Vanishings & Vortices I: The Bermuda Triangle
(This is an expert from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
Also known more melodramatically as the “devil’s triangle,” the “points” of the Bermuda Triangle lie in the vicinities of Bermuda, Miami, and Puerto Rico. Strange events have been recorded in this region since the time of Christopher Columbus, who observed compass malfunctions and a mysterious light or flame that flew past his ship and disappeared into the sea. The area’s fame began in 1872 when the Mary Celeste, a brigantine of 103-foot length, was found abandoned some 400 miles off its course with no trace of the crew aboard and with no apparent cause for them to have fled the ship. Spooky tales abounded about this disappearance, which some authors ascribed to “strange vortices” that dragged the crew down into a subterranean world known as the “hollow Earth.” More inexplicable than any other single event, however, was the disappearance in 1945 of “Flight 19,” a squadron of five U.S. Navy bombers that flew into the Bermuda Triangle region and vanished without a trace. More information about these and other odd events associated with the Triangle can be found in Everything Is Under Control (1998), as well as in the writings of author Charles Berlitz.
Inexplicable phenomena continue to occur in the Bermuda Triangle and elsewhere in the world, so much so that a writer named Gian J. Quasar has recently published what could well be an even more ambitious book than any before written on the subject. This book, entitled Into The Bermuda Triangle (2004), states, “Continuing encounters by pilots and shipmasters, for one or more terrible moments, with unexplained forces involving electronic drains, radio dead spots, power blackouts, and spontaneous compass malfunction, are contributing to the area’s growing reputation as a unique place on this globe.” Some theorists, not surprisingly, suggest that the region serves as a gateway for UFO’s, equipped with “electromagnetic propulsion systems,” to enter the Earth dimension. These UFO’s, we are told, are responsible for magnetic and electrical anomalies as well as the mysterious disappearances of ships, planes, and people. Other theories, expounded upon at length in Into The Bermuda Triangle (2004) speculate, “that time itself may warp and send ships and planes to other dimensions.” Among these, one popular theory suggests that the destructive machines built by the inhabitants of ancient Atlantis are still functioning beneath the ocean near Bermuda. This theory is supported by continuing aerial surveys which, according to Into The Bermuda Triangle (2004), “reveal surprisingly geometric and apparently manmade ruins below the surface of the ocean.” The followers of the “sleeping prophet” Edgar Cayce claim that these underwater ruins offer verification of his prophecies. Into The Bermuda Triangle (2004) further informs us concerning Cayce that, “According to his prophecies, given far in advance of the space age or the Bermuda Triangle concept, evidence for its advanced electromagnetic power sources, the abuse of which disturbed the magnetic and gravitational fields and sent it to the bottom thousands of years ago, would be found in the Bahamas.” Cayce predicted that “Poseidia,” a portion of ancient Atlantis, would “rise again” around 1968, and stone walls were indeed discovered near the island of Bimini in that year. This clear case of precognition in association with a region where vortices are alleged to be capable of warping time adds a whole new dimension to the concept “paranormal.”
Believe it or not, scientists have begun to make discoveries that explain and even partially reproduce many of the strange phenomena associated with the Bermuda Triangle. Dr. J. Manson Valentine believes that General Relativity prefigured the idea that gravity distorts time. His ideas, as they relate to the Bermuda Triangle and its phenomena, are presented in Into The Bermuda Triangle (2004), and include the idea that, “Places characterized both by concentrations of disappearances and by the persistence of unexplained electromagnetic (EM) field anomalies... may contain transient magnetic vortices capable of warping gravity locally and in turn even time or space itself.” Dr. Irwin A. Moon, director of the Moody Institute of Science, begins to sound suspiciously like a clairvoyant himself when he states in Into The Bermuda Triangle (2004) that an “undetectable spectrum” of “electromagnetic frequencies” could exist, and that therefore, “It is within the realm of scientific possibility that there could be two worlds, coexistent, occupying the same part of space at the same moment of time, each world just as real as the other...” Vanishings could thus be explained by translation of matter from one world to the other. Science has just begun to admit the possibility of the transcendental worlds of which psychics and sorcerers have always been aware.
The “vile vortices” made popular by writers like Richard B. Shaver, Raymond Bernard, and Ivan Sanderson, the same vortices blamed for crop circles and time warps, have been at least partially reproduced by the most advanced scientists and inventors of the present day. Dr. Evgeny Podkletnov, a Russian scientist working in 1996 at Tampere University in Finland, seems to have accidentally discovered a means of nullifying gravity. He constructed, for some purpose unrelated to antigravity, a ring shaped superconductor device cooled by liquid hydrogen. Into The Bermuda Triangle (2004) relates, “When the ring was made to spin at 5,000 rpm, objects suspended over the device lost a percentage of their weight. When Dr. Podkletnov tested the area directly above the device, even to the top floor of the building, he discovered a circular funnel 12 inches in diameter of less gravity that went through all floors and perhaps then extended upward into space.” Wilbert B. Smith, a Canadian physicist, discovered a counterpart to this type of antigravity “funnel,” according to Into The Bermuda Triangle (2004), in naturally occurring “funnels measuring about 1,000 feet in diameter, extending from the ocean surface to very high altitudes, wherein the magnetic and gravitational readings gave indication of less attraction to the Earth.” Even more mysterious than mere antigravity, however, are the effects of the device invented by lay scientist John Hutchison.
During an independent study of Nicola Tesla’s “longitudinal wavelengths” in 1979, John Hutchison invented a device that consisted of paraphernalia including radio transmitters, Van de Graff generators, and Tesla coils. The antigravity effects of this device, including the levitation of a bronze cylinder weighing 19 lb. to a height of eighty feet, have been recorded on video and witnessed by scientifically trained observers. According to Into The Bermuda Triangle (2004), additional effects of the device include the sudden appearance and disappearance of objects, “corona manifestations” described as “exotic lights,” the warping of metal without apparent heat, the “fusion” of distinct substances such as wood and metal, and the “invisibility of metallic objects.” All of these effects could be produced using “110 volts of AC;” in other words, ordinary household electricity. Hutchison’s equipment was seized by Canadian officials in 1990, and again in 2000, when the inventor himself was arrested at his home. With the help of German and U.S. sources, this daring inventor was nevertheless able to continue his experiments with the mysterious “Hutchison effect.” These inexplicable powers, wielded by a layman armed only with a few replicable devices and a knowledge of Tesla’s methods, amply illustrate the inadequacy of current scientific theories to explain the vast range of phenomena associated with vortices.
Clearly, forces which no one really understands are now within the grasp of human technological expertise. Sooner than we think, we may find ourselves in the same position as the ancient Atlanteans, in control of machines whose powers we cannot comprehend. These powers may destroy us, or merely cause our civilization to vanish without a trace. Then again, the continuing development of mystical consciousness may save us from the fate of our Atlantean predecessors. Higher consciousness may succeed where science has failed. If vortices really do open gateways into a transcendental world or alternate dimension, it would seem likely that someone has found a way to voluntarily enter this mysterious Otherworld. A study of disappearances could benefit us in our own search for the key to these otherworldly mysteries.
The bermuda triangle mystery continues to allude us all as an unexplained phenomenon. Does the unexplained mystery have anything to do with a Ufo or is it a natural phenomenon? Can the mystery be explained with our current understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum or is it some kind of vortex? We may never know the answer to this ancient mystery, but we can continue to search for natural understanding of this energy and the effect of this phenomenon.