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he Shroud of Turin is authentic. That, atleast, is the latest pronouncement from a

group of Italian scientists who have undertakena series of advanced tests on the purported bu-rial shroud of Jesus.

The 14-foot linen cloth, preserved in ItalysTurin cathedral, has, for centuries, been a light-ning rod for controversy. For believers, the

cloths imbedded image is that of Jesus him-self. For skeptics, it is nothing more than med-ieval fakery. The evidence itself is disputed.

In 1988, a radio carbon dating study ap-peared to show the cloth was a counterfeitcreated in the thirteenth or fourteenth century.That study, though, has been called into ques-tion by evidence that the testing samples fromthe cloth had been rewoven into the fabricto repair fire damage, suggesting that the orig-inal shroud remains to be properly dated.

Professor Paolo Di Lazzaro, who headedthe team conducting the new study, told

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Turin Shroud Is Real, Implies New StudyBritains Daily Telegram that the image on cloth could not possibly have been faked wany technology available in the Middle Ag According to experts from Italys NatioAgency for New Technologies, Energy and Stainable Development, The double im(front and back) of a scourged and crucifman, barely visible on the linen cloth of

Shroud of Turin, has many physical and cheical characteristics that are so particular that staining ... is impossible to obtain in a labotory.

In fact, say the scientists, the exact shatexture, and depth of the image found on cloth could have been created only by somsort of electromagnetic energy such as mioccur in a brief flash at a short wavelengStopping short of declaring the shroud to evidence of the resurrection itself, the team conclude that the relic could very well be actual burial cloth of Jesus.

Burial of Jesus (Oil painting, Giovanni Battista)

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he questionwhats behind the Great Pyr-amids secret doors?could be finally an-

wered in 2012, but, for now at least, the mys-ery and the controversy remain. While some,ke Zahi Hawass, the flamboyant former leaderf Egypts Supreme Council of Antiquities,

have announced that they expect to find amummy, others, like engineer ChristopherDunn, expect to find the remains of ancientlectrical technology (see The Pyramid Elec-ric, A.R. #90). After many delays, includinghose caused by Egypts political turmoil of011, the so-called Djedi project is expected toesume its robotic exploration of the two longnd mysterious shafts sloping upward from theouthern and northern walls of the Queens

hamber.In January of 2011, a robotic camera de-igned by Rob Richardson of Leeds Universitylimbed the southern shaft to a so-calleddoor with two metal handles, first discov-red and photographed by German engineer

Rudolf Gantenbrink in 1993. Followup at-empts in 2002 managed to look past the doornly to see another door. The 2011 effort suc-eeded in inserting a snake camera beneath theecond door and in photographing the spaceehind it. Revealed were metal connections tohe metal door handles, as well as some kind ofainted marks on the walls. Though many

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forced to come to a halt bu Egypts tumul-tuous political. Now, however, a new regime inEgyptian antiquities (post Hawass) is in chargeand the exploration is expected to resumesometime this year.

Long believed to contain many secret cham-bers, the Great Pyramid may finally be close torevealing at least one. As professional tool de-signer Dunn reported, nothing has so far con-tradicted his theory that the structure is, in fact,a great machine capable of producing great

quantities of energy. For Dunn the two metalhandles on the doors of both the southern andnorthern shafts from the Queens chamber arelikely to be electrodes in some kind of circuit which could be closed by fluid rising up theshafts. The doors of both shafts are at the sameheight, so fluid rising up both would closeboth circuits simultaneously. For more on this,including diagrams, read DunnsA.R. article. Asfor Hawasss expectation that a mummy awaitsthe explorers, he hasnt been proven wrong yet,either. Now, however, he will, like the rest ofus, be forced to learn the facts from someoneover whom he has little influence.

Gantenbrinks Door

he fabled Ark of the Covenant may be infor public viewing in 2012. That is, if the

story told by Ethiopian Christians is true. Ac-cording to the British newspaper, The Daily

Mail, the relic housed in the chapel next to thechurch of St. Mary of Zion in Aksum, the cap-

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itol of Ethiopia, will probablybe moved soon, inasmuch asthe old building has a leaking

roof. Currently, while a newchapel is being built, a tar-

paulin covers the old one.As recounted in the Old

Testament, the Ark carried theTen Commandments given toMoses on Mount Sinai. It was

made of acacia and platedwith gold. Two golden angelssat on top. According to the

Bible, and as demonstrated inthe movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, it was verypowerful, and if touched by anyone other thana priest it could kill. Certainly gold plating onboth sides of the walls of a wooden containercould have created a virtual capacitor capableof carrying a very significant static charge.

Some scholars have speculated that it was, infact, some kind of Egyptian priestly device sincethe Egyptians had similar objects, and sinceMoses was brought up in Egypt.

The ark was kept in the first temple of Soloman in Jerusalem but was lost when the city was invaded by the Babylonians in the sixt

century BC. Ethiopians believe that descendantof Solomon and the Queen of Sheba eventuallybrought the ark to their country where it habeen kept ever since. Only the elderly prieswho watches over it is permitted to view it.

The current chapel was designed in the1960s by emperor Hailie Selassie, but apparentlyits ability to withstand the weather was not upto the standards of the ancient temple buildersNo one knows exactly when it will be moved toits new quarters, but photographers are standingby.

The Stonehenge

Mystery Deepenst seems that we have finally figured out for surewhere the fabled bluestones of Stonehenge ac

tually came from.Robert Ixer and Richard Bevins, British geolo-

gists, have used state-of-the-art testing to show theorigin of the bluestones to within 70 meters. Anoutcropping called Craig Rhos-y-Felin close to thetown of Pont Saeson in Pem-brokeshire in Wales is thespot. That is about 160 milesfrom Stonehenge. The blue-stones weigh about four tonseach. Experts are baffled asto exactly how they couldhave been moved. That theywere moved and over a greatdistance, there can be nodoubt.

As for the great sarsen

stones of the site whichweigh in excess of 40 tonseach, they came from quar-ries somewhat nearerabout20 miles away. They were also erected about 200years after the bluestones, we are told. But still noone knows how their transportation could havebeen achieved either.

Some have argued that it must not have beenvery difficult for megalithic builders to move suchlarge stonesin fact, it must have been easy. Oth-erwise why bother? Is it possible that they had ac-cess to some kind of technology, now lost to theirhighly advanced descendants?

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ighteen fifty nine was a unique triple-header for science. In November,Charles Darwin published the bibleof evolutionary biology, On the Origin

of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Pres-ervation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life.The previous summer, a less famous Eng-

lishman, Joseph Prestwich, for the first timeconfirmed a geological relationship with man-made objectsStone Age flint tools foundamong rock strata at the valley of the Somme,in Francethereby correctly dating them to an-tiquity. Although the birth of evolutionarytheory and archaeology were important contri-butions to western civilization, they pale beforemodern implications of something that hap-pened just before noon on the first day of Sep-tember of that immemorial year.

Around the world, telegraph systemscrashed, machines burst into flames, and elec-tric shocks rendered operators unconscious,

according to Stuart Clark, a British writer forthe European Space Agency. Compasses andother sensitive instruments reeled as if struck bya massive magnetic fist. These violent outagesaround the northern hemisphere all occurred atthe same moment, utterly baffling mid-nineteenth-century scientists. Only one, an Eng-lish amateur astronomer, looked to the heavensfor an answer. At the time of the internationalshort circuit, Richard Carrington made the ear-liest observation of a solar flare at LondonsKew Observatory. He correlated the phenom-enons appearance with effects of an extraordi-

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nary geomagnetic typhoon simultaneouslyblasting the world.

In a sun storm lasting eight days, from late August to early September, the entire earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seethinggas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across theplanet from the poles to the tropics, statedClark. For the first time in recorded history,persons throughout the Caribbean, as far south

as Trinidad, were treated to spectacular displaysof the Aurora Borealis. Its glow was so brilliantacross the Rocky Mountains that gold miners,assuming that morning had already come,awoke to prepare breakfast, while crowingroosters imagined dawn was breaking. Car-rington deduced that the solar flare he wit-nessed discharged immense quantities of nega-tively charged ions into the earthsmagnetospheresufficient not only to generatethe northern lights but, in this case, withenough potency to induct and short out all tel-egraph systems.

Although his colleagues were unsure our

distant Sun93 million miles distantcouldhave been responsible, technological develop-ments advanced sufficiently after his death in1875 to confirm the solar influence he discov-ered. Henceforward, sun storms that effectearthly electronics have been referred to asCarrington Events. There have been two suc-cessors to the incident he identified. On May15, 1921, a glob of coronal plasma lit up themagnetosphere in an exceptionally brilliant Au-rora Borealis light show. As TheNew York Timesreported, at 7:04 a.m., the entire signal andswitching system of the New York Central Rail-

road below 125th Street was put out of opetion, followed by a fire in the control tower57th Street and Park Avenue. Telegraph opator Hatch said that he was actually drivaway from his telegraph instrument by a flathat enveloped his switchboard and ignited entire building at a loss of $6,000. Overseas,Sweden, a telephone station was burned ouand the storm interfered with telephone, te

graph and cable traffic over most of Europe.On March 9, 1989, another massive coroejection was flung into space by the Sun. Thand a half days later, at 2:44 a.m., it struCanada, tripping circuit breakers there. HydQubecs power grid collapsed, plunging the tire province into complete darkness for tnext nine hours. Yet, this late twentieth centuoutage was ten times less powerful than its NYork predecessor, and a fraction of 1859s sohurricane. The Qubec blackout was followjust six months later by a much smaller gmagnetic storm that nonetheless pulled tplug on Torontos stock market, suspending

trading for a whole day. Even as recently these Canadian occurrences, however, their fects were temporary and regionalized. But just the 23 years since, we have become entirdependent on electrical power. If a super sstorm were to occur today, its impact would far more serious than anything civilization hever experienced.

In 1859, says Bruce Tsurutani of NASJet Propulsion Laboratory, the technology wquite low in comparison to today's te

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he religious and history books ofEgypt are filled with allusions to mag-ical operations and ceremonies thatare almost impossible to believe

today, and one is the claim that initiatedtemple priests possessed a special knowledge

that could make stone statues move and talk.Egyptians believed that every object, animate orinanimate, could bemade to obey the willof men who possesseda thorough knowledgeof a series of variantspells and the wordsof power necessary toachieve this end. Inthis way, the custo-mary limitations ofmatter appear to havebeen set at zero by

well-instructed magi-cians, and statues ofgods and goddesseswere endowed withlife, made to performcertain acts, and evenprophesy the future. Itwas thought possibleto transmit to thesefigures the soul of thebeing whom they rep-resented, and fromtime immemorial thepeople of Egypt be-

lieved that every statuepossessed an ind-welling spirit (Hand-book for Egypt and theSudan, Sir E. A. WallisBudge). Later in time,that meant not onlythe statues of the godsand goddesses, butalso statues and repre-sentations of the pha-raohs and non-celestialbeings like scribes, forexample.

Strange Temple CeremoniesSome may doubt that animated statues ex-

isted in remote times, but these and other com-prehensive descriptions were painstakinglycarved into stone more than 5000 years ago. In-scriptions discovered in tombs describe a cu-rious ceremony by which the double, the Ka, aliving and colored projection of the humanfigure (Histoire Egyptienne, Gaston Maspero), orthe astral body, was infused into a variety ofstatues. The first ceremonies consisted of

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definitely to the statue and give it back senses. This was the subject of further and coplicated ceremonies. A last office consisted touching successively the eyes, nostrils, amouth of the effigy with sacred amulets, wha priestess, playing the part of Isis, whisperedits ear: Now are thine eyes made. Horus hopened thy mouth, he has opened thine ey

he has given breath to thy nostrils with the vine amulet that opens the eyes. ( Le destin

divination Egyptienelloracle dAniinou

It is possible ththrough the magivirtue of this opetion, a link might

made between astral body of the de

person and the stathat represented t

person in the tomb.that way, the decea

could keep in contwith those left behin

being the inspirersentences. as often

ported in seances,channeling toda

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mated; those in tsanctuaries, or even ceased priests, the r

resentatives of gods, were also dowed with life

would not seem iprobable that in tcase, a powerful

mental (nature spiwas attached to tstatue. In some te

ples, statues were aused for healing; athe king, or an or

nary mortal w

wished to be healcrouched down at feet of the stone divinity with his back towait, and this is an explanation of what happen

First, the animated statue kissed the flicted area and then, four times in successioplaced its right hand on the spine or the neof the troubled; the fluid that flowed oduring these passes was called SA, a mysteriofluid that gave health, strength, and life. (

Ritual du culte divin joumalier, M. Moret, Pa1902)

evoking the double and confining it not onlyin carved stone resemblances but also in beauti-fully-made statues of gilded wood inlaid withprecious stones. An officiating priest pursuedthe shadow and tried to catch it as with a net,like Isis when represented in temple hieroglyphsas the pulling of the drifting body of Osiris outof the water. He exhorted the dead in the

words:

Inhabitant of the tomb! Inhabitant of thetomb! ... now inhabit your statue. (Le destin, ladivination Egyptienne elloracle dAntinous, M.Gayet)

At the same time he covered his head witha thin veil and then laid a thicker veil across hisshoulders and continued the magical phrases.After many perorations, the double was at lastcompelled to enter the statue, and the priest tri-umphantly announced that the net had finallycaptured him or her.

The next procedure was to attach the Ka

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BY STEPHEN E.ROBBINS origin of domestic plantswheat, tomatoes,corn, potatoes and so many more. Both ofthese categories were supposedly developed bythe primitive denizens of the Neolithic age per-haps 5,000 to 10,000 (though now modified to32,000?) years ago. The subject of domestic ag-riculture, though, provides the quickest insightinto the brilliance of the primitive people.

Many domestic plants apparently started with wild ancestors. In many, we includecommon vegetables, which have absolutely noknown starting point. But, leaving the missingancestor problem aside, the difficulty of modi-fying the originally wild ancestors into the cur-rently domesticated varieties is, itself, enor-mous. These wild grains, as they stood then,were useless to us. Their seeds were hard, likenutshells, inedible, and simultaneously ex-tremely smalllike salt crystalsungraspable byhuman fingers. This means that wild plantsneeded their seeds expanded, greatly softened

in texture, and overhauled at the molecularlevel.To modern botanists, this is not a problem.

It requires only the time and patience to carryout hundreds (or more) of generations of selec-tive crossbreeding. This suggests that there wasavailable human time and patience, over manygenerations, to work with a perfectly uselessplant which would, in the experimenters life-time of struggling for food to survive, putnothing edible on his table. Also required was abit of vision, in fact, a lot of vision. Somehuman ancestor had the brilliant foresight, or

model, in each case to see what some useless wild grain or plant could become. Further, aresearcher Lloyd Pye ( Everything You Know Wrong) points out, such crossbreeding wouldhave required doubling, tripling, and quadrupling the number of chromosomes in wildgrains. Wheat and oats were transformed by asix-fold increase from an ancestral seven chro

mosomes to forty-two. Sugar moved from tento eighty, an eight-fold increase. Peanuts, potatoes, and tobaccos were expanded by factors ofour. In each case, someone had to foresee thefuture result and then ensure that the program was carried forward by numerous succeedingenerations of experimenters.

Assuming that these Neolithics had nknowledge of DNA, nor of chromosomes, nolabs, no gene-splicing, the only availablemethods would have been generations of selective crossbreeding. Yet, despite this ancient creative outburst, in the last 5000 years, no useful

plants have been created by this methodThough, in 1837, the Botanical Garden in StPetersburg, Russia, did launch efforts by thismeans to transform a wild rye into a new do-mestic version, the program is, to this day, stila work in progress. The rye maintains its fragilestalk and tiny seeds, underscoring the transformational problem.

In the wild, seed covers (glumes) and thetiny stems that attach them to the stalks (rachises) must remain strong and durable during

ere we are again. We are in Nat-Geoland in 32,000 BC. We areabout to be offered a profoundscientific treatment of the origin

of the domestic dog in the NatGeo special,And Man Created Dog. Wolves, we are told, had

taken to hanging around human camps, pickingup food scraps. This is a characteristic, peculiarit seems, to Lupus NatGeocus. An unseen pred-ator approaches the camp and the wolves go onthe defense. One is fatally injured, leaving a cubbehind, to be adopted by a human. A fewframes later and lo, we see a human with, yes, avery dog-looking dog. From this we are to inferthat after a thousand years (or so), man has suc-cessfully bred the many varieties of mans bestfriend from the wolf. End of profound scientificexplanation.

32,000 BC was chosen because the skull of

a Saluki dog has been discovered and dated to31,000 BC. This gives the apparently brilliantStone Agers of NatGeoland 1,000 years tobreed wolves into dogs, Salukis, in fact. Onewonders if the NatGeo mythological imagery isjust more disinformation. Have the programconsultants entertained even one teensythought of the difficulties here?

The Domestication Problem Plants

Two equally profound problems emergehere: accounting for the origin of domestic ani-malsdogs, cows, cats, sheep, etc.and for the

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BY JOHN CHAMBERSEbon records that, in a bio

graphical article in Liberty Magazinepublished some years after theinventor died, Allen L. Benson, formany years an acquaintance of Edisons, writes that 15 years beforethe inventor died his mindturned toward the hereafter.Benson believed Edisons attempt

to build a machine to contact thedead stemmed purely from scientific interest. He recalled that Edison had wondered whether itmight not be possible to make amachine that would enable thehereafter to prove itself withoutthe aid of mediums or other livinghuman agencies. If spirits couldcommunicate directly with theearth, doubting would soon haveto stop. Edison was a scientistand, as such, had a profound respect for facts. He might be wrong

about the soul, a hereafter, andthe possibility of conducting conversation between the two worldsIf so, he wanted to shift his courseto fit the facts.

Ebon thinks Edisons interestin the survival of the human personality after death may have developed early in his life. He quotesa friend of Edisons family, JohnEggleston: Thomas Edisons parents were Spiritualists. I have manytime sat in circles in their home

when this great inventor was mere child. Edisons Diary andSundry Observations makes itclear thatwhether its origins were

in childhood or notthe inventors theoreticaconcept of life regarded it in terms of infinitelysmall particles of matter combined in swarmsmuch like bees in a hive to constitute livingcreatures. He considered these submicroscopicunits indestructible. Life, like matter, is indestructible, he wrote. There has always been acertain amount of life on this world and there will always be the same amount. You cannocreate life; you cannot destroy life; you cannot

multiply life.Its well known that Edison believed in the

reality of telepathy, both in light of the experiments he carried out and because of what heexperienced within himself. He put the famousclairvoyant Bert Reeseknown to sometimesmix sleight-of-hand in with his performancesthrough a rigorous series of tests. Reese passedthem all with flying colors and especially im-pressed Edison when, as Martin Ebon writesthe inventor went into the next building and wrote down this question: Is there anythin

merging from a coma afew days before he died,the great American in-ventor Thomas Alva Ed-

ison(1847-1931) suddenly openedhis eyes and gazed upward into

space, his face illuminated with asmile as he said, It is very beau-tiful over there. When he diedhis clock stopped, as did those ofall his top executives. Experiencesof telepathy or telekinesis, eitheroccurring spontaneously or evokedby his experiments, hounded theinventor all his life. The rumormill has speculated for 80 yearsthat he spent thousands of hoursworking on a machine to commu-nicate with the dead. Did he? Anddid he succeed? The evidence is

piecemeal but tantalizing.The prodigious inventiveness

of Thomas Edison brought intothe world more than 1,000 pat-ented inventions and improve-ments. His most famous inven-tions included the phonograph,the electric light bulb, the alkalinebattery, improvements in motionpictures, and a myriad of elec-tronic devices.

Certainly, if anyone could haveat least laid down a theoretical

basis for a machine to talk to thedead, it was Thomas Edison. Didhe have the interest? The passion?In They Knew the Unknown (1970),Martin Ebon suggests he did: Not until 1920,at the age of 73, did Edison reveal his secret work in psychic research. He told his friendB.C. Forbes, later founder of Forbes Magazine,the story that became a sensation: EdisonWorking to Communicate with the Next World(American Magazine, October 1920). The worldpress offered largely fanciful details of Edisonsapparatus to communicate with the dead. AFrench newspaper even provided a diagram,

which, of course, only Edison knew to be afraud.

In an interview with The Scientific American inits October 30, 1920, issue, Edison substan-tiated the basic details ofForbess article and pro-vided a summary of his views on the possibilityof life after death. He would use the same wordsin his diary:

If our personality survives, then it is strictlylogical and scientific to assume that it retainsmemory, intellect, and other faculties andknowledge that we acquire on this earth. There-fore, if personality lasts after what we call death,

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its reasonable to conclude that those wholeave this earth would like to communicatewith those they have left here.

I am inclined to believe that our person-ality hereafter will be able to affect matter. Ifthis reasoning be correct, then, if we can evolvean instrument so delicate as to be affected, ormoved, or manipulated by our personality as itsurvives in the next life, such an instrument, when made available, ought to record some-

thing.Edison didnt think much of nineteenth-

century table-tapping and twentieth-centuryOuija Board methods for contacting the dead:

Certain of the methods now in use are socrude, so childish, so unscientific, that it isamazing how so many rational human beingscan take any stock in them. If we ever do suc-ceed in establishing communication [withthose] which have left this present life, it cer-tainly wont be through any of the childishcontraptions which seem so silly to the scien-tist.

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re the incredible feats of some mar-tial artists a challenge to the stan-dard model of physics? Is theirbrick-breaking, for example, evi-

dence that some of them can control a myster-ious primal energy? And martial artists are not

alone; throughout history people have donethings that would seem impossible for mereflesh and blood.

Modern physics is having problems tobegin with, resting uneasily on the twin pillarsof relativity theory and quantum mechanics.There has been a problem all along with recon-ciling quantum gravity with relativistic gravity,and grand unified theories (GUTs) have triedand generally failed to bridge the gap. The cur-rent favorite is string theory, already morphinginto membrane theory, which, unfortunately,cannot be tested either to prove or disprove it.Then there are problems like the missing solar

neutrinos, the controversy over dark matter andnow dark energy as well, the lack of any singleand credible explanation for the magnetic fieldsof celestial bodies, and the problem of ex-plaining all the internal heat of planets, espe-cially the outer planets of our own SolarSystem. A lot of people believe that the famousMichelson-Morley experiment in the late nine-teenth century proved that there is no luminif-erous ether, but it is impossible to prove a neg-ative proposition (like proving that God, SantaClaus, or Bigfoot do not exist). Michelson andMorley never made such a claim; they weresimply unable to detect an ether, andMichelson, years later, stated that hesuspected that there was some kindof ether filling all of space. Ein-stein also admitted that relativityactually required an ether. And,in recent years, with little pub-licity, a handful of trained physi-cists and astronomers have chal-lenged many of the assumptionsof the standard model and thebig bang.

As stated above, it is not just mar-tial artists who present a challenge. In At-

lantis Rising (#70), Len Kastens article The Su-perhero Factor suggested (as many of us havesuspected over the years) that some stage magi-cians, rather than making mere tricks look para-normal, may actually have some paranormalpowers which they pretend are just tricks.Kasten gave the example of David Copperfield, who seemingly levitated over the GrandCanyon, walked through the Great Wall ofChina, and made the Statue of Liberty disap-pear. David Blaine supposedly held his breathfor 17 minutes (the world record, withoutbreathing oxygen to prepare for the feat, is offi-

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cially eight minutes and 58 seconds).Blaine also was publicly encased in icefor 63 hours, 42 minutes, and 15 sec-onds. Magician Criss Angel has repeat-edly levitated in public, once floating some200 feet from one roof to another and, on an-other occasion, floating for 10 minutes abovethe Luxor Pyramid in Las Vegas. Once he seem-ingly walked on water across a swimming pool,with people swimming under and around him.None of this actually proves paranormal abili-ties, but such acts are extremely difficult to ex-plain.

In addition to magicians and martial artists,others have demonstrated abilities that are ex-ceedingly difficult to explain away. The teleki-netic feats of Uri Geller and Nina Kulaginamight be nothing more than stage magic, butwhat about the apparent levitation performedby medium Daniel Dunglas Hume, reportedly witnessed by several reputable people? Many,many decades ago, the Polish strongman Sieg-

mund Breitbart, it is claimed, bit through steelchains and pounded spikes into wooden beams with his bare hands. If these acts were notsomehow faked, it is impossible for humanteeth to cut steel, which is much, much harder,stronger, and less brittle than human bone andtooth enamel. And Human flesh and blood would be bruised and even lacerated by

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ments called katas. The one exception is Thaikick boxing, which is as fluid and improvisational as Western boxing.

The Oriental martial arts can be roughly di vided into those that mainly emphasipunching, hand strikes, and kicking, and those

that emphasize throws, locks, and choke holdsThe first category includes such arts as karateKorean Tai Kwan Do, and some forms of KungFu. Kung Fu, or Wushu refers to a variety ofChinese martial arts; some forms of kung fuseem to have originated in the famous ShaolinBuddhist monastery as far back as the seventhcentury. Kung fu seems to be closely related tothe disciplines of Tao Yin, Quigong, and TaiChi Chuan, systems of postures, exercises, andbreath control believed to enhance health andmental well-being. Their similarity to hathayoga is almost certainly more than coincidental.

Other forms of kung fu, and Japanese jiu

jitsu emphasize holds, locks, and throws morethan hand strikes or kicks. Jiu-jitsu practitionersclaim to use the opponents strength againsthim. In the late nineteenth century Kano Jigorodeveloped judo from jiu-jitsu; it is somewhatless lethal (and, arguably, less effective for selfdefense) and places a greater emphasis onthrows. Mitsuyo Maeda brought jiu-jitsu toBrazil in 1914 and taught it to his friend CarlosGracie. The Gracie family then developed Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which involves a lot of grappling

cold weather and dry the sheets with the heatthey produce. This has been pretty well docu-mented. At first glance, Hofs hour in an icebath sounds less impressive than David Blainesincredible 63 hours in ice, but Hof was in amixture of ice and liquid water, which would

conduct his body heat away more rapidly.Then there are the magnetic people. Mi-roslav Magula can cause heavy metal objects tostick to his body and claims to be able to con-trol the force; he was studied by Dr. FriedbertKarger at the Max Planck Institute in Germanyin 1997. Liew Thow Lin in Malaysia has been videotaped doing the same thing and wasstudied by Professor Doctor Mohamed AminAlias at the Malaysian Universiti Teknologi. Linand was featured on the Discovery ChannelsOne Step Beyond.

But martial artists are probably the largestsingle group of people who demonstrate abili-

ties hard to explain in conventional terms, withthe possible exception of Tibetan monks. A few words of explanation are in order. The termmartial arts means any art of war, includingrifle marksmanship or the ability to pilot afighter jet. But it is generally used in a morenarrow sense to refer to unarmed combat orfighting with clubs and sticks and edgedweapons. Western martial arts, like boxing andwrestling, tend to be more fluid and improvisa-tional than most of the Far Eastern arts whichemphasize meditation, breathing, and the prac-tice of often complex but rigidly defined move-

Purporte

levitation of D. Hom

Karate masterand Hollywoodicon Bruce Lee

pounding against the spikes.More recent accounts of incredible

feats are better documented. Some havebeen videotaped and even televised, as onthe Stan Lees Superhumans program.Hammerhead John Ferraro, a wrestler and

strong man, can pound nails into wood withhis head and has had assistants break a stackof bricks on his head. This is at leaststretching the limits of what is possible forunaided flesh and blood. A Belgian freediver, Patrick Musimu, dived to 685 feet un-derwater just holding his breath, with noscuba or other breathing gear. To put thisin perspective, scuba divers rarely godeeper than 200 feet without special gasmixtures which require more advancedtraining. I have been diving for many,many years and have never been deeperthan 90 feet. Wim Hof, the Dutch

iceman, stayed one hour, 13 minutes,and 48 seconds in an ice bath. He also

climbed Kilimanjaro in shorts and did amarathon, also while wearing shorts, whenthe temperature was four degrees below zeroFahrenheit. He practiced tummo, a disci-

pline developed by Tibetan Buddhist monksof the Kagyu tradition; these monks claim thatthey harness the kundalini energy, producing

internal heat as a kind of by-product and, to test them-

selves, wrap themselvesin wet sheets in

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ecently I had the opportunity to visit an enigmatic granite structurethat superficially mimics various an-cient megalithic constructions. Sur-

rounded by mystery and intrigue, inspiring aweand animosity ever since it was unveiled onMarch 22, 1980 (two days after the VernalEquinox), The Georgia Guidestones monu-ment (alternatively called The American Stone-henge) is located among the farms and cowpastures of Elbert County, Georgia. Somepraise its beauty and the hope it bodes for thefuture of humankind. Others see it as a symbolof Satan and his cohorts, an attempt to usherin a vile New World Order. Reinforcing thelatter theory, a coven of witches once used themonument as the setting for their rituals and,as I discuss further below, alleged paranormalphenomena have occurred at the site.

The controversy is fueled by both the en-graved message on the monuments surface and

the secrecy of those responsible for its erection.It all began on a Friday afternoon in June 1979 when a well-dressed, apparently well-educated,middle-aged man visited the office of Joe H.Fendley, Sr., president of Elberton Granite Fin-ishing Company. Introducing himself as Mr.Robert C. Christian, he explained that he rep-resented a small group of loyal Americans whobelieve in God who wanted to build a monu-ment so as to leave a message for future gener-ations. After speaking with Mr. Fendley andgetting a very rough estimate of how much themonument might cost, the gentleman went (onthe recommendation of Mr. Fendley) to the

Granite City Bank in Elberton where he spoketo the president, Mr. Wyatt C. Martin. In thecourse of conversation, it was revealed thatRobert C. Christian was a pseudonym thatthe gentleman had chosen because he was ofthe Christian faith. Only after Mr. Martin wassworn to the utmost secrecy did Christian re-veal his real name and other necessary informa-tion to the bank president. From then on, Mr.Martin acted as the intermediary to see the pro-ject carried through. Thus, ostensibly Mr.Martin is the only known person entrustedwith the true identity of Christian, knowledge

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he has never divulged.In due course, the considerable funds neces-

sary to underwrite not only the construction ofthe monument but the purchase of the two-hectare (five-acre) site on which to place it, weretransferred to the bank and paid out to thelandowner, to Elberton Granite Finishing Com-pany, and to other construction workers,craftsmen, and consultants who participated inthe project. Mr. Christian delivered plans anda wooden model for the monument to Mr. Fen-dley before he disappeared. By the followingspring the monument was complete.

Composed of four solid granite monolithseach approximately five meters tall by two me-ters wide by half a meter thick positioned in astar pattern radiating out from a central mono-lith of the same height and thickness but halfthe width, and topped by a capstone three me-

ters by two meters and half a meter thick, theentire monument is estimated to weigh 107,840kilograms (237,746 pounds) and is oriented tothe cardinal points. A hole drilled through thecenter column locates the celestial North Pole,while a slot carved in the same column marksthe annual path of the Sun throughout theyear. A hole in the capstone allows a sunbeamto be used to mark noon each day.

The eight sides of the four main monolithsare engraved with the same message in eight dif-ferent languagesEnglish, Spanish, Swahili,Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian.

This message consists of ten guides orcepts, as follows:

MAINTAIN HUMANITY UNDER500,000,000

IN PERPETUAL BALANCE WITH NATGUIDE REPRODUCTION WISELY

IMPROVING FITNESS AND DIVERS

UNITE HUMANITY WITH A LIVINGNEW LANGUAGE

RULE PASSION FAITH TRADITIONAND ALL THINGS

WITH TEMPERED REASON

PROTECT PEOPLE AND NATIONSWITH FAIR LAWS AND JUST COUR

LET ALL NATIONS RULE INTERNALRESOLVING EXTERNAL DISPUTE

IN A WORLD COURT

AVOID PETTY LAWS AND USELESSOFFICIALS

BALANCE PERSONAL RIGHTS WITSOCIAL DUTIES

PRIZE TRUTH BEAUTY LOVE SEEKING HARMONY WITH THE

INFINITE

BE NOT A CANCER ON THE EARTHLEAVE ROOM FOR NATURE

LEAVE ROOM FOR NATURE

BY ROBERT M. SCHOCH, PhD.

The Georgia Guidestone MysteryDo the Monuments ina Georgia Cow Pasture

Bode Well or Ill forthe Future of Earth?

Robert Schoch at The Georgia Guidestones, September 23, 20

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