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Not surprisingly, the announce-ment was greeted with derision. MartinSevior, associate professor at MelborneUniversity, told The Age, an Australiannewspaper, “It flies in the face of 2000-years-plus of physics. It’s an incredibly big claim.”Sevior said he was willing to investigate thetechnology but he “would want to see what isbehind the curtains.”

The news comes as no surprise, though,to many alternative energy investigators whohave long believed it is possible to tap intothe limitless sea of energy from which all ex-istence emerges. Many of their efforts havebeen reported in Atlantis Rising by JeaneManning, the late Dr. Eugene Mallove andothers. It remains to be seen if this develop-ment represents the long-sought break-through, but there are hopeful signs.

Within seven days of the publication ofSteorn’s ad in the Economist, 3313 scientistsin Europe, America and Australia had askedto be included in the jury and another 39,722had registered to be sent the results.

The headline in the Steorn ad in theEconomist and the featured text on the com-pany’s web site (Steorn.net) is a quote fromGeorge Bernard Shaw, “All great truths beginas blasphemies.”

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is in the newsagain, but thistime with a twist.Steorn, a Dublin,Ireland based hi-techcompany has run an adin Britain’s Economist maga-zine challenging the world’s topscientists to come and disproveits new free-energy technology.The ad seeks 12 top physiciststo serve as a kind of jury to in-vestigate their claim, which es-sentially disputes one of thestated basic laws of physics—that you can’t get more energyout of a system than you putin—and report to the world.The ad has made a big splash.

“We expected a good re-sponse,” says Sean McCarthy, Steorn’s chiefexecutive officer, “because of its potential andits implications for the scientific world. Ourtechnology goes far beyond scientific curi-osity and addresses many urgent globalneeds.”

McCarthy says he started out as a skeptichimself, but that he has become convincedthis is the real deal. He told Reuters the dis-covery came as researchers tried magnets todevise more efficient wind generators. Nowmore than three years have been spent devel-oping it. Somehow, says McCarthy, the inter-action of magnetic fields produces a constantstream of free energy more than five timesthe amount of energy in a mobile phone bat-tery of the same size, but it does not requirerecharging. The technology is reported to beapplicable to virtually all devices requiringenergy, from cellular phones to cars.

Steorn intends, reports Technology NewsDaily, to allow its discovery to be used forcertain purposes, including water and ruralelectrification projects in third world coun-tries, royalty-free.

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reenland’s glaciers have been meltingfor over a century and even though the

current cycle of global warming may accel-erate the process over the next few years, thegreatest melting was between 1964 and 1985.Those are among the findings of the most ex-tensive study ever undertaken of glacialmelting in Greenland. Danish researchersfrom Aarhus University have recently pub-lished their survey of the glaciers of Disko Is-land from the end of the 19th century untilthe present day. The current period of globalwarming seems roughly comparable to the

G period of the 1920s and 30s.The study could be seen as a challenge to

those who believe global warming is an es-sentially manmade phenomenon and wouldapparently buttress the position of those whosee global warming as more likely to be afunction of the larger cycles of Earth and thesolar system whose causes have not yet beenfully comprehended. For those who suspectthat current events could be the rerun of anancient scenario, the study is an invitation tolook for even deeper causes.

One of Greenland’s coastal glaciers

MILITARY TRANSPARENCYn Atlantis Rising #59 John Kettler wroteabout the emerging technology of invisi-

bility and its many possible applications formilitary purposes (see “Techno Invisibility”)but what we thought was reaching a bit intothe future may already be a reality.

According to DefenseReview.com onecompany has already introduced a “viable”technology for achieving invisibility on thebattlefield—one that is ready to go rightnow. Advanced American Enterprise (AAE) inFullerton, California, has developed whatthey call “adaptive camouflage technology”which can be used for manned, ground vehi-

I cles, robots, infantry fighters and helicopters,in both daylight and night conditions. Thetechnology is said to also work with infraredimaging technology making objects invisibleto nightscopes and the like. The developerssay the technology can be incorporated intoflexible materials. In fact any clothing treatedwith the what is termed IR/NV-Stealth techwill become invisible.

The company is offering field demonstra-tions to defense officials and touting theirtechnology as an answer to the IED (Impro-vised Explosive Devices) problem in Iraq.(The photos are being circulated by AAE.)

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ust when you thought it was safe togo back in the water again comes

news of a dead plesiosaur.Russian fishermen from the island

of Sakhalin near Alaska have reportedfinding the remains of an enormous un-known marine animal. The news comesfrom the director of the Sakhalin de-partment of culture VladimirBedzhisov.

According to Bedzhisov, as reportedby the Interfax news agency, the crea-ture was nearly seven meters long, haddark grey skin and is covered with finehair. Its tail, found separately, was onemeter long. Apparently, the fishermanwas able to identify the animal as a ple-siosaur from pictures he saw on the In-ternet. No photos of the Sakhalin findwere initially said to be available.

If the creature does indeed turn outto be a plesiosaur, it will be the firsthard evidence that they still exist. Theorthodox scientific view is that plesio-saurs have not been around since thejurassic period. Most reported sightingsare usually said to be basking shark car-casses or hoaxes.

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ANCIENT MYSTERIES

• BY PETER KING

Toriginal size, on the ancient site in Babylon.The other reconstructed Gate, in Berlin, isslightly smaller.

Approaching Babylon from the desert inthe north during the reign of Nebuchad-nezzar, first, was a large outer enclosure sur-rounded by a high wall. This provided arefuge for people who could come in for pro-tection during times of war. Within that wallwas the city itself—protected by double wallswith towers at intervals of 60 feet. The innerwall was 21-feet thick and a 24-foot spaceseparated it from the outer wall that was 12-feet thick.

Entrance to Babylon could be made onlythrough one of the eight gates, each fifty feettall and heavily fortified. All were similar butthe most elaborate of these was the IshtarGate. This is the gate through which Jewishcaptives, including Daniel and Ezekiel,passed and it is a tribute to the glory andmight of the Babylonian Empire. The bookof Daniel, chapter 4, verses 30 and 31,records; “Is not this the great Babylon that Ihave built for my royal residence, by my

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he Pergamon in Berlin is ranked asone of the great museums of theworld and it is equally true that theentrance to it must be the most im-

pressive approach of any museum ever built.This is known as the Ishtar Gate. It was

named for the Mesopotamian goddess of loveand was one of the eight gates allowing entryto the inner city of Babylon. It was builtduring the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, took43 years and was completed in 575 B.C. Itwas unearthed by the German archaeologist,Robert Koldewey, in June, 1887 and is one ofthe most spectacular monuments of the an-cient world.

The Ishtar Gate is not only an unceasingmarvel of ancient architecture, but it posesone of the most fascinating puzzles in nat-ural history, one which continues to bafflehistorians and scholars, even into thetwenty-first century . . .

Visitors to the Pergamon Museum todaygoggle in amazement as they follow the mu-seum entrance along the Processional Way.This was originally more than half-a-milelong and though its reconstruction in Berlinis shorter, it is still a breathtaking walk.

The seemingly endless Processional Waywas constructed in the form of a trench, 23feet deep and 75 feet wide. It had a brickfoundation covered with asphalt to form abed for large slabs of limestone. An enemy at-tacking Babylon would have had to proceedalong this gully and would be an easy preyfor defending soldiers above. Almost as deter-ring to attackers were the walls of thissunken approach road—these were coveredwith colored glazed bas-relief tiles of lions,each seven feet long. One hundred and

twenty of these ferocious beasts showed theirteeth in angry snarls that would surely in-timidate any adversaries. The buried side ofthe tiles bore an inscription, repeated onevery tile. It read:

“Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, son ofNabopolassar, King of Babylon, am I. Theroad of Babel I have paved with Shadu slabsfor the procession of the great lord MardukMarduk, Lord, grant eternal life.”

Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, ex-tolled by Daniel as “the King of Kings” wasthe ruler who re-built Babylon as the capitalof his empire. To do this, he imported 11,000captives, the cream of Jewish society con-taining engineers, town planners, architects,craftsmen and artisans of all kinds.

The ruins of the city that Nebuchad-nezzar built can be seen today just south ofBaghdad and it remains his legacy. It had anestimated population of around 200,000. Itwas a mongrel city, housing Hittites, Chal-daeans, Egyptians, Assyrians, Aramaeans, El-amites and Jews.

Saddam Husseinspent millions inrestoring it andthe visitor cansee glimpses ofwhat must havebeen a staggeringlyimpressive city. Many ofSaddam Hussein’s con-cepts were abandoned,unfinished, but oneproject that was com-pleted was a recon-struction of the IshtarGate, close to its

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harles Hapgood, an American pro-fessor of history, became convincedin 1989 that a civilization, ‘with highlevels of science,’ had existed at least

100,000 years ago.In the mid-1950s, Hapgood had written a

book called Earth’s Shifting Crust, to whichEinstein contributed an Introduction, ar-guing that the whole crust of the earth un-dergoes periodic ‘slippages,’ one of which in9500 B.C. had caused the North Pole tomove from Hudson Bay to its present posi-tion. And in 1966, his Maps of the AncientSea Kings had suggested that mediaevalmaps called ‘portolans’—used by sailors tonavigate from port to port—proved thatthere must have been a worldwide maritime

C civilization in 7000 B.C.In 1989 he told the

writer Rand Flem-Ath thathe intended to bring out anew edition of Earth’sShifting Crust, containinghis evidence that civilization had existedsince before 100,000 years ago. But before hecould do that, he walked in front of a car andwas killed.

I agreed to collaborate with Rand Flem-Ath in trying to solve the mystery of the ‘lostcivilization,’ which Rand equated with At-lantis. But if Hapgood was correct, Atlantiswas tens of thousands years older than Platoassumed.

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enough to track down the man who claimedto have convinced him that civilization, infact, dated back 100,000 years. He was an ec-centric recluse who lived in a small town inNew England. When I asked him to explainwhat had convinced him that there was civili-zation 100,000 years ago, he specified twothings: (1) that Neanderthal man was farmore intelligent than we assume and (B) thatancient measures prove that man knew theexact size of the earth millennia before theGreek Eratosthenes worked it out in 240 B.C.

A little research of my own quickly veri-fied both statements. Far from being a sham-bling ape, Neanderthal man had a largerbrain than we have, was well acquainted withastronomy, played musical instruments andeven invented the blast furnace. As to thesize of the earth, the ancient Greeks had ameasure called the stade—the length of astadium. The polar circumference of theearth proves to be exactly 216,000 stade. Yetthe Greeks did not know the size of theearth. They must have inherited the stadefrom someone who did know.

On a cruise down the Nile in 1997 I stum-bled on another crucial discovery: theNineveh number, a vast 15 digit numberfound inscribed on an Assyrian clay tablet inthe ruins of Assurbanipal’s library. Yet theAssyrians were no great mathematicians. TheFrench space engineer, Maurice Chatelain—who provided the first moon rocket with itscommunication system—discovered pow-erful internal evidence that the Ninevehnumber must have been worked out about65,000 years ago.

He also learned that two more numbers,even larger, were found inscribed on stele inthe Mayan sacred city of Quiriga. Theseshared with the Nineveh number a remark-able characteristic: they could be divided pre-cisely by the number of years it takes theearth to complete its ‘precessional cycle’round the sun, just under 26,000. (Preces-sion of the equinoxes is the backward move-

ment of the signs of the zodiac,so that in the heavens, springbegins slightly earlier eachyear.)

So it seems the Assyrians in-herited their knowledge of pre-cession from some early‘founder’ civilization—presumably the same civiliza-tion from which the Maya, thou-sands of years later and thou-sands of miles across theAtlantic, inherited theirs.

I came upon one more im-portant discovery on that Nilecruise. It was something that

happened in the temple of Edfu and it tooksix more years before its full significancedawned on me and provided a sudden insightinto the secret of Egyptian temples. Of thismore in a moment.

I had come upon another interestingpiece of evidence that ‘high levels of science’date back much earlier than we suppose. Itstarted with the mystery of the Libyan desertglass. Two British scientists driving through


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istorians working in Germany havefound a 1945 diagram which shows a

German nuke. The picture held in a private ar-chive is a roughschematic anddoesn’t prove thebomb existed,but the docu-ment has beenused to supportthe arguments ofresearcher, Dr.Rainer Karlsch.

Karlsch pro-voked a majorcontroversy byclaiming that, to-ward the end ofthe war, theNazis had actuallytested a smallatomic bomb.

Karlsch’s book Hitler’s Bomb) says the Ger-mans planned to combine a mini nuke with arocket similar to the ones they used to attackEngland during the blitz.

According to Karlsch, despite the widelypublicized failure of a group led by scientistWerner Heisenberg, to develop the Germanbomb, another group headed by physicist,Kurt Diebner, had a firmer grasp of the tech-nical challenges involved and took their re-search all the way to a primitive test in Thu-ringia in Eastern Germany.

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instein’s 1939 letter to PresidentRoosevelt expressing serious con-cern that the Nazis might develop anatomic bomb caused the U.S. to

launch a crash program to get there first.The resultant “Manhattan Project” spent overtwo-billion-then-year dollars to develop oneplutonium implosion test article, codenamed “the Gadget,” and two actually deliv-ered weapons, with more to be delivered inmonths. The first, “Little Boy,” was a ura-nium weapon utterly unlike the originallytested device. It destroyed Hiroshima. Thesecond, “Fat Man,” was a plutonium implo-sion device and it destroyed Nagasaki. Or-thodox—and some would say uninformed—history lists the Hiroshima strike as theworld’s first atomic attack.

Uninformed? Evidence of ancient nuclearwarfare has been repeatedly written about inthis magazine and elsewhere. (i.e., “WasThere an Ancient Armageddon?” SylviaDailey, A.R. #26.) But has there been some-thing more recent we should be concernedabout? Astonishing, recently uncovered, evi-dence indicates the existence of a threat farmore tangible than even Einstein ever real-ized—evidence that Hitler not only devel-oped but actually tested an atomic weaponwhich he planned to deliver to the heart ofManhattan.

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Hitler’s Nuclear ThreatWere America andHer Allies in More

Danger than AnyoneDared to Admit?

The Standard StoryHere, courtesy of the Nuclear Weapons

archive, is the conventional account: Theworld’s first atomic detonation, at the towertest site known as Trinity, using a 20-22 kil-oton (KT) device called the Gadget, tookplace July 12, 1945. The bomb called “LittleBoy” had a yield of 15-16 KT and the onecalled “Fat Man” had a yield of 21 KT (http://nuclearweaponarchive. org/ Usa / Med /Lbfm.html). To wrap up the official story, we notethat Hiroshima was struck August 6, 1945,while Nagasaki was hit on August 9, 1945,the primary target, Kokura, being weatherobscured.

This is what the American governmenttold its people and the world. The War wasfought with conventional weapons but fin-ished with two nuclear blasts—American nu-clear blasts. From these, other advancedtechnologies and America’s dominant eco-nomic position after the War stem its super-power status, which continues to the presenthour.

But what, then, are we to make of thisheadline from The London Daily Mail (Oc-tober 11, 1944)? “Berlin Is ‘Silent’: Still NoPhones for 60 Hours.” The official Germanexplanation was “bomb damage,” but the evi-dence suggests that is only partial truth.

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MYSTERIES

• BY STEVEN SORA

ot since Star Trek has a televisionshow attracted such a devoted fol-lowing as Lost. There are scores ofwebsites based on the show itself

and even websites centered on aspects of theshow. There are books and magazines de-voted to Lost and magazine articles on booksthat have appeared in Lost.

The attraction of the show is a strangesetting, attractive yet deep and complex char-acters, and dangerous situations. But fromthe first episode, the allure is the mystery in-tertwined with the plot. It cannot even beclaimed with confidence that this story is anadventure or science fiction. Many haveasked: Are the characters actually dead? Towhich the creator of the show, J.J. Abrams,claims the answer is, no. He has not con-vinced the fans.

The characters appear to all be in need ofredemption and are stuck in a place thatblends purgatory with the Twilight Zone.Jack, the doctor, bears the guilt of havingturned his father in to the medical authori-ties, an act that left the man on a slipperyslope culminating in his death. Jack was on atrip to Australia, “down under,” to claim his

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Chulainn, he takes a new name for himselfafter an act of violence. Then there is JohnLocke, named for the philosopher. Locke tipsus off to the true nature of their situationwhen he famously says, “Everyone gets a newlife on this island.”

All have made the journey to the under-world, in the form of the down under. It is aliterary device used in Homer’s Ulysses thatis required to become initiated, “born-again”or redeemed.

Not even close to last is Hugo “Hurley”Reyes. A hapless victim of luck, both bad andgood, he seems to have committed no crime.There is one hint. He used a series of num-bers to win the lottery. He received the num-bers from a man, Lenny, who he met in amental institution. Lenny and another man,Sam, had heard them while monitoring for

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16father’s body. Kate is a bank robber, a mur-derer, and an accessory to murder and in theprocess of being brought to justice (andjudgment). Charlie is a heroin addict whosedestructive path has hurt those around him.Boone and Shannon bear the guilt of abrother-sister (well, step-sister) relationship.And Sawyer is a career con-man led by aneed for vengeance. He witnesses his fatherkill his mother and then himself in the bitteraftermath of being conned by a man namedSawyer. Like the Irish mythological hero Cu

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y the time you read this, “Lost” will have begun its third season,which the producers assure us, will offer no relief from the

usual danger and intrigue. Here is what we have been told to expect.Jack, Kate and Sawyer open the season in captivity as prisoners

of “The Others.” Just who these “Others” are and what they want areprimary questions Season Three will explore. Michael Emerson joinsthe regular cast in his ongoing role as Henry Gale, leader of “TheOthers.” Romance looms on the horizon as Jack’s interests veer to-wards a mysterious new woman, whose motives may be question-able. Sun and Jin will continue to celebrate their pregnancy—but isthe child really Jin’s? Locke and Sayid will band together with someof the other survivors and journey across the island in an attempt tofree Jack, Kate and Sawyer. Charlie will attempt to return into thegood graces of Claire and her baby, Aaron, but can he be trusted tostay clean and sober? The fates of Locke, Desmond and Mr. Eko inthe aftermath of the implosion of the hatch are answered. WillPenny Widmore find the island and her long, lost love, Desmond,and can the survivors find a way to interact with the outside world?

The band of friends, family, enemies and strangers must con-tinue to work together against the cruel weather and harsh terrain ifthey want to stay alive. But as they have discovered during their 60-plus days on the island, danger and mystery loom behind everycorner, and those they thought could be trusted may turn againstthem. Even heroes have secrets.

“Lost” was created by Jeffrey Lieber and J.J. Abrams & DamonLindelof. Abrams, Lindelof, Bryan Burk, Jack Bender, Jeff Pinknerand Carlton Cuse serve as executive producers. “Lost,” which isfilmed entirely on location in Hawaii and premiered on September22, 2004, is from Touchstone Television.

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men gives the numbers to Hurley. Hurleyends up on an unnamed Pacific island wherefellow refugees are required to input thenumbers in a computer and transmit them.Along the way the producers let us know it isnot just a little significant. Hurley, in the air-port passes six girls bearing soccer jerseyseach with one of the numbers. When his carbreaks down all six appear on his dashboard.To his horror the numbers appear on thehatch door. He even finds they were thetransmission that lured lone survivor Da-nielle and her group to the island.

The significance of the numbers is not inquestion, but just to whom the numberswere significant may provide an answer. Inthe religion of the ancient Egyptians, suchnumbers were significant and were a meansof passing on knowledge.

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transmissions in the Pacific. Lenny had goneinsane, but the other man, Sam, who heardthe transmission, would commit the samecrime as Hurley. He used the numbers to winmoney. A series of bad things then rained onthis man that led to his suicide. Hurley usesthem to win the lottery, but within monthsloses his grandfather, sees his brother losehis wife, buys his mother a house which goesup in flames, and is arrested for being Mex-ican in an upscale neighborhood.

He says the money is cursed, and thencomes to believe the numbers are cursed. Itjust may be that using the numbers for mate-rial wealth is the sacrilege. This is anotherclue that the numbers are sacred. I knowsomeone who is consistently rebuffed by hisbrother, a priest, who refuses to place his lot-tery tickets on the altar when he says mass.Was this Hurley’s crime? And if so, how arethe numbers sacred?

Numbers have played a significant role inreligion from the earliest time. They codifysecret knowledge of the sacred and makesuch knowledge available to the initiated.Numbers have also played a role in Lost as anundercurrent. A set of six numbers in partic-ular have mystified viewers. The number ofthe plane that brings the survivors to the is-land is Oceanic Flight 815. This is the samenumber as Kate’s safety box which concealsthe toy plane.

Eight is a most sacred number. In Egypt8, 18, and 108 were the numbers of the god-dess Isis. Her brother and lover was Osiris.When Osiris was killed and dismembered,she brought about his resurrection by put-ting together the pieces of his body. Osiriswas not whole until fifteen pieces werefound. And even then, he was confined to theUnderworld. Our passengers left the land“down under” for a netherland of the unex-plained, on Flight 815, or Flight Isis Osiris.

The mother of Isis was Nut. She is thechaos of nothingness and her number iszero. A number written on the wall in thehatch, and the amount of time the machinemust be served is 108. 8, 18 and 108 are all

numbers importantto the goddess.Eight itself repre-sents infinity andrebirth. Thisnumber was sacredto the KnightsTemplar who usedthe octagon inbuilding their bap-tistries in nu-merous locations.Because it has be-come evident thatthese structurescan calculate ac-tivity of both thesun and moon,there are certainlydeeper secrets con-cealed. St. Bernard,the moral force be-hind the Templars,said God is heightand length anddepth. The bap-tismal fonts inmodern churchesall have an octagonal base symbolizing therebirth. The “cult” of Isis had arrived inRome a century before Christianity. Egyp-tian dualism is embedded in the Christian re-ligion, although the worship of the goddesswas removed. Mary, the mother of Jesus,would be depicted holding the child as Isishad been depicted holding her son Horus. Ti-tles of Isis as Queen of Heaven (Regina Coeli)and Star of the Seas (Stella Maris) would be-come titles of Mary’s.

The sacred numbers of Lost were intro-duced in Episode 18. They are: 4-8-15-16-23-42. Together they add up to 108, the numberof Isis. When the hatch is found, the num-bers are on the door. The passengers are in-structed that every 108 minutes they are re-quired to enter the numbers in a computer.

Have we come full circle? A transmissionof the numbers from an unnamed Pacific is-land, picked up by two men who soon be-come institutionalized and dead. One of the

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mous artists alongside the paradigm-shiftingideas of great thinkers. Pairings includeGiotto and Galileo, Da Vinci and Newton, Pi-casso and Einstein, Duchamp and Bohr, Ma-tisse and Heisenberg, and Monet andMinkowski.

The youngest of four children of first gen-eration Russian emigrants, Shlain lovedbuilding model airplanes and enjoyeddrawing as a child, and fancied himself abudding artist. He considered psychiatry as acareer, but chose the dramatic life of a sur-geon (think Magnificent Obsession). “It wasromantic, challenging and intensely ex-citing.”

Also an Associate Professor of Surgery atUCSF, Shlain knows firsthand what it’s liketo be under the knife. At thirty-seven, he hadpassed his Boards, become afellow of the American Col-lege of Surgeons, and hada university teachingposition, a wife, threechildren, and a“tiger-by-the tail”burgeoning prac-tice. Things weregoing accordingto plan when hefound himself“sitting on theedge of a hos-pital beddressed in thehalf gown of apost-surgical pa-tient”—he’d justbeen told that abiopsy had comeback malignant for aNon-Hodgkin’s Lym-phoma.

His subsequent treat-ment and recovery led Shlainto participate in a ‘death and dying’seminar. “An organizer of one of the work-shops was familiar with my recent encounterwith the grim reaper and thought it wouldbe neat to have a surgeon provide his per-spective from both sides of the scalpel,” herecounts. His story was later included as achapter in Stress and Survival: The Realities

egotiating the freeway towards SanFrancisco’s California-Pacific Med-ical Center, where he is chief of lap-aroscopic surgery, Dr. Leonard

Shlain presses the eject button on his newcar’s console (past models were Jaguars, butnow that he’s a conscious consumer, it’s aPrius). Out comes “The Count of MonteCristo,” a story that has had him riveted (“Iactually had to pull over at one point to findout what happened,” he admits). But he’sgoing to be operating on someone’s carotidartery this morning and needs to concen-trate; so, for the moment, the story is onhold. Is his patient left- or right-handed? Wasthe injury to the left side or the right side ofthe brain? “This is an important factor inhow I’ll approach my job,” he explains. “Ca-rotid procedures hold a special fascinationfor me; operating on carotid arteries requiresthat I understand how the brain works.”

Shlain has long been fascinated by right /left hemisphere differences in the brain, aswell as by modern art and science. Rumina-tions concerning the puzzle of conscious-ness, the right / left split and the connectionsbetween cubism and relativity “tumbled likeclothes in a dryer” through his mind, andhe’s been ironing out the wrinkles over theyears. His thoughts emerged as an award-winning book in 1991. Art and Physics: Par-allel Visions in Space, Time, and Light (Har-perCollins) proposes that innovations in artprefigure major discoveries in physics; it ispresently used as a textbook in many artschools and universities. The book covers theclassical, medieval, Renaissance and moderneras. In each, Shlain juxtaposes works of fa-

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of a Serious Illness (a compilation edited byCharlie Garfield). Unbeknownst to him,Stanford’s radiation department had xeroxedhis chapter to hand out to incoming patients,and a medical school had made it requiredreading for junior students beginning theironcology rotation. “My career as a writeremerged from the single worst experience ofmy life,” notes Shlain. After a fortuitous en-counter with a New York agent, he learnedthat eight major publishers were interestedin that single chapter becoming a book. “Forthe next year I was a man possessed. I wroteearly in the morning before surgery, on vaca-tions, on weekends, and while waiting forcases to begin in the surgery suite.” Shlainsays he approached the art of writing as hehad approached the acquisition of the skills

necessary to become a surgeon. “Iknew that proficiency begins

with considerable practiceand the emulation ofexperts. I had always

been a voraciousreader (he particu-

larly likes Dos-toevsky, and en-joys Hemming-way, Steinbeck,

Melville andDickens); evenwhen I was in

the midst of themost de-

manding rota-tions of my sur-gical training, I

always had a pa-perback in my back

pocket.”Seven years after

the success of his firstbook, a second emerged:

The Alphabet Versus The God-dess: The Conflict Between Word

and Image, (Viking) hit the national best-seller list within weeks after publication in1998. Conceived during a tour he took toMediterranean archaeological sites in 1991,the book discusses his theory that with thedevelopment of the alphabet and the rise ofliteracy, a right-handed, left-brained domi-

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Getting Left & RightBrains Together

Author and Doctor Leonard Shlain Believesthe Future Is Where Art and Physics Intersect

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