nexus 0701 - new times magazine

DECEMBER 1999 – JANUARY 2000 NEXUS • 1

N E X U SNEW TIMES MAGAZINE

Volume 7, Number 1 DECEMBER 1999 – JANUARY 2000

PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560, Australia

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.............................................4

GLOBAL NEWS.............................................................6

Our round-up includes revelations about foodchain violations in Europe, and recent findingsabout the erratic behaviour of El Niño since 1976.

THE WTO 'MILLENNIUM BUG'—Part 1....................1 1

By Corporate Europe Observatory. Tr a n s n a t i o n a lcorporations, in collusion with economic powerblocs, are using the World Trade Organization togain control over less-industrialised nations.

REFINED SUGAR: THE SWEETEST POISON..............19

By William Dufty. The consumption of refineds u g a r, or sucrose, could be a primary cause ofmany physical and mental ailments due to itsleaching of the body's nutrients.

PSYCHIATRY: SHRINKING FROM THE TRUTH........27

By Rochelle Macredie. Psychiatry and psychology,whether employing shock therapy, psychotropicdrugs or psychotherapy, have had questionablesuccess in curing or treating mental illness, yetthese professions continue to enjoy high status.

HIDDEN ELEMENTS IN MUSIC & SOUND................35

By Chev. Adrian Wa g n e r. The Western musicaltradition was not sourced from the Greeks andRomans but, rather, it evolved from much olderinfluences in ancient Sumer, Babylon and Egypt.

THE JOE FUEL CELL: AN ORGONE TRAP?................41

By Alex Schiffer. Believed to trap Orgone or life-force energy, the so-called "Joe cell" is being usedto power car engines and has the potential torevolutionise energy-generation systems.

N E O - A S T R O L O G Y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 7

By Anthony Craig. Statistical evidence for theharmonic influence of the planets on 'body' and'character' types is allowing astrology to bereassessed in a new scientific light.

NEW SCIENCE NEWS.................................................53

Samuel Costin explains how his Unified Theory ofMatter can be applied to electricity; and Hal Foxdescribes successes with new-energy experimentsand the background to the cold fusion cover-up.

NIGHT OF THE RED SKY............................................57

By Tom Brown, Jr. In the 1920s, an Apache wiseman had a stream of prophetic visions that foretoldthe demise of humanity unless we changed ourways. Two of these visions seem to have come true.

THE TWILIGHT ZONE................................................65

Paola Harris interviews former US Army intelligenceoperative Sgt Clifford Stone about his involvementwith retrievals of crashed UFOs and his knowledgeof the military's interactions with alien races.

R E V I E W S — B o o k s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 9"Experimenter's Guide to the Joe Cell" by Alex Schiffer"The Stargate Conspiracy" by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince"Biopiracy" by Vandana Shiva"The Copper Scroll Decoded" by Robert Feather"Healers and Healing" by Roy Stemman"Liquid Conspiracy" by George Piccard"Breathing Free" by Teresa Hale"Ancient Energies of the Earth" by David Cowan with Anne Silk"The Indigo Children" by Lee Carroll and Jan Tober"Hollow Planets" by Jan Lamprecht"Remote Viewing" by Tim Rifat"Giza: The Truth" by Ian Lawton and Chris Ogilvie-Herald"Cosmic Crashes" by Nicholas Redfern"The Monkey and the Tetrahedron" by David M. Jinks"The Secret Teachings of the Espiritistas" by Harvey Martin

R E V I E W S — P r o d u c t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6"CellSensor" Cellular Phone/EMF Meter from TecHealth Corp.

R E V I E W S — A u d i o t a p e s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6"The Mystical Measurement of the Great Pyramids" by Isar Gregor

R E V I E W S — M u s i c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7"Seventh Heaven" by Ian Cameron Smith"Moonsung" by Sheila Chandra"A Wish" by Hamza El Din"Africa North" by various artists"Stars to Share" by Samite

NEXUS BOOKS, SUBS, ADS & VIDEOS................88–96

NEXUS MAGAZINEVolume 7, Number 1

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EDITORDuncan M. Roads

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EditorialWow—it's almost the year 2000! I confess to deliberating long and hard about putting some

"scare your socks off" prophecy special in this year 2000 crossover edition (notice I didn't say"end of the millennium" edition!). However, the growing number of doomsday scenarios incirculation made me wonder whether NEXUS readers are reaching saturation point withregard to speculation about the future. In the end, I decided to compromise with just one arti-cle on the subject: a very interesting Apache prophecy (thanks, Stephanie!) which basicallysays "Get your act together or perish!". Nothing like shock-tactics to get "movement" happen-ing, I suppose. Besides, I am certainly not alone in considering that humanity could stand toget its collective act more together in terms of how we treat each other and ourselves.

Speaking of which, if you are reading this editorial before 1/1/2000 then you have the goodfortune to be able to contribute to an awesome planetary experiment. Many of you have prob-ably heard already that on the stroke of midnight, as it falls across this wondrous planet, peo-ple in their millions will be lighting candles, saying prayers, meditating, visualising, or doingweird ceremonies—all calling for peace on Earth, an end to greed, an end to intolerance and,above all, focusing on a positive, harmonious future. It's easy: you can do the full candles-and-incense bit at home with a local bunch of like-minded well-wishers, or you can spare athought while celebrating with friends at some New Year's Eve party—just do it. There'snothing to lose, and lots to gain!

As always, we have another issue full of thought-provoking information. The opening itemin Global News reflects what consumer power is capable of. If you don't want geneticallymodified, chemically grown, aspartame-laced food, don't buy it. People-power can create ourfuture, by your choosing where you spend your hard-earned money! That includes, by theway, the money in your superannuation funds, trust funds, bank accounts, etc. Support ethicalinvestment companies, buy clean food, use your power to create a positive, cleaner future.

Now back to this edition. For the first time ever, we've been refused permission to reprintan article. Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) members refused permission for us to reprinttheir article about the World Trade Organization (WTO), on the grounds that NEXUS is a neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, right-wing extremist publication which also publishes articles on UFOs!To say I was shocked is an understatement. The people at CEO have always responded posi-tively in previous correspondence, virtually giving us blanket permission to reprint anything oftheirs (see their article on the MAI in 5/03–5/04, for example), so long as we credited CEO.Just as we were about to go to print, I sent them a courtesy e-mail, informing them of ourdesire to reprint their excellent article on the WTO, only to receive the negative response asabove. I indicated that it was now too late to stop the presses, and that they were horribly mis-taken with their information about NEXUS. So here it is, but without their blessing!

The article on sugar is extracted from the amazing book (now out of print) called SugarBlues. There are not many things these days that blow my mind, but this book did/does! It'sbeen around for years, it is very hard to get, and it will shock you to your core! If you ever seethis book in a second-hand bookstore or the like, buy it immediately!

We have a long-overdue article on the insanity of the psychiatric profession. If you wantproof that we live in the "dark ages", just look at this pitiful industry and the havoc it causes.

For the "mad scientists" out there, we have another article on the Joe Fuel Cell (see NEXUS5/05, 5/06). Believe it or not, there have been further developments and breakthroughs, somuch so that a manual has now been written, detailing exactly how to build one yourself. Bewarned: you will need time, some expertise and patience. Cold-fusion watchers will alsoappreciate the update in New Science News.

The articles on Music and Neo-Astrology seem to complement each other enormously.Both deal with the effects of vibrations and, to a degree, resonance. Resonance is the secret toachieving super-scientific breakthroughs, à la Nikola Tesla.

At this point, I'd like you know just how much all of us here at NEXUS, not only inAustralia, but at our offices in Barbados, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands,New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, the UK and USA, really appreciate your support and the enor-mously positive feedback that we continually receive.

And finally, in the closing editorial for the 1900s, I would like to express how much I wishyou all good health and happiness in all your future endeavours. I would normally say "Godbless you all", but I remembered that we are already blessed by God—it's just that we don'trealise it as much as we probably should.

— Duncan

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Shapeshifting Claims Dear NEXUS: I am reluctant

to interrupt this gathering of theSir Laurence GardnerAppreciation Society, but I'mafraid that, in the interests ofaccuracy, I am compelled to doso, albeit for only a moment.

Ivan Fraser claims in yourLetters to the Editor last issuethat he "edited" my book, T h eBiggest Secret... Mr Fraser wasmerely employed to proofreadThe Biggest Secret for typing andspelling errors...

[I removed several paragraphsof unnecessary personal slanderabout Ivan at this point. Ed.]

He says that his "ownresearch" is in line with that ofSir Laurence Gardner, docu-menter of Star Fire blood-drink-ing rituals and head of the ancientRoyal Court of the Dragon,which is fronted by those whoclaim ancestry from the "dragon""royal" bloodlines—the blood-lines, I would suggest, whichwere seeded by the reptilianAnunnaki.

But, astonishing as this may beto Mr Fraser, the fact that both heand Sir Laurence Gardner say thesame things is no confirmationwhatsoever that their research istrue and accurate.

I note with interest that SirLaurence ridicules the idea thatthose of the "dragon" bloodlines,as he calls them, are actually rep-tilian crossbreeds and sometimesshapeshifters. He notes how suchstories were rife in the ancientworld, but says it is "difficult tocomprehend in these more level-headed times" that "anyonebelieved such nonsense".

Well, unfortunately, SirLaurence, endless numbers ofpeople all over the world are hav-ing the same experience today ofseeing those of the "dragon"bloodlines shapeshift, just likethe ancients did, and what I findhard to comprehend is how youcan be so astonishingly ignorantof this. If, indeed, you really are.

I further find it difficult to per-ceive that the obvious diversionand smokescreen about thesebloodlines coming from "Jesus"can go on being promoted by aman who claims expertise in his-tory and genealogy. Or how any -one who does the most minimal

research into the existence of"Jesus" could believe such clap-trap.

Sir Laurence dismisses the ideaof shapeshifting reptilians asridiculous, despite the endlessancient and modern accounts,while, at the same time, asking usto believe that fictional characterslike Jesus and Mary Magdalene(creations of the Roman Pisofamily) could seed bloodlines.Are we now to believe, SirLaurence, that Jack and Jill ,Snow White and Cinderella alsoseeded bloodlines which shouldtoday be considered worthy ofroyal title? Should someone notlaunch a Royal Court of the Tomand Jerry?

Mr Fraser and others also con-stantly attack Arizona Wilderwithout ever bothering toresearch her background in anyway. Arizona, whose Illuminaticode name was, interestingly,"Star Fire"—after the blood-drinking rituals she conducted ina mind-controlled state—hasmore guts in her smallest digitthan Mr Fraser and Co. will haveif they live to be a thousand.

He, Sir Laurence Gardner,Duncan Roads and NEXUS cango on for as long as they like dis-missing and ridiculing the exis-tence of shapeshifting reptiliansamong the elite "Grail" blood-lines through which they operate,but if they only opened their eyesand minds (won't hold my breath)they would see the fantastic evi-dence to confirm that this bizarrestory is true.

That evidence is hurtlingtowards you like a runawaytruck, and you are all going tohave to eat so much humble pieyou will need life membership ofWeight Watchers.

David Icke, Ryde, Isle ofWight, England, UK

[Dear David: I am still wait -ing to see the "fantastic evi -dence", or hear from any of the"endless numbers of people...see -ing those of the 'dragon' blood -lines shapeshift".

I also note that the only persondoing the "attacking" at yourwebsite discussion areas is your -self. Surely your "research" canstand up to a bit of well-meaningscrutiny, without your resortingto insulting those who seek fur -

ther clarification of your claims.And finally, for the record, I

would like to point out that I haveno problem believing in the exis -tence of shapeshifting reptilianaliens. I DO have a problembelieving that Arizona Wilder(your star witness) saw SirLaurence Gardner and ZechariaSitchin shapeshifting into reptil -ian aliens at some satanic ritualwhere she was the IlluminatiHigh Priestess or whatever.That's all. Ed.]

Planetary Alignment in MayTo the Editor: First, I compli-

ment you on your magazine,which I regret I first heard ofonly two years ago but have beenreading regularly ever since. Iadmire and respect your fearlesscourage in disseminating infor-mation on such a wide variety ofsubjects and topics which are attimes both fascinating and terri-fying.

The two articles by Mr RichardNoone in vol. 6, nos 2 & 3, titled"The Hammer and thePendulum", prompted me toobtain reviews of his book5/5/2000, Ice: The UltimateDisaster. I gather that the majorfactor in the disaster which hepredicts will be the alignment ofthe five planets Mercury, Venus,Mars, Jupiter and Saturn with theSun, Moon and the Earth nextMay. If I understand it correctly,this is based on the assumptionthat this alignment will increasethe gravitational pull on theEarth, significantly increasing thecentrifugal forces exerted on theEarth's crust.

I wrote to my brother inEngland concerning this predic-tion, since he has always had aninterest in such matters. In reply,he pointed out that the gravita-tional forces of attractionbetween the Earth and the fiveplanets will in fact be less thanhalf of one per cent of the normalvariation in the gravitationalattraction between the Sun andEarth, which occurs every sixmonths. In this respect, the effectof the alignment will not there-fore be significant.

Yours sincerely, H. O. Ewart, hoewa@clear.

net.nz

Unethical Tests on AnimalsDear Editor: In NEXUS June-

July 1999, there was an articleentitled "Exposure to pesticideslinked to hyperactivity" (GlobalNews, 6/04, p. 9). Reference wasmade to research on male micewhich, "they say...has directimplications for humans".

Mice are the most commonlyused animals for testing andresearch, not because of theirsimilarity to humans but becausethey are small, cheap and easy tohandle. Results from animal testscannot be extrapolated to humansbecause of species differences.

Vivisection is a counterfeit sci-ence used as an alibi by the phar-maceutical industry and by so-called medical researchers whocannot be bothered or are inca-pable of using the more relevantnon-animal methods which areavailable.

Advances in medicine aremade in spite of animal experi-ments, not because of them; infact, they are a major cause ofhuman and planetary ill-health,since agrichemicals, food addi-tives, household cleaners andpharmaceutical drugs, with theiradverse side-effects, have allbeen tested on animals.

The billions of dollars spentannually in torturing animalswould be better spent on preven-tative medicine, educational pro-grams encouraging people toadopt a healthy lifestyle, and sci-entific research directly relevantto humans.

Yours sincerely,Sheila Edwards, Dubai,

[email protected]

Refined Sugar is a Drug! Dear Editor: Thanks for

NEXUS. I'd like to see you doan article on refined sugar a n dhow it affects the brain and body.Millions of people are depressed,yes, using Prozac, etc., but noone asks why.

Why? Partially because we eattoo much refined sugar. Sugaraffects the pancreas, causing it tobe overstimulated and causingthe islets of Langerhans tosecrete large amounts of insulin.In return, the insulin floods thebloodstream, eating up much ofthe necessary blood sugar. T h ebrain has to have one-third of the

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body's blood sugar or it cannotfunction correctly.

Blood sugar (made by freshfruits, vegies, grains, fish, meat,legumes) is the only fuel for thebrain! People can't think clearly,are depressed, have ADD, poordecision-making abilities, insecu -rities, fatigue, irritability, evensuicidal tendencies, etc., becausetheir blood sugar is imbalancedfrom eating too much r e f i n e ds u g a r. When the brain processbecomes tampered with, thoughtprocesses become fragmented.Then come the body problems.So much to say! Don't we needto let the people know the truthof what sugar is doing to them?

I'm putting on the 2nd AnnualEggshell to Iron, a natural healthexpo on how sugar affects thebrain and body and how to beresponsible for our health natu-rally! It's on February 26, 2000.

Sugar companies don't wantthe public to know what refinedsugar does. Degenerative dis-eases have skyrocketed. Sugarconsumption by the averageAmerican has risen from l e s sthan one pound of sugar a year100 years ago, to o v e r 1 5 5pounds per year! Get the clue?It is a drug!

It is the most abused drug inAmerica! Now becoming abusedthroughout the world! Pleaselook into this. Thank you.

Most sincerely,Adele Sugarholic (Once

depressed; now off sugar for fouryears; no more depression!Thank God for some willpower!),[email protected]

[Well done, Adele, and goodtiming on your letter: note thearticle this issue. Ed.]

Fraudulent 'HIV' TestingDear Editor: Dr Val Turner

("The Yin and Yang of HIV",Part 3, NEXUS 6/06) is correct inhis arguments that there is no sci-entific evidence that 'HIV' exists.It logically follows that all 'HIV'testing procedures must be withhalted.

I recently initiated the Groupfor Scientific Analysis ofFraudulent HIV Testing, toempower people to makeinformed choices concerning thefraudulent science behind so-called 'HIV antibody' testing. All

putative 'HIV' testing procedures(PCR/viral load/genetic) are non-specific, non-standardised andnon-reproducible; different testkits give different results; anddifferent countries have differentcriteria as to what constitutes an'HIV'-positive result.

There are 60 conditions whichare known to produce an 'HIV'-positive result, including hepati-tis, flu and autoimmune diseases.The 'HIV' tests do not, and can-not, test for 'HIV' because such ahypothetical retrovirus has neverbeen isolated.

Prof. Gordon Stewart et al.wrote in The Lancet (21 August1999): "...why has HIV neverbeen isolated by electronmicroscopy or gradient ultracen-trifugation from co-culture cellu-lar material from any Africanpatient?" Or anybody else world-wide? The fact is that 'HIV' par-ticles have never been seen, iso-lated or recovered from uncul-tured blood or plasma.

Prof. Gordon Stewart alsoargued in Current MedicalResearch and Opinion(13[10]:627-634, 1997): "At pre-sent there is no scientific basisfor using these tests to prove HIVinfection."

At the Geneva World AIDSConference 1998, Day OneSession, "HIV Testing: OpenQuestions on Specificity", it wasstated: "The meaning of current-ly used HIV tests is unknown andurgent reappraisal is required."

To date, Robert Gallo, Prof.Luc Montagnier, Dr Jay Levy,Prof. Richard Tedder, and Prof.Robin Weiss have not proventhat 'HIV' exists as anisolated/purified retrovirus. It istherefore unethical, misleadingand irresponsible to promoteovertly fraudulent 'HIV' testing.

Anyone requiring further infor-mation can contact our group atthe following address.

Yours faithfully,Alex Russell, Assistant Editor,

Continuum Magazine; The Groupfor Scientific Analysis ofFraudulent HIV Testing, 4AHollybush Place, Bethnal Green,E2 9QX, UK, tel +44 (0)1716133909, fax +44 (0)1716133312, e-mail [email protected]

Water-Fuelled Car FeedbackDear Duncan: Firstly, thank

you for a great magazine. I havebeen an keen reader for someyears now, and enjoy every issue.I am particularly interested inarticles on alternative energysources—which brings me to thesubject matter.

In the Oct-Nov 1996 issue(3/06) you published an article bya Carl Cella about a water-fuelledcar engine, including drawings. Ihave seen no further mention of itby your magazine or in Letters tothe Editor. Do you know if anyreaders built one and did it work?Is there an updated infopack?And what about the "Joe phe-nomenon"?

Some feedback by readers whomay have built these deviceswould, I'm sure, be of great inter-est to many of your followersworldwide. Thanks again for agreat magazine; shame there areonly six per year!

Syd Appleby, [email protected][Dear Syd: We've had no fur -

ther info on or about Carl Cella.As for the Joe fuel cell, see thearticle this issue. Ed.]

Reading for SanityDear NEXUS: Please let me

introduce myself. My name'sJerry W. Hamilton; I'm 48 yearsold, and presently incarcerated bythe Texas Department ofCorrections (TDC). And, no, I'mnot some serial killer or rapist.

I'm a casualty of the so-called"drugs war" being waged here inAmerica. Refusing a 25-yearplea agreement offered by theDistrict Attorney, I opted for ajury trial. I was subsequentlyconvicted of possession of a con-trolled substance; to wit, a gramof cocaine. The same jury sen-tenced me to 60 years in prison.That was back in 1985. I havebeen locked up ever since. Imention this only in the hope thatyou'll understand my situation.

TDC is one of the few prisonsystems that does not pay theirprisoners even a token wage forworking. Since I've been lockedup, my parents have passedaway, thus leaving me with no-one on the outside to help me outfinancially. At this writing, I amconfined to isolative lockdown, a6'x9' cell, for refusing to work as

a slave in the fields. I assure you,contrary to bogus news reports,Texas prisoners are not coddled.On the contrary, the treatment Iam subjected to would have ani-mal rights activists screamingbloody murder if I were in fact ananimal and not a human being.

I remain locked in my small,austere cell 161 hours each week,year in and year out. I amallowed out of my cell for onehour each day to walk around ina small, cage-like enclosure andto shower. I have no cell partner,no radio, no TV, no family, nocontact with the outside world.

My only escapism from thismind-numbing boredom isthrough reading. However,books and magazines are veryscarce in prison, especially infor-mative and enlightening ones.The ones that are available areread over and over again untilthey simply disintegrate fromconstant handling.

TDC allows us to receivebooks and magazines in throughthe mail. This leads to why I amwriting to you personally. Pleaseknow that a complimentary sub-scription to your magazine, orperhaps some back issues orwhatever, would not only lightenmy burden but countless others'as well.

Prisoners who are unfortunateenough to be housed in isolativelockdown can only check out onelibrary book per month. We can-not check out magazines ornewspapers from the prisonlibrary, even though we areallowed to receive magazines andnewspapers through the mail.Since I am indigent, my povertyprecludes me from being able topay you for a subscription.

For at least in the ensuinghours I spend reading, I am liftedabove and beyond my inner pain,weariness and chronic loneliness.

I thank you in advance for yourtime and consideration on thisrequest.

Jerry W. Hamilton #479571,Hughes Unit, Rt Box 4400,Gatesville, TX 76597, USA

[Dear Jerry: You're now onour subscriptions list! We sendNEXUS for free, upon request, tomany prisoners around the worldand will continue doing so for aslong as we can. Ed.]

... more Letters to the EditorNB: Please keep letters toapprox. 100-150 words in

length. Ed.


UK GROCERY CHAIN BANSASPARTAME SWEETENER

The UK grocery chain, Iceland,has announced that it is banning

aspartame, the artificial sweetenerbetter known as NutraSweet, fromits own-label foods.

The move follows growing con-cerns among consumers about apossible link between the sweetenerand brain tumours. These concerns,spread on the Internet, are hotly dis-puted by NutraSweet's owner, theGM food giant Monsanto.

Aspartame is consumed by 250million people worldwide and hasbeen used in low-calorie food anddrinks such as Diet Coke for 20years. In the US alone, 20 billioncans of soft drink—most containingNutraSweet—are consumed eachyear.

Iceland was the first "green" grocer toban GM foods from its lines. Its uniquestand against aspartame is being closelywatched by its larger supermarket rivals. (Source: The Sunday Times, London, 25October 1999, www.sunday-times.co.uk)

TSUNAMI BOMB SECRET IS OUT

Top-secret wartime experiments wereconducted off the New Zealand coast

to perfect a tidal-wave bomb, believed tobe potentially as effective as the atomicbomb.

Thomas Leech, an Australian professorat Auckland University, set off a series of

underwater explosions that triggered minitidal waves at Whangaparaoa, just north ofAuckland, in 1944 and 1945, the N e wZealand Herald reported on 25 September.

Professor Leech's work was consideredso significant that US defence chiefs saidthat if the project had been completedbefore the end of the war, it could haveplayed a role as effective as that of theatomic bomb. Details of the tsunamibomb, known as Project S e a l, are con-tained in 53-year-old top-secret documentsreleased by the New Zealand Ministry ofForeign Affairs and Trade. (Source: Sunday Times, Perth, WesternAustralia, 26 September 1999, p. 32).

WILDLIFE LAW OFFICERSCRACK DOWN ON

HUNTERS

In March 1999, 40 officers, divid-ed into 10 four-man teams,

swooped in with helicopters in apre-dawn raid to seize six suspectsin Dorchester County, MD, USA.

The principal suspect, RobertGootee, was hauled from his bedand led away in chains. His wifewas not allowed to call anyone, andher neighbours were not allowed tocome in to comfort her for four-and-a-half hours.

Apparently the armed raid waspreceded by a four-year investiga-tion. But what kind of offencecould have precipitated such drasticaction?

Gootee was charged with: pos-session of an undersized striped bass;striped bass out of season; untaggedstriped bass; possession of summer floun-der out of season; failure to tag and checkdeer within 24 hours; and possession of aloaded weapon in a vehicle. The agentsinvolved were from the state and US Fishand Wildlife Service. And the target forthe raid was the Golden Hills Hunt Club.

Gootee, the club treasurer, was hauledaway with such "evidence" as deer andduck mounts and a framed photograph ofhis retriever bringing in a duck.Eventually, 24 other club members werecharged with related offences, includingfailure to wear sufficient fluorescentorange clothing while hunting.

Are US forests being turned into policestates? A report in the September 1999issue of the usually low-key Field &Stream Magazine would suggest as much:

"Looking for firepower, firefights andother fun stuff? Forget the SEALs; Fishand Game is the place to be.

"Wardens may be watching too manycop shows. How else can one explain whyincreasing numbers of them seem to rejecttheir workday reality and the routine ofdealing with essentially law-abiding peo-ple in favor of a world in which the every-day sportsman is an ex-army commandoready for a shoot-out or a high-speed carchase?

"Recruits to wildlife law enforcementnow spend more time learning how tobreak down the doors of alleged poachersthan how to differentiate the variousspecies of sunfish. The April 1999 issue


... GL BAL NEWS ...of Wildlife in North Carolina describes theboot camp that would-be officers gothrough in that state: 'Relentless physicalexercise, material training and plenty ofbarracks inspections are the norm for thefirst two weeks of wildlife recruitschool...this includes 40 hours of firearmstraining as well as many hours masteringdefensive tactics to disarm suspects.'"

The piece goes on to explain that therationale used by many agencies for suchofficial militancy is a claim that game war-dens are "seven times more likely to bekilled during an assault on the job than anyother type of law officer".

The trouble with that statistic is thatthere is no basis for it in fact. Accordingto the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in1997 sixty-five law enforcement officersof all kinds nationwide were killed in theline of duty. Not one was a warden. (Source: By Joseph Farah, 10 September1999, WorldNetDaily.com)

EUROPEAN SECURITY GROUPTO GUARD THE PENTAGON

Europe's largest privately owned securi-ty company, Group 4 Securitas BV,

has won a multimillion-dollar contractwith the US Department of Defense (DoD)to provide computer-based security andaccess to the Pentagon.

Group 4 Securitas, which describes itselfas "world leader in access control", willprovide more than 1,000 remote monitorunits (RMUs) to scan more than 50,000smart cards—carried by over 23,000 civil-ian and military employees in one of thelargest office buildings in the world, with40 kilometres of corridor and 3,700,000square feet of office space—using itsexclusive multinode system, compatiblewith all card types, to provide high-securi-ty card access.

The RMUs can operate independently ofthe central data control server if communi-cation is lost, retaining the capability torecognise invalid passes.

Group 4 is registered in the tax-freehaven of Willemstad, the capital ofCuraçao in the Dutch Antilles, and current-ly operates in more than 40 countries, withan estimated workforce of 80,000 and anannual turnover in excess of US$1,200million.

Group 4 provides manned and electronicsecurity for Irish Government buildings,including the Department of Justice. In theUK, the company is responsible for prison

management and court escort duties for theHome Office.

On the "down" side, one of the compa-ny's high-profile blunders occurred in 1990when the IRA penetrated Group 4 securityat the Royal Overseas League in centralLondon and taped a Semtex device in aplastic lunch box beneath the lid of thespeaker's lectern, timed to explode duringan international conference on terrorism.The conference was organised by theInstitute for the Study of Conflict andTerrorism (ISCT) and was attended by del-egates from the FBI, the CIA as well asrepresentatives of the British intelligence,police and military establishment.(Source: Intelligence, no. 105, 18 October1999, p. 3)

OCTOPUS CONSPIRACY CLAIMS ANOTHER LIFE?

The co-author of the book, The Octopus(about a writer who died mysteriously

investigating an international conspiracy),has died under mysterious circumstances.Jim Keith, who co-wrote The Octopus withKenn Thomas, based on the notes of writerDanny Casolaro, died at Washoe MedicalHospital after going in for knee surgery.

Rumours suggest that Keith was killedafter revealing the name of the physicianwho claimed Princess Diana was pregnantat the time of her death.

"I have long noted the connectionsbetween the Octopus story and the death ofDiana," says Keith's co-author, KennThomas.

The web news service where Jim Keithnamed the source has become inaccessiblesince his death.

Danny Casolaro died in August 1991 inMartinsburg, West Virginia, of what wassaid to be suicide. He was investigatingthe theft of a super-surveillance softwarecalled PROMIS, involving JusticeDepartment officials and a shadowy inter-national group he called "the Octopus".

Two congressional investigations intothe PROMIS case (also known as theInslaw case, after the name of the companythat created PROMIS) recommended thatCasolaro's death be investigated as a homi-cide. Keith and Thomas obtained the notesthat Casolaro left behind and made themthe basis of their book, The Octopus , pub-lished by Feral House in 1997.

Jim Keith fel l from a stage at theBurning Man arts event in Black Rock,Nevada, north of Reno, his home town,and broke his knee.

He went to the Washoe MedicalHospital there, and died during surgery onSeptember 7 at 8.10 pm when a blood clotentered one of his lungs.

In addition to co-authoring The Octopus,Keith wrote many other popular books onconspiracy topics, including M i n dControl/World Control, Black Helicoptersover America, Casebook on Alternative 3and OKC Bomb.

A tribute page to Jim Keith can be foundat www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/urls.htm.(Source: Kenn Thomas, Editor, Steam-shovel Press, USA, 14 September 1999)


... GL BAL NEWS ...DR HULDA CLARK'S COSTLY

LEGAL BATTLE

What happened to Dr Royal RaymondRife, Dr Stanislaw Burzynski and

other pioneers in medicine has finally hap-pened to medical research scientist HuldaClark, PhD, ND.

As many NEXUS readers will know, DrHulda Clark has helped thousands of peo-ple around the world cure themselves ofmany ailments and diseases. Her approachis to remove exposure to solvents and toremove parasites from the body.

On 20 September, Dr Hulda Clark wasarrested in San Diego. She was subse-quently held in a prison in Santee, waitingextradition to Indiana where she is chargedwith practising medicine without alicence—a class C felony with a penalty oftwo to eight years in prison.

The patients in her clinic in Mexico—most of them terminally ill, but getting bet-ter under Dr Clark's supervision—had to besent home to try to do the protocols on theirown.

Dr Clark was escorted from prison on 4October and arrived in Indiana on 6October at 2.30 am. A hearing was held at9.00 am and bail was set at US$10,000. DrClark was offered a plea bargain with a fineif she pleaded guilty, but she pleaded n o tguilty. The trial will be held on 2 February2000. (Source: Dr Clark Research Association,8135 Engineer Road #2748, San Diego, CA92111, USA, tel 1800 220 3741 [toll-free inUS], fax +1 [858] 565 0058, websitewww.freedrclark.com/)

McCABE CLOSER TO FREEDOM

After 547 days in prison, Ed McCabewas released and transferred to a

halfway house in Miami, Florida, on 6October 1999.

Ed McCabe is the man who publicisedoxygen therapies in North America and inmany countries around the world throughpublic talks and his book, O2x y g e nTherapies: A New Way of ApproachingDisease. In the spring of 1997, the UnitedStates Department of Justice and theInternal Revenue Service launched aninquiry into Ed, putting his life under amagnifying glass. He was arrested on 7April 1998.

Please send correspondence to: EdMcCabe, c/o 9845 NE 2nd Ave, MiamiShores, FL 33138-2350, USA. (Source: Oxygen Therapies website,www.oxytherapy.com)

CALL FOR REGISTER OF ALLCLINICAL TRIALS

Failure to report the results of ran-domised trials constitutes scientific and

ethical misconduct, according to Dr IainChalmers, director of the UK CochraneCentre. Dr Chalmers and the editors of theBritish Medical Journal and the L a n c e thave called for an international register ofall clinical trials to be established.

Dr Chalmers said that "prospective regis-tration and public access to the results ofall randomised trials should be required byorganisations responsible for protecting thepublic". These organisations shouldinclude drug licensing authorities and

research ethics committees. Trials shouldbe registered, he argued, to inform patients,clinicians and other decision-makers abouttrials in which they could participate, toprevent costly research duplication and topromote multicentre trial collaboration.

"A substantial problem remains," he said,"because studies with disappointing or neg-ative results are less likely to be submittedfor publication."

Dr Chalmers presented several examplesof such biased underreporting of research.

A randomised trial of the class-I anti-arrhythmia drug lorcainide with acutemyocardial infarction, carried out in 1980,remained unreported for 13 years. Theincreased death rate in the lorcainide groupwas thought to be a chance finding, and theuse of class-I antiarrhythmic drugs general-ly increased.

"At the peak of their use in the late1980s," said Dr Chalmers, "it was estimat-ed that class-I antiarrhythmic drugs givento people with heart attacks were causingbetween 20,000 and 70,000 prematuredeaths every year in the United Statesalone. This yearly total of deaths is of thesame magnitude as the total number ofAmericans who died in the Vietnam War."

Dr Chalmers welcomed the launch of anonline register of randomised, controlledtrials (www.controlled-trials.com) butwarned that the comprehensive registrationof planned, ongoing and unpublished con-trolled trials is unlikely to happen "unlessthere is legal clout". (Source: British Medical Journal 319:939,9 October 1999, www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7215/939/a)

FOOD CHAIN FILTH

1For at least six months in the cattle feedfactory at the Caillaud plant in northern

France, excrement from staff toilets wasplumbed into the production line. BetweenAugust 1998 and March 1999, 15 to 20tonnes of human and other sewage sludgewas mixed each week into feed for chick-ens, pigs and sheep.

Workers revealed last week that bloodfrom carcasses was also swept into thestinking swill. "Every time they clean thefilters, the smell is so bad that it makes youwant to vomit," said Bernard Guillard, a52-year-old worker at the factory in Javené,Brittany.(Source: The Sunday Times, London, 31October 1999, www.sunday-times.co.uk)


... GL BAL NEWS ...

2While many were shocked about revela-tions that human sewage had been

added to French cattle feed, residents fromthe village of Saxthorpe, north Norfolk,England, who live close to Great Farm,know that for years British cattle have beeneating silage that has been cultivated onland laden with sewage.

Great Farm has three lagoons which arelined with black polythene and can eachhold about a million gallons of sewagesludge. "It's like a dark porridge with athick, grey crust covering it," said AubreyPoberefsky, 62, who lives in Saxthorpe."It's full of bacteria and chemicals, but theyhave been putting thousands of gallons of itonto the fields."(Source: Sunday Times, 31 October 1999)

3The Belgian Government has alsoadmitted that human and animal waste

was being mixed into animal feed untilearly 1999. The country's farm ministerwas responding to a television report whichsaid sludge from slaughterhouses and toi-lets had ended up in Belgium's food chain.

The VTR television network also report-ed that waste from slaughterhouses, toiletsand showers was mixed in with animalfeed in Belgium.(Source: Sightings website, 22 September1999, www.sightings.com)

NATURAL LIGHT IMPROVES STUDENT TEST SCORES

Astudy of three American school dis-tricts suggests that one good way to

raise test scores is to let the sunshine in.The study, done by a California energy-consulting firm, may be the best evidenceyet to support the commonsense notion thatnatural light helps people work better.

Investigators with the Heschong MahoneGroup rated the districts' elementaryschools on the amount and distribution oflight in their classrooms. They then took astandardised test result, and after control-ling for other factors that affect test perfor-mance (e.g., family income) they foundthat students exposed to the most daylightalso had significantly higher test scores.

In Seattle, students in light-filled schoolsscored 9 to 13 per cent higher on maths andreading tests than those with the least light.

In a related study, Heschong Mahonelooked at 108 stores in an unnamed retailchain and found that those with skylightshad 40 per cent higher sales on average. (Source: www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/nat/newsnat-14oct1999-26.htm)

WEATHER WARNING

Apiece of fossilised coral, dated at125,000 years old, looks as if it could

transform our understanding of El Niño—thePacific Ocean phenomenon that is the cru-cible of much of the world's climate.

Dan Schrag, who is based at HarvardUniversity's Department of Earth andPlanetary Sciences, discovered the coral whileholidaying in Indonesia recently.

Until recently, climatologists looked on ElNiño as an aberration in the tropical Pacific,of only passing interest to the outside world.But in the past two decades, it has become the"fifth horseman of the Apocalypse", a bringerof devastating floods, fires and famine fromEthiopia to Indonesia to Ecuador and a senderof weird weather around the world.

It has been appearing more frequently, witheffects that last longer than ever. Its activityis unparalleled in the historical record. Andyet nobody could be sure if this is a perfectlynormal blip, or an alarming consequence ofhuman-induced climate change.

For climatologists, EI Niño is the flywheelof the world's climate, a redistributor of heatand energy that kicks in when the regular cir-culation systems cannot cope. In normaltimes, the winds and waters flow across thetropical Pacific from the Americas in the eastto Indonesia in the west, driven by the Earth'srotation. In the tropical heat, the water warmsas it goes. The result is the gradual accumula-tion of a pool of warm water aroundIndonesia that can be 40 centimetres higherand several degrees warmer than water on theother side of the ocean. This cannot last and,typically every three to seven years, thiswarm water breaks out and flows back acrossthe surface of the ocean. As the pattern ofocean currents shifts, so do the wind and airpressure systems associated with it—and withthem, the weather. So the wet rainforest cli-mate of Indonesia drenches the normally aridPacific islands and often reaches the coastaldeserts of the Americas. Meanwhile,Indonesia and much of Australia dry out.

But scientists have been uncertain abouthow far back El Niño goes. Reliable climateand ocean records cover only a century or so;delving further requires an alternative sourceof information.

Schrag's chunk of coral pushes back thedate of the first recorded El Niño by morethan 100,000 years, to before the last ice age.In a paper due for publication shortly inGeophysical Research Letters, Schrag and hiscolleague Konrad Hughen will reveal theiranalysis of the isotopic signature of the annualgrowth layers inside the Sulawesi coral, anduse it to plot the pattern of the ancient ElNiños. According to Schrag, the pattern of ElNiño events revealed in his 125,000-year-oldcoral looks exactly like the modern period

before 1976, but nothing like the post-1976period. He has examined in detail the "returnperiod" for El Niños, both in the ancient coraland modern meteorological and coral records,and found that, in the modern record, prior to1976 the dominant return period for El Niñowas around six years. That was also the casein the 65-year time-slice in his ancient coral.But the post-1976 record shows a peak returnperiod at 3.5 years. The implication is thatthe cycling of El Niño was highly stable overhundreds of thousands of years, but haschanged fundamentally in the past quarter-century.

The crucial question is what lies behind thischange. Has El Niño been disturbed by someexternal factor, such as global warming, or isit simply on a short-lived, exuberant joyride?

One way to check, says Schrag, is to lookfor signs of recent warming in the ocean.Together with Tom Guilderson fromLawrence Livermore National Laboratory inCalifornia, he has recently pointed out that theunique signature of the post-1976 El Niños isdown to a very specific warming of surfacewaters in the eastern Pacific during the coldseason. This area of ocean is a constant bat-tleground between warm waters at the surfaceand cold waters that well up from the deep.Most of the time the upwelling is dominant.But during El Niños, when warm waters washacross the Pacific from the west, theupwelling is shut off. What seems to havehappened is that this shutoff has become nearpermanent.

Since 1976, water at the surface in the east-ern Pacific has been richer in carbon-14,showing that deep water is not welling up asmuch as before. Upwelling normally keepsthe eastern Pacific cool, maintains the normaltrade winds and so suppresses the outbreak ofEl Niños. Reduce the upwelling and the sys-tem is permanently primed for an EI Niño.Schrag concludes that the post-1976 changein the thermocline may be responsible for theincrease in the frequency and intensity of ElNiño events since then.

Does any of this matter beyond the PacificOcean? As climatologists discover more andmore about the workings of the oceans andatmosphere, they realise how central El Niñois to the functioning of the entire climatesystem.

The Indian Ocean shows its own post-1976shift. Analysis of weather statistics from theremote Chagos Archipelago, by CharlesSheppard of the University of Warwick,found that around the mid-1970s average airtemperatures abruptly rose by a degree, whilecloud cover shrank by 50 per cent.

Is the shift in El Niño the long-sought"smoking gun" that will convict greenhousegases of causing climatic mayhem? (Source: From an article by Fred Pearce,New Scientist, London, 9 October 1999)


TRANSNATIONAL CONTROL OVER GLOBAL TRADE POLITICS

The World Trade Organization (WTO), in the first four years of its existence, hasbuilt up a dark environmental and social record. Large transnational corporations(TNCs) have been the satisfied beneficiaries of its treaties, while communitiesand small farmers around the world have suffered from WTO-promoted 'free

trade'. This outcome is hardly surprising, as corporate lobby groups have been closelyinvolved in the shaping of many of the WTO agreements.

The WTO's model of economic development is increasingly identified as being incom-patible with ecological sustainability. In its rulings in trade disputes on bananas, beef hor-mones and numerous other products, the WTO has put trade above all else, overrulingenvironmental, social, consumer and health considerations.

Despite the increasing backlash against the WTO and its treaties, the EuropeanCommission (EC) hopes to expand further the scope of the body's mandate, as well as itspower, through the proposed WTO Millennium Round (which would start in November atthe WTO Ministerial Conference in Seattle, USA). Armed with its newly adoptedrhetoric to win over NGOs, the European Union (EU) continues to fashion its internation-al trade policies around the economic interests of European-based corporations. In itscampaign for the Millennium Round, the Commission has been freshening up its connec-tions with European industry and encouraging corporate networks to provide inputtowards EU negotiating positions. This symbiotic relationship, which was solidified dur-ing negotiations on the WTO Financial Services Agreement in 1997, has now been com-plemented with a far vaguer parallel process of 'dialogues' with civil society.

THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION'S POWERSGovernments should interfere in the conduct of trade as little as possible. 1

— Peter Sutherland, former Director General, GATT

With the conclusion of the Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations on 15 December1993, crucial decision-making powers with the potential to impact billions of people werebestowed upon the World Trade Organization. Today, with a membership of over 130countries, the body's mandate is greatly expanded from that of its predecessor, the GeneralAgreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Moving beyond its historic role of setting tar-iffs and quotas, the WTO now deals with non-tariff barriers to trade (such as health andenvironmental standards) as well as every imaginable regulation that might somehow 'dis-tort' or 'obstruct' the free flow of goods and services.

Despite its outwardly democratic appearance due to its policies of equal participation byall member states in consensus-based decision-making, the WTO is extremely undemoc-ratic and opaque. Although developing countries represent the majority of the world'snations and peoples, they have very little say in the negotiation process. Lack of financialand human resources, discussions between the most powerful countries behind closeddoors and, most importantly, very strong pressure from the US and the EU often forcedeveloping-country governments into accepting deals very much against their interests.

Despite a generous layer of 'feel good' pro-globalisation rhetoric, the goals of the EU'sinternational trade and investment policies remain brutally inflexible. Its policies arepropelled by a hunger for unfettered market access for European-based TNCs and thedismantling of local regulations in order to create a so-called global 'level playing field'.A similar logic governs the policies adopted by other major global powers, and the

Transnationalcorporations are

using global powerblocs and the

WTO's disputesystem in their

attempts to controlthe resources and

economies ofdevelopingcountries.

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predominant political blocs have joined forces within the WorldTrade Organization to dismantle barriers to trade and investmentin the less industrialised nations. The EU and the US preparetheir common positions bilaterally within the TransatlanticEconomic Partnership (TEP) and within the so-called "Quad",comprising the US, the EU, Japan and Canada.

As Josh Karliner observes in The Corporate Planet: "To alarge degree, the triad of Japan, EU and US can be seen as threelarge corporate states, at times cooperating, at times competingwith one another to promote the interests of their rival transna-tionals across the globe."2

As the millennium draws to a close, a number of high-profiletrade disputes between the EU and the US have placed the WTO'sunique implementation powers in the spotlight. The WTO'ssharpest teeth are its dispute settlement body and its cross-retalia-tion provisions, both of which enable it to force nations to complywith WTO rules. The increasing number of controversial rulingsin which the WTO dispute settlement body has upheld corporateinterests over those of people and the envi-ronment has severely tarnished the WTO'simage.

Within the WTO system, any memberstate can complain to the dispute settlementbody about any other member's policies orlaws that are perceived to restrict the freeflow of trade. If the panel—composed ofunelected bureaucrats—finds a governmentguilty of non-compliance with WTO agree-ments, the offending country must changeits legislation or face retaliatory trade sanc-tions by the complaining party, even in sec-tors unrelated to the dispute. The offendingcountry may also face heavy financialpenalties.

During the first four years of theWTO's existence, the dispute settle-ment mechanism has been invokedpredominantly for disputes betweenthe EU and the US. Its first decisionsprovide a disturbing picture of whatcan be expected in the future. Duringthis first four-year period, there were177 cases in which a country chal-lenged a law or practice of anothercountry by invoking WTO rules. Themajority of these cases could havebeen settled without interference bythe WTO's dispute settlement body. Eighteen of the 177 disputeswere settled by a binding panel decision, and another 18 are cur-rently being examined by the WTO panels.3

The following two case studies are examples of how the busi-ness groupings use the WTO system to pursue their interests atthe expense of people and the environment.

• US Industry's Beef with European Consumers In early May 1997, a three-person WTO dispute settlement

panel ruled that a nine-year ban imposed by the European Unionon hormone-treated beef was illegal under WTO rules. The rul-ing, which overturned an important consumer health law, causedoutrage throughout Europe.

Over the past decade, Monsanto, the US-based TNC whichformerly produced chemicals, has restyled itself into a 'life science'corporation, leaning heavily on the manipulation of genetic

material. One of its products is a recombinant bovine growthhormone (rBGH), used by large-scale dairy farmers in the US toincrease the milk production of their cows. Other 'natural'hormones such as oestradiol and testosterone are also commonlyused by US cattle farmers. In 1995, 90 per cent of US cattle weretreated with some type of growth hormone.

In January 1989, the European Union, applying the 'precaution-ary principle', deemed safety claims by US industry unconvincingand imposed a ban on the import of hormone-treated beef andmilk. The ban also applied to producers within the EU. Inresponse to strong lobbying by Monsanto, the US NationalCattlemen's Association, the US Dairy Export Council, theNational Milk Producers Federation and other interest groups, thethen US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor initiated action inthe WTO against the EU ban on beef hormones.4

On the EU side, industry groups such as FEDESA (the primarylobby organisation for the European animal 'health' productsindustry) and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry

Associations (EFPIA)—both members ofEuropaBio, the primary biotech lobby groupin the EU—pressured the Commission to liftthe ban, which was affecting European com-panies as well. In chorus with their US coun-terparts, they argued that there is alwayssome risk with food involving genetic modi-fication or hormone treatment.

Pressure from consumer protection organi-sations and other NGOs made theCommission realise that the lifting of its banon hormone-treated beef and milk was apolitical hot potato. Supported by a growingbody of evidence suggesting that certain nat-

ural and synthetic hormones are linkedto rising incidences of cancer, theCommission decided not to lift its ban,despite the WTO ruling.

The preliminary decision in the dis-pute over hormone beef is the first rul-ing, thus far, based on a three-year-oldWTO agreement known as the Sanitaryand Phytosanitary Agreement. Thisagreement requires that restrictionsbased on food health and safety bebased on scientific evidence, andaccepts internationally agreed stan-dards, such as those decided within theUN system, as a justification for taking

protective trade measures. Since the UN Food and AgricultureOrganization (FAO) deemed the hormones to be safe, the WTOpanel ruled that the EU's ban was unjustified and should be lifted.

This ruling sets a dangerous precedent for national consumerhealth and safety protection laws. Many experts believe that vari-ous EU measures, such as those regulating other animal products,may now also be challenged by the US and other nations.5 Theprocess of whittling away consumer protection laws and regula-tions in Europe and elsewhere for the sake of industry will thuscontinue unabated unless steps are taken to reverse this trend.

• Massachusetts-Burma Law: Human Rights Overruled In the United States, individual states and communities have

long expressed their political leanings through the enactment of'selective purchasing' laws. These laws pressure transnationalcorporations to cease doing business with repressive regimes by

In early May 1997, athree-person WTO

dispute settlement panelruled that a nine-year banimposed by the European

Union on hormone-treated beef was illegal

under WTO rules.

The ruling, whichoverturned an important

consumer health law,caused outrage

throughout Europe.


imposing 'pricing penalties' on their goods and services. Since1996, for example, Massachusetts has imposed a 10 per centpenalty on goods and services provided by companies with finan-cial interests in Myanmar. Formerly known as Burma, Myanmaris renowned for the brutal human rights abuses imposed upon citi-zens by its illegitimate military government. To date, Siemens,Unilever and several Japanese companies are among those thathave been penalised by the Massachusetts legislation, and the lawwas cited as one of the main reasons for Apple Computer's with-drawal from Myanmar.6

The Massachusetts-Burma law has come under attack both onthe US domestic front and internationally, particularly in the EUand Japan. The National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC), a coali-tion of some 600 US-based manufacturers and financial institu-tions, has taken the state of Massachusetts to court over the law.7

Oil companies such as Texaco and Mobil have expressed theirconcern about the impact of such laws on their activities inMyanmar and other dictatorial regimes.

Seeking to distance itself from charges that the NFTC placeseconomic interests above humanrights in Myanmar, a front groupcalled USA Engage was set up withthe assistance of Anne L. Wexler, 8

head of the Washington-basedWexler Group consultancy. 9 U S AEngage was officially introduced atan April 1997 press conference,where it portrayed itself as a "broad-based coalition representingAmericans from all regions, sectorsand segments of our society".10 Thegroup promptly began an intensivelobbying campaign in Washington,DC, against selective-purchasinglaws and other economic sanctionsplaced on corporations based onsocial and environmental objectives.

In Europe, European Round Tableof Industrialists (ERT) companies, including Ericsson, Unileverand Siemens, also viewed the Massachusetts law as a dangerousprecedent to be quickly crushed. Industry mobilised its forces topressure the European Commission to challenge the US govern-ment to drop the Massachusetts law. Failing that strategy, corpo-rations urged the initiation of action in the WTO. Japaneseheavyweights such as Mitsubishi, Sony and Nissan—some of thebiggest losers in the Massachusetts law—applied the same pres-sure to the Japanese government.

It thus came as no surprise in October 1998 when the EuropeanUnion and Japan requested the creation of a WTO dispute panel,arguing that the Massachusetts law was discriminatory and in vio-lation of WTO rules on government procurement. Although theEU suspended the WTO panel in February 1999 (perhaps as aconciliatory move in its bitter banana war with the US govern-ment), it has threatened to revive the case if the US federal gov-ernment does not take action against Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts-Burma case brings up many critical ques-tions about national and local sovereignty and the precedence oftrade over social and environmental objectives. It also highlightssome of the inequities in the current balance of power within theEU. In September 1998, the European Parliament passed a reso-lution calling upon the Commission to put an end to all trade,tourism and investment by EU-based companies in Myanmar.The resolution also criticised the Commission's decision to call

for a WTO dispute panel on the Massachusetts law. 1 1 T h eCommission has also been criticised by the European TradeUnion Confederation and the International Confederation of FreeTrade Unions for ignoring human rights abuses in Myanmar. Yet,according to an EU spokesman: "Breaking WTO rules doesn'thelp anyone. The key thing in this case is the United States' fail-ure to honour its international commitments."12

TNC INVOLVEMENT IN WTO NEGOTIATIONS Transnational corporations have thus far been the main benefi-

ciaries of WTO agreements. This is hardly surprising, as in manycases they have directly influenced the positions of the most pow-erful WTO members during the negotiation of these agreements.This was certainly the case during the Uruguay Round of GATTnegotiations, when the bulk of the WTO agreements were shaped.

In addition to bringing Southern countries under the GATT andits discipline, and putting new issues on the trade agenda, theUruguay Round granted Northern TNCs expanded access todeveloping-country markets. The seven-year Round, which

began in 1986, helped Northerncountries and their corporations toachieve further liberalisation insectors where they had an advantage(such as in services), and alsointroduced intellectual propertyrights and other protections for TNCactivities.

The most strenuous lobbying tookplace in the United States. Not onlydid individual companies vie forgeneral trade liberalisation and theopening up of markets, but industrycoalitions were also created to pushfor the inclusion of certain issuesunder the GATT regime. For exam-ple, the Coalition of ServiceIndustries lobbied for a new traderegime for services 1 3 and the

Intellectual Property Committee worked to get the TRIPs (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) agreement on theagenda. Industry influence was also evident in the composition ofthe US delegation: the vast majority of members were from thecorporate world.

During the first years of the Uruguay Round, European busi-ness lobby groups were not intensively involved in negotiations.EU industry launched a serious lobbying effort only when negoti-ations came to a deadlock over the agreement on agriculture.According to former ERT Secretary-General Keith Richardson:

"What we tried to say to governments is: whatever the difficul-ties are, the most important thing is to get the overall deal,because that will bring benefits to the whole of European busi-ness. And the total picture is more important than the individualdifficulties. It's quite a difficult message, and the only way youreally do it is with face-to-face meetings."14

While the ERT focused on national governments, UNICE, theEuropean industrial employers confederation, worked closelywith the European Commission to bring the negotiations to aclose. UNICE analysts chewed all of the proposals over carefully,before spitting industry's positions back to the Commission.

The following two case studies, on the TRIPs and the FinancialServices agreements, show in more detail how transnational cor-porations have worked to shape WTO agreements to their ownpreferences.

Transnational corporations havethus far been the main beneficiaries

of WTO agreements.

This is hardly surprising, as in manycases they have directly influencedthe positions of the most powerful

WTO members during thenegotiation of these agreements.


• Power TRIPsIndustry has identified a major problem in internationaltrade. It crafted a solution, reduced it to a concrete proposaland sold it to our own and other governments... The indus -tries and traders of world commerce have simultaneouslyplayed the role of patients, the diagnosticians and the physi -cians.15

— James Enyart, Monsanto

Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, orTRIPS, grant corporations the right to protect their "'intellectualproperty" in all WTO countries. This forces WTO member statesto apply minimum standards in seven areas of intellectual proper-ty, including copyright and trademark protection, patents andindustrial designs.

The TRIPs agreement is the brainchild of an industry coalitionwith members from the US, the EU and Japan. The first initiativewas taken by the Intellectual Property Committee (IPC), whichbrings together 13 major US corporations including Bristol MyersSquibb, DuPont, Monsanto and General Motors. The IPC wascreated with the explicit goal of putting TRIPs firmly on theGATT agenda.16

According to a former Monsanto employee, one of the IPC'sfirst tasks was 'missionary work' in Europe and Japan in order togather the support of corporateheavyweights for the TRIPs cam-p a i g n .1 7 UNICE and the Japanesebusiness organisation Keidanrenwere easy converts.

According to former Pfizer CEOEdmund T. Pratt , who attendednumerous GATT negotiations in thecapacity of official adviser to the USTrade Representative: "Our com-bined strength enabled us to establisha global private sector governmentnetwork which laid the groundworkfor what became TRIPs."18

In 1988, an industry paper on the"Basic Framework for GATT Provisions on Intellectual Property"made it into the Uruguay Round negotiations, following lobbycampaigns in Geneva and on the national level. Not surprisingly,the position put forth by the influential US delegation was strik-ingly similar to industry's proposal.

The fundamental imbalance in the TRIPs agreement is thatSouthern countries possess very little "intellectual property"; fur-thermore, they do not possess the resources to develop this sectorin the near future. However, they do contain most of the world'sbiodiversity, from which many pharmaceutical and agriculturalpatents are derived. Calculations show that up to 80 per cent ofpatents for technology and products in developing countries areheld by TNCs.19 This imbalance, coupled with concern about theethical implications of the private ownership of life, promptedsome Southern countries to oppose fiercely all forms of life-formpatenting during the TRIPs negotiations. The industry-dominatedUS delegation, with 96 out of the 111 members from the corpo-rate sector, 2 0 called for everything to be patentable, includingplants and animals.

The compromise result was a so-called "biodiversity provision"in the TRIPs agreement, which allows countries to exclude plantsand animals from patentability under the condition that theydevelop a similar system of protection (a so-called sui generissystem). The biodiversity provision is slated for review in 1999,

which has kept the lobby machines working at full speed. TheUS, now supported by the EU, Canada and Japan, is pressing hardfor the expansion of what can be covered under intellectual prop-erty rights in the agreement. Southern countries, however, appeardetermined to stand firm against US and industry pressure,proposing among other things to exclude biodiversity definitivelyfrom TRIPs.

Genuinely concerned about the firm stance taken by developingcountries, civil society and some international bodies such as theUN Convention on Biodiversity,2 1 industry is joining forces toresist any weakening of its rights under the TRIPs agreement andis lobbying governments not to cave in. If industry has its way,the revised biodiversity article will make it impossible to excludelife-forms from patent law, and developing countries' control overtheir biological resources will be further weakened. Ethical,socio-economic, cultural and environmental considerations willalso be ignored, reducing the patenting of life to merely a matterof commercial interests.

• Financial Services Agreement: Servicing the North This agreement is like taking back the neighbourhood. Weneed a policeman on the block. We can't have governmentsbehaving in thuggish ways.22

— Gordon Cloney, of the US-based International InsuranceCouncil

In 1997, three new agreements weresigned within the framework of theWTO. One agreement dismantled tar-iffs on trade in information technologyproducts, and another did the same forthe telecommunications sector. InDecember 1997, a third agreement wassigned, on the liberalisation of thefinancial services sectors, includingbanking and insurance. All three ofthese "jewels in the WTO crown", asEU Trade Commissioner Sir LeonBrittan termed them, were the result of

systematic pressure on Southern governments by the EuropeanUnion and the United States.

According to Brittan: "Europe was already a force for liberali-sation in the Uruguay Round negotiations, but, in the sectoralachievements that followed, Europe has unquestionably taken thelead in pushing for greater and faster liberalisation of world mar-kets than any of our partners."23

The three sectoral agreements were shaped in very close coop-eration with European and US corporations. This can clearly beseen in the case of the Financial Services Agreement, highlightedby Brittan as a model for business involvement in future tradenegotiations.

This agreement, which entered into force on 1 March 1999, willremove many obstacles for financial services corporations wanti-ng to enter Southern "emerging markets", which until recently hadpolicies in place to protect the domestic banking and insurancesectors. It has been signed by 70 WTO member countries, and itis predicted that it will liberalise over 90 per cent of the worldmarket in insurance, banking and brokerage services.24 The eco-nomic interests are obviously enormous. Total global bank assetsare estimated at more than US$41 trillion, while the insurancesector brings in over $2.1 trillion in premiums, and trade in sharesis worth over $15 trillion per year.25

The Financial Services Agreement does not oblige countries to

The industry-dominated USdelegation, with 96 out of the

111 members from thecorporate sector, called foreverything to be patentable,including plants and animals.


open their markets fully from the start; countries may file specificreservations. However, the agreement does 'lock-in' liberalisationand market access, banning new protective measures.

The financial services negotiations were an unsolved leftoverfrom Uruguay Round negotiations on services (GATS). In 1995,negotiations on this sector failed once again when the US with-drew, displeased with the reluctance of Asian and Latin Americancountries to open their markets to US financialservices corporations. Some 60 other countriessigned an interim agreement, and negotiationswere relaunched in April 1997. The EuropeanCommission then took the lead, aware that EUcountries had removed almost all internal barri-ers to foreign trade and investment in the finan-cial services sector over the previous years. AsAsian countries were loath to liberalise theirfinancial services sectors further, senior tradeofficials from the European Commission andthe US embarked upon a campaign to makethem change their minds. They travelled toAsian capitals and presented financial ser-vices liberalisation as the cure for sluggisheconomies, as it would attract new foreigncapital flows.

The third partner in this team effort was,according to the Dutch Ministry ofEconomic Affairs, "the international finan-cial industry, particularly from the US andthe EU, united in the Financial LeadersGroup (FLG)".26

The FLG's role was to "identify the bar-riers to trade in other countries"; the EUand US delegations would then put theseobstacles on the negotiating agenda. The group—headed by thelargest banks and insurance companies in the world, includingBarclays PLC, Chase Manhattan, ING Group, Ford FinancialServices Group, the Bank of Tokyo/Mitsubishi, Goldman Sachsand the Royal Bank of Canada—strives for the liberalisation ofthe financial services sector on a global scale. FLG co-chairmenare Andrew Buxton, head of UK-based Barclays PLC, and DeanO'Hare of the US Chubb Corporation. Other members include theAmerican International Group, British Invisibles, Bank ofAmerica, Aegon Insurance Group, Dresdner Bank AG, Citigroup,

ROBECO Group, UBS and over 50 other banking, investmentand insurance companies.

EU Commissioner Brittan stressed that "the close links estab-lished between EC and US industry...were an essential factor inobtaining the final deal".27 In fact, he found the cooperation withthe FLG to be so inspiring that he wants to use it as a prototypefor the future. "Within the EU, we are now considering a private

sector involvement in the process of building upour priorities," he said, some months after thedeal was finished. "The example of the EU-USFinancial Leaders Group—involving a group ofbusiness leaders to provide high-level momen-tum to the negotiations—has been the model forthe creation of a new mechanism for Europe. Asimilar deal will be needed for the next round ofservices liberalisation negotiations."28 The FLGcan certainly count on the full support of theTrade Commissioner in its preparations for theupcoming WTO negotiations on services(including financial services), scheduled to

begin in the year 2000.While banking, securities and insurance

corporations based in the EU, US andJapan were jubilant about the signing ofthe agreement, negotiators from the coun-tries referred to as "emerging markets"were far less enthusiastic. In practice, thebenefits are reserved for the Northern cor-porations which can now enter new mar-kets in Asia, Latin America, Africa andCentral and Eastern Europe. The prospectof services companies from the Southcompeting in Northern markets is illusory.

When Southern countries signed on to the agreement, it was inthe hope of attracting foreign direct investment and financing.The EU, the US and their financial services corporations arguedthat the market openings will make the banking and insuranceindustries in "emerging markets" more efficient by increasingcompetition. But it is very likely that plentiful jobs will be lost aslocal banks are swallowed up by Northern financial services cor-porations with far greater resources. An already inequitablefinancial cycle will thus be solidified, with profits flowing back toshareholders in the EU, the US and Japan.

Endnotes 1. Sutherland, Peter, speech given in New YorkCity, 3 March 1994. 2. Karliner, Josh, The Corporate Planet:Ecology and Politics in the Age ofGlobalization, Sierra Club, USA, 1998. 3. "The MAI Shell Game", Public Citizen, web-site www.tradewatch.org/Shell_Game/Cover.htm. 4. Kantor, Mickey, Letter to Bob Drake,President, National Cattlemen's Association,dated February 8, 1996. 5. Such as Brazil's recent challenge of EU'sregulatory regime on the import of poultry. 6. Bardacke, Ted, "American Boycotts Start toBite", Financial Times, 2 June 1997. 7. Gevirtz, Leslie, "Business ChallengesMassachusetts' Myanmar Sanctions", Reutersnews wire, 23 September 1998, at websitewww.ofii.org/newsroom/news/980923reut.htm. 8. Anne L. Wexler, a former White House aide,

was ranked as one of the capital's 10 mostinfluential lobbyists in the January 1998 issue ofthe Washingtonian magazine, websitewww.wexlergroup.com/bio_wexler.htm. 9. The Wexler Group is an independent unit ofHill and Knowlton, Inc., an international publicrelations firm; website www.wexlergroup.com/corporate_profiles.htm. 10. Silverstein, Ken, "Doing Business withDespots", Mother Jones, May/June 1998, web-site www.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ98/silverstein.html. 11. The European Commission even filed a so-called amicus brief on behalf of the NFTC.Source: Reuters news wire, 23 September 1998(see note 6). 12. "EU and Japan urge WTO to banMassachusetts-Myanmar boycott", AFP,Geneva, 22 September 1998. 13. Vander Stichele, Myriam, "Towards aWorld Transnationals' Organisation?", TNI,

Amsterdam, 30 April 1998, websitewww.worldcom.nl/tni/wto/booklets/wto3.htm. 14. Personal interview with Keith Richardson,Brussels, 21 February 1997. 15. James Enyart of Monsanto, quoted in:Shiva, Vandana, "Who are the real pirates?",Third World Resurgence, Third World Network,Malaysia, no. 63, November 1995, pp. 16-17. 16. Pratt, Edmund J., "Intellectual PropertyRights and International Trade", Pfizer Forum,1996, www.pfizer.com/pfizerinc/policy/forum/current/ article/rights.htm. 17. James Enyart of Monsanto, as quoted byVandana Shiva (see note 15). 18. Pratt, ibid. (see note 16). 19. Vander Stichele, ibid. (see note 13). 20. Howard, Stephanie, Eugenics, a self-defence guide to protecting your genes, A SEEDEurope, 1998. 21. The CBD clearly states that there should be benefit-sharing from the use of genetic

As Asian countrieswere loath toliberalise their

financial servicessectors further,

senior trade officialsfrom the European

Commission and theUS embarked upon a campaign to makethem change their

minds.


EU TRADE POLICIES AND THE DEMOCRATIC GAP The accelerated process of European unification has resulted in

a fundamental democratic gap, which provides an ideal environ-ment for corporate lobbying. The powers of the EuropeanParliament remain far too limited to compensate for the loss ofdemocratic control created as more and more decision-makingpower shifts from national capitals to the two highly untranspar-ent EU institutions, the EC and the Council of Ministers.

Decision-making on international trade and investment policiesis arguably one of the areas where the EU's democratic gap ismost pronounced. Member states have delegated most of theirpowers upwards, giving the European Commission an agenda-set-ting role. The Commission negotiateson behalf of the EU member states inbodies like the WTO, and has theexclusive right to undertake new tradeinitiatives. The bulk of the EU's deci-sions on trade and investment aremade in the powerful "133Committee" (previously called "113Committee"), which consists of tradeofficials from member states andCommission representatives. Onlymajor or controversial issues arebrought before the EU foreign tradeministers.29

"The Commission is like a dog on avery long leash," observes Michael Hindley, UK Labour Memberof the European Parliament (MEP), and this description is particu-larly applicable to ultra-free-Trade Commissioner Sir LeonBrittan.30

The European Parliament is informed, but lacks decision-mak-ing power on external trade policies. National parliaments fail toexert effective control over their EU trade ministers due to a com-bination of lack of information and limited awareness about theimportance of international trade and investment issues. Thesecritical issues have been treated as mere technical matters for fartoo long. Happily, thanks to the public uproar about theMultilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and the devastatingfinancial crisis, the EU's policies are increasingly coming underscrutiny. Real change, however, will be hard to achieve. It issymptomatic and disturbing that the European Commissionremained firmly behind the MAI, even while one government

after the other abandoned the sinking negotiations, pushing for itscompletion before public opposition spiralled out of control.31

During the MAI negotiating session in February 1998, the ECissued a strong warning against passing the April 1998 deadlinefor the negotiations: "Buying more time will make things moredifficult, not easier, as special interest groups everywhere discov-er the questionable value found in denouncing the MAI for theirown purposes which have nothing to do with investment."32

The EC stressed that a failure of the MAI negotiations wouldalso jeopardise the ultimate goal of an investment agreement inthe WTO: "It would be bad for the globalised economy in gener-al. The world would be further away from global investment

rules than ever, and this for a longtime, if we in the OECD cannot agreeon the first cornerstone."33 The US, onthe other hand, indicated to the othernegotiators that it was "not ready tomake a deal"; instead, it favoured "areflection period and intensified bilat-eral contacts as the best way to makeprogress".34

The battle was led by powerful EUTrade Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan,who, with his hardline neoliberalpolitical stance, is a real barrier topolitical change. According to WorldTrade Organization boss Renato

Ruggiero, Brittan is "one of the most important free-trade advo-cates of this decade".3 5 Not even when financial meltdown hitlarge parts of the global economy did Sir Leon Brittan reconsiderthe dogmatic recipe of high-speed liberalisation he prescribes forevery situation.

About the Authors:Corporate Europe Observatory is a research and campaign group tar-geting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environ-ment posed by the economic and political power of corporations andtheir lobby groups. This edition of Corporate Europe Observer (no. 4)is from Belén Balanyá, Ann Doherty, Olivier Hoedeman, AdamMa'anit and Erik Wessel ius. An earlier CEO brief ing paper,"MAIgalomania!", about the Multilateral Agreement on Investment(MAI), was published in NEXUS 5/03 and 5/04.

Endnotes (cont.)resources, taking into account the rights of localcommunities, while TRIPs only gives weight tothe rights of corporations. 22. Freudmann, Aviva and John Maggs,"Bankers, insurers celebrate WTO pact: dealputs financial-services markets under globalrules for the 1st time", Journal of Commerce, 16December 1997, www.islandnet.com/~ncfs/maisite/fsia3.htm. 23. Sir Leon Brittan in the Financial Times, 18May 1998. 24. "WTO Financial Services Agreement toCome Into Force on 1 March", Agence Europe,16 February 1999. 25. ibid. 26. Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs,"Financiele diensten: een hernieuwde poging",WTO-Nieuwsbrief, no. 5, November 1997,www.minez.nl/magazine/wto/w05.htm.

27. Sir Leon Brittan, in a speech entitled"Europe's Prescriptions for the Global TradeAgenda", Washington, DC, 24 September 1998,http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg01/0924slbsp.htm. 28. ibid. 29. For an introduction to the EU's decision-making on international trade, see "GenderMapping the European Union Trade Policy",WIDE, 1997. 30. Interview with MEP Michael Hindley, 17February 1999. 31. After the high-level negotiation session inFebruary, only the EC, a number of EU govern-ments and the OECD Secretariat still hoped tomeet the April 1998 deadline. 32. Briefing note, European Commission repre-sentative at high-hevel meeting on the MAI, 16-17 February 1998, Paris. 33. ibid. 34. Plijter, R., "Mission Report", EuropeanCommission DG1, Brussels, 19 February 1998.

35. "Acting in Harmony on World Trade",European Voice, 16-22 January 1997.

Web ResourcesSome campaign groups:• ATTAC: www.attac.org• Corporate Europe Observatory:

www.xs4all.nl/~ceo• Council of Canadian: www.canadians.org• Friends of the Earth: www.foe.org• Focus on the Global South:

www.focusweb.org• Green Group in the European Parliament:

www.millennium-round.org• People's Global Action: www.agp.org• Public Citizen: www.tradewatch.org• Third World Network:

www.twnside.org.sg• Transnational Institute:

www.worldcom.nl/tni/wto/

Continued in the next issue of NEXUS...

... thanks to the public uproarabout the Multilateral Agreement

on Investment (MAI) and thedevastating financial crisis, theEU's policies are increasingly

coming under scrutiny.


WHY SUGAR IS TOXIC TO THE BODY

In 1957, Dr William Coda Martin tried to answer the question: When is a food a foodand when is it a poison? His working definition of "poison" was: "Medically: Anysubstance applied to the body, ingested or developed within the body, which causesor may cause disease. Physically: Any substance which inhibits the activity of a cat-

alyst which is a minor substance, chemical or enzyme that activates a reaction."1 The dic-tionary gives an even broader definition for "poison": "to exert a harmful influence on, orto pervert".

Dr Martin classified refined sugar as a poison because it has been depleted of its lifeforces, vitamins and minerals. "What is left consists of pure, refined carbohydrates. Thebody cannot utilize this refined starch and carbohydrate unless the depleted proteins, vita-mins and minerals are present. Nature supplies these elements in each plant in quantitiessufficient to metabolize the carbohydrate in that particular plant. There is no excess forother added carbohydrates. Incomplete carbohydrate metabolism results in the formationof 'toxic metabolite' such as pyruvic acid and abnormal sugars containing five carbonatoms. Pyruvic acid accumulates in the brain and nervous system and the abnormal sug-ars in the red blood cells. These toxic metabolites interfere with the respiration of thecells. They cannot get sufficient oxygen to survive and function normally. In time, someof the cells die. This interferes with the function of a part of the body and is the beginningof degenerative disease."2

Refined sugar is lethal when ingested by humans because it provides only that whichnutritionists describe as "empty" or "naked" calories. It lacks the natural minerals whichare present in the sugar beet or cane. In addition, sugar is worse than nothing because itdrains and leaches the body of precious vitamins and minerals through the demand itsdigestion, detoxification and elimination make upon one's entire system.

So essential is balance to our bodies that we have many ways to provide against thesudden shock of a heavy intake of sugar. Minerals such as sodium (from salt), potassiumand magnesium (from vegetables), and calcium (from the bones) are mobilised and usedin chemical transmutation; neutral acids are produced which attempt to return the acid-alkaline balance factor of the blood to a more normal state.

Sugar taken every day produces a continuously overacid condition, and more and moreminerals are required from deep in the body in the attempt to rectify the imbalance.Finally, in order to protect the blood, so much calcium is taken from the bones and teeththat decay and general weakening begin.

Excess sugar eventually affects every organ in the body. Initially, it is stored in theliver in the form of glucose (glycogen). Since the liver's capacity is limited, a daily intakeof refined sugar (above the required amount of natural sugar) soon makes the liver expandlike a balloon. When the liver is filled to its maximum capacity, the excess glycogen isreturned to the blood in the form of fatty acids. These are taken to every part of the bodyand stored in the most inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts and the thighs.

When these comparatively harmless places are completely filled, fatty acids are thendistributed among active organs, such as the heart and kidneys. These begin to slowdown; finally their tissues degenerate and turn to fat. The whole body is affected by theirreduced ability, and abnormal blood pressure is created. The parasympathetic nervoussystem is affected; and organs governed by it, such as the small brain, become inactive orparalysed. (Normal brain function is rarely thought of as being as biologic as digestion.)The circulatory and lymphatic systems are invaded, and the quality of the red corpuscles

A multitude ofcommon physical

and mental ailmentsare strongly linked

to the consuming of'pure', refined

sugar.

by William Dufty © 1975

Extracted/edited from his book

Sugar BluesFirst published by Chilton Book Co.

Padnor, PA, USA

starts to change. An overabundance of white cells occurs, and thecreation of tissue becomes slower. Our body's tolerance andimmunising power becomes more limited, so we cannot respondproperly to extreme attacks, whether they be cold, heat, mosqui-toes or microbes.

Excessive sugar has a strong mal-effect on the functioning ofthe brain. The key to orderly brain function is glutamic acid, avital compound found in many vegetables. The B vitamins play amajor role in dividing glutamic acid into antagonistic-comple-mentary compounds which produce a "proceed" or "control"response in the brain. B vitamins are also manufactured by sym-biotic bacteria which live in our intestines. When refined sugar istaken daily, these bacteria wither and die, and our stock of B vita-mins gets very low. Too much sugar makes one sleepy; our abili-ty to calculate and remember is lost.

SUGAR: HARMFUL TO HUMANS AND ANIMALSShipwrecked sailors who ate and drank nothing but sugar and

rum for nine days surely went through some of this trauma; thetales they had to tell created a big public relations problem for thesugar pushers.

This incident occurred when a vessel carrying a cargo of sugarwas shipwrecked in 1793. The five surviving sailors were finallyrescued after being marooned for nine days. They were in a wast-ed condition due to starvation, havingconsumed nothing but sugar and rum.

The eminent French physiologistF. Magendie was inspired by thatincident to conduct a series of experi-ments with animals, the results ofwhich he published in 1816. In theexperiments, he fed dogs a diet ofsugar or olive oil and water. All thedogs wasted and died.3

The shipwrecked sailors and theFrench physiologist's experimentaldogs proved the same point. As asteady diet, sugar is worse than noth -ing. Plain water can keep you alivefor quite some time. Sugar and water can kill you. Humans [andanimals] are "unable to subsist on a diet of sugar".4

The dead dogs in Professor Magendie's laboratory alerted thesugar industry to the hazards of free scientific inquiry. From thatday to this, the sugar industry has invested millions of dollars inbehind-the-scenes, subsidised science. The best scientific namesthat money could buy have been hired, in the hope that they couldone day come up with something at least pseudoscientific in theway of glad tidings about sugar.

It has been proved, however, that (1) sugar is a major factor indental decay; (2) sugar in a person's diet does cause overweight;(3) removal of sugar from diets has cured symptoms of crippling,worldwide diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart illnesses.

Sir Frederick Banting, the codiscoverer of insulin, noticed in1929 in Panama that, among sugar plantation owners who atelarge amounts of their refined stuff, diabetes was common.Among native cane-cutters, who only got to chew the raw cane,he saw no diabetes.

However, the story of the public relations attempts on the partof the sugar manufacturers began in Britain in 1808 when theCommittee of West India reported to the House of Commons thata prize of twenty-five guineas had been offered to anyone whocould come up with the most "satisfactory" experiments to provethat unrefined sugar was good for feeding and fattening oxen,

cows, hogs and sheep. 5 Food for animals is often seasonal,always expensive. Sugar, by then, was dirt cheap. People weren'teating it fast enough.

Naturally, the attempt to feed livestock with sugar and molassesin England in 1808 was a disaster. When the Committee on WestIndia made its fourth report to the House of Commons, oneMember of Parliament, John Curwin, reported that he had tried tofeed sugar and molasses to calves without success. He suggestedthat perhaps someone should try again by sneaking sugar andmolasses into skimmed milk. Had anything come of that, you canbe sure the West Indian sugar merchants would have spread thenews around the world. After this singular lack of success inpushing sugar in cow pastures, the West Indian sugar merchantsgave up.

With undaunted zeal for increasing the market demand for themost important agricultural product of the West Indies, theCommittee of West India was reduced to a tactic that has servedthe sugar pushers for almost 200 years: irrelevant and transpar-ently silly testimonials from faraway, inaccessible people withsome kind of "scientific" credentials. One early commentatorcalled them "hired consciences".

The House of Commons committee was so hard-up for localcheerleaders on the sugar question, it was reduced to quoting adoctor from faraway Philadelphia, a leader of the recent American

colonial rebellion: "The great Dr Rushof Philadelphia is reported to have saidthat 'sugar contains more nutrients i nthe same bulk than any other knownsubstance'." (Emphasis added.) At thesame time, the same Dr Rush waspreaching that masturbation was thecause of insanity! If a weasel-wordedstatement like that was quoted, one canbe sure no animal doctor could befound in Britain who would recommendsugar for the care and feeding of cows,pigs or sheep.

While preparing his epochal volume,A History of Nutrition , published in

1957, Professor E. V. McCollum (Johns Hopkins University),sometimes called America's foremost nutritionist and certainly apioneer in the field, reviewed approximately 200,000 publishedscientific papers, recording experiments with food, their proper-ties, their utilisation and their effects on animals and men. Thematerial covered the period from the mid-18th century to 1940.From this great repository of scientific inquiry, McCollum select-ed those experiments which he regarded as significant "to relatethe story of progress in discovering human error in this segmentof science [of nutrition]". Professor McCollum failed to record asingle controlled scientific experiment with sugar between 1816and 1940.

Unhappily, we must remind ourselves that scientists today, andalways, accomplish little without a sponsor. The protocols ofmodern science have compounded the costs of scientific inquiry.

We have no right to be surprised when we read the introductionto McCollum's A History of Nutrition and find that "The authorand publishers are indebted to The Nutrition Foundation, Inc., fora grant provided to meet a portion of the cost of publication ofthis book". What, you might ask, is The Nutrition Foundation,Inc.? The author and the publishers don't tell you. It happens tobe a front organisation for the leading sugar-pushing conglomer-ates in the food business, including the American Sugar RefiningCompany, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Curtis Candy Co., General


Excessive sugar has a strong mal-effect on the functioning

of the brain. Too much sugar makes one

sleepy; our ability to calculateand remember is lost.

Foods, General Mills, Nestlé Co., Pet Milk Co. and SunshineBiscuits—about 45 such companies in all.

Perhaps the most significant thing about McCollum's 1957 his-tory was what he left out: a monumental earlier work describedby an eminent Harvard professor as "one of those epochal piecesof research which makes every other investigator desirous ofkicking himself because he never thought of doing the samething". In the 1930s, a research dentist from Cleveland, Ohio, DrWeston A. Price, travelled all over the world—from the lands ofthe Eskimos to the South Sea Islands, from Africa to NewZealand. His Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: AComparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects ,6

which is illustrated with hundreds of photographs, was first pub-lished in 1939.

Dr Price took the whole world as his laboratory. His devastat-ing conclusion, recorded in horrifying detail in area after area,was simple. People who live under so-called backward primitiveconditions had excellent teeth and wonderful general health.They ate natural, unrefined food from their own locale. As soonas refined, sugared foods were import-ed as a result of contact with "civilisa-tion", physical degeneration began in away that was definitely observablewithin a single generation.

Any credibility the sugar pushershave is based on our ignorance ofworks like that of Dr Price. Sugarmanufacturers keep trying, hoping andcontributing generous research grantsto colleges and universities; but theresearch laboratories never come upwith anything solid the manufacturerscan use. Invariably, the researchresults are bad news.

"Let us go to the ignorant savage, consider his way of eatingand be wise," Harvard professor Ernest Hooten said in Apes, Men,and Morons.7 "Let us cease pretending that toothbrushes andtoothpaste are any more important than shoe brushes and shoepolish. It is store food that has given us store teeth."

When the researchers bite the hands that feed them, and thenews gets out, it's embarrassing all around. In 1958, Time maga-zine reported that a Harvard biochemist and his assistants hadworked with myriads of mice for more than ten years, bankrolledby the Sugar Research Foundation, Inc. to the tune of $57,000, tofind out how sugar causes dental cavities and how to prevent this.It took them ten years to discover that there was no way to pre-vent sugar causing dental decay. When the researchers reportedtheir findings in the Dental Association Journal, their source ofmoney dried up. The Sugar Research Foundation withdrew itssupport.

The more that the scientists disappointed them, the more thesugar pushers had to rely on the ad men.

SUCROSE: "PURE" ENERGY AT A PRICEWhen calories became the big thing in the 1920s, and every-

body was learning to count them, the sugar pushers turned up witha new pitch. They boasted there were 2,500 calories in a pound ofsugar. A little over a quarter-pound of sugar would produce 20per cent of the total daily quota.

"If you could buy all your food energy as cheaply as you buycalories in sugar," they told us, "your board bill for the year wouldbe very low. If sugar were seven cents a pound, it would cost lessthan $35 for a whole year."

A very inexpensive way to kill yourself."Of course, we don't live on any such unbalanced diet," they

admitted later. "But that figure serves to point out how inexpen-sive sugar is as an energy-building food. What was once a luxuryonly a privileged few could enjoy is now a food for the poorest ofpeople."

Later, the sugar pushers advertised that sugar was chemicallypure, topping Ivory soap in that department, being 99.9 per centpure against Ivory's vaunted 99.44 per cent. "No food of oureveryday diet is purer," we were assured.

What was meant by purity, besides the unarguable fact that allvitamins, minerals, salts, fibres and proteins had been removed inthe refining process? Well, the sugar pushers came up with a newslant on purity.

"You don't have to sort it like beans, wash it like rice. Everygrain is like every other. No waste attends its use. No uselessbones like in meat, no grounds like coffee."

"Pure" is a favourite adjective of the sugar pushers because itmeans one thing to the chemists and another thing to the ordinary

mortals. When honey is labelled pure,this means that it is in its natural state(stolen directly from the bees whomade it), with no adulteration withsucrose to stretch it and no harmfulchemical residues which may havebeen sprayed on the flowers. It doesnot mean that the honey is free fromminerals like iodine, iron, calcium,phosphorus or multiple vitamins. Soeffective is the purification processwhich sugar cane and beets undergo inthe refineries that sugar ends up aschemically pure as the morphine or theheroin a chemist has on the laboratory

shelves. What nutritional virtue this abstract chemical purity rep-resents, the sugar pushers never tell us.

Beginning with World War I, the sugar pushers coated theirpropaganda with a preparedness pitch. "Dietitians have knownthe high food value of sugar for a long time," said an industrytract of the 1920s. "But it took World War I to bring this home.The energy-building power of sugar reaches the muscles in min-utes and it was of value to soldiers as a ration given them justbefore an attack was launched." The sugar pushers have beenharping on the energy-building power of sucrose for yearsbecause it contains nothing else. Caloric energy and habit-form-ing taste: that's what sucrose has, and nothing else.

All other foods contain energy plus. All foods contain s o m enutrients in the way of proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins or miner-als, or all of these. Sucrose contains caloric energy, period.

The "quick" energy claim the sugar pushers talk about, whichdrives reluctant doughboys over the top and drives children up thewall, is based on the fact that refined sucrose is not digested in themouth or the stomach but passes directly to the lower intestinesand thence to the bloodstream. The extra speed with whichsucrose enters the bloodstream does more harm than good.

Much of the public confusion about refined sugar is compound-ed by language. Sugars are classified by chemists as "carbohy-drates". This manufactured word means "a substance containingcarbon with oxygen and hydrogen". If chemists want to use thesehermetic terms in their laboratories when they talk to one another,fine. The use of the word "carbohydrate" outside the laboratory—especially in food labelling and advertising lingo—to describeboth natural, complete cereal grains (which have been a principal


It has been proved, however, that(1) sugar is a major factor in dentaldecay; (2) sugar in a person's diet

does cause overweight; (3) removalof sugar from diets has cured

symptoms of crippling, worldwidediseases such as diabetes, cancer

and heart illnesses.


food of mankind for thousands of years) and man-refined sugar(which is a manufactured drug and principal poison of mankindfor only a few hundred years) is demonstrably wicked. This kindof confusion makes possible the flimflam practised by sugar push-ers to confound anxious mothers into thinking kiddies need sugarto survive.

In 1973, the Sugar Information Foundation placed full-pageadvertisements in national magazines. Actually, the ads were dis-guised retractions they were forced to make in a strategic retreatafter a lengthy tussle with the Federal Trade Commission over anearlier ad campaign claiming that a little shot of sugar beforemeals would "curb" your appetite. "You need carbohydrates.And it so happens that sugar is the best-tasting carbohydrate."You might as well say everybody needs liquids every day. It sohappens that many people find champagne is the best-tasting liq-uid. How long would the Women's Christian Temperance Unionlet the liquor lobby get away with that one?

The use of the word "carbohydrate" to describe sugar is deliber-ately misleading. Since the improved labelling of nutritionalproperties was required on packages and cans, refined carbohy-drates like sugar are lumped together with those carbohydrateswhich may or may not be refined. The several types of carbohy-drates are added together for an overall carbohydrate total. Thus,the effect of the label is to hide the sugar content from the unwarybuyer. Chemists add to the confusionby using the word "sugar" to describean entire group of substances that aresimilar but not identical.

Glucose is a sugar found usually withother sugars, in fruits and vegetables. Itis a key material in the metabolism ofall plants and animals. Many of ourprincipal foods are converted into glu-cose in our bodies. Glucose is alwayspresent in our bloodstream, and it isoften called "blood sugar".

Dextrose, also called "corn sugar", isderived synthetically from starch.Fructose is fruit sugar. Maltose is maltsugar. Lactose is milk sugar. Sucroseis refined sugar made from sugar cane and sugar beet.

Glucose has always been an essential element in the humanbloodstream. Sucrose addiction is something new in the historyof the human animal. To use the word "sugar" to describe twosubstances which are far from being identical, which have differ-ent chemical structures and which affect the body in profoundlydifferent ways compounds confusion.

It makes possible more flimflam from the sugar pushers whotell us how important sugar is as an essential component of thehuman body, how it is oxidised to produce energy, how it ismetabolised to produce warmth, and so on. They're talking aboutglucose, of course, which is manufactured in our bodies.However, one is led to believe that the manufacturers are talkingabout the sucrose which is made in their refineries. When theword "sugar" can mean the glucose in your blood as well as thesucrose in your Coca-Cola, it's great for the sugar pushers but it'srough on everybody else.

People have been bamboozled into thinking of their bodies theway they think of their cheque accounts. If they suspect theyhave low blood sugar, they are programmed to snack on vendingmachine candies and sodas in order to raise their blood sugarlevel. Actually, this is the worst thing to do. The level of glucosein their blood is apt to be low because they are addicted to

sucrose. People who kick sucrose addiction and stay off sucrosefind that the glucose level of their blood returns to normal andstays there.

Since the late 1960s, millions of Americans have returned tonatural food. A new type of store, the natural food store, hasencouraged many to become dropouts from the supermarket.Natural food can be instrumental in restoring health. Many peo-ple, therefore, have come to equate the word "natural" with"healthy". So the sugar pushers have begun to pervert the word"natural" in order to mislead the public.

"Made from natural ingredients", the television sugar-pusherstell us about product after product. The word "from" is notaccented on television. It should be. Even refined sugar is madefrom natural ingredients. There is nothing new about that. Thenatural ingredients are cane and beets. But that four-letter word"from" hardly suggests that 90 per cent of the cane and beet havebeen removed. Heroin, too, could be advertised as being madef r o m natural ingredients. The opium poppy is as natural as thesugar beet. It's what man does with it that tells the story.

If you want to avoid sugar in the supermarket, there is only onesure way. Don't buy anything unless it says on the label promi-nently, in plain English: "No sugar added". Use of the word "car-bohydrate" as a "scientific" word for sugar has become a standarddefence strategy with sugar pushers and many of their medical

apologists. It's their security blanket.

CORRECT FOOD COMBINING Whether it's sugared cereal or pastry

and black coffee for breakfast, whetherit's hamburgers and Coca-Cola forlunch or the full "gourmet" dinner inthe evening, chemically the averageAmerican diet is a formula that guaran-tees bubble, bubble, stomach trouble.

Unless you've taken too muchinsulin and, in a state of insulin shock,need sugar as an antidote, hardly any-one ever has cause to take sugar alone.Humans need sugar as much as theyneed the nicotine in tobacco. Crave it

is one thing—need it is another. From the days of the PersianEmpire to our own, sugar has usually been used to hop up theflavour of other food and drink, as an ingredient in the kitchen oras a condiment at the table. Let us leave aside for the moment theknown effect of sugar (long-term and short-term) on the entiresystem and concentrate on the effect of sugar taken in combina-tion with other daily foods.

When Grandma warned that sugared cookies before meals "willspoil your supper", she knew what she was talking about. Herexplanation might not have satisfied a chemist but, as with manytraditional axioms from the Mosaic law on kosher food and sepa-ration in the kitchen, such rules are based on years of trial anderror and are apt to be right on the button. Most modern researchin combining food is a laboured discovery of the things Grandmatook for granted.

Any diet or regimen undertaken for the single purpose of losingweight is dangerous, by definition. Obesity is talked about andtreated as a disease in 20th-century America. Obesity is not a dis-ease. It is only a symptom, a sign, a warning that your body is outof order. Dieting to lose weight is as silly and dangerous as tak-ing aspirin to relieve a headache before you know the reason forthe headache. Getting rid of a symptom is like turning off analarm. It leaves the basic cause untouched.

Sir Frederick Banting, thecodiscoverer of insulin, noticed in1929 in Panama that, among sugarplantation owners who ate largeamounts of their refined stuff,

diabetes was common. Amongnative cane-cutters, who only got

to chew the raw cane, he saw no diabetes.


Any diet or regimen undertaken with any objective short ofrestoration of total health of your body is dangerous. Many over-weight people are undernourished. (Dr H. Curtis Wood stressesthis point in his 1971 book, Overfed But Undernourished.) Eatingless can aggravate this condition, unless one is concerned with thequality of the food instead of just its quantity.

Many people—doctors included—assume that if weight is lost,fat is lost. This is not necessarily so. Any diet which lumps allcarbohydrates together is dangerous. Any diet which does notconsider the quality of carbohydrates and makes the crucial life-and-death distinction between natural, unrefined carbohydrateslike whole grains and vegetables and man-refined carbohydrateslike sugar and white flour is dangerous. Any diet which includesrefined sugar and white flour, no matter what "scientific" name isapplied to them, is dangerous.

Kicking sugar and white flour and substituting whole grains,vegetables and natural fruits in season, is the core of any sensiblenatural regimen. Changing the quality of your carbohydrates canchange the quality of your health and life. If you eat natural foodof good quality, quantity tends to take care of itself. Nobody isgoing to eat a half-dozen sugar beets or a whole case of sugarcane. Even if they do, it will be less dangerous than a few ouncesof sugar.

Sugar of all kinds—natural sugars,such as those in honey and fruit(fructose), as well as the refinedwhite stuff (sucrose)—tends to arrestthe secretion of gastric juices andhave an inhibiting effect on the stom-ach's natural ability to move. Sugarsare not digested in the mouth, likecereals, or in the stomach, like ani-mal flesh. When taken alone, theypass quickly through the stomachinto the small intestine. When sugarsare eaten with other foods—perhapsmeat and bread in a sandwich—theyare held up in the stomach for awhile. The sugar in the bread and theCoke sit there with the hamburger and the bun waiting for them tobe digested. While the stomach is working on the animal proteinand the refined starch in the bread, the addition of the sugar prac-tically guarantees rapid acid fermentation under the conditions ofwarmth and moisture existing in the stomach.

One lump of sugar in your coffee after a sandwich is enough toturn your stomach into a fermenter. One soda with a hamburgeris enough to turn your stomach into a still. Sugar on cereal—whether you buy it already sugared in a box or add it yourself—almost guarantees acid fermentation.

Since the beginning of time, natural laws were observed, inboth senses of that word, when it came to eating foods in combi-nation. Birds have been observed eating insects at one period inthe day and seeds at another. Other animals tend to eat one foodat a time. Flesh-eating animals take their protein raw and straight.

In the Orient, it is traditional to eat yang before yin. Miso soup(fermented soybean protein, yang) for breakfast; raw fish (moreyang protein) at the beginning of the meal; afterwards comes therice (which is less yang than the miso and fish); and then the veg-etables which are yin. If you ever eat with a traditional Japanesefamily and you violate this order, the Orientals (if your friends)will correct you courteously but firmly.

The law observed by Orthodox Jews prohibits many combina-tions at the same meal, especially flesh and dairy products.

Special utensils for the dairy meal and different utensils for theflesh meal reinforce that taboo at the food's source in the kitchen.

Man learned very early in the game what improper combina-tions of food could do to the human system. When he got a stom-ach ache from combining raw fruit with grain, or honey with por-ridge, he didn't reach for an antacid tablet. He learned not to eatthat way. When gluttony and excess became widespread, reli-gious codes and commandments were invoked against it.Gluttony is a capital sin in most religions; but there are no specificreligious warnings or commandments against refined sugarbecause sugar abuse—like drug abuse—did not appear on theworld scene until centuries after holy books had gone to press.

"Why must we accept as normal what we find in a race of sickand weakened human beings?" Dr Herbert M. Shelton asks."Must we always take it for granted that the present eating prac-tices of civilized men are normal?... Foul stools, loose stools,impacted stools, pebbly stools, much foul gas, colitis, haemor-rhoids, bleeding with stools, the need for toilet paper are sweptinto the orbit of the normal."8

When starches and complex sugars (like those in honey andfruits) are digested, they are broken down into simple sugarscalled "monosaccharides", which are usable substances—nutri-ments. When starches and sugars are taken together and undergo

fermentation, they are broken downinto carbon dioxide, acetic acid, alco-hol and water. With the exception ofthe water, all these are unusable sub-stances—poisons.

When proteins are digested, theyare broken down into amino acids,which are usable substances—nutri-ments. When proteins are taken withsugar, they putrefy; they are brokendown into a variety of ptomaines andleucomaines, which are nonusablesubstances—poisons.

Enzymic digestion of foods pre-pares them for use by our body.Bacterial decomposition makes them

unfit for use by our body. The first process gives us nutriments;the second gives us poisons.

Much that passes for modern nutrition is obsessed with a maniafor quantitative counting. The body is treated like a chequeaccount. Deposit calories (like dollars) and withdraw energy.Deposit proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals—bal-anced quantitatively—and the result, theoretically, is a healthybody. People qualify as healthy today if they can crawl out ofbed, get to the office and sign in. If they can't make it, call thedoctor to qualify for sick pay, hospitalisation, rest cure—anythingfrom a day's pay without working to an artificial kidney, courtesyof the taxpayers.

But what doth it profit someone if the theoretically requiredcalories and nutrients are consumed daily, yet this random eat-on-the-run, snack-time collection of foods ferments and putrefies inthe digestive tract? What good is it if the body is fed protein, onlyto have it putrefy in the gastrointestinal canal? Carbohydrates thatferment in the digestive tract are converted into alcohol and aceticacid, not digestible monosaccharides.

"To derive sustenance from foods eaten, they must be digest-ed," Shelton warned years ago. "They must not rot."

Sure, the body can get rid of poisons through the urine and thepores; the amount of poisons in the urine is taken as an index towhat's going on in the intestine. The body does establish a

Sugars are not digested in themouth, like cereals, or in thestomach, like animal flesh.

When taken alone, they passquickly through the stomach

into the small intestine.


tolerance for these poisons, just as it adjusts gradually to an intakeof heroin. But, says Shelton, "the discomfort from accumulationof gas, the bad breath, and foul and unpleasant odors are asundesirable as are the poisons".9

SUGAR AND MENTAL HEALTHIn the Dark Ages, troubled souls were rarely locked up for

going off their rocker. Such confinement began in the Age ofEnlightenment, after sugar made the transition from apothecary'sprescription to candymaker's confection. "The great confinementof the insane", as one historian calls it,1 0 began in the late 17thcentury, after sugar consumption in Britain had zoomed in 200years from a pinch or two in a barrel of beer, here and there, tomore than two million pounds per year. By that time, physiciansin London had begun to observe and record terminal physicalsigns and symptoms of the "sugar blues".

Meanwhile, when sugar eaters did not manifest obvious termi-nal physical symptoms and the physicians were professionallybewildered, patients were no longer pronounced bewitched, butmad, insane, emotionally disturbed. Laziness, fatigue, debauch-ery, parental displeasure—any one problem was sufficient causefor people under twenty-five to be locked up in the first Parisianmental hospitals. All it took to be incarcerated was a complaintfrom parents, relatives or the omnipotentparish priest. Wet nurses with theirbabies, pregnant youngsters, retarded ordefective children, senior citizens, para-lytics, epileptics, prostitutes or ravinglunatics—anyone wanted off the streetsand out of sight was put away. Themental hospital succeeded witch-huntingand heresy-hounding as a more enlight-ened and humane method of social con-trol. The physician and priest handledthe dirty work of street sweeping inreturn for royal favours.

Initially, when the General Hospitalwas established in Paris by royal decree,one per cent of the city's population was locked up. From thattime until the 20 century, as the consumption of sugar went upand up—especially in the cities—so did the number of peoplewho were put away in the General Hospital. Three hundred yearslater, the "emotionally disturbed" can be turned into walkingautomatons, their brains controlled with psychoactive drugs.

Today, pioneers of orthomolecular psychiatry, such as DrAbram Hoffer, Dr Allan Cott, Dr A. Cherkin as well as Dr LinusPauling, have confirmed that mental illness is a myth and thatemotional disturbance can be merely the first symptom of theobvious inability of the human system to handle the stress ofsugar dependency.

In Orthomolecular Psychiatry, Dr Pauling writes: "The func-tioning of the brain and nervous tissue is more sensitively depen-dent on the rate of chemical reactions than the functioning ofother organs and tissues. I believe that mental disease is for themost part caused by abnormal reaction rates, as determined bygenetic constitution and diet, and by abnormal molecular concen-trations of essential substances... Selection of food (and drugs) ina world that is undergoing rapid scientific and technologicalchange may often be far from the best."11

In Megavitamin B 3 Therapy for Schizophrenia , Dr AbramHoffer notes: "Patients are also advised to follow a good nutri-tional program with restriction of sucrose and sucrose-richfoods."12

Clinical research with hyperactive and psychotic children, aswell as those with brain injuries and learning disabilities, hasshown:

"An abnormally high family history of diabetes—that is, par-ents and grandparents who cannot handle sugar; an abnormallyhigh incidence of low blood glucose, or functional hypoglycemiain the children themselves, which indicates that their systems can-not handle sugar; dependence on a high level of sugar in the dietsof the very children who cannot handle it.

"Inquiry into the dietary history of patients diagnosed as schizo-phrenic reveals the diet of their choice is rich in sweets, candy,cakes, coffee, caffeinated beverages, and foods prepared withsugar. These foods, which stimulate the adrenals, should be elim-inated or severely restricted."13

The avant-garde of modern medicine has rediscovered what thelowly sorceress learned long ago through painstaking study ofnature.

"In more than twenty years of psychiatric work," writes DrThomas Szasz, "I have never known a clinical psychologist toreport, on the basis of a projective test, that the subject is a nor-mal, mentally healthy person. While some witches may have sur-vived dunking, no 'madman' survives psychological testing...thereis no behavior or person that a modern psychiatrist cannot plausi-

bly diagnose as abnormal or ill."14

So it was in the 17th century.Once the doctor or the exorcist hadbeen called in, he was under pres-sure to do something. When he triedand failed, the poor patient had to beput away. It is often said that sur-geons bury their mistakes.Physicians and psychiatrists putthem away; lock 'em up.

In the 1940s, Dr John Tinterarediscovered the vital importance ofthe endocrine system, especially theadrenal glands, in "pathologicalmentation"—or "brain boggling". In

200 cases under treatment for hypoadrenocorticism (the lack ofadequate adrenal cortical hormone production or imbalanceamong these hormones), he discovered that the chief complaintsof his patients were often similar to those found in persons whosesystems were unable to handle sugar: fatigue, nervousness,depression, apprehension, craving for sweets, inability to handlealcohol, inability to concentrate, allergies, low blood pressure.Sugar blues!

Dr Tintera finally insisted that all his patients submit to a four-hour glucose tolerance test (GTT) to find out whether or not theycould handle sugar. The results were so startling that the labora-tories double-checked their techniques, then apologised for whatthey believed to be incorrect readings. What mystified them wasthe low, flat curves derived from disturbed, early adolescents.This laboratory procedure had been previously carried out onlyfor patients with physical findings presumptive of diabetes.

Dorland's definition of schizophrenia (Bleuler's dementia prae-cox) includes the phrase, "often recognized during or shortly afteradolescence", and further, in reference to hebephrenia and catato-nia, "coming on soon after the onset of puberty".

These conditions might seem to arise or become aggravated atpuberty, but probing into the patient's past will frequently revealindications which were present at birth, during the first year of

Dr Tintera finally insisted that allhis patients submit to a four-hourglucose tolerance test to find outwhether or not they could handle

sugar. The results were so startlingthat the laboratories double-checked their techniques...

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Something goes wrong with your life: you lose your job, your marriage breaks upor your lover leaves you. Perhaps a well-intentioned friend or relative suggeststhat you consult either a psychiatrist or a psychologist in order to get some help.The idea seems to make sense, because at the moment you are not feeling very

happy. Think again! The advice may not be so good."Psychiatry" is defined as "the specialised branch of medicine which deals with the

diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental disorders".1 "Psychology" is defined as"science of nature, functions and phenomena of the mind, characteristics". 2 P s y c h i a t r yand psychology are related disciplines, with psychology forming the theoretical, non-med-ical basis of psychiatry. Most of us believe that psychiatry and psychology are sciences,in the same way that, for example, chemistry or physics are sciences.

According to press reports, Tasmania's Port Arthur massacre gunman Martin Bryantwas assessed by four psychiatrists. These consultations yielded four separate diagnoses:one said he was a paranoid schizophrenic, another said he was a psychopath, another diag-nosed Asperger's syndrome, and a fourth disagreed with the other opinions but apparentlydeclined to give a specific diagnostic label other than to say that Bryant did not haveAsperger's syndrome. Suppose I gave four samples of the same substance to four expertsin the field of analytical chemistry, and the first decided that the substance was coppersulphate, the second decided that the substance was hydrogen cyanide, the third decidedthat the substance was sodium chloride, and the fourth decided that the substance wasxenontetrafluoride. How seriously would we take chemistry's claim to being scientific?We would dismiss chemistry as pseudo-science and relegate it to the same intellectualdustbin as astrology.

One wonders why psychiatrists still lay claim to being scientific, when it is obvious thatthey do not employ scientific method. Clearly, there is a dearth of objectivity in psychia-try, since the diagnosis you get depends on whom you ask. Unfortunately, the evidencepoints to both disciplines, psychiatry and psychology, as being no more scientific thanastrology or numerology, yet, even so, both continue to enjoy high status.

Researching psychiatry in Australia is no easy task. For example, there do not appearto be any specific statistics kept on such matters as the number of suicides in the profes-sion each year. On the whole, there is a dearth of locally based statistical data, so theresearch on which one must rely is primarily American. This lack of local data need notconcern us unduly, since the principles on which the profession relies are the same in bothAustralia and the USA.

The general public always seems prepared to accept unquestioningly any theory thatsuggests we are all dysfunctional and in need of some form of psychotherapy. Indeed,this is the view advanced by certain psychotherapists. How logical is this view? Supposethat we are all abnormal and in need of psychotherapy. Therefore, by definition, we allsuffer from faulty judgement—but then, so too do those who suggest we are all in need ofpsychotherapy. So how do we know they have got it right about the rest of us? This para-dox is one of the many logical problems faced by psychiatry and psychology.

Psychiatrist Walter Afield tells how psychiatry tends increasingly to define behaviouras an illness that previously was not viewed as pathological. For example, he tells us ofan experience at a recent conference that he attended, "where Russian psychiatrists weretalking about [how] in America you talk about treating marital maladjustment reactionsand in Russia we just call that bad luck".3

One would expect that since psychiatry is a specialist medical qualification,

If psychiatry isnot based on

scientific methodand has such a

poor track recordin curing mentalillness, why does

the professionenjoy such high

status?

by Rochelle Macredie © 1999

Sydney, NSW, Australia

E-mail: [email protected]


psychiatrists, being privy to the knowledge of how the mindfunctions, would be better adjusted than not only other membersof the medical profession but also other members of thecommunity. Yet psychiatrists commit suicide twice as often asother members of the medical profession. 4 During the period oftheir residency, psychiatrists commit suicide at nearly nine timesthe rate of the general population.5

A joint study, done by the American Medical Association andthe American Psychiatric Association in 1987 on physician sui-cide, found that psychiatrists had the highest suicide rate; that94% of the psychiatrists who committed suicide did so in order toescape mental pain6 (which is, of course, the one thing that psy-chiatry claims it is able to alleviate); and that 56% of those whocommitted suicide did so under the influence of self-prescribedpsychoactive drugs.7 At the time of their death, 42% had beenconsulting a mental health professional.8

One survey revealed that 91% of psychiatrists agreed that mem-bers of their profession had "emotional difficulties that are specialto them and their work, as contrasted with non-psychiatrists". 9

Research into Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) showed that whilepsychiatrists constituted only 8% of the medical profession, theyrepresented 17% of AA members.1 0 In short, psychiatrists weredisproportionately represented.

Drug abuse is another problemarea, with one survey of 500 practis-ing psychiatrists, reported in the NewEngland Journal of Medicine i n1988, revealing that psychiatristshave much higher rates of psychoac-tive drugs use, the usage rate being83%, with 48% of those drugs beingprescribed for self-treatment. Maritalbreakdown rates were also similarlydisturbing, with psychiatrists leadingany other branch of the medical pro-fession in marital problems (sexualdifficulties included). Psychiatristswere more likely to have marriages ofshorter duration and were most likelyto have problems due to extramarital affairs.10

PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT The exalted status of psychiatry is disingenuous when you con-

sider that psychiatrists, by their own admission, are incapable ofcuring the so-called "mental illnesses" that they treat,11 much lessunderstanding the human mind.

The treatments used by psychiatry are either psychological orsomatic. The so-called psychological treatments involve eithercounselling or psychotherapy, while the somatic treatmentsinvolve a more organic or biological approach to the problem,stemming from a materialistic approach that mind is brain. Thelatter primarily involve drug therapy, electroconvulsive therapy(ECT) or psychosurgery. The somatic treatments are based on theview that our bad feelings are chemically and genetically deter-mined. According to the somatic school of thinking, there isnothing we can do about these feelings.12

Electroconvulsive Therapy Electroconvulsive therapy, or electroshock treatment, was first

performed in Italy by a psychiatrist, Dr Ugo Cerletti, in 1938 afterhe witnessed slaughterhouse operators who used electric shocks torender pigs unconscious prior to slitting their throats. OnceCerletti noticed that the electric shock failed to kill the pigs, he

decided to try the treatment on humans.13

The treatment was introduced into the USA in 1940 and wasused with unrestrained enthusiasm. The literature of that agemakes little attempt to hide the fact that psychiatrists were delib-erately inducing brain damage or using shock treatment to quietenpatients rather than cure them.14

In 1942, psychiatrist Dr Abraham Myerson said: "The reduc-tion of intelligence is an important factor in the curative process...The fact is that some of the very best cures that one gets are inthose individuals to whom one reduces almost to amentia [feeble-mindedness]. It is impossible to conceive of that amentia withoutan organic base; there must be at least temporally organic changesin the brain, and the cure is related to these organic alterations."15

In the early days, shock treatment was administered withoutanaesthetic and the resulting convulsions were so violent thatbones were often broken, so the use of muscle relaxants andanaesthetic became common practice in the 1950s. The resultanttherapy was referred to as "modified ECT". The muscle relaxantsand anaesthetic did not reduce the effect on the brain and centralnervous system. If anything, more current is now needed in orderto produce a convulsion.16 The effect of these modifications is toprevent the body from manifesting the force of the full-blowns e i z u r e .1 7 However, the modified treatment adds to the risk,

which now incorporates the risk of ananaesthetic and muscle relaxant.

Another change in ECT came inthe 1950s with the use of "unilateralECT". ECT is usually bilateral; thatis, electrodes are placed on both sidesof the head. Unilateral ECT isfavoured by some psychiatrists whoclaim that it causes less memory lossthan bilateral ECT. This claim isextraordinary if you consider thatproponents of ECT categoricallydeny that any permanent memoryloss results from the treatment. 1 8

Most psychiatrists favour bilateralECT, claiming that unilateral ECT

requires more shocks to be given and is therefore less effective.19

Psychiatrist Dr Lee Coleman had this to say about ECT: "Thechanges one sees when electroshock is administered are complete-ly consistent with any acute brain injury such as a blow to thehead from a hammer. In essence, what happens is that the indi-vidual is dazed, confused and disoriented, and therefore cannotappreciate current problems."20

Those who defend ECT argue that it is cheap, effective and actsrapidly to improve the patient's condition. One wonders how sub-jective this evaluation is, concerning the improvement.21 A 1974article in World Medicine indicates that the effectiveness maymerely be supposed by the treating psychiatrist. The article tellshow a new ECT machine was installed, which was far more com-plicated to operate than its predecessor. The machine was usedfor two years, until one day a nurse remarked that the patientswere not convulsing as they were supposed to be. It was subse-quently discovered that the ECT machine had in fact neverworked! All the patients had been getting for two years had beenthiopentone (an anaesthetic) and Scoline (a muscle relaxant), andyet no one had noticed!22

Those who advocate ECT claim that to ban it would result in agreat increase in patient suicide. Astonishingly, those who makethis assertion do not have any proof. From 1975 to 1980, the useof ECT declined by 46 per cent. If the assertion that ECT had a

During the period of theirresidency, psychiatrists commitsuicide at nearly nine times therate of the general population.


prophylactic effect on suicide were true, there would have been anincrease in suicide. In fact, the suicide rate dropped, despite pop-ulation growth!23 The results of a study done in 1986 cast furtherdoubt on the assertion that ECT prevents suicide. The studyinvolved 1,494 suicidally depressed patients who were dividedinto two groups, one of whom received ECT ("the treated group")while the other did not receive ECT ("the untreated group"). Thesuicide rates were virtually identical.24 If the claim that ECT pre-vented suicide was correct, then the treated group would have hada lower suicide rate.

Another interesting statistic is that men commit suicide threetimes more often than women, yet women are given ECT twice asoften as men. 2 5 Yet another interesting contradiction is thatpatients sometimes suicide after ECT, which of course furtherdebunks the assertion of ECT's prophylactic effect on suicide. In1980, a study of 90 patients revealed that, of those who commit-ted suicide, 10% of patients had ECT within the previous fourmonths, two patients ended their lives whilst in hospital and sevendid so shortly after being dis-charged.26

Bruce Wiseman, in his bookPsychiatry: The Ultimate Betrayal,points out that a great many physi-cians and non-physicians alike man-age to deal with suicidal patientswithout ever resorting to ECT. 2 7

Only a small number of ECT usersexpress pleasure with the process.Others, people such as the patient'sfamily, take a different view. AsWiseman remarks: "[They] see aperson walking about in the murk ofmental befuddlement, docile anduncertain. These things will be likelynot to be noted in his [sic] medical chart, as they are normal 'sideeffects'. What will be noted is that his depression is 'responding'to the treatment."28

A study revealed that 50% of ECT patients claimed memoryimpairment was the worst side-effect experienced; however, thiswas only noted in 7% of charts. Psychiatrists who promote ECTregard these "cognitive effects" as irrelevant. The fact that thepatient is too confused or disoriented to be depressed seems irrele-vant to them.29 Often, those who promote ECT comment on theelation that follows treatment; such elation is also a commonafter-effect of brain trauma, such as a blow to the head. 3 0

Psychiatrists tell patients that ECT will help their depression;however, studies in 1980 and 1984 found that the depressionreturned after three to six months.31

Those who defend ECT take differing views on the side effects:some deny that they exist at all; others deny that they are assevere as stated by the patient; while some, like psychiatrist FrankGuerra, state that "depression is like cancer". As Guerra advisedthe Denver Post in 1990: "It's a potentially fatal illness. Nobodysays we shouldn't be treating cancer because of the side effects.Everything in medicine has side effects." 3 2 Bruce Wisemanqueries how so many doctors could miss the obvious. ProfessorEmeritus of Psychiatry Thomas Szasz notes that psychiatristsdon't see the full impact of ECT "...because it would be inconsis-tent with their efforts to use it as a treatment. People magnify orminimise what suits their interests."33

Russian psychiatrists baulked at using ECT for the followingreasons: "Until recently, electroconvulsive therapy was used on afairly wide scale. The method, however, involves gross interfer-

ence in the bodily functions and entails pinpoint haemorrhages inthe brain tissues. Its application, therefore, is restricted to caseswhere all other methods of treatment have failed. A course ofconvulsive therapy is followed by a memory loss of the type ofretrograde (events prior to the shock) or anterograde (events afterthe shock) amnesia, which is the clinical manifestation of both thefunctional and organic changes occurring in the brain due to theelectric shock."3 4 The quote comes from a Russian textbook onpsychiatry, published in 1969.

There was evidence of brain damage and memory loss as farback as the 1950s regarding ECT; however, the Russians, unlikethe Americans, did not find this controversial. 3 5 In fact, theanswer of Soviet psychiatrists to the question of whether ECTcaused brain damage was an unequivocal "yes". Amazingly, USliterature on the subject during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s alsocorroborates the Soviet view.36 It was only in the 1970s that thematter became controversial, and this corresponded to an increasein litigation for medical negligence.37

Those who support ECT claim thatmodern ECT does not cause braindamage and point to the use of oxy-gen during the process. However, itshould be noted that supplying apatient with oxygen during ECT maynot prevent permanent brain damage,since the oxygen only prolongs theseizure and the neurones (nerve cells)die when the substances they use forfuel are exhausted. The coma thatfollows can occur from lack of nutri-ents, even when an adequate amountof oxygen is present; thus any appar-ent benefit from supplying oxygen isrendered nugatory by the subsequent

brain damage attributable to a lack of nutrients.38

Another interesting point to note is that the brain damage thatresults from increased blood pressure during ECT is not preventedby the use of anaesthetics or muscle relaxants, because it is thebrain's enormous demand for oxygen during ECT that causes thisbrain damage.39

Psychiatrist Lee Coleman says of modern ECT: "Since neitherthe brain nor electricity has changed since the '30s, the result isstill the same: brain damage."40 As concerns the effectiveness ofECT, Coleman states: "The brain, for a while, is so injured (evenchildren know that electricity is dangerous for them and livingthings) that the patient is too confused to know or remember whatis troubling them. Unfortunately, when the brain begins to recov-er somewhat, the problems usually return since electricity hasdone nothing to solve them."41

Drug Therapy When a psychiatrist prescribes drugs for a patient, the patient is

usually not told about the side effects of the treatment. Often it isnot explained to the patient that taking psychotropic drugs is not acure, any more than getting drunk because one has a problem willsolve that problem. Nor is it explained to patients that the drugsthey have been given will in many instances cause sexual dys-function. The following information is an extract from medicalliterature on psychotropic drugs.42

• Side Effects of Major Tranquillisers Drowsiness, blurred vision, dry mouth, sensitivity to sunlight,

agitation, sexual dysfunction, eye damage, tardive dyskinesia

"The changes one sees whenelectroshock is administered arecompletely consistent with any

acute brain injury such as a blowto the head from a hammer."


(uncontrollable shaking of the extremities caused by irreversibledamage to the nervous system), akathisia (inability to sit still,which can also cause drug-induced psychosis).

• Side Effects of Minor Tranquillisers Drowsiness, apathy, irritability, failure of muscle coordination,

fatigue, depression, indigestion, increased hostility, rage,decreased sexual drive, addiction.

• Side Effects of Antidepressants Palpitations, fatigue, drowsiness, sexual dysfunction, insomnia,

suicidal behaviour, hallucinations, bizarre and aggressive behav-iour. Overdose is toxic to heart and treatment is difficult. A par-ticular group of antidepressants, monamine oxidase inhibitors(MAOI), can be fatal if taken with yeast products and can causeliver damage, confusion, tremors, hallucinations, convulsions,skin rashes, agitation and insomnia.

A seldom-mentioned fact of psychiatric drugs is that the sideeffects are themselves a "mental illness". The names for these ill-nesses are "neuroleptic-induced parkinsonism" and "neurolepticmalignant syndrome", and the cure for both is more drugs.

In 1985, a Canadian study which researched the effects of psy-chotropic drugs on prisoners discovered that "violent, aggressiveincidents occurred more frequentlyin inmates on psychotropic medica-tion than when these inmates werenot on psychotropic drugs".43

• Prozac, the Wonder Drug Prozac is the world's most popular

anti-depressant. The sales of Prozacalone net its manufacturer, theIndianapolis drug company Eli Lilly,US$3 billion, which is approximate-ly one-third of its annual revenue.

In 1990, public interest advocacygroups forced Eli Lilly to admit thatin a small number of cases somedepressed people will attempt suicideunder its influence.44 Others suggest that the link between Prozacand suicide is more serious. For example, Bonnie Leitsch, of theProzac Survivors Support Group, testified before a US FDA panelthat she had spoken to thousands of people who had whatappeared to be Prozac-induced suicidal thoughts and behaviour—i.e., the phenomena manifested themselves only after the patientsstarted taking Prozac, whereas they had not been present before.45

Prozac was discovered in 1972 and was first made available inBelgium in 1986. By 1995, the Food and Drug Administrationhad received notification of 35,230 adverse reactions in the USalone—more than for any other drug in its history.46 How then,you may ask, is the drug still marketed, especially since theadverse reactions include hallucinations, aggression, hostility,assault, manslaughter and suicide, resulting in 2,394 deaths?Based on the FDA estimate that only 1% of adverse reactions arereported, that means there have been more than three millionadverse reactions in the US, of which 25,000 have been deaths.47

Recently, when Royal Jelly caused one death from anaphylacticshock, there was an outcry, with calls for the sale of the substanceto be banned, yet Prozac has caused 2,394 deaths in Americaalone and we are told that the substance is safe and, indeed, awonder drug. How can such a selective form of intellectualmyopia come to pass? Certainly, in the USA, the regulatory body

that reviews drugs is composed of psychiatrists who, according toconsumer groups, either support the prescription of Prozac or,worse, who actually benefit financially from grants from compa-nies such as Eli Lilly.48 Very clearly, there is a conflict of inter-ests here!

One of the drug's most stringent critics, Dr Peter Breggin,author of Talking Back to Prozac, says that Prozac works by cre-ating a sense of detachment which may initially seem to be animprovement over depression; however, the sense of numbnessbecomes so great that those taking Prozac cease to care about oth-ers in their life.

Another critic, Anne Tracey, PhD, Director of the InternationalCoalition of Drug Awareness, says that alarm bells continue toring about that family of anti-depressants, which includes Prozacand its closely related drugs such as Zoloft, Paxil, Lovan andLuvox.49

ARE PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGY EFFECTIVE? It is often claimed by psychiatrists that they are the only ones

who are able to manage or treat schizophrenia. Evidence fromWorld War II calls this notion into question. When a Frenchmental hospital lay in the path of the oncoming German advance,all of the patients were sent home to relatives, with the exceptionof 153 who were judged to be too ill to leave. The Germans

arrived faster than anticipated, so thepatients were left to fend for them-selves. A commission was formedafter the war to determine the fate ofthose abandoned. Of those traced,37% of the abandoned, untreatedand hopeless patients were found tohave adjusted into the community.51

A similar study was done with118 schizophrenics who had beendischarged from Vermont StateHospital 20 to 25 years previously.The study showed that throughapparently spontaneous recovery,coming in most instances well aftertreatment, 68% had lost all symp-

toms of schizophrenia.52 Psychologist Stanley Peele noted: "Theresults corroborated similar results from three European studiesand another American study over the past decade, indicating thathalf or more of the schizophrenics eventually recovered or signifi-cantly improved."53

The implications of these findings are shocking when you con-sider what psychiatry has to say about schizophrenia.54 Accordingto DSM-III-R (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of MentalDisorders, Third Edition, Revised): "A return to full premorbidfunctioning is not common."55 DSM-III was more adamant: "Acomplete return to premorbid functioning is unusual—so rare, infact, that some clinicians would question the original diagnosis."56

Wiseman comments: "What makes matters sadly worse is that itis standard practice for psychiatrists laboring under this belief toput all schizophrenics on mind-altering drugs and maintain themon it thereafter.57

Another study into the effectiveness of psychiatric treatmentwas conducted by the psychologist Hans J. Eysenck on severalthousand mentally disturbed servicemen and women in Britishhospitals. Those given psychoanalysis showed an overallimprovement rate of 44%. Those given other forms ofpsychotherapy showed a betterment rate of 64%. Those patientswho received no therapy at all except for treatment for physical

A seldom-mentioned fact ofpsychiatric drugs is that the side effects are themselves

a "mental illness".


ailments showed an improvement rate of 72%. Eysenck's studyshowed a recovery rate in untreated neurotics of 45% within ayear of the onset of the condition, and 70% after two years. Afterfive years, 90% had either significantly recovered or were curedaltogether.58

UNRELIABLE PREDICTIONSPsychiatrists have entered the legal arena by attempting to pre-

dict the future dangerousness of defendants charged with criminaloffences. However, there is a low level of reliability when itcomes to predictions of dangerousness and conditions for involun-tary commitment to institutions.

Lawyer Bruce Ennis, in his book Mental Patients, Psychiatryand the Law,59 cites a well-known study concerning the accuracyof these predictions, of which the results are singularly unimpres-sive. The study involved 989 people who were deemed to be sodangerous by psychiatrists that it was recommended they beincarcerated in maximum security institutions. There was then aUS Supreme Court decision which led to the people being incar-cerated instead in normal, non-maximum-security institutions. Areview of the patients 12 months later revealed that one-fifth hadbeen discharged and over half hadagreed to remain as voluntarypatients. During the 12 months ofincarceration, only seven of the 989patients had either committed orthreatened to commit any violenta c t s6 0—which means that the proba-bility of a psychiatrist being wrong instating that someone is dangerous is astaggering 99.29 per cent!

The most common cause for invol-untary commission to a psychiatricinstitution is that a person constitutesa danger to either themselves or oth-ers. In some jurisdictions, the dangerthat one may constitute to oneselfmay merely be a danger to one's own reputation. Ultimately,however, the person who will assess the potential dangerousnessof the person is a psychiatrist. By their own admission, psychia-trists concede that they have a poor track record in this area. It isstaggering that a society will allow the deprivation of liberty onthe say-so of a group with such a low level of accuracy.

A study reported in American Psychologist in 1978 revealedsome alarming evidence to substantiate the claim that psychiatryand psychology may simply be nothing more than fraud. In 1939,a study was done with a view to reducing juvenile crime. Morethan 600 individuals between the ages of five and 13 were ran-domly divided into two groups. The first group was given psychi-atric counselling and the other group was given no treatment atall. The therapists reported that two-thirds of those who receivedtreatment had "substantially benefited". More than 35 years later,80% of the original group were located and a follow-up studydone. The results showed that the treated group compared veryunfavourably with the untreated group. People in the treatedgroup were more likely to have committed more than one seriouscrime than those in the control group and, when evaluated foralcoholism, mental illness, stress-related diseases and job satisfac-tion, the treated group consistently fared worse than the controlgroup. The program seemed not only to have failed in preventingviolent crime, but also to have produced negative side-effects.The failure to prevent violent crime has been corroborated byother studies.61

In a television interview, the author of the study, Joan McCord,when asked if she was able to explain the results, postulated thatthose who receive therapy come to see themselves as being inneed of help and therefore become dependent and thus do notdevelop the coping skills of others.62

THE MANUFACTURE OF MENTAL ILLNESS Mental illness is presently classified and diagnosed according

to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ,Fourth Edition (DSM-IV). It is interesting to note that in 1840there was only one classification of mental problems, and that was" i d i o c y / i n s a n i t y " .6 3 Four decades after the formation of theAmerican Psychiatric Association (APA), the number of cate-gories had risen to seven, namely "mania", "melancholia", "mono-mania" (irrationality on one subject), "paresis" (syphilitic braincondition), "dementia", "dipsomania" (alcoholism) and "epilep-sy".64

Wiseman observes that the psychiatric profession followed thepractice of changing the definition of illness. Prior to the adventof the American Psychiatric Association, "illness" meant anobservable derangement of the body: infection, a cancerous

organ, inflamed lungs.Psychiatrists initiated the practiceof declaring illnesses that theyassumed were there, instead ofnaming the behaviour that theyobserved. Thus the view grew upthat the patient must be sickbecause he/she behaved irra-tionally. So they declared con-duct to be symptoms and con-cluded that they must be causedby an illness.65

Wiseman comments that psy-chiatry has spent the past centurytrying to justify its position. 6 6

However, no brain lesions havebeen found, nor have any mutant nerve connections; nor has anygenetic proof come forward, even with the advent of modern tech-nology. In an attempt to justify its position, psychiatry oftenadvances pseudo-scientific explanations, such as "depression isdue to a chemical imbalance in the brain". The hypothesis iscompletely untestable, because there is no way that brain chemi-cals can be measured in a living person without either killingthem or injuring them, in order either to verify or falsify thishypothesis. Never mind; at least it sounds impressive!

In 1933, psychiatrists organised the first standard manual forcategorising mental illness. The manual was called the StandardClassified Nomenclature of Disease. It was in 1952 that the firstDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was pub-lished by the APA. The number of mental disorders had nowgrown to 112.67 In 1968, a revised edition, DSM-II, was broughtout; it contained 163 mental disorders.68 Commentary in the man-ual reveals that the disorders were established by a committeewho voted as to whether the disorders existed. 6 9 DSM-III waspublished in 1980 and a further 61 new disorders had been added,thus the new total of mental disorders was 224.7 0 In 1987, themanual was revised again, and the total number of mental disor-ders was now increased to 253 by DSM-III-R. 7 1 DSM-IV wasreleased in 1994 and the number of mental disorders had nowgrown to 374.72

Psychiatrist Al Parides, after observing the way disorders werevoted in or out of existence depending on the prevailing views of

A study reported in AmericanPsychologist in 1978 revealed somealarming evidence to substantiate

the claim that psychiatry andpsychology may simply be nothing more than fraud.


the day, remarked that the manual was not a scientific manual atall but a masterpiece of political manoeuvring. He commentedthat they had turned the problems of everyday life into psychiatricones.73

L. J. Davis made the following pithy comment in an article inH a r p e r ' s m a g a z i n e : 7 4 "According to the Diagnostic andStatistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (popularlyknown as the DSM-IV), human life is a form of mental illness."75

The DSM-IV has pathologised nearly every aspect of humanbehaviour, and, of course, each "abnormality" is accompanied bythe appropriate billing code.

Paula Caplan, a psychologist who wason the DSM-III-R committee, made theobservations that the main players in thecompilation of the manual ignored thesheer mass of scientific research andwere also indifferent to the harm done topatients due to the handbook's cate-gories. Ms Caplan found it difficult toreconcile these motives with the allegedaltruism.76

Al Parides states: "What they havedone is medicalize many problems thatdon't have biological causes."77

Wiseman makes the observation thatthe "illnesses" are manufactured. 7 8

Webster's Dictionary defines "fiction" as "anything made up orimagined". Wiseman asserts that it is psychiatric practice to makeup mental illness. He gives an example of this in relation toAttention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD). He says it is true thatpsychiatry does not make up the behaviour; however, when psy-chiatrists group bundles of behaviour and emotions together andassign names to that behaviour, then that is a created entity. It isalso a created reality, says Wiseman, because it did not existbefore.

It has always been true that some children and adults are moreactive than others or their attention tends to wander because of ashort attention span. Until the 20th century, parents and teacherssimply dealt with these children as a fact of life. Parents noticedthat children, like adults, learn to change their behaviour over

time.79 Psychiatrists, however, deemed that there was somethingwrong with these children. There was some vague, unexplaineddefect in their brains, and they identified some conduct andclaimed that any child who demonstrates this conduct is sufferingfrom ADD. Wiseman makes the observation that, once again, thisis a created reality.80

There is no evidence that the brains of these children are anydifferent from the brains of other children. The parents and thechild thought that the child was normal until they walked into thepsychiatrist's office. When they walk out, they think the child isabnormal. Wiseman comments: "...reality did not change. The

child is still the same." 8 1 What haschanged is their perception of the child;whereas they once saw a normal child,they now see a disordered one who hasspecial needs. As a normal child, thatchild would have been tolerated and inall likelihood would have grown up to benormal, had little been made of the situa-tion; but now the child will be treateddifferently by the parents, teachers andother children, and indeed the child willnow come to view himself or herself asdifferent from others. The child willnow be on medication for years and willbe treated as limited by the condition. 8 2

The only difference in the two situations is the created reality ofAttention Deficit Disorder. Indeed, there is no evidence that sucha disease actually exists.83

ALTERNATIVES TO PSYCHIATRY Measures such as transcendental meditation (TM) have been

shown to offer great benefit in both the treatment and preventionof disease. TM's results have been documented in numerous pub-lished studies conducted in over 100 research institutes—yet theprofession still clings to outdated methods.

In one study on Vietnam veterans seeking treatment at aVietnam Veterans' Outreach Program, veterans were assigned ran-domly to either the TM program or psychotherapy (whatever typethe therapist used—behaviour therapy, existential, cognitive,

Endnotes1. Chaplin, J. P., Dictionary ofPsychology, Dell Publishing Co., NY,1968, p. 388. 2. The Australian Pocket OxfordDictionary, Oxford University Press,UK, 1976. 3. Interview with Walter Afield, 11January 1994, as reported in:Wiseman, B., Psychiatry, the UltimateBetrayal, Freedom Publishing, LosAngeles, 1995, p. 33. 4. Council on Scientific Affairs,American Medical Association,"Results and Implications of the AMA-APA Physician Mortality Project",Journal of the American MedicalAssociation, vol. 257, no. 21, June 5,1987, p. 2950. The suicide rate in thegeneral population is given as 12.3 per100,000, as distinct from 61 per100,000 for psychiatrists. As reportedin Wiseman, op. cit., p. 45. 5. Campbell, H. D., "The Prevalenceand Ramifications of Psychopathologyin Psychiatric Residents: AnOverview", Am. Journal of Psychiatry139:11, November 1982, p. 1406. Therate for residents is 106 per 100,000.As reported in Wiseman, ibid.

6. A joint study performed in 1987 bythe American Medical Association andthe American Psychiatric Associationfound that psychiatrists had the highestsuicide rate and, when researchersinterviewed the family to ascertainwhether any reason was given for thesuicide, the most commonly quotedreason was to escape mental pain. Asreported in Wiseman, ibid. 7. Wiseman, ibid. 8. ibid. 9. Maeder, T., "Wounded Healers",Atlantic Monthly, January 1989, p. 38;as reported in Wiseman, op. cit., p. 46. 10. Kirsher, M., "What Makes OurMarriages Lousy", Medical Economics,October 1, 1979; as reported inWiseman, ibid. 11. In 1994, Dr Norman Sartorius,President of the World PsychiatricAssociation, speaking at the EuropeanPsychiatric Congress in Denmark, said:"Psychiatrists should no longer consid-er that they can cure the mentally ill,and in future the mentally ill will haveto learn to live with their illness." 12. Wiseman, op. cit., p. 115. 13. Cerletti, U., "ElectroshockTherapy", in Shackler, Arthur M. et al.,

The Great Psychodynamic Therapies inPsychiatry: An Historical Reappraisal,Hoeber-Harper, New York, 1956, pp.92-94; as reported in Wiseman, op.cit., p. 116. 14. Wiseman, op. cit., p. 117. 15. Myerson, A., in discussion withEbaugh, F. E. et al., "Fatalities followingelectric convulsive therapy: a report oftwo cases with autopsy findings",Trans. Amer. Neurol. Assoc. 68:39,June 1942; as quoted in Wiseman, op.cit., pp. 117-118. 16. Wiseman, op. cit., p.119.17. ibid. 18. op. cit., pp. 119-120.19. ibid. 20. Coleman, L., "Introduction" fromFrank, L. (ed.), The History of ShockTreatment, San Francisco, 1978, p. xiii;as reported in Wiseman, op. cit., pp.120-121. 21. Easton-Jones, J., "Non-ECT", WorldMedicine, 1974, p. 24; as reported inWiseman, op. cit., pp. 128-129.22. ibid. 23. Statistical Abstracts of the UnitedStates, US Department of Commerce,1987, p. 79. In 1975, 27,063 suicideswere recorded in the USA; in 1980,

there were 26,869. 24. Milstein, V., PhD et al., "DoesElectroconvulsive Therapy PreventSuicide?", Convulsive Therapy 2, no. 1,1986, pp. 3-6. 25. Statistical Abstracts of the UnitedStates, ibid. 26. Roy, A., "Risk Factors for Suicidein Psychiatric Patients", Archives ofGeneral Psychiatry, vol. 39, September1982, p. 1093. 27. Wiseman, op. cit., p. 129. 28. op. cit., p. 130. 29. ibid. 30. ibid. 31. Cauchon, D., "Stunningly quickresults often fade just as fast", USAToday, December 6, 1995. 32. Finley, B., "Electroshock: quick fixor cure?", Denver Post, October 21,1990. 33. Interview with Thomas Szasz,September 17, 1993; as reported inWiseman, op. cit., p. 131. 34. Podnov, A., Psychiatry, 1969, pp.138-141. 35. Wiseman, op. cit., p. 136. 36. Alpers, B. J., "The Brain ChangesAssociated with Electrical ShockTreatment: A Critical Review", The

"According to the Diagnosticand Statistical Manual ofMental Disorders, Fourth

Edition...human life is a form of mental illness."


somatic or psychodynamic). Veterans who learned the TM tech-nique improved significantly on psychological and social mea-sures, including reduced anxiety, depression, insomnia and alco-hol abuse, whereas the participants in psychotherapy did notimprove. The TM participants also exhibited a more rapid physi-ological recovery from stressful stimuli in forms of habituation ofthe skin resistance response.84

In another study, conducted over a 12-month period, maximum-security prisoners practising TM were compared to prisonersundergoing four other treatment modalities including psychologi-cal counselling, a drug abuse treatment program and 21 personaldevelopment programs. The TMgroup improved significantly on mea-sures of self-development and reducedpathological symptoms, whereas noneof the four other treatment groupschanged significantly when comparedto controls. Over a three-and-a-half-year period, the recidivism rate (thatis, re-offending and returning toprison) was significantly lower in theTM group than in the other fourgroups.85

CONCLUSION If you do exhibit unusual behaviour

or have been diagnosed as "mentallyill", then you should be very careful to note that the discipline thathas so pronounced you is not a science, nor can it produce a curefor your condition. The best it can offer is years or possibly a lifeon psychotropic drugs which have dreadful side-effects, or it cangive you brain damage in the name of bringing about temporaryrelief to your depression. You have nothing to lose by tryingtreatments such as transcendental meditation or MaharishiAyurveda; at least if they don't cure you, they won't kill you.Further, psychiatry and drug therapy are self-perpetuating.

A word of caution should also be sounded in relation to thenon-drug therapies. The so-called "talking" therapies are no moreeffective or scientifically based than drug therapy or ECT. As wehave seen in the study conducted by McCord, such therapies can

actually, and in fact do, have counterproductive results. Further,the study done where an actor was hired and spoke from a scriptdesigned to portray a normal man, and where the overwhelmingmajority of mental health experts found pathology in the man'sbehaviour where none existed, suggests that those engaged in thatprofession presume that pathology exists even in the absence ofsupporting evidence.

Then, there is the further evidence of the DSM, where the num-ber of mental illnesses increases with every edition and all mannerof behaviour once accepted as normal (for example, snoring) isnow described as mental illness. This further suggests that psy-

chiatry is a discipline which is simplydrumming up business for itself. Thisshould lead to people questioning thebona fides of psychiatry.

Most disturbing of all is theknowledge that psychiatry is rarelycorrect in predicting dangerousbehaviour, and yet you or I could loseour human rights, based on the say-soof a profession with almost noscientific foundation!

It appears that both psychiatry andpsychology are indeed shrinking fromthe truth. ∞

About the Author:Rochelle Macredie holds degrees in Arts, Science and Law andused to practise criminal law within the New South Wales publicsector. She advocates Transcendental Meditation—not psy-chotherapy—as a speedy and beneficial way to overcome theproblems and stresses of life.

Contact Details for Further Information:• Mental Health Advocacy Service: 74 Burwood Road, Burwood,NSW 2134, Australia, telephone +61 (0)2 9745 4277.• Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR): E-mail [email protected]; Sydney office, tel (02) 9264 5893, fax (02) 92612840, e-mail [email protected]. For contact details of theCCHR internationally, we suggest you visit their website athttp://www.cchr.org.

Endnotes (cont.)Lancet, November 1946; as reported inWiseman, op. cit., p. 137. 37. Wiseman, op. cit., p. 138. 38. Citizens Commission on HumanRights (CCHR), "Psychiatry DestroysMinds", booklet, CCHR, California,1997, p. 8. 39. ibid. 40. Coleman, L., from Tame, A.,"Shock Treatment", Penthouse, 1987. 41. Coleman, L., from Introduction,Case Against ECT, CCHR, Los Angeles,p. i; as quoted in Wiseman, op. cit., p.116. 42. CCHR, "What They Don't Tell YouAbout Psychiatric Drugs", CreatingRacism: Psychiatry's Betrayal, LosAngeles, p. 12. 43. Workman, D. G. andCunningham, D. G., "Effects ofPsychotropic Drugs on Aggression in aPrison Setting", Canadian FamilyPhysician, November 1975, pp. 63-66;as quoted in CCHR, Creating Racism:Psychiatry's Betrayal, op. cit. 44. Lusetich, Robert, "Do worry, beunhappy...depress the panic button onProzac", The Australian, 1 December1997.

45. ibid. 46. ibid. 47. ibid. 48. ibid. 49. ibid. 51. Menninger, K., "The Course ofIllness", Menninger Clinic Bulletin, vol.25, no. 5, September 1961; as reportedin Wiseman, op. cit., p. 37. 52. Boffey, P. M., "Schizophrenia:Insights Fail to Halt Rising Toll", NewYork Times, March 16, 1986, pp. 1,32. 53. Peele, S., Diseasing of America,Lexington Books, 1989, p. 16; asreported in Wiseman, op. cit., p. 38. 54. Wiseman, op. cit., p. 38. 55. "Schizophrenia", Diagnostic andStatistical Manual of Mental Disorders,Third Edition, Revised (DSM-III-R),American Psychiatric Association,Washington, DC, 1987, p. 191. 56. "Schizophrenia", Diagnostic andStatistical Manual of Mental Disorders,Third Edition (DSM-III), AmericanPsychiatric Association, Washington,DC, 1980, p. 185. 57. Wiseman, op. cit., p. 38. 58. Connell, J. V., UnderstandingHuman Behavior: An Introduction to

Psychology, Holt, Rinehart & Winston,New York, p. 587; as reported inWiseman, op. cit., p. 36. 59. Ennis, B. J., Prisoners of Psychiatry:Mental Patients, Psychiatry and theLaw, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, NewYork, 1972, p. 227; as reported inWiseman, op. cit., p. 241. 60. ibid. 61. McCord, J., "A Thirty-Year Follow-Up of Treatment Effects", AmericanPsychologist, March 1978; as quoted inWiseman, op. cit., p. 35. 62. McCord, J., "A Thirty-Year Follow-Up: Counselling Fails", Science News,November 28, 1977; as quoted inWiseman, ibid. 63. Wiseman, op. cit., p. 349. 64. ibid. 65. op. cit., pp. 349-350. 66. op. cit., p. 350. 67. ibid. 68. op. cit., p. 351. 69. ibid. 70. ibid. 71. op. cit., p. 353. 72. op. cit., p. 355. 73. op. cit., p. 357. 74. The Encyclopedia of Insanity, vol.294, no. 1761, February 1997, pp. 61-

66. 75. op. cit., p. 61. 76. Wiseman, op. cit., p. 357. 77. ibid. 78. op. cit., p. 359. 79. ibid. 80. op. cit., pp. 359-360. 81. op. cit., p. 359. 82. op. cit., pp. 359-360. 83. op. cit., p. 360. 84. Brooks, J. S. and Scarano, I.,"Transcendental Meditation in theTreatment of Post-VietnamAdjustment", Journal of Counsellingand Development, vol. 65, 1985, pp.212-215. 85. Alexander, C. N., "EgoDevelopment, Personality andBehavioural Change in InmatesPractising the TranscendentalMeditation Technique or Participatingin Other Programs: A Cross-Sectionaland Longitudinal Study", DissertationAbstracts International 43:539B, 1982;and also Abrams, A. and Siegel, L. M.,"The Transcendental MeditationProgram and Rehabilitation in FalsomState Prison: A Cross-Variation Study",Justice and Behaviour 5:3-20, 1978.

Most disturbing of all is the knowledge that you or Icould lose our human rights,

based on the say-so of aprofession with almost no

scientific foundation!


One of the most difficult questions for a composer to answer is, "From where isthe inspiration drawn to create a new work of music?" Given that the craft andgrammar of music are already formulated in the minds of the musical establish-ment, what is there left that has never been in place before? The answer lies in

one's perception of a complete formulation, and at what stage a learning curve can be con-sidered terminated.

Blinkered by its own accepted traditions, the academic music establishment insists thatthe development of the "modal form" scale system commenced with the Greeks orRomans—a view similar to the insistence by fundamentalist churches that Homo sapienswas created precisely as stated in the Book of Genesis. We now know that the Darwinianand archaeological findings prove otherwise, but dogma has a habit of narrowing themind. This follows from an understanding that if you repeat something often enough andit is not questioned strongly enough, it can become established as an apparent truth.

Fortunately, we have reached a time when we have the opportunity to examine ambigu-ous matters without having our lives threatened by some kind of Inquisition. We are ableto debate these issues freely with people who have "eyes to see and ears to hear".Currently, our free-thinking Light Workers are able to expand upon these issues, and,liaising with others, many use the World Wide Web to support the questing endeavour ina profound way. Even the Vatican curators have begun using the Internet to publish infor-mation from their archives, although much still remains secreted at this stage. Many peo-ple see this as a long-awaited chance to confront and overturn the many schisms whichexist between the different religions. This is only a start, but it is hoped that the new mil-lennium will bring a welcome and open tolerance between the many Faiths on this planet.It will be interesting to see how the future monarch of Britain will deal with the prevailingcontroversial issue of defending The Faith, or Faiths, when the moment for decisionarrives.

My chosen route into the quest for the connections to ancient music begins with exam-ining the root stems of modal form. Scales and modes can be simply understood as thesuperstructure for melodic phrases. Modes are made up of arrangements of tones andsemitones, without any necessary regard to the tonic or main note, so modal form is notgoverned by the system of major and minor keys that denotes music with a tonal design.The tonic of a scale is the first note of the scale; e.g., the tonic note of the scale of F minoris F. Tones, in this regard, are intervals of the major second or made up of two semitones.

In the Christian Church, plainchant was used to enhance the ritual in services, andecclesiastical plainchant evolved from these root modes, as have the complete sets ofminor and major scales we use in Western music today. As far back as the 4th-century eraof Emperor Constantine, a solemn chant, the Introit, accompanied formal processionsfrom the sacristy to the altar; the Offertory was sung in the Communion preparation; and,in the Communion itself, a chant accompanied the distribution of the bread and wine tothe congregation. All this was, of course, sung originally in Latin.

Significantly, the Roman Mass became the most important form throughoutChristendom, although, interestingly, embracing some Greek with the inclusion of thephrase Kyrie eleison ("Lord have mercy"). This chant was eventually succeeded by thehymn, Gloria in excelsis Deo . The Sanctus can be traced as far back as 3rd-centuryAlexandria, but the Agnus Dei was not introduced until the 7th century.

Early chant was always sung by men, because women were not allowed to participate inthe churches—as detailed in my essay, "Feminine Element in Mankind" (see websitewww.mediaquest.co.uk/awfemel.html).

The musicalheritage of the

West, which we'vebeen led to believewas sourced fromthe Greeks, owes agreat debt to the

ancient Sumerians,Babylonians and

Egyptians.

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Aproblem arose in the 8th and 9th centuries, especially inthe reign of Emperor Charlemagne, when an attempt wasmade to bring Roman-style church worship into the

Frankish regions of Gaul. In this, Charlemagne saw himself asthe divinely appointed ruler of the chosen people, similar perhapsto King David and his new Israel. This presented a considerablechallenge to the Franks, who had tremendous difficulty in master-ing the subtleties of Roman chant, while the Roman singers delib-erately protected the secrets of their own skills. Consequently,confusion was created instead of harmony!

The eventual outcome of this, as some scholars would have usbelieve, was a quite different chant in the 13th century—a chantcalled "Gregorian". This is said to be a Byzantine imperial liturgywhich emanated from the Pope's own chapel, as opposed to thevarious basilicas. But there is good reason to believe that thischant was actually Frankish, not Byzantine, and that it was intend-ed to codify the oral repertory. Somewhat conveniently, however,it is claimed that the Frankish city of Metz (seemingly involved inthe establishment of this musical model) "lost" all its chant books,and the only manuscripts surviving onwards from the late 9th cen-tury emanate from other places. The Frankish Empire wasresponsible for three musical genres: sequences, tropes (tones),and liturgical drama, which addedlocal repertoires to the services for thepatron saints of their churches.

A number of theoretical books aboutchant were written in the 9th century,and some of these attempted to recon-cile the non-traditional chant withwhat survived of Greek musical theo-ry. By the 12th century, the repertoirehad become ever more complicated,and the Cistercian Order of monksreacted against this over-elaboration ofritual by excluding particular notes(tenths) from the wider range andeliminating the long meandering(melisma) of certain single words.

Since this period there have been occasional changes, includingmany of the mediaeval forms which re-appeared in the 18th and19th centuries. Notational changes were apparent with the transi-tion from a no-line stave to a four-line stave and, eventually, tothe five-line stave that is familiar today. Expression markings tothe chant notations also changed along with these, together withrhythmic stem indications, even as far back as the 13th century.However, the Old Roman system still contains a more primitivemodal form than does Gregorian chant, and it is easy enough todiscover the root stem modes.

The Greek names for the four main root modes or tropes are:Protus, Deutorus, Tritus and Tetradus, while out of these cameothers like the eight psalm tones of a Frankish innovation con-nected to the Byzantines. The eight modes are: Dorian (D),Hypodorian, Phrygian (E), Hypophrygian, Lydian (F),Hypolydian, Mixolydian (G) and Hypomixolydian. (To hear howthese modes sound, play the white notes on a keyboard sequen-tially from a starting note; e.g., Dorian mode plays from D to theoctave D, Phrygian plays from E to E, etc. The "Hypo-" modescontain the starting note aspect but with a slight cadence differ-ence by implication of the fourth note beneath; e.g., Hypodorianstarts on the note A beneath the main root of D, allowing for a ris-ing cadence.)

Later, in the 16th century, four more modes were added:Aeolian (A), Hypoaeolian (E), Ionian (C) and Hypoionian (G).

Each mode contains a different sequence of half-tones and wholetones which make up a progression of notes similar to a scale.Interestingly, the Lydian mode contains the augmented 4th inter-val (B, the fourth note above the F starting note) that was sodespised by the Roman Church and banned as "the Devil's inter-val" in the 12th century.

Other music of the mediaeval period was related to the auraltradition of European folk music, and from this derived the long-standing troubadour melodies.

Meanwhile, from ancient times, non-European cultures weredeveloping their own modal systems, like the Arabic mâqam andthe Indian râga systems.

Several aspects of moral and expressive values were attached tothe various modes in the Middle Ages and some of these havebizarre stories attached to them. In one instance, a young manwas so aroused by a melody in the Phrygian mode that he wasabout to break into the room of a young lady, when suddenly, achange to the Hypophrygian mode restored him to a proper frameof mind! Others of the mediaeval period related the eight modesto celestial bodies and to the masculine and feminine aspects.

Plato and Aristotle wrote about harmoniai which, interestingly,had the names Ionian, Lydian, Dorian and Phrygian—and each of

these required a separate tuning of thelyre. Plato also praised Egyptianmusical standards, and it would there-fore be fair to assume that the associa-tion with modal form links the Greekand Roman systems. Within thesemodes were other tunings of the dia-tonic, chromatic and enharmonicforms, while along with the Greekmodal forms came melodies andrhythms mainly associated with Greeklyric metres and poetry. This affordedGreek composers less freedom thantheir Roman successors in settingwords to music.

The principal influence on Plato andAristotle was Pythagoras (c. 550 BC), who investigated musicaltheory in Egypt before being instructed by the priests of Babylonin the secrets of arithmetic, music and other disciplines.Unfortunately, none of his writings remains and so we must relyon later sources to trace his work on the mathematics and acousticgeometry of music. His ideas, such as the Tetrad, the GoldenSection and harmonic proportions, became applied to aestheticsand various mystical beliefs. Pythagoras is known for revealingthe mathematical correspondence between the pitch of a note andthe length of a string. However, there is much evidence that thisrelationship was known as far back as the early Babylonian andSumerian eras.

Grecian thought is still unmistakable today in the belief thatmusic influences ethical life, and in the idea that music can beexplained in an abstract way as a reflection of some higher source.Pythagoreans believed in the principle of the "kinship of allbeings".

As a result of his nexus with the god Apollo, Pythagorasbelieved that he was able to remember his earlier incarnationsand, hence, to know more than others knew. He used music toteach the purification of the soul in order to reach higher levels."To be like your Master" and so "to come nearer to the gods" washis challenge to his pupils. Salvation was thereby achievedthrough a union with the Divine Cosmos and the study of the cos-mic order through the Music of the Spheres.

In one instance, a young manwas so aroused by a melody inthe Phrygian mode that he wasabout to break into the room of a young lady, when suddenly, achange to the Hypophrygian

mode restored him to a proper frame of mind!


When we examine the music of ancient Mesopotamia andEgypt, we find that by the the end of the 4th millenniumBC there was a defined musical structure of rhythmic

and melodic tradition, developed under priestly ritual guidance. There is much evidence from the texts that the Sumerian and

Akkadian dynasties in the 3rd millennium BC made music a sig-nificant aspect of kingly and priestly ritual. In fact, they empha-sised that the various musical instruments were "pleasing to thegods". As pointed out by Sir Laurence Gardner in his book,Genesis of the Grail Kings , the biblical Tubal-cain (who isrevered in scientific Freemasonry) was the great Vulcan ofMesopotamia during the reign of Egypt's King Narmer (c. 3200BC). He was a prominent alchemist and the greatest metallurgistof his age, while his step-brother Jubal was said to be "the ances-tor of all who handle the lyre and pipe"—whence derived theword "jubilee", meaning "a blast of trumpets" or "to lead with tri-umph or pomp". The ritual connection in pleasing the gods withbrass horns and trumpets is very apparent in this era, and a laterassociation between angels and the mediaeval buisine (long trum-pet) probably originates from this time.

Musical instruments played in the death-pit ritual of Ur (thecapital of Sumer, c. 2600 BC) were nine lyres, three harps,sistrums or bell trees, frame drums (flat drums) in three differentsizes, double pipes and silver pipes. There is evidence from thisera that modal forms were definitely in use, and informationgained from the many cartouches that show people singing anddancing with bells, rattles and cymbals.

By looking at the tuning of harps and lyres, we are directly ableto ascertain the four main root modes used later in Greece andRome. The mosaic Royal Standard of Ur shows a female singer,accompanied by a male playing a lyre with a soundbox in theshape of a bull. Animals were very much connected with variousinstruments, as in the jackal decorations on one of the Ur lyres,along with the "serpents" (long, curled trumpets) which were ableto produce snake-like hissing sounds.

Some Egyptian texts have been discovered which, in the firsthalf of the 2nd millennium BC, gave instructions for the tuning ofa lyre, which implied the octave (as in later Greek and Romansystems) and were the basis of a tonal scaling. Associations withmilitary music are shown in many cartouches and funeral tombsin Egypt. Tutankhamen was buried with two trumpets, while arelief from Sennacherib portrays a pair of trumpeters blowingalternately.

From the Sibylline Oracles, wherein prophecies concerningJewish or Christian doctrines were allegedly confirmed by a sibyl(a legendary Greek prophetess), a songreads: "They do not pour blood on altarsin libations of sacrifices; No drumsounds no cymbal; No flute of manyholes which has a sound that damagesthe heart; No pipe which bears the imita-tion of the crooked serpent; No savage-sounding trumpet herald of wars; Nonewho is drunk in lawless revels or dances;No sound of the lyre and no evil-work-ing devices."

For a while in the Middle Ages, thebishops banned the use of brass instru-ments in churches because they werebrash and produced what was perceivedas "Devil tones" and "Satan's music".This proscription was intended to severthe link with all ancient, Old Testament

forms of worship ritual and its associated Egyptian ritual.However, it is interesting that, from the Reformation, secularmusic was almost totally dedicated to the use of brass instrumentswith composers like Purcell, Handel and Bach at the forefront ofgreat choral and brass-dominated works. The fact is that, today,both Church and State ceremonies inherit their musical traditionsfrom the priestly ritual and military pomp of the early time-frame.

Sacred ritual has always been linked to a transcendent realm,and many depictions of musical instruments are of double instru-ments, being perceivably one octave apart. This is very signifi-cant when considering the psycho-acoustic properties of sound.The interval shift of a perfect octave is exactly one-half or doublethe frequency. In ecclesiastical terminology, it is the seventh day(exactly a week) after a feast day, or eight days including the feastday and its octave.

Occasionally, however, strange acoustic phenomena occurwhen the octave is sounded imperfectly. In certain architecturaland atmospheric circumstances, the imperfect octave (when thefrequencies start to resonate against each other) produces lower orsub-harmonics, and these can fall far beneath our audio range.

Resonance is the vibration set up by contact with an objectsympathetic to the frequency. For example, a tuning fork soundsfar stronger if it is touching a table, with the energy transferredmore powerfully through the air. However, the vibration of thefork will go on far longer, although less intensively, if it is free ofany contact. It is also important to realise that, in the familiar sce-nario of the singer and the wine glass, it is not the power of thesound that is important; it is the vibrational "trill" of the singer, ina resonating frequency with the glass, which causes the glass toshatter.

The law of conservation of energy states that "you cannot getmore energy from a sound source than you put in", and yet, withthe subtle use of architecture and natural chambers, sound can beharnessed to project these psycho-acoustic properties. The soundof a particular instrument is derived from a tendency to reinforceparticular harmonics so as to create what we understand as "tonecolour", and this pitch region is know as a "formant".

Formants play a unique role in our speech, as each vowel soundcan be characterised by way of containing two fixed formantregions. Extreme use of these may be found in the low chantingof Tibetan monks, as well as in the Hare Krishna chant and theOm chant. In fact, formants play a significant role in the strengthor amplitude of a sound, and this explains how it is that a singleflute is able to be heard amid a large string and brass section of anorchestra.

Many have studied the levitational potential of sound, andwe have several accounts, with eyewitness evidence, ofthis elevating force. Indeed, levitation rituals are still

being performed in India and Tibet. In the village of Shivapur, near Poona, India, is a little mosque

dedicated to the Sufi holy man Qamar Ali Dervish. Outside in thecourtyard of the mosque is a stone weighing 138 pounds. Duringdaily prayer, eleven devotees surround the stone, repeating theholy man's name. When they reach a certain pitch, the elevenmen are able to lift the stone by using one finger each. When thechanting stops, the devotees jump back as the stone resumes itsweight and falls to the ground with a heavy thud. The key seemsto be in the chanting, and eleven voices must be the required for-mula to achieve the correct pitch to make the boulder's vibrationschange and render it weightless, or at least much lighter.

Another fascinating eyewitness account of modern levitationcomes from Tibet. It was reported by the Swedish aircraft indus-trialist, Henry Kjellson, who travelled through the Himalayas inthe early 1930s. Kjellson described how Tibetan monks hauledstones, measuring 1.5 metres square, by yak up to a plateau andplaced them in a specially designedbowl-shaped hollow, one metre indiameter and 15 centimetres deep atthe centre. The hollow was situated100 metres from a 400-metre cliffface, at the top of which was a tem-ple that was being constructed.

Sixty-three metres behind the hol-low stood nineteen musicians, and,behind them, 200 priests radiatingout in lines, separated from oneanother in groups at five-degreeintervals and forming a quarter-cir-cle with the hollow at its focal cen-tre. The distances appear to havebeen of the utmost importance, as allwere carefully measured by the monks using lengths of knottedleather.

The musicians possessed a total of thirteen drums of three dif-ferent sizes, while alternating between them were others with sixlarge ragdan trumpets. The drums weighed up to 150 kilogramseach and were barrel-shaped, suspended from wooden frames sethorizontally and directed towards the hollow. The long metaltrumpets, also directed towards the hollow, were of specificlength, and it took two monks, taking turns, to blow one instru-ment.

On command, the drums and trumpets were sounded and thepriests chanted in unison, together forming sharp blasts of sound.After four minutes, Kjellson observed that the individual stonesplaced in the target hollow began to wobble, moving from side toside, and that then, as the beats of sound increased, the stonessoared 400 metres in a parabolic arc to the top of the cliff!Kjellson recorded that, by this means, the monks were able to ele-vate five or six blocks an hour.

A few years later, in 1939, a friend of Kjellson—a Swedishdoctor called Dr Jarl, who was working for the Oxford ScientificSociety in Egypt—was called into Tibet to treat a High Lama inthis same region. While he was there he was permitted to shoottwo films of this levitational ritual. However, the OxfordScientific Society confiscated the films, declaring that, since DrJarl was in their employ when the films were shot, they were clas-sified and not to be released. At present, the whereabouts of thefilms remains a mystery, but exhaustive searching by this author

and others is in progress.In the music album Genesis of the Grail Kings, I have re-enact -

ed the first four minutes of this levitation ritual on a track called"Phoenix and the Fire-stone", using the exact same format asdescribed above. Several people have contacted me since therelease of the CD, remarking that this track has occasionallycaused certain phenomena to occur. One report told of the musicreturning even after the CD player had been turned off, while oth-ers have described objects being moved around the room.However, as yet, no one has made any report of their stereo sys-tem floating out of the window!

Preliminary findings to this point in the research have led me tolook more closely into frequency and resonance. The resonantfrequency of our skulls is around 3.5 hertz, and this coincideswith the 14th sub-harmonic of G above middle C, which is themain frequency used in "Phoenix and the Fire-stone". This is thefrequency directly connected to the pineal gland, and is thereforelinked to the transcendent realm and the expansion of the subcon-scious.

Recent research has been accom-plished into sound, as a part ofthe IRCAM project in Paris.

This is an electronic music researchestablishment (part of the GeorgesPompidou Centre), founded in the1980s with substantial grant-aid fromthe French Government.

Unfortunately, much of this Frenchfunding was originally associated withthe exploration into the military poten-tial of sound warfare, under cover ofthe cultural project in the studio com-plex. There are certain rooms whichare still "out of bounds" today, even tothe composers working permanently

within the centre.So far, none of the acoustic research of modern times has pro-

duced any definitive sign of the levitational ability known to theTibetans and others. But the research continues, for there is noreason why we should not acknowledge the Tibetan acquisition ofknowledge from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Until theChinese takeover, Tibet had been isolated for millennia and thisknowledge may well have been intentionally provided to themonks.

Purposeful architecture has always played a significant part inthe constructions that surround spaces where music is played. InFrance, Chartres Cathedral (built in less than thirty years duringthe 13th century when high Gothic architecture was at its purest)is one of the most wondrous structures in this regard. In the cen-tre of the floor of the nave is the famous labyrinth, which has longbeen connected with certain musical harmonics, set within anarchitectural framework of the Cathedral's walls and flying but-tresses.

In Genesis of the Grail Kings, Sir Laurence Gardner describesthe exotic anti-gravitational properties of the white powder ofgold and other orbitally rearranged monatomic elements(ORMEs). Our collective work in this field has led us to postulateon the potential of the three combined forces—the single-atompowder, acoustics and architecture—and that, without this tripleand holistic conjunction to facilitate an interdimensional state


After four minutes, Kjellson observed that the individual stones

placed in the target hollow began towobble, moving from side to side,

and that then, as the beats of soundincreased, the stones soared 400 metres in a parabolic arc

to the top of the cliff!



Many NEXUS readers may recall my mention in the editorial in vol. 3 no. 2 about a guywho had a car running on water. We were just about to do a big story on his fuel cell,when he got a phone call basically implying that the well-being of his family would becompromised if he did the article with NEXUS. Well, that person is Joe, and severalyears later he still prefers anonymity, leaving the job of getting the word out to a net -work of trusted researchers. One of them, Alex Schiff, has just written a manual aboutthe Joe cell, but here we only have room to publish some important theoretical informa -tion from it. If you like what you read below, I suggest you get the manual and have ago at building a Joe fuel cell yourself. Good luck, and be careful! — Ed.

In approximately 1992, a new form of a generator was constructed in Australia. Inpreparation for this book, I spoke to both the designer and his fiancée regarding mywish to give him the due credits, etc., for his seven years of work and cooperationwith all involved parties. Unfortunately, due to the lunatic fringe and money grab-

bers that dealt with him, this poor, victimised individual has decided to relinquish any fur-ther involvement with the cell that bears his name. So, in respect of his wishes, he willsimply be referred to as "Joe". I would like to say, dear Joe, that if it were not for rareindividuals like you, we, the vast brainwashed majority, would never find the true beau-ties of Nature's gifts.

Without the "benefit" of years of dogmatic, mind-shrinking education, Joe found byintuition how to ask Nature a question in such a way that it answered. The answer was amethod of powering machinery without the use of our primary resources or the creation ofpollution. This method is well known to the select few, and the technology has beenaround for centuries. Joe has made a crude, easy-to-build version of this generator. Thegenerator is called a "Joe cell".

My intention is to remove (to the best of my ability) some of the mystery, secrets,guesswork and plain misinformation surrounding the cell's construction. The aim is tohelp the constructor make a cell in a laid-out, step-by-step method that I have employed tomake my own cells. My knowledge comes from making the cells. As I have built manyworking cells, this experience has given me the knowledge, not by guesswork or readingsomeone's book or listening to second- or third-hand "expert" opinions. I now pass thisinformation on to you, and it will always stay as my opinion and information until youbuild your own cell. Only then will you know how to make a cell, and not before!

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE JOE CELLLet us look at some of the characteristics of the cell, as stated by Joe.• The water in the cell is not consumed.• The cell runs cold to the touch.• It takes a period of time before the engine will run from the cell. It then has an erratic

power output and works in an intermittent fashion.• When the cell is removed from the car, the engine takes an appreciable time to return

to "normal" and run from the original fuel.• If the cell is left in the car for a long period, the engine becomes "charged". From this

point, the cell is not required for the motor to run.• All spark-plug leads can be removed and the engine will still run, as long as the

ignition coil and distributor remain functional.• The output of the cell does not have to be connected to the internals of the engine. A

This simple andefficient fuel cell,believed to trap

Orgone or life-forceenergy, has the

potential torevolutionise ourenergy generation

systems.

by Alex Schiffer © 1999

Extracted and edited from his manualExperimenter's Guide to the Joe Cell

Published by NuTech 2000PO Box 255

Ivanhoe, Victoria 3079, AustraliaE-mail: [email protected]


close external coupling will do.• The cell requires the "charging" of the water to be able to

work.• The "charged" water can be poured from one container to

another without losing the charge.• The cell requires a specific style of construction, little under-

stood by most constructors.• An empirical construction style has evolved with little, if any,

science or success.• The source of power for the cell and its use has great value for

some individuals. These individuals are creating misinformation,cloaking operations and inducing fear in cell constructors.

• Human presence can affect the operation of the cell in a posi-tive or negative way.

From the above, I have concluded that the Joe cell is a crudeOrgone accumulator, and that thecell runs on or collects Orgone.As these accumulators have beenand are in use all over the world,the constructor can share in thisvast pool of knowledge.

For example, as early as 1January 1867, a French patent,No. 60,986, was issued to aMartin Ziegler for an accumulatorof a living, non-electrical type offorce.

The experimenter can, with alittle research and notes like these,bypass the myths, misinformationand the mongers of secrets andget on with scientifically basedfacts. Also, he can be prepared torealise and meet the d a n g e r s t h a tawait the rash and foolhardy.

ORGONE ENERGYAs all known effects of Orgone

are seen in the functioning of aJoe cell, it is reasonable to assumethat the reader should have a goodworking knowledge of Orgoneenergy. Additionally, as the cellobeys all known Orgone laws andas its operation does not contra-dict known Orgone effects, it issafe to assume that this is theenergy that is utilised in the cell.

In honour and respect of one ofthe world's great, forgotten andscorned scientists, namely Dr Wilhelm Reich, I will continue touse the name "Orgone", as used by Reich—although a multitudeof other scientists, great and small, have also given this mysteri-ous force a name.

To quote Reich: "Orgone energy is the live cosmic energy ofNature... The Cosmic OR Energy fills the universe...and...it is aspontaneously pulsating, mass-free energy..."

For interested readers, there is a huge collection of facts, opin-ions and absolute rubbish on the Internet regarding Reich andOrgone. As the aim of this book is to focus on the Joe cell, theabove definition will suffice.

Some Properties of Orgone EnergyThousands of properties have been observed for the life force,

and I would like to list and explain the main ones relating to thecell.

1. It is mass-free; that is, Orgone energy has no inertia, weight,etc. So, conventional test equipment that requires a reaction orsomething to "push" against to measure a force will be ineffective.

2. It is present everywhere, but, more importantly to the Joecell user, the concentration is variable from place to place andfrom time to time. Therefore, if the cell is leaky and located in alow-concentration area, it may stop breeding or even lose theseed. The external signs are a motor that will not produce fullpower or will not run at all.

3. It is in constant motion. It has an uneven movement fromwest to east at a speed considerably greater than the Earth's rota-tion. The motion is a pulsating expansion and contraction, with a

flow normally along a curvedpath. Inside an accumulator, theenergy is emitted as a spinning,pulsating wave. Both of thesecan be seen to varying degrees ina charging vat and/or cell. Thesesigns are very important to theexperimenter as they are his toolsin the different stages of seedingand breeding of the cell.

4. It negates the laws ofentropy. Orgone energy flowsfrom lower concentrations tohigher concentrations; that is,Orgone attracts concentrations toitself. This is the normal processof Creation and, as such, is aproof of Orgone being a livingenergy. For the experimenter,this is very important, especiallyin the seeding stage. If the cell islocated in an unfavourable loca-tion, it may not seed or may takea long time to seed. I have hadcells taking four weeks to seed,and others taking only a fewdays.

5. Matter is created from it.Under appropriate conditions,which are not rare or unusual, Ihave had different minerals formfrom identical cells. In my case,this is usually a white or greenpowder that forms as very finecolloid that eventually sinks to

the bottom of the cell. You definitely do not want this to occur inthe Joe cell, as the cell will not run the car and the only solution isto completely dismantle, repolish and clean all components. Forthe sceptical, you may assume that the deposits are coming out ofthe water. I strongly disagree.

6. It can be manipulated and controlled. We do this in the cellby forming alternate organic and non-organic "cylinders" to forman accumulator for the Orgone. Thus the organic layers attractand soak up the Orgone, and the metallic layers draw it from theorganic material and radiate it into the interior of the accumulator.Additionally, we use electricity, magnetism and electrolysis toassist with the breeding process.

Fig. 1: A view of "Old Trusty", a three-year-old cell that breaks mostof the rules of cell design, but is still a great performer. The filling

hole has a temporary pressure gauge fitted to monitor air leaks.


7. It comes from the Sun in vast quantities. As such, allowingfor thermal lag, the Orgone density peaks in the afternoon anddiminishes in the early morning hours. As people have found, aleaky cell will not function, as it "dies" around 3 am to 4 am.

8. It is affected by weather; that is, humidity, cloud, tempera-ture and time of day affect the accumulation of Orgone. For theexperimenter with a leaky cell, this explains the weird behaviourof leaky cells; that is, sometimes they work, other times not, but ifyou stand on one foot, talk to it, try different water, chemistry,more or less power, etc. it will "come good". This has created awhole religion of what you must do or not do, to such an extentthat, with the blind leading the blind, the cell in the hands of acasual constructor is doomed to failure.

9a. It moves in the direction of a magnetic field. This is highlysignificant to the cell builder. This factor controls the positionand polarity of the cell's internal wiring as well as how muchresidual magnetism the steel can have and still allow the cell towork. This is critical in the choice and cut-ting operations of the related metals. Again,a whole mythology has developed aroundthis area. From reading previous materialon the subject, it seems that the steel has tobe cut by vestal virgins in the Black Foreston a moonlit night!

9b. It moves at a right angle to an electri-cal field. Again, this is highly important, asit dictates the polarity and wiring connec-tions to the cell.

10. It is absorbed by water. This is oneof the reasons that we use water in the cell.To be successful, the water has to be theright type of water. By the way, wecould have used beeswax, for exam-ple, instead of water, but, as we wantto encourage the breeding processwith all the tricks in the book, thebeeswax would have prevented theuse of electrolysis.

11. It is polarised. As Orgone ispolarised—that is, we can have posi-tive or negative orgonic force—so wecan build a positive or negative cell.However, if you mix your positiveand negative construction materials,as most people do, then your result isa leaky or non-operational cell.

12. It will penetrate or travel along all known materials. Allbodies of continuous structure are equally good conductors; forexample, it may travel through 70 feet [21.3 metres] or more ofmetal. As such, do not think that you are trapping it in the cell.The only reason it stays in the cell at all is because it wants to. Itis up to the experimenter to set up a seeding and breeding envi-ronment that is conducive to Orgone and not try to create animaginary prison that the experimenter hopes will trap theOrgone. As a side note, mankind has created synthetic materialsin recent times that can greatly stop the penetration of Orgone. Iam talking about polymers.

13. It has a slow conduction rate. Orgone will take 20 secondsor more to traverse 50 yards [45.7 metres] of wire. For the exper-imenter, this means that you should wait about 30 seconds afterturning power on to the cell before you can expect to observeOrgone action at a stable rate.

14. It exhibits a constant upward tendency, rising vertically.

This is highly important in creating a non-leaky cell installation ina car.

15. It cannot remain in steel or water longer than about onehour. Simply said, if your cell is not breeding it will die in aboutone hour. This explains the use of a 1.5-volt battery across leakycells to maintain a breeding process. What you achieve with thesmall potential across the cell is a very low rate of electrolysis thatmatches the leaking of the cell, thus maintaining the breedingprocess.

16. It radiates a great distance. From a typical cell, the radia-tion circumference is at least 160 feet [48.8 metres]. Think aboutit!

17. It follows optical laws. It can be refracted by a prism,reflected by polished surfaces, etc. This explains the reason forthe mirrored or highly polished surfaces in some parts of the cell.It also allows us to control some leaking by utilising optical laws.

18. It surrounds itself with alternating spherical zones of oppo-site polarity. This is utilised by us to deter-mine cylinder diameters and consequentialspacing in the optimisation of the cell.

19. It is affected by living beings.Again, important, as the experimenter andhis attitude can interact with the cell.

20. It can only be concentrated to a finiteamount. If a cell is charged to its maxi-mum degree so that it can hold no more,the Orgone will transform itself into elec-tricity and, in this way or form, find a dis-charge. By the visual observation of thebubbles, pulsations and surface tension ofthe water, we can utilise this fact to our

advantage.21. Torsion (Orgone) fields trans-

mit information without transmittingenergy, and they propagate throughphysical media without interactingwith the media.

22. Torsion (Orgone) fields cannotbe shielded by most materials, butcan be shielded by materials havingcertain spin structures (as in point 12,above).

23. Each physical object, in livingor non-living Nature, possesses itsown characteristic torsion (Orgone)field.

24. All permanent magnets possess their own torsion (Orgone)field.

25. Torsion (Orgone) fields can be generated as a result of adistortion of the geometry of the physical vacuum. This isdemonstrated by pyramids, cones, cylinders, flat triangles, etc.

26. Torsion (Orgone) fields can be screened by aluminium.This allows the use of aluminium-coated mirrors or highly pol-ished aluminium to reflect our Orgone (Torsion) field (see point17, above).

27. It will pass through all materials, but at different speeds.

THEORY OF CELL DESIGNAfter six years of experimentation, I made the assumption that

the Joe cell was working on Orgone energy. This assumptioncame as a result of hundreds of hours of reading and experimenta-tion. In all that time, all the recorded effects of Orgone (and thereare hundreds) have matched the behaviour of the Joe cell.

I have concluded that the Joe cell is a crudeOrgone accumulator,

and that the cell runs on or collects Orgone...

Additionally, as the cellobeys all known Orgonelaws...it is safe to assume

that this is the energy that is utilised in

the cell.


Theoretical Requirements

Sometimes I have to restate the obvious; namely, if we are toaccumulate Orgone energy, we must have an Orgone accu -m u l a t o r ! We are not designing this cell to use neutrinos,

deuterium, nitroglycerine, steam, nitrogen, hydrogen, hydroxy, orany other author's pet opinion to the contrary. You will have toread other publications for those topics and cell designs; this traingoes to Orgone country. We are designing our cell to run onOrgone energy!

When I say "we", I am assuming that the reader is followingsuit and will build a cell closely matching our instructions. Assuch, a close study of the chapters on Orgone properties and cellpolarities would be in order. If you were naughty and skippedover these sections, I would suggestthat you read them now.

So what have you discovered? Youshould be in agreement with me on atleast two points. The cell should useas many of one type of Orgone polari-ty materials and properties as possible.Additionally, we want to utilise asmany as possible of the external forcesavailable to us in order to assist in theaccumulation of the Orgone energy.

Let me give you a brief list of therequirements of this magic accumula-tor and see if we are on the right trackwith the Joe cell:

• The Joe cell is natural, as it oper-ates on the life force (Orgone). It is the only natural, man-madeenergy-producing device that does a direct interchange from a pri-mary energy source to the final energy supply. As such, it seemsto provide "free energy" and thus should be an impossibility. Thisis a huge stumbling block for people who do not understand theconcept of "free energy".

• The Joe cell is silent. There are no moving parts. A solarpanel or Peltier-effect device would be the closest, highly ineffi-cient relations.

• The Joe cell is simple. With no moving parts, a set of cylin-ders and water, you could not get an energy cell in a more simpleformat.

• The Joe cell is cheap. After the initial outlay, there are no fur-ther material costs or replacements required for worn-out parts.The Joe cell is virtually everlasting. If you build one with second-hand components, your total outlay should be under AUD$200.

• When we use energy that is at its fundamental stage—that is,the energy cannot be broken up into any other energy constituentsthat are at a smaller level—we have no waste by-products andthus no pollution. The Joe cell runs on the life-force energy(Orgone), which is a fundamental force of the Universe. You arenot going to get any more basic than that!

• Any centrifugal, expanding andexploding force is wasteful, due to thecreation of heat. Any device that gen-erates heat as part of its operation cannever be considered an efficient ener-gy source. Nor can it ever be an over-unity device. The Joe cell runs cool,and so does the motor that runs fromit.

• Any energy produced from a set ofconversion stages is wasteful. Forexample, a nuclear submarine has anuclear reactor to create heat. Theheat is used to create steam fromwater. The steam drives a steam tur-bine. The steam turbine is used to run

an electric generator. The electric generator is used to drive anelectric motor. The electric motor turns a propeller. The pro-peller twists in water, thus providing a thrust. The thrust propelsthe submarine. You would have to be kidding! No wonder thatsuperior beings roll on the floor with laughter on observing our"technology". How unnatural is all that? The Joe cell convertsthe primary life force (Orgone) into an expanding, multiple-useforce in one step. Beautifully simple!

• The Orgone does not have to be stored, or converted and

As a side note, mankind hascreated synthetic materials

in recent times that can greatly stop the penetration

of Orgone. I am talking about polymers.

Fig. 2: An overall view of the Rover car and the external cell connection. The cell used for this test is "Old Trusty", as shown in Fig. 1.


stored. It is an on-demand system, and thus there is no infrastruc-ture required to store, distribute, ship, sell, etc. Unlike petrol, it isthe same price each week—that is, free—which is definitely notgood news for the oil multinational concerns. Maybe that is whywe are not using this force?

So, to summarise, I would say that (to the best of my knowl-edge), as there is no alternative energy device to compete with theJoe cell, we would be on the right track if we built a cell that ranon Orgone. Please note, however, that the Joe cell and its con-struction have limitations and negatives, as you have already read.As we do not live on a perfect world, we are not perfect humansand the Joe cell is not a perfect device.

Making a Theoretical CellBy reading through the list of Orgone properties and selecting

the ones that look usable, you should haveselected these:

• Property 14: As Orgone has a prefer-ence for a vertical and constant upwardalignment, we will have the outlet of ourcell at the topmost point of the final struc-ture.

• Property 6: As Orgone can be manipu-lated, it means that we can build a containerto house it. We will have cylindrical cylin-ders, concentric-centric, and with a verticalaxis to fit in with Property 14.

• Property 10: As Orgone is absorbed inwater, we are going to make a water cell.As we are dealing with water, the cell has tobe waterproof and non-corrosive.

• Property 20: As Orgone can onlybe concentrated to a finite amount, weknow that sooner or later somethingwill occur in the vertical plane andthat, with our outlet located at the topof this vertical axis (to fit in withProperty 14), something will comeout.

• Property 9a: As Orgone moves inalignment with a magnetic field, weknow that if we connect one of ourpotentials at the bottom of our "con-ductor", and the other potential at thetop of our "conductor", a magneticfield will result and the Orgone field will move in the same direc -tion. As our conductors are the metal cylinders, they now musthave a concentric-centric vertical alignment to fit in with Property14. As we are dealing with magnetic fields, our cell materialshould not interfere with the chosen field that assists the Orgoneto follow in a vertical alignment. Also, as we are dealing withwater, electrolytes and magnetism, the cell material suitable forthe simple cell should be stainless steel with a minimal magneticresidual. Just on the side, our "conductor" is a complex combina-tion of water, stainless steel cylinders and ion flow. Nevertheless,it will create a directional magnetic field.

• Property 9b: As Orgone moves at right angles to an electricalfield, our concentric vertical cylinders prove a perfect match; thatis, the electric current flow is from the innermost cylinder to theoutermost cylinder in horizontal lines. As the Orgone flows atright angles to this field, the end result is again a vertical align-ment of Orgone. Good stuff!

Now, from the table of Orgone polarities (refer to the manual),

we can get a few more "helpers" to coax the Orgone force to workfor us. The electrolysis will be very interesting, and, as Joe said,connecting the power to the cell when the engine is running is likeswitching the turbocharger on full boost: man, you are off!Likewise, the friction from the reciprocating parts in the enginewill get it to go in and have a peek, and then..."Got you! We canuse it!" The sound and vibration are additional bonuses when thecar is running.

Capacitor EffectFor the electronically versed readers, let me explain to you one

way that the cell acts as a concentric energy accumulator. It is awell-known fact that the charge of a capacitor is proportional tothe surface area of the plates. Similarly, we know that the poten-tial increases as we bring the plates closer together.

Now, look at the beauty of the Joe cell.We have a set of concentric plates with anobvious reduction of surface area as wemove towards the middle of the cell; that is,as the cylinder gets smaller in diameter, thesurface area reduces proportionally. As thesurface area of the cylinders decreasestowards the middle, we automatically havethe charge increasing as we move towardsthe centre! Therefore, the greater the num-ber of cylinders, the greater or more intenseis this charge build-up. So, thrown in at noextra design cost is an automatic magnifierfor the Orgone force that is concentratedautomatically at the centre of the cell.

The above applies only if the watercan act as a dielectric; that is, that thereare not too many ions in the water.Thank you, Nature!

By the way, on a larger scale, theEarth is the middle of the accumulatorand the different atmospheric layers arethe cylinders that concentrate the Sun'sradiations.

End ResultWe now have a theoretical cell. It is

made from a plurality of concentricstainless steel cylinders in water, withan application of a suitable electric and

magnetic field and a top-located outlet on a vertically aligned cell.So, the above is the layout and the logic in the construction of atheoretical cell.

Now, dear Joe did not do any of the science, did not know anyof the scientists, did not read any related books and did not knowwhat Orgone was. However, by a stroke of sheer luck and intu-ition, he made his final cell in the above configuration—and therest is history! Yes, dear friend; our theoretical cell is exactlyhow you should make your practical working cell. ∞

Editor's Note:The Joe fuel cell has previously been featured in articles pub-lished in NEXUS 5/05 and 5/06. Experimenter's Guide to theJoe Cell, from which this article is extracted, is reviewed in ourBook Reviews section this issue. The manual is available fromNuTech 2000, PO Box 255, Ivanhoe, Vic. 3079, Australia, e-mail [email protected]. Price is AUD$39.00 + $3.00 p&h(AUD$7.50 p&h to New Zealand; AUD$9.00 elsewhere).

Unlike petrol, it is thesame price each week—that is, free—which is

definitely not good newsfor the multinational oil

concerns.

Maybe that is why we are not using

this force?


The task of verifying astrological premises using the scientific method invariablycreates a host of problems. There is little understanding in either camp of theother's motives and methodology, and astrologers themselves are divided on thesubject of serious investigation. Many studies fail because of poorly designed

experiments and ignorance of the statistical method—let alone the fact that scientistshardly deem astrology a subject worthy of investigation.

Perhaps the main reason for the divide between astrology and science is that, accordingto the scientific method, astrology had no clearly defined premise, no plausible mecha-nism to explain its effects, and no experimental model with which to make predictions.That great mind of the Renaissance, Johannes Kepler, had a deep conviction that astrologyneeded to be reformulated in order to become a true scientific doctrine.

Many years ago I discovered a system of body types which seemed to me to explain allthe mysteries of human psychology and which has the possibility of achieving Kepler'saim. It has enabled me to introduce true, measurable quantities into astrology and to setup an objective test for a Science of Celestial Influence using well-defined physical char-acteristics.

MICHEL GAUQUELIN AND NEO-ASTROLOGYMichel Gauquelin is single-handedly responsible for putting the study of planetary

influence on a firm scientific foundation. He was born in Paris in 1928, and graduated inpsychology and statistics from the Sorbonne. He spent over twenty years studying therelationships between cosmological and biological phenomena, revealing many of astrolo-gy's faulty foundations—such as the lack of statistical evidence for the Sun signs, andsubjective differences in interpretation.

Gauquelin's first positive result in his investigations was using the birth times of 576doctors who had achieved academic distinction. He showed that they tended to have beenborn when either Mars or Saturn had just risen or had just passed the midheaven, in num-bers well above those expected by chance alone. A second study produced similar results.He then proceeded to include other professions from other European countries, until hehad collected over 27,000 birth times from official registers. With few exceptions, confir-mation of his original results—that the appearance of Saturn and Mars in key points at thetime of birth was related to eminence in professions—continued to emerge.

Gauquelin then changed his focus by making extensive lists of character traits ofvarious professional types. Using birth times and reliable biographical material, he wasable to arrive at a character profile of each planetary type that matched perfectly theclassical types of antiquity: Jovial (refined, regal, dramatic, profound); Lunar (moody,passive, pessimistic); Martial (aggressive, passionate, vigorous); Saturnine (phlegmatic,introspective, melancholic, masterful); Venusian (sensual, sympathetic, nurturing)—although he was not able to distinguish the classical Mercurial type (restless, sanguine,excitable, perceptive).

He sent his findings to the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of AllegedParanormal Phenomena, a group well known for its ability to demolish rather than verifythe claims it investigates. After having found no serious errors in Gauquelin's methods,they supervised a replication using the "Mars effect" on 535 sports champions. Theyachieved an even slightly higher percentage of successful results than Gauquelin's originaltests, with odds against chance being several million to one. They baulked, however, andraised all kinds of objections to Gauquelin's methods. The controversy over the results of

A method ofcorrelating the

planets with 'bodytypes' could putAstrology on a

firmer scientificfooting.

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the Committee's verifications of Gauquelin's findings is a saga initself, and is a clear example of the enormous resistance to anyonewho threatens to bridge the divide between the hard sciences andwhat is seen as "popular metaphysics".

However, Gauquelin said that his works should not be termed"astrology", because most of the essential elements of traditionalastrology—the zodiac, the aspects, the houses—have lost theirsignificance and only five planets play any role. Its two main pil-lars are the planetary types and the power of the four celestialangles. Gauquelin, like Kepler, was the consummate scientist,and his unique endeavour was to "chart a course between theastrologer's faith and the scientist's scepticism". He believed, asKepler did of astronomy in the 16th century, that at the end of the20th century the time was ripe for an astrological renaissance.1

RODNEY COLLIN'S BODY TYPESDr Louis Berman, one of the pioneers of

endocrinology, after years of intensive studydeveloped a system of types based on glan-dular dominance or imbalance. He said:"All attempts to classify human beings,ancient or modern, lack the fundamentalquality that studying and grouping themfrom the chemical point of view possesses."His studies convinced him of the fundamen-tal importance of the glands of internalsecretion as "controllers and regulators ofthat ensemble of forces, attributes, habits and attitudes...known ascharacter, individuality or personality".2

It was Rodney Collin who made the connection between theclassical types of antiquity and the types delineated by LouisBerman.3 Collin was a student of P. D. Ouspensky, who was him-self a student of the mystic and teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. The studyof types was a significant part of Gurdjieff's teaching, and Collinwas able to verify and develop his own discovery in the concen-trated atmosphere of an esoteric school. My own involvementwith a school in the Gurdjieff/Ouspensky tradition has enabled meto study and use this system for over 12 years.

There are only two differences between Gauquelin's and

Collin's types: Gauquelin could not distinguish a Mercurial or aSolar type. Apart from this difference, his types are identical toboth the ancient scheme and Collin's.

Collin distinguished seven basic types: the Martial, governedby the adrenal glands; the Saturnine, governed by the anteriorpituitary; the Jovial, governed by the posterior pituitary; theLunar, governed by the pancreas; the Venusian, governed by theparathyroids; the Mercurial, governed by the thyroid; and theSolar, governed by the thymus.

Being of a certain type means that our dominant essential char-acteristics are the result of the endocrine hormones broadcast inour bloodstream. The glands, tuned to a particular planet andstimulated by its appearance either rising or culminating at ourbirth or making the appropriate angles to these points, immediate-

ly begin to influence our physiology. Thepituitary stimulates the growth of longbones; the thyroid, the rate at which ourmetabolism idles and accelerates; the adren-als stimulate muscular development and cer-tain aspects of pigmentation; etc., etc.

These same hormones that direct bodilygrowth and development, in a higher octaverepresent our subjective psychology. Theydetermine our attitudes, affinities, talentsand weaknesses; our whole way of seeingthe world. Our essence, our quintessentialcharacter, is the composition of the chemi-

cals in our bloodstream at any given moment. Four hundred yearsago, Paracelsus said: "The planets are in us." There could be nomore perfect description of the endocrine influence on humanphysiology.

THE HARMONIES OF SPACE AND TIMEFew attempts have been made to construct a plausible model of

planetary influence. This is strange, for there is fertile soil forsuch a model in the field of harmonic science, the concept ofwhich is aptly expressed by George Leonard:

"At the root of all power and motion, there is music andrhythm, the play of the patterned frequencies against the matrix of

time... The way music works is also theway the world of objects and eventsworks... The deep structure of music is thesame as the deep structure of everythingelse."4

This deep structure of space and time hascaught the imagination of many greatscientists. The physicist WernerHeisenberg viewed reflection on theharmonic thinking developed by Pythagorasas being "one of the strongest impulseswithin human science".

Bertrand Russell, in his Analysis ofMatter, said: "What we perceive as variousqualities of matter are actually differencesin periodicity."

Plato wrote in the Timaeus: "...the sightof day and night, of months and the revolv-ing years, of equinox and sunset, has causedthe invention of number...whence we havederived all philosophy." Plato consideredgeometry and number as the most reducedand essential, and therefore the ideal, philo-sophical language.


Being of a certain typemeans that our dominant

essential characteristics arethe result of the endocrinehormones broadcast in our

bloodstream.

If there is a language to describe a Science of CelestialInfluence, then we must look for it in the field of harmonicscience.

THE HARMONY OF THE SPHERESHarmony is the a priori Law written in all of Nature. It is the

"philosopher's stone", and it has the potential to unite all branchesof science, so any Science of Celestial Influence must be ruled bythe same law. Kepler stated numerous times that all Nature issymbolised in geometry.

In 1920, the German scientist Hans Kayser developed a theoryof world harmonics, in an attempt to rediscover the lost harmonicscience and to unite the separate realms of contemporary scienceinto one whole. Kayser was able to demonstrate in rigorous sci-entific and mathematical terms that in chemistry, atomic physics,crystallography, astronomy, architecture,spectro-analysis, botany, etc., there exists anunderlying framework of whole-numberratios such as the octave, third, fourth andfifth.

Harmonicist Rudolph Haase said:"Harmonic laws thus allow for interconnec-tions between different areas which, sincethey often prove significant, cannot be dis-missed as accidental or side-effects."5

Entering into harmonic relationship is thegoal of every entity, from atom to planets.The solar system is an harmonic structure,subject to the laws of resonance and har-monic affinity. It reveals resonant affinitiesin the mean distances of the planetsand their rotational speeds, their orbitaland rotational periods, and perihelionand aphelion ratios. They resonatewith each other in an extremely low,inaudible yet powerful music. The keynotes of this music are transferred toEarth by their angular relationship, anidea shared by sacred geometer RobertLawlor:

"Geometric angles act as a control-ling device to release potential quali-ties locked in a holistic sound pattern.The effect of angulation on resonantpatterns is the key to understandinghow angles of planetary configurationaffect or modify the atmosphere of the Earth."6

The angles that connect the planets and Earth are: the conjunc-tion, 0 degrees; the trine, 120 degrees; the opposition, 180degrees; the square, 90 degrees; the quintile, 72 degrees; and thesextile, 60 degrees—which correspond to the natural harmonics inthe overtone sequence: unison, the fifth, the octave, the nexthigher octave, the third, and the minor third.

PLANETARY MUSICVarious attempts have been made throughout history to make

the solar system conform to musical schemes, both ideal and actu-al. The most successful of these, because it was based on physics,is that of Johannes Kepler.

Kepler's planetary harmony is based on the true motions of theplanets, and his astronomical data were so nearly accurate thatthey only required two minor corrections to agree with modernmeasurements. Kepler compared each planet's angular velocities

at perihelion and aphelion and expressed the ratio as a musicalinterval. Of 74 tones, 58 belong to the major triad C E G.Kepler's achievement is a powerful argument for the harmonicarrangement of the solar system.

According to John Anthony West, author of The Case forA s t r o l o g y: "...harmonics and resonance are now understood asfundamental scientific principles underlying all material creation,and their application to celestial correspondences follows logical-ly from what is known about them in other physical domains." 7

There is extensive evidence of this from reputable scientists likeGiorgio Piccardi and Frank A. Brown, who studied the effect ofplanetary and cosmic influences on chemical compounds and liv-ing systems, and from Hans Jenny, who conducted experimentson the principles of sound and frequency as harmonic, organisingprinciples.

THE RESONANCE OF CELESTIALMECHANICS

Astrology's real failure to qualify as a sci-ence is the lack of a plausible and completemodel for the mechanism of planetary influ-ence. I have drawn on several sources in anattempt to fill this gap—principally usingthe concept of resonance, as elaborated byDr Percy Seymour in The Scientific Basis ofAstrology.8

Put simply, the planets produce tides inthe magnetosphere of the Earth, creating fre-quencies in the magnetic field and atmos-phere. The Earth vibrates with a vast num-

ber of different frequencies and,according to Seymour, some of thesefrequencies are almost exactly thesame as the weak tidal forces producedby the planets. The natural frequenciesbecome phase-locked to them whenthe planet is rising or culminating, andare intensified.

Studies have found that radio-elec-tric measurements of natural ELF(extra low frequency) signals tend tovary from summer to winter and alsowithin a 24-hour period, beingstrongest in the early afternoon andweakest in the small hours of themorning. Other studies have found

that geomagnetic changes at the surface of the Earth, occurringwhen the dawn sunlight reaches the ionosphere, can trigger activi-ty in plants so that they are ready for photosynthesis as soon asdawn arrives, one and a half hours later.

If it be supposed that each body cell—a watery sac, ideal for thereception and conduction of electromagnetic frequencies—isreceiving the vibrations in the atmosphere, and that the glands aresensitive to frequencies of a definite pitch, then we have an idealtheoretical framework for the mechanics of celestial influence. Atbirth, the planets rising over the horizon or directly overhead exerta stronger influence, and the relative strengths of the glands areset or "tuned", as Rodney Collin says, like the tumblers in a com-bination lock and remain so for the rest of one's life.

An ancient Chinese text says: "Tuned to the tone of Heavenand Earth, the vital spirits of men express all the tremors ofHeaven and Earth, just as several cithars, all tuned on Kung [thetonic of the five-toned Chinese scale], vibrate when the note Kung


If it be supposed that eachbody cell—a watery sac,ideal for the reception

and conduction ofelectromagnetic

frequencies—is receivingthe vibrations in the

atmosphere, and that theglands are sensitive to

frequencies of a definitepitch, then we have an ideal theoreticalframework for the

mechanics of celestialinfluence.

responds. The fact of harmony betweenHeaven and Earth, Earth and Man does notcome from a physical union, from a directaction; it comes from a tuning on the samenote, producing vibrations in unison..."9

SIGNATURE SOUNDSResearch being done into BioAcoustics,

by US-based subtle-energy medicine groupSignature Sound Works, is establishing thatevery substance, structure and process inthe human body has its own specific fre-quency. BioAcoustic™ sound therapyworks on the principle that every personemits "signature sounds" that are unique toeach individual and contain informationabout physical and psychological states.Notes that are in stress are brought into bal-ance using sounds delivered at brain-wavelevels. The brain then entrains the missingnotes and reverses the disease process.

BioAcoustics researchers, with the helpof many people including medical profes-sionals, have compiled overwhelming evi-dence that the molecular weights of com-pounds converted to frequencies and deliv-ered as sound produce similar results toadministering substances orally or intra-venously. It seemed extraordinary, but theevidence was so supportive that they couldnot deny the link. Since then, theBioAcoustics group has compiled an ency-clopaedic volume of specific frequenciesfor individual organs, muscles, etc. and forhundreds of substances and compounds.

Following this research, I worked on thetheory that each endocrine gland either hadits own "note" or produced hormoneswhose molecular weights bore some har-monic affinity with the frequencies of theplanets. This is, I believe, the connectinglink between the planets and body type.The planetary tides raise frequenciesalready present in the atmosphere above acritical threshold where they can affect thesensitive glands.

COUSTO AND THE COSMICOCTAVE

Drawing on examples from music, biolo-gy, chemistry and astronomy, Hans Cousto,in his stimulating and original book, T h eCosmic Octave , explores the harmonicproperties of the structure of the solar sys-tem and effectively demonstrates that everyscale, from atom to galaxy, is linked toevery other by the law of the octave.

Cousto reports that a large Munich print-ing company was experiencing interferencewith the quality of their rotogravure print-ing process and was anxious to know why.They suspected the gelatine used in theprocess was being affected by the weather.


BODY TYPES: PHYSICAL AND CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES

These descriptions are guidelines defining physical parameters and are not hard-and-fast rules. They are descriptions of "pure types" which are rarely found. Thetypes also combine, but only in the following order: Saturnine/Martial ,Martial/Jovial, Jovial/Lunar, Lunar/Venusian, Venusian/Mercurial, Mercurial/Saturnine.10

Anterior Pituitary/Saturnine Type:Physical attributes: Very tall, long bones, high/prominent cheekbones, strong jaw,high forehead. Character attributes: Austere, cautious, great powers of endurance, impartiality,moderation, tolerance, seriousness. Chief weakness: Dominance, the desire to produce order. Chief strengths: Leadership, responsibility.

Adrenal/Martial Type:Physical attributes: Small, muscular, robust; often have short, thick neck on roundedbut powerful shoulders; strong jaw-line; often pale, ruddy or freckled complexionwith red hair.Character attributes: Aggressive, blunt, bold, competitive.Chief weakness: Flair for destructive behaviour.Chief strengths: Honesty, courage.

Posterior Pituitary/Jovial Type:Physical attributes: Large frame, big waist, thin legs; large, round heads, with menprone to baldness; both sexes often have poor eyesight.Character attributes: Ambitious, dramatic, gregarious; attracted to arts, literature.Chief weaknesses: Vanity; power, the need to subordinate others.Chief strength: Harmonising influence.

Pancreas/Lunar Type:Physical attributes: Small, unassuming; pale complexion; often a receding chin,small in proportion to rest of face; very fine hair, usually brown, light brown or jetblack. Habitual posture or facial expression is suspicious, resistant or withdrawn. Character attributes: Aloof, moody, often quite eccentric but with an orderly, practi-cal side; pessimistic, timid, secretive.Chief weakness: Wilfulness, the compulsion to resist or say no to everything.Chief strengths: Loyalty, determination.

Parathyroid/Venusian Type:Physical attributes: Gracefully rounded, shapely or well-balanced features; a softvoluptuousness, with tendency towards classic pear-shape ending in thick ankles;abundant, wavy hair, usually black or dark brown. Character attributes: Very sympathetic, accepting, charming.Chief weaknesses: No sense of individuality or lives through others; can be indeci-sive, slow or lazy. Chief strength: Strong nurturing instinct.

Thyroid/Mercurial Type:Physical attributes: Short, wiry, compact, usually extremely agile; angular face;medium-fair or dark hair.Character attributes: Tidy, fastidious; cheeky, playful quality; entertaining, witty;brimming with nervous energy, which can make this type shallow, impatient, criti-cal; psychologically perceptive.Chief weaknesses: Vanity; ability to manipulate others.Chief strengths: Adaptability; speed of intellect and motor skills.

Thymus/Solar Type:Physical attributes: Small, thin, waiflike with a light, supple, childlike body, slenderwaist, delicate features and health; transparent milk-and-roses skin, little body hair;androgynous.Character attributes: Childlike, gullible.Chief weakness: Naïveté.Chief strengths: Imagination; creativity.

An engineer was engaged to investigate, and after many years itwas discovered that the source of the interference was an atmos-pheric phenomenon, known to meteorologists as "spherics".

Spherics are short electromagnetic impulses which are continu-ously being formed in the atmosphere of the Earth and have adetermining effect on the weather. With the help of magneticwide-band antennae, it was possible to record the spectral maximaof these frequencies in over 35,000 individual tests.

The frequencies discovered corresponded to C, G, C, E, G, A,G (the extra C and G being in a higher octave), with the G match-ing to within 0.28 Hz of the G of the tone of the period of revolu-tion of the Earth. Each of the frequencies bore a remarkable har-monic relation to each other, and it seemed that the music of theEarth's rotation was not simply an abstract principle but an actualmeasurable phenomenon.

Cousto also computed frequencies for each of the planets, basedon their orbital periods about the Sun:

Mercury: 282.54 Hz D–Venus: 442.46 Hz AMoon: 420.82 Hz A–Mars: 289.44 Hz D–Jupiter: 367.16 Hz F#Saturn: 295.70 Hz D

Looked at in this way, the planets appear to be a "family" in thekey of D, as D is the tonic, F# is the third, and A is the fifth in amajor triad.

Out of 20 hormone frequencies supplied by a friend atSignature Sound Works, 13 were close matches to natural notes(no sharps or flats) in the key of D-major (of which seven were ofthe major triad).

An alternative model for the musical basis of planetary influ-ence could be the rotation of each planet producing the fundamen-tal note which is then transferred to Earth.

The notes for the daily rotation of each planet are:

Mercury: 26.84 Hz –AVenus: 25.64 Hz G#+ Moon: 26.30 Hz –A Mars: 23.49 Hz +F#Jupiter: 29.59 Hz +A# Saturn: 28.41 Hz –A#

The difference with this scheme is that whereas the orbital peri-od tones all harmonise with each other, most of these don't,although some are very close to each other. (The '+' and '–' signsrefer to notes slightly above or below the designated tone or note;e.g., –A# is somewhere in between A and A#.)

The correspondences with the hormone frequencies were alsoevident, but not as strong.

STATISTICAL VERIFICATION OF BODY TYPESIf, as we intend to prove, harmonic science—and therefore

celestial influence—is ruled by geometry and numbers, then natu-rally it can be proved by numbers. Although statistics cannot givedefinitive answers, they can indicate the probability that theresults obtained may have arisen by chance. Statistics, accordingto J. A. West, is a kind of mathematically justified common sense,and Gauquelin believed that a statistical law is a natural law likeany other.

Kepler's astrology was just as frugal as Gauquelin's, and heconsidered only the planets and their angles to be the essentialelements of astrology. The crucial angles were the conjunction,opposition, square, trine, sextile and quintile, because they could

all be equated with musical intervals. These are the aspects usedfor the following tests, with orbs of eight degrees for the largeaspects and six degrees for the sextile and quintile. For thesetests, I considered physical characteristics which are easily recog-nisable.

For reasons that aren't yet clear, the Solar type does not producethe same results with the methods used for the other planetarytypes. I originally thought the type to be determined by the Sun'sangles to the key points, but this yielded few positive results.Next, I took as an hypothesis that the Solar type is influenced byincreased emanations from the Sun, so I turned to the sunspotcycle for my next attempt. The results were both interesting andperplexing.

I found that the three Solar types I considered to be the mostclassic types were born in 1958, a year in which the highest-everlevel of sunspot activity was recorded. This was more than acoincidence, yet there were few other significant or obvious corre-lations between the births of Solar types and this cycle of solaractivity. Because the Sun is a star and not a planet, the Solar typeis also of a different order. This means that the influence of theSun on human physiology is also different than that of the planets,so, for the time being at least, the Solar type is not suitable forthese tests.

According to the statistical method, if there is no correlationbetween the planets and the body types, then any predictionsshould be hovering around the expected 16% due to chance. Inall my tests, the results were well above this number and wellabove Gauquelin's results. I had collected nearly 600 charts offamous people, half of which I managed to identify by body type.Of a total of 299 charts, 261, or 87%, contained the planets relat-ing to type. Within that total, the charts of composite typestotalled 182, and of those, 76, or 42%, contained both planetsrelating to type. The second sample comprised a total of 33friends and acquaintances of which 31, or 94%, contained theappropriate planet. The composite types totalled 17, of whichseven, or 41%, contained both planets relating to type.

For my third test, I enlisted the aid of the National Council ofGeocosmic Research in the US. Two members agreed to send mephotos of 44 subjects so I could identify their types and the plan-ets I expected to find in their charts. I sent them my findings andthey then e-mailed the results to me. Of a total of 44 subjects, Iwas able to identify 42 as types, from which I predicted 29 cor-rectly.

Traditional astrology says that all planets appearing in the chart,regardless of whether they make angles to the ascendant (ASC) ormidheaven (MC), play a role in shaping the individual, whilestressing that those aspecting the ASC or MC are more importantthan the others.

If the body type theory is correct, then it is not necessarily sothat all planets must be considered. Not all planets necessarilyplay a key role, for the same reason that certain notes produce noharmony together, as each planet has a different frequency. Theremay also be an unknown factor that selects certain planets or fre-quencies and eliminates those not relating to type, which mayhave something to do with heredity or atmospheric conditions.

A NEW SCIENCE OF CELESTIAL INFLUENCETraditional astrology, in its attempt to reflect the holistic think-

ing of the 20th century, has introduced so many variables into itsinterpretation that it long ago ceased to qualify as a science.Gauquelin, on the other hand, has established without doubt that




UNIFIED THEORY OF MATTER— Application to Electricity —

by Samuel P. Costin © 1999

Ihave received an overwhelmingresponse to my Unified Theory ofMatter [see article in NEXUS 6/04]

from both professional and amateur scienceresearchers alike. A large percentage ofrespondents wish me to elaborate on theapplication of the theory to electricity. Asso many readers requested this, I have pre-pared the following response.

As described in the introduction, theactions of matter are the same at all levelsof Nature. For example, when we observeour weather, we see winds occur when lowpressure and high pressure systems con-verge. The direction of the wind is alwaysfrom the high pressure to the low pressureregion. Higher pressure is a signature offaster particle spin velocity, and lowerpressure of slower particle spin. Hence, atparticle level, spin acceleration will alwaysoccur in the same direction, from fast toslow. Just as this is experienced every dayin our weather, so it also occurs every dayat the particle level. It is, in fact, the causeof electricity.

Another indicator of fast particle spinvelocity is heavy mass, as the faster a parti-cle's spin velocity the heavier it becomes.Also, the increase in spin velocity will pullthe particles closer together, also contribut-ing to the heavier mass.

Imagine two objects adjacent to eachother and each object has a different parti-cle spin to the other. The spin velocity ofthe faster spinning particles will slow downand the spin velocity of the slower spinningparticles in the adjacent object willincrease.

A common source of electricity is a bat-tery. A battery consists of two separatematerials of different mass, usually chemi-cals referred to as "electrolytes". One elec-trolyte always has a heavier mass than theother. Chemicals with the heavier massalso have the faster particle spin.

Another way of achieving faster particlespin is with acceleration, as in car batterieswhere a common electrolyte of sulphuric

acid is used in each cell. The particle spinof one of the cells is accelerated faster thanthe other by charge from the car's genera-tor. Should these two cells of different par-ticle spin be joined by a copper wire, then,just like the wind, a rush of particle spinacceleration will travel down the wire tothe end with slowest particle spin velocity.As a result, the particle spin of the chargedcell will slow down or lose its charge.

We always call the cell with the fasterparticle spin "negative" and other "posi-tive". That is why electricity always trav-els from negative to positive and why elec-tricity is actually particle spin acceleration.

It has been claimed that pressure andmass are both indicators of particle spin, sothese should be affected in a car battery. Ithas been established that faster particlespin is associated with increased weightand increased pressure. Therefore, for theparticle spin velocity to change, the weightof the poles at either end of the wire mustalso be observed to change.

This is exactly what happens in a car bat-tery, as the mass of the negative poleincreases during charging and reduceswhen discharging. This is observed as oxi-dation, where the mass of a lead pole will

reduce to lead oxide as it is discharging.Conversely, the positive pole will changefrom lead oxide to lead whilst receivingparticle spin acceleration through the cop-per wire. Should the pole be immersed in agas, the higher the pressure of the gas, thegreater the charge (particle spin).

Faraday found that the weight of anysubstance produced at an electrode isdirectly proportional to the quantity ofelectricity that passes between the elec-trodes. He went further to state that theweight of substances produced at the elec-trodes by the electricity (particle spin accel-eration) is in the same proportion as thechange in atomic weight (particle spinvelocity).

Obviously, the shorter the distancebetween the poles, the faster the particlespin acceleration of the positive cell.

It is interesting to note at this stage thatother indicators of particle spin accelera-tion—heat and light—are also evident atthe connection of the poles during rapidspin acceleration.

So, by placing a lead pole into a sea ofaccelerated particle spin—like charged sul-phuric acid—particle spin will be accelerat-ed down the wire to the end with the slower

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particle spin velocity. It was established in the introduction to

this theory that a similar "sea of acceleratedspin velocity" also exists around a magnet.So, placing a copper wire into this "sea ofacceleration" will create the same effect.This is how an electrical generator works.

So, to summarise the common termsused in electricity:

Potential difference (volts) is the differ-ence in particle spin velocity between anytwo points on a conductor.

A conductor is a medium through whichparticle spin acceleration may travel.

Resistance (ohms) is the amount of spinacceleration lost during its travel through aconductor.

Current (amps) is the amount of particlespin acceleration.

A way of testing this theory against the"electron" theory would be to place a con-ductor in the field of an artificially manu-factured, radioactive substance. The result-ing amperage should be significantlygreater than with permanent magnets.

I trust this will assist readers' curiosityabout this theory. Should anyone have anyfurther questions, I will be only too pleasedto assist.

I am currently formulating a similarresponse on gravity, which was also promi-nent in the readers' requests for furtherinformation.(Source: Samuel P. Costin, 11 July 1999,PO Box 234, Hamilton Hill, WA 6169,Australia, e-mail [email protected])

SUCCESSES WITH COLD FUSION& NEW-ENERGY EXPERIMENTS

by Hal Fox © 1999

As a professional scientist I havespent the past ten years (plus), sincethe announcement of "cold fusion",

tracking down, investigating and reportingon a variety of proposed new-energydevices. Our group (Fusion InformationCenter and Trenergy, Inc.) has publishedhundreds of articles and collected, read andreported on over 3,000 professional paperson various new-energy devices, systems,proposals and theories. In a capsule, hereare the results:

1. Cold fusion d o e s work. Over 600papers from over 200 laboratories in 30countries have reported successes.However, none of the varieties of coldfusion devices (as yet) is robust and easilyreplicated, so there is no threat to the hot-fusion community.

2. The Cincinnati Group has shown bothexcess thermal energy and nuclear reac-tions from a special electrochemical con-figuration. The most important finding isthe ability to reduce the radioactivity insome aqueous solutions.

We have replicated and extended thiswork in Trenergy's laboratory and havereported the results in a meeting of theAmerican Nuclear Society. Some similar(but different configuration) low-energynuclear reactions have been accomplishedand fully reported by Professor GeorgeMiley, editor (until 1999) of F u s i o n

Technology, the international journal of theAmerican Nuclear Society.

This work is now being extended to theon-site stabilisation of high-level, radioac-tive, spent-fuel pellets by the Trenergygroup. This work is being performed withprivate funds so that the intellectual proper-ty rights are preserved. Several patents arepending.

3. The newest work of Prof. Ruggero M.Santilli has shown that a special type ofunderwater arcing can produce a com-bustible gas from carbon-containing wastes(sewage and other types of contaminatedwater). This gas can be produced to pro-vide two-and-one-half times as much ener-gy output as energy input to create the gas.Patents are pending. The work is beingsupported and commercialised by ToupsTechnology Licensing, Inc. of Florida.

4. Dr Randell Mills has shown that ener-gy can be obtained by the collapsing of thehydrogen atom below its normal ground-state. For further information, including apaper presented before the AmericanChemical Society in early October 1999,see website www.blacklightpower.com.Patents are pending.

5. Kenneth Shoulders (see US PatentNo. 5,018,180) has shown how the use ofhigh-density charge clusters can produceboth excess thermal and direct electricalenergy. Up to now, the devices have beensmall (about one watt per device). Planshave been made and private funding isbeing used to scale up these thermal anddirect electrical output discoveries.According to the patent, the excess energyapparently comes from tapping the vacuumenergy of space.

These are the unemotional facts aboutnew energy. There are several other devel-opments that could be cited. However,these are the patented (and patent-pending)discoveries that are being commercialised.In all cases, the research and developmenthave been done with private funds (exceptpossibly for some work done by Prof.George Miley). The US Department ofEnergy has yet to discover and officiallyannounce these new-energy processes.

Anyone who desires to condemn a l lnew-energy projects as fraudulent is, ofcourse, either vastly misinformed or work-ing under someone else's agenda. The gen-uine, new-energy development program isvigorous, scientific, privately funded,patented, and (as with the above items 3, 4and 5) is being commercialised.

There is nothing that the new-energy

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N E W S C I E N C E N E W S C I E N C E N E W S C I E N C Edetractors can do that will prevent theincreasingly rapid commercialisation ofnew-energy devices and systems. Themost important aspect is the following:there is no need for government funding.Government funds only delay projects andadd to paperwork.

The end result is that the Department ofEnergy will find it increasingly difficult toget funds for energy development when ithas been so reluctant to fund anything buthot fusion for so many years. It has reallyfailed in its assigned mission to developnew energy sources.

— Hal Fox, 18 October 1999

COLD FUSION CONSPIRACY?

The following is edited from a briefingpaper by Hal Fox, President of the

Fusion Information Center, submitted to aninquiry by the US Commerce Department'sOffice of the Inspector-General. Thedepartment is investigating complaintsthat the Office of Patents andTrademarks is not allowing any patentapplications for cold fusion or low-ener -gy nuclear reactions to be processedbeyond being rejected. — Ed.

A. Background As the director of the first research lab-

oratory at the University of UtahResearch Park, I was intensely interestedin the March 23, 1989 announcement ofcold fusion, called by the University ofUtah administration (not called by Ponsand Fleischmann). The announcement of anew source of energy was most exciting tome. That day I began the plans for tryingto be of some help (systems engineeringbackground, missile system specialist forseveral years). By mid-April 1989, we hadorganised the Fusion Information Centerand obtained offices at the University ofUtah Research Park.

By July 1989, we had decided that infor-mation-gathering and publishing suchinformation would be our best role. Ourfirst edition of Fusion Facts was publishedin July 1989 and continued as a monthlypublication for several years before beingincorporated as part of the Journal of NewE n e r g y, a peer-reviewed, quarterly, scien-tific journal (abstracted from the first issueby Chemical Abstracts, the world's fore-most scientific abstracting organisation).

B. Attacks on Cold Fusion By the fall of 1989, it was apparent that

someone had organised and was carrying

out a campaign against the new technologyof cold fusion. All of this was done insecrecy (except for the ERAB subcommit-tee). Here are the facts, insofar as we havebeen able to gather and publish them.

A subcommittee of the Energy ResearchAdvisory Board travelled to various labora-tories where successes in cold fusion hadbeen claimed. If the researchers were mea-suring neutrons, they were told that it wasbackground radiation. If the researcherswere getting tritium, they were told that itwas contamination. If excess heat wasbeing produced, they were told that theydidn't have proper calorimetry. Except forone small paragraph demanded by one ofthe honest members of the committee, theERAB final report was entirely negativeabout cold fusion.

An arrangement was made for someonein the Office of Patents to ensure that no

cold fusion patent application was acceptedfor patenting (whether any type of coercionor reward was involved is unknown). Eachperson, as far as we have been able todetermine, was sent the same information:a copy of a newspaper article from the NewYork Times, saying that cold fusion doesn'twork; and a copy of the paper by 16 PhDsfrom MIT [Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology] stating that they could notreplicate cold fusion (this is the paperwhere the authors removed the data show-ing that they d i d get a small amount ofexcess heat).

A person (representing powers-that-be inWashington, DC) called many of thephysics and chemistry departments atmajor universities in the United States.Here was his message as relayed to mefrom one such department: "If you have somuch as a graduate student working oncold fusion, you will get no contracts out ofWashington."

All editors of the major scientific jour-

nals were contacted and were instructednot to publish articles on cold fusion. Alleditors but one then set up barriers againstcold fusion publication. The one editorwho did not accept that type of instructionwas Professor George Miley of F u s i o nTechnology.

An amount of US$30,000 (or $40,000according to different sources) was givento Random House to have a "hatchet job"done against cold fusion. The result wasthe widely acclaimed (by orchestration)book by Gary Taubes, Bad Science: TheShort Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion(1993). For one knowledgeable about coldfusion developments, it is obvious that thisbook was a deliberate hatchet job.

In addition to the above well-orchestrat-ed activities, some appointed or self-appointed scientists have been very activein travelling to conventions, etc., and doingtheir best to challenge any positive coldfusion results. Two of these are (were)Dr Douglas R. O. Morrison (CERN,Switzerland) and Professor John R.Huizenga (University of Rochester),chairman of the ERAB subcommittee (ifmy memory is correct).

One of the most active protagonists hasbeen Robert Parks, with some associationwith the American Physical Society.(The current president of the AmericanPhysical Society denied in a recent con-versation that Robert Parks speaks for theSociety.) Parks was instrumental in pre-venting a recent conference from being

held in a proffered auditorium in a govern-ment facility. Parks has an e-mail list ofmany people in the Department of Energyand, about once a month or more often,sends out statements that ridicule any coldfusion or low-energy nuclear reactionexperiments, papers, books, etc.

Please recognise that this anti-cold-fusion program was a very well plannedand orchestrated scheme to destroy coldfusion. These were clever and well-execut-ed operations. We have been told thatwere it not for Fusion Facts and its rapidexchange of information of successes invarious parts of the world, cold fusionwould have been dead. That is more creditthan we deserve.

— Hal Fox, 6 August 1999

(Source: Hal Fox, President, FusionInformation Center, Institute for NewEnergy, Utah, USA, tel [801] 466 8680, e-mail [email protected], websitewww.padrak.com/ine.

Cold fusion does work. Over 600 papers from over 200 laboratories in 30 countries have reported successes.


A number of people can predict the future, but few get the timing correct."Grandfather" was an Apache wise man and scout, named Stalking Wolf, whogrew up outside white man's influence. His many predictions not only came truein the manner he predicted, but also when he predicted.

Tom Brown, Jr learned extensively from Grandfather for twenty years, fromtheir first meeting when Tom was seven years old. Stalking Wolf was the real-lifegrandfather of Tom's best friend at the time. The following excerpt from Tom'sbook, The Quest, tells of Grandfather's predictions for all of mankind.

Looking back, I can clearly see that Grandfather's prophecies, unlike anythingelse, had the greatest influence on my life. At the time they had little more effectthan to frighten me and cause me to sit up and take notice. It wasn't until afterhis prophecies began to come true that their haunting impact began to affect me

in a very profound way. More than any other person—prophet, religious leader or psychic—I have ever met,

Grandfather's prophecies, on both a major and a minor scale, came true exactly at the timehe prophesied and exactly as he prophesied. With that record, I could not help but feel theimpact of these prophecies on my life.

Grandfather could foretell the future with tremendous accuracy. Not only could he pre-cisely tell us what would happen in the next moment, day, week or year, but with thesame accuracy he could predict the possible futures for ten years and more away. It wasnot long before I began to keep detailed records of his predictions, along with other notesI kept on survival skills, tracking, awareness and things of the Spirit. I received fromGrandfather hundreds of personal, minor predictions, and well over half have since cometrue. Along with the minor personal prophecies was a list of 103 major predictions, ofwhich, to date, over 65 have become absolutely true, not only in time and place but also inthe exact order in which they were predicted to happen.

Grandfather said that there was not future, only possible futures. The 'now' was like thepalm of a hand, with each finger being the possible future, and, as always, one of thefutures was always the most powerful, the way that the main course of events would sure-ly take us. Thus his predictions were of the possible future, which meant that he alwaysleft a choice.

"If a man could make the right choices," he said, "then he could significantly alter thecourse of the possible future. No man, then, should feel insignificant, for it only takes oneman to alter the consciousness of mankind through the Spirit-that-moves-in-all-things. Inessence, one thought influences another, then another, until the thought is made manifestthroughout all of Creation. It is the same thought, the same force, that causes an entireflock of birds to change course, as the flock then has one mind."

Out of all the personal and major prophecies that Grandfather foretold, there are fourthat stand out above all the rest. It is these four that mark the destruction of man and lifeon Earth, as we know it to exist now. Yet Grandfather said that we could still changethings, even after the first two prophecies came true, but that there could be no turningback after the third.

Now that we have gone well past the second prophecy, danger and destruction are veryapparent, and our only recourse is to work harder to change what has possibly become theinevitable. The urgency that I feel—now, more than ever—is a direct result of the second,impossible prophecy coming true. It is the reason that I teach, sometimes with a certain

In the 1920s, anApache wise man

had a Vision of fourprophecies that

foretold death anddestruction for

mankind, unless weincorporate Spirit in

our daily lives.

Two of theseprophecies may

already havecome true.

by Tom Brown, Jr © 1991

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desperation, and constantly with the sense that we are quicklyrunning out of time.

I should have worked harder and with that same desperation ata much earlier date, but, like the rest of mankind, it took a strongmessage to get me motivated. I should have known that thesethings he prophesied would some day come true, because his per-sonal, minor predictions were coming true daily.

He so accurately foretold of Rick's death on a white horse, that Iwould some day teach, that I would have a son—and that takinghim into the Pine Barrens for the first time would forever changemy life. He predicted the formation of my school, my books, myfamily, and even the horrible mistakes I would make as I tried tolive within society.

Yet with all of this coming true on a dailybasis, I simply would not believe or acceptthat the major prophecy of man's destructionwould come true, and its reality hit me hard.It was then that the urgency made itselfknown.

Iremember so vividly the "night of thefour prophecies"—as I have becomeaccustomed to calling that night when

Grandfather first made us aware of their pos-sibility. We had been with Grandfather forfive years at the time and were accustomedto his prophecies and their accuracy.

Our ability to understand the thingsof the Spirit world were as sure as ourability to survive and track. Very littleof what society calls "the paranormal"shocked us any more, because miracleswere part of our everyday existence.Grandfather was a living miracle, andso many of the things that he did on adaily basis, sometimes unconsciously,would be considered miraculous bymost. Yet as savvy as we were spiritu-ally, the night of the four propheciesshocked us like nothing we had everexperienced before.

We had been hiking all day without much of a break, makingour way to a place where we were going to camp, atop a small hillthat I now call Prophecy Hill. It was a typical midsummer hike:hot, humid and dusty, with no water available along our entiretravel route. As usual, we still took time to stop frequently or takeside trips to explore various areas along our route. The adventureand exploration kept us fresh and eager, making the fatigue, heatand thirst hardly factors.

Many times along the way, Grandfather would stop and teachus—not physical lessons of survival, tracking or awareness, butlessons dealing with the awareness of Spirit. Very often he woulddiscuss the future and, almost as frequently, the past—the distantpast.

At one point we stopped along the deer trail we were travellingand followed Grandfather through some heavy brush. The treesand shrubs were far different than those throughout the rest of thePine Barrens, and I immediately knew this place as an old home-stead or town of some sort. Even though the buildings had longsince rotted away, the plants and trees still marked the spot wherecivilisation had once stood. Passing through several very thickareas, we finally entered a grove of very tall, old sycamore trees.From their branches and up their trunks ran huge vines, the kind

one might imagine finding in a jungle. In fact, the whole placelooked like a jungle—so out of place from the pine, oak and blue-berry that is typical in the Pine Barrens. As we sat down, a deeperspiritual sense of awareness came over me, and it was then that Inoticed the gravestones.

This was the place of a very old and probably long-forgottencemetery, possibly belonging to the town that had once been here.The stones were old; some lay flat on the ground and others stoodupright, though none was straight. Plants and bushes had overrunmany of the stones, and I could barely make out the markings onthe stones. The weathering process had worn away many of thenames and dates, making them barely readable.

At once we were in awe, humbled andreverent in this place of death; at the sametime, we were amazed that Grandfather hadfound it so easily. To my knowledge, noneof us had been there before, nor hadGrandfather ever spoken of this graveyard.Yet for some reason he seemed to be drawnto it, knowing that it was there on someunseen spiritual level, at least unseen to us.I suspect now, as I look back, that he knewthat it would become a teaching lesson forus.

He walked over to a gravestone that waspartially hidden by foxgrape vines and gen-

tly pulled them away. After a longmoment, he motioned us to come over.We could barely make out the name onthe grave or the dates, but at the bottomwas carved clearly: "12 years old".

Grandfather then spoke. "Who arethese people; who is this boy? Whatdid they work for and what were theirhopes, dreams and visions? Did theyjust work physically or did they workfor the things beyond the flesh, for agrander purpose? Certainly theyaffected the Spirit-that-moves-in-all-things, but did they really work to thebest of their ability to make things bet-

ter for the future of their grandchildren, or did they do nothingother than to perpetuate the myth of society? Were they happy,joyous and filled with spiritual rapture, or did they just lead livesof labour and mediocrity? And did this boy live close to the Earthand the Creator, or did he just give up his youth, his sense ofadventure, to toil, as did his parents and their parents beforethem? This boy was exactly your age, and I suspect he had hopesand dreams much like yours. But this is his legacy, lying in a for-gotten grave."

"But, Grandfather," I said, "isn't it enough just to be happy andlive your life fully?"

After a long moment of silence, Grandfather answered. "It isnot enough that man be just happy in the flesh, but he must alsobe happy and joyous in spirit. For without spiritual happiness andrapture, life is shallow. Without seeking the things of the Spirit,life is half lived and empty. And by spiritual life I do not meanjust setting aside one hour of one day of one week for worship,but to seek the things of the spirit every moment of every day. Iask you, then: What did these people do to seek spiritual enlight-enment and rapture? Did they just give in to a life that was littlemore than work? They were given a choice every day of theirlives—as you will be given a choice to seek the rapture of the

He so accurately foretold of Rick's death on a whitehorse, that I would someday teach, that I would

have a son...

He predicted the formation of my school,

my books, my family, and even the horriblemistakes I would make

as I tried to live within society.


Spirit or to resign yourselves to a life of meaningless work. Theend result is always the same: forgotten graves and forgottendreams of forgotten people. It is not important that anyone noticeor remember, but that you work to touch God and affect in a posi-tive way the consciousness of the Spirit-that-moves-in-all-things,thus bringing the consciousness of man closer to the Creator."

We left the graveyard without a word and headed up to thecampsite on the hill. By the time we reached the camp, it hadcooled off and the Sun had long since set. As we built sheltersand a fire and gathered food, time seemed to fly by unnoticed, asmy mind was thoroughly engrossed in thoughts of the lessons inthe graveyard. I wondered how much I might be like that name-less dead boy in that forgotten grave. Was I just seeking the fleshand not working hard enough in the things of the Spirit?

It was then that I realised the deeper lessons of whatGrandfather was trying to teach me. I realised then that I shouldlive life as if I were to die tomorrow, for that is what happened tothat young boy. No one can be assured of another day, but wemust live each day fully, in flesh and most of all in Spirit. It isn'timportant that anyone remember who we were, but that we madea positive change in the consciousness of the Spirit-that-moves-in-all-things, the life force of the Earth, and, in doing so, find spiritu-al rapture and touch the Creator.

Isat by the fire after the work wasdone, relaxing, still deep inthought about the boy in the

graveyard. Grandfather sat at the farend of the fire, his eyes closed, but Isuspected that he was not sleeping.In the firelight, his features appearedmore that of a spirit than of flesh.Quietly he leaned forward andanswered the many questions I hadon my mind. At times, his ability toknow what was on my mind wasunnerving, sometimes making meangry to think that he could knowmy thoughts.

"Did you ever watch a flock of sandpipers on the beach, howthey ebb and flow with the tides, becoming at times not a gather-ing of individual animals but one organism, moving as a unittogether along the surf? When they burst into flight, their cohe-siveness is even more startling and wondrous. At once they allwill be flying in a certain direction, and then in an instant theentire flock will turn simultaneously and take a new direction.

"Studied closely, there is no one bird that makes the decision toturn, but it seems to be a Spirit, a collective consciousness, thatruns through the flock instantly. When viewed from afar, theflock appears to be one animal, one organism, one consciousness,governed by the collective force and spirit of all the individuals.It is this same consciousness that runs through man, Nature andthe Earth—that which we call the 'Spirit-that-moves-in-all-things',or the 'life force'.

"I suspect," he continued, "that it is but one bird that creates thethought that turns the flock, and the one thought becomes imme-diately manifested in all the others. The individual then tran-scends self and becomes one with the whole. Thus, at once, thebird moves within the flock and the flock moves within the bird.So, then, do not ask what you can do to affect the life force in apositive way, for the same Spirit that moves within the birds alsomoves within you. One person, one idea, one thought can turn theflock of society away from the destructive path of modern times.

It is not a question as to whether we make a difference, for we allmake a difference, each of us in our own way. It is the differencewe make that is important."

"So if we live a life that is close to the Spirit, seek the spiritualrapture of oneness, that will affect the outcome of life," I said.My statement was more a question than a declaration.

"It is not enough," Grandfather said, "just to seek the things ofthe Spirit on a personal level. To do so is selfish, and those whojust seek the spiritual realms for themselves are not working tochange the Spirit that moves through the consciousness of man.Instead they are running away, hiding from their responsibilityand using their wisdom for their own glorification. Spiritual manmust then work for a principle, a cause, a Quest far greater thanthe glorification of self, in order to affect the spirit that canchange the course of man's destruction."

I sat for a long time in the quietude of the night, trying desper-ately to understand what Grandfather had told me. In essence, itwas not enough to work for spiritual enlightenment for self, but towork for the spiritual enlightenment of all of mankind. To workonly for self, to cloister oneself in the seeking of spiritual rapture,is to run from this responsibility. What Grandfather was saying isthat a spiritual person must take the wisdom and philosophy of theEarth and bring it back into modern society.

Grandfather spoke again. "Trying to live a spiritual life in mod-ern society is the most difficult pathone can walk. It is a path of pain, ofisolation and of shaken faith, but thatis the only way that our Vision canbecome reality. Thus the true Questin life is to live the philosophy of theEarth within the confines of man.There is no church or temple we needto seek peace, for ours are the templesof the wilderness. There are no spiri-tual leaders, for our hearts and theCreator are our only leaders. Ournumbers are scattered; few speak ourlanguage or understand the things thatwe live. Thus we walk this path

alone, for each Vision, each Quest, is unique unto the individual.But we must walk within society or our Vision dies, for a man notliving his Vision is living death."

For a long time there was no other conversation. I retired intomy own thoughts and doubts. I did not want to live within soci-ety, for the wilderness was my home, my love, my life and myspiritual rapture. I could not see why a man could not live hisVision in the purity of wilderness, away from the distractions ofsociety. I could feel no urgency or see any reason why I shouldtake what I have learned back to society.

Grandfather's voice shattered my thoughts. "The Earth isdying. The destruction of man is close, so very close, and wemust all work to change that path of destruction. We must pay forthe sins of our grandfathers and grandmothers, for we have longbeen a society that kills its grandchildren to feed its children.There can be no rest, and we cannot run away; far too many in thepast have run away. It is very easy to live a spiritual life awayfrom man, but the truth of Vision in spiritual life can only be test-ed and become a reality when lived near society."

"How do I know that we are so close to that destruction?" Iasked.

"I had a Vision," Grandfather said. "It was a Vision of thedestruction of man. But man was given four warnings to thatdestruction, two of which gave man a chance to change his ways

"It is very easy to live a spirituallife away from man, but the truthof Vision in spiritual life can onlybe tested and become a reality

when lived near society."


and two of which would give the children of the Earth time toescape the Creator's wrath."

"How will I know these warnings, these signs?" I asked. Grandfather continued. "They will be obvious to you and those

who have learned to listen to the Spirit of the Earth; but to thosewho live within the flesh and know only flesh, there is no know-ing or understanding. When these signs, these warnings andprophecies, are made manifest, then you will understand theurgency of what I speak. Then you will understand why peoplemust not just work for their own spiritual rapture but to bring thatrapture to the consciousness of modern man."

Grandfather had been wandering for several years and waswell into his forties when the Vision of the four signs wasgiven to him. He had just finished his third Vision Quest

at the Eternal Cave when the Vision made itself known. He hadbeen seated at the mouth of the cave, awaiting the rising Sun,when the spirit of the warrior appeared to him. He felt as if hewere in a state somewhere between dream and reality, sleep andwakefulness, until the spirit finally spoke and he knew that it wasnot his imagination. The spirit called Grandfather's name andbeckoned him to follow.

As Grandfather stood, he was sud-denly transported to another world.Again, he thought that he was dream-ing, but his flesh could feel the realityof this place; his senses knew that thiswas a state of abject reality, but inanother time and place.

The spirit warrior spoke toGrandfather. "These are the thingsyet to come that will mark thedestruction of man. These things youmay never see, but you must work tostop them and pass these warnings onto your grandchildren. They are thepossible futures of what will come ifman does not come back to the Earthand begin to obey the laws ofCreation and the Creator. There are four signs, four warnings,that only the children of the Earth will understand. Each warningmarks the beginning of a possible future, and as each warningbecomes reality, so too does the future it marks."

With that, the spirit warrior was gone and Grandfather was leftalone in this strange, new world.

The world he was in was like nothing he had ever known. Itwas a dry place with little vegetation. In the distance he saw avillage, yet it was made out of tents and cloth rather than from thematerials of the Earth. As he drew closer to the village, the stenchof death overwhelmed him and he grew sick. He could hearchildren crying, the moaning of elders and the sounds of sicknessand despair. Piles of bodies lay in open pits awaiting burial, theircontorted faces and frail frames telling of death from starvation.The bodies appeared more like skeletons than flesh, and children,adults and elders all looked the same, their once dark-browncomplexions now ash-grey. As Grandfather entered the village,the horror of living starvation struck him deeper. Children couldbarely walk, elders lay dying, and everywhere were the cries ofpain and fear. The stench of death and the sense of hopelessnessoverwhelmed Grandfather, threatening to drive him from thevillage.

It was then that an elder appeared to Grandfather, at first speak-ing in a language that he could not understand. Grandfather

realised, as the elder spoke, that he was the spirit of a man—aman no longer of flesh, but a man who had once walked a spiritu-al path, possibly a shaman of this tribe. It was then that he under-stood what the old one was trying to tell him.

The elder spoke softly. "Welcome to what will be called the'land of starvation'. The world will one day look upon all of thiswith horror and will blame the famine on the weather and theEarth. This will be the first warning to the world that man cannotlive beyond the laws of Creation, nor can he fight Nature. If theworld sees that it is to blame for this famine, this senseless starva-tion, then a great lesson will be learned. But I am afraid that theworld will not blame itself, but that the blame will be placed onNature. The world will not see that it created this place of deathby forcing these people to have larger families. When the naturallaws of the land were broken, the people starved, as Naturestarves the deer in winter when their numbers are too many for theland to bear."

The old one continued. "These people should have been leftalone. They once understood how to live with the Earth, and theirwealth was measured in happiness, love and peace. But all of thatwas taken from them when the world saw theirs as a primitive

society. It was then that the world showedthem how to farm and live in a less prim-itive way. It was the world that forcedthem to live outside the laws of Creationand, as a result, is now forcing them todie."

The old man slowly began to walkaway, back to the death and despair. Heturned one last time to Grandfather, andsaid: "This will be the first sign. Therewill come starvation before and after thisstarvation, but none will capture theattention of the world with such impactas does this one. The children of theEarth will know the lessons that are heldin all of this pain and death, but theworld will only see it as drought andfamine, blaming Nature instead of itself."

With that, the old one disappeared, and Grandfather found him-self back at the mouth of the Eternal Cave.

[Author's note: This is the great African famine that inspiredthe Bob Geldof "We are the World" Live Aid relief effort.]

Grandfather lay back on the ground, thinking about what he hadwitnessed. He knew that it had been a Vision of the possiblefuture and that the spirit of the warrior had brought him to it toteach him what could happen. Grandfather knew that people allover the Earth were now starving—but why was this starvation socritical, so much more important than all the rest, even moreimportant than the starvation that was taking place now?

It was then that Grandfather recalled that the tribal elder hadsaid that the entire world would take notice, but that the worldwould not learn the lessons of what the death and famine weretrying to teach. The children would die in vain.

Grandfather looked out across the barren land that surroundedthe Eternal Cave to try to re-establish the reality of his 'now'. Hesaid that it was still hard to discern between waking reality andthe world of Vision, but he felt that he was back into his time andplace.

He told me that the Eternal Cave was always a place to findVisions of the possible and probable futures, and it was notuncommon for the searcher to have a Vision at the mouth of thecave, not just inside.

These things you may never see, but you must work to stop them and pass these warnings on to

your grandchildren.

They are the possible futures of what will come if man does not

come back to the Earth and begin to obey the laws of Creation

and the Creator.


In a state of physical and emotional exhaustion, Grandfatherfell into a deep sleep, but it was in this sleep that the warrior spiritappeared to him again and brought the remainder of the first signto completion.

In his dream, the spirit spoke to Grandfather. "It is during theyears of the famine, the first sign, that man will be plagued by adisease, a disease that will sweep the land and terrorise the mass-es. The white coats [doctors/scientists] will have no answers forthe people, and a great cry will arise across the land. The diseasewill be born of monkeys, drugs and sex. It will destroy man frominside, making common sickness a killing disease. Mankind willbring this disease upon himself as a result of his life, his worshipof sex and drugs, and a life away from Nature. This, too, is a partof the first warning; but, again, man will not heed this warningand he will continue to worship the false gods of sex and theunconscious spirit of drugs."

[Author's note: This is presumably a reference to AIDS.] The spirit continued. "The drugs will pro-

duce wars in the cities of man, and thenations will arise against those wars, ariseagainst that killing disease. But the nationswill fight in the wrong way, lashing out atthe effect rather than the cause. It will neverwin these wars until the nation, until society,changes its values and stops chasing thegods of sex and drugs. It is then, in theyears of the first sign, that man can changethe course of the probable future. It is thenthat he may understand the greater lessons ofthe famine and the disease. It is then thatthere can still be hope. But once the secondsign of destruction appears, the Earth can nolonger be healed on a physical level. Only aspiritual healing can then change thecourse of the probable futures ofmankind."

With that, the warrior spirit letGrandfather fall into a deep and dream-less sleep, allowing him to rest fullybefore any more Vision was wroughtupon him.

Grandfather awoke at the entrance ofthe cave once again, the memory of thewarrior spirit still vivid in his mind, thespirit's words becoming part of hissoul.

When Grandfather looked out acrossthe landscape, all had changed. Thelandscape appeared drier; there was novegetation to be seen, and animals lay dying. A great stench ofdeath arose from the land, and the dust was thick and choking, theintense heat oppressive. Looking skyward, the Sun seemed to belarger and more intense; no birds or clouds could be seen, and theair seemed thicker still. It was then that the sky seemed to surgeand huge holes began to appear. The holes tore with a resound-ing, thunderous sound, and the very Earth, rocks and soil shook.

The skin of the sky seemed to be torn open like a series of gap-ing wounds, and through these wounds seeped a liquid thatseemed like the oozing of an infection, a great sea of floatinggarbage, oil and dead fish. It was through one of these woundsthat Grandfather saw the floating bodies of dolphins, accompa-nied by tremendous upheavals of the Earth and violent storms. Ashe held fast to the trembling Earth, his eyes fell from the sky, and

all about him, all at once, was disaster. Piles of garbage reachedto the skies, forests lay cut and dying, coastlines were flooded andstorms grew more violent and thunderous. With each passingmoment, the Earth shook with greater intensity, threatening to tearapart and swallow Grandfather.

Suddenly the Earth stopped shaking and the sky cleared. Out ofthe dusty air walked the warrior spirit, who stopped a short dis-tance from Grandfather. As Grandfather looked into the face ofthe spirit, he could see that there were great tears flowing from hiseyes, and each tear fell to the Earth with a searing sound.

The spirit looked at Grandfather for a long moment, then finallyspoke. "Holes in the sky."

Grandfather thought for a moment, then, in a questioning, dis-believing manner, said, "Holes in the sky?"

And the spirit answered. "They will become the second sign ofthe destruction of man. The holes in the sky and all that you haveseen could become man's reality. It is here, at the beginning of

this second sign, that man can no longerheal the Earth with physical action. It ishere that man must heed the warning andwork harder to change the future at hand.But man must not only work physically, hemust also work spiritually, through prayer,for only through prayer can man now hopeto heal the Earth and himself."

There was a long pause as Grandfatherthought about the impossibility of holes inthe sky. Surely Grandfather knew that therecould be a spiritual hole, but a hole that thesocieties of the Earth could notice wouldhardly seem likely.

The spirit drew closer and spoke again,almost in a whisper. "These holes are a

direct result of man's life, his travel,and of the sins of his grandfathers andgrandmothers. These holes, the secondsign, will mark the killing of his grand-children and will become a legacy toman's life away from Nature. It is thetime of these holes that will mark agreat transition in mankind's thinking.They will then be faced with achoice—a choice to continue follow-ing the path of destruction, or a choiceto move back to the philosophy of theEarth and a simpler existence. It ishere that the decision must be made, orall will be lost."

Without another word, the spiritturned and walked back into the dust.

Grandfather spent the next four days at the cave entrance,though for those four days nothing spoke to him, not eventhe Earth. He said that it was a time of great sorrow, of

aloneness, and a time to digest all that had taken place. He knew that these things would not appear in his lifetime, but

they had to be passed down to the people of the future with thesame urgency and power with which they had been delivered tohim. But he did not know how he would explain these unlikelyevents to anyone. Surely the elders and shamans of the tribeswould understand, but not society, and certainly not anyone whowas removed from the Earth and Spirit.

He sat for the full four days, unmoving, as if made of stone, and

"They will become the second sign of the

destruction of man. Theholes in the sky and all

that you have seen couldbecome man's reality. Itis here, at the beginningof this second sign, thatman can no longer healthe Earth with physical

action."


his heart felt heavy with the burden he now carried. It was at the end of the fourth day that the third Vision came to

him. As he gazed out onto the landscape towards the setting Sun,the sky suddenly turned to a liquid and then turned blood-red. Asfar as his eyes could see, the sky was solid red, with no variationin shadow, texture or light. The whole of Creation seemed tohave grown still, as if awaiting some unseen command. Time,place and destiny seemed to be in limbo, stilled by the bleedingsky. He gazed for a long time at the sky, in a state of awe and ter-ror, for the red colour of the sky was like nothing he had ever seenin any sunset or sunrise. The colour was that of man, not ofNature, and it had a vile stench and texture. It seemed to burn theEarth wherever it touched. As sunset drifted to night, the starsshone bright red, the colour never leaving the sky, and every-where the cries of fear and pain were heard.

Again, the warrior spirit appeared to Grandfather, but this timeas a voice from the sky. Like thunder, the voice shook the land-scape. "This, then, is the third sign, the night of the bleedingstars. It will become known throughout the world, for the sky inall lands will be red with the blood of the sky, day and night. It isthen, with this sign of the third probable future, that there is nolonger hope. Life on the Earth as man has lived it will come to anend, and there can be no turning back,physically or spiritually. It is then, ifthings are not changed during the secondsign, that man will surely know thedestruction of the Earth is at hand. It isthen that the children of the Earth mustrun to the wild places and hide. For whenthe sky bleeds fire, there will be no safetyin the world of man."

Grandfather sat in shocked horror as thevoice continued.

"From this time, when the stars bleed,to the fourth and final sign, will be fourseasons of peace [that is, one year]. It isin these four seasons that the children ofthe Earth must live deep in the wild placesand find a new home, close to the Earth andthe Creator. It is only the children of the Earth that will survive,and they must live the philosophy of the Earth, never returning tothe thinking of man. And survival will not be enough, for thechildren of the Earth must also live close to the Spirit. So tellthem not to hesitate if and when this third sign becomes manifestin the stars, for there are but four seasons to escape."

Grandfather said that the voice and red sky lingered for a week,and then were gone as quickly as they were manifest.

He did not remember how many days he'd spent at themouth of the cave, nor did it make a difference, for he hadreceived the Vision he had come for.

It was in his final night at the Eternal Cave that the fourthVision came to Grandfather, this time carried by the voice of ayoung child.

The child said, "The fourth and final sign will appear throughthe next ten winters [that is, ten years] following the night that thestars will bleed. During this time, the Earth will heal itself andman will die. For those ten years, the children of the Earth mustremain hidden in the wild places, make no permanent camps, andwander to avoid contact with the last remaining forces of man.They must remain hidden, like the ancient scouts, and fight theurge to go back to the destruction of man. Curiosity could killmany."

There was a long silence, until Grandfather spoke to the childspirit, asking, "And what will happen to the worlds of man?"

There was another period of silence until finally the child spokeagain. "There will be a great famine throughout the world, likeman cannot imagine. Waters will run vile, the poisons of man'ssins running strong in the waters of the soils, lakes and rivers.Crops will fail, the animals of man will die, and disease will killthe masses. The grandchildren will feed upon the remains of thedead, and all about will be the cries of pain and anguish. Rovingbands of men will hunt and kill other men for food, and water willalways be scarce, getting scarcer with each passing year. Theland, the water, the sky will all be poisoned, and man will live inthe wrath of the Creator. Man will hide at first in the cities, butthere he will die. A few will run to the wilderness, but the wilder-ness will destroy them, for they had long ago been given a choice.Man will be destroyed, his cities in ruin, and it is then that thegrandchildren will pay for the sins of their grandfathers andgrandmothers."

"Is there then no hope?" Grandfather asked. The child spoke again. "There is only hope during the time of

the first and second signs. Upon the third sign, the night of thebleeding, there is no longer hope, for only the children of the

Earth will survive. Man will be giventhese warnings; if unheeded, therecan be no hope, for only the chil-dren of the Earth will purge them-selves of the cancers of mankind, ofmankind's destructive thinking. Itwill be the children of the Earthwho will bring a new hope to thenew society, living closer to theEarth and Spirit."

Then all was silent, the landscapecleared and returned to normal, andGrandfather stepped from theVision. Shaken, he said that he hadwandered for the next season, tryingto understand all that had beengiven to him, trying to understand

why he had been chosen. Grandfather had related the story to me in great detail during

that night of the four prophecies. I don't think that any event hadbeen left out, and his emotions and thoughts were such that heactually relived it for us. Thus the power of his Vision becamepart of our spirit, our driving force, and a big part of our fears.

I sat for a long time up on the hill. The fire had gone out, andall had retired to sleep for the night. Creation seemed to be at astandstill, awaiting this darkest part of the night to pass by. I feltalone and vulnerable, as if all of Creation were scrutinising myevery thought.

Grandfather had this Vision some time in the 1920s. ∞

About the Author:Tom Brown, Jr has called the wilderness home for most of hislife. In 1978 he wrote his first book, The Tracker (an autobi-ography), and founded the Tracker School where he teachescourses in survival skills such as tracking, nature awarenessand ancient Earth philosophy. He has since written another15 books, including Tom Brown's Field Guide to WildernessSurvival as well as The Search, The Vision, The Quest, TheJourney, Grandfather and Awakening Spirits. For details ontracking courses and how to obtain Tom's books, visit TheTracker, Inc. website at www.trackerschool.com.

"There is only hope during thetime of the first and second

signs. Upon the third sign, thenight of the bleeding, there is no longer hope, for only the

children of the Earth will survive."


UFOs & NATIONAL SECURITY An Interview with Clifford Stone

by Paola Harris © 1998, 1999

Sergeant Clifford Stone recentlyretired from the US Army after 22years of service, although he is still

involved in reserve duty. He has an ency -clopaedic knowledge of government docu -ments pertaining to official UFO investiga -tions. Stone claims he was actually part ofa secret, quick-response team that handledUFO events for the military. Although hecan tell innumerable personal stories, he istenaciously seeking documentary proof thatsuch activities really occur.

This interview with Clifford Stone wasconducted by Italian freelance journalistPaola Harris, who is a major contributorto the Italian UFO magazines D o s s i e rAlieni and UFO Notiziario. The interviewtook place on 2 July 1998 at Sgt Stone'shome in Roswell, New Mexico, USA. – Ed.

Paola Harris: Sergeant Stone, what isyour background and what events led to thebirth of your book, UFOs Are Real?

Clifford Stone: When I was seven I hadmy first close encounter with a UFO, fol-lowed by interactions with alien entities. Iserved in the Army for over 21 years. Atfirst I was reluctant, then afraid, then disil-lusioned by the way the government han-dles the subject.

When I decided to speak openly aboutUFOs, I was still on active service and theArmy only told me to always make consis-tent statements. However, when I wasassigned to another detachment, I was cate-gorically ordered not to discuss UFOs orwrite or make requests to Congress withoutauthorisation or approval. I considered thisto be unacceptable, especially since I wasinvolved in the program without the knowl-edge of my commanding officer.

Instead of being discharged, I was sent toGermany, then Belgium and aroundEurope, and I found myself involved in theUFO situation again, though unwillingly. Iheard about an incident in the USSR: theSoviets had tried to shoot down a large,unidentified craft and had mysteriously lostthree of their planes.

So I decided to come out into the open,in spite of my superiors who may not havebeen aware of my intentions and my linkswith various agencies connected to UFOs.I asked to be discharged, informed thestructures not connected to the Army aboutthis, and left Germany.

PH: What year was this?CS: It was 1989. I went home on appar-

ently ordinary leave. Only one colleague, aRussian interpreter, knew about myinvolvement with the UFO program. Myrequest to be discharged was denied twodays before I arrived at Fort Bliss, and theyassigned me elsewhere for two months.

They convinced me to stay and said Iwouldn't be sent back to Europe but wouldbe assigned to Fort Belvoir. I was still seton leaving because I didn't want to gothrough the same experiences—experi-ences which can't be discussed, even to theextent where my family knew nothingabout them but were used to my sudden,long absences and certain strange visitors...

PH: Were they government agents?CS: Yes, but I didn't know they were.

Here's an example. Since 1969, up untiltwo months ago, I was in close contact withsomeone who remained anonymous andwho called me "Colonel". He was an agentresponsible for my protection.

PH: UFOs Are Real contains classifieddocuments. What impact has the book hadon public opinion?

CS: It contains a large amount ofAmerican government documents with ahigh classification level. The governmentdenies everything and doesn't even admitthat top-secret documents on the subjectexist, but keeps them well hidden! Myinterest centres on Project Moon Dust a n dOperation Blue Fly, which were involvedwith UFO retrievals. The US Air Force hasan installation at Fort Belvoir, Virginia,which is identified as "Air IntelligenceGroup 696" and is responsible for the col-lection of UFO data and material. Namesand programs are given pseudonyms.

I was in the Army's counterespionage


service when the program covering M o o nDust and Blue Fly began. These missionsare both run by the Department of State.Well, that's a half-truth. It's actuallyDefense Intelligence which really controlsboth projects—using military attachés inevery consulate and embassy in the world,who send data about UFOs—while ourmilitary personnel were and are ready to gointo action anywhere, in order to obtain anyprospective document and make itdisappear.

PH: Such as documents about recoveredUFOs which the USA has always hiddenon the basis of certain agreements?

CS: I am absolutely certain that themajority of the foremost governments andintelligence agencies know the truth aboutUFOs. Don't get me wrong: we don'tknow how much has been disclosed.

PH: What didn't you say in UFOs AreReal?

CS: I didn't say very much about MoonD u s t and Blue Fly. I got hold of certaindocuments, but when I tried to find certaininformation I got nowhere. They told methat for the moment it was probably classi-fied material and could not be divulged.

I then went to certain members ofCongress, who denied—through politicalchannels—both the existence of operativeunits with these names and the role of FortBelvoir. I went back to the same congress-men and showed them 23 documents whichconfirmed these missions and the FortBelvoir operative base. The Air Forceintervened, at first claiming that they werewar missions and then trying to makeMoon Dust and Blue Fly out to be pacific.

In the three chapters devoted to M o o nDust and Blue Fly, I have not included let-ters which name members of Congress whostated that the related documents had beendestroyed. That's pure disinformation onthe part of Defense. The Attorney Generalknew about the Air Force's cover-up butdidn't follow up with an inquiry.

PH: Why not?CS: For two reasons. Firstly, if we

claim that life elsewhere is possible, thenwe should reach a technological levelwhich can be applied and integrated intoculture in case of hostilities. Secondly,we'd feel the need to understand our visi-tors as much as possible, and this consti-tutes a serious problem.

In the Army, they repeatedly told me notto expect or anticipate all the meetings withthe so-called "entities"—the EBEs. They

called them "entities" because they didn'tknow where they came from. Later on,they told us that they may even be hostile.Every now and again we shot at them andthey responded with weapons. I call tellyou about an episode which took place inBrazil. Two military contingents openedfire from the ground on two UFOs whichresponded, causing a 60 per cent loss ofmateriel and an 80 per cent loss of person-nel. So were we capable of standing up tohostile action? Not at all. A lot of peoplebelieved an Independence Day s c e n a r i owas possible. But in reality, an invasion ofhostile forces from space or from otherpowers was underway—and I'm not talkingabout one race, but 57 different races.

PH: Fifty-seven different races?CS: Yes, we have identified fifty-seven.PH: Is this documented?

CS: Yes it is, but in documents whichwill never be published—unless they man-age to force open the archives. Do youknow how we know all of this? There'sonly one possible way: using so-called"interactions" or "interface exchanges".Anybody who worked in this field andrevealed they knew about these secrets wastold, "You have a special mission to carryout". In any case, if I told you everythingI've done, you'd find it hard to believe me.

I loved my country, I believed in theArmy and in doing my duty in Vietnam,even if it cost my life. It was destiny. So,even though I had been declared unfit forservice, I arrived in Vietnam and realisedthat the wrong people were giving theorders. My task was to gather together thechildren and help them. In the end, wesaved 1,700.

PH: Talking of children, do you knowabout particularly gifted subjects who areused by government agencies as inter-preters or interfaces with aliens?

CS: That's a subject which worries me alot. I was once on one side of a table andthere were non-human beings on the other.No one in that room knew what was goingon, but I did.

PH: Have you ever talked about it?CS: No. I told my soul that I'd take it

all with me to my grave. Instead, it wasCongressman Steven Schiff who died, andI still have a lot of doubts about his death...

PH: So, after your sighting as a child,the government monitored your interactionwith aliens, using you, we could say, as aninterlocutor with other races in order toglean information?

CS: Exactly. It was the governmentwhich wanted to squeeze this informationout of us.

PH: I mean you, you in particular.CS: There are a great deal of things I

haven't ever said.CS: So, if your job was to be an inter-

mediary...do you believe that there will becontact in the future?

CS: We have already had contact.PH: But in the near future?CS: Definitely; within 25 years. We are

moving towards a militarised space whichwill lead to the opening of new frontiers inresearch and development. We willbecome voyagers in space; we will gotowards other solar systems. Current tech-nology doesn't allow us to draw our discov-eries together and put A, B and C togetherin order to get B. If space becomes mili-tarised, it will be a threat to our visitors.It's easy to see why.

We need to use technology responsiblyfor the betterment of our race; and if otherintelligent species really exist up there, wehave obligations towards them. We, as arace, are still not mature and spiritualenough to do this. Do I believe in God?Yes! And t h e y believe in God, too. Butour definition of divinity is probably inconflict with theirs, which doesn't meanthat we have a different point of view...But they are also ready to defend them-selves. I think they will continue to moni-tor us until we constitute a threat, withinthe next 30 years.

This [showing me a page in his book] isa document taken from an intelligencememorandum which was sent to the FBI.It should have been destroyed. I told theFBI that the Air Force had authorised itsrelease. They didn't know that the AirForce didn't want the information to bereleased. And it worked.

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"Two military contingentsopened fire from theground on two UFOs

which responded, causinga 60 per cent loss of

materiel and an 80 percent loss of personnel."


PH: Your book came out in July 1997,and by now they ought to know that youhave these documents, don't you think?

CS: As far as the Air Force and thePentagon are concerned, they don't exist.But I have shown the opposite to be true.

PH: Can you tell us the number of yourwork group?

CS: It was 4607.PH: Is that a recovery team in the Air

Force?CS: Yes. It's based at Fort Belvoir.

There they train and look after people whohave had—I hate the phrase "psychic phe-nomena"—experiences as an interface.They tell you, "You are going to be aninterface", and it's logical that your reac-tion could be very emotional.

PH: Let's talk about recoveries. Itseems that aliens don't bother coming backto save their companions left on Earth aftera crash. What do you think about Area 51?

CS: Do you want the truth? Area 51 isan expedient. However, there is a connec-tion. We still use Edwards base inCalifornia, which belongs to the Air Force.I want to make it clear, though, that I amnot saying that nothing of the kind associ-ated with the UFO phenomenon happens inthat base.

PH: And what do you think of aliencorpses put in containers?

CS: It's science fiction. We have a"marker", an identifier, who acts as aninterface with the fabricator. The fabrica-tor then provides specific information,small fragments of the truth, messageswhich must appear to be very posi-tive. So after managing to influ-ence the identifier, the fabricatorwill disappear and the identifierwill carry out the task he has beenassigned to do. If we want the ufo-logical community to believe cer-tain things, it must know what wedo. First of all, we give the fabri-cator the task of identifying whatwe define "intelligence targeting",a target—this is the marker—beingan individual who will circulateand start to spread... It's surprisingto see how easy it is...

PH: To spread the partial truth...CS: We call it "disinformation".PH: If the Roswell crash was

covered up, does that mean thatduring World War II somethingsimilar had already happened?Why are you smiling?

CS: At 12.15 during the night of 25February 1942, a formation of 12 to 15unidentified craft was seen in the sky overLos Angeles, California. They were nei-ther ours, nor the Navy's, nor the Marines'.Not having established the identity or radiocontact, we decided to attack in the fearthat they were unknown enemies. Ourcoastal artillerymen discharged 1,430 shotsagainst the targets. There was no reac-tion—no bombs, no plane shot down, nodamage to property, no victims—and thecraft disappeared. General Marshall relat-ed the incident to the President of theUnited States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt,the very next day.

In 1943 in the Pacific, General DouglasMacArthur asked General Doolittle fornews of an unusual object which had facedour fighters and bombers. At the end of1943, Doolittle informed MacArthur thatsome "spectators" had followed the mainmilitary action. They were not terrestrialand maybe they were hostile.

PH: "Spectators"—is that what they callthem?

CS: That's how Doolittle andMacArthur described them. We didn'tknow much about it. All I know is thatsomething happened in China which con-vinced Doolittle, without a doubt, based onevents which led to the recovery of a craft.

PH: Who was Doolittle?CS: He was a very famous, very active

Air Force pilot. He led the "Doolittle raid"using B25s [James Harold Doolittle, an airhero, led the first air raid over Tokyo on 18

April 1942]... Just think, I was declaredunfit for service...and yet, at the end of myservice, I received another kind of train-ing—the so-called "AM" or "advancedindividual training"... It said on my filethat I'd enlisted in the Air Force for threeyears, whereas the service period then wasfour years. In the end, I was assigned toNBC—nuclear, biological, chemical war-fare—in the communications sector.

PH: Did they ever ask you about yourexperiences of contact?

CS: I believe they knew about it... PH: If this happens in the USA, it's pos-

sible that they do it in other countries...CS: Yes. The situation is such that we

are forced to reveal the information toevery interested country. There's no doubtabout it. In the USA, a small group of peo-ple—not designated officials—deals withthis... It's a select group. For them, it'salways and only a question of nationalsecurity. They're interested in militaryapplication, in new technology... Anythingelse is secondary.

PH: In other words, the governmentgets everything it can technologically fromthis contact with ETs. In the meantime, noone worries about internal development orthe spiritual side of the UFO presence.

CS: Absolutely; they don't give it athought. But in reality, the spiritual aspectof the UFO phenomenon must be given theutmost consideration. ∞(Source: Paola Harris, 2 November 1999,e-mail http://utenti.tripod.it/paolaharris/national.html)

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EXPERIMENTER'S GUIDE TO THE JOE CELLby Alex SchifferPublisher: NuTech 2000, Australia, 1999 ISBN: n/a (108pp spiral bound)Price: AUD$39.00 + $3.00 p&h in Aust;NZ orders, add AUD$7.50 p&h; elsewhere, add AUD$9.00 p&h Available: Australia—NuTech 2000, POBox 255, Ivanhoe, Vic. 3079, [email protected]

Readers of our New Science News pageswill recall the articles on the "Joe" fuel

cell phenomenon (5/05, 5/06). This manual,Experimenter's Guide to the Joe Cell, iswritten for the afficionados—those interest-ed in the practical application of "free" and"orgone" energy—but we publish an extractthis issue for the benefit of all our readers.

The manual describes the "Joe" fuel cell,its design and ratios, the parts and materialsto use and how to assemble them. It dis-cusses water type and its relation to the cell,how to charge the water and mount and con-nect the cell. It also has a trouble-shootingchapter, covering cell maintenance, cell-to-car interface, car modifications and ways todeal with the problem of orgone densityvariation due to season, time of day, solarcycle, etc. There is even advice on how to"polarise" oneself correctly in order to facili-tate the cell working as it should. AuthorAlex Schiffer has spent time with the inven-tor, who prefers to be known just as "Joe",and he and fellow researchers are convincedthat this device holds huge promise for pol-

lution-free energy generation. The spiral-bound manual (ideal for the lab

workbench) contains 50 photographs show-ing cell components and phases of operationplus a glossary and website sources. And toplace the invention in historical context, itincludes theoretical pointers from luminarieslike Reichenbach (who identified "odicforce" in the 18th century), Lakhovsky,Russell, Schauberger and Reich. The Joecell seems to be a revolution-in-waiting.

THE STARGATE CONSPIRACYby Lynn Picknett and Clive PrincePublisher: Little, Brown & Co., UK, 1999 ISBN: 0-316-64861-2 (429pp hc)Price: AUD$39.95; NZD$59.95; £18.99;USD$n/aAvailable: Australia/New Zealand—Penguin Books; UK—Little, Brown, & Co.,tel 0171 911 8000; USA—PenguinPutnam, tel (607) 775 4829 (June 2000)

The nine principal gods of ancientHeliopolis have been hijacked by a con-

spiracy to deceive the feeble-minded, claimLynn Picknett and Clive Prince in TheStargate Conspiracy. And that conspiracyhas largely been overseen by covert intelli-gence operatives, most likely from the CIA,since late 1952—when "the Nine" first cameto be "channelled", as such. It just so hap-pens that this coincided with the early daysof the CIA's covert mind-control programs.

Picknett and Prince trace the Nine's historyfrom their origin in the Tibetan "ascended"sources of Theosophy via Mme Blavatskyand, later, Alice Bailey; to their patronageby psychic researcher Dr Andrija Puharich(linked with the CIA through SRI's remote-viewing programs); their continuation withDr James Hurtak and his book, The Keys of

Enoch; to their most recent public face,channeller Phyllis Schlemmer via The OnlyPlanet of Choice. The authors also citeexamples of where the Nine's representa-tives have acted in ways that are far fromwhat's expected of more enlightened beings.

Picknett and Prince also maintain that"New Egyptology" writers like Bauval andHancock are supporting the "conspiracy",wittingly or unwittingly, and that Martianmonuments advocate Richard Hoagland hashad "behind-the-scenes" support over theyears. Put to the test, this new paradigm thatlinks Giza with Cydonia on Mars rests onvery shaky ground, they say. It's as if the"facts" are being presented to fit a suitableend-times scenario that has these nine"gods" returning imminently—but did theyever come here, or were they accessed viathe psychotropic drug–induced trances ofthe Egyptian shamans? Picknett and Princefirmly reject what they believe is an insidi-ous takeover of our hearts, minds and souls.

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BIOPIRACY by Vandana ShivaPublisher: Green Books, UK, 1998 ISBN: 1-870098-74-9 (143pp tpb UK); 0-89608-555-4 (148pp pb USA)Price: £7.95; USD$13.00 (pb); otherorders, contact publisherAvailable: UK—Green Books, tel +4401803 863260, fax 01803 863843; USA—South End Press, tel (617) 547 4002

In Biopiracy, physicist/ecologist/activistVandana Shiva makes an impassioned yet

rational plea for the protection of biologicaland cultural diversity from the grip oftransnational corporate control.

Shiva, who is director of India's ResearchFoundation for Science, Technology andEcology, is an internationally renownedcommentator on environmental, women'srights and global issues. Here, she equatestoday's plunder of Third World biologicalresources by powerful Western interestswith the pillage of the New World 500 yearsago. Except, now, the economic imperialistsare trying to colonise and propagate lifeitself, while denying the creativity of Natureand the fundamental know-how of tradition-al peoples who live at one with the land.

Biopiracy should stun readers into re-eval-uating their perspective on what globalisa-tion really means on the ground. As Shivawarns, the biggest threat to the Third World,or any country which has an indigenousknowledge and culture, is the question oftrade-related intellectual property. Theeffect of the TRIPs treaty in the GATT andnow the WTO (see story this issue) is toexclude all kinds of ideas and innovations

that originate on the farm, the village, in theforest—and even in the lab amongst scien-tists who, in times past, would have sharedinsights without fear of commercial confi-dentiality hindrances. Intellectual propertyrights (IPRs) are recognised only whenknowledge and innovation generate profits;they are not designed to meet local socialneeds or ecological imperatives.

Taking in problems including the Greenand Blue revolutions, hybridisation, mono-culture, genetically modified crops, cloningand patents on life, Shiva paints a damningpicture of a world that is dangerously closeto self-destructing unless we have the will tochange our present homogenous course.

THE COPPER SCROLL DECODED by Robert FeatherPublisher: Thorsons, UK, 1999 ISBN: 0-7225-3802-2 (350pp hc)Price: AUD$39.95; NZD$44.95; £16.99;USD$43.00 inc. p&hAvailable: Aust/NZ— HarperCollins;UK/USA—NEXUS UK Office, tel +44(0)1342 322854, fax +44 (0)1342 324574, e-mail nexus@ ukoffice.u-net.com;Europe—Enquire NEXUS office

The Copper Scroll, a one-off among theDead Sea Scrolls, was found in a cave at

Qumran in 1952. Although various transla-tions have been made—most notably JohnAllegro's, published in 1959—they havebeen misinterpreted, says Robert Feather, aBritish metallurgist with a passion forancient Egyptian/Middle Eastern history.

In The Copper Scroll Decoded, Featherclaims that neither the Essenes nor theHebrews used copper, and his identificationof the material as sourced from Egypt, circa1350 BC, is but one of many commonalities

he unearths between the two regions. The Copper Scroll—written in a square-

form early Hebrew script with samplings ofpriestly Egyptian hieroglyphic shorthandand some Greek—did not originate atQumran but may have been copied there,having been passed down by the Egyptian-Hebrew priesthood whose monotheistic tra-ditions can be traced to the 18th dynastyPharaoh Akhenaten. Feather's reading,using his knowledge of ancient metrology, isthat it describes 64 locations in Egypt andIsrael where the treasure of Akhenaten washidden, following his overthrow. Four outof five sites he lists are different from thosegiven in conventional translations, and manyawait excavation.

How the Copper Scroll came into thehands of the Essenes is part of the specula-tive tapestry Feather weaves in this engagingbook. The clues from the pre-Exodus,proto-Hebrew community on ElephantineIsland, southern Egypt, are intriguing.


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HEALERS AND HEALING by Roy StemmanPublisher: Piatkus Books, UK, 1999 ISBN: 0-7499-1942-6 (234pp tpb), Price: AUD$19.95; NZD$29.95; £8.99;CAD$22.95Available: Aust—Hodder Headline, (02)9841 2800; NZ—David Bateman Ltd, tel(09) 415 7664; UK—Piatkus Books, tel0171 631 0710; Europe—Enquire NEXUSoffice; Canada—General Publishing, tel1800 805 1083, fax (416) 445 5967

Roy Stemman is well qualified to write abook about healing, having come across

his fair share of healers and healing tech-niques in his 30 years of writing about theparanormal—ten of those for the Britishweekly spiritualist newspaper Psychic News.For the last six years he has edited the quar-terly magazine Life and Soul (formerlyReincarnation International).

For Healers and Healing, Stemman hasgathered together stories of fascinating indi-viduals who possess extraordinary abilitiesto diagnose and cure disease, and often workmiracles. Most of the healing modes hedescribes fit into the category of "spiritual"healing, and they are as diverse as the layingon of hands, absent healing, the power ofprayer, healing with hypnosis, mind power,psychic surgery, channelling, past-liferegression, animal healing, the power oflove, religious miracles and spirit entityhealing. He highlights some rather convinc-ing examples from the UK and around theworld, e.g., the Philippines, Brazil andRussia. Moreover, he produces plausible

hypotheses as to how such healings might beeffected, with reference to the latest researchinto body/mind energetics as well as toancient oriental systems which utilise subtleenergy dynamics.

As for healing into the 21st century,Stemman sees a scenario where modernmedicine integrates aspects of alternativehealing, where general practitioners mayeven assist their patients with "laying on ofhands" healings. Bring on the revolution!

LIQUID CONSPIRACY: JFK, LSD, theCIA, Area 51 & UFOsby George PiccardPublisher: Adventures Unlimited, 1999 ISBN: 0-932813-57-7 (192pp tpb)Price: AUD$29.00; NZD$38.95; £13.50inc. p&h; USD$14.95 + p&h Available: Aust/NZ— NEXUS offices;UK/Europe— Enquire NEXUS offices;USA—Adventures Unlimited, tel (815) 2536390, e-mail [email protected]

If there is a sinister conspiracy to gain totalcontrol over the hearts and minds of the

world's populace, George Piccard's bookLiquid Conspiracy leaves me unconvinced.That is not to say an ultimate conspiracydoesn't exist, nor to deny the plentiful hardand circumstantial evidence supporting it.

The idea behind a "liquid conspiracy", toquote "underground" researcher Piccard, isthat it is a conspiracy that is not set in stone,but is liquid enough to be able to flow to suitand make the most of the circumstances ofthe time—which is to give it more creditthan it deserves, and to downgrade umpteenexamples of popular uprisings against thestatus quo and the action of general chaos.

The modern-day stage was set on 14September 1945—according to Piccard's

mysterious British source, Kilder, whospilled the beans to him in late 1998—whenmembers of long-standing elite, occult andsupposedly alien groups met in Geneva toplan the next phase of the world's fate.Unfortunately, we're treated to few of thesereally juicy bits from Kilder and, instead, areleft having to fit disparate strands into the"grand unified conspiracy" picture.

The chapters cover (all too briefly) Naziattempts at flying saucer and mind-controltechnology, Project Paperclip, CIA MKUL-TRA LSD experiments (thus the liquid con-notation), the JFK acid link, Area 51 UFOprograms, cult creation/control, AIDS, bar-codes, black helicopters, HAARP and more.

Piccard ends each chapter with references,mainly of websites which readers will needto consult for further insights into the multi-farious crevices of this dark subject. Notquite the trip I'd hoped for.

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BREATHING FREEby Teresa HalePublisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999 ISBN: 0-340-72831-0 (264pp tpb)Price: AUD$22.95; NZD$34.95; £9.99Available: Aust—Hodder Headline, tel(02) 8248 0800; NZ—Hodder MoaBeckett, tel (09) 478 1000; UK—Hodder &Stoughton, tel 0171 873 6000; Europe—Enquire NEXUS office

Reader response to Dr Paul Ameisen'sarticle on the Buteyko method (6/05)

has prompted further interest worldwide inthis simple, safe and effective technique fortreating asthma and a host of other illnesses.

This book, Breathing Free, is a welcomeaddition to the few books available on thisspecial breathing technique, first developedby Professor Buteyko in Russia in the late1950s. Written by Teresa Hale—founder ofThe Hale Clinic, the leading complementaryhealth care centre in London—the book setsout the basics of the five-day BreathConnection program which the Clinic runsin London and around the UK.

The Clinic takes an holistic approach to allits clients' needs, believing that good healthcan be achieved and maintained through cor-rect breathing: quiet, shallow breathingrather than deep—which causes hyperventi-lation and an imbalance in oxygen and car-bon dioxide levels in the lungs. Indeed, asHale points out, balanced breathing not onlyprevents disease but expands our capacityfor good health. By applying these tech-niques, thousands of people have not onlycured themselves of asthma, bronchitis,emphysema and snoring, but also success-

fully treated weight problems, chronicfatigue, heart disease and even cancer.

Along with points on general well-being,Hale provides step-by-step guidelines (withdiagrams) for treating mild and severe casesof asthma, bronchitis and emphysema, panicattacks and stress, plus the correct approach-es for children and adults. If you can't get toa Buteyko class, or want to read up beforeyou try one, we recommend this book.

ANCIENT ENERGIES OF THE EARTH by David Cowan with Anne SilkPublisher: Thorsons, UK, 1999 ISBN: 0-7225-3800-6 (319pp hc)Price: AUD$39.95; NZD$44.95; £8.99;USD$43.00 inc. p&hAvailable: Aust/NZ— HarperCollins;UK/USA—NEXUS UK Office, tel +44(0)1342 322854, fax +44 (0)1342 324574,e-mail nexus@ukoffice. u-net.com;Europe—Enquire NEXUS office

David Cowan has literally "walked thetalk", traversing over 3,000 miles of

Britain, Scotland in particular, and survivingthe rigours to record his discoveries in thislandmark book, Ancient Energies of theEarth. Cowan is the co-author of Safe asHouses? and is a pioneer in the treatment ofgeopathic and electromagnetic stress.

Here he has teamed up with environmentalhealth researcher Anne Silk, who contributesadditional notes on geophysics and the effectof electricity and geomagnetism on thehuman body and brain. Her role is also totry to explain, in terms of the laws ofphysics, the diversity of energy networksCowan has documented through Scotland.

In pictures, diagrams, maps and text,Cowan identifies the straight ley lines, spi-rals, waves and energy circuits he dowsed in

his travels, and the strange qualities ofmegalithic standing stones bearing cup-markings. As well as charting the markingsand their emanations, Cowan interprets themas maps of sacred sites, burial mounds andenergy points dilineated across a vastexpanse of landscape.

In order to "rebuild the ancient magic",Cowan proposes a hypothetical reconstruc-tion of the ley system from Skye toNewcastle, starting from a point of great nat-ural telluric power: the St Kilda caldera.

Retracing steps from Neolithic to early20th century predecessors, Cowan comesclose to unravelling the ancient mysteries sointertwined with the energy lines of this liv-ing entity, planet Earth. In the process, heconsiders related subjects such as crop cir-cles, Earth lights, feng shui, planetary grids,poltergeists and sacred geometry. A bookthat's both inspirational and practical.

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THE INDIGO CHILDRENby Lee Carroll and Jan ToberPublisher: Hay House, USA, 1999 ISBN: 1-56170-608-6 (248pp tpb)Price: AUD$29.95; NZD$38.95; £10.99;USD$13.95Available: Aust—Gemcraft, tel (03) 98880111; NZ—NEXUS Office, tel (09) 4038193; UK—Airlift Book Co., tel 0181 8040400; Europe—Try NEXUS office; USA—Hay House, tel (760) 431 7695, fax (760)431 6948, website www.hayhouse.com

Anew group of individuals has been com-ing into the world since the mid-1970s,

according to self-help authors Jan Tober andLee Carroll in The Indigo Children. Thephenomenon was first identified by US para-psychology researcher Nancy Ann Tappe,who wrote about the "dark blue children" inher 1982 book, Understanding Your LifeThrough Color. More recently, futuristGordon-Michael Scallion has described thespecial attributes of the "blue ray children".

These children are arriving in greater num-bers in the 1990s; in fact, in a recent inter-view, Tappe said that "90 per cent of chil-dren under ten are Indigos". They are highlyintelligent, technically competent and, in themain, spiritually advanced, often expressingat an early age a knowledge of past lives.These kids are not fools and don't take foolsgladly; they need their space, though they'regregarious; they won't tolerate being talkeddown to; they're very creative and have aproblem with authoritarian systems; theyknow who they are and are not afraid to sayso. Many of them are wrongly diagnosed

with attention deficit disorder and aredrugged—but this is not the way to treatthese exceptional people.

Tober and Carroll have assembled contri-butions from professionals in child psychol-ogy, education, medicine and preschoolcare, as well as from Indigos themselves,that make sense of this worldwide phenome-non and advise on how to bring up thesespecial children in balance and harmony.Essential reading for parents and teachers.

HOLLOW PLANETSby Jan LamprechtPublisher: WWP, USA, 1998/99 ISBN: 0-620-21963-7 (596pp tpb)Price: AUD$40.00; USD$24.95 in USA;USD$29.95 to Canada; USD$32.95 o/seas Available: Aust—NEXUS Magazine, tel(07) 5442 9280; USA—World WidePublishing, PO Box 49625, Austin, TX78765, tel (830) 798 1250, website www.worldwidemagazines.com

Most people baulk at the idea that theEarth, or even the other planets, could

be hollow, but in the spirit of scientificenquiry Jan Lamprecht has gone to the trou-ble of researching the possibility. In HollowPlanets, he presents his feasibility study, andhis logic and arguments are compellingenough that they warrant scientists to take aserious look. He uncovers anomalous evi-dence on magnetic fields, gravity, seismicand radio waves, the aurora, plate tectonicsand the weather, and accounts from arcticexplorers and legends, suggesting there maybe some truth to the hypothesis.

So why should the idea of a hollow Earthbe a problem to consider? The renownedastronomer Sir Edmund Halley proposed theidea over 300 years ago, based on his studyof magnetism. Lamprecht, a computer sci-entist from Johannesburg, suggests there arelikely to be small polar openings in the Earthand the planets, and that the planets arepowered by nuclear fission reactions whichcreate the magnetic field (as some recentscientific discoveries seem to suggest).There are unexplained bright spots at thepoles of Venus, dust storms at the poles ofMercury, and ion streams in the night atmos-phere on Earth that cannot be fullyexplained as emanating from the Sun. Therehave even been sightings of bright spots onthe Moon that may have originated from thenorth polar region of the Earth, and there arerecords of polar explorers who claim theysaw mirages of huge lands suggestive of alost polar continent of legend.

This is a well-referenced, in-depth review,supported by photographs and diagrams, thatis not out to convince readers that the plan-ets are hollow, but to make us ask whetherthey are actually solid.

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REMOTE VIEWINGby Tim RifatPublisher: Century, UK, 1999 ISBN: 0-7126-7908-1 (442pp hc)Price: AUD$39.95 + p&h; NZD$89.00;£17.99; USD$47.00Available: Aust—Sydney Esoteric B/shop,tel (02) 9212 2225; NZ—NEXUS Office,tel (09) 403 8193; UK/USA—NEXUS UKOffice, tel +44 (0)1342 322854, [email protected]

Having been researching the science ofthe paranormal for over 20 years and

established his own company, ParanormalManagement Systems, a few years ago, TimRifat, BSc, has now written his first book,Remote Viewing. NEXUS readers who haveread his articles (see 3/06, 4/01, 4/02) willbe familiar with some of the subject matterof his book, e.g., on the physics of remoteviewing (RV) and the history of militarytelepathy. However, he goes into much

more detail here on several techniques forlearning remote viewing, including US mili-tary CRV (co-ordinate RV), the RussianERV (extended RV) method which requiresthe practitioner to be in a theta brainwavestate, and the directed attention technique.

As Rifat explains, research into tapping thepotential of the paranormal for military pur-poses began in the Soviet Union in the1920s, with an hiatus during the Stalin era.By 1970 they were spending around 60mroubles a year on it, thus spurring on theAmericans—the CIA at first, with the help

of psychic Ingo Swann—to try to catch up. Rifat succinctly summarises the history of

US remote viewing and the key peopleinvolved, many of whom have gone into pri-vate business in the 1990s. He also reprintsthree hefty Defense Intelligence Agencydocuments, one of them a 1972 paper,"Controlled Offensive Behavior: USSR",which outlines what the US then knew ofSoviet psychic military research.

Rifat considers the use of ELF waves andentrained microwaves, and suggests that theUK's ubiquitous cellphone network could beused for mass mind and behaviour control.

GIZA: THE TRUTHby Ian Lawton & Chris Ogilvie-HeraldPublisher: Virgin Publishing, UK, 1999 ISBN: 1-85227-821-8 (560pp hc)Price: AUD$55.00; NZD$59.95; £20.00;USD$54.00 (from UK)Available: Aust—Penguin, tel (03) 98712400; NZ—Reed Books, tel (09) 480 4950;UK/USA—NEXUS UK Office, fax +44(0)1342 324574; Eur—Try NEXUS Office;USA—London Bridge, tel 1800 805 1083

You could be forgiven for thinking abook called Giza: The Truth was a bit

ambitious in its promise, but authors IanLawton and Chris Ogilvie-Herald deliver thefacts, while admitting that the Giza monu-ments continue to be enigmatic. As theyexhaustively document, most "NewEgyptology" researchers going back a fewdecades have made errors that have ledmany others, as well as the public, downfalse trails, and latter-day alternative archae-ology writers have only compounded onthese errors. Picknett and Prince alsoexplore such examples in The StargateConspiracy. Together, these books are asobering reminder that we need to be alertwhen judging truth in history.

Giza: The Truth is the less speculative ofthe two books. Its authors set the recordstraight on the age of the Giza monuments(very much in line with orthodox dating);why and how the plateau's pyramids werebuilt (they can be understood in the contextof their times); the reports from Europeanexplorers; and the evidence for secretPyramid chambers, and an alleged Hall ofRecords (there isn't much).

Backing up their criticism, Lawton andOgilvie-Herald cut a swath through the workof many high-profile authors, such asSitchin, Bauval and Hancock, and accusesome Egyptophiles of having egos that "arevibrating at a new, higher frequency"! Theyalso cover, at length, the huge politicalintrigue that has dominated events on theGiza Plateau in the last 10 years—as it willcontinue to do in the millennium turnaround.A timely, compelling volume.


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COSMIC CRASHESby Nicholas RedfernPublisher: Simon & Schuster, UK, 1999 ISBN: 0-684-85829-0 (328pp hc)Price: AUD$34.95; NZD$45.00; £16.99;USD$25.00 Available: Aust—Simon & Schuster, tel 029417 3255; NZ—Macmillan, tel (09) 4156677; UK/USA—NEXUS UK Office, tel+44 (0)1342 322854; Europe—EnquireNEXUS office; USA—Simon & Schuster,tel (212) 698 7000 (April 2000)

Continuing the line of research he estab-lished with his 1997 book, Covert

Agenda (see review, 5/01), Nick Redfernsheds more light on who is the ultimateauthority in the UK on the UFO issue. Byfocusing in particular on UFO crashes andretrievals—and there have been a surprisingnumber in the UK from World War IIdays—he's uncovered startling material forhis new book, Cosmic Crashes.

Redfern's tireless pursuit of leads and hispersistence (sometimes "luck") in obtainingFoI documentation show him to be a com-mendable investigator, though he admits to afew connections he should have twigged toearlier, such as the involvement of the HomeOffice—not just specialised Ministry ofDefence units—in UFO crash incidents.

As usual, the Official Secrets Act meansthat Redfern can only find out so much.However, he can confirm from sources anddocuments that RAF Rudloe Manor inWiltshire, home of the Flying ComplaintsFlight unit, is "UFO headquarters" inBritain, with input from RAF Fylingdales,Yorkshire, which tracks satellites, debris andpresumably any object entering British air-space. Such objects, Redfern was told,

"only really become a matter for the HomeOffice when they've landed".

But are the crashed craft—their locationsoften known in advance by the military—really extraterrestrial vehicles? Has the UKhad its own super-secret UFO back-engi-neering program since WWII, as Redfernspeculates? Are retrieved alien craft andbodies stored within the vast tunnel complexbeneath Rudloe Manor? Question marksand all, this book is a rivetting read.

THE MONKEY AND THE TETRAHEDRON by David M. JinksPublisher: Glass Moon Press, USA, 1999 ISBN: 0-9667258-0-8 (473pp tpb)Price: USD$22.95 + $4.00 p&h in USA;foreign orders, contact publisher Available: USA—Glass Moon Press, PMB210, 4820 Yelm Hwy SE, Ste B, Lacey,WA 98503-4903, tel (360) 786 1758, fax(360) 459 4496, e-mail [email protected], website www.InfoSourceResearch.com

Humanity is poised at an evolutionarycrossroads, where we can choose

between a backward, dead-end step, charac-terised by fearfulness, darkness and deceit,and a forward progress represented by intel-ligence, enlightenment, understanding andlove. In David Jinks's metaphor, the formeris signified by the monkey and the latter bythe tetrahedron, a symbol of hyperdimen-sional physics—thus the title of his book,The Monkey and the Tetrahedron.

But, if "the Shift" catches up with us, wemay not have a choice anyway, as those whoare aligned with darkness "will literally res-onate out of existence"! We live in times ofgreat change, and Jinks describes and con-nects many of the new scientific paradigmsfacing us: developments in new hydrogenenergy (e.g., cold fusion); discoveries inunderstanding and tapping other dimen-sions; revelations about alleged artefacts onthe Moon and Mars (the sacred geometriesof Cydonia and Giza are still on his agenda);evidence of an intelligent cause behind cropcircles; and the global explosion and cover-up of UFO phenomena.

Jinks admits he's a generalist and says hisbusiness background shouldn't preclude himfrom being curious about everything (andrightly so). He defers to many "names" inthese "new paradigm" fields—Hoagland,Talbot, Sheldrake, Hapgood, Tenen,Argüelles, Meaden, Mandelbrot, Hynek andLazar being just a sample. His book is thusa synthesis, albeit with his own special spin,that contains not only a spread of "NEXUS-type" subjects but also ideas that demandour attention in these new millennial times.

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THE MYSTICAL MEASUREMENT OFTHE GREAT PYRAMIDSnarrated by Aaron CurtisProducers: Aaron Curtis and IsarGregor for The Secret Gates of Giza, USA(2-tape set, 2hrs)Price: USD$18.95 + $4.95 p&h in USA;foreign orders, contact publisherAvailable: USA—The Secret Gates ofGiza, PO Box 648, Littlerock, CA 93543

What is the secret behind the riddle ofthe Sphinx? Is there a message encod-

ed in the geometric layout of the buildingson the Giza Plateau?

This tape series proposes that the buildersand designers of the Giza complex were inpossession of advanced technical and spiri-tual knowledge and, further, that the secretsrevealed in the Giza monuments reflect thespiritual truths and mystical secrets thatmake up our unseen existence.

Quite thought-provoking information, ofappeal to Egyptology students out there.

REVIEWSTHE SECRET TEACHINGS OF THEESPIRITISTASby Harvey MartinPublisher: Metamind Publications, 1999 ISBN: 0-9660843-8-1 (278pp tpb)Price: USD$24.95 + $3.20 p&h in USA;Aust/NZ orders add USD$14.00 p&h;UK/Eur orders add USD$10.75 p&hAvailable: USA—Metamind Publications,PO Box 15548, Savannah, GA 31416, tel188 777 7417 (toll-free in USA), fax (912)598 4900, website www.metamind.net

Although psychic surgery has had somebad press over the years, this has not

deterred its true practitioners. In The SecretTeachings of the Espiritistas, Harvey Martinexplains the origin of the Filipino tradition(and similar Brazilian and Hawaiian sys-tems) as being in indigenous shamanismcombined with colonial Catholic beliefs andrituals. In this new tradition, the Holy Spiritof the Trinity effects paranormal healings,and directs other spirit entities in theprocess, via sensitive healing mediums.

As a member of the Christian SpiritistUnion of the Philippines, Martin has hadprivileged entrée to this hybrid realm, withnotable exponents such as Rev. Alex Orbito(see article, 6/06). Here, he recounts hisexperiences with excitement and reflection.At close hand, he's observed miraculouscures effected in people of all nationalities,and felt the strong "faith" of genuine healers.He acknowledges the successes of the"sleight-of-hand" psychic surgery school,which parallel findings in Western placebosurgery, suggesting that there is more to itthan meets the eye. Above all, Martin hashelped create a union between two seeming-ly irreconcilable modalities.

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Reviewed by Duncan Roads

SEVENTH HEAVENby Ian Cameron Smith Producers: Ian Cameron Smith & NatalieAnderson for Rhythmist Productions,Australia, 1999 (58mins) Distributors: Australia—RhythmistProductions, tel/fax +61 (0)2 9939 6517,website <www.home.aone.net.au/iancameronsmith>; UK—RhythmistProductions, tel 0181 393 0160

Welcome to another album from the manwith liquid-amber style and fingers

from Heaven: Ian Cameron Smith. He'screated a new offering of smooth and seam-less music for his fans to merge into. This isthe fifth in a collection of deeply creativeand relaxing music CDs from Ian's pen.With tracks like "Velvet Caress", "MidnightMagic" and "Serene Dream", this album is atreasure, a true jewel for your collection.

MOONSUNGby Sheila Chandra Producer: Steve Coe for Real WorldRecords, UK, 1999 (46mins) Distributors: Aust—EMI/Virgin, tel (02)9908 0777; UK—Real World Records, tel01225 744464, website http://realworld.on.net; USA—Narada Productions, tel(414) 961 8350, www.narada.com

An extraordinary performer with an extra-ordinary voice, Sheila Chandra is

known as a pioneer in world music and alegend for her experimental work with lyric-less tones and drones, her vocal percussiontechniques and minimalist style. To hear herstand alone on stage and deliver a carefullythreaded musical tapestry of sound, whilemysteriously weaving her ancestors' voices,is a life experience. Moonsung is a retro-spective collection of some of her greatvocal creations. She synthesises Indian,Celtic and Gregorian into a fusion of primalworld harmony. A collector's piece.

A WISHby Hamza El Din Producers: Hamza El Din & ShabdaOwens for Sounds True Music, USA, 1999(57mins) Distributors: Aust—Banyan Tree, tel (08)8363 4244; USA—Sounds True, tel 1800333 9185, website www.soundstrue.com

Hamza El Din is the father of modernNubian music. While studying engi-

neering, he discovered the oud, that beauti-ful fretless, lute-like instrument, and learnedto master it while continuing his music stud-

ies in Cairo and then Rome. In the 1960s hemoved to the USA, where he's worked withleading musicians from around the planet. AWish is Hamza's tribute to his old home vil-lage, submerged under the waters of theAswan Dam in 1964. A serene album.

AFRICA NORTHby various artists Producer: Leyla R. Hill for WorldClassRecords/HoS, USA, 1999 (57mins) Distributors: Aust—MRA Entertainment,tel (07) 3849 6020; USA—Hearts of Space,tel (415) 331 3200, website www.worldclassmusic.com

The sounds of northern Africa vary fromthe religious tones of the Fes Festival of

Sacred Music (NEXUS 5/02), the call andresponse of Tuareg desert vocal ensembles,the quiet composure of the oud from HamzaEl Din and Anouar Brahem, to the enrichedsounds of vocalists Setona from Kordofan (aprovince of Sudan) and Rasha, of Nubianbackground. With all of these and more,this is an exciting, mesmerising African/Arabian fusion of music from the trance/ecstacy rhythms of the Islamic tradition.

STARS TO SHAREby Samite Producers: Corin Nelsen & Samite forWindham Hill, USA, 1999 (56mins) Distributors: Aust—BMG, tel (02) 99007888; USA—BMG Distribution, tel (212)930 4942, website www.windham.com

Samite left his native Uganda when hefled the Idi Amin regime. After spend-

ing many years overseas, he returned toUganda to film his country and find itsmusic again. Stars to Share is an album ofhope and affirmation, healing and joy, chart-ing the change in his country. It's recordedin Vermont, USA, with wonderful backingmusicians. The tracks are full of dance, lul-labies and ballads, and communicate on asimple but deep, intimate level. Exemplary!

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life, and through the preschool and gram-mar school years. Each of these periodshas its own characteristic clinical picture.This picture becomes more marked atpubescence and often causes school offi-cials to complain of juvenile delinquencyor underachievement.

A glucose tolerance test at any of theseperiods could alert parents and physiciansand could save innumerable hours andsmall fortunes spent in looking into thechild's psyche and home environment formaladjustments of questionable signifi-cance in the emotional development of theaverage child.

The negativism, hyperactivity and obsti-nate resentment of discipline are absoluteindications for at least the minimum labo-ratory tests: urinalysis, complete blood-count, PBI determination, and the five-hourglucose tolerance test. A GTT can be per-formed on a young child by the micro-method without undue trauma to thepatient. As a matter of fact, I have beenurging that these four tests be routine forall patients, even before a history or physi-cal examination is undertaken.

In almost all discussions on drug addic-tion, alcoholism and schizophrenia, it isclaimed that there is no definite constitu-tional type that falls prey to these afflic-tions. Almost universally, the statement ismade that all of these individuals are emo-tionally immature. It has long been ourgoal to persuade every physician, whetheroriented toward psychiatry, genetics orphysiology, to recognise that one type ofendocrine individual is involved in themajority of these cases: the hypoadreno-cortic.15

Tintera published several epochal med-ical papers. Over and over, he emphasisedthat improvement, alleviation, palliation orcure was "dependent upon the restorationof the normal function of the total organ-ism". His first prescribed item of treatmentwas diet. Over and over again, he said that"the importance of diet cannot be overem-phasised". He laid out a sweeping perma-nent injunction against sugar in all formsand guises.

While Egas Moniz of Portugal wasreceiving a Nobel Prize for devising thelobotomy operation for the treatment ofschizophrenia, Tintera's reward was to beharassment and hounding by the pundits of

organised medicine. While Tintera'ssweeping implication of sugar as a cause ofwhat was called "schizophrenia" could beconfined to medical journals, he was letalone, ignored. He could be tolerated—ifhe stayed in his assigned territory,endocrinology. Even when he suggestedthat alcoholism was related to adrenals thathad been whipped by sugar abuse, they lethim alone; because the medicos had decid-ed there was nothing in alcoholism forthem except aggravation, they were satis-fied to abandon it to AlcoholicsAnonymous. However, when Tinteradared to suggest in a magazine of generalcirculation that "it is ridiculous to talk ofkinds of allergies when there is only onekind, which is adrenal glands impaired...bysugar", he could no longer be ignored.

The allergists had a great racket goingfor themselves. Allergic souls had beenentertaining each other for years with talltales of exotic allergies—everything fromhorse feathers to lobster tails. Alongcomes someone who says none of this mat-ters: take them off sugar, and keep themoff it.

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Perhaps Tintera's untimely death in 1969at the age of fifty-seven made it easier forthe medical profession to accept discover-ies that had once seemed as far out as thesimple oriental medical thesis of geneticsand diet, yin and yang. Today, doctors allover the world are repeating what Tinteraannounced years ago: nobody, but nobody,should ever be allowed to begin what iscalled "psychiatric treatment", anyplace,anywhere, unless and until they have had aglucose tolerance test to discover if theycan handle sugar.

So-called preventive medicine goes fur-ther and suggests that since we only thinkwe can handle sugar because we initiallyhave strong adrenals, why wait until theygive us signs and signals that they're wornout? Take the load off now by eliminatingsugar in all forms and guises, starting withthat soda pop you have in your hand.

The mind truly boggles when oneglances over what passes for medicalhistory. Through the centuries, troubledsouls have been barbecued forbewitchment, exorcised for possession,locked up for insanity, tortured for

masturbatory madness, psychiatrised forpsychosis, lobotomised for schizophrenia.How many patients would have listened ifthe local healer had told them that the onlything ailing them was sugar blues? ∞

Endnotes1. Martin, William Coda, "When is a Food aFood—and When a Poison?", MichiganOrganic News, March 1957, p. 3.2. ibid.3. McCollum, Elmer Verner, A History ofNutrition: The Sequence of Ideas inNutritional Investigation, Houghton MifflinCo., Boston, 1957, p. 87.4. op. cit., p. 88.5. op. cit., p. 86.6. Price, Weston A., Nutrition and PhysicalDegeneration: A Comparison of Primitive andModern Diets and Their Effects, The AmericanAcademy of Applied Nutrition, California,1939, 1948. 7. Hooton, Ernest A., Apes, Men, andMorons, Putnam, New York, 1937. 8. Shelton, H. M., Food Combining MadeEasy, Shelton Health School, Texas, 1951, p.32.9. op. cit., p. 34.10. Foucault, Michel, Madness andCivilization: A History of Insanity in the Ageof Reason, translated by R. Howard, Pantheon,New York, 1965.

11. Pauling, Linus, "OrthomolecularPsychiatry", Science, vol. 160, April 19, 1968,pp. 265-271.

12. Hoffer, Abram, "Megavitamin B3 Therapyfor Schizophrenia", Canadian PsychiatricAssociation Journal, vol. 16, 1971, p. 500.13. Cott, Allan, "Orthomolecular Approach tothe Treatment of Learning Disabilities", synop-

sis of reprint article issued by the HuxleyInstitute for Biosocial Research, New York. 14. Szasz, Thomas S., The Manufacture ofMadness: A Comparative Study of theInquisition and the Mental Health Movement,Harper & Row, New York, 1970.15. Tintera, John W., Hypoadrenocorticism,Adrenal Metabolic Research Society of the

Hypoglycemia Foundation, Inc., Mt Vernon,New York, 1969.

Editor's Note:This article is extracted and edited from the

book, Sugar Blues, © 1975 by WilliamDufty; specifically, the chapters "In SugarWe Trust", "Dead Dogs and Englishmen"

and "What the Specialists Say". The bookwas first published by the Chilton BookCompany, Padnor, PA, USA. Warner

Books, Inc., NY, published an edition in1976 and reissued it in April 1993, but, asfar as we understand, the book is currently

out of print and the author, William Dufty,is deceased.

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known as the Plane of Sharon, the super-conductive forces inherent in levitationmay not be possible.

We do not know at this stage whether theTibetan stones contained a monatomic sub-stance, but the possible use of such a sub-stance is becoming apparent when we con-sider other architectural structures aroundthe world—such as the pyramids of Egyptand temples of the Inca—which have spe-cial acoustic properties. The results of thiscollaborative research will be included infurther books and music.

Meanwhile, the sources of modal formsand sounds and the development of a newunderstanding of harmonic progression(which I have termed "modes of extendedtransposition") are inherent in the music Ihave created in Holy Spirit and the HolyGrail and Genesis of the Grail Kings.

I began this essay by confirming that weare currently able to examine many hithertohidden elements in sound and music. Wenow have the opportunity to go behind theveil of these unique elements—elementsthat are not lost, but hidden awaysomewhere in our subconscious genetic

memory—and to reaffirm their value intoday's environment.

Our Earth's fuel resources are beginningto expire, and we must embrace otherforms of energy if we are to allow any ofour benign technology to be of use in thefuture. Unfortunately, the present paybackfor our non-ecological use of technology isthat it is doing us more harm than good inthe longer term. But this does not have tobe the case—certainly not, if we can com-prehend and reutilise the resources thatwere available in ancient times.

How heartening it is to learn that some ofour most advanced scientists are now real-ising that the previously perceived "vacu-um" of space is actually filled with whatthey term "exotic matter", and that some ofthis vibrational and resonant energy isavailable for our beneficial use on thisplanet. ∞

About the Author:Born in 1952, composer and music producerAdrian Wagner had a music-oriented educa-tion, studying musical composition andorchestration before beginning his profes-sional career at the age of twenty. Since theearly 1970s, he has worked in music record-

ing and production and with rock musiciansand bands, invented the Wasp (the world'sfirst battery-powered, portable digital synthe-siser), has written scores for films, anima-tions, TV documentaries and commercials,and released a number of albums of his ownmusic, including Merak, Inca Gold, Karmingthe Elements and Ambient Collection.

In the 1980s he started his own musicenterprise, The Music Suite, faci litatingalbum product ion for many art ists andgroups as well as his own projects, reflec-tions of his Celtic origins. His new compa-ny, MediaQuest, is a multimedia sound-ser-vice company and CD production studio.Maintaining his film company connections,in 1999 he composed the music for a newTV documentary on the life of Jimi Hendrix.

In recent times, Adrian Wagner has beenworking closely with Sir Laurence Gardnerand has composed, recorded and releasedcompanion musical suites to his books:Holy Spirit and the Holy Grail and G e n e s i sof the Grail Kings. His current projectsinc lude a new musical work, enti tledA n u n n a k i, and the music CDs for LaurenceGardner's book cycle. Adrian Wagner wasrecently appointed Chevalier of the Imperialand Royal Order of the Swan (CIROS).Chevalier Wagner is the great-great grandsonof 19th-century Grai l opera composerRichard Wagner, himself made a CIROS byLudwig II of Bavaria.

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the planets exert an influence on character.His results are as solid as any discovery inscience; and no matter how many critics orsceptics examine his work, the purelyempirical facts of his discovery will not goaway. Gauquelin recognised that the plan-etary archetypes were very old and hebelieved his work would rehabilitate theplanetary types. The ancients understoodthe true meaning of harmony: to find one'splanetary "note", sing it loudly and clearly,and find one's true place in the harmony ofhumanity.

The Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinuswrote: "All music, based upon melody andrhythm, is the earthly representative ofheavenly music." The harmonic propor-tions are universal organising principles;they create and regulate planetary orbits,organic life and the dance of atoms at theheart of matter. Harmonic thinking organ-ises the universe into a simple framework.As Johannes Kepler once said: "Simplicityis more in keeping with Nature." It is thisapproach which may free astrology from itscurrent alienation from mainstreamscience.

The overwhelming statistical evidencefor the planetary types establishes this newScience of Celestial Influence on a solidfoundation. Somewhere between theobjectivity of science and the intuition ofharmony lies the beginning of a truescience. ∞

Endnotes1. See Michel Gauquelin's works: TheCosmic Clocks, Owen, 1969; CosmicInfluences on Human Behaviour, AuroraPress, 1969, Futura, 1976; The Spheres ofDestiny, Dent, 1980; The Truth aboutAstrology, Blackwell, 1983; and Neo-Astrology: A Copernican Revolution, Arkana,1992. 2. Berman, Louis, The Glands RegulatingPersonality, McGrath Publishing Co., 1928.3. Collin, Rodney, The Theory of CelestialInfluence, Shambhala, 1984.4. Quoted in: Berendt, Joachim Ernst, NadaBrahma, Destiny Books, 1991, pp. 89-90.5. Quoted in: Godwin, Joscelyn, CosmicMusic: Musical Keys to the Interpretation ofReality, Inner Traditions, 1989, p. 92. 6. Lawlor, Robert, Sacred Geometry:Philosophy and Practice, Thames & Hudson,1989, p. 12.7. West, John Anthony, The Case forAstrology, Viking Press, 1991, p. 320.8. Seymour, Percy, The Scientific Basis ofAstrology, St Martin's Press, 1992. 9. From an ancient Chinese text, quoted in:

Campbell, Joseph, Primitive Mythology,Penguin, 1976, p. 454. 10. A detailed and intimate description of thetypes discussed can be found in: Friedlander,Joel, Body Types (1993) and Zannos, Susan,Human Types (1998), both published bySamuel Weiser. Anthony Craig is preparing amanuscript covering the history of these typesand his current research.

About the Author:Anthony Craig is a Melbourne-based writerwith an insatiable curiosity for mysteries. Hismany interests include ancient astronomy,mythology, philosophy, religion and esoteri-cism in general, and science. He prefersexplanations that do not abandon commonsense and the laws of physics, yet retain asense of the miraculous.

In 1984, Anthony joined an internationalFourth Way school, based on the esoteric sys-tem of G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky,eventually becoming director of the school'scentres in Sydney and Melbourne until leavingin 1994. He has recently set up a website thatexplores Fourth Way alternative cosmology,speculative physics and esoteric psychologyand includes much more information on BodyTypes (see www.homestead.com/axissophia/index.html).

Anyone wishing to participate in furtherresearch or assist Anthony in reviewing thestatistical protocols for his tests can telephonehim on +61 (0)3 9853 8791 or e-mail him [email protected].

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