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City above the Clouds By Jonathan Gray (International Field Arachaeologist) I invite you to come with me, now, on an adventure you’ll never forget. What awaits you is an amazing journey as you come face to face with a weird world of seemingly endless questions… In 1531, Spanish adventurers came to the faraway land of the Inca empire, looking for treasure. Led by Pizarro, they advanced from the coast, across the desert and toward the Andes mountains. From their mountain kingdom the Incas watched the advance of these strangers and permitted them to approach in peace. Had they been inclined, the Incas might easily have waylaid this insignificant group of foreigners and wiped them out quickly. But the Incas allowed them to progress across the desert and into the green foothills of their empire. It will help us to understand the situation if we realise that honesty was an integral part of Inca society. Each year, men were called from their farms to labor for the government for a few months. In return, they were well looked after. When a family was absent from their house for a length of time, they simply angled a stick across their ever-open front door – as a sign of their absence – and they could be certain that no stranger would ever violate their property. Trusting others was a way of life. So the weary visitors were hospitably received.

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City above the CloudsBy Jonathan Gray (International Field Arachaeologist)

I invite you to come with me, now, on an adventureyoull never forget. What awaits you is an amazing journeyas you come face to face with a weird world of seeminglyendless questionsIn 1531, Spanish adventurers came to the faraway land ofthe Inca empire, looking for treasure.Led by Pizarro, they advanced from the coast, across thedesert and toward the Andes mountains.From their mountain kingdom the Incas watched the advanceof these strangers and permitted them to approach in peace.Had they been inclined, the Incas might easily have waylaidthis insignificant group of foreigners and wiped them outquickly. But the Incas allowed them to progress across thedesert and into the green foothills of their empire.It will help us to understand the situation if we realise thathonesty was an integral part of Inca society. Each year, menwere called from their farms to labor for the government fora few months. In return, they were well looked after.When a family was absent from their house for a length oftime, they simply angled a stick across their ever-open frontdoor as a sign of their absence and they could be certainthat no stranger would ever violate their property. Trustingothers was a way of life.So the weary visitors were hospitably received.The Inca himself came part way to meet the small band ofstrangely-dressed Spaniards. Pizarro and his fortune seekerswere invited into the Inca camp. They were offered food onvessels of gold and silver which, to the Inca, were commonmetals.At the sight of such wealth, Pizarros greed spilled over.Pizarro determined to take advantage of the unsuspicioussimplicity with which the Inca trusted him. So he invited theInca the next day to be HIS guest.Next day, the Inca took all morning to get ready, adorninghimself in his greatest splendor and magnificence for hismeeting with Pizarro.Then, he set out, preceded by heralds and musicians, andattended by the Virgins of the Sun who strewed their emperorsroad with flowers. The Inca arrived, sitting on a throne coveredwith plates of gold and silver enriched with precious stones and carried on the shoulders of attendants.Pizarros men were waiting to ambush the royal personage. ThePeruvians, astonished and defenceless, were cut down inhundreds. And the Inca himself was seized. At first the peoplecould hardly believe what had happened.The monarch was tossed into a small prison cell.Soon he was to learn how greedy his captors were for gold.Pizarro visited the Inca in his cell. He promised the Inca thatif his subjects would fill up the room with gold, up to a linedrawn near the ceiling, the Inca would then be set free.The Inca responded, sending messages throughout the land.His subjects stripped the temples and palaces.The prison cell was filled up to the line with gold.In his kindness, Pizarro thanked the Inca for being so generousand said he would do him a favor in return. The Inca would notdie by burning (as was a pagans fate), but he would be strangledinstead a more merciful reward.And with the Inca died the empire.It is claimed that his subjects, suddenly awakening to the greedof the Spaniards, gathered most of their gold and hid it inunderground tunnels. So that barely ten per cent of the Inca goldwas ever found and seized.This ten per cent was shipped to Europe. But most of thegalleons transporting this gold were sunk by the British andothers, as it made its way across the Atlantic. So that only aboutten per cent of that shipped gold ever reached Europe. But eventhen, that small fraction of Inca gold was sufficient to swellEuropes gold wealth by 1,000 per cent.The descendants of the once great empire today live simply asdid their ancestors. But socially and economically they remainpoor. The most common trait of the Andes Indian is SADNESS.As the Spaniards tramped up and down through the land lookingfor gold, there was one special place they missed MachuPicchu, a city suspended in the clouds.Here were secrets the Spaniards never saw. And there wereother hidden valleys that they never found.WHY THE ARCHAEOLOGIST GASPEDWould you like to know why American archaeologist HyattVerrill gasped when he came upon one such a hidden valley inthe Andes?"It is a human impossibility," he exclaimed.You are probably wondering, what did this archaeologistdiscover which he thought was impossible?In case you have not seen the Andes mountains of South America,let me paint a picture for you.The giant mountains of the Peruvian Andes are awesome enoughuntil one gazes up those extremely perilous slopes andperceives death-defying ruins perched on the summits.The setting is terrifyingly wild mountains miles high vanishinginto the sky, notched with narrow ledges, slashed with ravinesand bottomless gorges.Its so dramatically beautiful, you couldnt help but love it!Waterfalls of an awesome beauty plunge from these immaculatesnowy peaks, down into the damp, unknown depths of thecanyons. So rare is the air that even the mules are obliged tostop about every ten paces to catch their breath.Here, "at the frontiers of the impossible," a vanishedcivilization set gems in stone astoundingly assembled polygonalwalls suspended over the abyss!They carved practically vertical stairways up stupendousprecipices. High in the clouds rises one acrobatic stairway of64 steps, which had to be carved in a place where one could getonly a toehold for support. (Another comprises 600 steps.)Can you imagine it!These ingenious "jewelers" in rock ascended a dizzyingmountain "no wider than the blade of a sword" and topped itwith watchtowers and walls pierced with lookouts. Themountain drops away so abruptly that if a workman slippedhis body would not be stopped for 3,000 feet.Doesnt that fill you with wonder?And these things are still there for you to see! Today on allsides, the ruins of temples, fortresses and towers surmount thepeaks and cling to the vertical sides of the canyon like ivy.Overlooking a waterfall, a splendid palace rises above thefierce abyss impossible to reach. You may well ask, how wasthis palace built?Terraces were miraculously inlaid into vertical slopes, perchedover the canyon fault. I ask you, how did they hoist up heavy,carved rocks by the thousands?Site after site is built atop bluffs, which are too steep to beaccessible.Many seem to have been literally hurled up as though themonstrous stones flew there.ANCIENT RUINS HIGH ABOVE THE CANYONAnyway, as I said, the Spaniards tramped through gorges like this,looking for treasure.My favorite is the Urabamba River canyon. It twists and curlsbetween awesome mountains on its way to the distant Amazonbasin. High above, in the clouds, on a razor-back, with the canyoncurling around it on three sides, was a pre-Inca fortress.The Incas had built a little city up there over the ruins of theold. At 9,000 feet above sea level, you cant see it if youre downin the gorge 2,000 feet below.HIDING PLACE OF THE VIRGINS?It is thought that the Inca Virgins of the royal palace were finallyhustled away to this spot so that the Spaniards would not findthem. Most of the graves that have been found are those offemales.You zigzag your way up from the canyon round a bendclimb a wall stride ahead between two old stone buildings..AND THERE IT IS!Suddenly you are aware of a silence so complete you can hearthe Urubamba River flowing 2,000 feet below.The silence sharpens your imagination You can almost seePizzaros men marching along the river, searching unsuccessfullyfor Machu Picchu and its treasure.Two thousand feet above them is the city in the clouds. Safe.Unseen.You mourn as one by one the inhabitants of this hidden city dieout and the jungle slowly covers Machu Picchu for 400long years.It will sleep, hidden by the jungle until 1911 to be discoveredthen by Hiram Bingham.Now you can explore its houses temples tombs peer downfrom its watchtowers.It is almost as it was when lived in by the Children of the Sunthe military walls the round tower the house compounds andhouses the ceremonial buildings the flights of thousands ofsteps which form the steep streets and the conduits of brightmountain water, with the complicated system of stone waterbasins. All as they were made.You notice the terraces, formed with astonishing skill beforethey drop into sheer precipices.POISONOUS?I will never forget that morning. I awoke beside the ruins andwent in to explore. On those ancient terraces, now cleared, Isaw what looked like strawberries.Were they safe to eat? I tried just one and restrained myselfnot to eat another for half an hour until I could be sure ofthe effect. Then, feeling safe, I was soon on hands and kneesin fact, for the next hour or two. That was the biggest feed ofstrawberries I had ever enjoyed. After 400 years did theytaste good!An iridescent blue butterfly flitted up from the canyon and wingedaround the sundial.Throughout the steep precipice area surrounding Machu Picchuare literally hundreds of miles of stone terracing for ancientagriculture. many of them terraces which hang over the cliffs.Daring? You can say that again!Let me give you another example.Still higher above Machu Picchu towers a steep pinnacle. If youlook carefully you will see death-defying terraces perched onthat vertical peak.A high, carved niche opens out over the abyss. Under a ridge,shaped like the letter I, the rock was leveled and encrusted withcarefully joined stone cubes. Only a daring mountaineer hangingfrom a rope could possibly reach it. Those builder magicians,I tell you, had no sense of the impossible.Everywhere loom buildings that defy the laws of equilibrium andgravity as well as vertigo.These are a triumph of human daring and of a technology whichalmost smacks of science fiction.I tell you, these people did not know the impossible.Many gigantic blocks are covered with intricate carvings. No manalive could duplicate such carvings with the stone tools we find.Perhaps you can understand now why Hyatt Verrill remarks, "It isnot a question of skill, patience, time it is a human impossibility."I entered one of the houses perched atop the precipice andlooked down into the canyon far below. What a great view fromyour bedroom window! But you wouldnt want to go sleepwalking!Machu Picchu forgotten in time.For sheer majesty the setting of this little city far surpassesthem all., I invite you to come with me, now, on an adventureyoull never forget. What awaits you is an amazing journeyas you come face to face with a weird world of seeminglyendless questionsTANTALIZING QUESTIONSHere is a quiz for you. How many of these 6 amazing factsdid you know?* the seaport that climbed a mountain range?* why certain Amazon tribes have to be murdered?* why an Ice Age can occur only if theres great heat?* Where was the legendary Ophir, fabled land of gold?* What amazing device could cut hard metal without friction or heat?* Did you know about the scholars who were caught sabotaging ancient documents?If you want to know the answers to these questions, anddiscover other amazing facts, here is where to go:http://www.beforeus.com/lcpack.htmlBest wishesJonathan GrayHere is a quiz for you. How many of these 30 amazing factsdid you know?* Did you know that there are islands, now deep beneath thesea, with remains of cities, palaces and temples on them?* Did you hear about the pilot who, on a trans-ocean flight,discovered a drowned mountainside city in the middle of theAtlantic Ocean?* Were you aware of the ruins up to four stories high, thatyou can explore only if you go diving?* Did you know that a submarine accidently bumped into aflight of man-made steps cut into a cliffside 1,400 feetelow the surface?* What mystery lies within those creepy 700 miles of tunnels in the Sahara desert?* Have you heard of the bizarre lost city in the clouds?* Did you know that one mans treachery brought ruin to a magnificent kingdom?* And what are white quartz surf beaches doing high up, hundreds of miles from the sea?* Did you know that a city of gleaming white pyramids, towering palaces and broken fountains, has been discovered poking up through a tract of virtually unknown jungle in northern Brazil?* Why did a group of women escape to an impregnable mountain top city and what happened to them?* Did you know that from Mexico to Chile, thousands of ruins of towns and cities, buried under dense jungle or desert sands have never been explored?* Have you heard the incredible true story of how thousands of city folk, sophisticated in commerce, became savages in the jungle!* Who carved hundreds of rooms high into the wall of the Grand Canyon, 2,000 feet above the present river bed?* What mysterious giants built a city in Death Valley? What hovering heat source destroyed it?* Did you know there are traces of ancient cities spread out from Florida, through the Mississippi and over into Arizona and New Mexico? That one of them, in Texas, had walls up to 49 feet high?* Do you know where tourists have been able to pass over a lost city in boats, admiring the ruins visible through the clear water?* What young lady played a prank with a stolen key, but it resulted in her home town being destroyed?* What do you know about the British city, then half the size of London, that vanished?* Have you heard of the bells of churches that peal as the sea currents surge through the bell towers?* Has anyone told you about the paved roads that go far out under the sea?* And about a city the world forgot - encircled by cliffs, guarded by tall, lean, hawk-faced sentries, and accessible only through a split in the rock wall? The city where victims hearts were torn out, still beating, as a sacrifice to the sun? Why did this bustling city die? And how was it re-discovered?* In a desert of southern Israel is the eeriest ghost town on earth. What happened to this once-bustling city?* Have you heard about the 100 once prosperous cities whose occupants just packed up and left but now all empty, with houses almost as perfect as the day they were built?* Did you hear about the air planes found 263 feet under the ice?* the seaport that climbed a mountain range?* why certain Amazon tribes have to be murdered?* why an Ice Age can occur only if theres great heat?* Where was the legendary Ophir, fabled land of gold?* What amazing device could cut hard metal without friction or heat?* Did you know about the scholars who were caught sabotaging ancient documents?THE FROZEN AIRCRAFT SHOCKYoure kidding! laughed the lab worker. Only 4,400years ago!Yes, quipped Kent. The surface of this whole planetwas remodelled by the Flood only 4,400 years ago.No way! In case you dont know, Dr. Hovind, I work atthe Denver National Ice Core Laboratory here inColorado. And weve been taking cores of ice fromGreenland and Antarctica. Its dry very cold theglaciers are MILES THICK but their annual growthrings are very THIN.He paused to observe Kents reaction. Then he thrusthome. Weve measured the ice and I tell you, man,its 135,000 years old! Your 4,000 years is a joke.Id like to see your lab, said Kent, calmly.The next day my friend Kent met the worker at the lab.The employee ushered him into the giant freezer whichstored the long cores from ice drilling.See this core from Greenland? said the worker. Wedrilled down and brought it up from 10,000 feet. Seethe rings? This core takes us back 135,000 years.Youll notice the rings along its length dark light dark light.Well, these represent annual rings, because in summerthe top layer of snow melts and then re-freezes asclear ice, which shows up dark here. In winter, thesnow doesnt get a chance to melt, so it packs andshows up as a white layer. These layers of dark light dark light, indicate 135,000 summers andwinters.Hovind looked him in the eye. Arent you assumingthose are annual rings?Lets step back a few years to the famous lostsquadron.THE LOST SQUADRONIn 1942, during World War II, some war planes landedin Greenland. When the war ended, those planes wereleft there and forgotten.In 1990, an aircraft enthusiast came up with thebright idea to find them and fly them off again.He organised a group and they went searching. As itturned out, they had to use radar, because the planeswere under the ice in fact, so deep under the ice,the men had a hard job finding them. Do you know,that lost squadron had got covered by 263 feet ofice in 48 years!Lets do some arithmetic.* 263 feet divided by 48 years thats an ice growthof about 5.5 feet per year.* Now divide 10,000 feet by 5.5. And you get 1,824years for ALL of the ice to build up.We should allow longer for the fact that the deeperice is pressed into finer layers.Note: those planes did not sink into the ice, due topressure on the ice. The ice had grown OVER them.ARE THESE ANCIENT AIRCRAFT IN ICE?Okay, would you do some maths? Can Would you workthis out, ?The Denver National Ice Core Laboratory said that10,000 feet of ice had to be 135,000 years old! Sothe 263 feet deep of Lost Squadron ice - how oldshould that be? Thats right 3,419 years old.Does that mean those aircraft are 3,419 years old?What do you think?HERE COMES THE SEQUELIn April, 1999, Kent visited Bob Cardin at hismuseum in Middleboro, Kentucky. Cardin had dugout and was restoring the P-38.You may be wondering, how did they get that planeout? Ingenious. They had melted a hole down to theairplane, broken it apart and brought up the piecesthrough the hole.When you dug it out, asked Kent, did you seeany layers of ice dark light dark Yeah, I did, as a matter of fact.How many layers of ice were there?Many hundreds of them.HUNDREDS OF RINGS IN 48 YEARS?How could there be many hundreds of annual ringsin only 48 years?THOSE ARE NOT ANNUAL RINGS. Thats not summerand winter, replied Cardin. Its warm cold warm cold warm cold. You can get ten ofthose in one day.And thats a fact!Yet, the scientific elite was still calling themannual rings in 1998. (See Scientific American,February 1998, p.82).Somebodys either ignorant or lying.Im worried. The textbooks you read today aretextbooks not only about science, but aboutevolution. Theyre trying to sneak evolutionin with the science.Sneaking beer ads in with football matchesdoesnt mean beer is football. Sneaking evolutionin with the science, doesnt make it science.Are you keen to know more about this? Heres aplace to go:http://www.beforeus.com/third.phpHey, its great to have the opportunity to speakwith you, . Thanks for being on myemail list.Warm regardsJonathan GrayWell, , I have this amazing report to sharewith you.And honestly, am I glad that I sent out that AdultStem Cell information a few months ago.Why? Because some astonishing things have been happeningto people who got that email and acted upon it.And ever since, I've been receiving such wonderfulemails and phone calls from all over the world, frompeople who took my advice, and whose lives are so muchbetter - in such a brief time!EXPLOSIVE REACTIONLook, there were people whose eyesight was going.And others who lacked energy. Or who suffered fromsome other health issue.Really, it's almost unbelievable, the dramatic turnaround in so many peoples' health! And that makes meever so happy!You know the old saying, The proof of the pudding isin the eating?To be honest with you, almost daily I am receivingexcited, real life testimonials from people who havejust got started - or only been trying it for a fewmonths since my email went out.WHAT AN AMAZING THING!Yes, I am convinced now that this is the greatesthealth breaththrough in 100 years.How wonderful! It's not a drug... not a medicine...not a medical treatment.Your own body fixes itself! Can you think of anythingbetter than that?You see, Adult Stem Cell nutrition gets your own bodyto trigger the release from your bone marrow of millionsof brand new Adult Stem Cells into the bloodstream.And what do these do?They go searching for "S.O.S." ("Help me!") signalsbeing sent out by any organ in distress. Immediatelythey head for that organ and turn themselves intobrand new replacement cells of that particular organ.Yes, your own wonderful body is able to do this!What a discovery breakthrough!If you ask me, that's absolutely astonishing?CLINICALLY PROVENAnd so StemEnhance is starting to create the BIGGESTParadigm Shift the Health Sphere has seen in the last100 years.You may not be aware of this, but the FACTS are now in -and they have been CLINICALLY PROVEN and published in aPeer Review Medical Journal titled:" Cardiovascular Revascularization Medical Journal".But you may be wondering, Just how did they discover forcertain that your body could do this?It came about because of another surprise discovery - thediscovery of the "Fluorescent Jelly Fish".The Scientist involved took the fluorescent protein fromthe jelly fish and put it into the adult stem cell nuclei.Then these cells were injected into a person that had aliver problem - and he watched the fluorescence movethrough the body.To his excitement, those fluorescent adult stem cells allwent to the liver to repair it.Then he tested it with other sick body organs. The samething happened.You can go towww.amazon.comand purchase both of ChristianDrapeau's books: (1.) The Stem Cell Theory of Renewal and(2.) CRACKING THE STEM CELL CODE.MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL SLOW TO WAKE UPYes, it is normal for the Medical community to drag theirfeet and be slow to accept such a profound discovery. Historyhas proven that the Medical community even doubted theneed for a surgeon washing his hands between operations.Then, when the microscope was invented and the person sawall kinds of things that he/she had never seen before - whensuddenly the micro world came into view, so now theMedical Community HAD to look at this information.Again, can you imagine how many people died because doctorsrecommended "VIOX" before they finally decided to take itoff the market!But how many Doctors asked for the clinical research beforethey started prescribing this "Killer Drug"?And yes, this is only one drug among MANY that has the samehistory: Killing Patients!!By contrast, this new Adult Stem Cell breakthrough is a 100%NATURAL PRODUCT!!!

WHY THE LABELS ON DRUGS?Now ask yourself, Jonathan, why do ALL drugs have thefollowing statementwritten on the label of their product?: "This product may cause: 1. nausea, 2. vomiting and 3. diarrhea."Why is this written oneach bottle of drugs?Answer: Because it is a "POISON"!! If you were to drinksome insecticide or other type of poison you would likelystart vomiting profusely. Why? Because the body is tryingto 'REJECT" it!! That is a protective device we have builtinto our wonderful bodies. Now consider this: When a person takes in the drug, thenwhat organs are responsible for getting the drug processedcan be excreted from the body? Answer: The liver and the kidneys have this massive job todo. (But, in the mean time, all the drugs did was: " TREATTHE SYMPTOMS"!! - not the cause!!When doctors give diabetics insulin they are actuallycausing the pancreas to QUIT producing insulin and thenthe pancreas becomes DEPENDENT on the insulin.

A MUCH BETTER WAYNow here's a better answer:Why not let one's own adult stem cells repair the pancreasgland which it is fully capable of doing?Says my friend Dennis: "I am 76 years old and have ENJOYEDover 25 improvements in my personal health issues." That's what Adult Stem Cells do.Please, please, do not take any of my statements as somethingdirected personally to you. That is NOT my intent. I amsimply trying to inform people what an awesome thing isthis relatively new Stem Cell breakthrough - called:StemEnhance.When a person takes two capsules they will have an increaseof 3 to 4 MILLION new adult stem cells that have migratedfrom their OWN bone marrow to their blood stream which carriesthe Adult Stem Cellsto every organ of the body.THIS IS FACT!!Yes, and it only takes 40 to 60 minutes for all this to happen.StemEnhance does not cure any disease; it only gets the AdultStem Cells to leave the bone marrow and move into thecirculatory system.You have to agree that this is the BIGGESTDISCOVERY OFTHE CENTURY!!!The discoverer, Christian Drapeau, is being interviewedworldwide. He has been picked up by the Health Departmentof the countries he visits and they rush him off to MedicalHospitals to talk with the Medical Doctors and MedicalStudents about this awesome discovery.He is accepted as the "World's Greatest Adult Stem CellScientist".ARE YOU SUFFERING?would you really like to feel better - even live longer?HOW YOU CAN BENEFITIt is not too late.To benefit from this yourself, please watch this 10-minutevideo then decide for yourself:http://www.adultstemcells-nz.com/simple%20registration.htm