In Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark (Element Books, 2003) Laurence Gardner devotes considerable space to David Hudson's research during the latter 1990s into Orbitally Rearranged Monatomic Elements, and writes (pp. 364-5):
"The mighty drug corporations must … have recognized that, once the Phœnix product hit the cancer treatment market, the days of extortionate profits from semi-effective drugs with harmful side effects (requiring yet more compensatory drugs) would be over. However, there would be a way to keep profits high if Hudson was gone from the scene. Instead of an outsider perfecting products from a naturally monatomic substance to sell at reasonable prices, ORMEs in their various forms could be directly made from gold and platinum group metals.Unsurprisingly, therefore, subsequent to David Hudson's having been advised by a US Department of Defence official that he would never be allowed to complete his enterprise in matters of superconductivity, he was, in November 2000, "regulated out of existence" (loc. cit., p.173).
Precisely the same scenario would have been applicable to the oil companies. If ORME-based fuel-cells were to become the fuel of the future, then they too could be expensively manufactured from traditionally mined metals. (Indeed the motor components industry was already using palladium for its catalytic converters.) This would not only ensure a continuation of high market prices and high profits, but governmental tax percentages could also be maintained in respect of pharmaceutical and fuel revenues."
Attack on Iraq not justified by UN Security Council resolution 1441
Tomorrow "what we could call miracles will be as much a part of everyday life as take make, and throwaway is today … We will see that life is meant to be a joy. We are not here to be victims and it wasn't supposed to be like this. Deep down beneath the layers of conditioning, the robots know this is true and the memories of that truth are beginning to stir within the hearts of those who have the will and the vision to think for themselves. Knowledge and understanding is starting to surface and the robots are rebelling. Not everyone will make that choice, perhaps the majority will not. But many will and they will change the world. Change and necessity shall free all our pent-up, locked-up, creativity, love, and passion for living. We will see human nature in its fullest and most glorious expression. We will discover potential within us that we never believed possible. Humans are not sinners who must find Jesus to be 'saved'. We have been misguided and misdirected by a disconnection from our true selves, that's all. The re-connection into Wholeness will bring a transformation of outlook and values that will rid this planet of the ills that currently overwhelm human consciousness. It will also wrest control from the forces that seek to destroy." (David Icke, The Robots' Rebellion (Gateway, 1994, p. 269-70.)
It may be educational to compare and contrast the presuppositions and attitudes of, on the one hand, Sister Bridget (Geraldine McEwan) vis-à-vis the 'fallen' Margaret, Rose and Bernadette in Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters and, on the other hand, of Archbishop Wynfrith (St Boniface) of Crediton vis-à-vis the Celtic priests and bishops of Frisia and Germania with those of George Bush and Tony Blair in their relationship with Saddam Hussein - and vice-versa, naturally, since all vital relationships are, in some sense, reciprocal.
"As we work our way through the current crisis period it is helpful to remember that the heart of humanity is sound." That is the opening sentence in the major article, "Crisis, Tension, Emergence" in World Goodwill Newsletter (2003, no.2).
Mary Bennett's & David S. Percy's Dark Moon - Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers (Aulis Publishers, 25 Belsize Park, London NW3 4DU, 1999, reprinted 2002), together with "An appeal to logic on national sovereignty", a thoughtful review of Peter Singer's One World - The Ethics of Globalization (New Haven & London: Yale University Press) in One Country - the Newsletter of the Baha'i International Community (Vol. 14, issue 3, October-December 2002), and David Icke's October 2002 Alice In Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster - Why the official story of 9/11 is a monumental lie (ISBN 0 9538810 2 4) are also both relevant and significant. These issues, clearly, merit attention.
Some such gesture as the abrogation of both Magna Carta and the North American Constitution and their effective replacement by something along the lines of the deservedly famous Declaration of Arbroath is needed. Note, meanwhile:
"This year… on August 6, the Indian mathematician Manindra Agrawal distributed a nine-page paper… He had hit upon an ingenious algorithm to prove whether a number is prime, no matter how enormous… You can scrawl it on a single sheet of paper - double-spaced… 'It's not really difficult at all', Agrawal says. It is a fresh reminder of why history is riddled with innovations that come from nowhere…" (cf "Cover Story" in The Times, 19.12.2002; p. T2/6.)
Because his mother, Klara, collapsed and went into labour while taking some food to her husband, Alois, at that time an Austrian customs-officer manning a post in the hamlet of Simbach on the German side of the river Inn, Hitler was actually born in Germany, Egon Fein the historian tells us.The rooms in the pub usually cited as his birth-place, at Braunau on the Austrian side of the border, are where he was taken shortly afterwards. (cf. "Hitler was born on German soil" by Allan Hall, in The Sun, 19.12.2002; p.25.)
"Mankind is engaged in the perpetual process of going mad - as the events of today sufficiently prove - but simultaneously mankind is persistently engaged in the complementary process of rescuing itself from going mad.
Now going mad is simply - or rather, not so simply - a process of disintegration of the personality; and the rescue consists in a reintegration. William Blake is an excellent example of this, and that is why he is a man of to-day, typical of our world." (From Denis Saurat's Introduction to his book, God's of the people, London: John Westhouse Publishing Ltd,1947.)
At the time of the onset of the Persian Gulf crisis in 1990 hundreds of thousands of North American and other foreign troops stood upon Saudi Arabian soil and it was that, to him, barbarian defilement of sacred Muslim territory that so decisively turned Osama bin Laden against the United States. James Wasserman's The Templars and the Assassins - The Militia of Heaven (ISBN 0 89281 859 X; Inner Traditions, 2001) makes excellent background reading:
"The anticipated Shiite redeemer, the Mahdi, patiently awaits the divinely ordained moment for his final appearance on earth. He is the Qaim (the last one), who will establish the ideal Islamic state. He is the seventh Prophet-Hierophant, who will inaugurate the seventh epoch of humanity as Muhammad had opened the sixth. As the final Iman, he will reveal the esoteric meaning of all preceding history and usher in a period of pure spiritual knowledge, in which truth will take precedence in all areas of human behavior." (op.cit., p.91)
Whether or not the future Pope John XXIII was correct when, in 1933, he forecast our Final Judgment in 2033, our current position, clearly, is in some ways better than it was during World-War II, when our spiritual leaders "lacked the ability to work in a coordinated fashion to combat the forces aligned against human freedom," because "now, two generations later, there has been a deepening sense of responsibility being demonstrated on the part of individuals taking up the spiritual path." (From a recent World Goodwill statement.)
"Interview with Rabbi Michæl Lerner" in World Goodwill (2003, no. 3).
Roger Scruton's An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture (Duckworth 1998) also brilliantly challenges the vacuous pretentions of recent deconstructive criticisms of traditional philosophy.
According to Father Bede Griffiths: "All our conflicts arise because we stop at a certain level. Christians stop at the Christian religion, and if you are a Muslim you stop at Islam. If you are a Hindu you stop at your own symbolism and formalised structure. Each one feels separate from the others. Only when you go beyond these distinctions and are open to the reality beyond can you overcome these conflicts... Symbols are necessary and you have to have a symbol to make the reality present to us. Every word we use is a symbol. To go beyond the sign is not to reject the sign, but to reach the thing signified."
Meanwhile, I recommend Peter Levi's The Light Garden of the Angel King - Journeys in Afghanistan (Collins, 1972): "Questions of literary form are moral problems; they are a shadow-play of social and political issues. It was hard to decide in advance what form this book should be written in, and how long it ought to be. There is always the attractive thought of reducing an entire proliferating volume as one writes it to the small seed it started from; a moral economy as well as a literary principle demands this reduction. At the same time the classic form of the nineteenth-century travel book with its secure and discursive prose, its unruffled sobriety and impersonal good manners, probably comprehended a wider range of reality than the sharper, livelier style of writing which has succeeded it." (p.11)
I+N celebrating his 69th terrestrial birthday this Good Friday, 18 April 2003, Colin gratefully re-members the infinite treasury of Divine Love lavished upon all G-d's children, whether born "already" or still to be born, and especially invites all children of Abraham to take up G-d's suggestion that we develop whatever latent ability we may have to "count the stars"!
On Whit Sunday, 19 May 2002, the Neith Network Library celebrated its first Official Birthday.
The interpretation of dreams has at different periods in history been regarded as one of the peculiar duties of the seer, the priest, the wise man, the psychoananlyst. Dr Ann Faraday shares the increasingly accepted view that in a world come of age each person can and should become his own guru.
In Dream Power (Hodder and Stoughton, 1972) she provided a do-it-yourself guide to dream interpretation against the background of a summary of contemporary research into the dream process, presented in conjunction with a critical survey of current psychological theories of dream interpretation.
Although her academic conscience had induced her to compose her first volume in that way, she already instinctively felt that the real interest and value of that book was almost entirely confined to the sections in which she had illustrated her own personal approach to deciphering the meaning of dreams.
In The Dream Game (Temple Smith, 1975) she suggests that a dream is not so much a code to be cracked as a game to be won, an open-ended game in which there are few fixed rules and where many styles of play prove equally acceptable. Like life itself, dream interpretation is a challenging and enjoyable pastime.
Dr Faraday's defence of the pleasure principle does not mean she is insensitive to the problems of personal and social evil. The dream game is also a serious business. The ease and mannered elegance with which she presents dream after dream to enable her readers to grow to see and feel for themselves how dreaming can be integrated into an open-minded and large-hearted life-style is underpinned and permeated by a solidly intellectual appreciation of our present state of knowledge in this area, coupled with a vigorous faith in the values of spirituality and transcendence.
(Prehistoric Mnajdra's Sleeping Baby + Present Prophet of Peace on Earth
The text of H.B. ExtraReverendDoctorColinJames Hamer's well attended Lecture on the above theme in March 2002 was published in the R.I.L.K.O. Journal. no. 60.
Surviving prehistoric structures at Mnajdra, Il-Misqa and Ħaġar Qim in Malta are 8,000 years older than Stonehenge, but only if one mistakenly prefers the currently accepted dates for Stonehenge to Ralph Ellis's proposed alternative. Fifty years' contact with the Maltese people, their history and culture, including thirteen recent research-visits to the archipelago, six times as the house-guest of the islands', in Erik Von Däniken's words, "only genuine archæologist", Qrendi-born Joseph S. Ellul of Zurrieq, author of Malta's Prediluvian Culture at the Stone-Age Temples with special reference to Ħaġar Qim, Għar Dalam, Cart-Ruts, Il-Misqa, Il-Maqluba & Creation, enhanced by Colin Hamer's appreciation within this context both of Kurt Schildmann's recent decipherment of the Indus Valley script and of his friend, one-time Olduvai geologist J.D. Solomon's special insight into time, tempo and eternity, were reflected in The Malta Independent's publication in February 2002 of Colin's series of three articles about Mnajdra's solar and lunar alignments. His illustrated talk to R.I.L.K.O. presented an abundance of relevant pieces of evidence, clarified several still keenly controverted issues, and highlighted the social relevance of further research. He also referred to significant footage in a video-tape of Graham Hancock's interview with Joseph S. Ellul at Ħaġar Qim, which unfortunately did not feature in the Channel-4 TV Underworld series of three visually attractive but factually rather disappointing and somewhat superficially presented programmes transmitted throughout the U.K. at 9pm on Monday, 11th, 18th & 25th February, 2002.
Colin's otherwise brilliantly sub-edited related article in Pagan Dawn (no. 143, Beltane-Summer 2002) unfortunately has the wrong spell for "Mnajdra", and unfairly blames local quarry-workers for damage that principally resulted from government- and archæology-department-inspired intervention. The relevant passage should read:
Neither are the normal day-to-day operations in the neighbouring stone-quarry, including the blastings and explosions, in any sense to blame for all the recent mindless defacement of and wanton damage inflicted on these ancient structures, whose unique significance Professor Colin Renfrew has more than once acknowledged.
I love women a lot, and hate seeing them shoot themselves in the foot or selling themselves short.There are, for instance, several errors in Laurel Seaborn's "Goddess Temples in Malta" in The Beltane Papers - A Journal of Women's Mysteries Celebrating Life, Issue #27, Spring 10,002nd year of the Goddess, pp.14-16.
Avoiding excessive reliance on Margaret Murray (1863-1963), she is appropriately au courant with most prevailing relevant trends in sociology, comparative religion and social anthropology; she also takes urban-political and psycho-transpersonal witchcraft sufficiently into account.
St Joan of Arc is known to have been a witch, and so, I belive, was the Bishop of Rheims at that time, as academic research now seems sufficiently to have established. When, moreover, Robert Bruce was crowned King one fateful Passion Sunday all those years ago, so that the echoes of a solemn Vexilla Regis accompanied him on his subsequent path to military martrydom, it was a witch who crowned him.
Dialogue between Christian witches and wise Christians that remembers such significant facts is, I feel, preferable to mutual recrimination. Distinguish, too, between polytheism, pantheism and panentheism - the latter being characteristic of Britian's ancient Druids and still entirely compatible with Christianity.
The table of approximate dates Laurel has provided at the head of the first page of her generously illustrated article is totally unreliable, as, incidentally, are most of the dates displayed on the various explanatory notices visitors to Malta's National Museum of Archæology in Valletta read so trustingly each day.
Starhawk's contributions to contemporary witchcraft are in many ways admirable, but she is no archæologist, unlike, for example, Susann Palmer, renowned for her quite ruthlessly thorough excavations on Portland, the results of which may still be viewed by visitors to the Bromley Museum of which she was for many years the curator.
Sapienzas bookstore in Valletta, where I bought my own copy of Marija Gimbutas's The Living Goddesses (University of California Press, 1999) stocks a wide range of archæo-mythological publications, as it does of most sorts of books, and the staff are invariably helpful and ready to suggest worthwhile titles to prospective purchasers - but they aren't archæologists.
No doubt Veronica Veen's Female Images of Malta honestly represents the results of her personal research into oral tradition on Gozo, where, as recently as the 19th century, women, in addition to shielding themselves from the heat of the mediterranean Sun by wearing the traditional ghonnella made of imported black silk, frequently went about bare-breasted in public (cf. Frederick. M. Lacroix, Malte et le Goze, Paris wd, p.52), but there is no known oral tradition that takes us back even as far as The Beltane Papers 1st year of the Goddess, and several of Malta's ancient 'temples', including that at Mnajdra, are undoubtedly much older than that!
As Seaborn admits, Marija Gimbutas sometimes "theorized", not an unworthy pastime, but hardly a reliable guide to how things actually stood 12,000 years ago, or more, when many of those thousands of ancient writings in proto-Sanskrit, that still insufficiently studied Indus Valley Script which remained undeciphered until Kurt Schildmann discovered its secret at 8pm on 2nd August 1994, were first written - writings which have already been found in Afghanistan, Belgium, France, India, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, the U.S.A. and Malta, writings which take us back to a time before the earliest events reliably documented for us in the Vedas, writings whose core-contents have, moreover, already been published (Als das Raumschiff 'Athena' die Erde kippte, ISBN 3-933817-15-3), writings that unambigously clarify that women's social rôles in those chronologically far off (yet psycho-dynamically almost contemporary) times were far, far more interesting and worthwhile than any that Marija's "theorizings" ever dared to envisage….
Our human family's present relative freedom from diseases that were still a scourge one hundred years ago results in part from the medical achievements of Sir Themistocles Zammit, Malta's foremost archæologist and the founder of its present University, as well as the author of, among other fascinating tales, a Maltese version of Uncle Tom's Cabin (more copies of the original English text were sold during the 19th century than of any other book, except the Bible). To describe such a man as "infamous" is to dishonour the Goddess. Notice, however, that editions of his archæological and historical writings published after his death have often been altered by their editors here and there, sometimes merely carelessly, but also deliberately in order to attribute to him ideas and theories that he never for one moment countenanced. Serious researchers, therefore, need to refer to the original editions.
The frequently reproduced photograph referenced on the right, above, is a partial view of the New Millennium display in Malta's National Museum of Archæology in Valletta. Yet the photograph on the left, based on one taken by Joseph S. Ellul in 1988, is no fake, and a much more beautiful but essentially similar photograph taken by Daniel Cilia on 21 June 1999 was among those being exhibited at the Sentinella Hall, Citadel, Victoria, Gozo, from 14 - 30 November 2001.
If true, Herbert Illig's claim in Das erfundene Mittelalter (Düsseldorf, 1996) that some 297 years between c.610 and 910 A.D. are not part of Eastern history, also has important implications. Moreover, Stephen Oppenheimer's detailed scrutiny of much of the evidence in Eden in the East (ISBN 0 75380 679 7) suggests that the aftermath of our most recent 'Ice Age' (if that is what it was) included not one but three quite distinct great floods, and that Noah's Flood, probably the most recent of these, may not have been the same as that experienced by Upnapishtim.
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