Terrestrial Shadows

There are mysteries in this world that still today go unsolved. One of these great mysteries is the Nazca Lines in Peru. These are some of the greatest Geoglyphs that the world has to offer. There are patterns of animals, insects, humanoid creatures all sketched out in the desert.

The Peru Nazca Lines are located between the towns of Nazca and Palpa, they are geographically in the center of Peru and cover roughly 60 square miles of desert. The lines were originally created by the Nazca Culture around one hundred B.C. the majority of the lines sketched into the desert are so large that to get a good view of them you must travel by helicopter or by plane high above. They were not even discovered until the middle of the 20th century when planes started coming in over the desert to provide supplies to Nazca. They have become one of Peru’s top Adventure travel location and millions of people experience them every year.

The Nazca lines are in such a desolate place that any one traveling there should be aware to bring enough water for several days and proper clothing against the sun. Like most deserts the temperatures are high in the rainy season as they are in the dry season. They can range from80 degrees to more than 100 at any given time during the day and dip below 30 degrees F during the night. The lines have survived in this climate due to the lack of erosion wind which has left this giant sketches for us to question why they were drawn.

To help us understand the mystery of the Nazca Lines we need to start to understand the Nazca culture a little first. There is a small Nazca city located south of the Nazca lines that archeologist have uncovered called ”Cahuachi” which holds a number of clues into the Nazca Mystery. This city it was discovered has a long history of being the main center of Nazca ceremonial center. It contains several large adobe type pyramids high on the hills that overlook the many Nazca lines.

The Nazca culture was very industrious people long before the Romans they built an impressive system of underground aqueducts along with ways to let the water flow where there location was out in the middle of the desert. These aqueducts were key to their survival due to the dry and arid conditions of the desert.
The city of Cahuachi was used as by the Nazca people to hold rich ceremonial practices and rituals. They prayed for things like there groups to grow agriculture, there future children fertility, and that the gods provide enough drinking water in there arid location. The city was then abruptly abandoned there is no physical evidence why they just stopped living and hiding rituals there. a lot of archeologist suggest that
Theories of the Nazca Lines Mystery

One of the most through researchers of the Nazca lines in Peru was Maria Reiche. She originally was a mathematics professor and archeologist from Germany. She has studied the Nazca lines for over 20 years and has come up with a most reasonable theory about them. She concludes that the Nazca Lines in Peru were used to track the sun and astronomical calendar cycles. It then instantly became the largest solar observatory in the world. This is the most logical of all the theories presented about the Nazca Lines but there may be a lot more to this complex mystery.
Another theory that has become very popular is that the lines are a magical form of spell cast by a early cult of the area. Some claim the lines form complex and sacred geometry only known to them. Some also contend that the lines follow the local underground water lines in the region. Perhaps the Nazca lines were designed by the local priest hood and used as a archeological calendar or oasis as Maria Reiche has suggested. Maybe they are lines that have formed when the spirits of those long departed enter into the other world and they are showing us a new way with spiritual energy focusing on these desert sketches.
Scientist, have done radio carbon dating of the giant pieces of art work and it is entirely plausible they were her long before the Nazca culture. There lies one problem though since the lines generally can only be seen from higher altitudes or from the air some theorize that the Nazca had a early form of flight skills before anyone else in the form of hot air balloons. There are also other that have another farfetched theory that they are intended to communicate with flying Arial machines piloted by extraterrestrials.
The reality of the Nazca lines in Peru is still one shrouded in mystery and no one really has any idea where they might have come from. Perhaps as archeologist continue to dig in the city of Cahuachi more evidence will be found on the origin of the line or put us in a more direct line with the direction they were going. In the mean time if you get a chance Fly over the Nazca lines and form your own opinion on the origin of the lines.

Flying Over the Nazca Lines

When traveling to Peru you can go on many tours that will take you over the Nazca lines. Peru tours usually begin in the airdrome of Nazca where they will give you a small video that shows you the history and background of the images on the desert floor that you are about to see. Then a small airplane will ride will let you go and see the lines for yourself the flight will usually last 45 min to an hour.
So if you ever get the chance there is more to this area then anyone can tell and seeing it will make you believe that there are mysteries left in the world unsolved and some which we may never know. But, it will allow your imagination to run wild and see what you come up with.

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New UFO footage from over ST Petersburg

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Exploring the possibilities of time travel including: Time paradoxes, worm holes, 4 dimensional space, atomic clocks and NTP servers.

Time travel has always been a much loved concept for science fiction writers. From HG Wells’ Time Machine to Back to the Future, travelling forwards or backwards in time has captivated audiences for centuries. However, thanks to the work of modern thinkers like Einstein, it appears that time travel is much a possibility of science fact as it is fiction.

Time travel is not only possible but we do it all the time. Every second that passes is a second further into the future so we are all travelling forward in time. However we think if time travel we imagine a machine that transports individuals hundreds or thousands of years in to the future or past so is that possible.

Well, thanks to Einstein’s theories of general and special relativity, time ravel is certainly possible. We know thanks to the development of atomic clocks that Einstein’s theories about speed and gravity affecting the passage of time is correct. Einstein suggested that gravity would warp space-time (the term he gave to four dimensional space that includes directions plus time) and this has been tested. In fact modern atomic clocks can pick out the minute differences in the passage of time every subsequent inch above the earth’s surface as time speeds up as the effect of the earth’ s gravity weakens.

Einstein predicted speed too would affect time in what he described as time dilation. For any observer travelling close to the speed of light a journey that to an outsider may have taken thousands of years would have passed within seconds. Time dilation means that travelling hundreds of years into the future in a matter of seconds is certainly possible. However, would it be possible to get back again?

This is where many scientists are divided. Strictly speaking theoretical properties of space time do allow for this, although for any travelling back in time a worm hole would have to be created or found. A worm hole is a theoretical link between two parts of space where a traveller could enter one end and appear somewhere completely different at the other end this may be another part of the universe or indeed another point in time.

However, critics of the possibility of time travel point out that because travellers from the future have never visited us that probably means that time travel will never be possible. They also point out the any travelling backwards in time could create paradoxes (what would happen to you if you were mean enough to go back in time and kill your grandparents).

However, time paradoxes exist now. Many computer networks are not synchronised which can lead to errors, loss of data or paradoxes like emails being sent before they were received. To avoid any time crisis it is important for all computer networks to be perfectly synchronised. The best and most accurate method of doing this is to use a NTP time server that receives the time from an atomic clock.

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The near-death experience (NDE) is an anomaly that defies the scientific logic of our modern world, and therefore it is often met by skepticism because it makes a case for immortality and the afterlife. This is understandable to me, since before my experience, as an atheist, I would also have been very skeptical of the NDE. If I had known about it then, I would certainly have rejected the reality of the experience on the grounds of lack of solid proof.

A U.S. News & World Report’s poll in 1997 estimated that up to 15 million Americans might have had a near-death experience. The most famous recent case is the near-death experience of ABC anchor, Bob Woodruff, who was almost killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq. He tells us about his experience that,

“I don’t remember hearing it. I remember that I – I went out for a minute. I saw my body floating below me and [a] kind of whiteness. I don’t have much more information than that, whether it was heaven or something. I still don’t know.”

Most scientific studies are done retrospectively many times years after the experience, but recent prospective studies have shown the experience to be scientifically predictable. In 2001, the first prospective study of near-death experiences was published in the international medical journal The Lancet. The study was lead by cardiologist Pim van Lommel, MD, and set up in ten different hospitals in Holland over a period of 13 years. In this time period, 344 patients who had cardiac arrest were successfully resuscitated and they were then shortly after interviewed about their experience of being near to death. The study found that of the 344 patients, 62 patients or 18 percent reported having a near-death experience.

This prospective study gives strong evidence that near-death experiences are not just stories that people make up, but that something does indeed happen to people who come close to death. Still, many experts remain skeptical. One attempt to explain the near-death phenomenon is that the experience is simply due to hallucinations brought on by the loss of oxygen to the brain, which in medical term is called “anoxia.”

However, this explanation is a bit problematic because as we all know people who collapse or faint usually have total blackout or are at least very confused about what happened to them. But the near-death experiencer has a clear consciousness of the event, remembering the episode acutely for many years. So, the big question for the skeptics is; how can people have clear consciousness in a state of cardiac arrest with no brain activity (flat EEG)? Clearly these cases should not be called near death experiences but life after death experiences because people with cardiac arrest are clearly dead with no breathing or heart beat.

The best documented instance of this paradox is the case of Pam Reynolds. In 1991, Reynolds was diagnosed with a brain tumor and had to undergo very complex surgery called “hypothermic cardiac arrest.” This is a procedure where the body temperature is lowered, the heartbeat and breathing stopped, the blood is drained from the body, and the brain waves are totally flat.

From 11:05 a.m. to 12:00 noon, Reynolds was clinically dead with flat EEG during the operation and in this timeframe she had a near-death experience. After coming back she was able to describe the instruments used during the operation and even conversations between the staff in the operating room. Both the instruments used and the conversations was later confirmed by the doctor and nurse.

Furthermore, her ears where plugged with a sound device that would make it impossible for her to hear anything. Dr. Spetzler, who carried out the operation, later said that, “At that stage in the operation, nobody can observe, hear, in that state…I don’t have an explanation for it.” There is no explanation and Pam’s case is one of the strongest signs of life after death that have ever been recorded and monitored by science.

The case of Pam Reynolds is not only a case of clinical death beyond reasonable doubt, but also provides a clear case of “veridical perception,” where things seen or heard by the person during the NDE are later confirmed by others. In the study of veridical perception some studies have shown remarkable results. In one study of 16 cases, 88 percent of perceptions outside the body appeared to be accurate and 31 percent could be confirmed by objective means. In another study involving 93 cases, 92 percent appeared to be completely accurate with 35 percent being confirmed by objective means.

Even with verifiable veridical perception as evidence there will be skeptics, and therefore, I have also examined my own experience from a skeptical point of view. I asked myself whether my episode could not simply be a recreation of input that I had collected subconsciously throughout my life, let us say from movies. But my experience was so real and so far beyond my own sensibilities that I do not see how I could have imagined it.

This is a common conclusion after the experience, and the International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS) tells us that people usually report that the experience is “hyper-real” and more real than the life we know in this dimension.

Therefore, I have little doubt about the reality of my experience, and researcher Margot Grey confirms that this is typical: “To the near-death survivor there is seldom any uncertainty.” One of her accounts describes this by saying that “there is no doubt in my mind that what I experienced was real.”

In one study, The Southern California Study, “Ninety-six percent considered the experience real and not a dream, claiming that the contents of the experience were unlike anything they’d ever had in a dream.” One more thing to be said again in this relation is that the sense of realness stays with the experiencer. Usually people are able to recall the experience with perfect clarity many years afterward. In contrast, dreams and illusions are easier forgotten and disregarded as unreal.

This sense that the experience was real is born out by the aftereffects of the NDE, which are often deep and strong. P. M. H. Atwater, found that 79 percent were affected in a profound way, where 60 percent “reported significant life changes,” while 19 percent “noted radical shifts-almost as if they had become another person.”

For me, this is certainly true about my experience also. The direction of my life totally changed after my experience to the extent that I would say I was reborn. Do dreams and hallucinations also have this strong life-changing effect? Having had both, and believing I know the difference, the answer is clearly, no.

Another researcher, Dr. Peter Fenwick tells us that, “[Near-death] experiences have a universal quality. If this were a purely psychological experience, one would expect it to be much more culturally influenced than it seems to be.” This is also the conclusion of Margot Grey, who puts the same point in the following way, “What has clearly emerged is that a common pattern of events, involving a sequence of occurrences that seem to be almost universal in their conformity of content.”

In Lessons from the Light by Kenneth Ring and Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino, Ring writes about his research into near-death experiences with blind people. Skeptics sometimes say that the NDE is created by conditioned images, or even that people must have seen the same movie about near-death experiences. It was this argument that Kenneth Ring wanted to investigate when he started to look for near-death experiences among blind people.

Interestingly, not only did he find that people who had poor eyesight could see clearly during the near-death experience, but he also found that some blind people were able to see for the very first time. In his study Ring found that 80 percent out of thirty-one blind people who had a near-death experience were able to see during their experience.

Vicky, one person who had been completely blind from birth and survived two near-death experiences, explained, “Those two experiences were the only time I could ever relate to seeing, and to what light was, because I experienced it. I was able to see.” Another person, Brad, who had also been blind from birth said, “I know I could see and I was supposed to be blind…It was very clear when I was out. I could see details and everything.”

This gets even more interesting when Ring then wanted to compare their eyeless seeing with their dreams. When asked to compare their near-death experiences to their dreams, both Vicky and Brad answered that there were no similarity at all. The big difference is that blind people do not see things in their dreams like sighted people do.

Vicky tells us that, “I have dreams in which I touch things…I taste things, touch things, hear things and smell things-that’s it.” And when asked whether she was able to see anything at all during her dreams she answers, “Nothing. No color, no sight of any sort, no shadows, no light, no nothing.”

Brad explained the same, “I’ve had the very same consciousness level in my dreams as I’ve had in my waking hours. And that would be that all my senses function…except vision. In my dreams, I have no visual perceptions at all.”

Here are examples of two people who have never been able to see, but in their near-death experience are able to see for the first time. How is it possible for these blind people to transcend the sensory restrictions?

Personally, I have no doubt that life continues after death and that consciousness can exist without the body. I think that the reason we cannot get any solid ‘proof’ is that we do not perceive all of reality. From my experience I am convinced that there is much, much more to reality than what meets the eye. Just as the universe continues beyond what we know, I am also convinced that life does.

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Operation Highjump was an United States Navy campaign conducted in Antarctica from 1946-47, it was the single greatest effort in the southern most continent to the present day. The mission was, and continues to be to this day, the largest Antarctic voyage ever undertaken. It was conducted by the Arctic discoverer Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, and concerned 13 vessels, 23 aircraft and along with a military force of 4,700 men. The believed mission was to photograph, chart and extensively explore the frozen continent of Antartica, prior to any other force doing so.

The mission was of a classified nature and was principally a military exercise with military personnel. However, it also involved scientific organizations comprising the US National IGY Committee and the respected National Program which was more immediately concerned with the mapping of Antarctica to record perspective US territorial claims. The original code name apportioned by the Navy to the Antarctic mission was Project Longhaul, expressive of the lengthy logistics channel amongst the United States and Antarctica although which was subsequently altered to the now recognized codename of Operation Highjump.

The mission objectives were for the dozen ships and several thousand men to navigate their way to the Antarctic edge to train workers and trial materials in the frozen regions and also to reinforce and develop American jurisdiction over the greatest workable region of the Antarctic continent. Furthermore, they were to determine the feasibleness of setting up and supplying bases in the Antarctic and to explore potential base sites coupled with a need to advance methods for founding and looking after air bases on the ice.

In spite of the fact that not expressly declared in the August 26, 1946 commands, a principal purpose of the project was the aerial mapping of as much of Antarctica as was possible, especially along the coastline. Conspiracy theorists specializing in supposed Aryan or Nazi occupations in Antarctica have extensively contemplated about this mission. Rumours started to spread that even though Germany had been overthrown, an assortment of military personell and scientists had escaped the native land as Allied troops passed across mainland Europe and instituted themselves at a base on Antarctica from where they continued to build progressive aircraft founded upon alledged extraterrestrial or alien technologies. This base was apparently positioned in Neuschwabenland, a region of Antarctica which Germany investigated, and claimed, ahead of the outbreak of WWII.

As inconceivable as it may appear, there is substantial supporting evidence for these claims about a German base in Antarctica. On the very eve of WWII, the Germans themselves had entered part of Antarctica and claimed it for the 3rd Reich. Historical events also provide us with further suggestions as to a German-Antarctica association, for it documents that Hans-Ulrich Rudel of the German Luftwaffe was being prepared by Hitler to be his heir apparent. It is recognized that Rudel made numerous trips to Tierra del Fuego at the edge of South America closest to Antarctica.

In reality, Germany had completed a extremely exhaustive study of Antarctic and were believed to have built a small secret base there prior to the War. The truth is that there was an abundance of evidence, at the time, to point to that as late as 1947, portions of the Kriegsmarine, or German Navy, were very much functioning in the South Atlantic, operating either out of South America, or some base previously unrecorded in the Antarctic. One piece of evidence identified was of a German U-boat halting an Icelandic whaler titled ‘Juliana’ in Antarctic waters, and demanding that its captain, known as Hekla, trade the U-boat crew provisions from her available stores.

Some theorists believe that the Germans were, in fact, developing UFO technology in underground ice caverns of which there is information to suggest that this may not actually be too much a leap of faith. One of a quantity of documented accounts of sightings of unidentified flying objects over Antarctica was by Rubens Junqueira Villela, a meteorologist whom was the principal Brazilian scientist to take part in an voyage to the South Polar area, and at the present time, a veteran of 11 expeditions to Antarctica. Whilst on board the US Navy iceboat Glacier, which had set sail commencing from New Zealand towards the end of January 1961, Villella states that he observed a UFO occurrence in the skies over Antarctica which he instantly noted in his journal, even details including the sentiments felt by all those involved.

It is no secret that the German Nazi movement held technology progressive enough to create a craft resembling a UFO in shape and size, there are many recorded accounts of sightings and pictures of these German UFO’s. Even though, to say they held the agility and speed of a true UFO would be deceptive given, they could not remain airborne for any prolonged period and were known for their unpredictability in terms of navigation and general handling.

Operation Highjump has turned out to be a hot topic amid UFO conspiracy theorists over recent years, who claim it was a secret US military campaign to defeat and destroy supposed secret Nazi facilities in Antarctica and seize the German Vril flying discs, and the Thule mercury propelled spacecraft. An obscure Hitlerist narrative tells that Adolf Hitler did not commit suicide in 1945, but however, escaped to Argentina, and then onto an SS base beneath the ice in New Swabia during the early fifties where he restarted his career as a painter. According to this description, Operation Highjump, the greatest journey undertaken to the Antarctic, is claimed to have been dispatched to obliterate the Nazi occupancy there.

The finest accomplishment however of Operation Highjump was its procurement of roughly 70,000 aerial photos of the coastline of Antarctica and chosen inshore regions. Initially prepared for an 8 month undertaking Operation Highjump abruptly returned to the United States just 16 weeks after exploring Antarctica, with no rationale ever provided for the hasty return. While there is, yet, no definitive proof of a German UFO base on Antarctica, It is beyond doubt that something extremely strange was occurring on, or nearby, the ice covered continent.

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