Lost Powers

No, not Austin taking a wrong turn on the go cart...

p5 eka-lead element 114 if induced to decay would produce gold.

p6 Polywater a plastic made from water at room temp, produced in1967 by Russian chemists but also known to ancient alchemists.

Ancient instructions for the Baghdad Battery as well as electrolysis - turning water into hydrogen and oxygen, and the reverse; in the first millennium BC.

Aluminum belt-fasteners found in 297 China. Aluminum wasn't "discovered" until 1857.

p7 Mercury engine used in vimana flying machines, heated by controlled fire from the iron containers. Newton: "Because of the way by which mercury may be impregnated, it (the knowledge) has been thought fit to be concealed by others who have known it, possibly an inlet to something more noble, not to be communicated without immense danger to the world." Hmm... Article author wonders what the danger might be... Yeah it's poisonous or what evs but other than that... Mercury as a power source?

In the '70's in a cave near Tashkent the Russians found ancient sealed ceramic containers each with a drop of mercury in them. Hmm...

p9 Fullerene carbon C-60 microscopic nanotubes sewn together for modern body armor. Element found in nature. Chinese Emperor Yu paid a fortune for a garment from the Silk Road that supposedly could deflect arrows & spears. Same thing? Hmm...

Another suit of armor provided the wearer with perfect camouflage. Made of carbon (nanotubes nowadays) to form dark material that reflects very little light? Hmm...

Graphene (from ordinary soot) and graphene oxide; electrons flow at the same speed as neutrinos giving it unusual electromagnetic properties. Could serve as ultra high speed transistor circuitry & store huge amounts of data. Is this the mysterious "black powder" of the alchemists? Hmm again...

Bendable glass non-magnetic mentioned in old Arabic manuscripts, has now been created in 2007; amorphous glassy steel that can bend 90 degrees without breaking. Hmm... 

p11 Rose scent stimulates brain performance; heightens output of the hippocampus.

Frankincense is a resin extracted from the boswellia tree; used as incense throughout the ancient world. Many prescriptions for perfumes, powders and scents in the ancient world, which we don't know what they were used for. Brain stimulation?

p33 Dr John L Turner of Hilo, Hawaii, thinks that "the evidence coming to us through hypnotic regressions, near death experiences, out of body experiences and mediums" is of reincarnation, reviewing the life lessons, blah blah blah. Blavatsky did her job well. Hypnotic regression revelations are untrustworthy & probably just the subconscious thoughts of the hypnotists, right or wrong; not trustworthy as evidence or proof of anything. Mediums are channeling the wandering influences warned about in all the old traditions; also not to be trusted. Near death experiences happen but are personal & while proving that we survive this state that's all that it proves & may or may not be literally what happens to everyone since we all move on to a different state but maybe not the same one. Out of body experiences prove that the subtle state exists & that extensions or "prolongations" of the human form do exist; that the material world isn't all there is. Beyond all this, they don't prove reincarnation at all. In fact they disprove it by proving the survival of the personality.

p52 Gopi Krishna: the reproductive system is the mechanism by which evolution proceeds, religion is based on inherent evolutionary impulses in the psyche, and there is a predetermined target for human evolution toward which the entire race is being irresistibly drawn. Okay... but if like me you think the theory of evolution is a crock, where does that leave us regarding these statements? We evolve, not as humans or humanity, but as individual personalities as we move through different states of being. Humans are basically the same as they've always been. Keel falls into this "evolution" trap also in his speech to the Humanist Society (latest Keel blog entry). If one realizes that the human form itself is not evolving into anything else, that it's just a stage all beings pass through, many of these questions and/or answers are rendered moot and irrelevant. One can achieve personal realization through kundalini but it has nothing to do with humanity as a whole or as a species.     

p63 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: "The school of materialism holds the world in its grip and is the root cause of all our misfortunes." Correct.

p144 His mother and grandmother wondered if a "previous incarnation" might be involved. - So the poor kid picks up the info telepathically from them, to please them. Reincarnation is not proven by any of the cases listed here. Oooh I'm a skeptic; so I must be wrong. It can all be splained by ESP, telepathy & such, just like regressive hypnosis, mediumship, etc etc. See Rene Guenon, writing 100 years ago and satisfactorily splaining all this stuff that peeps still believe in for some reason. I feel sorry for kids like this; like they're being used to prove the beliefs of the parents.

p152 Then we go to the next article on orbs & mysterious lights in photographs. The pic of the light coming out of the well proves there's something to it, but digital photos with orbs are commonplace, I have a lot of them. Most likely simply defects in the digital lenses. The article writer doesn't even go into the difference between analog & digital photography & if that would have any effect on the phenomenon. Does an expensive Canon or Nikon (analog or digital) pick up orbs like a cheap cell phone camera? Who can say? Not this article writer...

p180 NDE experiences & list of evidence proving it, particularly seeing & hearing things while clinically dead ie seeing with your eyes closed. Conclusive proof of life beyond the physical body which of course the atheist skientists ignore.

p183 Dualism; mind and matter are independent of each other. For materialists there is no possible evidence that could convince them (might I add atheists and socialists). You can't give them positive proof of anything; they ignore it and dismiss it no matter what.

p198 The year 1816 was the coldest ever recorded, possibly caused by eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia which threw a bunch of dust into the air. Maunder Minimum was around this time also... Hmm I thought only humans could cause climate change...

p203 Painting in Italy of God the old man in the sky & Jesus sitting with their hands grasping the antennae of a "time machine" according to the article author:

It looks weird for sure, like a Sputnik or early type of satellite. This was painted in 1600. What is it really? Did the painter (Salimbeni) actually see this object in "real life" or did he dream of it or whatever? Who can say? I don't agree with this article writer that it must be an actual object from the future that had physically appeared in 1600. Did Da Vinci ever draw anything like this?

p215 Robert Schoch: Does a child who seems to remember a past life actually access this information from the past directly, rather than being the incarnation of that person? Might the child in question pick up the information telepathically from still living persons who might have known the deceased? Might mediums do likewise? - Thorny questions, he says. Answered 100 years ago by Rene Guenon who says this is exactly what is happening (the poor kid picks it up from the parents who believe in this stuff). I expressed this opinion above before reading Schoch's quote here. I think he's right on the money since reincarnation doesn't happen, which I've stated elsewhere many times.

p236 Randomness. Dean Radin - Entangled Minds. Background randomness of data affected by events, hours before the events occur. Receiver (person) receives stimulus (mental) milliseconds before sender even sends it. If one of the subjects falls asleep the two brains don't send/receive. Sleeping serves as a control showing attention & intention are part of it. Sleeping puts us in the subtle state; this entanglement happens in the waking state. In the subtle state we aren't conscious of anyone else, we're in our own little (dream) world so this makes sense. This also corroborates Schoch's article about the test where studying a problem afterwards when one doesn't know the test result before hand, can improve your grade on the test. Even though you study after you've already taken it! The future affecting the present...

p238 Castaneda may have been "the Copernicus of our time." Actually I've read elsewhere that he was a former CIA hitman & his 8 closest associates all committed suicide after he died. Was he a CIA mind control operative out to dupe the masses? Who can say?