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Who Built the Moon? An Interview With Christopher Knight
NEW DAWN The Moon has confounded scientists for many years. It does not obey the known rules of astro-
physics and there is no coherent theory of its origin – in fact it should not really be there. Best
selling author Christopher Knight talks to New Dawn about his new book and its amazing conclusions.

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The Gospel of Judas Revealed
For 2,000 years Judas has been reviled for betraying Jesus. Now a newly translated ancient
manuscript offers us a very different Judas. In this version, he is a favoured disciple who was
given special knowledge by Jesus. Robert Black introduces us to Judas's Gospel.

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The Truth About Tibet
Everyone thinks Tibet was an independent country that was invaded by the Chinese in the 1950s.
Dr. Norman Williams shows the truth, however, is somewhat different, and to understand it we
need to know something of the history of Tibet.

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How to Make a Ghost: Magic & Mysticism in Tibet
Accounts of Tibetan mystics and their fascinating powers include such phenomena as levitation,
telepathy, and the ability to self-heat. Herbie Brennan, a writer on occult Tibet, tells us about this unique
culture which has invesitigated the mysteries of mind and magic to a degree never before attempted.

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The Mystery of Iniquity
Does evil exist or do bad things just happen? The alternative worldview of the Gnostics, writes Dr.
Stephan A. Hoeller, provides a startling solution to the problem of suffering and injustice.

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A Western Book of the Dead
Robert Moss explains we have entirely natural contact with the departed in our dreams and we may
travel into their realms. He shows how we can become active dreamers, heal our relationship with
the departed, and move beyond the fear of death.

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Secret Teachings Reborn
Manly P. Hall was among the twentieth century’s most commanding and unusual scholars of
esoteric and mythological lore. Mitch Horowitz discusses his extraordinary life and legacy.

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Signs in the Sky, Signs of the Times
We may live in extraordinary times, but they are not incomprehensible when you know how to read
the signs. Ray Grasse deciphers the signs and correspondences of our nearing Aquarian future, and
the fading Piscean Age, to reveal we are all participants in an unfolding global and cosmic drama.

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C.W. Leadbeater: Saint or Sinner?
Who was Charles Webster Leadbeater, the man regarded by many as the true founding-father of
the “New Age” movement? Frank Joseph looks at this controversial, larger-than-life character.

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Going With the Flow
By Julie Steigerwaldt
Editorial________________ 2
Some Thoughts About Water & the World
By Jennifer Hoskins World Watch_____________ 3
New Dawn Forum_ ________ 11
An Interview With Frank Germano About Viktor Schauberger
By Susan Barber

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Is Washington
Planning a Middle
East Nuclear
Holocaust?
From news reports, it appears the
pieces are falling into place for Opera-
tion Regime Change II, this time in Iran.
Shaking his head in New York on
March 8, where he was attending United
Nations Security Council discussions
on Iran, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov said bluntly: “It looks so déjà vu.”
He ridiculed the idea of sanctions
on Iran as useless and ineffective, and
he called the US push for a showdown
over Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons
program a “self-fulfilling prophecy.”
It appears key insiders in the Bush
administration think a military strike on
Iran is unavoidable, leading to stepped
up military planning for such a prospect.
“Up until recently, I dismissed talk
of military strikes against Iran as pos-
turing or left-wing conspiracy theories,”
said Joseph Cirincione, the director
for non-proliferation at the Carnegie
Endowment.
“But I recently changed my mind
after friends close to the White House
and the Pentagon told me that some
people in government have already
decided the military option was the
only one and there was active military
planning.”
Wayne White, a former deputy
director at the State Department’s
Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
concurs: “In recent months I have
grown increasingly concerned that the
administration has been giving thought
to a heavy dose of air strikes against
Iran’s nuclear sector without giving
enough weight to the possible ramifica-
tions of such action.”
Most experts agree that US Vice
President Dick Cheney is behind the
campaign for immediate military action
against Iran because he believes UN
sanctions will come to naught. He was
the key instigator for the war on Iraq
which ended in disaster.
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Military strikes against Iran are not
necessarily imminent as Washington is
still building up a disinformation cam-
paign intended to destabilise Iran. The
Bush administration recently allocated
$85 million to upgrade television and
radio propaganda broadcasts into Iran,
and to support “pro-democracy” activ-
ists there.
The mass media is also distorting
the facts about Iran’s nuclear program.
It should be recalled how all corporate
media outlets in the “coalition of the
willing” countries – Australia, Britain and
the US – acted as propaganda outlets for
their governments, uncritically reporting
their claims Iraq had an arsenal of weap-
ons of mass destruction that threatened
“international peace and security.”
On March 2, the International
Atomic Energy Agency report – after
three years investigating Iran's nuclear
program – told the agency’s 35 board
members it has not found “any diversion
of nuclear material to nuclear weapons
or other nuclear explosive devices.”
According to the Geneva Conven-
tion and the Nuclear Non Proliferation
Treaty (NPT), Iran is not doing any
thing illegal. There is no evidence Iran
has a nuclear weapons program, and
Iran has not threatened anyone.
By contrast, the US and Britain
– the two powers heading the campaign
against Iran – continue to upgrade their
nuclear arsenals in defiance of their
obligations under the NPT. And in a
radical change of policy which has gone
unnoticed by most corporate-control-
led media outlets, the US’s new nuclear
doctrine is based on a mix of strike
capabilities that envisage the use of
nukes in combination with conventional
weapons.
Known officially as “Joint Publica-
tion 3-12,” the new nuclear doctrine
calls for “integrating conventional and
nuclear attacks” under unified and
“integrated” command and control.
According to Prof. Michel Chos-
sudovsky, Director of the Center for
Research on Globalisation, this new
doctrine “largely describes war plan-
ning as a management decision-making
process, where military and strategic
objectives are to be achieved, through a
mix of instruments, with little concern
for the resulting loss of human life.”
Prof. Chossudovsky adds:
“The new nuclear doctrine turns
concepts and realities upside down. It
not only denies the devastating impacts
of nuclear weapons, it states, in no un-
certain terms, that nuclear weapons are
‘safe’ and their use in the battlefield will
ensure ‘minimal collateral damage and
reduce the probability of escalation’.”
In a chilling and ambiguous state-
ment before the release of the Pen-
tagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review
(QDR) in February, US Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld explained
that the plan is the product of “thinking
about the 21st century in a way that’s
different from the 20th century….
Were trying to figure out how you
conduct a war against something other
than a nation-state and how… you
conduct a war in countries that you are
not at war with.”
Prof. Chossudovsky says an “opera-
tional plan to wage aerial attacks on
Iran has been in ‘a state of readiness’
since June 2005. Essential military hard-
ware to wage this operation has been
deployed.”
But it is highly unlikely the Anglo-
Americans can sustain a war of inva-
sion against Iran at the same time they
are bogged down in Iraq, and this may
be why the nuclear option has been
authorised and planned.
The justification for using nuclear
weapons poses serious moral ques-
tions. But as we saw with Iraq, the rea-
son for war is irrelevant when irrational
people are making the decisions.
(Sources: “Iran’s turn for a ‘coalition of the
willing’”, by Ehsan Ahrari, March 10, Asia
Times, www.atimes.com; “Is the Bush Ad-
ministration Planning a Nuclear Holocaust?
Will the US launch ‘Mini-nukes’ against
Iran in Retaliation for Tehran’s ‘Non-com-
pliance’?” by Michel Chossudovsky, www.
globalresearch.ca)
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How the Controlled
Press Maligns
President Chávez
A relentless propaganda campaign is
being waged by the Bush administra-
tion and the controlled press against
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez
who has become Latin America’s most
progressive elected leader.
“Venezuela is currently under attack.
Bombs are not being dropped from
airplanes but rather from media outlets,
wrapped in paper and ink,” a recent me-
dia study from the Venezuelan Ministry
of Communication and Information says.
“Ever since the election of George
W. Bush, Venezuela has been the target
of a growing misinformation campaign.
This foreign policy strategy appears to
be synchronised with coverage by vari-
ous publication and media outlets, which
spread misleading and biased news on
a daily basis, shaping negative opinions
about Venezuela’s democracy in the US,”
the study conducted in 2005 reported.
The US-based propaganda campaign
is clearly designed to malign Chávez and
his Bolivarian Revolution by misrepre-
senting what is occurring in Venezuela.
The Bolivarian Revolution is a
revolution “on which silence has been
imposed,” Ernesto Cardenal, the Nica-
raguan poet and priest wrote, “because
it has been decided so by the powerful
world media, in the hands of interna-
tional corporations.
“The Venezuelan revolution goes
against their interests; therefore, the
world does not hear anything about it.
When the most important misinforma-
tion companies mention Venezuela,
they only talk about the opposition, or
try to ridicule and caricature the figure
of President Chávez, but they never
mention there is a revolution going on,”
Cardenal wrote.
The negative stories use a number
of strategies to achieve their propa-
ganda effect, including: presentation of
opinions as facts, quoting anonymous
sources, falsification of facts, and rep-
etition of false statements.
One repeated propaganda story
is that Chávez is seeking a military
confrontation with the United States.
Venezuelan purchases of military equip-
ment for defending its borders and
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez
sovereignty are misrepresented as being
a threat to the United States. To stress
the danger that Chávez supposedly pos-
es to the US, the controlled press often
mentions Venezuela’s alleged acquisition
of Russian MiG fighter jets although no
such purchase ever took place.
Chávez is, according to the Bush ad-
ministration, concentrating power in his
own hands. This is precisely the false
allegation put forth by US Secretary
of Defense Donald Rumsfeld when he
recently compared the democratically
elected Chávez with Adolf Hitler.
Chávez has also been accused of
failing to respect private property in a
country where less than 5 percent of
the population owns 80 percent of the
land. About the disparity of land own-
ership, Chávez has said, “A democracy
that allows such a situation of unfair-
ness is losing its democratic character.”
The unfair criticism of Chávez, an
elected leader, comes from officials
of the un-elected Bush administration
which provides billions of dollars in
US funds and military support to real
dictators and criminal regimes, including
those with illegal nuclear weapons.
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frias came to
power in Venezuela in 1999 after win-
ning a sweeping victory in democratic
elections. Chávez had campaigned on
promises to end corruption, institute
constitutional reform, distribute the na-
tion’s oil wealth more fairly, and reform
political institutions. After seven years
in office, these remain the fundamental
goals of the Chávez government.
“Chávez represents a populist
backlash against Venezuela’s entrenched
power élite, whose corruption and
ineptitude had virtually bankrupted
the oil-rich Caribbean nation,” Time
Europe reported at the end of 1999.
“He is part of a broad wave of unease
across the continent at the wrenching
changes of free market privatisation and
globalisation that have often failed to
deliver economic promise to more than
a favoured few.”
“Why is Venezuela a threat to the
US?” the Venezuelan media study asks.
The Bolivarian Revolution of Chávez is
a threat to the US, it says, because it
provides an example for others to fol-
low:
“The real Venezuelan threat con-
sists of teachers, doctors, athletes,
coaches, and volunteers. This bat-
talion of hope is distributing books
and vaccines to the poorest and most
secluded slums and towns and reinvest-
ing the country’s oil revenues for the
benefit of all Venezuelans. Venezuela
has a vibrant democracy, one in which
popular participation is the key to suc-
cess. This is a democratic model that
aims to uphold national identity and
values, secure the nation’s sovereignty,
and promote a multi-polar interna-
tional order that guarantees peace and
respect for all nations.”
While the Bush administration and
the corporate-controlled press repeat
their mantra that Chávez is “isolating
Venezuela from the rest of the world,”
the facts show otherwise. Using its im-
mense oil wealth to benefit its people
and neighbours throughout the region,
Venezuela under Chávez has become
the engine for a unified South America.
Chávez has also signed trade agree-
ments and alliances with France, Spain,
China, Russia, Iran, Qatar, and India.
Chávez actually seems to enjoy be-
ing criticised by the Bush administration
and representatives of what he calls
“the assassin and genocide empire.”
“Let them attack us and call us what
they like,” Chávez says. Then using his
favourite quote from Don Quixote, he
says, “Let them bark, Sancho, if they
bark it’s because we are riding.”
(Source: A report by Christopher Bollyn in
American Free Press, www.americanfreep-
ress.net)
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 The Global Decline
of the USA
In 1987, the Yale University historian
Paul Kennedy described the rise and fall
of empires. He analysed how all imperial
powers arrived at a point of overreach
that eventually destroyed their empire.
Too much concern for security and
disproportionate spending on defense
were endemic to the fall of all previous
empires he studied. The United States
appears at this time to be marching into
a situation that fits Kennedy’s descrip-
tion of imperial decline.
Kennedy’s book set off an impor-
tant reaction in the United States in the
late 1980s. It laid out the consequences
of the superpower contest with the So-
viet Union in terms of mutual imperial
overstretch instead of mutual assured
destruction.
Just as the Soviet Union eventu-
ally imploded largely due to its own
imperial overreach, the US may already
be on the path of no return to its own
decline and even disintegration.
“The overwhelming preoccupation
of the Bush administration (and Blair
for that matter) with Iraq, the Middle
East and Islam, speaks of a failure to
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understand the deeper forces that are
reshaping the world,” writes Martin
Jacques of the Asia Research Institute
in an article for the London Guardian.
“Such a myopic view can only hasten
the decline of the US as a global power,
a process that has already started.”
The US occupation of Iraq has
been a disaster from almost every
angle, most of all for the Iraqi people,
not least for American foreign policy.
Already the blame game has begun.
“Like rats on a sinking ship,” writes
Richard Walker for American Free Press,
“leading neo-conservatives are now
abandoning the US foreign policy that
they have used to steer into dangerous
waters.”
Leading neo-cons including William
F. Buckley Jr. and Richard Perle are now
blaming US President Bush for the poli-
cies they directed. Francis Fukuyama’s
new book After the Neocons is a merci-
less critique of Bush’s foreign policy and
the school of thought behind it.
Dire warnings about the direction
of US foreign policy are now coming
from prominent Republicans like Henry
Hyde, chairman of the House Interna-
tional Relations Committee.
Hyde says he now sees the Bush
policy of “democratising” the world
through “regime change” as
a flawed strategy.
“Our power, then, has
the grave liability of render-
ing our theories about the
world immune from failure.
But by becoming deaf to
easily discerned warning
signs, we may ignore long-
term costs that result from
our actions and dismiss re-
verses that should lead to a
re-examination of our goals
and means,” warns Hyde.
Hyde also alludes to a new
“unformed” world and “a
phalanx of aspiring com-
petitors.” The world is in the
midst of a monumental proc-
ess of change that, within the
next 10 years or so, could
leave the US as only the
second largest economy in
the world after China.
Hyde concludes by warn-
ing against the delusions of
imperialism and cautioning
that the future should not be seen as an
extension of the present:
“A few brief years ago, history was
proclaimed to be at an end, our victory
engraved in unyielding stone… But we
must remember that Britain’s majes-
tic rule vanished in a few short years,
undermined by unforeseen catastrophic
events and by new threats that eventu-
ally overwhelmed the palisades of the
past… To allow our enormous power
to delude us into seeing the world as
a passive thing waiting for us to recre-
ate it in an image of our choosing will
hasten the day when we have little
freedom to choose anything at all.”
According to Martin Jacques of Sin-
gapore's Asia Research Institute, in the
future the US, “will no longer be able to
boss the world around in the fashion of
the neoconservative dream: its power to
do so will be constrained by the power
of others, notably China, while it will
also find it increasingly difficult to fund
the military and diplomatic costs of be-
ing the world’s sole superpower.”
That the world will be very differ-
ent within the next two decades, if
not sooner, is clear, yet there is scant
recognition in the US of this fact and
what it might mean.
In other parts of the world new
alliances are being forged to avoid the
danger of global instability caused by
Washington’s aggressive policies.
The conservative elites of Europe
and Asia are very concerned. The
Financial Times, regarded as a voice for
Britain’s elite, warns: “Central banks
are shifting reserves away from the US
and towards the eurozone in a move
that looks set to deepen the Bush ad-
ministration’s difficulties in financing its
ballooning current account deficit.”
These financial managers are careful
to move away from the dollar incre-
mentally, so as not to plunge the global
system into panic – but the direction is
inexorably away from the US currency.
Ironically, the globalisation policies
championed by the United States con-
tributed to the rise of China, Russia, India
and Brazil. All these countries had to fight
their way through years of economic re-
form and hardships to get where they are
today. Multinational corporations, with
power and wealth that stretches beyond
nation states, are increasingly moving
their operations to these countries.
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 China is rapidly becoming the manu-
facturing centre of the world, but it is
also quickly becoming the information
technology hub as well. Andy Grove,
the founder of Intel, predicted last year
that the United States will lose the bulk
of its information technology jobs to
China and India over the next decade.
John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco,
says: “China will become the IT centre
of the world, and we can have a healthy
discussion about whether that’s in 2020
or 2040. What we’re trying to do is
outline an entire strategy of becoming a
Chinese company.”
Perhaps one of the most important
and yet largely untold stories of 2006 is
Chinese President Hu Jintao and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
the profound anti-US feeling which has
united Latin America to a degree that the developing world as an alternative
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas
Che Guevara could only dream of. It is model for ending poverty. China is
Llosa, and Carlos Fuentes.”
the most significant political re-align- creating a new strategic alliance with
It was highly likely, after the first
ment in the history of the Western Latin America which has seen an inflow
round of elections in Peru on 9 April
Hemisphere and puts an end to the of billions of dollars of Chinese money.
to elect a president and Congress, that
Monroe Doctrine that deemed no for- A flurry of China-Brazil business
another strongly anti-American populist
eign power would have more influence began less than two years ago after an
politician would come to power.
there than the US itself. exchange of visits between Brazilian
The presidential frontrunner was
The Monroe Doctrine was vigorously President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and
Ollanta Humala, a retired army com-
applied during the Cold War when any Chinese President Hu Jintao.
mander who led a failed military upris-
Latin American country that veered to Since then China’s influence can
ing in October 2000.
the Left – from Chile to Nicaragua – ex- be seen everywhere in Latin America:
“He strikes fear into Peru’s Europe-
perienced some form of US intervention. oil, gas, railways, ports, steel and even
an-descended middle and upper classes,
A TV news special “How the US ‘lost’ defence.
and was pelted with rubbish by a crowd
Latin America” by the BBC’s Gavin Esler In Sao Paulo, Chinese language
of wealthy Peruvians when he went to
even admits that “in pursuit of American classes are packed. Not only are stu-
cast his ballot,” wrote James Hider for
interests, the US has overthrown or dents taught how to speak Mandarin,
The Times on April 11.
undermined around 40 Latin American but they are also guided in cultural
Like President Hugo Chavez in
governments in the 20th century.” habits such as attending banquets and
Venezuela and President Evo Morales in
Anyone paying attention to events singing Chinese folk songs.
Bolivia, Mr Humala talks of the evils of
in Venezuela and Nicaragua in the north “The Chinese government has
“the neo-liberal economic model that
to Peru and Bolivia further south, plus achieved the greatest victory in the his-
has failed to benefit our nation.”
in different ways Mexico, Argentina and tory of human rights,” says Charles Tang,
Many Latin Americans are furi-
Brazil, comes to the same conclusion: who heads the Brazil-China Chamber
ous about the devastating neo-liberal
George Bush's leadership has fanned a of Commerce and who has been behind
economic and social reforms that were
gale-force electoral trend that’s sweep- many of the joint-venture initiatives.
forced on their countries by the most
ing the hemisphere to topple one pro- “It has removed 400 million Chinese
powerful financial institutions ever cre-
Washington government after the next. people from poverty and enabled them
ated – the International Monetary Fund
“Now in this new century things are to live with dignity and take part in
and the World Bank. These banks hold
changing,” observes Gavin Esler, “and economic life. That is the true measure
the lion’s share of the debt currently
the potential is being realised. With the of human rights.”
owed by the ‘Third World’. Together
exception of Cuba and Haiti, democ-
they ensure a continuous transfer of
racy has flourished, almost everywhere. (Sources: “Imperial overreach is acceler-
wealth from the poor to the rich.
Latin American voters have thrown out ating the global decline of America”, by
These two organisations dictate to
their governments and – often – given Martin Jacques, March 28, The Guard-
millions of people how they should live
a two-fingered salute to Washington. ian; “Neo-Cons Jumping Ship” by Richard
and what they should do. For many their
That is their prerogative. Economically, Walker, April 10, www.americanfreepress.
policies mean a life of harsh exploitation
some countries – including Peru – have net; “Chinese influence in Brazil worries
and low wages, or even an early death.
been roaring ahead. Their cultures are US” By Humphrey Hawksley, 3 April,
Under the slogan of “peaceful ris-
flourishing too. A new generation of http://news.bbc.co.uk)
ing,” China is now presenting itself to
novelists is following the path blazed by

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Charlie Sheen
Questions Official
9/11 Story
Actor Charlie Sheen has joined a grow-
ing army of public figures in the United
States who are questioning the official
story of the events of September 11,
2001, and calling for a new independ-
ent investigation of the attack and the
circumstances surrounding it.
Speaking to “The Alex Jones Show”
on the GCN Radio Network, Sheen
elaborated on why he had problems
believing the US government’s version
of events.
Sheen agreed that the biggest
conspiracy theory was put out by the
government itself and prefaced his argu-
ment by quoting Theodore Roosevelt
in stating, “That we are to stand by the
President right or wrong is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally
treasonable to the American public.”
“We’re not the conspiracy theorists
on this particular issue,” said Sheen.
“It seems to me like 19 amateurs
with box cutters taking over four
commercial airliners and hitting 75% of
their targets, that feels like a conspiracy
theory. It raises a lot of questions.”
Sheen described the climate of ac-
ceptance for serious discussion about
9/11 as being far more fertile than it
was a couple of years ago.
“It feels like from the people I talk
to in and around my circles, it seems
like the worm is turning.”
Sheen described his immediate
skepticism regarding the official reason
for the collapse of the twin towers and
building 7 on the day of 9/11.
“I was up early… I was watching the
news and the north tower was burn-
ing. I saw the south tower hit live, that
famous wide shot where it disappears
behind the building and then we see the
tremendous fireball.
“There was a feeling, it just didn’t
look like any commercial jetliner I’ve
flown on any time in my life and then
when the buildings came down later on
that day I said to my brother, ‘call me
insane, but did it sort of look like those
buildings came down in a controlled
demolition’?”
Concerning how the Bush admin-
istration finalised Afghanistan war
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plans so quickly and the call for “some
catastrophic and catalysing event – like
a new Pearl Harbor,” outlined as early
as 2000 in the Project for the New
American Century (PNAC) documents,
Sheen stated, “you don’t really put
those strategies together overnight do
you for a major invasion? Those are
really well calculated and really well
planned.”
“Coincidence? We think not,” said
Sheen and he called the PNAC quotes
“emblematic of the arrogance of this
administration.”
Sheen joined others in calling for a
revised and truly independent investiga-
tion of 9/11.
“September 11 wasn’t the Zapruder
film, it was the Zapruder film festival,”
Sheen said, adding that an independ-
ent inquiry had to be “headed, if this is
possible, by some neutral investigative
committee. What if we used retired
political foreign nationals? What if we
used experts that don’t have any ties
whatsoever to this administration?
“It is up to us to reveal the truth.
It is up to us because we owe it to the
families, we owe it to the victims. We
owe it to everybody’s life who was
drastically altered, horrifically that day
and forever. We owe it to them to
uncover what happened.”
In response to the inevitable attack
against him after the interview, Sheen
penned an angry letter in which he chal-
lenged the mainstream media to debate
the facts of 9/11, stating that media out-
lets had given no attention “whatsoever
to the questions I raise or the evidence
that stimulated those very questions.”
“Instead, low-brow idiotic hit pieces
are spewed forth,” Sheen said, “in an
effort to sway the readers’ opinion of
the messenger while blatantly disre-
garding any of the potentially valuable
content of the story.
“[I]f you continue to overlook the
hard questions and physical evidence
regarding 9/11,” he writes, “you only
confirm what so many of us ‘Conspira-
cy Idiots’ have suspected all along – The
Official Report is, at best, an insulting
work of FICTION.”
(Source: www.prisonplanet.com/articles/
march2006/200306charliesheen.htm)
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China's First World
Buddhist Forum
From April 13-16, Buddhist leaders
from South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and
other countries attended China’s first
World Buddhist Forum in the eastern
city of Hangzhou.
The forum is the first such event
since the Communist Party took power
in 1949.
Buddhism has been an integral
part of Chinese religion for over
2,000 years. China has at least 20,000
Buddhist temples and about 200,000
Buddhist monks and nuns, according to
official statistics.
Monks and experts on Buddhism
from across the world exchanged views
at the five-day forum.
The theme for the forum was “a
harmonious world begins with the
mind” at a time when “the world is
undergoing incredible changes at a rapid
pace,” according to its official website,
www.wbf.net.cn.
“Never in the history of human be-
ings have we enjoyed such a high level of
material prosperity and yet mankind is
beset with feelings of spiritual emptiness,
moral degeneration and depression,”
says a statement on the official web site.
“Facing these serious challenges, the
need for mankind to have a healthy reli-
gious life and spiritual growth becomes
even more important and urgent.”
Buddhists from South Korea, Japan,
Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao have
helped to develop the forum since it
was first proposed during a conference
in Beijing in 2004.
The holding of the forum reflects
growing acceptance by the Chinese
Communist Party of Buddhism and
other religions – as long as they do not
disrupt the harmony of society.
Buddhism, a major religion in China,
can play a unique role in promoting a
“harmonious society” and contributing
to world peace, say top Chinese reli-
gious affairs officials and researchers.
As a religion with “profound ideas
of harmony and a conception of peace,”
Buddhism can relieve strain and stress
among people and between humans and
nature, thus enhancing social accord,
said Ye Xiaowen, chief of the State
Administration for Religious Affairs.
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Advocating the Buddhist spirit of
harmony, peace and benevolence will
undoubtedly push forward harmony
in China and the world, Xinhua news
agency quoted Ye as saying.
“As a responsible country, China has
had its own deep thinking and measures
of foresight for the promotion of world
harmony,” Ye said. “Religious force is
one of the important social forces from
which China draws strength.”
A popular doctrine of Buddhism
is “to do no evil, to do only good and
to purify the will,” said Wei Daoru, a
researcher with the Institute of World
Religions under the Chinese Academy
of Social Sciences.
As proven in the past hundreds
of years, Buddhism has helped avert
various strife among people, and taught
believers to re-adjust their mindset for
peaceful co-existence with nature and
others, Wei told China Daily.
The religion also preaches that all
different Buddhist sects are equal and
should live in amity, Wei said. Buddhism
has become a bridge for international
cultural exchange, he added.
“The religious doctrine of selfless-
ness, charity, respect, equality and tol-
erance makes it culturally advantageous
in safeguarding world peace,” Wei said
in an article for the Buddhist forum.
The theme of the World Buddhist
Forum dovetails with the recent an-
nouncement by Chinese President Hu
Jintao at the National Peoples Congress
to improve the moral standards of
Chinese people.
According to C. Raja Mohan writing
for The Indian Express on April 7, a list
of “eight glories and eight disgraces”
outlined by the President is being dis-
seminated across China to be studied
and applied by citizens.
The New China News Agency
called the morals push “a perfect amal-
gamation of traditional Chinese values
and modern virtues.”
C. Raja Mohan further points out
this “moralpolitik seems part of an at-
tempt to build a ‘harmonious society’
in China. It is based on the recognition
that two and a half decades of explosive
growth has generated unprecedented
economic inequality, growing political
unrest and a moral vacuum.”
China’s market economy, notes
Yang Fenggang, a sociologist at Purdue
University in West Lafayette, Indiana,
is “accompanied by widespread moral
corruption, which prompts many indi-
viduals to seek a theodicy, or a religious
worldview, to put the seemingly chaotic
universe into order.”
Thus, as China becomes more
wealthy and worldly, it’s also experienc-
ing a growing interest in spirituality.
The Chinese people are emerging with
“more time and freedom to think,”
says Yuan Ci, a monk who works with
the Buddhist Association of China in
Beijing.
“In urban areas, China’s new Bud-
dhists are young, college-educated, and
upwardly mobile. They are looking not
only for purpose in their lives, analysts
say, but for a way to cope with the
pressures of modernisation and high
expectations,” writes R. Scott Macin-
tosh for The Christian Science Monitor.
“Unlike Christianity and Falun Gong,
which authorities view as ‘alien’ and
intrusive, the government has adopted
a fairly loose reaction to the reemer-
gence of local ‘popular’ religion, which is
experiencing a renaissance,” says Gene
Cooper, a professor in anthropology at
the University of Southern California.
Yuan Ci believes the government is
starting to recognise the role religion
could play in striving to achieve a “harmo-
nious society” – the ideal of an egalitarian
and balanced society that China’s leaders
espouse. “Religion can take a part in mak-
ing society peaceful,” he says.
(Sources: World Buddhist Forum, www.wbf.
net.cn/english/default.htm; “Buddhism ‘con-
tributes to a harmonious society’”, 11 April,
China Daily, www.chinadaily.com.cn; “Chi-
na’s prosperity inspires rising spirituality”, by
R. Scott Macintosh, March 9, The Christian
Science Monitor, www.csmonitor.com)
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 Ne w dawn forum
We invite your letters to the New Dawn Forum, GPO Box 3126, Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia.
“The Phallus”
Dear Editor,
The review of Alain Danielou’s
book The Phallus in the latest issue of
New Dawn reminded me of a strange
story I heard from a friend around
twenty years ago....
It started in September 1959
when my friend was travelling
through Italy. Wandering about a little
Italian town he came across a group
of elderly ladies sitting at card tables
selling amulets in the shape of a penis
and testicles with wings.
He later discovered such amulets
were called in Latin fascineum, from
which we get the English word fasci-
nate, because of the power of the male
generative organ to charm people.
The significance of the wings is that
the nature of the penis is like a bird, its
nature is to flutter about from one to
another. They’ve been worn in parts
of Italy for at least 2500 years and are
believed to ward off evil....
My friend also encountered other
old ladies selling little cakes baked in
the shape of a penis with testicles,
which they said were the original
form of the Eucharist host in Chris-
tianity. The reason the host was
baked in that form was, for one thing,
because the penis, like the body of
Christ, rises again. And also because
in Latin and in Greek, the root for
the word erect means to rise up, and
resurrection means to rise up again.
The people of the town were
also behaving rather weirdly. The
men frequently rubbing their geni-
tals, and the women behaving rather
lewdly.... Later a local guy who knew
some English explained the town
was celebrating a religious festival.
He confided something like, “once a
year we celebrate the feast of Saint
Priapus. We celebrate the feast with
lots of sex, because if men don’t get
enough sex, it makes them mean and
they do bad things.”....
The survival of this ancient pagan
custom in an Italian village got me
thinking about the phallic nature of
religion....
- James S.
Via Email
www.newdawnmagazine.com
“Bird Flu”
Dear Editor,
How refreshing it is to read about
the bird flu that is not a doomsday sce-
nario. I myself believe that this has been
taken by the mainstream and blown
way out of proportion.
Let us not forget that at present
the common old fashioned flu virus kills
many people worldwide each year.
As usual the public's focus is herded
the wrong way. I myself am much more
worried about antibiotic resistance and
the re-emergence of infectious diseases
in our ever changing environment.
Anyway keep up the good work as I
continue to buy your mag.
Regards,
- Bruce R.
Via Email
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Ataturk, Turkey &
the Lost Continent
of Mu
Dear David,
Thank you for upholding the
thought provoking and confronting
standard of New Dawn.
I am a psychiatrist from Turkey
living in Australia. I read with great in-
terest, as all the other articles in every
issue, the article by Frank Joseph on
Lemuria [New Dawn No. 95].
I would like to add a few back-
ground details on Colonel Church-
ward's book [The Lost Continent of
Mu]:
When the book was published it
was brought to the attention of Kemal
Ataturk, the young and energetic
leader of the newly founded Republic
of Turkey who noticed immediately the
significance of the book for the Turkish
central Asian mythology who claimed
that Turkish ancestors came from a
star system associated with Sirius or
the Pleiades in the form of a wolf-man
called Asena or Syena, and not unlike
Annubis.
Ataturk sent directives to Turkish
diplomatic missions around the Pacific
to look for cultural similarities with
the local indigenous people. He also
organised for divers to do research in
the Pacific.
The most convincing evidence
came from Tahsin Mayatepek the
Turkish Ambassador in Mexico, who
made a comprehensive study of the
Aztec language and showed striking
similarities to the Turkish language.
One well known example is the
hill of Capultepec near Mexico City.
Capul is an ancient Turkish word
meaning grasshopper and tepe means
hill. Indeed the meaning and the
emblem of Capultepec is the Grass-
hopper Hill. The word tepec or tepeu
is common to all central and south
American native languages meaning
mountain.
With best regards,
- Gokhan S.
Via Email
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“Venus transit”
Hi,
First of all thank you for giving the
public something interesting to read. I
look forward to each new issue.
My email is in regards to an arti-
cle in one of your issues (New Dawn
No. 83, March-April 2004) about the
Venus transit.
It is interesting to note that the
transit occurred in the same year as
the boxing day tsunami and the US
elections. 2008, the next year that
Venus will pass, is also the same year
of the US elections. Coincidence?
Maybe. I wonder what else 2008 has
in store for us.
Keep up the good work.
- David J.
Via Email
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Joseph Smith & the
Book of Mormon
Dear David & Team,
I subscribe to your magazine and
am very, very happy with that deci-
sion. I just had to write in response
to two articles you have in this
month's issue [New Dawn No. 95] on
the Church of the Latter Day Saints,
and Joseph Smith.
I am very interested in most reli-
gions and spiritual journeys and have
read much of the holy texts of the
major religions in the world today.
Certain evidences have recently been
brought to my attention regarding
the Mormon religion.
In the book of Mormon, 1 Nephi
18:25, it says:
“And it came to pass that we did
find upon the land of promise, as
we journeyed in the wilderness, that
there were beasts in the forests of
every kind, both the cow and the ox,
and the ass and the horse, and the
goat and the wild goat, and all man-
ner of wild animals, which were for
the use of men.”
Notice here he says “and the
horse.” Joseph Smith probably did
not have access to written accounts
of history such as we have today, and
hence his error.
There were NO HORSES on
the American mainland before the
Spanish arrived! When the indigenous
inhabitants of the American land saw
the Spanish atop their horses for the
first time they thought they were
seeing mythical beasts, something
that were half men half beast. They
were terrified.
They HAD NEVER SEEN
HORSES BEFORE! There are many
references to the reaction of the
American Indians to the Spanish and
their horses in written texts from
people who had accompanied Cortez.
(And probably many others.)
A second point regarding the
Book of Mormon. This point comes
from my husband (Andrew) as he has
done the background work on it.
All Hebrew names have meaning.
They are constructed from existing
names of people and of places and
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even of other Hebrew words. You can
look at a Hebrew name and work out
what it means by going back to the
root words that it is made up of. This
he worked out by spending many hours
poring over a Bible Concordance.
Anyway what he discovered when
he looked at the Book of Mormon
was that the names it contains do not
make sense when you try to look at the
root Hebrew word. They are nonsense
names, meaningless. Quite often they
were structurally wrong too. Except,
of course, for the ones that were taken
directly from the Bible.
Interesting eh? Poor Joseph Smith
didn’t know there were no native hors-
es in America nor, apparently, did he
have a proper grasp of Hebrew names
and meanings. Makes you wonder does
it not?
Namaste...
- Megan H.
Via Email
▲ now closing in 5 or 6 years time. Yet
“Broadens my
outlook and makes
me think”
I am writing to tell you that I thor-
oughly enjoy New Dawn. Yours is the
most uplifting and informative magazine
I have ever received. The story on the
Indigo children [New Dawn No. 95] is
wonderful...
I also appreciate the thoughtful
reviews you print....
New Dawn broadens my outlook
and makes me think.
Thank you,
- Joy F.
Sandringham, VIC
“Get one's
'priorities right' &
get one’s house in
order”
Hi David,
The Hollywood glamour / ill-
loose-it-tory presentations this year
seem to be focused on the illusions
of transformations of gender, trying
to justify same sex marriages. This
is completely missing the point that
the real marriage the true seeker of
the higher way is looking for is the
Inner Marriage: “Where the two, in
self, become one.” Yet all things have
a mirror image opposite, if we can
see?...
The “Great Marathon Race” (in
the original Olympics designed by
the Master Pythagoras) of 26 miles
was to remind us of the need to “run
a clean race” (they ran in the nude,
no coverups) for the whole of the
“Great Race” or Age of 26,000 years,
all these symbolic reminders are long
forgotten by most.
Yes there is a harmonic connec-
tion to this year being 2006, leaving
but 6 years (the implosion number)
to go, in the countdown. It was the
glory to be conscious of participating
in this “Great Race” that was suf-
ficient. Position at the “finishing post”
was of little interest.
The coming movie “Conversations
with God” (starring Neil Donald
Walsh) being released around the
world this October is a “confirma-
tion” of the communion with one's
own “God Self” within, after one
has done the real hard yards of ”self
transformation,” not only with total
dedication of effort during this cur-
rent life, but in all one’s lives through
“The great race of this Closing Age.”
Hence the growing awareness,
this year, to get one’s “priorities
right,” and to get one’s house in
order.
Thanking you again.
Yours sincerely,
- Robert M.
Via Email
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M
any New Dawn readers
will know of British writer
Christopher Knight from
his first book The Hiram Key,
which he co-authored with Robert
Lomas and published in 1996.
Quickly becoming a best sell-
er, The Hiram Key was acclaimed
a classic in the field of alternative
history, going on to influence a
generation of researchers among
them The Da Vinci Code’s Dan
Brown.
In the last ten years Knight has
written six books, four with Robert
Lomas and two, including his
latest Who Built the Moon?, with
Alan Butler.
In Who Built the Moon?,
Knight and Butler raise some
fascinating and challenging ques-
tions, foremost: Could it be that
the Moon is artificial? Could it
even be hollow? And does the
Moon really exist through some
happy accident, or is a blueprint
apparent – and if so, who was the
architect?
New Dawn recently spoke
with Christopher Knight about his
controversial new book and his
astonishing conclusions.
- New Dawn
www.newdawnmagazine.com
Christopher Knight
NEW DAWN: All of mankind’s visits
to the Moon have not answered some of
the most basic questions about its origin
and importance. Your new book Who
Built the Moon? (co-authored with Alan
Butler) brings to light some extraordi-
nary facts about the Moon, and comes
to a mind-blowing conclusion about its
origin. Could you briefly outline some of
these little known and ignored facts?
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT: The Moon
sits very close to the Earth yet it is wide-
ly regarded as the strangest object in the
known universe. It is a bit like knowing
that every person in the world is com-
pletely normal except the person you live
next door to, who has three heads and
lives on a diet of broken razor blades.
The book lists the strangeness of
the Moon, which includes the fact that
it does not have a solid core like every
other planetary object. It is either hol-
low or has a very low-density interior.
Bizarrely, its concentration of mass are
located at a series of points just under
its surface – which caused havoc with
early lunar spacecraft. The material the
Moon is made from came from the outer
surface of the Earth and left a shallow
hole that filled with water and we now
call the Pacific. This rock left the Earth
to produce the Moon very quickly after
our planet had formed around 4,6 billion
years ago.
The Moon is not only extremely odd
in its construction; it also behaves in a
way that is nothing less than miraculous.
It is exactly four hundred times smaller
than the Sun but four hundred times
closer to the Earth so that both the Sun
and the Moon appear to be precisely the
same size in the sky – which gives us
the phenomenon we call a total eclipse.
Whilst we take this for granted it has
been called the biggest coincidence in
the universe.
Furthermore, the Moon mirrors the
movement of the Sun in the sky by rising
and setting at the same point on the hori-
zon as the Sun does at opposite solstices.
For example, this means the Moon rises
at midwinter at the same place the Sun
does at midsummer. There is no logical
reason why the Moon mimics the Sun in
this way and it is only meaningful to a
human standing on the Earth.
ND: What led you to write Who Built the
Moon? And does this latest book relate
to your earlier research when writing
Civilization One and Uriel’s Machine?
CK: All of the six books I have had
published over the last ten years are part
of a continued single piece of research. I
came to write Who Built the Moon? with
Alan Butler after we had finished Civili-
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zation One, because our research led us This was a precise unit of measurement
to study the Moon very closely. that was the basis of late Stone Age
We had found that the superbly It was as though we structures across Western Europe – such
advanced measuring system in use over as Stonehenge. Most archaeologists
5,000 years ago was based on the mass, had found a blueprint have written his work off as a mistake
dimensions and movements of the Earth. but when one looks coldly at their ob-
However, for thoroughness we where the Moon had jections they are baseless.
checked every planet and moon in the so-
lar system to see if there was any pattern.
been ‘manufactured’ Alan and I were able to show how
they made these highly precise linear
Amazingly, it worked perfectly for every using very specific units based on the rotation of the Earth
aspect of the Moon but did not apply at and how they were also the basis of all
all to any other known body – except the units taken from time, capacity and weight units in use
Sun. today. Once again these are exact – not
It was as though we had found a blue- Earth’s relationship approximations or close fits.
print where the Moon had been ‘manu-
factured’ using very specific units taken
with the Sun. Where the ancients got such knowl-
edge is quite baffling. All we can be
from Earth’s relationship with the Sun. certain of is that they were way ahead of
The more we looked, everything fitted us today! It’s easy to check out by anyone
– and fitted perfectly in every conceiv- with a calculator.
CK: It is not possible to describe the
able way.
greatness of this ancient system of
ND: Your conclusion is there are more
geometry and measurement without re-
ND: Most astoundingly, you found that than enough anomalies about the Moon
peating the content of Civilization One.
an ancient system of geometry and meas- to suggest it is not a naturally occurring
The work of Alexander Thom, a
urement used in the Stone Age works body and was quite possibly engineered
brilliant professor of engineering from
perfectly on the Moon. What exactly is to sustain life on Earth. How did you
Oxford University, was our starting
this system and how could the ancients reach this conclusion?
point. He identified the existence of
have attained this knowledge?
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 Lunar Anomalies
Did You Know?
Moon’s Age
The Moon appears to be older than the Earth. The ages
of rocks returned to Earth from the Apollo missions range
from 3.3 to about 4.6 billion years. One is alleged to be
5.2 billion years old. The oldest Earth rocks are about 4.1
to 4.2 billion years old.
Moon Diameter
How does one explain the “coincidence” that the Moon is
just the right distance, coupled with just the right diam-
eter, to completely cover the Sun during an eclipse?
“There is no astronomical reason why the Moon and the
Sun should fit so well. It is the sheerest of coincidences,
and only the Earth among all the planets is blessed in
this fashion,” noted Isaac Asimov.
Weird Orbit
Our Moon is the only Moon in the solar system that has
a stationary, near-perfect circular orbit. Stranger still, the
Moon’s centre of mass is about 1.8 kilometres closer to
the Earth than its geometric centre (which should cause
wobbling), but the Moon’s bulge is on the far side of the
Moon, away from the Earth.
Magnetic Rocks
Moon rocks are magnetised. This is odd because there is
no magnetic field on the Moon itself.
Unusual Metals
The Moon's surface is much harder than expected. When
astronauts experienced extreme difficulty drilling into the
Moon, it was discovered the surface was composed of ‘il-
leminite’, a mineral containing large quantities of titanium.
Titanium is used by the aero industry in the construction
of high performance aircraft like the Lockheed SR 71
Blackbird. Also found in the lunar rocks were quantities
of Uranium236 and Neptunium237 – neither substance is
found naturally on Earth.
Moon Dust
Vehicles prepared for landing on the Moon were
equipped with special snow shoes because it was as-
sumed the Moon would be encrusted by an incredibly
thick layer of dust. But it only had one-fourth of an inch
layer of dust, an amount accounting for only thousands
of years. If the Moon is billions of years old, where did all
the dust go?
Moonquakes
Seismic monitors left on the Moon by successive teams
of astronauts recorded meteoric impacts upon the lunar
surface that caused the Moon to ‘ring like a bell.’ Apollo
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thirteen’s third stage impact on the Moon caused rever-
berations for three hours and twenty minutes, down to an
estimated depth of 40 kilometres.
Small Core
A University of Arizona team estimates the Moon has
a tiny metal core, which is very usual. Team leader Lon
Hood notes, “This really does add weight to the idea that
the Moon’s origin is unique, unlike any other terrestrial
body…”
The Moon Illusion
The so-called “Moon illusion” or “Moon effect” has per-
plexed people since earliest historical times. No theory
is agreed upon to explain why the Moon seems larger
in size when it is near the horizon than when it is high in
the sky. Some people judge it to be as much as twice as
large, but the average estimate is 50% to 75% larger.
NASA scientist Robin Brett aptly summarises: “It seems
easier to explain the non-existence of the Moon than it’s
existence.” But of course, the Moon exists. Why or how it
exists remains a mystery.
Moon Base
Postscript
Days before the Moon passed in front of the Sun darken-
ing parts of the Earth on March 29, the US space agency
NASA announced it was going ahead with a plan to build
a permanent base on the Moon. The Bush administra-
tion claims if the US does not return to the Moon, other
countries will. “The new thing is China, and they’ve an-
nounced they’re going to the Moon. The Europeans want
to go; the Russians want to go; and if we don’t go, maybe
they’ll go with the Chinese,” Mars Institute Chairman Pas-
cal Lee said in an interview. “Could we bypass the Moon
and go to Mars while India and China are going to the
Moon? I don’t think so,” the Washington Post reported
him as saying.
Sources:
www.solarviews.com/eng/moon.htm
www.informantnews.com/starshipgamma/lunar/moon2.html
www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/3d/moonillu.htm
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/25/
AR2006032500999_pf.html
– Jason Jeffrey
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CK: Not only is the Moon an appar-
ently impossible object, it has some
unique benefits for us humans. It has
been nothing less than an incubator
for life. If the Moon was not exactly
the size, mass and distance that it has
been at each stage of the Earth’s evolu-
tion – there would be no intelligent life
here. Scientists are agreed that we owe
everything to the Moon.
It acts as a stabiliser that holds our
planet at just the right angle to produce
the seasons and keep water liquid across
most of the planet. Without our Moon
the Earth would be as dead and solid as
Venus.
all life, especially humans. As to who
did it – well that’s a lot tougher! We
If the Moon was give the three possibilities we can think
of, namely: God, aliens or humans. The
not exactly the size, only one of these that is 100% scien-
tifically possible is the last one. Time
mass and distance travel is universally accepted as being
that it has been at physically possible and a number of
scientists are close to sending mat-
each stage of the ter back in time. We can envisage that
machines could be built in the future
Earth’s evolution that could be sent back to remove matter
from the young Earth to construct the
– there would be no Moon – probably using mini black hole
intelligent life here. technology.

Christopher Knight and co-author Alan

ND: If the Moon is an artificial con-
struct, what are your theories on who or
what built it, and why?
CK: In Who Built the Moon? we
explain that we could not come to any
other conclusion than the Moon is
artificial. Because it is certain that it is
4.6 billion years old that raises some
interesting points. Another factor was
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to mean humans.
The question of why the Moon had
to be built is easy to answer: To produce

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Are We Food for the Moon?
If man is not affected in some way
by the Moon, he is the only thing
on Earth that isn’t.
– Robert Millikan (1868-1953), US
physicist & 1923 Nobel Prize winner
P
robably no heavenly body has
received as much attention
down through the ages as our
Moon. The causes of this fascination
are obvious: the Moon enlightens the
night and appears as a remarkable
and large object in the sky. As a regu-
lator of Earth’s tides and life’s biologi-
cal cycles, the Moon’s importance to
our physical existence is second only
to that of the Sun.
Sacred scriptures, ancient myths,
and even modern day pagans, all exalt
the Moon in one way or another. Omens,
spells, wishes, oracles, divination, and
calendars cluster around it throughout
history. Moon magic, the belief that
working rituals at the time of different
phases of the Moon brings about physical
or psychological changes, is essential to
various pagan and witchcraft systems.
Witches in Greek and Roman literature
were regularly accused of ‘drawing down
the Moon’ by use of a magic spell.
Nevill Drury, a respected author-
ity on mystical and occult traditions,
says “traditionally... the Moon has been
regarded as a ‘funnel’ drawing on the
light of the stars and constellations and
transmitting their energies to the Earth.”1
In Western astrology the Moon is
said to represent the feeling intuitive
nature of the individual as well our
deepest personal needs, our basic habits
and reactions, and our unconscious. In
esoteric astrology the Moon represents
attachment to form, and under certain
circumstances a variety of limiting con-
ditions are related to the Moon, ranging
from blatant materialism to subtler forms
of limitation such as debilitating nostal-
gia, sentiment and regret.
The word “lunacy” – which de-
rives from the Latin for Moon, “luna”
– denotes the traditional link made in
folklore between madness and the phases
of the Moon. Several studies have tried
to get to the bottom of this age-old belief.
A 1976 report compared 34,318 crimes
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against lunar cycles. It found offences
occurred more frequently during a full
Moon. Other research, however, failed to
find any firm link between the cycles of
the Moon and irrational behaviour.
England’s Lunacy Act of 1842 gave
allowances for uncharacteristic crimes
committed during the full and new
Moon. This law distinguished between
the chronically insane and the lunatic. It
was argued the lunatic became deranged
at these times because of the Moon’s
power and thus could not be held ac-
countable for his or her actions.
Interestingly, a study of the Moon’s
effect on mental health patients, con-
ducted by the University of Liverpool in
2000, found a significant change at the
time of the full Moon, but only in sub-
jects with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Whether we are conscious of it or not,
the Moon exerts some sort of influence
upon our biological and psychological
states. But does it go any deeper than this?
Gurdjieff and Ouspensky
The Fourth Way philosophy claims
to help individuals cease to be slaves of
external and internal influences by build-
ing up a core of heightened conscious-
ness. Its ultimate goal is the realisation
of the full potential of human evolution-
ary possibilities. Its founder, George
Gurdjieff (1872-1949), frequently spoke
of the thoughtless mechanical behaviour
of humanity, and was fond of comment-
ing humans are “food for the Moon.”
What did Gurdjieff mean by this
phrase? Many interpreted “food for the
Moon” as a figure of speech – perhaps
Gurdjieff meant we are slave to our me-
chanical conditioning and feed our baser
impulses. But while it can be interpreted
in this fashion, Gurdjieff was primarily
being literal.
Peter Ouspensky, Gurdjieff’s most
famous disciple, lectured at length con-
cerning the Moon’s role in human affairs
and its place in the cosmological scheme
of things.
Ouspensky said the Moon drives the
individual’s mechanical aspects like a
pendulum moves the gears of a clock.
The degree to which one’s actions are
driven by the Moon is proportional to
one’s level of contact with higher influ-
ences. For people incapable of mov-
ing themselves through life by nobler
spiritual impulses, the Moon provides
a propulsive force. Without this force,
mechanical individuals would be passive
as puppets without a puppeteer.
In the cosmological scheme proposed
by Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, Earth is like
a mother to the Moon which is still a fetus
in the sense it cannot yet “breathe” on
its own, hold an atmosphere, or support
life. Someday, the Earth will evolve into
a being like the Sun, while the Moon will
transform into a second Earth. Humanity
was simply a stage in this process.
“The Moon is actually a fragment of
this Earth, which must now constantly
maintain the Moon’s existence,” Gurdji-
eff said.2 In that sense, the Moon is like a
parasitic thought form. Nevertheless, the
equation is balanced because in exchange
for the Moon propelling our mechanical
movement, we feed the Moon so that it
may grow and one day be born as a liv-
ing planet.
As to how organic life feeds the
Moon, Gurdjieff taught that most human
beings are mere “slugs” with no souls and
that following death their remaining psy-
chic energy is “food for the Moon.” Like
a magnet, the Moon draws the fine matter
of human souls into it: “Everything living
on the Earth, people, animals, plants, is
food for the Moon. The Moon is a huge
living being feeding upon all that lives
and grows on the Earth.”
Only through an intensive effort of
conscious evolution – what he called “self-
remembering” – was it possible for an indi-
vidual to escape being eaten by the Moon.
“The liberation that comes with the growth
of mental powers and faculties is liberation
from the Moon.” Gurdjieff always main-
tained Man is not truly conscious, and his
actions are entirely mechanical: “Every-
thing ‘happens,’ he cannot ‘do’ anything.
He is a machine controlled by accidental
shocks from outside.”
To escape these deleterious lunar
influences, Ouspensky said we must
“create Moon within ourselves.”3 By this
he meant we must develop within a driv-
ing mechanism that takes the place of the
external lunar influence; in this way we
can break free of the puppeteer.
Boris Mouravieff, who was an as-
sociate of both Gurdjieff and Ouspen-
sky, formulated an esoteric system for
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spiritual evolution founded upon the
inner traditions of Eastern Orthodoxy
and Fourth Way principles. His exten-
sive three volume work, Gnosis, deals
extensively with the question of lunar
influences and spiritual development.
He concurs with Gurdjieff and
Ouspensky on the role of the Moon, but
also warns “that organic life functions
as a transmitter station sending refined
energy to the Moon to assist its growth.
Despite increases in the human popula-
tion and thus an increase in quantity of
energy transferred, times of peace do not
produce sufficient energy and so cata-
lysts for suffering such as wars and ca-
tastrophes arise to sustain the process.”4
Mouravieff and Ouspensky empha-
sise that despite the hypnotic nature of
the Moon and the urgent necessity for
individuals to overcome its influence,
there is still an important cosmological
reason for its existence. If nothing else,
the Moon’s unique position in relation
to the Earth was paramount in making
physical ‘conscious’ life possible.
Theosophy
Together with Henry Steel Olcott,
Madame H.P. Blavatsky founded the
Theosophical Society in 1875. Theosophy,
the “grandmother” of today's “New Age”
movement, tells us the Moon was home
to an earlier “life wave” which has since
migrated to Earth.
In The Secret Doctrine, Madame
Blavatsky states the Moon served a dual
purpose in religious rites: “Personified as
a female goddess for exoteric purposes,
or as a male god in allegory and symbol,
in occult philosophy our satellite was
regarded as a sexless Potency to be well
studied, because it was to be dreaded…
But whether male or female…, the Moon
is the Occult mystery of mysteries, and
more a symbol of evil than of good.”
Perhaps the Moon is identified with
evil rather than good because it is now
what Madame Blavatsky calls “a dead
planet.”
How did this occur? An article by
William Quan Judge elaborates: “in
a remote period, when there was no
Earth, the Moon existed as an inhabited
globe, died, and at once threw out into
space all her energies leaving nothing
but the physical vehicle. Those energies
revolved and condensed that matter in
space nearby and produced our Earth;
the Moon, its parent, proceeding towards
disintegration but compelled to revolve
around her child, this Earth.”5
To fully appreciate why all this hap-
pened, a study of Theosophical cosmolo-
gy is required, but space does not permit
a full explanation here.
Elsewhere in The Secret Doctrine,
Madame Blavatsky’s view of the Moon’s
relationship to the Earth is similar to
Fourth Way thinking:
“The moon is now the cold residual
quantity, the shadow dragged after the
new body, into which her living powers
are transfused. She now is doomed for
long ages to be ever pursuing the Earth, to
be attracted by and to attract her progeny.
Constantly vampirised by her child, she re-
venges herself on it, by soaking it through
and through with the nefarious, invisible
and poisonous influence which emanates
from the occult side of her nature. For she
is a dead, yet a living body. The particles of
her decaying corpse are full of active and
destructive life, although the body which
they had formed, is soulless and lifeless.”
Theosophy differs from the Fourth
Way which holds the Moon is not yet
ready to sustain life. But they both agree
the Moon is vampirising the life forms of
Earth.
Are we food for the Moon, or are
these warnings the ravings of lunatics?
Although modern science tells us we
have nothing to worry about, ancient
wisdom and folklore paint a very differ-
ent picture. Ignoring these dangers has
perhaps left us wide open, more so when
we do not recognise the signs or symp-
toms of the Moon’s ‘drawing up’ effect.
Whatever the reality, the Fourth Way,
Theosophy and all schools of esoteric
philosophy have the solution. By over-
coming our mechanical tendencies, we
strengthen our resistance to the lunar ef-
fect, and for that matter all planetary in-
fluences. And by “creating Moon” within
ourselves – that is, building up our essen-
tial self – we not only gain victory over
the negative lunar influence, but awaken
to a higher level of consciousness.
Footnotes :
1. The Dictionary of the Esoteric by Nevill
Drury, Watkins Publishing, London 2002
2. In Search of the Miraculous by P. Ouspen-
sky, 1949
3. The Fourth Way by P. Ouspensky, 1957
4. Gnosis II: Study And Commentaries On The
Esoteric Tradition Of Eastern Orthodoxy, Book
Two, Mesoteric Cycle, by Boris Mouravieff,
Praxis Institute, 1992
5. “Moon’s Mystery and Fate”, Path, June, 1894
– Jason Jeffrey
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 The Gospel of
Judas Revealed
Lost for 1,700 years, an ancient manuscript
gives an alternative view of Christ’s betrayal and
sheds new light on Christianity's hidden origins
By Robert Black
The secret account of the revela-
tion that Jesus spoke in conversa-
tion with Judas Iscariot during a
week three days before he cel-
ebrated Passover. ...Jesus said to
him, “Step away from the others
and I shall tell you the mysteries
of the kingdom. It is possible for
you to reach it, but you will grieve
a great deal.”
– The Gospel of Judas1
From an historical point of view
this find is as important as the Nag
Hammadi writings discovered half
a century ago. Everything tells
us that we are dealing with the
Gospel of Judas referred to by Ire-
naeus in the second century AD. It
is fantastic that something like that
re-appears after 1800 years.
– Dr. Stephen Emmel 2
T
he story of how the
Gospel of Judas arrived
in the Western world is
a fascinating tale. Like
many of the so-called Gnostic
Gospels, it somehow travelled out
of Egypt and arrived in the US
with a large price tag. Unlike many
manuscripts which vanish sight
unseen, luck or providence if you
like brought this manuscript not
only to light but finally to restora-
tion and publication. In the words
of Professor Elaine Pagels, “the
discovery of the Gospel of Judas is
astonishing.”
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Originally unearthed by a farmer in
1978 near El Minya, Egypt, from where
it had been hidden in a “tomb-like box”
for some 1,600 years, the leather-bound
papyrus codex was in superb condition.
The farmer secretly sold the codex to
an antiquities dealer in Cairo, without
advising Egyptian Antiquities. In a
clandestine meeting in 1983, the antiq-
uities dealer offered the codex for sale
This is significant
because it places
the Gospel of Judas
within the same
timeframe as the
Biblical gospels of
Matthew, Mark, Luke
and John.
to various scholars in Geneva, however
with an asking price of over $3,000,000
and a dubious provenance, the price was
considered extraordinary.
Ironically, while the Gospel survived
well in Egypt, it seriously deteriorated
when stored for some 16 years in a safety
deposit box in Hicksville, New York.
Finally purchased by antiquities dealer
Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos in 2000, the
following year the codex was acquired
by the Maecenas Foundation for Ancient
Art in Switzerland. With the help of
National Geographic and an agreement
reached with the Egyptian government,
restoration work soon began.
Known as the Codex Tchacos (named
after Dimaratos Tchacos, father of Frieda
Nussberger-Tchacos), it is a 26-page
document written on 13 sheets of papy-
rus leaf in ancient Egyptian, or Coptic.
The codex contains not only the Gospel
of Judas, but the First Apocalypse of
James, the Letter of Peter to Philip, and a
small fragment of text that scholars have
called the Book of Allogene.
If we focus on the Gospel of Judas,
the document is a 3rd century Coptic
translation of a now lost Greek text,
thought to have been written by a group
of early Gnostic Christians before 180
CE. While its significance is much
debated, there is no question about its au-
thenticity. There is universal agreement
it is the genuine article. “All you had to
do was look at this thing once,” said Bart
Ehrman, a scholar of early Christianity.
“I’ve seen a lot of ancient manuscripts,
and there was no question.”3 According
to James M. Robinson, America’s lead-
ing expert on ancient religious texts from
Egypt, “I don’t know of any scholar who
thinks this is fake.”4
Heresy Hunting
Back in the 2nd century of the Chris-
tian era, the Christian Bishop Irenaeus
mentioned a Gospel of Judas was in use
among the Kainites, an early Gnostic
Christian sect. In part I of his Against
Heresy, paragraph 31.1, he wrote:
(Some) stated that Cain owes his
existence to the highest power,
while Esau, Korak, the Sodomites
and all other men are dependants
of each other. (…) They believe
that Judas the Betrayer was fully
informed of these things and that
only he understanding the truth
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 like no one else fulfilled the secret
of betrayal that confused all things,
both in heaven and on earth. They
invented their own history called
the Gospel of Judas.
The Gospel had been known to exist
for some time when discussed by Ire-
naeus around 180 CE, with his primary
source being Justin Martyr. This moves
the date back to around 140 CE, and
most scholars therefore date the Gospel
itself to around 120 CE or even earlier.
This is significant because it places the
Gospel of Judas within the same time-
frame as the Biblical gospels of Matthew,
Mark, Luke and John.
The publication of the Gospel of Ju-
das undertaken by National Geographic
is unlikely to disturb the mainstream
Christian church. In a recent inter-
view, Monsignor Walter Brandmuller,
president of the Vatican’s Committee for
Historical Science, called it “a product
of religious fantasy,” and went on to say,
“There is no campaign, no movement for
the rehabilitation of (Judas) the traitor of
Jesus.”5
From past experience with the Dead
Sea Scrolls discovered in 1947 and the
Nag Hammadi Library unearthed two
years earlier, whatever the merits of a
document it does not bring about a reli-
gious revolution. There is an entrenched
power structure within Christendom and
regardless of the strength of evidence
presented, the Church will use spin,
distortion and, if necessary, violence (re-
member the first crusades were against
the Cathars) to preserve its dominion.
The significance of the Gospel of
Judas needs to be seen in the context of
the larger picture provided by Gnosti-
cism and current scholarship regarding
Christian origins. Too often modern
Christians live in a sort of self imposed
ghetto. They read Christian books,
subscribe to Christian magazines, and
generally are not exposed to scholarship
except through the lens of their chosen
leaders or churches. In many cases even
when a Christian leader tries to inject
scholarship and critical thinking, it is
still filtered through a very antiquated
religious lens. There does seem to be a
surprisingly large gap between modern
research into Christian origins, even that
generally available, and the information
the average Christian receives within his
or her community.
Over the last 100 years the academic
model that has arisen in regards to Chris-
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tian origins is radically different from
the traditional Christian worldview. It
would be fair to say Christianity is some-
times even seen as a Gnostic heresy and
not vice versa. While this is an inflam-
matory way of describing Christian ori-
gins, it does seem quite clear that within
the early Christian “spectrum” there was
an exceptionally wide range of traditions
and practices. This diversity was not only
tolerated but encouraged and embraced.
Christianity was not a single, monolithic
tradition handed down from one leader
to another in succession; it was diverse
and multi-faceted with many dispersed
centres of power.
The Gospel of Judas
is a secret account of
the revelation that
Jesus spoke to Judas
Iscariot. It portrays
Judas as... a specially
loved and favoured
disciple...
Elaine Pagels, a professor of religion
at Princeton who specialises in studies of
the Gnostics, recently said in a statement,
“These discoveries are exploding the
myth of a monolithic religion, and dem-
onstrating how diverse – and fascinating
– the early Christian movement really
was.”6
Gnostic Christianity
Although later denounced by cer-
tain leaders as ‘heretics’, many of
these Christians saw themselves
as not so much believers as seek-
ers, people who ‘seek for God.’7
– Elaine Pagels
Early Christianity seems to have
included many differing viewpoints from
the rather staid Judaic Christian mix of
James the Brother of Jesus to the esoteric
Gnosticism of the followers of Mary
Magdalene and Simon Magus. Variations
in approach were such that within one
movement there were libertine sects that
used sex and mind altering substances,
and others which were strictly ascetic
and celibate. There were groups which
were strictly Judaic in focus even to the
point of keeping the old laws and festi-
vals of Israel, while others were clearly
influenced by the Greek Mysteries and
even Buddhist traditions.
Each of these communities had their
own sacred texts and interpretations
of the teachings of Jesus; the majority
would now be considered Gnostic, i.e.
they emphasised personal and direct
experience of the divine. Accordingly,
each of these groups acted like a “Mys-
tery Cult” and had their own specialised
practices, mythologies and rites. Many
had distinct Gospels which included
unique revelations from Jesus to their
founders. For example, in the Pistis
Sophia, we read of the secret teachings
of Jesus to Mary Magdalene and the
Gospel of Thomas begins… “These are
the secret words which the living Jesus
spoke, and Didymus Judas Thomas
wrote them down.”8
These secret writings and communi-
ties flourished for hundreds of years.
It was only in the early 4th century that
Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria wrote a
letter to some Christians in Egypt order-
ing them to reject what he called “secret,
illegitimate books.”9 In 363 CE the first
synod (of Laodicea) was held to decide
the official contents of the Bible.
Certainly by the middle of the 4th
century, Christianity had become a
political force and dissenting views were
not tolerated. Under threat and violent
persecution, Gnostic communities with-
drew from public view, to survive as an
‘underground’ movement. This contin-
ued right through to such groups as the
Templars and Rosicrucians, and even to
the present day.
Clearly, early Christianity offered a
wide spectrum of beliefs and practices
catering to the unique needs of people
with differing levels of spiritual devel-
opment. This helps us understand the
Gospel of Judas. While Christendom has
attempted to downplay the significance
of this Gospel, its message, like that of
Gnosticism in general, is actually quite
confronting and challenging.
Secret Teachings
The Gospel of Judas is a secret ac-
count of the revelation that Jesus spoke
to Judas Iscariot. It portrays Judas as
one of the initiates, a specially loved and
favoured disciple who undertook one of
the most painful missions asked by his
teacher, to betray the saviour as part of a
greater plan of spiritual import.
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 The Gospel outlines a specifically
Gnostic worldview, offering a cosmology
which is fairly consistent with the radical
Gnostic sects of the period. Cosmology
in Gnosticism is a complex idea with
many Aeons, worlds, dimensions and
forms. It is impossible to appreciate the
cosmology of the Gospel of Judas with-
out these, however, I cannot give them
comprehensive coverage here, but I will
try to give a general outline.
There is a world of light which is
beyond all created forms. This spir-
itual realm contains various dynamic
intelligences or energies, of which one,
Barbelo, is discussed in the Gospel of
Judas.
For there exists a great and
boundless realm, whose extent no
generation of angels has seen.
– Gospel of Judas
There are many dimensions or worlds
which exist between this higher reality
and the physical world, and all are popu-
lated with forms of varying potencies.
The physical world is depicted as
flawed, even evil, and is beyond the
boundary of these worlds. It is the prod-
uct of a bloodthirsty and ignorant creator
deity. His name is given as Nebro, which
means ‘rebel’; while others Gnostics call
him Yaldabaoth. There are many myths
and stories about how he came to exist
and create the physical world.
Judas said to Jesus, “[What] is
the long duration of time that the
human being will live?”
Jesus said, “Why are you wonder-
ing about this, that Adam, with his
generation, has lived his span of
life in the place where he has re-
ceived his kingdom, with longevity
with his ruler?”
Judas said to Jesus, “Does the
human spirit die?”
Jesus said, “This is why God or-
dered Michael to give the spirits
of people to them as a loan, so
that they might offer service, but
the Great One ordered Gabriel to
grant spirits to the great genera-
tion with no ruler over it – that is,
the spirit and the soul...
– Gospel of Judas
While the Gospel of Judas does not
present a full account of the creation
process, when interpreted in conjunc-
tion with other Gnostic texts it certainly
presents a mythos which is very much at
odds with the standard Judeo-Christian
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legend. Saklas, a demi-god under Yalda-
baoth, creates the body of man while the
angels Michael and Gabriel, emissaries
of the world of light, allow spirits from
the world of light to incarnate within
these shells.
This is very similar to Mandaean
myths of creation where the physical
bodies created by lesser spirits can-
not even move off the ground, writhing
and screaming in the dirt. In sympathy,
emissaries of the light world allow spirits
to enter them. But becoming trapped,
fascinated by the allure of the flesh, these
spirits now believe they are physical
rather than spiritual beings.
The Gnostics taught
that in some way
or another we must
each overcome the
body and its demands
and liberate the true
Christ nature within.
There is a suggestion, also found
in other Gnostic literature, of various
degrees of spiritual awakening. Some
beings only have one soul, some have
two, some have none. In the Gospel of
Judas, those with one soul receive it
from Michael, while those with both a
soul and spirit have received them from
Gabriel. Each of these classes are under
varying degrees of control by the rulers
(principalities and dominions) that ma-
nipulate our world.
This model is found within the Gnos-
tic schools where there are three levels of
initiation:
1. Hylic – most of sleeping humanity,
under full control of rulers.
2. Psychic – partially awakened,
under partial control of the rulers.
3. Pneumatics – awakened.
There is an essential dualism within
the Gospel of Judas which helps explain
the significance of Jesus’s death and
the role of Judas. Since man’s origin is
within the spiritual dimensions and the
flesh is a cage, then death is not to be
feared but a form of liberation. Accord-
ingly, Judas helps Jesus escape his prison
of flesh and liberate the essential true
nature within him.
You will exceed all of them. For
you will sacrifice the man that
clothes me.
– Gospel of Judas
The Gnostics taught that in some
way or another we must each overcome
the body and its demands and liberate
the true Christ nature within. While
individual praxis may vary from asceti-
cism to libertinism, the goal is the same.
In addition, these Gnostics also identify
the creator of the physical world as our
enemy, and hence see Yaldabaoth as
the primary force holding us back from
achieving true liberation.
Indeed, in the Sethian tradition,
Yaldabaoth is identified with Jehovah and
the serpent of Genesis is actually seen as
the liberator. This relates back to Irenaeus’
claim the followers of the Gospel of Judas
were “Kainites” since in this interpreta-
tion, Cain is the saviour, not Abel, and the
Sodomites are the people of God, not the
slaughtering puritans and so on.
We also find within the Gospel of
Judas reference to both Seth and Adamas
which is significant as they tie elements
of the Gospel to the Naassene or Serpent
Gnostic traditions. This has strong reso-
nance with the Greek Orphic Tradition
which is superbly covered in The Gnostic
Secrets of the Naassenes by Mark Gaff-
ney.
There is a distinct absence of the
saving power of the blood of Christ or
the vicarious nature of the crucifixion in
the Gnostic texts. Indeed the crucifixion
and Resurrection are not even mentioned
in the Gospel of Judas. The role of Judas
shows the path to liberation is in awaken-
ing the Christ within and overcoming the
restrictions created by both the physical
body and the forces of the lower spiritu-
al/physical worlds. These are sometimes
represented as the planets, powers and
dominions or rulers.
The multitude of those immortals
is called the cosmos – that is,
perdition – by the Father and the
seventy-two luminaries who are
with the Self-Generated and his
seventy-two aeons. In him the
first human appeared with his in-
corruptible powers. And the aeon
that appeared with his generation,
the aeon in whom are the cloud of
knowledge and the angel, is called
[51] El. […] aeon […] after that […]
said, ‘Let twelve angels come into
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Each of you has
his own star.
– Gospel of Judas
being [to] rule over chaos and the
[underworld].’ And look, from the
cloud there appeared an [angel]
whose face flashed with fire and
whose appearance was defiled
with blood. His name was Nebro,
which means ‘rebel’; others call
him Yaldabaoth. Another angel,
Saklas, also came from the cloud.
So Nebro created six angels – as
well as Saklas – to be assistants,
and these produced twelve angels
in the heavens, with each one re-
ceiving a portion in the heavens.
– Gospel of Judas
Judas works with Jesus to help liber-
ate him from the power of the body;
he plays an important role within the
initiatory process of the crucifixion and
Resurrection, which some suggest was
actually an initiatory drama rather than
a real historical event, but that is outside
our discussion here.
This Gospel needs to be interpreted
within the larger framework of the dual-
ist Gnostic tradition. The motif of Judas
as special disciple and the negative inter-
pretation of both the body and the world
resonate through the vast majority of the
Gnostic sects. In addition, the emphasis
on Jesus as a giver of light, a transmitter
of the message from the higher dimen-
sions rather than as a sacrifice, is central
to a Gnostic view of salvation.
Jesus was seen as a way-shower,
an emissary, a being whom we should
emulate, not worship. This approach is
central to the Gnostic vision; liberation
comes through individual effort inspired
perhaps by the life of Jesus, but ultimate-
ly through our own perseverance. In this
way we move towards achieving our own
state of divinity, our own theosis.
Robert Black is a writer on Gnosticism, Vajrayana Buddhism, and Eastern and Western
schools of theory and practise. He has been studying such subjects for some 25 years and is equally
at home within an Eastern or Western esoteric setting. While he has a strong academic foundation
for his work, he believes it is the practical use to which these traditions are put which counts.
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The Gospel of Judas is certainly a
fascinating revelation, though it does
not necessarily add greatly to what we
already know about the Gnostic vi-
sion. What it does do, however, is bring
home the significance of this message
for today’s world. If the Gospel of Judas
had been taken seriously by the early
Church and the Gnostics not suppressed,
anti-Semitism and all its related violence
may not have had such a disastrous effect
within Western history. If Judas was only
doing his job as a “special” disciple of
Jesus, then the whole myth of “Judas the
Christ Killer” dissolves and is replaced
by Judas, the holder of the Mysteries.
In 2006 with continued violence
instigated by self-proclaimed religious
fundamentalists, it is perhaps time we
rehabilitate the Gnostic tradition. Gnosti-
cism brings a spirit of openness, diversi-
ty, individual responsibility and freedom.
With the publicity brought about by The
Da Vinci Code and now the publica-
tion of the Gospel of Judas, it is time
we let go of old prejudices, superstitions
and narrowly held opinions and allow a
different light to shine from beyond the
confines of matter.
Recommended Reading
Adam, Eve and the Serpent by Elaine Pagels
Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism
by Kurt Rudolph
The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical
Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
by Willis Barnstone
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
Gnostic Philosophy: From Ancient Persia to
Modern Times by Tobias Churton
The Gnostic Religion by Hans Jonas
The Gospel of Judas by Bart D. Ehrman, Rodol-
phe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst
Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teach-
ings of the Original Christians by Timothy
Freke and Peter Gandy
The Jesus Mysteries: Was the “Original Jesus”
a Pagan God? by Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy
The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiq-
uity to the Cathar Heresy by Yuri Stoyanov
The Secrets of Judas: The Story of the Misun-
derstood Disciple and His Lost Gospel by James
M. Robinson
Footnotes :
1. The Gospel of Judas, as translated by a team
led by Rodolphe Kasser and provided by the
National Geographic Society.
2. www.michelvanrijn.nl
3. "Scholars have ‘no question’ on authentic-
ity", by Tom Avril, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 7
April, www.philly.com
4. "Another Take on Gospel Truth About Judas,
Manuscript Could Add to Understanding of
Gnostic Sect", by Stacy Meichtry, 25 February,
Washington Post, www.washingtonpost.com
5. Ibid.
6. "In Ancient Document, Judas, Minus the
Betrayal", by John Noble Wilford & Laurie
Goodstein, 7 April, New York Times, www.
nytimes.com
7. "The ongoing evolution of Christianity", by
Jane Lampman, May 15, 2003, Christian Sci-
ence Monitor, www.csmonitor.com
8. "The Gospel Truth", by Elaine Pagels, April
8, New York Times, www.nytimes.com
9. Ibid.
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By Dr. Norman Williams 1895, with her husband, reached within fifty miles of the holy

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capital. Yet another was Dr. Susie Rijnhart, also a missionary,
veryone thinks that Tibet was an independ- who made two attempts in 1898.
ent country that was invaded by the dread-
History
ed Chinese in the 1950s. This is the story
that is propagated by the “Big Brother” According to tenth century Chinese records the origin of
press of the West. The truth, however, is somewhat the Tibetan peoples was from pastoralist tribes from the great
steppes northwest of China, a region where many racial ele-
different, and to understand it, it is necessary to know
ments lived and mixed for millennia. From this mixture two
something of the history of Tibet. strains, the “round-heads” and the “long-heads”, predominated
with the former, from the region of the Yellow River basin, be-
Most of the information given in this article can be sourced
ing greater in number and considered to be proto-Chinese. The
in the Encyclopaedia Britannica and in the writings of non-
other, long-heads, probably of Turkic origin, were from what
government explorers, missionaries, adventurers and students
is now Mongolia. But credible history begins only in the sixth
of Eastern philosophy like Alexandra David-Neel, who spent
century, and between the seventh and ninth centuries Tibet
many years in Tibet and became, as far as is generally known,
was a power to be reckoned with in Central Asia, controlling
the only woman Lama in Tibet.1 Alexandra was the first Euro-
pean woman to enter the holy city of Lhasa in 1923, disguised
as a beggar, and at the height of the British occupation period
and their declaration of Tibet as the “Forbidden Land” (see
further on).
In earlier times, Tibet, though forbidding as a place of
travel, was open to anyone brave and tough enough to face
the natural barriers and the bandits that still haunt its remote
areas. On this Edmond Chandler, who accompanied the Brit-
ish military expedition, said: “It must be remembered that
Tibet had not always been closed to strangers… Until the end
of the 18th century, only physical obstacles stood in the way
of an entry to the capital…”2 In the face of the growing threat
of invasion by Britain and other entrepreneurial countries,
the Tibetans attempted to seal off the region from the outside
world. Nevertheless, in 1904, Sir Francis Younghusband with
a small army armed with modern rifles and sextants, shot his
way across Tibet to Lhasa, leaving the plain strewn with Ti-
betan dead, and declared the area “Forbidden Territory” – to
all except officials of the Crown. During this period, virtually
up until World War II, Britain armed the Tibetan army with
modern weapons and facilitated the expulsion of the Chinese
from the territory. 3
Other women explorers were Annie Royle Taylor, the mis- The 26.7 metre statue of Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future, in Tibet's
sionary daughter of a Cheshire businessman, who in 1892 at- Tashilhunpo monastery is the tallest gilded-bronze Buddhist figure
tempted to reach Lhasa to preach the Christian doctrine to the housed inside a building. Decorated with pearls, amber, and coral, the
Dalai Lama. She was expelled from Tibet only three days short figure was cast in 1914 with 160 tons of bronze.
of her goal. Another was Mrs. St. George Littledale who in

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the Asian trade routes and, for a time occupying the Chinese
capital (Ch’ang-an). It is believed that a Chinese princess of the
T’ang dynasty, given to Tibetan ruler (Slon-brtsan-sgam-po) as
a peace offering, introduced Chinese Buddhism to Tibet.
Military activities continued through the ninth century
but rivalries between generals reduced territorial military
dominance to a mere conglomeration of lordships. At that time
Buddhism had also declined, but in the eleventh century was
revived by the Indian Buddhist missionary Atisa. Then Tibetan
Buddhist monks formed communities and became prosper-
ous with the support of the local lords, keeping the hierarchi-
cal successions of lamas within the noble families. But in the
thirteenth century a change took place among the religious
communities under the influence of Kublai Khan who had be-
come the ruler and founder of the Yeun dynasty of China. 4 The
lamas of the Sa-skya sect, a religious sect favouring magic and
mysticism, formed a spiritual/secular alliance with the Mongol
ruler as their patron, becoming ‘viceroys’ in Tibet. Then in
1368, the collapse of the Yeun dynasty and the rise of the Ming
dynasty allowed the re-establishment of autonomy again in
Tibet. Then many powerful monks were visiting China and this
led to an outburst of religious building with the help of Chinese
craftsmen. Colourful frescoes on the walls of monasteries and
temples, with images of gold, copper and painted and gilded
clay, and huge ornate carved and decorated columns abounded,
and gave rise to the extraordinary spectacle that characterises
modern-day Tibet.
In the sixteenth century another religious change took place
in Tibet. A reformist sect known as the Dge-lugs-pa (the Yel-
low Hats), who emphasised moral and philosophical doctrines,
gained ascendance through the intervention of the powerful
Mongol ruler Altan Khan. It was from this time that the title of
Dalai was conferred on lamas of the Dge-lugs-pa who became
the religious and secular rulers of Tibet – (posthumously in the
case of the first two in the lineage). The 4th Dalai Lama was, in
fact, the great-grandson of Altan Khan and the 5th established a
military liaison with the Mongols which secured the supremacy
of the Dge-lugs-pa over other sects. The 6th Dalai Lama turned
out to be a libertine and was deposed and died in China.
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 In the eighteenth century the 7th Dalai Lama succumbed to
the Manchu suzerainty of China with the rise of the Manchu,
and engaged China to repel an invasion of Gurkha troops from
Nepal. This was the forerunner of the British invasion of 1904
which established the “Forbidden Territory.” The 9th to 12th
Dalai Lamas all died early and made way for the 13th Dalai
Lama (1875 – 1933), predecessor of the present Dalai Lama
in exile, who brought the scene to the British period and saw
the expulsion of Chinese from many sectors of Tibet in 1912
– until the re-establishment of Chinese control. The 14th Dalai
Lama fled to India in 1959 during the period of suppression of
religion in China.
A second-in-command in Tibet was the Tashi Lama
(Panchen Lama), head of the Tashilhunpo monastery. 5 The
Tashi Lama was forced to flee to China in 1923 over a disa-
greement with the Dalai Lama on taxes. He died in China and
his successor, a boy born in 1938 to Tibetan parents, became
the 10th Panchen Lama. In 1989, he died suddenly in Shigatse,
Tibet at the age of 51.
To understand the “Forbidden Territory” period, it is neces-
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‘gate-crashed’ the territory. Among these, Alexandra David-
Neel is the most authoritative and the most widely travelled,
who became familiar with all sectors of the Tibetan population.
In 1910 Alexandra was commissioned by the French Ministry On December 8, 1995, Gyaincain Norbu, the reincarnation of the
10th Panchen Lama, ascended the throne in the Tashilhunpo
of Education to proceed to India and Burma to undertake ‘Ori-
monastery, making him the 11th Panchen Lama.
ental’ research. She first set sail for the East in 1911 and after
interviewing the 13th Dalai Lama, then in exile in Darjeeling,
she became fired with the desire to study Tibetan Buddhism.

Basic Facts about Tibet

T he Tibet Autonomous Region is located on the
Tibetan Plateau, the world’s highest region. It is
bounded on the north and east by Xinjiang, Qinghai,
and Sichuan, on the west by India and Kashmir, and
on the south by Yunnan, Nepal, India and Bhutan.
Being the capital city, with 1300 years of history,
Lhasa which means holy land of Buddha's land in Ti-
betan, is the political, religious, economic and cultural
centre of Tibet.
The Chinese central government has for more than
700 years exercised sovereignty over Tibet, and Tibet
has never been an independent country. Archives in
Beijing, Nanjing and Lhasa containing several million
records in Chinese, Tibetan and Manchu substantiate
the historical facts of these 700 years. These historical
documents and objects confirm Tibet is an inseparable
part of Chinese territory. The issue of "Tibet independ-
ence" did not appear until the break out of the Opium
War of 1840, which marked the onslaught of the
foreign invasion of China in modern times. After the
Opium War, with China gradually reduced to the status
of a semi-colony, the British tried to separate Tibet
from China, and bring it under the influence of the Brit-
ish empire. In a letter dated January 8, 1903 the British
cabinet affirmed that "Tibet is a province of China" and
"component part of the Chinese empire."
After the People's Republic of China was es-
tablished in October 1949, the central government
adopted the policy of peaceful liberation of Tibet. On
May 23, 1951, the Agreement of the Central Peo-
ple's Government and Local Government of Tibet on
Measures for Peaceful Liberation of Tibet was signed,
which formed the basis for political integration of Tibet
with China with significant safeguards for autonomy.
The People's Liberation Army subsequently entered
Lhasa without obstruction. On October 24, 1951, the
Dalai Lama sent a telegram to Chairman Mao Zedong
indicating he accepted the Agreement. In 1959 the
Dalai Lama fled to India.
In September 1965 the Tibet Autonomous Region
was formed becoming one of the five ethnic autono-
mous regions in the People's Republic of China.
Speaking in March 2006, the Dalai Lama said,
“the issue of Tibet was purportedly decided in 1951
through an agreement between the central and local
governments, taking into account the special status of
Tibet and the prevailing reality.”
Since then the Dalai Lama has emphatically stated
that he seeks Tibet’s “future within the framework of
the Chinese constitution.”
– Jason Jeffrey

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In 1914 she entered Tibet “illegally” and spent half a year
studying in a monastery close to the frontier with India. Then
in 1915, after living as a hermit in a cave in Sikkim, she again
entered Tibet and travelled as far as Shigatse. On her return she
was deported from Northern India by the British authorities,
and, infuriated, she wrote of the British: “What right had they
to erect barriers around a country which was not even lawfully
theirs?”
Later Alexandra again made her way to the East via Burma,
Korea, Japan and China, staying in Buddhist monasteries and
honing her knowledge of the Tibetan language. In 1917 she
spent three months in Peking (Beijing) and then set out for
Tibetan territory westward across China, accompanied by a
young Sikkimese monk, Yongden, who became her adopted
son. After travelling more than 3000 kilometres across China,
at that time torn by civil war, they reached the Tibetan Monas-
tery of Kumbum. Here Alexandra spent three years studying
Tantric Buddhism, translating sacred texts, and perfecting her
knowledge of the Tibetan language. During this period she
made excursions into the Chinese borderlands and into Mon-
golia. One of these excursions was to the Tibetan monastery of
Jakyendo, from which she was to commence her epic journey
to Lhasa in 1923. These adventures and her deep perception
of esoteric Buddhism and Tibetan social life were reported in
remarkable books entitled Magic and Mysticism in Tibet and
With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet.
Some of Alexandra David-Neel’s comments: She wrote
of the Tashi Lama before she embarked on her journey to
Lhasa and before his flight to China (above): “The Tashi lama
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(Panchen lama) is a learned, enlightened, and liberal-minded
man. People who are not in the least acquainted with him… say
that he is the enemy of foreigners… (But)… he is a Buddhist
and pacifist and does not encourage those who increase each
year the taxes paid by the poorest villagers in order to support
the ridiculous army they have been led to organise (by the
British) to serve the interest of those who seize their land… In
writing this I only wish to do justice to my kind host (the Tashi
lama). If he had been the ruler of Tibet, instead of being com-
pelled to fly from Tashilhunpo to save his life, he would have
gladly opened the country to explorers, savants and all honest
and well-meaning travellers.”
At the start of her journey Alexandra wrote: “Although we
were yet in that part of Tibet still under Chinese rule, wherein
foreigners can travel freely, though at their own risk, it was
important that rumours of my wanderings in the neighbour-
hood of the border should not spread.” Some of her observa-
tions made about her epic journey indicate the effects of the
British invasion. On approaching Lhasa she wrote: “I was very
astonished to meet so few people. I was told by the country
folk that a much larger traffic used to pass during the Chinese
suzerainty… But how much ground remained uncultivated on
which barley could have grown for the town where the cost of
living was so high! Tibetans have lost much in the parting of
China. Their sham independence profits only a clique of court
officials. Most of those who rebelled against the far-off and
relaxed Chinese rule regret it nowadays, when taxes, statute
labour place such demands. And the arrogant plundering of
the national soldierly greatly exceeds the exhortations of their
former masters.”
In reference to another part of her journey she wrote: “In
the part of the Kham conquered by the Lhasa troops, when the
country people lament about the considerable rise of the taxes,
the officials answer that the Dalai Lama is not responsible for
these hardships, but that the philings (foreigners) tell them
to collect money… To the simple-minded ones… they only
remember and bear in mind that these hated ‘white-eyed’ for-
eigners are the cause of their ruin. Thus the hatred of the white
men is sown and cultivated in the remotest corners of Asia…”
– where, of course, it continues under modern global interfer-
ence.
On speaking of the plight of villagers in the area of “Tashi
Tse” she wrote: “Taxes, statute labour, and a number of other
ways of plundering the peasants... to whom my beggarly attire
gave confidence, described their distress in that country where
the soil does not produce every year enough to pay the tax
in kind… To leave the country, to look for better land or less
exacting lords, is not permitted. A few ventured the flight and
established themselves in neighbouring provinces, (but)… hav-
ing been discovered, they were… led back to Tashi Tse, where
they were beaten and heavily fined.… Others looked towards
China: ‘We were not treated in this way when the Chinese were
the masters.’ They said. Will they come back? Maybe… but
when? We may die before.”
The Present- day Scene
To understand the present conditions in Tibet it is essen-
tial to give cognisance to the close relationship between Tibet
and the Mongolian peoples, who have always had also a close
association with China and now (as before) form part of the
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Mystic, occultist and traveller, Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1969).
present-day People’s Republic of China. Mongolia is divided
into Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region within China
formed in 1947 two years before the declaration of the Com-
munist Government in Peking (Beijing), and the Mongolian
People’s Republic which was wrested from China by White
Russian forces between 1918 and 1921 – and then assisted by
Soviet forces to form the independent People’s Republic of
Mongolia under the Mongolian Treaty on 5 November 1921.
This treaty had the effect of straining relations between China
and Russia, and the tension was relieved in 1924 when Russia
officially agreed to recognise China’s sovereignty in the region
– although, officially, the People’s Republic remains an inde-
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Most Mongolians are loyal Tibetan Lamists with many
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infant mortality. For this we must give recognition to the Chi-
nese Government and, in the light of all the elements of China’s
history and the history of the Mongolian peoples and Tibet in
general, one would be hard pressed to conceive a reason for
Western interference in Tibet, well meaning that it may be at
the level of the agitators for an independent Tibet.
Nowadays Tibet is open to visitors and tourists and nonpo-
litical religious freedom is allowed – it is no longer the “For-
bidden Territory.” Even the Dalai Lama in exile is now con-
templating a compromise of a semi-autonomous region. What
could be better?
Footnotes :
1. Was Alexandra enlightened? For the most part she was regarded as
an astute and accurate observer of Tibetan mysticism, but here and there
in her books are indications that she may have been more. Shortly after
entering the “Forbidden Territory” she wrote: “I was indeed privileged
to experience in a single day the intoxication arising from the beauty of
nature and the peaceful delight brought to the threshold of the supreme
Deliverance, and thrice blessed verily in a country that can offer both
these things to those who tread its ground.”
2. My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel (1927).
3. Was it magic, or a trick of the Himalayan light, that caused the highly-
trained riflemen of Younghusband to miss so often? Did Alexandra
David-Neel really witness lung-gom, the art of walking at incredible
speeds, which is clearly understood in esoteric Tibet? Another is the art
of self-heating, called thumo reskiang in Tibet. In the modern technical
world such matters are not taken seriously – even though there are many
recorded cases of the attainment of apparently superhuman abilities at
times of great stress by ordinary mortals!
4. Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan: In early times the Mongolian plateau
was inhabited by a variety of tribes who were united by Genghis Khan
who launched a campaign to conquer Northern China. Later, in the
fourteenth century, the Mongol centre of power was transferred by Kublai
Khan to Peking (Beijing). By the seventeenth century Manchurian power
eroded Mongolian influence in China but, nevertheless, the Mongolian
influence became diluted but yet still part of the cocktail of peoples who
now inhabit China and Tibet. Generally the Mongols form an Asian geo-
graphical race excluding only the southwest and India.
5. In 1910 the Tashi Lama had fled to India because of political troubles
in China. Alexandra was able to get a personal audience with him, though
resisted by the British. She writes in My Journey to Lhasa: “Around the
monk-sovereign, I found a strange royal household of clerical personages,
clad in shining yellow satin, dark red cloth, and gold brocade, who related
fantastic stories and spoke of the wonderland of Tibet.” «
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 How to Make a Ghost
Magic and Mysticism in Tibet
By Herbie Brennan

A
uthors note that fictional characters have a
tendency to take on a life of their own. But
few readers realise just how literally they
mean it. A friend of mine, engaged in writ-
ing a romantic novel, called me in a panic just a year
ago to complain that two of her characters had just
run off and got married… thus ruining her carefully-
crafted plot.

In theory this should not have been a problem. From her

god-like perspective, the writer could surely have deleted the
relevant passage and written a new one that put her creation
back on track. In practice, any attempt to rein in characters like
that will produce an almost unreadable novel, full of wooden
dialogue and contrived situations. The only viable answer is to
let them go their own way, abandon any preconceived plot no-
tions, and see what ‘really’ happens.
The popular American science-fiction writer, Ray Brad-
bury, was so intrigued by the phenomenon that he wrote it into
one of his own books. The Martian Chronicles describes how
visitors to the red planet are confronted by characters from
classical fiction who had somehow taken on corporeal exist-
ence in the alien environment.
Curiously, Bradbury’s idea – that fictional characters might,
in certain circumstances, take on solid form – had widespread
currency in Tibet. Such creatures were known as tulpas and at
least one European traveller claimed to have seen them.
Madame Alexandra David-Neel, a distinguished French
academic and explorer who died in 1969, reported that while
camped in the Tibetan highlands, she was visited by a young
painter she knew vaguely from a previous stay in Lhasa. The
man had a particular obsession with one of the many Tibetan
gods. For years he had meditated daily on the deity and painted
its image many times. As he entered the camp, Madame David-
Neel claimed she saw a misty representation of the god hover- legends. After weeks of effort, the imaginary monk became so
ing behind him. vivid that he appeared to her as if he were physically present –
She was so intrigued by this phenomenon that she studied an induced hallucination.
Tibetan teachings about tulpas and eventually decided to create But then, says Madame David-Neel, the monk began to turn
one for herself. To this end, she visualised a cheerful brown- up when she was not trying to visualise him. Furthermore, his
robed monk, based loosely on Friar Tuck in the Robin Hood appearance was changing: he grew thinner and developed a sly

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expression. When other members of her camp asked about ing ‘spirit’ turned out to be Philip, claiming the life history
the ‘strange little lama’ she decided the time had come to they had invented for him.
destroy her creation… and battled for weeks before finally As the séances continued, the fictional Philip contin-
managing to do so. ued to behave exactly as séance room spirits have always
Could such a thing really be possible? behaved. He caused raps and brought through such a richly
During the early 1970s, a group from the Toronto Soci- detailed description of the Cromwellian period that the group
ety for Psychical Research set out to see if they could make actually double checked to make sure they’d not somehow
a ghost. First they dreamed up a fictional based Philip on a real life character. (They
character, then invented a background to go hadn’t.) Later, the Toronto experiment was
with him. The character was named Philip duplicated by other groups. One of them dis-
and lived at the time of Cromwell, in a One of the most pelled any lingering doubts about the fictional
house called Diddington Manor. He fell in nature of the spirit by communicating with a
love with a beautiful Gypsy woman named fascinating stories talking dolphin.
Margo and subsequently had an affair with
her. When his wife found out, she took her
involves a mythic Although Philip was a step removed from
the sort of visible ‘spirit’ appearance reported
revenge by accusing Margo of witchcraft. creature called a by Alexandra David-Neel, he did manage to
Margo was tried, convicted and burned at produce physical phenomena like raps and
the stake. Philip, mad with grief, committed Yidam, a tutelary table turning, which suggests the psychologi-
suicide. cal mechanics of the two experiments may
There actually was a Diddington Manor deity in the Tibetan not have been all that different. But if certain
and pictures of it were obtained by the group.
The rest of the story was fiction. Philip never
pantheon. persistent accounts are to be believed, the
techniques used for creating ghosts went far
really existed. But that didn’t stop him haunt- further in Tibet than they ever did in Canada
ing. – and generated a valuable spiritual lesson in
The group held a series of séances with the process.
photographs of the manor placed around the room while they One of the most fascinating stories involves a mythic crea-
concentrated on the fictional Philip. For several months nothing ture called a Yidam, a tutelary deity in the Tibetan pantheon.
happened. Then a rap was heard. The group set up a code and In Tibet, many young men (and some young women) suf-
communication was established. Sure enough, the communicat- fering from a spiritual itch, apprenticed themselves to a single

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guru rather than follow the traditional monastic route. The pupil was required to receive the Yidam’s blessing, a
A few of them who showed real spiritual promise would process that, in Tibet, involved the laying of hands on the
eventually reach the point where their guru would admit pupil’s head.
he had nothing more to teach them. If they wanted to go Once the pupil reported positively on this latest task,
further, they would need a far more advanced guide. To that the guru would typically tell him he had only one more step to
end, the guru would advise them to meditate on the Yidam and take. He had achieved conversation with and blessing from the
study pictures of it in the sacred scriptures. Yidam, but it was still confined to the cave.
These showed the creature to have a fearful, In order to establish the deity as his personal
almost demonic aspect.
When the student was saturated in Yidam
The gurus who guru, the pupil had to persuade the Yidam to
leave its circle and accompany him wherever
lore, he would typically be advised to find a developed the he went. Off went the pupil to his Himalayan
remote cave and there create a magic circle cave again.
(known as a kylkhor) using powdered chalk. exercise clearly With the benefit of our tulpa studies, we
The purpose of the circle was to encourage might suspect that the pupil was creating a
the visible appearance of the Yidam. recognised its fictional character, albeit one based on scrip-
In order to achieve this, the pupil was
instructed to visualise the Yidam within the
tulpa aspect as tural authority. While the appearance of the
Yidam is a matter of visualisation, any con-
circle. Over a period of weeks, or months, the well, for the whole versations must require essentially the same
pupil had to continue the exercise until a full- creative input as an author writing dialogue.
scale hallucination resulted and the Yidam experience was The gurus who developed the exercise
appeared. At this point, the pupil would be clearly recognised its tulpa aspect as well, for
told he was obviously favoured by the god. actually a test. the whole experience was actually a test. If
But for his next step, he would have to the pupil succeeded in creating a Yidam that
persuade it to leave the circle. would walk and talk with him, his teacher
The process might take several more months, but eventu- would tell him his studies were ended since he now had the
ally the pupil would report that the god had stepped out of the wisest and most powerful teacher possible. But the pupil who
kylkhor. He would be congratulated, then told to see if he could accepted this evaluation was deemed to be a failure – and sent
manage to get the Yidam to speak to him. off to spend the rest of his life locked into a comforting hal-
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A Tibetan mask worn by a participant in a religious
ceremony. The masks depict a range of celestial deities as
well as men and animals.
There were, however, a few pupils who expressed doubts.
They might begin to wonder if the Yidam was the god they be-
lieved it to be, or an aberration of their own perceptions. Often
the guru would feign anger and send them back to the cave to
redouble their efforts. But if the doubts persisted, then came
the crunch.
“Do you not see the god? Do you not hear the god? Do
you not feel the god when he lays his hands upon your head
to impart his blessing? Is not the Yidam as real as the mighty
Himalayas?” asks the guru.
The pupil agrees that he sees, hears and feels. He agrees
that the Yidam seems as real and solid as the Himalayas. And
yet he doubts.
At which point the guru springs his trap. The experience
of the Yidam is not simply a lesson in tulpa creation. Accord-
ing to the insights of Tibetan spirituality, human perception of
the ‘real’ world is fundamentally flawed. Not just its politics
and values, not just its preconceptions and ideas, but its very
structure is something other than what it appears. The world
as we know it – from our friends to ourselves to the mountains
above and the valleys below – is maya, a word imported from
India that translates as ‘illusion.’ What happens in the creation
of a Yidam proves that absolutely.
An eerily similar theme underlay a popular Hollywood
movie called The Matrix. The premise of The Matrix was
that at some point in the distant future, humanity fought an
apocalyptic battle against intelligent machines… and lost. With
commendable efficiency, the machines decided to use captive
humans as a power source. (The human body generates a meas-
urable amount of electricity.)
To avoid any possibility of a resistance, the machines
wired their captives’ brains into a central computer running a
complex program that created the illusion of day-to-day real-
ity. Although actually stored neatly in nourishment tanks, the
population of our defeated planet slept on, convinced that the
world of offices and jet planes functioned exactly as it always
had.
The idea is not a new one, even in our materialistic West:
“And then…?” the Emperor Claudius asks of the Sibyl in
Robert Graves’ I Claudius, on discovering he is dead.
“Then you shall dream a very different dream,” the Oracle
replies, referring to Claudius’s next life.
Among spiritually-enlightened Tibetans, the notion that we
all live in a Matrix-style illusion is widespread. But the illusion
is not maintained by rogue machines – it is generated by our
own minds. When I first came across the doctrine, I was forci-
bly reminded of a saying you hear every day in Haiti: What you
see… it’s not what you think.
At least one (American) Buddhist attempted to convince me
the Tibetan doctrine was purely philosophical. She believed it
to be essentially a question of emphasis, in the way that a hand-
ful of American deaths might seem more real (to Americans)
than a million famine victims in distant China.
Her stance was sophisticated, her arguments psychologi-
cally enlightened, but even our own Western physicists know
better. Investigations of the quantum world of sub-atomic
particles reveals a universe founded on no more than statistical
probabilities and built with little bits of something that appear
out of nowhere, exist momentarily before vanishing again…
and are profoundly influenced by human observation.
Physicists have now become accustomed to thinking math-
ematically about an 11-dimensional space-time continuum that
looks nothing like the world we live in.
The only difference is Tibetan mystics seem to experience
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By Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller people to say that both good and bad come from the Divine.

O
Thus archaic shamans would not have found it difficult to say
n June 10, 1991, a cover story appeared that good and evil are visited upon human beings by the Great
in Time magazine on the topic of evil. The Spirit. In the more sophisticated context of Sumero-Babylonian
author, Lance Morrow, did not argue for traditions, it was believed that the gods amused themselves by
creating terrible things – freakish beings, evil demons, and hor-
a particular thesis and did not reach any
rible conditions for human life.
conclusions. What he did, however, was in a sense To employ a psychohistorical rationale, one might say that
more important. He began by stating three proposi- when people did not yet possess a differentiated consciousness
tions: (which we may equate with the conscious ego), it was rela-
tively easy for them to envision God or the gods as being like
God is all-powerful. themselves, so that the coincidence of good and evil was part of
God is all-good. their nature. More advanced spiritual traditions have inher-
Terrible things happen. ited some of this attitude; thus in mystical
Citing several sources, Morrow said that Jewish theology we find the notion that God
you can match any two of these propositions, The supreme partakes of both good and evil tendencies
but not all three. You can declare that there (yetzirim).
is an all-powerful God who allows terrible medieval luminary With the growth of consciousness, the
things to happen, but this God could not be
all-good. On the other hand, there might be of Catholic theology, mind begins to differentiate between the
beneficent and the malefic sides of being.
an all-good God who lets terrible things hap- St. Thomas Aquinas, The tension induced by trying to hold a God
pen because he does not have the power to concept that unites good and evil becomes
stop them; thus he is not all-powerful. admitted... that the unbearable, so that it becomes necessary
This analysis might easily have been for the mind to separate the two. The notion
stated by a Gnostic of the first three or four existence of evil is the of radical dualism thus arises. The most
centuries of the Christian era, or for that
matter by a contemporary Gnostic, such as best argument against prominent example is that of Zoroastrian-
ism. Here the true and good God, Ahura
the present writer. Not that Gnostics were the existence of God. Mazda (sometimes called Ormazd), pos-
the only ones who recognised this uniquely sesses a divine antagonist known as Angra
monotheistic predicament. The supreme Mainyu (Ahriman). The two are engaged in
medieval luminary of Catholic theology, St. a perennial cosmic struggle for supremacy.
Thomas Aquinas, admitted in his Summa Theologiae that the Although Ahura Mazda is supreme and his ultimate victory is
existence of evil is the best argument against the existence of assured, as long as creation endures Angra Mainyu will con-
God. If the concept of the monotheistic God is to be accepted, tinue to fight him and bring suffering into the world.
then the issue of evil has no viable explanation. Conversely, A sophisticated but very impersonal view of evil and its ori-
if evil exists, then the monotheistic God as presented by the gins can be found in the great religions that originated in India.
mainstream religious traditions cannot exist. Most of these imply that evil is part of the unenlightened state
of existence, and that the cause of evil is ignorance (avidya). If
Whence Cometh Evil? one attains to a transformed or enlightened consciousness and
Throughout history, religious traditions have accounted for thus rises above all dualities, one is liberated from karma and
the existence of evil in a number of ways. In primeval times, from all other conditions in which evil plays a role. Whether
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existence is not always clear, but it is clear that life as one has
known it ceases, and with it evil ceases also.
The fourth category is that of classical monotheism as
found in mainstream Judaism and Christianity. As some of the
other traditions ascribe the existence of evil to God, a malign
counter-God, or human ignorance, this position ascribes the
origin of evil to human sin.
The creation myth of the mainstream Judeo-Christian tra-
dition, with its story of the Garden of Eden and of the curious
events that are said to have transpired there, forms the foun-
dation for this view. This belief holds that the transgressions
committed by the first human pair brought about a “Fall” of
creation, resulting in the present state of the world. The sin of
the original pair passed by inheritance to all members of the
human race, who are born corrupt, afflicted by the weight of
this “original sin.” Such evils as we find in this world, includ-
ing natural disasters, plagues, and the ruthlessness of the food
chain, are all somehow part of the momentous consequences of
the Fall.
As some scholars, notably Elaine Pagels, have pointed out,
these mythologems inevitably exercise a profound influence
on the cultures founded on them. Even in a secularised age
like our own, the powerful shadow of such beliefs continues to
cast a pall on our minds. One may wonder how differently our
history would have proceeded had the guilt of the Fall not been
present to oppress the souls of men and women in our culture!
The Gnostic View
All spiritual traditions acknowledge that the world is
imperfect; they differ only in how they believe this happened
and in what is to be done about it. Gnostics have always had
their own views of these matters. They hold that the world is
flawed not because of human sin, but because it was created in
a flawed manner.
Buddhism (regarded by many scholars as the Gnosticism of
Asia) begins with the recognition that earthly life is filled with
suffering. Gnostics, both ancient and modern, agree. Suffer-
ing is indeed the existential manifestation of evil in the world.
Although humans, with their complex physiology and psychol-
ogy, are subject to torments of a singularly refined nature, the
fear, pain, and misery of all other creatures is evident as well.
To recall St. Paul’s insight, all creation groans and travails in
pain. Yet Gnostics have not been inclined to attribute such mis-
fortunes to the sin of the first human pair. They reasoned that
it makes much more sense to say that the world has not fallen
but was made in a sadly imperfect manner to begin with. To
put it in slightly more abstract terms, evil is part of the fabric
of the world we live in; it is part and parcel of the existential
reality of earthly life. If indeed there is a creator of this reality,
then it is assuredly this creator who is responsible for the evil
in it. Since, for the monotheistic religions, this creator is God,
the Gnostic position appears blasphemous to conventional
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 The Gnostic position may need to be considered in the
light of the historical roots of the tradition. According to most
contemporary scholars, Gnosticism originated in the Jewish
religious matrix (probably in its heterodox manifestations) and
then came to ally itself with the Jewish heresy that became
Christianity.
Thus the Gnostics were confronted with the image of the
monotheistic God in the Old Testament and its adaptations in
the New Testament. They faced a God who was often capri-
cious, wrathful, vengeful, and unjust. It was easy for them to
conclude that this flawed God might have created a world in his
own flawed image. The greatest of all questions the Gnostics
asked was this: is this flawed creator truly the ultimate, true,
and good God? Or is he a lesser deity, who is either ignorant
of a greater power beyond himself or is a conscious impostor,
arrogating to himself the position of the universal deity?
The Gnostics answered these questions by saying this creator
is obviously not the true, ultimate God, but rather a demiurgos
(“craftsman”), an intermediate, secondary deity. This Demiurge
whom they equated with the deity of the Old Testament was the
originator of evil and imperfection in the world.
Thus the apparent blasphemy of attributing the world’s
evil to the creator is revealed as originating in the Gnostics’
confrontation with the monotheistic God. Kindred movements,
such as Hermeticism, did not face this predicament: being
pagans, the Hermeticists did not inherit the dark, ambivalent
figure of the Old Testament God, so they were able to adopt
a less harsh position. (Ironically, today many people tend to
favour Hermeticism over Gnosticism for this very reason.)
Many have tried to evade recognition of this flawed crea-
tion and its flawed creator, but none of their arguments have
impressed Gnostics. The ancient Greeks, especially the Platon-
ists, advised people to look to the harmony of the universe,
so that by venerating its grandeur they might forget their own
afflictions as well as the innumerable grotesqueries of ordinary
life. “Look at this beautiful world:” they said; “see its superbly
orderly way of functioning and perpetuating itself, how can one
call something so beautiful and harmonious an evil thing?”
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forlornness, and alienation of existence are also undeniable, the
harmony and order of the universe are at best only partial.
Those influenced by Eastern spirituality have at times
brought up the teaching of karma whereby one’s misdeeds gen-
erate misfortune later in life or even in another life as explain-
ing the imperfection of the manifest world. Yet a Gnostic might
counter that karma can at best only explain how the chain of
suffering and imperfection works. It does not tell us why such a
sorrowful system should exist in the first place.
Qualified Dualism
As we noted earlier, one way of explaining the existence
of evil was radical dualism, of which the Zoroastrian faith is
a possible example. The Gnostic position, by contrast, is not
of a radically dual nature; rather it might be called “qualified
dualism.” In a simplified form one might define this position as
declaring that good and evil are mixed in the manifest world;
thus the world is not wholly evil, but it is not wholly good ei-
ther. If the evil in the world should not blind us to the presence
of good, neither should the good blind us to the reality of evil.
Here we might resort to the approach that was most fa-
voured by the Gnostics themselves – the mythological. (The
power of this method has been rediscovered by such contempo-
rary figures as C. G. Jung and Joseph Campbell.)
Myths telling of the commingling of good and evil in
creation predated the Gnostics. One of these tales is the
Greek myth of Dionysus. When this god was torn apart by the
Titans, Zeus came to his aid and blasted the malefactors with
a thunderbolt. The bodies of both the Titans and Dionysus
were reduced to ashes and mixed. When all sorts of creatures,
including humans, rose from these ashes, the divine nature of
Dionysus was mingled with the evil nature of the Titans. Thus
light and darkness are at war with each other within human
nature and in the natural world.
The Gnostics had their own myth about the origins of good
and evil. They began by speaking of a boundless, blissful full-
ness (Pleroma) that dwells beyond all manifest existence. The
Pleroma is the abode of and constitutes the essential nature of
the true, ultimate God (alethes theos).
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 Before time and memory, this ineffable fullness extended
itself into the lower regions of being. In the course of this
emanation, it came to manifest itself in a number of interme-
diate-deities who were rather like great angels endowed with
enormous talents of creativity and organisation. Some of these
beings, or demiurgoi, became alienated from their supernal
source, thus becoming replete with evil tendencies.
Thus the world-creating will was tainted with self-will,
arrogance, and the hunger for power; through the works
performed by these alienated agencies, evil came to penetrate
creation. Ever since then, as the Gnostic teacher Basilides
reportedly said, “Evil adheres to created existence as rust
adheres to iron.” As one of these created beings, the human
entity partakes of the nature of his flawed creators. The human
body, being a material creation, is subject to disease, death,
and various other evils; even the soul (psyche) is not free from
imperfection. Only the spirit (pneuma), deeply hidden within
the human essence, remains free from the admixture of evil
and tends toward the true God.
Such mythic statements can convey insights in a fashion
that is not possible through other methods of communica-
tion. At the same time it must be admitted that these myths
were formulated long ago and far away and so may profit from
certain amplifications and clarifications within a contemporary
context.
Contemporary Conclusions
Terrible things do happen, as the Time essay stated. The
world is filled with evil, with grotesque horror and universal
suffering. Fiendish humans, often possessing great power, tor-
ment and slay others daily. The history of the twentieth century
offers much proof of rampant wickedness in the world. Believ-
ers in the monotheistic God and/or in karma often tell us that
this does not matter all that much, because in the final analysis
evil really promotes good. They seem to be saying that evil is
not really evil at all, but good masquerading in an unpleasant
disguise. Yet this kind of topsy-turvy argument is an affront
to all those who have looked evil in the face. To present this
argument to survivors of the Holocaust or the Gulag or the
killing fields would be insulting as well as ridiculous. For these
victims, evil is evil, and all else is but an evasion.
Moreover many terrible things happen that are in no way
due to human volition. While the perversities of the human
condition are responsible for some of the suffering in this
world, much of it is not our fault. Frequently, however, we
believe that it is. Yet, whether occasioned by the myth of Adam
and Eve or by the propaganda of some trendy folk today who
make out humans to be the sole villains in the environment, the
cultivation of guilt in the human mind is no remedy for evil. On
the contrary, guilt usually begets more sorrow in the long run.
Let us be done with this self-flagellation and try to mitigate the
evils over which we have some control while remembering that
STEPHAN A. HOELLER Ph.D. is the author of The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the
Dead (1982), Jung and the Lost Gospels (1989), and Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of
Inner Knowing (2002). He is the director of the Gnostic Society of Los Angeles (www.gnosis.org)
and is a leading figure in contemporary Gnostic activities. Dr. Hoeller's lectures are also available
for download from www.bcrecordings.com.
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it is beyond our powers to eradicate misfortune altogether.
Like the world, humans are a mixture of good and evil.
Just as it is impossible to exorcise evil from the fabric of crea-
tion, so we cannot entirely get rid of it in ourselves. If human
schemes and techniques were able to eliminate evil from hu-
man nature, they would have succeeded in doing so long ago.
This is why so many spiritual traditions teach the need for
redemption from outside. Every spiritual tradition worth its salt
has always possessed a soteriology – a teaching about salva-
tion. Gnostics ancient and modern do not perceive liberating
gnosis as a do-it-yourself project. We cannot purify or psy-
choanalyse evil away by our own strength. The Messengers
of Light recognised in the Gnostic tradition, such as Jesus,
Mani, and others, have always been envisioned as the great
facilitators of salvation. Their salvific mission is to enable the
consciousness of the individual to experience gnosis. An early
Gnostic source, Excerpta de Theodoto, defines this gnosis as
the knowledge of “who we were, what we have become; where
we were, whereinto we have been thrown; whither we hasten,
whence we are redeemed; what is birth and what rebirth.”
Many have noted the similarities between these Gnostic
teachings and those of Hinduism and Buddhism. In all of these
traditions, insight into the origin and nature of the manifest
world is seen as liberating us from it and its evils, reuniting
our spirits with transcendental reality. Unlike the great Eastern
religions, however, Gnosticism specifically identifies the root of
all evil as the faulty creation brought about by spiritual agen-
cies of limited wisdom and goodness.
The Gnostic view of the human condition thus also differs
from the modern secular view. Gnostics do not share the as-
sumption of many in our culture that there is a purely naturalis-
tic and humanistic remedy for evil.
Contemporary Gnostics for the most part agree with the
fundamental insights of their ancient counterparts. Do modern
Gnostics believe in the Demiurge? Do they believe in Mes-
sengers of Light? Do they regard such ideas as metaphysical
truths or as mythologems hinting at more subtle and mysterious
realities? The answer is that some Gnostics may believe these
things more in a literal sense, while others may believe them
symbolically; still others may hold a mixture of both views.
What matters is not the precise form of these teachings
but their substance. And this is clear enough. It speaks of the
reality and power of evil, of its fundamental presence in all of
manifest existence. It declares that while we may not be able to
rid the world or ourselves of evil, we may and indeed will rise
above it through gnosis. And when the task of this extrication is
accomplished, then we shall indeed no longer fear the noonday
devil or the terror that walks by night.
This essay appeared in Gnosis: A Journal of the Western Inner
Traditions, Winter 1999, and is reproduced here by permission
of the author. «
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Going with the Flow:
Masaru Emoto’s Secret Life of Water
By Julie Steigerwaldt
W
ater is something we
are in contact with
countless times every
day – we bathe with it, make our
coffee with it, frolic in it, shield
ourselves from it under umbrellas.
But how often do we think about
it or show our appreciation for it?
Since we ourselves are 70 percent
water, it may be something that
deserves our gratitude, or at the
very least our consideration.
One man who is striving to change
the way we think about water is
Japanese researcher and independent
thinker Masaru Emoto. His books on
water have created a growing move-
ment among people who have been
touched by his simple message. First
featured in the wildly popular indy-film
What the Bleep Do We Know? Emoto’s
photographs of water crystals have
captivated the minds of people who
intuitively know that water deserves
our love and appreciation. His book
The Hidden Messages in Water (Beyond
Words Publishing, 2004) hit the New
York Times bestseller list and has so
far spent over twenty weeks there.
His follow-up book, The True Power
of Water (Beyond Words Publishing,
2005), has also become a bestseller. So
far, his books have been translated into
twenty-three languages. An in-demand
speaker, Emoto gives lectures and holds
seminars all over Europe, Australia, and
the United States, including a seminar
this past spring at the United Nations
headquarters in New York.
What is driving the popularity of his
work? Emoto’s premise – that water is
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affected by our thoughts, words, and we find healing and renewal. Prayer
feelings – is to many people a confirma- also brings about healing, and Emoto
tion that our intentions do have real ef- documents the power of prayer when
fects in the world. It is scientific backing people gather together, describing
for spiritual concepts that people have several experiments in which water has
long-suspected were true. And since revealed visually how prayer can change
we ourselves are mostly water, there is the world.
really no limit to what our We can take an active
thoughts can create.
Emoto is passionate “ When love
role in the prayer and
healing that Emoto dis-
about his research and is and thanks are cusses in The Secret Life of
continually developing new Water. Emoto is devoted to
ways to study water and flowing from our several projects that aim to
how we interact with it in
our daily lives. In his third
hearts, the water improve the world’s water
quality and spread peace
book, The Secret Life of on earth and the throughout the world. One
Water (Simon & Schuster, project in particular that
Fall 2005), Emoto leads us water within us he founded is the Project
on a journey along water’s
life cycle. From the mo-
will be cleansed. ” of Love and Thanks to
Water. On one day each
ment it arrived on our year (this year, July 25),
planet up to the present day, water Emoto asks us to send love and thanks
has been cycling through the earth and – wherever we may be – to the water
gaining experience and knowledge as in our physical bodies, because we owe
it flows. Witnessing and understanding so much of our health to the water
water’s long, relentless journey gives within us. Then he asks us to send
us an appreciation for the treasures it love and thanks to all the water on
holds. Emoto and his researchers took our planet, which benefits our lives in
samples of water along a typical water countless ways. When love and thanks
cycle – from where it emerges as a are flowing from our hearts, the water
spring until it deposits into the sea – and on earth and the water within us will
photographed the frozen water crystals. be cleansed.
These fascinating photos are included in But really, thanking water once a
the book, along with crystals exposed year hardly seems enough. Try counting
to different types of music, names of how many times water helps you dur-
religions, and elements of nature. ing your day. You’d run out of fingers
Water’s flow, Emoto says, has much before you even finished breakfast.
to teach us. When we block the flow Water is, unfortunately, easily taken
of nature – whether through physical for granted. What if we became more
means such as dams or through emo- conscious of the water circulating all
tions such as greed or pride – the around us and through us? What if we
consequences on the environment and thanked water every day for all it has
ourselves are disastrous. Circulation al- given us? Then, true to Emoto’s advice,
lows us to return to our source, where we would really be going with the flow.
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Some thoughts about
Water & the World
The Work of Dr. Masaru Emoto
By Jennifer Hoskins
T
he Secret Life of Water is the
third volume of Dr. Emoto’s
highly successful series on
water and how we as humans can
interact with it to benefit our-
selves and our planet. The Secret
Life of Water is a follow-on from
The Hidden Messages in Water, and
The True Power of Water.
These amazing books sprang to
worldwide prominence after The Hidden
Messages in Water was featured in the
metaphysical documentary film What
the Bleep Do We Know?
Masaru Emoto is a Doctor of
alternative medicine and has carried out
worldwide research into the resonance
or vibration of water and how it af-
fects humans and the environment. His
own intense curiosity, love, gratitude,
and respect for the environment have
inspired his research into water. What
his findings have shown is that the
crystalline structure of water can be in-
fluenced by feelings, intentions, sounds
and vision.
He takes photographs of water at
low temperatures as it starts to freeze.
These images reveal the amazing di-
versity of crystals that water can form
under different circumstances. He now
travels the world, spreading the word
by lecturing and showing his stunning
photographs of water crystals. Many re-
gional groups have formed to follow his
work becoming active in their pursuit
of essential water. When necessary,
they strive to alter local conditions and
counteract pollution and chemicals in
the environment.
This volume primarily focuses on
the nature of water itself. Water comes
to us all from many different sources,
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including extra-terrestrial by the agency
of comets and meteorites, as well as
the already existing reservoirs on the
earth.
Dr. Emoto looks at the natural
history and life-cycle of water, from
its initial emergence as molecular H20,
through the distribution via the atmos-
phere as rain or snow. It is ubiquitous,
capping the tallest peaks, soaking into
the ground, seeping into the storage
basins under the earth, thawing in the
warmer seasons, bubbling into the
light of day as springs, rivulets, brooks,
creeks, streams, rivers, torrents and
eventually joining mighty bodies of
water such as lakes and oceans.
We are informed that the best wa-
ter is moving water. Let the water flow!
During water’s journey in all its diverse
ways, it meets rocks, minerals, plants
and animals. Water both nurtures and
learns from them all. We learn from Dr.
Emoto that water has a memory – a
memory far longer than our transient
lifetimes.
In this book you will learn that not
only does water have a memory, but
is carries secrets too. Every drop of
water has had a long history before it
became us. We can actually learn from
water, by allowing it to resonate within
us. Seventy percent of our being is
water. This gives rise to many questions
and wonders.
As with everything in existence,
water has a vibration. Dr. Emoto calls
this Hado, a Japanese word for the vibra-
tion inherent in all things. We know it
by many other names, reflecting our
different cultures. Chi, Qi, Prana, and
Mana are but a few of the familiar names
for the universal vibration.
The author has used the Hado
of water in healing with the aid of a
fascinating Hado machine which meas-
ures the Hado in patients, or pictures
of patients, and then prepares water
that will complement and balance the
patient’s Hado. This appears to act
very much like homeopathic remedies.
Homeopathy is based on the notion
of ‘like treats like’ and can attenuate
the remedies so much that there may
be none of the original molecules left
– just the vibration – but it is still able
to correct an imbalance.
The author spends much time in
the text of this book suggesting ways
in which we can improve our lives and
that of the planet by using more natural
and harmonious solutions to problems
occurring in health and food produc-
tion, as well as pollution. His research
into the crystalline structure of water
has wide-ranging implications on how
we can approach problems, both per-
sonally and as a global community.
Dr. Emoto also discusses the nature
of plant essences such as the Bach
Flower Remedies, which work on the
principle of vibration. He also has an in-
teresting side discussion on the emerg-
ing technology of beneficial bacteria
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called Efficient Microorganism, or EMTM. ers will be exasperated by the notion

These bacteria were first used on crops
to produce better and healthier yields.
It was found that the beneficial effects
lingered long after the EM were gone.
Even containers used to store EM
which were thoroughly cleansed were
still found to produce better-than-ex-
pected effects when used. EM technol-
ogy has much to offer both agriculture
and human health as a natural by-prod-
uct of the fermentation process.
There is also section on the ben-
efits of hemp as a realistic modern,
renewable product for agriculture and
medicine. Hemp has definitely suf-
fered from poor press throughout the
twentieth century due to the uses and
abuses of its psychoactive component.
Before it was considered a danger-
ous drug, it was an important primary
product in many countries and gave all
kinds of useful products and by-prod-
ucts. Today, supporters of hemp cite
myriad commercial products that are
cheaper, stronger and more economical
to produce.
The author states that the Hado of
hemp is positive and of a high order,
making it grow quickly. He considers
it to be a gift from nature. In fact, the
state religion of Japan, Shinto, has hemp
as a sacred plant. Some of the prod-
ucts now harvested from hemp include
industrial products such as diesel fuel
oil, ethanol, methanol, paper, cloth,
rope, and plastic. The fruit of the hemp
Water crystal in its pure state, untarnished
by pollutants. This example is of spring
water from Saijo, Hiroshima, a source of the
best tasting water in Japan.
plant is high in protein and the seed oil
is widely used as a natural medicine. It
can also be used in soaps and shampoos
due to its moisturising properties. This
is one fantastic natural product that
most of the world is currently ignor-
ing. Watch this space! Thank you for
reminding us Dr. Emoto.
In chapter five of this book is an
extremely important discussion of the
efficacy of prayer. It has been well-re-
searched elsewhere by Dr. Larry Dos-
sey M.D., who found that healing could
occur through the power of prayer. Dr.
Emoto has taken the concept sev-
eral steps further and used his water
photography to emphasise that our
thoughts and feelings have a huge effect
on the environment. I know many read-
that prayer can make a difference. After
all, thoughts and intentions are invisible,
and hard to pin down. There are often
inflexible religious themes attached
to prayer that have negative connota-
tions from our childhoods. Many of us
have prayed and didn’t seem to get an
answer – or did we? I say cast these
doubts aside and give it a go!
The author has participated in group
prayer around the world that has made
a difference to how water looks, tastes
and behaves. In his books he takes care
not to offend the religious – or atheistic
– sensibilities of his readers.
Most people accept that there is a
higher power of some sort, what they
call that power is of no consequence
when engaging in positive feelings and
intentions toward the environment.
Positive feelings enhance and negative
feelings detract. To be grateful for the
beauty of the earth and everything that
we have is to be in a state of Grace. It
took me fifty years to figure that one
out.
In the spirit of ‘like attracting like’,
I urge the reader to try some positive
thinking and see how it manifests in
your life. You may be quite surprised.
The immediate results are precisely
why the classic positive thinking books
are never out of print – they work.
What sets Dr. Emoto’s researches
and books apart is the affection, respect
and gratitude he expresses for all life.

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When you read his words and see the
pictures, you will see that he is not do-
ing it solely for his own improvement or
gratification – although I sincerely hope
he gets an abundance of that – but as
a gift to humankind and to the planet.
If large groups of enlightened people
actively change attitude and behaviour
toward their environment because of
these books, his job will be well done.
For readers approaching these
books for the first time, the feeling is
one of extreme surprise and perhaps
even shock, at the beauty of water
crystals. The eyes hungrily take in the
colour plates and the circumstances un-
der which they were made. The crystals
remind one of snowflakes, just as com-
plex, just as evanescent. One person I
spoke to recalled wanting to press the
picture to her forehead – a desire to
impress the memory of the picture into
the brain. Surprise! It is already in the
brain as soon as it is viewed, and it may
just be recognition, rather than a need
to possess.
There is nothing living in our world
that can do without water. It is the uni-
versal nurturer, healer and solvent. Our
language is replete with watery words
and phrases. For instance: “Did you
come down in the last shower?” or “My
blood turned to ice.” Consider what
some of our greatest poets and philoso-
phers had to say about water:
“A lake is the landscape’s most
beautiful and expressive feature. It is
earth’s eye; looking into which the be-
holder measures the depth of his own
nature.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The true peace of God begins at
any spot a thousand miles from the
nearest land.” – Joseph Conrad
“Water its living strength first
shows, When obstacles its course op-
pose.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Water is the mother of the vine,
The nurse and fountain of fecundity,
The adorner and refresher of the
world.” – Charles Mackay
Water is arguably the simplest,
most essential and yet tragically ignored
substance – unless we have a lack of it.
Should we not treat it as it deserves to
be treated? After all, without it there
is no life. Each drop of moisture we see
and absorb into our bodies can teach
us how to move in the world in a more
harmonious way – if we allow it.
I can’t seem to get enough of Dr.
Emoto’s writings and breathtaking
photographs of water. I recommend all
of his books and products without res-
ervation. Anyone who is concerned for
the future of humanity and our planet
will quickly become aware that these
books are quite extraordinary and pre-
cious.
Jennifer Hoskins is currently an online
bookshop proprietor whose areas of interest
covers psychology, mythology, symbology,
comparative religion, folklore, and spirituality
of all kinds. You can contact Jennifer by email
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The Hidden Messages in Water

By MASARU EMOTO
This book introduces the revolutionary work of internationally
renowned Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto, who discovered
that molecules of water are affected by our thoughts, words,
and feelings. Using high-speed photography, Dr. Masaru Emoto
discovered that crystals formed in frozen water reveal changes
when specific, concentrated thoughts are directed toward
them. Water exposed to loving words shows brilliant, complex,
and colourful snowflake patterns. In contrast, polluted water, or
water exposed to negative thoughts, forms incomplete, asym-
metrical patterns with dull colours.
$19.95, paperback with colour photos, 160 pages

The True Power of Water

The Secret Life of Water
By MASARU EMOTO
The third book by the author, The Secret Life of Water talks extensively about
water’s ability to show us the answers — how to live happily, the meaning of
loving nature, and the direction we should take. Water can act as a mirror,
and the quality of water is a reflection of our hearts. Mr Emoto stresses that
the current water situation is serious. The first step toward protecting the
earth and water is to focus on our prayers. Those who become aware of their
role to pray for the betterment of the earth must take action so that oth-
ers will also follow. In order to facilitate this, Mr. Emoto started a project of
prayer that occurs on the 25th of each month around the world.
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The author explains how the ability of water to react to
vibrations can be utilised in healing. Our bodies are
70% water and that is why, just like water crystals, our
health is so affected by our thoughts and feelings. If
we hold a negative thought or feeling for long enough,
it will manifest on the physical level as an illness.
However, as Dr Emoto explains, an equal and opposite
vibration will cancel out the vibrations that are causing
the illness. In this book he explains how we can gener-
ate these healing vibrations.
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ViKtor Schauberger
The Man Who Gazed at Rivers
An Interview with Frank Germano
By Susan Barber
V
iktor Schauberger (1885
– 1958), though little known, is
one of the great geniuses of this
or any century.
In an attempt to, as he put it,
“build a better mousetrap,” Frank Ger-
mano – a former aerospace engineer,
professional musician, and president
of a company that made Tesla-design
turbine engines – became aware of
Schauberger’s work.
“It was,” Germano says, “stuff I
was never taught in college. I never
even knew it existed.”
– Susan Barber
Susan Barber: How did Viktor
Schauberger make his discoveries about
water?
Frank Germano: Schauberger was
not technically educated. He was a
naturalist, a forester. He observed
nature. He watched rivers. He watched
the way water flowed. He wondered
how it was that fish, with very little
exertion of energy, could be moving
upstream in a fast-flowing river, and he
started to put things together in his
head. That was how he discovered the
principle of implosion and the energy of
the vortex.
SB: Could you explain how that works
and why it’s important?
FG: Vortexes exist throughout the
natural world – tornados, hurricanes,
whirlpools. If you look at a vortex
of water, you see that when water is
forced to spiral in this way there is an
imploding effect at the centre of the
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flow. And, when water is put into a
spiral vortex pipe, for some peculiar
reason, this effect actually eliminates
the effect of friction on the wall of the
pipe.
But what Schauberger saw was that
the implosion effect not only negates
friction, it actually adds energy. In other
words, the water picks up speed.
So if you put into a pipe certain
kinds of guides that force the water
into a spiral vortex, the water flows
faster. This “whirling spiral” shape is
found throughout nature.
SB: What does implosion mean?
FG: Basically, it’s inward movement.
At the centre of a vortex, things are
imploding – cooling and condensing.
It’s nature’s natural functioning. Every-
where you look, you see examples of
implosion.
Water meanders like a snake. In a
river, it hits the left bank, rolls inward,
forms a clockwise spiral vortex, then
starts straightening out, releasing
energy. Then it hits the other bank
and starts spiralling counter-clockwise.
And it’s because of temperature vari-
ations that we have this movement of
water. Water seeks to be at 4 degrees
Celsius (about 39.4 degrees Fahren-
heit). It’s called the “anomaly point.” At
4 degrees Celsius, water is at its most
dense state. So whenever the water is
cooler or warmer than that, energy is
created as it seeks to reach that point
of stability, the point where it’s the
most dense.
This is why one of the worst things
you can do is to deforest the banks of
a river. It’s not just because this causes
erosion. If trees are there, then each
bank receives the Sun’s rays part of
the day. So there is a balance. The heat
shifts back and forth because of the
trees, and the energy differential cre-
ates the energy of the river.
When you look at the mechanics of
the Earth, isn’t it amazing how balanced
it is? The ocean contains moving cur-
rents. Rivers flow. This marvellous ma-
chinery is all at work because water is
continually seeking to be at its anomaly
point.
So it’s the differences in tempera-
ture, the implosion effect, that creates
the vortex energy. If you kept those
differences in balance in a tornado,
for example, the tornado would go on
forever. The shifting of the Sun’s energy
from side to side in a river keeps the
river in balance.
Observing all this, Schauberger
advocated “putting a tornado in a
box.” Sustaining this implosion effect.
To quote Schauberger: “I must furnish
those, who would protect or save life,
with an energy source, which produces
energy so cheaply that nuclear fission
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will not only be uneconomical, but
ridiculous, This is the task I have set
myself in what little life I have left.”
(From a letter to Aloys Kokaly, 1953).
If we could actually get to the point of
sustaining that implosion effect, you
would see engines that just continuous-
ly run, using the wheelworks of nature
itself.
SB: And I understand that you’ve cre-
ated a super-efficient engine that makes
use of this idea.
FG: Yes. It started with a turbine
engine built according to the patent of
Nikola Tesla. As a boy, I was fascinated
by Tesla, and later, while working as an
engineer, I decided to build the Tesla
Bladeless Disk Turbine, which involves
an engine that’s much more elegant
and efficient than standard engines in
current use.
The Tesla design worked! I now
had a product that investors consid-
ered marketable, and this led to the
formation of my company, International
Turbine and Power, LLC.
So then I found Schauberger’s
implosion and vortex energy ideas, and
used them to make the Tesla turbine
even more efficient.
SB: Could you discuss some of the
other applications for this technology?
FG: The most obvious application is to
use flowing water to power the turbine.
When I say “flowing water” I am not
talking about using current technology
that requires building a dam, where
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the hydroelectric energy comes from
gravity. Schauberger’s work proved that
there is more energy available by forc-
ing water to flow into a spiral vortex
than is available by free-fall of compa-
rable footage. The technology is very
simple and can be implemented today.
We can supply industrial quantities of
electricity to any community simply by
using water power from rivers – with-
out a dam – and it is totally ecologically
sensible and sustainable.
“It’s also important
how we store water. Way
back in the earliest
civilisations, they stored
water in egg-shaped clay
pots... They knew that
the water could actually
“breathe” in that clay. ” there are engines out there that are
Another application would be to
get power from the Earth’s oceans. For
example, if you were to sink a deep
well in the middle of the ocean, putting
a pipe down to the level where it meets
the 4-degree anomaly point, the water
below that point would be relatively
deoxygenated. So then if you were to
pump water down into that pipe, water
that was highly oxygenated, the wa-
ter below it, which was “starved” for
oxygen, would seek that level. And as
this oxygen-starved water sought the
oxygenated water, it would be force-
fully “ejected” back up the pipe to the
surface level, under great pressure
and velocity. A device like our Blade-
less Disk Turbine would easily capture
that energy from the flowing water
and, through a generator, convert it to
electricity. Again, this is ecologically
sensible power generation.
This principle can be used in air
conditioning and heating systems. The
temperature differential creates energy,
and this energy not only can be used,
but it’s very efficient. A home or build-
ing that was temperature controlled
with this type of technology would use
only about one-third of the electricity
of standard systems currently in general
use.
SB: Does your company carry these
kinds of systems?
FG: Yes, we’ve got all that ready to go.
SB: I guess I just don’t understand. If
three times more effective than the
kind we are using, why doesn’t every-
body have one? If there are heating and
air conditioning systems that could save
people so much money and energy, why
doesn’t everybody know about this?
FG: This is the problem we’re facing.
I don’t really have the answer. We’re
not going to run out of fossil fuels.
What we’re going to run out of is our
ability to live on the planet. The misuse
of fossil fuels is a worldwide problem.
For whatever reason, we’re treating
energy the wrong way. And we do have
the technology to change this. What
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we don’t have is the infrastructure. It
would take billions of dollars.
SB: My guess is that the fossil fuel
industry doesn’t want this to change. It
wants us to consume more and more
fossil fuels.
FG: Just to begin with, we never, ever
needed to use fossil fuels in the first
place. We could have used water all
along and not had this pollution prob-
lem.
Once a water-power driven plant
is built, the energy is now “free” from
nature. It’s non-polluting, and it lasts as
long as the river lasts. You get ecologi-
cally sensible alternative energy. If you
were using the river’s energy correctly,
you could easily power the entire
United States on just the Mississippi.
The cost of solar and wind energy is
still too high. But water power is right
there, readily available. Our Tesla Tur-
bine engine simply carries that energy.
It’s basically a “better mousetrap”: a
bladeless disk engine, very simple, very
easy to understand, and we took that a
little further by forcing the water into a
spiral vortex...
We should have had a hybrid
electric drive vehicle a long, long time
ago. It is simply a better way to use our
technology. Electric powered cars are
much more efficient.
We are just now seeing hybrid
drive cars coming out from the auto
manufacturers. The problem is that the
infrastructure does not exist to supply
hydrogen for alternative energy vehicles.
But yes, water itself can be used as
a fuel. For example, there is the Hunt
Hydrogen Thermolysis Reactor. We’ve
had extensive negotiations with them.
The Hunt Reactor is simply a technol-
ogy that liberates hydrogen from water
for use as fuel. It splits water into
hydrogen and oxygen. Run that through
a turbine and what are the “pollutants”
that come out the tailpipe? Water
vapour!
So it’s not just about using implo-
sion technology to make more efficient
fossil-fuel engines. It’s also about using
water, including the power of flow-
ing water, to create energy in the first
place. I sometimes wish I could go back
in time and talk to Henry Ford.
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SB: Let’s talk about drinking water,
now. I understand that Schauberger had
very definite ideas on that subject.
FG: Schauberger said that if you took
the most absolutely pure water you
could find, that water would literally
rob you of vital nutrients, because that
type of water is absorbing.
SB: You mean, instead of giving, it takes.
FG: Yes. According to Schauberger,
that is the worst water we can possibly
drink. Surface water soaks up nutrients
from our bodies. It has nothing to offer
us. And yet we drink mainly surface
water: water from lakes and reservoirs.
For drinking, we need mature, vital-
ised water. Water does have a memory
(see in this issue of New Dawn, “Some
Thoughts About Water & the World:
The Work of Dr. Masaru Emoto”); it
gains properties as part of its “history,”
and we receive those properties when
we drink it.
Water rises in a vapour, condenses
in a cloud, and falls down to the ground
as rainwater, and that water is not
good to drink. It has few of the pos-
sible life-giving “properties” that water
can possess. It’s not until water’s gone
through a natural process that it begins
to carry the strengthening and healing
characteristics of the Earth.
It’s also important how we store wa-
ter. Way back in the earliest civilisations,
they stored water in egg-shaped clay
pots. The ancients knew about water.
They knew that the water could actually
“breathe” in that clay. When you look
at the outside of a clay pot that’s storing
water, you can see the condensation.
And based on implosion dynamics, the
egg shape of the old water jars caused a
kind of spiralling, so that the water was
continually moving in the pot.
So we store water wrong, we move
it wrong, where we’re getting it is wrong,
and we’re totally destroying all the health
benefits that water can give us.
SB: You talk about water gaining
“properties” in its journey through the
Earth and into our groundwater. What
exactly are these properties?
FG: That’s the subject of a lot of
research, and much more is needed. It
needs real scientific study. Our bod-
ies are made mostly of water, so why
wouldn’t we just want to investigate
what kind of water is healthy and what
kind is of most benefit to us?
If someone told us we couldn’t eat
meat or drive our cars, people would
be screaming. But our water supply
is not healthy and it’s dwindling and
nobody seems interested.
If you dumped an eight-ounce cup
of water in an Olympic-sized swimming
pool, you could taste it. You would not
want to drink that water. Yet we dump
oil into the ground and it goes into our
drinking water supply, and nobody cares.
We take water for granted. We go,
“Yup, there’s water.”
But water is a mysterious substance.
Our planet and our bodies are mostly
water. It amazes me as a scientist that
people do not want to investigate how
we can make our water the best it can
be.
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Frank Germano is president of International
Turbine and Power, LLC, of Cody Wyo-
ming, USA. His personal website at www.
frank.germano.com is a treasure trove of
information on water technology and the
works of the great water theorists, including
Tesla, Schauberger, and Schwenk. You may
contact him at Frank@Germano.com.
Germano recommends several sources for
those who are interested in finding out more
about water, including the works of Callum
Coats, whom Germano calls “the man solely
responsible for the Schauberger revival”;
the works of John W. Keely on water and
harmonics; and the book Living Water:
Viktor Schauberger and the Secrets of
Natural Energy by Olof Alexandersson.
These and many other books are described
at Frank Germano’s Bookstore at www.
frank.germano.com/thebookstore.htm.
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Sacred SoundS, an
Ancient Tune
I
n Steven Mithen’s imagination,
the small band of Neanderthals
gathered 50,000 years ago
around the caves of Le Moustier,
in what is now the Dordogne
region of France, were butchering
carcasses, scraping skins, shaping
ax heads – and singing.
In his new book The Singing Nean-
derthals: The Origins of Music, Language,
Mind, and Body, Prof. Mithen of Eng-
land’s Reading University makes the
intriguing argument that “language may
have been built on the neural underpin-
nings of music.”
He starts with evidence that music
is not merely a side effect of intel-
ligence and language, as some argue.
Instead, recent discoveries suggest
that music lays sole claim to specific
neural real estate. Consider musical
savants. Although learning-disabled or
retarded, they have astounding musical
abilities. One savant could hardly speak
or understand words, yet he played
flawlessly a simple piano melody from
memory despite hearing it only once.
In an encore, he added left-hand chords
and transposed it into a minor key.
“Music,” says Prof. Mithen, “can
exist within the brain in the absence of
language,” a sign that the two evolved
independently. And since language
impairment does not wipe out musical
ability, the latter “must have a longer
evolutionary history.”
Particular notes elicit the same emo-
tions from most people, regardless of
culture, studies suggest. A major third
(prominent in Beethoven’s “Ode to
Joy”) sounds happy; a minor third (as in
the gloomy first movements of Mahler’s
Fifth) provokes feelings of sadness and
even doom. A major seventh expresses
aspiration. The absence of a third seems
unresolved, loose, as if hanging.
The fact that listeners hear the
same emotion in a given musical score
is something a Neanderthal crooner
might have exploited. Music can
manipulate people’s emotional states
(think of liturgical music, martial music
or workplace music). Happy people are
more cooperative and creative.
Because music has grammar-like
qualities such as recursion, it might have
served an even greater function. With
music in the brain, early humans had the
neural foundation for the development
of what most distinguishes us from other
animals: symbolic thought and language.
Perhaps the ancient mind also rec-
ognised in music the underlying har-
mony and symmetry that exists in the
foundation of all nature.
“Music brings to the sense of hear-
ing the numerical order of nature,”
notes Joseph Milne, a Fellow of the
Temenos Academy.
“The mind recognises in the beauty
of harmonies this order of nature,
which is also a pattern in the soul.
In music we hear the qualities of the
numbers, not simply their quantities,
and it is these qualities that move the
heart. There is a correlation between
the nature of the soul and the nature of
the world, and the harmonies of music
derive from this correlation.”
Throughout history – and in all
cultures – music was perceived to
have a role which far surpassed its
modern status as mere entertainment
or art form. It was not really until
the nineteenth century, when a more
materialistic paradigm finally became
predominant, that this profound shift in
perspective regarding music occurred in
Western culture.
Even if we know not why, we seem
to need music in our lives, and an-
thropologists confirm that no human
culture has ever existed without some
kind of music. The massive growth of
the ‘World Music’ category in music
stores make a statement about our
contemporary times, as does the in-
creased interest in Shamanism and the
power of sound worldwide.
(Source: “Caveman crooners may have
aided early human life” by Sharon Begley,
March 31, The Wall Street Journal; www.
accessnewage.com/ARTICLES/vario/
music2.htm)
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Australian children
suffer strokes, heart problems &
hallucinations on ADHD drugs
By Shelley Wilkins
T
here has been grave concern
for many years amongst
professionals and the general
public about the drugs prescribed
for so-called Attention Deficit Hy-
peractivity Disorder (ADHD) and
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD).
According to psychiatry’s own manual
the Diagnostical and Statistical Manual
IV (DSMIV) which is used to diagnose
children with ADHD, there are no tests
for the disorder and there are no vis-
ible physical features that are of use in
diagnosing these disorders. It also says
in the DSMIV that signs of the disorder
may even be minimal or absent when the
child is taken to the clinician. This means
ADHD cannot be proven to scientifically
even exist! The label itself is fraudulent.
The Citizens Commission on Hu-
man Rights (CCHR) is an international
organisation that was established in
1969 to investigate and expose psychi-
atric violations. It has been campaigning
for many years against the false label-
ling and unnecessary drugging of our
children by psychiatry.
Recently CCHR’s National Of-
fice for Australia and New Zealand
obtained documents that have created
an uproar Australia-wide showing the
ADHD drugs prescribed to children
can cause heart attacks and strokes.
These documents were obtained and
purchased under the Freedom of
Information Act from the Therapeutic
Goods Administration (TGA).
According to these documents,
since 1980 there have been 238 adverse
reactions to Ritalin alone reported to
the TGA. These reports involve chil-
dren as young as 3.
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“According to these
documents, since 1980
there have been
238 adverse reactions to
Ritalin alone reported
to the TGA. These
reports involve children
as young as three. ”
In Australia, both Ritalin and Dex-
amphetamine which are prescribed to
treat so-called ADHD are not recom-
mended for children under 6 according
to MIMS, the main drug manual used by
doctors to prescribe drugs in Australia.
Yet we have a situation where children
as young as 3 have been prescribed
these drugs.
These drugs are also in the same
category, according to Australia’s
Poisons Act, as cocaine, opium and
morphine, so it is not in the least sur-
prising these drugs are causing deaths
in Australia.
Cases reported to the TGA in the
documents obtained include many hor-
rifying side-effects that could become a
parent’s worst nightmare. They include
the following for Ritalin:
l A 5 year old on Ritalin suffered a
stroke.
l A 7 year old died while they were
on Ritalin and another psychiatric drug
in 1994.
l A 7 year old on Ritalin became
depressed and psychotic. He cried
saying he wanted to kill himself and
threatened to jump off a roof and tried
to run in front of cars.
l A 4 year old had a history of res-
piratory infections and chronic tonsil-
litis. The child was put onto Ritalin and
then experienced vomiting, anorexia,
nervousness and headache.
l A 3 year old was given Ritalin
and had the side-effect of Dyskinesia,
which means they kept making invol-
untary physical movements. The 3 year
old could not stop making lip-smack
tongue-protrusion movements. They
were not on any other drug according
to the report. These involuntary move-
ments were one of the most common
side-effects and occurred in children
under the age of 6.
l A 9 year old “could not walk” af-
ter being on Ritalin for about 4 weeks.
l Aggression was another often
reported side-effect. A 13 year old on
Ritalin became aggressive and angry,
they had amnesia for an hour, felt nau-
seous and weak, had flu-like symptoms
and were terrified and crying.
l Other reports of hallucinations,
heart palpitations, increased heart rate,
depression, insomnia, diarrhoea, hair
loss, fatigue, tremor, neurosis, anorexia
and weight loss, tics, cardiac arrest
were also reported.
l A 72 year old died suddenly and
Ritalin was one of the suspected causes
of their death. They had nausea, vomit-
ing and acute renal failure prior to their
sudden death.
Some of the adverse side-effects to
dexamphetamine that were reported
included the following:
l A 5 year old experienced depres-
sion and paranoia in 1993.
l 6 year olds had muscle twitching.
l An 8 year old in 1996 had rage at-
tacks. They also experienced headaches
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and nervousness and according to the
report they were severe.
l A 4 year old developed psychosis
in 1999 while on dexamphetamine.
l In 2000, an 8 year old experi-
enced heart palpitations, 5 hours after
they had their second dose of dexam-
phetamine along with confusional state
and abdominal pain.
l In 2001 a 10 year old on dexam-
phetamine and another psychiatric drug
experienced hallucinations.
l Also reports of psychotic epi-
sodes, heart problems, suicidal ideation,
homicidal ideation, hyperventilation,
muscle twitching, chills, tremors,
rashes agitation, hair loss, involuntary
movements, and delusions were other
reported side-effects.
We have a situation in Australia
where our children are being drugged
for something that doesn’t exist and
their parents are not being informed of
these side-effects. This is like prescrib-
ing chemotherapy to thousands of
people who don’t have cancer. ADHD
is not a lack of Ritalin, as diabetes is a
lack of insulin.
Lawyer Simon Harrison from
Nicol Robinson & Hallets in Brisbane,
Queensland, said: “We are now actively
in the course of preparing for a Class
Action and are certainly proceeding
against the manufacturers of Ritalin
and Dexamphetamine. I am extremely
concerned about what we are hearing
about the apparent ease with which
both medications are in some circles, a
first port of call.”
The Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) in America recommended label-
ling changes to be made to all Ritalin
products last year because they can
cause psychiatric events such as suicidal
ideation, psychotic behaviour as well as
aggression and violent behaviour. Yet
we don’t have the same being done in
Australia.
The FDA is currently looking at
all ADHD drugs and investigating the
deaths of 29 people, including 19 chil-
dren and 54 cases of heart problems
including heart attacks, strokes and
heart disturbances, to see if they should
carry the strongest of warnings called a
“black box warning” on their packets.
After the above documents were
made public, the Federal Health
Minister's Parliamentary Secretary
Christopher Pyne said the federal
government would investigate whether
the warnings for ADHD medications
were adequate. Mr Pyne was reported
to have spoken to the TGA and asked
them to fast track an investigation into
Ritalin.
Our children do need to be pro-
tected from these psychiatric drugs and
to be helped with their problems. It is
not that children don’t have problems
or unwanted behaviour – they do, but
the real cause for their problems needs
to be found.
Do they have a physical condition
that is causing the problem and need
proper medical not psychiatric care, do
they have eyesight or hearing problems,
do they have allergies, are they hav-
ing problems at school, do they need
tutoring, are they simply bright and just
bored, etc.? A drug never has and never
will solve a problem in life and these
drugs can mask an underlying physical
condition.
Our children need to be protected
and nurtured and they will be denied a
wonderful, happy and health future if they
are put onto these dangerous psychiatric
drugs. Parents are not informed of the
true dangers of these drugs and they
must be given the full information about
any treatment proposed for their child so
they can make fully informed choices.
The Citizens Commission on
Human Rights (in Australia, Citizens
Committee on Human Rights) was
established in 1969 by the Church of
Scientology and Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Thomas Szasz as an independent
organisation to investigate and expose
psychiatric violations of human rights.
Shelley Wilkins is Executive Director for
CCHR's National Office. For more infor-
mation go to www.cchr.org or to report
psychiatric abuse contact CCHR National
Office on 02 99649844. «

T oday, more than 20 million children around

the world are prescribed psychiatric drugs
that government agencies warn can cause violent
behavior—and even suicide.
If you, a loved one or someone you know has
been abused by psychiatry contact the Citizens
Commission on Human Rights.
We will take action.

REPORT PSYCHIATRIC
ABUSE. IT’S A CRIME.
Contact: The Australian & New
Zealand National Office, Citizens
Committee on Human Rights on
(02) 9964 9844 • www.cchr.org
e-mail: nationaloffice@cchr.com.au

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LIVING CHI & FENG SHUI

By Grandmaster Gary Khor we are searching for in the West. It is
the name given by the Chinese to the

T
he ancient Chinese knew
that connection with the
living Chi (also spelled Ki or
Qi) around them can help them
find their place, meaning and
purpose in a dynamic, ever chang-
ing world. In these modern times
we can also stay whole despite
the fractured times. We do have a
saving grace, in the Chinese Taoist
concept that Life is full of immense
possibilities. The Taoists were
devoted to the spiritual holistic
world view in the essential nature
of things and the Way of Nature.
30 years ago the thought of sticking
needles in certain parts of the body to
help it heal and repair itself was consid-
ered laughable in the West. Now you
can get a medical refund for acupunc-
ture services. Any skeptics who try to
explain its benefits away on the basis of
a “placebo” effect are hard put to ex-
plain why acupuncture is enjoying equal
success in the veterinary field. After
all, why should an animal believe that it
should get better because someone has
gone to the trouble of sticking a needle
in a particular point?
Other Chinese practices such as
acupressure and exercise systems such
as Tai Chi have also become main-
Grandmaster Gary Khor
stream activities. All of these practices
have one thing in common: they are
based on the harmonisation and regula-
tion of Chi energy.
Chi is often referred to as “life” en-
ergy, which can be somewhat mislead-
ing as one could then think this energy
is only involved with living things. The
term “animating” energy is much better
as the Chinese maintain that all move-
ment and transformation that occurs
within the universe requires Chi.
In a sense Chi is the Chinese solu-
tion to the Grand Unified Theory that
primal energy that underlies all activ-
ity and change. We can experience the
effects of this energy in various ways
which we describe as heat, light, sound,
gravity, time, electricity, magnetism, etc.
Chi lies at the heart of another Chi-
nese practice that is becoming more and
more popular in the West – Feng Shui.
(Feng means wind, Shui means water
– in Chinese terms wind carries and
disperses energy while water attracts
and collects it). Whereas acupuncture,
Tai Chi and the Chinese practices
referred to above deal with the attempt
to read, understand and regulate Chi
within the human body, Feng Shui is the
complementary practice dealing with the
reading, understanding and regulation of
Chi within the external environment.
When the theory of Chi flowing
through a series of channels or merid-
ians first emerged in the West it was
immediately derided on the basis of
where was the proof? Could anyone
demonstrate the existence of these me-
ridians and show they flowed one way
rather than another? How could anyone
prove what influenced the flow of Chi
in a meridian and even if it did, what
effect this would have on the body.
Fortunately there was a consider-
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behaviour of Chi in terms of yin and
yang and the five elements. Practition-
ers who claimed “revealed” knowledge
(whether from ancient master-student
lineage or more recent spiritual con-
nections) could be called into question
when what they were saying was clearly
inconsistent with this established body
of knowledge.
Today of course we can measure
the electro-potential changes that iden-
tify the existence of acupoints. We can
trace the passage of radio-isotopes as
they follow meridian pathways through-
out the body and, using the latest brain-
scanning technology, we can measure
location and changes in electrical activ-
ity that occur in the brain as different
acu­points are stimulated. In a hundred
different ways modern technology has
confirmed the traditional knowledge
while never overturning it.
Understanding of Feng Shui is now
at about the same stage in the West
as internal Chi theory was about 25
years ago. There are lots of claims for
success but not a lot of proof about the
mechanisms by which Feng Shui works.
This is not to say that such proofs will
not emerge over time as they did for
internal Chi theory but it can leave us
confused about Feng Shui. Should we
believe everything we are told? And,
if we are told different, contradictory
things, how can we tell what is right?
The essence of Feng Shui is the idea
that the health of a person is influenced
by the environment they live in. This fact
is so self-evident in every day experience
that I don’t think you would find anyone
who would dispute this. But let’s see
where this point of common agreement
takes us. When we refer to “external
environment” we tend to think of things
rather than energy – but this is just
cultural conditioning. (You might say that
the Chinese are always talking about
mountains, rivers and lakes too, but this
misses the point that to the Chinese it
is the nature of underlying energy that
these mountains, rivers and lakes repre-
sent that is important.)
Think, what generally concerns
you about the environment where you
work and rest? How hot or cold you
are? Whether the place is excessively
noisy or quiet? Do you accept these
things will affect your health? Do you
think your productivity and creativeness
suffer when temperature and noise be-
come extreme? Do your relationships
work as well in such environments? Do
you sleep as well? If not what does that
do to you the next day?
So without being overly presumptu-
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you probably accept as a matter of
course that the energy in the environ-
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strongly on the important things in
your life. Your health, productivity (at
work or at home), relationships and
creativity. You also probably recognise
that as these things suffer so does your
financial health and quality of life.
So you buy heaters and fans and use
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your windows and have lights and lamps
in your house to regulate the levels
of light. You might double-glaze your
windows to prevent sound or put in
trees, bushes and walls to screen noise.
Then you have been practicing a very
elementary level of Feng Shui albeit in
an ad hoc uncoordinated fashion.
“Whoa!” I can almost hear you say,
isn’t Feng Shui about mountains and
rivers, about locating white tigers and
green dragons, about dragon veins, com-
pass directions and strange astrologic
and numerological calculations? The
answer is not difficult but needs to be
broken down into a number of parts:
First, do not confuse the objective
of Feng Shui with some of the meth-
odologies used. The objective of Feng
Shui is simply to make the energy of
our external environment supportive
to health and quality of life. There are a
number of approaches varying from the
common sense and the scientific to the
mystic and spiritual – you can use what
you are comfortable with. In our so-
ciety today we have both scientist and
priest, some believe science and religion
are exclusive, some find no problem in
reconciling these worldviews.
When you practice Feng Shui you
can take the same approach, accept it
all, or reject the scientific or mystic
aspects. In the Feng Shui Academy we
take the scientific approach but rather
than rejecting other aspects put them
into an “as yet unproven” basket. In
doing this we build on our experience
from our study of Chi in the internal
arts knowing they function quite well
without having to resort to mystic or
spiritual aspects. Please note that the
statement is “without having to.”
Internal Chi arts such as Qigong (en-
ergy circulation techniques), can make
use of mystic and spiritual techniques
and perhaps when used in this way they
can result in more success and higher
quality lives. It is an individual matter.
Second, remember that the words
and images used in any practice from
different cultures and times often
simply reflect the words and imagery
that were available to communicate
concepts in that culture at that time. If
the same concepts are to be success-
fully communicated in a different time
and culture the words and imagery may
need to be reinterpreted.
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Before we get carried away with our
own cultural superiority we might re-
flect on the fact of how many of us still
have an image of the atom as being like
a miniature solar system. This outdated
(and largely wrong!) image of the atom
is, nevertheless, still a useful image for
introducing the concept of the atom for
those who cannot visualise the atom in
non-physical mathematical terms. There
just aren’t any solid lumps in an atom!
There are a number of reasons we
would like to advocate the approach to
Feng Shui of only accepting what can be
proven but being open minded enough
to experiment with the remaining tech-
niques. These include:
Our firm belief that people will not
only benefit from even limited experi-
ence with Feng Shui but that “a journey
of ten thousand miles” does indeed
start with the first step.
Like health, the prime responsibility
for Feng Shui lies with the individual.
You might call on the doctor when you
are sick or for a check up. It is your
lifestyle – your diet and the exercise
you get that will have the greatest im-
pact on your health and quality of life.
In the same way it is what you do on a
day to day basis about your energetic
environment that counts. Become
sensitive and attentive to your environ-
ment and your Feng Shui health will
tend to take care of itself.
Such an approach is the best
protection from becoming a victim of
the “fear and greed” approach to Feng
Shui that can otherwise develop. Most
practitioners of Feng Shui are honest
dedicated people who can do much to
benefit their clients. Some, however,
drum up business by either:
l Terrifying their clients about the
doom and disaster that will stalk them
if they don’t rush out and take the (not
inexpensive) advice of the Feng Shui
consultant.
l Promising a life of indolence and
riches for the person who follows
the advice of the Feng Shui consultant
(makes you wonder why they have to
charge fees at all!)
Learning to regulate the Chi of your
external environment is a valuable living
skill that can significantly impact on the
quality of your life. You can use either
a mystic or common sense approach to
Feng Shui with beneficial effects. Effort
and luck almost always play a greater
role in life than Feng Shui.
This is not to say Feng Shui isn’t
very important but that it should be
placed in perspective. It relates to
just one aspect of life, the energetic
influence of the external environment,
and it must be used in balance with
other living skills. Devoting oneself to
maintaining one's internal health while
ignoring the influence of the external
environment is as silly as thinking you
can ignore diet and exercise as long as
you practice Feng Shui.
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Director of the Feng Shui Academy of China
and The Australian Academy of Tai Chi. He
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CIRCULATORY PROBLEMS
By Huw Griffiths
I
n these pandemically-threat-
ened times I hope it isn’t too
politically incorrect to bring
up the subject of diseases of the
circulatory system, or cardio-vas-
cular disease (CVD) as it more
commonly known.
How many of us are aware that it is
still one of, if not the most prevalent and
life-threatening health problems in our
society and that despite frequent signs
of encouragement that its incidence is
on the downward trend, a few years
ago there were still around 3.2 million
Australians suffering from some kind
of long-term cardiovascular condition.
These figures are not believed to have
improved that much to date and as a
result CVD remains one of the leading
causes of death (38%) in this country.
It might be my imagination, but car-
diovascular disease seems to have been
sidelined a bit in recent years. Maybe
this is because, in part at least, it had a
great deal of seemingly ignored public-
ity about the need for diet and lifestyle
changes, but also perhaps because it
compares as a relatively complex issue
to talk about compared to other major
health issues.
For example lung cancer is lung
cancer, but for CVD various disease
classifications such as chronic rheumat-
ic, hypertension, ischaemic pulmonary
heart, cerebrovascular, atherosclerosis
and several more, spring to mind, each
of which have their respective risk
factors, symptoms and treatments.
Getting your mind around it is all quite
daunting really, especially if you haven’t
got a problem with it yet.
The whole subject is in dire need of
simplification so that those of us at risk
can keep being reminded in a few simple
terms of how to normalise, improve and
maintain a healthy heart and circulation.
At the risk then of perhaps over-
simplifying the root cause of most
CVD diseases, let’s imagine that for
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a wide variety of reasons (but mostly
diet, stress, lack of physical activity and
lifestyle) there is a process that takes
place in our bodies that allows for an
abnormal build up of fatty deposits or
plaque in the lining of our arteries. It
isn’t a process that happens quickly
although increasingly the condition has
ceased to be the domain of the elderly
and inactive middle-aged, and is being
noticed in alarmingly high numbers in
children and adolescents.
This condition is atherosclerosis and
as it builds up in the arteries it naturally
begins to interfere with the supply of
blood to a number of different parts
and organs of the human body. When
it affects blood supply to the heart,
however, (something that happens
frequently) it has a tendency to develop
into angina, heart attack or death, or all
three. Another equally well known out-
come is a stroke, when the blood supply
to the brain is affected. So this is the
basic process that underpins a significant
majority of circulatory problems.
The inescapable reality is that car-
diovascular disease has entrenched itself
fairly and squarely around the Western
diet and lifestyle and in a nutshell it
would be a fair assessment that we resist
some fairly fundamental changes to the
way we live our lives at our peril.
Cardiovascular disease and cardiology
are strangely one of those areas where
conventional medicine and naturopathy
should, and in some cases do, co-exist
most happily. When it comes to acute
emergencies modern medical science has
been proven to be profoundly effec-
tive and life-saving and no self-respect-
ing natural practitioner should hesitate
to utilise its remarkable and unrivalled
resources when they are called for. There
is though, despite this factor, far more
that could and should be done to prevent
these emergencies from occurring in the
first place and this is an aspect of CVD
that the medical establishment doesn’t
seem to be particularly big on at all.
Predisposing factors such as smok-
ing, high-fat diets, lack of exercise,
obesity, high blood pressure, high
cholesterol, are all well known and
basically understood by everyone (even
if we have a tendency to not act on
the information), but diet, nutritional
treatments, supplementation, botanic
medicine, homeopathy and lifestyle
education are among the areas where
natural therapists can, I believe, not
only make a major contribution to indi-
vidual health, but have the capacity to
stimulate a powerful preventative trend
to cardiovascular disease all round.
Why this doesn’t come from the
conventional medical corner is some-
thing we can only speculate on. It could
be argued that it is too busy and too
under-resourced to do anything but
contend with the chronically ill and
the tidal wave of daily emergencies, or
one could be cynical and point out that
medical science’s blossoming pharmo-
copia of (more often than not toxic)
cardiac wonder drugs, together with its
impressive and growing list of cardio-
surgical procedures, is just far too
profitable to let anything as simple and
as non-profitable as sound preventative
advice interfere with it.
It's a compelling though disturbing
thought that close to 36% of all Aus-
tralian hospitalisations were associated
with coronary heart disease in 1998-99,
with an additional 12% being allocated
to stroke victims, and a further 10% to
heart failure, so it isn’t difficult to see
that it wouldn’t be particularly good for
business if the ‘health’ industry sudden-
ly found a cheaper, safer and altogether
more convenient way of improving our
cardio-vascular health.
Well, are there cheaper, safer and
more convenient ways? From the very
earliest days in the history of medicine
many drugs used in CVD were based on
plant constituents, digitalis and aspirin
to name but two (but there are several
more), yet when it comes to develop-
ing or redeveloping medicines that have
cardiovascular benefits and which are
based on plant constituents, we hear a
great deal more about the synthesised
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active ingredient than we do about the
original source plant. Is there something
here that suggests that all is not being
communicated here about the possible
benefits of botanic medicine?
There are other instances too that
smack of, at worst double standards, or
at best serious neglect, when it comes
to the role that the massive resources of
the medical institutions could be playing,
but aren’t, in the development of better
treatment practices for those suffering
from serious (and for that matter less
serious) cardiovascular problems.
Statin drugs, for example, are a
widely prescribed class of drugs used
in the treatment or prevention of high
blood pressure due to its effect of cho-
lesterol reduction. Yet a vast majority
of doctors who prescribe these drugs
fail to inform their patients of the sig-
nificant potential for damage they pose
to muscle tissue (the heart is arguably
your body’s most important muscle
by the way) through the depletion of
CoQ10, which is an awkwardly named
vitamin that is absolutely essential to
heart health. It is a well established
fact that anyone who is taking statin
drugs regardless of whether it is for
treatment or prevention should also be
taking CoQ10 supplementation or they
will be putting themselves at serious
long term risk of future heart disease.
Yet another area where more
should be being done, but apparently
isn’t, is in the potential of vitamin C as
an effective treatment for everything
from not just cardiovascular disease,
but to asthma, arthritis, flu, hepatitis
and many more conditions. Back in
1989 the twice Nobel prize winning sci-
entist Linus Pauling announced break-
through research that demonstrated
that heart disease was in fact a form
of scurvy and that the attempts by the
body to form plaque were in fact a part
of the healing process as it attempts to
plug leaks in a weakening arterial wall.
The essence of his research was that a
vast majority of heart diseases could be
prevented by regular supplementation
with vitamin C and could be effectively
treated with a combination of vitamin
C and lysine therapy.
The scandal, which is twofold, is
that despite Pauling’s breakthrough
results and the stunning simplicity
of the treatment, not only has there
has been no significant follow-up by
medical researchers to embrace or for
that matter to disprove his theories,
but new moves are afoot through the
upcoming Codex agreement to restrict
supplements, almost certainly includ-
ing vitamin C, to the public of Western
nations at large, moves that fly not only
in the face of common sense but of the
common good as well.
These issues aside, however, there
lots of simple measures that you can
take to either minimise your risk of car-
diovascular disease, or to improve your
chances of regaining your health if you
already have it. Use the following guide-
lines as a starter, under the supervision
of a qualified naturopath or practitioner
and, if you are currently taking medica-
tion, make sure you inform your doctor.
Dietary:
Drink plenty of water (many CVD
sufferers are known to be dehydrated);
Eat a diet high in fruit, vegetables, nuts
and whole grains; Omega-3 fats are
essential and can be obtained from fish
and flaxseed oils; Reduce or eliminate
any refined and processed foods from
you diet (especially flour and sugar);
Don’t deep fry your food; Increase
consumption of ginger, cayenne, garlic
and onions (they reduce blood clot-
ting); Pineapples contain an enzyme
called bromelain which also reduces
clotting; Reduce tea, coffee and alcohol
consumption, as well as excessive ani-
mal proteins and fats; Do not use white
table salt on your food (try using Celtic
salt, but in moderation or a potassium
based substitute); Make sure you have
plenty of fibre in your diet.
Supplementation:
Vitamin C (an anti-oxidant which
reduces cholesterol and benefits hy-
pertension) preferably with flavonoids;
CoQ10 (a nutrient for the heart);
Vitamin E (reduces platelet stickiness
and risk of heart disease); Calcium and
magnesium (for effective heart function
and reduced blood pressure).
Lifestyle:
Avoid smoking and smokers!; Find
a way to manage your stress (especially
your hostility and anger) via yoga, medi-
tation, qi gong or something similar; If
you don’t include it in your weekly rou-
tine already, increase levels of aerobic
exercise (walking, jogging, and cycling);
Be cautious about oral contraceptives
(some increase the risk of strokes).
Herbs:
Mistletoe: Reduces blood pressure
and heart rate, eases arterioclerosis,
strengthens the peripheral capillary walls
while also soothing the nervous system.
Motherwort: For all heart condi-
tions associated with anxiety and stress
as it reduces over-rapid heart beats.
Hawthorn: Strengthens heart con-
tractions and dilates the blood vessels.
Bugleweed: Reduces the heart
rate, but increases the strength of the
beat.
Broom: Very good for weak hearts
and low blood pressure. Reduces water
retention.
Dandelion: A great diuretic which
is also high in potassium.
As is always the case there are many
more to select from depending on your
specific needs. Your local naturopath
will be familiar with them, so if you think
you might benefit from his or her advice
book a consultation. «

HUW GRIFFITHS is a British-born naturopath who came to Australia in the early

‘90’s with his wife and two sons. His interest and passion for natural and traditional health
therapies was developed and nurtured alongside an international career in marketing and
communications. He currently lives and practices in the bayside suburb of Brighton in
Melbourne. You can email Huw at cnrstonehealth@optusnet.com.au or call him at
Cornerstone Health on 03 9530 8826 for an appointment.

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By Robert Moss singing. The people of this world welcomed me. They were

I
tall and elongated and very pale, and did not look like anyone
have known since I was a very small boy in I had seen in my nine years in the surface world. They told me
Australia that there are worlds beyond physical they had dreamed my coming, and raised me as their own. For
reality, and that we can journey to those worlds the greater part of my schooling, I was required to dream – to
dream alone, in an incubation cave, or to dream with others,
and gain first-hand knowledge of the multidi-
lying in a cartwheel around the banked ashes of the fire in the
mensional universe and about what actually happens council house.
after death. Years passed. As I grew older, my recollection of my life
in the surface world faded and flickered out.
When I was nine years old, I was woken I became a father and grandfather, a teacher
up to these possibilities during a crisis of
In ancient and traditional and elder. When my body was played out,
illness. I was rushed to hospital in Melbourne the people placed it on a funeral pyre. As the
after complaining of a pain in my lower cultures where there is smoke rose from the pyre, I travelled with it,
right abdomen. The medical staff found that
my appendix was about to burst and I was
a real practice of dying, looking for the path among the stars where
the fires of the galaxies flow together like
wheeled into an operating room in short near-death experiencers milk.
order for an emergency appendectomy.
Under anesthesia on the operating table, I – who may be called As I spiralled upward, I seemed to burst
through the Earth’s crust into a world of
found myself hovering above my body, some- shamans or initiates hot asphalt and cars and trams – and found
where up near the ceiling. I decided I didn’t myself shooting back into the body of a nine-
want to watch the bloody work with the scal- – have always been
year-old boy in a Melbourne hospital bed.
pel and flowed through the door and along heard with the deepest It was a little hard to discuss these
the corridor to where my mother sat hunched experiences with the adults around me at
and weeping. I couldn’t stand her pain, so attention and respect.
that time, and we did not yet have Raymond
I drifted off to a window, to the brightness Moody’s useful phrase “near-death experi-
outside, to the colours of spring and the ence” to describe an episode of this kind.
laughter of young lovers seated at a sidewalk table, drinking One of the doctors said simply, “Robert died and came back”
each other’s smiles. I felt the pull of the ocean. I could not see – with memories that made me quite certain of the existence of
the beach from the hospital window, so I floated through the worlds beyond the obvious one, and of the fact that conscious-
glass and out onto a ledge where a blackbird squalled at me and ness survives physical death.
shot straight up into the air. I followed the bird and sailed over There is great contemporary interest in the NDE in Western
the rooftops. society, and this is a very healthy thing, because to know about
I saw a huge moon-round face, its mouth opened wide to the afterlife, we require first-hand experience, and need to be
form the gateway to Luna Park. I swooped down through the ready to update our geographies and itineraries frequently
moon-gate – and plunged into darkness. I tried to reverse direc- in the light of the latest reliable travel reports. In ancient and
tion, but something sucked me downwards. It was like tum- traditional cultures where there is a real practice of dying,
bling down a mineshaft, mile after mile beneath the surface of near-death experiencers – who may be called shamans or initi-
the earth. ates – have always been heard with the deepest attention and
I fell into a different world. It was hard to make out any- respect.
thing clearly in the smoke of a huge fire pit. A giant with skin There is a Tibetan name for such a person, delog, pro-
the colour of fine white ash lifted me high above the ground, nounced “day-loak”. It means someone who has gone beyond

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death and returned. The famous Tibetan Book of the Dead,
with its detailed account of the possible transits of spirit after
death, emerged from the experiences of such travellers.
But to have first-hand knowledge of what lies beyond death,
we do not have to go through the physical extremity of an
NDE. We can learn through our dreams, the dreams in which
we receive visitations from departed loved ones and others who
are at home on the Other Side, and the dreams in which we
travel beyond the body and into their realms.
Our dreams open portals into the multidimensional uni-
verse, including the places we may travel after physical death.
As we become active dreamers, we come to realise that dream-
ing is not so much about sleeping as about waking up – to a
deeper reality and a deeper meaning in life, and death.
The Departed are Dreaming with Us
  One of my driving purposes in writing The Dreamer’s
Book of the Dead was to help some of the many people in our
society who are hungry for confirmation that communication
with the departed is not “weird” or “un-
natural”, let alone impossible, and that it is
possible to extend love and forgiveness and
healing across the apparent barrier of death. Our dreams open
We encounter our departed, especially in
dreams, because they are still around (some- portals
times because they have unfinished business
or are not actually aware they are dead); or multidimensional
because they come visiting; or because we
travel, in dreams or visions, into astral realms
universe,
where the departed are entirely at home.
It’s not just that we dream of the dead;
the places
our departed are dreaming of us, and trying
to reach us through dreams. Sometimes our
may travel after
departed return as counsellors or “family
angels”, as my father returned to me, many
physical death.
times, in the year after his death in Australia
in 1987, with loving messages and practical
guidance for the family. Sometimes our departed need us to
play guides, because they are confused or stuck between the
worlds, clinging to old appetites and attachments – which can
be extremely unhealthy for the living, who may pick up the
feelings and addictions and even the past physical symptoms of
the dead.
One of the cruelest things that mainstream Western culture
has done is to suggest that communication with the departed
is either impossible or unnatural. There is nothing spooky or
“supernatural” involved, though these experiences take us into
realms beyond physical reality. It is especially easy to meet our
departed in dreams (if we are willing to listen to our dreams)
for three reasons:
Our Departed are Still With Us
Quite frequently dreams reveal that the departed are
present because, quite simply, they never left. The departed
may linger because they have unfinished business, or wish
to act as guide and protector to the family, or are attached to
people and places they loved in waking life, and this may be a
perfectly happy situation for a year or two.
But there comes a time when our departed need to move
on, for their own growth, and so they do not become a psy-
chic burden to the living. Because our society does a poor job
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in preparing people for the afterlife, many people who have
passed on do not know they are dead, and hover in a limbo
close to familiar people and places on this Earth. After death,
we continue to be driven by our ruling interests, appetites and
addictions. Some of those who have died but not truly “passed
on” continue to try to feed their cravings via the living. When
the departed remain earthbound, the effects are unhealthy both
for those who have died and those among the living to whom
they are connected. When the dead are enmeshed with the
living, the result is mutual confusion, loss of energy, and the
transfer of addictions, obsessions and even physical ailments
from the departed to the person whose energy field he or she is
sharing.
Helping the departed may involve a loving dialogue, a
simple ritual of honouring and farewell, and invoking spir-
itual helpers. As we become active dreamers, familiar with
the geography of the afterlife, we may find we are called on to
provide personal escort services and help to instruct some of
our departed on their options on the other side. William Butler
Yeats noted, with a poet’s insight, that “the
living can assist the imaginations of the
dead.”
Our Departed Come Calling
into the Most people who remember dreams can
recall one in which someone on the other
side made a phone call, sent a letter, or
simply turned up at the door or the bedside.
including Our departed return to us in dreams for all
the reasons they might have called on us in
we physical life – including the simple desire
to tell us how they are doing and see how
we are coping – and for larger reasons: to
bring emotional healing, to bring us helpful
information, to instruct us on life beyond
death and the reality of worlds beyond the
physical.
Our departed may come visiting to offer or receive forgive-
ness. They may come to show us how they are doing on the
other side.
Our departed can be excellent psychic advisers when they
achieve clarity on the other side and are aware that they are not
confined to the rules of space and time.
Our departed may come as health advisors and fam-
ily counsellors. My friend Wanda Burch had received many
dreams containing possible health advisories, but was finally
driven to seek medical attention when her deceased father
turned up in her dreams in a doctor’s white coat and yelled at
her, “You have breast cancer!” Her father’s dream intervention
helped put her on the path of healing and recovery.
Our departed may visit us in dreams to help us prepare for
our own deaths and reassure us that we have friends on the
other side.
In Dreams, We Travel to Realms of the Departed
In our dreams, we are released from the laws of physical
reality, and travel into other dimensions, including environ-
ments where the departed may be living. Through dreams of
this kind, we can begin to develop a personal geography of the
afterlife, which will be vastly enriched when we learn the art of
conscious dream travel, which is at the heart of my own teach-
ing and practice.
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 In my workshops, I often invite participants to focus on a
dream or memory of a departed person and make it their inten-
tion to journey – with the help of shamanic drumming – to
seek timely and helpful communication with that person and to
learn about the environment where that person is now living.
From these journeys, we have collected multifarious and fasci-
nating details of reception centres, transition zones, places of
recovery and further education and communications arrange-
ments on the other side. We have learned that more than one
vehicle of soul survives physical death, and each has a different
destiny. We have explored many afterlife locales shaped by hu-
man imaginations and collective belief systems.
Dreaming is the Best
Preparation for Dying
A second reason I wrote The Dreamer’s Book of the Dead
is that I believe that dreaming is the best preparation for dying,
and that through dreams we can gain first-hand knowledge of
the transitions of spirit after death. Active dreamers have no
doubt there is life after death. We become familiar with many
alternative neighbourhoods and transition zones on the Other
Side. We may develop the understanding – again through direct
experience – that consciousness survives the body in more than
one energy body, and that different vehicles of consciousness
have different fates.
By helping someone who is approaching death to open to
their dreams, we help them to find their way home, and ap-
proach the last stage of physical life with greater courage and
clarity, as a time of growth and awakening.
All we need do, to begin with, is to suggest to the dying
person that if he or she happens to remember a dream, we
would love to hear it, and to cherish the moment of sharing.
Open a safe space for dreaming, and beautiful things can
happen. Katy’s octogenarian father Ed moved into hospice
care after a debilitating series of strokes. His doctors thought
he would probably succumb to kidney failure within a month.
In fact, he survived for another six months, a time of deepen-
ing pain and frustration over the failures of the flesh that was
nonetheless a period of immense learning and high adventure
thanks to his discovery of dreaming. In each of her frequent
visits, Katy gently encouraged him to share any dreams he
remembered.
As dream sharing became daily practice for Katy’s father,
many varied gifts came through. Some of his dreams rehearsed
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him for physical adjustments he needed to make as his body
declined, easing these passages for a proud and once strong
man. Dreams of broken plumbing and laying pipes, for exam-
ple, prepared Ed for the catheterization that was eventually
required.
In an intriguing series of dreams, he was excited to find
himself doing new work and feeling really good about it – an
unlikely scenario, in ordinary reality, for a sick man in his 80s.
In one of these dreams, he was working on an “angel machine.”
When Katy asked him what that was, he explained, “I’m sup-
posed to comb out the feathers on the angel wings” and giggled
like a happy child, full of wonder.
Towards the end, Katy’s father often slipped into waking
dreams, moving between the worlds with increasing fluency,
learning the art of re-entering a sleep dream to gather more
insight and energy effortlessly, without any formal instruction.
One of his big dreams seemed to promise a happy landing
on the other side and opened a fascinating personal locale in
the possible afterlife. He dreamed that on a day of heavy snow,
he attended a magnificent banquet in a beautiful mansion. Eve-
ryone was dressed to the nines, and an elegant, distinguished
man wearing an ambassador’s sash with his dinner jacket
showed Ed around and poured him a delicious drink “like
white champagne” but beyond anything available in ordinary
reality. Delighted by his welcome, Katy’s father had the feeling
he would be going back to the mansion of the dream ambas-
sador. On the day he passed, it was snowing heavily for the first
time in months, as in the dream.
Through their days and nights of dream sharing, father and
daughter deepened their loving connection. Katy confirmed
and validated her father’s experiences as he opened to realities
beyond the physical, an inspiring example of how we can help
each other on the roads of dying (and living). Katy believes
that dreaming provided her father with a vehicle in which he
could travel to the other side. “He was fearful of leaving this
life that he loved so much, but with the dreaming he grasped
that perhaps there really is a life ‘over there’ that is just as
much fun.” His fear of death gave way to a willingness to let
go.
The story of Ed’s dreaming does not end with his passing.
Within days, he started turning up in the dreams of his loved
ones. He appeared to the one family member who had not
been able to visit him in the hospice, sat with her under a tree
for what seemed like hours, and made her laugh. He returned
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Katy’s visits in the dreamtime. In Katy’s dreams, he often ap-
peared doing things (like skiing) that he had failed to do, or to
master, in the life he had left.
This moving episode confirms the wisdom of the Lakota
Indian saying that “the path of the soul after death is the same
as the path of the soul in dreams.” This is why dreaming is the
best preparation for dying.
The Poet as Guide to the Other Side
I had another reason for undertaking The Dreamer’s Book
of the Death. I have noticed that most of us tend to live with
more courage and clarity – and cope with the challenges of
everyday life with better grace – when we have looked Death in
the face.
As we do this, we may enlist the support of personal guides
who are quite familiar with conditions on the Other Side.
I was well advanced on my work, a little after Samhain/
Halloween in 2004, when I learned that I had drawn a most
interesting helper. On a raw day on the Connecticut coast, I
was leading a visionary journey for a circle of my advanced
students. We had made it our shared intention to travel to a
location in nonordinary reality that I call the House of Time, a
place from which onward journeys to other times and other life
experiences are usually easy, and where encounters with master
teachers sometimes take place. I was drumming for the group
and watching over them while – at the same time – I let part of
my consciousness travel into the Library of the House of Time.
I found Yeats waiting for me, on an upper level. He asked
me, “What better guide to the Other Side than a poet?” The
answer that came to me was: none. I remembered how Virgil
appears as Dante’s guide through the Inferno, drawn by Dante’s
“love and long study” of his poetry. Whether the Yeats who
was appearing to me now was a projection of a part of myself,
or some essence of his life and work, or the individual spirit of
the dead poet, I could hardly refuse his offer to guide me.
So my work took on a further dimension. This, of course,
was not my first encounter with Yeats. He had appeared in my
dreams many times. In one series of dreams, he demonstrated
experiments in “mutual visioning” that he had conducted with
Florence Farr, and attempts to build his Celtic Castle of the
Heroes on the astral plane with his great (but forever lost) love
Maud Gonne.
But after that post-Halloween encounter in 2004, things
picked up. While I immersed myself in fresh study of the books
and papers in which Yeats had recorded his efforts to com-
munication with the dead and to monitor the soul’s journey
between death and rebirth, the play of dreams and visions and
synchronicity in my own life became intense and wonderful.
That benign entity that Koestler called “the Library Angel”
worked overtime, arranging bookish discoveries at the most
unlikely times and places. In a screened and protected psychic
environment, I was introduced to many “dead” people who
described their experiences of afterlife transitions in vivid and
fascinating detail. Sometimes I felt that the dead were holding
a séance for the living – specifically myself.
I gained a new depth of understanding of what Yeats had
laboured to convey about death and dreaming in the two ver-
sions of his fascinating, difficult book A Vision. He concluded
that the main difference between the dream state during physi-
cal life and the dream state after death is that prior to death the
soul remains in “exclusive association with one body.”
In the 1925 edition of A Vision, Yeats made his simplest
and most important observation about the connection between
death and dreaming: “In sleep we enter upon the same life
as that we enter between death and birth.” He explains that
in dreaming, the spirit may travel through some of the levels
of being that are accessible after death. In rare cases, moving
beyond the astral plane, the spirit may discover “a new centre
of coherence” in the celestial body. So dreaming may be an
exact rehearsal for the progression of the spirit after death as it
gradually disentangles itself from lower energy bodies to move
to higher planes.
In the 1937 edition of A Vision, Yeats develops the provoca-
tive thesis that our dreams of the departed are frequently the
result of the departed reaching for us. Yeats describes an early
phase in the after-death transition that he calls “Dreaming
Back,” through which the departed seek to review, understand
and resolve the issues of the life experience that has ended.
With the help of “teaching spirits” a soul in this phase “may
not merely dream through the consequences of its acts but
amend them, bringing this or that to the attention of the liv-
ing.” During this phase the dead often appear to the living in
dreams.
Yeats wrote that “the souls of enlightened men return to be
schoolmasters of the living, who influence them unseen.” I be-
lieve this has been my experience, and that it is an experience
open to all of us, which will unfold according to our interests
and affections, and our willingness to do the work.
In The Dreamer’s Book of the Dead I have sought to hon-
our Yeats’s grand design of producing a Western Book of the
Dead that shows a little of what happens in the soul’s journey
between death and rebirth. At its heart, the message of my
Book of the Dead is as simple, and as urgent, as this: We don’t
need to wait for death to remember what the soul knows: how
and why we came into our present bodies, and where we will
go when we leave them.
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By Mitch Horowitz

T
he late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries saw an explosion of spiritual
teachers and impresarios dealing in “secret
wisdom.” Their ranks included hacks and
frauds – as well as more than a few genuine scholars
of esoteric traditions. Most have vanished from memo-
ry, their writings a historical footnote.

There exists one distinct figure, though, whose movement

and teachings not only survived his passing but are even expe-
riencing a revival in our day. His name is Manly P. Hall. While
few academicians will ever know of him, Hall was among
the twentieth century’s – and perhaps any century’s – most
commanding and unusual scholars of esoteric and mythologi-
cal lore. Yet the source of his knowledge and the extent of his
virtuosity can justly be called a mystery.
While working as a clerk at a Wall Street banking firm
– the “outstanding event” of which involved “witnessing a man
depressed over investment losses take his life” – the 28-year-
old Hall self-published one of the most complex and thorough-
going works ever to catalogue the esoteric wisdom of antiquity,
The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Hall’s Secret Teachings is Manly P. Hall in 1928, the year he published The Secret
almost impossible to classify. Written and compiled on an Teachings of All Ages, a codex to the ancient occult
Alexandrian scale, its hundreds of entries shine a rare light on and esoteric traditions of the world.
some of the most fascinating and little-understood aspects of
myth, religion, and philosophy.
Today, more than seventy-five years after its initial publi- A Man Unknown
cation, the book’s range of material astonishes: Pythagorean Hall was born in Peterborough, Ontario, in 1901 to parents
mathematics; alchemical formulae; Hermetic doctrine; the who would shortly divorce, leaving the young Manly in the
workings of Kabala; the geometry of Ancient Egypt; the Na- care of a grandmother who raised him in Sioux Falls, South
tive American myths; the uses Dakota. He had little formal schooling. But there was a spark
of cryptograms; an analysis of some indefinable brilliance in the young man, which his
of the Tarot; the symbols of grandmother tried to nurture in trips to museums in Chicago
Rosicrucianism; the esotericism and New York.
of the Shakespearean dramas Tragedy struck early, when his grandmother died when he
– these are just a few of Hall’s was 16. Afterward, a self-styled Rosicrucian community in
topics. Yet his background California took him in. At age 19, suspicious of the communi-
betrays little clue to his virtu- ty’s claims to ancient wisdom, Manly moved on his own to Los
osity. Angeles where he began a precocious career in public speaking

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– first giving an address on reincarnation in a small room above would become known as “The Great Book” – and it has never
a bank in Santa Monica, and soon rising to the rank of minister gone out of print since.
at a liberal evangelical congregation called The Church of the Indeed, Hall is an exception to most of his contemporaries
People. as someone whose work is actually building in influence today.
Word spread of the boy wonder’s mastery of arcane and In its day, the Secret Teachings was expensive, hefty, and cum-
metaphysical subject matter. He attracted benefactors and even- bersome. As a result, the book spent much of its existence as an
tually began travelling the world in search of hidden wisdom. underground classic. In late 2003, however, the Secret Teach-
Yet Hall’s early letters from Japan, Egypt, China, and India ings found new life in a reset and redesigned “reader’s edition,”
are, in many respects, fairly ordinary: They contain little of the which has sold a remarkable 40,000 copies in less than three
eye-opening detail or wonder of discovery that one finds in the years.1 A little-known 1929 companion volume by Hall, called
writings of other early twentieth-century seekers encountering Lectures on Ancient Philosophy, has also been recently reis-
the East for the first time. More often they sued.
read like prosaic, if somewhat sensitive, After publishing his magnum opus, Hall
linear travelogues of their day. Like a monk of the opened a campus in 1934 in the Griffith Park
Like a bolt from the blue, however, one neighbourhood of Los Angeles called The
is astounded to discover a short work of im- Middle Ages, Hall Philosophical Research Society (PRS), where
mense power from the young Hall – a book copiously, almost he spent the rest of his life teaching, writ-
that seems to prefigure that which would ing, and amassing a remarkable library of
come. In 1922, at the age of 21, Hall wrote superhumanly, pored esoterica. A self-contained property designed
a luminescent gem on the mystery schools in a pastiche of Mayan, Egyptian, and art
of antiquity, Initiates of the Flame. Though
over hundreds of deco styles, PRS remains a popular destina-
brief, one sees in it the outline of what would the great works of tion for LA’s spiritually curious.
become The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Following Hall’s death in 1990, PRS
On its frontispiece, Initiates of the Flame antiquity, distilling barely survived simultaneous legal battles
boldly announces: “He who lives the Life their esoteric lore into – one with Hall’s widow, who claimed the
shall know the Doctrine.” group owed her money, and another with a
The short book goes on to expound his volume. bizarre father-son team of con artists who,
passionately and in detail on Egyptian rites, in the estimation of a civil court judge, had
Arthurian myths, and the secrets of alchemy, befriended an ailing, octogenarian Hall to pil-
among other subjects. Feeling the power and ease in its pages, fer his assets. The Los Angeles Police Department considered
the reader can almost sense the seeds of greatness that were Hall’s death sufficiently suspicious to keep it under investiga-
beginning to take hold in Hall’s grasp of esoteric subjects. tion for several years.

The Secret Teachings Born Secret Wisdom ,

Hall soon returned to America, where he tried his hand
at banking – though he found his true path in the beaux arts
Reading Room of the New York Public Library. Entering this
cavernous space today, it is not difficult to picture the large-
framed, young Manly P. Hall surrounded by books of myth and
symbol at one of the room’s huge oaken tables. Like a monk of
the Middle Ages, Hall copiously, almost superhumanly, pored
over hundreds of the great works of antiquity, distilling their
esoteric lore into his volume.
By the age of 28, having pre-sold subscriptions for nearly
1,000 copies (and printing 1,200 more), Hall published what
Practical Wisdom
For all his literary output, Hall revealed little about his pri-
vate life. His most lasting record is a frequently trite, unreveal-
ing childhood memoir called Growing Up with Grandmother
(in which he refers to his guardian as “Mrs. Arthur Whitney
Palmer”). As an adult, Hall’s close relations were few. He did
not marry until well into middle age, in a union some surmise
was never consummated.
Hence, when Hall disclosed something about his back-
ground, it was purposeful. He wrote this in a PRS newsletter
in 1959: “As a result of a confused and insecure childhood, it

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was necessary for me to formulate a personal philosophy with
which to handle immediate situations.”
Here was someone with a tremendous interest in the arcane
philosophies of the world, in the occult and metaphysical
philosophies, but he wasn’t fixated on immortality, or a will to
power, or on discovering keys that unlock the universe. Rather,
he was focused on harnessing inner truths in a very practical
way. How, he wondered, could such ideas lend clarity to daily
life?
We’ll take a byroad that steers us in another direction
before returning to this point. Our byroad involves one of the
most famous novels in history, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
The work has many facets, among them a portrait – not sympa-
thetic, but not as unsympathetic as one might suppose – of the
European occult in the Enlightenment era. The portrait comes
in the character of a young Victor von Frankenstein, a budding
scientist torn between the occult teachings that drew him to sci-
ence as a child and the prevailing rationalism of his teachers.
Victor confides his interest in the great alchemists and occult
philosophers, such as the Renaissance-era magus Cornelius
Agrippa, but his professors dismiss him with complete conde-
scension.
One day in his room, Victor ponders the unbridgeable gap
between his magical visions and the scholasticism of his peers:
I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philoso-
phy. It was very different when the masters of science
sought immortality and power; such views, although Manly P. Hall (1901-1990)
futile, were grand; but now the scene was changed. The
ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the anni-
hilation of those visions on which my interest in science
was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chime- study but of no direct relevance to our current lives. Hall, on
ras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth. the other hand, felt himself on a mission to re-establish a con-
nection to the mystery traditions at a time when America, as
In a sense, Victor spoke for generations of occultists when he saw it, had given itself over to the Jazz-Age materialism he
describing his ideal of boundless grandeur, immortality, power, witnessed at his banking job.
and visions. (And who wouldn’t sympathise with the rebellious “After I thought the matter over,” he wrote a few years
young Victor – whose dreams and ambitions, while hopeless, before his death, “it seemed necessary to establish some kind
exist on a grand scale – versus the certainties of his crusty of firm ground upon which personal idealism could mingle its
professors?) hopes and aspirations with the wisdom of the ages.”
An occult scholar born at the cusp of the twentieth century, In this sense, the prodigious scholar achieved more than
Manly P. Hall signalled a different kind of ideal. Hall told of “a a cataloguing of esoteric truths. He turned the study of occult
personal philosophy with which to handle immediate situa- ideas into an ethical cause.
tions.” After Hall’s death, a reporter in the Los Angeles Times
noted, “Followers say he believed in reincarnation and in a
mixture of the Golden Rule and living in moderation.” Footnote :
For Hall, the very act of writing The Secret Teachings of
1. For further details, see “Bringing the Secret Teachings Into
All Ages was an attempt at formulating an ethical response to
the 21st Century” by Mitch Horowitz at www.lapismagazine.
the age he lived in. While the book is at times speculative and
org.
some of its sources are limited by the constraints of their era,
it is the only codex to esoteric ideas that treats its subject with
Manly's P. Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Reader's
total seriousness. Contemporaneous works, such as The Golden
Edition) is available from New Dawn Book Service for $35.00
Bough, regarded indigenous religious traditions as supersti-
plus $8 p&h. To order, see page 88 for details. «
tion – interesting museum pieces worthy of anthropological

Mitch Horowitz is an editor and publisher of many years experience with a lifelong
interest in man’s search for meaning. The executive editor of Tarcher/Penguin in New York, he
adapted the present article from his book in progress on the American occult. His history of
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 Signs in the Sky
Signs of the Times
By Ray Grasse
I
magine the world as it might appear from the
perspective of an ant wandering on-stage during
a performance of Shakespeare’s “Midsummer’s
Night’s Dream.” All around you there unfolds a
great drama, replete with exotic colours, sounds, and
complex happenings; yet because of your limited per-
spective, the meaning of it all escapes you. You can’t
comprehend the multi-layered significance of this
drama, nor grasp how these diverse
elements fit into a greater unfolding
narrative that is being played out over Will the coming
several acts. Only by understanding
that larger context can you truly see era be a time of
how those transitory events are in- peace, love, and
tegral facets of a broader pattern of
meaning, a greater story. brotherhood, as
In a way, our own predicament is rather some suggest? Or
like that. We, too, find ourselves meandering
across a great stage – that of history itself. To
will it instead
the casual eye, the events transpiring around about an Orwellian anity
us may seem like a chaotic jumble of random
occurrences: a rocket carrying seven crew police
members explodes in mid-air; a world leader
finds himself embroiled in a foreign war; and
a new computer technology suddenly takes the world by storm.
At first glance there is little to suggest such things possess
any meaning or relation to one another. Yet our problem may
simply be one of proximity: perhaps we are simply too close
to grasp what is going on. If only our perspective were broad
enough, perhaps we could recognise how these isolated events
are actually facets of a much larger story.
For the esotericist, an important key toward helping unlock
that broader perspective lies in a concept known as the Great
Ages [see “‘Precession of the Equinoxes’ & the ‘Great Year’” on
page 62]. We presently find ourselves straddling the threshold
between acts, as it were, between the Piscean and the Aquarian
Ages. Like vast tectonic plates shifting deep within the collective
unconscious, this epochal transition has already begun manifest-
ing as a series of seismic changes throughout our world, as the
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forms of an older make way for those of a radically new one.
Will the coming era be a time of peace, love, and brotherhood,
as some suggest? Or will it instead bring about an Orwellian
police state where men and women are little more than cogs in a
bureaucratic machine? As always, the truth will almost certainly
be more complex than we can expect, or perhaps even imagine.
It’s useful to remember that the same Piscean Age which brought
us Jesus Christ also brought us Torquemada and the Inquisition,
not to mention evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. To help us make
sense of these unfolding complexities, let us look briefly at a few
of the key symbols and archetypal themes associated with both
of these shifting eras.
The Age of Pisces
(c . 1 CE to 2100 CE)
For two millennia now, we have been
under the influence primarily of the watery
sign of Pisces. Among the manifestations of
the Piscean Age has been the rise of a global
religion centering primarily on symbols of
water: baptism, walking on water, changing
water into wine, and so forth. Indeed, for the
bring student of astrological symbolism Christi-
offers a virtual mother lode of cor-
respondences in connection with Pisces. For
state...? example, Christian scripture speaks exten-
sively of fishermen, sympathy for society’s
outcasts, martyrdom, and the washing of
feet – all traditional symbols of Pisces. One
of the defining miracles of Christ’s ministry was the feeding
of the multitude with two fishes and five loaves of bread. More
subtly, the eating of fish on Friday by Catholics is linked by
some to the fact that Friday is governed by Venus, the planet
that is “exalted” (i.e., attains its optimal expression) in Pisces.
Were such correspondences intentional on the part of the
Church fathers, or was their emergence purely synchronistic?
Even scholars disagree on this point, so we may never know
for sure. Either way, we can study these symbols for what they
reveal about the archetypal dynamics of the time. Viewed as a
whole, they tell us that humanity was learning to relate to reality
and the divine through a more emotional filter. In its construc-
tive aspect, this brought about a newfound element of compas-
sion and faith in key segments of society, especially within the
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‘Precession of the
Equinoxes’ &
the ‘Great Year’
T
he twelve zodiacal ages are twelve divisions of a
25,920-year long motion of Earth called the Pre­
cession of the Equi­noxes. This motion is only one
of three ba­sic Earth cy­cles; the three most im­por­tant cycles
in as­trology.
The first cycle is the year, in which the Sun appears to
move through a belt of constellations called the zodiac. The
sec­ond cycle is the day, caused by the Earth turning on its
axis every 24 hours, making the Sun appear to rise and set.
But the Earth also gradually wobbles back­wards as its turns,
as if it were a spinning top. This is the third cycle, also
called the Great Year. This ‘great wobble’ causes the North
Pole to point to differ-
ent stars at different
times. By the year 2100
it will point exactly at
Po­la­ris, the star which
we know today as the
‘north star.’ But about
13,000 years ago it
pointed to­ward Vega.
It takes an av­erage of
25,920 years for the
Earth to com­plete one
‘wobble’; so about
26,000 years from to­
day the North Pole will
again point to Polaris.
The seasons (Spring,
Summer, Fall and Win­
ter) happen be­cause the Earth’s axis and poles are tilted by
23 de­grees. During Summer (in the North­ern hemi­sphere)
the pole is tilted toward the Sun, so the days are longer.
During the Winter it tilts away from the Sun, so the days
are shorter. When the pole is exactly half way be­tween, so
that the Earth’s orbit is aligned with the Equator, the days
and nights are equal. This is called the Equinox.
The equinox gradually shifts backwards as the North
Pole wobbles. Approximately 2,000 years ago the Sun
started en­tering the constellation Pisces at the beginning
of Spring, the ‘vernal equinox.’ But today the zodiac has
shifted one/twelfth of the way backwards (almost 30 de­
grees), so now the Sun is almost out of Pisces at the begin-
ning of Spring, and soon will enter Aquarius. This is called
the Pre­cession of the Equinoxes.
The earliest record of precession and the Great Year
is found on the circular Zodiac of Dendera, a product of
an­cient Egyp­tian civilisation. As such, the phenomenon
played a key role as a celestial checkpoint in the design and
function of sacred tem­ple architecture.
How the ancients discovered this cosmic zodiac is so
in­ex­pli­ca­ble, in the light of present knowledge, that some
re­searchers surmise astrology is a “revealed” science rather
than one which evolved naturally on this planet.
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Christian world. There was emergence of a spiritual sensibility
that spoke of “turning the other cheek” rather than the smiting of
enemies. It was a shift from Roma to Amor, one could say.
In a more negative vein, this same emphasis on emotional-
ity ushered in a spirit of dogmatism and persecution within the
emerging religions. Pisces is intensely concerned with mat-
ters of faith, but taken to extremes this can lead to zealotry,
self-righteousness, and the urge to establish absolute guidelines
for all to follow. At its worst, the Piscean Age was an era of
religious intolerance, when large populations were expected to
show unquestioning allegiance to a monolithic belief system, as
exhibited in much of Christianity and Islam during this time.
One of the more striking Piscean symbols found in Chris-
tianity is its central image: the crucifixion. It is sobering to
consider that for nearly two thousand years Western culture has
defined itself largely in terms of an image of a man nailed to
a cross, tortured in a most gruesome manner. Yet viewed arche-
typally, this singular seed-image contains the best and worst of
the Piscean legacy. On a negative level, the crucifixion express-
es dark Piscean qualities like self-pity, masochism, guilt, and
martyrdom. These traits reflect the self-dissolving principle of
water but directed in a more destructive, self-abnegating way.
In some respects the Piscean Age might well be called the ulti-
mate age of neurosis, this being an era when many felt that suf-
fering and guilt were somehow synonymous with spirituality.
This is precisely the sort of delusion that arises when the ego is
unhealthy or ungrounded, and finds itself drawn back into the
more corrosive and ego-dissolving emotions of the soul.
But the crucifixion has a more positive interpretation, too.
As astrologers know, Pisces symbolically relates to the tran-
scendence of the ego and the surrendering of personal inter-
ests in service of a higher ideal. As the last sign in the zodiac
(determined by the Sun’s counter-clockwise movement), Pisces
is that final stage in the soul’s evolution where the boundaries
of personality have begun to dissolve and the soul now merges
with the cosmic ocean of existence. This is what the crucifixion
means in its highest sense: the willing capacity for sacrifice,
worship, and profound devotion. This is the water element at
its most refined. Some examples of this higher aspect of Pisces
would be St. Francis of Assisi, or the ideals of chivalry and
courtly love, with their ethos of self-sacrifice and idealism, that
arose during the medieval era. Note, too, that the word for that
other major Piscean Age religion, Islam, means surrender when
translated into English.
Whereas the Age of Aries brought an awakening of the
outwardly-directed ego, the more feminine Piscean Age
brought about a newfound sense of interiority or inwardness. In
religious terms, this was evident in the emerging Christian em-
phasis on moral reflectivity, or conscience. The flip side of this
development, unfortunately, was the emergence of a new mood
of guilt throughout Western society. Prior to Christianity, one
rarely finds a sense of conscience or “sin” as we now think of
it. By way of contrast, the earlier Greeks saw their relationship
to the gods in more mechanical and external terms than we do
now. When crimes were committed, one atoned for them not
because of an inner sense of guilt so much as a belief that one
had accrued a “stain” of sorts which could be removed through
an appropriate sacrifice.
On another level, this new sense of interiority was mirrored
in the rise of architectural features like the dome and the arch,
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Apocalyptic Times and
the End of an Age
A
t the dawn of the new millennium in Novem-
ber 2000 the iconoclastic American writer
Hunter S. Thompson mused:
We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart
people just shrug and admit they’re dazed and con-
fused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are
the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our
world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.
In 1997, a former reporter with the Wall Street Journal,
Michael Dronin, wrote The Bible Code, based on the notion
that hidden messages are embedded in the Bible. Using a
numerological system said to be derived from Jewish mysti-
cism and facilitated by computer technology, Drosnin searched
for signs of the Apocalypse and discovered the years 2006 and
2012 are of special importance. People familiar with the Mayan
calendar will recognise the significance of
2012.
On New Year’s day 2006 “The Observer
Magazine”, part of London’s Guardian, cited According to
Drosnin’s findings in his sequel Bible Code II
in response to the question: Michael Drosnin’s
Q: Will the world end this year? Bible Code II, ‘atomic
A: Probably. According to Michael
Drosnin’s Bible Code II, ‘atomic holo-
holocaust’ and
caust’ and ‘world war’ are predicted in ‘world war’ are
The Bible for 2006. Many people expect
the Rapture, Christ’s devastating return predicted in The
to Earth, to start 6 June 2006, due to
similarities with the number of the beast Bible for 2006.
6-6-6.
Belief in an imminent apocalypse perme-
ates much of modern American culture.
Former US Republican strategist Kevin Phillips is the author
of the book American Theocracy in which he discusses how
the ‘Armageddon theology’ of Christian fundamentalism is
influencing the White House. Interviewed by CNN’s Lou Dodd
on the third anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, Phillips
said “a lot of Americans have stopped worrying about the
economy because they’re waiting for the second coming.” He
went on to point out that “a survey by Newsweek several years
back found that 45 percent of American Christians believed in
Armageddon, that it was coming. And about the same percent-
age thought the anti-Christ was already on Earth.”
Aquarius Rising
In Dan Brown’s mega best-selling fictional tale, The Da
Vinci Code, his lead character Robert Langdon, in answer to a
question about ‘the end of the world’, explains:
Many religions speak of the End of Days. It refers not
to the end of the world, but rather the end of our current
age – Pisces, which began at the time of Christ’s birth,
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spanned two thousand years, and waned with the pass-
ing of the millennium. Now that we’ve passed into the
Age of Aquarius, the End of Days has arrived.
For Dan Brown and many others we’re not talking about an
apocalyptic ‘end of the world’ with all its connotations of the
destruction of humanity or the planet, but the transition from
one age to another. Bible scholars support this view pointing
out that often when the Gospel writers mention the ‘world’, the
original Greek word used is ‘aion’, meaning age, or system of
things. The Biblical ‘end of the world’ refers not to the destruc-
tion of all life on the planet but to the conclusion of an allotted
period of time, or a system of things. The end of the zodiacal
Age of Pisces and the transition to the new Age of Aquarius is
marked by a change in consciousness, as The Da Vinci Code
puts it:
The millennium has recently passed, and
with it has ended the two-thousand-year
long astrological Age of Pisces – the fish,
which is also the sign of Jesus. As any
astrological symbologist will tell you, the
Piscean ideal believes that man must be
told what to do by higher powers because
man is incapable of thinking for himself.
Hence it has been a time of fervent re-
ligion. Now, however, we are entering
the Age of Aquarius – the water bearer
whose ideals claim that man will learn the
truth and be able to think for himself. The
ideological shift is enormous and it is oc-
curring right now.
The Swiss psychologist C.G. Jung took an
interest in the zodiacal ages and concluded
we now live in an ‘End Time’ period, the
transition from Pisces to Aquarius. Writing in the mid 1950s,
Jung predicted the rise of the Antichrist, which would culmi-
nate in a time of violence soon after the close of the twentieth
century. Not long before his death in 1961, Jung experienced a
series of visions of a future great catastrophe. According to his
long-time associate Marie-Louise von Franz, Jung saw a world-
wide conflagration occurring around the year 2010. Students
of Mayan prophecy will be sure to note the close proximity of
2010 to the end date of the Mayan calendar.
The Decline of the West
Less than a century ago, in the aftermath of the carnage and
upheaval of the First World War, many of Europe’s most astute
thinkers and writers believed the Western world was in its death
throes. They took the rationalism and materialism engulfing
Europe in the first decades of the twentieth century as inevita-
ble symptoms of the slow ‘decline of the West.’ Many shared
Oswald Spengler’s conviction, persuasively set forth in his 1918
book The Decline of the West, that Western civilisation was in an
unstoppable process of spiritual and cultural disintegration.
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The great French writer and Noble
Prize winner, Romain Rolland, was
amongst those who believed Europe
was dying and that the only hope for
the world lay in Asia. The celebrated
French novelist and adventurer André
Malraux also looked to Asia for inspi-
ration. After his first journey to South
East Asia in 1923 he openly attacked
the sterility of materialistic Western
culture, and in the following years he
devoted himself to the radical national-
ist uprising against Western imperial-
ism that was developing in Indo-China.
A half a century earlier in 1888, the
redoubtable Madame H.P. Blavatsky
penned a controversial expose of the
Catholic Jesuit order for an issue of her
Theosophical journal Lucifer. After
documenting the conspiratorial activi-
ties of the Jesuits, Madame Blavatsky
left her reader in little doubt about the
coming show down between the East
and the West: Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
There is a prophecy in the heathen East about the Chris-
tian West, which, when rendered into comprehensible
English, reads thus: “When the conquerors of all the
ancient nations are in their turn conquered by an army
of black dragons begotten by their sins and born of de-
cay, then the hour of liberation for the former will strike.”
Easy to see who are the “black dragons.” And these will
in their turn see their power arrested and forcibly put to
an end by the liberated legions. Then, perhaps, there
will be a new invasion of an Atilla from the far East. One
day the millions of China and Mongolia, heathen and
Mussulman, furnished with every murderous weapon
invented by civilisation, and forced upon the Celestial of
the East, by the infernal spirit of trade and love of lucre
of the West, drilled, moreover, to perfection by Christian
man-slayers – will pour into and invade decaying Europe
like an irrepressible torrent. This will be the result of the
work of the Jesuits, who will be its first victims, let us
hope.
One hundred years after Blavatsky penned these apocalyptic
words, ‘decaying Europe’ which for centuries – thanks to ‘the in-
fernal spirit of trade and love of lucre’ – had plundered the lands
of Asia, Africa, and the Americas, found itself challenged by fast
rising new global powers. The creation of the European Union
and the absorption of the former socialist East European states
were not enough to stop spiritual and cultural paralysis overtak-
ing lands once identified as the ‘Christian West.’
The End of the World as we K now it
For most of the twentieth century the United States led the
Western world. With the end of the British Empire after World
War Two, American economic, social and cultural values
steadily became almost synonymous with the ‘West’. Today in
the twenty-first century the United States, having triumphed
over its nemesis the Soviet Union, desperately strives to
maintain its ‘New World Order’ of global dominance. Mired
in foreign military adventures thousands of miles from its
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shores, domestically the United States
struggles to stave off major social and
economic turmoil. In a country where
the wealthiest 5% control 60% of the
nation’s wealth, many would find them-
selves in agreement with American
novelist Kurt Vonnegut who recently
commented, “Working people have no
leverage whatsoever. I’m trying to write
a novel about the end of the world. But
the world is really ending!”
The decline and fall of the USA may
look like the end of the world. “This
is going to be just like the Book of
Revelation said it was going to be – the
end of the world as we knew it,” the
late Hunter S. Thompson wrote back in
2003.
In an article entitled “The world may
celebrate the end of the Western civilisa-
tion” published in the on-line version
of Russia’s Pravda earlier this year,
political commentator Sergei Mikheev
observed:
Western politicians have been urging the whole world
to become more open. According to the Western point
of view, globalisation is an inevitable and positive
process. It therefore means that the so-called glo-
bal openness should replace national sovereignty.
The idea of the globalised world has returned to the
West as a serious blow. Production centres were moved
to remote parts of the world long ago… To crown it all,
the Western civilisation has been declining steadily
against the background of the propaganda of consump-
tion and personal ultra-comfort that have become norms
in the Western lifestyle… Unlike the “highly developed
Western civilisation,” Asia, Africa and Latin America
suffer from the overpopulation crisis… Indeed, the
West has been successfully using the phenomenon of
globalisation for many years pursuing its selfish needs
and minimising negative consequences. Western
countries interfere in other countries’ sovereign affairs,
conquer foreign markets, control cash flows, attract
cheaper labour force, etc. One has to acknowledge that
the Western world has accomplished a lot at this point.
On the other hand, every action has a reaction. The
world, which the West has been ruthlessly transforming
for years, has started to transform the West in return…
The Apocalypse and the ‘End Time’ loom menacingly on
the horizon. But is it really the ‘end of the world’ or are we
witnessing the end of a civilisation that long ago reached its
high point and now is in rapid decline? The Piscean Age which
dominated the world for roughly the last two thousand years,
represented by the Christian West, is quickly fading as we
experience the first influences of the coming Aquarian Age.
These are tumultuous and challenging times, pregnant with
great possibilities, both constructive and destructive. Though
an atheist, André Malraux predicted that “the third millennium
will be spiritual or there will be no third millennium.” In the
end this remains the only guarantee of a future worth living.
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so critical to the Islamic mosque or Roman structures like the
Pantheon. This interiority was visible as well as in the introduc-
tion of pupils into the eyes of Roman statues early in the Age;
examine the ancient busts of early Romans and the Greeks and
one finds that their eyes have no pupils. Artistic shifts like these
symbolised a new world of emotions opening up during the early
Christian era. It was a development that, centuries later, made
possible the later birth of modern psychology.
The Age Of Aquarius
(c . 2100 CE to 4200 CE)
The most frequently asked question concerning the Aquar-
ian Age is, when does it begin? That is a bit like determining
when the dawn starts. Is it when the morning sky first starts
glowing, long before the actual sunrise? Or is it when the Sun
actually appears over the horizon?
The same problem applies to understanding the timing of
the Great Ages. An Age doesn’t begin on a single day or year,
but unfolds gradually over many years, exerting its influence in
pronounced waves like an incoming tide. Consequently while
the Aquarian Age may not fully manifest for several centuries
yet (most estimates suggest somewhere between 2100 and
2800 CE), there are many examples to suggest its symbols are
already appearing in our world. The internet and democracy
are but two expressions of this.
Whereas Pisces is traditionally associated with the element
of water, Aquarius is associated with air. Exoterically, this is
reflected in the startling rise of aviation technologies and space
travel over the last two centuries. Humans are quite literally
learning to master the air realm, not only through aviation but
in the construction of ever-taller buildings that allow us to live
higher up off the ground. The media also employs metaphors
which reflect this elemental shift when it says that a show goes
on the air, or when a broadcaster takes to the airwaves.
Such outer developments are only reflections of an inner
shift taking place throughout the culture, one that relates to an
awakening of mind in human evolution. Understood symboli-
cally, air is the medium through which we communicate our
thoughts and ideas, and is the element most associated with
rationality and thinking. What this means is that the Aquarian
Age will undoubtedly witness advances in humanity’s intel-
lectual growth, no doubt at widely varying levels of sophistica-
tion. Someone living life in front of their TV set can be said
to be pursuing a mental existence, but one quite different in
quality from that of a scientist struggling to unlock the myster-
ies of the cosmos. Terms like “information superhighway” or
the “information revolution” are further examples of how the
impending Aquarian influence has already begun to propel our
world toward more mental values and modes of experience.
The modern separation of church and state is another impor-
tant example of the disengaging of our rational minds from the
dogmatic and emotional concerns of the Piscean Age.
A vital key toward understanding the meaning of Aquarius
resides in the way each of the different elements repeats itself
three times over the course of the zodiac. In other words, there
are three earth signs, three water signs, three fire signs, and
three air signs. With each version of that element, we find that
elemental principle expressing itself in subtly different ways.
To illustrate this, let us focus here on the trio of air signs:
Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius.
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The Three Faces of Air
Given the progressive nature of the zodiac, it is not surpris-
ing that each of these three signs might reflect the workings of
the mind in broader and more impersonal ways. For instance,
in Gemini, rationality expresses itself in highly personal
ways: through the workings of the everyday mind and through
ordinary forms of communication. In Libra, the rationality of
the air element manifests in a more interpersonal way, through
a mentality directed toward interactions with others in wider
social contexts. An example of this would be a teacher standing
before a class, or a salesman dealing with clients.
In Aquarius, we find the element of air-rationality express-
ing itself through the most impersonal contexts possible, to-
ward ever greater collectives, or even the cosmos itself. Aquar-
ius could be described as the principle of cosmic rationality or
cosmic mind, the ability to perceive and make connections of
the most abstract and cosmic sort. Aquarius isn’t simply con-
cerned with ideas and theoretical relations; it is concerned with
ideas and relationships that are global or universal in scope.
For this reason, the Aquarian Age will likely be an era
when science, rather than religion, will be the dominant para-
digm, and its scientists the new high priests. Rather than focus
its attention on any one individual’s ideas or feelings, science
attempts to uncover laws and principles that apply everywhere,
and everywhen. This same impersonality is also evident in the
way many of us now are involved with social connections and
networks extending over vast distances, through technologies
like the internet or TV. These allow people across the world to
communicate with one another, but in more cerebral ways. It is
one of the paradoxes of our time that we find ourselves becom-
ing more interconnected with people across the entire world
while knowing less and less about the person living next door.
This shifting orientation toward Aquarian air is also re-
sponsible for the growing fascination we see with outer space
and its exploration, as reflected in films like Star Wars or 2001:
A Space Odyssey, or TV shows like Star Trek. Works like
these capture the emerging spirit of “longing for the stars” so
intrinsic to Aquarius. The modern fascination with UFOs and
extraterrestrial life will likely become even more pronounced
in the years to come, as humanity finds its speculations and
fantasies in these areas transforming into hard reality.
Transitional Symbols on
the Brink of Aquarius
With one foot in the Piscean Age behind us and the other in
the Aquarian Age before us, we find ourselves caught between
radically contrasting, and sometimes conflicting, value systems.
If the Great Ages represent a Shakespearean drama of cosmic
proportions, we have stepped onstage precisely at the point
between acts, as it were, when the old props and backdrops are
being replaced by new ones. One result of living in this liminal
or in-between state is the rise of various transitional forms – de-
velopments that are symbolic hybrids of Piscean and Aquarian
energies. Here are a few examples of these from recent times.
Televangelism: What happens when old-style Piscean Chris-
tianity meets up with Aquarian-style media technology? One
result is that distinctly modern phenomenon called televange-
lism, where preachers employ the fruits of global technology
for spreading the gospel of salvation to even larger audiences
than before.
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The Abortion Debate: As one age comes up against another,
there can be a violent clashing of values and ideologies from
both sides of the divide. A vivid example of this is the modern
controversy over abortion. On the one hand we have the largely
Christian-based “pro-life” advocates who represent the values
of the Piscean Age, with their expression of sympathy for the
helpless unborn. On the other hand there are the “pro-choice”
advocates representing the forces of Aquarius, championing the
rights of individuals to decide their own fates. Through the years
there has been little compromise between the views of these two
camps, and there is little hope for change in sight, but with good
reason. They arise out of two fundamentally different para-
digms, two radically different ways of seeing and evaluating the
world – one from the last Great Age and the other from the next.
The Storming of the Bastille: Even single events from history
can sometimes serve as symbolic benchmarks in the transition
between eras. One of the earliest and most dramatic examples
of this was the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, a
pivotal event in the French Revolution. On this date, French
radicals overtook and opened up the famed prison which had
been holding political prisoners, and released those few who re-
mained. In astrological symbolism, prisons are associated with
Pisces, while the principles of freedom and revolution are as-
sociated with Aquarius. The opening up of a prison and release
of its prisoners was a symbolic landmark in the move from the
old authoritarian order to a more freedom-oriented one.
Alcoholics Anonymous: For astrologers, one of the negative
symbols associated with Pisces has long been the addiction to
intoxicants like alcohol, drugs, or even fossil fuel! Groups like
Alcoholics Anonymous offers an example of people coming
together to break free from their addiction to alcohol, nicely
symbolising the effort to undo our bondage to Piscean-Age con-
sciousness. AA is thus a complex phenomenon: on the one hand,
it has one foot firmly planted in the values of the receding age,
as evidenced by its emphasis on surrendering to a higher power
(Let go and let God!), as well as its own brand of command-
ments (the twelve steps). At the same time, AA is essentially
democratic and non-denominational, qualities associated with
the emerging era. Viewed archetypally, AA is a hybrid creation
that blends the values of both Piscean and Aquarian Ages.
Transitional Symbols in Cinema: Poet Ezra Pound once
suggested that artists are the antennae of society. Over the last
two centuries we have seen many examples of how the arts can
serve as a rich repository of symbolic clues for understanding
the transformations taking place in our world. Take the case of
Peter Weir’s 1998 film The Truman Show, based on a script by
Andrew Niccoll. This ingenious movie tells the story of Tru-
man Burbank (played by Jim Carrey) and his attempts to break
free of a media-permeated world where he has spent his life
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of the Times: Unlocking the Symbolic Language of World Events (Hampton Roads, 2002) and The
Waking Dream (Quest Books, 1996). He worked on the editorial staffs of Quest Books and The
Quest magazine for ten years, and is currently associate editor of The Mountain Astrologer maga-
zine. He is a practicing astrologer, and can be reached by email at jupiter.enteract@rcn.com or
through his website at www.raygrasse.com.
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as the unwitting subject. Lording over this world is a powerful
artist named Christof (Ed Harris), who has choreographed the
circumstances of Truman’s life from birth onward as part of a
vast performance piece known to all except Truman himself.
Throughout most of the movie, Truman is shown living in
a world bounded by water (Pisces); each time he attempts to
escape from this world, he is lured back with the promise of
alcohol (a Piscean symbol). He eventually learns to overcome
these temptations and succeeds in escaping from this water-
bound world into an air-based one (Aquarius). The movie cli-
maxes with the protagonist walking on water and literally step-
ping into the sky. (Compare this with the awakening of Neo
in the original Matrix film, where the lead character emerges
from an amniotic, water-based existence into an air-breathing
one.) Interestingly, the name of the God-like figure Truman is
desperately trying to break free from in his water-bound world
is Christof, or, of Christ, yet another symbol of the Piscean era.
Transitional Symbols in Literature: The transition to the
Aquarian Age has expressed itself within the forms of modern
literature as well. For instance, the passage from one age to
another sometimes expresses itself in mythic symbols which
depict a hero doing battle with a creature symbolically associ-
ated with the prior age. An example from Western religion
would be Moses casting out the golden calf, symbolising the
transition from the Age of Taurus to that of Aries. In modern
times, a similar pattern can be found in books like Herman
Melville’s Moby Dick. Here we see a figure in the open air
(Ahab) attempting to slay a creature of the sea, symbolising
transcendence over the water realm (Pisces). Additionally, if
the whaling industry is taken as a symbol for modern industrial
civilisation generally (it was the first true industry to emerge
from the young America), then Melville’s tale underscores the
shift from a more emotional age to the more technological and
business-minded one of Aquarius.
Whether we know it or not, we are all pushed or pulled to
one degree or another by the imperatives of our age. We all
act out the necessities of a broader drama. As a case in point,
the attempt by pilgrims to flee religious persecution in the old
world to find religious freedom in the new one reflected a shift
from the more dogmatic and persecution-oriented Piscean era
to the freedom-oriented Aquarian Age. Little could they have
realised how they were also setting the stage for a collective
drama whose implications would extend far into the future
and influence the geopolitical direction of an entire planet for
centuries to come.
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Saint or Sinner?
By FRANK JOSEPH centuries into a meaningless repetition of traditional ceremo-

R
nialism that extinguished the original enlightenment initiated
are is the man or woman whose contro- two thousand years ago by Jesus.
versy in life outlives their death into the
To India With Madame HPB
next century. But such were H.P. Blavatsky
and C.W. Leadbeater, the founder and In Theosophy, whose followers strove to penetrate the mys-
promoter, respectively, of Theosophy. Their legacy of tical truth they believed was at the core of every religion, he
found the authentic mystical experience he sought. They con-
notoriety and fame are generated less by the unor-
vinced him that a synthesis of Buddhist and Hindu beliefs com-
thodox, even heretical ideas they espoused with such bined with exercise of mankind’s innate psychic powers could
unrepentant vigour during an era of Victorian sen- elevate our species to its godlike destiny. Madame Blavatsky
sibilities, than their outrageous personal behaviour warned him, however, that attaining the lofty spiritual illumi-
which, even today, would have gotten nation he desired was no easy matter. She
them both into deep trouble. But of urged him to address a personal letter to the
the two, Charles Webster Leadbeater Leadbeater was Master Kuthumi, a usually invisible entity
was the most influential Theosophic of great wisdom who chose to interact with
spokesperson of the twentieth century, a twenty nine mortal men of particular promise.
In his missive to this profound spirit,
the man who some now regard as the
year-old Anglican Leadbeater asked if he should go to India
true founding-father of the so-called
for enlightenment. Madame Blavatsky alone
“New Age” movement. priest when he knew how to put his request before the Mas-
At a time when Western civilisation was welcomed into ter, so it was entrusted to her. A response was
promptly received in the affirmative, and the
was almost exclusively Christian, he boldly
presented an alternative spirituality based
the Theosophical former church official set out with Madame
Blavatsky, who undoubtedly forged the let-
on the psychic powers innate in all human Society by Helena ter, the envelope of which, in fact, had been
beings, obviating the need for any priestly stamped with a London postmark indicating
intermediaries in a direct (or virtually direct) Petrovna Blavatsky... the very neighbourhood where she resided at
personal relationship with the Compassion- the time. Nonetheless impressed, Leadbeater
ate Mind that organises all Creation. To best and his dowdy mentor sailed across the East-
achieve that gnostic awareness, teachers like himself and an ern Mediterranean, through Suez, and into the Indian Ocean.
occult college of elusive (if mostly invisible) Masters from the While on board, Madame Blavatsky put her enthusiastic
higher planes of existence exist to serve the nobler spiritual follower through a series of exercises meant to humble his
aspirations of man. It was an unlikely stance taken by an estab- spirit, all the better to strengthen him for the transformation
lished English clergyman locally renowned for his devotion to ahead. As part of this preparatory regimen, she had him walk
conventional religion. around the deck of the steamer carrying a chamber-pot brim-
Born in 1854, Leadbeater was a twenty nine year-old ming with human waste, something the other passengers could
Anglican priest when he was welcomed into the Theosophi- never forget. Nor, apparently, did Madame Blavatsky. In later
cal Society by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who celebrated his years, she alluded to his on-board performance by addressing
membership as a personal triumph over mainstream church- him as “W.C. Leadbeater.”
men, with whom she was at logger-heads. “I was revenged,” she Once at Adyar, the Theosophical headquarters located
later recalled. Leadbeater’s defection stemmed from his restless outside Madras, his unquestionable abilities as a writer and
dissatisfaction with contemporary Christianity, particularly speaker combined with his impressive physical appearance as
as it was preached in Britain. He felt it had ossified over the a kind-eyed, wise-bearded teacher. Even so, years were to pass

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before he gained the clairvoyant insight that was later to make
his fame. How he acquired it was recounted by Leadbeater
after he became Theosophy’s most articulate spokesman. He
recalled his stay in 1885 at the Adyar headquarters, which was
virtually empty, the Society having fallen on hard times. Until
then, he said:
I possessed no clairvoyant faculty, nor had I ever re-
garded myself as at all sensitive. I remember that I had
a conviction that a man must be born with some psychic
powers and with a sensitive body before he could do
anything in the way of that kind of development, so that
I had never thought of progress of that sort as possible
for me in this incarnation, but had some hope that if I
worked as well as I knew how in this life I might be born
next time with vehicles more suitable to that particular
line of advancement.
One day, however, when the Master Kuthumi
honoured me with a visit, He asked me whether I had
ever attempted a certain kind of meditation connected
with the development of the mysterious power called
kundalini. I had of course heard of that power, but knew
very little about it, and at any rate supposed it to be ab-
solutely out of reach for Western people. However, He
recommended me to make a few efforts along certain
lines, which He pledged me not to divulge to anyone
else except with His direct authorisation, and told me
that He would Himself watch over those efforts to see
that no danger should ensue.
I worked at it for forty-two days, and seemed to
myself to be on the brink of the final victory, when the
Master Himself intervened and performed the final act
of breaking through which completed the process, and
enabled me thereafter to use astral sight while still re-
taining full consciousness in the physical body — which
is equivalent to saying that the astral consciousness
and memory became continuous whether the physical
body was awake or asleep. It must not for a moment be
supposed, however, that the attainment of this particular
power was the end of the occult training. On the con-
trary, it proved to be only the beginning of a year of the
hardest work that I have ever known. He would make a
vivid thought-form, and say to me: “What do you see?”
And when I described it to the best of my ability, would
come again and again the comment: “No, no, you are
not seeing true; you are not seeing all; dig deeper into
yourself, use your mental vision as well as your astral;
press just a little further, a little higher.”
The result achieved is assuredly far more than
worth while, for it leads directly up to the union of the
lower and the higher self and produces an utter cer-
tainty of knowledge
based upon experi-
ence which no future
happenings can ever
shake. 2
Thus enlightened,
Leadbeater was credited
with discovering Jiddu
Krishnamurti, who was
staying at the Theosoph-
ical Society’s headquar-
ters with his family for
some months. They met
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while walking along the private beach that formed part of the
Adyar complex. Leadbeater declared to his companion Ernest
Wood that the boy would become a great spiritual teacher and
speaker. He also told Wood that Krishnamurti was in all prob-
ability to become the “Vehicle” for the coming “World Teach-
er” in the incarnational pattern of Moses, Buddha, Zoroaster,
Christ, and Muhammad. Leadbeater personally supervised the
raising of Krishnamurti, under conditions occasionally less
than tender. Annoyed at the young man’s habit of sometimes
staring with a blank expression into vacant space, with mouth
open, he reprimanded Krishnamurti by striking him violently
on the chin, an act of violence that spoiled the hitherto “blessed
relationship” between them.
ausTralIa
Thereafter, the temperamental tutor departed for Australia,
settling in Sydney in 1914, where he felt particularly called to
fulfill some as yet ill-defined mission. His instinct was correct,
judging from the profound public success he enjoyed there. At-
tendance at his lectures swelled with overflow crowds of people
to whom the ancient principles he described so beautifully
were entirely new. For all the accusations of his critics, it was
chiefly Charles Leadbeater, in the tradition of his predecessor
Madame Blavatsky, who introduced the contemporary Western
world to the age-old spiritual ideas of the East.
In Sydney, he became a leading member of the Liberal
Catholic Church. A flurry of booklets, manuals, and full-length
books flowed from him in a spate of creativity that brought
the Theosophical Society much-needed prestige, income and
membership in the tens of thousands.
As his modern biographer, Gregory Tillett, writes in The
Elder Brother:
The range of his writings, and the wealth of material
that flowed from his prolific pen, was vast. Some forty
volumes, even more pamphlets, and for much of his life
probably five or six journal articles a week constituted
his literary output. The modern occult revival owes more
to him than to anyone else; his concepts and ideas, his
popularising of occult and Theosophical terms and princi-
ples, run through all modern works on these subjects.
Leadbeater’s written words were as successful as those he
spoke, and his readership was truly international. A sampling
from his very many published materials provides a glimpse
of his active mind: “The Astral Plane: Its Scenery, Inhabit-
ants and Phenomena”; “The Aura: An Enquiry into the Nature
and Functions of the Luminous Mist Seen about Human and
Other Bodies”; “Invisible Helpers: A Story of Helping at Night
the So-called ‘Dead’ by Those Who Are Still in the Land of
the Living”; “Dreams: What They Are and How They Are
Caused”; “Thought-Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investiga-
tion”; “Man Visible and Invisible: Examples of Different Types
of Men Seen by Means of Trained Clairvoyance”; “The Other
Side of Death: Scientifically Examined by Clairvoyant Obser-
vation and Carefully Described”; “Guardian Angels and Other
Unseen Helpers”; “The Perfume of Egypt and Other Weird
Stories”; “The Life After Death, and How Theosophy Unveils
It”; “To Those Who Mourn: Solace for Bereaved Person based
on Principles of Evolution and Reincarnation”; “Vegetarianism
and Occultism: On the Effects of Meat Eating and Slaughter of
Animals”; “Australia and New Zealand as the Home of a New
Sub-race”; “The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals”.
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Modern Revival of Ancient Wisdom:
He wrote elaborate descriptions of these things in a
style of simplicity and clearness. He asserted that such
powers enabled one to review any event in the past
history of the race, inasmuch as all that ever happened
is imprinted indelibly on the substance of the Astral
Light or the Akasha, and the psychic faculties of trained
occultists permit them to bring these pictures under ob-
servation. With the same faculties he asserted his ability
to investigate the facts of nature in both her realms of
the infinite and the infinitesimal. For years he stood as
perhaps the world’s greatest ‘seer,’ and in books deal-
ing with Clairvoyance, Dreams, The Astral Plane, The
Inner Life, The Hidden Side of Things, etc., he labored
to particularise and complement Madame Blavatsky’s
sweeping outline of cosmic evolution and human char-
acter, as given in The Secret Doctrine.

scandal and seershIP

At the height of Leadbeater’s renown, however, serious
moral charges were brought against him. As Nevill Drury
and Gregory Tillett explain in their authoritative study of the
occult in Australia, “the police undertook an investigation
into Leadbeater and his relationships with his pupils, although
Leadbeater himself would not be interviewed.
The official conclusions of the enquiry were that there
was no evidence to sustain any charge, however the
officers undertaking the investigation were satisfied
Leadbeater did have a sexual relationship with at least
some of his young male pupils, although he denied
this. He did not deny habitually sleeping with his pupils,
or sharing his bath with them. The precise details of
Leadbeater's sexual relationship with his pupils, and
his occult teachings of these matters remain one of the
mysteries in his life.3
Charles W. Leadbeater (1854-1934)
Many of Leadbeater’s public pronouncements were igniting
no less heated controversy, both inside and outside the Society.
of this balderdash, there nevertheless appear flashes of apparent
He stated that mankind originated on the Moon, eventually
psychic insight. For example, Leadbeater stated that Mars,
came to Earth several hundred thousand years ago, and is
destined to some day leave this world, resettling on the planet is a smaller planet than the Earth and more advanced
Mercury. Mars, he said, was a pleasant place inhabited by in age, and was in much the same condition as is the
human beings not much unlike ourselves, though more spiritu- Earth at the present time; that is to say, there was
ally and intellectually elevated, and go around like Buddhist much more water than land on its surface. Now it has
monks, bare-footed and dressed in common robes. In the midst passed into comparative old age, and the water surface

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 is far less than that of the land. Large areas of it are at
present desert, covered with a bright orange sandwich
giving the planet the peculiar hue by which we so readily
recognise it. 4
In his book The Masters and the Path, Leadbeater told of a
secluded ravine in Tibet, where ancient records documenting an
otherwise forgotten prehistory were preserved at an occult “mu-
seum” staffed by initiates of the Great White Brotherhood. “The
museum houses images of every type of man which has existed
on the planet,” he wrote, “from gigantic, loose-jointed Lemuri-
ans to pygmy remains of even earlier and less human races.”
More than sixty years after the publication of The Masters
and the Path, American scientists found suggestions of unusual
early human habitation at Liang Bua, a “cool cave” in the lo-
cal Manggarai language, extending 130 feet into a hillside on
Flores, a remote Indonesian island east of Java and northwest
of Australia. They eventually revealed a virtually complete
human skeleton unlike any they had ever seen. Beginning in
September 2003, excavators undertook the laborious task of
reassembling and identifying each of its bones in a Jakarta
laboratory. Thirteen months later, the restored skeleton repre-
sented “a fundamentally new being,” according to Joseph B.
Verrengia, science writer for the Associated Press, “a discovery
that could rewrite the history of human evolution. It would be
the eighth species in the Homo category.”
Homo floresiensis, or Flores Man, declared George Wash-
ington University anthropologist Bernard Wood, “is arguably the
most significant discovery concerning our own genus in my life-
time.” The proportionally formed adult female stood just three
feet tall, weighed no more than fifty-five pounds, and had a brain
less than a third the volume of a modern human’s, small even
for a chimpanzee. Although far smaller than any member of the
genus Homo, her brain was complexly convoluted, suggesting a
higher level of intelligence that belied its grapefruit size.
Dean Falk, a paleoneurologist at Florida State University,
declared that the creature’s brain “has features I’ve not seen in
anything this size.” She was not “some kind of ‘freak’ that we
just happened to stumble across,” added Richard G. Roberts
from Australia’s University of Wollongong, but an example of
the first-known human dwarf species, as additionally con-
firmed by six other specimens found in the Liang Bua cave.
They range in age from 9,500 to 12,000 years old, although the
best-preserved skeleton belonged to a woman who lived 18,000
years ago. Nicknamed “Hobbit” after J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of
the Rings trilogy, she inhabited a real-life Middle Earth popu-
lated by giant tortoises large enough to ride, midget elephants
no bigger than ponies, and monster rats the size of full-grown
black Labrador hunting dogs.
Leadbeater’s “pygmies of even earlier and less human
races” had become anthropological reality.
But it was his outspoken views on World War One that most
divided his audiences. He seemed to contradict the concepts of
humanity and compassion forming the bedrock of their faith,
FRANk JOSEPH is the editor-in-chief of Ancient American, a bi-monthly, popular science maga-
zine describing overseas visitors to the Americas centuries before Columbus. His books Survivors
of Atlantis and Destruction of Atlantis resulted from Joseph’s world travels in search of clues to the
ancient past. He is a member of The Oriental Institute at the University of Illinois (USA) and
Japan’s Savant Society. He lives in Colfax, Wisconsin, USA.
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so much so, members, particularly new recruits and originally
sympathetic followers, left the Theosophical Society in droves.
The stampede of the disaffected had been prompted by Lead-
beater’s uncharacteristically brutal remarks:
I am stating the facts based on knowledge and not on
supposition when I say that it is actually a kindness to
these ruffians [common German soldiers] to kill their
bodies, for in that way we save their souls from this mad-
ness; we actually help in carrying out the training which
will show them that they must not again let themselves
be misled and hypnotised as they have been at this time.
They are simply dangerous wild beasts who must be sent
back into the savage tribes to which they belong. 5
Leadbeater’s listeners were utterly divided by such com-
ments, unsure he was speaking from a higher compassion or
from his own, deeply engrained Tory conservatism. In any
case, it seems strange that the founder of today’s New Age
movement should have been almost totally forgotten by its
modern followers. Throughout the early twentieth century, he
was a father figure of global reputation, despised and revered
by millions. Routledge & Kegan Paul, the publisher of Lead-
beater’s biography, asked:
Is he the world’s greatest occultist and psychic? Or the
worst sort of charlatan and con-man? These widely
ranging views of Charles Leadbeater were current in his
lifetime and even now, years after his death in 1934, he
remains a controversial icon even for Theosophists. His
disciples hailed him as the greatest seer of their age.
His enemies attacked him as a fraud or worse. Yet, he
has exerted great influence on modern ideas about the
occult. 6
Clearly, the controversy his life set in motion has not yet
abated.
FooTnoTes :
1. Artist's impression of C.W. Leadbeater which adorned the cover
of a 1973 edition of his book The Inner Side of Christian Festivals
published by the St Alban Press.
2. “The Third Object of the Theosophical Society”, Adyar Pamphlet
Number 184, Adyar, India, 1930.
3. Other Temples, Other Gods: The Occult in Australia, Nevill Drury
and Gregory Tillett, Hodder & Stoughton Australia Pty Ltd, 1982
4. The Inner Life by C.W. Leadbeater, Madras, India: Theosophical
Pub. House, 1912.
5. The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals by C.W. Leadbeater,
as quoted in The Elder Brother: A Biography of Charles Webster
Leadbeater by Gregory Tillett.
6. The Elder Brother: A Biography of Charles Webster Leadbeater,
Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1982. «
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parallel with Christianity, but has been
systematically suppressed and con-
demned as heresy by the mainstream
Judeo-Christian hierarchy.
In recent times, much has been made
of the origins, history and beliefs of
gnostics, including the Cathars and the
relationship between secret societies,
alchemy and much other besides.
In this well-paced book we have
a complete survey of the history and
current activities of the Gnostic church
by one of the foremost Gnostic bishops
and Director of the Gnostic Society in
Los Angeles.
The book is, of course, a sympathet-
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mysterious, occult and slightly scary.
It is arranged in sections that reflect
the basic tenets of the Gnostic point-
of-view. The core beliefs have origins
far older than mainstream Christianity
and it almost seems that Gnosticism
found in the emerging Christian church
a useful but not entirely compatible
dogma. This is where the notions of
heresy and the subsequent persecutions
started.
Dr Hoeller sets out the history
and core beliefs proceeding from the
Gnostic worldview through the crea-
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of evil and the initiatory sacraments.
Each section is carefully justified and
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of the other feminine expressions of
wisdom. Nevertheless Sophia is a com-
plex Gnostic subject and needs careful
attention. The Gnostic Christ is equally
complex, and the chapter discusses
Christ as Gnostic teacher and liberator
from this dense world of the Demiurge
– evil.
In Gnosticism many of Jesus’ sayings
were recorded in non-canonical gospels
and writings. In this section we have
quotes from those more elusive gospels
(many of which can be obtained from
the New Dawn Book Service), and they
have the ring of authority. This Jesus
the Christ has less to do with the his-
torical Jesus and more with the eternal
saviour.
A large section, and justifiably so, is
that of the Gnostic view of evil. It can
run quite contrary to what is taught
by mainstream Christianity. The big
question is where did evil come from?
The general Christian view of a loving
God may not make sense when you ask
“why do terrible things happen?” Dr
Hoeller discusses the huge issue logi-
cally and with a lively spirit.
Gnostic belief points to a dualism
where this world is a creation of the
Demiurge and inherently evil. Our task
is to make our way out of this place,
be ‘in the world, but not of it’, perfect
our beings and reunite with the divine. I
paraphrase too simply and I do apolo-
gise to Dr Hoeller.
The concepts around these beliefs
are shared by many other religions.
For instance, the Buddhist view of the
world of suffering and Wheel of Life
expresses just such a stance. The whole
nature of Gnosticism denies that we
are simply physical beings that evolved
on Earth with everything else and will
pass into dust again. There are far more
spiritual dimensions to life. Ultimately,
these are more important.
Gnosticism has many rituals and
sacraments that enable the soul to
gradually liberate itself. Dr Hoeller
explains these as tools for the reunion
of the soul with the divine. As long as
the deep symbolic significance of the
various rituals, talismans, signs and
sacraments are accepted, they are not
evil in any way. Unfamiliar, yes. Esoteric,
yes. Easy to understand? Perhaps not to
the casual observer.
In the second half of the book, a
thorough history of the roots of Gnos-
ticism is traced. This is from the earli-
est times in Samaria, to the Alexandria
of Christian beginnings.
Dr Hoeller examines the lives and
activities of some of the earliest Gnos-
tic teachers and charismatic visionaries,
prophets and leaders.
For those readers new to the con-
cept of Gnosis, some of these identi-
ties will surprise you. Gnostic groups
such as Mandaeans, Manichaeans and
Cathars are discussed in detail. They
were all persecuted groups and Dr
Hoeller explains why.
My own thought is that these
religions were very liberating on an
individual level and therefore the ‘state’
– such as it was – had less control over
the members. This was especially true
of Catharism. The subtle and not-so-
subtle differences between the groups
are examined in detail.
The recent Gnostic revivals are also
surveyed, from the Reformation times
up until the present. Individuals and
groups that tend to a personal salvation
or spiritual evolution are included here.
Personal responsibility for spiritual de-
velopment had all but disappeared from
Catholicism and Orthodoxy and in fact
was brutally persecuted until – in my
opinion – Vatican 11 council.
Also noted by the author is the
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Dr Stephan Hoeller
not insignificant influence of Gnosis on
Islamic thought in the Sufi and Ismaili
sects. From the late 18th century on-
wards we are shown that the Western
esoteric tradition is often firmly tied to
Gnostic thought and beliefs, including
alchemy, ritual magic, Rosicrucianism and
Theosophy.
The dawning of psychology gives us
C. G. Jung as a modern Gnostic thinker
along with mythologist Joseph Campbell
and religious historian/philosopher Mir-
cea Eliade.
Dr Hoeller shows that the strongest
revival of a true Gnostic church really
arose in France from the very soil of the
worst persecutions of Gnostics. This is
a fascinating section. It traces the intel-
lectual and spiritual revival with all the
implications for the present day world
of politics and mainstream churches,
as they battle their way through the
serious questioning of their dogma and
theology. It would appear that Gnosis
or Gnosticism is still much feared by
Christian theologians.
As Dr Hoeller states, it is quite
hard to define Gnosticism. There is the
Gnostic church, alive and well all over
the world with its own set of beliefs,
rituals, sacraments and scriptures.
There is also the harder-to-define
Gnosis, the state of apprehension of
the divine. This can occur through art,
ritual, meditation, spiritual exercises, or
any number of circumstances. Both the
church and the search for Gnosis are
ancient beyond memory, yet the pull-
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ing toward the divine is just as strong
today.
Dr Hoeller’s book is accessible and
readable. His sections are logical and
full of scholarly information that is well
supported by a fine reading list at rear.
This book will reward any student
approaching Gnosticism for the first time,
or those seeking a masterly overview.
– Jennifer Hoskins
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Nicki Scully has worked with numerous
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physics, shamanism and the Egyptian
Mysteries since 1982. She is the author
of Power Animal Meditations: Shamanic
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and CDs, and guides spiritual tours to
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Scully’s healing modality is a
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The aim of the book is to inspire
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Scully offers a spiritual path of
initiation and healing that develops the
ability to co-create the future with the
wisdom of the spirit world. An over-
view of her modality is very difficult,
due to its multifaceted nature, so I’ll
discuss its features in turn.
Scully likens her own path to the
Tibetan Terma tradition where little
treasures of wisdom were hidden by
the founder, the sage Padmasambava, to
be rediscovered in different times and
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Scully’s fascinating healing journey
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Her experiences in Egypt resulted
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In 1985, under the guidance of
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enced a growth spurt. This was fol-
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bination of her own healing techniques,
overseen by Thoth. Scully sees her own
healing as an alchemical process which
led to the crystallisation of her system.
Scully’s system begins with self-
preparation for the healer. This entails
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Thoth. She also calls on the cardinal
directions and the four physical ele-
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represent, the earth below and the
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The simplicity of Scully’s initial ritu-
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A number of the more advanced rituals
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Scully then goes on to discuss the
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The method of healing used by Scul-
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The effectiveness of the Universal
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and spirit.
Scully’s system is expanded by using
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Scully provides four commonsense
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l Anything negative removed from
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ergetic field during psychic surgery have
to be sealed.
l The healer must disconnect from
the patient at the conclusion of the ses-
sion and thank any spirit allies used for
their assistance.
Scully discusses the often over-
looked aspect of the ethics of healing.
This chapter is essential reading for all
who practice healing.
The advanced section of the book
begins with an empowerment ritual us-
ing the Caduceus, the widely accepted
symbol of medicine in our culture.
The empowerment involves connec-
tion with Cobra energies, which are
potent healing allies. The Cobra was a
powerful symbol in Egypt, represent-
ing awakening and was the guardian of
Lower Egypt.
The next chapter returns to Akasha,
spirit, ether, or the fifth element. Akashic
workings give access to DNA and are far
more potent than the elemental work-
ings described previously. The chapter
finishes with a meditation which gives
access to the “Star Council” of which
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The Advanced Healing Techniques
chapter discusses the practical applica-
tions of psychic healing which had been
previously referred to in the ethics
chapter.
The Sound and Music chapter
discusses the importance of music to
the healing path. I personally would
have preferred it if at least part of this
chapter had been presented earlier in
the book, as the beneficial properties of
music should not be limited to advanced
healing practitioners.
The Self-Healing chapter introduces
pore breathing techniques which will be
very familiar to those readers who have
studied the system of Franz Bardon.
The final short chapters bring Scul-
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Scully stresses in the Preface that
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primer and that teachers are required
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Those readers who perform the exercis-
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THE DESTRUCTION to mainstream academia, he points out
that he wanted to research the destruc-
OF ATLANTIS tion of Atlantis by studying evidence. He
COMPELLING EVIDENCE OF insisted on doing so through classical
THE SUDDEN FALL OF THE writings and hard science rather than
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our current civilisation. It certainly has it existed. He travelled extensively knowledge about Atlantis taken from
fascinated author and researcher Frank over many years, visiting possible sites, the writings of Plato and other classical
Joseph for most of his adult life. He researching archives and museums, writers, the geophysical record of vol-
is the editor-in-chief of Ancient Ameri- studying the latest geophysical and canic eruptions, archaeological records,
can and a well-known researcher into archaeological findings. It sounds as if he and hypothesis which is commonly as-
ancient civilisations pertaining to the had a wonderful time! cribed to all myths surrounding Atlantis.
Americas. While acknowledging that the ‘A’ He then follows with chapters
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whether or not Atlantis was a continent
or an Island, where it was most likely
to have been located, the timeline of
the catastrophe, how it may have been
destroyed, and the encoding of the
information into myth and legend.
The final chapter looks at the paral-
lels between Atlantis and our present
civilisation. Although the subject has
clearly been regarded as taboo for
mainstream science, there is much that
can be deduced from the jigsaw-like
pieces obtained from alternate disci-
plines.
Mr Joseph is to be congratulated on
bringing together otherwise disjointed
threads from science, historical writings,
myths and religious records. He sup-
ports his subjects with excellent notes
and bibliography.
Factual elements of the Atlantis
story as told here are appropriately
emphasised in this book. There is
clearly ample evidence to support a
global catastrophe some 3,200 years
ago (around 1200 BCE).
This evidence is found in the geo-
logical record of much of the northern
hemisphere. Archaeological findings
support a huge upheaval in society with
a drastic reduction in population at
about the same time. Classical writings,
especially Plato, tell of seismic activity
on a scale unknown or recorded before
that time.
I found it thought provoking to asso-
ciate this information with our current
situation with increased seismic activity,
extreme weather, pollution, and global
warming. The parallels may be unnerv-
ing for some, but the message is clear.
This has happened before. It may be
happening again.
One of the pleasures in reading this
work is Mr Joseph’s attention to detail
in his research. Another is his acknowl-
edgement of the researchers who have
paved the way for this speculative quilt.
He holds nothing from the reader.
I recommend this work on Atlantis
as both a new perspective and a drawing
together of what is already known. This
author’s books are always readable and
arranged in a way that each area of inter-
est can be accessed quickly.
The Destruction of Atlantis is one that
will remain at the top of my bookshelf
for some time.
– Jennifer Hoskins
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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
EXTRATERRESTRIAL
ENCOUNTERS
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Do you remember the first UFO sight-
ing wave in 1947? No? How about 1950?
1952? 1957? 1965-67? 1973? Or maybe
Mexico City in 1990-91?
If you have been around long
enough, you should remember at least
one. Without admitting my current age,
I can admit to all of them, with the pos-
sible exception of 1947, and I have made
up for that by checking out the informa-
tion on microfilm (as well as the much
earlier waves of 1897, 1909 and 1913).
There is quite a detailed section
at the end of this book on the various
saucer waves and attempts that have
been made to link cyclic appearances
to everything from wars in the Middle
East to the near approach of the planet
Mars. None of these have been entirely
successful, as it has been largely a case
of forcing the facts to fit a mold.
UFOs, whatever they may be, have
their own agenda and time schedule and
that does not necessarily conform to
what humans think.
In fact, the reader will find a wealth
of differing opinions in this book, as to
the origin, nature and characteristics of
these mysterious objects.
The information contained in this
book likely will not go out of date in a
hurry, as the mystery is with us still.
However, one must be careful about
the accuracy of the information, so any
mistakes are not perpetuated on a future
generation. I did note one glaring error
in the section on photographs of UFOs,
as I have personal knowledge of the
original events, which made front page
headlines at the time. A photograph of a
hamburger-shaped UFO is labelled as be-
ing photographed on July 3rd, 1947. The
photo is authentic to be sure, but it was
taken in October of 1967 by a prospec-
tor in the Highwood range who claimed
he also saw something drop from it.
The photograph was favourably
received by the otherwise conten-
tious Condon Report in 1968, and was
important enough that this error should
have been caught before publication.
However, most of the other photo-
graphs seem to be accurately labelled
including a very dramatic one of a
domed disc, caught in the skies of Brit-
ish Columbia in 1981. The woman who
took it impressed researchers as being
honest and open, and it is still consid-
ered as one of the best UFO photo-
graphs ever taken in Canada.
Notwithstanding any minor errors
of this sort that may creep into the best
intentioned work, it is fascinating to see
the photos, dates and positions of many
of the famous figures in the UFO field.
These include W. Raymond Drake,
Ann Druffel, Bruce Maccabee, Raymond
E. Fowler, Stanton Friedman, and David
M. Jacobs, among others.
Dr. Jacobs, who is the author of
several books on the UFO phenomenon
(Secret Life and The Threat) as well as
being an Associate Professor of History
at Temple University, takes possibly the
gloomiest position in his statement.
He feels that after studying alien ab-
ductions since 1982, we are slowly being
infiltrated by creatures who do not have
our best interests in mind. He says:
“I find myself in the position of hav-
ing spent my entire adult life studying a
phenomenon that I have come to abhor. I
desperately wish I could say otherwise.”
One question that is dealt with at
length has puzzled people since the
beginning of the UFO era – are they
hostile or not? On the one hand you
have the benign contactees of the 1950’s
who promised a new world of brother-
hood with the denizens of other worlds.
But on the other hand you have the
terrifying abductions of the 1980’s and
1990’s with little grey creatures with
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huge black eyes conducting unwarranted
medical and genetic experiments on
hapless humans.
The truth may be that the phenom-
enon is reflective, we get the type of
aliens we think we deserve. Thus the
benign aliens of fifty years ago were
a desperate attempt to believe there
were intelligences out there smarter
than we were, and we could still avoid a
nuclear war.
Until we recognise the role of the
observer in such matters, we will con-
tinue to wonder why there should be
such a wide disparity.
This does not mean such experienc-
es are not “real”. It simply means that
we play a greater role than hitherto
suspected.
In quantum physics, this is called a
mixed state, and the question is unlikely
to be resolved in our lifetime unless or
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until there is a massive tide towards one
side or the other.
Thus despite Dr. Jacob’s foreboding,
I don’t think the invasion is due any time
soon.
There are many other topics cov-
ered – insectoids, the Kecksburg and
Roswell crashes, mind control, religion,
the MJ-12 documents, the Flatwoods
encounter, Charles Fort, crop circles
and cattle mutilations, to name a few.
One that is now rather amusing
is the table by flying saucer prophets
predicting the end of the world. As the
last date mentioned is the year 2000, I
assume we are now safe – for awhile.
Whether you agree with any of the
conclusions in this book, I guarantee
you will not be bored.
– W. Ritchie Benedict
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Jennifer Hoskins is currently an online
bookshop proprietor. Previously she spent
decades in the field of psychiatry. Jennifer’s
areas of interest covers psychology, mythology,
symbology, comparative religion, folklore, and
spirituality of all kinds. You can contact Jen-
nifer by email on faith@iexpress.net.au
Dr. Shé D’Montford is a Teacher, Healer,
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