Society for Interdisciplinary Studies Internet Digest ISSN 1362-7686 2000 No. 2

Editor/Compiler: Ian Tresman. 9 Ashdown Drive, Borehamwood, Herts. WD6 4LZ. UK Tel: +44 20 8953 7722. Fax: +44 870 284 8769. Email: ian@knowledge.co.uk World Wide Web site: http://www.knowledge.co.uk/sis/ © December 2000 The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies

2000 Number 2

Contents

Happy Christmas: But is this a Saturnian image? See Heaven's Mirror, p.26

About the SIS; How to Join Editorial .. 1 In Memoriam: Roger W. Wescott .. 1 World Wide Web focus .. 2 The Atlantis Blueprint .. 2 Questing Conference 2000 .. 3 Colin Wilson: Earth's Earliest Civilisation and the Giza Meridian Graham Phillips: the Search for the Virgin Mary and the Mysterious Origins of Christianity Victor Clube: Scientific Revelations - the Origins of Catastrophe Myths and Legends Andrew Collins: The Truth of the Past - Finding Historical Reality in the Alternative Field of Research Michael Baigent: Origins of the Giza necropolis Neil Steede: From Tiahuanaco to the Giza Plateau Michael Cremo: Forbidden Archaeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race Michael Carmichael: Censing the God: Psychoactive Substances in Ancient Egypt Electrically Induced Nuclear Fusion .. 8 Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena .. 8 Biblical Archaeologist .. 8 Tunguska 2001 Conference .. 8 Robert Temple: The Crystal Sun .. 8 Graham Hanock: Adjudication .. 9 Egyptian treasures in Europe .. 11 The Electric Universe .. 12 Encounters with Ancient Egypt .. 12 The Golden Bough .. 12 Internet Sacred Text Archive .. 12 Centuries of Darkness .. 12 Fulgurites.com .. 12 The Science of Catastrophic Events .. 13 Laura Lee .. 13 18 possible planets lacking a star .. 13 Kronos Press .. 13 Predicting The Past .. 14 Waves in Dusty Space Plasmas .. 14 Velikovsky: Bonds of the Past .. 14 Einstein's Biggest Blunder .. 15 Planets might be stars .. 15 Those Square Craters on The Moon .. 16 The Daily Grail .. 16 The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy .. 16 Cambridge-Conference Email Network .. 17 Galileo's sharp new pictures of Io .. 17 Thersites a Jumping Trojan? .. 17 Double Crater on Eros .. 18 Experiment Explains Charged Dust Space .. 18 Eros so Much Rock So Little Gravity .. 18 Square Craters Detected on Eros .. 19 Astronomer Sees Red .. 19 ADS Abstracts .. 20 A scenario of Saturn's ring formation .. 20 Role of electrical discharges in astrophysical phenomena .. 20 Further Mythological Evidence for Ancient Knowledge of Variable Stars .. 20 Proof readers wanted .. 20 Thoth Catastrophics Newsletter Focus .. 21 Non-velocity Redshifts .. 21 Plasma discharges in rock art? .. 21 Crack in Einstein's Pedestal .. 22 Kronia Mailing List Focus23 Conference: Earth Changes 2000 .. 23 Conference: Our Violent Solar System .. 23 Spall Ankh in eastern Wyoming .. 25 Tabernacles and booths .. 25 Heaven's Mirror .. 26 New Zealand Maoris Myths .. 27 Io's wandering plumes .. 28 Quotes .. 30