Early in 2007 the Truth about the Shroud of Turin and the Ark of the Covenant will be Revealed

Following years of painstaking research and thousands of miles travelling across the globe international best selling author, Philip Gardiner, will finally reveal how the Shroud was made, whose image it portrays and its age. In addition Gardiner will reveal the links between it, the Ark of the Covenant and Mary herself.

The startling revelations will be shown in both a book and DVD documentary entitled The Ark, The Shroud and Mary due out at the end of March. The book will be published by the USA publishing house New Page books who last year released Gardiner's Gnosis: The Secret of Solomon's Temple Revealed which went best seller for them and has catapulted Gardiner onto the world stage with over 400 radio interviews and appearing on TV, newspapers and general media. The DVD will be released at the same time world-wide by Reality Films part of the world's largest independent entertainment companies, Reality Entertainment. Co-produced by Gardiner and the European wing of Reality, Real2can.com, the production sees Gardiner travel the globe to uncover the whereabouts of the Ark and much more. From Egypt, Ethiopia and India to Portugal, France and Rome, Gardiner unravels a mysterious thread.

The author then finds himself engulfed in a world of secret societies with clandestine meetings in far-off lands and discovers an ancient truth held sacred by the brotherhood for millennia. One author who has watched the film and read the book in advance said:

"A suspense-filled, fact-packed adventure story...an epigrammatic tale that needs to be told to the whole wide world...clearly the next blockbuster movie sequel in the ?Raiders of the Lost Ark? series." Dr. J. J. Harper, author, Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century

Nobody has gone to such depths to uncover the truth and nobody has come under such a dangerous situation. Is this is the final story in the Ark, the Shroud and Mary?

In March Gardiner will be appearing on radio and TV across the USA and world. In June Philip Gardiner will be flying to Australia to speak at the International and Scientific Symposium (www.auforn.com) as well as appearing on TV, radio and at book signings.

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ALSO COMING SOON

Lost in the thread of time, an incredible discovery has emerged from the dust of ages...
Deep within the great pyramid is a secret that has remained hidden for over 4000 years. An ancient instrument designed to unlock mysteries that have baffled mankind for generations.
The seal is broken. Within this film you will find knowledge of the greatest Magicians that ever walked our planet.A film directed and produced by Philip Gardiner on the incredible discoveries of Crichton Miller.

Coming soon on DVD. To ensure you get a copy email michael@real2can.com with Thoth in the header for advanced warning.

"An ingenious discovery." Robert Bauval, Author, of The Orion Mystery"The fact that this man actually figured out the Celtic Cross is just the proof we need that our ancestors weren't as ignorant as most modern people like to believe." P. Hammock, Sky, USA

"Stunning... an invaluable service to humanity, and a tribute to the Celts and other ancient peoples." Harald S. Boehlke, Author"Crichton Miller is a man on a mission. His mission is, in my humble opinion, far more important than the Victorian search for the source of the Nile or the 60's race for space. It is more extravagant than the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb and in my opinion of more archaeological, scientific and historical importance than just about anything else you care to mention." Philip Gardiner, International best selling author.Produced by Michael Pralin, Philip Gardiner and Paul HughesDirected by Philip GardinerInterview by Philip GardinerCo-produced by Reality FilmsMusic by Soul Path (www.soulpath.info) In association with www.real2can.com

The Cross
by Crichton MillerThe cross adopted by Christianity was the most powerful instrument ever devised by the ancients. This statement is true because at a practical level it is the only material artefact that answers the following questions: How did the ancients measure the world, navigate oceans, create mathematics, construct pyramids and keep time by the stars?It is also true at a spiritual level because it is the only working archaeological artefact that reveals the meaning behind the fundamental questions: Why did the ancients have beliefs of reincarnation, resurrection, death and rebirth, good and evil, darkness and light, God and Heaven?
So powerful was the knowledge that the cross reveals, it was adopted throughout the pre historic world and can be seen from China to America, Europe to South America and it is found on every continent in the world as far back as 10,000 years BCE.So dangerous was the knowledge revealed in the cross that long dead Kings and Pharaohs, Priests and Magicians have kept the truth about it hidden from the public for over 4000 years.It is the archetype to every philosophy from which we are descended and powers the science that sent us to the moon and built one of the most powerful religions the world has ever seen.Discovered in 1997, it is probably the greatest historical and spiritual discovery ever made in modern times.This revelation by a common man is for the ordinary men; women and children so that in a world that is apparently descending into chaos, they can make sense of the past, understand the present and decide the future for themselves and their descendants with the wisdom it reveals.

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Doomsday cult said to be at center of Iraqi battle

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Authorities say Iraqi and U.S. forces fought disciples of a renegade Muslim leader intent on killing Shiite pilgrims.
NAJAF, IRAQ ? In an era beset by war and confusion, a purported messiah rises from the sands of the desert promising to deliver the end of time. On the outskirts of a holy city, he gathers his fighters for the apocalypse. But his plan is betrayed.
By dawn, government forces surround the messiah and his followers, killing him and hundreds of others.
The apparent story line of the Heaven?s Army cult and its leader, Dhyaa Abdul-Zahra, seems to belong to a long-ago epoch.
But the Iraqi and U.S. troops who fought an intense battle against hundreds of disciples of the renegade Muslim leader near the ancient city of Najaf on Sunday met a modern enemy. They were armed not only with an unorthodox religious fervor but also with high-tech weapons, Iraqi officials said.
Details of the fighting remained sketchy and contradictory. But Sunday?s battle illustrates how Iraq has become fertile ground for extremists of various stripes rather than the regional incubator for moderate movements envisioned by the war?s American architects.
On Monday, in its first detailed account of the fighting, the U.S. military said more than 100 gunmen were captured. A U.S. helicopter crashed during the battle, killing the two crewmen.
The U.S. account did not provide details about the nature of the mysterious fighters, saying only that they were ?militias.?
More than 36 hours after the initial assault, estimates by Iraqi officials on the number of dead fighters varied from 150 to 400.
It was unclear how officials had reached the estimates.

Messianic Fervor Grows Among Iran?s Shiites- Iranian president backs messianic cult

Religious authorities in Najaf responsible for taking care of bodies for burial said they had received only eight corpses by Monday night. Other Iraqi officials said many bodies had not been collected from the battlefield.
One U.S. advisor to Iraqi security forces cautioned against exaggerated casualty reports from the Iraqi government.
?There are rumors everywhere,? he said. ?The whole situation is so bizarre.?
Iraqi officials offered an extraordinary tale that, if true, would mean that a large, well-armed paramilitary unit grew right under the noses of the nation?s security forces.
?How could that have been invisible?? the U.S. advisor asked.
Iraqi officials said the militants had been holed up with their wives and children stockpiling food and weapons in the village of Zergha on the opposite bank of the Euphrates River from Najaf. According to some reports, women and children were among the casualties in the intense ground and air assault.
Abdul-Zahra was a charismatic figure, Iraqi officials said, whose tale conjures up American religious zealots Jim Jones and David Koresh.
The officials said Abdul-Zahra, also known as Thamir abu Gumar, was arrested twice during the rule of Saddam Hussein on charges of claiming to be Imam Mahdi, the revered Shiite Muslim saint who disappeared more than 1,000 years ago and whose return is said to herald a new dawn of justice.
After Hussein was toppled in the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, Abdul-Zahra?s group appeared to be a legitimate political movement ?coming out of the new civil freedoms,? said Ali Jarew, Najaf?s provincial security advisor.
But soon Abdul-Zahra, who is in his mid-30s, began telling followers that he was the reincarnation of the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib, another revered Shiite saint.
Jarew described Abdul-Zahra as tall, fair-skinned, rugged and handsome. His followers were said to include Sunnis and Shiites, Iraqis and foreigners, men and women.
They apparently came to believe that the man from the small Shiite town of Hillah was Mahdi, and the chaos engulfing Iraq an omen of the coming apocalypse.
The Iraqi Cabinet, in a statement, described the Heaven?s Army as an ?ideologically corrupted group? led by a man with ?a suspicious history.?
Building a stronghold among orchards on the outskirts of Najaf, members dug trenches, hoarded food, sewed fake Iraqi uniforms and assigned guard shifts as they prepared for battle against pilgrims celebrating one of the holiest days on the Shiite calendar, officials said.
Iraqi officials said Abdul-Zahra?s doomsday vision portrayed revered Shiite clerics in Najaf as frauds and impostors who deserved to be killed.
Iraqi forces started casting a suspicious eye on the group about 10 days ago. They used infiltrators and received information that an attack was imminent.
Iraqi officials said they gave ?a chance for this group to surrender,? but members did not comply. ?They preferred to face our forces,? the Cabinet statement said.
Iraqi security forces said they surrounded the group?s stronghold and attacked.
By striking preemptively, Iraqi security forces said, they stopped a lethal, well-armed cult from carrying out a potentially devastating attack on Najaf?s shrines and clerics.
But U.S. officials offered a significantly different account of how the fighting started. They said the heavily armed group struck first, using hand and rocket-propelled grenades to attack a convoy of Iraqi soldiers, police and commandos who had been sent to investigate the tip about an impending attack on Shiite pilgrims.
The fighters were holed up in elaborate trenches, Iraqi officials said.
?It was obvious that they had good military training and big supplies of weapons,? the Cabinet statement said. ?They were ready for a war.?
Cult members managed to break into the Iraqi army?s radio frequency, an Iraqi soldier said.
?When we were calling their names and telling them to get off the walkie-talkie, they were saying, ?We are messengers here to save you. We are the followers of the Mahdi,? ? the soldier said.
The group also had sophisticated medical equipment and two surgery rooms, an Iraqi official said.
During the hours-long battle, Heaven?s Army fighters captured one wounded Iraqi soldier, Jarew said. They treated him at the compound and sent him back to his comrades with a message.
?The imam is coming back,? it said, according to Jarew.
Iraqi officials said such cults could arise anywhere.
Even the U.S. has not been immune to intelligence lapses and terrorism attacks, said Abdul Hussein Abtan, Najaf?s deputy governor, referring to the Sept. 11 attacks.
He said he had seen the remains of the cult leader.
?His body is by my side,? Abtan said. ?Thank God [the man] who claims that he is the imam was killed.?
Times staff writer Roug reported from Baghdad and special correspondent Fakhrildeen from Najaf. Times staff writers Borzou Daragahi, Zeena Kareem and Saif Hameed in Baghdad contributed to this report.

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Stonehenge Discovery

It looks like we are set to have some amazing new discoveries coming forth from recent archaeological discoveries at Stonehenge in England. The following article from (http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17352/religious-complex-unearthed-near-stonehenge) explains why:

Archeologists working near Stonehenge in England have discovered what appears to be an ancient religious complex containing a wealth of artifacts that may finally illuminate the lives and religious practices of the people who built the mysterious monument 4,600 years ago.
The circle of massive stone blocks on Salisbury Plain southwest of London is one of the most famous archeological sites in the world, but researchers know surprisingly little about the people who built it and lived in the region.
The discovery, reported Tuesday in a teleconference organized by the National Geographic Society, reconfigures the geometry of Stonehenge, indicating that it is not an isolated monument but part of a larger religious complex that may have encompassed the area.

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It also casts the people who built the monument in an unexpected light, indicating that they were not only the somber worshipers of Stonehenge but also a raucous, hard-partying group who gathered for regular festivals.
?To see the everyday lives of these people, to see people living in their houses, is filling in really important gaps in the record,? said archeologist Mary Ann Owoc of Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa., who was not involved in the research. ?We had some evidence, but this is so much richer.?
The discovery is also destined to change archeologists? views of how the ancient people used the site. Stonehenge is typically thought of as a cemetery and an astronomical observatory that was used for pagan celebrations at the summer solstice.
The monument comprises concentric circles of massive stones, some weighing as much as 50 tons, surrounded by a circular earthen bank and a ditch. Some of the stones were imported from Wales, about 150 miles away, and others were quarried about 24 miles north of Stonehenge at Marlboro Downs. It was constructed about the same time as the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.
The discovery at Durrington Walls, two miles northeast of Stonehenge, indicates that the region was a religious center where people gathered in midwinter for raucous feasts and solemn ceremonies before sending their deceased on a voyage to the afterlife.
Although Stonehenge was a monument to the dead, the complex at Durrington Walls was ?very much a place of the living,? said archeologist Mike Parker Pearson of Sheffield University, who led the team along with archeologist Julian Thomas of Manchester University.
Archeologists already knew there was a henge ? a circular banked enclosure with an internal ditch ? at Durrington Walls, but the wide excavations carried out in 2006 placed it in a new light.
?Such intensive subsurface research has never been attempted on this scale before? near Stonehenge, said archeologist Ruth Tringham of UC Berkeley.
The henge, about 1,400 feet in diameter, enclosed a series of concentric rings of huge timber posts. The team said the posts mimicked Stonehenge in all particulars except one ? its orientation.
Stonehenge is aligned with sunrise at the summer solstice and sunset at the winter solstice. The henge at Durrington Walls is the opposite, aligned with sunrise at the winter solstice and sunset at the summer solstice.
Artifacts found in the houses indicate there were massive midwinter celebrations marking the solstice to complement the summer celebration at Stonehenge.The team excavated eight houses, and magnetic anomalies show there are at least 25 more nearby, Pearson said.
?My guess is that there are many more than that,? he said. In fact, the entire valley appears to have been densely populated, he said.
The houses? relatively flimsy wattle and daub walls are long gone. What remains are densely packed clay floors.
?These are the first ones we have found with intact clay floors from this period,? Pearson said.
?The houses are virtually square, no bigger than the average sitting room ? about 14 feet by 14 feet,? he said. They feature a central fireplace, an oval hearth sunk into the floor. Slight indentations around the walls mark the locations of timber fittings for boxbeds and a dresser that stood opposite the door.
The houses are almost identical to a few houses previously discovered at Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands off the northern tip of Scotland, he said. Those houses, from the same period, were constructed of stone because the islands had been deforested.
Durrington Walls ?is either the richest site or the filthiest that we have ever found for this period,? Pearson said. ?It?s absolutely stuffed full of trash or rubbish: broken pots, chips, flints, burned stones used for cooking and animal bones. Many were thrown away half-eaten, a sign of conspicuous consumption. This is an enormous feasting assemblage. People were here to have a really good time.?
Significantly, there was no evidence regarding the processing or baking of grain, and little evidence of crafts.
?This was not a full-time, year-round community, but one for specialized activities,? Pearson said.
Owoc noted that people during this period tended to move from place to place as the seasons changed. It was not until 1700 BC to 1200 BC that they began to settle down in walled towns.
Teeth from pigs found at the site indicate the animals were about 9 months old when they were slaughtered. Assuming they were born in the spring, that would place the celebration near the winter solstice. Arrowheads embedded in the pigs suggest there were archery and other competitions before the feast.
Closer to the rims of the henge, on a terrace overlooking it, the team found more buildings. They were the same size as the others but not as close together, and each was surrounded by its own bank and ditch.

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Most important, they were swept clean.
?These may have been special people, perhaps chiefs, living in seclusion,? Thomas said. The cleanliness may suggest that they were not houses but shrines or cult centers, he said. ?The contrast is really fascinating.?
As the timber posts in the henge rotted away, he said, people dug out the holes and placed deposits of animal bones, pottery and stone tools.
?They were creating an architecture of memory, a commemoration of what had been there,? Thomas said. ?This was clearly a place of enormous importance that was remembered over a long period of time.?
The team also unearthed a broad roadway or avenue that led from the settlement to the Avon River. The avenue was 90 feet wide and 510 feet long and very similar to an avenue at Stonehenge but much shorter. At the river, there is a near-vertical drop of about 12 feet.
?This is some kind of ceremonial roadway, and we know many people used it because it was flattened by the trampling of many feet,? Thomas said.
He speculated that after the feasts, the celebrants would proceed down the avenue and drop the bodies of the deceased, or their ashes, into the river. People of importance were cremated and their remains taken down the river and buried at Stonehenge. At least 250 burials are known to have occurred there.
The interpretation of the road?s use ?is more speculative but pretty interesting,? said archeologist Curtis N. Runnels of Boston University, editor of the Journal of Field Archaeology. ?It will create quite a bit of discussion in the field.?
The research was sponsored by the National Geographic Society, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, English Heritage and Wessex Archaeology.

To me this is great news, revealing hopefully evidence of wide-ranging travel and intercourse between peoples of far-flung places.

Nigeria reports its first cases of bird flu in humans

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Published: January 31, 2007

ABUJA, Nigeria: Health officials reported Nigeria's first cases of bird flu in humans on Wednesday, saying one woman had died and a family member had been infected but was responding to treatment.

The victim, a 22-year old woman in Lagos, died Jan. 17, Information Minister Frank Nweke said in a statement. He added that the government was boosting surveillance across Africa's most-populous nation after the infections in Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city.

The World Health Organization had no immediate confirmation.

Nigerian health officials earlier said 14 human samples were being tested. Nweke made no mention of those cases on Wednesday.

An outbreak of H5N1 bird flu hit Nigeria last year, but no human infections had been reported until Wednesday. Until the Nigerian report, Egypt and Djibouti were the only African countries that had confirmed infections among people. Eleven people have died in Egypt.

The bird flu virus remains hard for humans to catch, but health experts fear H5N1 may mutate into a form that could spread easily among humans and possibly kill millions in a flu pandemic.
Amid a new H5N1 outbreak reported in recent weeks in Nigeria's north, hundreds of kilometers (miles) from Lagos, health workers have begun a cull of poultry.

Bird flu is generally not harmful to humans, but the H5N1 virus has claimed at least 157 lives worldwide since it began ravaging Asian poultry in late 2003, according to the WHO.
The H5N1 strain had been confirmed in 15 of Nigeria's 36 states.

By September, when the last known case of the virus was found in poultry in a farm near Nigeria's biggest city of Lagos, 915,650 birds had been slaughtered nationwide by government veterinary teams under a scheme in which the owners were promised compensation. However, many Nigerian farmers have yet to receive compensation in the north of the country, and health officials fear that chicken deaths may be covered up by owners reluctant to slaughter their animals.

Since bird flu cases were first discovered in Nigeria last year, Cameroon, Djibouti, Niger, Ivory Coast, Sudan and Burkina Faso have also reported the H5N1 strain of bird flu in birds. There are fears that it has spread even further than is known in Africa because monitoring is difficult on a poor continent with weak infrastructure.

With sub-Saharan Africa bearing the brunt of the AIDS epidemic, there is concern that millions of people with suppressed immune systems will be particularly vulnerable, especially in rural areas with little access to health facilities. Many people keep chickens for food, even in densely populated urban areas.

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Japan confirms another outbreak of H5N1 bird flu

31 Jan 2007 11:19:19 GMT31 Jan 2007 11:19:19 GMT Source: Reuters

TOKYO, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Japan has confirmed an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in the western prefecture of Okayama, the third to be confirmed in the country since the beginning of the year, the Agriculture Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

The ministry also said a separate outbreak was suspected after 23 birds died at a poultry farm in the southwestern prefecture of Miyazaki, site of two earlier H5N1 flare-ups and Japan's biggest poultry-producing region.

The H5N1 virus has killed at least 164 people worldwide since 2003, most of them in Asia, and over 200 million birds have died from it or have been killed to prevent its spread.

There have been no reported cases of human infection from the virus in Japan.

Agriculture Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka told reporters that his ministry would support local authorities if they were to call for help from troops to deal with bird flu-related situations.

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Global Warning

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The North Pole has been frozen for 100,000 years. But according to scientists, that won't be true by the end of this century. The top of the world is melting. There's been a debate burning for years about the causes of global warming. But the scientists you're about to meet say the debate is over. New evidence shows man is contributing to the warming of the planet, pumping out greenhouse gases that trap solar heat. Much of this new evidence was compiled by American scientist Bob Corell, who led a study called the "Arctic Climate Impact Assessment." It's an awkward name ? but consider the findings: the seas are rising, hurricanes will be more powerful, like Katrina, and polar bears may be headed toward extinction. What does the melting arctic look like? Correspondent Scott Pelley went north to see what Bob Corell calls a "global warning."
Towers of ice the height of 10-story buildings rise on the coast of Greenland. It's the biggest ice sheet in the Northern Hemisphere, measuring some 700,000 square miles. But temperatures in the arctic are rising twice as fast as the rest of the world, so a lot of Greenland's ice is running to the sea. "Right now the entire planet is out of balance," says Bob Corell, who is among the world's top authorities on climate change. He led 300 scientists from eight nations in the "Arctic Climate Impact Assessment." Corell believes he has seen the future. "This is a bellwether, a barometer. Some people call it the canary in the mine. The warning that things are coming," he says. "In 10 years here in the arctic, we see what the rest of the planet will see in 25 or 35 years from now." Over the last few decades, the North Pole has been dramatically reduced in size and Corell says the glaciers there have been receding for the last 50 years. Back in 1987, President Reagan asked Corell to look into climate change. He's been at it ever since. In Iceland, he showed 60 Minutes glaciers that were growing until the 1990s and are now melting. In fact, 98 percent of the world's mountain glaciers are melting. Corell says all that water will push sea levels three feet higher all around the world in 100 years. "You and I sit here, another foot. Your children, another foot. Your grandchildren, another foot. And it won't take long for sea level to inundate," says Corell. "Sea level will be inundating the low lands of virtually every country of the world, ours included," Corell predicts. To find the sights and sounds of the arctic melting, there are few places better than a fjord in Greenland, with a glacier just a short distance away. Pelley stood on a huge block of ice that had split off from the glacier and had dropped into the sea ? a big iceberg. "This part of Greenland is melting faster than just about any other. To get a sense of the enormity of what's happening, consider this: The ice that is melting here is the equivalent of all the ice in the Alps," Pelley explained, standing atop the iceberg. That's more than 105 million acres of melted ice in 15 years. Just four minutes after Pelley cleared off this berg, part of the ice caved in.

60 Minutes got a bird's-eye view of how unstable the ice is becoming on a flight with glaciologist Carl Boggild. Boggild anchored 10 research stations to the ice. But every time he comes to visit, the ice and his stations have moved. Flying over the ice, Pelley noticed lots of fissures and crevices breaking through the ice. Asked what causes this, Boggild explained, "This is actually the ice flow, where you have so much tension in the ice that it cannot stick together. And it breaks and opens a crevice which goes about 150, 200 feet down." The ice is also melting on the sides, Boggild says. High overhead, Pelley remarked that one could hear the water running. "It's like a small river," Boggild said. A leading theory says those little rivers lubricate the bottom of the ice sheet, helping it move off the bedrock and out to sea. And there may be no stopping it. Arctic warming is accelerating. It's a chain reaction. As snow and ice melt they reveal dark land and water that absorb solar heat. That melts more snow and ice, and around it goes. There's long been a debate about how much of this is earth's naturally changing climate and how much is man's doing. Paul Mayewski, at the University of Maine, says the answer to that question is frozen inside an ice core from Greenland. With funding from the National Science Foundation, Mayewski has led 35 expeditions collecting deep ice cores from glaciers. The ice captures everything in the air, laying down a record covering half a million years. "We can go to any section of the ice core, to tell, basically, what the greenhouse gas levels were; we can tell whether or not it was stormy, what the temperatures were like," Mayewski explains. 60 Minutes brought Mayewski back to Greenland, where he says his research has proven that the ice and the atmosphere have man's fingerprints all over them. Mayewski says we haven't seen a temperature rise to this level going back at least 2,000 years, and arguably several thousand years. As for carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, Mayewski says, "we haven't seen CO2 levels like this in hundreds of thousands of years, if not millions of years." What does that tell him? "It all points to something that has changed and something that has impacted the system which wasn't doing it more than 100 years ago. And we know exactly what it is. It's human activity," he says. It's activity like burning fossil fuels, releasing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The U.S. is by far the largest polluter. Corell says there's so much greenhouse gas in the air already that more temperature rise is inevitable. Even if we stopped using every car, truck, and power plant ? stopping all greenhouse gas emissions ? Mayewski says the planet would continue to warm anyway. "Would continue to warm for another, about another degree," he says. That's enough to melt the Arctic ? and if greenhouse gases continue to increase, the temperature will rise even more. The ice that's melting already is changing the weather by disrupting ocean currents.

Corell points to floods in the U.S., heat waves in Europe; and 60 Minutes wanted to know about the catastrophic 2005 hurricane season. "The one thing I think we can say with a fairly high degree of confidence is the severity of the storms, how strong the storms, these cyclonic events like hurricanes and cyclones in the Pacific, are going to get ? they're gonna be more severe. Now one thing that is in doubt is whether there'll be more of them," Corell explains. "The oceans of the Northern Hemisphere are the warmest they've been on record. When they get up in that temperature, they spin off hurricanes. Well, if it goes up another degree, it's gonna spawn these with more intensity," Corell says. The name "arctic" comes from ancient Greek meaning "Land of the Great Bear." But the warming climate is threatening this icon of the arctic, the polar bear. Flying above the sub-arctic region of Hudson Bay, Canadian scientist Nick Lunn is hunting polar bears in a 30-year study that tracks their health. It's the job of his assistant Evan Richardson to take them down with a tranquilizer dart. Once tranquilized, Lunn carefully checks the bear with a pole, without getting too close. The polar bear is the largest predator on land. Native people in the region say he'll even hunt humans, but not on the day Pelley joined Lunn: with the tranquilizer, the bear was awake but immobile. The scientists knew this bear by his tattoo. His history is written chapter and verse in the "bear bible." "This is the record book of all the bears that have been handled by us or Manitoba Conservation," Lunn explains. The study began at the Wapusk National Park, because the bear population was thought to be the healthiest in the world. Lunn's annual checkup records changes in fat, dimensions and an inventory of weapons. The polar bear uses its teeth to hunt primarily one thing ? seals. That's where arctic warming comes in.

Polar bears can only hunt on the ice. Lunn says the ice is breaking up three weeks earlier than it did 30 years go. He's now finding female bears 55 pounds lighter ? weaker mothers with fewer cubs. Asked how the bear population has changed since he started his research, Lunn says, "When we first started doing this research, we've done inventories in the mid-80s, in the mid-90s. Both times we came out with an estimate of approximately 1,200 animals for what is known as the western Hudson Bay population. The numbers now suggest that the population has declined to below 1,000." The bears are unlikely to survive as a species if there's a complete loss of ice in summer, which the arctic study projects will happen by the end of this century. There are skeptics who question climate change projections like that, saying they?re no more reliable than your local weatherman. But Mayewski says arctic projections done decades ago are proving accurate. "That said, the skeptics have brought up some very, very interesting issues over the last few years. And they've forced us to think more and more about the data that we collect. We can owe the skeptics a vote of thanks for making our science as precise as it is today," says Mayewski. One big supporter of climate science research is the Bush administration, spending $5 billion a year. But Mr. Bush refuses to sign a treaty forcing cuts in greenhouse gases. The White House also declined 60 Minutes' request for an interview. Corell, who first studied the issue for President Reagan, believes the climate change facts are in, even if President Bush does not. "When you look at the American government, which is saying essentially, 'Wait a minute. We need to study this some more. We can't flip our energy use overnight. It would hurt the economy.' When you hear that, what do you think?" Pelley asked. "Well, what I do then is, I try to tell them exactly what we know scientifically. The science is, I believe, unassailable," says Corell. "I'm not arguing their policy, that's their business, how they deal with policy. But my job is to say, scientifically, shorten that time scale so that if you don't push out the effects of climate change into the long, long distant future. Because even under the best of circumstances, this natural system of a climate will continue to warm the planet for literally hundreds of years, no matter what we do."


So global warming is a global warning and it's time to take our world seriously. We are here and now and we cannot blame everybody else for what we are doing ourselves. As our ancestors told us again and again, we have to take responsibility and not pass the buck; we have to give thanks for what we have and join in balance and unity with the world - with the mother who provides. Quantum connection at the sub-atomic level means that this even means THOUGHT!

See www.gnosisbookdvd.com for more on our ancestors thoughts.

Glastonbury Radio Needs You

Web Radio World is pleased to announce a further expansion of it's UK station base with the launch of a new esoteric talk and music station - Glastonbury Radio (www.glastonburyradio.co.uk)

Web Radio World offers affordable audio streaming services and web hosting to online radio stations and DJ's wanting to air their wares to the world! (www.webradioworld.com)

Glastonbury is seen by many as the esoteric capital of the world - and several shows on Net Talk Radio already come from Glastonbury sources! Now with the help of local broadcasters, we are backing the launch of Glastonbury Radio from Mid March.

We now seek volunteer presenters for the following formats:

Spiritual programming
New Age Music shows
King Arthur - history related documentaries
Glastonbury news round-up show
Healing and Meditation programmes
General Esoteric shows

Shows must be at least one hour in length and provided in MP3 format for broadcast and samples should be sent to ross.hemsworth@webradioworld.com

See Ross here http://www.myspace.com/rosshemsworth and here www.nettalkradio.co.uk

To Order Philip Gardiner's Books and DVD's go to www.reality-entertainment.com/books.htm
See also www.gardinersworld.com

Prehistoric Shark?

Prehistoric Shark Spotted

This female frilled shark that was recently spotted by Japanese fisherman is knowns as a "living fossil" since it has barely evolved over millions of years.

THE SINGING PYRAMID

By Alan F. Alford

An ancient traveller across the desert would probably have picked up the sound from miles away. It was a deep bass note, booming out over the Nile Valley, perhaps accompanied by another, slightly higher note, the two of them forming an eerie, resonating chord.As the sound grew louder and more persistent in his ears, the traveller would have been filled with awe and wonder. It would have seemed like the voice of the Great God, the Lord of the Universe himself, calling him to witness the miraculous fact that the sound was issuing from a vast stone edifice towering nearly 500 feet high above the ground.There on the Giza plateau, in the land which is today known as Egypt, the Great Pyramid was sending out a musical message across the sands. Extraordinary as the idea might seem, it was ?singing?.* * *The miracle of the ?singing pyramid? was made possible by two narrow shafts, just 8 inches wide, which were sunk into the north and south faces of the Pyramid and plunged downwards for distances of 235 feet and 174 feet to debouch into the so-called King?s Chamber 140 feet above the ground. Unlike the similar shafts attached to the Queen?s Chamber, these shafts were not sealed at their inner and outer ends but were cut through to provide an air passage between the interior and exterior of the Pyramid.These airshafts, it must be emphasised, are unique. They are found here in the Great Pyramid, but in no other pyramid or tomb. Some Egyptologists believe that the shafts were built to ventilate the King?s Chamber. Against this theory, it does not explain the oblique angle of the shafts. If ventilation were the objective, it would have been achieved much more easily by constructing the shafts horizontally. Other scholars believe that the shafts functioned as guides for the soul of the deceased king. A popular idea of late is that the shafts were aligned to certain stars in which the king would be reborn. However, even if we humour the notion that the king was buried in this chamber ? an idea that runs counter to everything that is known about ancient Egyptian burial practices ? the fact is that a king?s soul was fully capable of passing through solid masonry (witness the ?false doors? attached to Old Kingdom tombs) and hence it had no need of open shafts.One thing that can be stated with certainty is that the shafts were of paramount importance to the Pyramid?s design. For, as Rudolf Gantenbrink has pointed out, their construction at precise sloping angles through the masonry, so calculated as to ensure their exit at the same height on the Pyramid?s central north-south axis, would have involved the builders in endless additional work, time, and energy.Might acoustics be the answer to the conundrum?* * *The King?s Chamber is unique not only in respect of its airshafts but also in the fact that it is made entirely of granite blocks. It is on account of this construction ? granite is a resonant quartz-bearing rock ? that the room possesses exceptional acoustic properties.It has been known for centuries that the King?s Chamber has special acoustic properties. In 1581, Jean Palmerme, a French official, visited the Great Pyramid and reported that the granite sarcophagus, when struck, ?sounded like a bell?. Other travellers used the same phrase, and it became a favourite trick of the local Arab guides to hit the coffer and make it ring.But it isn?t just the sarcophagus. The King?s Chamber itself is renowned for its ability to resonate in harmony with every transient sound, be it a murmur or a footstep. The room is for this reason often used by modern tourist groups for the purposes of toning and meditation.In recent years, the acoustics of the King?s Chamber have been investigated by a number of researchers including the flautist Paul Horn, the writer Christopher Dunn, and two technicians, Tom Danley and John Reid. Their tests have established that the chamber has an impressive reverberation time (defined as ?the time in seconds required for a sound event to decay to one millionth of its initial level?) and resonates most strongly at very low frequencies.When the American acoustics engineer Tom Danley played a bass note of 30 Hertz through a system of amplifiers, he reported that the resonance was so strong that it ?scared the wits out of several crew members? and ?made everyone get up and run to the exit?.The English acoustics engineer John Reid has observed that the 2:1 dimensions of the chamber (it measures 34 feet 4 inches from east to west, 17 feet 2 inches from north to south) are ideal for creating powerful low frequency resonances.Of particular interest is the tower-like superstructure which rises to a maximum height of 49 feet above the King?s Chamber?s visible ceiling. This unique system comprises a further four flat granite roofs, formed by 34 horizontal beams, and at the apex a limestone gable formed by 24 cantilevered beams. Astonishingly, the huge granite beams have a combined weight of 1200 tons, which is additional to the 300 tons of the 9 beams of the visible ceiling. Why did the builders need to use so much granite?It has always been assumed by Egyptologists that these roofs were built for the purpose of weight relief ? to protect the flat ceiling of the chamber below. But structural engineers have argued convincingly that such an objective could have been achieved via a much simpler design. There was simply no need to erect four extra roofs.So, if the stacked roofs were not needed for structural reasons, then what was their purpose?I believe the answer may lie in the resonant properties of granite. This would explain why the 43 beams have such striking variations in width and height, and why some of the beams have deep grooves cut into them. It would appear that the beams were tuned to precise frequencies, in the same way that a guitarist tunes a string by lengthening it or shortening it with his fingers.Equally intriguing is the fact that the granite tower is essentially free-standing, being fitted between two huge limestone walls but not locked into the masonry of the Pyramid. It is as if the architect was attempting to maximize the vibration of the beams and to transmit that vibration into the chamber below.There, the floor too is suggestive of an acoustics purpose, for instead of sitting on flat masonry, as one might expect, the twenty-one floor stones reportedly sit on a nodular underlay, rather like an upturned corrugated egg carton, allowing them maximum freedom to vibrate.The King?s Chamber thus formed a kind of giant soundbox. But how exactly was it made to sing?* * *Some writers have suggested that the King?s Chamber was designed to resonate to the voices of the priests. In this manner, the body of the king, entombed in the sarcophagus, could have been stimulated by sound. Or, more controversially, a living person, lying therein, could have been induced to an altered state of consciousness. Against these theories, however, the chamber?s prime resonant frequency, probably 30 Hertz or less, is far too low to have been vocalised by the priests, while the 1200 tons of granite in the tower-like superstructure suggest the presence of a more powerful sound source.For this reason, I believe that the Egyptians were attempting to harness the vibrations of the Earth itself. To understand this, we must grasp the fact that the planet we live on resonates and vibrates, though at a very low frequency that none of us notices. It does this partly because of its shifting tectonic plates but also because it is bombarded from outer space by electromagnetic radiation from the sun and by other cosmic rays.It is therefore possible, as the writer Christopher Dunn has suggested, that the Great Pyramid functioned as an acoustic horn ? harnessing the vibrations of the Earth.These low frequency vibrations would have travelled up through the foundations of the Pyramid and caused the granite beams above the King?s Chamber to resonate in sympathy. The idea behind the different sizes and masses of the beams may have been to generate harmonics of the Earth frequencies, i.e. to raise them to an audible level (the human ear can detect frequencies down to about 16 Hertz). These subtly modified vibrations would then have been transmitted down into the chamber below, which was designed to amplify and broadcast the sounds.This brings us back to those unique airshafts which I described earlier. Their purpose, it would seem, was to relay the low frequency sounds to the outside world. (Note: It is not known for certain that the shafts were open at their upper ends. But it would not have been beyond the wit of the architect to design a simple baffle that could have kept the shafts open while preventing the ingress of birds, bats, insects and rainwater.)The Great Pyramid would thus have functioned as a kind of geo-vibrational resonant amplifier.When I put this idea to John Reid, he made an intriguing observation. The shafts, he said, bear a remarkable similarity to organ pipes, specifically those made of wood, these being constructed in square section of about 8 inches by 8 inches. In the light of my theory, Reid offered the opinion that the dome-shaped cavity of the southern shaft resembled a tuned Helmholtz resonator. Might the sound wave entering this shaft have been modified in order that the two shafts produced two distinct notes?It is worth emphasising at this point that I?m not necessarily suggesting that the builders of the Pyramid had advanced scientific knowledge of acoustics. Rather, it seems more likely that they mastered their sonic art by careful observation of nature, by simple experimentation, and by a trial and error approach to the design of the King?s Chamber, perhaps using a small test pyramid that would later have been dismantled or incorporated into one of the larger pyramids on the site. In other words, I am suggesting that they had nothing more than a practical working knowledge.As regards the volume of the sound broadcast by the Pyramid, it is difficult to estimate without building a working model. However, it is a fact that low frequency sound waves do remain audible over long distances, and it is therefore plausible that the voice of the ?singing pyramid? could have been heard for miles around.* * *Why, you will ask, would the builders of the Pyramid have invested so much time and trouble in creating this immense generator of sound?The answer lies in what I consider to be the true purpose behind the building. As I explain in my books ?Pyramid of Secrets? and ?The Midnight Sun?, the Egyptians did not practise a sun cult per se, but rather a ?cult of creation?, in which they repeatedly drew on the energies of ?the first time? to sustain the life of the world. In keeping with this idea, the pyramids did not symbolise the rays of the sun, as many scholars believe, but rather the creation of the cosmos. Their flowing shape in fact recalled the creation myth in which the Great God, a personification of the primeval earth, ejaculated from his body the waters for the sky and the light and materials for the sun, the moon, and the stars. Ancient Egyptian literature testifies to the importance of sound at the time of the creation. In several versions of the creation myth, the creator-god brings the cosmos into being by opening his mouth and pronouncing sacred words. Moreover, in the Pyramid Texts, a prominent theme is the creator?s emergence from the earth and ascent into the sky accompanied by a great noise and commotion. The earth quakes. Isis and Nephthys emit wails of lament. The gods shout. The voice of Geb, the earth, resounds. The king speaks to the sky. He comes forth as ?the Great Word? with the gods on his ?lips?. He ascends with a roar. In all of these renderings of the creation myth, the emission of sound is implicit, in keeping with the cataclysmic nature of the event. What is more, the sound in question is a low frequency sound, as evidenced by its association with the ?quaking and trembling of the earth?. It would make sense, therefore, if the Pyramid emitted low frequency sound from its shafts, for such sound would have commemorated the act of creation, in keeping with the monument?s overall creational symbolism.Incidentally, consistent with this theory, it is my belief that the sarcophagus in the King?s Chamber enshrined meteoritic iron ? the spiritualized semen of the creator-god. Seeing the pyramid in this way, rather than as just a king?s tomb, gives us for the first time a suitable explanation for its vast scale, the care lavished upon it, and its inestimable economic cost. Far from being a mausoleum, a monument to the dead, we can now see that the Pyramid, in all its soaring grandeur and impenetrable mystery, was a celebration of life itself.This was the message that I believe was booming out across the desert from the greatest wonder of the ancient world.***If this is true ? and I admit it is the most speculative of my theories in ?Pyramid of Secrets? ? then why does the Pyramid no longer emit its song, and why does Egypt have no legend of a ?singing pyramid??The explanation lies in the fact that the King?s Chamber has suffered serious structural damage, possibly within a few hundred years of its construction. The roof beams are cracked and dislodged, the walls have been forced outwards and the floor stones have been shaken and dislodged. Egyptologists ascribe this to an earthquake. The oddity is that of all the chambers in the pyramid, only the King?s Chamber and its antechamber were affected. No other room or passage sustained any subsidence damage or cracking.I believe that this only goes to support the idea that the King?s Chamber had a unique sensitivity to the vibrations of the Earth. While the rest of the pyramid was unaffected by this mysterious shock, it seems that this tower-like structure suffered a vibrational overload.Indeed, rather than an earthquake, I wonder whether the damage was done by a large meteorite impact, believed to have occurred in the Middle East around 2350 BC, just two hundred years after the Pyramid is thought to have been built.This impact, or series of impacts, would have injected a huge amount of energy into the Earth?s crust and triggered a sudden, massive surge in tectonic vibration. It is all too possible that the wave of energy was simply beyond the capacity of the Pyramid?s sound system.If so, it would have been a sadly premature end for a hugely ingenious and ambitious work of architecture.ADAPTED from ?Pyramid of Secrets? by Alan Alford, published in the UK by Eridu Books. Copyright 2003 Alan F. Alford. For further information or to purchase a copy, call 07000 772000, or go to www.eridu.co.uk or click here

THE NEW HUMANS

THE NEW HUMANS
5th Root race, Indigos, China?s Super Psychics & Star Children.
A human upgrade program orchestrated by extraterrestrial contact; the evidence and implications.
by Mary Rodwell, RN © 2006, Principal of the Australian Close Encounter Resource Network, ACERN

?A new race of human beings has emerged. Whilst superficially they are undistinguishable however, they are the part of the next wave of the bringers of light, to assist humanity with the awakening of terrestrial consciousness. Human beings are awakening to their innate connection to the Universe. This is the primary role for all the NEW CHILDREN, coming to planet earth? ? Tracey Taylor, experiencer (2000)

INTRODUCTION
A seven-year old boy called Boriska from the Volgograd region began to tell his family of his life on Mars, its inhabitants and civilisation. He said he knew of Earth and Lemuria in very specific detail. He possessed profound knowledge and a high intellect (Pravda, Sept 2004, Russia).
Boriska displayed signs of extraordinary behaviour. At two weeks of age he was able to raise his head, spoke his first word at four months and as a one-year-old, Boriska could read the large print of a newspaper.

With precision and clarity, he recounted his knowledge of Mars, planetary systems and their inhabitants. He spoke about the gifted kids which he referred to as ?indigos? and of their essential role in assisting humanity during the anticipated Earth Changes.
Is humanity changing as a species?

The new kids on the block: A global phenomenon.
Renowned prophet and healer Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) not only spoke of a new humanity and referred to it as the 5th Root race but he also predicted that it would appear in the years 1998 to 2010.

Metaphysicians and other gurus also share the belief and the anticipation of this recent emergence of the new type of human they call Indigos. They are also referred to as Children of the New Millennium, Crystal Children, Children of Light, Golden Children, to mention a few.
The ufology community is conducting research into the extraterrestrial phenomenon experienced by children. Their explorations thus far have produced such terms as the New Humans or, more commonly, Star Children.

The profiles of the Indigo children share the same attributes or are strikingly similar. They are highly intelligent, creative, psychic, telepathic and posses healing and clairvoyant abilities.
The Indigo children also share an inherent capacity to articulately express knowledge and awareness of deep spiritual concepts, historical, anthropological and scientific data, far beyond the capacity of even the most learned scholars, regardless of their age, level of cognitive development, education and numerous other pertinent factors.

This confronting evidence has even captured the attention and interest of the Chinese government who are researching children who possess ?exceptional human functioning? (EHF), more commonly referred to as ?China?s Super Psychics?.

Unfortunately, this research also suggests that these children are so different that they are often misunderstood and described as suffering from ADD (attention deficit disorder).
In this article we will explore the extraordinary qualities and states of consciousness demonstrated by the Indigo children and the inference of the emerging New Humans.
Despite the plethora of information and supporting evidence, this phenomenon still manages to defy our logic and challenges our beliefs and yet it is scientifically supported.

Everything seems to suggest that humanity is on the verge of an evolutionary quantum leap. If we accept this premise, is it not plausible that the phenomenon related to extraterrestrial experience is equally valid and could offer a reasonable explanation for these developments?
Metaphysicians who speak about the emerging New Humans have professional, psychological and medical science backgrounds. Doreen Virtue, (The Crystal Children) has a PhD, and an MA and BA degree in Counselling Psychology. The publication The Indigo Children (1999) by Lee Carroll and Jan Tober took information from psychologists and therapists. The research in China is sponsored by the government and suggests that the phenomenon is taken seriously. Ufology researchers, too, have credible science, medical and psychological backgrounds.
If we are changing as a species, ufology offers a reasonable explanation. Scientific, biological and anthropological anomalies certainly suggest some form of intervention in the evolution of Homo sapiens. The missing link in our evolutionary tree certainly indicates a primary intervention in our genetic make-up. If this is the case, then the New Humans may well have been orchestrated in a similar way with genetic upgrades in our DNA. But the present upgrade is so radical that it appears like an evolutionary jump start, hence the name the New Humans.

If humanity is experiencing a quantum leap in its evolution, why is it happening now? Star Children believe they are here to ?guide the awakening of terrestrial consciousness? (Tracey Taylor). But how will this be achieved?

New scientific research could provide us with some of those answers and may qualify what the Star Children seem to understand, such as their role in the awakening of human consciousness. It may also explain why our connections to extraterrestrials could be far more intimate than we have previously suspected, as well as why they are currently so interested in us.
Extraterrestrial contact and genetic manipulation?

UFOs and their appearance in our airspace have been systematically ridiculed as pure nonsense by governments for years. This has been an effective strategy, despite the evidence that one in ten people see such craft. Ridicule and disinformation has meant that most people will hesitate to speak of what they have seen, let alone admit they had any interactions with such craft. Evidence in the form of photographs, hours of video footage and credible testimony from airline pilots and military personnel seems to mean nothing. Even the radar sightings which confirm this reality are hidden from public view.

A medical practitioner, Dr Stephen Greer, supports a disclosure program and owns videotape of hundreds of hours of testimony from high ranking military personal. They all confirm that UFOs are real and that there is a systemic and deliberate cover up by government agencies. Retired American Army and NATO Command Sergeant-Major Robert Dean in the 1960s and 70s guarded COSMIC-classified files which showed that government agencies were fully aware that extraterrestrials and UFOs regularly penetrated our airspace.

Compelling as this is, the evidence of such craft in our skies is really a very small part of this phenomenon. Surely we have to ask who is controlling these craft and why are they here? Robert Dean believes that we are very closely connected to aliens, both spiritually and physically, and suggests that they are responsible for the Star Child phenomenon. The development of a new humanity called Homo Noeticus is a term coined by John White who studied parapsychology and noetics (the investigation of consciousness). Many well-known researchers such as English author and UFO investigator Jenny Randles agree. She wrote about this in Star Children: The True Story of Alien Offspring Among Us.

It has been shown that contact experience is an inter-generational one and that such children appear to be more intelligent, exhibit extraordinary psychic and intuitive abilities and have knowledge that they have not consciously learnt. Ufology research shows that consistent genetic lines play an important factor in this phenomenon.

Podiatry surgeon, Dr Roger Leir, is renowned in ufology for his pioneering surgery removing alleged alien implants and his autobiographical book The Aliens and the Scalpel. Dr Leir included the phenomenon of Star Children in his research. He writes that ?I believe that any mother that looks at her recently born child, in comparison with children born twenty years ago, will testify that there is a tremendous difference. Some look upon the differences in the New Humans and say they have to do with better prenatal care etc. In my opinion this supposition is nonsense AND IN LIGHT OF MY MORE RECENT STUDIES AND EXPOSURE TO THE ABDUCTION PHENOMENON, I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE RAPID ADVANCEMENT OF OUR HUMAN SPECIES IS DUE TO ALIEN INTERVENTION IN OUR BODIES AND MINDS?.

Dr Leir has based his statement not only on research into alien implants but from his observations of children. Comparing today?s statistics on the developmental stages in young children to forty years ago (when such records and studies began) he discovered that the level of higher psychological functioning in some cases was increased by as much as much as 80%. The question is, how could this happen? Dr Leir: ?I suggest that the answer involves alien manipulation of human genetics? (The Aliens and the Scalpel, p.192).

Recent genetic research could qualify this starling revelation. There are unexplainable anomalies in our genetic history and in 2003 it was discovered that 223 genes do not have the required predecessors on our geonomic evolutionary tree. These extra genes are completely missing in the invertebrate phrase. Therefore scientists can only explain their presence as recent in evolutionary time scale, and comment that this was not through gradual evolution, vertically on the tree of life, but horizontally as a ?side ways insertion of genetic material?. Significantly these 223 genes are two-thirds the difference between the chimpanzee and Homo sapiens and include important psychological and psychiatric functions. How did humanity acquire such enigmatic genes? Dr Leir and other researchers believe the answer may well be extraterrestrial genetic intervention!

Dr Richard Boylan, an American behavioural scientist, anthropologist and clinical hypnotherapist, has studied Star Children phenomenon and their connection to close encounter experience. He offers a precise profile of the New Humans and our intimate connection to extraterrestrials, or Star Visitors as he calls them. Dr Boylan is secretary of ACCET (the Academy of Clinical Close Encounter Therapists) in the USA, a professional body that encourages medical and psychological professions to be involved in this phenomenon. Boylan is convinced that Star Children are a reality and has created an organisation to support and educate families with these children. As president of the Star Kids Project (SKP) he organises workshops for Star Kids to help them and their parents cope with their extra psychic and intuitive abilities. He explains that the Star Child maybe defined as a child of both human and extraterrestrial origin. The ET contribution to the child?s make-up may come from genetic engineering, from biomedical technology and from telepathic consciousness linking. Star Kids are psychically and metaphysically changed as a result of their own contacts with the ?visitors? or ETs modifying their parent?s reproductive DNA.? He also believes that there is a link to what we now label Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), a syndrome which almost magically appeared about 15-20 years ago when more of these children began to be recognised.

Dr Boylan and Doreen Virtue believe that these children are often misdiagnosed with syndromes as questionable as ADD. One reason Dr Boylan suggests is that ?these kids are just crushingly bored with the slow, pedestrian way they are being educated? and that is why they often misbehave. Doreen Virtue suggests that Indigo and Crystal children can be also diagnosed as autistic or having Asperger?s syndrome. More research is warranted to explore such possibilities.

There are numerous accounts where the contactee or experiencer recalls details of their genetic material being harvested. Dr John Mack, former Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School wrote about the subject of genetic material being taken in his book Abduction. I have covered this important fact in my book Awakening, in the chapter on missing pregnancies. Many of my clients, both male and female, recall experiences when this procedure occurred. Some women also believe that their genetic material has been taken and altered in some way prior to their pregnancy. They say they knew the child was different or special because of this. What I found astonishing was that many of these children seemed to have an awareness that they were different. A letter to ACERN states:

?Yes I have always believed I was from elsewhere, and, like I said, I used to speak and write in a strange language in private. Sometimes, even in front of my mum, I used to cry because I felt so different. I would tell her not to touch me, as it was dangerous, and I am not yours. I am one of them. When the greys used to leave, I would get upset and believe they had left me behind, which made me angry and upset. I have memories of planets with golden buildings? ? James Basil (UK).

What are these differences, apart from higher physical and psychological functioning? Generally they are enhanced psychic and intuitive abilities, with an awareness of universal knowledge and even their true genetic origins. ?I am not yours? implies that some Star Children are aware they are connected in some way to the extraterrestrial beings who visit them.

Star Child qualities (see Star Child questionnaire at www.acern.com.au)
Highly intelligent.
Often very creative.
Developmentally advanced in reading walking, talking, etc.
Psychic/intuitive abilities.
Multi-dimensionally awareness; they perceive a broader range of reality.
Telepathic abilities.
They sense and feel energies from people or other living things (aura reading).
Telekinesis, etc. Moving objects with their mind energy and thought.
Awareness of scientific, historical, anthropological and spiritual knowledge not consciously learnt. Sometimes called ?knowledge bombs?.
Awareness of past lives.
Extremely empathic to all creatures, not just humans but animals and plants.
They can communicate with the unseen world, spirits and angels.
Multi-dimensional healing abilities.
Manifest unusual artwork, languages and scripts.
They experience dreams where they are being taught how to use their high sense abilities on space craft.
Dual consciousness; feeling part human and part extraterrestrial.
Have a sense of mission or higher purpose.

From a letter (USA):?I started walking at 8 months, talking in sentences by 10 months, and how to read at 2 years; no one taught me. I had friends who walked through walls, became invisible, and we spoke telepathically. I desperately wanted to go home.?

David from Perth, Western Australia (now in his late twenties) said about his childhood psychic and telepathic abilities: ?I would have telepathic conversations with my sister until she told me to stop being lazy and start talking.?

Some of the older Star Children are able to explain their abilities and ET connections more precisely. Ann Andrews, author of Abducted, wrote about her family?s extraterrestrial contacts. They live in England and have had lifelong interactions with ETs. Jason, her youngest son, exhibits many of these higher senses, regularly astral travels and even heals individuals in this dream state.

Jason told his mother how the Star Child profile fitted him. Jason, like many other Star Children, complains about the bulkiness of his human body, saying how limited it is. He was tight lipped about his experiences for a long time because he said it was hard to trust anyone because you never know who they are working for. He was very serious when he asked Ann if I thought it was very strange that after hundreds of years of slow progress we had suddenly come on in leaps and bounds in just fifty years. According to Jason, ?they? (including himself) gave us the relevant knowledge. They showed us how to split the atom and harness nuclear power so that we might finally meet them as equals. However, he says angrily that we have turned all this knowledge into power over others less fortunate than ourselves, for example with atomic weapons. But when asked about genetic engineering, Jason said ?it is the ETs who choose the parents?. The children are genetically altered before they are born. ?They are given extraterrestrial DNA.?

Again it appears that many of the children know about their mixed human and ET gene pool. This was demonstrated to me quite graphically when a confused young mother told me about her ten-year-old son. She said that whilst out walking with him one day, her son very casually told her the actual percentage of ET genes in every person they passed!

The extraterrestrial education program, telepathic communication and more.

Five-year-old Aiden from Western Australia says ?I don?t mind going through the walls, and they teach me more on the ships than I learn at school. They come through walls, float not walk, become invisible, but are still around!? His mother writes, ?This astounds me. He is very blasé about it and says he will introduce them to me one day! Aiden knows what I am thinking, finishes my sentences for me, and feels pain when I do? (from Awakening, 2002).

Star Children can be aware of extraterrestrial educational programs when information is downloaded on a subconscious or super-conscious level. Jena is an eight-year-old girl in Perth who described this process as ?knowledge bombs? in her head, which sometimes hurt. They can have strange dreams where they know they are on-board spacecraft. They are taught to use their higher sense abilities and they know when they have done well at such tests.

Whitley Strieber, experiencer and author of The Secret School, also experienced such lessons on spacecraft. This testimony certainly suggests that the New Humans are not only upgraded physically and psychologically, but are also taught to operate on a broader multi-dimensional frequency which helps them access information and knowledge not available to others.

Tracey Taylor, who intuitively draws complex artwork and symbols related to her ET experiences, wrote ?As for my own contact experiences, I have become very compassionate towards ET beings, there is much that humans can learn and benefit by interacting with them. Initially I didn?t know what was going on or why, but there has always been an equal exchange. I helped them to achieve their genetic goals and, in return, developed my healing and psychic abilities, plus my understanding of life on earth.??Star children are born with greater wisdom and awareness, and are also gifted creatively. They have a great feeling of being connected to nature and all that exists. They are the bringers of the new, the bringers of light, they are here to guide the awakening of terrestrial consciousness.? So, if the new humanity is already here, whatever we choose to call them, how is this awakening of terrestrial consciousness orchestrated? The answer may well be contained in the creative expressions and data connected to contact experience.

Breaking down the barriers. The limits of traditional ufology research.

Traditional ufology attempts to convince the general public of UFO reality with research focused primarily on UFO sightings and other such scientific data. Although this approach is important, I believe it is far too limited a perspective for such a complex phenomenon. Some ufologists still exhibit ambivalence towards the abduction or contact phenomenon. This is despite the many thousands of credible people and families who experience such a reality, and tangible data such as unusual marks the body, missing time and implants, which are the anomalies that can verify this reality. It seems that no matter how profound the evidence, some will still argue that it is far too insubstantial to be taken seriously. Likewise, they ignore any mixture of spiritual or metaphysical interpretations, or psychological and emotional evidence, despite the degree to which these experiences can dramatically change an individual?s personal paradigm. Such information may just convince sceptical researchers that the experiencer is psychologically impaired. This is especially true of any information that experiencers receive telepathically or express in other ways.

I disagree totally with such a limited perspective and believe that if we are to understand contact more fully we have to be receptive to any physical, emotional, psychological or spiritual data that is linked to this phenomenon.

?Wisdom is knowing how little we know? ? Socrates.

ACERN provides professional support for experiencers. Since 1996 I have received volumes of data and personal testimony that have convinced me of contact reality. But I was particularly intrigued to find that, despite the enormous fear some people experienced (and this is by no means standard), many were more traumatised by isolation and judgement than their experiences. What I discovered was that such experiences were eventually life changing and transformational.

Are these experiences transformational because such individuals are exposed to a broader spectrum of reality or is it more than that?

I found that individuals who received support regained their equilibrium and accepted a broader frame of reality, which obviously changed their perspectives in many ways, both psychologically and spiritually. This integration meant that they now became more peaceful and open to their contact experiences. But I also felt it was their new openness to the extraordinary data they received which made their changes so profound.

Although such extraordinary data is treated with ambivalence, if not disinterest, by some researchers, it is common knowledge that creativity and artistic expression is one way that human beings express human experience. There is no doubt that contact experience can inspire some individuals to draw the extraterrestrial life forms they interact with, and that many of them look identical, which I believe is further testament to this reality. Likewise, they may draw unusual landscapes of planets, with which they can have a deep emotional connection. The landscapes may sometimes be strikingly similar, as are some of the artwork, symbols and written scripts. Sometimes they vocalise strange languages without conscious thought, and articulate them more fluidly than their normal human language.

In researching these matters we need to recognise our own limits and that we are unaware of what we don?t know. I felt that, no matter how unusual or challenging this material was, if it is part of the contact experience then we cannot afford to ignore it.

Researching a broader paradigm requires an open mind, and by that I mean being open to all data. Thorough researcher seeks to reconcile this data with science fact as much as possible. It is always profound and exciting for me when conventional science comes to the rescue and offers a possible explanation. But what is even more fascinating is when the scientific explanations are so similar to what experiencers themselves have intuitively understood.

Expressions of ET contact: a visual communication and healing blueprint?

The strange expressions of contact; stunning images, symbols, drawings of strange planets, languages and unusual scripts is a fascinating enigma. I initially collated such data so experiencers could compare notes. I found that, when shared with other experiencers, the material was extraordinarily helpful in assisting them to honour and validate their own contact.
The ACERN video Expressions of ET Contact: A Visual Blueprint? was an attempt to share this information with the ufology community and experiencers. We discovered that our lack of expertise in film making did not detract from the material or the stories. I am certain that the two film awards presented at the International UFO Congress in the USA came from the impact of these images, because they seemed to connect with individuals at some deep level, whether they were experiencers or not! The 2004 sequel video Expressions of ET Contact: A Communication and Healing Blueprint? was similar but explored the subject from a more global perspective. Again, the combination of languages, art, scripts and personal stories touched a deep chord with people, creating strong emotional reactions and resonance.

The average experiencer believes such expressions are contact communications, containing complex holographic data which helps us to connect with who and what we are. Energetic signatures, perhaps, containing blocks of coding, like holographic blueprints, which we absorb on many levels.

?It should be born in mind that the nature of extraterrestrial communications is that, in a majority of instances, star visitors communicate with humans by telepathic transfer of mental images and concepts, rather than by words and speech? ? Marie.

In his video review column, Duncan Roads, editor of Nexus magazine wrote: ?These Expressions of ET Contact videos are two of the most amazing documentaries you will ever watch. I don?t count myself as being a "sensitive" person at all, but I can assure you that I felt things "shifting inside of me" as I watched the videos. In fact, at least 15 minutes of one video that I watched I don?t remember a thing about! I am sure viewers will also be surprised at the large number and variety of different life-forms visiting and interacting with us. It becomes clear that as contacts between "us" and "them" progresses, more and more information is being transmitted. Amongst the many people featured by Mary Rodwell in these documentaries, most are currently of the opinion that there are many life forms "out there" that are trying to assist humanity ? now, more than ever. This assistance can take many forms; however, it is obvious that most of the assistance is via information packets transmitted to us.?

Roads continues: ?Yet obviously it is still early days in the "getting to know you" process, so a lot of the information relayed to humans is still very basic, i.e., what "they" look like, what "they" are like and how our "reality" is but one of zillions of valid but different realities. The interviews are most interesting and compelling. And the artwork "does things to you" when you look at it. The paintings of the ETs or aliens ("beings" is probably a better word) are just riveting. One gets the "feeling" of what the being is "like" just by looking at these paintings ? a result of the extra information packets transmitted by the artist, perhaps? ? These videos are more in the category of "spiritual awakening", but this is a result of the content and (probably) not the intention of the producers.? ? Duncan Roads (video review, Nexus, Aug-Sept 2004, p.78).
Communication and reprogramming of our DNA, by language, and frequencies?

Are telepathic transfer of mental images and concepts communication from aliens. SETI (the official search for extraterrestrial intelligence) still argues that they have not received any anomalous radio signals to suggest extraterrestrial life exists. Whether this is the truth or not, that is their official line. But perhaps extraterrestrials would find radio transmissions a very primitive way to communicate. If we listen to experiencers, they say it is more likely to happen through multi-dimensional levels of human consciousness.

?This communication happens because everything is made up of the same matter resonating at different harmonics, so that the ETs are able to communicate with us, directing thought on subatomic levels, and so activate subconscious interaction. This is interpreted by the conscious mind as a simplified form of communication, such as symbology. Symbols are meant to communicate the nature of the macrocosm.? ? T.T., experiencer (WA).

There is no doubt that such expressions although not yet consciously quantifiable, certainly connect to a deep resonance within people, in the same way as crop circles do. Interestingly, some of the crop circle symbols are actually contained within some of the symbols the experiencers create and it?s possible both phenomena may well be connected. Certainly we know that by viewing or standing in the crop circles many people feel something, as they also do with viewing the videos. Duncan Roads admits that, although he believes he is not particularly sensitive, he also felt something by seeing these images.

In the eastern states of Australia, a male hypnotherapist told me he felt that one particular symbol had affected his third eye centre, feeling a strange buzzing (interestingly this is the spot in the middle of the forehead through which some psychic abilities supposedly manifest). This certainly suggests that these expressions act as a trigger or catalyst for something within us. Some experiencers believe this data has frequencies which affect us energetically on a subconscious level, acting like a holographic program.

Is there a scientific basis to support the hypotheses that such communications or expressions can actually affect or talk to us, even to our DNA?

New Russian research offers support for such a possibility, which means that reliable scientific investigations are now actually beginning to explain what experiencers have intuitively known all along.

Some recent Russian DNA discoveries documented by Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf in their book Vernetzte Intelligenz have been summarised by Baerbel. ?The human DNA is a biological Internet? with evidence that DNA can be ?influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies.? This suggests that ?our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our body, but also serves as data storage and communication.? The Russian scientists and linguists have found that the genetic code ?follows the same rules as all our human languages.? In effect, human language did not appear coincidentally but is a reflection of our DNA.

The Russian researchers believe that ?Living chromosomes function just like a holographic computer using endogenous DNA laser radiation. This means that they managed to modulate certain frequency patterns (sound) onto a laser-like ray which influence DNA frequency and thus the genetic information itself. Since the basic structure of DNA-alkaline pairs and language is of the same structure, no DNA decoding is necessary. One can simply use words and sentences of the human language! This, too, was experimentally proven!? Of course the frequency has to be correct. (I recommend that the article be read in full.) But for the purposes of this article, the Russian research shows how science now can demonstrate a way to reprogram DNA through language and frequencies.

Experiencers who manifest unusual languages, such as Rochelle (see the video Expressions of ET Contact: A Communication and Healing Blueprint?) call these ?soul languages?. Rochelle vocalises them when doing energy work and healing. Healing with sound and frequencies takes on a new meaning in this context. It could mean that Rochelle and others like her may well intuitively be able to change or reprogram DNA though such frequencies while healing. We already know that our subconscious is affected by subliminal frequencies and hypnosis, and the Russian research may have given us a scientific explanation why such techniques work so well. The question is whether the specific frequencies of these languages are designed to affect or reprogram our human DNA? This may well give us grounds for reviewing ancient texts in regards to our origins.

This bible quote may be more than just symbolic rhetoric. In the Book of John (chapter 1: verse 1) it is written: ?In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God? and verse 14 states: ?And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us?.

The Russian DNA research article coincidentally mentions the changes in our children in terms of group consciousness. They comment that ?if humans with full individuality would regain group consciousness they would have a godlike power to create, alter and shape things on Earth and humanity is collectively moving towards a group consciousness of a new kind.? They state that ?fifty percent of children will become a problem as soon as they go to school, since the system lumps everyone together and demands adjustment. But the individuality of today?s children is so strong that they refuse this adjustment and resist giving up their idiosyncrasies. ? At the same time more and more clairvoyant children are being born. Something in those children is striving more towards group consciousness of a new kind and it can no longer be suppressed.?
Are the Russian researchers in fact referring to what is now called the ADD (attention deficit disorder) child? Unfortunately, because there is no funded global research it?s hard to gain accurate statistics. But, if the process of labelling children as ADD is an indicator of this phenomenon, then we are indeed evolving at an astounding rate.

The global perspective and more pieces fit the puzzle: Science, anthropology, theology, archaeology and the kids.

This short article entitled ?Learning to communicate with extraterrestrials: young children in India-China Himalaya use strange sign language? appeared on the website of India Daily (29 Jan 2005) by a staff reporter:

?In the deep region of Himalayas, people are reporting strange behaviours in children. The children are using sign languages which are unknown to their families and anyone around. Many of the children draw pictures of triangular objects flying in the sky. Many of them do not know what they saw and how they learnt these sign languages. Some in the region of Aksai Chin believe that these children regularly communicate with the extraterrestrials who are only visible to these children and communicate via telepathy. The children learn the sign language to communicate back to these beings. According to UFO research materials, some Mexican children also manifest similar behaviour, when many in the area reported for a long time UFO sightings. ? According to some teachers in the schools in that area, young children are extra agile and extra talented these days. Their problem solving skills have increased and they are much more disciplined. They continually use a strange sign language among themselves. However they cannot teach this language to adults! The locals in the area believe UFOs have been visiting the area for thousands of years. It stopped for a while and now it has started again.? (See www.indiadaily.com)

Families have contacted me from all over the globe, not only from Australia, Europe, North and South America, but Asia and Russia, and all describe children advanced from the norm in psychological and physical development and with exceptional psychic abilities.

In Mexico City these same New Humans have begun to emerge, and it is said that over 1000 children are able to ?see? with various parts of their bodies. In some countries, government agencies interested in such children are actively researching the phenomenon. China has a program for investigating children with similar abilities, which is taken very seriously by the Chinese Government in Beijing. The book China?s Super Psychics by Paul Dong and Thomas Raffill describes children with exceptional human functioning (EHF) who display similar patterns to Indigo or Star Children. They, too, are very psychic and intuitive, for example some have the ability to open flower buds by thought alone. And like the Mexican children, many have shown an ability to see with other parts of their bodies. They display telekinetic abilities as well as other fascinating multi-dimensional skills, such as sensing another?s thoughts (telepathy). It has also been reported that the Chinese government has observed these children changing the human DNA molecule in a petri dish before cameras and scientific equipment to record this supposedly impossible feat. We have no evidence to prove that these abilities are the result of extraterrestrial interventions. But, given the fact that the Chinese government is very secretive, this may well be something they do not feel ready to share. However, I am told that the Chinese are extremely interested in the UFO phenomenon and take it very seriously.
More pieces of the puzzle.

Although I can?t cover all my research in this article, I can give the reader some points to ponder. The late Francis Crick, Nobel Prize winner, co-discoverer of the shape of the DNA molecule and author of Life Itself, made the astounding claim ?that an advanced civilisation transported the seeds of life in a spacecraft?! One wonders what led him to such an incredible conclusion. References in religious and biblical texts certainly raise questions as to our real origins. Anthropology still can?t explain how we changed or morphed so dramatically from Neanderthal to Homo sapiens and the missing link has not been discovered or explanations given on how the developmental gap was bridged. Biblical scholar, Zecheria Sitchin, author of the Earth Chronicles suggests such answers could lie in ancient religious texts, such as the Bible. According to Sitchen, the Bible is a condensed rendering of ancient Sumerian and Akkadian texts. From his research he believes that Homo sapiens was a genetic upgrade of existing hominids which was undertaken by extraterrestrial beings called the Nephilim who came to Earth 450,000 years ago.

Indigenous tribes worldwide have within their oral history that they are visited by sky beings and are being genetically upgraded. The Dogan tribe (African Mali Tribe) call the star visitors the Nummo, an alien species which came from Sirius and genetically upgraded humans when they came to Earth. The Aborigines of Australia also talk of the sky beings Wandjina, who made them and gave them laws to live by.

Many sacred texts apart from the Bible raise similar questions. Will Hart, author of The Dawn of the Genesis Race notes references to God in ?plurality?. Genesis, verse 26, states ?Then God said, and now we will make human beings, they will be like us and resemble us.? The question is, who are ?us??

For those who seek to explore, there are many such anomalies in archaeological, anthropological, religious and spiritual texts that must guide the thinking person to question what we are educated to believe in terms of our origins and genetic heritage. But, the most compelling evidence comes from the testimony of children, many of them not old enough to read. It?s information so profound one has to wonder how and where they obtained it.

Mike Oram (experiencer) resides in the United Kingdom. He told me that he was only 4 years old when he told his mother that there was no such thing as death. His mother disagreed, but Mike said ?the Universe goes on for eternity and it?s not true that we no longer play a part in the Universe. We come back.? ?I was too young to know the word reincarnation?, he said. ?I then shocked her by saying "You are not my real parents, my parents are in space, and something of incredible importance will happen in this planet and it will affect all levels of consciousness, it will not happen in your life time but it will in mine." My poor mother never forgot that conversation.? (Mike Oram)

Colin Wilson in Alien Dawn (1998) wrote that not long before Andrija Puharich?s death he asked him what he was working on. ?Paranormal children?, he said: ?You wouldn?t believe how many of these kids are out there, they seem to be at genius level. I know dozens, and there are probably thousands.? Wilson concludes, ?And this, I suspect is the beginning of the change that the UFOs are working on? (p.309).

Unfortunately many such phenomena are only recognised through a particular discipline?s limited field of study, and this sadly narrows the perspective. There is no doubt that, for some, the extraterrestrial hypothesis is a hard one to swallow. But even if (for now) we interpret this data from a desire to understand why we may be evolving so rapidly, as this research suggests, we need to be open to all possibilities. Even if the puzzle is just perceived as another way of understanding ourselves, the question remains that, if we are evolving at an accelerated rate than cannot be explained in normal evolutionary terms, how and why is it happening?
Are Star Children, New Humans, Indigos and smart kids, etc, one and the same phenomenon? If they are, then the extraterrestrial hypothesis makes more sense. After all, it is ludicrous for the thinking person to believe we are the only intelligent life in the universe, given the vastness of space. And it is logical to believe that some of those other life forms may have evolved sufficiently to be able to visit us, even if how they travel here may be beyond our current scientific understanding.

The hypothesis of extraterrestrial reality is not only possible but also probable and explains many anomalies in our origins, our mythology and religions. Certainly, if what experiencers and indigenous people tell us is true, we have a very intimate and on-going relationship with the visitors, in addition to a common gene pool. This would certainly explain their continuing interest and participation in our evolutionary development.
The primitive and aggressive nature of Homo sapiens, armed with technology to destroy not only each other but our beautiful planet, may well be why these ET ancestors have decided to accelerate humanity?s evolutionary upgrade program. A New Human with multi-level awareness of our cosmic connection to all that is, may well be the only way we will finally appreciate what we have, change our behaviour, and grow up to take full responsibility for ourselves and this beautiful planet.

The Star Children could be an integral part of this wake up call and it may be that through them we are being led to an understanding of this profound connection.
?Human beings are here to remember themselves, with conscious awareness and with complete understanding of their innate connection to the Universe.? ? T. Taylor.
If quantum theory is correct, science can?t disagree that we are indeed connected to everything, including our extraterrestrial visitors! ?To them we are the aliens!? ? Jess, (8 years old, Western Australia). What can I say: ?Out of the mouths of babes!?
About The Author:
Mary Rodwell, RN, former nurse and midwife. Counsellor and hypnotherapist, metaphysician. Principal of ACERN (Australian Close Encounter Resource Network), Perth, Western Australia. Mary has travelled widely, visiting the USA and UK as an international speaker. Author of Awakening: How Extraterrestrial Contact Can Transform Your Life (2002). Producer of EBE award winning documentaries: Expressions of ET Contact: A Visual Blueprint? (2000) and Expressions of ET Contact: A Communication and Healing Blueprint? (2004). Produced by ACERN. Web address www.acern.com.au and www.maryrodwell.com E-mail: Starline@iinet.net.au
To date over 950 people have contacted ACERN, nationally and internationally. ACERN is a professional counselling resource that explores all anomalous experiences as well as speaking to professional traditional agencies about these matters and contact reality. Mary?s research explores both the physical and metaphysical implications of contact. This research has demonstrated that for most individuals contact can be a transformative/spiritual experience, where individuals, such as those termed Star Children, become more aware of their multi-dimensional nature. Mary is vice-president of the Star Child Project, which seeks to research and support Star Children and their families.
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Snooping on the Astronauts

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/01/30/astronaut.diaries.ap/index.html

Well, maybe not in those exact words. But three times a week, the two U.S. astronauts aboard the international space station write down their secret thoughts in their personal journals.
They write about their moods, their whines, how they feel, what they miss, whether they're sick of the food or aren't getting along with their roommates up in space.
It may sound like high school, but it's really for science.
These diaries will be reviewed by a researcher in California who wants to measure how spending six months cooped up with just two other people at a time, 220 miles above Earth, can affect outlook and morale.
"It comes out looking like a gossip column, I'm sure," said astronaut Sunita Williams shortly before she arrived at the space station in December. "But the point is to identify characteristics that will make expeditions successful."
Williams and Michael Lopez-Alegria, the station's other current U.S. crew member, are told to be brutally honest. While astronauts also typically keep public journals that are available on NASA's Web site, these entries will be read only by Jack Stuster, a Santa Barbara, California-based researcher who has been downlinking space station journal entries once a month since 2003.
The results of Stuster's investigation will help NASA and other space agencies plan for and train astronauts for even longer stays on the moon and Mars in the future.
According to the Bioastronautics Roadmap, the document NASA uses for identifying and reducing risks in space, some U.S. and Russian crew members periodically fail to work well with each other.
"Interpersonal distrust, dislike, misunderstanding and poor communication have led to potentially dangerous situations, such as crew members refusing to speak to each other during critical operations, or withdrawing from voice communications with ground controllers," the Bioastronautics Roadmap said.
Often the gripes have to do with logistical issues and inefficiencies on the ground and in space.
The Russian cosmonauts appear to have a more antagonistic relationship with their mission controllers on the ground than Americans do, the U.S. astronauts have commented.
"Some of (the Russians) feel obligated to argue about every little thing," Stuster said. "But that might be more of a cultural thing."
Stuster, who has a doctorate in anthropology, breaks down the prose descriptions into measurable data by dividing the entries into 18 categories and noting whether the tone is positive, negative or neutral.
He also notes how many days into the mission the entry is made so he can divide the information into quarters of time. Astronauts suffer what might be described as the third-quarter blues; their positive entries drop during the third quarter of their stay. Stuster noticed a similar pattern in an earlier study he did of French doctors living in Antarctica.
Former astronaut Leroy Chiao, who lived at the space station in 2004 and 2005, found the journal-writing helpful.
"I used it almost as a therapy for myself -- if I were upset about something or frustrated, I'd write that out," Chiao said.
Sometimes those entries were long, he said.

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