Our protective envelope must look like a sieve at this point. If there really is anything out there trying to get in, we have made the task of entry much easier.
EM pollution is nothing new, however. It is evident that key manifestations of the supernatural in biblical times were electromagnetic. Men were drawing upon the powers of the EM spectrum without actually knowing how they were doing it. To help things along, entities materialized before them and gave them instructions for building devices which facilitated reception of VLF waves, The ancient priests talked to metal plates and chunks of crystal connected with strands of gold. Thousands of cults and religious groups centered their rites around great bonfires because, incredibly, the voices of their gods would boom from the flames and address huge congregations. This is not as silly or as impossible as it might sound. Since the 1920s radio experimenters have known that fire makes a perfect loudspeaker. You can prove this yourself in your own kitchen. Hook up the output leads of an ordinary hi-fi to a gas burner, and the gas flame will reproduce the VLF waves from your set with excellent fidelity. The bigger the flame, the louder the sound. A blazing bonfire could be made to react to VLF waves by the same principle.
There were other ancient applications. In the Book of Numbers, chapter 21, verse 9, we are told that Moses was instructed to build a metal serpent and set it upon a high pole.
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
How could a metal serpent cure a poisonous snakebite? The deadliest snakes in the Middle East were, and are, members of the cobra family. Their poison is a neurotoxin, meaning it does not travel through the bloodstream like, say, a rattlesnake bite, but travels along the nerves instead. A tourniquet is useless. In fact, once the poison begins to spread into the nervous system, almost everything is useless.
Modern experiments with radio waves have shown that waves from certain parts of the spectrum do affect the human nervous system. It is possible that a wave on a specific frequency could stem the action of a neurotoxin and cure a cobra bite! It is also very possible that Moses could have built a coil of brass which, when mounted high enough on a pole, would be tuned to a specific frequency and would act as a collector of radio waves and reradiate those waves around the base of the pole.
Brinsley Trench, Paul Misraki, and other pre-von Däniken authors have made quite a bit out of Moses’s famous “ark.” Moses was instructed to build a box-like structure and cover it with gold. The Bible devotes a great many pages to this project and describes the ark in infinite, though somewhat tedious, detail. A gold “mercy seat” was built and put atop this object along with a pair of cherubim with outspread wings. Building this artifact was a huge undertaking, and all Moses’s followers were required to contribute their gold and silver trinkets for raw material. To inspire the people, and perhaps to convince them that Moses was not just a crazy old man who sat alone on the mountaintops carving stone tablets, a little demonstration was staged.
And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.
And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.
And the Lord spake unto Moses lace to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend…
(Exod. 33:9-11)
The people set to work with enthusiasm, and the ark was built. Electrical engineers who have studied the biblical descriptions claim it was really a massive condenser capable of collecting and discharging enormous quantities of electricity. Since it was hollow and resonant, it is also possible that the wings of the cherubim acted as antennae and that the whole thing was really just a huge VLF loudspeaker. As soon as the ark was completed, a luminous cloud settled over the tent in which it was placed. The Israelites hauled it along laboriously as they traveled across the desert, and they talked to it and supposedly received replies and advice from it. Since Moses was already accomplished at talking with burning bushes and “cloudy pillars,” it probably didn’t seem too unusual to carry on conversations with a gold box.
Von Däniken and company assert that the Children of Israel were really conversing with people from outer space. The concept has undeniable charm, but it is an oversimplified solution. For that matter, the religious belief that Moses was talking to the Lord is also an oversimplification. The radiations vibrating the gold-covered walls of the ark did not necessarily have to come from some technological transmitter.[6] Modern science is rapidly becoming convinced that intelligent radiations surround us, but they are not being broadcast by some intergalactic Marconi. They may be a permanent condition of our planet itself.
One of the first messages from the ark, according to the Bible, was a long, involved discourse on symptoms of leprosy and how to treat those afflicted with the disease—a disease which is similar in some respects to radiation illness. Apparently a lot of Israelites were afflicted.
The priests were given careful instructions on how to handle the ark safely. It was housed in a tabernacle that was grounded, and the priests were dressed in special costumes to protect them. A couple of fellows named Nadab and Abihu got careless and were electrocuted by the golden box (Lev. 10:1-2).
Holding chats with a box was not as nutty as it sounds. In those days—the age of magic—priests were talking with statues, jeweled crowns, and a wide assortment of objects. Many generations of Greeks trooped to Delphi to receive predictions and advice from the mysterious oracle. Were all these people balmy? Or did some mysterious force set up direct lines of communication with mankind to guide us through a difficult period?
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Vladimir Gavreau of Marseille, France, holds the patents for a genuine death ray. He has built a working model with a range of five miles. It is capable of killing every living thing, including leaves on trees, without creating an unseemly mess like an atom bomb or ugly bleeding holes like bullets. It is not a laser, which is just a highly concentrated beam of light that can cut through steel, or a maser, a beam of microwaves. It kills with sound.
Sound waves produce a variety of interesting effects on biological organisms, some of them similar to the effects of radio waves. A sound wave at just the right pitch can fill you with absolute terror even though you can’t hear it. Ghosts, hairy monsters, and UFOs can apparently be accompanied by this kind of sound, creating unreasonable fear in humans and even stronger reactions in animals that can hear sounds that are beyond the range of human hearing.
Electromagnetic waves are fluctuations of electrical energy. Sound waves are vibrations of the air itself. These are measured in cycles and decibels (acoustic watts). The average human ear can hear sounds within the range of 16 to 20,000 cycles. Sounds below the range of 16 cycles are inaudible and are said to be infrasonic. Sounds above 20,000 cycles are also inaudible and are called ultrasonic.
M. Gavreau’s sound generator works in the infrasonic ranges. It produces an inaudible sound wave of less than 16 cycles per second that penetrates your very bones, produces horrible agonies throughout your nervous system, and kills you.
Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are frequently preceded by infrasonic pulses. Dogs and other animals sometimes know of an impending earthquake hours in advance because they can sense these pulses. Humans can react with nausea, disorientation, blurring of vision, and general lassitude.
Musically, heavy bass sounds are in the lower part of the audio spectrum. The higher treble notes, wind and string instruments, occupy the upper part of the spectrum. The ceremonial music of primitive cultures is usually based around drums. Sometimes these drums rest on the ground or are even partly buried. Their vibrations are very low, approaching the infrasonic, and they have an almost hypnotic effect on the celebrants. Another kind of tribal music, hard rock, also relies heavily on bass notes and, of course, has a well-observed effec
t on the listeners. Music has always been a mode of communication with the gods.
A rough approximation of the sound spectrum appears in figure 5.
Because the audio spectrum plays an important role in paranormal events, we include it vertically in our EM spectrum chart (figure 6).
A loudspeaker consists of a paper cone which is vibrated by a magnet. The earpiece on your telephone receiver contains a metal disk or diaphragm that is also vibrated by a magnet. When the diaphragm vibrates, it moves the air pressing against it. This moving air produces the sound wave, which, in turn, vibrates a drum of skin in your ear (called, strangely enough, the eardrum). Your eardrum translates the vibration into energy and transmits it through your nerves to your brain.
Moses’s ark could have been made to vibrate not only in the audible spectrum but in the infrasonic and ultrasonic ranges as well. The Old Testament is literally a biography of the ark, recounting its travels and adventures, and many of the manifestations attributed to it fall into the sphere of electrical and sonic phenomena. In the Book of Joshua, chapter 6, we are told how the ark was used to demolish the wails of Jericho. For seven days the Israelites circled the walled city carrying the golden ark suspended from poles. Seven priests bearing trumpets made of rams’ horns preceded it, periodically blowing the instruments in unison. The phenomenon has always indulged in misdirection, creating false explanations for its manifestations. Various engineers have speculated that the blasts from the rams’ horns and the shouts of the attackers caused the walls of Jericho to come tumbling down. If so, those walls must have been very flimsy. It is more likely that each time the priests sounded their horns, the hollow ark reverberated and sent out an inaudible infrasonic pulse which weakened the wails. The walls were subjected to this treatment for six days. By the seventh day, they may have been so fractured that a stiff wind would have blown them down.
On the final day, the priests gave a long blast on their horns while all of the attackers shouted at the top of their lungs…and “the wall fell down flat.” The then-unknown science of sonics destroyed Jericho.
A woman in Gaffney, South Carolina, was plagued by eerie hums and strange mechanical sounds in the mid-1960s. She complained to the local police that someone was digging tunnels under her house, but a thorough investigation yielded nothing.
Another woman living in Bellmore, New York, protested that her home was haunted with buzzing and humming sounds that caused her to break out in a rash. The sounds were sometimes accompanied by the odor of a nauseous gas. Investigators heard the sounds but could not account for them.
In Antarctica, the tiny group of scientists living there reported hearing the sounds of heavy machinery far out on the snowy plains. During my own investigations into the mountains of northern New Jersey, I wandered uncomfortably through old caves half-filled with water after local residents had told me of hearing the sounds of pulsing machines. Further north, people living in the Catskill Mountains told Dr. Berthold Schwarz of hearing sourceless mechanical sounds at the height of the 1966 UFO wave. We have, in fact, hundreds of reports from all over the world describing mysterious engine noises, buzzes, hums, hisses, and musical bell-like sounds coming from unseen sources. A sound like the dirge of a giant pipe organ has been heard infrequently in Yellowstone Park for a hundred years. Lakes from New York’s Finger Lake region to Africa are occasionally haunted by thunderous explosions like cannon shots.
To the UFO cultists these sounds are supposed to be coming from the marvelous space ships of mysterious extraterrestrial travelers. Another group (and it is a large group) sees these things as evidence of the existence of “Deros”—detrimental robots—who live in the bowels of the earth and are up to no good.
The Aurora Borealis is sometimes accompanied by buzzing and crackling sounds, probably electrical in origin, like the buzzing created by radar waves. And some of these sounds are undoubtedly produced by pockets of high-frequency waves, which not only set up vibrations but also charge the air with ozone and nitrogen dioxide, an acrid gas that could produce such effects as those observed at Bellmore.
In May 1973, there was a rash of UFO sightings around the country. Several people around Woodstock, New York, where my mountain hideaway is located, reported seeing luminous green cones hovering in the night skies. Every night at 6 p.m. my television set would hiss and crackle, and the New York station I was watching would dissolve into another image. The call letters of two stations in Miami, Florida, over one thousand miles away, flashed on my screen. When I stepped outside at night, I noted a brilliant display of colored rays in the north. It was obvious that some very peculiar magnetic phenomena were abroad that month causing “skip” signals from Florida and the appearance of luminous objects in the skies.
The earth’s magnetic field is probably the culprit in many cases of seemingly inexplicable phenomena. Our planet is pockmarked with magnetic anomalies and aberrations. In many places, a compass will not point north at all. The needle will even swing in a continuous circle. Sea charts carefully mark those places where compasses are unreliable. In the 1950s specially equipped planes of the U.S. Geological Survey made geomagnetic maps of a large part of the country, pinpointing all the anomalies and aberrations. Interestingly, many of the most spectacular UFO events of the past decade have centered around these anomalies.
Ancient priests and builders must have known about the earth’s magnetism and its strange fluctuations. They located their temples, mounds, and pyramids in the dead center of magnetic anomalies. And they laid out long, arrow-straight tracks or “leys” between these magnetic points.
Until Marco Polo’s adventurous journey, China was isolated from the Western world; there was no communication between ancient China and ancient Britain. Yet both of these countries maintained identical legends of the great dragons. Both charted the appearances of fiery aerial objects, and both laid out leys marking the paths of those objects. In China they were known as dragon paths and were a part of the complex yin-and-yang concept. The Chinese believed that magnetic currents or fields of force pursued specific lines. If your house straddled one of these lines, you were considered very fortunate. Rich and powerful people made it a point to be buried on such a line.
Back in the 1950s France’s leading ufologist, Aimé Michel, discovered that UFOs followed specific routes over France. Others, such as the late Dr. O. T. Fontes of Brazil, extended this discovery and tried to calculate a worldwide UFO route. I tried to formulate the UFO routes with the abundant 1966 data, but I found that most UFO sightings could only be traced for about 200 miles. The sightings seemed to fall into a circular pattern radiating outward from a magnetic anomaly. It was possible to check the passage of a single object from point to point within the 200-mile boundary, but it simply vanished when it reached that limit. I termed these circles “windows.” In the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, these windows were often centered around an “Indian” mound or ancient archaeological site. Perhaps the early mound builders had made observations similar to those of the Chinese and built their monuments along the UFO flight paths. Knowledge of the earth’s magnetic fields of force may have been universal in ancient times and considered so important to the human condition that men spent years of their lives in hard labor charting those fields and erecting huge monuments along them.
Two British authors, John Michell[7] and F. W. Holiday,[8] have systematically examined the ley systems of Great Britain and researched all the historical data. Holiday discovered that many of England’s great churches and monuments (such as Stonehenge) were carefully aligned to some magnetic system and linked with the leys. Since it was a common practice (and still is) to erect new churches on the sites of ancient temples, we have managed to preserve the ancient systems even when we didn’t know such systems existed!
Magnetism is measured in units called gauss, named after Karl Gauss, a German astronomer. The earth’s natural magnetism and its many effects are important to our understanding of the overall phenomenon. Magnetic ga
uss appear below the Hertzian waves on our electromagnetic spectrum. An intense magnetic field has, of course, characteristics similar to a VLF wave. At this point we will start constructing what is known as the superspectrum. This is a hypothetical spectrum of energies that are known to exist but that cannot be accurately measured with present-day instruments. It is a shadowy world of energies that produce well-observed effects, particularly on biological organisms (namely people). This superspectrum is the source of all paranormal manifestations from extrasensory perception (ESP) to flying saucers, little green men and tall, hairy monsters. It is hard to pin down scientifically because it is extradimensional, meaning that it exists outside our own space-time continuum yet influences every thing within our reality.
On the edge of this superspectrum we have the force called gravity. Gravity is a most peculiar business. We know it exists. We know that when astronauts leave this planet, they also leave the field of gravity. But we cannot define gravity precisely. We cannot measure it. It has been described as the intergalactic glue holding the universe together. In school you were taught that it is the attraction of one mass to another. That attraction is not magnetic. We don’t know what it is.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s the U.S. Air Force, NASA, and numerous scientific foundations poured a lot of money down the gravity rathole in an effort to find an antigravity device. Had they succeeded, our entire space program would have been very different. Unfortunately, gravity defied analysis. We couldn’t build a machine capable of cancelling the force, because we couldn’t find out what kind of force we were trying to cancel. Our failure was mainly attributable to our stubborn technological urge. Gravity can’t be cancelled with a coil of wire or a pulsing motor, because it lies outside our electromagnetic spectrum. It can, however, be neutralized biologically, by the power of the mind. People have been doing it for thousands of years. While trekking through the Himalayas in the 1950s, I witnessed a lama performing an act of levitation. Such feats have been photographed, and Nicholas Roerich, the great archaeologist and humanitarian, painted a lama floating on the surface of a Himalayan lake in the lotus position. Famous monks, nuns, and priests have experienced levitation, sometimes floating through the air in front of crowds of dignitaries. In countless thousands of séances, objects, heavy tables, and people have lifted off the floor and floated around she room. Daniel Douglas Home, one of the most famous mediums of the nineteenth century, managed to levitate frequently in full view of skeptical scientists and newsmen. And it is not uncommon for victims of demonic possession to be tied to their beds by doctors and priests because of their uncanny tendency to float to the ceiling.
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