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29 Midlife Crisisfor the Planet?Getting Old, They Say,Is Not for Sissies

32 CatastrophismReconsideredPutting New Heat on Uniformitarians

35 New Light onBurrows CaveControversiesHave the DebunkersGotten Ahead ofThemselves?

39 Saga of theRamapoughLenape

40 Overshadowing Creativity and WorldsBeyond Our Senses

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The case for resuming lunar explo-ration grows stronger by the day.Records of the very ancient past

may have been destroyed by the tec-tonic forces of Earth but that maynot be the case on the Moon. Some-day soon archaeologists will be ableto search there for ancient extrater-restrial fossils encased in lava. An-cient lava f lows, it is thought, couldonce have covered and sealed rocksand fossils arriving from space. Butcould any such materials survive ex-posure to super heated liquid rock?Recent tests at Englands Universityof Kent have demonstrated that or-ganic materials on Earth could sur-vive exposure to lava temperatures ashigh as 1300F.

While the search for evidence

Could our galaxy be a hugewormhole like that seen inthe movie Interstellar? And if thatwere true, would it be stable andnavigable? Now a new studypublished in the journal Annalsof Physics says yes.

If we combine the map ofthe dark matter in the Milky Waywith the most recent Big Bangmodel to explain the universeand we hypothesize the existenceof space-time tunnels, what we

get is that our galaxy could reallycontain one of these tunnels, andthat the tunnel could even be thesize of the galaxy itself, says oneof the study authors astrophysi-cist Paolo Salucci, a dark matterexpert with the InternationalSchool for Advanced Studies(SISSA) of Trieste, Italy. Wecould even travel through thistunnel, since, based on our calcu-lations, it could be navigable.

Although space-time tunnels

(aka, wormholes or Einstein-Pen-rose bridges) have only recentlygained much public interest inthe wake of Christopher Nolanssci-f i f ilm, they have been thefocus of attention from astro-physicists for many years.

Obviously were not claim-ing that our galaxy is definitely awormhole, but simply that, ac-cording to theoretical models,this hypothesis is a possibility.

To reach their conclusions

the astrophysicists combined theequations of general relativitywith an extremely detailed mapof the distribution of dark matterin the Milky Way.

Scientists have tried to ex-plain dark matter by hypothesiz-ing a hypothetical particle, calledthe neutralino. But, saysSalucci, alternative theories alsoexist, and perhaps its time forscientists to take this issue seri-ously.

Our Galaxy Could Be a Giant Wormhole, Say Scientists

ALTERNATIVE NEWS

Approaching the Wormholein the movie Interstellar

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he case foff r resuming lunar explo-ration grows stronger by the dayaa

The Case for Returning to the Moon Grows Strongerof ancient life might be more thanenough to motivate a new wave oflunar exploration, the mining possi-bilities are also getting some new at-tention. China with its Jade Rabbitmission has already made it clear itis after the moons rare earth miner-als. (Perhaps they should be calledrare moons) Some scientists believethat helium from the moon may oneday power Earth. Recent discoveriesof apparent water deposits have alsoshown it may soon be possible toobtain locally on our moon, oxygenfor breathing, water for drinking, andfuel for rockets.

Could the moon soon becomethe last filling station for travelersventuring into the trackless waste-lands of interplanetary space?

Astronauts approach a lunar lavacave (artists conception, NASA)

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Has the universe beenaround forever? Mostphysicists, will emphaticallysay, NO, and they will addthat they have the math toprove it.

It all began about 13.8billion years ago, they say,with the Big Bang. In themother of all explosions, aninfinitely dense point calleda singularity, for some un-known reason, began fever-ishly to expand. Such is thescenario dictated by themathematics of Einsteinstheory of General Relativity.But, unfortunately for the physicists, themath still leaves some things unexplained,most prominently: what existed before theBig Bang? Moreover, there are other difficul-ties with the mainstream argument, and theheroic scientific effort to resolve them has re-sulted in even more problems, as yet un-solved. In the attempt to reconcile some ofthe more stubborn inconsistencies, perplex-ing and inelegant theories like those of darkmatter and dark energy have been generated.The situation, say some, is a mess. Suddenly,though, a new scientific model has appearedwhich could save the day for science.

By applying so-called quantum correc-tion terms to Einsteins theory, the emerginganswer is: the universe has been here foreverand it will be here forever. The websitePhys.Org reported in February that in a newpaper published in the journal Physics LettersB, Ahmed Farag Ali at Benha University inEgypt, along with coauthor Saurya Das at the

Aminute metallic sphere captured by ahigh altitude balloon is causing scientistsin the U.K. to reconsider the possibility of in-telligent intervention in the life of Earth. As-trobiologist Milton Wainwright at theUniversity of Buckingham thinks his teammay have found concrete evidence indicatingwhat they call directed panspermia.

First proposed by DNA pioneer andNobel Prize winner Francis Crick over 40years ago, directed panspermia suggests thatsome highly advanced galactic civilizationcould have seeded life on Earth. If Wain-wright is right, the process may still be goingon. The original nineteenth century Pansper-

as the universe beenaround foff rever? Most

physicists, will emphaticallysayaa ,yy NO, and they will addthat they havaa e the math to

it

THE UNIVERSE HAD NO BEGINNING,QUANTUM CALCULATIONS REVEAL

University of Lethbridge in Canada have usedquantum math and the ideas of theoreticalphysicist and science philosopher DavidBohm to recalculate the beginning of the uni-verse and found that, in fact, there was none.In the process, Ali and Dar have also appar-ently resolved the issues of dark matter anddark energy.

For a mainstream science long hostile tothe notion of miracles of any kind, the BigBang theory has always been something of anembarrassment. Dependent, seemingly, uponan event which could only be described asmiraculous, was surely far from reassuring toa materialistic academic establishment. Asphilosopher and science skeptic TerrenceMcKenna once mockingly stated, Give usone free miracle and we will explain the rest.But, once again, the ancient and eternal wis-dom appears headed for vindication. Reality,it turns out, may be eternal, and that is thereal miracle.

Big BangTimelineRethought

mia theory is that the seeds of life could havebeen carried in a random manner from planetto planet by spores, or radiation, comets ormeteorites, etc. Crick, however, thought that,unlike such a mechanical process, the trans-mission of life from one world to anotherwould have required intelligent civilized inter-vention.

The Buckingham scientists launched bal-loons nearly 17 miles into Earths strato-sphere. When material from one balloon wascollected and examined, a small crash markwas found indicating the spherical object did-nt simply land softly. About the width of ahuman, the ball had filamentous life on theoutside and a gooey biological materialoozing from its center.

The possibility of ET origins would beimpossible to prove, Wainright concedes, un-less, we can find details of the civilizationthat is supposed to have sent it. In the mean-time, there are still those who are willing tospeculate.

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Perhaps one of my distant ancestorsor relatives preceded me hereamong nineteenth and early twenti-eth century graffiti inscribed on theentrance to Nefertaris Temple of Hathor atAbu Simbel can be found my nameSchoch. I had noticed this on previoustrips, but this time it really impressed me. Per-haps I was feeling nostalgic; it was just shortof a quarter century since I had first traveledto Egypt (in June 1990). As I have alwaysfound to be the case, my most recent trip(January 2015) yielded fresh revelations andnew connections.

My wife Katie (Catherine Ulissey) and Itraveled with members and associates of TheKhemit School of Ancient Mysticism, includingYousef and Patricia Awyan, MohamedIbrahim, and Gary Evans. One of the majorpoints of discussion throughout the trip wasthat in many cases inscriptions, be they ontemples, tombs, sculptures, or other objects,do not necessarily serve to date the origins ofsuch objects. Certainly the Schoch inscrip-tion on the Abu Simbel temple does notmean that a Schoch had anything to do withthe building of the structure! Yousef and Mo-hamed pointed out case after case where anolder statue or monument had been appro-priated by a later pharaoh or notable and in-scribed with his or her name.

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RETURN to the GREAT SPHINX

ALTERNATIVEARCHAEOLOGY

BY ROBERT M. SCHOCH, Ph.D.

The Geologist WhoStartled the World byRe-Dating the Sphinx,Finds More EvidenceIts Even Older ThanHe Once Thought

The Great Sphinx of Giza; in the background can be seen the Great Pyramid(on the right) and the Second Pyramid (on the left).

(All photographs courtesy of Robert M. Schoch unless otherwise stated.)


Nefertaris Temple of Hathor, Abu Simbel

Schoch inscription on the en-trance to Nefertaris Temple ofHathor, Abu Simbel.

Hyksos or Tanis Sphinxes in the EgyptianMuseum, Cairo


ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE

WILLIAM B. STOECKER

When science in the modernsense was first emerging in theseventeenth and eighteenth cen-turies in Europe, those whostudied rocks, landforms, and fossilsstudiesthat would evolve into geology and paleon-tologybelieved that Earths past had beenshaped by sudden and violent catastrophes,chief among them being Noahs Flood. Thesepeople were strongly influenced by the Bible,but as Christianity fell into disfavor amongmany of the intellectual elites, catastrophismcame to be rejected in favor of uniformitari-anism, the belief that the past was shaped bythe same processes we can observe todayslow climatic change, the gradual advance andretreat of glaciers, the almost imperceptiblerise of mountain ranges, and the equally slowprocess of erosion, leveling those ranges andcarving out valleys. By the late eighteenth cen-tury, the proponents of uniformitarianism,chiefly James Hutton and Charles Lyell, dom-inated the earth sciences. There was a brief re-bellion in the early nineteenth century, led byGeorges Cuvier, who, although he did not

rely on any Biblical accounts, believed thatthere had been truly catastrophic f loods andearthquakes in the past. But his rebellionfailed, and uniformitarianism became adogma, not to be questioned.

But all along there has been a major prob-lem with uniformitarianism, ignored by sci-entists who should have known betterorbeen more honest. For geologists and paleon-tologists have divided Earths prehistoric pastinto Eons, the Eons into Eras, then Periodsall of widely varying lengths. If no catastro-phes had occurred, they would more logicallybe of the same length, making everything sim-pler, with perhaps billion-year Eons, 100 mil-lion-year Eras, and so forth. The varyinglengths of the divisions is a tacit admissionthat something happened at the end of eachone.

When, in the 1950s, the maverick scientistand psychoanalyst Immanuel Velikovskywrote Worlds in Collision, proposing an ex-treme theory of catastrophism, he was sav-agely attacked by the scientific establishment.Velikovsky postulated terrifying events in theremote past and even in relatively recent his-torical times, caused, he said, primarily by the

eruption of a massive comet from Jupiter,which careened around the Solar System forquite some time, narrowly missing the Earth,upsetting the orbit of Mars, and finally set-tling into a stable orbit as the planet Venus.It is easy, now, to detect the f laws in his the-ory. A comet is, by definition, a very smallbody, not, as the critics point out, one asmassive as Venus. Venus is mostly made of sil-icates and nickel and iron, but Jupiter, saveperhaps for its innermost core, is mostly hy-drogen (like the Sun). There is no knownforce, we are told, that could eject a plane-tary-sized mass even from the outer layers ofJupiter, let alone from the core; and if therewas some sort of eruption from the core, itwould be slowed and diffused trying to passthrough the thousands of miles of denselycompressed gases above it. Any energy suffi-cient to accelerate a huge mass to Jupitersvery high escape velocity would generate somuch heat that the mass, as it escaped fromJupiter, would simply explode. Velikovskywas, it seems clear, wrong. But perhaps he wasnot completely wrong.

There is, strangely, an actual connectionbetween Venus and a large comet or asteroid.

New Evidence Puts Heat on the Uniformitarians

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ANCIENT AMERICA


BY FRANK JOSEPH

In 1982, Russell E. Burrowswas trolling alone amongthe sparsely inhabited hillsand fields in southern Illi-nois, twenty miles from the OhioRiver. The amateur treasurehunter, originally from West Vir-ginia, would later claim to havebeen searching for Civil War-erabuckles, pioneer horseshoes, orold coins, with his metal detec-tor, when he supposedly fell intoa large, overgrown hole. The sub-terranean interior, he would say,connected to a corridor and se-ries of man-made chambers filledwith a vast and bewildering arrayof black river stones (known asargillite), white marble, and sand-stone engraved predominantlywith the portraits of men attiredin the garb of ancient Rome,Judea, Carthage, and West Africa.Other stones were covered withChristian themes and a mix of in-scriptions in hieroglyphic Egypt-ian, Hebrew, Numidian (ancientNorth African), Ogham (Keltic),and North Semitic (a form ofPhoenician). Similar imagery ap-peared on a cache of gold coinsand bars.

Over the next seven years,Burrows removed large numbersof these items, selling themmostly to amateur antiquarians,but was accused by many of en-gaging in a transparent fraud.While mainstream scholarscon-vinced that no one from the an-cient (Old) world arrived inAmerica before Columbusdis-missed the collection out of handas a bunch self-evident fakes, de-bate concerning their prehistoricauthenticity still rages amongmany amateur archaeologists,who are, themselves, deeply di-vided about the real provenanceof the cave artifacts. This un-certainty was chiefly instigated byBurrows himself, who steadfastlyrefused to reveal the site of hiscave for independent verification,a reluctance that quite naturallycast serious doubt on the veracityof his claims.

After seven years of inde-pendent research, Wayne May,publisher of Ancient Americanmagazine (Colfax, WI), decidedto initiate professional excava-tions near Richmond CountysEmbrarras River, which, he con-

cluded, was the most likely siteof Burrows Cave. But after mak-ing some promising finds, how-ever, May was forced todiscontinue his project for wantof financial support, a result ofthe 2008 recession. About thesame time, Bear and Company(Rochester, VT) published mybook The Lost Treasure of KingJuba, which described the dis-parate objects allegedly removedfrom the unidentified site as pos-sible evidence for Roman Era col-onizers. These were, I argued,refugees from Emperor Caligulasinvasion of Mauretania, a quasi-independent kingdom in NorthAfrica comprising territoriesequivalent to modern Moroccoand western Algeria.

Juba II (52 BC-AD 23) wasa Mauretanian monarch whoamassed great wealth coveted bythe bankrupt Caesar. Caligulasimperial legions, on entering themausoleum containing the Kingstreasures, found it empty. Per-haps, I speculated, these richeshad been spirited across theocean to North America. At thattimeAD the first centurytheMauretanians were skilledmariners, while our continent wasone, vast battlefield of intertribal

warfare, save only for part ofwhat is now southern Illinois,where Burrows Cave was said tobe found.

Since my books publicationtwelve years ago, new light fromvarious sources has been shed onits still unresolved subject matter.Among the new investigators isScott Wolter, a university-trainedforensic geologist, who subjectedseveral of the alleged artifacts tocareful study at his award-winninglaboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota.He is also the host of a HistoryChannel series, Ancient AmericaUnearthed. While scrutinizingseveral engraved blocks of white

marble from the cave, Wolter dis-covered that their reverse sideswere faintly, but discernibly,carved with Anglo-Saxon names,brief inscriptions in mid-nine-teenth century English, alongwith dates and places of birthand death, together with Chris-tian crosses. They were tomb-stones from the early tomid-1800s. He and other inves-

tigators concluded that some-one had stolen badly weatheredheadstones from an old, southernIllinois cemetery to carve Roman-like imagery on their backsides.Case closed, or maybe not.

On further ref lection, theapparent exposure of fraudseemed less clear. Skepticspointed out that nineteenth cen-tury stonecutters might just aswell have stumbled upon some ofthe anciently engraved slabs in afarmers field and exploited the,otherwise costly, marble for useas grave markers. Such a possibil-ity seemed more plausible tolong-term followers of the cavecontroversy who recalled that, asfar back as in the early 1990s,critics of the caves self-styled dis-coverer had noted the resem-

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One of the few white marbletablets from Burrows Cave. Twocharacters at bottom are Egyptianhieroglyphics for the word pet, orheaven.



DoesCreativity

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WorldBeyond

Our FiveSenses?

THE OTHER SIDE

BY MICHAEL E. TYMN

Believing he might begoing insane, FredericL. Thompson, a NewYork City goldsmith,consulted Dr. James Hyslop, whospecialized in abnormal psychol-ogy, during January 1907, ex-plaining that around the middleof 1905 he was suddenly and in-explicably seized with an impulseto sketch and paint pictures, andthat he continually had halluci-nations or visions of trees andlandscapes. Prior to that, he hadno real interest or experience inart beyond the engraving re-quired in his occupation. He fur-ther informed Hyslop that hesometimes felt like a man namedRobert Swain Gifford and wouldremark to his wife that Giffordwants to sketch.

Gifford was a successfullandscape artist who died on Jan-uary 13, 1905. Thompson hadmet Gifford some years earlier inthe marshes of New Bedford,Massachusetts, as he was huntingand Gifford was sketching. He re-

called talking to Gifford for a fewminutes on one occasion and justseeing him on a couple of otheroccasions. He also once calledupon Gifford to show him somejewelry, but he assured Hyslopthat his contact with Gifford didnot go beyond that.

During the latter part of Jan-uary 1906, Thompson, unawarethat Gifford had died, saw a no-tice of an exhibition of Giffordspaintings at the American ArtGalleries in New York City anddecided to visit it. While lookingat one of the paintings on exhi-bition, Thompson heard a voicein his ear saying, You see what Ihave done. Can you not take upand finish my work? Thompsondidnt know what to make of it,but the impulse to sketch andpaint became stronger; and overthe next year he produced a num-ber of paintings of artistic meritand was able to sell them, con-cealing the Gifford connectionfrom all but his wife. One artconnoisseur told him that his

work resembled that of Gifford,even though Thompson made nomention of the Gifford inf lu-ence.

Thompson was especiallyhaunted by a vision of somegnarled oak trees, feeling he hadto find the scene and paint it. Itwas at this point that he con-tacted Hyslop for help. Hesketched the gnarled oak trees forHyslop, stressing that the need tofind the trees and paint them wasoverwhelming him and causinghim to lose interest in his job.Hyslop saw no motive or incen-tive for Thompson to make upsuch a story.

In addition to his study ofabnormal psychology, Hyslop,who had taught philosophy,logic, and ethics at ColumbiaUniversity before organizing theAmerican Institute for ScientificResearch, was interested in psy-chical research and was in theprocess of studying several trancemediums. Although Thompsoninitially objected, saying he did

not believe in spiritualism, hefinally consented to Hyslops sug-gestion that Hyslop makearrangements for him to sit withthree different mediums. WithHyslop accompanying him andtaking notes, all three mediumshit upon the Gifford inf luenceand provided various degrees ofevidential information.

Hyslop took precautions tobe sure that the mediums knewnothing about Thompson or thereason he was sitting with them.Some 20 bits of informationcame through medium MinnieSoule, including a reference toThompsons fondness for rugsand rich and f lesh colors, to atarpaulin which he frequentlywore, to his sudden death, his un-finished work, to the conditionof his studio, to misty scenes, andfinally to a group of oak trees.But Soule could not get thename of the location of the oaktrees. Thompson then contactedGiffords widow and was toldthat Giffords favorite place wasone of the Elizabeth Islands.While Thompson was visitingMrs. Gifford, he was shownaround Giffords old studio andwas shocked to see three paint-ings there which were almost mir-ror images of those he hadsketched during his hallucina-tions, one of a man with an oxteam.

Thompson then went to theElizabeth Islands and found thegnarled oak trees on the islandof Nashawena, a place he hadnever been. He immediatelypainted the scene. He also foundseveral other scenes he hadsketched or painted. While view-ing one of them, he heard a voicesimilar to the one he had heardat the art gallery say, Go andlook on the other side of thetree. There he found Giffordsinitials carved in the bark of abeach tree in 1902. Two monthslater, Hyslop visited the islandwith Thompson and observedthe scenes and the initials, con-cluding that the initials were oldand weathered and thus couldnot have been recently carved byThompson as part of a fraudu-lent scheme.

Hyslop also investigated thestrange case of Etta de Camp, ayoung New York City legal secre-tary who claimed to be receivingstories by means of automatic

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ANCIENT MYSTERIES

Late in 2014, in the ancient quarry atBaalbek in the Beqaa Valley ofLebanon, the largest worked mono-lith in the world was discovered. Thenewly found megalith weighs, it is estimated,an astonishing 500 tons more than the formerrecord holder, The Stone of the South, orHajar el Hibla, from the same quarry, a mas-sive 1242 tons. A third monolith called theStone of the Pregnant Woman, or the Hajarel Hibla, weighing about 1000 tons, rests vir-tually on top of the newly discovered block,still sitting, unused, in the ancient quarry. Sev-eral stone blocks of between 400 and 800tons did, however, make it from the quarryto the nearby Roman Temple of Jupiter,some 800 meters northeast. Amazingly, thesegiant blocks were raised 20 feet into the airand placed with machine-like precision in thefoundations of the ancient complex. Thethree blocks beneath the Jupiter temple areknown as the Trilithon.

Prof. Janine Abdel Massih and the Ger-man Archaeological Institute made the newdiscovery, which has now been calculated tobe 1650 tons. Until recently, it had lain buriedunder several feet of earth. Measuring 19.6,by 6, by 5.5 meters its profile reveals not onlyenormous size but precision stone workinglike that found in ancient Peru and Egypt.

About Baalbeks enormous blocks, bestselling author Graham Hancock says provoca-tively: I believe these huge megaliths longpredate the construction of the Temple ofJupiter and are likely to be 12,000 or moreyears oldcontemporaneous with the mega-lithic site of Gbekli Tepe in Turkey. I suggestwe are looking at the handiwork of the sur-vivors of a lost civilization, that the Romansbuilt their Temple of Jupiter on a pre-existing,megalithic foundation, and that they were un-aware of the giant hewn megaliths in the an-cient quarry as these were covered by

sediment in Roman times (as, indeed, thenewly discovered block still was until very re-cently). (http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/HancockG11.php)

The Roman HypothesisSo just how does current archaeology ex-

plain the existence of such immense artifacts?Officially Baalbek was built by the Romansin 27 BC, but folklore, from the indigenousinhabitants, speak of ancient giants in thearea. The giants, called Titans by some, notthe Romans, it was said, were responsible forthe original construction. After all, the largestweights which the Romans could effectivelymanage were nowhere near the size of theBaalbek monoliths. To put it in perspective,

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Largest Baalbek monolith so far,still partially buried on right.(Photo courtesy of Deutsches

Archologisches Institut)

An exhibit in Switzerlands Interlaken Mystery Park shows the number ofmodern cranes it would take to lift one of Baalbeks gant megaliths.



BY HUGH NEWMAN

the relatively light, 323-ton Laterano obeliskcaused a decades-long transportation projectfrom Egypt to Rome. The largest stone atStonehenge weighs around 45 tons. The newdiscovery is over 36 times as heavy.

The Roman construction scenario, in-deed, begs many questions. Justhow could the Romans havemoved the massive stones fromthe quarry to the main site, andthen placed them so accurately,three stories above ground level?In 1977, Jean-Pierre Adam made astudy arguing that the blockscould have been moved on rollerswith machines using capstans andpulleys, a process which he sug-gested could require 512 workersto move a 557-ton block (just halfas heavy as the trilithon blocks)( h t t p : / / h i d d e n i n c a t o u r s.com/baalbek-in-lebanon-insanely-large-stonework-of-the-gods/).However, this does not explainhow they were then lifted and fit-ted into place. Other estimates saythat it would take 40,000 men tomove them up to the main tem-ple.

The dating of the site is alsounder scrutiny, due to the weath-ering on the larger blocks. Frenchscholar, Louis Felicien de Saulcyand archaeologist Ernest Renancame to the conclusion that thestones of the Trilithon are mucholder than the Roman temple ontop. This, however, has not de-terred modern scholars and aca-demics from championing theRoman claim on Baalbek. Thequestion remains, though, did theRomans really have the capability

to construct such a site, and did they have areason to do so? There are no records to in-dicate that they did. The biggest stone, thatwe know of, ever moved by the Romans wasthe Laterano obelisk, but in 27 BC AugustusCeasar ordered that a much larger obelisk(some estimates claim as much as 455 tons)be transported, but his engineers failed mis-erably and that two, 230-ton ones were movedinstead.

A deeper mystery of Baalbek, though,may lie quietly in its original birthplacethequarry. Some believe the remaining stonescould be part of a tradition evident at otherimportant, and very ancient, sites. Might they,in fact, have been left deliberately for futuregenerations to discover? Could an ancient es-oteric tradition have originally marked thebirthplace of the temple, keeping it open asa sacred site to be built by future generations?Forgotten stones like this have been foundat Gbekli Tepe in Turkey, Aswan in Egypt,on Easter Island, and Ollantaytambo in Peru,not to mention Stonehenge, whose quarry is

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SPIRITUALITY

BY PATRICK MARSOLEK BY PAP TAA RICK MARSOLEK

The

SynchronicityPhenomenon

Exploring theMysteries ofMeaningful

Coincidence

Since the word synchronicity was de-fined by Carl Jung in the 1920s it hasbecome part of our everyday lan-guage. How many times have youheard someone describe a synchronistic expe-rience they had, where something in theirouter life seemed to be meaningfully con-nected to something on their mind? Thoughthis sense of an interior connection to theouter world has deep roots in our history, themodern trend towards a more mechanisticworldview has tended to treat this belief as anoutdated superstition. Jungs theory of syn-chronicity was his attempt to put into mod-ern language, and to validate, correlations heperceived between inner psychological expe-riences and the outer physical world. Alongwith Jung, scientists delving into the quantumrealm were also seeing connections betweenmind and matter and between the inner andouter worlds. They were proposing similarmathematical models to explain these acausalconnections. To this day there continues tobe a gradual shifting across multiple fields ofstudy towards revaluing the role of conscious-ness and meaning in the understanding of ourreality. People all across different walks of lifehave embraced Jungs concept of synchronic-ity, because it expresses something that is acommon human experience.

Perhaps the best-known story of syn-chronicity comes from Jung himself. He was

having difficulty treating a young woman inhis therapy practice due to her extreme ration-alism. He had hoped that something unex-pected or irrational would turn up in theirsessions that would help her access her emo-tional side. He described sitting with her oneday listening to her tell a story of a dreamshed had in which someone had given her apiece of jewelry in the shape of a goldenscarab. While she was telling the dream, Jungheard the sound of an insect tapping on theoutside of his window. He turned around andsaw a large insect that seemed to be trying toget into the room. He opened the windowand caught the insect as it f lew inside. It wasa scarabaeid beetle whose gold-green colorhighly resembled a golden scarab. He handedthe beetle to his patient and said, Here isyour scarab. He described how this directlymeaningful and yet irrational experience wasable to puncture his clients rationalism andallowed her therapy to proceed.

Synchronicity is commonly defined asthe occurrence of two or more events that ap-pear to be meaningfully related but are notcausally relateda meaningful coincidence. Inthe 1952 paper, Synchronicity - an acausalconnecting principle, Jung first formallypublished his theory, proposing that syn-chronicity was a legitimate alternative to thematerialistic, mechanistic worldview of mod-ern science. He suggested that meaning is in-herent in the universe and manifests in theseconnections between the inner and outerworld. This idea elevates the importance of

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mind and subjective experience and thus f liesin the face of the strictly materialistic, causalview that has been dominant in science forhundreds of years. Jung came to his under-standing of synchronicity through his own ex-ploration of consciousness, his study ofparanormal phenomena, and working withclients. He refined the concept through con-versations with the physicists Albert Einsteinand Wolfgang Pauli. Advances in quantumphysics were already stretching the plausibilityof a strictly mechanistic model. Jung believedthere were parallels between synchronicityand aspects of relativity theory and quantummechanics.

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