Ispectrum magazine issue 1

ISPECTRUM MAGAZINE

THE KACHINAS

REINCARNATION

LIFE AFTER DEATH

ORIGIN OF CENTRIPETAL FORCES

Issue 01/May-June 2013

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FEATURES

03 ORIGIN OF CENTRIPETAL FORCESGRAVITY,COLOR,LIFE,CONSCIOUSNESS AND PERCEPTION08 Golden Ratio

12 REINCARNATION OR JUST A DIMENSIONAL THING?UNFINISHED BUSINESS14 How did I do?15 A multidimensional model of existence16 The multidimensional model of man17 A scientific model of reincarna-tion?

18 SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR LIFE AFTER DEATH19 Mediumship in the laboratory 24 The Pineal gland and medium-ship25 Research into near-death experience30 Past-life regression therapy31 Evidence of reincarnation 33 The science of afterlife

36 THE KACHINASAN ALIEN INTELLIGENCE, BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT37 The kachina dolls 39 Hopi ceremonies43 Kokopelli-fertility deity

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CONTENTS

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Mado MartinezEditorial Director

Editorial DirectorMado Martinez, [email protected]

Art DirectorRayna [email protected] Contributing WriterPhilip Coppens

Contributing WriterMike O’Hare

Contributing WriterDan Winter

Contributing WriterElaine Vieira

Contributing WriterMado Martinez

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You are our first readers because today is the birth of Ispectrum Magazine, a bi-monthly publication that will be delivered directly to your favourite device(laptop, ipad, kindle, etc...). We are free and independent, so as you can guess, you don’t have to pay anything and we can write with freedom of expression about a wide spectrum of matters. In this first issue, we offer you fourfeatured articles that may interest you (a lot!). Dan Winter, Mike O’Hare, Elaine Vieira and Philip Coppens, are the names of our contributor writers. One of them, Philip Coppens, died before he could see how this publishing adventure became true, so we entirely dedicate this brand new magazine to his loving memory. We will always remember you. Thank you for all the support you gave to us, for wanting to be part of this project and for allowing us to publish your articles. Rayna Petrova and I, the founders of this dream that you actually have in your hands, believe that we can share with all of you a wonderful experience. We never forget that behind the mask of an avatar, a digital publication, a comment in a post, a like in facebook, etc., there is always a person. Through our website and our online/offline magazine we want to contribute beyond the virtual… There is something in the outer limits of truth…

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T hose waves then store compression ver-sus rarefaction (packing versus unpacking - sometimes called yin/ yang)- in that sub-stance called (electric) CHARGE. So in physics ‘charge’ is in effect the unified field.

ORIGIN OF CENTRIPETAL FORCES: GRAVITY, COLOR, LIFE,

CONSCIOUSNESS AND PERCEPTION

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DAN WINTER

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We are clear the universe is made of waves. Those waves move in a universal com-pressible background sub-stance (“ether”)

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Because that flu-idly moving hydro-dynamic substance called ‘charge’ stores INERTIA- it then has the quality - of creating MASS. This is because inertia stored (by waves of charge rotat-ing) is the only defini-tion of mass. It is as simple as real-izing that when a wave is able to go in a circle instead of a line, it begins to STORE more

of its inertia - just like a gyroscope. So - as we have often said- ‘God’ or the creative principle in essence is the skill to teach waves to start going in a circle (creating mass) instead of line. The tricky part of keeping a wave going in a circle - instead of in a straight line - is that when the wave finishes mak-ing it’s circle - it has to meet itself - (‘phase

lock’) - by agreeing on where the crest and the trough will fit. Otherwise - it creates destructive wave inter-ference ... and kills itself. This need for waves to agree on where to meet- forces them to always obey a simple rule. The number one rule for waves is: The wave length must divide evenly into the circumference of the circle they are making.

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The illusion that there is such a thing as a particle arose because of the way these waves of charge store their inertia in discrete or ‘quantized’ little ‘enve-lopes’. These bubbles or wave packets of charge storing inertia - came to be named particles. They are absolutely not ‘silver

bullets’ (which is to say they are NOT solid - but only wave bub-bles). The reason the amount of inertia (or mass) stored in each little bubble of waves is so regular or discrete (electrons and protons each store the same amount) - is fascinat-ing. As waves ran around

the universe- for eons- they discovered there were some basic agreements required in order for the sur-vival of those waves. An extremely elegant single universal stan-dard for all waves- call PLANCK - (length, time, and energy) - evolved because - right from the beginning

This rule- the origin of ‘quantum mechanics’ - is the reason there is geometry in the uni-verse. This is because fitting wavelengths into circles - in 2D and 3D- causes those wave to make the pretty pic-tures - tetrahedron, octa, cube, dode-ca, icosa etc. These become group theory.. And the fact that elec-tron shells are basically platonic solids- the same way nuclear par-ticles- (protons/neu-trons) nest in the pla-tonic solids.

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waves which did not fit the agreed standard of fitting together - would immediately die (expe-rience destructive wave interference). In effect - since this one unit of length and time and energy - fit ALL of the waves of the universe- these so

called PLANK dimen-sions define the so called ‘sacred’ (gold standard of agreement that fits all of physics) - for waves. The other tricky part about keeping a wave going in a circle ( and thereby creating mass) - is that the inertia the

wave stores - tends to immediately get thrown OUT of that circle by centrifugal force. (For the same rea-son your laundry gets pressed on the outside of the drum during the spin cycle).So - the only way those waves get to KEEP going in a circle - and remain part of the exclusive club of ‘mass creators’ is when there is some mysterious centripetal force- which keeps them attracted to the center of the cir-cle (gravity). implosive forces fractalfield.com/centripetalforces

We all know that Einstein did not figure out why any object falls to the ground. He got one thing right- that infinite construc-tive wave compression was the solution to his unified field.

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The reason physics has not figured out why an object falls

to the ground till now, is because of TWO fundamental

stupidities:

Not knowing how fractality - was a wave / electrical solution to perfect or infinite compression. (Although mathematics has long known fractals are infinitely compressible - physics was slow to figure out what a fractal electric field looked like).

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2. Not knowing that Golden Ratio was the ultimate solution to all constructive wave interference - and therefore especially the solution to Einstein’s pesky problem: infinite compression. And therefore Golden Ratio is the ultimate solution to fractality.

The essential issue of unified field thinking is to know what electric field shape or symmetry causes gravity to happen. This problem is resolved once we understand for example - that the fractal ‘self simi-larity’ (perfected in Golden Ratio) of the nuclear shapes (symmetry)

to the electron shells- is the rea-son atoms have and make gravity. My new equation/ proof that Golden Ratio exponents times planck length very accurately predict multiple hydrogen radii- is an excellent start-ing point for new evidence.

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Gravity is only one of the centrip-etal forces. Others are color, life force, perception, and conscious-ness itself. All of these - by appearance- self organizing forces are caused by Golden Ratio - fractality among waves of charge.

The evidence the Golden Ratio - fractality ( constructive charge col-lapse perfected) is the cause and mechanism of gravity:

Golden Ratio times Plank length produces exactly

the radius of hydrogen. ( My equa-tions: goldenmean.info/goldenproofSo- Golden RATIO constructive charge collapse- is evidentially what is holding hydrogen - and most likely the entire atomic table together.

Golden Ratio is the quintessential element

of E8 - Unified Field model.

Golden Ratio is the universal container of

Nassim Harramein - universal of global scaling - of - Length vs. Frequency of - Big Bang, Atom, Galaxy and Universe

The infinite stellated dodecahedron ( dodeca

/ icosa/ dodeca...) main charac-teristic is each node has x,y,z val-ues which are simples multiples of Golden Ratio. This produces perfect constructive wave compression and collapse. For this reason - this is the exact geometry of:a) The universeb) DNA and every living proteinc) the outer electrical shape of gold, palladium, platinum (pgm’s), fusion, black holes, the noble gas-ses, and their corresponding elec-tron valences and nuclear symme-tries.d) the Earth grid.

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ONE geometry which allows the wave to continue radiating in ALL directions con-structively. That solu-tion is GOLDEN RATIO - and the 3D - what that looks like is the stellated dodeca (pent stars within stars).

As the waves keep crossing- at each

point along the Golden Spiral they create,the keep doing what all waves must do in wave interference (called ‘heterodyning’). They keep add-ing AND multiplying (recursive addition) - their wave lengths and their wave (or phase) VELOCITIES.

Understanding the mechanism which allows Golden Ratio fractality to BE the cause of gravity is essential to this:The top down view of the Golden Ratio - pent dodeca- which is the shape of every wave in the above list (DNA, Every Living Protein, Gold/PGM’s, Earth Grid, Universe etc) - is essen-tially 10 spirals of the Golden Mean

The reason this shape - essentially accounts for all the universe’s cen-tripetal and self organiz-ing forces (gravity, color, consciousness, life force, perception etc)- is as follows: When waves meet in rotation - at each wave node cross- a portion of the inertia of the wave node (or cross point) - must radiate out in all directions. The wave interference produced in 3D quickly makes DESTRUCTIVE wave interference - (especially if it is cubic) - unless it finds the

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The Golden Ratio is the obvious only solution to this geometry problem which all waves encounter because this is the ratio that allows BOTH adding and multiplying to contin-ue- in such a way that all the produces (children of the waves) continue to FIT the nest.

Assuming that your mindset is one that is open to all possibilities, how would you feel if you could look into a crystal ball and see beyond the life that you are now living? Share with me and join in a travel extravaganza which takes us beyond the physical world. To begin with, let me emphasize that this is not an invitation to talk about a belief system that is held steadfast within your religious ideals. No, this is meant to help stimulate your mind and take you beyond your present mode of thought.

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REINCARNATION

OR JUST A DIMENSIONAL THING?

uantum mechan-ics and particle

physics are show-ing us something that we could never have dreamed only ten or fifteen years ago.

Do you have any idea how detached, physi-cally, you are from your mind and can you possibly imagine how your whole body func-tions as your brain receives its program-ming from another dimension?

It’s true! There are other dimensions.

Actually they are sit-ting exactly where we are now – right under our noses. Apparently, everything happens simultaneously and in one spot. The physi-cal world is only an illusion to give the impression, through polarities, that there is time and distance between two points. We are as near to each other as we can pos-sibly be with less than the thickness of a mol-ecule between us. This could very well mean that our minds operate out of the time and space con-

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MIKE O’HARE

WEBSITE

WWW.MIKE-OHARE.COM

If present-day discoveries through free-thinking sci-ence are anything to go on, then we are in fora treat

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tinuum, in a dimen-sion which allows it to carry on after we have finished with our physi-cal bodies. Did you notice how I didn’t point out the obvious and use the ‘D’ word? It’s all down to vibra-tion and frequen-cies. When the TV is turned on, who ever ques-tions about how the pictures and sound reaches us? We should, and the answers we would get are that they are frequencies that do not operate in a physical world.

The same princi-ple applies to your thoughts. It has been scientifically proved that a thought is a tan-gible, living thing that has its own electrical charge and is transmit-ted via other dimen-sions that surround us. Twilight Zone stuff huh? Well don’t ask

me, I’m only the mes-senger bringing proof of what is already documented. On this

basis, there is every possibility that we real-ly do live on beyond the physical world and it was this impression that was the inspiration behind my co-writing The Meadow. It’s a marvellous, wonderful world out there and we should familiarise our-selves with it in a way

that makes us totally interactive. If we do live on, there is every possibility that

we also come back again to live another life. Okay, so I’m now well into that non-earthly zone, talking about the possibility of reincarnation, but I have every confidence that there is more to life than we could ever imagine.

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Perhaps we have unfinished business in this life and the only way to reconcile and fix it is to come back after learning all there is to know in getting it right next time.

I have a theory, a personal one albeit and it is this: I believe that I will come back again because I have such an attachment to the material world. I get a buzz out of so many activities which are totally physical. This indicates to me that matters are not yet out of my system and I have to remove all this extra weight before I can move on. Conversely, I’m hop-ing that reincarna-tion is down to choice rather than destiny.

Regardless, I got a buzz out of writ-ing this piece. Maybe it’s because of all the invisible energy which is surrounding me and willing me to share this with you. I hope

you feel the same way.

HOW DID I DO?

Did I manage to arouse your curiosity? Are you in a position to look beyond what you consider to be a normal physical life? Could reincarnation fit into your belief sys-tem? If you would like to learn more about this from the scientific perspective then no one can do this bet-ter than my molecu-lar biologist friend, William Brown. At first sight it would appear that life after death or even the topic of reincarna-tion would be beyond the scope of a scien-tific discussion, and in classical scientific models of understand-ing that is indeed the case. However, as alluded to by Mike in the above discus-sion, the cutting edge of science is entering this ethereal realm

once restricted to philo-sophical or mystical perspectives, and many of these philosophical ruminations and meta-physical perspectives are getting re-described with mathematical and scientific terminology.

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and even information stored in the very fabric of space-time itself. Numerous empirical observations are driving this research as scien-tists find that 98% of the Universe is not directly detectable, what is referred to as “dark energy” – an unseen plenum that seems to per-meate even the smallest space but orchestrates whole galaxies into a quantum coherent system where billions of stars move together in a galactic symphony of harmony.

Could it be that there is much more to the Universe than whatwe directly perceive with our phys-ical senses? Could the Universe be layered in multiple dimensions?

A MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODEL OF EXISTENCE

Serious scientific research is actively involved in investigat-ing the reality of dimensions beyond the 4 described by General Relativity, of multiple universes created from a quantum foam,

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The mathematics seems to indi-cate this is so. When the potential energy of a space the size of a pro-ton is calculated it has a mass that is equivalent to the whole Universe – imagine the depth of reality that exists in the room you occupy now! But it is not just the ultra-small and the ultra-large where these anoma-lies are observed that are point-ing us in the direction of an unseen world that seems to be “pulling the strings” here in physical reality. There is an intermediate level between the macroscopic and the microscopic that is rich with similar types of scientific “anomalies”, and that is the level that you occupy – the human being.

THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL MIND OF MAN

Just as the cutting edge of science in Quantum Mechanics and Particle Physics is revealing other levels of reality that are orchestrating much of the activity in physical reality, so too is biology discovering high-er levels of order that direct and shape biological processes.

What kinds of biological pro-cesses? Take your thoughts as an example. The phenomenon of con-sciousness has been a very myste-rious aspect of the human being – because scientists within the classi-cal model have been attempting to understand it from a purely physi-cal point of view. Yet new models are emerging that describe how the physical activ-ity of the brain can “tune” into non local fields of information from which our thoughts are formed and derived – a Morphic field that exists at another level of real-ity and yet drives the information capabilities of not only the brain, but our genes as well.

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A SCIENTIFIC MODEL OF REINCARNATION?

If our brain and our genes are tuning into and storing informa-tion within the fabric of spacetime itself, where that informa-tion exists beyond the seemingly relentless

change of the physi-cal world, then there is an aspect of our con-sciousness that exists outside of the body, and it can re-enter through genes that are passed down through an unbroken lineage of progeny. These are the same genes that once shaped your

ancestors brain – do you think they may have shaped yours similar-ly? Perhaps that ances-tor possessed the same consciousness that you do through the Morphic Field – and you have come back to fulfil some unfinished business.

Dazu Wheel of Reincarnation,CHINA

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SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR LIFE AFTER DEATH

MADO MARTINEZ AND ELAINE VIEIRA

WWW.MADOMARTINEZ.COM

ince time immemorial, human beings have won-dered if there is

something beyond life. Many cul-tures, religions and systems ofknowledge have been based on the belief that the dead are raised up into another world, going to paradise or reincarnating. But what if science could show evi-dence that there is life after death? In the last few decades, many sci-entists and medical researchers from universities andinstitutions around the world have been revolutionising the para-digm, providing evidence that consciousness indeed survives physical death.

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New scientific methods andtechnologies are being used to research theage-old question of whether life existsafter death.Rigorous studies of mediumship,near-death experiences and past-life memoriessuggest that consciousnessindeed survives

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MEDIUMSHIP IN THE LABORATORY

Mediums claim that they can somehow feel the spirits of deceased people.According to spiritist terminology, these spirits are called “discarnate”. The famous Brazilian medium

Chico Xavier, who died in 2002, wrote more than 400 books by 600 spiritual authors but never took credit for being the author of any of them. Heavily influenced by the works of 19th-century French spir-itist Allan Kardec, Xavier professed that his hand was guided by spirits who dictated to him. An estimated 50 million copies of his books have been sold, and all the profits from these sales have been channelled into charity work. In 1981 and 1982, Xavier was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Furthermore, he attended to, free of charge, around 60 people per day in his modest home in the city of Uberaba. Apart from books, Xavier wrote letters from deceased people whose family members were visiting him.

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In 1991, Chico Xavier’s mediumship was investi-gated by Dr Paulo Rossi.His study confirmed that 93.3 per cent of the people who visited Xavier hadnot known him before-hand. Information from the letters received through Xavier contained so many details about the deceased and their families as tomake fraud impossible. Around 62.2 per cent of the messages showed morethan six relevant facts each, and 71.1 per cent had detailed informationabout the deceased people which was sub-sequently confirmed by theirfamilies. Dr Rossi con-cluded that the informa-tion revealed by Chico Xavieractually came from the spirits of dead people and was not the result of any kind of fraud.In 2004, Alexander Moreira de Almeida gained his PhD degree

from theUniversity of São Paulo, Brazil, with his research focus on mediumshipexperiences. He stud-ied 115 spiritist medi-ums with the aim of building theirsociodemographic profiles and checking their mental health. His study wasbased solely on spir-itist mediums who follow the doctrine founded by Allan

Kardec, because they only use their medi-umship free of charge to help thespirits. It is impor-tant to mention that Moreira de Almeida and his teamchose these mediums because the spirit-ism founded by Allan Kardec is wellknown worldwide for its seriousness in studying the relation-ship betweenthe spirit world and

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human nature. The researchers con-cluded that the majority of the medi-ums developed their mediumship during childhood and that they also showed a high socio-educational level. In addition, they found only a very low level of psychiatric disorders among the mediums. Thus, the mediums who haveso often been labelled as “crazy” turn out

to be people with few psychological problems and a high level of education.

During 2001–2008, Professor Gary Schwartz andcolleagues from the University of Arizona conducteddetailed research into the authenticity of mediumship.They investigated the well-known medi-ums George Anderson

and John Edward,and other mediums such asSuzane Northrop, Laurie Campbell and Anne Gehman.Their studies confirmed that all of the mediums were very precise, and their degree of success was very highcompared to probabil-ity. Factors suchas fraud, error and coincidence were con-sidered and eliminated.

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At The Windbridge Institute in Tucson, Arizona, USA,from 2008, Dr Julie Beischel hasbeen conducting fascinatingresearch with mediums todemonstrate that there is lifeafter death. Basically, she usesthree methods to study thephenomenon of mediumship:proof-focused research, involvingtests to verify whether themediums are giving accurateinformation; process-focusedresearch, which studies theexperience of the mediumsduring their spiritualcommunications; and appliedresearch, which examines how the information canbenefit society in general. The mediums studied by Dr Beischel have given accurate

information aboutdeceased people which was subse-quently verified. DrBeischel’s results confirm the hypothesis that the spiritsurvives death. We emailed Dr Julie Beischel in August 2011 to askmore about the scientific method which she applies inthese investigations. She said that she uses strictcontrols to investigate the phenom-enon of mediumshipthrough a scientific program that contains a great amount of data: “At The Windbridge Institute, we are primarilyinterested in mediumship, ITC [instrumental transcommunication] and haunting-related occurrences.

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We use the scientific method and strict controls toinvestigate these phe-nomena, and the mediumshipresearch program involves the largest amount of robustdata.

Through our unique quintuple-blinded readingswith Windbridge certified research mediums (WCRMs),we can demonstrate a phenomenon called ‘anomalousinformation reception’ (AIR), which involves mediumsreporting accurate and specific information about thedeceased loved ones (termed ‘dis-carnates’) of living people (termed ‘sitters’) without any prior knowledge about the discarnates or sitters, in the absence of anyfeedback and without using deceptive means.

Based on the intensive testing pro-

cedure we use to screenprospective WCRMs and the subse-quent studies in which they

participate, we can confidently state that certain mediums are capable of AIR.”

In addition, Dr Beischel said: “This research paradigmis ideal in that the phenomenon is easily replicable andoccurs on demand. We do not need to try to catch spontaneous events or experiences as they occur; wecan bring the mediumship phe-nomenon into thelaboratory and study it under con-trolled conditions andon a schedule that is convenient for all of the participants.”

…the mediums have higher brain activity and increased blood flow in the region of the pineal gland compared to the control group.

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In her study of mediumship, Dr. Beischel is very strictand accurate, applying a quintu-ple-blind scientificmethod, i.e., involving five ele-ments. Compare this withthe double-blind study, a verywell known scientific methodthat is used in experiments withthe aim of avoiding bias in theresults induced by twoelements: the placebo effectand the researcher. It is called“double blind” because thesubjects in the study do notknow to which experimentalgroup they belong.

In a tripleblind study, a third ele-ment is included with the aim ofavoiding even more bias. Forinstance, the third elementcould be a statistician who inter-prets the data withoutknowing the type of experiment that was performed, or ascientist who works on the pro-ject but does not knowthe experimental group. Dr Beischel’s research demon-strates that theanomalous information recep-tion phenomenon isindeed authentic.

THE PINEAL GLAND AND MEDIUMSHIP

Neuroscientist Dr. Sérgio Felipe de Oliveira from SãoPaulo University, Brazil, investi-gates the relationshipbetween the pineal gland and mediumship. In performing his research, he uses techniques such as X-ray diffraction, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Comparing the “brain sand”(calcified structures in the brain) of mediums and non mediums,he showed that medi-ums have a higheramount of brain sand in the pineal gland than do non medi-ums.In addition, he demonstrated that, duringspirit communication, the medi-ums have higher brainactivity and increased blood flow in the region of thepineal gland compared to the control group. Dr. Felipe de Oliveira hypoth-esises that the pinealgland is the sensorial organ of mediumship. For instance,

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the gland would be like a mobile phone thatcaptures the electromagnetic waves coming from thespirit world. Once the waves reach the pineal gland,they bounce off the brain sand, sequestering theelectromagnetic field and trans-mitting the informationto the cerebral cortex for the interpretation of themessage. In October 2010 in Valencia, Spain, I (Martínez)conducted an interview with Dr. Sérgio Felipe deOliveira, who showed images from his magneticresonance experiments and pointed out thesedifferences in the level of brain sand in the pineal glandthat are related to extrasensory abilities.

RESEARCH INTO NEAR-DEATHEXPERIENCE

At King’s College London there is a revolution going on in the world of thanatology, the scien-tific study of death. The researcher, Peter Fenwick, MD, is performing detailed experiments on the phenomenon that takes place betweenthe 24 and 48 hours before and

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the presence of light. These phenomena are usuallyreported after an individual has been pronouncedclinically dead and then comes back to life. These experiences sug-gest the existence of life after death. Since psychologist Raymond Moody, Jr., MD, wrote hisbook Life After Life (1975) and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD(the now-deceased eminent researcher who received ascore of honorary doctorates from uni-

after death and also at the moment of death. He concen-trates on visions from people who were lying in bed and spoke with deceased familymembers who cameto receive them. He also investigatescoincidences involving deceased people who contacted someonejust to tell them that he/she hasdied. In addition, he studies family mem-bers who sawshadows around the bed of the ceased and observed that theroom became a lot of brighter atthe time of the per-

son’s death.These occurrences happen in a very high percentage of cases, he concludes. Dr. Fenwick also insists that the soul isdifferent from the brain. The term near-death experience(NDE) refers to a broad range of experi-ences associatedwith impending death. These can encom-pass multiple possible sensations including: detachment from the body; feelings of levi-tation, extreme fear, total serenity, secu-rity, warmth or abso-lute dissolution; and

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versities around the world) compiled hun-dreds of stunning tes-timonies and wrote some of the most pow-erful books concerningNDEs, scientists have become very attracted to this phenomenon.Dr Kenneth Ring, then based at the University of Connecticut, and Sharon Cooper, then a PhD candidate from the University of New York, performed a two-yearstudy of near-death experiences in the blind, with amazing results. These were published in their bookMindsight (1999), which provided strong evidence from 31 blind people who describe the experience of see-ing for the first time in their lives, giving details of medical pro-cedures on the operat-ing table, for instance.Jeffrey Long, MD, an oncologist, directs the Near Death Experience

Research Foundation (http://www.nderf.org), which has collected more than2,500 case studies worldwide of people who have had near-death experiences. Because Dr. Long applies the scientific method in his research, we decided to contact him to find out more about his work. In our e-mail interview with him in August 2011, hestated: “My area of expertise is in near-death experiences. NDEs provide, in my opinion, the strongest scientific evidence of life after death.” In his book Evidence of the Afterlife: TheScience of Near-Death Experiences (2010),

Dr. Long gives a sum-mary of the ninelines of evidence that point to thereality of NDEs and their consistent mes-sage of an afterlife:

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Clear Consciousness

The level of conscious-ness andalertness dur-ing near-deathexperiences is usually evengreater than that experienced ineveryday life, even though NDEsgenerally occur when a person is unconscious or clinically dead.This high level of con-sciousnesswhile physically unconscious is medi-cally inexplicable. Additionally, the ele-ments in NDEs gener-ally follow the same consistent and logicalorder in all age groups and around the world, which refutes the pos-sibility that NDEs have any relation todreams or hallucina-tions.

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Realistic Out-of-Body Experiences

Out-of-bodyexperiences (OBEs) are one of the most common elements of NDEs. What “NDErs” see and hear ofearthly events in the out-of-body state is almost always realistic. When the NDEr or others later seek to verify what was observed or heard during the NDE, the OBEobservations are almost always confirmed as completelyaccurate. Even if the OBE observa-tions during the NDEincluded events far from the physi-cal body and far from any possible sensory awareness of the NDEr, the OBE observations are still almost always confirmed ascompletely accurate. This fact alone rules out the possibility that near-death experiences are related toany known brain functioning or sen-sory awareness. Thisalso refutes the possibility that NDEs are unrealisticfragments of memory from the brain.

Heightened Senses

Not only are heightenedsenses reported by most who have experienced NDEs,

but normal or supernormal vision has occurred in thosewith significantly impaired vision and even legal blindness. Several people who have been totally blindsince birth have reported highly visual near-death experiences. This is medically inexplicable.

Consciousness DuringAnaesthesia

Many NDEs occur whileunder general anaesthesia—at a time when any conscious experi-ence should be impossible. While some sceptics claim that these NDEs maybe the result of too little anaesthe-sia, this ignores the fact that some NDEs result from anaesthesia over-dose.Additionally, the description of anNDE differs greatly from that of one who experiences “anaestheticawareness”. The content of NDEsthat occur under generalanaesthesia is essentiallyindistinguishable from NDEs thatdid not occur under generalanaesthesia. This is furtherstrong evidence that NDEs areoccurring completelyindependently from thefunctioning of the physical brain.

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Perfect Playbacks

Life reviews in near-deathexperiences include real eventsthat previously took place in thelives of those having the experi-ence, even if the eventswere forgotten or happened before they were old enough to remember.

Family Reunions

During an NDE, the peopleencountered are virtually always deceased and areusually relatives of the person hav-ing the experience;sometimes they are even rela-tives who died before the NDEr was born. Were the NDE only a prod-uct of memory fragments, it would almost certainly include farmore living people, including those with whom the NDEr had interacted more recently.

Children’s Experiences

The near-death experiencesof children, including very young children who are too young to have developed concepts of death, reli-

gion or near-death experiences, are essentially identical to those of older children and adults. This refutes the possibility that the content of NDEs is produced by preexisting beliefs or cultural condi-tioning.

Worldwide Consistency

Near-death experiencesappear remarkably consistent around the world andacross many different religions and cultures. NDEs from non-western countries are incredibly similar to those that occur in people in west-ern countries.

Aftereffects

It is common for peo-ple to experience major life chang-es after having near-death experi-ences.These aftereffects are often power-ful, lasting and lifeenhancing,and the changes generally follow aconsistent pattern. As the NDErs themselves almostalways believe, near-death experi-ences are, in a word,real.

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PAST-LIFE REGRESSION THERAPY

The research on past-life regres-sion consists of practices and evi-dence based approaches. The results come from questionnaires completed beforeand after the therapy with a largenumber of individuals with a spe-cific type of problem, including a control group to demonstrate theireffectiveness (the double-blindscientific method).

Between 1985 and 1992, Dr. HazelDenning (now deceased), founder of the International Association forRegression Research andTherapies (http://www.iarrt.org),studied the results of eightregression therapists with about1,000 patients. The results weremeasured immediately after thetherapy, with follow-ups sixmonths, one year, two years andfive years afterwards. From the 450 patients who could be traced after five years, 24 per cent reported that their symp-toms had completely disappeared, 23 per cent reported a significant improvement, 17 per cent reported an improvement, and 36 per cent reported no improvement. Overall, this makes a positive balance of64 per cent. In 2006, Ron van der Maesen

obtained his PhD in theresearch area of past-life thera-py from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His doctoral thesis wasbased on different studies with peo-ple who underwent treatment with past-life therapy. The studies includ-ed one in Suriname, one with the

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Dutch Association ofReincarnation Therapists and another with patients withTourette syndrome. The studies showed that the pastlife treatments had statistically signifi-cant beneficial results in patients compared with the controls (with no health problems). The level of satisfaction among the patients who had improvements with past-life therapywas very high. Psychologist Dr. Helen Wambach, who carried out past-life research from the mid-1960s

until her death in 1985, conducted a 10-year survey of past-liferecollection and reincar-nation. She performed her main study with 26 regression thera-pists who had worked with a total of 17,350 patients. Among those, 63 per cent reported an improvement in physi-cal symptoms whereas 40 per cent reported an improvement in their interpersonal relation-ships. Dr. Wambach had very specific questions about the time periods in which people lived other lives, the types of

clothes and shoesthey wore, the kinds of utensils and money they used, the style of house they lived in, and so on. Sheconcluded that the results were veryaccurate, and that fan-tasy and genetic memory could not account for the patterns that emerged from the results. With the exception of reports from 11 sub-jects, all descriptions ofclothing, footwear, utensils, housing and so on were consistent with historical records.

EVIDENCE OF REINCARNATION

Psychotherapist Brian Weiss,MD, is Chairman Emeritus ofPsychiatry at the Mount SinaiMedical Center in Miami. Oneday he found that one of hispatients started to recall pastlifetraumas in recurring nightmares and began to give astonishing details about Weiss’s family and his dead son. Although at the beginning he was very sceptical, he decided to do some in-depth research. He has since

Attorney Victor Zammithas gathered evidence forthe existence of life afterdeath that he thinks is strongenough to be accepted inany court of law.

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published several books where he describes his investigations of past lives. In Many Lives, Many Masters (1988), Dr Weiss explains the real-ity of reincarnationand the spirit world from the psychiatric perspective. Ian Stevenson, MD, who died in 2007, was one of the most well known researchers to have provided strong evidence for the reality of reincarnation. From 1957, atthe University of Virginia, he head-ed the Department ofPsychiatry and later the Division of Perceptual Studies until his 2002 retirement. He did not use the method of hypnosis to verify whether a person had a recollec-tion of a previous life; instead, he studied thousands of casesin children in the USA, England, Thailand, Burma, Turkey, Lebanon, Canada, India and other countries who had spontaneous memories about their previous lives.First, he verified all the informa-tion from a child about their pre-vious life. Next, he identified the deceased person whom that child claimed to be in their previouslife. Later, he verified the facts of the past life of thedeceased person that coincided with the memories of the child.

He also compared and verified body marks and birth defects with wounds and scars of thedeceased, all of them confirmed by medical records. A good example of a birthmark case involved Ravi Shankar. This child remembered being decapitated inhis previous childhood by a family member who was hoping for a patri-mony from the child’s father. RaviShankar had a birthmark around his neck. When Dr Stevenson investigat-ed this case, he was able to confirmthat the child whom Shankar told him about from his past life had in fact been decapitated.

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It was Jim Tucker, MD, who took over Dr Stevenson’sresearch. At the University of Virginia, Dr Tucker is currently Medical Director of the Child and Family Psychiatry Clinic as well as Associate Professor ofPsychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences. His book Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children’s Memories of Previous Lives (2005) summarises the 40 years of inves-tigation of reincarnation which Dr Stevenson performed during his career. In August 2011, weconducted an email interview with Dr Tucker about thescientific evidence for life afterdeath. He responded:“As to your questions, themost important evidence for lifeafter death, other than neardeathexperiences, includescontrolled mediumship studies,carefully studied reports ofapparitions, and verified claimsby children of past-lifememories. The most importantevidence of reincarnation is thislast phenomenon: children’sreports of past-life memories.Ian Stevenson spent 40 years studying such cases, documenting

them as carefully as he could. Most of his cases came from cul-tures with a belief in reincarnation.I’ve been focusing on western cases, and I’m finding thatthe phenomenon is essentially the same here as it is inAsia. At this point, we certainly don’t have as manyreally strong cases here as Ian found in Asia, but we dohave some interesting ones.”

THE SCIENCE OF THE AFTERLIFE

Australian lawyer turned full-time researcher/writerVictor Zammit has investigated the afterlife from the judicial point of view. He thinks that the evidence he has gathered for the existence of life after death is strong enough to be accepted in any court of law(http://www.victorzammit.com). In his book A Lawyer Presents the Case for the Afterlife (2006, 4th ed.), Zammit showed 23 different areas that demonstrate theexistence of life after death. He has put out a challengeto scientists to provide evidence that there is no lifeafter death, promising to pay $1,000,000 if they do.

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The pioneer-ing research of Dr Raymond Moody and Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has contributed to the development of this discipline. Now there are numerous studies being conducted in the area of spirituality and life after death, utilis-ing the latest tech-nologies and scientific methods.Over the years, sig-nificant research has been carried out by such luminaries as Dr Erlendur Haraldsson ofIceland University, past-life therapist Dr Morris Netherton, psy-chologist Dr Peter Ramster,

psychotherapist Andy Tomlinson, cardiologist Pim van Lommel, MD, and many others.Is the quest progress-ing towards a final answer?Probably never: the more answers unveiled, the more questions revealed. Professor Lisa Randall is a theoreti-cal physicist at Harvard University, a lead-ing expert on particle physics and cosmology, and a member of the scientific staff at CERN. She theorises that our universe exists within a universe of many high-er and unseen dimen-sions, and that the laws of nature may be

very different in differ-ent regions of this so-called multverse. Then, if this is so, the larger hidden dimensions in which our universe exists may influence our own three-dimen-sional space-time world and its laws of nature. But what is conscious-ness, one of the mostvibrant areas of study in science today? According to ProfessorRandall (Discover, 29 July 2006): “Neuroscience is excit-ing. Understanding howthoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how infor-mation is stored—it’s all fascinating.Experimentally, though, we’re still rather limited in what we can do. I don’t even know what consciousness is. I’dlike someone to define consciousness.” Right. So if we want to know more about thepossibility of the sur-vival of consciousness

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after death, maybe we need more accurate studies which considerconsciousness itself. In the meantime, some scientists are finding impressive evi-dence to suggest that there is life afterdeath, or at least sur-vival of consciousness, although they don’t

know yet how it works. This is the reason why the key is in the bril-liant confession of Professor Lisa Randall, one of the most influ-ential scientists in the world: “I don’t even know what conscious-ness is. I’d like some-one to define con-

sciousness.” Yes, sometimes sci-ence works like that; for example,astronomers and astro-physicists can identify a relationship between the activity cycles of the Sun andthe weather on Earth, so they assume that this relationship exists

although they don’t know how it works. Yet, as Professor Sami Solanki, of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, hasstated (http://tinyurl.com/77taz9c) :“The correlation between solar cycles and terres-

trial weather has not been demonstrated.” Then why do they study this “correlation” if it has not been dem-onstrated that it really exists? The answer is simple: it is because they have observed evidence which sug-gests that it may be that way…

Well, it seems that we are in a very similar situationwith stud-ies about the afterlife. Scientists have

observed evi-dence which

suggests that there may be lifeafter death, but they don’t know what the process is or what con-sciousness is, and they can’t say that life afterdeath can be real in case it really is real!

In the meantime, some scientists are finding impressive evidence to suggest that there is life after death, or at least survival of consciousness…

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I n July 1947, an alien craft allegedly crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico. If it occurred, it was not the first of its kind: the region of New Mexico and Arizona has a history of “alien contacts” that

AN ALIEN INTELLIGENCE, BUT NOT

AS WE KNOW IT

BY

PHILIP COPPENS

WEBSITE

WWW.PHILIPCOPPENS.COM

For centuries, the Hopi of Arizona have been intimately liaising with beings from the Otherworld. The kachinas still visit the Hopi Mesas on an annual basis and their presence continues to set out the agenda of Hopi society.

THE KACHINAS:

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goes back hundreds if not thousands of years.The beings in ques-tions are known as “kachinas”; they are not extra-terrestrial as such, but definitely otherworldly.

An extensive collec-tion of 400 kachina dolls can be seen in the Heard Museum in Phoenix; they were donated by the contro-versial Republican poli-tician Barry Goldwater. Each doll looks differ-ent and has specific characteristics; each represents a different element or entity that has entered the Hopi world at some point in their history. And when you look at the Eototo kachina doll in the Museum of Northern Arizona, you find the creature has much in common with LEGO fig-ures. Then again, just like LEGO, kachina dolls were there for children be educated in the

ways of the Otherworld and how it interacted with ours.

Amongst the Native Americans, the Hopi have a special place. Thousands of people would like to visit their religious ceremonies, and thousands of tour-ists return home from Arizona with a kachina doll. The kachina dolls are made from kaolin clay, meant to be hung from beams or walls in the home. They are white

in colour and the basic shape is painted to show a head, arms, folded over a kilt, which is representing rain. Tradition argues that carving the “tihu” should be done by men, but today, women are involved in their manufacture, if only for selling them to tour-ists. Indeed, in what is likely to be a rush for finance, rather than heritage, tribal councils even tried to copyright the word kachina, but

Kachina dancers of the Hopi pueblo of Shongopavi, Arizona, USA

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failed to do so. Though the kachina dolls are often identi-fied with the Hopi dei-ties, this is highly inac-curate: one should not confuse the dolls with the kachina them-selves. The dolls are merely props and many have fallen for the mis-take, to take the prop for the god. One might argue that their closest parallel is the voodoo doll or the Egyptian ushabti – though one needs to de-cinematise these artefacts in order to appreciate their true role and function.

Indeed, one of the rea-sons that many of the ceremonies of the Hopi are now closed to out-siders is because a Marvel comic had char-acterised the kachina as violent avengers. The kachina them-selves – rather than the dolls – are largely described as “spirit messengers”, where-as some believe they might represent the spirit of the dead – if there were a differ-ence. The Hopi state that at one time in the past, the kachina dei-ties visited the Mesas

in person, but that they now do so in the form of masked dancers. Whereas kachina dolls are sold and hung from beams or walls, the real deities are sur-rounded with far great-er respect. The Hopi deities live on the San Francisco Mountains, though are present amongst the Hopi for part of the year. As such, the religious year is divided into two parts. The deities arrive at the Hopi Mesas in the form of rain-bearing clouds and normally arrive in early February

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for the Powamuya ceremony, or Bean Dance. The Hopi do indeed believe that in the past, the deities literally walked amongst them, but that today, their presence resides in those selected to wear a mask; it is the mask that transforms the Hopi individual into a “possessed” entity, very much like Jim Carrey in the movie “The Mask” – though it is clear that, just like with the voodoo dolls, the evil and negative connota-tions that have been introduced in these movies are for enter-tainment value only.

Three main ceremonies are performed by and for the gods –katsinam – during their stay in the villages: Soyalangwu, a winter sol-stice ceremony held in December; the already mentioned Powamuya in February, when the katsinam are asked to appear; and Niman, the home-going ceremony, after the summer solstice. Between Powamuya and Niman, the Hopi perform several more dances in

honour of the deities. Early in the year they are held in underground ceremonial chambers called kivas, but as spring arrives, the dances move out onto the plazas, where they last from morning until dusk. The fraternities in charge of the summer dances meet in mid-win-ter for ceremonial smoking and the planting of prayer plumes. In late November, w chief kachina, Soyalkatsina, begins the kachina

season by walking along the trail into the village like a weary old man or someone who has had too much sleep, singing sacred songs in a low voice. He then opens the main kiva, signalling that it is time for the katsinam to come out. Their emergence re-enacts the arrival of the Hopi into the present, Fourth World.

…it is the mask that transforms the Hopi individual into a “possessed” entity,very much like Jim Carrey in the movie “The Mask”

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Each December, a runner climbs to a shrine in the San Francisco Peaks, where he scatters a meal and plants plumes that are to be brought back in July, by anoth-er runner, for the final festival, Niman, linked with the harvest. At the harvest festival, the dei-ties return to the underworld, through the San Francisco Peaks. Interestingly, it is claimed that the seasons in the Underworld are one season behind.

As mentioned, the actual return of the deities to the Hopi Mesas is celebrated at Powamu, the Bean-Planting Ceremony in February. Each matriarch receives a bundle of fresh bean sprouts to plant for the coming year. The festival lasts eight days and concludes with dancing, which takes place in the nine kivas of the mesa. Everyone wears fresh mud from the sacred spring and each job of plastering has been signed with the print of the slim hand of the girl who did it. All Hopi babies receive a tihu – a kachina doll – at their first Niman ceremony, while the girls receive further dolls at each Powamuya and Niman ceremony, up until or near marriageable age, although married women sometimes still

get them from their husbands. The dolls are created as a teach-ing tool given to these children and is presented to them by one of the masked dancers. Boys and girls are normally properly initiated into soci-ety between the age of six to ten, when they are allowed to participate in the performances and discover that the masked dancers are their own relatives – very much like find-ing out who Santa Claus really is – though I, of course, never said that.

Hopi Powamu Ceremony,1893

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There is a clear rela-tionship between the deities and the kachina dolls, the latter repre-senting aspects of the former. Hopi katsinam can be male or female, and represent plants, animals, insects, human qualities, the creative force of the sun, and even death. Some are demons who fright-en children into behav-ing pro-perly; most are clan ancestors and beneficent beings. They are messengers who accept Hopi gifts and prayers for health, fertility, and rain and carry them back to the gods. Their role as rainmakers is particu-larly important to the Hopi. The deities are present, either in the statues, or the sacred

masks. Unlike the dolls, the masks are sacred objects and the Hopi have successfully petitioned to remove them from museum displays. The katsinam is and

can therefore be a spirit of any kind – very much on par with the ever growing list of Catholic saints that can be implored. The masks could be com-pared to the Christian holy relics. But just like Roman Catholic stat-ues, no sacred power is invested in the kachina doll.

Unlike Roman Catholic statues, the kachina dolls are not used in ceremonies, nor are they preserved in the kiva. They are simply… dolls, so that children play with them and

learn how to inter-act with the various spirits and otherworld-ly entities that are part of the tribe’s daily life. There are neverthe-less sacred statues

preserved in the kiva, known as wu’ya or tiponi. The wu’ya is a clan deity, and a tiponi is a fetish of stone or wood, representing the deity. Unlike the kachina dolls, these are seldom brought out in to the open, their use normally reserved for ritual use inside the kiva.

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Indeed, in 1960, the so-called “Vernon man” was discovered. Nine inches high, carved from sandstone and painted with vertcal stripes, this statue was found in a crypt within a kiva. Though popu-larly also labelled a kachina, the Hopiidentify it as a wu’ya or tiponi, a clan deity.

The kachina doll cult is known to have defi-nitely existed by 1300 AD. Some argue it came from the Zuni Pueblo to the West of the Hopi Mesas, others argue that it came from the Rio Grande, others that it came from the Mimbres cult of the south, and/or that it developed in Mexico. In short: no-one knows. Details of the paint-ings on Awatovi murals, an ancestral Hopi site, show costumed and masked

figures as separated elements or interacting in scenes. But the role and ico-nography of the dolls does strongly echo cer-tain Aztec deities such as Tlaloc, the god of rain, and Quetzalcoatl, the feathered ser-pent, who was also the bringer of rain and corn. Seeing the kachina are specifically linked with the rain… Recent discoveries in Chaco Canyon have also suggested that the kachina cult was introduced by cannibal-istic warrior refugees from the

south. It is clear that this archaeological dis-covery – or at least the conclusion drawn from it – has created contro-versy within the Native American community.Wherever it came from, representations of masked beings that have the character-istics of the kachina appear on murals in kivas that date to as early as 1350. Situated at Hopi and Homol’ovi on the Hopi Mesas themselves, it under-lines the length of time in which the cult has been present amongst the Hopi people.

…representations of masked beings that have

the characteristics of the kachina appear on murals in kivas that date to as early as

1350 AD

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Though all deities are equal, some are more popular than oth-ers, the most famous for outside is Kokopelli, a fertility deity, usual-ly depicted as a humpbacked flute player (often with a huge phallus and feathers or antenna-like pro-trusions on his head). Like most fertility deities, Kokopelli presides over both childbirth and agriculture, but he is also a trick-ster god and represents the spirit of music. Interestingly, Kokopelli is one of the most easily recognized figures found in the petroglyphs and pic-tographs of the Southwest, the earliest known petroglyph depict-ing him dating to about 1000 AD. It underlines that there is – at least in the case of some deities – a tradition that has spanned a millennium. Just how old the cult truly is, no-one knows. In the dances, the Kokopilua kachina dancer sings a song in a language so ancient that not a word of it is understood by the modern Hopi themselves, who know only that their deities have accompanied them throughout their migrations… and continue to visit them annually at the Mesas. Outsiders want to experience the Hopi ceremonies, but are unlikely to truly capture the essence of the activities.

A Hopi Indian has been raised, from birth, in a tradition, surrounded by dolls that represented otherworldly creatures that are nevertheless part of their world and daily life. These entities did not crash-land just one day somewhere; these entities have been with them for thousands of years, and continue to interact with the Hopi in a manner that only a Hopi can truly understand.

In Memory of Philip Coppens

He was the most clear and broad-minded writer on ancient mysteries

(1971 – 2012)

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We live in the twenty-first century, but we do not fully understand what it means. Most

people are involved in their everyday activity and they do not feel the wind of changes.

Every day we hear the news of natural catastrophes all over the world: earthquake in

Japan and New Zealand, floods in USA and Australia, avalanche of gale-force blizzards

over USA East Coast and unusually hot summers in Russia, the hottest in 1,000 years

of history. At least 100,000 people died from earthquakes, floods and heat phenom-

enon. In Pakistan, record monsoon rains destroyed infrastructure, left thousands dead

and millions homeless. Wildfires erupted across the countries, heavily damaging wheat

crops and forcing Moscow to impose an export ban that raised global wheat prices.

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the ‘present’.”

W W W . I S P E C T R U M M A G A Z I N E . C O M