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Mysteries
One can never quite account for the process through

which a particular area in the vast extent of history
suddenly lights up in the mind and arouses
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39 D UDL E Y T O WN :
LETTERS
A N E W E NGL A ND G H OST T OW N
By Jeff Belanger
TO THE
N O T E W O R T H Y ...........................................................10
In the town of Cornwall in northwestern Connecticut lie the remains of Dudleytown, a small
hamlet that is the site of ghostly tales, unexplained events, and curses. Founded by Thomas Griffis
in February of 1645, the town was actually settled byand named afterthree Dudley brothers,
who moved there a few years later. It was these brothers who also purportedly brought over a
curse from England that has plagued the land ever since.
L O S T T R E A S U R E .........................................................20
E A R T H E N G E R G I E S .....................................................24
Dowsing for Earths Energy
MYSTERIES
45 O N
THE
E DGE
T H E M YST E R Y
E D I T O R ..............................................8
OF TI M E :
OF
ON
E X H I B I T ...............................................24
A R C H A E O L O G I C A L F I N D S .............................................26
T I M E S L I PS
Britains Chalk Men Not So Ancient After All
By Tim Swartz
A time slip is an event where it appears that some other era has briefly intruded on the present.
A time slip seems to be spontaneous in nature and localization, but there are places which seem
to be more prone than others to time-slip events. Similarly, some people may be more inclined to
experience time slips than others. If time is the unmovable force that physicists say that it is,
then why do some people have experiences that seem to flaunt this concept?
U R B A N L E G E N D S ........................................................28
When Urban Legends Turn Ugly
MYSTERIES
OF
S C I E N C E ...............................................30
The Science Behind Repressed Memory Syndrome
H A U N T E D H E R I TA G E ..................................................32
50 A C ONV ER SAT ION
Scotlands Accursed Fyvie Castle
WI T H
PROFILES
P SYCH IC S YLVI A B R OW NE
IN
E V I L ...................................................... 34
Prince Vlad the Impaler: The Man Behind the Legend
By Judith Kane
Renowned psychic, bestselling author, and paranormal

researcher Sylvia Browne answers questions about the
psychic world, offers predictions for the upcoming century,
and uncovers the truth about the end of the world.
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FROM THE
D E E P .........................................36
B O O K R E V I E W S ..........................................................56
IN
THE
T H E AT E R .................................58
W E B R E V I E W S .....................................60
M U S I C R E V I E W S ..................................62
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2004 E V E N T S C A L E N D A R ......................64
T H E C L A S S I F I L E S ................................75
A GLIMPSE INTO
THE
U N K N O W N ............76
Letters to the Editor
Mysteries Magazine:
Not Just About UFOs
Dear Mysteries,
ust wanted to say Ive enjoyed thoroughly the first three issues of Mysteries Magazine, and am impressed
with the content and production. Im
ver y pleased that material is covered
from a level-headed, responsible
approach, and that ever y other stor y
isnt about the latest UFO nonsense.
Keep up the great work!
MILTON JOHN KLEIM, JR.

MENDOCINO COUNTY, CA
Dear Kim,
Did the Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey make a cameo appearnace in the cult
classic movie Rosemarys Baby? A reader says yes!
LaVey Cameos True
The Cleveland Ripper
Dear Editor,
s I knew Anton LaVey well and
counted him among my good
friends, this is a matter of setting
the record straight. LaVey did make a
brief cameo on the movie Rosemarys
Baby, as well as in The Devils Rain (starring Ernest Borgnine), and many other
devilish flicks from the 1960s and 70s. If
you look closely at the credits of both of
these films, LaVeys name appears in
small print towards the end of the credits. However, I do not believe that he
was ever involved with Charles Manson
or the Helter Skelter killings.
Dear Mysteries,
loved the article on Jack the Ripper
in issue #2. As you might know,
Cleveland, OH, has its own Ripper
story, which was featured on the TV program Unsolved Mysteries, a mystery that
even crime-buster Elliot Ness couldnt
figure out. Perhaps Patricia Cornwell
might give it a try!
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ELKTON, MD
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Congrats in Order
Dear Mysteries,
llow me to congratulate you on
one of the best, if not the best
paranormal magazine ever. The
articles have a clarity and sophistication
that other similar magazines lack. I wish
you well and may you prosper!
JUDY WOOD
SMYRNA, GA
hen I received your subscription notice, the one thing

that intrigued me right from
the start was that your publication was to
deal with a variety of anomalies, not just
UFOs, and that you were located in the
northeast. So I took the chance of subscribing and was not disappointed.
I have personally been involved in
investigating and researching strange
phenomena for about 12 years. I find
anomalous activity exciting and stimulating, especially for the open-mindedness
that it generates.
Your magazine is the best I have seen
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Noteworthy
Recordings Evidence of
Champ Lake Monster?
WWW.ANIMALVOICE.COM
esearchers in the Button Bay area

of Lake Champlain have recorded biosonar readings that may be
evidence of the existence of Champ, the
famed monster of the lake.
Over a period of three days in June of
2003, a research team led by bioacoustics expert Elizabeth von Muggenthaler,
president of Fauna Communications
Research, a Hillsborough, NC firm that
studies how animals communicate, used
highly sensitive sonar equipment to
record the sounds emitted by the lakes
underwater creatures. According to von
Muggenthaler, some of the readings lasted as long as ten minutes and are ten
times louder than any known fish species
in the lake is capable of producing.
Although only a few known underwater species, such as dolphins or Beluga
whales, are capable of producing
biosonar readings of that strength, von
Muggenthaler declined to speculate on
the size, nature, or physical characteris-
10
tics of the animal, and cautioned against

concluding that the lake is home to a
freshwater whale or dolphin, without
evidence. The researchers, who suspect
that the animal came within 30 feet of
their boat, expect analysis of the readings
to help them determine its size and how
fast it was moving. Von Muggenthaler
also said that the irregular sequence of
sounds and ticks ruled out the possibility
that the readings were produced by a
mechanical device or fish finder.
The recordings represent the biggest
development in the debate about the
existence of Champ since the publication
of a photograph of a serpent-like object
taken in 1977. Over the years, hundreds
of Champ sightings have been reported,
yet skeptics dismiss Champ as an extravagant piece of folklore perpetuated by
imaginative fishermen and boaters.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCE: THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS, VT
Tests on Spear
of Destiny Shows
Medieval Origins
n June, 2003, British metallurgist

Robert Feather used 21st-century science and technology to investigate an
ancient relic reputed to be the Holy
Lance, or Spear of Destiny,
used by a Roman centurion
to pierce the side of Christ
during the crucifixion.
The stor y of the Holy
Lance, which was first mentioned in the gospel of John,
has been embellished upon
over the centuries. Said to
have been wielded by Constantine the Great in his
quest to Christianize the
Roman Empire in the fourth
centur y, carried by Charlemagne at the bir th of the
chivalric orders of Europe,
and taken to Berlin in 1938
by Hitlers Nazis, the spear
is now in the Imperial Treasur y of the Hofburg Palace
in Vienna, Austria. One oftquoted account of it says, Whomsoever
claims this spear and solves its secrets
holds the destiny of the world in his
hands, for good or evil.
After subjecting the relic to x-ray
dif fraction and fluorescence tests to
reveal its structure and composition,
swab checks for organic material (such
as blood), and other noninvasive procedures, Fisher concluded that the main
body of the spear is medieval and dates
to the seventh century. However, Fisher
also concluded that an iron pin hammered into the blade and set off by tiny
brass crosses, which has long been
claimed to be a nail from the true cross,
was found to be consistent in length and
shape with a first-century Roman nail.
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Noteworthy
Origin of Cosmic Dust Discovered
ritish scientists say that they have

unlocked one of the universes
oldest secretsthe origin of cosmic dust, tiny particles of solid material
that float around between the stars.
Astronomers have long thought that
cosmic dust, which more closely resembles cigarette smoke than ordinar y
house dust, was mostly made from the
winds of cool, giant stars in the late
stages of their lives. Up until now, they
have treated it as a nuisance because it
blocks out more than half of the light
given off by distant stars and galaxies.
However, astronomers and astrophysicists from Wales Cardiff University and
the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh,
Scotland may have found evidence that
cosmic dust holds many of the answers
to the most basic questions about the
origin of the Earth and other planets.
Until recently, astronomers have been
able to detect only warm cosmic dust.
Then, in July of 2003, while using the
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in
Hawaii to hunt for dust in the remains of
a star called Cassiopeia A (which was
seen to explode 320 years ago, 11 millennia after it actually did, due to its dis-
tance from the Earth of approx. 11,000

light years), the scientists discovered cold
cosmic dust at the edges of the universe,
in the earliest stars and galaxies.
Astronomers now theorize that huge
quantities of space dust are thrown out
when some stars explode and that it is
these particles which come together to
form planets.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: NATURE, BBC NEWS
New Species Found in Australia

WESTERN AUSTRALIA MUSEUM
12
n May of 2003, paleontologists from the Western Australia Museum unear thed a
cache of superbly preserved fossils that includes two complete
skulls and the partial skeletons
of strange, horned kangaroos
with bulbous snouts that are
unlike any other previously
known living or fossil kangaroos.
Researchers theorize that the
kangaroos lived in arid environ-
ments, eating fairly hard saltbush or spiky bush, and that the
ridges and bony horn-like lateral
protrusions might have ser ved
to protect the kangaroos eyes.
The dig in caves in the Nullarbor Plain of the southwest coast
of Australia also uncovered the
fossilized remains of Procoptodon goliah (the worlds
largest kangaroo), bandicoots, a
wolf-sized Tasmanian tiger, birds
that are slightly smaller than

modern emus, and the first complete skeletons of thylacoleo
(giant marsupial lions). Exper ts
believe that at least three of the
species found are new to science. Dating suggests that the
fossils are between 200,000
and 500,000 years old.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCE: NEW SCIENTIST
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Noteworthy
Narcotic Vapors May Be Inspiration

For Delphic Oracle Prophesies
radition attributes the prophetic

inspiration of the powerful oracle
of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece, to sweet-smelling vapors
that emerged via an underground spring
from a chasm in the earth beneath the
temple. According to ancient accounts,
the Delphic oracle, or Pythia, would sit
on a tripod above the cleft in the subterranean adyton, or core of the temple,
inhale the vapors, and peer into a bowl of
spring water. She would then pass into a
trance and begin to prophesize.
For more than a century, scholars have
rejected this explanation because archaeologists at the site of the temple were
unable to locate a chasm or detect
gaseous emissions. More recent research,
however, exposed two geologic faults
The Temple of
Apollo at Delphi.
that intersect beneath the temple. They

also detected the presence of hydrocarbon gases that can induce a narcotic state
similar to that recorded for the trance
Farmers Protect Sacred Sites
n Febr uar y 2003, Great Britains

Depar tment for Environmental, Food,
and Rural Af fairs (DEFRA) announced
that five farmers whose land abuts the
Stonehenge/Avebur y World Heritage site
had signed a 10-year Countr yside Stewardship Agreement designed to protect
the sites unique concentration of prehistoric monuments from intensive farming,
and to establish a fitting landscape for
the mysterious stone circles.
The Countr yside Stewardship Special
Project aims to improve the natural beauty of the countr yside by paying farmers
and landowners near World Heritage sites
from $13 to $348 per acre to turn their
farmland into grassland and to establish
an extensive grazing regime. The land will
then become a wildlife-rich buf fer zone
that will protect the sites many lesserknown historical monuments, landscape
features, and archaeological treasures.
By the end of 2003, Cuckoo Field near
Woodhenge, the Normanton Down Barrows, the Nor th Kite Enclosure, and the
Durrington Down Barrows near Stonehenge had also been grassed over. The
West Kennet Long Barrow at Avebur y will
also be shielded by the creation of grass
margins around its edges.
state of the Pythia.

Experts now believe that the fault lines
made the layers of limestone beneath the
temple more permeable, creating fissures
along which groundwater deposited calcite mineralization that had a high petrochemical content. When heated to high
temperatures by the friction created by
tectonic activity, some of the petrochemical constituents vaporized, producing
ethylene gases that rose with the spring
water into the small, enclosed adyton.
Chemical analysis of the spring water
and travertine rock from the oracle site
showed the presence of methane and
ethane, light hydrocarbon gases produced by the decomposition of ethylene.
Experiments on the effects of inhaling
light hydrocarbon gasesand on the
anesthetic properties of ethylene, which
has a sweet odorshow that low concentrations produce a narcotic, trancelike state, including out-of-body feelings,
euphoria, and amnesia.
JUDITH KANE
Stonehenge
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SOURCES: UK DEPT. OF ENVIRON., FOOD & RURAL
JUDITH KANE
AFFAIRS, WESTERN DAILY PRESS
SOURCE: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
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Noteworthy
Noteworthy
Ancient Egyptians Descended

from Nomadic Cattle Herders
HOWARD PARTRIDGE 1991
dence of the people who painstakingly

pecked hundreds of intricate carvings
into the rock cliffs with stone styluses,
more than 1,000 years before the founding of ancient Egypt. The carvings tell of
seasonal nomads and include many
images that show links to the Nile valley,
including aquatic animals, such as hippopotami and crocodiles, and, most
importantly, a preponderance of boats
carr ying godlike figures, that have
upright prows and incur ved, sickleshaped sterns. Similar boat images appear
on the monumental carvings of ancient
Egypt, particularly in the Valley of the
Kings, where this boat was associated

with the kings voyage in the afterlife.
Wilkinson believes that some of the
motifs in the desert stone explain other
Egyptian puzzles as well. For instance,
the bulls tail and crook, which were
often used as symbols of Egyptian kings,
have long been considered curious symbols of kingship. A link between the
ancient Egyptians and the prehistoric
cattle herders might explain this curiosity, since the symbols are also and have
long been symbols of animal husbandry.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
TOBY SAVAGE
TOBY SAVAGE
he first appearance of the ancient

Egyptians in the Nile valley
5,000 years ago was so abrupt
that they seem not to have any ancestry
or period of development. This has
prompted a variety of unorthodox theories about mysterious civilizations, invading master races, survivors from Atlantis,
and even alien landings. However, Cambridge Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson
now believes that 6,000-year-old rock
art etched on cliff walls in the eastern
Sahara Desert provides a more probable
solution to the mystery of their origins
that ancient Egyptians are descended
from stone-age nomadic cattle herders
who left the Nile river valley every summer during flood season and took their
herds to what was once a grassland
savannah between the Red Sea and the
Nile.
According to Wilkinson, there are no
written records and almost no other evi-
Mystery of Mummy Lake Solved
Evidence of Sumatran Yeti Found
uring a September, 2001 expedition

to Sumatra in search of the mythical
Orang Pendek (or Yeti), a team of
part-time English explorers found hairs and
a footprint that are evidence of an unknown
primate.
The Yeti is part of the folklore of Indonesian tribespeople of Sumatra. Yet despite
many reports of sightings in the rainforest
by both locals and western scientists, the
existence of the five-foot-tall creature that
walks upright, has incredible strength, and
speaks its own language, has never been
proven.
After analyzing the hairs, renowned Aus-
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tralian hair exper t Dr. Hans Br unner

announced in July, 2003, that the hair
matches no known animal species. According to Dr. David Chivers, Cambridge University primatologist and vice-chairman of the
conser vation group Flora and Fauna International, the footprint has something in
common with apes, gibbons, and humans,
but is unique [and] the hairs are not like
anything we know.
Adam Davies, one of the leaders of the
expedition, is now planning another trip to
search for the mythical creature.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCE: MANCHESTER NEWS
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n ongoing research project

began in 1995 suggests that
Mummy Lake, a rock-ringed
earthen depression in Colorados Mesa
Verde National Park that was once
thought to have been an ancient ceremonial dance pavilion, was actually a reservoir built by the Anasazi between 750
and 1180 AD.
Best known for their impressive sandstone-block cliff dwellings, the Anasazi
(or Ancestral Puebloans) first settled in
Mesa Verde around 550 AD. The population swelled to several thousand by the
13th centur y, when most of the cliff
dwellings were built, but the settlement
was mysteriously abandoned by the
Anasazi before 1300.
Attempts to explain the abandonment
have spurred many theories, including
overpopulation, climactic changes, soil
erosion, discredited political and religious leadership, increasing violence and
warfare, and even cannibalism. However,
tree ring data shows that the area was
scorched by drought from 1130 to 1180

and again between 1276 and 1299,
which corresponds with the time that the
Anasazi abandoned Mesa Verde and supports one of the most commonly accepted theoriesthat drought and crop failures forced the Anasazi to leave.
Excavations uncovered alternating layers of clay and sand deposited by sediment-rich water, as well as the banks of
canals that led into the reservoir. The
banks of the canals were lined with

stones that were adjusted periodically to
ensure that gravity continued to pull
water into the slowly rising reservoir and
to prevent erosion.
Experts believe that a flat sandstone
scraper and a deer antler tool found in the
area were used to dig out sediment carried by storm runof f. However, the
dredging failed to remove all of the sediment and the elevation of the reservoir
bottom gradually rose 21 feet over its
350-year lifetime. Pottery shards found
during the excavations are nearly all from
jar-shaped ceramic vessels, which indicates that the water from the reservoir
was used domestically, rather than for
agriculture.
The findings suggest that scholars
have underestimated the capabilities of
the Anasazi, who have long been considered a simple people. Rather, it has
become evident that they were wellorganized and cooperated between
communities on large-scale public
works projects to an extent that was not
previously appreciated.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS,
SMITHSONIAN
The most beautiful thing one can experience

is the mysterious. He to whom
this reaction is a stranger
who no longer can pause to
wonder and stand rapt in
aweis as good as dead.
Albert Einstein
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Noteworthy
Major Robert Rogers,

York City until the end of the war in
n September of
a British hero and early
1783.)
2003,
James
master of reconnaisHistorians have long wondered how
Hutson, head of
sance who had led a
and where Hale was captured and exethe manuscript divigroup of highly trained
cuted. The Tiffany manuscript clearly
sion of the U.S.
rangers
during
the
states
that Hale was captured at Rogers
Library of Congress,
French
and
Indian
quarters
at a tavern on Long Island and
announced the disWar. Rogers, who had
hanged at an artillery park near what is
covery of new inforrecently escaped Amernow 66th Street and Third Avenue in
mation that may
ican captivity and was
Manhattan. Scholars who suspected that
solve the mystery of
recruiting troops for
Rogers was involved in Hales capture
the capture and exethe British, had been
concur that such naivet is in keeping
cution of legendary
observing
Hale
for
sevwith Hales reputation, but expressed
Revolutionar y War
eral
days
and
suspected
surprise
that he would be so gullible and
spy Nathan Hale.
that
he
was
a
spy.
After
say
that
the new information should not
According to Hutengaging Hale in conaffect Hales standing as an American
son, who discovered
versation and drinking
hero as he was, nonetheless, an incredithe
information
a toast to Congress,
bly brave man.
Consider Tiffanys manuscript.
while
thumbing
Rogers duped Hale
Despite Hales failure as a spy, a lifethrough a 300-page
into offering up
size statue of
manuscript written
the
details
of
his
mission
by
prehim
inscribed
soon after the war by Consider Tiffany, a
tending
to
be
a
Colonial
spy
himwith
his
famous
British loyalist and sympathizer, Hale
self.
last
wordsI
made some nave mistakes, one of which
Rogers then invited the unsusonly regret that
was trusting a stranger with the details of
pecting Hale to dinner at his
I have but one
his mission.
quar ters, where he and several
life to lose for
An enthusiastic patriot who rose
friends led Hale to implicate himmy country
quickly in the Continental Army, Hale
self before witnesses. During their
occupies a place
volunteered for a reconnaissance mission
conversation,
a
company
of
solof
honor at the
after General George Washingtons
diers
surrounded
the
house
and
headquarters
of
troops were driven out of Long Island by
arrested
Hale,
who
was
searched
the
Central
the British, and badly needed informaand found to be carr ying notes
Intelligence
tion about the enemys strength and
about the British forces and other
Agency, which
plans. By some accounts, the 21-year-old
incriminating papers. Hale was
considers Hale
captain was the only one to respond to
then taken before the British
to be the first
Washingtons request for a volunteer for
commander Sir William Howe
American to be
this dangerous mission.
and was hanged the next mornexecuted for
The manuscript, which was donated to
ing,
September
22,
1776.
spying
for his
the library in 2000 by a descendant of
Whether
Hales
information
country.
Tif fany, alleges that soon after Hale
JUDITH KANE
could have helped Washington is
The statue of Nathan Hale at
arrived on Long Island and slipped
the CIA.
SOURCE: AP
not clear. (The British held New
behind enemy lines, he was visited by
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ISSUE
#4
Historical Evidence Found

for Existence of Biblical Kings
fter nearly seven years of excavations at Tel Rehov, a Hebrew

town in the Jordan valley of
Israel that was sacked almost 3,000 years
ago by an Egyptian Pharaoh, scientists
from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
TEL REHOV EXPEDITION
Manuscript Solves Mystery

of American Heros Death
I
TEL REHOV EXPEDITION
Noteworthy
have uncovered new evidence that

refutes claims that the Bibles legendary
kings David and Solomon were merely
tribal chieftains or mythical characters.
Using radioactive carbon dating techniques, Israeli and Dutch archaeologists
and physicists have dated the invasion of
Jerusalem and nearby towns by Pharaoh
Shoshenq I to 925 BC, more than 80
years earlier than was previously thought
and only about five years after Solomon is
said to have died. Experts say that the
new timetable for Shoshenqs conquest,
which is recorded in the Old Testament
Book of Chronicles and on a monument
in the temple of Amun at Karnak, is significant because it provides the first laboratory-based affirmation of the existence
of the legendary united monarchies of
David and Solomon and therefore provides an archaeological anchor for the socalled Solomonic period.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF
JERUSALEM, SCIENCE MAGAZINE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Research
Shows
Dragonflies
Invisible
to Prey
cientists at the Australian National University have found that dragonflies can make themselves
invisible to airborne prey and territorial
rivals by using a system of motion camouflage that is even more sophisticated
than the radar-avoiding technology of
modern stealth aircraft.
Using a stereo camera system, the
researchers recorded 15 encounters
between rival male dragonflies, which
are known for their high maneuverability
and propensity for aerial combat. After
reconstructing the three-dimensional trajectories of the dragonflies digitally
and calculating the apparent motion produced by the predatory dragonfly on the
retina of its victimthe researchers
found six examples that the predator y
dragonfly uses active motion camouflage to move rapidly towards its prey
while appearing to remain stationar y.
The predatory ploy is considered unique
in the animal kingdom, but experts say
that it is likely that motion camouflage
will be found in other species that operate in three-dimensional environments.
The way that dragonflies achieve this
camouflage effect is unknown, but the
research has potential applications in
autonomous aircraft technology.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIV.
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Lost Treasure
Lost Treasure
Legendary
Hoard of Gold
Resurfaces
Worthless Coin I
Worth Millions
A
that the original coin had been lost
1913 Liberty Head nickel, one
when Waltons collection was scattered
of only five in the world and valacross the road during the acciued at nearly $3 million,
dent, or that he had sold the
has been found after it disapreal coin. Coin experts have
peared more than 40 years
since debated whether
ago.
Walton ever actually
Produced under mysteowned the nickel.
rious circumstances when
In preparation for an
the U.S. Mint was changexhibit of the other four
ing from the Liberty Head
1913 Liberty Head nickels
to the Buffalo design, the
at
its Worlds Fair of Money
coins were first shown at the
in
Baltimore,
MD, in May of
1920 American Numismatic
2003, the ANA corresponded
Association (ANA) convention
with Waltons relatives, askin Chicago, IL, and remained
ing that they bring the
together as a set until the
altered-date nickel to
1940s, when they were
Baltimore for inclusion
separated and sold. One
in the exhibit. Experts
of the five nickels is now
who
examined the coin
par t of the Smithsonian
were
astonished
to disInstitutions collection;
cover that the worthless
one is a part of the ANAs
coin was, in fact, authentic.
permanent collection; two
Waltons relatives, who
remain in private hands;
wish to remain anonyand one was acquired
mous, expressed delight
by George O. Walton, a
that
the discovery would
Roanoke, VA coin colrestore
Waltons reputalector and dealer who
tion.
The
coin is now on
died in a 1962 automoloan to the ANA Money
bile accident on his way
Museum in Colorado
to a coin show.
Springs, CO, which is
When Waltons heirs
preparing a special exhibsold his vast coin collecit for its display. The
tion at auction shortly
nickel
will also be disafter his death, they
played
at ANA convenwere told that the 1913
tions
and
other select
Liberty Head nickel was
venues.
one of many with an
JUDITH KANE
altered date and was,
SOURCE: AMERICAN
therefore, wor thless.
Coin collector
NUMISMATIC ASSOC.
Stories then flourished
George Walton
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n August of 2003, Afghanistans President Hamid Karzai revealed that the

countrys legendary Tillya Tepe Bactrian gold hoard had resurfaced after lying
hidden in a sealed vault beneath the
main palace of Kabul throughout the
1992-1996 civil war, during which much
of Afghanistans rich cultural heritage
was looted or destroyed.
According to Afghani Finance Minister
Ashraf Ghani, the vault was thought to
contain gold bullion hidden by the state
and had not been opened for at least 14
years, despite
the Talibans
use of torture
to tr y to force
staf f members to reveal
the
secret
code
that
would open it.
Ghani said
that no one
expected the
vault to contain the priceless treasure,
which dates
from Alexander the Greats conquest in
327 BC of the ancient kingdom of Bactria, now in northern Afghanistan.
The 2,000 year old collection of gold
and silver jewelr y and ornaments,
including a collapsible gold crown, a
solid gold pendant of Aphrodite, a dagger studded with scores of jewels, and
more than 20,000 gold coins, was
unearthed during excavations of ancient
burial mounds at Tillya Tepe, or the
Golden Hill, by Greek- Russian archaeologist Victor Sariyannidis, just prior to
the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in
1978. Hailed as one of the most important archaeological discoveries of all
time, the collection is thought to be
wor th tens of millions of dollars and is
considered one of the most impor tant
collections of antiquities in the world.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCE: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, BBC
ISSUE
#4
Archaeologists Uncover
Clues to Lost Buddha Statue
ollowing five weeks of excavations

in the famous valley of the Buddhas in the Hindu Kush Mountains of central Afghanistan, a team of
French archaeologists believe that they
have found clues that will lead to the discovery of the legendary lost third Buddha of Bamiyan.
For much of the
first millennium,
Bamiyan was a cultural, artistic, and
religious center of
the old kingdom of
Kushan and a place
of
pilgrimage.
Thousands of grottos and caves containing countless
statues, rich frescoes, and at least ten
Buddhist monasteries were built into
the valleys immense
sandstone cliffs.
Amid a furor of
international outrage and condemnation, two giant standing statues of Buddha at Bamiyan were blown up by the
Taliban in March of 2001 as part of a
program to destroy idols. The statues,
which dated to the third and sixth centuries, were considered to be among
Asias greatest archaeological treasures
and the most remarkable representations
of Buddha in the world.
According to the writings of seventhcentury Chinese pilgrim Xuan Zang, the
cliffs of Bamiyan also sheltered a third,
even larger statue of Buddha. The text,
which has been substantiated by other
sources, gives the exact dimensions of the
two destroyed Buddhas and describes a
1,000-foot-long statue of a reclining

Buddha on the site of an impor tant
monastery near a royal residence to the
east of the smaller of the standing statues.
In August of 2003, a team of French
archaeologists led by Professor Zemaryali
Tarzi of the Marc Bloch University of
Strasbourg, France, began excavations at
Bamiyan in search of
the missing statue,
which has been
dubbed the Sleeping
Buddha because it
represents Buddha on
his death bed, sleeping in the state of nirvana. According to
Tarzi, who worked on
the restoration of the
two standing Buddhas
in the late 1970s, the
team has identified
the location of the
royal town and found
traces
of
the
monastery, including
seven clay heads of
Buddhist divinities
that date from the fourth to eighth centuries. Tarzi is now convinced that they
have located the resting place of the third
Buddha.
Unfortunately, in September of 2003,
the archaeologists were ordered by a local
militar y commander to leave the site,
pending a letter of authorization from
Afghanistans President Hamid Karzai.
The site has subsequently been filled in
and the area is now being guarded until
the archaeologists are allowed back in
July of 2004.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE,
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Earth Energies
Earth Energies
Dowsing for Earths Energy

T
Also known as waterwitching, divining, and
doodlebugging, the practice
of dowsing was documented
as early as 2,200 BC in
ancient Egyptian and
Chinese carvings.
by Lise Hull
he art of dowsing has long been

considered the provenance of
witches and mystics. In recent
times, though, there has been a resurgence of interest in dowsing, not merely
to pinpoint water or mineral sources but
also as a means of connecting to the
unexplainable energies that seem to
radiate from the Earth.
Dowsings most commonly accepted
purpose is in locating water sources.
However, many scientists scoff at the

notion that water, mineral ores, or invisible electromagnetic energies can be
located with the aid of primitive, nonscientific devices, including L-shaped
metal rods, Y-shaped twigs, and pendulums. Even so, mainstream companies
call upon dowsers for help when modern
technology fails to identify the best
places to sink a well, to search for oil,
buried cables, and drainage pipes, or to
find downed aircraft, land mines, and
wrecked ships.
Dowsers have also been called to areas
during prolonged droughts to find natural water resources hidden deep beneath
the Earths surface. Archaeologists have
also used dowsers to assess sites and
determine where to dig for artifacts.
Dowsers use a variety of instruments
to connect with these unseen forces.
Nonetheless, they claim that it is more
the perceptive capabilities of the individual that create a successful experiment, not the particular tool used.
Churches and Underground Streams
s early as the 1930s, dowsing
was used by archaeologists to
perform experiments at sacred
sites, including churches and ancient
stone monuments. One of the first to
note the intriguing correlation between
churches and underground water was
archaeologist and dowser Guy Underwood. Labeling the water sources as
water-lines, he suggested that the
sacred monuments built over them
served as markers pinpointing the location of underground water.
While contemporary researchers disagreed with his interpretations, many
have acknowledged the existence of
some sor t of link between standing
stones and underground water. In the
KIM GUARNACCIA
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According to most dowsers,

anyone can successfully
tap into the Earths
invisible energies by
using the proper tools
and dowsing techniques.
ISSUE
#4
How to Dowse with an L-Rod
resent-day dowsers often use L-rods to detect ear th energies, water, and other
resources. The rods are easy to make and responsive to their users, and they can
be used by anyone interested in testing their own dowsing skills.
L-rods consist of a short side measuring about six to eight inches in length, situated at
a 90 degree angle to a longer, 10 to 18-inch section. When dowsing with L-rods (which
can easily be made from coat hangers or other straight but pliable metallic rods), place
the shorter portion of the L in each hand. Grip it loosely in the middle of each palm, so
that each rod can move freely. Bend your arms at the elbow, pointing the longer part of
each rod outward and parallel to each other. Then walk slowly forward.
Always keep your upper arms straight
and parallel with the ground and with each
otherotherwise, the rods may pivot due to
gravity rather than a reaction to an energy
source. You will know when the rods detect
something when they either swing apart and
make a V-shape or cross over each other.
Take note of the places where the rods
move. Then continue walking, but head in
the direction where they are pointed. Sometimes, L-rods lead users in circular patterns,
which some dowsers claim are reminiscent
of the spiral designs carved into prehistoric
stone monuments. If you find yourself moving in a linear direction, you may be tracing
a water source, such as an underground
stream or drainage pipe.
LISE HULL
1960s, dowser W.H. Lamb made similar

(yet reputedly separate) discoveries,
claiming that two or more streams
crossed over one other directly underneath the high altar of every church he
had studied. At about the same time,
dowser Muriel Langdon used dowsing to
find what she characterized as domes
of water (primary water sources that rise
vertically from deep below the earths
surface) rising beneath altars, fonts,
chancel steps, and doorways.
In the April, 1999 issue of British
Archaeology, David Field, an archaeologist with English Heritage, Englands
official caretaker of ancient monuments,
also makes several fascinating observations about the positioning of Bronze
Age barrowsmegalithic burial chambers that originally were covered with an
ear then mound but now are often

exposed to the elements. Field noted
that such sites were most often situated
near rivers, lakes, and springs. He
believes that the presence of water and
well-drained soilsplus the sanctity of
the landscape as perceived by our prehistoric ancestorsguided Bronze Age
peoples on where to construct their
burial sites.
Noting that aerial photography has
recently identified the location of many
previously unknown barrows on flatter
land, he speculates that the main reason
why burial mounds seem to dominate
hills and ridge-tops is that plowing has
mowed down those located on flatter
land. Such evidence has led Field to conclude that there is a link between the
placement of barrows and water fea-
tures, and that link has to do with the

significance of the landscape to Bronze
Age people themselves.
Many cultures, including the ancient
Egyptians and the Celts, considered
water a sacred, life-giving force, a physical connection between this world and
the next. It seems reasonable, then, that
sacred sites, particularly cemeteries and
places of worship, would be located near
water, even if that water were hidden
beneath the Earths surface.
Dowsing and Electromagnetism
esides their apparent ability to
react to underground water (and
other substances), dowsing
devices may also be responding to electromagnetic charges that emanate from
the giant stones used to construct sacred
monuments. Certain types of rock contain minerals with percentages of silicon,
iron, heavy metals, and other elements.
Depending on the weight of the stone
and the interplay of the atomic particles
in the minerals, these rocks can emanate
electromagnetic charges which may be
detected by dowsing.
In the 1970s, the Dragon Project (see
Mysteries, issue #1) used dowsers as well
as infrared photography, ultrasound
recorders, and geiger counters to study
the Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire,
England. Although the results proved
inconclusive, researchers continue to
examine the apparent relationship
between the ancient stones and the presence of electromagnetic energies with
the help of dowsing rods.
We can never truly know whether
the ancients actually dowsed to locate
water sourcesor just coincidentally
erected the structures near springs and
lakes. Nonetheless, dowsing continues
to inspire scientific speculation. And
for the non-professional researcher,
dowsing is an entertaining way to experience sacred sites and natural places of
power. z
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(617) 723-2500 I WWW.MOS.ORG
American Museum of Natural History

NEW YORK, NY
Jordan Tourism Board, NA
(212) 769-5400 I WWW.AMNH.ORG
Petra: Lost City of Stone (through

July 6, 2004) The most comprehensive
exhibition ever presented on the lost civilization of the Nabataeans tells the story
of the 19th-century rediscovery of Petra,
the ancient crossroads of the international silk and
spice trade routes.
The exhibit highlights new scholarship and recent
archaeological discoveries featuring
more than 200
objects found at
the site, many on
view for the first time outside Jordan.
Liberty Science Center
JERSEY CITY, NJ
(201) 200-1000 I WWW.LSC.ORG
Strange Matter (Jan. 31-May 2, 2004)

From metals with memory to astonishing
micro-machinery, discover the amazing
world of materials science. Use a bowling
ball to try to shatter a pane of heat-tempered glass
or swish a
g l o v e d
h a n d
through a
vat of fluid
t h a t
morphs
from fluid
to solid and
back again
at
the
touch of a
button.
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Mysteries of the Milky Way (ongoing)

This exhibit features stunning images
taken by the Hubble Space Telescope to
create a visual tour of the Milky Way
from the luminous bulge of ancient stars
surrounding the galactic center to the
dark halo encompassing the outer limits
of the galaxy.
Midwest
Adler Planetarium &
Astronomy Museum
CHICAGO, IL
(312) 322-0323 I WWW.ADLERPLANETARIUM.ORG
Stranded in an Alien Lab (ongoing)

Imagine yourself as a space explorer,
marooned on a
strange, rocky
planet. You are
billions of miles
from home,
and your spaceship has crashlanded near the
laboratory of an
alien scientist. This interactive exhibit
uses clues hidden throughout the lab to
solve the mystery about the scientist and
her work while putting a twist on the
search for extraterrestrialsin this lab
the aliens are looking for Earthlings!
Milwaukee Public Museum
MILWAUKEE, WI
(414) 278-2702 I WWW.MPM.EDU
The Quest for Immortality: Treasures

of Ancient Egypt (March 28-Aug. 8,
2004) This exhibition of ancient art
from the Egyptian national collection
illuminates the Pharaonic concepts of the
afterlife journey, sustenance, and renewal, and their relationship with the divine.
Features approximately 115 artifacts,
South
Key West Shipwreck
Historeum Museum
KEY WEST, FL | (305) 292-8990
WWW.SHIPWRECKHISTOREUM.COM
Wreck Ashore! (ongoing) Step back in

time to 1856 Key Westthe era of the
wreckers. This exhibit combines actors,
film, laser technology, and artifacts from
the recently discovered wreck of the vessel Isaac Allerton, which sank in 1856 on
the treacherous Florida Keys reef.
South Carolina State Museum
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Glenbow Museum
COLUMBIA, SC
DENVER, CO
CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA
(803) 898-4921 I WWW.MUSEUM.STATE.SC.US
(303) 322-7009 I WWW.DMNS.ORG
(403) 268-4100 I WWW.GLENBOW.ORG
Titanic: The
Artifact
Exhibit (Jan.
31-May 2,
2004) This
exhibit features
a
chronology of
the life of the
ill-fated vessel,
t h r o u g h
recreated firstand third-class
cabins, a simulated iceberg, and more
than 200 artifacts recovered from the
wreckage. Learn about the technology,
artistry, and incredible effort needed to
find and reach the ship that now lies 2.5
miles under the sea.
Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery

of the Incas (Feb. 14-May 19, 2004)
Explore the wonders of Machu Picchu, a
400-year-old Peruvian palace and one of
the most spectacular archaeological sites
in the world. This exhibit explores the
origins of Machu Picchu, which was
rediscovered in 1911 by Yale professor
and archaeologist Hiram Bingham III.
See and experience some of the
finest sur viving
examples of Incan
art, a replica of an
ancient Incan
road, an interactive tour of an
Incan
palace
complex, and an
interactive laborator y that shows how archaeologists
interpret the 15th century.
The Mysterious Bog

People: Rituals and
Sacrifice in Europe
(through May 24,
2004) The most comprehensive exhibition
ever produced on the rituals of northwestern Europe
in prehistoric times, this
exhibit presents the latest
research on the mysterious bog
people. Features numerous
artifacts discovered over the
last two centuries, including pottery, flint
tools, axes, jewelry, coins, and the mummified remains of people sacrificed in the
bogs to honor pagan gods.
Museum of Arts & Sciences

MACON, GA
West Coast
(478) 477-3232 I WWW.MASMACON.COM
Crime Lab Detective (Jan. 23-May 16,

2004) This exhibition is designed to let
visitors work independently or as a group
to solve a crime. Real-life crime concepts,
such as fingerprints, hair samples, handwriting analysis, and tread marks are used
to help aid in solving the mystery.
Orlando Science Center
ORLANDO, FL
(888) 672-4386 I WWW.OSC.ORG
Dino Digs: Mysteries Unearthed

(ongoing) This exhibit features a reconstructed paleontological excavation
site and showcases eight complete and 12 partial dinosaurs,
as well as
other prehistoric land and sea animals and other fossils, in disparate land and aquatic settings.
ISSUE
#4
Lawrence Hall of Science
Outside the U.S.
BERKELEY, CA
(510) 642-5132 I WWW.LHS.BERKELEY.EDU
ChemMyster y (Feb. 7-August 12,

2004) Use
chromatography to analyze
inks;
match DNA
and fingerprint samples;
analyze liquids, powders,
and
crystals; conduct smell
tests; perform handwriting analysis; and
much more.
Canadian Museum of Civilization

GATINEAU, QUEBEC, CANADA
(800) 555-5621 I WWW.CIVILIZATION.CA
Ancient Treasures and the Dead Sea

Scrolls (through April 12, 2004) This
exhibit presents rare artifacts
that
reveal aspects
of life during
ancient times,
including details of daily life, religion,
music, the evolution of writing, dietary
practices, trade, and the roles of women
and children. See archaeological discoveries made during the past 100 years at
major sites, such as those in Jerusalem,
Massada, Arad, Beit Shemesh, and other
cities of the Biblical and Roman eras.
CAROL MEANS
BOSTON, MA
some of which have

never been seen outside
Egypt, including a lifesized reconstruction of
the burial chamber of the
New Kingdom pharaoh
Thutmose III.
ISRAEL MUSEUM, JERUSALEM
Museum of Science
BP AT CA SCIENCE CENTER
East Coast
Mysteries on Exhibit
Ontario Science Center

TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
(416) 696-1000 I WWW.ONTARIOSCIENCECENTRE.CA
Cosmic Questions: Our Place in Space

and Time (Feb. 1-Sept. 15, 2004)
Explore the latest on unsolved cosmic
mysteries, such as black holes and
extraterrestrial life, and discover what it
is like to be a modern astronomer. Highlights include an object theater, a cosmic
ray cloud chamber, interactive murals, a
video fly-through of the universe, and
interactive computer stations that take
visitors behind the scenes of modern cosmological science. z
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Archaeological Finds
Archaeological Finds
Britains Chalk Men

Not So Ancient After All
I
Excavations in West Sussex
have sparked controversy
about the exact age of
Englands chalk figure,
the 226-foot-tall Long
Man of Wilmington.
by Lise Hull
n October, 2003, Dr. Martin Bell,
professor of environmental and
geoarchaeology at Englands Reading University, revealed that scientific
tests done on the chalk deposits and
fragments of brick recovered near Wilmington, England, may actually date to
the 16th century rather than to prehistory, as previously supposed.
Archaeologists from the Mid-Sussex
Field Archaeology Team excavated the
base of the site on Windover Hill, looking at the hillwash deposits that had
accumulated below the figure in order
to date the Long Man. The group first
used heavy machinery to dig a trench
into the debris heaped near the giants
chalk-traced feet. They then widened
the trench by digging an extra 1/2
meter by hand. Embedded in the sediment were pieces of pottery, flint, and
brick, and the layer of soil was tentatively dated to the mid-16th century AD.
The plain outline of the giant male figure holding a staff in each hand has long
been the subject of speculation about

who built it, when it was first created,
and what purpose it served. Some scholars have suggested that the Long Man
represented the Norse god Odin; Constantine, the Holy Roman Emperor; or a
fertility symbol. Others have suggested
that he depicted the Saxon leader
Beowulf, a Hindu or Roman god, the
prophet Mohammed, or the Christian
St. Paul. When overgrown, the figure has
also been called the Green Man. In fact,
during World War II, the site was painted over in green to prevent its use as a
target for German bombs.
Whatever the Long Mans exact identity, his existence has been documented
since 1710, when surveyor John Rowley
drew facial features on the giant. Other
drawings and resistivity surveys conducted in 1969 revealed that the outline itself
has changed over time. Before 1874,
when the Long Mans outline was reset
in yellow brick, the original figure was
more an indentation in the grass that was
visible only in certain lighting situations,
rather than deliberately formed with
stone or extensive clearance of the grassy
surface. During the restoration work,
fragments of Roman brick were apparently discovered which, at the time,
seemed to imply that the hill-figure
dated to Britains Roman era.
Doubting Dates
he new 16th-century date for the
Long Man of Wilmington calls
into doubt the age of the only
other human hill-figure carved in southern Englandthe Cerne Abbas Giant.
Located about eight miles nor th of
Dorchester near the village of Cerne
Abbas, the mammoth, club-wielding figure has some similarities to the Long
Man of Wilmington, but is quite evidently male (thanks to the bold carving
of his genitalia).
His physical attributes have convinced
many people that the Cerne Abbas Giant
erence to this chalk figure dates to the

17th century, which lends support to
the notion that both the Cerne Abbas
Giant and the Long Man of Wilmington
are modern creations rather than
ancient curiosities.
Despite the new archaeological evidence to the contrary, debate continues
over the age of the Long Man. Whether
or not the two chalk men of the South
Downs date to the modern era or to
more ancient times, their survival would
not be possible without the laborious
efforts of the locals, who periodically
scour the outline of the figures, removing bracken and litter to reveal the
gleaming white chalk underneath. z
The Rude Man, or the Cerne Abbas
Giant, is also now considered to have
been created in the 16th century.
(also known as the Rude Man) is

some sort of fertility symbol, and scores
of visitors over the years have journeyed
up the hillside in hopes of experiencing
the mysterious power that is said to
exude from the figure.
While long believed to be of Roman
or Celtic origins (or created by some
wayward local boys in more recent
times), the first known documented ref-
Visitors wishing to see the Long Man up

close may do so by following one of the public footpaths that leads to the base and
head of the figure. Parking is possible
near the remains of Wilmington Priory
in the village of Wilmington, and trail
heads lead from the car park to the giant
chalk figure.
The Cerne Abbas Giant stands just
nor th of the pretty village of the same
name. A parking lot is provided for travelers to stop and have a look. A trek to the site
itself is also possible.
T
Bell believes the recent date of the Long Man may indicate that a significant slump of
soil took place about 500 years ago, a slump which coincided with the clearance of land
to begin construction on the chalk figure.
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Unlike the other chalk figures, archaeological research on the famous Uffington White
Horse near Swindon, England, has determined that the stylized white horse dates to
about 1,000 BC, which suggests it may well be Celtic in origin.
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Urban Legends
Urban Legends
When Urban Legends Turn Ugly

Fear and hatred are often a
breeding ground for urban
legends. The results are often
tragic and the cause of even
more fear and violence.
by Charles Rammelkamp
e often think of urban legends as essentially harmless
tales that have captured the
popular imagination. However, some
urban legends veer into superstition and
prejudice when various attitudes, beliefs,
and behaviors are attributed to a particular group of people. One group that has
been subject to this sort of urban legend
is the Jews, who have been vilified over
the centuries for many imaginary crimes.
The Jewish Kosher Tax

here do urban legends end
and malicious lies begin?
Take, for instance, the claim
that there is a secret tax on food either
labeled with a K, a lowercase u
inside a circle, or by the word pareve.
How this tax works is unclear since taxes
are collected by the government, but
such details seem irrelevant to those who
believe that Jews are inherently greedy.
Rather, these symbols indicate that the
contents of the package were prepared in
accordance with Jewish dietary laws. The
K means kosher while the lowercase
u in a circle refers to the Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations, under
whose auspices the food has been
inspected and certified.
Similarly, the Yiddish word
p a r e v e
Occasionally, the claim about

a Jewish secret tax has been
printed on stickers and stuck
onto packages or shelves,
urging people to Boycott
the Kosher Tax!
means that the food is free from any animal by-products and thus, can be eaten
with meat or dairy (in Jewish law, meat
and milk must not be mixed). The organizations which provide the certification
do, indeed, charge a modest fee for their
services, but the cost of kosher certification that is passed onto the consumer is
negligible.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
he Protocols of the Elders of Zion,
purportedly the text of discussions among Jewish leaders that
describe how Jews plan to take over the
world by enslaving non-Jews, constitutes another insidious urban legend
about Jews. Yet according to historian
Benjamin Segel, the Protocols were fabricated in Paris at the end of the 19th
centur y under the super vision of the
Russian Okhrana (the Czars secret
police) as a propaganda tool to stir up
anti-Semitic sentiment.
The first known publication of the
Protocols was in the Russian newspaper
Znamia in 1903. In 1917, they were
published again, this time attributed to
Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern
Zionism, the Jewish nationalist movement. This was a time of political turmoil
in Russia, and a Jewish
scapegoat was welcomed
under such circumstances,
to direct popular hostility
away from those in
power.
Two years later, the
Protocols were distributed to members
of the US cabinet and
in 1920, Henry Ford
printed them in his
newspaper The Dearborn Independent as proof that Jews and Communists were trying to take over the world.
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Even today, many believe that the Holocaust, in which some six million Jews were killed in
Nazi death camps, is just a falsehood perpetuated by Zionists in order to discredit Germany.
However, in 1921, Philip Graves, a

reporter for the London Times, discovered that the Protocols had been plagiarized from two sourcesan 1864 satire
of the French ruler Napoleon III by
Parisian lawyer Maurice Joly (entitled
Dialogue between Machiavelli and Montesquieu in Hell) and Biarritz, an 1868
novel by German anti-Semite Hermann
Goedsche. Graves debunked the Protocols in a long series of point-by-point
refutations, after which a South African
court ruled them a forgery and a Swiss
court declared them a fraud. Subsequently, in 1927, Henry Ford publicly
retracted his statement about the Protocols, and apologized for his diatribes,
claiming his assistants had fed him false
information.
But by then the damage had been
done. In 1933, excerpts from the Protocols were used by Fascists in the Romanian parliament as a reason to expel Jews
from the country. Adolf Hitler cited the
Protocols in Mein Kampf, the influential
anti-Semitic autobiography he wrote in
prison in the 1920s. General Francisco
Franco, the Fascist dictator of Spain, also
referred to the Protocols when denouncing the Jews in the 1930s and 40s.
The Protocols are also believed to be
used today as proof that Israels designs
on the Middle East go beyond the Palestinian territories. In fact, they have been
published in Arabic, distributed to local
populations by Islamic groups with government sponsorship, and even promoted as true on Egyptian television, as
recently as the spring of 2003.
The Holocaust Was a Lie
imilarly, denial of the Holocaust is
used to both demonize and trivialize Jews, essentially calling them
liars who are only trying to gain sympathy for themselves as victims by spreading falsehoods about WWIIs Nazi death
camps. Holocaust deniers claim that the
systematic slaughter of six million European Jews did not really happen, or certainly not on the scale that was reported.
These denials began in 1947 when
Maurice Bardche, a French fascist, suggested that much of the evidence about
the extermination camps were fabricated
and that any deaths in the camps was
attributable to disease and starvation.

Later, scores of books, such as David
Hoggans The Myth of the Six Million
(1969), claimed that the Holocaust was
invented by Zionists in order to discredit
Germanys attempts to maintain national
identity and racial purity.
The issue naturally arouses strong
emotions on all sides, and several famous
court cases have been ajudicated on this
very matter. The most famous occurred
in the 1990s, when British historian
David Irving, author of various books on
Hitler, sued Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, professor of Modern Jewish
and Holocaust Studies at Georgias
Emory University for libel, when she
outed him as a Holocaust denier. Lipstadt won the trial when Ir ving was
found to have used pseudoscientific evidence to misrepresent historical evidence
in his books.
Jesus Killed by Jews
he New Testament Gospels have
been a source of much misunderstanding, with the medieval
Church portraying Jesus a a Christian
who was killed by Jews. Rather, Jesus was
a Jew whom the Romans killed in
response to the political intrigues of the
Sanhedrin. In fact, miracle plays of the
Middle Ages incited pogroms against
Jews by showing, onstage, the drama of
Christs final days and his gleeful murder
by Jews, who were usually portrayed with
devil horns and tails. After the performance of such plays, European peasants
would go on violent rampages against
Jews, destroying property, raping, and
killing, all in an act of revenge.
Though they can be benign and
amusing, some urban legends have been
used to reinforce stereotypes, which has
often led to violence. We should always
tr y to separate verifiable truth from
unsubstantiated rumor when it comes
to leveling serious accusations at groups
or individuals. z
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Mysteries of Science
Mysteries of Science
Wanting to Believe
The Science Behind Repressed Memory Syndrome
Recent research shows that the
remembrances of those who
claim to have been kidnapped
by aliens may, in fact, be their
minds playing tricks on them.
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by Ken Mondschein
ou are sure it happened. After all,
you can remember it just as well
as you can remember walking
down the aisle for your high school
graduation or passing your drivers test.
You were sound asleep in bed when suddenly you awoke, paralyzed. Then there was the
sensation of unworldly,
shadowy forms surrounding you, and transporting
you to a brightly lit room
where you were experimented upon. You have
experienced alien abduction first-handor have
you?
According to Susan
Clancy, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvards psychology department, the vivid
remembrances of some
people who claim to have
been kidnapped by aliens
as well as experienced
Satanic rituals or other
abuses may, in fact, be
their minds playing tricks
on them.
Clancy is a researcher
specializing in memory,
that process by which we
order our lives into a
coherent picture, construct histories and narratives for ourselves, and
derive our sense of who
we are. In some cases,
though, Clancy has found
that our memories can lie,
leading us to believe
things happened when, in reality, they

did not. Such, she believes, is often the
case in recovered memory syndrome,
in which patients, under hypnosis,
remember incidents from their past.
The idea that we can forget and then
spontaneously remember incidents
from our past was first popularized in
the 1920s by Sigmund Freud, who
believed that some memories were so
painful for the conscious mind to deal
with that they were relegated to the
subconscious, where they emerged as
neurotic behavior. The classical example
of this was the Oedipal/Elektra complex, in which a childs unacceptable
desire for the mother or father was suppressed. By recognizing and talking
through the memories, it was thought
that the neurotic behavior could be
cured. Accordingly, legions of psychiatrists have made a career out of recovering repressed memories.
It is interesting to note, however,
that the forms that such memories take
var y with the times. For instance,
beginning in the early 1980s, one classic form of these memories was sexual
abuse, often in the context of a supposed vast, underground Satanic cult
that engaged in orgiastic ceremonies
and ritual murder. One of the most
infamous cases of false memory was the
McMartin Preschool incident in the
early 1980s, in which the staff of a family-run day-care center became the victims of a witchhunt brought on by a
mentally unbalanced parent.
At the prompting of investigators, the
children at the school wove an elaborate
tale of secret tunnels, occult rites, and
ritualized abuse. As the fantastical and
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In the early 1980s, the owners of the McMartin Preschool were charged with ritual sexual
abuse of their students, a charge that was ultimately proved to be false.
improbable details of the case spread,

hundreds more people suddenly began
reporting memories of almost identical
abuse. Yet despite the widespread testimonies of infant murder, cannibalism,
and sexual abuse, no concrete evidence
of an organized network of Satan-worshipers ever emerged.
Succombing to Suggestion
hough repressed memories are a
standard feature in much psychiatric literature, there is not much
empirical evidence to support it. Susan
Clancy, on the other hand, does have
evidence. Using a Deese/RoedigerMcDermott test, subjects were asked to
study lists of related words, such as
brownie, cookie, and cake, and
then were quizzed on their contents.
Time and again, those who believed they
had recovered memories were more likely to have recalled seeing words on the
list such as sweet, that were related to
but were not, in fact, among the words
on the list.
The implication was that that these
women were more susceptible to suggestion, and that perhaps the abuse they
believed had really happened to them

was, in fact, described by therapists,
peers, or the media, and then claimed
later as bona fide memories. Repressed
memories, in short, seem to be a sort of
mental optical illusion.
Clancys work, however, brought her
to difficult ideological grounds. Not
only is recovering repressed memories a
standard part of many psychiatrists toolboxes, but many feminists were quick to
denounce her work as belittling the
problem of actual child sexual abuse.
Some, in fact, even hold that most every
woman in our society has been abused at
some point or another and that recovered-memor y therapy validates their
beliefs. Moreover, many victims themselves, who had constructed entire personal narratives around their recovered
memories, claim that her conclusions
belittle their experiences.
Faced by these controversies, Clancy
moved to what she thought would be a
less ideologically tainted subject: people
who believe they have been abducted by
UFOs. Once again, she found that those
who claimed to have experienced alien
visitations scored higher on the
Deese/Roediger-McDermott test. Her

hypothesis was once again supported,
but as far as her idea of choosing a less
controversial topic went, she was dead
wrong.
The worldview that continues to be
more or less dominant in Western society. radically separates the objective
from the subjective domains, writes
John E. Mack, a Harvard psychologist,
fervent believer of alien contacts with
humans and one of Clancys foremost
detractors. He then goes on to say,
Unless the presence of beings, or any
other intelligence can be proven to
exist by this method, reports of such
encounters can be dismissed out of
hand or relegated to the purgatory of
the subjective.
In other words, just because something cannot be proven true in a laboratory does not mean it is not so. Those
who believe they have been contacted by
aliens may be experiencing a different
sort of truth, one that transcends our
modern, rational way of thinking. (The
entire article, Witnessing: Abductees as
Sacred Truth-Tellers, is available at
www.centerchange.org/ passport/witnessingsacredtruth.html.)
Mack is not the only one who doubts
Clancys experiments. It is quite a
stretch, after all, to extrapolate the results
of a word-association test to such complex phenomena as alien abduction and
ritual abuse. Nor is there any conclusive
proof of causes and effects; perhaps those
traumatized by such events are more
likely to score higher on Clancys tests.
Certain phenomena, such as ritual
abuse, is not real but rather is created by
a sort of mass delusion. But other experiences are not so easily explained away.
After all, thousands of people believe
that they have experienced extraordinary, life-changing events. With such
emotional stakes, the mystery of false
memory is not likely to be solved any
time soon. z
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Haunted Heritage
Haunted Heritage
Scotlands Accursed Fyvie Castle

One of Scotlands most
majestic castles, Fyvie
has withstood curses
and hauntings for
well over 700 years.
Fyvie Castles Great

Wheel Staircase, at
the top of which Lady
Lilias Drummond was
imprisoned. Her ghost
is said to now haunt
these stairs.
by Lise Hull
yvie Castles lengthy past is filled
with tumult, resulting not from
warfare but rather from the curse
of prophet Thomas the Rhymer, and the
activities of numerous ghosts which
reportedly have been sighted at the castle
over the centuries.
During the 13th century, Thomas of
Ercildoune roamed the countr yside
around medieval Melrose Abbey, in the
Scottish borders. There, the story goes,
Thomas encountered the Queen of the

Fairies and became her lover. After
spending seven years in Elfland, he parted from the Fair y Queen at the legendary Eildon Tree, but only after she
had bestowed magical powers upon him,
including the power of prophesy.
Accordingly, he became known as
Thomas the Rhymer.
A temperamental man, Thomas the
Rhymer made his living as a minstrel,
poet, and prophet. He is said to have
prophesied many critical events in Scotlands history, among them the Battle of
Bannockburn (1314) and the accession
of King James VI of Scotland to the
English throne in 1603.
On one occasion, Thomas announced
his intention to visit Fyvie Castle. For
seven years, the castles owners kept the
gates open in order to welcome the
prophet but as Thomas finally made his
way to the castle entrance, a fierce storm
blew closed the heavy timber doors, barring his passage. In retaliation for this
insult, the Seer cursed the castle and its
owners, proclaiming that no eldest son
would ever inherit Fyvie Castle until three
weeping stones were found and placed
together.
Fyvies Accursed Stones
ccording to some tales, the three
accursed stones were situated
each in the ladies bower
(boudoir), the water-yett (water gate),
and another chamber in the castle.
(Some claim the third stone had fallen
into a nearby stream, never to be recovered.) Some say the three stones came
from the nearby church; others claim
they were boundary stones intended for
use in the castles construction. Unfortunately for the lords of Fyvie Castle, only
one of the stones was ever recovered. It is
said that enough water seeps through
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intermittantly to fill the bowl in which it

now rests inside the castle.
Indeed, since 1433, no eldest son has
inherited Fyvie Castle from his father.
While some heirs died untimely deaths,
some lairds, such as Alexander Seton,
never had sons to inherit the property.
Still others, such as James Seton, the
fourth Earl of Dunfermline, lost their
inheritance for political reasons.
In more recent times, the Leith and
Forbes-Leith family also fell afoul of the
Rhymers curse. Alexander, the first Lord
Leith, was an American who acquired
the castle in the late 19th century. Upon
the death of Lord Leiths eldest son in
1900 in the Boer War, the lords daughter Ethel became his primary heir. Her
eldest son was killed in World War I, so,
when Lord Leith died, the castle and
estates passed to Ethels youngest son
Ian. In 1949, Ians eldest son died in
Malaysia, so the castle was inherited by
the second son, Sir Andrew ForbesLeith, who sold it to the National Trust
for Scotland in 1984.
Mishaps and Castle Ghosts
homas the Rhymers curse may
have manifested itself in a number of other ways as well, for the
history of Fyvie Castle is rife with mysterious mishaps. Another curse is said to
have befallen any lord who entered the
secret chamber beneath the Charter
Room in the Meldrum Tower, the
administrative office and strong room.
Upon entering the room, so the tale
goes, not only would the lord die, but
his wife would go blind.
At the start of the 19th century, General Gordon forced his way into the
secret chamber. The generals wife went
blind, and he dropped dead soon after.
(The medical cause of the afflictions
remains a myster y, but most people
believe they resulted from the curse.)
Then in the 1880s, Sir Maurice DuffGordon (General Gordons descendant)
failed to heed the warning and ordered
the chamber torn open. Almost immediately, he fell and broke his leg and his
wife developed an affliction of the eyes.
He promptly stopped the work on the
secret vault.
For decades, people also have reported seeing ghosts roaming the castles
corridors. The most notorious apparition is the Green Lady, said to be the
ghost of Lady Lilias Drummond, the
second wife of Sir Alexander Seton, first
Earl of Dunfermline, who purchased
the castle from the Meldrum family in
the late 16th century.
For a time, Sir Alexander reportedly
imprisoned his wife in a tiny chamber at
the top of the Great Wheel Staircase, evidently so he could carry on with a local
lass, who might provide the male heirs
Lilias had failed to accomplish. After Lilias went mad from the isolation, he
locked her in one of the bedrooms where
she starved to death.
Shortly thereafter, Sir Alexander married his lover Lady Grizel Leslie. During
the night, the couple heard noises that
sounded like loud sighs outside their
bedroom window. Interpreting them as
gusts of wind, the couple ignored the
sounds. The next morning, so the story
goes, they discovered the skillfully carved

name D. Lilias Drummond, upsidedown on the stone windowsill.
Another ghost, the so-called Grey
Lady, is also said to haunt Fyvie Castle.
While there are some similarities to the
Green Lady, the Grey Lady is thought to
be the spirit of the wife of another lord.
In the 1920s, workmen renovating the
castle tore down a moldy bedroom wall
only to discover a womans skeleton! Out
of respect, they gave the skeleton a proper burial in the local cemetery and only
then did the Grey Lady appear at the castle. Stories claim that the hauntings were
so intense that the lord of Fyvie Castle reinterred the skeleton behind the bedroom wall, trying to undo any damage
that had been caused by her burial. Afterwards, the hauntings ceased.
The ghost of Agnes Smith, daughter of
a local miller, also wanders the castle,
seeking her lost lover Andrew Lammie,
Fyvies trumpeter. Stories vary on how
the couple was separated. One account
claims that the girl was beaten to death
by her own kinsmen to prevent her from
running off with Andrew while another
tale says that the trumpeter was banished
to Edinburgh so that he would no longer
have contact with his beloved. On a few
occasions, Agnes ghost has been sighted
at the castle along with that of Andrew,
who is seen blowing his horn whenever
the lord of the castle nears death.
Both the weathered sandstone statue
of Agnes Smiths lover perched on the
rooftop of Fyvie Castle and the Great
Wheel Staircase, where poor Lilias
Drummond died, are physical reminders
of the curse left on the castle by Thomas
the Rhymer so long ago. z
Located 27 miles northwest of Aberdeen,
Fyvie Castle is one mile north of Fyvie village, just off the A947 and eight miles
north of the A920. Fyvie Castle is open to
the public for a fee and the gardens are
open daily throughout the year.
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Profiles in Evil
PRINCE VLAD
THE
I M PA L E R
The Man Behind the Legend

Count Dracula pales
when compared to his
fictional namesake, one of
the most evil men ever to
terrorize a nationPrince
Vlad III of Wallachia.
by Marc Cramer
hanks to the pen of Bram Stoker
and Hollywoods machinations,
Dracula has become a modern
legend, an archetype of evil. But the reality behind the image is more chilling
than any fostered by fiction or film. For
Hollywoods depiction of the man pales
alongside the atrocities of the 15th-century tyrant who sat on the throne of Wallachia, one of the three former principalities that comprise modern Romania.
Prince Vlad III the Impaler, known
to history as Dracula (meaning son of
the dragon, as his father was a member
of the Order of the Dragon), murdered anywhere between
40,000 and
100,000
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people, by plunging oiled, 12-foot

stakes up his victims rectums until the
tips protruded from their mouths or the
back of their necks.
Like crucifixion, impalement was a
slow and agonizing death, and Dracula
spared no one, regardless of rank.
Thieves, adulterous women, beggars,
enemies (real and imagined), even children suffered the horrors of impalement.
Prince Vlad undoubtedly derived gratification from inflicting suffering, as he even
dined below a field where hundreds of
victims hung from 12-foot stakes, some
dying, others already dead and rotting.
Draculas Short-Lived Glory
n ugly man with bulging eyes,
ungainly features, and a thick
upper lip par tly covered by a
thick moustache, Vlad was born in
December of 1431. Both he and his
brother Radu were educated by his
mother. eh may have been a Transylvanian noble. Young Dracula began his training as a warrior under a boyar, or land
baron, a hardened veteran of the ongoing
war against the Muslim Turks.
A year after Draculas father ascended
the Wallachian throne, 13-year-old Vlad
and his brother Radu were sent to Turkey
as hostages. After four years, Vlads father
was murdered, and Vladislav II, a puppet
who answered to the Hungarians,
ascended the throne, to the displeasure of
the Turks.
Believing that young Vlad would
remain loyal to the Turks, Dracula was
released and given an army to drive out
the Hungarians. The campaign succeeded and Vlad ruled for two months before
Hungarian forces routed him.
In 1456, Dracula once again invaded
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raculas reign was one of bloodthirsty tyranny and sadism. After

reclaiming the throne in 1456,
he invited the countrys poor, sick, and
elderly to a grand banquet, promising
that he would free them of their troubles. While the diners waited for the
meal, Draculas henchmen sealed the
doors and burned the building to the
ground. I did this, said Vlad, so that
no one would be poor in my realm.
On another occasion, 500 boyars
were summoned to Draculas castle,
some were pressed into labor but the
majority had their lands seized and suffered impalement.
No method of punishment was too
severe for the mad ruler. He ordered
his disloyal subjects to be skinned
alive, and captive Mongol raiders were
boiled in huge vats of oil. Merchants
who cheated customers, unfaithful
wives, and offensive children died on
the stake. When two ambassadors
refused to remove their hats in deference to the draconic tyrant, Dracula
ordered their hats to be nailed to their
heads, saying Ver y well, he said, if
you value your hats so much you need
not take them off ever again.
Vlads explosiveness and brutality
proved unbearable for his long-suffering wife, who eventually jumped to her
death from a castle tower.
MARC CRAMER
Wallachia, regained his throne, and

established his capital at Tirgoviste.
When the Turks learned that Dracula
would not live up to his promise of allegiance to the sultan, they sent an
Ottoman army to overthrow him. But as
they approached Tirgoviste they gazed
upon 20,000 impaled bodies, a veritable
forest of the dead and dying. We can do
nothing against a man like this, the
Turkish commander is said to have proclaimed before retreating.
Next, Dracula led his army, which was
outnumbered three to one, to drive the
Turks from the Danube Valley. Howev-
Vlads headless corpse was buried in a

vault in the monastery on the small island
of Snagov (left). Interestingly, in 1931,
Draculas tomb was opened. Except for
a handful of whitish dust, the vault was
empty. Even so, his grave is still a
pilgrimage site (above), for modern
vampire fans.
er, in 1462, the Turkish forces of Sultan

Mehmed II defeated Vlad. As an infuriated Dracula returned to his capital, he
systematically poisoned wells and
burned villages to the ground to deny
the pursuing Turks food or water.
When he sought help from Matthias
Corvinus, Hungarys new king, Dracula
was immediately imprisoned in a tower.
But after four years of internment, he was
allowed to live in a house under the
kings watchful eye. There, he amused
himself by impaling rodents and birds
while his brother Radu, who had spent
most of his life in Turkey, sat on the Wallachian throne.
However, after Radu was overthrown
in 1473 and died, possibly of syphilis,
two years later, Dracula, now intoxicated
by the prospect of restoring his lost

power, invaded Wallachia and routed its
new ruler, Prince Basarab the Old. But
Draculas glor y was short-lived. The
Turks invaded Bucharest in 1476 and
Vlad, disguised as a Turk to confuse the
enemy, led his men into battle, where he
was killed, some say at the hands of his
own men.
After his death, his head was brought
back to the sultan and proudly displayed
on a pike. His headless corpse was then
buried in a vault in the monastery on the
small island of Snagov.
Although all that remains of the historical Dracula is a legacy of cruelty, to
modern Romanians, he is venerated as a
national hero who fought to liberate his
country from the infidel Turk. However,
the truth about the real Dracula is far
more disturbing, for not even the Victorian authors pen could conjure up a
monster more evil than Prince Vlad III,
the real Dracula. z
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Real Roots Story Found

on Wreck of Slaveship
he discovery of the remains of a
Spanish slave ship the Trouvadore, which was wrecked on a
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This image shows Africans raking salt, the

work they performed during their first year
of freedom. The old prison is in the background.
West Indies reef in 1841 while bound for

Cuba, is providing the British colony of
Turks and Caicos with a rare link to its
African roots.
Historical accounts show that all but
one of 193 African men and women
aboard the Trouvadore survived. Slavery
had been abolished in British colonies by
1841, so the Africans went free after a
year of apprenticeship in the islands
salt industry. Archivists and archaeologists say that many of the 20,000 residents of the Turks and Caicos are their
direct descendants and, although many
residents of the Caribbean trace their
ancestry to Africa, few populations are so
closely tied to a single accident of history.
Now that scholars know the place of
origin and final destination of the
wrecked ship, they hope to find other
ties between the people of Turks and
Caicos and West Africa.
Experts say that the lack of anything
of commercial value aboard the Trouvadore may have helped protect the
wreckand the lost roots of the
colonyfrom treasure hunters.
CSS Virginia vs. USS Monitor
n May of 2003, a remote-sensing
survey located the wreckage of the
CSS Virginia, a Confederate iron-
clad warship that is commonly identified

as the Merrimack, which fought its
Union counterpart, the USS Monitor, to
a draw in a March, 1862 battle.
The Virginia, which was built on part
of a salvaged Union sailing ship, the USS
Merrimack, met the Monitor near
Hampton Roads, VA in the first clash of
wooden ships armored with iron plates
to repel canon balls, a four-hour-long
battle that was erroneously recorded in
history books as The Battle of the Merrimack and the Monitor.
Two months after the battle, the Virginia ran aground in the Elizabeth River
near Portsmouth, VA. After the crew was
evacuated, 16,000 pounds of gunpowder
in the ships magazine was detonated to
prevent its capture. Salvagers later
stripped the vessel, removing two boilers

and parts of the wooden hull. Although
several parts, including the wheel, were
carried off to museums, sections of the
Virginia survived underwater.
The Monitor sank 16 miles off the
coast of Cape Hatteras, NC at the end of
1862, resting upside-down in 240 feet
of water. Its turret and other parts were
raised in August of 2002.
The survey was performed in preparation for the construction of a proposed
marine terminal in the river. Federal and
state laws require that any remains of the
Virginia be removed before any dredging or construction can begin.
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Shipwreck May be
Blackbeards Last Victim
rchaeologists are investigating
whether a burned shipwreck
found in July of 2003 in Ocracoke Inlet, along the barrier islands of
Nor th Carolinas coast, may be the
remains of the last ship captured by the
pirate Blackbeard.
Historical documents show that
Blackbeard captured two ships off the
coast
of
Bermuda in
August
of
1718. One
carried sugar
and the other
was nearly
empty. Blackbeard allowed
the
ships
crews to keep
the empty vessel, but took the full one to
Ocracoke Island, where he stripped the
ship of its valuables and then set it on
fire. Virginia Governor Alexander
Spottswood sent British troops after
Blackbeard soon after wards and the
pirate died in a battle off the island on
November 22, 1718.
Officials are also investigating the possibility that the wreckage is a Civil Warera lightship, used in the 19th century to
light the way in and out of inlets and
burned along with Fort Ocracoke as
Union forces approached.
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Treasures from the Deep
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Nazi Warships
Resurface on the Danube
ersistent drought and a prolonged
heat wave in Europe during the
summer of 2002 caused the
Danube River, one of Europes main
waterways, to fall to its lowest levels in
more than a century. As it did, it exposed
a mass of Nazi hardware that retreating
German forces deliberately sank in the
river to impede the progress of advancing Soviet forces.
At Prahovo, Serbia, near the Romanian border, the main channel of the river
was temporarily blocked by an old battleship with a rotating canon platform
and metal shell holders. The vessel is one
of 130 ships that the Germans loaded
with explosives and blew up in rows as
they fled, covering the Danubes width
to slow down the Soviet fleet, which
pounded the retreating Nazi forces with
artillery. Some of the ships were pulled
from the river 30 years ago when Romania and Serbia began construction of the
nearby Djerdap Dam, but dozens remain
under water and sections of the upper
decks of some, including a German hospital ship, are now visible.
Farther down the shrinking river near
Batina, Croatia, the scene of a pivotal
1944 battle between the Soviet army
and the retreating Germans, local residents pulled a German military jeep and
other vehicles from the murky bottom of
the river, which was only three feet deep
in some places. They also recovered
smaller artifacts, such as rifles, ammunition, and gas cans painted with swastikas.
Authorities warned boaters of the
obvious danger and even suspended
some service because of the threat of
unexploded ammunition.
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18th-Century British Troop

Ship Found in the Caribbean
n July 2003, divers conducting an
archaeological sur vey in St. Kitts
identified the remains of a 1740s
English troop ship that experts say is an
important example of pre-1760s ship
construction.
During five weeks of surveying and
excavating the site, divers uncovered
more than 60 feet of massive timbers
from part of the lower hull arrange-
ments of the bow section as far as the

main mast.
Scholars, who believe that the ship
may have been sunk during the Battle
of Frigate Bay in 1782, know that it was
built before 1760 because it was constructed using wooden trunnels and
had iron keel bolts, but no copper
sheeting, bolts, or nails. The military
nature of the vessel was confirmed after
buttons from 11 different regiments,
five iron cannon, and musketballs were
recovered. It is thought that several
cannon were looted from the site before
archaeologists began work.
More than 300 artifacts have been
recovered and will be conserved and displayed in the St. Kitts National Museum,
along with drawings and photographs of
the wreckage.
Anchor May Be Key
to Historic Shipwreck
n anchor and blue trading beads
raised by divers from the waters
of Clayoquot Sound, British
Columbia, in July of 2003, have led
archaeologists to a shipwreck that may
be the Tonquin, a fur-trading vessel that

established the first American settlement on the West Coast before meeting
a bloody end off Vancouver Island in
1811.
The wreck is believed to be the
remains of the 94-foot vessel launched
by John Jacob Astor as part of a grand
commercial scheme to loosen the grip of
the British and Russians on the Pacific
fur trade. The expedition, which established the town of Astoria at the mouth
of the Columbia River only six years after
Lewis and Clark first reached the Pacific,
was famously documented in Washington Irvings 1836 book Astoria.
According to Irving, while trading for
furs on the coast of Vancouver Island,
the ill-tempered captain of the Tonquin
slapped a local Indian chief with a seaotter pelt. Outraged Indians attacked the
ship the next day, massacring most of the
crew and setting fire to several tons of
gunpowder in the ships hold.
The Tonquin Foundation has been
formed to examine and preser ve the
wreck, which was discovered in April of
2003, after a crab-fishing trap fouled on
an exposed arm of the large wroughtiron anchor .
Swedish Divers Find
Lost Russian Sub
n August of 2003, Swedish divers
discovered the wreckage of a WWI
Russian submarine near the remote
island of Gotska Sandoen, of f the
southeast coast of Sweden in the Baltic
Sea. The vessel and its 30
crewmembers disappeared in July
of 1917. The vessel was assumed
to have collided with a mine near
the German-occupied por t of
Libau.
The submarine, which is less
than 100 feet long, was one of
three lost by the Russian Navy in
unexplained circumstances during
the summer of 1917. z
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Dudleytown
Today, Dudleytown looks much like it did

when Thomas Griffis first walked onto the
land some 260 years ago. Because its
dense growth, the forest was given the
ominous name of Dark Entry Forest.
A New England Ghost Town
N THE TOWN OF
C O R N WA L L
IN
northwestern Connecticut lie the
remains of Dudleytown, a small hamlet
that is the site of ghostly tales, unexplained
events, and curses. Founded by Thomas

Griffis in February of 1645, the town was
actually settled byand named afterthree
Dudley brothers, who moved there a few
years later. It was these brothers who also
purportedly brought over a curse from Eng-
KIM GUARNACCIA
land that has plagued the land ever since.
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JEFF BELANGER
The curse of Dudleytown allegedly

began in England in 1510, when
Edmund Dudley was beheaded for plotting to overthrow Englands King Henry
VIII. At the time of the beheading, a
curse, the specific root of which was
never documented, was placed on the
Dudleys for their treason, which stated
that all Dudleys from Edmund Dudleys
lineage would find themselves surrounded by horrors.
In the beginning, the curse seemed to
hold true. Edmund Dudleys son, John
Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, was
president of the powerful Privy Council.
When King Edward VI was diagnosed
with consumption in January of 1553,
Dudley saw an opportunity to seize the
crown and control the empire. As
Edwards illness progressed over the
coming months, Dudley pressured the
15-year-old king to declare Lady Jane
Grey, one of Edwards closest friends, as
his successor, rather than Edwards sisters, Mary and Elizabeth.
The Duke of Northumberland quickly
arranged a marriage between his 19year-old son Guilford and Lady Jane
Grey. A month and a half later on July
10, Edward died and Lady Jane Grey
was proclaimed Queen. The following
day, the Duke of Nor thumberland
arrested Edwards sister Mary, for treason. Yet during John Dudleys absence,
the Privy Council began to question his
intentions. After holding a secret meeting, they declared Dudley a traitor and
Mary the rightful queen.
On July 19, Lady Jane Greys reign
ended, just nine days after it began. Both
Guilford Dudley and Lady Jane Grey
were arrested for treason and sentenced
to death by beheading, which was carried out on February 8, 1554.
John Dudleys other son Robert, Earl
of Leicester, was also implicated in the
plot and was sentenced to death for treason. Because of his close relationship
with Marys sister Elizabeth, he was pardoned in October of 1554. Dudley subsequently left the country to avoid any
backlash by Marys supporters.
In October of 1737, the Connecticut
Today, only cellar holes and a

few foundations remain of
Dudleytown. The roads have
become forest trails that
hikers and ghost hunters still
traverse, despite warnings
of trespassing fines.
General Assembly passed the Act for the

Ordering and Directing the Sale and Settlement of all the Townships in the Western
Lands, which allowed for 50 private
parcels of land from many western Connecticut towns to be divided and auctioned off. In February of 1745, Thomas
Griffis bought half a parcel of Cornwall
land from Eleazer Whittlesey of Wethersfield, CT.
In 1748, Gideon Dudley, believed by
some to have been descended from the
noble family, bought some land from
Griffis to star t a small farm in what
would soon become known as Dudleytown. By 1753, Gideons two brothers
Barzillai and Abiel also purchased land
nearby. A few years later, a Martin Dudley from Massachusetts also joined the
newly formed village.

Life and Death for the Carter Clan
esides the Dudleys, other families
soon moved into the village and
the area grew to a peak population of about 100 people.
From the beginning, the lives of the
citizens of Dudleytown ended in tragedy.
It star ted in 1759, when Nathaniel
Carter bought Abiel Dudleys house
after old Biel had become a ward of
the town due to dementia. Then, in
1763the final year of the French Indian WarCarter, his wife, and four of his
children decided to move near Binghamton, NY. Shortly after settling in their
new home, the Carters were attacked by
Indians. Mrs. Carters head was crushed
by a tomahawk, their infant was killed,
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and Nathaniel Carter was tomahawked

upon returning home from a hunting
excursion.
The Carter cabin was then burned,
and the Indians took the rest of the childrenSarah, Elizabeth, and Nathaniel,
Jr.hostage. The children were brought
to Canada, where the girls were ransomed to the British army for food,
supplies, and money. However,
Nathaniel, Jr. stayed among his captors.
He eventually married a Cherokee
woman and had a son named Ta-Wah in
1807. Ta-Wah attended the Indian Mission School in Cornwall, CT in 1819
and was christened David C. Carter.
David went on to become a Supreme
Court judge, editor of the Cherokee
Advocate newspaper, and was a life-long
supporter of Indian rights.
In August of 1774, Nathaniel Carters
brother Adoniram, and his family who
were still living in Dudleytown, were
struck by a cholera epidemic and the
entire family died.
However, one of the more bizarre
tragedies occurred to one of Cornwalls
most famous residents, General Heman
Swift, who served in the Revolutionary
War under George Washington. General

Swift and his wife lived at the end of Bald
Mountain Road, just beyond the land
that was Dudleytown. In April of 1804,
his wife Sarah Faye was struck by lightning on their front porch and killed.
Shortly after his wifes death, General
Swift reportedly went mad.
The next tragedy linked to the town
occurred in 1901. Shortly after Dudleytown resident John Patrick Brophys
wife died of consumption, his two children mysteriously disappeared in the
woods. The children had been stealing
sleigh robes in the area, and they were
on the run from the law. However, there
is no record of them after they left Dudleytown. Soon after, Brophys home
burned to the ground, perhaps set by
John Brophy himself, who was distraught over the loss of his wife and the
disgrace of his children. After the fire,
Brophy supposedly walked away from
Dudleytown, never to be seen again.
By 1901, the children who had grown
up in Dudleytown had all married and
moved away. The town became deserted
except for Dr. William Clarke, a cancer
specialist from New York City, who came
to Dudleytown on occasional weekends

for the quiet of the woods. Around
1903, Dr. Clarke built a rustic cabin out
of the hemlock tress he cleared from his
land on Dark Entry Road and he and his
wife Harriet began spending many
weekends there.
Even though Harriet was diagnosed
with a chronic illness in 1917, Dudleytown folklore says that she was attacked
by a specter in the woods and went mad
while her husband was in New York for
an emergency. In 1918, she took her
own life in her New York City home.
After the tragedy, Dr. Clarke often
brought his friends from New York to
visit his cabin, and during those visits,
several of his colleagues also became
enchanted with the land. In December
of 1924, Dr. Clarke and his friends
formed the Dark Entry Forest Association with a charter that the land would
remain forever wild.
Paranormal Accounts
er tainly, many things went
wrong for the people of Dudleytown. But were all of the events
unexplainable?
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It is known that the rocks in and

around Dudleytown contain a high level
of iron and other heavy metals, so it is
possible that there was some lead in the
drinking water on the hillside. This theory could explain some of the dementia
that area residents experienced. But
since continued lead poisoning is fatal, if
the water was indeed tainted, more residents should have died of poisoning over
the towns 150-year occupation.
It is also true that there were many
Native American tribes who lived in the
general vicinity of Dudleytown, including those of the Mohawk nation. There
was fallout from the Native Americans
for several years after the French-Indian
war (1754-63), and it is true that some
Dudleytown residents met their fate at
the hands of angered Mohawks. However, this still does not explain all of the
peculiar misfortunes and tragedies that
befell Dudleytown residents.
Whether or not Dudleytown was
cursed, many people believe that the area
is indeed haunted. Over the years,
covens of witches, cultists, and Devil
worshippers have performed rituals in
Dudleytown because they feel that the
land holds preternatural powersthat
the towns curse is actually spirit energy that can be tapped into. In fact, many
modern-day visitors to Dudleytown
claim to have witnessed something
supernatural in the deserted hollow.
For instance in July of 1998, Sarah
from Torrington, CT, went with some
friends to check out the so-called curse.
They drove up Bald Mountain Road
around 11:30 p.m. and parked their car
next to the entrance to one of the trails
leading into Dudleytown. They proceeded to get out of the car, grabbed their
flashlights and cameras, and star ted
walking down the trail, when they realized that they heard nothing. Dead
silenceno wind and no animal sounds.
They then heard a noise that sounded
like a metal dumpster being dragged
against asphalt.
After walking just a few yards, they
turned around and shined the flashlight
at the ground. Where they had just
walked were the words in huge letters,
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Devil worshipers and black witches still

perform rituals in and around Dudleytown.
NEVER RETURN... SATAN.

Another spooky occurrence happened
in the 1970s to Steve Firth, an off-road
motorcycle enthusiast, when riding with
a friend through Dudleytown. In a foundation he found the rotting carcass of a
dead horse. They then began to have
trouble with the trail. There were many
trees on both sides of the trail that had
fallen down in criss-cross patterns, even
though blow-downs from storms generally fall in the same direction. His riding
par tner commented to Fir th that it
seemed as if something did not want
them there.
Theories Behind the Curse

r. John F. Leich, a resident of
the area since 1952, however,
claims that he has never experienced anything paranormal about the
place, nor have the approximately 50
shareholders of the Dark Entry Forest
Association.
Local resident Reverend Gary Dudley
not only believes that there is no curse,
but that there is also no family connection between Joseph Dudley of Saybrook, CT, and the cursed Edmund
Dudley. According to Gary, Edmund
Dudleys son Robert, Earl of Leicester,
had three sons, one of whom was illegiti-
mate and died too young to marry. The

other sons moved to Italy, where they
remained. Thus, there is no genetic link
between Robert and the Dudleys who
eventually settled in Cornwall.
Rather, Rev. Dudley believes Dudleytowns ghosts may have been inspired by
the work of Iveagh Sterry and William
Garrigus, authors of the 1938 book They
Found a Way, a book that chronicled,
glorified, and possibly even exaggerated
stories of some of Connecticuts famous
people and places. They Found a Way was
written to demonstrate Yankee Ingenuity and the hard resolve of people from
the Nutmeg State. The ghost stories,
which were started in the late 1940s,
may have also been spread by young
men who wanted to drive up Dark Entry
Road with their girlfriends and tell them
a scary story.
However, Nancy Zeigler, a paranormal investigator from Watervliet, NY
and a Dudleytown regular, disagrees.
The people living in the Dark Entry
Forest have a vested interest in saying
there is nothing up there. Well, if
theres nothing up there, then why do
we get strange things on our photographs [orbs and ectoplasmic mists]?
she explains. Zeigler said of one of her
visits to Dudleytown, Ive been
slapped across the face and scratched
with no one standing there.
Regardless of whether or not there
was ever a curse on the town, Devil worshippers and black witches still perform
rituals in the area. Robin Boston Barron, a ghost hunter and Dudleytown historian, said that he once encountered the
bloody spine of a cow lying in one of the
cellar holes in Dudleytown, and which
appeared to have been sacrificed as part
of some ritual. Some rocks lying along
the trails have been painted or carved
with symbols, and several people have
been arrested for lighting fires or trespassing in the area.
Since 2000, the DEF no longer allows
hikers onto their land, and Dudleytown
is quiet once again. Still, the stories
remain, beckoning ghost-hunters and
thrill-seekers to see for themselves what
spirits may lie in the shadow of the Con-
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S AT U R D AY
afternoon in July of 1996,
Frank and his wife Carol
were visiting Liverpool,
England, for some shopping. At Central Station,
the pair split up; Carol
went to Dillons Bookshop and Frank
went to look for a CD store. As he
walked up the incline
toward Bold Street, Frank
suddenly noticed he had
entered a strange oasis of
quietness.
Suddenly, a small 1950s
van with Caplans written on its side, sped across
his path, honking its horn
as it narrowly missed him.
When he looked down, he
saw that he was unexpectedly standing in the road.
He then crossed the road and saw that
Dillons Bookshop now had Cripps
written over its entrance. More confused, he looked in to see not books but
womens handbags and shoes.
Looking around, Frank realized that
people were dressed in clothes which
appeared to be from the 1940s. Suddenly, he spotted a young woman dressed in
a lime-colored sleeveless top. The handbag she was carr ying had a popular
brand name on it, which reassured him
N A SUNNY
that maybe he was still partly in 1996.

Relieved, he followed the girl into
Cripps.
As the pair went inside, Frank
watched in amazement as the interior of
the building changed in a flash to that of
Dillons Bookshop. When the girl turned
to leave, Frank lightly grasped the girls
arm and said, Did you see that?
She replied, Yeah! I
thought it was a clothes
shop but its actually a
bookshop.
It was later determined
that Cripps and Caplans
were businesses based in
Liverpool during the 1950s.
Franks experience is not
that unusual in the realm of
strange phenomena. There
is even a name given to such
eventstime slipsan
event where it appears that some other
era has briefly intruded on the present.
A time slip seems to be spontaneous in
nature and localization, but there are
places which seem to be more prone
than others to time-slip events. Similarly,
some people may be more inclined to
experience time slips than others. If time
is the unmovable force that physicists
say that it is, then why do some people
have experiences that seem to flaunt this
concept?

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such as black holes could distort worldlines. Now if an object or persons

worldline were to be distorted so much
as to form a loop that connected with a
point on itself that represented an earlier
place and time, it could create a corridor
to the past.
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four-dimensional fabric known as

space-time. Gravity was reinterpreted
from a force to the movement of matter along the shortest space in a curved
space-time. Einstein postulated that
both space and time warp, as mass or
speed is increased. So if one traveled fast,
time would move more slowly and if one
increased the mass to near collapsible
levels, one would get the same effect. So
even in the relativistic realm, the rate of
time is not the same everywhere in the
universe or under all circumstances.
Einstein also postulated that spacetime consisted of points or events that
represent a particular place at a particular
time. Thus, a persons entire life formed
a sor t of twisting, turning worm in
space-time, where the tip of the worms
tail was a persons birth and its head,
death. Einstein called this line the
worldline.
Einstein predicted that massive bodies
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UConn physicist Ronald

Mallett believes that
he may hold the key
to time travel.
DEBORAH MALLETT
However, Newtons most important

contribution to science was his mathematical definition of how motion
changes with time. He showed that the
force of gravity is the same force that
drives planetary motions and produces
tides. Although Newton was puzzled by
the fact that gravity seemed to operate
instantaneously at a distance, he admitted that he did not understand how it
worked.
In fact, for Newton, space was a fixed,
infinite, unmoving metric against which
absolute motions could be measured.
Newton also believed that the universe
was pervaded by a single absolute time
that could be symbolized by an imaginar y clock of f somewhere in space.
However, Albert Einstein changed all
this with his relativity theories.
Part of what Einstein explained in his
theory of relativity was that time and
space were joined in our universe as a
Nevertheless, Ronald Mallett, a physicist

at the University of Connecticut,
believes he can build a time machine in
which circulating laser beams are slowed
down and then shot through anything
from fiberoptic cable to crystals. Since
Wormholes are essentially two

connecting black holes whose
mouths make up a tear in the
fabric of space-time. By stretching
a wormhole so that one mouth
extended light-years away from
the other, it could provide a
passageway to the past or future.
Much of ancient Greek philosophy

was concerned with understanding the
concept of eternity, and certainly the
subject of time is central to the worlds
religions and cultures. But can the flow
of time be stopped or slowed? Angelus
Silesius, a sixth-century philosopher and
poet, thought that the flow of time
could be suspended by mental powers:
Time is of your own making;
its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought,
time, too, stops dead.
In his famous Principia, Sir Isaac Newton recognized the need for a universal
flow of time. He believed that time,
which brought the future into the present and pushed the present into the past,
flowed at the same rate for all things. It is
the uniformity of this rate which gives
equations of motion that describe how
the positions of objects change as a function of values given to time.
What Physicists Say

ccording to Einstein, if one
could ride on a spacecraft that
traveled at about 450 million
miles per hour, a passenger would experience significantly slowed time. The
slowed time would not be noticeable to
the traveler, but once he returned to
Earth, he would find that those who
remained on Earth had aged at a faster
rate. So the travelers return is, in effect,
a one-way trip to the future.
Similarly, Einstein said that while a
spaceship approaching the speed of light
would theoretically slow time, traveling
at the speed of light would make it stand
still, and traveling faster than the speed
of light would reverse time.
However, there are significant obstacles to this method of time travel. Einstein showed that traveling at or faster
than the speed of light was impossible
because mass at these speeds becomes
infinite. Some scientists, such as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, have
even said that traveling back in time is
impossible. But others think there may
be a way to find shortcuts to the past.
In the late 1980s, Kip Thorne of the
University of California at Berkeley suggested that objects known as wormholes
existed in space. These objects were
essentially two connecting black holes
whose mouths made up a tear in the fabric of space-time. By finding a wormhole
and stretching it so that one mouth
extended light-years away from the
other, the wormhole could provide a
passageway to a past or future point on
the undulating river of time.
Although solving the complex problems associated with this kind of exotic
science is currently beyond our scientific
and technological know-how, is it totally
out of the realm of possibility?
Time machines to the past are projects only a super-civilization could

attempt, says Richard Gott, professor of
astrophysics at Princeton University. It
would require a civilization that has the
resources of the galaxy at its command.
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anything with mass or energy distorts

the space and the passage of time around
it, Mallett believes that this ring of light
will create a similar distortion that could
theoretically transport someone through
different times.
The professor and his UConn colleagues plan to build a device to test
whether it is possible to transport a subatomic particle, probably a neutron,
through time. The energy from a rotating laser beam, Mallett hopes, will warp
the space inside the ring of light so that
gravity will force the neutron to rotate
sideways. With even more energy, he
believes that a second neutron would
appear, which would essentially be the
first one visiting itself from the future.
Mallett says that sending a person
through time may require more energy
than physicists today know how to harness. Yet he sees this obstacle as an engineering problem. For if it is possible to
use light to send a neutron through
time, he believes it would not be long
before engineers figure out how to send
a person.
Two Sides of the Same Coin
ime travel, according to modern
scientific theor y, may still be
beyond our grasp. Yet for a number of people who have had unusual
time-slip experiences, time may be easier
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The coastal village of

Straithes, England, is one
place where time slips have
been known to occur.
the footpath opposite them, wearing

handmade black clothes with big, handsewn buttons. The light had also
dimmed and it immediately was colder
out. In the time it took Derek to turn to
his wife and say, Did you see that? the
old woman had disappeared and the sun
and all the people had returned.
Dereks wife had also seen the same old
woman and felt the same chill.
Dereks experience seems strikingly
similar to traditional ghost stories
where an individual appears out of his
normal location or time, accompanied
by a change in the surroundings of the
witness.
Time-Slip Trigger Factors
artin Jeffrey, co-editor of the
paranormal e-zine www.mysterymag.com, speculates that
time slips can be recreated or induced
using a trigger factor, that occurs
when one is interested in his surroundings but is not concentrating on them.
He cites the account of parapsychologist
and author Joan Forman, whose interest
in time slips took her to Haddon Hall in
Derbyshire, England.
Joan entered the courtyard of Haddon Hall, pausing to admire the architecture. Without warning, she saw a
group of four children playing at the top
of the stairs. A girl of about nine years
old caught her attention. She had shoulder-length blonde hair, and wore a white
Dutch hat and a long green-gray silk
dress with a white collar. Joan watched
the children playing in the yard, fully
aware that she was not seeing with the
physical eye, yet conscious of watching
real action.
After the episode, Joan decided to find
the identity of the oldest child and
entered the Hall to look at the family
portraits. In the middle of the ancestral
paintings hung a picture of the girl she
had seenLady Grace Manners, who
died in the 1640s.
What can be concluded, then, from
these anecdotal tales? Did these people
actually travel, albeit briefly, into the past
to glimpse scenes that once were? Or
were they caught up in a form of haunt-
ISSUE
#4
KIM GUARNACCIA
Ronald Mallett believes that a rotating

laser beam could warp space-time in such
a way as to make time-travel possible.
to circumnavigate than expected.

A classic example of a time slip is
described by Lyn in Australia. Lyn lived
in a small outback town that was built in
1947 and had changed little since that
time. In 1997, she was driving toward
the main intersection of the town, when
suddenly she felt a change in the air. It
wasnt the classic colder feeling, but a
change, like a shift in atmosphere, she
explains.
As she slowed down at the intersection, she was suddenly transported back
in time to the 1950s. The road was dirt,
the trees were gone, and coming toward
her to cross the intersection was an black
car, something like a Vanguard or old FJ
Holden. As the car passed through the
intersection, the driver looked back at
L yn in astonishment. From what she
could see, he was dressed in similar
1950s fashion, complete with hat.
This whole episode lasted perhaps 20
seconds and was repeated at least five
times during her time there, always at
the exact spot. She tried to make out the
registration plate number, but the plate
numbers were covered in dust.
Derek E. tells another interesting
story. When he was a child, his father was
a taxi driver in Glasgow, Scotland. One
day in the late 1960s, Dereks father was
driving in the north of the city along
Maryhill Road near Queens Cross, one
of the older parts of London.
One minute it was now, Derek
writes, cars, buses, modern clothes, and
tarmac roads, and the next thing my dad
was in some earlier time. It was pre-Victorian, given the clothes he described
people wearing, horses, rough road, and
lower buildings. It lasted as long as it
took him to be aware of it and then it
vanished and he was back in now.
Derek also reports that in the 1980s,
he and his wife were on vacation at the
coastal village of Staithes. They had
parked at the top of the village and were
making their way down on foot. It was a
sunny day with lots of other people
around, but as they made their way
down, it suddenly seemed as if no one
else was there but Derek and his wife.
Suddenly, an old woman appeared on
ing where, like an old movie, they saw a

scene that had somehow been implanted
in a location and allowed to play back
for those sensitive enough to pick up the
lingering impressions?
It could be that the witnesses trigger
time slips, whether they blank their
minds at a precise moment and the slip
occurs, or they touch something that
holds the memory of a previous time.
The simplest explanation is probably
the psychometric hypothesis. In the
mid-19th centur y, Dr. Joseph Rodes
Buchanan of the Covington Medical
Institute performed experiments that
convinced him that certain of his students could hold letters in their hands
and accurately describe the character of
the writer. He subsequently became
convinced that all objects carr y their

history in them.
However, if time slips are a form of
haunting, then it could not explain the
experience of a Mr. Squirrel, who, in
1973, went into a stationers shop in
Great Yarmouth, England, to buy some
envelopes. He was served by a woman in
Edwardian dress and bought three
dozen envelopes for a shilling. He
noticed that the building was extremely
silentthere was no traffic noise.
On visiting the shop three weeks later,
he found it completely modernized. The
assistant, an elderly lady, denied that
there had been any other assistant in the
shop the previous week. Even though
the envelopes disintegrated quickly, Mr.
Squirrel was able to track down the man-
ufacturers, who said that such envelopes

had ceased to be manufactured 15 years
previously.
How can a haunting produce such
physical evidence?
Perhaps there is a natural phenomenon that, under the right conditions and location can briefly produce a
door way to another time and place.
Even though this may sound outrageous, this natural time machine may
demonstrate that our modern concepts
of time need to be reconsidered. With
the right frame of mind and the right
natural conditions, the barriers of time
and space that have traditionally kept
mankind locked into place may finally be
broken, allowing the mysteries of the
universe finally to be revealed. z
49
A CONVERSATION WITH
Psychic
Sylvia
Browne
Renowned psychic,
bestselling author, and
paranormal researcher Sylvia
Browne answers questions
posed by Judith Kane about
the psychic world, offers
predictions for the upcoming
century, and uncovers the truth
about the end of the world.
50
ISSUE
#3
51
Does everyone have psychic abilities?

bsolutely. We all came into this
world with psychic abilities,
which have been societized out
of us, but are always with us, nonetheless. I have actually never talked to anyone, even a skeptic, who hasnt had some
kind of psychic experience.
How can one know that an experience

is a psychic experience, rather than
just ones imagination?
just go with my feelings and assume
that theyre valid. Its a matter of
learning to trust it. Ask the questions, Hows her health? or Hows
her social life? and then just take the
first answer that comes to you. Youd be
surprised at how more valid you are than
invalid. Ask and you shall receive.
How can people develop their own psychic abilities?

tell people who have unwanted psychic experiences to just decide they
dont want it anymore. In other
words, if it doesnt come from God and I
cant handle it, I dont want it.
But then people call me back years
later and say, I had it when I was
younger. It scared me and I told it to go
away and now I want it back, but I cant
get it back. Well, you can get it back. If
you want it, its there for the taking. If
you dont, just refuse to accept it.
Are children more open to the psychic

realms than adults?
h, yeah, because no one has
told them not to be. Its as natural for children to be tuned
into the spirit world as it is for them to
breathe because they have just come
from the spirit world and are still making
the transition from that dimension to
this one. So it doesnt occur to them as
odd or unnatural to see spirits, imaginary
playmates, and spirit guides, unless they
are made to feel self-conscious about it
and are told, Dont be crazy. Thats
your imagination.
I cant urge people strongly enough
not to do that to a child. Its confusing
and discouraging when they know that
theyre not making things up and theyre

told that theyre wrong. Children just
dont have the rational buffers yet to
handle such comments.
Does everyone have spirit guides?
ve never seen one around Osama
bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, or
Charles Manson, so I believe that
dark entities dont have spirit guides.
How do you do what you do?

snt it funny? I dont know, as it
comes so fast. When I was five or six,
my abilities came to me as pictures
in my mind, but now it just comes so
rapid-fire that its like I open my mouth
and it comes out. So its impossible for
me to describe the process because I just
dont know. Sometimes I just feel like
Im just a big reception tube.
Why dont you use Tarot cards or crystals in your readings?

dont use them because I find them
unnecessary. Theyre fine if a person
wants to focus, but I think people
just dont have enough I am-ness to
just say, Im going to go with my first
impression. If I used cards and I was
wrong, then I could just blame the cards.
When people dont understand the
messages they receive or get the answers
that they want from their prayers, they
think theyre doing it wrong. But its
You believe that the course of ones

life is already charted according to the
souls need and the lessons one needs
to learn. Is there any wiggle room in
the chart for free will?
e each have a chart; otherwise, life would be a random
turkey-shoot. But theres
room for some modification. For
instance, if a person had written into
their chart that they would be in a car
accident at the age of 25, she could
experience anything from a fender-bender to a big cruncher. Either way, she
would have fulfilled her chart.
There are five exit points in each chart,
when a person can choose to leave this
incarnation early. (Why five? I dont
know.) Things like near-misses on the
highway and near-death experiences are
really just exit points, opportunities to
leave this life, but ones soul has chosen
instead to stay.
Some people just get too tired of life
and choose an earlier exit point. I dont
mean suicidethats a whole different
ballgame. Exit points are when people
say, God, that was a near miss, or
God, I couldve died on the operating
Sylvia at one of her many

speaking engagements.
52
Predictions
for 2004
really just that they dont understand the

answers that they get. As Ive often said
in my lectures, God answers your
prayers, but a lot of times, God says
no or you just dont like the answer.
MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E ,
ISSUE
#4
Pope John Paul II wll not live beyond

2005. In his place, a black pope will
be elected either this time or the following. After that, a triumvirate of
Popes will be elected, each assigned
to a different geographic area.
Sylvia Browne on the Live with Regis Show.
table. In fact, when I was 26, I had the

choice to leave this earth plane and I
chose not to because I didnt want to
leave my son. Everything changed in a
split secondI was back in my body and
that was the end of that.
If we have things we need to accomplish in this lifetime so we can advance
on the spiritual plane, it follows that
we have a purpose in life. What holds
us back from fulfilling our purpose and
why cant we see what it is?
ets look at it this waya student
goes to his freshman college
counselor and says, What courses do I need to take to become a sophomore? The counselor then tells him and
he can either take those courses and
advance to the next level, or not; it is his
choice. Its the same thing with lifeyou
either follow the chart you have mapped
out for yourself or you dont.
What makes people crazy is not understanding why they wrote themselves such
a rotten chart, or have given themselves
such a lousy life. My spirit guide said to
me once, If you had not gone through
the horrible things that you have during
your life, you have would not have been
able to understand what others are going
through. Its like the expressions,
What doesnt kill you makes you
stronger, and We are the sum of our

parts.
We all have been through many lifetimes and by just choosing to return to
this lousy place, we have learned something important. I dont say that with
negativity because I love life, but each
time that we reincarnate into this insane
asylum, we learn something important so
that our souls can advance.
Although each person has charted his
lifes themes, most will never figure out
what their purpose is during their lifetime. But even if you never realize ones
lifes theme, you will fulfill it anyway.
How do you reconcile your religious
beliefs with the psychic world?
here are many examples of psychic abilities in the Bible, such as
in the books of Kings and
Samuel, when Saul was brought up from
the grave by the witch of En-Dor, or
when they say not to consort with seers
and sorcerers but then they ask Joseph
to interpret their dreams.
Also, you dont think Christ was psychic? How in the world did He know
that He was going to be crucified when
he went to Gethsemane? God mustve
said, Look, youve got your chart and
youre going to do it, and He said,
Thy will be done. In other words,
The economy will improve from real

estate and loan refinancing, as interest rates will remain fairly stable. But
the stock market will not totally recover. There will be some medical stocks
that will per form well but overall, the
market will roller-coaster.
As Governor of California, actor Arnold
Schwar zenegger
will show he knows
what he is doing by
cutting corners and
helping to get the
state close to being
in the black, financially.
The war in Iraq will continue, but
Americans will grow tired of spending
so much money on it.
The SARS virus will erupt again, but it
will be controlled quickly.
A breakthrough dr ug for
Lyme disease will become
available, as well as a vaccine
for the West Nile Virus.
A diet pill made
from the bodys
own endorphins
will make people
feel full but without the side
effects.
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2004
2010: Aliens will

begin to show
themselves. They
will not harm us;
rather, they will
teach us how to
develop and
use anti-gravity
devices.
2023: Atlantis
will begin to
show itself
and be fully
visible within
a few years.
2026: West Coast will be

subsumed under the ocean
from a huge earthquake and
2025 parts of the East Coast will
be inundated by a huge tidal
wave. Tsunamis will also
wipe out a large portion of
Japan. The Hawaiian Islands
will also become the site of
a large new landmass.
Isis; in Rome as Juno; there were also

the goddesses Theodora and Sophie.
Christians even worship have the Virgin
Mary.
In my book, I also give practitioners of
Wicca, one of the oldest religions besides
the Essenes and the Gnostics, a big cheer
because they believe in Mother Earth and
the Mother Goddess, and in the pantheistic idea that everything in the world is
God-like. Thats a marvelous thing.
I also have a book on my predictions
for the upcoming century, due out in
July of 2004, titled Prophesy: What the
Future Holds for You.
Further
Predictions
for 2004
February: Seattle,
WA will have a 5.4
earthquake, but it
will not cause
much damage.
July: Unemployment will hit an all-time
high before improving with the advent of
new technology from Texas and Nevada.
Sylvia has made fast friends with Montel

Williams, from her regular appearances
on his show.
Christ was psychic in the sense that he

knew his purpose coming into his life
and what he had to accomplish.
July/August: The employees from two

major airlines will go on strike and cruiseline travel will increase to an all-time high,
as people will feel safer with this form of
travel. There will also be drier, warmer
weather throughout the US that will cause
numerous forest fires.
August/September: Hurricanes will hit
the Florida Keys and Mexico.
November: President Bush will not be reelected, and 6.0 ear thquakes will hit both
Alaska and Japan.
December: Saddam
Hussein will die.
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2050
What do you do for fun?

needlepoint, write, spend a lot of
time with my grandchildren, whom
I love with my heart and soul, and
my sons, who are my best friends. We
live about three minutes apart and see
each other four or five times a week to
go out to eat together, or when they
bring the grandkids over to play.
Tell us about your next book.

lmost ever y religion before
Christianity believed in the
Mother God, which is what my
next book is about. Most societies were
matriarchal; even the early Christian
masses were held by women. The Mother God could be found everywhereas
the goddess Kybele in Anatolia in
Turkey; in ancient Egypt as the goddess
Do you believe, like many New Agers,

that were approaching a time of great
upheaval?
hen hasnt there been unrest
and upheaval on this planet?
But yes, I think that were
coming to the end of times in the next
hundred years.
What words of wisdom would you offer

those who are fearful of the future or
are having trouble finding their way in
the world?
his life is just a learning period.
Sometimes its a ver y hard
school, but then the day comes
when you pass over and are reunited
with God. But in the meantime, the road
is hard. Weve made it so complex, but
its really so simple. It isnt so much the
big things that we do in life that are
important, just that we love God, do
good, and then have the decency to shut
up and go home. Thats all there is. z
For more info on Sylvia Brownes upcoming books and appearances, visit
www.sylvia.org.
ISSUE
#4
2050: Peace
will be found
in the Middle
East. People
will turn
toward spirituality, and
world peace
will reign.
2055: Most
people will
live in domed
cities due
to poor
atmospheric
conditions.
2075
2080: The veil

separating our world
from The Other Side
will thin, so much so
that most people will
be able to see their
deceased loved ones
and be able literally to
speak with their
Spirit Guides.
2100: The end

of the world as
we know it.
2100
Predictions for the 21st Century

Technology
Electric cars will be developed that can float on
water, so they can
bypass freeways. Cars
will also be run by atomic
batteries.
Houses will be made from pressed paper with plastic coatings
and interchangeable walls and will have a third-floor rollback
roof, to allow Hovercrafts to come and go.
A moon base will be created for people to visit and
as a stopping place for trips to other planetar y bodies.
A vir tual reality headset will stimulate
brain waves so people can learn whole
libraries of information within hours.
Proteins will be developed without animal meat to build up

immune systems.
Addictions will be a thing of the past because of a brain stimulation that will be developed to eradicate all addictions with no
side effects.
Government
One planetary government will form.
There will no longer be a US Presidency; rather, the US government will go back to a Greek Senate structure.
There will be no world war or nuclear holocaust, but there will be lots
of civil disorder and small skirmishes, and germ warfare will be
used before the world finds peace.
Death penalty executions will be performed by vaporizing the body.
Medicine/Science
Cancer wil be eradicated using sound-waves, photo-sensitive
drug therapy, and self-addicting cells.
Separate body parts will be cloned for organ transplants.
A new form of painless tooth extraction will
be developed, using a type of suction, with
immediate replacement of a new one.
Diagnostic chambers which map the bodys
electrical balance will be able to predict
health problems in advance.
There will be no more surgery with knives. Instead, some type
of molecular ionization
device will be used,
that eradicates the
afflicted cells then
seals the wound without a single scar.
New exercise equipment will be developed
in which you sit or
stand. They will electrically stimulate ones muscles to achieve
the same effect as physical exercise.
Medicine will be air-injected through the skin.
Treatment for depression and mood disorders will come from a
chamber that stimulates the brain, such as by emitting certain
aromas to elevate ones mood.
Giant fruits and vegetables will
be grown in hothouse environments, and their nutrients synthesized into a highly condensed
form that can be injected.
Four more comets will pass by
the earth before the end of time.
55
Book Reviews
The Complete Guide

to Mysterious Beings
BY JOHN KEEL
ISBN: 0765345862
$19.99, TOR BOOKS, 2002
he Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings is an entertaining guide to extraordinar y phenomena and bizarre
entities, as viewed
by one of the most
controversial
researchers in the
field. Keel sets
out to separate
the wheat from
the
chaf f,
revealing genuine cr yptozoological
and
paranormal mysteries
and describing some great
hoaxes along the way. Topics
include sea serpents, unidentified hairy bipeds, the Mothman,
menacing roadside figures,
diminutive flying saucer pilots,
and blood-sucking phantoms.
Convinced that UFOs and
monster sightings are two sides
of the same coin, Keel believes
that an other-dimensional intelligence is manipulating human
belief systems to unknown but
potentially insidious ends. For
instance, the monster mania
that often accompanies highly
publicized sightings of Bigfootlike creatures, posits Keel,
might be deliberate attempts to
attract attention away from
deeper mysteries.
Keel scof fs at mainstream
ufology, with its quaint nuts
and bolts view of unexplained
phenomena. Rather, he is convinced that we are dealing with
something vastly stranger.
Whether you agree with his thesis or not, you cannot help coming away from The Complete
Guide to Mysterious Beings
without viewing Fortean anomalies in an unsettling new light.
MAC TONNIES
56
Book Reviews
Voyages of the
Pyramid Builders
The True Origins of the
Pyramids, from Lost Egypt
to Ancient America
BY ROBERT M. SCHOCH
ISBN: 1-58542-203-7
$24.95, TARCHER/PUTNAM, 2003
hallenging cherished
archaeological beliefs is
a difficult task for any scientist. So to claim, as author
Rober t Schoch, that the Great
Sphinx of Giza predates the
pyramids by more than three
millennia will no doubt set a fair
number of heads spinning all
across academia.
That pyramid-like structures
can be found on almost ever y
continent is well-documented,
but were they the result of diffusionism or independent inventionism? Schoch gives both theories their due. He then
proposes that an
earlier, lost civilization brought
their pyramidbuilding knowledge to areas
as diverse as
the Middle East
and Mesoamerica.
Quick to distinguish between
scholarship and
speculation
and fact from
New-Age mysticismSchoch
extends the boundaries of these
global interconnections without
establishing an inflexible dogma
of his own, pointing out that
what we perceive as mere coincidence may, in fact, be a layer
of distinction wrapped around a
core of unity.
He is not alone in his opinions. Drawing upon research in
fields from language and den-
drochronology to mythology, he
also argues that mass migrations due to cosmological catastrophes may have provided the
impetus in bringing the Old and
New Worlds together far earlier
than previously thought.
By asking more questions
than he answers, Schoch
admits that he hopes to pique
the readers curiosity. On all
counts, he has succeeded.
CHARLES MATZA
God and the

Evolving Universe
The Next Step in
Personal Evolution
BY JAMES REDFIELD, MICHAEL
MURPHY, AND SYLVIA TIMBERS
ISBN: 1-58542-202-9
$25.95, TARCHER/PUTNAM, 2002
he contention James Redfield, best-selling author of

The Celestine Prophecy
and The Tenth Insight, and
Michael
Murphy,
cofounder of the
Esalen Institute, is
that the patterns of
histor y, biology, and
even time itself are
leading
toward
greater physical,
mental, and spiritual
health for all of
humanity, and that
the present time is
a prime one for the
next big step in the
evolution of the
human race. They present intriguing ar guments from both scientific and spiritual
sources that we are
not only capable of
this fur ther evolution but also that it
is essential for the
survival of both our
species and our
planet.
The lack of syn-
cretism between religious and

scientific sources, particularly in
matters commonly deemed
supernatural, is sensitively
addressed by the authors as
they discuss seemingly impossible feats of athletic prowess,
healing through the power of
prayer, extrasensor y perception, remote viewing, and other
concepts that seem to lie
between faith and reason.
Drawing from a variety of spiritual traditions from around the
world, as well as heavily documented scientific experiments,
they assess the validity of these
ideas and find that not only are
they valid, but they are also
accessible to all of us.
The authors then discuss how
to incorporate their ideas into
ones own life. By including
thought experiments and easy
meditation exercises, they
emphasize their commitment to
bringing our awareness to these
latent abilities and by developing them, thus helping us to a
new and better understanding
of humanity and our role in the
cosmos.
This remarkable volume is far
more than the typical self-help
book. By providing a scientific
as well as philosophical groundwork for their views, Redfield
and Murphy address complex
ideas without alienating the
reader with esoteric language or
extremism. God and the Evolving
Universe
should be on the
must-read list of
anyone curious
about science,
spirituality, and
how both can help
humanity reach its
full potential.
RICHARD
MACKENZIE
ISSUE
#4
Portrait of a Killer
Jack the Ripper Case Closed
BY PATRICIA CORNWELL
ISBN: 0399149325
$27.95, PUTNAM, 2002
est-selling crime novelist

Patricia Cornwell applies
modern investigative,
psychological, and forensic
techniques to one of the most
infamous unsolved crime mysteriesthe identity of Jack the
Ripper. With the help of an
impressive team of archivists,
historians, writing analysts,
forensic scientists, and other
exper ts, Cornwell
concludes that the
Ripper, who terrorized the streets of
the Whitechapel
area of Londons
East End in late1888, was the
post-Impressionist
painter
Walter
Sicker t (18601942).
Given unprecedented access
to original materials, Cornwell
spent more than a year sifting
through thousands of pages of
documents, fingerprints, crimescene photographs, original
etchings and paintings, items of
clothing, artists' paraphernalia,
and traces of DNA.
Cornwells conclusion essentially relies on three things:
forensic investigation of the
taunting Ripper letters
received by police and newspapers at the time of the murders;
interpretation of Sickerts violent art; and speculation about
a series of operations that Sickert had as a young child, which
Cornwell supposes were intended to correct a genital deformity
but may have left him permanently disfigured and/or impotent, and harboring a murderous rage against women.
Although much of her

argument relies on her
theor y about Sicker ts
genital abnor malities,
Cornwell presents no evidence to suppor t her
speculations, which his several
marriages and many intimate
relationships with womenand
the fact that his friends scolded
him for fathering illegitimate
childrenwould seem to contradict. It is ironic, then, that
someone so mired in the scientific examination of physical evidence should so easily dismiss
its impor tance when it is
absent, and dismiss
other evidence that
might disprove her
theory, such as letters
that indicate that Sickert was in France when
four of the murders
occurred.
Cornwells character
study of Sickert is interesting and her descriptions and analysis of his
art, which reflect his fascination
with the macabreespecially
with grisly crimesare suggestive. Although the book is compelling reading, in the end,
there are just too many loose
ends for Cornwell to have
stamped the myster y (or the
book jacket) Case Closed.
JUDITH KANE
The Soulless
LESLIE BURBANK
ISBN: 1-59080-241-1
$10, ECHELON PRESS, 2003
lthough vampire novels

are a dime a dozen, every
so often a book comes
along that seems to soar on
batlike wings above its bloodsucking literary brethren. While
not that book, The Soulless has
cer tain intimations that future
books in the series may rise to
that level.
While filled with

historical inaccuracies, trite phrases, and stock
characters, the
book is compulsively readable.
The stor y begins with the
intrepid hero Mordred Soulis, a
mercenar y during the Second
Cr usade, whose deser t
encounter with a vampire transfor ms him into one of the
undead. He then finds himself
the unwitting savior of humanity against an evil of their own
creation, the ver y evil that
transfor med him and now
threatens to consume him
completely.
While some historical details
are well researched, others are
pure fantasy, and the juxtaposition is disconcerting. For example, the treatment of the
Knights Templar, who have
major roles in the book, plays
into ever y conspiracy theor y
imaginable. Spelling and grammatical errors abound, including the use of possessive
forms instead of plurals (i.e.
many pharaohs rather than
many pharaohs), making one
wonder whether the book was
proofread before it went to
press.
Despite these flaws, there
are a few surprises scattered
throughout the book that
encourage one to keep reading.
Likewise, the authors conception that there are multiple
species of vampires, each with
its own distinct traits, is reminiscent of vampire roleplaying
games vampire clans and is
compellingly rendered. By the
end, the stor y has enough
momentum that one really is
hooked. If fur ther volumes are
for thcoming, they may well be
worth reading, albeit with some
alterations.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
Tomorrow Now
BY BRUCE STERLING
ISBN: 0679463224
$24.95, RANDOM HOUSE, 2002
ruce Sterlings science

fiction is characterized by
a keen appreciation for
social forces and the increasingly intimate relationship
between things seen and
unseen. In Tomorrow Now, his
first non-fiction novel since The
Hacker Crackdown, Sterling
envisions the trends, technologies, and ideologies that he
believes will define the first half
of the 21st century.
This novel is Sterling at his
chatty, global-headed best.
Readers expecting biotech holocaust or marauding robots will
probably be disappointed in his
close-to-home approach. But for
readers who are concerned
about the political ramifications
of computer networks, ubiquitous computing, and post-industrial design philosophy, Tomorrow Now delivers in spades.
This book is both laugh-outloud
funny
(read his commentary on the
techno-ecology
of
pseudoorganic blobjects) and
grimly cautionar y. Sterling unveils a
world that
thrives on
f u t u r e
shock, held together by neobiological systems and threatened
by greenhouse catastrophe.
Tomorrow Now is eminently
readable, thoughtful, and
soundly structured, and should
be required reading for both
committed cyberpunks and curious bystanders alike.
MAC TONNIES
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In the Theater
The Order (2003)
t is no wonder that many

books and films featuring the
supernatural also contain religious over tones. Angels,
demons, and spirits of all kinds
have always been attributed to
one spiritual realm or another
and it is usually the trappings of
religion that are used to cope
with these otherwise unexplainable phenomena; vampires are
repelled by crosses and holy
water, demons are exorcised
with prayers, etc.
In the west, however, it is the
trappings of Catholicism that
are most commonly associated
with the supernatural, and The
Order falls, at least superficially,
into that tradition. The sharp
criticism of Catholic teachings
and the eventual acceptance of
a moral compass beyond the
Church, however, set this film
apar t from those like The Exorcist, where the religious
In the Theater
aspects of the stor y are never
questioned, and mark it as a byproduct of the recent turmoil
within the Church and the disillusionment felt by many.
In The Order, a young, disillusioned priest named Alex
(Heath Ledger), goes to Rome
to explore the mysterious death
of his mentor and track down
and destroy a shadowy figure
known as the Sin Eater, a
man who provides salvation to
those who cannot find redemption within the Churchs guidelines by literally absorbing their
sins, for a price. Understandably, the Church resents this
threat to their apparent
monopoly on salvation and
wants it removed, a command
at first followed blindly by Alex.
As events unfold, however,
Alex begins to question his own
relationship to the Sin Eater and
the strange ties that seem to
bind them together. He also
begins to question the morality
of the Churchs teachings
that he is supposed to
uphold.
This is by far the most
intriguing aspect of the film,
and the theological and
philosophical implications
that it raises are rife with
possibilities. Considering
the richness of the subject
matter, the film could have
had much more depth; poor
character development,
plot holes, and ridiculous
subplots (concerning ecclesiastical corruption and a
non-romantic love interest
for the young priest) rob the
film of any relevance.
Despite a promising
premise, these elements
only ser ve to create a film
as troubled and confused
as the Church it depicts.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
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The League of
Extraordinary
Gentlemen (2003)
Underworld (2003)
nyone who has played

Vampire: The Masquerade or Werewolf: The
Apocalypse, the wildly popular
live-action role-playing games
published by White Wolf
Games, will be familiar with the
premise of Under world. While
humans go about their ever yday lives, an unseen war
between vampires and werewolves has raged for hundreds
of years. A stalemate has been
reached as the vampires have
hunted the werewolves almost
to extinction. But a new battle
is brewing, and a rogue vampiress must solve the myster y
of a human unwittingly drawn
into the conflict and how he
may hold the key to the salvation of both sides.
The resemblance to White
Wolfs World of Darkness is only
superficial, however. Despite
its apparently supernatural trappings, Underworld is essentially
a Matrix knock-of f, complete
with swirling black coats, slowmotion action sequences and
enough firepower to destroy a
small planet.
Apparently vampires and
werewolves have abandoned
their traditional fangs and claws

for high-powered weaponr y and
advanced ammunition, including
ultraviolet-irradiated and liquid
silver bullets, to attack the traditional weaknesses of their
respective species. Guns are
still guns, though, and they look
the same, no matter who uses
them, so why even bother calling it a vampire or werewolf
movie if the elements traditionally associated with them are
barely included at all?
Granted, the brief werewolf
transformation sequences are
well done, owing more to An
American Werewolf in London
than anything else, but other
than brief glimpses of fangs and
glowing eyes, we see vir tually
none of the details that make
vampire and werewolf movies
so enter taining in the first
place. Add wooden dialog, lifeless sets, and characters who
would be better of f dead than
undead to this mismatch made
in hell, and you have a recipe for
cinematic disaster.
A travesty for anyone who
likes either werewolves or vampires, Underworld will leave fans
of both species howling in dismay.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
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any of us have fond

memories of long
nights spent thrilling to
the exploits chronicled in the
classic sci-fi novels of Jules
Verne, H. Rider Haggard, H.G.
Wells, and others. Alan Moores
graphic novel series The League
of Extraordinar y Gentlemen
breathes new life into these fantasies as famous figures from
19th-centur y fiction unite in a
steampunk fusion of Victorian
style and modern technology
that uses a tongue-in-cheek imitation of 19th-centur y journalism to pay homage to both new
and old. The film based upon it,
however, is a bombastic mess
that ignores the subtle charm of
the comic in favor of superherostyle antics.
At first glance, a collaboration
between such esteemed literary
characters as 20,000 Leagues
Under the Seas Captain Nemo,
Alan Quartermain from H. Rider
Haggards King Solomons
Mines, H.G. Wells Invisible
Man, Robert Louis Stevensons
Dr. Jekyll (and his infamous alter
ego Mr. Hyde), seems like every
book-lovers dream. But most of
the bibliophiles in the audience
will be dismayed by the cardboard characterization of our
heroes and heroines.
Admittedly, it is refreshing to
see some details utilized that
are commonly left out, such as
the acknowledgment of Captain
Nemos Indian origins, especially in the original depiction of his
submarine Nautilus. The embellishment of some of the characters abilities varies from the
intriguing (here, Dorian Gray,
thanks to his famous portrait, is
not only ageless, but invulnera-
ble) to the bizarre (the laughable

portrayal of Mr. Hyde is reminiscent of the Incredible Hulk erupting out of his poorly fitting Victorian finery).
While the under water
sequences with the Nautilus
are beautifully rendered, the
cityscapes that the League
moves through not only lack in
the dark atmosphere one associates with 19th-centur y
Europe, but sometimes even
lack in dimensionality. The computer-generated buildings in the
city of Venice look so flat that
the sense of urgency and danger intended in their imminent
collapse in one of the films
more climactic scenes is utterly
lost. The biggest of fender,
though, has to be the incredibly
poor depiction of Hyde. The
characters physical distor tion
is simply ridiculous and the animation is choppy.
Throughout the film, one gets
the feeling that the filmmakers
were torn between tr ying to
remain true to the intentions of
the characters creators and trying to create a hip action movie
to which those with no prior
knowledge of comics or novels
could relate. This dichotomy is
precisely where The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen fails. If
they had focused on either making an art film for booklovers or
an action film with newly
revamped characters in a Victorian setting, they would have

created a more successful film.
Sadly, they did not, and what we
are left with is an overblown disaster of a movie that satisfies
no one.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
Rasputin (1996)
ilmed in Hungar y and St.

Petersburg under the direction of Uli Edel, HBOs
Rasputin is a film of extraordinar y power and impact, distinguished by flawless acting,
authentic locations, and evocative cinematography. Seldom
has a film for television
deser ved and won as many
awards and accolades, including three Emmys, three Golden
Globes, a Golden Satellite, and
a Screen Actors Guild award for
Rickmans riveting por trayal of
the Siberian mystic.
Born of Irish/Welsh parentage and trained on the British
stage, Rickman is
superb as Grigor y
Rasputin, turning in a
landmark per formance
to capture the complexity of a tormented, hypersexual genius. Suppor ted
by
power ful
per for mances
from
Greta Scacchi as the
guilt-ridden
Czarina
Alexandra and Ian McK-
ellen as the moribund Nicholas

II, Rasputin traces the convoluted life of the Siberian Mad
Monk, a clairvoyant child who,
as an adult, goes on to see a
vision of the Virgin Mar y while
making his way to St. Petersburg.
As his reputation spreads, a
desperate Czarina summons
Rasputin to cour t to treat her
son Alexei, who is afflicted with
hemophilia. After Rasputins
self-styled blessings stop the
boys bleeding, the unordained
holy man becomes an essential par t of cour t lifeuntil St.
Petersburg is awash with scandal by his womanizing, public
drunkenness, and lewd behavior. An indignant Nicholas finally
banishes Rasputin from cour t,
though he is soon reinstated
when the Czarevich is struck
with another attack.
But as Russia is led into a
humiliating defeat by Germany,
the Romanof fs, hor rified by
Rasputins excesses, plot to
kill him. Poisoned, shot, and
finally thrown in the icy waters
of the River Neva, Rasputin
dies.
Rasputin explores the nebulous boundar y between divine
vision and derangement, raising
questions of what separates
the miraculous from madness.
Skillfully written, ably directed,
and
well-photographed,
Rasputin is a mighty stor y with
a mighty theme. Graced by power ful per for mances
from a superb cast,
and par ticularly by
Rickmans breathtaking depiction of the
enigmatic but ultimately tor mented
Siberian mystic Grigor y Rasputin, this film
is well worth viewing.
MARC CRAMER
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Web Reviews
Web Reviews: Bigfoot Sites

appearances.
The BRFO web site is an outstanding resource and of fers
convincing evidence that this
unusual, ape-like creature does
indeed wander the earth.
Bigfoot Field
Researchers Org.
Gulf Coast Bigfoot

Research Organization
WWW.BFRO.NET
WWW.GCBRO.COM
By Lise Hull
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he
Bigfoot
Field
Researchers Org. (BFRO)
brings together scientists,
specialists, and journalists, who
have collected physical and oral
evidence about Bigfoot, in order
to resolve the mystery. The site
features a wealth of fascinating
information, not only explaining
the myster y but also providing
reputable documentation of
sightings. The acclaimed anthropologist Dr. Jane Goodalls commentar y on the reality of these
beings is especially intriguing.
(BFRO also speculates that
there are as many as 6,000 Bigfoot roaming Nor th America
alone!)
Their comprehensive sightings database includes credible sightings of Bigfoot by
region, with emphasis on the
USA and Canada. The large collection of ar ticles published by
members of BFRO (and also by
the media around the world) is
impressive, and provides plenty
of convincing evidence that Bigfoot exists.
One article (a translation from
the original German text by Dr.
W. Henner Fahrenbach) speculates that medieval epics
recorded the presence of
Sasquatch in 12th-centur y
Europe. The section on PreColumbian and Early American
legends of Bigfoot-like beings is
equally interesting and emphasizes just how long these sightings have occurredand the
wide geographical range of their
ounded in 1997, the Gulf

Coast Bigfoot Research
Or ganization (GCBRO)
focuses on bigfoot sightings in
the southern United States.
Members actively search for the
creature using night-vision
equipment, infrared heat sensors, thermal imaging devices,
directional microphones with
parabolic boosters, and wireless microphones. GCBRO
of fers general obser vations
about Bigfoot, including what it
is and where it has been sighted in the South, its behaviors,
and the sounds it makes.
Reports of recent sightings are
also featured, some accompanied by photographs.
Among the highlights of the
site is the huge database of
sightings from around the US,
clickable by state and by county,
as well as Canada, Australia,
and England. (GCBRO is

presently soliciting repor ts of
sightings from South American
countries.) Each entr y includes
the date, location, time, terrain,
and what the reporter observed.
Whether or not the tales are
authentic is left to the visitor to
decide. They do make for interesting reading, as do the sites
array of photos taken by members, featuring plaster casts of
foot tracks, a hand print, places
where Bigfoot allegedly roams,
a cast of a yowies limb formation, and even images of the
creature itself!
Well worth a look, the GCBRO
provides much food for thought
on the existence of Bigfoot and
its Australian counterpar t, the
Yowie.
The Florida Skunk Ape

WWW.FLORIDASKUNKAPE.COM
outed as the Southernmost Bigfoot in the USA,

Floridas Skunk Ape apparently roams the countr yside
around Florida. The primar y
function of this creative site is
to record encounters with the
creature. Repor ts (most of
which seem incomplete) document the date, location, weath-
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er conditions, actual evidence

collected (which is noticeably
lacking in some of the reports),
and a description of the creature itself, including its appearance, behavior, and sounds.
The credibility of the sightings is
difficult to determine but makes
for fun reading.
Besides the Florida sightings
(which are accessible via a
clickable map), encounters are
documented for other states,
including Nor th and South Carolina, Texas, Washington,
Maine, and Missouri.
The Skunk Ape web site provides informative articles on the
creature and its origins, and
copies of recent repor ts in the
news, in order to postulate
whether or not the creature is
real or merely a giant hoax.
Sadly, the anonymous site
authors offer just a brief look at
the Skunk Ape and thus leave
visitors wanting more.
Bigfoot Encounters
WWW.BIGFOOTENCOUNTERS.COM
hile Bigfoot Encounters has an annoying

left-side frame and
works better on Internet Explorer than on Netscape, the web
site itself is chock full of fascinating information on the enormous variety of creatures that
have been documented to have
human features and walk
upright.
Besides presenting a general
over view of the biology of the
Sasquatch, a sizeable database
of sightings in California, and a
clickable map with other sightings around the US and Canada, the site features informative
ar ticles on our primate relatives, fossil finds in Africa, Mexico, and Burma, and scores of
other ar ticles published in reputable magazines and newspa-
site, however, are its ar ticles,

which address theories on what
the Yowie is, describe early
sightings, feature aboriginal legends about hair y men, and
provide other thought-provoking
subjects. Similarly, the historical accounts section features
reportedly authentic sightings.
With so much information,
some of which is more entertaining than scientific, this site
is worth a visit.
pers from around the world.
Also featured are stories of
encounters submitted by
browsers.
Of par ticular interest is the
section called Biology, Scientific Papers & Field Repor ts,
which features over 60 actual
scientific studies of Sasquatch,
the Yeti, the Orang Pendak, the
Yowie, and other hair y bipeds.
Readers will learn about the
pungent smell of the creature,
its anatomical structure, analyses of its feces and hair, and
theories about its relationship
to Early Man, including the
Neanderthal and Homo erectus.
In shor t, the astounding volume of information on Bigfoot
Encounters is thought-provoking. The web author also covers
legends and hoaxes, presenting
a well-rounded view of the subject matter.
Australian Yowie
Research
WWW.YOWIEHUNTERS.COM
h i s
intrigui n g
web site,
created by
members of
the
Australian Yowie
Research
Group, indicates that
the Australian continent (and

much of the rest of the world) is
home to all sorts of mysterious
creatures. The central focus is
on the Yowie, the Bigfoot-like,
man-ape which has been the
subject of over 10,000 sightings in Australia since 1790.
Also called Gigantopithecus,
the Yowie stands up to 10 feet
tall, is covered with dark hair,
and smells much like a skunk.
The clickable map of Australia
allows readers to access quickly
repor ts of sightings, and the
information includes the date of
the sighting, date of the report,
source, and stor y write-up.
Some repor ts include terrain
and location of the sighting, as
well. The section on expeditions
and special repor ts features
personal obser vations and
ef for ts to locate the creature,
and the pictures section provides tantalizing but dubious
images of the skunk ape.
Perhaps the most convincing
areas on the Yowie Hunters web
Cryptokeeper
WWW.CRYPTOKEEPER.COM
hester Moore, journalist,

lecturer, adventurer, and
cryptozoologist, has written a book on Bigfoot creatures
and is now preparing a documentary on the subject. His site
features a variety of topics, not
only on Bigfoot creatures but
also mysterious cats and
what Moore characterizes as cr ypto
wolf
research.
Along with
his comrades at
Team Cr ypt o k e e p e r,
M o o r e
emphas i z e s
wildlife
conser vation, particularly that
of so-called hidden animals.
Undertaking field research to
locate and document the presence of these creatures, Cryptokeeper presents its findings
with vivid, albeit slow-loading
images and all-too-brief captions.
One can only hope that as
more conclusions are reached,
they will be displayed in greater
detail on this provocative site.
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Music Reviews
Music Reviews
Celestial Reiki II
JONATHAN GOLDMAN & LARAAJI
WITH SARAH BENSON
ENIGMA
ETHEREAN MUSIC (7146)
VIRGIN RECORDS
By Richard MacKenzie
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Love Sensuality
Devotion
he tremendous variety of
music featured on Celestial Reiki II showcases
the talents of Jonathan Goldman, Laraaji, and Sarah Benson, with its use of harps,
bells, synthesizers, and beautiful vocals to create a feeling of
peace and well-being. This CD
can be used for meditation or
relaxation, yoga exercises of
all kinds, healing, or simply as
calming background music or
easy listening.
Each of the three tracks on
the CD has a dif ferent sound
and creates a dif ferent emotional response that could be
beneficial for a wide variety of
activities. Convergence, the
first track, incorporates the
lovely flute-playing of Sarah
Benson, combined with the
gentle sounds of falling rain
and other natural sound
ef fects that are intended to
bring the peacefulness of the
natural world into ones life.
Dreamtime is characterized
by harps and other stringed
instruments, giving it a peaceful, almost heavenly sound
without being soporific.
Reverence is the most
energetic of the three pieces,
carrying the listener along on a
sonic journey that leaves one
energized and refreshed, making it per fect for a yoga session.
All of Goldmans recordings
feature a multicultural collection of instr uments and
sounds that are intended to
promote healing and physical,
spiritual, and emotional wellbeing, and Celestial Reiki II is
no exception.
(ISBN: 7243-8-11119-2-5)
or the past decade, the

extraordinar y sound of
Enigma has been changing
the face of modern music, combining sampled Gregorian
chants, opera arias, and traditional world music with rhythms
drawn from areas as diverse as
rock and roll and New Age
music. The result is an intriguing blend that evokes ancient
and modern influences, both
lyrical and fascinating. Love
Sensuality Devotion is a collection of the best tracks from their
four previous albums and a terrific sampler of their finest work.
The pieces re-released on
this CD provide a good
overview of all of their albums,
unlike the retrospective CDs of
many per formers which predominantly feature tracks from
only one or two CDs or, even
worse, using filler material
from mediocre CDs to bolster
their few popular tunes.
Each piece showcases the
tremendous diversity of the
group, from Principles of Lust
and Mea Culpa from their
MCMXC A.D. album, with its
exotic and beguiling mixture of
spoken dialog, Gregorian chant,
and intriguing instrumentation,
to Return to Innocence, a
song that offers a rousing and

joyful vocal chant, to more introspective pieces, such as Gravity of Love, Beyond the Invisible, and Silence Must Be
Heard.
Many ar tists, par ticularly
New Age musicians, incorporate diverse influences and
samples of various types of
music into their work, but few
can per for m such a task as
seamlessly and consistently as
Enigma. Love Sensuality Devotion is a wonderful collection for
those who are already familiar
with their work, but the album is
perhaps even more appropriate
for those who just wish to
become acquainted with their
unique sound.
Homequest
TIA KNIGHT
BLACKWOOD MANOR MUSIC
(7-33792-38542-9)
n ethereal romance of a
CD, Homequest is a
hauntingly
beautiful
release from Tia Knight, a New
Age composer whose music
fuses electronic sounds with a
wide variety of medieval and
fantasy elements. Tied into this
sense of romance, however, is
a darker edge, a sense of cynicism that makes the intricacies
of her music all the more fascinating and sets her apart from
the dreamy wistfulness of so
many other New Age musicians.
It is no wonder that among her
credentials are a song used in
a stage adaptation of Frankenstein and several pieces to be
included in the upcoming film,
Untold Vampire Tales.
Homequest evokes the PreRaphaelite artists who so often
balanced images of medieval
fantasy and chivalr y with more
sinister elements, such as the
many paintings of La Belle
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Dame Sans Merci, the beautiful

yet evil woman taken from
Keats poem, who bewitches
those knights and nobles who
are unlucky enough to cross her
path. These multifaceted compositions both entrance and
unner ve, and Knights music
has the same quality, simultaneously attractive and spinechilling. The CDs title track is
actually the lightest piece on the
album, a neo-medieval etude
that reflects the elation of coming home after a long quest,
along with the trepidation one
might feel after such an
absence.
Illusions features eerily
familiar yet unplaceable vocals
dubbed over the synthesized
fantasia of a song; it weaves a
fragmentar y stor y in ones
mind, leaving it up to the listener to fill in the missing pieces.
Soldiers Requiem, on the
other hand, is disturbingly at
odds with its title. Less like a
funeral hymn than a gavotte or
pavane, its dance-like tempo
sways on as if the dancing and
celebration continues, despite
loss in an uncaring world. This
irony continues into other
tracks, such as Betrayal,
where subtle strings creep
along in a dance of deception
that conjures up images of a
Machiavellian dance par ty. In
contrast, the piece Sojourn
combines electronic sounds
and synthesized vocals with
bells, zils, and flutes, in a
Tolkein-esque escape into fantasy. The hypnotic Fatimas
Dream and Perfect Love fuse
techno beats with medieval and

Middle Eastern influences.
Tia Knights works are odes
to the imagination and the
power of creativity and fantasy.
Their refreshing mixture of
sweet and caustic is a welcome
change from so much New Age
music, and will appeal to a wide
variety of musical tastes.
Deep Journeys
METAMUSIC
ISBN: 1-56102-330-2
sing a combination of
synthesized instruments
and high and low tones to
induce a meditative state, the
Hemi-sync technology found on
Deep Journeys features the use
of two different sound frequencies to produce a third electrical
sound in the brain that is
intended to focus activity in both
hemispheres, creating states of
relaxation or heightened mental
awareness and agility, depending on the frequencies used.
While each track on the CD
features the use of synthesized
and sampled instr uments to
create a pleasing sound, each
is a stereotypical example of
New Age music, filled with crystalline tones and fragile
melodies, but lacking in feeling
and substance. All of the pieces
felt soulless, as if they had
been composed by rote, and
none produced the heightened
sense of relaxation promised in
the liner notes.
The idea of using music and
specific sound frequencies to
concentrate mental power and
heighten ones consciousness
is an intriguing one, and the
Hemi-sync technology is a fascinating experiment. Sadly, the
pedestrian nature of the music
used on Deep Journeys undermines the validity of the experiment.
Suskera
Solo Bamboo Flute
MANOSE
GARUDA RECORDS
(4695-14901-2)
hen one thinks of

raagone of the traditional forms of South
Asian and Indian musicone
usually thinks of the sitar.
Raags, however, may be performed on any instrument; it is
not so much the instruments
that dictate the for m as the
scales and notes. On Suskera:
Solo Bamboo Flute, the gifted
Nepali flautist Manose provides
an alternative perspective on
the raag that should delight
practitioners of yoga and meditation, as well as those who
enjoy Indian music.
In many ways, raags resemble the modes of medieval
music and Gregorian chant;
both musical str uctures are
built upon the belief that certain
notes and scales can create
certain moods and emotions in
their listeners. The musician
per forms or improvises around
these scales, and the resultant
music can be either soothing or
rousing, depending upon the
scale it is based upon.
Some raags are odes to the
daytime, with more exuberant
notes that reflect the activities
of the day while others are
related to evening and less
strenuous pursuits. By selecting a raag appropriate to ones
moodor the mood one wishes to createthese pieces
become the per fect accompaniment to yoga sessions or meditation.
The raags on Suskera run the
gamut from lively and energetic
to quiet and soulful, although all
of them have slow enough tempos that they would be appropri-
ate to all kinds of yoga sessions. These three selections

are what would be referred to as
evening raags, so they could
also be combined with other
types of music, as par t of a
warm-up or cool-down yoga or
meditation session. The first,
Raag Yaman, is the slowest in
tempo of the three, a deeply
serene piece that guides the listener into a relaxing sense of
awareness. The second, Raag
Bhageshri, is more rapid, carr ying one for ward into a sense
of movement while still maintaining peacefulness. Raag
Jog is the most ener getic
piece, filled with trills and fluttering notes that are reminiscent
of singing nightingales in a
moonlit garden.
Manoses beautiful flute-playing brings out the best in each
piece, coaxing out new and previously undiscovered nuances in
every note.
Every artist creates their own
version of a raag as they perform; although the scales of
each raag determine some of
its features, each is ultimately
an original work of art. For those
interested in slower, gentler, but
still refreshing musical accompaniment for a workout, meditation, or massageor purely for
ones own enjoymentSuskera
provides supremely enjoyable
renditions of these classical
Indian melodies.
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ARCHAEOLOGY
ARCHAEOLOGY OF WORLD MEGALITHIC CULTURES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
October 28-31, 2004; Rhodes, Greece
Cost: $425 (incl. accomm. and some meals) | Contact: Archaeological Institute of America, 656 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215, (617) 353-9351 |
Email: liritzis@rhodes.aegean.gr | Web: www.archaeological.org | Conference will focus on the megalithic
monuments found along the Mediterranean and
expanding throughout central Europe culminating at
Stonehenge in Great Britain, with the goal of gathering the newest archaeological and archaeometric
information on world megalithic monuments,
explaining their use, deciphering their isolation or
contact, and placing them in a correct chronological
order in relation to their counterparts.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCES OF THE AMERICAS
September 23-26, 2004; Tucson, AZ
Cost: $40 | Contact: Archaeological Sciences of the
Americas Conference, c/o Cathy Snider, Depar tment of Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1009
East South Campus Drive, Tucson, AZ 85721 |
Email: rhowell@email.arizona.edu | Web: w3.arizona.edu/~anthro/asa | Conference intended to
encourage regular and sustained collaboration
between archaeologists, conser vation scientists,
and contract researchers engaged in the development of archaeological science in the Americas.
Keynote speakers include Mark Pollard and Pamela
Vandiver from the Smithsonian Institute.
ARCHAEOLOGY SUMMER SCHOOL
June 14-July 23, 2004; Malta
Cost: $1,070-$2,365 | Contact: Foundation for International Studies, University of Malta, St. Paul Street,
Valetta VLT 07, Malta, (+356) 21.230793 or (+356)
21.234121/2 | Email: univfis@maltanet.net | Web:
www.um.edu.mt/studyabroad/archaeology | No formal qualification is needed for participation in this
unique opportunity to discover, explore, and study
the life of our prehistoric ancestors. Introduces general theories and practices of archaeology and
focuses on Mediterranean and Maltese archaeology,
including the extraordinar y and unique megalithic
temples of the Stone Age and fascinating underground tombs of the Neolithic, Punic, Roman, and
Early Christian ages.
BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY

3-DAY SEMINAR
February 19-21, 2004; Tampa, FL
March 11-13, 2004; Riverside, CA
6-DAY SEMINAR
June 13-19, 2004; Winston-Salem, NC
July 25-31, 2004; Northfield, MN
August 8-14, 2004; Portland, OR
Contact: Biblical Archaeology Society, 4710 41st
Street NW, Washington, DC 20016, (800) 221-4644
or (202) 364-3300 | Email: bas@bib-arch.org |
Web: www.bib-arch.org/bswbTrSeminar | Speakers
include Theodore Burgh, William Dever, and
Theodore Lewis.
BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
August 8-20, 2004; Oxford, England
Contact: Biblical Archaeology Society, 4710 41st
Street NW, Washington, DC 20016, (800) 221-4644
or (202) 364-3300 | Email: bas@bib-arch.org | Web:
www.bib-arch.org/bswbTrSeminar | Speakers include
Susan Ackerman and William Dever.
CONFERENCE FOR BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY:
ACROSS THE AGES - ARCHAEOLOGICAL
TRANSITIONS AND THE RECONSTRUCTION
OF OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY
March 26-28, 2004; Schorndort, Germany
Cost: 2,500 EU | Email: van_der_Veen@t-online.de |
Web: www.archaeological.org | Lectures will focus on
transitional phases in Levantine archaeology for the
reconstruction of the history of Ancient Israel and
Canaan and the study of the proposed overlapping
periods in Palestinian archaeology. Speakers include
Peter van der Veen, Uwe Zerbst, Rupert Chapman,
Aren Maeir, John Bimson,
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
April 1-7, 2004; Berlin, Germany
Cost: 150 EU | Contact: Congress Organization/Registration, CTW, Congress Organisation Thomas
Wiese GmbH Gosslerstr. 30, D-12161 Berlin, +4930-85 99 62 20 | Email: 4icaane@ctw-congress.de |
Web: www.archaeological.org | Themes will include
Reconstruction of Environment - Natural Resources
and Human Inter-Relation Through Time; Art History Visual Communication; The Archaeology of Transition Periods and Dark Ages; and Reports on Archaeological Field Work. Each section will feature
posters, presentations, workshops, and social
events.
SAVING PLACES CONFERENCE
February 5-7, 2004; Denver, CO
Cost: $195 | Contact: Colorado Preservation, Inc.,
(303) 893-4260 | Email: info@coloradopreser vation.org | Web: www.coloradopreservation.org/sav-
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projects, trends, and technology through general
sessions, educational sessions, workshops, and the
only regional trade show of preservation goods, services, and products. Speakers include Georgianna
Contiguglia, Dana Crawford, John Fielder, Larr y
Green, Steve Martin, Thomas J. Noel Ph.D., Sharon
C. Park, John H. Robbins, Donovan Rypkerna, David
Owen Trylia, Robert L. Turner, and others.
SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY
69TH ANNUAL MEETING
March 31-April 4, 2004; Montral,
Qubec, Canada
Contact: Society for American Archaeology, 900 Second Street NE #12, Washington, DC 2002-3557,
(202) 789-8200 | Email: headquar ters@saa.org |
Web: www.saa.org/meetings
OLOGY
ASTROLOGY
8TH WORLD CONGRESS:

EXPLORING THE FOURTH DIMENSION
April 9-12, 2004; Basel, Switzerland
Contact: Claude Weiss, ASTRODATA AG, Chilenholzstrasse 8, CH-8907 Wettswil | Email:
info@astro2004.ch | Web: www.astro2004.ch | The
purpose of this conference, which is par t of the
World Wide Trilogy to celebrate Uranus in Pisces, is
to catalyze, inspire, and inform both astrologers and
the general public. Speakers will cover individual,
spiritual, business, media, mundane topics, and
more. Conference languages: German and English.
ADVANCED CHART ANALYSIS TRAINING ON THE
MERCURY CYCLE AND SHAMANIC TIMELINE
March 10-14, 2004; Tucson, AZ
Cost: $400 | Contact: Carolyn Brent, (520) 7440506 | Email: p3@ShamanicAstrology.Com | Web:
www.shamanicastrology.com/events02.htm#sa_se
dona | The primar y emphasis is on chart analysis
and counseling techniques. Will explore the Mercury
cycle, and offer an in-depth look at the Shamanic
Timeline and how to appy it in readings.
ASTROLOGY & STOCK MARKET
FORECASTING CONFERENCE
May 14-17, 2004; New York, NY
Cost: $595 ($144 Fri. only) | Contact: The
Astrologers Fund Inc., 370 Lexington Ave., Suite
416, New York, NY 10017, (212) 949-7211 | Email:
info@afund.com | Web: afund.com/nyconf2004 |
Discover how some of the world's best financial
astrologers think, advise, and manage money. Learn
new approaches to markets and new techniques for
analyzing them and a wealth of down-to-earth, practical, real world applications of astrological/financial
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forecasting tools. Speakers include Tim Bost,
Christopher Carolan, and others.
ASTRO-RAMA XVIII CONF.: TRAVEL THE STARS
April 30-May 2, 2004; Hudson, OH
Contact: Barry McCombs, Astro-Rama Conference,
PO Box 118, Mineral Ridge, OH 44440, (330) 6524971 | Email: astroramausa@yahoo.com | Web:
astroramausa.com
BELTANE TAURUS CROSS-QUARTER
SHAMANIC ASTROLOGY GATHERING
May 5-9, 2004; Faywood Hot Springs, NM
Contact: Carolyn Brent, (520) 744-0506 | Email:
p3@ShamanicAstrology.Com | Web: www.shamanicastrology.com/events | With Daniel Giamario, Carolyn Brent, and John Dumas. Includes journey to
Casas Grandes, Mexico, and Paquime, the only
archaeological site of its kind in northern Mexico.
CHART ANALYSIS INTENSIVES
SCRIPT AND ARCHETYPES TRACK:
March 31-April 4, 2004
SHAMANIC TIMELINE, INITIATION CYCLES
AND PLANETARY COMPLEXES TRACK:
Oct. 13-19, 2004
Sedona, AZ
Cost: $400 | Contact: Carolyn Brent, (520) 7440506 | Email: p3@ShamanicAstrology.com | Web:
www.shamanicastrology.com/events01.htm#tucson2003 | The primar y emphasis will be in-depth
chart analysis and counseling techniques, exploring
the Script and Story Lines using the Whole House
System, the Shamanic Timeline, including Outer
Planet Initiation Cycles and Synodic Planetar y
Returns, astrological complexes, and chart comparison (relationship or synastry).
EVOLUTIONARY ASTROLOGY CONFERENCE
Feb. 20-22, 2004; Vancouver, BC, Canada
Contact: (877) 348-5111 or (605) 348-5111 |
Email: astrokmk@aol.com | Web: www.astrologyguild.com/roseconference | Speakers include
Hanne Albrechtsen (Denmark); Kitty Kennard (England); Hayo Bol (Holland); Maurice Fernandez
(Israel); Mark Batterbur y, Rose Marcus (Canada);
Kristin Fontana, Kim Marie, and Kim Maynard (US).
Lecture topics include Chiron, All Three Liliths, Pluto
Transits, Evolutionary States, Challenges of Uranus
& Black Moon Lilith, and more.
LONDON SCHOOL OF ASTROLOGY SEMINARS
Various dates; London, England
Cost: 40 | Contact: London School of Astrology,
BCM Planets, London WC1N 3XX, UK, +44 (0)700
233 44 55 | Email: admin@londonschoolofastrology.co.uk | Web: www.londonschoolofastrology.co.uk
| Topics include Intro to the Tarot, Forecasting Day,
The Marriage of Stars with Planets, and more.
ORG. FOR PROFESSIONAL ASTROLOGY (OPA)

ANNUAL CONFERENCE: AN ASTROLOGER'S
RETREAT
April 22-25, 2004; Marco Island, FL
Cost: $325 until Aug. 1; $395 thereafter | Contact:
(239) 261-2840 | Email: BOBMULLIGA@aol.com |
Web: www.professional-astrology.org | The
Astrologers Retreat is available for any astrologers
who are currently seeing clients and want to work
with other astrologers to improve their counseling
skills and build a stronger business plan.
SHAMANIC ASTROLOGY AUTUMNAL EQUINOX
NIGHT SKY WILDERNESS CAMP
September 19-22, 2004; Fishlake Valley, NV
Cost: $300 | Contact: Daniel Giamario, 11301 Vista
Avenue, Grass Valley, CA 95945, (310) 281-7651 |
Email: p3@ShamanicAstrology.Com | Web:
www.shamanicastrology.com/events01 | Celebration at the ancient petroglyph mystery school with
Daniel Giamario, Carolyn Brent, and John Dumas.
Includes classes in experiential Shamanic Astrology
with emphasis on the Venus and Mars Synodic
Cycle, Venus emerging from the under world on
September 26th, Morning Star Mercur y over tone
Virgo, Night Sky Fundamentals, sunrise and sunset
Equinox ceremonials with the petroglyphs, high
desert mountain hiking and Wilderness Hot Springs,
and astrological vision quest.
WAKE UP TO YOUR COSMIC ORIGINS
AND DESTINY: REVIVING THE NATURAL
UNITY OF ASTROLOGY AND ASTRONOMY
March 26-28, 2004; Virginia Beach, VA
Cost: $225 (member disc. avail.) | Contact: Association for Research and Enlightenment, 215 67th
Street, Virginia Beach, VA 23451, (800) 333-4499
or (757) 428-3588 Ext. 7323 | Email: confregistrar@edgarcayce.org | Web: edgarcayce.org/conferences/hq_va_beach | For both the professional and
the novice, a new astrology and astronomy will be
born to target your deeper concerns. Includes awesome stargazing.
CROP CIRCLES
ANCIENT SACRED PLACES, CROP CIRCLES,
AND BEAUTIFUL SOUTHERN ENGLAND
June, July and August, 2004; Southern England
Contact: Ron Russell, PO Box 460760, Aurora, CO
80046, (303) 995-9966 | Email: ron@cropcircles.
org | Web: www.cropcircles.org/ tours.php | Tours
with a focus on research in Wiltshire, England.
Includes private access to Stonehenge, special
research training opportunities in the field, tours to,
and remote viewing introduction training in sacred
sites and crop circles. Guests and speakers include
Ron Russell, Dr. Simeon Hein, Busty Taylor, Colin
Andrews, Peter Sorensen, John Michell, Paul Vigay,
Lucy Pringle, Freddy Silva, and others.
ENGLAND'S MYSTERIOUS CROP CIRCLES

AND STONEHENGE TOUR
July 29-August 5, 2004; Wiltshire, England
Cost: $1,900 (airfare not incl.) | Contact: Dr. Chet
Snow, PO Box 1738, Sedona, AZ 86339, (928) 2041962 | Email: chetsnow@sedona.net | Web:
www.chetsnow.com/cropcircles
FIELD RESEARCH TRAINING INTENSIVE
Various dates; Wiltshire and Hampshire, England
Contact: Ron Russell, PO Box 460760, Aurora, CO
80046 | Email: ron@cropcircles.org | Web:
www.cropcircles.org/tours.php | Use electrostatic
and magnetic meters to plot energy fluctuations,
construct a legal test-bed formation, and participate
in a skywatch on a sacred site using CSETI protocol.
Includes discussion and training in
resonant/remote viewing. Guest research experts
include Rodney Ashbury, Paul Vigay, Busty Taylor, Dr.
Simeon Hein, Lucy Pringle, Matthew Williams, and
others.
GLASTONBURY SYMPOSIUM: INVESTIGATING
CROP CIRCLES AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES
July 23-25, 2004; Glastonbury, England
Cost: 80; 30 Fri. or Sat. ; 30 Sun. lectures until
5 p.m. | Contact: Sheila Martin, 16 Chilkwell Street,
Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 8DB, England, +44 (0)
139 267 7462 | Email: glastonbur ysymposium@
btopenworld.com | Web: www.glastonbur ysymposium.co.uk/a-welcome
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON CROP CIRCLES & STONEHENGE
July 19-26, 2004; Salisbury, England
Contact: Power Places, 2509 #A Andromeda, Colorado Springs, CO 80906, (800) 234-8687 or (719)
448-0514 | Email: travel@powerplaces.com | Web:
www.powerplaces.com/StonehengeCropCircles |
Experience the magical energy of Stonehenge, Avebury, and Glastonbury. Feel the mystical power and
energy of Stonehenge, including private access to
its inner circle. Walk through crop circles to experience the thriling vortex of energy that created them.
With Barbara Hand Clow, Freddy Silva, John Michell,
Robert Friedman, Lisette Larkins, and others.
SQUARING THE CIRCLE:
A PARADIGM SHIFT IN HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
January 15, 2004; London, England
Contact: The Centre for Crop Circle Studies, c/o
Busty Taylor, 52 Appletree Grove, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 3RG, (+44) 0 1264 324496 | Email:
busty@circleflyer.fsnet.co.uk | Web: www.cccsuk.org/events | Presented by Allan Brown, who will
share insights about the sublime geometr y that
underpins enigmatic crop circles.
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CRYPTOZOOLOGY
16TH ANNUAL BIGFOOT CONFERENCE/EXPO
April 3, 2004; Newcomerstown, OH
Contact: Don Keating, (740) 498-4542 | Email:
eobic@yahoo.com | Web: www.angelfire.com/oh/
ohiobigfoot/abc
BIGFOOT DAZE
May 2004; Hillsboro, OR
Contact: Ray Crowe, Director IBS, 225 NE 30th
Avenue, Hillsboro, OR 97124, (503) 640-6581 |
Email: raycrowe@aol.com | Web: www.internationalbigfootsociety.com
NORTH CALIFORNIA BIGFOOT EXPEDITION
May 6-9, 2004; Northwest CA
Cost: $800 | Email: foundation@BFRO.net | Web:
www.bfro.net/news/roundup/roundups_2004.asp
SOUTHERN COLORADO BIGFOOT EXPEDITION
Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 2004; New Mexico
border region, CO
SOUTHERN CRYPTO CONFERENCE
June 26, 2004; Conroe, TX
Cost: $5 | Contact: Thirteen Promotions, 101 Broad
Street, Orange, TX 77630 | Email: bigfoot@cryptokeeper.com | Web: www.cryptokeeper.com/conference | Keynote speaker: Bob Gimlin.
WASHINGTON STATE BIGFOOT EXPEDITION
August 5-8, 2004; Olympic Peninsula Region, WA
HEALTH AND HEALING

HEALING MEDITATION
Each Wednesday; Litchfield, CT
Cost: $10 | Contact: Touching Spirit Center, 16
South Street, Litchfield, CT 06759, (860) 567-0600
| Web: www.touchingspirit.org/tprog1
HEALING MEDITATION CIRCLE:
AWAKENING, HEALING & PEACE
Second and Fourth Saturday; Tampa, FL
Contact: (727) 842-6788 | Email: Keth@AwakeningHealing.com | Web: www.awakening-healing.com/
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HEALING: THE CONSCIOUS PRACTICE OF BRINGING BALANCE, RESTORATION AND HEALTH TO
SELF, OTHERS, AND COMMUNITY
May 21-23, 2004; Rowe, MA
Contact: (413) 339-4954 | Email: retreat@rowecenter.org | Web: www.dreamchange.org/projects/heal-
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ing5-21-04 | Learn to read energy fields and auras;
diagnose yourself and others; apply plants, flowers,
sacred objects, and spirit medicine; heal with candles, pendulums, elements, tsentsak, and music;
integrate the Core Self into the healing process;
bring in the universal Light; use healing as a portal
to higher vibrational levels; attain new plateaus of
consciousness; assimilate personal with community
healing, balance, and restoration; and honor your
sensual spirituality and ability to fully embody spirit.
HEALING SOUNDS INTENSIVE
July 17-25, 2004; Denver, CO
Cost: $1395 | Contact: Jonathan Goldman, (800)
246-9764 or (303) 443-8181 | Email: soundheals@aol.com | Web: www.healingsounds.com/
training/intensive-desc.asp | Immerse yourself in
the energies of light and love as you travel the
sound current! Nine days of toning, teaching and
transformation with Sound Healing Pioneer and
Chant Master Jonathan Goldman, in a step-by-step
process of vibratory patterning and alignment combining both the latest scientific material on sonics
with time-honored sacred sounds from various traditions. Learn in a special atmosphere of serenity and
love and discover how to use your own sacred
sounds for self-transformation and healing and to
enrich your life and your work.
HEALING WITH STAR ENERGIES:
AWAKENING OUR ESSENCE
February 27-29, 2004; Worcester, VT
Contact: Sue Jamieson or Lyn Roberts-Herrick (212)
674-0525 | Email: StarEnergies@aol.com | Web:
www.dreamchange.org/projects/index
HEALING SOUNDS LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
January 22, 2004; Boulder, CO
January 31-February 1, 2004; Boulder, CO
May 21, 2004; Mountain View, CA
May 22, 2004; Mountain View, CA
Cost: $1,395 | Contact: Solstice Institute, (303)
443-8181 | Web: www.healingsounds.com/training/schedule.asp | Study with Chant Master
Jonathan Goldman and learn to use your own
sounds for vibrational patterning and alignment, and
to access deeper levels of consciousness and selftransformation.
INTERNATIONAL HEALING CONFERENCE
March 21-28, 2004; Tuscany, Italy
Contact: Power Places, 2509 #A Andromeda, Colorado Springs, CO 80906, (800) 234-8687 | Email:
travel@powerplaces.com | Web: www.powerplaces.
com/TuscanyItaly04 | Learn deeper levels of healing
and rejuvenation from healing professionals, rejuvenation experts, a medical intuitive, and other transformational teachers, including Linda Adler, Monte
Farber, Amy Zerner, Nancy Lee, Rebecca Skeele,
Caroline Sutherland, and others. Rejuvenate, relax
and be inspired at a 19th-century villa nestled in the
Tuscan hillside and explore ancient grottos, countryside of northern Italy, and historic Florence.
INTERNATIONAL HEALING SOUNDS INTENSIVE
July 17-25, 2004; Loveland, CO
Cost: $1,395 | Contact: Jonathan Goldman, PO Box
2240, Boulder, CO 80306, (800) 246-9764 | Web:
www.healingsounds.com/training/intensivedesc.asp | Study with Chant Master Jonathan Goldman and learn to use your own sounds for vibrational patterning and alignment, and to access
deeper levels of consciousness and self-transformation. This program covers the latest scientific material on sonics as well as time-honored sacred sounds
from different traditions.
MEDICINE FOR THE EARTH
April 30-May 2, 2004; Worcester, VT
Contact: Lyn Rober ts-Herrick or Sue Jamieson,
(212) 674-0525 | Email: starenergies@aol.com |
Web: www.dreamchange.org/projects/medicineforearth | Learn how to use powerful techniques of consciousness and awareness in transforming environmental and personal toxins, and practice creative
visualization, ceremony, rituals, and chants from
ancient healing approaches.
TOUCHING SPIRIT TRAINING PROGRAM
March 6-7, 2004; Litchfield, CT
April 3-4, 2004; Litchfield, CT
May 1-2, 2004; Litchfield, CT
June 5-6, 2004; Litchfield, CT
Cost: $1,200 | Contact: Touching Spirit Center, 16
South Street, Litchfield, CT 06759, (860) 567-0600
| Web: www.touchingspirit.org/tprog1 | Training in
the art of spiritual healing and the science of energy
medicine includes opening the flow of healing energy through the hear t and hands, attuning the
chakras and subtle energy flows of the body and
understanding how they affect health, opening the
intuitive and spiritual energies and combining prayer
and meditation for healing, and creating meditations
that can be used with individuals and groups.
WORLD SOUND HEALING DAY
February 14, 2004; Boulder, CO
Contact: Solstice Institute, (303) 443-8181 | Web:
www.healingsounds.com/training/schedule.asp
NEW AGE
2004 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON ENLIGHTENMENT
January 16-20, 2004; Santa Fe, NM
Cost: $495 | Contact: The Message Company, 4
Camino Azul, Santa Fe, NM 87508, (505) 474-0998
or (505) 474-7604 | Email: message@bizspirit.com
| Web: www.bizspirit.com/home/eventcalendar |
Speakers include Peter Levine PhD, Gay Hendricks
PhD, Kathlyn Hendricks PhD, Richard Moss MD,
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Isaac Shapiro, Pamela Wilson, John Sherman, Arjuna Ardagh, Adyashanti, Tina de Souza, Onye Onyemaechi, Robert Gass, Judith Gass, Gail Ackerman,
Joe Miguez, and Sita Jamison.
CELEBRATE BEING A WOMAN:
THE NEW ERA OF YA-YA SISTERHOOD
Every other Tuesday; Beverly Hills, MI
Contact: Stellar-Gaia Alliances, 2619 Vinsetta Blvd.,
Royal Oak, MI, (248) 646-3793 or (323) 791-4370
(cell) | Email: stellargaia@ear thlink.net | Web:
www.spiritofnature.org/amandaevents | Empower
your femininity; balance all aspects of your self and
life; discover your hidden spirit; and be supported by
other women to live in the freedom and fullness of
your true self!
COLLEGE OF PSYCHIC STUDIES
WEEKEND WORKSHOPS
Contact: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, England SW7 2EB, +44 (0)20
7589 3292 | Email: admin@psychic-studies.org.uk |
Web: www.psychic-studies.org.uk | More than 45
one- and two-day workshops are offered on a wide
range of subjects covering different aspects of psychic, spiritual, and healing development, including
topics such as connection with your guides, dowsing, Tarot, past lives, shamanic journeying, angels,
meditation, and many more.
COMMUNITY EARTH SKY (SWEAT)
LODGE CEREMONIES WITH RAVEN
3rd Saturday of each month; Nambe, NM
Contact: Spirit of Nature, PO Box 31275, Santa Fe,
NM 87594, (877) 438-9902 | Email: trailguide@spiritofnature.org | Web: www.spiritofnature.org/lodge |
Work with the energies of Mother Earth and Father
Sky to gain insight, experience the power of renewal
and healing, purify yourself and the Earth, bring harmony and balance into your life, and create a life of
harmony, joy, love, and peace.
CONTACTING YOUR SPIRIT GUIDES AND ANGELS
February 21, 2004; Minneapolis, MN
March 13, 2004; Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
Cost: $150 | Contact: (408) 376-2124 | Email:
office@sylvia.org | Web: www.sylvia.org | Angels have
been in every religion and culture as messengers,
guardians, and God's protective army. It is simple to
reach them; belief is the key. Learn their names and
functions to help you to call upon the best helper for
your specific goals. Learn how Spirit Guides can
infuse knowledge and answer your personal questions. Meet your Guides by using simple meditations. Learn to discern real messages from your own
thoughts and rule out imagination. Protect yourself
from unwanted spirits with Tools of Protection.
EMPOWER YOUR SELF:

EMBRACE THE DIVINE YOU!
Every Wednesday; Beverly Hills, MI
Contact: Stellar-Gaia Alliances, 2619 Vinsetta Blvd.,
Royal Oak, MI, (248) 646-3793 or (323) 791-4370
(cell) | Email: stellargaia@ear thlink.net | Web:
www.spiritofnature.org/amandaevents | A dynamic
exploration, discovery, and support group in which
you can be who you truly are and manifest your
desires, dreams and destiny.
ENERGY WORKSHOPS
Various Dates; Malvern, Worcestershire, England
Cost: 95-180 | Web: www.kch42.dial.pipex.com/
courses.htm#anchor396284 | Topics include Earth
Energies, Energy Balancing, Healing Your Ancestral
Patterns, and Spirit Release.
INNER POTENTIAL CENTRE WORKSHOPS
Contact: The Inner Potential Centre, 36 Kelvedon
Road, London SW6 5BW, England 020 7736 4187 |
Email: info@innerpotential.org | Web: www.innerpotential.org | Learn about discovering your intuitive
power and latent abilities, Mongolian overtoning and
Tibetan singing bowls, divine messengers through
the ages, the road to enlightenment, the Tao of
inspiration with mystical songs and poetr y, yoga
breathing for energy and inspiration, the energy of
color for self healing and personal growth, enriching
your life with numerology, good karma, the science
of sacred sounds, the journey of the soul, stimulating psychic sensitivity with sounds, the magic of
healing, pathways to meaning and purpose, dowsing
for beginners, and more!
SYLVIA BROWNE PRESENTS:
VISITS FROM THE AFTERLIFE
March 26, 2004; Detroit, MI
March 28, 2004; Columbus, OH
April 18, 2004; Oklahoma City, OK
April 23, 2004; Pittsburgh, PA
April 25, 2004; Chicago, IL
April 30, 2004; Albuquerque, NM
May 2, 2004; San Diego, CA
May 16, 2004; Seattle, WA
May 20, 2004; Kansas City, KA
May 28, 2004; St. Louis, MO
Contact: The Learning Annex, Speakers on Tour
Office, (888) 532-6639 of (415) 788-5500 | Email:
office@sylvia.org | Web: www.learningannex.com |
Psychic Sylvia Browne will answer questions and discuss how she contacts loved ones who have passed
on, explain what life is like on the other side, Angels
and Spirit Guides and teach about the powerful role
your mind can play in your health and happiness,
how to take an active part in healing and protecting
yourself, how to expand your mind to enhance all
aspects of your well-being, and how to prevent negative influences that can keep you from staying well.
SYLVIA BROWNE PRESENTS: MEDITATION CLASS

January 24, 2004; Los Angeles, CA
May 22, 2004; Baltimore, MD
July 17, 2004; Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
Cost: $150 | Contact: (408) 376-2123 | Email:
office@sylvia.org | Web: www.sylvia.org/home/
prayermeditation.cfm | Learn practical techniques
for relaxing and healing the mind, body and soul
through meditation. This class explains and defines
meditation. Learn the steps of meditation to visualize for success, synergism, and manifesting desired
abundance as well as receiving messages from Spirit Guides, Angels or deceased loved ones. Learn various meditations and the skills necessary to design
meditations for yourself and others. Classes taught
by ministers of the Society of Novus Spiritus, founded by psychic Sylvia Browne.
NEW LIVING EXPO
April 23-25, 2004; San Francisco, CA
Cost: $15 | Contact: New Living Expo, 422 Cor te
Escuela, Novato, CA 94949, (415) 382-8300 |
Email: info@newlivingexpo.com | Web: www.newageexpo.com | Includes exhibits, lectures, panel discussions, and workshops. Speakers include Jack Canfield, Joan Bor ysenko, Dannion Brinkley, Margot
Anand, Jean Houston, Robert A.F. Thurman, Sean
David Mor ton, Caroline Casey, Peter Levine, Lynn
Andrews, John Gray, and many others.
SYLVIA BROWNE PRESENTS:
PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT CLASS
January 31, 2004; Seattle, WA
February 7, 2004; New York, NY
Cost: $100-$175 | Contact: (408) 379-7070 x188 |
Email: office@sylvia.org | Web: www.sylvia.org/
home/psychicdevelopment.cfm | Explore your potential and learn to increase your psychic abilities using
proven techniques. Develop confidence in your own
insights and learn to listen to your inner voice,
increase your creativity, and develop a more positive, life-enhancing attitude. This is a hands-on
class, exploring many areas of psychic ability, taught
by ministers of the Society of Novus Spiritus, founded by psychic Sylvia Browne.
REVITALIZING EARTH WORKSHOPS
Various dates; Marlborough, England
Cost: 90-195 (all four workshops); 35-55 (single workshop) | Contact: Revitalizing Ear th Workshops, High View, Elcot Lane, Marlborough, Wilshire,
England SN8 2BA, 01672 516419 | Web:
www.kch42.dial.pipex.com/courses.htm#anchor21
3490 | Learn to ground the spirit, harness the
breath of life, harmonize relationships, awaken light,
and relate to the changing Earth consciousness and
energetic resonance that is shifting the perceptual
awareness of the elements as the influence of new
Sun energy is enabling Earth to move forward in the
evolutionary process to a new level of freedom, and
the whole of humanity becomes solar energized.
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SPIRITUAL AWAKENING, NOW!
March 20-21, 2004; Sedona, AZ
Cost: $150; one day pass $85 | Contact: Dr. Chet
Snow, PO Box 1738, Sedona, AZ 86339, (928) 2041962 | Email: chetsnow@sedona.net | Web:
www.chetsnow.com/cropcircles | Trance channel
Barbara Marciniak and the Pleiadians offer wit and
wisdom for freeing oneself and the planet from
ancient invisible bonds, the latest information on
astrological forecasts, accepting responsibility,
understanding how the mind builds frequencies that
build reality, how to produce energy to change realities, how understanding accelerates energy, how to
design your own world, what are alien agendas, how
to cope with the craziness of it all, and group toning
exercises and limited physical exercises.
TEA AT THE CRYSTAL BRIDGE WITH TAKARA,
A WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT GATHERING
Second Friday of each month; Santa Fe, NM
Contact: Spirit of Nature, PO Box 31275, Santa Fe,
NM 87594, (505) 438-9046 | Web: www.spiritofnature.org/seminars | Join a group of women empowering women for sharing, stor ytelling, meditation,
and tea.
WOMEN OF WISDOM CONFERENCE
February 13-21, 2004; Seattle, WA
Contact: Women of Wisdom Foundation, PO Box
30043, Seattle, WA 98113, (206) 782-3363 |
Email: wow@womenofwisdom.org | Web:
www.womenofwisdom.org
OTHER
2004 PARAPSYCHOLOGY ASSOC. CONVENTION
August 5-8, 2004; Vienna, Austria
Email: pa-2004@parapsychologie.ac.at | Web: parapsychologie.ac.at/pa-2004/convent
AIRY FAIRY/PAGAN FED. LECTURE SERIES
Various dates; Sheffield, England
Cost: 1.50 | Contact: Francis Clarke-Rowland, +44
(0)114 232 27 74 or +44 (0(776 021 53 85 |
Email: clarke-rowland@talk21.com or anwen@airyfairy.org | Web: www.airyfairy.org/Workshops | Topics include Wand Making, a Pagan Guide to Greek
Mythology, the uses and magic of the forest, how to
contact and use the power around you in your pets,
Spirit Nets & Dreamcatchers: how to tell the difference and make them, and more.
ANNUAL ANCIENT MYSTERIES: MU, ATLANTIS,
AND EGYPTPOLE STAR ALIGNS AND SOUL
GROUPS RETURN
October 7-10, 2004; Virginia Beach, VA
Cost: $280 | Contact: Association for Research and
Enlightenment, 215 67th Street, Virginia Beach, VA
23451, (800) 333-4499 or (757) 428-3588 Ext.
7323 | Email: confregistrar@edgarcayce.org | Web:
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edgarcayce.org/conferences/hq_va_beach | This
program combines the latest archaeological discoveries with concepts and perspectives of ancient cultures, bringing beauty, truth, and spirituality into better focus, with Graham Hancock, Maureen
Clemmons PhD, Fate mags Phyllis Glade, John Van
Auken, Greg Little EdD, Lora Little EdD, Grace Yuksek, and Elizabeth Waitekus.
DISCOVER DOWSING WITH THE
POWER OF YOUR FOCUSED MIND
March 6, 2004; Virginia Beach, VA
or (757) 428-3588 Ext. 7323 | Email: confregistrar@edgarcayce.org | Web: edgarcayce.org/conferences/hq_va_beach | Raymon Grace will teach practical, empowering skills to enhance your intuition
and heal.
THE EDGAR CAYCE LEGACY:
TRAINING IN PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT
February 29-March 5, 2004; Virginia Beach, VA
or (757) 428-3588 Ext. 7323 | Email: confregistrar@edgarcayce.org | Web: edgarcayce.org/conferences/hq_va_beach | Henr y Reed PhD, and Carol
Ann Liaros will use specific exercises to help you
develop your intuition.
FENG SHUI WORKSHOPS
January 11-12, 2004; Kent, England
February 22-23, 2004; Kent, England
Cost: 154 | Contact: The Alan Stirling School of
Feng Shui, 16 Ash Road, Strood, Kent, ME2 2JL,
UK, +44 07092 051455 | Email: alan777@blueyonder.co.uk or alanstirling@fengshuithatworks.co.uk |
Web: www.fengshuithatworks.co.uk/school/index
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROSPERITY:
LIVE LONG & PROSPER
March 27-April 3, 2004; Malta
com/maltaicp | Join leading transformational speakers and experts to learn techniques of spiritual prosperity that empower you and asser t your divinity.
Learn how to align with metaphysical prosperity laws
to heal karma and help erase debt, unleash your
creativity, and enhance intuitive abilities thus creating abundance in all aspects of your life and relationships. Visit the temples, esoteric Knights of St.
John's Myster y School Cathedral, and megalithic
monuments built to the mother goddess of fertility
and the divine mysteries of Gaia and the Cosmos in
the "Land of the Goddess" in the hear t of the
Mediterranean.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SACRED

SEXUALITY: AWAKENING AWARENESS - AN
INVITATION TOWARDS ENGLIGHTENMENT
Contact: 4 Camino Azul, Santa Fe, NM 87508, (505)
474-0998 | Email: message@bizspirit.com | Web:
www.bizspirit.com/sexuality/sx_index | Investigate
the space between ordinary and non-ordinary reality,
expand personal awareness, and participate in the
exploration of consciousness. Speakers include
Arjuna Ardagh, Peter Levine, Merilyn Tunneshende,
Gay Hendricks PhD, and Kathlyn Hendricks PhD.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON SCIENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS:
CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLORING ITSELF
April 23-28, 2004; Albuquerque, NM
Cost: $595 | Contact: 4 Camino Azul, Santa Fe, NM
87508, (505) 474-0998 | Email: message@bizspirit.com | Web: www.bizspirit.com/science/index |
Speakers include Peter Russell, Raymond Moody,
Judith Orloff, Alan Wallace, Russell Targ, Christine
Page, Duane Elgin, Brian O'Lear y, Carlos War ter,
Danah Zohar, Saniel Bonder, Howard Martin, Meir
Schneider, Stephen Wolinsky, Onye Onyemaechi,
and Tina de Souza.
LIFE, DEATH & BEYOND CONFERENCE
October 17-24, 2004; Crete, Greece
com | Journey to the magical, sacred island of Crete
with Rosemary Altea, Linda Backman, Victoria Jennings, Nancy Lee, Heather Roan Robbins, Kim Sheridan, Rebecca Skeele, Caroline Sutherland and others as they imbue a consciousness that is
conducive for exploring past lives, future lives, and
in between, and sharing thoughts and experiences
on spiritual evolution, both personal and planetary.
Visit the Minoan ceremonial palaces and natural
sanctuaries and experience the mystical energy that
provides a power ful catalyst for spiritual experiences, personal learning, and healing.
MYTHIC JOURNEYS CONFERENCE
June 3-6, 2004; Atlanta, GA
Email: john@mythicjourneys.org or mkarlin@mindspring.com | Web: www.mythicjourneys.org
PSYCHIC QUESTING: USE INTUITION, DREAMS,
AND PSYCHIC WORK TO LOCATE LOST TREASURE
July 9-11, 2004; Virginia Beach, VA
Cost: $280 | Contact: Association for Research and
Enlightenment, 215 67th Street, Virginia Beach, VA
23451, (800) 333-4499 or (757) 428-3588 Ext.
7323 | Email: confregistrar@edgarcayce.org | Web:
edgarcayce.org/conferences/hq_va_beach | An indepth practicum on this ancient, yet buried-in-recenttimes art, with Andrew Collins and Henry Reed, PhD.
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ACADEMY OF RELIGION AND PSYCHICAL
RESEARCH 29TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
June 25-28, 2004; Rosemont, PA
Cost: $200 (member disc. avail.) | Contact: Boyce
Batey, The Academy of Religion and Psychical
Research, PO Box 614, Bloomfield, CT 06002, (860)
242-4593 | Email: bateyb@infionline.net | Web:
www.lightlink.com/arpr/#PROGRAMS | Features a
wide range of subjects relating to religion and the
paranormal, such as prophecy, precognition, mediumship, mystics, electronic voice phenomena, and
other methods of spirit communication, apparitions,
crop circles, alien visitations, near-death and out-ofbody experiences, etc.
SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH
LECTURE PROGRAMME
Various Dates; London, England
Cost: 5 | Contact: Society for Psychical Research,
49 Marloes Road, London, W8 6LA, UK, +44 171
937 8984 | Web: www.spr.ac.uk/lectures.php3 |
Upcoming topics include Redefining Secular Humanism in the Light of Psychical Research; Dickens and
Spirit Photography; The Actor, the Medium, and the
Message; and Does the Emotional System Help ESP
Affect Behavior?
SOCIETY FOR SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION
23RD ANNUAL MEETING
May 20-22, 2004; Las Vegas, NV
Web: www.scientificexploration.org/meetings |
Intended to facilitate the investigation of all questions that are amenable to scientific investigation
and provide a forum for the presentation and criticism of relevant research. Features lectures, contributed talks, and poster sessions.
TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY:
CONSCIOUSNESS AND INTERRELATIONSHIPS
January 9-13, 2004; Burlingame, CA
Contact: Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 744
San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303, (650) 4934430 | Email: itpinfo@itp.edu | Web:
www.itp.edu/new/seminars
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS CRUISE
February 1-8, 2004; Western Caribbean
Cost: $660-$1,012 (double occ.) | Contact: SE
Unlimited, 616 North Nesmith Avenue, Sioux Falls,
SD 57103, (800) 552-9798 or (605) 366-0202 |
Email: SALES@seunlimitedtravel.com | Web:
www.seunlimitedtravel.com/TVL_files/page0009 |
The perfect vacation for those that listen for things
that go bump in the night, stand outside hoping to
catch a glimpse of a UFO, or are interested in Bigfoot, the Yeti, Nessie, and ghosts. Sail with like-minded people to Key West, said to be the most haunted
town in America; Cozumel, the Mayan site of ancient
sacrifices; Ocho Rios, where Voodoo as a religion is
still practiced; and Grand Cayman.
UNEXPLAINED MYSTERIES CONFERENCE

April 4, 2004; Dorchester, Dorset, England
Cost: 18 adv., 25 door | Contact: Conference
2004, 1, Goldcombe Farm Cottage, Mar tinstown,
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 01305 889108 |
Email: davidkingston@btopenworld.com | Web: universityoflife.users2.50megs.com/page4.htm |
Speakers include Stewar t Langdown, David
Kingston, and Crighton Miller.
YOUR INNER ORACLE: DREAMS,
SYMBOLISM, AND INTUITION
January 17, 2004; Virginia Beach, VA
Cost: $59 (member dis. avail.) | Contact: Association
for Research and Enlightenment, 215 67th Street,
Virginia Beach, VA 23451, (800) 333-4499 or (757)
428-3588 Ext. 7323 | Email: confregistrar@edgarcayce.org | Web: edgarcayce.org/conferences/
hq_va_beach | Armed with fascinating accounts of
symbolism and interpretation, Kevin J. Todeschi
explains how the subconscious mind holds insights
to nearly ever y question imaginable! Learn about
dreams from many perspectives, practice with real
samples, feel the ease of facilitating a waking
dream, and obtain insights on virtually any question,
using imagination and symbolism.
PARANORMAL
2004 CALIFORNIA GHOST HUNTERS CONFERENCE
May 14-15, 2004; San Francisco, CA
Email: ghosttrackers@yahoo.com | Web: www.ghosttrackers.com/2003conf
2004 GHOST TRACKER RETREAT
April 16-17, 2004; New Orleans, LA
Cost: $300 (incl. accom.and meals) | Contact: Deborah Reynolds, Asst. Dir., North Florida Paranormal
Research, Inc., (904) 276-2098 | Email: contactus@ghosttracker.com | Web: www.ghosttracker.com
| Includes Ghost Hunting 101 workshop, ghost tour,
investigation, guest speakers, taping of Ghost Tracker Radio, and more.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRONIC VOICE
PHENOMENA CONFERENCE: COMMUNICATING
WITH THE OTHER SIDE
June 3-6, 2004; Reno, NV
Cost: $175 | Contact: American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena, PO Box 13111, Reno, NV
89507 | Email: aaevpsuppor t@aol.com | Web:
aaevp.com/conferences/aaevp_conference | Conference in a haunted hotel features lectures, workshops, exhibits, a ghost walk led by Janice Oberding,
and speakers, including Tom and Lisa Butler, Mark
Macy, Dennis Hauck, Sarah Estep, Rev. Robert Egby,
Dr. Anabela Cardosa, Rev. Barbara Thurman, Martha
Copeland, Karen Mossey, Mike Sullivan, Erland Babcock, and Susan Bov.
CHICAGO SUPERNATURAL CRUISE

Each Saturday, July-Labor Day, 2004; and
August 13, 2004 (Friday the 13th!); Chicago, IL
Cost: $24 | Contact: Richard T. Crowe, PO Box
557544, Chicago, IL 60655, (708) 499-0300 | Web:
www.ghosttours.com/cruise | Cruise the Chicago
water ways, river, and lakefront and hear tales of
myster y and wonder, such as the Lake Michigan
ghost ships, lake monster, jinx ships, haunts of the
skyline, the Eastland tragedy, the truth about cement
overshoes, a Lake Michigan "Triangle," and more!
CITY OF THE DEAD SEMINAR
February 13-15, 2004; Albuquerque, NM
Contact: Rose Eckhof f, (407) 894-6619 | Email:
CFGSLady@aol.com | Web: www.ghostweb.com/
seminarschedule | Drs. Dave Oester and Sharon Gill
of the International Ghost Hunters Society will host
the seminar and lead the investigation at the Salinas
Pueblo Missions.
DEAD OF WINTER EVENT
February 21, 2004; Alton, IL
Cost: $10 | Contact: History & Hauntings Book Co.,
515 East Third Street, Alton, IL 62002 | Email: ttaylor@prairieghosts.com | Web: www.prairieghosts.com
| Battle the winter time blues with an afternoon of
ghosts, hauntings, the strange, the mysterious, and
the unexplained. Speakers include Jerry Coleman,
Linda Godfrey, and hosts John Brill and Troy Taylor.
EASTERN REGIONAL PARANORMAL CONFERENCE
July 22-24, 2004; Baltimore, MD
Cost: $50 | Email: conference@paranormalweekly.
com | Web: bsprnet.com/conference/ | Speakers
include Troy Taylor, Rosemar y Ellen Guiley, Kelly
Weaver, Rick Fisher, Ed Okonowicz, and Charles J.
Adams III.
GHOST HUNTING 101
March 12, 2004; Sacramento, CA
Cost: $39 | Contact: Sacramento Learning
Exchange, 111 Howe Avenue, Suite 125, Sacramento, CA 95825 | Web: www.learningexchange
.com/index.cfm | An intro to paranormal research
with Mark Guilford, lead investigator for Sacramento
Paranormal Investigators, who will talk about some
of the famous haunts in Sacramento and a number
of SPI's recent investigations. Learn about theories
on the paranormal, the basics of its research, the
equipment and protocol used in investigations, and
how to establish yourself as a paranormal
researcher and start a research team in your area.
GHOSTLY SEMINAR @ SEA
April 25-May 1, 2004; Miami, FL
to eastern Caribbean Islands
Cost: $828 (inc. port charges, gratuities, meals and
entertainment) | Contact: Rose Eckhoff, (407) 8946619 | Email: CFGSLady@Aol.com | Web: www.ghostweb.com/norway | Sail to St Thomas, St Martin, and
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the private island of Great Stirrup Cay, with investigations en route. Classes will include Electronic
Voice Phenomena and Photography.
GHOSTOUR: THE HAUNTED
VACATION TO ENGLAND
June 6-13, 2004; England
Contact: Tours of Terror, 315 Derby Avenue, Orange,
CT 06477, (866) TERRORTOUR or (203) 795-4737 |
Email: TOURSofTERROR@aol.com | Web: www.ghostour.com | Features haunted hotels and houses,
haunted castles, ghostly walks, creepy graveyards,
psychic investigations, supernatural sights and
tales, haunted pub crawl, ghost stories, haunted
churches and theaters, and more.
GHOSTS AND THE GALLOWS
Friday and Saturday evenings
through May 1, 2004; Ottawa, Canada
Cost: $12 | Contact: Haunted Walks, PO Box 1218,
Station B, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 5R3 Canada, (613)
232-0344 | Email: tourinfo@hauntedwalk.com |
Web: www.hauntedwalk.com/winter_tours | Explore
some of Ottawa's ghost stories and darker history
by lantern light. Features the supernatural encounters from the old Carleton County Jail and may be
frightening for young children.
2004 Event Listings

JOHNSTOWN GHOST CONFERENCE
June 5-6, 2004; Johnstown, PA
Contact: Rose Eckhoff, (407) 894-6619 | Email:
MagicDimensions@aol.com | Web: www.ghostweb.
com/seminarschedule | Drs. Dave Oester and
Sharon Gill of the International Ghost Hunters Society will host the seminar and lead the investigation
of the most haunted main street in America.
JOSHUA P. WARREN PARANORMAL CONFERENCE
January 9-11, 2004; Asheville, NC
Cost: $478 (inc. accomm., some meals) | Contact:
(800) 438-4800 | Email: jpw@LEMUR team.com |
Web: www.paranormalconference.com | This conference features a wide variety of content, including
ghosts, psychic phenomena, UFOs, cryptozoology,
weird technologies, convenient locations available
for live ghost hunting, and more. Speakers and
guests include Maggie Blackman, Will Beckwith,
Tom Cameron, Loren Coleman, and Patrick Huyghe.
MICHIGAN GHOST CONFERENCE
August 14, 2004; Westland, MI
Cost: $25 pre-paid; $35 door | Email: ghostwatcher@comcast.net | Web: ghostwatchers.org/conference2004 | Speakers include ghost author Troy Taylor, President of the American Ghost Society.
GHOST WATCH AT CRAIG Y NOS CASTLE

March 13-14, 2004; Wales, UK
Cost: 125 (double occupancy; includes banquet
and full English breakfast) | Contact: R Lines, 100
Marl Close, Yeovil, Somerset, BA21 3NQ England,
01935427004 | Email: bill@ghostwatch-tv.fsnet.
co.uk | Web: www.ghostwatch.tv | Join the ghost
watch team for a serious but fun weekend, including
ghost hunting, a medieval banquet, demonstrations
of clairvoyance and psychic art, controlled circles,
and an all-night vigil at a genuine haunted castle,
where strange happenings have been experienced
since it was first inhabited in 1841.
NEW ENGLAND GHOST CONFERENCE

August 6-8, 2004
Contact: Bill Washell or Nancy Simpson, 1260 Lisbon Street 2nd front, Lewiston, ME 04240, (207)
782-2032 | Email: Mainelyhaunting@aol.com | Web:
www.angelfire.com/me3/MGHA/conferences
INDEPENDENT GHOST HUNTERS CONFERENCE:

GHOSTS, GUARDIANS AND SPIRITS
April 16-17, 2004; Mechanicsburg, PA
Contact: Kelly Weaver, (717) 737-7623 | Email:
weaviate@aol.com | Web: home.supernet.com/
~rfisher/IGHC | Speakers include Troy Taylor, Rosemary Ellen Guilley Ph.D., Riley Heagerty, and Kelly
Weaver.
NEW MEXICO GHOST CONFERENCE

February 13-15, 2004; Albuquerque, NM
Cost: $447 (incl. accomm. and some meals) | Contact: (866) 669-4946 or Rose Eckhoff, (407) 8946619 | Email: CFGSLady@aol.com | Web:
www.ghostweb.com/seminarschedule
Join the International Ghost Hunters Society for
three conference sessions, a ghostly field trip, and a
special haunted investigation in the land where
Native Americans such as the Anasazi tribe made
their home.
INTERNATIONAL GHOST HUNTERS SOCIETY

SEMINAR @ SEA
March 28-April 4, 2004; Carribbean
Cost: $826 (double occupancy) | Contact: Rose Eckhoff, (407) 894-6619 | Email: CFGSLady@aol.com |
Web: www.ghostweb.com/atlantica | Drs. Dave
Oester and Sharon Gill will host the seminar and
lead the investigations of the haunts of Key West,
Jamaica, Grand Cayman, and Cozumel.
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SOCIETY GHOST CONFERENCE
May 15, 2004; Florham Park, NJ
Contact: Ghost Hunters, PO Box 574, Chatham, NJ
07928 | Email: laura@njghs.net | Web:
www.njghs.net
NINE HOURS OF PARANORMAL EXPERIENCE

February 1, 2004
Cost: 5 sugg. donation | Contact: Body and Soul
Events, 0131 226 7601 | Email: office@bodyandsoulevents.com | Web: www.deepindigoevents.
co.uk/calendar | Features merchandise, reader and
healer areas, and top international speakers.
PENNSYLVANIA PARANORMAL CONFERENCE

March 20, 2004; Gettysburg, PA
Cost: $70 | Contact: Rick Fisher, 1033 Williamsburg
Road, Lancaster, PA 17603, (717) 871-8610 |
Email: rfisher@redrose.net | Web: www.paranormalpa.com | Roswell meets Kecksburgthe two most
famouse cases of a UFO crash come together, plus
lectures on Bigfoot, Ouija Boards, mysterious stone
chambers, and spontaneous human combustion.
Guest speakers include Rick Fisher, Stan Gordon,
Mike Frizzell, Eric Altman, Larry Arnold, and others.
SPRING PARANORMAL GET-TOGETHER
April 24-25, 2004; Pittsburgh, PA
Cost: $65 | Contact: GhostChatter.com Get Together, c/o Gloria Fritz, 1501 Crystal Drive, Box #532,
Arlington, VA 22202 | Email: gettogether@ghostchatter.com | Web: www.ghostchatter.com/gettogether
STRANGE PHENOMENA INVESTIGATIONS
LECTURE SERIES
Cost: 6.50 | Contact: Malcolm Robinson, 07949
178 835 | Web: www.angelfire.com/space/
spi/page2 | Speakers include Guy Lyon Playfair,
Ross Hemsworth, Eric Morris, and Colin Bennett.
TORONTO GHOSTS AND HAUNTINGS RESEARCH
SOCIETY WINTER GET-TOGETHER
January 17, 2004; Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Email: info@torontoghosts.org | Web: www.torontoghosts.org/special/wintertime
TORONTO GHOSTS ANNIVERSARY EVENING
October 30, 2004; Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Email: info@torontoghosts.org | Web: www.torontoghosts.org/special
UTAH GHOST HUNTERS SOCIETY:
MANRESA CASTLE CONVENTION
March 12-13, 2004; Port Townsend, WA
Cost: $100
Contact: Utah Ghost Hunters Society, 1042 East
Fort Union Blvd. #505, Midvale, Utah 84047 | Email:
MrMan@aol.com | Web: www.ghostwave.com/convention | Ghost hunts, classes, three forums, and
more at luxurious Manresa Castle Hotel, one of the
most haunted hotels in the U.S., which was once a
monastery and is the site of a great deal of intrigue
and several suicides.
PSYCHOSYNTHESIS
AOTEAROA PSYCHOSYNTHESIS CONFERENCE
February 6-8, 2004; Auckland, New Zealand
Cost: $220 NZD; Residential $280 NZD | Contact:
Mark Skelding, 07 868 2311; Julie O'Brien, 09 845
3333; or Trisha Staf ford, 00 61 7 3821 3322 |
Email:
songlines@xtra.co.nz
|
Web:
two.not2.org/psychosynthesis/events/nzconf |
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PSYCHOSYNTHESIS PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
January 9-10, 2004; Palo Alto, CA
February 6-7, 2004; Palo Alto, CA
March 12-13, 2004; Palo Alto, CA
April 9-10, 2004; Palo Alto, CA
April 23-24, 2004; Palo Alto, CA
June 4-5, 2004; Palo Alto, CA
Cost: $160 | Contact: Psychosynthesis Palo Alto,
(650) 321-6562 | Web: www.psychosynthesispaloalto.com | Gain the understanding and skills necessar y to apply psychosynthesis, with a par ticular
emphasis on the application of psychosynthesis to
counseling and psychotherapy.
REMOTE VIEWING
CONTROLLED REMOTE VIEWING
5-DAY APPLICATIONS AND TRAINING COURSES
Various Dates; Boulder City, CO
Cost: $500 | Contact: Dr. Angela Thompson Smith,
The Nevada Remote Viewing Group, 509 5th Street,
Boulder City, NV 89005, (702) 293-3696 | Email:
Catalyst@peoplepc.com | Web: mypeoplepc.com/
members/catalyst/catalyst/id4
FARSIGHT REMOTE VIEWING CONFERENCE
(Instructor) February 23-27, 2004; Dallas, TX
(Advanced) February 29-March 3, 2004; Dallas, TX
Contact: Lynda Cowen, Director, Farsight Remote
Viewers Assoc., 2140 East Southlake Blvd., Suit
L605, Southlake, TX 76092, (817) 481-4262 |
Email: silentvisitor@char ter.net | Web: www.farsight.org
FARSIGHT VOYAGER TRAINING
IN BASIC SCIENTIFIC REMOTE VIEWING
March 8-12, 2004; London, England
Contact: Lynda Cowen, Director, Farsight Remote
Viewers Assoc., 2140 East Southlake Blvd., Suit
L605, Southlake, TX 76092, (817) 481-4262 |
Email: silentvisitor@char ter.net | Web: www.farsight.org
GATEWAY VOYAGE
March 1-7, 2004; Faber, VA
Cost: $1,495 | Contact: The Monroe Institute, 62
Rober ts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866)
881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email: TMIprograms@monroeinstitute.org | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org | Learn to achieve the out-of-body state
and tools that will enable relaxation, recognition,
and control of personal energy, problem-solving,
greater self-awareness, emotional cleansing, programming your future, willful control of one's awareness, and communication withand visits toother
energy systems and realities.
MC2: MANIFESTATION AND CREATION SQUARED

March 8-14, 2004; Faber, VA
881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email: TMIprograms@monroeinstitute.org | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org
REMOTE VIEWING PRACTICUM
February 22-28, 2004; Faber, VA
881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email: TMIprograms@monroeinstitute.org | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org
WESTERN INSTITUTE OF
REMOTE VIEWING WORKSHOP
January 10-11, 2004; Lynnwood, WA
Cost: $339 | Contact: The Western Institute of
Remote Viewing, 218 Main Street #634, Kirkland,
WA 98033, (800) 824-3730 or (888) 540-6085 |
Email: waynecarr@remoteviewers.com | Web:
www.remoteviewers.com | Using a learn-by-doing
technology to teach remote viewing much more
rapidly and efficiently, beginner training will give you
the skills to be able to remote view targets and have
reliable target contact.
SACRED SITES & PILGRIMAGES

AMAZON INTENSIVE WITH THE SHUAR
January 8-18, 2004; Ecuador
Cost: $2,775 (air fare not incl.) | Contact: Joyce
Kendall, (603) 524-7829 | Email: energyjk@att.net |
Web: www.dreamchange.org/trips/index | Experience an Arutam journey and traditional Shuar Vision
Quest in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. Participate in a community cleansing ceremony and a pilgrimage to the Sacred Water fall Atun. Spend intimate time with the Shuar in community and sacred
ceremonies and learn how to live within the unity of
all things. Meet Nunkui, the Shuar goddess of the
forest and other spirit teachers in direct experiential
ceremonies and journeys.
AVALON TO CAMELOT:
A JOURNEY THROUGH THE MYTHS OF TIME
April 14-23, 2004; Glastonbury, England
Cost: 1495 | Contact: Gothic Image, 7 High Street,
Glastonbur y, Somerset BA6 9DP, England,
+44(0)1458 831281 | Email: tours@gothicimage.
co.uk | Web: www.gothicimagetours.co.uk/questtour
| Visit sacred shrines and meet and spend time with
some of Britain's most respected teachers, authors
and ceremonialists, who share their knowledge and
insights into the history, myths and legends of the
sacred landscape and the Pagan and Christian heritage of the British Isles.
ENCHANTED IRELAND
May 12-24, 2004; Ireland
co.uk | Web: www.gothicimagetours.co.uk/irelandtour | Journey to the standing stones, holy wells,
cromlechs, fair y for ts, chambered cairns, Celtic
churches, ancient crosses, round towers, beehive
huts, Ogham stones, windswept islands, and a multitude of ancient sacred shrines in Ireland, a country
that is rich in folklore, fairytales, myth and legend.
FROM INCAS TO HEAD-SHRINKERS
EQUINOX JOURNEY
March 18-27, 2004; Quito, Ecuardor
Cost: $2,775 (airfare not incl.) | Contact: Mary Tendall, (530) 267-5737 | Email: marytendall@dreamchange.org | Web: www.dreamchange.org
IRELAND'S MYSTICAL SITES
July 13-20, 2004; Ireland
com/Ireland_TOUR | Explore the Emerald Isle, the
repository of Christian mysticism, renowned for its
many holy, healing places, where Druids once taught
and Celtic culture thrived. Reconnect with the nature
in the lush landscape and learn about ancient
archaeology, Celtic mythology, and how the ancients
of Ireland lived in harmony with the goddess earth
energies and faerie spirits.
LAND OF VOLCANOES, DOLPHINS & HEALING
February 16-24, 2004; Hawaii, HI
Cost: $1,125 | Contact: Earth Mysteries & Sacred
Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563, Nevada City,
CA 95959, (530) 740-0561 | Email: sacredsitetours@tesco.net or wwithin@nccn.net | Web:
www.nccn.net/~wwithin/hawaii.htm | Features workshops about goddesses and gods of Hawaiian myth.
Meditate in an inactive volcano, swim with the dolphins, and visit places of intense healing energies,
incredible beaches, and the magnificent erupting
Kilauea Volcano.
MAYAN SACRED SITES
January 15-22, 2004; Yucatan, Mexico
com/YucatanRainbow | Journey to Mayan sacred
sites, including ancient temples, pyramids, and
monasteries, with Dr. Rainbow Johnson.
MOTHER MEERA SPIRITUAL TOUR
June 11-18, 2004; Rhineland, Germany
Cost: $1,300 (double occupancy, airfare not included) | Contact: Dr. Chet Snow, Box 1738, Sedona, AZ
86339, (928) 204-1962 | Email: chetsnow@
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sedona.net | Web: www.chetsnow.com/ mothermeera | Visit Mother Meera, a Spiritual Master in
human form, and experience darshan (transmission
of life-changing light and energy). Visit nearby historic spiritual sites, including the Cologne and Limburg Gothic cathedrals, ancient Teutonic sacred
mounts and healing springs, and the convent of
Hildegaard von Bingen.
MYSTERIOUS EGYPT: AN UPDATE
March 11, 2004; London, England
busty@circleflyer.fsnet.co.uk | Web: www.cccsuk.org/events | Marcus Allen and Margaret
Novakovic will offer intriguing aspects of their continued research into some of the unsolved mysteries of ancient Egypt.
MYTHOLOGY, ANCIENT SITES, & MYSTERIES
OF IRELAND: A CELTIC JOURNEY
July 2-14, 2004; Ireland
Cost: $2,095 | Contact: Earth Mysteries & Sacred
Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563, Nevada City,
CA 95959, (530) 740-0561 | Email: sacredsitetours@tesco.net or wwithin@nccn.net | Web:
www.sacredtravel.com/brochure | Explore Celtic legends, folklore, and mythology, and the mountains
and lakes that are the homes of the gods.
REALMS OF THE GODDESS
May 22-29, 2004; England
Cost: $2,449 (double occ.) | Contact: Sacred Sites
Tours, 3420 Pillsbury Avenue South, Minneapolis,
MN 55408, (612) 823-2442 | Email: info@sacredsitestours.com | Web: www.sacredtravel.
com/brochure | Visit many of the classic sites of
prehistoric Britain and explore the English countryside, including the venerable sites of Stonehenge,
Avebury, and the ancient pilgrimage site of Glastonbury, including the Chalice Well, the Roman ruins in
the Georgian town of Bath, and the prehistoric chalk
carving known as the Uffington White Horse.
RECOVERING LOST WISDOM CONFERENCE
June 15-22, 2004; Cusco, Peru
www.powerplaces.com/PeruRLW
ROOF OF THE WORLD
September 23-October 14, 2004; Tibet
com/TIBETWINTZ | Explore the exotic lamaseries
and temples, the exiled Dalai Lama's one thousand
room Potala Palace, majestic sacred Himalayan
mountains, isolated monasteries, and fascinating
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culture of forbidden Tibet, the mystic land on the
"Roof of the World."
SACRED DANCE AND PILGRIMAGE
Various dates; Warwickshire, England
Contact: Suzy Straw (01295 788398) | Email: secretary@gatekeeper.org.uk | Web: www.gatekeeper.
org.uk/gatekeeper/nationalevents.asp | Themes
focus on the appropriate sign of the zodiac and
include Encircling the Land with Sacred Dance,
Paneur ythmy Days, Sacred Space-Sacred Dance,
and Dance in the Ancient Rollright Stone Circle of
Oxfordshire.
SACRED SCOTLAND: THE BLESSED ISLES
July 6-18, 2004; Scotland
co.uk | Web: www.gothicimagetours.co.uk/scotlandtour | Visit the holy wells, stone circles, hermit cells,
Druid groves, enchanted woods, dramatic dolmens,
sacred rivers, majestic glens, and bonnie lochs of
the ancient sacred lands of Scotland, with a particular focus on the enchanted islands of the West and
Nor th, their histor y, culture, myths, and folklore,
and be enlightened and entertained by authors, historians, musicians, and storytellers along the way.
SACRED SITES AND SACRED SCIENCE IN EGYPT
April 30-May 9, 2004; Egypt
www.powerplaces.com/Jawegypt | Join John Anthony West on a transforming journey to the sacred
sites of Egypt. Discover the work of an advanced science of the spirit. Explore Abydos (once the holiest
site in the world for ancient Egyptians), Luxor, the
Colossi of Memnon, and the great monuments and
temples of this ancient land and the "Land of the
Dead" and Valley of the Kings. Experience the powerful temples of Medinet Habu; Karnak, the largest
ancient temple complex in the world; Queen Hatshepsut, the only female Pharoah of Egypt; and
Hathor, goddess of love, music and dance.
SACRED WELLS, SACRED SHRINES
September 4-13, 2004; Cornwall, England
MN 55408, (612) 823-2442 | Email: info@sacredsitestours.com | Web: www.sacredtravel.com |
Explore the hidden sanctuaries and alluring sites of
ancient, enchanting Cornwall, including sacred
wells, stone circles, the enigmatic underground
fogous, the ruins of Tintagel, the sea, white sand
shoreline, and rolling expanses of moorlands.
TEMPLES OF THE MOON & SUN

July 10-23, 2004; Scotland
MN 55408, (612) 823-2442 | Email: info@sacredsitestours.com | Web: www.sacredtravel.com | Ramble on through the heather-strewn Highlands to the
beautiful Isle of Skye. Then, by ferry, to the remote
goddess sites of the Callanish Stones on the Isle of
Lewis in the Western Hebrides to encounter the prehistoric Old Soman of the Moors. Journey fur ther
north to the Orkney Islands and Skara Brae, Maes
How, and other places of ancient myster y. Visit
Camster, Clava Cairns, Inverness, and Loch Ness.
MASTER CIRCLE OF REMEMBERING:

LIFE EMPOWERMENT AND SHAMANIC REIKI
MASTER-TEACHER CERTIFICATION
March 2004 - September 2005; Western MA
Contact: Dolores Mannix, (212) 674-0525 | Email:
ShamanicReiki@aol.com or dolores@dreamchange.org | Web: www.dreamchange.org/projects/masterscircle.html | Eighteen-month intensive
training program emphasizes personal development
and empowerment, the natural and compassionate
brilliance that arises from a fine attunement to spirit. The program focuses on cleansing on the soul
level, aligning with the deeper intentions of the soul,
and expanding awareness, and offers the experience needed to teach all levels of Reiki.
SHAMANISM / SHAPESHIFTING
MASTER SHAPESHIFTER: REALIZING THE

PROPHECIES FOR A NEW ERA: RAISING
PERSONAL AND GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS
April 14-18, 2004; Singer Island, FL
Contact: Faith, (561) 622-6064 | Email:
faith@dreamchange.org
|
Web:
www.dreamchange.org/projects/index
ADVANCED MASTER SHAPESHIFTER:

EXPERIENCING AND LEARNING TO TEACH THE
SEVEN PORTALS TO HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS
April 14-18, 2004; Singer Island, FL
Cost: $850 until March 1st; $995 thereafter | Contact: Faith, (561) 622-6064 | Email: faith@dreamchange.org | Web: www.dreamchange.org/projects/
intensive4-04
FATHER SUN & MOTHER MOON
SHAMANIC JOURNEY
June 17-24, 2004; Ecuador
Cost: $2,775 (air fare not incl.) | Contact: Joyce
Kendall, (603) 524-7829 | Email: energyjk@att.net |
Web: www.dreamchange.org | Experience an introduction to ancient Quechua, Saranguro, and Amazonian healing traditions with the descendants of the
ancient Incans, through a journey to the high
Andean mountains, the marketplace of Otavalo, the
deep Amazon, Termas de Papallact, cloud forest hot
springs, and the village of Vilcabamba. Through
teachings, healings, and ceremonies, learn the traditions and ceremonies of the lowland Quechua,
plant spirit medicine, the art of shapeshifting, and
our deep connection with all living things. Energize
your healing powers and learn to use your connection to nature to change our communal dream to a
more earth-honoring one, to bring about social and
environmental balance, and to serve Mother Earth.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SHAMANISM:
A JOURNEY THROUGH TRANSFORMATION
Cost: $495 | Contact: 4 Camino Azul, Santa Fe, NM
87508, (505) 474-0998 | Email: message@bizspirit.com | Web: www.bizspirit.com/shamanism/
sh_index | Speakers and presenters include Tina de
Souza, Onye Onyemaechi, Merilyn Tunneshende,
Hank Wesselman, and Connie Grauds.
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SHAMANIC DREAM: TENDING CIRCLE

AND ANCIENT HUICHOL WISDOM
January 26-February 1, 2004; Yelapa, Mexico
Cost: $925 (transp. not incl.) | Contact: Faith, (561)
622-6064 or Mary Tendall, (530) 265-5737 | Email:
faith@dreamchange.org or mar ytendall@dreamchange.org | Web: www.dream change.org/projects/yelapa | Learn ancient and cutting-edge techniques of dream-tending; experience advanced
dreamwork as you integrate sleep and awake time,
the past and the future, all as One. Learn from a Huichol elder as he shares his wisdom passed on from
pre-Columbian times.
SHAMANIC JOURNEY TECHNIQUES
April 25, 2004; Manchester, NH
Contact: North Eastern Institute of Whole Health,
(603) 623-5018 or (603) 524-7829 | Email:
ewmelcher@neiwh.com or joyce@dreamchange.org |
Web: www.dreamchange.org/projects/shamanicjourney | Learn the basics of Shamanic journeying
using drum, rattle, music, and guided meditation,
which allows you to access alternate realms of reality where you can gain insight into how to improve
this reality. Learn how to use this ancient ar t to
meet spirit guides, obtain sacred items, and better
your spiritual intuition. Includes discussions on how
to set up your own drumming circle.
SHAMANIC REIKI MASTER
March 5-7, 2004; Western MA
Cost: 50 | Contact: Lyn Rober ts-Herrick, (212)
674-0525 | Email: ShamanicReiki@aol.com | Web:
www.dreamchange.org/projects/reiki11-21-03 |
Learn to use Reiki symbols while meditating to thin
the veils between spirit and matter, in order to work
with spirit in the healing process. This workshop
combines Tibetan Bon and Buddhist, Quechua, and

Siberian teachings with hands-on Reiki, through ceremony and practice assisted by the four elements,
plants, music, sacred stones, shamanic journeys,
and Reiki spirit guides.
TEACHINGS FROM THE FAR NORTH

February 7-11, 2004; Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Contact: (901) 383-8072 | Email: r ford@ bellsouth.net | Web: www.dreamchange.org/projects/
omega3-26-04
SHAPESHIFTING CONSCIOUSNESS:
ALCHEMY FOR EVOLUTION
August 23-27, 2004; Rhinebeck, NY
Contact: Faith, (561) 622-6064 | Email:
faith@dreamchange.org | Web: www.dreamchange.
org/projects/omega8-23-04 | Learn to facilitate rituals, perform retrievals, integrating the soul and past
lives with "core" selves; diagnose and heal self and
others; peel off "onion layers" that block one's missions; confront the "Shadow"; levitate to higher consciousness; empower spiritual sensuality; connect
with the luminosity of the universe; soar to
inner/outer worlds with Amazonian, Tibetan, and
Incan spirit guides; balance male/female,
dark/light, bir th/death, love/hate; and work with
theacher plants and the "breath of fire."
THE WAY OF THE SHAMAN WORKSHOPS

Various dates and locations both in the US and
abroad
Contact: Foundation for Shamanic Studies, PO Box
1939, Mill Valley, CA 94942, (415) 380-8282 |
Email: info@shamanicstudies.com | Web:
www.shamanism.org/workshops/basicwk | Workshop introduces shamanism for divination, problemsolving, and healing. Initiation into classic shamanic
journeying for awakening dormant spiritual abilities,
including connections with nature, restoring spiritual
power and health, and applying shamanism to help
heal oneself, others, and the planet.
SHAPESHIFTING: PERSONAL
AND GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION
February 27-29, 2004; Austin, TX
Contact: Omega Institute, (877) 944-3003 | Email:
ShamanicReiki@aol.com | Web: www.dreamchange.org/projects/omega2-27-04 | In this experiential workshop, learn about energy connections
with the natural world that empower you to
shapeshift and delve into the three levels of
shapeshifting: cellular (transforming into animals,
healing cancer, shedding weight); personal (living in
the now, dropping addictions); and institutional
(changing society).
2004 OZARK UFO CONFERENCE

April 9-11, 2004; Eureka Springs, AR
Contact: Lou Farish, Ozark UFO Conference, 2 Caney
Valley Drive, Plumer ville, AR 72127, (501) 3542558 | Email: ozarkufo@webtv.net | Web:
www.ozarkufo.com
SHAPESHIFTING: SUMMER
SOLSTICE SHAMANIC JOURNEY
June 7-24, 2004; Nepal and Tibet
Cost: $3,850 | Contact: John Perkins, Re-connection
Journeys, 77 Harbour Square, Suite 3902, Toronto,
Ontario, M5J 2S2 Canada, (416) 203-3595 | Email:
sheena@reconnectionjourneys.com | Web:
www.reconnectionjourneys.com/tibet | Intensive
experiential program begins in Nepal with preparation for the workshop at the sacred sites in Katmandu and Lumbini, Buddhas birth place, and continues to the "Roof of the World," the mystic land of
Tibet, to visit exotic gompas (monasteries), meditate at power vortexes surrounded by sacred mountains, participate in powerful rituals, and learn local
Shamanic practices and indigenous healing techniques.
SHAPESHIFTING THE ORGANIZATION: RAISING
INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS
March 26-28, 2004; Austin, TX
Email: john@dreamchange.org | Web: www.dreamchange.org/projects/jan-mar2004
UFOS AND ALIENS
ALTERNATE REALITIES CONFERENCE

September 24-26, 2004; Johnson City, TN
Contact: United States UFO Information and
Research Center, PO Box 153, Unicoi, TN 37692,
(423) 943-6477 | Email: usufocenter@usufocenter.com | Web: www.AlternateRealities.org | UFOs,
ghosts, and haunted places, Bigfoot, and the mysteries of the paranormal. Speakers include Kriss
Stephens, Pat Fitzhugh, and many others.
ANCIENT OF DAYS: UFO AND
ABDUCTION CONFERENCE
July 2-5, 2004; Roswell, NM
Cost: $75 early bird; $100 until May 1st; $125
thereafter | Contact: Alien Resistance Headquarters,
109 North Main Street, Roswell, NM 88203, (505)
625-8496 | Email: seekye1@ear thlink.net | Web:
www.ancientofdays.net | Speakers include Bill Alnor,
Stephen Bassett, Richard Dolan, Ann Druffel, David
Flynn, John Greenewald, Mike Heiser, Jim Hickman,
Joe Jordan, Eve Lorgen, Guy Malone, David Sereda,
Chris Ward, and Jim Wilhelmsen.
AN E.T. BASE: DOLPHINS AND
WHALES OF THE AZORES ISLANDS
July 10-16, 2004; Azores Islands
July 17-22, 2004; Azores Islands
Cost: $1,699 | Contact: Joan Ocean's Dolphin Connection, PO Box 102, Captain Cook, HI 96704,
(888) 755-7750 | Email: dolphco@aloha.net | Web:
www.etfriends.com/Seminars
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AZTEC UFO SYMPOSIUM 2004
March 21-23, 2004; Aztec, NM
Cost: $50; $35 Sat; $20 Sun | Contact: Donna
Chadwick, Aztec UFO Information Center, PO Box
178, Aztec, NM 87410, (505) 334-9890 | Email:
aztecufo@cyberpor t.com | Web: www.aztecufo.
com/home1
BUFORA London Lectures
Bi-monthly; London, England
Cost: 7 (includes buffet); member disc. avail. |
Contact: BUFORA Head Office, 70 High Street, Wingham, Kent, CT3 1BJ England, 020 8998 4936 |
Email: judy@gaia66.freeserve.co.uk or hilton.wickham@ntlworld.com | Web: www.bufora.org.uk |
Speakers include Prof. Chris French, James Basil,
Tony Eccles, Alan Murdie, and Norman Oliver. Topics
include Psychological Approaches to the Alien
Abduction Experience; The Reality Behind the Myth;
Alien Abductions, Star Children and Indigos; The
Merseyside UFO Project 1992-2002; UFOs Over El
Dorado - the UFO Phenomenon in Columbia; and
Montauk and the Philadelphia Experiment.
E.T. CONTACT
August 8-22, 2004; Kailua-Kona, HI
July 17-22, 2004; Kailua-Kona, HI
Cost: $400 | Contact: Joan Ocean's Dolphin Connection, PO Box 102, Captain Cook, HI 96704,
www.etfriends.com/Seminars | Use remote viewing
and Dolphin Consciousness to access new
paradigms, receive messages, sightings, and awakenings, and interact with extraterrestrials.
GREAT UFO/ET & EARTH MYSTERIES CONGRESS
March 27-28, 2004; Bordentown, NJ
Cost: $140; single day and lecture passes available
| Contact: Pat J. Marcattilio, 221-A Joan Terrace,
Hamilton, NJ 08629, (609) 631-8955 | Email:
karin@drufo.org | Web: www.drufo.org | Speakers
include Budd Hopkins, Hans Holzer, Dolores Cannon, Rick Fisher, T. Peter Park PhD, S. Peter Resta
PhD, and Rob Swiatek.
INTERNATIONAL UFO CONGRESS
CONVENTION & FILM FESTIVAL
February 8-14, 2004; Westminster, CO
Cost: $310; individual lecture and event rates available | Contact: International UFO Congress, 9975
Wadswor th Parkway #K2-504,Westminster, CO
80021, (303) 543-9443 | Email: ufocongress@
msn.com | Web: www.ufocongress.com | Speakers
include Jim Marrs, Joe McMoneagle, Nick Cook,
Matthew Hurley, Gar y Schwar tz PhD, Wynn Free,
David Wilcock, Russell Callaghan, Rich Dolan, Haktan Akdogan, Stan Gordan, Mar y Rodwell, Budd
Hopkins, Carol Rainey, Leah Haley, Riley Mar tin,
Lisette Larkins, A. J. Gevaerd, George Knapp,
Michael Horn, Santiago Yturria Garza, Col. Wendelle
Stevens, and Bob Dean.
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INTERNATIONAL UFO MUSEUM
AND RESEARCH CENTER LECTURE SERIES
March 27, 2004; Roswell, NM
Cost: Free | Contact: International UFO Museum and
Research Center, 114 North Main Street, Roswell,
NM 88202, (505) 625-9495 | Email:
IUFOMRC@UFOMRC.org | Web: www.iufomrc.com |
Guest speaker Standing Elk will present his Star
Knowledge lecture and the dreams and visions of
the Tunkasila; traditional Native American flute
music by Douglas Blue Feather.
INVESTIGATING UFOS AND THE PARANORMAL
February 12, 2004; London, England
busty@circleflyer.fsnet.co.uk | Web: www.cccsuk.org/events | Presented by Malcolm Robinson,
founder of the Strange Phenomenon Investigations
Research Society.
MCMENAMINS 5TH ANNUAL UFO FESTIVAL
May 14-16, 2004; McMinnville, OR
Web: www.ufofest.com/McHO/ufo
MUFON 2004 INTERNATIONAL UFO SYMPOSIUM:
UFOS: THE BODY OF TECHNOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
July 16-18, 2004; Denver, CO
Contact: Rich McVannel | Email: rmm@freeway.net |
Web: www.mufon.com
NEXUS CONFERENCE
March 27-28, 2004; Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cost: $130 until March 1st; $155 thereafter; single
day rates available | Contact: NEXUS Conference,
PO Box 48, 1600 AA Enkhuizen, The Netherlands,
+31 (0)228-324076 | Email: info@nexusconference.com | Web: www.nexusconference.com |
Speakers include Valery Uvarov, Stuart Urban, Jon
Rappopor t, Humbatz Men, Nick Begich, James
McCanney, Jerry Decker, Christopher Dunn, William
Corliss, and Leonard Horowitz.
UFO ANNUAL ENCOUNTERS

July 31, 2004; Lajas, Puerto Rico
Cost: 7.50 | Contact: Prof. Reinaldo Rios, Box
1128, Guanica, Puer to Rico 00653, (787) 8213613 | Email: ovnis_reinaldorios@hotmail.com |
Web: communities.msn.es/REINALDORIOSUFOOVNIINT | Speakers include UFO investigator and
independent reporter Prof. Reinaldo Rios and speakers from other Puerto Rican groups and abroad.
WHALES, DOLPHINS AND E.T.S
March 13-18, 2004; Kailua-Kona, HI
www.etfriends.com/Seminars | Share the latest
messages of the dolphins, whales and ETs, including our history as Walk-Ins, vibrational healing, activating our sonar, accessing other dimensions, living
beyond time and space, the Galactic Federation,
and the locations of UFOs underwater.
X-CONFERENCE
April 17-18, 2004, Washington, D.C.
Cost: $69 until March 31st; $79 thereafter; single
day passes and special events avail. | Contact:
Stephen Bassett, Executive Director, Paradigm
Research Group, (202) 431-2459 | Email: ParadigmRG@aol.com | Web: www.paradigmclock.com/X-Conference/X-Conference | Speakers include Stephen
Bassett, Dr. William Birnes, Grant Cameron, Philip
Corso Jr., Paul Davids, Richard Dolan, Stanton Friedman, Timothy Good, Dr. Steven Greer, Terry Hansen,
Paola Harris, Richard Hoagland, Dr. C.B. Scott
Jones, Jim Marrs, Dr. Bruce Maccabee, Linda Moulton Howe, Nick Pope, and Dr. Michael Salla.
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ROSWELL UFO FESTIVAL

July 2004; Roswell, NM
Contact:
(505)
623-5695
|
Email:
roswell@uforoswell.com | Web: www.uforoswell.com
SKY RANCH WITH STAR BEINGS
January 25-31, 2004; Kailua-Kona, HI
www.etfriends.com/Seminars | Make contact with
Star friends and experience healing, cosmic wisdom, contact with Star relatives, time travel, visiting
the future, and deepening awareness of innate purposes for this incarnation.
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A Glimpse into the Unknown
hen the Gower family

moved to Penyffordd
Farm in North Wales in
1997, it soon became clear
that they had a lodger in the
form of a ghostly monk. Over
the next few years, they saw
this apparition on five occasions. Then in 1999, a stain
appeared on the wall of their
lounge in the form of a Welsh
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peace. Before the month was
out, the wall was covered in religious Welsh words and Christian symbols. In addition, they
regularly heard footsteps and
voices, even in the middle of
the night.
In March of 2001, the Gowers encountered a ghost of a
pregnant young girl. When the
word Jane began to appear
around the houseas well as a
face of a girl on their fireplace
they assumed that she was the
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age of 15, as leaning against
the wall of their house is a
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Jane Jones, Aged 15, 1778.
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under the Gowers bed, even
through it had not been there
on a previous search of the
house. Not only that, but the
stone was soaking wet, even
though the carpet on which it
was lying was bone dry! A few
days after the tombstone had
been returned outside, the
family discovered scorch marks
on the stone and smelled a
strong perfume emanating
from the gravestone.
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MYSTERIES STAFF
Above: In 1999, the shape of a monk

materialized on the stonework at
the top of the farms staircase. The
carving Mynach is Welsh for Monk
and Iachad is Welsh for healing.
The word Ffydd (Welsh for faith)
materialized a few months later.
Right: Janes face appeared
one day in 2002, burnt
into the lounge fireplace.
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