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Issue Three - December 2005

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Issue Three - December 2005

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CONTENTS

GREG TAYLOR

Editorial

December 2005

I t’s December already, what a year! Person-

Columns:

ally, it’s ﬂown by – self-publishing and pro-

moting my book The Guide to Dan Brown’s

The Solomon Key (and then signing up for

a ‘real’ publishing deal), launching Sub Rosa ,

continuing the daily updates to our news site

“ The Daily Grail” (www.dailygrail.com) and also

adding new web resources such as our wiki

“The Red Pill” (redpill.dailygrail.com) and our

‘raw feed’ alternative to the Grail, “The Un-

derground Stream of Consciousness” (stream.

dailygrail.com) . All this while having two small

children to love and care for!

Why so busy? Simply put, because research-

ing and publishing on these subjects is what I live

for. The various resources we’ve created, which I

mentioned above, allow us now to focus on pre-

senting alternative topics in a number of formats,

from daily news briefs, beautiful magazine pres-

entations and published books, to user-submit-

ted and managed news and information via ‘the

Stream’ and ‘The Red Pill’.

On the downside to such immersion in the

ﬁeld, is the problem of earning a living and sup-

porting my family. I am not a commercially minded

person, and hate the idea of ‘selling out’. Howev-

er, hopefully we are setting up a structure which

allows us to continue working on these topics.

On “The Daily Grail”, we now have Google Ads,

which are (usually!) topical advertisements based

on the keywords found on the website. From

what we’ve seen so far, many readers ﬁnd these

a helpful addition, with solid click-through rates

on a regular basis. Here in Sub Rosa , we have a

growing number of advertisers who – once again

– provide topical ads which I’m sure many read-

ers are very interested in. The support of these

advertisers is what allows us to keep churning out

issues, so please support them in return if you

ﬁnd their ad interesting!

Beyond that, we also now accept donations to

help support the magazine, with a view to eventu-

ally getting it into print. If you’re not in a ﬁnancial

position to offer a donation, why not help out in

some other way – for example, passing on the

web link to your friends or online communities,

or even printing out a few ﬂyers and distributing

them? The great resource we have is our com-

munity – if everyone did just a little bit, the results

would be massive. In order to ascertain whether

going to print would be a worthwhile option,

please visit the Daily Grail (www.dailygrail.com)

and vote in the poll we have there.

Also, from Issue 4 we will have a ‘letters’ sec-

tion (more correctly, email), so if you have any

feedback or comments to make, please email us

via subrosa@dailygrail.com. We also welcome

any submissions of book, music or DVD reviews

– we can’t pay, but we will certainly credit you.

Enough with the small talk – we’ve got an-

other huge issue packed full of content waiting for

you, so dive right in (after you go vote in the poll

of course!) . . .

Greg Taylor

Ian Lawton

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Cover Story:

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This issue’s cover feature

is on visionary artist Alex

Grey; not only one of the

foremost artists of our time,

but also an eloquent and

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subjects of art, mysticism

and society in general.

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News

by Rick Gned

New Mexico Circles Explained

Symbols point to Scientology bunker

News Briefs

G iant symbols have been

Harvard Psychologist

Debunks Abductions

their beliefs of alien abduction because of

sleep paralysis, a harmless but nonetheless

frightening desynchronization of sleep cycles.

“You wake up from REM sleep but you still feel

the paralysis that normally accompanies REM

sleep,” said Clancy.

She also writes that alien abductions are imag-

ined by fantasy-prone day-dreamers. “There’s this

widely shared cultural script that helps explain

these frightening sleep paralysis experiences,” she

said. “I think these recovered memories are actu-

ally distorted memories of things they had read

about or seen . . . [ they] began only after they

were featured on TV and in the movies. Abduc-

tion accounts did not exist prior to 1962.”

Will Bueche is an abductee who worked

with Harvard psychiatrist Dr John Mack, who

became convinced of a ‘reality’ underlying the

abduction experience. Bueche says Clancy’s

theories cannot fully explain what he’s experi-

enced. “I think her book comes close to the

truth in many ways, but it isn’t able to see the

potential out there for another breakthrough in

how we see reality,” he said.

David Jacobs, an associate professor of his-

tory at Temple University, who teaches a class

called UFOs and American Society, thinks

Clancy’s work is a typical debunking book.

“This is junk social science, and there is a

certain condescending quality to it,” he said. “All

debunkers make one or more of the following

mistakes: They ignore the data, they distort the

data or they don’t know the data.”

After receiving hate-mail and an an-

gry backlash from believers, Susan Clancy

says she is ﬁnished with studying the alien

abduction phenomenon.

“All you can do is argue that they’re im-

probable and that the evidence adduced by the

believer is insufﬁcient to justify the belief,” she

wrote. “Ultimately, then, the existence of ETs is

a matter of opinion, and the believers have their

own opinions, based on ﬁrsthand experience.”

found carved in the New

Mexico landscape. Resem-

bling the patterns etched into the

Nazca plains of Peru, they have

had some speculating about crop

circles of extraterrestrial origin.

The truth is a lot stranger.

The landscape symbols make up

the logo of the Church of Scien-

tology, and are aerial signposts

marking an underground com-

plex, including a vault built into

a mountainside protecting the

works of the Church’s founder,

the late science-ﬁction author L.

Ron Hubbard.

The Church has acknowledged

that an underground archive of

Hubbard’s works exists, which

includes stainless steel tablets

engraved with Hubbard’s writ-

ing, encased in heat-resistant ti-

tanium capsules and playable on

a solar-powered turntable. It was

constructed in the late 1980s at a

cost of US$2.5million.

According to former Church

of Scientology members, the logo

is a signpost for Church members

traveling from the future and oth-

er parts of the universe.

Bruce Hines is a former mem-

ber of the Church of Scientology,

and says the report sounds cor-

rect: “The fact that they would

etch this into the desert to be

seen from space, it ﬁts into the

whole ideology.”

Chuck Beatty, another former

member, says there are two other

underground vaults in California,

designed to withstand nuclear

war and remain intact for future

generations, and reincarnated

current members, to rediscover.

Studies of Antarctic ice

cores have revealed that

levels of carbon dioxide in

the Earth’s atmosphere are

now 27 percent higher than

they’ve been at any point in

the past 650,000 years.

“Nobody is being abducted by aliens”

Light-sensitive bacteria has

been developed as a unique

kind of photographic ﬁlm.

Taking 4 hours to form a

picture in red light only, it

has extremely high resolu-

tion – 100 megapixels per

square inch!

psychology at Harvard University, has at-

tempted to disprove alien abductions as

nothing but hallucinations and products of sleep

paralysis in a new book, Abducted: How People

Come To Believe They Were Kidnapped By Aliens .

Clancy believes alien abductees develop

false memories of traumatic events. “As far as

science knows, nobody is being abducted by

aliens,” she stressed. “One of the most bitter

and volatile debates ever to occur in psychology

concerns the reality of repressed and recovered

memories of traumatic events.”

Clancy arrived at Harvard in 1996, and

started her research on false memories by

studying victims of sexual abuse. Her work was

controversial, and she was accused of trying to

discredit victims and help the offenders.

It was about this time that the Harvard

Medical School began investigating the research

methods of Pulitzer Prize-winning psychiatrist

John Mack, who studied the alien abduction phe-

nomenon extensively. Along with her advisor,

Harvard psychologist Richard McNally, Clancy

decided to disprove the methods of Mack, and

demonstrate that alien abduction stories were

ﬁgments of the imagination.

Placing an ad in the local paper asking for alien

abductees, Clancy received hundreds of enquir-

ies, the majority from journalists wondering what

the story was. She selected 50 potential abduct-

ees. Clancy says that the people who recovered

memories of alien abductions were seldom psy-

chologically impaired. “They’re normal, very nice

people with no overt psychopathology.”

Clancy thinks many abductees developed

An African-British man re-

fused to give a blood sample

after police pulled him over

for erratic driving, claim-

ing that as a witch-doctor,

it would turn him into a

zombie. He was cleared of

drink-driving, but lost his

license for 18-months for

refusing to give a sample.

(Source: washingtonpost.com)

Radar Reveals Martian Ice

Water may be trapped in underground cavity

An Australian hunter’s

claim of shooting dead a

panther in the Gippsland

bush has been dismissed

after DNA tests revealed

the animal is an ordinary

feral domestic cat.

A radar antenna aboard

Europe’s Mars Express

spacecraft has probed

two kilometers below the sur-

face of Mars and found the best

evidence so far of liquid water

deep underground.

Scientists believe an impact

crater lies between 1.5 and 2.5

kilometres below the surface of

the Chryse Planitia area of Mars,

buried beneath volcanic ash or

soil several billion years ago. The

crater’s location is in a basin where

ancient rivers once ﬂowed. “If the

water could be captured in a ba-

sin and preserved for several bil-

lion years, it may still be there,”

says MARSIS co-leader Jeff Plaut of

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

in Pasadena, California, US.

The signal reﬂected from the

bottom of the crater is so strong

and appears so ﬂat that it may

be liquid water. “If you put water

there, that’s what the signal might

look like,” says William T K John-

son, MARSIS manager at NASA’s

Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pa-

sadena, California, US.

Seven stones sacred to the

Native Americans of New

Mexico are to be relocat-

ed due to the construc-

tion of a new road. Deco-

rated with petroglyphs,

it’s believed the stones

will lose their signiﬁcance

and connection to the sa-

cred Earth, despite the at-

tention and care given to

their relocation.

(Source: news.bbc.co.uk)

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S usan Clancy, a postdoctoral fellow in

News

A Bosnian explorer claims

News Briefs

A n American archaeologi-

News Briefs

tradict skeptical claims.”

Numerous multiple tiers of

blocks were discovered, including

one set of three on top of each

other. However Dr Little said

the most deﬁnitive evidence was

found under the massive blocks.

“We found rectangular slabs of

smooth, cut stone literally stacked

under several blocks. These were

used as leveling prop stones. This

is proof that the so-called Bimini

Road was a breakwater forming

an ancient harbour.”

“While the ﬁnds are deﬁni-

tive,” says Little, “the real prob-

lem is that a few skeptics wrote

articles asserting the main for-

mation was simply natural lime-

stone. A hoax was perpetrated

at Bimini by the skeptics, but you

have to examine a 1978 report

to understand it. Academic ar-

chaeologists and geologists don’t

read that report. They cite later

summaries, which are based on

falsiﬁed data. The hoax is a dis-

grace, but it’s been actively sup-

ported by key people.”

to have located a buried

pyramid in the heart of

Europe, in his Balkan home-

land. Semir Osmanagic, who

has spent the last 15 years

studying the pyramids of

Central and South America,

has been drawn to a pyramid-

like hill overlooking the cen-

tral Bosnian town of Visoko.

“It has all the elements: four

perfectly shaped slopes pointing

toward the cardinal points, a ﬂat

top and an entrance complex,” he

said. “We have already dug out

stone blocks which I believe are

covering the pyramid. We found

a paved entrance plateau and dis-

covered underground tunnels.

You don’t have to be an expert to

realize what this is.”

Osmanagic calls the new dis-

An international effort to

investigate the nature of

dark energy has deter-

mined that the mysterious

force has remained con-

stant over the life of the

universe, rather than fad-

ing away as some hypoth-

eses suggest.

cal team led by William

Donato and organised by

Dr Greg Little has conﬁrmed

limestone artifacts submerged in

shallow water 50 meters off the

Miami coast are the remains of an

ancient harbour.

In May 2005 the team inves-

tigated a mile-long formation of

stones, initially from the air, and

later through dives. Large blocks

of limestone arranged in circu-

lar patterns were found, spaced

at regular intervals. “These ﬁnds

took us by surprise,” stated Dr.

Greg Little. “The circles may be

similar to ancient Mediterranean

harbour mooring circles.”

A mile from this site is the con-

troversial Bimini Road, a J-shaped

underwater formation of stone

blocks, declared by many skeptics

to be a hoax. Two stone anchors

were also found in the 1800-foot-

long Bimini Road, including sev-

eral other artifacts.

“One of these is identical to un-

usual ancient Greek anchors found

at Thera,” Little related. “But the

most important ﬁnds directly con-

Ancient stone tools found

at a site overlooking the

Mojave River Valley may

be as old as 135,000 years,

casting doubt on the Ber-

ing Strait migration theory.

covery “the Bosnian pyramid

of the sun”, a reference to the

famous pyramid at Teotihua-

can, Mexico. The hill is precisely

aligned to the cardinal directions,

and stands some 70 meters (230

feet) high. Osmanagic believes

the hill was shaped by the Il-

lyrian people, who inhabited

the Balkan peninsula long be-

fore Slavic tribes conquered it

around AD 600.

Richard Carrigan, a par-

ticle physicist at the US

Fermi National Accelera-

tor Laboratory in Illinois,

believes scientists search-

ing space for signals from

extraterrestrial civiliza-

tions are putting Earth’s

security at risk, by distrib-

uting the jumble of signals

they receive to computers

all over the world.

Scientists monitoring

earth movements in Ant-

arctica have discovered

icebergs sing. Sound waves

at a frequency of 0.5 hertz

are too low for human

ears, but playing them at

a higher speed causes the

icebergs to sound like a

swarm of bees or an or-

chestra warming up.

Ancient anchors made

from acacia wood used for

Roman ships have been

found on the receding

shores of the Dead Sea,

preserved by natural salt

for more than 2000 years.

(Source: news.bbc.co.uk)

In July 2005 a small primate

skull was discovered in the

desert of Taﬁlalet, near

Morocco. Named Homo

alaouite , it has since been

claimed the skull could be

as old as 360-million-years.

H wang Woo-Suk, South

of teams doing so, to avoid the

possibility of coercion.

“I feel so sorry to speak about

such shameful and miserable

things to you people,” Hwang

Woo-Suk told a press confer-

ence. “I again sincerely apolo-

gise for having caused concern at

home and abroad.”

He maintains that when two

researchers offered their eggs, he

refused to use them. However,

the junior researchers donated

their eggs under false names in

2003. Hwang says he later found

out the truth but lied about it be-

cause the women asked him to

do so to protect their privacy.

Korea’s pioneer of

cloning technology, has

resigned from his official posi-

tion during landmark research

to grow human embryonic

stem cells from a cloned em-

bryo, after admitting to ethical

and scientific problems with

his research.

The respected scientist admit-

ted that junior members of the

research team donated their own

eggs, and that other women were

paid by members of his team to

supply eggs – both without his

knowledge. The donation of eggs

carries a small risk of contaminat-

ing the research results, and ethi-

cal rules forbid junior members

The Japanese Hayabusa

probe successfully landed

on the Itokawa asteroid

290 million kilometers

from Earth and became

the ﬁrst ever to take sam-

ples, but it has now been

hit by more technical trou-

ble, and the mission may

end in failure.

Star Anise, an obscure lico-

rice-ﬂavoured spice used

in Chinese cuisine, may be

the new weapon against

Bird Flu. Star Anise is the

primary source of shikimic

acid used to produce osel-

tamivir phosphate, better

known as the brand-name

Tamiﬂu.

(Source: I-Newswire.com)

A team of archaeologists

from Sheffield University

have revealed significant

new insights into the role of

Stonehenge after discovering a

prehistoric ceremonial road.

The new discovery proves

there was a walkway between a

henge (a circular momument) at

Durrington Walls, and the River

Avon, three miles away, blowing

a hole in the theory the stand-

ing stones at Stonehenge were a

one-off feature.

The new ﬁnd supports the

team’s theory that Stonehenge

was in fact just one part of a much

larger complex of stone and tim-

ber circles linked by ceremonial

avenues to the river, and that it’s

primary role was as a funerary

monument.

Scientists at Rutgers, the

State University of New

Jersey and collaborating in-

stitutions claim that global

ocean levels are rising twice

as fast today as they were

150 years ago, and global

warming caused by human

activities is to blame.

National Enquirer journal-

ist and ufologist Robert

Pratt passed away on

November 25th, aged 79.

Pratt was author of the

book Night Siege: The Hud-

son Valley UFO Sightings.

(Source: www.news cientist.com)

(Source: www.u foreview.net)

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Pyramid Found in Europe?

Bimini Discovery Proved Right?

Cloning Pioneer Quits

New Stonehenge Discovery

Columns

GREG TAYLOR

Columns

The Afterlife

Aftermath

nection to the new book:

I was warned that when you become a public

ﬁgure that people will come out of the woodwork

to proﬁt from you. Well I guess I’m no exception.

One person who has been included on shows with

me that I do not endorse is Dr. Gary Schwartz. I

was disappointed to ﬁnd out that the four years

that I spent in the lab for “science” are, in my

view, being misused by Dr. Schwartz – even after

I expressed my disapproval . . .

. . . Participating in lab studies with Dr.

Schwartz was never to be a for-proﬁt venture. I

always understood that we were participating in

scientiﬁc studies to help us and the world gain a

better understanding of our abilities...I was prom-

ised complete conﬁdentiality and anonymity in

how Dr. Schwartz and the University would re-

port the results of these studies.

. . . What I do is not a carnival sideshow

attraction, nor a morning tea leaf reading. So

please don’t confuse other people’s attempts to

proﬁt from the gifts of mediums like myself . . .

as having our endorsement. (from http://www.al-

lisondubois.com/news.html )

effort should have been made to resolve the

dispute? Dr Schwartz’s research is probably the

only thing which currently gives mediums any

scientiﬁc respectability, so publicly rebuking the

author of those experiments is not going to help

with credibility – either the researcher can’t be

trusted, or his top medium can’t be trusted. An-

ybody interested in research into ‘fringe’ topics

knows the delicate line being walked between

honest exploration, and the mineﬁeld of public

perception . . . a few negative sentences can pro-

vide enough ammunition to destroy the good

work of months of meticulous research. Randi

must be a very happy man at the moment . . .

I n this issue of Sub Rosa , a number of col-

but that he himself fell into his errors carelessly,

willingly, and eagerly.”

The acrimonius ‘debate’ between Dr Schwartz

and James Randi has continued over a number

of years, with both sides accusing the other of

underhandedness and of spreading untruths.

Enough, certainly, on the part of James Randi to

keep a cloud hanging over Dr Schwartz’s results,

once again marginalizing any possible debate on

the question of whether these

mediums really do have the ability

to ‘talk to the dead’.

Surely this is an important

question, and we would all be

served by a far more compre-

hensive discussion on the mer-

its of the research. It is hard to

fault Dr Schwartz, as his replies

to Randi’s accusations have been

well thought out, calm responses

on a point-by-point basis. But

sadly, all Randi has to do is pub-

licly rebuke the research and the

debate is automatically stiﬂed.

Unfortunately this is now a sit-

uation likely to deteriorate, rath-

er than improve, after a surpris-

ing statement appeared recently on the website

of the medium du jour, Allison Dubois. Dubois,

who has a hit television series based on her life

( Medium , starring Patricia Arquette), has taken

offence at a new book by Dr Schwartz which fo-

cuses on his lab work with her (titled The Truth

About Medium) . Dubois – whom Dr Schwartz

has previously dubbed a ‘Michael Jordan’ of psy-

chics – has disavowed any endorsement or con-

umns and articles take a look at the scien-

tiﬁc evidence for the survival of conscious-

ness after death. Though hardly a ‘boom

industry’, there is certainly a growing amount

of evidence and research programs which are

offering support to the hypothesis – from the

reincarnation research of Dr Ian Stevenson, to

the Near-Death Experience testing being done

by Peter Fenwick, Sam Parnia,

and others.

One of the more controver-

sial areas of research has been

the ‘afterlife experiments’ con-

ducted by Dr Gary Schwartz at

the University of Arizona. Un-

der controlled laboratory con-

ditions, Schwartz tested high-

proﬁle mediums to see if they

were able to make contact with

‘the beyond’ and ascertain pri-

vate details of selected ‘sitters’.

His conclusion, astoundingly,

was that they could.

Soon after, Schwartz pub-

lished a book, titled The Af-

terlife Experiments , which de-

scribed the history and thinking behind this set

of tests. Needless to say, high-proﬁle media

skeptics/cynics such as James Randi were not

impressed. Indeed, what followed was a series

of vicious attacks from Randi via his weekly In-

ternet newsletter for the James Randi Educa-

tional Foundation (JREF). He labelled Schwartz

a believer in the Tooth Fairy, a self-promoter

who had been “deceived by clever performers,

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 .

One of the more

controversial

areas of research

has been

the ‘afterlife

experiments’

conducted by Dr

Gary Schwartz at

the University of

Arizona

This statement will surely be grist to the mill for

skeptics such as Randi, enabling them to throw

further doubts over Schwartz’s trustworthiness

by labelling him a proﬁteer, and likely sounding

a virtual death knell for any acceptance of the

‘afterlife experiments’.

Should Dubois have made a public state-

ment, considering the difﬁculties already facing

afterlife research in establishing credibility? On

the one hand, it’s difﬁcult to fault her – after

all, if mediums are seeking credibility then one

would expect to hear the truth from them, no

matter even if they are attacking one of their

greatest supporters. Additionally, if she was

promised complete conﬁdentiality, then she

has every right to complain about being the fo-

cus of the new book. Alternatively, some might

question Dubois’ claim of not being a ‘carnival

sideshow’, considering she seems very happy to

have a television series based on her life? A re-

cent response to her claims by Dr Schwartz (see

http://veritas.arizona.edu/TRUTH ) has

also thrown further doubts over her account.

Perhaps before going public some greater

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