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African Shipwreck Yields Rich Treasures
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Posted by Isis on Thursday, May 08, 2008 (CDT)
 The ship was laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins -- and cannons to fend off pirates. But it had nothing to protect it from the fierce weather off a particularly bleak stretch of inhospitable African coast, and it sank 500 years ago. Now it has been found, stumbled upon by De Beers geologists prospecting for diamonds off Namibia. "If you're mining on the coast, sooner or later you'll find a wreck," archaeologist Dieter Noli said in an interview Thursday.
Namdeb Diamond Corp., a joint venture of the government of Namibia and De Beers, first reported the April 1 find in a statement Wednesday, and planned a news conference in the Namibian capital next week. The company had cleared and drained a stretch of seabed, building an earthen wall to keep the water out so geologists could work. Noli said one of the geologists saw a few ingots, but had no idea what they were. Then the team found what looked like cannon barrels.
The geologists stopped the brutal earth-moving work of searching for diamonds and sent photos to Noli, who had done research in the Namibian desert since the mid-1980s and has advised De Beers since 1996 on the archaeological impact of its operations in Namibia. The find "was what I'd been waiting for, for 20 years," Noli said. "Understandably, I was pretty excited. I still am."
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The I-Ching explained
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Posted by Isis on Thursday, May 08, 2008 (CDT)
 I-Ching or the "Book of Changes" is an ancient Chinese divination manual and a book of wisdom which interprets hexagrams (symbols made up of six stacked horizontal lines) formed by tossed coins to form answers to questions about the future. The ancient book is a study of change in human life. The belief is that understanding the pattern and cycle of change will prepare the person for future events and help with making right decisions.
For more than 5000 years the I-Ching has been used and relied on by many Chinese to aid in decision making and predicting the future. It is believed to have been invented by Fu Hsi, a legendary emperor of China. The answers or predictions of future events are revealed by using a numerological system based on the Yin and Yang, where the Yin represents a broken line and Yang a whole line.
The Yin and Yang are polarizing forces but are important in maintaining a balanced universe. Traditionally, a bundle of yarrow sticks were thrown but the modern equivalent uses three coins for divination that are tossed six times to form six lines of hexagrams. Each side of a coin represents either the Yin or the Yang.
(Read More... Divination | Word Count: 389 | comments? | Score: 0) |
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Institute plans global paranormal warning system
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Posted by Isis on Thursday, May 08, 2008 (CDT)
 The Arlington Institute, a non-profit think tank specialising in predictive modelling of future events, hopes to utilise paranormal powers to provide an early warning of impending disasters or other critical events, such as acts of terrorism. British psychic Chris Robinson, who claims to see the future in dreams, is working with the Institute on the project. The Arlington Institute (TAI), which was founded nearly 20 years ago by futurist John L. Petersen, has identified why previous attempts to harness psychic powers through premonition bureaux were unsuccessful. They were not equipped with a system of processing reports of dreams and predictions automatically, which meant “the ability to effectively analyse the input was severely limited”.
Present technology, it adds, overcomes these shortcomings. It can also give feedback to those submitting narratives, maintaining their interest in the process. So, for the first time, it has evolved a scheme – called the WHETHEReport – which it describes as an unprecedented early-warning system. The Internet will play a key role. A web portal will be used to collect anonymous “narratives of significant intuitions of all forms, including dreams, visions [and] overwhelming feelings”.
An announcement of this “revolutionary new global strategic early warning capability” explains: “TAI has constructed a plan for a new, unconventional anticipatory analysis tool which offers humanity an unprecedented potential to anticipate surprise events. WHETHEReport will function as a global sensing and analysis network – using aggregate human intuition as its intelligence source.”
(Read More... ESP and PSI | Word Count: 827 | comments? | Score: 0) |
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Scientists chip away at mystery of Stonehenge
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Posted by Isis on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 (CDT)
 The mysterious circle of stones that rises on Salisbury Plain near here has stood as a marvel for thousands of years, its origins and purpose shrouded in the mists of history. But a just-completed excavation of Stonehenge, the first within the ancient circle in more than 40 years, could provide some of the first reliable explanations for one of the greatest wonders of the prehistoric world.
A team of British archeologists hopes to prove its theory that nearly 4,000 years ago Stonehenge was regarded not as a place of sacrament for the dead, but as a temple with unique healing powers. The dig is investigating about 82 bluestones - a double circle of rocks, some weighing as much as 4 tons, that were brought in during the second stage of Stonehenge, which began about 2150 B.C. and account for the first stone construction at the site.
About 150 years later, these were rearranged and surrounded by the much larger sarsen stones that have become iconic of Stonehenge. Yet it is the bluestones, somehow hauled to the Salisbury Plain from the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire, Wales, that researchers say hold the key to the mystery of Stonehenge. Although the researchers found to their dismay that the area they examined had been tampered with in Roman times, they still hope the excavations will help show that the bluestones were once viewed as therapeutic.
(Read More... Ancient History | Word Count: 1242 | comments? | Score: 0) |
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Knights Templar Tomb Discovered in France
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Posted by Isis on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 (CDT)
 A hidden tomb in the mountains of the Languedoc region of southwest France has the archaeological community buzzing, and Lakehead University's Paleo DNA Laboratory has played a role in creating that buzz. Lakehead University will be part of the panel at a media conference today in New York City to talk about the discovery.
The remote site holds a mummified corpse under a shroud which bears the distinct red cross of the Knights Templar. It lies on a rose-colored plinth, surrounded by wooden chests, some open and revealing a cache of gold chalices and coins. This unprecedented discovery - what appears to be an intact Knight's Templar burial - will be revealed in the documentary film Bloodline, which premieres in U.S. theatres in May 2008.
Bloodline Director Bruce Burgess explains there were rumours dating back to the end of the 13th Century Crusades which indicated the Templars had excavated beneath the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, and on returning to France, had hidden some priceless relics in the area south of Carcassonne. "The relics - possibly documents, and even the embalmed remains of Jesus and Mary Magdalene - have all been speculation until now," Burgess says, and adds that "Thanks to this discovery, all that may soon change."
(Read More... Ancient History | Word Count: 619 | comments? | Score: 5) |
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The Quest for Truth: Mysteries, Enigmas and the Unexplained
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The 400-page book, which is completely free, covers an amazing range of exclusive articles dealing with all aspects of the paranormal and unexplained, including subjects such as ancient civilizations, ghosts, cryptozoology, conspiracies and ufology. The eighty articles contained in the book have been written by our own members, including many experienced researchers in fields such as Egyptology, Archaeology and Anthropology or are experienced Paranormal Investigators and Reiki Masters.
Rather than asking people to pay for the book, the ThothWeb team decided that the best way to reach as many people as possible was to make it available for free.
‘The Quest for Truth’ e-book can be downloaded from our Downloads section. Members will need to be logged in before they are able to download it; guests will need to register before they can access the Downloads Section. This is a very quick and easy process and only takes a minute of your time. And like everything else on ThothWeb, it’s free! |
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According to ancient tradition, The Book of Thoth was the legendary repository of the Egyptian mysteries; as such it is forever connected with occult knowledge, mystery schools and the esoteric secrets and magical systems that these schools taught. The Book of Thoth has long been associated with the tarot, which is said by many to be the embodiment of its teachings.
