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Pyramid Power: The Millennium Science

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It appears that Alfred Armstrong has never actually tried any controlled experiments with pyramids himself.

Pyramid Power was recently "busted" as a myth on the Mythbusters show. However, I tried very similar controlled experiments about 30 years ago, when the "fad" was at its height, and got very different results than the Mythbusters did, which makes me very skeptical of whether this supposed "myth" was actually "busted" at all.

Here are the tests I performed:

First, I built a 2-foot high pyramid to the exact scale of the Great Pyramid of Cheops. I set up a test area outside on my patio.

The first test used milk. I had:
1. A petri dish of milk on a table, uncovered.
2. Another petri dish of milk, covered by the pyramid.
3. A third petri dish of milk, covered by a cardboard box (a cube shape).

I found that the milk under the cardboard box was the first to get sour and disgusting-looking. It spoiled faster than the milk that was uncovered, by about 3-4 days. The milk under the pyramid didn't spoil, even after three weeks. It just basically dried up and hardened, but didn't get moldy or infested with bugs. It also didn't smell as much.

The second test was with some red roses from my mom's garden. Again, I put a rose outside uncovered, one under the pyramid, and one under the box. The results were interesting. I didn't see any noticeable difference between the uncovered rose and the one under the box. They both got shriveled and brown at a pretty equal rate. The rose under the pyramid, however, did dry up and shrivel, but didn't turn brown or fall apart. It essentially just turned into a "dried flower," preserving most of its color.

I tried the razor blade test also -- this time with a small 6-inch pyramid, again built to scale of the Cheops pyramid. This one is tougher to scientifically test, because there are a bunch of variables that could change, depending on how much use and water exposure a blade gets, shaving length and habits, how warm the water is, etc. So I did it the best I could. I cycled through shaving with the blades, uncovered-boxed-pyramid, uncovered-boxed-pyramid, over and over, with about the same shaving length each time. After shaving, the blades would be returned to their respective places.

I found that the blade under the box dulled the fastest, again followed closely by the uncovered blade. The one under the pyramid did last about two weeks longer.

Note that my razor blade tests were appropriate for the effect that the pyramid is purported to have: simply a lengthening of time that the blade stays sharp. The Mythbusters conducted an experiment that tested whether the pyramid would sharpen an already dull blade. This is an incorrect test. The pyramid will not sharpen anything that is already dull.

Another decidedly non-scientific, but still interesting, experiment I did was with a big ant trail that was in my backyard. I set up some bait food for the ants. One bait item was set, uncovered, near the trail. Another was placed under a box, near the trail, with some holes cut in the sides of the box so the ants could more easily find their way in. A third bait item was placed under a 6-inch pyramid near the trail, again with small holes cut in the sides. The same type of bait was used for all three.

The ants quickly found and devoured (or took back to their anthole) the uncovered bait. The bait under the box took a bit longer for them to find, but once they did, they made quick work of it. The bait under the pyramid remained largely untouched. Ants sometimes crawled on the outside of the pyramid, some ventured inside briefly, only to come back out fairly quickly. This was the case even after a week. I can only assume that the ants just don't like whatever the pyramid is doing to them. I don't know what that would be, but whatever it is, the ants didn't like it.

I also tried drinking water that had been set under a pyramid for a day. Whether it kept me healthier is pretty tough to say. I didn't feel any appreciable difference at all.

Pyramid power is an interesting topic. I never really considered it to be a fad, because questions about the pyramids of the ancients have been around since, well, since the ancients. And there have been documented cases of people finding dead animals that had gotten into the great pyramids in Egypt and died, only to basically "dry up" and be fairly preserved rather than rot. So, I suggest simply keeping an open but skeptical mind about it, and try some of these things yourself and see what you find out. If nothing else, it's kind of fun.

It is odd that some think Patrick Flanagan is not an honest man. If it were not for dishonesty in others, he would be a very wealthy man. Patrick is an absolute picture of youth-about 30 years younger than his age. He developed a method to create a supplement to make your body electric and then it was stolen from him, because he trusted business associate. (I won't state his name.) Now he has a less expensive and more updated product, but I can tell you the results for me and 1000's of others demonstrate the brilliance of this man. I can tell you that he was a good man in the 80's when my friends, who traveled far and spent lots of money to discover the best secrets of longevity, got to meet him personally and I began to study his work. Check out his Mega H. He has figured out how to add electrons to a silica-hydride molecule and there are reviewers of supplements who complain they'd like to give up taking this but they have too many ill-effects of aging when they do; it works so well. I think the co-author of reports like this are hard to refute by the lay people who do not have a scientific background and want to pick apart a book he wrote a long time ago. 2 published articles: (1) ANTIOXIDANT CAPACITY OF SILICA HYDRIDE: A COMBINATIONAL PHOTOSENSITIZATION AND FLUORESCENCE DETECTION ASSAY and (2) Differential Metabolic Effects on Mitochondria by Silica Hydride Using Capillary Electrophoresis are to be considered critically and the sentient individual might sit down before new evidence and re-evaluate how to conquer the problems of acidosis which is at the root of so many human ills (better yang than yin). Mr. Flanagan should have a lot more funding to research all he wants...as should Peter H. Duesberg, another one who could have improved our world beyond imagination with his Truth and expose' of the supposed AIDS virus. Google him if you are doubting what I write PLEASE.

Its always amusing to see skeptics review something they've never read, and try to tear apart someone who threatens their status quo belief systems. We need skeptics, but before you to try rip apart someone of vast intelligence its best to do some serious homework before tackling such a task. I too was engulfed in the pyramid craze in the 70's and even for awhile sold pyramid power products, until I realized what a bad salesman I was ;-) I also did experiments that proved to me something happens with pyramids. I used a small pyramid plate energy product that I still have, and in Florida in a hot and humid garage full of spiders and mold, put two glass bowls side by side, and put a raw egg in each one. One sat on the energy grid plate. 3 days later the one on the energy plate was dehydrated and dry with no decay. The other one stank to high heavens and was rotten and moldy goop.

Flannagan is no fraud. I vividly remember him appearing on one of the top late nite TV shows, I think it was Jay Leno if memory serves me. Patrick walked up to Jay as he came out and quickly swiped a small disc from Jay's chin down to his navel, and Jay nearly fell over from weakness! Jay was stunned and disoriented, and mumbled "what did you just DO?" Pat explained it was one of his nuclear discs I think he called it, then said "don't worry, I'll fix it," and passed the disc UP Jay's front this time and Jay immediately recovered his balance and composure. Anyone who knows about human energy systems will recognize that energy pass, but Pat's disc amplified it immensely. This isn't something a fraud could ever pull off, Jay had no idea what hit him, and Patrick explained the technology behind his printed circuit disc, etc.

Don't forget ladies and gentlemen, all great innovators of the past were RIDICULED before they became mainstream, Edison, Tesla, Pasteur, on an on, they were all denounced as insane frauds and charlatans in the beginning. In modern times science is the new "religion" that its members dare not stray from its hallowed laws and principles, lest they lose their tenure, jobs, and career. Whatever happened to the REAL spirit of scientific investigation without predjudice or ridicule, it got lost along the way, so Flannagan and others will always be on the fringes. If society were different for sure by now we'd all have free energy as Tesla envisioned and proved was possible, there would be no engery crisis, no polluted air and water. Profiteers will never allow this to happen....

Amazing read for anyone interested in the ancient sciences of the Egyptians and physics in general. The ideas talked about topple a lot of the overly materialistic views of modern physics and re-introduce some profound theories that will open your mind up to possibility, if nothing else, and all in a well-researched, coherent (though sometimes a bit mathematical) and convincing narrative. Certainly worth a read...

All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788 - 1860)

Anyone doubting Patrick Flanagan needs to know his history. He has invented many
miraculous products and was the key player involved in the US Navy's dolphin
communication program. At the age of 12 ( yes, you read that right - 12 )
he completed work on a guided missile detector system that was able to detect missile
launches and atomic bomb blasts up to 8,000 miles.

He built it from spare parts from a ham radio and $ 5.00 in new parts. The
military engineers at the Pentagon considered it superior to their current designs.

He also invented the NEUROPHONE by the time he was 15. This incredible technology
enabled deaf people to hear. He was originally denied a patent on the device and the file was
closed.Flanagan and his lawyer flew to Washington DC and gave a live demonstration at the patent
office with an examiner from the patent office present who witnessed a deaf man start to weep
when he was hooked up to the machine and heard Maria Callas singing an opera. The file was reopened
and the patent granted. This was the FIRST TIME the patent office ever reopened a file after it had
been officially closed.

A month after the patent was issued, Flanagan applied for a second NEUROPHONE patent that greatly
improved on the first. The US Defense department seized the patent information under a secrecy order.
The secrecy order # was 756,124 and it was 1968. Up to that time 3/4 of a million possibly life changing
inventions had been silenced by the powers that be. I have to believe that many beneficial inventions to
mankind have been denied us by our government

The man is truly a giant and ranks with the likes of Newton, Galileo, Einstein, Tesla and others.

This book is one of many products created by the genius of G. Patrick Flanagan for the betterment of the human race, the expansion of our awareness. It is laid out in a context of terse sayings for easy grasp and memory banking, begins by referring to the myriad approaches to total knowledge we've held onto through language and philosophy and scientific analysis and exploration throughout the ages. After one reading the mind has increased in its capacity to understand and intuit real knowledge. Patrick takes the reader step by step to his final conclusions via scientifically supported objective reasoning including photographs and diagrams. He transmits his own intelligence via the choice of language and ideas he focuses on--it warrents many readings or keeping for reference!

This book was originally published in 1973. If the incredible effects it reports were true then Flanagan would now be internationally famous, we'd all have thrown away our fridges and replaced them with pyramids, and shares in razor-blade companies would be at rock-bottom.

I wuld further point out that Flanagan's final chapter is largely lifted, word for word without acknowledgment, from Carl Krafft's "The Ether and its Vortices" (1955).