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n his book Underworld (2002), researcherGraham Hancock suggested that the long-

sought evidence for antediluvian civilization(commonly thought of as Atlantis, though,in all likelihood, something much more farflung than any single place) could be foundin the coastal regions of the major conti-nents which are now under water. Thou-sands of years ago, they were not. One of theareas Hancock singled out as a possiblesource of the early civilizations of Mesopo-tamia was the Persian Gulf. Now a scientificpaper published in December, 2010, in thejournal Current Anthropology has made vir-tually the same case and is shaking up theworld of conventional archaeology.

From the pyramids to Stonehenge, theproblem of missing precursors has long un-dergirded many Atlantean scenarios and in-spired those in search of lost civilizations.‘Precursor’ refers to the trial and error stagesthat should precede any development of civ-ilization (i.e., there must have been a ModelT before there could be a Ford Mustang; welearn to walk before we run; etc.). Great ad-vancements can’t happen overnight, we’vebeen told. But now, Jeffrey Rose, an archae-ologist and researcher with Britain’s Univer-sity of Birmingham has turned up evidencefor a wave of advanced human settlementalong the shores of the gulf which has noknown precursors. Rose wanted to know howsuch a thing could be, and he is now con-vinced that the evidence of those precedingcultures is missing because it is, in fact,under the gulf, left there for at least 7500years before being covered over by rising wa-ters from the Indian Ocean.

In years of digging, Rose has found alongthe gulf’s coast a series of scattered huntingcamps which appeared virtually overnight.“These settlements,” according to Rose,“boast well-built, permanent stone houses,long-distance trade networks, elaboratelydecorated pottery, domesticated animals,

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and even evidence for one of the oldest boatsin the world.”

He believes the area now beneath the Per-sian Gulf was once a virtual oasis the size ofGreat Britain, and that it could have hostedmodern humans—providing them refugefrom the ice ages—for over 100,000 years be-fore finally submerging beneath the seaabout 8,000 years ago. If he turns out to beright, there will be many major revisions inthe widely accepted storyline for the historyof the human race and its presumed migra-tions out of Africa.

Verification of Rose’s argument shouldalso raise questions about other regions cur-rently under water which, before our presentstandard model of history begins, were dryland. Graham Hancock, Dr. Gregory Little,and other researchers familiar to the readersof Atlantis Rising have already pointed toother candidates for investigation, such asIndia’s Gulf of Cambay and North America’sCaribbean Sea.

LOST CIVILIZATIONIN THE PERSIAN GULF?LOST CIVILIZATIONIN THE PERSIAN GULF?

Jeffrey Rose (left)and colleague

search for artifacts

Jeffrey Rose (left)and colleague

search for artifacts

Satellite Image of thePersian Gulf (NASA)

Satellite Image of thePersian Gulf (NASA)

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he idea that there may be uni-verses beyond our own has

gotten a big boost in astro-nomical and cosmolog-ical circles lately. Infact, say re-searchers at Uni-versity CollegeLondon, not onlyare there manyuniverses, butthey have, on oc-casion, bumpedinto each otherleaving “cosmicbruises.”

The new thinking isbased on a model of cosmoscalled “eternal inflation” whichtheorizes that our universe is part of alarger and ever expanding universe. As theweb site PopSci.com explains it, our universeexists in a kind of cosmic bubble alongsideother universes contained in their owncosmic bubbles, and in these universes the

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sraeli archaeologists havefound the earliest evidence yet

for so-called modern humans. Ina cave in central Israel, a teamfrom Tel Aviv University has dis-covered 400,000-year-old humanteeth. If the findings hold up,they will certainly overthrow thewidely accepted human evolu-tionary timeline.

According to conventional ar-chaeology, modern humans(Homo sapiens) originated in Af-rica about 200,000 years agoand reached full behavioral mod-ernity only around 50,000 yearsago. Consequently, many haveruled out the possibility of ad-vanced civilization before theend of the last ice age on the as-sumption that there simply was

IOldest Humans in Israel

not enough time for such devel-opments.

At this point the academic es-tablishment is, of course, skep-tical of the Israeli findings,claiming that the teeth can beunreliable evidence and mighteven be Neanderthal. However,Sir Paul Mellars, a prehistory ex-pert at Cambridge University,said the study is reputable, andthe find is “important.”

To say the least, the new dis-covery is part of a continuingtrend of pushing the dawn ofhuman development further andfurther into the distant past,thus corroborating the stance ofthis magazine, and others, whoinsist that our civilization todayis a rerun, not a new episode

South American Iron Geothite

rules of physics could be far different than inour own.

The case is based on the study of minutefluctuations in what is called the cosmic mi-crowave background (CMB). Oxford Univer-

sity’s Roger Penrose claims to havefound evidence of a cyclicaluniverse in patterns of con-

centric circles withinthe CMB, which is

taken to mean thatour universe is just

one of manywhich have come

before, simultane-ously, and willcome after ourown. Other re-

searchers say theyhave now found the

undeniable fingerprintsof other such universes.

Ancient Talmudic scholarswere not able to decide how many

angels could sit on the head of a pin, andnow modern science can’t decide how manyuniverses are in the cosmic neighborhood.The more things change the more they re-main the same. World without end, amen.

hat is being called theoldest mine in the western

hemisphere has turned up inChile, not too far from where 33trapped Chilean miners wererescued in the Fall of 2010. Theoriginal Chilean miners operatedabout 12,000 years ago and werelooking for iron oxide.

Located in the Taltal area,the mine is said to be the workof the Huentelauquen culture.The iron, it is believed, was in-tended strictly for ceremonial

W purposes. Mummies foundnearby were dyed with ironoxide. The use of iron as a metalcame much later but perhaps notas much later as is convention-ally believed. Previously, theoldest mine in the Americas wasthought to be a 2500-year-oldone in the U.S.

For more on the surprisingand amazing metallurgy of theancient Americans, see PhilipCoppens’ article elsewhere inthis issue.

12,OOO-Year-OldIron Mine Foundin Chile

12,OOO-Year-OldIron Mine Foundin Chile

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That is, the students “studied” half of thewords after taking the test. By commonsensethinking this after-the-fact studying shouldhave no bearing on how the students did onthe test. However, such was not the case.The students did significantly better on therecall of the words that they practiced, eventhough the practice followed taking the test.To quote from Dr. Bem’s paper directly, “Theresults show that practicing a set of wordsafter the recall test does, in fact, reach backin time to facilitate the recall of those

words.”These are astounding results

but corroborate a huge array ofdata, which the skeptics and de-bunkers have consistently re-fused to acknowledge, sup-porting the idea that the futurecan influence the present andthe past.

How can the future possiblyinfluence the past? Doesn’t thisgo against everything we“know”? Isn’t the concept of the

one-way arrow of time, with causes pre-ceding effects, fundamental to modern sci-ence and modern life? Many people assumethis is the case, but reality is much morecomplex. As the brilliant late physicistOlivier Costa de Beauregard (1911-2007)wrote:

“Irreversibility, or dissymmetry betweenpast and future, is . . . [a] . . . fundamental as-pect of physical time, appearing in the theo-

• BY ROBERT M. SCHOCH, Ph.D.

ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE New Research ChallengesConventional AssumptionsAbout the Influence of the

Future on the Past

e live in a cause and effect world.Causes come before their effects,not vice versa. Time is unidirec-tional, moving from the past, to

the present, to the future. We might regretor cherish the past, but we cannot go back intime. I teach. My students study and thentake the exam. It would not make sense forthem to first take the exam and do their stud-ying afterwards. Well, they might learn thematerial after the fact, but that is hardlygoing to help them on the exam that they al-ready took!

In the last paragraph I havedescribed the commonsenseworld that most people knowand believe in. Few seriouslyquestion it, yet it just might bewrong. Take the example ofstudying for an exam aftertaking the exam. Recently Dr.Daryl J. Bem of Cornell Univer-sity reported on a series of “ret-roactive facilitation of recall” ex-periments (“Feeling the Future:Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retro-active Influences on Cognition and Affect,”accepted for publication in Journal of Per-sonality and Social Psychology). Studentswere shown 48 words (nouns, such as namesof animals or foods) and then asked to recallas many of the words as they could re-member. After the recall test, the studentswere subjected to practice with half of thewords (picked randomly by a computer).

Wries of wave propagation, thermodynamics,the probability calculus, statistical me-chanics, and information theory. All these as-pects of irreversibility are interconnected,being manifestations of one single funda-mental universal irreversibility. This irrever-sibility is ‘factlike, not lawlike’, meaning thatit resides not in the equations but in the so-lutions selected as significant” (Time, ThePhysical Magnitude, 1987, p. xix).

What he means by this is that while timeusually progresses, or at least appears toprogress, on a macroscopic scale from thepast through the present to the future, thereis nothing inherent in the mathematicalequations we use to encapsulate our modernunderstanding of physics that precludes timemoving backwards, that precludes the effectpreceding the cause. Classically any mathe-matical solutions to complex physics prob-lems that involve the future affecting thepast (invoking “negative time”) have beendiscarded as simply nonsensical, for it is“known” that the future cannot affect thepast. Yet, as we have seen with Bem’s recentstudies, this is certainly not the case. Evenwhen Costa de Beauregard wrote hismagnum opus nearly a quarter century ago,there was plenty of evidence for the future orpresent influencing the past, so-called retro-causality, such as well-attested cases of pre-cognition, documented retroactive psycho-kinesis using random number generators,and the like. Costa de Beauregard took such

Daryl J. Bem


The Prime Ministerand the Spirit World


hus runs the old adage,suggesting that the in-fluence of mothersover sons and

daughters is what finallydetermines who will riseto positions of leadershipin the world.

This seems to betrue, and then some,for William LyonMackenzie King(1874-1950), PrimeMinister of Canadafor 22 years between1921 and 1948.King's mother, IsabelKing, daughter ofWilliam Lyon Mack-enzie, a famous pre-confederation Cana-dian political rebel,had a powerful shapinginfluence on her eldestson while she was alive;after her death, at nu-merous séances arrangedby or attended by Kingfrom 1920 to 1950, shecontinued to offer her fa-mous son counsel and sup-port.

Other deceased members ofKing's family, including hisbrother, sister, father, andgrandfather William LyonMackenzie, also regularly vis-ited him from beyond the grave,as well as deceased politicalluminaries whom he ad-mired, such as King’smentor and predecessorCanadian Prime MinisterSir Wilfrid Laurier (1841-1919) and British PrimeMinisters Lord Earl Grey(1764-1845), BenjaminDisraeli (1804-1881), andWilliam Ewart Gladstone(1809-1898). King also, orso he recorded, receivedspirit messages from his bestfriend, Henry Albert (“Bert”)Harper, who died at age 27 whiletrying to save two people fromdrowning (King wrote a book about Bertcalled The Secret of Heroism). Other friendlyspirits who reportedly dropped by for a visitwith King were U.S. Presidents Franklin D.Roosevelt (1882-1945) and Theodore Roose-velt (1858-1919), Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1511), and deceased ministers of King’s Lib-eral cabinet like Minister of Defense Norman

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• BY JOHN CHAMBERS

Rogers(killed in aplane crash onJune 10, 1940). Even King’s deceased Irishterrier, Pat, occasionally made his presencefelt.

According to King’s diaries and witnesses

who spoke after his death,the Canadian Prime Min-

ister never sought ad-vice from these dis-

embodiedvisitors about

how to runthe country

and never fol-lowed advice

proffered to himin unsolicited

fashion. During oneclandestine visit in

London, he told an em-inent British medium

that, “he made it a rule to ig-nore advice thus given: he trustedsolely to his own and his advisors’

judgment.”Born in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario,

King received an M.A. in political sciencefrom the University of Toronto, then thesame degree, along with a Ph.D. in politicaleconomy, from Harvard. King was Canada’sfirst Minister of Labor, in the pre-World WarOne Liberal government of Sir Wilfrid La-urier. Out of politics during the war, hespent much time in the U. S. studying laborproblems. King became Prime Minister in1921; he immediately set about drawing upand enacting important pro-labor legislation.During his entire tenure as Prime Minister,

LOST HISTORY

The hand that rocks the cradleIs the hand that rules the world.

TheChannelingsof Canada’s

WartimeLeader

William LyonMackenzie

King

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uch of modern science seems torest on a foundation of dogmatic(and unproven) philosophical ma-terialism, a belief that matter

(mass/energy/space/time), which the scien-tists cannot even define, is the prime realityand that mind/thought/spirit/consciousnessis a secondary manifestation. Aside from thefact that people who pride themselves onquestioning every hypothesis should not ac-cept materialism on faith, a little reflectionshould make it clear to anyone that none ofus can be absolutely certain of the indepen-dent existence of that material universe outthere. But we can be absolutely certain thatwe think…meaning that mind exists. Per-haps we philosophical idealists are correctand mind is the prime reality, and the mindthinks or “dreams” the physical universe(and much more), creating and sustaining it.Logically, if this is the case, it follows thatthere is some kind of afterlife, or perhaps re-incarnation. It would also seem that for all ofour individual minds to perceive, at least ap-proximately and usually, the same reality,our individual minds must be connected atsome higher level into a single, universalmind…God, the Supreme Being. But itwould also mean that since our minds thinkwith symbols and, collectively, create andsustain reality, then symbols, words, sacredgeometry, and numerology matter a greatdeal. An elite who understands this might beable, at least to a limited extent, to manipu-late reality for their own ends.

Related to this is the question of free will.Most people imagine that they have free will,but can we even define the term? Obviouslythere are limitations on free will; we oftenhave little control over events or even overour own thoughts. A man might will himselfto fly, or reverse his aging process, or healhis illnesses, and yet he would still remain asick old man bound to the earth. Ourfreedom to act is limited by such conditionsas illness or poverty, and by laws, and by thewills of others. Theologians and philosophershave been divided over the issue, with peoplelike Martin Luther and John Calvin, for ex-ample, believing in theological determinism.They reasoned that since God is virtually om-niscient and omnipotent, He knows and hasarranged everything that we think, every-thing that we do, and everything that willhappen to us. Logical determinists, withoutintroducing God, believe that a mechanisticuniverse makes free will impossible. Compat-ibilists like Thomas Hobbes and David Humebelieved that a deterministic universe limitsfree will, and William James argued in favorof free will.

Most people do not realize that if rela-tivity theory is correct, there can be no freewill. If time is another spatial dimension, atright angles to the three we normally per-ceive, the future already exists and the uni-

M• BY WILLIAM B. STOECKER

GREATER DESIGN

verse, including us, is a four-dimensionalobject. But, as we have said, there aregrowing doubts about relativity.

There is evidence that either events arefated or there is a strong tendency for cer-tain events to occur, and that somethingother than causality is at work. Jung, the pi-oneering psychologist, and the writer ArthurKoestler believed in something called “syn-chronicity,” a non-causal ordering principlethat caused like events, people, and objectsto cluster together. In The Roots of Coinci-dence Koestler provided many examples ofthis, and it seems to go far beyond mere co-incidence…if coincidence even exists.

Certain prophecies also seem to go be-yond coincidence. Abraham Lincoln’s friend

Ward Hill Lamon said that three days beforehis assassination, Lincoln told him, MaryTodd Lincoln, and some other friends of a re-cent and troubling dream. Lincoln said thatin his dream, he wandered downstairs in theWhite House and heard people crying. He en-tered a room where a body lay in state and asoldier told him that it was the body of thePresident, killed by an assassin. Neither Lin-coln’s wife nor anyone else ever contradictedthis story. Several years before the Titanicsank, a man named Morgan Robertson wroteThe Wreck of the Titan, or Futility, about aship sunk after hitting an iceberg on hermaiden voyage. His ship, with the eerily

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When Is

Something Else?Probing the Mysteries ofSynchronicity and the

Riddle of Free Will

Probing the Mysteries ofSynchronicity and the

Riddle of Free Will


ccording to various surveys, polls,and studies, atheists account forroughly 10 percent of the U.S. popu-lation and around 25 percent of

Canada’s. There are indications, however,that the numbers are much higher, perhapscloser to 20 percent in the U.S. and as muchas 40 percent in Canada. One study suggeststhat only five percent of the U.S. populationborn before 1946 are atheists, but that 19percent of those born after 1977 fall in thatcategory. Although the numbers vary signifi-cantly from study to study, they all seem toagree that atheism is growing among theyounger generations. Then again, it could bethat the number of people declaring “no re-ligion” is growing, not really atheism, per se.

The difficulty in coming up with moreexact numbers has to do with semantics andwith the stigma attached to the word,atheist. Many “non-believers” prefer not tobe labeled as atheists and therefore identifythemselves as agnostics (don’t know) orsimply as non-religious, humanists, or secu-

Alarists. Realizing this, the researchers oftenjust ask the respondent for a “religion” or“no-religion,” and it cannot be inferred that“no-religion” necessarily means the personis an atheist. Moreover, some people whomight list a religion in a survey have reallydivorced themselves from that religion andmay be de facto atheists, but, for one reasonor another, find it convenient to continuallyaffiliate themselves with their old religion.

The simple dictionary definition is thatan atheist is “one who denies the existenceof God” but that requires a definition of“God.” If a person believes in a “HigherPower” of some kind but rejects the idea ofan anthropomorphic God—one with humancharacteristics—and further believes thatconsciousness survives death, is he or she tobe counted as an atheist? There are agrowing number of people in that category.Should Buddhists, who do not believe inGod, yet believe in some form of afterlife, beconsidered atheists for statistical purposes?

While many non-believers prefer to re-main in the closet and not be labeled asatheists, there clearly are more and moremilitant atheists who wear the title as a Continued on Page 66

• BY MICHAEL E. TYMN

badge of honor. They undoubtedly have beenencouraged by a flood of books on atheismduring the first decade of this century. Theauthors include Richard Dawkins (The GodDelusion), Victor Stenger (God: The FailedHypothesis), Christopher Hitchens (god isnot Great), David Mills (Atheist Universe),Michael Onfray (Atheist Manifesto), SamHarris (The End of Faith: Religion, Terrorand the Future of Reason), and a number ofothers who have reached best-seller status.Their ideas have inspired more timid mindsand fueled a militancy that is increasinglyapparent in the media and on the Internet.They justify their aggressiveness by arguingthat religion promotes intolerance, impedessocial progress, and leads to war and ter-rorism.

Waving the banner of science, these mili-tant atheists fancy themselves self-appointedguardians of truth in the war on supersti-tion. And while recognizing that their philos-ophy dooms them to eternal nothingness,they rationalize that their “truth” combinedwith on-going science gives meaning to life.That is, life is all about providing a betterworld for future generations. However, in alltheir altruism, they stop short of explainingto what end the progeny or to which genera-tion full fruition. If a future generation expe-riences a world of peace with unsurpassedcomforts and conveniences, what will givemeaning to their lives? In effect, life remainsshort-term and meaningless for all genera-tions under the atheist’s banner.

“Evolution took a huge bite a while back,and recent work on the brain has shown noevidence for souls, spirits, or any part of ourpersonality or behavior distinct from thelump of jelly in our head,” Jerry A. Coyne, aprofessor of ecology and evolution at TheUniversity of Chicago, wrote in a feature ar-ticle titled “Science and religion aren’tfriends” for the October 11, 2010, issue ofUSA Today. In championing the cause ofatheism, Coyne haughtily goes on to say that“science is no more compatible with religionthan with other superstitions, such as lepre-chauns.”

There is nothing in the article to indicatethat Coyne, who says he is a “former be-liever,” is even remotely aware of all the sci-entific research suggesting that conscious-ness survives death—research in near-deathexperiences, mediumship, past-life regres-sions, deathbed visions, apparitions, astraltravel, and other paranormal phenomena. Ifconfronted with the evidence, Coyne wouldlikely parrot the words of well-known “skep-tics” like James Randi and Michael Shermer,claiming they have all been debunked in oneway or the other and were never subject tostrict scientific methodology in the firstplace.

In fact, a very strong case for survival wasmade by a number of distinguished scientistsand scholars of yesteryear who represented

TheTroublewith Atheists

Clinging to Irrational Belief, Some Might Say,Is a Good Indicator of Brainwashing

ALTERNATIVETHINKING


ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE

n his article for AtlantisRising #84 (“Politics andPsychic Manipulation in Ro-mania”), Boston University

professor and author of The Par-apsychology Revolution(Tarcher/Penguin, 2008), Dr.Robert Schoch, wrote about aphenomenon called “The VioletFlame,” which he said had playedan important role in the historyof Romania. “The color violet isunlike any other color,” he ex-plained, “and has long been afocus of attention by alchemistsand occultists. Seen as the boun-dary between the physical andthe spiritual, with the ability topromote transmutations betweenthe realms, in modern terms thecolor violet does indeed haveunique properties. Of the visiblespectrum, violet has the highestfrequency... and in its representa-tion and manifestation spirituallycan be harnessed and channeledas a powerful force...”

Just weeks afterward, scien-tists at Scotland’s University ofStrathclyde reported that a spe-cial, yet visible, violet light isenough to make bacteria“commit suicide.” Clinical trialshave now proven the HINS-lightEnvironmental DecontaminationSystem is effective in getting ridof bacterial pathogens in the hos-pital setting. In other words, vi-olet light makes a great disinfec-tant, a fact which may not

surprise those who have, foryears, used ultraviolet (UV)

light in water purificationtechnology. Incidentally,Washington State Univer-sity researchers havefound that UV impactsgene repair and alsoactivates the creation

of defense pro-teins. AlthoughUV and colored

light are not tobe confused withthe violet flameof esoteric lore,

they are thoughtto be its physical

counterpart and toprovide useswhich, somefeel, might indi-

cate what couldbe achieved werethe actual thingto be properlyharnessed.

I• BY JOSEFINE STARK

Early in the twentieth cen-tury, Edgar Cayce (The SleepingProphet) recognized the powerof the violet light. In many of hisrecorded readings, he recom-mended a “violet-ray” electricaldevice that emits a violet-coloredcharge to treat a number of ail-ments. At the heart of this devicewas a Tesla coil. It was widelyused in the first half of the twen-tieth century and is still availabletoday.

The violet flame theme haseven made it into popular cul-ture. The Inn of the Seventh Rayis the name of a restaurant nearLos Angeles frequented by manyHollywood types who live nearby.

In Romania even presidentialpolitics, it seems, is influencedby the Violet Flame. In 2009, de-feated candidate Mircea Geoanapublicly charged he had been at-tacked by “violet flames.” TraianBasescu, the winning candidate,might view this as yet anotherexample of the disinfecting capa-bilities of the seventh ray.

Vibrating at between 785 and665 terrahertz, the “SeventhRay,” or, alternatively, the VioletFlame or light, is said by some tobe one of the best-kept secrets ofthe twentieth and previous cen-turies. The proverbial cat,though, it now seems, may beout of the bag. An Internetsearch for “violet flame” pro-duces over six million results.Doctors, nurses, teachers, archi-tects, engineers, and even headsof state outside of Romania—aformer President of the Philip-pines for one—have reportedlyattempted to deploy it.

So what is the truth of thematter? Is there more to the sub-ject of the Violet Flame thanmeets the untrained eye? To gainsome perspective we need to lookat the larger picture, one fa-miliar for ages to initiates in thespiritual mysteries—the “SevenRays.”

Seven Rays of CreationFor centuries the concept of

“The Seven Rays” has been partof many mainstream religions, as

Violet light as a disinfectant in ScotlandTraianBasescu

St.Germain

The Annunciation (Jan van Eyck, 1434).Seven rays of light descend from theupper window at the left.

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well as esoteric philosophies. Wikipedia saysit has been around since at least the sixthcentury BCE, in both Western culture and inIndia. In the west, the notion can be seen inearly mystery traditions, such as Gnosticismand Roman Mithraicism, and in the texts andiconic art of the Catholic Church as early asthe Byzantine era. In India, the idea has beenpart of Hindu religious philosophy and scrip-ture since at least the Vishnu Purana, datingfrom the post-Vedic era.

The Seven Rays appeared in a modifiedand elaborated form in the teachings of The-osophy, starting in the late nineteenth cen-tury, first presented by Helena P. Blavatsky.The Theosophical concept of the Seven Rayswas further developed in the late nineteenthand early twentieth centuries in the writingsof C. W. Leadbeater, Alice Bailey, Manly P.Hall, and others, and in the philosophies oforganizations, such as, The ‘I AM’ Activity,The Bridge to Freedom, The Summit Light-house, and various other organizationspromulgating what are called the teachingsof the ascended masters—the immortalizedsaints and sages of all ages, East and West.

In the mid-to-late twentieth century, asthe New Age movement developed, the SevenRays concept appeared as an element in met-aphysical healing techniques such as Reikiand other modalities and in esoteric as-trology.

The idea is that all that exists emergesfrom the original white light of creation. Theseven rainbow rays—into which that lightcan be separated by a prism—all possessunique properties which can and should benurtured and developed for the advancementof creation on both the individual and collec-tive level. These fundamental seven colorrays have been depicted in religious iconog-raphy as rainbow auras around the heads orhearts of saints, or around sacred relics. TheSeven Rays also correspond roughly to the

seven days (or stages) of creation, as wellas the days of the week, the seven

chakras, the seven churches in theBook of Revelations, etc.

Mastery over the Seven Rays isstill considered by some groups tobe a requirement for the evolutionof consciousness. The process—also

known as the spiritual path—is saidto lead to expansion of the “rainbow

body,” or aura, of the saints. One focuses (or“majors”) on developing the skills or virtuesassociated with one of the rays while ad-vancing generally with the others. Mastery ofthe green ray, for example, involves the useof healing energies and precipitation(making the spiritual physical). We see thiscolor used often in hospitals or in surgicalgarments as well as with alternative thera-pies, etc. Violet is usually associated with al-chemy or transmutation, and as the SeventhRay it corresponds to the seventh day of crea-tion; or the day of rest when the creation—tothat point—is set free. In New Age circles itis usually associated with the Aquarian Age.

21st Century ScienceMeets an AncientPrescriptionfor Change

21st Century ScienceMeets an AncientPrescriptionfor Change

Secretsof the

SeventhRay

Secretsof the

SeventhRay

Inn of theSeventh Ray. Los Angeles, CA.





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or decades, metal sheets with writinghave been recovered from various ar-chaeological sites in South America.Until recently, all were labeled

“frauds,” but slowly, archaeolo-gists are beginning to changetheir opinion. The ancient Ameri-cans, it seems, knew perfectlywell how to work with metal…and, moreover, had a complexsystem of writing.

The story of Father CarlosCrespi, an eccentric Italian Cath-olic priest living in the Ecuado-rian town of Cuenca, and his en-igmatic museum came to theattention of most of the worldwhen the Swiss “ancient astro-naut author” Erich von Dänikenrevealed Crespi’s vast collectionof metal plates and related arti-facts. Over the years, the priesthad accumulated the collectionas gifts brought to him by the lo-cals. The plates displayed variousimages and strongly suggestedthat the real history of the regionwas far more interesting than thearchaeologists claimed. To offi-cial archaeology, “of course,” theartifacts in Crespi’s possessionwere nothing but fakes.

Von Däniken wrote up hisvisit to Crespi in Gold of the Gods(Putnam, 1973), adding that thevarious pieces in the collectionpossessed certain common traits:“All the pyramid engravings havefour things in common: a sun,but more frequently several suns,is depicted above the pyramid;snakes are always flying next toor over the pyramid; animals ofvarious kinds are always present.”Such consistency between arti-facts collated over a number ofyears and from different sources,suggested a common origin. But where didthey come from?

When Crespi questioned those whobrought him the artifacts, he was told theyhad been removed from subterranean cavesystems in the jungles. Crespi thereforemade sure the extraordinary stash remainedintact, using the courtyard of the church ofMaria Auxiliadora, of which he was in charge,as his museum.

Alas, many of the artifacts were destroyedin a fire on July 20, 1962, an act of arson,some suspect, engineered to destroy the col-lection. Today, even less remains of theCrespi collection, which was dispersed to var-ious locations following the priest’s demisein January 1980. It is said that there are ac-tive attempts to reopen a museum with whatremains of the collection.

From the moment the collection became

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known to the world, it has commonly beenlabeled a fraud. And it is true that Crespi wasprimarily a missionary, and not an archaeolo-gist. When poor people brought him theplates or other artifacts that the local peopleknew he collected, he made sure they were

rewarded for their efforts. He knew severallocal families were poor but that pride pre-vented them from asking for money, unlessit was as payment for something. And hence,more and more metal plates found their wayto the priest. Some, Crespi himself was sure,were fakes—often the crudest executed. Themost elaborate, though, were clearly notmade by his parishioners. Included in thelatter category were vast quantities of pre-cious metals, like gold and silver. Those arti-facts only, seem unlikely to be frauds, espe-cially when we realize that the collection wasestimated to be worth at least a million dol-lars– far more than Crespi was able to pay, orpaid, the locals.

Researcher Richard Wingate visited thecollection in the late 1970s, when the 70,000pieces took up three rooms. He described itas follows: “Rolls of intricately figured sheet

metal stood haphazardly piled around theshed. The priest explained that it had beentorn off the interior walls of long-abandoned,vine-choked buildings in the inaccessibleeastern jungle. The Indian artifact huntersbring this wallpaper in three different metals:

gold: a metallurgically unique, untarnishedsilver; and an unknown alloy with the ap-pearance of shiny aluminum. Every squareinch of the peculiar sheet metal is decoratedwith intricate designs, some of them de-picting long-forgotten ceremonial occasionsand some of them humorous and cartoonlike. The rolls come in heights that vary, forthe most part, from eight to twelve feet, andthey are often fifteen to thirty feet long.These lengths are composed of many indi-vidual four-foot sheets which have been art-fully riveted together.”

While to the average armchair archaeolo-gist, the collection was bogus, anyone actu-ally viewing it was provided ample evidencethat, at the least, at some point in the past,Ecuador had a highly developed metallurgy.

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