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(left to right) Dr. Robert Schoch, Dr. Thomas Brophy, Dr. Constantino Manuel Torres, John
Major Jenkins, Robert Bauval, Michael Cremo, Dr. Luis Eduardo Luna, and Mahmoud Marai

Dubai Conference Spotlights

Interest in Ancient Mysteries
s Atlantis rising
I in Dubai? From
indoor ski venues
to vast luxury de-
velopments built Raffles Hotel, Dubai
on artificial islands,
the oil-rich desert
kingdom on the
southern Persian
Gulf has amply
demonstrated that
when it is inter-
ested in something,
cost is no restraint
on its imagination.
Now, apparently,
the kingdom has
publicly demon-
strated its taste for
ancient mysteries—Atlantis Rising-style. evidence in the ruined monuments of Nabta
For two days in November (the 29th and Playa in the western desert of Egypt showing
30th) no less than five (out of eight) world- highly advanced, pre-historic astronomical
class speakers who have either written for, knowledge. John Major Jenkins is celebrated
or been featured in, these pages were show- for his research into Mayan knowledge of the
cased. On hand for “The International Con- solar system’s current approach to the ga-
ference on Ancient Studies” (subtitled “The lactic center concurrent with the end of the
Mysteries of Ancient Civilization”) at the pyr- 25,000-year-plus precession of the equinoxes.
amid-shaped Raffles Hotel in Dubai city, Robert Bauval has hypothesized a link be-
United Arab Emirates, were Robert Schoch, tween Egypt’s Giza plain and the constella-
Thomas Brophy, John Major Jenkins, Robert tion of Orion from a period beginning in
Bauval, and Michael Cremo, all familiar to 10,500 B.C.; and Michael Cremo has argued
regular readers of this magazine. Also partic- that the ancient Vedic time cycles and the
ipating were Mahmoud Marai, discoverer of possibility of very ancient humans are no-
the remains of the ancient kingdom Yam in tions supported by evidence which has been
Egypt’s western desert; Dr. Constantino Ma- ignored or repressed by mainstream archae-
nuel Torres with new evidence on the an- ology.
cient peoples of San Pedro de Atacama, All of these ideas are controversial, to say
Chile; and Dr. Luis Eduardo Luna with re- the least, and the fact that conference orga-
cent research on the indigenous people of nizers in Dubai wanted to hear more about
the Amazon rainforest. them is significant. Whether it represents of-
Dr. Schoch is best known for his re- ficial policy or not, sponsors readily acknowl-
dating of the Great Sphinx of Egypt to a edge that it could not have happened
much greater antiquity than has been held without the patronage of Dubai’s royal
by orthodoxy. Dr. Thomas Brophy has found family.

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A new study has found the elusive mineral carbonate on Mars, bolstering
the case that life has existed on the Red Planet and that evidence may
remain. In this picture appear carbonate-bearing rocks in the sides of
eroded mesas in the Nili Fossae region. Scientists believe the carbonates
may have been formed at the surface when olivine-rich rocks were
exposed, and altered, by running water.
(Photo: NASA/JPL/JHUAPL/University of Arizona/Brown University)
Is there Evidence for
Life on Mars Now?
otwithstanding recent public concessions from NASA that—at
N least in the distant past—Mars was habitable, some observers be-
lieve the agency is withholding key evidence that life exists on Mars
right now. According to the Indo-Asian News Services, influential In-
dian “astrobiologist” Chandra Wickramasinghe says, “... the [recently
confirmed] discovery of liquid water on Mars, combined with earlier
discoveries of organic substances in a meteorite that came from
Mars, and also of methane in the Martian atmosphere, all point to the
existence of life—contemporary life—on the Red Planet.…” Else-
where in the story Wickramasinghe also charges that NASA is delib-
erately withholding this explosive information “... for political and so-
ciological considerations.”
Richard Hoagland, who has for years insisted that NASA is sup-
pressing evidence of life on Mars, says the agency’s policy is based on
a Brookings Institution study issued in the early days of the space
program which warned of social upheaval on Earth should life be dis-
covered on other planets, and proposed—for the good of the public—
withholding such information.
On his website (enterprisemission.com) Hoagland analyzes recent
NASA pronouncements based on discoveries made by the latest Mar-
tian probe—the Phoenix Lander. According to Hoagland, the lead sci-
entist for Phoenix’s wet chemistry experiment Sam Kounaves as-
serted publicly “We’ve found nutrients that could support Life,” and
added “...you might be able to grow asparagus very well [on Mars].”
In December NASA offered a study in the journal Science which said
evidence of carbonates—which don’t survive in conditions hostile to
life—has been found.
According to the aerospace journal Aviation Week & Space Tech-
nology, the White House has been alerted about a soon-to-be-issued
announcement concerning the “potential for life” on Mars; neverthe-
less, as of this writing (in late December) nothing like that has been
officially released.

High Stone Age Art Did Truman Order UFO

R ussian artists 21,000 to 22,000 years ago were capable of crafts-
manship comparable to that of modern artists. The latest evi-
dence comes from Zaraysk, about 100 miles southeast of Moscow,
where archaeologists have turned up several carvings buried in pits
and covered with mammoth bones. The discoveries were published in
December in the academic
journal Antiquity.
According to authors
Hizri Amirkhanov and Sergey
Lev, “The main lines of the
image are clear, not ragged;
they were made by confident,
unbroken movements.” In
other words they are much
more advanced than typical
stone age art. The article in-
cluded the image of a female
shown here from four dif-
ferent angles, but there was
more. In one, what appears to
be three overlapping mammoths only a few centimeters long are
carved onto the rib of a mammoth. The objects “show an extraordi-
nary repertoire of incised carving on mammoth ivory plaques and
carving in the round, including representations of women and large
mammals, and geometric decoration on bone utensils.” Uncertain
what purpose was intended for the art, scientists speculate that they
must have been regarded as magical, perhaps for use in a hunting
ritual.
Shootdowns?
R eporter Linda Moulton Howe, author of
several popular books on the UFO phenom-
enon, including High Strangeness and its se-
quels, has gone public in a YouTube video with
a new explanation for what may be the back
story for the 1947 Roswell “UFO crash.”
Howe says she has been provided with exten-
sive documentation by New Mexico con-
gressman Andrew Kissner to support a claim by
him that the initial policy of the U.S. government to UFOs in the late
1940s was, if possible, to shoot them down. President Truman also
directed that, for national security reasons, all information about
such actions be denied and kept top secret. It was only after learning
the hard way that the UFOs were not without defenses, and that the
lives of military pilots were being put at risk, that the aggressive
shoot-down policy was withdrawn. The denial and secrecy, however,
remained in force and does so to this day. Apparently, claims Kissner,
before it ended, the shoot-down policy produced several UFO crashes
with subsequent recovery of debris, with the Roswell event being the
last and most public.
Knowledge of the actual government position, says Howe, is care-
fully compartmentalized and distributed on a need-to-know basis
only. Thus, it exists entirely in the hands of a select few and remains
unknown throughout the government at large.
To see Howe’s report, go to: http://www.superlife.ws/video/
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Tracking the News of the Coming Energy Revolution
Breakthrough Power: Will We See it in 2009?
BY
JEANE
MANNING
I t’s a few weeks before 2009 as this is
written, but we can predict excitement
about emerging energy developments. Mag-
netic motor claims will come into the public
eye and the Orion Project will carry forward
the work of Stan Meyer. Other water-related
projects around the world will continue to
have successes. More thousands of garage
tinkerers will join the HHO (otherwise
known as watergas) movement and supple-
ment the regular fuel used in their vehicles
with hydrogen.
A month ago near San Francisco I saw a
demonstration which appeared to be more
output than input, perhaps involving what is
known as cold electricity. It’s premature to
write about it, but I expect we’ll be hearing a
lot more about Pete S. He aspires to drive an
18-wheeler truck across the continent and
back on only a few gallons of gasoline; but if
his technology does what he says it can,
there will be other ways to use it to solve
major energy-related problems and rescue
an economy. He has funding, but there are
other potentially revolutionary energy-
related discoveries of various types whose in-
ventors have run out of money for bringing
their inventions to the marketable stage.
With your help in spreading the word via
discussions and blogs, our new book Break-
through Power (breakthroughpower.net or
order through the Atlantis Rising catalog)
will do its part in building awareness, a
grassroots push and the political will for re-
placing dirty fuels with clean energy technol-
ogies that leapfrog beyond today’s expensive
alternatives.
The upcoming year will see break-
throughs in some of the basic science that
underlies a variety of unconventional energy
discoveries. At the moment new theoretical
understandings appear to be only vague out-
lines on the horizon, but they will eventually
be seen as significant.
Today I interviewed one of the scientists
involved in Project Common Thread, Ken
Rauen in northern California. The collabora-
tive project began with serious efforts in re-
cent years to understand the science behind
the controversial Papp (pronounced “Pop” in
Hungary) engine. Eventually it evolved to in-
clude a new look at other weird-science
events that at first seemed unrelated to that
engine. Physicists with strong academic cre-
dentials, including Michael McKubre and
George Miley, are involved in the loosely knit
project, figuring out how various discoveries
can help explain what happens in the “low
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energy nuclear reactions,” (LENR—more the line if he is publicly associated with weird
commonly called “cold fusion”). Several of science, their involvement in LENR, must
the key engineers and electronics wizards in- have broadened their vision. They were in a
volved in the project—Rauen, Bill Har- field where the science behind phenomena
rington of Washington state, and “charge was not understood, because tickling metals
cluster” pioneer Ken Shoulders—have devel- with low-voltage electricity in a watery envi-
oped new insights on how atoms work.
What does all this mean to you and me?
ronment is not generally expected to make
reactions that give off relatively huge
Project Common Thread doesn’t have an en- amounts of heat per atom involved. Like cold
ergy generator to sell in the stores, at least fusion, the Papp engine is a scientific mys-
not at this time, but it is tery. The gases it uses—
working on a new theo- argon, helium, krypton,
retical foundation. Im- neon, and xenon—are
plications of the pro- called noble because
ject’s findings could they generally are not re-
include a way to clean active, but in the Papp
up some of the radioac- engine they exploded vi-
tive wastes on Earth and olently and drove a ret-
generate abundant rofit device from an ordi-
amounts of cheap clean nary gasoline engine
power without any pol- without the need for a
luting emissions. cooling system, fuel
system, or exhaust.
Project Common Who was Josef Papp?
Thread’s History Rauen describes an ex-
Rauen worked pilot who left Hungary in
closely with the late Eu- 1957 after the revolt
gene Mallove at the New against Communism and
Energy Research Labor- subsequent Soviet inva-
atory in New Hamp- sion of Hungary. He
shire. One day a visitor seemed to be a paranoid
from western Wash- Ken Rauen character who was tech-
ington began asking nically educated but
questions about cold fusion. Electrical engi- didn’t seem to understand the physics behind
neer Bill Harrington had twenty years’ expe- the “Papp” engine, so he may have been
rience with Hughes Aircraft and had devel- trained by whoever was the real genius.
oped electronics for radar systems around Since he was knowledgeable about micro-
the world. His curiosity had been aroused by fiching, when Papp emigrated to Canada he
the “noble gas” engine supposedly invented may have smuggled out microfiche copies of
by a man named Papp. As a result of that documents from secret research and develop-
visit, the next issue of Infinite Energy Maga- ment projects hidden in eastern Europe.
zine carried the story of the late Josef Papp Regardless of whether he was the original
and his engine. inventor or not, Papp managed to build an
Meanwhile other connections had been engine that amazed engineers and scientists
leading toward the search for a “common who saw the engine working in closed rooms
thread.” An industrial electrician originally for hours. There was no exhaust and no
from Germany, Heintz Klosterman, had be- cooling system, but the engine had huge
come national sales manager for medical X- torque even at low revolutions-per-minute. It
ray technologies, dealing with major compa- was an unprecedented cool-running engine
nies. After retiring from the corporate world, of more than 100 horsepower—75 kilo-
he decided to investigate this strange Papp watts—that ran on a mixture of noble gases,
engine he’d heard about. He knew a couple perhaps pretreated and mixed with some air.
of affluent former radiologists who could For many years afterward skepticism was
commit significant money, and as a result a intense; the science world didn’t know that
research company was formed in California. electrically-triggered noble gases can vio-
Klosterman had approached McKubre about lently explode and cause energy releases pow-
being involved in the research. erful enough to melt metal. Since then, in-
Why would a respectable Ph.D. physicist vestigative scientists from the cold fusion
investigate a controversial engine that was and plasma physics worlds have actually seen
said to produce at least ten times more en- those explosions push pistons with large
ergy output than input? In the case of pressure pulses.
McKubre, Miley and an equally distinguished
colleague whose academic job could be on Continued on Page 58
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I
n late November of 2008, I was in Dubai to speak at the International Conference on An-
cient Studies, held in the Raffles Hotel there. I gave a talk about my book Forbidden Ar-
cheology. Afterwards, a member of the audience asked me a familiar question. “If human
beings like us have been present for tens of millions, hundreds of millions, of years, as you
say, then why is most of the evidence that you present confined to stone tools, and things like
that? What about evidence for high technology or advanced civilization?”
That is a good question, one that deserves an answer. One thing to keep in mind is that I
believe human civilizations have risen and fallen many times over those many millions of
years. So there may have been times in the distant past when civilizations like ours existed
and long periods of time when the human populations were smaller and lived in ways we
would consider more primitive. So what would happen to the remains of the advanced civili-
zations like ours during the times of depopulation? We tend to assume that our skyscrapers
and machines are very durable and long lasting. But this is not really true. Scientists who
study these things understand that many of our monuments and machines will not last very
long when exposed to the uncontrolled forces of nature.
This scientific truth has been
brought home to a wider audience by
television documentaries like Life After • Scientists Learn How to
People, which aired on the History
channel early in 2008. It turned out to Levitate Tiny Objects
be the most popular show ever on His- U.S. scientists have found a
tory. A similar program, called After- way to levitate the very
math: Population Zero, aired on the smallest objects using the
National Geographic channel in March strange forces of quantum me-
2008. The premise of these programs is
simple. Let’s assume that human beings chanics.
disappear from the earth today. What http://www.reuters.com/article/
would happen to the physical remains scienceNews/idUSTRE506723200
of our civilization over time, starting 90107?feedType=RSS&feed
from day one? Author Alan Weisman Name=scienceNews
has also explored what would happen to
the physical remains of our civilization • Did A Comet Cause the
if human beings were to suddenly be- Carolina Bays?
come extinct in his book The World Researchers think the catas-
Without Us, which generated its own
television special. trophic collision happened as
recently as 13,000 years ago.
From these sources we get a pic- http://www.metronc.com/article
ture like this. Within about 75 years,
most machines, such as cars and air- /?id=1806
planes and boats, except perhaps in
some very dry places, would be cor- • Huge Undersea ‘Wall’
roded beyond recognition. Discovered
Plants would start growing in the A giant rock formation resem-
cities. Without maintenance, roads bling a city wall has been dis-
would be covered with plants, and would be broken up, and gradually disappear. Unchecked covered under the Taiwan
wildfires would burn through many towns and cities. Because dams and levees would no
longer be maintained, they would gradually break down. Thus there would be flooding of
Strait.
many cities, especially in coastal cities and cities on rivers and streams. That would include http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
most cities. Wooden houses, if not burned by fires, would be consumed by rot or termites. asia-pacific/7811730.stm

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 ANCIENT MYSTERIES

ture Djedi could awaken

T
he Jedi Knights
of Star Wars were the normally dormant
“serpent” power, the fiery
not simply the
figment of
• BY MARK Force at the base of his
George Lucas’s most fer-
AMARU spine, and then move it
tile and provocative imag- PINKHAM upwards to his head
ination. Those who have where it would culminate
grown up coveting the in supernatural powers
powers of the Jedi will be and intuitive, gnostic
pleased to learn that Mas- wisdom. The proof that a
ters of the Force did in- Djedi had accomplished
deed once exist. Records this alchemy is intrinsic
of them survive in certain to his name, which was,
countries, such as Egypt essentially, an honorific
and Persia, where they title. The Djed of Djedi
were magician priests and denoted “column,” while
the guardians of powerful the root word or sound
priest kings similar to the Dj denoted “serpent.”
“Emperor” of Star Wars, Thus, a Djedi was one
albeit without his predi- who had awakened the Dj
lection for the “Dark or serpent at its seat and
Side.” then raised it up his or
In ancient Egypt, the her Djed “column” or
surviving histories reveal spine to the head. Those
that the Jedi manifested Djedi that succeeded in
as the Djedi (hence the this inner ascension
name “Jedi”) which was could potentially become
a sect of the priesthood immortal, which is yet
another meaning of
and Masters of the
Force that protected The Knights of Star Djedi. As the Serpent
Force rises up the spine,
the Pharaoh; and in
Persia they were the Wars Were Preceded its alchemical fire of
transformation moves
Narts, guardians of a
Holy Grail called the
Nartmongue and the
Long Ago by Egyptian within every cell of the
body and raises the fre-
protectors of enlightened
priest kings who lived at
and Persian Orders quency of human flesh to
that of “immortal” pure
least one-thousand years energy. Because of the
before King Arthur and spine’s association with
his Knights of the Middle Ages regarding the Templars, implied immortality, the Djed
Round Table. that the Knights had inherited wisdom of the column or pillar became for the Egyptians a
The remarkable his- Force that had been passed down to them al- symbol of immortality, and they traditionally
tory and wisdom of these most directly from their ancient, antecedent covered their mummies and sarcophagi with
two early sects of “Jedi” Knights was first in- “Jedi” Knights. Thus, from at least one per- symbolic Djed images in hopes of achieving
troduced to the West by the Knights Tem- spective, the formation of the Knights Tem- immortal life in the hereafter.
plar, who upon returning from the Middle plar in 1118 CE could be historically entitled Through raising the inner serpent power,
East in the 13th and 14th centuries, distilled the “Return of the Jedi”! But if this is true, the Djedi acquired an abundance of Force
“Jedi” histories learned from the Sufis into a what happened to the Templars’ “Jedi” which could be used to perform supernatural
series of lengthy Holy Grail legends. Within wisdom? Does it still exist? feats similar to those associated with Lucas’s
these pithy legends the Templars synthesized In recorded history, the Secrets of the Jedi. For example, the Djedi of the Westcar
the powerful emperors and priest kings of the Force of the “Jedi” Knights’ were first taught Papyrus who possessed the key to the secret
past into the enigmatic figure of the Fisher among the Egyptian “Jedi” or Djedi, who chambers of Thoth was said to have acquired
King, the resident of a Grail Castle and the may have received them from a much earlier the power to reattach the severed heads of
owner of various manifestations of the Holy pre-historical “Jedi” Knight order, perhaps animals at will. Other Djedi are mentioned in
Grail. His well-being and the safekeeping of one from Atlantis. One Djedi priest men- Egyptian history as traversing the scorching
his castle’s Holy Grail relics was given over to tioned in the Egyptian’s Westcar Papyrus is Egyptian sands with only their magical staffs
an order of Knights of the Grail, who were a said to have possessed the key that opened and/or becoming powerful magicians in the
distillation of the early “Jedi” Knights from the “secret chambers of the sanctuary of service of the Pharaohs. Some Djedi are
Egypt and Persia. But the Knights Templar Thoth,” who many esoteric historians believe found in the service of the Pharaoh that
let it be known that they were not just histo- was a missionary and Master of the Force Moses and Aaron confronted in order to de-
rians of the ancient Masters of the Force; from Atlantis. Within his sanctuary were mand freedom for the Hebrews. At the Pha-
they were themselves a latter day version of books authored by Thoth that covered in de- raoh’s command his Djedi magicians turned
“Jedi” Knights. This truth was boldly and au- tail the physics behind activating and devel- their staffs into live serpents, which repre-
thoritatively proclaimed in Parzival by oping the Force through alchemy—the art sented the serpent power that each Djedi pos-
Knight Wolfram von Eschenbach when he that Thoth-Hermes would eventually be- sessed. But Aaron’s staff also turned into a
specifically referred to the Fisher King’s Holy come the recognized patron of throughout snake, albeit a much larger snake than those
Grail Knights as Templars. Parzival, as well the world. Through Thoth’s alchemy, the es-
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Washington on a rainbow and surrounded by
stars. (All Capitol interior photos: Wm. Henry)
The frieze of the Rotunda showcases Brumidi’s
mastery of creating the illusion of three-
dimensional forms and figures on flat surfaces.
Washington enthroned on a rainbow with sun
gate behind him.
13 star beings surround George Washington.
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T
he United States Capitol, rising atop
Capitol Hill in the monument city of
Washington, D.C., may well be the
most famous building in the world.
To Americans the cast-iron Capitol dome,
dressed in pure white sandstone, is a symbol
of strength and democracy. Radiant. Lumi-
nous. Shining. Freedom rings from this
beautiful bell. How many recognize the Cap-
itol is a temple?
Thomas Jefferson called it “The first
temple dedicated to the sovereignty of the
people.”
An anonymous essay of 1795 described
the Capitol building as a “Temple erected to
Liberty.”
Specifically, the founders of the Capitol
Temple likened it to Solomon’s Temple in Je-
rusalem.
“I have every hope that the grand work
we have done today will be handed down…to
a late posterity, as the like work of that ever
memorable temple to our order erected by
our ancient Grand Master Solomon—
Maryland Grand Master Joseph Clark, Sep-
tember 18, 1793, at the laying of the corner-
stone of the Capitol.
“It would be unbecoming the representa-
tives of this Nation to assemble for the first
time in this solemn Temple without looking
up to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe and
imploring His blessing.” President Adams,
November 22, 1800, opening the Second
Session of the Sixth Congress in the new
Capitol building.
These words are more than poetic. The
U.S. Capitol has numerous architectural and
other features that unquestionably identify it
with ancient temples including stone con-
struction, an underground entrance, chapels,
an image of a deified being, religious im-
agery, symbols, and inscriptions, divine pro-
portions, massive columns, palpable spiritual
energy, acoustic trickery, terrifying guar-
dians, mystic visitors, closed doors, private
members, secret chambers, and orientation
to the Sun.
It is crystal clear that the builders viewed
the Capitol as America’s sole temple (a
solemn, Solomon’s Solar Temple to be
exact).
The Dome at the Heart of America
The dome of the Capitol ices this connec-
tion. Domes have been called the perfect ar-
chitectural shape: the circle, symbol of the
universe, executed in three dimensions.
In religious architecture, domes proclaim
the glory of God. The word dome comes from
Latin domus, a house, via Italian duomo, a
house of God, that is a church (from kirk,
meaning ‘circle’). The temple is a “house of
the holy.” Temple is also a word for the flat
part on either side of the human head, called
a dome in slang, above and beyond the eye.
The oculus or eye of the dome is consid-
ered the Gateway of the Sun. From this
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 UNEXPLAINED ANOMALIES

What Do
Animals
Know?
From Balaam’s Ass
to the Elberfeld
Horses, There Are
Mysteries Here
• BY MICHAEL TYMN

A
few weeks before the Ken-
tucky Derby some 25 years
ago, the trainer for one of
the leading contenders was
interviewed on television and said
that his horse was ready for the big
race, not only because he was fast
and fit but because he was smart
and competitive.
I mused over that comment,
wondering if some horses are truly
smarter than others and if they
really care about winning. If they
are competitive and not just run- According to the Old Testament, the donkey of the Prophet Balaam could not only see an
ning hard because of their natural angel which Balaam could not, but could talk as well. (Rembrandt Van Rijn, 1626)
speed or because they are re-
sponding to the whip, does that
mean that horses have egos? When
they win, do they rejoice? When they lose, do remember the name of the head trainer I in- a curse on Israel, was deterred by his mule,
they sulk and kick the stable door out of terviewed, but I do recall his telling me that which stubbornly refused to transport Ba-
frustration? Is pride or self-esteem driving horses indeed vary considerably in intelli- laam; and when beaten by Balaam, the an-
them, or is it simply that they understand gence and that the better horses are the imal spoke to him and reprimanded him, ap-
that they might get an extra lump of sugar smarter ones and those who have a will to parently as directed by God. However, I was
or a carrot by finishing ahead of the other win. It wasn’t clear to me whether being not inclined to take the story of a talking
horses? I further wondered if there is a posi- smart and having the will to win went hand donkey seriously any more than I could be-
tive correlation between intelligence and in hand, and I couldn’t get a clear-cut an- lieve in a serpent talking to Eve.
winning. swer as to how he knew those things; but I In researching the matter of horse intelli-
As I was writing for a daily newspaper at gathered it was simply intuitive on his part, gence, I came upon the Elberfeld horses of
the time, I decided to explore the subject in something you come to understand by Germany. My boggle threshold was exceeded
my sports column. I hoped to get the an- working with horses for many years. There when I read that the Elberfeld horses could
swers to my questions “straight from the was no indication that horses were subject to figure out square roots and cube roots, even
horse’s mouth,” so to speak. Therefore, I any kind of IQ or motivational testing before fourth power roots of numbers of six or
called Calumet Farm in Lexington, Ken- being groomed as top athletes. seven figures. Moreover, using their hooves
tucky, then one of the leading thoroughbred In spite of the fact that the Calumet to tap out letters of the alphabet, they could
stables in the country. They had produced trainer seemed to know what he was talking communicate in their native tongue,
the likes of the mighty Citation and the about, I remained very skeptical. I remem- German, and even in French. Professor Edo-
stretch-running Whirlaway, two of the all- bered the Biblical story of Balaam’s Ass in ward Claparède of the University of Geneva,
time greats in the “sport of kings.” I don’t which Balaam, a prophet on a mission to put one of many scientists who studied the

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horses, called the phenomenon “the most
sensational event that has happened in the
psychological world.”
As the well-documented story goes, in
1900, Wilhelm von Osten of Elberfeld, Ger-
many (then Central Prussia) taught his
horse, Hans, a Russian stallion (later called
Kluger Hans, or Clever Hans), mathematics,
including addition, subtraction, multiplica-
tion, and division. Von Osten first made Hans
familiar with directions, such as right, left,
top, and bottom. Then he would place skit-
tles, or bowling pins, in front of Hans and
count. He would then ask Hans to strike as
many blows with his hoof as there were skit-
tles in front of him. After a short time, the
skittles were replaced by figures on a black-
board.
“The results were astonishing,” Dr.
Claparède reported. “The horse
was capable not only of counting,
but also of himself making real
calculations, of solving little
problems….But Hans could do
more than mere sums: he knew
how to read; he was a musician,
distinguishing between harmo-
nious and dissonant chords. He
also had an extraordinary
memory; he could tell the date of
each day of the current week. In
short, he got through all the
tasks which an intelligent
schoolboy of fourteen is able to
perform.”
After word spread of
Claparède’s independent investi-
gation, a scientific committee
was appointed in 1904. The com-
mittee found nothing suspicious
but offered no explanation. A
second committee was then appointed, in-
cluding Oskar Pfungst of the Berlin psycho-
logical laboratory. Pfungst reported that the
horse merely obeyed visual clues, whether
conscious or unconscious, given by von
Osten. This became known as the “Clever
Hans effect,” a term still used by animal
trainers today. It was later revealed that of
the 24 professors on the committee, only two
of them actually observed Hans. The com-
mittee also stated that to accept such intelli-
gence in horses would be subversive of the
theory of evolution.
As a result of the committee’s report, von
Osten became something of a laughing-stock
in the community. When he died in 1909, he
left Hans to Karl Krall, a friend who had
taken much interest in the horse in spite of
the committee’s report. Krall, a wealthy mer-
chant, also bought two Arabian stallions, Mu-
hamed and Zarif, and began to train them in
the same manner von Osten had taught
Hans. Within two weeks, Muhamed was
doing addition and subtraction. He would
distinguish tens from units by striking the
latter with his right foot and the former with
his left foot. By the end of the third week, he
was doing multiplication and division; and by
the time four months had passed, he knew
how to extract square and cubic roots. Krall
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then devised a table with letters and num- pronounced to him, Muhamed spelled it
bers and Muhamed was soon spelling and “Klapard.” When a newspaper editor brought
reading. a friend and introduced him as Tauski, Mu-
Zarif was a little slower in learning, but hamed spelled out “Tausj.” When Zarif was
was eventually able to do almost everything asked to spell the name, he gave it as
Muhamed was capable of. They could spell “Teauski”
the names of their visitors, reply to ques- Maeterlinck was left alone with the horse
tions put to them, and make little observa- as Krall tended to chores. Since the horses
tions. Karl also trained Hänschen, a small performed in the absence of Krall and gave
Shetland pony, and Berto, a blind stallion some answers to questions that Maeterlinck
with no sense of smell, how to count and himself did not know the answers to, he dis-
communicate. He was unsuccessful with two counted the Clever Hans effect.
other horses and an elephant. Meanwhile the Another theory advanced was that of tel-
aging Hans pretty much went to the back of epathy, as fantastic as the idea of a mind-
the class, usually remaining in the barn, reading horse seems. To test this theory,
spending much of his time swatting flies Maeterlinck took some large cards with Ar-
with his tail. abic numerals on them, shuffled them and
Maurice Maeterlinck, a world-famous placed them in front of the horse without
looking at them himself.
“Without hesitation and un-
asked, Muhamed rapped out cor-
Clever Hans rectly the number formed by the
and his cards,” Maeterlinck wrote. “The
handlers
experiment succeeded, as often
as I cared to try it, with
Hänschen, Muhamed, and Zarif
alike.” Since Maeterlinck was the
only person present and did not
know the numbers, there was no
mind to be read for the answers.
In one test, Maeterlinck
wrote a surd—a number which
had no square root—on the
blackboard, not realizing that it
was a surd. Maeterlinck looked
to Muhamed for a square root.
The horse lifted his hoof, paused,
looked back at Maeterlinck and
shook his head. This little test
also opposed both the Clever
Hans effect and the telepathy
Belgian author, playwright, and Nobel prize-
theory.
winner for literature, heard about the horses
One day, Zarif stopped in the middle of a
and decided to visit Elberfeld and observe
them for himself. He was astounded. “I as- lesson by Krall. The horse was asked why and
sure you that the first shock is rather dis- replied, “Because I am tired.” On another oc-
turbing, however much one expected it,” he casion he stopped again and explained, “Pain
wrote. “I am quite aware that, when one de- in my leg.”
Maeterlinck reported on tests run by a
scribes these things, one is taken for a dupe
Dr. H. Hamel while Krall was on a trip.
too readily dazzled by the doubtless childish
illusion of an ingeniously-contrived scene. Hamel began by giving Muhamed simple
But what contrivances, what illusions have math problems and ended with asking Mu-
hamed for the fourth power root of
we here?”
After Maeterlinck was introduced to Mu- 7,890,481, which Hamel himself did not
hamed, Krall asked the horse to spell his know until after checking Muhamed’s cor-
name. Muhamed began by rapping out an rect answer of 53, which took about six
“H.” Krall then reprimanded the horse, but seconds before he began striking out the
Muhamed continued with an “E” and an “R” answer.
Claparède asked Muhamed to give him
before the two men realized that he was
spelling Herr, the German equivalent of the fourth power root of 614,656, to which
Mister. But Muhamed then struggled with the horse correctly replied 28 after a few sec-
the surname, first spelling M-A-Z-R-L-K. onds. However, when asked to give the
When told by Krall that it was incorrect, Mu- fourth power root of 4,879,681, the horse in-
hamed groped a little before rapping M-A-R- correctly replied 117. When told it was
Z-L-E-G-K. Krall then repeated Maeterlinck’s wrong, he corrected to 144, also wrong. The
last name, and after two more attempts the horse then gave up.
On another day, Krall and a Dr. Scholler
horse spelled the name with one small error.
The two men concluded that it was close decided to make an attempt to teach Mu-
hamed to express himself in speech. The
enough.
Claparède had reported much the same horse made several feeble efforts before
experience with his name. After it was Continued on Page 69
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ATLANTOLOGY (Illustration by Lloyd
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• BY FRANK JOSEPH

E
dgar Cayce, the 20th Century
“Sleeping Prophet,” often spoke of
many lost worlds in his celebrated
altered states of consciousness. In
fact, of the 1,600 persons for whom he con-
ducted “life-readings,” about 700 were told of
conditions in the vanished homelands of civ-
ilization. Cayce’s credentials as a genuine
seer into the ancient past are wonderfully
presented in two particularly outstanding ex-
amples, one of them about the Essenes.
These were members of a small Jewish sect
that began in the 2nd Century B.C. They lived
a severe monastic existence focused on divine
retribution for sin, while proclaiming an im-
pending “last judgement” called down on
sinful humanity by God. When the Essenes’
oft-repeated “end of the world” failed to ma-
terialize after nearly three centuries, their
cult vanished. Cayce mentioned the Essenes
in 1936, when he envisioned a woman
client’s incarnation near Jerusalem:
“The entity was what would now, in some
organizations, determined a sister superior
or an officer of the Essenes.—For the entity
was associated with the school on the road
above Emmaus near the road that goes down
toward Jerico and towards the northernmost
coast of Jerusalem”
(1391-1 F.28 1935).
At the time of this
life-reading, scholarly
opinion held that all
Essene groups were
exclusively male. But

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fifteen years later, the
remains of Kirbet
Qumran, the site of
an Essene commu-
nity Cayce precisely
described, were exca- Edgar Cayce
vated just where he
said they would be found. Graves in the area Cayce or Plato? Advanced or Primitive?
yielded skeletons of women, as well as men,
thus proving that the religious community
•
was not BYexclusively
STEVEN SORA male after all. Perhaps
Light or Dark? Who Can We Believe
one of the skeletons unearthed by the archae-
ologist’s spade was once inhabited by the
about Life in a Forgotten World?
same woman whose past life Cayce described.
His belief in the doctrine of reincarnation
is self-evident here. A lifetime of similar read- woman,’ first the entity coming in contact Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis
ings assured him of the human soul’s immor- with those activities at the death and raising established its authenticity, and ascertained
tality, its survival after physical death, and its of Lazarus and later with Mary, Elizabeth, that the document originally belonged to
inevitable rebirth in a new body. No pointless Mary Magdalene, Martha; all of these were a Clement of Alexandria, one of the Christian
recycling of the spirit, Cayce regarded rein- part of the experience of the entity as Sa- Church’s most important founding fathers in
carnation as part of the great moral order of lome” (1874-1 F.39 5/6/39). the 3rd Century. The copy attributes the
the cosmos, in which each material manifes- The only “Salome” mentioned in the New story of Lazarus to Saint Mark, an account
tation of life on Earth was conditioned by a Testament describes her as a witness to the previously found only in the Gospel ac-
previous life—sometimes to gain knowledge Crucifixion, but not at the raising of Lazarus. cording to Saint John. Saint Mark’s version
through experience, to resolve on-going In 1960, however, the Associated Press re- is virtually the same as Saint. John’s, save for
problems, or simply to serve. In any case, it leased information confirming the identity of a minor detail coinciding with Cayce’s life-
reaffirmed each individual’s sense of purpose Cayce’s “entity” during a past life. Published reading: Clement of Alexandria’s copy states
and destiny. in Long Island’s Newsday for December 30, that a woman witness to the miracle was
The reincarnation theme appears again in the A.P. dispatch reported that Dr. Morton called “Salome.”
this remarkable life-reading: “For the entity Smith, an associate professor of history at These two verified examples underscore
was among those spoken of as a ‘holy Columbia University, discovered the copy of Cayce’s vision of the world 2,000 years ago.
a letter written by St. Mark. Scholars at The But his vision extended many centuries

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