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ATLANTIS RISING UK TOUR A HITDuring a week that began with the funeral of Princess Diana in London and ended with the funeral of Mother Teresa in Calcutta, a small group of pilgrims under the auspices of Atlantis Rising toured sacred sites in southern England. Strangely enough, travel to and from New York was by Air India. But if the curious juxtaposition of events had any special mystical significance, it had more to do with intense ancient vibes than current events.

The cheerful group of 16, which included AR publisher Doug Kenyon and his wife Patricia, along with cover artist Tom Miller, was led by Busty Taylor, a leading commentator on crop circles and ancient English lore. Also participating were ley lines scholarJohn Michell and Colin Wilson, prolific author of books on the unexplained. By all accounts an unforgettable experience was had by all.

One of the trip's prime missions was to shoot video of Stonehenge, Avebury, and other mysterious sites for inclusion in soon-to-be-released documentaries from Atlantis Rising Video (see the letter from the publisher on page 4). The gods seemed to smile on the undertaking, providing perfect weather for the entire week as well as plenty of spectacular footage. Stay tuned.

ATLANTIS REMEMBERED IN SAND

Atlantis was rising in San Diego late this past summer. Unfortunately, this appearance, like the former, was destined to be destroyed by nature, and in considerably less time.

Sculptors and artists from all over the world moved more than 100,000 tons to sand to create what was claimed to be the world's largest sand sculpture. For more than a month 100 artisans from 18 countries worked to change the beach on Fiesta Island into a spectacular display of dreamlike Atlantis. Using tools ranging from backhoes to palette knives, from buckets to packing machines, the group succeeded in fashioning a spectacular tableau. Passing an entrance guarded by enormous mer-lions, visitors followed a trail past Poseidon, sirens and other mythological images to a high-peaked temple.

It's hard to imagine that sand could go this far as a medium, said master sculptor and visionary artist Gerry Kirk.

Happily for all of us, this version of Atlantis, unlike its predecessor, will leave a substantial photographic record. Watch for the calendars and coffee-table books.

THE BIBLE CODE IGNITES FUROR

Claims that the Bible is the word of God exact to the letter are not new. Christian fundamentalists, orthodox Jews and followers of other sects have preached as much for centuries. Recently though, the idea has attracted major attention from the secular media. At the center of the furor is The Bible Code, A new book by Michael Drosnin (Simon and Schuster) which claims that a code in the Bible's original text foretells major world events with startling detail and precision.

Expanding on the work of mathematician Eliyahu Rips, Drosnin made discoveries of his own. It was his notice of a warning' of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination months before the actual event which convinced him to write the book. Drosnin had taken it upon himself to warn Rabin, but to no avail. When the event then actually transpired, an astonished Drosnin decided that he was, indeed, onto something.

Other examples of the code's accuracy include the stock market crash of 1929, the holocausts of World War II, the Wright brothers' flight, and even the Shoemaker-Levy comet.

The code's seeming mathematical validity has skeptics puzzled. Time and Newsweek, while dubious, seemed unwilling to fully dismiss the phenomenon. The most strenuous objections, surprisingly, come from clerics who warn of self-deceiving dangers in such exercises. Others, though, see clues to a new paradigm of reality where time is not what it appears, and past and future are intertwined in ways which we have hardly begun to suspect.

CIA/UFO COVERUP

A government historian says the government did indeed fabricate cover stories to account for UFO sightings during the Cold War. The motive, however, says historian Gerald K. Haines, was to keep the Soviets from disrupting America's air defenses by orchestrating mass UFO sightings.

Haines, reporting in an unclassified CIA journal, says that by 1956, the Air Force was able to attribute 96 percent of all UFO sightings to the high altitude U-2 and SR-71 intelligence gathering planes, but it took care not to reveal the true cause of the sightings to the public," linking them instead to "natural phenomena such as ice crystals and temperature inversions.

On whether or not the government would indeed concoct cover stories to keep secrets from the public, U.S. Air Force spokesman Major Ed Worley said he didn't know if such a thing took place, but conceded, We take extraordinary measures to protect our national resources.

MAGAZINE'S EDITORS SHRUG OFF JAPANESE COLD FUSION REJECTION

Recent news in the New York Times, Reuters and elsewhere that the official Japanese cold fusion program has gotten the ax, may have caused some to wonder about the future of the technology, but it came as no surprise to Dr. Eugene Mallove and his colleagues at Infinite Energy magazine.

Mallove was quick to point out that his magazine had criticized the Japanese program for astonishing weaknesses as recently as last fall (1996) following the Sixth International Conference on Cold Fusion in Hokkaido, Japan. Contributing editor Jed Rothwell cited numerous technical problems with the Japanese research, which unlike the more rigorous French atomic energy program had not been able to duplicate the results of the original experiments by Drs. Stanley Pons, Martin Fleischmann and others.

In a news release, Dr. Eugene Mallove was emphatic, Let there be no misunderstanding: The prospective (Japanese) closing has nothing to do with determining whether excess energy and low energy reactions are real or not. The evidence for excess heat and nuclear reactions at low energy is overwhelmingly established by numerous published peer-reviewed and non-peer reviewed papers and reports.

Cold fusion commercial activity in the United States has accelerated recently surpassing the Japanese work. Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. (CETI) of Sarasota, Florida; Black Light Power, Inc. of Malvern, Pennsylvania; and ENECO of Salt Lake City to name the most well-known efforts are developing commercial heating and electricity generating devices, and several major utility companies have established investment positions with these firms. In the meantime many other similar ventures are rapidly forming.

The saga continues...

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