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EARLY RAYS

The frozen River Thames in 1677

Do Hibernating Sunspots Portend an Ice Age on Earth?

Near the dark Near the dark central region of a central region of a planet-sized planet-sized sunspot (2002, sunspot (2002, Swedish Solar Swedish Solar Telescope, Canary Telescope, Canary Island of La Palma) Island of La Palma)

orget about global warming; the very near future could be very cold. That is the gist of alarming news concerning the state of spots on the sun. On June 14, scientists at the National Solar Observatory and at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory reported that the Suns recent behavior indicates that a period of unusually low solar activity is about to begin. The last time such a thing occurred was in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It was called the Maunder Minimum and it has been described as a mini ice age. Rivers, which today are ice-free, were frozen, and snowfields remained year round at much
Rossis E-Cat at work

lower altitudes than now. This is highly unusual and unexpected, says Dr. Frank Hill of the NSO. But the fact that three completely different views of the Sun point in the same direction is a powerful indicator that the sunspot cycle may be going into hibernation. The news was reported by most of the major media but was soon downplayed by some scientists more heavily invested in the idea of global warming. Not surprisingly, Michael Mann, creator of the notorious hockey stick graph which purports to show catastrophically accelerating global warming, was among them. That (an ice age) is just not

going to happen, he told Wired Magazine. The key question is whether the dominant influence over Earths climate is human activity or the interaction with larger, more cosmic, forces such at solar activity, over which we have little, if any, control. A correct understanding of the problem is fundamental to making proper decisions on exactly how our resources should be allocated. Get the policy wrong and the result could be cataclysmic. Though the notion of man-made global warming has become, in many quarters, the virtual equivalent of received wisdom, the new solar data could prove to be a very inconvenient truth.

Italian Cold Fusion Heads Toward Hot Future

he day of low-cost or virtually free energy may be closer than you think. Andrea Rossi, the Italian inventor whose E-Cat low energy nuclear reactor has been making news in Europe and in the alternative energy worldwhile being ignored by the mainstream American presshas announced plans to open his own plant in October. One E-Cat reactor, it is reliably reported, can produce 4.4 kW of energy. Multiple arrays can

be connected in series or parallel to scale up the energy produced. Rossi says a hundred of his reactors are being tested around the world. A million-watt heating plant will ship to Greece soon. Rossi and his colleague Dr. Sergio Focardi of the University of Bologna have created a low cost, nickel-hydrogen desktopsize reactor. The technology has gone through at least three public demonstrations, the most recent when two Swedish scientists con-

ducted a test. The chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society and the chairman of the Energy Committee of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science were both allowed to freely examine everything in the setup except the contents of the tiny (50cc) reactor chamber. Both agreed that the energy successfully produced could not be explained by any known chemical process. More on this from Jeane Manning on page 17.

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Pyramid Robot Snaps Mysterious Graffiti

ore question and few answers have emerged from the latest robotic exploration of the Great Pyramids enigmatic hidden shafts. The most recent attempt took place in May says New Scientist.com. Equipped with a micro-snake camera, the crawling camera-equipped machine was intended to see past the doors at the upper end of the narrow passage from the south wall of the Queens chamber (there is another similar passage from the north wall). Also known as Gantenbrinks door (after the original discoverer, Rudolf Gantenbrink), it had blocked previous explorations. Now, revealed on the back side is rough writing (no hieroglyphs), which Egyptologists are calling ancient graffiti. The enigmatic metal handles which had been previously photographed on the front of the door can be seen to end in small, well-made loops on the back side, which is said by some to rule out the idea that they could have been part of some kind of ancient electrical circuit. The robot named Djedi was designed by engineer Rob Richardson from the University of Leeds, UK. Its camera was mounted to facilitate seeing around corners, a plan which ap-

Ancient Pyramid graffiti

parently succeeded. The back side of the little door was polished, indicating to some that it may have served some kind of ceremonial purpose. The graffiti is reminiscent of markings found in the so-called relieving chambers above the Kings Chambers (which provide the only evidence which can be offered to link the Great Pyramid to the pharaoh Khufu), but so far no one has ventured to interpret the markings. It is conjectured that their translation will explain the function of the shafts and chambers. It is also thought that the shafts which are aligned north and south are related to steller alignments, but no one knows for sure.

ANCIENT TUNNEL FOUND IN TEOTIHUACAN

Temple of the Feathered Serpent, Teotihuacan

n Mexicos ancient city of Teotihuacan archaeologists have discovered a mysterious tunnel underneath the Temple of the Serpent. Running to the east, the tunnel is about 130 yards long. Sealed off for more than 1,800 years, the passage is 45 feet beneath the surface and decorated with symbols of the underworld. Researcher Sergio Gomez Chavez with Mexicos National Institute of Anthropology and History reported the discovery originally detected with ground penetrating radar. The tunnel leads, it is believed, to chambers providing the last resting place of ancient rulers. Gomez Chavez says the discovery could be one of the most important of the 21st century.

n the 20th century, while the Marconi's...the Henry Ford's...the Thomas Edison's have succeeded in capturing most of the attention, others with technological prowess bordering on the miraculous, strangely, have gone unnoticed. Men with names like Tesla, Moray, Rife, Russell and Schauberger, laboring in almost complete obscurity, and achieving almost incomprehensible miracles--free energy, anti-gravity, transmutation of the elements, physical rejuvenation and more--were yet largely rejected, ridiculed and despised by the scientific establishment of their day. But now, a few decades later, a new breed of inventors, scientists and researchers is making rapid, if yet unpublicized, strides toward unraveling the secrets of those unsung giants who preceded them. Many now find themselves on the threshold of breakthroughs, still believed, by many, to be the stuff of hallucination. Atlantis Rising Video now tells their story.

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Was the Lost Ancient World which We Seek, in Fact, Neanderthal?

The Carpathian Sphinx in the winter. (Photograph courtesy of the authors)

BY OANA R. GHIOCEL M.A.

& ROBERT M. SCHOCH, Ph.D.

eople the world over are familiar with the Egyptian Great Sphinx, but there is another Sphinx, this one found in modern Romania. It is located on a vast plateau, at an elevation of 7270 feet (2216 meters) atop the fortress-like Bucegi Massif (part of the Bucegi Mountains of the Southern Carpathians in Romania). Besides the Carpathian Sphinx, other enigmatic rock formations are found here, such as Babele (The Old Women Rock), Omu Peak (Omu refers to Person or People), the Bearded Head, the Emerging Head, and Mecet Rock (a huge stage-like rock formation). At lower elevations, within a days walking distance of the Sphinx, there are a number of natural caves, including Ialomita Cave (with the Ialomita Monastery and Church at its entrance), Coacazei Valley Cave, Bats Cave, and Bears Cave (named after the extinct ice age cave bear remains found there). The Carpathian Sphinx and its environs is the site of mysteries, both real and imagined. Here various persons have claimed to detect energy vortexes and experienced paranormal phenomena, including alternative states of consciousness. Here, too, it has been asserted there is a mysterious bedrock chamber, penetrated by the United States Pentagon and the Romanian Intelligence Service, containing a holographic Hall of Records left by an advanced civilization and three mysterious tun-

nels leading deep into the bowels of Inner Earth (back cover of the 2009 edition of Transylvanian Sunrise by Radu Cinamar, with an introduction, epilogue, and editing by Peter Moon). Exploring this area, we have searched in vain for any evidence of such a wondrous Hall of Records. However, the concept of an advanced civilization, together with the use of tunnels and caves in the Bucegi Mountains, might not be so far off. Serious scholars have suggested that the Carpathian Sphinx and associated monuments are evidence of a very old, very advanced, lost civilization. Among such researchers are the Romanian investigator Dan Braneanu and the late Peruvian esotericist, protohistorian, thirty-third degree Mason, and authority on Nostradamus, Daniel Ruzo (1900-1991). Studies of legends and myths convinced Ruzo of the reality of a primordial, worldwide civilization that, with the exception of a few survivors who took refuge in underground chambers, caves, and tunnels, was destroyed by a cataclysm long before the earliest civilizations acknowledged by modern conventional historians. (By mainstream theory, civilization originated a mere five to six thousand years ago in the Middle East.)

Ruzo spent much of his life searching for physical evidence of this incredibly ancient protohistorical culture. In early 1952 Ruzo was shown a photograph of what appeared to be an enormous, but highly eroded, sculpted rock head located in the Peruvian Andes on the Marcahuasi (Markawasi) Plateau. Daniel Ruzo From 1953 to 1960 Ruzo intensively studied the Marcahuasi sculptures (the plateau is covered with rock formations that may be either natural simulacra and/or highly eroded artificial carvings), convinced they were evidence of the lost civilization. Ruzo ventured beyond Peru, determined to prove that the monuments of Marcahuasi were not an isolated phenomenon but part of a larger complex of very ancient sites found around the world. To this end, Ruzo explored areas in Brazil, Mexico, France, England, and Egypt. In 1968 he traveled to the Bucegi Mountains to see the Sphinx and associated formations. Ruzo was stunned by what he found. Dan Braneanu is also a subscriber to the theory that the Carpathian Sphinx and associated monuments are the evidence of a primordial lost civilization. Braneanu owns a

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Frederic William Henry Myers (William Clarke Wontner)

Frederic W.H. Myers

Why Is He Psychologys Forgotten Man?

BY MICHAEL E. TYMN

sk any practicing psychologist or graduate psychology student about the contributions made by Frederic W. H. Myers to the field of psychology and youll likely get a befuddled reaction. Like, Frederic Who? And yet, some very distinguished scientists, scholars, and writers of his era looked upon Myers as a pioneer in the field of psychology, being one of the first, if not the first, to seriously delve into the subconscious. According to Dr. Sherwood Eddy, a popular American writer of the first half of the last century, Myers began to explore the subconscious, or subliminal self, simultaneously with and independently of Freud. Myers greatest admirer may have been William James, who, along with Freud, Wilhelm Wundt, and John Dewey, is considered one of the founders of modern psychology. James wrote that Myers will always be remembered in psychology as the pioneer who staked out a vast tract of mental wilderness and planted the flag of genuine science upon it. University of Geneva psychology professor
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Theodor Flournoy opined that Myers name should be joined to those of Copernicus and Darwin, completing the triad of geniuses who have most profoundly revolutionized scientific thought. Popular author Aldous Huxley saw Myers as a classical scholar, a minor poet, a conscientious observer, and a platonic philosopher, someone who was free to pay more attention to the positive aspects of the subliminal self than to its negative and destructive aspects, as with Freud and others involved in the study of the subconscious. With such accolades from esteemed peers, why is it that Myers is not remembered today? To begin with, Myers was not trained as a psychologist, though the field was not really established when Myers began his research during the early 1870s. However, the primary reason he is not remembered is most likely his conclusion that brain and mind are not one and the same. The conscious Self of each of usthe empirical, the supraliminal Self, as I should prefer to saydoes not comprise the whole of the consciousness or of the faculty within us, Myers wrote. There exists

a more comprehensive consciousness, a profounder faculty, which for the most part remains potential only so far as regards the life of earth, but which reasserts itself in its plenitude after the liberating change of death. By attempting to put the ghost back into the machine, Myers was clearly bucking the trend toward a belief in a purely mechanistic universe, one devoid of God, an afterlife, and meaning. In the wake of Darwinism, such ideas as those presented by Myers were looked upon by the intellectual aristocracy as a return to religious superstition and idolatry. To dare suggest something so ridiculous was to invite smirks, scoffs, sneers, and sarcasm. After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1864 with degrees in the classics and moral science, Myers, the son of a minister, earned a masters degree and became a classical lecturer at his alma mater. In 1869, he began a career as one of Her Majestys Inspector of Schools. By that time, he had, like most Cambridge intellectuals, lost his faith and his belief in the survival of consciousness

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LOST HISTORY BY ANDREI ZNAMENSKI

Nicholas Roerich, wearing his Dalai Lama robe.

n the fall of 1923, a peculiar sage-looking European appeared in Darjeeling in the northernmost part of India near the Tibetan border. A plump man with a round face and a small Mongol-styled beard, he moved and talked like a high dignitary. He announced that he was a painter, and, indeed, from time to time people could see him here and there with a sketchbook, drawing local landscapes. Yet, even for an eccentric painter, he acted strangely. To begin with, he argued that he was an American, although he spoke English with a heavy Slavic accent. He also demonstrated a deep interest in Tibetan Buddhism, particularly in the Maitreya and Shambhala legends, which was not unusualexcept that the painter had a ceremonial Dalai Lama robe made for himself and donned it occasionally, hinting he was the reincarnated fifth Dalai Lama, the famous reformer in early modern Tibet. His behavior raised the eyebrows of local authorities who passed this information along to the British intelligence service. As strange as it might sound, the sage did strike a chord with some local Tibetan Buddhists, for several visiting lamas did in fact recognize him as the reincarnated Dalai Lama by the moles on his cheeks. At that time, no one except a few close relatives and disciples of the painter knew that he had formed a grand plan, which included dislodging the sitting Dalai Lama and installing instead the Panchen Lama, second in the Tibetan hierarchy after the Lhasa ruler, reforming Tibetan Buddhism, and establishing in the vast spaces of Inner Asia a new theocracy, which he planned to call the Sacred Union of the East. On his occult map, which was tied to TibetanMongol prophecy of Shambhala, the timing was right, he declared, to launch this exciting new pro-

ject. The name of this ambitious dreamer was Nicholas Roerich. What was so special about the Shambhala prophecy that made it so attractive for various spiritual and political seekers in the first three decades of the twentieth centurya time of great turmoil on the vast spaces of Eurasia? Shambhala was a prophecy that emerged in the world of Tibetan Buddhism between the tenth and twelth centuries CE, centered on a legend about a pure and happy kingdom located somewhere in the north; the Tibetan word Shambhala means source of happiness. The legend said that the people of this mystical land enjoyed spiritual bliss, security, and

Roerich
The Road to Shambhala Can Take Some Very Surprising Turns
The sixth Panchen Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet, 1920s. Rudra Chakrin (Rigden Djapo), the King of Shambhala. From Nicholas Roerichs painting, Command of the Teacher.

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prosperity. Having mastered special techniques, they turned themselves into godlike beings and exercised full control over the forces of nature. They were blessed, it was said, with long lives, never argued, and lived in harmony as brothers and sisters. At one point, as the story went, alien intruders would corrupt and undermine the faith of Buddha. That was the time when Rudra Chakrin (Rudra with a Wheel), the last king of Shambhala, would step in and, in a great battle, would crush the forces of evil

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GREATER DIMENSIONS

ave you ever had the experience of being out of your body? If it hasnt happened to you, its likely that it has happened to someone you know. People from all walks of life have experienced feeling detached from their body and able to observe it and their surroundings with lucidity. For many people this happens during or at the threshold of sleep, but it can also happen when highly aroused such as during a rock-climbing fall, a traffic accident or to a mother during childbirth. Fighter pilots can experience out of body feelings when they go through high G forces. During G-LOC, or gravity-induced loss of consicousness, a pilot might suddenly feel himself outside his airplane and be able to watch his body in the planes cockpit. Studying fighter pilots in simulated cockpits within giant centrifuges, researcher Dr. James Whinnery had 40 different pilots, including himself, report an out-of-body experience. After one test in the centrifuge, Dr. Whinnery reported feeling groggy and dislocated. He was able to see himself from behind as he walked down the hall from the test facility. Yet for most people, it doesnt take a centrifuge to create the experience. Many people can have out-of-bedy experiences when they have a cold and a restless night. The term out-of-body experience (OBE) was introduced in 1943 by G.N.M Tyrrell in his book Apparitions as a way of distancing the experience from the spiritualist states of astral projection or spirt walking. In 1968, Celia Green published an analysis of 400 firsthand accounts of out-ofbody experiences and put together the first Western classification of these kinds of experiences. In 1972, Robert Monroe also normalized the experience in his popular book, Journeys Out of the Body. He later founded the Monroe Institute to study and find ways to learn how to have OBEs. Since then, the OBE has become a known phenomenon. In some cases, the phenomenon occurs spontaneously; in others it is associated with physical or mental trauma, dehydration, sensory deprivation, sensory overload, use of psychedelic or dissociative drugs, or perhaps a near-death experience. (See AR #81.) Recent studies have shown that experiences some-

what similar to OBEs can be induced by electrical and magnetic brain stimulation, particularly at the temporo-parietal junction. As with near-death experiences, OBEs often carry deep meaning. They may cause a person to reevaluate what he is doing in his life. Robert Monroe quit his corporate job and spent the latter half of his life researching OBEs. Many people who have these experiences report increased clarity and understanding, and a feeling of remembering who

Materialistic Science Still Fails to Understand

EXPERIENCE
BY PATRICK MARSOLEK
they are on a much deeper level. When people come back into their bodies, its often described as waking up; the experience is clearly not considered a dream. Some describe the OBE as the truly awake state, and the embodied part is the dream. OBEs have similar characteristics. The OBE may be more vivid than waking life. The person is aware of exiting one's physical body as a separate spirit or consciousness. The morphing and bizarre qualities in dreams are less common. One often has an ability to come back into their body at will. The period of leaving the body may include a cessation of

OUT-of-BODY

sensations and body awareness, as if the body is falling asleep. Then there may be perceptions of movement, tingling, buzzing, or humming which, though strong, dont seem to be transmitted by the physical senses. When out of the body, a person may experience complete freedom to move anywhere one wills, even through walls or to distant locations. For some who are practiced at inducing OBE, these stages may obscure or disappear. As with other altered states of consciousness, the OBEs are fascinating to many people and serve as a source of inspiration and insight. There are many active discussion groups online for experiencers and those wanting to learn how to induce the state. There are also many different techniques offered on how to have an OBE. As a seeker myself, I have successfully experimented and have had my own OBEs. Not everyone believes in OBEs. A large body of people question the validity and even reality of these kinds of experiences. Since the experience is subjective, its hard to quantify. Skeptics are quick to claim that the veridity of outof-body experiences has never been proven and that consciousness never truly separates from the physical brain. If you believe that consciousness is a product of the physical brain, how could it be possible to have consciousness outside of the physical body? Proponents of OBE suggest that documented reports where people have perceived accurate information while out of body proves something is happening. They also point out that the materialist positionthat consciousness arises from, or even resides in, the brain, has never been proven. Skeptics sometimes suggest the out-ofbody experiences were caused by drug induced states or forms of mental illness. This is an easy way to write them off, without considering that many people in quite healthy states experience them. This issue also sidesteps the real problem. Even if they are caused by physical alterations in the brain chemistry or the body, it doesnt negate the possibility that consciousness has left the body. An implicit assumption of neuroscience is that all behaviours, and their concurrent expe-

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ANCIENT MYSTERIES BY WILLIAM B. STOECKER

n 1968 Swiss author Erich von Daniken popularized ideas previously suggested by others when he published Chariots of the Gods. From the lofty terraces of Perus Machu Picchu to the immense megaliths of Stonehenge in England, from the staggering complexity of Egypts Great Pyramid to the advanced plumbing of Mohenjo-Daro in Pakistan, the remarkable technical achievements of our primitive ancestors in every quarter of the globe millennia ago, could be explained, it is argued, only by postulating the guidance and assistance of aliens from other star systems. The idea continues to be promoted by von Danikens fellow Swiss (of Austrian and Greek ancestry) Giorgio Tsoukalos, editor of Legendary Times Magazine and host of the Ancient Aliens television series. It is entirely possible, of course, that they are correct, although I would suggest that they consider not only other solar systems but our own planetary neighbors Mars and Venus, which in the distant past were very different worlds from what they are today. I would also suggest that, given the evidence for the extreme antiquity of our species and the evidence for advanced technology in the remote past, we ourselves might be those ancient aliens. For all we know, people related to our ancestors may have achieved space flight countless thousands of years agoin fact, the mysterious structures now seen on Mars and on our Moon may have been built by people from right here. But if aliens guided us, who helped the aliens develop their own technology? Other aliens? Where did it all begin? Is it not possible that we developed our own technology, that our remote ancestors were not so dim-witted and primitive as some imagine? There is a logical principle called Occams Razor, developed by the English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, William of Occam (1288-1348). Simply put, it states that, as a general rule (but not always), the simplest explanation for anything is the correct one. But there is yet another possibility. Throughout the ages, many have believed in guiding spirits. The Greeks had their nine Muses, and many believed in daemons (not to be confused with Judeo-Christian demons). The Muses and daemons were seen as generally benevolent minor gods, who inspired, for example, art, poetry, and music. Many modern writers, artists, musicians, inventors, and scientists have felt that some of their best ideas came from somewhere outside themselves. Perhaps the classic case is that of German chemist Friedrich August Kekule, who figured out the structure of the benzene ring in 1865 after a kind of waking dream of serpents seizing their own tails. Some ancient (and even modern) inventions seem fairly simple, and it is not hard to imagine how people could have hit upon the idea. Woven fabrics date back at least to

28,000 BP (before the present) in that part of Europe which is now the Czech Republic. Understand that fabrics do not age well, and all of the technologies I am describing here may have been invented much earlier, and repeatedly in different places. Michael Cremo and others have gathered evidence of human beings and even advanced cultures dating back literally millions of years. But as for fabrics, people could, quite naturally, build shelters of poles, bark, and grass, as well as skins, and it would, it seems, be only natural to weave the bark or grass around the poles. From this, it would be a simple advance to mats and baskets and then to true fabricslooms would come much later. Fired ceramic figurines were found in the same area of the Czech Republic and dated to about the same time. Again, people might easily mold clay into shapes; unfired statues of animals are found in some of the same European caves that are also adorned with ancient paintings. If the figurines were dried and left near the fire, or if a hearth was made of clay to shield the fire from the wind, true ceramics would be developed almost by accident. Dugout canoes, which can be quite large and are actually stronger and less prone to leaking than plank-built boats, are another example of a technology that could have evolved gradually. People would naturally wade and swim in rivers, lakes, and oceans to spear or net fish. Sitting astride a log would make this easier and safer. Flattening the top of the log, and later hollowing it out, would improve balance and comfort, and gradually people would learn to shape the ends of the log, especially the bow, to reduce water resistance. It would be only natural to paddle with the hands, and then (particularly if the water was cold) with wooden poles, and then to form the poles into paddles, which are shaped like the human hand and arm. The presence of people in areas like Australia, Crete, and the various Pacific islands indicates that our species has been seafaring for tens of thousands of years. People would soon notice that paddling against the wind was more difficult than traveling on a day with little or no air movement and traveling downwind was easier. They would naturally try to hunker down going against the wind and learn
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to sit up straight when the wind was with them. From this, they would learn to hold up skins, then skins or fabric tied to paddles, and so masts and sails would naturally evolve. Dugout canoes and paddles dating back to 9,500-10,000 BP have been unearthed in northwestern Europe, and there is a painting of a sailboat on an Egyptian vase dating to 5,100 BP, but these are certainly not the first ones. Even the wheel, as well as other basic, simple machines like the lever and inclined plane, could have evolved gradually without the assistance of either aliens or spirits. People would drag heavy loads, and then learn to roll them on logs, and then figure ways to attach the rollers to the object or to a sledge holding the load. Then they could eliminate the heavy inside part of the log and attach the wheels to short axles on the outside of the sledge, or reduce the inner part of the log to a relatively slender axle. Stone buildings could evolve from crude, low walls of uncut stone to higher ones of rocks shaped to fit. Agriculture, perhaps developed by women, could have resulted from accidentally dropping seeds in a village. Earlier developments, like sharpening sticks to use as spears, or using sharp stones as tools and weapons and then learning to shape them, could have evolved gradually, and the fossil record shows just that. Even writing could have evolved gradually from pictures to stylized and simplified pictures to the use of the rebus principle in hieroglyphics to a true

alphabet. Some prehistoric European paintings include symbols that we cannot decipher. The origin of the alphabet is still a mystery, although examples date from Egypt (3,500 BP), Israel (3,700 BP), and, possibly, in Egypt as far back as 3,900 BP. But some developments are hard to explain, even allowing people a great deal of intelligence and creativity. People might learn to warm themselves around fires
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set by lightning, and then to add fuel, but how did they learn to make fire? We know that they were at least using small fires in Africa by 1,000,000 years BP. We can imagine people making flint tools noticing sparks and somehow making the connection, but this is a pretty big leap; and anyone who has tried to start a fire with flints knows how difficult this is. And how could people have evolved the fire drill, or even learned to rub sticks together to produce a spark? Again, anyone who has tried this knows how hard it is. The use of bows and arrows is almost impossible to explain. There is some evidence that they were in use in South Africa around 60-70,000 BP, and in Spain by 18-20,000 BP, and certainly in Germany by 12,000 BP There is absolutely nothing obvious about the idea of bending a pole with a cord attached to the ends and using stored energy to fire arrows to great distances. Consider that long bows and composite bows have an accurate and effective range exceeding that of eighteenth century smooth bore muskets, as well as a higher rate of fire. Bows are simple but very effective technology, and it is impossible to imagine how they could have evolved gradually. Equally hard to explain are blowguns, used in Indonesia and parts of the Americas, mostly tropical South America, to shoot darts, often poison darts. Stranger still is the boomerang; throwing sticks were used in many areas, but some boomerangs, certainly the ones found in Australia (and dated to 10,000 BP) are true airfoils with a flat lower surface and a curved upper surface. This is very sophisticated technology for people who, in all other regards, seemed to be primitive hunter-gatherers. And, from the animal world, there is real evidence that the Supreme Being, whether operating directly or through lesser spirits, has inspired what can only be called technology. Space forbids a discussion of most of the evidence for intelligent design (as opposed to Darwinism), but it is, to many of us, very convincing. And if the Designer shaped the hardware, the physical structures of plants, animals, and other organisms, He must also have installed the software, the behavior patterns of animals. A bird, for example, must have wings, control surfaces, flight muscles, etc., but must also be a skillful pilot. Like so many things in the natural world, this is all or nothing, irreducible complexity. Natures IQ, by Balazs Hornyanszky and Istvan Tasi (Torchlight Publishing, 2009), lists many examples of what can only be described as animal technology. Bees build complex nests with hexagonal cells of wax, store honey, and communicate with one another using a complex kind of dance. They tell one another the distance and direction (relative to the Sun) to flowers. Numerous other animals, although they may not communicate like the bees, dig burrows and tunnels or make nests. Many wasps make a kind of paper to build their nests, but the potter wasp makes nests of muda sort of unbaked ceramic. Swallows also build mud nests, surprisingly stable and durable, and

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Did Japans Nightmare Distort the Fabric of Space-Time? Space Time?

f, at this moment, you were to contact someone in Japan to inquire What time is it now?, you could reasonably expect a response of exactly 13 hours difference (if you live in the U.S. Eastern time zone). If its 3.30 p.m. in New York City, then its 4.30 a.m. the next day in Tokyo. From the perspective of those of us living in North and South America, it appears that the Japanese live in the future; but how much more surprised would you be to learn that, not only is the hour different, but the era is also inconsistent with your perceived present? Instead of hearing someone say Its four-thirty, you would be shocked to learn that it is also 1932. Such scenarios exist throughout fantasy literature and films, yet many contemporary researchers agree that what was once solely within the realm of science fiction is quickly becoming science fact. The prominent Tokyo physicist, Risa Imai, claims that many Japanese citizens have experienced what she calls dilatory ripples in the fabric of the time-space continuum. Professor Imai, as well as several other scholars around the world, believe this phenomenon results from the massive meltdown of the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi facility, a process which began with the devastating earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan on 10 March 2011. According to Einsteins Theory of Relativity, dilations in time occur when independent observers simultaneously perceive noticeable differences in objective reality. Such observations are generally due to some alteration in space-time resulting from differences in the rate of travel of independent observers, such as that which occurs during the famous thought experiment called the Twin Paradox. In this instance, one identical twin leaves the earth in a spacecraft traveling near the speed of light while his brother stays behind. The astronaut travels throughout the galaxy for several years, returning to find that while he has aged only a few light years, his twin is now an old man. This concept of elastic time was, as Paul Davies notes, quite a shock when Einstein introduced it in 1905. Davies goes on to say that: [S]ince then many experiments have confirmed its reality. The most accurate of these uses subatomic particles because they are Albert Einstein (1947) easy to accelerate to near the speed of light, and they often contain an inbuilt clock. Mumesons,or muons for short, can be created in controlled subatomic collisions, and have a lifetime of around two microseconds, before disintegrating into more familiar particles of matter, such as electrons. When moving at close to the speed of light, the dilation of time increases their lifetime as measured by us, by several times. Of course, in their own frame of reference they still live for two microseconds. A good check on the effect was made at the particle accelerator laboratory at CERN in Geneva in early 1977, where a beam of high speed muons was created and stored in a magnetic ring so that their lifetime could be measured. It confirmed the amounts of time dilation predicted by the theory of relativity, to an accuracy of 0.2 per cent. . . . One intriguing possibility opened up by the time dilation effect is time travel. (Other Worlds, 41) And such dilations do occur in everyday life. Each time one of NASAs space shuttles enters into orbit around the earth, effects of this nature are witnessed, albeit on a smaller scale. The lessening of gravity, however miniscule, means a measurable reduction in time. Thus, observers on the ground and those inside the shuttle are never on the exact same time because, as Einsteins theory dictates, each partys perceptions of time will differ due to the relative perspective of each observer. Although some scientists speculate that the sort of time travel Davies mentions requires the warping of space-time via a black hole or worm hole, others, like Professor Imai, feel that such radical changes in the flow of magnetic energy could be disrupted enough to offer brief doorways through which one might peer or perhaps even slip through
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for brief periods. Imai notes the tremendous quantities of radiation that leaked from the Fukushima power plant facility in the weeks prior to its total collapse and how the introduction of uncontrolled radioactive stimulation results in a destabilization of geophysical conditions, including gravity (page 14 of her report to the Japanese political group, the Diet). A Reuters article for April 12, 2011, describes the leak at the Miyagi prefecture facility as equivalent to a tenth of the amount of radiation released in the Chernobyl disaster (para 1). A confidential source at Tokyo Electric Power confided that the reported amounts of radiation leaked during the course of the facilities meltdowns was conservative in the extreme. While human beings are constantly exposed to various forms of radiation, the effects are often negated by the planets atmospheric shielding. But some earthbound phenomena do create situations where exposure may result in radical effects just as deleterious to life as any nuclear disaster. Shannon Palus discusses how small-scale gamma ray bursts occur regularly on earth via terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) associated with lightning strikes and notes that lightning can emit far more energy than previously thought and release streams of antimatter particles (Discover, April 2011). Such power might lend itself to a disruption of matter down to the level of quanta or introduce enough analogous energy into the earths own natural system to make quantum teleportation possible (see Rules For a Complex Quantum World by Michael A. Nielsen, Scientific American November 2002). Professor Imais investigation revealed several cases in point, including a group of survivors of the earthquake and the tsunami whose small coastal city of Sendai was flattened. When they were eventually allowed back into the area in order to check on the devastation and to search for lost family members, an entire van load of people reportedly

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