance
away, a small, hairy creature was running
toward a shiny, disc-shaped craft. The
hairy dwarf disappeared inside of the
object, which quickly rose off of the
ground with a loud buzzing sound and
vanished into the night sky.
Paz was rushed to the hospital, where
doctors found that he was in a state of
shock. Furthermore, Paz had long, deep
scratches on his right side and down his
spine like claw marks, the doctor said.
Paz told officials that he had walked
around a bed of tall flowers when he
almost stumbled over this short, hairy
creature who was examining the flowers.
Paz tried to retreat but when he turned,
the creature attacked him.
Several weeks later, Paz told a local
reporter that his scratches had still not
healed properly, remaining red and
inflamed as on the day he was injured.
They Might be Giants
n the opposite end of the scale
are those who say that aliens
look humanlike, stand seven to
nine feet tall, and have an amazing diversity of features, ranging from one-eyed
cyclops, black faces, bushy black hair, or
three eyes and large, round heads.
One giant ET was witnessed in
Argentina on October 18, 1963 by truck
driver Eugenio Douglas, who allegedly
used a revolver to fight off three shiny
metal robots that stood some 15 to 20
feet tall. Douglas told police that he drove

his truck into a ditch after a brilliant white
light engulfed it near the town of Monte
Maix. The light, he said, came from a 25foot disc parked in the middle of the road.
When he got out of his truck, Douglas
said he was approached by three indescribable beings who tried to grab him.
He managed to draw his pistol and fire
several shots at the giants, who seemed
unfazed by the bullets. Nevertheless,
Douglas managed to get away and run
toward town as the saucer lifted off of the
road and made several passes at him. He
said that each time the craft passed by
him, he felt a wave of terrible, suffocating heat. The police examiner later
found that Douglas had suffered several
unusual burns.
More recently, in 1993, people in
Israel experienced a wave of giant ET
sightings. For instance, during the early
morning of April 20, Tsiporet Carmel
stepped outside of her house to see a
large silo-shaped object in her backyard and next to it a seven-foot-tall
being wearing metallic overalls. She said
its head was covered in what looked like
a beekeepers hat.
Tsiporet asked the being to take off his
hat so she could see his face and he
answered telepathically, Thats the way
it is. The giant then entered the object,
which vanished in a flash of light, leaving
behind a large circle and shards of pure
silicon in the yard.
These are just a few of the thousands
of unusual ET sightings that have been
reported over the years. The incredible
variety of these UFO occupants should
give researchers pause to reconsider the
popular theory that UFOs are interplanetary spaceships. For unless Earth is
some sort of intergalactic truck stop, it is
difficult to explain why there is such a
variety of ETs. But whatever their origins, one thing is clearthe UFO occupants are as many and diverse as the
stars in the heavens. z
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Commentary
Commentary
New Age COINTELPRO

and the Optimism Gestapo
New Age philosophy has
become a booming business.
While much promises
health, wealth, harmonious
relationships, and financial
prosperity, a dangerous ploy
lurks beneath its surface.
by Jaye Beldo
hy has there not been a mass
transformation of consciousness, culminating in peace on
earth, as so many promised back in the
early days of the New Age movement?
The answer is that there may be a metaphysical COINTELPRO at work, all
under the cover of love and light.
Most people remember COINTELPRO from the days of the Black Panthers, Yippies, and other revolutionary
groups who threatened our government
during the civil rights movement and the
Vietnam war. Sensing that these groups
might incite American citizens into radical action, the FBI sent in agents to agitate members of these various groups,
often pitting them against each other
through various forms of subterfuge,
such as blackmail.
It appears that the CIA, FBI, and NSA
are now sending their goons into the
metaphysical marketplace, making sure
that people who think they are aspiring
to higher and positively transformative
things are, in reality, only becoming
more self-indulgent, disconnected, and
confused.
The biggest influx of these agents
The popular film What the Bleep
Do We Know? is really just an
infomercial for J.Z. Knights
Ramtha cult, says Jaye Beldo.
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occurred during the blossoming of the

human potential movement in the
early 70s, through such institutions as
Esalen. Legions of people threw away
their protest banners and followed their
bliss during a time when directly addressing the socio-political problems of the
day was imperative.
Since then, the emphasis on personal
developmentand more recently, the
You Create Your Own Reality movementa significant segment of the population has been brainwashed into disdaining all socio-political issues. For
what better way to disempower people
than to have them focus on their personal evolution at the expense of their
families, communities, and the countries they live in?
Metaphysical Double-Speak
robably the most flagrant examples of New Age COINTELPRO
are channelers who convey disturbing messages from supposedly highly evolved discarnate entities. For example, when the war in Iraq first started in
2003, a well-known channeler in Santa
Fe, NM, who channels the ancient Egyptian goddess Sekhmet, allegedly claimed
that the war was an ultimate expression
of [Sekhmets] compassion for the
human race. It would take a considerable amount of gullibility to swallow this
kind of nonsense, but swallow it the New
Agers did.
With such multidimensional logic at
hand, practically any injustice, whether
torture, environmental destruction, or
manipulation of the economy by global
powers, can be justified as an act of compassion. This is no different from the
theocratic stance of George W. Bush
when he said that God told him to
invade Iraq! Such metaphysical doublespeak is dangerous, yet is nevertheless
seeping into popular culture.
Of course, not all channelers are working for the shadow government. Rather,
The bestselling book The Secret is an

example of metaphyscial idealism that is
inspiring legions to envision a life of unlimited personal prosperity while ignoring the
dire environmental, political, and economical problems that loom around us.
we should use much discernment in

regard to channeled information. If
channeled information through predictions of global cataclysm, for instance,
creates fear and makes us feel ungrounded, unsure, and mistrusting, then it probably is coming from a COINTELPRO
source and should be taken with an
immense grain of salt.
The Optimism Gestapo
owever, perhaps the most insidious aspect of the New Age
movement is what I call the
Optimism Gestapo, or those who regulate and insist on positive thinking by any
means necessary, where any criticism or
expression of negative or painful emotions are disdained.
I once brought up to an Ashtar Command ascencionist (i.e. someone who
believes that extraterrestrials will come
and save her), the fact that democratic
senator Paul Wellstone may have been
murdered in order to get republican
Norm Coleman elected. Before I could
elaborate, she cut me off by saying, It
was just his time.
She was intolerant of the fact that I

dared interfere with the reality she was
creating, free of conspiracy, cutthroat
politicians, and skullduggery. And the
more I have played devils advocate with
New Agers, the more I have discovered
that such intolerance is the norm. For
there currently is a belief amongst New
Agers that anything negative that one
expresses will only further magnetize
negativity. However, those who pursue
this line of thinking just end up repressing their negative emotions, only to have
them burst forth in uncontrollable ways.
As an example, I once was in a massage
therapists office proofreading a
manuscript for him. I was reading how
he had a deep respect for his Japanese
ancestors who originated the massage
techniques he used in his practice. The
phone rang and I heard him say, Just
dial 911, then slammed the phone
down. He then turned to me and
explained, That was my wife. My kid
just fell down some stairs. I cant deal
with it.
On the surface, the massage therapist
conveyed an aura of humaneness and caring, all the while repressing his shadow
side, as evidenced by his coldness towards
his wife and child. Dr. Carl Jung recognized the danger of such repression and
recommended confronting the netherregions of our psychesprimarily
through dream workas a way of achieving healthy psychological equilibrium.
Anyone seeking a supportive metaphysical community should first ask
themselves if their ability to think independently is being compromised. For
keeping ones metaphysical radar functioning is most important in a world
crawling with forced cheer gurus,
COINTELPRO channelers, and selfhelp authors. z
This commentary does not reflect the views
and opinions of the publisher or staff of Mysteries magazine.
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Treasures from the Deep
Treasures from the Deep

Salvage to Begin on HMS Sussex
lorida-based Odyssey Marine
Exploration has reached an agreement with Spanish authorities to
begin salvaging the wreck of the HMS
Sussex, a 17th-century English warship
that sank in a storm off the coast of
Gibraltar in 1694 while on a secret mission to deliver ten tons of gold and silver
to the Duke of Savoy, in an attempt to
secure his support in Englands war
against Louis XIV of France.
Odyssey first located the wreck in
1998, after spending almost a decade
scanning the seabed off Gibraltar in
search of the 80-gun warship. Objects
retrieved from the wreck in 2001 identi-
ern Balkans long before the Roman

Empire took control of the regionand
are the ancestors of modern-day Albaniansare thought to have used the vessels as trading or pirate ships. Also
found at the site were fragments of
about 80 amphorae, a Roman spear, the
remains of a Roman villa, and seven
graves thought to date to the Bronze or
Iron Age.
Prehistoric Settlement Found
Beneath North Sea
esearchers from Englands University of Birmingham are mapping a huge prehistoric settlement in the North Sea. The site stretches
from the east coast of Britain to the Shetland Islands and Scandinavia. It was
slowly swallowed by rising waters at the
end of the last ice age more than 8,000
years ago and is the best-preserved prehistoric landscape in Europe.
So far, the researchers have examined
nearly 9,000 square miles of the sea bed
to map coastlines, rivers, lakes, hills, valleys, sandbanks, and salt marshes as they
would have been about 12,000 years
ago, before the hunter-gatherers who
lived there were pushed towards higher
ground.
istry to grant a marine exploration license

to Greg Bemis, the owner of the wreck of
the Lusitania, the Canard ocean liner that
was torpedoed by a German U-boat in
1915 off the coast of Kinsale, in southwest Ireland, while carrying civilian passengers from New York to Liverpool.
The Lusitania sank in only 18 minutes,
taking nearly 1,200 people with it and
causing a furor that increased pressure on
the U.S. to enter WWI.
Eyewitnesses said that after a German
U-Boat torpedo hit the ship near the
bridge, there was a massive secondary
explosion on the starboard side that
caused the 791-foot-long liner to sink so
quickly. The cause of the secondary blast
has since been a mystery and there has
long been speculation that the civilian
ship was secretly carrying munitions to
Britain.
Bemis purchased the remains of the
Lusitania in 1968 for about $2,000, but
the Arts and Heritage Ministry had
declared the wreck a protected site, plac-
fied it as the Sussex, but first the British

and then the Spanish governments
blocked salvage plans. The value of the
treasure is estimated to be worth $1 billion.
Ancient Illyrian Ships Found in Bosnia
n March of 2007, archaeologists
working in a marshland in southern
Bosnia discovered relics from two
wooden vessels that are thought to date
back nearly 2,200 years, the first examples ever found of the fabled Illyrian
ships, which were previously known to
historians only through Greek and
Roman legends.
The Illyrians, who inhabited the west-
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Divers to Explore Lusitanias Mysteries

n April of 2007, the Irish Supreme
Court overturned previous refusals
of Irelands Arts and Heritage Min-
ing an underwater heritage order on it to

deter treasure hunters. Now that his way
has been cleared, Bemis hopes that diving
on the wreck will help solve the mystery
of its sinking.
Maritime Silk Road Vessel Excavated
lso in April, archaeologists working in the South China Sea near
the Xisha Islands recovered
approximately 10,000 pieces of pottery
and porcelain from a shipwreck that
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dates to the Southern Song Dynasty

(1127-1279). Much of the porcelain was
made at Chinas famous manufacturing
center at Jingdezhen and experts believe
that the ship sailed from the present-day
Fujian province along the maritime silk
road that stretched from Chinas southeastern coast to southeast Asia and
beyond.
The wreck, which includes 11 intact
cabins along the bottom of the ships
wooden hull, is providing important
clues about Chinas medieval trade
routes.
Deepest Gulf of Mexico
Recovery Effort Ever
team of researchers from Texas
A&M University is now recovering artifacts from a 200-year-old
shipwreck that lies at
more than 4,000 feet in
the Gulf of Mexico, in
waters that are too deep
for human diving, so
the team is using
remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to retrieve
artifacts from the ocean
floor.
So far, they have
found a cannon, a box
of weapons, navigational instruments, plates,
and 18th and 19th-century bottles. There
are no plans to excavate the vessel, but
researchers hope that the fieldwork and
the conservation efforts to follow will
answer questions about the ships identity and origin.
Pirate Cannon Found Off Marblehead

n May, while diving for sea urchins
in 45-foot-deep waters just a few
hundred yards off the coast of Massachusetts Marblehead Neck, a lobsterman found a 300-year-old swivel cannon
that was loaded and ready to fire.
Experts say that only a pirate would be
Divers Find Aztec Lightning Bolts

n May of 2007, archaeologists diving in
Lake of the Moon, a lake in the crater of
an extinct volcano in Mexico, found
wooden scepters carved in the shape of lightning bolts. These scepters are thought to be
offerings made 500 years ago by Aztec priests
to their rain god Tlaloc.
Other artifacts found
during the research were
obsidian knives; cones of
copal incense which were
burned to form clouds;
and sharp spines from the
maguey cactus, which
does not grow at that altitude and were used to
draw blood as part of a
sacrifice ritual intended to
bring rain. Other artifacts
found suggest that the
volcano was a sacred site as early as 100 BC, long before the Aztecs settled in the
area in 1325.
JUDITH KANE
likely to keep his cannon thus loaded and

since Marblehead was a haven for 18thcentury privateers and pirates, the discovery of the cannon may reveal the existence of a historic shipwreck nearby.
They hope that ridges and markings
engraved on the cannon, including a
large P, will help them learn more
about the artifact.
Worlds Oldest Wooden Anchor Found

n May, archaeologists working in the
Turkish port city of Urla discovered
an ancient wooden anchor that is
thought to be the oldest in the world.
The anchor, which has a metal-covered
crown, was found imbedded five feet
beneath the seabed, near the ancient site
of Liman Tepe, and dates to the end of
the seventh century BC.
Experts say that the
port, which served the
Greek colony of Klazomenai during the first
millennium BC, probably sank following an
earthquake in the sixth
century BC. Scientists
hope that the excavations will reveal more
about the period. z
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Urban Legends
Urban Legends
FAMOUS DEATHS
Our Need to Keep Celebrities Alive

Sightings of supposedly
deceased celebrities reveal
how the popular imagination
cannot let go of the
famousand infamous.
Russian photo of the exhumed corpse

of Hitlers double, taken on May 2,
1945 (note the bullet hole in forehead).
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by Charles Rammelkamp
ountless urban legends have circulated over the years about
celebrities who are seen alive
after their reported death. How these
rumors start and proliferate is anybodys
guess. Perhaps the phenomenon taps
into the our desire for immortality as
well as the tragic death of the young and
their heart-wrenching loss of potential.
Whatever the cause, the granddaddy of
the urban legend of the faked death is
Adolf Hitler.
Historians say that Hitler killed himself in his Berlin bunker on April 30,
1945, to avoid being captured by the
Russians. Hitlers remains were first
buried, along with his new wife Eva
Braun and his two dogs, in the garden of
the Imperial Chancellery. On May 5, his
remains were moved to a clinic, where
they were examined and then reinterred
in Finov. The bodies were then dug up
and reburied on May 17, following reexamination by a General Meshik, who
had been dispatched from Moscow for
that purpose.
After the Russian army headquarters
changed locations, Hitlers remains were
relaid into the ground two more times
until April 5, 1970, when his corpse was
destroyed by fire and the ashes thrown
into the river Bideritz.
But rumors have persisted that it was
actually one of Hitlers decoys who had
been killed in the bunker in 1945 and
that the real Hitler had actually escaped
to South America. Since the burial and
examination of Hitlers remains were
conducted in super-secrecy by Soviet
intelligence, rumors that he was alive in
Westphalia, Innsbruck, and Buenos
Aires have ran rampant. Many former
Nazis did escape to Argentina and

Paraguay, regimes run by military
strongmen who were sympathetic to the
Nazis, so it was a logical place for Hitler
to flee to in rumor, at least. Various
groups were said to have effected
Hitlers escape, from the Catholic
Church to a secret society called Organization der ehemaligen SS-Angehrigen
(Organization of Former SS Members),
or ODESSA.
As recently as 1980, a photograph of a
90-year-old Hitler was in circulation.
But even if the rumor was true, Hitler
would be dead by now of old age. But
Hitlers story pales in comparison to that
of the supposed life after death of the
King of rock n roll, Elvis Presley.
Elvis Presley
lvis Presley died ignominiously
while sitting on the toilet in his
Memphis mansion in 1977, the
result of a heart attack from his long-time
abuse of perscription painkillers. Not
long after his death, rumors of his having
been seen in various places, such as a gas
station or 7-11, began to circulate.
Those who believe that Elvis may still
be alive cite the fact that the Kings middle name Aron was misspelled on his
headstone as Aaron. When Elvis was
born, his name was misspelled on his
birth certificate, and his father went to
great lengths to have the error corrected.
So it is surprising that his father, who
was still alive when Elvis passed away in
1977, would have allowed this misspelling to remain on his headstone.
The reason usually cited for Elvis faking his own death is that he had tired of
the pressures of fame so had made an
agreement with the U.S. government to
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be given a new identity under the witness protection program. Evidence given
to support this theory is that five months
before his death, family members were
suddenly cut out of his will (supposedly
because Elvis realized he would need the
money for his new life). Additionally, he
had a new tour due to start in August of
1977 but had no new costumes made
and fired several old friends shortly
before his so-called death.
Of course, neither of these facts, even
Elvis Presley
i f
they
a r e
true,
would
necessarily mean
that
the
King
had
decided to fake his
death. Besides, a look
at Elvis will, dated
March 3, 1977, indicates that his father,

daughter,
and
grandmother
were well provided for.
Another iconic American performer whose
death has also
created legends
of life beyond
the grave is that
Jim Morrison
of Jim Morrison,
the lead singer
of the 1960s rock band The Doors.
Jim Morrison
orrison died in Paris on July 3,
1971, at the age of 27, of heart
failure. A three-day news
blackout prevented everyone, except his
common-law wife Pamela Courson and
the French medical examiner Dr. Max
Vasille, from knowing that he had died.
Even Morrisons parents and in-laws
were not immediately told of his demise.
(Morrison was not close to his family; in
fact, they did not even visit his grave
until 1993.). Plus, no autopsy was ever
made, for Morrisons death was deemed
natural.
However, many people believe that
Morrison actually died from a heroin
overdose. Yet still others claim he is really alive and now living in India, Africa,
or South America, that he is a cowboy in
Oregon, that he lives above a QuikCheck in New Jersey, or even that he is
living the life of an anonymous hermit in
North Dakota.
As in Elvis faked death, a desire for a
simple life out of the glare of publicity is
cited as the reason that Morrison may
have wanted to fake his death. More
recently, allegations that Morrison
passed away of a heroin overdose in the
toilet of the Rock n Roll Circus nightclub, which he was supposedly manag-
ing, have been taken seriously enough by

French authorities to consider re-opening the case.
Tupac Shakur
nother notable back-from-thegrave urban legend includes that
of hip-hop gangsta Tupac
Shakur, whose life reportedly ended in
1996, the victim of a drive-by shooting.
Since his death, fans and friends have
insisted that the rapper is still alive. For
one thing, more of his recordings have
been released since he died than when he
was living. Can they all be from old
recordings, say believers?
Additionally, believers site that various
song titles provide hints that the stars
supposed passing was falsified, such as
the B-side of a single released late in
1996 entitled Empty Coffin, as well as
songs such as Still Breathin and Im
Not Dead, Motherfuckers.
A photo taken of Tupak Shakur after his

supposed death in 1996.
The list of famous people who have

been rumored to still be alive is seemingly endless, and include Marilyn
Monroe, John Lennon, President
Kennedy, and Kurt Cobain. Perhaps
this is a case of denial on the part of
adoring fans who cannot imagine life
without their idols. z
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StarCrypt
StarCrypt
Horoscopes for Sept.-Nov., 2007

ARIES
21 March-20 April
GEMINI
22 May-22 June
LEO
24 July-23 August
arly September
brings changes
in your working
environment and daily
duties, as cranky people
may demand that you
resolve complicated problems. Secrets
unfold around Sept. 21, where newly discovered treasures or documents may lead
to a new path of research.
Rethink assumptions about people,
history, and legends in October. Friends
may join your search and old associates
may turn up to lend a hand. As November arrives, you may find that neglected
family business, such as inheritances,
insurance, investments, or property, may
require careful scrutiny, so seek advisors
who know their stuff.
n
September,
social events and
community activities bring you into
contact with people
you have not seen for a
while. By the end of the month, one of
these friends will introduce you to someone who will change your life.
Home and family will be your central
focus in October. However, health problems or sudden breakdowns may require
immediate attention. Fortunately, a good
angel is looking out for you and if you ask
for assistance, you will get it. A troublesome financial matter may come to a
standstill in November but by the end of
the month, an option for resolving it may
come through an unexpected source.
TAURUS
21 April-21 May
CANCER
23 June-23 July
vents
in
September stir
up memories of
past lovers or past family matters and the turmoil unleashed by this
emotional baggage may affect current
relationships. As September ends, find
the wisdom you need to gain closure. By
coming to terms with the past, you may
gain a greater understanding of the obstacles in your path and be more effective at
removing them. Additionally, your emotional life may become richer through an
enhanced appreciation of others.
As November arrives, your schedule
may be modified to include special projects or job training. Prospects improve as
you overcome the shyness that has kept
you hidden from view.
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ou get back on
track with people, money, and
your daily schedule in
September. It may feel
like you spend the
month fixing things, but it will be worth
the effort. New responsibilities may
inspire you to restructure your image, so
dress for success. Try to get work accomplished ahead of time, as early October
brings time crunches while friends or siblings in distress may distract you from
your tasks.
Mid-October is a perfect time for
romance and travel, and there may be
opportunities to fulfill lifelong dreams.
As November arrives, take time to think
about your life path. Turn off the autopilot and make choices that allow you to
pursue meaningful activities.
ou feel unappreciated and

misunderstood
in
early
September. But relationships are a twoway street, so make an effort to regain the
respect and affection of others. Avoid
critical financial decisions in October.
Proposed ideas may sound good but may
not yield promised results. However, an
old friend will return mid month, sharing
knowledge or information that may dramatically alter your views or beliefs.
Ancient spiritual practices have great
allure in late October and may reveal a
karmic connection to a specific time or
place in the past. In November, to ensure
future growth, identify and change selfdefeating behavior patterns.
VIRGO
24 August-23 September
eptember brings
turning points
with personal
and family relationships; however, caretaking responsibilities
may be dumped into your lap. If you feel
that you always seem to get stuck with
the dirty work, compel others to share
the load, or simply refuse to play along
with their plans.
You win your freedom by the end of
October and as November arrives, you
begin to search for your true self and to
discover your true desires. Make sure to
find advisors who can lead you toward
opportunities that fit your talents and
personality.
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LIBRA
24 September-23 October
he autumn of
2007 is a time
of self discovery. Although this
lengthy process will
not always be comfortable, but the consequence of failure is a
retreat into unacceptable mediocrity. In
late September, an encounter with a person of worldly experience makes a big
impression on you.
In October, others shock you by giving voice to your suspicions, and this
makes your pursuit of self-discovery
more urgent. A loved one may offer you
valuable assistance. Although it may not
seem like anything happens in November, you will gain the confidence needed
during this month to reject the things
that dont work for you anymore.
SCORPIO
24 October-22 November
our daily patterns return to
normal
in
September and much
to your surprise, you
find it boring. So banish the fears that prevent you from trying
something new. As October arrives, surprise others by being unpredictable.
Romantic gestures will win grateful (if
astonished) approval. By lowering your
shields, you may discover that others
share your hopes and fears. A whole new
world of intimacy and emotional closeness may open up to you in November.
Openly express your love and pride in
others; the rewards will more than compensate for awkward feelings.
SAGITTARIUS
23 November-22 December
eptember is a
turbulent month
for relationships
and work, but you
land on your feet and
your ability to turn
bad luck into good is at a peak through
the autumn. But in early October, as
unresolved issues from the past return to
haunt you, your confidence may falter.
So get advice from others who have succeeded in fixing similar situations.
A surprising legacy comes to you mid
month and causes you to revisit your
family history. As November arrives,
work on improving the network of people in your career field. Good timing and
your myriad skills lead you toward a job
that will boost your income.
CAPRICORN
23 December-19 January
fter long negotiations, you
begin a special
task in September.
Your organizational
and administrative
skills are the key to success, but it takes
time to become comfortable with the
reins of authority. By early October, you
will be teaching or training others. After
a rough start, you will get the hang of it,
and will see successes by mid month.
Activities centering on children and
loved ones may occupy you in late October while intimate relationships will be
your central concern in November. Your
significant other is at a crossroad in life,
and your love and support will help
him/her identify the best choice for the
future.
AQUARIUS
20 January-19 February
f authority figures
put obstacles in
your
path,
September is the
month to find bypasses and loopholes. Your
communication skills are at full power as
the month ends, so make a lasting
impression on others. However, in October, obtain written contracts and guarantees before making risky career or financial choices.
By mid month, you may get an opportunity to demonstrate your exceptional
skills, including gaining access to famous
people or institutions, possibly through
mutual friends or childhood connections.
But as November arrives, take time to listen to and encourage loved ones. Around
Thanksgiving, carefully consider various
career and lifepath options for the future
that arrive around this time.
PISCES
20 February-20 March
reat expectations are laid

on
your
shoulders in September, but do not
become altruistic
about compensation or promise early
delivery of results. Instead, build flexibility into your plans so you can tweak them
as you go. In early October, family
upheavals or personal losses may create
emotional turmoil. Additionally, someone attractive may catch your eye; just
make sure they are worthy of your love.
If plans or dreams balloon in late
October, November deflates them with
reality checks. People who promised support suddenly have other things to do.
But with effort, you can find alternative
resources and will be able to adjust with
minimal stress. z
ELIZABETH HAZEL
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Mysteries of Science
Mysteries of Science
MESSAGES
IN A
BOTTLE
Historys Time Travelers

Throughout time, messages
stuffed into bottles have
been cast into lakes and
seas for reasons ranging
from entertainment to
scientific study. What is
interesting is the number
of coincidences that
surround the finding of
such messages.
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by Micah A. Hanks
xperts on sea-bound travel agree
that a well-sealed bottle is one of
the worlds most seaworthy vessels. Where natural disasters and human
intervention can destroy even the greatest battleships, a tiny bottle can easily
travel unnoticed, safely carrying its precious cargo for decades until found by
someone, sometimes several centuries
later. In a sense, they are actually capable
of carrying brief transmissions to different people in far away lands from times
long since past.
As early as the 16th century, Queen

Elizabeth I of England used bottles to
carry intelligence reports to privileged
members of her service. On one occasion, she received a report from one such
individual, only after learning it had
been opened by a boatman who first discovered it drifting along the waterways
near Dover. After the incident, she
appointed an official un-corker of bottles, and decreed that anyone who
opened such classified reports would be
punished with death.
While ser ving as postmaster of the
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American colonies, Americas founding

father Benjamin Franklin noticed that
American ships were able to cross the
Atlantic to Britain more quickly than
British mail packets heading to the
Americas. So he began compiling information about the way that East Coast
currents flowed, brainstorming ways he
could test the direction and course of
the waterways. It was then that he imagined that, if he dropped messages in
bottles into the ocean and surrounding
water ways with enclosed memos
requesting that when found they be
returned, he might be able to outline a
path of how they were carried.
Once bottles were returned, Franklin
carefully plotted where the bottles were
discovered, and determined that there
seemed to be certain east-bound currents that flowed along a specific path.
From these initial readings, he formulated the approximate location of what is

now called the Gulf Stream. Not surprisingly, much of Franklins information remains unchanged even in modern
times, as evidenced by groups such as
the U.S. Depar tment of Commerce
Coast and Geodetic Sur vey, who still
use bottles in much the same way
Franklin had, complete with printed
papers labeled return enclosed card.
However, not all bottled messages
have been sent with hopes of obtaining
information. In 1784, Japanese sailor
Chunosuke Matsuyama and his 44 shipmates wrecked their ship on a Pacific
coral reef. Shortly before star ving to
death, Matsuyama inscribed their
predicament onto a piece of wood,
sealed it into a bottle, and threw it into
the ocean. There it drifted until 1935,
when it was discovered washed ashore at
the very seaside village where Chunosuke Matsuyama had been born over a
century and a half earlier!
In fact, the number of coincidences
regarding messages in bottles are uncanny. For instance, a bottle found in 1953
in Tasmania held a message that was
written by a soldier who had died in
action in 1918 and it was found by his
mother! The bottle somehow made its
way from the Atlantic Ocean all the way
back to Tasmania.
However, messages in bottles have
not always been so ill-fated. In 1956, a
bored Swedish sailor named Ake Viking
cast a bottle far out to sea, containing
his contact information and a simple
message that stated if any pretty girl
found it, that she please reply to his letter. Two years later, a Sicilian fisherman
found the note and as a joke, brought it
home to his daughter Paolina. Amused
by the love letter, she responded in jest.
But a subsequent correspondence
between Paolina and Ake eventually led
to the young sailor making a visit to
Sicily. Once they met, it was not long
before their attraction grew and they

were married later that autumn.
Messages from Beyond the Grave
ut some messages have come
close to surpassing even time and
space, relaying information to
loved ones from beyond the grave. For
instance, on April 16, 1995, a young boy
sealed an emptied vanilla bottle with a
letter that read, My name is Josh Baker.
Im 10. If you find this, put it on the
news, and tossed it into White Lake
near his hometown in Wisconsin.
Josh grew up to become a Marine,
serving in the Iraqi War. After several
years in service, he returned home. His
safe return was much celebrated, so it
was all the more difficult when his life
was ended in a fatal car accident a few
months later.
Seeking closure, after the tragedy,
Joshs close friend Steve Lieder had often
visited their childhood hangout at White
Lake. It was here that one afternoon he
looked down and noticed a small, wornlooking vanilla bottle. Upon breaking
the small vessel open, a note lay inside
and to his surprise, Steve found it had
been written 11 years earlier by none
other than Josh Baker.
He wanted us to find this, Steve
remarked later. He probably thought it
was awesome. As for Joshs mother, to
whom the message was brought shortly
after its discovery, it has been a message
of hope. When that message came, that
was Josh saying snap out of it. Mom,
Im here. Im OK. Since that time, she
has been able to come to terms with the
accident. Its nice to know someones
listening, she mentioned.
When you toss a note out into the
universe, you never know who might
receive your message. Though you may
not end up married to the finder, you
may get a response. But one thing is for
certain: never count on getting that
reply quickly! z
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Mysteries on Exhibit
Mysteries on Exhibit
East Coast
The Franklin Institute
Museum of Science and Industry
PHILADELPHIA, PA
CHICAGO, IL
(215) 448-1200 I WWW2.FI.EDU
(773) 684-1414 I WWW.MSICHICAGO.ORG
Tutankhamun and
the Golden Age of the
Pharaohs (through
Sept. 30, 2007) This
exhibit features more
than 130 treasures
from tombs, royal
graves, and ancient
sites in the Valley of the
Kings, including 50
major objects from the
tomb of Tutankhamun,
which are on exhibit in
the U.S. for the first
time in 27 years.
Among the artifacts
from King Tuts tomb
are his gold crown and the canopic
coffinette that contained his mummified
internal organs.
Star Wars: Where Imagination Meets

Science (Sept. 7-Dec. 30, 2007) This
exhibit combines costumes and props
from all six Star Wars films with realworld technologies; video interviews
with filmmakers, scientists, and engineers; and two labs where visitors can
build and test speeders and robots.
Featured Exhibit
American Museum of Natural History
NEW YORK, NY
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Dallas Museum of Art
Midwest
DALLAS, TX
(214) 922-1200 I DALLASMUSEUMOFART.ORG
St. Louis Science Center

ST. LOUIS, MO
(800) 456-7572 I WWW.SLSC.ORG
Body Worlds 3: The Anatomical

Exhibit of Real Human Bodies
(through Oct. 28, 2007) Learn about
anatomy, physiology and healthy living
by viewing real human bodies preserved
by the extraordinary method of Plastination.
Science Museum of Minnesota
ST. PAUL, MN
(651) 221-4585 I WWW.SMM.ORG
A Day in Pompeii (through Jan. 8,

2008) Experience life and death in the
cosmopolitan city of Pompeii, which was
turned into a virtual time capsule by the
debris and ash from the eruption of Mt.
Vesuvius in 79 AD that suddenly ended
life in the city.
In Stabiano: Exploring
the Ancient Seaside Villas
of the Roman Elite
(through Oct. 7,
2007) This exhibit recreates life in four residential villas in the town of Stabiae,
which was destroyed in the
eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79
AD. The exhibit features some of
the most significant archaeological finds from the town,
as well as frescoes, cooking
utensils, and other objects from daily life.
Museum of Fine Arts
HOUSTON, TX
(713) 639-7300 I WWW.MFAH.ORG
The Quest for Immortality: Treasures

of Ancient Egypt (Sept. 2-Dec. 31,
2007) This exhibit of ancient art from
the Egyptian national collection illuminates the Pharaonic concepts of the afterlife journey, sustenance and renewal, and
the relationship with the divine. It features 115 artifacts, some of which have
never been seen outside Egypt.
Museum of Science and Industry
TAMPA, FL
(212) 769-5100 I WWW.AMNH.ORG
(813) 987-6000 I WWW.MOSI.ORG
Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns &

Mermaids (through Jan. 6, 2008) This exhibition uses sculptures, paintings, textiles, cultural objects, preserved specimens, and fossils
of prehistoric animals, to explore the fantastic
creatures that have long inhabited legends and
fables, the accounts of early naturalists, and
ancient and contemporary art, literature, and
drama. The exhibit traces their cultural and natural history origins; examines the surprising
similarities in various cultures depictions of legendary beasts; and explores the
possibility that some of the more persistent tales may stem from actual sightings
of unfamiliarbut perfectly realcreatures.
SHIPWRECK! Pirates & Treasure

(through Jan.
31, 2008) This
interactive
exhibit teaches
about the history of shipwrecks
and pirates, and
allows visitors to
experience the
search, recovery,
and conservation involved in the quest for deep-sea
knowledge and treasures.
South
Houston Museum of Natural Science
HOUSTON, TX
(251) 208-6873 I WWW.EXPLOREUM.NET
Lucys Legacy: The Hidden Treasures

of Ethiopia (through Apr. 20, 2008)
This exhibition is the world premiere of
the fossilized remains of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old hominid thought to be one
of mankinds earliest ancestors. The
exhibit also tells the story of Ethiopia
over the past five million years.
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West Coast
The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art

SANTA ANA, CA
(714) 567-3600 I WWW.BOWERS.ORG
Museum of New Mexico

SANTA FE, NM
(505) 476-1148
WWW.MUSEUMOFNEWMEXICO.ORG
Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries

from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian
Archaeology (through Jan. 6, 2008)
This exhibit presents the most important
finds of Sir William Matthew Flinders
Petrie and items from the Petrie Museum, one of the worlds most important
collections of Egyptian antiquities.
Portland Art Museum
PORTLAND, OR
(503) 2262811 I WWW.PORTLANDARTMUSEUM.ORG
Mysterious Spirits, Strange Beasts,

Earthly Delights (through Dec. 31,
2007) This exhibit presents a collection
of early Chinese art from the pre-Han

Kingdom of Chu and the Han Dynasty,
representing nearly every aspect of these
periods with earthenware entertainers,
court attendants and animals, bronze
vessels, and mirrors.
San Diego Natural History Museum
SAN DIEGO, CA
(619) 255-0216 I WWW.SDNHM.ORG
Discovering the Dead Sea Scrolls

(through Dec. 31, 2007) This exhibition features artifacts, displays, and interactive exhibits to help visitors explore the
context of the Dead Sea scrolls and the
science, history, and scholarship associated with their discovery, excavation, and
interpretation.
Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in

Ancient Egypt (through Dec. 30,
2007) 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.
Turtle Bay Exploration Park
REDDING, CA
(800) 887-8532 I WWW.TURTLEBAY.ORG
Alien Earths: Are We Alone?

(through Dec. 31,
2007) This exhibit
presents research
and discoveries
related to the ageold questions, such
as where did we
come from and are
we alone in the universe? Search for planets around distant stars for life beyond
Earth, and learn about the methods scientists are using to search our galaxy.
Outside the U.S.

The British Museum
LONDON, ENGLAND
(+44) 020 7323 8299
WWW.THEBRITISHMUSEUM.AC.UK
The First Emperor: Chinas Terracotta Army (Sept. 13, 2007-Apr. 6,

2008) This exhibition will explore one
of the greatest archaeological discoveries
of the 20th century and provide insight
into Chinas first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi. The exhibit will feature a number of the terracotta warriors buried
alongside the emperor in readiness for
the afterlife, as well as some of the most
striking discoveries made on the site.
JUDITH KANE
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Arcane Cults
Arcane Cults
TURKEYS DNMEH
Wifeswapping Jews for Allah

T
Throughout history, there
have been several claimants
to the title of Messiah, but
after their reign of glory
failed to materialize, most
have been forgotten. But for
some, that is not the case
with the Jewish Muslim
Messiah Shabbatai Tzvi.
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by Kenaz Filan
oday in Turkey, some Muslims
await the return of the Jewish
Messiah, a bookish, 17th-century
rabbi named Shabbatai Tzvi (also spelled
Shabbethai Zebi). While most Jews today
consider Tzvi a coward who converted to
Islam to save his own skin, these Dnmeh
(Turkish for converts) believe he converted to redeem the world, and that in
so doing, set the stage for mankinds
eventual redemption.
By all accounts, Shabbatai Tzvi (16261676) was a brilliant thinker. Yet he was
also notorious for his mental instability.
During his periods of illumination, he
would engage in bizarre acts, such as
bathing in the sea during the wintertime.
Later, he would fall into black despair

and beg for forgiveness. Expelled from
Smyrna (modern-day Izmir, Turkey) and
later from Salonika (in northern Greece),
Tzvi ultimately made his way to
Jerusalem in 1663, along with a small
number of disciples.
In 1664, Tzvi met Nathan of Gaza,
another aspiring prophet. Nathan had
acquired a reputation as a healer and spiritual leader, and Tzvi came to him seeking a cure for his spells of insanity. But
Nathan informed him that he was not ill;
rather, his spells were caused by his soul
waging war against the forces of evil. This
helped Tzvi to conquer his self-doubts
and accept his role as Messiah in earnest.
Letters declaring that the messiah had
arrived were soon sent out to the Jewish
communities of Nor th Africa and
Europe, and books were written on how
to prepare for the Messiahs coming
reign. Jews in Yemen sold their possessions and traveled to Jerusalem while
Iranian Jews abandoned their homes to
live in the fields as a sign of support for
Tzvi and of repentance for their sins.
One Polish priest wrote that the Jews in
his diocese,
fasted several days a week on
account of their messiah, and some
of them all week long They
immersed [themselves] under the ice
in winter, and there they uttered a
prayer that had only recently been
composed.
Jewish gamblers in London and Hamburg gave ten-to-one odds that Tzvi
would rule the world within two years.
Flushed with success, in 1666, Tzvi
decided to travel to Constantinople to
demand that Mehmed IV, Sultan of the
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Ottoman Empire, give up

these Dnmeh were at
his throne and recognize
least outwardly Muslims,
Tzvi as the rightful emperamong themselves, they
or of the world. (Failing
recited their prayers in
that, he hoped that the
Hebrew and used secret
Sultan would return the
Hebrew names. They
Jews to their rightful
maintained clandestine
home in Palestine, which
relations with more
was then under Ottoman
orthodox Rabbis, who
control).
advised them on Jewish
Alas, Mehmed was less
law and furnished them
than impressed with Tzvi.
with books. But they also
First he arrested him.
ignored
many
of
Shabbatai Tzvi (1626-1676)
Then, when Tzvi continJudaisms most honored
ued to hold cour t and
traditions, such as workreceive ambassadors at his
ing on the Jewish sabfortress prison in Abydos, the Sultan
bath and feasting on Jewish fast days.
gave him three optionshe could perMost shocking to Orthodox rabbis,
form a miracle for the Sultan and prove
though, was their practice of the extinhis messianic claims; he could convert to
guishing of the lights. During this rituIslam; or he could be executed. Tzvi
al, couples gathered for prayer and feastchose the second option. Removing his
ing. At the end of the feast, the lights
skullcap before the Sultan, he donned
were extinguished and each husband and
the turban of a practicing Muslim and
wife paired off with another partner to
said, there is no God but Allah, and
show that the Messiah had freed his folMohammed is his prophet.
lowers from the bounds of earthly laws
and to retrieve the sparks of holiness
Extinguishing the Lights
which could be found in even the most
he crisis of faith which ensued
evil acts.
came close to destroying reliBecause there was no way to know for
gious Judaism. Many of Tzvis
certain the parentage of any child whose
followers severed their ties to Judaism
parents had participated in this ritual,
and converted to Christianity. Others
Orthodox rabbis ultimately declared that
burned his books and blotted his name
the Dnmeh were mamzerim, illegitifrom their records. But a few of his most
mate children who could not be considloyal disciples justified his conversion by
ered true Jews.
stating that the Messiah had to descend
Within 50 years after Tzvis death, the
Dnmeh had divided into three sects.
into the most evil parts of the world to
The Jacobites believed that Tzvis brothredeem not only the Jews, but also Muser-in-law, Jacob Querido, was the myslims and Christians.
tical vessel for Shabbatais soul. They
This group was divided between those
who believed that the Messiahs convershaved their heads but not their beards.
sion was sufficient for redemption and
The Izmirlis, who shaved their beards
those who believed that they had to folbut not their heads, recognized another
low the Messiahs example. Those who
prophet, Judah Levi Tovah (Der vish
chose the latter course converted while
Effendi). And the Koniosos, who did not
following the spiritual Torah (the hidshave at all, followed Baruchya Russo
den inner meaning of the Jewish holy
(Osman Baba), who, in the early 18th
books, which Tzvi had revealed.) While
century, declared himself a new messiah
and the reincarnation of Tzvi.

The Young Turks
n the late 1800s, the Ottoman
Empire was in its final death throes
and many Turkish intellectuals
sought a more modern, Europeanized
society. One of the most influential of
these was the Committee for Union and
Progress, which would become known as
the Young Turks. The Dnmeh were
well-represented in these revolutionary
movements. Since they had always been
lukewarm Muslims at best, they welcomed a more secular government.
When Kemal Ataturk came to power
in 1923, he abolished Islam as the state
religion and made other moves intended to separate mosque and state, such as
banning religious clothing such as the
fez and hijab (headscarf), and replacing
Sharia (Islamic law) with European
legal codes. Secularized Dnmeh no
longer saw a religious distinction
between themselves and their countrymen; rather, they considered themselves
Turks. But alas, many of their neighbors
retained the old anti-Semitic prejudices.
Since they were seen not as Turks but
as a secret Jewish cult, during World War
II, the pro-German Turkish government
subjected the Dnmeh to increased taxation. By 1943, one Dnmeh said,
Our movement is dead and exists no
longer. My ancestors were Shabbatians
but I content myself with the reading
of the Koran; I retain nothing of my
past.
Yet pilgrims in Izmir still light candles
at Shabbatais birthplace and visit the
Albanian fortress where Tzvi is buried.
It is unclear how many Dnmeh
remain in Turkey today, but there is still
a group of Shabbatians waiting for their
Messiahs return. Indeed, Shabbatai
Tzvis influence is far from over, as illustrated by the existence of Dnmeh West,
a group devoted to neo-Shabbatian Kabbalah, an inclusive mysticism that seeks
to reconcile both Jews and Muslims. z
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Crypto Corral
Whats Hot in the Antarctic?

he International Polar Year
research program recently completed a survey of the Weddell
Sea, off the coast of the Antarctic, which
was sealed off for millennia from surface
contact by 100-meter-thick ice shelves.
Collapse of those shelves over the past
quarter-century now permits scientific
study of the Weddell seabed.
Thus far, researchers have catalogued
1,000 species from the ocean, at least 30
of them previously unknown to science.
The new discoveries include a
psychedelic octopus, new coral- and
shrimp-like organisms, and a gelatinous
sea squirt found thriving in dense submarine colonies.
Loch Ness What a Croc!

ryptozoology.com raised a
ruckus on March 30, 2007, when
it published an anonymous article from an unnamed local Scottish
newspaper, alleging that a crocodile had
surfaced in Loch Ness. According to the
story, a large unidentified creature was
seen wading along the Loch edge below
the LipoFlora viewpoint (where Flora
MacDonald once helped Rob Roy MacGregor flee British soldiers). Dismissing
Nessie as the culprit, the unsigned story
claimed that the creature was a large
Floridian crocodile...[that] has simply
drifted along the path of the Atlantic
Gulf Stream before finding its new home
in Scotland.
While critics noted the storys appearance two days before April Fools Day, a
real-life crocodilian caper was underway
in far-off Kansas. There, at Lake
Shawnee, fishermen spotted an alligator
on March 23 and reported it to park officials, who caught the reptile the next
morning. Dennis Dinwiddie, director of
the local Stone Nature Center, described
the reptile as a pet, although its owner
remains unknown.
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Eastern Cougar Comeback
fficially, the eastern cougar (Puma concolor cougar) no longer exists, as farmers and
sportsmen allegedly wiped out Americas largest native felids in the 19th century while
eastern Canadas last acknowledged specimen was shot in 1938. Still, the stubborn
cats refuse to vanish, appearing to more startled witnesses with each passing year, such as
Rhode Island wildlife enthusiast William Betty, who described his cougar sightings at a symposium at the Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, in Worcester,
MA in March, 2007.
But Marion Larson, an information officer with the MA Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, disputes his claims. Wheres the evidence? she asked the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. Scientists need evidence that they are living and breeding in the northeast. If they were here, we
would have bones, droppings, and tracks.
Also in March in Maine, alleged cougar sightings sparked excitement. After the Portland
Press Herald
ran a story on
the
eastern
cougar, sighting
reports flooded
in from across
the
region,
including one
by Ray and
P a t r i c i a
Estabrook, who
said that they
were driving
through Washington County in
August of 2006,
when a cougar
crossed the
road in front of
their car. Both
of us were able to get a really close look at it, Patricia told the Press Herald. I noticed its
really big paws, loping run, and the color and the ears. Ray noticed the long tail. When Patricia reported the sighting to Maines Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, the woman
who answered the phone laughed at them and said they would call back, but no one ever did.
New Hampshires Fish and Game officials have adopted a slightly more receptive attitude
toward cougar sightings. After surveyor Dave Collier photographed large feline pawprints in
the snow outside his Boscawen office in March, state wildlife biologist Eric Orff told the Concord Monitor, Im not going to tell you that there arent mountain lions here but the probability is very small. Six weeks earlier, a resident of Webster, NH, photographed similar
tracks, complete with a tail bounce impression that is typical of a cougar.
Farther north in Nova Scotia, journalist Amy Woolvett reported her own encounter with a
very large cat near the Sable River, on April 9, 2007. The animal passed within 20 feet of
her car, then disappeared into surrounding woods. She described the beasts flat and
square face with short rounded ears, a long, thick body fraught with muscle under a coat that
lay flat and bore the single color of wheat. I eyeballed its height to be level with the hood of
my Honda Fit.
Department forestry technician Amy Marsters told Woolvett, We have no data to prove
they exist but no data to prove they dont exist. Still, the department logs about 100 sightings a year, granting the species full legal protection, just in case.
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The Monster of Rustaq

esidents of northern Oman, on
the Arabian Peninsula, were
frightened during March of
2007, by a night-prowling beast
they dubbed the Monster of Rustaq. According to Gulf News, the
unseen creature uttered wailing
cries of torture between midnight and dawn, shattering the
sleep of nervous villagers.
Rumors blamed the noises on the spirit
of a lately deceased local wizard.
Dismissing any thought of ghosts or
monsters, Sgt. Ahmad Al Wasaibi told
reporters that the eerie calls probably
came from a dog or a fox. However,
when no dog was found, the Ministry of
Police declared that the whole matter
was probably a joke intended to frighten people. The ministry denied sending
representatives to officially investigate
the incidents, but granted that, We did
send a representative to reassure residents, and give lectures on the dangers of
believing rumors.
Lake Monsters at Large

t Lake Merritt, a 155-acre tidal
lagoon surrounded by residential
property and parklands near
downtown Oakland, CA, one Richard
Bailey claims to have seen an unidentified
creature with horns and glowing red eyes.
Its got six or seven humps like youd see
on the Loch Ness, Bailey told the Contra
Costa Times in January, 2007, and was
more than ten feet long.
Bailey, a marine biologist, is best
known for a hoax he perpetrated at Lake
Merritt in December, 2003, when he
published a newsletter warning locals to
beware of a big, blue crocodile inhabiting the lake. His reptile proved to be a
papier-mch construction. Understandably, locals greeted Baileys latest monster sighting with skepticism.
Residents of Seminole, FL, recognized
that feeling when a local official received
an anonymous email from a concerned citizen,

reporting seeing three dolphins swimming in Lake Seminole on January 31.
Kelli Levy, a Pinellas County environmental program director, told the St.
Petersburg Times that while Lake Semi-
nole has a weir for outflow, theres just

no way for a dolphin to fit in there.
In Levys view, it would require a
humongous hurricane to lift dolphins
from the Gulf of Mexico and drop
them into Lake Seminole. Her alternate solution to the riddle was
grass carp, a freshwater fish that
may approach four feet in length
and weigh up to 40 pounds. As
described by Levy, they kind
of come to the surface
and roll over, thus
potentially resembling
dolphins if glimpsed
under less than ideal conditions.
Owls Well That Ends Well
n January 10, 2007, Britains The Sun reported a Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo) atlarge in downtown Bolton, swooping from its lair atop the Middlesbrough train station
to attack foxes and small deer. Shoppers were also skittish of the predatory bird,
whose five-foot wingspan and nine-pound weight makes it the worlds largest owl.
Witness Craig Smith told reporters that the owl dive-bombed him as he tried to catch a
train. I heard a loud woo-woo noise, he said, and looked over my shoulder to see this creature with silver wings, claws stretched out. I ran as fast as I could on to the platform and it
flew away.
Mark Fryett actually came to grips with the winged predator. I was leaving work when I
heard a hoot and a whoosh and saw this big white face coming at me, he said. I put my arm
up and hit its wing and it fell on the floor, but got up again and flew off. It was like something
out of Harry Potter. I thought it was going to pick me up! I went home and called police, but I
think they thought I was drunk.
Rachael Stewart of North Yorkshires Kirkleatham Owl Centre, postulated that it must have
escaped from a traveling show. Volunteers have tried to catch it a couple of times so far,
without success.
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brought others to light. David Higgs
photographed an apparent wallaby in
Covenham on January 6, after it nearly
got run over a couple of times. Two
days later, John Hay saw the animal
while driving from Steverton to Hellidon. Lisa Crossland saw the same creature in her garden in Louth, on January
13. The next day, a resident of Wootton,
Northampton, spied a wallaby hopping
through a field beside her home.
But England has no monopoly on elusive wallabies. On January 23, 2007,
PAs Centre Daily Times reported another
specimen at large in Fleetwood, 50 miles
northwest of Philadelphia. Then the
Berks County Humane Society (BCHS)
logged its first report of a wallaby atlarge on January 22, after the creature
invaded a local backyard. BCHS members baited traps in vain while warning
Wallaby Walkabouts
eandering marsupials of
unknown origin made global
headlines in early 2007, as witnesses sighted wallabies from Britain to
California.
The first sighting occurred in Covenham, a village near Louth, England, in
early January. Motorist Terrence Taylor
saw the creature hopping along Main
Road, ignoring vehicular traffic. Wallaby
sightings in Covenham date from 2005,
spawning unconfirmed rumors that
somebody had them in stables and
theyd got out.
In response to Taylors sighting, Chris
Mullins of Beastwatch UK told the
Northampton Chronicle that wallabies
have been in Britain for some time.
Wallabies can definitely live in the wild.
They are quite hardy. Apart from the
obvious predators, cars are their only real
threat. As for the latest specimen atlarge, Mullins opined, Its in a very
good condition. Its either been looked
after by its owner, who I would imagine
is devastated by its loss, or its wild.
Publication of Taylors sighting
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nervous residents to avoid contact with

wandering wallabies. Theyre violent
when confined or restrained, BCHS
spokesman Dylan Heckart told the
Times. With their powerful hind legs,
Heckart said, They can definitely injure
a human being badly.
California hopper-hunters had better
luck on February 6, when a wallaby surfaced in Fontana, 50 miles east of Los
Angeles. Animal control officers received
their first report of a kangaroo jumping
down our street at 8:30 a.m. and sprang
into action, cornering the three-foot-tall
creature without a fight.
As usual, media reports dubbed the
captured wallaby as a neighbors pet,
but police have not identified its presumed owner. If left unclaimed, the wallaby might be sent to a zoo. z
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MENTAL
ARMAGEDDON
OST CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY OF
mind control to be nothing more

then the ravings of lunatics and
psychotics. However, over the
years, governments and intelligence
agencies have spent millions of dollars to determine
whether the mind can be influenced or even controlled.
Because the concept of mind control seems too preposterous to be real, we have been unwilling to consider that our
most precious freedomindependent thoughtmay be
seriously compromised.
THE QUEST FOR

MIND CONTROL
by Tim Swartz
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The notion that the human mind

could be influenced by an outside source
was first popularized during the Korean
War when, on international radio broadcasts, some American prisoners of war
renounced their American citizenship
and declared their desire to remain in
North Korea.
At the end of the war, when the former POWs were debriefed by military
psychiatrists, it was discovered that the
Koreans had used intense psychological
manipulations, such as sleep and food
deprivation, to keep the American prisoners disoriented and frightened. By
doing so, the Koreans were able to better control their prisoners so as to prevent escapes. They also brainwashed
them into believing that North Korea
was a victim of U.S. aggression.
For its own part, the U.S. government
began experimenting in mind control in
1942. Shortly after the attack on Pearl
Harbor, George Estabrooks, chairman
of the department of psychology at Colgate University and one of the leading
authorities on hypnosis at the time, was
called to Washington by the War Department to evaluate how hypnosis might be
used by the enemy against American
troops.
Estabrooks later detailed in the April,
1971, issue of Science Digest how, during
Word War II, he hypnotized a Marine
lieutenant named Jones and split his personality into Jones A and Jones B. He
programmed Jones A to become an
ardent believer of Communist doctrine.
The marine was then deliberately given a
dishonorable discharge by the Corps
(which was in on the plot) and encouraged to join the Communist party.
In the meantime, Jones B had been
carefully coached to remember all the
thoughts of Jones A, even though he was
imprinted not to discuss with anyone the
secret actions of Jones A. To access
information about the activities of the
Communist group that Jones A had
joined, all Estabrooks had to do was
hypnotize the man and get in touch with
the Jones B personality.
Estabrooks recounted in the article
that the ploy worked beautifully for
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n the 1970s, Candy Jones was a successful model,

author, and modeling agency owner who had married
Long John Nebel, a popular late-night talk show host on
New York radio station WOR. During the early years of the
marriage, Candy told Nebel that years earlier, the FBI had
asked to use her office as a mail drop and that she had
agreed to deliver mail for the FBI when traveling on business. When it soon became apparent that Candy was
prone to insomnia and suffered from abrupt changes in
her normally congenial disposition, Nebel, an amateur
hypnotist, offered to hypnotize her.
During their first session, she easily fell into a hypnotic
trance and began speaking in another voice, who identified herself as Arlene Grant. This second personality
revealed that Jones had once delivered a package for the
FBI to a doctor she knew from her USO days, who had
subsequently hypnotized her.
Under hypnosis, the doctor told Candy that she was to
be a messenger for a secret CIA unit and as she would
sometimes be required to travel abroad, that she would
be given a passport under the assumed name of Arlene
Grant. She was also injected with drugs designed to bring
out and reinforce the Arlene personality, which, she was
told, would be triggered by a telephone call that played a
recording of certain sounds. When she assumed the
Arlene identity, Jones was told to alter her dress, her
walk, and her tone. Jones was then supposedly sent to a
CIA training camp where she was trained how to kill and
taught how to hide code numbers under her nail polish.
After each mission was completed, Candy was told
To combat Communism,
CIA director Allen Dulles
suggested using newspapers, magazines, movies,
and television to denounce
Communism as evil and
regale the public on the
virtues of democracy.
CANDY JONES
The Accidental Spy

months. However, the technique backfired when the communists finally suspected that Jones was being used as a spy
and threw him out of the organization.
Estabrooks then merged Jones A and B
back into one personality and he was
reinstated back into the Marines.
According to Estabrooks, using hypnotism to create spies and assassins was
childs play. As well, the CIA was convinced that other countries, such as the
Soviet Union, were experimenting with
the same techniques. There is little doubt
that even more sophisticated methods for
hypnotic mind control have been perfected in the years since.
that she would remember nothing. Jones was once supposedly even tortured at a seminar at CIA headquarters,
as a means of demonstrating the psychiatrists control
over her.
Candy Jones' story sounds like the wild fabrications of
a deranged mind. However, there is some evidence that
this bizarre tale is true. Candy told Joe Vergara, her book
editor at Harper and Row, that she sometimes worked for
a government agency as a courier and might disappear
occasionally for weeks at a time. She also wrote a letter
to her attorney William Williams, instructing him that if
she were to die or vanish under unusual circumstances,
that he was not to reveal the details of the event to anyone, especially the press. Also, when writer Donald Bain
was talking to Candy about publishing a book on the story
of her life, she showed him a passport issued in the
name of Arlene Grant, bearing a photo of Candy wearing
a dark wig.
Freedom of Information requests have also revealed
that the CIA has a substantial file on Jones, but they
refuse to release it to the public.
Operation MK-ULTRA
n 1953, CIA director Allen Dulles,
speaking before Princeton University alumni, described two fronts in
the then-current battle for mens
mindsa first front of mass indoctrination through censorship and propaganda
and a second front of individual brainwashing and brain changing. Dulles
main concern at the time was Soviet
Communism, which he regarded as
something like a drug against which the
mind was defenseless.
To combat Communism, Dulles suggested using newspapers, magazines,
movies, and television to denounce
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LU IS ANGE L C A ST ILL O
The Real
Manchurian
Candidate?
P
erhaps the most chilling aspect of mind control research is the governments attempt to
create a "Manchurian Candidate," or mindcontrol assassin. In fact, one of the main goals of
the CIA's MK-ULTRA program was to create a spy
who appeared to be an ordinar y citizen, but was
actually an agent who could be activated at will by
using a code word or sound. After hearing their
code word, a split-personality would emerge who,
without the knowledge of the other personality,
would handle their assigned task, such as an
assassination. If caught, the agent would rever t
to his or her original personality, who would have
no knowledge of what they had done.
One such "Manchurian Candidate" was Luis
Angel Castillo, a Puerto Rican who was arrested
in the Philippines in 1967 for tr ying to assassinate president Ferdinand Marcos. While being
interrogated by the National Bureau of Investigation (the Philippines equivalent to the FBI), Castillo was discovered to have had at least four separate, hypnotically installed personalities. One
personality claimed to be Sgt. Manuel Angel
Ramirez of the Strategic Air Tactical Command in
South Vietnam, the illegitimate son of a pipesmoking, highly placed CIA official whose initials
were A.D. Another personality claimed to be
John F. Kennedy's assassin.
Castillo later attempted suicide several times,
apparently because of buried post-hypnotic suggestions that instructed him to kill himself if he
was ever caught. His FBI records show that in
1964, Castillo had been arrested for larceny and
sent to the Bordentown, NJ, state reformator y.
Interestingly, that same year, Dr. Carl Pfeiffer did
MK-ULTRA research at Bordentown reformator y,
allegedly using drugs and hypnosis on inmates to
see if they could be induced to commit suicide on
command.
Castillo was repatriated to the United States in
1968, where he disappeared behind a veil of FBIsponsored security directives. Even though it has
never been officially confirmed, researchers such
as Martin Cannon believe that someone such as
Castillo was too valuable to lose and would have
been returned to the military, reprogrammed with
a new set of personalities, and returned to work in
the dark world of espionage.
TIM SWARTZ
50
Communism as evil, and at the same

time, regale the public on the virtues
of democracy. CIA agents were even
secretly planted in a number of
national newspapers and magazines
to make sure that nothing positive
was ever written about Communism.
Dulles figured that if the public heard
nothing but negative reports about
Communism, they would soon
believe the propaganda.
The same year, at CIA deputy
director Richard Helms suggestion,
Dulles approved funding for the top
secret project called MK-ULTRA.
The project was kept so secret that
the Senate did not learn about it until
1977, when a Senate subcommittee
on Health and Scientific Research,
chaired by Senator Ted Kennedy,
began interviewing Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who in the 1950s and 60s,
super vised CIA experiments in
administering LSD and other psychoactive drugs to unwitting American citizens, such as patients in mental hospitals and prison inmates.
One such experiment was conducted in 1955, its goal to see how
someone would react in public if
they were unknowingly given LSD.
Code-named Midnight Climax, the
CIA recr uited narcotics of ficer
George Hunter White to set up a
bordello in San Francisco. Customers were then treated to drinks
laced with LSD while White sat
behind two-way mirrors to observe
the results. In addition to providing
data about the effects of LSD, Midnight Climax also enabled the CIA
to learn how to exploit sex for espionage purposes.
From his testimony, the subcommittee learned about the CIAs Operation MK-ULTRA, whose ostensible
purpose was to investigate whether it
was possible to modify an individuals
behavior by covert means. According
to Gottlieb, the experimentation utilized narco-hypnosis, the blending of
mind-altering drugs, such as LSD and
sodium pentothal, with careful hypnotic programming.
Claiming the protection of the

National Security Act, Dr. Gottlieb
was unwilling to tell the subcommittee what had been learned by these
experiments. He did state, however,
that the program had initially grown
out of a 1951 secret program known
as Bluebird, that had been created to
counter Soviet advances in brainwashing.
Eventually, project Bluebird was
renamed Project Artichoke, a program of mind control that was run by
the intelligence divisions of the Army,
Navy, Air Force, and FBI, to learn
how to control an individual to the
point where, against his will, he
would do the bidding of his controller and would even act against
fundamental laws of nature, such as
self-preservation.
Precisely how extensive the testing
became will never be known, for
shortly before leaving office in 1973,
CIA director and chief architect of
the program Richard Helms ordered
the destruction of all MK-ULTRA
records. Fortunately, 20,000 pages
worth of MK-ULTRA documents in
the CIAs financial records were overlooked. Though only a small fraction
of the original documentation, these
surviving documents reveal highly
disturbing operations in which
unknowing citizens were subjected
not only to experiments with LSD,
but also to radiation, lethal biological
agents, and even tor ture, in an
attempt to discover efficient methods
of controlling the mind.
Under congressional scrutiny, the
CIA was quick to downplay the success of MK-ULTRA, claiming no real
advances were achieved. But Miles
Copeland, a long-serving CIA officer,
disputed this. Speaking to a reporter
in 1977, Copeland revealed that the
congressional subcommittee only got
the barest glimpse of what MKULTRA had accomplished. In fact,
after 1963, CIA ef for ts began to
focus instead on the research and
development of technology as a
means to manipulate the mind.
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RO B ER T NAE SL UND
Victim of
Mind-Control
Implants
obert Naeslund said that in 1967, the Swedish Security Police implanted a radio-transmitter/receiver into the frontal lobe of his brain as part of Swedens long-term experiments in mind control. These experiments were supposedly conducted on hundreds of
Swedish citizens from 1960 to the late 1970s, allegedly done in an attempt to identify and
track potential criminals and political dissidents.
The implant, Naeslund said, transmits a radio signal to a computer, which stores information, such as ones daily activities and possibly even ones thoughts. What makes Naeslund's
story plausible is that x-rays clearly show the presence of foreign objects buried deep within his
brain.
Currently, Naeslund continues his campaign to uncover government mind-control operations from his home in Stockholm, Sweden.
TIM SWARTZ
Electronic Control of the Mind

octors have long recognized
that under the influence of
drugs, a person can be manipulated to fall asleep, reveal secrets, and
even loosen their moral and social conditioning. However, few people realize
that the human brain can also be
manipulated by flashing lights, electronic implants, microwaves, and electromagnetism.
In the 1960s, Dr. Jos Delgado pioneered Electrical Stimulation of the
Brain (ESB), in which a stimoceiver, a
miniature electrode capable of receiving
and transmitting electronic signals by
FM radio, was implanted in an individuals cranium. Delgado noted that radio
stimulation of different points in the
amygdala and hippocampus produced a
variety of effects, including pleasant
sensations, elation, deep, thoughtful
concentration, super relaxation, and
colored visions.
In 1965, Dr. Delgado demonstrated
at Yale University the success of his stimoceiver by confronting a charging
1,000-pound bull. As the horned animal lunged toward Delgado, he activated the stimoceiver that was implanted
in the bulls brain, bringing the bull to
a halt at Delgados feet.
Following the success of Dr. Delgados work, the CIA set up a research
program in New Mexico, code-named
Sleeping Beauty, to experiment with
electromagnetic behavior modification.
One Dr. Browning was able to wire a
radio receiver-amplifier into the brain of
a donkey, which picked up a five-microamp signal that created intense happiness in the animal when activated. Using
the jolts of happiness as an electronic
carrot, Browning was able to send the
donkey up a 2,000-foot New Mexico
mountain and back to its point of origin.
When the donkey was proceeding up the
path toward its destination, it was
rewarded with electronic stimulation;
when it deviated, the signal stopped.
There was a move within the CIA to
conduct further experiments on foreigners and prisoners, but the White House
vetoed the idea as unethical. However,
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TRIPPING THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
LSD and Mind Control

O
Dr. Jos Delgado and his wife are shown

here monitoring the results from their
stimoceiver, a miniature electrode that
was capable of receiving and transmitting electronic signals by FM radio, and
implanted into an individuals cranium.
They found that radio stimulation of
different points in the amygdala and
hippocampus produced a variety of
effects, including pleasant sensations,
deep, thoughtful concentration, super
relaxation, and colorful visions.
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from these early experiments, it became

clear that neuro-implants were not practical, as they required major surgery to
implant and could easily be detected
with x-rays and MRI scans. Rather, what
was needed was a way to communicate
with the human brain remotely.
Voices in Your Head
n 1961, Dr. Allen Frey, a biophysicist and engineering psychologist,
reported that a human exposed to
1310 MHz and 2982 MHz microwaves
would also hear a buzzing or knocking
sound (also described as clicks or chirps).
Then in 1973, researchers Joseph
Sharp and Mark Grove found they could
transmit a voice by microwave directly to
ones brain, although the voice sounded
ne secret dr ug project
that took place in the
early 1960s was run by
Dr. Harris Isabel, director of the
Public Ser vice Hospital in Lexington, KY, a facility specializing
in drug abuse. Funded by the
CIA, Dr. Isabel began experimenting on African-American
inmates by administering large
doses of LSD, mescaline, marijuana, scopolamine, and other
mind-altering substances on a
daily basis, simply to gauge
what the patients response
would be.
When word got out that the
CIA had been testing drugs on
innocent citizens, the organization announced that it had
ceased its mind-manipulation
programs. However, scientists
such as Dr. Ewen Cameron at
McGill University in Montreal,
Canada, secretly continued to
experiment with a variety of
mind-control techniques, including using drugs to keep subjects unconscious for months at
a time and administering electroshocks and continual doses
of LSD, to see whether or not
these drugs made people more
responsive to outside control.
It has been repor ted that
enough LSD was manufactured
during this period to dose every
citizen in the United States at
least a dozen times. No one
knows for sure if all the LSD
was used strictly for these
mind-control experiments but it
has been alleged that the CIA
also secretly distributed LSD
and other mind-altering drugs to
college students during the
1960s in an attempt to destabilize the growing anti-war movement. (The theory was that hallucinogenic dr ug use would
lessen political ambitions.)
like someone talking through an artificial

larynx. (A microphone is used to transform sound into electrical signals, which
were then generated into microwave signals of var ying frequencies. The
microwaves were then transmitted to the
brains auditory cortex.)
In the mid-1970s, the U.S. military
began experimenting with high-frequency radio waves and hypnosis for the purpose of mind control. It was discovered
that depending on where the
microwaves were directed, the brain
would interpret these signals as either
external sound or ones own thoughts!
In 1994, The Village Voice published
an interview with Steve Killion, deputy
chief of the FBIs technical services division, who claimed that in 1993, Russian
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53
scientists demonstrated to ten American

military, intelligence, and law-enforcement officials in Washington, a device
they claimed could subliminally implant
thoughts in peoples minds and thereby
control their actions. There is no
description of what the Russian device
looked like, but it allegedly worked by
sending messages via high-frequency
electromagnetic signals directly into the
brain. Killion also said that the machine
could send a coded message by telephone that is subconsciously, subliminally perceived.
Today, the ability to transmit voices
into a targets head via microwave is
known at the Pentagon as synthetic
telepathy. This system includes a
microwave weapon manufactured by
Lockheed-Sanders that remotely beams
voices or other audible signals directly
into the brain of any selected human target. This psychotronic weapon was
allegedly demonstrated by Dr. Dave
Morgan at the 1993 Non-Lethal
Weapons conference.
In 1996, the Spotlight newspaper
reported that well-placed sources at the
Department of Defense confirmed that
the Pentagon had issued a classified contract for the development of highpower electromagnetic generators that
interfere with human brain waves.
Dr. Emery Horvath, a professor of
physics at Harvard University, stated
that these electronic skull-zappers are
in 1973, CIA director Richard

Helms ordered the destruction of
all MK-ULTRA records.
designed to invade the

mind and short circuit its synapses.
Horvath speculates that in the
hands of government
technicians, the
generator
could be used to
disorient entire
crowds or to manipulate individuals into
self-destructive acts.
The quest for
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operational mind control has come a

long way since the early days of creating
a dual-personality spy by using drugs
and hypnosis. It is now probable that
electronics, computers, microwaves, and
even satellites are being used to control
the minds of not just an experimental
few, but possibly whole populations.
So the next time you read a rambling
letter from someone claiming that the
government is beaming microwaves into
their brain, you may want to reconsider
the sanity of the unfortunate victim.
After all, no one takes the time to
research, design, and develop a weapon
unless they intend to use it. z
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RADIONICS:
Mind Machines
hey are known as oscilloclasts,

Hieronymus machines, or more
simply, black boxes. They
allegedly use ancient techniques, along
with electricity and modern machinery,
to detect and modulate the life force.
Although radionics can be traced back
to the early 20th century, radiesthesia
traces its roots to the ancient practice
of diagnosing illnesses via dowsing.
for Better Health

by Tim Swartz
In France alone, there are more

than 2,500 physicians using
radiesthesia to diagnose illness.
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One of the first medical dowsers was

LAbb Alexis Bouly, a Catholic priest
who lived at the turn of the 20th century
in a little French seaside village on the
English Channel. For years, Bouly successfully assisted in finding wells for
French manufacturers via dowsing.
Bouly eventually founded the Society
of Friends of Radiesthsie, from the
Latin for radiation and Greek for
perception. Seeking to find new uses
for radiesthesia, Bouly began to study
the world of microbial vibrations. I was
bold enough to tackle it, he once
wrote, but to start with, I had to learn
about microbes, to study their nature
and their influence on the human body.
In the local hospitals, Bouly carried
out experiments to see if he could detect
and identify microbes by using a pendulum. In repeated tests, Bouly was able to
correctly identify different cultures of
microbes in test tubes.
Boulys successful experiments with
pendulums eventually influenced other
French physicians to take up similar
lines of research. Physicians in small,
remote villages were especially excited,
as they could successfully identify germ
strains without expensive microscopes
and other modern medical equipment.
This interest soon spread throughout
Europe, where some of the most
prominent physicians and scientists
were using radiesthesia successfully in
their profession.
In 1950, in recognition of his accom-
John Campbells
BLACK BOXES
n 1953, John Campbell, the former editor of Analog Magazine, built a Hieronymous device and successfully tested it by identifying samples of ores and miner-
als that his daughter had sealed in boxes. Campbell was certain that the device
somehow operated in a way that modern science could
not explain and wrote several editorials in Analog
challenging scientists to discover the science
behind the device.
One researcher by the name of Arthur Young
suggested that it was the mind of the operator
that made the device function, similar to the
ancient belief in sympathetic magic, where, The
symbol is the object, and that which is done to the
symbol occurs also to the object. This appeared particularly significant to Campbell, as he discovered he
could make the device work even when it was disconnected from its power supply.
Campbell decided to test this thesis by drawing a schematic of the amplifier,
removing the actual amplifier hardware, and substituting the schematic drawing. To
his amazement, the device worked just as it had done before the amplifier was
removed!
Campbell encouraged others to build their own devices and experiment for themselves. Unfortunately, he became discouraged when fellow writers such as Isaac
Asimov attacked his experiments as being pseudoscience. Campbell stopped publicly speaking out about his belief in radionics, and it is not known whether or not he
continued on with his research.
TIM SWARTZ
Catholic priest Alexis Bouly was one of the

first to experiment with medical dowsing.
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plishments, at the age of 85, Bouly was

made a Chevalier de La Legion
dHonneur, the highest decoration
France can bestow upon a citizen. Bouly
is still considered today to be the father
of radiesthesia, whose pioneering
research inspired others to continue his
work into the 21st century.
Father Jean Jurion
nother priest who was interested
in diagnosing and curing illnesses using radiesthesia was Father
Jean Jurion, who was introduced to
dowsing in 1930 by a fellow priest.
When Jurion began his own attempts
at medical diagnosis using pendulums,
he had great success in discovering
embedded infections and lesions in
patients, ailments that were later confirmed by doctors. His most dramatic
achievements were related to cases that
doctors had given up on, such as that of
a 49-year-old Belgian man whose x-rays
had confirmed that he had two inoperable brain tumors. Although he had been
given cobalt radiation treatments accompanied by x-rays, the cancer continued
to spread.
With the help of a pendulum, which
indicated a yes or no response by
moving either north to south or east to
west when Jurion asked if a cer tain
homeopathy treatment would be effective, he diagnosed remedies for the man.
Since homeopathy treatments are highly
individualized for each patient, it is not
known what substances Jurion used to
treat the cancer. After one year, the man
was found to be cancer free.
Unfortunately, Jurion was harassed for
years by doctors and scientists who considered radiesthesia to be quackery. Jurion was taken to court six times as a result
of complaints made by the Order of
Physicians, but each case was subsequently thrown out because his patients
refused to testify against him.
Father Jurion eventually gave up using
radiesthesia to diagnose and treat the
sick and he died in 1977, never shaking
the medical professions pronouncement
that he was nothing more than a conman and a charlatan.
Abrams Radionic Devices

t is only natural that practitioners of
radiesthesia would look to science
and technology to improve their
methods. The first historically acknowledged black box was developed in the
early 20th centur y by Dr. Alber t
Abrams, a neurologist from San Francisco, CA.
According to Abrams, all diseases had
their own vibratory rate that could be
measured and treated. He thought that
an electrical phenomenon was involved
and invented an instrument to measure
the ohm resistance (the property of a
substance to impede the flow of electric
current) of different diseases on an electronic circuit.

It was thought that ever y persons
energy patterns were as unique as their
fingerprints and that every part of their
body, down to the cellular level, reflected these vibrations. When illness, injury,
infection, stress, pollution, malnutrition,
or poor hygiene caused these patterns to
become imbalanced, the energy altered.
Abrams diagnostic equipment consisted primarily of simple resistance
boxes, called reflexophones. Abrams
believed that a sick or injured person had
a different resistance to an electric current from a healthy person. The rate of
The term radionics was invented by students of Dr. Albert Abrams, who combined the
words radiation and electronics, implying that it is possible to measure radiation with
electronic instruments. Here, he is shown demonstrating how his reflexophone worked.
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the rules of electronic construction.

However by 1925, there were more
than 3,500 black-box practitioners in
the United States alone. By the 1940s,
the medical establishment and the FDA
began cracking down on the use of black
boxes for diagnosing and healing sickness. Finally in 1958, the FDA attained a
permanent injunction against the interstate shipment of Abrams radionic
devices.
The banning of radionics in the U.S.
shifted the focus for research into blackboxes to the U.K. and Europe. In 1942,
the Radionic Association of Great
Britain was founded. Practitioners of
Radionics can still be found in Europe,
especially in the U.K. and France.
The Hieronymus Machine
n September 27, 1949, a U.S.
patent was granted to Dr.
Thomas Galen Hieronymus of
Advanced Sciences Research and Development at Lakemont, GA, for a machine
that detected the type and quantity of
any material by analyzing the radiation
Dr. Abrams eventually developed the oscilloclast, which supposedly transmitted back at the
diseased tissue the electronic vibrations of healthy tissue. These electric vibrations continthat emanated from it, called eloptic
ued until the patient was clear of the electronic resistance of the disease.
radiation, a word taken from the first
two letters of electricity and optic.
His main idea was that the machine
worked due to the unknown influence
of the experimenter. He believed that
resistance determined what was wrong
subject of numerous investigations by
the symbolic machine triggers a perwith the patient. For example, a patient
the scientific and medical professions.
sons own psychic consciousness and
with syphilis measured at 55 ohm. CanFor instance, after Professor
abilities. Just as a forked stick
cer patients measured 50 ohm, a gonorRobert A. Millikan, Nobel
being used to find water
rheal patient 42 ohm. To cure the disPrize winner in physics and
would not work unless
ease, Dr. Abrams developed the
head of the California
someone was holding it,
oscilloclast, which supposedly transmitInstitute of Technology,
so, too, for a Hieronyted back at the diseased tissue the elecexamined Abrams appamus machine.
tronic vibrations of healthy tissue. These
ratus in 1930, he issued a
The Hieronymus
electric vibrations continued until the
statement to the effect
machine used a rubbing
patient was clear of the electronic
that not only did the appaplate so that when it was
resistance of the disease.
ratus not rest on any sort of
tuned to resonate with an
In 1924, the year of Abrams death, a
scientific foundation, but from
objectand when the circuitcommittee of the Royal Society of
the standpoint of physics,
ry sensed a signal
Medicine, under the Chairmanship of
was the height of absurdi- According to Dr. Hieronymus, the connection between
eloptic energy had desirable
Sir Thomas (later Lord) Horder, investity.
the operators fingers
applications in the fields of
gated Abrams theories and devices.
Other physicists and laboratory chemical analysis, and a touch pad became
After exhaustive tests, the committee
engineers who investigated mining, prospecting, medicine, tacky. (Until this point,
was forced to admit that Abrams
the devices found them to
the standard instrument
nutrition, animal husbandry,
horticulture, military intellimachines operated as claimed.
be essentially a jungle of
indicator mechanism
gence, and criminology.
Nevertheless, Dr. Abrams was the
electric wires, violating all
had been an audible
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sound or a visual indicator, such as a

flashing light.)
The metal or mineral being analyzed
was then placed within the sensing coil
and the mechanism tuned with a rotating prism. The signal was then amplified
and the output fed to a flat coil of wire
underneath the touch pad. Ones fingertips were placed lightly on this pad and
slowly moved back and forth while the
tuning prism was rotated. When the circuit was resonant, the feeling changed
from smooth to sticky.
The dial of the machine was calibrated
for various known elements so when the
sample of an unknown substance was
placed in the pickup coil, the presence of
specific elements and the actual percentage of materials could be determined.
Even more amazing was that eloptic
energy could be conducted along light
rays, focused with lenses, refracted with a
prism, and picked up on photographic
film. Just as a photograph can hold the
emanation of the object photographed,
so can an article of clothing, a drop of
blood, urine, or perspiration carry the
emanations of the person. This way,
many of ones characteristics, such as age
and health problems, could be determined. This also meant that a simple
photograph of a person could be used to
discover ones physical characteristics
and health concerns.
Plants could also be analyzed to determine whether the root, stem, or fruit
contained the elements necessar y for
proper nutrition. As well, the plant or
fruit could also be analyzed to determine
whether it contained arsenic or other
poisons from sprays.
Dr. Hieronymus died in 1988.
Despite the fact that his work is usually
ridiculed by mainstream science, his
ideas are being tested all over the world.
For example, in 1971, a scientist from
the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau put a
photo of an insect-infested field into an
Hieronymous machine, along with a tiny
amount of insecticide. Forty-eight hours
later, the insects in the infected field,
many miles away, had died.
The extermination of insects at a distanceand without pesticidesat the
Radionic Resellers
n the U.S., radionics is not a legally recognized medical system. Even so, black boxes continue to be built and sold, despite the attempts of debunkers and government agencies to
brand them as fakes. Below are some companies who sell radionic devices, in case you
would like to explore the fascinating world of radionics for yourself.
Cerebrex
cerebrex.com
Life Technology
lifetechnology.org
Advanced Metaphysical Radionics
metaphysicalradionics.com
Mystic Sceptre
avatarquest.com, mysticsceptre.com
HSCTI/Bio Energy Corporation
radionics.org, runeradionics.com, magitech.com

astrodyn.com, orgone.net
Radionic Research Institute
raydionics.com
RadionicsBox
radionicsbox.com
Pillar of Light Enterprises
pillaroflight.net
Xceed Global Ltd.
xtrememind.com
La Fortunae
xootoo.com
Radionics, Psionics, Orgone
radionicsmagic.com
Osaptec
osaptec.com
Municipal Works in Rosenheim, West

Germany, was also repor ted in the
November 3, 1969, issue of the Journal
of Paraphysics. Similar experiments in
California and Arizona in the 1970s
were conducted by members of the
Homeotronic Research Foundation.
The future prospects for radionics are
hindered only by a lack of imagination

from those who fail to look beyond our
current scientific understanding. Only by
daring to dream can we hope to find a
new and better understanding of our
world, our universe, and the amazing
scientific principles that are yet to be discovered. z
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MARK DAVID CHAPMAN
Lone NuT or
CIA Assassin?
Mark David Chapman was actually

photographed with John Lennon
signing his album Double Fantasy
just hours before killing him.
n December 8, 1980, the

former Beatle and legendar y rock star John
Lennon was shot four times with an
Undercover .38 Special by Mark
David Chapman, a 25-year-old
security guard who had flown all
the way from Honolulu to New
York to commit the crime.
Described as a lone nut,
according to one theory, Chapman
believed that he actually was
Lennon and only by killing the rock
icon could he heal the split
halves of his personality. Others say
that he killed
Lennon because he
felt that Lennon was
a phony and like
Holden Caulfield,
the 16-year-old protagonist of J.D.
Salingers novel The
Catcher in the Rye,
which Chapman was
reading outside the
Dakota building when
policemen arrived at the
scene of the murder, he
had assumed the duty of
ridding the world of phonies.

Lennon, after all, had ceased
being a vocal activist for left-wing
causes and for the previous five
years, had led the cushy, isolated life
of a rock star billionaire. Indeed, in
his prison cell awaiting a trial that
would never occur, Chapman
claimed that he killed Lennon in
order to, promote the reading of
J.D. Salingers The Catcher in the
Rye if you read the book, you will
see that I am the Catcher in the
Rye of this generation.
But there are a number of troubling questions about Chapmans
behavior. For instance, more than
$2,000 was found in his room at
the YMCA. How did a poorly paid
security guard come by such a sum
of money and how was he able to
pay for his transcontinental flights
and stay in luxury hotels? Why was
he so passive after the shooting,
surrendering to police so meekly?
How was Chapman able to purchase a gun after he had been institutionalized? And why did Chapman change his plea from innocent
by reason of insanity to guilty,
thereby circumventing a trial?
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Conspiracy theorists have maintained

for years that Lee Har vey Oswald,
Sirhan Sirhan, and James Earl Ray, the
lone nuts who killed John F.
Kennedy, his brother Robert, and Martin Luther King, Jr., respectively, were
Manchurian Candidates or, at the very
least, patsies used by a larger organization. When the public defender asked
Sirhan, for instance, about Rober t
Kennedys shooting, he said, I dont
remember much about the shooting,
sir. Did I do it?...I am told I did it.
When he was captured, witnesses said
Sirhan was enormously composed,
just as Chapman was when he was captured.
The Manchurian Candidate acts both
as an assassin and as a decoy. Once he is
arrested at the scene of the crime, he
becomes the assassin to the exclusion
of any other suspicious persons, thus
diverting attention away from the true
conspirators.
In his essay, The Paranoid Style in
American Politics, published in Harpers
Magazine in 1964, Richard Hofstadter, a
professor at Columbia University,
described the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial
fantasy that characterizes the right wing,
in which the enemy is thought of as
being totally evil and totally unappeasable
and he must be totally eliminated. But
why would right-wing elements target
John Lennon? True, in the early 1970s,
he was an outspoken peacenik and spent
four years fighting a trumped-up deportation order from the Immigration and
Naturalization Service. But after receiving his green cardand particularly after
the birth of his son Sean in 1975he virtually dropped out of sight.
Although he was not politically active
at the time of his death, Lennon had
recently become more visible. He and
his wife Yoko Ono had just recorded
the album Double Fantasy, and during
the week he was shot, he had made
arrangements to fly out to San Francisco with Yoko and Sean to march in a
rally in support of striking JapaneseAmerican workers.
Since a Manchurian Candidate can
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theoretically be programmed to kill a particular person and then be put on hold,

Chapman could have been programmed
years before and only activated by his
controllers once Lennon had re-entered
public life.
The FBI and Lennon
t is known that the U.S. government
had been keeping track of Lennon
since at least the early 1970s, when a
memo was sent from J. Edgar Hoover to
CIA agents in New York and Los Angeles, alerting them that Lennon, along
with George and Patti Harrison, were
flying to Los Angeles under the names of
Chambers and Masters.
While Lennon and the Harrisons
have shown no propensity to become
involved in violent antiwar demonstrations, said the memo,
remain alert for any information indicating they are using
narcotics. Submit any pertinent
information obtained in form suitable for dissemination.
In 1971, Lennon participated in the
legendary Freedom Concert held in Ann
Arbor, MI, sponsored by the Committee
to Free John Sinclair. Sinclair was a
Detroit activist who had been sentenced
to ten years in prison for selling two
joints to an undercover narcotics agent
and his sentence was widely viewed as
grossly unjust.
To protest his sentence, Lennon composed the song, Free John Sinclair.
Bobby Seale and several other defendants of the Chicago Seven Conspiracy
Trial made anti-Vietnam War speeches to
the audience of 15,000. Performers such
as Stevie Wonder and Bob Seger also
played, but it was Lennons appearance
that truly energized the crowd. Two
days later, Sinclair was set free.
Known for its paranoia, the Nixon
administration feared Lennons ability to
mobilize a left-wing force that could
threaten its policies. If the government
were indeed training robot-like assassins
to remove their opposition, who would
be a more likely candidate to neutralize
John Lennon, than a loner like Mark
David Chapman?
The Making of an Assassin

orn in Fort Worth, TX, in 1955
into a conservative military family, Mark David Chapman spent
his early years in Indiana. After graduating from high school, Chapman briefly
attended DeKalb Junior College near
Atlanta, GA, and became actively
involved in the YMCA, originally as a
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summer camp counsellor but with the

intention of pursuing a career with the
organization once he had graduated
from college. In 1975, at the age of 20,
he visited Beirut, Lebanon, to work in
the YMCAs International Camp Counsellor Programme in a youth camp. His
stay in Lebanon coincided with their
civil war, and he saw death up close.
Allegations that the CIA used the
YMCA as a front have been made for
decades, notably by CIA defector Philip

Agee. And it is known that Beirut was a
training center for CIA assassination
teams. So some believe that Chapman
took part in CIA assassination training
while he was visiting Lebanon in 1975.
After six months in Lebanon, Chapman flew to Fort Chaffee, AR, to work
with Vietnamese refugees, alongside
members of the CIA. Conspiracy theorists speculate that he could have received
further assassin programming here.
N e x t ,
Chapman attended Covenant College, a

strict Presbyterian college in Tennessee,
but he only lasted one semester before
dropping out and returning to Georgia
to take a job as an assistant YMCA summer camp director. After an argument
with the parents of one of the campers,
he quit the job and became an armed
security guard, for which he took a pistol-training course at the Atlanta Area
Technical School. Then in 1977, to
everybodys surprise, he flew to Hawaii,
a state that is known to have been the
scene of clandestine
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military operations. Many CIA-trained

Vietnamese were assembled in Hawaii,
along with Special Forces members, who
were trained to help destabilize Communist regimes in Asia, Cuba, and Chile.
Additionally, CIA black money used
to fund clandestine operations was funneled through a Hawaiian branch of the
Nugan Hand Bank. Conspiracy theorists
believe that Chapman received further
programming and training
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while in Hawaii.
During his stay, Chapman stayed at a
YMCA hostel in Honolulu. But in the
summer of 1977, he tried to kill himself
by inhaling carbon monoxide in a
parked car. But he botched the attempt
and wound up in Castle Memorial Hospital in Kailua, diagnosed with severe
depressive neurosis. Chapman then
went on to work at the Castle Hospital
through 1979, first as a maintenance
worker and then in the customer rela-
tions department.
In 1978, he embarked on a six-and-ahalf week trip around the world, funded
by a mysterious loan. He stayed in
YMCA hostels in a trip that took him
from Honolulu to Tokyo, Seoul, Hong
Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Delhi,
Israel, Geneva, London, Paris, Dublin,
Atlanta, and back to Honolulu. He car-
Chapmans original plea was not guilty by

reason of insanity. Much was made of his
supposed schizophrenic identification with
Lennon. Chapman even married a Japanese
woman, to mirror Lennon marrying the
Japanese-born Yoko Ono. Below: John
Lennon and Yoko pose in front of their
beloved Dakota building in NYC.
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ried with him a letter of introduction

from YMCA officials. Again, conspiracy
theorists speculate this trip would have
been the ideal cover for Chapman to
meet with CIA representatives around
the world and provide an opportunity
for the operatives to further program
Chapman. Exactly how this indoctrination took placeor what it consisted
ofis unknown, but the letter, written
by David Moore, who was then stationed in the Geneva office of the World
Alliance of YMCAs, was apparently so
important to Chapman that it was one of
the items he left out on display for the
authorities to
find in his New York hotel room when,

two years later, he killed Lennon.
Chapman quit his job at the hospital
and right before Christmas, 1979, he
was hired on as a security guard at an
apartment complex. He would quit that
job the following year to murder John
Lennon.
CIA Alerts
uring the summer of 1980,
Chapman became obsessed
with J.D. Salingers novel The
Catcher in the Rye, which some
believe may have been the trigger that

his handlers used to put him on alert.
Whether for this or other reasons,
Chapman was in torment that summer.
In September, he wrote to a friend in
New Mexico that he was going nuts.
He also read a biography of Lennon by
Anthony Fawcett, John Lennon: One Day
at a Time, and supposedly became angry
with Lennon for being a hypocrite. For
suddenly Lennon, who was due to
become a naturalized U.S. citizen in
1981, had seemingly resumed his radical
pronouncements. In a September interview with Playboy, he said,
Leaders is what we dont need. We
can have figureheads and we can
have people that we admire and like
to have standing up and all that.
..But leaders is what we dont need.
Its the Utopian bit again. Were all
members of the conceptual Utopia.
On October 23, 1980, Gef fen
Records released a new Lennon single,
(Just Like) Starting Over, and on the
same day, Chapman walked out on his
security guard job, signing out as
John Lennon. Psychologists made
much of this, saying it was a sign that
Chapman believed Lennon had
taken over his personality.
Chapman sold a Norman Rockwell lithograph he owned to raise
money for what he later told his expastor was his special mission to
kill John Lennon. And on October 27, Chapman bought an
Undercover .38 Special from a
gunshop in Honolulu and flew to
New York. When he was unable to
purchase ammunition there, he
traveled all the way to Atlanta to
purchase the bullets.
Back in New York, on November 10, Chapman lined up outside the Dakota building with a
group of adoring fans and spent
most of the day there. But
when the Lennons failed to
appear, he asked the doorman
Jos Perdomo where they
were, and he responded that
they were out of town. Chapman was so depressed that he
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Chapman gave himself up without attempting to escape, a notable fact because in

the confusion, he could so easily have
dashed down the 72nd Street subway
entrance and disappeared without a trace.
Chapman subsequently pleaded guilty and
is currently serving a life sentence in the
Attica State Prison in upstate New York.
On October 11, 2006, Chapman, then age
51, was denied parole for a fourth time.
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c o n templated suicide but returned to

Hawaii instead, where he telephoned a
local mental health clinic for help.
Chapman was referred to the Catholic
Social Services and made an appointment for November 26, saying he was
feeling depressed. When he did not
show up for the appointment, the CSS
telephoned his apartment but got no
answer.
Chapman then flew back to New
York, though when he left Hawaii is
unclear. Some speculate that he flew to
Chicago on December 2 for a few

days, perhaps to receive final
instr uctions from his controllers. In either case, on
December 6, he arrived in
New York and checked into
the 63rd Street Y but moved to the
Sheraton the next day, renting a room
for a week with a credit card.
On December 8, the day Chapman
killed Lennon, he was at the Dakota by
late morning with a copy of the new
album Double Fantasy and his copy of
The Catcher in the Rye. He waited
around for the Lennons, invited a couple girls to lunch, and then returned to
his post near the Dakota. Finally, just
after 5 p.m., the Lennons returned and
Chapman was photographed getting his
copy of the album autographed.
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Perhaps there were too many people

around at the time to gun Lennon
down. Instead, Chapman waited around
another five hours, after the Lennons
had left again. Around 11 p.m., they
returned and Chapman was waiting,
crouching in a combat stance about 20
feet from the entrance to the Dakota.
Mister Lennon! Chapman called as
John went through the archway. When
Lennon half-turned toward the voice, he
opened fire.
The doorman screamed, Leave! Get
out of here! Some believe Perdomo
yelled this because he was part of the
plot to assassinate the rock star. But
Chapman, a smirk on his face, just threw
his gun down, took off his overcoat,
placed it at his feet, and began to read
The Catcher in the Rye.
The Cover-up
as the Lennon murder really
the work of a CIA assassin
who had been programmed
to kill Lennon or was Chapman just
mentally ill? Other than freelance investigators, surprisingly, no official inquiry
was ever made.
On January 6, 1981, Chapman pled
not guilty by reason of insanity at the
Manhattan Supreme Court. After that,
both prosecution and defense assembled
their teams of experts to either support
or dispute his insanity. But then on June
8, 1981, Chapman surprised everyone
when he told his lawyer that he had been
visited in his cell by God, who had told
him to change his plea to guilty. His
lawyer was stunned. He tried to talk
Chapman out of it, but Chapman

would not be swayed. So his
lawyer filed a motion to have
Chapman re-evaluated.
During the next six months,
Chapman received numerous
unmonitored telephone calls.
Could some of these been from his
controllers, commanding him to
plead guilty? Was the voice he heard
that of his controller and not God?
By pleading guilty, he would avoid a
trial, a trial during which certain
inconvenient facts would come out,
such as what Chapman did for those
three days in Chicago between
December 2 and December 5, 1980,
how he financed his trips, and how
he was able to obtain a gun with his
mental health history.
Nevertheless, in court, on June
22, Chapman pleaded guilty, and the
cour t scheduled sentencing for
August 24. During the intervening
two months, his lawyer continued to
try to have Chapman re-evaluated,
but to no availChapman refused
and the court would not enforce the
request. On August 24, Chapman was
sentenced to 20 years to life in the
Attica Correctional Facility for the
murder of John Lennon.
Was the murder of John Lennon the
work of a deranged stalker or was Mark
David Chapman programmed by the
CIA to assassinate Lennon on command? It is true that the U.S. government threatened Lennon for his political
activism. Of course, the fact of Lennon
being assassinated by a man living handto-mouth is breathtaking when one considers the sheer logistics and expense
involved in the execution of murder.
Could someone with such an apparently tenuous grasp on reality really have
accomplished this alone? And does
Chapmans continuing incarceration
hint at the governments need to keep
him and his secrets hidden away from
public scrutiny? Perhaps we will never
know the full truth of the matter, but it
begs us to question the motives of a government that has a proven penchant for
creating programmed assassins. z
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America and
Bio-Weapons
Sandia National Laboratories
researcher Mark Tucker examines two
petri dishes: one with a simulant of
anthrax growing in it, the other treated
with a new decontaminating foam
developed at Sandia.
fter Japan sued for

peace in 1945, the
U.S. government
offered Unit 731 scientists
immunity from prosecution
for war crimes, in exchange
for the results of their
research. Both the U.S. and
Russia subsequently spent
billions of dollars on developing biological weapons.
But what is less well-known
is the American militarys
use of biological weapons
on its own population.
A
troubling
Ethos
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Biological warfare has been practiced

in primitive ways for centuries, but the
first modern use of biological weapons
occurred during World War I. Both
sides employed mustard gas and chlorine
gas against their enemies while Imperial
Germany infected Allied horses and cattle with anthrax. The new reality of war
shocked the civilized world so deeply
that in 1925, just seven years after the
cessation of hostilities, 38 nations signed
the Geneva Protocol, which prohibited,
the use of bacteriological methods of
warfare. But among the few western
nations that refused to ratify the treaty
was the U.S., which reserved the right to
use them in retaliation to a direct attack.
The Japanese similarly refused to sign
the protocol, and in the 1930s, they created Unit 731, a secret organization
whose aim was to develop chemical and
biological weapons. During their war
with China from 1937 to 1945, Japan
used biological weapons (such as mustard gas and anthrax) with varied results,
and while biological weapons never
seem to have been used in battle against
American or British Empire forces
(probably out of fear of retaliation in
kind), thousands of imprisoned Allied
soldiers were employed as human guinea
pigs for their experiments with various
bio-weapons.
Many of these grisly experiments
were abject failures, but certainly some
must have had encouraging results
because after the Japanese capitulation,
the American government quickly seized
all bio-weapon research and rounded up
the involved scientists, putting both to
work in their own postwar bio-weapon
program.
The first use of biological weapons by
America came during the Korean War
(1950-53), when both China and North
Korea claimed that the U.S. dropped
voles and fleas infected with anthrax and
yellow fever into North Korea, in an
effort to decimate the populations who
supported the war. In 1952, the International Scientific Commissions 700-page
report investigating this breach of international law concluded that these claims
were indeed true, albeit, the experi-
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ments didnt seem to be very successful.

While this report cast light upon
Americas willingness to employ biological weapons against enemy nations, few
knew that it was equally willing to infect
its own populace with these virulent
killers. In fact, they had been doing so
for at least two decades by the time of
the Korean War, starting with the
Tuskegee Syphilis Study in the 1930s.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
yphilis is a sexually transmitted disease that, if left untreated, can lead
to dementia, blindness, internal
damage, and ultimately, death. To learn
more about the disease, both to prevent
its spread and with en eye towards possible military applications, in 1932, the
Public Health Service recruited 400
poor, black, syphilic farmers in
Tuskegee, AL, to participate in a longterm research program. Chillingly, the
men were not told they had syphilis;
instead, doctors informed them that
they were being treated for bad blood.
By the 1940s, it had become apparent
that penicillin could treat syphilis, but
the Tuskegee patients were denied the
life-saving medicine so that the directors
could watch the stages the disease took
leading up to death, and then perform
autopsies on the deceased to further their
understanding of syphilis.
In 1972, health workers exposed this
horrendous program to the public, and
the public outcry forced the laws governing medical experiments to be changed.
Unfortunately, by then, 128 of the original patients had died, 40 had passed the
disease on to their unsuspecting wives,
and 19 children had been born with congenital syphilis. Despite the tragedy, no
scientists or members of government
bureaucracy who had overseen the program were ever held accountable.
Operation Sea-Spray
he Tuskegee study might have
been the first biological test on
American citizens, but it was not
the last. Throughout the 1950s, the U.S.
military also conducted an alarming
number of secret experiments on the
populace. In some cases, entire cities

were affected.
For example, in 1950, the U.S. Navy
conducted Operation Sea-Spray, in
which balloons released the bacteria Serratia marcescens over San Francisco Bay
to determine its effect on humans and its
value as an air-released weapon. When
the winds shifted, the noxious clouds
drifted over the city proper and infected
11 people, one of whom died.
The bacteria can cause pink-eye and
other ocular illnesses, deadly urinary
tract infections, and carried genes that
encoded resistance to various vaccines.
Some scientists believe that the bacteria
remains prevalent in the San Francisco
population to this day, as people with
tell-tale symptoms occasionally turn up
in emergency rooms.
Media investigation into the San Francisco affair, as well as similar events in
other cities, such as in New York and
Chicago, led to a Senate investigation in
1977, in which army officials admitted to
conducting 239 open-air tests of biological weapons between 1949 and 1969,
arguing that these testsand biological
weapon researchenabled the armed
forces to combat any biological attack
launched by an enemy state.
There is clearly some merit in this
position, even if open-air tests on an
unsuspecting public borders on the
criminal. Nevertheless, the Senate investigations cast a dark pall over the program and funding of bio-weapon
research was subsequently slashed, especially in 1989, after the demise of the
Soviet Union. But that all changed after
the terrorist attacks of September 11,
2001.
The Anthrax Scare
n the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks
on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon, America felt vulnerable
for the first time in decades. Suddenly,
America was at war, against a shadowy
organization that used asymmetrical
warfare. Then in 2001, five people died
and 19 more were seriously infected
when anthrax samples were sent through
the U.S. mail. Suddenly, bio-weapons
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were front-page news.

Though the incident was initially
thought to be a terrorist act, there is now
strong evidence to suggest that the
spores were distributed by a disgruntled
employee from one of the labs that had
experienced funding cuts over the preceding two decades. However, others
believe that the anthrax attack was carried out by an agency of the U.S. government to raise fear among the population
and encourage increased investment in
bio-warfare. If this was the intent, it
worked. The subsequent panic over the
anthrax incidents renewed investment in
bio-weapons research. This culminated
in 2004, when President Bush launched
a $5.6 billion program, entitled Project
Bio-Shield, to fund research and develop
responses to potential bio-terrorism.
These funds are principally directed to
pharmaceutical companies, in the hopes
that they can create vaccines for some of
the potential threats facing America

today, including Ebola virus, Asian bird
flu, mad cow disease, and anthrax. But
the fruits of this prodigious labor might
be years in the making. Even if a vaccine
for a given disease is found within a few
years, it takes many more years to pass
Federal Drug Administration tests and
then to create a stockpile large enough to
treat the populace.
AIDS
owever, the death toll from

Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome (AIDS) dwarfs that
of the anthrax incident, and its impact
upon our society is infinitely greater. The
two viruses are transmitted in different
manners and operate in different ways
yet both the 2001 anthrax scare and the
AIDS epidemic might both have originated in American bio-labs.
Mainstream thought suggests that
in 1931, nurse Eunice Rivers (shown here

with two doctors) became the special assistant to the Public Health Service on detail
in Macon County for the study of untreated
syphilis in the Negro male. She played a
central role throughout the studyrounding
up men for testing, doing at-home followups, driving the men to appointments, getting families to consent to autopsies, and
enforcing the withholding of treatment
from study participants. Rivers won the
Oveta Culp Hobby Award in 1958, the
highest commendation that [Health,
Education and Welfare] can bestow on
an employee, and received a framed
certificate praising her for notable
service covering 25 years during which
through selfless devotion and skillful
human relations she had sustained the
interest and cooperation of the subjects
of a venereal disease control program in
Macon County, AL.
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Pathologists protect
themselves while
doing an autopsy on
a SARS patient.
An AIDS patient in Asia.
AIDS probably originated in the jungles

of Africa, where it lay dormant until the
1950s. Yet the first recorded fatalities
from the disease occurred in 1981, when
four homosexual men in Los Angeles
succumbed to the illness. Why were
there no recorded deaths in Africa before
this date? The natural spread of the disease should have resulted in thousands of
deaths in Africa before the first fatality
occurred in North America.
In 1969, army biological scientist Dr.
Donald McArthur appeared before the
Senate to lobby on behalf of synthetic
biological agents. He requested $10
million for research, believing that within a decade, he could engineer a new,
highly infective microorganism that
would undermine the human immune
system. In short, Dr. McArthur wanted
to create a virus that behaved just like
AIDS.
It is unknown whether or not Dr.
McArthur received the $10 million from
Congress, but within a decade, AIDS
had reared its ugly head. Coincidence?
Perhaps. But consider that in 1980, medical trials were conducted in New York
City, during which 1,000 healthy homosexual men were injected with what was
supposedly an experimental vaccine
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against hepatitis B.
By August of 1981, the first case of
AIDS was reported in New York, and
out of the first 25 recorded cases of
HIV infection in the U.S., 20 were in
the New York area and all fit the criteria
required of the medical trial volunteers
(male, age 20-25, homosexual, and with
a history of hepatitis), which suggests
that these individuals were originally
part of Dr. McArthurs bio-weapon
research program.
Then in 1983, Dr. Robert Strecker
conducted an extensive investigation on
behalf of the insurance community into
the risks involved in offering health coverage to HIV-positive patients. At the
time, his study was among the most
thorough yet undertaken on AIDS, and
the deeper he dug, the more concerned
he and his lawyer brother Thomas,
became over the implications of their
finds. For the siblings claimed to have
found irrefutable evidence that AIDS
was a man-made virus that originated in
the United States.
Dr. Strecker attempted to bring
attention to his findings, but mainstream media ignored the story. He
then produced his own video, called The
Strecker Memorandum, to present his
case. The video did succeed in bringing

some attention to his work, and it likely
caused some level of disquiet in
Washington because of the probing
questions it asked regarding how much
our government knew about the AIDs
epidemic. The video insinuated that
even if the government was not behind
the epidemic, it at least tacitly supported
its existence among undesirable elements of the American populace by
their half-hearted efforts to combat it.
So when, in 1988, Strecker was found
dead in his home of a gunshot wound to
the head, suspicions grew. The official
verdict was suicide, but Strecker left no
suicide note and by most accounts, he led
a contented existence. Rather, many people believed the government had silenced
an outspoken critic.
There is incontrovertible evidence that
the American government has long conducted research into bio-weaponry. It
can be argued that these activities are
required in order to safeguard the nation
from threats posed by its enemies. But
history shows us that the entity most
likely to release the biological genie from
its bottle is not a foreign state or a nefarious terrorist group, but rather our own
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Chinese BioWeapon: SARS
he U.S. is far from the only nation with a widespread biological weapons program. China
also shares an interest in these silent killers, and the highest profile result of their extensive research program might just be the scourge known as SARs.
In February of 2003, an American businessman flying from China became ill with what initially
appeared to be pneumonia. His condition was so severe that the plane was forced to divert to
Vietnam, where the passenger received emergency treatment. He subsequently died, as did several of the hospital staff who treated him. When the hospital realized they were dealing with a
new virus, they contacted the World Health Organization, which issued a global alert, announcing
the existence of a mysterious and highly contagious new virus they coined Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARs).
Since then, teams of Russian, Dutch, British, and American scientists have confirmed that the
disease was a human-made biological weapon. The World Health Organizations own research
tracked the origin of the disease to Guangdong Province in southern China, specifically to army
hospitals. (Guangdong is, incidentally, one of Chinas largest bio-weapon research centers.)
The virus is believed to have been a Chinese bio-weapons experiment that was either mistakenly released from containment in the lab or was part of a controlled experiment on an unsuspecting civilian population (much as the Americans before them had done) that somehow got
away from its handlers. Whether by design or disaster, the killer known as SARS is now among
us. The most recent confirmed death was in late 2003, but because the state controls Chinese
media, it is likely that other deaths have occurred since but have not been publicized.
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FREQUENCY + INTENT = HEALING
Jonathan
Goldman
THE HEALING
SOUNDS OF
onathan Goldman is an acknowledged authority in the field of

sound healing. He has worked
with masters of sound from both scientific and spiritual traditions, including
the Dalai Lamas Chanting Gyuto and
Gyume Monks, and has been taught
Tibetan overtone chanting by the
chant master of the Drepung Loseling
Monastery. He has produced 23 recordings for meditation, relaxation, and
self-transformation, including the 1999
award-winning Chakra Chants and
Grammy-nominated Tibetan Master
Chants. His books include Healing
Sounds: The Power of Harmonics (Inner
Traditions), The Lost Chord (Spirit
Music), and Tantra of Sound (Hampton
Roads), co-authored with his wife Andi,
and winner of 2006 Visionary Award
for Best Alternative Health Book. He
also is founder of the Sound Healers
Association
(www.soundhealersassociation.org),
which researches the uses of sound and
music as therapeutic and transformational modalities.
We are thrilled that Michael Lohr
was able to interview such an innovator
in the field of sound research.
If our magnetic poles shiftand according to scientists we are in the beginning stages of a polarity shiftwill
that change the vibrational state of
our natural world?
think this is already beginning to
occur. Some speculate that the
Schumann Resonance, which is the
vibrational frequency of the ionosphere
of the planet (kind of like the frequency
of the Earths auric field) is changing. It
currently resonates at around 8 HZ
(cycles per second) and some think it is
moving up to 13 HZ.
The first overtone of the earth is supposedly 16 HZ (the harmonics of a
sphere are different than the harmonics
of a vibrating string) and this has
become the predominant frequency of
the earth. This is important because
while 8 HZ was still the fundamental
frequency, the 16 HZ overtone is actually louder so it would affect us more,
make people more stressed out. This
makes it even more important that we
learn to use sound to calm our physical
body, nervous system, and electromagnetic field.
What, exactly, is sound healing?

verything is in a state of vibration,
from the electrons moving
around the nucleus of an atom to
planets in distant galaxies moving around
their suns. These vibrations may be perceived as sound.
Everything has its own resonance
ever y organ, bone, and tissue in the
human body creates sound. When we are
in a state of health, were like an extraordinary orchestra thats playing a wonderful symphony. But what happens if the
second violin player loses their sheet
music? They begin to play out of tune
and pretty soon, the entire orchestra is
off. This is a metaphor for disease.
But what if we could somehow give
the string player back her sheet music?
What if we could somehow project the
correct resonant frequency to that part of
the body that is vibrating out of harmony
and cause it to vibrate back into its normal, healthy rhythm? Thats the basic
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principle of using sound as a healing

modality.
Once, while walking through a Native
American craft boutique, I came upon a
display of bronze wind-chimes. I was
tired and had a headache but when I
touched the chimes, the sound reverberated through me so thoroughly that
my entire physical and mental disposition changed instantaneously. How
could a random encounter with tonality
cause such a dramatic change?
uck and good karma. I say this
because I know of a number of
people who have somehow
found themselves in situations where
they were exposed to sounds that balanced and harmonized them. At the
same time, I also know of people who
have been tired and worn out and heard
a sound that made them feel even
worse. So theres an aspect of being in
the right place at the right time with
regard to your experience.

For instance, a friend of mine who was
a non-believer in the power of sound to
heal came to visit one day. She got out of
her car after having driven for many
hours and was feeling quite tired. She
was also suf fering from a power ful
headache. I immediately sat her down,
pulled out a set of Pythagorean tuning
forks that were cut to the healing ratio of
2:3, and hit them together. Then I
brought the tuning forks around her
head and her energy field.
These tuning forks are extraordinary
for bringing balance and harmony and
my friends headache immediately vanished. She felt revitalized and rejuvenated after just a couple of minutes and she
immediately became a believer in the
power of sound. I tell you this stor y
because my hunch is that those chimes
that you heard in the store probably utilized the same ratios as these healing tuning forks.
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How do the chakras relate to

sound healing?
n Hindu and Tibetan traditions, our
bodies have seven energy centers
called chakras. The word chakra
means spinning wheel, since they are
actually seen as spinning wheels of light
(mystics and clairvoyants can supposedly
see them). These centers are sort of the
midway point between etheric energy
and the physical body. Each chakra
relates to a different organ, gland, and
emotional state.
There are seven main chakras, or
transduction points, places where subtle
energy from higher dimensions begins
to become more solid. The energy from
the chakras then becomes more dense as
it transforms into the acupuncture
points and meridians. Finally, this energy
transduces into the density of the physical body. Imbalances in the physical
body can be detected through the
chakras. By balancing the chakras, imbalances in the physical body will often dis-
appear. We can also accelerate our consciousness, experiencing the oneness of

all by sounding in this manner.
It has been postulated that loud rock
music may have a negative vibratory
effect, yet not all heavy rock music is
negative.
hen I first began my investigation into the healing
effects of sound, there was so
much information out there focusing on

the negative effects of rock n roll that I
put down my electric guitar for many
years. Then, while working on a book, I
came up with the formula Frequency +
Intent = Healing, meaning that sound
coupled with intent (or consciousness)
creates the openess for healing. Thus, I
dont think that any one musical genre
can be unconditionally categorized.
I also believe that we are all unique
Activating Your Chakras with Sound
he word bija is Sanskrit for seed. It is

believed that the seven bija are the
original sounds from which the universe was created. According to Jonathan
Goldman, the bijas should be chanted aloud
in order to balance and align the chakras.
Likewise, Shabd, which is Sanskrit for the
sound current, comes from a spiritual tradition in which listening to inner sounds
brings one to enlightenment. So a practitioner of Shabd Yoga, for instance, meditates
upon these sounds to achieve union with the
Divine.
In CD Chakra Chants, Goldman combines
different spiritual traditions, as shown below,
to activate each chakra and thus provide
healing to the corresponding area of ones
body.
First CHAKRA: Root

Root:
Muladhara
Keynote:
C
Frequency:
256 Hz
Vowel:
Uh
Bija:
Lam
Element:
Earth
Shabd Sound:
Thunder/Earthquake
Energy:
Grounding
2nd CHAKRA: Sacral
Keynote:
D
Frequency:
288 Hz
Vowel:
Ooo
Bija:
Vam
Element:
Water
Shabd Sound:
Ocean
Energy:
Life Energy
3rd CHAKRA: Navel
Keynote:
E
Vowel:
Oh
Frequency:
320 Hz
Bija:
Element:
Shabd Sound:
Element:
Energy:
Ram
Fire
Roaring Fire
Fire
Power
4th CHAKRA: Heart

Keynote:
F
Frequency:
341. 3 Hz
Vowel:
Ah
Bija:
Yam
Element:
Air
Shabd Sound:
Wind
Energy:
Compassion, Love
5th CHAKRA: Throat
Keynote:
G
Frequency:
384 Hz
Vowel:
Eye
Bija:
Ham
Element:
Ether
Shabd Sound:
Crickets
Energy:
Communication, Creation
6th CHAKRA: 3rd Eye
Keynote:
A
Frequency:
426.7 Hz
Vowel:
Aye
Bija:
Sham
Element:
All
Shabd Sound:
Bells/Space
Energy:
Insight, Wisdom
7th CHAKRA: Crown
Keynote:
B
Frequency:
480 Hz
Vowel:
Eee
Bija:
Om
Element:
All
Shabd Sound:
Om
Energy:
Transcendence
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vibratory beings and what works for one

person may not work for another. Thus,
I think that any type of music, depending upon the time, place, and need of the
individual, can potentially be healing and
transformational.
What we need to do is have balance
with regard to the extraordinary spectrum of music that is available for our listening pleasure. Theres a lot of negative
music out there, with ver y negative
lyrics. But that still doesnt mean you
should never listen to such types of
music, it simply means that its important that if music is an energy nutrient
for your body, mind, and spirit, that you
get a balanced diet of sound.
After I came up with the Frequency +
Intent = Healing formula, I picked up
my guitar again. I realized that some of
the most positive music in the world was
rock music; the Beatles and All You
Need is Love are wonderful examples
of this. Now, along with sounding my
chakras and creating other healing
sounds, I also play guitar!
An ancient Egyptian proverb states
that he who understands music
understands the cosmos.
think it was the Greek Pythagoras
who said that. But then again, he
studied in ancient Egypt, so he may
have borrowed from the Egyptians when he said, If you
want to understand the secrets
of the universe, study the
monochord. The monochord is a single string that,
when plucked, demonstrates
the phenomenon of harmonics.
When a string is plucked,
it goes up and down at
many different frequencies which are mathematically related to it. Lets
say the first time it goes up and down, it
does so at 100 HZ. This is called the
fundamental frequency. The first overtone vibrates at 200 HZ, the next at 300
HZ, the next at 400 HZ, and so on.
Theyre all mathematically related by
whole number ratios.
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Whats important about this is that

much of nature, from the biological
growth to the orbital distances of the
planets, seem to adhere to harmonic
relationships. And many perceive, therefore, that such harmonic relationships
are impor tant for creating healing
sounds.
How does Buddhist Om chanting
relate to sound healing?
any Hindus and Buddhists
believe that OM is the original, primordial sound of manifestation. Ive created a CD called Ultimate Om (Spirit Music) which is nothing
more than hundreds of voices chanting
OM in the sacred Pythagorean ratio of
2:3. Every tradition has sacred words of
power and I work with them all. (Incidentally, its important to note that the
OM mantra can be sounded in any key,
so that any information about a particular frequency being the OM is simply
incorrect.)
Your novel The Lost Chord was fascinating. What motivated you to write it?
hat motivated me was simpleI awoke from a dream in
which I had written a novel
about sound. As I was waking up, I
heard a voice say, Get yourself a Power
Book. Now, this was about 10
years ago and at that
time, Id never heard of
a Power Book. But
within a week, someone
had delivered a nearly
new and af fordable
Power Book to me and
within a couple of months,
I had completed The Lost
Chord.
The book is about someone discovering a series of
frequencies that are both
addictive and create interdimensional gateways. This lost chord
is stolen by a madman messiah who
wants to take over the planet. Theres a
lot of information in the book about the
power of sound to heal and transform,
coupled with a good adventure. My only
regret is that Ive never marketed the

book properly. So if a book publisher
wants to take this book on as a project,
just be in touch. It would also make a
great movie!
How did you first encounter the
angel Shamael?
his being appeared to me on my
42nd birthday, about 15 years
ago, announcing that it was
Shamael, Angel of Sacred Sound and
that I was to act as a conduit for its energy. Needless to say, I was pretty disoriented by the experience. And since I
knew a bit about the angelic realm, I was
confused because Id never heard of
Shamael.
About a week later, someone delivered
to me a book called A Dictionar y of
Angels. In it, there was a reference to
Shamael as being the Divine Herald and
Master of Heavenly Song. So I figured
there must be something to this being
and decided to work with this energy. I
created a recording called Angel of
Sound (found on the CD The Angel &
The Goddess). Through this recording, I
started introducing others to Shamael.
From my perspective, Shamael is actually the name of the angelic being Metatron. All the other archangels have
Hebrew names except for Metatron,
which is a Greek word meaning above
the throne. From my limited knowledge of Hebrew, Shamael translates
loosely as either Voice of God or
Hear Me God.
Some researchers claim that a certain

type of ghostly activity is the same as a
recorded sound or image stuck in time,
perpetually repeating. Have you ever
encountered such a ghostly occurrence?
ve had so many of these experiences, its impossible to discuss this
without going into a book-length
article. I will tell you, however, that nearly 20 years ago, when I was working on
the CD Dolphin Dreams (Spirit Music)
that I was creating for the birth of my
son Joshua, I had a pretty unforgettable
experience. It began in my recording
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studio after I turned the power on for

the recording equipment and was
preparing to mix down the multitracks.
First, despite the fact that no
machines were actually operating and
producing sounds, dolphin sonics
began to come out of the speakers.
Then when I pressed play and the
recorded sounds were really coming out
of the speakers (as they should have
been), the control knobs on the mixing
board began moving up and down by
themselves.
At the time, it seemed pretty humorous. I shrugged, stopped the recording
equipment, and said aloud to whomever
or whatever was there, Please, Id rather
do it myself.
After that, I no longer got such assistance, at least at that level of physical
contact (and I seem to get a lot of interdimensional assistance in the creation
and mix of many of my recordings). I
dont mind if theres an occasional track
that I never created that somehow man-
ifests as part of a recording (which has

actually happened before), but I think
its important for me to actively be part
of the process.
You had a chance meeting with Mysteries Magazine editor Kim Guarnaccia in
Scotlands Rosslyn Chapel. She said
she was amazed at what happened.
Could you elaborate upon this experience?
his is an extraordinary story. I
had been teaching at Findhorn, a
spiritual community in Scotland.
My wife Andi and I had a couple of days
before we were to be picked up in Edinborough, and driven to the north of
England where we would teach next.
One of Andis best friends was supposed
to be married in Rosslyn Chapel on that
particular day. Despite the fact that her
friend was unable to get married at Rosslyn on that day, Andi asked our driver if
we could stop off at Rosslyn to honor
her friend.
In truth, at the time I did not have any

idea about Rosslyns history or legend
and was a bit reluctant to even go there,
wanting simply to travel to the next location. But I went along with Andi and so
we arrived at Rosslyn Chapel.
At the time, Rosslyn Chapel was
under construction. It was raining that
day and everything looked pretty dismal. Nevertheless, we went in. Andi was
looking around at the marvelous architecture, but I was guided to the crypt to
make some tones and as the chapel was
pretty well deserted, I started toning.
While Ive not yet visited the pyramids, Ive taught students a simple technique using the voice that allows them to
determine the resonant frequency of a
room. I did this technique in the crypt
and sure enough, both a frequency and a
harmonic of sound almost immediately
manifested. As I made this sound, it
became loud beyond belief. At the same
time, I became aware of a powerful light
manifesting in the crypt.
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thing very powerful located there which

I hope will remain hidden for quite
some time.
Have there been any other ancient
sites where you have had similar
extraordinary encounters?
ne of my favorite experiences
was in the ancient Mayan city
of Palenque, where a brujo
(magician) took me and several other
people on a tour at night into some ruins
that had just been unearthed. In one of
these ruins, he pointed at an arch over a
doorway and said, Make sound here!
Then he turned off his flashlight.
I chanted and the room became illuminated. It wasnt as though a light had
been turned on, but everyone could see
each other. Then he turned his flashlight
back on and we continued. Later, I
spoke with the people who were with me
and they said that they had experienced
the same thing.
As a sound person, this experience was

a bit like heaven and so I forgot myself
and really got involved in this feedback
loop of sound and light that I was helping to create. I really dont know how
long I was doing this, but when I finally
remembered where I was, I opened my
eyes and saw that there was someone
behind me, a woman who seemed to be
shedding a tear or two. I felt awful,
assuming I had been disturbing her.
Im really sorry, I began.
No, this woman said. Now I finally
understand how sound was used in
ancient Egypt to heal.
I did a double-take that the universe
had sent someone to me who had been
attracted to this experience. But I simply
smiled and gave her my card and walked
away. The woman turned out to be your
editor Kim, who emailed me a few weeks
later, to express her gratitude for sharing
what she called a transformative experience. (Editors note: Jonathan neglects to
mention that after I approached him, he
offered to tone for me in the crypt. I
heartily accepted and was literally floored
by the experience. Although I did not see
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the light he mentions, the sound he created

was so powerful that I could literally feel it
penetrating my body and I could barely
keep from weeping, from the sheer joy of the
experience.)
I personally believe that the cr ypt,
while made of stone (marble or quartz),
is actually suspended above another
chamber and that this was one of the reasons why it resonated so powerfully. I
also believe that there is something
immensely sacred underneath the crypt
which helped create the light I had experienced.
Now, my visit to Rosslyn was several
years before The DaVinci Code was published so I had no knowledge of the
uniqueness of Rosslyn Chapel. After
Browns book was released, there was
great speculation about the Holy Grail
(the remains of Mary Magdalene) being
in the glass pyramid in the Lour ve.
Without going into further explanation,
I will tell you that while this glass pyramid contains many works of art, it does
not contain the sacred remains of the
Holy Grail. Underneath the cr ypt at
Rosslyn, however, I think theres some-
Do you believe that sound therapy can

elevate our souls to a higher level?
think that ultimately, we can work
with consciously created sacred
sound to change the vibrational rate
of all the beings on the planet, manifesting planetary peace and healing. I call
this process global harmonization, and
I believe its not only possible, but it may
be the key to the continued evolution of
our species.
We are currently creating a Temple of
Sacred
Sound
on
www.soundhealersassociation.org that
will allow anyone to gather in sacred
cyberspace temples and not only hear
each other, but also hear themselves.
In Tibetan Buddhism there are three
aspects of being: body, mind, and speech.
Sound or speech is the interconnecting
part between the body and mind. Thus,
through making sacred sound together,
well be able to activate not only the
global mind of the planet, but also the
global heart. Its very exciting! z
To learn more about Jonathan Goldman and sound healing, visit

www.healingsounds.com
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Book Reviews
Ghosts of the World
True Tales of Ghostly Hauntings
BY SUSAN SMITTEN
ISBN: 978-1-894877-65
$14.95, LONE PINE PUBL, 2006
usan Smitten's Ghosts of

the World is a veritable
reference guide to paranormal activities in castles, public areas, private homes, hotels,
prisons, pubs, and theaters.
Not only does she discuss mysterious sightings and unexplained occurrences, she also
opens the door to several murders and mysterious disappearances, such as the murder of
six young girls whose naked
bodies were found in 1998 by
workmen in the basement of the
Tunisian Embassy in Moscow.
In several of Smitten's stories, she describes various
paranormal sightings, electrical
disruptions, self-propelled furniture, broken windows, a flying
bible, energy orbs captured on
videotape, and even EVP gathered by various organizations
and individuals. For other
accounts, Smitten relies on stories told to her by obser vers,
such as Leigh Ondrack, a prison
official who ran afoul of a ghost
when he attempted to remove
furniture from Canadas infamous Okalla Prison.
She also describes haunted
locales that more daring readers might want to visit,
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including Denmark's Dragsholm

Slot, France's Palace of Versailles, and Jamaica's Ritz-Carlton hotel, located at Montego
Bay on a planatation that was
once cruelly ruled by The White
Witch of Rose Hall. But even if
you decide to just stay home
and read Smitten's tales of
ghostly hauntings, you can be
cer tain of an informative and
thought-provoking experience.
M. WAYNE CUNNINGHAM
Mozart the
Freemason
The Masonic Influence
on His Musical Genius
BY JACQUES HENRY
ISBN: 1594771286
$14.95, INNER TRADITIONS, 2006
ome say that the Masons

are a benevolent charitable organization; others
claim they are a sinister group
bent on world domination. But
ever yone agrees that Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart was a devoted
member of the illustrious sociMozar t
the
ety.
With
Freemason, Jacques Henr y, a
Mozar t authority and a highranking Freemason,
explores the influence of Masonr y on
Mozar t's life and
music.
Several of Mozart's
works are known for
their Masonic elements, such as his
final opera, The Magic
Flute, which features
motifs familiar to any
Freemason, such as
Temples of Wisdom and Reason
and Nature, and trials which
must be endured in silence.
Henr y discusses The Magic
Flute and several concertos that
were specifically commissioned
to be played at Masonic ceremonies. He also suggests that
the harsh opening of Mozar t's
Dissonance Quartet represents
the unformed man before he is
The Science of the Dogon:

Decoding the African Mystery Tradition
BY LAIRD SCRANTON
ISBN: 1594771332
$16.95, INNER TRADITION, 2006
he Dogon of Mali, West Africa, a civilization that existed from 10th to

13th centuries, gained prominence
in recent times, primarily through Robert
Temples The Sirius Myster y, which
describes their advanced knowledge of
the peculiar workings of the Sirius star
system. Author Laird Scranton takes Temples research even further by showing how these people also possess advanced knowledge of everything from quantum physics to string theory.
In order to sustain the illusion of the technological and intellectual superiority of modern man, the crucial elements which
make up the Dogon's world view are usually overlookedor
deliberately ignoredby mainstream anthropologists and
archaeologists. The implications that are posited in Scrantons
book are nothing shor t of ear thshaking, considering that the
Dogon appear to have gained these sophisticated insights
through some sort of sixth sense.
Along with Jeremy Naylors work The Cosmic Serpent, which
describes indigenous peoples of South America and Australia as
having direct knowledge of the workings of DNA through their
visionary experiences, The Science of the Dogon should prove to
be a revolutionary force, especially with regard to integrating the
Dogon cosmological vision into our own lives.
-JAYE BELDO
shaped by Masonic
discipline.
Whether inspired
by Masonic love for
his fellow man or a
need for funds,
Mozar t was an
incredibly prolific
composer, capable of banging
out a concer to
overnight or a symphony over a
long weekend. Few have written
as quickly, fewer still have written as well, and nobody has
ever combined Mozar t's speed
and genius. One could hardly
ask for a better poster child for
Masonr y than Mozart, or a better biographer than Jacques
Henry.
KENAZ FILAN
Human Species
and Beyond
BY RAJESH SINGH
ISBN: 0-9764981-7-0
$17.95, SYNERGY BOOKS, 2006
or a spiritual Hindu, author

Rajesh Singh does an effective job of explaining the scientific, secular concept of evolution in non-specialist terms in
Human Species and Beyond.
Though he incorporates sacred
scriptures of Hinduism and the
Bible into the book, his focus is
on unlocking the mysteries of our
biological code. He discusses the
theorems of intelligent design
versus evolution, quantum
physics in relation to genetics,
and how understanding the concept of God can help us under-
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stand
cosmic
accretion.
Singh studied
with gurus for over
25 years. From this
holistic perspective,
he has come to the
conclusion that finding a philosophical
theme for world
peace is possible but
only through humanitys continued spiritual
progress.
If Human Species and Beyond
has a downside, it is that the
book is, at times, arduous to
read, as the text often gets
bogged down in scientific jargon.
Additionally, being that Singh is
an Indian citizen,
scholar, and magistrate, portions of
the book concentrate on the economic, social, and
spiritual progress
of India. These
India-centric sections may be
uninteresting to
readers outside
of India.
What this book does provide,
however, is an erudite bridge
between science and spirituality.
Human Species and Beyond will
enthrall you, teach you, and ultimately, make you think.
MICHAEL LOHR
Searching for Ropens

BY JONATHAN WHITCOMB
ISBN: 1-59594-004-9
$15, BOOKSHELF PRESS, 2006
Theor y of Evolution). But

Searching for Ropens is no
mere Biblical screed, railing
against the march of Dar winism. It is a strange and sobering
opens are lar ge flying

creatures that resemble
giant bats or prehistoric
pterosaurs, as reported by various witnesses from Papua, New
Guinea. Searching for Ropens is
the tr ue stor y of one mans
adventure searching for these
unusual creatures.
Author Jonathan Whitcomb
makes no bones about
approaching his subject from
the viewpoint of a born-again
Christian, filled with contempt
for what he calls G.T.E. (General
Aaron's Crossing
An Inspiring True Ghost Story
BY LINDA ALICE DEWEY
ISBN: 1571745122
$16.95, HAMPTON ROADS, 2006
elievers and doubters alike will be captivated by Aaron Burke's

spellbinding story, as dictated by a 100-year-old ghost to Michigan school teacher and channeler Linda Alice Dewey. It is also a
story of heartbreak, remorse, and subsequent success in what many
refer to as "crossing over."
Dewey's acquaintance with Aaron's restless spirit began with
three visits to an abandoned graveyard. The earthbound Aaron was
still mired on the earthly plane, searching for reasons as to why he
had not yet ascended to heaven. Fortunately, he found Dewey, who
was able to channel his spirit. She soon discovers that Aaron, as a fouryear-old Irish child, was kidnapped in the middle of the night by his drunken, abusive
father. The pair arrived in Boston in search of relatives and later moved to Chicago, and then to Michigan, where a youthful Aaron escaped his father. Returning to Boston, Aaron became a favorite of his
relatives. Here, he learned to read and eventually fell in love, married, and moved to Michigan again
to be near his stepmother after the death of his father. But Aaron's apparently happy life was shattered when his wife died after a miscarriage. Believing he was not much better than his father, he
abandoned his children and for years, worked at farms and logging camps throughout the northeast
and south.
Aaron died at age 35 in an accident, at which point his story moves into his search for heaven. As
he searched, Aaron learned that his father had been on the run for killing a man in Ireland, and how
cowardly it was to have left his children. As time passed, Aaron became more philosophical. He
relays his wisdom through Dewey's intriguing record about the need to treat others with respect, to
prepare for the afterlife, to attain inner peace, and to come to grips with one's own failings. Finally,
Aaron discovers the secret for crossing over and successfully moves on to the other side.
Deweys account of Aarons lengthy quest to cross over is well worth reading as an example that
death is never the end of the story.
fact that some of cr yptozoologys best-known spokesmen are

young Ear th creationists,
devoted to the principle that our
world is barely 6,000 years old.
They search for living dinosaurs
and other oddities of nature in
the wild as much to validate
their faith as to reveal new
species, forcing us to wonder
does the searchers motives
matter if legitimate discoveries
result?
In this case, no sur viving
pterosaurs are captured on film
or in the flesh, but the point
must be that Whitcomb tried.
While so-called mainstream scientists lounge in their of fices
and mock, he traveled halfway
around the world at no small
risk and personal expense, to
see what might be found.
Readers of a scientific mind
may find much to criticize in
Whitcombs philosophy, but he
still deser ves kudos for tr ying.
And to date, this is the best
book to have been published on
this intriguing subject.
M. WAYNE CUNNINGHAM
MICHAEL NEWTON
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Pet Ghosts
BY JOSHUA P. WARREN
ISBN: 1564148882
$14.99, NEW PAGE BOOKS, 2006
ur beloved pets are cherished members of the

family. But when the pets
we love so much in life pass
away, do their spirits remain
close to us in the afterlife?
Phantom animals have been witnessed for centuries, all over
the world. What are the origins
of these spectral creatures?
World renowned paranor mal
investigator and author Joshua
P. Warren explores these topics
in Pet Ghosts.
The book delves into the various realms of phantom encounters, such as the mysterious
black dogs that have been witnessed by generations of individuals in different areas of the
world. The book also

touches on the subject of cryptids, such
as Bigfoot and the
Mothman, and provides information on
our ghostly domestic pets, as well.
The core of the
book is dedicated
to personal experiences with phantom animals or
phantimals, as
War ren
calls
them. Perhaps the most intriguing tale is about an African Grey
parrot that, after death, provided his owner with some important information about his wife
that changed the mans life and
quite possibly saved him from
years of turmoil. There are other
compelling stories as well, such
as the psychic horse and the pig
that
sought
revenge over
Christmas dinner, for which he
was the main
course.
In addition to
ser ving as a wellresearched document on spectral
animals, the book
also teaches valuable tools and
techniques to use
in ones own paranor mal investigations.
To anyone interested in
researching the paranormal, Pet
Ghosts is a haunting, thoughtprovoking journey of possibilities, which will have you
indulging in ghostly wonder long
after you put the book down.
STAFF REVIEWER
The Museum of Lost Wonder

BY JEFF HOKE
ISBN: 1-57863-364-8
$49.95, WEISER BOOKS, 2006
he Museum of Lost Wonder is a pop-up book for adults, a Maurice Sendak cartoon narrative for grown-ups. The text contains
an eclectic blend of philosophical tidbits, scientific factoids, history, alchemy, New Age musings on dream states, visions and hypnosis, Tibetan Buddhism, and quantum physics, all presented in the
form of enchanting illustrations and gorgeous artwork.
Author Jef f Hoke, senior exhibit designer at the Monterey Bay
Aquarium in Monterey, CA, and an award-winning creator of museum
exhibits, was inspired by the eclectic museums and curiosity cabinets of the 1600s. As such, The
Museum of Lost Wonder is constructed as a storehouse for arcane bits of knowledge. Despite the
grandiose claims of self-discovery, going through the book is like wandering through a funhouse. The
seven exhibit halls (i.e., chapters) begin with The Hall of Technology, whose ambitious exhibit is
entitled, The Beginning of Everything. The other exhibit halls have similarly provocative exhibits,
with titles such as Who Are You? and What Is Reality?
Each hall includes a fold-out, do-it-yourself model that is reminiscent of an Escher painting or a
Rube Goldberg creation, with such titles as Path of Destiny Peep Show or the Carousel of Life.
The reader is instructed to cut the paper to build the models, but I was reluctant to do so because it
would destroy the integrity of this gorgeous book.
At nearly $50, this book may out-price itself for what it delivers in terms of mystical wisdom or esoteric knowledge. But it is a marvelously beautiful piece of work, the top of the line in the tradition of
the coffee table book. The Museum of Lost Wonder is well worth the time spent browsing through it
and its expensive cover price.
CHARLES RAMMELKAMP
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Witness to
the Unsolved
The Keepers
Prominent Psychic Detectives

and Mediums Explore Our
Most Haunting Mysteries
BY EDWARD OLSHAKER
ISBN: 0-9755601-5-8
$22.95, REMIEL PRESS, 2005
ormer New York Times writer Edward Olshaker has

years of experience as a
journalist inter viewing psychic
detectives
a n d
spiritual mediu m s
about
some of
the most
w e l l k n o w n
cold cases
in histor y.
In
this
b o o k ,
Olshaker
covers many
of the prominent mysterious deaths of the
last few decades, such as Martin Luther King, Jr., White House
deputy Vincent Foster, rock icon
Kurt Cobain, and U.S. Secretary
of Commerce Ron Brown.
The supposed suicide of Kurt
Cobain is the most intriguing
unsolved case in the book. How
could someone with three times
the necessar y lethal dosage of
heroin in their system shoot
themselves with a shotgun?
Psychic, astrologer, and healer
to the stars Philip Solomons
psychic communications with
Cobain seemingly proves the
theor y that Cobain had actually
been murdered, although the
motive for the murder and who
committed it is still shrouded in
mystery.
Another captivating section
reviews the assassination of
Mar tin Luther King, Jr. and dis-
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An Alien Message for the Human Race

BY JIM SPARKS
ISBN: 1-930724-05-5
$24, WILD FLOWER PRESS, 2006
fter the phenomenal success of books by early pioneers of the

abduction history genre, there has been a steady stream of similar accounts, most written by the abductees themselves, that
ceaselessly replicate the same findings. The fact that these accounts
are so similar is a large part of their probable veracity; one never ceases to be amazed at how dif ferent people from all over the world
encounter the same creatures, endure the same invasive medical procedures, suffer the same trauma, and achieve the same cathar tic
breakthroughs.
Such is the case with Jim Sparks and his first-person abduction histor y, The Keepers. While
Sparks admittedly recounts much of what has come to be called the standard abduction scenario,
there is also suf ficient new material here to keep things interesting. For instance, he has not
required hypnotic regression to retrieve his memories. He also has detailed recall of being taught an
alien alphabet as a precursor to a more formal telepathic communication.
Anger is another common reaction to the abduction experience, and in Sparks case, the rage
includes shouting obscenities at the aliens, who then paralyze his mouth, after which he would
scream psychically at them. But happily, Sparks comes to feel his experiences ultimately served a
good purpose.
The message for humanity promised in the title is basically a reiteration of the often-heard warnings of encroaching environmental collapse, which UFO contactees have been preaching about since
the 1950s. In any case, Sparks has done a great job of telling his story and, in spite of so many
familiar abduction history elements, The Keepers is an engrossing page-turner.
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cusses the potential for a government conspiracy. This

includes a lengthy section on
who the assassin James Earl
Ray was and whom he was
working for. Olshaker also takes
a detailed look at Dr. Kings
alleged psychic inclinations and
his uncanny ability to sense
danger.
In addition to insights, such
as that more than a third of
police depar tments across
America use psychics to solve
crimes, Olshakers work also
emphasizes that there is indeed
evidence of soul sur vival after
death.
If there are any problems with
Witness to the Unsolved, it is in
the selection on mysterious
deaths. There seems to be
some sort of underlying political
agenda to a majority of the
homicides/suicides reviewed.
Where are the in-depth review
and psychic evaluations of
some of the most famous controversial deaths in modern histor y, such as John F. Kennedy,
Rober t Kennedy, Malcolm X,
Jim Morrison, and Jimi Hendrix?
A 2006 finalist for the Independent Publisher Book Award
and an Independent Book of the
Year, Witness to the Unsolved is
a fantastic treatise on the world
of psychics and psychic phenomena as it relates to solving
crimes. In fact, Witness to the
Unsolved could be utilized as a
textbook for students of metaphysical studies and for police
academy cadets on how psychics can aid law enforment in
solving mysterious crimes.
MICHAEL LOHR
The Dream Culture

of the Neanderthals
Guardians of the Ancient
Wisdom
BY STAN GOOCH
ISBN: 15477093-X
$16.95, INNER TRADITIONS, 2006
n this latest offering by Stan

Gooch, the possibilities of
Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal
peoples co-mingling instead of
the former destroying the latter
(as assumed by many archaeologists) is explored. While the
author of fers some intriguing
insights into ever ything from a
13-moon calendar, the mysteries inherent in the number
seven, and knowledge of
astronomy held by historically
remote peoples, he unfor tunately shows some real shor tcomings in his tract, especially
in his rude dismissal of yoga

and his attempt to debunk the
seven chakra systems.
Gooch then goes on to dismiss such things as alchemy,
claiming that it failed miserably
in its quest to find the philosophers stone and the elixir of
immor tality. If he would have
committed himself to studying
alchemical texts, he would have
been less quick to write it all off
as some kind of aberration.
Gooch is also unable to
develop his thesis of CroMagnon/Neander thal interbreeding, primarily through inadequate research and a kind of
reductionistic tendentiousness
that pervades throughout. Such
chronically
biased indulgences make
his initial thesis
unconvincing,
even though
he may be on
to something
revolutionar y. If he
had
the
help of an
astute editor, I am
sure he
could have tightened the course of his overall
tack into the Neolithic headwinds and perhaps arrived on
more convincing shores.
JAYE BELDO
The Da Vinci
Barcode: A Parody
BY JUDITH P. SHOAF
ISBN: 0-977908-6-X
$16, SCARTH/NEW ACADEMIA PUBL., 2006
ith her tongue firmly

planted in her cheek,
Dr. Judith Shoaf, the
director of the University of Floridas language labs, claims that
ever ything in The Da Vinci Barcode "was meticulously
researched. However, she
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adds, any time I
found that the actual facts didnt fit
my stor y, I ignored
them, a claim
many
readers
might say applies
equally to the The
da Vinci Code, Dan
Browns r unaway
bestseller that she
parodies.
Shoaf has both
the academic and
literar y credentials
to poke fun at
Brown's opus. She writes well,
can tell a stor y, knows how to
develop memorable characters
in believable settings, even if
some settings seem like the
rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland. Her Ph.D. in French and
medieval studies, her expertise
as a translator and in moderating the Ar thurnet email group,
and her experience as the editor
of Exemplaria: A Journal of Theor y in Medieval and Renais-
Our Haunted Lives

BY JEFF BELANGER
ISBN: 1564148564
$14.99, NEW PAGE BOOKS, 2006
pparently, we are NOT

alone. In vir tually ever y
corner of the world,
repor ts of supernatural occurrences have flourished, sparking heated debates between
believers eager to share their
experiences and skeptics just
as eager to shoot them down.
In Our Haunted Lives, paranormal researcher Jef f Belanger
shares with readers the haunting experiences of people from
all over the U.S. and abroad.
These allegedly true stories,
recited in inter view for mat,
read like conversations told
over coffee to a trusted friend.
While readers will gain an
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all substantiate
her credibility
for twisting the
tale of Da
Vinci's barcode as she
sees fit. And
twist she does,
as she searches for a religious code into
one for the hidden messages
in the barcodes
of the tourist
gift shops of various European
museums and basilicas.
Her characters drive the
search for the alpha-numeric
symbology embedded in the barcodes. Readers of Browns
book will recognize the tweaking
of names, such as that of his
hero Rober t Langdon into the
character of Rober t Longone,
the professor of symbology of
Shoafs spoof. And a character
such as her one-eyed hunchunderstanding of the witnesses need to share their experiences, you can almost feel
their anxiety and fear. A 57year-old factory worker from Illinois shares her vivid encounters in the house where she
resided in 1966, with her inlaws. During one particular incident, she was lying in bed
when something grabbed her
hair and the hanging light on
the ceiling started spinning.
Her sister-in-laws boyfriend
shot and killed himself in the
basement and in 1968, after
her divorce, her husband murdered his father in the kitchen.
A man from Toronto, Canada, recalls his time with
spooks at the house he lived
in as a child. Ver y soon after
we moved in, we started experiencing the phenomena of
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back, Fibonacci Fibonacci,
based on that of the real life
inventor of sequential number
systems, takes on a life of his
own as he ponders the meaning
of Princess Di's death at the
13th pillar, and shambles about
after committing an unintended
murder, hiding in sites with connections to Masonic history.
Twin sisters Maddo and Marie
Navet, one the epitome of the
whore, the other as the angelic
virgin, pull Longone this way and
that as they accompany him on
his visits to alleged resting
places for the remains of saints
and sinners, even to spots
where their relics are sold. And
anyone with a name like Dr. Linden Teabag has got to play a
major role in deciphering the barcode dilemmaand, by extension, capturing the murderer.
Although history hovers about
in the background, modern technology shoulders its way into
the stor y, as well. Longone is
testing a Personal Sampler,
doors closing by them selves,
which at first we thought was
the house settling, he says,
except for the fact that the
doors would lock.
At times, they would hear
footsteps walking
up the driveway,
prompting them to
look out the window, only to see no
one.
These are but two
of the dozens of
firsthand accounts
found in this treasure of a book. Individuals from all walks
of life, ages, cultures,
and religious backgrounds bravely reveal their
stories in vivid detail.
Over the years Ive heard
from hundreds of people who
which reveals the most naked of

tr uths about anyone who is
scanned by it, leading to some
awkward moments. He is also
adept at using an Apple Pi program to scan barcode symbols
and labels on letters known as
pneus (because they have been
sent through an outdated pneumatic system.) And while history
hovers in the references to the
pyramid on the American one
dollar bill, the Masons, Templars, Gnostics, mysticism,
Saint Thelca, and the Church of
the Three Mar ys, humor rules
supreme.
Shoafs parody is a wellresearched medieval spoof of
Dan Browns novel. There is one
caution, thoughsome passages contain more detail than
the average barcode reader,
especially the mathematically
challenged ones, might want to
know. When that happens, let
your eyes glaze over, nod wisely
and read on.
Spreading Wings
LYNDA COLE/JAN MICHAEL
LOOKING WOLF
LYNDA COLE, 2006
CD#: 70213 28102
t first glance, Spreading

Wings looks like a thousand other New Age CDs,
with its serene cover depicting a
sunlit eagle in flight. But do not
let its generic appearance fool
you. Within its packaging lies an
unusual fusion of styles that
stretch the boundaries of the
genre.
flute and guitar melodies relax

body and spirit. A laid-back journey, Blue River features both
flutes snaking their way through
the air with meandering guitar
braiding itself around both
melodies. Unornamented simplicity is bliss on Medicine
Woman, the CDs most traditional piece, as drumming, rattling,
and flute transports the listener
to a timeless realm drawn from
Native American folklore. Natureinspired, Wings of the Wind features wood flute with the crystalline touch of windchimes while
an undercurrent of drums brings
to mind a spring thunderstorm
building on the horizon. More natural elements come into play in
the contrast between renaissance-style harp and native flute
on The Path Home.
Fresh and refreshing, Spreading Wings is a pleasing fusion of
genres that, true to its name,
soars far above the typical New
Age album.
M. WAYNE CUNNINGHAM
have experienced a brush with

the supernatural, says
Belanger. My objective was to
capture not only the experiences, but the nature and
nuances of the language people use to
relate these profound events.
The way in which
Belanger documents
these
ghostly encounters gives readers
the opportunity to
experience the
full emotion, and
at times trauma,
of the individuals sharing their stories.
Rarely does a book prompt me
to sleep with a light on, but this
one did!
JASON MCCURRY
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Utilizing silver flutes as well as

native wood flutes, percussion,
and strings on this CD, Lynda
Cole and Jan Michael Looking
Wolf draw from modern musical
genresin addition to ancient traditionsin a harmonious concert
of sound. Jazz and classic rock
also find their place in the artists
repertoire, adding an unusual
element to music that would otherwise be soothing yet stale.
The title track starts things off,
with a guitar melody, accompanied by silver flute. Father Sky
uses Looking Wolfs raspy vocals
to great effect, giving an earthy,
contemporary tone to ancient
Native American music, while a
native wood flute melody accentuates the reverence hidden within the vibe.
As the CD continues, restful
Beautiful Misery
FREAKHOUSE
REALITY ENTERTAINMENT
CD#: 28341 01022
he frenzied guitar, loud

bursts of song, and angry
tone of punk music have
left an indelible mark on much of
modern music,
from grunge to
hard rock. Freakhouse is yet another heir to that tradition, their music
filled with bleakness and gloom,
but lacking the
character that typifies punk music.
While individual tracks occasionally attract attention through
their vehemence or interesting
use of effects, on the whole, the
effect is clumsy.
Images of decay and collapse
congest the CD but rather than
affecting its audience, they numb
it like a slow, creeping paralysis.
Disconnected is exactly that, a

song devoid of content apart
from its cacophonous anger. The
title track fortunately adds a bit
more oomph with its driving
beat and growling vocals, mimicking the animalistic devolution
it describes. Similarly, the acidic
Peel Away the Skin burns with
its caustic tone,
as various audio
effects heighten
the sense of
unreality. From
here, however,
the ostentatious
display quickly
becomes tedious.
Classic punk
music, like its
modern descendants, worked
because it drew on strong emotions. The anger and frustration
of Freakhouses songs are obvious, but their work does not have
enough substance to even
annoy, let alone set the audience
ablaze.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
The 13th Hour

MIDNIGHT SYNDICATE
LINFALDIA RECORDS
CD#: MS 1007-CD
inds whisper with unearthly voices as footsteps reverberate with a life of their own. Midnight Syndicates The
13th Hour conjures up all the conceits of a haunted
house. In some ways evocative of a radio drama with eerie atmosphere and haunting music, this unusual CD provides pure gothic
fun without distracting dialog.
Midnight Syndicate describes their compositions as soundtracks for imaginary movies, and the extraordinary care that goes into crafting these pieces is evident.
As fans of classic horror movies and film noir well know, implication is often an artists best friend in
terrifying an audience, and this the CD pulls it off to perfection. From the opening noises of swirling
winds, whispering voices, and panicked gasps, it escorts listeners into a dark and somber world, populated by unquiet spirits. Organ melodies add an intricate, creepy counterpoint to the natural (and unnatural) sounds that wind their way into the decaying mansion, and the steadily building music drives the
tension to almost unbearable heights.
An unearthly feast of the imagination for the darkly inclined, this disquieting CD is endlessly versatile
play it for Halloween trick-or-treaters, as a musical backdrop to a roleplaying session, or as inspiration
from the most twisted regions of ones soul.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
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In the Theater
In the Theater
1408 (2007)
The Prestige (2006)
he Victorian period was well

known for its political and
social dichotomies. Its air of
prudishness and gentility
masked rampant crime and
poverty while political policies
meant to civilize non-European
lands led to the abuses of colonialism. The repercussions of
these beliefs remain with us
today, and in few areas are they
more obvious than in the seemingly endless conflict between
science and faith.
While the foundations of modern physics were being laid,
Charles Darwin formulated his
90
theory of evolution, Marconi and

Alexander Graham Bell changed
the way we communicate, and
Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla
revolutionized many aspects of
our lives with electricity. Simultaneously, belief in the supernatural was at an all-time high, traveling religious revivals toured
America, and powerful preachers
were the superstar political pundits of their day. The Prestige
gives us a glimpse into this
strange yet familiar world, juxtaposing the fantastical world of
stage magic with the technology
used to create it, combined with
a healthy dose of human drama.
A tale of two friends (Christian
Bale and Hugh Jackman) whose
quest for the ultimate illusion
leads to rivalry, deceit, and lethal
obsession, the film uses its backdrop skillfully to weave its own
spell over the audience. The staging is spectacular, evoking a
bygone time with subtle panache
that suits the ethereal nature of
the story through its cinematography, costume design, and visuals. It is in its plot and rich characterization, however, that The
Prestige really dazzles.
Leisurely exposition does not

equate with lack of suspense as
the plots twists build tension and
fool us along the way, so taht we
resemble the entranced audiences who view the stage illusions night after night.
In a time when stage magic
was the height of fashionable
entertainmentas well as a
statement of faith for many who
conflated what they saw on stage
with belief in an afterlifethe
great irony was that the very technology that so many feared was
what brought their fantasies to
life. This point is well made in the
film, especially in its handling of
the elaborate engineering behind
the onstage chicanery and in the
figure of Tesla (David Bowie),
whose electrical devices as well
as his more esoteric scientific
apparatus, play an integral part
in the plot.
A richly rewarding show where
the illusions are many and the
most deadly deceptions are the
ones being perpetrated behind
the scenes, The Prestige is a fascinating, multi-layered film that
almost demands repeated viewing to unravel its mysteries.
any of the best suspense

stories begin with a simple premise: take something familiar and manipulate it
into something unsettling. While
the unknown and unexplainable
hold their own terrors, it is from
the things we know that true fear
emanates. In 1408, it is the nearubiquitous experience of staying
in a hotel that gets the terror
treatment. Long on showmanship
and short on substance, however,
the film wears itself out quickly
and unfortunately becomes an
unsatisfying bore.
Jaded writer Michael Enslin
(John Cusack) spends his nights
in quiet inns and sheltered hotels,
culling material for a semi-successful series of books on haunted locales. He is also increasingly
frustrated by their proprietors
blatant attempts to gather publicity for their establishments by
labeling every untoward event as
a supernatural catastrophe.
When a mysterious postcard
arrives from the Dolphin Hotel in
the heart of New York City with its
only inscription a warning not to
stay in room 1408, his lagging
curiosity is suddenly piqued, and
further heightened by the hotel
manager (in a scene-stealing but
sadly miniscule performance by
Samuel L. Jackson) and his fruitless efforts to prevent him from
becoming yet another chapter in
the rooms grisly history. Once
inside, Enslin finds himself
trapped by increasingly bizarre
and dangerous occurrences and
comes to understand just why
none of the rooms occupants
have survived longer than an hour
within its walls.
Admittedly, the first few minutes within the room are chilling,
heightening the sense of anticipation with every camera angle
and gesture, and it is the subtle
details, such as disappearing and
re-appearing objects, that cause
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the greatest unease. Once one

gets over the initial suspense,
however, the outcome is predictable as we watch Enslin be
buffeted by increasingly ridiculous manifestations of the rooms
evil powers, many of which seem
like non-sequiturs designed to
scare the audience. A poorly

developed subplot involving the
authors difficult relationship with
his family and especially in coping with the death of his young
daughter is an outrageously contrived effort to garner sympathy
for the characters, and it backfires in the worst way possible,
making him seem even more
shallow and callous.
While the visual effects are
interesting, they are not particularly memorable, let alone frightening, and the plots diversionary
tactics do not just distract, but
derail the entire films sense of
coherency. If you check into
1408, leave your expectations at
home, or better yet, follow the
advice on that mysterious postcard and dont enter in the first
place.
In the Footsteps of Isis

(2007)
ISBN: 06041 25022
f the many documentaries
and films on ancient
Egypt, most tend to sensationalize and oversimplify. Sub-
ject to misinterpretation and horrendous

mistranslationand
aggravated by lingering myths regarding
cursed tombs and
undead mummies
it is only in recent
years that scholars
have begun to paint
a new picture of
ancient
Egypt,
revealing beliefs that
focus on individual responsibility
as the key to a fulfilling existence.
In the Footsteps of Isis is a striking visual introduction to these
teachings, as notable for its powerful meaning as for its beauty.
At once historical and spiritual,
this film provides insight into
both the Egyptians and oneself,
as it fuses superb images of monuments with a collection of 57
verses from the Book of the

Dead. Most of the meditations
are taken from the Negative
Confession, where a deceased
soul recites before the gods of
the Duat, the Egyptian afterlife,
all the wrongs he or she has not
committed in the course of his or
her lifetime. This journey through
Upper and Lower
Egypt parallels both
the souls philosophical journey of
enlightenment and
in one of Egypts
most famous myths,
the goddess Isis
search for the
remains of her husband, the funerary
god Osiris.
The DVD offers
multiple viewing options, from
spiritual travelogue to soundtrack, an open-endedness that
adds to the discs potential for
repeated viewing. The coupling of
image and music is also superb.
The cinematography fluctuates
between crisp black-and-white
and muted color, creating a
unique contrast
between stark reality and a surreal
timelessness.
This exquisitely
produced DVD will
lead viewers to a
better understanding of Egyptian culture and spirituality
spanning
more
than five millennia,
as well as a new
perspective of selfawareness, regardless of ones
background or beliefs.
To
order,
visit
www.invisibletemple.com
Disinfo.con (2006)
ISBN: 1-932857-79-6
bizarre saunter into fringe
culture, disinfo.con is a
loony one-day convocation
that explores, dissects, and lam-
poons every conceivable societal

issue, from technology to religion
to politics and sex. Originally
recorded at DisinfoCon in 2000,
the DVD includes four hours of
highlights that are certain to
intrigue, startle, and perhaps
shock prospective viewers.
Whether one sees these as an
exciting new frontier
or is looking around
for the handbasket
they suspect is on a
one-way descent to
hell, disinfo.con is
undeniably unique.
Prizing expansion
of ones mind, the
conventions organizers
sought
guests who would
stretch the limits of
understanding, imagination, and
occasionally, good taste. Disinformation Company founder
Richard Metzger, underground
filmmaker Kenneth Anger, R.U.
Sirius of Mondo 2000 magazine
fame, and other avant-garde figures share stages with as varied
a cast of performers as swordswallower Johnny Fox and cult
musician Marilyn Manson. This
over-the-top presentation of
ideas and innovations, ranging
from virtual reality and cybersex
to the study of Sanskrit and is as
professional and well presented
as it is wild and eye-opening.
While the ambient music that
accompanies the menus is grating, it is thankfully brief, and the
selectable highlights by guest
allow viewers to search for particular sessions (and possibly avoid
shocks for those of a more delicate constitution).
The ultimate guide to the
unorthodox, disinfo.con is an
entertaining and unsettling guide
to modern life and the future that
manages to run the gamut from
the sacred to the outrageous
without shortchanging either.
To order, visit www.disinfo.com
RICHARD MACKENZIE
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2007 Event Listings

ARCHAEOLOGY
BIBLE & ARCHAEOLOGY FEST
Nov. 16-18, 2007; San Diego, CA
Contact: Biblical Archaeology Society, Travel/Study Department, 4710 41st Street NW,
Washington, DC 20016, (800) 221-4644 Ext.
221 or (202) 364-3300 | Email: travel@bibarch.org
|
Web:
www.bibarch.org/bswbTravel
METAGEUM '07: EXPLORING THE
MEGALITHIC MIND
Nov. 3-11, 2007; Vittoriosa, Malta
Contact: Peter B. Lloyd, Apartment 921, St
Angelo Mansions, Birgu BRG 1745, Malta, +1
(646) 797-3206 or +44-20-7193 1154 |
Email:
bas@bib-arch.org
|
Web:
www.metageum.org
ASTRONOMY
BLACK FOREST STAR PARTY
Sept. 14-16, 2007; Cherry Springs State
Park, Potter County, PA
Contact: Black Forest Star Party, c/o Central
Pennsylvania Observers, PO Box 947, State
College, PA 16801 | Email: info2@bfsp.org |
Web: www.bfsp.org
OKIE-TEX STAR PARTY
Oct. 6-14, 2007; Kenton, OK
Contact: Oklahoma City Astronomy Club, PO
Box 22804, Oklahoma City, OK 73123, (405)
691-2544 | Email: starpartyinfo@okietex.com | Web: www.okie-tex.com
rg
CONSCIOUSNESS WORK
EXPLORATION 27
Oct. 13-19, 2007; Faber, VA
Cost: $1,795 | Contact: The Monroe Institute,
62 Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938,
(866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email:
TMIprograms@aol.com
|
Web:
www.monroeinstitute.org | Provides intensive
investigation into uncharted, nonphysical territories in order to obtain information and direct
personal experience related to this different
state of being.
GATEWAY VOYAGE
Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 2007; Faber, VA
Oct. 6-12, 2007; Petaluma, CA
Oct. 13-19, 2007; Faber, VA
Oct. 27-Nov. 2, 2007; Faber, VA
Nov. 10-16, 2007; Faber, VA
Cost: $1,795 (incl. room and board) | Contact:
The Monroe Institute, 62 Roberts Mountain
Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866) 881-3440 or
(434) 361-1252 | Email: TMIpro-
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grams@aol.com
|
Web:
www.monroeinstitute.org | Voyage into the
farther reaches of your own consciousness.
With the aid of Hemispheric Synchronization
sounds, total immersion in a timeless retreat,
the guidance of senior trainers, feedback on
your experiences, and the group sharing of
experiences, you will be carried gently into
four progressively deeper altered states of
consciousness.
GUIDELINES
Sept. 15-21, 2007; Faber, VA
Oct. 20-26, 2007; Faber, VA
62 Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, VA
22938,(866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 |
Email: TMIprograms@aol.com | Web:
www.monroeinstitute.org | Provides learning
methods through which communication can
be established with greater parts of one's selfawareness, providing an overview beyond our
typical perception.
HEARTLINE
Nov. 3-9, 2007; Faber, VA
(866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email:
TMIprograms@aol.com
|
Web:
www.monroeinstitute.org | Explores your
internal landscape that promotes self-love,
self-trust, and self-acceptance. Participants
learn to let go of perceptions of resistance and
fear as they move into a greater sense of
wholeness, balance, and harmony.
LIFELINE
Oct. 6-12, 2007; Faber, VA
Nov. 3-9, 2007; Faber, VA
(866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email:
TMIprograms@aol.com
|
Web:
www.monroeinstitute.org | Offers training in
states of consciousness. Participants learn to
contact those who have made the transition
from physical reality and who need assistance
in moving forward.
MC2 - MANIFESTATION AND CREATION
SQUARED
Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 2007; Faber, VA
(866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email:
TMIprograms@aol.com
|
Web:
www.monroeinstitute.org | Provides tools to
more fully experience the potentials of human
existence through expanding belief systems
and abilities to influence time-space events
through non-physical (energetic) means. Uses
the most reliable and successful principles
discovered in the practice of psycho kinesis
(PK) and of directing energy for healing.

NINE GATES MYSTERY SCHOOL
(Part 1) Sept. 21-30, 2007;
Lucerne Valley, CA
(Part 2) Oct. 26-Nov. 4, 2007;
Lucerne Valley, CA
Contact: Ann O'Quinn, Institute of Noetic Sciences, (707) 779-8236 | Email: mysteryschool@noetic.org
|
Web:
www.ninegates.org | Spiritual training for individuals seeking life's mysteries, Universal
Truths, and ways of knowing. Tap into deep
sources of consciousness, use energy fields,
and find hidden meaning and inner guidance.
STARLINES
Oct. 20-26, 2007; Faber, VA
(866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email:
TMIprograms@aol.com
|
Web:
www.monroeinstitute.org | For those who possess a passion for exploration and self-discovery and an enduring love and respect for the
Life Force in all of its expressions. Participants
explore the mystery and majesty of energy systems throughout the Milky Way galaxy and
beyond, moving gradually into new states of
awareness, being, and perception.
CROP CIRCLES
CROP CIRCLES AND MYSTICAL ENGLAND
July 24-30, 2008; Southwest England
Cost: $1,777 | Contact: Cariel Quinly, Sacred
MAS Productions, 1611-A South Melrose
Drive #246, Vista, CA 92081, (760) 9410608 | Email: tours@cabiz.net | Web:
www.cabiz.net/heartlinktour | Travel with a
master facilitator who will share the sacred
stories and rituals; attend the International
Crop Circle Symposium in Glastonbury; visit
Tintagel, Glastonbury, and the fabled Isle of
Avalon, crop circle formations with expert
researchers; private access to Stonehenge;
and participate in a peace meditation in Merlin's Cave.
TREASURE HUNT FOR CROP CIRCLES
July 21-24, 2008; Southwest England
Cost: $777 | Contact: Cariel Quinly, Sacred
MAS Productions, 1611-A South Melrose
Drive #246, Vista, CA 92081, (760) 9410608 | Email: tours@cabiz.net | Web:
www.cabiz.net/heartlinktour
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CRYPTOZOOLOGY
FORTFEST CARIBBEAN CRUISE
Dec. 9-17, 2007; Caribbean
Contact: FortScape Cumberland Program, PO
Box 50088, Baltimore, MD 21211, (304) 8760932 | Email: fortfest99@yahoo.com | Web:
www.forteans.com
HONOBIA BIGFOOT FALL FESTIVAL
Sept. 29-30, 2007; Honobia, OK
Contact: Katie Cogburn, (580) 244-3292 |
Email: katiedonica@kon-x.com | Web:
www.geocities.com/honobiabigfootfestival/in
dex | Features Bigfoot sighting hunts, games,
vendors, food, music, art shows, and more.
INTERNATIONAL BIGFOOT SYMPOSIUM
Oct. 20-21, 2007; Arcata, CA
Cost: $225 | Contact: Jason Valenti, 314 East
Holly Street, Suite 203, Bellingham, WA
98229, (360) 393-7732 | Email:
derek@sasquatchresearch.net
or
jason@sasquatchresearch.net | Web:
www.sasquatchresearch.net | Guests and
speakers include Bob Gimlin, Patricia Patterson, John Green, Al Hodgson, Dr. Jeff Meldrum, Dr. Henner Fahrenback, Christopher
Murphy, M.K. Davis, Don Monroe, Kathy
Strain, Al Berry, Ron Moorehead, Thom Powell,
Jason Valenti, Roger Knights, Dr. Dmitri
Bayanov, Dr. Igor Bourtsev, Dr. Daris Swindler,
Dr. John Bindemagel, and others.
MASS MONSTER MASH
Oct. 12-13, 2007; Watertown, MA
Cost: $25 (must be purchased in adv.) | Contact: Mass Monster Mash, PO Box 145, Watertown, MA 02471 | Email: massmonstermash@hotmail.com
|
Web:
www.massmonstermash.org | Features lectures, trivia, exhibits, prizes, videos, concessions, souvenirs, and special guests, including
Loren Coleman, Jeff Belanger, Don Keating,
Karen Mossey, Kristyn Gartland, Matt Moniz,
Chris Pittman, Thomas D'Agostino, and others.
MOTHMAN FESTIVAL
Sept. 15-16, 2007; Point Pleasant, WV
Email: jeffwamsley@eurekanet.com | Web:
www.mothmanlives.com
19TH ANNUAL BIGFOOT CONFERENCE/EXPO
May 17, 2008; Salt Fork State Park,
near Cambridge, OH
Cost: Free | Contact: Don Keating, (740) 4984542 | Email: eobic@yahoo.com | Web:
www.angelfire.com/oh/ohiobigfoot/abc
TEXAS BIGFOOT CONFERENCE

Nov. 10, 2007; Jefferson, TX
Cost: $20 | Contact: Craig Woolheater, Texas
Bigfoot Research Conservancy, PO Box
191711, Dallas, TX 75219, (877) 529-5550 |
Email: craigw@texasbigfoot.com | Web:
www.texasbigfoot.com/events7 | Speakers
include Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum, W. Henner
Fahrenback, Rick Noll, Kathy Strain, Alton Higgins, and Peter Aniello.
HEALING
HEALING SOUNDS SEMINAR
Sept. 22, 2007; Nashua, NH
Contact: Elizabeth Foley, (603) 888-0658 |
Email: soundheals@aol.com | Web:
www.healingsounds.com/Events
HUNA AND HEALING IN HAWAII
Oct. 21-30, 2007; Kilauea, Hawaii
Cost: $1,950 | Contact: Dr. Chet Snow, PO Box
1738, Sedona, AZ 86339, (928) 204-1962 |
Email: cbsnow@npgcable.com | Web:
www.chetsnow.com/huna
INTL. SOUND HEALING CONFERENCE: CREATIVE AND APPLIED SOUND WORK
Nov. 8-12, 2007; Santa Fe, NM
Cost: $595 until Oct. 1; $645 thereafter | Contact: The Message Company, 4 Camino Azul,
Santa Fe, NM 87508, (505) 474-0998 |
Email: message@bizspirit.com | Web:
www.bizspirit.com | Join researchers, practitioners, scientists, and recording artists in the
fast-growing fields of sound healing, vibrational medicine, music therapy, and
body/mind/brain/spirit research. This conference is a celebration with music, dancing,
singing, chanting, workshops, and intensive
learning sessions.
INTO THE HEART OF THE DESERT: A
HEALING ADVENTURE IN THE SOUTHWEST
Sept. 29-Oct. 7, 2007; Albuquerque, NM
Cost: $995 | Contact: Cathy Pedevillano,
(978) 855-0688 or Bill Pfeiffer, (978) 7240120 | Email: cathy@heartofshamanism.com
or bill@sacredearthnetwork.org | Web:
www.sacredearthnetwork.org/updates/Heart
oftheDesert | Visit sacred sites, hot springs,
prehistoric cliff dwellings, rock art, red desert
canyons, and Native American medicine people. This is a gathering of intention on sacred
land that can be a gateway to the expanded
consciousness needed to see the way forward
more clearly, both personally and collectively.
THE PATH OF LIGHT, AWAKENING
OUR HEARTS: AN ANCIENT ANDEAN
HEALING INTENSIVE
Oct. 11-21, 2007; Ecuador
Cost: $2,150 | Contact: Dolores Mannix, Earth
Summit, LLC, (518) 441-6336 | Email:

dolores@earthsummitllc.com | Web:
www.earthsummitllc.com/path | Experience
the sacred traditions of ancient Andean healing and deepen your connection with
Pachamama (Mother Earth). Teachings
include six initiations into the ancient Yachak
ways of healing, a heart-opening fire ceremony, hikes and ceremonies at sacred volcanoes,
rituals at the sacred spring at Tundo Pogio,
individual healing ceremonies, and more.
OTHER
ANCIENT MYSTERIES
REVEALED CONFERENCE
Oct. 8-15, 2007; Paris, France
Contact: Power Places Tours, Inc., 6755 Earl
Drive, Ste. 102, Colorado Springs, CO 80918,
(800) 234-8687 or (719) 448-0514 | Email:
travel@powerplaces.com
|
Web:
www.powerplaces.com | With Kristie Knutson,
Philip Gardiner, Zachary James Miller PhD,
Sylvia Browne, and others.
CPAK 2007
Oct. 6-7, 2007; San Diego, CA
Cost: $239 in advance; $299 at the door |
Contact: Binary Research Institute, 4600 Campus Drive, Suite 110, Newport Beach, CA
92660, (949) 399-0306 | Email:
info@cpakonline.com
|
Web:
www.binaryresearchinstitute.org | Explore the
evidence that ancient civilizations were more
advanced than was previously thought. Examine theories to explain the rise and fall of civilization, including binary motion, change in
electromagnetic waves, and impact events,
with emphasis on the precession of the
equinox, its ancient meaning.
DARK 30 TOUR
Sept. 29, 2007; Asheville, NC
Cost: $55 | Email: ShadowboxENT@
yahoo.com | Web: www.dark30tour.com |
Featuring Jim Marrs on conspiracies and
secret societies, Nick Redfern on UFOs and
cryptids, and Joshua Warren on ghosts and
ESP.
DRACULA TOUR: VAMPIRE
VACATION TO TRANSYLVANIA
Oct. 27-Nov. 3, 2007; Transylvania, Romania
Cost: $1,999 | Contact: Tours of Terror, 315
Derby Avenue, Orange, CT 06477, (866) TERRORTOUR or (203) 795-4737 | Email: TOURSofTERROR@aol.com
|
Web:
www.toursandevents.com/Tours-of-Terror |
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. Open to all ages.
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FULL SENSORY PERCEPTION TRAINING
Nov. 1-15, 2007; Mount Shasta, CA
Cost: $1,200-$2,800 (incl. accom. and meals)
| Contact: Dolphin Star Temple Mystery
School, PO Box 1582, Mount Shasta, CA
96067, (530) 926-1122 | Email: pleiades@
amorahquanyin.com | Web: www.
amorahquanyin.com | Learn to accelerate
spiritual growth with clairvoyance, clairaudience, intuition, and channeling healing energy.
PROPHETS CONFERENCE: ORBS

Oct. 26-28, 2007; Palm Springs, CA
Contact: Mystery School, 369 Montezuma
Avenue, Suite 103, Santa Fe, NM 87501,
(888) 777-5981 or (505) 988-2223 | Email:
prophets@greatmystery.org
|
Web:
www.greatmystery.org/events/ps07 | With
Miceal Ledwith PhD, Jude Currivan PhD, Freddy Silva, John Pickering, Katie Hall, Randy
Mead, Hope Mead, and others.
HORRIFIC HAUNTED HALLOWEEN HOLIDAY

Oct. 27-Nov. 3, 2006; Transylvania, Romania
Cost: $1,799 | Contact: Tours of Terror, 315
Derby Avenue, Orange, CT 06477, (866) TERRORTOUR or (203) 795-4737 | Email: toursofterror@aol.com | Web: www.dractour.com
| Spend Halloween in Dracula's Castle. Visit
haunted hotels and castles, creepy graveyards, supernatural sights, and spend a night
of fun and fear in Dracula's Castle.
PSYCHIC CRUISE ON
FREEDOM OF THE SEAS
Oct. 7-14, 2007; Caribbean
Cost: $940.96-$1,389.96 | Contact: Jessica
Raymond, 243 Oak Street, 2nd Floor, Winsted, CT 06098, (860) 469-8431 | Email:
cs@williamconstantine.com | Web: cruiseclub.com/rccl_Psychic_Cruise | Includes psychic development, spirit reflections, and after
death communications seminars with William
Constantine.
INTERNATIONAL ALCHEMY CONFERENCE

Oct. 5-7, 2007; Las Vegas, NV
Cost: $280 | Contact: ETX Seminars, PO Box
22201, Sacramento, CA 95822, (916) 7600823 | Web: www.alchemyconference.com |
Meet and work with practicing alchemists
from around the world at this largest gathering
of alchemists in 500 years. Practitioners will
share both practical methods of transformation and spiritual techniques for inner peace
in this intensive, multimedia event, where the
emphasis is on real alchemy and the goal is to
inform and empower individuals wit the
ancient wisdom.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SACRED
SEXUALITY: A JOURNEY THROUGH ECSTASY
Jan. 23-27, 2008; Santa Fe, NM
Cost: $545 until Oct. 15; $595 until Dec. 1;
$645 thereafter | Contact: The Message
Company, 4 Camino Azul, Santa Fe, NM
87508, (505) 474-0998 or (505) 474-7604 |
Email: message@bizspirit.com | Web: bizspirit.com/TriCon/sexuality/sx_index
MITCHELL-HEDGES CRYSTAL SKULL EVENT
Oct. 4-7, 2007; Sedona, AZ
Cost: $499 (single-day passes avail.) | Contact: Angel Valley Spiritual Retreat Center,
13513 Angel Valley Road, Sedona, AZ 86336,
(800) 393-6308 or (928) 634-1320 | Email:
vrdorland@aol.com
|
Web:
www.angelvalley.org/crystalskull | Experience
the energies of the famous Mitchell-Hedges
crystal skull and more than 200 crystal skulls
in our meditation dome; experience the power
of both guided and silent meditations in an
activated field of crystal skulls; learn to induce
activation of crystals; charge your own crystals; and much more.
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SHH! IT'S A SECRET! CONFERENCE

Nov. 16-18, 2007; Tempe, AZ
Cost: $285 (addtl. charge for lectures and
workshops; single-day passes avail.) | Contact: Dr. Chet Snow, PO Box 1738, Sedona, AZ
86339, (928) 204-1962 | Email:
cbsnow@npgcable.com
|
Web:
www.chetsnow.com/signs | This unique gathering will bring together cutting-edge thinkers,
researchers, and teachers regarding some of
the greatest mysteries of our times. Learn
what is behind today's shift in human consciousness, how we are evolving in these
times. Explore government coverups, HAARP,
UFO secrets, crop circles, 2012, ancient and
modern mysteries, the Pleiadians' viewpoint,
self-empowerment, and much more. Speakers include Lynne McTaggart, Barbara
Marciniak, William Henry, Jim Marrs, Daniel
Pinchbeck, Linda Moulton Howe, Nick Begich,
Philip Gardner, Bert Janssen, Heather Clewett,
Chet and Kallista Snow, and others.
SPIRITUAL CONNECTIONS
CRUISE WITH SYLVIA BROWNE
Sept. 25-Oct. 5, 2007; Mediterranean
Contact: Life Journeys, 101 West Fourth
Street, Suite 400, Santa Ana, CA 92701,
(888) 259-9191 Ext. 1213 | Email:
ibis@worldviewtravel.com
|
Web:
www.ronoyer.com/SylviaBrowne/Alaska_200
7 | Take a relaxing vacation and find the
answers you've been searching for in four intimate two-hour lectures with psychic Sylvia
Browne and spiritual intuitive and musician
Colette Baron-Reid.
SPIRITUAL CONNECTIONS
LECTURES WITH SYLVIA BROWNE
Oct. 11, 2007; Tampa, FL
Nov. 12, 2007; Philadelphia, PA
Nov. 13, 2007; Washington, DC
Nov. 15, 2007; Westbury, NY
Nov. 19, 2007; San Diego, CA
Contact: Hay House, (800) 654-5126 | Email:
office@sylvia.org | Web: www.sylvia.org | In
this lecture, which features Colette BaronReid, psychic Sylvia Browne examines why we
form our relationships with certain individuals,
for better or worse.
TANTRA OF SOUND WORKSHOP
Oct. 26, 2007; Columbus, OH
Contact: Jonathan Goldman, PO Box 2240,
Boulder, CO 80306, (800) 246-9764 | Email:
soundheals@aol.com
|
Web:
www.healingsounds.com/Events | Join internationally acclaimed Sound Healing pioneer,
author, and musician Jonathan Goldman and
holistic psychotherapist Andi Goldman to
experience the transformative benefits and
healing power of sound, heighten your consciousness through your own self-created
sounds. Topics include Bija Mantras,
Pythagorean Tuning Forks, Inner Child Lullaby,
and more.
TAROT OR YEARLY BIRDPATH
DESTINY READINGS
Sept. 28-29, 2007; Sturbridge, MA
Contact: Sandy Corcoran (281) 361-4464 |
Email: info@starwalkervisions.com | Web:
www.starwalkervisions.com
TOUCHING THE GODDESS:
FOUR-PART WOMEN'S GATHERING
Sept. 22, 2007; Concord, NH
Dec. 8, 2007; Concord, NH
Contact: Julie (603) 226-4644 or Sandy (281)
361-4464
|
Email:
info@starwalkervisions.com | Web:
www.starwalkervisions.com | Earth based rituals to open your awareness to the subtle
realms within Mother Earth and the Cosmos.
Includes four evening Moon ceremonies,
building in intensity.
UNEXPLAINED MYSTERIES CONFERENCE
Apr. 6, 2008; Dorchester, Dorset, England
Cost: 25 | Contact: Mrs. V. Kingston, 26 Rex
Lane, Chickerell, Dorset, DT3 4AY England,
01305
830057
|
Email:
spring.conference@virgin.net | Web: thecropcirclewebsite.50megs.com | This conference
will focus on crop circles, UFOs, government
conspiracies, hidden knowledge, spiritual
matters, and more.
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PARANORMAL
CHICAGO GHOST CONFERENCE
Oct. 26-28, 2007; Chicago, IL
Contact: Ursula Bielski, (888) 446-7891 |
Email: ursulabielski@sbcglobal.net | Web:
www.chicagohauntings.com/conference |
Field investigators, authors, historians, folklorists, artists, sensitives, and enthusiasts
come together in one of America's most haunted cities for a weekend of learning and discovery, as we unlock the stories of the ghosts of
Chicago, featuring Sally Rhine Feather, Brian
Leffler, John Kachuba, Juli Velazquez, Steven
LaChance, Gregory Myers, Nate Larson, Elizabeth Rintoul, Edward Shanahan, Ursula Bielski, Michael McDowell, and others.
CIVIL WAR TRIVIA, LEGENDS
AND GHOST STORIES
Oct. 7, 2007; Bel Air, MD
Contact: Ed Okonowicz (410) 398-5013 |
Email: edo@mystandlace.com | Web:
www.mystandlace.com/events
"DEATH BY DESSERT" BUFFET
AND GHOST HUNT
Nov. 2, 2007; Mansfield, OH
Cost: $70 (must be 21 to attend) | Contact:
Sheri Brake-Recco, Haunted Heartland Tours,
PO Box 291, Cana Fulton, OH 44614, (304)
412-6114 | Email: riverstx@sssnet.com |
Web: www.hauntedhistory.net
DINNER AND A GHOST
Sept. 21, 2007; Zoar, OH
Oct. 25, 2007; Zoar, OH
Nov. 24, 2007; Zoar, OH
Contact: Sheri Brake-Recco, Haunted Heartland Tours, PO Box 291, Cana Fulton, OH
44614, (304) 412-6114 | Email: riverstx@sssnet.com
|
Web:
www.hauntedhistory.net
EAST OF MIDNIGHT SPECTRAL SHADOW
TOURS WITH THE UNDERTAKER
Various dates ; Chicago, IL
Cost: $45-$100 | Contact: Carl "The Undertaker", (708) 638-6950 | Email: undertakertours@yahoo.com | Web: www.shadowtours.
com | Designed and conducted by a licensed
funeral director and embalmer, these tours
take you to both well-known crime scenes and
haunted locations and obscure, out-of-the-way
places that few people have even heard
about.
GHOST HUNT AT THE WEST VIRGINIA

STATE PENITENTIARY: AFTER MIDNIGHT
XTREME GHOST INVESTIGATION AND
PIZZA AT THE PEN
Sept. 29, 2007; Moundsville, WV
Nov. 10, 2007; Moundsville, WV
Cost: $75 (incl. round trip coach bust from N,
Canton, OH; must be 18 to attend) | Contact:
Sheri Brake-Recco, Haunted Heartland Tours,
PO Box 291, Cana Fulton, OH 44614, (304)
412-6114 | Email: riverstx@sssnet.com |
Web: www.hauntedhistory.net
GHOSTHUNTING
Oct. 1, 2007; Mansfield, OH
Oct. 2, 2007; Mansfield, OH
Oct. 4, 2007; Bloomington, IL
Oct. 6, 2007; Alton, IL
Oct. 8, 2007; Springdale, OH
Oct. 26, 2007; Chicago, IL
Oct. 30, 2007; Cadiz, OH
Email: jkachuba@earthlink.net | Web:
www.johnkachuba.com | Meet John Kachuba
a/k/a The Ghosthunter, paranormal investigator and author.
GHOSTHUNTING 101 CLASSES AND
INVESTIGATIONS AT THE FORMER
WEST VIRGINIA STATE PENITENTIARY
Sept. 14, 2007; Moundsville, WV
Cost: $50 | Contact: Sheri Brake-Recco,
Haunted Heartland Tours, PO Box 291, Cana
Fulton, OH 44614, (304) 412-6114 | Email:
riverstx@sssnet.com
|
Web:
www.hauntedhistory.net | Hands-on class and
investigation of one of the nation's most
haunted locations. Instructor Sherri BrakeRecco will teach the use of investigative gear
that will be supplied in class. An investigation
of North Hall and the infamous Sugar Shack
will take place after class. Workbook and light
refreshments will be provided. Must be 18 to
participate.
GHOST HUNTING EXPERIENCE
Oct. 20, 2007; Washington Township, NJ
Oct. 27, 2007; Glendora, NJ
Cost: $6 | Contact: South Jersey Ghost
Research Group, (877) 478-3168 | Email:
north@sjgr.org
|
Web:
www.southjerseyghostresearch.org | 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, AJGR
Kids Club events, and lots more.
GHOSTOUR: THE HAUNTED
VACATION TO ENGLAND
Sept. 10-17, 2007; England
Contact: Tours of Terror, 315 Derby Avenue,
Orange, CT 06477, (866) TERRORTOUR or
(203) 795-4737 | Email: TOURSofTER-
ROR@aol.com | Web: www.ghostour.com |

Features haunted hotels and houses, haunted
castles, ghostly walks, creepy graveyards, psychic investigations, supernatural sights and
tales, haunted pub crawl, ghost stories, haunted churches and theaters, and more.
GHOSTS AND HISTORY ON THE GREEN
Sept. 14, 2007; Newark, DE
Nov. 2, 2007; Newark, DE
GHOSTS OF CHARLESTON WALKS
Ongoing; Charleston, SC
Contact: Tradd Ashley Gibbs, 184 East Bay
Street, Suite 103, Charleston, SC 29401,
(800)
854-1670
|
Email:
tradd@tourcharleston.com
|
Web:
www.tourcharleston.com
GHOST WALK AND HAUNTED CAMPFIRE
Sept. 29, 2007; Elkton, MD
GRAND CANYON PARANORMAL CONVENTION - GATEWAY TO THE PARANORMAL
Oct. 19-21, 2007; Williams, AZ
Contact: Dr. Dave Oester, 848 North Rainbow
Blvd., #592, Las Vegas, NV 89107 | Email:
ghostweb@hughes.net
|
Web:
www.ghostweb.com/grandcanyon | Features
ghost walks and explorations of the "living"
ghost town of Williams, AZ, and the Grand
Canyon, entertainment by Dragon Lair Productions, and speakers, including Dr. Dave
Oester, David John Oates, Stanton Friedman,
Lorraine Scott, Dr. Suz Sebek, Jim Berkland,
Lynne Kitei MD, and others, on such topics as
ghosts and EVP, reverse speech, UFOs, predicting earthquakes, dimensional shifting, and
remote viewing.
HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR
Oct. 27, 2007; Decatur, IL
Cost: $40 (addtl. fee for some events) | Contact: Troy Taylor, History & Hauntings Book
Company, 15 Forest Knolls Est., Decatur, IL
62521, (888) 446-7859 | Email: ttaylor@prairieghosts.com
|
Web:
www.prairieghosts.com/halloween | Features
haunted Decatur tours, Greenwood Cemetery
excursions, late night ghost hunts, a supernatural spook show presentation of 1932 classic
The Old Dark House, and speakers, including
Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Dale Kaczmarek, Keith
Age, Troy Taylor, Ken Berg, Alan Rupnick, Beck
Ray, Laura Placeres, and others.
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HAUNTED CARIBBEAN CRUISE
Sept. 8-16, 2007; Montego Bay, Jamaica,
Grand Cayman, Cozumel Mexico
Cost: $803-$1,053 | Contact: | Contact:
CruiseSmiths, Inc, 331 Sharon Lane, North
Aurora, IL 60542, (877) 330-3351 or (630)
330-3595 | Email: ghosts@hauntedcaribbean.com | Web: www.cruisesmiths.com
| Join Haunted Times, Ghost Hunting University and Diane Ladley, Americas Storyteller,
on a guided Ghost tour of Galveston, TX, on
the 107th anniversary of the Galveston Hurricane! Stay in one of two haunted hotels, then
board Carnival Cruise Lines ship Conquest for
a cruise of the haunted Caribbean. Visit Rose
Hall (legend of the White Witch) in Montego
Bay, Jamaica, then it is off to the land of the
Pirates in Grand Cayman, and finally visit the
Mayan Ruins in Tulum from the port of
Cozumel, Mexico, before returning.
HAUNTED FALL FESTIVAL
Oct. 6, 2007; Alton, IL
Cost: $10 | Contact: Troy Taylor, History &
Hauntings Book Company, 15 Forest Knolls
Est., Decatur, IL 62521, (888) 446-7859 |
Email: ttaylor@prairieghosts.com | Web:
www.prairieghosts.com/festival | Be chilled
by presentations on ghosts, hauntings, spirited locations, paranormal investigations, and
much more. Speakers include host Troy Taylor, Rob Conover, Sharyn Luedke, John Winterbauer, Len Adams, and others.
HAUNTED FORTRESS
AT OLD FORT NIAGARA
Oct. 26-27, 2007; Jamestown, NY
Contact: (716) 745-7611 | Web:
www.oldfortniagara.org | Hear stories by a
bonfire, tour a cemetery, and meet spirits
from the past that return to haunt the dark
corridors of Old Fort Niagara, an 18th-century
fortress that includes some of the oldest buildings on the Great Lakes. Dress for the weather, wear walking footwear, and bring a flashlight.
HAUNTED OHIO
Oct. 15, 2007; Parma, OH
GHOSTS OF THE CIVIL WAR
Oct. 18, 2007; Greentown, OH
GRAVESTONE SYMBOLISM
Oct. 23, 2007; Massillon, OH
Contact: Sheri Brake-Recco, Haunted Heartland Tours, PO Box 291, Cana Fulton, OH
44614, (304) 412-6114 | Email: riverstx@sssnet.com
|
Web:
www.hauntedhistory.net
HAUNTED HISTORY WALKS
OF CANAL FULTON
Sept. 28, 2007; Canal Fulton, OH
Cost: $10 | Contact: Sheri Brake-Recco,
Haunted Heartland Tours, PO Box 291, Cana
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Fulton, OH 44614, (304) 412-6114 | Email:

riverstx@sssnet.com
|
Web:
www.hauntedhistory.net | Join paranormal
investigator Sherri Brake-Recco on lantern
walks through one of Ohio's most intriguing
small towns. Travel back into the past along
the Ohio-Erie canal and hear haunted tales
about the pioneers and canal workers. Reservations suggested.
HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE TALES
AND SEA SUPERSTITIONS
Oct. 30, 2007; Rehoboth Beach, DE
HAUNTED PARKERSBURG GHOST TOUR
Fri. and Sat. nights; Parkersburg, WV
Cost: $8 | Contact: Susan Sheppard, (304)
428-7978 | Email: sheppard@wirefire.com |
Web: www.hauntedparkersburg.com | See
places possessed by spirits, haunted houses,
and a haunted graveyard, and hear tales of
the Banshee of Marrtown, the East End Ghoul,
the West Virginia Mothmen, the Men in Black,
and the 1966 of alien Indrid Cold.
HAUNTED PRISON 2007:
THE NIGHT "THEY" CAME HOME
Sept. 28-Oct. 31, 2007; Mansfield, OH
Cost: $15 | Contact: (419) 461-0120 or (419)
360-5689 | Email: info@hauntedx.com |
Web: www.hauntedx.com | Children under 13
not admitted.
HISTORY AND HAUNTS
Sept. 15, 2007; Elkton, MD
HISTORY AND MYSTERY,
HAUNTINGS AND HUMOR
Oct. 27, 2007; Old Odessa, DE
Contact: Corbit Calloway Library, (302) 3788839 | Email: edo@mystandlace.com | Web:
www.mystandlace.com/events | Enjoy an
informative and humourous presentation by
historian Mike Dixon and folklorist Ed Okonowicz, as they address the connection between
history and hauntings.
MANSFIELD REFORMATORY GHOST HUNT
Cost: $50 | Contact: Ohio State Reformatory
Preservation Society, 100 Reformatory Road,
Mansfield, OH 44905-1208, (419) 522-2644
| Email: info@mrps.org | Web: mrps.org
MARYLAND'S BEST GHOST STORIES
Oct. 25, 2007; Wilmington, DE
Oct. 29, 2007; Newark, DE

MID-SOUTH PARANORMAL CONVENTION
Sept. 21-23, 2007; Louisville, KY
Cost: $50; single-day $25 (adv. disc. and
VIP.passes
avail.)
|
Email:
kage@louisvilleghs.com
|
Web:
www.louisvilleghs.com | Speakers include
Troy Taylor, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Donna
LaCroix, Rick Hayes, Dan Jolley, John Zaffis,
Tim Yancey, Patrick Burns, Carmen Reed,
Steven LaChance, and Robbie Thomas.
PARANORMAL CRUISE INTO
THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE
Oct. 16-22, 2007; The Bahamas
Cost: $599-$849 (double occ.; incl. meals) |
Contact: Helen Preston, 1550 Hendersonville
Road, Asheville, NC 28803, (800) 221-7181
or
(828)
274-2555
|
Email:
helenp@fugazync.com
|
Web:
www.paranormalcruise.com | Join L.E.M.U.R.
president and author Joshua P. Warren and
imaging expert Brian Irish conducting scientific research, measuring the bizarre energy
fields, and otherwise investigating the mysterious Bermuda Triangle.
PENN STATE PARANORMAL
RESEARCH SOCIETY UNIV-CON
Oct. 18-21, 2007; University Park, PA
Cost: $55 | Contact: Paranormal Research
Society, c/o Penn State Univ., Attn: Univ-Con
Committee, 125 HUB/ROBESON CENTER,
University Park, PA 16802, (814) 689-2133 |
Email: univcon@pennstateprs.com | Web:
www.pennstateprs.com/univcon | The only
university-backed paranormal conference in
the U.S. features workshops, ghost tours,
investigations, paranormal market, individual
workshops, and speakers, including Chip Coffey, Doug Bradley (aka Pinhead), Lorraine
Warren, John Keel, Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, Loyd Auerbach, Michelle Belanger, Ryan
Buell, Patrick Burns, Chad Calek, Chris Fleming, Dr. Dale Graff, Dr. David Hufford, Keith
Johnson, and Patti Starr.
PROOF THROUGH TECHNOLOGY: THE EXCITING NEW SCIENCE OF THE PARANORMAL
Oct. 7, 2007; Janesville, WI
Contact: Paranormal Research Group, 779
North Front Street, Milwaukee, WI 53202,
(608) 931-3633 | Email: ParanormalResearchGroup@Yahoo.com | Web: paranormalresearchgroup.com | Explore the science of
the paranormal past and present with Pulitzer
Prize winner Deborah Blum, Timothy Harte,
Dave Schumacher, and others.
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ROSE CITY PARANORMAL CONFERENCE

Oct. 21-22, 2007; Portland, OR
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Davis, Jake Hartman, Michael P. Jones,
Catherine Duncan, Steven Wolff, Ross Allison,
Darren Thompson, Sara Robinson, and Shannon Riley-Kilgore.
SOUTH JERSEY GHOST RESEARCH
GROUP LECTURE SERIES
Oct. 4, 2007; Franklinville, NJ
Oct. 5, 2007; Glassboro, NJ
Oct. 8, 2007; Logan Township, NJ
Oct. 9, 2007; Philadelphia, PA
Oct. 10, 2007; Middlesex, NJ
Oct. 11, 2007; Westmont, NJ
Oct. 16, 2007; Burlington, NJ
Oct. 18, 2007; Maple Shade, NJ
Oct. 19, 2007; Riverton, NJ
Oct. 22, 2007; Mt. Laurel, NJ
Oct. 23, 2007; Cinnaminson, NJ
Oct. 24, 2007; Ocean City, NJ
Oct. 25, 2007; Manchester, NJ
Oct. 29, 2007; Bellmawr, NJ
Oct. 30, 2007; Blackwood, NJ
Nov. 9, 2007; Wenonah, NJ
Cost: Free | Contact: South Jersey Ghost
Research Group, (877) 478-3168 | Email:
north@sjgr.org
|
Web:
www.southjerseyghostresearch.org | Video
and audio presentation with infrared video
clips, photographs, and EVPs from actual
cases, photo and equipment displays, demonstrations, and Q&A.
SPIRITS & SPIRITS
Nov. 3, 2007; Easthampton, NJ
Contact: Jim, (856) 778-8052 or South Jersey
Ghost Research Group, (877) 478-3168 |
Email:
north@sjgr.org
|
Web:
www.southjerseyghostresearch.org | Historic
Smithville Mansion's annual wine tasting
event, along with findings from South Jersey
Ghost Research Group's investigations, video
and audio presentations, photo displays,
equipment displays and demos, a lecture
about the history of ghost hunting, Q&A, and
more.
SPOOKED IN SEATTLE GHOST TOUR
Every Saturday Night; Seattle, WA
Contact:
Philip
Lipson,
Seattle
UFO/Paranormal Group, 623 Broadway East,
Seattle, WA 98102, (206) 328-6499 | Email:
philiplipson@hotmail.com
|
Web:
www.seattlechatclub.org/museum | Walking
tour through the late 19th-century charm of
Capitol Hills, famous for its haunted sites.
Cost: $500 | Contact: Dr. Angela Thompson

Smith, (702) 293-3696 | Email: Catalyst@peoplepc.com | Web: mypeoplepc.com/members/catalyst/catalyst/id4
STRANGE PHENOMENA INVESTIGATIONS
LECTURE SERIES
Sept. 29, 2007; Croydon, Surrey, England
Cost: 5 | Contact: Strange Phenomena Investigations, 18 Holman Road, West Ewell,
Epsom, Surrey, England KT19 9PQ, 07949
178 835 | Email: spi_spi@hotmail.com | Web:
www.spiuk.net | Speakers include Malcolm
Robinson (Ghosts, UFOs, and the Paranormal),
Nick Pope (The Real X-Files), Marcus Allen (Did
We or Did We Not Go to the Moon?), and others.
TALES TOMBSTONES TELL
Oct. 5, 2007; Port Penn, DE
Oct. 24, 2007; Laurel, DE
Nov. 10, 2007; Greenville, DE
TEXAS PARANORMAL CONFERENCE
Sept. 15, 2007; Dallas, TX
Cost:
$50
|
Email:
webmaster@metroplexparanormalinvestigations.com
|
Web:
www.metroplexparanormalinvestigations.com
/conference | Speakers include Robert Caruso, Peter Haviland, Marveena Meek, Jerry Pippin, Dr. Rita Louise, Luke Gross, and Wyndell
Ferguson.
REMOTE VIEWING
5-DAY GENERAL REMOTE
VIEWING WORKSHOP
Oct. 21-25, 2007; Seattle, WA
Nov. 25-29, 2007; Seattle, WA
Cost: $360 | Contact: Dr. Wayne Carr, Western Institute of Remote Viewing, 218 Main
Street #634, Kirkland, WA 98033, (866) 7599010 or (425) 488-5496 | Email:
waynecarr@remoteviewers.com | Web:
www.remoteviewers.com
BASIC CONTROLLED REMOTE
VIEWING TRAINING
Sept. 14-16, 2007; Amarillo, TX
Oct. 26-28, 2007; Amarillo, TX
Nov. 9-11, 2007; Amarillo, TX
Dec. 7-9, 2007; Amarillo, TX
Cost:
$1,000
|
Email:
abuchanan@charter.net
|
www.crviewer.com/calendar
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CONTROLLED REMOTE VIEWING 5-DAY

APPLICATIONS AND TRAINING COURSES
Various Dates; Boulder City, CO
GENERAL REMOTE VIEWING

WEEKEND WORKSHOP
Oct. 1-2, 2007; Seattle, WA
INTEGRAL REMOTE VIEWING
WEEKEND WORKSHOP
Sept. 29-30, 2007; Chicago, IL
Nov. 5-6, 2007; Seattle, WA
Dec. 3-4, 2007; Seattle, WA
INTERMEDIATE CONTROLLED
REMOTE VIEWING TRAINING
Sept. 21-23, 2007; Alamogordo, NM
Nov. 16-18, 2007; Alamogordo, NM
Cost:
$1,000
|
Email:
abuchanan@charter.net
|
www.crviewer.com/calendar
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INTERNATIONAL REMOTE VIEWING

ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
Oct. 19-21, 2007; Las Vegas, NV
Cost: $261 until Sept. 15; $295 until Oct. 1;
$330 thereafter (single-day and member rates
avail.) | Contact: Remote Viewing 2007 Conference, PO Box 281, East Windsor Hill, CT
06028, (866) 374-4782 or (860) 882-1210 |
Web: www.rvconference.org | Speakers
include Jacques F. Vallee PhD, George
McMullen, Courtney Brown, Lyn Buchanan,
William Ray, Marty Rosenblatt, Stephan
Schwartz, Nick Seferlis, Paul H. Smith, Jessica
Utts, Glenn Wheaton, and others.
REMOTE VIEWING PRACTICUM
Oct. 6-12, 2007; Faber, VA
(866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email:
TMIprograms@aol.com
|
Web:
www.monroeinstitute.org | Offers 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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SACRED SITES/PILGRIMAGES
A PILGRIMAGE ACTIVATING THE
CELESTIAL & EARTHLY PORTALS IN
THE SACRED LAND OF THE MAGDALENE
Sept. 28-Oct. 8, 2007; Southern France
Contact: Cayelin K. Castell, (520) 744-0506 |
Email: p3@ShamanicAstrology.Com | Web:
celestialtimings.com/SouthernFrance
BARDIC JOURNEY THROUGH THE HEART OF
SCOTLAND LAND OF THE CELTIC PEOPLES
Sept. 22-30, 2007; Scotland
Cost: 1,255 | Contact: Glenn and Cameron
Brighton, Sacred Britain Tours, PO Box 760,
Shelburne, VT 05482, (802) 425-5616 |
Email: enquiries@sacredbritain.com | Web:
www.sacredbritain.com/bardic | This journey,
which will be led by Gabriella Kapfer, Cameron
Brighton, and Glenn Brighton, will begin at
Rosslyn Chapel and travel in the footsteps of
the ancient bards through the Celtic heartland
of Scotland, guided by intuition, storytelling,
music, and dowsing, and joined by local wisdom keepers and guides.
CELTIC MYSTICAL JOURNEY TO ENGLAND
Oct. 15-22, 2007; England
Cost: $2,240 | Contact: Celtic Mystical Journeys, 11188 Thousand Pine Circle, Frankston,
TX 75763, (877) 756-8763 or (903) 8765869
|
Email:
brenda@celticmysticaljourneys.com | Web:
www.celticmystical journeys.com | Visit the
sacred wells of St. Neot and St. Cleer, St.
Michaels Mount, Stonehenge, Salisbury Cathedral, the standing stones at Avebury, Glastonbury, the Chalice Well and Tor, Tintagel, and
many other sites associated with the Arthurian
legend.
CELTIC MYSTICAL JOURNEY TO FRANCE
Sept. 18-30, 2007; France
Cost: $3,230 | Contact: Celtic Mystical Journeys, 11188 Thousand Pine Circle, Frankston,
TX 75763, (877) 756-8763 or (903) 8765869
|
Email:
brenda@celticmysticaljourneys.com | Web:
www.celticmysticaljourneys.com/tours |
Experience the Land of the Four Heresies,
Mary Magdalene, the Black Madonna, the
Holy Grail, the Cathars, Templars and
Troubadours.
CENTER OF THE MANDALA
May 16-June 11, 2008; Tibet
Cost: $5,650 | Contact: Insight Travel Pilgrimages, (800) 688-9851 or (937) 767-1102 |
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www.insight-travel.com | 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.
EXPERIENCE THE MAGICAL
AND HEALING ENERGIES
Oct. 22-29, 2007; Crete
(800) 234-8687 or (719) 448-0514 | Email:
|
Web:
www.powerplaces.com
GRAND SEXTILE TOUR:
RETURN TO THE NILE
Oct. 21-Nov. 2, 2007; Egypt
Cost: $4,440 | Contact: Julie Gillentine, (970)
264-7474 | Email: juliegillentine@ centurytel.net | Web: www.queenofcups.com/nile |
Embark upon the sacred journey of a lifetime.
Includes private time in the Great Pyramid,
Nile cruise, Abydos, Dendara, Abu Simbel, and
more.
JOURNEY TO THE CELESTIAL AND
EARTHLY PORTALS IN THE SACRED
PLACES OF THE MAGDALENE
Sept. 28-Oct. 8, 2007; Southern France
Cost: $2,900 | Contact: Cayelin Castell, PO
Box 222, Okauchee, WI, (520) 401-6125 or
(262)
567-0657
|
Email:
p3@shamanicastrology.com | Web:
www.shamanicastrology.com | Experience
the many mystical places in southern France,
where early ancestors marked the connection
points between the Earth and the cosmos. As
the Moon passes to the Galactic Edge and
then through the Galactic Core, it activates
hidden knowledge stored in these ancient
sites and in ourselves, to be released with a
more magical, limitless understanding of our
lives and purpose.
JOURNEY TO THE MIDDLE KINGDOM
April 4-24, 2008; China
Contact: Insight Travel Pilgrimages, (800)
688-9851 or (937) 767-1102 | Email:
info@insight-travel.com | Web: www.insighttravel.com/china | Visit many types of Buddhist sites, including sculpted grottoes along
the Silk Route, Dunhuang and its exquisitely
painted caves and finely carved statues,
sacred mountains, and the monasteries and
temples of Xian.
MAYA SACRED PATH TO 2012: BALANCING
THE MALE AND FEMALE FORCES
Nov. 25-Dec. 3, 2007; Mexico
Cost: $2,270 | Contact: Body Mind Spirit Journeys, PMB 330, 51 Bell Rock Plaza, Suite A,
Sedona, AZ 86351, (800) 231-9811 or (928)
284-2384
|
Email:
info@BodyMindSpiritJourneys.com | Web:
www.bodymindspiritjourneys.com | Prepare
for the many changes and shifts happening in
the world in the sacred land of the Maya,
learning their ceremonies and rituals, and
learning to balance your inner male and
female forces through the clearing of your
chakras.
MYSTERIOUS ENGLAND & CORNWALL:
EARTH MYSTERIES, ANCIENT SITES,
CELTIC TEACHINGS
Sept. 10-22, 2007; United Kingdom
Cost: $2,795 | Contact: Earth Mysteries &
Sacred Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box
1563, Nevada City, CA 95959, (530) 7400561 | Email: sacredsitetours@tesco.net or
wwithin@nccn.net | Web: www.nccn.net/
~wwithin/france2 | Experience the ancient
and sacred sites of Glastonbury, Stonehenge,
Avebury, crop circles, Tintagel, and ancient
sites of Penwith, Cornwall, and explore history's mysteries and Celtic history, practices,
worldview, symbols, and festivals.
MYSTICAL FRANCE! THE CELTS, THE GODDESS, THE BLACK MADONNA, ANCIENT
SITES, MERLIN, AND EARTH MYSTERIES
Oct. 18-27, 2007; Languedoc-Roussillon,
Southern France
Cost: $2,595 | Contact: Earth Mysteries &
Sacred Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box
1563, Nevada City, CA 95959, (530) 7400561 | Email: sacredsitetours@tesco.net or
wwithin@nccn.net | Web: www.nccn.net/
~wwithin/france2 | Visit Brittany, Mont StMichel, the Chartres Cathedral, and the
ancient sites, chateaus, medieval castles,
ancient caves, subterranean rivers and caves,
the Mediterranean Sea, the Pyrenees, spas
and spring water, Gothic cathedrals,
Romanesque churches, abbeys, walled cities,
and sites of great mystery, including the Holy
Grail mystery, the Magdalene mystery,
Rennes-la-Chateau mystery, the Cathars, ley
lines and geometric alignments on the land,
Nazi treasure hunters, and more.
MYSTICAL IRELAND - CELTIC JOURNEYS,
ANCIENT SITES & HISTORY'S MYSTERIES
Sept. 28-Oct. 11, 2007; Ireland
Cost: $2,295 | Contact: Sheri Nakken, Earth
Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours & Well Within,
PO Box 1563, Nevada City, CA 95959, (530)
740-0561 | Email: earthmysteriestours@
tesco.net or wwithin@nccn.net | Web:
www.nccn.net/~wwithin/irel | Explore Celtic
legends, folklore, and mythology, and the
mountains and loughs (lakes) that are the
homes of the gods and goddesses. Visit
ancient, magical, sacred, and inspirational
sites, with teachings in Celtic and pre-Celtic
mythology and mysteries and Irish history.
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OPENING THE SPIRITUAL TREASURY

May 1-14, 2008; Japan
www.insight-travel.com/japan | Experience
the nuances and beauty of Japan and the
secret treasuries of dharma and culture that
permeate its ancient architecture, mountain
retreats, and dailing life. Visit Osaka; Kyoto,
the ancient capital and city of a thousand temples; Arashiyama, where the Tale of Genji originated; the ancient Shingon Temples of Mount
Koyasan; the forest cemetery where Kukai is
in eternal samadhi. Walk through a bamboo
forest to the hut of Basho and take a walking
meditation on the ancient pilgrimage island of
Shikoku. Includes the Dogo Onsen hot mineral
baths in Matsuyama, the Peace Park at
Hiroshima, and a meditation retreat and night
mountain walk with the Shugendo marathon
monks on Mt. Hei.
PERU PILGRIMAGE-GATHERING THE LIGHT
KEEPERS AT THE AUTUMNAL EQUINOX
Sept. 14-25, 2007; Peru
Cost: $2,299 | Contact: Aluna Joy Yaxk'in,
Center of the Sun, PO Box 1988, Sedona, AZ
86339, (928) 282-6292 | Email: alunajoy@kachina.net
|
Web:
www.kachina.net/~alunajoy/pilgrimages |
Reawaken your spirit in Machu Picchu.
Explore Ollantaytambo, where precise celestial alignments are exhibited, ascend to the
sun temple of Pisac, meditate in the circular
site of Morray, experience interstellar Silustanni, the Amaru Meru interdimensional Doorway,
and much more. Workshops will be guided by
Inca spiritual messenger and Mystery School
initiate Willaru Huayta and mystic, author, and
spiritual archaeologist Aluna Joy Yaxk'in,
REALM OF PADMASAMBHAVA
Oct. 5-21, 2007; Bhutan
www.insight-travel.com/bhutan | Explore the
serene and rarely visited temples and traditional centers of pilgrimage, where Padmasambhava introduced Buddhism, traveling
to Paro, Thimpu, Punakha, Tongsa, Jakar, and
the mountain retreats of Taktsang and
Tharpaling.
RETURN TO EGYPT WITH

SEDONA SOUL ADVENTURES
Mar. 2-15, 2008; Egypt
Contact: Debra, (877) 204-3664 or (928)
204-5988
|
Web:
www.sedonasouladventures.com/pages/egyp
t | Join a group of spiritual adventurers for the
trip of a lifetime to reconnect with the mysteries of Egypt. Awaken and retune on every level
through ceremony, ritual, and meditations in
the power spots of this ancient land. Includes
two hours of private group time inside the
Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, Karnak, Luxor, Abu
Simbel, Abydos, Isis Temple, Hathor Temple,
all with Sound Healer Jahsah playing didgeridoo and flutes.
ROOF OF THE WORLD
Sept. 29-Oct. 20, 2007; Tibet
(800) 234-8687 or (719) 448-0514 | Email:
|
Web:
www.powerplaces.com | Explore the Incan
Sacred Valley of Urubamba and majestic
Machu Picchu with Greg Braden.
SACRED MEDICINES, SACRED
CEREMONIES, SACRED SITES
Jan. 5-26, 2008; Peru
Cost: $3,995 | Contact: Mystery School, 369
Montezuma Avenue, Suite 103, Santa Fe, NM
87501, (888) 777-5981 or (505) 988-2223 |
Email: prophets@greatmystery.org | Web:
www.greatmystery.org | With Peter Gorman.
Participate in a mushroom ceremony with the
local fungi, a San Pedro ceremony in the hot
springs at night, and an opportunity to utilize
the Matses Indians' sacred medicines. Tour
the Amazon with Peter Gorman, including
Cuzco and the Temple of the Moon, the
Sacred Waterfalls, and Sacsayhuaman,
Machu Picchu, Aguas Calientes, Lima and the
Cathedral of San Francisco and its catacombs,
the Cathedral of Lima, the National Museum,
the Sacred Valley of the Incas, the ruins of
Ollayantatambo, and other fascinating places.
Nov. 3-17, 2007; Egypt

Sedona, AZ 86351, (800) 231-9811 or (928)
284-2384
|
Email:
www.bodymindspiritjourneys.com | Experience the magic and mysteries of Egypt
through sacred ceremony and connect with
the powerful energies at sacred temples and
sites dedicated to the Egyptian gods and goddesses.
SPAS, HOT SPRINGS, STANDING STONES &
SACRED NATURE OF SWITZERLAND
Sept. 28-Oct. 7, 2007
Cost: 2,295 | Contact: Earth Mysteries &
Sacred Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563,
Nevada City, CA 95959, (530) 740-0561 |
Email:
wwithin@nccn.net
|
Web:
www.nccn.net | Visit Leukerbad, Zermatt,
Lauterbrunne, and the Ice Palace, as well as
the glaciers, Alps, hot springs and spas, waterfalls, standing stones, mountains and more,
including train journeys to view the Matterhorn
and 28 other peaks and Jungfraujoch.
SPIRIT OF IRELAND-POWER OF THE
MYTH, BEAUTY OF THE LAND
Sept. 24-Oct. 5, 2007; Ireland
Cost: $2,989 | Contact: Celtic Spirit Journeys,
Box 3839, Carmel, CA 93921, (800) 6941957 | Email: info@celticspiritjourneys.com |
Web: www.celticspiritjourneys.com | Join
Mara Freeman, author of Celtic Spirituality | ,
on a mystical odyssey through sacred Ireland
to explore some of the most beautiful and
inspirational sacred landscapes of this
enchanted isle, including prehistoric temples
and circles of stone, sheela-na-gigs, holy wells,
ruined abbeys, sacred islands, druidic groves,
ogham stones, fairy lakes and glens, healing
springs, and splendid castles. Deepen the
magic of this journey to the soul of an ancient
and inimitable country through myths and stories told by Mara and local presenters, as well
as meditations and rituals culminating in a
ceremony on the Hill of Tara, the royal sacred
center of Ireland.
SACRED PLACES OF SEDONA

WOMEN'S SACRED TOUR
Sept. 12-16, 2007; Sedona, AZ
Oct. 10-14, 2007; Sedona, AZ
Sedona, AZ 86351, (800) 231-9811 or (928)
284-2384
|
Email:
www.bodymindspiritjourneys.com | Travel to
the "Land of Awes" on a wellness, magical,
and mystical retreat designed especially for
women.
TAROT & THE MYSTERIES IN EGYPT

Nov. 2-17, 2007; Egypt
Contact: Nicki Scully, (800) 937-2991 or
(541) 484-1099 | Email: mkgreer@pacbell.
net | Web: www.shamanicjourneys.com |
Experience Tarot and Mystery School initiations in the temples and tombs with Mary K.
Greer, Nicki Scully, and Normandi Ellis, translator of the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
Receive initiation into a new level of the
ancient Egyptian mysteries. Also visit sacred
sites.
SACRED TEMPLES AND ANCIENT WISDOM
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Nov. 25-Dec. 12, 2007; Egypt
Contact: Joseph Mark Cohen, (888) 633-2214
or (251) 229-2227 | Email: josephmark@treeoflifeschool.com
|
Web:
www.treeoflifeschool.com | Highlights of this
journey include a three-day Shamanic Kabbalah retreat at the foot of Mount Sinai, a visit to
Serabit el-Khadim, aromatherapy seminars in
Aswan and Fayoum Oasis, and a special visit
to the new library and planetarium in Alexandria, as well as visits with the Bedouin and
snorkeling with dolphins near Sharm-el
Sheikh.
THE SECRET MYSTERIES OF
SHAMBHALA AND THE FAR EAST
Nov. 3-16, 2007; China and Tibet
Sedona, AZ 86351, (800) 231-9811 or (928)
284-2384
|
Email:
www.bodymindspiritjourneys.com | Hosted by
Mark Amaru Pinkham.
THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA
Jan. 11-30, 2008; India and Nepal
www.insight-travel.com/indnepal | Visit sites
associated with the life of Shakyamuni Buddha, exploring ancient monuments and
monasteries and learning to appreciate the
power and peace of these pilgrimage centers.
WOMEN'S JOURNEY TO THE SACRED
POWER SPOTS OF PERU
Nov. 27-Dec. 8, 2007; Peru
Sedona, AZ 86351, (800) 231-9811 or (928)
284-2384
|
Email:
www.bodymindspiritjourneys.com | Journey
with other women to the majestic land of the
ancient Inca, where some of the most powerful healing feminine energies on Earth exist.
Enjoy traditional Andean ceremonies at the
sacred power spots in Cuzco, the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Machu Picchu, and Puno. The
internal energy of Peru is incredibly potent,
making for a journey of life enrichment and
spiritual growth.
SHAMANISM/SHAPESHIFTING
7TH ANNUAL SHAMANIC
GATHERING IN CENTRAL PARK
Oct. 14, 2007; New York, NY
Cost: Free | Contact: New York Shamanic Circle,
(212)
533-0909
|
Web:
www.nyshamaniccircle.org | Celebrate the
spirit world with drums, songs, dancing, jour-
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shamans. Bring a rattle or drum, a notepad
and pen/pencil, a bandana, a blanket, food,
and non-alcoholic beverages for a potluck picnic.
ADVANCED MASTER SHAPESHIFTER:
ATTUNING TO THE DEEP RHYTHMS OF
CHANGE
Oct. 31-Nov. 4, 2007; Blue Hill, ME
Contact: Lynda, Dream Change, PO Box 705,
Whately, MA 01093, (413) 665-0101 | Email:
info@dreamchange.org
|
Web:
www.dreamchange.org
GATHERING OF STAR NATIONS
Oct. 27-28, 2007; Shaftsbury, VT
Contact: (802) 447-3895 | Email:
spiritho@together.net
|
Web:
www.spirithollow.org | With Llyn Roberts MA
and others.
INDIGENOUS SHAMANISM:
THE CREATIVE SAMI SHAMAN
Sept. 16-21, 2007; San Francisco, CA
Contact: Raven Snow Inc., 2405 Figueroa NE,
Albuquerque, NM 87112, (505) 271-9306 |
Email: info@shamanicstudies.com | Web:
www.shamanism.org
INTENSIVE STAR PROCESS: SOUL
RETRIEVAL TRAINING
Oct. 4-7, 2007; Concord, NH
Nov. 2-4, 2007; Concord, NH
Contact: Julie (603) 226-4644 or Sandy (281)
361-4464 | Email: info@starwalkervisions.
com | Web: www.starwalkervisions.com | This
program will introduce you to the soul retrieval
paradigm, including shamanic techniques to
safely guide tracking, extracting, re-encoding,
and shapeshifting outmoded patterns and
belief systems.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
SHAMANISM: A JOURNEY THROUGH
TRANSFORMATION
Jan. 23-28, 2008; Santa Fe, NM
Cost: $595 until Dec. 15; $645 thereafter |
Contact: The Message Co., 4 Camino Azul,
Santa Fe, NM 87508, (505) 474-0998 or
(505) 474-7604 | Email: message@bizspirit.com
|
Web:
www.bizspirit.com/TriCon05/shamanism05/
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JOURNEY WITHIN: A BASIC
SHAMANISM RETREAT
Sept. 14-16, 2007; Whitney, ONT, Canada
Cost: $397CAN | Contact: The Edge, 100
Ottawa Avenue, Box 329, South River,
Ontario, Canada P0A 1X0, (800) 953-3343 |
Email: martha@shamanismcanada.com |
Web: www.shamanismcanada.com/retreats |
Shamanism retreat is designed to introduce

you to shamanism by providing training in the
practice of journeying for personal wellness.
Crop
Circles
MANDALA OF WHOLENESS SHAMANIC

BREATHWORK AND SHAMANIC
ASTROLOGY WORKSHOP
Contact: Cavelin K. Castell, (520) 744-0506 |
Email: p3@ShamanicAstrology.Com | Web:
www.shamanicastrology.com/events
SHAMANIC ASTROLOGY AUTUMNAL
EQUINOX NIGHT SKY WILDERNESS CAMP
Sept. 20-23, 2007; Fishlake Valley, NV
Cost: $300 | Contact: Daniel Giamario,
11301 Vista Avenue, Grass Valley, CA 95945,
(310)
281-7651
|
Email:
p3@ShamanicAstrology.com or jdgiamario@shamanicastrology. com | Web:
www.shamanicastrology.com | Features sunrise and sunset autumnal equinox ceremonials and night sky viewing at an ancient solstice petroglyph mystery school overlooking
nearby hot springs with Daniel Giamario,
Cayelin K. Castell, John Dumas, and the
Shamanic Astrology staff. Includes classes in
experiential shamanic astrology, high desert
mountain hiking, and wilderness hot springs.
SHAMANIC ASTROLOGY SAMHAIN
SCORPIO CROSS-QUARTER NIGHT
SKY TRACK GATHERING
Nov. 3-7, 2007; Faywood Hot Springs, NM
Cost: $320 (incl. CD recording of classes) |
Contact: Cayelin K. Castell, (520) 744-0506 or
Daniel Giamario, (310) 281-7651 | Email:
p3@shamanicastrology.com or jdgiamario@shamanicastrology.com | Web:
www.shamanicastrology.com/2004_Samhain
| Features Samhain sunrise, sunset, and
night sky ceremonials at the Stone Circle overlooking the hot springs, as well as classes with
Daniel Giamario, Cayelin K. Castell, John
Dumas, sound healer Didgeridoo, and the
Shamanic Astrology staff, which will focus on a
close morning conjunction of Venus and
Jupiter; morning star Venus; Mars cycle
emerging from the underworld; Saturn stationary retrograde preparing to move back into the
Sacred Hoop; the moon approaching the last
quarter in Leo for very dark skies.
SHAMANIC DIVINATION TRAINING
Sept. 29-30, 2007; Nashville, TN
Nov. 3-4, 2007; Phoenix, AZ
Nov. 17-18, 2007; San Diego, CA
Nov. 17-18, 2007; Victoria, BC, Canada
Contact: Journeywork Institute, PO Box
13160, Portland, OR 97213, (503) 282-6315
| Email: flanagin4@msn.com | Web:
www.shamanism.org
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2007 Event Listings

Dec. 8-9, 2007; Washington, DC
Contact: Journeywork Institute, PO Box 13160,
Portland, OR 97213, (503) 282-6315 | Email:
flanagin4@msn.com
|
Web:
www.shamanism.org
SHAMANIC JOURNEY WORKSHOP
Dec. 7-9, 2007; Faber, VA
Contact: The Monroe Institute, 62 Roberts
Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866) 8813440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email: TMIprograms@aol.com
|
Web:
www.monroeinstitute.org | Explore traditions
in expanded states of consciousness with
guidance on utilizing sound for energizing
mind and body; communicating with your
power animal ally; using sage smudging for
energy shielding; creating your personal
medicine bag with power objects, using quartz
crystals for amplifying and directing energy;
experiencing transcendent union with nature;
designing you personal medicine shield; and
using drumming as a vehicle for altered states
of consciousness.
SHAMANIC TIMELINE AND
PLANETARY COMPLEXES
Oct. 17-21, 2007; Montauk, NY
Contact: Cayelin Castell, PO Box 222,
Okauchee, WI, (520) 401-6125 or (262) 5670657 | Email: p3@shamanicastrology.com |
Web: www.shamanicastrology.com | Bring
personally transformative experiences in
understanding your personal life path, as well
as the significant initiation cycles of your life
and how best to participate with them. Using
drama, movement, astrological mandala art,
journeying, and small group interaction, it covers all types of learning styles to deepen our
relationship and understanding of these mysteries.
SHAMANISM AND THE SPIRITS OF NATURE
Sept. 15-16, 2007; Cleveland, OH
flanagin4@msn.com
|
Web:
www.shamanism.org
SHAMANISM, DYING AND BEYOND
Sept. 29-30, 2007; Montreal, QUE, Canada
Sept. 29-30, 2007; Mount Shasta, CA
Oct. 27-28, 2007; Campbellford,
ONT, Canada
Nov. 10-11, 2007; Toronto, ONT, Canada
Dec. 8-9, 2007; Sierra Madre, CA
flanagin4@msn.com
|
Web:
www.shamanism.org
WAY OF THE SHAMAN BASIC WORKSHOP
Sept. 15-16, 2007; Encino, CA
Sept. 15-16, 2007; Toronto, ONT, Canada
Sept. 21-23, 2007; Rowe, MA
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Oct. 6-7, 2007; Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Oct. 13-14, 2007; San Diego, CA
Oct. 13-14, 2007; Austin, TX
Oct. 13-14, 2007; Lakefield, ONT, Canada
Oct. 13-14, 2007; Lake Tahoe, CA
Oct. 13-14, 2007; Denver, CO
Oct. 20-21, 2007; Washington, DC
Oct. 20-21, 2007; McDonald's
Corners, Ontario, Canada
Oct. 20-21, 2007; Victoria, BC, Canada
Nov. 3-4, 2007; Regina, SASK, Canada
Nov. 3-4, 2007; San Francisco, CA
Nov. 3-4, 2007; Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nov. 3-4, 2007; New Hope, PA
Nov. 17-18, 2007; Carter Caves
State Park, KY
Dec. 1-2, 2007; Chapel Hill, NC
Contact: Foundation for Shamanic Studies, PO
Box 1939, Mill Valley, CA 94942, (415) 3808282 | Email: info@shamanicstudies.com |
Web: www.shamanism.org | Workshop introduces shamanism for divination, problem solving, and healing. Initiation into classic
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
ALIEN HUNTER!!
Oct. 17, 2007; Costa Mesa, CA
Cost: $5 | Contact: MUFON Orange County,
5267 Warner Ave. #275, Huntington Beach,
CA 92649, (714) 520-4836 | Email:
info@mufonoc.org
|
Web:
mufonoc.org/program | Presented by Derrel
Sims.
INTERNATIONAL UFO CONGRESS
CONVENTION & FILM FESTIVAL
Feb. 23-Mar. 1, 2008; Laughlin, NV
Contact: International UFO Congress, 6160
Firestone Blvd. #104-373, Firestone, CO
80504, (303) 651-7136 | Email: ufocongress@msn.com
|
Web:
www.ufocongress.com | Speakers include
Jaime Maussan, Santiago Yturria Garza, Maurice Cotterell, Michael E. Salla PhD, Lloyd Pye,
Dr. Patrick Heron, Paul Stonehill, Dr. Steven
Greer, Jim Marrs, Wendelle Stevens, Ted
Loman, Derrel Sims, Michael Horn, Jim
Sparks, Sean David Morton, Dolores Cannon,
Dr. David Jacobs, Junichi Yaoi, Paola Harris,
Ralph Ring, Richard Dolan, and others.
ROSWELL 60 CONFERENCE
Oct. 20-21, 2007; Wakefield,
Yorkshire, England
Cost: 25 (single-day tickets avail.) | Contact:
UFO Data Conference, PO Box 280, Leeds,
LS26 1AN, UK | Email: tickets@ufodata.co.uk

| Web: www.mercuryrapids.co.uk/roswell60-1
| Speakers include Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr., Dr.
Kevin Randle, Michael Hesemann, Nick Pope,
Malsom Robinson, and others.
STAR BEINGS AT SKY ISLAND RANCH
Jan. 27-Feb. 2, 2008; Kailua-Kona, HI
Cost: $1,650 | Contact: Dolphin Connection
International, PO Box 102, Captain Cook, HI
96704, (888) 755-7750 | Email:
Joan@joanocean.com
|
Web:
www.joanocean.com | Make contact with Star
friends and relatives, experience healing, cosmic wisdom, time travel, visiting the future,
and deepening awareness of innate purposes
for this incarnation.
STAR PEOPLE & THE WISE ONES
Oct. 14-20, 2007; Kailua-Kona, HI
Contact: Dolphin Connection International, PO
Box 102, Captain Cook, HI 96704, (888) 7557750 | Email: Joan@joanocean.com | Web:
www.etfriends.com/Seminars | Learn about
and make contact with advanced species into
multi-dimensional experiencing.
UFO CRASH RETRIEVAL CONFERENCE
Nov. 9-11, 2007; Las Vegas, NV
Cost: $159 until Oct. 15; $169 thereafter |
Contact: Ryan Wood, 14004 Quail Ridge Road,
Broomfield, CO 80020, (720) 887-8171 |
Email: rswood@majesticdocuments. com |
Web: www.ufoconference.com | Speakers
include Stanton T. Friedman, Dr. Michael E.
Salla, Richard Dolan, Paul Schatzkin, Ryan
Wood, Peter W. Merlin, Michael Lindemann,
Robert Wood, Nick Redfern, Frank Feschino,
Linda Moulton Howe, Dr. Bruce Maccabee,
Matthew Thuney, and others.
X-CONFERENCE: THE INSIDERS
Sept. 14-16, 2007; Gaithersburg, MD
Cost: $169 (single- or two-day passes passes
avail.) | Contact: Stephen Bassett, Executive
Director, Paradigm Research Group, 4938
Hampden Lane, #161, Bethesda, MD 20814,
(202)
215-8344
|
Email:
PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org | Web:
www.x-conference.com | Speakers include
Stephen Bassett, Cheryl Jones, Gildas Bourdais, Thomas Carey, Richard Dolan, Steven M.
Greer MD, Paola Harris, Antonio Huneeus, Dr.
Bruce Maccabee, Jaime Maussan, Nick Pope,
Robert Salas, Dr. Michael Salla, and others.
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