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17 JeaneManning
19 Michael CremoStrange AncientLenses and Glass
23 More PyramidFraud Evidence Did Howard-Vyse’sAssistant Tamperwith the KhufuCartouche?
24 The PanPerspectiveThere Is More thanOne Way to Lookat Human Origins
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PUBLISHER & EDITORJ. Douglas Kenyon
CONTRIBUTORSJohn ChambersScott CreightonMichael CremoFrank Joseph
Julie LoarCynthia LoganJeane Manning
Susan Martinez, Ph.D.Patrick Marsolek
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Martin RugglesRobert Schoch, Ph.D.
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42Ancient Nukeson MarsThe Evidence for a Very Strangeand Dark Past
45The Moonsover MarsThe SurprisingCase for ArtificialOrigins of Phobosand Deimos
46QuantumTeleportationHow Long BeforeScotty Can BeamUs All Up?
48 Astrology
50 DVD
57 Puzzle
29 The MysteriousMeaning inAncient Myths Could the Stories BeSaying More thanWe Realized?
32Mental Radio &Upton SinclairThe CrusadingReformer and ESP
34 Graduating fromKindergartenA Conversation withDr. Eben Alexander
38 The Tankering &the PetroglyphsLost Civilization inAncient Norway
40 Scotland’s OddStone Balls
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Many esoteric and spiritual teachers havelong claimed that our ancient ancestors
possessed a science of sound, now lost, whichmade it possible to do many things whichbaffle us today. Some researchers, like the lateJohn Michell, have argued that the ancientswere able to use their mastery of chanting andacoustics to levitate heavy objects to buildmany gigantic structures which still stand,and which our modern technology would behard-pressed to duplicate. While no one hasbeen able to prove ancient levitation, new re-search is demonstrating that the ancients cer-tainly knew a great deal about sound, whichwe have only recently relearned. On theMediterranean island of Malta researchers inthe Hal Saf lieni Hypogeum, a 5,000-years-oldunderground temple, have detected the pres-ence of a strong double resonance frequency
The special nature of Einstein’sbrain, long claimed by reduc-
tionist science, has been de-bunked. In a new study bypsychologist Terence Hine ofPace University, Einstein’s brainproved to be nothing special, atleast in terms of its physical char-acteristics. According to Discovernews, blind tests with unlabeledslides made from Einstein’s brainwere no different than slides
inside a chamber, legendary for exceptionalsound behavior, known as the Oracle Room.
During testing, a deep, male voice in arange of 70 – 130 hz stimulated a resonancephenomenon throughout the Hypogeum,creating what was described as a “bone-chill-ing effect.” Sounds continued to echo for upto eight seconds. Archaeologist FernandoCoimbra reported that he felt the soundcrossing his body at high speed, leaving a sen-sation of relaxation.
Sound in a Basso/Baritone range vibratesin a certain way as a natural result of the en-vironment in the Hypogeum, just as it doesin Ireland’s Newgrange passage tomb, mega-lithic cairns, and any stone cavity of the rightdimensions.
It is clear that five thousand years agothe builders of the Malta temple intentionally
used architectural techniques to boost “super-acoustics.” Glenn Kreisberg, a radio frequencyspectrum engineer with the research group,observed that in the Hypogeum, the “OracleChamber ceiling, especially near its entrance,and the elongated inner chamber itself, ap-pear to be intentionally carved into the formof a wave guide.” Similar design elements arealso employed in the building of today’s state-of-the-art recording studios.
Project organizer Linda Eneix says, “Ifwe can accept that these developments werenot by accident, then it’s clear that HalSaf lieni’s builders knew how to manipulate adesired human psychological and physiologi-cal experience, whether they could explain itor not.”
For more information go to www.ar-chaeoacoustics.org.
made from other, completely or-dinary, brains.
The study is a major blowto the orthodox no-tion that mind orintelligence isstrictly afunctionof the physi-
cal brain. The question for mate-rialistic science is: if mind doesn’tcome from the brain where does
it come from? Thestudy seems con-
sistent withthe view of
scientistslike Ru-
pert
Sheldrake: mind exists in a kindof forcefield both within andwithout the body. It is a receiverof intelligence, like a television orradio is for signals originatingelsewhere. To look for intelli-gence in the brain is like lookingfor little performers within one’stelevision set.
This is not to suggest thatmuch intelligence can be foundon television.
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According to the late Zecharia Sitchinthere is an undiscovered planet which
makes periodic passes through the solar sys-tem and has contributed mightily to the his-tory of Earth. He called it ‘Niburu.’ Sitchinwas, by no means, the first to speculate aboutan unknown “Planet X.” The Lowell observa-tory in Flagstaff, Arizona, was originally es-tablished in the hope of explaining anomaliesin the orbit of Uranus which Lowell believedmust be caused by an unknown trans-Neptun-ian planet. Today the possibility of a PlanetX is alive and well among astronomers. Thelatest notion, in fact, is that there could be atleast two such planets.
The clues which science is following arein the orbits of some unusual rocky objects
Traces of another world have been foundon our moon, but not very much.According to a new study published in
the journal Science, a team led by Dr. DanielHerwartz, of the Universtity of Cologne, inItaly, has finally found traces of anotherplanet in the rocks brought back by Apolloastronauts in the 1960s. Previous attempts tofind such material had failed. Some scientistsare hailing the new data as vindication for theconventional Theia theory of Moon origins.According to this view, the Moon was formedwhen a hypothetical planet called Theia col-lided with Earth 4.5 billion years ago. Scien-tists advocating other theories, however, saythat the material discovered is not sufficientto prove the point.
The Theia hypothesis may sound like acatastrophist idea, somewhat similar to thoseof the late Emanuel Velikovsky. The big dif-ference is over when such events may have oc-curred. The establishment thinks that themoon has been with us since long before hu-mans and civilization first appeared. Ve-likovsky believed that catastrophic episodes
ASTRONOMERSFIND EVIDENCEfor PLANET X—
More Than One
beyond the orbit of Pluto. The orbital align-ment of these objects has suggested that theyare inf luenced by the presence of yet unseenplanets. Brazilian astronomer Rodney Gomesreported in May that his calculations showedthe presence of a planet four times the sizeof Earth lying beyond the orbit of Pluto. InJune, Carlos and Raul de la Fuente at theComplutense University of Madrid in Spainre-examined the data and concluded that, notonly must there be a planet such as proposedby Gomes, but that there must be an evenbigger planet still further out which is inf lu-encing the first one. That such objects couldhave remained undiscovered for so long, weare told, is quite understandable.
Moon Rocks Show Tracesof Another Planet
like near collisions with other planets havehappened often since the dawn of civilization.The moon, wherever it came from, he argued,was a recent arrival. Such monumental events,he was convinced, account for the amnesiawhich still cripples the human race.
Even more controversial explanations formoon origins have come from researchers likeChristopher Knight and Alan Butler. In theirbook, Who Built the Moon, they argue thatthe perfectly balanced and geometric relation-ship between the moon and Earth indicatethat it was consciously and intelligently con-structed and placed in an ideal orbit to sup-port life on Earth—it is not a randomlyoccurring natural object.
For more on the catastrophic history ofour solar system, see the article by MartinRuggles on page 42.
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• BY SCOTT CREIGHTON
The long-simmering debate surround-ing quarry marks found in the GreatPyramid in 1837 by British explorerColonel Howard-Vyse and his team,
was returned to a full boil in June, 2014, whenwe reported (in Atlantis Rising #106) damn-ing new evidence taken directly from Vyse’shandwritten journal. The Colonel’s own notesestablish a powerful case that—in a bid to con-nect the Great Pyramid to Khufu, a fourthdynasty Pharaoh of ancient Egypt—fraud hadbeen perpetrated. The famous Khufu car-touche, on which mainstream Egyptology re-lies to date the Pyramid, is, clearly, at leastpartly, a forgery and the notion that the GreatPyramid is no older than 4,600 years has beenthrown into doubt.
As a consequence of that investigationfurther questions arose concerning the facsim-ile drawings of the cartouche which Vyse hadcommissioned by one of his assistants, J.R.Hill. In these facsimile drawings we foundfurther evidence of Vyse’s fakery.
TThe Lie of the LandscapesThis piece of evidence comes from some-
thing that is so obvious, no one ever actuallynotices it or, if they do, think it has little rel-evance.
It may seem a small point, but we havenoticed that the orientation of all threeKhufu cartouches which appear in Vyse’s writ-ten journal representing the find in Camp-bell’s Chamber is horizontal, which begs thequestion: why should this be when the actualcartouche in Campbell’s Chamber is verti-cally oriented (i.e., at 90° to Vyse’s drawings)?
When we examine Vyse’s entire journal,we learn that he has drawn other hieroglyphswhich are oriented correctly, just as he wouldhave observed them in the various cham-bers—sometimes upright, sometimes upside-
down (rotated 180°), and sometimes sideways(rotated 90°). Using these drawings as theframe of reference (head to the top of cham-ber, feet to bottom), we are presented with ev-idence revealing how Vyse, instinctively, drewthe glyphs which he observed in the cham-bers, and their specific orientation relative tothe axis of his body—in short, he drew whatwas in front of him. What he saw and main-tained in his journal drawings was the actualorientation of what he observed.
So the question must be asked: given theother examples in his journal, why then didVyse suddenly decide to draw the three Khufucartouches we find in his diary some 90°from how this cartouche actually appears inthe chamber? Are we detecting here, perhaps,a clue as to how Vyse first saw the Khufu car-touche and, thus, why it takes this orientationin his written journal? Did Vyse simply copywhat he had found elsewhere into Campbell’sChamber and then, without thinking throughthe implications, rotate the original by 90 de-grees, placing the glyph vertically in thechamber creating a contradiction with hishorizontal journal entries?
Admittedly, this particular line of reason-ing may seem somewhat obscure, but, remark-ably, we find that the pattern is emulated inthe facsimile drawings of Vyse’s assistant, J.R.Hill.
HHill’s OrientationsDuring some other unrelated research in
2013, I had been sent copies of three of Mr.Hill’s facsimile drawings by Dr. Patricia Usickof the British Museum. In studying these, Ifelt there was something odd about them but,at the time, I couldn’t quite put my finger onwhat it was. In April, 2014, after our rdiscov-eries in Vyse’s journals, I contacted Dr. Usick,asking if she could send me scanned copiesof Mr Hill’s other drawings (28 in all) in orderto be able to test my argument. Unfortu-nately, Dr. Usick explained to me, there wereno digital scans or photos of the other Hillfacsimiles and the only way I would be ableto see them would be to arrange an appoint-ment with her at the British Museum, which
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There is but a fine line between whatconstitutes a myth and what consti-tutes a legend. Generally, myths areattempts to explain something (like
day and night, for example, or the seasons),generally by invoking supernatural causes.Legends are typically accounts of the deedsof heroes and gods in the remote past and areoften based on some kernel of truth. For ex-ample, the Atlantis legend seems to be basedon prehistoric civilizations on the (now sub-merged) continental shelves, which were dryland during the last major glaciation due tolower sea levels. In recent decades, more andmore evidence has accumulated proving thatthere were cities in those regions long beforethe dawn of recorded history. What is hardto explain is the enduring appeal of certainmyths and legends even in the modern world;it is as if the old stories resonate with somedeeply buried racial memories. Equallystrange, there are myths and legends more orless manufactured in modern times that, nev-ertheless, turn out to have some basis in factor to have some deep, symbolic meaning.
For example, the legend of Robin Hoodcontinues to inspire books and films. A mancalled Robin Hood actually lived in Wakefieldin Yorkshire in the late thirteenth and earlyfourteenth centuries, and an outlaw namedRoger Godberd operated in Sherwood Forestin the thirteenth century; he was declared anoutlaw for having supported the rebelliousEarl of Leicester, Simon de Montfort. In fact,
the legendary character may be a fusion ofthese two men, and possibly others as well.
For a time during the Middle Ages inEngland, the term “Robin Hood” (sometimesspelled “Robyn Hode”) was applied to prac-tically all outlaws. Originally, Robin Hoodwas said to be a yeoman, or small farmer; menof this class were actually required to trainwith the longbow, and it is they who weremainly responsible for English victories at thebattles of Crecy, Agincourt, and Poitiers. Bearin mind that a man could be declared an out-law for supporting the wrong political factionor for poaching deer. As the legend devel-oped, such characters as Friar Tuck, LittleJohn, and, eventually, Maid Marian, wereadded. Robin Hood was elevated into the aris-tocracy and moved from the thirteenth cen-tury to the twelfth, and portrayed as loyal toKing Richard the Lionhearted, and in rebel-lion against his brother John and the Sheriff(shire reeve) of Nottingham. But, from the be-ginning, the character bore an uncanny resem-
blance to Puck, a mythical fairy (or demon)who dwelled in the forest and, being a trick-ster (like the Norse god Loki or theAmerindian Coyote), had a Jekyll and Hydepersonality—he could help or harm people de-pending on his mood.
Puck was also known as Robin Goodfel-low, and his German version was called“Hodekin.” Remember that Robin Hood was“Robyn Hode” in earlier versions of the story.The Medieval Mayday games (celebrated onthe first of May) included plays based on theRobin Hood legend; and Mayday, or Beltane,was a pagan holiday associated with witch-craft. Centuries later the Bavarian Illuminatiwere officially founded on May first, and itwould become a holiday celebrated in Com-munist countries. Even Robin Hood’s Lin-coln green clothing and his residence in aforest suggest the elfen or fairy folk, who wereoften depicted as having green skin or cloth-
ANCIENT WISDOM
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TheMysteriousMeaningMythsof
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Could They BeTelling Us More
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Robin Hood Catches a Ride from Friar Tuck(Illustration by LouisRhead, 1912)
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HIGHER DIMENSIONS
• BY JOHN CHAMBERS
One day, the PulitzerPrize-winning jour-nalist Upton Sinclair(1878-1968), who
wrote an exposé of the meat-packing industry (The Jungle) sodevastating that it forced passageof the Pure Food and Drug Act,discovered that his wife Maryhad the ability to intuitively lo-cate research notes he thoughthe had irretrievably lost.
Sinclair tells us in his bookon telepathy, Mental Radio(1930), that he was in the habitof jotting down notes on scrapsof paper, sticking them in con-venient places, and then beingunable to find them. There was aparticular occasion when hesearched through the entirehouse for an important scrap ofpaper and then, going outside,worked out the direction of thewind and examined all the scrapsof paper on the lawn that mighthave been blown forward by it.
His wife Mary (whom Sin-clair often called by her middlename Craig) arrived home, sawthe predicament he was in, andsaid, “Come, let’s make an ex-periment. Lie down here, anddescribe the paper to me.”
Sinclair did so. His wifetook his hand and after a mo-ment of concentration said, “It’sin the pocket of your gray suit.”Sinclair thought that was impos-sible; he had thoroughly searchedthat coat. But his wife got up,found the coat, and extracted themissing note from a pocket. Sin-clair hadn’t looked hard enough.
This might seem like aminor event in itself, but Marytracked down innumerable ob-jects this way. In Sinclair’s officemiles away, his secretary had mis-placed some typewriter compo-nents; Mrs. Sinclair was able toremotely view, through Sinclair’smind, the location of the missingcomponents. Mary constantlyand inadvertently “saw” what herhusband was thinking or reading.The phenomenon was so pro-nounced that she wondered ifsome controlling force in herown mind weren’t enabling herto make her husband think orread what she wanted, and evenreach out for certain books andmagazines.
She decided not. But, inMental Radio, Sinclair tried tofigure out which of Mary’s per-sonal characteristics contributedto the paranormal gifts she didhave. He noted that Mary had a“too tender heart,” writing that,“The griefs of other people over-whelm Craig like a suffocation.”People, often total strangers, con-stantly and instantly poured out
their troubles to her and askedher for advice. Often she cameaway from these draining en-counters with tears in her eyes.
From her girlhood on, Sin-clair wrote, this capacity for ex-treme empathy enabledMary/Craig to locate all mannerof things, almost as if that empa-thy extended to the nonlivingphysical world immediately sur-
rounding her. As a girl shefound missing domestic imple-ments, missing animals, andmissing people; sometimes sheknew when friends or family hadabruptly turned up in unex-pected places. In her adulthoodthis quality could express itselfin painful ways. Call of the Wildauthor Jack London was a closefriend of the Sinclair’s. In late1916, Mary became extremelyworried about London, wholived some distance away, and in-
sisted that he was undergoingacute mental distress. Twodays later the Sinclairs learned
their friend had committed sui-cide. (In 1930, the two attendeda séance held by famed psychicArthur Ford and apparentlycommunicated with the chan-neled spirit of London. Marytold the discarnate author thatshe had known when he wasabout to die. The shade an-swered, “I’m sorry I did it, butnow I’m out of it,” and then de-parted.)
Being able to retrieve miss-ing research notes was an impor-tant attribute for the wife of aman who wrote so many books,and so quickly, as Upton Sinclairdid. Born in a Baltimore board-
inghouse to a ne’erdo-well fa-ther and a martinet mother,Upton didn’t start school
till he was ten; a doctor hadwarned his mother that her bril-liantly precocious boy ran therisk of his brain’s outgrowing hisbody if he learned anythingmore. Once in school, Sinclair,who would eventually write closeto hundred books, including adozen plays, quickly leapt ahead.He graduated from Columbiabefore he was twenty, havingread all the classics and learnedGerman, French, Italian, andGreek.
Already in his late teens Sin-clair had described himself as“apocalyptic and messianic.”Fifty years later he told the NewYork Post he was “a religiousman to the extent that I am surethis universe can’t be by acci-dent.” In his autobiography hewrote that he often experienceda sort of religious fervor, andthat if he had been religious hewould “have seen Saints andMartyrs, or Stigmata.”
Upton Sinclair’s first twonovels were dreamy, poetic, andnot well-received. Then he be-came a socialist and found his
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• BY CYNTHIA LOGAN
During a recent debate about thenature of consciousness on Na-tional Public Radio’s popularforum, ‘Intelligence Squared,’ Har-
vard neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander askedYale School of Medicine Academic Neurolo-gist, Dr. Steven Novella to state the first sen-tence that might explain how the physicalbrain creates consciousness (‘the Hard Prob-lem of Consciousness’). “You can’t,” saidAlexander triumphantly; “no one can.”(Though the live audience voted Novella andphysicist Sean Carroll of the California Insti-tute of Technology winners of the debate,
subsequent polling of a larger group of onlinelisteners revealed Dr. Alexander and his part-ner, Psychologist and MD, Dr. RaymondMoody, winners by a wide margin.) The dis-cussion posed this question: If consciousnessis just the workings of neurons and synapses,how do we explain the phenomenon of near-death experiences? Is an existence after death‘real’ and provable by science, or a constructof wishful thinking about our own mortality?
The topic is a hot one, fueled in part byAlexander’s runaway bestseller, Proof ofHeaven. The author says he was prepared forthe critics (Esquire ran a particularly snarkypiece that was rebutted in detail by Interna-tional Association for Near Death Studies re-searcher, Robert Mays). “I wrote Proof for
true open-minded skeptics. I knew the nasti-ness was coming. This hits people where theylive. I knew full well, but hoped people wouldat least do their homework. There have beenvery shallow attacks. People get riled up—itrattles cages right where they live.”
A renowned academic neurosurgeonwho had spent over 30 years honing a main-stream scientific worldview, Alexander’s cagewas rattled when in November 2008 he gotan early morning wake up call. The 4:30 a.m.arousal wasn’t an emergency at the hospital;it was a searing headache that sent him firstto the tub in search of relief, then into con-tinuous seizures, which sent his wife Holleyto the phone to call 9-1-1. Over the ensuingseven days, his vital signs declined so dramat-ically that doctors factored his recovering toeven a vegetative state at nearly zero. An ex-tremely rare form of bacterial meningitis hadinvaded his central nervous system, effectivelyshutting down his brain function and destroy-ing his neocortex. During the near-fatal coma,Dr. Alexander says he entered a realm of un-conditional love and experienced profoundawareness of the nature of the universe, onepopulated by angelic beings and a resonant,omnipotent, omniscient presence he refers toas ‘Om.’ He hopes Proof of Heaven conveysthat “this radiant state of total acceptance ofwho we are is our birthright, and we can tapinto it from this earthly plane.” Since thebook’s phenomenal success, Alexander hasbeen on the road constantly, doing some-thing he loves to do—speaking to audiences
about revelations from his coma experiencethat elucidate the nature of consciousness.Enjoying what he considers a rare gift—relax-ing with his family at home in Charlottesville,Virginia—he took time out to share histhoughts with Atlantis Rising.
“The book was a necessary step to getthe story out there, but my preference is totravel and speak,” he confides. Still, writinghasn’t completely taken a backseat; he’s justfinished his second book, tentatively titledThe Map of Heaven: How Science, Religionand Ordinary People are Proving that theWorld Beyond Is Real. Available in early No-vember, it addresses the convergence of
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Graduating fromKindergartenDr. Eben Alexander Speaks ofLessons Learned While ‘Dead’
photographed by NASA’s Viking1 obiter, along with the apparentruins of a city nearby. Contro-versy over the meaning of thatdiscovery has raged ever since.Dismissed as a trick of light andshadow by NASA, the monu-ments of Cydonia have yet re-fused to be fully dismissed, andnow some scientists have arguedthat not only did Mars host an-cient civilized life, something likewhat we find on Earth, it mayalso have been a place of deathalso like what we have seen onEarth.
Dr. John Brandenburg is asenior propulsion scientist at Or-bital Technologies Corp., and au-thor of the 2013 book Life andDeath on Mars: The New MarsSynthesis. He has assembledcompelling evidence that about180 million years ago, Mars wasthe site of a nuclear explosion—one which wiped out much ofwhat existed on the surface, leav-ing the red-colored, desert planetwe find today. While many scien-tists, including geological expertand astronaut Harrison Schmitt,agree that such an event couldhave occurred, most think itwould have been a natural event.Brandenburg, though, thinks theevidence defies natural explana-tion. Dr. David Beaty, NASA’sMars program science advisor,told Fox News he finds Branden-burg’s evidence “intriguing andfascinating” but he wants a Marsprobe to investigate the possiblesite.
The evidence for a nuclearevent appears to radiate from ahot spot over the northern MareAcidalium region, an area whichincludes Cydonia. “The spectrumof krypton and xenon isotopes
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In May of this year, MarsOne—the European non-profit organization whichaims to send a team of four
on a one-way trip to Mars, in2024—announced the selection of705 candidates chosen for thedaring mission from a pool of200,000 applicants. The chanceto be one of first humans to setfoot on the Red Planet, is appar-ently irresistible to many, evenwhen there will be no chance ofreturn to the home planet. If theMarsOne project succeeds, its in-trepid voyagers will fulfill an an-cient quest, but they may not bethe first intelligent beings to setfoot on Martian soil.
Since at least the nineteenthcentury, the possibility of life onMars has been one of the greatpreoccupations of life on Earth.Ever since telescopes have beenable to provide enough resolu-tion to identify surface features,there have been those convincedthat Mars, like Earth, could beinhabited. In 1877 Italian as-tronomer Giovanni Schiaparellimade maps of apparently longstraight lines on Mars which hecalled canali and named afterrivers on Earth. His Italian termwas translated to English as‘canal,’ and led to the popularnotion of a civilized Mars. Theidea later became a staple of sci-ence fiction, most notably inH.G. Wells, The War of theWorlds in 1897 featuring an inva-sion from Mars.
About a century later theidea took a dramatic new turnwith publication of The Monu-ments of Mars by RichardHoagland. A gigantic and enig-matic humanlike face gazing upfrom the Cydonia plain had been
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found in the Mars atmosphere,particularly xenon 129 and kryp-ton 80,” Brandenburg told At-lantis Rising in a recent interview,“are both produced by nuclearexplosions, the xenon 129 di-rectly from fission of uranium238, and thorium by high energyfusion neutrons, and the krypton80 by intense neutron bombard-ment of the soil.” Mars mete-orites found on Earth come fromsubsurface rock and, relative toEarth rocks, are depleted in ura-nium, thorium and potassium, allradioactive elements. However,gamma rays from the Martiansurface, as measured by bothRussian and American spacecraft,show much higher levels of radi-ation from two particular hotspots. This adds up to the signa-ture of two possible nuclearevents. The data has been con-firmed and in May of 2013, waspublished in Science Magazine.
Mars, at that time, be-lieves Brandenburg—beforebeing attacked—was insomething like Earth’sBronze Age. He has noidea who the attacker mayhave been. That is one ofthe reasons he believes weneed to travel to Mars and
see if any records may havebeen left.
For years, the possibilityof ancient nuclear explosions onEarth has been a subject of muchspeculation. Evidence of intenseheat and high radiation fromover 5,000 years ago has beenfound in the Mohenjo Daro re-gion of Pakistan. Unexplained de-posits of of glass in the Egyptian
Sahara have inspired similar con-jecture. In India, the ancient San-skrit epic poem, theMahabharata included accountswhich sound very much like de-scriptions of ancient nuclear war-fare. Such possibilities were takenvery seriously by Robert Oppen-heimer, father of the modernatomic bomb.
Strangely, the evidence fornuclear destruction on Marsseems to, at least partially, cor-roborate accounts coming frommany once derided sources. Ac-cording to the late ZechariaSitchin, ancient Sumerian recordstell of the destruction of a planetknown as Tiamat by a rogueplanet called Niburu. A 1988book by Donald W. Patten calledCatastrophism and the Old Tes-tament theorized that a planetcalled Astra collided with Marsafter breaking into pieces, muchas the comet Shoemaker-Levy didbefore hitting Jupiter in 1994.Many esoteric traditions, such asTheosophy, have long held thatthe asteroid belt between Marsand Jupiter is the aftermath of acollision between a planet knownas Maldek and Mars. Whetherthis might have led to some kindof nuclear event on Mars is un-clear, but many intuitive sourceshave long held that Maldek wasdestroyed by the nuclearweaponry of a civilization gonemad. Such assertions are easilyfound on the Internet.
Usually, known by the name‘Phaeton,’ this hypothetical worldwas also known as the ‘fifthplanet.’ The search for the fifthplanet was originally proposed byGerman astronomer Johann ElertBode after the discovery of Ceres,
largest of the asteroids in 1801.The notion that the asteroid beltresulted from a planetary colli-sion is known as the ‘DisruptionTheory,’ though it has been sum-marily rejected by mainstream sci-ence. New evidence, however, isforcing mainstream science to re-consider many ideas once dis-missed as fringe.
Ancient Life on MarsIn 1986, long-time Mars re-
searcher Brandenburg, who co-au-thored with Monica Rix Paxonthe book, Dead Mars, DyingEarth, became the first scientistto stand before a scientific con-ference and announce the hy-pothesis that a paleo-ocean onceexisted on Mars. At the time theidea seemed absurd to the main-stream planetary science. How-ever, recent visual evidence fromthe Mars Global Surveyor—ofpast f lowing water and of anocean shoreline supported hisclaim. Perhaps the most tellingevidence of the paleo-ocean wasfrom recent images from theMars Orbital Laser Altimeter(MOLA), which showed a hugetopographical depression in theNorthern Martian Hemispherewhere the ocean, covering ap-proximately one-third of the sur-face of Mars, was located.
The presence of this largebody of water on the surface ofMars, claimed Brandenburg, tellsus a great deal about the planet’shistory. For example, the pres-ence of liquid water reveals thattemperatures on Mars, currentlyranging from –137° to +16° F,were at one time above freezing.This is a remarkable fact. Here a
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ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE
Teleportation is an ideathat captures our imagi-nation with it’s fantasticpossibilities. The con-
cept of moving an object fromone place to another withouthaving to travel between themhas been a common thread in sci-ence fiction as a way to bridgethe depths of interstellar space,time, and other dimensions.Today, major scientific institu-tions are running trials on theteleportation of mat-ter and energy. The al-most unbelievablepotentials of this re-search are excitingthe minds of evenpractical physicists.
The term tele-portation was coinedby the writer/re-searcher Charles Fortin 1931 to describeanomalous appear-ances and disappear-ances that have along history in folk-lore. In the past, thisidea was not taken se-riously by scientistsbecause it seemed toviolate classicalphysics. Even withthe acceptance ofquantum physics,teleportation stillseemed to violate theuncertainty principlewhich claims that themeasuring of an ob-ject could never cap-ture all of it’s information, sinceit is disrupted in the process. Ifan object could never be fullyknown then no copy could everbe teleported to another location.Yet in 1993, a team of researchersat IBM lead by Charles Bennettshowed how using a paradoxicalfeature of quantum physicsknown as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) effect, quantum tele-portation was possible but onlyif the original object being tele-ported was destroyed. Their paperopened the door to more robustand practical teleportation re-search.
Since then, as the validity ofquantum physics have becomemore accepted, physicists havebeen progressing with teleporta-tion research working with funda-mental particles. In 1998,physicists at Caltech successfullyteleported a photon. In 2002, a
team at the Neils Bohr instituteteleported information stored ina laser beam into a cloud ofatoms half a meter away. In 2012,researchers in China made a tele-portation record, transporting aphoton 97 kilometers. In Febru-ary of 2014, European physicistswere also able to teleport quan-tum information through ordi-nary optical fiber.
The most recent success onthis front was reported by Profes-
sor Ronald Hanson and a teamof researchers at Delft Universityin the Netherlands, showing forthe first time that it is possible toteleport information encodedinto subatomic particles betweentwo points three meters apartwith 100% reliability. The Delftteam made this breakthroughinto reliability by trapping entan-gled electrons in diamonds atvery low temperatures and shoot-ing them with lasers. The dia-monds act as very tiny prisonsfor the electrons, holding themin place long enough to reliablycommunicate a shift of the stateof the linked electrons.
Most scientists believe thiskind of teleportation could neverbecome anything resembling thefictional form of teleportationand the transmission of physicalmatter because it’s limited tosending qubits. Qubits are units
of quantum information, like thepolarization or spin of a singlephoton, and are the analog to theclassical bit in computing. Thereare some, however, who believethere are virtually no limits towhat may be possible. ProfessorRonald Hanson, one of the re-searchers from the Netherlands,has said that nothing in our cur-rent understanding of the laws ofphysics fundamentally forbidsthe teleportation of large objects,
including humans. “What we areteleporting is the state of a parti-cle,” Prof. Hanson has said. “Ifyou believe we are nothing morethan a collection of atoms strungtogether in a particular way, thenin principle it should be possibleto teleport ourselves from oneplace to another.” He goes on tosay, “In practice it’s extremely un-likely, but to say it can neverwork is very dangerous.”
What’s making this researchpossible is the phenomenon ofquantum entanglement. Entan-glement is a physical phenome-non whereby the quantum stateof some pairs or groups of parti-cles cannot be described inde-pendently—they are entangled,sharing one quantum state. Themeasurement of the properties ofentangled particles, such as posi-tion, momentum, spin, and po-larization, are all correlated. For
example, if one particle of an en-tangled pair of particles has aclockwise spin on a certain axis,the spin of the other particle inthe pair will be counterclockwise.A change in one of these parti-cles results in an instantaneouschange in it’s pair, regardless ofthe distance between them.
To achieve teleportationusing entanglement, two qubits,B and C are brought togetherand entangled. Then they are sep-
arated; object B istaken to a sendingstation and object Cis taken to a receivingstation. At the send-ing station, object Bis scanned with ob-ject A, which is theobject we’re wantingto teleport. This re-sults in object Bbeing in one of fourpossibile states, whichare encoded as classi-cal bits in an electri-cal signal. At thispoint qubits A and Bare disrupted by scan-ning and essentiallydestroyed. The twoclassical bits can thenbe sent through someclassical means ofcommunication suchas a laser or a coaxialcable to the receivingstation. At the receiv-ing end, since a ma-nipulation wasalready performed on
object B at the sending station,object C has already been af-fected and is in one of four pos-sible states. Whichever of thefour states is encoded in the twoclassical bits, and that informa-tion, is applied to object C, re-sulting in an exact replica ofobject A.
Albert Einstein, Boris Podol-sky and Nathan Rosen describedin 1935 the now famous “EPRparadox,” claiming that this en-tangled behavior should be im-possible, since it violated thelocal realist view of causality. Ein-stein is famously quoted as de-scribing this as “spooky action ata distance” with which he wasvery uncomfortable since it sug-gested a faster-than-light connec-tion. As I discussed in the lastissue of AR, there are currentlydifferent theories about how theuniverse is constructed which can
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