Monday, September 30, 2013

Diagnosis from a Single Drop of Blood [feedly]


 
 
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Diagnosis from a Single Drop of Blood 
By Kevin J. Todeschi


 

 


A recent article from The Wall Street Journal titled "Elizabeth Holmes: The Breakthrough of Instant Diagnosis" sounded eerily familiar. In the article, dated September 8, 2013, Joseph Rago interviewed Elizabeth Holmes, a 29-year-old chemical and electrical engineer and entrepreneur, about the company, Theranos, that she founded in 2003. Theranos is developing an entrepreneurial invention that could revolutionize medicine and diagnose any illness by processing more than 1,000 laboratory tests on a single drop of blood. Ms. Holmes's long-term goal is to provide cost effective, highly accurate, and simple diagnostic services to every American home.

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More than 85 years ago, Edgar Cayce went into a trance-state to help a 46-year-old woman suffering from pelvic tumors and ovarian cysts. During the course of the woman's psychic reading, Cayce foresaw the use of blood as a diagnostic tool, and even the possibility of diagnosing any illness from a single drop of blood:


"For, as is seen, there is no condition existent in a body that the reflection of same may not be traced in the blood supply, for not only does the blood stream carry the rebuilding forces to the body, it also takes the used forces and eliminates same through their proper channels in the various portions of the system… Hence there is ever seen in the blood stream the reflections or evidences of that condition being carried on in the physical body. The day may yet arrive when one may take a drop of blood and diagnose the condition of any physical body..." (Reading 283-2)

Although it may have seemed like science fiction in 1927 when the reading was given, this possibility has become scientific fact for many illnesses today. Blood tests are commonly used to diagnose diseases including cancer, AIDS, diabetes, anemia, and coronary heart disease. Tests can evaluate the function of organs including the kidneys, liver, thyroid, and heart, and even screen for risk factors for heart disease. With developments in technology especially those offered by Theranos, we now appear to be moving even closer to possibility of diagnosis of any illness from a drop of blood as predicted by Edgar Cayce.

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Nearly 70 percent of the Cayce readings were concerned with the diagnosing of disease and the outlining of treatment. These readings are still being studied in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and around the world (with access to all of the readings via our member-only section and on the DVD-Rom). For many, Cayce was a last hope for an illness diagnosed by renowned medical institutions as incurable. While he had no medical training, when he entered into a trance-like state, he was able to tap into an endless source of health information. He could accurately diagnose illness and prescribe treatment for people he had never met or seen.

Since 1901, the information in the Cayce readings has been explored by individuals from every imaginable background and discipline. Throughout the last 100 or so years, the vast scope of information that was offered by Cayce has come to the attention of educators, historians, theologians, medical professionals, and scientists. No doubt, part of the attraction has been that regardless of the field of study, Cayce has continually proven to be years ahead of his time. 



 

Kevin Todeschi 2001 conffKevin J. Todesch is the Executive Director and CEO of Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. and Atlantic University, as well as a popular author and conference speaker. As both student and teacher of the Cayce material for more than thirty years, he has lectured on five continents. A prolific writer, he is the author of twenty books including best-sellers Edgar Cayce on the Akashic RecordsEdgar Cayce on Soul Mates, and Edgar Cayce on Vibrations. His latest book, Edgar Cayce on Auras & Colors: Learn to Understand Color and See Auras was written with professional psychic Carol Ann Liaros and explores tools for seeing the human aura and for understanding the interpretation of color.

 

 




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Real healthcare reform should include mobile activity trackers [feedly]


 
 
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Real healthcare reform should include mobile activity trackers
The life activity tracker market is growing as people look for ways to stay motivated and live a healthier life. As healthcare reform hits the US, I think it is time to implement these mobile devices into provider programs.



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Believe in Ducks [feedly]


 
 
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8 Spaceports That Are America's Gateway to the Stars [feedly]


 
 
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8 Spaceports That Are America's Gateway to the Stars

8 Spaceports That Are America's Gateway to the Stars

We are so, so close to commercial orbital tourism. We sit on the cusp of a new space age—an age of convenience rather than exploration, where anybody—really, anybody—can become an astronaut.

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UFOs and Significant Voices [feedly]


 
 
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When it comes to intriguing quotes of the UFO variety made by famous and influential individuals, there are certain ones that very often spring to mind. I'm thinking, for example, about things like (a) US President Ronald Reagan's comments about how an alien threat would unite the Human Race; (b) the profound words of NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper, who went on record as stating: "I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which are a little more technically advanced than we are on Earth;" and (c) US Senator Barry Goldwater's statements about being denied access to the alleged "Blue Room" at Wright-Patterson, Air Force Base. 

There are, however, far less well known statements of a UFO nature that have been made by equally important – and historically significant – figures. British Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard was a very well respected figure, both before and during the Second World War. Indeed, in 1935 he became the British Air Ministry's first Deputy Director of Intelligence.

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Given Goddard's standing, it is illuminating to note that he made a number of positive and highly-perceptive statements attesting to his belief in UFOs. He also made a number of intriguing comments suggesting that the UFO phenomenon was one somehow linked with what many would call the "spirit world."

Certainly, some of Goddard's statements came very close to the kinds of areas that so dominated the mind and research of the late John Keel, author of such books as The Mothman Prophecies and Operation Trojan Horse. As evidence, consider the following from Goddard:

"…while it may be that some operators of UFO are normally the paraphysical denizens of a planet other than Earth, there is no logical need for this to be so. For, if the materiality of UFO is paraphysical – and consequently normally invisible, UFO could more plausibly be creations of an invisible world coincident with the space of our physical Earth planet than creations in the paraphysical realms of any other planet in the solar system."

He continued: "Given that real UFO are para-physical, capable of reflecting light like ghosts; and given that also that – according to many observers – they remain visible as they change position at ultra-high speeds from one point to another, it follows that those that remain visible in transition do not dematerialize for that swift transition, and therefore, their mass must be of a very diffuse nature, and their substance relatively etheric."

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Consider, too, the following from Goddard: "The observed validity of this supports the para-physical assertion and makes the likelihood of UFO being Earth-created greater than the likelihood of their creation on another planet. The astral world of illusion which – on physical evidence -is greatly inhabited by illusion-prone spirits, is well known for its multifarious imaginative activities and exhortations.

"Seemingly some of its denizens are eager to exemplify principalities and powers. Others pronounce upon mortality, spirituality, Deity, etcetera. All of these astral exponents who invoke human consciousness may be sincere, but many of their theses may be framed to propagate some special phantasm, perhaps of an earlier incarnation, or to indulge an inveterate and continuing technological urge toward materialistic progress, or simply to astonish and disturb the gullible for the devil of it."

Profound words. And they do not stand alone.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, who commanded the British Royal Air Force's Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain in 1940, made some equally thought provoking comments on the UFO issue: "More than ten thousand sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation, e.g. that they are hallucinations, the effects of light refraction, meteors, wheels falling from airplanes, and the like."

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Commenting on the matter of evidence for the presence of a real UFO phenomenon, and offering his own theories on the nature of the phenomenon, Dowding added: "They have been tracked on radar screens and the observed speeds have been as great as 9,000 miles an hour. I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on earth. I can therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from some extraterrestrial source.

"I think that we must resist the tendency to assume that they all come from the same planet, or that they are actuated by similar motives. It might be that the visitors from one planet wished to help us in our evolution from the basis of a higher level to which they had attained. Another planet might send an expedition to ascertain what have been these terrible explosions which they have observed, and to prevent us from discommoding other people beside ourselves by the new toys with which we are so light-heartedly playing."

He concluded: "Other visitors might have come bent solely on scientific discovery and might regard us with the dispassionate aloofness with which we might regard insects found beneath an upturned stone."

Of course, at the end of the day, opinions and theories are simply that – opinions and theories – no matter who offers them. Nevertheless, as all the above demonstrates, if you have a personal interest in UFOs, and wish to make a public comment or several on the subject, you will be in very good company!




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Mailbox for iOS Has a Huge Security Flaw (Updated) [feedly]


 
 
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Mailbox for iOS Has a Huge Security Flaw (Updated)

Mailbox, the tidy iOS email app recently purchased by Dropbox, has a pretty wide-open hole that could allow bad actors to hijack your device. And unlike phishing attempts that should probably set off your sketchiness detector, this flaw involves emails that look completely innocuous.

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Apple Maps leads drivers onto Alaska airport taxiway [feedly]


 
 
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Apple Maps leads drivers onto Alaska airport taxiway
Drivers using Apple Maps to get to the Fairbanks International Airport apparently followed directions that told them to turn onto a taxiway. The drivers then crossed a runway to get to the terminal.



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Handful of iOS 7 users fall for “iOS 7 waterproof” prank [feedly]


 
 
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A small number of iOS 7 users have been left mortified that their newly updated iOS devices are not waterproof, after falling for a spoof advert online. The poster was initally uploaded to 4chan as a prank, and naturally began to circulate the internet, as these things do... As you can see, the poster claims that iOS 7 will shut off power...




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Worship Trash [feedly]


 
 
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UFOs, Nazis, and Secret Projects [feedly]


 
 
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Although such things are less common today, in decades-past there were far more than a few UFO encounters in which the witnesses reported how their vehicles – whether cars, trucks, or even motorbikes - were adversely affected by the presence of a UFO. Such events have become known in Ufology as "vehicle interference" cases. Typically, engines, lights, and radios are mysteriously affected by the presence of the unknown craft. Only when the strange vehicle exits the area does normality return.

One classic case that falls firmly into this particular category – and which will give you an idea of the nature of the phenomenon – was investigated by the British Royal Air Force Police in early 1962. In part, the now-declassified file on the affair states:

"Mr. Ronald Wildman of Luton, a car collection driver, was traveling along the Aston Clinton road at about 0330 hrs. on 9th February 1962 when he came upon an object like a hovercraft flying approximately 30 feet above the road surface. As he approached he was traveling at 40 mph but an unknown force slowed him down to 20 mph over a distance of 400 yrd., then the object suddenly flew off."

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I could go on and on with numerous other, similar cases, but I'm sure you get the picture. Instead, I'm going to do something else – namely, I am going to offer data that suggests so-called vehicle interference events are not the work of all-powerful extraterrestrials, after all. Their origins may be much closer to home than many might suspect possible.

In 1957 – as documentation which has surfaced under the Freedom of Information Act shows – intelligence agents of the US Government interviewed a man who (and I quote from the official records), was "…born February 19, 1926, in the State of Warsaw, Poland, and was brought from Poland as a Prisoner of War to Gut Alt Golssen approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, Germany, in May, 1942, where he remained until a few weeks after the end of World War II.

"He spent the following years at Displaced Persons Camps at Kork, Strasburg, Offenburg, Milheim and Freiburg, Germany. He attended a radio technician school at Freiburg and for about a year was employed in a textile mill at Laurachbaden, Germany. He arrived in the United States at New York, May 2, 1951, via the SS General Stewart as a Displaced Person."

The document continues that at some point in 1944, while still a POW, the man was en-route to work in a field a short distance north of Gut Alt Golssen. A tractor - being driven to the field by a German - suddenly stalled on a stretch of road that ran through a dense, swampy area. No machinery or other vehicle was visible, although a noise was heard described as a high-pitched whine, similar to that produced by a large electric generator.

A German SS guard quickly appeared and talked briefly with the German driver of the tractor, who waited five to ten minutes, after which the noise stopped and the tractor engine started normally. Approximately 3 hours later in the same swampy area, but away from the road where the POW crew was cutting hay, the source of the story surreptitiously observed a circular enclosure, approximately 100 to 150 yards in diameter.

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It was protected from full view by a tarpaulin-type wall, around 50 feet high, behind which a very strange vehicle was seen to rise slowly and vertically to a height sufficient to clear the wall. It then moved horizontally, a short distance out of the man's view, which was partly obstructed by trees.

According to the U.S. Intelligence files: "This vehicle, observed from approximately 500 feet, was described as circular in shape, 75 to 100 yards in diameter, and about 14 feet high, consisting of dark gray stationary top and bottom sections, five to six feet high. The approximate three foot middle section appeared to be a rapidly moving component producing a continuous blur similar to an aeroplane propeller, but extending the circumference of the vehicle so far as could be observed.

"The noise emanating from the vehicle was similar but of somewhat lower pitch than the noise previously heard. The engine of the tractor again stalled on this occasion and no effort was made by the German driver to start the engine until the noise stopped, after which the engine started normally."

Official records on this curious matter continue: "Uninisulated metal, possibly copper, cables one and one-half inch to two inches in diameter, on and under the surface of the ground, in some places covered by water, were observed on this and previous occasions, apparently running between the enclosure and a small concrete column-like structure between the road and enclosure."

The documents add that the area in question was not visited by the man again until shortly after the end of the war, when it was observed the cables had been removed and the previous locations of the concrete structure and the enclosure were now covered by water. The man stated to the interviewing intelligence agents that he had not been in communication, since 1945, with any of the other work crew of 16 or 18 men, which consisted of Russian, French and Polish POWs, and who had, the files note, "discussed this incident among themselves many times."

Here we have not just one, but two, cases of vehicle interference in 1944, seemingly provoked by the presence of a highly unusual, and very large, aerial vehicle of a definitive flying saucer-style. The implication, however, is that this engine-stalling technology did not originate in the domain of outer space, but with the Nazis.

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Those who can't bare to think that UFOs don't have alien origins will likely dismiss the case, or label it as disinformation – chiefly because doing so will help them to sleep better at night and keep their belief systems (which also double as their comfort-blankets) intact. Too bad for them.

The fact is that the Nazis were indeed working on far more than a few highly advanced and unusual projects during the Second World War. Just maybe, as these particular files strongly suggest, one of those projects involved the development of a circular-shaped aircraft that employed a form of technology that had a side-effect of disabling engines.

 




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Never Let Lenticular Clouds Ruin Your UFO Sighting [feedly]


 
 
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From the numerous plants with hallucinatory effects, a sun producing heat powerful enough to induce visions in those overexposed to it, to the eerie glow of the great Northern Lights, nature can mess with our minds. One of nature's visual jokes on its skyward-looking humans is that of a somewhat rare cloud formation that often resembles a UFO called lenticular clouds. When one of these lenticular cloud formations appears near a large population of people, it is almost certain someone will report seeing crafts from outer space. With that in mind, I've put this short piece together as an FYI for newbie sky-gazers in hopes of preventing false reports and potential public ridicule.

Lenticular clouds are masses of swirling, yet stationary, layers of dense clouds that sometimes sit in one place in the sky for hours as other clouds roll by as usual. These clouds often even take the shape of saucers or other popular space craft descriptions reported at sightings.

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These clouds form in pockets of air trapped in the dips and valleys of mountainous terrain. It takes just the right mixture of moisture, temperature, and wind to make it possible for lenticular clouds to form. As damp air flows over mountain peaks, the waves of air carve out a pocket on the downwind side, and if the front side of that downwind pocket drops in temperature to the dew point, it could result in enough condensation to form a lenticular cloud.

The result is a lens-like, almost Whovian, appearance that sometimes even features illuminated edges and color variations, that leaves many scratching their heads, wondering, "What the hell is that?"

The stereotype some hold of those who report seeing UFOs frequently includes the witness being some rube who emerged from his corn field one night to see a light in the sky. In some places the stereotype is geared more toward weirdos living deep off the grid, atop some sprawling mountain range. When it comes to lenticular clouds being mistaken as UFOs, it could very well be rubes and mountaineers who are most likely to see them in the sky above their rural homes. They are the ones who typically live closest to terrain conducive to lenticular cloud formation.

The rarity of seeing such formations combined with general public ignorance of the existence of lenticular clouds, also make them a popular scapegoat when government agencies try to explain high-profile sightings.
One of the most famous UFO cases of all-time was infamously declared to be lenticular clouds.

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The two key witnesses were a Lockheed engineer named Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, and a Lockheed test pilot named Rudy Thoren. On December 16, 1963, Johnson sees a dark object in the sky near his ranch in Agoura, California, but it vanishes only a minute and a half after he spotted it. The next day Johnson learns Thoren also saw the object in the sky during a flight the day before as well. Inside Thoren's plane were another four witnesses who would later tell their experiences to investigators from Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

It's hard to tell what details were dug up during the investigation, if there ever even was an investigation, but the only official word from the government on file is the claim lenticular clouds could be the explanation to the Johnson, Thoren, and others', UFO sighting.

That answer has not set well with UFO researchers, some of whom hail this case as one of the best examples supporting UFO visitations to Earth, due in part to the credibility of the eye witnesses, a pilot and a man who designed cutting-edge jet planes for a living.

Earlier this month a spectacular lenticular cloud formation resembling a Space-Invaders-style UFO popped up in the skies of Aberdeen, Scotland. Witnesses were reportedly doing double takes at the strange formation that just sat still in the sky while the clouds around it continued to whisk by it.

While the Aberdeen clouds earlier this month didn't result in mass reports of UFO sightings, this isn't always the case. Lenticular clouds are among the most common things in the sky confused with aircraft. It ranks right up there with weather balloons and meteorites.

Now I hope we never see someone in a Mysterious Universe t-shirt on television trying to convince the world a tuft of clouds are being piloted by aliens and are visiting Earth from another galaxy.




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A Q&A of the Crypto Kind [feedly]


 
 
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"My passion for unusual animals went back to my childhood, and I was determined to follow my dreams of establishing a group one day that would put us where we are now, and in a way that benefits everyone who gets involved."



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Your Gmail Was Down Because of a

Over the last 24 hours, you've probably noticed that your Gmail has been acting a little funky. It wasn't just you. In a blog post, the Gmail team explains the issue, saying that a rare, double-SNAFU was to blame for a widespread issue that caused significant delays in the delivery of some email.

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How to Get Rid of That Annoying Blue Gmail Favicon

Over the course of the last several days or weeks, your beloved Gmail icon—that red envelope sitting comfortably in your left-most Chrome tab—may have been replaced by a hideous blue gear and equally off-putting gold wrench. It is gross. Here's how to fix it.

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31 Photos From the Golden Age of Airships, When Zeppelins Ruled the Sky [feedly]


 
 
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31 Photos From the Golden Age of Airships, When Zeppelins Ruled the Sky

It's been nearly a century since airships floated by the Empire State Building. But now that the aluminum airship of the future is here and almost ready to carry passengers, it's high time that we took a look back to those few decades when majestic zeppelins seemed like the future of travel.

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Some time ago, I conducted an interview with Jon Downes, the director of the British-based Center for Fortean Zoology – one of the very few full-time organizations dedicated to the study of mysterious beasts such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and the Yeti. From his home in Devonshire, England, Jon had much to say about the history of the CFZ, its current activities, and its plans for the future.

N: Jon, what, basically, is the CFZ?

J: The CFZ is the world's largest mystery animal research group. I founded it in 1993. And, since then, it has slowly become not just the largest in the world, but the fastest growing cryptozoological group in the world, too. My passion for unusual animals went back to my childhood, and I was determined to follow my dreams of establishing a group one day that would put us where we are now, and in a way that benefits everyone who gets involved.

N: What were some of the earliest investigations that the CFZ was involved in?

J: Well, this has been my hobby for years; so even when I was a child, and when I was growing up, I got involved in cryptozoology. Growing up in Hong Kong, I did a few minor researches of my own into tales of strange creatures said to inhabit the island. And I did work when I grew older into the Big Cats that have been seen in the UK. When we started the CFZ, in 1992, it was still some years before we did any foreign expeditions.

J: We've always been completely self-funded and so just didn't have the money back then to do too many investigations overseas. So, a lot of our research for the first five or six years was just based in the UK – such as, as I said, the Big Cats that have been reported here. For American readers: whereas in the United States you have quite a few interesting cat species – pumas, bob-cat, lynx – in the UK we've only got one species of wild cat, which is the Scottish Wild-Cat.

J: But for decades there have been a string of reports of mystery cats from pretty well every county in the UK. These reports have always fascinated me; some of them are exotic pets that have escaped, or are animals released into the wild when the government legislation on keeping these things changed.

N: How important did you consider it in the early years – and today, too – not just to focus on conventional animals like the Big Cats, but some of the weirder things like the Owlman of Mawnan, which suggest paranormal rather than pure flesh-and-blood origins?

J: Over the years I've done a lot of research into things that can't be explained in a purely zoological frame of reference. The Owlman has been reported intermittently since 1976 and it is sort of analogous with the Mothman of West Virginia. That's probably the thing that – even now – I'm probably best known for: my book The Owlman and Others. However, it has to be said that the things I'm concentrating on now are more living creatures.

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J: But you have to be scientific about this. If you are investigating reports of an animal in an area, and if it does become more and more obvious that the creature cannot be flesh-and-blood, then it's just as un-scientific to ignore it as it is to think that all crypto-zoological things are paranormal.

N: You always strive to create for the CFZ and its members a sense of community and a feeling of everyone being in this together. How important is that to you?

J: Terribly important. And in some ways more important than anything else. It was one of the reasons that I set up the CFZ in the first place. When I first had the idea to do this for the rest of my life, I was looking around at organizations to join. And although there were a few groups to join, they were all at war with each other. And even some of those that weren't still seemed divisive.

J: Also, it was terribly hierarchical. They did do expeditions; but the only people who seemed to go on the expeditions were those with money or the people at the head of the organization. I found all that totally wrong. What I wanted to do – and what we do now do – was to have ordinary members of the CFZ go along on expeditions. It would not just be the head of the group. So, I've been doing my best to build a proper community.

J: And I think we are doing well, and have a close-knit and vibrant community – from all across the world and of various races, beliefs and religions, which has to be a good thing. But then I'm an old hippy, so that's how I think.

N: On the issue of expeditions, how important is to actually get out into the field and do things, rather than just proclaiming this or that via the Internet?

J: There are too many people in this business who call themselves cryptozoologists, but who are nothing of the sort. They spend their time never going anywhere anymore exciting than their little computer screen. But the whole ethos of the CFZ is that we questions things; we go out and look for things ourselves. And this has always proven to us to be scientifically valid.

J: For example, in 2006, we sent a 6-person expedition to the Gambia and we were looking into local dragon legends. We went there assuming that it was going to be the Gambian equivalent of some sort of living dinosaur, such as that alleged to live in the Congo. We, at the CFZ, have always been of the opinion that all of these so-called living dinosaurs are actually semi-aquatic monitor lizards; albeit very large ones. But when we got to the Gambia, we found that all of the local people didn't believe in a giant lizard or a dinosaur-type creature. Instead, they believed the creature was a giant snake.

J: So, we went looking for one thing; but came back with stories of something completely different. And you have to go and check these things for yourself; otherwise tales get told and spread by people who have never been out there or investigated something for themselves. So what happens is that legends build up, and it's usually only cleared up when someone actually personally travels to the area in question and investigates it.

J: And, most important, you have to share your findings. There are so many people in this subject who are just content to quote each other from the comfort of their own armchairs and they continue to perpetuate things that people assume are fact, because they haven't actually gone to the places for themselves to ascertain the real truth.

N: What sort of relationship do you have with the mainstream media – TV, radio, newspapers, etc.?

J: This is an incredibly important area that a lot of people don't appreciate. There are a lot of people in this who refuse to talk to the press. In fact, if you don't work with the media and don't highlight what you are doing, then you don't get coverage of a sort that might lead to help in terms of funding, publicity, and assistance on expeditions – and you don't get your findings out to a large audience.

J: As long as the media treats us with respect, then I'm happy to work with them. For example, a few years ago, in the north of England, there was a series of sightings of giant eels in one of the lakes. A local newspaper approached us for comment and then they ran a story. That led to more eye-witness reports, and it ballooned to where we were able to go up there with a full-scale team on-site and really look into this.

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N: What led you to set up CFZ Press as an outlet for your books and those of others in the field?

J: Without exception, when I've been published by other companies, there is always massive editing; they want control of the cover design, the artwork, the editorial content, and I won't play that game. CFZ Press offers to anyone who wants to write books for us the ability to have control of their books in terms of content, style, etc. We publish the books; but we are not in the game of changing people's books to suit our terms or beliefs.

J: No-one messes with the original concept. Plus, all of the money we make from our own self-written and published books is put back into the research. And for other people that write books for us we do, of course, pay a royalty rate to them.

N: What would you say to anyone – young or old – who wants to get involved with the CFZ and cryptozoology?

J: I think that joining the CFZ is a good introduction to cryptozoology. And I'm not just saying that because I set the group up. Doing so gives you access to a whole data-base of material, to a community of people on a day to day basis. It also gives you access to our magazine, Animals & Men, and the chance to come along on expeditions, share information, make friends, and really become part of a community that actually does something worthwhile.

J: I do this because it's my calling; you have to be passionate. You have to be prepared for a lot of struggling in the wilderness. But it all pays off if you are doing it for the right reasons. It's a wonderful thing to do with your life. So, I would encourage people, particularly young people, with an interest to follow their dreams if this is what they want to do. People should be adventurous and follow their passions. That's what we do, and it's what I always tell people who want to come into this field, too.




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The Hopi Indians and Edgar Cayce

 

The Hopi Indians and 
the Edgar Cayce Readings 
By John Fuhler


 

In the rain shadow of the San Francisco Peaks, west of the Little Colorado River and north of Sunset Crater Volcano, sits Wupatki Pueblo. Onetime home to many individuals, Wupatki was a major trade center. The pueblo was occupied for about 700 years, between CE 500 and 1182, after which the residents moved to more fertile lands.

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The name "Wupatki" means "Tall House" in Hopi. It is apparently one of the resting places of the Hisatsinom, or "Ancient Ones." Hopi mythology teaches that Masaw required the various peoples to migrate to all ends of the Fourth World before settling at their current location, where they were to await his return. They came from such places as Betatakin, Puerco Pueblo, Homolovi, and Tuzigoot.

But the Hopi ancestors did not always live on this Fourth World. Their ancient ones came a very great distance a long time ago.


Until recently American anthropologists held firmly to the hypothesis that all indigenous American peoples were descended from one group of Asian people who crossed the land bridge over the Bering Sea during the last Ice Age. This hypothesis is being challenged on all sides, and not only by the genetic data, but also by archaeological and linguistic data.

So Spider Woman gathered earth, this time of four colors, yellow, red, white and black; mixed with túchvala, the liquid of her mouth; molded them…these forms were human beings in the image of Sótuknang. (from Book of the Hopi)i

"He then projected himself into five centers at once as Adam…" (Edgar Cayce reading 364-13)

"The appearance of man…was in five different places as the five different races, at the same time. The white race appeared in the Carpathian basin, the yellow in Tibet, the red in Atlantis, the brown in Lemuria, the black in Africa. (Edgar Cayce reading 294-202)

The readings tell us that Lemuria was located west of South America (364-13), and it extended to the South Pacific (364-4). Ice caused the poles to shift (5249-1). Remnant residents from Lemuria settled in the American Southwest, in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah (851-2), Colorado (962-1), Southern California, and Mexico (5750-1).

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Elements of the Hopi Creation myth corroborate these details:

…the world…teetered off balance, spun around crazily, then rolled over twice…This was the end of the Second World.

…Sótuknang came to Spider Woman and said, "…It will be difficult; with all this destruction going on, for them to gather at the far end of the world I have designated…Then you will save them when I destroy this world with water."

So he loosed the waters upon the earth. Waves higher than mountains rolled in upon the land. Continents broke asunder and sank beneath the seas.

…they saw they were on a little piece of land that had been the top of one of their highest mountains. All else…was water.

So Spider Woman directed them to make round, flat boats…For a long time they drifted…and came to another rocky island.

So the people kept traveling toward the rising sun in their reed boats…

At last they saw land stretching from north to south as far as they could see…Before long they landed and joyfully jumped out upon a sandy shore.

Soon all the others arrived and when they were gathered together, Sótuknang appeared…"Look now at the way you have come."

Looking to the west and south, the people could see…the islands upon which they had rested. "These are the footprints of your journey…the tops of the high mountains of the Third World, which I destroyed. Now watch."

As the people watched them, the closest one sank under the water, then the next, until all were gone…ii

Interestingly, both the myth and the corpus of the readings can be corroborated by linguistics and genetics.

The dominant language family of the American Southwest is the Uto-Aztecan. Its core members occupied precisely those locations cited in the readings: Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Northern Mexico. The original Uto-Aztecan homeland is in the area of Death Valley; and only later did representatives of the family move southward as far as the Yucatan. It is important to note that the Uto-Aztecan languages began to diverge from each other 9,000-13,000 years ago.iii According to the readings, Lemuria had sunk by 12,600 years ago. (5750-1)

From the perspective of genetics, some astonishing data can be obtained. One of the major American Indian genetic markers is known as Haplogroup B?. This marker is associated specifically with Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest.iv This is a very important fact for a number of reasons. First and foremost of these is the B Haplogroup is shared by Turks, Mongols, Han Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Malaysians, Melanesians, Micronesians, Filipinos, Polynesians, Taiwanese, Thais, Tibetans, and Vietnamese. The B Haplogroup is distributed from Southeast Asia across the Pacific archipelagos into the Americas. Though the haplogroup is greatest among the Pueblo Indians of North America, a greater frequency of Haplogroup B occurs in Central America, and an even greater frequency in South America!v Above and beyond these data, the American Haplogroup B? is most closely related to that of the Han Chinese. Moreover, there is a lack of this genetic marker among Siberian, Arctic, and Subarctic populations, indicating this marker arrived in America via the ocean and not across Beringia. Given the span of time necessary for the divergence between the American and Asian populations, the route across Beringia would have been blocked by the mountain of glacial ice covering southern Alaska and Northwestern Canada.vi Ironically, the so-called land bridge was un-glaciated! but the Aleutians were one massive wall of ice which stretched up into Northern Canada. 

Here again is another rather portentous correlation between the readings and Hopi mythology:

Q. What will the Aquarian Age mean to mankind…?

A. Think you this might be answered in a word? These are as growths. What meant that awareness as just indicated? In the Piscean Age, in the center of the same, we had the entrance of Emmanuel or God among men, see? What did that mean? The same will be meant by the full consciousness of the ability to communicate with or to be aware of the relationships to the Creative Forces and the uses of same in material environs. This awareness during the era or age in the age of Atlantis and Lemuria or Mu brought what? Destruction to man, and his beginning of the needs of the journey up through that of selfishness. (1602-3)

According to the Hopi myth:

Now in the Third World they multiplied in such numbers and advanced so rapidly that they created big cities, countries, a whole civilization. This made it difficult for them to conform to the plan of Creation and to sing praises to Taiowa and Sótuknang. More and more of them became wholly occupied with their own earthly plans…So many people were using their reproductive power in wicked ways…they began to use their creative power in another evil and destructive way…some of them made a pátuwvota [shield made of hide] and with their creative power made it fly through the air. On this many of the people flew to a big city, attacked it, and returned so fast no one knew where they came from…So corruption and war came to the Third World as it had to the others.

This time Sótuknang came to Spider Woman and said, "There is no use waiting until the thread runs out this time. Something has to be done lest the people with the song in their hearts are corrupted…you will save them when I destroy this world with water." vii


When Edgar Cayce discussed the Indians of the American Southwest, there was no knowledge of mtDNA Haplogroup B. It would be decades before Frank Waters would publish the Book of Hopi. And the hypothesis of a trans-Pacific migration independent of a single overland migration from Siberia was, and to some extant still is considered preposterous. Considering that linguistic evidence regarding the divergence of the Uto-Aztecan language family, Edgar Cayce's date for the sinking of Lemuria of 12,600 years ago is astonishing! (5750-1)

There is one very interesting disparity between the readings and the Hopi myth. The latter states the pole change caused the world to freeze over; and the former, the ice caused the pole shift. (5249-1)

American anthropologists have considered it impossible for people to have been in the Western Hemisphere prior to the opening of the hypothetical ice-free corridor after the last glacial maximum. Now, however, the fields of genetics and linguistics are challenging archaeologists to dig deeper; and along the way, they are confirming the Edgar Cayce readings, as well as the Hopi myths. 


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John Fuhler Blog 072-013John Fuhler has been involved in the field of alternative medicine for more than 25 years. He received his BA in anthropology from the University of Illinois and studied in Glasgow, Scotland, and Portland, Ore. As an amateur archaeologist, he participated in projects in Ariz., Calif., Hawaii, N.M., and Wis.; reporting discoveries in Ore. and Scotland. His tribal affiliations include: Saxon, Friesian, Bohemian, Irish (O'Meagher clan), and Wyandot. He volunteers his skills with organizations supporting the homeless, forest services, and families. He enjoys reading the bible in Greek and Latin.

 

 


i Waters, F. 1963. (Reprinted 1977). Book of the Hopi. Penguin Books. 5.
ii Waters, F. idem. 16-20.
iii These data are based upon vocabulary retention rates of 81% and 86% per millennium. For the distribution of the language family see Silver, S. and Miller, W.R. 1997. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts. The University of Arizona Press: Tucson. 286-292.
iv Malhi et al. 2002. The Structure of Diversity within New World Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroups: Implications for the Prehistory of North America. American Journal of Human Genetics. 70. Figure 2; cf. Malhi, et al. 2003. Native American mtDNA Prehistory in the American Southwest. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 120: 112, 118.
v Torroni et al. 1993. Asian Affinities and Continental Radiation of the Four Founding Native American mtDNAs. American Journal of Human Genetics 53: 585; Brown et al. 1998. mtDNA Haplogroup X: An Ancient Link between Europe/Western Asia and North America? American Journal of Human Genetics 63: 1858; and Mishmar et al. 2005. Natural selection shaped regional mtDNA variation in humans. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=140917
vi For the span of time required for the diversity of Haplogroup B in the Western Hemisphere, see Achilli et al. 2008. The Phylogeny of the Four Pan-American MtDNA Haplogroups: Implications for Evolutionary and Disease Studies. PLoS ONE 3(3). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2258150/
vii Waters, op cit. 17-18.




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