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• Reviewers  shocked by Temple at the Center of Time
• Newton’s  Bible Codex Finally Deciphered... and the  Year 2012
• July 24, 2008
• Bruce  Collins
    www.BruceDCollins.com
• "Temple  at the Center of Time" by David Flynn  is a book receiving a lot of interest  these days.
• I’ve never read Mr. Flynn’s  book about "Cydonia" but I’ve  read and noted the rave reviews. I once  interviewed David and tried to grasp the  intellectual prowess exuded, which was  light years ahead of my simplistic  thinking.
• I was very interested in David’s  new book, which promised to be a  bombshell.
• Outstanding  author Lynn Marzulli (www.spiraloflife.com)  got a sneak peek at it and he gushed over  it on my show, The Big Finale.

• Flynn  sets us up for the "big news" by  making the following statement in the  introduction:

   

  "During  the formation of modern science and  philosophy of the 17^th century,  the highest achievement lay not in the  realm of discovery, but in  rediscovery."
• Ah,  rediscovery. This is a very ambitious  opening statement, indeed. I looked  forward to a groundbreaking read as I  turned to Chapter One.
• The full  title of the book is," Temple  at the Center of Time: Newton’s Bible  Codex Deciphered and the Year 2012."  Chapter One immediately delves into the  life and work of Sir Isaac Newton.
• Newton  was not only a great thinker in physics  but he also had extensive knowledge of the  Scriptures.
• As the  book states, Isaac Newton understood the  riddle of prophecy- a code, if you will,  or perhaps a type of encrypted language  lost on the masses by, among other things,  time.
• Newton  believed that the end of days would happen  in his lifetime and, therefore, studied  prophecy obsessively.
• He published a work  titled, " Observations upon the  Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of  St. John."
• Newton  lived during a time of plague and an  "end of the world" comet that  shook the English.

• As the  book explains:

   

  "For  two years during the fearsome plague and  the fire of London, he lived with his  mother at his home in Woolsthorpe,  England. It was during this time, termed  by biographers as ‘the two miraculous  years,’ that Newton developed every  revolutionary scientific work for which he  is famous. It is a distinct possibility  that the productivity of Newton’s  miraculous years stemmed from his  conviction that the end of the age was  upon the Earth."

• Turning  to ancient Babylon, "Temple at the  Center of Time" (or, more  specifically, author David Flynn) explains  Newton’s expert understanding and  analysis of the history of the Magi of  Babylon. Magi had been in direct contact  with the Prophet, Daniel.

   

  "Despite  the world renown of the Magi, the Bible  records that Daniel was master of them  all."
• What  follows is a complex explanation of Newton’s  understanding of the ancient languages of  Scripture and cryptography as used in his  decoding of passages in the book of  Daniel.
• Newton’s  book found great importance to a  discussion on the Temple of Solomon.
• In  fact, he spent a chapter focusing on the  length measurements. He believed that the  Temple intersected time and dimension,  serving as a prophetic and supernatural  structure.
• Both the first and second  Temples symbolized the timing of prophecy.
• Jerusalem  itself is set in a pivotal locale.
• "The  description of Jerusalem as a terrestrial  center point’, situated in the center of  the world,’ is found in Philo’s  Legatio and Gaium.

• The Babylonian Talmud  states,"

   

  "The  world is like a human eyeball. The white  of the eye is the ocean surrounding the  world, the iris is this continent, the  pupil is Jerusalem, and the image in the  pupil is the Holy Temple."
• Flynn  examines the Ark of the Covenant and its’  symbolic representation of God’s  interaction within the temporal existence.  He uses a lot of impressive measurements  which seem to be prophetically accurate in  their own right.
• For instance, the author  explains", modern satellite  measurements between the temple mount in  Jerusalem and the center of ancient  Babylon correspond perfectly to the year  and month of Babylon’s fall."
• Chapter  three discusses nautical miles. It’s  pretty heavy stuff. While I personally can’t  confirm the substance of these  measurements (the old, trusty tape measure  I use only goes up to three feet), it’s  pretty fascinating and it’s obvious the  author has done a lot of homework.
• It  seems that a lot of Biblical names, events  and locations have ‘hidden’ meaning  that are prophetic and purposeful.

• Case in  point:

   

  "In  the case of Patmos, where St. John wrote  Revelation, the distance in nautical miles  seems to reflect the prophetic content of  Daniel’s writing of the last days."  Did I just hear a collective ‘wow’?
• Flynn  delves in head first with some absolutely  amazing figures between locations and  events that cannot be coincidental.
• Clearly, the author’s  findings are unlike anything I’ve ever  seen. Simply calling it mind-blowing is  not even scratching the surface of justly  defining this book. David Flynn has, to be  sure, unearthed mysteries obscured by  time.
• In my  opinion, Mr. Flynn proves that distances  represent historical and prophetic points.
• For  instance, 33% of one third of an hour is  19 minutes and 48 seconds. Yes, 1948  (remember what happened that year?).
• "Temple  at the Center of Time" discusses the  significance of the number 33.
• "Temple"  devotes a chapter to the Ark with more  Earth shattering measurements guaranteed  to send your brain reeling.
• Even the moon’s  measurements and the Earth’s  measurements appear to play a part in God’s  extensive revealing of Himself in our  universe and world.
• Subsequent  chapters detail important information on  the foundation stone, the Dome of Spirits,  Napoleon Bonaparte, the Great Pyramid of  Giza, and British sacred measurement.
• Amazing  also is Avebury Circle, the massive  "megalithic structure" in  Europe. It is of unknown origin and age,  yet its’ measurements "are a  geometric representation of the same  numbers encrypted in Daniel’s writing on  the wall." Incredible, isn’t it?

• Here’s  another interesting puzzle piece:

   

  "The  latitude of the Avebury Circle was  established with such precision that it  underscores the importance of ‘2520’  as key to the circle’s intended  message."

   

  Later in  the same chapter another piece connects:

   

  "If  2,520 years are counted forward from the  fall of Babylon in 539 B.C. and the 33  years that Christ walked the Earth are  subtracted, the year is A.D. 1948, the  rebirth of Israel."
• Well into  the book, David Flynn tackles the number  666 and the Antichrist.
• Yes, there are  nautical miles involved in the temple that  also tell the story of the number of the  beast. Fascinating!

• As  "Temple" points out, Newton did  eventually come to realize that the end of  days would probably not happen in his  lifetime.

   

  Newton  believed the year could be 2060.
• "As  described by the prophet Daniel, and John  in Revelation, the revived Roman Empire  would rule for one "week," a  period of 7 times 360 days, or 2,520 days  total (also, remember the value of the  writing on the wall).
• In the midst of this  week, at 1,260 days, the Antichrist will  desecrate the future temple in Jerusalem.

• However, instead of assigning 1,260 days  of the Antichrist’s reign before his  desecration of the temple, Newton assigned  years."

   

  Newton  also believed that in that day the Pope  would be the Antichrist.
• There is  also an unbelievable chapter on crop  circles with an explanation I hadn’t  considered.
• There is  also a chapter on America that is worth  the price of the book alone.

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• Movie option for Ahriman Gate signed
• Sequel also in works with 'top secret' plot
• Posted: September 23, 2008
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• HOLLYWOOD—After remaining in the top twenty books of its genre for the past three years, the movie rights to Thomas and Nita Horn's white-knuckle thriller The Ahriman Gate have been sold to an as-yet undisclosed Hollywood filmmaker.
• The agreement provides the producer with the worldwide motion picture, television, and video rights; rights in all other audio-visual mediums; motion picture distribution rights in all territories; and certain merchandising rights.
• Buzz over The Ahriman Gate—which Entertainment Magazine's Jim McDonald calls "a high energy thriller in the vein of Dean Koontz and John Saul"—has steadily risen since the initial release in 2005.
• "The book instantly became the publisher's biggest seller and has resulted in hundreds of requests from anxious readers for a sequel," says Publicist Susan Benson.
• "The book was written to include the possibility of a follow-up, and now with the movie option, it makes sense to move forward with the next book in the series."
• The working title for the new book is simply Ahriman Gate II and is timed to be released shortly after the movie comes to the big screen.
• The film adaptation is currently being drafted and the producer's goal is to have the movie in theaters by late 2009. The budget for the movie has been whispered at approximately 40 million dollars.
• The clever blend of scripture and biotechnology caused Randall Murphree of AgapePress and AFA Journal to write, "It's fascinating fiction, and I sincerely hope it is just that—fiction! Genetically modified creatures, spiritual alien forces, a clandestine government research project, and a sinister kidnapping—somehow, it all sounds too much like today's headlines. I commend the Horns for a gripping narrative that sends chills down your spine."
• The Ahriman Gate weaves science and technology with biblical prophecy to illustrate how emerging fields of science could be used to bring about the "end times."
• Ghostwriter and novelist Donna Howell is joining the Horn team in penning the sequel, and the publisher says it is "a match made in heaven. All three of these writers are capable of extraordinarily edgy suspense."
• The plot for the sequel is considered so sensitive that the publisher claims it is literally being kept under lock and key.
• More than a dozen experts from science, technology, and theology have provided an estimated three thousand pages of background material for the new book's premise, which the authors promise will be "more true than not, and the most frightening possibility that will ultimately challenge what scholars think they know about the Mark of the Beast.
• You can forget issues like implantable microchips. What we are working on has never been written before and will absolutely shock people when it is published."

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• New Age Pragmatism
• Crystals and tarots give way to more practical and mainstream subject matter.
• by Juan Martinez -- Publishers Weekly, 9/22/2008
• Traditionally, the New Age category has catered to aficionados of the esoteric and the occult. Today the genre gratifies a more mainstream consumer.
• Fading is the era of crystals and tarots. Nowadays, readers seek science-based titles that will help them become healthier and more spiritually aware.
• As New Age is continuing to expand into other categories, many titles that were once the provinces of health, psychology, self-help and spirituality (to name a few) have now assumed the New Age mantle.
• According to Jo Ann Deck, publisher of Celestial Arts and Crossing Press, the new New Age reader is “more practical and less interested in nebulous philosophical and spiritual exploration.” As a result, the genre reads more like Dr. Phil and Jack LaLanne than Carlos Castaneda and Ram Dass.
• Llewellyn publisher Bill Krause cites current world events as the reason behind the drastic change in New Age literature.

  • That's for sure...
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• “Political, environmental and cultural changes are upon us in the form of elections, wars and even 2012 [see sidebar, p. 34]. The public is looking at a wide range of spiritual practices to find solace,” he says.
• “Things that were once looked upon as niche or fringe are now looked upon as interesting solutions worthy of exploration.”
• Llewellyn's Soul Visioning: Clear the Past, Create Your Future by Susan Wisehart (Oct.) combines self-help principles with New Age philosophies to “connect you with your higher self to guide you into the ideal expression of your soul in your work, relationships, health, finances and spirituality.”

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• This shift in focus presents new challenges for publishers while simultaneously providing a new and more expansive market.
• Though Gina Clark, editor at Alight, agrees with Deck's and Krause's assertions about why New Age works have changed, she has an additional theory.
• “[Today] publishers of New Age titles are looking to do more than entertain,” she says. “They have a vested interest in improving quality of life.”
• Because traditional New Age books were geared more toward enjoyment and enlightenment than the new breed of didactic literature, Clark thinks the category's biggest challenge is determining a proper definition for itself, “since [the category] can include everything from numerology to astrology to the beliefs and ritualistic practices of ancient cultures.”
• Scientific Analysis
• One of the newest topics explored in this season's releases is the use of scientific analysis to examine New Age philosophies.
• “The more abstract propositions, practices and assertions put forth in [traditional] New Age books were never really proven,” says Two Trees senior editor Sheila Moody, referring to the 1960s works of Castaneda, Dass and Alan Watts.
• “Readers in search of 'real answers' remained unsatisfied.” According to Moody, readers didn't want to know only that certain practices worked, they wanted to know why they worked and how they fit in with the tenets of science.
• The Quincunx That Ate the Universe: A Real Theory of Everything by Eulalio Paul Cane (Apr., 2009) “puts the outer world of matter and the inner world of consciousness onto the same page,” says Moody, “based on a simple model that begins from the binary opposites, yin and yang.”
• Moody claims the book is accessible even as it deals with such weighty topics as how to bridge the gap between metaphysics and hard science.

  • As Tom Horn of "Raiders News Network" has been pointing out on his website; and as the Government and military have been exploring for decades.
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• Another title that attempts to blend science with a popular New Age concept is The Love Response: Your Prescription to Transform Fear, Anger, and Anxiety into Vibrant Health and Well-Being by Eva M. Selhub, M.D., with Divina Infusino.
• According to Ballantine executive editor Marnie Cochrane, this January 2009 release asserts that evoking love can counteract the effects of fear and stress.
• The “Love Response” is “a series of biochemical reactions in the body that lower blood pressure, pulse, respiration and adrenaline levels,” says Cochrane.
• Selhub combines her years of research and clinical practice to explain how one can reverse the debilitating effects of fear and stress using “nature's own antidote: love and affection.”
• If readers aren't convinced by the book's premise, one should take into account Selhub's credentials—not only is she a senior staff physician at the Benson Henry Institute for Mind/Body at Massachusetts General Hospital, she's also a clinical instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

  • I do not care what her credentials are: that doesn't make it right or righteous
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• According to Nightengale Press publisher Valerie Connelly, today's books are taking a “more serious look at the science that supports intuitive thought.”
• Nightengale has just published The Sage Age: Blending Science with Intuitive Wisdom by MaAnna Stephenson, which provides a “comprehensive method of understanding the full range of new science as it relates to intuitive wisdom,” according to Connelly.
• For more than two decades, Stephenson studied the philosophy of new science (a term coined for all science that has been directly influenced by quantum physics).

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• Utilizing her technology degree and experience as an intuitive practitioner of music and sound, Stephenson questioned the common understanding of the terms “frequency” and “dimension.”

  • Okay..here we go. SEE: Philip Collins (the Collins brothers) lengthy articles on Raiders New Network's archives on this very same trend...blending science, technology and the esoteric.
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• Connelly claims that this book is new because it “illuminates the tie of leading-edge science to current intuitive practice.”
• The book also includes more than 50 illustrations for those whose brain throbs while reading about quantum physics and intuitive music.
• DeVorss & Company will also publish a book that explores the curative benefits of sound.

  • Healing by sound
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• Toning: The Creative and Healing Power of the Voice by Laurel Elizabeth Keyes with Don Campbell is an updated version of Keyes's Toning, which was published more than three decades ago. This new edition includes a CD of recordings by Keyes, Campbell's comments on his healing experience and a toning demonstration.
• Says DeVorss buyer Melinda Grubbauer, the book shows “how to reform life patterns through sound that will stimulate health and vitality in the body.”
• At Tarcher, editor-in-chief Mitch Horowitz notes, “One of the things we're finding is an extraordinary market for well-conceived, well-packaged reissue books—including titles that have existed for years in multiple editions.”
• As Devorss illustrates, not all New Age titles need to espouse new principles.
• This summer Tarcher's Cornerstone Editions imprint published The Kybalion, which Horowitz reports was #1 in the occultism category on Amazon Kindle—“and it's a hundred-year-old book.”

  • The falling away, as predicted
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• The publisher is continuing this approach in the spring, with new editions of Napoleon Hill's first book, The Law of Success,
• and a new edition of The Hermetica, a collection of Greek-Egyptian magical writings.

  • Get your editions now so you can join the "responsive reading" with the Antichrist.
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• Mind/Body/Self-Help
• Even more popular than scientific analysis is the amalgam of the New Age genre with mind/body/self-help.
• Though none of the publishers with whom PW spoke knows whether or not these titles should carry the New Age label, all agree that the traditional New Age reader finds them fascinating.
• Moody at Two Trees believes that the category should be split into two distinct subcategories: the aforementioned “scientific context” titles and the “self-help or motivational” works.
• Alight's Clark contends that distinctions should be made for differing types of New Age titles. She says that Tannis Blackman's just-published The Mystical Seductress Handbook “could be categorized as a spirituality and mind/body/spirit title.
• It is neither a study of the occult, nor does it involve worship of any deities... it might be better for publishers to categorize New Age books as spirituality titles instead.”
• What Clark has noticed in recent years is a newfound acceptance of New Age titles by the mainstream.
• Whereas in the past, “New Age was considered by many to be silly, synonymous with witchcraft and promoting sorcery,” Clark says that the category has evolved and isn't perceived as adversely as in the past, thanks in large part to genre hybridization.

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• A prime example of the New Age fusion is a May 2009 Crossing Press title, Planetary Apothecary: An Astrological Approach to Health and Wellness by Stephanie Gailing, which, in Deck's words, “explains the healing connections between the signs of the Zodiac and natural remedies and healing treatments.”
• The book provides a profile for each astrological sign, she explains, without “focusing on abstract concepts such as love.”
• Coming in December from Celestial Arts is another hybrid, Writing as a Sacred Path: A Practical Guide to Writing with Passion & Purpose. According to the publisher, Jill Jepson's work will “provide a method for writers to continue to explore their spirituality while also expanding their skills as storytellers.”
• Also typifying the merging of related categories is John Bradshaw's Reclaiming Virtue (Bantam, Apr.), which executive editor Toni Burbank says “exemplifies the category breakdown in the areas of self-help, spirituality and so-called New Age.”
• She explains that Bradshaw, a major force in the addiction recovery movement of the late '80s and early '90s, “now returns to his roots in psychology and theology in a sweeping reconsideration of the nature of virtue, how we learn to act virtuously and how we can teach virtue to our children.

  • New Age to teach virtue?
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• He synthesizes new brain science with the idea of 'soul,' and locates the core of virtue not in following rules but in recognizing the 'better angels' of our true self.”
• Yoga continues to be an activity that blends spirituality and physical health.
• The NBN-distributed Quest Books, part of a theosophical society based in India, features this fall Tom Pilarzyk's Yoga Beyond Fitness—“a bridge to yoga's serious meaning.”

  • Like we don't know what Theosophy is?
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• Palace Press's Mandala imprint tackles physical health, too, in Yoga and Vegetarianism: Global and Personal Transformation, Spiritual Practice and Enlightened Activism by Sharon Gannon (Oct.).
• “New Age covers many categories,” says Brenda Knight, sales and marketing v-p for the Palace Publishing Group. “I have definitely seen a downward trend in 'spiritual stew' books and a big uptrend in books that offer very distinct paths.”
• Gannon's book draws the link between yoga, diet, physical health and maintaining positive karma.
• The endorsement of hip-hop pioneer Russell Simmons provides clear evidence of the genre's mainstreaming: “I recommend this book and these ideas to anyone who has set their sights on the greatest and only human goal: self-realization,” says the Def Jam Records founder.

  • As documentation of an article I read last week on Hip-Hop artists and rappers who are getting into or are already into the occult, New Age scene.
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• Another major celebrity who has endorsed mass-friendly, self-help–style New Age books is that media bookseller extraordinaire, Oprah Winfrey.

  • Oprah Winfrey
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• Diana Baroni, editorial director at Grand Central's Wellness Central imprint, contends that Oprah has been the key to the genre's recent accomplishments. “With Oprah's recommendation of Eckhart Tolle,” Baroni says, “consumers now seem to be seeking information on mind/body philosophies that merge with the self-help category [see sidebar, p. 30].”
• The author of Wellness Central's forthcoming New Age title No Matter What!: 9 Steps to Living the Life You Love (Apr.), Lisa Nichols, has not only been featured in O Magazine, she has appeared on Oprah as well as Larry King Live and Extra.
• Her book “helps readers strengthen their bounce-back muscles, giving them the strength and agility one needs to navigate life's speed bumps,” says Baroni.
• Grubbauer at DeVorss echoes Baroni's view on Oprah's influence on the genre. “The recent buzz surrounding the phenomenal success of The Secret and Tolle's A New Earth has led to... a more mainstream audience expressing interest in classic gems.”

  • Mainstream America turning to the Occult
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• Many New Age titles are so popular that they have moved beyond the mainstream—now these philosophies are being taught in prisons.

  • Demonizing the prisons too
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• Coming this month from Pariyatti Press in Onalaska, Wash., is Letters from the Dhamma Brothers by Jenny Phillips. Pariyatti editor Julie Schaeffer explains that the title “chronicles, in their own words, the profound changes experienced by inmates in the four years after completing a 10-day Vipassana meditation course taught in the Donaldson Correctional Facility in Alabama.”
• Through interviews and letters to her from 15 of the student-prisoners, Phillips offers an overview of the course and how these men used the teachings to help them come to terms with the consequences of their crimes. The course has now become a regular treatment program at two Alabama prisons.
• Fortunately for publishers, the genre has also found its way onto the Internet, spawning what North Atlantic Books sales and marketing manager Allegra Harris calls a New Age “golden era.”
• Online communities have grown with Web sites like realitysandwich.com, which, Harris says, “caters to multiple subcategories in a community-based way....
• Up until recently, New Age has been a little behind in the Internet race.”

  • Really? For years now, it has seemed like other page on the net was either New Age, Wicca, Celtic Religion or Occultic in some degree.
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• Because of online publicity and marketing, Harris says the demand for books in this genre is greater than ever.
• North Atlantic's Starseed Dialogues: Soul Searching the Universe by Patricia Cori (Apr.) is a reflection of this trend. This title is a compilation of questions posed to Cori by her readers.
• According to Harris, the book claims that “the dark hours are already upon us” and describes what awaits as “a brilliant new age of truth, light and beauty.”

  • The Devil's press is working overtime to explain the Tribulation and his ultimate defeat at the hands of the returning God.
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• In fact, Weiser Books publisher Jan Johnson credits the “shaky economy... unpopular war... and the global economic crises” as the impetus for more readers turning to “books that admit the possibilities of extraterrestrials and other entities.”

  • As predicted in the Book of Revelation: the End Time populations will turn away from the one true God, to embrace witchcraft and the occult.
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• Not everybody agrees that traditional New Age titles have taken a backseat to the new hybrids.
• Cosmic Connection: Messages for a Better World by Carole Lynne (Apr., 2009) looks to outer space to answer Earth's difficult questions.
• According to Johnson, “Lynne shares information from her off-planet guidance about what we can do to survive the coming changes.”

  • "Off planet" and out of mind
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• Johnson promises more books from Weiser on topics similar to Cosmic Connection—“We're seeing much more openness to what used to be considered esoteric, strange or weird.”
• The unanimous opinion is that the New Age category is thriving, regardless of which types of books sell better.
• Whether authors are trying to teach readers to live better on this planet or to learn from beings on other planets, readers appear open to new suggestions.
• Most of the publishers with whom PW spoke felt that at its core, this category's most basic role is to bring people together.
• “In a world plagued by war and misunderstanding,” says Clark at Alight, “it seems more people are looking for ways to connect with others.”
• Recently, Alight has seen increased interest from African-Americans and the European market.
• “The New Age category allows people of various ages, races, nationalities, cultures and beliefs to come together,” Clark adds.
• Not to mention beings of various dimensions, planets, galaxies and universes.

  • More than even you realize....
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• A New Tolle Tale
• As of PW's September 15 trade paper bestseller chart, Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth and The Power of Now had racked up a combined 59-week run.
• With the help of a New Earth nod from Oprah for her megasuccessful book club (and her 10-week webinar with Tolle), the author has achieved an unprecedented level of success within the New Age category.
• However, Tolle was a mainstay in this arena even before Oprah.
• Dutton president and publisher Brian Tart attributes the popularity of Tolle's writing to its universal applicability. “The teachings are pertinent to all forms of life—family, spiritual, relationships and career,” Tart says, specifically of A New Earth and the forthcoming Oneness with All Life.
• “Tolle's work is relevant for nearly anything. Whereas most New Age books can help you with only one aspect of life, Tolle's can help you with them all.”
• Oneness with All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth is sure to keep Tolle atop the genre's roster.
• The November release is a collection of phrases that Tolle thinks are the inspirational essence of A New Earth.

  • Can I barf now?
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• According to Tart, “A New Earth has inspired millions of readers to transcend their ego-based state of consciousness to build a better life and a better world.
• These are the passages to savor and absorb. They are the inspirational essence of the book.”
• Dutton hopes the book's lavish design and original artwork will help inspire millions to make this one of their holiday gifts this winter.
• Angels: Still Flying High
• Science and practicality haven't totally taken over the spiritual field.
• According to a 2007 Gallup Poll, seven out of 10 Americans believe in angels, and 50% of those interviewed believe they have had the presence of a guardian angel in their life.
• Considering these statistics, it's not surprising that New Age publishers continue to publish angelic books.
• Tarcher senior editor Sara Carder calls the idea of angels “deeply appealing, this concept of having celestial beings watching over you, guiding you and protecting you.”
• Coming in December are two angel titles, Angel Wisdom and Everyday Angels, which Carder says “are full of practical, detailed information on how one can attract angels into their life and keep them close by forever.”

  • Yes..the signs of the times. Fallen angels...you do not attract Holy angels. They are sent and assigned by a Holy God; not you. If they are genuinely the "good" angels they wait on God's commandment. On the other hand....those "others" are intrusive, fallen, wicked and deceptive.
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• The Angel Almanac: An Inspirational Guide to Healing & Harmony by Angela McGerr “helps readers divine the best angel to call upon depending on the season, month, or day of the week,” according to publisher Quadrille.

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• The November title describes more than 200 angels and includes incantations to invoke guardian angels along with a meditation CD.
• McGerr is a veritable angel veteran—her books have sold more than 800,000 copies worldwide.
• Encyclopedia of Angels by Richard Webster “compiles over 500 angels hailing from traditions and belief systems the world over,” says publisher Bill Krause. “With a snapshot of each angel's traits,” Krause continues, “you will always know which heavenly helper to invite into your life.”

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• Llewellyn will publish its own angel reference guide in January.
• A recently published title from Origin Press in San Rafael, Calif., Meetings with Paul: An Atheist Discovers His Guardian Angel by Phillip H. Krapf describes the union of a 72-year-old retired veteran of the L.A. Times editorial staff and Paul, his guardian angel.
• According to the publisher, “The atheist author contends uncomfortably with the question of God while he struggles with his angel.”
• With half the country taking cues from these heavenly beings, it's fair to assume books about them will continue to fly off shelves.

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• Happy New Year, 2012
• Depending upon whom you talk to, one of two things will occur: (a) the birth of an expanded human consciousness or (b) we all die horrible flaming deaths.
• The year 2012 is expected to be monumental.
• Regardless of which outcome is correct, publishers agree that New Age readers can't get enough prophetic 2012 literature. Perhaps, for believers, it is the ultimate pragmatism.
• In November, Oaklea Press will release The Truth: What You Must Know Before December 21, 2012 by Stephen Hawley Martin.
• According to the publisher, The Truth “overturns the basic tenet held by science that awareness, intelligence and the mind are created by the brain.”
• Oaklea's press material proclaims, “This could be the book that ushers in the New Age”—those who read this book are alleged to become empowered and will experience a shift to a new higher level of consciousness.

  • The book as "gateway?"
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• At the very least, it appears there will be a high level of awareness of the title: Martin will appear on national TV and radio (where paid commercial messages will run on 400 stations between October 15 and November 15) and will use his platform as host of a top-rated Internet program, The Truth About Life.
• Another title dealing with expanding consciousness is coming next month from Bear & Co. Publicity and rights director Cynthia Fowles explains that 2012 and the Galactic Center: The Return of the Great Mother by Christine Page, M.D., “details how to connect with and use the sacred spiritual tools unlocked during the alignment with the Galactic Center.”

  • "Return of the Great Mother" and connecting with the "Galactic Center."
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• Career Press might have been hedging bets with its July publication of 2013: The End of Days or a New Beginning—Envisioning the World After the Events of 2012 by Marie D. Jones; that book sold through its initial print run within two months.
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• The Real Story of Nazi Egyptology
• Submitted by owenjarus on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 12:52
• Thomas Schneider is exploring a subject that has never been studied before.
• The University of British Columbia professor is examining the history of German Egyptology during the Nazi era. The period that lasted from when Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933 - until he committed suicide in his bunker in 1945.
• The research is a work in progress and Professor Schneider continues to receive new archival documents and information. He plans to turn his work into a book length manuscript.
• While popular fiction, such as the Indiana Jones trilogy, depicts action packed films about this topic, the real story is far more complex.
• Professor Schneider generously took the time to talk about his research with me. He also provided me with detailed written notes, that outline his research, to help me write this story.
• Hitler Comes to Power
• In January 1933, Adolf Hitler, head of the far-right National Socialist (Nazi) party, was sworn in as Chancellor.
• Over the next few years he and the Nazi party would gain control over Germany’s institutions and levers of power, allowing Hitler to govern as a de-facto tyrant.
• One of those institutions was the universities which, before the rise of the Nazis, had enjoyed a level of autonomy.
• A tradition established in the 19th century saw the state as a “benevolent patron” for academic life. With Hitler in power, that quickly changed.
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  Professor Thomas Schneider. Published on University of British Columbia website
• “Since its inception, National Socialism strove for implementing a new system of education in agreement with its doctrine across the country's institutions of learning,” Professor Schneider wrote.

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• “This policy was meant to be applied in a particularly stringent way to the institutions of higher learning which were seen as the potential spearheads of the new nation but also feared for their intellectual independence and power.”
• Before Hitler’s rise to power Germany was a respected centre of Egyptology. The foreign affairs ministry financed an archaeological institute in Cairo that was used as a base to conduct scientific research.
• The country’s scholars had made important contributions. To name a few examples, Adolf Erman helped unravel the grammar of Egyptian writing.Ludwig Borchardt uncovered the bust of Nefertiti and Heinrich Schäfer broke new ground in the understanding of Egyptian art.
• Professor Schneider pointed out that, in this pre-Nazi era, many American Egyptologists received their training in Germany, including James Henry Breasted (who, ironically, some regard as an inspiration for the Indiana Jones character).
• A Changing Situation

• Professor Schneider urged me to get an important point out in this story:

   

  You need to “warn the public against believing the discipline during the Nazi period was uniform,” he said.
• “You’re dealing with a number of individuals, a number of professors,” he said, adding that the situation also changed depending on the year and the institution.
• 

  Photo from wikimedia, in public domain. Before the rise of the Nazis, Egypt was a respected centre of Egyptology. James Henry Breasted, pictured here, got his PhD from the University of Berlin.
• As I listened to the professor, and read his notes, I came to understand his viewpoint. The people involved in Egyptology, during this time, reacted to Nazism and its belief in the supremacy of an “Aryan race,” quite differently. 
• There is only a small cast of characters involved. Egyptology, in Nazi Germany, was a relatively small discipline. In 1945 there were only six chairs dedicated to the subject in the Reich with further positions as junior professors or museum staff. “The people they knew each other,” said Schneider.
• Egyptology Challenged
• In 1935, Helmut Berve, a professor of ancient history at the University of Leipzig and a dedicated Nazi, questioned Egyptology’s right to exist as a discipline.

• He wrote:

   

  The study of the Ancient Near East as far as it relates to peoples of a foreign race, of a nature alien to us and thus impossible to comprehend fully in its peculiarity, is doomed to resignation as soon as the problems exceed what can be established rationally.

   

  Therefore, it fails with regard to the new claim of values and losses its right to exist (...). Where the threshold of deeper questioning has been tred upon – as in Egyptology –, serious decisions have now to be taken.
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  Photo in public domain. Source United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. May 10, 1933, SA members and university students march in a torchlight procession around the bonfire of "un-German" books on the Opernplatz. In this environment Egyptology's right to exist was questioned.
• He expected that.
• Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Germany will automatically focus on the peoples akin to us in terms of race and mind; Egyptology and Assyriology will recede into the background.
• Schneider writes, “Berve pleaded for a national history both committed to and committing German nationhood ('volksverbunden und volksverbindlich') and tied the possibility of historical understanding to race ideology.”
• Pharaoh as Fuhrer

• Walther Wolf was an Egyptologist at Leipzig who had pro-Nazi leanings.

   

  He is known for lecturing while wearing a SA uniform.
• The SA was a pro-Nazi organization that sprang up in the 1920’s. They were the main force in Hitler’s unsuccessful coup attempt in 1923.
• In 1937 Wolf authored a defence of Egyptology as a discipline “Wesen und Wert der Ägyptologie.”
• Professor Schneider writes that Wolf’s defence, “unveils the distinct will to align his discipline with the doctrinal requirements of the new ideology. It postulates for Ancient Egypt a predominant significance of the racial collective ("Volksgemeinschaft") which Wolf believes to have been essential for the shaping of Egyptian culture (kulturprägend) and which he said was owed to "soil and blood" (Boden und Blut).”
• Adding, “Wolf construes pharaoh as the realizer of forces lying dormant in the national collective and waiting to be set free.”
• If these ideas sound familiar, they should, this leadership model for pharaoh is very similar to that which Hitler used for himself.

• Wolf viewed Akhenaten to be a poor pharaoh because he 'Did not uncover ideas that were lying dormant in the depth of their Volkstum, and fight for their full potential of development.'

   

  “This is clearly worded on the template of the role assigned to Hitler,” wrote Schneider.
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  Photo by Andrea B. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic. Photo of a statue of Akhenaten, in the National Museum of Alexandra. Pro-Nazi Egyptologists Walther Wolf and Hermann Kees, despised the Amarna pharaoh. Kees wrote that he, "possessed too many traits that were contrary to the Ancient Egyptian ideal of a master race."
• The Anti-Nazi League
• As Wolf attempted to twist Ancient Egypt into something the Nazis could agree with, a prominent Egyptologist stood up against this. Alexander Scharff held an Egyptology chair at the University of Munich. He was strongly anti-Nazi and in 1938 authored a piece that dismissed Wolf’s attempt to see Egyptology through the lens of Nazism. 

• Said Scharff of Wolf’s work:

   

  In it the attempt is made to understand the Egyptian culture from a new angle of view which is apparently rooted in National Socialistic ideology (...). Such slogans of today which may have a predominant significance in other areas, are of little use with regard to Ancient Egypt.
• There is no question of "race" being a factor in the formation of Ancient Egypt (...). It seems to me that a political event, and be it of the scale of the German revolution of 1933, cannot at this moment transform our understanding of a past civilization to the extent the author would like to make us believe with his treatise which to all appearances is meant to be programmatic. Academic arguing has always proceeded with measured steps, without being tied to particular dates.
• Professor Schneider told me that despite Scharff’s anti-Nazi leanings he managed to keep his job until the end of the war.
• George Steindorff was a prominent Egyptology Professor at Leipzig. He was also Jewish. He edited the journal Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache and was in charge of other editorial projects.

• In a 1935 letter to Adolf Erman, he lamented what was happening in Germany. He wrote-

   

  The Nuremberg legislation has completely paralyzed us and cut our thread of life, it has annihilated our zest of life and my zest of work (...). I was always proud to be able to say "civis Germanus sum", and cannot bear it to be locked up in a ghetto.
• We are likely to spend the few years that fate grants us with wandering all over the world, deprived of our homeland. In the place where I worked honestly for more than 40 years and where I was conferred all honours, I don't want to and cannot stay any longer.
• 

  Photo in public domain. Source United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Goebbels speaks at a book burning in May 1933. His propaganda ministry would force George Steindorff out of his job and eventually, out of Germany.

  Facing a Concentration Camp
• No power of the world will (make) me take my pride; I don't want to be pitied, rather I pity the other. But there is one thing I have learnt in these days (...): to hate.
• Professor Schneider said that it appears as if the Ministry of Propaganda found it intolerable that a Jew have these editorial responsibilities and pressured Steindorff heavily to quit.
•  “There was a directive from Berlin that Steindorff could no longer be the protagonist of those publishing projects in Germany, those should go to a Nazi official.”
• Steindorff was forced to quit the journal in 1937 and in 1939 left for the United States.
• Walther Wolf, the SA uniform wearing Egyptologist mentioned earlier, was his replacement. Schneider believes it’s probable that Joseph Goebbels himself made the decision to force Steindorff out.
• In 1938 Steindorff was in a desperate situation and was saved by an Egyptology colleague Dr. Hans Bonnet.

• Steindorff wrote in 1945, after he was safely in the United States that,

   

  During my darkest days at Leipzig, some weeks after the pogrom of November, 1938, he came to our house in Leipzig and invited me and my wife to go with him and find asylum in his house at Bonn, though to give us sanctuary might well have resulted in his confinement in a concentration camp.
• A Base in Egypt
• When the Nazis took over Germany they inherited the Cairo office of the German Archaeological Institute.
• In other countries a special SS unit, the Ahnenerbe, was used to conduct archaeological research. Professor Schneider explained to me that the SS left Egypt alone and archaeological work was done by the institute`s Cairo office.
• The Cairo office operated until the war started in 1939. During that time Professor Schneider believes that the Nazis used it as a base to advance their interests in the Middle East.
• It was “a local outpost that could be instrumentalized for the government,” he told me. Germany had a number of interests in the area, including talking to Arab leaders who opposed Jewish settlement in Israel.
• The head of the institute, after the Nazis came to power, was Hermann Junker. He was an established Egyptologist. During the time of Nazi rule he conducted digs in the Cairo-Memphis area and Nubia. But, he spent the bulk of his energy excavating at the Great Pyramids at Giza.
• He was, “deeply involved in national socialism and a member of the NSDAP and other Nazi organizations during the war,” said Schneider.
• I asked Professor Schneider whether the Nazis got involved in his fieldwork, directing him to excavate at the Great Pyramids or telling him to look for certain artefacts.
• Schneider said that he has found no evidence of that kind of control. He believes that, when it came to excavations, Hitler’s government let Junker pursue his own agenda. 
• The details on what the institute was being used for are still being researched. But there is evidence that is was used for more than archaeology.
• In June 1945 George Steindorff, now living in the United States, wrote a letter to John Wilson, a professor at the Oriental Institute in Chicago. In the letter he discussed the involvement of different German Egyptologists with Nazism. 

• He wrote about Junker that,

   

  It is very difficult to describe the character of this man because he has none. I have heard that it was rumored in England that Junker acted as a spy in Egypt.  I do not believe it.  He was too clever to compromise himself by such activity.  He played safe. 
• However, he used his position and the State Institute to promote Nazi propaganda. The Institute was always available for Nazi meetings, Junker's house was always open to Nazi guests, chiefly Austrian.  Every Nazi found a cordial reception in the German Institute in Cairo.  I appreciate Junker as a scholar of the first order.  More than that, I am sorry I cannot say.  At best, his actions and opinions have always been ambiguous.
• The Göttingen Manifesto
• Hermann Kees was a professor of Egyptology at the University of Göttingen.
• According to Schneider’s research he was president of an extreme right-wing group Deutschnationale Volkspartei and played an indirect role in driving Albert Einstein out of Germany. 
• He was, “instrumental in the expulsion of Jewish faculty in 1934, after the laws for the restitution of the Civil Order were put into force,” Schneider wrote.
• In 1934, after the death of German president Paul von Hindenberg, Hitler implemented a series of laws that barred Jews, and people opposed to Nazism, from serving in government positions.

• Albert Einstein (then based in Berlin) and his colleage at Göttingen, Nobel Laureate James Frankh, both resigned in protest. They were hoping that other professors would resign in solidarity.

   

  That didn’t happen.
• Fourty-two professors at Göttingen published a manifesto condemning Frankh's resignation and calling for a faster implementation of the "necessary measures of purging."
• “This happened fast,” wrote Schneider. “One day after the publication of the manifesto, the first six Jewish professors were relieved of their duties. The man who initiated the manifesto and the expulsion of Jewish faculty was Hermann Kees.”
• Einstein’s and Frankh's hope had failed at Göttingen.

• Kees certainly didn’t hide his far-right views. On Akhenaten he wrote,

   

  One is certainly wrong to portray Amenophis IV as a gushing idealist who wished to turn the world's quarrels to eternal peace by the gracious sermon of human reconciliation and who therefore declined any warfare abroad.
   

   

  To be a great reformer, he lacked the creative force to anticipate, in the way of a seer, issues that were fermenting and wanted to take shape, and to shape them, and not the least did his personality lack authoritative charisma, carrying the stigma of repulsive ugliness.

• He himself possessed too many traits that were contrary to the Ancient Egyptian ideal of a master race; he was licentious, effusive, led by emotions, morally debauched and obstinate.

   

  

  Courtesy German Federal Archive and wikimedia. Photo of a model of "Germania" Hitler's revamped Berlin. It would have included a museum where Nefertiti's bust was close to Hitler's.
• Hitler’s Own Views
• Hitler’s own personal views on Egyptology remain something of a mystery. Professor Schneider said that more archival research needs to be done to determine this
• He does appear to have had an interest in Egyptian Art.
• Professor Schneider sent me an intriguing photo, dating to February 1939. It shows the opening of an Ancient Egyptian Art exhibition in Berlin. Sitting on the front row is Hitler himself.
• Unfortunately I cannot post this photo on the web since the copyright is still valid and is held by a photography firm. 
• Schneider points out that Hitler was particularly interested in the bust of Nefertiti and vetoed its return to Cairo.
• Hitler was planning to build a new museum in “Germania,” (his name for what would have been the transformed city of Berlin). According to Professor Schneider’s research the bust of Nefertiti would have been close to that of Hitler himself.
•  A Turning Point in Egyptology
• It’s difficult to gauge the full impact that the events of 1933-1945 had on German Egyptology. But certainly the impact was negative.

• “This was, what I think, a decisive turning point in the international history of Egyptology,” Said Professor Schneider. 

   

  “Germany lost its status and it has to struggle for many decades after the war until it again became recognized and appreciated (in) the discipline,” he said adding, “Germany had basically sacrificed, through the NS regime, its academic standing.”
• The loss of people such as Steindorff, hindered the country’s knowledge base.
• “They came not only from Egyptology but dozens of other disciplines, they established their fields of knowledge abroad, above all in the United States, and had they been given a perspective in a Germany without National Socialism they possibly would have stayed there.
• And many important strands of thinking or pools would have developed in Germany that now developed in the States,” said Professor Schneider.
• “(The) people who stayed in Germany, or younger generations, as a direct consequence were different people than those who would have lived and had a career in (a) Germany without the Nazis,” he said. 
• “It is difficult to say how the discipline would look today without National Socialism but we can very certainly say that Germany would have a different standing today.”
• The German Archaeological Institute in Cairo did eventually reopen after the way and today Germany is again a centre of Egyptological research.
• Herman Kees and Walther Wolf were both removed from their positions after the war. Although in 1963 Wolf did get a professorship at the University of Münster. Kees notes were confiscated as part of de-nazification efforts something which hindered his writing efforts.
• Years after the war Hermann Junker, while writing his memoirs, would choose to not write about the time of Nazi rule. Only saying that, “this was a dark time.”
• About The Author

  Owen Jarus
  

  Owen Jarus is a freelance writer based in Toronto ,Canada. He has written articles on archaeology for a variety of media outlets including The Canadian Press newswire (CP), U of T Magazine, The Mississauga News and The Guelph Mercury. Education: BA from the University of Toronto in History, Geography and Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations. BJourn in Journalism from Ryerson University.

  Last three pieces by this author: The Egyptian Pharoah Who Helped Win a Nobel Prize, 2,000 year old, Ten Commandments scroll image now on Heritage Key, Interview: Jean-Francois Millaire on Exploring Gallinazo Group

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• Prolegomena Of The Unexplained: Reflections Upon Science Fiction, Eschatology & The Paranormal
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