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ISPECTRUMMAGAZINE
THE KACHINAS
REINCARNATION
LIFE
AFTER DEATH
ORIGIN OF
CENTRIPETAL
FORCES
Issue 01/May-June 2013
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FEATURES
03
ORIGIN OF CENTRIPETAL
FORCES
GRAVITY,COLOR,LIFE,CONSCIO
USNESS AND PERCEPTION
08 Golden Ratio
12
REINCARNATION OR JUST A
DIMENSIONAL THING?
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
14 How did I do?
15A multidimensional model of
existence
16 The multidimensional model of
man
17 A scientific model of reincarna-
tion?
18
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR
LIFE AFTER DEATH
19 Mediumship in the laboratory
24 The Pineal gland and medium-
ship
25 Research into near-death
experience
30 Past-life regression therapy
31 Evidence of reincarnation
33The science of afterlife
36
THE KACHINAS
AN ALIEN INTELLIGENCE, BUT
NOT AS WE KNOW IT
37 The kachina dolls39 Hopi ceremonies
43 Kokopelli-fertility deity
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CONTENTS
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T hose waves then store compression ver-sus rarefaction (packing versus unpacking
- sometimes called yin/ yang)- in that sub-
stance called (electric) CHARGE.
So in physics charge is in effect the unified
field.
ORIGIN OF CENTRIPETAL
FORCES:GRAVITY, COLOR, LIFE,CONSCIOUSNESS AND PERCEPTION
BY
DAN WINTER
WEBSITE
WWW.FRACTALFIELD.COM/CENTRIPETALFORCES/
We are clear the universe is
made of waves. Those waves
move in a universal com-
pressible background sub-
stance (ether)
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Because that flu-
idly moving hydro-
dynamic substance
called charge stores
INERTIA- it then has
the quality - of creating
MASS. This is because
inertia stored (by
waves of charge rotat-
ing) is the only defini-
tion of mass.
It is as simple as real-
izing that when a wave
is able to go in a circle
instead of a line, it
begins to STORE more
of its inertia - just like
a gyroscope. So - as
we have often said-
God or the creative
principle in essence is
the skill to teach waves
to start going in a
circle (creating mass)
instead of line.
The tricky part of
keeping a wave going
in a circle - instead
of in a straight line
- is that when the
wave finishes mak-
ing its circle - it has
to meet itself - (phase
lock) - by agreeing
on where the crest
and the trough will fit.
Otherwise - it creates
destructive wave inter-
ference ... and kills
itself.
This need for waves
to agree on where to
meet- forces them to
always obey a simple
rule. The number one
rule for waves is:
The wave length must
divide evenly into the
circumference of the
circle they are making.
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The illusion that there
is such a thing as a
particle arose because
of the way these waves
of charge store their
inertia in discrete or
quantized little enve-
lopes. These bubbles
or wave packets of
charge storing inertia
- came to be named
particles. They are
absolutely not silver
bullets (which is to
say they are NOT solid
- but only wave bub-
bles). The reason the
amount of inertia (or
mass) stored in each
little bubble of waves is
so regular or discrete
(electrons and protons
each store the same
amount) - is fascinat-
ing.
As waves ran around
the universe- for
eons- they discovered
there were some basic
agreements required
in order for the sur-
vival of those waves.
An extremely elegant
single universal stan-
dard for all waves- call
PLANCK - (length,
time, and energy) -
evolved because - right
from the beginning
This rule- the origin of
quantum mechanics
- is the reason there
is geometry in the uni-verse. This is because
fitting wavelengths into
circles - in 2D and 3D-
causes those wave to
make the pretty pic-
tures - tetrahedron,
octa, cube, dode-
ca, icosa etc. Thesebecome group theory..
And the fact that elec-
tron shells are basically
platonic solids- the
same way nuclear par-
ticles- (protons/neu-
trons) nest in the pla-
tonic solids.
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waves which did not fit
the agreed standard of
fitting together - would
immediately die (expe-
rience destructive waveinterference).
In effect - since this
one unit of length and
time and energy - fit
ALL of the waves of
the universe- these so
called PLANK dimen-
sions define the so
called sacred (gold
standard of agreement
that fits all of physics)- for waves.
The other tricky part
about keeping a wave
going in a circle ( and
thereby creating mass)
- is that the inertia the
wave stores - tends to
immediately get thrown
OUT of that circle by
centrifugal force.
(For the same rea-son your laundry gets
pressed on the outside
of the drum during the
spin cycle).
So - the only way
those waves get to
KEEP going in a circle -
and remain part of theexclusive club of mass
creators is when there
is some mysterious
centripetal force- which
keeps them attracted
to the center of the cir-
cle (gravity). implosive
forces fractalfield.com/centripetalforces
We all know that
Einstein did not figureout why any object
falls to the ground.
He got one thing right-
that infinite construc-
tive wave compression
was the solution to his
unified field.
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The reason physics has not figured out why an object falls
to the ground till now, is because of TWO fundamental
stupidities:
Not knowing how fractality - was a wave / electrical solution to
perfect or infinite compression. (Although mathematics has long
known fractals are infinitely compressible - physics was slow to
figure out what a fractal electric field looked like).
1.
2. Not knowing that Golden Ratio was the ultimate solution to allconstructive wave interference - and therefore especially the
solution to Einsteins pesky problem: infinite compression. And
therefore Golden Ratio is the ultimate solution to fractality.
The essential issue of unified field
thinking is to know what electric
field shape or symmetry causes
gravity to happen. This problem is
resolved once we understand for
example - that the fractal self simi-
larity (perfected in Golden Ratio)
of the nuclear shapes (symmetry)
to the electron shells- is the rea-
son atoms have and make gravity.
My new equation/ proof that Golden
Ratio exponents times planck length
very accurately predict multiple
hydrogen radii- is an excellent start-
ing point for new evidence.
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Gravity is only one of the centrip-
etal forces. Others are color, life
force, perception, and conscious-
ness itself.
All of these - by appearance- selforganizing forces are caused by
Golden Ratio - fractality among
waves of charge.
The evidence the Golden Ratio -
fractality ( constructive charge col-
lapse perfected) is the cause and
mechanism of gravity:
Golden Ratio times Plank
length produces exactly
the radius of hydrogen. ( My equa-
tions: goldenmean.info/goldenproof
So- Golden RATIO constructive
charge collapse- is evidentially
what is holding hydrogen - andmost likely the entire atomic table
together.
Golden Ratio is the
quintessential element
of E8 - Unified Field model.
Golden Ratio is the
universal container of
Nassim Harramein - universal of
global scaling - of - Length vs.Frequency of - Big Bang, Atom,
Galaxy and Universe
The infinite stellated
dodecahedron ( dodeca/ icosa/ dodeca...) main charac-
teristic is each node has x,y,z val-
ues which are simples multiples of
Golden Ratio. This produces perfect
constructive wave compression and
collapse. For this reason - this is
the exact geometry of:
a) The universeb) DNA and every living protein
c) the outer electrical shape of
gold, palladium, platinum (pgms),
fusion, black holes, the noble gas-
ses, and their corresponding elec-
tron valences and nuclear symme-
tries.
d) the Earth grid.
3.
2.
4.
1.
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ONE geometry which
allows the wave to
continue radiating in
ALL directions con-
structively. That solu-
tion is GOLDEN RATIO
- and the 3D - what
that looks like is the
stellated dodeca (pent
stars within stars).
As the waves keep
crossing- at each
point along the Golden
Spiral they create,the
keep doing what all
waves must do in
wave interference
(called heterodyning).
They keep add-
ing AND multiplying
(recursive addition) -
their wave lengths and
their wave (or phase)
VELOCITIES.
Understanding the
mechanism which allows
Golden Ratio fractality to
BE the cause of gravity
is essential to this:
The top down view of
the Golden Ratio - pent
dodeca- which is the
shape of every wave
in the above list (DNA,
Every Living Protein,
Gold/PGMs, Earth Grid,
Universe etc) - is essen-tially 10 spirals of the
Golden Mean
The reason this shape -
essentially accounts for
all the universes cen-
tripetal and self organiz-
ing forces (gravity, color,consciousness, life force,
perception etc)- is as
follows:
When waves meet in
rotation - at each wave
node cross- a portion of
the inertia of the wave
node (or cross point) -must radiate out in all
directions.
The wave interference
produced in 3D quickly
makes DESTRUCTIVE
wave interference -
(especially if it is cubic)
- unless it finds the
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The Golden Ratio is the
obvious only solution to
this geometry problem
which all waves encounter
because this is the ratiothat allows BOTH adding
and multiplying to contin-
ue- in such a way that all
the produces (children of
the waves) continue to FIT
the nest.
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Assuming that your mindset is one that is open to all possibilities,
how would you feel if you could look into a crystal ball and see
beyond the life that you are now living? Share with me and join in
a travel extravaganza which takes us beyond the physical world.
To begin with, let me emphasize that this is not an invitation to talk
about a belief system that is held steadfast within your religious
ideals. No, this is meant to help stimulate your mind and take you
beyond your present mode of thought.
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REINCARNATION
OR JUST A DIMENSIONAL THING?
uantum mechan-
ics and particle
physics are show-
ing us something that
we could never have
dreamed only ten or
fifteen years ago.
Do you have any idea
how detached, physi-
cally, you are from
your mind and can you
possibly imagine how
your whole body func-
tions as your brain
receives its program-
ming from another
dimension?
Its true! There are
other dimensions.
Actually they are sit-
ting exactly where we
are now right under
our noses. Apparently,
everything happens
simultaneously and in
one spot. The physi-
cal world is only an
illusion to give the
impression, through
polarities, that there
is time and distance
between two points.
We are as near to each
other as we can pos-
sibly be with less than
the thickness of a mol-
ecule between us.
This could very well
mean that our minds
operate out of the
time and space con-
QBY
MIKE OHARE
WEBSITE
WWW.MIKE-OHARE.COM
If present-day discoveries
through free-thinking sci-
ence are anything to go
on, then we are in for
a treat
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
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tinuum, in a dimen-
sion which allows it to
carry on after we have
finished with our physi-
cal bodies. Did
you notice how I
didnt point out the
obvious and use
the D word? Its
all down to vibra-
tion and frequen-
cies. When the
TV is turned on,
who ever ques-
tions about how
the pictures and
sound reaches us?
We should, and the
answers we would
get are that theyare frequencies
that do not operate
in a physical world.
The same princi-
ple applies to your
thoughts. It has been
scientifically provedthat a thought is a tan-
gible, living thing that
has its own electrical
charge and is transmit-
ted via other dimen-
sions that surround
us. Twilight Zone stuff
huh? Well dont ask
me, Im only the mes-
senger bringing proof
of what is already
documented. On this
basis, there is every
possibility that we real-
ly do live on beyond
the physical world andit was this impression
that was the inspiration
behind my co-writing
The Meadow. Its a
marvellous, wonderful
world out there and we
should familiarise our-
selves with it in a way
that makes us totally
interactive.
If we do live on, there
is every possibility that
we also come back
again to live another
life. Okay, so Im now
well into that non-earthly zone, talking
about the possibility
of reincarnation, but I
have every confidence
that there is more to
life than we could ever
imagine.
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Perhaps we have
unfinished business in
this life and the only
way to reconcile and
fix it is to come back
after learning all there
is to know in getting it
right next time.
I have a theory, a
personal one albeit
and it is this: I believe
that I will come back
again because I have
such an attachment
to the material world.
I get a buzz out of so
many activities which
are totally physical.
This indicates to me
that matters are not
yet out of my system
and I have to remove
all this extra weight
before I can move on.
Conversely, Im hop-
ing that reincarna-
tion is down to choice
rather than destiny.
Regardless, I got
a buzz out of writ-
ing this piece. Maybe
its because of all the
invisible energy which
is surrounding me and
willing me to share
this with you. I hope
you feel the same
way.
HOW DID I DO?
Did I manage to
arouse your curiosity?
Are you in a position
to look beyond what
you consider to be a
normal physical life?
Could reincarnation fit
into your belief sys-
tem? If you would like
to learn more about
this from the scientific
perspective then no
one can do this bet-
ter than my molecu-
lar biologist friend,
William Brown.
At first sight it would
appear that life after
death or even the
topic of reincarna-
tion would be beyond
the scope of a scien-
tific discussion, and
in classical scientific
models of understand-
ing that is indeed the
case. However, as
alluded to by Mike
in the above discus-
sion, the cutting edge
of science is entering
this ethereal realm
once restricted to philo-
sophical or mystical
perspectives, and many
of these philosophical
ruminations and meta-
physical perspectives
are getting re-described
with mathematical and
scientific terminology.
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and even information stored in the
very fabric of space-time itself.
Numerous empirical observations
are driving this research as scien-tists find that 98% of the Universe
is not directly detectable, what is
referred to as dark energy an
unseen plenum that seems to per-
meate even the smallest space but
orchestrates whole galaxies into a
quantum coherent system where
billions of stars move together in agalactic symphony of harmony.
Could it be that there is much
more to the Universe than what
we directly perceive with our phys-
ical senses? Could the Universe be
layered in multiple dimensions?
A MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODEL OF
EXISTENCE
Serious scientific research is
actively involved in investigat-
ing the reality of dimensions
beyond the 4 described by General
Relativity, of multiple universes
created from a quantum foam,
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The mathematics seems to indi-
cate this is so. When the potential
energy of a space the size of a pro-
ton is calculated it has a mass that
is equivalent to the whole Universe
imagine the depth of reality that
exists in the room you occupy now!
But it is not just the ultra-small and
the ultra-large where these anoma-
lies are observed that are point-
ing us in the direction of an unseen
world that seems to be pulling the
strings here in physical reality.
There is an intermediate level
between the macroscopic and the
microscopic that is rich with similar
types of scientific anomalies, and
that is the level that you occupy
the human being.
THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL MIND OFMAN
Just as the cutting edge of science
in Quantum Mechanics and Particle
Physics is revealing other levels of
reality that are orchestrating much
of the activity in physical reality,
so too is biology discovering high-er levels of order that direct and
shape biological processes.
What kinds of biological pro-
cesses? Take your thoughts as an
example. The phenomenon of con-
sciousness has been a very myste-
rious aspect of the human being because scientists within the classi-
cal model have been attempting to
understand it from a purely physi-
cal point of view.
Yet new models are emerging that
describe how the physical activ-
ity of the brain can tune into non
local fields of information fromwhich our thoughts are formed
and derived a Morphic field that
exists at another level of real-
ity and yet drives the information
capabilities of not only the brain,
but our genes as well.
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A SCIENTIFIC MODEL
OF REINCARNATION?
If our brain and our
genes are tuning into
and storing informa-
tion within the fabric
of spacetime itself,
where that informa-
tion exists beyond the
seemingly relentless
change of the physi-
cal world, then there is
an aspect of our con-
sciousness that existsoutside of the body,
and it can re-enter
through genes that are
passed down through
an unbroken lineage
of progeny. These
are the same genes
that once shaped your
ancestors brain do you
think they may have
shaped yours similar-
ly? Perhaps that ances-tor possessed the same
consciousness that you
do through the Morphic
Field and you have
come back to fulfil some
unfinished business.
Dazu Wheel of Reincarnation,CHINA
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SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR
LIFE AFTER DEATH
MADO MARTINEZ AND ELAINE VIEIRA
WWW.MADOMARTINEZ.COM
ince time immemorial,
human beings have won-
dered if there is
something beyond life. Many cul-tures, religions and systems of
knowledge have been based on
the belief that the dead are raised
up into another world, going to
paradise or reincarnating. But
what if science could show evi-
dence that there is life after
death?In the last few decades, many sci-
entists and medical researchers
from universities and
institutions around the world have
been revolutionising the para-
digm, providing evidence that
consciousness indeed survives
physical death.
S
New scientific methods and
technologies are being used to research
theage-old question of whether life exists
after death.
Rigorous studies of mediumship,near-
death experiences and past-life memories
suggest that consciousness
indeed survives
WEBSITE
BY
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MEDIUMSHIP IN THE LABORATORY
Mediums claim that they can
somehow feel the spirits of
deceased people.According to spiritist terminology,
these spirits are called discarnate.
The famous Brazilian medium
Chico Xavier, who died in 2002,
wrote more than 400 books by 600
spiritual authors but never took
credit for being the author of any
of them. Heavily influenced by the
works of 19th-century French spir-itist Allan Kardec, Xavier professed
that his hand was guided by spirits
who dictated to him.
An estimated 50 million copies
of his books have been sold, and
all the profits from these sales
have been channelled into charity
work. In 1981 and 1982, Xavierwas nominated for the Nobel Peace
Prize. Furthermore, he attended to,
free of charge, around 60 people
per day in his modest home in the
city of Uberaba. Apart from books,
Xavier wrote letters from deceased
people whose family members were
visiting him.Allan Kardec
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In 1991, Chico Xaviers
mediumship was investi-
gated by Dr Paulo Rossi.
His study confirmedthat 93.3 per cent of
the people who visited
Xavier had
not known him before-
hand. Information from
the letters received
through Xavier contained
so many details aboutthe deceased and their
families as to
make fraud impossible.
Around 62.2 per cent of
the messages showed
more
than six relevant facts
each, and 71.1 per centhad detailed information
about the deceased
people which was sub-
sequently confirmed by
their
families. Dr Rossi con-
cluded that the informa-
tion revealed by ChicoXavier
actually came from the
spirits of dead people
and was not the result of
any kind of fraud.
In 2004, Alexander
Moreira de Almeida
gained his PhD degree
from theUniversity of So
Paulo, Brazil, with
his research focus on
mediumship
experiences. He stud-
ied 115 spiritist medi-
ums with the aim of
building theirsociodemographic
profiles and checking
their mental health.
His study was
based solely on spir-
itist mediums who
follow the doctrine
founded by Allan
Kardec, because theyonly use their medi-
umship free of charge
to help the
spirits. It is impor-
tant to mention that
Moreira de Almeida
and his team
chose these mediumsbecause the spirit-
ism founded by Allan
Kardec is well
known worldwide
for its seriousness in
studying the relation-
ship between
the spirit world and
Chico Xavier
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human nature.
The researchers con-
cluded that the
majority of the medi-
ums developed their
mediumship during
childhood and that they
also showed a high
socio-educational level.
In addition, they
found only a very low
level of psychiatric
disorders among the
mediums. Thus, the
mediums who have
so often been labelled
as crazy turn out
to be people with few
psychological problems
and a high level of
education.
During 20012008,
Professor Gary
Schwartz and
colleagues from the
University of Arizona
conducted
detailed research into
the authenticity of
mediumship.
They investigated
the well-known medi-
ums George Anderson
and John Edward,
and other mediums
such as
Suzane Northrop,
Laurie Campbell and
Anne Gehman.
Their studies confirmed
that all of the mediums
were very precise,
and their degree of
success was very high
compared to probabil-
ity. Factors such
as fraud, error and
coincidence were con-
sidered and eliminated.
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At The Windbridge Institute in
Tucson, Arizona, USA,
from 2008, Dr Julie Beischel has
been conducting fascinating
research with mediums to
demonstrate that there is life
after death. Basically, she uses
three methods to study the
phenomenon of mediumship:
proof-focused research, involving
tests to verify whether the
mediums are giving accurate
information; process-focused
research, which studies the
experience of the mediums
during their spiritual
communications; and applied
research, which examines how the
information can
benefit society in general.
The mediums studied by
Dr Beischel have given accurate
information about
deceased people which was subse-
quently verified. Dr
Beischels results confirm the
hypothesis that the spirit
survives death.
We emailed Dr Julie Beischel in
August 2011 to ask
more about the scientific method
which she applies in
these investigations. She said that
she uses strict
controls to investigate the phenom-
enon of mediumship
through a scientific program that
contains a great amount of data:
At The Windbridge Institute, we are
primarily
interested in mediumship, ITC
[instrumental transcommunication]
and haunting-related occurrences.
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We use the scientific method and
strict controls to
investigate
these phe-
nomena,
and the
mediumship
research
program
involves
the largest
amount of
robust
data.
Through our
unique quintuple-
blinded readings
with Windbridge certified researchmediums (WCRMs)
,we can demonstrate a
phenomenon called anomalous
information reception (AIR), which
involves mediums
reporting accurate and specific
information about the
deceased loved ones (termed dis-carnates) of living people (termed
sitters) without any prior
knowledge about the discarnates
or sitters, in the absence of any
feedback and without using
deceptive means.
Based on the intensive testing pro-
cedure we use to screen
prospective WCRMs and the subse-
quent studies in which they
participate, we can confidently
state that certain mediums arecapable of AIR.
In addition, Dr Beischel said: This
research paradigm
is ideal in that the phenomenon is
easily replicable and
occurs on demand. We do not needto try to catch spontaneous events
or experiences as they occur; we
can bring the mediumship phe-
nomenon into the
laboratory and study it under con-
trolled conditions and
on a schedule that is convenient
for all of the participants.
the mediums have higherbrain activity and increasedblood flow in the region ofthe pineal gland compared
to the control group.
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In her study of mediumship, Dr.
Beischel is very strict
and accurate, applying a quintu-
ple-blind scientific
method, i.e., involving five ele-
ments. Compare this with
the double-blind study, a very
well known scientific method
that is used in experiments with
the aim of avoiding bias in the
results induced by two
elements: the placebo effect
and the researcher. It is called
double blind because the
subjects in the study do not
know to which experimental
group they belong.
In a tripleblind study, a third ele-
ment is included with the aim of
avoiding even more bias. For
instance, the third element
could be a statistician who inter-
prets the data without
knowing the type of experiment
that was performed, or ascientist who works on the pro-
ject but does not know
the experimental group.
Dr Beischels research demon-
strates that the
anomalous information recep-
tion phenomenon is
indeed authentic.
THE PINEAL GLAND AND
MEDIUMSHIP
Neuroscientist Dr. Srgio Felipe
de Oliveira from So
Paulo University, Brazil, investi-
gates the relationship
between the pineal gland and
mediumship. In performing his
research, he uses techniques
such as X-ray diffraction,
computed tomography and
magnetic resonance imaging.
Comparing the brain sand
(calcified structures in the
brain) of mediums and non
mediums,he showed that medi-ums have a higher
amount of brain sand in the
pineal gland than do non medi-
ums.
In addition, he demonstrated
that, during
spirit communication, the medi-
ums have higher brainactivity and increased blood
flow in the region of the
pineal gland compared to the
control group.
Dr. Felipe de Oliveira hypoth-
esises that the pineal
gland is the sensorial organ
of mediumship. For instance,
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the gland would be like a mobile
phone that
captures the electromagnetic
waves coming from the
spirit world. Once the waves
reach the pineal gland,they bounce off the brain sand,
sequestering the
electromagnetic field and trans-
mitting the information
to the cerebral cortex for the
interpretation of the
message.
In October 2010 in Valencia,Spain, I (Martnez)
conducted an interview with Dr.
Srgio Felipe de
Oliveira, who showed images
from his magnetic
resonance experiments and
pointed out these
differences in the level of brainsand in the pineal gland
that are related to extrasensory
abilities.
RESEARCH INTO NEAR-DEATH
EXPERIENCE
At Kings College London thereis a revolution going on in the
world of thanatology, the scien-
tific study of death.
The researcher, Peter Fenwick,
MD, is performing detailed
experiments on the phenomenon
that takes place between
the 24 and 48 hours before and
Dr Srgio Felipe de Oliveira
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the presence of light.
These phenomena
are usually
reported after an
individual has been
pronounced
clinically dead andthen comes back to
life. These
experiences sug-
gest the existence
of life after death.
Since psychologist
Raymond Moody, Jr.,
MD, wrote hisbook Life After Life
(1975) and Elisabeth
Kbler-Ross, MD
(the now-deceased
eminent researcher
who received a
score of honorary
doctorates from uni-
after death and also
at the moment of
death. He concen-
trates on visions frompeople who were lying
in bed and spoke with
deceased family
members who came
to receive them. He
also investigates
coincidences involving
deceased people whocontacted someone
just to tell them that
he/she has
died. In addition, he
studies family mem-
bers who saw
shadows around the
bed of the ceased andobserved that the
room became a lot of
brighter at
the time of the per-
sons death.
These occurrences
happen in a very high
percentage of cases,he concludes. Dr.
Fenwick also insists
that the soul is
different from the
brain.
The term near-death
experience
(NDE) refers to abroad range of experi-
ences associated
with impending death.
These can encom-
pass multiple possible
sensations including:
detachment from the
body; feelings of levi-tation, extreme fear,
total serenity, secu-
rity, warmth or abso-
lute dissolution; and
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versities around the
world) compiled hun-
dreds of stunning tes-timonies and wrote
some of the most pow-
erful books concerning
NDEs, scientists have
become very attracted
to this phenomenon.
Dr Kenneth Ring, then
based at the Universityof Connecticut, and
Sharon Cooper, then a
PhD candidate from the
University of New York,
performed a two-year
study of near-death
experiences in the
blind, with amazingresults.
These were published
in their book
Mindsight (1999),
which provided strong
evidence from 31 blind
people who describe
the experience of see-ing for the first time
in their lives, giving
details of medical pro-
cedures on the operat-
ing table, for instance.
Jeffrey Long, MD, an
oncologist, directs the
Near Death Experience
Research Foundation
(http://www.nderf.org),
which has collectedmore than
2,500 case studies
worldwide of people
who have had near-
death experiences.
Because Dr. Long
applies the scientific
method in his research,we decided to contact
him to find out more
about his work. In our
e-mail interview with
him in August 2011, he
stated: My area of
expertise is in near-
death experiences.NDEs provide, in my
opinion, the strongest
scientific evidence of
life after death.
In his book Evidence
of the Afterlife: The
Science of Near-Death
Experiences (2010),
Dr. Long gives a sum-
mary of the nine
lines of evidence that
point to the
reality of NDEs and
their consistent mes-
sage of an afterlife:
1.Crystal
Clear Consciousness
The level of conscious-
ness andalertness dur-
ing near-death
experiences is usually
evengreater than that
experienced in
everyday life, even
though NDEs
generally occur when a
person is unconscious
or clinically dead.
This high level of con-sciousness
while physically
unconscious is medi-
cally inexplicable.
Additionally, the ele-
ments in NDEs gener-
ally follow the same
consistent and logicalorder in all age groups
and around the world,
which refutes the pos-
sibility that NDEs have
any relation to
dreams or hallucina-
tions.
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Realistic Out-of-BodyExperiences
Out-of-body
experiences (OBEs) are one of themost common elements of NDEs.
What NDErs see and hear of
earthly events in the out-of-body
state is almost always realistic.
When the NDEr or others later seek
to verify what was observed or
heard during the NDE, the OBE
observations are almost alwaysconfirmed as completely
accurate. Even if the OBE observa-
tions during the NDE
included events far from the physi-
cal body and far from any possible
sensory awareness of the NDEr, the
OBE observations are still almost
always confirmed ascompletely accurate. This fact alone
rules out the possibility that near-
death experiences are related to
any known brain functioning or sen-
sory awareness. This
also refutes the possibility that
NDEs are unrealistic
fragments of memory from thebrain.
Heightened Senses
Not only are heightened
senses reported by most who have
experienced NDEs,
but normal or supernormal vision
has occurred in those
with significantly impaired vision
and even legal blindness. Several
people who have been totally blindsince birth have reported highly
visual near-death experiences.
This is medically inexplicable.
ConsciousnessDuring
Anaesthesia
Many NDEs occur while
under general anaesthesiaat a
time when any conscious experi-
ence should be impossible. While
some sceptics claim that these
NDEs may
be the result of too little anaesthe-sia, this ignores the fact that some
NDEs result from anaesthesia over-
dose.
Additionally, the description of an
NDE differs greatly from that of
one who experiences anaesthetic
awareness. The content of NDEs
that occur under generalanaesthesia is essentially
indistinguishable from NDEs that
did not occur under general
anaesthesia. This is further
strong evidence that NDEs are
occurring completely
independently from the
functioning of the physical brain.
3.
2.
4.
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Perfect Playbacks
Life reviews in near-death
experiences include real eventsthat previously took place in the
lives of those having the experi-
ence, even if the events
were forgotten or happened before
they were old enough to remember.
Family Reunions
During an NDE, the people
encountered are virtually always
deceased and are
usually relatives of the person hav-
ing the experience;
sometimes they are even rela-tives who died before the NDEr was
born. Were the NDE only a prod-
uct of memory fragments, it would
almost certainly include far
more living people, including those
with whom the NDEr had interacted
more recently.
ChildrensExperiences
The near-death experiences
of children, including very young
children who are too young to have
developed concepts of death, reli-
gion or near-death experiences,
are essentially identical to those of
older children and adults.
This refutes the possibility that the
content of NDEs is produced bypreexisting beliefs or cultural condi-
tioning.
WorldwideConsistency
Near-death experiencesappear remarkably consistent
around the world and
across many different religions and
cultures. NDEs from non-western
countries are incredibly similar to
those that occur in people in west-
ern countries.
Aftereffects
It is common for peo-
ple to experience major life chang-
es after having near-death experi-
ences.These aftereffects are often power-
ful, lasting and lifeenhancing,
and the changes generally follow a
consistent pattern. As the NDErs
themselves almost
always believe, near-death experi-
ences are, in a word,
real.
6.
5.
7.
8.
9.
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PAST-LIFE REGRESSION THERAPY
The research on past-life regres-
sion consists of practices and evi-
dence based approaches. Theresults come from questionnaires
completed before
and after the therapy with a large
number of individuals with a spe-
cific type of problem, including a
control group to demonstrate their
effectiveness (the double-blind
scientific method).
Between 1985 and 1992, Dr. Hazel
Denning (now deceased), founder
of the International Association for
Regression Research and
Therapies (http://www.iarrt.org),
studied the results of eight
regression therapists with about1,000 patients. The results were
measured immediately after the
therapy, with follow-ups six
months, one year, two years and
five years afterwards.
From the 450 patients who could
be traced after five years, 24 per
cent reported that their symp-toms had completely disappeared,
23 per cent reported a significant
improvement, 17 per cent reported
an improvement, and 36 per cent
reported no improvement. Overall,
this makes a positive balance of
64 per cent.
In 2006, Ron van der Maesen
obtained his PhD in the
research area of past-life thera-
py from Utrecht University in the
Netherlands. His doctoral thesis was
based on different studies with peo-
ple who underwent treatment with
past-life therapy. The studies includ-
ed one in Suriname, one with the
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Dutch Association of
Reincarnation
Therapists and another
with patients with
Tourette syndrome. Thestudies showed that
the pastlife treatments
had statistically signifi-
cant beneficial results
in patients compared
with the controls (with
no health problems).
The level of satisfactionamong the patients
who had improvements
with past-life therapy
was very high.
Psychologist Dr. Helen
Wambach, who carried
out past-life research
from the mid-1960s
until her death in 1985,
conducted a 10-year
survey of past-life
recollection and reincar-
nation. She performedher main study with
26 regression thera-
pists who had worked
with a total of 17,350
patients. Among those,
63 per cent reported an
improvement in physi-
cal symptoms whereas40 per cent reported an
improvement in their
interpersonal relation-
ships. Dr. Wambach had
very specific questions
about the time periods
in which people lived
other lives, the types of
clothes and shoes
they wore, the kinds
of utensils and money
they used, the style
of house they lived in,and so on. She
concluded that the
results were very
accurate, and that fan-
tasy and
genetic memory could
not account for the
patterns that emergedfrom the results. With
the exception of
reports from 11 sub-
jects, all descriptions of
clothing, footwear,
utensils, housing and
so on were consistent
with historical records.
EVIDENCE OF REINCARNATION
Psychotherapist Brian Weiss,
MD, is Chairman Emeritus of
Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai
Medical Center in Miami. One
day he found that one of hispatients started to recall pastlife
traumas in recurring nightmares
and began to give astonishing
details about Weisss family and
his dead son. Although at the
beginning he was very sceptical,
he decided to do some in-depth
research. He has since
Attorney Victor Zammit
has gathered evidence for
the existence of life afterdeath that he thinks is strong
enough to be accepted in
any court of law.
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published several books where he
describes his investigations of past
lives.
In Many Lives, Many Masters(1988), Dr Weiss explains the real-
ity of reincarnation
and the spirit world from the
psychiatric perspective. Ian
Stevenson, MD, who died in 2007,
was one of the most well known
researchers to have provided
strong evidence for the reality ofreincarnation. From 1957, at
the University of Virginia, he head-
ed the Department of
Psychiatry and later the Division
of Perceptual Studies until his
2002 retirement. He did not use
the method of hypnosis to verify
whether a person had a recollec-tion of a previous life; instead, he
studied thousands of cases
in children in the USA, England,
Thailand, Burma, Turkey, Lebanon,
Canada, India and other countries
who had spontaneous memories
about their previous lives.
First, he verified all the informa-tion from a child about their pre-
vious life. Next, he identified the
deceased person whom that child
claimed to be in their previous
life. Later, he verified the facts of
the past life of the
deceased person that coincided
with the memories of the child.
He also compared and verified body
marks and birth defects with wounds
and scars of thedeceased, all of them
confirmed by medical records.A good example of a birthmark case
involved Ravi Shankar. This child
remembered being decapitated in
his previous childhood by a family
member who was hoping for a patri-
mony from the childs father. Ravi
Shankar had a birthmark around his
neck. When Dr Stevenson investigat-ed this case, he was able to confirm
that the child whom Shankar told
him about from his past life had in
fact been decapitated.
Dr Ian Stevenson
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It was Jim Tucker, MD, who took
over Dr Stevensons
research. At the University of
Virginia, Dr Tucker is currently
Medical Director of the Child and
Family Psychiatry Clinic as well as
Associate Professor of
Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral
Sciences.
His book Life Before Life: A
Scientific Investigation of Childrens
Memories of Previous Lives (2005)
summarises the 40 years of inves-
tigation of reincarnation which Dr
Stevenson performed during his
career.
In August 2011, we
conducted an email interview with
Dr Tucker about the
scientific evidence for life after
death. He responded:
As to your questions, the
most important evidence for life
after death, other than neardeath
experiences, includes
controlled mediumship studies,
carefully studied reports of
apparitions, and verified claims
by children of past-life
memories.
The most important
evidence of reincarnation is this
last phenomenon: childrens
reports of past-life memories.
Ian Stevenson spent 40 years
studying such cases, documenting
them as carefully as he could.
Most of his cases came from cul-
tures with a belief in reincarnation.
Ive been focusing on western
cases, and Im finding that
the phenomenon is essentially the
same here as it is in
Asia. At this point, we certainly
dont have as many
really strong cases here as Ian
found in Asia, but we do
have some interesting ones.
THE SCIENCE OF THE AFTERLIFE
Australian lawyer turned full-time
researcher/writer
Victor Zammit has investigated the
afterlife from the judicial point of
view. He thinks that the evidence
he has gathered for the existence
of life after death is strong enough
to be accepted in any court of law
(http://www.victorzammit.com).
In his book A Lawyer Presents the
Case for the Afterlife (2006, 4th
ed.), Zammit showed 23 different
areas that demonstrate the
existence of life after death. He
has put out a challenge
to scientists to provide evidence
that there is no life
after death, promising to pay
$1,000,000 if they do.
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The pioneer-
ing research of Dr
Raymond Moody and
Dr Elisabeth Kbler-
Ross has contributed to
the development of this
discipline. Now there
are numerous studies
being conducted in the
area of spirituality and
life after death, utilis-
ing the latest tech-
nologies and scientific
methods.
Over the years, sig-
nificant research has
been carried out by
such luminaries as Dr
Erlendur Haraldsson of
Iceland University,
past-life therapist Dr
Morris Netherton, psy-
chologist Dr Peter
Ramster,
psychotherapist Andy
Tomlinson, cardiologist
Pim van Lommel, MD,
and many others.
Is the quest progress-
ing towards a final
answer?
Probably never: the
more answers unveiled,
the more questions
revealed. Professor Lisa
Randall is a theoreti-
cal physicist at Harvard
University, a lead-
ing expert on particle
physics and cosmology,
and a member of the
scientific staff at CERN.
She theorises that our
universe exists within a
universe of many high-
er and unseen dimen-
sions, and that the
laws of nature may be
very different in differ-
ent regions of this so-
called multverse. Then,
if this is so, the larger
hidden dimensions inwhich our universe
exists may influence
our own three-dimen-
sional space-time world
and its laws of nature.
But what is conscious-
ness, one of the most
vibrant areas of studyin science today?
According to Professor
Randall (Discover, 29
July 2006):
Neuroscience is excit-
ing. Understanding how
thoughts work, how
connections are made,how the memory
works, how we process
information, how infor-
mation is storedits
all fascinating.
Experimentally, though,
were still rather limited
in what we can do. Idont even know what
consciousness is. Id
like someone to define
consciousness.
Right. So if we want to
know more about the
possibility of the sur-
vival of consciousness
Professor Lisa Randall
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after death, maybe we
need more accurate
studies which consider
consciousness itself.In the meantime,
some scientists are
finding impressive evi-
dence to suggest that
there is life after
death, or at least sur-
vival of consciousness,
although they dont
know yet how it works.
This is the reason why
the key is in the bril-liant confession of
Professor Lisa Randall,
one of the most influ-
ential scientists in the
world: I dont even
know what conscious-
ness is. Id like some-
one to define con-
sciousness.
Yes, sometimes sci-
ence works like that;
for example,astronomers and astro-
physicists can identify
a relationship between
the activity cycles of
the Sun and
the weather on Earth,
so they assume that
this relationship exists
although they dont
know how it works.
Yet, as Professor SamiSolanki, of the Max
Planck Institute for
Solar System Research
in Germany, has
stated (http://tinyurl.
com/77taz9c) :The
correlation between
solar cycles and terres-
trial weather has not
been demonstrated.
Then why do they
study this correlationif it has not been dem-
onstrated that it really
exists? The answer
is simple: it is because
they have observed
evidence which sug-
gests that it may be
that wayWell, it
seems that
we are in a
very similar
situation
with stud-
ies about
the afterlife.Scientists
have
observed evi-
dence which
suggests that
there may be life
after death, but they
dont know what theprocess is or what con-
sciousness is, and they
cant say that life after
death can be real in
case it really is real!
In the meantime, somescientists are finding
impressive evidence to
suggest that there is lifeafter death, or at leastsurvival of consciousness
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In July 1947, an alien craftallegedly crash-landed in Roswell,
New Mexico. If it occurred, it was
not the first of its kind: the region
of New Mexico and Arizona has
a history of alien contacts that
AN ALIEN INTELLIGENCE, BUT NOT
AS WE KNOW IT
BY
PHILIP COPPENS
WEBSITE
WWW.PHILIPCOPPENS.COM
For centuries, the Hopi of Arizona have
been intimately liaising with beings
from the Otherworld. The kachinas still
visit the Hopi Mesas on an annual basis
and their presence continues to set out
the agenda of Hopi society.
THE
KACHINAS:
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goes back hundreds if
not thousands of years.
The beings in ques-
tions are known as
kachinas; they are
not extra-terrestrial as
such, but definitely
otherworldly.
An extensive collec-
tion of 400 kachina
dolls can be seen in
the Heard Museum in
Phoenix; they were
donated by the contro-
versial Republican poli-
tician Barry Goldwater.
Each doll looks differ-
ent and has specific
characteristics; each
represents a different
element or entity that
has entered the Hopi
world at some point in
their history. And when
you look at the Eototo
kachina doll in the
Museum of Northern
Arizona, you find the
creature has much in
common with LEGO fig-
ures.
Then again, just like
LEGO, kachina dolls
were there for children
be educated in the
ways of the Otherworld
and how it interacted
with ours.
Amongst the Native
Americans, the Hopi
have a special place.
Thousands of people
would like to visit their
religious ceremonies,
and thousands of tour-
ists return home from
Arizona with a kachina
doll.
The kachina dolls are
made from kaolin clay,
meant to be hung from
beams or walls in the
home. They are white
in colour and the basic
shape is painted to
show a head, arms,
folded over a kilt,
which is representing
rain.
Tradition argues that
carving the tihu
should be done by
men, but today, women
are involved in their
manufacture, if only for
selling them to tour-
ists. Indeed, in what is
likely to be a rush for
finance, rather than
heritage, tribal councils
even tried to copyright
the word kachina, but
Kachina dancers of the Hopi pueblo ofShongopavi, Arizona, USA
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failed to do so.
Though the kachina
dolls are often identi-
fied with the Hopi dei-
ties, this is highly inac-
curate: one shouldnot confuse the dolls
with the kachina them-
selves. The dolls are
merely props and many
have fallen for the mis-
take, to take the prop
for the god.
One might argue thattheir closest parallel
is the voodoo doll or
the Egyptian ushabti
though one needs to
de-cinematise these
artefacts in order to
appreciate their true
role and function.
Indeed, one of the rea-
sons that many of the
ceremonies of the Hopi
are now closed to out-
siders is because a
Marvel comic had char-acterised the kachina
as violent avengers.
The kachina them-
selves rather than
the dolls are largely
described as spirit
messengers, where-as some believe they
might represent the
spirit of the dead if
there were a differ-
ence. The Hopi state
that at one time in the
past, the kachina dei-
ties visited the Mesas
in person, but that they
now do so in the form
of masked dancers.
Whereas kachina dolls
are sold and hung from
beams or walls, thereal deities are sur-
rounded with far great-
er respect. The Hopi
deities live on the San
Francisco Mountains,
though are present
amongst the Hopi for
part of the year. Assuch, the religious
year is divided into two
parts.
The deities arrive at
the Hopi Mesas in the
form of rain-bearing
clouds and normally
arrive in early February
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for the Powamuya ceremony, or
Bean Dance. The Hopi do indeed
believe that in the past, the deities
literally walked amongst them, butthat today, their presence resides
in those selected to wear a mask;
it is the mask that transforms the
Hopi individual into a possessed
entity, very much like Jim Carrey
in the movie The Mask though
it is clear that, just like with the
voodoo dolls, the evil and negativeconnota-
tions that
have been
introduced
in these
movies are
for enter-
tainmentvalue only.
Three main
ceremonies
are performed
by and for the gods
katsinam during their stay in the
villages: Soyalangwu, a winter sol-stice ceremony held in December;
the already mentioned Powamuya
in February, when the katsinam
are asked to appear; and Niman,
the home-going ceremony, after
the summer solstice. Between
Powamuya and Niman, the Hopi
perform several more dances in
honour of the deities. Early in the
year they are held in underground
ceremonial chambers called kivas,
but as spring arrives, the dancesmove out onto the plazas, where
they last from morning until dusk.
The fraternities in charge of the
summer dances meet in mid-win-
ter for ceremonial smoking and
the planting of prayer plumes. In
late November, w chief kachina,
Soyalkatsina, begins the kachina
season by walking along the trail
into the village like a weary oldman or someone who has had too
much sleep, singing sacred songs
in a low voice. He then opens the
main kiva, signalling that it is time
for the katsinam to come out.
Their emergence re-enacts the
arrival of the Hopi into the present,
Fourth World.
it is the mask that transformsthe Hopi individual into a
possessed entity,very much
like Jim Carrey in the movieThe Mask
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Each December, a runner climbs
to a shrine in the San Francisco
Peaks, where he scatters a meal
and plants plumes that are to bebrought back in July, by anoth-
er runner, for the final festival,
Niman, linked with the harvest.
At the harvest festival, the dei-
ties return to the underworld,
through the San Francisco Peaks.
Interestingly, it is claimed that the
seasons in the Underworld are oneseason behind.
As mentioned, the actual return
of the deities to the Hopi Mesas is
celebrated at Powamu, the Bean-
Planting Ceremony in February.
Each matriarch receives a bundle
of fresh bean sprouts to plant forthe coming year. The festival lasts
eight days and concludes with
dancing, which takes place in the
nine kivas of the mesa. Everyone
wears fresh mud from the sacred
spring and each job of plastering
has been signed with the print of
the slim hand of the girl who didit.
All Hopi babies receive a tihu a
kachina doll at their first Niman
ceremony, while the girls receive
further dolls at each Powamuya
and Niman ceremony, up until or
near marriageable age, although
married women sometimes still
get them from their husbands.
The dolls are created as a teach-
ing tool given to these children and
is presented to them by one of themasked dancers. Boys and girls are
normally properly initiated into soci-
ety between the age of six to ten,
when they are allowed to participate
in the performances and discover
that the masked dancers are their
own relatives very much like find-
ing out who Santa Claus really is though I, of course, never said that.
Hopi Powamu Ceremony,1893
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There is a clear rela-
tionship between the
deities and the kachina
dolls, the latter repre-senting aspects of the
former. Hopi katsinam
can be male or female,
and represent plants,
animals,
insects,
human
qualities,the creative
force of the
sun, and
even death.
Some are
demons
who fright-
en childreninto behav-
ing pro-
perly; most
are clan ancestors
and beneficent beings.
They are messengers
who accept Hopi gifts
and prayers for health,fertility, and rain and
carry them back to
the gods. Their role as
rainmakers is particu-
larly important to the
Hopi. The deities are
present, either in the
statues, or the sacred
masks. Unlike the
dolls, the masks are
sacred objects and the
Hopi have successfullypetitioned to remove
them from museum
displays.
The katsinam is and
can therefore be a
spirit of any kind
very much on par with
the ever growing list
of Catholic saints thatcan be implored. The
masks could be com-
pared to the Christian
holy relics. But just like
Roman Catholic stat-
ues, no sacred power is
invested in the kachina
doll.
Unlike Roman Catholic
statues, the kachina
dolls are not used in
ceremonies, nor arethey preserved in the
kiva. They are simply
dolls, so that children
play with them and
learn how
to inter-
act with
the variousspirits and
otherworld-
ly entities
that are
part of the
tribes daily
life.
There areneverthe-
less sacred
statues
preserved in the kiva,
known as wuya or
tiponi. The wuya is a
clan deity, and a tiponi
is a fetish of stone orwood, representing
the deity. Unlike the
kachina dolls, these are
seldom brought out in
to the open, their use
normally reserved for
ritual use inside the
kiva.
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Indeed, in 1960, the
so-called Vernon man
was discovered. Nine
inches high, carvedfrom sandstone and
painted with vertcal
stripes, this statue was
found in a crypt within
a kiva. Though popu-
larly also labelled a
kachina, the Hopi
identify it as a wuya ortiponi, a clan deity.
The kachina doll cult
is known to have defi-
nitely existed by 1300
AD. Some argue it
came from the Zuni
Pueblo to the West ofthe Hopi Mesas,
others argue that it
came from the Rio
Grande, others that
it came from the
Mimbres cult of the
south, and/or
that it developedin Mexico. In
short: no-one
knows. Details
of the paint-
ings on Awatovi
murals, an ancestral
Hopi site, show
costumed and masked
figures as separated
elements or interacting
in scenes.
But the role and ico-
nography of the dolls
does strongly echo cer-
tain Aztec deities such
as Tlaloc, the god of
rain, and Quetzalcoatl,
the feathered ser-
pent, who was alsothe bringer of rain
and corn. Seeing the
kachina are specifically
linked with the rain
Recent discoveries in
Chaco Canyon have
also suggested that
the kachina cult wasintroduced by cannibal-
istic warrior refugees
from the
south. It is clear that
this archaeological dis-
covery or at least the
conclusion drawn fromit has created contro-
versy within the Native
American community.
Wherever it came
from, representations
of masked beings that
have the character-
istics of the kachinaappear on murals in
kivas that date to as
early as 1350. Situated
at Hopi and Homolovi
on the Hopi Mesas
themselves, it under-
lines the length of time
in which the cult hasbeen present amongst
the Hopi people.
representations
of masked beings that havethe characteristics of the kachinaappear on murals in kivasthat date to as early as
1350 AD
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Though all deities are equal,
some are more popular than oth-
ers, the most famous for outside
is Kokopelli, a fertility deity, usual-
ly depicted as a humpbacked flute
player (often with a huge phallus
and feathers or antenna-like pro-
trusions on his head). Like most
fertility deities, Kokopelli presides
over both childbirth and
agriculture, but he is also a trick-
ster god and represents the spirit
of music.
Interestingly, Kokopelli is one of
the most easily recognized figures
found in the petroglyphs and pic-
tographs of the Southwest, the
earliest known petroglyph depict-
ing him dating to about 1000 AD.
It underlines that there is at
least in the case of some deities
a tradition that has spanned a
millennium.
Just how old the cult truly is,
no-one knows. In the dances, the
Kokopilua kachina dancer sings a
song in a language so ancient that
not a word of it is understood by
the modern Hopi themselves, who
know only that their deities have
accompanied them throughout
their migrations and continue to
visit them annually at the Mesas.
Outsiders want to experience the
Hopi ceremonies, but are unlikely
to truly capture the essence of the
activities.
A Hopi Indian has been raised, from
birth, in a tradition, surrounded by
dolls that represented otherworldly
creatures that are nevertheless part
of their world and daily life. These
entities did not crash-land just oneday somewhere; these entities have
been with them for thousands of
years, and continue to interact with
the Hopi in a manner that only a
Hopi can truly understand.
In Memory ofPhilip Coppens
He was the most clearand broad-minded writer
on ancient mysteries
(1971 2012)
Kokopelli
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