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t 1773, Friar Orclortez - a clericfiom the Spanish colonv of \Iexico -hearcl an extraor-dinalv lt irnour-.Hidden in the. j r rngle. not fhr from

hi s norkplace in t l-re otrth of the cotrtrtr l ' ,\\:as ln er)ormous, empty cin'. His cur-iosit1,arousecl,he rr-rade is parishioncrs crarrvhirn to the site.There, sure enor.rgh,\ 'asacit\', but it r,r''asrnlike air)rcitv Ordonez hadever encoLlntered. Strup;gling throuel'r ther:rinfbrest, he sarvmonunfental str-ucttrresexceeding;n scaleand gratrdeurLrnvthingto be found in Europe. There were pvra-micls. palaces,streets and cburtyards, al lbrr i l t to an astonishing degree of crafts-r r r : r r rs l r ip.\ r rd cover i r )g heir rval ls ,r t ' rcl incs of inclecipherzrble ieroglyphic.s.

\\-l'ren Orcloncz reportecl his fincl - hegar.e t th e name Palenque,after a nearbvi'ill:rSe - an offrciai ;,surveyu,as put iumotion. Its conclrrsions ere that Paltnquemust. somel-iorv. ave been the work of the

Romans - or mavbe the Eelptiarls, or thePhoeniciarts, or th e Greeks, or everl settlersfrom the lost cit l ' of'Atlantis.iNoboclv con-sider-ecl br a moment tl-rat they hacl foundthe re rnains of a civi l ization as great as anvin Er .r ropes past - the Mal'a.

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For 'o l t ' r a mi l lerr r r i r rn lh( ' \ \ \ ( ' lc anlcr l l f lthe most adr,ancecl aces n the rvorlcl.Thc,vbuilt better roarls than th e Romans, andw-erc better scientists th:rn the f lreeks.Their- pvrarnids were the eqr-ral f thosc inEgl,pt. Tl-rev had the highest populationdcnsit ies n pre-industr ialArnerica Tikal,for t xarrrple. l r c i l r i r r r rhat is no\\

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f lunternirla, cor,eled all :ueli o1' 129 sq klt lancl contirinecl :ul estilnatcd populatiorr ofar lea\r r0.{XX).

Theu,.in aborrt ,\11900, t all coll:rpsecl.Only ir feu, satellite states sul'\'ivecl. Anclrr l r t rr t l rc 5p:rrr is lr i r rvaderl ( . t . r r t la lArnelica in the lt ith centrrr\,, these statcsalso clisappe:rlecl. ,\rhat underpinned thisdramatic rise? Wrat lay bchincl its suddenIall? Fol centuries it rcntainecl tr nl) 'ster\,,an d onlv recentl) ' have lve bcirun to piecretoscther the jiesar,r. f tr{:rva historr'.

-t".t.9-9-:*y*Jry*y4:"t9!__-.=_';_-Th e reason fbr otrl ignorance l ies, primar--i l r . r r ' i th t lr t '5p:rrr is lr . \ \ ' l rerr r l r t ' r r rr l iver l in(lcntral Arncr-ica, t l ' revcolonized it rvith sys-tern:rt ic thororrghrrcss. Not sitt isf iecl rvithki l l i r ru l l re ir err t rrr ie . lr rrr l c lest lor irrq t lre ircit ies, thev also clir l thcit- best to eradicatelu l\ t l ' l r ( ' o I t l re incl igerrorrr ] rr l t r r lc. Pr icstsbrrr-neclu.r' it ten recorcls, believins then tobe l-reretical.A ver-t,fen,manuscripts - fourin ir l l - n,er-ckept :rs tcms of culiosi[ ' , brrtother\\ ' isc a rnil lennirrnr of accrrrrrulatcclrr, isclorn r.as onsigrred to thc f l:rrnes.

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thing happened, Maybe theywere attackedby outsiders; erhapsone of the ci ty statesbecame ambitious. Nobodv knows forsure. But the war glyph =.,.a-starsign -sprouted on temples throughdtt,rhe land.In the absence of an overall ididbi,'-theresult was disintegration. One by one, theMaya retreated to their sf orrgholdsandwere destroyed.HAND OF GOD "Arrother heory relat ing o the Maya's is--appearance concerns their reliance on thecalendarasa tool of predict ion.The Mayawere an extremely fatal ist ic race whobelieved that all events w.ere predeter-mined by the gods and thereforeuncharigeable. Moderr-r nterpretatious of ,.hieroglyphs and the calender show thatthe Maya predicted the arrival of a hr.reely

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match, or they were tiecl together in a riast,human ball and rolled clown the courtyarclstepsuntil they were dead.

Maya blood did not flow indiscrimi-nately, however. t was inked to the sun asa symbolof the l i fe f t r rce.and everycleathwas seen a3a benefit to their extensivenet-work of cities and asricultural subnrbs. \Sacr i f ice ancl b loocl let t i r rg suppor led.rather than destroyecl, heir lif-estyle.

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RITUAT MURDERIn the last few years,cryptologists,buildingon the f indings of the 1950sand 1960s,have discovered a nelv element"to Mayahieroglyphics. T\y were not only pictorialbut phonetic, relying on a subtle combina-l ion ot visual and arrral messages. arryglyphs are sl i l l i r rdecipherable. ut thosethal have been l rauslatedportray a latal lyfractureclsociety.

l nere was no si l rgre. ni lyrng power lnthe Maya world. Individual city states r,rledi'their own territogy, relying on mutualt radebenef i t arrda sharedcul ture to keepthe peace. n abor.rtAD900,howeveq some- .

) The sun gododorned dozens ofMoyo buildings, ondlmony people weresocrificed to invoke hisfqvour. Among thosesocrificed were losersof the troditionolMoyo bollgome - osport where o'bollhod ro be possedthrough o hoop (inset).


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clestr-r.rctivcorce - u,hich took tl-rc form of:r powcrful gr id - around the time o{'\DgU() .Tl r is . fol t l rc Mara. nas:r lorce lhcyt orr ld rrei t l rer f ighr r rol denr. l t scenred tosigr-rifv hc cncl of tl'reir'face .

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of l i l -e. l r is is orr t ' of rnarrr i r r lelpretr r t iorrs.Attempts at obliter-ating Mal'a heritauer b,vth e l6th cell tr lrv Spanish cxplorers - com-binccl nith general erosior- r catrseclb_v hehot, tropical cl imirte - almost succeeded inconcealing tl-rc Maya's existence fbrer ,er .Artd todal', despite lticlespread irttct-est iuth e Nlzrvapeopie, the tnrth bchincl theirr r l t i rnalc t lcr r t is t r t ' rnair rs orre of ol l i \ lor \ 's l rcst-kcpt \ecrels. i lj

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TOI]CFIAnT STORIES F PEOPLEWHO HAVEBEENCUREDBY PSYCHIC EATINGEVIDENCE FTHE PARANORMATPOWERSOF THEMINDOR ARE THEYJUSTA CASEOF NATURETAKING ITSOWN INEXPTICABTEOUNST?

et i red cir i l serrantJimWilliams, OBE, began tosuspect hat something rvassel$e seriousl,vwrong nith his

health after a knee-replacem entoperation in Novernber 1993.Over the next ferv months, he losta considerableamount of $,eight,suffered from extrerne tirednessand swollen ankles, and began tolook gaunt an d aundiced.

In Apri l 1994,Mr Williarns'w'entto hospital in \{eston-super-Nlarefor a biopsy. The surgeonsfounda massive umour on his liver,equivalent in size o a grapefiuit.It wa sdiagnosedas malignant andinoperable. In fact, the tumour wasso advanced that radiotherapv andchemotherap) rere .ulecto, , i .HANDS.ON HEtPDr Richard Lalson, Mr William'sGP,suggestedhe be admitted to ahospice br the terminally i l l .

'I rvas lattened and then beganto mentall,vprepare m,vself brdeath,' the cancer ,ictim said. Iwasn't scaredor frishtened but felta senseof acceptar"rce.'

Mr Williarns and his rvife,June,were on friendl,v terms r,vithhvopsychic healers, Len and Rae

Hodghton. After Len 'heard avoice' instruct inghim to helpJim,the coupl e administered healingthree times a week. On the da,vsthel' did not attend,June tookover.At the same time, Mr\{illiams was pllt on a low-fatvegetarian diet bv Dr Lawson.Remarkablr',his condition startedto improve almost immediately'.

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to a restalrrant. At the end of thethird rveek,he wanted to go to seea shorr ' . weekal tcr that . he droveRae.mrsel farr r l. l r r r re l l the wayaround rhe Merrdip Hi l ls. '

In early August 1994, Dr Lawsonsenl Mr \ \ i l l iams br an ul t ra-soundscan. t shorr 'cclhat the tumourhad shrunk bv arorrnd50 per cent.81 October. t had reducedbyanother 20 per cent.

A further test, zr rewmonthsIater, shorved he grorvth wasnowbarelv 2 sq cm. Incredibly,Jim Will iams' recoverycontinuedto accelerate, nd soon the tumourhad compl etelv disappeared.MIND OVER MATTER?Jim Will iams' 'miracle' cure is fa rfrom r-rnique. n the UK alone,there arc many thousandsofpcoplc rr i th sirni la lstor icsofl ravir rg eerrcrr red hroughl-realing, rnd rnany healerswholav claim to a high rate of'success.So does psvchichealing rv


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it is extremelv difficrilt to establishwhether healing takes placeparanormally or through someother inflr,rence,such as auto-suggestion.Dr Daniel Benor, aleading researcher n this area,bel ieves svchicheal ing s anumbrella term that best describesal l fbrms o[ 'heal ine nrolr incmind over matter.,ENERGY MEDICINE'Central to virtr.ralh'all thesehealing methods is the belief thatsome orm of energv s channelledthrough the healer to the 'patient'which is believed to bring abor-rtthe cure. Indeed, manv patientsreport feeling heat, cold or at ingl ing sensat ion ur ngtreatment - e\ren n cases vhenthey were unaware that tirev rverebeing treatecl. But just lr'hat thisenergy s, or where it comes rom,is a source of huge contro\rers\r.

Depending on their personalbeliefs,some healersdescribe hisenergy as universal ot 'e',or thepower of God. Indeed, pra,verhasbeen sholt'n n a number of'casestudies o prodrrce mprcssireresults.Other healers,suchas Harry Edrvards, vho forurdedth e UK National Federation ofSpiritual Healers n I955, beiievethat they have no special po\{ers

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A Psychicheoler Mothew Monning hosbeen rigorously tested by o number ofscienfists. n one experiment (insefrighr)Monning wos oble lo offect thegrowfi role of gross seeds. In onother,(inser efi) his obility to inf luence hemind of o mole volunleer wos

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coincides with the naturalremission f a n i l lness. n others.medical researchhas shown thatbelief in the effectivenessof th,e,,'.:l:'.rii.healer is enough to trigger the,:,,rr','::::::r:body's self-healingmechanisms.' l..,a.jiii

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focus on their patients mentallyand 'direct' healing thoughts atthem. This is apparently whathappened to Tony Pritchard inSeptember1994.

After treading on a drawing pin,Mr Pritchard's leg became seriouslyinfected. Antibiotics failed to treatthe infection, and he was admittedto Wycombe General Hospital. Anoperation wasperformed on theleg without success, nd doctorsconsideredamputation.DISTANT HEATINGMr Pritchard's wife, Linda, got intouch with healer Ray Brown andasked him to help. \Alhen hearrived at the hospital, Mr Brownwas refused admittance becausevisiting time was over. Undaunted,he returned to his car and wentinto a trance, allowing his 'spiritguide' to take over.

Mr Pritchard was unaware ofany of this. But that night, he 'feltsomething going on' inside his leg.The strange sensation continuedthe following day. \Alhen thehospital doctors next examined hisleg, they were astonished. t wascompletely free of infection, andthe patient's leg wassaved.

No one can deny the incrediblerecoveries of some patients, but isthere any evidence thatparanormal forces are at work?Just becausehealingis unorthodox does not mean thati t is psychic. n somecases.t isreasonable to assume hat healins

be cured, they will believe they ar*,iiicured. The recovery may be shortlived, however. ecauseall that ha shappened s that the symptomshave been temporar ily suppressedbv the mind.SEARCH FOR PROOFOn the other hand, cures that are I : rieffected without faith and :,.,,:rwith no knowledge that such a i:,.1ltreatment is being attempted - ut . , .,,li:i.:llin the caseof Tony Pritchard - .,,,{

that animals they were unable tohelp improved considerably afterheai inghad taken place.

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would seem to suggest that Some il:..,1..r:i*paranormal influence occurs t t.'..:l.ll'.:.:.l.\between healer and patient. Onel , '':'r,,,.,.,1i:areawhere th is appears o work isin the psychic healing of animals. ',,.Healers such as Betqt Shine and , :,,,Charles Siddle treat animals as ' 'li:.wel l ashumans.They havemanytestimonials from vets certifying ,r ' r' .

other than the abili ty to awaken ahealing force within the patient.

In rare cases, uch as he British'psychicslrrgeon' GeorgeChapman, the healer claimsto bethe 'instrument' of a deceasedphysician.n a healing session.Chapman goes nto a trance duringwhich he is controlled by his spiritdoctor, who then proceeds to'operate' with invisible surgicalinstruments on the spiri t body ofthe patient. This body is thought tobe a duplicate of the physical body,and a change in one is reflected inthe otheq for good or bad.Many healers also claim to workeffectively without ever having tosee heir patients. They simply


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,iii.eihnisms are at work in psychicihe'aling, US and Canadian',scientistsenlisted the help of the:.;gifled British healer Matthew,,,Manning. Extensive tests and'experiments were carried out,'between 1977 and 1982.

NVINCING RESULTSMind ScienceFoundationAntonio, Texas,a seriesof

rirrrents was conducted underirlaboratory conditions to see

i f Manning could inf luence a:,rVolunteer'sutonomic rrervoussystem,which controls theinvoluntary actions of the heart,

glands and some muscles.At a point in the experiment

selectedaI random. Manningimagined the volunteer, who was na separate oom. becomingemotionally disturbed, and at thesame time pictured the pen on thepolygraph, which wasrecordingthe volunteer's physiologicalresponses,making large sweeps.

After twenty trials, the scientistsconcluded that Manning hadsuccessfully activated thevolunteer's nervous systemby thepower of his mind alone. In othertests t was ound that he wasable to reduce the growth of

{ Chorles Siddledescribeshimselfos o spirituolisfonimol heoler ondcloims fo work witho spirir guide,Buster Lloyd Jones,o veferinorysurgeon who died3O yeors ogo.Siddle olso cloimsfhqt he con defecl ocondition iusr byplocing his hondson on onimol.

cancer cells and to prevent thedestruction of red blood cells.

Professor F.W. Lorenz of theDepartment of Animal Phlsiologyat the University of California alsotested Manning. He used a numberof volunteers, and monitoredtheir brain activity w'ith anelectroencephalograph(EEC)machine. The tests demonstratedthat Manning's brainrr'aves ecamesynchronized with those of thevolunteers. Earlier expenments byscientistsn Toronto, Canada,indicated that these rvavesoriginated in a part of the brainthat is dormant in most people.SPIR.ITUAL DIMENSION?These results provide tantalizinger.idence hat psychic healing canaffect biophysical systems,andsuggest hat a paranormalcomponent may well be involvedin at least some healing processes.

But, whether this is proof of theexistence of a spiritual realm,which many healers are convincedlies at the root of their abilities, is aquestion that has so far proved tobe beyond the reach ofparapsychologicalresearch.


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n 1985, astronaut Colonel GordonCooper, one of the first Americansto orbit the earth, stood in front of a

wr United Nations panel chaired by thethen Secretary General, Kurt Waldhiem,and made an alarming statement. I believethat... extraterrestrial vehicles and theircrews are visiting this planet from otherplanets, which are a little more technicallyadvanced than we are on earth. I feel thatwe need to have a top-level programme toscientifically collect and analyse data con-cerning any tl?e of encounter, and todetermine hou.best to interfere with thesevisitors n a friendly fashion.'

Cooper's qualif ications for this state-ment, he claimed. were that he had 'beeninto the fringes of the vast areas of which"the1"' travel. Also, I did have occasion in1951 to have two davs of observation of

many flights of "them",of different sizes lyingin f ighter formation... the,v vereat a higheraltitude than we could reach.'

Here, then, wa s one th e US's greatestpioneers, a man who had held the recordfor the longest flight into space- 34 hours- admitting to some of the most powerfulpeople in the world that he had hadencounters with intel l igently controlledalien craft. But could these alleeationspossiblybe true?A HISTORY OF SIGHTINGSSince the formation of NASA in 1958, anumber of its test pilots and astronautshave testified to witnessing UFOs and air-craft of unknown origin. The first to for-mally announce a sighting wa s JosephWalker, pilot of the pioneering X-15 air-

A An onomqlous ., , : : . :' :sfreok of light possesover the surfoce ofthe Moon in thisphotogroph tokenduring the Apollo l2mission.A numberof photos from ihismission contoinstrqnge l ightsor . ,,obiects, including :, . lone showing whofmony UFOlogistscloim is o brighrlylit croft hoveringover one of lheoslronouts (inse!).


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: During 19115, he US Federal Bureau ofInlestisation (FBI) learned fiom a confi-

,,:'..dential source that a NASA informant r,vascovertll, 'leaking' information on UF()s.Receiving the data were t\\'o individuals

1- rom Pittsbursh rvho, to quote the FBI, 'hadpersonal nterests n UFOs', and r,vho vere'acquainted r,vith he NASA employec'.

An FBI file, dated 2 Septernber 1965,states: The solrrce believes that the infor-rnation rnay be classified. Thc sourcc said,for example, that fcensored] had seen amotion picture frlm showine a missilesepa-rating and a UFO appearingon the screen.Prior to the f l ight of Gemini 4, lcensored]said to r,vatchout for something interestingbecause the spaceship had devices aboarclto detectUFOs.. . 'EVIDENCE OF A COVER-UPA studl' of the FBI's documentation on thiscase aises r,r,o ignificant points. Firstlr', hereference o a'motion picture f i lm' held bvNASA shor'ving a UFO in flight confirrnsthat NASA has in its possession data onUFOs to which the public at large is beingdenied access. econdly',hemention of the Gemini 4mission is intriguinu, sinceone of thc pi lots, JamesMcDivitt, has confirmedthat during the rnission heclid indeecl vierv some formof r n dent ied object .

Although McDivitt doesnot belier.e hat the objectwas anomalous,he does notadhere to the theorl ' ofUFO sceptic James Obergthat the object lvas merelythe second stage of theTitan rocket that launchedG.emini 4. As researcherTimothl ' f lood stares n his 1996 book,Be\ord, bp Secret,'if his is the case, he onlvpuzzle remaining is McDivitt's apparent fail-Lrre o recognize his or'vn ocket'.MOON MYSTERIESFollor'vins the Gernini missions, the spacerace moved into fr-rll hrotde with the Apolloprogramme. Follou,ing President Kennedr-'spromise to land an American on drc N,Ioon,prrbl ic nleresr bccame f i rmh focrrssed nthe mvstcries of space - and particularlyrnan's ncn frontieq the Moon. So, rvhen theastronalrtsof Apollo 11 finall,v ook their firsttentativestepson to the surfaceof the Moonon 20Jul;' 1969,o'en the rnost hardened ofsceptics must have irt least considered thepossibility that somc form of evidence forextraterrestrial ife tvould be found.

Despite clairns that nothing r.rnusualwas seen br, the astronauts. rumours hal'e

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ness accountsJ NASA refused to back itspi lots. Photographs and hlrn containinganomalies verenever released, nd the off i-cial l ine statecl hat the Ul'Os had beenidentified as 'flakes of ice'. Br-rt althor.rgh

::.':NASAdenied having anv interest in UFOs,: ' 'thiswas soon proved to be a lie.

A Thisglowing discwos photogrophedfrom lhe Apollo l3commond module,Odyssey. In onotherphotogroph, ollegedlyioken during theApollo l5 mission,oblue obiect hovers overthe Lunqr Rover (inseflefr). Alrhough NASAdeny hoving onyinleresl in UFOs,o| 967 operotingmonuql (inser ighf)oullines the proceduresNASA stoff must followwhen hondling reporlsof UFO sighrings.

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CTTRTS ONTXSON USES THEPROCESS OF AUTOMATICWRITING TO RECORDHIS DREAMS WHICH, HE CLAIMS,ARE TERRIFYING PSYCHICPREMONITIONS OF THE FUTURE

he claims of Chris Robinson - TV repairmanturned TV star - seem at first to be soincredible as to defy belief. But, perhaps

w: uniquely for one who professes to have psychicpowers, his stories are backed up by a wealth ofdocumented evidence.The 45-year-old from Bedfordshire had no historyof paranormal encounters until he began to undergoa series of disturbing experiences n 1989. Soon, hebegan keeping records of his dreams and graduallylearned how to uirravel their meanings. Theimplications for Robinson were enormous, as thedreams often spoke of violent occurrences such asterrorist attacks and plane crashes. What was he to dowith information about events that he so stronglybelieved were going to happen? Ignore it and sufferthe awful guilt of knowing that he might have beenable to avert a tragedy? Or go to the authorities, whooif they didn't assume he had some inside knowledge

of the crimes he had torecount, would dismisshim as a crank?

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Con you give on exqmple?I once drervboxes around the words 'Holland' an d'head' - to me t hat meant someoneconnected rviththe Middle Eastwasgoing to be mnrdered. It turned

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out that the dream was refcrring to the killins of anarms smnggler. It happened in Belgium, and he wasshot in the neck.Your dreoms don'l seem fo be very precise.If you mean do I drearn names and da tes and foreseeexactlywhat's going to happen, as f I 'rn watching afi lm, then r-ro it's not like that. It's ofien apainstaking process of examining my notes andlooking for a clue, or a connection. Perhaps clon't

Yvonne Fletcher and Keith Blakelock have come tome in my dreams. \,\4-ry have been chosen, I have ncridea. It rnay be connected to a number of near-deathexperiences and out-of-body experietrces hat I hacl asa child during a period of ill-healt h.Whqr did you do wirh the informqtion qboutrhe IRA once you pieced it together?I went to the police. I rvas pprehensive, f course,but I was on good terms r'vith a local Detective

. Inspectoq who seemedsvmpathetic and passed oninfcrrmation to his sr.rperiors. Oncethe dreams star tcd comirrg trueand the information I gave themwas accurate, they started taking alo t of interest, you ca n be sure.

get precisemessagesecarrsehe ^S Sspiritscan't know exactlywhat will & & .happen, or perhaps hetransmission process s too difficult.Over the years, 'r'e learnt torecognize certain symbols. 'vealwaysbeen scared of does eversince I was bitten as a chilcl and so Iassociatedogs with terrorists andmurderers who, becauseof theirevil acts, errify me in real life.

Somethinghappened...aspirit choseme, and thesedreams were here. don'tknow what started t.e Didn't the police ind ir ql l#F obitsuspicious?

One frequent, bllt very curious, feature of mydreams is that I have for,rnd myself noting downpostcodes. Obviousll', this was very helpful inpinpoint ing where an incident wotr ld occur. Once Inoted down 'LE1r, which I fbuncl out vvas entrall ,eicester ( it isn't me who knolvs what the codescorrespond to, but whoer,er sends rne the dreams).Sure enough, an IRA. bomb exploded r.rnder a carthere two days later.Where do you fhink the dreoms come from?I think theyaresent o me by r,r.hatou might call'drearngr.rides'.,Vl-retherhis rneans heyarespiritsofthe dead or from another dimension I can't say. hespirit of the dead soldier gave me details aboutbornbs. Later, the spi rits of murdered police officers

Oh yes. They wondered how I could know about theterrorists' plans and of course suspected that I rniehtbe involved in some way-.But if that was the case whynould I come to them? Soon they real ized that Icould help them - they didrr ' t know holr , i t l ,vorkedany more than I do, even norv. Maul'officers will denlaskins me for help, or even talking to me, but they'r'eLrken a strollg interest in me, even br-tgging rny homeand l is tening in on my phone calls.


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Whot is your ottitude towqrds the sceptics?I feel sorry for them, to tell the truth. There'snothing that I, or anyone else, can do to change theirminds. They've closed their minds and in my opinionthey're the oneswh o ar e missingout.Hove your powers been tested?Yes. 've done a lot of work with dream researcher DrKeith Hearne, who has observed and monitored meas I sleep. He was with me when I predicted theescape of two IRA prisoners from Brixton Prison, andhe was with me when it happened a few days ater. DrHearne has been working on a paper about me forseveralyearsnow.

Not everyone has been so supportive. Dr RichardWiseman refuses to accept my powers are genuine,and I feel that the tests we did were unfair. Even so,I did more than enough to convince a fair-mindedperson that I was or real. I was set to appear onJames Randi's TV programme, but when they foundout the accuracy of my predictions they changed theirminds. Apparently, they only wanted guaranteedfaihlres on the show in order to back up Randi'sscepticalapproach.

One of the TV appearances I have made was on theBritish TV show This Morning with Richard andJudy,where I amazed the hosts by successfully identi$ringan object in a sealed box they brought on to the show

V One of fhe stories rold in ChrisRobinson'sbook {inser}concerngthe time he drove to on RAFbqse where he believed on IRAqttqck wos imminenf. Afferbeing interrogoted, he wosdismissed. A month lqter, qbomb wqs found ot fhe boseond sofely detonoted.

Con you direct your dreqms in qny woy?If I want to find out the answer to something specificI'll address a question to the spirits on the top of mynotepad and look at what I've written the followingmorning. There seems o be a specific cut-off point ofthree weeks. can't dream of events beyond that.Con you find out onything - the winningnumbers in fhe Nqtionol Loftery, forexqmple?Unfortunately, no. Perhaps my'dream guides' don'twant me to use them for my own personal gain, butonly to warn or help others.Do you think the future is pre-determinedond thot we hqve no free will?No. If there was nothing that could be done to avert abomb or a murder, say, don't seewhy I would betold about it. It seems o me that there are a numberof possible outcomes to a particular event, and thatI'm only seeing one of those outcomes - this wouldsuggest hat the future is not absolute.Does this imply we live in one of qn infinitenumber of similor or porqllel universes?It may be that we have all lived before and I amsomehow tuning in to past events. f you accept thatthe universe is expanding and will one day implodeon itself, the cycle of creation and destruction mightstart again. If so, the circumstancesmight beidentical. Alternatively, because of some law we don'tunderstand, there could be minor alterations. I havecome up with a number of theories to explain what ishappening to me, but I don't think I'11ever know. AllI can do is carry on dreaming and aim to use my gift- sometimes t seems ike a gift, at other times it's a

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cerned. there wa s proof of Libyan respon-: sibility for the bombing. That position

was allegedly recovered and emptied bythe CIA before being returned to the site

became he off ic ia l ine. and remainsso tothis day. llowever, informed observerspoint to a wealth of conf l icr ing informa-tion and suggest that blaming Libya isnothing more than a pol i t ica lwhitewash.

Th e evidence or this - and Anderson's: claims of a US-British cover-up - was

under the prospect of mult i -mi l l ionlaw-suits, had hired the group to

ntly investigate the events lead-to the atrociry. heir report wasexplo-" sive. It was also eflectively covered-up.

CIA IMPTICATEDInterfor's report was based on eyewitnessaceounts and the testimony of at least 11

. ,...r.rrru*.d sourceswithin 'the intelligenceagencies f four Westerngovernments'. t- revealed that a secret, five-man DefenseInte l l igenceAgency DIA) teamheadedb1Major Charles 'Tiny' McKee was aboardthe plane. A suitcase elonging o McKee

+As far as Bri ta in and the US were con-

. to be 'found' again. The case containedsensit ive nte l l igence documents. a largeamount of cash and travel lers cheques.and a sizeable quantit l of heroin.Incredib ly.an unidenrif i ed bodl was alsoremoved from the crash site. But despitethese extraordinary examples of evidence

tampering, no explanation has been given.It is now known that the five-man DIA

team were returning from Lebanon,where they had been searching for UShostages held by the Iranian-backed mili-tia fighters, Hezbollah. \A4-rilen Lebanon,McKee is said to have come acrossa secretCIA operational group known as 'CIAOne', who were col laborat ing withManzur Al-Kassar, a Syrian drug baron.Convinced that the CIA One group was aUS front for overseeing drug-running tothe West, McKee had secured a sample ofheroin to take back to Washington to chal-lenge the authorities with.

Al-Kassar's elationship with the US rvashighly classified.He had forged an alliancewith the CIA and rvas permitted to shipheroin to the US in exchange for his helpin the releaseof US hostases.

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Althoueh the US Drrrg Enf i r lccutc. l l tAchninistr:rt ion (DEA) knelr, of'his heroirrpiper l ine throrrsh Frankf l r r - t ai lpor t ,offici:r ls rr iaintnin tl-rat t ir is rr,asa carefir l l lcotrtrol lecl 'sting' operation u'hich r loulclhitve eventuallv lestr l tecl in a series ofhieh-plof i le arrests. Mirnv c lotrbt thisexplanatiolr, saving it rvas us t one 1es of aglob:r l nLlrc()tics nenr.ork control lecl bv'The ()ctr ipus', the shadou'r ' nettr.olk ofhigh-r 'arrk ins elements u' i t l ' r in \ ' \ 'estcrnintel l igence agencies.TIVES AT RISKAccolc l ing to Inter for i r tvest igi r t ions,NIajor ' 'Tinr" N'IcKee, having rrr rc:r r thedthe i l lceal narcot ics col l l lect ion, fcaled' that Ihis tearr i 's ] rescue Ioperat ion] anclt l - rer i r 'i i .es n,orr ld bc enclanscrecl lt v th eciouble-clealing'. After reportins the rnat-ter to his super iors - and gett inq noresponse - an iurgr\' \ ' IcKcc bookecl histcam on the i l l -{atccl Piur Am fl ight 103,intenclins to expose the CIA colrrrptionhirnself ' 'hcn he lettrrnerl.

T l te plcsence of NIcKee and his tcanr on

{ Toking three ,lminules ro foll fromlhe sky, thewreckoge of flightlO3 lrovelled over9 km beforeimpocting on theSherwood estole inLockerbie, Houseswere blown oport byexploding oviolionfuel, while ofhers ' :were deslroyed by .fol l ing debris.The'deod olso roinedfrom the sky thotnighry he bodies of7O possengerswererecovered from oneproperty olone.

f l ig. . l i t 10.3 savc I l t tc ' r f i r l a 1e:rd. Theirrep()r ' t sLrssestcd hat - \ IcKee's tra\el plars\\c lc intr r ( ( 'pt t r l l r r r t l tel ) ( ) t ed to Syr iarrintel l iscncc, n.ho notif ier l Al- l lrssar. He , i1turn, :rrrrurgerl to lrirve a bomb planie.clinsiclc the suitcirse that usuallv carr ied,tti ir ( gulr r ' l rer ' , r in s l t ipr r rerr l .T l r is rvorr ld r l is-pose o{ N,{cKere llcl his eviclence, at}d thusprotect his CllA-b:rcked tracle in nirrcotics.

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. ... ' : luJ.n suitcase.n this scenario, he subse-rentdeaths"f Tliy McKeeand his teamly coincidental.

,ere is , however,a th ird opt ion thatdovetai ls with the known Syrian and

involvement. This view holds thatInterfor theories merge rather

rge. Faced with exposure of his';. ipipeline, and aware hat the Iraniansplanned a spectacular revenge for the

attack, Al-Kassar nd his CIA 'con-

igence agents who were about totJreir knowledge of top-secrel.CIA-

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and informed opinion now pointand Iran as being responsible for

) The opium fields ofthe Bekoo Volleyprovide for one of theworld's lorgesl drugenterprises.Monzur

- Al-Kossor (inset left), omoior norcofics ployer;wos ollegedly: approached by the all ied forces to join the shippingdrugs o the

fight against Saddam Hussein n Operation U5wirh rhe helpof' Desert Storm in 1991. Could it be that the rheClA.He moy hove. . :

I , fti.: theydemandedor their co-operation ollowed hmed ibril Western ntelligencen drug traffick ing.in this confli ct was to have all charges (inser ight),o Syrion The centrepiece of this strategy was toinst them dropped? This, too, may have terrorist, to use fhe blame Libya's Colonel Mu'ammar

La multi-layered strategy.Not only did ClA3drugspipeline o Gaddafi, who was widely regarded bytnq S1i1 .""d f.i" into,the allied ploceo bomb on theSyria and Iran into the allied ploceo bomb on the the world's governments as a dangerousit also blurred the involvement of PonAm flighr. and devious leader. His past financins of

terrorist orsanizations, including the IrishINTERFOm Republican Army (lRA). ca,rsed under-' ' ' - . , ' , , : : *" standable r icr ion. Sitr ing arop a wealthy

mrl$r1e and independent oil-based economy,ree.* Gaddafi refused to align himself

rtr*gggx*;'#i**;g::ilffitt'' "{T,^*il$;Tl'*{rT{$$!"*::;lg"':n:ri:rr:":iiii:},nffi.'J3t*.*ffi':,'1"'q:i:i;:]l-$gifur*$'-;it*#i}:;,it"':?*i**---*-*-*'--.-'*-- i Libya's leader. William+ Casey, ormer Director ofp,E the CIA, was pre-occupied with findingnew ways to bring Gaddafi down.Constantly pressing his viewpoint home,Casey eventually gained the support ofsenior Cabinet members to undertake mil-itary and covert operations designed totopple Gaddafi. Blaming Lockerbie on


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him n'as one nt( ) re opporlulti tv to rulder-mine his author i t \ ' .

Horver ,e , in Nlarch 1996, USClonsressman .fatnes Traficant took th efloor of the House of Represcntat ives tospeak ou t o\,er the contintr ing cotrspiracr '.Perrni t ted exilctlr ' 60 seconds to mzrke hi spoint, the strzLigi r t- ralk i t reRepublici ln \{el l tfb r the juuular . 'I think the CIA anclJustice

L)epartrrrerntrr-cu'ithholrline the tr-uth,'' f l irf icant :rnnouncecl, l:rkins hi s positionclcur or r th e joint LIS-Brit ishcover-up.'frafrciuri\\ 'cl ltolt to sav hat 'irrtetllisencecxl)ertsaroturcl her 'orlcl clisagree' 'ith theBlit ish :rnclUS position. 'I think Oongress

F#e&.' tsw:i : 'The sfory of the lockerbiedisoster is one of supremeimportonce for qnyone whosfeps on fo on oircrqft

Dovid Johnston, ockerbieReseorcher=-=4:':;---::1-9:ffiffit* {' W Wdcserves th e tnr th. I think the lamil ies ofthe yictirns of 103 deserr .e he truth. '

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in thc l)ombins rcmains unlikelt.A nerv inr.cstigzrt ion as also bcenseriouslvh:imperrecl l Britain. Thebornb's tirner srvitcir - a crucialpiecc o1'cvidencc r'enains n th epossessionoI' British intellisence,u,ho rcfrtse o give it to investigatorsor explain their reasons br this per-versc staltce. hrevitabll! there arefirrtl-rerallcsations of srrppresseclvi-dence levelled against he CILA.

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TFIT,n October 1991,. |ohnPolvelson,a professor at theUniversity of Colorado,

ffi wrote a letter to the iVeu YorkTincs.Commenlillg on a projcct tcrmake Mars habitable, he statedthat a similar operation hadonce been launched to earth.A plan 'prepared on Venus napproximately 200 rnillion BC, hasrrecentlybeen discoverecl n a cavein Colo rado,' Porveison evealed.'Facedwith the problem of theirow-nplanet becominguninhabitable throush irreversibleglobal rvarrnirg. 'cr rs iarreconomistscalcuiatcd he costsand benefits of heating r.rpabarren earth.'The plan r,ventahezrd, ,r,ithmassivespacelift bringing theiiihabifants of Venus to earth.LlJnfortunatell: they were all eatenbil dinosa.r.s, and hurnaneyolution had to start auain,'wrote the professor.GREENING MARSNthough his lct tcr was obviouslra oke, some readersweresufficiently taken irr to askfor the location of theColorado cave. {hat is nota oke. howerer. s t l re deathat prompted he let ter r rthe first place: making Mars,our nearestplanetaryneighbouq a habitableenvironment for Man.

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Biosphere2. a giant greenhousecover ingover three acresof theAr izona desert . s one al temptbeing made to simulate hecreation of a n artificial. off-worldenvironment.Within Biosphere2are f ive 'biomes' (selCsupporting

Sd r$Our decendonfs cqncreote o New Eqrth -perhqps even q NewEden - on the next worldoutwqrds from the Sun

ArthurC. Clorke, he Snows f Olympus'= ' , f f i , I l rFFhabitats) grassland.ropicalrainforest, mangrove swamps. nda mini-ocean ompletewith a coralreef and a white-sandbeach.

\44ren he $200 mil l ion facil iqwas being built in the mid-1980s bybillionaire businessmanEd Bass,hopes were high that Biosphere 2

(so called because earth is knor,vnas Biosphere 1) rvould provide theblueprint for new r'vorldson otherplanets.Thomas Paine, ormerNASA administrator and Chairmanof the US Nat ionalCommi:siononSpace .vas articularlv enthusiastic.'Learning to "l ive off thc land" onresource-rich Mars will double theterritor,v available for life,' saidPaine, anclencourageourdescendantsn another century tosettle countless planets circlingdistant suns.'

oI-j oIn 1991,Biosphere 2 rvas eady'.

Eight 'biospherians' four menand for.rr 'vomen,aged betrveen29an d 69 , from the US, England andBelsi t rm.arrd ed b1 science uruJohn Allen - entered the facilitl'.The doors nere sealedand theybegan their mission: o see fBiosphere 2 could support theteam n'ith adequate food, waterand air for two years.

But well before the nvo ,vearswere up, things started to go wrong.Oxygen plummeted to dangerouslylow levels, ,vhile he carbon dioxideconcentration sky-rocketed.Somevegetation grew rampantly underthese conditions, r'vhileother plants- particularly those that neededpollinating - died off. Meanrvhile,cockroachesand ants flourishedand overran the faciliq'.

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