Mystery in the Alvord Desert
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Reprinted with permission from Atlantis Rising
by Jeane Manning
The mystery in the Alvord desert hit TV newscasts years ago, but the story behind it contains ideas whose time may have come. Since ancient times, art has been a doorway to other levels of life. Could art now assist us toward a more harmonious level? The untold story sparks such questions.
An Air National Guard reconnaissance pilot flying over a remote part of the southeast-Oregon desert in September of 1990 spotted a huge, perfectly-made geometric design on an old lake bed. Experts identified it as a Sri Yantra, symbol for the mother spirit of nature, venerated in India. This was the first time it had been drawn at a scale of nearly one-quarter-mile across. A closer look showed no tire tracks or footprints, so some excitedly claimed that aliens made it. Newspapers from coast to coast carried aerial photos, and television stations beamed it to the world.
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The Power of Water
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Are Its Secrets the Keys to Solving Today’s Most Vexing Problems?
Reproduced with the kind permission of Atlantis Rising
by Jeane Manning in Atlantis Rising, No. 19, 1999
Our thinking apparatus runs on water. Our physical bodies are two-thirds water, so obviously its qualities can heal or harm us. We now learn that water seems to remember and later convey “information”. No wonder the most dynamic frontier in science today is water research.
Or is it a re-search, I wondered after encountering researchers who: » show how neuroscience tends to confirm medieval concepts situating memory, imagination and reason in water-filled cavities of the brain.
- experiment with transferring, from water to us, the life-force energy chi, also called prana down through the ages, or
- study specially-shaped water pipes used by the ancient Minoan culture in Crete, or
- show how the emanations from healers’ hands change water, or
- measure physical qualities of “holy water”, or effects of conscious intent upon water’s crystalline structure, or
- build prototype inventions aimed at using water as a source of energyOr is it a re-search, I wondered after encountering researchers who: » show how neuroscience tends to confirm medieval concepts situating memory, imagination and reason in water-filled cavities of the brain.
Some study the big picture, such as the claim that rivers self-organize and energetically recharge themselves through spinning motions. And some point out the well-known anomalies - water is densest at 4 degrees Celsius, and strangely expands when it cools further, so that its solid state floats on top of its liquid state. Water as the “universal solvent” melds with nearly any element. Water’s main ingredient, hydrogen, is spread throughout galaxies, and ice is formed in dust clouds in outer space.
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