Atlantis Rising's readers and writers are discovering the new science scene. A reader from Seattle reports on leading-edge biology, for example. And the emerging energy (electricity-used-in-machines-and-heating) technology is bringing forth new/ancient understandings of how the universe works. Readers of this magazine are avid learners of this knowledge, judging from energy-related mail which your editor forwarded to me.

The letters touched on many topics, literally from A to Z, alchemy to Zielinski. One reader sent in a copy of an article by European scientist Al Zielinski, warning of possible dangers from HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. His experiments indicate that we are surrounded by a densely energetic aether which could strike back with massive effects if it is manipulated irresponsibly. In other words, HAARP- type military experiments that involve electromagnetically whacking Earth's ionosphere (electrically charged layer hundreds of miles above us) are bad news. Zielinski prefers to power a computer chip by tickling this aether energy, and claims to have invented a device that would do so.

Other mail also discusses not only where twentieth-century science went wrong, but also good news, how a more enlightened approach can bring harmonious science and technology to a new century and a new millennium. Some say that we are on the verge of rediscovering fantastic inventions from the days of Atlantis or other ancient cultures.

Harmonious technology? That sounds like a contradiction in terms, in the opinion of many disillusioned folks who watch our planet's eco-systems being dismantled. We ask these people to stay tuned (literally). The news is that emerging technologies hold promise of nonpolluting energy sources and devices for healing our bodies, and even mopping up our major messes.

The latter point is where alchemy comes in, the possibility of reversing radioactivity by activating transmutation inside the lethal barrels of wastes bequeathed by the nuclear power and weapons industries.

WHAT IS ALCHEMY?

The popular view of alchemy (pronounced AL kuh mee) is of medieval wizards trying to change cheap metals into silver and gold. Alchemy was popular only from the time of early Christianity until about 1700, according to reference books which toe the line that it was merely a blend of pseudoscience and mystical philosophy. Another well-known aspect of alchemy was the search for the elixir of life, a substance that would cure disease and lengthen life. Alchemists also searched for the philosopher's stone, a substance that was supposedly able to make the process of transmutation easier. (To transmute means to change one basic substance into another.) However, conventional textbook authors scoff at anyone who claims to be able to change one element into another in a home-laboratory experiment, in other words, without bombarding the substance with high-energy particles in a particle accelerator or without extremely high temperatures and pressures.

But that is exactly what some non-conventional experimenters are doing today. For example, a transplanted Bulgarian from Australia now living in the USA, Yull Brown, is selling unusual devices through a Chinese manufacturer. His welding devices produce and burn a mixture called Brown's gas which has a strange flame that allegedly reverses the rate of radioactive decay of radioactive substances.

Transmutation is popping up in cold fusion experiments, to the dismay of at least one scientist who apparently had not intended to rock the establishment-science boat, Kevin Wolf. Other scientists are willing to step forward and tell the world that metals are changing into other substances inside their experimental apparatus. Distinguished professor John O'Malley Bockris of Texas A&M University organized a meeting and invited those scientists, but the university's chemistry department voted to kick his meeting off campus. Funny fact is, Texas A&M is big in the hot-fusion business. In other words, some other high-salaried professors don't want the cold-fusion work to attract the research money. So their hostile actions are not as simple as embarrassment about alchemical-sounding words like transmutation. (Dr. Bockris wisely uses safer terminology, Low-energy Nuclear Reactions.)

More than 20 years ago, Louis Kervran wrote a book about Biological Transmutations, Atlantis Rising reader Robert E. McElwaine pointed out in a letter. He said Chapter 17 of The Secret Life of Plants, a book by Peter Tompkins and the late Christopher Bird, gives a simple experiment to prove to yourself that living systems can fuse atoms to create different elements. All of these things and more happen in spite of the currently accepted laws of physics.

In his new book Towards a New Alchemy, Dr. Nick Begich notes that despite the medieval images conjured by the word, alchemy is about transformation, change, spiritual energy, but it is also about science, about looking closely at empirical evidence and finding concrete, testable explanations for the mysteries we find. It is about change in thinking, about the use of energy through the medium of the mind, the mind being the intersection of all that is outside and all that is inside the physical self.

In writing about the work of two enlightened technomonks, Dr. Patrick and Gael Crystal Flanagan, Begich's point is that emerging technologies can help in human development and balance, when these technologies are designed to empower rather than enslave humans.

FREE ELECTRICAL ENERGY

In reply to a reader's request in Atlantis Rising issue #6, for free-energy plans, the magazine's mailbox received:

• A page from a Dec. 14 1971 U.S. patent # 3,626,605 given to H.W. Wallace for what the sender described as a gravity-neutralizing flying saucer... propulsion via negative weight.
• From Dr. Samuel Faile of Ohio, instructions for research on the UFONIC Flash/Starter, and information on a separate research project to make cold-fusion fireballs of up to a centimeter across. Dr. Faile often writes items for New Energy News, and is a tireless investigator of phenomena such as strange energy effects from innovatively wound coils of insulated wire.
• A letter from an anonymous free-energy investigator which included a flyer on The Fuel-less Engine. It said this electromagnetic motor creates the energy to run itself, with enough left over to run a home generator. Edwin Grey's patent #3,890,548 was cited. It's like using static electricity, high voltage with low amperage...We discovered that a capacitor does create amperage; it does create its own energy. Plans and parts list were being sold by Creative Science and Research, P.O. Box 8001, New Albany IN 47150.
• Paul M. Brown's 1989 paper titled Resonant Nuclear Battery May Aid in Mitigating the Greenhouse Effect. He invented a process for directly converting radioactive decay energy into usable electricity, and U.S. Patent 4,835,433 describes it.
• Brian David Anderson's description of a device which uses soundwaves to reactivate blood, revive dead flowers or radically change the taste of foods. The address as of Dec. 1995 was: Brian Anderson, Multy-Tranz, 3156 Orleans East, San Diego, CA 92110.
• A video about Dennis Lee's promotion of low-temperature phase change (advanced heat pump) and other technologies.

EARTH WISDOM

Michelle Caitlin Keely of San Francisco (any relation to the nineteenth-century inventor John Ernst Worrell Keely?) also replied to Thor Friedemann's request, with an 11-page letter including descriptions of free-energy projects. One design is based on how wind and water currents generate. Differential generation. Solar can be used; any differences between things can generate energy.

Another design uses centrifugal motion to drive it. Unbalanced mass in revolution can produce a wobble...the physical center is pulled towards a centrifugal center.

Regarding space travel, Keely points out that Looking at a vacuum, no air, no mass, designs to burn stuff to go to space doesn't make sense....Looking at Earth, she lives only by receiving energies. She doesn't burn, and she uses these energies, generates by differences.

This letter also intrigued editor Doug Kenyon, so I'll quote what caught my eye: By burning the earth, hydrocarbons, oil, coal, nuclear, all evolution breaks down Earth's...all our social, economic, political structures, systems.

Stop burning the earth, change to designs based on Earth life, nature, and synergy of evolution will appear again in our lives, Earth, even in our awarenesses. Perhaps ancient wisdoms.

Michelle Caitlin Keely invites correspondence with other researchers. Write to: 725 Ellis St # 201, San Francisco CA 94109-7914.

HIGHER DIMENSIONS, CHANNELS FOR FREE ENERGY?

A not-too-technical letter from Robert E. McElwaine of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, also could be printed in its entirety as an article, space permitting. It journeyed through the free-energy scene, starting with examples of orthodoxy denying the possibility of new inventions such as airplanes nearly a century ago. Is today's orthodoxy ready for this?

Free energy inventions are devices which can tap a seemingly unlimited supply of energy from the universe, or from hyperdimensional sources, without burning any kind of fuel, making them the perfect solution to the worldwide energy crisis and its associated pollution, degradation and depletion of the environment. Most free energy devices probably do not create energy, but rather tap into existing natural or hyper-dimensional energy sources by various forms of induction.

Magnets, unusual coils and spark gaps can be manipulated to tap that energy. An Austrian, the late Viktor Schauberger, invented an Implosion Turbine which seemed to tap energy from the earth's rotation... like a tornado, or perhaps the energy source is again hyper-dimensional. After mentioning several other possibilities, McElwaine noted that religious organizations such as Sant Mat and Eckankar teach that the physical universe is only the lowest of at least a dozen major levels of existence...analogous to TV channels that we can tune into. It seems plausible that energy could flow down from these higher levels into the physical universe, or be created at the boundary between them, given the right configurations and motions of matter to channel it.

Dwight Buckley of the Seattle Institute for the Life Sciences, 6519 40th NE, Seattle WA 98115, sent pamphlets full of fascinating concepts. He wants to see a transition from a bankrupt 300-year-old belief in Life-as-Chemistry to a new frontier of Life-as-Physics, Electronics, Electromagnetics... Only recently have microscopes been able to see the true microstructure of the living cell. Instead of a chemicals soup, it is blatantly electromagnetic, con-sisting of dense circuits with trillions of coils. And while big-science has made brilliant advances, its basic theory is in chaos and needs a total overhaul. The bottom line is that the science of healing is breaking wide open...anyone who shrinks from this new frontier is condemning him or herself to the side pockets of history.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: The book Angels Don't Play This HAARP by Jeane Manning and Dr. Nick Begich, can be ordered by phoning 907-249-9111. Towards a New Alchemy by Dr. Nick Begich, also from Earthpulse Press, 907-249-9111. The Coming Energy Revolution by Jeane Manning, Avery Publishing Group, New York, available through most bookstores.