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Titolo: book review, 5/98 CMS Post

The following is from the May 98 issue of the CMS Post (formerly "McLuhan Post")
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---- EXTRA-SPECIAL BOOK REVIEW------
(QUOTE) "According to the Veda, vast empires
waxed and waned in biochemical dishevels.
Atlantis and Lemuria were the climax of great
trade routes that stemmed from one corner of the
world to the other. Atlantis' location was, as
the name implies. a continent in the Atlantic.
Lemuria was now only a chain of volcanic islands,
and, if we read the tectonics correctly, the lost
island of Mu of the Japanese. [Literally,
JA-PAN, or "remains" of Pan, or Mu.] Berossus. a
Babylonian historian of 300 B.C.E,. recorded from
older archives that, before the Deluge, ten kings
reigned 432,000 years. The Bible 'shortened' this
to a 2220-year reign as, no doubt, the editors
could not then conceive of such extended
longevities. People were yet living to 110+
years, according to the AYURVEDA medical
treatise. Sixty was 'middle age' to many then.
The Chaldeans claimed their sciences went back
470.000 years." (UNQUOTE - from "THE GREATEST
STORY NEVER TOLD")
We call this book review "special" because the
book being reviewed is a one-of-a-kind. As our
regular readers know, this Center is especially
interested in the so-called mysteries of
pre-history, believing that the accepted
archaeological and anthropological texts are so
much hokum, and may cause us to be perceived as
incredibly ignorant by future generations. (Our
prior review of the astounding work FORBIDDEN
ARCHAEOLOGY, a book that was over a decade in the
researching, generated a lot of positive feedback
from our readers. Highly recommended!)
However -- this is the point -- all prior reviews
published here have been of easily obtained "mass
market" books, such as, for example, the
excellent collection by Z. Sitchin. Nonetheless, as
we travailed, we kept hearing rumours of a "not
easily available" book, no longer in print, which
was reputed to be the 'best' work of its kind extant.
So, using the resources of an antique book
finder, we were finally, and successfully, able
to obtain a copy of THE GREATEST STORY NEVER
TOLD, published in 1988 by the Biohistorical
Press.
And what a book it was -- almost a million words,
in total, representing the 8-year PHD research
project of its author, Ms. Lana Cantrell. Cantrell
brought to her study of pre-history not only an
open mind (a major pre-requisite) but also an
extensive background in medical writing and
reporting, which enabled her to offer unique
insights on many mysteries of pre-history --
insights we have never seen before, and may never
see again.
(QUOTE) "There is much to be said for 'curses'
and none of it good! Tutankhamen was a direct son
of the Gods. his entombment was one of the finest.
The opening of that tomb brought both the poison
of the 'snakes' [Egypt. 'symbol' for radioactivity].
There are still active cells there.
I think it is odd  that, in the paleopatho-
logical sciences,  people who work
with the mummies tend to die abruptly, or
become sick with very strange illnesses. Even
people who work with hominid bones come down with
unusual viruses; kidney and blood ailments are
common. They are digging up very 'dangerous'
remains because of the longevity of the different
isotopes, -- such as uranium, which has a 710
million year half-life. Poking around Egyptian
tombs is risky business, considering what you may
come across may not really be 'dead'. In
biomagnetics, it was found that cellular water is
no different than normal water in that it is
dielectric. At death, cellular water does not
change, nor do proteins. By surrounding their
dead with gold the ancients kept this electric
potential alive -- not to mention those special
'resins'. In adipocere, fat has oxidized to
water which preserves the body. A healthy body in
death (peculiar as that sounds) has cells which
are still capable of electrical stimulation and
still do retain their own subtle charges as they
retreat from the cell membrane to the nucleus.
One interesting experiment showed that dead cells
of marine micro-organisms still oriented
themselves to a magnetic field, much like the
"mummies"! Why? Because they had not completely
lost their electromagnetic force. The Egyptians
placed their dead in special resin, as resin has
uniformly fixed-charged sites. Gold sarcophagi
would have provided dielectric constants at low
frequency. Tutankhamen was entombed, not in a
burial chamber as some believe, but in a an
enclosed hemostatic compartment. When Carter
opened it, all the energy was released." (UNQUOTE)
Students of the meta-sciences are well aware of
the essential premise of all meta-historians,
-- namely that the extensive and detailed literature
left to us by ancient Indian, Middle Eastern, and
related civilizations (including some works that
contain tens of thousands of individual verses or
stanzas) are not the pleasantly deranged ravings of
religious zealots -- as Modern Science tells us --
but rather a genuine attempt by the scribes of
yore to record real events involving real biological
entities.
Pursuing that notion -- as Cantrell and others
have done -- is most disturbing to the western
mind, as it calls into question everything we
hold dear about our own place in history. At first
glance, taken literally, it appears as though
beings of greater power than ourselves ("gods")
interfered frequently with the development of the
key cultures that ultimately fostered our "human"
race. Many references to what now looks like
genetic alteration in the distant past do little
to reinforce our own flagging self-images. Ditto
for the equally vast number of references to
"weapons of mass destruction" in ancient dates
-- which make the modern Star Wars program seem tame
by comparison.
[There are so many hundreds of references to flying
machines, missiles, and other 'weapons' in the ancient
Indian texts that the original British translators
of the nineteenth century REFUSED to make the trans-
lations, saying it was all 'religious gibberish'. Only
when Indians took control of their own culture in
the twentienth century, were accurate translations
available to the rest of the world for the first time
in centuries, possibly millennia!]
So, into this den of Paradox bravely walks author
Cantrell and -- as promised -- her work is
breath-taking in its scope. Her particular
ability to see the "eugenics" beneath the surface
in many ancient tales is both startling and
disturbing. Also disturbing is the author's
excellent instincts. Even though written a decade
ago, the author included in her substantial tome
many warnings about the current Western diet and
its negative implications on testosterone (proven
correct) the immune system (also correct) and the
possible damage to psychological development of
young children ("children killing children" --
she predicted, also astoundingly correct.)
(QUOTE) "If there is one major remorse by the
people of both the Veda and the Egyptian texts,
is that the Pandava, the Ennead. had left the
earth. It must have been a sorrowful sight to see
the only people capable of helping, fly off. It
seems though that they left with the Anunnaki
fast on their heels. Either that, or everyone was
trying to escape the blast. Ra attempted to gather
his family together and, according to a very early
Egyptian legend. Osiris was the last to arrive.
They took off from a mountain, taking advantage of
course of the magnetic flow to ascend into space.
Osiris had trouble getting onto the "iron
plates." as the story goes. and Ra had to drop
the famous 'ladder' with which he barely escaped, with
the help of the Twin Gods (which correspond to the
Pandava twin brothers in the Veda). A collaborating
story in the Veda tells us 'why' he was late. It
seems the entire family had barely made it to the
mountain top -- with Draupadi fainting. The Veda
claims their lives were 'ended' and they had to
ascend now to the heavens -- but the Egyptian texts
contradict this." (UNQUOTE)
In addition to covering ground already trodden by
other authors -- and doing it excessively well --
Cantrell introduces scores of totally original
theories. If even half of them are correct, she
will go down as one of the greatest minds of this
century. For example, she questions why no major
study of archeological ruins has ever been done
for residual radioactivity -- arguing
persuasively that if such 'weapons of destruction'
did exist in the past, and were used, the
evidence should be clear even today. (See quote
above -- she also concluded, on the evidence,
that much of the damage to the King Tut mummy was
done by the manner in which the tomb violators
forced open the coffin, using heat and force,
essentially "quick frying" the contents!)
Especially eerie is that Cantrell was able to
identify -- and show the reader -- that a
particular Egypitian hieroglyph associated with
"dangerous" artifacts of the Gods is exactly and
precisely the same symbol used today by nuclear
plants to label hazardous matter. Cantrell also
feels that pictoral references to "snakes" in
Ancient cultures have more to do with energies
and waves than the actual reptile, a theory that
holds up surprisingly well when all her data is
looked at.
Like writers before her, Cantrell asks why areas
known in pre-history to have been the lushest and
greenest on earth -- such the US southwest and the
Middle East -- are now barren. Where did names
like "Dead Sea" and "Death Valley" come from...?
The book is itself an experience of great wonder,
and is highly recommended. We regret that
interested parties, may -- like ourselves -- have
to use a "search" service to find a copy. Also,
because no doubt of problems in finding a publisher,
it appears that little or no editing was done to
the original M/S, and typos abound. Still a great
read, if you can find it!
[Final Notes -- as most Netizens know, a "search"
of almost any topic will usually yield hundreds,
if not thousands, of 'hits'. Not so with Cantrell's
work. The only Net reference to GREATEST STORY we
could discern was a "thank you" from the author
of "Inanna Returns", a "fictional reconstruction"
of prehistory," thanking Cantrell for her
contribution. That book is readily available,
however.]
----END SPECIAL BOOK REVIEW -----
alt.disasters
BusinessWeek (4/20  -- "FROM DIGITS TO DUST")
dropped on a 'bomb' on the tech sector when they
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shelf-life. Someone, somewhere assumed that these
hi-tech media would last for centuries. Now turns
out "decades" is more like it -- digital data from
NASA's 1976 Viking mission has degraded already.
The solution? Paper (yes PAPER!) copies of the
binary codes. Is this the next 'Y2K'? Could be!
alt.news
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this imply a nation of addicts? Nope -- the money
sorting machines tend to take powder from one bill
and spread it to 100 others.

JA-PAN, or "remains" of Pan, or Mu.] 
Ammazzaostammericani che filologi!
Ja-PAN = Gia' Pan = Terra che prima era pan... (e mo' e' focacc...)
... Peccato che in giapponese si dica Ni Hon. Ed ha tutto altro
significato.