Thursday, June 02, 2005

Bermuda Triangle
he first documentation that anything was amiss in the area came from Christopher Columbus, who reported compass malfunctions and a bolt of fire that fell into the sea. He also reports of a light on the
horizon. It has been said that the "Devil's Triangle" is one of the two places on earth that a magnetic compass does point towards true north. Normally it points toward magnetic north. The difference between the two is known as compass variation. The amount of variation changes by as much as 20 degrees as one circumnavigates the earth. If this is the case and a compass variation or error is not compensated for, a navigator could find himself far off course and in deep trouble.Another environmental factor is the character of the Gulf Stream. It is extremely swift and turbulent and can quickly erase any evidence of a disaster. The unpredictable Caribbean-Atlantic weather pattern also plays its role. Sudden local thunder storms and water spouts often spell disaster for pilots and mariners. Finally, the topography of the ocean floor varies from extensive shoals around the islands to some of the deepest marine trenches in the world. With the interaction of the strong currents over the many reefs the topography is in a state of constant flux and development of new navigational hazards is swift. Not to be under estimated is the human error factor. A large number of pleasure boats travel the waters between Florida's Gold Coast and the Bahamas. All too often, crossings are attempted with too small a boat, insufficient knowledge of the area's hazards, and a lack of good seamanship.gas Dr. Ben Clennell, of Leeds University, England, is not the first to make note of the possibility of methane hydrates as a source for causing ships to disappear, he has become identified with the theory which, on September 21, 1998, at the Festival of Earth Sciences at Cardiff, Wales, he proposed methane hydrates as the future of energy.As a part of his elaborate dissertation he claimed that methane locked below the sea sediments in the Bermuda Triangle can explain the mysterious disappearances. He told how subterranean landslides can unlock the vast beds of methane hydrate. This would be disastrous, he told the audience, because large amounts of methane would reduce the density of the water. “This would make any ship floating above sink like a rock.” He went on to explain how the highly combustible gas could also ignite aircraft engines and blow them to pieces. Although I believe a certain percentage of flammable gas to air is required for the atmosphere to become combustible.aliens and time There is another school of thought regarding the disappearance of people along with their craft, it is thought that they are "trapped in-between time dimensions," of which there is "no way out." These disappearances are accidental and not intentional. The victims were in the wrong place, at the wrong time.The "Bermuda Triangle" is one of two portals, used by the "human-like" aliens, to travel from their planet to ours. The "Bermuda Triangle" is not actually a triangle. When it is "in-phase," it is constantly in motion and in intensity (between one to one and a half mile wide). The disappearances occur when caught in the center or within the first two outward radiating rings.The occurrence takes place 25 times a year and lasts for 28 minutes, for the "Bermuda Triangle." The "Pacific Triangle," takes place only 3 times a year. The "Bermuda and the Pacific Triangles" are linked to other triangles that exist throughout the universe. The "human-like" aliens technology enable them to use "time compression, solar power and the ability to reduce friction," for travelling across vast distances. It takes them approximately 24 hours to travel from their planet to Earth.These "time holes" can be described as an "accordion in motion." When the "time hole" is compressed, the craft enters one end and when the "time hole" expands itself, the craft is at the opposite end exiting one "time hole" and entering another. The "human-like" aliens know exactly which "time hole" is compressed, at any given time.atlantis & crystals This theory was helped along in more recent years by the psychic Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) who became the U.S.'s most prominent advocate of a factual Atlantis. Widely known as "The Sleeping Prophet," Cayce claimed the ability to see the future and to communicate with long-dead spirits from the past. He identified hundreds of people...including himself ...as reincarnated Atlanteans.Cayce said that Atlantis had been situated near the Bermuda island of Bimini. He believed that Atlanteans possessed remarkable technologies, including supremely powerful "fire-crystals" which they harnessed for energy. A disaster in which the fire-crystals went out of control was responsible for Atlantis's sinking, he said, in what sounds very much like a cautionary fable (what is that about history repeating itself ?) on the dangers of nuclear power. If still intermitently active beneath the ocean waves, damaged fire-crystals send out energy fields that interfere with passing ships and aircraft...which is how Cayce accounted for the Bermuda Triangle.Cayce prophesied that "elements of Atlantis would rise in 1968 and 1969". The Bimini Wall or Road was discovered off the coast of Bimini in 1968.ray brown's crystal In 1970, Dr. Ray Brown, a naturopathic practitioner from Mesa, Arizona, went scuba diving with some friends near the Bari Islands in the Bahamas, close to a popular area known as the Tongue of the Ocean (This was depicted in the television show, "In Search Of...Atlantis," originally made in 1979. During one of his dives, Brown became separated from his friends and while searching for them he was startled when he came across a strange pyramid shape silhouetted against the aquamarine light. Upon investigating further, Brown was surprised by how smooth and mirror-like was the stone surface of the whole structure, with the joints between the individual blocks almost indiscernible. Swimming around the capstone, which Brown thought might have been lapis lazuli, he discovered an entrance and decided to explore inside. Passing along a narrow hallway, Brown finally came to a small rectangular room with a pyramid-shaped ceiling. He was totally amazed that this room contained no algae or coral growing on the inner walls. They were completely spotless! In addition, though Brown had brought no torch with him, he could nevertheless see everything in the room with his normal eyesight. The room was well lit, but no direct light source was visible. Brown's attention was drawn to a brassy metallic rod three inches in diameter hanging down from the apex of the center of the room and at its end was attached a many-facetted red gem, which tapered to a point. Directly below this rod and gem, sitting in the middle of the room, was a stand of carved stone topped by a stone plate with scrolled ends. On the plate there was a pair of carved metal bronze-colored hands, life-sized, which appeared blackened and burnt, as if having been subjected to tremendous heat. Nestled in the hands, and situated four feet directly below the ceiling rod gem point, was a crystal sphere four-inches in diameter. Brown tried to loosen the ceiling rod and red gemstone but neither would move. Returning to the crystal sphere, he found, to his amazement, that it separated easily from the bronze hand holders. With the crystal sphere in his right hand he then made his way out of the pyramid. As he departed, Brown felt an unseen presence and heard a voice telling him never to return! Fearing, rightly, that his unusual prize might be confiscated as salvage-treasure by the American Government, Dr. Brown did not reveal the existence of his strange crystal sphere, nor did he relate his experiences until 1975, when he exhibited his crystal for the first time at a psychic seminar in Phoenix. Since that time, the crystal sphere has made only a very few public appearances but on each occasion people who have seen it have experienced strange phenomena directly associated with it. Deep inside the crystal form, one gazes upon three pyramidal images, one in front of the other,in decreasing sizes. Some people who enter a deep meditative state of consciousness are able to discern a fourth pyramid, in the foreground of the other three. Elizabeth Bacon, a New York psychic, claimed while in trance, that the crystal sphere had once belonged to Thoth, the Egyptian God who was responsible for burying a secret vault of knowledge in Giza, near the three great Pyramids. Perhaps the positions of the three pyramidal images in the crystal sphere hold the long-sought key to finding a fourth, as yet unfound, subterranean pyramid that will lead us to the Hall of Records? Who knows? Looking at the crystal sphere from the side, the internal images dissolve into thousands of tiny fracture lines. Brown feels that these may prove to be electrical in nature, like some form of microscopic circuitry. From yet another angle, and under special conditions, many people have been able to see a large single human eye staring out serenely at them. Photographs of this eye have also been taken. I have not been able to find this photo anywhere. If you know anything about the photo of the eye drop me a line please.Dr. Brown's crystal sphere has been the source of a wide variety of paranormal and mysterious occurrences. People have felt breezes or winds blowing close to it. Both cold and warm layers surround it at various distances. Other witnesses have observed phantom lights, heard voices or felt strange tingling sensations surrounding it. A compass needle, when placed next to the crystal sphere, will spin counter-clockwise, then commence turning in the opposite direction when moved only inches away. Metals become temporarily magnetized when they come into close contact with the sphere. There are even recorded instances where healing has taken place by merely touching the sphere. We may only speculate as to why the crystal sphere was created and what part it once played within the underwater Bahamas pyramid discovered by Ray Brown.

Friday, May 27, 2005

Nessie

Nessie

"Nessie" is an alleged creature living in Loch Ness, a long, deep lake near Inverness, Scotland. Many sightings of the "monster" have been recorded, going back at least as far as St. Columba, the Irish monk who converted most of Scotland to Christianity in the 6th century. Columba apparently converted Nessie, too; for it is said that until he went out on the waters and soothed the beast, she had been a murderess. The modern legend of Nessie begins in 1934 with Dr. Robert Kenneth Wilson, a London physician, who allegedly photographed a plesiosaur-like beast with a long neck emerging out of the murky waters. That photo created quite a fuss. Before the photo, Loch Ness was the stuff of legend and myth. The locals knew the ancient history of the sea serpent. But people came to the lake more to relax than to go on expeditions looking for mythical beasts. After the photo, the scientific experts were called in. First, they examined the photo itself. Could be a plesiosaur. Yes, but it could be a tree trunk, too. Or an otter. Later, there would be explorations by a submarine with high tech sensing devices. Today, we have a full-blown tourist industry said to have generated about $37 million in 1993, complete with submarine rides (about one hundred bucks an hour in 1994) and a multi-media tourist center. For those who can't go to Scotland, there is a webcam site for your viewing pleasure with cameras placed both above and below the water. [Well, there was a webcam. The maintainers of that site lament: "After five years of Nessie hunting both above and below the waterline, Scotland On Line's research grant has now been terminated. Accordingly we have closed our webcams and this site."There have been other photographs of Nessie, as well. The tabloids will pay good money for a photo of Nessie, and some enterprising souls have camped out for years in hopes of capturing the elusive beast on film. One good photo and they can retire for life! The Smithsonian even has a WWW page on Nessie, where it advocates continued scientific investigation into the matter. According to the Smithsonian, Even though most scientists believe the likelihood of a monster is small, they keep an open mind as scientists should and wait for concrete proof in the form of skeletal evidence or the actual capture of such a creature. We suggest...that those individuals interested in such a phenomenon...join the International Society of Cryptozoology, a scientific organization that critically looks at issues involving unknown creatures of unexpected form and size, and subjects them to technical review.Keep on looking! Of course, this is the same Smithsonian which, in the January 1996 issue of its monthly magazine, ran a highly uncritical article on dowsing. We have come to expect the disingenuous defense of open-mindedness from the tabloids as they exploit our love of mystery and wonder; but we thought the Smithsonian would take a higher road and present empirical studies instead of uncritical wishful thinking. It may be the case that the Smithsonian has found that in order to compete and survive it must cater to the tabloid mentality of the general public and elected officials. What's next? Bigfoot T-shirts as part of their annual membership drive? In addition to the photographs of Nessie, there have been numerous sightings reported in the testimonials of unquestionably reliable witnesses. How could anyone look at all this "evidence" and dismiss Nessie as a figment of people's imagination, as just another case of pareidolia (another Virgin Mary in the tortilla)? Easy. Let's start with the photographs.In a story not nearly as fascinating or obscure as the Piltdown man episode, but at least on par with the faked fairy photos that gulled Arthur Conan Doyle, the most famous photo of Nessie as a relative of the long-extinct plesiosaurs was reported to have been faked. David Martin, a zoologist, and Alastair Boyd were members of a scientific project to find Nessie. They are credited by the London Sunday Telegraph [March, 12, 1994] as having dug up the story of the faked photo, which was staged using a toy submarine. Christian Spurling, who died in the fall of 1993, was said to have made a deathbed confession of his role in the prank. The fake photo was not taken by Wilson--his name was used to give the photo stature and integrity--but by Spurling's stepbrother, Ian Wetherell. Ian's father, Marmaduke ("Duke") Wetherell, had been hired by the London Daily Mail to find the monster. Wetherell was a filmmaker who described himself as a "big game hunter." What bigger game could there be than Nessie? Except that the big game was actually a small model of a sea serpent made of plastic wood attached to a 14-inch toy submarine! Actually, the game did get big as the little prank created such a huge fuss that the pranksters decided that the best thing for them to do would be to keep quiet. Alastair Boyd, mentioned above as one of the researchers who uncovered the photo hoax, claims he made a genuine sighting of Nessie in 1979. His Nessie didn't look like a dinosaur, though. More like a whale, he said. It was at least 20 feet long and he says he saw it roll around in the water. Now, it's not likely that there are any 20-foot otters, but there are 20-foot logs. There are also errors in guessing at the size of things seen in the distance for a few seconds under less than ideal conditions. No matter, Boyd is convinced there are 20-foot long creatures in the loch. One would think they'd be hard to miss.Since the Loch Ness monster story has been around for more than 1500 years, if there is a monster it is not likely that it is the same monster seen by St. Columba. Or, are we to believe that not only is Nessie very big, she is very old as well, a veritable Methusala among beasts? In short, there must be more than one monster. I'll leave it to the zoologists to calculate how many monsters are necessary to maintain the species over the years. One report I read claimed that a minimum population of ten creatures would be needed to sustain the population. The same report claims that Loch Ness is incapable of sustaining a predator weighing more than about 300 kg (about 660 pounds) [The Naturalist, winter 1993/94, reported in The Daily Telegraph]. Adrian Shine, head of the Loch Ness Project, once said the monster could be a Baltic sturgeon, a primitive fish with a snout and spines which can grow up to nine feet long and weigh in at around 450 pounds. This may sound like just another fish story to some, but there is scientific evidence that Nessie is, at best, a big fish in a big lake, or a big wake in a big lake. Shine, who has been studying the Loch Ness story for some twenty-five years, now thinks that what people see when they think they see the "monster" is actually an underwater wave. A similar view has been presented by Luigi Piccardi, an Italian geologist "who is convinced that seismic rumblings far below the famous Scottish lake cause the roiling waves, deep groans and explosive blasts that have for centuries led people to believe that a giant beast lurks below the loch's murky surface ("Mystery unlocked? A scientist says he's solved a monster controversy -- the 'beast' in Loch Ness is merely an illusion created by earthquakes," San Francisco Chronicle, June 27, 2001 by Chuck Squatriglia).The Naturalist reported on extensive studies of the lake's ecology that indicate that the lake is capable of supporting no more than 30 metric tons of fish. (The food chain of the lake is driven by bacteria, which break down vegetation, rather than algae like most lakes.) Estimating that a group of predators would weigh no more than 10 percent of the total weight of the fish available for them to consume, researchers arrived at the 300-kg (660-lb.) statistic. It strikes me as extremely odd that with all the sophisticated technology, the submarines, and the thousands of voyeurs that after all these years we still don't have a single specimen. We don't have a carcass; we don't even have a bone to examine. With at least ten of these huge monsters swimming around in the lake at any given time, you'd think that there would be at least one unambiguous sighting by now. You would think so, that is, unless you want to keep the hoax/myth/legend alive. I can't deny that there are good economic reasons for keeping the Loch Ness monster myth alive. It's good for tourism. And there are all those "scientific" investigations to be paid for with government funds and private donations: full employment for cryptozoologists. Then, of course, there is all that film sold to photographers in search of The Big One. But tourism grew out of the myth, not the other way around. This story would be told with or without multi-media centers and gift shops full of Nessie mementos. Besides the photo which Mr. Boyd and others have exposed as a fake, there are many other photos of Nessie to consider. Not all photos of Nessie are fakes. Some are genuine photos of the lake. These photos are always very gray and grainy, taken of murky waters with lots of shadows and outlines. There is no question that in some of these there does appear to be a form which could be taken for a sea serpent. The form could also be taken for a log, a shadow on a wave, a wave itself, driftwood or flotsam. Anyone who has traveled around Loch Ness will not be disappointed in the variety of forms which one will see when looking out upon the waters. The lake is very long, and on the day I was there it was very turbulent, even though the day was a rather pleasant one as far as Scottish summer days go. Obviously, since I was there for only one day, I had not come to Loch Ness to do any serious research into the monster. I'll confess that I didn't even bother to stop in Drumnadrochit to take in the Loch Ness Monster Exhibit, which, according to Fodor's guide book to Scotland, "presents the facts and the fakes." I was on vacation, traveling with my wife, daughter, future son-in-law, and a dear friend. We headed down the B862, which affords intermittent views of the lake from the east side. It was a pleasant drive among moors and conifer spikes, but nothing spectacular in a land of glorious spectacles. The drive northward on the west bank along the A82 takes you right along the lake in many places and past the famous Urquhart castle, a "favorite monster-watching spot" (Fodor's). Urquhart is on the tourist bus trail and gets more than its share of visitors. I had wanted to stop there and take advantage of its excellent location for monster watching but I couldn't get into the parking lot. I drove north past the castle, looking for a place to turn around, and after many miles finally found one. I drove south, past the castle again, as the parking lot guard waved me on by the castle: the lot was still full. I drove for miles looking for a place to turn around again, finally found one, and made a third pass with the same result. Was it a sign from Nessie? We had to do most of our viewing of Loch Ness from the road. While we didn't see any monsters that day, I still have a vivid memory of one of Scotland's longest (24 miles) and deepest lakes (750, 800, or 900 ft. in places, depending on which source you pick). I have no doubt that anyone who stared across those murky, wavy, shadowy waters would see many things that could be Nessie. I don't doubt that many, if not most, of the thousands of witnesses who testify to having seen Nessie are honest, decent folk who have interpreted their perceptions according to their wishes. They have come to the lakeside and they have been blessed with a visitation! They are truly special and their lives are now marked forever as unique. Best of all: they have a story to tell for the rest of their lives. In many ways they are like the young lady who declared that the highlight of her life was when she saw music icon Michael Jackson being whisked through a department store: "it was like seeing a UFO," she declared! I'll bet she'll be telling the story of her Michael Jackson sighting for years to come. Who knows to what epic proportions the young lady's tale might grow? Perhaps it will grow as big as Loch Ness itself, like the legend of Nessie.The BBC claims it has proved that Nessie the plesiosaur (a marine reptile) does not exist. What they did was use satellite navigation technology to aim 600 separate sonar beams through Loch Ness to ensure that none of the loch was missed and found no trace of the monster. The research team hoped their instruments would pick up the air in Nessie's lungs as it reflected a distorted signal back to the sonar sensors. The only signal they got was from their test buoy moored several meters below the surface."We went from shoreline to shoreline, top to bottom on this one, we have covered everything in this loch and we saw no signs of any large living animal in the loch," said Ian Florence, one of the specialists who carried out the survey for the BBC.* The show, called Searching For The Loch Ness Monster, was made for BBC One.

Atlantis

Atlantis

Plato had thoughts about Atlantis. He thought that Atlantis was founded by Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea. He and a mortal woman supposedly had 5 pairs of male children. They lived in peace and harmony. Bulls supposedly roamed freely through the temple. The 10 kings, or Poseidon’s 10 kids, hunted the bulls. When a bull was caught, it was sacrificed so that its blood spilled over the pillar inscribed with the laws. Then the kings prayed and swore to obey Poseidon’s laws and to punish anyone who had violated them. But eventually, the people forgot their divine ancestry- human nature got the upper hand. The people grew more interested in amassing wealth than maintaining their virtue. Supposedly, Zeus, the king god in Greek mythology, saw this detoriation of the Atlanteans. He decided to punish them so they would see the error in their ways and change. Plato left the story hanging. He never finished. Some think that the island of Thera was Atlantis, and the great empire was destroyed by a gigantic volcanic explosion. Edgar Cayce, or the Sleeping Prophet, made many psychic readings on Atlantis. He stated that spirits existed on the earth millions of years ago. This is his story. The spirits could enter and leave bodily form at will. Gradually, as they began to enjoy the pleasures of the world, they became trapped in various physical forms, in the material world. Some of them became human while others became stranger creatures, or entities, that are unknown to us today. Atlantis was the home of the first civilization. However, as humans became more and more intrenched in their material form, they seemed to forget their divine origins. A rift grew between two groups of humans. Those Cayce called the Children of the Law of One continued to develop and respect the divine or spiritual part of themselves. The others, the Sons of Belial, became greedy, materialistic, and immoral. The Sons of Belial mingled and even mated with the strange entities and the animals that lived among them. This mating produced bizarre creatures. After a period of time, the monstrosities and animals that were a result of the corruption of the Sons of Belial became a serious threat to the people of Atlantis and the other continents. Huge birds and large carnivorous animals, possibly dinosaurs, attacked from the skies and on land. Several of Cayce’s readings speak of the Atlanteans gathering together with other nations to find a way to rid the continents of the large animals that threatened them all. Cayce said this meeting occurred in 50,722 BC. By this time, the Atlanteans were advanced technology. Cayce’s readings tell of machines that could speed through the air and through the water. The Atlanteans were also able to harness the forces of nature for energy and communication. They had learned how to generate power from crystals. They may even have known how to generate energy from atoms. Armed with their great knowledge, they were able to build explosives to destroy the large animals. One reading spoke of a death ray. It was just such destructive technology that the Atlanteans used to destroy the great animals. These explosions, however, also set off volcanic eruptions that changed the earth’s geography. According to Cayce, up to this time, earth had two major land masses-Atlantis and Lemuria, another “lost continent.” The explosions caused Atlantis to drop into the Sargasso Sea, the shallow, weedy waters surrounding Bermuda. The remains of Atlantis broke into several large islands, and Lemuria began sinking into the sea. One of Cayce’s readings even states that explosions caused the earth to shift on its axis and the North and South Poles to come into their present positions. This first destruction of Atlantes happed close to 50,722 BC. As a result of this destruction, many Atlanteans migrated to other lands. They carried with them to their new lands the memories of their past place and that ideal time. Cayce’s second Atlantean period brought even greater technological development. Communications and transportation became more and more sophisticated. Cayce mentioned in a reading that there were machines that “not only sailed in the air but in other elements, also.” He described destructive forces, or as he called them, the nightside of life. His son, Edgar Evans Cayce, suggests that he was referring to nuclear power. Cayce also described other Atlantean inventions: elevators, television, radio, and radar devices. Cayce’s readings also told of the development of electrical machinery, radiant heating, chemistry, x-rays, and overcoming gravity. He gave detailed explanations of the technology of many of these inventions of the Atlanteans. Much of what Cayce described must have sounded farfetched to his listeners in the 1930, but he might just as well have been describing the present-day United States as the legendary Atlantis of 10,000 to 50,000 years ago. This second period also was one of great discord over whether to follow the guidance of the Children of the Law of One or the lifestyle of the Sons of Belial. Much of the discord had to due with treatment of the “things” or lower-class beings. According to Edgar Evans Cayce, the “things” were treated like robots or slaves. The Sons of Belial wanted to continue to use the “things” for menial work. The Children of the Law of One wanted to help the “things” reclaim their humanness. The Atlanteans had reached a very high level of psychic power. They were able to leave their own bodies through meditation. They understood the spiritual and natural laws of the universe. The were able to harness the power of plants and minerals. They understood the meaning of the stars and their influences. The Children of the Law of One built temples and, through powers unknown today, were able to treat the “things” by removing their tails, feathers, wings, sales, and claws. With some form of electrical impulse, they were also able to heal their minds. The Sons of Belial also had psychic powers and knowledge of how to manipulate the natural laws. They used their awesome powers for destructive purposes. There was disagreement over the use of these powers and over the explosive devices and other scientific discoveries. The Sons of Belial used there knowledge for selfish gain while the Children of the Law of One used their knowledge for healing the earth and its inhabitants. Gradually, as the civilization of Atlantis advanced technologically and materially, Cayce reported that it continued to degenerate spiritually. There was a deteriorating of the physical and spiritual bodies, just as there was a wasting away of the mountains and valleys into the sea. Around 28,800 BC., there was a period of tremendous storms, with volcanic explosions and great flooding. It is not clear whether the Atlanteans and their discord were responsible for this occurrence or if it was a natural disaster. Some people, perhaps through their psychic powers, knew of the coming destruction. Before this second catastrophe, there was a major Atlantean migration to other lands, especially to the Americas. The second destruction split Atlantis into smaller islands, with much of its land disappearing into the sea forever. Many people died. Many fled. But eventually, the land quieted down. Order was reestablished among the people. However, the discord soon resumed. The Children of the Law of On and the Sons of Belial continued to battle each other. Scientific achievements were unsurpalled, but the moral base continued to deteriorate. Particularly important to the fate of Atlantis were the Great Crystals or “firestones”. The firestones were devices for producing power. The sun’s light was concentrated through a reflective store or crystal with was capped with a special mechanism. The firestones were housed in domed buildings, and a portion of the roof could be rolled back to capture the sun’s energy. The crystals could be used to provide power for the cities, to guide aircraft in the dark, and to heal the human body. In the sons of Belial, however, the Great Crystals became instruments of torture and punishment. The conflict between the Children of the Law of One and the Sons of Belial increased. Violence spread across the land. Many people left for safer places. Eventually, the power in the firestones, accidentally turned up too high, brought the final destruction to Atlantis. Gigantic land upheavals shook the foundations of the earth. Great islands crumbled into the sea and were inundated flooded. Only scattered mountain peaks remained to mark the sunken graves. Edgar Cayce predicted that there would be some remains of Atlantis rising out of the water near Bimmini in the late 1960s or the early 1970s. Found there was what was called the Bimini Road. A long line of stones set like a road. Cayce’s life readings often referred to the historical records of Atlantis. He also repeatedly said that those who left Atlantis took records and knowledge with them. For several hundred years before the final destruction, he stated, large groups of Atlanteans left their homeland for Egypt, Portugal, France, and Spain to the east and the Americas to the west. These people seemed to know that their land was about to be destroyed. They took all many of written records of Atlantis’s advanced civilization with them. Cayce’s reading dealt heavily with the Atlanteans who fled to Egypt. There, the Atlanteans contributed their superior knowledge to help the Egyptians improve their farming, transportation, arts, metalworking, and building. They also helped the Egyptians construct such wonders as the mighty pyramids of Giza. Cayce said that the Atlanteans buried the extensive writings from their home country in a marvelous House of Records, located near the Great Sphinx at Giza. Cayce followers and Atlantists (people who try to prove the existence of Atlantis) hope that the House of Records will soon be discovered. It will prove not only that Atlantis existed but it will also that Cayce’s psychic powers are very real. Cayce also said that a set of records is buried somewhere in the Yucatan in Mexico, and a third set was buried in the sea with Atlantis itself. Cayce believed that a portion of Atlantis would one day rise again. These records would reveal the history of Atlantis and of human beginnings. It would also prove Atlantis’s vast knowledge of the universal laws. Unfortunately, none of these records has yet been found.


Planet X

Planet X

It is an old theory proposed by a handful of astronomers and scientists over the years. A professor at U.S. Berkeley has recently breathed new life into it.
Because Planet Earth has a long history of mass extinction of life about every 26 million years, scientists have long been trying to think of reasons why this happens.
The ideas have ranged from occasional strikes by major asteroids to the passage of a mystery "Planet X" that causes a pole shift and generates just enough havoc to kill large numbers, but not all life.
Richard A. Muller, a physicist at University of California, Berkeley, has dusted off an old idea that is about as plausible as all the others, and he has a handful of fellow scientists considering it.
Called the Nemesis theory, it goes like this: our Sun has a companion star, probably a dead dwarf, that swings in a very wide orbit that brings it close enough every so many hundred thousand years to cause wholesale death and destruction on Earth.
For Muller, the idea came by chance in about 1983 while discussing with colleagues the concept of another popular theory; that a large meteor impact wiped out the dinosaurs. But if that was so, the scientists wondered, why would similar events occur at those regular intervals of 26 million years? What might cause our planet to get bombarded with giant space rocks at those times but not others?
It was while pondering this question that Muller dreamed up the idea of a solar companion. He named the object after the Greek goddess of retribution. As one writer stated, he thought that was a fitting name for "a killer star that roamed stealthily between solar systems flicking comets at dinosaurs."
After working out the numbers and the plausibility with his colleagues, Muller found that the idea looked so possible he published his theory in the journal Nature in 1984, and then wrote a book.
Mueller suggests that the culprit may be a common red dwarf star, one of some 3,000 that are visible through binoculars or a small telescope from Earth. He believes the Nemesis orbit ranges from one to three light years away from the sun, but occasionally swings close, passing through the Oort Cloud, a halo of comets and space dust surrounding our solar system from beyond Neptune.
It is during that close pass that Nemesis does its lethal work.
The gravity of the passing star would scatter a storm of primordial comets, dislodging them from their once-stable orbits after billions of years. Many would be pulled toward the larger Sun by its gravity. And a handful of these giant bodies would crash into Earth.
The effect, of course, would hit the planet like a nuclear assault from space, causing massive clouds of dust, nuclear winter, a possible polar shift, and consequently, the mass extinction of life.
How plausible is Muller's idea?
The notion of companion stars is very common. Astronomers believe more than half of all known stars are part of such a binary system, where two stars are thought to have formed at the same time from a single cloud of gas and dust.
The interaction of binary stars is believed to involve a gravitational dance around a common point in the solar system. The larger star, which in our case is the Sun, remains close to the center of the system, while the smaller star orbits in a wide arch, but always returning to a point near the heart of the system.
Muller's theory is just that, a theory that is yet to be proven. And if he is right, the odds of a close passing of Nemesis anytime soon are extremely thin.
Or are they? The last major catastrophic event that took the dinosaurs and an estimated 70 percent of all life on Earth, is estimated to have happened about 65 million years ago. Perhaps a visit by the death star is long overdue.

Lemuria

The legend of Mu is found on islands all over the Pacific Ocean. For thousands of years the Polynesians have handed down the story of a continent in the Pacific that was motherland of mankind. The name of Mu somehow sounds like an uninteresting contraction of a more exotic name. In contrast, the word Lemuria invokes a picture of a land at the dawn of time, a land forgotten in our histories but not in our dreams. The name Lemuria resulted from a Nineteenth Century controversy over Darwin's Origin of the Species. Defenders of Darwin had trouble explaining how certain species became distributed over large areas. Zoologists had a particularly difficult time explaining the distribution of the lemurs. The lemur is a small primitive form of primate found in Africa, Madagascar, India, and the East Indian archipelago. Some zoologists suggested a land mass in the Indian Ocean, between Madagascar and India, millions of years ago. An English zoologist, Phillip L. Schlater, proposed the name Lemuria (LEMURia) for this former land of the LEMURS in the Indian Ocean.Earnst Heinrich Haeckel (1834-1919), a German naturalist and champion of Darwin, used Lemuria to explain the absence of fossil remains of early man: If man originated on a sunken continent in the Indian Ocean, all the fossils of the missing link are now under the sea. To quote Haeckel: "Schlater has given this continent the name of Lemuria, from the semi-apes which were characteristic of it." Zoologists have now explained the distribution of lemurs without resorting to the use of a land bridge. And anthropologists have discovered many bones of ancient man in Africa. However in the nineteenth century, Haeckel's theories were widely read and respected. As a result, the name Lemuria was well known among educated people in Europe and America.Madame Elena Petrovna Blavatsky (born Helena Hahn 1831-1891), the founder of Theosophy, in her book The Secret Doctrine (1888), claimed to have learned of Lemuria in The Book of Dzyan, which she said was composed in Atlantis and shown to her by the Mahatmas. However, in her writings she did give Philip Schlater the honor of inventing the name, Lemuria. Mme Blasvatsky located her Lemuria in the Indian Ocean about 150 million years ago. She may have obtained her ideas of a sunken land in the Indian Ocean from Sanskrit legends of the former continent of Rutas that sank beneath the sea. But the name Rutas sounds too spiritless and uninspiring to have held such a prominent place in cosmic history. She described the Lemurians as the third root race to inhabit the earth. They were egg-laying beings with a third eye that gave them psychic powers and allowed them to function without a brain. Originally bisexual, their downfall came about after they discovered sex. The English Theosophist W. Scott-Elliot, who said he received his knowledge from the Theosophical Masters by "astral clairvoyance", writes in The Story of Atlantis & The Lost Lemuria (1896), that the sexual exploits of the Lemurians so revolted the spiritual beings, the Lhas, that they refused to follow the cosmic plan of becoming the first to incarnate into the bodies of the Lemurians. Scott-Elliot located his Lemuria not only in the Indian Ocean: He described it as stretching from the east coast of Africa across the Indian AND the Pacific Oceans. In this century, writers have increasingly placed Lemuria in the Pacific Ocean. Even psychics and modern prophets channel beings who were citizens of Lemuria. Today just about everyone who has heard of Lemuria assumes that the legends of Mu are identical with the English zoologist's land of the lemurs.

Pegasus

Pegasus was a winged horse in Greek Mythology. The horse was born from the trickling blood of the Gorgon Medusa. Pegasus flew up to join the Gods and was caught by the Goddess Athena. Athena tamed the horse with a golden bridle. At this time it's said that Athena gave the golden bridle to Bellrophon before he started out to fight the Chimaera. Bellophron also tamed Pegasus with it but he soon became too proud. Pegasus threw him off and flew into the sky where Zeus made him into a constellation.

Pegasus is the name of a mythological Greek horse. It sprang from the blood of the slain Medusa, a snake-haired woman so ugly that a man would turn instantly to stone if he looked at her. The goddess Athena caught and tamed the horse with the silver wings and later presented him to the Muses who presided over the arts.
Besides being a symbol of the arts, especially writing, Pegasus was known to participate in many ancient battles, giving his rider a tremendous advantage. Eventually, Pegasus became the favorite of Zeus, the King of the gods, and carried the thunder and lightning bolts to him in battle.
For those of you that are not up on your classical mythology, here's a little more background on Pegasus, the winged horse. Well, it's more like the Reader's Digest version, but the plot is worthy of Melrose Place.
Pegasus sprang forth from the blood of the neck of Medusa where it hit the ground. Chrysaor also was created at the same time - he was created by the union of Poseidon and Medusa, but was not yet born when Medusa's head was removed. Unlike Pegasus, Chrysaor is portrayed as a monster of sorts.
Medusa was one of the three Gorgons, the other two were Stheno and Euryale (all three were sisters). Medusa was slain by Perseus, this task had been set for him by Polydectes (a local king where Perseus lived with his mother Danae). Polydectes wanted to marry Danae, but she had no dowry, so Perseus asked what he could provide instead. Polydectes did not like Perseus and hoped that the task of slaying Medusa would get rid of Perseus (because anyone who viewed Medusa's face turned to stone, hence the assumption by Polydectes that there was no way Perseus would be successful).
The goddess Athena assisted Perseus in this task, Athena was looking for revenge against Poseidon for sleeping with Medusa in one of her temples. Athena gave Perseus a special bronze shield to look at Medusa's reflection with, for anyone who looked at Medusa's head would be turned to stone. Athena also told Perseus where to go for more help; eventually he ended up with winged shoes, a cap that made him invisible, a bag to carry the head in, and a special sword (sounds more like a game of Dungeons and Dragons).
Once Perseus cut off Medusa's head, Pegasus was created and was set free. Eventually, Pegasus was tamed by Bellerophon. He used a golden bridle given to him by Athena to tame the horse. Their story comes to an end when Bellerophon tries to ride Pegasus "up to the heavens," and Zeus gets upset and sends a bolt of lightning that causes Bellerophon to be thrown to the ground. Though he survives the fall, he later dies in anonymity. The outcome for Pegasus is not clear.

Friday, May 20, 2005

Yeti

The yeti is a very shy creature. The yeti is rarley seen in the himalayan mountains. Here is the info that Ryan and I collected about the yeti.

The Himalaya Mountains, the highest range on Earth, have been referred to as the "roof of the world." If that is so, there is a mystery called the Yeti in our attic. In Tibetan the word means "magical creature" and truly it is a seemingly supernatural enigma in the shape of a hairy, biped creature that resembles a giant ape. The Himalayas lie on the border between India, Nepal, and Tibet (now part of China). They are remote and forbidding. Large stretches around these rough valleys and peaks are uninhabited. The tallest mountain in the world, Everest, 29,028 feet high, lies half in Nepal, half in China. It is from Nepal, though, that most attempts to climb Everest, and the surrounding mountains, are made. In Katmandu, the capitol of Nepal, a visitor finds himself immersed in the Yeti legend. He is a commercial money maker for the tourist industry (there's even a Hotel named the "Yak and the Yeti") as well as legend, religion and fantasy to some of the Nepalese people.
The first reliable report of the Yeti appeared in 1925 when a Greek photographer, N. A. Tombazi, working as a member of a British geological expedition in the Himalayas, was shown a creature moving in the distance across some lower slopes. The creature was almost a thousand feet away in a naira with an altitude of around 15,000 feet.
"Unquestionably, the figure in outline was exactly like a human being, walking upright and stopping occasionally to uproot or pull at some dwarf rhododendron bushes," said Tombazi, "It showed up dark against the snow and, as far as I could make out wore no clothes." The creature disappeared before Tombazi could take a photograph and was not seen again. The group was descending, though, and the photographer went out of his way to see the ground were he had spotted the creature. Tombazi found footprints in the snow. "They were similar in shape to those of a man, but only six to seven inches long by four inches wide at the broadest part of the foot. The marks of five distinct toes and the instep were perfectly clear, but the trace of the heel was indistinct..." There were 15 prints to be found. Each was one and one half to two feet apart. Then Tombazi lost the trail in thick brush. When the locals were asked to name the beast he'd seen they told him it was a "Kanchenjunga demon." Tombazi didn't think he'd seen a demon, but he couldn't figure out what the creature was either. Perhaps he'd seen a wandering Buddhist or Hindu ascetic or hermit. As the years went by though and other Yeti stories surfaced, Tombazi began to wonder if he'd seen one too. Yeti reports usually come in the form of tracks found, pelts offered, shapes seen at a distance, or rarely, actual face-to-face encounters with the creatures. Face to face encounters never come with researchers looking for the Yeti, but with locals who stumble into the creature during their daily lives. Some of the best tracks ever seen were found and photographed by British mountaineers Eric Shipton and Micheal Ward in 1951. They found them on the southwestern slopes of the Menlung Glacier, which lies between Tibet and Nepal, at an altitude of 20,000 feet. Each print was thirteen inches wide and some eighteen inches long. The tracks seemed fresh and Shipton and Ward followed the trail for a mile before it disappeared in hard ice. Some scientists that viewed the photographs could not identify the tracks as from any known creature. Others, though, felt it was probably the trail of a languar monkey or red bear. They noted the tracks in snow, melted by the sun, can change shape and grow larger. Even so, the bear/monkey theory seems unlikely as both of these animals normally move on all four feet. The tracks were clearly that of a biped. Shipton's and Ward's reputations argue against a hoax on their part and the remoteness and height of the trail's location argues against them being hoaxed.
Shipton's footprints were not the first or last discovered by climbers among the Himalayas. Even Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, on their record ascent to the top of Mount Everest, in 1953, found giant foot prints on the way up. One of the more curious reports of a close encounter with a Yeti occurred in 1938. Captain d'Auvergue, the curator of the Victoria Memorial in Calcutta, India, was traveling the Himalayas by himself when he became snowblind. As he neared death from exposure he was rescued by a nine foot tall Yeti that nursed him back to health until d'Auvergue was able to return home by himself. In many other stories, though, the Yeti hasn't been so benign. One Sherpa girl, who was tending her yaks, described being surprised by a large ape-like creature with black and brown hair. It started to drag her off, but seemed to be startled by her screams and let her go. It then savagely killed two of her yaks. She escaped with her life and the incident was reported to the police, who found footprints. Several expeditions have been organized to track down the Yeti, but none have found more than footprints and questionable artifacts like scalps and hides. The London Daily Mail sent an expedition in 1954. American oil men Tom Slick and F. Kirk Johnson financed trips in 1957, 58, and 59. Probably the most well-known expedition went in 1960. Sir Edmund Hillary, the same man that had first climbed Everest in 1953, lead the 1960 trip in association with Desmond Doig. The expedition was sponsored by the World Book Encyclopedia and was well outfitted with trip-wire cameras, as well as timelapse and infrared photography. Despite a ten-month stay the group failed to find any convincing evidence of the existence of the Yeti. The artifacts they examined, two skins and a scalp, turned out to belong to two blue bears and a serow goat. At the time Hillary and Doig wrote off the Yeti as legend. Later, though, Doig decided that the expedition hadbeen too big and clumsy. They didn't see a Yeti, he agreed, but nor did they observe such animals like the snow leopard which was known to exist. After spending thirty years in the Himalayas Doig believes that the Yeti is actually three animals. The first is what the Sherpas call the "dzu teh." Large shaggy animals that often attack cattle. Diog thinks this is probably the Tibetan blue bear. A creature so rare it is known only in the west through a few skins, bones and a skull. The second type, called "thelma," is probably a gibbon (a known type of ape) that Diog thinks may live as far north as Nepal, though it's never been spotted past the Brahmaputra River in India. The third Yeti, "mih teh," is the true abominable snowman of legend. A savage ape, covered with black or red hair that lives at altitudes of up to 20,000 feet.
So far there is no firm evidence to support the existence of the Yeti, but there is no way show that he doesn't exist either. If he indeed lives in the barren, frozen, upper reaches of the Himalayas where few men dare to tread, he may find his refuge safe for a long time to come.

Edgar Cayce

Ryan here. Edgar Cayce is one of my idols. He helped and healed many. He was a great man. Here is some info on how he got his powers and what he used them for.
Edgar Cayce
During his lifetime he was credited with assisting thousands of people suffering from all manner of ailments. But there was also a lesser known aspect to Cayce's psychic revelations. Occasionally while in a self-induced trance, Cayce would speak of events to come. He predicted the First and Second World War, the independence of India and the 1929 stockmarket crash. He also predicted, fifteen years before the event, the creation of the State of Israel.
Cayce was born on 18 March 1877, on a farm near Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He came from an old, conservative family, and as a child developed what became a lifelong interest in the Bible and the Church. His outlook was undoubtedly influenced by the Christian revivalist meetings which were popular at the time in that part of the country. At the age of seven or eight Edgar was sitting in a wooded clearing reading the Bible when he saw what he described as a bright vision of a winged figure clothed in white. The vision asked the child what he wanted in life, and Edgar responded that he wished to help others. The next day, so the story goes, Edgar was having difficulty learning his spelling homework. In his mind he heard the voice of his vision telling him to sleep that he might be helped. The boy did as he was told, laying his head on his spelling book. A little later he awoke to find he knew the spelling of every word
At the age of fifteen, Edgar suffered an accident a school. He was struck on the back of his neck by a baseball. The boy went into a semi-stupor, and while in that state, told his parents to prepare a special poultice and apply it to the nape of his neck, at the base of his brain. To appease their son, his parents did as they were told, and in the morning, the boy was completely recovered. Followers of Cayce say this was his very first health reading.
He worked on a farm, then in a shoestore, and later a bookstore. By the age of twenty-one, he had become the salesman for a wholesale stationery company. At about this time, Cayce contracted a throat problem which developed into aphonia -- a total loss of voice. Doctors he approached were unable to help him, and Cayce began toregard his problem as incurable. He resorted to hypnosis, but this too had no useful effect until it occurred to Cayce to attempt re-entering the kind of hypnotic sleep which had enabled him to learn his schoolbooks when he was a boy. A hypnotist was found who was willing to give Cayce the necessary suggestion. Once in a trance, Cayce reportedly spoke in a clear voice, spelling out precisely what his symptoms were, and what should be done to cure them. Cayce had succeeded in curing himself.
He regarded his problem as incurable. He resorted to hypnosis, but this too had no useful effect until it occurred to Cayce to attempt re-entering the kind of hypnotic sleep which had enabled him to learn his schoolbooks when he was a boy. A hypnotist was found who was willing to give Cayce the necessary suggestion. Once in a trance, Cayce reportedly spoke in a clear voice, spelling out precisely what his symptoms were, and what should be done to cure them.

It made no difference to Cayce whether his patient was sitting next to him in the same room or a total stranger living hundreds of miles away. His preparations for the health reading were always the same. As he himself described it, he would first loosen his clothing in order to have a perfectly freeflowing circulation. He would then lie on the couch in his office, with his head to the south, and his feet to the north. Placing his hands on his forehead between his eyes, he would wait a few moments until he received what he would call the go signal, a flash of brilliant white light. Cayce would then move his hands to his solar plexus, and fall into a trance. His wife would tell him the name and location of the patient, leaving out any mention of age, sex or physical problem. Cayce might pause a while before repeating the name and address until he had succeeded in 'locating' the patient and describing his or her condition. He would then prescribe medication and any other corrective measures, always ending his reading with the words: "We are through.

Over a period of forty-three years, he read for more than six thousand people. In 1933, when he had been exercising his powers for thirty-one years, he explained that he still understood very little about what he was doing. "Apparently," he said, "I am one of the few who can lay aside their own personalities sufficiently to allow their souls to make this attunement to a universal source of knowledge -- but I say this without any desire to brag about it. In fact I do not claim to possess anything that other individuals do not inherently possess. Really and truly, I do not believe there is a single individual that does not possess this same ability I have. I am certain that all human beings have much greater powers than they are ever conscious of -- if they would only be willing to pay the price of detachment from self-interest that it takes to develop those abilities.
Cayce's prophetic powers often emerged during the readings he gave. In the main, his prophecies had little or nothing to do with the original request for a reading. Sometimes they were to do with financial matters, although Cayce's readings stressed repeatedly that they should not be used for personal gain. Indeed Cayce found to his own cost early on in his career that if he did attempt to make money out of the information he received in his trances, he would suffer for it physically with headaches and stomach upsets. But other people were not so affected. Cayce gave advice to businessmen who were worried about the location of their holdings or the stability of their stocks and bonds. On occasion, he pointed to the location of oil wells, and correctly prophesied a real estate boom in the Norfolk-Newport area of the United States. Six months before the 1929 stockmarket crash he warned people to sell everything they owned. Many who had followed Cayce before failed to pay heed to his warning then, and lost all they had.
The sleeping prophet, as Cayce has been nicknamed, predicted the beginning and end of both the First and Second World Wars, and the lifting of the Depression in 1933. In the 1920s, he first warned of coming racial strife in the United States, and in 1939 he predicted the deaths of two presidents in office. In October 1935, Cayce spoke of the coming holocaust in Europe. The Austrians and Germans, he said, and later the Japanese, would take sides. Two of Cayce's major predictions concerned the futures of China and the Soviet Union, the world's great Communist giants.
Cayce also predicted the possibility of a third world war. He spoke of strifes arising "near the Davis Straits," and "in Libya, and in Egypt, in Ankara, and in Syria; through the straits around those areas above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf." When asked in June 1943 whether it would be feasible to work towards an international currency or a stabilization of international exchange levels when the war had ended, Cayce replied that it would be a long, long time before this would happen. Indeed, he said, "there may be another war over just such conditions."
Cayce believed in reincarnation. Each person, in his view, existed in a self-conscious form before birth and would exist again after death. As well as his health readings, Cayce gave many hundreds of so-called "life" readings, during which he would describe his subject's past lives. A number of those readings referred to past incarnations in the legendary lost land of
Atlantis. In all, Cayce referred to Atlantis no fewer than seven hundred times in his readings over a span of twenty years.
He maintained that Atlantis had a civilization which was technologically superior to our own, and that its last surviving islands had disappeared in the area of the Caribbean some ten thousand years ago. His most specifically timed forecast was that Atlantis would rise again in 1968 or 1969. Needless to say, Cayce was wrong on that count. [Note: However, it was in that timeframe that the "Bimini Road" was located in the Atlantic Ocean. Whether this is a "road" or "natural, geologic erosion" is being hotly debated.]
Cayce said the size of Atlantis was equal to "that of Europe, including Asia in Europe." He saw visions of a continent which had gone through three major periods of division; the first two about 15,600 BCE, when the mainland was divided into islands. The three main islands Cayce named Poseida, Og and Aryan. He said the Atlanteans had constructed giant laser-like crystals for power plants, and that these had been responsible for the second destruction of the land. Cayce blamed the final destruction on the disintegration of the Atlantean culture through greed and lust. But before the legendary land disappeared under the waves, Cayce believed there was an exodus of many Atlanteans through Egypt and further afield. Cayce attributed history's Great Flood in part to the sinking of the last huge remnants of Atlantis.
But Cayce's most striking predictions -- particularly in view of many other prophecies relating to the approaching end of the millennium -- concern dramatic changes in the Earth's surface in the period of 1958 to 1998. The cause of these he put down to a tilting in the Earth's rotational axis which he said would begin in 1936.
The first sign of this change in the Earth's core would be the "breaking up of some conditions" in the South Pacific and "sinking or rising" in the Mediterranean or Etna area. Cayce forecast that, by the end of the century, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco would be destroyed. He said that "the greater portion of Japan must go into the sea" at this time, and that northern Europe would be "changed as in the twinkling of an eye." In 1941, Cayce predicted that lands would appear in the Atlantic and the Pacific in the coming years, and that "the coastline now of many a land will be the bed of the ocean. Even many of the battlefields of (1941) will be ocean, will be the sea, the bays, the lands over which the new order will carry on their trade as with one another."
"Watch New York, Connecticut and the like. Many portions of the east coast will be disturbed, as well as many portions of the west coast, as well as the central portion of the United States. Los Angeles, San Francisco, most of all these will be among those that will be destroyed before New York, or New York City itself, will in the main disappear. This will be another generation though, here; while the southern portions of Carolina, Georgia, these will disappear. This will be much sooner. The waters of the Great Lakes will empty into the Gulf of Mexico."
Cayce prophesied that the Earth's axis would be shifted by the year 2001, bringing on reversals in climate, "so that where there has been a frigid or semi-tropical climate, there will be a more tropical one, and moss and fern will grow." By this time, he indicated, a new cycle would begin.
Edgar Cayce's last reading on 17 September 1944, was for himself. He was now receiving thousands of requests for assistance. His own readings had repeatedly warned him that he should not try to undertake more than two sessions a day. But many of the letters he received were from mothers worried about their sons on the battlefields, and Cayce felt he could not refuse them his aid. His last reading told him that the time had come for him to stop working and rest. On New Year's Day, 1945, he announced that he would be buried on the fifth of January. He was right.
Ten years earlier, Cayce had written a brief account of his work. In it, he said, "The life of a person endowed with such powers is not easy. For more than forty years now I have been giving readings to those who came seeking help. Thirty-five years ago the jeers, scorn and laughter were even louder than today. I have faced the laughter of ignorant crowds, the withering scorn of tabloid headlines, and the cold smirk of self-satisfied intellectuals. But I have also known the wordless happiness of little children who have been helped, the gratitude of fathers and mothers and friends... I believe that the attitude of the scientific world is gradually changing towards these subjects

Area 51

we would like to thank all the people in which we got info from. We got info from the search engine google, and we found sites that helped us in doing research. We also got info from books we read, and many different websites. Here is a very interesting topic.

“Area 51" is a part of an off-limits military base near Groom Dry Lake in Nevada. UFOers are sure it is used to hide aliens from us. The state of Nevada recently designated a barren 98-mile stretch of Route 375, which runs near Area 51, as the Extraterrestrial Highway. Such a move is no doubt proof of a government attempt to throw us off the track and think there is not a cover-up when there is one. This is a cover-up of the cover-up, typical of government agencies when dealing with sensitive information regarding UFOs and aliens.
Since you can be shot if you try to trespass on the military base where Area 51 is located, UFO tourists must view the sacred ground from a distant vantage point. Many do this, hoping for a glimpse of a UFO landing. Apparently, our government has a treaty with the aliens that allows them to fly into this area at will, as long as we can experiment on them and try to duplicate their aircraft. You don't really think that any human could have come up with the idea of the Stealth Bomber, do you?
Skeptics don't doubt that something secret is going on in area 51. And what is going on may be more sinister than building secret aircraft or developing new weapons. "Sixty Minutes" did a segment where Leslie Stahl suggested that area 51 might be an illegal dumping ground for toxic substances. If so, Area 51 might turn out to be hazardous to your health in more ways than one. Several former workers at Area 51 and widows of former workers have filed lawsuits against the government for injuries or death resulting from illegal hazardous waste practices. So far the government has been protected from such suits because of "national security." In fact, the government does not even acknowledge the existence of the base known as Area 51. Such denials, of course, do little more than provide more ammo for those who claim there is a government conspiracy to cover up just about anything it's ever been involved in.

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

About Nemisis

My friend Ryan, and I, Kevin, have created a company called Nemisis Inc. The purpose of this comapany is to inform you about mythical or ledgeandary, or questionalble theroies, creatures, or beings, or places. Ryan and I created this company in 2004. It is a non-profit organisation, which means that we do not make a profit off of it. Nemisis is spelled wrong,but we like it spelled that way. Nemisis was postponed because we are in sixth grade and we had major book reports due and we had no time to do Nemisis. We do research on interesting things. We Strongly advise everyone, DO NOT use these subjects as your topic for your research paper. Most of it is opinion. No hard solid facts. Below is some information on those topics.