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IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD cognize his priority on the subject. These are well documented in Velikovsky Reconsidered. I am not in

cognize his priority on the subject. These are well documented in Velikovsky Reconsidered. I am not in BY KENNETH C. MCCULLOCH* a position to check the possibility that some of

cognize his priority on the subject. These are well documented in Velikovsky Reconsidered. I am not in BY KENNETH C. MCCULLOCH* a position to check the possibility that some of his predictions may have been published somewhere Shortly after the Second World War, Dr. Immanuel

a position to check the possibility that some of his predictions may have been published somewhere Shortly after the Second World War, Dr. Immanuel else previously, and not noted at the time. Velikovsky, in a series of books, suggested that Many lay persons have the idea that scientists drastic chan

cain, dispuced or questioned.A good example of this is the matter of Egyptian chronology, described Two universe-shattering announcements during the same week must have put a crack in the paradigm of Almost all of Che research going on Coday is with- astronomy. in che scope of the paradigm, and is b

(10) "The Secret Vaults of Time" by Stephan A. tribution to ics members. Tel. (312)432-6230. On Hay 6, 1986, Sov1.et cosmonauts Leonid Kizim and Vladimir Solovev for the first time traveled between two orbiting space stations. The historic journey of 1875 miles was made in a Soyuz T-15 spacecraft, d

The Yantra Sarvaswaim of Rishi Bharadwaj is a valuable treatise of 40 chapters dealing with different types of machines. A manuscript copy of this book is preserved in the Baroda Manuscript Library. One of its chapters discusses the construction of aeroplanes. This particular chapter on aeronautics

Part of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) involves the development and testing of extremely powerful lasers that could be directed with very great accuracy to distant points in the sky.When I consider the SDI, I ask why this machine has to be used as a weapon - the technology tha

CONSTRUCTION LOGISTICS OF THE GREAT PYRAMID sation because their existence had been hitherto unsuspected. For some strange reason, the precision

sation because their existence had been hitherto unsuspected. For some strange reason, the precision block inboard vertical sides and right-angle corners were not precisely aligned, hence the more easily

sation because their existence had been hitherto unsuspected. For some strange reason, the precision block inboard vertical sides and right-angle corners were not precisely aligned, hence the more easily Towering over the Sahara sands near Cairo, Egypt, measured outboard upper obtuse slope angle of

equally and symetrically? Was it to produce a concave mirror effect upon the polished white limestone BY DR. VLADIMIR V. RUBTSOV* casing it originally possessed, so as to intensify the tropical sun's "fire" effect which enabled it to I read with great interest the article by Dr. be visible for some

Of course, such a community cannot spring up over night, but may only grow little by little from the In its May 30, 1986 issue, the Chicago Tribune regroup of scientists and engineers who are bold ported that despite the ideals of objectivity proenough to study the problem of paleovisits even now. c

A magnificent avenue runs in the north-south direction at Teotihuacan. It is about two miles long BY ERICH VON DANIKEN* and 131 feet wide and today is called the "Avenue of the Dead." Temple and pyramid remains line this

A magnificent avenue runs in the north-south direction at Teotihuacan. It is about two miles long BY ERICH VON DANIKEN* and 131 feet wide and today is called the "Avenue of the Dead." Temple and pyramid remains line this When Hernando Cortes, the conqueror of Mexico, avenue on both sides. (Early arc

Soviet medical researchers have built electronic devices which make the acupuncture centers visible on a screen, establishing a scientific foundation for acupuncture. Not only that, Dr. Podshibyakin of Teng-mu, a scholar of the Sung Dynasty of China

The history of China narrates an extraordinary episode from the life of Emperor Kublai Khan (13th Cenfor ANDREW TOMAS tury) in whose service Marco Polo passed many years. Early in his reign Kublai Khan made Tibetan Buddin China in 1935. hism his official religion after a quarrelsome gathering in Bei

all its details. At the top was a dew-distilling apparatus, which consisted of a curved, cooled surBY PETER AND JOHANNES FIEBAG* face. Air flowed over this, and from it water condensed. This water was the basic material for the Translated from the German by GEORGE T. SASSOON** vessel at the center,

the universe. It is clear that the early pundits of India anticipated our scientific discoveries made only during the past few hundred years. The cluster of remarkable historical facts which Let us stop here for a moment to assess the meanare presented in this article demonstrates the pre- ing of th

of modern Darwinism. A text by Sonam Gyantschen, entitled the Mirror of the ~al Genealogy of Tibet By ERICH VON DANIKEN was issued in"'"'tna'sa-rri" US"8 . It states tnattne"" Tibetan race is descended from the union of a macaIn 1965 I completed the manuscript of my first que monkey and an ogress. I

by Dr. N. Mahalingam, International Society for the staircase led to the propylaeum, a monumental gateway, preceded by a portico, where there was a colonInvestigation of Ancient Civilizations, 31, Poes nade 165 feet wide, framed by two square towers Garden, Madras, 600 086, South India. Members who

(Continued from previous page) On a terrace below the temple of Jupiter stands troyed, was built over the altar. The pantheon the smaller Temple of Bacchus. Larger than the Parwas surrounded by towering walls. The court opened thenon in Athens, Greece, it was originally roofed on to a portico whose

I HAVE OFTEN WONDERED why a civilization as great as ours, with the capability of reaching the pinnaBY ZELMA WRIGHT* cle of scientific achievement, has ignored and misunderstood the truth about our past.It seems unnatThere is a stepped pyramid,rivaling in size those ural for governments and great sc

(2) The Lake Charles Atacapas 1816-1820, by Dr. MAINLAND AND GREEK ISLANDS.We have decided to postJ. 0. Dyer, Galveston, Texas 1917. pone our proposed expedition to China and Tibet un(3) Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American til 1989 or 1990. Instead, we have revived our Ethnology, Bulletin 43

It seems to me that this is another proof of the presence of ancient astronauts in civilizations of the remote past who brought technology to our planet which was more advanced than ours is today. In the Regional Museum of Merida in the State of