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    Cherokee Nation

    The Cherokee Nation – largest of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast – is a people of Iroquoian lineage. The Cherokee, who called themselves ‘Ani’-Yun’ wiya’ – ‘Principal People’ – the ‘Keetoowah’ – ‘People of Kituhwa’ – or Tsalagi from their own name for the Cherokee Nation – migrated to the Southeast from the Great Lakes Region.

    Cherokee Timeline

    1450 – First Cherokee enter the state in the vicinity of Traveler’s Rest. Tugaloo Old Town is the first major Cherokee village.

    1540-1 De Soto “visits” the Cherokee and is supposedly one of the first whites seen by the tribe, although written descriptions of the tribe by the Spanish note the wide range of colors in the tribe, from “negro” (black) to light skinned and “fair,” according to Moyano and Pardo.

    1650 – Cherokee commanded more than 40,000 square miles in the southern Appalachians by 1650 with a population estimated at 22,500.

    1715 – Massive uprising against North and South Carolina

    1721 – First treaty with whites – South Carolina

    1738 – Smallpox eradicate 25% of the Cherokee Nation. Nancy Ward is born

    1753 – Smallpox epidemic

    1755 – Battle of Taliwa – Accounts differ on exact events, however, the Creek, who greatly outnumber the Cherokee, attack the Cherokee line five times. During the fifth attack elderly Cherokee leader Kingfisher is slain. His teenage wife picks up his weapon, and chanting a Cherokee war song, Nancy Ward leads the Cherokee to victory, routing the Creek. The battle marked successful expulsion of the Creek from much of North Georgia. The only major remaining Creek settlement was near present Rome, Georgia.

    1760-1762 – Cherokee War (SC)

    1773 – First cession of Cherokee land in Georgia

    1776-1783 – Impressed by the British during the French and Indian War, the Cherokee side with them during the American Revolution. The price for the decision is immense. Beginning at about the time of the American Revolutionary War, divisions over continued accommodation of encroachments by white settlers, despite repeated violations of previous treaties, caused some Cherokee to begin to leave The Cherokee Nation. These dissidents became known as the Chickamauga. Led by Chief Dragging Canoe, the Chickamauga made alliances with the Shawnee and engaged in raids against colonial settlements, aided by the British. Colonel Pickens destroyed Long Swamp village (1782) and forced the Cherokee to cede land to settlers.

    1786 Treaty of Hopewell (SC) – The Cherokee thought this would be the end of the settlers’ invasion of Cherokee land. Within 3 years bitter fighting had erupted as settlers continued to move into the Cherokee Nation. This treaty is the basis for the term “Talking Leaves.” [See below] Cherokee felt that written words were like leaves, when they were no longer of use they withered and died.

    John Ross is born.

    Ross was an important figure in the history of the Cherokee tribe. His father emigrated from Scotland prior to the Revolutionary War. His mother was a quarter-blood Cherokee woman whose father was also from Scotland. He began his public career in 1809. Still permitted under the Constitution at that time, The Cherokee Nation was founded in 1820, with elected public officials. John Ross became the chief of the tribe in 1828 and remained the chief until his death.

    Ross, also known as Kooweskoowe, was a leader of the Cherokee Native American tribe. Ross was born near Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, the son of a Scotsman who had gone to live among the Cherokee during the American Revolution. John Ross’s mother was 3/4 Scottish as well.

    At the age of twenty, after having completed his education, he was appointed as Indian agent to the western Cherokee and sent to Arkansas. He served as an adjutant in a Cherokee regiment during the War of 1812 and participated in fighting at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend against the British-allied Creek tribe.

    Ross relocated to Georgia and was chosen as a member of the Cherokee national council in 1817, becoming its president two years later and serving in that capacity for seven years. After this he became assistant chief of the eastern Cherokee, becoming principal chief the following year and serving as such until 1839, participating in the drafting of the Cherokee constitution in 1827.

    During his tenure as chief he opposed displacement of the tribe from its native lands, a policy of the United States government known as Indian Removal. However, Ross’s political rival Major Ridge signed an unauthorized removal treaty with the U.S. in 1836. Ross unsuccessfully lobbied against enforcement of the treaty, but those Cherokees who did not emigrate to the “Indian Territory” by 1838 were forced to do so by General Winfield Scott, an episode that came to be known as the Trail of Tears. Accepting defeat, Ross convinced General Scott to have supervision of much of the removal process turned over to Ross.

    In the Indian Territory, Ross helped draft a constitution for the entire Cherokee nation in 1839, and was chosen as chief of the nation. He would remain chief until his death.

    1791 Treaty of Holston-Cherokee cede land in eastern Tennessee in exchange for President Washington’s guarantee that the Cherokee Nation will never again be invaded by settlers. This treaty forces Americans to obtain passports to enter Cherokee lands, and granted Cherokee the right to evict settlers.

    1792 The town of Hightower moves from the vicinity of Rome, Georgia to present-day Cartersville, further east on the Etowah River after a brutal attack on the village by Tennessee governor John Sevier.

    1799-1804 Building of the Augusta to Nashville Road, later known as the Federal Road.

    1801 Return J. Meigs appointed “indian agent.” Morovians start mission at Spring Place.

    1802 President Thomas Jefferson agrees with the state of Georgia to removal of all American Indians in exchange for the state’s claim of western lands.

    1804 Cherokee cede Wafford’s Tract.

    1806 Start of a complex series of events known as Revolt of the Young Chiefs

    1811 New Madrid earthquake. Actually 3 separate earthquakes with an epicenter near the town of New Madrid, Missouri in the southeastern border with Kentucky. The quakes were felt throughout the Cherokee Nation and sparked what is best described as a religious revival among the Cherokee. Writer James Mooney would call this movement the “Ghost Dance,” after a similar Western Indian revival.

    1812 Shawnee warrior Tecumseh agitates American Indians on the frontier to rise up and destroy the settlers. A faction of the Creek Indians, the “Red Sticks,” revolt, attacking Fort Mims, Alabama and massacre 250 men, women and children.

    1 813-1814 Cherokee warriors fight alongside future president Andrew Jackson during two campaigns (5 major battles) against the Red Sticks, saving both his army and his life in separate battles.

    1814 Jackson demands cessions of 2.2 million acres from the Cherokee.

    1817 Cession of land east of the Unicoi Turnpike. (Treaty of Turkey Town, instead of the 2.2 million acres demanded by Jackson.)

    1819 Final cession of land in Georgia, and part of a much larger cession, the Cherokee give up claims to all land east of the Chattahoochee River.

    1821 Cherokee warrior Sequoyah finishes his work on a written language (syllabary) for the tribe. Within six months more than 25% of the Cherokee Nation learns how to read and write.

    1822 Georgia begins press for cession of remaining Cherokee lands, citing Jefferson’s

    1802 commitment to the state.

    1828 Gold discovered in Georgia. This discovery was on Cherokee land ceded to the U. S. in 1817 (Duke’s Creek), however, gold was soon found inside the Cherokee Nation; Publication of the Cherokee Phoenix begins with Elias Boudinot, editor.

    1830 – Cherokees were displaced from their ancestral lands in North Georgia and the Carolinas primarily as a result of the Gold Rush around Dahlonega, Georgia in the 1830’s. Cherokee evict encroachers in Beaver Dam on Cedar Creek, a few miles south of present-day Rome, Georgia. Passage of the Indian Removal Act.

    1831 Chief Justice John Marshall rules that the Cherokee have no standing to file suit in the United States in Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia. He then instructs attorney William Wirt on how to correctly file; Samuel Worcester and others arrested for violation of Georgia law requiring whites to get permits to work in the Cherokee territory.

    1832 The Supreme Court of the United States declares the Cherokee Nation to be sovereign (Worcester vs. Georgia). This has constitutional implications, disallowing the state of Georgia from passing any law governing the Cherokee; Elias Boudinot resigns as publisher of the Cherokee Phoenix under pressure from John Ross because of his editorial support for removal;Georgia’s sixth land lottery and the gold lottery.

    1834 The Georgia Guard destroys the printing press in the offices of The Cherokee Phoenix.

    1835 Ross and John Howard Payne, in Red Clay, Tennessee, are illegally detained by the Georgia Guard. Dec. 29 Treaty of New Echota signed in Elias Boudinot’s home by members of the Treaty Party.

    1838 Deadline for voluntary removal. Georgia Guard had begun round-up 5 days earlier. U. S. forces under command of Winfield Scott begin roundup in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and North Carolina. Cherokee are herded into “forts,” gradually making their way north to the Cherokee Agency in southeastern Tennessee.

    Once the Cherokees reached Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), tensions ran high and the suspension of the Cherokee Blood Law was ignored. On June 22, 1839, after the adjournment of a tribal meeting, some of the prominent signers of the Treaty of New Echota were assassinated, including the drafter of the Blood Law, Major Ridge, along with John Ridge and Elias Boudinot. This started 15 years of civil war amongst the Cherokees. One of the notable survivors was Stand Watie, who became a Confederate general during the American Civil War. The Cherokees were one of the five “civilized tribes” that concluded treaties with, and were recognized, by the Confederate States of America.

    In 1848 a group of Cherokee set out on an expedition to California looking for new settlement lands. The expedition followed the Arkansas River upstream to Rocky Mountains in present-day Colorado, then followed the base of mountains northward into present-day Wyoming before turning westward. The route become known as the Cherokee Trail. The group, which undertook gold prospecting in California, returned along the same route the following year, noticing placer gold deposits in tributaries of the South Platte. The discovery went unnoticed for a decade but eventually became of the primary sources of the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859.

    Other Cherokees in western North Carolina served as part of Thomas’ Legion, a unit of approximately 1,100 men of both Cherokee and white origin, fighting primarily in Virginia, where their battle record was outstanding. Thomas’ Legion was the last Confederate unit to surrender in North Carolina, at Waynesville, North Carolina on May 9, 1865.

    The Cherokee Nation citizens lost their right to elect their own chief in 1907 when Oklahoma became a state. Various chiefs were appointed by the Presidents until 1970 when the Cherokees regained their right to elect their own government via a Congressional Act signed by President Nixon. W. W. Keeler was the first elected chief of The Cherokee Nation. Keeler, who was also the President of Phillips Petroleum was succeeded by Ross Swimmer, Wilma Mankiller, Joe Byrd and Chad Smith who is currently the chief of The Cherokee Nation

    Clans

    The Cherokee were divided into seven clans. People in a clan had to marry outside of his or her clan. Then, the male lived with his wife’s family (matriarchial).

    Homes

    Before the Europeans came over, they lived together in square houses made of bark, wood, earth, and clay. Later, they lived in log cabins. Economy

    Their economy consisted of the cultivation of corn, beans, and squash. Also, hunting and slash-and-burn agriculture was a large part of their economy. Their only domesticated animal was the dog, until the Europeans brought horses over.

    Ceremonies

    The Cherokees held many ceremonies. One of their ceremonies marked the changing of rulers between the Red and White Organization. Another ceremony consisted of nightlong dancing before going to war. After war, they had rituals of purification before they returned to their daily routine.

    Recreation

    For leisure, the Cherokees played a game with rackets and a ball. Ritual fasting and bleeding was associated with the game. Along with this they had ceremonies called harvest feast and an observance of the new year.

    Life and Culture

    Cherokee life and culture greatly resembled that of the Creek and other Indians of the Southeast. The Cherokee nation was composed of a confederacy of red (war) and white (peace) towns. The chiefs of the red towns were subordinated to a supreme war chief, while the officials of the white towns were under the supreme peace chief. The white towns provided sanctuary for wrongdoers; war ceremonies were conducted in red towns.

    When first encountered by Europeans in the mid-16th century, the Cherokee possessed a variety of stone implements including knives, axes, and chisels. They wove baskets, made pottery, and cultivated corn (maize), beans, and squash. Deer, bear, and elk furnished meat and clothing. Cherokee dwellings were windowless log cabins roofed with bark, with one door and a smokehole in the roof. A typical Cherokee town had between 30 and 60 such houses and a council house where general meetings were held and the sacred fire burned. An important religious ceremony was the Busk, or Green Corn, festival, a first-fruits and new-fires rite.

    Wars and Treaties

    The Cherokee wars and treaties, a series of battles and agreements around the period of the U.S. War of Independence, effectively reduced Cherokee power and landholdings in Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and western North and South Carolina, freeing this territory for speculation and settlement by the white man. Numbering about 22,000 tribesmen in 200 villages throughout the area, the Cherokee had since the beginning of the 18th century remained friendly to the British in both trading and military affairs.

    In 1773 the Treaty of Augusta, concluded at the request of both Cherokee and Creek Indians, ceded more than 2,000,000 tribal acres in Georgia to relieve a seemingly hopeless Indian indebtedness to white traders. In 1775 the Overhill Cherokee were persuaded at the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals to sell an enormous tract of land in central Kentucky.

    Although this agreement with the Transylvania Land Company violated British law, it nevertheless became the basis for the white takeover of that area. Threatened by colonial encroachment upon their hunting grounds, the Cherokee announced at the beginning of the American Revolution their determination to support the crown.

    Despite British attempts to restrain them, in July 1776 a force of 700 Cherokee under Chief Dragging-canoe attacked two U.S.-held forts in North Carolina: Eaton’s Station and Ft. Watauga. Both assaults failed, and the tribe retreated in disgrace. These raids set off a series of attacks by Cherokee, Creek, and Choctaw on frontier towns, eliciting a vigorous response by militia and regulars of the Southern states during September and October.

    At the end of this time, Cherokee power was broken, crops and villages destroyed, and warriors dispersed. The humiliated Indians could win peace only by surrendering vast tracts of territory in North and South Carolina at the Treaty of DeWitt’s Corner (May 20, 1777) and the Treaty of Long Island of Holston (July 20, 1777). As a result, peace reigned on this frontier for the next two years.

    When Cherokee raids flared up again in 1780 during American preoccupation with British armed forces elsewhere, punitive action led by Col. Arthur Campbell and Col. John Sevier soon brought them to terms again. At the second Treaty of Long Island of Holston (July 26, 1781), previous land cessions were confirmed and additional territory yielded.

    After 1800 the Cherokee were remarkable for their assimilation of white culture. The Cherokee formed a government modelled on that of the U.S. Under Chief Junaluska they aided Andrew Jackson against the Creek (see Creek War), particularly in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. They adopted white methods of farming, weaving, and home building.

    Language

    Perhaps most remarkable of all was the syllabary of the Cherokee language, developed in 1821 by Sequoyah, a half-blooded Cherokee who had served with the U.S. Army in the Creek War. The syllabary – a system of writing in which each symbol represents a syllable–was so successful that almost the entire tribe became literate within a short time. For years, many people wrote transliterated Cherokee on the Internet or used poorly intercompatible fonts to type out the syllabary. However, since the fairly recent addition of the Cherokee syllables to Unicode, the Cherokee language is experiencing a renaissance in its use on the Internet.

    Sequoyah

    Of his mother, it is known that she was a Cherokee and belonged to the Paint Clan and Mooney states that she was the niece of a Cherokee chief. His father was either white or part white and part Native American. Again, sources differ as to the exact identity of Sequoyah’s father, but many (including Mooney) suggest that he was possibly a fur trader or the son of Christopher Gist, a scout for George Washington.

    There is some indication, however, that Sequoyah and his mother were abandoned by his father, this may be indicated by the fact that Sequoyah did not speak English. At some point before 1809, Seuqoyah moved to the Wills Valley in Alabama. There he established his trade as a silversmith. He may have fought in the Creek War between 1813 and 1814 against the Red Sticks. Of course if he was crippled, likely he would not have fought, but historians speculate that he may have been wounded in battle, thus leaving him crippled.

    “Talking Leaves” and a syllabary

    As a silversmith, Sequoyah dealt regularly with white people who had settled in the area. Often, the Native Americans were impressed by their writing, referring to their correspondence as “talking leaves.” Around 1809, Sequoyah began work to create a system of writing for the Cherokee language.

    After attempting to create a character for each word, Sequoyah decided to divide each word into syllables and create a character for each syllable. Utilizing the Roman alphabet and quite possibly the Cyrillic alphabet, he created 85 characters to respresent the various syllables. This work would take Sequoyah 12 years to complete.

    There was some doubt amongst his fellow Cherokee as to the worthiness of his alphabet. In order to prove his creation, Sequoyah taught his daughter Ah-yo-ka how to read and write in Cherokee. After amazing locals with his new writing, Sequoyah attempted to display his feat to tribal medicine men only to be rebuffed by them for being possessed by evil spirits. Sequoyah finally proved his feat to a gathering of Chickamaugan warriors. Quickly news of the syllabary spread and the Cherokee were filling schools in order to learn the new language. By 1823 the syllabary was in full use by the The Cherokee Nation. The language was made the official language of the Cherokee Nation in 1825.

    After the acceptance of his syllabary by the nation in 1825, Sequoyah moved to the new Cherokee territory in Arkansas. There he set up a blacksmith shop and a salt works. He continued to teach the syllabary to anyone who came to him. In 1828, Sequoyah journeyed to Washington, D.C. as part of a delegation to make a treaty for land in Oklahoma.

    His trip brought him into contact with representatives from other tribes of Native Americans around the nation. With these meetings he decided to create a syllabary for universal use among all Native American tribes. With this in mind, Sequoyah began to journey to areas of present day Arizona and New Mexico seking tribes there.

    In addition, Sequoyah dreamed to see the splintered Cherokee Nation re-united. It was on a trip seeking Cherokees who had moved to Mexico that he died in the summer of 1843.

    Famous Cherokee

    There were several famous Cherokees in American history, including Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee writing system. Sequoyah may be the only known person in history to invent a written language single handedly. Sequoyah never learned to speak, read or write the English language. Another famous person with Cherokee ancestry was the humorist Will Rogers. Today, Wes Studi is a well-known actor. Famous Cherokee politicians include Chad ‘Corntassel’ Smith, Wilma Mankiller and Ross Swimmer. The American blues-rock guitarist, Jimi Hendrix, was of Cherokee descent via his paternal grandmother, Nora Rose Moore. Oral Roberts, a Pentecostal evangelist in the 1950’s through the 1990’s, is also of Cherokee descent. Journalist and writer Sarah Vowell also has Cherokee ancestors.

    Constitution

    A written constitution was adopted, and religious literature flourished, including translations from the Christian scriptures. An Indian newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix, the first of its kind, began publication in February 1828.

    But the Cherokee’s rapid acquisition of white culture did not protect them against the land hunger of the settlers. When gold was discovered on Cherokee land in Georgia, agitation for the removal of the Indians increased. In December 1835 the Treaty of New Echota, signed by a small minority of the Cherokee, ceded to the U.S. all their land east of the Mississippi River for $5,000,000. The overwhelming majority of Cherokees repudiated the treaty and took their case to the Supreme Court of the United States. The court rendered a decision favourable to the Indians, declaring that Georgia had no jurisdiction over the Cherokees and no claim to their lands.

    Georgia officials ignored the court’s decision, and Pres. Andrew Jackson refused to enforce it. As a result, the Cherokees were evicted under the Indian Removal Act of 1830 by 7,000 troops commanded by Gen. Winfield Scott. Some 15,000 Cherokees were first gathered into camps while their homes were plundered and burned by local residents. Then the Indians were sent west in groups of about 1,000, most on foot.


    Trail of Tears

  • Ceremony

    Ceremony

    Greeting the Sun ceremony

    This ceremony is adapted from a lucid dream I had one night.

    During my dreamtime journey, I was a Native American maiden accompanied by the tribe’s Medicine Woman, with whom I was in apprenticeship. It was just before Sunrise, the Milky Way spanned the sky, and the celestial dome was filled with twinkling stars. We were facing the East, awaiting the sunrise in silent contemplation. With the first rays of Light, we bowed to the ground, offered sacred herbs, and greeted the Sun.

    When you first awaken in the morning, face the East.

    Offer some herbs or a pinch of cornmeal toward the sun.

    Think about your plans for the day: where you are going to be, who are you are going to be with.

    Feel your connection to All-That-Is flow through your body.

    Offer prayers of gratitude for what you have and what is going well in your life.

    Smudging Ceremony

    Smudging is used in several spiritual traditions as a method of cleansing. Smoke from burning herbs is fanned over the body, usually with a feather, cleansing the energy field of the person. The room or space outdoors used for the ceremony is smudged also.

    The herbs most commonly used in smudging are the plants of the Spirit Keepers:

    * Sweetgrass
    * Tobacco
    * White Sage
    * Cedar

    Sweetgrass stimulates positive energies. Tobacco absorbs either positve or negative energies. Sage gets rid of negativity. And Cedar is cleansing. Lavender, rosemary, and other plants may be added to your smudge mixture also. This enables the specific energies of the plants to become incorporated into the ceremony.

    For this ceremony you will need:

    * Sage, Sweetgrass, Cedar, or Tobacco, or a combination
    * a shell or fireproof dish
    * a fan or feather
    * matches

    Choose the plants you want to use, mix them in a shell or bowl and light them.

    When they are burning, use a fan or feather to put out the flame.

    Once the herbs are smoldering, draw the smoke to your heart, then over your head, down your arms, and down the front of your body, then the back of your body toward the ground.

    Now offer smoke to the six directions: up to Creator, down to the Earth Mother, to the North, East, South, and West.

    Walk around the area you will be using during your ceremony ~ your sacred space ~ wafting the smoke with the feather. You may want to leave a window open.

    Adapted from “Dancing With the Wheel: The Medicine Wheel Workbook” by Sun Bear, Wabun Wind, and Crysalis Mulligan

    Medicine Wheel Ceremony

    For this ceremony you will need:

    * candles
    * stones or crystals
    * Smudging herbs
    * a shell or fireproof dish
    * a fan or feather
    * matches
    * any herbs, shells, feathers, or power objects that you resonate with for use during this ceremony

    Choose the smudging herbs you wish to use for this ceremony. Place a few pinches of your smudge mixture in a shell and then smudge your ceremonial area and yourself.

    Place your medicine wheel stones in the appropriate directions.

    Place candles in the center of your wheel and at the 4 cardinal directions.

    Add any other items that call to you such as stones, herbs, shells, feathers, or anything else as feels appropriate.

    Starting in the East, offer the mix by raising the shell and calling in its attributes:

    * EAGLE, Spirit Keeper of the East guide me on my Journey to Illumination.
    * COYOTE, Spirit Keeper of the South guide me on my Journey to Growth.
    * BEAR, Spirit Keeper of the West guide me on my Journey to Inner Strength.
    * BUFFALO, Spirit Keeper of the North guide me on my Journey to Wisdom.
    * Offer mix to the Great Spirit by lifting the shell above to Father Sky and then by touching the shell below to Mother Earth. Ask for their guidance and feel their essence.

    Sit in the center of your Wheel and take a few deep breaths.

    State the guidance you seek, meditate, pray, give thanks, chant. This is your Wheel, come with an open heart, remember the guidance you receive.

    When your Journey is complete, start in the East and close your Wheel. Move counter-clockwise (East, North, West, South) and offer the Medicine wheel mix to each Direction with gratitude. Thank Father Sky and Mother Earth.

    Disassemble your Wheel, smudge the gemstones and all other items you have brought to the Wheel. Place them in a pouch or bundle them up in a cloth for use another time.

    Take some time to write in your journal and reflect on your experience.

    Adapted from “Dancing With the Wheel: The Medicine Wheel Workbook” by Sun Bear, Wabun Wind, and Crysalis Mulligan

    Vision Quest

    For this ceremony you will need:

    * Smudging herbs
    * a shell or fireproof dish
    * a fan or feather
    * matches
    * a rattle or drum if you have one
    * a blanket to sit on
    * a compass
    * a pen and notebook or journal
    * some water
    * herbs for give-away
    * any herbs, shells, feathers, or power objects that you resonate with for use during this ceremony

    Preparation:

    Determine whether the purpose of your Quest is to discover your direction in life or to find a solution to a major problem. Intention is vital in shamanic work so be very clear of your motive for your Quest.

    Cut down on your food intake and alcohol a few days prior before your Vision Quest. Fasting is a traditional practice during the quest so take water or juice with you.

    Choose a location where you will not be disturbed and arrive early in the morning. To locate the power spot, slowly rattle around the area until the rattle lingers in a particular spot. Use your compass to determine the four directions and mark them with stones or twigs. Rattle around your power spot in a clockwise circle.

    Smudge yourself and the circle. Place the blanket in the center, sit, and make yourself comfortable.

    Greet and thank the elements, stones, trees, plants, insects, and animals. Invite them to help you on your quest.

    Stay alert, listen, look, and wait. And make a note of anything that seems significant so you can consider it later. The spiritual realm often communicates messages to us through ordinary things such as:

    * a visit by a particular bird, insect, or animal
    * a discarded feather nearby
    * shapes of clouds
    * changes in weather pattern

    An insight may suddenly pop into your mind or you may have a vision.

    At the end of your quest, thank your surroundings and look for some small token to take home such as a stone, feather, acorn, or stick. Sprinkle some herbs as a thank you offering and leave the area as you found it.

    Take some time to write in your journal and reflect on your experience.

    Adapted from “Shamanic Experience” by Kenneth Meadows

    Power Animal Journey

    For this ceremony you will need:

    * candles
    * stones or crystals
    * Smudging herbs
    * a shell or fireproof dish
    * a fan or feather
    * matches
    * a pen and notebook or journal
    * any herbs, shells, feathers, or power objects that you resonate with for use during this ceremony

    Prepare your ceremonial area. You can light candles, place your personal objects about, and play drumming or meditation music. Now smudge your ceremonial area and yourself.

    Close your eyes, take a couple of deep breaths, let your abdomen rise and fall. Get into your imagery space as you have many times before.

    Now put yourself on a path. Feel your feet touch the earth, smell the fresh air, feel the warm breeze on your face. Walk down the path. It goes downhill slightly. The ground is hard and has small stones in the soil. It is solid and secure. Feel the ground and the grass that is on each side of the path.

    Walk down the path. It crosses a wooden bridge across a rushing stream. The bridge has stout railings. You can hear your feet echo on the bridge like a drumbeat as you walk across. If you need to drop something in the water that you want to get rid of you can do that now.

    The path now goes upwards slightly and comes over a rise. Below you is a large meadow. In the center of the meadow is a grassy circle. Sit in the circle and wait.

    Now ask for your power animal to come to you. They are like spirit animals coming out of forest. Let the animal appear and come up to you. It can come from a distance or appear from nowhere. The animal that appears to you is your power animal helper. It is your shaman’s animal. Let the animal come towards you. Let them begin to speak and move.

    Stay alert, listen, look, and wait. And make a note of anything that seems significant so you can consider it later. At the end of your journey, thank your power animal.

    Take some time to write in your journal and reflect on your experience.

    Adapted from “The Path of the Feather” by Mike Samuels

    Mitakuye Oyasin, For All My Relations,
    honors the web of life and all creation

  • BlueBird

    “…O wonderful spirit of gentleness…touch, calm and embolden all men.
    Take from our frightened hands the bomb…Arm us with wisdom and love instead.
    Let life, not death,  enter no matter where we walk…”

    BlueBird

    The BlueBird was once a very, very ugly color.
    And, nearby where he lived, there was a lake.
    Now this lake was where
    where no river water flowed in or out.
    The Bird bathed in it four
    times every morning for four mornings.
    And, on each of these times it sang.
    ” There is a blue water,
    it lies there.
    I went in,
    I am all blue.”

     On the Fourth morning, the bird shed all of it’s feathers.  He came
    out of the lake in his bare skin.  But, on the fifth day, oh the fifth
    day, he came out all Blue.  Now, all of this time Coyote had been
    watching the Bird.   He wanted to jump in and get the Bird but he
    was afraid of the water.  On that fifth morning Coyote asked,
    “How come your ugly color is all gone and you are now blue,
    pretty, and happy?  You are more beautiful than
    anything that flies in the air.  I want to be Blue too.”

      Coyote at this time was green, a very bright green.  “I went in
    four times,” said Bird and he taught Coyote the Song.  So, four
    times Coyote went in singing.  The fifth time he came out as Blue
    as the little Bird. This made him very proud.

        Coyote began to walk around.  And, as he walked along, he
    looked and looked on every side to see if anyone noticed how
    wonderfully fine and Blue he was.  He looked to see if his shadow
    was Blue also.  Because he was looking at everything, Coyote was
    not watching the Road.  Soon he ran into a stump so hard that it
    threw him down in the dirt and he became dust colored all over.

              To this day all Coyotes are the color of Dirt.

  • 26 Principal’s of Life

    26 Principals of Life

    By Jason Johns

    1.All Are Related: There is a Native American saying, which translates roughly to “All are Related”. Everything in the universe is part of The Great Spirit, from a rock, to a plant, to a fish, to a human. The spirit flows between and within us all, and is the building block of everything. Since we are all part of the same whole, we should treat the rest of the whole as if it is part of us, i.e. with compassion and love. We are all part of the Great Spirit, just like all the different leaves on a tree are still part of the tree.

    2.The Energy Flow: The universe is composed of energy. This energy flows between everything, us and within us all. When we have internal blocks, the energy fails to flow correctly, causing illness, lethargy and other symptoms. This energy can be directed consciously, we can see it, and feel it. How we feel affects our energy levels; negativity drains energy, positivity creates energy.

    3.We Are Beings of Both Spirit and Flesh: We are spirits, but at the same time, we are creatures of the flesh. We inhabit both worlds simultaneously, even though we are often unaware of it. We should not shun the flesh for spirit or vice versa. Both are equally important.
    We have to walk with one foot in each of these worlds, and pay them both attention. Neglecting either world causes distress in the other.

    4.No One Entity is Superior to Another: No one being or creature is any better or greater than another. We are all the same. We are all on different paths and have different levels of understanding, but that does not make any one of us better than another. Humans are not masters of nature, nor the animals and plants. They are our companions, and co-inhabitants of this planet. We are not superior to them, nor do we own them. We should treat them all with respect.

    5.Belief Creates: How we perceive the universe is shaped by our beliefs. If we believe we are in a hurry, then everyone else appears to be going slow. Through belief and positive thought, we can create virtually anything. We should believe in our abilities and ourselves, and we will succeed. We can combine the power of belief with that of visualisation to bring anything into reality.

    6.Intuition: Inside of us, a voice speaks and guides us. It is our intuition. We can choose to ignore it or to listen to it. Once we are in tune with our intuition and start to listen to it, we will be guided and will find that we can achieve more than we thought possible. We will begin to realise that the Great Spirit works through us – often in mysterious ways, but always to our benefit – in the long term.

    7.The Higher Purpose: Everything that happens is for a reason and for the greater good. We have to learn to look at events in our lives from more than just the normal human perspective. We must see them from the perspective of the Great Spirit and to look at what good will come from these events. This is the old maxim of “is the glass half full or half empty”. We can look at events badly, half empty, and our reaction will be worse. However, should we look at events better, i.e. half full, then we are more positive, which means our energy is higher, and our reaction will be better.

    8.There are No Ordinary Moments: The past only exists in our memory.
    The future only exists as our expectation. The only time that really exists is NOW. It is a precious moment and we should treat every single moment as special and live it to the full. By being in the present, we have presence. To live in the now the conscious mind should be quiet and you must focus totally on what you are doing, not what you are going to be doing next week, or what you are going to have for lunch.

    9.There are No Limits: The only limits we have are those we place upon ourselves, or others place upon us. To this end, we should avoid being put in a pigeonhole and labelled by others. If someone views a dog as being vicious, then it is more likely to be vicious. We should hold no expectations of others, and let them be themselves, just as we should be ourselves.

    10.Action not Reaction: If we are tickled, our reaction is to laugh.
    We should be at a state where we do not react in a situation, but act.
    Reaction is unconscious, whereas Action is conscious. We should not let past influences affect our actions, e.g. if we were once bitten by a dog, when we next meet a dog, we should not let the past bite affect how we act towards it. There are times to act, as well as times to be still. By living in the present and having control of the conscious mind, we can better direct our action.

    11.Positivity Rules: Negative thoughts attract negative events and drain our energy. Positive thoughts attract positive events and increase our energy. To this end, we should look at our thoughts and the events which happen to us in a positive light, realising negative thoughts for what they are and releasing them.

    12.Posture, Pose & Breathing: Energy flows through the body, as it flows through all things. If the posture and pose are bad, the energy can not flow cleanly and causes blockages, which manifest as pain or illness. We breathe in energy from the world around us. Therefore, our breaths should be deep and full, coming from the bottom of the belly, and not the chest. This enables us to maximise our energy. Deep breathing helps relax us. When we are stressed, angry or afraid our breathing changes and becomes shallow and faster. By consciously controlling our breathing and keeping it deep and even, we can release the stress, anger or fear, enabling us to act consciously in the situation.

    13.Everything in Balance: The universe exists in a state of balance, as should we. We can do anything we wish, but should always do it to moderation, never to excess. Should we do things to excess, then they can become addictive, which drains energy and may become negative.
    Being balanced allows us to act better in situations. If we are sat on the fence, so to speak, we can jump off either way should we desire to.

    14.Intent is Action: You can intend to do anything, and your intent is important. However, unless the intent is followed with action, then the intent is nothing. As an example. I may intend to get fit, but spend all my time sat in front of the TV eating pizza and drinking cola. I have my intention, but myactions do not confirm or create the intention. Therefore, if you intend something, do it, don’t just talk about it. Action turns knowledge into wisdom.

    15.Freedom of Choice: We all have free will, and can choose to do anything we wish. There is no situation where we do not have choice.
    It may appear that we do not, but there are always options, if we have the courage and strength to take them. We just have to have the courage of conviction to make the decisions.

    16.Change Happens: Change is continuous and is always happening around us. We can not actually perceive change, but can see the end result of it. Change is not a bad thing nor is it to be feared. Through change we can grow and go forwards.

    17.Taking Responsibility: Our actions cause a reaction – it is a law of nature. We have to be aware of our actions and take responsibility for them and for the consequences of them. It is no good doing something and then saying you did not mean to do it. Had you not meant to do it, you would not have done it. By taking responsibility for our actions, so we can take back our power and freedom to choose. We have to accept that no one will live for us, and that sometimes our actions will cause others, or ourselves, a measure of discomfort.
    Remember though, that discomfort is one way of helping us grow and to show us where changes need to be made.

    18.One Step at a Time: To get to any goal, break it down into a number of small steps. If you have many small successes, then this will lead to a big success. If you aim for a big success straight off, you may fail. Remember that a journey towards any destination starts with a single step, and then a second and a third, and as many as required until you reach that destination. Remember to reward and praise yourself for your successes, however small they are. By acknowledging them, you increase your power and will to succeed, strengthening your belief in yourself.

    19.Judgement: We have no right to judge another for their words, thoughts or deeds. They have the freedom of choice to do as they please and act as they wish, just as we do. We are in no position to judge anyone, as we are imperfect ourselves. It is easily done, for example, you see a big man with tattoo’s, a skinhead and wearing leather, and the automatic assumption is that he is trouble. He may be a florist for all we know. This colours our judgement of people and changes how we act towards them. By having no preconceptions of other people, we can interact better with them, and perhaps make a new friend.

    20.Integrity: Integrity is all about how we act when no one is looking. We must live to our own standards and should not judge others by them. This is about living in line with our highest vision despite urges to the contrary.

    21.Air Your Doubts: By airing your doubts, fears, and worries, by looking at them and seeing them for what they are, so you can conquer them and rid yourself of them forever. By refusing to confront them, so they gain power over you, and become even more deeply rooted. After you realise what they are – release them.

    22.Failure: It is very rare for us to fail. We only ever choose to stop trying. That is us exercising our free will. We can stop trying any time we wish, but those that succeed never stop until they get to their goal. Success often does not come easy, and does require work and effort from us. You will find that most ‘overnight successes’ have been working hard for that success for many years.
    Failure is not something to be feared or worried about, because we can never fail! Everything we do, no matter whether we view it as a success or failure is a valuable lesson for us to learn. By looking at a perceived failure as a valuable lesson, it no longer feels as bad.
    The only true failure is not learning the lessons our mistakes teach us.

    23.The Ongoing Journey: Our journey of exploration through life never, ever stops. The destination is not the reward or the goal. The journey to the destination is the goal itself.

    24.Don’t Mind: If we take an objective view of our mind, then we can see that lots of thoughts drift through it, many of which we are unaware of. A sad, angry or fearful thought may drift up from the sub-conscious and change how we feel for no apparent reason. We must take control of the mind through tools such as meditation, and become aware of these thoughts and realise them for what they are. Then, we can let them go and stay relaxed and centred. By consciously focussing on our breathing, and keeping it deep and even, we can help to release these negative thoughts.

    25.Emotions: Emotions come and go. They flow through us all the time, often without us even realising. Many of us do not express our emotions because we feel we have to “Be manly” or “Be responsible” or “Be cool”. When we feel the negative emotions, we can feel our bodies tense. If we do not express these emotions when we feel them, the tension is stored within our bodies. Having emotions is not to be feared and should be celebrated. When you feel an emotion – express it! If you are happy – smile and laugh, if you are sad cry. Expressing your emotions releases the tension they give, and helps you live more fully in the here and now. Once you have expressed an emotion, it is gone and will not return with the same force for that situation. If we refuse to express them and store the emotions up, then, like damming a fast river, eventually the water level will rise too high if we do not provide it with an outlet.

    26.Play: As children, we play exuberantly. We have fun, enjoy ourselves and have lots of energy. Then something happens, we grow up, and we no longer play believing that adults have to be adult and they don’t play. Playing is one of our greatest sources of pleasure. It takes many forms, from sport to games to laughing and joking with friends. Playing increases our energy and makes us more positive. It makes those around us more positive and generally lifts the spirits of all involved. There are times to be serious, yes, but there are times to play too, and that is what we must not forget.

     

  • RESEARCH DATA ON THE MOON

    RESEARCH DATA ON THE MOON

    ³Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon² (OMSM) ‹Page 21 
    ³In 1843 Johann Schroeter recorded a six-mile crater which he named Linne. Its depth was estimated by the scientist to be 1200 feet.² 
    ³This German astronomer made hundreds of maps of the Moon over many years. As he recorded his observations he saw this crater gradually disappear. Today Linne is just a tiny bright spot with little depth; a small pit surrounded by whitish objects.² 
    ³Near the crater Birt…is an object shaped like a sword…(and) a geometric object shaped like a cross, in the lunar crater Eratosthenes. In the lunar crater Gassendi are angular lines, and on the floor of the crater Littrow are seven spots in the shape of the Greek capital Gamma.² 

    (OMSM)‹Page 24 
    ³In 1935, two scientists named Van der Pol and Stormer detected radio signals on and around the Moon. Marconi and Tesla also reported flashing lunar lights.² 
    ³In 1956, Ohio University reported, along with observations around the world, a Œcodelike radio chatter from the Moon.¹ ³ 
    ³In October 1958, American, Soviet, and British astronomers detected something speeding toward the Moon at better than 25,000 miles per hour! They not only SAW the strange object; they heard it emitting radio signals that no one could interpret!² 

    (OMSM)‹Page 26-27 
    ³The first Astronaut to definitely see a UFO while in orbit was Major Gordon Cooper, during the marathon Mercury flight mission of 21 orbits in Faith 7 (May 15, 1963.)²
    While making his fourth pass over Hawaii, Cooper claims he heard weird voice transmissions which he called an Œunintelligible foreign language.¹…Tapes later proved that the sounds were not those of a foreign language of this planet, but those of a tongue completely alien to Earth. Although language experts for NASA have replayed those tapes over and over, they simply have not been able to analyze it. (The language)…² 
    ³On his final orbit of Earth while over the Muchea Tracking Station near Perth, Australia, the NASA astronaut (Cooper) sighted a weird-looking object approaching him. This UFO was also seen by over 200 people at the tracking station.² 

    Apollo 11 (Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins)‹Blast off-July 16, 1969‹Landed on the Moon at 2:17 p.m. (Florida time), July 20th, 1969. 

    (OMSM)‹Page 47 
    ³The unexplainable event began as the Apollo 11 spacecraft approached the Moon, and the astronauts began hearing weird radio noise, variously likened to a Œfire-engine¹, loud sirens, buzz-saw sounds and train whistles, which interfered with the space communication hookup. Mission Control was so perplexed they asked: ŒYou sure you don¹t have anybody else up there with you?¹ ³ 
    ³It was clear that the strange interruptive noises came from OUTSIDE the Apollo 11 spacecraft, and had to be radio signals.² 

    (OMSM)‹Page 48 
    ³It was presumably when the two moon-walkers, Aldrin and Armstrong, were making the rounds some distance from the LEM (Lunar Effect Module) that Armstrong clutched Aldrin¹s arm excitedly and exclaimed: ŒWhat was it? What the hell was it? That¹s all I want to know.¹ There followed further snatches of gasping interchanges between the two astronauts, with Mission Control chiming in frantically. 
    MISSION CONTROL: ŒWhat¹s there?…malfunction (garble)…Mission Control calling Apollo 11…¹ 
    APOLLO 11: ŒThese babies were huge, sir…enormous…Oh, God you wouldn¹t believe it! I¹m telling you there are other spacecraft out there…lined up on the far side of the crater edge…they¹re on the Moon watching us…¹ ³ 

    Apollo 12 (Charles Conrad, Dick Gordon, Allan Bean)‹November 14, 1969 

    (OMSM)‹Page 49 
    ³Less than a minute after blast-off, the Apollo spacecraft was hit by a bolt of lightning (11:22 a.m. EST, November 14, 1969). With Apollo 12 barely a mile and a half above the Earth, virtually all of the electrical equipment in the spacecraft suddenly shut down…² 
    ³It looked for a moment as if all would be lost, but the astronauts remained cool, and within three minutes all power and ship¹s systems were restored.² 
    ³The source of the bolt remained a mystery to our space experts. Strangely enough, the nearest lightning was reported by the Weather Bureau to be MORE THAN 20 MILES AWAY!² 

    (OMSM)‹Page 50 
    ³As Apollo 12 headed toward the Moon, observatories all over Europe began reporting that they had sighted two bright flashing Œunknown¹ objects in the craft¹s vicinity. Sighted THROUGH LARGE TELESCOPES, one object appeared to be following the spacecraft, and the other seemed to be traveling in front of it. Both objects appeared to be blinking on and off rapidly.² 
    ³The next day, Saturday November 15th, the three Apollo 12 astronauts DID report to Mission Control at Houston that they had sighted two bogeys (UFOs). 

    Apollo 15 (David R. Scott, James B. Irwin, Alfred M. Worden.) 
    Apollo 14 (Capt. Allan Shephard Jr., Edgar Mitchel, Maj. Stuart Roosa.) 
    Apollo 16 (Ken Mattingly, John Young, Charles Duke.) 

    (OMSM)‹Page 58-59 
    Apollo 17‹Ground to Air (Taurus-Littrow area) 
    COMMAND MODULE PILOT (CMP): What are you learning? 
    GROUND CONTROL (GC): Hot spots on the Moon, Jack. 
    CMP: Where are your big anomalies? Can you summarize quickly? 
    GC: Jack, we¹ll get that for you on the next pass. 
    CMP: Hey, I can see a bright spot down there on the landing site where they might have blown off some of that halo stuff. 
    GC: Roger. Interesting. Very‹go to KILO KILO. 
    CMP. Hey, it¹s gray now and the number one extends… 
    GC: Roger. We got it. And we copy that it¹s all the way down there. Go to KILO KILO on that. 
    CMP: Mode is going to HM. Recorder is off. Lose a little communication there, huh? Okay, there¹s Bravo, Bravo, select OMNI. Hey, you know, you¹ll never believe it. I¹m right over the edge of Orientale. I just looked down and saw the lights flash again. 
    GC: Roger. Understand. 
    CMP: Right at the end of the rille. 
    GC: Any chance of‹? 
    CMP: That¹s on the EAST or Orientale. 
    GC: You don¹t suppose it could be Vostok? (Vostok is a Russian space probe.) 
    CMP: I¹ll be damned. I¹ve got to mark that spot on the map! 
    (OMSM)‹Page 66-67 
    ³The strangest anomally…concerning the Moon¹s craters, is that despite their fantastic size, even the LARGEST gaping holes are surprisingly shallow. Craters fifty, even one hundred miles in diameter are no more than a mere two to three miles deep.² 
    ³It has been calculated that a meteor of one million tons would be equal in explosive force to a one-megaton atomic bomb. We know that meteors weighing one million tons have clobbered the lunar surface. Yet they¹ve left only broad, shallow holes.² 
    ³Even CONSERVATIVE estimates by scientists indicate that meteors 10 miles or more in diameter should have penetrated the Moon¹s surface to a depth of 4 or 5 TIMES that diameter; yet the deepest Moon crater we know about (the Gagarin Crater is 186 miles across but less than 4 miles deep.² 
    ³The conclusion that some scientists drew is that there is something extremely tough and strong under the shallow lunar surface, beneath the thin layers of rock and dirt covering this mysterious sphere, that prevented deep holes. What could that tough, strong Œthing¹ be?² 

    (OMSM)‹Page 72 
    ³In 1962, Dr. Gordon McDonald, a leading scientist at NASA, published a report in the July issue of ŒAstronautics.¹ In it he stated that, according to an analysis of the Moon¹s motion, it appears that the Moon is hollow: ŒIf the astronomical data are reduced, it is found that the data require that the interior of the Moon be less dense than the outer parts. Indeed, it would seem that the Moon is more like a hollow than a homogenous sphere.¹ Œ¹Astronautics¹ magazine‹July, 1962 issue.) 
    NOTE: The importance of this is immediately seen if one considers the possibility that our Moon is an artificial satellite. Another important question also comes to mind: Could the method used to analyze the Moon¹s motion be applied to the Earth¹s motion as well, to determine if it, also, is hollow? Scientists have never had the opportunity to study Earth from a distance, thus making the carrying out of such observations impossible. But from orbiting space-stations (like the Soviet ŒMir¹ station), these studies would be QUITE possible to carry out. If this has not already been done, (and realizing how much our government really tells the public, it probably HAS been), it SHOULD be, and SOON! 
    This would add another LARGE piece of evidence in the already PONDEROUS case in favor of the Hollow Earth Theory. In fact, the more one studies our mysterious Moon, the more light is thrown onto the Hollow Earth Theory as well. 

    (OMSM)‹Page 79 
    ³…Take that 148-mile crater. In area it out does Hiroshima hundreds of times over. What a powerful explosion it must have been to send millions of tons of lunar rock fountaining over tens of miles! On the face of it, one would expect to find a very deep crater here, but nothing of the sort: there is 3 miles at MOST between top and bottom levels, and ONE THIRD of that is accounted for by the wall of rock thrown up around the crater like a toothed crown.² 
    ³For such a big hole, it is too shallow. Furthermore, the BOTTOM of the crater is CONVEX, following the curve of the lunar surface.² 

    (OMSM)‹Page 79-80 
    ³Now, let us consider the chemical peculiarities of the lunar rock. (Samples were brought back by the Apollo missions.) Upon analysis, American scientists have found Chromium, Titanium and Zirconium in it. These are all metals with refractory, mechanically strong and anti-corrosive properties. A combination of them all would have enviable resistance to heat and the ability to stand up to means of aggression, and could be used on Earth for linings for electrical furnaces.² 
    ³If a material has to be devised to protect a giant artificial satellite from the unfavorable effects of temperature, from cosmic radiation and meteorite bombardment, the experts would probably have hit upon precisely these metals.² 

    (OMSM)‹Page 91 
    ³Our six trips to the Moon have produced a world of informational material: 837 pounds of lunar rocks and soil and over 30,000 photographs and reels of magnetic tape.² 

    (OMSM)‹Page 92 
    ³The oldest rocks found on planet Earth have been discovered in Greenland. They are dated 3.7 billion years.² 
    ³One rock from man¹s first trip to Luna was a baffling 4.3 billion years old. Another puzzler (Rock #13) checked in at an unbelievable 4.5 billion years. And an Apollo 11 soil sample turned out to be 4.6 billion years old. Another report based on the Potassium-Argon system of dating, now accepted by science as the most accurate dating system, claimed ŒSome of the rocks gave an unacceptable age of 7 billion years.¹ ³ 
    ³Two Apollo 12 rocks have been dated at 20 billion years.² 

    (OMSM)‹Page 94 
    ³Most of the rocks from our first Moon landing (Apollo 11) clocked in at 3.6 billion years of age, but the soil in which they rested proved to be 4.6 billion years old.² 
    ³With Apollo 12 the same contradictory clash was found. The soil sample (4.4 billion was a billion years OLDER than the rocks that lay strewn about it, an impossibility to our bewildered scientists. They expected the soil to be the powdered remains of the rocks lying amidst it, a rubble pile consisting of dust, dirt, rocks and stones that have been banged and crushed over eons of time by the bombardment of meteorites.² 
    ³Even more bewildering discoveries were to follow, as lunar experts found from chemical analysis of the soil that this lunar dirt did not come from the rocks around it but from somewhere else!² 
    ³If the Moon did wander through the universe as a spaceship, then clearly it would have passed through different cosmic Œtime zones.¹ In so doing it would have picked up rocks and rock particles in the form of meteorites and micrometeorites, and the dust and dirt would be of differing ages.² 

    (OMSM)‹Page 95 
    ³Some elements found on the Moon have never before been found on Earth in their natural forms. At the Third Scientific Conference in Houston, the Argone National Laboratory reported that they had found Uranium 236 and Neptunium 237 in Lunar samples brought back by Apollo 12 and 14‹elements never previously found in nature.² 

    (OMSM)‹Page 99 
    ³When the Lunar Module ascent stage of Apollo 12 was sent crashing into the Moon, the seismological equipment recorded the shock waves. The results staggered NASA scientists. The artificially created Moonquake lasted 55 minutes!² 
    ³Furthermore, the KIND of signals recorded by the seismometers shocked scientists. Seismologists were puzzled that the signals started with small waves, gained in size to a peak, and lasted for unbelievably long periods of time. ŒThe records are utterly different from any obtainable observations on the Earth,¹ relates one scientist in the highly regarded publication ŒScience¹ (November 12, 1971.² 
    ³The seismic records of Apollo 12 proved not to be unique. When the spent 3rd stage of the ill-fated Saturn rocket booster of Apollo 13 was propelled out of Earth orbit into a Moon trajectory, and by radio command crashed into the Moon, it hit with an impact equal to 11 tons of TNT, about 87 miles from the site where the Apollo 12 astronauts set up seismometers.² 
    ³The entire Moon vibrated for more than 3 hours, 20 minutes; the vibrations traveling to a depth of 22-25 miles.² 
    ³The Apollo 14¹s S-IVB was also boosted into a Moon course and, by remote control, crashed into the lunar surface. A NASA science publication (ŒApollo 14: Science at Fra Mauro, p.17¹) said: ŒThe Moon reacted like a gong. For about 3 hours it vibrated and these vibrations traveled to a depth of 22-25 miles.¹ The instruments, by the way, picked up the vibrations even though they were 108 miles away from the Apollo 14 impact site.² 

    (OMSM)‹Page 101-102 
    ³There is also the question of the mystifying speed with which vibrations travel through the Moon¹s hard, interior layer. As Werner von Braun tells us: ŒThe velocity (of seismic waves seems to gradually increase down to a depth of about 15 miles‹then there is a sharp increase. This increase can only be accounted for by a change to a denser material…At a depth of 40 miles, the velocity is estimated to be about 6 miles per second…No rocks examined thus far would, under the actual pressures expected to be at a lunar depth of 40 miles, transmit seismic impulses at speeds as high as 6 miles per second.¹ (ŒPopular Science¹ January, 1972‹pp. 67-68).² 
    ³What kind of material would carry sounds at that speed? Strange that a check of the speed of sound through the probable intermixture of metals (Iron, Titanium, Beryllium, Molybdenum, and Yttrium) that exists in the outer maria averages out to be about 6 miles per second…Here is impressive proof that the inner layer inside the Moon is indeed metallic, and that the spaceship Moon does have an artificial inner hull!² 

    (OMSM)‹Page 105-106 
    ³…Lunar scientists received upsetting news from instruments left on the Moon by Apollo expeditions. Great eruptions of water vapor clouds have been detected which spread over an area of some 100 SQUARE MILES on the Moon¹s surface! The eruptions lasted 14 hours!² 
    ³Apollo 16 astronauts had brought back rocks that appeared to be rusty, and it turned out that the rocks contained rusted iron! How could the iron in these rocks be rusted without the presence of water on the Moon, scientists wondered, for to have rust one must have Oxygen and free Hydrogen, as well as iron and water.² 

    (OMSM)‹Page 135-136 
    ³We do know from Apollo astronauts-Mission Control conversations that our astronauts did come across strange hard-to-explain structures on the surface of this strange alien world. Consider this conversation, for instance, which took place during the Apollo 16 mission between Ground Control and the Apollo 16 astronauts: 
    DUKE: These devices are unbelievable. I¹m not taking a GNOMON up there. 
    YOUNG: O.K., but man, that¹s going to be a steep bridge to climb. 
    DUKE: You got‹YOWEE! Man‹John, I tell you this is some sight up here. Tony, the blocks in Buster are covered‹the bottom is covered with blocks, five meters across. Besides the blocks seem to be in a preferred orientation, northeast to southwest. They go all the way up the wall on those two sides and on the other side you can barely see the outcropping at about 5%. 90% of the bottom is covered with blocks that are 50cm and larger. 
    CAPCOM: Good show. Sounds like a secondary… 
    DUKE: Right out there…the blue one that I described from the lunar module window is colored because it is glass-coated, but underneath the glass it is crystaline…the same texture as the Genesis Rock…Dead on my mark. 
    YOUNG: Mark. It¹s open. 
    DUKE: I can¹t believe it! 
    YOUNG: And I put that beauty in dry! 
    CAPCOM: Dover. Dover. We¹ll start EVA-2 immediately. 
    DUKE: You¹d better send a couple more guys up here. They¹ll have to try (garble). 
    CAPCOM: Sounds familiar. 
    DUKE: Boy, I tell you, these EMUs and PLSSs are really superfantastic! 

    (OMSM)‹Page 145 
    Apollo 17 
    SCHMITT: I see tracks‹running right up the wall of the crater. 
    MISSION CONTROL (Gene Cernan): Your photopath runs directly between Pierce and Pease. Pierce Brava, go to Bravo, Whiskey, Whiskey, Romeo. 
    ³If this is not code what is it? And why switch to the use of strange meaningless code words if NASA was not trying to cover up something startling; something that needed to be hidden from the public? In fact, science writer Joseph Goodavage maintains that Œwhenever something was discovered, the astronauts and CAPCOM apparently switched to a prearranged code, sometimes even on an alternate PUBLICLY UNMONITORABLE channel.¹ (ŒSAGA¹-March, 1974-p.36).² 
    ³Secrets of our Spaceship Moon² (SOSM) ‹Page 18-19 
    ³On the edge of the Sea of Storms is a strange opening that leads down into the Moon. Dr. H.P. Wilkins, one of the world¹s leading lunar experts before his untimely death a few years ago, was convinced that extensive hollow areas did exist inside the Moon, perhaps in the form of caverns, and that these were connected to the surface by huge holes or pits. He discovered such an opening himself‹a huge round hole inside the crater Cassini A. This crater is one and a half miles across, and the opening leading down into the Moon is over 600 feet across‹more than two football fields laid end to end. Wilkins writes in his definitive work, ŒOur Moon¹: ŒIts inside is as smooth as glass with a deep pit or plughole, about 200 yards across at the centre.¹ ³ 
    ³…hundreds, in fact, thousands, of UFOs have been seen on or around the surface of the Moon, and a concentration of them has been spotted in the Sea of Storms. Could they be coming and going through this huge opening or one like it?² 

    (SOSM)‹Page 52 
    ³It should be noted that the Apollo flights, about which there have been rumors concerning UFOs, employ a different approach to communications between the astronauts and the ground. The radio signals are sent directly back to Houston and then rebroadcast with Houston having the option of deleting whatever they choose to delete…During the earlier Gemini and Mercury flights the talk was Œin the open¹‹readily monitored by Ham equipment.² 
    NOTE: The method now used by NASA (as mentioned above) keeps the HAM OPERATORS from monitoring the astronauts-to-ground transmissions, but people with their own VHF/UHF transmitters/receivers (such as privately owned radio and television stations) could (and reportedly DID) monitor these conversations uncensored. 

    (SOSM)‹Page 53 
    ³…Mission Control from time to time gave orders to the astronauts in some unusual terms, seemingly whenever an unusual sighting was taking place, directing them to ŒGo to Whiskey Whiskey¹ or ŒBarbara Barbara¹ or ŒBravo Bravo¹ or ŒKilo Kilo.¹ ³ 
    ³Interestingly, there is an ICBM base in Montana by the name of KILO KILO. Could NASA have used this base¹s radio equipment to filter out through this prearranged private channel anything NASA did not want the public to know? Shockingly, WHISKEY WHISKEY, BARBARA BARBARA, and BRAVO BRAVE are also bases in the West.² 

    (SOSM)‹Page 86-87 
    ³The disks of the Sun and the Moon appear to be just about equal as viewed from Earth…The Moon is only 2,160 miles in diameter, while the Sun is 864,000 miles. That makes the Sun¹s diameter approximately 400 times greater. To put it another way, the ratio of our Moon¹s disk to the Sun¹s is 1:400.² 
    ³However, our Sun is 93,000 miles away and the Moon is only about a quarter of a million miles away. Strangely enough, this works out to about the same ratio‹approximately 1:400. So the distance just about cancels out the size, and this is why the tiny Moon appears to the viewer on the Earth to be about the same size as our gigantic Sun.² 
    ³This is shown remarkably during a total eclipse. Isaac Asimov makes an observation about this truly amazing situation, which he calls Œcoincidence¹.² 
    ³In his book ŒSpace, Time and Other Things¹ (Doubleday, 1965) he notes: ŒWhat makes a total eclipse so remarkable is the sheer astronomical reason why the Moon and the Sun should fit so well. It is the sheerest of coincidences, and only the Earth among all the planets is blessed in this fashion.¹ ³ 

    (SOSM)‹Page 92-93 
    ³In his authoritative study ŒOur Moon¹, H.P. Wilkins explains his astounding conclusion: ŒLong ago it was calculated that if the Moon had contracted on cooling at the same rate as granite, a drop of only 180 degrees would create hollows in the interior amounting to no less than 14 millions of cubic miles.¹ ³ 
    NOTE: Would not the same apply to the cooling of the Earth? This could have applications to the Hollow Earth Theory, which proposes that, not only the EARTH, but ALL planets are formed with interiors that are essentially HOLLOW. 

    (SOSM)‹Page 125 
    ³The associated Press wire carried this brief but startling Soviet announcement:² 
    ³ ŒEmphasizing the importance of lunar soil samples, and article in ŒPravda¹ revealed that the first successful automatic mission in 1970 brought back particles of iron that ŒDOES NOT RUST.¹ Pure iron that does not rust is unknown on Earth.* In fact, it cannot yet be even manufactured. Physicists and scientific experts claim they cannot understand how this is at all possible without some kind of manufacturing process being involved. They also point out that it is beyond out present Earth technology.¹ ³ 
    (Detroit Free Press, August 24th, 1976.) 
    *NOTE: There is a large obelisk in New Delhi, India that is VERY ancient, and is composed of iron that does not rust. See Erich von Daniken¹s books for reference. 

    (SOSM)‹Page 130 
    ³ ŒThe Sea of Tranquility is covered with material that is considerably more dense than the average density of the Moon…This is the reverse of what one would expect. On Earth the lava that flows upwards and out onto the surface is the lighter component‹not the heavier fraction.¹ ³ 
    (New York Times‹November 99th, 1969.) 

    (SOSM)‹Page 158 
    ³…Perhaps the most striking phenomenon of all regarding our strange Moon is that the seismic recordings each month conform to nearly the same identical pattern. The sequence of events, as Earth¹s gravity tugs at the Moon, seems to be the same each month, rendering the same Œseismic signature.¹ ³ 
    ³Lunar seismic disturbances are assumed to be generated by stresses building up and sliding or other movements of rock faces. In the case of the Moon, lunar expert Gary Latham (NASA) explains, probably the tidal pull (of the Earth on the Moon) builds up until the Œfriction can no longer hold these surfaces together and they just pop; they slide…¹ But of course they would not slide each and every time in the same way at the same time. And yet they appear to be doing just that!² 
    ³Moonquakes occur at monthly intervals like clockwork. When the Moon is closest (Perigee) the first pooping noises come. Actually, the very first occur five days before the Moon reaches Perigee in its orbit, and then again another event indicates something stirring in the Moon three days before Perigee. The amazing thing is the clockwork precision with which this all happens. Scientists find it absolutely astonishing. ŒYou can set your watch by it,¹ confesses Latham.² (NASA Science Briefing, Houston, May 26th, 1971.) 

    ³Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon² (OMSM) ‹ Page 63-64 
    ³Even before man journeyed to Luna, scientists like Isaac Asimov had pointed out that the Moon is really a freak of celestial nature, for by all cosmic laws SHE SHOULD NOT BE CIRCLING THE EARTH.² 
    ³The Moon is a whopping one-fourth of Earth¹s size. The next largest satellite circling a planet that is anywhere NEAR that ratio is whirling around Jupiter, and it is only one-EIGHTIETH the size of its master. Because of the Moon¹s proportionally great size some scientists have even labeled the Earth-Moon combination an actual double planetary system.² 
    ³Discussing the problems of Œhaving the Moon where it is,¹ Dr. Asimov asks: 
    ³ Œ…Small planets, such as Earth, with weak gravitational fields, might well lack satellites. Pluto has no known satellites, neither have Mercury and Venus…Yet Earth, quite surprisingly, does have a satellite‹the Moon.¹ ³ 
    ³ Œ…It¹s not just having satellites. It¹s primarily the SIZE of those satellites…In general, then, when a planet does have satellites, there would be every reason to suspect…that at best it would be a tiny world, perhaps 30 miles in diameter.¹ ³ 
    ³ ŒBut that is not so. Earth not only has a satellite, but it is a giant satellite, 2,160 miles in diameter. Amazing.¹ ³ (Isaac Asimov‹¹Intelligent Man¹s Guide to Science¹, p.108.) 

    (OMSM)‹Page 74 
    ³The Moon¹s orbit is too nearly circular and synchronized. Such a gravitational capture should have produced a rather elongated, elliptical orbit, instead of the nearly circular path the Moon now follows around the Earth.² 

    (OMSM)‹Page 64 
    ³The Moon is a celestial freak in several other respects. Almost all other satellites in the solar system circle their respective planets in the same plane of the orb¹s equator. But not out Moon. Its orbit instead lies strangely closer to the Earth¹s orbit around the Sun. Puzzled scientists wonder: Why is our Moon circling the Earth outside this usual equatorial planetary orbit? They do not know. 
    NOTE: The more scientists look at the evidence brought back from the Moon, the more they are convinced that it was formed at some remote corner of the Galaxy, and was captured by the Earth several thousand years ago. The problem with the capture theory is that, for one, the Moon is too BIG. Secondly, its orbit is too perfectly circular, and too far out from the Earth. (If it HAD been captured by the Earth, it would have an ELLIPTICAL orbit, not a perfectly circular one.) These facts, combined with the HOLLOW and seemingly ARTIFICIAL nature of the Moon, not to mention the Œcoincidental¹ positioning of the Moon‹the positioning that makes Earth the only planet in the solar system to experience total eclipses‹all of these discrepancies and coincidences are just too much to accept. As outlandish as it may seem, the theory of ŒSpaceship Moon¹ having been Œaltered¹ and steered into Earth orbit by god-knows-who several thousand years ago seems to be the only one that fits all of the evidence. 

    ³Secrets of our Spaceship Moon² (SOSM) ‹ Page 191 
    ³ ŒA new moon rose,¹ Richard Lewis told us at the Fifth Lunar Conference in 1974. ŒIt was a planet in its own right…Such a planet had to be captured to become the satellite of the Earth.¹ ³ 
    NOTE: The fact that the Moon was once, of necessity, a planet in its own right, along with fact that evidence points to the Moon being hollow, could be an interesting piece of evidence in favor of the Hollow Earth Theory. (This theory holds that, not only our Earth, but ALL planets are formed hollow.) Therefore, the fact that the Moon is hollow does not necessarily mean that it is a spaceship fashioned by Aliens. It could simply mean that the Hollow Earth Theory is, indeed, correct, and that all planets are, in fact, formed hollow; the Moon having once been its own planet, until its relatively recent capture by the Earth. (Interestingly enough, the impossible celestial mechanics required for the Moon to be in its present orbit become much more probable if one considers it to be a hollow body. If, indeed, it was Œsteered¹ into our orbit by Œaliens¹ however long ago, this would certainly made their job a lot easier!). Unfortunately, orthodox scientists have as much (if not MORE) trouble accepting the Hollow Earth Theory as they do the Spaceship Moon theory. 

    (SOSM)‹Page 261 
    ³Originally 10 flights to the Moon had been scheduled…In fact, Apollo 18 and 19 rockets were ALREADY PAID FOR and the astronauts TRAINED and raring to go. Yet these last two scheduled Moon missions were cut. Why were they slashed when, as one science reporter tells us, Œthe hardware had already been purchased?¹ ³ 
    ³Even CRITICS of manned space flights like Dr. Thomas Gold of Cornell University screamed out against these nonsensical cuts: ŒIt¹s like buying a Rolls-Royce, and then not driving it because you want to save a few bucks on the gas.¹ ³ 
    ³Somebody Else is on The Moon² (SEOM) ‹Page 42 
    ³If you look at a complex thing long enough, you begin to understand it, or at least its superficial aspects. The mind cannot assimilate everything in a complex picture at once, so you see very little at first. Gradually you master a detail, and then the mind can forget that detail and go on to something else. The more details you master, the more you can see.² 

    (SEOM)‹Page 49 
    ³On august 26, 1966, NASA¹s Lunar Orbiter I spacecraft took a picture of a crater on the hidden side of the Moon. (NASA photo #66-H-1293)…It shows a 31 mile wide crater which HAS IMPINGED ON THE WALLS OF A SMALLER CRATER. Both craters are clearly distinguishable as OCTAGONS. Is there a natural way in which an octagon can be formed on the Moon‹an octagon 31 miles in diameter?² 

    (SEOM)‹Page 95 
    ³34 tracks in the Apollo 17 landing area were measured and investigated. Length of the tracks ranges from .1 kilometer to 2.5 kilometers, with an average length of about .75 kilometer. Track widths ranged up to 16 meters (about 38 feet), with an average width of over 18 feet.² 
    ³20 men or more with long crowbars would be needed to dislodge even the smallest of the boulders…When the boulders were dislodged, a fantastic ADDITIONAL FORCE would have been required to KEEP them moving on a 25 degree slope.² 

    (SEOM)‹Page 96 
    ³NASA photo 67-H-1135 shows two long trails, 900 feet and 1200 feet long. The objects obviously making the trails are light-splashed by the sun; no real detail can be gleaned from studying them, but they do not look like boulders.² 
    ³Do you know how much force it would take to set in motion a rock 75 feet across? Volcanic action might do it, but we have NASA¹s word for the fact that the Moon (on the SURFACE, at least) is seismically quiet.² 
    ³The smaller object in the photo‹the one making the longer trail‹came up OUT OF THE CRATER before it continued down the hill. Repeat: it came up OUT OF A CRATER.² 
    ³There is a fascinating TREAD MARK on the trail of one of the Œboulders.¹ There is also a symmetrical design on the Œboulder¹ itself.² (Again, see NASA photo #67-H-1135.) 

    NOTE on the Moon¹s ³RAYS²: The so-called ³rays² that extend from and between many craters on the Moon were found by Apollo astronauts to be composed of a fine, powdery chalk-like substance. (Much like the chalk-lines laid down on sports fields.) What could be the cause of these rays? It is interesting to note that the craters with the largest ray patterns are the ones in which the most ACTIVITY has been noted. (Bright lights, Œartificial constructions¹, and spraying.) The theory that these trails of dust are caused by meteor impacts is ruled out immediately, because most craters having rays have only one or two extending from them. (Only the Œbusy¹ craters have many of them.) A meteor impact causes derbis to be thrown in ALL directions. Even meteors hitting at an oblique angle would throw derbis in a complete arc along its forward direction. So what causes the rays? It seems a strange coincidence that the bottoms of the ³rayed² craters are heavily coated with the same white, powdery substance of which the rays are composed. The ³rays² are beginning to look like they were made by something ³tracking² the powder up out of the crater, and in a straight line to other craters. It was found by the Apollo astronauts that this powder clings to EVERYTHING, and was, in fact, a great nuisance to them, as it clung to their suits, faceplates, camera lenses, cables, etc., and even found its way into the Lunar Module, posing a bit of a housekeeping problem, as the powder lost its adhesive quality upon entering the atmosphere of the Lunar Module. 
    Is it possible that spacecraft (UFOs?) landing on the bottom of the craters, thereby having their undersides covered by this powder, could be responsible for the tracking of this powder across the lunar surface? It would take a great number of repetitions of these trips to track a line of powder pronounced enough to be seen from many miles up. But, after all, don¹t planes on Earth always follow certain flight patterns? Talk to an air traffic controller, or anyone involved or interested in flying; they will tell you that there are, in fact, Œinvisible highways¹ in the sky that pilots MUST follow. (Not only is this the law of the FAA, it is common sense: the shortest distance between 2 points IS a straight line, and is thus the quickest path to get where you¹re going.) 
    So it is entirely possible (and quite likely) that these ³rays² are caused by spacecraft on the Moon. (Scientists have been UNABLE to come up with a NATURAL explanation, after all!) Now, whether these spacecraft belong to the U.S., the Soviets, or Aliens is purely a matter of speculation. I¹m sure there are strong arguments in favor of each of these possibilities. The facts are there; you are free to interpret them in any way you see fit. 

    (SEOM)‹Page 191 
    Lagrangian Points: ³All the planets revolving around the sun have them. So does our Moon. You can stick something in one of these Lagrangian Points and it might stay there forever‹or as long as the planets do.² 
    ³…asteroids, all kinds of space junk and dust can collect in the Lagrangian Points and not get swept up by the gravitational attraction of bigger bodies.² 
    NOTE: Could a permanent space-station (such as the ill-fated SkyLab) be placed into one of these Lagrangian Points? It would be much safer than placing one in ORBIT, where there exists a chance that its orbit will decay, and cause it to come crashing down to Earth. 

    (SEOM)‹Page 195-196 
    Isaac Asimov: ³ ŒIt is a shame that one small thing remains unaccounted for; one trifling thing I have ignored so far, but WHAT IN BLAZES IS OUR MOON DOING WAY OUT THERE? It¹s too far out to be a true satellite of Earth…It¹s too BIG to have been CAPTURED by the Earth. The chances of such a capture having been effected and the Moon then having taken up a nearly circular orbit about the Earth are too small to make such an eventuality credible.¹ ³ 
    ³ ŒBut, then, if the Moon is neither a true satellite of the Earth nor a captured one, what is it?¹ ³ (ŒAsimov on Astronomy¹‹Mercury Press, 1963.) 

    (SEOM)‹Page 215 
    ³…after the successful RANGER and SURVEYOR and ORBITER and APOLLO flights, we dropped manned lunar exploration like a hot potato. Less than 20% of the data resulting from these probes has been studies. Less than 2% has been reported on.² 

    (SEOM)‹Page 221 
    To order NASA Moon Photos: 
    SPACE PHOTOGRAPHS 
    P.O. Box 486 
    Bladensburg, Maryland 
    20710 

    The NASA number should be given in full. The cost for a single 8×10 B&W photo is $1.75 (check current price); for color, $5.00 (check current price). Postage & Handling fees are 15% of the total order ($2.00 minimum). 
    For special research needs not furnished by ŒSpace Photographs¹, or photos for use by the media, contact or visit NASA at: 

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Room 6035 
    400 Maryland Avenue, S.W. 
    Washington, D.C. 20546 

    ³Moongate² (MGTE) ‹ Page 24-25 
    ³The funding of top-secret military projects can be easily camouflaged by other unclassified projects. Components and parts needed for secret projects can be ordered one at a time from different manufacturers and charged to a dummy or decoy project. The parts can be assembled in secret and the manufacturers never know what the end product is. An expensive decoy project can be used to generate the funds and to develop the technology for highly sophisticated secret projects at the same time. The NASA space program to put men on the Moon provided the military with such a decoy project.² 

    (MGTE)‹Page 32 
    ³The point where a spacecraft enters the predominant attractive zone of the Moon¹s gravity is called the neutral point. It is the region in space where the Earth¹s force of attraction equals the Moon¹s force of attraction. Since the Moon is smaller and SUPPOSEDLY has a smaller surface gravity, the neutral point should be quite close to the Moon. In fact, if it is assumed that the Moon has one-sixth of the Earth¹s surface gravity (which is what we are all taught in school), the neutral point is calculated to be about nine-tenths of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. The average distance to the Moon is about 239,000 miles, hence this places the neutral point approximately 23,900 miles from the Moon¹s center.² 

    (MGTE)‹Page 45 
    ³At a point 43,495 miles from the Moon, lunar gravity exerted a force equal to the gravity of the Earth, then some 200,000 miles distant.² (ŒTime¹ magazine, July 25, 1969.) 

    (MGTE)‹Page 45-46 
    ³At a distance of 43,495 miles from the Moon, Apollo 11 passed the so-called Œneutral¹ point, beyond which the lunar gravitational field dominated that of Earth.² (ŒHistory of Rocketry & Space¹‹1969.) 

    (MGTE)‹Page 48-49 
    ³…since the Earth¹s pull equals the Moon¹s at the neutral point, the inverse-square law enables the pull of gravity at the Moon¹s surface to be determined…The result is that the Moon¹s surface gravity is 64% of the Earth¹s surface gravity, not the one-sixth (or 16.7%) value predicted by Newton¹s Law of Universal Gravitation!² 

    (MGTE)‹Page 61 
    ³In one-sixth gravity everything would weigh one-sixth, or 16.7%, of its Earth weight. A 180lb. man would weigh a mere 30lbs. Writers were speculating on the athletic abilities of men on the Moon long before the space program and Apollo. They based their calculations on one-sixth gravity. The public was anticipating some of these spectacular athletic feats when astronauts explored the Moon, but none were ever performed.² 

    (MGTE)‹Page 63 
    ³…even with the astronaut gear, (spacesuit, etc.)…(Apollo astronaut John Young)…should have been able to jump over six feet off the ground if the Moon had one-sixth of the Earth¹s gravity. In actuality, his efforts lifted him at most 18″ off the ground. …observations (of the NASA video tapes, and television broadcasts) indicated that Young made several attempts to jump as high as he could but with no success in achieving a height of more than 18 inches.² 

    (MGTE)‹Page 67 
    ³A photo appeared in the December 12, 1969 issue of ŒLife¹ magazine showing Apollo astronaut Alan Bean carrying a barbell-shaped package of instruments whih allegedly weighed 190 Earth pounds. The accompanying statement that it had a Moon weight of only 30 pounds does not seem consistent with the photo which shows a noticeable bow in the approximately 1-inch bar. (NASA photo 69-HC1341).² 
    ³The movie film of this event is even more revealing. As Bean carried the instrument package across the lunar surface, the bar bent up and down, strained by the heavy burden on each end. It was also apparent that the instrument package was quite heavy from Bean¹s efforts and movements.² 

    (MGTE)‹Page 68 
    ³Astronauts were sent to the Bend, Oregon area to get their ŒMoon Legs.¹ Walter Cunningham was the first to try out the Moon suit, backpack life support system, and certain tools to be used by Armstrong and Aldrin on the Moon excursion.² 
    ³That the astronauts were able to maneuver around at all in the Bend, Oregon area with their gear on suggests that the gear weighed far less than 185 pounds. (The weight that we were all given.)² 

    (MGTE)‹Page 72-73 
    ³When Apollo 14 astronauts were in view of the south flank of Cone Crater, Shephard went down on one knee to pick up a rock and required the aid of Mitchell to stand up. About 2/3 of the way to their destination, their heart rates were up to 120 beats per minute as they moved uphill.² 
    ³As they climbed, Shephard¹s rate reached 150 per minute and Mitchell¹s went to 128.² 
    ³The astronauts never reached Cone Crater. They went back down hill toward Weird Crater to collect rock samples, then on to triplet to dig trenches.² 

    (MGTE)‹Page 74 
    ³The author observed one of the Apollo 14 astronauts in a movie film of the mission. The astronaut was running in semislow-motion in an otherwise perfectly normal manner. The discrepancy arises when it i considered that the astronaut went no higher off the surface and went no farther with each step than he would have on Earth. The slow-motion effects could not cover up this fact. This suggests that the film speed was adjusted to slow down the action to give the impression that the astronauts were lighter than they actually were. With the slow-motion effects, objects would appear to fall more slowly and the public would be convinced of the Moon¹s weak gravity.² 

    (MGTE)‹Page 75 
    ³The Rover was supposedly designed for the Moon¹s one-sixth gravity, but close examination indicates that it resembled a vehicle more suitable for near-Earth gravity. It was approximately 10 feet long and 4 feet high, with a 7.5 foot wheelbase and 6 foot tread width. The wheels were 32″ in diameter with chevron-shaped treads of Titanium, not much different looking than an Earth tire.² 

    (MGTE)‹Page 76-77 
    ³…a minimum-size vehicle (for use on the Moon) would need a wheelbase of 20 feet to give it speed capability over rough terrain…To keep the center of gravity to within 6 feet of the surface, it would need a tread width of 20 feet² 

    (MGTE)‹Page 77 
    ³The Rover encountered mostly loose dust and rocks on the Moon. This type of surface would have less traction than ordinary pavement. The Rover had a loaded Earth weight of 1,540 lbs. Under one-sixth gravity, only 128 lbs. of force would be required to make the vehicle slide. Therefore, in going the maximum speed of 10.2 MPH, the vehicle would begin to slide if the wheels were turned enough to make a radius of curvature of less than 84 feet. 
    Even at 5 MPH, the minimum curvature would be 20 feet. The operator would have to be extremely careful not to make any abrupt changes in direction since a sharp turn could tip it over.² (See the tracks of the Rover in NASA photo #71-HC-277‹it shows the tracks of the Rover while being driven by one of the astronauts. The driver was doing some Œsand-dune¹-type reckless driving, with wild swerves and curves all over the place. Doesn¹t sound like he had much trouble with flipping over, does it? And considering that the Rover was too SMALL for effective operation at one-sixth gravity, even at LOW speeds and using EXTREME caution, something just doesn¹t fit here. All observations indicate that the Moon has a much higher gravity than was previously believed.) 

    (MGTE)‹Page 79-80 
    ³Charles Duke (Apollo 16) evidently had a difficult time on the Moon. He fell a number of times and a series of photos appeared in many newspapers whih showed him stumbling and falling…Since objects would take nearly 2-1/2 times longer to fall in one-sixth gravity, Duke should have had plenty of time to catch himself. It is even more surprising that Duke fell as OFTEN as he did considering that he was wearing the most advanced, updated Moon suit which supposedly provided him more flexibility than any astronaut before him.² 

    (MGTE)‹Page 93-94 
    ³The author acquired the movie showing the Apollo 14 flag ceremony. Close analysis of this film shows that the flag billowed and waved when the astronauts were not touching it or even close to it. At the end of the flag ceremony, as one of the astronauts moved away from the flag, it began to wave back and forth. In an apparent attempt to mask any further display of an atmospheric wind, both astronauts blocked the movie camera¹s view of the flag. The astronaut nearest the flag began running toward and in front of the camera while the other astronaut put his arm in front of the lens.² 
    ³The Apollo 14 film (above) was ordered (by the author) in 1980 from ŒMovie Newsreels¹, a company located in Hollywood, California.² 

    (MGTE)‹Page 104-105 
    ³The most probable cause of a planet¹s magnetic field seems to be the rotation of charges which are present in its atmosphere and on its surface. These charges rotate with the planet; therefore, the intensity of the magnetic field generated would be directly proportional to the planet¹s rotational velocity. Since the Moon¹s rotational velocity is less than 1% of Earth¹s, is also follows that the Moon¹s field is less than 1% of Earth¹s.² 
    NOTE: The Apollo program DID discover that the Moon has a very feeble magnetic field. 
    ³A rotating planet can be compared to an electrical solenoid, which is a coil of wire…When a current is sent through the coil, a magnetic field is generated at right angles to the direction of the wire (the direction of the current flow). Planets carry charges with them in their atmosphere and surface and this generates electrical currents in the direction of rotation, or east-west. The magnetic field is generated at right angles to this, or the north-south direction. Even though the charges are not necessarily moving east-west relative to the surface which is traveling with them, the magnetic field is still created because the planet itself is rotating.² 
    NOTE: This is very important when applied to the Hollow Earth Theory. One of the strongest arguments of orthodox scientists against the Hollow Earth Theory has always been that magnetic fields around planets are created by a rotating mass of liquid iron, thus making the Hollow Earth Theory an impossibility. (Heaven forbid they should consider an alternate theory as to the cause of the Earth¹s magnetic field. After all, man has penetrated the crust of this planet no deeper than 5 miles (and that¹s if you count SONAR…actual PHYSICAL penetration is much less than this), so how do we know for certain what is at the center?) In light of the new findings (above) concerning the cause of planetary magnetic fields, the scientists¹ main objection to the Hollow Earth Theory is removed, and the theory becomes possible; indeed, very PROBABLE. (See the Hollow Earth papers for further reference.) 

    NASA photo 89-HC-431 shows the atmosphere around the Moon. (It is shown as plate #11 in ŒMOONGATE¹.) 

    (MGTE)‹Page 125 
    ³It is probable that only a limited thickness of the Earth¹s crust contributes to the majority of the Earth¹s surface gravity die to the scattering of gravity radiation originating from masses below a certain depth. (Much the same as a stack of magnets gets stronger as you add more magnets, but only to a certain point, where the bottom magnet is not strong enough to reach all the way through to the upper layers‹Galt). This implies that the Earth¹s mass cannot be accurately predicted using the conventional method. If the planets had empty or hollow centers, the surface gravity might not be much different than if they had iron cores, or even lead cores. This seems to explain why the Moon has such a high gravity for its size. Because of this effect, the conclusion is that Newton¹s Law of Universal Gravitation overstated the mass of the Earth in the first place.² 
    NOTE: While this argument is aimed at explaining the reason for the high gravity on the Moon, one can immediately see its importance as applied to the Hollow Earth Theory. 

    (MGTE)‹Page 126-127 
    ³It is not commonly known that the Earth displays the same bell-like ringing or reverberation as the Moon…(Such a) ringing effect was recorded during the May 22, 1960 Chilean earthquake…The ringing continues for a considerable length of time in a regular series of slow impulses which were recorded at various independent seismic stations…The planet rang again as a result of the Anchorage, Alaska earthquake of March 27, 1964.² 
    NOTE:: This points out, as I stated earlier, that the Moon is not necessarily a Œspaceship¹ just because of this ringing. It does seem to point to the fact that ALL planets are, indeed, HOLLOW. 

    (MGTE)‹Page 129 
    ³A photograph of the Earth taken by the DODGE (Department Of Defense Gravity Experiment) satellite. 18,100 miles above the equator, appeared in the November 10, 1967 issue of ŒLife¹ magazine…The author was not able to obtain permission to reproduce this photo; however, it is available for inspection at most libraries.² 
    ³The DODGE photo is interesting, but a view at a better angle is needed to show more details. Such a picture, taken in 1967 by the Applications Technology Satellite 111 (ATS-111) from its stationary position over the equator above Brazil, is shown in NASA photo 67-HC723.² 
    NOTE: This last photo also appeared in ŒSecret of the Ages¹, by brinsley Le Poer Trench. (This book was taken off the market by the U.S. Government shortly after its release in 1977.) 

    Both of the above mentioned photos depict the Earth, and show the Œhole¹ at the North Pole from different angles, giving depth to the phenomenon, and allowing researchers to make quite accurate estimates as to the hole¹s width and angle of descent into the Earth¹s interior. 
    These photos belong with the Hollow Earth research materials, but seeing as how I ran across them amongst the MOONGATE research data, I decided to include them here. After all, the more one researches ONE of these two theories, the more light is shed on the other.

  • STANDING ON THE MOON

    STANDING ON THE MOON

    Vol. I, Issue 3  Aug 18, 1997

    Dear Reader,

    Stop your world for a moment, get in touch with your feelings and imagine that you are an Apollo astronaut standing on the moon. Your fellow astronaut is nearby inside the lunar Lander and you are out there all alone, in your spacesuit, standing on the powdery, barren surface of the moon. It is beyond eerie. It is unearthly, alien. No amount of training could ever have prepared you for the way you are feeling right now. Your heart is pounding. The landscape is stark and flooded with a searing light. With no atmosphere, the stars blaze all around you in a black sky like headlights pointed straight at you. You can see the earth above (below?), hanging like a light blue tree ornament in the perpetual night. You can almost reach up and touch it. Your family is there, so near yet so far. If the rocket on the Lander fails to ignite, you will die here. It is so unearthly quiet, you can hear the sound of your own blood flowing through your inner ears. You can almost hear the sound of your own digestion. You are truly and inexorably alone.

    Then the NASA movie director yells “cut!”, you lift off your helmet and head out the hangar door for lunch with the rest of the crew.

    Whew! I had you there for a second. Now get in touch with your imagination again, and this time pry your mind open as w-i-d-e as it will go. Turn your truth detector on “high” and consider the outrageous, the impossible: that NASA never actually landed a man on the moon. That they faked it in a simulation filmed entirely inside a floodlit hangar here on good old terra firma.

    Impossible!, you say. I mean, if you’re over about the age of 40, you can most likely remember exactly where you were and what you were doing as Neil Armstrong spoke those most famous words in all of human history: “One small step for man, one giant step for mankind”. Fake it? FAKE it? Why on Earth (literally) would they do this?

    Hard digging investigative journalist, Jim Collier of “Votescam” fame, has now hung his credibility and perhaps his entire career on the question of whether NASA has actually “mooned” the entire world in the most colossal hoax of all time. The premise is that the pressure was on to beat the Soviets to the moon.

    Everything was at stake – F$30 billion in federal funding, prestige, egos, careers, the whole works. NASA knew how to send three men TO the moon and go AROUND the moon, but lacked the technical expertise to land ON the moon – to separate from a “mother ship” (the lunar orbiter), descend in a smaller, self-contained “shuttle craft” (the lunar lander), fire a 10,000-pound-thrust landing rocket and spiral down to a controlled landing, suit up, disembark, romp and play on the surface, go for a drive, return to the lander, blast off, rendezvous and dock with the orbiter and finally return to Earth.

    So they faked it. Considering that this was the same general era as Stanley Kubrick’s blockbuster “2001”, the special effects technology certainly existed. And you can make a lot of movie with a cool F$30 billion.

    In a recently released VHS video titled “It’s Only A Paper Moon”, Collier looks straight at the camera and in a “video letter” asks senior NASA management for proof of the accomplishment – a feat the entire world has long taken for granted.

    Collier points out a few, minor inconsistencies, summarized here:

    1. Two fully suited Apollo astronauts could not physically have fit in the allotted space inside the lunar lander and opened the door because the door opened INWARDS, not outwards. They could not have exited with their suits on. He measures this on film.

    2. An Apollo astronaut could not physically have fit through the tunnel connecting the orbiter and the lander. It was too narrow. Collier went to NASA’s museum and measured it. The ends of the tunnel contained a ring of docking connectors. NASA’s “in flight” footage that we are told was taken en route to the moon shows astronauts freely tumbling through this connecting tunnel which would be blatant enough except that there are no connectors visible, plus the tunnel hatch door opens the wrong way. Those shots were taken ON EARTH.

    3. There is BLUE light coming through the spacecraft windows en route to the moon. With no atmosphere to filter through, space is BLACK. That footage was taken here ON EARTH, most likely in a cargo jet placed into a steep dive to simulate the sensation of “zero-G”.

    4. Photos taken by disembarked astronauts show the lunar lander sitting on a placid, smooth, undisturbed surface. Impossible, if they blasted down to a landing, riding on a 10,000 pound thrust plume of flame. The entire area would be severely disturbed. Those shots were taken here on EARTH.

    5. There are no stars in the sky in any Apollo photographs. None. That is impossible. The astronauts were surrounded by blazing white stars, unaffected by any atmospheric distortion. Those shots were taken here on EARTH.

    6. There are multiple shadows projecting from the astronauts and from other objects standing on the lunar surface, shadows of different lengths. That is impossible. There was no other source of illumination besides the SUN, all of which (obviously) came from the exact same direction. Those shots were taken here on EARTH.

    7. Earth never appears in a single NASA photo allegedly taken by an astronaut standing on the moon. Not one. If you were NASA, wouldn’t you want, for publicity purposes if none other, MANY shots of astronauts – maybe of every single astronaut – posing “next to” the Earth? Maybe even appearing to HOLD Earth in his upturned palm? 

    8. With 1/6 the gravity of Earth, the “rooster tail” of dust kicked up behind the wheels of the “dune buggy” (lunar rover) should have gone up SIX TIMES as high as it would on Earth when traveling at the same speed. But it does not. It also comes back down in sheets – SHEETS! That is impossible in zero atmosphere. The dust should have come back down in the exact same smooth arc it went up in.

    9. The folded lunar rover could not physically have fit in the allotted storage space on the lunar lander. Collier went and measured it. The space is several feet too short. Shots taken “on the moon” show the astronauts STARTING to unhatch the compartment and remove the rover, but then cut away. When they pan back, the rover has been unfolded. How conveeeeeeenient!

    10. The lunar lander crashed – CRASHED – during its only test flight on Earth. So why was it further test flown by attempting to land it ON THE MOON? If you were an astronaut’s wife, would you go along with that?

    11. None of the Apollo astronauts has ever written an “I Went To The Moon” book or other such memoirs.

    12. There is more – much, much more. The location of the directional thrusters, the smoky visibility of the burning rocket fuel, etc. …

     

    Now ask yourself, if in fact we did NOT land on the moon and the American public ever discovers that fact, do you think their eyes and minds might be opened just a teeny bit to the HUNDREDS of already discovered and CONFIRMED acts of government deception?

    Such as the FACT that a Social Security Number is NOT required by law? How about the limited imposition of the income tax? How about Gulf War Syndrome? How about abandoned soldiers in Korea and Vietnam? Gee, how about the entire New World Order?

    NASA is stonewalling Collier completely. No response. No rebuttal. No denial. Just dead silence. Perhaps a few MILLION Americans should begin turning up the heat by asking NASA and their elected officials these same questions. But first, they simply MUST buy and view Collier’s video, “It’s Only A Paper Moon”.

    Order by sending check or money order for F$19.95 plus F$3 S/H to:

    Victoria Press House, 67 Wall Street, Suite 2411, New York, NY 10005

    Oh, by the way, Grumman and Northrop corporations, developers and manufacturers of the lunar lander and the lunar rover, told Collier that all of the original blueprints and design records were destroyed. Not lost, misplaced or in the Smithsonian proudly displaying the history and development of this monumental feat of human engineering and accomplishment. DESTROYED.

    Ready? Sing along, gang! And a one, and a two, …

    “It’s only a paper moon, sailing over a cardboard sea, but it wouldn’t be make believe if you believed in me.”

  • The Wrong Stuff

    The Wrong Stuff

    Are you sure we went to the moon 25 years ago? Are you positive? Millions of Americans believe the moon landings may have been a US$25 billion swindle, perpetrated by NASA with the latest in communications technology and the best in special effects. Wired plunges into the combat zone between heated conspiracy believers and exasperated NASA officials.

    By Rogier van Bakel

    “Columbia, he has landed Tranquility Base. Eagle is at Tranquility. I read you five by. Over.” The voice from Houston betrayed no emotion, although this was anything but business as usual. A human being was about to set foot on the moon for the first time in history, armed only with the Stars and Stripes, some scientific instruments, and an almost reckless, can-do demeanor that had captivated the world.

    The reply from Columbia, the command-and-service module that had released the lunar lander 2 hours and 33 minutes earlier, betrayed only equal professional cool. “Yes, I heard the whole thing,” Michael Collins said matter-of-factly.

    Houston: “Well, it’s a good show.”

    Columbia: “Fantastic.”

    That’s when Neil Armstrong chimed in. “Yeah, I’ll second that,” said the 38-year-old astronaut, the moonwalker-to-be, America’s own Boy Scout, and the most famous man in the – well, in the universe. And even though the static ate away at the clarity of his consonants, Armstrong’s sneering tone came through loud and clear. The mission control man heard it too. And he knew what was coming. Sort of.

    “A fantastic show,” Armstrong said. “The greatest show on earth, huh, guys?”

    There was a moment’s silence. Then a cameraman sniggered. And the director sighed, and did what directors do when actors screw up their lines. “Cut,” he groaned. He was a heavyset man in his 50s, and the combination of the long hours and the hot studio lights had started to get to him.

    “Shit, Armstrong, if you’re gonna be a smart-ass, do it on your own time, all right? We got 25 tired people on this set. We got a billion people who are going to be watching your every move only a week from now. We’re on deadline here. Now, do you suppose you could just stick to the script and get it over with? Thank you.”

    His assistant stepped forward with the slate. “Apollo moon landing, scene 769/A22, take three,” she announced.

    “Action!”

    “Columbia, he has landed Tranquility Base,” the mission control man began again.

    Superfraud

    The history books lie. So do the encyclopedias and the commemorative videos and the 25-year-old coffee mugs with the proudly smiling faces of Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins. When Armstrong got down from that ladder, proclaiming that it was only a small step for him but a giant leap for mankind, he was merely setting foot on a dust-covered sound stage in a top-secret TV studio in the Nevada desert. NASA’s cold warriors and spin doctors faked the whole moon landing. Come to think of it, they faked all six moon landings – spending around US$25 billion to prove to the world that not even the Soviets, especially not the Soviets, could hold a candle to the US when it came to space exploration.

    Well, at least, that’s the view of writer Bill Kaysing. It’s also the conviction of millions of Americans who have learned to distrust their government with a passion. Most of these skeptics don’t even appear to be steamed about the alleged superfraud. They shrug and raise their palms and go about their business. Not Kaysing. He seems to have never heard a conspiracy theory he didn’t like, and this one tops ’em all. For almost 20 years now, he has been trying to get out “the most electrifying news story of the entire 20th century and possibly of all time.” He has written a book aptly titled We Never Went to the Moon and won’t give up trying to uncover more evidence.

    Kaysing, a white-haired, gentle Californian whose energy level seems mercifully untouched by his 72 years, worked as head of technical publications for the Rocketdyne Research Department at their Southern California facility from 1956 to 1963. Rocketdyne was the engine contractor for Apollo.

    “NASA couldn’t make it to the moon, and they knew it,” asserts Kaysing, who, after begging out of the “corporate rat race,” became a freelance author of books and newsletters. “In the late ’50s, when I was at Rocketdyne, they did a feasibility study on astronauts landing on the moon. They found that the chance of success was something like .0017 percent. In other words, it was hopeless.” As late as 1967, Kaysing reminds me, three astronauts died in a horrendous fire on the launch pad. “It’s also well documented that NASA was often badly managed and had poor quality control. But as of ’69, we could suddenly perform manned flight upon manned flight? With complete success? It’s just against all statistical odds.”

    President John F. Kennedy wasn’t convinced at all that the endeavor was next to impossible. In fact, he had publicly announced in May 1961 that “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth” would be a Number One priority for the US, an accomplishment that was to instill pride in Americans and awe in the rest of the world. And so, Kaysing believes, NASA faked it, acting in accordance with the old adage that in a war, the truth is often the first casualty. (Cold wars, he and his fellow conspiracy believers say, are no exception.)

    To hear him tell it, NASA had good reason to stage moon landing after moon landing, instead of simply admitting that lunar strolls would have to remain the stuff of science fiction novels, at least for a while. “They – both NASA and Rocketdyne – wanted the money to keep pouring in. I’ve worked in aerospace long enough to know that’s their goal.”

    Absent Stars

    There is an almost instinctive rejoinder to all of this: but we saw it. If television ever had a killer app, the moon landing was it. We bought new sets in droves, flicked them on as zero hour approached, and, miraculously, felt ourselves being locked into an intangible but very real oneness with a billion other people. It was our first taste of a virtual community, of cultures docking. It felt good. And now there’s this guy telling us that it was all a lie? C’mon! His rockets are a little loose. What proof does he have anyway?

    Kaysing points out numerous anomalies in NASA publications, as well as in the TV and still pictures that came from the moon. For example, there are no stars in many of the photographs taken on the lunar surface. With no atmosphere to diffuse their light, wouldn’t stars have to be clearly visible? And why is there no crater beneath the lunar lander, despite the jet of its 10,000-pound-thrust hypergolic engine? How do NASA’s experts explain pictures of astronauts on the moon in which the astronauts’ sides and backs are just as well lit as the fronts of their spacesuits – which is inconsistent with the deep, black shadows the harsh sunlight should be casting? And why is there a line between a sharp foreground and a blurry background in some of the pictures, almost as if special-effects makers had used a so-called “matte painting” to simulate the farther reaches of the moonscape? “It all points to an unprecedented swindle,” Kaysing concludes confidently.

    But just how could NASA possibly have pulled it off? How about the TV pictures that billions of people saw over the course of six successful missions: the rocket lifting off from the Cape Kennedy launch pad under the watchful eye of hundreds of thousands of spectators; the capsule with the crew returning to earth; the moon rocks; the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of space-program employees in the know who would have to be relied upon to take the incredible secret to their graves?

    Easy, says Kaysing. The rockets took off all right, with the astronauts on board, but as soon as they were out of sight, the roaring spacecraft set course for the south polar sea, jettisoned its crew, and crashed. Later, the crew and the command module were put in a military plane and dropped in the Pacific for “recovery” by an aircraft carrier. (Kaysing claims that he talked with an airline pilot who, en route from San Francisco to Tokyo, saw the Apollo 15 command module sliding out of an unidentified cargo plane, but he can’t provide the captain’s name or the name of the airline.) The moon rocks were made in a NASA geology lab, right here on earth, he continues. Not very many people on the Apollo project knew about the hoax, as they were only informed on a need-to-know basis. Cash bonuses, promotions, or veiled threats could have ensured the silence of those who were in on the whole scheme.

    Zero Gravity

    Kaysing is not alone in his assertion that NASA has been, um, mooning the public. Bill Brian, a 45-year-old Oregonian who authored the 1982 book Moongate, agrees that there is “some sort of cover-up.” Although Brian thinks that his fellow investigator may very well be right in saying that we never went to the moon, he believes there is an entirely different reason for many of the inconsistencies the two have found. Maybe we did go, Brian says, but it’s possible we reached the moon with the aid of a secret zero gravity device that NASA probably reverse-engineered by copying parts of a captured extraterrestrial spaceship. Brian, who received BS and MS degrees in nuclear engineering at Oregon State University (although he now holds a job as a policy and procedures analyst at a utility company), uses his “mathematical and conceptual skills” to reason that the moon’s gravity is actually similar to Earth’s, and that most likely, the moon has an atmosphere after all. He has crammed the appendices of his book with complex calculations to prove these points, but he trusts his intuition, too: “The NASA transcripts of the communication between the astronauts and mission control read as if they’re carefully scripted. The accounts all have a very strange flavor to them, as if the astronauts weren’t really there.”

    But why in the world would NASA feel compelled to cover up knowledge of a high-gravity moon? “It’s a cascading string of events,” explains Brian. “You can’t let one bit of information out without blowing the whole thing. They’d have to explain the propulsion technique that got them there, so they’d have to divulge their UFO research. And if they could tap this energy, that would imply the oil cartels are at risk, and the very structure of our world economy could collapse. They didn’t want to run that risk.”

    As this issue of Wired goes to press, a new book is headed to the stores: Was It Only a Paper Moon, by Ralph René, “a scientist and patented inventor.” Published by tiny Victoria House Press in New York, in what it has announced will be a first run of “at least 100,000 copies,” Paper Moon supposedly presents the latest scientific findings regarding the moon landing. René offers data suggesting, among other things, that without an impractical shield about two meters thick, the spacemen “would have been cooked by radiation” during the journey. Ergo, the lunar endeavors were impossible, and were cynically faked at the expense of gullible people everywhere.

    Other conspiracy buffs don’t doubt that men walked on the moon but call the fact irrelevant because extraterrestrials made it there ages ago – and NASA knows it and has preferred to keep it a secret. In his recent book, Extra-Terrestrial Archeology, David Childress points out various unexplained structures on the moon and argues that these might be archeological remnants of intelligent civilizations. Childress, an avid believer in UFOs, also doesn’t rule out the possibility that aliens still use the moon as a base and a convenient stepping stone for their trips to our planet. This might even mean, enthuses the author, that the moon is really “a spaceship with an inner metallic-rock shell beneath miles of dirt and dust and rock.”

    Children and Senators

    Although very few Americans subscribe to such grandiose theories, millions of people doubt the authenticity of the lunar missions, much to NASA’s exasperation. Over the years, the agency’s public services department went through reams of paper answering incredulous schoolchildren, teachers, librarians – and even US lawmakers like former Sen. Alan Cranston (D-California) and Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-South Carolina), who had written to NASA relaying the doubts of some of their constituents. As many as 100 million Americans, says Kaysing, are inclined to disbelieve the whole lunar adventure. Like many of his statements, that one should be taken with a grain of salt: his proof is based on his observation that “almost half the people who phoned in to radio and TV shows” he has been on supported him. That’s hardly irrefutable proof.

    But when Knight Newspapers (one of the two groups that later merged to form Knight-Ridder Inc.) polled 1,721 US residents one year after the first moon landing, it found that more than 30 percent of respondents were suspicious of NASA’s trips to the moon. A July 20, 1970, Newsweek article reporting the results of the poll cited “an elderly Philadelphia woman who thought the moon landing had been staged in an Arizona desert” and a Macon, Georgia, housewife who questioned how a TV set that couldn’t pull in New York stations could possibly “receive signals from the moon.” The greatest skepticism, according to Newsweek, surfaced in a ghetto in Washington, DC, where more than half of those interviewed doubted the authenticity of Neil Armstrong’s stroll. “It’s all a deliberate effort to mask problems at home,” explained one inner-city preacher. “The people are unhappy – and this takes their minds off their problems.”

    Poll or no poll, even James Oberg, a nemesis of Kaysing, conservatively estimates that the disbelievers may number between 10 and 25 million Americans.

    Oberg works for NASA contractor Rockwell International as a space-flight operations engineer with the space shuttle program. He writes as a second profession, covering all aspects of space activity, with a special interest in space folklore. Myths have a way of blossoming in the fertile soil of scientific discovery, Oberg notes. “Every age of exploration is the same in that respect – from the time of the Phoenicians…to Marco Polo, and including mermaids and unipeds and all these mythological creatures that lurk at the edge of our exploration. To me, it’s extremely humanizing to have this typically human reaction – this denial, this myth making – to our lunar adventure. I’m not at all surprised that these stories or interpretations exist. Actually, I’m surprised they aren’t more widespread.”

    Nonetheless, hoax believers can be found in many parts of society, here and abroad. According to Oberg, Cuban children are officially taught that Yankee space technology failed miserably and that NASA was reduced to pitifully faking every single lunar landing. Some New Agers also contest the possibility of moon landings, as do Hare Krishnas. Non-mainstream Christians at the Flat Earth Society – a Lancaster, California-based anti-science group of about 3,500 members – contest the entire field of astronomy (not to mention moon landings). They liken the towering launch pads to the Tower of Babel.

    The eccentricity of such convictions certainly intrigues Oberg. “I respect these people’s dedication to their view of the world. One reason they fascinate me is that they’re a constant reminder to me that we can’t rest on common knowledge, we can’t be complacent with our traditional interpretations of things – even though these interpretations are almost always right. But I also find their pathology of reasoning, or non-reasoning, compelling. We define health by the boundaries of pathology, and I try and define rational thought by looking at cases that go over the edge.”

    That’s damning praise indeed. So it’s no surprise that Bill Kaysing doesn’t much care for James Oberg, whom he dismisses as “a NASA agent.”

    Good Timing

    If NASA had really wanted to fake the moon landings – we’re talking purely hypothetical here – the timing was certainly right. The advent of television, having reached worldwide critical mass only years prior to the moon landing, would prove instrumental to the fraud’s success; in this case, seeing really was believing. The magic of satellites, with their ability to enable live global (and interplanetary?) communication, fascinated and awed millions of people, much like anything atomic had caught the public’s fancy in the previous decade. Also, space research and rocket science had advanced far enough to make a trip to the moon likely – or, at the very least, remotely feasible. “The structural nature of technology had changed to make the moon landing possible, but that also made it possible for people to doubt it,” says Gary Fine, a sociology professor at the University of Georgia in Athens specializing in rumor and contemporary legend.

    Perhaps more importantly, Watergate hadn’t happened yet, and people still trusted their elected officials. “A distrust of authority clearly plays into this whole thing,” argues Fred Fedler, who teaches journalism at the University of Central Florida and has written a book on media hoaxes. “With Vietnam and Watergate, people have become less trusting, and to some people it doesn’t matter what the government says; their immediate reaction is to disbelieve and to sometimes embrace the opposite view.”

    The distrust continues to be fed by the mass media, especially in the film and TV business. It is rare to find a movie in which a government agency is actually depicted as a collection of fairly efficient, competent people who serve their country to the best of their ability. Dramatically speaking, an elite of sinister, evil bureaucrats is much more appealing. Linda Degh, a retired folklorist who taught at Indiana University in Bloomington, and who has recently published a book titled American Folklore and Mass Media, is reminded of the film Capricorn One. Released in 1978, Capricorn One tells the story of a staged flight to Mars. The astronauts grapple with the moral implications of the giant charade and fear they might be killed to keep them from blowing the whistle. Sure enough, they find themselves hunted down by bloodthirsty government thugs; only one of the astronauts makes it to freedom and reporters’ microphones. Degh recalls that it was “quite a slanderous movie, pretending that the government had been killing people,” and she believes that it must have given a powerful boost to the moon-landing hoax theory. “The mass media catapult these half-truths into a kind of twilight zone where people can make their guesses sound as truths. Mass media have a terrible impact on people who lack guidance.”

    007 Uncovers Hoax

    Peter Hyams, Capricorn One‘s director, agrees that mass media can be very powerful – dangerously so, in fact. “My parents believed that if it was in The New York Times, it was true. I was part of the generation that grew up believing that if we saw it on television, it was true. And I learned how inaccurate newspapers were, and I realized that TV is just as inaccurate, or it can be. So I said, wouldn’t it be interesting if you took a major event where the only source that people have is a television screen, and you showed how easy it would be to manipulate everybody.” Hyams insists that he made Capricorn One “for entertainment, for fun,” not because he was making not-so-veiled references to the alleged Apollo hoax. “I was aware that there were people who believed that we never walked on the moon, but I never read their books or consulted with them. And frankly, I think they are being totally ludicrous.” (Nevertheless, an invitation to a sneak preview screening at the time of Capricorn One‘s release said: “Would you be shocked to find out that the greatest moment of our recent history may not have happened at all?”)

    The concept of the moon swindle holds a certain appeal for other filmmakers as well. In Diamonds Are Forever (1971), James Bond accidentally stumbles onto a movie set that consists of rocks, a lunar backdrop, and a vehicle that looks like NASA’s Eagle. Men in spacesuits move about slowly and clumsily, as if simulating low gravity. Bond’s pursuers give chase, but 007 – stirred, but not shaken – climbs into the lunar lander and makes his escape. The scene is never explained. In the high-tech thriller Sneakers (1992), Dan Aykroyd’s character, a gadgeteer and conspiracy enthusiast, refers to the moon landing by casually remarking: “This LTX71 concealable mike is part of the same system NASA used when they faked the Apollo moon landings.” And a small San Francisco Bay area production company with a big name, Independent Film and Video Productions, is working on an as-yet-untitled feature film in which a writer discovers that the moon landings may have been simulated – and then nearly gets killed in his quest for the truth.

    Simulating One-Sixth Gravity

    Technically speaking, could the moon landings have been faked? Was the state of special effects advanced enough in the late ’60s to fool even the most discriminating eye? Simulating one-sixth gravity could have been done with the use of hydraulic cranes and thin wires – the Peter Pan approach – or by filming scenes under water, says Dennis Muren. Muren, an eight-time Oscar winner, is the senior visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic, a division of Lucas Digital. He was responsible for making the Jurassic Park monsters come alive and for key scenes in Terminator 2, Star Wars, and The Abyss.

    “A moon landing simulation might have looked pretty real to 99.9 percent of the people. The thing is, though, that it wouldn’t have looked the way it did. I’ve always been acutely aware of what’s fake and what’s real, and the moon landings were definitely real,” Muren stipulates. “Look at 2001 or Destination Moon or Capricorn One or any other space movie: everybody was wrong. That wasn’t the way the moon looked at all. There was an unusual sheen to the images from the moon, in the way that the light reflected in the camera, that is literally out of this world. Nobody could have faked that.”

    Of course, Bill Kaysing will have none of it: “Perhaps this guy [Muren] was part of the cover-up. Anything is possible.” Kaysing likes to paraphrase Alvin Toffler: “He writes that most people are producer/consumers – he calls them prosumers. They go through life not questioning anything, not knowing anything. Ninety percent of the American population has no idea what’s going on in this country. I’d like to be the one to tell them – tell them at least part of it. I’m either going to share the truth about the moon with them, or I am going to die trying.”

    NASA Bites Back

    Q: Why is there no discernible crater beneath the lunar lander?

    A: “Although the descent engine of the LM is powerful, most of its operation takes place thousands of feet above the moon during the early stages of the landing,” says a NASA information sheet. “At the moment of touchdown, a small amount of surface dust is blown away, but the relatively cohesive lunar surface seems to deflect the blast sideways.”

    Q: Why is there an artificial-looking line between a sharp foreground and a blurry background in some of the pictures of the lunar surface?

    A: “What you see is simply the curvature of the moon,” explains Paul Lowman, a NASA geophysicist. “Because the moon is such a small body, the curvature horizon is only two or three miles away from eye level. That sharp line you see in some pictures is the visible horizon. The blurry part you see is caused by mountains sticking up from beyond the horizon.”

    Q: Why are there no stars in many of the photos taken on the moon?

    A: “That’s one of Kaysing’s sillier arguments,” says James Oberg, a space-flight operations engineer with the space shuttle program. “Go out at night and take a picture of yourself under a streetlight. Even if there’s a star-studded sky, you’ll see no stars in your picture because the camera was set to properly expose that big lighted object in the foreground – you – and will not register much weaker light sources.”

    Q: How about the various lighting anomalies?

    A: “On some pictures, astronauts are lit from more than one side because the sunlight is reflected off the lunar surface or off the landing vehicle,” says NASA spokesperson James Hartsfield. Paul Lowman adds that some conspiracy believers are unknowingly or deliberately using pictures of astronauts that NASA never claimed were taken on the moon. “There are pictures being passed on and published in their circles that appeared in pre-moon landing issues of Aviation Week – nothing mysterious about them,” sighs Lowman. “These are photos taken in a moon-like training facility at the Johnson Space Center where, indeed, there were several sources of light.”

    Moon Hoaxes of Yesteryear: Pigs Might Fly

    Not to rain on anyone’s parade – but a balloon-faring Dutchman walked on the moon some 140 years before Neil Armstrong did. In the Southern Literary Messenger of June 1835, Edgar Allan Poe published the first installment of that prodigious fable, which he unsuccessfully tried to pass off as a genuine news story.

    Fed up with his miserable life in Rotterdam, one Hans Pfaall, an unemployed bellows mender, secretly built a giant balloon. His goal: “to force a passage, if I could, to the moon.” He gambled that he would gradually get accustomed to the very high altitudes. Pfaall purportedly took off on April 1, and, because of the thinning atmosphere, soon suffered spasms and began bleeding from the ears, nose, and eyes. He made it though: after 19 days in space, the Flying Dutchman landed in a crowd of ugly little moon people, who “stood like a parcel of idiots, grinning in a ludicrous manner, and eyeing me and my balloon askant, with their arms set akimbo.”

    Despite the awkward welcome, the world’s first astronaut lived among the unsightly critters for five years, then wrote a letter to the Mayor of Rotterdam in which he described some of his experiences and negotiated his return. A lunar messenger whom Pfaall had entrusted with the missive did reach the city (by balloon, of course) but couldn’t be persuaded to land; after dropping off the letter, he disappeared into the heavens without waiting for a reply – no doubt, Poe muses, “frightened to death by the savage appearance of the residents of Rotterdam.” (Poe’s story is recounted in Media Hoaxes, a book written by Fred Fedler and published in 1989 by Iowa State University.)

    Imagine a telescope lens with a diameter of 24 feet and a weight of almost 15,000 pounds. With it, you could see insects on the moon. OK, so there is no life on the moon – but that’s not what the readers of the New York Sun were told. In August 1835, the penny paper reported the “findings” of the British astronomer Sir John Herschel. In a six-part series, reporter Richard Adams Locke wrote that the scientist, using a huge custom-built telescope in a planetarium at the Cape of Good Hope (at the southern tip of Africa), had spotted many spectacular species on the moon. Among them: horned bears, tailless beavers, and 4-foot-tall ape-like creatures with thick beards and large wings. Locke referred to them as “bat-men.” Actually, there were plenty of bat-women too, and the two sexes engaged freely in behavior that Locke declined to describe – it would have been “improper” on earth.

    Herschel was a legitimate, respected scientist who remained unaware of his fictional discoveries for months. When word of Locke’s elaborate yarn reached him, he reportedly laughed and tried to expose the hoax – to little avail.

    On June 20, 1977, Anglia TV in England caused a nationwide stir when it broadcast a documentary called Alternative Three. By linking facts with half-truths, and by staging interviews with so-called “astronomers” and “astronauts,” the makers suggested that both NASA’s space program and the Cold War were decoys. The power elite in the USSR, the US, and Great Britain had in fact been working together on a secret project – Alternative Three – that had established bases on the moon and on Mars, so that they could escape the coming ecological nightmare on earth. Insiders who were deemed a security risk were callously murdered. Scientists had been abducted to do experiments in the space colonies. Even ordinary folks had been snatched and forced into slave labor on the moon and on the red planet.

    Surprise! It was all a hoax, made clear by the closing credits that listed the actors on the show and that contained a copyright notice dated April 1. Nonetheless, Anglia was flooded with calls, and newspaper headlines reported “shock” and “panic.” To this day, some people believe that all of it, or some of it, is true.

    Anagram enthusiasts will find that Rogier van Bakel (rogier@reporters.net) has Brave Ink Galore. He is a Dutch correspondent in Washington, DC.
    copyright ©Rogier van Bakel.
    Reprinted with the Author’s permission. May not be distributed in whole or in part without the Author’s written consent

  • Horus

    “Thereupon Horus sought the aid of the god Thoth, the master of all magic, by whose aid he changed himself into a great sun-disk, with resplendent wings outstretched on either side.”.

    When the Ancients flew to earth did these nostalgic wayfarers build scale models, temples, in memory of abandoned settlements left behind in a once Eden-like Cydonia?..

    “The Company of the Gods rejoiced, rejoiced, at the coming of Horus, the son of Osiris, whose heart was firm, the triumphant, the son of Isis, the heir of Osiris.” Book of the Dead

    overlay slightly skewed to adjust for perspective

    EDITOR’S NOTE: LOOK INTO THE DYNAMIC SYMMETRY. The following image is merely a rough clue and does not necessary match proportions above.  At this point either or other geometry might apply.  I am only posting an alert here on this site towards a more extensive investigation.  For the sake of my own obsessive search I would hope to be included.  I feel that artists, trained with the sensitive eye, would be an asset.  By cultural-assignment, artists are like scouts.

    Horus personified the rising Sun according to ancient Egyptian mythology. Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of air and earth and the goddess Isis. Osiris, Horus’father  was killed by his brother Seth in order to seize his throne. To assure his power, Seth tried to prevent Osiris to have any offspring. But Isis, Horus’mother managed to save his child and brought him up in secrecy to avenge the omicide of Osiris. When Horus reached manhood, a fratricidal war began between Horus and his uncle Seth. The violent fight, where Horus lost one eye, last until the assembly of the gods decided to intervene to declare that the throne was the rightful inheritance of Horus. Moreover, Seth was forced to restore Horus’eye. But to honor the memory of Osiris, Horus offered the recovered eye to his father, and covered his wound with the divine serpent, uraeus. That is why this sacred serpent was considered the emblem of the Egyptian pharaohs. At last, Osiris transferred his power to his son Horus, and retired to the world of the blessed. Thus, Horus became the king of Egypt.

  • The Four Faces of Mars and a Night to Remember

    THE MARTIAN THESIS:

    The Four Faces of Mars

    Discovered by Robert D. Morningstar

    On a Night To Remember

    I am writing to confirm the veracity and authenticity of the work of the proponents of the theory of the Face on Mars as a coded message to humanity. I further propose to demonstrate a direct relationship between The Giza Pyramid Complex in Egypt and a particular region of the planet Mars defined by the area surrounding Olympus Mons, Tharsis Montes. and the western terminus of Valles Marineris.

    The late Carl Sagan was fond of debunking theories like the Face on Mars with the coy quip:

    “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”.

    Today, the evidence is in. In the following, I present extraordinary evidence which fulfills Sagan’s requirements to the letter for the extraordinary claims of this writer, and those on whose shoulders he stands: Mark Carlotto, Vincent DiPietro, Gregory Molinaar, Vladimir Avinsky and Richard Hoagland.

    From midnight on April 15th, 1998, the 86th anniversary of the loss of the Titanic, and continuing through today, I have embarked on one of the most awe-inspiring series of discoveries in my scientific life. As some may know, I have worked closely with Richard Hoagland of The Enterprise Mission (formerly The Mars Mission) since 1993 on sundry subject including Cydonia Mensae and what is popularly called “The Face on Mars” and “the Cydonia Complex”.

    I have been studying The Martin Enigma since 1992. I first met Richard Hoagland in 1993 through researcher Marc Whitford. Between 1995 and 1997, I worked for the old Mars Mission on everything from Lunar Anomalies and Hyperdimensional Physics to working out the bugs in several Enterprise Mission computers and troubleshooting technical failures and glitches. In 1995, Richard Hoagland offered me a position as a systems specialist and scientific consultant. Under his direction I helped Hoagland’s Enterprise Mission navigate onto the Internet as Web Pilot (Richard liked to call me “The Helmsman”). I helped Hoagland in the construction of the Enterprise Mission website as technical consultant communicating construction and system design changes to Webmaster Keith Rowland who implemented them. I also archived the entire website on my computers to insure preservation of all valuable material.

    Below is the map (MarsMap1.jpg) which I downloaded from JPL at 2:20 a.m. on the “Night of the Titanic”, April 15th, 1998. I must record that I feel that the spirit of all those souls propelled me to this wonderful series of discoveries. I might not have stayed up had I not remembered that the Titanic had gone down during those hours 12-2:15 a.m. I thought to myself:

    “Look at all the hoopla, cock and bull surrounding the Academy Awards and Cameron’s ‘King of the World’ speech and here’s the 86th anniversary and not a single commemoration, prayer, peep or sound bite anywhere in the media.”

    Staying up late, I meditated and thought about those poor lost souls in a cold and black ocean of darkness save for the light of stars. Sadly, I thought: “Very much like being in outer space without a space suit.”

    In checking my e-mail later, there was a notice about the new picture of The Face on Mars, presented and treated by NASA and the media like “just another rock”. I logged onto the JPL Mars site and saw an icon for a complete map of Mars and went for it. I downloaded the map and instantly saw a unique relationship between Tharsis Montes and the alignment of the Pyramids of Giza and not for the first time Though I’d thought about it before (looking at small hand maps of Mars) I had dismissed it as simple coincidence. What relationship could there be between the two beside the other “coincidence” which writer Graham Hancock (Fingerprints of the Gods) is fond of pointing out…”The word ‘Cairo’ in Arabic means ‘Mars’.”

    However, the full import of my observation didn’t strike me until I checked a 19th century surveyor’s map in Peter Tompkin’s “Secrets of the Great Pyramid”. History will show that Napoleon’s engineers, Professors G. Piazzi Smith, Flinders Petrie and the Davisons were the first real “Mars Surveyors”.

    For the last few years I’d been working on the theory previously proposed by Freud and Velikovsky, that Akhenaton and Moses were one and the same person. After many years, I had come to the conclusion that the events of Exodus are not really missing from Egyptian history but rather they are embedded within Egyptian history but described in other terms.

    Thus I had begun a few years ago a search for a series of similar events veiled by their description within another cultural context as “Egyptian History”. The events would appear to historians as possibly similar but separate events. I had come to believe that the Biblical Exodus and Wilderness Trek corresponded in Egypt’s history to the departure of Akhenaton from Thebes with his “ATON, THE ONE TRUE GOD,” Nefertiti, his wife, royal family, court retinue, kitty cats and the whole “kaboodle” to the place called Amarna where he spent 18 years building “Akhetaton”, the new royal capital of the One, True God of Light, Aton, physically manifesting as Sol. The 18 years in the wilderness of Tel el Amarna resulted in a civil war (which I equate with the rebellion of the Golden Calf Cult, during which sweet Old Moses “put three thousand men to the sword”). This event was costly and unseated Akhenaton and he disappeared without a trace. Well, almost without a trace. Moses also had to move with his “Yahweh (I AM)- The One True God”, his wife, Zefera, his family, and his retinue to complete “40 years in the Wilderness”. In my theory, 18 years were at Amarna (living under Akhenaton’s “Laws for Living in Ma’at”, i.e., “living in Truth”, and 22 years wandering the Wildernesses of Sin and Sinai, i.e., escaping from Egypt, with Moses’ One God-given laws, also for ” living in truth”, The Ten Commandments.

    I have known and studied the Pyramids for 45 years. I first saw the Pyramids and the Sphinx in color and 3-D at age 5 through a rotating wheel 3-D binocular Viewer Master  with 12 views of the complex. They made a deep impression on a young and curious mind. I’d stare at each picture for minutes, then hours on end and for days and days waiting for my parents to come home.

    So it was that when a mountain peak to the west of the Giza Complex, “Al-Wadjit”, was shown for a few seconds on the Discovery Channel 2 months ago, I registered it as a potentially important element in the Exodus-Amarna parallel theory which I was researching.

    Could this be a candidate for the mountain of the Burning Bush? And why do we associate Moses’ mountain which burns bushes with holiness, power, a (singular) wrathful deity, breathing fire and brimstone?

    Yet, I was mystified that in my 40 years of viewing scores of film and TV documentaries and countless books and photos, NOT ONE had ever shown or noted the looming presence of “Al-Wadjit”, as it was called and described as “holy mountain which looms over the Pyramids”, far in the western background, apparently part of the Libyan Mountains. No documentary I’d seen had ever shown the Pyramids from an eastern vantage point looking to the west with the holy mountain visible between Cheops and Chephren. As I was looking for a local candidate for a “Mt. Nabor” or a “Mt. Sinai”, I was compelled by the sight and I mentioned it to a colleague with similar views, Dr. William Theaux, who was likewise unaware of it’s existence.

    When I pulled out Tompkins’ “Secrets” to align the Pyramids with Tharsis Montes, I saw the previously unnoticed truncated conical top (“vol-conical”, one might say) of the holy mountain on the surveyor’s map.

    I was thunderstruck and suddenly remembered the “vol-conical structure” of ‘Al-Wadjit” in the few seconds of video I had seen 2 months before, The mountain looks like Olympus Mons! I realized the correlation was more than coincidence,. It appears to have been landscaped, terraformed (maybe I should say “marsipanned”) perhaps to remind the founding parents of Egypt’s humanity of their lost homeland.

    This discovery also may reveal why the Great Pyramid was intentionally designed to be truncated. This appears to have been done in order to represent one of four holy volcanic mountains on Mars, specifically Tharsis Montes and Olympus Mons and equally important, “unfinished business” on a cosmic scale.

    In this context, Olympus Mons can be seen as the original Atlas-like holy mountain, a fire and brimstone breathing, wrathful deity, i.e., “the Most High God”, who in violent paroxysms may have destroyed the original life on Mars in a series of cataclysmic eruptions which altered Mars’ atmosphere radically, cracked the Valles Marineris and destroyed the Cydonia complex.

    Robert Bauval’s and Graham Hancock’s elegant “Orion-Giza Thesis” notwithstanding, the Giza Complex appears to have been terraformed and landscaped to create a miniature representation of Tharsis Montes and Olympus Mons. It is accurate in the pancake terracing of “Al-Wadjit”, the Holy Mountain to the west of Giza and with 2 drainage ditches leading to the Second Pyramid of Chephren and the Third Pyramid of Mycerinus suggestive of those seen in the Mars map leading from Olympus Mons to Pavonis Mons and Arsea Mons. Ascreaus Mons corresponds to The Great Pyramid. So it would appear that the Pyramids were placed at Giza just to be revered but rather to show the reverence of the Ancient Ones for Olympus Mons, the Holy of Holies of their homeland which may have been called Osiria.

    I believe that I now understand why C.S. Lewis called the supreme spiritual hierarchies of Mars “Orisas” in his “Cosmic Trilogy” comprised of “Out of the Silent Planet”, “Perilandra” and “That hideous Strength”. It would seem that C.S. Lewis being a “Lewis” was privy to some of the most deeply held secrets of the supreme spiritual hierarchies of Earth which he chose to reveal at a time when the Earth stood on the brink of self-destruction to call humanity back to its roots and away from the precipice.

    Finally, before I discuss and reveal the Four Faces of Mars, the geometric relationship of the southernmost or 3rd Pyramid (Mycerinus) to what were called “Remnants of The Stone Dyke” by Davison and Flinders Petrie (Pyramid specialists) correspond explicitly with that of Arsea Mons, southernmost of Tharsis Montes with a long promontory ridge along a deep, trench-like chasm coinciding with the western Terminus of Valles Marineris!

    Consider this: The sun setting over “Al-Wadjit” with the 3 Pyramids in foreground would look much like Sol, the “Day Star” on Mars setting over Olympus Mons with Tharsis Montes in the foreground.

    Home sweet home…longed for and remembered (i.e., re-membered, re-assembled, as in gathering all the “members” of the dead King(dom) Osiris, as Isis had done, to remember him forever. I pray that they are pleased by our discovery of their “cosmic cartouche” in the Faces on Mars.

    Regarding the “Face on Mars” controversy, I have confirmed the authentic existence of the Face(s) on Mars. By using advanced computer graphic imaging techniques, I was able to rotate the angle of perspective to a nearly overhead view of The Face. I was able thus to extract from the raw photo NASA had just released not just the 2 faces originally discovered by DiPietro and Molinaar but four (4) Faces which are geometrically embedded (one might say “geometrically encrypted”) within the one structure called “The Face” on the plains of the Cydonia.

    All four faces are related intimately to the original and oldest Gods of Ancient Egypt and correspond with the descriptions in Ezekiel of that prophet’s experience with four celestial beings who had the faces of a Man, A Lion, a Bull (ox), and an eagle (or hawk) upon their headdresses.

    Ezekiel 1:10: “As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; and they four had also the face of an eagle. Thus were their faces.”

    Is it just coincidence that these same four archetypal symbols migrate almost seamlessly into Christianity as the symbols of the Four Evangelists: The Man, St. Matthew, The Lion of St. Mark, The Ox of St. Luke, and The Eagle of St. John. From the beginning to the end of Judeo-Christianity, these four symbols thread their way, weaving and holding both traditions together and tying them intimately to the proto-Egyptian Founders of Humanity. Yet, what is their meaning and function? In fact, they are the Heraldry of the One True God from the founding of humanity even unto the present. Consider the following excerpt from The Book of Revelations (4:6-7 & 5:10), literally The Word from The Eagle’s Mouth, The Eagle being St. John the Beloved Disciple:

    “And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal; and in the midst of the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had the face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle…And the four beasts said, Amen,”

    Could the above passage be describing Cydonia Mensae? The Cydonian plains around the Face have at times reminded me of a “sea of glass”, which is a good description of a desert plain which has been devastated by cosmic or nuclear blasts, evidence for which exists on Cydonia Mensae.

    Attached are the most important pictures proving the validity of the theory of the Face on Mars as a “Martian Sphinx” (the term coined by Vladimir Avinsky) embodying in geometric symbols, what Richard Hoagland came to call “The Message of Cydonia.” The file called “Figure-3.jpg” revealed the Face of Sekmet, Goddess of War, extracted by mirroring the right side of the Face (as we look at it) and making it symmetrical along the center line, right between the “nostrils”. The image which emerges through mirroring “geometric decryption” is clearly that of a Lioness showing quite a fierce demeanor, the form of Sekmet, Goddess of War and “the raging sun.”

    Osiris and Horus the Falcon are self-evident and as explicit as two sides of the same coin, as they have always been represented, Progenitor and Redeemer.

    This validates and confirms the work (and intuition) of Mark Carlotto, Vincent DiPietro, Gregory Molinaar, Vladimir Avinsky, and Richard Hoagland, the pioneers and champions of the Face on Mars Thesis. I am pleased to say to them all: “You have been right all the time and all the way from the Lion(ness) to Proto-Hominid. I am honored to lend my support to affirm the correctness and accuracy of your work in bringing this to the world’s attention. I am also pleased to bring the image of Horus The Falcon to the fore in support of your original thesis of The Face and to confirm Avinsky’s intuition of the Face on Mars as ‘a Martian Sphinx’. It is all that and more. It is the cosmic cartouche of the King and the Redeemer, Osiris and Horus, the original founder of humanity and his son, who redeemed him and saved the world from destruction by Set and Typhon. I pray that he may do so once again and again and yet again…world without end.”

    Attached are the enhancements which prove authenticity of the Face(s) on Mars. Below is the whole menagerie of Four Faces of Mars contained within the single structure: The Ox, The Cat Goddess Sekmet, Osiris and Horus. I’m also including the original “Figure-1”, the original NASA photo so that one can follow the geometric transformations which I performed to produce the Four Faces on Mars. The correct sequence is:

     Figure-1. Face_Inverted.jpg (Original NASA release);

    Figure-2. The Ox.jpg (or Apis Bull);

    Figure-3. Sekmetcat.jpg (Lioness, Goddess of War);

    Figure-4. Osiris.jpg (The Dead Bearded King in Conical Crown);

    Figure-5. Horus.jpg (an unretouched 180 degree rotation of Osiris.jpg, # 4 above).

     I consider this a true and self-evident, self-manifesting miracle.

    “Olympus2.jpg” shows the relationship between Olympus Mons and Tharsis Montes region of Mars with “Al-Wadjit” and The Giza Complex. A detailed analysis will follow.

    Enjoy and preserve the knowledge, spread the joyous word to others and the let us prepare to RETURN TO MARS.

    With all reverence to the Holy One and with deep humility, I close with this prayer for Osiris/Horus, Isis/Sekmet, the co-founders of humanity:

    “Destroyed is my badness; Annihilated is my evil.

    Put away is the sin which was my own.

    I wander on the path that I know,

    In the direction of the Island of Justification.

    I arrive in the land of the heavenly horizon;

    I pass through the holy portal.

    Oh Gods who come to meet me!

    Stretch out your hands toward me!

    I have become Heru, one among you.

    I have restored the eye of the Horus,

    Sun and son of Osiris

    After it had been injured on the day of battle

    By the two adversaries.”

    ******* The Egyptian Book of the Dead *******

    Robert D. Morningstar

    St. James Court

    New York City

    April 24th, 1998…

    Continuing the work of April 15th, 1998

    A Night to Remember!

    (Copyright 1998, R.D. Morningstar) Used by Permission

  • ET Civilizations – Germane

    ET Civilizations – Germane

    Germane Through Lyssa Royal

    Germane, a group consciousness energy, states that “his” orientation is from a realm of integration that does not have a clear-cut density/dimensional level. The term “germane” in the English language means “significant relevance” or “coming from the same source”. Germane therefore chose this term to somewhat personify his energy. Neither male nor female, he views us as evolving to become him as we begin the process of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual integration, which leads us back to the Source of All.

    Note: This session was recorded in Tokyo, Japan and was taken from a tape with a Japanese translation. This session was recorded at Tokyo’s largest New Age Bookstore called “Yoyo.”

    Germane: Greetings to you. This is Germane. It is a pleasure to be with all of you this night. The first thing that we are going to do is describe for you the different ET groups that have interacted with Earth throughout history. Now obviously there have been quite a few, so we are going to give you just some of the main characters, and we are also going to have to generalize a little bit.

    The first group we would like to describe for you is the group that we call Lyrans. You might say that they were the authority figures. You will find that during the times they were most active on the Earth they used symbols to depict their group; the most common symbols they used were of birds and of cats. To describe what these ETs physically looked like, we will generalize: Generally, the Lyrans were built in a very sturdy way, Caucasian-like, very large. Generally, they had light skin, and even though light hair and eyes were the most common, you would sometimes find Lyrans with dark hair. As a group one of their most predominant characteristics was being authoritative. Often throughout history they played the role of, in a sense, parents. They were very strict. They had a lot of dogma. You might say they were like father figures. Humans both loved them and feared them, much like an authoritative parent.

    Another group that was here very much throughout history were the Sirians. The symbols they used throughout time were usually of serpents or dogs. Physically, as a generality, the Sirians had darker skin, darker hair and eyes, and were not as large as the Lyrans. As far as their personality characteristics, we would say that they were very devoted to serving mankind. Whereas the Lyrans were committed to ruling mankind, the Sirians were interested in helping or sometimes even saving mankind. They could be very, very zealous, and because of that trait, they often interfered where they did not belong. But you could say they were the crusaders for mankind. The other significant group that we will mention are the Pleiadeans. Their symbols were also at times birds or winged figures. They also used the symbol of the seven stars. Physically, and again we must generalize, they were similar in skin, hair and eye color to the Lyrans but much smaller. So, for instance, a typical Pleiadeans woman would look very much like this channel in size. Now the Pleiadeans had a very, very deep love of mankind. It would take too much time to explain why, but genetically they are connected to you, so often throughout history they have been drawn back to Earth in order to help humans. Not only do they have a genetic connection but they also have an emotional connection. They always tried to nurture and protect you like a mother. Now you know that you may have two parents, a mother and a father who love you very much, but at the same time these two parents may also fight over you. Sometimes they may even manipulate you to get back at the spouse. The same thing happened with these ETs. They often, in their love for you, fought over you. Unfortunately, they also at times manipulated you. Because the ETs often fought amongst themselves there were often territory disputes about the land and the people of Earth, and so often the Earth was divided into sections and certain ET rulers would be responsible for certain sections. It is unfortunate that a lot of the information about these times has been lost. However, some of it remains in the Sumerian texts and we will talk a little bit about that later.

    Before we go into the future it is important to say one thing. Ancient humankind was never a victim of these ETs. All beings create their own reality for their own purposes of learning and growth, and ancient humankind was the same way. We never like to put humans in the role of being victims.

    Atlantis and the Great Flood

    We are going to begin our story by talking about Atlantis. Most of you are somewhat familiar with what happened in Atlantis. Generally speaking, there was a lot of extraterrestrial fighting going on during that time. There was also a lot human corruption going on as well. Many of you have already heard about the destruction of Atlantis and we are not really going to get to talk in depth about why Atlantis was destroyed because in some ways it is another subject. But we are setting the stage for the other information that we would like to present.

    Now some of you are familiar with the Christian story about Noah. As the story goes, Noah was warned by a serpent and told to build an ark. Everyone thought Noah was crazy, but he built his ark anyway; as the story goes, because he built the ark he was able to save humans and animals. Now he built the ark at the same time as the destruction of Atlantis – the Great Flood.

    Obviously, a serpent did not really tell him to build an ark; but as we previously said, the Sirians used serpent symbols to depict themselves. There wasn’t just one Noah, but many humans around the planet who received the Sirian message to build arks, for the Sirians really wanted mankind to be saved. It is unfortunate to say, but the Lyrans did not want mankind to be saved. They were not going to tell anyone about the flood that was coming. To simplify the reason for this we will simply say that the Lyrans preferred to start over again with Earth and that is why they were going to allow the destruction of mankind. You all know the story about Noah and that he was successful. Many humans around the planet were spared from the flood and they were still able to flourish as a race.

    Ancient Sumeria

    It took some time but eventually major civilizations came into being again. The main historically recognizable one was Sumeria. At the point where Sumeria began flourishing, the ETs began coming back to Earth; mostly Sirians but also some Lyrans. The territory disputes began again and they had to divide the Earth into regions that different ETs began to rule. Once again the ETs began fighting amongst themselves, and once again mankind became like puppets.

    Many, many, many of these stories are recorded quite clearly in the Sumerian texts. They have not all been translated but some of them have been. We are aware that there is a book on your world and we believe it is translated into Japanese. The title of it is The Twelfth Planet. The author is Zecharia Sitchin. If any of you are particularly interested in finding out some of the juicy dramas that occurred in Sumeria you will find them in this book. We would like to use Sumeria as the beginning point for modern history because so much of the ETs’ conditioning of humans was absorbed during Sumerian times; some of that is still being played out today, unconsciously.

    First, let’s talk about the pyramids. In ancient days in Sumeria there were structures very similar to the pyramids that you now find in the Yucatan. They had flat tops which were landing areas for the extraterrestrial spacecraft. All of these pyramids are now buried, mostly in the area you know as Iraq. Many of them are really in ruins. You might not even recognize them as pyramids. However, you still have the Great Pyramid. Anyone who has ever visited Egypt may have sensed that the pyramid is not necessarily Egyptian. You know if you have been inside it that there are absolutely no inscriptions on the walls. In fact, there is no architecture at all that even suggests anything Egyptian. That is because the first version of that pyramid was built during the time of Sumeria. It is much, much older than scientists know now. It has been reconstructed several times. However, that pyramid was used for at least a thousand years, if not more than that, as a very important extraterrestrial base. As many of you suspect, there are a lot of chambers still undiscovered. What is quite interesting is that the Sumerian texts – of course, Sumeria is older than Egypt – talk about the Great Pyramid. That alone would tell you that the pyramid is older than the Egyptian civilization. The pyramid was used in a lot of the territory disputes. It was considered the prized possession; whoever held that pyramid was the dominant ET group.

    The Importance of Genetics

    Now I am going to stop here for a moment and we are going to talk about how important genetics were to these ancient ETs. Each ET group that was interacting with humans at that time felt it was very important to control the genetic mixture of humans on Earth. Ultimately, the ET groups wanted to create an advanced version of mankind that they could then begin incarnating into. So they tried to control the breeding on Earth for thousands of years. There is a very interesting creation story that comes from Egypt. It is the story of Osiris and Isis. The story put simply is this: Isis and Osiris were brother and sister and also husband and wife. The story says that Set, another Egyptian god, was very jealous and he sought to kill Osiris. Set found Osiris, cut him up into many pieces and scattered the pieces all over Egypt. Isis was so upset that she sought help of her colleagues and went about trying to find all of the pieces of Osiris to put him together again. The story says that she found all of the pieces except the phallus. But she was able to put Osiris together again anyway and he lived. Isis spent the night with Osiris and was impregnated. She was impregnated with Horus. You may wonder how Isis could have been impregnated if Osiris did not have a phallus. Well, who ever said these myths make sense? We are going to give our version of this story.

    Isis and Osiris were two of the most prominent ruling ET gods on Earth at that time. Set was also a very prestigious ET ruler, although he was secondary to Osiris. But Set craved power. He knew that if Osiris and Isis stayed together and had a child, that child Horus would be ruler and he, Set, would stay in the secondary position, so he had to find a way to kill Osiris. During this time the ETs had a lot of technology. He knew that he had to destroy the reproductive organs of Osiris, otherwise they could still produce offspring. We would say that the myth of cutting Osiris up and spreading the pieces around is really just a metaphor for the idea that Osiris was killed and his body was hidden. His body was hidden but not destroyed because Set believed that maybe some time in the future Osiris’ genetics could be used to his advantage. But the phallus was taken and put in another location.

    Now, Isis found Osiris’ body. Obviously, she could not have been impregnated by a dead husband with no phallus. [Germane laughs.] They did have a lot of technology then, though, and Osiris’ life was restored; but he could not reproduce in the usual way. So the legend says that they went up to the heavens but, of course, they went up to the ship. And what they did was take some of Osiris’ genetics and clone them with Isis’ genetics to produce Horus. Through a series of cloning and artificial insemination and processes that you are not familiar with here on Earth, Horus was created – they didn’t need the phallus to do it – and Egyptian history talks about the divine birth of Horus. So Horus was born and he became a very powerful ruler. Set, of course, was always angry.

    This is an example of how a myth that may not make sense does make sense if you look at it from another point of view. Earth history is filled with myths that seemingly do not make sense, but they really are stories of not only your extraterrestrial heritage but also of the adventures of your forefathers. Now let’s stop here.

    We would like to know if there are any questions about the material that has been presented so far.

    The Earth human at this time, I believe, was in third density. What dimension or frequency were the Sirians in when they thought of this idea of controlling mankind?

    They also would be considered third density. In terms of the evolutionary scale, they were at the same place in third density that you are at in third density now. Humans on your planet, as a whole, do similar types of manipulations at this point in evolution. Eventually, as time passed, these beings did transition into fourth density but that was some time down the line. Does that answer your question?

    So it is possible to create and fly UFOs from third density?

    Well, yes and no. It depends on your definition of a UFO. If you look at the ancient literature on your planet, like the Sumerian texts, you’ll see that the ETs were using what is very similar to your present-day rockets. The ETs did not have hyperspace capability. Most of them lived either on the Earth or in space stations very close to Earth on both Mars and Maldek which is now your asteroid belt. For any long voyages they primarily used cryogenics. It wasn’t until they transitioned that they began to use interdimensional craft. Generally, you on Earth will follow the same evolutionary pattern. That’s a very good question. This leads us to something else that we would like to discuss.

    Ancient Beliefs and Today’s Myths

    Many of the beliefs that mankind has had in the past several thousand years are directly a result of some of the things that happened in these ancient days. For instance, why is Heaven considered to be in the sky? Heaven has always been thought to be the realm of the gods. If you start thinking about this you will see that it becomes logical to assume that humans began to believe in a Heaven in the sky because the sky was where the ETs came from. Most of you in your present state of development now embrace the idea that God is not a physical person. He is not an old man with a beard. But, yes, these ancient people believed that gods came from the sky and had bodies like theirs. The ETs came from the sky so therefore the sky must be the place of the gods. You all know now the realm of God is everywhere, including within you, but back then they believed that God existed outside of you. Even today, humans struggle with that belief. Humans still believe, even if it is just on the subconscious level, that somehow God is outside of you and can’t be inside. Please recognize where that comes from. It is an old, old, ancient belief. And for most, it no longer serves you any more.

    Now there is one other belief from ancient times that is quite interesting and that we would like to talk about. In ancient times in Sumeria there was something that happened on a regular basis. When the gods were preparing for a space flight they would often have humans help them. Now we said that the gods used a form of cryogenics. This meant that the gods had to go into a deep sleep, and they had to do so before they left the Earth. So what they did was to go into their ships and have humans come and assist them. These gods would go into their cryogenic tombs which look very similar to your current-day coffins, and they would then go into a deep sleep which simulates death.

    Realize, first of all, that they needed their bodies to get into Heaven. They couldn’t get into Heaven without that body. Now the humans would also be there to assist the ships that landed with the gods in suspended animation inside. When the ships would land the humans would help these gods to awaken from their deep sleep. What they began to see then was that you had to go to Heaven in your body but you could also come from Heaven in a body as well. So, in a sense, they believed the gods were immortal; somehow this magical realm of Heaven preserved them perfectly.

    If you look at the civilization of Egypt you see that they took a lot of care in mummifying and preserving their bodies so they could get to Heaven. Now where would they have gotten that belief from other than from seeing the gods go to Heaven in their bodies? So this created thousands of years of mummification ritual, extending even until today. Some peoples take great care in preparing bodies before they are put into a coffin and buried. Some people on a very subconscious level fear the idea of cremation because without a body they have no place to go. Now this isn’t conscious but it still is very much a part of your inner, deep belief systems, and these belief systems come from those very ancient days.

    So many species of ETs came to Earth. Earth legends and poetry speak of the phoenix and in Carlos Castaneda’s stories he speaks of eagles who are probably ETs. Were eagles symbolic of any species of ETs?

    Eagles were a very common symbol for some of the Lyrans. Now it is important to understand that native peoples such as Native Americans also used animal symbology that was not necessarily connected to ETs, although it could be at times.

    How about the phoenix?

    This myth did not originate on Earth. Earth people did adopt it but the myth itself came from the Lyran civilization. It was a symbol for them that their empire would never be destroyed. It was a symbol that gave them power, and it was often used in battle as a power symbol meant not to frighten the enemy but to show their own strength.

    Did similar phenomena take place on other planets in this solar system?

    In those ancient days there were really only three planets that could support physical life: one was Mars, one was Earth and one was Maldek, which is now your asteroid belt. There were no humans on those planets. They were primarily ET territory.

    You mean Maldek and Mars.

    Yes. But in terms of physical life like you, none of the other planets had that type of civilization. Does that answer your question?

    Some people theorize there are civilizations on Mars. Some people theorize the Earth humans are actually creating civilizations on Mars. Well, that has been something that we haven’t wanted to comment on, especially since it is not the subject matter for tonight. That can open up a whole new subject. Simply, we will say that there are some things happening on Mars or in the vicinity of Mars now< – my goodness we have put our foot in our mouth – that it is very important not to talk about for the time being. Sorry to tease you with that information.

    It is a challenging road you have chosen, for until your planet embraces the knowledge of your heritage, many things may be misunderstood. There is another land on your planet that is full of mystery: the land of Peru. Peru has been the territory of the Sirians and the Lyrans, but its strongest connection is with the Pleiadeans, for they have been active there even up to present day. Peru performs a very important function for your planet.

    Tonight we have not spoken about Lemuria. That is a another long story. However, what we will say, simply, is that toward the end of the Lemurian civilization, the end of the Atlantean civilization was occurring, as well. They coexisted. The mystics of Lemuria knew that the end was coming. Knowing this, they also knew it was essential to begin preserving a lot of the wisdom and knowledge of Lemuria. They knew it was important that mankind eventually understand its star heritage. So the Lemurians began gathering all of this information and looking for a place to store it safely. The Andes of Peru were part of the Lemurian civilization, and the Lemurians knew that one very good place to secret those records would be in certain areas of the Andes, so they began seeking out natural caverns and power spots in which they could store some of the sacred knowledge. The mystics also began teaching the ancient Inca the mystical wisdom, for they hoped that the Inca would pass on the ancient wisdom throughout time. They also hoped that the Inca would protect the places where the records were kept.

    The Record Keepers

    One of the major spots where records are kept is in the area of Machu Picchu. It is quite interesting that when the Spanish came, they infiltrated most of Peru but they never found Machu Picchu. The records that are kept in that vicinity are protected on many levels. Some of the present-day Incan shamans who are alive right now are protecting them. It is a tradition that has been passed on. Also, there are many in spirit form who protect the areas that are holding the records.

    At times in your history there has been release of information that could finally give you the truth about your heritage. One of these examples is in the Sumerian clay tablets. They were discovered and some were deciphered but unfortunately a lot of the information has been withheld. So those who guard Machu Picchu are very committed to never letting the records out until mankind is ready to accept those truths. Throughout time, it has been mostly the Pleiadeans who have come and checked to make sure the records are secure, for the Pleiadeans truly await the day when humankind accepts its galactic heritage. But since they cannot directly interfere, they can simply help to guard the records.

    Pleiadeans and the ancient Incans have a very, very strong connection. All over your planet there are storehouses of these ancient records so that your history will never be forgotten. And some of the extraterrestrial groups have been very instrumental in helping to preserve that information. The Native American Indians of North America are also a group that has helped to preserve the information from Lemuria. So have the Aborigines of Australia. The shamans of the Native Americans and Aborigines, even to this day, right now, maintain extraterrestrial connections. This is something that even most members of those tribes are not aware of. It is a sacred tradition passed on from the stars, from Lemuria, to these native peoples. There are many record-keepers on Earth.

    We have already mentioned some of the belief systems you have today, such as those about Heaven, and how they had extraterrestrial origins in the ancient past. The human race in some ways can be likened to an orphaned child. You have a rich, rich star heritage from many different extraterrestrial groups, but yet you have never been allowed to know your true parents. No one is keeping this information from you, but up until this point you as a people have not had enough desire to find out the truth. Many people on your planet have been secure, instead, in the illusions of their own religions. They may provide comfort; they may provide a sense of spirituality; but they do not provide the truth about your ancient heritage.

    We are not asking you to abandon your religions, for they are very important to you. However, look deep, deep within yourself and look for the truth of your origins. Seek to discover your true ancient family. In a sense, you will no longer be orphans when you do, and you will feel the joy of being reunited with a very vast family. The extraterrestrials who have guided you throughout history toward this discovery still await your willingness to meet them, but in order to meet them you must first begin to embrace the truth of your past.

    You are a magnificent people. You have had many, many challenges that you have succeeded in facing. You are strong and you are loved so much by your family. This is the time of change; the time of darkness and ignorance will pass. You are moving toward the Light of your own truth. All of us await you there.

    I have the feeling that Lyra and Sirius were in fourth density. But did the people who came to Earth and were in third density feel there was a gap between what people of Lyra and Sirius believed and what they believed?

    In a sense you are accurate and we will describe how. First of all, the journey from the Lyran system and all of its colonized planets took a very, very long time. It took generations. They did not have multidimensional travel. So the extraterrestrials who came here never went back and forth to their own planets. They could not do so in a lifetime. So for all intents and purposes, they lost the connections with their home worlds. And while their own home worlds transformed, they themselves did not necessarily transform with them because they were not there. So many of the Lyran and Sirian home worlds did transform from third to fourth density but these people who were colonizing Earth and the surrounding planets had no connection at all with that transformation.

    Was it not possible to have communication with the people on the home worlds?

    At that point in time, which was very ancient, these extraterrestrial beings were not very much more developed than you are now, so most of the population of extraterrestrials who were here did not have any telepathic ability at all. There were some in their societies like there are some in your societies now who could communicate telepathically and through forms of channeling. But for the most part, no, they were not telepathic.

    Some people believe that Japan was formed from very ancient civilizations. There are many pyramids in Japan even though they built of wood and stone. Also there are stone circles. Please talk about Japan’s ancient civilizations in relation to ETs.

    There were several civilizations that were the primary influence on ancient Japan. One is Pleiadian, which is the main influence. One is Vegan; it is a long story to explain how. And the third is Sirian. Oh my goodness, how do we answer the question without the whole long story? [Germane sighs.] Simply, we will say that there was a lot of extraterrestrial influence by these groups in ancient times in Japan, and some of your very ancient traditions were given to you by these extraterrestrial groups. Some of the ancient traditions of Shintoism came from these groups. My goodness, why don’t we leave it at this. If you have a more specific question about this we will answer it but the whole story is too complex to tell you.

    Do the Nazca lines have a connection to the Lemurian civilization?

    First of all, our perception is that some of the symbols that were made were symbols of the ET groups that were ruling in that area during Lemuria. This may sound rather odd, but do you know how they brand cows? Often they would draw symbols like that on the land so that any extraterrestrial group flying by would know whose territory it was. This was a tradition that began during the Lemurian era and continued after the flood. Some of the glyphs of the Nazca lines were symbols very predominant during the Lemurian era. We perceive that is what you are sensing.

    Is the drawing of the Nazca lines a tradition from the times of Lemuria?

    It is a little bit later. The actual Nazca lines that you see now were not made during the times of Lemuria but came later. They combined the tradition of the Lemurian symbols with other forms of communication. There is very little left on your world in terms of physical things left over from Lemuria.

    In ancient Japan there were two groups of people, Earth-based gods and Heaven-based gods. What is the difference between these?

    In Sumeria there were two main gods, Enlil and Enki. Enki was lord of the Earth and he had his own group of gods under him. Enlil ruled the areas of the heavens, and he had his own group of gods associated with him as well. This was a common theme throughout the extraterrestrial interaction with ancient Earth. There were gods assigned to the Earth territory and gods assigned to territory of the heavens which, of course, would be Mars and Maldek. So we perceive that the gods you are referring to had the same type of hierarchy – Earth-based and Heaven-based. Generally speaking, the gods who were based off the planet were higher in the hierarchy.

    In terms of categorizing the Earth-based gods and the Heaven-based gods, which were in Japan? Who were the Pleiadeans?

    We cannot put them into a category that would make sense to you without all the background information that was given yesterday. Excuse us. The ETs never had set boundaries such as Pleiadeans, Sirians. There were always mixtures in different groups that combined both energies, so the question cannot be answered in a way that would make any sense. The boundaries are not that clear-cut.

    What is the value of this interesting information? How can we put it to use?

    Actually, it is our fault that we have not expressed the practical use because we get so excited about some of the drama and details of the information. We want to answer this question in the most clear way possible. Give us a moment.

    The Human Race Must Confront the Nature of its Planetary Parents

    All throughout history, mankind has had nothing but conflict. Of course, conflict is always created within and then projected into the external world. We like to compare the Earth human relationship with ETs to a child’s relationship with its parent because it is the same dynamic. If a child is loved and nurtured and valued by a parent, it grows up in a healthy way. If a child is not abandoned, it grows up in a healthy way. If a child is allowed to develop its own identity and is supported by the parents, it grows up in a healthy way. If children do not have these things when they grow into adulthood they create conflict and pain in their lives; it really comes from the fact that they were not nurtured during their developmental years. At the times when these gods were interacting with your planet you were a child species. For the most part, you were not nurtured. Instead, you were controlled. For the most part, you were repeatedly abandoned. You would develop attachments to these ET gods and then they would abandon you. You were not encouraged as a race to develop your own planetary identity. Instead, the gods tried to mold you into what they wanted you to become. Now that the gods are no longer here and you are growing into adulthood, the species itself is experiencing pain and conflict. It doesn’t know its parents and therefore it doesn’t know itself. The species has never felt nurtured. Instead, it simply copied the dysfunctional pattern of its parents, creating conflict after conflict, trying to find itself.

    In traditional therapy, people will need to first confront the truth about their parents. They must learn why their parents were the way they were and how that has affected who they have become, and they must see how this parental influence has created the conflicts in their present lives. It is only then that they can be set free to find their true identity. Your planet is still trying to find its identity, for you are not a planetary people. You are, in a sense, a group of lost children. We mean this with no disrespect. As in traditional therapy, as we have just described, the human race itself now needs to confront who its parents were. The human race needs to accept that they have become who they are because of who their parents were. In accepting that they can begin to form their own identity as a species and finally come to peace with themselves. It is then that their conflicts will subside.

    So, all of the information that we have presented tonight is to allow you to know your parents. This is to encourage you to go proudly and boldly into the future. You can unify yourselves, but first you must know yourselves.

    Some people get so upset that they act out of emotion. How should we act? How do we make change in our lives when it comes to action?

    First of all, thought always precedes actions, so it is more important to first change the thought. The details of the information that we have given are not what’s important; but those details make you think. As you think, your thought processes change. That is the first step and that is a step of action. Whenever you do not like your reality, you don’t need to change the reality, you must first change yourself. That is the first step. And when you take that step you will know naturally the next step to take. You cannot change others. You can only change yourself.

    We cannot really take more time to discuss this tonight but please know that the idea of changing your thought is very important. It is the first step. One by one, as your thoughts change individually, so do you transform your planet.

    Tell us about P’taah in regard to the dream spell.

    First of all, P’taah’s genetics were a combination of Earth and ET genetics, and that is a powerful combination because it is a unification of the Earth and the heavens. The intention of dream spell is to do the same thing – unite Heaven with Earth. So that is why you are sensing the similarity in the energies of P’taah and the dream spell.

    What is the most meaningful way of using the art of dreamspell?

    It is different for everyone. It is very important that you use it creatively and adapt it to yourself. That is how it was intended. Does that answer? What we said was very simple so listen to it again and think about it. The last question was somewhat appropriate for our closing remarks. You are all probably wondering how.

    Dream spell, in a sense, is something that humankind is now trying to awaken from, meaning that mankind has been asleep and dreaming. You have never awakened to your full heritage. You have never awakened to the truth about your being and thereby solved the conflicts within. But the fact that there are so many of you here tonight with questions about this says that mankind is finally awakening. Be patient with the process, be patient with yourselves. There is no rush. You are unfolding perfectly. You carry the memories within your very cells of all of these ancient civilizations. You also carry the memory of the stars within your cells as well. If you look within you will always find what you are looking for.

    Much, much love to each one of you. And we bid you a fond goodnight.

    Note: This session appeared in the November 1993 issue of The Sedona Journal of Emergence.

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