By an odd synchronicity the name "Lander(s)" features in this post too. I am opting to post part of an article I have been writing on Stonehenge here since it provides another possible example of an engineer making use of UFT but this time based on information he claimed he had received from aliens. I offer an advance apology if this material has already been mentioned on the Forum before but I am citing it because it shows again how geometry may be factored into the application of UFT.
George Van Tassel and the Integratron
The story of George Van Tassel is truly amazing. Although today he is famous as an alien contactee and a major UFO activist and conference organiser during the 1950’s and 60’s, he also gained a certain notoriety, and the unwanted attention of the FBI, for his construction of the structure now known as the Integratron.
The Integratron in Landers, California
You may ask that, other than being circular in shape (it is in fact a 16-sided polygon or Hexadecagon), what does this late 20th Century structure have in common with Stonehenge and Chaco Canyon. The answer is that Tassel claimed the building when operated properly would act as a rejuvenation centre (as could the Great Pyramid according to the C’s) and recharge cell structure. Like Stonehenge, it also had very special acoustic properties. Tassel claimed on live TV that he had been contacted by a group of aliens and they instructed him as to its construction and purpose. I set out below Van Tassel’s history (per Wikipedia) and further details concerning the incredible structure that is the Integratron.
Background
Van Tassel was born in Jefferson, Ohio in 1910, and grew up in a fairly prosperous middle-class family. He finished high school in the 10th grade and held a job at a small municipal airport near Cleveland, he also acquired a private pilot licence. At age 20, he moved to California where, at first, he worked as an automobile mechanic at a garage owned by an uncle.
While pumping gas at the garage, he met Frank Critzer, an eccentric loner who claimed to be working a mine somewhere near
Giant Rock*, a 7-story boulder near Landers, California in the Mojave Desert. Frank Critzer was claimed by others to be a German immigrant. However, he was born in the USA. During World War II, Critzer came under suspicion as a German spy and killed himself by a dynamite explosion during a police siege at the Rock in 1942. Upon receiving news of Critzer's death, Van Tassel applied for a lease of the small, abandoned airport near Giant Rock from the Bureau of Land Management, and was eventually given a Federal Government contract to develop and maintain the airstrip.
Van Tassel became an aircraft mechanic and flight inspector who at various times between 1930 and 1947 worked for Douglas Aircraft, Hughes Aircraft, and Lockheed. While at Hughes Aircraft he was their top Flight Inspector. In 1947, Van Tassel left Southern California’s booming aerospace industry to live in the desert with his family. At first, he lived a simple existence in the rooms Frank Critzer had dug out under Giant Rock. Van Tassel eventually built a new home, a café, a gas station, a store, a small airstrip, and a dude ranch beside the Rock.
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The Native American Indians considered Giant Rock as sacred and only their medicine men and chiefs were allowed to go near it.
The Integratron
George Van Tassel started hosting group meditation in 1953 in a room underneath Giant Rock, excavated by Frank Critzer. That year, according to Van Tassel the occupant of a spaceship from the planet Venus woke him up, invited him on board his spaceship, and both verbally and telepathically gave him a technique for rejuvenating the human body. In 1954, Van Tassel and others began building what they called the "Integratron" to perform the rejuvenation. According to Van Tassel, the Integratron was to be a structure for scientific research into time, anti-gravity and at extending human life, built partially upon the research of Nikola Tesler and
Georges Lakhovsky. Van Tassel described the Integratron as being created for scientific and spiritual research with the aim to recharge and rejuvenate people's cells, "
a time machine for basic research on rejuvenation, anti-gravity and time travel". The domed wooden structure has a rotating metal apparatus on the outside he called an "electrostatic dirod". Van Tassel claimed it was made of non-ferromagnetic materials: wood, concrete, glass, and fibreglass, lacking even metal screws or nails. The Integratron was never fully completed due to Van Tassel's sudden death a few weeks before the official opening. In recent times some people who visit the unfinished Integratron claim to be rejuvenated by staying there and experiencing "sound baths" inside.
Conventions and Organisations
Van Tassel was a classic 1950’s contactee in the mould of
George Adamski,
Truman Bethurum,
Daniel Fry,
Orfeo Angelucci and many others. He hosted "The Giant Rock Spacecraft Convention" annually beside the Rock, from 1953 to 1978, which attracted at its peak in 1959 as many as 10,000 attendees. Guests trekked to the desert by car or landed airplanes on Van Tassel's small airstrip, called Giant Rock Airport.
Over the years, every famous contactee of the period appeared personally at these conventions, and many more not-so-famous ones. References often state that the first and most famous contactee, George Adamski, pointedly boycotted these conventions; however, Adamski did, in fact attend the third convention, held in 1955, where he gave a 35-minute lecture and was interviewed by
Edward J. Ruppelt, once head of the Air Force ‘Project Blue Book’. It was apparently the only such convention Adamski ever attended.
Van Tassel founded a metaphysics research organization called The Ministry of Universal Wisdom, and The College of Universal Wisdom to codify the spiritual revelations he was now regularly receiving via communications with the people from Space.
Well, you can easily write him off as a UFO nutter or a showman like Adamski but there does seem to be something to his Integratron and its design. Quoting now from an article in Atlantic Magazine titled ‘A Time Machine in the Mojave Desert’ written by Jennifer McCartney and published in February 2015:
“According to Van Tassel, the site was determined by its relationship to the Great Pyramids in Giza as well as its proximity to magnetic vortices. It is a 16-sided metal-free building constructed using a technique called joinery—no nails or screws were used in an attempt to avoid interference with the conductive properties of the machine. Inside, the acoustically perfect sanctuary made of Douglas fir rises three stories high and features sweeping views of the desert from its 16 small windows. The Integratron remains open to visitors today, although it’s no longer outfitted for the purpose of time travel—the machinery is, mysteriously, long gone.
… on August 24, 1953, it was here [at Giant Rock] that Van Tassel received his instructions regarding what would become his “tabernacle”—the Integratron.
Van Tassel liked to say that both he and Moses were compelled to build their tabernacles via instructions from a man that came out of the sky — in Moses’s case it was God, and in Van Tassel’s, an extraterrestrial. Van Tassel writes in his memoir I Rode a Flying Saucer that he awoke one night to find a man standing at the foot of his bed. “Beyond the man, about a hundred yards away, hovered a glittering, glowing spaceship, seemingly about eight feet off the ground.” The man introduced himself in English as Solganda from the planet Venus and invited Van Tassel aboard his ship, where he divulged the schematics of the Integratron. Its construction would become Van Tassel’s focus for the next 25 years.
“Science continually disproves its own theories,” he explained about his willingness to believe. “This is the only gauge by which man can record progress. Even time is only recognized as it passes and events recorded after they happen. Man accepts three-dimensional theory, because the illusion is understandable to his limited thinking. With applied, undisturbed effort, man can develop his all-dimensional sense of being, and record time and events in the future, as well as present and past.”
But Van Tassel’s beliefs about the fluid and unreliable nature of time were in many ways a reflection on mortality. “The biggest trouble on this planet is, that when you get smart enough to do something with the knowledge you have acquired here, death intervenes,” he wrote. “Our life span is just too short.” Van Tassel’s solution to old age was “a high voltage electrostatic generator that would supply a broad range of frequencies to recharge cellular structure.” By recharging cells through electromagnetism, we could turn back the clock, thereby extending life span, he said. It wasn’t about transporting people through time—the aim of his time machine was to turn back the clock, to give our physical bodies more time. He compared it to charging a car battery—although as the professor Bates points out, the concept of charging cells is, like many of Van Tassel’s ideas, “too vague a concept to be considered a testable conjecture.”
He was determined to provide his naysayers with irrefutable evidence in the form of his rejuvenation machine—which he believed would offer proof his alien encounter while benefiting mankind immeasurably.
The science behind the Integratron is based on electromagnetics. In his quarterly magazine Proceedings, Van Tassel described the ongoing construction of the building to his followers:
The armature, 55 feet in diameter, has been the most difficult part of this whole project. Requirements for anti-friction, expansion and contraction from heat and cold, and wet and dry conditions, have made this armature a mechanical wonder. Four times larger in diameter than the largest armature ever built, it floats on 16 Teflon-bearing blocks which are supplied with compressed air to "float" the armature on air. One-hundred and twenty pounds of air in each bearing block literally floats this 1,700 Pound spinner. The 64 Aluminium collectors are about to be mounted on the spinner.
The rotating armature was to be outfitted with 64 “static collectors” made of aluminium—capable of gathering 50,000 volts of static electricity from the air and delivering it to the cells of the participants inside. A large coiled copper wire running through the centre of the building was also planned to aid conduction. Those undergoing the treatment were meant to receive this energy while stationed inside the machine, wearing all-white outfits. But while Van Tassel revealed much about his plans for the Integratron he also kept many of the details necessary for completing the project to himself. Van Tassel died of a heart attack in 1978—although apparently those who knew him to be in good health found his passing suspicious. His epitaph supposedly read: “Birth through Induction, Death by Short Circuit.”
Lacking funds, the necessary blueprints for completion, and their charismatic leader, the Integratron project soon stalled. The building was sold to a man who planned to turn it into a disco. It sat empty for years. Van Tassel’s equipment disappeared—making it difficult to determine just how much of his vision he had constructed before his death. It was bought by three sisters in 2000 who opened the building to the public and now promote it as a place of healing as well as advertising its unusual acoustic properties.”
The Ceiling of the Integratron
Van Tassel died at the age of 67 from a heart attack (although it was claimed he was in good health beforehand) just prior to giving a public lecture. He had claimed the Integraton was 95% complete at the time. What is suspicious is that his papers and equipment were seized by the US government even as his funeral was going on, never to be seen again (Cf. with Nikola Tesla’s papers which were also seized by the US government immediately after his death). This would seem to indicate that the government took his claims seriously. Unfortunately, he did not leave any instructions behind that might have helped finish the construction.
It is worth pointing out that Van Tassel was ahead of his time in applying electrical currents (unless you consider
Royal Raymond Rife’s machines of the 1930’s; see
Royal Rife - Wikipedia) for health purposes.
As noted in the article above, it is interesting that Van Tassel made a connection between the instructions Yahweh gave to Moses to build the Ark of the Covenant and the instructions he received from the aliens to build the Integratron, particularly given what the C’s have said about the true identity of Yahweh. Indeed, he also thought the angels in the Old Testament were like the aliens he had met in the desert.
Van Tassel believed the Great Pyramid at Giza, which he had studied, was an electricity conductor using the piezo-electric effect. He also thought the Great Pyramid could rejuvenate a person. The C’s have in fact confirmed this point when they said that if you stood in a particular spot within the Great Pyramid, you would indeed become younger. Van Tassel also seemed to think that the Great Pyramid was built in a portal area like Great Rock in Landers, California, so he appeared to be aware of the concept of portals.
Intriguingly, some scientists believe that the Integratron’s design may indicate that he intended to utilise sound and not just electricity since the building has
16 parabolic parts or sides at the top (see photograph above)
and an octagon at the bottom. Others think that he may have intended the Integratron to open-up an acoustic portal to communicate with his aliens. If this is correct, it links the Integratron with Stonehenge, which the C’s said had been designed to receive telepathic communications from higher densities, as may also have been the case at Newgrange in Ireland and the Hypogeum on Malta (another round structure) with its famous speaking chamber, which displays extraordinary acoustic qualities.
You might well ask what all this has to do with Alton Towers. The answer is that Alton Towers contains a room which is known as
the Octagon, a geometric structure also favoured by the Knights Templar in the construction of their chapels and churches. Was this merely a design feature or did the 15th
Earl of Shrewsbury who built the stately home know something? Were the C’s perhaps trying to draw our attention to this when they mentioned Alton Towers?
The Octagon at Alton Towers