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The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate

The year 2012 will not bring the end of the world, a Mayan elder has insisted, despite claims that a Mayan calendar shows that time will "run out" on December 21 of that year.

Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the end of the world. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff," he said.

A significant time period for the Mayans does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years.
 
But most archaeologists, astronomers and Mayans say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, internet doomsday rumours and TV specials such as one on the History Channel which mixes "predictions" from Nostradamus and the Mayans and asks: "Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?"

Still, things are only likely to get worse for Mr Pixtun. Next month Hollywood's "2012" opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House.

At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the "Curious? Ask an Astronomer" website, says people are scared.

"It's too bad that we're getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they're too young to die," Ms Martin said. "We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn't live to see them grow up."

Mr Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.

But hysteria surrounding 2012 does have some grains of archaeological basis. One of them is Monument Six.

Found at an obscure ruin in southern Mexico during highway construction in the 1960s, the stone tablet almost did not survive; the site was largely paved over and parts of the tablet were looted.

The inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation. However, erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible.

Guillermo Bernal, an archaeologist at Mexico's National Autonomous University, believes the eroded message is: "He will descend from the sky".

But Mr Bernal also notes there are other inscriptions at Mayan sites for dates far beyond 2012 - including one that roughly translates into the year 4772.

The Mayan civilization, based in modern day Mexico and Central America, reached its height from 300 AD to 900 AD and had a talent for astronomy

Its Long Count calendar begins in 3,114 BC, marking time in roughly 394-year periods known as Baktuns. Thirteen was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas, and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec 21, 2012.

"It's a special anniversary of creation," said David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin. "The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said anything bad would happen necessarily, they're just recording this future anniversary on Monument Six."

But some say the Mayans knew another secret: the Earth's axis wobbles, slightly changing the alignment of the stars every year. Once every 25,800 years, the sun lines up with the centre of our Milky Way galaxy on a winter solstice, the sun's lowest point in the horizon.

That will happen on Dec. 21, 2012, when the sun appears to rise in the same spot where the bright centre of galaxy sets.

Source: The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6300744/2012-is-not-the-
end-of-the-world-Mayan-elder-insists.html

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Taking A Look At Brother Philip (aka George Hunt Williamson) - Anthropologist And Self-Styled Archeologist Of The Contactee Movement. Review by Sean Casteel

One learns quickly when researching UFOs not to take too seriously predictions made about or by the aliens, as they invariably never come true. But it is the case with some contactees/witnesses that they nevertheless still have moments of near prescience. Such is the case with Brother Philip, the pen name of an associate of George Adamski whose real name is George Hunt Williamson, a contactee whose lecture delivered to a Detroit audience in 1954 is reprinted in its entirety here. Brother Philip discusses such timely topics as ancient astronauts, global warming and other apocalyptic concepts decades before they passed in to the general mainstream. He's years ahead of Al Gore and Erich von Daniken, and credits all his knowledge to alien voices he heard through a friend's shortwave radio equipment. He never takes credit for anything himself, deferring to benevolent space brothers who have grown increasingly concerned about our nukes and hope to guide us safely past self-annihilation, which would also impact negatively on them even in the "safety" of outer space. We can't thank them enough, right? Brother Philip makes reference to his work collecting the legends and myths of the Chippewa Indians and making the obvious connections to saucers and UFO contact with some of the indigenous peoples of this country. He was among the first to connect all those dots and draw us a believable picture of the chariots of the gods in action.

Somehow, genuine facts about our collective future are being transmitted to some of the contactees, who are usually considered totally delusional by serious Ufologists, who quite understandably balk at claims of beautiful blonde Venusians who speak perfect English telepathically. Once freed from those kinds of prejudices, the story Brother Philip tells begins to offer hope for the survival of our planet and our species, who are not expected to go through these perilous future times alone. Someone who cares really is watching over us and guiding us away from our own self-destructive ways, without deigning to force our collective hand at all, but rather from a respectful distance informing us of the obvious dangers. There is none so blind, right?

But Brother Philip's story is not just one of voice contact with aliens. Having renamed himself, he goes on an Indiana Jones-type quest to the Andes Mountains in South America to obtain the Golden Sun Disc of MU. For those unfamiliar with that particular bit of folklore, MU is short for Lemuria, which was essentially a continent very similar to Atlantis, except for the fact that it was located at the point on the globe where the Pacific Ocean is now. In an almost identical way, Lemuria developed technologies still undreamed of today but suffered the same fate of self-destruction, sinking into the Pacific with only diminishing legends to indicate that it was ever there at all. The Sun Disc was thought, like the fabled Ark of the Covenant depicted in "Raiders of the Lost Ark," to possess miraculous powers of healing and enlightenment and was sought after by many a believer in the ancient astronauts school of thought.

It should be made clear that Brother Philip did not suffer unbelievers gladly. On page 89, he writes: "Those who think this is the time for hiding will find that their hiding places will fall upon them. Those who say that there will be no destruction are not aware of, nor can they believe in, the divine prophecies, both through Jesus the Christ and the holy prophets of all time. If they do not believe that there will be war in heaven, then they do not believe in their own Bibles, specifically Chapter Twelve of the Book of Revelation. If they do not believe that there shall come a judgment upon Man and that Jesus the Christ shall come with the holy saints to pronounce this judgment upon the Earth, they do not believe Him! And Jesus Christ has said, 'Thou art with me or against me.'

"These are strong words, but you must believe them. They do not believe the Book of Ezekiel! Or the Book of Isaiah! They do not believe the words of Daniel! They do not believe even Christ when he spoke of the End of the Age. And if they do not believe the Book of Revelation, then they cannot accept the events now taking place. The Great Deceiver, the serpent, is enticing them to laxity, to go into hiding, to give up the fight! Therefore, warn them! Tell them: 'Dear Christian brethren, take stock of yourselves and reread this book that you say you believe in. How can you believe part of it and ignore two thirds of it?'"

Having said all this, why should you want this book? Though the bulk of this book is a restructured edition of Brother Philip's "Brotherhood of the Andes," as is the case with many books re-published by Timothy Green Beckley at Global Communications, exquisite taste has been shown in terms of just WHICH historically significant books to reprint. Beckley has added about 50 pages of updated material that will assist readers in their exploration of the subject.

In particular, there is the thrill of reading about Harold T. Wilkins' own Indiana Jones-type adventures in the Andes as well as a fascinating section by Brent Raynes, who discusses how the use of Peruvian whistles can alter a person's consciousness and perhaps send them on an out-of-body journey. In addition, now you don't have to merely read about a classic 1950s contactee, you can read his words directly as he presented them at the time. The text of Brother Philip's Detroit lecture is worth the price of the book all by itself and doubtlessly can be found nowhere else but here. It will make a believer out of you, too, I swear.

So given that certain predictions have been made, our only option is to wait for their fulfillment, without undue dread or panic, and count on our space brothers not to let us simply perish in our Mother Earth's planet-sized playpen, a Mother Earth who seems more and more inclined to toss us out on our infantile ears and start all over without us. And who can blame her? What a mess we've made, beyond any mother's ability to clean up in motherly patience and unconditional love. We have created conditions that make us unlovable and that warrant our total exile from what was once a Garden of Eden, until we made that first false move and thought we knew it all, which has turned out to be laughably untrue. As we strive to keep our grip on the hole we've dug for ourselves without much assistance from anyone else, let us be strong and fight for our freedom with diligence and honor. I know we can't always just say it wasn't our fault!

Secret of the Andes and the Golden Sun Disc of MU is edited by Timothy Green Beckley and Brent Raynes. Written by By Brother Philip, with additional material by Joshua Shapiro, John J. Robinson, Charles A. Silva, and Harold T. Wilkins.

Source: UFO Digest
http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0909/sundisc.php

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Every night throughout the world hundreds of people dream about this face. At least 2,000 people around the world claim to have seen this man in their dreams, though they don't know who he is, according to the website thisman.org.

In January 2006 in New York, the patient of a well-known psychiatrist draws the face of a man that has been repeatedly appearing in her dreams. In more than one occasion that man has given her advice on her private life. The woman swears she has never met the man in her life.

That portrait lies forgotten on the psychiatrist's desk for a few days until one day another patient recognizes that face and says that the man has often visited him in his dreams. He also claims he has never seen that man in his waking life.

The psychiatrist decides to send the portrait to some of his colleagues that have patients with recurrent dreams. Within a few months, four patients recognize the man as a frequent presence in their own dreams. All the patients refer to him as THIS MAN.

From January 2006 until today, at least 2000 people have claimed they have seen this man in their dreams, in many cities all over the world: Los Angeles, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Tehran, Beijing, Rome, Barcelona, Stockholm, Paris, New Dehli, Moskow etc.

At the moment there is no ascertained relation or common trait among the people that have dreamed of seeing this man. Moreover, no living man has ever been recognized as resembling the man of the portrait by the people who have seen this man in their dreams.

The aim of thisman.org is:

- to help those who have seen this man in their dreams and to foster communication among them;

- to understand who this man is and why he appears in an apparently pattern-less array of situations in the dreams of such diverse human subjects.

DREAMS

   "I have had this recurrent dream for some years now. A tall, dark man shows me a picture and asks me if I can recognise my father in it. The man in the picture is this man I have never seen before, he looks nothing like my dad, nevertheless I inexplicably answer that I do recognize my father. At this point I usually wake up feeling very peaceful. Other times the dream continues, I am standing before my father's grave, I place some flowers on the ground and I realise the photograph on the tombstone is missing."

   "I fell in love with him from the very first time I saw him in my dream. Even though if I think about it I must admit he's really ugly. And yet each and every time, he sweeps me off my feet with his romantic gestures and sweet words. He buys me flowers, jewellery, he takes me out to dinner or to the beach to watch the sunset."

   "I have always had this dream of flying in the sky over my city and observing my friends from up there. Since I moved to another house I started meeting this man while flying. Not every single time that I have this dream about flying, but often enough. He flies too, but he never speaks."

   "The first time I had a dream about this man I was having a hard time at work. I had a dream about getting lost in a huge and deserted shopping mall. Suddenly this man appeared and I started running away from him. He chased after me for what seemed like an hour until I found myself against a wall in the kids' area in a supermarket. At this point he smiled at me and he showed me the way out towards the cash desks and I woke up. Ever since that night this man has appeared in all of my dreams and he always gives me directions to get out of the dream and wake up."

   "I have never had homosexual relationships or even fantasies. But I dream about having sexing with this man all the time. I must admit he has a lot of imagination and he pleases me. Sometimes when I wake up I discover I have had a nocturnal emission."

   "I saw this man in my dream, dressed as Santa Klaus. When he showed up I felt so happy, just like when I was a little girl. Then he smiled at me and his head became a balloon,floating in the air above me, but no matter how hard I tried to catch it, I just couldn't reach it."

THEORIES

Several theories have been developed to explain the mysteriously recurring presence of this man in the dreams of different people who are not related in any way. The following theories are the ones that elicit the greatest interest among the dreamers themselves.

ARCHETYPE THEORY
According to Jung's psychoanalytic theory, this man is an archetypal image belonging to the collective unconscious that can surface in times of hardship (emotional development, dramatic changes in our lives, stressful circumstances etc.) in particularly sensitive subjects.

RELIGIOUS THEORY
According to this theory this man is the image of the Creator, that is to say one of the forms in which God manifests himself today. This is the reason why his indications and the words he utters during the dreams should be decidedly followed by the dreamers.

DREAM SURFER THEORY
It is the most interesting theory and the one that has the greatest implications, but it has also the lowest scientific credibility. According to this theory this man is a real person, who can enter people's dreams by means of specific psychological skills. Some believe that in real life this man looks like the man in the dreams. Others think that the man in the dreams looks completely different from his real life counterpart. Some people seem to believe that behind this man there is a mental conditioning plan developed by a major corporation.

DREAM IMITATION THEORY
This is a scientific psycho-sociological theory which claims that this phenomenon has arisen casually and has progressively developed by imitation. Basically when people are exposed to this phenomenon they become so deeply impressed that they start seeing this man in their dreams.

DAYTIME RECOGNITION THEORY
This theory states that the apparitions of this man are purely casual. Normally we do not remember precisely the faces we see in our dreams. The image of this man would thus be an instrument which, in the subject's waking life, facilitates recognition of an undefined oneirical image.

If this man's face seems familiar to you, vist thisman.org and submit your story through their "Contact Us" section.

Source: thisman.org

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Sea monsters of various sizes and forms have inhabited the human imaginary universe and range in meaning from the profound to the curious. According to the Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish, the god and hero Marduk battled the sea monster Tiamat before creation. From the conquered and torn body of the creature, Marduk then created the universe.

Other legends are less primordial and epic, but nonetheless spectacular enough to draw our attention, such as the Loch Ness monster, which periodically roams through the tabloid press.

Gilbert’s sea monster
Newfoundland and Labrador claims its share of such fabled creatures. Sir Humphrey Gilbert, on his way back from claiming the New Found Land for Queen Elizabeth and Britain in 1583, is said to have stared into the glaring eyes of a lion-like sea monster.

The Labrador Nennorluk
A sea creature of considerable ferocity is also known to the Inuit of Labrador. Nennorluk derives its name from the polar bear (Nennok, nanuk), but the Inuktitut affix “luk” indicates its evil intent.

One of the earliest mentions of the Labrador Nennorluk appeared in David Crantz’s “History of Greenland.” Crantz, preserving a 1773 tradition from Nain, says that the legendary amphibious creature “hunted and devoured the seals.” Each of its ears was “large enough for the covering of a capacious tent.” Worse yet, the “beast did not scruple to eat human flesh, when he came on shore.”

In Okak, Inuit reported seeing it in August 1786. They were quite upset when doubts were expressed about their testimony. The report had Nennorluk rise “up to the height of a huge ice-berg, in the mouth of the bay, showed its white colour, and then plunged down again, leaving a whirlpool of foam.” Moravian missionaries tried to demystify the creature by explaining it naturally. They suggested that it may have been a “tumbling iceberg.”

Nain tradition
The legend of Nennorluk could not be explained away that easily and had staying power. The missionary Carl Gottfried Albrecht writes from Nain on Aug. 26, 1840, that the monster, which “is white on the back like a polar bear,” was seen in the spring near the outer islands and at times resembles “a small island but quickly sinks down below (the water’s surface) and is supposed to cause a thunderous noise.”

Seals that saw it took flight instantly. Inuit believed that the Nennorluk “does not swim but walks on the bottom (of the ocean) and can thus only be seen if it reaches shallows; the more shallow the water, the higher it will rise from the water.”

People also claimed to have heard it turning over the rocks on which it walked. But whenever it was in the open sea, it could not be seen “since it has there enough room in the deep and thus does not appear above the water.”
 
Sighted at Cape Mugford
In the spring of 1847, Inuit once more reported sighting the Nennorluk not far from Cape Mugford. This time, its “antennae-like sails or tents protruded out of the water at a distance of nearly 100 paces from each other.”

It scared people so much that “they made all haste to gain the shore.” Some of the Inuit who saw the creature added “that it has a voice resembling low thunder, very harsh, and unpleasant to hear.”

Shared Inuit legend
That the Nennorluk is a wider shared legend also known to other Inuit is documented by the famous anthropologist Knud Rasmussen, who recorded two stories of these fabled creatures with the same name among the Netsilik Inuit.

These creatures share with the Labrador species a giant size, speed, ferociousness and threat to humans, whom they are said to swallow whole. One of the stories told Rasmussen has them live in the water, but what is different in the Labrador narratives is the repeated emphasis on their walking in and under the water.

Source: The Telegram
http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=293786&sc=86

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Residents of one neighborhood - where 100 trains a day pass - report that their houses now shake randomly. No one knows what's causing it.

Cupboards and drawers in Crystal Oswald's house shake. Vibrations wake Donna Wiersgalla's 3-year-old daughter three or four times a night. A few doors down, Bailey Conklin, 13, removed rattling pictures from her bedroom wall.

That's life these days on 1st Avenue N. in Newport, Minnesota where a phenomenon that nobody can explain troubles residents enough that they're seeking help from city officials and comparing notes in one another's kitchens.

At least eight households have reported intermittent and random shaking, and thus far public officials have been unable to find a cause.

"It wouldn't be so bad if someone could give me some answers," said Oswald, whose roommate has threatened to move out because of the shaking. "It's becoming a big pain, especially at night. It feels like there's a helicopter going over your house and I open the door and there's nothing."

The affected residents live next to a park in the northwest corner of Newport, a Washington County city of about 3,700 near the Mississippi River. Industries and highways surround the neighborhood, but it's unclear whether any of them -- including the nearby Wakota Bridge on Interstate 494 -- have anything to do with the mysterious vibrations that are beginning to feel like a slow form of torture to residents.

"I've never felt this before," said Wiersgalla, who has lived in the same house all of her 37 years. "I think we all thought it was kind of crazy, so we didn't say anything for a while."

100 trains not to blame

Neighbors discount freight trains as the culprits, even though they rumble past the neighborhood more than 100 times a day, as they've done for years. They can't think of any industry that's new or different except the bridge, but the Minnesota Department of Transportation said that nobody works on the construction in the evenings or overnight.

Corb Hopkins, the neighborhood mail carrier and a City Council member, said he hasn't felt the vibrations down the street from where he lives, but doesn't doubt it exists.

"Down here in Newport we have very little topsoil and everything sits on limestone," he said. "We're all sitting on the same slab of rock. If there's vibration, it's going to carry."

But Val Chandler, a geophysicist with the Minnesota Geological Survey, said bedrock vibrations don't carry far. "The most likely culprit would be heavy machinery activity nearby," he said. "It's not very likely that it's a natural earthquake, or somebody would recognize it as such."

Dottie Conklin, Bailey's mother, has felt the vibrations for about a month. She has watched bottled water shake on her kitchen table while her neighbor has told her that his windows rattle.

Most of the houses along 1st Avenue N. were built in the 1960s or 1970s, and in many cases, residents have lived there long enough to recognize anything out of the ordinary -- until now.

"It's kind of befuddling," said Chandler, who is more inclined to think that the vibrations come from bedrock when caverns collapse deep below the surface or when a big new dam is dug. Just why residents of one block in Newport feel the vibrations and others don't deepens the mystery, he said.

A bulk fuel plant, a frozen-foods storage company and a garbage recycling firm that's been operating for 21 years surround the neighborhood, Hopkins said, but he doubts that they're doing anything new that would cause vibrations. Newport's public works department couldn't find the source of the problem either. Hopkins recognizes that the shaking annoys residents, but doesn't know what the city should do next.

Wiersgalla said that her husband wants to move. She said the vibrations are wearing down her family -- she logs the times when it rouses her daughter at night -- but she doesn't want to leave.

"As long as I don't wake up some morning and find my house bouncing in the Mississippi River, I'll be all right," she said.

Source: The Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/local/east/63903907.html?page=2&c=y