by Ashley Cowie Myths and heroes, angels and demons, monsters and nightmares all come from our collective unconscious. Parapsychology, alchemy and occult religious concepts can contribute to our understanding of the collective unconscious. These apparently fringe ideas are the bedrock to the scientific models of Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), the Swiss psychiatrist who … [Read more...]
The Virgin City
The mystery of Washington, D.C.’s astronomical alignments By Thomas Greanias Writing a conspiracy thriller in this age of fake news takes some real research. Even then, some facts can be too fantastic to believe. Years before I started writing fiction, I was a 22-year-old broadcast journalist in Washington, D.C. It was then and there that I first began noticing some … [Read more...]
Undetected Aliens – From the realm of Neurology?
by DAN GREEN For those who believe outright in aliens - beings not from our planet and most likely to be more advanced than the average earthling - proof could only arrive with discovery of alien DNA. As this is quite unlikely to happen, maybe we are at fault for setting our sights and expectations too high. However, could human beings with a different brain wiring be … [Read more...]
What is the meaning of life?
There are many Answers... All you need is love The Beatles knew what was up. When it comes down to it, there's nothing more important than love. It's what humanity has spent the last however many hundreds of thousands of years developing as an evolutionary advancement. It's what guides the best actions. Its absence is what guides the worst. I think there's something … [Read more...]
WASHINGTONOPLE – The Secret History of America’s capital
OFFICIAL NOTICE Portions of this white paper deemed compromising to the national security of the United States have been blacked out under an agreement between the publisher and the federal government. by Conrad Yeats, PhD @lantisTV CONTENTS 1 > Introduction 5 2 > Washingtonople 7 3 > Land of the Freemasons 8 4 > The Orion Beltway 10 … [Read more...]
THE LOST MERIDIAN OF THE KHMER KINGS
by Ashley Cowie Part 5/5 So far in this series of articles exploring the powerful Hindu-Buddhist Angkor Empire in Southeast Asia, we have examined the cosmological, symbolic and mythical components found within temple architecture. Now we will systematically reverse-engineer the temple builders methods of archaeoastronomy, as approved by professors such as Stencel, … [Read more...]
THE HYPER-SACRED GEOGRAPHY OF ANGKOR WAT
by Ashley Cowie The first article in this series demonstrated how the builders of Angkor Wat created a vast religious complex to serve a greater purpose than the worship of deities. The religious symbolism associated with mythological and cosmic order is reflected in the orientations of ancient buildings worldwide (e.g. Magli 2015), and Angkor Wat is no exception. Its … [Read more...]
VEDIC CREATION MYTHS AND KHMER SACRED ARCHITECTURE
by Ashley Cowie In Part 1 of this series of articles we explored the astronomical measurements underlying the Khmer Temples in Cambodia and saw how all of the architectural features frame the pilgrims progression towards the central vertical alignment at the fulcrum of the main temple, the exemplary centre. Part 2 This photograph from Angkor Thom is a great example … [Read more...]
CAMBODIA’S EXEMPLARY CENTRE OF TIME AND SPACE
by Ashley Cowie Angkor Wat - PART 1/3 In 2012 I spent time filming a documentary in Peru and recently published a series of articles unfolding the sacred geography or the Inca empire establishing their most important temple alignments and how their religious buildings synchronised with the passage of the sun on key dates in the Inca's agricultural, civic and ritual … [Read more...]
The Metaphorical Universe – We are Spiritual Information
By Ron O. Cook Deep within the psyche of all humans lives a desire for recognition of one's existence and prowess. In order to fulfill this desire within mankind, one finds the first step to position for recognition of who and what we are here in Time/Space or physicality. That step is the act of leveraging all physical aspects for power and control in every event sequence … [Read more...]
MYSTERIOUS TEMPLAR CAVE IS FAKE NEWS
by Ashley Cowie You can tell him (a lunatic) by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars. ? Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum Several journalists have been in touch with me this week to comment on the 'discovery' of the 'Templar' cave in … [Read more...]
ODIN’S VALKYRIES AND SCOTLAND’S VIKING MOON MAP
by Ashley Cowie My last article "The Solar Secret of Scotland's Magic Piper" featured a 30 feet (9 m) high grassy hillock called Sysa, which was located behind a cottage I had rented in Weydale, 3 miles east of Thurso in Caithness, in the north east coast of Scotland. This enigmatic grassy mound played a central role in an enduring local Celtic myth - The Piper of Windy Ha' … [Read more...]
Lincoln and Kennedy – Strange Coincidences
U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy are a piece of American folklore of unknown origin. The list of coincidences appeared in the mainstream American press in 1964, a year after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, having appeared prior to that in the G.O.P. Congressional Committee Newsletter. Martin Gardner examined the list in an article in Scientific … [Read more...]
Cognitive Illusions
Cognitive illusions arise from interaction of perceived reality with assumptions about the world (prior knowledge), leading to "unconscious inferences". Cognitive illusions rely on stored knowledge about the world (depth, rabbits, women) and are also under some degree of conscious control (we can generally reverse the perception at will). The way you look at an object can … [Read more...]
Physiological Illusions
Physiological illusions, such as the afterimages following bright lights or adapting stimuli of excessively longer alternating patterns (contingent perceptual aftereffect, CAE), are the effects on the eyes or brain of excessive stimulation of a specific type - brightness, tilt, colour, movement, and so on. The theory is that stimuli have individual dedicated neural paths in the … [Read more...]
Visual Illusions and Brain Teasers
An optical illusion is any illusion that deceives the human visual system into perceiving something that is not present or incorrectly perceiving what is present. -- Wikipedia Discover the world of optical illusions where your eyes and your brain can fool you. Here you will find some of the best illusions and brain teasers around (and related … [Read more...]
Mysteries of China – Terracotta Army
The Terracotta Army is regarded as one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century, and is famous around the world. But do you know who built it and how long it took to finish? Here we have listed the top 10 amazing facts you should know before you visit this UNESCO World Heritage Site. Since the discovery of the Terracotta Army, more than 8,000 soldiers, 130 … [Read more...]
Orienting Egyptian Pyramids
How the ancient Egyptians aligned their pyramids? Ancient Egyptian pyramids at Giza are precisely aligned to true North. What were the most likely methods used to orient these pyramids. Both "Stellar" and "Solar" methods of alignment are explained in this short article. Solar and Stellar methods of finding Cardinal Points Stretching the cord ceremony - … [Read more...]
Sacred Temples – Hidden Messages
Ancient writings contain detailed descriptions of temples that were never discovered. Have these temples ever existed? What was the message encoded in their architecture and dimensions? Ezekiel's Vision of a Temple (According to South Indian Temple Architecture) Ancient Linear Measuring Scale by T.L.Subash Chandira Bose, Sthapathi V.Raman and Jack … [Read more...]
The Four Elements of Alchemy
by Dennis William Hauck The Four Elements According to the ancients, the First Matter has a fourfold structure which they attributed to the existence of four archetypal forces or elements of creation which they named Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. Obviously, the Four Elements of the alchemists are not our everyday ideas of earth, water, air, and fire, which are only the … [Read more...]