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veritable firestorm still ragesin archaeological circles over

the so-called Gospel of Jesus Wife, asmall fourth century papyrus frag-ment brought to light by scholarsat Harvard’s divinity school in Sep-tember of 2012.

Professor Karen King an-nounced the existence of the frag-ment at an international confer-ence and declared that it was theonly existing ancient document inwhich Jesus spoke explicitly abouthaving a wife. In the text he usedthe actual words “my wife.” Eventhough King said at the time thatfindings about the ancient Coptictext would be published in theHarvard Theological Review in Jan-uary, the immediate blowback tothe announcement was so intense

A that within days plans werechanged; and, to put any re-maining doubts about the frag-ment’s authenticity to rest, moreextensive tests were scheduled.

In the meantime, the CatholicChurch isn’t waiting to weigh inwith its opinion. Indeed, withindays the Vatican newspaper L’Osser-vatore Romano stated that the docu-ment is an “inept” forgery. TheChurch, of course, has skin in thegame, since the notion that Jesushad a wife would, among otherthings, completely undermine therationale for priestly celibacy,something which is already miredin controversy.

In recent years, the suggestionthat Jesus was married, or mayhave had a special relationship

with a woman, has gained wide-spread fame thanks primarily tothe immense success of the DanBrown novel and movie The Da-Vinci Code. Based upon historicalresearch previously developed inthe 1982 book Holy Blood, HolyGrail, by Michael Baigent, RichardLeigh, and Henry Lincoln, the ar-gument is made that not only wasJesus married to Mary Magdalene,but that he sired a bloodlinewhich ultimately became the Mer-ovingian dynasty in medievalFrance.

The newly discovered fragmentis not purported to prove thatJesus was married but only thatsome early Christians believed hewas. The much celebrated GnosticGospels—discovered in 1945 near

Nag Hammadi, Egypt—contain nu-merous early Christian referencesto a special relationship betweenJesus and Mary Magdalene. Thereis even a gospel of Mary Magda-lene. Needless to say, the RomanCatholic Church has not lookedkindly on the Gnostic Gospels ortheir implications, now or ever.From the official Church’s incep-tion, the early fathers proclaimedthe teachings of the Gnostics to beheresy. At the time the Nag Ham-madi gospels were buried, onecould have been tortured andkilled just for reading them, which,in all probability, explains whythey were hidden.

For more on Gnosticism seePatrick Marsolek’s piece on CarlJung and the Gnostics (p. 32).

MaryMagdalene(El Greco)

Controversy Surrounds RecentControversy Surrounds RecentCoptic Artifact DiscoveryCoptic Artifact DiscoveryDid Jesus Have a Wife?

r. Greg Little and his wifeDr. Lora Little, who, for ten

years, have been investigating un-derwater archaeological features inthe Bahamas, in late October an-nounced discovery of a potentialnew site 30 miles south of Bimini.It sits close to the edge of theGreat Bahama Bank in 20 feet ofwater. The location is namedBrown’s Ruins after finders Eslieand Krista Brown, Bimini diverswho work closely with the Littles.

The site is made up of thou-sands of stone blocks, many recti-linear, others columnar, whichcover an area estimated to be 530

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feet by 130 feet. The stones are reg-ularly 8 feet by 3 feet by 2 feet andweigh three or four tons each. At

the top of the structure are largeflat stones giving the appearance ofa raised platform, like those seenon the summits of pyramids inCentral and South America.

Stones examined so far by twolaboratories have revealed thestructure is of metamorphic rockcalled blueschist, which only formsunder extremely high pressure, atvery low temperatures, and at greatdepth underground. Underwaterthe stone blocks at Brown’s Ruinshave a distinct blue-purple hue.

The nearest sources of blues-chist are the Blue Mountains of Ja-maica and central and eastern

Cuba. No known exploitation ofthese natural resources is recorded.Elsewhere in the world, blueschisthas been used as building mate-rials, most notably on the Islandof Crete in the Greek Aegean,where it was used in the construc-tion of walls and buildings as earlyas 1500 BC.

The Bahamas are officiallythought to have been occupiedfirst around AD 500-700; noknown local culture could havebeen responsible, especially sincethe site is located on a formershoreline that was submerged over6,000 years ago.

Late Breaking: Could New Bahamas Discovery Be Atlantis?

Artist’s Conjecture

The JesusWife fragment

(Photo by Karen King)

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Brain SurgeonDiscovers

Heaven Exists

r. Eben Alexander, a Harvard trainedbrain surgeon once believed the brain was

the seat of consciousness. No longer. The au-thor of a new book, Proof of Heaven, has gonepublic with a remarkable personal story. Theupshot, he concludes, “Consciousness is themost profound mystery in the Universe,” andthe brain cannot account for it.

After contracting meningitis in 2008, Alex-ander suffered clinical death. The part of hisbrain which controls human thought and emo-tion was completely shut down, but, amazingly,his consciousness lived on. In his book and ininterviews he explains that he was met by a

D beautiful, blue-eyed woman in a “place ofclouds, big fluffy pink-white ones... and shim-mering beings.”

The experience was, he says, more vivid andreal than anything he had ever known in ordi-nary waking awareness. He is now convincedthat the beings he met were higher forms, moreadvanced than anything in ordinary reality.

Alexander says that like most of his col-leagues, he once would have considered anysuch account of a Near Death Experience as, atbest, delusional. Now, he says, he knows theuniverse is governed by unconditional love, andthat we don’t die.

ou may actually be able to tell the futurewithout consciously knowing it. That is the

conclusion of a new study supporting the ideaof precognition, which appears in the journalFrontiers in Perception Science from the Neurosci-ence Laboratory at Northwestern University inIllinois.

Humans can anticipate near-future eventswithout any actual evidence foreshadowing theevent. Examples could include when you knowthe car beside you is about to turn into yourlane, or when you know your boss is comingdown the hall. So says Julia Mossbridge, leadauthor of the study, who is still at pains toargue that it is all biology—just processes wedon’t understand yet. Her study uses brain scanMRIs to demonstrate that our bodies oftenknow before we become actually conscious ofthe fact.

All of this lends weight to the arguments ofmaverick scientists like Rupert Sheldrake andDean Radin. Sheldrake has proven the existenceof similar phenomena, like our ability to knowwhen the phone is about to ring, or to knowwhen someone is staring at us.

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The notion, however, that such things arepossible, is so threatening to mainstream mate-rialist science that we can confidently predict,without any direct knowledge of the future,that the evidence of the Northwestern studywill be treated in the same manner as that ofSheldrake and his colleagues—with disregard, ifnot derision.

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he standard model of modern physicsis an uneasy blend of relativity theoryand quantum mechanics. Relativitytheory, developed by Hendrik Lo-

rentz and Henri Poincare and Albert Einstein,supposedly explains gravity andthe bending of light near massivebodies, among other things.Quantum mechanics has given uslasers and transistors and alsopurports to explain a good manythings. But no one yet has devel-oped, and then conclusivelyproven, a theory completely uni-fying these two pillars of modernphysics. Most recently, stringtheory has attempted to do so,and has then been modified intomembrane theory. But neither of these theoriescan be proven or disproven. And there aremany other problems with the standard model.The magnetic fields of planets, stars, neutronstars, and black holes have not been satisfac-torily explained, nor the excess heat producedby bodies in space, particularly the gas giantouter planets of our own Solar System. Andthat’s not the only problem.

Physicists and engineers noted long agothat heat in any closed system (like a steam en-gine) dissipates over time and is no longer avail-

Table to do work. They then expanded thisSecond Law of Thermodynamics into a generalrule, claiming that increasing entropy, or dis-order, was a general rule applying to the entireuniverse. But these same physicists believe thatthe universe began as a single, undifferentiatedpoint that exploded into the expanding uni-

verse. And as the universe ex-panded, stars and planets andgalaxies and clusters and superclusters evolved, and, on and inthe planets, cores and mantlesand crusts and minerals androcks…and life. Color me stupid,but that looks to me like an in-crease, not a decrease in struc-ture and order.

Relativity theory was devel-oped after James Clerk Max-well’s laws explaining electro-

magnetism had been reinterpreted by OliverHeaviside, who substituted a simpler form of al-gebra for the quaternion algebra used in theoriginal equations. Quaternion algebra, devel-oped by Sir William Rowan Hamilton, usescomplex numbers (mixtures of real and imagi-nary numbers) to describe points in space.Many researchers believe that physics began togo in the wrong direction with Heaviside’s alter-ations. Then Michelson and Morley’s famousexperiment seemed to disprove the existence ofa static and mechanical luminiferous ether, but

what if there is a dynamic ether? Or what, asHendrik Lorentz and Gustav Mie postulated,there is an electromagnetic ether?

We laymen who struggle with first semestercalculus cannot understand much of this, norare most of us qualified to propose alternatetheories, but any intelligent and open-mindedperson can see that there are problems, seriousproblems, with the standard model. For ex-ample, relativity theory is based on the assump-tion that there is no ether (which would haveallowed a totally different explanation for every-thing), but relativity theory states that spacebends. If there is no ether, space is nothingness,and nothingness, by definition, cannot bend.There has to be something there to do thebending, and, late in life, Einstein admitted thatrelativity theory requires an ether. Relativitymay require an ether…but an ether does not re-quire relativity.

It should be no surprise that many individ-uals, some of them mathematicians, physicists,and astronomers, have challenged parts of thestandard model, or even proposed completelyalternate theories. Nikola Tesla believed in a dy-namic ether which could be tapped as an en-ergy source, and he also believed that he couldproduce longitudinal electromagnetic waves(electromagnetic waves, including visible light,are transverse, with an electric wave and a

• BYWILLIAM B. STOECKER

The Standard Model Still Rules but There Are Signs of ChangeThe Standard Model Still Rules but There Are Signs of Change

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• BY TOBY SCOTTn April 27, 1945, Adolf Hitlerspoke briefly with one of the sol-diers standing guard outside theFührerbunker, the last refuge of

the inner circle of the National SocialistGerman Workers’ Party. “Germany,” he said,“can hope for the future only if the wholeworld thinks I am dead.”

It seems impossible to believe that AdolfHitler could not only have escaped Germanybut, in fact, survived in relative comfort in Ar-gentina until his death of natural causes in1962. The 2011 publication of Grey Wolf, how-ever, put the conventional narrative of the final

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days of World War II once again on the firingline. Gen. Vasily Khristoforov—head of the Rus-sian Federal Security Bureau’s Directorate ofRegistry and Archives—responded to release bydismissing the book’s claims as “unsubstan-tiated” while veteran BBC news presenter DanSnow described it as “hugely thought pro-voking.”

Now, further twists in the Grey Wolf saga, aplanned sequel to the book based on startlingnew witness testimony, and an anticipated2013 documentary, are set to renew attentiontoward what may be the most enduring mys-tery of World War II.

Grey Wolf co-author Gerrard Williams firstheard stories about Hitler’s escape to South

America while working as an international cor-respondent in Argentina. “Originally,” he re-called, “I had planned on doing a rather silly‘conspiracy theory’ documentary on the sub-ject – I had never done a ‘conspiracy’ storyand thought it might be a change from hardnews and serious subjects.”

As evidence of a successful escape began tomount, however, the medium and tone thatGrey Wolf took assumed a different form, goingfrom film to book and from a light-hearted“what-if” story to a serious tale of real-life in-trigue.

The credentials of Williams and his fellowauthor, Simon Dunstan, are unimpeachable.Dunstan is a military historian, the author ofmore than a dozen books on topics rangingfrom the Six Day War to Vietnam, and a con-tributor to The History Channel series “His-tory’s Raiders.” Williams, meanwhile, is a long-time international journalist whose resumeincludes stints at the BBC, Reuters, and SkyTV.In Grey Wolf they told the remarkable tale of asequence of shadowy events unfolding in theclosing days of World War II that is neatlytimelined, meticulously sourced, and—whetheror not you believe its thesis—very intriguing.

Released at the end of 2011, Grey Wolf re-calls the early realization by Nazi Party Reich-sleiter Martin Bormann of the necessity ofplanning a route of final retreat for theGerman leadership. Navigating the variousstages of creation and execution of what maywell have been one of the most daring and en-igmatic escapes in history, it examines the earlypreparation of a secret German base in the Ca-nary Islands, as well as mid-level contacts be-tween Germany and the United States, whenthe latter was presented with an opportunity toturn a blind-eye to Hitler’s eventual escape—thechoice of “a carrot or a stick.” The U.S. could,on the one hand, accept a secret exile for adozen members of the Nazi hierarchy, inwhich case Germany would dutifully capitulateand peacefully transfer her gold, art, and scien-tific patents to a victorious, U.S.-led allied coa-lition. Alternatively, they could refuse such anoffer, in which event, said treasures would bedestroyed, and the great, unscathed cities ofthe U.S. east coast would find themselvesunder sudden and punishing attack from sub-marine-launched, nerve gas equipped, V-1rockets—an empty threat, the authors explain,but one which the U.S., at the time, may havetaken seriously.

While Williams and Dunstan offer almostimpossible detail about the route and timingof the alleged evacuation to South America,some of the most fascinating elements arecaught in the fog of information surroundingcertain episodes of the supposed escape. Onesuch moment involves Peter Baumgart, a

When Truman asked Stalin in 1945 whether Hitler was dead, Stalin replied bluntly, “No.” As late as1952, Eisenhower declared: “We have been unable to unearth one bit of tangible evidence of Hitler’s death.”What really happened?

Simon Dunstan and Gerrard Williams have compiled extensive evidence—some recently declassified—thatHitler actually fled Berlin and took refuge in a remote Nazi enclave in Argentina. The recent discovery that thefamous “Hitler’s skull” in Moscow is female, as well as newly uncovered documents, provide powerful supportfor their case. Dunstan and Williams cite people, places, and dates in over 500 detailed notes that identify theplan’s escape route, vehicles, aircraft, U-boats, and hideouts. Among the details: the CIA’s possible involvementand Hitler's life in Patagonia--including his two daughters.

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s depth psychology, as it isbeing practiced today, amodern extension of Gnosti-cism? Was Carl Jung himself

a Gnostic? Analytical psychology,which is based on Jung’s under-standing of the human psyche, isbeing used world wide today as aform of self-inquiry and mentalhealing. The theoretical founda-tions of analytical psychologyclosely mirror some of the coreprinciples of Gnosticism. Theyshare an idea that one can have adirect Gnosis or understanding ofthe nature of the self and spiritoutside of belief. If it hadn’t beenfor Carl Jung’s recognition of thefundamentals of Gnosticism, wemight not care today what theythought. So who were the Gnostics

I and how do they relate to Jung’sexploration of the human mindand modern psychology?

Though no one knows for surewhere the early Gnostics origi-nated, they show up in historyaround the time of Christ. Theywere writing and teaching in Sa-maria, Syria, and Alexandria, wheresome say they were the expressionof an older lineage. There are simi-larities between the Gnostics andthe earlier Platonic and Pythago-rean schools of thought. Somelived in communes and hermitagesat the edge of civilization. Otherslived “in” the world yet not fully“of” the world. The Gnostics werea learned people who drew frommany sources for their spiritualteachings, including the Jesus

THE OTHER SIDE

story. They, and their followersthrough the years, were calledGnostics, because the core oftheir teachings was in gnosis—a di-rect experience of the divine or adirect knowledge of the heart.Two thousand years before CarlJung and depth psychology, theGnostics were practicing tech-niques for consciously connectingto the divine through inner sym-bolic experiences.

The early Gnostics set them-selves apart from other followersof Christ by claiming not simplya belief in Jesus’ message but alsoa belief that Jesus’ revelatory expe-rience of the divine could be partof every human’s experience. Theyheld a conviction that a direct,personal knowledge of spiritual

• BY ROBERT SCHOCH, Ph.D.

truths is accessible to all humanbeings and that the attainment ofsuch awareness is the supremeachievement of human life. Jesus’story was seen as one such mytho-poetic story, valuable as a guidebut not necessarily factual truth.

In dialogues between Gnosticsand early Christians, the Gnosticsscoffed at the Christians for be-lieving Christ came from a Virginbirth, for believing that he wasphysically resurrected, and for be-lieving that God did not have fem-inine qualities. For the Gnostics,the resurrection was an innerjourney and rediscovery of union.God couldn’t be merely male butwould also have developed femi-nine qualities. The early Christiansfelt that “those who know,” the

Where Did the Great Psychoanalyst Learn His Secrets?Where Did the Great Psychoanalyst Learn His Secrets?• BY PATRICK MARSOLEK• BY PATRICK MARSOLEK


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• BY STEVEN SORA

the lives of three astronauts Virgil: (Gus)Grissom, Edward White, and Roger B. Chafee.Grissom had become an outspoken critic ofjust how the moon project was going, and hewas apparently upset with having to take theblame for the sinking of his own Mercuryspacecraft on splashdown. Aerospace writer BillKaysing would go so far as to claim Grissomwas killed because he was about to expose theproject’s waste and official incompetence.While it may seem preposterous, safety in-spector Thomas Baron who worked for NorthAmerican Aviation, the company that built thecommand module, also made some very crit-ical charges against NASA. While not comingto the same conclusion as Kaysing, Baronclaimed the fire was a result of serious safety vi-olations. One week after giving his report to acongressional committee, Baron’s car wasstruck by a high speed train killing him, his

The MotiveThe biggest question is still, why, actually,

would NASA have gone to the great trouble offaking the moon landing? Interestingly, therewas a possible motive. John Kennedy as Presi-dent had made a speech in September of 1962declaring America would be on the moon be-fore the decade was out. After all, the Russianswere leading the race to space, and the countrywas still competing for dominance in a ColdWar. Having hired a work force of 400,000 andwell on the way to burning through 30 billiondollars (which today would be about 135 bil-lion dollars) NASA in 1964 was no closer toreaching the moon. On April 20, 1964, the De-partment of Defense, in a candid moment de-clared the Air Force had 13 consecutive failureswith Atlas rockets and F-1 rockets designed tocarry humans. And it would only get worse.After a couple of spacewalks were accom-plished, disaster struck.

Then on Jan 27, 1967 an explosion took

THE LUNAR ILLUSIONSOF STANLEY KUBRICK

Moon BasePublicity Art from 2001:Space Odyssey (MGM)

Did the Creater of 2001 Lend His Skills to NASA?Did the Creater of 2001 Lend His Skills to NASA?

Kubrick on the Setof Barry Lyndon

t was supposed to be “one small step forman, one giant leap for mankind” as as-tronaut Neil Armstrong reached the sur-face of the moon. Instead, some would

have us believe, it may have been a massivefraud on the American public and the world astwo men actually, it is alleged, were hoppingaround in a Nevada desert pretending to be onthe moon. And the ‘small step,’ some con-spiracy theorists will tell you, was actually anamateurish Stanley Kubrick production—in con-trast to his ‘giant leap’ into 2001: A SpaceOdyssey.

There are still some who believe that theJuly 20, 1969, moon landing could not havehappened the way Americans saw it on televi-sion. There was, they say, no crater on the sur-face where the landing craft touched down. Norwere there footprints or dust kicked up as theastronauts made these steps. The American flagbillowed in the wind, they say, although themoon has no wind. Where there should havebeen stars in the background, there are none(even a novice astronomer would have beenable to detect the deception). Shadows appearto point in different directions and even inter-sect. Hotspots that could only be caused bylighting appear, while there is light reflecting offthe faceplate of one astronaut even though thesun is behind him. For the conspiracy theorists,even the lack of computing power of the sixtiescalls the whole landing and takeoff into ques-tion. A modern iPhone, they point out, hasmore capability than Apollo 11.

NASA has put forth explanations tocounter the critics and, in fairness, it is true thatno such computing power was needed for theadvances made during the war. Among theskeptics, most believe that no matter what hap-pened during the first attempt, subsequent at-tempts to reach the moon were indeed suc-cessful. It is the first landing, and specificallythe filming of the landing, that leaves some indoubt.

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ture,” writes metallurgist, William P.F. Fer-guson, “and amounted to the turning over ofthe whole formation to its depth and movingmany cubic acres—it would not be seriously ex-travagant to say cubic miles—of rock” (Fer-guson, William P.F., Michigan’s Most Ancient In-dustry: The Prehistoric Mines and Miners of IsleRoyale, cited in Ancient Copper Mines of UpperMichigan, by Octave DuTemple, MI: MarlinPress, 1962).

One thousand to twelve hundred tons ofore were extracted from each pit, which yieldedabout 100 pounds of copper. Approximately5,000 prehistoric mines have been identified inMichigan’s Upper Peninsula, at the off-shore is-land of Isle Royale, and along Wisconsin’s Lake

ANCIENT MYSTERIES

tlantis Rising readers and regularwatchers of the History Channel arefamiliar with some amazingly so-phisticated high technology that

highlighted the ancient Old World. Examplesinclude the Eastern Mediterranean “AntikytheraDevice”—a 2,100-year-old analog computer de-signed to calculate astronomical positions; Mi-noan Crete’s Phaistos Disc—a baked clay artifactimpressed with movable type thirty-two centu-ries before Guttenberg re-invented the same pro-cess; a dynastic Egyptian pregnancy test thatpreceded our own by more than four thousandyears; and many other specimens of advancedapplication.

Far less well known are compar-able, but different, achievementswhich can be found throughout theAmericas. Among the mostastounding—if generally unappre-ciated—instances of pre-Columbiangreatness is an ancient North Amer-ican copper mining operationwhich originated more than fivethousand years ago. We now knowthat in excess of 250 million tonsof the world’s richest copper de-posits were mined in the UpperGreat Lakes Region.

“The work was of a colossal na-

A• BY FRANK JOSEPH Superior coastline. If all of them were placed

end to end, they would form a man-madetrench averaging 20 feet wide, 30 feet deep andmore than five miles long. The diggings ex-tended through the Trap Range for 150 miles,varying in width from four to seven miles, to in-clude three Michigan counties: Keweenaw,Houghton, and Ontonogon. At Isle Royalealone, the mining area was 40 miles long andfive miles wide.

Archaeologists admit that they have docu-mented only 60 or 50 per cent of the totalnumber of Upper Great Lakes’ mines, many ofwhich were obliterated with the nineteenth cen-tury construction of Marquette and other Mich-

igan cities and towns. Fred Ryd-holm, a recognized authority onpre-Columbian metallurgy, con-cluded that some half a billion tonsof copper were extracted from theRegion between 3100 BC and 1200BC (Fred Rydholm, Michigan Copperthe Untold Story a History of Discovery,Winter Cabin Books, Marquette,2006).

To accomplish such prodigiousresults, several techniques that canonly be described as “futuristic,”even by modern standards, were em-ployed. For example, all historicLake Superior mines opened overthe last two hundred years were pre-

The Ontonagon Boulder

The Walls at Sacsayhuamán


The Riddle of Virtually MiraculousThe Riddle of Virtually MiraculousPre-Columbian Engineering—Pre-Columbian Engineering—Still UnsolvedStill Unsolved


viously worked by the ancients, who tappedinto every productive vein throughout the area.“As some of these veins did not out-crop at thesurface,” observes historian Octave DuTemple,“but were discovered only upon excavation, itis seen that these prehistoric peoples possesseda gift or ability which present-day man wouldfind very valuable” (Octave DuTemple, AncientCopper Mines of Upper Michigan, Marlin Press,1962).

Northern Wisconsin Indians preserve atribal memory about the fourth millennium BCminers, who are said to have discovered ore-bearing veins by throwing magical stones—referred to as Yuwipi by the Menomonee—onthe ground which made the copper-rich veins“ring, as brass does.” Remarkably, this NativeAmerican legend appears to conform to, or atleast suggest, a prospecting technique actuallypracticed by Old World miners during the Eu-ropean and Near Eastern Bronze Age. Bronzewith a high tin content—from one part in fourto one part in six or seven—emits a full, reso-nant sound when struck with a stone. Suchbronze is still known today as “bell metal” forthe ringing tone it produces. To the ancestorsof the Menomonee, the native copper and man-ufactured bronze, of which they knew nothing,seemed one and the same. When they saw thebronze being struck with a stone to test itsquality by the chiming sound it made, they as-sumed the copper had been magically trans-formed by the Yuwipi (Savage, Dean James, DugFor Copper In Prehistoric Days, Sunday MiningGazette, Calumet, Michigan, 7 May 1911).

The Great Lakes’ miners resorted to addi-tional “magic.” They created intense fires atop acopper-bearing vein, heated the rock to veryhigh temperatures, then doused it with water.The rock fractured, and stone tools were em-ployed to extract the copper. Deep in the pits,a vinegar mixture was used to speed spalling—breaking the rock into layers—and reducesmoke. But how such extraordinarily high tem-peratures were applied is part of the ancientMichigan enigma. The bottom of a fire sittingon a rock face is its coolest part. Even espe-cially hot cane fires would take a very longtime—if ever—to sufficiently heat a vein forspalling. How the prehistoric miners directedconcentrated, acetylene temperatures to theground is a question modern technology is un-able to answer.

The mechanisms operated by the miners aredifficult to imagine. Nevertheless, a pre-Columbian people somehow sank verticalshafts, sometimes deeper than 60 feet throughsold rock, a capability that defies under-standing. So do their talents in bringing to thesurface immense copper masses from thebottom of such deep mines. One such frag-ment, the Ontonogon Boulder—removed toWashington, D.C.’s Smithsonian Institute,

or decadesmainstreamarchaeology

has made it an ar-ticle of faith:there were no hu-mans in the Amer-icas before the so-called Clovis ho-rizon abouteleven thousandfive hundred yearsago. That is thetime, we weretold, when thefirst humanscrossed Beringia—the ancient landbridge betweenSiberia and Alaska—and headedsouth. In recent years, though, manywidely reported discoveries have dis-puted that, pointing to human an-tiquity stretching back at least thirtythousand years.

Remains found in Yukon’s Blue-fish Caves, South Carolina’s Toppersite, Alberta’s Taber, as well as inothers locations, have establishedthat humanity in the Americas goesback far beyond Clovis. Indeed, asresearcher and Atlantis Rising col-umnist Michael Cremo points out: atthe Mexican archaeological site ofHueyatlaco, in the 1960s, stone toolswere authoritatively dated by Dr.Virginia Steen McIntyre to anamazing two hundred thousandyears ago (“Virginia Steen-McIntyreand the Hueyatlaco Saga,” MichaelCremo, A.R. #96). Not surprisinglythese days, considerable doubt is ex-pressed in many quarters over theauthority of the entire orthodoxchronology for human history in theAmericas. So much so, that somehave begun seriously to rethinksome long dismissed, and very con-troversial, notions.

Sacsayhuamán, mentioned in theaccompanying article, is home to in-comprehensible giant stone ma-sonry usually associated with Incanimperialism about six centuries ago,though no one can be certain thatdating is correct for the actual con-struction. Bolivian temple com-plexes, at Puma Punku and Tiahua-naco, not far away, possess evenmore sophisticated stonework pre-dating the Incas by millennia. Ac-cording to the early twentieth cen-tury Director of Bolivia’s NationalMuseum, Arthur Poznansky, applica-tion of his archaeo-astronomicalmethods proved that Tiahuanacowas built seventeen thousand yearsago by a people unrelated to local

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indian tribes. Poznansky pointed toarchitectural similarities betweenPuma Punku and Easter Island, 2,180miles west of Chile. Both locations,he argued, must have been inde-pendently influenced by an evenearlier, much higher, culture.

Tiahuanaco—though now situ-ated at 12,500 feet above sealevel—Poznansky believed, was atone time a sea port. He cited longstraight lines of yellow-white calcar-eous deposits, suggesting prehis-toric water levels. Oddly tilted now,the ancient shorelines must, it isclear, once have been level. Poz-nansky also reported that the sur-rounding area is home to millions offossilized seashells. The startling im-plication: the sites must have beenbuilt before the mountains wereraised.

Poznansky’s views were sup-ported by the work of British ArmyColonel and best-selling writerJames Churchward, whose Lost Con-tinent of Mu described an advancedcivilization flourishing in the CentralPacific long before the rise of com-plex societies in Bolivia or at EasterIsland. According to Churchward:before its destruction during a seriesof natural disasters about twelvethousand years ago, Mu dispatchedculture-bearing Nacaals, or “SerpentPriests,” throughout Polynesia andto South America, where they laidthe foundations for such places asEaster Island and Tiahuanaco.

Certainly moving and dressingthe giant stones that make up PumaPunku and Tiahuanaco, in the high-mountain environs where they arenow found, would have challengedeven today’s most technologicallyadvanced societies—providing an-other example of what can only bedescribed as, the technologies ofthe gods.—EditorContinued on Page 69

Just How Ancient Could These Builders Be?

The Massive Gate of the Sun at Tiahuanaco



ANCIENT MYSTERIES

he earth is wrapped in a network ofenergy lines recognized and markedby ancient cultures in the Americas,Australia, Asia, and Africa. These in-

clude the St. Michael-Apollo energy line whichruns from Ireland to England, through France,Italy, Greece, and on to Mount Carmel in theHoly Land. In China these energy paths werestudied under the science of Feng-shui which

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sought to correct and equalize the flow of earthenergy through the landscape in a most bal-anced and beneficial way. It is imperative, be-lieved the ancients, that nothing should blockor hinder this flow which also responded to thewinged dragons which controlled the cosmicflow of energy from the heavens. “Dark places”which inhibit the flow of energy, it is said, pro-duce melancholy and other psychological an-guish.

Many ancient energy sites are famous fortheir curative properties. Headaches are, report-edly, cured at the Ossory Crosses in Ireland.Guy Underwood tells us that animals and in-sects are attracted to the energy that comesfrom blind springs, and use underground watercurrents called “track lines” for finding their di-rections and locating suitable places forsleeping and raising their young. The nests ofbirds and the hives of bees are often positionedover nodes and blind springs. Old horses, saysUnderwood, like to stand over the node of awater spiral in an open field; cows congregateon the top of ancient barrows and like to sleepover blind springs.

The late John Michell reported that the leylines centered above the underground waterlines are said to convey fertilizing and spiritualenergy to the surrounding countryside. Hu-mans, animals, and plants likewise possess theirown individual energy fields whose harmoniousstate is essential to maintain good health. New

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“It was now clear that ancient people wereutilizing the invisible energies of the Earthin their rites as they venerated the naturalworld. The current passed right through themassive barrow, surrounded by a deep ditch,forming a node point at its center...We werebeing drawn back to a world where this0temple had been deliberately planned andconstructed to take account of natural ener-gies...Here, for the first time, marked out byrows of standing stones, was a graphic dis-play of how the energy actually operated. Itwas organic...Like a river, it formed curvesand eddies, all of which were accurately laidout in stone.”

The Sun and the Serpent by Hamish Millerand Paul Broadhurst, describing the greatcircle of Avebury during their odyssey fol-lowing the St. Michael’s and St. Mary’s Linethrough England.

Earth Energyand the Ancients

Uncovering theLost Secrets ofOur Ancestors

Avebury (photo by Jim Champion)

Age dowsers have even found it possible to in-vestigate the bio-magnetic fields of the humanbody to detect imbalance, illness, and disease.

The Sun and the Serpent confirms that thescience of earth energy is an inherited traditionfrom the early Megalithic to Druid, Christian,Saxon, Norman, and Elizabethan Ages, passingdown to the Neo-Druidism of late Victoriantimes. Anciently there were perpetual choirssinging in resonance with the music of theearth and the cosmic energy of the universe;and thereby casting an enchantment over theland to soothe their citizens with fairy music.

These ancient arts were clandestinely prac-ticed by architects, builders, and churchmenand kept alive by the Benedictines, Cistercians,Dominicans, the Knights of St. John, and theguild houses and lodges of the Knights Templarand Freemasons. Ancient scientific knowledgewas safeguarded in the libraries of great monas-teries of Llantwit Major, Glastonbury, Bury St.Edmunds, Clonard, and Lismore in Ireland. Un-fortunately, many of the books of great antiq-uity were destroyed in the frenzy of HenryVIII’s campaign to overturn the powerful mo-nastic system in the British Isles.

Custom and law preserved ancient sites be-cause their power was recognized over the agesfor the coronation of kings, sites of law courts,recitations of history and pedigree, declarationsof war and peace, and celebrations of religiousfeast days. The Things in Scandinavia were pre-



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