Issue Number 4

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Table Of Contents

Articles

• DEBUNKING THE DEBUNKERS by David Lewis
  If you believe in the paranormal, or life after death, you better watch out. The cops might show up at your door, the PSI COPS, members of the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, or CSICOP. These skeptics spend a lot of time and energy debunking anything scientifically off-beat or extra-sensory in nature. They work tirelessly, trying to enforce the unenforceable law that says no phenomena can exist beyond the notion of a purely physically based reality. Phonetically, their acronym suits them, PSI being the nickname scientists use for extra-sensory phenomena; hence, PSI COPS. And they have their hands full these days, what with all those best-sellers about near-death experiences, angels and lost civilizations. Crime has really gotten out of control.
• FINGERPRINTING THE GODS by J. Douglas Kenyon
  When respected British author Graham Hancock announced to the world in 1992 that he had actually tracked the legendary Ark of the Covenant of Old Testament fame to a modern-day resting place in Ethiopia, serious eyebrows everywhere twitched upward. Nevertheless, objective readers of his monumental volume The Sign and the Seal, on both sides of the Atlantic, soon realized that Hancock's case, incredible though it seemed, was not to be easily dismissed. Apparently though, the success of The Sign and the Seal has only whetted the writer's appetite for establishment chagrin. In his latest book Hancock is out for even bigger game. In fact, Fingerprints of the Gods seeks nothing less than to overthrow the cherished doctrine taught in classrooms worldwide, that civilization was born roughly 5,000 years ago. Hancock presents breakthrough evidence of a forgotten epoch in human history which preceded by thousands of years the presently acknowledged cradles of civilization in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Far East. Moreover, he argues, this same lost culture was not only highly advanced but technologically proficient and was destroyed more than 12,000 years ago by the global cataclysm which brought the ice age to its sudden and dramatic conclusion.
• MINING FOR HEALTH by Richard Conant
  Few people have even heard of, much less seen, Boulder, Mont., a bucolic little town halfway between Helena and Butte. But some have, mostly folks suffering from autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. Each year thousands of them journey to Boulder from all points of the compass. They come, not as tourists, but as prospectors. Not for gold, like the pioneers of bygone days, however. These seekers are prospecting for another kind of treasure, long-sought freedom from illness and pain. But like fortune hunters of the gold rush years, these pilgrims are tapping into the earth itself to fulfill their quest. Boulder is the sole location in North America of radon health mines, old mines, uranium and other precious ores, where, for a nominal fee, you can descend underground and immerse yourself in radon gas. Yes, that's right, radon, one of the prominent figures on the EPA's public health threat list.
• PLUGGED IN WITH DANNION BRINKLEY by Cynthia Gage
  Dannion Brinkley may be the most electric person on the planet. It's not just that he's been struck by lightning twice. Or that he's been clinically dead twice and had one of the most dynamic near-death experiences ever recorded. It's his livewire personality, spellbinding story and shocking statements. What happens is brilliantly captured in Brinkley's best-selling book, Saved by the Light. He writes of travelling to a Crystal City, entering shimmering, gothic-like cathedrals, watching a panoramic life review, meeting thirteen Beings of Light and being given graphic visions of the future, as well as detailed instructions on relaxation centers which he was to build when he returned to his body, now crisscrossed with blue lines marking the path the lightning had taken as it surged from his head to the floor.
• THE HALL OF RECORDS: WILL THE LEGENDARY EGYPTIAN TREASURE TROVE BE REDISCOVERED IN 1999? by Dr. Joseph Robert Jochmans
  For untold centuries both historical and esoteric sources have passed down stories of a forgotten time-capsule of Ancient Wisdom, far greater in importance than the golden treasures of Tutankhamen. The various accounts speak of chambers located beneath the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx at Giza, filled with a technological legacy left by lost advanced civilizations older than Egypt itself. Along with the stories are also preserved a number of prophecies foretelling who, when and how the vanished time-capsule will be opened.
• TOP 10 IMPOSSIBLE INVENTIONS THAT WORK by Jeane Manning
  When Leonardo da Vinci sketched out an impossible invention, fifteenth-century scholars probably put him down. Forget it, Leon. If machines could fly, we'd know about it. Throughout history, experts tell innovators that their inventions are impossible. Thank god innnovators never listen…

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Features

• Atlantis Dimension
• Astrology: TUNING TO THE GREAT CYCLE by Kathie Garcia
  Astrology could well be called the science of cycles. Against the backdrop of greater and lesser cycles of time, a man lives out his life. Similarly, civilizations and races evolve in accordance with the ebb and flow of time. Any age marking the ending of cycles, and simultaneously the commencement of new cycles, is of interest, especially when these cycles have stretched out for thousands of years. Such are the times we live in. In particular, we are coming to the close of a precessional month, the so-called Age of Pisces, and entering the portals of the much-heralded Age of Aquarius. Moreover, we are experiencing the ending of a Platonic or Precessional Year, a complete cycle of precession through the twelve signs of the zodiac entailing approximately 25,800 years (exact figures differ slightly among astrologers).
• Book Reviews: EARS TO HEAR by Dr. Joseph Ray
  From autism to morphogenic fields…
• Music: SOUNDS TO SAVOR by Robert J. Resetar
  Here's an eclectic assortment of goodies to keep your ears, and those of most of your friends, properly exercised.
  

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