Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Vol 27, No 01 A REL-MAR McConnell Media Company Publication DV - Jan./Feb. 2018 - $2.75 USD
I Think, Therefore, I Am, homelessness, and poverty, one wonders why unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and
“The Creator” or his / her designated replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
A GOD representatives have not done anything about the dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
violence over the years. fowl of the air, and over every living thing that
Remember the historical plagues, moveth upon the earth.
Crusades, World War I, World War II, the Therefore, if I am truly created in
Korean War, Vietnam, Middle East Conflicts, the image of God, as stated in the Bible, “after
the attack on America on September 11, 2001, our likeness and in our image,” then it would
and the war on terrorism with ISIS? stand to reason, beyond a doubt, that I too am a
When believers of this planet’s religions, God.
“Holy Books and Scriptures” including the
Christian Holy Bible, are questioned as to why (Continued on Page 3)
an all loving deity would allow human atrocities
to happen, the answers are predictable. They
waive their “get out of jail free card,” blurting
out, “it’s because humans have free will,” or,
by Rob McConnell like Star Trek’s United Federation of Planets,
Publisher claim that God, angels, and / or aliens must
abide with the “non-interference” rule… they
cannot get involved.
Here we are in the year 2018, a time of
As a young man questioning life and the
technological advances. Yet, there are still those
world around me, I thought that if, according to
who believe the alleged sightings of so-called
Genesis 1:26-28, the King James Version:
UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) and their
26. And God said, Let us make man in
Alien / Extraterrestrial occupants are the original
our image, after our likeness: and let them have
creators of all – watching over their
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
creations...including we humans.
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all
If this is the case, our creators are not
the earth, and over every creeping thing that
doing a very good job, should be fired and
creepeth upon the earth.
banned from this planet, if not our entire solar
27. So God created man in his own
system.
image, in the image of God created he him; male
With all the wars, threat of nuclear war
and female created he them.
with North Korea, political and sociological
28. And God blessed them, and God said
unrest, global warming, world hunger,
2 Inside This Edition The ‘X’ Chronicles
The ‘X’ Chronicles Last Month Digital Download Stats
The ‘X’ Chronicles Newspaper
92 Pages 9,655,227
scenes in “Hell’s Angels,” an action-adventure the Spruce Goose (a moniker Hughes detested),
7 Things You May Not about World War I pilots, as realistic as possible, it had a wingspan of 320 feet and was the largest
Know About Howard Hughes amassed a huge fleet of vintage planes aircraft ever constructed. However, the war
and hired scores of pilots and mechanics. Three ended before the plane was completed, and in
Hughes pilots died during production, and Hughes 1947 Hughes was called to testify before a U.S.
himself crashed a plane. “Hell’s Angels” Senate committee investigating whether he’d
One of the world’s wealthiest men, Howard initially was shot as a silent film, but following misused millions of dollars in government funds
Robard Hughes Jr. was a Hollywood filmmaker, the fall 1927 release of “The Jazz Singer,” the on the project. At the hearings, Hughes said of
record-setting aviator and business mogul who first feature-length movie with synchronized the Spruce Goose: “I put the sweat of my life
once owned a big chunk of Las Vegas and dialogue, Hughes decided to reshoot with sound. into this thing. I have my reputation rolled up in
controlled a major U.S. airline (TWA), among He spent nearly $4 million to produce “Hell’s it and I have stated several times that if it’s a
other ventures. Later in life, however, he became Angels,” which debuted in 1930 and was one of failure I’ll probably leave this country and never
an eccentric recluse who feared germs and the most the most expensive films of its time. It come back. And I mean it.”
shunned personal hygiene. Find out more about also was a hit and put Hughes on the map in After testifying in Washington, Hughes
Hughes, from the source of his first fortune to Hollywood. He later produced additional films was determined to show his massive aircraft
the development of his massive Spruce Goose but his only other directorial effort was 1943’s could fly, and on November 2, 1947, he piloted
aircraft to his involvement in a top-secret CIA “The Outlaw,” a Western featuring Jane Russell. its first and only flight. The Spruce Goose (the
plot to recover a sunken Soviet submarine. nickname came from the fact it was constructed
3. Hughes set an around-the-world of wood due to wartime restrictions on steel and
1. Hughes was a millionaire at 18. flight record. aluminum; however, birch, not spruce, was the
The 1901 discovery of oil at Spindletop, near During the 1930s, Hughes began to seriously primary building material) traveled for a mile
Beaumont, Texas, marked the birth of the pursue his passion for flying, establishing about 70 feet above the water at Long Beach,
modern petroleum industry, and drew Hughes’ Hughes Aircraft Company in 1932 (it eventually California, before landing. Members of the
father, Howard Sr., a Harvard dropout, to East became a major aerospace and defense Senate committee later issued a report criticizing
Texas to try his luck as a wildcatter. After contractor) and setting a series of aviation Hughes’ handling of the Spruce Goose project
becoming frustrated by the difficulty of drilling records. In 1935, he broke the record for flying but the document proved inconsequential. After
into hard-rock formations with the “fishtail” a plane over land, traveling 352 miles per hour the aircraft’s lone flight, Hughes shelled out
drill bit that was standard at the time, he devised near Santa Ana, California. Two years later, he millions to keep it in a climate-controlled Long
a superior two-cone bit, which made drilling set a record for transcontinental U.S. speed, Beach hangar until his 1976 death. It’s now
easier and revolutionized the oil industry. journeying from Burbank, California, to housed at an aviation museum in Oregon.
Hughes patented the technology in 1909 and, Newark, New Jersey, in 7 hours, 28 minutes and
with partner Walter Sharp, formed the Houston- 25 seconds. On July 10, 1938, Hughes and a 5. Hughes was part of a CIA plot to
based Sharp-Hughes Tool Company to four-man crew took off from Brooklyn’s Floyd recover a sunken Soviet submarine.
manufacture the bit. After Sharp died in 1912, Bennett Field on an around-the-world flight. In March 1968, during the Cold War, a Soviet
Hughes bought his interest in the company. After dipping his Lockheed Super Electra’s submarine carrying nuclear-armed ballistic
When he in turn passed away in 1924, Howard wings over the Old Saybrook, Connecticut, missiles accidentally sank in the Pacific Ocean.
Jr., an only child whose mother had died two home of his girlfriend Katharine Hepburn, The Soviets embarked on a two-month search
years earlier, inherited the thriving company and Hughes made refueling stops in Paris, Moscow, for the sub but were unable to locate it; not long
became a millionaire. The 18-year-old Hughes Omsk and Yakutsk (both in Siberia), Fairbanks afterward, the U.S. found it some 1,500 miles
dropped out of Rice University, let others and Minneapolis before landing back in northwest of Hawaii, 16,500 feet below the
manage the oil-tool business and set out for Brooklyn. There, thousands of spectators water’s surface. Believing the 1,750-ton sub was
Hollywood in 1925. greeted Hughes, who had set a new record for a source of important intelligence information,
circumnavigating the globe, with a time of three the CIA launched a complex covert operation,
2. His directorial debut, “Hell’s days, 19 hours and 17 minutes. He was hailed as codenamed Project Azorian, to recover it. The
Angels,” was one of the most expensive a hero and honored with a ticker-tape parade in U.S. commissioned the construction of a ship
movies of its time. New York City and celebrations around the with the specialized capabilities needed to lift
Hughes started his movie career as a producer country. the sub from the ocean’s depths, and the CIA
on the 1926 film “Swell Hogan,” which turned devised a cover story that the vessel, named the
out to be so terrible it never made it into theaters. 4. His famous Spruce Goose aircraft Hughes Glomar Explorer, was being built for
However, he soon had a box-office success with was flown only once. Howard Hughes, who planned to use it for a new
1927’s “Two Arabian Knights,” which earned an In 1942, during World War II, Hughes commercial venture: mining minerals from the
Academy Award for best comedy direction. contracted with the U.S. government to design ocean floor.
Hughes went on to direct his first film, “Hell’s and build an aircraft capable of transporting 700
Angels,” when the initial two directors on the troops or a load of 60 tons across the Atlantic. (Continued on Page 6)
project quit after clashing with the young Texas Known by various names, including the H-4 “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re
millionaire. In his quest to make the aerial Hercules, the Flying Boat and most commonly, part of the problem.” - Rob McConnell
6 The Mysterious Howard Hughes
7 Things You May Not
Know About Howard
Hughes
Continued from Page 5
Author, engineer, designer, and green builder, Mat Stein was born and raised in Burlington Vermont. His parents
started him walking on skis at age three, hiking at age 5, backpacking at age seven, hunting at age 10, rock climbing
and extreme skiing at age 11. The Green mountains of Vermont, White mountains of New Hampshire, and the
Adirondack’s of upstate New York were his four-season childhood play grounds. After graduating from MIT in
1978, where he majored in Mechanical Engineering, the lure of the “real mountains” of the west drew Mat across
the country to California.
A thirty year interest in alternative healing got its start while Mat was still a freshman at MIT, when he witnessed
the miraculous remote healing of a crippled friend (big shake up to his scientific “Billiard Ball Theory of the
Universe” way of thinking). Over the years, this interest expanded to the use of herbs, homeopathy, and other
alternatives to heal medical conditions that weren’t responding to western style medicine.
The engineer, carpenter, and backwoodsman sides of Mat found peace, harmony, and synergy through renewable
energy, green building, and self-reliance. Today, Mat owns and operates Stein Design and Construction, providing
product design services, engineering analysis, and green building.
It was a true epiphany that started Mat firmly on the path of self-reliance, emergency prep, and sustainability.
Around Thanksgiving of 1997, during his morning session of prayer and meditation, in answer to a simple request for “guidance and
inspiration”, Mat received a fully developed “story board” type of pictorial outline that popped into his head instantaneously. It was the outline
for a massive handbook to help people be more self-reliant, live more sustainably, and prepare to weather the coming storms as we pass through
this age of uncertainty and change. After three years of work, this “cosmic download” crystallized into his first book, When Technology Fails.
Stein has appeared on numerous radio and television programs and is a repeat guest on Fox News, MSNBC, Lionel, The ‘X’ Zone
Radio Show, Coast-to-Coast AM, and the Thom Hartmann Show. For more information, visit Mat’s websites listed below.
A holistic approach
Multiple aspects of education, research, patient care and politics
Multiple cancer types
www.HolisticCancerFoundation.com
Science Explains Claims of Life After Death 11
Science Explains Claims
of Life After Death
Continued from Page 9
Can you overcome lung cancer without harsh chemicals, surgery and debilitation? Are alternative interventions
effective? Why do conventional physicians not use them? Can you prevent cancer recurrences and live into old
age without chronic diseases and prescribed medications? This book answers these and other questions.
This is one of the most comprehensive books available on alternative treatments for lung cancer. It explains
the treatments used successfully by a health professional/cancer survivor of 36 years and by some of the
leading medical and health practitioners currently in the field. G. Edward Griffin, Author of World Without
Cancer, The Politics of Cancer Therapy, and other books and films. Recipient of the Telly Award for
Excellence in Television Production. President of American Media.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr Carl O Helvie (1932- ) grew up in Gouverneur, New York and functioned as a
nurse practitioner, educator, author, and researcher for 60 years. Most of his degrees and practice have been in
public health and wellness. During his years in academia he wrote 10 books and book chapters, over 55
articles, gave 57 research papers around the United States and Europe, developed a nursing theory, and
received funding for and established a nursing center and provided primary care for homeless and low income
individuals and families. He also overcome lung cancer using natural interventions after being given 6 months
to live by conventional medicine in 1974. Since retirement he has written two additional books and has been
host of the holistic health radio show for the past 4 years. All of his current work since retirement from
academia focuses on natural interventions for health problems. Applying these concepts in his own life he is
now age 80 and free of chronic illnesses and prescribed medications dispite the average for a 75 year old of 3
chronic illnesses and 5 prescribed medications. In 1999 he received the Distinquised Career Award in Public
Health from the American Publc Health Association, and most recently was listed in Wikipedia.
w w w. b e a t l u n g c a n c e r. n e t
UFO Disclosure Deserves Skepticism 17
Why The NY Times
Pentagon UFO Disclosures
Deserve More Skepticism
By Andrew Whalen
2018 Edition
THE 'X' ZONE DIRECTORY OF WHO'S WHO is recognized worldwide as a professional source and guide featuring those
in the World of the Paranormal, Science of Parapsychology, Metaphysics, Quantum Physics, The Strange and Unknown,
Unsolved Mysteries, Ancient Archaeology, Exopolitics, Alternative Healing, New Age Spirituality, Science Fiction, Alternative
Realities and Religious Philosophies. The 'X' Zone Directory of Who's Who is used as a source by members of the international
media including print / digital media, radio and television, including hosts, producers, editors, researchers, publishers and those
seeking answers to questions that cannot be found anywhere else. The 'X' Zone Directory of Who's Who is edited by Rob
McConnell, the creator, host and executive producer of the internationally syndicated show, "The 'X' Zone Radio/TV Show"
(1992-present) and publisher of The 'X' Chronicles Newspaper, Rob has included some of the most credible and interesting of
the over 3,800 guests that he has interviewed. Rob is a highly respected professional Canadian broadcast veteran, researcher,
inventor, author, publisher and his expertise in the paranormal and parapsychology has been called upon y other members of
the media from around the world. When not working on The 'X' Zone Radio/TV Show or The 'X' Chronicles Newspaper, Rob
is President and CEO of REL-MAR McConnell Media Company in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (www.rel-mar.com). The 'X'
Zone Radio/TV Show is available 7/24/365 at www.xzoneradiotv.com. The 'X' Zone Merchandise is available for the worldwide
'X' Zone Nation at www.thexzonestore.com.
www.xzonedirectory.com
20 The Man Who Created Bigfoot
The Man Who Created
Bigfoot
Continued from Page 18
www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com
The Man Who Created Bigfoot 23
The Man Who Created
Bigfoot
Continued from Page 21
After reading this book, you will be able to analyze any name.
By learning Neimology you will:
• Find out how first, middle and last names, as well as nicknames, affect behavior and thinking.
• Realize potential conflicts with others and how to avoid them.
• Discover how to meet and connect with someone immediately.
• Know what types of gifts are appreciated.
• Learn how to sell to people in a style so that they will want to buy.
• Learn how to quickly access strengths and identify what support is required for
yourself and others in order to succeed.
• Become an excellent conversationalist depending on the name of the person you are addressing.
We are our names. Recognize what others reveal in their names, and what others immediately
know about you, once you know Neimology.
Neimology: The study of the placement of the letters in a name and how they interact with each
other to reveal hidden secrets about one’s character.
Visit www.KnowtheName.com & Available at Amazon.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: As the creator of Neimology® Science, Sharón Lynn Wyeth has supported
thousands of people around the world in understanding themselves and others better. In her seventh
year of teaching math, having been a math major herself, she noticed that she was getting impressions
of how a student would behave when she was making seating charts at the start of the year from the
person’s name. Her curiosity led her to write down her impressions, as she wanted to get to know her
students for who they were. After three months of teaching she read her initial impressions and was
amazed at the accuracy. Generally Joshua's were brilliant and a bit obnoxious, Stephanies were
stubborn, and Rachels pretty, etc. She followed her fifteen years of research conducted in forty-nine of
the States with three years of field work in over seventy countries testing her theories. Everywhere she
spoke people asked how to find out more information so she wrote the Amazon bestseller, "KNOW
THE NAME, KNOW THE PERSON: Decoding Letters to Reveal Secrets Hidden in Names". Her
book has garnered frequent praise and has earned a Literary Excellence Award. Wyeth is an educator
and former school administrator, and has appeared on numerous radio and television shows. Sharón
also teaches and certifies people to become Neimology® Scientists. Available on Amazon.com.
28 10 Famous Paranormal Hoaxes
10 Famous Paranormal
Hoaxes
Continued from Page 25
How to Tell If Someone is Lying History Lies - In Ancient Rome, it was considered a sin to
eat w woodpecker.
If you were accused of murder, you'd be under How long have humans been lying? (Don't ask
enormous pressure to lie if you were guilty. The us, we'll probably lie.) There have been so many - The first archaeological evidence of soup
stakes are high, and that kind of pressure can massive lies throughout history that it's dates back to 6000 BC. The main ingredient
lead to physical cues that will give you away. A impossible to keep up with them all. Here are a was hippopotamus.
person serving a life sentence for murder, few whoppers of notoriety:
however, would feel virtually no pressure when Wartime propaganda. A common lie - The oldest sample of chewing gum was
lying about the murder because he or she is weaved throughout history is the lie that found in Sweden in 1993. The 9,000-year-old
already in prison -- there won't be any further precedes an unprovoked act of aggression. The glob of honey-sweetened resin still contained
consequences for lying. In this case, it's the Nazis made use of this tactic before the German tooth marks.
verbal details, and not body language, that will invasion of Poland. A series of mock attacks on
likely be his or her undoing. various German border stations set the stage for - Roman did not eat sitting up - that was
Here's how you separate the liars from a "defensive" swarming into Polish territory. considered extremely bad manners. They ate
the truth-tellers: In August 1964, there were two reported laying down on couches around the table.
- Establish the baseline. Liars may look incidents of North Vietnamese naval attacks
you directly in the eye, and truth-tellers may be against United States ships in the Gulf of - In the 13th century, quality standards for
fidgety and seem evasive, so don't look for one Tonkin, off the coast of Vietnam. The second pasta were set by the pope.
trait or the other. First, establish the person's attack, which reportedly occurred two days after
behaviors, mood and mannerisms for that the first attack, never happened. The initial - Romans flavored food with garum, a paste
particular point in time, before the questioning reports were the result of bad weather and faulty made by leaving fish to rot for several weeks.
begins. Is the person relaxed or nervous? sonar and radar readings. Even though there
Angry? Distracted? Notice how much eye were near-immediate doubts about the event, - Pepper was so valuable during Elizabethan
contact and blinking is going on. Does the the supposed attacks were used as justification times that it was sold by the individual grain.
person touch his or her hands or face when for the Lyndon B. Johnson administration to
speaking? initiate military strikes against North - The ancient Romans had soft drinks of root
- Look for deviations from the baseline. Vietnamese forces. juices and water.
The key to detecting lies is to look for Both the United States and the Soviet
deviations from an established pattern of Union disseminated propaganda during the www.rel-mar.com/didyouknow
Hypnosis: Fact or Fiction 33
Hypnosis: Fact or Fiction
by Tom Harris
What's in a Name?
Do it Yourself!
Certifiable
1. ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
For decades, a Canadian neuroscientist 3. MOLD witness to believe they saw it, too.
named Michael Persinger has been studying the Shane Rogers, an engineering professor
effects of electromagnetic fields on people’s at Clarkson University, has spent the past few 6. WE WANT TO BELIEVE.
perceptions of ghosts, hypothesizing that pulsed months touring reportedly haunted locations “There is a motivational side to belief in
magnetic fields, imperceptible on a conscious looking for not-so-paranormal activity: mold ghosts,” French explains. “We all want to
level, can make people feel as if there is a growth. Preliminary research indicates that believe in life after death. The idea of our
“presence” in the room with them by causing some molds can cause symptoms that sound mortality is one we are not generally
unusual activity patterns in the brain’s temporal pretty ghostly—like irrational fear and comfortable with.” Confirmation bias holds
lobes. Persinger has studied people in his lab dementia. “I’ve watched a lot of ghost shows,” powerful sway over our perceptions. “We find it
wearing a so-called “God Helmet,” finding that he tells mental_floss, and began to wonder “if much easier to believe evidence for something
certain patterns of weak magnetic fields over there’s some kind of link there, where we might we want to believe anyway,” he says. []
someone’s head for 15 to 30 minutes can create be able to explain why people are having these
the perception that there’s an invisible presence feelings.” So far in the data collection process,
in the room. 17 Most Haunted Places in
“it’s hard to say whether that’s a contributing
Some subsequent research has pushed factor or not, but anecdotally we are seeing Canada - Real Canadian
back on this theory, arguing that people were these [toxic molds] exist in places that are
responding to the suggestion that they would Ghosts!
haunted.”
feel a ghostly presence, rather than to the
electromagnetic field. However, Persinger 17. St. Francis Xavier University,
4. CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING
counters that this experiment followed very Antigonish, Nova Scotia
In 1921, a doctor named W.H. Wilmer
different protocols than his own research. Other published an odd story about a haunted house in 16. Dunvegan Provincial Park, Fairview,
scientists have also found that environments the medical journal the American Journal of Alberta
that have a reputation for being haunted often Ophthalmology. The family who lived in this
feature unusual magnetic fields. 15. Ottawa Bytown Museum, Ottawa,
haunted residence, called the H family in the
Ontario
medical literature, began experiencing weird
2. INFRASOUND phenomena when they moved into an old 14. Government House, Regina,
Infrasound is sound at levels so low house—hearing furniture moving around and Saskatchewan
humans can’t hear it (though other animals, like strange voices in the night, feeling the presence
elephants, can). Low frequency vibrations can 13. Gibraltar Point Lighthouse, Toronto,
of invisible specters. They report being held
cause distinct physiological discomfort. Ontario
down in bed by ghosts, feeling weak, and more.
Scientists studying the effects of wind turbines As it turned out, a faulty furnace was filling 12. Tranquille Sanatorium, Kamloops, BC
and traffic noise near residences have found that their house with carbon monoxide, causing
low-frequency noise can cause disorientation, 11. Fairmont Empress, Victoria,
aural and visual hallucinations. The furnace was
feelings of panic, changes in heart rate and Vancouver Island, BC
fixed, and the H family went back to their lives,
blood pressure, and other effects that could sans ghosts. 10. Seal Island, Yarmouth County, Nova
easily be associated with being visited by a Scotia
ghost]. For instance, in a 1998 paper on natural 5. SOMEONE ELSE SAID IT WAS
causes of haunting, engineer Vic Tandy 9. Ottawa Jail Hostel, Ottawa, Ontario
REAL.
describes working for a medical equipment 8. Peggy's Cove, Halifax, Nova Scotia
In a 2014 study, Goldsmiths, University
manufacturer, whose labs included a reportedly
of London psychologists had participants watch 7. West Point Lighthouse, O'Leary, Prince
haunted room.
a video of a “psychic” supposedly bending a Edward Island
Whenever Tandy worked in this
metal key with his mind. In one condition, study
particular lab, he felt depressed and 6. Bastion Square, Victoria, BC
subjects watched the video with a “participant”
uncomfortable, often hearing and seeing odd
who was actually working with the researchers 5. Plains of Abraham, Quebec City,
things—including an apparition that definitely
and professed to see the key bending. Those Quebec
looked like a ghost. Eventually, he discovered
subjects were more likely to report that they saw
that the room was home to an 19 Hz standing 4. Craigdarroch Castle, Victoria, BC
the key bend than subjects who were paired
wave coming from a fan, which was sending out
with someone who asserted that the key didn’t 3. The Old Spaghetti Factory, Vancouver,
the inaudible vibrations that caused the
bend or said nothing. “One person’s account can BC
disorienting effects. Further studies also show
influence another person’s memory,” study co-
links between infrasound and bizarre sensations 2. Fairmont Chateau Laurier, Ottawa,
author Christopher French tells mental_floss. If
like getting chills down the spine or feeling Ontario
someone else confidently asserts that they saw
uneasy.
the ghost, it might influence a fellow eye- 1. Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta
Ghostbuster Priest Passes Away Aged 99 39
Bangor’s Holy His son, Mark Roberts, recalled: “Dad
also used to represent the gypsy community
Ghostbuster priest passes when they appeared at magistrates’ court.
“At one hearing, the prosecuting
away aged 99 solicitor surrendered his case against the
accused when the chairman of the bench warned
North Wales Chronicles him ‘this man is being defended by the
Reverend Roberts. You had better be
prepared!’.”
For many years, he was a regular
newspaper columnist and was widely quoted for
his views by the national press but Other articles
were published worldwide but according to his SEEK REALITY
son, his greatest pride was in having a ‘learned with
paper’ approved by the editorial committee of ROBERTA GRIMES
the British Medical Journal – something unheard
of by a non-medical contributor. “They even ROBERTA GRIMES is a business attorney
paid me!” he boasted later. who had two extraordinary experiences of
His broadcasting and TV production light in childhood. She then spent decades
career was formidable. In the 1940s and ‘50s studying nearly 200 years of abundant and
while a minor canon at Bangor Cathedral, he consistent communications from the dead,
was one of the BBC Radio original actors in quantum mechanics, and the nature of
Will Cwac Cwac, a long-running popular series, consciousness and she shares what she has
and he moved on to script and produce learned about what actually is going on in an
thousands of radio children’s programme until enjoyable and easily understood trilogy. The
the 1960s when he switched to television. Fun of Dying – Find Out What Really
He had numerous TV series on ghosts, Happens Next details what we now know
Welsh heritage and traditions and four based on about the afterlife. The Fun of Staying in
his book Privies of Wales – a history of the Touch details some of the ways that the dead
outside loo. give us signs of their survival, and also many
In the late 1940s he rejected an offer to of the ways that we can communicate with
become BBC Wales head of children and them. The Fun of Growing Forever reveals
religious broadcast services in Cardiff, despite what must be the easiest and most powerful
its salary and perks. method for attaining rapid spiritual growth
ONE of Wales’s best-known priests – known as His son said: “He did so on principle. and building your own best life, both while
the “holy ghostbuster” – has died aged 99. The BBC had then overlooked another candidate you are on earth and forevermore.
The Rev Joe Aelwyn Roberts, former who, being unmarried, had given birth to an Seek Reality explores the amazing
Vicar of Llandegai and a Bangor Cathedral illegitimate child in an era when out of wedlock fact that neither mainstream science nor
minor canon, died at Ysbyty Gwynedd on was taboo.” mainstream Christianity is able to help us
Thursday January 11 after a series of infections His international fame after writing much as we try to understand our one reality.
became untreatable. Three of his daughters were ghost-busting books, was added to in 1998 when Together we use information from both
with him. he was guest on the Christmas Day morning sources plus nearly 200 years of abundant
Mr Roberts, who was born in Blaenau CNN American Morning show – rated among and consistent afterlife evidence to construct
Ffestiniog and came to Llandegai in 1952, is the highest listener audience shows in the USA. a reasonable – and beautiful! – understanding
best known as the author of Holy Ghostbuster Mr Roberts declined five requests of former of what actually is going on. What will be
and other books, revealing his decades as the Bishops of Bangor to accept higher office, common knowledge in the second half of this
Church in Wales’s special responsibilities preferring to remain a humble parish priest century can be your glorious reality today. -
minister dealing with paranormal issues. without constraint. He also declined a www.robertagrimes.com.
He frequently featured on BBC TV and nomination for civil honours offered after his Some of Roberta’s past guests
S4C in programmes and documentaries and was retirement as Vicar of Llandegai and director of include: Lisa Smartt, Craig Hogan, David
guest on one of Sir David Frost’s hour-long TV social responsibility in the Bangor Diocese. Burfoot, Mark Anthony, Susanne Wilson,
shows investigating the paranormal. He was honoured by Rotarians Andy Pavarini, Cyrus Kirkpatrick, Wendy
Before the Samaritans were formed, in the late International and Probus for his untiring work Zammit, Debbie Malone, David Low,
1960s Mr Roberts created ‘The Listeners’ in for Christian communities in Africa. Virginia Hummel, and Roy Stemman.
Bangor. His last pleas to family were that could To contact Roberta Grimes - Email -
Long before the Government, he he please return “home”to Blaenau Ffestiniog, robertagrimes@xzbn.net.
established a drugs and alcohol counselling which he had always regarded as his birthplace.
service in North Wales to act with police, His son said: “I think it is so beautiful in his
probation and healthcare services. He was also confused and ailing mind – and perhaps God
head of the church’s adoption agency and more given – that shortly before his death he was
than 550 babies were placed to new parents. transferred from the hectic, noisy and traumatic
Local authorities would assume hospital emergency department to the peace and
responsibility for adoption and fostering but not tranquillity of the hospital’s Prysor ward where
before he had established an agency operating he died.
throughout North and Mid Wales. “Prysor is that beautiful lake
Before REMPLOY, an organisation overlooking Blaenau which he called home. He
which helped disabled people with work, Mr got his wish.”
Roberts also created workshops and Mr Roberts was due to be cremated
employment chances for adults with learning today (January 17) in a private funeral. An open
difficulties in the Ogwen area. thanksgiving service will be held at Llandegai
Church on Saturday, January 27 at 11am .
In the 1960s he fought local political
objections to create a travellers’ site in He leaves six children, 20 grandchildren
and 17 great-grandchildren. His wife, Margaret,
www.XZBN.net
Llandegai and persuaded the Penrhyn family to
donate the land. died last year, aged 93. []aaaaaaaaaaaaa
40 Origin of ‘cigar-shaped’ UFO Revealed
NASA breaks silence
about 'HAZARDOUS'
asteroid passing Earth
HOURS before
Super Bowl
Draugr (Norse mythology): Undead Vikings lamented Dead Like Me, George is killed by drowned, who attack the living and drag them
who possess superhuman strength, the ability to falling space debris in the first episode and under water, hoping to drown their victims and
swell and increase their size or shapeshift at will, begins work as a grim reaper with a penchant for take possession of their body. The spirits of the
and reek of decay. They delight in violently dead pan. dead are celebrated in Chinese culture are
slaughtering and sometimes consuming their celebrated in an annual ghost festival, when the
victims, usually people who have trespassed on Ghost Dad (Ghost Dad): A movie which haunts realms of the living and the realms of Heaven
the graves or burial mounds the draugr guards, us all. With badness. and Hell are open, allowing the dead to interact
although sometimes they roam and rampage, with the living, and particularly their family and
killing animals and humans alike. Ghost Rider (Comics/movie): A descendants.
personification of vengeance often embodied by
Dybbuk (Jewish Folklore): Malevolent spirit a fictional man named Johnny Blaze, or Danny Hamlet’s Father (Hamlet): Technically, King
believed to be the soul of a dead person, able to Ketch, or Nicolas Cage. Although the spirit that Hamlet, but referred to only as “Ghost” in the
possess the living. Contrast with Ibbur. grants its human host the powers of Ghost Rider stage directions, Hamlet Sr. was a mighty
is Hell-bound, it’s left up to the human as to how warrior, and his ghost demands that his son
Emeric Belasco (Hell House): Insane those powers are used, unless the story calls for avenge his death at the hands of Claudius.
millionaire whose legendary depravity and some serious drama, oh my god. Rumor has it that the role of The Ghost was first
sadism lies at the heart of Richard Matheson’s performed by Shakespeare himself, but it’s
haunted Hell House. And yes, we are cheating Gjenganger (Scandinavian folklore): The never been confirmed or denied.
by filing him under E; Emeric Belasco doesn’t ghost of a dead person (often murderers, murder
play by the rules. victims, or suicides) who, though undead, took Hogwarts Ghosts (Harry Potter): A few
on corporeal form and threatened the living with specific ghosts show up elsewhere on the list,
Faddeev-Popov ghosts (Physics): One for the violence or torment. They could also administer but since Hogwarts is home to more than twenty
physics fans; good ghosts, known for haunting the dødningeknip (or “dead man’s pinch), which ghosts (plus Peeves the Poltergeist). Each house
quantum field theories. We can only imagine the would cause disease and death to befall the is home to its own resident ghost: Nearly
kind of stories Richard Feynman used to tell victim. Headless Nick (Gryffindor), The Grey Lady
about these guys around a campfire, playing his (Ravenclaw), The Fat Friar (Hufflepuff), and
bongos and terrifying the other Nobel Gozer the Gozerian (Ghostbusters): Gozer the The Bloody Baron (Slytherin).
candidates. Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen
forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, The Headless Horseman (“The Legend of
Nathaniel Fisher, Sr. (Six Feet Under): Killed the traveler came as a large and moving Torg. Sleepy Hollow”): In Irving’s classic short story,
in a car accident (while sitting in a hearse) on Then, during the third reconciliation of the last the Horseman is the ghost of a Hessian soldier
Christmas Eve, Nathaniel Sr.’s death sets off the of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new decapitated by a cannonball during the
events of the HBO series, as the rest of Fisher form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs American Revolution. While it is suggested in
comes together in its wake (Not a pun. Sorry, and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the the story that the “spirit” who chases
Crypt Keeper!). Played by the great Richard depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you… schoolteacher Ichabod Crane might really be
Jenkins, Nathaniel remained a presence around Crane’s romantic rival impersonating the ghost
the family funeral home, conversing with living Captain Daniel Gregg (The Ghost and Mrs. to scare him off, the legend of the Headless
characters and occasionally dispensing advice to Muir): This roguish sea captain is the titular Horseman remains potent (and if you haven’t
Nate Jr. and his other children. ghost from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (both film seen the Disney adaptation or Christopher
and TV versions), whose attempted haunting of Walken’s take on the character in Sleepy
Flying Dutchman (Marine folklore): a young widow quickly turns into a warm Hollow, then you are missing out).
Legendary ghost ship doomed to sail the seas friendship (with a hint of romance on the TV
forever, never making port. Sightings of the show, and definite romance in the film version, (Continued on Page 45)
Dutchman date back to the 18th century, and are starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison).
said to be a bad omen or portent of doom. The
legend has inspired paintings, an opera, films, Gu? (Chinese folklore): The general Chinese
and works by others from Edgar Allan Poe to term for ghosts, there are many different types
Brian Jacques. and categorizations of Gu?; Yu?n Gu?, for
example, is the term for a ghost who has died a
Georgia “George” Lass (Dead Like Me): The wrongful death, Wú Tóu Gu? is a wandering
sarcastic protagonist of Bryan Fuller’s late, headless specter, and Shu? Gu? are ghosts of the
44 House Number Twenty-Nine
The Kennedy family survives the terrorist attack on New York City – a hit man bent upon
revenge – a fiery attack on their family home and an intense, threatening interrogation by
CCIS.
Sean and Stanley write the novel about 29 Livery Lane. It becomes a best seller and the
two friends continue to co-write until Stanley’s death.
www.williamspeckham.com
Ghosts From A - Z 45
Ghosts From A to Z
Continued from Page 44
La Llorona (Spanish/Mexican legend): The Phi Tai Hong (Thai folkore): The most feared
Weeping Woman, a spirit who drowned her type of ghost in all of Thai folklore, a restless
children in order to be with her lover, but was and angry spirit of a person who suffered a
rejected and committed suicide. Constantly violent death.
crying, La Llorona is doomed to eternally search (Continued on Page 48)
46 Jesus King of Edessa
J E S US
King of Edessa
by Ralph Ellis
The biblical Jesus - discovered in the historical record.
Contemporary coins and statue of Jesus discovered in Syria.
Why is Jesus missing from the historical record? Jesus was an influential king (the King
of the Jews) and probably the most famous monarch of the last two millennia, so why
cannot we find archaeological evidence for his life? The answer is that we have been
looking in the wrong location.
Following 25 years of research, Ralph Ellis has discovered that Jesus was a prince of
Edessa in northern Syria. The Edessan monarchs were Nazarene Jews who helped build
the Temple of Jerusalem and saved Judaea from starvation during a great famine. But, just
like Jesus, they were also religious and political revolutionaries who tried to take control
of Judaea, but were thwarted by the Roman Army. Thus there are many links and
similarities between the biblical accounts and the princes and kings of Edessa.
However, in addition to this, Ralph Ellis has discovered that one of the princes of Edessa
had the same names as Jesus. Jesus was called (King) Jesus Emmanuel, while one of the
Edessan monarchs was called King Izas Manu(el). Equally interesting, is the fact that all
of the Edessan monarchs wore a plaited Crown of Thorns. The biblical Jesus was crucified
wearing this same plaited Crown of Thorns because he was this very same prince and king
of Edessa.
Thus we now know who Jesus was, where he lived, and who his family were. Visit his city,
see the ruins of his citadel, gaze upon his statue, handle his coins. In reality, Jesus was a
son of King Abgarus au Kama of Edessa, a minor princeling with a small realm, a large
treasury, and even bigger ambitions. But the so-called Wise Prince of northern Syria came up against an intractable Rome, and his many plans
crumbled to dust. The historical records then indicate that this revolutionary prince of Edessa was crucified outside Jerusalem, along with two
other leaders of the revolt, but he was reprieved and taken down from the cross by a man called Joseph(us). And yes, this familiar-sounding
account is from the historical record, and not from the gospels.
Readers might imagine that the true history of this region might undermine much of the biblical story that the gospel authors have crafted. But
in reality the gospels always did say that Jesus was a Nazarene (Mat 2:23) and a king (Luk 23:38), and so this new analysis changes very little
in the gospel story. The only real difference is that the true history of the region indicates that the strategies and goals of King Izas (King Jesus)
were much more far-reaching than the gospel accounts like to admit. In reality, the goal of King Izas and the Edessan monarchy was to use
their newly united Kingdom of Judaeo-Syria as a springboard to take over the throne of Rome. Yes, King Izas (King Jesus) wanted to become
Emperor of Rome - which is why he was so closely linked to the Roman 'Star Prophesy' (the eastern star at his birth), and why he suffered a
Roman rather than a Jewish form of punishment.
This is a scholarly study of all the available historical evidence, including the Tanakh, Talmud, Josephus Flavius, the Roman historians, and
venerable Syriac historians like Moses of Chorene and Yohannes Drasxanakertci.
We suggest that readers start with 'Cleopatra to Christ' and then 'King Jesus'. The wait before arriving at the last episode in the trilogy will be
worthwhile, for if a book could be valued on its 'eureka moments' then this final book would be priceless. v3.5
www.edfu-books.com
Liberating Jesus 47
L I B E R AT I N G J E S U S
By
Roberta Grimes
Roberta Grimes spent
decades studying nearly
200 years of afterlife
evidence and forming a
detailed picture of what
happens at and after death.
She then discovered that
two thousand years ago
Jesus told us things about
God, reality, death, the
afterlife, human nature,
and the nature of reality
that perfectly match the
afterlife evidence in even
small details. She outlines
many of these
correspondences in
appendices to her books
The Fun of Dying (2010,
2014) and The Fun of Staying in Touch (2014). In Liberating Jesus
Roberta offers compelling evidence that the earliest Christians
misunderstood the meaning and the message of Jesus. She
demonstrates that all the correspondences between the Gospels and
the afterlife evidence amount to nothing less than a new revelation
from God. And she shows us that once we put aside the magic-
thinking notion that the whole Christian Bible must be the Inspired
Word of God just because the earliest Christians said it was, we at
last free Jesus to bring to humankind the messages directly from
God that long ago were His true life’s purpose. His promise remains
as fresh today as it was two thousand years ago, and now it is
confirmed by the afterlife evidence: if we will live according to the
teachings of Jesus, we can create the Kingdom of God on earth.
www.RobertaGrimes.com
48 Ghosts From A - Z
Ghosts From A to Z an act of God. Vigo the Carpathian (Ghostbusters II): He is
Vigo! Originally Vigo Von Homburg
Slender Man (Internet myth): No one knows Deutschendorf, also known as Vigo the Cruel,
Continued from Page 45 what the Slender Man is; his defining Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, Vigo the
characteristic is mystery, with the ability to Unholy, and possibly Vigo the Butch. Powerful
inspire fear a close second. An urban legend for 16th century magician, tyrant, lunatic and
Poltergeist (Various folklores): While the the 21st century, the Slender Man stalks his genocidal maniac, he returns to life through his
common term for this comes from the German victims, sometimes over long periods of time, creepy self-portrait, looking to regain physical
words for “noisy ghost,” poltergeists feature in and may inspire amnesia, paranoia, and form and return to power. Thwarted by slime.
the folklore of many cultures. The term usually madness; he is allegedly responsible for various
denotes a disruptive entity that haunts a unexplained disappearances. All we really know Oliver Welles (Slings and Arrows):
particular person via strange noises and even is, the Slender Man is terrifying. Temperamental director Oliver Welles is run
petty physical attacks. Poltergeist activity is a over by a ham truck in the first episode of this
popular subject in TV in movies, featuring in Slimer (Ghostbusters): Made of pure darkly comedic Canadian series. When his
everything from Blithe Spirit to Harry Potter to ectoplasm, Slimer is classified as a focused, troubled protege steps into his role as artistic
the Poltergeist movies. non-terminal repeating phantasm, or a Class 5 director of the New Burbage Shakespearian
full roaming vapor (and a real nasty one, at that). Festival to stage a production of Hamlet,
Alice Pyncheon (The House of the Seven After the Ghostbusters stop him from haunting Oliver’s ghost refuses to move on, and meta-
Gables): The ghost of the beautiful Alice haunts the Sedgewick Hotel, he became kind of a pet hijinks and high drama ensue.
the House of the Seven Gables after dying from and a mascot, and became a more developed
shame in Hawthorne’s classic New England character in the Animated Series. Dan Ackroyd The Wild Hunt (Ancient European myth): A
gothic novel. has referred to Slimer as ”The Ghost of John spectral group of huntsmen, horses and hounds,
Belushi.” rampaging in violent pursuit across the sky, on
Queen Anne Boleyn (English history): The ill- the ground, or floating somewhere in between.
fated second wife of Henry VIII, she was found Space Ghost (Space Ghost and Dino Boy/Space Seeing the Wild Hunt is thought to be an omen
guilty of adultery, incest, and high treason after Ghost Coast to Coast): One of the greatest talk of death, war, plague, or other catastrophe, and
her relationship with the king had soured, and show hosts of all time, often accompanied by his has often been depicted in art, literature, and
was beheaded in 1536. Along with many other nemeses/sidekicks Zorak, Moltar and Brak. music. Occasionally the participants in the hunt
ghosts, Anne Boleyn is thought by some to Designed by the great Alex Toth, Space Ghost are thought to be faeries, gods, or ancient heroes,
haunt the Tower of London, where she died and started out as superhero who fought villains and but the tradition is strongly associated with the
is buried. faced off against The Council of Doom (in dead: lost souls, spirits, and ghosts.
space. Natch.), before signing on to host his own
RMS Queen Mary (Real life): A retired ocean show on the Cartoon Network. Wiedergänger (German folklore): Category of
liner that was active between 1936 and 1967, undead spirits who would trouble or torment the
now permanently moored in Long Beach, Strigoi (Romanian folklore): Troubled souls living in different ways; some types would jump
California. After the ship was docked, reports of risen from the grave, a tradition dating back on the backs of their victims and grow heavier
ghostly activity and hauntings began: splashing through Indo-European Dacian/Thracian and heavier until they broke down, exhausted or
noises in drained swimming pools, children mythology. Strigoi are often seen as being dead. Another variation is the headless rider,
crying in the abandoned nursery, and so on. One similar to vampires, immortal undead, but also which made its way from European ghost story
of the cabins is no longer rented out due to manifest as evil spirits who haunt the living, to American literature thanks to Washington
“extreme paranormal activity,” and the ship is often their living family members. Irving.
supposedly haunted by several ghosts of guests
who were murdered or died in violent accidents Patrick Swayze (Ghost): The sexiest ghost of Xunantunich (Real life / Archaeology): The
while the liner was still operational. all. Good with clay and Whoopi Goldberg. name of this ancient Mayan archaeological site
in Belize comes from Mayan words for “Stone
Revenant (European folklore): General term Tomás (El Orfanato / The Orphanage): The Woman,” after the ghostly figure who has been
for an undead corpse or visible ghost that returns protagonist of Spanish suspense/horror film The seen haunting the site since 1892. Dressed all in
from the grave, usually for malevolent purposes. Orphanage first encounters Tomás as the white with fiery, red glowing eyes, the woman
Stories involving revenants usually depict a imaginary friend of her adopted son, Simón— reportedly appears at the site, ascends the steps
specific undead person who returns with a but as events turn sinister, he becomes more of a of the ceremonial pyramid and disappears into a
purpose, such as revenge against a killer or those definite, if ghostly, presence. Depicted through stone wall.
responsible for their death, or to harass people most of the film as a small boy wearing a
who wronged them during life. disturbing mask stitched together out of Y?rei (Japanese folklore): Used as a general
sackcloth, Tomás is simultaneously horrifying term; there are also more specific types of
Ringwraiths (Lord of the Rings): Not and heartbreaking. ghosts, like the Onry? (vengeful spirits who
technically ghosts, perhaps, but certainly spooky return from purgatory), Gory? (aristocratic
enough to make the list, the Ringwraiths (also Urban legends (Various): Whether it’s Bloody ghosts, often vengeful martyrs), or Zashiki-
known as Nazgûl or Black Riders) began as nine Mary or the familiar story of a ghostly vanishing warashi (mischievous ghost children).
mortal men to whom Sauron gave Rings of hitchhiker, American folklore is steeped in tales
Power. The rings gave them power and extended of phantom vehicles, haunted highways and Zhong Kui (Chinese mythology): By some
their lives, but it also corrupted and destroyed roads, and malevolent spirits that haunt Lovers’ accounts, Zhong Kui is the ghost (Gu?) of a man
them, turning them into undead thralls even after Lanes. Take the legend of Skinned Tom, for who failed his civil service exams and
their corporeal form faded away. example: caught in the act by a jealous husband committed suicide, he is a vanquisher of ghosts
and skinned alive with a hunting knife, Tom’s and evil spirits: a ghost who hunts other ghosts.
Samuel’s Ghost (Biblical): According to the vengeful ghost supposedly attacks amorous
Old Testament, King Saul has the Witch of couples in their cars to this day! Because Zuul (Ghostbusters): The Gatekeeper of
Endor summon the spirit of the recently prophet sometimes heavy-handed morality tales need a Gozer; minion of The Destructor. Lovely
Samuel. Samuel’s ghost is not happy about little gore to really help drive the point home. singing voice, but with an unfortunate tendency
being summoned, and predicts Saul’s downfall to manifest as a Terror Dog and/or take over
in battle the next day. It comes to pass, and Saul Vetala (Hindu folklore): Spirits who tend to your fridge. []
commits suicide. The story has been interpreted haunt places of burial and charnel grounds;
in a number of ways, of course: some see trapped between life and the afterlife, they can The Very Best of
Samuel’s ghost as a demon masquerading as the take possession of corpses and cause all kinds of Paranormal / Parapsychology Radio Is
prophet, while others view his reappearance as crazy trouble for the living. www.xzbn.net
Evidence of Ghosts Has Not Materialized 49
Are Ghosts Real? —
Evidence Has Not
Materialized
livescience.com
www.JesseKalsi.com
54 From Out of the Woodwork
www.WilliamSPeckham.com
MH370 Logical and Crazy Theories 55
passed out or succumbed to smoke inhalation, that means. Others have said the plane could be
The Most Logical (And with the plane flying for hours until it ran out of outfitted with explosives or even a nuclear
fuel and crashed. It's a great theory, except for weapon for future delivery, as if a big, slow, less
Craziest) MH370 the lack of any solid evidence to support it. than agile passenger jet is the best tool for that.
Conspiracy Theories Russian Special Ops Took It: An article Supernatural Forces: Thanks to Reddit
in New York magazine hypothesizes that for theories that the plane could have been
March 8, 2018 marks the four-year anniversary nefarious actors could have broken into the snatched out of the sky by aliens, or a wormhole
of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight electronics-and-equipment bay on the 777, that sent it back in time like once occurred in an
370. No physical evidence of the Boeing 777 accessed through the first-class cabin. A well- episode of The Twilight Zone. Or perhaps a
has been found, and other clues—logs of trained hijacker could theoretically have started black hole ate the plane, as suggested by CNN
automated satellite communications and from pulling the plane's electronics apart and faked anchor Don Lemon.
military radar—have delivered more questions some of the satellite data that researchers have We're big fans of Occam's Razor, which
than answers. The 239 passengers and crew on used to try to pinpoint the path of the flight. suggests that the theory with the fewest
board are presumed dead, and the official stance Jeff Wise claims the plane must then assumptions is most likely to be correct. That
on the fate of the plane is that it crashed— have gone north, into Asia, rather than south means the plane most likely crashed in the
somewhere—into the Indian Ocean, for over the Indian Ocean, and into Kazakhstan gigantic Southern Indian Ocean, and no debris
unknown reasons. where there are runways and buildings large was found because the search for the missing
Flight 370 departed from Kuala Lumpur, enough to hide a Boeing 777. It's a well- aircraft started in the wrong place. But until—if
Malaysia for Beijing, China early on March 8, researched piece that doesn't prove anything. ever—we get more evidence, that reasonable
2014. It disappeared from air traffic control Faked Flight Plan: An email we guess is no more sure than any of these.
radar a few hours later, before popping up on a received suggests that someone on board Ries Vangalen of Simcoe, Ontario claims
few military radar screens and finally hijacked the plane, and kept its location that by using a method of dowsing using a
disappearing over the Andaman Sea. A concealed by faking a flight plan from an pendulum, and by putting a world map on the
comprehensive search was undertaken across uncontrolled airport. Then, the pilots could floow, he has been able to pinpoint the final
tens of thousands of square miles of ocean in a pretend to be a small business jet, and proceed to resting location of Flight 370 is in the India
number of different regions, and the current some hidden airfield somewhere with no one the Ocean at 23.9 degrees latitude and 90 degrees
search efforts are focused on the bottom of the wiser. Except for the fact that it's tricky to hide a longitude, which is west of Australia.
Indian Ocean more than a thousand miles Boeing 777 and several hundred passengers and Vangalen has sent letters to the members
southwest of Perth, Australia. crew. of the media, Australian High Commission in
Unsurprisingly, the lack of evidence has US Military Shot It Down: The atoll of Ottawa, High Commission of Malaysia,
spawned a number of theories from all corners Diego Garcia, complete with US military base, Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Ocean
of the Internet but, unlike theories surrounding is located in the middle of the Indian Ocean. One Infinity and other sources, who have ignored his
9/11 or the Kennedy assassination, few can be theory suggests that the plane was headed there mystical findings.
categorically disproven—even the wackier on some sort of kamikaze mission and it was An inquiry made by ‘X’ Chronicles
ones. Here are some of the most interesting, if secretly shot down by the US military before it Newspaper staff, authorities claim that after a
not the most logical, ideas people have come up could reach its target. The Americans would major incident involving the loss of life, they are
with. then have faked the satellite data and scooped up undated with crystal ball, tarot, psychic,
The Cockpit Fire: One of our every last bit of debris to keep the fate of the medium, dowsing, pendulum practitioners who
favorite—and the most plausible—theories plane and its passengers secret. This one is all claim to have received their information from
comes from pilot Chris Goodfellow, who particularly unlikely since the cleanup of the supernatural forces. These receive little or no
suggests a fire in the cockpit led the captain to airplane would have taken way too many people attention and focus on the scientific and physical
turn to the west toward Palau Langkawi, a to keep things quiet. used by experts in the solving of their mysteries.
nearby airstrip. The loss of communication with It's in Pakistan: Rupert Murdoch John Ventre with MUFON (Mutual UFO
the cockpit, Goodfellow says, jibes with an hypothesized that the plane's disappearance was Network) believes that Flight 370, passengers
electrical fire and the need for the crew to focus part of a jihadist plot to "make trouble for and crew were abducted by a huge UFO in
on flying the plane rather than radioing in a China" and that the fight could have landed in Earth’s orbit.
distress call. He thinks the pilots could have northern Pakistan "like Bin Laden", whatever Or maybe a meteor hit it? []
56 Did You Know - About Howard Hughes
DID YOU KNOW...
About Howard Hughes
Two Native American tribes living in the close that he could see “round white spots inside
Champ - The Lake area near Lake Champlain, the Iroquois and the its mouth” and that “the creature appeared to be
Monster of Lake Abenaki, had legends about such a creature. The about 25 to 30 feet in length”. Mooney’s
Abenaki called the creature "Tatoskok". sighting led to many eyewitnesses coming
Champlain An account of a creature in Lake forward with their own accounts of Champ
Champlain was ostensibly given in 1609 by sightings. Mooney’s story predated the public
Champ, or Champie, or Big Rem, is the name French explorer Samuel de Champlain, the Loch Ness controversy by 50 years.
given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake founder of Québec and the lake's namesake, who Champ became so popular that P.T.
Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North is supposed to have spotted the creature as he Barnum, in the late 19th century, put a reward of
America, partially situated across the U.S.- was fighting the Iroquois on the bank of the lake. $50,000 up for a carcass of Champ. Barnum
Canadian border in the Canadian province of However, in actuality no such sighting was wanted the carcass of Champ so that he could
Quebec and partially situated across the recorded, and it has since been traced back to a include it in his epic World’s Fair Show (Krystek
Vermont-New York border. While there is no 1970 article. 3).
scientific evidence for the cryptid's existence, A report in the Plattsburg Republican Some believe that Champ may be a
there have been over 300 reported sightings. The dated July 24, 1819, titled "Cape Ann Serpent on plesiosaur similar to “Nessie”, claiming the two
legend of the monster is considered a draw for Lake Champlain", gives the account of a "Capt. lakes have much in common. Like Loch Ness,
tourism in the Burlington, Vermont and Crum" sighting an enormous serpentine Lake Champlain is over 400 feet (120 m) deep,
Plattsburg, New York areas. monster. and both lakes were formed from retreating
Like the Loch Ness Monster, while most The first reported sighting actually came glaciers. Believers also claim both lakes support
regard Champ as legend, others have speculated in 1883 when Sheriff Nathan H. Mooney fish populations large enough to feed a supposed
it is possible such a creature does live deep in claimed that he had seen a “…gigantic water sea or lake monster. This legend would require
the lake, possibly a relative of the plesiosaur, an serpent about 50 yards away” from where he either a single animal, or a sizable breeding
extinct group of aquatic reptiles. was on the shore. He claimed that he was so population. []
58 18 Lake Monsters of Canada & USA
18 Waters in the U.S. and
Canada that Have
Reported Mystery Lake
Monsters
At least 18 different bodies of water in the U.S.
and Canada have reported some kind of lake
monsters swimming in their waters and we’ve
got them all right here.
www.XZBN.net www.XZBN.net
64 Large Hadron Collider Disproves Ghosts
fundamental laws of the Universe we have - the can be no such thing as an energy source that's
A Physicist Explained second law of thermodynamics. driving our bodies."
The second law of thermodynamics DeGrasse Tyson adds to this by saying
Why The Large Hadron states that the total entropy of an isolated system that while he, like many people, has experienced
Collider Disproves The always increases over time. "haunting experiences" in the past, he's yet to
Entropy is a measure of the randomness really find a phenomenon that's defied his
Existence of Ghosts or disorder within a closed or isolated system, complete knowledge of physics, maths, and
and the second law of thermodynamics states astrophysics.
www.sciencealert.com that as usable energy is lost, chaos increases - But that doesn't mean he doesn't get the
and without extra energy being put into a very human urge to want to believe in the
Recent polls have found that 42 percent of system, that progression towards disorder can lingering dead.
Americans and 52 percent of people in the UK never be reversed. "In that moment, there's a mystery, and
believe in ghosts - a huge percentage when you In other words, energy is always lost to it's kinda fun," he says.
consider that no one has ever come up with heat in any system - whether it's a washing "And that allows me to understand, and
irrefutable proof that they even exist. machine or the Universe - and you can never get even embrace, the urge that people have to want
But we might have had proof that they back all the energy you put in. there to be this deep mystery, such as ghosts of
don't exist all along, because as British The principle can be used to explain why ancestors. I have a soft spot for what that
theoretical physicist Brian Cox recently pointed the arrow of time only ever marches forwards; psychological state is, because I've felt that
out, there's no room in the Standard Model of why there's a past, future, and present; and why intermittently, except I kept exploring and
Physics for a substance or medium that can carry you can't un-scramble an egg, because it would getting the answer."
on our information after death, and yet go lower the Universe's entropy.
undetected in the Large Hadron Collider. So how does that apply to ghosts? You can download and listen to the whole
"If we want some sort of pattern that Because we can't touch and interact with segment at the BBC's website. []
carries information about our living cells to them, ghosts can't be made of matter, but instead
persist, then we must specify precisely what of energy. Barnum Effect
medium carries that pattern, and how it interacts And if energy is necessarily lost within
with the matter particles out of which our bodies every system - particularly if they're doing
are made," Cox, from the University of anything that requires using more of it, such as Barnum Effect : is a term that is used in
Manchester, explained in an episode of BBC's moving, emitting light, or making spooky psychology. It is the tendency for people to
The Infinite Monkey Cage. sounds - it would be impossible for them to accept very general or vague characterizations
"We must, in other words, invent an maintain their existence for any significant of themselves and take them to be accurate. A
extension to the Standard Model of Particle period of time. good example of this can be seen when people
Physics that has escaped detection at the Large The second nail in the coffin comes from believe what is said about them in psychometric
Hadron Collider. That's almost inconceivable at the Large Hadron Collider, because while there tests, personality profiles, astrological
the energy scales typical of the particle are things about the Universe we still can't find predictions, and so on. This phenomenon is
interactions in our bodies." using this giant particle accelerator, what we can named after P. T. Barnum, who believed that a
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, see very well is the way energy drives our cells' good circus had "a little something for
who was also on the show, replied, "If I information. everybody." Even though the descriptions or
understand what you just declared, you just If we assume that the energy that descriptive terms used in the inventories,
asserted that CERN, the European Centre for sustains ghosts isn't an entirely new substance or typologies, and tests can apply equally well to
Nuclear Research, disproved the existence of medium, but carries on from when we were other people, some individuals are gullible
ghosts." living, then this mysterious force controlling the enough to believe they are unique to themselves.
"Yes," said Cox. particles that make up our cells would have been Of course, this is exactly what happens with the
It's become glaringly obvious that the detected in the Large Hadron Collider by now. horoscope, palm reading, and crystal ball gazing
Standard Model of Physics is an incomplete "I would say if there's some kind of (Referring to the comments of P.T. Barnum,
theory, with several gaping holes that physicists substance that's driving our bodies, making my 1810-1891, American showman, about public
have been trying to patch up for decades, but arms move and legs move, then it must interact gullibility). []
Cox says the existence of ghosts doesn't fall with the particles out of which our bodies are
within the 'known unknowns' of the Standard made," says Cox. “The difference between a dream
Model. "And seeing as we've made high and reality is just doing it.”
Instead, he says it directly contradicts precision measurements of the ways that
- Rob McConnell
one of the most rigorously tested and particles interact, then my assertion is that there
NASA Engineer Debunks Online UFOs 65
This Former NASA
Engineer Has Debunked
Pretty Much Every Online
UFO Sighting
scienceaf.com
68 Cahira O’Donnell
From The Pages Of Fringe News 69
China to become world’s
first nation to land on
dark side of the Moon
www.express.co.uk
Out of this world delivery: Out of this world? These Talking Board Historical
Amazon boss to send people want to set up a Society
supplies to MOON to brewery on the MOON
www.tbhs.org
establish BASE by 2020 A TEAM of engineers are hoping to become
the first galactic brewery after establishing The Talking Board Historical Society began in
AMAZON has revealed plans to help “America plans to create beer-producing facilities on the 2008 as a loose affiliation of talking board
return to the moon” after its founder Moon. collectors and enthusiasts, brought together by
announced the firm would deliver supplies to talking board historian Robert Murch to bring
the lunar satellite in 2020. Engineers from the University of California, San recognition to the forgotten founders and history
Diego, (UC San Diego) hope to build a brewery of the enigmatic Ouija. In that year, the group
Jeff Bezos, co-founder of Amazon and owner of on the Moon as they look to combine their love assembled and raised funds to erect a talking
Blue Origin – a private space firm looking to of astronomy and alcohol. board-inspired headstone at the unmarked grave
rival SpaceX – is hoping to help humanity Team Original Gravity from UC San of Ouija patentee Elijah Bond in Baltimore’s
establish a colony on the moon by delivering Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering are historic Green Mount Cemetery, which has since
supplies there. designing their Moon brewery as they compete become the historic cemetery’s most-requested
The last time humans stepped foot on the for a place on India’s TeamIndus lunar craft gravesite.
astronomical body was 1972, but as natural which is set for launch at the end of this year. The following year, the TBHS worked to
resources begin to dwindle on Earth, scientists Neeki Ashari, the team's public relations bring recognition to William Fuld’s iconic
are looking at the possibility of establishing lead and head of operations, said: “When we Harford Avenue Ouija factory, built in 1919,
colonies on other planets to ensure humanity’s heard that there was an opportunity to design an which became the first public landmark in
continuity, with the moon seen as the perfect experiment that would go up on India’s Maryland acknowledging the city’s Ouija
stepping stone. moonlander, we thought we could combine our history. In 2012, the TBHS collaborated with the
An internal report from Blue Origin was hobby with the competition by focusing on the Baltimore Museum of Industry to host a first-
obtained by the Washington Post – which Mr viability of yeast in outer space.” ever of its kind exhibit displaying talking boards
Bezos also owns – and outlines the space travel Team Original Gravity is hoping to test and spirit device from the many eras of
firm’s plans for future missions. how beer brews on the Moon while also manufacturing history. These years also mark a
The proposal looks to NASA for help in studying how yeast acts differently in zero flood of discoveries by the TBHS’s historians
sending a ‘Blue Moon’ spacecraft to the south gravity. and researchers, including the discovery and
pole of the lunar satellite. While the beer is an interesting angle, documentation of the Chestertown, Maryland
Aboard the ship will be equipment to the project has bigger implications than just home where Charles Kennard claimed to invent
help humans establish a base on the moon. allowing astronauts to have a pint on the Moon. the Ouija, identifying Ouija’s 1886 Witch Board
The report reads: “Once on the surface, How yeast behaves in space is a hot topic precursor by W.S. Reed Toy Company, and
the lander’s useful payload can be used to as it is used for many foods and also certain uncovering the enduring legacies of Ouija’s
conduct science or deploy rovers. pharmaceuticals such as insulin. founders in the Igili, Nirvana, Volo, and Weird-
“A robotic arm attached to the lander With humans on the brink of establishing A talking boards, among many, many others.
will deploy to examine the lunar surface with an colonies on other worlds, scientists are keen to In 2014, the TBHS officially
array of instruments.” know the best ways to provide medicines and incorporated and became a registered non-profit
Mr Bezos told the Washington Post: “It foods in space. 501(c)(3), naming Robert Murch Chairman of
is time for America to return to the Moon — this While on Earth, density measurements the Board. The TBHS has since worked
time to stay. A permanently inhabited lunar are used to test fermentation and yeast viability, tirelessly to preserve the history of this unique
settlement is a difficult and worthy objective. on the moon the experts will use pressure pop culture phenomenon. Their next project is
“I sense a lot of people are excited about testing. the construction of a grave marker recognizing
this.” Siddhesh Naik, of TeamIndus and the medium Helen Peters for her role in giving
The report goes on to say that the first mentor to Original Gravity said: “The yeast the Ouija its unique name, and through this
missions could launch by July 2020, but that study is among the coolest experiments to be project and others, the talking Board Historical
allegedly depends on how heavily NASA is performed on the lunar surface, and I am sure Society hopes to bring greater and wider
involved. they are one of the top contenders to win the recognition to the nearly-forgotten stories and
He added: “Our liquid hydrogen Lab2Moon competition.” lives of this incredible institution. []
72 From The Page Of Fringe News
The Apollo 1 Conspiracy;
Did NASA Cover Up Gus
Grissom’s Death?
Most people are familiar with the names of the
famous NASA astronauts who pioneered the
early space program that led to the first lunar
landing in 1969. Names like Buzz Aldrin, Neil
Armstrong, John Glenn and Alan Shepard are
familiar in the pantheon of space pioneers,
though there is one name that is less recognized,
but equally important; Gus Grissom. While he
played an integral role in getting the space
program on its feet, his legacy will be forever
marred by the Apollo 1 conspiracy as well as
other controversies in his career, but is any of it
true?
KAL’S KORNER with KAL KORFF: Kal Korff has been an CHRISTA NEHLS is a gender communication expert. While
Analyst, Broadcaster, Commentator and Investigative Journalist on or providing even better communication for the genders, she brings peace
for such popular TV networks as ABC, CNN, Discovery Channel, to the people and reduces misunderstandings and divorce rates and
FOX, History Channel, MSNBC, NBC, National Geographic and has improves company revenues because the people communicate
appeared on countless radio shows and in the newspapers, including effectively. She is: Founder of CN Counseling and Inventor of the
National Public Radio’s Science Fridays, Art Bell’s Coast-to-Coast L.I.S.A.-method, she is a business coach and trainer for highly skilled
AM, Dr. Seth Shostak of SETI, Jeff Rense’s Sightings, Laura Lee people and people in leading positions. Her passion is: to lighten the
Show, San Francisco Examiner, Prague Post, Metropolitni Expres, fire in the eyes of her customers, to see how they relax and straighten
Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, Phoenix New Times, when they recognize their way and finally move on to it. Her motto is:
Daily Review, Argus, Huffington Post, Stanford Daily, San Jose "Actions speak louder than words." So she empowers people to come
Mercury News, Oakland Tribune, Ohlone Monitor, Omni, Skeptical into action and go ahead. She does what Being an author, publisher
Inquirer, Skepsis, True, Saga UFO Report, Beyond Reality, Fortean and speaker she gives her readers and her audience hints, tipps and
Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Frontiers of Science, LBC Radio, tricks to go ahead, to change their lifes to a life they love to live. Her
Daily World TV, RTL, DW2, TV Nova, Radio Praha, Radio Free first book, already published in Germany, is called Denkpausen" and
Europe, YouTube, Scribd, Facebook, Twitter, ‘X’ Zone Radio Show will be available in English called "Think A Moment!" and more books
and others. To contact Kal Korff - Email - kalkorff@xzbn.net to come. Email - christa@tellusradio.com
www.XZBN.net www.XZBN.net
songsandstoriesforsoldiers.us
78 Fake News and La Madera
Fake News and La
Madera
by Kevin Randle
www.kevinrandle.blogspot.ca
by Kal K. Korff
Host of XZBNs
Kal’s Korner
www.xzbn.net
What Really Happened at Marcel. In addition to discussing Project Mogul “disinformation” agent who knew all about
and its history, Professor Moore also speaks for Roswell and the aliens recovered. Suffice it to
Roswell the first time about specific pro-UFO Roswell say, the Menzel family are not amused by these
authors that have contacted him. ridiculous claims and were kind enough to share
When I asked Professor Moore if UFO their thoughts with me, as well as provide
Continued from Page 81 researcher Stanton Friedman had ever contacted additional evidence that their father could not
or interviewed him about Roswell, he told me have been a secret member of the non-existent
that in the early 1990s Friedman had placed a MJ-12.
Although DuBose’s testimony and all newspaper ad in the local paper soliciting After maintaining my personal silence
available evidence easily refute Marcel’s witnesses to Roswell, and that he wrote to on the subject for nearly fifteen years, I finally
substituted wreckage claim, DuBose was Friedman and later met him and his coauthor, come forth with some detailed insight into
adamant that there was indeed a coverup. He Don Berliner, at a hotel in Socorro. Roswell UFO researcher Bill Moore’s claim that
never knew what the Roswell object was, but he When I inquired as to how their he is a UFO disinformation expert for the U.S.
did know that it was not an ordinary weather discussion went, Professor Moore told me government. I was one of the first people Moore
balloon, contrary to what was claimed at that bluntly that Friedman and Berliner did not want told this to back in 1982, some seven years
time. The question now becomes, what was the to hear his side of the story and then accused before he announced it in July 1989. At the time,
object? him and his group of being part of the coverup. Moore approached me and tried to recruit me on
It is curious that nowhere in Friedman his “mission.” Naturally, I declined, and began
Project Mogul: The Real Answer and Berliner’s Crash at Corona is this meeting to distance myself from him.
ever mentioned, nor has Friedman ever noted it One of the last chapters in my book
Project Mogul was a super-secret operation in in his published writings, nor has he ever refuted examines the infamous alien autopsy film and
1947 that involved the use of constant-level the overwhelming and convincing evidence that presents a myriad of reasons why it is a hoax.
balloon trains that were equipped with various the whole Roswell UFO hysteria was caused by Also described are some behind-the-scenes
instruments for intelligence gathering purposes. people who didn't know the identity of the details about the production and many of the
Constant level balloon trains are clusters of recovered material, the discovery of which just games that were played on Fox TV by the film’s
balloons that are balanced so that they can float happened to take place during that unique period promoter, Ray Santilli.
at a fairly consistent altitude and not continually of time in mid-1947 when the flying saucer The Roswell UFO Crash: What They
rise up into the atmosphere. Project Mogul was craze was first sweeping America. Don't Want You to Know is the first book to
a classified operation begun by the U.S. thoroughly wade through the massive quagmire
government after the end of World War II to spy Further Topics and Conclusion of Roswell evidence and finally separate the fact
on the former Soviet Union in order to from the fiction. Paranoid UFO conspiracy buffs
determine the status of Russian attempts to build The other parts of The Roswell UFO Crash: and X-Files fans will find that the book confirms
nuclear weapons. Project Mogul was so secret What They Don't Want You to Know expose the their basic premise: Yes, Virginia, there was a
and sensitive that it had a national security rating two cases where alleged physical metallic “coverup,” but it did not involve the remains of
of “Top Secret A-1,” equal to that of the original fragments were recovered and scientifically an extraterrestrial flying saucer.
Manhattan Project (the effort to build the analyzed. In both instances, thorough analyses On the other hand, pro-UFO Roswell
world’s first atomic bomb). revealed that none of the fragments were aficionados will find the massive evidence
While a Project Mogul balloon array has extraterrestrial in origin. refuting the Roswell myth in my book
been mentioned before as a candidate for the I also address the issue of the Majestic- disturbing, and not just because their favorite
Roswell object, unfortunately the case for it 12 (MJ-12) documents. For those not familiar UFO case has now been explained. Indeed, the
remained unproven — until now. In my book, I with the MJ-12 documents, these allegedly message in the final chapter makes it very clear
present previously unpublished, formerly authentic top-secret documents were brought to that the UFO field has suffered in credibility
classified photos and drawings of various the public’s attention in 1987 by Bill Moore, because of Roswell and especially because of
components of Mogul that can be visually Stanton Friedman, and another associate. They the unprofessional and shoddy “standards” of
compared by the reader to photos of the actual refer to a top-secret “Operation Majestic-12,” evidence the Roswell authors have practiced.
wreckage that was recovered. From these photos supposedly created by President Truman to Although I didn't relish wording the last
and drawings, it is clear that it is the same analyze the Roswell crashed saucer and aliens. paragraph in my book the way I did, I had to call
material. Skeptic Phil Klass and others have shown this to things as I see them. This paragraph reads: “The
I also present statements from the be a hoax. I recount an interview with the widow time has come for the UFO community to take
surviving members of the secret Project Mogul and daughter of the late UFO skeptic and an honest look at itself in the mirror concerning
team. In particular is an interview with Professor Harvard astronomer, Donald Menzel, an alleged Roswell. If and when they ever decide to do this,
Charles Moore, the main scientist behind MJ-12 member. Supporters of the MJ-12 papers, they will see for the first time that they have two
Mogul’s New York University balloon including Friedman, would have us believe that black eyes and a huge hole in their head. All of
experiments and the man who actually launched Menzel was a secret government which have been self-inflicted.”
the very balloon train that was recovered by
84 Find Your Path Home
The Roswell Incident and Project Mogul 85
The Roswell Incident and
Project Mogul
by Dave Thomas
www.RobertaGrimes.com www.RobertaGrimes.com
www.RobertaGrimes.com www.RobertaGrimes.com
88 The REL-MAR Digital Publications Store
THE
REL-MAR
Digital Publications
Store
Is Now
O*P*E*N!
REL-MAR offers complete print and publishing services for ALL Authors.
If you are an Author and would like to have your books and digitized and sold in the
REL-MAR Digital Publications Store,
email us today - admin@rel-mar.com
www.rel-mar.com/digital-publications
Connecting with Coincidence 89
www.coincider.com
90 Beware of the Integrative Pharmacy
Beware of the Integrative While I don’t personally work regularly Research on Complementary and Integrative
in retail pharmacy, I think of myself as a strong Health (NCRCI). Change the standard of
Pharmacy - Part I advocate for the community-based pharmacist’s practice, and what was ethically verboten is now
role – and for their potential to do much more. acceptable – and that’s what integrative
Not only are pharmacists among the most medicine proponents are explicitly trying to do
by Scott Gavura accessible health professionals, they can also in health care.
have close, supportive relationships with their
Imagine a retail pharmacy where some of the patients. And pharmacists are well-positioned to The integrative pharmacy
medicines on the shelves have been replaced do much more to enhance the safe and
with similar-looking packages that contain no appropriate use of drugs – from managing doses If you integrate unproven remedies with
active ingredients at all. There is no easy way to and side effects, to simplifying regimens, and by proven medicine in your pharmacy, it does not
distinguish between the real and the fake. ensuring that prescribed medications are being improve pharmacy practice or patient care – it
Another section of the store offers a taken safely and appropriately. If you’re makes that care worse.
number of remedies with fantastic claims, such generally healthy and don’t need medication, A HuffPo column a few years back was
as “boosting” the immune system, “detoxifying” you may not even know a pharmacist. But those a call-to-action to pharmacies to embrace
the body, or “cleansing” you of microscopic with high medication needs tend to know their integrative medicine – it was a depressing read
Candida. They look sciencey, unless you realize pharmacist well, and many rely on their to anyone that advocates for science-based
that they treat imaginary medical conditions. pharmacist as a key member of their health care principles. Entitled “Who Will Own the Brand
A corner of the store offers unpurified team. I know the impact a good pharmacist can of Integrative Medicine? “, the column
drugs supplied as tinctures and teas. The active have on the health of a patient. But I’m described integrative medicine as a business
ingredients aren’t known, and the batch-to-batch increasingly dismayed at retail pharmacy opportunity:
consistency of the product is unclear. The store practices that call the credibility and good “There is a revolution happening in
will suggest products for you based on your intentions of the pharmacist into question. North American medicine. If successful, it will
symptoms. educate and empower consumers, introduce us
Walk past the enormous wall of vitamins Old whine in a new bottle to a world of new cures, and leave most of us
and other supplements and you’ll find a wondering, ‘Why didn’t we do this 50 years
nutritionist who will tell you what products you Integrative medicine is ascendant. Terms like ago?’
should be taking. You’ll also find a weight loss “alternative” and “complementary” are falling It profiled the Pharmaca chain of
section. From a science-based perspective, this out of favor, in part because it’s increasingly pharmacies in the US. The CEO of Pharmaca
shouldn’t even exist, given no product has been recognized that these terms carry a stigma – they was quoted:
shown to offer any meaningful benefit. But there are not part of mainstream medicine. Integrative The common US model is one
are dozens of products for sale. medicine seeks to explicitly embed pharmacist, and a bunch of clerks stocking
At the back of the store you’ll finally complementary and alternative medical shelves. In our case, we have the highly trained
find the pharmacist. A sign on the counter offers practices into conventional, science-based pharmacist, but also highly skilled practitioners
blood- and saliva-based tests for food medical care. It purports to take a “best of both with homeopathic or naturopathic backgrounds.
“intolerance” and adrenal “fatigue”, claiming to worlds” approach, mixing science-based No one expert has the full answer. Instead, we
test for medical conditions that actually don’t treatments with a variety of unconventional collaborate to offer our customers a more
exist or lack an evidence base. The pharmacy treatments. The fundamental challenge with holistic approach to managing their health.
also offers a large compounding practice, integrative medicine is that “integrative” Not surprisingly, Pharmaca advertises a
advertising what it calls “personalized” products and services don’t have scientific wide array of ineffective treatments, from
approaches to hormone replacement with evidence to support them: if they did, they’d products that claim to offer adrenal “support” to
“bioidentical” hormones. simply be called “medicine”. Instead of homeopathy, detox kits and a weight loss
evidence, promoters of integrative medicine rely selection that Dr. Oz would approve of. To their
Welcome to the “integrative” pharmacy. on other standards – many are grounded in belief credit, they also offer important pharmacy
systems, such as the idea of “vitalism“. While services such as vaccines, including the
You may not see all these features in your local ideas like vitalism are long-discarded from whooping cough vaccine. It’s a shame they’re
drug store, but they’re coming: claims of a new science-based medicine, they live on in the also actively promoting and profiting from
“integrative” way to provide health care that is philosophies of practices like homeopathy, selling pseudoscience.
changing the face of retail pharmacy. naturopathy, and chiropractic. And the retail part Another integrative pharmacy that was
Unfortunately, it’s harkening back to the era of of the pharmacy profession sees an opportunity, profiled in the same column was Vancouver’s
patent medicines and snake oil. It’s not good for like this advertisement seems to suggest. Pure Integrative Pharmacy:
the pharmacists and the profession of pharmacy, Misleading patients and selling them Up to now, there’s been a polarization
and it’s even worse for patients. inert, ineffective products is unethical medical between advocates of traditional and
As the blog’s only pharmacist, I like to practice. But under an “integrative” framework, conventional pharmacy. We believe the way
think I bring a different but (cough) pharmacies are simply offering homeopathy – forward lies in using treatments that are backed
complementary perspective to the contributions. after all, it’s trusted by millions. Basing your by evidence, regardless of their origin.
Naturally I like to write about drug-related medical advice on pre-scientific ideas is and the CEO continued:
issues, and I’ll occasionally scrutinize the incompetence from a conventional, science- I want to get rid of the whole east meets
profession itself. One trend in the profession based perspective. But integrative medicine west stereotype. This isn’t about east meets west.
seems to be accelerating: It’s the increasing seems to mean the freedom to simply make up It’s about getting the best product, or
volume of scientifically-questionable products diseases, and then to sell treatments for them. combination of products, for our customers. And
on pharmacy shelves. It hit home the other day Scientific evidence is no longer the basis for those products come with proof of efficacy.
when I found yet another local pharmacy that your practice – it’s become more holistic,
proudly advertises that it will sell you sugar pills embracing “different ways of knowing.” I’ve Read Part II of “The Integrative Pharmacy” in
and call it medicine. A twitter discussion ensued, written before about the harms to hospitals and the February 2018 Edition of The ‘X’
with one pharmacist commenting that his own academic settings from the embrace of Chronicles Newspaper.
retail pharmacy looks behind-the-times simply “integrative medicine”. In short, there is no
because he puts patient care and ethics ahead of medical standard with integrative medicine –
revenue, and refuses to sell products like and that’s why “integration” is so problematic.
homeopathy. Pharmacy is a health profession, The bandwagon is growing, however. On
but retail pharmacy is also a for-profit business. Monday, David Gorski noted that the National
This is a continual conflict, and I fear the Center for Complementary and Alternative
professional side may be losing ground in the Medicine is jumping on board, with a proposal
drive to increase revenue. to change its name to the National Center for
Services Offered At REL-MAR.com 91
The following services are Per-View productions and world-wide * Printed and/or Print On Demand
distribution. * Audio Books ($200.00 per hour)
offered by For information on radio/TV
programming, production and/or distribution, Complete Graphic Services including:
REL-MAR please email admin@rel-mar.com.
McConnell Media • Book Covers
Some of REL-MAR services include: • Book Jackets
Company • Corporate Branding & Imaging
Radio & Television: • Posters
in Hamilton, Ontario, • Animation
Canada. • Commercials ( 10 sec, 15 sec, 30 sec, 60 sec) Other Print & Digital Specialty Products &
• Consulting Services - Including - Internet, Computer &
• Copyright Services Software:
In this ever changing world of digital • Digital Editing
technology, REL-MAR McConnell Media • Digital Special Effects • Complete Website Graphic Services
Company of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada remains • Dubbing & Transferring • Current Website Analysis
at the forefront and is one of Canada's top true • Infomercials • Domain Name Registration(s)
multimedia companies. REL-MAR's role in the • Mentoring • eCommerce
Canadian broadcasting / publishing and Internet • Mobile Broadcast (Radio/TV) Capabilities • Email Lists
industries has been acknowledged • Press Releases • Internet Radio & TV Broadcast Consulting
internationally, for and including the • Product launches “As Seen On TV” Product • Publishing
internationally syndicated talk radio program, Marketing • RSS Feeds
"The 'X' Zone Radio/TV Show " and in the • Production Radio / TV / Pay-Per-View • SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
world of publishing, "The 'X' Chronicles • Programming • Website Audio & Video Features
Newspaper • Radio/TV Social Networking • Website Banner Ad Programs
Whether you require professional radio / • Satellite Up-link Facilities • Website Design
TV broadcast services, or a video production for • Syndication of Radio & TV Programming • Website Hosting
your personal or corporate website, REL-MAR • Teleconferencing • Website Mailing Lists
McConnell Media Company will be able to meet • Treatments for Radio / TV • Website Security
every challenge and ever deadline with the • Video/Audio Internet Programming • Website Technical Support
professional that you expect and deserve. If you • Voice Over Talent & Production • Website Tracking Services
are an individual, institution or corporation • Webcasting Radio / TV / Pay-Per-View • Website TV Graphic Ad Programs
needing to bring your message, your product to • Website Audio/Video Productions • Other Internet, Computer & Software
the worldwide population by the Internet, REL- Specialty Products & Services.
MAR’s “eExperiences” will prove to be a Other Print & Digital Specialty Products &
valuable asset to you, your organization, and Services. Publishing:
those who you are trying to reach. REL-MAR McCONNELL MEDIA
REL-MAR is the answer to all your Copyright Services for: COMPANY Shows Currently Are On The
publishing needs - both print and digital. Being • Art Following International Broadcasters
publishers ourselves we understand the authors • eBook Including:
needs. • Graphic
We also offer mentoring & consulting • Illustration • Angel Broadcast Network
over the telephone and would be more than • Literature • Canadian Media Services
happy to discuss how we can help you. Contact • Logo • Canadian News Network
us today. • Lyrics • Digital Broadcast Network
REL-MAR is the production / broadcast • Magazine • Digital Broadcast Network
center for many fine programs including: The 'X' • Music • Digital Satellite Network
Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell, The • Novel • Disclosure Radio TV Network
Science of Magic with Gwilda Wiyaka, A • Photograph • EuroRadioTV
Different Perspective with Dr. Kevin Randle, Hi • Poetry • Good News Radio Network
Tech with Corey K, Quantum Physics to Meta • Publication • Hamilton TV Network
Physics with Patti Conklin, Christa Nehls and • Software • IPBN Music Network
Siegfried Drews from Germany with The Tell • Textual Work • IPBN New Age Radio Network
Us Radio Show, Kal Korner with Kal Korff, the • Video • IPBN Radio Network
European and Asian Bureau Chief for REL- • Website • IPBN TV Network
MAR, Two Good to be True with Justina and • Mutual Broadcast Network International
Peter Marsh, Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes, • Distribution Services (From Shipping • NewsZines Communications Group
Know the Name Know the Genius in You with Companies to Digital Formats) • ParaScience Radio TV Network
Sharon Lynn Wyeth, Paranormal StakeOut with • Editing Services • Radio X (Belgium)
Larry Lawson, AstroNumerology with Jesse • Formatting for Kindle, Nook, iPod, iPad, • RAM Media Co
Kalsi, Connecting with Coincidence with Dr. Android Devices & Others • RAM Radio Network
Bernie Beitman, MD, The 'X' Zone TV Show • ISBN Numbers, ISSN Numbers, ISMN • RNN Radio Network
with Rob McConnell, as well as other programs, Numbers • SimulTV
both radio and TV that are currently in • Newsletters (Print & Digital) • Sirius Digital Broadcast Network
production. • Newspapers (Print & Digital) • TalkStar Radio Network
Our Flagship Network is our very own • Books • The ‘X’ Zone Channel
'X' Zone Broadcast Network - www.xzbn.net, * Case Bound (Hard Cover) (Print & • The ‘X’ Zone TV Channel
from which we supply radio stations, satellite Digital) • TSOM Radio Network
programmers and internet audio centers our feed * Coil bound (Plastic Coil) (Print & • WiFi Broadcast Network
for international distribution. Digital) • Wiki Hamilton Radio Network
REL-MAR is proud to announce that * eBooks (Domain Name, Hosting & • XZBN Radio Network
starting October 15, 2017 “The ‘X’ Zone TV Internet Landing Page) • XZBN TV Network
Channel” will be carried on SimulTV - * Perfect Bound (Paperback) (Print &
www.simultv.com as well as full broadcast Pay- Digital) Contact REL-MAR at admin@rel-mar.com
92 My Thomas by Roberta Grimes
M Y T H O M A S
by
Roberta Grimes
When Martha Skelton finds herself falling in love with a
shy young burgess named Thomas Jefferson, it feels like an
inconvenience. Widowed at twenty-two, Martha has no
desire to lose the independence she has gained in the wake
of her husband's death. But she cannot deny her feelings
indefinitely. Despite her intentions, her friendship with
Thomas develops into an intense and all-consuming love.
www.RobertaGrimes.com