“The story of Father Crespi is a mysterious and controversial account of a priest in Ecuador involving claims of unknown civilizations, strange golden artifacts, a subterranean cave system containing a metallic library, depictions of strange figures connecting America to Sumeria, symbols depicting an unknown language, evidence of extra-terrestrial contact, and a Vatican conspiracy involving thousands of missing artifacts. But how much of the story is true? Ancient Origins set out to find the answers and was given exclusive access by the Central Bank of Ecuador to the private artifact collection of Father Crespi, tucked away in hidden vaults and storerooms, including the controversial carved metal plates, which had not been seen or photographed for decades.”

“The Truth About Father Crespi and His Missing Artifacts Finally Revealed”

For more on Father Crespi and his lost collection of artifacts, watch the videos below.

The artifacts in Father Crespi’s collection appear to have been created in the Bronze age 2000 – 1200 B.C. In one version of the story, the Sea People (Minoans) and Canaans (Phoenicians) visited America in bronze age and played the role of bearded gods.

“Padre Crespi Collection” (42:49)

J. Golden Barton gives his account of visiting father crespi in Ecuador, and of all the fascinating ancient artifacts he was able to see and photograph. This talk was given at the Ancient Historical Research Foundation (www.ahrfoundation.com) symposium held a BYU on May 25, 2005.

“Father Crespi and the Ancient Metallic Library” (42:24)

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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (C) greets devotees at the closing ceremony of a teaching session at Kalachakra Ground in Bodhgaya on December 31, 2018. PHOTO CREDIT: AFP/Getty Images

Beijing’s Buddhist diplomacy depends on controlling the Tibetan leader’s next reincarnation.

“China’s brutal crackdown on its Muslims has attracted a global outcry and shows no signs of slowing in 2019. This extends to other faiths: Chinese Christians, Taoists, and Buddhists are also facing a new wave of repression. But while China is backtracking its accommodation of religious citizens within its borders, it’s doing the opposite outside them.

“With an energetic, multibillion-dollar, transnational campaign, China wants to harness Buddhism for soft power across Asia. It calls Buddhism an “ancient Chinese religion” and has spent $3 billion to revive the birthplace of the Buddha, the Nepalese town of Lumbini. It has been holding World Buddhist Forums since 2006 with monks from all over the world. It is pouring in money to revive the Gandhara trail of Buddhist sites in Pakistan, linking heritage revival to its Belt and Road Initiative. It’s building a Buddhist center in Myanmar’s capital and funding the study and translation of Buddhist texts. (In contrast to this expansive global vision, it also announced this month a five-year plan to “Sinicize” Buddhism for practitioners inside its borders.)”

Read the entire article by Krithika Varagur posted online January 22, 2019 at foreignpolicy.com.

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Dr. Michael Clarage talks about his work with the SAFIRE project at the Electric Universe during the United Kingdom International Conference & Symposium 7th – 11th July 2018, Somerset, UK. Speaking from a more philosophical perspective – what an empiricist might ponder outside the lab – he offers some intriguing if not startling observations about the universe from the perspective of the conventional astronomy (the “dead” universe) and the biological perspective (the “living” universe).

Watch the talk by Dr. Michael Clarage on YouTube (22:11)

Dr. Michael Clarage received his PhD in physics from Brandeis University in 1992, studying the biological and statistical behavior of proteins. Prior to that, he spent several years studying binary pulsars at the Arecibo radio telescope. He has given traveling lectures in the areas of fractional calculus, fractals, and chaotic systems as well as presented public talks on such topics as relativity and dimensions, transformation in supernova and metamorphosis in biology. Dr. Clarage is currently a scientist with the SAFIRE Project.

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The new molecule.
PHOTO CREDIT: Illustration by Nils Rosemann

Date: November 30, 2018

Source: Lund University

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating an iron molecule that can function both as a photocatalyst to produce fuel and in solar cells to produce electricity. The results indicate that the iron molecule could replace the more expensive and rarer metals used today.

Read the entire article posted online November 30, 2018 at sciencedaily.com.

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In this series, the Thunderbolts Project has reported on the increasing frequency with which astrophysical literature acknowledges a fact which was long verboten in the space-sciences: the existence of electric currents that flow through the so-called vacuum of space. At the vastest cosmic scales, many astrophysicists recognize the “fundamentally electromagnetic structure” of the stupendous jets, hundreds of thousands of lightyears long, emanating from active galactic nuclei. At a much smaller scale, in our solar system, electric current systems are known to link the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn with their respective moons. And on our own planet, in recent years with improved technology has come ever finer evidence of tremendous electric currents that are connected to previously unknown phenomena.

Nevertheless, notions of charge neutrality and disconnected bodies in empty space continue to dominate the space sciences. In this episode, guest speaker Richard Moore explores the role of electric currents, called Birkeland currents, throughout the electric solar system.

Watch the entire talk posted online April 30, 2018 at YouTube.com (9:42)

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Date: January 30, 2018
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Summary: Space physicists have just released unprecedented detail on a bizarre phenomenon that powers the northern lights, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (the biggest explosions in our solar system).

Jan Egedal, professor of physics at UW-Madison who lead an exploration of magnetic reconnection, stands beside a chamber used for experiments in that exotic phenomenon. Magnetic reconnection seems to be involved in some of the most violent explosions in the universe; the recent study was the clearest view of the magnetic reconnection ever measured in space. The results “blew my mind,” he says. Credit: David Tenenbaum/UW-Madison

“The data on so-called ‘magnetic reconnection’ came from a quartet of new spacecraft that measure radiation and magnetic fields in high Earth orbit.

“‘We’re looking at the best picture yet of magnetic reconnection in space,’ says Jan Egedal, a professor of physics and senior author of a study in Physical Review Letters. Magnetic reconnection is difficult to describe, but it can be loosely defined as the merger of magnetic fields that releases an astonishing amount of energy.

“Magnetic reconnection remains mysterious, especially since it ‘breaks the standard law’ governing charged particles, or plasma, Egedal says.”

Read the entire article online at sciencedaily.com.

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Mark Gober explores the unresolved scientific puzzle: how and why does consciousness exist? In Mark’s book An End to Upside Down Thinking, he summarizes some of the voluminous scientific evidence which suggests that consciousness is not generated by nor confined to the brain. A major focus of his evidential summary is the amazing abundance of scientific studies, dating back more than half a century, into psychic phenomena, such as telepathy, ESP and precognition.

A parallel field of investigation is survival of consciousness – that is the study of near-death experiences and even purported communications with the dead by so-called mediums.

This presentation is produced by the Thunderbolts Project. While The Thunderbolts Project takes no position on these issues, in the past the project has presented interviews and public presentations by such noted scientists as Dr. Rupert Sheldrake and Dr. Dean Radian, both of whose scientific research into consciousness Mark outlines in his book. In this talk, Mark offers a brief yet comprehensive overview of compelling evidence that the locus and source of consciousness is non-material.

Watch the presentation on YouTube (15:35)

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Freedom Hill Creatives publishing house in Taiwan is publishing a Chinese language edition of Kim MacQuarrie’s book The Last Days of the Incas, in which Gene Savoy’s discovery of Gran Pajaten is featured.

Milky Way (stock image).
PHOTO CREDIT: © mandritoiu / Fotolia

Date: December 5, 2018

Source: University of Oxford

Summary: New research could shed light on the ‘missing’ dark matter and dark energy that make up 95 percent of our universe and yet are wholly invisible to us.

Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses ‘negative mass’. If you were to push a negative mass, it would accelerate towards you. This astonishing new theory may also prove right a prediction that Einstein made 100 years ago.

Read the entire article posted online December 5, 2018 at sciencedaily.com.

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In this speculative and thought provoking talk recorded at Reconnect 2018 on July 7, 2018 at Bath, UK, Rupert Sheldrake asks listeners to look beyond the strict confines of scientific materialism and consider how the consciousness of stellar bodies (such as our Sun) is not only of anthropological or cultural interest but a valid field of enquiry in modern philosophy, psychology, cosmology, and neuroscience.

Watch the talk on YouTube (47:14).

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