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ISPECTRUMMAGAZINE

THE KACHINAS

REINCARNATION

LIFE

AFTER DEATH

ORIGIN OF

CENTRIPETAL

FORCES

Issue 01/May-June 2013


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FEATURES

03

ORIGIN OF CENTRIPETAL

FORCES

GRAVITY,COLOR,LIFE,CONSCIO

USNESS AND PERCEPTION

08 Golden Ratio

12

REINCARNATION OR JUST A

DIMENSIONAL THING?

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

14 How did I do?

15A multidimensional model of

existence

16 The multidimensional model of

man

17 A scientific model of reincarna-

tion?

18

SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR

LIFE AFTER DEATH

19 Mediumship in the laboratory

24 The Pineal gland and medium-

ship

25 Research into near-death

experience

30 Past-life regression therapy

31 Evidence of reincarnation

33The science of afterlife

36

THE KACHINAS

AN ALIEN INTELLIGENCE, BUT

NOT AS WE KNOW IT

37 The kachina dolls39 Hopi ceremonies

43 Kokopelli-fertility deity

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CONTENTS


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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

BY

DAN WINTER

WEBSITE

WWW.FRACTALFIELD.COM/CENTRIPETALFORCES/

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 its 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. Thesebecome 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 waveinterference).

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 theexclusive 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 figureout 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).

1.

2. Not knowing that Golden Ratio was the ultimate solution to allconstructive wave interference - and therefore especially the

solution to Einsteins 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- selforganizing 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/goldenproof

So- Golden RATIO constructive

charge collapse- is evidentially

what is holding hydrogen - andmost 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 protein

c) the outer electrical shape of

gold, palladium, platinum (pgms),

fusion, black holes, the noble gas-

ses, and their corresponding elec-

tron valences and nuclear symme-

tries.

d) the Earth grid.

3.

2.

4.

1.


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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/PGMs, Earth Grid,

Universe etc) - is essen-tially 10 spirals of the

Golden Mean

The reason this shape -

essentially accounts for

all the universes 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 ratiothat 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.


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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?

Its 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-

QBY

MIKE OHARE

WEBSITE

WWW.MIKE-OHARE.COM

If present-day discoveries

through free-thinking sci-

ence are anything to go

on, then we are in for

a treat

UNFINISHED BUSINESS


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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

didnt point out the

obvious and use

the D word? Its

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 theyare frequencies

that do not operate

in a physical world.

The same princi-

ple applies to your

thoughts. It has been

scientifically provedthat 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 dont ask

me, Im 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 andit was this impression

that was the inspiration

behind my co-writing

The Meadow. Its 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 Im 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, Im hop-

ing that reincarna-

tion is down to choice

rather than destiny.

Regardless, I got

a buzz out of writ-

ing this piece. Maybe

its 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 agalactic symphony of harmony.

Could it be that there is much

more to the Universe than what

we 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 OFMAN

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 fromwhich 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 existsoutside 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 of

knowledge 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 and

institutions around the world have

been revolutionising the para-

digm, providing evidence that

consciousness indeed survives

physical death.

S

New scientific methods and

technologies are being used to research

theage-old question of whether life exists

after death.

Rigorous studies of mediumship,near-

death experiences and past-life memories

suggest that consciousness

indeed survives

WEBSITE

BY


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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, Xavierwas 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.Allan Kardec


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In 1991, Chico Xaviers

mediumship was investi-

gated by Dr Paulo Rossi.

His study confirmedthat 93.3 per cent of

the people who visited

Xavier had

not known him before-

hand. Information from

the letters received

through Xavier contained

so many details aboutthe deceased and their

families as to

make fraud impossible.

Around 62.2 per cent of

the messages showed

more

than six relevant facts

each, and 71.1 per centhad detailed information

about the deceased

people which was sub-

sequently confirmed by

their

families. Dr Rossi con-

cluded that the informa-

tion revealed by ChicoXavier

actually 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 So

Paulo, Brazil, with

his research focus on

mediumship

experiences. He stud-

ied 115 spiritist medi-

ums with the aim of

building theirsociodemographic

profiles and checking

their mental health.

His study was

based solely on spir-

itist mediums who

follow the doctrine

founded by Allan

Kardec, because theyonly use their medi-

umship free of charge

to help the

spirits. It is impor-

tant to mention that

Moreira de Almeida

and his team

chose these mediumsbecause the spirit-

ism founded by Allan

Kardec is well

known worldwide

for its seriousness in

studying the relation-

ship between

the spirit world and

Chico Xavier


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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 have

so often been labelled

as crazy turn out

to be people with few

psychological problems

and a high level of

education.

During 20012008,

Professor Gary

Schwartz and

colleagues from the

University of Arizona

conducted

detailed research into

the authenticity of

mediumship.

They investigated

the well-known medi-

ums George Anderson

and John Edward,

and other mediums

such as

Suzane Northrop,

Laurie Campbell and

Anne Gehman.

Their studies confirmed

that all of the mediums

were very precise,

and their degree of

success was very high

compared to probabil-

ity. Factors such

as 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 has

been conducting fascinating

research with mediums to

demonstrate that there is life

after death. Basically, she uses

three methods to study the

phenomenon of mediumship:

proof-focused research, involving

tests to verify whether the

mediums are giving accurate

information; process-focused

research, which studies the

experience of the mediums

during their spiritual

communications; and applied

research, which examines how the

information can

benefit society in general.

The mediums studied by

Dr Beischel have given accurate

information about

deceased people which was subse-

quently verified. Dr

Beischels results confirm the

hypothesis that the spirit

survives death.

We emailed Dr Julie Beischel in

August 2011 to ask

more about the scientific method

which she applies in

these investigations. She said that

she uses strict

controls to investigate the phenom-

enon of mediumship

through a scientific program that

contains a great amount of data:

At The Windbridge Institute, we are

primarily

interested in mediumship, ITC

[instrumental transcommunication]

and haunting-related occurrences.


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We use the scientific method and

strict controls to

investigate

these phe-

nomena,

and the

mediumship

research

program

involves

the largest

amount of

robust

data.

Through our

unique quintuple-

blinded readings

with Windbridge certified researchmediums (WCRMs)

,we can demonstrate a

phenomenon called anomalous

information reception (AIR), which

involves mediums

reporting accurate and specific

information about the

deceased loved ones (termed dis-carnates) of living people (termed

sitters) without any prior

knowledge about the discarnates

or sitters, in the absence of any

feedback and without using

deceptive means.

Based on the intensive testing pro-

cedure we use to screen

prospective WCRMs and the subse-

quent studies in which they

participate, we can confidently

state that certain mediums arecapable of AIR.

In addition, Dr Beischel said: This

research paradigm

is ideal in that the phenomenon is

easily replicable and

occurs on demand. We do not needto try to catch spontaneous events

or experiences as they occur; we

can bring the mediumship phe-

nomenon into the

laboratory and study it under con-

trolled conditions and

on a schedule that is convenient

for all of the participants.

the mediums have higherbrain activity and increasedblood flow in the region ofthe pineal gland compared

to the control group.


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In her study of mediumship, Dr.

Beischel is very strict

and accurate, applying a quintu-

ple-blind scientific

method, i.e., involving five ele-

ments. Compare this with

the double-blind study, a very

well known scientific method

that is used in experiments with

the aim of avoiding bias in the

results induced by two

elements: the placebo effect

and the researcher. It is called

double blind because the

subjects in the study do not

know to which experimental

group they belong.

In a tripleblind study, a third ele-

ment is included with the aim of

avoiding even more bias. For

instance, the third element

could be a statistician who inter-

prets the data without

knowing the type of experiment

that was performed, or ascientist who works on the pro-

ject but does not know

the experimental group.

Dr Beischels research demon-

strates that the

anomalous information recep-

tion phenomenon is

indeed authentic.

THE PINEAL GLAND AND

MEDIUMSHIP

Neuroscientist Dr. Srgio Felipe

de Oliveira from So

Paulo University, Brazil, investi-

gates the relationship

between 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 higher

amount of brain sand in the

pineal gland than do non medi-

ums.

In addition, he demonstrated

that, during

spirit communication, the medi-

ums have higher brainactivity and increased blood

flow in the region of the

pineal gland compared to the

control group.

Dr. Felipe de Oliveira hypoth-

esises that the pineal

gland is the sensorial organ

of mediumship. For instance,


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the gland would be like a mobile

phone that

captures the electromagnetic

waves coming from the

spirit world. Once the waves

reach the pineal gland,they bounce off the brain sand,

sequestering the

electromagnetic field and trans-

mitting the information

to the cerebral cortex for the

interpretation of the

message.

In October 2010 in Valencia,Spain, I (Martnez)

conducted an interview with Dr.

Srgio Felipe de

Oliveira, who showed images

from his magnetic

resonance experiments and

pointed out these

differences in the level of brainsand in the pineal gland

that are related to extrasensory

abilities.

RESEARCH INTO NEAR-DEATH

EXPERIENCE

At Kings College London thereis 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 between

the 24 and 48 hours before and

Dr Srgio Felipe de Oliveira


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the presence of light.

These phenomena

are usually

reported after an

individual has been

pronounced

clinically dead andthen 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

Kbler-Ross, MD

(the now-deceased

eminent researcher

who received a

score of honorary

doctorates from uni-

after death and also

at the moment of

death. He concen-

trates on visions frompeople who were lying

in bed and spoke with

deceased family

members who came

to receive them. He

also investigates

coincidences involving

deceased people whocontacted someone

just to tell them that

he/she has

died. In addition, he

studies family mem-

bers who saw

shadows around the

bed of the ceased andobserved that the

room became a lot of

brighter at

the time of the per-

sons death.

These occurrences

happen in a very high

percentage of cases,he concludes. Dr.

Fenwick also insists

that the soul is

different from the

brain.

The term near-death

experience

(NDE) refers to abroad range of experi-

ences associated

with 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

Dr Peter Fenwick


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versities around the

world) compiled hun-

dreds of stunning tes-timonies and wrote

some of the most pow-

erful books concerning

NDEs, scientists have

become very attracted

to this phenomenon.

Dr Kenneth Ring, then

based at the Universityof Connecticut, and

Sharon Cooper, then a

PhD candidate from the

University of New York,

performed a two-year

study of near-death

experiences in the

blind, with amazingresults.

These were published

in their book

Mindsight (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 collectedmore than

2,500 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, he

stated: 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: The

Science of Near-Death

Experiences (2010),

Dr. Long gives a sum-

mary of the nine

lines of evidence that

point to the

reality of NDEs and

their consistent mes-

sage of an afterlife:

1.Crystal

Clear Consciousness

The level of conscious-

ness andalertness dur-

ing near-death

experiences is usually

evengreater than that

experienced in

everyday life, even

though NDEs

generally occur when a

person is unconscious

or clinically dead.

This high level of con-sciousness

while 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 to

dreams or hallucina-

tions.


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Realistic Out-of-BodyExperiences

Out-of-body

experiences (OBEs) are one of themost common elements of NDEs.

What NDErs see and hear of

earthly 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 OBE

observations are almost alwaysconfirmed as completely

accurate. Even if the OBE observa-

tions during the NDE

included 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 to

any known brain functioning or sen-

sory awareness. This

also refutes the possibility that

NDEs are unrealistic

fragments of memory from thebrain.

Heightened Senses

Not only are heightened

senses reported by most who have

experienced NDEs,

but normal or supernormal vision

has occurred in those

with 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.

ConsciousnessDuring

Anaesthesia

Many NDEs occur while

under general anaesthesiaat a

time when any conscious experi-

ence should be impossible. While

some sceptics claim that these

NDEs may

be the result of too little anaesthe-sia, this ignores the fact that some

NDEs result from anaesthesia over-

dose.

Additionally, the description of an

NDE differs greatly from that of

one who experiences anaesthetic

awareness. The content of NDEs

that occur under generalanaesthesia is essentially

indistinguishable from NDEs that

did not occur under general

anaesthesia. This is further

strong evidence that NDEs are

occurring completely

independently from the

functioning of the physical brain.

3.

2.

4.


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Perfect Playbacks

Life reviews in near-death

experiences include real eventsthat previously took place in the

lives of those having the experi-

ence, even if the events

were forgotten or happened before

they were old enough to remember.

Family Reunions

During an NDE, the people

encountered are virtually always

deceased and are

usually 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 far

more living people, including those

with whom the NDEr had interacted

more recently.

ChildrensExperiences

The near-death experiences

of 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 bypreexisting beliefs or cultural condi-

tioning.

WorldwideConsistency

Near-death experiencesappear remarkably consistent

around the world and

across 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 a

consistent pattern. As the NDErs

themselves almost

always believe, near-death experi-

ences are, in a word,

real.

6.

5.

7.

8.

9.


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PAST-LIFE REGRESSION THERAPY

The research on past-life regres-

sion consists of practices and evi-

dence based approaches. Theresults come from questionnaires

completed before

and after the therapy with a large

number of individuals with a spe-

cific type of problem, including a

control group to demonstrate their

effectiveness (the double-blind

scientific method).

Between 1985 and 1992, Dr. Hazel

Denning (now deceased), founder

of the International Association for

Regression Research and

Therapies (http://www.iarrt.org),

studied the results of eight

regression therapists with about1,000 patients. The results were

measured immediately after the

therapy, with follow-ups six

months, one year, two years and

five 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 of

64 per cent.

In 2006, Ron van der Maesen

obtained his PhD in the

research area of past-life thera-

py from Utrecht University in the

Netherlands. His doctoral thesis was

based 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 of

Reincarnation

Therapists and another

with patients with

Tourette syndrome. Thestudies showed that

the pastlife treatments

had statistically signifi-

cant beneficial results

in patients compared

with the controls (with

no health problems).

The level of satisfactionamong the patients

who had improvements

with past-life therapy

was 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-life

recollection and reincar-

nation. She performedher 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 whereas40 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 shoes

they wore, the kinds

of utensils and money

they used, the style

of house they lived in,and so on. She

concluded that the

results were very

accurate, and that fan-

tasy and

genetic memory could

not account for the

patterns that emergedfrom the results. With

the exception of

reports from 11 sub-

jects, all descriptions of

clothing, footwear,

utensils, housing and

so on were consistent

with historical records.

EVIDENCE OF REINCARNATION

Psychotherapist Brian Weiss,

MD, is Chairman Emeritus of

Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai

Medical Center in Miami. One

day he found that one of hispatients started to recall pastlife

traumas in recurring nightmares

and began to give astonishing

details about Weisss 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 Zammit

has gathered evidence for

the existence of life afterdeath that he thinks is strong

enough to be accepted in

any 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 reincarnation

and 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 ofreincarnation. From 1957, at

the University of Virginia, he head-

ed the Department of

Psychiatry 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 cases

in 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 previous

life. Later, he verified the facts of

the past life of the

deceased 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 in

his previous childhood by a family

member who was hoping for a patri-

mony from the childs father. Ravi

Shankar had a birthmark around his

neck. When Dr Stevenson investigat-ed this case, he was able to confirm

that the child whom Shankar told

him about from his past life had in

fact been decapitated.

Dr Ian Stevenson


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It was Jim Tucker, MD, who took

over Dr Stevensons

research. At the University of

Virginia, Dr Tucker is currently

Medical Director of the Child and

Family Psychiatry Clinic as well as

Associate Professor of

Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral

Sciences.

His book Life Before Life: A

Scientific Investigation of Childrens

Memories of Previous Lives (2005)

summarises the 40 years of inves-

tigation of reincarnation which Dr

Stevenson performed during his

career.

In August 2011, we

conducted an email interview with

Dr Tucker about the

scientific evidence for life after

death. He responded:

As to your questions, the

most important evidence for life

after death, other than neardeath

experiences, includes

controlled mediumship studies,

carefully studied reports of

apparitions, and verified claims

by children of past-life

memories.

The most important

evidence of reincarnation is this

last phenomenon: childrens

reports 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.

Ive been focusing on western

cases, and Im finding that

the phenomenon is essentially the

same here as it is in

Asia. At this point, we certainly

dont have as many

really strong cases here as Ian

found in Asia, but we do

have some interesting ones.

THE SCIENCE OF THE AFTERLIFE

Australian lawyer turned full-time

researcher/writer

Victor 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 the

existence of life after death. He

has put out a challenge

to scientists to provide evidence

that there is no life

after 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 Kbler-

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 of

Iceland 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 inwhich 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 most

vibrant areas of studyin science today?

According to Professor

Randall (Discover, 29

July 2006):

Neuroscience is excit-

ing. Understanding how

thoughts work, how

connections are made,how the memory

works, how we process

information, how infor-

mation is storedits

all fascinating.

Experimentally, though,

were still rather limited

in what we can do. Idont even know what

consciousness is. Id

like someone to define

consciousness.

Right. So if we want to

know more about the

possibility of the sur-

vival of consciousness

Professor Lisa Randall


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after death, maybe we

need more accurate

studies which consider

consciousness itself.In the meantime,

some scientists are

finding impressive evi-

dence to suggest that

there is life after

death, or at least sur-

vival of consciousness,

although they dont

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 dont even

know what conscious-

ness is. Id 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 and

the weather on Earth,

so they assume that

this relationship exists

although they dont

know how it works.

Yet, as Professor SamiSolanki, of the Max

Planck Institute for

Solar System Research

in Germany, has

stated (http://tinyurl.

com/77taz9c) :The

correlation between

solar cycles and terres-

trial weather has not

been demonstrated.

Then why do they

study this correlationif 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 wayWell, it

seems that

we are in a

very similar

situation

with stud-

ies about

the afterlife.Scientists

have

observed evi-

dence which

suggests that

there may be life

after death, but they

dont know what theprocess is or what con-

sciousness is, and they

cant say that life after

death can be real in

case it really is real!

In the meantime, somescientists are finding

impressive evidence to

suggest that there is lifeafter death, or at leastsurvival of consciousness


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In July 1947, an alien craftallegedly 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

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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 ofShongopavi, 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 shouldnot 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 thattheir 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, thereal 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. Assuch, the religious

year is divided into two

parts.

The deities arrive at

the Hopi Mesas in the

form of rain-bearing

clouds and normally

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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, butthat 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 negativeconnota-

tions that

have been

introduced

in these

movies are

for enter-

tainmentvalue 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 dancesmove 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 oldman 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 transformsthe Hopi individual into a

possessed entity,very much

like Jim Carrey in the movieThe 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 bebrought 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 oneseason 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 forthe 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 didit.

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 themasked 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 childreninto 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 successfullypetitioned 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 thatcan 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 arethey preserved in the

kiva. They are simply

dolls, so that children

play with them and

learn how

to inter-

act with

the variousspirits and

otherworld-

ly entities

that are

part of the

tribes daily

life.

There areneverthe-

less sacred

statues

preserved in the kiva,

known as wuya or

tiponi. The wuya is a

clan deity, and a tiponi

is a fetish of stone orwood, 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, carvedfrom sandstone and

painted with vertcal

stripes, this statue was

found in a crypt within

a kiva. Though popu-

larly also labelled a

kachina, the Hopi

identify it as a wuya ortiponi, 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 ofthe 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 developedin 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 alsothe 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 wasintroduced by cannibal-

istic warrior refugees

from the

south. It is clear that

this archaeological dis-

covery or at least the

conclusion drawn fromit has created contro-

versy within the Native

American community.

Wherever it came

from, representations

of masked beings that

have the character-

istics of the kachinaappear on murals in

kivas that date to as

early as 1350. Situated

at Hopi and Homolovi

on the Hopi Mesas

themselves, it under-

lines the length of time

in which the cult hasbeen present amongst

the Hopi people.

representations

of masked beings that havethe characteristics of the kachinaappear on murals in kivasthat 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 oneday 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 ofPhilip Coppens

He was the most clearand broad-minded writer

on ancient mysteries

(1971 2012)

Kokopelli


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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.

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