M.J. Rose

A little bit of wonderment (and science) about time. Dear readers, you will LOVE THIS.

Indiana Jones is fictional, but throughout history there have been several adventuresome archaeologists in his magnificent image — here’s a few of them and their stories…

7 Archaeologists Who Were Real-Life Indiana Joneses

(from io9)

Indiana Jones may not be beloved by real-life archaeologists, but there is one thing that Dr. Jones has in common with many historical archaeological and scientific explorers: he’s lived a very exciting life. Here are some real historical figures who had remarkable adventures and made plenty of discoveries along the way.

1. Percy Fawcett, the Adventurer Who Disappeared into the Amazon

Lt. Colonel Percival Harrison Fawcett was an explorer whose adventures inflamed the imagination of Arthur Conan Doyle, who was inspired to write The Lost World in part because of Fawcett’s field reports from South America. The Royal Geographical Society tapped Fawcett for an expedition to to map the border between Brazil and Bolivia in 1906, and he brought the region to life for readers back home. He wowed them with tales of the “green hell,” of the people who lived there, of the remarkable plans, and of the fearsome animals (although many scientists doubted his claim that he had run into a 62-foot-long anaconda).

Fawcett mapped swaths of the jungle for the RGS, but he also dreamed of making archaeological history with a massive discovery. Fawcett’s experiences led him to believe that an advanced civilization could exist in the jungle, and he wrote extensively on his rationale for believing in such a lost city, which he called “Z.”

Fawcett made his final expedition to the Amazon, ostensibly in search of the Lost City of Z, in 1925, with his son Jack and Raleigh Rimell. They disappeared, and numerous explorers have attempted to trace their journey and figure out what happened to the trio. Fawcett may be bound for the big screen soon; a movie based on David Grann’s book The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon is in the works. (You can also read Grann’s shorter piece about Fawcett in the New Yorker.)

Fawcett actually meets Indiana Jones, at least in fiction. In the novel Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils, Indy is the latest explorer to seek out Fawcett and his fabled city.

2. T.E. Lawrence, Better Known as “Lawrence of Arabia”

Long before Harrison Ford picked up Indiana Jones’ whip and fedora, Peter O’Toole starred in Lawrence of Arabia. Thomas Edward Lawrence was a real person, however, one who was an archaeologist, diplomat, soldier, and spy….

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With the Tesla company so much in the news lately, it’s a relief that Tesla (the man) is also finally being recognized in the mainstream for the genius and visionary that he was.

P.S. Everything is energy/light…

Nikola Tesla – Everything is the Light
by Georgi Stankov (Stankov’s Universal Law Press)

Interview with Nikola Tesla from 1899

“Once, in 1899, Nikola Tesla had an interview with a certain journalist John Smith, when Tesla said “Everything is the Light“. In one of its rays is the fate of nations, each nation has its own ray in that great light source, which we see as the Sun. In this interview this greatest inventor and seer of modern time unravels a new vision of humanity which we, the light warriors of the first and the last hour have created a century later. A must read for every Ascended Master from the PAT.

Part of this interview is dedicated to Tesla’s critics on Einstein’s theory of relativity that discards the ether as energy. I have proved in the new Theory of the Universal Law why Einstein’s theory of relativity is entirely wrong and why there is no vacuum (void), and that everything is energy. Thus I confirm Tesla’s ideas as expressed in this interview.

Journalist: Mr. Tesla, you have gained the glory of the man who got involved in the cosmic processes. Who are you, Mr. Tesla?

Tesla: It is a right question, Mr. Smith, and I will try to give you the right answer to it.

Journalist: Some say you’re from the country of Croatia, from the area called Lika, where together with the people are growing trees, rocks and starry sky. They say that your home village is named after the mountain flowers, and that the house, where you were born, is next to the forest and the church.

Tesla: Really, all it true. I’m proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian homeland.

Journalist: Futurists say that the Twenty-and Twenty First Century was born in head of Nikola Tesla. They celebrate conversely magnetic field and sing hymns to Inductions engine. Their creator was called the hunter who caught the light in his net from the depths of the earth, and the warrior who captured fire from heaven. Father of alternating current will make the Physics and Chemistry dominate half the world. Industry will proclaim him as their supreme saint, a banker for the largest benefactors. In the laboratory of Nikola Tesla for the first time is broken atom.

There is created a weapon that causes the earthquake vibrations. There are discovered black cosmic rays. Five races will pray to him in the Temple of the future, because they had taught a great secret that Empedocles elements can be watered with the life forces from the ethers.

Tesla: Yes, these are some of my most important discoveries. I’m a defeated man. I have not accomplished the greatest thing I could.

Journalist: What is it, Mr. Tesla?

Tesla: I wanted to illuminate the whole earth. There is enough electricity to become a second sun. Light would appear around the equator, as a ring around Saturn.

Mankind is not ready for the great and good. In Colorado Springs I soaked the earth by electricity. Also we can water the other energies, such as positive mental energy. They are in the music of Bach or Mozart, or in the verses of great poets. In the Earth’s interior, there are energy of Joy, Peace and Love. Their expressions are a flower that grows from the Earth, the food we get out of her and everything that makes man’s homeland. I’ve spent years looking for the way that this energy could influence people. The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

Life has an infinite number of forms, and the duty of scientists is to find them in every form of matter. Three things are essential in this. All that I do is a search for them. I know I will not find them, but I will not give up on them.

Journalist: What are these things?…”

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