Ispectrum magazine #01

ISPECTRUMIssue 01/May-June 2013 MAGAZINEORIGIN OFCENTRIPETALFORCESReincarnationLIFEAFTER DEATHTHE KACHINAS

CONTENTS Features36 18 3 03 Origin OF Centripetal 1 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? 15 A 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 33 The science of afterlife 36 THE KACHINAS an alien intelligence, but not as we know it 37 The kachina dolls 39 Hopi ceremonies 43 Kokopelli-fertility deity 37 12

editorial Mado Martinez Dear all, Editorial Director You are our first readers because today Ispectrum is the birth of Ispectrum Magazine, a bi- monthly publication that will be delivered magazine directly to your favourite device(laptop, ipad, kindle, etc...). We are free and Editorial Director independent, so as you can guess, you Mado Martinez, don’t have to pay anything and we can [email protected] write with freedom of expression about a wide spectrum of matters. Art Director In this first issue, we offer you four Rayna Petrova featured articles that may interest you [email protected] (a lot!). Dan Winter, Mike O’Hare, Elaine Vieira and Philip Coppens, are the names Contributing Writer of our contributor writers. One of them, Philip Coppens Philip Coppens, died before he could see how this publishing adventure became Contributing Writer true, so we entirely dedicate this brand Mike O’Hare new magazine to his loving memory. We will always remember you. Thank you Contributing Writer for all the support you gave to us, for Dan Winter wanting to be part of this project and for allowing us to publish your articles. Contributing Writer Rayna Petrova and I, the founders of Elaine Vieira this dream that you actually have in your hands, believe that we can share with Contributing Writer all of you a wonderful experience. We Mado Martinez never forget that behind the mask of an avatar, a digital publication, a comment Images in a post, a like in facebook, etc., there public domain images,stockvault. is always a person. Through our website net,morguefile.com,commons. and our online/offline magazine we want wikimedia,sxc.hu,NASA image library,flickr to contribute beyond the virtual… commons,US goverment photos There is something in the outer limits of truth… www.ispectrummagazine.com Enjoy your reading. [email protected] 2 +44 7517864 167 / +44 7938707 164 (UK) Follow Us

bydAN wINTERwebsitewww.fractalfield.com/centripetalforces/Origin of CentripetalForces: Gravity, Color, Life,Consciousness and PerceptionWe are clear the universe is T hose waves then store compression ver-made of waves. Those wavesmove in a universal com- sus rarefaction (packing versus unpackingpressible background sub- - sometimes called yin/ yang)- in that sub-stance (“ether”) stance called (electric) CHARGE. So in physics ‘charge’ is in effect the unified field. 3

Because that flu- of its inertia - just like lock’) - by agreeingidly moving hydro- a gyroscope. So - as on where the crestdynamic substance we have often said- and the trough will fit.called ‘charge’ stores ‘God’ or the creative Otherwise - it createsINERTIA- it then has principle in essence is destructive wave inter-the quality - of creating the skill to teach waves ference ... and killsMASS. This is because to start going in a itself.inertia stored (by circle (creating mass) This need for waveswaves of charge rotat- instead of line. to agree on where toing) is the only defini- The tricky part of meet- forces them totion of mass. keeping a wave going always obey a simple in a circle - instead rule. The number oneIt is as simple as real- of in a straight line rule for waves is:izing that when a wave - is that when the The wave length mustis able to go in a circle wave finishes mak- divide evenly into theinstead of a line, it ing it’s circle - it has circumference of thebegins to STORE more to meet itself - (‘phase circle they are making. 4

This rule- the origin of‘quantum mechanics’- is the reason thereis geometry in the uni-verse. This is becausefitting wavelengths intocircles - in 2D and 3D-causes those wave tomake the pretty pic-tures - tetrahedron,octa, cube, dode-ca, icosa etc. Thesebecome group theory..And the fact that elec-tron shells are basicallyplatonic solids- thesame way nuclear par-ticles- (protons/neu-trons) nest in the pla-tonic solids. The illusion that there bullets’ (which is to the universe- foris such a thing as a say they are NOT solid eons- they discoveredparticle arose because - but only wave bub- there were some basicof the way these waves bles). The reason the agreements requiredof charge store their amount of inertia (or in order for the sur-inertia in discrete or mass) stored in each vival of those waves.‘quantized’ little ‘enve- little bubble of waves is An extremely elegantlopes’. These bubbles so regular or discrete single universal stan-or wave packets of (electrons and protons dard for all waves- callcharge storing inertia each store the same PLANCK - (length,- came to be named amount) - is fascinat- time, and energy) -particles. They are ing. evolved because - rightabsolutely not ‘silver As waves ran around from the beginning 5

waves which did not fit called PLANK dimen- wave stores - tends tothe agreed standard of sions define the so immediately get thrownfitting together - would called ‘sacred’ (gold OUT of that circle byimmediately die (expe- standard of agreement centrifugal force.rience destructive wave that fits all of physics) (For the same rea-interference). - for waves. son your laundry gets In effect - since this The other tricky part pressed on the outsideone unit of length and about keeping a wave of the drum during thetime and energy - fit going in a circle ( and spin cycle).ALL of the waves of thereby creating mass) So - the only waythe universe- these so - is that the inertia the those waves get to KEEP going in a circle - and remain part of the exclusive 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 figure out 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. 6

The reason physics has not figured out why an object falls to the ground till now, is because of TWO fundamental1. 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).2. Not knowing that Golden Ratio was the ultimate solution to all constructive wave interference - and therefore especially the solution to Einstein’s pesky problem: infinite compression. And therefore Golden Ratio is the ultimate solution to fractality.The essential issue of unified field to the electron shells- is the rea-thinking is to know what electric son atoms have and make gravity.field shape or symmetry causes My new equation/ proof that Goldengravity to happen. This problem is Ratio exponents times planck lengthresolved once we understand for very accurately predict multipleexample - that the fractal ‘self simi- hydrogen radii- is an excellent start-larity’ (perfected in Golden Ratio) ing point for new evidence.of the nuclear shapes (symmetry)7

Gravity is only one of the centrip- 3.etal forces. Others are color, life Golden Ratio is theforce, perception, and conscious- universal container ofness itself. Nassim Harramein - universal of All of these - by appearance- self global scaling - of - Length vs.organizing forces are caused by Frequency of - Big Bang, Atom,Golden Ratio - fractality among Galaxy and Universewaves of charge. 4.The evidence the Golden Ratio - The infinite stellatedfractality ( constructive charge col- dodecahedron ( dodecalapse perfected) is the cause and / icosa/ dodeca...) main charac-mechanism of gravity: teristic is each node has x,y,z val- ues which are simples multiples of 1. Golden Ratio. This produces perfect Golden Ratio times Plank constructive wave compression and length produces exactly collapse. For this reason - this isthe radius of hydrogen. ( My equa- the exact geometry of:tions: goldenmean.info/goldenproof a) The universeSo- Golden RATIO constructive b) DNA and every living proteincharge collapse- is evidentially c) the outer electrical shape ofwhat is holding hydrogen - and gold, palladium, platinum (pgm’s),most likely the entire atomic table fusion, black holes, the noble gas-together. ses, and their corresponding elec- tron valences and nuclear symme- 2. tries. Golden Ratio is the d) the Earth grid. quintessential elementof E8 - Unified Field model.8

Understanding themechanism which allowsGolden Ratio fractality toBE the cause of gravityis essential to this:The top down view ofthe Golden Ratio - pentdodeca- which is theshape of every wavein the above list (DNA,Every Living Protein,Gold/PGM’s, Earth Grid,Universe etc) - is essen-tially 10 spirals of theGolden MeanThe reason this shape - ONE geometry which point along the Goldenessentially accounts for allows the wave to Spiral they create,theall the universe’s cen- continue radiating in keep doing what alltripetal and self organiz- ALL directions con- waves must do ining forces (gravity, color, structively. That solu- wave interferenceconsciousness, life force, tion is GOLDEN RATIO (called ‘heterodyning’).perception etc)- is as - and the 3D - what They keep add-follows: that looks like is the ing AND multiplying When waves meet in stellated dodeca (pent (recursive addition) -rotation - at each wave stars within stars). their wave lengths andnode cross- a portion of their wave (or phase)the inertia of the wave As the waves keep VELOCITIES.node (or cross point) - crossing- at eachmust radiate out in alldirections. The wave interferenceproduced in 3D quicklymakes DESTRUCTIVEwave interference -(especially if it is cubic)- unless it finds the 9

The Golden Ratio is the obvious only solution to this geometry problem which all waves encounter because this is the ratio that 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.10

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 seebeyond the life that you are now living? Share with me and join ina travel extravaganza which takes us beyond the physical world.To begin with, let me emphasize that this is not an invitation to talkabout a belief system that is held steadfast within your religiousideals. No, this is meant to help stimulate your mind and take youbeyond your present mode of thought. 11

Reincarnation or just a dimensional thing? UNFINISHED BUSINESSQ uantum mechan- Actually they are sit- by ics and particle ting exactly where we mIKE o’HAREphysics are show- are now – right under websiteing us something that our noses. Apparently, www.mike-ohare.comwe could never have everything happensdreamed only ten or simultaneously and in If present-day discoveriesfifteen years ago. one spot. The physi- through free-thinking sci- cal world is only an ence are anything to goDo you have any idea illusion to give the on, then we are in forhow detached, physi- impression, through a treatcally, you are from polarities, that thereyour mind and can you is time and distancepossibly imagine how between two points.your whole body func- We are as near to eachtions as your brain other as we can pos-receives its program- sibly be with less thanming from another the thickness of a mol-dimension? ecule between us. This could very well It’s true! There are mean that our mindsother dimensions. operate out of the time and space con- 12

tinuum, in a dimen- me, I’m only the mes- that makes us totallysion which allows it to senger bringing proof interactive.carry on after we have of what is already If we do live on, therefinished with our physi- documented. On this is every possibility thatcal bodies. Didyou notice how Ididn’t point out theobvious and usethe ‘D’ word? It’sall down to vibra-tion and frequen-cies. When theTV is turned on,who ever ques-tions about howthe pictures andsound reaches us?We should, and theanswers we wouldget are that theyare frequenciesthat do not operatein a physical world. The same princi- basis, there is every we also come backple applies to your possibility that we real- again to live anotherthoughts. It has been ly do live on beyond life. Okay, so I’m nowscientifically proved the physical world and well into that non-that a thought is a tan- it was this impression earthly zone, talkinggible, living thing that that was the inspiration about the possibilityhas its own electrical behind my co-writing of reincarnation, but Icharge and is transmit- The Meadow. It’s a have every confidenceted via other dimen- marvellous, wonderful that there is more tosions that surround world out there and we life than we could everus. Twilight Zone stuff should familiarise our- imagine.huh? Well don’t ask selves with it in a way 13

Perhaps we have you feel the same once restricted to philo-unfinished business in way. sophical or mysticalthis life and the only perspectives, and manyway to reconcile and HOW DID I DO? of these philosophicalfix it is to come back ruminations and meta-after learning all there Did I manage to physical perspectivesis to know in getting it arouse your curiosity? are getting re-describedright next time. Are you in a position with mathematical and to look beyond what scientific terminology. I have a theory, a you consider to be apersonal one albeit normal physical life?and it is this: I believe Could reincarnation fitthat I will come back into your belief sys-again because I have tem? If you would likesuch an attachment to learn more aboutto the material world. this from the scientificI get a buzz out of so perspective then nomany activities which one can do this bet-are totally physical. ter than my molecu-This indicates to me lar biologist friend,that matters are not William Brown.yet out of my systemand I have to remove At first sight it wouldall this extra weight appear that life afterbefore I can move on. death or even the Conversely, I’m hop- topic of reincarna-ing that reincarna- tion would be beyondtion is down to choice the scope of a scien-rather than destiny. tific discussion, and in classical scientific Regardless, I got models of understand-a buzz out of writ- ing that is indeed theing this piece. Maybe case. However, asit’s because of all the alluded to by Mikeinvisible energy which in the above discus-is surrounding me and sion, the cutting edgewilling me to share of science is enteringthis with you. I hope this ethereal realm 14

A MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODEL OF and even information stored in theEXISTENCE very fabric of space-time itself. Numerous empirical observations Serious scientific research is are driving this research as scien-actively involved in investigat- tists find that 98% of the Universeing the reality of dimensions is not directly detectable, what isbeyond the 4 described by General referred to as “dark energy” – anRelativity, of multiple universes unseen plenum that seems to per-created from a quantum foam, meate even the smallest space but orchestrates whole galaxies into a quantum coherent system where billions of stars move together in a galactic 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?15

THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL MIND OF MAN 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. The mathematics seems to indi- What kinds of biological pro-cate this is so. When the potential cesses? Take your thoughts as anenergy of a space the size of a pro- example. The phenomenon of con-ton is calculated it has a mass that sciousness has been a very myste-is equivalent to the whole Universe rious aspect of the human being –– imagine the depth of reality that because scientists within the classi-exists in the room you occupy now! cal model have been attempting toBut it is not just the ultra-small and understand it from a purely physi-the ultra-large where these anoma- cal point of view.lies are observed that are point- Yet new models are emerging thating us in the direction of an unseen describe how the physical activ-world that seems to be “pulling the ity of the brain can “tune” into nonstrings” here in physical reality. local fields of information from which our thoughts are formedThere is an intermediate level and derived – a Morphic field thatbetween the macroscopic and the exists at another level of real-microscopic that is rich with similar ity and yet drives the informationtypes of scientific “anomalies”, and capabilities of not only the brain,that is the level that you occupy – but our genes as well.the human being.16

Dazu Wheel of Reincarnation,CHINAA SCIENTIFIC MODEL change of the physi- ancestors brain – do youOF REINCARNATION? cal world, then there is think they may have an aspect of our con- shaped yours similar-If our brain and our sciousness that exists ly? Perhaps that ances-genes are tuning into outside of the body, tor possessed the sameand storing informa- and it can re-enter consciousness that yoution within the fabric through genes that are do through the Morphicof spacetime itself, passed down through Field – and you havewhere that informa- an unbroken lineage come back to fulfil sometion exists beyond the of progeny. These unfinished business.seemingly relentless are the same genes that once shaped your 17

SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR LIFE AFTER DEATH by mado martinez and Elaine Vieira website www.madomartinez.comNew scientific methods and S ince time immemorial,technologies are being used to research human beings have won-the dered if there isage-old question of whether life exists something beyond life. Many cul-after death. tures, religions and systems ofRigorous studies of mediumship,near- knowledge have been based ondeath experiences and past-life memories the belief that the dead are raisedsuggest that consciousness up into another world, going toindeed survives 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. 18

MEDIUMSHIP IN THE LABORATORY Chico Xavier, who died in 2002, Mediums claim that they can wrote more than 400 books by 600somehow feel the spirits of spiritual authors but never tookdeceased people. credit for being the author of anyAccording to spiritist terminology, of them. Heavily influenced by thethese spirits are called “discarnate”. works of 19th-century French spir- The famous Brazilian medium itist Allan Kardec, Xavier professed that his hand was guided by spirits Allan Kardec 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, Xavier was 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.19

In 1991, Chico Xavier’smediumship was investi-gated by Dr Paulo Rossi.His study confirmedthat 93.3 per cent ofthe people who visitedXavier hadnot known him before-hand. Information fromthe letters receivedthrough Xavier containedso many details aboutthe deceased and theirfamilies as tomake fraud impossible.Around 62.2 per cent ofthe messages showed Chico Xaviermorethan six relevant factseach, and 71.1 per cent from the Kardec, because they only use their medi-had detailed information University of São umship free of charge to help theabout the deceased Paulo, Brazil, with spirits. It is impor- tant to mention thatpeople which was sub- his research focus on Moreira de Almeida and his teamsequently confirmed by mediumship chose these mediums because the spirit-their experiences. He stud- ism founded by Allan Kardec is wellfamilies. Dr Rossi con- ied 115 spiritist medi- known worldwide for its seriousness included that the informa- ums with the aim of studying the relation-tion revealed by Chico building their ship between the spirit world andXavier sociodemographicactually came from the profiles and checkingspirits of dead people their mental health.and was not the result of His study wasany kind of fraud. based solely on spir-In 2004, Alexander itist mediums whoMoreira de Almeida follow the doctrinegained his PhD degree founded by Allan 20

human nature. to be people with few and John Edward, The researchers con- psychological problems and other mediumscluded that the and a high level of such asmajority of the medi- education. Suzane Northrop,ums developed their Laurie Campbell andmediumship during During 2001–2008, Anne Gehman.childhood and that they Professor Gary Their studies confirmedalso showed a high Schwartz and that all of the mediumssocio-educational level. colleagues from the were very precise,In addition, they University of Arizona and their degree offound only a very low conducted success was very highlevel of psychiatric detailed research into compared to probabil-disorders among the the authenticity of ity. Factors suchmediums. Thus, the mediumship. as fraud, error andmediums who have They investigated coincidence were con-so often been labelled the well-known medi- sidered and eliminated.as “crazy” turn out ums George Anderson 21

At The Windbridge Institute in information aboutTucson, Arizona, USA, deceased people which was subse-from 2008, Dr Julie Beischel has quently verified. Drbeen conducting fascinating Beischel’s results confirm theresearch with mediums to hypothesis that the spiritdemonstrate that there is life survives death.after death. Basically, she uses We emailed Dr Julie Beischel inthree methods to study the August 2011 to askphenomenon of mediumship: more about the scientific methodproof-focused research, involving which she applies intests to verify whether the these investigations. She said thatmediums are giving accurate she uses strictinformation; process-focused controls to investigate the phenom-research, which studies the enon of mediumshipexperience of the mediums through a scientific program thatduring their spiritual contains a great amount of data:communications; and appliedresearch, which examines how the “At The Windbridge Institute, we areinformation can primarilybenefit society in general. interested in mediumship, ITCThe mediums studied by [instrumental transcommunication] Dr Beischel have given accurate and haunting-related occurrences. 22

We use the scientific method and cedure we use to screenstrict controls to prospective WCRMs and the subse-investigate quent studies in which theythese phe-nomena,and the …the mediums have highermediumship brain activity and increasedresearchprogram blood flow in the region ofinvolves the pineal gland comparedthe largest to the control group.amount ofrobustdata.Through our participate, we can confidentlyunique quintuple- state that certain mediums areblinded readings capable of AIR.”with Windbridge certified researchmediums (WCRMs) In addition, Dr Beischel said: “This,we can demonstrate a research paradigmphenomenon called ‘anomalous is ideal in that the phenomenon isinformation reception’ (AIR), which easily replicable andinvolves mediums occurs on demand. We do not needreporting accurate and specific to try to catch spontaneous eventsinformation about the or experiences as they occur; wedeceased loved ones (termed ‘dis- can bring the mediumship phe-carnates’) of living people (termed nomenon into the‘sitters’) without any prior laboratory and study it under con-knowledge about the discarnates trolled conditions andor sitters, in the absence of any on a schedule that is convenientfeedback and without using for all of the participants.”deceptive means.Based on the intensive testing pro- 23

In her study of mediumship, Dr. THE PINEAL GLAND ANDBeischel is very strict MEDIUMSHIPand accurate, applying a quintu-ple-blind scientific Neuroscientist Dr. Sérgio Felipemethod, i.e., involving five ele- de Oliveira from Sãoments. Compare this with Paulo University, Brazil, investi-the double-blind study, a very gates the relationshipwell known scientific method between the pineal gland andthat is used in experiments with mediumship. In performing histhe aim of avoiding bias in the research, he uses techniquesresults induced by two such as X-ray diffraction,elements: the placebo effect computed tomography andand the researcher. It is called magnetic resonance imaging.“double blind” because the Comparing the “brain sand”subjects in the study do not (calcified structures in theknow to which experimental brain) of mediums and nongroup they belong. mediums,he showed that medi- ums have a higherIn a tripleblind study, a third ele- amount of brain sand in thement is included with the aim of pineal gland than do non medi-avoiding even more bias. For ums.instance, the third element In addition, he demonstratedcould be a statistician who inter- that, duringprets the data without spirit communication, the medi-knowing the type of experiment ums have higher brainthat was performed, or a activity and increased bloodscientist who works on the pro- flow in the region of theject but does not know pineal gland compared to thethe experimental group. control group. Dr. Felipe de Oliveira hypoth- Dr Beischel’s research demon- esises that the pinealstrates that the gland is the sensorial organanomalous information recep- of mediumship. For instance,tion phenomenon isindeed authentic.24

Dr Sérgio Felipe de Oliveira 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 (Martínez) conducted an interview with Dr. Sérgio Felipe de Oliveira, who showed images from his magnetic resonance experiments and pointed out these differences in the level of brain sand in the pineal gland that are related to extrasensory abilities. RESEARCH INTO NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE At King’s College London there is 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 25

after death and also son’s death. the presence of light.at the moment of These occurrences These phenomenadeath. He concen- happen in a very high are usuallytrates on visions from percentage of cases, reported after anpeople who were lying he concludes. Dr. individual has beenin bed and spoke with Fenwick also insists pronounceddeceased family that the soul is clinically dead andmembers who came different from the then comes back toto receive them. He brain. life. Thesealso investigates The term near-death experiences sug-coincidences involving experience gest the existencedeceased people who (NDE) refers to a of life after death.contacted someone broad range of experi- Since psychologistjust to tell them that ences associated Raymond Moody, Jr.,he/she has with impending death. MD, wrote hisdied. In addition, he These can encom- book Life After Lifestudies family mem- pass multiple possible (1975) and Elisabethbers who saw sensations including: Kübler-Ross, MDshadows around the detachment from the (the now-deceasedbed of the ceased and body; feelings of levi- eminent researcherobserved that the tation, extreme fear, who received aroom became a lot of total serenity, secu- score of honorarybrighter at rity, warmth or abso- doctorates from uni-the time of the per- lute dissolution; and Dr Peter Fenwick 26

versities around the Research Foundation 1.world) compiled hun- (http://www.nderf.org), Crystal Clear Consciousnessdreds of stunning tes- which has collected The level of conscious-timonies and wrote more than ness andalertness dur- ing near-deathsome of the most pow- 2,500 case studies experiences is usually evengreater than thaterful books concerning worldwide of people experienced in everyday life, evenNDEs, scientists have who have had near- though NDEs generally occur when abecome very attracted death experiences. person is unconscious or clinically dead.to this phenomenon. Because Dr. Long This high level of con- sciousnessDr Kenneth Ring, then applies the scientific while physically unconscious is medi-based at the University method in his research, cally inexplicable. Additionally, the ele-of Connecticut, and we decided to contact ments in NDEs gener- ally follow the sameSharon Cooper, then a him to find out more consistent and logical order in all age groupsPhD candidate from the about his work. In our and around the world, which refutes the pos-University of New York, e-mail interview with sibility that NDEs have any relation toperformed a two-year him in August 2011, he dreams or hallucina- tions.study of near-death stated: “My area ofexperiences in the expertise is in near-blind, with amazing death experiences.results. NDEs provide, in myThese were published opinion, the strongestin their book scientific evidence ofMindsight (1999), life after death.”which provided strong In his book Evidenceevidence from 31 blind of the Afterlife: Thepeople who describe Science of Near-Deaththe experience of see- Experiences (2010),ing for the first timein their lives, giving Dr. Long gives a sum-details of medical pro- mary of the ninecedures on the operat- lines of evidence thating table, for instance. point to theJeffrey Long, MD, an reality of NDEs andoncologist, directs the their consistent mes-Near Death Experience sage of an afterlife: 27

2. Realistic Out-of-Body but normal or supernormal vision Experiences has occurred in those with significantly impaired visionOut-of-body and even legal blindness. Severalexperiences (OBEs) are one of the people who have been totally blindmost common elements of NDEs. since birth have reported highlyWhat “NDErs” see and hear of visual near-death experiences.earthly events in the out-of-body This is medically inexplicable.state is almost always realistic.When the NDEr or others later seek 4. Consciousnessto verify what was observed or Duringheard during the NDE, the OBE Anaesthesiaobservations are almost alwaysconfirmed as completely Many NDEs occur whileaccurate. Even if the OBE observa- under general anaesthesia—at ations during the NDE time when any conscious experi-included events far from the physi- ence should be impossible. Whilecal body and far from any possible some sceptics claim that thesesensory awareness of the NDEr, the NDEs mayOBE observations are still almost be the result of too little anaesthe-always confirmed as sia, this ignores the fact that somecompletely accurate. This fact alone NDEs result from anaesthesia over-rules out the possibility that near- dose.death experiences are related to Additionally, the description of anany known brain functioning or sen- NDE differs greatly from that ofsory awareness. This one who experiences “anaestheticalso refutes the possibility that awareness”. The content of NDEsNDEs are unrealistic that occur under generalfragments of memory from the anaesthesia is essentiallybrain. indistinguishable from NDEs that did not occur under general 3. Heightened Senses anaesthesia. This is further strong evidence that NDEs are Not only are heightened occurring completelysenses reported by most who have independently from theexperienced NDEs, functioning of the physical brain.28

5. Perfect Playbacks gion or near-death experiences, are essentially identical to those ofLife reviews in near-death older children and adults.experiences include real events This refutes the possibility that thethat previously took place in the content of NDEs is produced bylives of those having the experi- preexisting beliefs or cultural condi-ence, even if the events tioning.were forgotten or happened beforethey were old enough to remember. 8. Worldwide Consistency 6. Family Reunions Near-death experiences appear remarkably consistentDuring an NDE, the people around the world andencountered are virtually always across many different religions anddeceased and are cultures. NDEs from non-westernusually relatives of the person hav- countries are incredibly similar toing the experience; those that occur in people in west-sometimes they are even rela- ern countries.tives who died before the NDEr wasborn. Were the NDE only a prod- 9. Aftereffectsuct of memory fragments, it wouldalmost certainly include far It is common for peo-more living people, including those ple to experience major life chang-with whom the NDEr had interacted es after having near-death experi-more recently. ences. These aftereffects are often power- 7. Children’s ful, lasting and lifeenhancing, Experiences and the changes generally follow a consistent pattern. As the NDErsThe near-death experiences themselves almostof children, including very young always believe, near-death experi-children who are too young to have ences are, in a word,developed concepts of death, reli- real.29

PAST-LIFE REGRESSION THERAPY The research on past-life regres-sion consists of practices and evi-dence based approaches. Theresults come from questionnairescompleted beforeand after the therapy with a largenumber of individuals with a spe-cific type of problem, including acontrol group to demonstrate theireffectiveness (the double-blindscientific method). Between 1985 and 1992, Dr. Hazel obtained his PhD in theDenning (now deceased), founder research area of past-life thera-of the International Association for py from Utrecht University in theRegression Research and Netherlands. His doctoral thesis wasTherapies (http://www.iarrt.org), based on different studies with peo-studied the results of eight ple who underwent treatment withregression therapists with about past-life therapy. The studies includ-1,000 patients. The results were ed one in Suriname, one with themeasured immediately after thetherapy, with follow-ups sixmonths, one year, two years andfive years afterwards. From the 450 patients who couldbe traced after five years, 24 percent reported that their symp-toms had completely disappeared,23 per cent reported a significantimprovement, 17 per cent reportedan improvement, and 36 per centreported no improvement. Overall,this makes a positive balance of64 per cent. In 2006, Ron van der Maesen 30

Dutch Association of until her death in 1985, clothes and shoesReincarnation conducted a 10-year they wore, the kindsTherapists and another survey of past-life of utensils and moneywith patients with recollection and reincar- they used, the styleTourette syndrome. The nation. She performed of house they lived in,studies showed that her main study with and so on. Shethe pastlife treatments 26 regression thera- concluded that thehad statistically signifi- pists who had worked results were verycant beneficial results with a total of 17,350 accurate, and that fan-in patients compared patients. Among those, tasy andwith the controls (with 63 per cent reported an genetic memory couldno health problems). improvement in physi- not account for theThe level of satisfaction cal symptoms whereas patterns that emergedamong the patients 40 per cent reported an from the results. Withwho had improvements improvement in their the exception ofwith past-life therapy interpersonal relation- reports from 11 sub-was very high. ships. Dr. Wambach had jects, all descriptions ofPsychologist Dr. Helen very specific questions clothing, footwear,Wambach, who carried about the time periods utensils, housing andout past-life research in which people lived so on were consistentfrom the mid-1960s other lives, the types of with historical records.EVIDENCE OF REINCARNATIONPsychotherapist Brian Weiss, Attorney Victor ZammitMD, is Chairman Emeritus of has gathered evidence forPsychiatry at the Mount Sinai the existence of life afterMedical Center in Miami. One death that he thinks is strongday he found that one of his enough to be accepted inpatients started to recall pastlife any court of law.traumas in recurring nightmaresand began to give astonishingdetails about Weiss’s family andhis dead son. Although at thebeginning he was very sceptical,he decided to do some in-depthresearch. He has since 31

published several books where he He also compared and verified bodydescribes his investigations of past marks and birth defects with woundslives. and scars of thedeceased, all of themIn Many Lives, Many Masters confirmed by medical records.(1988), Dr Weiss explains the real- A good example of a birthmark caseity of reincarnation involved Ravi Shankar. This childand the spirit world from the remembered being decapitated inpsychiatric perspective. Ian his previous childhood by a familyStevenson, MD, who died in 2007, member who was hoping for a patri-was one of the most well known mony from the child’s father. Raviresearchers to have provided Shankar had a birthmark around hisstrong evidence for the reality of neck. When Dr Stevenson investigat-reincarnation. From 1957, at ed this case, he was able to confirmthe University of Virginia, he head- that the child whom Shankar tolded the Department of him about from his past life had inPsychiatry and later the Division fact been decapitated.of Perceptual Studies until his2002 retirement. He did not use Dr Ian Stevensonthe method of hypnosis to verifywhether a person had a recollec-tion of a previous life; instead, hestudied thousands of casesin children in the USA, England,Thailand, Burma, Turkey, Lebanon,Canada, India and other countrieswho had spontaneous memoriesabout their previous lives.First, he verified all the informa-tion from a child about their pre-vious life. Next, he identified thedeceased person whom that childclaimed to be in their previouslife. Later, he verified the facts ofthe past life of thedeceased person that coincidedwith the memories of the child. 32

It was Jim Tucker, MD, who took them as carefully as he could.over Dr Stevenson’s Most of his cases came from cul-research. At the University of tures with a belief in reincarnation.Virginia, Dr Tucker is currently I’ve been focusing on westernMedical Director of the Child and cases, and I’m finding thatFamily Psychiatry Clinic as well as the phenomenon is essentially theAssociate Professor of same here as it is inPsychiatry and Neurobehavioral Asia. At this point, we certainlySciences. don’t have as manyHis book Life Before Life: A really strong cases here as IanScientific Investigation of Children’s found in Asia, but we doMemories of Previous Lives (2005) have some interesting ones.”summarises the 40 years of inves-tigation of reincarnation which Dr THE SCIENCE OF THE AFTERLIFEStevenson performed during hiscareer. Australian lawyer turned full-time In August 2011, we researcher/writerconducted an email interview with Victor Zammit has investigated theDr Tucker about the afterlife from the judicial point ofscientific evidence for life after view. He thinks that the evidencedeath. He responded: he has gathered for the existence“As to your questions, the of life after death is strong enoughmost important evidence for life to be accepted in any court of lawafter death, other than neardeath (http://www.victorzammit.com).experiences, includes In his book A Lawyer Presents thecontrolled mediumship studies, Case for the Afterlife (2006, 4thcarefully studied reports of ed.), Zammit showed 23 differentapparitions, and verified claims areas that demonstrate theby children of past-life existence of life after death. Hememories. has put out a challenge The most important to scientists to provide evidenceevidence of reincarnation is this that there is no lifelast phenomenon: children’s after death, promising to payreports of past-life memories. $1,000,000 if they do.Ian Stevenson spent 40 yearsstudying such cases, documenting 33

Professor Lisa Randall very different in differ- ent regions of this so-The pioneer- psychotherapist Andy called multverse. Then,ing research of Dr Tomlinson, cardiologist if this is so, the largerRaymond Moody and Pim van Lommel, MD, hidden dimensions inDr Elisabeth Kübler- and many others. which our universeRoss has contributed to Is the quest progress- exists may influencethe development of this ing towards a final our own three-dimen-discipline. Now there answer? sional space-time worldare numerous studies Probably never: the and its laws of nature.being conducted in the more answers unveiled, But what is conscious-area of spirituality and the more questions ness, one of the mostlife after death, utilis- revealed. Professor Lisa vibrant areas of studying the latest tech- Randall is a theoreti- in science today?nologies and scientific cal physicist at Harvard According to Professormethods. University, a lead- Randall (Discover, 29Over the years, sig- ing expert on particle July 2006):nificant research has physics and cosmology, “Neuroscience is excit-been carried out by and a member of the ing. Understanding howsuch luminaries as Dr scientific staff at CERN. thoughts work, howErlendur Haraldsson of She theorises that our connections are made,Iceland University, universe exists within a how the memorypast-life therapist Dr universe of many high- works, how we processMorris Netherton, psy- er and unseen dimen- information, how infor-chologist Dr Peter sions, and that the mation is stored—it’sRamster, laws of nature may be all fascinating. Experimentally, though, we’re still rather limited in what we can do. I don’t even know what consciousness is. I’d like someone to define consciousness.” Right. So if we want to know more about the possibility of the sur- vival of consciousness 34

after death, maybe we sciousness.” trial weather has notneed more accurate Yes, sometimes sci- been demonstrated.”studies which consider ence works like that; Then why do theyconsciousness itself. for example, study this “correlation” In the meantime, astronomers and astro- if it has not been dem-some scientists are physicists can identify onstrated that it reallyfinding impressive evi- a relationship between exists? The answerdence to suggest that the activity cycles of is simple: it is becausethere is life after the Sun and they have observeddeath, or at least sur- the weather on Earth, evidence which sug-vival of consciousness, so they assume that gests that it may bealthough they don’t this relationship exists that way…In the meantime, some Well, it scientists are finding seems that impressive evidence to we are in a suggest that there is life very similar after death, or at least situation survival of consciousness… with stud- ies aboutknow yet how it works. although they don’t the afterlife.This is the reason why know how it works. Scientiststhe key is in the bril- Yet, as Professor Sami haveliant confession of Solanki, of the Max observed evi-Professor Lisa Randall, Planck Institute for dence whichone of the most influ- Solar System Research suggests thatential scientists in the in Germany, has there may be lifeworld: “I don’t even stated (http://tinyurl. after death, but theyknow what conscious- com/77taz9c) :“The don’t know what theness is. I’d like some- correlation between process is or what con-one to define con- solar cycles and terres- sciousness is, and they can’t say that life after death can be real in case it really is real! 35

by Philip Coppens website www.philipcoppens.com The kachinas:an alien intelligence, but notas we know itFor centuries, the Hopi of Arizona have I n July 1947, an alien craftbeen intimately liaising with beingsfrom the Otherworld. The kachinas still allegedly crash-landed in Roswell,visit the Hopi Mesas on an annual basis New Mexico. If it occurred, it wasand their presence continues to set out not the first of its kind: the regionthe agenda of Hopi society. of New Mexico and Arizona has a history of “alien contacts” that 36

goes back hundreds ifnot thousands of years.The beings in ques-tions are known as“kachinas”; they arenot extra-terrestrial assuch, but definitelyotherworldly. An extensive collec-tion of 400 kachinadolls can be seen inthe Heard Museum inPhoenix; they were Kachina dancers of the Hopi pueblo ofdonated by the contro- Shongopavi, Arizona, USAversial Republican poli-tician Barry Goldwater.Each doll looks differ- ways of the Otherworld in colour and the basicent and has specific and how it interacted shape is painted tocharacteristics; each with ours. show a head, arms,represents a different folded over a kilt,element or entity that Amongst the Native which is representinghas entered the Hopi Americans, the Hopi rain.world at some point in have a special place. Tradition argues thattheir history. And when Thousands of people carving the “tihu”you look at the Eototo would like to visit their should be done bykachina doll in the religious ceremonies, men, but today, womenMuseum of Northern and thousands of tour- are involved in theirArizona, you find the ists return home from manufacture, if only forcreature has much in Arizona with a kachina selling them to tour-common with LEGO fig- doll.  ists. Indeed, in what isures. The kachina dolls are likely to be a rush forThen again, just like made from kaolin clay, finance, rather thanLEGO, kachina dolls meant to be hung from heritage, tribal councilswere there for children beams or walls in the even tried to copyrightbe educated in the home. They are white the word kachina, but 37

failed to do so.  Indeed, one of the rea- in person, but that they Though the kachina sons that many of the now do so in the formdolls are often identi- ceremonies of the Hopi of masked dancers. fied with the Hopi dei- are now closed to out- Whereas kachina dollsties, this is highly inac- siders is because a are sold and hung fromcurate: one should Marvel comic had char- beams or walls, thenot confuse the dolls acterised the kachina real deities are sur-with the kachina them- as violent avengers. rounded with far great-selves. The dolls are er respect. The Hopimerely props and many The kachina them- deities live on the Sanhave fallen for the mis- selves – rather than Francisco Mountains,take, to take the prop the dolls – are largely though are presentfor the god.  described as “spirit amongst the Hopi for One might argue that messengers”, where- part of the year. Astheir closest parallel as some believe they such, the religiousis the voodoo doll or might represent the year is divided into twothe Egyptian ushabti – spirit of the dead – if parts. though one needs to there were a differ- The deities arrive atde-cinematise these ence. The Hopi state the Hopi Mesas in theartefacts in order to that at one time in the form of rain-bearingappreciate their true past, the kachina dei- clouds and normallyrole and function. ties visited the Mesas arrive in early February 38

for the Powamuya ceremony, or honour of the deities. Early in theBean Dance. The Hopi do indeed year they are held in undergroundbelieve that in the past, the deities ceremonial chambers called kivas,literally walked amongst them, but but as spring arrives, the dancesthat today, their presence resides move out onto the plazas, wherein those selected to wear a mask; they last from morning until dusk. it is the mask that transforms the The fraternities in charge of theHopi individual into a “possessed” summer dances meet in mid-win-entity, very much like Jim Carrey ter for ceremonial smoking andin the movie “The Mask” – though the planting of prayer plumes. Init is clear that, just like with the late November, w chief kachina,voodoo dolls, the evil and negative Soyalkatsina, begins the kachinaconnota-tions thathave beenintroduced …it is the mask that transformsin these the Hopi individual into amovies arefor enter- “possessed” entity,very muchtainment like Jim Carrey in the movievalue only. “The Mask” Three main season by walking along the trailceremonies into the village like a weary oldare performed man or someone who has had tooby and for the gods – much sleep, singing sacred songskatsinam – during their stay in the in a low voice. He then opens thevillages: Soyalangwu, a winter sol- main kiva, signalling that it is timestice ceremony held in December; for the katsinam to come out.the already mentioned Powamuya Their emergence re-enacts thein February, when the katsinam arrival of the Hopi into the present,are asked to appear; and Niman, Fourth World.the home-going ceremony, afterthe summer solstice. BetweenPowamuya and Niman, the Hopiperform several more dances in 39

Each December, a runner climbs get them from their husbands.to a shrine in the San Francisco The dolls are created as a teach-Peaks, where he scatters a meal ing tool given to these children andand plants plumes that are to be is presented to them by one of thebrought back in July, by anoth- masked dancers. Boys and girls areer runner, for the final festival, normally properly initiated into soci-Niman, linked with the harvest. ety between the age of six to ten,At the harvest festival, the dei- when they are allowed to participateties return to the underworld, in the performances and discoverthrough the San Francisco Peaks. that the masked dancers are theirInterestingly, it is claimed that the own relatives – very much like find-seasons in the Underworld are one ing out who Santa Claus really is –season behind. though I, of course, never said that.  As mentioned, the actual return Hopi Powamu Ceremony,1893of the deities to the Hopi Mesas iscelebrated at Powamu, the Bean-Planting Ceremony in February.Each matriarch receives a bundleof fresh bean sprouts to plant forthe coming year. The festival lastseight days and concludes withdancing, which takes place in thenine kivas of the mesa. Everyonewears fresh mud from the sacredspring and each job of plasteringhas been signed with the print ofthe slim hand of the girl who didit. All Hopi babies receive a tihu – akachina doll – at their first Nimanceremony, while the girls receivefurther dolls at each Powamuyaand Niman ceremony, up until ornear marriageable age, althoughmarried women sometimes still 40

There is a clear rela- masks. Unlike the Unlike Roman Catholictionship between the dolls, the masks are statues, the kachinadeities and the kachina sacred objects and the dolls are not used indolls, the latter repre- Hopi have successfully ceremonies, nor aresenting aspects of the petitioned to remove they preserved in theformer. Hopi katsinam them from museum kiva. They are simply…can be male or female, displays. dolls, so that childrenand represent plants, The katsinam is and play with them andanimals,insects, can therefore be a learn howhuman spirit of any kind – to inter-qualities, very much on par with act withthe creative the ever growing list the variousforce of the of Catholic saints that spirits andsun, and can be implored. The otherworld-even death. masks could be com- ly entitiesSome are pared to the Christian that aredemons holy relics. But just like part of thewho fright- Roman Catholic stat- tribe’s dailyen children ues, no sacred power is life. into behav- invested in the kachina There areing pro- doll. neverthe-perly; most less sacredare clan ancestors statuesand beneficent beings. preserved in the kiva,They are messengers known as wu’ya orwho accept Hopi gifts tiponi. The wu’ya is aand prayers for health, clan deity, and a tiponifertility, and rain and is a fetish of stone orcarry them back to wood, representingthe gods. Their role as the deity. Unlike therainmakers is particu- kachina dolls, these arelarly important to the seldom brought out inHopi. The deities are to the open, their usepresent, either in the normally reserved forstatues, or the sacred ritual use inside the kiva.  41

Indeed, in 1960, the figures as separated south. It is clear thatso-called “Vernon man” elements or interacting this archaeological dis-was discovered. Nine in scenes. covery – or at least theinches high, carved conclusion drawn fromfrom sandstone and But the role and ico- it – has created contro-painted with vertcal nography of the dolls versy within the Nativestripes, this statue was does strongly echo cer- American community.found in a crypt within tain Aztec deities such Wherever it camea kiva. Though popu- as Tlaloc, the god of from, representationslarly also labelled a rain, and Quetzalcoatl, of masked beings thatkachina, the Hopi the feathered ser- have the character-identify it as a wu’ya or pent, who was also istics of the kachinatiponi, a clan deity. the bringer of rain appear on murals in and corn. Seeing the kivas that date to as The kachina doll cult kachina are specifically early as 1350. Situatedis known to have defi- linked with the rain…  at Hopi and Homol’ovinitely existed by 1300 Recent discoveries in on the Hopi MesasAD. Some argue it Chaco Canyon have themselves, it under-came from the Zuni also suggested that lines the length of timePueblo to the West of the kachina cult was in which the cult hasthe Hopi Mesas, introduced by cannibal- been present amongstothers argue that it istic warrior refugees the Hopi people.came from the Rio from theGrande, others thatit came from the …representationsMimbres cult of the of masked beings that havesouth, and/or the characteristics of the kachinathat it developed appear on murals in kivasin Mexico. Inshort: no-one that date to as early asknows. Details 1350 ADof the paint-ings on Awatovimurals, an ancestralHopi site, showcostumed and masked 42

 Though all deities are equal, Kokopellisome are more popular than oth-ers, the most famous for outside A Hopi Indian has been raised, fromis Kokopelli, a fertility deity, usual- birth, in a tradition, surrounded byly depicted as a humpbacked flute dolls that represented otherworldlyplayer (often with a huge phallus creatures that are nevertheless partand feathers or antenna-like pro- of their world and daily life. Thesetrusions on his head). Like most entities did not crash-land just onefertility deities, Kokopelli presides day somewhere; these entities haveover both childbirth and been with them for thousands ofagriculture, but he is also a trick- years, and continue to interact withster god and represents the spirit the Hopi in a manner that only aof music.  Hopi can truly understand. Interestingly, Kokopelli is one ofthe most easily recognized figures In Memory offound in the petroglyphs and pic- Philip Coppenstographs of the Southwest, theearliest known petroglyph depict- (1971 – 2012)ing him dating to about 1000 AD.It underlines that there is – at He was the most clearleast in the case of some deities – and broad-minded writera tradition that has spanned a on ancient mysteriesmillennium. Just how old the cult truly is,no-one knows. In the dances, theKokopilua kachina dancer sings asong in a language so ancient thatnot a word of it is understood bythe modern Hopi themselves, whoknow only that their deities haveaccompanied them throughouttheir migrations… and continue tovisit them annually at the Mesas.  Outsiders want to experience theHopi ceremonies, but are unlikelyto truly capture the essence of theactivities. 43

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the ‘present’.” (Dr. Konstantin Korotkov)We live in the twenty-first century, but we do not fully understand what it means. Mostpeople 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 inJapan and New Zealand, floods in USA and Australia, avalanche of gale-force blizzardsover USA East Coast and unusually hot summers in Russia, the hottest in 1,000 yearsof history. At least 100,000 people died from earthquakes, floods and heat phenom-enon. In Pakistan, record monsoon rains destroyed infrastructure, left thousands deadand millions homeless. Wildfires erupted across the countries, heavily damaging wheatcrops and forcing Moscow to impose an export ban that raised global wheat prices. www . ispectrummagazine . com 44