• ANGELIC ALTERNATIVES
  by N. Thomas Miller
  From Frankenstein to Dracula, the media's treatment of occult material seems to remain the almost exclusive purview of horror movies and the like. A promotional mailing for a set of books, Mysteries of Mind, Space & Time, received just the other day, seems typical. Offered is an opportunity to probe the strange, incredible and terrifying mysteries of the unknown. Well, I am relieved to report at least one example to the contrary. In October, NBC's Angels II, Beyond the Light, presented evidence that humanity is subjected to other forces than UFOs, aliens, and departed spirits, that, in fact, guardian angels and ascended masters are looking after us, and are rather compassionately concerned for mankind and the future of this planet.



• ARTIFACTS IN SPACE,
  by J. Douglas Kenyon
  Since discovery in 1981, a gigantic and enigmatic face gazing upward from the Cydonia region of Mars has held out the tantalizing promise of scientific proof that intelligent life in the universe is not unique to Earth. The Mars Mission, as a group terms itself, has produced more than enough evidence to argue plausibly that the objects of Cydonia are not only the remains of an ancient civilization, but one possessed of a science and technology well beyond our own.



• HEAVY WATERGATE
  by David Lewis
  The cold fusion story began in 1989 at the University of Utah, when two electro-chemists, Professors Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, told the world they had fused atoms at room temperature, reproducing the power of the sun. Ever since, they have been the subject of criticism and ridicule from hot fusionists and theoretical physicists who say cold fusion is impossible.



• NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE: THE UNTOLD STORY
  by Cynthia Gage
  Imagine being able to smell colors, see music and hear numbers....to look at the air and know the coming weather, or to know the health of people, animals and plants in an area just by sifting a handful of dirt through your fingers. These gifts were natural to author PMH Atwater, who thought all children could feel and sense things as she did. And, after dying three times in 1977, she became a near-death survivor. Since being hit with what she calls a heavenly sledgehammer nearly twenty years ago, she has worked seven days a week researching and writing about the near-death phenomenon.



• SECRETS OF VIBRANT HEALTH
  by Ann Louise Gittleman
  It's really not an easy task to be a healthy, balanced individual in the Nervous 1990s. Taking good care of ourselves can become a full time job. As more and more of us juggle a career, bring up children and try to participate in community activities, sometimes our own health suffers. As we approach the turn of the millennium, let's take a look at some simple and maybe startling health secrets everybody needs to know to defy aging and ward off degenerative disease.



• THE CROP CYPHER ENIGMA
  by Len Kasten
  Why there has been no official Anglo-American governmental interest in a truly astounding story unfolding for fifteen years in the south of England.



• TOP 10 PROPHECIES FOR THE YEAR 2000
  by Joseph Robert Jochmans
  Will the year 2000 be a threshold of fear or a doorway of hope? As we approach the end of the current century and millennium, we feel the steady rising of a certain world-wide anxiety. The year 2000, which for older generations once symbolized some far-off future, is suddenly only five years away.

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• Astrology: STARS OF U.S. DESTINY
  by Kathie Garcia
  We mark July 4, 1776, the signing date of the Declaration of Independence, as America's Conceptional Birthchart. Dane Rudhyar chose 5:12 pm local time as the time of the signing, a subject of much debate among astrologers. Elizabeth Clare Prophet matches Rudhyar's estimate, moving the time up one minute to 5:13 pm. I agree with Rudhyar and Prophet and am basing my analysis on the 5:13 pm time.



• Book Review:
  JOURNEYS TO OTHER WORLDS
  by Dr. Joseph Ray
  Our focus is a diverse selection of books spanning five millennia, and including the realm across the river. The oldest of the books, The Epic of Gilgamesh, is still available although no longer in clay tablets! The others are relatively recent, and our first one, The Monuments of Mars: a City on the Edge of Forever, has just been reprinted in a second edition.



• Music: SWEET SOUNDS
  by Robert J. Resetar
  Alas, the holiday season is once again behind us, and as musical performers everywhere are gearing up for their next big recordings, for Christmas of '95, the rest of us are still trying desperately to forget the lilting strains of the Beastie Boys: Holiday Classics and other such fare that graced our ears in music stores throughout December. If you're still suffering from any post-holiday-syndrome, here are a few selections that might be just what the doctor ordered.
  

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