Morphogenic Resonance or a Plethora
of Galactic Center Disinformation?
In June of 1979 Dr. Paul LaViolette deciphered
an ancient constellation message describing the past arrival
of a cosmic ray volley from our Galaxy's core and of its subsequent
cataclysmic effect on the Earth. The following month he wrote
this up as a short paper on this "superwave" concept.
In 1983, after 4 years of Ph.D. research, he published his dissertation
investigation of this Galactic superwaves and their connection
with cyclic global cataclysms. In this dissertation and in his
subsequent papers and books (Beyond the Big Bang and Earth
Under Fire), LaViolette has made every attempt to establish
the logical basis for every statement he has made.
However, beginning in 1991, several individuals
began writing on a similar theme of the imminent arrival of a
Galactic center energy wave, claiming to have been enlightened
on the subject directly through psychic contact with extraterrestrials.
Unfortunately, they did not subject their intuited information
to the test of reason and observation. Instead they have combined
factual concepts with fictional ideas and misrepresented them
to an unwitting public as uncontestable fact. So readers should
observe caution in selecting reading material in this area. Below
are a few examples of papers and books that present channeled
misinformation that could be confused with the scientifically
researched superwave concept.
(1981): This disinformation story actually begins in 1981 with
an article on the "photon belt" written by Shirley
Kemp and published in the Australian International UFO Research
Society magazine, and reprinted in the February/March 1991 issue
of Nexus magazine. Kemp's article focused on the Pleiades star
cluster as the source of the photon belt and made no mention
of the Galactic center. The mixing of the photon belt concept
with the idea of a Galactic center wave came later, being injected
by subsequent authors such as Robert Stanley and Barbara Hand
Clow. Kemp described the photon belt as a ring of energy that
encircles the Pleiades with its outer border presently being
positioned just about to touch our solar system. She claimed
that its presence had been detected in 1961 by satellite observations
of the Pleiades. In fact, there is no record of such a satellite
detection, nor is it likely that satellites in those days would
have been equipped to make such observations. Also neither is
there evidence of such a belt from observations with present
day ground and space based telescopes.
Furthermore Kemp claimed that in the course
of 24,000 years our solar system completes an orbit about the
star Alcyone in the Pleiades cluster and passes through the photon
belt twice in the course of a revolution, alternately bathing
in the belt for a period of 2000 years, followed by a period
of 10,000 years outside of the belt. Moreover she claimed that
during the imminent time when the solar system is within the
photon belt, the present day/night cycle would cease and be replaced
by a 2000 year-long period of continuous light during which time
humanity would be transformed into spiritually enlightened "Atmosphereans."
As for the part about the solar system orbiting
the Pleiades, or more specifically orbiting the star Alcyone,
this can be shown to be absurd. The Pleiades lie about 400 light
years away in the Taurus constellation; hence an orbit about
them would necessarily measure about 2500 light years. To circle
them in a period of only 24,000 years, the solar system would
then have to be travelling through the Galaxy at over 10 percent
the speed of light, a thousand times faster than the Earth's
orbit about the Sun. If this were true the shape of the constellations
would noticeably change within a single lifetime due to stellar
parallax effects. There is no evidence of this. Moreover to cause
such an orbital speed by gravitational action, Alcyone would
have had to be over a billion times more massive than our Sun,
thus rivaling the core of our own Galaxy. In fact, there is no
evidence of any kind that the solar system nor any of the Pleiades
stars are in orbit about Alcyone. The whole idea of the photon
belt would seem to be ludicrous were it not for the fact that
so many people have completely fallen for the idea and adopted
it as part of their reality. An additional critique of Kemp's
paper may be found at the following website: www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/8148/Pleiades.html
(1991): In the summer of 1991 Robert Stanley published an article
in Unicus magazine entitled "The Photon Zone: Earth's
Future Brightens." His article combined the photon belt
concept with a Galactic center outburst concept that had striking
similarities to LaViolette's Galactic superwave concept, but
lacked any kind of scientific or observational basis. Stanley
described the "photon zone" as a belt or toroid of
excess photons being emitted from the center of our Galaxy and
that "rotate at a 90 degree right angle to our solar system's
horizontal orbit."
Stanley apparently did not reference LaViolette's
scientific papers which describe evidence of Galactic cosmic
ray superwaves being emitted from the Galactic center, each outwardly
moving superwave shell producing a ring of electromagnetic radiation
concentric with the Galactic center and lying along the galactic
plane, accompanying the superwave as it travels outward. This
radiation zone could be termed a "photon band" or "photon
belt". LaViolette has shown that radiation coming from the
nearest of these superwave radiation rings, at its closest point
to us, would appear to originate from a region lying about 7000
light years away in the Taurus constellation region (~6500 light
years further away than the Pleiades), and that in the opposite
direction, toward the Galactic center (Scorpius constellation
region), it would lie furthest from us, about 30,000 light years
away. Thus the photon band concept which lacks supporting observational
evidence, creates a climate of confusion for those interested
in learning about the superwave concept.
Although Stanley describes this photon band
as being emitted from the Galactic center, he also presents the
contradictory notion that it is a stationary zone. Adopting many
of Shirley Kemp's proclamations, he states that the photon band
lies near our Sun and that our solar system periodically passes
through it as a result of a 26,000 year epicycle-like orbit that
it supposedly follows through space. In her book The Pleiadian
Agenda, B. H. Clow quotes Stanley as saying "our solar
system enters this area of our Galaxy [the photon zone] every
11,000 years and then passes through for 2000 years while completing
its 26,000-year galactic orbit" about the star Alcyone.
However, there is no astronomical evidence that the solar system
circumscribes a 26,000 year orbit about Alcyone. There is evidence
that the Sun orbits the Galactic center (Sagittarius A*) once
in about 200 million years, the Galactic center being situated
in a direction opposite from the Pleiades in the direction of
the Sagittarius and Scorpio constellations.
Ancient Hindu astronomers taught that the
Sun moves radially inward and outward from the Galaxy's "Grand
Center" on a 24,000 year cycle, but this would constitute
an oscillatory movement, not an "orbit". Neither is
there any reason to think that the ancients considered Alcyone,
and not Sgr A* as being the Galaxy's "Grand Center."
As described in Earth Under Fire, cyclical radial motion with
respect to the Galactic core Sgr A* could occur if superwaves
were to exert a tidal force on the Sun and planets.
(1994): The book The Pleiadian Agenda, channeled by Barbara
Hand Clow, further propagated the photon belt myth, combining
it with a Galactic center origin. In this case, however, Clow
had prior knowledge of LaViolette's ideas. In August of 1991,
LaViolette had submitted to Clow the manuscript for his book
Beyond the Big Bang (then titled Warriors of Creation)
along with the first chapter and outline for its sequel Earth
Under Fire (then titled Astrology Decoded). These
were sent to her in confidence, in her capacity as being then
Vice President editor of Bear and Company, a New Age book publisher.
These materials described LaViolette's 1979 theory that about
13,000 years ago the Earth had been affected by an expanding
"zone" or "belt" of radiation that had issued
from the Galactic center, a phenomenon he called a Galactic "superwave."
After reading this work, Clow expressed great interest in publishing
both books in revised form, especially the second book describing
the Galactic superwave. However, later in November 1991, LaViolette
had reservations about choosing this publisher and turned down
her offer to publish his books.
Some months later, in 1992, Clow says she
began psychically channeling an entity called Satya, a Pleiadian
extraterrestrial astrologer supposedly residing in the Alcyone
star system. Then, a few years later, in 1994 she reportedly
began channeling her book The Pleiadian Agenda, which
she subsequently published in 1995. Curiously, her book presented
ideas very similar to LaViolette's superwave concept, describing
a "photon band" emanating from the Galactic center,
that engulfed the Earth around 13,000 years ago bringing about
the legendary apocalyptic cataclysm. Although LaViolette was
the first to propose such an idea, and although she had prior
knowledge of Dr. LaViolette's work, Clow/Satya did not mention
his work in her book, neither did she reference his many scientific
papers nor his book Beyond the Big Bang, which were published
on this topic between 1983 and 1995. Instead, Clow/Satya only
refer to Shirley Kemp's photon belt paper and to Robert Stanley's
photon zone paper, which interestingly was published the same
summer that LaViolette had submitted his confidential manuscript
to her, and which presented ideas similar to LaViolette's superwave
idea (see above).
Like Stanley, Clow/Satya describes the impending
movement of the Earth into a stationary photon band and frames
this event in terms of a coming New Age global psychic transformation.
But in places The Pleiadian Agenda confuses the idea of
a Galactic center origin by stating that the photon band originates
from the Pleiadian star Alcyone, a region which it claims is
always bathed in the "photon band" radiation. In these
parts she describes the photon band as originating from a region
on the side of the Earth opposite to the Galactic center, hence
approaching from a direction exactly opposite from the direction
that superwaves would approach. In the direction of the Pleiades,
LaViolette's superwave event horizon (radiation zone) would instead
be receding from us, not approaching.
Disinformation is most successfully crafted
when it disseminates a distorted concept that is very close to
the target concept, thereby rendering a state of confusion. The
photon band conjecture very appropriately achieves this objective.
Around this same time, other channeled writings were published
that similarly described a "photon belt" and web pages
have sprung up disseminating these concepts. Unfortunately, rather
than being educational, these works have the potential of creating
general confusion by diverting attention about approaching Galactic
energy waves away from the Galactic center and toward the Pleiades.
(1997): Robert Cox's book Pillar of Celestial Fire, published
in 1997, also described a Galactic center influence on the Earth.
Like Beyond the Big Bang and Earth Under Fire,
this book speaks of the Galactic center producing a "ray"
or "wave" of "celestial fire" that washes
over the Earth causing geologic change, and also mentions a connection
between the Sagittarius arrow indicator and the Galactic center.
Although the book lists Beyond the Big Bang in its bibliography,
it does not cite LaViolette's prior work as the source of these
ideas. It mixes these concepts with other channeled ideas about
a "pillar of celestial fire" of pure consciousness
that it says is approaching the Earth from the direction of the
Pleiades, a location which, it claims, contains the conscious
"Center of the Universe." Thus, by calling attention
to a celestial fire phenomenon that supposedly approaches from
a direction opposite to the Galactic center, this celestial fire
concept, like the photon belt concept, participates in creating
an atmosphere of confusion.
(1998): James Gilliland circulated an email announcement claiming
the arrival of a "pulse of consciousness" from the
"center of the universe" whose secondary cause is a
luminous "photon belt" and which he claims is responsible
for solar and geomagnetic disturbances currently going on. Although
Gilliland writes that this pulse "has been observed and
measured, in fact his "knowledge" of it comes from
psychic channeled contacts that he claims he has had with Pleiadians
during close encounters with their spacecraft. Could he and others
be unwitting participants in an extraterrestrial disinformation
campaign?
(1998): On his website, Drunvalo Melchizedek published an incorrect
announcement that the Galactic center has been seen to "pulse
huge amounts of energy out into the universe" since the
time of December 14, 1997 and that in June of 1998 the "beeper"
satellite "was destroyed by one of these blasts from the
center of our galaxy." In fact, no such thing had happened.
Up to the present, the Galactic center has been observed to continue
its relatively quiescent state. The "psychic scientist"
who supplied Melchizedek this disinformation later withdrew his
Galactic center pronouncement. But it has been well over 8 months
now and Melchizedek has still persisted in leaving this startling
disinformaition on his website. Melchizedek was aware of Dr.
LaViolette's scientific work since a year earlier he had attended
a seminar in which LaViolette had spoken about Galactic superwaves
and had purchased a copy of Earth Under Fire from him.
However, for some reason he chose not to consult LaViolette to
check the validity of the information he posted.