This last week I received a bunch of articles from many people about giants, and this is a subject intriguing to me personally, since I wrote a whole book on the subject (Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men), and have included discussions about giants in other books as well, and yes, to set the record straight and to let everyone know where I am coming from, I am one of those who does think there’s been an institutional and academic coverup of the issue, though at the time I wrote Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men, the evidence was not to the state it is now. The evidence suggestive – though in my opinion still not compellingly so – that such a coverup exists, has grown a bit. But it has grown to the point that a coverup looks more likely, as does the possibility of deliberate suppression and even destruction, of the evidence.

First, here’s the story that caught my interest, in the many giant-related articles I received. This one in particular was shared by Mr. T.M.:

The Great Smithsonian Cover-Up: 18 Giant Skeletons Discovered in Wisconsin

Now, there’s not much new here, to those familiar with the “Smithsonian cover-up story,” except I did note this interesting set of information:

    “In the words of Vine Deloria, a Native American author and professor of law:

        “Modern day archaeology and anthropology have nearly sealed the door on our imaginations, broadly interpreting the North American past as devoid of anything unusual in the way of great cultures characterized by a people of unusual demeanor.

        “The great interloper of ancient burial grounds, the nineteenth century Smithsonian Institution, created a one-way portal, through which uncounted bones have been spirited.

        “This door and the contents of its vault are virtually sealed off to anyone, but government officials. Among these bones may lay answers not even sought by these officials concerning the deep past.”

    “Two Giant Skeletons Near Potosi, WI

    “The January 13th, 1870 edition of the Wisconsin Decatur Republican reported that two giant, well-preserved skeletons of an unknown race were discovered near Potosi, WI by workers digging the foundation of a saw mill near the bank of the Mississippi river.

    “One skeleton measured seven-and-a-half feet, the other eight feet. The skulls of each had prominent cheek bones and double rows of teeth. A large collection of arrowheads and “strange toys” were found buried with the remains.

    “Giant Skeleton Discovered in Maple Creek, WI

    “On December 20th, 1897 the New York Times reported that three large burial mounds had been discovered near Maple Creek, WI. Upon excavation, a skeleton measuring over nine feet from head to toe was discovered with finely tempered copper rods and other relics.”

Now I reported in Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men about similar New York Times articles, and indeed this very same find. So why am I bothering you with it?

It’s because of this article, which many of you sent me, reported by RT (why is all the good news now being reported by RT?):

Home / News / Million mummy mystery: Egyptian cemetery with 1mn bodies stumps scientists

Now amid this high strangeness of a vast burial ground of over a million “mummies,” you’ll note three odd things:

1) One “mummy” was of a large male about seven feet tall, a largeheight given the relative “shortness” of people of the era:

    “The scientists found one mummy with a height of more than 2 meters, Muhlestein told the audience in Toronto. The mummy was discovered long before Muhlestein became the project director. “We once found a male who was over 7 feet (2.1 meters) tall, who was far too tall to fit into the shaft, so they bent him in half and tossed him in,” he said.”

2) Several of the remains were of blonde-haired or red-haired people that appear to be buried in areas specially reserved for blonde-haired or red-haired people:

    “According to Muhlestein, the researchers can use the database to “show us all of the blonde burials, and [it shows] they are clustered in one area, or all of the red-headed burials, and [it shows] they’re clustered in another area.” ‘Perhaps we have family areas or genetic groups [in certain areas], but we’re still trying to explore that,” he added.

But perhaps we have burials together for a different reason, and here comes the first part of today’s high octane speculation, for as readers here who are familiar with the “lore of giants,” these are often described are blonde- or red-haired; and hence, might these burial sites represent a burial for a population viewed by the rest of the people burying them as a cursed, or at least “quarantined” population? Of course, this is pure speculation because there is absolutely nothing in the article that suggests that these people are of above average height, though it would be interesting to find out if the male over seven feet tall was.

3) The third odd thing to be noted – and with it, the other half of our high octane speculation – is that much of the excavation is being conducted in conjunction with Brigham Young University in Utah, which is, of course, a Mormon-influenced institution. Giants are referred to in the Book of Mormon, and, if I understand Mormon doctrine correctly, Mormons view these giants as the offspring, not of fallen angels, but rather of men that achieved deification. As such, their relics would, presumably, be treated with some reverence.

So what does this have to do with the Great Smithsonian Giant Cover-up? Well, permit me to conclude my high octane speculation by sharing what I have long held as a kind of private hypothesis, which I share now. There has been a kind of love-hate relationship between Mormonism and the US government, a relationship that in the 1800s was more one of mutual hostility, that by the 1900s became more one of mutual interest. Thus, I have long suspected that if there was a quiet, covert cover-up of archaeological “difficulties” like giants, while the government continued to quietly pursue and research the matter, then this cover-up and quiet pursuit would, like other types of black projects, be shifted to cut-outs like religious groups with a natural interest in the matter… like the Mormons, who also maintain keen interest in genealogies, a huge genealogical database in Utah….

… and let’s not forget the NSA’s huge data processing center also located in that state either…

It does make you wonder…

See you on the flip side…

Read more about giants and other strange things in the new book: America's Strange and Supernatural History

Source: Giza Death Star
http://gizadeathstar.com/2014/12/giants-earth-except-smithsonian/

Modern medicine is a wondrous and complex thing.  As an institution it has its beginnings in pre-history, with herbalists and shamans who treated every ailment, every illness with magic and salves and fireside dancing.  Of course, the state of medicine has advanced 1000 fold since then.  We graduated from superstition, to fledgling theories about the transmission of disease – such as the miasma theory of medicine – to germ theory, modern pharmaceuticals, genetic analysis, stem cell therapy, and of course, organ transplantation.

That last one has a longer and more storied history than you might think, and it gets kind of weird.

Organ transplantation is an incredible thing, if you think about it.  The very idea that one can remove a piece of someone’s body, put it in or on someone else’s, and that organ will become part of the second person, allowing them to heal and survive whatever trauma or disease brought them to a position of need in the first place… it’s amazing!

According to Donate Life, an American organization advocating for organ donation, there were 28,953 organ transplant procedures conducted in the US last year, and there are more than 123,000 people desperately awaiting suitable organs or tissue, just in the United States at this moment.  When scaled globally, those numbers are staggering.

So think about that for a moment.  That’s almost 30,000 people, just in the US, who got a second chance at life because someone was willing to give up their organs (either upon their death or while alive).  A little piece (or a few little pieces) of the 15,000 or so people who donated their own bodies to help those in need, live on in the surviving transplant recipients.  Those are people who have physically merged; donor and recipient – upon success of the procedure – essentially become one person.

That may seem to you, to be a strange way to look at it, but there’s actually more to it than you might think.

For as long as we’ve been transplanting parts of people into other people (more than 2000 years), there have been recipients of those parts who have claimed that once they started to live with the new addition to their body, they began to take on strange personality changes, often things that were completely counter to their normal demeanour.  Their preference for various foods would change drastically; something they enjoyed before becomes intolerable, or something they previously found disgusting is suddenly a constant craving.  They would suddenly feel the urge to begin smoking, or to take up a particular hobby.  Almost as if a part of the donors personality has also been grafted onto, or into their body.

For a lot of people that probably sounds pretty familiar, though it might feel like just an urban legend.  You might think it invokes some spiritual connection; a transfer of the soul of one person into another.  And while that might be something to think about, there is a basis in material fact here.

If you go looking, you’ll find a plethora of anecdotal accounts of people experiencing exactly what’s laid out above.  You’ll also find a strong skeptical argument refuting the idea as entirely impossible.  What we’re talking about is cellular memory.  It’s a fairly old concept, with connections to past life regression and reincarnation.

Cellular memory is a theory that our cells, all 37 trillion of them, actually contain copies of our memories.  You’ll note that no one really knows how or where memories are stored, but it’s long been thought that they were restricted to the brain.  This, however, is no longer the case.

Through the study of epigenetics, which is often called cellular memory, and which has long been thought pseudoscience along with cellular memory, we now know that our cells, or even our very DNA actually do contain some element of our memories.  That element can be passed on – in the case of epigenetics, it’s passed from parent to child during gestation – though it’s not like handing down a photo album from generations past.  Researchers have found that basic instincts, fears, and primal associations may be passed on this way.

It turns out that the same transfer of experience may happen with organ transplantation.

Last summer, a team of researchers from the Swedish Karolinska Institutet, announced the discovery of the mechanism for cellular memory and its transfer among cells.  Their paper, published in the scientific journal Cell, examines the interactions of proteins and DNA during cell division, isolating what’s known as transcriptions factors.

    “The DNA in human cells is translated into a multitude of proteins required for a cell to function. When, where and how proteins are expressed is determined by regulatory DNA sequences and a group of proteins, known as transcription factors, that bind to these DNA sequences. Each cell type can be distinguished based on its transcription factors, and a cell can in certain cases be directly converted from one type to another, simply by changing the expression of one or more transcription factors. It is critical that the pattern of transcription factor binding in the genome be maintained. During each cell division, the transcription factors are removed from DNA and must find their way back to the right spot after the cell has divided. Despite many years of intense research, no general mechanism has been discovered which would explain how this is achieved.”

Here’s the thing, each new cell needs to know how to order its transcription factors, and needs to understand the order of transcription factors that existed before it was created, so that it can maintain its identity.  No one really knows exactly what information is being transferred between cells in this way, and since the cells need to have the memories of the cells in previous generations, whatever information is contained in those memories gets passed on, even if that information is superfluous to its purpose.

Now, because any cell in your body can at any time be converted into any other kind of cell – i.e. a lung cell could be converted into a brain cell if needed – that means that whatever memory that cell contains will then be passed on to other cells in other systems of the body.  If there is more than just identity information being stored in those proteins, then that information is also being shared, and will eventually spread.

So here we go.

If Jane gets a kidney transplant from Bob, and Bob’s kidney cells contained information about a memory, maybe that he enjoyed sardines, then when Bob’s kidney cells begin to interact with Jane’s cells, that memory information will be passed on to other cells.  Which in short order could have Jane craving those disgusting little fish in a can.

It is the process of cellular memory that keeps you who you are over the years of your life.  All of your cells are replaced by new ones regularly, and without cellular memory, those new cells wouldn’t know how to make you be you.  We don’t yet know how far cellular memory theory goes, the extent to which information can be passed between individuals in this way is unknown.  But here’s a little something to think about:

The Theseus Paradox poses the question, if a ship sailed for one hundred years, and over those years the crew worked to maintain the ship by replacing worn boards, eventually every board on the ship will have been replaced with new wood.  At the one hundred year mark, would it still be the same ship?

Source: Mysterous Universe
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/12/merging-two-souls-cellular-
memory-and-organ-transplants/