Atlantis Rising Magazine

Martial Arts & the Laws of Physics

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:58:14 +0000

Are the incredible feats of some martial artists a challenge to the standard model of physics? Is their brick-breaking, for example, evidence that some of them can control a mysterious primal energy? And martial artists are not alone; throughout history people have done things that would seem impossible for mere flesh and blood. Modern physics [...]

Machines to Talk to the Dead

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:49:59 +0000

Emerging from a coma a few days before he died, the great American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) suddenly opened his eyes and gazed “upward into space, his face illuminated with a smile as he said, ‘It is very beautiful over there.’” When he died his clock stopped, as did those of all his top [...]

As Above So Below

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:42:05 +0000

Our exploration of the universe arises from our singular experience of being in a physical body. Our spirituality, mathematics, physics, medicine, and science are all colored and informed by the capacities of our body. Modern science and medicine have achieved great understanding of our bodies, but in some ways, both are only scratching the surface [...]

The Georgia Guidestone Mystery

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:37:46 +0000

Recently I had the opportunity to visit an enigmatic granite structure that superficially mimics various ancient megalithic constructions. Surrounded by mystery and intrigue, inspiring awe and animosity ever since it was unveiled on March 22, 1980 (two days after the Vernal Equinox), “The Georgia Guidestones” monument (alternatively called “The American Stonehenge”) is located among the [...]

Journey to Pluto

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:27:38 +0000

In July 2011, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope identified a fourth moon orbiting the icy world of Pluto, making the dwarf planet the first object in the Kuiper Belt to have more than one satellite. Temporarily dubbed P4 the tiny moon appeared in a survey searching for rings around Pluto. For now P4 is [...]

Christian Origins Get New Look

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:33:42 +0000

The mysteries of Christianity are in for a startling new appraisal in two of our current DVD offerings, while the mysterious purpose of a worldwide pattern of prehistoric construction gets some new scrutiny in another. “KING JESUS” by Ralph Ellis In this presentation, Ralph Ellis attempts to resolve one of the greatest mysteries and international [...]

New Help for the Visually Challenged Reader

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:57:21 +0000

The challenges facing magazine publishers these days are many and varied. Some have been around since America’s first periodical publisher Ben Franklin created Poor Richard’s Almanac. How, for instance, can one provide the maximum in high-value content within the available pages, while yet making the print large enough to read without a magnifying glass? As [...]

Karmic Balancing Acts

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:52:02 +0000

Writing to Atlantis Rising via snail mail or e-mail is the best, but not the only, way to make your views known to our readers. There are also “forums” on the Atlantis Rising web site. (Go to www.Atlantis Rising.com and select “Discussions.”) Karmic Woes I was disappointed in the article on karma, “Meeting the Karmic [...]

iNews

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:40:31 +0000

• An Invitation to Search for Alien Visitors on the Moon NASA scientists want to enlist online volunteers to identify signs of alien life in moon images collected by the agency’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Arizona State University physicists believe there may be signs of extra terrestrial life in the form of messages, scientific instruments, [...]

News

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:30:05 +0000

Turin Shroud is Real, Implies New Study The Shroud of Turin is “authentic.” That, at least, is the latest pronouncement from a group of Italian scientists who have undertaken a series of advanced tests on the purported burial shroud of Jesus. The 14-foot linen cloth, preserved in Italy’s Turin cathedral, has, for centuries, been a [...]

More News

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:27:49 +0000

2012 Opening for Pyramid’s Secret Doors Anticipated The question as to what’s behind the Great Pyramid’s secret doors could be finally answered in 2012, but, for now at least, the mystery and the controversy remain. While some, like Zahi Hawass, the flamboyant former leader of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, have announced that they expect [...]

Even More News

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:23:55 +0000

Air Force Pays to Search for ET on Kepler-22b With the recent discovery by NASA’s Kepler space telescope of Earth-size planets in orbit around distant stars, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, better known as SETI, has received a new lease on life, but not for the reasons you might think. It turns out that [...]

Still More News

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:13:25 +0000

Life Can Thrive on Mars: Underground While our familiar image of a frozen dusty Mars with little atmosphere may be somewhat forbidding, that is not to say that life on Mars is impossible. In fact, says a new study from Australian scientists, the Red Planet is not only livable, but could have more total habitable [...]

On the Eve of Destruction or the Threshold of Freedom?

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:58:09 +0000

From the Fukushima disaster onward, the past year was a rough ride. And then we’re told that an Earth-like planet was discovered. I agree with the Canadian radio announcer who said we have to travel to it speedily—to stop the primates from evolving. Seriously, it looks like our species is about to take an evolutionary [...]

The Long and Short of Yuga Cycles

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:52:00 +0000

Sedona, Arizona, is one of my favorite places. Coming there from Phoenix, you cross dry brown plains and hills, and then you suddenly enter into the mysteriously beautiful red rock buttes and canyons of Sedona. I first visited Sedona in the late 1960s, on a journey from the East Coast of the United States to [...]

Bracing for a Carrington Event

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:47:33 +0000

The year 1859 was a unique triple-header for science. In November, Charles Darwin published the bible of evolutionary biology, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. The previous summer, a less famous Englishman, Joseph Prestwich, for the first time confirmed a [...]

Secrets of the Mayans

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:44:28 +0000

With the recent discovery of a second calendar inscription that predicts the end of the world age in Mayan Mexico that culture has come under increased scrutiny. Up until November there had only been one calendar tablet, recovered from Tortuguero (see Frank Joseph’s article on page 22) that predicted the end of the fifth age. [...]

Egypt’s Animated Statues

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:38:50 +0000

The religious and history books of Egypt are filled with allusions to magical operations and ceremonies that are almost impossible to believe today, and one is the claim that initiated temple priests possessed a special knowledge that could make stone statues move and talk. Egyptians believed that every object, animate or inanimate, could be made [...]

Priest of the Grail

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:30:49 +0000

In the twentieth century, the tiny village of Tréhorenteuc, near the magical Forest of Brocéliande in France, was home to a visionary priest, who used his church as a canvas to paint the stories of King Arthur, the Round Table, and the Holy Grail. Unsurprisingly, he fell foul of the Church’s hierarchy, but, nevertheless, left [...]

From Ferocious to Fido?

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:27:35 +0000

Here we are again. We are in NatGeoland in 32,000 BC. We are about to be offered a profound scientific treatment of the origin of the domestic dog in the NatGeo special, And Man Created Dog. Wolves, we are told, had taken to hanging around human camps, picking up food scraps. This is a characteristic—peculiar [...]

Survival of a Different Kind

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:14:55 +0000

Several survivors of the Titanic disaster, 100 years ago April 15th, reported seeing William Thomas Stead at various places in the two hours, 40 minutes that elapsed between the time the floating palace on its maiden voyage hit an iceberg and then made its plunge to the bottom of the North Atlantic. All told of [...]