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EARTHQUEST NEWS
THE NEWSLETTER OF ANDREW COLLINS
Supplement - 27 September 2005
Hi, everyone. This is simply a short note to update you on events prior to the Questing Conference in London on 5th November. We look forward to the full line up of speakers as advertised on the flyer and online. However, I regret to have to tell you that Stan Gooch has had to withdraw from the speaker's platform due to severe illness. Although I am not at liberty to speak about this, I am sure that you will join me in wishing him a full and speedy recovery. It is obviously unfortunate when speakers pull out for whatever reason, but we will always endeavour to replace them with someone of equal calibre.
We have thus invited Michael Carmichael, ethnobiologist and prehistorian, who was a consultant on the TV series `Sacred Weeds' a few years back. He will complement other presentations at QuestCon05 by delivering a talk on the history and nature of psychedelic shamanism from around the world. It will be fully accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation, which promises to be very memorable indeed. Remember too that on Sunday, 6th November my colleague Caroline Wise will lead us through the streets of Central London pointing out key sites of pre-Christian gods and goddesses. This will include brand new research by myself on the true location of the capital's Temple of Isis, which, I have discovered, was almost certainly not in Southwark, on the south side of the River Thames, as was previously believed by historians. This assumption was made purely on the recovery of a fragment of a wine jar at the former Roman dock there, which bears an inscription saying that, in essence, it belongs to the Temple of Isis. Now clear evidence is emerging to show that this huge temple complex was in the heart of the city, close to the Temple of Mithras.
Tickets are available online at andrewcollins.com, using the PayPal secure service, by cheque/postal order via the PO Box, or you can ring Atlantis Bookshop in Museum Street, London WC1A, on 0207.405.2120, and order by credit card (a £1.50 charge is made per ticket this way).
Plenty of things have been going on in my strange world. Too much to say here. However, on Monday night we recorded one of the strangest sounds ever whilst attuning to a standing stone in a remote churchyard in central Essex. It was a brief outburst of around 1.5 seconds that occurred within our view, just twenty feet away. Initially, I thought it sounded like one of those bullroarers used by the Australian aborigines. However, in retrospect I realise that the closest I can come to describing it is the noise that might be made if a taut metal cable were suddenly cut, causing it to whip wildly through the air. In other words, the sound is of the air being rapidly displaced. The time was 22:38 in the evening. No one was around, and it was a perfectly still night without any wind whatsoever.
You can listen to the recordings by clicking these links below:- WARNING! Please be aware that files 1, 2, and 3 do contain strong language! Sorry! Version 4 is a cleaned up sample for those of a sensitive nature!
In addition to the strange noise featured here, another wav sound file recorded around midnight that same night has an audible intrusion which sounds like a classic example of EVP (electronic voice phenomena). Once again, all four of us were attuned to the standing stone, and no one else was within a quarter of a mile of our position. I had said, for the first time that evening, the words 'All communication must be purely audible', which I have used as a verbal cue to encourage EVP ever since the famous recording on tape of the Pan Pipes sound back in 1979. Shortly after I end with the word 'audible', a possible voice cuts in, as if on a different frequency altogether, and says something. Can you hear what? Afterwards, there is a two syllable muffled sound which again sounds like a word being spoken. Any ideas? However, in this last instance, I am prepared to accept that it might be somebody breathing. Yet if a word can be heard, then this could be important anyway - a kind of automatic breathing if you like! Listen below and see what you think.
As I write these words, I am turning my attentions away from writing the good book to get this mail out to you. I have nine chapters finished so far, and can tell you that it is the best book I have ever written, and will unquestionably be seen as the direct sequel to FROM THE ASHES OF ANGELS. I can't give you a title at present as it would give the game away. What I will say is that it is set to alter the way we think about the age-old concept of panspermia, the idea that life originated in the cosmos, and why we have always believed that after death we go to Heaven, or the realms of light, or the abode of the afterlife. Yet I can assure you this has nothing to do with spacemen, UFOs or ETs. The solution is far more profound and factual. Certain old chestnuts do crop-up, such as the Orion mystery and Robert Temple's Sirius mystery, but not in the way that you might think.
Anyway, I have given enough away here. I must stop now and get back to writing that book ...
See you at the Questing Conference,
Best wishes,
ANDREW COLLINS
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