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Ancient and Suppressed Discoveries w/Jonathan Gray on Coast to Coast AM

9 Mar ’13

International explorer, archaeologist and author Jonathan Gray has traveled the world to gather data on ancient mysteries. Over the past 37 years, he has penetrated some largely unexplored areas, including parts of the Amazon headwaters. He has also led expeditions to the bottom of the sea and to remote mountain and desert regions of the world.

In the course of his explorations, Jonathan began to uncover evidence of surprising out of place artifacts. According to what he was taught at school, these were impossible! They simply should not exist! And these were not just isolated anomalies. There was a global pattern to them, suggesting an ancient worldwide civilization of astonishing proportions. His book, Dead Men’s Secrets, catalogues more than a thousand pieces of evidence of a lost super science and technology, including dozens of achievements ahead of our day.

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Taking Measure: Explorations in Number, Architecture, and Consciousness

3 Feb ’13

Taking Measure is the new companion book (paperback or EPUB) to the highly acclaimed Secrets in Plain Sight video series by Scott Onstott, now approaching 2 million views.  Secrets in Plain Sight Vol. 2 is also out and available for download.

Taking Measure: Explorations in Number, Architecture, and Consciousness reveals patterns emergent in our universe from quantum to astronomic scales. Spatial and temporal codes appear in unexpected places, from our units of measure to the relationships between celestial bodies. Geometric and numeric encoding appears in architecture, in urban design, and in alignments across the Earth. Does this happen by pure coincidence, has it been done to preserve knowledge, or is it an ancient form of magic that continues to this day? Are the synchronicities we experience in our personal lives manifestations of these same patterns? This book takes a new look at familiar structures in the tangible world but also engages with the invisible world, including the question of consciousness.

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Heavenly Vaults and Domes: The photogarphy of David Stephensen – Gallery

3 Feb ’13

A meditation on the sublime has sustained David Stephenson’s (official site) artistic practice over 30 years, which has evolved through long-term, interrelated projects of inquiry. His photographs of the sublime ceilings of European sacred architecture have been published in two monographs with Princeton Architectural Press: Visions of Heaven: The Dome in European Architecture (2005) and Heavenly Vaults: From Romanesque to Gothic in European Architecture (2009, and showcased worldwide in many exhibitions.

“While the subject of my photographs has shifted…my art has remained essentially spiritual – for more than two decades I have been exploring a contemporary expression of the sublime – a transcendental experience of awe with the vast space and time of existence.”

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Standing With Stones – Documentary Film/Book on Megalithic Britain & Ireland

3 Feb ’13

Standing with Stones is a remarkable and unprecedented documentary film that takes the viewer beyond Stonehenge on an incredible journey of discovery that reveals the true wealth and extent of Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain & Ireland.

If you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the length and breadth of the British Isles, visiting the most intriguing and enigmatic monuments that our ancestors left us, from Cornwall through England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland to the outer reaches of the Hebrides and Orkney, then you will love this film.

Described by one magazine reviewer as “A stunning study of standing stones. A work of art.” (Fortean Times), this is no amateur travelogue. Written and presented by writer and explorer Rupert Soskin and shot and edited by broadcast producer Michael Bott, this film is a stunningly beautiful and absorbing two and a quarter hour tour of our ancient heritage in the company of an engaging and knowledgeable host – the journey of a lifetime.

Published by Thames & Hudson, ‘Standing with Stones, a photographic journey through megalithic Britain & Ireland’ is a guide to many of the lesser known sites.

Rupert’s stunning and original photographs act as windows into the past, which, together with his engaging and accessible text, encourage the reader to think afresh about the meaning and purpose of these monuments and at the same time open the eyes of travelers and enthusiasts to the great wealth and variety of henges, circles, dolmens, barrows and standing stones across the British Isles.

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Paul Laffoley: The Boston Visionary Cell at Kent Fine Art, NY Jan. 4 – Mar. 9, 2013 + new online publication

1 Feb ’13

(Kent Fine Art) The Boston Visionary Cell, founded by Paul Laffoley in 1971, was based on the model of an artists’ guild. Although there have been numerous presentations of Laffoley’s work over the past decade, the Boston Visionary Cell has never been examined in the context of his life’s work. It is a crucial piece in understanding Laffoley’s methodology. As stated in its founding charter, it was created “to develop and advance visionary art”:

We . . . believe that the evocation of the mystical experience by means of symbols, which has functioned as part of the intentioning process throughout the course of human history, is the intended direction of evolution that becomes most expressive through visual art during those periods in history that are characterized by rapid change, e.g., the twentieth century, which has seen a series of movements from the Modern era to the Post-Modern era, finally culminating in the Bauharoque era.

Our current exhibition extrapolates on the mission of the Boston Visionary Cell as it has related to Laffoley’s production over the past forty years. An extensive online publication will accompany the exhibition.

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What Is Hurricane Sandy Telling Us? A Talk with John Perkins

5 Nov ’12

(Reality Sandwich) Is Sandy an isolated, freak weather event, as much mainstream media coverage would have you believe, or is it something more? I spoke earlier today with John Perkins, author of the best-selling memoir, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, as well as a number of books about shamanism, including Shapeshifting: Techniques for Global and Personal Transformation. I was hoping to hear a different perspective from someone deeply familiar with indigenous shamanic wisdom. I was not disappointed. –Ken Jordan

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Matt Presti – Dr. Walter Russell: Seed of the Cosmic Man (Radio 3Fourteen)

5 Nov ’12

Matt Presti is an artist, musician, philosopher and cosmologist who has been emphasizing the philosophical and scientific ideas of an American polymath by the name of Dr. Walter Russell born in 1871. Walter posited that the universe was founded on a unifying principle of rhythmic balanced interchange. This physical theory, laid out primarily in his books The Secret of Light (1947) and The Message of the Divine Iliad (1948-49), has not been accepted by mainstream scientists. Matt will share the philosophies of Walter Russell, including his views on consciousness, the universe, meditation and creation. We’ll explore Walter Russell’s knowing-conceiving-thinking idea, forming the seed of idea into a body with a soul and awakening genius. Also, we talk about the current co-creation clash between god forms with the godless forms and the dawn of the cosmic man. Later, Presti elaborates on the law of equal giving for re-giving and discusses the law of balance, which will cause the current godless power structures to crumble.

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Starcut Diagram – “Patterns of Eternity” Malcolm Stewart

20 Oct ’12

Malcolm Stewart has discovered a remarkable geometrical device. At first glance, the “starcut diagram,” as he calls it, is a simple way of dividing the area of a square. After extensive research, however, he found that it has extraordinary mathematical properties, suggesting that it may be no less than the source of the number system used when ancient humanity first built cities. He shows that the starcut diagram underlies many significant patterns and proportions across the world: in China, the shaman’s dance; in Egypt, the Great Pyramid; in Europe, a Raphael fresco; in Asia, the Vedic Fire Altar, and many others.

This book is an intellectual adventure, written for a general reader without technical knowledge. Illustrated with about 180 photographs, drawings, and diagrams, it tells the story of many fresh discoveries, bringing sacred geometry to life in an original and inspiring way.

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Freddy Silva: Secrets in the Fields – Crop Circle Phenomena

7 Sep ’12

For over fifteen centuries the mysterious crop circles have been mentioned in academic and religious texts. In the 1890s farmers and military personnel witnessed them being created in seconds by tubes of light and other luminosities.

But around 1980 the phenomenon went into overdrive and exploded worldwide, with some 10,000 reports spread over 29 countries. A major controversy erupted followed by a pre-designed debunking campaign through the media. But the 80 eyewitness accounts clearly tell another story.

This book by veteran researcher and international best-selling author Freddy Silva is the most comprehensive account of the mystery ever published, much of it from personal and hands-on experience.

Written at enormous personal sacrifice, Silva brings you the complete history of the phenomenon, the anomalies that defy the present boundaries of science, and the deliberate official efforts to discredit it and manipulate the public’s opinion.

Copiously illustrated with over 400 images and diagrams, he delves into the hard evidence and describes how the designs may be created by sound, plasma and the manipulation of local magnetic fields. He dissects their sacred geometry, their known meanings, hidden messages, connections with ancient symbols, and how they are energetically linked to ancient sacred sites such as Stonehenge and the Giza pyramids.

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Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians – Gallery

14 Jun ’12

Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians from the 16th and 17th Centuries. A few translations in English. Original texts archived at the University of Wisconsion Digital Collections.

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Harmonic Interference: A Grand Scientific Musical Theory – Richard Merrick

5 Jun ’12

Harmonic Interference Theory represents a major breakthrough in our understanding of music and perception. Triggered by a moment of insight thirty years earlier, this theory explains how harmonics combine to form coherent geometrical patterns that our auditory system recognizes as simple shapes.

Using a spectral analysis of harmonic interference over an octave, the author shows how reflective patterns on vibrated surfaces can be found in the growth patterns of the human anatomy, particularly our ears and brain. From this simple correspondence, perception of music is then explained as the natural process of anticipating and matching harmonic interference patterns against identical structures in our auditory system. When represented visually, music becomes organic geometries floating inside a harmonically structured space – exactly as our ears and brain understand it.

But this is only the beginning. The author goes much further to show how everything in nature can be described as crystallized harmonics. Drawing on the latest scientific research and cutting-edge theories in the fields of genetics, quantum physics and cosmology, a unified harmonic model is proposed for the study of coherence on both a micro and macro scale. Out of this emerges a grand scientific musical theory that reintegrates ancient harmonic science with quantum physics to explore the deeper mysteries neither can answer alone.

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Conversation with Brien Foerster – Peruvian elongated skulls & artifacts

7 May ’12

Live conversation with Brien Foerster of www.HiddenIncaTours.com about his investigations into pre-Inca cultures and the Sacred Valley of Peru, the many strange stone artifacts of Tiahuanaco, and the statues on Easter Island.  Brien is assistant director of the Paracas History Museum which has an extensive collection of different types of elongated skull identified as being evidence of the ancient Peruvian Paracas culture and is working closely with Lloyd Pie to establish the precise nature of these remains.


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