PUBLISHED BY MAPIT MAPIT 2015 Brought to you by MAPIT: Est. 1974. EDITORIAL Ghosts and TV ‘Para‐porn’ Dear readers, first things first, as you may note we have started running a regular and very funny cartoon strip called ‘The Zen of Ben’. For this I would like to thank Mike Oram and John Pickering for their kindness in allowing us to use the delightful character they have created. Also, I would like to welcome our latest mem‐ ber of our team, Lavinia Pallott has joined us as one of our distributors throughout Italy... Right, now the usual rant: in recent years there has been an explosion of information on TV about the supernatural, and to be fair it is a subject that never loses its mysterious appeal. This has come in various guises, but mainly in confrontational and exploitative programmes like Most Haunted, the TV show that was once credited with single‐handedly saving Living TV. I suppose you could call the attraction a form of ‘Para‐porn’ in the way it flaunts the subject for public edification. All of these shows (including the ones using studio audiences and highly paid alleged mediums) make one serious and fundamental mistake; they assume that the departed actually want to be contacted; how do they know that? The fawning approach of some psychics who preface every question to the other side with the words ‘with respect’ fools no one, and what’s more there is no guarantee they can do what they say. However, such is the lure of the unknown that they are well paid for effectively polluting and destroying an area deserving serious research... Brian Allan Brian Allan: UK Editor. THIS MONTHS CONTRIBUTORS Steve Mera, Brian Allan, Paul Mudie, Bret Lueder, Dan Green, Diane Tessman, Sean Casteel, Robert Salas, Lee Speigel, Doug Bolton, Dr. Barry Taff, Ivan Petricevic, Mike Oram, John Pickering, Kevan Manwaring and John Prytz. 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An experiment conducted by the editors of ‘The Book Your Church Doesn’t Want You to Read’, Tim C. Lee‐ dom and Maria Murdy, would appear to support the usage of universal ideas and similar wordings found in the Urantia Book. On pg 467 of the revised Second Edition (2007), Leedom writes, “In 1993 when I started to gather information for The Book, I decided to test the leaders of different religious denominations on 11 their knowledge of Holy Books. The finding were interesting. Bret Lueder reveals... Dan Green Page 13: Do we own our own Brains? In an introduction to one of my earlier features, the editor, Brian Allan, broached the topic of how some‐ times events transcend the nebulous interface between Ufology and Paranormal, bequeathing this area the name ‘High Strangeness’. This high strangeness decided to impact on my life from the earliest of days and could have backed the maxim ‘start as you mean to go on’. Dan Green describes his own profound 17 experiences and also looks at the evidence for High Strangeness cases. Page 17: Paranormal Warnings of bridge collapse as ‘Mothman’ flies overhead. Diane Tessman If the Silver Bridge collapse of December 1, 1967, is any indication, our aging infrastructure today should have Mothman hovering overhead, UFOs zooming from one potential bridge disaster to another, and para‐ normal activity beeping, popping, and swirling. Yes, perhaps a silly idea, but there are numerous accounts of UFOs near disasters, including the footage taken of them near the 2011 Japanese 9.0 earthquake and subsequent catastrophic tsunami. Diane Tessman looks into these strange connections. 23 Page 21: America’s Strange and Supernatural History: Proof Positive that we are a Weird Nation. Sean Casteel Words like “strange” and “supernatural” are admittedly relative terms whose true meaning exists in the mind of the beholder. What one person calls strange and supernatural, another might call commonplace or, conversely, too unreal to even contemplate taking seriously. But when reading “America’s Strange and Supernatural History,” a recent offering from Tim Beckley’, it is not so easy to make convenient distinctions between what is real and what is laughably dismissible. Sean Casteel explains... 27 Page 25: UFO and Paranormal News from around the world. Varied Authors Each month Phenomena Magazine picks some of the most interesting news items that have appeared throughout the world, such as UFO sightings, Crop Circles, Ghostly encounters, Science and NASA news, Conspiracies, Supernatural occurrences, mysteries, strange creatures and cryptozoology, fortean events and the profound. If you have an interesting news item, then please feel free to send it over to Phenomena Magazine and we would be pleased to include it. 35 Page 33: Isle of the Dead: Part 1. Kevan Manwaring Where do we go when we die? This question has haunted humankind for millennia and although no firm proof has come to light there’s no shortage of theories! This article attempts to make a minor foray into this nebula of super‐abundant speculation, on a raid in the spirit of King Arthur’s – as recorded in Taliesin’s poem ‘Preiddu Annwn’ (where the Pendragon wins the fabled Cauldron of Plenty from the Underworld). Kevan Manwaring looks into the mysterious Isle of the Dead in this first installment of his article. 41 Page 39: Monster Birds of the America’s. John Prytz For most of modern human's existence, say over the past 50,000 to 100,000 years, if we saw something fly under its own power, it was a bird, a bat or an insect, maybe a ‘flying' fish or ‘flying' fox if you want to stretch things a bit. Relatively few of these feature prominently in any culture's mythology. Bats might have an association with vampires, but your average run‐of‐the‐mill garden variety bird is usually taken for granted, unless they are monstrous in size and like humans for dinner. John Prytz explains... 45 Also Featured: Latest UFO AND paranormal news from around the World. Book and dvd reviews. Events and Conferences, Astronomical DATA, Advertisements and much more. 02 Authors note Their parents are relegated to situation. All this may be so, but little more than surrogates a word of caution, it may be rea‐ I hold no particular views on the subject of charged with their earthly welfare sonable to wonder if, in such cases, and upbringing until such times the parents are attempting to fit a the so‐called ‘Indigo Children’, ‘Crystalline as they are able to look after template of their own design onto the Children’, the ‘Super Psychic Chinese Chil‐ dren’ and the rather disconcertingly themselves. instinctive actions, words and possibly named, ‘Children of Aids’, but they have neurological condition of their child. A less apparently caught both the attention and extreme interpretation of Indigo Children imagination of a relatively large number of views them as bricks in a spiritual wall people within the New Age and UFO move‐ designed to bring about a sea change in ments and as such are worthy of serious human evolution, a claim not uncommon consideration. Since I keep an open mind in the New Age paradigm. Their ‘talents’ in on all areas of the paranormal I can accept this version of the story tend to involve enhanced empathy and often creativity, the rationale behind their existence, but as admittedly two attributes that are badly an investigator I cannot accept their al‐ leged existence without challenge. For this needed in the self‐centred, hedonistic, reason, although I shall present the reader divisive and largely compassionless society with evidence, both pro and con, I have in which we live. The trouble is if the child attempted to remain neutral and leave is encouraged to accept that they are in them to decide for themselves whether the some way special, whether they are or not occurrence is genuine or only present in they will quite naturally come to believe it the imaginations of the parents of the The children is so, which is something we will return to unfailingly a little later. children and the people who originally appear to popularised the notion. First we will con‐ sider what is perhaps the most widespread possess exotic It should be noted that these children are example of this recent phenomenon, i.e. talents and not described as being ‘Indigo’ because the ‘Indigo Children’. abilities, chief they are coloured blue, but rather because among these is they were named ‘Indigos’ by Nancy Ann the facility to Tappe, a ‘synesthete’ and psychic, who The Indigo Children channel infor‐ first coined the term in her 1982 book, mation from ‘Understanding Your Life Through Colour’. Imagine if you will the their real Chief among her claims was that she could unnatural emo‐ ‘parents’ cou‐ discern the aura, (or nebulous cocoon of tional situation pled to a range ‘life energy’, roughly analogous to the elec‐ faced by any nor‐ of psychic tromagnetic field that is emitted by any mal human powers includ‐ functioning electrical device), that alleg‐ mother (or ing healing edly surrounds each and every one of us. indeed fa‐ and natural ther) of telepathy. In The condition of synesthesia is a relatively yielding up some ways harmless neurological dysfunction causing the satis‐ they are remi‐ the sufferer to ‘see’ or perceive sounds as faction, niscent of the colours and vice versa, in effect the inter‐ comfort, unearthly chil‐ nal ‘wiring’ of the brain is not 100% cor‐ joy and dren featured in rect. A similar phenomenon was regularly fulfilment of John Wyndham’s reported, particularly in the 1960’s, by parenthood excellent book, users of psychoactive substances like LSD, to the rather ‘The Midwich Cuck‐ who regularly described ‘seeing the queasy feeling oos’ (later adapted sounds’ and ‘listening to the pretty col‐ that their child is for the screen as a ours’ while under the effects of the drug. not entirely hu‐ series of films begin‐ According to Ms Tappe, she began to no‐ man and may, to all ning with ‘Village of tice a preponderance of children possess‐ intents and purposes, The Damned’), although ing indigo auras during the late 1970’s and be non‐terrestrial. so far their mission, if currently estimates that approximately Such is one of the more extreme scenarios faced that is what it is, unlike 60% people aged between 14 and 25 are that of the children of Mid‐ indigo. More significant is her remarkable by those who have ac‐ wich is apparently benign. It assertion that 97% of pre‐teen children are cepted that their offspring should be made clear that in also Indigo. belong to the so‐called some cases where these ‘Indigo Children’, babies that, children have been identi‐ It is a well to consider at this point that although born naturally of hu‐ fied, the parents seem claims of individuals who are (or were) man parents, are credited with quick to advertise if not here on earth to assist in a spiritual revolu‐ being children of the stars. actually exploit the tion are not new and many iconic and 03 Children of the Gods: By Brian Allan inspirational figures such as Christ, Moham‐ med, Abraham, Buddha, Osiris, Tammuz and many other spiritual leaders were sent to save the human race from its own fail‐ ings. All of them, according to the era and society they arrived in, were able to convert huge numbers of people to their cause and indeed the majority still command disciples and believers numbering in their tens of millions. It has to be noted that there still are a number of people who claim to be messiahs and with varying degrees of suc‐ cess attempt to lead their bands of follow‐ ers to ‘salvation’. Sadly, many of them appear to be cult lead‐ ers more interested in manipulating their flock for their own ends. Cults aside, this all sounds rather like a variant on Prof. Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of ‘Morphogenetic Fields’ using the by now almost standard example of ‘The Hundredth Monkey Syn‐ drome’, a concept which, broadly speaking, surprisingly, they do not believe the po‐ because we want it to happen? Are the means that the more people who come to tential audience and market for the book desires of those parents who choose to see accept a new idea or practise, the more outside the New Age community would their offspring as special and different people are likely to display the same prac‐ readily accept its validity. actually bringing this about in some man‐ tise whether they consciously learn it or ner by causing the child to become what not. In other words, according Prof. Shel‐ Among the many traits associated with they imagine they should be and if so is it drake an invisible field of ‘information en‐ these children is a tendency to antisocial within the gift of humanity to think these ergy’ surrounds us, that in the right condi‐ behaviour unless they are mixing with beings into existence? If this is the case tions percolates into us almost by a type of their peers, and as a result their schooling then surely it would be much simpler in osmosis, or more correctly we inadvertently is problematic. Added to this is their rejec‐ the first place to excise evil and injustice receive it like organic radio or TV sets. tion of authority and an elevated sense of from society by simply wishing it away? self‐importance, another two factors that But perhaps not, maybe this is an oversim‐ As the numbers grow, the theory goes, we are less than conducive to conventional plification and there needs to be another assimilate the knowledge/information with education. A less sympathetic and more agency involved. increasing speed until a ‘tipping point’ is pragmatic interpretation of these traits reached and we as a race become as one, a views the children as suffering from Atten‐ Another issue to be addressed is the ad‐ gigantic gestalt being. If this is true then we tion Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), mitted fact that, as with the observations may not necessarily benefit from such a Obsessive‐Compulsive Disorder (OCD) of Ms Tappe, there has indeed in recent ‘gift’, because it may serve agendas that are and/or Autism. In most of these instances years been a rapid increase in children not in the best interests of the human race; the conditions are treated using a range of diagnosed with ADHD etc, but this has like mind control. One is also tempted to drugs, but chiefly ‘Ritalin’, which is a type been attributed to many factors including draw comparisons with the concept of of amphetamine. However, a more con‐ the increasing level of toxins that surround ‘memes’, or the proposition that certain spiratorial mind may interpret this situa‐ us plus the large number of synthetic in‐ good ideas, particularly ones that have a tion as the deliberate use of a ‘chemical gredients in the food that we eat. Or, is it direct benefit on the individual and society cosh’ to subdue their development and possible that the change in diet has actu‐ in general, actually perpetuate themselves, prevent them developing their full poten‐ ally altered the genetic code of some chil‐ almost as if they had sentience. This of tial, whatever that may be. dren for the better, are we witnessing a course is a difficult type of logic to follow; it new and benign genesis of the human is rather like saying that a thermostat has Undoubtedly the way many of these race? intelligence because it performs a mechani‐ youngsters behave can be highly disrup‐ cal function in response to an increase or tive within a household and a cause of It has also been suggested that the Indigo’s decrease in temperature, a conclusion that extreme frustration to their parents. One tend to have poor sleep patterns and often is tenuous at best. wonders how those who are convinced of stay awake for hours on end, only suc‐ their children ‘specialness’ and encourage cumbing when they are literally out on Although the concept of these supposedly in what they do still manage to maintain a their feet and, as already mentioned, they unique children was invented by Ms Tappe, degree of control over them. Or perhaps apparently possess paranormal abilities it became elevated to a place of promi‐ ADHD, OCD and Autism are subtly differ‐ and heightened awareness. This should nence in the New Age psyche in the book, ent from the tantrums and traumas exhib‐ come as no real surprise, because there is ‘The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have ited by these Indigo Children. It has been at least one valid reason for it; the longer Arrived’, written in 1998 by Jan Tober and suggested that parents who decide their the brain is deprived of sleep, the greater Lee Carroll. The source of the subject mat‐ child is Indigo may actually cause them the build up of serotonin, which is one of ter of this work was channelled from an harm by failing to recognise the previously several powerful neurotransmitters medi‐ entity called ‘Kyron’, evidently one of the so mentioned conditions, but perhaps more ated by sleep. It may be the reason why ‐called ‘Ascended Masters’. According to cautiously this is connected to the insidi‐ ghosts, phantoms and ET’s are most often Carroll and Tober, a married couple, when ous methods used to prevent their devel‐ seen at night when levels are at their high‐ talking about their book in the wider com‐ opment and eventual flowering. As hinted est. Perhaps the neurology of Indigo’s is munity they tend not to mention the source at earlier is it possible that we are actually ‘retuned’ by elevated levels of serotonin of the information it contains, as, not creating a new breed of evolved being permitting them access to impressions 04 Children of the Gods: By Brian Allan denied to the rest of us. This link leads us to not, represent Cosmic Consciousness, in of the animals who also live on the Earth yet another example of this phenomenon, other words a reinterpretation of the might also evolve into higher states of the so‐called ‘Crystalline Children’. Eastern mantra that ‘all is one’ and the consciousness, particularly certain species ancient Alchemical and Mystery School of aquatic mammals like whales and dol‐ The Clouded Crystal teaching of ‘as above, so below’. In truth, phins that already appear to have a well‐ these ostensibly ‘new’ belief systems are developed degree of communication, intel‐ Another manifestation of the desire to rise little more than retreads of aeons old ligence and awareness. We should not lose above our current level of human existence wisdom and teachings and may be (more sight of the fact that this information alleg‐ is the claimed appearance of another sub‐ cynically) merely a moneymaking platform edly derives from already advanced crea‐ group within the human species, that of the for the new gurus. All of this assumes that tures currently existing without form ‘Crystalline Children’, who display most and we are the product, not of natural selec‐ within a light matrix. While the advent of possibly more of the attributes ascribed to tion, but of a deliberate and sustained act crystalline children may be a little too the Indigo’s. This information arrives, once designed to produce the human race, much to fully accept, perhaps we can more again, from the dubious and entirely unveri‐ whether this is through the direct inter‐ easily understand another strand of fiable source of the ‘Ascended Masters’, vention of some Creator God or otherwise emerging super‐humanity, the super psy‐ and as previously mentioned with the In‐ is a moot point. Not that there is anything chic children of China and the children who digo’s they are not entirely comfortable in fundamentally wrong with this concept, cannot become ill. the presence of any but their peers. Among it’s just that as we have seen it is far from their alleged talents is the ability see be‐ new. Reprogramming the Helix yond the three (and possibly four assuming that time is a dimension) dimensions that The Crystalline Variant on this theme Although perhaps the most interesting of govern our physical existence. They are, seems to rely on the idea that we are in all these alleged ‘new humans’ are the according to what is known about them, fact, each and every one of us, a tiny frag‐ children who do not become ill, we should evidently attuned with the frequencies of ment of the whole, a miniscule version of first look briefly at the so‐called ‘Super light and it is hinted that they are, or will the entire entity and these children will Psychic Children of China’. According the be, almost godlike in their abilities and cause us to reunite into the totality evidence, such as it is, they were first bring with them truths that have become (gestalt again?) that surrounds us. It also noted circa 1984, the same era as that of either lost or distorted beyond recognition relies on the nature and understanding of the emergence of the Indigo Children. over millions of years of human evolution. the DNA that makes us what we are and Evidently the Chinese government identi‐ how, as it alters, allows us a means of fied one such child who scored way off the Their DNA is in some way reprogrammed interdimensional access to higher commu‐ scale during a standard psi experiment and in effect ‘blueprinted’, so that it is ex‐ nication. It stops short of actually saying, designed to measure paranormal abilities. actly as our progenitors intended. Their although heavily implies, that we might Following this discovery and the attention purpose is to re‐harmonise the human race eventually communicate with our creator it drew, other parents started noticing odd so that it resonates with ‘The One’, another (s) on some exotic level of existence. ‘talents’ in their own children until the reference to the gestalt that may, or may What it does not say is whether the DNA numbers spiralled into the many hundreds. 05 Children of the Gods: By Brian Allan Every test devised to test them revealed infections that in normal people the im‐ and the results were truly breathtaking. telepathic and precognitive abilities that mune system deals with automatically by The scientists exposed his blood cells to a went well above chance and in most cases destroying any invading foreign organism. progressively stronger dose of AIDS and it the children tested scored 100% irrespec‐ The child was tested at six months old and was not until the dosage was in the order tive of how the test was conducted. was indeed still infected as it was a year of thousands of times stronger that his later, then something remarkable hap‐ blood cells were damaged. The same ex‐ Another of their claimed talents is the curi‐ pened. The child, a boy, was left until he periment was tried using a range of other ous ability to read without using their eyes, was six years old and tested again when, diseases including various forms of cancer in other words they were able to ‘read’ miraculously, he was AIDS free. Naturally and his blood did not react or succumb to words and colours using other parts of their the tests were repeated and proved iden‐ any of them, he appeared to be immune to anatomy such as their fingers, ears, and tical; there was no trace of AIDS whatso‐ all diseases. Following this discovery a patches of skin on their arms and chests. ever, or indeed of HIV, which is the pre‐ clandestine programme was instituted to Although a remarkable discovery, if true, cursor of full blown AIDS. examine blood cells from a wide range of and in spite of the exited announcements it children from all ethnic groups and social is not entirely unique, as, over the years, Following this remarkable development classes and much to the surprise of the this particular aptitude has been noted the boy was taken to UCLA where he was scientists they found that the altered DNA among various people. One in particular exposed to a series of tests to examine his was not by any means unique to one child, was Mollie Fancher, a woman who lived in DNA for any abnormalities; these tests the numbers ran into tens of thousands, America in the late 19th century. Although revealed that the child did not have nor‐ something was definitely happening, blind and crippled due to a childhood acci‐ mal, standard, human DNA. Although this something wonderful yet at the same time dent, she exhibited the capability of select‐ is an extremely complex subject I have frightening. The question then was how ing by touch alone various colours of thread attempted to explain it in terms that are and why? The implication here is that as used in embroidery from a box located accessible, this is slightly daunting but with the indigo’s, the greater the number above her bed. Although not a Roman vital because of what may be happening the more quickly the change spreads. The Catholic she also occasionally exhibited to us. In the normal, human, genetic code method by which this occurs is, however, traditional signs of the stigmata, which there is a set of instructions defining what highly speculative, as is the evidence itself, drew some considerable comment. we are, among these are units comprising unless of course ‘they’, the faceless, ruling three nucleotides representing one amino ‘ubermensch’, really are behind a mon‐ She also displayed manifestations of multi‐ acid, they are called ‘codons’. strous cover‐up and, for a variety of rea‐ ple personality disorder where she exhib‐ sons both political and economic, are de‐ ited at least two distinct personalities be‐ We as human beings possess sixty four of nying this information to the general pub‐ side her own. In addition she was reputedly these codons, of which only twenty‐three lic. It is certain that the multinational both psychic and to some extent telepathic, are used, twenty are turned on and the manufacturers in the pharmaceutical in‐ this raises the question that she may have other three act as start (initiation) and dustry would be less than pleased to see been a precursor of the superchild revolu‐ stop (termination) switches controlling their highly lucrative market vanish almost tion. It certainly gives reason to question the rest, rather like the digital switching overnight and as such would go to any whether many people who have been con‐ arrangements used in a computer, this is lengths to stop this happening. signed to psychiatric care were in fact only an analogy that works well and is some‐ demonstrating aspects of their superhuman thing that we will return to shortly. The According to what knowledge there is, potential and not signs of mental illness. It unused ‘codons’ have always been as‐ whether suppressed or not, the mecha‐ is strange that depending on the mores and sumed to be part and parcel of our so‐ nism behind the change seems to be customs of individual societies, some of called ‘Junk DNA’, something that we no largely internal, all that is required, appar‐ them regard the mentally disturbed to be longer require in our evolutionary proc‐ ently, is a strong enough desire to make some way ‘gifted’ and worthy of venera‐ ess, although this was apparently not the the change to one’s DNA and it will hap‐ tion, considering them to be communing case with this child, he had twenty four of pen; the use of meditation techniques with the gods. Is this perhaps yet another these codons switched on. Following this seem to be an advantage though. In fact example of the involuntary recognition of a discovery they tested his DNA to see just what this sounds like is a variant on Chaos coming super race caused by genetic infor‐ how resistant to disease it actually was Magic, where a wish or desire becomes a mation bleed‐through from the pre‐existing programme? If this is the case the strange talents shown by Mollie and many others over the years may well have been slight defects in the timing of the inbuilt genetic clock determining our elevation to another level of existence. The next group we con‐ sider holds the prospect of near immortality for the human race; they are the ‘Children of AIDS’. The Children of AIDS This truly remarkable evolutionary develop‐ ment first came to light, again at around the same time as the other two groups, in the late 1970’s early 1980’s, when a child was born that already was infected with the deadly condition of Acquired Immune Defi‐ ciency Syndrome, now known simply as AIDS. As is now known, this condition ren‐ ders the patient unable to fight off ordinary 06 Children of the Gods: By Brian Allan reality at the quantum level and providing A more cynical view is they this situation is this has been done correctly, manifests a entirely artificial and man made, another physical change in the real world. On other symptom of the frantic and dizzy society in level there is a clear reference to the power which we live. It is strange that as our re‐ of positive thinking where a person who is jection of organised religion gains momen‐ ill is encouraged to think in a positive man‐ tum, we still apparently need something to ner, which does seem to have an effect on cling to and so we invent one. We have the speed of recovery. seen this in the past with the advent of Ufology, which was perhaps at its zenith What is not clear is how the original and from the 1950’s until the late 1980’s. From initial change was made, for unless there personal experience I have seen this amply was a series of lucky accidents, then the demonstrated during public meetings and first people to display these genetic peculi‐ conferences devoted to the study of arities had to be given outside help, unless strange phenomena be it UFO’s, hauntings our own DNA carried the message as part or whatever. of its internal programming. While consid‐ ering this it is important to realise that the where the very thought of tinkering with The intense, almost devout, look on the information controlling our genes and how the human genome is likened to interfer‐ faces in the audience, they had the look they function is not entirely stored in the ing with Gods work, which, in fundamen‐ and feel of a church congregation. The genetic code. The additional information is talist circles is absolute anathema irre‐ need to make sense of the world, but in a contained, rather like computer sub‐ spective of how beneficial it might be. manner that best appealed to those at‐ routines, in regulatory sequences, inter‐ While there is undoubtedly an official ban tending and instead of a God it was an genetic segments and areas devoted to the on some aspects of this research, it would extraterrestrial, which, I suppose, is what structure of chromosomes, which brings us be interesting to discover what work is precisely what God is. A being that lives back to the link with computers. currently conducted under the cloak of outwith the constraints of time and space, ‘black projects’. Although these develop‐ that is both omniscient and omnipotent, As previously mentioned the codons and ments fall well short of explaining the although, sadly, God seems equally elusive. additional elements in the gene pattern incredible complexity of inducing changes If these children are the next step, then we that switch the rest of the DNA on and off in specific elements of the genetic code to are truly favoured that the process has act like timers in a standard digital com‐ permit evolutionary leaps; nevertheless it begun and we may yet rise out of the mire puter or programmable logic controller, no is allegedly occurring at an ever‐increasing that traps us. Ultimately in matters not matter how clever or fleeting, they are rate. One can only ponder and speculate whether the message comes via Ascended either on or off with no halfway position, on what might occur of more of these Masters, Space Brothers or Indigo Chil‐ the only way to improve on this situation in codons were switched on; we can only dren, if the message is valid then it has to computers is to use ‘dual‐core’ processors hope that we are ready for the change emerge one way or another. so that they can multi‐task more easily. This and recognise it when it happens. is a development from the original method of using separate sub‐processors to deal Conclusion with the more mundane tasks like number crunching. Staying with the computer anal‐ Is this all feasible or is it not? As we have ogy there is, however, another method seen, the youngsters called Indigo Chil‐ currently under development and that is in dren and/or Crystal Children are indeed the esoteric field of ‘quantum computing’. an enigma. Are they a natural progression This near magical infant science relies on in human development triggered through the fact that the state of any subatomic some predetermined change in the hu‐ particle cannot be predicted at any given man genome, or are they the inadvertent time and they exist in an infinite number of result of the increasingly toxic environ‐ states. It is this bizarre property that even‐ ment in which we live? Is this some form tually will lead to a type of computer that of corroboration of the Gaia hypothesis will operate in a number of states at any showing that the planet on which we live one time and as such can carry out a near is indeed to some extent sentient and is limitless number of functions simultane‐ attempting to alter us; it’s children, in ously. The components used in the process‐ order to save itself. Or are the Indigo’s ing are still electronic, but they are now and all the rest no more than a fantasy operating in applications that their inven‐ created by over imaginative and over tors could not have imagined. protective parents determined to believe We must hope that they do not regard us that their children are not in some way as inferior and take steps to cleanse our As we have seen, the method by with these ‘damaged’, but reject it by submerging memory from the face of the planet, to electronic devices function has many paral‐ themselves in the fantasy that they are remove all trace of us from the gene pool, lels with the science of genetics and pro‐ instead ‘gifted’. The purpose of these if this process can self‐start then we must vides a good comparison. Both rely on pro‐ supposed evolved beings is nothing less hope that the next stage, whatever that gramming to function and both are capable than the redemption of the human race, a might be, continues to improve us as a of being reprogrammed to produce differ‐ noble cause that no one would argue species and we achieve the destiny pre‐ ent effects. The difference is, so far, that with, except that, as we have seen, this is written for us in the coding of our DNA. unlike the application of computers, any really nothing new, only the packaging is There are indeed interesting times ahead. alterations to the genetic code have, in the different. ‘The Space Brothers’, ‘The Coun‐ main, been confined to what amounts to cil of Nine’ ‘The Ascended Masters’, ‘The Sources tinkering around the edges of its vast po‐ Secret Chiefs’ and now ‘gifted children’, be tential. The restraints on development have they indigo, crystal, psychic or The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism, by in the main been ethical and/or religious ‘reprogrammed’, there is no difference. Fr Herbert Thurston SJ. 07 Advertisement 08 Advertisement 09