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system been
visited?
Is the Face on
Mars evidence
of a vanished
extraterrestrial
civilization?
provocative
Are we alone?
The Cydonian Imperative invites
you to take a look at the evidence.
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Thanks to Rebecca A. Saunders, Ph.D. at Louisiana State University's Museum
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Edisto Shell Circles; David Carrasco, Ph.D. at Harvard University for information and images regarding the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2; and Stephen J.
Mattingly, Ph.D. at the University of Texas Health Science Center, for information, documentation, and images regarding the Shroud of Turin research.
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Lise Hull
novice writers. Editor and publisher of Mysteries Magazineand editor and art director of
Laurence Gardner
Lise Hull is a freelance writer and researcher specializing in British heritage. Her visits to many of Britains ancient sites stirred an interest in Earth Mysteries, ley lines,
and dowsing. She is a columnist for Renaissance Magazine and Ninnau, and also
owns Castles Unlimited (www.castles-of-britain.com). Lise presently lives in southern Oregon with her husband and two Yorkshire terriers.
Ken Mondschein
A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Laurence Gardner is a constitutional historian, lecturer, and broadcaster. Distinguished as the Chevalier de St. Germain, he is
attached to the European Council of Princes as the Jacobite Historiographer Royal.
In the artistic domain, he has been Conservation Consultant to the Fine Art Trade
Guild while in the world of music, his libretto compositions have been performed at
Londons Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, England. A Knights Templar and
Prior of the Sacred Kindred of St. Columba, Laurence is also a bestselling author.
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Feature Articles
37 A N I NTE RVIEW
WI T H
Buddha
Columns
P A U L D E V E RE A UX
LETTERS
By Lise Hull
A founder and director of the Dragon Project Trust, Paul Devereux has spent the last 35 years
studying the earths natural energies and sacred places as well as conducting research into forces
at prehistoric sites and exploring dream consciousness. He has also authored 20 books and numerous articles on ancient lifeways, consciousness, and unusual geophysical phenomena.
TO THE
E D I T O R ..............................................8
N O T E W O R T H Y ...........................................................10
C O M M E N TA R Y ............................................................ 20
Racing Toward the Apocalypse: Calculating the Coming of End Times
40 T H E P H E NO M E NA L P O WE R
OF
G O LD
By Laurence Gardner
Throughout the past century, scientists have been searching for the Holy Grail of modern physics,
which Albert Einstein classified as a Unified Theory of Everything. Included in this research is the
discovery that gold and platinum-group metals can be transmuted into a fine white powder that
has gravity-defying attributes and an ability to literally bend space-time. The most astonishing fact
about this powder, however, is that it is not actually a new discovery.
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OF TH E
M O NONGA H E L A
By Tom White
Anyone who has lived near Pittsburgh, PA since the 1950s has heard the story of the Ghost
Bomber of the Monongahela River. I first discovered the mystery one Friday evening when
I was about six years old, after digging through a stack of old newspapers in my grandparents living room. After spotting a curious headline, Mon Hides B-25
Or Does It? Since then, I have been actively researching this topic in an
attempt to learn the truth about the crashand the conspiracy theories surrounding it.
54 T H E C H U RC H
OF S ATAN S
A NT O N L AV E Y U NM ASKE D
By Ken Mondschein
Even more than half a decade after his death, the name of Anton Szandor
LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan, continues to be synonymous
with the embodiment of evil. Yet under closer scrutiny, an image of a quite
different man emergesa real human being who managed to live life on
his own terms.
MYSTERIES
ON
E X H I B I T ...............................................22
A R C H A E O L O G I C A L F I N D S .............................................24
Sea Battles at the Colosseum
U R B A N L E G E N D S ........................................................26
The Appeal of Corruption
C R Y P T O Z O O N E W S .....................................................28
Lake Monsters: The Ongoing Search for Evidence
H A U N T E D H E R I TA G E ..................................................30
Poet Dylan Thomas Haunted Legacy
PROFILES
IN
E V I L ...................................................... 32
TREASURES
FROM THE
D E E P .........................................34
B O O K R E V I E W S ..........................................................60
IN
THE
T H E AT E R ....................................................... 62
W E B R E V I E W S ...........................................................64
M U S I C R E V I E W S .........................................................66
2003-04 E V E N T S C A L E N D A R ........................................68
T H E C L A S S I F I L E S ....................................................... 76
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focus on rather nebulous takes of the
dearly depar ted, or are filled with
debates on the relative merits of fungi
vs. aliens. Some magazines have even
shrunk and then grown in size, seemingly at random.
Rather, I prefer the more concrete tales
that you have provided. I especially
enjoyed not having to rummage through
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Noteworthy
Archaeologists
Uncover the
Dionysus Temple
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Noteworthy
Researchers Prove
that Flies Can Fly
S
cientists have now confirmed that
flies can fly. Previously, scientists
thought that their light weight
allowed flies to technically swim in the
air, but studies conducted by scientists
from Zurich Universitys Institute of
Neuroinformatics in Switzerland, the
University of California at Berkeley, and
the California Institute of Technology
show that friction, which was assumed to
let flies swim in air, is not a factor.
Analysis of infrared video films that
captured fruit flies at a rate of 5,000
frames per second, showed that instead of
swimming on air, flies use tiny changes in
wing motion to generate the twisting
force necessary to compensate for the
inertia of their bodies and the friction of
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the air.
As flies make their signature quick turns,
their bodies rotate
too fast for their
visual systems to
keep up, which
means that a nonvisual sensory system is involved in
flight
control.
Researchers suspect
that the flies shrunken,
second pair of wings,
which were long thought to be
used for stability, are part of a high-performance sensory system that controls
complex actions by using a relatively
Steven N. Fry
JUDITH KANE
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: SCIENCE, MSNBC
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Noteworthy
Noteworthy
ew historical and scientific research has uncovered a surprising amount of circumstantial evidence which suggests that a single natural disaster caused many of the
events described in the Biblical account of the exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt.
According to a new documentary presented by the BBC in December of 2002, volcanic
shards found in Egypt may be linked to a huge volcanic eruption on the Greek island of
Santorini in the 16th century BC. Using computer imagery to demonstrate that the eruption would have been many times more powerful than a nuclear bomb, experts argue that
the explosion could have triggered a series of natural events that would have been
remembered by many generations, and was subsequently recorded as the plagues that
devastated Egypt and the parting of the Red Sea.
The eruption would have resulted in a cloud of volcanic ash that plunged the area into
darkness, generated lightning and hail, reduced rainfall, caused drought, and poisoned
the Nile with pollution that turned it red. The pollution would also have driven millions of
frogs on to land to die, thus removing the only significant predator of flies and lice, which
could have transmitted fatal diseases to cattle, and boils and blisters to humans.
Computer simulations also show that the Santorini eruption would have triggered a
massive tidal wave that would have been six
feet high and a hundred miles long by the
time it reached the Egyptian delta. Combined
with a subsequent geographical mistranslation that identified the Sea of Reeds (a shallow swamp on the Egyptian delta) as the Red
Sea, such an event may well have been the
genesis of the Biblical account of the parting
of the Red Sea.
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work
of
canals,
which confi r m e d
some of
the details
contained
in The Epic
of
Gilgamesh
about the
citys layout. It also
pinpointed
the remains of a structure in an area just
outside the city, in the middle of where the
Euphrates once flowed, which could be
interpreted as a burial crypt.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCE: BBC NEWS
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Archaeologists Solve
A Literary Mystery
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MACHU PICCHU
Country Retreat
of Incan Royalty?
R
esearchers at Yale
University in New
Haven, CT, have
concluded that the mysterious Incan mountain settlement known as Machu
Picchulong revered as
the fabled Lost City of the
Incas and one of the
worlds most sacred
placesmay have been
nothing more than a
favored countr y retreat
used by Inca royalty and
nobility when their capital,
Cusco, got too cold in the
summer. The par tially
reconstructed ruins, located 310 miles southeast of
Lima, Peru, draw 300,000
foreign visitors each year.
The Incas ruled Peru
from the 1430s until the
arrival of the Spaniards in
1532, constructing incredible stoneblock cities and roads and developing a
highly organized society that extended
from modern-day Colombia to Chile.
They abandoned Machu Picchu around
1545 and fled to Cusco and the surrounding jungles as fighting with the
Spanish continued.
Nearly a century after Yale University
professor Hiram Bingham became the
first foreigner to reach the Incan citadel
in 1911, Peru is now asking the university to return hundreds of artifacts taken
by Binghams three expeditions.
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Errata
In issue #1, Loren Colemans stor y
describes strange cats sighted at Quitman, AK. And in issue #2, the Boggy
Creek monster was described as being
from Fouke, AK. Rather, each of these
sitings occured in Arkansas (AR), not
Alaska (AK).
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Commentary
Commentary
R A C I N G T O WA R D
THE
APOCALYPSE
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by Ken Mondschein
t could come from an asteroid slamming into the Pacific Ocean, vaporizing millions of tons of water and
sending tsunamis to flood the coastlines
of scores of nations. It could come from
some unknown, genetically modified
organism, escaped from its test tube to
run amok through the biosphere. It
could come from the innocent tinkerings of scientists in a particle accelerator
deep underground, who accidentally
create a black hole that annihilates the
whole planet. Or, as some claim, it could
come from the death rays of an invading
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metal detectorists account for 90% of all
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Many of the objects displayed feature
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after 80 AD, Beste theorizes that a timber structure first supported the arena
flooring. The excavation of a set of post
holes substantiates this notion, as does Xray imaging, which has determined that
waterproofing materials were used in
some parts of the underground structure.
Based on the archaeological evidence,
his own calculations, and a virtual reality
reconstruction of the Colosseum developed by researchers from the Cultural
VR Lab at UCLA, Crapper has concluded that to fill the hypogeum, Roman
engineers could have constructed a tim-
by Lise Hull
ccording to the second-century
Roman historian Cassius Dio, at
the opening of the Colosseum in
80 AD, Emperor Titus filled the great
amphitheater with water in order to stage
a series of dramatic naval battles known
as naumachiae. For the opening, Titus
re-enacted the Greek 445 BC sea battle
between the Corcyreans and Corinthians. During the Colosseums battle, ships
sailed freely, and thousands of slaves and
prisoners were drowned as they faithfully
re-created the original sea fight.
For years, scholars have debated exactly where Titus would have held the naumachiae. Many have refused to accept
Cassius words at face value, believing
that the Colosseum was ill-equipped to
handle the flooding required to sail full-
scale ships. But Dr. Martin Crapper, lecturer of civil and environmental engineering at Edinburgh University, and Dr.
Heinz Beste of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, have now determined that it was possible for the
Romans to have created the historic
events described by Cassius.
According to Crapper, the issue is not
if enough water could reach the Colosseum. Neros branch of the Aqua Claudia
aqueduct (a stone conduit for moving
water) was located just 110 feet outside
the arena. Since the aqueduct handled
some 184,000 cubic meters of water per
day and only 17,000 cubic meters were
needed for the sea battles, more than
enough water flowed through the Aqua
Claudia each day to fill the ampitheater.
In fact, if those numbers (documented
by the military leader Frontius in the late
first century AD) are accurate, the arena
could be filled to the required level in
under three hours!
Rather, the problem was how the
water actually flowed from the aqueduct
into the Colosseum (since no archaeological evidence exists of a mechanical
link between the two structures) as well
as how the arena actually contained the
water.
B
According to Cassius, Titus celebrated the opening of the amphitheatre over a period of
100 days. Some 87,000 people witnessed the spectacle, which also featured gladiatorial
exhibitions, wild animal hunts, a mock infantry battle, and a horse race. But what most
captured the audiences attention was the sea battle that was held on the third day of
the event.
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Urban Legends
Urban Legends
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by Charles Rammelkamp
rban legends involving crime
entail issues of justice and
betrayal, retribution and passion, heroism, and tragedy. In short,
crime challenges our basic notions of fair
play, social order, and the chaos that
threatens it. Thus, the crimes in urban
legend usually involve the anonymous
amoral criminal, or else some largerthan-life monster.
Not surprisingly, recent urban legends
in which unknown criminals were said to
commit outrageous offenses against
innocent victims have electrified the
public, such as the story which circulated
via email about the innocent moviegoer
who was said to shove his hand into a
box of popcorn only to be stuck by a
hypodermic needle wrapped up in a
paper with the insidious message, Welcome to the world of AIDS. Yet
another is the story of a scam artist who
would slip a mickey to innocent
tourists. After they passed into unconsciousness, he supposedly would steal a
kidney, which he would then sell to an
organ bank.
Although neither story is true, these
messages quickly spread around the
world, driven through cyberspace by the
incentive to alert loved ones to these
crimes. The New Orleans police department alone has received hundreds of
calls about the kidney-theft legend, and
has even put up a web site to combat the
misinformation.
A similar crime legend that exploded
over the internet in August, 2002, was
the claim that thieves working shopping
malls were robbing women in washrooms and leaving them naked, thus tapping into our nightmares of being naked
in a strange place. The email attributed
the story to an AP news wire, a false
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The autopsy photo of John Dillinger. The bulge at his center was apparently his arm,
although many speculated that it was actually his humongous penis.
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Cryptozoo News
Cryptozoo News
To some extent, zeuglodons have eclipsed plesiosaurs as
the cryptozoologists favorite candidate for the allegedly
extinct animals behind lake-monster sightings.
LAKE MONSTERS
by Loren Coleman
ore than 1,000 lakes around
the world are believed to harbor large animals that are
unrecognized by conventional zoology
but have a rich representation in world
mythology and folklore. Such creatures
have gone by a variety of names, including great serpents, dragons, water horses, and worms.
However, the issue of lake monsters
would be of concern only to antiquarians
were it not for a large body of modern
reports from seemingly credible eyewitnesses, a number of unexplained, instrumented observations of large, moving
bodies under the waters surface, and a
small number of intriguing photographs
which seem neither to be fraudulent nor
to depict mundane objects. Although
this evidence is not conclusive (and thus
not taken seriously by mainstream science), it is suggestive enough to keep
the issue very much alive.
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assumed that lake monsters were actually sea serpents which had entered freshwater bodies from the ocean, either
temporarily or permanently. It was further reasoned that a sea serpent could be
more easily captured in a lake or river
than in the ocean. This, of course, has
proved untr ue, but it was hardly an
unreasonable conclusion at the time.
Typical of 19th-century references to
lake monsters is an ar ticle from the
Inverness (a small city north of Loch
Ness) Courier, reprinted in the Times of
London in March, 1856:
The village of Leurbost, parish of
Lochs Lewis [an Outer Hebrides
island of f Scotlands nor thwest
coast], is, at the present, the scene of
an unusual occurrence. This is no
less than the appearance in one of
the inland fresh water lakes of an
animal which from its great size
and dimensions has not a little puzzled our island naturalists. It has
been repeatedly seen within the last
fortnight by crowds of people, many
of whom have come from the
remotest places of the parish to witness the uncommon spectacle.
The animal is described by some
as being like a huge peat stack,
while others affirm that a six-oared
boat could pass between the huge
fins [humps?], which are occasionally visible. All, however, agree in
describing its form as that of an eel;
and we have heard one, whose evidence we can reply upon, state in
length that he supposed it to be
about 40 feet.
Though the Courier correspondent
suggested that the witnesses had seen an
oversized conger eel, later theorists took
their cue from the Dutch zoologist
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A Case for
New England
Sea Serpents
Antoon
Cornelis Oudemans (18581943), author of the The Great
Sea Serpent (1892). Oudemans believed
that huge, long-necked seals were
responsible for serpent sightings, due
to the monsters described mammalian
traits, such as the presence of hair and
their undulating mode of swimming.
Due to the popularity of a British
theor y that the creatures were plesiosaurs (large marine mammals dating
back to the Mesozoic period), subsequent speculations held that mammals
rather than reptiles were responsible for
the sightings.
By the 1970s, many cryptozoologists
signed on to University of Chicago
biologist Roy P. Mackals notion that
the creatures were most likely zeuglodonsprimitive, snakelike whales
which disappeared from the fossil
record some 20 million years ago, but
which may have lived on to this day in
certain lakes in the worlds northern
regions, due to adaptation, surviving
remnant populations, and small,
hidden breeding populations.
There is much to
be said for the zeuglodon hypothesis.
Reports describe animals
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they exist, need not remain forever elusive. The answersand the proofmay
be as close as the first concerted scientific effort to get to the bottom of this
mystery. z
Loren Coleman is the co-author (with
Patrick Huyghe) of The Field Guide to
Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and
Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep
(NY: Tarcher/Penguin, 2003).
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Haunted Heritage
Haunted Heritage
by Lise Hull
n November 9, 1953, one of
Wales most important writers
died during a reading tour in
New York City. Collapsing from a brain
aneurysm ostensibly induced by years of
heavy drinking, Thomas said, Ive had
18 straight whiskeysI think thats the
record. Those were his last words,
words that revealed the chaos of his brief
39 years of life. Yet in death as in life,
Dylan's restless spirit still roams his
favorite hauntsWelsh public houses
where his voracious appetite for life and
drink freed the poet from the stresses of
poverty and the New York City tavern
where his Bohemian ways led to his
death-inducing coma.
In a well-tended cemetery in the tiny
When Dylan Thomas fell into a coma in November of 1953, it started with a bout of drinking at the White Horse Tavern in Greenwich Village, New York City. Now, patrons of the
tavern claim to occasionally see his ghost rotating his favorite corner table, as he did
when he frequented the place 50 years ago.
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n recent years, some people claim to have encountered a different kind of Thomas at
the Boathouse. After Dylans death, his wife Caitlin and their three small children
moved to Italy. However, Florence Thomas, the poets mother, continued to live at the
Boathouse until her own death, which occurred, ironically, on the final night of the first
performance of Under Milk Wood, held in Laugharne in 1958. She was the last person to
occupy the Boathouse as a permanent home and apparently continues to haunt the cottage to this day.
Psychics have reported sensing cold spots around the staircase and feeling Florences
presence in the parlor, where she is said to have died. While her spirit is never actually
seen, staff working at the Boathouse claim that Florence makes her presence known by
the scraping of an upstairs chair across the floor as if she is rising rapidly from the table,
lights switching back on after workers have left for the evening, and by paintings moving
across the room away from their original hanging places.
LISE HULL
Lise Hull
Ghostly Sightings
ven though Dylan Thomas spoke
only English, he was a Welshman
through and through. He never
left Wales for long, choosing instead to
return time and again to Laugharne,
which he described as this timeless,
mild, beguiling island of a town and to
his roots in Swansea, south Wales, where
he lived as a child, and then, as an adult,
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Profiles in Evil
Profiles in Evil
ROMAN FEODOROVICH
VON
U N G E R N -S T E R N B E R G
Louis Guarnaccia
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by Marc Cramer
ne of the least known but darkest figures to emerge from the
early 20th centur y was the
Mad Baron of Mongolia, Roman
Feodorovich von Ungern-Sternberg.
Born in the Baltics (probably Latvia) in
1886, Roman Feodorovich grew to
manhood in White Russia (Siberia),
where he soon gained a reputation as a
man to be feared for his bloodthirstiness
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that it may have been used to supply militar y camps and bases along the Rhine.
Indications that the barge was used as a
transport for military personnel include
lance points and axes that were standard
equipment for Roman soldiers.
The barge was transpor ted to the
National Institute of Maritime Archaeology in Lelystad, where it will be conserved
in a huge tank containing a special liquid
for two years, before being displayed to
the public.
n July of 2003, during work to broaden the bed of the Baphyras River at the
ancient Macedonian city of Dion in
central Greece, workers discovered a nearly
life-size marble statue of Zeus Hypsistos
sitting on a throne in what is believed to be
a sanctuar y of the king of the ancient
Greek gods.
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around ancient
American Indian
rock carvings,
such as this one
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Spring, CA,
which depicts a
shaman
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rock as a snake.
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A Pharaoh seeking enlightenment from the Papyrus of Ani, otherwise known as the
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Manufacturing Manna
n all cases where the mfkzt powder
was allied with gold, bread, and
light (as well as classified as a stone),
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An Arcing Capacitor?
T
he book of Exodus explains that when Moses destroyed the Israelites' golden calf,
God issued a directive forbidding the manufacture of graven images. Immediately
after this, God instructed the craftsman Bezaleel to construct the Ark of the
Covenant specifying, in contradiction of his earlier directive, that two golden cherubs
should surmount its lid. So what were these arcane cherubim and how did they have the
power to produce the devastating light which the Bible described as wreaking havoc on
the biblical battlefields?
Today, a principal method of triggering the superconductive white powder of gold is by
electronic arcing. According to the Bible, the Ark was an insulated coffer, plated both
inside and out with gold, a construction that is quite similar to a modern electronic arcing
capacitor. Through our present understanding of high-spin elements, it is now believed
that the Ark may have been instrumental in the manufacture of shem-an-na (the manna of
Moses).
The Ten Commandments are often imagined as a couple of weighty stone slabs,
although the Book of Exodus gives no indication as to the shape or size of these stones.
Likewise, there is no mention in Exodus that the Commandments were placed in the Ark.
(Only the separate testimony is mentioned in this regard (Exodus 40:20)). In fact, the
Jewish Ha Qabala described these Tables of Testimony as being written on a divine crystal called schethiy, a crystal that was light enough and small enough for Moses to hold
in the palm of his hand. It then goes onto describe that the tables contained the secrets
of "all that man had ever known and all that man would ever know." In ancient
Mesopotamia (c. 3000 BC), the
same was said of the Tables of
Destiny, which were claimed to
have been handed down by the
gods Enlil and Enki, sons of the
great Anunnaki sky-god Anu.
Modern science has determined that schethiy crystal was
probably a platinum-group transition element, such as meteoric
iridium cr ystal, akin to the cr ystal pavement of Moses, as
described in Exodus 24:10.
When placed in the electronic
arcing capacitor of the Ark, it
would have increased the Ark's
powers from that of a conventional capacitor to a power ful
superconductor.
If this was the case, then the
Ark, by way of high energy blasts
and shor t-wave radiation, could
indeed have had the power to
damage five Philistine cities and
destroy the walls of Jericho, as
the Bible describes.
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n the book of Exodus, Moses was said to have made the powder of projection for
ingestion by the Israelites by burning the golden calf idol with fire. But burning or heating gold does not produce powder it produces molten goldor so it was thought until
the 1980s, when it was discovered that great extremes of heat can transmute gold into a
white powder of single or double atoms that have superconductive, anti-gravitational
properties. This process was passed down through the ages by various esoteric brotherhoods. In medieval times, alchemists called this substance the Philosophers' Stone.
British philosopher Eirenaeus Philalethes (a man revered by Isaac Newton, Rober t
Boyle, Elias Ashmole, and other Royal Society colleagues of his day) discussed in
Secrets Revealed (1667) the alchemical nature of the Philosophers' Stone, which was
commonly thought to transmute base metal into gold. Setting the record straight, Philalethes made the point that the Stone itself was made of gold, and
that the philosopher's art was in per fecting this process.
He stated:
Our Stone is nothing but gold digested to
the highest degree of purity and subtle fixation. Our gold, no longer vulgar, is the
ultimate goal of Nature. It is called a
Stone by vir tue of its fixed nature; it
resists the action of fire as successfully
as any stone. In species it is gold, more
pure than the purest; it is fixed and
incombustible like a stone, but its
appearance is that of a very fine powder.
This description was mirrored by the 15th-century French alchemist Nicolas Flamel, who wrote
in his Last Testament of 1416 that when the noble
metal was per fectly dried and digested, it made "a
fine powder of gold, which is the Philosophers'
Stone." The alchemists called it the container of
15th-century French
the light of life, as they believed that it was the
alchemist Nicolas Flamel.
food of the great enlightenment and the elixir of
active longevity.
LAURENCE GARDNER
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Distortions of Space-Time
n the early 1990s, articles concerning stealth atoms and superconductivity began to appear with regularity in the scientific press. The Niels Bohr
Institute at the University of Copenhagen, the US Department of Energys
Argonne National Laboratories in
Chicago, IL, and their Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, TN, all confirmed
that the elements discovered by Hudson
existed in the monatomic state. These
included gold and the platinum-group
elements of iridium, rhodium, palladium, platinum, osmium, and ruthenium.
Manipulation of space-time quickly
became a subject of interest, leading to
an astonishing announcement in the
May, 1994 journal Classical and Quantum Gravity from the University of
Wales. Written by the Mexican mathematical scientist Miguel Alcubierre, he
stated:
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altered their
course to avoid heavily populated areas. He then decided to land at
the closer Allegheny County Airport.
The unexplained fuel loss continued
and at 4:09 p.m., just as the plane
caught site of the Monongahela River,
both engines sputtered to a halt.
The tower at Allegheny County Airport immediately picked up the Mayday sent out by co-pilot Jamieson. At
that point it was clear that if they were
going to sur vive, they would have to
crash land the plane into the icy cold
waters of the Monongahela River.
A Crash Landing
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wing flaps and successfully glided the plane into the water, just
beyond the Homestead High Level
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CIA agent to load pieces of the recovered plane onto their trucks of f of a
barge in Sewickly, the same area where
the Coast Guard was stationed, and drive
it to a Nike Missile base in Oakdale near
Pittsburghs airport.
This story was verified by another man
who contacted the late Ghost Bomber
researcher and pilot Bob Johns. Hal,
who was part of the crew of the towboat
Zubik, claimed to have helped pull the
plane out of the river, and that it was sub-
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studied and experimented with in Oklahoma, the state in which the plane had
stopped overnight.
Although one of the ostensible reasons for stopping at OKs Tinker Air
Force base was problems with the
brakes, the planes log shows no repairs
being made on the plane that day. So it
is possible that the crew stopped in
Oklahoma to load on some secret
weapons instead.
Others believe that some kind of state
of the art, top-secret communications
system was on board. Whatever it was,
the extra weight from the cargo they
picked up in Oklahoma may have been
enough to cause the crew to miscalculate
the amount of fuel needed to reach their
destination. In fact, Johns suggests that
based on their fuel miscalculations, there
may have been as much as 8,000 pounds
of extra weight on the aircraft.
Other theories swirl around the
planes mysterious seventh passenger.
There are many conflicting repor ts
about what boats pulled which
crewmembers out of the water. After
conducting extensive interviews with
those who helped pull the crew out of
the water, Johns concluded that there
was indeed a fifth man pulled out, and
possibly even a sixth, which would bring
the total number of people onboard to
seven or eight.
Interestingly, this theor y was confirmed by an unlikely sourceSgt. Alleman. During an interview for the Perry
Marshall Show in 1976, Alleman
repeatedly stated that seven people were
on the plane when it crash-landed into
the river, even though records show
only six people on-board the B-25 at
the time. As for the identity of the seventh man, it has been suggested that he
was anyone from a Russian defector or
spy to Howard Hughes. However, if
there was some kind of secret cargo on
board, perhaps the extra man (or men)
were there to accompany it to its final
destination.
However, skeptics believe that the
extra man pulled out of the river was a
rescuer who had dove into the river to
help. Given the amount of confusion at
The B-25 Recovery Group on a barge on the Monongahela River, above the spot where
they believe that the plane may be located.
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An 18-year-old
Howard Stanton
Levey.
The holiest day of the infernal calendar, as LaVey wrote in The Satanic Bible,
is ones own birthday. Even so, the nativity of the founder of the Church of Satan
himself is a matter of some debate.
LaVey claimed to have been born in
Chicago, IL on April 11, 1930. But
birth records have only been found for a
Howard Stanton Levey, who was born
on March 11 of that same year, to Mike
and Gertrude Levey, and whose date of
birth was later amended to a respectable
April 11, to obscure the fact that he was
conceived out of wedlock.
The family moved from place to place
during the years of the Great Depression, until Mike Levey finally obtained a
liquor dealership in San Francisco, CA
sometime in the late 1930s. No matter
where they went, however, the young
Howard Stanton was something of a
misfit. Though he was both intelligent
and a talented musician, he was also
odd-looking and unathletic.
It is somewhat telling of how alienated
the future Black Pope felt as a child
that in The Secret Life of a Satanistthe
official biography written by his longtime lover Blanche Bar tonLaVey
claimed to have been born with a vestigial tail, a rare mutation of which only
some 30-odd cases have been reported
in modern medical literatureand
which he claimed was surgically removed
in his early teens.
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An Infernal Philosophy
et behind the Halloween costumes, the Black Mass parodies,
claims to have masterminded many
celebrity tragedies, and the various publicity stunts, lay some ver y sincere
beliefs. While LaVey may have claimed
to have never believed in a literal Satan,
according to LaVey, the devil was the
embodiment of humanitys carnal, animal nature, and,
the spirit of progress, the inspirer of
all great movements that contribute
to the development of civilization
and the advancement of mankind
the spirit of rebellion that leads to
freedom, the embodiment of all heresies that liberate,
and, of course, an antidote to what he
considered to be the inevitable hypocrisy
of more mainstream religions.
In fact, if there was one cardinal sin in
the Church of Satan, it was hypocrisy.
The ultimate act of worship, according
to LaVey, was the glorification of the
self. The Satanist shuns terms such as
hope and prayer as they are indicative
of apprehension, he wrote in The
Satanic Bible. He then went on to add:
If we hope and pray for something to
come about, we will not act in a positive way which will make it happen.
The Satanist, realizing that anything he gets is of his own doing, takes
command of the situation instead of
praying to God for it to happen. Positive thinking and positive action add
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up to results.
Of course, LaVey was hardly the only
San Franciscan in the 1960s to attempt
to subvert the dominant paradigm. In
the same year that the Church of Satan
became incorporated, Jefferson Poland
and his friends in the Sexual Freedom
League were throwing free love parties
and Ken Kesey was hosting his
psychedelic Acid Tests. In fact, the
very day after LaVey became the Black
Pope, the popular medieval re-enactment organization the Society for Cre-
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Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Shifting Frequencies
Case MJ-12
BY JONATHAN GOLDMAN
ISBN: 1-891824-04-X
$14.95, LIGHT TECHNOLOGY, 1998
BY KEVIN RANDLE
ISBN: 0380814730
$7.50, AVON, 2002
BY TONY HILLERMAN
ISBN: 0061098795
$7.99, HARPER, 2003
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uthor Jim Keith died in 1999, but he lives on in the underground press as an investigator extraordinaire. Secret and
Suppressed is a collection of essays and exposs that he
edited, written by a number
of prominent authors in the
conspiracy field.
One provocative title in
the first sectionIs Paranoia a For m of Awareness?is written by Kerry
Thornley, who knew Lee Harvey Oswald when they were
in the Marines together in
1959. (Thornley was eventually involved in the Jim
Garrison investigation into
the JFK assassination.) Not
surprisingly, Thornley does
not buy the Warren Commissions conclusion that
Oswald acted as a lone gunman in the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. But
the essay also discusses
the psychology of paranoia as well as speculates on Watergate,
Charles Manson, and the Martin Luther King assassination.
The section called Cults and Casualties contains a variety of
essays whose subjects range from the Reverend Jim Jones and
the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, TX, to Jim Morrison, the singer
for the Doors, whose 1971 death in Paris has always been the
subject of urban legend.
In the third section, inter views shed an eerie light on Iraqs
motivation in attacking Kuwait in the 1991 Gulf War and on the
shadowy guerrilla tactics of the Irish Republican Army. However,
the exclusive interview with an unnamed representative of the
Irish Republican Armys governing Army Council may be a cause
of skepticism for some readers.
Essays in the final section expose the Orwellian machinations
of the worlds power brokers. For instance, the essay titled
AIDS: Act of God or the Pentagon? speculates on the origin
and spread of this modern-day plague. Similarly, Exposing the
Nazi International details the global pervasiveness of Fascism.
Readers will either find the essays in Secret and Suppressed
preposterous or convincing. But in either case, they will certainly
find them compelling reading.
CHARLES
RAMMELKAMP
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In the Theater
Terminator 3 (2003)
Rise of The Machines
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In the Theater
Pirates of the
Caribbean (2003)
The Curse of the
Black Pearl
Ghosts of
the Abyss (2003)
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Web Reviews
Prehistoric Stone
Circles & Rows
Megalithic Wales
WWW.SOVER.NET/~IHONEYWO/
Stone Pages
WWW.STONEPAGES.COM
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Scotland
WWW.ABDN.AC.UK/~LIB266/STONES
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distinctive type of stone
circle can be found in
Nor theast Scotland and
site author Anna Edelsten is
happy to provide visitors with
details on this down-to-ear th
but highly informative web site.
The brief but thorough introduction explains why these stone
circles are dif ferent (they feature at least one recumbent or
flat-laying stone) and describe
exactly what one will see when
visiting each site.
The easy-to-use index lists 30
stone circles by county and
offers a simple menu that links
to individual sub pages within
the county. Each write up is dramatically illustrated with at
least one photo, an features an
Ordnance Sur vey map number
and directions to the circle.
Edelsten also provides information on the condition of each
monument. The high-quality
photos are well-presented, and
all the pages load up quickly.
This web site is for the nononsense explorer who is looking for information fast and in
an enjoyable format.
Megaliths
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Megalithia
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eb author Richard M.
clearly thrives on
exploring ancient monuments. His evocative narratives entice visitors to look further and feature not just the
more famous stone monuments
such as Stonehenge and Avebury, but other equally powerful
sites in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and France.
Besides his fine photos and
descriptive notes, Richard provides an extensive and easy-touse listing of each monument,
with links to infor mation on
each, photos, map locations,
and nearby sites to visit when in
the area. One of the most useful and effective features is the
Stone search engine, which
allows visitors to search the
Megalithia database by keyword, map reference, site
name, and other variables.
Not only does Richard present various megalithic sites in
a stimulating manner, he also
introduces visitors to the people
who built the sites, classifies
the different types of megalithic
sites with examples, and
includes an extensive bibliography. He also discusses two theories on why sites of such magnitude and complexity were
built, either as an astronomical
observatory or as power points
along ley lines, long tracks of
significance to the ancients.
In all, Megalithia offers a spirited and highly informative look
at many of the worlds ancient
monuments.
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Music Reviews
Music Reviews
Paradise Within
Holy Harmony
JOHN BALINT
JONATHAN GOLDMAN
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or thousands of years, it
has been believed by many
cultures that to utter the
name of a deity would be to
invoke power ful, benevolent
forces. In Holy Har mony,
Jonathan Goldman brings this
concept to the modern world
with his mixture of tuning forks,
using resonances mentioned in
the Bible and the hauntingly
beautiful chant of YHSVH, syllables that make up the ancient
name of Christ. Per fect for
deep meditation, these sounds
are intended to promote healing of both the body and spirit.
The tuning forks played on
the recording feature nine specific frequencies that Goldman
believes are involved in miraculous healings and divine manifestations. To fur ther intensify
their power, the ancient syllabic
chant invoking the name of
Yeshua (an early name for
Jesus) is incorporated into the
CD. By pronouncing the Hebrew
letters of Yod, Hey, Shin,
Vav, and Hey, the purest
for m of the divine name is
ascertained and used as a conduit for spiritual healing.
Goldman is well-known as a
pioneer in sound research and
in using music and specific frequencies as healing tools.
Incorporating musical elements
Tribal Journeys
METAMUSIC
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Anita Cortesi, Karlheinz Dotter (Austria); Emil Lips,
Dr. Peter Niehenke, Wulfing von Rohr (Germany); Urs
Schlopfer, Ruth Schmidhauser, Wolfgang Somar y
(UK); Dr. Elizabeth Teissier (France); and more.
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ANCIENT SACRED PLACES, CROP CIRCLES,
AND BEAUTIFUL SOUTHERN ENGLAND
June, July, and August, 2004; Southern England
Contact: Ron Russell, PO Box 460760, Aurora, CO
80046, (303) 995-9966 | Email: ron@cropcircles.
org | Web: www.cropcircles.org/ tours.php | Experiential tours with a focus on research in Wiltshire,
England. Includes private access to Stonehenge,
special research training opportunities in the field,
tours to and remote viewing introduction training in
sacred sites and crop circles. Guests and speakers
include Ron Russell, Dr. Simeon Hein, Busty Taylor,
Colin Andrews, Peter Sorensen, John Michell, Paul
Vigay, Lucy Pringle, and others.
FIELD RESEARCH TRAINING INTENSIVE
Various dates; Wiltshire and Hampshire, England
Contact: Ron Russell, PO Box 460760, Aurora, CO
80046 | Email: ron@cropcircles.org | Web:
www.cropcircles.org/tours.php | Use Electrostatic
and Magnetic Meters and other equipment to plot
energy fluctuations, construct a legal test bed formation, and participate in a skywatch on a sacred
site using CSETI protocol. Includes discussion and
training in Resonant/Remote Viewing. Guest
research exper ts include Rodney Ashbur y, Paul
Vigay, Busty Taylor, Dr. Simeon Hein, Lucy Pringle,
Matthew Williams, and others. No previous experience necessary.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON CROP CIRCLES & STONEHENGE
July 19-26, 2004; Salisbury, England
Contact: Power Places, 2509 #A Andromeda, Colorado Springs, CO 80906, (800) 234-8687 or (719)
448-0514 | Email: travel@powerplaces.com | Web:
www.powerplaces.com/StonehengeCropCircles |
Explore the life-transforming energies and sacred
geometry of this ancient mystical landscape. Experience the magical energy of Stonehenge, Avebur y,
and Glastonbur y. Feel the power and energy of
Stonehenge, including private access inside its
inner circle, and walk through some crop circles.
With Barbara Hand Clow, Colin Andrews, and others.
LOST SECRETS OF THE SACRED ARK
November 13, 2003; London, England
Contact: Busty Taylor, 52 Appletree Grove, Andover,
Hampshire, SP10 3RG, (+44)0 1264 324496 |
Email: busty@circleflyer.fsnet.co.uk | Web:
www.graal.co.uk/events | Presented by Sir Laurence
Gardner.
SIGNS OF DESTINY II:
CROP CIRCLES, EARTH MYSTERIES & MORE
November 21-23, 2003; Tempe, AZ
Cost: $215 until Aug. 23; $265 thereafter; Fri. $80;
Sat. $160; Sun. $125; two-day passes $230; preand post-conf. options $40; individ. workshops $20
Contact: Dr. Chet Snow, PO Box 1738, Sedona, AZ
86339, (928) 204-1962 | Email: chetsnow@
sedona.net | Web: www.chetsnow.com/signs | Features lectures, workshops, photos, displays, and
speakers, including Sir Laurence Gardner, Dolores
Cannon, Linda Moulton Howe, Colin Andrews, Dr.
Eltjo Haselhoff, Francine Blake, Andy Thomas, Doug
Kenyon, Clarisse Conner, and others.
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
16TH ANNUAL BIGFOOT CONFERENCE/EXPO
April 3, 2004; Newcomerstown, OH
Contact: Don Keating, (740) 498-4542 | Email:
eobic@yahoo.com | Web: www.angelfire.com/oh/
ohiobigfoot/abc
BIGFOOT DAZE
May, 2004; Hillsboro, OR
Contact: Ray Crowe, Director IBS, 225 NE 30th Ave.,
Hillsboro, OR 97124, (503) 640-6581 | Email: raycrowe@aol.com
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Web:
www.internationalbigfootsociety.com
SCCS CRYPTOZOOLOGY CONFERENCE
November 8, 2003; Greenville, SC
Cost: $20 adv.; $30 door | Email: dltanner99@
aol.com | Web: www.dltanner.com/ event | Features
displays, concessions, live auctions, and speakers,
including Loren Coleman, Mark A. Hall, Joshua P.
Warren, Mike McCurry, and D.L. Tanner.
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HEALTH/HOLISITIC HEALING
CONTACT HEALING CLINICS
Each Wednesday; London, England
Cost: 5 sugg. donation | Contact: The College of
Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberr y Place, London,
England SW7 2EB, +44 (0)20 7589 3292 | Email:
admin@psychic-studies.org.uk | Web: www.psychicstudies.org.uk/healing | Three healers bring down
three healing rays simultaneously in a focused way,
which is effective for those who are seriously ill and
those who have already had other forms of healing
but still have not achieved well-being.
HEALING TRAUMA
November 22-23, 2003; Copper Mountain, CO
December 6-7, 2003; Santa Ana Pueblo, NM
Contact: The Conference Works!, 7138 English
Birch Lane, Indianapolis, IN 46268, (317) 2975733 | Web: www.conferenceworks.com/ speaker_bnapa.cfm
HEALING WITH STAR ENERGIES
AWAKENING OUR ESSENCE
February 27-29, 2004; Worcester, VT
Sue Jamieson or Lyn Rober ts-Herrick (212) 6740525 | Email: StarEnergies@aol.com | Web:
www.dreamchange.org/projects/index
HERBAL MEDICINE: HOW PLANTS HEAL
November 22, 2003; Manchester, NH
Contact: North Eastern Institute of Whole Healthy,
(603) 623-5018 or Joyce Kendall (603) 524-7829 |
Email: mckay@neiwh.com or joyce@dreamchange.
org | Web: www.dreamchange.org/projects/
herbalmedicine | An introduction to the art and science of western herbal medicine, this workshop will
review the principles by which the world of plant
medicine has been viewed from the western perspective and will cover both spiritual aspects of
healing with plants and the physical attributes of
various plant groups and their application to physical symptoms, as well as basic herbal preparations
for use at home.
HERBS FOR THE RESPIRATORY
& NERVOUS SYSTEMS
November 23, 2003; Manchester, NH
Contact: North Eastern Institute of Whole Healthy,
(603) 623-5018 or Joyce Kendall (603) 524-7829 |
Email: mckay@neiwh.com or joyce@dreamchange.
org | Web: www.dreamchange.org | This workshop
will cover the identification, characteristics, and
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the art of blending herbal preparations for specific
symptoms, and the ar t of knowing how to safely
care for yourself and loved ones with the energy of
Mother Earth's medicines.
MIND BODY SPIRIT FESTIVAL
November 20-23, 2003; Sydney, Australia
Email: mbssyd@dmgworldmedia.com.au | Web:
mbsfestival.com.au | Bringing together the best in
progressive therapies, alternative cooking ideas,
spiritual and self-development groups, and ancient
practices.
TOUCHING SPIRIT TRAINING PROGRAM
November 15-16, 2003; Litchfield, CT
December 13-14, 2003; Litchfield, CT
Cost: $1,200 | Contact: Touching Spirit Center, 16
South St., Litchfield, CT 06759, (860) 567-0600 |
Web: www.touchingspirit.org/tprog1 | Training in the
ar t of spiritual healing and the science of energy
medicine includes opening the flow of healing energy through the hear t and hands attuning the
chakras and subtle energy flows of the body and
understanding how they affect health; opening the
intuitive and spiritual energies and combining prayer
and meditation for healing; creating original meditations that can be used with individuals and groups.
NEW AGE
2004 INTL. CONFERENCE ON ENLIGHTENMENT
January 16-20, 2004; Santa Fe, NM
Cost: $495 | Contact: The Message Company, 4
Camino Azul, Santa Fe, NM 87508, (505) 474-0998
or (505) 474-7604 | Email: message@bizspirit.com
| Web: www.bizspirit.com/home/eventcalendar |
Speakers include Peter Levine PhD, Gay Hendricks
PhD, Kathlyn Hendricks PhD, Richard Moss MD,
Angeles Arrien, Hank Wesselman, Robert Rabbin,
Isaac Shapiro, Pamela Wilson, John Sherman, Arjuna Ardagh, Adyashanti, Tina de Souza, Onye Onyemaechi, Robert Gass, Judith Gass, Gail Ackerman,
Joe Miguez, and Sita Jamison.
THE CALL TO LIVE A SYMBOLIC LIFE
November 14-15, 2003: Indianapolis, IN
Cost: $235 (adv. reg. disc. avail.) | Contact: The
Conference Works!, 7138 English Birch Lane, Indianapolis, IN 46268, (317) 297-5733 | Web:
www.conferenceworks.com/speaker_cmyss.cfm |
Examines the challenges of following a spiritual path
that opens one's soul and psyche. Uses archetypal
energies and the power of symbolic sight to discover
insight for integrating ones spirit and personality,
and making life choices based upon the needs of
ones spirit.
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www.ritesofpassagevisionquest.org/visionquest |
Learn to negotiate and celebrate life's transitions,
completing the old, moving through the threshold of
the unknown, and returning to the world reborn.
WOMEN OF WISDOM CONFERENCE:
EMBRACE COMMUNITY, DANCE THE MYSTERY
February 13-21, 2004; Seattle, WA
Contact: Women of Wisdom Foundation, PO Box
30043, Seattle, WA 98113, (206) 782-3363 |
Email: wow@womenofwisdom.org | Web:
www.womenofwisdom.org
OTHER
AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL
SOCIETY CONFERENCE
May 25-29, 2004; Nashville, TN
Contact: American Astronomical Society, 2000 Florida Ave., NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009,
(202) 328-2010 | Email: aas@aas.org | Web:
www.aas.org
AIRY FAIRY/PAGAN FED. LECTURE SERIES
Various dates; Sheffield, England
Cost: 1.50 | Contact: Francis Clarke-Rowland, +44
(0)114 232 27 74 or +44 (0(776 021 53 85 |
Email:
clarke-rowland@talk21.com
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anwen@air yfair y.org
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Web:
www.airyfairy.org/Workshops | Topics include Wand
Making: How to make a personal power pointer, A
Pagan Guide to Greek Mythology, Tree Power: The
uses and magic of the forest, Animal Wisdom:
How to contact and use the power around you in
your pets, You Are What You Eat, Spirit Nets &
Dreamcatchers: How to tell the difference and make
them, and more.
FENG SHUI WORKSHOPS
November 22-23, 2003; Kent, England
December 13-14, 2003; Kent, England
January 11-12, 2004; Kent, England
February 22-23, 2004; Kent, England
Cost: 154 | Contact: The Alan Stirling School of
Feng Shui, 16 Ash Road, Strood, Kent, ME2 2JL,
UK, +44 07092 051455 | Email:
alan777@blueyonder.co.uk
or
alanstirling@fengshuithatworks.co.uk
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Web:
www.fengshuithatworks.co.uk/school/index
INTERNATIONAL CONF. ON SACRED SEXUALITY:
AWAKENING AWARENESSAN INVITATION
TOWARDS ENGLIGHTENMENT
January 16-20, 2004; Santa Fe, NM
Contact: 4 Camino Azul, Santa Fe, NM 87508, (505)
474-0998 | Email: message@bizspirit.com | Web:
www.bizspirit.com/sexuality/sx_index | Investigate
the space between ordinary and non-ordinary reality,
expand personal awareness, and participate in the
exploration of consciousness. Speakers include
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SACRED SITES/PILGRIMAGES
GATEWAY VOYAGE
March 1-7; 2004; Faber, VA
Cost: $1,495 | Contact: The Monroe Institute, 62
Rober ts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866)
881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email: TMIprograms@monroeinstitute.org | Web: www. monroeinstitute.org | Learn to achieve the out-of-body state
and tools that will enable relaxation, recognition and
control of personal energy, problem-solving, greater
self-awareness and self-discovery, emotional cleansing, programming your future, development and
exploration of human consciousness, deeper levels
of self-discovery, awareness, willful control of one's
awareness, and communication with and visits to
other energy systems and realities.
MC2: MANIFESTATION AND CREATION SQUARED
March 8-14, 2004; Faber, VA
Cost: $1,495 | Contact: The Monroe Institute, 62
Rober ts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866)
881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email: TMIprograms@monroeinstitute.org
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Web:
www.monroeinstitute.org
REMOTE VIEWING PRACTICUM
November 8-14, 2003; Faber, VA
February 22-28, 2004; Faber, VA
Cost: $1,495 | Contact: The Monroe Institute, 62
Rober ts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866)
881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email: TMIprograms@monroeinstitute.org
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Web:
www.monroeinstitute.org
REMOTE VIEWING WEEKEND WORKSHOP
November 15-16, 2003; Las Vegas, NV
Cost: $298 | Contact: (866) 607-8439 | Email:
rtarg@espresearch.com | Web: www. remoteperception.com | Presented by Edward A. Dames, Major,
U.S. Army (Ret.), a decorated militar y intelligence
officer and an original member of the U.S. Army prototype remote viewing training program.
STARLINES
December 13-19, 2003; Faber, VA
Cost: $1,495 | Contact: The Monroe Institute, 62
Rober ts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866)
881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email: TMIprograms@monroeinstitute.org
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Web:
www.monroeinstitute.org
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INTL. CONFERENCE ON SHAMANISM:
A JOURNEY THROUGH TRANSFORMATION
January 16-20, 2004; Santa Fe, NM
Cost: $495 | Contact: 4 Camino Azul, Santa Fe, NM
87508, (505) 474-0998 | Email: message@bizspirit.com
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Web:
www.bizspirit.com/shamanism/ sh_index | Speakers and presenters include Tina de Souza, Onye
Onyemaechi, Merilyn Tunneshende, Hank Wesselman, and Connie Grauds.
SHAMANISM: ANCIENT QUECHUAN
HEALING CEREMONIES
December 13, 2003; Manchester, NH
Contact: North Eastern Institute of Whole Healthy,
(603) 623-5018 or Joyce Kendall (603) 524-7829 |
Email: mckay@neiwh.com or joyce@dreamchange.
org | Web: www.dreamchange.org/projects/quechua
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