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Psychic
Archaeology and the Glastonbury Scripts
On
June 16, 1908, Capt. John Allen Bartlett, a retired military officer living
in Bristol, England, took a pencil in hand, as architect and archaeologist
Frederick Bligh Bond firmly held the foolscap paper below the pencil.
Glastonbury Scripts, information that was supposedly communicated to the
pair via automatic writing, by long-dead monks who had once lived at England’s
Glastonbury Abbey. In addition to describing the layout of the abbey,
they described its décor, their everyday routines, their problems,
and the political state of affairs governing their lives. Thus began the
sucessful “psychic archaeology” of the abbey grounds between
1908 and 1916.
Automatic
Writing and the Fluid Pen of Spirit Patience Worth
“Many
moons ago I lived. Again I come, Patience Worth my name.” So began
the communication with a spirit named Patience Worth on July 8, 1913,
by three women from St. Louis, MO, who were playing on an ouija board.
Patience Worth would later identify herself as the spirit of a 17th-century
English woman who had migrated to the United States, where she was killed
by Indians at the age of 44. Over the next 24 years, Patience dictated
approximately four million words, including books, short stories, plays,
poems, and countless epigrams and aphorisms. She would be acclaimed as
a literary genius, even compared to such literary greats as William Shakespeare,
Geoffrey Chaucer, and Edmund Spenser.
The
Enduring Enigma of the Hope Diamond
It
sits alone in a place of honor in the Harry Winston Gallery of the Smithsonian
Institute’s National Museum of Natural History, sealed within a revolving
glass case. It is the single most viewed object in the Smithsonian collection;
every year, six million people come to catch a glimpse of this legendary
object. Through the centuries, it has been known as the Tavernier Bleu,
La Céleste, the French Blue, and even the Diamond of Death. But
it is known now as the Hope Diamond, a gem that has been valued at upwards
of 250 million dollars and is widely believed to be cursed.
Psychic
to the Stars Kenny Kingston
Today it is not unusual to be psychic. But to get to the
root of the current popularity of psychic phenomena, it is necessary to
honor those who paved the way for the current crop of celebrity psychics,
such as Jonathan Edward, Sylvia Browne, and James vanPraagh. That someone
is Kenny Kingston.
Florida's
Mysterious Coral Castle
About 30 miles south of Miami, FL, there is a curious roadside
attraction called Coral Castle. Beneath its hard surface lies the heart
of Edward Leedskalnin, who built the castle between 1920 to 1940. Still
more fascinating, at five feet tall and 100 pounds, he reportedly accomplished
this feat with nothing more than primitive hand tools and old Ford Model-T parts.
Columns
Cryptic Corner
CIA
Sculpture Continues to Baffle Cryptographers
Mysteries
of Science
UFOs: Creatures of the Sky?
Egyptian Excavations
Tests End Tut’s Murder Mystery
Our Haunted
Heritage
Ontario, Canada’s Haunted Cliff of Ekatenniondi
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