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hile the matter of whether there is, or ever has been, life onMars is stillinsofar as NASA is concernedunsettled, at least

one question has now been answered definitively. There actually isfrozen water on Mars.

As millions on earth watched over television and the Internet, theMars Phoenix Lander settled softly on the Martian surface, near theNorth pole on May 25 and despite considerable suspense, everythingwent smoothly. This was the first time in 30 years that a rocket-assisted soft landing had succeeded. The mission: to determine if

there has ever been liquid water on Mars. The presence of such wateris believed to be essential to life; after all, it is on warth. First,though, it was necessary to establish that the Lander was actually po-sitioned over ice.

Photos beamed back to earth showed some kind of white sub-stance just beneath the dirt scraped away by the Landers scoop. Butat first, it was impossible to say whether they were looking at ice orsome kind of salt. Over the next few days though, as chunks of thewhite stuff slowly disappeared, NASA scientists became convincedthat it was indeed ice which could melt and not something else.

The next step is to analyze the ice and the water obtained bymelting, which will, hopefully, answer many more burning ques-tions about the status of life on Mars, both then and now.

To be continued.

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hen ancient meteorites rained down earth they brought more than fire a

rocks from the sky. They brought the raw gnetic material for life. That, at least, is tconclusion of scientific researchers from Erope and the USA.

Freshly published in the journal Earand Planetary Science Letters, the new stuis based on a careful study of the Murchismeteorite which crashed in Australia in 19In its materials scientists found the mo

cules uracil and xanthine which are precusors to the molecules that make up DNA aRNA. After ruling out that they could hacome from earth, the study says they camfrom space, and that means, it says, that lon earth is extraterrestrial in origin.

Conventional science holds that abofour billion years ago meteors like the Muchison rained down on earth just when priitive life was getting started. Lead author Zita Martins, of the Department of Earth Sence and Engineering at Imperial ColleLondon, says that the research may provanother piece of evidence explaining the evlution of early life. We believe early life, ssays, may have adopted nucleobases fro

meteoritic fragments for use in genecoding which enabled them to pass on thsuccessful features to subsequent genetions.

The new research buttresses the argment of those who believe in panspermia, tnotion that seeds of life exist already all ovthe universe, and that life on earth originatthrough these seeds, and that they may dliver or have delivered life to other equahospitable planets.

So, if life on earth started somewheelse, just how did it get started therWhether here or there, science still has a of explaining to do.

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he advances of civilization have beencompared to climbing a mountain. As we

reach new heights, we are able for the firsttime to see the long path we have travelledstretched out beneath us, and with the advan-tage of altitude we can see where we havegone right and where we have gone wrong.Moreover, we can see patterns in ourprogress of which we might have been una-ware at the time we passed through. Whilethat notion may seen to be strictly metaphor-ical, a new breed of archaeologist is literallytaking the concept to new heights these

days...like to outer space.According to popsci.com the web site of

Popular Science Magazine, the new archaeol-ogists are carrying out their researcheswithout getting their hands dirty, learningmore from above the atmosphere than fromthe bottom of any dig. In a piece calledSpace Archaeologists writer Mara Hvisten-dahl details the work of Damian Evans andBill Saturno who, with the help of radar im-

Taging satellites, have uncovered many previ-ously undiscovered details to Cambodiasgreat temple complex at Angkor Wat. Thanksto such techniques scientists are unearthingwhole civilizations and rewriting historybooks. In issue #70 of A.R., Frank Josephtold of how satellite imagery was used to lo-cate Ubar, a.k.a. The Atlantis of the Sands,on the Arabian peninsula. Similar stories arecoming from Mexico, South America andevery corner of the world.

For many readers of this magazine, eagerfor the discovery of a lost prediluvian civili-

zation, such research appears very promisingindeed. The ability to see what lies beneaththe oceans is constantly improving. Forthose who would like to see some of the re-markable anomalies that are, at last, risingto the surface, visit the web site satellitedis-coveries.com where publicly released satel-lite imagery reveals many remarkable andpreviously unrecognized features of ourplanet.

orkers in Pretoria, SouthAfrica, have unearthed

stone tools said to date back100,000 years. The artifactsturned up in a swimming poolexcavation and included anumber of flaked cutting toolsbelieved to have been used to ex-tract marrow from bones. Therewas also a stone which had beenbrought in from another area,considered an unmistakable signof human activity.

Dr. Francis Thackeray, di-rector of the Transvaal Museum,

Wtold reporters visiting the sitethat the tools were similar toones he himself had turned upat other sites such as Kromdraaiin the Sterkfontein valley, theregion which, according to con-ventional anthropology, is thecradle of humanity.

For another take on the arti-facts from Sterkfontein cave seeMichael Cremos ForbiddenArchaeologist column in A.R.#59, Sterkfontein: Cradle ofHumanity or of Lies?

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NASAs Aster satellite images EGYPT in 15 different wavelengths. The datais processed so that fields are red, cities blue and ancient ruins are green.

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NASAs Aster satellite images EGYPT in 15 different wavelengths. The datais processed so that fields are red, cities blue and ancient ruins are green.

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R E P O R T F R O M T H E F R O N TTracking the News of the Coming Energy Revolution

BYJEANE

MANNING

of patenting his inventions he sells books.His readers try out his advice and reply tohim. Their experiences and suggestions im-prove the next editions of Wisemans books.His no-patent philosophy is a win-win ap-proach. Wiseman wrote two editions of aBrown's Gas Book, which contain some ofthe most important contributions to thefield, with research data, practical analysisand discussions of the implications of thetechnologies.

Up until recent years experimentersaround the world used the term BrownsGas, but that term is rarely used any moreto describe an oxy-hydrogen gas. The Bul-

garian/Australian inventor Yull Brown is nolonger with us and there is widespread rec-ognition that a physicist named William A.Rhodes discovered the process for makingand using atomic (in the form of separateatoms and no longer combined in mole-cules) hydrogen and oxygen before Browndid. Welding torches are one of the most aptapplications for the gas.

Good news for all

The pain of paying high prices for fuel ismotivating a fast-increasing number of tin-kerers who had not previously been obsessedabout energy alternatives, and the results of Continued on Page 58

their activities are most apparent in thewater-as-fuel areas of the energy frontier. Forinstance, the experimenter who developed anexploding water system under the nameS1r9a9m9 is part of the ongoing discussionon a Yahoo web site e-group. When he buildsan experimental model he eventually pub-lishes the new parts list of electronics so thatanyone in the discussion group can trybuilding it themselves.

Yes, it is an exciting time to be alive, anenergy researcher writes to me in an emailtoday. John Bedini just posted advice to the

JBCX6 S1r9a9m9 replicator guyI am seri-ously thinking this system is the big break. It

is so cheap and easy for the common personto replicate once we get all the bugs out (andhave a list of the parts needed).

Charles Michael Couch had been writingarticles on the Pure Energy Systems networkabout inventor Bob Boyce, who gives theworld free benefit of his own super-efficientwater-into-fuel electrolyzer system. Couchsaid he was now thankful to have seen thevideo of a replication of the S1r9a9m9system and was grateful that now both sys-tems are available to experimenters aroundthe world, along with John Bedinis motor, a

n the 1967 filmThe Graduate, at a partyan industrialist takes the college-grad

character aside and indicates he has a secretto impart as his graduation gift. The audi-ence knows the young man has not yet set-tled on a career direction. The middle-agedman whispers one word of advice. Plastics.

That scene was enjoyed as a classic comicmoment, heightened by the rebellious anti-establishment mood of many in the 1960saudiences. The youthful character played byDustin Hoffman was confused, but not aboutto devote his life to plastics no matter how

exponentially that industry would grow.More than forty years later, the ultimate

word for career advice could be water. Un-like the plastic garbage being ground intonano-particles while plastics weather onbeaches and in landfills, when water breaksdown, its components are harmless to life.Oxygen is better than harmless; it sustainslife. Hydrogen is a carrier of energy and isbeing considered as a vital part of thecoming energy revolution and one key to re-ducing our dependence on carbon fuels suchas gasoline.

Water is the film star of Youtube videostoday. Recently one video featured what was

said to be a 1978 El Camino vehicle thatruns on water alone. Someone who at thistime remains anonymous and uses a pseu-donym online had developed what is beingcalled the S1r9a9m9 exploding watersystem, and theres a link to another You-tube video of a car running on an indepen-dent replication of that system. By the timethis column is published there will no doubtbe further news developments. I m justtrying to convey the rapid progress of thisemerging area of guerrilla science and of en-ergy independence.

Unlike the mid-twentieth-century cultureof industrial secrets and social-climbing pool

parties glimpsed in The Graduate, thetwenty-first-century Open Source era is, formany young people, about sharing informa-tion. However, as in the case of the myster-ious inventor of the water system, opensourcing does not always mean stepping intothe spotlight as a public personality.

Taking a cue from the computer softwaredevelopers who write programs and givetheir work to everyone else to tweak and per-fect, a number of inventors on the energyfrontier are freely sharing what they learn.George Wiseman of Eagle Research pio-neered that approach by writing how-tobooks about methods of saving fuel. Instead

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TIME TRAVEL EVIDENCE

ur world is filled with many anoma-lies, most of them well documentedand incontrovertible, which demon-strate that space and time are not

what we think they are. One of the strangestof these is an enigmatic object which appearsin a painting in the little church of Montal-cino in Italy, dating to over four hundredyears old. The object can be classified as agenuine out-of-place artifact, because it in-corporates several apparently advanced as-pects in its design.

But the context in which it was placed inthe painting and portrayed in detail opens up

a whole different level of technological in-quiry and potential achievement. The itemsexistence raises not only the question ofwhere did it come from, but more impor-tantly, when did it come from? For here weare faced with something that is more thanout of place, it also appears to have comefrom a totally different time.

In essence, what we may be looking atcould be the first real evidence for timetravel.

At this point, we cannot be sure if theitem in question manifested from our futureor if it represents some kind of time-travelingtechnology, which was the product of the un-known past, built and sent forward to our pe-riod from some prehistoric civilization nowlost to us. Let the readers judge for them-selves.

In 1595, Italian artist Bonaventura Salim-beni (1567-1613) was commissioned to pro-duce a painting for the right-hand altar of theChurch of St. Peter at Montalcino, locatedwithin a few miles of Florence. He was amember of a prominent family of artists fromnearby Siena, and the goal of his commissionwas that his work be completed for the Chris-tian Jubilee Year of 1600. According to themessage accompanying his signature, Salim-benis painting was finished right on

schedule.The Montalcino art masterpiece is enti-

tled The Glorification of the Eucharist, andfeatures a vertical work divided into threesegments. The lower third depicts a numberof worshipping figures seated before thealtar, including priests, cardinals and one in-dividual wearing a papal crown believed torepresent Pope Clement VII.

The middle third shows the altar itself,and prominently displayed in its center is theCup of the Eucharist emblazoned in glowinglight.

The upper third of the painting symbol-

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that it looks exactly like a spheroid satellitewith two antennae, something akin to theold Russian sputniks or American vanguardorbiters of the late 1950s. But what is it actu-ally supposed to be?

Renaissance art experts interpret thestrange sphere as representing the universe,showing the faint lines of celestial longitudeand latitude, plus the images of an obscuresun and an exaggerated crescent moon

izes heaven, dominated by the three Beingsof the Holy Trinity who are looking down onthe earthly scene below and giving theirblessingsGod the Father depicted as aMoses-like bearded old man, God the Son as

Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit portrayedas a Dove hovering above the center.

What immediately catches the viewersattention, however, is something pictured inamong the Trinity members that to moderneyes seems very familiar, but not from theright time period. The first impression is

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TIME TRAVEL EVIDENCEDoes a 16th-Century Painting Show Technology from the Future?



ANCIENTMYSTERIES

BY JAN WICHERINKhe inscription on William Sinclairsgrave in Rosslyn Chapel reads: Wil-liam de St. Clair, Knight Templar.On his gravestone a mysterious key

with an eight-pointed cross is depicted. Theofficial coat of arms of the Sinclairs is afour-pointed cross in a stitch pattern, andits well known that the Knights Templarused both four- and eight-pointed crosses intheir coat of arms. So the question is: whatdoes this key on William Sinclairs graverepresent? Could this key possibly unlocksome of the mysteries surrounding thechapel?

In this article I will argue that thesefour- and eight-pointed crosses have a deepesoteric and astronomical significance thatmust have been well known to the Scottishfreemasons.

On the gravestone besides the eight-pointed cross a four-pointed cross is also de-picted. The name of the founder of RosslynChapel is spelled in Lombardic lettersWillhm de Sinncler. Its remarkable thatthe last two letters ER are set apart and arereversed in spelling. It reads RE. RE mostlikely is a reference to Amen-Re or Amen-Ra, the Egyptian solar deity. This makessense since Rosslyn Chapel is in fact a solartemple. Inaugurated on the fall equinox in1450 as the Collegiate Church of St. Mat-thew, the chapel is perfectly aligned to thecardinal points of the compass in a manner

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and Jachin, that stood in front of SolomonTemple.

InThe Stone Puzzle of Rosslyn ChapPhilip Coppens describes the initiation ruals of the freemasons and claims that thfamous pillars in Rosslyn, in fact, corr

spond with the three degrees in freemsonry. In Masonic initiation rituals the plars mark the solstices and equinoxes, thfour quadrants of the year. The novice intiated into the Entered Apprentice degreis placed in the Lodge near the pillar in thnortheast corner (Jachin). This pillar corrsponds to the summer solstice. A freemasoinitiated into the Fellow craft Mason dgree is placed in the southeast corner (Boacorresponding to the winter solstice. A fremason who is finally initiated into thMaster Mason degree is placed in front the central pillar corresponding to thequinox. During the latter ritual the cand

date dies, symbolically, but is eventually reurrected. At the moment of his resurrectioa light with a five-pointed star is lit. Acording to Coppens, this five-pointed star the morning star, Venus.

These Masonic rituals clearly refer to tannual death and rebirth of the sun. Thsun dies each year on thecrossof the zodiaon the winter solstice, only to be fully rborn on the following vernal equinox, thbeginning of spring, in the annual cycle. Athis point the sun is fully raised from deatand, as it revives, nature starts to blosso

Templar Crosses

Gravestone of William Sinclair with aneight pointed cross

similar to many ancient solar temples.In fact, according to Robert Lomas and

Christopher Knight, Rosslyn is actually acopy of Solomons Temple in Jerusalem.

They argue that the Master and ApprenticePillar correspond with the two pillars, Boaz

Depiction on the gravestone of William Sinclair,founder of the chapel.

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ALTERNATIVESCIENCE

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n 21 October, 1966, at 9:15 in themorning, a huge pile of coal slagand debris, precariously perched onthe side of a mountain and destabi-

lized by underground water and rainfall,came crashing down on the Welsh town of

Aberfan. When the tragedy was over and thefinal death toll computed, 144 lives were lost,most of them children attending the Pant-glas Junior School, upon which the mainpart of the avalanche of black choking slurrydescended. The Aberfan disaster was feltthroughout Britain, perhaps among somepeople even before it actually occurred.

Dr. J. C. Barker, a psychiatrist associatedwith Shelton Hospital in Shrewsbury, was onthe scene of Aberfan the next day to helpwith the aftermath. Dr. Barker was also inter-ested in psychical research, and it occurredto him that, given the violent and shockingnature of the Aberfan disaster, perhaps

someone had had a premonition of the event.He made a public appeal for any such infor-mation through the media, and as a result re-ceived dozens and dozens of responses frompeople who claimed to have had precognitiveexperiences that, at least in hindsight, mayhave related to Aberfan. Dr. Barker carefullyresearched the best of these through inter-views and seeking out corroborative evi-dence, and found nearly two dozen reputedprecognitive experiences that could be inde-pendently confirmed by witnesses as havingoccurred before the Aberfan disaster.

As an example of just one such person

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with apparent precognitive knowledge of theevent we can cite Mrs. Constance Miller whosaw the disaster about a day or so before ithappened. Seven witnesses could testify thatMrs. Miller had related her premonition tothem before the event. In her own words

(quoted in Archie Roy, A Sense of SomethingStrange, 1990, p. 129), First, I saw an oldschool house nestling in a valley, then aWelsh miner, then an avalanche of coal hur-tling down a mountainside. At the bottom ofthis mountain of hurtling coal was a littleboy with a long fringe looking absolutely ter-rified to death. Then for a while I sawrescue operations taking place. I had an im-pression that the little boy was left behindand saved. He looked so grief-stricken. Icould never forget him, and also with himwas one of the rescue workers wearing anunusual peaked cap. Mrs. Miller was notfrom Aberfan, and the argument that she

had a personal interest in, and subconsciousworries about, the slag pile as a potentialthreat does not apply. Very importantly, aswe will discuss below, Mrs. Miller reportedthat, after the event, she recognized on a tel-evision program covering the Aberfan dis-aster the little boy and the rescue worker shesaw so vividly in her premonition.

For thousands of years, going back to theBiblical prophets and the classical oracles ofancient times (and probably much earlier)there has been a belief that at least somegifted people can gain glimpses of the future.

The Greeks regularly consulted their oracles,

such as that of Apollo at Delphi, and all ctures seem to have their methods of divintion, whether it be the inspection of the etrails of animals, gazing into a crystal balooking at patterns among tea leaves, or cosulting the Tarot or I Ching.

In the book of Genesis it is recorded thJoseph correctly interpreted pharaohs pcognitive dream (seven fat cows eaten seven lean cows, meaning there would seven good years of harvest followed by sevyears of famine). Daniel, in the book namafter him, interpreted King Nebuchanezzars dream of a great image or statue aa tree hewn down to indicate that the kiand his kingdom would be destroyed, as wthe case. St. John, in what is commonly ferred to as the Book of Revelation, orTApocalypse, relates many prophecies that apear to refer to the End Times. The FoHorsemen of the Apocalypse, found

chapter 6, have household name recognitioMight these events yet unfold?Closer to our own times, perhaps t

greatest (or at least most famous) seer of tlast five centuries is Nostradamus (Michel Nostredame, 1503-1566). Trained as an trologer and physician (he was very sucessful at treating outbreaks of the plaguesouthern France), he was heavily steeped

Jewish mysticism. To this day admirers adetractors argue over the accuracy of forecasts. It seems clear, however, that in own lifetime Nostradamus had achieved

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one 10-billionth of a meter).More incredible research involving DNA and its crystal structu

has been carried out in an attempt to solve the mysteries of evolutiand the origins of life. In the meantime, IBM, in conjunction wDARPA, the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency, has been volved in developing holographic data storage systems. Throughprocess of shooting laser beams into the crystal, they have succesfully stored thousands of holograph images on a single lithium nbate crystal.

Clearly, on the cutting edge of science, crystals of various typ

ANCIENTMYSTERIES

ith the opening of the movie Indiana Jones and theKingdom of the Crystal Skull, millions have beenlearning for the first time about one of the most remark-able stories in the annals of archaeology, the mystery of

the crystal skulls. The movie may be fiction, but the tale of the crystalskulls is not only filled with plenty of Hollywood-style adventure, a

lot of it is true.One of the most fascinating substances in nature, crystal lends it-

self uniquely to various adaptations, including information storage.Today crystal technologies are at the cutting edge of advancements innanotechnology and computing. As for the skulls, themselves, doesthe fact that they are carved from crystal enable them to store infor-mation and interact with human thought waves? Strangely, there isevidence to suggest this could be so.

Moreover, the history of Mesoamerica, where the skulls are said tooriginate, is rich with the mystical, magical sorcery of the Olmecs,Zapotecs, Maya and Aztecs. Indeed, the turbulent times of the Mex-ican Revolution form the backdrop for much of the most recent partof the tale, including the saga of F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, the notoriousadventurer who emerged from the jungles, it was said, with the mostfamous of the crystal skullsthe so-called Skull of Doom.

There are genuine enigmas associated with crystal skulls. Someseem outlandish, while others would appear to make sense but aren'tnecessarily true either. Studies of crystal skulls run from exacting sci-entific examinations to bizarre psychic readings that could never beproven. Much of the material on crystal skulls may be fabricated ordeceptive, and the age and origins of the objects obscuredbut onething is certain: crystal skulls are real!

The second most abundant mineral on the earth, after feldspar,quartz has even been found in meteors. It is a large component ofsand and sandstone, and is part of almost every rock, be it igneous,metamorphic or sedimentary. It is the main mineral in most gem-stones.

Quartz is extremely hard rock, with a Mohs scale of 7. Since dia-monds are one of the few minerals that exceed quartz in hardness, di-

amond-tipped tools or dust are thought to have been used to makemost crystal skulls.Quartz has a lattice of silica tetrahedra and ideally forms into a

six-sided prism terminating with six-sided pyramids at each end. Itscrystals can grow together and become intertwined and thereforeshow only part of this shape, looking like a giant crystal mass. Butthe underlying crystalline structure, one in which internal patternsof molecules are regular, repeated and geometrically arranged, givesquartz many of its striking properties, and makes it possible for oneto believe that crystal skulls may actually be the depositories of an-cient wisdom.

Eric Smalley, in an article about quantum computers inTech-nology Research News (online at trnmag.com) reports that a re-search team from the U.S. and Korea succeeded in storing a lightpulse in a crystal, and then reconstituting it. This was significant be-cause quantum information is notoriously fragile, and the ability tostore it in a crystal would advance the feasibility of building aquantum computer (which would theoretically work at far fasterspeeds than are now possible).

Although there is much work to be done to develop a quantummemory chip, experiments with crystal seem promising. More recentresearch takes the use of crystals in information processing a stepfurther, experimenting with perhaps the ultimate material in infor-mation storage, DNA.

According to Science Daily Crystals promise a new way to pro-cess information. An article in February, 2003 reported, A team ledby Richard Kiehi, a professor of electrical engineering at the Univer-sity of Minnesota, has used the selective stickiness of DNA to con-struct a scaffolding for closely spaced nanoparticles that could ex-change information on a scale of only 10 angstroms (an angstrom is

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tons. Obtaining large, translucent quartzcrystals could be very difficult, especially inancient times. Deposits of large crystals ofdifferent grades occur in Brazil, Peru,Mexico, California, Arkansas and other areasof the Americas. Deposits of large quartzcrystals are also found in Africa, Europe andAsia, but much of the high quality, translu-cent quartz crystals today come from Brazil.

Gold and silver are often found aroundquartz, and quartz crystals can have beau-tiful gold threads inside them, having grownwith the crystal. Quartz crystals have an axisof rotation and they have the ability to rotatethe plane of polarization of light passingthrough them. They are also highly piezo-electric, becoming polarized with a negativecharge on one end and a positive charge onthe other when subjected to pressure.

Quartz crystals vibrate when an alter-nating electric current is applied to them,and for this reason they have proven to behighly important in commercial applica-tions. Quartz oscillators were developed in1921 and one early use was in phonographneedles. Their piezoelectricity also makesthem ideal for use in making microphones,

speakers, pressure gauges, actuators, resona-tors and clocks.

The many astonishing qualities of quartzseem to make it an ideal material for psy-chic and light experiments. In theory, apiece of crystal quartz, or a crystal skull,could and would react to what was around it,including light, electricity, pressure, sound,vibrations of all sorts, and possibly humanthought waves and the human electricalfield.

Marcel Vogel, an IBM researcher, spentseventeen years testing crystals and their in-teraction with human energy. He perfectedthe Vogel-cut of crystals to maximize their

ability to convey psychic and healing influ-ences. His work is perhaps best summarizedin this quote from him: The crystal is aneutral object whose inner structure ex-hibits a state of perfection and balance.When it is cut to the proper form and whenthe human mind enters into relationshipwith its structural perfection, the crystalemits a vibration which extends and ampli-fies the power of the users mind. Like alaser, it radiates energy in a coherent, highlyconcentrated form, and this energy may betransmitted into objects or people at will.

Many unusual phenomena have been associated with crystaskulls. According to Frank Dorland, a San Francisco art expert and

restorer who studied the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull for six years,the skull would often be seen with its eyes unusually lit up. The eyeswould flicker as if they were watching the observer, and visitors re-ported odd odors and sounds, plus various lighting effects comingfrom the skull. Bizarre photographs were taken of pictures whichsometimes formed within the skull, including images of flying discsand of what appears to be the Caracol observatory at the ToltecMayan site of Chichen Itza. The astonishing ability of crystal skulls tocreate unusual phenomena is now well known.

It is nearly impossible to discuss crystal skulls without lookinginto the life of F. A. Mike Mitchell-Hedges. A fascinating individual,Mitchell-Hedges was very much the prototype for the Indiana-Jones

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are being used to store and process information, and success is due tothe very nature of crystals themselves. Information can be stored inan orderly fashion, replicated and retrieved. Is it then so farfetched tothink that a technologically advanced earlier civilization could havedeveloped these capabilities, and perhaps used crystal skulls to recordinformation? Or even that the same ends may have been met intui-tively?

In order to make a large-size crystal skull, say, one nearly the sizeof a human skull, the crystal carver would need a pretty large piece ofquartz crystalsome can reach several meters in length, and weigh

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.the earth and the heavens all shallwax old as doth a garment.

Hebrews 1:10-11

ith great expectations hinging

on NASAs latest exploration ofMarsthe Phoenix landertouching down smoothly on the

Red Planets northern ice plains in Mayscientists are holding their breath for signsof ancient water and life on that barrenworld. Could success for the $457 million-dollar missionthe first to study Marsarctic plainsdepend on finding, underpolar ice, organic chemicals or perhapsnanofossils?

Back in 04 when Mars was last makingnews, NASA having landed a rover on the RedPlanet, one MIT engineering student floatedthe idea of terraforming Mars by melting

her polar caps to make her warm, wet andhabitable once again. The quixotic sci-fischeme reminds one of those miraculouswrinkle creams that inevitably pop up whenyou go online. Most of us, though, will haveto settle for growing old gracefully and get-ting a laugh out of the latest crackpotscheme to reverse aging or bring the deadback to life. In such matters, I think of theeternal truth of Hindu theology which positsa holy trinity composed of Brahma, Vishnu,and Shiva. These great deities in turn resolveinto creator, sustainer, destroyer. And finallythey represent birth, life, and death.

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BY SUSAN MARTINEZ, Ph.D.

If planets are living things, they too, itseems, must have a natural lifespan, endinginexorably in dust and decay. But Westernscience and sensibility, enamored of unlim-ited growth, has been loathe to admit death

and dissolution. Indeed, when the first dino-saurs were exhumed early in the nineteenthcentury, the very idea ofextinction of specieswas not only brand new, it was repugnant. Itwas horrible. It is contrary to the commoncourse of providence to suffer any of hiscreatures to be annihilated, said Quakernaturalist P. Collinson.

At the time of the first dinosaur dis-covery, the world of extinct life was an un-known, still buried in the past. Geologictime, as it is called, was just being discov-ered. Although the first dinosaur (the GreatFossil Lizard of Stonesfield at Sussex, UK,1822) was much celebrated, the overgrown

lizard triggered instant debate and contro-versy. How could a species have vanishedfrom the good earth? Soon it would beknown that a staggering number of othercreatures, as well as plants, sang their deathsong to the dawning tertiary.

Shiva, or the destroyer, as the ancientworld dubbed the force-pulling-down, wasnothing sinister (quite the contrary), butsimply the inevitable vanishment or dissolu-tion of all material substance. And while thesages of old knew all about the birth anddeath of worlds once they fulfilled theirlabor, we moderns seem to have forgotten

that all stories have a beginning, middle aend; instead, our sages would inject tpatently geriatric Red Planet with their vesion of new life; or would interpret her mobund frigidity (-40 degrees F. on a typic

summers day) as the result of being crently in the grip of an ice age; or would acount for her Stygian, tomblike drought some change in the planets atmopherecausing water to vaporize Or tilate the mind with recondite (and so far conclusive) studies into possible life Mars.

The Red Planet, well into her dotage,not a potential piece of real estate, nor islikely to be making a comeback any timsoon. She will, in all likelihood, get oncolder and drier.

Shes history, it appears.Neither is our Mother Earth, Mars sist

planet, a youngster. Three things are seenhappen in the life of a worldany worSlowing, drying, and cooling, from day one

The proto-world, we are told, began aseething ball of liquid fire, boiling aroiling, whirling and swirling. She was stitwisting turbulent vortex of friction, gclouds in rapid rotation slowly but surcondensing particles in solution. It woutake, the argument goes, almost a billiyears for the newborn world to produce tfirst shred of life. The molten earth, after before we can go for a walk in the park, muturn down the lights, slow down, cool dow

ALTERNATIVESCIENCE

Artists rendering of the PhoenLander on the arctic plains of Mar(Art by Corby Waste, Jet Propulsio

Laboratory, NASA

GLOBAL COOLING

Is Mars Sending Usa Message about

Planetary Geriatrics?



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