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Issue Five - June 2006

CONTENTS

GREG TAYLOR

Editorial

I continue to be amazed at the quality

Editorial 1

News 2

of contributors that our little magazine

attracts. In the past, we’ve had Graham

Hancock, Jacques Vallee and Alex Grey,

among a host of other great writers, researchers

and artists. Our new issue is no different; we

are privileged to have some of the leading lights

in parapsychology research, alternative history

and new thought giving their input into the

various mysteries facing humanity.

Dr Dean Radin should need no introduc-

tion, as he is considered one of the foremost

popularisers of psi research, via his original

book The Conscious Universe , and now with his

newly released Entangled Minds . Dr Radin has

been kind enough to take time out of his busy

schedule and chat to us about the latest news

and views in the ﬁeld of parapsychology.

Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince are partly

responsible for the Da Vinci mania which has

swept the world in the past few years, as Dan

Brown based parts of his book on their alter-

native history tome The Templar Revelation . In

their article in this issue, they return to the

source in a sense, by taking a closer look at

the documents which heralded the ‘arrival’ of

the Priory of Sion.

Daniel Pinchbeck represents the cream

of writing talent – he has it all, and beyond

that Daniel is one of the deepest thinkers out

there on alternative topics. His latest book

2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl covers the

gamut of subjects, ranging from crop circles

to parapsychology, right through to altered

states of consciousness and channelled mes-

sages. Strangely enough, many of the topics in

this issue are mentioned explicitly in his book,

although I had already assembled the content

of the magazine before I had the chance to

read his work.

Lastly, a little curveball. Laurence Newnam

contacted me about advertising in the previ-

ous issue of Sub Rosa , and also kindly sent me

a viewing copy of his DVD CircleSpeak . Upon

viewing it, I felt compelled to ask Laurence to

write for us about his experience in making

the documentary, such is its quality (see the

review in this issue). I do realise that opens

the door for accusations of pandering to ad-

vertisers, but I think anyone who watches the

feature will understand why I asked Laurence

to share more information about CircleSpeak

with the community. It is a shame that there

are not more resources like it around in the

alternative community. I’m hoping that Sub

Rosa stands on similar ground!

Columns:

Greg Taylor

Ian Lawton

Michael Grosso

Feature: 12

Cover Story:

Crop Circle

Conﬁdential

The Making of a Crop

Circle Documentary

by Laurence Newnam

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Greg Taylor

Mark James Foster

Adam Scott Miller

Michael Grosso

Ian Lawton

Rick Gned

Clive Prince

Lynn Picknett

Daniel Pinchbeck

Laurence Newnam

Rich Shelton

Misinformation &

Misdirection

by Lynn Picknett

& Clive Prince

Feature: 26

Untangling the Mind

of Dean Radin

Credits :

Profiler:

Edgar Mitchell

And the Institute of

Noetic Sciences

Feature: 54

We use public domain images and artistic

tools, or gain necessary permissions where

appropriate. If you have a query regarding

our artistic content, please do not hesitate to

Sacriﬁcing Belief

by Daniel Pinchbeck

New Land Films

Andrew Gough ( andrewgough.com)

Filip Coppens ( philipcoppens.com )

Carina Fearnley

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by Rick Gned

Ancient Supernova Record

Native American art records celestial event?

News Briefs

P etroglyphs depicting a scor-

British MoD releases UFO report

pion and an eight-pointed

star may be a recording of

a supernova explosion witnessed

by Native Americans a millen-

nium ago.

“I had just been reading about

the supernova of AD 1006 and I

knew it appeared in the constel-

lation Scorpius, so the connec-

tion ﬂashed into my mind,” said

John Barentine, an astronomer

at the Apache Point Observa-

tory in New Mexico, who saw

the petroglyphs while hiking

in Arizona.

Barentine and his colleague

Gilbert A Esquerdo of the Plan-

etary Science Institute in Tucson,

used software to recreate the

sky as it would have appeared in

Arizona at the time of the super-

nova. They found the supernova

would have been brighter than a

planet, and both it and the scor-

pion-shaped constellation would

have appeared just above the

rock in the same orientation as

the petroglyphs.

“Native Americans populated

the region during that period and

often recorded objects thought

to have magical powers,” Baren-

tine said. “It’s by no means con-

clusive, but I think it’s strong cir-

cumstantial evidence that the art

depicts the supernova.”

The supernova was recorded

across the world, in Asia, the Mid-

dle East and Europe, but no one

thought Native Americans wit-

nessed the event. “I don’t think

enough credit has been given to

the ancient Native Americans in

the past, but that might change

now,” Barentine says.

Scientists in the joint study

group of Max-Planck-Insti-

tut für Plasmaphysik and

Berlin’s Humboldt Univer-

sity have generated ball-

lightning in the laboratory,

allowing insights into a

phenomena that has long

mystiﬁed experts.

Finds there is a phenomenon, but explains it with ‘plasma’

a secret UFO report, codenamed Project

Condign, after a Freedom of Information

Act request was made by British researchers.

The report, written between 1996 and 2000

and released on May 15th this year, examines

UFO encounters collected over a 30 year peri-

od. Its mission was to ascertain if UFOs pose a

threat to UK security, and identify any potential

military technologies that could be appropri-

ated. Using the term Unidentiﬁed Aerial Phe-

nomena, the MoD report states that rational

explanations such as aircraft lights, meteors and

plasma clouds are the most probable answers.

The report states that plasmas have been

proven to cause responses in the temporal lobe

of the human brain, and claims that this may

cause observers to suffer extended memory

retention and repeat experience which may be

“a key factor in inﬂuencing the more extreme

reports…[which] are clearly believed by the

‘victims’.” It also says that radiated effects from

these plasmas can in rare instances be enough

to burn the skin.

The Project Condign report states that Uni-

dentiﬁed Aerial Phenomena pose little or no

danger to aircraft unless violent manoeuvres are

undertaken to either chase or avoid them. The

report also says that it is indisputable that UAPs

exist, they “clearly can exhibit aerodynamic char-

acteristics well beyond those of any known air-

craft or missile – either manned or unmanned.”

However, it dismisses extraterrestrial life-

form explanations, but makes the point that

the report was not intended to investigate

such matters.

“I am delighted that the Freedom of Infor-

mation Act has meant that this once secret

report has been declassiﬁed and made public,”

said the Under Secretary of State for Defence,

Tom Watson. “In a department where lives are

literally on the line and we can’t release every

document we have, this is yet more evidence of

the MoD’s commitment to openness.”

The report was made public because of Dav-

id Clarke, a lecturer in investigative journalism

at Shefﬁeld Hallam University, and his colleague

Gary Anthony. Clarke spent 18 months using

the Freedom of Information Act to have the

report declassiﬁed and made public, partly as

an exercise in exploiting the Act, but mainly to

debunk ‘conspiracies of silence’.

“This is another example of the establish-

ment’s obsession with secrecy and how the

Freedom of Information Act can chip away at

this culture of silence,” Clarke proselytises.

“This report clears up many of the rumours

surrounding UFOs and there is no reason it

couldn’t have been made public earlier. For ex-

ample, it reveals that there has been no collabo-

ration between the UK and other countries on

UFOs, which rules out the conspiracy theories

of worldwide UFO cover-ups. The report also

conﬁrms that there have never been any arte-

facts from a UFO found in the UK. The fact

remains that people are fascinated by the sub-

ject of UFOs and the MoD should have learned

that 50 years of silence on the subject hasn’t

made it go away. People continue to see UFOs

and some of the most impressive sightings have

been made by RAF and civil aviation pilots. The

lack of any proper ofﬁcial study of what these

things are has simply added to speculation and

claims about conspiracies and cover-ups.”

Astronomers Aden and

Marjorie Meinel have un-

veiled a theory that cosmic

radiation was responsible

for the rapid evolution and

emergence of modern hu-

mans 40’000 years ago.

An international study

has shown that superno-

vae were major contribu-

tors to dust present in the

early Universe, providing

elements which make up

most of the universe, in-

cluding us.

(Source: newscientist.com)

Tripping the Lights Fantastic

Virgin Galactic to offer Aurora Borealis ﬂights

Alzheimer’s disease could

be prevented by plasm-

alogen, a chemical found

in seafood such as the sea

squirt, a team of research-

ers at Tohoku University in

Japan has discovered.

Philip Pullman’s His Dark

Material books, billionaire

Richard Branson’s space tour-

ism company, Virgin Galactic, will

soon be offering ﬂights into the

aurora borealis.

“No human being has ever

ﬂown into an aurora borealis,”

said Will Whitehorn, president

of Virgin Galactic. “You have to

go beyond the edge of space. I

think that will be a magical and

mystical experience.”

The Northern Lights are

formed by charged particles in

the solar wind interacting with

the Earth’s atmosphere, visible

at the poles where they can pen-

etrate the magnetic ﬁeld.

It’s believed Virgin Galactic will

offer the ﬁrst ﬂights in 2008 or

2009, with Richard Branson and

staff being on board the maiden

voyage. One hundred founding

company members have already

paid US$200,000 to be aboard

the ﬁrst ﬂights.

Archaeologists studying an

ancient Roman mosaic have

discovered it’s an optical il-

lusion. Viewed one way it

depicts a bald old man, and

viewed the other way it is a

beardless youth.

A Japanese research team

has captured on ﬁlm a

coelacanth ﬁsh off the

coast of Indonesia, the ﬁrst

footage in seven years.

(Source: physorg.com)

(Source: guardian.co.uk)

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T he UK’s Ministry of Defence has released

P erhaps inspired by author

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T here have been a number

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A rchaeologists have discov-

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expert recommended to the Bos-

nian team by Egyptologist Zahi

Hawass is among the believers. He

arrived at the site in May and says

stone blocks found at Visocica are

cut and polished in a similar man-

ner to Egyptian pyramids.

“I believe it is a pyramid,” said

Barakat. “The white stuff I found

between the blocks could be glue.

It is very similar to that we have

found in the Giza pyramids.”

“I would not believe it to be

archaeological. It looks to me as a

natural stone pavement,” Harding

said. He has not seen the stone

blocks in person, but has only

examined photographs. Nor did

Harding examine a tunnel that

leads to the top of Visocica.

There have been reports that a

sandstone monolith has been dis-

covered in the tunnel, engraved

with enigmatic symbols, that will

be sent to Egypt to be examined

by experts, but no further infor-

mation has been forthcoming.

alignments and major celestial

events, such as the rising and set-

ting of the sun during equinoxes

and solstices.

One temple chamber creates a

line that is aimed at the rising sun

on December 21, when ﬂoodwa-

ters begin to rise. On March 21,

when these waters recede, the

same line points towards the An-

dean constellation of the fox.

An enigmatic large personi-

ﬁed disk frowns at the sunset on

June 21, the traditional time to

start harvesting crops. Research-

ers think the face may represent

Pacha Mama, an Earth Mother

goddess who became sad when

the sun set.

No evidence of human sacriﬁce

was found, but the team did dis-

cover a cotton-shrouded mummi-

ﬁed woman in the fetal position.

“It’s a very ancient Andean tra-

dition to bury dead in places of

power,” explained Duncan. “This

site certainly would ﬁt the bill.”

of developments in the

Bosnian pyramid story re-

cently, the most recent being the

UN Educational, Scientiﬁc and

Cultural Organisation announcing

it will send a team of archaeologi-

cal experts to investigate.

This is despite the skepticism

of experts such as Professor An-

thony Harding, president of the

European Association of Archae-

ologists, who scoffs at the notion

of a European pyramid.

“I’ve seen the site, in my opin-

ion it is entirely natural,” Harding

told reporters in Sarajevo.

Harding claims to have visited

the site, but Mario Gerussi, direc-

tor of the Bosnian Pyramid Foun-

dation, said he had not been in-

formed of Harding’s visit, nor had

any of the staff working at the site

seen the British archaeologist at

the site.

Other experts remain open-

minded, supporting Semir Osman-

agic’s work. Aly Abd Alla Barakat,

an Egyptian geologist and pyramid

One of the world’s lead-

ing conservation experts

warns more funds are des-

perately needed to pre-

serve the Angkor temples

in Cambodia before they

are irreparably damaged.

ered a prehistoric calen-

dar that may be the oldest

known structure of its kind found

in the Americas.

Over 4000 years old, the cal-

endar is located at the Temple of

the Fox in Buena Vista, Peru. The

calendar is formed by towering

sculptures made of mud plaster

mixed with grass and covered in

clay, painted in bright red and yel-

low, and arranged in a circle.

“Early solstice markers are

known in Ireland with dates ear-

lier than Buena Vista, but not,

to my knowledge, with multiple

instruments,” said Robert Ben-

fer, who oversaw the project and

is a professor emeritus of an-

thropology at the University of

Missouri-Columbia. “The most

famous would be the case of

Amenhotep, who at 1,500 B.C.

had statues erected to gaze at

the solstice when the Nile was

about to ﬂood.”

The temple and its sculptures

appear linked to astronomical

Two scientists in separate

studies have reportedly

developed methods to

achieve invisibility without

breaking the laws of phys-

ics. The theories have not

yet been tested.

Mini planetary systems may

orbit cosmic objects that

are 100 times smaller than

our Sun, blurring the deﬁ-

nition of the word planet.

The priest of Rosslyn Chapel

will quit his post in July be-

cause he can no longer tol-

erate the global hype gener-

ated by The Da Vinci Code .

Scott Silverman, Chairman

of the Board of VeriChip

Corporation, has proposed

implanting the company’s

RFID tracking tags in immi-

grant and guest workers.

The family of Sgt Patrick

Stewart, killed in Afghani-

stan last September, are

ﬁghting with US ofﬁcials

to allow a pentacle on his

gravestone in recognition

of his Wiccan religion.

Evidence of Roman remains

next to a Birmingham Mc-

Donalds has some hoping

the legendary Queen Bou-

dicca is buried there.

Hopes for a space eleva-

tor have been dashed due

to an Italian researchers

calculations that carbon

nanotubes, discovered by

Japanese scientist Sumio

Iijima, would not be strong

enough to support it.

The UFO research com-

munity is mourning the

loss of two of its mem-

bers. Roswell researcher

Karl Pﬂock, and physicist

Dr Harley Rutledge both

passed away in separate

circumstances.

(Source: scotsman.com)

(Source: discoverychannel.com)

A rchaeologists have discov-

K orean scientists have de-

A study published in the

Journal of Advanced Nursing

found that music can signiﬁ-

cantly ease a patient’s per-

ception of chronic pain.

observatory, the monument is

made up of 127 blocks of gran-

ite, each one being 3 metres

high, and regularly placed in cir-

cles in an open ﬁeld. Some of the

blocks are positioned to mark

astrological and seasonal events,

as evidenced in December when

the sun shines through a hole in

a speciﬁc block, possibly to mark

the Winter Solstice.

ness or anger, but it can not move

its lower half. The android’s skin

is made from a silicon jelly that

feels similar to human skin.

There are 15 monitors in-

stalled in Ever-1’s face, allowing

it to interpret the expressions

and moods of people it sees, and

it will even look a person in the

eyes. It recognises 400 words and

can hold a basic conversation.

(Source: livescience.com)

ered a megalithic stone

circle in the Amazon basin

in northern Brazil, that they be-

lieve could be up as much as 2000

years old.

“Only a society with a com-

plex culture could have built such

a monument,” said archaeolo-

gist Mariana Petry Cabral, of the

Amapa Institute of Scientiﬁc and

Technological Research.

Believed to be an astrological

veloped a life-like android

that can hold a conversa-

tion, express basic emotions, and

react to those around it.

Named Ever-1, the android is

160cm tall, weighs 50 kg, and has

the face and body of a woman in

her 20s. The face is a composite

of two Korean actresses, and its

body is modeled on a singer. Ever-

1 can move its upper body, and its

face can express happiness, sad-

Three planets roughly the

same mass as Neptune have

been discovered orbiting a

nearby sun-like star.

The charred fragments

known as the Derveni Pa-

pyrus, a ﬁfth-century B.C.

Greek manuscript found in

1962, have been decoded.

The papyrus bears the old-

est known Greek text.

Ireland’s ancient Hill of

Tara remains under threat

from the construction of a

four-lane highway, despite

the best efforts of protes-

tors and archaeologists to

stop it.

Saturn’s watery moon En-

celadus may have ﬂipped

sometime in its past.

(Source: abcnews.net.au)

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UN to Investigate Bosnian Pyramid

Ancient Peruvian Calendar

Korea Builds Lifelike Android

Stonehenge in the Amazon

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history about possible alien races, and uses this

as a mirror to point out the ethnocentric blind-

ness through which today’s SETI scientists “be-

lieve that extraterrestrial civilizations construct

radio telescopes.”

Basalla’s point has been well made previously

by Terence McKenna, who noted that “to search

expectantly for a radio signal from an extrater-

restrial source is probably as culture bound a

presumption as to search the galaxy for a good

Italian restaurant.” SETI’s Seth Shostak has made

the highly positive analogy that in the search for

extraterrestrial intelligence, we are like Colum-

bus sailing into uncharted waters. Perhaps, con-

sidering current search strategies, we are more

akin to Columbus standing on the coast of Eu-

rope throwing pebbles into the ocean, waiting

for Native Americans to see the ripples and an-

swer back via the same method.

In ABC’s 2005 feature “Peter Jennings Re-

porting: UFOs - Seeing is Believing”, both Jill

Tarter and Seth Shostak provided a skeptical

counterpoint to ufology (Tarter is a CSICOP fel-

low). “If we claim something, there will be data

to back it up,” Tarter says in the program. Ironi-

cally, Tarter – the current director of the Center

for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, and one

of the pioneers of research in the area - was the

‘model’ for the character of astronomer Ellie Ar-

roway in Carl Sagan’s Contact (and played in the

movie version by Jodie Foster). Those familiar

with the story will remember that it ends with

a twist, in which the rationalist atheist character

of Arroway is placed in the position of believing

in something for which she has no empirical evi-

dence – alien contact – based solely on her own

totally convincing experience.

This is a worthwhile sidenote to keep in

mind. Turning once again to Terence McKenna,

we should remember to avoid anthropocentric

thinking, and keep our minds open (while ob-

viously thinking critically) to other methods of

contact from ‘intelligences’. SETI, says McKenna,

has been “chosen as the avenue by which it is

assumed contact is likely to occur. Meanwhile,

there are people all over the world - psychics,

shamans, mystics, schizophrenics - whose heads

are ﬁlled with information, but it has been ruled

a priori irrelevant, incoherent, or mad. Only that

which is validated through consensus via certain

sanctioned instrumentalities will be accepted as

a signal.”

So should we abolish SETI? I don’t think so;

actually I’m actually a fan. Its ideal is a worth-

while one, reaching out beyond our isolation to

communicate with anyone else who might be

out there. Remembering what the acronym ac-

tually stands for, my only suggestion would be

that SETI stop lying down with close-minded in-

quisitors, and start broadening their horizons by

entering into a dialogue with scientists out there

who share SETI’s ethos, but are willing to look

outside the paradigm for answers.

O ver recent months, it has become plain

ICOP as to the validity of SETI, it also is astound-

ing in comparison to the one-sided attacks (with

no responses) on other topics that are usually

seen in the magazine.

Why does James Randi not offer a million

dollar prize for SETI to prove

that there is truly an alien in-

telligence out there, with criti-

cism of the funding that has

been provided to them? Simply

because he thinks it likely that

there is ‘someone’ out there.

Parapsychology research has

provided far more positive re-

sults than SETI (see the Dean

Radin interview in this issue),

with as huge implications for

our paradigm, but he regularly

savages anyone who dares to

ask the question of whether

psi effects exist, and ﬁnds the

idea of funding such studies outrageous.

CSICOP’s collaboration with SETI, and ac-

companying lack of criticism (apart from Schen-

kel’s article), stands in contrast to other criti-

cal views gaining momentum. Historian George

Basalla, in his book Civilized Life in the Universe ,

takes SETI to task for ﬁfty years of failure. In

his view, SETI is popular because of its quasi-

religious features; perhaps there are benevolent

‘beings’ out there, more advanced than us, who

have wondrous things to show us (it’s interest-

ing to note the lack of concern in SETI circles

about the dangers posed by contacting an alien

civilisation). He also notes the cultural assump-

tions we have made at various points throughout

that an odd alliance has been created

between the ultra-skeptical organisa-

tion CSICOP (the Committee for the

Scientiﬁc Investigation of Claims of the Paranor-

mal) and the leaders in SETI (the

Search for Extraterrestrial In-

telligence). The SETI Institute’s

weekly radio program “Are We

Alone” is now heavily ﬂavoured

toward skeptical subjects and

guests (even to the point of

having a ‘Skeptical Sunday’ fea-

ture), and their website pro-

claims outright that the show

is produced in partnership with

CSICOP and other skeptical

organisations such as CFI (the

Center For Inquiry). This has

even led to some of the subject

matter discussed not even be-

ing related to the search for extraterrestrial intel-

ligence (such as investigation of psychics).

Conversely, regular CSICOP commentators

such as James Randi (no longer afﬁliated with the

organisation, for reasons too detailed to explain

here) have long advocated SETI and participation

in the distributed computing effort SETI@home.

‘Bad Astronomy’ critic Phil Plait has a regular

spot with SETI radio. Skeptical Inquirer has re-

cently featured a critical article by Peter Schen-

kel regarding the search, which allowed no less

than three responses to the critique by individu-

als such as SETI luminary Jill Tarter and astrobiol-

ogist David Darling. While the balance of articles

suggests that there is some tension within CS-

Proﬁle

Greg Taylor is the owner/editor of

the online alternative news portal,

The Daily Grail , and is also the editor

of Sub Rosa Magazine. He is inter-

ested and widely read in topics that

challenge the orthodox worldview,

from alternative history to the mys-

teries of human consciousness.

Greg currently resides in Brisbane,

Australia, and has recently published

his ﬁrst book. The Guide To The Solo-

mon Key is a guidebook to the eso-

teric history and locations likely to be

included in Dan Brown’s next book,

The Solomon Key .

Terence McKenna

noted that “to search

expectantly for a

radio signal from an

extraterrestrial source

is probably as culture

bound a presumption

as to search the galaxy

for a good Italian

restaurant.”

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