Issue Number 11

Spring 1997

Table Of Contents

Articles

• Charting The Coming Changes By J. Douglas Kenyon
  All change, some have argued, occurs through dramatic episode. The laws of change are the laws of drama. It's the way plants reach the flowering stage and caterpillars become butterflies, the way of metamorphosis, of redemption, and it was the heart of ancient temple practice which has come down to us as theater. From Sophocles to Shakespeare, from Goethe to Arthur Miller, the great playwrights demonstrated the laws which liberate the soul from darkness. Some understood and were transformed.
• China's Secret Pyramids By Laura Lee
  Pyramids and pyramidal structures are a worldwide phenomena, found in Egypt, Peru, Central America, America's Mississippi Valley, France, Polynesia. Now we can add two more locations, China and Japan.
• Escape From Gravity By Jeanne Manning
  Do we live in a magical era at the same time as we are experiencing stressful days? I find that awe and wonder are very much alive, as paradigms (worldviews) are being stretched. Individuals say their expansion comes not only from spiritual experiences, but also from exposure to scientific breakthroughs.
• Jurassic Art? By David Lewis
  Imagine you are a traveler through time. Your awareness is vast, having witnessed the mystery of life from the beginning, and as it evolved over aeons on this blue-green sphere called Earth. You are a sage, actually, whose knowledge precedes human belief, theory and dogma. From this omniscient vantage point, you observed how it all went down, cosmically and biologically from distant inceptions until now.
• Signs In The Sky By Len Kasten
  By the time you read this, the Hale-Bopp Comet, heralded as the comet of the century, will have made its closest approach to Earth, about 122 million miles, and achieved its maximum brightness, and will be high in the sky above the Pleiades and fading fast. By mid-May it will no longer be visible in the northern hemisphere. If you haven't seen it yet, you have missed the show, and it was spectacular, far more impressive than Hyakutake and even Halley.
• Souvenir From The Other Side By Cynthia Gage
  January 15, 1987 was an extraordinary day for Lynnclaire Dennis. She had eagerly anticipated hot-air balloon racing over the Austrian Alps with her fiancee and a friend, what she didn't anticipate was losing consciousness at an altitude of seventeen thousand feet. As she did, she passed through a richly textured near-death experience, seeing an incredibly beautiful, highly dynamic and luminous structure she knew instinctively was profoundly meaningful, a structure she would come to call the Pattern.
• The Alchemist's Resurrection By Mark Stavish
  Mention alchemy to someone and what do they usually think of? The Middle Ages with old men in some forgotten attic, laboring over bubbling flasks filled with some unknown fluid; or in front of an oven, trying to turn molten lead into gold. These are the images of the alchemist that time, mythology, and prejudicial history have handed down to us. It is true, that many of the early alchemists were the forerunners of the modern sciences. Physics and chemistry are indebted to these early puffers as they are disparagingly called, for from their hours of sweat and travail, a host of modern advances came: porcelain, alcohol distillation, acids, salts, and a variety of metallic compounds, are the results of early alchemical experiments. But if alchemy wasn't just a foolish waste of time in the search for a means to turn base metals into gold, what was it?
• The Carbon 14 Mystery By Christopher Dunn
  In issue 9 of Atlantis Rising, some doubts were raised regarding the accuracy of the C14 dating method used on the shroud of Turin. In the minds of many Christians, and, undoubtedly, the curator in possession of the shroud, the dating of this artifact cannot depend on methods that are unpredictable. How accurate is the C14 dating method? And what else can be inferred from its development about our history?
• The Indians And The Masons By Patrick Marsolek
  The Great North Trail is a major legacy of ancient man in the American West. It crosses through the United States from the Bering Strait to Tierra del Fuego and is thought to have been the major migration route of early peoples from Asia to the Americas. Along the trail are concentrations of petroforms, simple structures made of stone: circles, cairns, medicine wheels, and ceremonial enclosures. New data on the trail and these petroforms could reshape many of the currently accepted beliefs regarding their creation and function.
• Ultra-Violet: The Untold Story By Michael Lofton
  As the days get longer and warmer our venture into the sunlight increases. Every year the confusion begins, again... Before leaving your indoors, those sun glasses best be put on and that exposed skin be protected with sun blocker lotion. Also, when you go outdoors, you need to wear a long-sleeved shirt, long pants and a wide-brimmed hat. Is sunlight truly this harmful, does it significantly threaten us with skin diseases? Considering the many media reports surrounding the sun's possible danger to our skin, another perspective may be in order...

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Features

• Astrology: The Cycles Of Change By Kathie Garcia
  We are changing constantly. As we deal with greater or lesser changes in our personal and collective worlds, we tend to lose perspective of where we were or where we're headed in relationship to where we are now. We of the West tend to break up our lives in terms of separate events, happenings, episodes. We lose sight of the larger cycle. We lose the thread that was there throughout all our permutations and changes; we don't usually, for example, perceive a teenager in terms of having been a child and becoming a man. We say, He is a teenager rather than He is passing through the changes we call adolescence.

• Music To My Ears By Robert J. Resetar

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