Theme: “Greatest Magic Trick Ever Under the Sun”

That Legendary Magician, Mr. Willy Wonka

From all over the globe, people have gathered here waiting for the hour to strike, waiting to catch a glimpse of that legendary magician Mr. Willy Wonka.

Source: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

That Made Me Wonder If He Wasn’t Ahead of His Time

Just a month before, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had left their colleague, Michael Collins, aboard spaceship Columbia and walked on the moon, beating by five months President Kennedy's goal of putting a man on the moon...

Source: My Life  by Bill Clinton

How Do You Balance Science with Science Fiction?

How do you balance science with science fiction? They're both the same.

They Are Metaphysicists Rather Than Scientists

The theory wraps all these errors and fallacies and clothes them in magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for...

A Mass of Error and Deceptive Ideas

The theory of relativity he described as "a mass of error and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of great men of science of the past and even to common sense.

Rolling Round the Central Sun

In his chapter of the antiquity of Masonry, [Captain George Smith] makes it to be coeval with creation, 'when,' says he, 'the sovereign architect raised on Masonic principles the beauteous globe, and commanded the master science, Geometry, to lay the...

Source: On the Origin of Free-Masonry  by Thomas Paine

Those Who Are the Most Captivated by Its Spell

The study of cosmology shows how our relationship to the universe and our fellow humans is inextricably conditioned by our underlying belief systems and mythologies. As every thoughtful person realizes, the life of each civilization-and every individual-is influenced by underlying...

Source: Jesus Christ, Sun of God  by David Fideler

No One Has Ever Seen It

Even figures associated with the rise of modern science and the modern world—Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton—were profoundly influenced by Hermetic ideas. Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, made a living as an astrologer, and Newton wrote more...

Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World  by Gary Lachman

CIA Funding Was Involved

The CIA's intrusion into the foundation field in the 1960s can only be described as massive. Excluding grants from the "Big Three"- Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie--of the 700 grants over $10,000 given by 164 other foundations during the period 1963-1966,...

The Use of Philanthropic Organizations

The use of philanthropic organizations was a convenient way to pass funds, in that large amounts could be transferred rapidly, and in a form that need not alert unwitting officers of the recipient organizations to their source. In addition, foundation...