Lunar Structures

On December 21, 1968, the Apollo 8 mission was the first manned lunar orbit. The mission completed 10 lunar orbits in 20 hours. The three astronauts were the first humans to view the far side of the moon. In a transmission back to Earth, Astronaut Lovell reported, "Please be informed that there is a Santa Claus." The term "Santa Claus" was the code name for an alien presence. 

Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon on July 21, 1969. Neil Armstrong stepped out onto the surface and declared, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Supposedly, he was the first man on the moon.

When the Apollo 12 crew landed on the moon, they noted they were "being observed" by a transparent pyramidal object, shimmering with all the colors of a rainbow, hovering several meters above the lunar surface. Upon returning to Earth, astronaut Edgar Mitchell declared, "My neck still aches as I had to constantly turn my head around, because we felt we were not alone there. We had no choice but to pray."

On March, 21, 1996, several NASA engineers and scientists participated in a briefing at the Washington National Press Club to announce for the first time that "man-made" objects were discovered on the moon. Photos taken by astronauts during the Apollo program were revealed at the briefing, showing portions of the lunar surface where "a presence" was apparent.

When asked why this material had not been revealed earlier, a NASA specialist explained, "It was difficult to forecast the reaction of people to information that some creatures had been or still are on the moon. In addition, there were some other reasons to it, which were beyond the control of NASA."

No kidding.

The lunar photos revealed various constructions, the ruins of cities, huge domes with basements, networks of tunnels and so forth.

Scientists remain curious about the origin of the moon and the principles of its revolving around Planet Earth.

In July of 2009, an Exopolitics Summit was held in Barcelona, Spain, which presented evidence of an extraterrestrial presence through the testimony of many intelligence and military experts. One of the participants was Robert Dean, a retired U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major who was an intelligence analyst for NATO, with a Cosmic Top Secret Clearance, the highest clearance at the time.

Dean had access to a document titled AN ASSESSMENT, which was a thorough investigation of the UFO phenomena within Europe for the period of 1961 to 1964. According to the document, with absolute certainty, Planet Earth has been visited by members of at least four extraterrestrial civilizations for thousands of years.

The Truth will set you free -- but first it will curl your toenails.

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Quote for the Day -- "On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious." Astronaut Edgar Mitchell

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Bret Burquest is the author of 8 books, including THE REALITY OF THE ILLUSION OF REALITY, ORB OF WOUNDED SOULS and PATH TO FOURTH DENSITY (available on Amazon). He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a dog named Buddy Lee and the memory of former U.S. Army Air Force flight instructor Weston K. Burquest (May 21, 1919 -- Dec 8, 2011).

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Military Industrial Complex

Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Army General who engineered the D-Day invasion of Europe during World War II, was President of the United States in 1952 to 1960. This was during a period of tension between nations called the Cold War. The USA and the USSR were two great powers locked in a standoff of paranoia and an arms race.

In his presidential farewell address to the nation in January, 1961, Eisenhower stated, "In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together."

Thus, the term "military industrial complex" became part of the American lexicon.

The "military industrial complex" refers to the U.S. armed forces and various components that support a strong military presence. In essence, it's a combination of the Pentagon (military procurers), corporate military contractors, the intelligence community, and their respective supporters in the U.S. Congress.

Eisenhower sounded a warning many decades ago that has basically been ignored -- the U.S. government now spends more on the military than all the rest of the countries of the world combined.

In fiscal 2012, the U.S. expenditure on Defense items (including Department of Defense, Veterans affairs, military pensions, homeland security, interest on debt incurred in past wars, etc.) is approximately $1.5 trillion -- which seems miniscule compared to the nearly $16 trillion (and rising) in National Debt.

Obviously, the USA is on a path of economic doom -- spending far more than it can afford, continually borrowing against the future, with no end in sight.

In order to exacerbate global conflict, thereby ensuring continued growth of the Military-Industrial Complex, the intelligence wing of the military industrial complex (CIA, NSA, etc.) has initiated plenty of action since 1960, including places like Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Bosnia, Somalia, Korea, Serbia, Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Granada, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and so on.

There may have been valid reasons for most of these encounters, but often we have made matters worse by propping up evil dictators, such as Noriega in Panama, Pol Pot in Cambodia, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and others.

Eisenhower was right. There exists a potential for unwarranted influences and the misuse of power. The military industrial complex thrives on global conflict. It feeds itself on U.S. tax dollars and contributes mightily to politicians who support it. There's too much at stake for too many people to curb its desire for profitability.

There's a fine line between being righteous defenders of global justice and belligerent warmongers. To much of the rest of the world, the USA is viewed as a domineering self-appointed police force, creating enormous global resentment.

Our country stands for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We shed blood all over the globe to ensure freedom. But we spend well beyond a reasonable defense of our nation on a military industrial complex that has an insatiable appetite for funding and a continual need for armed confrontations in order to survive.

The world is a dangerous place. We must protect ourselves, but we also need to use some common sense.

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Quote for the Day -- "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Bret Burquest is the author of 8 books, including THE REALITY OF THE ILLUSION OF REALITY, ORB OF WOUNDED SOULS and PATH TO FOURTH DENSITY (available on Amazon). He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a dog named Buddy Lee and where freedom is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear.

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The Da Vinci Code

The 1982 book HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh & Henry Lincoln, speculates that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalene and they had a female child. Mary Magdalene and the child fled to southern France after the crucifixion where the descendents of Jesus eventually established the Merovingian Dynasty (447-751) in France and were protected by a secret society called the Priory of Sion. It further asserts that the Roman Catholic Church attempted to eradicate the remnants of the Merovingian Dynasty and their guardians, the Knights Templar, during the Inquisition (1184-1834).

In 1998, a book titled THE TEMPLAR REVELATION, by Lynn Pickett and Clive Prince, agrees with the above scenario and claims that the Knights Templar was a secret organization protecting the true account of Christ (married to Mary Magdalene who fled to France with Jesus' child, etc.). It also delves into the Priory of Sion and identifies its succession of Grand Masters, including Victor Hugo, Sir Isaac Newton and Leonardo Da Vinci.

According to Pickett and Prince, Leonardo Da Vinci was often contracted to do paintings for the Roman Catholic Church but, as the Grand Master of the Priory of Sion, was actually a secret foe of the church, thus he included subtle clues in his works to champion his sentiments.

For example, in Da Vinci's famous painting of The Last Supper (Jesus and the 12 disciples), the disciple to Jesus' right is clearly a woman, supposedly to signify Mary Magdalene as equal to the other disciples and close to Jesus. The lack of a wine goblet at the table is considered to be a clue that the Holy Grail is not an object at all but rather the holy bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

Using these two publications as a source of reference, author Dan Brown wrote a novel (fiction) in 2003 titled THE DA VINCI CODE, which became a bestseller, about a conspiracy by the Catholic Church to suppress the true story of Jesus Christ (the holy bloodline through Mary Magdalene) and Da Vinci's attempt to expose the truth.

The novel's hero (professor of religious history) stumbles upon the true story of Jesus after he discovers a dead body in a French museum. He, along with the granddaughter of the head of the Priory of Sion, must escape an assassin from a devout Catholic sect attempting to suppress the truth, the discovery of which would destroy the foundations of Christianity.

It's basically a suspense/thriller with a theoretically-historical religious theme.

THE DA VINCI CODE was subsequently made into a movie by Columbia Pictures, directed by Ron Howard, starring Tom Hanks. Needless to say, since it has a religious theme that questions popular beliefs, there was plenty of righteous indignation over this film.

By their very nature, religions are divisive. They separate the "true believers" from the "heretics" by demanding a blind faith and loyalty of their particular beliefs, and consider all others to be unenlightened (inferior).

Unfortunately, all too often, religions worship the messenger and ignore the message.

History is replete with violence in the name of religion. Arabs and Jews have been clashing for centuries. During the Holy Crusades and the Catholic Inquisition, many thousands were tortured and/or killed. In Ireland, it was Catholics against Protestants. In Africa, Muslims attacked Christians. In Tibet, Buddhists were slaughtered. And so on.

These days, Islamic extremists are compelled by their religion to murder non-Muslims. Even a cartoon in a Danish newspaper causes bloody riots in various Islamic nations. In certain countries ruled by Islamic law, a Muslim who converts to another religion is subject to the death penalty.

There's no end to religious bigotry.

Faith is an act of trust in the unknown -- one person's faith is another person's version of self-righteous ignorance. And when a person's faith inspires hatred and leads to bloodshed, it becomes a form of insanity.

In the end, all we can do is follow our own spiritual path, respect other points of view and protect ourselves from deranged fanatics.

If you resent the premise of THE DA VINCI CODE, you can get angry and attempt to force everyone to adopt your belief system -- or you can embrace the virtue of tolerance and forgiveness.

Who knows, it may even be correct.

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Quote for the Day -- "The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days." Lao Tzu

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Bret Burquest is the author of 8 books, including THE REALITY OF THE ILLUSION OF REALITY, ORB OF WOUNDED SOULS and PATH TO FOURTH DENSITY (available on Amazon). He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a dog named Buddy Lee and the spirit of Red Sonyah.

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Animals are People too

Somewhere around 500 BC, a brilliant Greek mathematician and philosopher named Pythagoras was walking along a street in Croton when he came upon a man abusing a dog. He demanded a halt to the mistreatment by proclaiming that the dog was the soul of a friend, claiming he was certain of it when he heard the dog's voice.

Pythagoras believed in metempsychosis -- the passing of the soul at death into another body, either human, animal or plant.

Scholars and philosophers such as Plato, Arthur Schopenhauer Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Jung, Leo Tolstoy, Albert Einstein, Jorge Luis Borges, Erwin Schrodinger and Sigmund Freud also believed in metempsychosis.

This doctrine is prevalent in Eastern religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Druzism, as well as ancient Greek philosophy, Celtic religion, ancient Druids, Wiccans, Theosophy, Spiritism, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucians and many other belief systems.

The human soul is an advanced stage of the evolutionary process. This individual spirit (human soul) has the capacity to advance beyond the present form of a 3-dimensional creature in a Third Density plane of existence. Higher levels (dimensions) can be reached by the soul through the advancement of individual purity and benevolent intention (a unity consciousness).

When an animal (such as a dog) develops a sense of self-awareness it has the potential to advance into human form in a subsequent earthly life.

Domestic animals develop a sense of self-identity when exposed to loving, caring human beings. They may overcome their natural instincts to blend in with the human experience around them. Thus, the domestic animal actually advances in a spiritual manner.

The most intelligent life-form on Planet Earth is the whale. Dolphins are next. Unlike a human being, a dolphin brain functions at 100 percent.

There are human beings on this planet who actually believe that animals have no feelings, no emotions, no intelligence. They chain their dog to a tree and ignore its existence the bulk of the time.

China hosted the 2008 Olympic Games. In an effort not to offend civilized human beings arriving in China for the event, 112 designated Olympic restaurants were ordered to remove dog meat from restaurant menus until after the civilized human beings had returned to their civilized countries. The Beijing Catering Trade Association blacklisted the restaurants that failed to cooperate, however they made an exception for dog meat "for medicinal purposes."

Dog has been eaten in China for at least 7,000 years. It is sometimes referred to as "fragrant meat" or "mutton of the earth." An estimated 300,000 dogs are killed in China annually and processed for meat. Some of it is exported to Korea.

Chinese factory farms import large, docile breeds, particularly St. Bernards, which are then cross-bred with local dogs, and raise them under horrendous conditions, grouped extremely tightly in stacked cages. Rather than simply killing the dog for processing, they slowly torture it to death over a long period of time, claiming the adrenalin rush gives the meat more flavor.

A dog is a domestic animal whose main purpose in life is to love and please their human companions. It may also be a potential human being.

My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog thinks I am.

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Quote for the Day -- "No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses." Herman Melville

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Bret Burquest is the author of 8 books, including THE REALITY OF THE ILLUSION OF REALITY, ORB OF WOUNDED SOULS and PATH TO FOURTH DENSITY (available on Amazon). He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a dog named Buddy Lee and where animals are people too.

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Engineers in the South

Do you have no life and can prove it mathematically?

Are you in the habit of destroying things just to see how they work?

Do you assume people around you yawn because they don't get enough sleep?

Can you translate a foreign language into octal and binary?

Have you ever calculated how much you make per second?

Are the experts at Circuit City unable to answer any of your questions?

Can you explain the Doppler Effect and Plank's Constant to a third grader?

Do you have a pet named Einstein or Galileo or Newton or Pythagoras?

If you answered "yes" to at least 87.5 percent of these questions (7 out of 8), chances are you're an ideal candidate to become an engineer.

Not only do you need to think in math to become an engineer, but there are special requirements if you plan to do it in the South. One of my highly unreliable sources managed to steal a copy of the engineering licensing exam from a southern state. At the risk of being deported back up north, I've revealed some of the questions.

1) A 2-ton dump truck with a full load of horse manure is traveling at 35 mph on a typical Arkansas county dirt road. As it reaches the peak of a high hill the brakes fail and it begins an unimpeded descent down a slope with a 17% grade. Exactly halfway down the slope it reaches 52 mph. How much time will elapse before it reaches the bottom of the grade and what are the odds it will strike a vehicle with a working muffler along the way?

2) A man and a woman own a house on 2.7 acres in the West Virginia hills. They have two mules, seventeen cats and five grown boys: Billy Joe, Billy Bob, Billy Joe Bob, Merle and Earl. Can each of their boys put a mobile home (70 X 14) on the property and still have enough room for their electric appliances to sit out front?

3) There are five dead cars in the front yard of a house in a damp hollow along the lower end of a muddy creek in east Mississippi. There's a southern exposure and a dozen chickens loose in the yard. The '48 Packard, '52 Olds, '53 Chevy, '55 Ford and '58 Pontiac are in a random pattern and on blocks. Which car will rust out first?

4) A moonshiner in north Georgia operates a still at a capacity of 35 gallons of shine per hour. Assuming a daily mean temperature of 77 degrees Fahrenheit and an average humidity of 64 percent, how many 1962 Chevy Camero radiators are required to condense the product?

5) A front porch, 8 feet wide by 19.6 feet long, is constructed of 2x8 black oak planks on 4x4 hickory struts spaced 12 inches apart across a field rock foundation that rises 3.4 feet above a red clay surface in South Carolina. When the porch collapses, how many hound dogs will be killed?

6) What is the smallest limb diameter of a dogwood tree that will support a 12-pound possum?

7) Two woodcutters in Louisiana harvest 3.6 acres of trees. The plot is 78 percent oak and 22 percent hickory. The density of the trees in the plot is 388 per acre. The average oak diameter is 13.7 inches and the average hickory diameter is 11.1 inches. One woodcutter has a chainsaw that operates at 2,400 RPM and the other chainsaw operates at 2,800 RPM. How many 12-ounce beers will be consumed before the plot is cleared?

8) If every old refrigerator in south-central Alabama vented a charge of R-12 simultaneously, what would be the percentage decrease in the ozone layer?

9) At a variable reduction rate in the gene pool of 6.7 percent per generation, how long will it take for a town in Tennessee of 4,200 people or less to breed a country-western singer.

A person with an engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"

A person with an accounting degree asks, "How much did it cost?"

A person with a liberal arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"

Becoming an engineer isn't easy -- in the South, it takes a special possum-and-grits type mentality to qualify.
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Quote for the Day -- "Scientists dream about doing great things -- engineers do them." James A. Michener
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Bret Burquest is the author of 8 books, including THE REALITY OF THE ILLUSION OF REALITY, ORB OF WOUNDED SOULS and PATH TO FOURTH DENSITY (available on Amazon). He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a dog named Buddy Lee and where beavers build better dams than the Army Corps of Engineers.
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Land of the Giants

I lived in southern California in 1975-1987. One night I watched a local TV report about the remains of giants discovered on Catalina island (just off the coast of L.A.) in the late 19th century. They were 7 to 9 feet tall, with red hair and had a double set of teeth. Their skulls were up to 6 times larger than a normal human skull. In the 1800s, the remains of a similar giant was found on Santa Rosa Island, another coastal island near Santa Barbara. He also had a double row of teeth. It is one of the many items of weirdness that has found a permanent home in my cranial data base.

Surprise, surprise -- these ancient giants are found in many places globally.

In 1833, near San Luis Obispo, California, soldiers were digging a gunpowder pit and discovered the skeleton of a man 12 feet tall, surrounded by stone axes, carves shells and blocks containing numerous unknown symbols. He had a double row of upper and lower teeth.

In 1883, near Mandan, North Dakota, a 100-acre cemetery was discovered filled with bones of a race of giant humans.

In 1888, in St. Paul, Minnesota, seven skeletons were discovered, 7 to 8 feet tall.

In 1891, near Crittenden, Arizona, a 12-foot giant skeleton was unearthed, along with a huge stone coffin which contained a carving indicating the man had six toes.

In 1898, two brothers, H. Flagler Cowden and Charles C. Cowden, were scientists doing an archeological dig in Death Valley. They uncovered the fossilized remains of a human-like female, 7.5 feet tall. Her canine teeth were twice as long as a modern human. They also found remains of prehistoric camels and an elephant-like creature with four tusks.

In 1911, an 8-foot mummy with red hair was discovered in Lovelock Cave, California.

In 1931, near lovelock, Nevada, several huge skeletons were found in the Humboldt lake bed. An 8.5 foot skeleton was wrapped in a gum-covered fabric similar to an Egyptian mummy. Another skeleton was almost 10 feet tall.

In 1932, the Supervisor of the Lincoln National Park in White Sands, New Mexico, found human tracks (which included human instep imprint) in gypsum rock, 22 inches long and 10 inches wide.

In 1947, a retired doctor from Ohio discovered several mummified bodies, 8 to 9 feet tall, in caverns in the desert region south of Death Valley. They were dressed in medium length jackets and trousers extending slightly below the knees. The texture of the material was made from an animal skin unknown today. Also discovered within the cavern complex were household utensils and stoves which apparently cooked by radio waves. According to an Associated Press account of this discovery, the doctor claimed that in one of the caverns "was the ritual hall of the ancient people, together with devices and markings similar to those now used by the Masonic Order."

In 1965, a perfectly preserved skeleton was found under a rock ledge along Holly Creek, Kentucky. It measured 8 feet, 9 inches in length, with long arms, huge hands and the skull was 30 inches in circumference..

This is just a small sampling of giants roaming the earth in ancient times. Numerous Native American legends also speak of these giants and generally considered them hostile enemies. For example, the Sioux Indians told tales to Buffalo Bill Cody about how these ancient giants would run down the buffalo.

Skeletons of giant size, 7 to 10 feet, have also been found in Spain, France, Italy, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel and the Caucasus Mountain region.

The true history of Planet Earth is fascinating, complex and largely unknown. But that's okay because too much knowledge can cause the brain to explode.
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Quote for the Day -- "When the war of the giants is over, the war of the pygmies will begin." Winston Churchill
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Bret Burquest is the author of 8 books, including THE REALITY OF THE ILLUSION OF REALITY, ORB OF WOUNDED SOULS and PATH TO FOURTH DENSITY (available on Amazon). He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a dog named Buddy Lee and the spirit of Red Sonyah.
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Perfect Score on an Idiot-O-Meter

March 25, 2012 -- William Todd, age 24, was riding a Greyhound Bus from his home in Kentucky, where he is a wanted fugitive. During a layover in Nashville, Tennessee, he decided to spend some time in the Music City amusing himself.

3:05 AM -- Todd breaks into a business -- he steals a shotgun, a revolver, a Taser and a T-shirt -- he shoots up the place and sets it on fire, burning it to the ground.

3:30 AM -- Todd encounters four people leaving a local bar -- he holds them up at gunpoint -- he Tases one of them, pistol whips another one, steals all their cash and credit cards.

3:40 AM -- Todd carjacks a taxicab at gunpoint -- he heads to Wal Mart where he uses the stolen credit cards to purchase some items.

5:00 AM -- Todd heads downtown -- he spots a law office on Union Street and breaks in -- he ransacks the place, defecates on a desk and smears feces on law degrees hanging on the wall.

6:00 AM -- Todd enters the nearby Hotel Indigo -- he goes door to door, pretending to be a female housekeeper, robbing hotel guests -- he holds a Canadian couple at gunpoint, stealing $600 -- at some point while in the hotel, he shaves his head.

9:00 AM -- Todd crashes his stolen taxicab in a parking garage.

11:00 AM -- Todd hails another taxicab, holding the driver at knifepoint -- he orders the driver to take him to Opry Mills Shopping Mall

11:30 AM -- Todd exits the taxi cab -- police soon arrive -- Todd is found hiding in a water cooling unit, up to his neck in liquid.

Congratulations to you, William Todd -- 11 felonies in 9 hours -- you have achieved a perfect score on an Idiot-O-Meter.

"I've had all that I wanted of a lot of things I've had...
And a lot more than I needed of some things that turned out bad...
I got sidetracked in El Paso, stopped to get a map...
Went the wrong way in Juarez with Juanita on my lap...
Went to sleep in Shreveport, woke up in Abilene..
Wondering why I'm wanted at some town half way in between...
Wanted Man in Albuquerque, Wanted Man in Syracuse...
Wanted Man in Tallahassee, Wanted Man in Baton Rouge...
There's somebody set to grab me anywhere I might be...
And wherever you might look tonight you might get a glimpse of me...
Wanted Man in California, Wanted Man in Buffalo...
Wanted Man in Kansas City, Wanted Man in Ohio...
Wanted Man in Mississippi, Wanted Man in old Cheyenne...
Wherever you might look tonight you might see this Wanted Man."
(Wanted Man -- lyrics by Bob Dylan)

Looking back on all the stupid things I did in my life, I now feel cleansed.
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Quote for the Day -- "Sometimes I am two people -- Johnny is the nice one -- Cash causes all the trouble -- they fight." Johnny Cash
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Bret Burquest is the author of 8 books, including THE REALITY OF THE ILLUSION OF REALITY, ORB OF WOUNDED SOULS and PATH TO FOURTH DENSITY (available on Amazon). He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a dog named Buddy Lee, and the ghosts of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
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