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Monday, September 7, 2009
General Definitions
Haunting - A place in which people have experienced unexplainable phenomena. Generally, hauntings are thought to be due to a "ghostly" presence, but are typically caused by environmental factors such as magnetic variance, etc..
Anomaly - Something found with no explainable source. An unexplainable source of data.
Ghost Hunter - Someone who looks for & documents what they believe are "ghosts" in probable locations such as cemeteries, abandoned buildings, old churches, battle fields, old schools, etc.. They aren't interested in researching the field from a scientific standpoint, many are just interested in the adrenaline rush of possibly experiencing something paranormal. Please note that GhostGadgets.com isn't a "ghost hunting" website, we are a scientific research group.
PSI Researcher - Someone who uses their own theories/ideas to test new research methods, protocols, and equipment. A true researcher is not biased to an old idea, but works to disprove or prove further the old idea, to expand the knowledge of the field. To be a truly unbiased researcher, control studies must be established, and sites can't be looked at as being inhabited by "ghosts" - you must approach purported hauntings simply as places where odd phenomena is being reported.
Telekinesis - Physical manipulation of objects & movement (such as moving objects etc.) by an "unseen force". This is a very interesting phenomena, and personally, I have had rocks thrown at me from empty hallways, and have witnessed equipment actually being struck and broken when no one was within 20 feet of it.
Moon Phases
FULL MOON: Magick at its most potent. Rites and rituals including divination, manifestation, conjurations, and any spell that requires extra punch. Full moon is also a good time to charge objects, crystals, water, candles, instruments, ingredients and talismans with power.NEW MOON: New beginnings and new ideas, abilities and projects. Rites and rituals involving beauty and finding a new love are good to do at this time. The new moon is also a good time for wishing spells.
WAXING MOON: Development and improvement. Rites and rituals involving love, sex, fertility, children, family, healing, luck and wealth. Love spells which strengthen what is already there are very powerful under a waxing moon. Also spells for enhancing prosperity, luck, and existing abilities.
WANING MOON: Ridding and shielding. Rites and rituals involving exorcism, reversal, endings, banishing, purging, and protection. The waning moon is good to remove negativity, stale energies and unwanted spirits. Banishing and binding spells work best under a waning moon.
DARK MOON: Conquering and binding. Rites and rituals involving obstacles, quarrels, separation, enemies, stalkers, theft, injustice, wins in legal matters. As well as magic of the self, including communicating with spirits, finding goals, meditation on life purpose, and personal recovery.
Were The Knights of Malta in Iraq?
Blackwater: Knights of Malta in Iraq
“The Knights of Malta are the militia of the Pope, and are sworn to total obedience by a blood oath which is taken extremely seriously and to the death. The Pope as the head of the Vatican is also the head of a foreign national power.”
-”Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences” by Albert G. Mackey 33rd degree Mason, published by the Masonic History Company, Chicago, New York, & London, 1925: (Volume One, pp. 392-95)
“The painful saga of modern Arab-Muslim history evokes the battles fought in Crusades of the 11th centry – when the Knights of Malta began their operations as a Christian militia whose mission it was to defend the land conquered by the Crusaders. These memories return violently to mind with the discovery of links between the so-called security firms in Iraq such as Blackwater have historic links with the Order of Malta. You cannot exaggerate it. The Order of Malta is a hidden government or the most mysterious government in the world.”
- Jordanian MP Jamal Muhammad Abidat, from an editorial in the United Arab Emirates daily Al-Bayan entitled “The Knights of Malta – more than a conspiracy”. Abidat describes the role played by the Knights of Malta during the Crusades, and that the Order is playing a similar role in the Middle East today, citing the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
More:
Former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Edward Schmitz quit in 2005 to work for Blackwater. He is a member of Opus Dei and Knights of Malta. At least $2 trillion went “missing” from the Pentagon during his watch.
Georgia Guidestones: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse?
The strangest monument in America looms over a barren knoll in northeastern Georgia. Five massive slabs of polished granite rise out of the earth in a star pattern. The rocks are each 16 feet tall, with four of them weighing more than 20 tons apiece. Together they support a 25,000-pound capstone. Approaching the edifice, it's hard not to think immediately of England's Stonehenge or possibly the ominous monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Built in 1980, these pale gray rocks are quietly awaiting the end of the world as we know it.
Called the Georgia Guidestones, the monument is a mystery—nobody knows exactly who commissioned it or why. The only clues to its origin are on a nearby plaque on the ground—which gives the dimensions and explains a series of intricate notches and holes that correspond to the movements of the sun and stars—and the "guides" themselves, directives carved into the rocks. These instructions appear in eight languages ranging from English to Swahili and reflect a peculiar New Age ideology. Some are vaguely eugenic (guide reproduction wisely—improving fitness and diversity); others prescribe standard-issue hippie mysticism (prize truth—beauty—love—seeking harmony with the infinite).
What's most widely agreed upon—based on the evidence available—is that the Guidestones are meant to instruct the dazed survivors of some impending apocalypse as they attempt to reconstitute civilization. Not everyone is comfortable with this notion. A few days before I visited, the stones had been splattered with polyurethane and spray-painted with graffiti, including slogans like "Death to the new world order." This defacement was the first serious act of vandalism in the Guidestones' history, but it was hardly the first objection to their existence. In fact, for more than three decades this uncanny structure in the heart of the Bible Belt has been generating responses that range from enchantment to horror. Supporters (notable among them Yoko Ono) have praised the messages as a stirring call to rational thinking, akin to Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason. Opponents have attacked them as the Ten Commandments of the Antichrist.
Whoever the anonymous architects of the Guidestones were, they knew what they were doing: The monument is a highly engineered structure that flawlessly tracks the sun. It also manages to engender endless fascination, thanks to a carefully orchestrated aura of mystery. And the stones have attracted plenty of devotees to defend against folks who would like them destroyed. Clearly, whoever had the monument placed here understood one thing very well: People prize what they don't understand at least as much as what they do.
The story of the Georgia Guidestones began on a Friday afternoon in June 1979, when an elega
nt gray-haired gentleman showed up in Elbert County, made his way to the offices of Elberton Granite Finishing, and introduced himself as Robert C. Christian. He claimed to represent "a small group of loyal Americans" who had been planning the installation of an unusually large and complex stone monument. Christian had come to Elberton—the county seat and the granite capital of the world—because he believed its quarries produced the finest stone on the planet.
Joe Fendley, Elberton Granite's president, nodded absently, distracted by the rush to complete his weekly payroll. But when Christian began to describe the monument he had in mind, Fendley stopped what he was doing. Not only was the man asking for stones larger than any that had been quarried in the county, he also wanted them cut, finished, and assembled into some kind of enormous astronomical instrument.
PARASEARCHERS note: Interesting possible connection of Robert C. Christian with the Rosicursian order which in turn has connections with the Knights Of St John.
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta, also known as the original Sovereign Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem, is a closed fraternity of the Roman Catholic Church. Its initiated members must be Catholic and have served in the military. They participate in secret ceremonies and feudal ritual dress, and embrace a strong class/caste mentality as part of their initiation into Rosicrucian dogma.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Explore Mars: Google Mars
Google made it easier to take a stroll on Mars with it's "Google Mars". Similar to Google Maps, Google Mars allows users to scan the surface of Mars, keep track or orbiters, and search for anomalous features. This new Mars Scanning Technology makes the possibility of finding life on Mars much greater. Extraterrestrial life researchers can now use this great tool to gather new data that may ultimately lead to the discovery of life on another planet.
If we think about the possibilities that can transpire from this new tool, we will find many new avenues to explore. I was trying out some of the features available on the site, and although there are still many limits of usage, a lot of the features were impressive.
The map views currently offer three views. Elevation, visible, and Infrared. The elevation and infrared views are very impressive and should prove to be a huge asset when searching for anomalies. The elevation feature works with colors that represent different altitudes of the surface. Using the elevation feature, the viewer gets a better view of structural and dimension displaying features. This should make it much easier and more accurate when searching for artificial or intelligent designed features. The infrared view will display a black and white imagery, but the outline of ridges and dividing marks becomes apparent. This feature will also prove useful when examining surface features.
I have noticed that some areas allow you to zoom very close and observe features with detailed imagery, as where other areas only allow far away views. I have been unable to use this tool to see "The Face On Mars" closeup as of now.
Google Mars is equipped with a search box and will provide a direct link to any location with the click of the mouse. As more researchers start trolling around the surface of Mars, I am 100% confident more anomalies and viewpoints will surface that may ultimately prove to be solid evidence of intelligent life.
Here's a link to Google Mars. http://www.google.com/mars/
As a word of documenting advice, if you do come across anything that appears anomalous, I recommend you take a print screen of the image in addition to the link. I am not saying Google or NASA will cover up any unordinary imagery that slips in, but there are many conspiracy theories floating around about this subject.[Source]
Cincinnati Tour Founders Bring the Paranormal Community Together
The Miami Historical Society of Whitewater Township and Miamitown Ghost Tours will come together to bring the paranormal community into Cincinnati! Ghost tour founders, Michael and Jeff Morris, will be hosting the first ever paranormal convention in Miamitown, Ohio on October 10, 2009.
This convention will offer each guest the opportunity to speak with many of the well known figures in the paranormal community, including but not limited to:
· James A. Willis: the co-author of Weird Ohio (2005) and Weird Indiana (2008) and was also a contributing author to Weird US (2004), Weird Hauntings (2006), Weird US: The ODDyssey Continues (2008), and Weird, Scary and Unusual (2008). Additionally, he is the founder of the paranormal research team Ghosts Of Ohio. He currently resides in
· Jeff Craig: the creator and mastermind behind the Hidden Ohio Map and Guide. He currently is a member of James A. Willis' paranormal research group Ghosts of Ohio and resides in Blue Ash, Ohio. Aside from his map Jeff is a freelance cartographer with Celtic Maps.
· Paranormal Outreach Radio: Mike, Matt, and Christel host Paranormal Outreach Radio every Wednesday night at 9:30pm on www.asprn.com. On October 10th they will be broadcasting from the Miami Historical Society live! Mike, Matt, and Christel are also members of the Northern Kentucky Paranormal Society.
· Cincinnati Area Paranormal Existence Research: CAPER has been researching the paranormal for 5 years and has become one of the largest Cincinnati paranormal groups. Meet the members and hear about their past 30+ years of combined paranormal experience including their travels around the world!
· Rayne: a Medium and Tarot reader and works with Paravizons as well. Rayne will be offering readings and information for everyone interested!
· Miamitown Ghost Tours: tour founders and authors will present their new book Haunted Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio. Michael and Jeff Morris have been working in the paranormal community for about 4 years and began touring Miamitown in December of 2006.
Invisible poisonous skyfish?
Recently many reports appeared talking about the weird creatures, the so-called skyfish. It remains unclear whether the animals are fish, birds or worms.
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The mysterious beings have long worm-like bodies with wide projections on their sides (like those of fish). The trouble is, they don’t live in water – they live in the air.
No one has come up with a decent name for the animals as of yet. Some suggestions include “flying sticks,” “solar entities,” and “skyfish.”
The first time skyfish was photographed ten years ago by a film director Jose Escamilla. He originally thought that it was a UFO but then he realized that it was some living thing moving at a very high speed.
He began studying them and realized that the animals invade the space everywhere. Besides he discovered that the creatures began reproducing at a much faster rate as a result of the global warming.
Without a specimen in hand to examine, it's impossible to determine whether or not skyfish are living organisms, but it's Escamilla's best guess that they are.
Skyfish have only been captured on film and videotape. No one knows what they are, where they come from, but there are already specialized people – the catchers of skyfish, who mainly live in Japan.
They say that their hobby is not very safe: the animals are terribly poisonous during the fall season. In Japan the skyfish are extremely fast and fly at 300 km/h.
Analysis of film and video of skyfish from around the world indicate that they might range in size from just a few inches to perhaps over a hundred feet in length! How could something that large be unknown? That’s the essence of the mystery.
Translated by Natalia Vysotskaya
Pravda.ru
The Second Montauk Monster Case
Another Montauk monster has seemed to have washed up ashore at the founders Landing Park shore in Southold, New York. This marks the second case of the so-called "Montauk Monster Sightings." The carcass was said to be discovered by a couple who contacted Nicky Papers of Montauk-Monster.com.
According to reports, the remains of the newest Montauk Monster were taken to an undisclosed location in Southold. Nicky Papers describes the Montauk Monster remains as horrible smelling and he doesn't think the pictures do it justice.
This latest Montauk monster report follows the original, yet unsolved, Montauk monster event which took place last summer.
Habbo Creates Twilight Space For Virtual Vampires
Forbidden love is about to go virtual.
In November, fans of Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" series will be able to indulge their paranormal passions in Habbo, a virtual world played by more than 12 million users worldwide.
While its audience is geographically diverse, Habbo's deliberately pixelated aesthetic (right) has appealed mostly to teenagers who grok its retro vibe and can appreciate the game's campy, playful humor. The average age of a Habbo player is 15, according to Teemu Huuhtanen, executive vice president of Sulake, Habbo's developer in Helsinki, Finland.
As a result, a number of Hollywood properties have used Habbo as a doorway into the fickle world of teens, including "American Idol," "Heroes" and "Spiderwick Chronicles."
The latest to jump on the Habbo bandwagon is "Twilight." The four books in the series have sold 70 million copies worldwide, and the first movie, produced by Summit Entertainment, generated $400 million in box office sales last year.
Twilight To kick off the Nov. 20 release of the second movie, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," Habbo's developers will be opening up Twilight-themed rooms and hosting related online parties to stir up fan fervor in early November. In addition, players have the option of buying virtual items associated with the franchise.
If you've read the books or watched the movie, you may be interested in knowing that among the virtual items for sale on Habbo are a water fountain, a clock tower, the Volturi Crest and Jacob's barn door.
If you're not a Twilight fan, it could just be a matter of time before you get bitten by the vampire epidemic that's spreading faster than swine flu among the world's women and teens.
-- Alex Pham
Moon Music
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An Account Of SkinWalker Ranch
Not sure where the so-called Skinwalker Ranch was located, we thought we'd just go out near there and see if we could find it by feel. We were right around the Hilltop Road area adjacent to Bottle Hollow Reservoir when we got out to have a cigar.[Source]
The landmark we were after was an escarpment that stood between the reservoir and the boundary of the ranch. Both of us had a feeling specifically to the south and slightly east from the Southwest corner of Bottle Hollow, but it seemed too far away. So we got back in the truck and went tooling off on some rural roads looking for anything, a landmark, a UFO, an otherworldly beast, whatever.
This took us across a creek that feeds Pelican Lake, a beautiful waterfowl reserve, and we more or less followed that stream until we reached Randlett, Utah, which is on the Ute Indian Reservation. We passed a store in Randlett, turned around and went back. Inside there were the store employee, a rancher, and a Ute Indian.
When the time was right to ask someone, we asked the store employee if she knew where the Mystery Ranch (as it is known in that area), and she said she didn't know, "Don't get out much," she said. But when she said it, she was clearly nervous. We asked the Ute Indian, and he said something to the effect, "You want to see a UFO? They're everywhere. You'll see one if you can see one." Something like that. He was a bit obscure, but I knew what he was getting at. To him, seeing one is a mystical experience, like a vision quest, and you'd see one when it was time for you to see one. That sort of thing. We wound up giving him a cigar and left.
We continued east. We called someone who had an idea of where it was and got some pretty rough directions, which led us in the wrong direction a little further. She told us that we were looking for the big 45 degree angle in the road, and "it's right there." Turned out there were a few of those. I knew it was somewhere nearer Fort Duchesne (right next to Bottle HOllow) so we headed back there. At a crossroads, where in fact the road takes an angle somewhere between 45 and 90 degrees, there were some workers we'd passed earlier working on a power box.
We pulled up and got out and asked them if they knew. The younger of the two perked up and said a friend of his had been talking about it, and knew right where it was. He gave us directions to go up the road that pretty closely matched the road landmark given by the person we'd called. The worker told us if we reached the power substation we'd gone a little too far. We passed a dirt road on the left, just like the worker described, but decided to get our bearings against the power substation, which we reached within another thousand feet.
We turned around and went back down to the dirt road and took it. Handy landmarks along this paved and near this dirt road were the high-tension power towers and lines connected to the substation. We could spot these from quite a distance in any direction.
Down the dirt road that led to one of the entrances, we reached a gate. The gate was locked. I knew it was the place because property that prime doesn't have locked gates on it. It's either a going concern or it's for sale. If it's a going concern you don't have a locked gate in the middle of the day. If it's for sale, there's more than likely a sign on who to contact. If it's abandoned and there are no further plans, you'll most likely find a locked gate. We were tempted to go onto the property, but we had a hunch that the residents on the mini-ranches we'd passed on our way in keep an eye on the place.
We hung out and took a few pictures shot some video, used the binoculars to look around. Directly to our north was an escarpment that struck me as that talked about in one of the books about the place. It bordered the entire property on the north. You can clearly see it on Google Earth at 40 15'32.80 N 109 53'12.85 W.
Reincarnation Claims Verified in Australian Documentary
In 1983 noted Australian Hypnotherapist, Peter Ramster, produced a stunning television documentary in which four women from Sydney, who had never been out of Australia, gave details under hypnosis of their past lives. Then, accompanied by television cameras and independent witnesses, they were taken to the other side of the world in order to confirm their claims. The film forms part of the basis of Mr. Ramster's book, "In Search of Lives Past" (1990), and a speech he delivered to the Australian Hypnotherapists ninth National Convention at the Sydney Sheraton Wentworth Hotel on the 27th March, 1994. Or as Voltaire once pointed out, "Why should twice born be harder to believe than once born?"
Demons, UFOs and strange voices
John A. Keel
Lou Gentile
The beliefs of John Keel and Lou Gentile, two high-profile US investigators of the paranormal who died in recent weeks, suggest that reality is far more bizarre than most of us dare imagine. And demonology, in various guises, was central to those beliefs.
To many people, John Keel was simply a UFO researcher or ufologist. That may have been true at the start of this highly competent investigative journalist’s quest, but while others readily subscribed to the extraterrestrial hypothesis to explain UFO sightings, Keel soon took a very different approach.
For him, there were too many puzzling aspects of UFO reports, such as associated sightings of strange creatures, to accept the simplistic view of aliens in space ships.
Instead, Keel concluded that UFOs and the creatures that sometimes seemed to be associated with them, emanated from somewhere closer to home: another dimension which occasionally interacted with our physical world.
It was possibly a strange, nether world peopled by demons and other strange creatures, including Mothman – the subject of Keel’s 1975 study The Mothman Prophecies which was made into a movie in 2002. It was a theme he explored in some of his other books, including Our Haunted Planet and The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings. It was Keel who also coined the phrase “Men In Black” to describe the strange visitors who reportedly attempted to silence UFO investigators.
A follower of Charles Fort, the collector of oddities, Keel (real name Alva John Kiehle) preferred to be described as a Fortean rather than a ufologist, and came to the conclusion that UFO-like objects and apparitions “do not necessarily originate on another planet and may not even exist as permanent constructions of matter. It is more likely that we see what we want to see and interpret such visions according to our contemporary beliefs.”
But Keel, who died in New York on 3 July, at the age of 79, also declared: “Ufology is just another name for demonology.”
Excellent overviews of his contribution to our understanding of UFO-related phenomena and the paranormal can be found in obituaries in The Daily Telegraph and also on Cryptomundo.
Lou Gentile’s passing at the age of 40 in Philadelphia, six days before Keel, has not been as widely reported, but in his own way he did much to promote the paranormal and, in particular, a belief in demons. An active investigator who helped those troubled by hauntings or possession, he also ran The Lou Gentile Show, originally a radio broadcast but more recently an online subscription service.
Despite the fact that he was losing his battle with cancer, Lou continued working on various cases, as well as writing a book about his investigations and working with a British TV network on an in-depth documentary on paranormal activity.
I first wrote about this self-styled “lay demonologist” in 2006 after it was announced that he had accepted conjuror James Randi’s $1 million challenge to prove paranormal ability. The challenge was lodged on 20 January 2006.
Gentile claimed to be able to produce electronic voice phenomena (EVP) – also known as instrumental trans-communication (ITC) – using a digital recorder. These were not, apparently, stray radio communications picked up by the recorder, as sceptics suggested, but voices that could give intelligent responses to questions posed by Gentile.
This claim was never put to the test because, in the first instance, James Randi needed heart bypass surgery and, by the time he had recovered, Gentile was suffered a serious back injury. The claim was then either withdrawn or not pursued.
Gentile’s beliefs and abilities were given a great boost in 2006 when Will Storr vs The Supernatural was published in the UK and a year later in the US. The writer’s own website explains that he didn’t believe in ghosts, adding, “Not, that is, until he is sent on a journalistic assignment to follow Lou Gentile … [and] what Will expects to be a straightforward piece, poking fun at an amusing eccentric, turns into a terrifying nightmare of spectral ghost lights, suburban possession and horrific demonic growling.”
The best feature I have read on Gentile and his work was published in The Philadelphia Weekly. There are also tributes to Lou and a family statement here.
I was intrigued to learn that John Keel took an early interest in paranormal telephony (phone calls from the dead), where spirits appear to communicate electronically, in the days before EVP was well known. During this period of research he found his phone calls being mysteriously re-routed to another number, one digit different to his own, and the person who answered it not only claimed to be called John Keel but also sounded remarkably similar to the author.
Even more intriguing is an experience reported by Will Storr* after publication of his book. He describes it on his website as “so utterly bizarre I still don’t know what to make of it” that he contacted Prof David Fontana, former president of the Society for Psychical Research, to ask his opinion.
Storr explained that the subject of EVP came up during a telephone interview from his work number with a radio station to publicise his book. He began to elaborate on the phenomenon “when this hectoring voice cut in for about 10-15 seconds”. It was difficult to make out what the voice was saying because “it sounded staticy and a little angry”. The interviewer also seemed angry because he thought Storr was playing a prank on him.
A couple of minutes after the interview ended, his work phone rang. “I picked it up and it was the same voice saying the same thing”. After it had finished, the phone went dead.
That’s an experience that would certainly have fascinated both Keel and Gentile.
*Will Storr is currently based in Sydney and won a National Press Club of Australia award for excellence in journalism in August 2008.
Past-life hypnosis ban in Israel
Authorised hypnotherapists whose work is recognised by Israel’s Health Ministry have been banned from exploring their patients’ past lives. The Advisory Committee on the Law on Hypnosis has made the ruling following complaints that some clients had suffered serious emotional damage through reincarnation hypnosis sessions.
The ban does not affect unauthorised hypnotists, in line with the Health Ministry’s decision to allow various alternative treatments that are not recognised as therapeutic by modern medicine.
Commenting on the restriction, which was announced in Israel’s oldest newspaper, Haaretz (24 July, 2009), Dr Alex Aviv of the Abarbanel Mental Health Centre in Bat Yam, who heads the advisory committee, argued that hypnosis and reincarnation had nothing to do with one another.
“This is a mystical practice for people who believe in reincarnation,” he explained. “We’ve seen a number of cases where practitioners tried to perform this on patients and things went bad.”
He did not say whether the committee examined any cases where patients had a positive outcome from hypnotic regression to an apparent past life.
The newspaper said discussion on past-life regression therapy began two years ago within the ministry and ended with “an explicit ban on offering the practice, or for hypnotists to present themselves as experts in the field.”
One of the cases cited involved a 23-year-old man who suffered depression after breaking up with his girlfriend. The psychologist treating him suggested that an event in a past life might now be making it difficult for him to let go of his partner and offered to hypnotise him.
The regression session went wrong when the man became emotionally stuck in an experience which made him feel he was enclosed in a coffin, leaving him suffering repeated panic attacks and respiratory problems after he returned to a normal conscious state.
Haaretz did, however, quote a supporter of regression therapy, Dr Lianna Sofer, who said that correcting problems which began in a previous life could be beneficial in this life. She had, for example, cured a woman from chronic neck pains after “discovering she had been decapitated in a previous life”.
Hypnosis, in inexperienced hands, can be dangerous and Israel was the first country to introduce legislation to control its use. Dr Aviv Alex, the advisory committee’s head, was one of four authors of a paper which appeared in The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis in 2008: “Examining hypnosis legislation: a survey of the practice in Israel”.
Its findings were based on responses to a questionnaire sent to “470 licensed hypnotists and 1250 unlicensed professionals”. Practically all of the first group (94.4 per cent) reported using hypnosis in their clinical work, and 45 per cent of the second group did so. The authors suggested steps to increase the efficiency of the law as part of a regulatory system and the new ban is clearly a result of that recommendation.
Adrian Finkelstein, MD
The news will certainly come as a surprise to Adrian Finkelstein, MD, who was born in Romania but emigrated to Israel with his family in 1960. It was while studying at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School that he was first exposed to hypnosis.
He qualified as a doctor in 1968 and went on to study psychiatry. Now based in the United States, he has been performing past life regressions for almost 30 years and has written extensively about his work and the benefits it brings to his pupils.
His book Marilyn Monroe Returns: the Healing of a Soul tells the story of singer Sherrie Lea Laird and explores her memories, under hypnosis, of her previous life in which she believes she was the famous movie star.
I’m sceptical about the value of hypnotic regession in providing evidence for reincarnation, but in the right hands it does seem to be a powerful therapeutic tool.
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Navajo Witches--Skinwalkers
Navajo witches differ greatly from the European variety and can't be recognized with the same methods. Unlike main stream European black-witchcraft there are no warning signs for the presence of a witch at work if they are in human form [i.e. blue flame, spoiled milk, etc., a la Warlock]. It would behoove you to know the behavior of a Navajo witch in order to spot and stay clear of this maleficent being. All Navajo witchcraft categories, with one exception (see notes below bibliography), are associated with the dead and death. A couple of generations back this association was the easiest way to identify a witch. With the proliferation of weirdness in the Navajo youth population a witch can no longer be spotted by a person's romance with the ghastly things in life. If black clothing decorated with skulls were enough to designate witchcraft then a large chunk of the Navajo population, the writer of this paper included, would be labeled as a witch.
Apprenticeship
A person who has just become a witch's apprentice can be identified by new strange habits or a peculiar event. A common event is the murder of a close relative, usually a sibling, for his or her required initiation. Somebody with a relative buried with less than a whole body, with no plausible explanation, should cause a red flag to go up.
A common new habit for the novice is to take off in the middle of the night. It is believed that the local witches convene in an underground room littered with corpses. At these meetings they may make a sand-painting of the new victim with colored ash and mar it with human excretions. In this case getting drooled over is not a good thing. The members of this sect may also practice necrophilia with their latest female victim or prepare corpse powder with a male victim's flesh.
Shape Shifters
Skinwalkers are another type of witch closely associated with underground gatherings. They are "wer-animals" and own an animal skin that is used to transform them into these animals. Any real animal can see through the skinwalker's disguise but even a human can recognize the unnatural creature. For some unexplainable reason even a well seasoned skinwalker cannot obtain the perfect animal gait or leave the proportionally correct sized animal tracks.
Methods of Sickness
A strange habit that indicates witchcraft is the burying of stolen objects due the use of these personal items as props in spell castings. It might be hair, nail clippings, clothing, and favorite objects that are filched. These items are put into a bundle, sung over with a prayer that has been twisted into perversion and ending in the bundle's burial. Waking up with a bad hair cut or more chipped nails than before is a bad sign.
A witch who shoots "arrows" to cause harm are hard to spot. They might be recognized by the instruments used to infect victims with. Small objects such as pebbles, bone fragments, or shell shards along with the possession of a blow gun may be an indication of a witch.
Wild Kingdom
Some wild animals have the ability to use witchcraft. It is an inherent ability in the species and is not considered evil, even if it kills you. Even the ants are able to cause illness in humans so it's best to leave any wild animal alone, no matter how harmless they may appear to be.
The usual effect of any witching, left untreated, is a gradual loss of the ability to function in society, either physically or mentally [insanity]. In each case it is considered an "illness" to be treated by a prescribed ceremony that should restore the victim to full function.
Bibliography
Kluckhohn, Clyde. Navaho witchcraft. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989
Notes:
For the purpose of this paper I applied the label "skinwalker" only to the shape shifting type of witch. Be aware that even though the word for skinwalker in Navajo is "yee nadlooshii" and means "walk/travel like an animal" the label is usually applied to all witchcraft sorts regardless of their means and methods.
There is one type of witchcraft that is not closely associated with the dead: witchcraft used solely for generating business for the medicine man or woman. In these cases the victims will hire the victimizer to be rid of their illness. It is a despicable practice that might backfire since the methods for curing are not one-hundred percent safe for the practitioner.
What is Navajo Witchcraft?
The Four "Ways" of Navajo Witchcraft
The Dine (Navajo) believe that there are natural places where powers for both good and evil are concentrated, and that those sacred powers can be harnessed for good (healing) or evil (harm). Navajo witches also believe that objects such as hair or personal items can be used for good or evil. Within Navajo spirituality, the supernatural and the physical worlds are tightly intertwined, so pieces of physical objects like bone, hair or other items hold strong supernatural properties that can be manipulated. For the most part, only a very thin line separates the living from the dead, the good from the evil, and the medicine man from the Navajo witch.
In his 1944 book Navajo Witchcraft, anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn lists the four "Ways" of the Navajo witch as follows.
- Witchery Way focuses on corpses in all of their rituals and ceremonies.
- Sorcery Way involves burying a victims' personal objects or body parts (like hair) during ceremonies.
- Wizardry Way focuses on injecting foreign objects such as poison or cursed darts into the victim.
- Frenzy Way is focused on using charms that influence the emotional or mental state of others.
The Skinwalker
The "Witchery Way" is the best known form of Navajo witchcraft. Those who practice the Witchery Way, like all Navajo traditions, learn it from the elders of their family. Very little is actually known about those who practice the Witchery way, as very few Navajo are actually willing to speak about it. Every form of this witchcraft is based on death, and the Witchery way focuses on corpses. Although little is known about Navajo witches, witnesses have reported that they gather in caves or any secluded place where they go into "animal form". During these gatherings, they perform ceremonies similar to other Navajo ceremonies that involve rituals, dance and sand-painting. However, they perform these ceremonies with some dark alterations, such as using ash instead of sand, or modifying other Navajo rituals in "corrupted" ways. These gatherings are also rumored to include necrophilia and cannibalism.
"Skinwalkers" are the famous Navajo witches who follow the Witchery way and transform into animal form in order to take advantage of the unique characteristics and special powers of those animals. The Skinwalker is the most famous Navajo witch throughout western culture, due to recent books and movies. The accuracy and truth of these stories can only be judged by the Navajo who live as neighbors to the real world Skinwalkers in Navajo Nation. Witness sightings of strange creatures, and odd phenomenon, are common throughout this part of the country.
Some interesting witness accounts of real life skinwalkers are provided below:
- James Donahue published an article that describes a case where anthropologist Clyde Klukhohn reports an eerie event where he and his wife spotted a strange wolf standing in the yard. After disappearing, the couple learned that the wolf had left small female human footprints.
- John Salter III also reported that during the time he and his family lived in the Navajo nation in 1980, they were visited and spooked by practicing Skinwalkers.
- In 1996, an organization of scientists called NIDS decided to scientifically investigate the many outrageous claims reported at the "Skinwalker Ranch," and this investigation is outlined by reporter George Knapp and scientist Colm Kelleher in the book Hunt for Skinwalker. The book relates a number of witness accounts of real Skinwalker phenomenon that reflect aspects of the Witchery way.
Romania Legalizes Witchcraft
31-year-old Gabriela Ciucur will stay in history as the country's first legal witch, after she registered a company dealing with "astrology and contacts with the spiritual world", media reported.
Ciucur spent quite a lot of time arguing with various officials until she convinced them that witchcraft was a sound area of work. At first everyone laughed at her, but they finally caved in.
Now Ciucur charges her clients GBP 3 to 6 to peek into their future, to help them get in touch with the spirits of loved ones, or to unravel what's in the stars.
Witchcraft is quite popular in Romania as many local people believe in the occult, especially in rural areas where legends of Transilvania's count Dracula are still taken quite seriously. All over Eastern Europe women tend to believe in the powers of witches and some often resort to their help when settling a love score, healing a broken heart, or punishing a rival.
Pagans Aren't Americans - Gingrich
Apparently from Newt's perspective we Pagans are not Americans, for in his fatwa he warned Americans that they are surrounded by "Paganism."
Mike Huckabee, who had earlier explained the relationship between our constitution and his theology: "I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that's what we need to do -- to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view. . ."
That Pride and Power are Huckabee's real deities was made clear when he criticized President Barack Obama for saying in Cairo, Egypt, last Thursday that one nation shouldn't be exalted over another.
"The notion that we are just one of many among equals is nonsense," this Servant of Sauron said.
These examples of moral and intellectual vacuity were supported by convicted felon, http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/summpros.htm Oliver North.
Three old white geezers giving their race and gender a bad name, speaking to a crowd that gives its religion a bad name.
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Bulgaria: an Archaeology and Treasure Hunting Paradise. Or Hell
Note: This article is mostly based on my work for David O'Shea, a journalist from the Dateline current affairs program of the Australian SBS TV, who worked on a documentary on treasure hunting in Bulgaria in June 2009; on this project we were aided by Bulgarian archaeologist Ventsislav Gergov.
Premise, i.e. Prelude to the Tragedy
An ordinary field trip back in high school to an archaeological site in Northern Bulgaria left a very lasting memory in my mind. It was just one simple thing but it absolutely astonished me: the archaeologist accompanying my class would simply lean, pick up seemingly random objects off the ground, and would say, "Roman tile - 2nd century AD", or "Byzantine vessel - 5-6th century"; or "Bulgarian ceramics - First Bulgarian State"...
He would just date back to some historical period items lying right there on the surface without having to do any digging whatsoever... And the archaeology site that my class visited turned to be a whole bunch of ancient and medieval sites located within an area of 1-2 square kilometers...
To put it briefly, many people - including most Bulgarians - do not realize that all of Bulgaria's territory is literally dotted with archaeological objects from all time periods. Any single rock you pick up from the ground in Bulgaria often would turn out to have a several-thousand-year history of human interaction!
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
Dark Places: Chernobyl, Pripyat, Ukraine
Walk through the abandoned town of Pripyat in the Ukraine, and you'll find a large-scale crime scene abandoned in a hurry: A nursery full of children's shoes, and apartment complexes with the morning newspaper, dated April 28, 1986, open on the breakfast table. Two days before, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, minutes away, melted down, but it took 48 hours for the authorities to alert locals and clear them out of the world's biggest nuclear disaster site. Now that radiation levels are safe for short-term exposure, Chernobyl's nuclear complex has become an unlikely tourist attraction since opening to visitors in 2002. The power complex is at the center of the 20-mile-radius "Exclusion Zone," a regrown area of forests now populated by wolves and bears. Reactor #4 is the star of this sad show, today sheathed in a concrete and lead sarcophagus 200 feet high. A tour organization called Welcome to Ukraine offers day trips from Kiev via bus (you're advised to book two weeks in advance): You'll tour the forest and get to inspect the plant's exterior, including mounting an observation post to see the reactor, before walking to Pripyat, which was built in the 1970s and celebrated in official USSR propaganda as the "world's youngest town." It died young, but failed to leave a beautiful corpse.[Welcome to Ukraine Chernobyl Tour]
Dark Places: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalù, Sicily, Italy
Aleister Crowley is perhaps the world's most infamous occultist, and this now-overgrown stone ranch-style house with hallways full of dark pagan frescoes was once the world capital of his satanic orgies. Or so it was reported in the 1920s. Crowley is now known for his famous fans, including Jimmy Page and Marilyn Manson, and the fact that he appears on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. He founded the Abbey of Thelema—named after a utopia described in Rabelais' Gargantua whose motto is "Do as thou wilt"—in 1920 in the beach town of Cefalù, Sicily. It became a free-love commune with a dark side: Newcomers were forced to spend the night in the "Chamber of Nightmares," where, high on hashish and opiates, they stared at frescoes of earth, heaven, and hell. After a British society dandy named Raoul Loveday died of a fever contracted at the Abbey, the press had a field day, leading an embarrassed Benito Mussolini to expel the commune in 1923. Notorious underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger unearthed the compound in 1945 and made a movie there, although mysteriously the film was subsequently lost. The Abbey is now a collapsed semi-ruin, overrun with vegetation, but inside there are some original hellish frescoes that Crowley used to scare his disciples into shape. Intrepid and esoterically minded visitors visiting Sicily can wander the grounds and get some vibes, though no official tours are available.[See More of the Abbey]
Sonora Witchcraft Market, Mexico City, Mexico
Witches packed into tightly spaced stalls proffer advice and spells for $10, promising quick ends to poverty and spousal infidelity, while some rather unhappy-looking exotic animals—iguanas, frogs, and wild birds—are for sale in cages. This is the Sonora Witchcraft Market, open daily to pilgrims from Mexico City and far beyond who come to have their fortunes read and attempt to find a shortcut to a better life. The market is a labyrinth of stalls that cover a few city blocks, and it's the regional source for "spiritual" stuff ranging from potions derived from ancient Aztec recipes to Buddha statues. For hard-core enthusiasts, perhaps some rattlesnake blood or a dried hummingbird will give your fortunes a jolt. But you should be aware that witchcraft in Mexico is no joke: The National Association of Sorcerers has weighed in on presidential elections, casting spells to make them free and fair. And of course there's a dark side, such as bad-luck charms from the Santeria religion that scares the daylights out of locals—and don't give anyone in Mexico a black candle unless you really, really mean it.
The Witchcraft Capital Of Mexico
CATEMACO, Mexico (AP) - Workers from the local tourism office stop
cars at the edge of town to pitch the unique services Catemaco has to
offer. "Want a quick spiritual cleansing to suck away all your troubles?" one asks. "It's cheap, and you'll feel better afterwards," chimes in another.
Catemaco, population 35,000, is the witchcraft capital of Mexico - and some say of the world.
Tucked away on the eastern shore of a lake by the same name, high in the
jungle-covered Tuxtla Mountains along the Gulf of Mexico, the town definitely has a mystical feel. Haze hovers overhead most of the day, and the stench of decaying vegetation wafts on a light breeze.
Mexico has thousands of practicing witches, warlocks, shamans, herbalists, seers, healers, psychics and fortune tellers, worshippers of a mixed brew of Roman Catholicism and ancient rites and practices that survive from pre-Columbian days. Almost every marketplace in Mexico has at least one herb-woman and a "curandero," or healer. But only the 13 sorcerers of Catemaco, who call themselves "the Brothers," are acknowledged as the high priests of the trade. They say only they are privy to secret, ancient rites and practices. Their acolytes call them "masters."
Leading that coven are brothers Tito and Apolinar Gueixpal Seba, who live and
practice in their separate homes on a paved street at one edge of town, and Jacinto Zuniga Alfonso in a cheaper house on an unpaved street at the opposite end.
Master Tito, 48, and Master Apolinar, 35, dress casually but sport lots of
golden chains with expensive amulets around their necks and piles of gold and silver bracelets on their forearms. Master Jacinto, 38, wears a black judge's robe and practices in a tiny, barely lit back room crammed with stuffed birds, "spiritual" statuettes and vipers preserved in jars. He acts as a spokesman of sorts for the Brothers.
A rival National Association of Sorcerers is based in Mexico City, headed by "Professor" Antonio Vazquez de Alba. But Master Jacinto belittles them. "They practice spiritism, magic," he says. "We practice spiritualism. We practice the occult sciences. "We cure diseases very difficult to cure. We've had important people come to us, and we give them spiritual strength - famous musicians, soccer stars, actors and even a president." He wouldn't say which one. "We try to be discreet about it. Unlike the others, we are not political." The Brothers charge 100 pesos - $10 - for a simple "cleansing of evil forces." For a more complicated operation - such as curing arthritis - they charge 4,000 pesos - $400 - or more.
To demonstrate its effectiveness, Master Jacinto gives a visiting reporter a cleansing. After spraying the reporter's head with "specially treated" water, much huffing and puffing and a little hugging and passing of hands, he pauses.
"Your editor is envious of you," he says. "He muddles what you write. The envy has now been driven back to him. You are free of his evil force." But what about the crystal ball? "We don't predict the future," he says.
Professor Vazquez de Alba and his national association does. In March, to mark what was supposed to be the Aztec "Reed Grass 13" New Year, a score of the association's top brass gathered at the National Press Club in Mexico City and pledged "to use our ancestral secrets so that the coming presidential elections are fair and democratic."
The crowd of hard-bitten Mexican journalists gathered for the event looked
skeptical. Clean elections are a rarity in Mexico. "Mexico," Professor Vazquez de Alba told them, "is the navel of the world, the biggest spiritual center of the universe. And it can happen."
This year Reed Grass 13 will mark "the birth of a new Mexico. And there will
be pain, as with every birth," he says. Sorcery and the occult are so prevalent in Mexico that television networks air a "healer" hour almost daily. A female healer on the Televisa network recently told her audience about certain herbs that "will help knit broken bones beautifully."
Even law enforcement agencies have been known to use psychics. In 1996, federal investigators used a seer to try to frame Raul Salinas, the brother of a former president, for a high-profile political murder. Francisca Zetina was paid more than $400,000 to find the bones of a key witness who was missing. Instead, she dug up the bones of a dead relative buried them in a garden - and used her "spiritual powers" to lead police to the unmarked grave. The scam was revealed and she was convicted of fraud.
But the payment itself was perfectly legal under Mexican law. Attorney General Antonio Lozano Gracia admitted: "As a seer she helped us a lot in previous cases." So much for "white magic." Practitioners of the occult refuse to even talk about "black magic," which involves killing animals and sometimes people.
But they admit it is practiced in Mexico.
An infamous case was uncovered in 1989, when police raided a ranch outside the border city of Matamoros. They dug up
about 30 bodies that showed signs of ritual sacrifice. One of the sacrificial victims was Mark Kilroy, a 21-year-old university student from Santa Fe, Texas. Sara Aldrete Villarreal, 24, the high priestess of the cult, her Cuban-American boyfriend, Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, and four other men were arrested after several gunfights with police and two priests rumored to belong to the Knights Of St John.The Sacrifice Ritual has seen a resurgence in the Cult of Holy Death. The Cult is sweeping Mexico and now has moved over the border into the United Sates.
Each was sentenced to 50 years in prison, the maximum sentence in Mexico, for premeditated murder.
Millenniums-old fortification discovered in Jerusalem
ERUSALEM, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- Archaeologists have uncovered a huge fortification dating back to the Middle Bronze Age outside the Old City of Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said on Wednesday.
The structure is estimated to be over 3,700 years old and ascribed to the Canaanites, said the IAA, adding that "this is the first time that such massive construction that predates the Herodian period has been discovered in Jerusalem."
Located in the City of David, a rich source of archaeological findings in the south of the Old City, the wall-like fortification rises to a height of eight meters, and the known section of it extends about 24 meters, which is believed to be just a small part of the whole construction, according to the IAA.
"We are dealing with a gigantic fortification, from the standpoint of the structure's dimensions, the thickness of its walls and the size of the stones that were incorporated in its construction," said Professor Ronny Reich of the University of Haifa, director of the excavation team, adding that "this is the most massive wall that has ever been uncovered in the City of David."
The ancient project appears to be a protected, well-fortified passage between a spring tower and a fortress on the top of a hill nearby, as such a construction "is a plausible solution that explains the innate contradiction of the situation whereby the spring ... is located in the weakest and most vulnerable place in the area," said Reich.
"The new discovery shows that the picture regarding Jerusalem's eastern defenses and the ancient water system in the Middle Bronze Age 2 is still far from clear," he added, predicting that "extremely large and well-preserved architectural elements" are yet to be uncovered in the area.
Shocking Ritual Murder in Village near Bulgaria Capital Sofia
An extremely horrific ritual murder has terrified the residents of the village of Vlado Trichkov, near the town of Svoge, northeast of Sofia.
The 59-year-old Elena Tomova living in a faraway villa in the village was found dead by her son-in-law. The murderer choked her to death, cut a cross with a knife on her body, cut off her left breast, wrapped her in her bed as if she was sleeping, and finally drew a cross on her head with blood.
The murderer left without taking anything but did draw crosses all around the woman's house.
The woman was discovered in this condition by her son-in-law Saturday night but the case was reported two days later. On Wednesday, Elena told her daughter that she was going to see some "pleasant" man on Thursday
According to the investigators, no one has seen the man in question but apparently the woman trusted him.
Tomova is known to have been a devoted follower of Jehovah's Witnesses; she last attended one of their meetings on August 23, the bTV channel reported based on the notes that the woman took in a notebook, discovered by the police, who also found a number of Jehovah's Witnesses' brochures that Tomova must have studied carefully as she underlined certain passages.
No suspects for the murder have been identified yet. The residents of the village are convinced that the murder has to do with Tomova's involvement with the religious sect of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Tomova's villa is at the very end of the mountain village of Vlado Trichkov, and it can be reached only by a jeep or on foot. The neighbors describe her as a modest and peaceful woman.
One more mysterious detail of the case is that on the last page of her notebook, Tomova wrote, "It seems like I will have to die so that mine (i.e. my people/relatives) would start."
The myths and folklore of vampires
According to Elkins Park author Jonathan Maberry, we should take everything we know about modern day vampire culture and throw it away. The stories about holy water, garlic, crosses and stakes through the heart are simply manufactured by movie studios to fill their plot lines.
What Maberry says we should be looking, especially during Halloween, is the extensive history of vampire folklore that spreads throughout just about every culture dating back to Ancient Greece and Babylon. To prove the point, Maberry has written close to 700 pages of reference material that chronicles the history of vampires and other supernatural predators titled The Vampire Slayers' Field Guide to The Undead. On October 29 at 7 p.m., Maberry will be reading from his book as part of a Halloween celebration at The Writers Room of Bucks County in Doylestown.
"Every culture had to develop vampire beliefs from the beginning," Maberry said. "They had to explain why certain things happened, and since they couldn't blame it on God, they couldn't believe that God would do certain things, they figured there had to be something else out there. So they created the vampire to explain the inexplicably cruel."
Most of Maberry's writing portfolio deals with martial arts and self-defense. He holds an 8th degree black belt in jujutsu, which he's studied and taught for 35 years. As an established authority on self-defense books, he decided to branch out in a different creative direction.
"My grandmother, she was a spooky old lady," he said. "She remembered the years of the end of the 19th century where people in Europe more commonly believed things than they do now. She told me a lot of the stories of the folklore of Scotland and Germany where she lived as a little girl. As a kid, I kind of had this knowledge of these supernatural beliefs that were pretty scary beliefs."
"Over the years as I've watched horror movies and read horror books, I thought that even though some of them are very good, they would do themselves better if they went back and looked at the folklore because it's a little scarier."
His interest in the horror genre and his extensive knowledge of vampire folklore led him to The Vampire Slayers' Field Guide, but so as to avoid any confusion with the non-fictional self-defense writer, he writes under the pseudonym Shane MacDougall.
"I'm trying to expand as a writer and avoid getting stale," Maberry said. "I've been writing martial arts stuff for years and over those years, occasionally I've gone into other areas and written stuff in blues, the restaurant business, various aspects of business. Most of us have a little bit of adolescence in us and I always liked spooky stories, but I've always been more interested in the folklore behind the scary stories so I figured I'd take a stab at it."
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International "witch" gathering in Serbia
People dressed like "witch" walk on a street of Veliko Gradiste city, east Serbia, Sept.4, 2009. An international "witch" gathering was held in the city, attracting a lot of "witches" from different places of the world. (Xinhua/AFP)
Friday, September 4, 2009
Skinwalker Ranch From Orbit
Goverment plated vechicles seen leaving Skinwalker Ranch today[Link To Source: ATS]
Kelleher told of one event that took place in August of 1997, in which two workers from NIDS (National Institute for Discovery Science) witnessed a dull yellow light on the ranch that was close to the ground and growing bigger and bigger. One of the workers viewed the light through night vision/infrared equipment and saw what could not be seen with the naked eye. A tunnel of light was opening up, and a large muscular humanoid entity with no facial features crawled out of it, and then vanished
-Contact informed me that several blacked out tahoes with goverment plates were again witnessed leaving skinwalker ranch today. If this is just a ranch run by a wealthy civilian and part time crack scientific team then why is the goverment constantly closing down the road leading to the ranch with police and why are offical looking suv's seen leaving the facility (on a odd note they are typically never seen entering...)
Follow the link below to observe a satellite image of the ranch:
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USAF designed flying disk to bomb Soviet Union
Secret documents, declassified since 1997, reveal development of a USAF"forty foot 'flying saucer' designed to rain nuclear destruction on the Soviet Union from 300 miles in space." The American saucer was called the Lenticular Reentry Vehicle (LRV).
Earthlings offered chance to send text messages to space
MOSCOW, August 13 (RIA Novosti) - An Australian science magazine is offering inhabitants of the third planet from the Sun the chance to send text messages to aliens, national media reported on Thursday.
Thanks to a special project launched by Cosmos, Earthlings will be soon able to send a free text message to the nearest earth-like planet, Gliese 581d.
The project, supported by the Australian government, is part of National Science Week.
Anyone who wishes to do so can send a message using the Hello From Earth website until August 23.
"Everyone is very excited because it's the first planet - of the 358 so far discovered outside of our solar system - that has the potential for life," Hello From Earth spokesman Wilson De Silva was reported as saying by ABC News.
Messages in English, up to 160 characters long, will be converted into a radio signal and transmitted from the Canberra Deep Space Complex at Tidbinbilla, about half an hour's drive from Australia's capital. Messages will be checked to see that they do not contain swearwords.
The inhabitants of Gliese 581d - if they exist - will only receive the messages in December 2029, De Silva said.
"Travelling at the speed of light...it's still gonna take 20 years," he explained.
Australia's Science Minister Kim Carr was quoted by media as saying that the project would help people "discover the limitless possibilities of science," giving people an "opportunity to contact other intelligent life forms".
"As a child I, like many Australians, stared up at the stars and wondered what was out there. Now science has allowed me to send a personal message that may answer that question", he said.
"Hello from Australia on the planet we call Earth. These messages express our people's dreams for the future. We want to share those dreams with you," he wrote in his own message quoted by media reports.
The project has excited the global community, with 26,000 hits received by the Hello From Earth website in its first five minutes, crashing the system for a short time.
Gliese 581d, eight times the size of Earth and 20 light years away, was located in April 2007. Scientists later discovered that the planet is within the habitable zone where liquid water, and therefore, life, could exist.
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