Arcadia Discussion Zone

you old extremist romantic!?

Guilty as charged.

Reading CoS, particularly in tandem with its companion piece - Happy Hour - one gets a very strong impression of this deep and enduring love between two people. And the sense of Patrice's love of the place, that you also allude to, is evident from the very first pages.

What the rest of it means is much more perplexing, but it works as a love story, so in a way the rest of it doesn't matter too much.

"Between us a fusion had taken place and it deepened until we were bound together. And he was father, lover, god to me and I felt so tight to the skin with him that I really was his, that he'd actually created me from some eruption not unlike the act of birth itself." CoS, p.44

I think the paragraph above is essentially what City of Secrets is really about.

Or what a Sufi writer once described as "our alchemical journey"...

at the rocky outcrops

What rocky outcrops?

These are two different saint Germains

We are talking Marian apparitions here......so much to learn and so little time.

With regard to my assertion that – “The importance of RLC (and the many other locations involved in this mystery) can be found at this rocky outcrop” – i.e. the devils armchair at Rennes-Le-Bains.

The following “working” hypothesis is an attempt to understand the sacrificial phenomena whose evidence I examine in “The Secret Origins of Religion and Civilisation” here in the Articles section of Arcadia. The direction of my ensuing studies has been determined by the data presented in this first article which clearly suggests a causal relationship between the sacrificial liberation of blood and the inducement of these biological phenomena. The only way to appreciate the argument being made here therefore is to treat this piece as an extension to the above article. There are other fascinating areas of research that flow from this conclusion, but it is best that I deal with these separately.

If one examines the work of Paul Devereux and others, you will find that our ancient ancestor’s chose to locate their sacred (sacrificial) centres upon geological fault lines. When Christianity came along it occupied these same sacred locations in an effort to supplant their sacrificial worship with the symbolism of Christ’s sacrifice. This is why we find so many churches, like those of RLC and Perillos, constructed over fault-lines; the likelihood being that they were constructed upon ground that was already deemed sacred. The crucial question then, is why did our Stone Age ancestor’s site their sacrificial centres upon geologically active terrain?

If you type “Takata Reaction” into your web browser the result will be a large assortment of scientific articles dealing with a process Maki Takata developed in 1938 that removes albumin from blood by causing it to flocculate (curdle) so that it might be removed in a centrifuge. If you look more closely at your search results however you will discover the inclusion of one or two astrological websites that also highlight Maki Takata’s process, but for a totally different reason. Their interest stems from an intriguing discovery made by Takata that confirmed the astrological premise that heavenly bodies are capable of influencing humanity! What he discovered was that the rate of albumin precipitation varied in response to sunspot activity!

This astonishing solar influence is well known to the biochemists that use this albumin process on a daily basis, but its underlying cause would appear to remain a mystery. What particular interested me about this solar reaction upon blood was that the data highlighted certain changes in the albumin process at dawn and dusk, the time of ancient sacrifice! Some years later I discovered ultra low frequency (ULF) micropulsations in the earth’s magnetic field. These oscillations were produced when the solar winds (from sunspot activity) compressed the earth’s magnetosphere, causing these micropulsations to travel towards the earth’s surface along the magnetic field lines. Intriguingly, these pulsations have been shown to alter at dawn and dusk.

Whilst updating my data a few months ago I was surprised to discover that current research was suggesting a causal link between these micropulsations and a number of cardiovascular and psychiatric conditions. I also discovered evidence of two experiments carried out at the University of Pavia in Italy during a solar eclipse on the 15th February 1961. The first experiment dealt with the raising of bread yeast whilst another repeated the Takata process. Unfortunately I have only managed to obtain the findings of the Takata experiment, but the fact that these two tests were run side by side during a solar eclipse is, I believe, hugely significant. Further research may see me discuss this association at some point in the future, but for now the Takata experiment was to yield some interesting results. For example, “It may be inferred that the time at which blood was drawn was not of fundamental importance, since "inside" [a grounded iron screen] data tended to be constant while "outside" [the iron screen] data showed appreciable variation”. This suggests that “in analogy with Piccardi’s researches, we take this [causal] factor to be electromagnetic” We also learn that “A difference was also noted between dawn and sunset values, namely a maximum [flocculent variation] at sunset and a minimum [flocculent variation] shortly before dawn”.

To summarise; there is sufficient data coming to light to indicate a relationship between variations in geomagnetic micropulsations and the occurrence of a chemical reaction in blood, especially liberated blood. Under certain calendar conditions this haematological reaction shows “appreciable” variations at dawn and dusk, the time when our ancient ancestors made their offerings of blood. This work does not reveal the cause of these ancient sacrificial phenomena but it does suggest a natural process whereby they might be triggered. My original premise of a relationship between those geologically active locations and the liberation of blood has therefore gained weight, which brings me to the devils armchair and the rocky outcrop upon which it rests. Nobody can tell me what happens when these micropulsations encounter magnetic anomalies at the earth’s surface, so I am forced to speculate that they are changed in some way. Another variable to consider is that two millennia ago the earth’s magnetic field was far stronger than it is today. So when our ancient ancestors liberated blood at these locations the effects of these micropulsations may have been much different than they are today.

When I was about 13 or 14 years of age I took shelter for the night in a hermits cave up on Kinder Scout above the village of Edale. It was hewn out of solid rock and had a raised niche or bed carved into one wall onto which I unfurled my sleeping bag and climbed inside, and was quickly asleep. Many hours later I awoke with a start as a strange feeling coursed through my whole body. Thankfully it quickly subsided but I noticed the first rays of the sun beginning to lighten the sky outside the entrance to the cave, as I tried to make sense of the strange sensation. It was as if something had arisen through my prone body, as if leaving the rock to rise into the sky? I can only assume that Lyall Watson was affected by the same phenomenon when he was struck by a sensation of nausea whilst sitting upon a stone seat similar to the devils armchair watching the rays of the sun light up the dawn sky.

Both Boudet and Sauniere shared an interest in the megalithic history of the region. So were they aware of the Church of Mary Magdalene's unique ritual properties, and was Sauniere payed to bring the site up to standard so that others might make use of these facilities?

John

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 4:08 am Post subject:

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"Richard

Your right, the iron content of these rocks wold appear to be an important factor. The next time you see a painting of St Anthony the Hermit or St Anthony of padua consider the mountain cave or monastic cell that they inhabited. Is it merely to be near god or to be isolated from the world that abbeys and monastries are built upon the sides and peaks of rocky mountains? In the case of St Anthony of Padua, consider his illness; it is a common factor in saints who are siezed by holy emanations. St Roche is one such example but there are many more. Also note the common practice of fasting and mortification amongst these individuals. It is these two factors, the bodies condition and its location, that are the keys to understanding these misconceived phenomena, and it is this relationship that I'm trying to understand.

I'm not professing to have discovered an explanation for the RLC enigma, but if esoteric groups are involved, then my research may just provide some answers.

John "

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...now to read it all and absorb it.

ultra-low frequencies or extremely low frequencies (ELFs) are associate with many kinds of paranormal experiences...they are also associated with mind-control experiements...

there are a few individuals who are able to hear these frequencies (kind of gives a meaning to 'those who have ears to hear')...

sound and light at the ends of the spectrum are perceived by a minority of the population. that does not mean that those who do not perceive and who are not aware of these frequencies are not affect biologically and psychologically by them...

all of me,
paula