Issue Number 5

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Table Of Contents

Articles

• MIRACLES HAPPEN by Cynthia Gage
  Fillan, an Irishman who lived during the eighth century, had an incurable love for writing which often drew him well into the depths of the night. When he entered the monastery of Wexford, he was informed by superiors that the use of candles was not permitted after certain evening hours. Determined to continue his writing, he unbridled himself of this restriction by way of a miracle. When the curfew hour approached he simply held up his left hand, which shone like a candle, and illuminated sufficient area to continue his writing. Hence, writes Rodney Charles, author of Every Day A Miracle Happens, Fillan wrote with his right hand, by the light given from his left.
• SECRET HISTORY by David Lewis
  Commenting on his latest book, The Return of Merlin, Deepak Chopra observed recently that history exists in the eye of the beholder. Chopra spoke of the History Of the Soul versus the textbook variety. And while the author did not bother to cite examples, it's safe to say that historical accuracy has often taken a back seat to political correctness, the old Soviet Union comes to mind. In the days of Galileo, it was the Church that defined reality. She even rearranged the heavens, declaring that the sun revolves around the earth not the other way around. When heresy ran afoul of her, she obliterated not only the infidels but their written testimony, as was the case with the Cathars in southern France. Seven centuries later, accounts of the Cathars found in encyclopedias reflect the Church's geocentricism, as if all revolves around Rome. Yet the last time we checked, the earth revolves around the sun, which in turn spins in the arm of a spiral galaxy reeling into infinity. And the truth behind medieval heresies may have a similar trajectory, The Never-Ending Quest of mystics, Templars, and Cathars for Absolute Knowledge. That quest, relegated by skeptics to quixotic fancy, has little to do with textbook history, yet everything to with secret history, the history of the soul.
• THE FIELDS OF HEALING by Valerie Free
  In the last two centuries Western medicine has become the application of one science, namely biochemistry. Its basic tenet has been that life is chemical. Thus, it has seemed logical to assume that, whatever the ills of our chemical bodies, they could be cured best by the right chemical antidote. The philosophical outcome of chemical medicine's success has been belief in The Technological Fix. Drugs have become the treatment for all ailments. Although we are learning that the more chemicals we put into our body the more we disturb the chemistry of our bodies, the medical community stays on the same merry-go-round. In addition, techniques that do not fit such chemical concepts, even if they seem to work, have been abandoned or condemned.
• THE MYSTERIOUS ORIGINS OF MAN (aired as scheduled, video tape is available)
  The producers of NBC's Emmy Award-winning The Mystery of the Sphinx are completing another prime time NBC special called The Mysterious Origins of Man. The one-hour special will be hosted by Mr. Charlton Heston and is scheduled for airing sometime this fall. The program will blend science and entertainment to question if what we are being taught about man's origins and development is supported by the evidence. Viewers will meet authors Richard Thompson and Michael Cremo, whose book Forbidden Archaeology documents many cases of anomalous evidence like bones of modern man found in rock strata dated to over 50 million years old.
• THE ORION CONNECTION by Len Kasten
  According to author-astronomer Robert Bauval, the answer to the ancient secret of Giza is in the Stars. When Robert Bauval came to the realization, one starry night in the Arabian desert, that the three pyramids of Giza were arranged on the ground to replicate the arrangement of the three stars in Orion's belt, ancient astronaut theorization was the farthest thing from his mind. Je tiens l'affaire, he shouted excitedly when he understood the connection, deliberately mimicking Champollion's exclamation when he had deciphered the Rosetta Stone. At the time of his discovery, Bauval was a construction engineer working in the Middle East. In his subsequent book, The Orion Mystery, co-authored with Adrian Gilbert, Bauval demonstrated convincingly that the ancient Egyptians were sophisticated astronomers, and that their religious beliefs and practices were far more profound and esoteric than previously believed.
• TOP 10 OUT-OF-PLACE ARTIFACTS (O.O.P.s) by Joseph Robert Jochmans, Lit. D.
  Walk into any modern museum, or open any history textbook, and the picture of the past presented is one in which humanity started from primitive beginnings, and steadily progressed upward in the development of culture and science. Most of the artifacts preserved in archaeological and geological records have been neatly arranged to fit this accepted linear view of our past. Yet many other tantalizing bits and pieces unearthed offer a very different story of what really happened. Called out-of-place artifacts, they don't fit the established pattern of prehistory, pointing back instead to the existence of advanced civilizations before any of the known ancient cultures came into being. Though such discoveries with their inherent sophistication are well-documented, most historians would like to sweep these disturbing anomalies under the proverbial rug. But the rug of true history is getting very lumpy, and hard to step across without tripping over such obvious contradictions to the conservative picture of antiquity.
• VISITORS FROM BEYOND by J. Douglas Kenyon
  From a Human Potentials conference in Washington, D.C. to a Whole Life Exposition in Seattle, from campus bull sessions in Berkeley to cocktail party discussions in Boston, no talk of the hot alternative explorations into the mysterious wellsprings of civilization gets very far these days without at least a passing reference to the work of Zecharia Sitchin. And there are no signs that interest in the author of the five volumes of The Earth Chronicles, and the forthcoming Divine Encounters from Avon Books, is cooling.

Early Rays: News Bulletins

Features

• Atlantis Dimension
• Astrology: CHARTING THE ECLIPSE FACTOR by Kathie Garcia
  Eclipse. The word engenders awe. Somehow, the darkening of the Sun seems unnatural. Since ancient times, astronomer-astrologers have sought to predict and understand eclipse phenomena.
• Book Review: PATHS TO KNOWLEDGE by Dr. Joseph Ray, Ph.D.
  Despite apparent differences and varied origins, this issue's books are surprisingly similar. If one has an open mind, I say if, they will provide meaningful pondering and food for thought. They corroborate each other, in terms of knowledge conveyed or attitude taken.
• Music: SOARING WITH SOUND by Robert J. Resetar
  It's a quiet September night as I gather my stack of C.D. to review. No one else around, just me and the C.D. player. Where will the music take me tonight? I never know until I'm there. By morning I will have been around the world, went back in time and soared through the heavens. And perhaps I will have discovered that I am a Celtic dreamer or a closet gypsy ...and that despite my sober disguises I'm still a hopeful romantic at heart.

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