Issue Number 8

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Table Of Contents

 

Articles

AN ENGINEER IN EGYPT by Christopher Dunn

Within the past three years, artifacts established as icons of ancient Egyptian study have developed a new aura. There are suggestions of controversy, cover-ups and conspiracy to squelch or ignore data that promises to shatter conventional academic thinking regarding prehistoric society. As of this writing, a powerful movement is intent on restoring to the world a heritage that has been partly destroyed and undeniably misunderstood. This movement consists of specialists in various fields who, in the face of fierce opposition from Egyptologists, are cooperating with each other to affect changes in our beliefs of prehistory.

FROM APOLLO TO ZERO POINT by J. DOUGLAS KENYON

Growing up on the family ranch near Roswell, N.M. in the 1940s provided Apollo 14 astronaut and paranormal researcher-in-the-making Edgar Mitchell with more than a few clues to his destiny. On the way to school, for example, he would walk past the house of reclusive rocket scientist Robert Goddard whose obscure experiments in the 1920s had inspired the German ballistic missiles of World War II and paved the way for Mitchell’s own lunar mission, yet a quarter century away. There were also aircraft of the wood and cloth variety available for flying—an opportunity not lost on the young test pilot-to-be (his first solo flight came at 14). As a youth, Mitchell watched and wondered at the mysterious glows which filled the night skies over nearby White Sands as an atomic age was being hatched in secrecy. And later another—perhaps stranger—episode, the purported crash of a flying saucer just a few miles away, would also leave intriguing clues to be pondered in a future, still—a half century later—in the process of unfolding.

HOW OLD ARE THE PYRAMIDS? by JOSEPH JOCHMANS

The controversy raised by John Anthony West and Robert Schoch concerning the true age of the Great Sphinx is now beginning to overcast the other famous monuments which share space on the Giza plateau—namely, the three pyramids that were supposedly built by Pharaohs Khufu, Khafre and Menkhare in the Fourth Dynasty. Were these Pyramids constructed only 4,300 years ago, or—like the Sphinx—is there evidence they could be far older, dating instead to perhaps 12,000 years ago?

THE PHYSICIST AS MYSTIC by DAVID LEWIS

A child staring at the clear night sky beholds the wonder of the universe and its mystery. How, after all, to such a simple mind, to any mind, can the starry expanse go on and on, never ending. For if it were to end, we imagine, there would always be something beyond. And then what about the beginning, and before that, and so on? The two apparent extremes describe what the French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, called les deux infinis, the two infinities.

TRACKING THE SECRETS OF THE INCAS by LAURA LEE

It seems our cultural heritage is full of the greatest codes and ciphers ever written, and we're just now beginning to crack them.

WEST, HANCOCK & BAUVAL CUT OUT OF NEW SPHINX RESEARCH by WILLIAM P. EIGLES

In April, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities granted a one-year renewable license to a team of U.S. researchers to carry out surveys at Giza and around the Sphinx using seismographs and ground-penetrating radar. Their ultimate purpose is to locate the "Hall of Records," the chamber described by American mystic Edgar Cayce beginning in 1935 as containing the historical records and wisdom of the fabled lost civilization of Atlantis. Cayce suggested that this records chamber would be found under the Sphinx sometime before the end of the 20th century, most likely between 1996 and 1998.

Early Rays: News Bulletins

Features

• Astrology: THE MAYAN CALENDAR MYSTERY by Kathie Garcia
  How is it that we have lived in a kind of veiled ignorance for millennia, our books speaking of a history which is hardly ancient, but rather a drop in the bucket of time, accepting simplistic stories of creation and evolution and isolated from other life within the galaxy, barely learning with crude ships how to cross our own seas some few hundreds of years ago? And yet, here and there we have been able to pick up the pieces of lost civilizations whose people somehow seemed to be more in touch than ourselves with origins and endings and with the cyclical nature of time. Such a people were the Maya, whose astoundingly precise calendrical achievements brought them to calculate actual dates going as far back as 90 and 300 million years and into the future soon to be our present!
• Book Review: GENIUS: RECOGNIZED & OTHERWISE by Dr. Joseph Ray
• Music Review: SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW by Robert J. Resetar
  Everyone seems to be jumping on the Celtic bandwagon these days and well they should. Business is booming. Teenagers haven’t heard anything so cutting-edge since the rockers unplugged and Tony Bennett started re-crooning on MTV. The only thing that could top that would be a new music video by the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos with Sting. In this issue we’ll focus on traditional folk music that has once again become in vogue. Whether from Ireland, Japan or the Wild West, the folksongs and musical creations based on the styles of yesteryear are back.

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