Ethnic Cleansing in a Zionist Fairyland

Ethnic Cleansing in a Zionist Fairyland

By Vacy Vlazna

February 10, 2012 'De-Arabizing the history of Palestine is another crucial element of the ethnic cleansing. 1500 years of Arab and Muslim rule and culture in Palestine are trivialized, evidence of its existence is being destroyed and all this is done to make the absurd connection between the ancient Hebrew civilization and today's Israel. The most glaring example of this today is in Silwan, (Wadi Hilwe) a town adjacent to the Old City of Jerusalem with some 50,000 residents. Israel is expelling families from Silwan and destroying their homes because it claims that king David built a city there some 3000 years ago. Thousands of families will be made homeless so that Israel can build a park to commemorate a king that may or may not have lived 3000 years ago. Not a shred of historical evidence exists that can prove King David ever lived yet Palestinian men, women, children and the elderly along with their schools and mosques, churches and ancient cemeteries and any evidence of their existence must be destroyed and then denied so that Zionist claims to exclusive rights to the land may be substantiated.' -- Miko Peled, Israeli dissident. Indeed, archaeology has become a state apparatus for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Zionist fairyland aka the City of David Archaeological Park located in the Palestinian village of Silwan in East Jerusalem. East Jerusalem is the proclaimed capital of the proposed Palestine state. It was illegally annexed by Israel in the 1967 war. Prohibiting annexation of territories gained by military conquest is one of the major principles of international law. The international community does not recognise Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem nevertheless over 50,000 illegal premises have been built for 250,000 illegal Israeli colonists. The goal of the archaeological judaisation of Jerusalem is to transform Jerusalem into the City of David, the capital of Greater Israel by eradicating the mixed ethnic composition of the Palestinian and Jewish population of East Jerusalem to a solely Jewish identity and unifying East and West Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty. This judaising in Silwan is executed by the Israeli government, the Municipality of Jerusalem, and the rightwing colonist (settler) organisation, Elad, through the revocation of residency rights, absentee property laws, discriminatory taxation policies, home demolitions, transfer of Palestinian residents, replacing Arabic place names with Hebrew names and the expansion of settlements which Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, describes 'as a form of ethnic cleansing ' which is defined as a crime against humanity under the statutes of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Furthermore Article 53 of the Geneva Convention states: "Any destruction by the Occupying Power of real or personal property belonging individually or collectively to private persons.is prohibited." Financial support for judaising programmes comes from hundreds of moneyed Zionist organisations and foundations worldwide. In 2005, archaeologist Eilat Mazar announced she had discovered the palace of King David circa 10 Century BCE. The excavations in Silwan were funded by the Shalem Center whose Zionist neocons have invested heavily in the judaisation efforts to give historicity to the David myth. Shalem's founder, Ron Lauder of the Estee Lauder empire, is an uncompromising Zionist extremist, a Likudnik and a major shareholder in Israeli TV Channel 10 as well as the current Chairman of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and President of the World Jewish Congress (JWC) which normalises the Israeli occupation. Curiously, in January, Abbas and Erekat had a closed meeting with Lauder in London even though the Palestinian team refused to meet with Netanyahu. The Shalem Center has association with Sheldon Adelson, the casino billionaire who is a Likud supporter and a key financial backer of the Newt Gingrich campaign and Newt's 'Palestinians are an invented people' idiocy. From 2007-9 the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies in the Shalem Center was directed by Natan Sharansky who is now Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, a quasi-governmental organisation advancing Jewish immigration to Israel including the illegal colonies. Its 2008 the core budget was $314,760,000. The Jewish Agency was established by the World Zionist Organization (WZO) in 1929 founded on the commitment to warrant "The unity of the Jewish people, its bond to its historic homeland Eretz Yisrael, and the centrality of the State of Israel and Jerusalem, its capital "It acts as agent of the government in assigning land to Jewish colonists in the Israeli-occupied territories. Its new chairman is religious Zionist Avraham Duvdevani who served as head of the WZO's Settlement Division, co-chairman of the board of the Jewish National Fund and a member of the Jewish Agency's Executive. Over a quarter of WZO delegates are from Orthodox Zionists attesting to their sinister rising influence. The Shalem Centre works closely with Elad the right-wing hardline colonist organization and militia that advocates illegal Jewish colonial settlement in East Jerusalem acquiring, in cahoots with the Jewish National Fund and its subsidiary Hemanuta, Palestinian properties often through threats, false depositions, forged documents, posthumous witness signatures and militant house takeovers. Elad is mainly funded by the tax-exempt 'charities' Ir David Incorporated and the Irving Moskowitz Foundation which illegally funnel monies to Zionist political objectives. Moskowitz, the casino magnate, is a hardcore Zionist and founder of the Friends of Ateret Cohanim which finances Jews to live in East Jerusalem and owns about 70 properties in the Muslim Quarter. Daniel Luria, its chief fund-raiser commented "Our [fund-raising] activity in New York goes solely toward land redemption." In 2005, Ateret Cohanim instigated, without license, an archaeological project tunneling 20 meters toward the Al-Aqsa compound causing damage to Palestinian homes in violation of the law. Elad was given, without tender, exclusive control over the City of David Archaeological Park including a tunnel network that is being dug around and under the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Elad's lucrative tours of the historic sites, although there is no historical evidence of David or Solomon's existence, spout historical fabrications from the Jewish biblical narrative such as the Byzantine water pit that is falsified as Jeremiah's pit. The 8000 year old Palestinian-Canaanite narrative is glossed over. In December 2011, Australian listeners were treated to a fantasy tour of the so-called Palace of David by ABC presenter Rachael Kohn and archaeologist Avner Goren both of whom gushed forth fairytales about the mythical king absurdly comparing him to George Washington and sidestepping his dubious authenticity by urging trust in the Bible. In archaeological circles there is an ongoing controversy about whether Biblical texts can be equated to history. In the 70s William Dever suggested that rather than Biblical Archaeology, the term Syro-Palestinian Archaeology (note not Syro-Israeli) was more appropriate and is used in academic circles. Archaeologists who follow the Minimalist or Copenhagen school "conclude that the books of the Hebrew Bible were written during the Persian (or Hellenistic) period. The historical books actually contain made-up stories (that may have exploited some vague, ancient legends) through which the local organized refugee population provided itself with a mythic cover-(hi)story that linked it to the land and to a religion. This conclusion has two important corollaries: (1) Bible narratives about the political, social, and intellectual world of ancient Israel from Abraham to the temple’s destruction lack probative value. (2) Any narrative about what actually happened to the real people living in the central mountain areas of ancient Israel during what archaeologists call the Iron Age must, accordingly, be based on archaeological data alone. No other authentic sources for their history are available." It is widely accepted that the Bible originated in the 7th Century BCE, 300 years after David and other historical aberrations encompass the palaces officially ascribed to Solomon in Megiddo which are dated long after Solomon's time. Cities conquered by Joshua in the 14th century BCE were destroyed well before that era. Daniel Gavron comments that "The story of Abraham's journey from Ur of the Chaldees, the Patriarchs, the Exodus, Sinai, and the conquest of Canaan, all these were apparently based on legends..." In 2004, Yuval Goren admitted he examined " a seemingly endless line of fake biblical texts of various kinds. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of such forgeries referring especially to the time of the First Temple. It will not be an exaggeration to say that the disciplines of biblical history and archaeology have been contaminated to such an extent that no unprovenanced written source seems to be reliable anymore." Proof of David's existence rests on a piece of stone found at Tel Dan in northern Galilee (not Jerusalem) inscribed with the words 'Beit David' which could mean House of 'David' or 'Beloved' but not King David conclusively as with the sherd found at Tel Safi with the name 'Goliath' which "almost certainly did not belong to David's Goliath, if it does say "Goliath" then it shows that there was such a personal name used in the region at approximately the correct chronological period." The first ancient reference to an Israelite king is found in an 8th Century BCE Assyrian document recording "King Ahab of Israel sent 2,000 chariots and 10,000 soldiers." Sumud (steadfastness) life and land are synonymous in the Palestinian soul. King David may be a myth but it is the modern indigenous Palestinians, outcasts in their own land, who stand alone with the stone of sumud in their hands daily facing off the militant aliyah hordes backed by the Zionist Goliaths of multi-billion dollar empires, by Christian Zionist offerings, by the servile US Congress, by a depraved UK and EU and by a contemptibly inadequate United Nations. - Dr. Vacy Vlazna is Coordinator of Justice for Palestine Matters. She was Human Rights Advisor to the GAM team in the second round of the Acheh peace talks, Helsinki, February 2005 and was coordinator of the East Timor Justice Lobby as well as serving in East Timor with UNAMET and UNTAET from 1999-2001

Ancient Stones Are Still Enigmatic for Scientists

No one knows, what ancient stone mazes were built for

Ancient stone mazes can be found in various parts of the world - in the west of England, in the Kola Peninsula and in the Baltic region. They all come from one culture, there are no doubts about it, although it is not known, which culture in particular. Archeologists say that stone mazes were built in the second or the third millennium B.C. Some of them are even older than Egyptian pyramids. However, it is impossible to assume that a human civilization existed in the north of Europe so many years ago. Moreover, it is not clear, why all stone mazes are situated on the sea shore. They can not be found anywhere inland. Finally, there is a major question about ancient mazes - what were they built for?

Records of ancient stone mazes first appeared at the end of the 15th century. Founders of the Church pronounced them "evil signs." Back in those years, it was believed that approaching a stone maze was a great sin. If someone dared to do that, the Church would order either to put their eyes out or to burn them alive. At the end of the 20th century, English ethnologists published research works, in which the origin of mazes was connected with ancient cults and rituals. Researchers believed that people used mazes for their ritual dancing. According to another version, stone mazes are not actually mazes, but constructions to catch fish that were built in late Stone Age. However, the majority of scientists believe that the two versions can not stand any criticism nowadays.

There are several types of such constructions. The most common one of them is a spiral-like maze with one entrance and one exit. Anatoly Verba, a professor of the Arkhangelsk University, said that hundreds of such stones had been found in northern areas of Russia. Stones have been lying on one and same place in open areas for thousands of years, but time has not caused any damage to them.

Stone mazes are up to 300 meters in diameter. Largest stones weigh up to 50 tons. Most famous stones in the world are located in Stonehedge in England. Some researchers believe that stones are actually huge generators to accept and transmit signals of the Universe. They think that the network of stones works like a giant computer, which informs someone in space of what is happening on planet Earth. However, Lyudmila Orekhova from the Russian State Historical Museum, believes that such a hypothesis is nothing but a fairytale for serious scientists: "I think that the origin of giant stones might be connected with the migration of ancient tribes from the Kola Peninsula to the British Isles." One may also suppose that there used to be trade relations between the Mediterranean Island of Crete and north-western Europe. This is a daring hypothesis, but it allows to explain a lot: the mazes of the White Sea and Greece look so much alike.

There is a story in the Greek mythology about a king named Minos, who ruled in Crete long time ago. Daedalus built an inescapable Labyrinth to imprison the fearsome beast, the Minotaur there. The king's daughter, Ariadne, fell in love with hero Theseus, who was supposed to be a victim for the beast. Ariadne gave him a ball of thread, Theseus killed Minotaur and escaped from the Labyrinth. It goes without saying that one can not consider a myth a true historical fact. However, it is not ruled out that myths are based on true events. Yet, real mazes are not that inescapable and it is possible to find a way out without a ball of thread.

Lyudmila Orekhova also said that a maze was the symbol of Crete. Archeologists found an ivory seal on the island, the seal was 5,000 years old. As it turned out, the seal depicted the image of a maze. A spiral maze can sometimes be found on ancient Crete coins too. Did ancient people manage to reach northern territories that were rich with fur, amber and honey? It may seem rather surprising, but Homer's Odyssey proves that. A French historian proved that Ulysses had traveled far beyond the Mediterranean Sea - he reached Scandinavia and the Northern Sea.

Ufologists and others that go for space sensations believe that ancient stones are magic. They say that mystical things are quite natural in the area of stone mazes: electronic devices come out of order, people feel something strange, when they step into a maze. They also say that a view of stone mazes from above shows certain images - it is possible to see an alien or a giant tentacle, if you fly above a maze in a helicopter. An English researcher even saw a whole sentence in one of the mazes: "We are not alone." As a matter of fact, one is supposed to have a very vivid imagination in order to see and decode such words in a dull silhouette of stones. If it was really a message from space, why didn't they write it as "You are not alone?"

Yevgenia Ivanova 

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Unknown fire and jelly-like creatures live in Earth's atmosphere

On 11 September, 1948, the Empire State Building in New York was attacked with hundreds of birds of various species

The hypothesis about the existence of little-studied forms of life in the Earth's atmosphere has been an attraction for scientists for quite a long time. Nations around the globe have numerous stories, fairy-tales and legends about such creatures, the most popular of which are sylphs, giant fire birds, fairies, flying snakes and dragons. This weird theory has been gaining more and more details lately to prove its credibility.

The mysterious creatures of the sky can be traced in the history of the Roman Empire. According to ancient manuscripts, giant red ravens were seen flying in the sky above Rome in the year 106 B.C. Ancient writings say that the birds were carrying red-hot stones in their beaks. The ravens dropped and stones down on the ground, having scorched a half of the city. Similar fire-like creatures reminiscent of birds were seen in France and Portugal, in Middle Ages. They were called fire elementalias, specters of fire. Fire-birds caused numerous fires in the middle of the 1980s in San-Juan, Puerto Rico. Eyewitnesses said that the birds were huge, with a wing-spread of about four meters.

Fire snakes and dragons were described in historical documents too. An outstanding incident took place in September of 1891 in the American town of Crawfordswille, Indiana. There is a story in the archives of the town about a 10-meter long fire snake, which appeared above the central square of the town. A lot of people saw the snake – they all said that it was a live creature. A local pastor vowed that the snake had red eyes of fire and the heat of its breath could be felt at a considerable distance. It is noteworthy that similar creatures could be seen in the sky above Indiana in the 60s and 70s of the current century. Film director William Gordon Allen used eyewitnesses' stories to create a colorful image of the fire snake. The illustration appeared in the documentary film “Overlords of the UFO,” which was released in 1976.

Mass deaths of birds, or their sudden migration can also be considered an indirect evidence to prove the existence of an unknown form of life in the atmosphere of the planet. On 11 September, 1948, the building of New York's highest skyscraper, the Empire State Building, was attacked with hundreds of birds of various species. Eyewitnesses said that the birds were slamming into windows, as if they were trying to fly away from an imminent danger. Hundreds of birds fell down on the ground dead in May of 1917 in the US town of Baton-Rouge, Louisiana. A lot of them had strange burns on their bodies. A similar incident occurred in August of 1960 on the outskirts of Capitola Beach, when numerous birds fell down dead too. Ornithologists could never determine the reason of their death.

American researcher Charles Fort wrote in his work “The Book of the Damned” that there were weird, jelly-like beings living in the Earth's atmosphere. Medusa-like creatures, Fort wrote, had stings and tentacles, which they used to hunt for birds. The existence of such creatures seemed to be unbelievable for a very long time, until American scientists developed a special substance, aerogel. The lighter-than-air gel is a substance, the state of which is represents both hard and gas condition. Researchers proposed that the flesh of the mysterious creatures could be made of a similar substance. The theory can be partly proved with an incident, which occurred on 28 December, 1958, in Florida. Detective Faustin Galegos found a strange object outside his house. The detective said that he took the object in his hands, but could not feel that he was holding it. It was a translucent ball, the size of a soccer ball, and it was practically weightless. The detective did not manage to preserve it, because it virtually melted in the air several hours later. Faustin Galegos said that he had an impression of holding an unknown dead creature in his hands.

The most uneasy mentioning about the mysterious creatures of the sky belongs to researcher Robert Gardner. According to him, a transport aircraft of the US Air Force took off from an army base in San Diego in the summer of 1939. The plane, carrying 12 passengers aboard, returned to the base in about an hour, after it had sent an SOS. When servicemen opened the hatch, they saw that all 12 passengers were dead. The commander was the only person, who stayed alive, but he died in several minutes too. The dead military men had strange burns on their skin, but it did not become possible to find out their origin and what really happened on board the plane. Investigators determined that the crew and the passengers used their personal guns. The hull paneling of the plane was damaged with gunshots, as if the people were trying to kill a very fast enemy. Apparently, they failed to kill a mysterious creature.

Yevgeny Dmitriev

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Reanimators try to grasp the afterlife mystery

Many researchers believe that human conscience still remains alive even after death

Ljubomir Cerbic from Serbia remained neither alive nor dead within two days after he had suffered a serious heart attack. The man died 17 times but each time doctors revived him; this is an unprecedented medical case. “Each time I was standing in front of the Apostle Peter's Gates doctors raised me from the dead,” Cerbic said after he regained consciousness.

Pensioner Alexey Yefremov from Russia's Novosibirsk had several skin grafting operations after severe burns. The man's heart stopped during one of the operations. Doctors managed to raise him from the dead just in 35 minutes, which is atypical because usually clinical death lasts for 3-6 minutes, and then human brain suffers irreversible changes. But Alexey Yefremov is of sound mind after the clinical death.

Clinical death is a marginal condition when doctors register no heart activity, breathing; functions of the nervous system fade, but metathetical processes still go on. This condition lasts just for several minutes and then biological death comes when recovery is impossible.

Doctors admit that clinical death is still a mystery for them. Experts stick to various opinions as concerning experience that people have during clinical death. After-death experience that people often have during clinical death gives rise to the most heated disputes. The phenomenon first came to light in 1976 when Doctor Raymond Moody published his “Life After Life” with evidence of about 150 people who experienced death or near-death themselves or knew of such experience from those people who were already dead.

Some people who happily rose from the dead told they saw some bright light during clinical death and met relatives and friends who were already dead by that moment. Others said they remembered episodes of the Judgment of God. Some patients said they left their bodies but stayed nearby, or traveled somewhere and got to some other reality. Moody's book caused serious confusion among average men as well as among scientists. Does it mean that afterlife actually exists and death is just a transition to a better life? Moody was not the only researcher who conducted similar investigations; other researchers also came to the conclusion that there was no death at all.

Soviet reanimator Academician Negovsky explained the afterlife experience in his book “Clinical Death As Seen by Reanimator:” “Unfortunately, researchers in foreign countries (especially in the USA) are often inclined to interpret such phenomena as proof of existence of the other world. At that, researchers are guided by stories told by patients who experienced the near-death condition. They treat stories told by different patients (these stories are often identical) as the argument. However, this is a really poor argument, as the pathological product of dying or reviving brain is of the same type with people in different countries. The evolution maturity of brain is practically the same everywhere. The brain structure is standard which means that the patterns of brain’s death or reviving are typical as well.” Besides, the academician said he never heard his patients tell stories about their near-death experience before they rose from the dead. Negovsky said that hallucination could occur during near-death condition, but no clinical death is registered at this moment. The academician added that people could not perceive the outer world during clinical death because the cerebral cortex is inactive at that. “We may suppose that brain revives after clinical death and goes through the basic stages that it had experienced while dying; that is why people may have some experience typical of agony.”  The Soviet academician also explained the phenomenon of “light at the end of the tunnel”: he said it is “tube” vision that arises as a result of hypoxia in the occipital lobe cortex.

Russian reanimator Nikolay Gubin believes that the tunnel phenomenon is the result of toxic psychosis; and American doctor E.Rowdin supports this opinion. Patients say that they see episodes from various periods of their lives when they die. Doctors suppose that probably dying begins with newer structures of the brain and ends with the older ones. However, reviving of the brain is a reverse process where older parts in the cerebral cortex revive first. That is why episodes from earlier periods of life come back before others during reviving.

Two years ago, Swiss researchers claimed they found out how people leave their physical bodies during clinical death. They say one convolution in the right part of the brain is responsible for this sensation. They said the convolution collects information from different parts of the brain to form an idea of where the human body is at some particular moment. At that, signals of some nerves mat follow a wrong trajectory; as a result the brain forms a wrong picture when people see themselves as from outside.

But some phenomena of the afterlife experience are still a mystery even now. Doctors cannot explain how blind people could saw what was going on in the operating-room at the moment they were dying. In fact, a research conducted by American Doctor Kenneth Ring proves the phenomenon was registered with 200 blind men and women.

However, there are some scientists who explain afterlife not with physiological processes going on in the human brain. Psychologist Watson thinks that people recollect their birth while dying. He says that people see death for the first time in delivery when we come to this world. It is also supposed that such visions are connected with molecular and atomic changes in the energetic cover of the body. This structure also dies when a man dies; at that it produces corpuscular radiation which people treat as strange visions.

Researches of unusual conditions during clinical death are still popular. Today, many researchers believe that human conscience still remains alive even after death. Leading doctor from the Southampton hospital Sam Parnia claims there is no doubt that some people still can reflect and recollect when their brain no longer functions. The doctor and his colleagues insist that the conscience, or the soul, of a patient still think and meditate even when the heart and the brain do not function and the patient does not breathe. Academician with the Russian Academy of Sciences Natalya Bekhtereva also believes that life still continues in some form after death. 

Today, there is no serious prove or refutation to the after-life theory, as nobody has ever returned from “the land of death” (clinical death is not ultimate death). It should be mentioned that not all patients who rose from the dead remember their experience. There are people who saw neither tunnels, nor light or dead relatives. They saw nothing and did not leave the body during clinical death. But many people state they now after clinical death have different views on life. They appreciate life and feel they are no longer afraid of death.  One patient said he treats life as a precious gift and benefits from every moment of it.

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Scientists claim life after death exists

Death is only an interchange station between the two worlds

Every person at some point of his life questions himself what comes next after the physical death. Is everything to finish with the last breath or does the soul go on living?

Russian language connects the notion of soul with the word to breath as these have similar roots. Since earlier times people observed dead and alive tribesmen and made a conclusion that there was something inside a human being connected with breath. They started calling it soul (or dusha in Russian).

Australian aborigines believe in soul's existence. They think that a woman gets pregnant if she passes a tree, a rock or some animal, whose soul moves into the body of her future child.

The existence of soul is acknowledged by the people in Asia, Europe, America, Africa and Australia. In the Ancient Egypt soul was considered a constituent part of a human body.

Each religion allots a certain place in the organism for the soul. People in the ancient Babylon, for instance, thought that soul lived in ears. Ancient Jews believed it could be found in human blood.

However, there is an opinion that this substance occupies the whole body, not just a single organ. One of the most prominent figures of Russian Orthodox Church Dmitry Rostovsky agrees with this point of view. 

Not so long ago German psychologists of Lubeck University conducted a really interesting experiment. They asked children aged 7-17 where in the human body the soul could be located. The eldest ones said it could be found everywhere. Some said that the soul existed in the head while the youngest ones pointed to a part of body a bit to the left of the heart. Yet some even named eyes or solar plexus as “the residence of the soul”.

In recent years the hypothesis of the soul occupying the heart has found certain confirmation.  A psychiatrist Paul Pearsall of Sinai Hospital of Detroit wrote a book The Heart's Code based on the answers he got from 140 patients with transplanted heart during the questionnaire. As a result, Dr. Pearsall concluded that it is in the heart that the personality is programmed. The heart controls the brain and not vice versa. Feelings, fears, dreams and thoughts are all decoded in heart cells. This cell memory – a soul – is transferred to another person with a transplanted heart. There are numerous examples in the book that support this idea. A 41-year-old who was transplanted the heart of a 19-year-old girl that had died in the railway accident changed drastically after the operation. He used to be really cool and sober but suddenly turned into temperamental and careless person.

Another interesting example is of Silvia Clair, dancing instructor from New York. At the age of 50 she had a transplantation of heart. When she came round after the operation the first thing she though about was beer. Afterwards at nights she started dreaming of some mysterious man called T.L. After secret investigation she found out that she had the heart of a guy who had died at the age of 18. His initials were T.L. and according to his relatives his favorite drink was cold beer.

At the end of 1990 sensational news spread around the world. Scientists at one of the US laboratories managed to weigh the soul. They discovered that people weighed 2,5-6,5 grams less after their death. However, this was not the first attempt to weigh the soul. In 1915, similar experiment was conducted in the US. At that time scientists came to the conclusion that the soul weighed 22,4 grams.

Even more sensational was the year 2001. At the beginning of the year British scientists Sam Parnia and Peter Fenwick suggested that consciousness might continue living after the brain has stopped functioning. The research involved 63 patients that experienced clinical death. 56 people do not remember anything of the period when they were clinically dead. However, seven patients had clear memories of what they felt at that period. Four of them said they were overwhelmed with joy and peace and the time was running faster. Then they saw a bright light and saw mythical creatures that looked like angels or saints. They claimed they had been to another world for some time and then came back.

It is worth mentioning that none of the patients was religious. Tree of them confessed that did not attend church at all. Thus, these stories cannot be explained by religious fanaticism.

British scientists refuted the traditional idea that the brain stopped functioning because of the lack of oxygen. None of the patients showed a significant decay of oxygen content in the tissues of central nervous system.

Another hypothesis that was brought into challenge is that the visions may be caused by inexpedient combination of medicine during resuscitation. Everything was performed strictly according to the standard procedure.

Later in December 2001 three Dutch scientists under the supervision of Pim van Lommel conducted the biggest research involving people who had experienced clinical death. The results were published in the medical journal Lancet and were similar to those of the British scientists.

Van Lommel and his colleagues claimed that the visions came at the very moment when the central neural system stopped functioning. This means that the consciousness is separate from the brain's activity.

Van Lommel provides a fascinating example of the Near Death Experience. A patient in coma was delivered to the resuscitation ward. All the attempts to reanimate him proved unsuccessful. His brain stopped functioning and the encephalogram showed a straight line. Doctors decided to try intubation (that is insertion of a tube into larynx and trachea for ventilation and airway management). The patient had a denture that was taken away by the doctor. In an hour the patient's heart started beating again and his blood pressure came back to normal. In a week, the resurrected patient asked the nurse: “You know, where my denture is! You took away my teeth and put them into a drawer of a trolley!” He said that he was observing himself from above at the moment of his own death. He described in a detail the ward and the doctors' actions. The man was really afraid that doctors would stop reanimating him and tried to show them he was alive.

Dutch scientists also discovered that women had more powerful feelings than men. Most of the patients that had very deep clinical death die in the next month after the reanimation measures. The visions of blind people do not differ from those who are able to see.

It looks like scientists are very busy with proving immortality of the soul. The only thing we can do is accept that death is only an interchange station between the two worlds.

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Tibetan and Indian monks still master the art of levitation

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Legends say that ancient levitators were able to rise above the ground up to 90 cm

Gods in Oriental Mythology had a special ability. They could fly. However, ordinary mortals could master the unique art of flying too. For example, Indian Brahmans, yogis, hermits and fakirs could rise and float in the air.

There is a chapter in the Vedas on levitation, a sort of guidelines on how to reach a state required for taking off the ground. Unfortunately, the meaning of many ancient Indic words and concepts has been irretrievably lost over the last few centuries and therefore the invaluable instructions can not be translated into modern languages.

As regards the ancient levitators, records at hand say that they were able to rise above the ground up to 90 cm. They did not lift off to impress the onlookers, they simply wanted to assume the most suitable position for performing religious rites.

The art of levitation still exists both in India and Tibet. Many scholars engaged in oriental studies also mention the phenomenon of “flying lamas.” Alexandra David-Neel, a British explorer, one day witnessed the flight of a Buddhist monk. The monk flew a few dozen meters over the alpine plateau Cnang Tang. He was bouncing off the ground like a tennis ball to rise in the air again and again. He kept his eyes on some guiding star hanging somewhere in the distance, the monk was the only person who could see the star in broad daylight.

Europeans have long been aware of levitation too. There was one big difference between Eastern and Western medieval levitators. Unlike the Brahmans, yogis and lams, the monks in Europe never took any special training for levitational purposes. They would normally rise in the air after reaching a state of ultimate religious ecstasy.

According to trustworthy records, Saint Theresa, a Carmelite nun, was one of the first levitator of the Middle Ages. Her flight was seen by 230 catholic priests. The nun wrote about her unusual “gift” in the autobiography dated 1565. It is quite noteworthy that Saint Theresa herself did not want to fly. She spent long hours praying desperately in an attempt to get rid of her special power. She was asking Lord to relieve her of that grace. One night the Almighty finally heard the nun’s praying. She did not fly ever since that night.

Josef Desa used to be the most famous “flying man.” He was born into a devout family in South Italy. Since he was a boy, Josef was a very religious person prone to inflicting all kinds of torture upon himself in order to experience a state of religious ecstasy. Later he joined the Franciscans. He would get really ecstatic at times and rise in the air. One day he floated right before the Pope's very eyes. Josef arrived in Rome. The Pope Urban VIII granted him an audience. Josef got as excited as one could be. He could not help rising in the air. The head of the Order of St. Francis eventually brought Josef back to earth. Men of science observed more than a hundred cases of levitation of Josef. They put down their comments in the official records. However, the Christians were thought to be embarrassed by Josef's flights. As a result, Josef was sent to a out-of-the-way monastery in 1653. He was transferred to another monastery three months later, then to another one. The list can go on. Wherever he appeared, the news about the “miracle man” spread like wild fire. People from the neighboring towns and villages stood outside the monastery walls waiting for a miracle. Finally, Josef was transferred to a monastery in Osimo where he died in the fall of 1663. He was canonized four year later.

Daniel Douglas Hewm was the most famous levitator of the 19th century. Below is the description of his first flight penned by an editor of an American newspaper. “All of a sudden Hewm began lifting off and all the people in the room got completely surprised. I could see his legs floating about a foot about the ground. Hewm apparently could not speak as he had a twinge going from top to toe after the clash of fear and rapture in his mind. He went down some time later, and rose up again. He went up to the ceiling during a third ascent.”

Hewm learned to levitate of his own free will later on. He showed his outstanding ability to thousands of spectators including such celebrities as William Makepeace Thackeray and Mark Twain, Napoleon III, other politicians, doctors and scientists of note. Hewm has never been accused of hoaxing an audience.

There is a lot of controversy regarding a physical nature of levitation. Some researchers say that it is a product of the biogravitational field created by a special kind of mental energy emitted by the human brain. Doctor of Biological Sciences Alexander Dubrov is a supporter of this hypothesis. Dr. Dubnov points out that the biogravitational field is deliberately created by a levitator and therefore the latter can control the field and change the direction of a flight.

Unique Russian woman talks to animals, communicates with the dead and reads people’s minds

Galina Karpova claims to have eavesdropped on the dolphins. She found out that all pregnant female dolphins were flocking over the bottom geysers of the Barents Sea. Karpova also communicated with the ants to learn the alcove secrets of the ant megalopolises. One day a ferocious dog confronted her in a dark alley. She managed to calm him down and escaped unscathed. 

Heard it from a doggy 

Galina Karpova is one of the few who can talk to the animals. She can also communicate with the dead, read minds and locate missing objects across great distances. Her special abilities have been certified with the degree of Doctor of Sciences awarded by the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Karpova successfully defended her doctoral dissertation at public viva.

Some time ago a Japanese TV crew arrived in her home and talked her into communicating with animals for the benefit of their cameras. The Japanese requested that Karpova show her talents at the Durov Theater of Animals, in Moscow. Karpova showed up at the venue as agreed. She looked skeptically at the animals penned at the theater. It was obvious to her that the animals trained to react to two or three commands had long become unaccustomed to inaudible intellectual conversations.

Finally, Karpova paused near a doghouse holding three nondescript dogs infested with fleas. The dogs have been decommissioned due to old age. Karpova showed special interest in one of them, the 14-year-old walleyed creature. The Japanese were apparently disappointed at her choice – the quirky lady handpicked the most miserable specimen out of hundreds of impressive animals available at the theater. The TV people asked Karpova to change her mind and use some other animal for the experiment. But she was adamant. “It’s her who wants to share her grief with me,” said Karpova.

According to Karpova, the dog’s story ran like this: the dog used to perform at the ring alongside her trainer. Then her trainer passed away. The dog could have ended up in a slaughterhouse if the other trainer, the best friend of her master, had not intervened in the situation. The dog reportedly told the name of her savor to Karpova. The other trainer was in her sixties, and spent most of her time at home.

After filming the experiment at the theater, the meticulous Japanese made arrangements for an interview with the old trainer. They met with the veteran performer and asked her several questions regarding the dog’s story obtained telepathically by Karpova. The Japanese were astounded to hear the story retold word by word by the old trainer. 

Conversing with Mendeleyev 

Galina Karpova is confident that there is no such thing as death. She says her ability to talk to the dead forms the foundation of her confidence. The personality of a human being is transported into the other world after his heart stops beating. The other world is inaccessible to the majority of the living yet its subtle vibrations can be felt by some extremely sensitive consciousness. Karpova says she is endowed with this sort of consciousness.

Karpova published several books and booklets containing transcripts of her conversations with such outstanding historical personalities as Tsiolkovski, Mendeleyev, and Lenin. The works could have easily qualified for a case history of the patient Karpova.

Below is an opinion of Professor Fedor Turenko, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, doctor of chemical sciences:

“By my request Karpova conducted a few communication sessions with Dmitry Mendeleyev. She asked him several questions, which I’d formulated beforehand. The questions were specifically designed to obtain irrefutable evidence that answers were conveyed by Mendeleyev himself. The great scientist provided most valuable information, which could have enriched our science. During the sessions, Galina put down chemical terms pertinent to Mendeleyev’s answers, and at times she had no idea what those terms stood for. But their meaning was quite clear to me. She managed to put down four fundamental laws while communicating with the chemical genius. Scientists have yet to appreciate the importance of the laws. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to appreciate them at the moment since 70%-80% of all the scientists are incapable of perceiving the way by which this sort of information is obtained. Mendeleyev specifically indicated that all the details concerning information relayed through Karpova were available in his works, which have been kept in the archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences for more than a hundred years. Apparently, nobody has bothered to analyze those works so far. Mendeleyev also made references to certain present-day scientific publications. He even mentioned specific pages at times. I checked up those publications: every reference was perfectly relevant to given subject. I believe the results of the sessions prove convincingly that those in the other world are abreast of things occurring in the land of the living.” 

Don’t be afraid of the dead 

Apart from being able to “access” some great historical figures of the past, Karpova can also communicate with other late persons. Her 27-year-old son died in an accident many years ago. Karpova has been maintaining communication with him up to this day. It took her a few years to come to terms with the grief. She has no fear now. Today she is fully confident that death is not the end, life that is free from its physical constraints goes on in the other world. The concept of distance or time is not applicable to the other world because those who live there can see everything and know everything. Any kind of information with regard to the past and future is available on request.

Last summer Karpova came by train to the small town of Zvenigivo, in the Mari-El Autonomous Republic. Sergei, her nephew, was late for the arrival of the train. Sergei is an investigator with the local police. No sooner had he turned up at the station than he started mumbling his apologies.

“I’m sorry for being late, Aunt Galya. We’re in the middle of investigation of a pretty complicated murder case…”

“You are talking about fratricide, aren’t you?” Karpova asked him straightway.

“Yeah, I’m taking about the man who killed his brother… But how on earth did you learn about it?” The nephew was apparently taken aback by Karpova’s guess.

“I can tell you more on the case. I know for sure that the victim is as guilty as the one who killed him. The point is that the victim had raped his brother’s wife some years ago. The brother didn’t take vengeance on the spot, but he felt great hatred for the rapist all those years. On the day of the killing the rapist was harvesting cannabis on the communal field, and his brother tried to stop him. A fierce fight ensued, a pitchfork got in the way, and the husband of the violated woman couldn’t help bringing the offender to rough justice. The guy is full of remorse for the thing he’s done. Maybe the above circumstances can mitigate the harshness of a punishment.”

Galina Karpova is not aware of the origins of her special ability. She believes that there are no bounds for the human mind. 

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