PURSUIT Newsletter No. 68, Fourth Quarter 1984 - Ivan T. Sanderson
PURSUIT Newsletter No. 68, Fourth Quarter 1984 - Ivan T. Sanderson
PURSUIT Newsletter No. 68, Fourth Quarter 1984 - Ivan T. Sanderson
Volume 17
Number 4
Whole No. 68
Fourth Quarter
1984
Natural formation of hexagonal cracks in Navaho sandstone (see "Destruction by Fire," page 162)
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THE QUARTERLY
JOURNAL OF THE
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THE
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Contents
Page
The Unknown Mummy
. by Paul B. Thompson
The Maya and the Synodic Period of Venus
by Stuart W. Greenwood
the Premise
by Russ Reardon
Where Have The Flying Saucers Gone?
. translated by George Andrews
An Experiment in Dowsing
by Ivan T. Sanderson
What Uprooted Massive Chunk of Earth?
by Hill Wi/lliams
Destruction by Fire
by Evan Hansen
The Peculiar Origins of Alex J. Hidell
by I. N. Williamson
Encounters With The "Real" Jersey Devil
by Sydney Smith
Effective Mass and the UFO
by Daniel Eden
The Resch Poltergeist
by Walter & Mary 10 Uphoff
Photographic Biofeedback?
. by Eugenia Macer-Story
SITUations
The Legend of Wind Cave
by a friend of SITU
Report on Two Conferences
by Robert C. Warth
Books Reviewed
Letters to the Editors
The Notes of Charles Fort
.Deciphered by Carl I. Pabst
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pan of this periodical may be reproduced without the written consent of the Society. Roben C. Wanh. Publisher and Editor; Nancy Wanh. Production Editor.
Manin.Wiegler. Consulting Editor. Charles Berlitz. Research Editor and Oceanographic Consultant.
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. Quorcd in James Hamillon-Palerson and Can>I Andn:w Mummies_ London: William Collins. 1978_
pp. 56-511. .
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by Stuart. W. G......
Our ancestors came from Venus. The human species is not
indigenous to Earth, having arrived here in geologically recent
times from a Venus that was once Earth-like but now lies dead
beneath a hot and heavy atmosphere poisoned by volcanic emissions. All this is speculation, though the author has offered
preliminary indication that there might be something to it l 2:3
The remote past of our species is a continuing puzzle, and it
is just possible that progress in our understanding can be made
by adopting such a specific viewpoint and following it through
to its conclusion. Whether or not such an exercise proves illuminating, there is at least the satisfaction of having tried. It
can be a lot of fun, too.
We need to be aware that the Soviet Union has launched three
times as many probe missions to Venus as has the United States,
so either the Soviets are motivated by an intuitive perspective
'regarding that planet or else they know something we don't.
It could be beneficial for us to study the traditions and practices
of the early inhabitants of this continent in present-day Mexico
and Central America for possible insights into Soviet motivation regarding Venus. We shall consider here the evident continuing concern of the ancient Maya of the present-day Yucatan
Peninsula with the Synodic Period of Venus.
The Mayan civilization in Central America exhibited levels
of achievement in mathematics and ilstronomy rarelyrecognized today outside of the boundaries of the academic world. For
those with a thirst for knowledge of what little remains of the
records of their accomplishments, reference may be made ~
such sources as the classic treatment by J. Eric S. Thompson4 ~
The prominence of the planet Venus in Central Anierican.
mythology should be familiar to readers of this journal, but
Mayan concern with the movements of the planet itself may Qat
be as weD-known. In this note we shall review Mayan treatments
of the movements of Venus, and outline implications for the
ancient astronaut hypothesis. We shall adopt some simplifications to focus attention on some underlying consideratiOns that
may have important implications for our understanding of their
concerns.
Planetary movements
The Earth travels around the Sun in an approximately circular
path, and also spins on its.own axis. The period for one complete revolution around the Sun is 365 days. The nearest planet,
Venus, omits the Sun in a nearly circular path i!iside the Earth's
orbit with a period of 225 days, and spins very slowly about
its own axis'. Both planets orbit the Sun in the same rotational
direction so that Venus periodically overtakes the Earth on the
inside.
As Venus approaches and eventually overtakes the Earth, there
comes a time when Venus lies between the Earth and the Sun.
Venus is then said to be in Inferior Conjunction. Such conjunctions recur every 584 days (about 1 year and 7 months), an interval that is termed the Synodic Period of Venus. Several
scholars have discussed the fascination of the Maya with the
Synodic Period of Venus, a recent example being S.C.
McClusket. McCluskey observes that after an interval of 151
Venus synodic periods a given phenomenon wili recur at the
same extreme point on the horizon, and that such extreme points
were noted by the Maya, confirming their long-term observation of Venus.
Venus is a brilliant object in the heavens at times when it is
visible from the Earth, and it is of course quite possible that
this is sufficient reason for the attention devoted to it by the
Maya. It is a curious coincidence that 5 Synodic Periods of
Venus correspond to 8 Earth years - this fact was known to
the Maya, but it appears to have no significance in connection
with space flights. A puzzling feature of Mayan measures of
time is a time interval of 260 days - this also is apparently not
related to planetaty movements or to space journeys. We leave
studies of such matters to others, focusing our attention on the
Synodic Period of Venus.
I)uring the interval when Venus is approaching the Earth, and
hence approaching Inferior Conjunction, the planet is. visible
from the Earth as the Sun goes down in the West and is therefore
known as the "Evening Star." Around Inferior Conjunction the
planet is between the Earth and the Sun. The Sun's brilliance
renders Venus invisible to the naked eye for an interval of about
a week7 Following Inferior Conjunction Venus becomes visible prior to the Sun's rising. The planet is then known as the
"Morning Star." Anthropologists deem it to have been a considerable achievement of the Maya that they recognized that the
"Evening Star" and the "Morning Star" were the same celestial
~y. Our interpretation involves an appreciation that they knew
they were the same.
EARTH AT
SPACECRAFT ARRIVAL
VENUS AT SPACECRAFT
ARRIVAL AT EARTH
VENUS ,AS
EVENING STAR
pLANETS AT
INFERIOR CONJUNCTION
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VENUS AS
MORNING STAR
VENUS AT
,
SPACECRAFT DEPARTURE
I
VENUS-EARTH
TRANSFER ORBIT
EARTH AT SPACECRAFI'
DEPARTURE FROM VENUS
Planetary movements during minimum-energy Venus-Earth transfer (planetary orbits are assumed to be
circular and coplanar, with a transfer orbit duration, of 146 days).
The. Premise
by Rass R rdOD
Concluding thoughts
The Maya have long posed a mystel}'. to scholars. Perhaps
we have been looking at their early civilization for too long with
Earth-bound eyes. The answer to our origins may today lie on
our nearest planet beneath an atmosphere now poisoned by emissions from its active volcanoes. A continuing examination of
the apparent evidence on Earth of our arrivals here from Venus
may prepare us for the discoveries that may await us when
the planet's surface is surveyed by improved radar in forthcoming probe missions.
REFERENCES
1) SIUaIt W. Greenwood, "Venus: Earth's Pn:cious Twin?" Ancient Skies,
luly-August 1984, pp. 1-4.
2) SIUaIt W. Greenwood, "Landing Site and Vehicle for Venus-Earth Expedition," Ancient Skies, September-October, 1984, pp. 1-2.
3) SIUaIt W. Greenwood and Rose MaIy Bhussl)', "Teotihuacan: An Interpretation," Ancient Skies, lanual)'-Febl1lal)', 1985, pp. 1-2.
4) 1. Eric S. Thompson, "The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization, "2nd
edition, University of Oklahoma Press, 1966.
5) RichaId O. Finunel, Lawrence Colin and Eric Burgess, "Pioneer Venus,"
marked coffin? Why deny him the prayers and magical fonnulae
other high ranking Egyptians relied on to ease their journey to
the Land of the D~? And, most puzzling of all, why clothe
him in a shroud of despised sheepskin?
The truth will probably never be known. The murrimy remains
in the Cairo Museum, unexplained and unidentified after 3,000
years.
SOURCES:
Budge, E.A. Wallis. Egyptian Magic. Sec:aucus. N.J. University Books, 1975.
Describes the occult plot to kill Rameses m.
Gardiner, Sir Alan. Egypt of the Phll1BOhs. London: Oxford University Press,
1961. Basic historical reference.
Hamilton-Paterson, James, and Carol Andrews. Mummies. London: William
Collins, i978. Describes the Deir el Bahri cache and the Unknown Mummy. See photo on page 54.
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*although 1,985 years have passed on Earth, only
27 years have elapsed for the travelers in a
spaceship.
Pursuit 149
Pursuit 151
1946
Jun 11
1948
Nov 11
1954
1968
Apr 12
1970
Apr 7
is the Past being funny in that in any present time, it (the Past)
can co-exist with the Future.
. R~all the "twQ men" in white apparel, described in Acts
1: 10? They positively guaranteed the re-appearances of all ten
of those aforementioned! "THIS SAME JESUS WIDCH IS
TAKEN UP FROM YOU INTO HEAVEN, SHALL SO
COME IN LIKE MANNER AS YE HAVE SEEN IDM GO
INTO HEAVEN. " That is as explicit as telling us that He will
. be flying Pan-Am during his round-trips!
Therefore, as in the past and far into our future, like a flat
stone skipped over water, Jesus Christ (now 61 years old) and
~ompany will continue to4iP in and out of our Earth time.
I don't think I've compromised or belittled Jesus. His
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The editors express much appreciation to SITU member George Andrews for translating this
interview with Prof. lean-Pierre Petit, a leading French physicist who has spent more than
twenty years investigating reports of UFO phenomena. Professor Petit's interview by MarieTherese de Brosse appeared in the October 26, 1984 issue of the French Magazine Paris-Match.
taken seriously?
J -P. P .: My. personal opinion is that it should. However, it
suffers from denigration by scientists. For the last 30 years, this
subject has been almost monopolized by hucksters and hoaxers, who are often the same people. A glance at the existing
literature demonstrates that. Therefore this problem now has an
extremely dubious reputation and very few scientists are tempted to study this most baffling of enigmas.
M-T .B.: Thus you have demonstrated that, in spite of conventional opinion, it is possible to fly at supersonic speeds
without making noise, as UFOs seem to do.
J-P.P.: Yes, and when you look at the photos of my experiments, you see that my machines bear a striking resemblance
to what UFO witnesses have described.
Pursuit 153
J-P.P.: About 5 p.m. on January 8, 1981, at Trans-enProvence, near Draguignan in the Var region, a Mr. Renato
Nicolai was puttering around his garden. The weather was fair
and there were no clouds. According to Mr. Nicolai, he was
startled by a 'whistling' and saw a craft pass above the trees
next to his garden; it landed with a dull thud on the hard and
rocky soil. He described the craft as two and a half meters in
diameter, of a shape resembling two bowls glue~ together. It
was the color of lead and had legs resembling cement buckets.
His curiosity aroused, Mr. Nicolai approached, staying behind
cover until he was about twenty meters from it, then watched
the object for about twenty seconds. Abruptly it took off with
a slight hiss and quickly disappeared in the sky, leaving a clearly
marked circular trace on the ground.
M-T .B.: What did Professor Bounias find that was so disturbing to those who are skeptical about UFOs?
J-P.P.: One of Professor Bounias' specialties is the effect of
radiation on plants. As soon as he received the samples, he submitted them to a most rigorous and sophisticated series of
analyses, the result of which was irrefutable evidence of clearly marked and totally inexplicable changes. For example, some
young sprouts had the characteristics of old age. The second
stroke of luck was that the phenomenon persisted. Indeed, it"
was not until 39 days after the incident that GEPAN decided
to .take samples systematically every meter from the center of
the circular ground-mark.
ly excluded as a possibility?
J-P.P.: One can always invoke practical jokers. However, in
this case, perpetrating a practical joke would have required exceptional resources. Considering the very sophisticated nature
of the biological alterations in the samples examined, which
Pursuit 156
M-T.B.: So this Trans-en-Provence case is indeed the 'ironclad' case which upsets the UFO skeptics because the
witness's account is of such minor importance when irrefutably objective evidence is available for analysis by scientific methods.
J-P.P.: When faced with a possibility, scientists first try to
explain it in terms of known phenomena. So far, the Trans results
cannot be satisfactorily explained in terms of known phenomena.
Pursuit 158
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first of the engineers who set us on our course, and by a statement made at the beginning of our first planning session.
The town clerk was w'idely kDown in the area for his ability
to find water. He put on a demonstration for us before we sat
down to the first meeting - finding, incidentally, water just
where we finally had to dig a deep well three years later! First,
he cut a "Y-twig" from one of our pear trees, and then demonstrated the difference between this and various other woods. But
then he happened to mention that he had found a wire coathanger worked better than any twigs, even willows. This too
he demonstrated, and it was while he was doing so that the
engineer from the arsenal turned up. He is a quiet man and said
nothing until we went into conference; then he opened up in
not unscathing terms. The substance of what he said was as
follows.
It is, he told us, somewhat of a rarity to find a proper plan
of water or other pipes, or of power-lines laid under the thick
concrete floors of arsenal. buildings. However, he told us, his
department, which is responsible for maintenance of such construction, long ago gave up the wearisome practice of digging
up said floors to find the pipes. "All we do," he said "is have
somebody, or anybody, just walk back and forth with two 'Ls' ,
.tracing out the paths of all the buried lines to their inlets and
outlets so that we can spot the one needing attention. Only then
do we call in the drills and go right for the trouble spot." At
first we thought he was joshing the town clerk; but he offered
to demonstrate immediately. And this he did right outside the
house after only about half an hour's preparation.
We have a workshop well-stocked with supplies as well as
tools, and from these he select some lengt.~s of copper, brass,
iron, glass, and plastic tubing which he cut into eight-inch
lengths. Next, he selected as many kinds of heavy wires and
rods as were available, and he had me light up a bunsen-burner
in our lab and bend two glass rods into "Ls," with one tine
seven and the other five inches long. Meantime, he similarly
bent the wires and rods of various substances, one of which was
heavy welding wire. We then tramped out to the front lawn,
which runs from the front of the house at an angle of about twenty degrees, to the road sixty feet away. As shown in Fig. I, there.
were two pipes buried to a depth of four feet under this lawn
and running from the house, parallel, and direct1:S' down this
slope to a well and a drain respectively. The first, when the pump
in the house was at rest, of course, remained full of stationary
water; the other pipe, which was also of iron, but of larger diameter, was either drained of all water or could be filled by turn.
ing on four faucets in the house.
Our engineer friend just walked slowly from right to left and
back again from points A to B, holding the various sections of
tubing upright in his clenched fists (as shown in Fig. D), but
with matched pairs of "L" rods with their short tines in these
tubes and the long ones pointing forward.
As he crossed the pipes, these "Ls" moved in various ways
- either both to the right; both to the left; towards each other,
forwards and inwards until they crossed, and then back again;
backwards, until they pointed directly backwards or crossed over
the operator's wrists; and in various other combinations. What
is more, they always did the same thing, when passed oyer (a)
the pipe full of standing water, (b) and empty. pipe, (c) water
flowing upa pipe, as to the pump, and (d) water flowing down
to the drain; though the movements of the tines were, of course,
different in each case. They performed exactly the same with
eve.rybody! (I am not saying here which motions they performed
in which case, because this is one of the things that we niost
wish to have checked.)
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Pursuit 159
blings traced an arc from the hole to where the chunk was
found."
One possibility is that, if the chunk rose and fell in an arc
as it moved, a stiff wind could have distributed the "dribblings" in a curve.
Behrens said the dense root mass in the puzzle piece probably
helped hold it together. The chunk, as it was found, was rotated
counterclockwise about 20 degrees in comparison to the orientation of the hole it left behind.
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In the weeks since the event, the Timms' cattle have trampled the displaced chunk, destroying evidence of its remarkable
fit with the' hole.
The event occurred in an area with an interesting geological
history. The plateau is 2,360 feet above sea level. The mystery
site is in a small hollow, probably scraped out in the plateau's
bedrock by the ice sheet that covered the area thousands of years
"ago.
The wheat field is dotted with huge boulders left by the melting
ice sheet. Known locally as "haystack rocks," some are bigger than haystacks. Near the mystery site is a larger depression,
described by Behrens as a "kettle," a geologists' tenn for a
place where a mass of ice was buried and caused the ground
to collapse as it melted.
It is an eerily fitting setting for what is apparently an unexplained natural phenomenon.
Behrens wondered if the earthquake's seismic waves in the
bedrock had triggered concentric surface waves in the soil. If
the waves converged, they might have ejected a piece of earth
where they focused, he mused.
The UW's Malone agreed that focusing can occur. But it could
not explain the source of the tremendous energy required to pluck
out a piece of earth weighing tons and move it 73 feet.
"It really is a puzzle," Aubertin said. "None of us has come
up with a plausible explanation."
Lindsay McClelland of the Smithsonian's Scientific Event
Alert Network said he is not aware of previous reports of similar
occurrences. But he was interested in this one.
"Be sure to let me know if you find out what caused it."
he said.
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Pursuit 161
Destruction by Fire
by Evan Hansen
Anyone who makes an honest effort to reconstruct a part of
Earth's prehistory soon recognizes the unique contribution of
mythology. While no mythology should be taken at face value,
there is an astonishing amount of truth to be learned from it.
From earliest times, children have questioned why things are
as we observe them, and adults have answered as best they could
within the limits of their experience. The questions and answers
are passed along from generation to generation, naturally with
additions and subtractions, until the central theme or conclusion is institutionalized as tradition.
The collective memol)' of important happenings is preserved
with special care in annals of catastrophes by the survivors who
tend to credit their escape to personal heroism or divine intervention. As recollection diminishes and first-hand witnesses are lost
to death, collective memories merge into tradition at whatever
level of importance an event attaches by reason of its climactic
nature and the number of people and places affected.
Most famous of all catastrophe myths handed down to the
forebears of the earliest historians, and by them to us, is the
account of Noah's Flood, also known as the Deluge. According to Judaeo-Christian tradition, it expunged from the face
of the Earth almost evel)' living thing and thus made possible
a "new start" for a chosen few species, including the human
race. Bearing in mind that the stol)' of the Flood was transcribed from oral to graphic history more than three thousand years
ago, one should not quibble with its inaccuracies and
embellishments but note how seemingly concurrent are the
catastrophes embedded in other traditions and how much good
evidence geology provides as to their reality. *
The Deluge was probably the greatest natural disaster that ever
afflicted the Earth and its people, but other floods and other kinds
of natural disaster are commemorated in all major traditions.
Myths of destruction by fire are almost as numerous as the flood
myths, and each encapsulates a core of truth, usually within a
drab jacket of propaganda; only a few are so colorfully symbolic as to suggest a bit of pandering to those who expect entertainment before getting down to facts. Christian mythology,
moreover, is often notional and future-oriented, whereas other
mythologies serve only as receptacles for preserving archival
views of the past. Many scholars say the difference turns on
one word: persecution ..
The Jews were subject to persecution for centuries - by the
Babylonians, the Persians, the Egyptians, and the Romans. The
first Christians were persecuted by both the Jews and the
Romans. Persecution is possible only when one group is so much
stronger than another that the weaker people see no chance for
deliverance through their own efforts; rather than change their
religious and social values to those held by their oppressors,
the oppressed seek the help of a "higher power."
The Jews sought relief in the prophecies that a "messiah"
would deliver them from Rome. As a part of the deliverance
process, destruction by flood or fire seemed inevitable, and
preparing for it no less than a duty. An ancient myth was
therefore resurrected, to tum an accounting of the past into an
*See the author's article "Geological Evidence of Noah's Flood," Part I in
PURSUlTNo. 63, Thin! Quarter 1983, pp. 98105; Part II in PURSUIT No.
64, Fourth Quarter 1983, pp. 163170.
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Pursuit 162
And that their inventions might not be lost before they were
sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world
was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and
at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they
made two pi/lars, the one of brick, the other of stone, and
inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the
pi/lar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar
of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to
mankind, and also infonn them that there was another piJJar
of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of
Siriad to this day.
Several Old Testament prophets added similar predictions of
a future "day of burning," among them Isaiah, Ezekiel and Joel.
Perhaps the most expressive of all was Malachi, who forecast
in chapter 4:
.
For behold, the day cometh that shall bum as an oven; and
all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall bum them up, saith the
Lord ofHosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor bmnch
... and yet shall tread down the wicked. For they shall
be ashes under the soles of your feet. . . .
Early followers of the ludaeo-Christian persuasion., believing that these events had not yet taken place, accepted such
declarations as promises, or prophecies, of their deliverance from
persecution; if Armageddon seemed a viable concept, the churches would confirm its eventuality as a tenet of their faith.
Pursuit 163
Waves higher than mountains rolled in upon the land. Continents broke asunder and sank beneath the seas. And still
the rains fell, the waves rolled in. The people sealed up in
their hollow reeds heard the mighty rushing of the waters.
They felt themselves tossed high in the air, then dropping
back into the water. Then all was quiet ... for so long a time
they thought would never end, they kept floating.
As the flood-waters receded, the highest mountain peaks were
the first to break through the surface, and on one of the tiny
new islands thus formed, the fragile reed-boats grounded, one
by one. When the voyagers dared to believe their long journey
had ended, they unsealed their reeds and stepped forth on
unknown land.
There was little to recommend it for settlement. The mountaintop plateau was too small and the rocky soil too infertile
to support even a token population. Therefore (so we are told
in a remarkable parallel to the Genesis account of the Noah's
Ark landing), the Hopi ancestors sent out birds to look for land
more suitable to their needs. But the birds returned with empty
beaks, unlike their biblical counterparts who bore olive twigs
to show Noah's passengers how near they were to the Promised Land. Undiscouraged, the Indians continued their journey,
proceeding from one island to the next, stopping only long
enough to rest occasionally and take sustenance from whatever
wild food they could gather. With their course always set toward
the rising sun, the travelers eventually reached a land of such
limitless expanse as they had never seen nor dreamed of. Here
they settled - the first humans to cross the threshold of America
and the first inhabitants of the Hopi fourth world.
Readers of PURSUIT are probably aware of the theory advanced in 1980 by geologists Luis and Walter Alvarez, a fatherand-son scientific duo based at the University of California,
Berkeley. They attempted to explain the sudden disappearance
of the dinosaurs as a natural chain-reaction triggered by a single
catastrophic event. The Alvarez theory proposed that the
dinosaurs became extinct at the close of the Cretaceous epoch
when a comet or asteroid hit the Earth, vaporized and literally
threw rock dust to the four winds, which churned it in suspension until it blanketed most of the planet. The sun's rays were
bl~ked and the Earth's surface cooled to a point below which
natural life-supprt systems were no longer operational. The
dinosaurs died, and about half of all other life forms died with
them.
Geological evidence for this theory is a layer of dust, now
only a few inches thick but found worldwide, at the level between the top Cretaceous rock and the bottom of the younger
Tertiary rock piled above. Analysis of the dust layer has revealed
a content of iridium much higher than that of most other earthly rock, but about equal to the iridium content of asteroids.
I have no argument with the Alvarez theory. We know that
something killed the dinosaurs, and this explanation is supported
by observable facts. Most important, at least for the purposes'
of this study, are the additional questions raised by the theory
when we attempt to understand the effect of cataclysmic forces
moving relentlessly over eons of time to destroy some parts of
the world in apparent preparation for the building or rebuilding
of other parts. For example, if a miles-thick layer of dust,
represented today by the token remainder of a few inches, could
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Age in
millions
of years
Recent
Quaternary
Cenozoic
Tertiary
Mesozoic
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
65-70
225
Permian
Carboniferous
Pennsylvanian
Mississippian
Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrain
Paleozoic
600
Precambrian
STANDARD GEOLOGIC COLUMN
Fig. 1 Standard geologic column.
Fig. 2 Hexagonal cracks in Navaho sandstone at Snow Canyon State
Park, Utah.
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much of it came back to Earth. Gasses would penneate the atmosphere as winds swept them back and forth in a continuous,
omni-directional flow. Yet the dinosaurs are said to have survived through the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. But did they?
I have found dinosaur footprints in the lower layers of the
"Navaho sandstone, and bones in older rocks, but never in
younger ones. Since my personal search has included a very
limited area, I cannot be sure that there are no dinosaur remains
in younger rocks elsewhere, perhaps even in Utah. All I know
for sure is that dinosaur remains are so much more plentiful in
the older rocks that even an amateur like me can easily fin~ them.
..
The action visualized in Fig. 3 is one of shrinkage and compression of rock particles in the circular shape that nature seems"
to favor; if the surface cools unifonnly, every molecule of rock
will shrink equally. And however tightly" the surface is crammed with circles, there will be interstices between them. The in-
the answers have not been published. Clearly seen are the
horizontal strata of many different angles, interlocking like slices
of pie cut from circles and laid against each other. No question
that these are wind-fonned dunes. The vertical cracks run mostly
through the entire mountain, but the few that go only part way
invariably start or end at the place where the two dunes meet.
In order to show cooling cracks such as these, the sandstone
had to fall from the air while powerful winds were blowing,
to swirl the ash-drift into dunes. At the same time the individual
crystals must have held so much heat tha~, once settled, they
fused to fonn solid rock. If they had not fused almost at once,
the grains would have slid past each other during the cooling
process and no cracks would have been fonned.
It staggers the imagination to try to visualize thousands of St. .
Helens-type volcanos erupting at the same time - ash falling
over a radius of five hundred miles, to depths measurable in
thousands of feet - gasses filling the entire atmosphere. Even
if these were purely local events, the effects would be global.
Were they local, or were they links in a chain of global events?
After all, something of the sort must mark the boundary between Triassic and Jurassic rock. If the two are distinguishable,
the change had to occur worldwide and should be identifiable.
My knowledge of geology is limited and so are my opportunities
to travel. I suggest that others try to follow this boundary in
their respective regions. We need to correlate Navaho sandstone
with fonnations of the same period worldwide. What .was active, and what was stable enough for life to survive? Does any
of the drama date the beginning of the Atlantic Rift - its opening up into an ocean?
Could it be that major catastrophes marked the boundaries
of other periods? In Utah, all rock of Triassic and Jurassic dates
was produced by some form of volcanic activity. Would a
worldwide investigation of "boundary rocks" from the
thresholds of all the periods tell us that "destructions by fire"
probably occurred dozens of time in prehistory? And what can
we learn from fossils?
Fossils are often described as products of petrification, but
actual petrification of bone or wood is rarely evident. All the
fossils I have. ever found fit easily into one of two classifications. The most common type of fossil is simply a print in or~
dinary mud, some part of which later hardened into rock. No
An Experiment in Dowsing
(continued from page /60)
feel that they should have been, because of their simplicity and
very obvious, basic nature. However, the longer I live, the more
I find that the simple and the obvious is so often completely
overlooked; and in a case such as this, the buffs, almost to a
man, seem to be obsessed with the idea that '~dowsing" is an
attribute of the human psyche, or at least the human body; and,
what is more, to the exclusion of all else. That it could be a
purely natural and universal behaviour of both animate and inanimate objects, interacting in certain special circumstances,
usually puts said buffs into a very stubborn and often a rather
nasty mood, in which logic does not prevail.
If such experiments have been conducted by others, I would
very much like to hear about them and be given references to
any findings that have been published. Then, if any of you might
reproduce what we did, all we ask is that you have sufficient
witnesses, keep careful detailed records, including timed motion pictures, and have your reports affidavited. Any such confinnation might prove very valua~le to aU of us; for, let us not
forget, the U.S. Marines are already using dowsing in Viet Nam
to detect land mines. Viet Cong tunnels, and underground anns
and munition caches. A mechanism to do this would be much
more reliable than even the steadiest hands and nerves of the
toughest Marine veteran.
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The philosopher quoted earlier in this essay was born in Germany in.lSS0 and raised in modest circumstances. Even by the
rigorous standards of those times, his higher education was no
more'than sufficient to prepare him for a teacJting career in
mathematics at the seco,ndaJy school level. He was slight of
. stature and physically frail; his background, .occupatio~, man, ner of speech and a~nt lack ~f motivation hid an incred~~ly
detailed knowledge of histol)' and systematic philosophy:
in 1915, the year of John Kennedy's first birthday, the
philosopher expounded his propheti~.concept in vollclme one of
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the book he titled Decline of the West; volume two was published four years later. This panoramic work
... predicted the disintegration of Western European and
American civilization after'a violent 'age of Caesarism,'
arguing by detailed analogies with other civilizations and
interpreling history as the life of nine organic cultures":
"Egyptian (3400 B.C.-I2OS B.C.), Indian (1500 B.C.-I 100
B.C.), Chinese (1300 B.C.-A.D." 2(0), Classical (1100
B.C.-400 B.C.), Byzantine (A.D. 300-11(0), Aztec (A.D.
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Crane Brinton* wrote that philosophers sought "a sign from the
past, a sign of what lies ahead, " and "for centuries ahead when
no man now alive can ever check up, in the flesh, on these prophets. " Most of"them, Brinton added, "are prophets of impend.
ing doom." .
A killer who not only resorts to numerology for the choice
of an alias but also strives to stamp his name and number onto
such horrendous handiwork might well have felt the influence
of a prophet-philosopher. A social deviant, growing up alone,
self-perceived as "different," could ask what Great Thinkers
shared his name - and find the answer in a libmry or bookstore,
in a volume titled Decline of the West by OSWALD
SPENGLER.t
One wonders if either Lee Harvey Oswald or Jack Ruby ever
discovered that philosopher Oswald Spengler was born on May
29th - the same day of the same month that John Fitzgerald
Kennedy was born. .
The Shaping of the Modem Mind (Mentor. 1953).
t Originally published in Gennany under lite title Der Untergang des
Abend/andes. Umrisse einer Morph%gie der Weltgeschichte.
------------------------ADDENDA-----------------------Author J. N. Williamson followed up with a letter to PURSUIT's editors in which he added details
ofsignificance to the "solar charts" ofPresident Kennedy and Oswald reproduced on preceding pages.
These are excerpts from that letter:
If you began with JFK's Gemini Sun, and set up his natal chart just as I show it, but added Oswald's
planetary positions, you would find the Oswald Aquarian influences I mention in the article in JFK's
9th House. Obviously, right there IS Aquarius. If you began with Oswald's chart. Kennedy's Sun
in Gemini would also be in Oswald's 9th House. Still looking at Oswald's solar chart, where do you
find Aries? Obviously, "across" from Libm - 180 from it - hence, an opposition. But before that,
Libra/Aries can also be complementary (just as Scorpio/Taurus, Sagittarius/Gemini, etc.). Sooner or
later, these complements tend to tum to just what you think of when you hear the word "oppose."
Square aspects (90 degrees) thwart, mutually, Kennedy's Moon squared his own Gemini Sun,
from the solar 4th house of family. Consider JFK' s family pressures; then note that he was born with
demanding, pressure-packed Saturn in Cancer - which is the zodiacal sign associated with family.
. Saturn in Cancer squared Lee Oswald's Libmn Sun and lightly opposed his Moon in Capricorn, denoting
conflicts between the past, ideals, and aspimtions, not to mention the Capricornian influence upon
authority figures. Capricorn in Kennedy's solar 8th House, the house in which one tends either to
"regenemte" himself and go on, or die. Capricorn is also called "father's sign," by some astrologers.
But in Oswald's solar chart, Taurus is the 8th House and he was born when Uranus was transiting
that sign. Oswald's Uranus conjoins Kennedy's Jupiter, or planet of expanding plans and hopes (they
are at nearly the same degree), and on the day these men so fatally met, it was late in the Scorpio
period with that Sun position opposing late Taurus.
Looking one last time at their individual planetary positions, we see Kennedy's Taurus-Virgo trines,
the influence of smooth, cmftsmanlike, even methodical efficiency. But we also see such thwarting
squares (90) in Oswald's chart as these: Libra/Capricorn (inner dispute over ideals and principles);
Capricorn!Aries (sharp frustmtion ovenuthority figures); and Scorpio/Aquarius (the tendency to biteoff more than one can chew).
J. N. Williamson, .noted horror-fiction writer who worked as a professional astrologer during the 1960s, offered PURSUIT this
change-of-pace article. Let it be said that neither Williamson nor SITU advocates the use of numerology in any serious investigation. Further, astrology is to many people only another syndicated horoscope column that appears in newspapers and tabloids.
However, we must point out, there are some data relating to astrology that must be considered unexplained or at least a curious
collection of coincidences. Regardless of your point of view we hope you have enjoyed reading this article.
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I was a boy they were plentiful. Every fall was chestnut time.
When I was first married, my wife and I lived in an old fannhouse on the lower edge of the mountain, not far from Amwell
Road, Hopewell, N.J. We later had four kids.
During one fall evening, I hitched up the horse and went up
into the mountains to gather chestnuts. It did not take long to
gather what I could before it got too late. (We used lanterns).
I was about ready to leave when what I thought was a man
dressed in black, with a black hat pulled low over his face, came
up to me and wanted to know how far it was to town.
I said, "I'll be going into town shortly to deliver the chestnuts
and you are welcome to ride in with "me." The weather was
changing cold and I wanted to get home as soon as possible.
I asked the stranger his name and where he was coming from,
but he did not answer me. Neither did he speak coming down
out of the mountains. I thought if he didn't speak that was his
business.
When we neared my house, I told the stranger that I had to
stop at the house to get something that I had to deliver in
Hopewell, and that I was going to get a heavier coat.
I said, "You are welcome to come in out of the cold and sit
by the stove in the kitchen." I went into the house first and he
followed. I really did not pay much attention to his walk or dress,
just that "he was a little stooped over and dressed in black.
When I entered the kitchen, my wife was upstairs putting the
kids to bed. I told her that I had a stranger in the kitchen who
was riding into Hopewell with me as soon as I put on wanner
clothes.
The kids safely in bed, she went downstairs to the kitchen.
She had not been gone for a few minutes when I heaR! her
scream and fall to the floor. I bounded down the stairs and saw
my wife on the floor by the stove. But no stranger.
After reviving my wife and trying to get her settled, she told
me what happened. .
"
She came down from upstairs and did not see a stranger in
the kitchen. As she reached behind the stove for a piece of wood
from the woodbox, she saw two hooves of an animal protruding.
Jumping back she saw the black hat and clothing, and saw the
face of a man with "red eyes and horns" staring at her.
She fainted and remembered no more until revived. The stranger was gone, my horse was wildly thrashing in the yard. I
reached over to the door and got my shotgun and with a lantern
looked all around outside. It was gone.
From that night on, the deep odor of a barnyard smell stayed
in the house. The kids could not sleep because of the odor and
it just about drove my wife and lout of our minds. Even the
water and cooked food had the smell.
We moved from there in a few weeks. That house remained
vacant for a long time. No one stayed more thaD a few days.
Eventually, the house burned down one night.
Reprinted, with permission, from The Jersey Devil newspaper,
October 1984 and the author.
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Daniel Eden has dedicated his article to srru colleagues "L.F. .. and "F. W . ..
.....
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by Daniel Eden
Those who study UFO reports, in depth, are often awed by
the remarkable ease with which UFOs can change their state
of motion. For example, one such object, investigated by Dr.
James Harder and Adrian Vance, seemed to suddenly jump from
a state of rest to the fantastic speed or'16,OOO miles per hour,
in a time span of less than 17 milliseconds!' This kind of
abrupt 'change of motion surely boggles the imagination.
Some scientists have been so emotionally overwhelmed by
this sort of reported acceleration that they argue that science
should not get involved with UFOs. One physicist, writing in
the journal Science, argued essentially that UFOs were so "contnuy to accepted principles of physics" that all scientific government studies, either proposed or in progress, should be immediately tenninated. This is a bizarre, position for a physicist,
but the statement reflects the emotional impact that 'the UFO
data has had on some scientists and government officials. Surely
there must be some approach to the UFO data that does not require either that we abort our rational intellect, or that we flee
in superstitious terror from the anomalies encountered. ,
Effective Mass as a Concept
One rational approach to the anomalous-acceleration problem
has been suggested by several UFO reseiuchers. ,.. These investigators suggest that the abnonoal accelerations reported for
UFOs could come about if the objects (he~ assumed to be
physical craft) could somehow alter'their Inertial mass.
In our mundane environment, the inertial m~s of a given object is usually a fixed, unvarying ,constant, at least, for nonrelativistic speeds. However, suppose the intelligent operators
of UFOs have discovered some technological principle that
allows them to vary their inertial mass; the drastic accelerations
then become natural and understandable. One researcher aptly
put it this way:
UFOs are able to reduce their inertial mass almost to zero.
This' would enable them to dart around like a fly with very
little power consumption.'
"
In the discussion that follows, I will tentatively assume that
this is precisely what is happening in some UFO cases. Furthenoore, I will refer to this abnormal, or variable, mass as the
"effective mass" of the UFO. The effective mass is the ap-
parent inertial mass that a UFO exhibits ,whenever it is undergoing an anomalous acceleration. The teno effective mass was no
random choice; I borrowed it from an obscure field within Solid
State Physics, where the teno has greatly assisted understanding.
Effective Mass in Solid State Physics ,
In this branch of physics, the 'concept of an effective mass
can sometimes' be applied to the conduction electrons in a
crystalline solid. Conduction electrons are those electrons which
are not tightly bound to any particular atom within a crystal;
they are free to move, as an electric current, whenever an electric field is externally applied to the crystal. For instance, place
the crystal near the electrical field of an (electrostatic) Vande
Graaf generator, to "move" the conduction,electrons.
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11k
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m-k .. (If' f c )
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(Equation B)
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With this equation for the effective mass, we are now ready to
tackle some actual UFO data. As long as the UFO is coining,
and thus is interacting with th~ banie~ force, we have a means
of estimating its mass at any given time. Perbaps this will som~
day give us cl~~ as to how the UFO generates a" macroscopic
effective mass.
The Oregon UFO Photo
At the Diamond Park Overlook on Highway 58, near the
Willamette Pass in Oregon, a biochemist briefly observed a UFO
on November 22, 1966. He snapped a photograph of the object. Instead of a single image on the photo, there were three
different images of the object.
According to the banier theory, this kind of effect could occur if the UFO were oscillating in and out of our world. The
three images represent exactly three intersections with our world
during the brief time that the film was being exposed. Adrian
Vance, a photography e~pert, conducted extensive research on
this case.' He determined that the UFO was about thirty feet
wide and had a height of about seven and one-half feet at center,
which tapered off towanl the periphery of the craft. The exposure
time of the photo is uncertain, but Vance puts it at about 0.030
seconds. Vance personally visited the site and interviewed the
biochemist "who took the photograph. In Vance's opinion, this
was a "real" UFO event.
What is the coining frequency and the effective mass of this
UFO? The coining frequency can be detennined as follows:""
.
f
c
"
.030 sec
sec
k. 6x 105 Icg-Hz 2
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144 images
1/60 sec
8640 images
sec
8640 Hz
m... 6. 8 x 1 0 3 kilograms
If we take the time to run through the necessary conversion
.tables, this amount of mass turns out to represent a "weight"
at rest of almost seven and one-half tons! This is an important
observation because it puts Sanderson's UFO near the weight
range described by Philips; from his study of imprints left in
soil by departing UFOs, Philips estimated that the "typical
UFO" might weigh somewhere on the order of eight to ten
tons."
.
Why is the calculated effective mass in this case so close to
the rest mass? One intriguing possibility is that Sanderson
"caught" a UFO before it had switched-on its strange, massaltering, apparatus. In general, it seems that the slower the coining frequency, the closer the UFO's effective mass is to its rest
mass.
Again, let me emphasize that the calculations and inferences
submitted for the reader's consideration are tentative, not conclusive. Mainly, they are attempts to explore some ofthepossible avenues that may lead to eventual improvement of the barrier model. Applications of the barrier theory to UFOs and other
phenoOlena should deepen our appreciation of the many subtle
processes that take place in nature. The coining UFO is only
one of these processes, but it may be just the one that points
the way to our better understanding of the others.
Conclusions
We can use the barrier theory to derive an estimate of the inertial mass of any coining UFO whose frequency of oscillation
can be measured. Preliminary calculations suggest that the UFO
js able to achieve its fantastic accelerations because it can control this effective mass.
No attempt has been made here to explain how a UFO can
generate a macroscopic effective mass; that there is some such
technological process which can vary an object's mass seems
all too obvious according to the UFO data. Despite our ignorance
of the process, we can at least use the barrier theory to keep
tabs on a technology that is both efficient and portentous.
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Unfortunately, good cases that can give us a value for both m and ft
are very rare, so the magnitude that I give for k at this time is far from
ideal. I have sought to use human translucency cases like the Dr. Z
example'll to determine the value for k. The mass for the human male
can be fairly easily estimated, but fc is another matter. I have sought
to use human physiological limits like the critical flicker frequencies
and flicker fusion rates to estimate fc. But a single direct measurement
of fc in a human translucency case would be much ,more reliable.
12. Ivan T. Sanderson: Uninivited Visitors (Cowles Education Corp.,
New York, 1967). Whether your reasoning ranges across a broad spectrum of Fortean interests or focuses mainly on the ufological scene,
this is essential reading for information and, yes, for enjoyment, too!
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Photographic Biofeedback?
by Eugenia Mace....Story
ltv E. Macer-St:o.". AU rlgbt. re ....,ed.
Coppigbt 1984
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We went upstairs and into a room at the right of the staircase, where the entity seemed to want to show me a back window and to point out, across the back lawn, the site of a mass
grave of "other victims." I took pictures of this window. When
the film was developed, whitish circles and blotches showed
up around the window frame. Richard told us he had been
rehearsing with his rock group in this room, but had experienced
unusual phenomena and states of mind, and moved the rehearsal across the hall. As we were entering the hallway that led
to the stairwell, the entity began to repeat to me, mentally, the
concept: "Ice room," followed by "I want to go into the ice
room."
I asked Richard what this might mean, and he told me about
a downstairs room that had been closed off and was cold. A
child had once slept here, and Richard, who had met the child
'briefly, felt that his/her state of mind was affected oddly in that
he/she wrote in strange Arabic-like doodles, and had asked
Richard to get together with a group and "sit beside the fire
and light candles." The child was related to the absent owner
and was not in the house during the time Richard was the resident
caretaker. As for the term "ice room," Richard thought it might
have something to do with the furnace which had lately fallen
into a bad habit of shutting itself off unexpectedly.
We went downstairs to the "ice room," which certainly was
colder than the rest of the house. I had started to walk over to
a window on the far side when I was ovecome by an entity filled with violence and hatred. It caused me to gesture toward my
forehead and make a sign* against the forehead. This entity
seemed different from the girl spirit and clearly related to more
recent times.
I had the impression of a farmer who had owned the place
and had died in the mid-20th century. He seemed violently
unhappy with the current use of the hou~, which had been
remodeled at considerable expense. It was later confiimed that
the property had once been a farm, and that the house was a
reconstructed bam. I took several pictures inside the "ice room"
and was particularly attracted to an odd army helmet which I
then photographed. All of these pictures came out normally and
showed no unusual forms.
, I advised Richard to leave the house if he felt threatened by
the poltergeist phenomena he had experienced. The entity I had
encountered in the "ice room" was violent and resentful, and
Richard is sensitive and impressionable. I do not believe that
so-called "exorcisms" come with any guara~ty attached;
Richard was open to the phenomena and was being harassed.
I checked with previous tenants and discovered that one visitor
to the house, an astrologer. had mentioned the "strange atmosphere" in the upstairs room where, an art exhibit was in progress. However, no one except Richard had ever complained
of a severe haunting.
Before leaving the house I went back to the upstairs room and
did a further psychjc focus. I ha4 the impression that the young
female spirit ~ad been lured to Woodstock by a "black magick"
group at the tum of the century, and that the remains of other
victims of similar rape, murder and torture lay buried in the area
of yard visible from the rear window.
Richard thanked me for coming and said he would move out
immediately. He recalled that he had once been involved with
anoccult group and therefore felt that "black'magick" influence was a possibility.
A few days after my visit to the house (while the film was
still being processed), Richard phoned from his parents' home
and asked if I would be willing to have another member of the
rock band come over for a talk. I agreed, and as we were discussFourth Quarter 1984
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7,000-Year-Old Brains
Unearthed in Florida
Two 7,OOO-year-old "well-preserved and
complete" human brains have been unearthed
just 15 miles west of the space shuttle launch
pad, and scientists said the brains might provide unique clues to the evolution of human
genes.
"The existence of two preserved brains from
one archaeological site and 7 ,OOO-year-old DNA
makes this a spectacular scientific contribution," University of Florida molecular biologist
William W. Hauswirth told reporters at a news
conference.
The discovery of the tissue was described as
unmatched in the world because biochemical
. analysis has detected preserved DNA, the
genetic blueprint of living organisms ..
"This is the first human brain of this antiquity in the world to be so thoroughly analyzed," the scientists said.
The DNA should be useful in learning about
gene evolution and possibly identifying viral
diseases and cancer during that period, said archaeologist Dr. Glen H. Doran of Florida State
University, Hauswirth and Dr. Philip J. Laipus,
another University of Florida molecular
biologist.
Hauswirth said they intend to use recombinant DNA methods to make copies of the
preserved DNA and produce a complete set of
prehistoric human genes that would be made
available to researchers for comparison with
modem genes.
The virtually intact male and female skulls
were found at an excavation at a housing
development known as Windover Farms near
this community just outside the gates of Kennedy Space Center.
The skulls were buried about 12 feet below
the surface, protected in an oxygen-free environment of mineral water, said Dr. Doran.
Doran, who heads the archaeological project,
said the bog previously yielded bones of 50 to
60 men, women and children from about 5,000
B.C., according to radio-carbon dating. Wellpreserved human bodies hundreds of years old'
have been found buried in bogs in England and
Denmark.
Human DNA was earlier extracted from a
substance found in four human skulls unearthed
in late November, the scientists said.
While that material was being tested, the
discovery of the two virtually intact brains
"strengthened the results of the DNA tests,"
said Hauswirth.
The latest skulls are of a women believed to
have been about 45 years old and a man about
27.
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After the female skull was found, the scientists noticed what looked like a greasy material
inside. Hauswirth removed the back of the skull,
Dr. Philip J. Laipis tilted it slightly and the mass
slid into his gloved hand.
"There was a stunned moment of silence then the realization that it was a 7,OOO-year-old
preserved human brain," Doran said.
An X-ray of the male skull that was shown
to reporters revealed a mass inside which
Hauswirth said contained "all major parts of
the brain."
SOURCE: AP in the Asbury Park Press
12/15/84
CREDIT: #432
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Ice Chunk Crashes through Roof
Betsy.Sansevero was resting in a chair in her
home when a chunk of blue ice the size of a
watermelon suddenly crashed through the roof
of her garage, less than 20 feet away.
The ice, smelling of disinfectant like that used
in airplane lavatories, shattered on the garage
floor, narrowly missing Mrs. Sansevero's two
pet dogs.
Louis Achitoff, manager of public affairs and
planning for the eastern region of the Federal
Aviation Administration, said an investigation
was under way to determine if the ice might
have fallen from a jetliner passing over West
Islip, New York at the time of the incident.
SOURCE: N. Y. Times
12/21184
CREDIT: Jon Singer
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Fourth Quarter 1984
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African Dust Linked to
Miami 'Red Rain'
The drought in North Africa is sending more
and more dust across the Atlantic, causing haze
and "red rain" in Miami and the West Indies,
a chemist reports.
"When we get rainfall during the summer
months, we'll get a layer of red mud in our rain
collectors, and Miami has no substantial red
soils," Joseph Prospero, chairman of the
University of Miami's division of marine and
atmospheric chemistry, said.
Miami residents are familiar with red mud
after showers and with summertime dust hazes
that periodically cloud Florida's skies, Prospero
said. "The new aspect is the dramatic increase
in dust concentrations with the drought," he
explained.
The amount of African dust last year in the
air in Barbados, West Indies, was more than
double the average during non-drought years in
North Africa, Prospero said in a paper presented.
at the American Geophysical Union's fall
meeting.
Since 1965, Prospero has recorded dust from
Africa in Barbados, more than 3,000 miles from
its source, and in Miami, 4,000 miles from its
source. His earlier studies found that maximum
dust levels occurred during the summer, when
airborne concentrations are 10 to 100 times
larger than during the winter.
But in his new study, Prospero also found that
dust concentrations in Barbados during the
winter of 1982-83 were 100 times above normal winter levels. He said the drought and the
worldwide weather disturbance known as EI
Nino were responsible.
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Girl's Ability to Talk
Makes Best Christmas Present
Shanda Baldwin, II, had not spoken for nearly a year since her brain was damaged. Doctors expected her to remain speechless the rest
of her life.
But several days before Christmas, Shanda
gave her mother a holiday gift by wishing her
a "Merry Christmas," an official said.
Shanda, of Mayville, NY, was considered a
"little chatterbox" before Febraury 28, 1984
when a car in which she was riding became trap-
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Sharp Gator Files Way from Pen
A 6-foot-long male alligator dived into his
new pen at the Sawgrass Recreation Area in Fort
Lauderdale, FL, and immediately began using
his rough hide to file the pen's aluminum bars.
It worked.
"He's trying to get out," onlookers shouted.
"He's got his head through a hole."
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SOURCES:
"Spandau marked for destruction when Hess dies," The
Times. London. June 29, 1984. The Murder of Rudolf Hess.
Hugh Thomas. London. 1979.
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ploration has been to 704 feet below ground level. he also found
one cavern that is 2,800 feet long. Often now, on longer explorations, he camps underground for days in the constant
'underground 53F temperature. The water table limits exploration downward and he never expects to. explore it all in a lifetime,
even with the aid of his colleagues.
Visitors. to the cave are offered a choice of several tours in
the underground labryinth. For the hearty there is a descent and,
of course, the return of 740 steps; for the romantic, a candlelight
tour to caves with such names as Big Many's Place. Michael's
Misery, Cracks of Doom, etc. The shortest is a witJk of one
half mile whereas the longest tour is four hours long to soine: ..
remote crawl-on-your-belly regions. All of the tourscan be out
at the same time and each may never pass another;So vast is '.
the cave system.
. .
But most curious and perhaps most important to us here is .
the wind phenomenon which. aecoming to Scheltens. is due
merely to the difference in air pressure above and below the
ground. He said study of the cave system and the duration of
the wind or air flow indicates the 42.5 miles of caves mapped
so far are only 2 % of perhaps a two billion cubic foot air capacity
of the underground space.
The wind at the cave entrance. according to Scheltens has been
recomed between 55 and 60 miles an hour at times. This entrance was the only known 'breathing hole' for the complex until
just recently when a small second fissure was found after more
than a century.
Little is said of air movement except near the cave entrance
but apparently Scheltens has encountered no noxious fumes or
areas of low-oxygen content of the air. He also told this writer
that he has never seen tracks of animals nor. in fact. any indication the cave was ever inhabited much less visited in the
past by any other living creatures. Yes. there are lichens and
eave bats near the entrance but nothing else in the Iife-supporting
atmosphere of the apparently near-perfect encapsulation of the
vast underground cave complex.
Ofcourse. it can be rationalized that if there is no animal life
in the caves, there are no creatures to use up the oxygen that
has just been collecting for a long time thanks to the 'breathing'
of the cave. And, underground acidic chemical reactions are
generally not known to produce significant quantities of oxygen.
But, at the risk of complicating a simple explanation we do feel
there are more unanswered questions concerning this uncommon type of cave that need to be addressed. Therefore, we encourage our readers to visit the park and share their comments
with' us.
RegaJdless of all else, John Scheltens finds a major reward
in all of this. He reminds us that relatively few new frontiers
are left on this planet to be easily explored. To him, briefly leaving his.everYday world to go down into a 'new' passageway
.waiting.to be ~f()und' and knowing that he is the first human
to light up and yiew a beautiful cavern for the very first time
is a truly exhilarating experience. And who, after all, can honestly doubt this?
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by Robert .Warth
I was again pleased to be able to represent SITU this year in attending two major conferences.
The U.S. Psychotronics Association (formerly the U.S. Radionics AssociatiQn) met this year on '.:
the campus of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27 - July 1, 1984.
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Significant lectures (some with demos or workshops) included: Riley Crabb "Harmony with Nature, Interplanetary
& Intergalatic;" Samuel Lentine "Psychotronics, an Innovative Treatment .of Allergies;" Paul Esch "Psychic Den-'
tistry;" Man:el Vogel & J. T. Smith" Analysis of Psychoenergetics of Dowsing & Radionics;" D~nnis Stillings "Cosmic: .
Psychotronics;" Gary Fleck "Crystal Radionics;" B. Hero & R. Fo~lkrod "Awakening Consciousness Through
Generating Patterns of Harmonic Sounds."
.
Eldon Byrd "Interactions of ELF, and EM Fields with Biological Processes;" R. Powers and N. Turner "New GeoMagnetometer Detects Noxious Zones & ELF Fields;" Samuel Lentine "Psychotronic Alteration of Physical & Chemical
.Behavior;" Andreas Marx "Bio-physical Tests Determine Exposure of ELF, Radionics, Electro-puncture, Noxious
Zones;" Mike Bradford "The Theory of Universal Dynamics;" J.G. Gallimore & Bob Beutlich "I Ching & Kabbalah
with Time, Electric, Magnetic & Gravity Fields Yields New Resultant Fields;" .Chris Bird." Alchemy of Life, Effects
of DNA detected with Dowsing, Crystalization patterns;" Tom Bearden "Update on Soviet Psychotronic (Tesla)'
Weapons.".
. .
Elizabeth Rauscher "Models of Psychokinesis & Human Volitional Remote Interaction;".Peter Kelly "Crystal-Powered' ,
Psychotronic Tuners in Agriculture;" Bill Van Bise "EM Waves and Brain Waves and their Apparent Link with PKi. ;
Phenomena;" Bob Beck "TESLA on 'Death Ray';" Philip Callahan "Ancient Mysteries, Modem Visions;" ThomaS
Valone "The One-Piece FaradaY'Generator;" Tom Bearden "Soviet Weather Engineering Over North America;" Andrija Puharich "The Potential Hazards to Agriculture of 'Greenhouse' Effect and it's 'Cure'." Curtis Wallace "Space
Geometry;" Julius Soled "Chromotherapy;" Dick Benson "World's Oldest 4> Map."
The theme of this annual Psi conference for 1984 held in Basel, Switzerland was "Telepathy and
Clairvoyance. " It was held in the magnificent new conference center that had opened just a few .
.,
weeks e a r l i e r . '
The language barrier was minimized since each listener was provided with .earphones and a sele- .' -tor to listen to either German, French or English. Questions from the audience were a bit more dif:ficult for the audience to hear and interpret.
The major lectures included:
Prof. Dr. Andrea Resch (Innsbruck, Austria), "Parapsychological Research on Telepathy and Clairvoyance;" Dr..
Larissa Vilenskaya (USA, formerly from Moscow) "Investigation and Application of Telepathy, Clairvoyance and
Psychokinesis in the USSR and in the West" and "Psi Development Systems;" Dr. HeiniC. Berendt (Israel) "Mistakes'
in and Misinterpretations of Psychic Impressions" and "A Qualitive Experiment of Clairvoyance;" Dr. Russell Targ'
(USA) "Remote Viewing" and "The Practical Application of ESP Researched Worldwide;" Prof. Dr. Herbert
Pietsch mann (Vienna) "A Possible Extension of the Scientific Method in View of Paranormal Phenomena;" Prof. Dr.
Oliver Costa de Beauregard (France) "Implications of Relatively, Quantum and Information Theories for Parapsychology; "
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake (England) "Morphogenetic Fields;" Dr. Walter Uphoff (USA) "Psychokinesis in the' USA;"
Prof. Dr. Werner Schiebeler (Germany) "How Can One Evaluate Mediumistic 'Statements?;" Mandred Kage (Ger- .
many) "Meditative Relaxation;" Coral Polge with Gaye Muir "Mediumistic Portraits With Clairvoyant Commentaries."
Of particular interest to the more than 500 attendees were the workshops and the discussions with performed experiments.
These ranged from a panel discussion on, "The 6-dimensional Field Theory of Burkh~rd Heim in relationship to ESP, ", ..'
to a demonstration of firewalking by Larissa Vilenskaya. Equally popular were the experimental workshops, each conducted by a psychic. These included; Coral Polge, Gaye Muir, Karl Francis, Dorice Hannan, Ursula Roberts, Michael
Colmer, Henriette Colmer and Joan Clark, all of Great Britain; Dietfried Markus of Germany; and Peter Nelson and .' ..
'Keith ,Harary both from the USA.
.
The conference had a considerably vast media converage since, I think it is safe to say, there is more sincere interest
in these phenomena in Europe than in the USA at the present time.
.
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The ultramodern conveniences ofthis facility in Basel will be available for future annual conferences, too. The only
matter tl)at I brought to the attention of the organizers was the remarkable absence of clocks necessary for the prompt.
attendance at lectures. One of the officials, somewhat embarrassed said, "The wall clocks are coming and will be i~- '.
stalled shorlty, but after all who really nee4s them here in Switzerland, the land of world-famous wrist watches? ....
As with most conferences, as much' is learned in small group discus.sion~ a~ in. th~.recture hall'and so it was, right
up to the closing moments that ended with a Rhine river boat trip spirited ~utifully with band music, cheese fondue,
and some local Swiss wines.
Editor's Note: Some important lectures (;fparticular interest to Forteans will, wit~ permission ofthe writers, be printed
from time to time in PURSUIT as space allows.
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Books Reviewed
THE FOUR MAJOR MYSTERIES OF MAINLAND CHINA by Paul Dong (Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
1984, 213 pp., ilIus., $8.95)
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Dear Editor:
I want to say that I especially appreciated the article by Luis
Schonherr in your latest third-quarter '84 issue. The author's
concern for the subjective aspect of UFO reports is right up my
line of special interest and I would like to contact this contributor.
I am one who believes that all "reality" contains some circumstantial elements, and that "reality" in the philosophical
sense should be considered as a mind-dependent phenomenon
and, I might add, with an inception in the subjective and only
later setting up the subjective-objective differentiation. This
viewpoint places me close to Berkley's philosophy. To me it
seems that most persons have an inherent fear of such thinking
assuming it leads to solipcism not realizing that it is a "universal" such as a sociologist might best appreciate.
Of one thing I am certain - that "seeing" is not perceiving.
Consider a dog of the kind that loves to bark at moving cars.
The picture on the dog's retina may to a large degree resemble
my view of same. But to the dog, he sees no wheels, no windows, no special color, etc., etc. It is only by a long and hidden process of learning and evaluating (against the already
known) that perception develops. No doubt the dog has a few
perceptions of his own learning. It is somewhat the same for
humans in our present state - we can perceive only against what
we are familiar. In some past issue of PURSUlTthere was mention of the difficulty of certain explorers to get the natives (who
had never seen a sailing ship) to perceive it as such while it was
moored amongst the trees and rocks in a distant optical view.
Then also, the modem mind has a strong urge to perceive
(perhaps to retain a feeling of sanity) and, just like with magicians, this condition can be deceptive.
-Harold A. Youtz
Dear Editor:
Spontaneous human combustion has fascinated me since I first
became aware of it some years ago. I've read various speculations concerning the reason for its occurrence. I've never seen
any mention of the possibility that it may have something to
do with the energy called Chi or Xi in the martial arts. This
is, I believe, the same energy that yogis and sages of the East
talk about and have learned to master. It is a power that exists
within all of us; only a few learn to increase this power, cultivate
it, and control it. This power is limitless. It is the energy of
the Universe at our fingertips.
I theorize that the victims of 'sac' somehow inadvertently
tap into this source of power, possibly through one of the
chalaas, the spiritual centers that separate one level of consciousness from another. Perhaps, because they have obviously not gone through a proper ritual (cleansing through proper
diet and fasting to clear the channels to allow the free flow of
this "current") and especially because they are unaware and
not in control of what takes place, 'they are cOnsumed by this
energy that they unknQwingly channel through themselves.
As support for my belief, I refer you to the chapter (which
I recently discovered) entitled "The Techniques of Casting off'
The Body", from the bOok Living With the Himalayan Masters.
The appropriate passage is on page 452 in my copy of the book.
Schopenhauer called access to ancient knowledge of India "the
greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries." I agree. The answers to many seemingly strange happenings may be available if we search in the right direction.
It is my hope that others more enlightened than I may take
these thoughts and carry them the steps further that will take
the solving of this mystery to its fruition.
-James F. Loretta
Dear Editor:
When powder is sprinkled on a vibrating square sheet, it flows
to the diagonals. The diagonals define the lines where there is
no vibration.
If a triangular surface is used, instead of a square, the powder
flows to bisect the angles. What you see is a cross section of
a pyramid.
Sound is a compression wave. This means that molecules are
compressed to a higher material density along the nodal lines.
The velocity of sound increases with density. Therefore, when
the vibrations of the sheet converge into the nodal lines, they
rotate their velocity 900 and accelerate along the lines. In other
words, Pyramid Power is what conventional physical terminology would call hypersound.
All material structures vibrate sonically, so they are all sectored by nodal lines conducting hypersound. These are the meridians and ley lines of the tao, and the mysterious chi is scientifically established as hypersound. So are bioplasmic energy,
elan vital, mana, orgone, and any other name that is applied
by each new discoverer. A sphere will naturally sector itself
sonically into harmonically defined geometry, so the terrestrial
grid system could be calculated from a datum point at the Nile
Delta without recourse to empirical evidence.
All the sonic vibrations in the material are brought to a focus
along the meridians. Since energy is a function of velocity
squared, it follows that the velocity ofhypersound in any given
structure will be a function of all the vibrations in its mass. If
the mass is great enough, and if the meridians are tine enough,
sonic energy will be accelerated to the speed of light. In other
words, a structure with the mass of the Great Pyramid would
transfonn the ambient sonic vibrations and random molecular
motion of the desert heat into a current of electricity flowing
along the meridians. The Pyramid is a solid state transfonner.
It is also a capacitor. It is also a tuned antenna. It is, in fact,
a complete electronic machine. Clever people, those Egyptians.
Since the Earth is considerably more massive than the
Pyramids, it should not be surprising that anomalous electrical
phenomena occur along ley lines and at focal points of the grid.
The vectors of sound, gravity, magnetism, and electricity are
at right-angles to each other; they are successive dimensions
of energy. A body as massive as the Earth produces stargates
between dimensions at the focal points of its energy gric,t. Since
energy rotates around dimensional boundaries at ley lines, sbUCtures will grow and disintegrate with greater velocity in these
regions than in intenneridial space, and cities will be established
on the grid whether or not the founders are learned in geomancy.
-T.B. Pawlicki
Dear Editor:
I certainly enjoyed the 3rd quarter 1984 PURSlJlT. Particularly timely was Bearden's STAR WARS NOW! It even gained
national attention in the May 5th issue of Newsweek.
If I might add one correction, if I am correct, in the matter
of just which mode will produce a high pressure area. The author
states that the "Hot Spot" or produce energy will do this. I
believe the hot spot will produce a low pressure area, the hot
air being less dense, and a lower pressure will result. It must
be remembered that low pressure areas are the anchor of weather
fronts, and can be expected to produce storms, while a cold spot
will produce a high pressure area and produce stagnant weather
and such conditions as droughts.
-Ed Toner
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1839 May 5 I bet 11 and 12 I Aurora
I few details I Nottingham I LT, May
13-5-b.
1839 May 51 Brussels I Aurora I C.R.
8-807.
1839 May 7 I Parma I Fireball/ BA 60.
1839 May 7 / Saint-Brice / Aurora I
C.R.8-807.
1839 May 8/ near Radham / Lum obj.
/ See Lum objs.
1839 May 16 / Wid man of the year
1836.
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1839 May 18 / "pannelOns" / fell
around a coach between de Gournay
[and] Gisors in such numbers the horses
stopped; /190111/303, La Vie Scientifi-
que.
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1839 Sept. 10 I Fall River. I Clear starlighted nighl. Two black columns at first'
supp be smoke rising and lOWard each
other nonheast, other southeasl.
Streamer shot from them. They
[Reverse side] obscured stars. I LT, Oct.
9-S-c.
1839 Sept. 10 I Ghent I Fireball 1BA 60.
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1839 Oct. I Comrie as sounding board
60.
1839 Nov. 12 - I This year? I DOt in
Athenaeum for 18391970 I not '40.
1839 Nov. 13 I Moon-sized meteor I
Cherbourg I Athenaeum 1839-76.
1839 Nov. 29 I before sunset I Large
met at Naples, moving Eastward. When
over the Adriatic,
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over Naples apin. I BA 60.
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I Phil Mag 4/8/460 I See Iune 16.1
(Reveille side] Cosmos, N.S., 3-55.
1839 Dec. 11 I q - like aurora I St.
1can-de-Maurienne, Savoy I 3:25 a.m.
Newport.
(ReveIlle side] 1 Shot and 3 captured.
Supposed escaped from a menagerie.
1839 Dec. 181 Bres1au I Fireball I BA
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1840-41 I Longest sunspot on record I
lasted 18 months I Todd, Astronomy,
p. 175.
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PrInted in U.S.A.
ISSN 0033-4685
Books Reviewed
Aliens Above, Always,
John Magor, 42
Champ-Beyond the Legend,
Joseph Zarzynski, 97
Champ-Beyond the Legend,
Joseph Zarzynski, 140
Clear Intent,
Lawrence Fawcett & Barry
Greenwood, 138