In This Issue: Early Rays Jeane Manning Michael Cremo: What Do We Really Know About Ancient Giants? The Enigma of the Carpathain Sphinx: Following the Neanderthal Trail in Eastern Europe Mitterrand’s Monuments: Esoteric Architecture Still Lives Frederic W.H. Myers: Psychology’s Forgotten Man Roerich and Tibet: Traveling the Road to Shambhala Legend of the Three Marys: There’s More to the Story than Dan Brown Told Us Gods of the Runes: Is There Power in Ancient Letters? Out-of-Body Experiences Ancient Astronauts or Guiding Spirit? The Mysterious Origins of Ancient Technology Nuclear Meltdown and Time Dilation: Did Japan’s Tragedy Modify Space-Time? Atlantis and the Stars Should the Search Be Directed Upward?
INSIDE ISSUE #90 November/December 2011: ET PRESENCE: Indians & Aliens GREATER DIMENSIONS: Return Engagements The Paraffin Mold Experiments The Brownings and the Medium Did Ancient Shamans Know Secrets of the Wave? When Three Is a Charm Dating the Oldest Cut Marks on Bone NEW AGE ADVENTURE: The Perilous Plight of Rockall Island Mysteries in the Fields
In this issue: Letters Alternative News Jeane Manning Michael Cremo - Psychic Archaeology Cornered Zahi Hawass Lashes Out - Author Robert Bauval Attacked in Egyptian Press Acupuncture & the Ice Man - How Could a Prehistoric Body Be So Treated? Tragic History of Great Zimbabwe The Black Cross of Scotland - Has the Lost Relic Been Found? Rescuing Rapunzel - Why Do Some Ancient Tales Still Resonate? The ‘Future’ of Science Fiction Puma Punku Still an Enigma Solar Catastrophe - Could the End of the Last Age Be Repeated in Our Time? Paradox of the Cathedrals - Were They Simply Monuments to Faith or Something Else? Tracking the Piri Reis Map - Does It Hold Clues to the Origins of Civilization?
In this Issue: Letters Early Rays Jeane Manning - Italian Cold Fusion? Michael Cremo - Thoughts on Ancient Aliens Egyptology on the Brink A Political Earthquake Rattles Mainstream Archaeology Gardens Under the Sea Have the Answers We Seek Been Drowned for Millennia? Easter & the Rites of Spring Mysterious Celebrations of Rebirth and Renewal Lineages of Spiritual Power The Secrets of Passing the Torch The Lost Legacy of Freemasonry NDEs in the Olden Days Is Modern Research Late to the Game? Mirror Factors What Do They Really Reveal? Hitler’s Last Card Did War’s End Prevent a Nasty Surprise? The Icon that Saved Russia The Real Story Behind the Tangled International Politics Secrets of the Geoglyphs The Ancient Designers Clearly Knew a Few Tricks
The Rise of Victimhood Culture offers a framework for understanding recent moral conflicts at U.S. universities, which have bled into society at large. These are not the familiar clashes between liberals and conservatives or the religious and the secular: instead, they are clashes between a new moral culture—victimhood culture—and a more traditional culture of dignity. Even as students increasingly demand trigger warnings and “safe spaces,” many young people are quick to police the words and deeds of others, who in turn claim that political correctness has run amok. Interestingly, members of both camps often consider themselves victims of the other. In tracking the rise of victimhood culture, Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning help to decode an often dizzying cultural milieu, from campus riots over conservative speakers and debates around free speech to the election of Donald Trump.
Control of the air is the foundation for all conventional military operations against an adversary with an air defence capability. In future warfare, will it be possible for Unmanned Combat Air Systems to undertake the tasks and accept most of the risks that, until now, have been the lot of military aviators?
The terms ‘Nordic’ and ‘Scandinavian’ are widely used to refer to the politics, society and culture of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. But why have people felt the need to frame things as Nordic and why has the adjective Nordic become so prominent? This book adopts a rhetorical approach, analysing the speech acts which have shaped the meanings of the term. What do the different terms Nordic and Scandinavian have in common, and how have the uses of these terms changed in different historical periods? What accounts for the apparent upsurge in uses of the rhetoric of Nordicness in the 2010s? Drawing on eight case studies of the uses of Nordic and Scandinavian from the nineteenth century to the present day, the book explores the appeal and the flexibility of the rhetoric of Nordicness, in relation to race, openness, gender equality, food, crime fiction, Nordic co-operation and the Nordic model. Arguing that ‘Nordic’ and ‘Scandinavian’ are flexible and contested concepts that have been used in different, often contradictory and inherently political ways, the book suggests that the usage of the term has evolved from a means of creating a cultural community, to forging political co-operation and further to marketing models in politics and popular culture. The rhetorical approach also shows how many of the hallmarks of Nordic political culture, such as the Nordic model, Nordic gender equality or Nordic openness are more recent conceptualisations than usually assumed. As such, the book argues for the need to turn attention away from analysing the different components of Nordicness into studying how, when, and for what purpose different features were made Nordic.
Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical scientists about the ease of establishing meaningful communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence. These scholars are grappling with some of the enormous challenges that will face humanity if an information-rich signal emanating from another world is detected. By drawing on issues at the core of contemporary archaeology and anthropology, we can be much better prepared for contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, should that day ever come.
This book presents the first English introduction to the broad history of the Gothic mode in Spain. It focuses on key literary periods, such as Romanticism, the fin-de-siècle, spiritualist writings of the early-twentieth century, and the cinematic and literary booms of the 1970s and 2000s. With illustrative case studies, Aldana Reyes demonstrates how the Gothic mode has been a permanent yet ever-shifting fixture of the literary and cinematic landscape of Spain since the late-eighteenth century. He proposes that writers and filmmakers alike welcomed the Gothic as a liberating and transgressive artistic language.
