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Edgar Cayce Dream Research Project Calls for ParticipationThe Edgar Cayce Institute for Intuitive Studies (ECIIS) has prepared, in honor of the 30th

anniversary of the A.R.E. Dream Research Project, a new, updated dream project. The

original A.R.E. project was the first anywhere to demonstrate that people can makeconstructive use of their dreams, on their own, without professional help. TheAssociation for the Study of Dreams recognized this project as having helped spark thenational dreamwork movement some years back. This movement has led to thedeprofessionalism of dreams, rescuing them from the exclusive province of thepsychotherapy office, and into the creative lives of people everywhere.The success of the A.R.E. Dream Research Project rested upon the projects use of EdgarCayces suggestions for learning to interpret dreams. The focus was upon applying dreaminsights for intuitive guidance concerning practical purposes. The key finding of thestudy was that when people applied a dream insight on a given day, the next day peoplehad clearer dream recall, with dreams easier to understand. The study also showed that

people are indeed capable of using their dreams to make constructive innovations in theirlives.ECIIS is now making available a vastly enlarged and improved dream guidance manual,together with other tools to aid the dreamer in pursuing the goals of this research project.The purpose of the project is to learn how the types of questions posed by dreamersrelates to the type of dream guidance received, and how this relationship is affected byhow well the dreamer applies the dream insights.The project is available at three levels of participation, requiring different levels ofinvestment of energy and providing differing levels of support for the dreamer in pursuitof dream guidance during the project. For further details, go seehttp://www.edgarcayce-intuitionschool.com/dreams

Egypt is the Child of AtlantisAccording toEdgar Cayces story of pre-history, ancient Egypt came about as a result ofpeople leaving Atlantis during the period of its destructions. Using evidence based uponastronomy and mythology, one researcher has come to a similar conclusion. In his bookEgypt: Child of Atlantis: A Radical Interpretation of the Origins of Civilization (Bear&Co.), John Gordon, a senior fellow of the Theosophical Society of England, traces someof the Egyptian religious beliefs and practices to a pre-existing worldview that can beattributed to Atlantis.

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Book of Matthew Suggests Miracle TheoryIn Matthew 14:13-20 there is told the story of Jesus and the fishes and loaves. In TheTwelve Conditions of a Miracle: The Miracle Workers Handbook (Tarcher/Putnam),Todd Michael divulges the secret message he has found in this scripture concerning themystery of miracles. Through a transformation of consciousness that he calls The Alpha
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Passage, a person can switch from the experience of being a victim of circumstance tobeing a co-creator of reality, capable of working miracles. His list of the twelveconditions of miracles, each based upon a phrase from the scripture, resembles Caycesapproach in most respects. It is as follows:

1) Emptiness: Calmly release whatever you are withholding from the world: Giving

creates a vacuum for more to flow in.2) Alignment: Shift to a mind-set of compassion and the greater good; move fromconcern over yourself to the concerns of others.

3) Asking: Clarify your needs. If you dont clearly put your request into words, theuniverse wont know how to respond.

4) Maximizing: Make full use of your existing tools, resources, and blessings.Whatever you focus on expands.

5) Giving: What flows away from you flows back magnified: Become a joyful giver.6) Grounding: Experience the present moment as much as possible. A solid

grounding in the present establishes a firm base from which to actand receive.7) Visualizing: Using all of your senses, see and feel yourself having the feelings

and experiences that form the basis of your wish.8) Gratitude. Bless your resources. Express your feelings of gratitude in words.9) Acting as if: Stop procrastinating. Take the leap of faith and act as though your

new reality has already manifested.10) Engaging the cycle: When you receive, immediately look for a way to give

something back. Work with the circular energy flow that characterizes ouruniverse.

11) Receiving: Eat and be filled. The art of adequate receiving is often overlooked.12) Recycling: Gather up the fragments: Reuse all of your physical resources.

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A.R.E. Cooperating Psychics Get NoticedFor some years, as part of the Edgar Cayce Legacy conference on psychic development,the A.R.E. has invited professional psychics to participate in a qualifying process to serveas an A.R.E. cooperating psychic in the conference. The list of psychics is available fromA.R.E. and can be found on Google by entering field tested psychics. Now this list, andthe testing process that allowed these psychics to get onto this exclusive list, has found itsway into a new book on psychic development.In the bookBecoming Psychic: Spiritual Lessons for Focusing Your Hidden Abilities(New Page Books), Stephen Kierulff, Ph.D., and Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. describe five

ways of uncovering your psychic abilities by applying them to specific tasks, as well asthe spiritual lessons involved. In the context of explaining how consulting professionalpsychics might play a role in a persons own development, the authors devote a specialsection to the Edgar Cayce program involving cooperating psychics.

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Younger Odors Help Older Women Attract Affection
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In our ongoing coverage of research on the power of odors (which Cayce indicated wasthe most powerful physical stimulus to affect us), new research on female pheromessuggests their usefulness for post-menopausal women. Researchers at Harvard Universityadded a pherome substance obtained from younger womens armpits to perfume worn byone group of post-menopausal women, while a control group of older women wore this

same perfume, but without the added pherome.Those older women who wore the pherome-enhanced perfume, according to the resultspublished in The Journal of Sex Research, experienced significantly more romantic andphysically intimate moments with their partners than did the women wearing the perfumewithout the added pheromes.

Sex pheromone spray boosts senior romance

19:00 26 January 2005 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition Andy Coghlan

A mystery chemical that young women deploy as a sex attractant pheromone seems to work for post-menopausal women too.

Joan Friebely of Harvard University, US, and Susan Rako, a private physician in Newton,Massachusetts, US, have studied 44 post-menopausal women. Half added Athena Pheromone 10:13,originally isolated from a woman's armpit sweat, to their perfume while half added a dummycompound. Neither the women nor the researchers knew who was in each group until the results werein.

In diaries kept by the women for six weeks, 41% of pheromone users reported more petting, kissingand affection with partners compared with 14% receiving the placebo. Overall, 68% of pheromoneusers reported increases in at least one of four "intimate socio-sexual behaviours" such as formal

dates and sex, as against 41% on the placebo.

But the pheromone's discoverer, biologist Winnifred Cutler, is keeping its identity secret until patentshave been granted to Cutler's Athena Institute for Women's Wellness Research in Chester Springs,Pennsylvania, US. "It's still a mystery substance being applied to individuals at unknownconcentrations," says George Preti of the Monell Chemical Senses Centre in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.

Friebely and Rako say they have no financial interest in the product.

Journal reference: The Journal of Sex Research (vol 41, p 372)

Link: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6926&print=true

New Evidence Confirms Human Sacrifice by Aztecs and MayansWhereas it had become common to attribute stories of human sacrifice by Aztecs andMayans as exaggerations intended to defame the natives and justify their conquest,evidence has been mounting that the stories are true. A news report publicized bywww.schwartzreport.net details the latest findings by archaeologists digging north ofMexico City, who uncovered physical evidence that proves some of the fabled methods
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of torture and sacrifice. Researchers now suspect that the original stories of brutalmethods are true, but that the numbers of people so sacrificed may be what has beenexaggerated.

New findings changethinking on human sacrifices

Archaeologists: Practice often involved children,brutal method

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- It has long been a matter ofcontention: Was the Aztec and Mayan practice ofhuman sacrifice as widespread and horrifying asthe history books say? Or did the Spanishconquerors overstate it to make the Indians look

primitive?

In recent years, archaeologists have been uncoveringmounting physical evidence that corroborates the Spanishaccounts in substance, if not number.

Using high-tech forensic tools, archaeologists are proving that pre-Hispanic sacrifices often involved childrenand a broad array of intentionally brutal killing methods.

For decades, many researchers believed Spanish accounts from the 16th and 17th centuries were biased todenigrate Indian cultures. Others argued that sacrifices were largely confined to captured warriors, while stillothers conceded the Aztecs were bloody, but believed the Maya were less so.

"We now have the physical evidence to corroborate the written and pictorial record," archaeologist LeonardoLopez Lujan said. "Some 'pro-Indian' currents had always denied this had happened. They said the textsmust be lying."

The Spaniards probably did exaggerate the sheer numbers of victims to justify a supposedly righteous waragainst idolatry, said David Carrasco, a Harvard Divinity School expert on Meso-American religion.

But there is no longer as much doubt about the nature of the killings. Indian pictorial texts known as"codices," as well as Spanish accounts from the time, quote Indians describing multiple forms of humansacrifice.

Victims had their hearts cut out or were decapitated, shot full of arrows, clawed, sliced to death, stoned,crushed, skinned, buried alive or tossed from the tops of temples.

Children were said to be frequent victims, in part because they were considered pure and unspoiled.

"Many people said, 'We can't trust these codices because the Spaniards were describing all these horriblethings,' which in the long run we are confirming," said Carmen Pijoan, a forensic anthropologist who believesbutcher-like cut marks on bones from a pre-Aztec culture indicate cannibalism.

In December, at an excavation in an Aztec-era community in Ecatepec, just north of Mexico City,archaeologist Nadia Velez Saldana described finding evidence of human sacrifice associated with the god ofdeath.

Archaeologists conduct excavationsin Ecatepec, Mexico.

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"The sacrifice involved burning or partially burning victims," Velez Saldana said. "We found a burial pit withthe skeletal remains of four children who were partially burned, and the remains of four other children thatwere completely carbonized."

Although the remains don't show whether the victims were burned alive, there are depictions of people --apparently alive -- being held down as they are burned.

The dig turned up other clues to support descriptions of sacrifices in the Magliabecchi codex, a pictorialaccount painted between 1600 and 1650 that includes human body parts stuffed into cooking dishes, andpeople sitting around eating, as the god of death looks on.

"We have found cooking dishes just like that," said archaeologist Luis Manuel Gamboa. "And, next to somefull skeletons, we found some incomplete, segmented human bones."

However, researchers don't know whether those remains were cannibalized.

The Maya, whose culture peaked farther east about 400 years before the Aztecs founded Mexico City in1325, had a similar taste for sacrifice, Harvard University anthropologist David Stuart wrote in a 2003 article.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, "The first researchers tried to make a distinction between the

'peaceful' Maya and the 'brutal' cultures of central Mexico," Stuart wrote. "They even tried to say humansacrifice was rare among the Maya."

But in carvings and mural paintings, he said, "we have now found more and greater similarities between theAztecs and Mayas," including a Maya ceremony in which a costumed priest is shown pulling the entrailsfrom a bound and apparently living sacrificial victim.

Some Spanish-era texts have yet to be corroborated with physical remains. They describe Aztec priestssacrificing children and adults by sealing them in caves or drowning them. But the assumption now is thatthe texts appear trustworthy in description, if not necessarily in number, said Lopez Lujan, who also works atthe Templo Mayor site.

For Lopez Lujan, confirmation has come in the form of advanced chemical tests on the stucco floors ofAztec temples, which were found to have been soaked with iron, albumen and genetic material consistentwith human blood.

"It's now a question of quantity," said Lopez Lujan, who thinks the Spaniards -- and Indian picture-bookscribes working under their control -- exaggerated the number of sacrifice victims, claiming in one case that80,400 people were sacrificed at a temple inauguration in 1487.

"We're not finding anywhere near that ... even if we added some zeros," Lopez Lujan said.

Researchers have largely discarded the old theory that sacrifice and cannibalism were motivated by aprotein shortage in the Aztec diet, though some still believe it may have been a method of populationcontrol.

Pre-Hispanic cultures believed the world would end if the sacrifices were not performed. Sacrificial victims,

meanwhile, were often treated as gods themselves before being killed.

"It is really very difficult for us to conceive," Pijoan said of the sacrifices. "It was almost an honor for them."

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Russian DNA Research Has Paranormal ImplicationsUsing sound and laser light, researchers in Russia have found that DNA is able torespond to vibrational stimuli by changing the informational rules that govern its
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chemically transmitted communicative behavior. They also have found that DNA cantransmit their informational patterns (and thus the genetic instructions) to other DNA bysome type of vibrational or energetic method.According to a report circulating on the internet, The researchers have used thismethodology to explore some incredible ideas. For one, they believe that the structure of

human language (known to be innate) and the communicative structure of DNA areanalogous. They have shown that DNA can respond to human language, followinstructions, and thus allow influence of deep bodily processes, including genetics,through mental means. They have also found that they can achieve by non-intrusivevibrational methods the same effect as Western scientists who affect genetic function bytransplanting genetic material from one DNA strand to another. The report implies thatthe Russians have found that DNA has many of the qualities associated with quartzcrystals, capable of paranormal communication.

PARANORMAL STUNNER: RECENT RUSSIAN DNA DISCOVERIES EXPLAIN SO-CALLEDHUMAN 'PARANORMAL' EVENTS USING EASY-TO-UNDERSTAND TERMINOLOGY ANDSCIENCE -

Summarized by Baerbel,Edited and translated,Monday, January 24, 2005Esoteric and spiritual teachers have known for ages that our body is programmable by language,

words and thought. This has now been scientifically proven and explained.The human DNA is a biological Internet and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. Thelatest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance,intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusuallight/auras around people (namely spiritual masters), mind's influence on weather patterns andmuch more.In addition, there is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be influencedand reprogrammed by words and frequencies WITHOUT cutting out and replacing single genes.Only 10% of our DNA is being used for building proteins. It is this subset of DNA that is of interest

to western researchers and is being examined and categorized. The other 90% are considered"junk DNA."The Russian researchers, however, convinced that nature was not dumb, joined linguists and

geneticists in a venture to explore that 90% of "junk DNA." Their results, findings and conclusionsare simply revolutionary! According to there findings, our DNA is not only responsible for theconstruction of our body but also serves as data storage and communication. The Russianlinguists found that the genetic code - especially in the apparent "useless" 90% - follows the samerules as all our human languages.To this end they compared the rules of syntax (the way in which words are put together to form

phrases and sentences), semantics (the study of meaning in language forms) and the basic rulesof grammar. They found that the alkalines of our DNA follow a regular grammar and do have setrules just like our languages. Therefore, human languages did not appear coincidentally but are areflection of our inherent DNA.The Russian biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev and his colleagues also explored

the vibrational behavior of DNA. In brief the bottom line was: "Living chromosomes function justlike a holographic computer using endogenous DNA laser radiation." This means that theymanaged, for example, to modulate certain frequency patterns (sound) onto a laser-like ray whichinfluenced DNA frequency and thus the genetic information itself.Since the basic structure of DNA-alkaline pairs and of language (as explained earlier) is of the

same structure, no DNA decoding is necessary. One can simply use words and sentences of thehuman language! This, too, was experimentally proven! Living DNA substance (in living tissue,not in vitro) will always react to language-modulated laser rays and even to radio waves, if theproper frequencies (sound) are being used.


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This finally and scientifically explains why affirmations, hypnosis and the like can have suchstrong effects on humans and their bodies. It is entirely normal and natural for our DNA to react tolanguage. While western researchers cut single genes from DNA strands and insert themelsewhere, the Russians enthusiastically created devices that influence cellular metabolismthrough modulated radio and light frequencies, thus repairing genetic defects.They even captured information patterns of a particular DNA and transmitted it onto another,

thus reprogramming cells to another genome. So they successfully transformed, for example, frogembryos to salamander embryos simply by transmitting the DNA information patterns! This waythe entire information was transmitted without any of the side effects or disharmoniesencountered when cutting out and re-introducing single genes from the DNA.This represents an unbelievable, world-transforming revolution and sensation: by simply applying

vibration (sound frequencies) and language instead of the archaic cutting-out procedure! Thisexperiment points to the immense power of wave genetics, which obviously has a greaterinfluence on the formation of organisms than the biochemical processes of alkaline sequences.Esoteric and spiritual teachers have known for ages that our body is programmable by language,

words and thought. This has now been scientifically proven and explained. Of course thefrequency has to be correct. And this is why not everybody is equally successful or can do it withalways the same strength. The individual person must work on the inner processes anddevelopment in order to establish a conscious communication with the DNA.The Russian researchers work on a method that is not dependent on these factors but will

ALWAYS work, provided one uses the correct frequency. But the higher developed an individual'sconsciousness is, the less need is there for any type of device: one can achieve these results byoneself. Science will finally stop laughing at such ideas and will confirm and explain the results.And it doesn't end there.The Russian scientists also found out that our DNA can cause disturbing patterns in a vacuum,thus producing magnetized wormholes! Wormholes are the microscopic equivalents of the so-called Einstein-Rosen bridges in the vicinity of black holes (left by burned-out stars). These aretunnel connections between entirely different areas in the universe through which information canbe transmitted outside of space and time.The DNA attracts these bits of information and passes them on to our consciousness. This

process of hyper-communication (telepathy, channeling) is most effective in a state of relaxation.Stress, worry or a hyperactive intellect prevent successful hyper-communication or theinformation will be totally distorted and useless. In nature, hyper-communication has been

successfully applied for millions of years. The organized flow of life in insects proves thisdramatically. Modern man knows it only on a much more subtle level as "intuition." But we, too,can regain full use of it.As an example from nature, when a queen ant is separated from her colony, the remaining

worker ants will continue building fervently according to plan. However, if the queen is killed, allwork in the colony stops. No ant will know what to do. Apparently, the queen transmits the"building plans" even if far away - via the group consciousness with her subjects. She can be asfar away as she wants, as long as she is alive.In humans, hyper-communication is most often encountered when one suddenly gains access to

information that is outside one's knowledge base. Such hyper-communication is then experiencedas inspiration or intuition (also in trance channeling). The Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini, forinstance, dreamt one night that a devil sat at his bedside playing the violin. The next morningTartini was able to note down the piece exactly from memory. He called it the Devil's Trill Sonata.

For years, a 42-year old male nurse dreamt of a situation in which he was hooked up to a kind ofknowledge CD-ROM. Verifiable knowledge from all imaginable fields was then transmitted to himthat he was able to recall in the morning. There was such a flood of information that it seemed awhole encyclopedia was transmitted at night. The majorities of facts were outside his personalknowledge base and reached technical details of which he knew absolutely nothing. When hyper-communication occurs, one can observe in the DNA, as well as in the human, supernaturalphenomena.The Russian scientists irradiated DNA samples with laser light. On screen, a typical wave pattern

was formed. When they removed the DNA sample, the wave pattern did not disappear, itremained. Many controlled experiments showed that the pattern continued to come from the


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removed sample, whose energy field apparently remained by itself. This effect is now calledphantom DNA effect. It is surmised that energy from outside of space and time still flows throughthe activated wormholes after the DNA was removed. The side effects encountered most often inhyper-communication in humans are inexplicable electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of thepersons concerned.Electronic devices like CD players and the like can be irritated and cease to function for hours.

When the electromagnetic field slowly dissipates, the devices function normally again. Manyhealers and psychics know this effect from their work: the better the atmosphere and energy, themore frustrating it can be for recording devices as they stop functioning at that exact moment.Often by next morning all is back to normal. Perhaps this is reassuring to read for many, as it hasnothing to do with them being technically inept; it means they are good at hyper-communication.In their book, "Vernetzte Intelligenz," Grazyna Gosar and Franz Bludorf explain these

connections precisely and clearly. The authors also quote sources presuming that in earlier timeshumanity had been just like the animals: very strongly connected to group consciousness andthereby acted as a group. In order to develop and experience individuality, however, we humanshad to forget hyper-communication almost completely.Now that we are fairly stable in our individual consciousness, we can create a new form of group

consciousness - namely one in which we attain access to all information via our DNA withoutbeing forced or remotely controlled about what to do with that information. We now know that justas we use the internet, our DNA can feed proper data into the network, can retrieve data from the

network, and can establish contact with other participants in the network.Remote healing, telepathy or "remote sensing" about the state of another can thus be explained.

Some animals know from afar when their owners plan to return home. This can be freshlyinterpreted and explained via the concepts of group consciousness and hyper-communication.Any collective consciousness cannot be sensibly used over any period of time without adistinctive individuality; otherwise we would revert to a primitive herd instinct that is easilymanipulated. Hyper-communication in the new millennium means something quite different.Researchers think that if humans with full individuality would regain group consciousness, they

would have a god-like power to create, alter and shape things on Earth! AND humanity iscollectively moving toward such a group consciousness of the new kind. Fifty percent of childrenwill become a problem as soon as they go to school, since the system lumps everyone togetherand demands adjustment. But the individuality of today's children is so strong that they refuse thisadjustment and resist giving up their idiosyncrasies in the most diverse ways.

At the same time more and more clairvoyant children are born. Something in those children isstriving more towards the group consciousness of the new kind, and it can no longer besuppressed. As a rule, weather for example is rather difficult to influence by a single individual.But it may be influenced by group consciousness (nothing new about this to some indigenoustribes).Weather is strongly influenced by Earth resonance frequencies (Schumann frequencies). But

those same frequencies are also produced in our brains, and when many people synchronizetheir thinking or when individuals (spiritual masters, for instance) focus their thoughts in a laser-like fashion, then it is not at all surprising that they can influence the weather.A modern day civilization which develops group consciousness would have neither

environmental problems nor scarcity of energy: for if it were to use such mental powers as aunified civilization, it would have control of the energies of its home planet as a naturalconsequence. When a great number of people become unified with higher intention as in

meditating on peace - potentials of violence also dissolve.Apparently, DNA is also an organic superconductor that can work at normal body temperature,as opposed to artificial superconductors which require extremely low temperatures between 200and 140C to function. In addition, all superconductors are able to store light and thusinformation. This further explains how DNA can store information.There is another phenomenon linked to DNA and wormholes. Normally, these super-small

wormholes are highly unstable and are maintained only for the tiniest fractions of a second.Under certain conditions stable wormholes can organize themselves, which then form distinctivevacuum domains in which for example, gravity can transform into electricity. Vacuum domains are


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self-radiant balls of ionized gas that contain considerable amounts of energy. There are regions inRussia where such radiant balls appear very often.Following the ensuing confusion the Russians started massive research programs leading finally

to some of the discoveries mentions above. Many people know vacuum domains as shiny balls inthe sky. The attentive look at them in wonder and ask themselves, what they could be.I thought once: "Hello up there. If you happen to be a UFO, fly in a triangle." And suddenly, the

light balls moved in a triangle. Or they shot across the sky like ice hockey pucks: they acceleratedfrom zero to crazy speeds while sliding silently across the sky. One is left gawking and I have, asmany others, too, thought them to be UFOs. Friendly ones, apparently, as they flew in triangles

just to please me.Now, the Russians found - in the regions where vacuum domains often appear - that sometimes

fly as balls of light from the ground upwards into the sky, and that these balls can be guided bythought. Since then it has been found that vacuum domains emit waves of low frequency that arealso produced in our brains and because of this similarity of waves they are able to react to ourthoughts. To run excitedly into one that is on ground level might not be such a great idea,because those balls of light can contain immense energies and are capable of mutating ourgenes.Many spiritual teachers also produce such visible balls or columns of light in deep meditation or

during energy work, which trigger decidedly pleasant feelings and do not cause any harm.Apparently this is also dependent on some inner order, quality and origin of the vacuum domain.

There are some spiritual teachers, like the young Englishman Ananda, for example, with whomnothing is seen at first, but when one tries to take a photograph while they sit and speak ormeditate in hyper-communication, one gets only a picture of a white cloud on a chair.In certain Earth healing projects, such light effects also appear on photographs. Simply put, this

phenomena has to do with gravity and anti-gravity forces that are ever more stable forms ofwormholes and displays of hyper-communication with energies from outside our time and spacestructure. Earlier generations that experienced such hyper-communication and visible vacuumdomains were convinced that an angel had appeared before them: and we cannot be too sure towhat forms of consciousness we can get access when using hyper-communication.Not having scientific proof for their actual existence, people having had such experiences do

NOT all suffer from hallucinations. We have simply made another giant step towardsunderstanding our reality. Official science also knows of gravity anomalies on Earth thatcontribute to the formation of vacuum domains. Recently gravity anomalies have been found in

Rocca di Papa, south of Rome. ----------------------------------------Above taken from:http://www.rense.com/general62/expl.htm

The full article can be viewed - in English - on the Kontext Website:

http://www.fosar-bludorf.com/index_eng.htm

All information is from the book "Vernetzte Intelligenz" von GrazynaFosar und Franz Bludorf, ISBN 3930243237, summarized and commented byBaerbel. The book is unfortunately only available in German so far. Youcan reach the authors here:

Kontext: Forum for Border Science:

http://www.fosar-bludorf.com/

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What if key figures in the American Revolution were back with us today, reincarnated innew bodies and personalities, and just as interested in supporting social change andspiritual awakening? Walter Semkiw, M.D., author of the bookReturn of theRevolutionaries: Evidence of Reincarnation (Hampton Roads Publishing Company), saysit's more than a question. It's a fact. Drawing on the cases of dozens of prominent and

influential American cultural and literary figures today, Dr. Semkiw establishes theirRevolutionary times identity. Continuities in facial appearance, personal interests, andeven writing style are giveaways to linking a present-day figure with someone from theRevolutionary era, he says.The American Revolutionaries are back and this time they are here for a spiritualrevolution, says Semkiw. Through remarkable objective evidence, Dr. Semkiwdemonstrates that leaders of the American Revolution have returned as contemporarypolitical and social leaders--including George W. Bush (reincarnation of Daniel Morgan),Bill Clinton (Peyton Randolph), Al Gore (Horatio Gates), John McCain (Henry Clay),John Kerry (Andrew Jackson), Colin Powell (Crispus Attucks), Tommy Franks (GeorgeWashington) Ralph Nader (Charles Thomson), Marianne Williamson (Abigail Adams),

Neale Donald Walsch (William Walter), Caroline Myss (Deborah Franklin), and OprahWinfrey (James Wilson).

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Man Designs Wonder Machine from DreamTroy Hurtubise had the same dream three times. After the third dream, he built AngelLight, a machine that can see through walls and most materials, including lead.Universities, corporations, and governments, according to a report inBay Today, haveexpressed interest in his invention. Motorola Inc. for example, has set its sights onemerging technology that could allow first responders and Special Forces to see through

building walls, the Washington Technology Web site reports. Camero Inc., an Israeli firmfounded by technology and intelligence veterans, received $5 million from Motorola andother investors to develop portable imaging radar that uses ultra-wideband technology tocreate a 3-D picture of objects that are concealed by walls or other barriers. Angel Lightcan do these things and more. Tests indicated that it can image objects that have beenmade invisible by stealth technology.Three units make up the Angel Light, including black, white, red and fluorescent lightsources, as well as seven industrial lasers, optical glass, a microwave unit and plasmaintermixed with carbon dioxide, plasma light rods, CO2 charges, industrial magnets, 108mirrors, eight ionization cells industrial lights, and other components. Troy dreamed theAngel Light would be able to see through walls with window-like efficiency, and then

built it with no blueprints, drawings or schematics.Hurtubise said he could see into the garage behind his lab wall, and read the license plateon his wife's car and even see the salt on it. Hurtubise continued testing the light on othermaterials and discovered it could also see through other metals including steel, tin,titanium and, unlike Superman, lead. As well the beam also penetrated ceramic andwood. The Hurtubise put his hand in the light beam. I could see my blood vessels,muscles, everything, like Id taken an Exacto knife, cut into my skin and peeled it back,
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Hurtubise said. Soon after, Hurtubise discovered the Angel Light had devilish side-effects. He lost feeling in the finger of the exposed hand.

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Hurtubise says invention sees through walls-BayToday.ca exclusiveBy Phil NovakBayToday.caSunday, January 16, 2005

Photo by Bill Tremblay, Special to BayToday.ca.

Troy Hurtubise has done the seemingly impossible with his newest invention and defied all knownrules of physics, he says.

The Angel LightHurtubise claims the concept came to him in a recurring dreamcan reportedlysee through walls, as if there was no barrier at all.


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Thats not all, though.

So impressed Hurtubise, 41, said the device detects stealth technology.

And hes done the tests to prove it, with the covert help of scientists at the famed MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, Hurtubise said.

If thats not enough, Hurtubise also said the French government sent representatives to NorthBay to witness a demonstration of the Angel Light.

Hurtubise said the reps were so impressed with the eight-foot long device they paid him $40,000in cash to put the finishing touches on it.

New universe The French, Hurtubise adds, have also agreed to pay him a substantial amountof money for the technology if it passes rigorous tests in France.

They couldnt believe what they saw, Hurtubise told BayToday.ca.

One of them told me it was as if Id discovered a new universe.

Gary Dryfoos, a consultant and former long-time instructor at MIT, said "there's a Nobel Prize" forHurtubise if the Angel Light really performs as described.

"There are laws of physics waiting to be written for what he's talking about," Dryfoos said.

The French aren't the only ones interested in Hurtubise's innovations.

BayToday.ca has obtained documentation confirming that the former head of Saudi counter-intelligence, who asked that his name not be used, has been in regular contact with Hurtubiseregarding the Angel Light, fire paste, and the Light Infantry Military Blast Cushions (LIMBC).

Ultra-wideband technology While Hurtubises claims appear, on the surface, to strain credulity,he has now placed himself miles ahead in the quest by high-tech companies to invent somethingthat will do the same thing.

Motorola Inc. for example, has set its sights on emerging technology that could allow firstresponders and Special Forces to see through building walls, the Washington Technology Website reports.

Camero Inc. an Israeli firm founded by technology and intelligence veterans, received $5 millionfrom Motorola and other investors to develop portable imaging radar that uses ultra-widebandtechnology to create a 3-D picture of objects that are concealed by walls or other barriers.

Plasma light Three units make up the Angel Light.

The main unit, which Hurtubise calls the centrifuge, contains the Angel Lights brains and includesblack, white, red and fluorescent light sources, as well as seven industrial lasers.

The second unit, or the deflector grid, contains a large circle of optical glass, a microwave unitand plasma intermixed with carbon dioxide.


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The third unit contains eight plasma light rods, CO2 charges, industrial magnets, 108 mirrors,eight ionization cells industrial lights, and other components Hurtubise chooses to remain tight-lipped about.

Just a dream Hurtubise said the Angel Light has cost $30,000 to buildhe sold percentages ofhis other innovations to finance itas well as 800 to 900 hours of his time.

He credits his subconscious with the idea.

I had a dream about a year and a half ago as I do for most of my innovations, just a dream, and Isaw it, saw the whole casing and everything, and I saw what it could do, Hurtubise said.

I had the same dream about that three times and by the third time I had it in my head and Istarted to build it.

Through the wall Troy dreamed the Angel Light would be able to see through walls with window-like efficiency, and then built it with no blueprints, drawings or schematics.

I turned it onthat was well over a year agoand it worked and it was really awesome.

Hurtubise said he could see into the garage behind his lab wall, and read the licence plate on hiswife's car and even see the salt on it.

"I almost broke my knuckles three or four times, because it was almost like you could stepthrough the wall," Hurtubise said.

"You could be fooled into believing that you could actually walk through the wall and go touch thecar."

Across the borderHurtubise called his MIT contacts with news of what hed done.

They told me that I was playing with electromagnetism, Hurtubise said.

The conversation ultimately led to the discovery of the Angel Lights other startling properties.

Hurtubise said somebody from MIT shipped him an eight-inch by eight-inch piece of panellingfrom the latest Comanche helicopter, which was built using radar-resistant stealth technology.

Its amazing what you can get across the border on a Greyhound bus, Hurtubise said.

Pick it up Hurtubise was instructed to set up an outdoor track, which he did on First Nations land.

He attached the panel piece to a remote control car that went down the track.

Hurtubise then aimed the Angel Light at the panel and turned on a radar gun.

I was able to pick it up the panel on the radar gun, he said.

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Tibet Monks Use Remote Future ViewingTibetan monks in their monasteries have responded to the recent spurt of UFO sightings

in China and India by using remote viewing to notice what lies ahead with regard to theseencounters. According to a report inIndia Daily, the monks have been sharing theirobservations with tourists from India and elsewhere.According to these monks, the superpowers are headed toward a confrontation that woulddestroy the planet. Extra-terrestrial help is standing by and will intervene in worldhistory, saving us from ourselves. They give the date of 2012 as when the turnaround willoccur. They predict that afterwards, the new frontier in science and technology will be inthe area of spirituality. A reporter quoted them as saying, People will learn the essenceof spirituality, the relation between body and the soul, the reincarnation and the fact weare connected with each other are all part of God. One day we will be able to see theextra-terrestials, the monks claim, and interact with them.

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Remote viewing Tibetan monks see Extra Terrestrial powerssaving the World from destroying itself in 2012N.K. Subramanium, Special CorrespondentDecember 26, 2004

Remote viewing is nothing new in Tibetan monasteries. For thousands of years remoteviewing in the middle of other spiritual activities have dominated Tibetan culture. What someIndian tourists came to learn from a few Tibetan monasteries under the current Chinese ruleis extremely alarming and fascinating.

According to these tourists remote viewers are seeing world powers in the course of self-destruction. They also see that the world will not be destroyed. Between now and 2012 theworld super powers will continue to engage in regional wars. Terrorism and covert war will bethe main problem. In world politics something will happen in and around 2010. At that time the

world powers will threaten to destroy each other.

Between 2010 and 2012, the whole world will get polarized and prepare for the ultimatedooms day. Heavy political maneuvers and negotiations will take place with little progress.

In 2012, the world will start plunging into a total destructive nuclear war.
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And at that time something remarkable will happen, says, Buddhist monk of Tibet.Supernatural divine powers will intervene. The destiny of the world is not to self-destruct atthis time.

Scientific interpretation of the monks statements makes it evident that the Extra Terrestrialpowers are watching us every step of the way. They will intervene in 2012 and save the world

from self-destruction.

When asked about recent UFO sightings in India and China, the monks smiled and said thedivine powers are watching us all. Mankind cannot and will not be allowed to alter the futureto that great extent.

Every human being though their current acts in life called Karma can alter the future lives tosome extent, but changing the destiny in that large extent will not be allowed to that great anextent.

Monks also mentioned that beyond 2012 our current civilization would understand that thefinal frontier of science and technology is in area of spirituality and not material physics andchemistry. Beyond 2012, out technologies will take a different direction. People will learn the

essence of spirituality, the relation between body and the soul, the reincarnation and the factwe are connected with each other are all part of God.

In India and China UFO sightings have increased in many folds. Many say the Chinese andIndian Governments are being contacted by the Extra Terrestrials.

In recent days most UFO activities have been seen in those countries who have indigenouslydeveloped Nuke capabilities.

When asked if these extra-terrestrials will show up in reality in 2012, the answers remoteviewers are giving is: they will reveal themselves in such a way that none of us scared. Theywill reveal themselves only if they have to. As our science and technology progresses, we aredestined to see them and interact with them any way.

According to the remote viewers, our earth is blessed and is being saved continuously fromall kinds of hazards all the time that we are not even aware of. As our technologies progresswe will realize how external forces saved us.

Meditation may alter human brain in good ways

By Marc Kaufman

The Washington Post

January 11, 2005

Brain research is beginning to produce concrete evidence for something

that Buddhist practitioners of meditation have maintained for

centuries: Mental discipline and meditative practice can change the

workings of the brain and allow people to achieve different levels of

awareness. Those transformed states have traditionally been understood

in transcendent terms, as something outside the world of physical

measurement and objective evaluation. But over the past few years,

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have been able to translate those mental experiences into the

scientific language of high-frequency gamma waves and brain synchrony,

or coordination. And they have pinpointed the left prefrontal cortex,

an area just behind the left forehead, as the place where brain

activity associated with meditation is especially intense. "What we

found is that the longtime practitioners showed brain activation on a

scale we have never seen before," said Richard Davidson, a

neuroscientist at the university's new $10 million W.M. Keck Laboratory

for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior.

"Their mental practice is having an effect on the brain in the same

way golf or tennis practice will enhance performance." It

demonstrates, he said, that the brain is capable of being trained and

physically modified in ways few people can imagine. Scientists used to

believe the opposite -- that connections among brain nerve cells were

fixed early in life and did not change in adulthood. But that

assumption was disproved over the past decade with the help of

advances in brain imaging and other techniques, and in its place,

scientists have embraced the concept of ongoing brain development and

"neuroplasticity." Davidson says his newest results from the

meditation study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy

of Sciences in November, take the concept of neuroplasticity a stepfurther by showing that mental training through meditation (and

presumably other disciplines) can itself change the inner workings and

circuitry of the brain.

The new findings are the result of a long, if unlikely, collaboration

between Davidson and Tibet's Dalai Lama, the world's best-known

practitioner of Buddhism. The Dalai Lama first invited Davidson to his

home in Dharamsala, India, in 1992 after learning about Davidson's

innovative research into the neuroscience of emotions. The Tibetans

have a centuries-old tradition of intensive meditation and, from the

start, the Dalai Lama was interested in having Davidson scientifically

explore the workings of his monks' meditating minds. Three years ago,

the Dalai Lama spent two days visiting Davidson's lab. The Dalai Lama

ultimately dispatched eight of his most accomplished practitioners to

Davidson's lab to have them hooked up for electroencephalograph (EEG)

testing and brain scanning. The Buddhist practitioners in the

experiment had undergone training in the Tibetan Nyingmapa and Kagyupa

traditions of meditation for an estimated 10,000 to 50,000 hours, over

time periods of 15 to 40 years. As a control, 10 student volunteers

with no previous meditation experience were also tested after one week

of training. The monks and volunteers were fitted with a net of 256

electrical sensors and asked to meditate for short periods. Thinking

and other mental activity are known to produce slight, but detectable,

bursts of electrical activity as large groupings of neurons send

messages to each other, and that's what the sensors picked up.

Davidson was especially interested in measuring gamma waves, some of

the highest-frequency and most important electrical brain impulses.

Davidson said the results unambiguously showed that meditationactivated the trained minds of the monks in significantly different

ways from those of the volunteers. Most important, the electrodes

picked up much greater activation of fast-moving and unusually powerful

gamma waves in the monks, and found that the movement of the waves

through the brain was far better organized and coordinated than in the

students. The meditation novices showed only a slight increase in

gamma wave activity while meditating, but some of the monks produced

gamma-wave activity more powerful than any previously reported in a

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Davidson's research is consistent with his earlier work that

pinpointed the left prefrontal cortex as a brain region associated with

happiness and positive thoughts and emotions. Using functional

magnetic resonance imagining (fMRI) on the meditating monks, Davidson

found that their brain activity -- as measured by the EEG -- was

especially high in this area. Davidson concludes from the research

that meditation not only changes the workings of the brain in the

short term, but also quite possibly produces permanent changes. That

finding, he said, is based on the fact that the monks had considerably

more gamma wave activity than the control group even before they

started meditating.

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Primitive Peoples and Animals Avoided TsunamiAfter the Tsunami created so much devastation, news reports began circulating thatamong the dead there were no animals found. How did the animals escape? Was it ESP?Animal experts calmly explained that animals can hear frequencies that humans cant,and thus sensed the shakeup before human technology did. No ESP involved.On the other hand, reports published in India Daily suggest another explanation. Asrescue workers went to the Car Nicobar islands, off the east coast of India, whereeveryone lives on the coast, they found a strange pattern of devastation. Among thenative islanders who had gone modern, they mostly perished. But the natives who stillpracticed native ways had retreated to higher ground before the earthquakes. Accordingto the report, these natives claimed that the earth talked to them before the disaster.

However it is to be explained, the difference in fate between the native natives and themodern natives gives us pause to ponder.

During Tsunami Remote Viewing Primitive Tribes In Andaman Nicbar

Islands Of IndiaIndia Daily | 1-2-2005

Posted on 01/03/2005 7:19:44 PM PST byblam

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Indian Military personnel is finally reaching the remote islands of Andaman and Car

Nicobar. There is massive devastation especially in Nicobar Islands. The inhabitants inthese islands consists of tribal and non-tribal mainstream population. Thousands ofpeople are dead and the coastal areas just evaporated.

The total population before Tsunami of these tribes was approximately 28,000, whichaccounts for about 9% of the total population of these Islands. The other 91% populationconsists of mainstream settlers and the military personnel.

The rescue teams are observing some strange things as they are reaching these remotetribal areas for rescue and relief. While there is massive unbelievable devastation, theprimitive tribes are relatively unaffected though most of them lived close by the ocean.

According to sources, these tribes moved to higher grounds. So did most animals duringTsunami in South and South-east Asia. The rescue teams are also finding interestinginformation from these untouched tribal people they could view and hear the Tsunamicoming and they moved to higher grounds way before the Tsunami came and earthquakeshattered the islands.

Indian Military with all high tech equipments and especially the Air Force lost a full basewith hundreds of personnel in this catastrophe.

As a matter of fact another correlation is also interesting the more primitive tribes

moved out to the higher grounds days before the catastrophe.

Nicobarese who are settled in the Car Nicobar Island, Nancowry group of islands and inHarminder Bay of Little Andaman constitutes more than 98% of the tribal population.The population of other tribes is very small and is declining over the past several decades.Andaman and Nicobar Administration under the Government of India have rehabilitatedGreat Andamanese in Strait Island and Onges in Dugong Creek and South Bay of LittleAndaman Island. Shompens having a population of 157 live deep in the jungles of Great


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Nicobar Island. Jarawas, who live in the jungles of South and Middle Andaman werehostile till recently. In last couple of years, they have shown a willingness to come out oftheir isolated world and mingle with the mainstream population. The Sentinelese live inthe North Sentinel Island and are still unapproachable. All the tribes are in a state oftransition from their primitive life-styles to a more modern way of life. The Nicobarese

were the first to adjust to this. They have almost lost their tribal nature and are as modernas any of the settler community.

The Onges and Andamanese are changing slowly. They keep many aspects of their tribalculture, at the same time have adopted many things from the mainstream population. TheJarawas have just coming out of their seclusion. The Sentinelese has not yet shown anywillingness to shed their hostile attitude towards outsiders.

Stating that the devastation in Car Nicobar islands was total, General Officer-in-Command Southern Command Lt Gen B S Takhar on Saturday said, it would take at leasttake six months for things to become normal in the island. Though the tribals of

Andaman islands were not much affected, there has been total devastation in car Nicobarislands mostly inhabited by the modern Nicobarese, Takhar, who undertook an aerial andground survey of tsunami affected areas along the eastern coast, told the reporters.

Based on the reports we are receiving, Nicobarese who are most modern have lost themost in Car Nicobar and Nancowry group of islands. Very few of them sensed theincoming Tsunami. But the Shompens and Sentinelese who took some direct hit, lostlittle because of their remote viewing capabilities. They moved to higher grounds before.

According to some of the tribal leaders, earth communicates to them. And this time theycould see it coming in their remote viewing periscopes.

Interestingly, in South and South east Asia which includes Andaman and Nicobar islands,it is now confirmed that animal bodies are not found because most of them moved tohigher grounds days before the Tsunami came.

It seems if this correlation is anything close to correct, we may be gaining in so calledmodern technologies but we are losing in higher grounds of technical expertise, whichmay encompass spiritual science and paranormal technologies.

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Comatose Man Awakens Bursting with IdeasGeorge Stalk Jr had been comatose for three months and declared dead three times whenthe family finally agreed to terminate life support. He unexpectedly recovered to tell quitea tale about his adventures while slumbering, which was reported in Fast Companymagazine.Stalk, a fast-paced workaholic a consulting firm, while in the coma he continued to workup new solutions to business problems. At some point he knew he was going to die and
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I choose those words carefully," says Michael O'Leary, former executive vice president atCIBC, which was a client. "He can be intimidating. But he is an absolute joy to workwith. He is a verb, not a noun."

But while Stalk excelled at detecting toxic situations in his clients' organizations, he

ignored the same warning signs when it came to his own well-being. As his wife, C.Henri, and six children whispered their good-byes, and his colleagues at BCG, meeting inParis a few weeks later, bowed their heads for a moment of silence, the consensus wasclear: George Stalk had literally worked himself to death.

Except that he wasn't gone yet. Deep inside his coma, trapped in the netherworld betweenlife and death, Stalk's remarkable mind worked through a series of 18 intensehallucinations bursting with vivid characters, scenes, and dialogue. In them, Stalk wasdoing what he does best: solving problems.

Lying in a hospital bed at Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Stalk knew he was going to

die, although not from the nuclear strike he imagined Japan had launched againstEngland. Stalk and his wife had helped rescue survivors. Now he understood that hewouldn't recover from the mysterious illness he'd contracted but that he would be goingto Heaven. His first thought was that this meant he'd have a chance to see Jim Abegglen,a former mentor at BCG who had been killed in the war.

But how to locate him? "I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how Heaven wasorganized," he says. "How would you find someone? Was it by geography? Was it byethnic origin? Was it by where the person was currently living?" Stalk began an analysisof Heaven's internal structure, but it soon became clear that it wasn't needed; the two menwould somehow eventually connect. Heaven, it turns out, has no org chart.

Faced with imminent death, some people's unconscious might have journeyedbackward through life. Others might have dreamed of exotic places, or lived out fantasiesthat their conscious minds would never have permitted. But Stalk's brain just doesn'twork that way. "I remember waking up saying, 'Jesus Christ, I just went for three monthsand didn't have a single sexual dream,' " he laughs. "It was about work."

An engineer by training, Stalk accepted the scenario he was given and then began toanalyze his way through it. His deconstruction of Heaven was typical. "That's him!"exclaims Thomas Hout, a senior adviser at BCG. "George is tireless. Even as he imagineshimself dying, he still asks these questions."

Somehow, some way, Stalk, now 54, confounded the experts, emerging from his coma tomake a full recovery. No one would have begrudged him for retiring to grow vegetableson his Toronto-area farm or fly the radar-controlled planes he loves with his children. Butnot only is Stalk back to work, he's also on the road again, promoting a new book writtenwith Rob Lachenauer,Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win? (HarvardBusiness School Press, 2004).


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Stalk studied engineering at Michigan, then married C. Henri, whom he'd met during asummer working in Washington, and completed a master's at MIT. After graduating, hewent to work as a consultant for the Air Force and then at Exxon. Along the way, hebecame interested not just in how a product worked but in how it could give a company adecisive advantage. He decided to go to Harvard Business School, mostly because it had

a reputation for being a boot camp. "This place sounded like pure hell," he rememberswith masochistic relish.

Stalk survived HBS, graduating in 1978, and had planned to join a high-tech startup untilhe heard about BCG, the new- fangled consultancy with a tough reputation and ascientific approach to management. Stalk quickly became a star at figuring out acompetitor's costs, but got pigeonholed as a cost expert and planned to quit. Instead,someone suggested he try a foreign office. Stalk chose Japan, something of a backwaterat the time.

Shortly after Stalk arrived in 1979, Bruce Henderson, BCG's founder, posed a challenge:

Why are the Japanese able to achieve higher levels of productivity and quality withsmaller, more-capital-intensive factories? Because fat, happy American companies stillworshipped the idea of scale, they didn't really understand the power of the Japanesefactory, and Stalk had trouble getting them to fund his research. Instead, he did a series ofstealth projects for such existing clients as Clark Equipment and John Deere, spendingmonths at a time inside the factories of their joint-venture partners in Asia. He reachedthe radical conclusion that while quality and cost were important, time itself -- or theability to organize a factory or a business so as to get more done in less time -- was thekiller app. Stalk named the theory "time-based competition" and resolved to bring thisjust-in-time manufacturing system back home.

Becoming the chief evangelist for this new idea meant that Stalk's already taxing lifeturned into months, then years, of constant around-the-globe travel. A typical schedule:10 days in Japan, 10 days in Europe, 10 days back in Japan, 10 days in the United States.He became a regular on Pan American Flight 01, the famous globe-hopping flight. Stalkfigures he flew as many as 500,000 miles a year for a decade, appearing in exotic localeswearing a fly-fishing vest over a suit jacket (more pockets) and lugging an enormous,beat-up old briefcase full of Diet Coke.

In 1985, he came back to the States, yet he had trouble getting people to believe histheory. Frustrated, he decided to take a year's leave of absence from BCG and prove hisideas himself with a real factory in the United States. He landed at Hillenbrand Industries,a conglomerate with a struggling hospital-bed factory. Stalk took two years instead ofone, but turned the factory around. The book that followed in 1990, Competing AgainstTime: How Time-Based Competition Is Reshaping Global Markets , written with TomHout, made him a star and gained him entree into the most elite companies.

At GE, for example, Stalk spent about 18 months answering Jack Welch's challenge tohelp him find companies that were improving continuously while still delivering higherprofits. "He stood out as a guy who was the sharpest leading-edge thinker but also one


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who was so down-to-earth and so operational," says Mike Fraizer, now CEO ofGenworth Financial and then a GE executive who traveled with Stalk. Welch and histeam eventually brought Stalk's case studies to GE's executive learning center, where theywere taught to thousands of executives.

Stalk gained a reputation as a brilliant thinker, but one who didn't suffer fools gladly. Hesometimes abandoned projects if he felt that his clients didn't share his passion orcommitment to change. And when he stopped learning, it was time to move on.Implementation wasn't his thing. "One of the things I learned early on was I always haveto pair myself with someone who has patience with a client," he says. "I'm not going tobe the guy that's there to get it done."

In the midst of this chaos, Stalk's family was growing as well, now consisting of six kids,four of whom were special-needs children adopted from Korea, Japan, and Russia. Theylived on an island off the coast of Maryland while Stalk's home office was in Chicago.And while, unlike most work-obsessed sorts, he speaks constantly of his family, he's the

first to admit he missed a lot of homework sessions and birthday parties. In 1992, Stalkmoved the family to Toronto and took over BCG's practice there, figuring he wouldn'thave to travel as much.

Yet Stalk simply couldn't downshift. There was the development of BCG's worldwideinnovation group, the revamping of the firm's marketing and communications arm, and in1997, an e-commerce unit, which grew into a $450 million business. "His limits were justbeyond [the norm]," says Lachenauer, Stalk's coauthor on Hardball and now CEO ofGEO2 Technologies. "Some partner in Auckland would say, 'George, we really need youdoing something with the Dairy Board,' something with no self-interest whatsoever. He'dgo there at the drop of a hat." Tom Andruskevich, CEO of Canadian luxury company

Henry Birks & Sons, remembers his first meeting with Stalk. "I spoke to him on thephone, and he literally got on a plane the same day and arrived at about 6 p.m. We talkeduntil 11 p.m.," he says.

As he contemplated his own death, Stalk suddenly had an idea for a management story:Where have all the gurus gone? He consoled himself with the fact that he wasn't the onlyone about to disappear; many of the management strategists who had been big namesthroughout Stalk's career were dead or no longer adding new ideas to the field. But Stalkcouldn't write the story because he was going to die. So how could he communicate it tosomeone on the ground? There was no way, he discovered, to send faxes or email fromHeaven. "I have to come up with something better here," he thought.

It had been almost five years since Stalk had really felt healthy. As BCG went intowarp speed during the New Economy boom, Stalk did too. In 1998, he contractedhepatitis in Thailand. In 2000, he came down with pneumonia, spending a month in bedunable to work. That same year, he decided to take a life-insurance physical. He didn'tpass it.

Then 2001 hit, bringing with it the dual blow of the dotcom collapse and September 11.BCG's executive committee issued an all-hands-on-deck call, and Stalk, ever the good


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soldier, responded. He became interested in pricing as a competitive strategy and built upa pricing group within the company to $50 million in revenue. He also began work onHardball. "The common theme is that [all my ideas] are about taking advantage to thepoint where competitors are left astounded by what's happened. And that's actually how Iget through the day. I'm constantly looking at what's the opportunity to create advantage

here. This is the lens I use over and over."

But Stalk's hardball approach to life was taking its toll, and his colleagues and clientscould see it happening. "To a fault, he would show up when he was ill," says MarvinAdams, senior vice president at Ford, who worked with Stalk on a project around thattime. "You could tell he was really starting to wear down." Stalk felt it, too, but thoughtthat if he could just make it to the following spring, things would get better. "One doctorasked, 'What did you think was going to be different in the spring?' I said, 'I don't know,but it was far enough out there in the future that something had to be different.' "

He was right. One cold February day in 2003, he was in a Boston hotel room when he

began to vomit blood. He decided to go back to Toronto, and by the time he got there, hehad lost so much blood that he went straight to the emergency room. In a total systemfailure, a series of blood vessels ruptured in his stomach. Then, after a few weeks in thehospital, he lost consciousness and found himself trapped in limbo. Making mattersworse, the SARS epidemic had hit Toronto just before he went into the hospital, whichwas placed under strict quarantine. His friends were unable to visit, and his wife andchildren were allowed in only sporadically, when it seemed most likely that Stalk wasgoing to die.

At some point during Stalk's coma, his hallucinations changed from those of a man whoknew he was dying to those of someone with a chance of survival. He launched into a

series of rehabilitation dreams, all of which involved arduous tasks he had no choice butto complete.

Sent to an island in the Caribbean, Stalk realized that in order to survive, he had to gothrough an obstacle course while scuba diving. But he was unable to move and tobreathe, so he was always the last to finish what he called the "mobility challenge."Suddenly, Stalk was on a mountain outside Las Vegas along with a group of invalids.Caught in a snowstorm, they had to fly a helicopter with a heavy hospital bed attached toit up the mountain. If they didn't make it, none of them would survive.

Next came a version of Survivor, set in the 1700s. A random group of people had to worktogether to create everything from food to guns to fire. As Stalk had often observed withclients, the group quickly degenerated into a bunch of separate groups, all flailing away atthe same time. It fell to Stalk to figure out the proper sequence of events, creating firefirst, then, with the ashes, making gunpowder and finally steel for a gun to use forhunting.

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"What's the date?"

"Where are you?"

Every morning, Stalk dreamed that the doctors would ask him the same three questions,

and every morning he would get one of the three wrong. "I'm George Stalk. I'm inEngland. It's February 21." His only chance at getting better was to answer all threequestions correctly.

On May 5, the same day his BCG partners were praying for him in Paris, Stalk came outof his coma.

"Where are you?" a nurse asked him.

"England," he said.

"No," said the nurse, "You're in Toronto."

Stalk didn't believe her. He insisted she wheel in a television set. A few days later, whenhe regained the ability to speak and was able to call his wife, he realized that he wasalive.

On May 28, 2003, Stalk was released from the hospital, with no sense of whether hewould live another month or another decade. Typically, he immediately planned to returnto work. But he soon realized that his expectations were a hallucination of their own.First, he was so weak that he could barely stand. Then there were the memory problems."It took me several weeks before I could read a newspaper," he says. "I couldn't get to the

bottom of the page without forgetting what was at the top."

He kept pushing himself -- until things reached a head just over a month after he camehome. "In the space of 24 hours," he says, "C. Henri caught me driving my car andmaking plans to fly to Hong Kong. Then Carl Stern [then managing partner of BCG]called to complain about me because I was calling too many people. [C. Henri] came inand said, 'Look, if you want to kill yourself, kill yourself. I'm here to help you [survive].'"

Chastened, Stalk pulled back, but it wasn't easy, as a memo he wrote to his staff in Julymade clear: "While the doctors are happy with the pace of my recovery, I am

disappointed. I hoped to have this wrapped up and behind me by the end of August."Stalk returned to work full time in June 2004 but says he has sharply curtailed travel anda lot of on-the-ground client work. He makes a point of being home with his family andadmits to feeling exhaustion as the day stretches on.

But you'd never know it to sit with Stalk 20 months after his ordeal began. Dressed in atweed sports coat, beard neatly trimmed, oozing vitality, he has regained the 55 poundshe lost and more, thanks to his four-times-a-day chocolate ice cream fix. He leaps from


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one huge subject to another, nimbly segueing from the growing power of China to thefreight logjam threatening the supply chain in this country. Although he sits calmly, thewords spill out like water.

If this is what Stalk calls the "new George," it's scary to imagine the old one. But Stalk is

now living his own form of time-based competition: Just like the Japanese factorymanagers he studied, his life is now about getting as much done as possible withmaximum efficiency. The projects he takes on these days must have the potential to bearfruit in three to four years. And what was his planning horizon before? "Infinite," he sayssoftly. One has the sense that he's mourning his life, even as it continues. He feels healthyagain and the doctors don't see why he can't live a normal life span, but it's not the same.The guru of time is now a slave to it.

Stalk was dead, or at least everyone thought so. He lay in a closed casket at an Englishchurch, funereal chords echoing through the rafters, about to be buried after succumbing,finally, to his mysterious illness.

But he wasn't dead yet, although no one knew that because he couldn't speak or rap onthe casket. Suddenly, his cell phone rang inside his coffin. It was his assistant, Bronwyn,calling to tell him that a colleague at BCG had just heard that he'd been sick and wassending a plane to pick him up and take him to the Mayo Clinic. "He said to put you onice," Bronwyn said.

To come to terms with death and then to emerge to talk about it is the type ofexperience that flows a lot more smoothly on Oprah than it does in the halls of BCG.Perhaps that's why Stalk, when asked what he has learned from the ordeal, shiftsuncomfortably in his seat. Later, he emails a list of "ah-has" from the hallucinations: "I

have a lot of friends," he writes. "There are no voice mails, emails, or faxes in emergencyrooms."

This is not the quality of analysis one expects from Stalk, the ultimate research geek.Particularly for an engineer, it may be much easier to remain in the world of the rational,where theories can be proven. "I am not an expert in this," he says dismissively, "norhave I been sufficiently interested enough to crowd out other things to become interestedin this topic."

Stalk is much more interested in the rough-and-tumble rules ofHardball, theculmination of several decades of observing how companies win and lose in the real

world. According to the "Hardball Manifesto" that opens the book, "the leaders of theworld's most successful companies -- the hardball winners -- believe it is their obligation .. . to see and exploit their competitive advantage to the fullest. And, when possible, thehardball leaders will push that advantage to the point where competitors are squeezed andeven feel pain." One particularly well-told example of "unleashing massive andoverwhelming force" is Frito-Lay's move against the surging Eagle Snacks unit ofAnheuser-Busch, which had made alarming inroads into Frito-Lay's core salty-snacksbusiness. Using a combination of improved quality, price cuts, and better distribution


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under the inspired direction of then-CEO Roger Enrico, writes Stalk, Frito-Lay foughtback -- and put Eagle Snacks out of business.

But while Stalk enjoys playing the role of provocateur, it is not true that his book ignoresthe role of culture or leadership. Both are vital parts of strategy, he says, but many

companies wrongly assume that culture itself is the strategy. The book is a resoundingriposte to the notion "that it's somehow crude to talk about yourself as being a winner andby definition, that someone's losing," he says. "Excuse me, strategy matters."

Outside ofHardball, Stalk has limited his work to two other intellectual "buckets" (theBCG bigs took pricing away from him, although he is secretly trying to figure out a wayback in). One is developing strategies for competing with the rising power of Chinesecompanies, which he says are fast becoming America's true rivals rather than simply low-cost sources. In order to survive, companies will have to pursue the Chinese market, andthey'll have to improve their supply chains dramatically. Stalk is also working on"strategic dislocation," which means developing a methodology for anticipating the next

technologies or concepts that will fundamentally change the world, much as thetelegraph, the credit card, and the railroad have.

Sadly for Stalk, dividing his time into buckets makes it hard to do the free associationthat gets him his best ideas. And China, it turns out, is too big a subject for Stalk to studyfrom the outside. "I've gotten to the point where I realize that if I don't go to China andspend time on the ground, I don't have much more to say," he says. But that is exactly thekind of work he's sworn off doing. "Four years ago, I would have said, 'Hot damn, I'm onmy way!' Now I think the issue is either fish or cut bait. I haven't decided what to do."

It's the ultimate Hobson's choice. Stay healthy -- but miss out on one of the great

intellectual challenges of our time -- or go and risk losing it all. "He talks about a newlife, but it's a veneer," says O'Leary, his friend and former client. "He's still 90% the oldGeorge. He's doing it to the limit that he thinks he possibly can and get away with it."

While Stalk was in the hospital, a doctor told him he'd used up nine of his nine lives. Butit's only cats that have nine lives. Consultants, George Stalk would like all of us to think,have 10

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