Material Submitted February 1, 2005

Edgar Cayce Dream Research Project Calls for Participation

The Edgar Cayce Institute for Intuitive Studies (ECIIS) has prepared, in honor of the 30th
anniversary of the A.R.E. Dream Research Project, a new, updated dream project. The
original A.R.E. project was the first anywhere to demonstrate that people can make
constructive use of their dreams, on their own, without professional help. The
Association for the Study of Dreams recognized this project as having helped spark the
national “dreamwork movement” some years back. This movement has led to the
“deprofessionalism” of dreams, rescuing them from the exclusive province of the
psychotherapy office, and into the creative lives of people everywhere.
The success of the A.R.E. Dream Research Project rested upon the project’s use of Edgar
Cayce’s suggestions for learning to interpret dreams. The focus was upon applying dream
insights for intuitive guidance concerning practical purposes. The key finding of the
study was that when people applied a dream insight on a given day, the next day people
had clearer dream recall, with dreams easier to understand. The study also showed that
people are indeed capable of using their dreams to make constructive innovations in their
lives.
ECIIS is now making available a vastly enlarged and improved dream guidance manual,
together with other tools to aid the dreamer in pursuing the goals of this research project.
The purpose of the project is to learn how the types of questions posed by dreamers
relates to the type of dream guidance received, and how this relationship is affected by
how well the dreamer applies the dream insights.
The project is available at three levels of participation, requiring different levels of
investment of energy and providing differing levels of support for the dreamer in pursuit
of dream guidance during the project. For further details, go see http://www.edgarcayce-
intuitionschool.com/dreams

Egypt is the Child of Atlantis

According toEdgar Cayce’s story of pre-history, ancient Egypt came about as a result of
people leaving Atlantis during the period of its destructions. Using evidence based upon
astronomy and mythology, one researcher has come to a similar conclusion. In his book
Egypt: Child of Atlantis: A Radical Interpretation of the Origins of Civilization (Bear
&Co.), John Gordon, a senior fellow of the Theosophical Society of England, traces some
of the Egyptian religious beliefs and practices to a pre-existing worldview that can be
attributed to Atlantis.

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Book of Matthew Suggests Miracle Theory

In Matthew 14:13-20 there is told the story of Jesus and the fishes and loaves. In The
Twelve Conditions of a Miracle: The Miracle Worker’s Handbook (Tarcher/Putnam),
Todd Michael divulges the secret message he has found in this scripture concerning the
mystery of miracles. Through a transformation of consciousness that he calls “The Alpha
Passage,” a person can switch from the experience of being a victim of circumstance to
being a co-creator of reality, capable of working miracles. His list of the twelve
conditions of miracles, each based upon a phrase from the scripture, resembles Cayce’s
approach in most respects. It is as follows:
1) Emptiness: Calmly release whatever you are withholding from the world: Giving
creates a vacuum for more to flow in.
2) Alignment: Shift to a mind-set of compassion and the greater good; move from
concern over yourself to the concerns of others.
3) Asking: Clarify your needs. If you don’t clearly put your request into words, the
universe won’t know how to respond.
4) Maximizing: Make full use of your existing tools, resources, and blessings.
Whatever you focus on expands.
5) Giving: What flows away from you flows back magnified: Become a joyful giver.
6) Grounding: Experience the present moment as much as possible. A solid
grounding in the present establishes a firm base from which to act—and receive.
7) Visualizing: Using all of your senses, see and feel yourself having the feelings
and experiences that form the basis of your wish.
8) Gratitude. Bless your resources. Express your feelings of gratitude in words.
9) Acting as if: Stop procrastinating. Take the leap of faith and act as though your
new reality has already manifested.
10) Engaging the cycle: When you receive, immediately look for a way to give
something back. Work with the circular energy flow that characterizes our
universe.
11) Receiving: Eat and be filled. The art of adequate receiving is often overlooked.
12) Recycling: Gather up the fragments: Reuse all of your physical resources.

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A.R.E. Cooperating Psychics Get Noticed

For some years, as part of the Edgar Cayce Legacy conference on psychic development,
the A.R.E. has invited professional psychics to participate in a qualifying process to serve
as an A.R.E. cooperating psychic in the conference. The list of psychics is available from
A.R.E. and can be found on Google by entering “field tested psychics.” Now this list, and
the testing process that allowed these psychics to get onto this exclusive list, has found its
way into a new book on psychic development.
In the book Becoming Psychic: Spiritual Lessons for Focusing Your Hidden Abilities
(New Page Books), Stephen Kierulff, Ph.D., and Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. describe five
ways of uncovering your psychic abilities by applying them to specific tasks, as well as
the spiritual lessons involved. In the context of explaining how consulting professional
psychics might play a role in a person’s own development, the authors devote a special
section to the Edgar Cayce program involving cooperating psychics.

Also go see: www.creativespirit.net/researchonpsychics

Younger Odors Help Older Women Attract Affection

In our ongoing coverage of research on the power of odors (which Cayce indicated was
the most powerful physical stimulus to affect us), new research on female pheromes
suggests their usefulness for post-menopausal women. Researchers at Harvard University
added a pherome substance obtained from younger women’s armpits to perfume worn by
one group of post-menopausal women, while a control group of older women wore this
same perfume, but without the added pherome.
Those older women who wore the pherome-enhanced perfume, according to the results
published in The Journal of Sex Research, experienced significantly more romantic and
physically intimate moments with their partners than did the women wearing the perfume
without the added pheromes.

Sex pheromone spray boosts senior romance

• 19:00 26 January 2005

• Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition
• Andy Coghlan

A mystery chemical that young women deploy as a sex attractant pheromone seems to work for post-
menopausal women too.

Joan Friebely of Harvard University, US, and Susan Rako, a private physician in Newton,
Massachusetts, US, have studied 44 post-menopausal women. Half added Athena Pheromone 10:13,
originally isolated from a woman's armpit sweat, to their perfume while half added a dummy
compound. Neither the women nor the researchers knew who was in each group until the results were
in.

In diaries kept by the women for six weeks, 41% of pheromone users reported more petting, kissing
and affection with partners compared with 14% receiving the placebo. Overall, 68% of pheromone
users reported increases in at least one of four "intimate socio-sexual behaviours" such as formal
dates and sex, as against 41% on the placebo.

But the pheromone's discoverer, biologist Winnifred Cutler, is keeping its identity secret until patents
have been granted to Cutler's Athena Institute for Women's Wellness Research in Chester Springs,
Pennsylvania, US. "It's still a mystery substance being applied to individuals at unknown
concentrations," says George Preti of the Monell Chemical Senses Centre in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.

Friebely and Rako say they have no financial interest in the product.

Journal reference: The Journal of Sex Research (vol 41, p 372)

Link: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6926&print=true

New Evidence Confirms Human Sacrifice by Aztecs and Mayans

Whereas it had become common to attribute stories of human sacrifice by Aztecs and
Mayans as exaggerations intended to defame the natives and justify their conquest,
evidence has been mounting that the stories are true. A news report publicized by
www.schwartzreport.net details the latest findings by archaeologists digging north of
Mexico City, who uncovered physical evidence that proves some of the fabled methods
of torture and sacrifice. Researchers now suspect that the original stories of brutal
methods are true, but that the numbers of people so sacrificed may be what has been
exaggerated.

New findings change

thinking on human sacrifices
Archaeologists: Practice often involved children,
brutal method

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- It has long been a matter of

contention: Was the Aztec and Mayan practice of
human sacrifice as widespread and horrifying as Archaeologists conduct excavations
the history books say? Or did the Spanish in Ecatepec, Mexico.
conquerors overstate it to make the Indians look
primitive? Image:

In recent years, archaeologists have been uncovering

mounting physical evidence that corroborates the Spanish
accounts in substance, if not number.

Using high-tech forensic tools, archaeologists are proving that pre-Hispanic sacrifices often involved children
and a broad array of intentionally brutal killing methods.

For decades, many researchers believed Spanish accounts from the 16th and 17th centuries were biased to
denigrate Indian cultures. Others argued that sacrifices were largely confined to captured warriors, while still
others conceded the Aztecs were bloody, but believed the Maya were less so.

"We now have the physical evidence to corroborate the written and pictorial record," archaeologist Leonardo
Lopez Lujan said. "Some 'pro-Indian' currents had always denied this had happened. They said the texts
must be lying."

The Spaniards probably did exaggerate the sheer numbers of victims to justify a supposedly righteous war
against idolatry, said David Carrasco, a Harvard Divinity School expert on Meso-American religion.

But there is no longer as much doubt about the nature of the killings. Indian pictorial texts known as
"codices," as well as Spanish accounts from the time, quote Indians describing multiple forms of human
sacrifice.

Victims had their hearts cut out or were decapitated, shot full of arrows, clawed, sliced to death, stoned,
crushed, skinned, buried alive or tossed from the tops of temples.

Children were said to be frequent victims, in part because they were considered pure and unspoiled.

"Many people said, 'We can't trust these codices because the Spaniards were describing all these horrible
things,' which in the long run we are confirming," said Carmen Pijoan, a forensic anthropologist who believes
butcher-like cut marks on bones from a pre-Aztec culture indicate cannibalism.

In December, at an excavation in an Aztec-era community in Ecatepec, just north of Mexico City,

archaeologist Nadia Velez Saldana described finding evidence of human sacrifice associated with the god of
death.
"The sacrifice involved burning or partially burning victims," Velez Saldana said. "We found a burial pit with
the skeletal remains of four children who were partially burned, and the remains of four other children that
were completely carbonized."

Although the remains don't show whether the victims were burned alive, there are depictions of people --
apparently alive -- being held down as they are burned.

The dig turned up other clues to support descriptions of sacrifices in the Magliabecchi codex, a pictorial
account painted between 1600 and 1650 that includes human body parts stuffed into cooking dishes, and
people sitting around eating, as the god of death looks on.

"We have found cooking dishes just like that," said archaeologist Luis Manuel Gamboa. "And, next to some
full skeletons, we found some incomplete, segmented human bones."

However, researchers don't know whether those remains were cannibalized.

The Maya, whose culture peaked farther east about 400 years before the Aztecs founded Mexico City in
1325, had a similar taste for sacrifice, Harvard University anthropologist David Stuart wrote in a 2003 article.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, "The first researchers tried to make a distinction between the
'peaceful' Maya and the 'brutal' cultures of central Mexico," Stuart wrote. "They even tried to say human
sacrifice was rare among the Maya."

But in carvings and mural paintings, he said, "we have now found more and greater similarities between the
Aztecs and Mayas," including a Maya ceremony in which a costumed priest is shown pulling the entrails
from a bound and apparently living sacrificial victim.

Some Spanish-era texts have yet to be corroborated with physical remains. They describe Aztec priests
sacrificing children and adults by sealing them in caves or drowning them. But the assumption now is that
the texts appear trustworthy in description, if not necessarily in number, said Lopez Lujan, who also works at
the Templo Mayor site.

For Lopez Lujan, confirmation has come in the form of advanced chemical tests on the stucco floors of
Aztec temples, which were found to have been soaked with iron, albumen and genetic material consistent
with human blood.

"It's now a question of quantity," said Lopez Lujan, who thinks the Spaniards -- and Indian picture-book
scribes working under their control -- exaggerated the number of sacrifice victims, claiming in one case that
80,400 people were sacrificed at a temple inauguration in 1487.

"We're not finding anywhere near that ... even if we added some zeros," Lopez Lujan said.

Researchers have largely discarded the old theory that sacrifice and cannibalism were motivated by a
protein shortage in the Aztec diet, though some still believe it may have been a method of population
control.

Pre-Hispanic cultures believed the world would end if the sacrifices were not performed. Sacrificial victims,
meanwhile, were often treated as gods themselves before being killed.

"It is really very difficult for us to conceive," Pijoan said of the sacrifices. "It was almost an honor for them."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/01/22/human.sacrifice.ap/index.html

Russian DNA Research Has Paranormal Implications

Using sound and laser light, researchers in Russia have found that DNA is able to
respond to vibrational stimuli by changing the informational rules that govern its
chemically transmitted communicative behavior. They also have found that DNA can
transmit their informational patterns (and thus the genetic instructions) to other DNA by
some type of vibrational or energetic method.
According to a report circulating on the internet, The researchers have used this
methodology to explore some incredible ideas. For one, they believe that the structure of
human language (known to be innate) and the communicative structure of DNA are
analogous. They have shown that DNA can respond to human language, follow
instructions, and thus allow influence of deep bodily processes, including genetics,
through mental means. They have also found that they can achieve by non-intrusive
vibrational methods the same effect as Western scientists who affect genetic function by
transplanting genetic material from one DNA strand to another. The report implies that
the Russians have found that DNA has many of the qualities associated with quartz
crystals, capable of paranormal communication.

PARANORMAL STUNNER: RECENT RUSSIAN DNA DISCOVERIES EXPLAIN SO-CALLED

HUMAN 'PARANORMAL' EVENTS USING EASY-TO-UNDERSTAND TERMINOLOGY AND
SCIENCE -
Summarized by Baerbel,
Edited and translated,
Monday, January 24, 2005
Esoteric and spiritual teachers have known for ages that our body is programmable by language,
words and thought. This has now been scientifically proven and explained.
The human DNA is a biological Internet and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. The
latest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance,
intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusual
light/auras around people (namely spiritual masters), mind's influence on weather patterns and
much more.
In addition, there is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be influenced
and reprogrammed by words and frequencies WITHOUT cutting out and replacing single genes.
Only 10% of our DNA is being used for building proteins. It is this subset of DNA that is of interest
to western researchers and is being examined and categorized. The other 90% are considered
"junk DNA."
The Russian researchers, however, convinced that nature was not dumb, joined linguists and
geneticists in a venture to explore that 90% of "junk DNA." Their results, findings and conclusions
are simply revolutionary! According to there findings, our DNA is not only responsible for the
construction of our body but also serves as data storage and communication. The Russian
linguists found that the genetic code - especially in the apparent "useless" 90% - follows the same
rules as all our human languages.
To this end they compared the rules of syntax (the way in which words are put together to form
phrases and sentences), semantics (the study of meaning in language forms) and the basic rules
of grammar. They found that the alkalines of our DNA follow a regular grammar and do have set
rules just like our languages. Therefore, human languages did not appear coincidentally but are a
reflection of our inherent DNA.
The Russian biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev and his colleagues also explored
the vibrational behavior of DNA. In brief the bottom line was: "Living chromosomes function just
like a holographic computer using endogenous DNA laser radiation." This means that they
managed, for example, to modulate certain frequency patterns (sound) onto a laser-like ray which
influenced DNA frequency and thus the genetic information itself.
Since the basic structure of DNA-alkaline pairs and of language (as explained earlier) is of the
same structure, no DNA decoding is necessary. One can simply use words and sentences of the
human language! This, too, was experimentally proven! Living DNA substance (in living tissue,
not in vitro) will always react to language-modulated laser rays and even to radio waves, if the
proper frequencies (sound) are being used.
 This finally and scientifically explains why affirmations, hypnosis and the like can have such
strong effects on humans and their bodies. It is entirely normal and natural for our DNA to react to
language. While western researchers cut single genes from DNA strands and insert them
elsewhere, the Russians enthusiastically created devices that influence cellular metabolism
through modulated radio and light frequencies, thus repairing genetic defects.
They even captured information patterns of a particular DNA and transmitted it onto another,
thus reprogramming cells to another genome. So they successfully transformed, for example, frog
embryos to salamander embryos simply by transmitting the DNA information patterns! This way
the entire information was transmitted without any of the side effects or disharmonies
encountered when cutting out and re-introducing single genes from the DNA.
This represents an unbelievable, world-transforming revolution and sensation: by simply applying
vibration (sound frequencies) and language instead of the archaic cutting-out procedure! This
experiment points to the immense power of wave genetics, which obviously has a greater
influence on the formation of organisms than the biochemical processes of alkaline sequences.
Esoteric and spiritual teachers have known for ages that our body is programmable by language,
words and thought. This has now been scientifically proven and explained. Of course the
frequency has to be correct. And this is why not everybody is equally successful or can do it with
always the same strength. The individual person must work on the inner processes and
development in order to establish a conscious communication with the DNA.
The Russian researchers work on a method that is not dependent on these factors but will
ALWAYS work, provided one uses the correct frequency. But the higher developed an individual's
consciousness is, the less need is there for any type of device: one can achieve these results by
oneself. Science will finally stop laughing at such ideas and will confirm and explain the results.
And it doesn't end there.
The Russian scientists also found out that our DNA can cause disturbing patterns in a vacuum,
thus producing magnetized wormholes! Wormholes are the microscopic equivalents of the so-
called Einstein-Rosen bridges in the vicinity of black holes (left by burned-out stars). These are
tunnel connections between entirely different areas in the universe through which information can
be transmitted outside of space and time.
The DNA attracts these bits of information and passes them on to our consciousness. This
process of hyper-communication (telepathy, channeling) is most effective in a state of relaxation.
Stress, worry or a hyperactive intellect prevent successful hyper-communication or the
information will be totally distorted and useless. In nature, hyper-communication has been
successfully applied for millions of years. The organized flow of life in insects proves this
dramatically. Modern man knows it only on a much more subtle level as "intuition." But we, too,
can regain full use of it.
As an example from nature, when a queen ant is separated from her colony, the remaining
worker ants will continue building fervently according to plan. However, if the queen is killed, all
work in the colony stops. No ant will know what to do. Apparently, the queen transmits the
"building plans" even if far away - via the group consciousness with her subjects. She can be as
far away as she wants, as long as she is alive.
In humans, hyper-communication is most often encountered when one suddenly gains access to
information that is outside one's knowledge base. Such hyper-communication is then experienced
as inspiration or intuition (also in trance channeling). The Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini, for
instance, dreamt one night that a devil sat at his bedside playing the violin. The next morning
Tartini was able to note down the piece exactly from memory. He called it the Devil's Trill Sonata.
For years, a 42-year old male nurse dreamt of a situation in which he was hooked up to a kind of
knowledge CD-ROM. Verifiable knowledge from all imaginable fields was then transmitted to him
that he was able to recall in the morning. There was such a flood of information that it seemed a
whole encyclopedia was transmitted at night. The majorities of facts were outside his personal
knowledge base and reached technical details of which he knew absolutely nothing. When hyper-
communication occurs, one can observe in the DNA, as well as in the human, supernatural
phenomena.
The Russian scientists irradiated DNA samples with laser light. On screen, a typical wave pattern
was formed. When they removed the DNA sample, the wave pattern did not disappear, it
remained. Many controlled experiments showed that the pattern continued to come from the
removed sample, whose energy field apparently remained by itself. This effect is now called
phantom DNA effect. It is surmised that energy from outside of space and time still flows through
the activated wormholes after the DNA was removed. The side effects encountered most often in
hyper-communication in humans are inexplicable electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of the
persons concerned.
Electronic devices like CD players and the like can be irritated and cease to function for hours.
When the electromagnetic field slowly dissipates, the devices function normally again. Many
healers and psychics know this effect from their work: the better the atmosphere and energy, the
more frustrating it can be for recording devices as they stop functioning at that exact moment.
Often by next morning all is back to normal. Perhaps this is reassuring to read for many, as it has
nothing to do with them being technically inept; it means they are good at hyper-communication.
In their book, "Vernetzte Intelligenz," Grazyna Gosar and Franz Bludorf explain these
connections precisely and clearly. The authors also quote sources presuming that in earlier times
humanity had been just like the animals: very strongly connected to group consciousness and
thereby acted as a group. In order to develop and experience individuality, however, we humans
had to forget hyper-communication almost completely.
Now that we are fairly stable in our individual consciousness, we can create a new form of group
consciousness - namely one in which we attain access to all information via our DNA without
being forced or remotely controlled about what to do with that information. We now know that just
as we use the internet, our DNA can feed proper data into the network, can retrieve data from the
network, and can establish contact with other participants in the network.
Remote healing, telepathy or "remote sensing" about the state of another can thus be explained.
Some animals know from afar when their owners plan to return home. This can be freshly
interpreted and explained via the concepts of group consciousness and hyper-communication.
Any collective consciousness cannot be sensibly used over any period of time without a
distinctive individuality; otherwise we would revert to a primitive herd instinct that is easily
manipulated. Hyper-communication in the new millennium means something quite different.
Researchers think that if humans with full individuality would regain group consciousness, they
would have a god-like power to create, alter and shape things on Earth! AND humanity is
collectively moving toward such a group consciousness of the new kind. Fifty percent of children
will become a problem as soon as they go to school, since the system lumps everyone together
and demands adjustment. But the individuality of today's children is so strong that they refuse this
adjustment and resist giving up their idiosyncrasies in the most diverse ways.
At the same time more and more clairvoyant children are born. Something in those children is
striving more towards the group consciousness of the new kind, and it can no longer be
suppressed. As a rule, weather for example is rather difficult to influence by a single individual.
But it may be influenced by group consciousness (nothing new about this to some indigenous
tribes).
Weather is strongly influenced by Earth resonance frequencies (Schumann frequencies). But
those same frequencies are also produced in our brains, and when many people synchronize
their thinking or when individuals (spiritual masters, for instance) focus their thoughts in a laser-
like fashion, then it is not at all surprising that they can influence the weather.
A modern day civilization which develops group consciousness would have neither
environmental problems nor scarcity of energy: for if it were to use such mental powers as a
unified civilization, it would have control of the energies of its home planet as a natural
consequence. When a great number of people become unified with higher intention as in
meditating on peace - potentials of violence also dissolve.
Apparently, DNA is also an organic superconductor that can work at normal body temperature,
as opposed to artificial superconductors which require extremely low temperatures between 200
and 140°C to function. In addition, all superconductors are able to store light and thus
information. This further explains how DNA can store information.
There is another phenomenon linked to DNA and wormholes. Normally, these super-small
wormholes are highly unstable and are maintained only for the tiniest fractions of a second.
Under certain conditions stable wormholes can organize themselves, which then form distinctive
vacuum domains in which for example, gravity can transform into electricity. Vacuum domains are
self-radiant balls of ionized gas that contain considerable amounts of energy. There are regions in
Russia where such radiant balls appear very often.
Following the ensuing confusion the Russians started massive research programs leading finally
to some of the discoveries mentions above. Many people know vacuum domains as shiny balls in
the sky. The attentive look at them in wonder and ask themselves, what they could be.
I thought once: "Hello up there. If you happen to be a UFO, fly in a triangle." And suddenly, the
light balls moved in a triangle. Or they shot across the sky like ice hockey pucks: they accelerated
from zero to crazy speeds while sliding silently across the sky. One is left gawking and I have, as
many others, too, thought them to be UFOs. Friendly ones, apparently, as they flew in triangles
just to please me.
Now, the Russians found - in the regions where vacuum domains often appear - that sometimes
fly as balls of light from the ground upwards into the sky, and that these balls can be guided by
thought. Since then it has been found that vacuum domains emit waves of low frequency that are
also produced in our brains and because of this similarity of waves they are able to react to our
thoughts. To run excitedly into one that is on ground level might not be such a great idea,
because those balls of light can contain immense energies and are capable of mutating our
genes.
Many spiritual teachers also produce such visible balls or columns of light in deep meditation or
during energy work, which trigger decidedly pleasant feelings and do not cause any harm.
Apparently this is also dependent on some inner order, quality and origin of the vacuum domain.
There are some spiritual teachers, like the young Englishman Ananda, for example, with whom
nothing is seen at first, but when one tries to take a photograph while they sit and speak or
meditate in hyper-communication, one gets only a picture of a white cloud on a chair.
In certain Earth healing projects, such light effects also appear on photographs. Simply put, this
phenomena has to do with gravity and anti-gravity forces that are ever more stable forms of
wormholes and displays of hyper-communication with energies from outside our time and space
structure. Earlier generations that experienced such hyper-communication and visible vacuum
domains were convinced that an angel had appeared before them: and we cannot be too sure to
what forms of consciousness we can get access when using hyper-communication.
Not having scientific proof for their actual existence, people having had such experiences do
NOT all suffer from hallucinations. We have simply made another giant step towards
understanding our reality. Official science also knows of gravity anomalies on Earth that
contribute to the formation of vacuum domains. Recently gravity anomalies have been found in
Rocca di Papa, south of Rome. ----------------------------------------
Above taken from:
http://www.rense.com/general62/expl.htm

The full article can be viewed - in English - on the Kontext Web

site:

http://www.fosar-bludorf.com/index_eng.htm

All information is from the book "Vernetzte Intelligenz" von Grazyna

Fosar und Franz Bludorf, ISBN 3930243237, summarized and commented by
Baerbel. The book is unfortunately only available in German so far. You
can reach the authors here:

Kontext: Forum for Border Science:

http://www.fosar-bludorf.com/

http://www.rense.com/

American Revolutionaries Have Reincarnated Today

What if key figures in the American Revolution were back with us today, reincarnated in
new bodies and personalities, and just as interested in supporting social change and
spiritual awakening? Walter Semkiw, M.D., author of the book Return of the
Revolutionaries: Evidence of Reincarnation (Hampton Roads Publishing Company), says
it's more than a question. It's a fact. Drawing on the cases of dozens of prominent and
influential American cultural and literary figures today, Dr. Semkiw establishes their
Revolutionary times identity. Continuities in facial appearance, personal interests, and
even writing style are giveaways to linking a present-day figure with someone from the
Revolutionary era, he says.
“The American Revolutionaries are back and this time they are here for a spiritual
revolution”, says Semkiw. Through remarkable objective evidence, Dr. Semkiw
demonstrates that leaders of the American Revolution have returned as contemporary
political and social leaders--including George W. Bush (reincarnation of Daniel Morgan),
Bill Clinton (Peyton Randolph), Al Gore (Horatio Gates), John McCain (Henry Clay),
John Kerry (Andrew Jackson), Colin Powell (Crispus Attucks), Tommy Franks (George
Washington) Ralph Nader (Charles Thomson), Marianne Williamson (Abigail Adams),
Neale Donald Walsch (William Walter), Caroline Myss (Deborah Franklin), and Oprah
Winfrey (James Wilson).

See www.johnadams.net

Man Designs Wonder Machine from Dream

Troy Hurtubise had the same dream three times. After the third dream, he built “Angel
Light,” a machine that can see through walls and most materials, including lead.
Universities, corporations, and governments, according to a report in Bay Today, have
expressed interest in his invention. Motorola Inc. for example, has set its sights on
emerging technology that could allow first responders and Special Forces to see through
building walls, the Washington Technology Web site reports. Camero Inc., an Israeli firm
founded by technology and intelligence veterans, received $5 million from Motorola and
other investors to develop portable imaging radar that uses ultra-wideband technology to
create a 3-D picture of objects that are concealed by walls or other barriers. Angel Light
can do these things and more. Tests indicated that it can image objects that have been
made invisible by stealth technology.
Three units make up the Angel Light, including black, white, red and fluorescent light
sources, as well as seven industrial lasers, optical glass, a microwave unit and plasma
intermixed with carbon dioxide, plasma light rods, CO2 charges, industrial magnets, 108
mirrors, eight ionization cells industrial lights, and other components. Troy dreamed the
Angel Light would be able to see through walls with window-like efficiency, and then
built it with no blueprints, drawings or schematics.
Hurtubise said he could see into the garage behind his lab wall, and read the license plate
on his wife's car and even see the salt on it. Hurtubise continued testing the light on other
materials and discovered it could also see through other metals including steel, tin,
titanium and, unlike Superman, lead. As well the beam also penetrated ceramic and
wood. The Hurtubise put his hand in the light beam. “I could see my blood vessels,
muscles, everything, like I’d taken an Exacto knife, cut into my skin and peeled it back,”
Hurtubise said. Soon after, Hurtubise discovered the Angel Light had devilish side-
effects. He lost feeling in the finger of the exposed hand.

Source:

Hurtubise says invention sees through walls-BayToday.ca exclusive

By Phil Novak
BayToday.ca
Sunday, January 16, 2005

Photo by Bill Tremblay, Special to BayToday.ca.

Troy Hurtubise has done the seemingly impossible with his newest invention and defied all known
rules of physics, he says.

The Angel Light—Hurtubise claims the concept came to him in a recurring dream—can reportedly
see through walls, as if there was no barrier at all.
That’s not all, though.

So impressed Hurtubise, 41, said the device detects stealth technology.

And he’s done the tests to prove it, with the covert help of scientists at the famed Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Hurtubise said.

If that’s not enough, Hurtubise also said the French government sent representatives to North
Bay to witness a demonstration of the Angel Light.

Hurtubise said the reps were so impressed with the eight-foot long device they paid him $40,000
in cash to put the finishing touches on it.

New universe The French, Hurtubise adds, have also agreed to pay him a “substantial” amount
of money for the technology if it passes rigorous tests in France.

“They couldn’t believe what they saw,” Hurtubise told BayToday.ca.

“One of them told me it was as if I’d discovered a new universe.”

Gary Dryfoos, a consultant and former long-time instructor at MIT, said "there's a Nobel Prize" for
Hurtubise if the Angel Light really performs as described.

"There are laws of physics waiting to be written for what he's talking about," Dryfoos said.

The French aren't the only ones interested in Hurtubise's innovations.

BayToday.ca has obtained documentation confirming that the former head of Saudi counter-
intelligence, who asked that his name not be used, has been in regular contact with Hurtubise
regarding the Angel Light, fire paste, and the Light Infantry Military Blast Cushions (LIMBC).

Ultra-wideband technology While Hurtubise’s claims appear, on the surface, to strain credulity,
he has now placed himself miles ahead in the quest by high-tech companies to invent something
that will do the same thing.

Motorola Inc. for example, has set its sights on emerging technology that could allow first
responders and Special Forces to see through building walls, the Washington Technology Web
site reports.

Camero Inc. an Israeli firm founded by technology and intelligence veterans, received $5 million
from Motorola and other investors to develop portable imaging radar that uses ultra-wideband
technology to create a 3-D picture of objects that are concealed by walls or other barriers.

Plasma light Three units make up the Angel Light.

The main unit, which Hurtubise calls the centrifuge, contains the Angel Light’s brains and includes
black, white, red and fluorescent light sources, as well as seven industrial lasers.

The second unit, or the deflector grid, contains a large circle of optical glass, a microwave unit
and plasma intermixed with carbon dioxide.
The third unit contains eight plasma light rods, CO2 charges, industrial magnets, 108 mirrors,
eight ionization cells industrial lights, and other components Hurtubise chooses to remain tight-
lipped about.

Just a dream Hurtubise said the Angel Light has cost $30,000 to build—he sold percentages of
his other innovations to finance it—as well as 800 to 900 hours of his time.

He credits his subconscious with the idea.

“I had a dream about a year and a half ago as I do for most of my innovations, just a dream, and I
saw it, saw the whole casing and everything, and I saw what it could do,” Hurtubise said.

“I had the same dream about that three times and by the third time I had it in my head and I
started to build it.”

Through the wall Troy dreamed the Angel Light would be able to see through walls with window-
like efficiency, and then built it with no blueprints, drawings or schematics.

“I turned it on—that was well over a year ago—and it worked and it was really awesome.”

Hurtubise said he could see into the garage behind his lab wall, and read the licence plate on his
wife's car and even see the salt on it.

"I almost broke my knuckles three or four times, because it was almost like you could step
through the wall," Hurtubise said.

"You could be fooled into believing that you could actually walk through the wall and go touch the
car."

Across the border Hurtubise called his MIT contacts with news of what he’d done.

“They told me that I was playing with electromagnetism,” Hurtubise said.

The conversation ultimately led to the discovery of the Angel Light’s other startling properties.

Hurtubise said “somebody from MIT” shipped him an eight-inch by eight-inch piece of panelling
from the latest Comanche helicopter, which was built using radar-resistant stealth technology.

“It’s amazing what you can get across the border on a Greyhound bus,” Hurtubise said.

Pick it up Hurtubise was instructed to set up an outdoor track, which he did on First Nations land.

He attached the panel piece to a remote control car that went down the track.

Hurtubise then aimed the Angel Light at the panel and turned on a radar gun.

“I was able to pick it up the panel on the radar gun,” he said.

Stopped working But a strange thing happened to the car, once it was hit by the Angel Light
beam: it stopped working.
Hurtubise returned to his lab and began testing the Angel Light on other electronic items including
portable radios, TVs and a microwave over.

“They all stopped working,” Hurtubise said.

He duly reported this to his MIT contacts.

"They said 'Troy, this is unbelievable.'"

To the ground Hurtubise purchase a remote-control plane for $1,800 and took it and the Angel
Light to a flying field on the way to Powassan.

He directed the Angel Light beam toward the sky and started the plane flying.

"On the first loop it came around, passed through the beam of light and fell right to the ground,”
Hurtubise said.

Peeled it back Hurtubise continued testing the light on other materials and discovered it could
also see through other metals including steel, tin, titanium and, unlike Superman, lead.

As well the beam also penetrated ceramic and wood.

The Hurtubise put his hand in the light beam.

“I could see my blood vessels, muscles, everything, like I’d taken an Exacto knife, cut into my skin
and peeled it back,” Hurtubise said.

Bad stuff Soon after, Hurtubise discovered the Angel Light had devilish side-effects.

He lost feeling in the finger of the exposed hand and began suffering an overall malaise.

“MIT told me every time I turned it on there must have been splash-back hitting me,” Hurtubise
said.

A test on a tank of goldfish was even more disturbing.

“I turned the beam on it and within minutes all the goldfish died,” Hurtubise said.

“That’s when I realized there was a Hyde effect, as in Jekyll and Hyde, and I dismantled the
whole thing.”

Walked on water He didn’t reassemble it until the French called him after seeing a Discovery
Channel program about the LIMBC.

Hurtubise believes the Hyde effect can be taken out, but by others who have far more expertise
than him.

In the meantime Hurtubise believes that after 17 years inventing, his ship may finally have come
in with France.

"My brother told me the only way I'd be able to sell any of my innovations is by walking on water,"
Hurtubise said.
"Well, I think I've just walked on water."

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Tibet Monks Use Remote Future Viewing
Tibetan monks in their monasteries have responded to the recent spurt of UFO sightings
in China and India by using remote viewing to notice what lies ahead with regard to these
encounters. According to a report in India Daily, the monks have been sharing their
observations with tourists from India and elsewhere.
According to these monks, the superpowers are headed toward a confrontation that would
destroy the planet. Extra-terrestrial help is standing by and will intervene in world
history, saving us from ourselves. They give the date of 2012 as when the turnaround will
occur. They predict that afterwards, the new frontier in science and technology will be in
the area of spirituality. A reporter quoted them as saying, “People will learn the essence
of spirituality, the relation between body and the soul, the reincarnation and the fact we
are connected with each other are all part of God.” One day we will be able to see the
extra-terrestials, the monks claim, and interact with them.

Source: http://216.132.172.70/indiadaily/editorial/12-26-04.asp

Link outdated, but this recovered from Google’s cached pages:

Remote viewing Tibetan monks see Extra Terrestrial powers

saving the World from destroying itself in 2012
N.K. Subramanium, Special Correspondent
December 26, 2004

Remote viewing is nothing new in Tibetan monasteries. For thousands of years remote
viewing in the middle of other spiritual activities have dominated Tibetan culture. What some
Indian tourists came to learn from a few Tibetan monasteries under the current Chinese rule
is extremely alarming and fascinating.

According to these tourists remote viewers are seeing world powers in the course of self-
destruction. They also see that the world will not be destroyed. Between now and 2012 the
world super powers will continue to engage in regional wars. Terrorism and covert war will be
the main problem. In world politics something will happen in and around 2010. At that time the
world powers will threaten to destroy each other.

Between 2010 and 2012, the whole world will get polarized and prepare for the ultimate
dooms day. Heavy political maneuvers and negotiations will take place with little progress.

In 2012, the world will start plunging into a total destructive nuclear war.
 And at that time something remarkable will happen, says, Buddhist monk of Tibet.
Supernatural divine powers will intervene. The destiny of the world is not to self-destruct at
this time.

Scientific interpretation of the monks’ statements makes it evident that the Extra Terrestrial
powers are watching us every step of the way. They will intervene in 2012 and save the world
from self-destruction.

When asked about recent UFO sightings in India and China, the monks smiled and said the
divine powers are watching us all. Mankind cannot and will not be allowed to alter the future
to that great extent.

Every human being though their current acts in life called “Karma” can alter the future lives to
some extent, but changing the destiny in that large extent will not be allowed to that great an
extent.

Monks also mentioned that beyond 2012 our current civilization would understand that the
final frontier of science and technology is in area of spirituality and not material physics and
chemistry. Beyond 2012, out technologies will take a different direction. People will learn the
essence of spirituality, the relation between body and the soul, the reincarnation and the fact
we are connected with each other are all part of “God”.

In India and China UFO sightings have increased in many folds. Many say the Chinese and
Indian Governments are being contacted by the Extra Terrestrials.

In recent days most UFO activities have been seen in those countries who have indigenously
developed Nuke capabilities.

When asked if these extra-terrestrials will show up in reality in 2012, the answers remote
viewers are giving is: they will reveal themselves in such a way that none of us scared. They
will reveal themselves only if they have to. As our science and technology progresses, we are
destined to see them and interact with them any way.

According to the remote viewers, our earth is blessed and is being saved continuously from
all kinds of hazards all the time that we are not even aware of. As our technologies progress
we will realize how external forces saved us.

Meditation may alter human brain in good ways

By Marc Kaufman
The Washington Post
January 11, 2005

Brain research is beginning to produce concrete evidence for something

that Buddhist practitioners of meditation have maintained for
centuries: Mental discipline and meditative practice can change the
workings of the brain and allow people to achieve different levels of
awareness. Those transformed states have traditionally been understood
in transcendent terms, as something outside the world of physical
measurement and objective evaluation. But over the past few years,
researchers at the University of Wisconsin working with Tibetan monks
have been able to translate those mental experiences into the
scientific language of high-frequency gamma waves and brain synchrony,
or coordination. And they have pinpointed the left prefrontal cortex,
an area just behind the left forehead, as the place where brain
activity associated with meditation is especially intense. "What we
found is that the longtime practitioners showed brain activation on a
scale we have never seen before," said Richard Davidson, a
neuroscientist at the university's new $10 million W.M. Keck Laboratory
for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior.
"Their mental practice is having an effect on the brain in the same
way golf or tennis practice will enhance performance." It
demonstrates, he said, that the brain is capable of being trained and
physically modified in ways few people can imagine. Scientists used to
believe the opposite -- that connections among brain nerve cells were
fixed early in life and did not change in adulthood. But that
assumption was disproved over the past decade with the help of
advances in brain imaging and other techniques, and in its place,
scientists have embraced the concept of ongoing brain development and
"neuroplasticity." Davidson says his newest results from the
meditation study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences in November, take the concept of neuroplasticity a step
further by showing that mental training through meditation (and
presumably other disciplines) can itself change the inner workings and
circuitry of the brain.
The new findings are the result of a long, if unlikely, collaboration
between Davidson and Tibet's Dalai Lama, the world's best-known
practitioner of Buddhism. The Dalai Lama first invited Davidson to his
home in Dharamsala, India, in 1992 after learning about Davidson's
innovative research into the neuroscience of emotions. The Tibetans
have a centuries-old tradition of intensive meditation and, from the
start, the Dalai Lama was interested in having Davidson scientifically
explore the workings of his monks' meditating minds. Three years ago,
the Dalai Lama spent two days visiting Davidson's lab. The Dalai Lama
ultimately dispatched eight of his most accomplished practitioners to
Davidson's lab to have them hooked up for electroencephalograph (EEG)
testing and brain scanning. The Buddhist practitioners in the
experiment had undergone training in the Tibetan Nyingmapa and Kagyupa
traditions of meditation for an estimated 10,000 to 50,000 hours, over
time periods of 15 to 40 years. As a control, 10 student volunteers
with no previous meditation experience were also tested after one week
of training. The monks and volunteers were fitted with a net of 256
electrical sensors and asked to meditate for short periods. Thinking
and other mental activity are known to produce slight, but detectable,
bursts of electrical activity as large groupings of neurons send
messages to each other, and that's what the sensors picked up.
Davidson was especially interested in measuring gamma waves, some of
the highest-frequency and most important electrical brain impulses.
Davidson said the results unambiguously showed that meditation
activated the trained minds of the monks in significantly different
ways from those of the volunteers. Most important, the electrodes
picked up much greater activation of fast-moving and unusually powerful
gamma waves in the monks, and found that the movement of the waves
through the brain was far better organized and coordinated than in the
students. The meditation novices showed only a slight increase in
gamma wave activity while meditating, but some of the monks produced
gamma-wave activity more powerful than any previously reported in a
healthy person, Davidson said.
Davidson's research is consistent with his earlier work that
pinpointed the left prefrontal cortex as a brain region associated with
happiness and positive thoughts and emotions. Using functional
magnetic resonance imagining (fMRI) on the meditating monks, Davidson
found that their brain activity -- as measured by the EEG -- was
especially high in this area. Davidson concludes from the research
that meditation not only changes the workings of the brain in the
short term, but also quite possibly produces permanent changes. That
finding, he said, is based on the fact that the monks had considerably
more gamma wave activity than the control group even before they
started meditating.

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Primitive Peoples and Animals Avoided Tsunami

After the Tsunami created so much devastation, news reports began circulating that
among the dead there were no animals found. How did the animals escape? Was it ESP?
Animal experts calmly explained that animals can hear frequencies that humans can’t,
and thus sensed the shakeup before human technology did. No ESP involved.
On the other hand, reports published in India Daily suggest another explanation. As
rescue workers went to the Car Nicobar islands, off the east coast of India, where
everyone lives on the coast, they found a strange pattern of devastation. Among the
native islanders who had gone modern, they mostly perished. But the natives who still
practiced native ways had retreated to higher ground before the earthquakes. According
to the report, these natives claimed that the “earth talked” to them before the disaster.
However it is to be explained, the difference in fate between the native natives and the
modern natives gives us pause to ponder.

During Tsunami Remote Viewing Primitive Tribes In Andaman Nicbar

Islands Of India
India Daily ^ | 1-2-2005

Posted on 01/03/2005 7:19:44 PM PST by blam

Staff Reporter
January 02, 2005
Indian Military personnel is finally reaching the remote islands of Andaman and Car
Nicobar. There is massive devastation especially in Nicobar Islands. The inhabitants in
these islands consists of tribal and non-tribal mainstream population. Thousands of
people are dead and the coastal areas just evaporated.

The total population before Tsunami of these tribes was approximately 28,000, which
accounts for about 9% of the total population of these Islands. The other 91% population
consists of mainstream settlers and the military personnel.

The rescue teams are observing some strange things as they are reaching these remote
tribal areas for rescue and relief. While there is massive unbelievable devastation, the
primitive tribes are relatively unaffected though most of them lived close by the ocean.

According to sources, these tribes moved to higher grounds. So did most animals during
Tsunami in South and South-east Asia. The rescue teams are also finding interesting
information from these untouched tribal people – they could view and hear the Tsunami
coming and they moved to higher grounds way before the Tsunami came and earthquake
shattered the islands.

Indian Military with all high tech equipments and especially the Air Force lost a full base
with hundreds of personnel in this catastrophe.

As a matter of fact another correlation is also interesting – the more primitive tribes
moved out to the higher grounds days before the catastrophe.

Nicobarese who are settled in the Car Nicobar Island, Nancowry group of islands and in
Harminder Bay of Little Andaman constitutes more than 98% of the tribal population.
The population of other tribes is very small and is declining over the past several decades.
Andaman and Nicobar Administration under the Government of India have rehabilitated
Great Andamanese in Strait Island and Onges in Dugong Creek and South Bay of Little
Andaman Island. Shompens having a population of 157 live deep in the jungles of Great
Nicobar Island. Jarawas, who live in the jungles of South and Middle Andaman were
hostile till recently. In last couple of years, they have shown a willingness to come out of
their isolated world and mingle with the mainstream population. The Sentinelese live in
the North Sentinel Island and are still unapproachable. All the tribes are in a state of
transition from their primitive life-styles to a more modern way of life. The Nicobarese
were the first to adjust to this. They have almost lost their tribal nature and are as modern
as any of the settler community.

The Onges and Andamanese are changing slowly. They keep many aspects of their tribal
culture, at the same time have adopted many things from the mainstream population. The
Jarawas have just coming out of their seclusion. The Sentinelese has not yet shown any
willingness to shed their hostile attitude towards outsiders.

Stating that the devastation in Car Nicobar islands was total, General Officer-in-
Command Southern Command Lt Gen B S Takhar on Saturday said, it would take at least
take six months for things to become normal in the island. Though the tribals of
Andaman islands were not much affected, there has been total devastation in car Nicobar
islands mostly inhabited by the modern Nicobarese, Takhar, who undertook an aerial and
ground survey of tsunami affected areas along the eastern coast, told the reporters.

Based on the reports we are receiving, Nicobarese who are most modern have lost the
most in Car Nicobar and Nancowry group of islands. Very few of them sensed the
incoming Tsunami. But the Shompens and Sentinelese who took some direct hit, lost
little because of their remote viewing capabilities. They moved to higher grounds before.

According to some of the tribal leaders, earth communicates to them. And this time they
could see it coming in their remote viewing periscopes.

Interestingly, in South and South east Asia which includes Andaman and Nicobar islands,
it is now confirmed that animal bodies are not found because most of them moved to
higher grounds days before the Tsunami came.

It seems if this correlation is anything close to correct, we may be gaining in so called

“modern technologies” but we are losing in higher grounds of technical expertise, which
may encompass spiritual science and paranormal technologies.

Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1313365/posts
Also, search google.com with these terms: tsunami remote viewing primitive tribes

Comatose Man Awakens Bursting with Ideas

George Stalk Jr had been comatose for three months and declared dead three times when
the family finally agreed to terminate life support. He unexpectedly recovered to tell quite
a tale about his adventures while “slumbering,” which was reported in Fast Company
magazine.
Stalk, a fast-paced workaholic a consulting firm, while in the coma he continued to work
up new solutions to business problems. At some point he knew he was going to die and
go to heaven and tried to figure out a way to contact various people there. Later he
realized he didn’t have to die and began to have a series of rehabilitation dreams. In one,
like something from the TV show Survivor, he had to endure various ordeals in order to
get through. His last series of dreams concerned having to answer the doctor’s questions
correctly if he were to live, and his struggle to finally be able to do so. And when he
could, he came out of the coma.
It wasn’t a near-death type of spiritual transformation, however. A book he had started
before his life-threatening episode was afterwards completed, a no holds barred, eat the
competition alive, approach to getting ahead in business: Hardball: Are You Playing to
Play or Playing to Win? (Harvard Business School Press).

The 10 Lives of George Stalk

The star strategy consultant was declared dead three times -- and came back unrepentant
and tougher than ever. His new book sees competition as a matter of life or death.

From: Issue 91 | February 2005, Page 46 By: Jennifer Reingold

It wasn't until the third time George Stalk Jr. was declared dead that his family agreed to
turn off the life support. Just 52 years old, the peripatetic strategy consultant from Boston
Consulting Group lay strapped to a hospital bed, a virtual skeleton with a ventilator tube
protruding from his mouth. Stalk had been comatose for nearly three months, after the
rupture of a blood vessel in his abdomen started a cataclysmic chain reaction of internal
bleeding in February 2003. And although he'd fought back from the brink twice before, it
was time, the doctors said, to let him go.

The physical contrast between the vital man of a few months earlier and the shell of a
man lying motionless on the gurney could not have been starker. Stalk had been a
crackling wire, one of the most energetic and intellectually curious people ever to roam
the halls of corporate America. Intrigued by -- or obsessed with -- the X factor that makes
one company more successful than another, the star consultant would eagerly jet
anyplace, anytime, for the chance to nose around a company's manufacturing process,
attack a byzantine cost structure, or convince a CEO that now was the time for change.

In Stalk's 26 years at BCG, he had gone to so many places and coined so many new ideas
that his colleagues dubbed him Johnny Appleseed. In a world in which every dime-a-
dozen consultant gets anointed a guru, Stalk was the real deal. He was the father of time-
based competition, the concept that explained how Japanese factories were able to make
better products more quickly. The most prominent name at one of the most elite strategy
firms, he worked with some of the world's most powerful companies, including General
Electric and Ford Motor Co., and had staked out a legacy as someone able to find
solutions to vexing business problems before anyone else even figured out that there were
problems. Whip-smart and ultracompetitive, he had little patience for those who didn't
share his passion for helping companies figure out how to win. "He is brutally smart, and
I choose those words carefully," says Michael O'Leary, former executive vice president at
CIBC, which was a client. "He can be intimidating. But he is an absolute joy to work
with. He is a verb, not a noun."

But while Stalk excelled at detecting toxic situations in his clients' organizations, he
ignored the same warning signs when it came to his own well-being. As his wife, C.
Henri, and six children whispered their good-byes, and his colleagues at BCG, meeting in
Paris a few weeks later, bowed their heads for a moment of silence, the consensus was
clear: George Stalk had literally worked himself to death.

Except that he wasn't gone yet. Deep inside his coma, trapped in the netherworld between
life and death, Stalk's remarkable mind worked through a series of 18 intense
hallucinations bursting with vivid characters, scenes, and dialogue. In them, Stalk was
doing what he does best: solving problems.

Lying in a hospital bed at Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Stalk knew he was going to
die, although not from the nuclear strike he imagined Japan had launched against
England. Stalk and his wife had helped rescue survivors. Now he understood that he
wouldn't recover from the mysterious illness he'd contracted but that he would be going
to Heaven. His first thought was that this meant he'd have a chance to see Jim Abegglen,
a former mentor at BCG who had been killed in the war.

But how to locate him? "I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how Heaven was
organized," he says. "How would you find someone? Was it by geography? Was it by
ethnic origin? Was it by where the person was currently living?" Stalk began an analysis
of Heaven's internal structure, but it soon became clear that it wasn't needed; the two men
would somehow eventually connect. Heaven, it turns out, has no org chart.

Faced with imminent death, some people's unconscious might have journeyed
backward through life. Others might have dreamed of exotic places, or lived out fantasies
that their conscious minds would never have permitted. But Stalk's brain just doesn't
work that way. "I remember waking up saying, 'Jesus Christ, I just went for three months
and didn't have a single sexual dream,' " he laughs. "It was about work."

An engineer by training, Stalk accepted the scenario he was given and then began to
analyze his way through it. His deconstruction of Heaven was typical. "That's him!"
exclaims Thomas Hout, a senior adviser at BCG. "George is tireless. Even as he imagines
himself dying, he still asks these questions."

Somehow, some way, Stalk, now 54, confounded the experts, emerging from his coma to
make a full recovery. No one would have begrudged him for retiring to grow vegetables
on his Toronto-area farm or fly the radar-controlled planes he loves with his children. But
not only is Stalk back to work, he's also on the road again, promoting a new book written
with Rob Lachenauer, Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win? (Harvard
Business School Press, 2004).
The book, a controversial reaction to the glut of squishy, culturally focused business
books that have dominated the last decade, is about gaining an unassailable advantage
over rivals. Written in a clear, no-nonsense style, it lists six strategies ranging from
"unleash massive and overwhelming force" to "threaten your competitor's profit
sanctuaries" to "entice your competitor into retreat." Each is illustrated with corporate
examples, from the obvious (Toyota and Southwest Airlines) to the obscure (Wausau
Paper and Federal-Mogul). The lesson is simple and harsh: Hardball players do what it
takes to win.

Some people have interpreted Hardball as a business version of America's "go it alone"
political strategy in the world, or as a total rejection of the idea that a company's culture
and people are an important part of its edge. Although neither is true, BCG, fearing a
political storm, altered some of Hardball's chapter titles to make them sound less
aggressive. But the changes didn't do much to soothe those who think business should be
a kinder, gentler pursuit and that Stalk's testosterone-fueled emphasis on crushing your
competitor is a Stone Age throwback. "[Stalk and Lachenauer] are on a brutal, macho
trip," wrote one reviewer for the Financial Times .

Although Hardball was in the works before Stalk's illness, its publication serves another
purpose, too. It's a powerful announcement that Stalk is back -- and that he's as focused
and as serious as ever. "When I got out of the hospital, I had less interest in finding a
middle ground," he says. And Hardball is hardly the work of a man softened by his brush
with mortality. "You want to be home by 5 p.m.? You want to clip coupons? You want to
retire before China becomes a problem for your business?" Stalk writes. "Nuh-uh. To
play hardball, you and your organization have to go to the 'heart of the matter' and stay
there. You have to live by the rock face. You have to be willing to put your competitors
through pain. You have to have a high energy level and the ability to sustain it."

The phone call came from BCG's Washington office, asking Stalk to go to London and
give a speech in place of a U.S. Air Force general who had canceled. But first he had to
meet the general at Andrews Air Force Base and pass muster. "We found the study you
did for us years ago," said the general, voice full of disgust. He pushed it across the table.
"I think this is a piece of crap." Stalk defended himself. "Of course I expected you to say
this was a piece of crap," he said, "because you didn't have the guts to implement it."

Standing up to the general was, it turned out, the right move: He loved this answer and
gave Stalk the go-ahead to make the speech. To get him there on time, the Air Force sent
him an F-16. Stalk landed just in time to see the horrible aftermath of that nuclear war
between Japan and England.

The vision of nuclear hell, like many of Stalk's hallucinations, has some basis in reality.
An Air Force brat who moved 27 times as a child, Stalk actually watched the detonation
of atomic bombs in Nevada as an 8-year-old. "My mother would get us up, and we'd look
out of the motel window and watch the clouds go up," he says.
Stalk studied engineering at Michigan, then married C. Henri, whom he'd met during a
summer working in Washington, and completed a master's at MIT. After graduating, he
went to work as a consultant for the Air Force and then at Exxon. Along the way, he
became interested not just in how a product worked but in how it could give a company a
decisive advantage. He decided to go to Harvard Business School, mostly because it had
a reputation for being a boot camp. "This place sounded like pure hell," he remembers
with masochistic relish.

Stalk survived HBS, graduating in 1978, and had planned to join a high-tech startup until
he heard about BCG, the new- fangled consultancy with a tough reputation and a
scientific approach to management. Stalk quickly became a star at figuring out a
competitor's costs, but got pigeonholed as a cost expert and planned to quit. Instead,
someone suggested he try a foreign office. Stalk chose Japan, something of a backwater
at the time.

Shortly after Stalk arrived in 1979, Bruce Henderson, BCG's founder, posed a challenge:
Why are the Japanese able to achieve higher levels of productivity and quality with
smaller, more-capital-intensive factories? Because fat, happy American companies still
worshipped the idea of scale, they didn't really understand the power of the Japanese
factory, and Stalk had trouble getting them to fund his research. Instead, he did a series of
stealth projects for such existing clients as Clark Equipment and John Deere, spending
months at a time inside the factories of their joint-venture partners in Asia. He reached
the radical conclusion that while quality and cost were important, time itself -- or the
ability to organize a factory or a business so as to get more done in less time -- was the
killer app. Stalk named the theory "time-based competition" and resolved to bring this
just-in-time manufacturing system back home.

Becoming the chief evangelist for this new idea meant that Stalk's already taxing life
turned into months, then years, of constant around-the-globe travel. A typical schedule:
10 days in Japan, 10 days in Europe, 10 days back in Japan, 10 days in the United States.
He became a regular on Pan American Flight 01, the famous globe-hopping flight. Stalk
figures he flew as many as 500,000 miles a year for a decade, appearing in exotic locales
wearing a fly-fishing vest over a suit jacket (more pockets) and lugging an enormous,
beat-up old briefcase full of Diet Coke.

In 1985, he came back to the States, yet he had trouble getting people to believe his
theory. Frustrated, he decided to take a year's leave of absence from BCG and prove his
ideas himself with a real factory in the United States. He landed at Hillenbrand Industries,
a conglomerate with a struggling hospital-bed factory. Stalk took two years instead of
one, but turned the factory around. The book that followed in 1990, Competing Against
Time: How Time-Based Competition Is Reshaping Global Markets , written with Tom
Hout, made him a star and gained him entree into the most elite companies.

At GE, for example, Stalk spent about 18 months answering Jack Welch's challenge to
help him find companies that were improving continuously while still delivering higher
profits. "He stood out as a guy who was the sharpest leading-edge thinker but also one
who was so down-to-earth and so operational," says Mike Fraizer, now CEO of
Genworth Financial and then a GE executive who traveled with Stalk. Welch and his
team eventually brought Stalk's case studies to GE's executive learning center, where they
were taught to thousands of executives.

Stalk gained a reputation as a brilliant thinker, but one who didn't suffer fools gladly. He
sometimes abandoned projects if he felt that his clients didn't share his passion or
commitment to change. And when he stopped learning, it was time to move on.
Implementation wasn't his thing. "One of the things I learned early on was I always have
to pair myself with someone who has patience with a client," he says. "I'm not going to
be the guy that's there to get it done."

In the midst of this chaos, Stalk's family was growing as well, now consisting of six kids,
four of whom were special-needs children adopted from Korea, Japan, and Russia. They
lived on an island off the coast of Maryland while Stalk's home office was in Chicago.
And while, unlike most work-obsessed sorts, he speaks constantly of his family, he's the
first to admit he missed a lot of homework sessions and birthday parties. In 1992, Stalk
moved the family to Toronto and took over BCG's practice there, figuring he wouldn't
have to travel as much.

Yet Stalk simply couldn't downshift. There was the development of BCG's worldwide
innovation group, the revamping of the firm's marketing and communications arm, and in
1997, an e-commerce unit, which grew into a $450 million business. "His limits were just
beyond [the norm]," says Lachenauer, Stalk's coauthor on Hardball and now CEO of
GEO2 Technologies. "Some partner in Auckland would say, 'George, we really need you
doing something with the Dairy Board,' something with no self-interest whatsoever. He'd
go there at the drop of a hat." Tom Andruskevich, CEO of Canadian luxury company
Henry Birks & Sons, remembers his first meeting with Stalk. "I spoke to him on the
phone, and he literally got on a plane the same day and arrived at about 6 p.m. We talked
until 11 p.m.," he says.
As he contemplated his own death, Stalk suddenly had an idea for a management story:
Where have all the gurus gone? He consoled himself with the fact that he wasn't the only
one about to disappear; many of the management strategists who had been big names
throughout Stalk's career were dead or no longer adding new ideas to the field. But Stalk
couldn't write the story because he was going to die. So how could he communicate it to
someone on the ground? There was no way, he discovered, to send faxes or email from
Heaven. "I have to come up with something better here," he thought.

It had been almost five years since Stalk had really felt healthy. As BCG went into
warp speed during the New Economy boom, Stalk did too. In 1998, he contracted
hepatitis in Thailand. In 2000, he came down with pneumonia, spending a month in bed
unable to work. That same year, he decided to take a life-insurance physical. He didn't
pass it.

Then 2001 hit, bringing with it the dual blow of the dotcom collapse and September 11.
BCG's executive committee issued an all-hands-on-deck call, and Stalk, ever the good
soldier, responded. He became interested in pricing as a competitive strategy and built up
a pricing group within the company to $50 million in revenue. He also began work on
Hardball. "The common theme is that [all my ideas] are about taking advantage to the
point where competitors are left astounded by what's happened. And that's actually how I
get through the day. I'm constantly looking at what's the opportunity to create advantage
here. This is the lens I use over and over."

But Stalk's hardball approach to life was taking its toll, and his colleagues and clients
could see it happening. "To a fault, he would show up when he was ill," says Marvin
Adams, senior vice president at Ford, who worked with Stalk on a project around that
time. "You could tell he was really starting to wear down." Stalk felt it, too, but thought
that if he could just make it to the following spring, things would get better. "One doctor
asked, 'What did you think was going to be different in the spring?' I said, 'I don't know,
but it was far enough out there in the future that something had to be different.' "

He was right. One cold February day in 2003, he was in a Boston hotel room when he
began to vomit blood. He decided to go back to Toronto, and by the time he got there, he
had lost so much blood that he went straight to the emergency room. In a total system
failure, a series of blood vessels ruptured in his stomach. Then, after a few weeks in the
hospital, he lost consciousness and found himself trapped in limbo. Making matters
worse, the SARS epidemic had hit Toronto just before he went into the hospital, which
was placed under strict quarantine. His friends were unable to visit, and his wife and
children were allowed in only sporadically, when it seemed most likely that Stalk was
going to die.

At some point during Stalk's coma, his hallucinations changed from those of a man who
knew he was dying to those of someone with a chance of survival. He launched into a
series of rehabilitation dreams, all of which involved arduous tasks he had no choice but
to complete.

Sent to an island in the Caribbean, Stalk realized that in order to survive, he had to go
through an obstacle course while scuba diving. But he was unable to move and to
breathe, so he was always the last to finish what he called the "mobility challenge."
Suddenly, Stalk was on a mountain outside Las Vegas along with a group of invalids.
Caught in a snowstorm, they had to fly a helicopter with a heavy hospital bed attached to
it up the mountain. If they didn't make it, none of them would survive.

Next came a version of Survivor, set in the 1700s. A random group of people had to work
together to create everything from food to guns to fire. As Stalk had often observed with
clients, the group quickly degenerated into a bunch of separate groups, all flailing away at
the same time. It fell to Stalk to figure out the proper sequence of events, creating fire
first, then, with the ashes, making gunpowder and finally steel for a gun to use for
hunting.

"Who are you?"

"What's the date?"

"Where are you?"

Every morning, Stalk dreamed that the doctors would ask him the same three questions,
and every morning he would get one of the three wrong. "I'm George Stalk. I'm in
England. It's February 21." His only chance at getting better was to answer all three
questions correctly.

On May 5, the same day his BCG partners were praying for him in Paris, Stalk came out
of his coma.

"Where are you?" a nurse asked him.

"England," he said.

"No," said the nurse, "You're in Toronto."

Stalk didn't believe her. He insisted she wheel in a television set. A few days later, when
he regained the ability to speak and was able to call his wife, he realized that he was
alive.

On May 28, 2003, Stalk was released from the hospital, with no sense of whether he
would live another month or another decade. Typically, he immediately planned to return
to work. But he soon realized that his expectations were a hallucination of their own.
First, he was so weak that he could barely stand. Then there were the memory problems.
"It took me several weeks before I could read a newspaper," he says. "I couldn't get to the
bottom of the page without forgetting what was at the top."

He kept pushing himself -- until things reached a head just over a month after he came
home. "In the space of 24 hours," he says, "C. Henri caught me driving my car and
making plans to fly to Hong Kong. Then Carl Stern [then managing partner of BCG]
called to complain about me because I was calling too many people. [C. Henri] came in
and said, 'Look, if you want to kill yourself, kill yourself. I'm here to help you [survive].'
"

Chastened, Stalk pulled back, but it wasn't easy, as a memo he wrote to his staff in July
made clear: "While the doctors are happy with the pace of my recovery, I am
disappointed. I hoped to have this wrapped up and behind me by the end of August."
Stalk returned to work full time in June 2004 but says he has sharply curtailed travel and
a lot of on-the-ground client work. He makes a point of being home with his family and
admits to feeling exhaustion as the day stretches on.

But you'd never know it to sit with Stalk 20 months after his ordeal began. Dressed in a
tweed sports coat, beard neatly trimmed, oozing vitality, he has regained the 55 pounds
he lost and more, thanks to his four-times-a-day chocolate ice cream fix. He leaps from
one huge subject to another, nimbly segueing from the growing power of China to the
freight logjam threatening the supply chain in this country. Although he sits calmly, the
words spill out like water.

If this is what Stalk calls the "new George," it's scary to imagine the old one. But Stalk is
now living his own form of time-based competition: Just like the Japanese factory
managers he studied, his life is now about getting as much done as possible with
maximum efficiency. The projects he takes on these days must have the potential to bear
fruit in three to four years. And what was his planning horizon before? "Infinite," he says
softly. One has the sense that he's mourning his life, even as it continues. He feels healthy
again and the doctors don't see why he can't live a normal life span, but it's not the same.
The guru of time is now a slave to it.

Stalk was dead, or at least everyone thought so. He lay in a closed casket at an English
church, funereal chords echoing through the rafters, about to be buried after succumbing,
finally, to his mysterious illness.

But he wasn't dead yet, although no one knew that because he couldn't speak or rap on
the casket. Suddenly, his cell phone rang inside his coffin. It was his assistant, Bronwyn,
calling to tell him that a colleague at BCG had just heard that he'd been sick and was
sending a plane to pick him up and take him to the Mayo Clinic. "He said to put you on
ice," Bronwyn said.

To come to terms with death and then to emerge to talk about it is the type of
experience that flows a lot more smoothly on Oprah than it does in the halls of BCG.
Perhaps that's why Stalk, when asked what he has learned from the ordeal, shifts
uncomfortably in his seat. Later, he emails a list of "ah-has" from the hallucinations: "I
have a lot of friends," he writes. "There are no voice mails, emails, or faxes in emergency
rooms."

This is not the quality of analysis one expects from Stalk, the ultimate research geek.
Particularly for an engineer, it may be much easier to remain in the world of the rational,
where theories can be proven. "I am not an expert in this," he says dismissively, "nor
have I been sufficiently interested enough to crowd out other things to become interested
in this topic."

Stalk is much more interested in the rough-and-tumble rules of Hardball , the

culmination of several decades of observing how companies win and lose in the real
world. According to the "Hardball Manifesto" that opens the book, "the leaders of the
world's most successful companies -- the hardball winners -- believe it is their obligation .
. . to see and exploit their competitive advantage to the fullest. And, when possible, the
hardball leaders will push that advantage to the point where competitors are squeezed and
even feel pain." One particularly well-told example of "unleashing massive and
overwhelming force" is Frito-Lay's move against the surging Eagle Snacks unit of
Anheuser-Busch, which had made alarming inroads into Frito-Lay's core salty-snacks
business. Using a combination of improved quality, price cuts, and better distribution
under the inspired direction of then-CEO Roger Enrico, writes Stalk, Frito-Lay fought
back -- and put Eagle Snacks out of business.

But while Stalk enjoys playing the role of provocateur, it is not true that his book ignores
the role of culture or leadership. Both are vital parts of strategy, he says, but many
companies wrongly assume that culture itself is the strategy. The book is a resounding
riposte to the notion "that it's somehow crude to talk about yourself as being a winner and
by definition, that someone's losing," he says. "Excuse me, strategy matters."

Outside of Hardball , Stalk has limited his work to two other intellectual "buckets" (the
BCG bigs took pricing away from him, although he is secretly trying to figure out a way
back in). One is developing strategies for competing with the rising power of Chinese
companies, which he says are fast becoming America's true rivals rather than simply low-
cost sources. In order to survive, companies will have to pursue the Chinese market, and
they'll have to improve their supply chains dramatically. Stalk is also working on
"strategic dislocation," which means developing a methodology for anticipating the next
technologies or concepts that will fundamentally change the world, much as the
telegraph, the credit card, and the railroad have.

Sadly for Stalk, dividing his time into buckets makes it hard to do the free association
that gets him his best ideas. And China, it turns out, is too big a subject for Stalk to study
from the outside. "I've gotten to the point where I realize that if I don't go to China and
spend time on the ground, I don't have much more to say," he says. But that is exactly the
kind of work he's sworn off doing. "Four years ago, I would have said, 'Hot damn, I'm on
my way!' Now I think the issue is either fish or cut bait. I haven't decided what to do."

It's the ultimate Hobson's choice. Stay healthy -- but miss out on one of the great
intellectual challenges of our time -- or go and risk losing it all. "He talks about a new
life, but it's a veneer," says O'Leary, his friend and former client. "He's still 90% the old
George. He's doing it to the limit that he thinks he possibly can and get away with it."

While Stalk was in the hospital, a doctor told him he'd used up nine of his nine lives. But
it's only cats that have nine lives. Consultants, George Stalk would like all of us to think,
have 10
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