Recap

Shamanism & Healing

Dr. David Cumes discussed his practice of shamanic rituals, during the the middle two hours of the program. A surgeon here in the United States, he is able to act as bridge between Western medicine and ancient healing wisdom, and believes that both methods have their benefits.

Cumes said he was inititated as a sangoma (Zulu for shaman or indigenous healer) while in South Africa. The process involved taking part in various rituals such as animal sacrifice, purification and immersion in a river, as well employing drumming and dancing to achieve trance states. Contacting the ancestors or spirit guides is typically done while in a trance, he noted.

Establishing a connection with the ancestors is a crucial part of being able to help people, said Cumes, who believes that these spirits are capable of conducting "non-local healing" on patients. He described working with the ancestors in three different ways: dreams, trance and bones. Cumes was taught to use the "divining bones" by an old Zulu master over several months. A set of small bones from animals such as hyenas and crocodiles are tossed into a pattern, and not unlike the Tarot, they are employed to read a person's psychospiritual state and answer questions, he explained.

Note: The final hour of this program was devoted to Open Lines with a theme of strange hitchhikers.

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He also voiced excitement over the plan for Mars Express to turn on its radar, which he believes could confirm buried cities under the sediment on the red planet. Hoagland announced that he'll be at Coral Castle for the solar eclipse on April 8, to observe possible hyperdimensional effects.

After Dark Sneak Peek

In the cover story for the April issue of After Dark, Corinna Underwood investigates the persistent claims of a hoax in regards to the 1969 moon landing. Below is an excerpt:




Some of the most popular criticisms of the Apollo Eleven landing are in connection with the photographs that were taken on the Moon. Here are some of the most popular, and the skeptics’ rebuttals:

In all of the photographs of the astronauts on the Moon, the sky is dark but there are no stars visible in the sky. The skeptics answer to this is that the astronauts were walking on the Moon during the day. This means that the Sun was visible above the horizon and so was shining down on the Moon’s surface. In order to take clear photographs in this relatively bright environment, they had to use a fast shutter speed. While a fast shutter speed will capture bright objects such as the astronauts’ white suits, lunar module, and the Moon, it would not capture dimmer, distant objects such as the stars. In actual fact there are long exposure photographs available in which the stars are visible.

In several of the moon landing photographs, the shadows —instead of running parallel—are tilted at odd angles or completely different directions. Conspiracy theorists argue that this is evidence that more than one light source, such as artificial studio lighting, was present. Next to the Sun, the largest source of light on the Moon is the reflective surface of the Moon itself. Also, the Earth is a significant light source. The Earth casts about 70 times as much light on the Moon as the Moon does on the Earth…

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