This book was not the first to attribute quasi-magical powers to pyramids, but it has been one of the most influential. Since it was first published in 1973 it has been continuously in print. You can, if you have money to waste, purchase it from Amazon today.
One of the reasons for its success is, I suspect, the forcefulness with which Flanagan makes his claims. As he has it:-
Each sentence in this book is a complete thought within itself, and is therefore printed in a format known as Ventilated Prose.
(Italics in original). Match that for pomposity: the term “ventilated prose” was coined by R. Buckminster Fuller to describe his poetry, but as used by Flanagan it means a series of one-sentence paragraphs consisting of bare assertions with little in the way of argument or evidence to back them up, like this sequence which could equally well be printed as a single paragraph, with the added bonus that the book would be less of a waste of paper:-
Czech scientists have been hard at work investigating pyramid power and other forms of “shaped power”.
A Czech engineer, Robert Pavlita has come up with a number of interesting devices he calls “psychotronic generators”.
These devices resemble modern art sculpturings made of metal, wood, and paper.
At least one American scientist has visited Pavlita and examined his generators and could detect no fraud.
It is claimed that the various generators can create mechanical movement, purify water, and attract magnetic and non-magnetic particles, even under water!
The Czechs have been very hush-hush about the devices and have revealed nothing that can be evaluated properly.
(There used to be a very strange web site about Robert Pavlita, still accessible thanks to The Wayback Machine. I cannot resist the temptation to quote from it: “Let us go directly to balls”. Exactly.)
Somehow in Flanagan's mind the most startling claims, no matter how unsubstantiated, have to be believed. Pyramids, he says, preserve food from decay, sharpen razor blades, and make cats vegetarian. The food preservation idea is due to a Frenchman, Antoine Bovis, who observed that organic matter thousands of years old inside the Pyramids of Egypt had failed to decay. He jumped to the conclusion that this effect was due to the shape of the Pyramids rather than any other possible cause. Flanagan adds that:-
One person reports that maggots left meat if a pyramid was placed over the maggot infested meat.
He said that the maggots left and starved to death rather than go back to the meat.
If you have a bullshit meter to hand, you may well notice an abnormally high reading at this point. (The thought occurs that perhaps the maggots had been converted to vegetarianism, in which case surely they should have been provided with some carrots to munch on, rather than callously being allowed to die of hunger.)
Flanagan rounds off his book with an advocacy of the existence of the ether, which he strains to make a viable explanation for the so-called pyramid effect. However it should be noted that much of what he writes is lifted without credit, word for word, from another silly but more obscure work, “The Ether and its Vortices” by Carl Krafft (self-published, 1955). Such intellectual dishonesty is saddening but hardly unsurprising given what precedes it.
The best thing about this book is the picture of its author on the back of the jacket, showing his pyramid tent and his amazing pyramid trousers, very effective against foot-rot, no doubt.
More pyramidiocy: Great Pyramid Proof of God.
Where we CAN all agree is
Where we CAN all agree is that Patrick Flanagan appears to've scammed many people. Far worse, perhaps, his half-plagiarized, half-irrational and unfounded claims tend to injure credibility of more than just "some branch of knowledge." Vastuu Shastra is the oldest formal science developed by humans. Knowing how to do the one-second energy test allows you to test food, drink, clothes, cars, etc. (www.QRA.me, bidigitals.com, bidgitally.com, & others for quick one-minute lessons)
"Proof supersedes belief or opinion!"
Not one human in a billion can continue holding their thumb & finger tightly when you hold a cellphone to their body. Same when you pinch a power cord, or touch index fingertip to fuse box, fridge, TV, computer, etc: Other hand loses ability to keep thumb & finger tightly together. No need to believe it. STFU and do the one-second test w/ friend or family member.
More ASTONISHING to every one of thousands of patients we've taught this to, EXPOSE THE EMF-PRODUCING DEVICE TO THE TOP OF PAGE AT Megaphotons.com or d144.com or J233.com for a second or two, then test again.
ONLY AFTER you test and prove something does your "opinion" have any value to the rest of us. No one's immune from this master secret of the universe. (Hmph: NO FOOD, tapped 10 or 12x on table, can be held in two pinched fingers with other hand still holding tight: EVERY food we test is weak. Expose it to free Megaphotons images and see what stored frequencies can do when in a medium that broadcasts. (Photos, videos, sounds, magnetite minerals, shungite, and a few others).
Less talking, more testing, yes?
Primary point Alfred makes about Flanagan is spot on, actually. We own devices produced by Flanagan. We've never discerned the tiniest benefit, including the expensive brain devices (two generations of them). So, yes, Flanagan is a scammer, Doesn't mean Alfred should throw the baby out with the bathwater, as wiser minds used to remind us. Proof supersedes belief or opniion, right? Cheers, and good energy.
Betsy, thanks so much for
Betsy, thanks so much for your patronising and rude comment. Ii is nice to be noticed.
I am not suppressing anything, any more than you are suppressing my views by offering yours. I haven't stopped this book from being published, or burned all the extant copies in a big bonfire: I have simply offered my opinion, which may be wrong.
Flanagan blatantly lied and plagiarised in his book so forgive me if I am disinclined to take what he says at face value.
I agree however that I do not know everything about the universe.
Cheers, Alfred
This is what we call
This is what we call suppression of information. By purposefully ridiculing scientific findings with no scientific proof of your own you are effectively participating in the suppression of humans waking to who and what we really are. There are so many things in this Universe you do not understand. For example the pyramid is not meant to SHARPEN a razor blade but instead allow the molecules to rearrange themselves in such a way to repair the damage done through use. THEN you resharpen. I get it if you are not ready to accept things you do not understand but blouting off about it after concluding you do not understand it simply ignorant.
Shame on Alfred, not a very
Shame on Alfred, not a very bright fellow. The fault you point out is the one you engage the most in, LOLOL: Seeking to refute with no experimentation. Bob Marshall (of PRL and QRA fame) spent years and large sums having "perfect" pyramids engineered, precisely 54 degrees.
After years of using it, I routinely recite thousands of digits of Pi -- including the ability to interrupt myself, speak on another subject, then pick up where I left off. Regarding "e" and Fibonacci computing, no human has ever come close.
As usual, you've already formed at least two, perhaps three or four opinions on the preceding paragraphs... despite your not having a moment of consideration or experimentation.
What makes these memory and computational feats so surprising is that, prior to making use of the pyramid... and the nine inventions I've created as a result... is that I've inhaled weed AT LEAST a quarter of a million times in 45 years, which means my memory should be fairly well shot through and through. True enough?
Yet, I created all 2,389 Masters and Millionaires websites (Psychology of Shortcuts, Psychology of Longevity, et alia), with approx 14.4 million pages.... all after the age of 43. No, there's no solicitations for selling, harvesting emails; in fact, there's no signup required on these 2,389 MisterShortcut websites.
You can't say I'm doing it for glory, as my birth name has no place in all this: "MisterShortcut" is simply a surrogate, a unifying personality gathering the wisdom of masters and millionaires, champions and billionaires. That's because the only person who should EVER be speaking in a room filled with humans.... is the person who does it best. Everyone else is full of blatherskite. "Who SHOWS it best proves to KNOW it best."
Yes, the project has cost far beyond a million dollars. As for the supercharging devices created as a result of pyramid knowledge, ie: Foodboosters, Supercharged Lasers, high-speed healing lasers, QVials, Brainlifters, Torroids, and more:
a) Every one of these devices requires no belief: Only two people doing a one-second QRA test, based on the MEDICALLY-PATENT BDORT. That one-second test is the reason I believe Alfred is a decidedly unhappy, and financially unsuccessful person. Don't merely think it: Be confident of it. You see, winners don't tear down the work of people who take action, only losers do that, as misery loves company.
b) These devices have sold, thousands to many thousands each ... and never has a dime of profit gone into the hands or accounts of MisterShortcut or his founding partner, the BRILLIANT and generous Dr. David Cohen, ND, PhD, MH, CNC, sitll listed on google as the "greatest doctor on earth" .... even years after Dr. Cohen was brutally killed, perhaps for his many secrets and successess.
c) Lest you even momentarily think the foregoing is exaggerative or inaccurate, consider this: No company or individual in the history of the human race has ever received feedback such as you'll find at HappyBuyers.info or HappiestCustomers.com.
Soon, I shall shuffle off this mortal coil. It's mostly been a wonderful life. How gratifying to look in the mirror and see a face in its seventh decade that belies the years and challenges, as a smile underlies and reinforces most every important effort.
So, as stated, feeling bad for Alfred. Where other people, even here in this 'Skeptics' Corner,' open their minds to think and consider, Alfred seems to think he knows better than people whose intellect render Alfred as the unhappy kid he must still be.
Lighten up, Alfred: ALWAYS EXPERIMENT BEFORE OPENING THE MOUTH... because, as we claim in the motto of all 3 of my organizations, including the cornerstone efforts to continue raising over a million cups of food for starving people each week... ... ... "Proof is better than belief."
... Best wishes and best energy to all who help the helpless ... and strive to fulfill the definition of success (inaccurately) credited to Ralph.Waldo Emerson. Suggest you consider looking it up ("To laugh often and much")
resreche and magic and scince
resreche and magic and scince
BELIEVE
BELIEVE
OMG you bunch of cretinous
OMG you bunch of cretinous monkies! I just wanted to come on here and rattle your monkey cages! Eat peanuts you book burners! Soon the pyramid technology will break through even into your dull consciousness,.. well maybe not, but for the rest of us, rainbow cosmic orgasms ahoy!!
I bought that book apparently
I bought that book apparently just after it came out, 3 years after graduating from Berkeley. Looked around my place now. Couldn't find it.
Instead of insulting someone, like is so common today, I made a simple
test. I constructed a pyramid to exact Cheops proportion, about a foot
square, and put some sugar cubes in an ant-infested area. They climbed'
all over them. Then I put my translucent pyramid over it and they immediately became very agitated and left the cubes, looking for the
exits, so to speak.
Tom, did you also test with
Tom, did you also test with other covers? For example a box-shaped one, a pyramid of different proportions, ones made of different materials translucent or opaque? If not, your experiment doesn't demonstrate anything very much. Something changed in the environment and the ants responded. It might simply have been your shadow as you placed the pyramid over them, for instance.
Flanagan, as a pretentious plagiarist who doesn't have the words critical thinking in his vocabulary, doesn't deserve anything more than mockery.
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PS. Lisa I hope you don't