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Chapter 8
The Culture of Stones
Magic and Megaliths
We want to turn back now to the many sculptures of female Goddesses
found in the most ancient archaeological levels. According to the
experts, the discernible idea of the religion of the Goddess is that
of an infinite bounty of the Great Mother. It is proposed that such
peoples didn’t engage in agriculture because the idea of “owning
land” may have been abhorrent to them. The idea of “forcing” the
earth to yield, rather than accepting the natural abundance the
Goddess provided was simply not a part of their philosophy.
Their
Goddess was a Star Being, and she was worshipped in outdoor Temples
that were laid out along Celestial Archetypes. But it may be that
“worshipping the Goddess” in the terms we understand worship was not
precisely what was going on in these temples. Why do I say this?
Well, because there was something else VERY mysterious about these
ancient peoples - they seem to have had “super powers”. In a
previous chapter, we looked at Dr. Robert Schoch’s work on the
underwater pyramids off Japan known as
the Yonaguni Monuments.
Schoch noted the odd fact that there were no “quarry marks” on the
stones of the underwater structure. From this, he concluded that
they couldn’t be manmade. But he ought to have considered other
great stone cities where there is often a similar lack of evidence
of our present quarrying technology.
Morris Jessup wrote extensively
about the megalithic structures in his book
The Case for the UFO,
concluding that, based on his own knowledge and experience, many of
them seemed to have been fitted by a process of “grinding in situ”.
This, of course, would necessitate a means of handling stone that is
completely outside the range of our present understanding.
He then
makes a remarkable observation:
It may be that this tremendous power was limited in its application
to articles of stone texture only, but this is a little doubtful.
Or, perhaps it was limited to nonmagnetic materials in general. Such
a limitation would have sidetracked the development of a mechanized
culture such as ours of this day, and would partly account for the strange fact that almost all
relics of the profound past are nonmetallic.
168
It is a fact that the Earth is literally blanketed with megaliths
from some ancient civilization. Tens of thousands of them!
There are
variations in placement and style, but the thing they all have in
common is their incredible size and their undeniable antiquity. Many
scholars attempt to place them within recorded history by digging
around them and shouting “aha!”, when they find something that can
be dated within the current scheme of human history. It is now
understood by the experts that the megalithic structures demanded
complex architectural planning, and they propose that it was the
labor of tens of thousands of men working for centuries.
No one has ever made a systematic count of the megaliths, but the
estimate goes beyond 50,000. It is also admitted that this figure
represents only a fraction, since many have been destroyed not only
by the forces of nature, but also by the wanton destruction of man.
Even though there are megalithic monuments in locations around the
world, there is nothing anywhere else like there is in Europe. The
megaliths of Europe form an “enormous blanket of stone”. Great
mounds of green turf or gleaming white quartz pebbles formerly
covered many of them. The quartz is, of course, electrically active.
The megalithic mania of ancient Europe is:
Unparalleled indeed in human history. For there has never been
anything like this rage, almost mania, for megalith building, except
perhaps during the centuries after AD 1000 when much the same part
of Europe was covered with what a monk of the time called a ‘white
mantle of churches.’ […]
The megaliths, then, were raised by some of the earliest Europeans.
The reason that this simple fact took so long to be accepted was the
peculiar inferiority complex which western Europeans had about their
past. Their religion, their laws, their cultural heritage, their
very numerals, all come from the East.
The inhabitants, before civilization came flooding in from the Mediterranean, were
illiterate; they kept no records, they built no cities. It was easy
to assume that they were simply bands of howling half-naked savages
who painted their bodies, put bear-grease on their hair and ate
their cousins.169
168 Jessup, Morris K.,
The Case For The UFO (New York: Bantam Books 1955) p. 148.
169
Reader’s Digest, The World’s Last Mysteries, 1977.
The whys and wherefores of this “megalith mania”
are still under debate. The fact is: you can’t date stones. Yes, you
can date things found around them, or near them, or under them, but
you can’t date the stones.
The interesting thing about the megalith builders is that the
peoples who were able to perform these utterly amazing feats of
engineering are still, in most circles, considered to be barbarians
because they did not build cities, engage in agriculture, develop the wheel,
or writing. Yet, they did something that clearly cannot be, and was
not, done by “civilized” peoples who did all of those “civilized”
things. They had some sort of “power” that we cannot replicate and
do not understand.
I would like to speculate here for a moment. The first thing that
comes to my mind when I consider the problem of the megaliths is
that of what I call “payoff”. That is to say, nobody who is human
ever does anything without a “payoff”, or to put it more generally,
for a reason, Colin Renfrew and his “Big Chief Theory”
notwithstanding.170 What could be the reason for the stones?
170 We discussed briefly Renfrew’s theory in the last chapter.
There
were clearly a great deal more of them than would be necessary for
simple “monumental” or “worship” purposes, or even time keeping, as
recent researchers have suggested. They appear to be arranged like
the inner workings of some vast global machine whose purpose is an
enigma to us. For example, at Carnac in Brittany, 3,000 menhirs
formed thirteen parallel lines, sprawled across four miles of the
French countryside.
At the same time, could the overabundant presence of these
megaliths, their “machine-like” arrangement, have anything to do
with the things that are observed to be “lacking” in these peoples,
i.e. the signs of civilization: the wheel, agriculture, writing and
cities? Might we suppose the reason for the stones and the reason
for the absence of evidence of what we, today, call civilization,
are identical?
And since they are found in all the same areas as
megaliths exist, might we also suppose that very corpulent women
represented in the thousands of carvings had some relationship to
these mystical powers as well? I am just observing what is evident
based on long periods of contemplating these structures and
artifacts. If we sit down before them without any preconceived
notions and try to imagine ourselves participating in the life of
the people for whom they were a natural and necessary part of the
landscape, and put that together with what we know about our own
civilization, we come to some very startling ideas.
It is a matter of observation that cities developed in agricultural
societies as a central place to manufacture and exchange goods.
Agriculture is required to feed stable and static populations.
Wheels are needed to both transport people and goods in cities and
from agricultural zones to cities and back. Writing is needed to
keep records of transactions, as is demonstrated by the clear
evidence of the earliest forms of writing: endless lists and tallies
of grain and cattle. And, writing was used for another reason: to
record and promulgate the exploits of certain Gods and Goddesses as
well as keeping track of all the goods tithed to the temple and
priesthood.
So, suppose none of this was needed? Suppose a civilization existed
that did not need cities, agriculture, wheels or writing? That is
not to say that they did not produce goods en masse, nor that they
did not produce food for large groups, or that they did not travel
over vast distances or record their exploits.
But, suppose they did
not do it in the way we would expect? Suppose the STONES DID IT ALL?
What do I mean?
It may very well be that the “worship” of the ancients was not
worship in the terms we understand it; it was a technology based on
cosmic energy, having something to do with the stars as markers of
periods of time in which cosmic rays could be collected, and
utilizing stones in interaction with the human body, possibly very
large women, to produce whatever the tribe needed.
For those of you
who are science fiction fans, simply think of a modified function of
The Navigator in the book and movie Dune. It ought not to be lost on
the reader that one of the titles of the Goddess Isis, as well as
other divine beings, is “The Navigator”. Another point about the
Goddess image of Isis is the odd construction on her head that is
called the “throne”. The term “seated” is regularly used in
conjunction with Goddess images, and in archaic times, kingship was
bestowed by marriage to the representative of the Goddess.
Worship of the moon is recorded in the oldest literatures of Egypt,
Babylonia, India, and China - and is still practiced today in various
parts of the world, particularly among certain African and Native
American groups. The experts will tell us that Moon worship is
founded on the belief that the phases of the moon and the growth and
decline of plant, animal, and human life are related. In some
societies food was laid out at night to absorb the rays of the moon,
which were thought to have power to cure disease and prolong life.
Among the Baganda of central Africa it was customary for a mother to
bathe her newborn child by the light of the first full moon. The
moon has also been associated with wisdom and justice, as in the
worship of the Egyptian God Thoth and the Mesopotamian God Sin. The
moon has also been the basis for many amorous legends and some
superstitions (madmen were once considered to be moonstruck, hence
the term lunatic). This is just the short version because entire
libraries could be filled with books on the mythology of the Moon
and related subjects.
The interesting points are that the rays of the moon were anciently
thought to have the power to cure disease and prolong life and
confer wisdom. These are motifs of both the Holy Grail and the
Philosopher’s Stone.
And this brings us to another most interesting
idea of Morris Jessup.
Morris Jessup and Gravitational Nodes
The reader familiar with Jessup’s work will know that he died under
very mysterious circumstances, and his death was the platform upon
which the “legend” of the “Philadelphia Experiment“ was founded.
This story is about Secret Government experiments in radar
invisibility that resulted in
Time Travel/manipulation. It is too
much to go into here and now, and not totally relevant to our
subject, but we will say that, after much research and tracking of
clues, we have concluded that Jessup was most likely murdered - but
that it wasn’t for the reasons
that most people think.
We believe that he was killed to give
“substance” to the diversionary story of the Philadelphia
Experiment, which is, in our opinion, designed to promulgate
disinformation AND distract attention away from certain observations
that he made in his book, cited above.
Jessup points out that UFOs have been sighted and recorded by human
beings for thousands of years, and he cites these reports in detail.
He informs us that some of the oldest and richest sources of such
reports are records of Indian and Tibetan monasteries. He notes that
records suggesting sightings 15,000 to 70,000 years ago are to be
found there, and these, as well as a report from the court records
of Thutmose III that has been, dated to approximately 1500 BC, are
quite similar to the reports of the present day.
Jessup then moves to the many sightings made by skeptical
astronomers, of which I have a collection myself. Their observations
are quantitative and documented as to time and conditions of
observation.
The astronomers, though unable to explain what they
were seeing, nevertheless faithfully recorded all details utilizing
whatever equipment was available to them at the various periods when
the observations were made. Simultaneous observations by two or more
observers have at times established the approximate distances of the
UFOs through the study of parallax calculations.171 It was these
observations, with certain specific data included, that provided the
details upon which Jessup formulated his idea.
171 “Parallax” is the displacement, often measurable, caused by
looking at an object from two different points; e.g. hold up a
finger and view it with first one eye and then the other. The
displacement against a distinct background is parallax.
He called it the
“habitat of the UFOs”.
Refinements of Bode’s law indicate nodes in the gravitational field,
at which planets, asteroids, and possibly comets and meteors tend to
locate themselves. An extension of the theory to the satellite
systems of the major planets indicates a similar system of nodes on
smaller scales, where planets, rather than the sun, are
gravitational centers. …it might well be that these gravitational
nodes are occupied to some degree by navigable constructions.[…]
We can, therefore, take it as highly probable that there are many
zones of convenience around the planets, as well as around the sun,
which are presently unoccupied by planets or satellites of any
considerable size and which may well be used by enlightened space
dwellers. Such zones, if they exist, are in addition to the
demonstrable earth-sun-moon neutral.
Since this system of nodes appears to be some function of the radius
of the attracting body, it may be that there is a complete series of
them in concentric circles starting at the surface of a parent body
such as the earth, but their existence or true nature can hardly be
known to us until we can in some way determine the nature of gravity
itself. There may even be hints available to us regarding gravity.
For instance, no final settlement has ever been made of the argument
over the opposed wave and corpuscular
theories of the propagation of light. An assumption that the ether,
a necessary adjunct to the wave theory, is identical with the
gravitational field, whatever that may be, would reconcile the
opposing theories and a quantum of light would then be merely a
pulsation or fluctuation in the gravitational field. Intense studies
of the movements of space-navigable UFOs might furnish vital clues
to such problems.[…]
There is increasingly strong evidence that gravity is neither so
continuous, so immaterial nor so obscure as to be completely
unamenable to use, manipulation and control. […] The lifting of the
ancient megalithic structures, too, must surely have come through
levitation.[…]
It is my belief that something of the sort was done in the
antediluvian past, through either research or through some
fortuitous discovery of physical forces and laws, which have not as
yet been revealed to scientists of this second wave of
civilization.172
172 Jessup,
Morris K.,
The Case for the UFO, (New York: Bantum Books 1955) pp.
38-42.
Jessup next goes on to discuss the periodicity of
events of celestial and spatial origin. As he stated, it is not
particularly astonishing that such phenomena should be cyclic, for
nearly everything astronomical IS periodic.
There are several important things in the comments of Jessup that
are pertinent to our discussion here. Not only is he drawing very
close to describing a paraphysical, hyperdimensional state of
existence which utilizes gravitational technology, he is also
pointing out a certain “periodicity” to the activities of same in
relationship to what might be considered points in time when
“dimensional doorways” open and close naturally. This is the
fundamental concept behind his idea of gravitational nodes in a
three-body system, the Earth, Moon and Sun.
Jessup came to these
ideas by researching UFOs and other anomalous phenomena, and it is
very interesting to speculate as to how this might connect to the
ideas of Gurdjieff when he says we are “food for the Moon”. In the
latter case, Gurdjieff was repeating an ancient idea that may have
been related to the concept of hyperdimensional beings using
gravitational nodes as “portals” between dimensions.
Another important point about Jessup’s comments is his connection
between scientific observations and clues in ancient myths to the
fact that the megalith builders had extraordinary abilities. In
short, what could it mean to be “enthroned” in terms of the Goddess?
How could this be a source of health, extended life, knowledge and
other benefits?
Where on earth did such ideas come from?
The Dance of the Hours
The Book of Hours of Jean de France, Duc de Berry, is considered to
be one of the most magnificent of late medieval manuscripts that
have survived into our time. A “Book of Hours” is a prayer book
based on the religious calendar of saints and festivals throughout
the year. The book commissioned by the Duke, undertaken by the
brothers Limbourg, consists of twelve folios; one for each month.
According to a lengthy analysis of these folios by Prof. Otto Neugebauer, this calendar encodes the traditions of ancient
astronomy and mathematics from deepest antiquity.
At the conclusion
of a fascinating analysis, demonstrating the method of decoding the
Book of Hours, Otto Neugebauer writes:
The scheme ends where it began, with January 19, if we make the two
last lunations 29 days long. This final exception to the rule of
alternation was called sallus lunae, the “mump of the moon.” In
order to know which date is supposed to be a new moon, one need only
know which number the present year has in the 19-year cycle. This
number is called the “golden number” because, as a scholar of the
13th century expressed it, “this number excels all other lunar
rations as gold excels all other metals.”173
173 Neugebauer, Otto, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity,
(New York: Dover 1969).
The 19-year cycle is
called a “Metonic Cycle”. It refers to the observational fact that
19 years (6939.689 days) is almost exactly the same length as 235
lunar months (6939.602 days) and that a 19-year cycle consisting of
12 years that were 12-lunar-months-long and 7 years that were
13-lunar-months-long would keep the lunar months in step with the
seasons. In other words, the phases of the Moon start to reoccur,
within about 2 hours, on the same days of the same months of the
year.
Meton tried to sell the scheme to the Athenians, who weren’t
interested, it seems, and nevertheless they named the idea the
“Metonic Cycle”. This 19-year cycle is closely related to the 18.6
year precession of the moon’s orbit about the earth which causes a
corresponding wobble (nutation) on the earth’s motion. This suggests
that the megalith builders KNEW about the planetary wobble! In fact,
the 18.6 year cycle seems to be a key concern of the megalith
builders: it is also an observational fact that every 18.6 years,
the moon reaches a major standstill point, which means that every
18.6 years, the rising or setting Moon reaches a northern extreme in
rising and setting azimuth at summer solstice, and a southern
extreme at winter solstice.
In 1897 at Coligny in Burgundy, fragments of a bronze tablet were
discovered.
Reassembled, this tablet is the longest known document in the Gallic
language. Dating to around the 1st century BC, it contains forty
different words written in Latin script, and it was a calendar.
After it was deciphered, it became clear that the Celts worked in
units of sixty-two lunar months, from one new moon to the next.
One
of these months would contain thirty days, the next twenty-nine,
which gave half-months of fifteen days, or one fifteen-day period followed by a
fourteen-day period. The days were counted from moon-rise to
moon-rise. The year that emerged from all this was eleven days
shorter than the 365-day solar year. They corrected this problem,
however, by the simple expedient of alternating 12-month years with
13-month years, - 3 of the former and 2 of the latter in a complete
cycle of 62 months.
Obviously, this was a rather ingenious solution to the problem but
it begs the question: it’s obvious that they had the mathematical
skills to calculate the solar year rather accurately, so why didn’t
they use it as their calendar? Why were they not linking the passage
of time to the Sun, the agricultural cycles? Why were they so
obviously concerned with what the Moon was doing and having a
precise way of keeping track of it? Why did they count their days
from moon-rise to moonrise? We note that this is a custom still
reflected in the practices of the Jews and Moslems, who count a day
as beginning when the Sun sets as a consequence of their
interactions with the Indo-Europeans.
Well, of course the experts tell us it was because they “worshipped”
the Moon. It was close and big and awesome to behold, so they
naturally just created a whole slew of ignorant beliefs about it,
and it became their “Goddess”, or God, as the case may be. As I have
already noted, by observing children, we may come to a better idea
of how it would be unlikely for the ancients (assuming they were
howling savages) to have come up with such ideas without some basis,
without some “story” having been told to them. Children accept the
natural world around them as it is until someone tells them a story.
And even then, you have to work hard to convince them that the story
is true because if you say that the moon is made of green cheese,
the child will think you have gone nuts.
However, if we connect Jessup’s idea of a gravitational node that
lies somewhere between the earth and the moon, in a specific and
cyclic relationship, to the strange marking of time by the ancients
according to where the moon was, as well as the later “moon worship”
as the transmission of an archaic knowledge of some secret source of
power, then we come to the idea that the ancient technology was
something quite extraordinary.
What seems to be evident is that the megalith builders were
concerned enough with the “three body system” - that relates to the
nutation of the Earth to the relative positions of the
earth-moon-sun - that they based their calendrical system on this
factor! This very well may suggest that they USED gravity.
We want
to emphasize that curious comment of a thirteenth century scholar
quoted by Neugebauer who said, regarding the 19 year cycle:
“this
number excels all other lunar rations as gold excels all other
metals.”
If we then connect that remark to the quests of the
alchemist to “transmute base metals into gold” via the
“philosopher’s stone”, and the alchemical adage, “the right person,
in the right place, at the
right time, doing the right thing, can accomplish the work”, we
begin to realize that we are moving in the correct direction.
Most
particularly when we recall that curious story about Fulcanelli and
Jacques Bergier:
Certain geometrical arrangements of highly purified materials are
enough to release atomic forces without having recourse to either
electricity or vacuum techniques.174
174 Pauwels, L, and Bergier, J.,
The Morning of the
Magicians, (New York: Stein and Day. 1964) p. 77.
This will become even more
significant further on.
Are there any clues about stones themselves being part of an ancient
technology? At present, there are many people who claim that the
megaliths are arranged around the world on a grid, the structure of
which is, according to them, 36 degrees of longitude apart.
The
assumption is that all of the megaliths belong to a single,
pre-flood civilization. The assumption being made from this
hypothesis is that the strange locations of these complexes implies
that the purpose of the megaliths was not to derive power from a
grid for local use, but rather, to do something to the earth grid by
coordinating local actions on a global basis. In other words, the
claim is that the megaliths appear to have been used to put energy
into a global grid rather than to extract energy from it.
There are problems with this blanket assumption. First of all, while
we do not think that the present scientific dating is reliable, we
do think that some ball-park figures can be established if enough
care is taken in observing individual situations and taking all the
evidence into account. The undersea structures off Japan, Bimini,
and Malta, as well as Tiahuanaco in South America, all suggest a
civilization that belonged to a pre-cataclysmic environment.
But
many other megalithic structures clearly belong to an “eruption” of
civilization in a postcataclysmic environment, including the
pyramids in Egypt, Central America, Stonehenge, and so on. What is
striking is the difference between the pyramidal groups and the
“circle making” groups, though many current researchers are trying
to connect them to the same basic philosophical context. I think
that may be a mistake.
It has been proposed by the advocates of so-called
Sacred Geometry
that the placing of the megaliths was a function of “Grid
Engineering”, and that this is mankind’s oldest science. Such people
further claim that precise geometrical spherical versions of the
cube, such as the tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron,
dodecahedron, and other compound and semi-regular solids, such as
the cuboctahedron, are now recognized as evidence of Neolithic man’s
familiarity with the concepts of this putative sacred geometry.
These folks then go on to propose that this was a “mystical” sort of
practice that includes visualizing the earth’s energy grid in
certain ritualistic ways that will bring the individual in “tune”
with the superior intelligence of the Earth by producing
“resonance”.
I have to wonder about this interpretation. If, as we suspect, we
have been under an “Hyperdimensional Raj”175 for these many
thousands of years, we might think that much of this material is
designed to do one of two things:
1) to inform us about the “control
system”
2) to perpetuate it
What would be more natural than for
the Matrix Control system to manipulate people to think that
“visualizing” these grids will bring them into “harmony” with the
earth and that this is a “good thing”?
175 Thanks to C. Scott Littleton for
this handy term.
It may be, in fact, that it
is designed to strengthen the prison and to make human beings into
the “batteries” that keep it in place! However, that does not mean
that discovering these things and knowing where these points are is
not a useful exercise. But, to take this very scientific knowledge,
ignore its possible correct applications, and fall into the trap of
doing what amounts to “rituals” of visualization so as to bring
oneself into “harmony” with the earth may be exactly what “they”
want us to do.
The very fact that it is being so widely promulgated
in this way suggests to me that this is the case.
Possible Antagonistic Polarities in Ancient Civilizations
When one tracks back through all of the ancient “matters” and
studies the different groups, trying to follow them as they moved
from place to place, studying the genetic morphology in order to
keep track of who is who, and comparing linguistics and myth and
archaeology, one comes to the startling realization that there were
significant polarities throughout space and time.
I have tentatively
identified these polarities as the Circle People and the Triangle -
or Pyramid - People. In a general sense, one can see the broad brush
of the triangle people in the Southern hemisphere, in the pyramids
and related cultures and artifacts.
For the most part, their art is
primitive and stylistically rigid. In the northern hemisphere, one
sees the circle makers, the spirals, the rough megaliths, the art of Lascaux and Chauvet and the many other caves. One can note a clear
difference between the perceptions and the response to the
environment between the two trends and groups. Of course, there are
areas where there was obvious mixture of both cultures and styles,
and ideological constructions, but overall, there is a very distinct
difference.
There are many books on “alternative science” being published in the
present time about the purported ancient civilizations. One
assumption that they all seem to hold in common is that everything
was all hunky dory, sweetness and light among all the people, and
the only thing that happened was that a nasty cataclysm came along
and brought it all to an end.
They keep forgetting the issue of the
Vedas and Plato’s Timaeus where an ancient war was described, and it
was at that point in time, or immediately after, that the cosmic
catastrophe occurred. It would then be only reasonable to
suspect that the same differences between the warring parties would
be carried over into the post cataclysmic world.
And it seems to be
a reasonable assumption that the “southern influence”, including
Egypt, was that of the “Atlanteans” of Plato, and that the “northern
influence”, including the builders of Stonehenge, were the
“Athenians” of Plato, the “Sons of Boreas”, or the North Wind,
keeping in mind that these “Athenians” were obviously not from
Athens as we know it today, though we are beginning to suspect that
we know who they were.
We should also like to note that the so-called “civilizing
influence” of the South, of the creators of agricultural
civilizations, the instigation of writing and the wheel and so
forth, is always connected in some way to “scaly” critters like Fish Gods or
Serpents.
It isn’t until fairly late that the Serpent makes
his appearance among the archaeological finds of Europe and central
Asia. Before the serpent appeared there, there were only Goddesses,
birds, and wavy lines representing water and cosmic energy. I think
that it is dangerous to confuse the issues.
Again and again we see
currents of two completely different processes, two factions, two
ways of perceiving and interacting with the cosmos: one that wishes
to conceal and one that wishes to reveal, one that wishes to
dominate, one that wishes to share.
We notice that many megalithic sites are located a certain points
that correspond
with a certain geometry. But, if we look even closer, if we discard
the current so-called
“Sacred Geometry” and just look at the sites themselves and let them
speak - all of them - instead of leaving this one or that one out because
it doesn’t quite fit, or only is “very close” to fitting, we may
discover another relationship that is suggested by the sites, rather
than working to fit the sites into an assumption.
So many bizarre
ideas are being propagated at the present time, including the
preposterous one about the megaliths being set up to absorb the
energy of human sacrifices, and that the stones “drink blood...” that
it is quite discouraging to realize how easily people are misled by
nonsense. If such writers cannot figure out that the megaliths were
demonized by the church because they were revered by the nature
religions, which we theorize are carriers of ancient scientific
knowledge, and the nature religions themselves were also demonized,
then there isn’t much chance that they will figure anything else out
either.
Such people also tend to be convinced that
the Holy Grail is
the cup from the Last Supper, too, and I won’t even comment on that.
Stone Technology and T.C. Lethbridge
Getting back to our stones, and whether or not we can find even a
hint that they were involved in some kind of technology, we note
first of all that archaeologist T.C. Lethbridge once placed his hand
on one of the stones and received a strong tingling sensation like
an electric shock, and the huge, heavy stone felt as if it were
rocking wildly. Many other people have received sensations of shock
when placing their hands on certain stones, and photographs have
occasionally shown inexplicable light radiations emanating from
them.
Upon examination, we find that many of the megaliths were
engraved with “cup and ring” marks - concentric rings and channels.
The first impression these designs give is that of a circuit board
of a computer.
In Greek myth, the walls of Thebes were said to have been
constructed by the skill of a musician called Amphion and his lyre.
He played the lyre in such a way that stones were made to move.
Phoenician myth speaks of the God Ouranus moving stones as if they
had life of their own. This is one of numerous traditions from
around the world that sound in various forms was used to levitate
and move large stones.
Stones may have another interesting property that deserves serious
research. In 1982, Tafter, the landlord at the Prince of Wales Inn
at Kenfig in Mid-Glamorgan, Wales, complained of the sound of organ
music and voices keeping him awake at night. To investigate, John Marke, an electrical engineer, and
Allan Jenkins, an industrial
chemist, connected electrodes to the wall of the pub after closing
time one night. They fed 20,000 volts across the electrodes and
locked tape recorders in the room for four hours.
When the tapes
were analyzed, they had succeeded in taping voices speaking in old
Welsh, organ music, and a ticking clock. Interestingly, there was no
clock in the room at the time. It has been suggested that the stones
in the wall contained substances similar to those found in modern
recording tape.
This last remark about “recordings” in stone brings us to another
interesting item. Tom C. Lethbridge, the above mentioned
archeologist (who became Director of Excavations for the Cambridge
Antiquarian Society and Director of the University Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology), wrote a number of excellent books that
form a collection that has been called one of the most fascinating
records of paranormal research ever compiled. In recent years,
Lethbridge is finally beginning to be fully appreciated.
Combining
the skills of a scientist with a completely open mind, he conducted
a series of experiments that convinced him of the existence of hyperdimensional realms
that interact dynamically with our own.
Colin Wilson called him a man whose gifts were far ahead of his time
and credited him with one of the most remarkable and original minds
in parapsychology. We agree most heartily and highly recommend his
work to the reader. Over the past ten years or more, Lethbridge’s
work has served us as a platform for many fruitful speculations and
experiments about hyperdimensional realities.
Tom Lethbridge, the Cambridge don, took no interest in psychical
research until after he had retired. But dowsing fascinated him.
In
the early 1930’s, he and another archaeologist were looking for
Viking graves on the Isle of Lundy in the Bristol Channel. After
finding what they came for, they were just killing time while
waiting for a ferry and decided to try some experiments with
dowsing, which had been an interest of Lethbridge for some time.
Lundy Island is crisscrossed with seams of volcanic rock that
extrude through the slate, and Lethbridge wanted to see if dowsing
would locate them. So, he had his friend blindfold him and lead him
about with a forked hazel stick. Every time he passed over a
volcanic seam, the hazel fork twisted violently in his hands. The
friend was carrying a very sensitive magnetometer and was able to
immediately verify that Lethbridge had accurately located the
volcanic seams of rock.
Lethbridge realized that, like running water, volcanic rock has a
faint magnetic field. He had written about dowsing earlier,
“Most
people can dowse, if they know how to do it. If they cannot do it,
there is probably some fault in the electrical system of their
bodies”.
This remark makes us wonder if there are not people who have
extremely powerful and well-developed electrical systems in their
bodies, and if such conditions might not be a genetic inheritance?
This question will come up again further on, so keep it in mind.
Lethbridge’s success with finding volcanic rock started him off on
his
investigations into other realms. Hidden objects could not stay
hidden when
Lethbridge was wandering around with his rods, twigs or pendulum.
There didn’t
seem to be any limits to what could be detected this way. He had
proved to his
complete satisfaction not only that dowsing worked, but that it was
“mind stuff”
- the rod or pendulum was connected to the mind of the person
holding it in some way.
Tom Lethbridge’s results proved to be not only accurate but also
repeatable, and he found the responses appeared to be governed by
vibrations of various wavelengths. The wavelength of water, for
instance, was different to that of metal. His principal instrument
became the pendulum, and he found a lot depended on the length of
the pendulum’s cord.
He was able to test not only for minerals but
abstract things and qualities like anger, death, deceit, sleep,
colors, male, and female. In a lengthy series of trial and error
experiments, he created a table of very precise measurements
showing, for example, that a 22-inch length would reveal the
existence of silver or lead, while iron demanded a 32-inch stretch,
but sulphur a mere 7 inches.
Stranger still, though, the pendulum
would react to different emotions and attributes, with a different
length for feminine (29”) and masculine (24”) objects, including
human or animal remains. The details of his experiments are utterly
fascinating. This open-minded and extremely literate man was aware
that many people would regard his methods and findings with
suspicion.
He once wrote:
“It is impossible for it to be imaginary. If you can use a pendulum
to work out within an inch or two exactly where something lies
hidden beneath undisturbed turf, and do this in front of witnesses,
and then go to the spot which the pendulum has indicated and take
off the turf, dig up the soil beneath and find the object. If you
can do this same operation again and again and almost always
succeed, this cannot be imagination, delusion, or any of those
things. It is scientific experiment, however crude it may be.”
Perhaps the reason why some still cannot accept dowsing is because
it is so incredibly simple. At no cost at all you can produce an
instrument no piece of expensive machinery can equal. But again,
Lethbridge points out that everything depends on the operator.
Lethbridge found himself confronted with a very strange world - “far
stranger I feel than anything produced by physics, botany or
biology” - and he wrote of millions of cones of force surrounding
each of us in our homes and backyards which can be contacted
instantly by something in our own “energy field”. It was much more
difficult to comprehend than molecules, atoms and electrons, he
said, because we had been brought up to take these for granted.
As we have already noted, if the infrastructure of our civilization
were to be destroyed, then if a person a hundred years later tried
to explain the theory of radio and television, people would find it
impossible to comprehend. It would sound like magic.
Where does the power to work a pendulum come from? Lethbridge
thought that it might be something invisible and intangible, a part
of us, which knows far more than we do. Is it mind or soul? Some
sort of electromagnetic or psyche field? Something linked to a
higher dimension? He agonized over this and admitted he wasn’t wise
enough to come to any definite conclusion, apart from the thought
that ancient man knew far more about it than we do today.
Although, Lethbridge did a huge amount of experimental work in the
field of dowsing, and his results deserve attention from any serious
student of the deeper realities of our world, what we are interested
in here is his work in another, though related, direction.
In 1957, Lethbridge left Cambridge in disgust at the narrow-minded
attitudes of the scholars there. He moved into Hole House, an old
Tudor mansion on the south coast of Devon. Next door to him lived a
little old white-haired lady who assured Lethbridge that she could
put spells on people who annoyed her and that she was able to travel
out of her body at night and wander around the district. She
explained that if she wanted to discourage unwanted visitors, she
had only to visualize a five-pointed star in the path of the
individual and they would stay away. Lethbridge, of course, was
skeptical.
But, being an experimenter, Lethbridge was trying the visualization
one evening while lying in bed. That night, his wife awakened with
the feeling that somebody else was in the room. She could see a
faint glow of light at the foot of the bed, which slowly faded. The
next day the old lady came to see them and told them that she had
come to “visit” them the previous night and had found the bed
surrounded by triangles of fire.
Leaving aside whether or not we can prove this story to be anything
more than a subjective experience, there are two important points we
would like to make. The first one is that somehow, this practice of
“visualizing pentagrams” seems to have a causal relationship to the
appearance of the old woman in Lethbridge’s bedroom. It was almost
as though the practice “attracted” the visitor, possibly even
inspiring the wish or compulsion to visit. The second is that the
visualized pentagrams appeared as triangles of fire.
Theories of how hyperdimensional objects might appear in fourth dimensional
space-time, or how four dimensional objects might appear in three
dimensional space time, in mathematical terms, lends a modicum of
credibility to this story. If the old woman had seen fiery
pentagrams, we would not take such notice of the event.
That a
pentagon in our world might appear as a triangle in another realm
suggests something very mysterious here. I am also intrigued by the
possible relationship to the differences of these hyperdimensional
solids and the difference between the perspectives of the “triangle
people” and the “circle people”. This is also a very important point
related to the dangers of visualizing geometric shapes when we
consider the subsequent events that Lethbridge recounted.
Several years later, the old lady told Lethbridge that she was going
to put a spell on the cattle of a farmer with whom she was
quarreling. At this point, Lethbridge took her seriously and warned
her about the dangers of practicing magic. She ignored him, and one
day not long after declaring her intentions, she was found dead in
her bed under mysterious circumstances. As it happened, the cattle
of two other nearby farmers did get hoof and mouth disease, but the
cattle of the farmer with whom
the old lady was quarreling were unaffected. Lethbridge was
convinced that the “spell” had rebounded on the old lady in some
way. But, it was this event that led to an important insight for us
here, which is why we have recounted the story.
Sometime after the old woman’s death, Lethbridge was passing her
cottage and suddenly experienced a “nasty feeling”, a “suffocating
sense of depression”. His curiosity aroused, Lethbridge walked
around the cottage and discovered a most interesting thing: he could
step into and out of the “depression” just as if it were some kind
of invisibly defined “locus”.
This reminded Lethbridge of a similar experience he had had when
walking with his mother as a teenager. It was in the Great Wood near
Wokingham, on a nice morning, when suddenly the two of them
experienced a,
“horrible feeling of gloom and depression, which crept
upon us like a blanket of fog over the surface of the sea”.
They
left in a hurry and only later discovered that the corpse of a
suicide had been discovered lying just a few yards from where they
had been standing. Some years later, Lethbridge and his wife went to
the seashore to collect seaweed for their garden. As he walked on
the beach, he again experienced the sense of depression, gloom and
fear descending on him. Resisting this influence, Lethbridge and his
wife began to fill their sacks with seaweed.
After a very short
period of this activity, Lethbridge’s wife, Mina, came running up to
him demanding that they leave saying,
“I can’t stand this place a
minute longer. There’s something frightful here”.
In a discussion about the phenomenon with Mina’s brother the
following day, the brother mentioned that he had experienced
something very similar in a field near Avebury, in Wiltshire.
When
he said the word “field”, it clicked in Lethbridge’s mind and he
remembered that field telephones often short circuit in warm, muggy
weather.
“What was the weather like?”, he asked.
“Warm and damp”, replied the brother.
Right there, the idea began to shape itself in Lethbridge’s mind.
Water.
On the day he had been in the Great Wood, it had been warm
and damp. When they had been at the beach gathering seaweed, it had
likewise been warm and damp. Experiment was obviously in order!
The next weekend, Lethbridge and his wife again visited the bay.
Again, as they stepped onto the beach, the same bank of depression
and gloom enveloped them. Mina led him to the spot where she had
experienced such an overwhelming sensation that she had insisted on
leaving the place. At that spot, the sensation was so powerful that
they actually felt dizzy. Lethbridge described it as being similar
to having a high fever and full of drugs. As it happened, on either
side of this spot were two streams of water.
Mina went off to the cliff to look at the scenery and suddenly
walked into the “depression” again. She actually had the sensation
that something or someone was urging her to jump off the cliff! When
she had brought it to the attention of Lethbridge, he agreed that
this spot was as “sinister” as the spot on the beach between the
streams.
As it turned out, nine years later, a man did commit suicide from
that exact spot. Lethbridge wondered if there was some sort of
“timeless” sensation that had been “imprinted” on the area via some
sort of “recording” principle. It seemed that, whether from the past or the future, feelings
of despair were somehow recorded on the surroundings, in the very
atmosphere, it seemed.
The only question was, how? Lethbridge
believed that the key was water.
A hint of what may be happening here is provided by the work of Y.
Rocard of the Sorbonne, who had discovered that underground water
produces changes in the earth’s magnetic field, and this was
proposed as the solution as to why dowsing works. The water does
this because it has a field of its own which interacts with the
earth’s field.
And most significantly to us here is that magnetic
fields are the means by which sound is recorded on tape covered with
iron oxide. This suggested to Lethbridge that the magnetic field
produced by running water could record strong emotions that, as
Lethbridge also noted, produce electrical activity in the human
physiology. Such fields could be “played back” continuously, and
amplified in damp and muggy weather.
This would explain why these “areas of depression” seem to form
invisible walls. If you bring a magnet closer and closer to an iron
object, you notice that at a certain point, the object is “seized”
by the magnet as it enters the force field. Lethbridge’s experiments
took a new turn at this point, and led to evidence that many things
that are perceived as “hauntings” or “ghosts” are really just
“recordings”.
At some point he thought about the fact that ghosts
are often reported to reappear on certain “anniversaries” which
suggests that there are other cyclical currents that turn such
recordings on or off or simply amplify them. To answer the question
that is growing in the reader’s mind, yes, it seems that some hauntings are the result of happy emotions, and strong happiness can
also be recorded in the same way. It also seems that the type of
material substance that the human “field” interacts with has an
important role. For example, in the 1840s, a certain Bishop Polk
told a Joseph Rhodes Buchanan that he could detect brass in the
dark. He said that when he touched it, a distinctly unpleasant taste
was produced in his mouth.
Buchanan tested him and discovered that
it was true, even if the metal was carefully and thickly wrapped in
paper. Buchanan experimented with his students and found that some
of them had a similar ability. In fact, it seemed that there were
quite a number of substances that could be detected this way, and
the only explanation that seemed reasonable was that the nerves of
the human being produce some sort of field - he called it the nerve
aura - which interacts with a similar “field” of the object.
Buchanan and others called the ability to “read” these fields
“psychometry”, and it is popularly practiced today.
What many people
do not realize is that the principle of psychometry, that many take
for granted - they can “feel the vibrations” - led Tom Lethbridge to
some startling revelations.
As noted, Tom Lethbridge had concluded after a lot of experiments
that a dowsing pendulum could somehow respond to different
substances, and that lengthening or shortening the string was like
tuning the pendulum to a particular wavelength. Lethbridge spent
days testing all kinds of different substances. He discovered that
the wavelength for silver is the same as lead: 22 inches. Truffles
and beech wood both respond at 17 inches. This meant that there must
be something further about such “paired” items to distinguish them.
After some testing, Lethbridge discovered that it was not just the
length of the string, but the number and direction of revolutions.
For lead, the pendulum would gyrate 16 times and for silver it would gyrate 22 times. It was
beginning to look like nature had a truly marvelous and foolproof
code for identifying anything. It is also beginning to appear to us
that the ancients knew this and that they may have attempted to
transmit this knowledge to us via myth and legend and the “Green
Language”. (That magical mumbo jumbo might not be the solution to
the mysteries is also becoming more and more apparent, but, let us
continue into even more remarkable speculations of Tom Lethbridge.)
Through a variety of experiments, Lethbridge established the
“frequency” for both death and violent anger: 40 inches. This also
proved to be the frequency for cold and black. Indeed, colors have
frequency. Grey is 22 inches - not a surprise since it is the color
of both lead and silver. Yellow is 29 and green is 30. After months
of experiments, Lethbridge had constructed his table of frequencies,
and he had discovered that 40 inches was some kind of limit.
Every
single substance that he tested fell between zero and 40 inches. It
was at this point that he discovered something curious: Sulphur
reacts to a 7 inch pendulum; if he extended the pendulum to 47
inches, it would still react to sulphur, but not directly over it.
It would only react a little to one side. He then discovered that
this was true of everything else he tried beyond the number 40 - it
would react, but only to one side. He noticed another odd thing:
beyond 40 inches, there was no rate for the concept of time. The
pendulum simply would not respond.
Lethbridge realized that he was
measuring a different dimension.
However, when he lengthened the
pendulum to 80 inches, there was a response to the idea of time. Lethbridge pondered this and finally theorized that in the realm
beyond 40, the pendulum is in time itself, and that is why there is
no reaction to the idea. But, beyond that, there are other “realms”
where the idea of time exists in another world “beyond death”.
Lethbridge discovered that if he lengthened the string again beyond
80 inches, he got the same result, as if there were still another
dimension. Lethbridge realized that he had discovered worlds in
other dimensions, outside the limits of space and time, and
theorized that we cannot see it because our physical bodies are
limited detectors.
Tom Lethbridge continued with his experiments and determined that
the world of the “next” level beyond our own is one in which the
energy vibrations are four times as fast as those of our world. The
effect of encountering this reality is like a fast train passing a
slow one. Even though they are both moving forward, the slow train
seems to be moving backward. This hyperdimensional world is all
around us, yet we are unable to see it because it is beyond the
range of our senses. All the objects of our world are very likely
just our limited perceptions of what is happening in this total
reality.
His experiments with megaliths indicated that they were placed to
mark places where the earth forces were most powerful, and to
harness energy in some way now forgotten.
Unfortunately, Lethbridge died of a heart attack before he could
complete his researches.
At this point we would like to note that Tom Lethbridge was not a
spiritualist. He believed that magic, spiritualism, occultism and
other forms of mumbo jumbo are merely crude attempts to understand
the vast realm of hidden energies in which we live. We would like to
add that expositions along the lines of most esoterica generally serve only to obscure, not to
reveal; to disinform, rather than to produce real knowledge.
Tom Lethbridge used logic and experiment and observation to come to the
conclusion that there are other realms of reality beyond our world
and that there are forms of energy that we do not even begin to
understand.
Stones and “Sacred Geometry”
176
Coming back now to our
stones, and the questions about their placement, we realize that
this matter is not as simple as the many “Sacred Geometry”
specialists would have us believe. We need to do more investigating
before we come to any solid conclusions about earth grids and what
they may or may not do.
176 Lethbridge, T.C., The
Power of the Pendulum (Viking, Penguin, 1991); also see Wilson,
Colin, Mysteries (Putnam Publishing Group, 1980).
The temple at
Baalbek, Lebanon, is probably
one of the most astonishing structures on earth due to the sheer
size of the stones used in its construction. In a quarry about a
mile away from the actual temple is an abandoned stone that was
never used. It is the biggest stone block ever cut by man and its
measurements are 68 ft by 14 feet wide and 14 feet tall. In other
words, it is a single building block that is as large as two
complete modest homes put together. The block is estimated to weigh
1200 tons.
From this single block, if cut into manageable pieces,
stonemasons could build 15 houses, each 20 by 40 feet, with walls a
foot thick. The Egyptian obelisks were large; each being a single
block, but the largest one standing today is less than half the size
of this stone. The marble for the columns of Baalbek was obtained
from a quarry far up the Nile, and then overland for 400 miles. The
column drums themselves were cut in sections 20 feet long. The
platform upon which Baalbek is built is composed of granite blocks
and measures 900 feet by 600 feet.
In this platform are positioned
three stones that are each 63 feet long, 13 feet high, and 10 feet
thick. The doorway of the “smaller” temple of Bacchus at Baalbek is
fifty feet high and is said to be the most marvelous doorway in all
of ancient architecture. Even as a ruin, having been damaged by wars
and earthquakes, Baalbek is still one of the most awesome sights in
the world.
Curiously, most of those who write about ancient
monuments seldom mention Baalbek except in passing.
One has to
wonder if it is because they simply prefer to not have to think
about the cutting and moving of those stones?
The Coral Castle and Spinning Airplane Seats
In October of 1994, I asked the Cassiopaeans - myself in the future - how the stones of Baalbek were cut and moved. They replied that it
was done by “sound wave focusing”. Well, sure!
But then they added
that I was going to discover something about this myself, and they
cryptically mentioned the “Coral Castle”.
Edward Leedskalnin was a 100-pound, unschooled wizard who
single-handedly built an edifice known as the Coral Castle down in
South Florida.
Some of the stones Edward used in the construction of
the Coral Castle weigh 28 tons. That is not in the same ballpark as
the stones of Baalbek, but for the work of a single, little guy, it
suggests to us that he certainly discovered something!
Leedskalnin also produced several pamphlets for sale during the
mid-1940’s dealing with magnetic currents. These pamphlets describe
various experiments he undertook with home made magnets that he
created using such things as welding rods, steel fishing line, and
automobile batteries. It is thought that he was explicating the
ideas that would lead the insightful reader to the same discovery he
had made himself. So far, no one has figured it out except to
propose that it had something to do with the so-called “earth grid”,
which, as we will see, is more nonsense.
As it happens, even though I lived my entire life in Florida, I had
never been to see this purported marvel, and the only things I knew
about it were what I had learned by watching a television program
about it on Unsolved Mysteries, I believe.
The February following the Cassiopaean’s remark about the Coral
Castle, I was invited to give a talk to a study group in Orlando.
After my little talk, a funny old man came up to me with a big grin
on his face, grabbed my hand and shook it vigorously and said to me
with a faint accent,
“Ya know, I’ve been studying this UFO business
for over 40 years - I talked with Hynek and Major Keyhoe and all
that - and you are the first person I have ever heard who has gotten
up in public and described it as it really is! I have some material
you might be interested in. You should come and see me some time”!
Well, I thought he was just an old guy with a lot of time on his
hands that needed company and might be using this as an excuse to
get it. I thanked him, chatted a bit, and when he went off to get a
snack, I “mingled” in the direction of the host of the event who was
chatting with several other people, intending to make my adieus.
He
was apparently describing the Florida tourist attractions to a group
of out-of-towners when he said,
“And you might want to go down and
have a look at this Coral Castle, too”!
“What is that?”, one of them asked.
The host proceeded to recap the
Unsolved Mysteries presentation.
Then he said: “You can ask Henry
over there”, pointing at my little old man who knew Hynek, “he was a
close friend of the guy who built the Coral Castle”.
Well, needless to say, after hearing this, I remembered
the Cassiopaeans had said that I would “discover” something about this
“sound-wave focusing”.
I decided that I wouldn’t leave just yet, and
went back to chat with the old man and said,
“I hear you knew the
guy who built the Coral Castle?”
“Ayup! Sure did! Knew him for years! I was stationed over there in
Homestead area after the war and got to know him pretty well.”
I asked, “Did he ever tell you how he did it?”
“Nope. He never would tell anybody. He would always say that he knew
the secret of how the pyramids were built, but nobody ever saw him
do it. I have some ideas about it, though, and I wrote a little book
about him and my experiences and observations. You know, it’s a
shame that the television program didn’t give the real story! All that nonsense about ‘Sweet
Sixteen’ and a ‘broken heart’ and so on! What a lot of crap! Sure!
If you come to visit, I can show you what I do know! Do ‘ya know
something? I am the only person ole Edward ever invited inside his
private living quarters! Ayup! He was a real loner!”
I was already making plans for a visit!
I made the trip back over to the Orlando area within a couple of
weeks. I was truly amazed at what I found. Henry hadn’t been
exaggerating when he said he had been interested in studying UFOs
for forty years. His home was a veritable museum of UFOs! There were
paintings, enlarged photographs on the walls, knick-knacks and
memorabilia on the tables; and books! He had a HUGE collection of
books in bookcases and papers in boxes all over his house.
Out of
one of these boxes he pulled a loose-leaf notebook containing a
typewritten manuscript. It had black and white photographs stuck in
the appropriate places with corner tabs, and he said it was the only
copy. I was appalled at that and offered to transcribe it onto the
computer and give him a copy on diskette. He said he would like that
very much, but he was not yet ready to let the only existing copy
leave his possession. I certainly understood.
The manuscript was
about his long friendship with Edward Leedskalnin and all their
conversations. Henry wasn’t one to pry, and that may be why he was
accepted as a friend. The photographs were of Henry and Edward - Henry
in his military uniform - and many others of his children playing
among the great blocks of the Coral Castle.
I regret that I did not read the book carefully - because Henry died
in 1996 - but there was no time with all the other fascinating things
to do and see. Henry took me on a tour of his memorabilia, his
photographs, and his books. It was just too much to absorb at once!
Finally, we sat down and I was able to ask about that most
interesting of clues that Henry had let drop - that he had been inside
the living quarters of Edward Leedskalnin while Edward was still
living. I wanted to know what he had observed.
Henry described how Edward had done a lot of experiments and knew
all kinds of secrets, but that he was very paranoid. That is why he
told the crazy story about “Sweet Sixteen” and the phony broken
heart. It was to put people off the trail, or so he thought. Edward
had the idea that if he let it be known exactly what he knew, he
would be picked up by some government officials and never seen
again.
Well, maybe he wasn’t crazy!
Henry told me that, after much, or all, of the Coral Castle had been
built, Edward had moved it from one location to another. Apparently
there was some question of zoning and Edward was told he had to tear
it down or move it. He moved it.
Certain “researchers” have claimed that it was moved because of some
theory of earth grids relating to Sacred Geometry, but that does not
seem to be true based on what Henry told me. It was simply a
question of zoning and county regulations. And, since it was built
in a different original location, that pretty much discounts the
idea that the location was important to the act of building. It
simply wasn’t, and the evidence does not support the idea.
The mode of the moving of this pile of rocks was what was so
interesting to me. Apparently, Edward hired a truck and driver; only
he would have the driver park the truck overnight and send him home. The next morning, the truck
would be loaded with the huge blocks of stone and would be driven to
the new site.
There was a block and tackle on tall poles prominently
displayed and, apparently, Edward confided to Henry that this was
his ruse to give the impression that this was what he was using to
unload the blocks. He would send the driver off on an errand,
leaving the truck there with the blocks on it, and when the driver
would return, the truck would be unloaded. This was repeated over
and over again until all the stones were moved to the new site.
There are reports that say he placed his hands on the stones and
“sang” to them.
Another peculiar thing was that Henry told me he had visited the
quarry where the stones were cut and there were no tailings!
Tailings are the stone equivalent of sawdust. When you saw wood, you
have sawdust. When you cut stone or metal, you have tailings.177 So,
however Leedskalnin cut these stones, it was not a usual method!
177 Remember Schoch’s findings
about the stones of the underwater monuments. They didn’t appear to
have been cut.
The final and most interesting part of Henry’s story was the
description of the living quarters of Edward Leedskalnin.
According
to Henry, there were three pieces of ordinary furniture in the room:
a cot type bed, a hand-made wooden table with a framed screen that
fit over the top to keep insects off the food which was stored there
since Edward had no refrigerator, and a hand-made wooden chair. What
was not ordinary was an airplane seat suspended by chain from the
ceiling - complete with seatbelt.
Now, for an extremely ascetic man, one who slept on a simple cot,
and ate the simplest of diets, and who had absolutely no use for any
kind of luxuries or comforts at all, what was he doing with an
airplane seat suspended from the ceiling?
I thought about this for a while. I thought about swinging in such a
seat. But if swinging was all that wanted, why not just build a
wooden swing that would be in keeping with the other hand-made
wooden items in the room.
But Edward did not do that. He had an airplane seat with a seatbelt.
Why?
Well, let’s consider some of the things he has written in his
little pamphlets. Edward writes about sphere or ball magnets, which
can change the poles to any location on the sphere. He discusses
lengths of magnetization (North vs. South) in a rod as varying by
Earth’s latitude. North and South are separate magnetic currents,
running “against the other” in whirling, right-hand screw like
fashion, i.e. dextrorotatory helices.
He then says:
Magnets they are the cosmic force, they hold together this earth and
everything on it. […] I have a generator that generates currents on
a small scale from the air without using any magnets around it. […]
The natural path to the North Pole magnets in the Northern
Hemisphere is to go down, and the South Pole magnets to go up. When
the magnets are running out of the middle of the earth, as soon as
they meet an object they attract it, on account of the fact that in
any object there has both kinds of magnets in it.178
Now, one just
has to wonder about his “generator” that generates currents “from
the air”, and whether or not it has anything to do with spinning in
a right-hand, screw-like fashion? And then one gets the little light
bulb lighting up over one’s head that suggests that Edward Leedskalnin was using his airplane seat with the seatbelt to sit in
and spin, and that he, himself, was the “generator”. One also thinks
immediately about the length of the chain in reference to
Lethbridge’s experiments.
Edward also mentioned another curious thing:
“I have several lily
pools where I keep water. I have watched the lily pools for sixteen
years.”
This quote is interesting because of the connection in
legend between the presence of water and “moving stones”, as well as Lethbridge’s connection of water to certain fields. Some ancient
megaliths were said to go down to the nearest stream for a drink at
certain astronomically propitious times of the year. And
“astronomically propitious” may be another clue because, Edward also
suggests that the experimenter “face the east”.
But, we still wonder
about the mode of manifestation of this strange power that we seem
to be approaching from several different directions.
We may find a
clue in the following:
When a time-varying magnetic field is applied to a ferromagnetic, a
rearrangement of local lattice strain fields due to the motion of
non-magnetic domain walls occurs and emits elastic energy. The
interaction between domain walls and lattice defects creates a
discontinuity in the domain wall motion causing a burst of energy
called Magneto-Acoustic Emission (MAE).
The envelope of the
time-averaged MAE bursts has a unique shape, which has been shown to
be dependent upon the frequency and magnitude of the applied field
and factors affecting lattice defects such as embrittlement.
Although domain wall movement is a random process it does exhibit
features of regularity which have been identified by studying
phenomena such as 1/f flicker noise and self-organized criticality
(the “domino effect“). Nevertheless, certain fundamental elements of
the MAE characteristics remain unexplained.179
178 Leedskalnin, Edward, Magnetic Current
(Pomeroy, WA: Health Research 1998) p. 4. Other citations are from
photocopies of a monograph published by Leedskalnin.
179 J. P.
Fulton, B. Wincheski and M. Namkung, A Probabilistic Model for
Simulating Magneto-Acoustic Emission Responses in Ferromagnets M.
Namkung, B. Wincheski, J. P. Fulton and R. G.
What the above is
saying to us is that the application of a magnetic field causes
motion of non-magnetic domain walls in the material and emits
elastic energy. In other words, it makes a sound in response to the
magnetic field.
Was Edward Todhunter,
Leedskalnin spinning a precise number of times, at a precise
frequency length, in order to produce an energy within him that
connected him to another realm, which resulted in a “Magneto
Acoustic Emission”? That is, did he produce a sound of a very
special sort that enabled him to move massive blocks of stone, not
because he was strengthened by what he did, but because this sound,
emitted from a timeless dimension that he had tapped, directed at
the stones, had an effect on gravity?
That’s all fine and good for a
single person to be able to utilize such a handy technique to
manhandle some big chunks of rock like they were marshmallows. But
now we want to inquire into how an entire civilization would utilize
such a technology? What can it mean to suggest that in those areas
where the megaliths march along the landscape, and where the
megalithic temples are situated, that the peoples did not produce a
civilization as we know it because they didn’t need to?
How does it
all connect to Morris Jessup’s remark that,
“It may be that this
tremendous power was limited in its application to articles of stone
texture only…[This would] account for the strange fact that almost
all relics of the profound past are non-metallic”?
Egyptian Stone Vases
Both Graham Hancock and Colin Wilson devote considerable time to
describing the marvels of Egypt and the construction of the pyramid
in terms of the possible techniques of cutting the stones with such
amazing accuracy. They describe in some detail the event that led to
the fraudulent dating of the pyramid, which date was taken up by
mainstream archaeologists who cannot now repudiate it because they
have too many other theories and dates hinged on this original
error. What is interesting to us here about Egypt is a discovery
made by Flinders Petrie in the village of Naqada in 1893.
Naqada is
300 miles south of Cairo, and pottery and stone vases were
discovered there that were produced by some technique that has
created considerable controversy.
It seems that the pottery of Naqada had none of the striations that
would indicate that it had been thrown on a wheel. But, without a
pottery wheel, it is almost impossible to get pots to be “perfectly
round”. But this pottery was so perfectly rounded that it was absurd
to think that it had been made by hand without a wheel!
Petrie, of
course, dated the pottery to the 11th dynasty, around 2000 BC, based
on his observations of workmanship, rather than on any other
criteria. The pottery was, however, so “un-Egyptian” that he called
the creators “the New Race”. Petrie faced a certain difficulty when
he later found some of these same types of stone vases in tombs of
the First Dynasty dating from, according to Egyptologists, around
3000 BC. At this point, he dropped the Naqada vase from his
chronology, preferring to ignore what he could not explain.
Did the Naqadans produce these artifacts?
The Naqada peoples were descended from Paleolithic farmers who began
raising crops in North Africa around 5000 BC. They buried their dead
facing West, and seemed to be your standard primitive culture. The
only problem was: the vases. The most astonishing of them were,
“tall vases with long, thin, elegant necks and finely flared
interiors, often incorporating fully hollowed-out shoulders”.180
Even more amazing, it seems that more that 30,000 of these vases
were found beneath the Step Pyramid of Zoser at Saqqara.
Christopher Dunn, a toolmaker, wrote an article entitled Advanced
Machining in Ancient Egypt, where he notes:
The millions of tons of rock that the Egyptians had quarried for
their pyramids and temples - and cut with such superb accuracy - reveal
glimpses of a civilization that was technically more advanced than
is generally believed. Even though it is thought that millions of
tons of rock were cut with simple primitive hand tools, such as
copper chisels, adzes and wooden mallets, substantial evidence shows
that this is simply not the case.
Even discounting the argument that
work-hardened copper would not be suitable for cutting igneous rock,
the evidence forces us to look a little harder, and more
objectively, when explaining the manufacturing marks scoured on
ancient granite by ancient stone craftsmen.[…]
Although the Egyptians are not given credit for the simple wheel,
the machine marks they left on the granite found at Giza suggests a
much higher degree of technical accomplishment. Petrie’s conclusion
regarding their mechanical abilities shows a proficiency with the
straight saw, circular saw, tube-drill, and surprisingly, even th |