Saved because the web seems to erase hide shadow ban censor falsify mislead stuff.
There's a ton of editing to do but I'm throwing it out now because I have to sleep.
The PYRAMID, by Les Brown
Re-edited by Ken as there is a ton of errors.
I'm a perfectionist, sort of.
Published in Bancroft, Ontario, Canada 1978 and here for Fair Use by Emily Cragg for abide miracles and Holy conservancy,
2005A RAY OF HOPE ON OUR PLUNDERED PLANET
Understand the Truth About Destruction of Earth's Atmosphere
INTRODUCTION TO THE CURRENT EDITION
The need to create a living BioSpace has never been greater. Cities are choked with bad, stale and rotting air. Grocery produce doesn't have the nutrients, the minerals, that healthy people need to live well. The pace of life for commuters is frantic and half-baked. Land is very expensive where work exists; and where land is cheap, there is no paying work for uneducated soul--just drudge work, repetitive work, rule-based work. If you buy this book, it's because you want freedom from the rat race. Please note, however, what you are gaining here is the freedom to become responsible for yourself. This means, you're going to get busy, learn how to
manage your debt until you get out of debt entirely and get on with living debt-free.
Yes, you'll get away from traffic, schedules and day timers, but you'll have to remember to water your plants every day. Instead of living by the clock, like farmers back in time and forward to Eternity, you will live by the seasons, by the rain or lack of it, by the temperature and air flow and humidity and effort of your own hands.
If you don't want to do that, just put this book away now. This book is about farming on the roof of your own home--1800 square feet of farming, a 30foot by 60-foot garden plot within the protective covering in which you also live, eat, sleep and carry on. ... After all, people take pets into their homes that dirty things up and make messes on the floor, why not take plants into your home that product oxygen, food and beauty and don't chew on your slippers?
Now, think about this for a while! Yeah, I suppose someone could build a pyramid home and use it for an art studio or day care center for older latchkey kids. Or, how about an orchid nursery? It'd be a great bird sanctuary or herb atrium. Yes, you could put a playroom on the main level, and garden plants only on upper levels so the kids would be out of your hair on dull, cold days. This pyramid is too pretty to be used as a machine shop or wood shop. My, how to outrage the wife! She'd never forgive that--the guys upstairs where it's all light and beauty making their messes with welding torches and quenching pots, dropping hardware on the floor. No, I don't think so. But-- you know--give it some thought. Anything's possible. ["But did you ever try to strike a match on a wet cake of soap?"
Let's get on with Les Brown's little Book.
Chapter 1: Observations
Chapter 2: Why a Pyramid?
Chapter 3: The Source of Pyramid Energy
Chapter 4: How the Energy Affects Living Cells
Chapter 5: The use of Pyramids for Production
Chapter 6: Food Preservation
Chapter 7: How to Build a Pyramid
Chapter 8: The Myriad Uses of Pyramids
9.Appendix
INTRODUCTION
With the earth's wide-open spaces, enormous expanses on which to grow food, seemingly limitless water and only [6.6 in 2004--ED.] billion people inexistence, one person in every nine is starving to death. That many are literally dying from lack of food; they are not just hungry, as is an even greater percentage of the world's population.
How, then, can mankind possibly hope to feed themselves by the time there are sixteen people alive for everyone here today? This is a dilemma which I hope to provide a means of solving with this book. It is a problem to which I am dedicating my life's work. These are the figures which day by day have been growing steadily starker within my mind. Every time I turn on the radio, read a newspaper, or watch a TV program, I see hammered home the fact that while I am well and satisfyingly fed, myriads of other people mostly in underdeveloped countries throughout the world, are suffering from the wormlike threading's of hunger pains in their bellies as they lie down to sleep at night.
Life on our world is powered by light. Light from the Sun, which passes through the clear air, is harvested by plants and powers them to combine carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates and other foodstuffs, which inturn provide the staple diet of herbivorous animals and people. Our planet is indivisible. In North America we breathe oxygen generated inthe Brazilian rain forest. Acid rain from polluting industries in the American Midwest destroys Canadian forests. Radioactivity from a Soviet nuclear accident compromises the economy and culture of Lapland. The burning ofcoal in China warms Argentina. Diseases rapidly spread to the farthest reaches of the planet and require a global medical effort to be eradicated. And, of course, nuclear war imperils everyone. Like it or not, we humans arebound up with our fellows and with the other plants and animals all over the world. Our lives are intertwined.
If technology destroys the ability of the atmosphere to cleanse itself, then we are all doomed together--plants, animals and people. So, we need tore think survival, when in fact our governments are dead set on powdering the atmosphere with poisonous aluminum and barium powders that result in
oxidation of the ozone layer and depletion of atmospheric oxygen. We better get under the cover of glass and plants, or we'll be extinct, quickly.
This has grown to be a thought which constantly tortures me. For a long time I have wondered what could be done. Since childhood I have had the dream of growing food in greenhouses in some revolutionary fashion: more, better and bigger crops than have ever been grown. With this aim in view, seven years ago I bought myself a secluded farm in the country near Bancroft, Ontario, retired myself from the unbelievably busy life of a fashionable interior decorator in Toronto, and started planning for the monster greenhouses I intended to erect upon my farm. Three incidents sufficed to redirect my planning. First, I read a book,
Chariots of the Gods,
by Van Deniken in which he postulated the theory that in incredibly long-gone Aeon extraterrestrial beings visited the earth--"gods"--and left part of their beings and of their intelligence as a legacy for the children they sired upon the aboriginal earth inhabitants with whom they cohabitated. Part of this legacy, it is postulated by some, may lie in the pyramids.
Secondly, after extensive and painstaking experiments with the pyramid, I proved to myself, as others have done, that the pyramid is a blessing in disguise, one that could possibly be the ultimate saving of mankind as far as the growth and storage of food are concerned.
Lastly, I attended a lecture a few years ago in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, sponsored by pyramid authorities Alfred Ward and Bruce Knapp. Alfred Ward operates a franchise for selling pyramid products manufactured by a firm in Glendale, California, and Bruce Knapp is animateur pyramidologist residing in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
At the lecture I was astonished to hear my theories being spoken by Knapp. He too thought that the "gods," foreseeing the calamitous impasse to which mankind would one day bring themselves by their unbridled sexual appetites and lack of planning for the future, decided to give their earthling successors an idea as to how they could raise vast amounts of food in small spaces and, more importantly, how they could store that food by the use of pyramidal shapes. This last incident was the impetus which finally turned my thoughts of conventional greenhouses, already dented by Von Deniken's book, towards
pyramidal greenhouses, to be built of wood in exact proportion to the measurements of the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza in Egypt.
I felt that the pyramids of the world, brooding through the centuries, their ultimate secrets there to be seen but as yet unread by blind humanity, tourist attractions at best, were about to play their destined part in the "gods'" endeavor to save us from the results of our own folly. Humbly enough, I felt that maybe it was to be my part in the universal scheme of things to be the catalyst which would transform theory into fact, change pyramids from one of the wonders of the ancient world to one of the saviors of the modern. Since nobody else seemed interested in trying the practical use of pyramid son a large scale for the growing the conservation of food, and since I had thought of it, it was obviously up to me to initiate steps which might possibly result in the children being born today having enough food to eat when the reached my age. Many people throughout the world were dabbling in experiments with pyramidal shapes. It has been shown, conclusively enough to satisfy me, that these shapes do have an effect upon plant growth. So why not combine my dream of monster greenhouses with the demonstrated ability of the pyramids to force plant growth? If the theories should not prove correct, only I would be the loser. If, on the other hand, as I strongly feel, the theories do hold water, mankind in general would be the beneficiary.
These were the thoughts, then, behind the erection of the first of my pyramids in 1974. This pyramid has been the subject of a number of TV and radio programs and of magazine and newspaper articles. Some of you who are reading these words may already be acquainted with my dream and its embryonic fulfillment. Insofar as is known, this is the first large-scale pyramid anywhere in the world for the express purpose of raising substantial crops.
I have done much research along the way and so far have brought to light several related and sometimes seemingly unrelated phenomena associated with the use of pyramids. Since I have no wish to stir up hornets' nests and arguments with the scientific professions, I am waiting until these phenomena are well enough documented for acceptance by the scientific community and will then release them through the usual channels.
One of my strongest wishes today is to encourage others to experiment with pyramids, for I am convinced that there are unbelievably wide horizons to be explored in this area, and only by countless people experimenting on their own will new uses of the pyramids come to light. One need not hold a doctorate in physics or any other scientific field in order to experiment; ani ordinary curiosity and the ability to make a simple pyramidal shape are sufficient to launch one into unravelling some of the mysteries left hidden by the proposed extraterrestrial visitors of ancient times.
To be of any value, however, the experiments must be meticulously documented. The day, the time, the weather, where the experiment is carried out, whether it is indoors or out, exactly what is done step by step, room or outside temperatures, or whether near to metals, electrical apparatus or wiring, metal fences or expanses of water are all factors which must be taken into account and recorded, anything that later may help you to draw useful conclusions about your results. Controls should be made, one subject under pyramid conditions being used simultaneously with one or more subjects under normal conditions.
In conducting pyramid experiments you should look daily for signs of changeand note them meticulously, and above all be patient. Don't plant a seed oneday and expect to have a plant six feet high the next. A plant takes just aslong to develop inside a pyramid as it does outside, but in time you will seethe tremendous difference in results, with respect to size. Also, don't keepmoving plants around inside your the pyramid during an experiment; leave pots stationary so what you see is what you are getting.
In later pages this book will show you how to make your own pyramids forexperimentation; they can be constructed entirely from inexpensivematerials equally as well as from costly ones. Cardboard, wire, plywood oranything rigid enough to retain the pyramid shape will suffice. The pyramiddoes not necessarily have to be solid; in many experiments just the outlineshape is sufficient, provided that it is jointed at all corners and at the apex.
Once you have made a discovery, record it on paper and put it into practice.Not only do you stand to gain a sense of achievement, but you might discoversomething of inestimable benefit to mankind in its titanic struggle forexistence.
In addition to showing you how to build pyramids of all types, this book willalso:1.
explore the source of pyramid energy;2.
discuss how that energy affects living cells;3.
look into the use of pyramids in food production;4.
discuss pyramids and food preservation;5.
discuss the many different uses of pyramids.6.
How to plan and execute an energizer to enliven any too-dormant partof your structure.
EDITOR'S NOTES: The author passed away in the 1990's and his work mustcarry on if humanity is to learn self-sufficiency.It is known from applying heat-conveying properties of glass structures tothe side of a building that an atrium or greenhouse heats the structure towhich it is attached. So, we have appended a simple houseplan to thispyramid-structure concept-- as the base upon which a pyramid-type glassgreenhouse will serve as 1) roof; 2) heat source; 3) garden-space food source3) interior-light source and 4) oxygen-source.It is for the reason that we have become an oxygen-deprived people that wemust change the way we live and exist on the surface of the ground, orperish from weakness, from pollution and from chemical intrusions.And now, the author's text.
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Over the past few years, since the first publicity on my pyramid inSeptember 1974, I have had literally hundreds of requests for informationon the subject of pyramids. It has become apparent that the only way I canaccede to all these requests and still have time to pursue my aims with thepyramid is to write small monographs in expensive book form. These will getone started on building and using pyramids, and further discoveries will
become the subjects of future books I am including in this book discoveriesI have made as well as those made by friends and acquaintances across theNorth American continent and in other parts of the world. For the latterreports I thank the discoverers and wish to take no credit myself.
I myself see the pyramid as a symbolic sunburst of knowledge, with raysemanating from the center. Following any one of these rays one would learnwho knows what, eacy ray being a new train of thought from a separateindividual. Somewhere along the line, finally, all the rays would beincorporated into a circle in which they would all be interrelated. My own"thing" is the search for bigger, better and more bountiful crops with whichto feed the growing hordes already beginning to crowd the earth beyondendurance.
We must prepare today for tomorrow. We must find new and unorthodoxways to produce nutrients, or possibly our children and for certain ourgrandchildren, will face a real and ghastly danger of ending up the image ofthe perambulating human skeletons we see so frequently on our TV screens,listlessly suffering and awaiting a miserable death. It makes me sick to seeit. Mankind must realize [they are] faced with a friehtening snowball, thisgargantuan increase in the number of human mouths to be fed. If it is a factthat we cannot feed our current population--and it is a fact--next year willbe worse, and ten years from now will be unimaginable. How then will we beable to cope in 50 years? Even with the latest technical advances--hybridization, multi-story greenhouses, fertilizers, automatic feeding andwatering, artificial lighting--we are falling further and further behind in ourbid to feed the world. If we do not come up with some solution--and soon--mankind seems doomed.
The politicians seem almost completely unperturbed, but then who everheard of a hungry politician?! Wherever I look, inertia and disinterest seemto prevail in high places. This is why I have decided it is up to us ordinarypeople to take the initiative. If the men and women we pay and trust toshoulder these burdens refuse to assume them, we will just have to fend forourselves.
It is my belief that the pyramid is the answer to current and future foodshortages. Using pyramids, I sincerely believe that I can grow 36 times more
and better plants in a given area than any farmer or market gardener can inthe same area, using conventional methods.
CHAPTER II
WHY A PYRAMID
The energy that keeps this world in balance and maintains its position in theuniverse, the energy that keeps us alive, and which is part and parcel ofeverything in this earth, is magnetic energy. The magnetic field is of acertain intensity, but since some objects qare more receptive to it, they areaffected by the energy more than are other objects. Paradoxically, thisinequality of energy attraction is precisely what keeps everything on earth inbalance. Man's investigation of magnetic energy has allowed him to progressscientifically to his present-day standard of living. That investigation led tothe development of electricity and the millions of machines, appliances,heating, lighting and power that it gives us. Without such progress we wouldnot know what a car was; there would be no television, radio, telephone orcomputers. We would be living in a world as untouched as the day it dawned.While such a world might seem highly desirable now, man nevertheless sawwhat he thought would better his life and he went after it. He realized thatthe magnetic force, if collected and condensed, would give him a force withwhich he could make inanimate objects move for him, and if he learned how
to control it, the sky was the limit. But first he had to find a means ofcollecting and then boosting it to suit his purpose. So electricity was born.Man's progression since then is history.
That is, history as we know it. It is my theory, however, that long beforeman as we know him, from the Garden of Eden to the present day, was onthis earth, there were beings of far greater intelligence in residence, whooriginated outside this earth. I believe they may have begun as we did andprogressed similarly, often using their progress for the wrong purposes,seeking selfish gain for themselves as man so frequently does today.
I believe these beings became so advanced in their technology that they feltthey could do without God. They felt they knew it all, their inventions madethem wealthy, their wealth gave them power, and once that power developed,they believed they were masters of their own destiny. They felt they nolonger needed God's help, and as a result were destroyed. Only those wholived in God's image survived. With His guidance they resided on earth andused their advanced technology to benefit mankind.
I believe these beings eventually escaped with their knowledge back towhere they had come from originally and, as evidenced by the numerouspresent-day UFO sightings, I believe they have been watching mankindprogress along a similar path toward destruction as did their ownpredecessors. They are warning us through psychics to change our waysbefore it is too late. In this modern age of greater acceptance of psychicphenomena, I suggest we heed such warnings, particularly those of suchnoted psychics as Edgar Cayce. History has always repeated itself, but nowwe have a chance to break the repetition, if only we will listen. I believethese people of long ago were Atlantians and that they will return in the not-too-distant future.
Not only are psychics trying to pass on the warnings of these people, but theAtlantians also left us, centuries ago, the Pyramid Cheops, also known as theGreat Pyramid. Their purported technology would have been the only suchadvanced technology in existence at the time, capable of building suchstructures as the pyramids. Even today's engineers admit that we could notduplicate the Pyramid Cheops with present technology. My belief is that theGreat Pyramid embodies pure truth and we will only survive if we use truthas our basic principle. Those who do not will perish just as the majority of
Atlantians did before us. The Great Pyramid is a giant computer, built in thepast to contain our future. It is a great receiver and transmitter withtremendous power, far beyond present-day man's imagination, and in itsbeautiful lines it contains the solutions to most of man's problems, plus themost important content of all, teachings akin to those of the Bible, showingman how to live in peace and harmony. I feel very fortunate in being allowedto show you some of the Great Pyramid's teachings, its benefits, and itsperformance.
This book is only elementary in that its purpose is to introduce you to thebasics of the study of the pyramids. My next book will take you through aprogression of fields of which you may only dream. From my experiments andresearch I possess knowledge about the pyramids that I will impart in futurewritings. Such knowledge is far too much for you to accept until youunderstand something about the basics. That is the background I hope thisbasic book will give you.
Before we can discuss energy, we first must construct something with whichto collect it. All kinds of shapes; contain energy, even the materials theseshapes are formed with, and the very nature of the shapes themselvesdetermines the degree of energy they contain, that is, the shape determinesreceptability to energy. By shapes I refer mainly to cubes, spheres,triangles, pyramids and such. Each shape has potential, but they all havedifferent limits. Whatever we do in our everyday lives, we strive for thebest. So it is with shapes and the energy they contain; we should seek theone that offers the most potential.
Of all shapes, the pyramid will give us the best performance because it isreceptacle to the greatest amount of energy. It must be four-sided, ofspecific measurements and correct angles, and must be correctly oriented.Where do we look for this specific data? We know that the Great PyramidCheops at Giza in Egypt performs well today, but undoubtedly nothing like itdid when it was complete with smooth surface and capstone. It is now knownthat upon completion the Great Pyramid included a capstone and covering ofseven feet of white limestone alabaster. This material, which helped thepyramid function at its fullest, subsequently was robbed from the pyramidfor use as building material. Even without it, however, we can measureCheops, as many have, and come up with enough data to work with, but one
must go further than the measurements themselves to understand whythese measurements have such meaning.
We must go back to the time when a much higher intelligence than ours hada pyramid on the drawing board. The pyramid was not built for its looks, orby accident or coincidence, and it did not simply start to perform to theAtlantians' amazement. Instead, it was built because they knew beforehandthat it would do all of that for which they planned it. In my research of thepyramid I have gone beyond where your wildest dreams might take you; butfor the present will stick to basics, taking you step by step, showing youwhat the pyramid does and why and how it works, so that you will be able tofollow up my studies in a safe and sensible progression. The word safe maysound a little ominous, and well it should because there are dangers in usingthe pyramid blindly without knowledge of its functions and its greatpotential.
Having set the stage, let's get to the pyramid itself. The pyramid is builtwith straight lines of specific length and orientation. This is how we arriveat the line proportions. (See Fig. 1.) Imagine cutting the world in half at theequator (try this with an orange), taking the top half and cutting it into fourquarters or quadrants, then taking one of these quarters and taking the peeloff. Flatten out the peel and you will have a triangle with curved sides; trimthe curve off without taking anything off the length and you will end up withone face side of a perfect pyramid.(NOTE:
If you constructed each triangle as the cone-shape without squaringthe bottom, energy yield as a direct-current battery would becomedangerous to life unless it was tapped off and used.
--Ed.)Having squared each triangle, put all four triangular shape pieces of peeltogether and you have transformed the northern hemisphere into a pyramid.The bottom corners of the base fit perfectly into the circle of the equator,and the sides lead up to its North Pole.
Using these proportions, any pyramid will function in unison with the naturalelements that we enjoy, the natural elements that keep us alive and theworld in balance. Change this ratio of measurement and you will drop belowpar in performance. The further you deviate from this formula the lessperformance you will get. Of course, we cannot build a pyramid as large as
the northern hemisphere, but whatever size is built, if built in correct rationto the Great Pyramid of Cheops, it will give 100 percent performance.
I will not go into all the details of the Great cheops, but will mention a few, just to illustrate that this ratio was strictly adhered to, plus a few moreitems which indicate that it is not just a beautiful structure, but wasplanned for a purpose. Cheops covers approximately 13.1 acres and is squareat the base, as we shall see it must be. It has been measured throughout thecenturies by many brilliant men, using cubits, metrics and inches, and after years of controversy as to whose measurements were right, the consensusof opinion accepted inches as being nearest to the correct measurement.The distance around the base of Cheops is 36,524.24 inches, which coincidesremarkably with the 365.24 days of our lunar year. If we add together thediagonals of the Great Pyramid's base, we find the sum to be 25,827 inches,a figure which also represents the number of years in the precession of theequinox.
The pyramid has five points and four sides plus a base. The line extendingfrom the point sphere it would touch the Equator up to the North Pole (baseside corner to peak), leans in at 51 degrees, 51 minutes, 14 seconds. Sincethis book was intended to simplify matters so that you can conduct pyramidstudies with ease, here is a simple way to figure out a perfectlyproportioned pyramid of any size (See Figure 2.) Predetermine the length ofone side of your base (A). Now on paper, draw a square to your base, thendivide it into four quarters. Now, draw a diagonal (B) down one of the smallsquares and measure it. Mark that measurement from the base up thecenter line (C). This will be the length of the apothem, that is, the length ofthe center line down one of the sloping sides of the pyramid. Finish off thetriangle by drawing two lines (D) and (E), each running from the top of themark you have made on the center line (C) down to a bottom corner of yourbase. By measuring these lines you now have the length of the side edges of your pyramid, and you already know the base measurement.
When you look at the triangle you have just drawn, it may look too tall, butdon't forget that it has to lean in to join with the other three sides. Whenall four sides are put together you will have a pyramid the right height andleaning in at 51 degrees, 51 minutes, 14 seconds.
This method can be used for any size pyramid, whether it is two inches alongits base or 46'1-1/4". There are other methods of constructing a perfectpyramid, but this is the easiest. Let's assume that you have not built yourpyramid, and we'll talk about the energy. I personally believe that theanswer to the puzzle of the pyramid's energy is right under our noses, butthat scientists are looking beyond the obvious.Until recently, comparatively speaking, it was assumed that the historicallyancient Egyptians built the pyramids at the orders of their kings asmausoleums for the latter. This theory has been proven false by the factthat, so far as I know, no traces of any mummified human remains haveactually been reported as having been found in any pyramid. It is highlyquestionable too whether primitive men, using bronze picks, wooden rollersand ropes, could possibly have erected these gargantuan edifices whichmodern civil engineers have declared would be almost impossible to constructeven with the most advanced technical methods of today. Why then shouldthe extraterrestrial beings have decided upon such a task, and how did theyaccomplish it?As to the how, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics depict many devices which arerecognizable as types of technological equipment in use today. Electricgenerators, electric bulbs, etc. However, there are others, obviously tools,for which no counterpart exists today and about which we can onlyconjecture. Possibly, even probably, they were devices which were used forsuch tasks as cutting, transporting and lifting the gigantic blocks of stonewith which the pyramids were built. These blocks range from two to 70 tonsin weight. The work forces, the laborers, were probably the aboriginalinhabitants the extraterrestrial beings met on earth, educated in the use ofthe building implements by the superbeings who were the designers of thepyramids (10,500 years ago--Ed.).
As to the why, it is certain that there were many reasons behind thebuilding of these unique edifices: landmarks, aerial beacons, trig points forcartographers, storage structures or temples, but more than anything else,for power of one sort or another. Each day gives birth to some newconception of the intended use of the pyramids.
CHAPTER III
THE SOURCE OF PYRAMID ENERGIES
In the preceding chapters I have mentioned pyramid energy. Of what doesthis energy consist? Whence does it come? Although I have no collegedegrees, I have an extensive education in practical experience. I have apractical and inquiring mind and have bent myself to searching for some kindof answer to these questions. The answers I have amassed are based onmuch research of my own particular brand, called performance. When youget exactly the same results with man-produced energy as you do with apyramid, then you can say that at least here is one of the energies of thepyramid. I say one because there is more than one type of energy involved inthe pyramid, but the main type is magnetic energy.
My theory is at least as good any anybody else's; for insofar as I am awareno one has been able to prove in a scientific manner what the energyundoubtedly generated by a pyramid consists of. There has been talk ofbiocosmic rays, cosmic rays and other esoteric forces, but the plain truth isthat nobody knows for sure just what happens inside the pyramid. Because
of the experiments I have done and the results I have obtained, bothsuccesses and failures. I have abundant evidence to back up what I am aboutto say. I can prove conclusively that the pyramid receives and collectsmagnetic energy from the poles, cosmic rays, which is radiation coming infrom all angles in equal strengths, and radio waves. There is enoughinformation on these three energy forms to fill another book, but that wouldbe far too advanced for the beginner.the first two energies mentioned, magnetic and cosmic rays, enter thepyramid through the peak; radio waves enter through the sides. Since theseenergies come from many angles, there is a curling that takes place as theyare absorbed, and some reports I have read state that the energy swirlsclockwise on a sunny day and counterclockwise on a dull day or at night. Ipersonally can find no reason for it to change direction according to light,nor do I recognize this in my experiments. However, of importance is that itdoes collect down through the peak and continues coming in until it reaches acertain intensity, or the limits of safety, at which point the pyramid releasesall the energy and begins collecting it again. Kirlian photographs taken ofpyramid generators show this energy, invisible to the naked eye, beingreleased in jets up through the apexes of the pyramids. The pyramid is saidto release 80% of its energy through the peak and the other 20% via thefour base corners (See Figure 3).
Only a pyramid will perform this way, and even then the maximumperformance is obtained only by a perfect pyramid. So, when you start tobuild one, aim at perfection. The nearer you can get to a perfect pyramid,the more you will benefit.
CHAPTER IV
HOW ENERGIES AFFECT LIVING CELLS
The main purpose of this small book, in addition to acquainting you with thebasics of the pyramids, is to show you how you can grow bumper crops withthe use of a pyramid. The magnetic field plays a very important part in plantlife, animal life and of course human life. Nothing would thrive without it, infact nothing could live without it. In our day-to-day lives we are used toseeing plants and animals of the same type or breed grow to normal size inaddition to periodic occasions in which one or more of these varieties growsfar and above the expected. There is a reason for these occasional episodesof supergrowth. It can be explained, or should I say, in various ways. It couldbe due to that particular piece of soil, well fertilized and watered, or a"supergrown" plant could be in the same kind of soil, with the sameconditions, as those plants growing normally, but positioned perhaps near ametal fence. In nearly every instance, anything growing by an iron fence willbe bigger and better than one nowhere near metal. The reason is that theiron fence picks up static or magnetic energy and feeds it to the plant.
I remember my mother and grandmother placing large nails in the soil oftheir potted house plants because plants thus treated always grew biggerand better. They had no idea why. In fact, if you asked them, the standardanswer was that, as the nail rusted, the plant fed on it. This reasoning isfallible, however, because for one thing, plants can only absorb minerals inliquid form and for another, the rust would kill some plants. Rather, the nailspicked up the magnetic energy and boosted the house plants' growth. Isuppose you can see that what I am driving at is that when a plant receivesan extra dose of energy to that already floating free in the atmosphere,that dose acts as a stimulant and causes better growth. What really happensis that the living cells are increased in size, and naturally when each cell islarger, since there are still the same number of cells, the final plant is a lotlarger than normal. To illustrate, if I fill a basin half full of dried peas andfill it up with water, by the time the peas have completely soaked they fillthe basin. There are still the same number of peas, but there appear to bemany more.
Similarly, if you plant a plant in a pyramid, the same sort of thing happens,but there is a difference. As detailed earlier, the pyramid collects magneticenergy and absorbs it to a higher intensity than the nails in the plant potsdid, a much greater intensity or strength, and so the end result is, you canexpect enormous growth, and when this is applied to vegetables and fruits,the plants, as well as their products, are immensely oversized. My ownexperiments have convinced me that this energy creates a special reaction inliving cells of plants, resulting in larger blooms, leaves and fruits on whateverplants are propagated within the pyramidal shape.
The normal life cycle of lettuce, for instance, from seed to maturity, is sixto eight weeks. Grown under a pyramid the life cycle is still the same, butthe plant is considerably larger. If one allows the vine type of tomato tomature to six or seven trusses under a pyramid while simultaneously allowingan identical plant to do the same outside the pyramid, giving both plantsprecisely the same feeding and watering, a startling difference in yieldoccurs. I should mention that if you put your outside plant too near thepyramid, it will reach for, and receive, some of the pyramid's energy, so keepit well away to get a fair test. The outside tomatoes would weigh out atapproximately 10 to 14 pounds per plant, whereas the plant grown in theenergy of the pyramid would produce between 50 and 60 pounds oftomatoes. Not every type of plant grown under a pyramid will produce thisincrease; this is the average that I have come to expect from tomatoes.
A few more averages I have obtained repeatedly were: lettuce two to threetimes larger than average; beans 25 inches long by 1-1/4 inches wide;cabbage--when controls were three pounds each, the pyramid-grown plantswere 12 to 13 pounds per head; radishes that normally would be the size of aquarter were four inches in diameter; controlled cucumbers that averaged14 inches in length and weighed up to one pound normally, were 21 inches longand weighed up to four pounds when grown in the pyramid.
A few more averages I have obtained repeatedly were: Lettuce two to threetimes larger than average; beans 25 inches long by 1-1/4 inches wide;cabbage-- when controls were three pounds each, the pyramid-grown plantswere 12 to 13 pounds per head; radishes that normally would be the size of aquarter were four inches in diameter; controlled cucumbers that averaged14 inches in length and weighed up to one pound normally, were 21 inches longand weighed up to four pounds when grown in the pyramid that warms yourwhole house and cleanses the air you breathe.
Energized air in the pyramid also appears inimical to small insects; though,there is no need for pesticides to be used within its glass walls. Pest-freeplants grow to maturity inside, with none of the setbacks plants subject tonormal attack from pests suffer in the garden outside. This also means thatpyramid-grown vegetables need no washing upon harvesting. The mereappearance of such plants is more appetizing than that of those grownnormally. Greens are more vivid, and many leaves have a sheen which isnoticeably absent from plants in kitchen gardens. Artificial fertilizers will
never be used in my pyramid. Since many fertilizers apparently are becomingshort in supply themselves, the ability to grow plants without their use is adouble blessing for all mankind. I will use natural farmyard manures, thebest way to regain succulent taste and nutrition that are missing for too longin engineered and chemicalized food.
An egg broken out of its shell and left within the confines of the pyramidwill gradually congeal and become like plastic, as the interior energy works onits cells--harmlessly. The cells do not die nor induce putrefaction. After aperiod of even weeks or months these congealed eggs can be reconstitutedin water to the point where they can be eaten with complete safety--andtaste even more delicious than eggs produced in the usual ways.
BTW, one peculiar phenomenon I have observed under my large pyramid isthe formation of dew upon plants inside, early in the morning. During all my years of experience with greenhouses I never noticed dew forming on anyplants in conventional greenhouses. This dew gently dissipates as the sungrows stronger, exactly as it would outside. Also, after a recentthunderstorm, my pyramid cucumbers grew two to two and a half inches in amatter of a few hours.
CHAPTER V
THE USE OF PYRAMIDS FOR PRODUCTION
The pyramid reproduced on the front of this book is my prototype for largerones. This one was purely for research and would need to be much greater insize for production on a large scale. In building the prototype I encounteredand overcame virtually all the problems one can expect to meet in this typeof construction. It is nothing like building a house, and whereas a slightdifference in measurements can be overcome in a house, it is not possible tomake a mistake in a pyramid and carry on building. The particular piececontaining the error must be pulled out and replaced correctly, as anymistake is transferred all the way around the pyramid.
This test model is 30 feet high along a perpendicular line from ground topeak. The sides from base corner to peak are 44 feet 4-1/2 inches, with abaseline of 46 feet 10-1/2 inches. It contains two additional floors aboveground, and the sum of the areas of these two floors equals or is greaterthan that of the ground floor. Thus, the two additional floors virtuallydouble the growing area. My first floor is 12 feet from the ground, andthere is a reason for this. I calculated that when the sun was at its highestpoint the first floor would have to be positioned at a 12-foot height to allowthe sun to shine onto the back north edge of the ground floor. The 12-footheight was perfect, its achievement resulting from a mixture of good judgment and a bit of luck. However, I would not need to build a growinglevel at this height again because there are as many plants that grow well inshade as there are those that favor the sun. In the future my floors will allbe eight feet apart, and I will put my sun-loving plants in the southern halfand my shade-loving ones in the back northern half.
By placing the floors at eight-foot intervals there is much more growing areaavailable than there is in placing the first floor at a 12-foot height. Inaddition, utilizing this lower height allows upper floors to decrease moreslowly in size than they would if placed farther apart, for as the peak of thepyramid is approached, the floors decrease in area at each progression. Oneof the benefits obtained with these extra floors is that since heat rises,there are higher temperatures on each floor toward the top of the pyramid.This allows a wide range of crops to be grown.
To illustrate the temperature differential, if the ground floor were 75degrees Fahrenheit, the second floor would be 90 degrees, and the thirdfloor would be around 105 to 115 degrees, each floor carrying more humidity.This means that anything from cool to tropical crops can be grown within onepyramid. The ground floor is perfect for such crops as radishes, lettuce,carrots, beets, tomatoes, etc., while the second floor is ideal for cucumbers,squash, peppers, and plants that like it hotter and more humid than the firstfloor. Of course, the top floor can be used for lemons, oranges, figs andespecially, orchids.
The pyramid draws in its own water on the ground floor; I have never had towater that level [because his is built directly on the ground--ED]. It neverdraws too much or too little water, just the right amount for growth.Naturally, I have to pump water to the upper floors, but because the firstfloor provides its own water supply, at least half of my pyramid is wateredfor nothing automatically. I grow right in the ground the pyramid stands on,but upstairs I have placed wooden planting troughs all around the floors,leaving room to walk, and I grow plants in these. It is a major job getting thesoil to the upper floors initially, but it is only a one-time task. The troughsare 16 inches high and 14 inches wide, and contain a bottom. There is a runall around the edge of each of the upper floors and another inside, leavingenough room to work, with a gap on each side allowing passage from one runto the other.
Space in the pyramid is utilized to the utmost. In the low areas at theperimeter I plant the kind of plants that need little headroom, and thenplant bigger crops toward the middle. It is a matter of common sense. Butusing vine type tomatoes and stringing them up, one can work between therows better, and if the lower leaves are removed, there is sufficient spaceto grow lettuce, cabbage or any low-lying crop in between the tomato plants.The trusses may be left on the tomatoes; they will not shade the low-lyingplants. To ensure a steady supply of food, it is wise to plant only a few plantsof each variety at intervals, which means that in the beginning it will takeseveral weeks to reap a full harvest, but subsequently there will be acontinuous yield.
By planting in such a manner, the grower will realize the equivalent ofapproximately six full crops a year. This method applies only to an enclosedpyramid, which would also require heating in the winter. The means of
heating is up to the individual. I personally use a wood stove because I havemy own wood supply. A wood and oil combination is best because it allows oneto take off for a couple of days if necessary. If the wood fire gets low, thenthe oil burner takes over.
As for growing potentials of the floors of the pyramid, I have found thatthe second floor is the best place for germinating new seeds. I find that Ican get germination in three days on that floor, whereas it usually takes fivedays otherwise.
Thus far I have described the pyramid from the growing aspect only to thepoint of showing you how and where to grow crops, but let's take a look at afew statistics on production. Your garden, for instance, will only give onecrop a year, but the pyramid through the means I suggest will give you sixcrops per year. Now let's compare two pieces of ground, both the same size,one with a pyramid on it. Say the garden is 50 feet square and the pyramid is50 feet square. The upper floors inside the pyramid give you approximately2,500 square feet of growing area upstairs to go along with your groundfloor area of 2,500 square feet, and you are getting six crops per floor asopposed to one, or twice times six, the equivalent of 12 times your garden yield.Nor is that all of the advantage. Recall from the previous chapter mydiscussion of the increase in size of the plant cells; this itself gives anaverage of three times the size of a normal crop. Multiplying the 12 times bythe size of the crop, you are 36 times better off than with a single garden.[Keeping the soil mulched, enriched and well- drained naturally is more of anissue in a pyramid, than a once-a-year garden presents. --ED]
Now you see why I use a pyramid. If we can produce crops at this rate, itmeans that the ballooning population of the world could double a few timesand still be fed better than it is today. This would improve the situation atpresent and give upcoming generations some breathing space during whichmankind possibly could devise something even more efficient to deal with thefood supply problem.Proper utilization of pyramids, however, depends upon massiveimplementation of this paradigm. One man, or even a few hundred, will noteven begin to scratch the surface of the problem. I am just trying to point
out what I sincerely feel will be a successful way in the hope that many ofmy fellow men will follow suit and give a lead to the rest of this lethargicworld.There will be a side benefit to the production of larger crops that should doall of us some good. Increased yield by the use of the same area of landafforded by my pyramid will enable the cost of crops to be reduceddrastically, perhaps by as much as 50 percent.
I have publicly committed myself in the media to trying to promote my ideas,for I feel it is time and beyond, that someone try to cut the cost of foodand give ordinary people a break, especially our senior citizens. I believe, andso do many individuals who think as I do, that it is possible to both increasecrops and simultaneously decrease costs. If by any chance I am provenwrong, at least I shall have the consolation of knowing I tried.
CHAPTER VI
FOOD PRESERVATION
In addition to food growth, the pyramid also has application in foodpreservation. I have read statistics stating that 40 percent of all foodgrown in my home country of Canada is lost to putrefaction, whether at theplace of storage, in transport, in wholesale and retail, or finally in the home.If this happens all over the world, no wonder so many people are dying ofstarvation, and even closer to home, we find ourselves paying higher andhigher prices for what does reach us.
These figures mean that either our methods of storage are highlyinefficient or someone in authority couldn't care less. Regardless of how thisspoilage occurs, however, the state of affairs can and must be remedied; itis both ridiculous and criminal to let it continue. Even though I have toldhow--as well as shown and proven how--to use the pyramids to solve theproblem, on radio and television and in newspapers, no one in anygovernmental department has even picked up the phone to inquire about it.It seems that the words "govern" and "mental" don't work together.
Energy of the pyramid that grows plants so amazingly well can be used alsofor the purpose of mummification of food, which can be dehydrated andkept in storage for an indefinite period without losing any of its taste ornutritional properties. There are absolutely no ill effects on any food storedin a pyramid. In fact, in many instances it is far better when reconstitutedthan it was in the first place. It has the water taken out of it; but it alsorepels bacteria and as a result, nothing will rot in a pyramid. For instance, Icannot make a compost heap inside my pyramid; I have to do it outside;otherwise the ingredients in the compost all remain in good shape and willnot break down. For further proof, the grain grown in Manitoba today is adirect descendant of the grain found in the Great Pyramid, grain that hadbeen there for centuries an had kept perfectly. The government knows thisbut still bemoans the amount of grain lost to putrefaction in granaries. Itmakes me wonder at the mentality of the people we elect to look after ouraffairs. Naturally, since I am Canadian, I am referring to what is happeningin Canada; it is probably happening elsewhere too.
Earlier I mentioned mummifying eggs. I conducted an experiment inmummifying an egg, using a pyramid energizer instead of a single wirepyramid. The energizer consisted of a small batch of one-inch-high pyramids,20 in all, positioned in a group.Using such a grid of pyramids provides quicker results than using just onepyramid. I broke an egg into a dish, placed the dish on top of the energizerand observed what happened in the ensuing days. In about six hours Inoticed the lower perimeter of the yolk turning a pale yellow, and thiscontinued through each day, the pale color gradually moving up to the top ofthe yolk. In the meantime, the white was becoming less fluid, thickening, so
to speak. In two weeks the whole egg was just like glass; the yolk was hardand the white was now in crystal form. At no time would flies or any insectapproach it, even though it was open to them. Flies were as prevalent asusually, but they would not go near the egg. There was never any smellpresent from start to finish.
I left the egg in this state for about three months and showed it to many ofmy visitors, but then it was time to reconstitute it and try it for taste. Iadded some water (an egg loses about 30 grams of water in such a period)and left it 24 hours. I then boiled some water with the intention of poachingthe egg. When the water was ready, I tipped the egg in, and immediately thealbumen turned snowy white and the yolk a perfectly natural yellow color.Had I dropped the egg before reconstituting it, it would have shattered, butnow it was simmering away, looking just like an egg fresh from the pen. Aftercooking the egg I put it on a plate, salted and peppered it, then cut the yolkthrough with my knife, and it flooded across my plate. I admit I was not intoo big a hurry to eat it, but if I was going to prove something, I had totaste it. I smelled the egg, and it was no different from normal, so I ate it. Ican honestly say it was one of the nicest eggs I have ever tasted; it seemedto have more flavor than usual.Had this method or one like it been used a few months back on a large scalethe hungry world might have benefited from the saving of millions of eggsthat went rotten in storage. We could have obviated the sorry spectaclewhich has come to be known as "Whalen's Waste." I know we cannot breakall the eggs we produce for storage into dishes and preserve them in thismanner; however, they may be preserved even in their shells, which is theway they could be preserved in the millions. I do not know of any food thatcannot be treated in such a manner. I have tried preserving every food I canthink of, and it all keeps indefinitely, with no refrigeration necessary.
Such a means of preservation by the use of the pyramid is better andcheaper, with no losses, so how can it be ignored? As I said before, nobodyis listening, but the voices of my readers may help me in what I am doing. Ifirmly believe that food processing companies could save themselves billionsof dollars by using pyramids such as mine, which in turn could mean at least alowering of prices. Should they wish to cooperate, I am quite willing to placemy knowledge at their disposal. [Les died before that happened.--ED]
CHAPTER VII
HOW TO BUILD A PYRAMID
Since publicity was first given to my large, wooden pyramid some three yearsago, I have been inundated with letters, phone calls and personal visits.People from all walks of life and many different places in North America andEurope and indeed a few from further a field--Australia, Africa and theEast Indies--all have evinced an interest and have given me kindencouragement. Many of these letters, calls and visits have had as theirobjective the garnering of practical information on the building of pyramidsand the problems likely to be encountered.
Had I sat down and answered the inquiries in detail, I would have been vastlyfurther behind with the business of erecting and planting crops in thepyramid than I am even now, so I have been promising one and all that in thenear future I would put the whole thing down on paper. I want to do this inthe simplest manner so that not only youngsters but also those whosemother tongue is not English will be able to understand and build similaredifices for themselves.
To begin then, my pyramid is made from rough lumber, cut on and near myown property and milled by a neighbor. Ut it is not necessary for pyramids tobe made of wood. As I said earlier, they can be made of any rigid material[that will support permanent glazing]: cardboard, strong wire, sheet steel ormetal, angle irons, logs-- anything that will not curve [and that can beprecisely measured and fitted--ED].
Nor do they have to be solid for many uses; open-sided shapes will do, solong as all corners are joined and the angles are correct. My present pyramidus made of lumber covered by heavy-gauge plastic. Future ones will besheathed in fiberglass, [or Plexiglas or solid glass--ED] They will be closedpyramids solely because I propose to grow food during the depths ofCanada's frigid winters.My pyramid frame is built mainly of wood measuring two inches by fourinches and two inches by eight inches undressed, that is, unplanned.
Pyramids can be built to any scale as long as the proportions correspond tothose of the Cheops Pyramid. It is most important that the angles becorrect. Here are some basic measurements for a variety of sizes:HEIGHT............SIDES................BASE3 inches.............4-7/16 in...........4-11/16 in6 inches.............8-7/8 in..........9-3/8 in12 in....................17-3/4 in........18-3/4 in4 feet.................5 ft 11 in.........6 ft 3 in8 ft......................11 ft 10 in.......12 ft 6 in16 ft....................23 ft 8 in........25 ft*********************
EDITOR'S NOTE: Here are calculations for some typical sizes that will workin harmony with a "basement apartment" foundation for the pyramidgreenhouse.
Come on. Do the work with me. Take out a fresh piece of printer/copierpaper and take hold of one corner, and fold it across diagonally, so its edgeforms a perfect right triangle; then do the same with the opposite corner.When you are done you have a piece of paper with a perfect "X" folded intoit. That's where we begin.
Now take a ruler--cms--and slide it up-and-down the sheet making certain itis always perfectly parallel with the bottom edge of the paper.
With centimeters in mind, align your ruler [perfectly parallel with thebottom edge] until you have arrived at the point where 0 cms is on one ofthe legs of the "x" and 14.5 cms is on the other leg of the "x." Take a scribeor pen or pencil and draw that line from x0 to x14.5. Copy that line threemore times, parallel to each edge of the paper until you have a square 14.5cms on a side. [If you used "inches," you'd have to find a much larger pieceof paper.] Scribe the 14.5 sq square on all four of its sides, then in half fromboth directions, so you now have four squares of 7.25cms each, all perfectlyequal. Be careful.
Now measure one of the diagonals of one of the four squares. Incentimeters, it should be exactly TEN. For a 29unit [foot/rod/yard]
pyramid, the HEIGHT must equal TEN units. Mark off TEN centimeters onthe line that you choose to be your vertical and that point becomes yourAPEX.NOW Draw a line from your APEX [the top] down to the base [side], and youhave a SIDE [apothem] which is exactly TWELVE AND A HALF centimeters.The design in mind is 29 units, twice the 14.5 units you began with, somultiply each result by exactly two. Your VERTICAL height/rise then is 20and your apothem is 25.Why does this come out so even? Because we started with a prime number,29. Starting with a base of "prime number" will give a height andapothem/side in even values so you don't have to figure tiny fractions,decimals or small units.BASE..........VERT............SIDE..........Addl Floors ?...25....................16.......................23'8".........1...29....................20.......................25............1...31....................22.......................27............1+loft...37....................24.......................31.............2...41....................29.......................36.............2+loft...47....................34.......................41.............3The basement apartment plan I have used as an example has a 31 foot baseat the point where the glass attaches to the base. That measurement is"holy." It has to be perfect. The height must be exactly 22 feet fromgrade-to-apex, where the four side surfaces come together at the top. Andeach side panel [of glass or plastic-on- frame] must measure precisely 25feet [0 inches 0 fractions of an inch] from the connection at the apex to itsmount on the foundation, a precise 51 degrees, 51 minutes, 14 seconds angle.Keep your dimensions perfect, your angles will be perfect. If you want it towork properly, this is the way it's got to be.
If you are utilizing a 29', 31' or 37' base dimension, you can fit a verycomfortable basement apartment under it. This apartment will be served bythe greenhouse, not only as a source of food but also as a source ofbreathable air.Grounding. The base, in order to transmit energy properly through thepyramid, must be constructed as a Faraday cage, electrically connected toground at every point on the foundation. As a practical matter this is verysimple. Before you pour concrete base or lay concrete blocks in row-by-row,be sure there is plenty of metal reinforcing rods pounded into the ground,lots of metal shavings, junk pieces, metal auto parts, old hardware mixed in,laid in, poured in with the concrete, so it conducts energy readily to ground.This will also keep "electrosmog" at bay.
Now let's return to Les Brown's narrative, which he wrote in 1974.
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Height is measured from the [topmost point of the--ED] apex straight downto the center of the base. The side measurement is the slowing line running
from the [top point of the] apex down to the base corner [at the verycenterpoint of juncture with the ground or with a solid foundation--ED]. Thebase measurement is of one side of the base, measured from onecenterpoint of the lower corner beam to the next.
Many people are bothered about having read that the base angle must beprecisely 51 degrees, 51 minutes, 14 seconds at each base junction, notknowing how to make such miniscule measurements of angles. Don't worryabout that!! If you use the above measurements and fasten correctly when you build, these angels will be automatically built in.
For a four-foot pyramid I would advise using steel rods, angle irons, copperpipe, iron pipe or wood. The smaller pyramids can be fabricated easily fromgood, strong wire such as is used to make coat hangers, or with fairly strongcardboard. Naturally, the wire ones would be open and the cardboard onesclosed.
You can make energizers from a number of such cardboard pyramids placedside- by-side. Remember, energy from the points of an energizer is moreconcentrated than that produced by a single pyramid. The energizer isespecially good for experiments in general, or for use as an energizedsurface on which to stand plants. Once the energizer is constructed, placeover the top of it, in contact with the points, a sheet of heavy foil or light-gauge aluminum plate. The energizer is then ready for use. [See Fig. 4].
A pyramid energizer has multiple uses. The one pictured consists of 72 smallcardboard pyramids and a top plate of cardboard covered with foil. Byplacing the top plate on top of the pyramids and orienting the entireenergizer to true north, you can use the energy generated for such purposesas mummification, energizing water, or as a beneficial surface on which toplace growing plants for outstanding growth.
Remember that with all types of pyramids, positioning is all-important. Oneof the sloping sides must at all times be facing towards magnetic North--nora corner but the flat face of the pyramid must face MAGNETIC North. Useof a small pocket compass is advised, but one friend of time aligns his by theNorth Star at night. [That is fine, unless our planet's magnetic Northwanders, which it does.--ED] In this respect, a pyramid is like a radio. Formaximum performance you must tune it in properly, pointing it right at the
transmitter. Similarly, several pyramids oriented to true North and stackedon top of each other will produce increased energy, cell activity and growth.
Pyramids more than four feet at the base need to be made of much strongermaterials in general, to prevent any bending, would negate energy-accumulation. Such pyramids are expensive to build and normally would beerected with some specific use in mind. For instance, consider a 16-foot-highmodel. Such a size would be ideal in a garden for encouraging the growth ofplants. The very low angle of the sides to the ground would prevent yourusing some of its square feet, but you would still have nearly 600 squarefeet at ground level. Installing a floor at about a seven-foot height andleaving a hole in the middle for access still leaves an extra 80 square feet ofgrowing space. The leaning walls ensure plenty of light all through thepyramid. The larger the base, of course, the larger the second floor will be.
A 16-foot-high pyramid could be built with wood two-by-fours. Two-by-eights leaning sides should be used--set in the thickness of the glazing--withthe two-by-fours nailed to the two-by-eights on each face for rigid andglazing support. A pyramid this size can keep a family in vegetables year-round. Eat the vegetables fresh and store the surplus. See Figs. 5, 6 and 7for guidance in constructing the pyramid.
Being permanent structure, pyramids need strong foundations--electricallygrounded-- concrete being permeated with metal rods and waste metal tomake it conduct. I have gone to a great deal of trouble to get measurementscorrect so that the correct angles come naturally. Some care must be takento cut angles so that the apex fits together naturally. I found this to be themost difficult part of the construction. I solved that problem by taking thincuts off the wood a little at a time.
One method of ensuring absolute accuracy is to drop a plumb bob from thepeak, to make sure that it forms a precise right angle (90 degrees) with thefloor. Another is to level the foundation by staking the ground and pouringthe foundation or stacking concrete blocks to the leveled string.
A door on each side of the structure will give greatest control overexcessive heat in summer. In these photos I have shown large panels for thewindow sides; however, such construction is up to one's circumstances and
ability to garner appropriate glazing. If one only intended to use the pyramidin warm weather, the frame alone would be quite sufficient. However, forthose who intend to live under the pyramid, it must be sheathed in glass.Otherwise, one must go through the complete task of re-glazing every few years, if one chooses plastic film or Plexiglas that scratches easily.Winter heating can be achieved by installing warm-water piping around thebase of the walls, coupled to a hot water tank similar to one used in a home,plus a circulating pump. A standby heating system of some kind should beprovided in case an interruption in electrical supply [to the pump] occurs.Solar panels can be considered, or a heat pump. The drawback with a heatpump system at present is that it also requires electricity to operate. Thus,unless a generator is also supplied for it, such a system cannot serve asbackup to a main heating system operating off the same circuit.
Pyramids are natural air circulators; however, to further aid circulationinside I would suggest that floors be built at any height but constructeddecking with one-by- fours placed at one-inch intervals to allow air tocirculate freely.With regard to sheathing materials, I would recommend fiberglass or glass.I covered my prototype pyramid with 6 mm plastic, which later provedunable to withstand sunlight or severe weather conditions. I have replacedthe plastic with strong, 4 mm fiberglass. Because Canadian winters are socold, I have also added a layer of plastic four inches inside the fiberglasssheath, thus providing a four-inch air space which has cut down heat lossdramatically. I'll probably have to add one more "skin" of plastic four inchesbehind the first plastic insulating skin also. Having an air space between thefiberglass sheathing and the first plastic skin serves as an insulator andforces warm air up through the space between the two layers. I should beable to achieve an even, efficient draft-free heating system, with morepractice.
In warm climates glass can be adapted readily as sheathing material, but insevere winter conditions--including hailstorms with hail as large as golf balls-
-would make utilization of glass impractical. In that case, fiberglass [and aninner insulating layer of plastic] is the ideal covering.
In contrast to winter's cold, one must consider summer heat. To provideadequate ventilation in summer I would suggest incorporating eight openingwindows (two on each face) at the pyramid's peak and a set of doors (one oneach face) at ground level. Such an arrangement allows ample air circulationand provides the option of closing doors or windows threatened by draftyconditions which are detrimental to plant growth.
It is not necessary to build doors and windows precisely into the slopes ofthe pyramid as I have done. They can as an alternative be built dormer-styleas long as they do not interfere or break into the pyramid's natural lines.Such interference would break the pyramid's energy circuit, resulting inlittle or no growing performance of plants inside. You can build onto yourpyramid such structures as lean-to's, dormers or entrances so long as you donot break the basic outline of the pyramid structure. The same principleapplies inside. Floors, stairs or shelves may be added so long as they do notbreak the continuity of the outside walls.
As mentioned previously, the pyramid's ground floor need not be wateredonly if it is placed directly on and covers the ground, having no "floor." Inthe case of a pyramid placed as a roof over a basement apartment, naturally,every floor would require watering.Your pyramid should not be built near transformers, generators orpowerlines, for these objects will severely affect its performance. Electricalwiring installed within the pyramid itself, however, will give out a magneticfield which can prove beneficial to the pyramid's performance if you learnhow to adapt and which plants to adapt to it. Those desiring to play music totheir plants (and I have found this to be beneficial to plant growth) will findthe use of tapes more satisfactory than a radio. Radio waves are interferedwith inside a pyramid to such an extent that a radio will not performadequately.
With regard to cost, my 30-foot, prototype pyramid cost approximately$6,000 (1974 Canadian dollars). I did the work on the pyramid myself withthe aid of a helper. My cost reflects an allowance for paying the helper butallots nothing for my labor. Costs have increased to perhaps $8,500 (1978)
today for the same materials and labor. Such costs do not include purchaseof heating, a water pump or secondary plastic "skins." In addition, fiberglassnor glass frames and sheathing costs were not included. In general, oneshould plan on a fiberglass model as the optimal choice, with a layer ofplastic attached to the inside of the two-by-four studs as your insulatinglayer also.Another consideration to make before building your pyramid is the weightthat additional first, second or even, third stories will be required to carry.Allow for more than enough support for the first floor as the rule of thumb,because additional support will also be required for second floor and for anysucceeding floors beyond the second. And don't forget to add in the weighof planting boxes and soil. (It should be noted that second floorconsideration is not applicable to a 16-foot pyramid heretofore used forillustration. Only when a second floor proves to be of functional value need itbe considered in building plans, namely, with a base of 27 feet or more.)
CHAPTER VIII
OTHER USES OF PYRAMIDS
There are so many actual and projected uses for pyramids that I can onlytouch on a minute fraction of them in this small book. I have used energizersfor germinating seeds and then placed the seedlings under wire pyramids. Ifind this gives extremely good results. On the other hand, I have hadrelatively poor percentage results from growing seedlings under a wirepyramid from seed. (This is in contradiction to other investigators, whoreport good results from raising seed under pyramids.) However, when theseedlings are ready to be potted, they are equally successful under or overpyramids. My own objective is to produce more and better food plants. Yourown might well be super-flowers. A further use for the pyramid is to placefruits and vegetables under one when you bring them into the house. Theywill keep better and, as many people claim, taste much more flavorful thannormal with such care and treatment.
Water used for growing indoor plants can be placed on an energizer or undera pyramid with extremely beneficial results to the plant when placed in use.Many investigators have reported on this use, claiming that dramatic resultscan be attained. Some say that such water sprayed on the plants helpscontrol mites and other pests. However, as I say, uses for the pyramid otherthan for encouraging the propagation of plants are legion.
My wife, who suffered from migraine headaches, had a severe attack for aweek; and during that time she took more than an abundant supply of pills,which proved of no benefit. She placed a pyramid on her head in the earlyhours of the night, and in about 20 minutes had been relieved of all pain. Shesaid nothing of this to me, but two weeks later suffered another headache.Instead of suffering for a lengthy period, she used the pyramid again, andwithout the use of pills the headache vanished again in about the samelength of time. She told me about this second episode. About a week latershe suffered an ordinary headache and repeated the performance, with thesame result. She now has gone three years with no headaches at all. Aroundthis time, I had been working all day in the hot sun, and the back of my neckbecame quite painful. I tried placing a small pyramid on the back of my neckwhile I sat still for a while. It produced the same relieving results for mebecause I believe it increases blood circulation to the affected part.
After about ten minutes I could feel the pain being drawn out upwards. Atthe same time my head felt cold on top, not cold to the touch, but simplyfelt cold to me. I mentioned this to my wife, and she said she had had thesame sensations of coldness but was waiting for me to remark about themfirst. I am not suggesting that this treatment will do the same for everyone,but merely mentioning that it worked for us. The pyramid must work inapproximately the same way that reflexology works, by increasing electricalconductivity of the cells.
The elderly mother of a friend of mine, her hands badly crippled witharthritis, was persuaded to place her hand on an energizer. A wire pyramidwas put over both hand and energizer for one hour. She continued thistreatment for a few days, experiencing a diminution of pain and a looseningof her fingers each time. Before she returned to her home in England sheactually sat and played the organ. She played haltingly and rustily, it is true,but she had been unable to play at all for several years prior to using thepyramid. Significantly (her pyramid was stolen at the London Airport), herhands returned to their crippled state shortly after she returned toEngland.
We also find that when we are feeling low and depressed, my wife and I sitfor an hour or so, each with a small pyramid on our head, facing north, ourdepression lifts and we feel quite rejuvenated. My wife and I regularly drinkpyramid-treated water. If we are feeling low we have a snifter of pyramidwater and in a short time we feel a marked lift. On the other hand, if wefind ourselves in what used to be described as a choleric state and sit withthe pyramid on our head--but facing south--our irritability rapidly leaves andis replaced by a calm. Naturally, that would never work if we used thepyramid as a band aid and a way of avoiding dealing with problems of the day,first.A prominent acquaintance of mine who does not wish to be named alwaysdrives with a pyramid under his car seat. He claims he feels less "bushed"after a long drive than he did before he did so.Many investigators have found that by putting a pyramid or an energizerover or under their beds, they experience better and more refreshing sleep,some of them claiming they need far less sleep than they required beforeutilizing a pyramid for this purpose.
Dogs and cats seem to find the use of pyramids for a similar purpose quitecongenial. The cat pet of a friend of ours regularly is found curled up undera wire pyramid, seeming to prefer sleeping under it than anywhere else.
The real keynote when trying these pyramid experiments is persistence. Aswith many other experiences, pyramids do not always "work" the first time you apply one to a situation, and a person must "stay with it" and make subtlecorrections until the desired results are obtained.
Putting energized water into a vase containing tulips caused them to last forabout three and a half weeks. Not only did they last this phenomenal time,but they grew about nine inches in the meantime! I have never before seenflowers grow after having been cut.
Many people claim that insect stings stop itching after the application ofenergized water; this has been our own experience. In another instance Ihad a nasty cut on my hand. Immediately after washing it with pyramidwater, the pain stopped and with healing, I had no scar. The cut also healedmuch more quickly than is "normal" for me.
This book has been an informal and easy presentation of what I have foundin experimenting with pyramids. If it inspires you to experiment yourself, Iwould be delighted. If enough of us are seen to be experimenting, perhapswe shall be able to awaken a few of our dreadnought politicians to a sense ofurgency and experimentation themselves. Who knows?
APPENDICESW
EXPERIMENTAL RECORDS AND TIPS
In experimenting with pyramids, or with growing plants, or tracking costs and labor, you will find it extremely helpful to keep accurate records--a journal--to be able to return to and observe your own progress and refer back during problem times. Here are two simple charts you can copy, totrack your experiments with plants and pyramid-power. In addition to the sample charts this appendix contains tips on procedures to help you attain the best results in your experiments. As mentioned in the body of the book, learning from your own experience is the best way to go.Once your experiments are underway and you persist in entering data in your charts, it is worthwhile to have on hand a true Journal for summarizing your findings. Even in twelve months' time you will compile a great deal of invaluable knowledge and experience. Don't lose it by failing to record it. ______________CHART FOR EXPERIMENTS OTHER THANSEEDS___________________DATE | E.g., "to mummify an egg, I broke an egg into a small glass dish.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DAY ONE..............| I noticed .... blah blah and so forth-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
______________CHART FOR RECORDING SEEDS ANDCUTTINGS_________________________________............................|...UNDER..|....OVER......|................|...............|...PCENT....|.....DAT E.....|.....Stocky.....|DATE.....|...SEED..|...P'MID....|...E'GIZER....|....FREE...|...TEMP...|...GERM'D...|...GERM'D...|...Fair or Weak----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Jan 1.....|..lettuce..|......X........|.................................|....63F....|.......0.........|....................|.....................|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jan 3.....|..lettuce..|................|.........X......|...............|....62F....|.....25%......|....................|.....................|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PLANTING TIPS
To achieve the best results with plants, a few simple practices should become part of your routine.
First, never give seeds or cuttings cold water; it has a shocking, damaging effect. Let the water assume the temperature of the environment in which the plants are growing before it is used. In addition, water energized and stored over a pyramid generator will improve growth substantially.Secondly, it is best to start cuttings and seedlings in tin cans for a better root system than normally is achieved by planting in soil alone. The metal in the cans provides a boost to plant growth. A hole in the cottom of the canwill provide proper drainage. If you do choose to plant in pots, it is helpful to place bits of metal in the bottom of the pots to aid growth. It is important, however, not to plug the pot's drainage hole.
Also, when you plant in a permanent position outdoors, it is helpful to lay the plant roots toward the north in the hole or, preferably, trench, in which the plant is positioned. Never plant with roots pointing toward the east or west. Again, placing pieces of metal all around the plants will prove tremendously beneficial to growth.
PLANTING MEDIA
SEEDS--Keeping in mind the use of ingredients Mother Nature provided, a simple, effective mixture in which to germinate seeds is this suggestion: 1part soil, 1 part leaf mold (hard wood) 1-part coarse sand.
CUTTINGS--Coarse, damp sand is an effective growth medium for cuttings. The cuttings should not be watered further until they begin to grow. Rather, if they are placed over but not touching a water source, they will send roots down toward the water.
CONTROLS--One final tip, and also one of the most important when experimentation is involved, is to set up a control against which to validate results achieved in your experiments. A control is a "normal" used for comparison to experimental results. Setting up a control involves setting upthe subject of the experiment and apparatus in an identical manner to that used on experimental "trials" except that the control is placed under "normal conditions." In this case, the variable being measured is effects of the pyramid. All conditions, therefore, should be the same except that the control is placed outside and away from a pyramid. The results of the experiment will thus be due to the only variable involved, the pyramid itself.A control lends validity to any experiment.
The PYRAMID, by Les Brown
Re-edited by Ken as there is a ton of errors.
I'm a perfectionist, sort of.
Published in Bancroft, Ontario, Canada 1978 and here for Fair Use by Emily Cragg for abide miracles and Holy conservancy,
2005A RAY OF HOPE ON OUR PLUNDERED PLANET
Understand the Truth About Destruction of Earth's Atmosphere
INTRODUCTION TO THE CURRENT EDITION
The need to create a living BioSpace has never been greater. Cities are choked with bad, stale and rotting air.
Grocery produce doesn't have the nutrients, the minerals, that healthy people need to live well.
The pace of life for commuters is frantic and half-baked.
Land is very expensive where work exists; and where land is cheap,
there is no paying work for uneducated soul--just drudge work, repetitive work, rule-based work.
If you buy this book, it's because you want freedom from the rat race. Please note, however, what you are gaining here is the freedom to become responsible for yourself.
This means, you're going to get busy, learn how to
manage your debt until you get out of debt entirely and get on with living debt-free.
Yes, you'll get away from traffic, schedules and day timers, but you'll have to remember to water your plants every day.
Instead of living by the clock, like farmers back in time and forward to Eternity,
you will live by the seasons, by the rain or lack of it, by the temperature and air flow and humidity and effort of your own hands.
If you don't want to do that, just put this book away now. This book is about farming on the roof of your own home--1800 square feet of farming,
a 30foot by 60-foot garden plot within the protective covering in which you also live, eat, sleep and carry on. ...
After all, people take pets into their homes that dirty things up and make messes on the floor,
why not take plants into your home that product oxygen, food and beauty and don't chew on your slippers?
Now, think about this for a while! Yeah, I suppose someone could build a pyramid home and use it for an art studio or day care center for older latchkey kids.
Or, how about an orchid nursery? It'd be a great bird sanctuary or herb atrium.
Yes, you could put a playroom on the main level, and garden plants only on upper levels so the kids would be out of your hair on dull, cold days.
This pyramid is too pretty to be used as a machine shop or wood shop. My, how to outrage the wife!
She'd never forgive that--the guys upstairs where it's all light and beauty making their messes with welding torches and quenching pots, dropping hardware on the floor.
No, I don't think so. But-- you know--give it some thought. Anything's possible. ["But did you ever try to strike a match on a wet cake of soap?"
Let's get on with Les Brown's little Book.1.
Chapter 1: Observations2.
Chapter 2: Why a Pyramid?3.
Chapter 3: The Source of Pyramid Energy4.
Chapter 4: How the Energy Affects Living Cells5.
Chapter 5: The use of Pyramids for Production6.
Chapter 6: Food Preservation7.
Chapter 7: How to Build a Pyramid8.
Chapter 8: The Myriad Uses of Pyramids9.
Appendix
INTRODUCTION
With the earth's wide open spaces, enormous expanses on which to grow food,
seemingly limitless water and only [6.6 in 2004--ED.] billion people inexistence,
one person in every nine is starving to death. That many are literally dying from lack of food; they are not just hungry,
as is an even greater percentage of the world's population.
How, then, can mankind possibly hope to feed [themselves] by the time there are sixteen people alive for everyone here today?
This is a dilemma which I hope to provide a means of solving with this book. It is a problem to which I am dedicating my life's work.
These are the figures which day by day have been growing steadily more stark within my mind.
Every time I turn on the radio, read a newspaper, or watch a TV program,
I see hammered home the fact that while I am well and satisfyingly fed,
myriads of other people mostly in underdeveloped countries throughout the world,
are suffering from the wormlike threading's of hunger pains in their bellies as they lie down to sleep at night.
Life on our world is powered by light. Light from the Sun, which passes through the clear air,
is harvested by plants and powers them to combine carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates and other foodstuffs,
which in turn provide the staple diet of herbivorous animals and people.
Our planet is indivisible. In North America we breathe oxygen generated in the Brazilian rain forest.
Acid rain from polluting industries in the American Midwest destroys Canadian forests.
Radioactivity from a Soviet nuclearaccident compromises the economy and culture of Lapland.
The burning of coal in China warms Argentina. Diseases rapidly spread to the farthest reaches of the planet and require a global medical effort to be eradicated.
And, of course, nuclear war imperils everyone. Like it or not, we humans arebound up with our fellows and with the other plants and animals all over the world. Our lives are intertwined.
If technology destroys the ability of the atmosphere to cleanse itself, then we are all doomed together--plants, animals and people.
So, we need to rethink survival, when in fact our governments are dead set on powdering the atmosphere with poisonous aluminum and barium powders that result in
oxidation of the ozone layer and depletion of atmospheric oxygen. We better get under the cover of glass and plants, or we'll be extinct, quickly.
This has grown to be a thought which constantly tortures me. For a long time, I have wondered what could be done.
Since childhood I have had the dream of growing food in greenhouses in some revolutionary fashion: more, better and bigger crops than have ever been grown.
With this aim in view, seven years ago I bought myself a secluded farm in the country near Bancroft, Ontario,
retired myself from the unbelievably busy life of a fashionable interior decorator in Toronto
and started planning for the monster Greenhouses I intended to erect upon my farm. Three incidents sufficed toredirect my planning. First, I read a book,
Chariots of the Gods,
by Van Daniken in which he postulated the theory that in incredibly long-gone
Aeon extraterrestrial beings visited the earth--"gods"--and left part of their beings and of their intelligence
as a legacy for the children they sired upon the aboriginal earth inhabitants with whom they cohabitated.
Part of thislegacy, it is postulated by some, may lie in the pyramids.
Secondly, after extensive and painstaking experiments with the pyramid, improved to me, as others have done,
that the pyramid is a blessing in disguise, one that could possibly be the ultimate saving of manking as far asthe growth and storage of food are concerned.
Lastly, I attended a lecture a few years ago in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada,
sponsored by pyramid authorities Alfred Ward and Bruce Knapp.Alfred Ward
operates a franchise for selling pyramid productsmanufactured by a firm in
Glendale, California, and Bruce Knapp is anamateur pyramidologist residing in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
At the lecture I was astonished to hear my theories being spoken by Knapp.
Hè too thought that the "gods," foreseeing the calamitous impasse to whichmankind would one day
bring [them]sel[ves] by [their] unbridled sexualappetites and lack of planning for the future,
decided to give their earthling successors an idea as to how they could raise
vast amounts of food in small spaces and, more importantly, how they could store that food by the use of pyramidal shapes.
This last incident was the impetus which finally turned my thoughts of conventional greenhouses, already dented by Von Deniken's book, towards
pyramidal greenhouses, to be built of wood in exact proportion to the measurements of the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza in Egypt.
I felt that the pyramids of the world, brooding through the centuries, their ultimate secrets there to be seen but as yet unread by blind humanity,
tourist attractions at best, were about to play their destined part in the "gods'"
endeavor to save us from the results of our own folly.
Humbly enough, I felt that maybe it was to be my part in the universal scheme of things to be the catalyst
which would transform theory into fact, changepyramids from one of the wonders of the ancient world to one of the saviorsof the modern.
Since nobody else seemed interested in trying the practical use of pyramidon a large scale for the growing the conservation of food,
and since I had thought of it, it was obviously up to me to initiate steps which
might possibly result in the children being born today having enough food to eat
when theyreached my age.
Many people throughout the world were dabbling inexperiments with pyramidal shapes.
It has been shown, conclusively enoughto satisfy me, that these shapes do have an effect upon plant growth.
Sowhy not combine my dream of monster greenhouses with the demonstratedability of the pyramids to force plant growth?
If the theories should notprove correct, only I would be the loser.
If, on the other hand, as I stronglyfeel, the theories do hold water, mankind in general would be thebeneficiary.
These were the thoughts, then, behind the erection of the first of my pyramids in 1974.
This pyramid has been the subject of a number of TV andradio programs and of magazine and newspaper articles.
Some of you who arereading these words may already be acquainted with my dream and itsembryonic fulfillment. Insofar as is known, this is the first large-scalepyramid anywhere in the world for the express purpose of raising substantialcrops.
I have done much research along the way and so far,
have brought to light several related and sometimes seemingly unrelated phenomena associated with the use of pyramids.
Since I have no wish to stir up hornets' nests and arguments with the scientific professions,
I am waiting until these phenomena are well enough documented for acceptance by the
scientific community and will then release them through the usual channels.
One of my strongest wishes today is to encourage others to experiment with pyramids, for
I am convinced that there are unbelievably wide horizons to be explored in this area,
and only by countless people experimenting on their own
will new uses of the pyramids come to light.
One need not hold adoctorate in physics or any other scientific field in order to experiment;
ani ordinary curiosity and the ability to make a simple pyramidal shape are sufficient to launch one into unravelling
some of the mysteries left hidden by the proposed extraterrestrial visitors of ancient times.
To be of any value, however, the experiments must be meticulously documented. The day, the time,
the weather, where the experiment is carried out, whether it isindoors or out, exactly what is done step by step,
room or outside temperatures, or whether near to metals, electrical apparatus or wiring,
metal fences or expanses of water are all factors which must be taken intoaccount and recorded,
anything that later may help you to draw useful conclusions about your results.
Controls should be made, one subject under pyramid conditions being used simultaneously with one or more subjects under normal conditions.
In conducting pyramid experiments you should look daily for signs of change and note them meticulously,
and above all be patient. Don't plant a seed oneday and expect to have a plant six feet high the next.
A plant takes just aslong to develop inside a pyramid as it does outside, but in time you will seethe tremendous difference in results,
with respect to size. Also, don't keepmoving plants around inside your the pyramid during an experiment; leave pots stationary so what you see is what you are getting.
In later pages this book will show you how to make your own pyramids for experimentation;
they can be constructed entirely from inexpensivematerials equally as well as from costly ones. Cardboard,
wire, plywood oranything rigid enough to retain the pyramid shape will suffice.
The pyramiddoes not necessarily have to be solid; in many experiments just the outlineshape is sufficient, provided that it is jointed at all corners and at the apex.
Once you have made a discovery, record it on paper and put it into practice.
Not only do you stand to gain a sense of achievement, but you might discoversomething of inestimable benefit to mankind in its titanic struggle forexistence.
In addition to showing, you how to build pyramids of all types, this book willalso:1.
explore the source of pyramid energy;2.
discuss how that energy affects living cells;3.
look into the use of pyramids in food production,4.
discuss pyramids and food preservation,5.
discuss the many different uses of pyramids.6.
How to plan and execute an energizer to enliven any too dormant part of your structure.
CHAPTER ONE
OBSERVATIONS
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EDITOR'S NOTES: The author passed away in the 1990's and his work must carry on if humanity is to learn self-sufficiency.
It is known from applying heat-conveying properties of glass structures to the side of a building
that an atrium or greenhouse heats the structure to which it is attached.
So, we have appended a simple house plan to this pyramid-structure concept-- as the base upon which a pyramid-type Glass greenhouse will serve as
1) roof.
2) heat source.
3) garden-space food source
4) interior-light source and
5) oxygen-source.
It is for the reason that we have become an oxygen-deprived people
that we must change the way we live and exist on the surface of the ground,
orperish from weakness, from pollution and from chemical intrusions. And now, the author's text.
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Over the past few years, since the first publicity on my pyramid in September 1974,
I have had literally hundreds of requests for informationon the subject of pyramids.
It has become apparent that the only way I canaccede to all these requests and still have time to pursue my aims with thepyramid is to write small monographs in expensive book form.
These will getone started on building and using pyramids, and further discoveries will
become the subjects of future books I am including in this book discoveries have made
as well as those made by friends and acquaintances across the North American continent and in other parts of the world.
For the latter reports I thank the discoverers and wish to take no credit myself.
I myself see the pyramid as a symbolic sunburst of knowledge, with rays emanating from the center.
Following any one of these rays one would learnwho knows what, eacy ray being a new train of thought from a separateindividual.
Somewhere along the line, finally, all the rays would beincorporated into a circle in which they would all be interrelated.
My own"thing" is the search for bigger, better and more bountiful crops with whichto feed the growing hordes already beginning to crowd the earth beyondendurance.
We must prepare today for tomorrow.
We must find new and unorthodoxways to produce nutrients, or possibly our children and for certain ourgrandchildren,
will face a real and ghastly danger of ending up the image ofthe perambulating human skeletons we see so frequently on our TV screens,listlessly suffering and awaiting a miserable death.
It makes me sick to seeit.
Mankind must realize [they are] faced with a friehtening snowball, thisgargantuan increase in the number of human mouths to be fed.
If it is a factthat we cannot feed our current population--and it is a fact--next year willbe worse,
and ten years from now will be unimaginable. How then will we beable to cope in 50 years?
Even with the latest technical advances--hybridization, multi-story greenhouses, fertilizers,
automatic feeding andwatering, artificial lighting--we are falling further and further behind in ourbid to feed the world.
If we do not come up with some solution--and soon--mankind seems doomed.
The politicians seem almost completely unperturbed, but then who ever heard of a hungry politician?!
Wherever I look, inertia and disinterest seem to prevail in high places.
This is why I have decided it is up to us ordinary people to take the initiative.
If the men and women we pay and trust toshoulder these burdens refuse to assume them, we will just have to fend forourselves.
It is my belief that the pyramid is the answer to current and future food shortages. Using pyramids, I sincerely believe that I can grow 36 times more
and better plants in a given area than any farmer or market gardener can in the same area, using conventional methods.
CHAPTER II
WHY A PYRAMID
The energy that keeps this world in balance and maintains its position in the universe, the energy that keeps us alive,
and which is part and parcel of everything in this earth, is magnetic energy. The magnetic field is of ascertain intensity,
but since some objects qare more receptive to it, they are affected by the energy more than are other objects. Paradoxically,
this inequality of energy attraction is precisely what keeps everything on earth imbalance.
Man's investigation of magnetic energy has allowed him to progress scientifically to his present-day standard of living.
That investigation led tothe development of electricity and the millions of machines, appliances, heating, lighting and power that it gives us.
Without such progress we would not know what a car was; there would be no television, radio, telephone orcomputers.
We would be living in a world as untouched as the day it dawned. While such a world might seem highly desirable now,
man nevertheless saw what he thought would better his life and he went after it. He realized that the magnetic force,
if collected and condensed, would give him a force withwhich he could make inanimate objects move for him, and if he learned how
to control it, the sky was the limit. But first he had to find a means ofcollecting and then boosting it to suit his purpose. So electricity was born.Man's progression since then is history.
That is, history as we know it. It is my theory, however, that long beforeman as we know him, from the Garden of Eden to the present day, was onthis earth, there were beings of far greater intelligence in residence, whooriginated outside this earth. I believe they may have begun as we did andprogressed similarly, often using their progress for the wrong purposes,seeking selfish gain for themselves as man so frequently does today.
I believe these beings became so advanced in their technology that they feltthey could do without God. They felt they knew it all, their inventions madethem wealthy, their wealth gave them power, and once that power developed,they believed they were masters of their own destiny. They felt they nolonger needed God's help, and as a result were destroyed. Only those wholived in God's image survived. With His guidance they resided on earth andused their advanced technology to benefit mankind.
I believe these beings eventually escaped with their knowledge back towhere they had come from originally and, as evidenced by the numerouspresent-day UFO sightings, I believe they have been watching mankindprogress along a similar path toward destruction as did their ownpredecessors. They are warning us through psychics to change our waysbefore it is too late. In this modern age of greater acceptance of psychicphenomena, I suggest we heed such warnings, particularly those of suchnoted psychics as Edgar Cayce. History has always repeated itself, but nowwe have a chance to break the repetition, if only we will listen. I believethese people of long ago were Atlantians and that they will return in the not-too-distant future.
Not only are psychics trying to pass on the warnings of these people, but theAtlantians also left us, centuries ago, the Pyramid Cheops, also known as theGreat Pyramid. Their purported technology would have been the only suchadvanced technology in existence at the time, capable of building suchstructures as the pyramids. Even today's engineers admit that we could notduplicate the Pyramid Cheops with present technology. My belief is that theGreat Pyramid embodies pure truth and we will only survive if we use truthas our basic principle. Those who do not will perish just as the majority of
Atlantians did before us. The Great Pyramid is a giant computer, built in thepast to contain our future. It is a great receiver and transmitter withtremendous power, far beyond present-day man's imagination, and in itsbeautiful lines it contains the solutions to most of man's problems, plus themost important content of all, teachings akin to those of the Bible, showingman how to live in peace and harmony. I feel very fortunate in being allowedto show you some of the Great Pyramid's teachings, its benefits, and itsperformance.
This book is only elementary in that its purpose is to introduce you to thebasics of the study of the pyramids. My next book will take you through aprogression of fields of which you may only dream. From my experiments andresearch I possess knowledge about the pyramids that I will impart in futurewritings. Such knowledge is far too much for you to accept until youunderstand something about the basics. That is the background I hope thisbasic book will give you.
Before we can discuss energy, we first must construct something with whichto collect it. All kinds of shapes; contain energy, even the materials theseshapes are formed with, and the very nature of the shapes themselvesdetermines the degree of energy they contain, that is, the shape determinesreceptability to energy. By shapes I refer mainly to cubes, spheres,triangles, pyramids and such. Each shape has potential, but they all havedifferent limits. Whatever we do in our everyday lives, we strive for thebest. So it is with shapes and the energy they contain; we should seek theone that offers the most potential.
Of all shapes, the pyramid will give us the best performance because it isreceptacle to the greatest amount of energy. It must be four-sided, ofspecific measurements and correct angles, and must be correctly oriented.Where do we look for this specific data? We know that the Great PyramidCheops at Giza in Egypt performs well today, but undoubtedly nothing like itdid when it was complete with smooth surface and capstone. It is now knownthat upon completion the Great Pyramid included a capstone and covering ofseven feet of white limestone alabaster. This material, which helped thepyramid function at its fullest, subsequently was robbed from the pyramidfor use as building material. Even without it, however, we can measureCheops, as many have, and come up with enough data to work with, but one
must go further than the measurements themselves to understand whythese measurements have such meaning.
We must go back to the time when a much higher intelligence than ours hada pyramid on the drawing board. The pyramid was not built for its looks, orby accident or coincidence, and it did not simply start to perform to theAtlantians' amazement. Instead, it was built because they knew beforehandthat it would do all of that for which they planned it. In my research of thepyramid I have gone beyond where your wildest dreams might take you; butfor the present will stick to basics, taking you step by step, showing youwhat the pyramid does and why and how it works, so that you will be able tofollow up my studies in a safe and sensible progression. The word safe maysound a little ominous, and well it should because there are dangers in usingthe pyramid blindly without knowledge of its functions and its greatpotential.
Having set the stage, let's get to the pyramid itself. The pyramid is builtwith straight lines of specific length and orientation. This is how we arriveat the line proportions. (See Fig. 1.) Imagine cutting the world in half at theequator (try this with an orange), taking the top half and cutting it into fourquarters or quadrants, then taking one of these quarters and taking the peeloff. Flatten out the peel and you will have a triangle with curved sides; trimthe curve off without taking anything off the length and you will end up withone face side of a perfect pyramid.(NOTE:
If you constructed each triangle as the cone-shape without squaringthe bottom, energy yield as a direct-current battery would becomedangerous to life unless it was tapped off and used.
--Ed.)Having squared each triangle, put all four triangular shape pieces of peeltogether and you have transformed the northern hemisphere into a pyramid.The bottom corners of the base fit perfectly into the circle of the equator,and the sides lead up to its North Pole.
Using these proportions, any pyramid will function in unison with the naturalelements that we enjoy, the natural elements that keep us alive and theworld in balance. Change this ratio of measurement and you will drop belowpar in performance. The further you deviate from this formula the lessperformance you will get. Of course, we cannot build a pyramid as large as
the northern hemisphere, but whatever size is built, if built in correct rationto the Great Pyramid of Cheops, it will give 100 percent performance.
I will not go into all the details of the Great cheops, but will mention a few, just to illustrate that this ratio was strictly adhered to, plus a few moreitems which indicate that it is not just a beautiful structure, but wasplanned for a purpose. Cheops covers approximately 13.1 acres and is squareat the base, as we shall see it must be. It has been measured throughout thecenturies by many brilliant men, using cubits, metrics and inches, and after years of controversy as to whose measurements were right, the consensusof opinion accepted inches as being nearest to the correct measurement.The distance around the base of Cheops is 36,524.24 inches, which coincidesremarkably with the 365.24 days of our lunar year. If we add together thediagonals of the Great Pyramid's base, we find the sum to be 25,827 inches,a figure which also represents the number of years in the precession of theequinox.
The pyramid has five points and four sides plus a base. The line extendingfrom the point sphere it would touch the Equator up to the North Pole (baseside corner to peak), leans in at 51 degrees, 51 minutes, 14 seconds. Sincethis book was intended to simplify matters so that you can conduct pyramidstudies with ease, here is a simple way to figure out a perfectlyproportioned pyramid of any size (See Figure 2.) Predetermine the length ofone side of your base (A). Now on paper, draw a square to your base, thendivide it into four quarters. Now, draw a diagonal (B) down one of the smallsquares and measure it. Mark that measurement from the base up thecenter line (C). This will be the length of the apothem, that is, the length ofthe center line down one of the sloping sides of the pyramid. Finish off thetriangle by drawing two lines (D) and (E), each running from the top of themark you have made on the center line (C) down to a bottom corner of yourbase. By measuring these lines you now have the length of the side edges of your pyramid, and you already know the base measurement.
When you look at the triangle you have just drawn, it may look too tall, butdon't forget that it has to lean in to join with the other three sides. Whenall four sides are put together you will have a pyramid the right height andleaning in at 51 degrees, 51 minutes, 14 seconds.
This method can be used for any size pyramid, whether it is two inches alongits base or 46'1-1/4". There are other methods of constructing a perfectpyramid, but this is the easiest. Let's assume that you have not built yourpyramid, and we'll talk about the energy. I personally believe that theanswer to the puzzle of the pyramid's energy is right under our noses, butthat scientists are looking beyond the obvious.Until recently, comparatively speaking, it was assumed that the historicallyancient Egyptians built the pyramids at the orders of their kings asmausoleums for the latter. This theory has been proven false by the factthat, so far as I know, no traces of any mummified human remains haveactually been reported as having been found in any pyramid. It is highlyquestionable too whether primitive men, using bronze picks, wooden rollersand ropes, could possibly have erected these gargantuan edifices whichmodern civil engineers have declared would be almost impossible to constructeven with the most advanced technical methods of today. Why then shouldthe extraterrestrial beings have decided upon such a task, and how did theyaccomplish it?As to the how, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics depict many devices which arerecognizable as types of technological equipment in use today. Electricgenerators, electric bulbs, etc. However, there are others, obviously tools,for which no counterpart exists today and about which we can onlyconjecture. Possibly, even probably, they were devices which were used forsuch tasks as cutting, transporting and lifting the gigantic blocks of stonewith which the pyramids were built. These blocks range from two to 70 tonsin weight. The work forces, the laborers, were probably the aboriginalinhabitants the extraterrestrial beings met on earth, educated in the use ofthe building implements by the superbeings who were the designers of thepyramids (10,500 years ago--Ed.).
As to the why, it is certain that there were many reasons behind thebuilding of these unique edifices: landmarks, aerial beacons, trig points forcartographers, storage structures or temples, but more than anything else,for power of one sort or another. Each day gives birth to some newconception of the intended use of the pyramids.
CHAPTER III
THE SOURCE OF PYRAMID ENERGIES
In the preceding chapters I have mentioned pyramid energy. Of what doesthis energy consist? Whence does it come? Although I have no collegedegrees, I have an extensive education in practical experience. I have apractical and inquiring mind and have bent myself to searching for some kindof answer to these questions. The answers I have amassed are based onmuch research of my own particular brand, called performance. When youget exactly the same results with man-produced energy as you do with apyramid, then you can say that at least here is one of the energies of thepyramid. I say one because there is more than one type of energy involved inthe pyramid, but the main type is magnetic energy.
My theory is at least as good any anybody else's; for insofar as I am awareno one has been able to prove in a scientific manner what the energyundoubtedly generated by a pyramid consists of. There has been talk ofbiocosmic rays, cosmic rays and other esoteric forces, but the plain truth isthat nobody knows for sure just what happens inside the pyramid. Because
of the experiments I have done and the results I have obtained, bothsuccesses and failures. I have abundant evidence to back up what I am aboutto say. I can prove conclusively that the pyramid receives and collectsmagnetic energy from the poles, cosmic rays, which is radiation coming infrom all angles in equal strengths, and radio waves. There is enoughinformation on these three energy forms to fill another book, but that wouldbe far too advanced for the beginner.the first two energies mentioned, magnetic and cosmic rays, enter thepyramid through the peak; radio waves enter through the sides. Since theseenergies come from many angles, there is a curling that takes place as theyare absorbed, and some reports I have read state that the energy swirlsclockwise on a sunny day and counterclockwise on a dull day or at night. Ipersonally can find no reason for it to change direction according to light,nor do I recognize this in my experiments. However, of importance is that itdoes collect down through the peak and continues coming in until it reaches acertain intensity, or the limits of safety, at which point the pyramid releasesall the energy and begins collecting it again. Kirlian photographs taken ofpyramid generators show this energy, invisible to the naked eye, beingreleased in jets up through the apexes of the pyramids. The pyramid is saidto release 80% of its energy through the peak and the other 20% via thefour base corners (See Figure 3).
Only a pyramid will perform this way, and even then the maximumperformance is obtained only by a perfect pyramid. So, when you start tobuild one, aim at perfection. The nearer you can get to a perfect pyramid,the more you will benefit.
CHAPTER IV
HOW ENERGIES AFFECT LIVING CELLS
The main purpose of this small book, in addition to acquainting you with thebasics of the pyramids, is to show you how you can grow bumper crops withthe use of a pyramid. The magnetic field plays a very important part in plantlife, animal life and of course human life. Nothing would thrive without it, infact nothing could live without it. In our day-to-day lives we are used toseeing plants and animals of the same type or breed grow to normal size inaddition to periodic occasions in which one or more of these varieties growsfar and above the expected. There is a reason for these occasional episodesof supergrowth. It can be explained, or should I say, in various ways. It couldbe due to that particular piece of soil, well fertilized and watered, or a"supergrown" plant could be in the same kind of soil, with the sameconditions, as those plants growing normally, but positioned perhaps near ametal fence. In nearly every instance, anything growing by an iron fence willbe bigger and better than one nowhere near metal. The reason is that theiron fence picks up static or magnetic energy and feeds it to the plant.
I remember my mother and grandmother placing large nails in the soil oftheir potted house plants because plants thus treated always grew biggerand better. They had no idea why. In fact, if you asked them, the standardanswer was that, as the nail rusted, the plant fed on it. This reasoning isfallible, however, because for one thing, plants can only absorb minerals inliquid form and for another, the rust would kill some plants. Rather, the nailspicked up the magnetic energy and boosted the house plants' growth. Isuppose you can see that what I am driving at is that when a plant receivesan extra dose of energy to that already floating free in the atmosphere,that dose acts as a stimulant and causes better growth. What really happensis that the living cells are increased in size, and naturally when each cell islarger, since there are still the same number of cells, the final plant is a lotlarger than normal. To illustrate, if I fill a basin half full of dried peas andfill it up with water, by the time the peas have completely soaked they fillthe basin. There are still the same number of peas, but there appear to bemany more.
Similarly, if you plant a plant in a pyramid, the same sort of thing happens,but there is a difference. As detailed earlier, the pyramid collects magneticenergy and absorbs it to a higher intensity than the nails in the plant potsdid, a much greater intensity or strength, and so the end result is, you canexpect enormous growth, and when this is applied to vegetables and fruits,the plants, as well as their products, are immensely oversized. My ownexperiments have convinced me that this energy creates a special reaction inliving cells of plants, resulting in larger blooms, leaves and fruits on whateverplants are propagated within the pyramidal shape.
The normal life cycle of lettuce, for instance, from seed to maturity, is sixto eight weeks. Grown under a pyramid the life cycle is still the same, butthe plant is considerably larger. If one allows the vine type of tomato tomature to six or seven trusses under a pyramid while simultaneously allowingan identical plant to do the same outside the pyramid, giving both plantsprecisely the same feeding and watering, a startling difference in yieldoccurs. I should mention that if you put your outside plant too near thepyramid, it will reach for, and receive, some of the pyramid's energy, so keepit well away to get a fair test. The outside tomatoes would weigh out atapproximately 10 to 14 pounds per plant, whereas the plant grown in theenergy of the pyramid would produce between 50 and 60 pounds oftomatoes. Not every type of plant grown under a pyramid will produce thisincrease; this is the average that I have come to expect from tomatoes.
A few more averages I have obtained repeatedly were: lettuce two to threetimes larger than average; beans 25 inches long by 1-1/4 inches wide;cabbage--when controls were three pounds each, the pyramid-grown plantswere 12 to 13 pounds per head; radishes that normally would be the size of aquarter were four inches in diameter; controlled cucumbers that averaged14 inches in length and weighed up to one pound normally, were 21 inches longand weighed up to four pounds when grown in the pyramid.
A few more averages I have obtained repeatedly were: Lettuce two to threetimes larger than average; beans 25 inches long by 1-1/4 inches wide;cabbage-- when controls were three pounds each, the pyramid-grown plantswere 12 to 13 pounds per head; radishes that normally would be the size of aquarter were four inches in diameter; controlled cucumbers that averaged14 inches in length and weighed up to one pound normally, were 21 inches longand weighed up to four pounds when grown in the pyramid that warms yourwhole house and cleanses the air you breathe.
Energized air in the pyramid also appears inimical to small insects; though,there is no need for pesticides to be used within its glass walls. Pest-freeplants grow to maturity inside, with none of the setbacks plants subject tonormal attack from pests suffer in the garden outside. This also means thatpyramid-grown vegetables need no washing upon harvesting. The mereappearance of such plants is more appetizing than that of those grownnormally. Greens are more vivid, and many leaves have a sheen which isnoticeably absent from plants in kitchen gardens. Artificial fertilizers will
never be used in my pyramid. Since many fertilizers apparently are becomingshort in supply themselves, the ability to grow plants without their use is adouble blessing for all mankind. I will use natural farmyard manures, thebest way to regain succulent taste and nutrition that are missing for too longin engineered and chemicalized food.
An egg broken out of its shell and left within the confines of the pyramidwill gradually congeal and become like plastic, as the interior energy works onits cells--harmlessly. The cells do not die nor induce putrefaction. After aperiod of even weeks or months these congealed eggs can be reconstitutedin water to the point where they can be eaten with complete safety--andtaste even more delicious than eggs produced in the usual ways.
BTW, one peculiar phenomenon I have observed under my large pyramid isthe formation of dew upon plants inside, early in the morning. During all my years of experience with greenhouses I never noticed dew forming on anyplants in conventional greenhouses. This dew gently dissipates as the sungrows stronger, exactly as it would outside. Also, after a recentthunderstorm, my pyramid cucumbers grew two to two and a half inches in amatter of a few hours.
CHAPTER V
THE USE OF PYRAMIDS FOR PRODUCTION
The pyramid reproduced on the front of this book is my prototype for largerones. This one was purely for research and would need to be much greater insize for production on a large scale. In building the prototype I encounteredand overcame virtually all the problems one can expect to meet in this typeof construction. It is nothing like building a house, and whereas a slightdifference in measurements can be overcome in a house, it is not possible tomake a mistake in a pyramid and carry on building. The particular piececontaining the error must be pulled out and replaced correctly, as anymistake is transferred all the way around the pyramid.
This test model is 30 feet high along a perpendicular line from ground topeak. The sides from base corner to peak are 44 feet 4-1/2 inches, with abaseline of 46 feet 10-1/2 inches. It contains two additional floors aboveground, and the sum of the areas of these two floors equals or is greaterthan that of the ground floor. Thus, the two additional floors virtuallydouble the growing area. My first floor is 12 feet from the ground, andthere is a reason for this. I calculated that when the sun was at its highestpoint the first floor would have to be positioned at a 12-foot height to allowthe sun to shine onto the back north edge of the ground floor. The 12-footheight was perfect, its achievement resulting from a mixture of good judgment and a bit of luck. However, I would not need to build a growinglevel at this height again because there are as many plants that grow well inshade as there are those that favor the sun. In the future my floors will allbe eight feet apart, and I will put my sun-loving plants in the southern halfand my shade-loving ones in the back northern half.
By placing the floors at eight-foot intervals there is much more growing areaavailable than there is in placing the first floor at a 12-foot height. Inaddition, utilizing this lower height allows upper floors to decrease moreslowly in size than they would if placed farther apart, for as the peak of thepyramid is approached, the floors decrease in area at each progression. Oneof the benefits obtained with these extra floors is that since heat rises,there are higher temperatures on each floor toward the top of the pyramid.This allows a wide range of crops to be grown.
To illustrate the temperature differential, if the ground floor were 75degrees Fahrenheit, the second floor would be 90 degrees, and the thirdfloor would be around 105 to 115 degrees, each floor carrying more humidity.This means that anything from cool to tropical crops can be grown within onepyramid. The ground floor is perfect for such crops as radishes, lettuce,carrots, beets, tomatoes, etc., while the second floor is ideal for cucumbers,squash, peppers, and plants that like it hotter and more humid than the firstfloor. Of course, the top floor can be used for lemons, oranges, figs andespecially, orchids.
The pyramid draws in its own water on the ground floor; I have never had towater that level [because his is built directly on the ground--ED]. It neverdraws too much or too little water, just the right amount for growth.Naturally, I have to pump water to the upper floors, but because the firstfloor provides its own water supply, at least half of my pyramid is wateredfor nothing automatically. I grow right in the ground the pyramid stands on,but upstairs I have placed wooden planting troughs all around the floors,leaving room to walk, and I grow plants in these. It is a major job getting thesoil to the upper floors initially, but it is only a one-time task. The troughsare 16 inches high and 14 inches wide, and contain a bottom. There is a runall around the edge of each of the upper floors and another inside, leavingenough room to work, with a gap on each side allowing passage from one runto the other.
Space in the pyramid is utilized to the utmost. In the low areas at theperimeter I plant the kind of plants that need little headroom, and thenplant bigger crops toward the middle. It is a matter of common sense. Butusing vine type tomatoes and stringing them up, one can work between therows better, and if the lower leaves are removed, there is sufficient spaceto grow lettuce, cabbage or any low-lying crop in between the tomato plants.The trusses may be left on the tomatoes; they will not shade the low-lyingplants. To ensure a steady supply of food, it is wise to plant only a few plantsof each variety at intervals, which means that in the beginning it will takeseveral weeks to reap a full harvest, but subsequently there will be acontinuous yield.
By planting in such a manner, the grower will realize the equivalent ofapproximately six full crops a year. This method applies only to an enclosedpyramid, which would also require heating in the winter. The means of
heating is up to the individual. I personally use a wood stove because I havemy own wood supply. A wood and oil combination is best because it allows oneto take off for a couple of days if necessary. If the wood fire gets low, thenthe oil burner takes over.
As for growing potentials of the floors of the pyramid, I have found thatthe second floor is the best place for germinating new seeds. I find that Ican get germination in three days on that floor, whereas it usually takes fivedays otherwise.
Thus far I have described the pyramid from the growing aspect only to thepoint of showing you how and where to grow crops, but let's take a look at afew statistics on production. Your garden, for instance, will only give onecrop a year, but the pyramid through the means I suggest will give you sixcrops per year. Now let's compare two pieces of ground, both the same size,one with a pyramid on it. Say the garden is 50 feet square and the pyramid is50 feet square. The upper floors inside the pyramid give you approximately2,500 square feet of growing area upstairs to go along with your groundfloor area of 2,500 square feet, and you are getting six crops per floor asopposed to one, or twice times six, the equivalent of 12 times your garden yield.Nor is that all of the advantage. Recall from the previous chapter mydiscussion of the increase in size of the plant cells; this itself gives anaverage of three times the size of a normal crop. Multiplying the 12 times bythe size of the crop, you are 36 times better off than with a single garden.[Keeping the soil mulched, enriched and well- drained naturally is more of anissue in a pyramid, than a once-a-year garden presents. --ED]
Now you see why I use a pyramid. If we can produce crops at this rate, itmeans that the ballooning population of the world could double a few timesand still be fed better than it is today. This would improve the situation atpresent and give upcoming generations some breathing space during whichmankind possibly could devise something even more efficient to deal with thefood supply problem.Proper utilization of pyramids, however, depends upon massiveimplementation of this paradigm. One man, or even a few hundred, will noteven begin to scratch the surface of the problem. I am just trying to point
out what I sincerely feel will be a successful way in the hope that many ofmy fellow men will follow suit and give a lead to the rest of this lethargicworld.There will be a side benefit to the production of larger crops that should doall of us some good. Increased yield by the use of the same area of landafforded by my pyramid will enable the cost of crops to be reduceddrastically, perhaps by as much as 50 percent.
I have publicly committed myself in the media to trying to promote my ideas,for I feel it is time and beyond, that someone try to cut the cost of foodand give ordinary people a break, especially our senior citizens. I believe, andso do many individuals who think as I do, that it is possible to both increasecrops and simultaneously decrease costs. If by any chance I am provenwrong, at least I shall have the consolation of knowing I tried.
CHAPTER VI
FOOD PRESERVATION
In addition to food growth, the pyramid also has application in foodpreservation. I have read statistics stating that 40 percent of all foodgrown in my home country of Canada is lost to putrefaction, whether at theplace of storage, in transport, in wholesale and retail, or finally in the home.If this happens all over the world, no wonder so many people are dying ofstarvation, and even closer to home, we find ourselves paying higher andhigher prices for what does reach us.
These figures mean that either our methods of storage are highlyinefficient or someone in authority couldn't care less. Regardless of how thisspoilage occurs, however, the state of affairs can and must be remedied; itis both ridiculous and criminal to let it continue. Even though I have toldhow--as well as shown and proven how--to use the pyramids to solve theproblem, on radio and television and in newspapers, no one in anygovernmental department has even picked up the phone to inquire about it.It seems that the words "govern" and "mental" don't work together.
Energy of the pyramid that grows plants so amazingly well can be used alsofor the purpose of mummification of food, which can be dehydrated andkept in storage for an indefinite period without losing any of its taste ornutritional properties. There are absolutely no ill effects on any food storedin a pyramid. In fact, in many instances it is far better when reconstitutedthan it was in the first place. It has the water taken out of it; but it alsorepels bacteria and as a result, nothing will rot in a pyramid. For instance, Icannot make a compost heap inside my pyramid; I have to do it outside;otherwise the ingredients in the compost all remain in good shape and willnot break down. For further proof, the grain grown in Manitoba today is adirect descendant of the grain found in the Great Pyramid, grain that hadbeen there for centuries an had kept perfectly. The government knows thisbut still bemoans the amount of grain lost to putrefaction in granaries. Itmakes me wonder at the mentality of the people we elect to look after ouraffairs. Naturally, since I am Canadian, I am referring to what is happeningin Canada; it is probably happening elsewhere too.
Earlier I mentioned mummifying eggs. I conducted an experiment inmummifying an egg, using a pyramid energizer instead of a single wirepyramid. The energizer consisted of a small batch of one-inch-high pyramids,20 in all, positioned in a group.Using such a grid of pyramids provides quicker results than using just onepyramid. I broke an egg into a dish, placed the dish on top of the energizerand observed what happened in the ensuing days. In about six hours Inoticed the lower perimeter of the yolk turning a pale yellow, and thiscontinued through each day, the pale color gradually moving up to the top ofthe yolk. In the meantime, the white was becoming less fluid, thickening, so
to speak. In two weeks the whole egg was just like glass; the yolk was hardand the white was now in crystal form. At no time would flies or any insectapproach it, even though it was open to them. Flies were as prevalent asusually, but they would not go near the egg. There was never any smellpresent from start to finish.
I left the egg in this state for about three months and showed it to many ofmy visitors, but then it was time to reconstitute it and try it for taste. Iadded some water (an egg loses about 30 grams of water in such a period)and left it 24 hours. I then boiled some water with the intention of poachingthe egg. When the water was ready, I tipped the egg in, and immediately thealbumen turned snowy white and the yolk a perfectly natural yellow color.Had I dropped the egg before reconstituting it, it would have shattered, butnow it was simmering away, looking just like an egg fresh from the pen. Aftercooking the egg I put it on a plate, salted and peppered it, then cut the yolkthrough with my knife, and it flooded across my plate. I admit I was not intoo big a hurry to eat it, but if I was going to prove something, I had totaste it. I smelled the egg, and it was no different from normal, so I ate it. Ican honestly say it was one of the nicest eggs I have ever tasted; it seemedto have more flavor than usual.Had this method or one like it been used a few months back on a large scalethe hungry world might have benefited from the saving of millions of eggsthat went rotten in storage. We could have obviated the sorry spectaclewhich has come to be known as "Whalen's Waste." I know we cannot breakall the eggs we produce for storage into dishes and preserve them in thismanner; however, they may be preserved even in their shells, which is theway they could be preserved in the millions. I do not know of any food thatcannot be treated in such a manner. I have tried preserving every food I canthink of, and it all keeps indefinitely, with no refrigeration necessary.
Such a means of preservation by the use of the pyramid is better andcheaper, with no losses, so how can it be ignored? As I said before, nobodyis listening, but the voices of my readers may help me in what I am doing. Ifirmly believe that food processing companies could save themselves billionsof dollars by using pyramids such as mine, which in turn could mean at least alowering of prices. Should they wish to cooperate, I am quite willing to placemy knowledge at their disposal. [Les died before that happened.--ED]
CHAPTER VII
HOW TO BUILD A PYRAMID
Since publicity was first given to my large, wooden pyramid some three yearsago, I have been inundated with letters, phone calls and personal visits.People from all walks of life and many different places in North America andEurope and indeed a few from further a field--Australia, Africa and theEast Indies--all have evinced an interest and have given me kindencouragement. Many of these letters, calls and visits have had as theirobjective the garnering of practical information on the building of pyramidsand the problems likely to be encountered.
Had I sat down and answered the inquiries in detail, I would have been vastlyfurther behind with the business of erecting and planting crops in thepyramid than I am even now, so I have been promising one and all that in thenear future I would put the whole thing down on paper. I want to do this inthe simplest manner so that not only youngsters but also those whosemother tongue is not English will be able to understand and build similaredifices for themselves.
To begin then, my pyramid is made from rough lumber, cut on and near myown property and milled by a neighbor. Ut it is not necessary for pyramids tobe made of wood. As I said earlier, they can be made of any rigid material[that will support permanent glazing]: cardboard, strong wire, sheet steel ormetal, angle irons, logs-- anything that will not curve [and that can beprecisely measured and fitted--ED].
Nor do they have to be solid for many uses; open-sided shapes will do, solong as all corners are joined and the angles are correct. My present pyramidus made of lumber covered by heavy-gauge plastic. Future ones will besheathed in fiberglass, [or Plexiglas or solid glass--ED] They will be closedpyramids solely because I propose to grow food during the depths ofCanada's frigid winters.My pyramid frame is built mainly of wood measuring two inches by fourinches and two inches by eight inches undressed, that is, unplanned.
Pyramids can be built to any scale as long as the proportions correspond tothose of the Cheops Pyramid. It is most important that the angles becorrect. Here are some basic measurements for a variety of sizes:HEIGHT............SIDES................BASE3 inches.............4-7/16 in...........4-11/16 in6 inches.............8-7/8 in..........9-3/8 in12 in....................17-3/4 in........18-3/4 in4 feet.................5 ft 11 in.........6 ft 3 in8 ft......................11 ft 10 in.......12 ft 6 in16 ft....................23 ft 8 in........25 ft*********************
EDITOR'S NOTE: Here are calculations for some typical sizes that will workin harmony with a "basement apartment" foundation for the pyramidgreenhouse.
Come on. Do the work with me. Take out a fresh piece of printer/copierpaper and take hold of one corner, and fold it across diagonally, so its edgeforms a perfect right triangle; then do the same with the opposite corner.When you are done you have a piece of paper with a perfect "X" folded intoit. That's where we begin.
Now take a ruler--cms--and slide it up-and-down the sheet making certain itis always perfectly parallel with the bottom edge of the paper.
With centimeters in mind, align your ruler [perfectly parallel with thebottom edge] until you have arrived at the point where 0 cms is on one ofthe legs of the "x" and 14.5 cms is on the other leg of the "x." Take a scribeor pen or pencil and draw that line from x0 to x14.5. Copy that line threemore times, parallel to each edge of the paper until you have a square 14.5cms on a side. [If you used "inches," you'd have to find a much larger pieceof paper.] Scribe the 14.5 sq square on all four of its sides, then in half fromboth directions, so you now have four squares of 7.25cms each, all perfectlyequal. Be careful.
Now measure one of the diagonals of one of the four squares. Incentimeters, it should be exactly TEN. For a 29unit [foot/rod/yard]
pyramid, the HEIGHT must equal TEN units. Mark off TEN centimeters onthe line that you choose to be your vertical and that point becomes yourAPEX.NOW Draw a line from your APEX [the top] down to the base [side], and youhave a SIDE [apothem] which is exactly TWELVE AND A HALF centimeters.The design in mind is 29 units, twice the 14.5 units you began with, somultiply each result by exactly two. Your VERTICAL height/rise then is 20and your apothem is 25.Why does this come out so even? Because we started with a prime number,29. Starting with a base of "prime number" will give a height andapothem/side in even values so you don't have to figure tiny fractions,decimals or small units.BASE..........VERT............SIDE..........Addl Floors ?...25....................16.......................23'8".........1...29....................20.......................25............1...31....................22.......................27............1+loft...37....................24.......................31.............2...41....................29.......................36.............2+loft...47....................34.......................41.............3The basement apartment plan I have used as an example has a 31 foot baseat the point where the glass attaches to the base. That measurement is"holy." It has to be perfect. The height must be exactly 22 feet fromgrade-to-apex, where the four side surfaces come together at the top. Andeach side panel [of glass or plastic-on- frame] must measure precisely 25feet [0 inches 0 fractions of an inch] from the connection at the apex to itsmount on the foundation, a precise 51 degrees, 51 minutes, 14 seconds angle.Keep your dimensions perfect, your angles will be perfect. If you want it towork properly, this is the way it's got to be.
If you are utilizing a 29', 31' or 37' base dimension, you can fit a verycomfortable basement apartment under it. This apartment will be served bythe greenhouse, not only as a source of food but also as a source ofbreathable air.Grounding. The base, in order to transmit energy properly through thepyramid, must be constructed as a Faraday cage, electrically connected toground at every point on the foundation. As a practical matter this is verysimple. Before you pour concrete base or lay concrete blocks in row-by-row,be sure there is plenty of metal reinforcing rods pounded into the ground,lots of metal shavings, junk pieces, metal auto parts, old hardware mixed in,laid in, poured in with the concrete, so it conducts energy readily to ground.This will also keep "electrosmog" at bay.
Now let's return to Les Brown's narrative, which he wrote in 1974.
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Height is measured from the [topmost point of the--ED] apex straight downto the center of the base. The side measurement is the slowing line running
from the [top point of the] apex down to the base corner [at the verycenterpoint of juncture with the ground or with a solid foundation--ED]. Thebase measurement is of one side of the base, measured from onecenterpoint of the lower corner beam to the next.
Many people are bothered about having read that the base angle must beprecisely 51 degrees, 51 minutes, 14 seconds at each base junction, notknowing how to make such miniscule measurements of angles. Don't worryabout that!! If you use the above measurements and fasten correctly when you build, these angels will be automatically built in.
For a four-foot pyramid I would advise using steel rods, angle irons, copperpipe, iron pipe or wood. The smaller pyramids can be fabricated easily fromgood, strong wire such as is used to make coat hangers, or with fairly strongcardboard. Naturally, the wire ones would be open and the cardboard onesclosed.
You can make energizers from a number of such cardboard pyramids placedside- by-side. Remember, energy from the points of an energizer is moreconcentrated than that produced by a single pyramid. The energizer isespecially good for experiments in general, or for use as an energizedsurface on which to stand plants. Once the energizer is constructed, placeover the top of it, in contact with the points, a sheet of heavy foil or light-gauge aluminum plate. The energizer is then ready for use. [See Fig. 4].
A pyramid energizer has multiple uses. The one pictured consists of 72 smallcardboard pyramids and a top plate of cardboard covered with foil. Byplacing the top plate on top of the pyramids and orienting the entireenergizer to true north, you can use the energy generated for such purposesas mummification, energizing water, or as a beneficial surface on which toplace growing plants for outstanding growth.
Remember that with all types of pyramids, positioning is all-important. Oneof the sloping sides must at all times be facing towards magnetic North--nora corner but the flat face of the pyramid must face MAGNETIC North. Useof a small pocket compass is advised, but one friend of time aligns his by theNorth Star at night. [That is fine, unless our planet's magnetic Northwanders, which it does.--ED] In this respect, a pyramid is like a radio. Formaximum performance you must tune it in properly, pointing it right at the
transmitter. Similarly, several pyramids oriented to true North and stackedon top of each other will produce increased energy, cell activity and growth.
Pyramids more than four feet at the base need to be made of much strongermaterials in general, to prevent any bending, would negate energy-accumulation. Such pyramids are expensive to build and normally would beerected with some specific use in mind. For instance, consider a 16-foot-highmodel. Such a size would be ideal in a garden for encouraging the growth ofplants. The very low angle of the sides to the ground would prevent yourusing some of its square feet, but you would still have nearly 600 squarefeet at ground level. Installing a floor at about a seven-foot height andleaving a hole in the middle for access still leaves an extra 80 square feet ofgrowing space. The leaning walls ensure plenty of light all through thepyramid. The larger the base, of course, the larger the second floor will be.
A 16-foot-high pyramid could be built with wood two-by-fours. Two-by-eights leaning sides should be used--set in the thickness of the glazing--withthe two-by-fours nailed to the two-by-eights on each face for rigid andglazing support. A pyramid this size can keep a family in vegetables year-round. Eat the vegetables fresh and store the surplus. See Figs. 5, 6 and 7for guidance in constructing the pyramid.
Being permanent structure, pyramids need strong foundations--electricallygrounded-- concrete being permeated with metal rods and waste metal tomake it conduct. I have gone to a great deal of trouble to get measurementscorrect so that the correct angles come naturally. Some care must be takento cut angles so that the apex fits together naturally. I found this to be themost difficult part of the construction. I solved that problem by taking thincuts off the wood a little at a time.
One method of ensuring absolute accuracy is to drop a plumb bob from thepeak, to make sure that it forms a precise right angle (90 degrees) with thefloor. Another is to level the foundation by staking the ground and pouringthe foundation or stacking concrete blocks to the leveled string.
A door on each side of the structure will give greatest control overexcessive heat in summer. In these photos I have shown large panels for thewindow sides; however, such construction is up to one's circumstances and
ability to garner appropriate glazing. If one only intended to use the pyramidin warm weather, the frame alone would be quite sufficient. However, forthose who intend to live under the pyramid, it must be sheathed in glass.Otherwise, one must go through the complete task of re-glazing every few years, if one chooses plastic film or Plexiglas that scratches easily.Winter heating can be achieved by installing warm-water piping around thebase of the walls, coupled to a hot water tank similar to one used in a home,plus a circulating pump. A standby heating system of some kind should beprovided in case an interruption in electrical supply [to the pump] occurs.Solar panels can be considered, or a heat pump. The drawback with a heatpump system at present is that it also requires electricity to operate. Thus,unless a generator is also supplied for it, such a system cannot serve asbackup to a main heating system operating off the same circuit.
Pyramids are natural air circulators; however, to further aid circulationinside I would suggest that floors be built at any height but constructeddecking with one-by- fours placed at one-inch intervals to allow air tocirculate freely.With regard to sheathing materials, I would recommend fiberglass or glass.I covered my prototype pyramid with 6 mm plastic, which later provedunable to withstand sunlight or severe weather conditions. I have replacedthe plastic with strong, 4 mm fiberglass. Because Canadian winters are socold, I have also added a layer of plastic four inches inside the fiberglasssheath, thus providing a four-inch air space which has cut down heat lossdramatically. I'll probably have to add one more "skin" of plastic four inchesbehind the first plastic insulating skin also. Having an air space between thefiberglass sheathing and the first plastic skin serves as an insulator andforces warm air up through the space between the two layers. I should beable to achieve an even, efficient draft-free heating system, with morepractice.
In warm climates glass can be adapted readily as sheathing material, but insevere winter conditions--including hailstorms with hail as large as golf balls-
-would make utilization of glass impractical. In that case, fiberglass [and aninner insulating layer of plastic] is the ideal covering.
In contrast to winter's cold, one must consider summer heat. To provideadequate ventilation in summer I would suggest incorporating eight openingwindows (two on each face) at the pyramid's peak and a set of doors (one oneach face) at ground level. Such an arrangement allows ample air circulationand provides the option of closing doors or windows threatened by draftyconditions which are detrimental to plant growth.
It is not necessary to build doors and windows precisely into the slopes ofthe pyramid as I have done. They can as an alternative be built dormer-styleas long as they do not interfere or break into the pyramid's natural lines.Such interference would break the pyramid's energy circuit, resulting inlittle or no growing performance of plants inside. You can build onto yourpyramid such structures as lean-to's, dormers or entrances so long as you donot break the basic outline of the pyramid structure. The same principleapplies inside. Floors, stairs or shelves may be added so long as they do notbreak the continuity of the outside walls.
As mentioned previously, the pyramid's ground floor need not be wateredonly if it is placed directly on and covers the ground, having no "floor." Inthe case of a pyramid placed as a roof over a basement apartment, naturally,every floor would require watering.Your pyramid should not be built near transformers, generators orpowerlines, for these objects will severely affect its performance. Electricalwiring installed within the pyramid itself, however, will give out a magneticfield which can prove beneficial to the pyramid's performance if you learnhow to adapt and which plants to adapt to it. Those desiring to play music totheir plants (and I have found this to be beneficial to plant growth) will findthe use of tapes more satisfactory than a radio. Radio waves are interferedwith inside a pyramid to such an extent that a radio will not performadequately.
With regard to cost, my 30-foot, prototype pyramid cost approximately$6,000 (1974 Canadian dollars). I did the work on the pyramid myself withthe aid of a helper. My cost reflects an allowance for paying the helper butallots nothing for my labor. Costs have increased to perhaps $8,500 (1978)
today for the same materials and labor. Such costs do not include purchaseof heating, a water pump or secondary plastic "skins." In addition, fiberglassnor glass frames and sheathing costs were not included. In general, oneshould plan on a fiberglass model as the optimal choice, with a layer ofplastic attached to the inside of the two-by-four studs as your insulatinglayer also.Another consideration to make before building your pyramid is the weightthat additional first, second or even, third stories will be required to carry.Allow for more than enough support for the first floor as the rule of thumb,because additional support will also be required for second floor and for anysucceeding floors beyond the second. And don't forget to add in the weighof planting boxes and soil. (It should be noted that second floorconsideration is not applicable to a 16-foot pyramid heretofore used forillustration. Only when a second floor proves to be of functional value need itbe considered in building plans, namely, with a base of 27 feet or more.)
CHAPTER VIII
OTHER USES OF PYRAMIDS
There are so many actual and projected uses for pyramids that I can onlytouch on a minute fraction of them in this small book. I have used energizersfor germinating seeds and then placed the seedlings under wire pyramids. Ifind this gives extremely good results. On the other hand, I have hadrelatively poor percentage results from growing seedlings under a wirepyramid from seed. (This is in contradiction to other investigators, whoreport good results from raising seed under pyramids.) However, when theseedlings are ready to be potted, they are equally successful under or overpyramids. My own objective is to produce more and better food plants. Yourown might well be super-flowers. A further use for the pyramid is to placefruits and vegetables under one when you bring them into the house. Theywill keep better and, as many people claim, taste much more flavorful thannormal with such care and treatment.
Water used for growing indoor plants can be placed on an energizer or undera pyramid with extremely beneficial results to the plant when placed in use.Many investigators have reported on this use, claiming that dramatic resultscan be attained. Some say that such water sprayed on the plants helpscontrol mites and other pests. However, as I say, uses for the pyramid otherthan for encouraging the propagation of plants are legion.
My wife, who suffered from migraine headaches, had a severe attack for aweek; and during that time she took more than an abundant supply of pills,which proved of no benefit. She placed a pyramid on her head in the earlyhours of the night, and in about 20 minutes had been relieved of all pain. Shesaid nothing of this to me, but two weeks later suffered another headache.Instead of suffering for a lengthy period, she used the pyramid again, andwithout the use of pills the headache vanished again in about the samelength of time. She told me about this second episode. About a week latershe suffered an ordinary headache and repeated the performance, with thesame result. She now has gone three years with no headaches at all. Aroundthis time, I had been working all day in the hot sun, and the back of my neckbecame quite painful. I tried placing a small pyramid on the back of my neckwhile I sat still for a while. It produced the same relieving results for mebecause I believe it increases blood circulation to the affected part.
After about ten minutes I could feel the pain being drawn out upwards. Atthe same time my head felt cold on top, not cold to the touch, but simplyfelt cold to me. I mentioned this to my wife, and she said she had had thesame sensations of coldness but was waiting for me to remark about themfirst. I am not suggesting that this treatment will do the same for everyone,but merely mentioning that it worked for us. The pyramid must work inapproximately the same way that reflexology works, by increasing electricalconductivity of the cells.
The elderly mother of a friend of mine, her hands badly crippled witharthritis, was persuaded to place her hand on an energizer. A wire pyramidwas put over both hand and energizer for one hour. She continued thistreatment for a few days, experiencing a diminution of pain and a looseningof her fingers each time. Before she returned to her home in England sheactually sat and played the organ. She played haltingly and rustily, it is true,but she had been unable to play at all for several years prior to using thepyramid. Significantly (her pyramid was stolen at the London Airport), herhands returned to their crippled state shortly after she returned toEngland.
We also find that when we are feeling low and depressed, my wife and I sitfor an hour or so, each with a small pyramid on our head, facing north, ourdepression lifts and we feel quite rejuvenated. My wife and I regularly drinkpyramid-treated water. If we are feeling low we have a snifter of pyramidwater and in a short time we feel a marked lift. On the other hand, if wefind ourselves in what used to be described as a choleric state and sit withthe pyramid on our head--but facing south--our irritability rapidly leaves andis replaced by a calm. Naturally, that would never work if we used thepyramid as a band aid and a way of avoiding dealing with problems of the day,first.A prominent acquaintance of mine who does not wish to be named alwaysdrives with a pyramid under his car seat. He claims he feels less "bushed"after a long drive than he did before he did so.Many investigators have found that by putting a pyramid or an energizerover or under their beds, they experience better and more refreshing sleep,some of them claiming they need far less sleep than they required beforeutilizing a pyramid for this purpose.
Dogs and cats seem to find the use of pyramids for a similar purpose quitecongenial. The cat pet of a friend of ours regularly is found curled up undera wire pyramid, seeming to prefer sleeping under it than anywhere else.
The real keynote when trying these pyramid experiments is persistence. Aswith many other experiences, pyramids do not always "work" the first time you apply one to a situation, and a person must "stay with it" and make subtlecorrections until the desired results are obtained.
Putting energized water into a vase containing tulips caused them to last forabout three and a half weeks. Not only did they last this phenomenal time,but they grew about nine inches in the meantime! I have never before seenflowers grow after having been cut.
Many people claim that insect stings stop itching after the application ofenergized water; this has been our own experience. In another instance Ihad a nasty cut on my hand. Immediately after washing it with pyramidwater, the pain stopped and with healing, I had no scar. The cut also healedmuch more quickly than is "normal" for me.
This book has been an informal and easy presentation of what I have foundin experimenting with pyramids. If it inspires you to experiment yourself, Iwould be delighted. If enough of us are seen to be experimenting, perhapswe shall be able to awaken a few of our dreadnought politicians to a sense ofurgency and experimentation themselves. Who knows?
APPENDICESW
EXPERIMENTAL RECORDS AND TIPS
In experimenting with pyramids, or with growing plants, or tracking costs and labor, you will find it extremely helpful to keep accurate records--a journal--to be able to return to and observe your own progress and refer back during problem times. Here are two simple charts you can copy, totrack your experiments with plants and pyramid-power. In addition to the sample charts this appendix contains tips on procedures to help you attain the best results in your experiments. As mentioned in the body of the book, learning from your own experience is the best way to go.Once your experiments are underway and you persist in entering data in your charts, it is worthwhile to have on hand a true Journal for summarizing your findings. Even in twelve months' time you will compile a great deal of invaluable knowledge and experience. Don't lose it by failing to record it. ______________CHART FOR EXPERIMENTS OTHER THANSEEDS___________________DATE | E.g., "to mummify an egg, I broke an egg into a small glass dish.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DAY ONE..............| I noticed .... blah blah and so forth-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
______________CHART FOR RECORDING SEEDS ANDCUTTINGS_________________________________............................|...UNDER..|....OVER......|................|...............|...PCENT....|.....DAT E.....|.....Stocky.....|DATE.....|...SEED..|...P'MID....|...E'GIZER....|....FREE...|...TEMP...|...GERM'D...|...GERM'D...|...Fair or Weak----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Jan 1.....|..lettuce..|......X........|.................................|....63F....|.......0.........|....................|.....................|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jan 3.....|..lettuce..|................|.........X......|...............|....62F....|.....25%......|....................|.....................|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PLANTING TIPS
To achieve the best results with plants, a few simple practices should become part of your routine.
First, never give seeds or cuttings cold water; it has a shocking, damaging effect. Let the water assume the temperature of the environment in which the plants are growing before it is used. In addition, water energized and stored over a pyramid generator will improve growth substantially.Secondly, it is best to start cuttings and seedlings in tin cans for a better root system than normally is achieved by planting in soil alone. The metal in the cans provides a boost to plant growth. A hole in the cottom of the canwill provide proper drainage. If you do choose to plant in pots, it is helpful to place bits of metal in the bottom of the pots to aid growth. It is important, however, not to plug the pot's drainage hole.
Also, when you plant in a permanent position outdoors, it is helpful to lay the plant roots toward the north in the hole or, preferably, trench, in which the plant is positioned. Never plant with roots pointing toward the east or west. Again, placing pieces of metal all around the plants will prove tremendously beneficial to growth.
PLANTING MEDIA
SEEDS--Keeping in mind the use of ingredients Mother Nature provided, a simple, effective mixture in which to germinate seeds is this suggestion: 1part soil, 1 part leaf mold (hard wood) 1-part coarse sand.
CUTTINGS--Coarse, damp sand is an effective growth medium for cuttings. The cuttings should not be watered further until they begin to grow. Rather, if they are placed over but not touching a water source, they will send roots down toward the water.
CONTROLS--One final tip, and also one of the most important when experimentation is involved, is to set up a control against which to validate results achieved in your experiments. A control is a "normal" used for comparison to experimental results. Setting up a control involves setting upthe subject of the experiment and apparatus in an identical manner to that used on experimental "trials" except that the control is placed under "normal conditions." In this case, the variable being measured is effects of the pyramid. All conditions, therefore, should be the same except that the control is placed outside and away from a pyramid. The results of the experiment will thus be due to the only variable involved, the pyramid itself.A control lends validity to any experiment.
INTRODUCTION
With the earth's wide open spaces, enormous expanses on which to grow food, seemingly limitless water and only [6.6 in 2004--ED.] billion people inexistence, one person in every nine is starving to death. That many areliterally dying from lack of food; they are not just hungry, as is an evengreater percentage of the world's population.
How, then, can mankind possibly hope to feed themselves by the time there are sixteen people alive for every one here today? This is a dilemma which I hope to provide a means of solving with this book. It is a problem towhich I am dedicating my life's work. These are the figures which day by day have been growing steadily more stark within my mind.
Every time I turn on the radio, read a newspaper, or watch a TV program, I see hammered home the fact that while I am well and satisfyingly fed, myriads of other people mostly in underdeveloped countries throughout the world, are suffering from the wormlike threading's of hunger pains in their bellies as they lie down to sleep at night.
Life on our world is powered by light. Light from the Sun, which passes through the clear air, is harvested by plants and powers them to combinecarbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates and other foodstuffs, which inturn provide the staple diet of herbivorous animals and people.Our planet is indivisible. In North America we breathe oxygen generated inthe Brazilian rain forest. Acid rain from polluting industries in the AmericanMidwest destroys Canadian forests. Radioactivity from a Soviet nuclearaccident compromises the economy and culture of Lapland. The burning ofcoal in China warms Argentina. Diseases rapidly spread to the farthestreaches of the planet and require a global medical effort to be eradicated.And, of course, nuclear war imperils everyone. Like it or not, we humans arebound up with our fellows and with the other plants and animals all over theworld. Our lives are intertwined.
If technology destroys the ability of the atmosphere to cleanse itself, thenwe are all doomed together--plants, animals and people. So, we need torethink survival, when in fact our governments are dead set on powdering theatmosphere with poisonous aluminum and barium powders that result in oxidation of the ozone layer and depletion of atmospheric oxygen. Webetter get under the cover of glass and plants, or we'll be extinct, quickly.
This has grown to be a thought which constantly tortures me. For a long timeI have wondered what could be done. Since childhood I have had the dreamof growing food in greenhouses in some revolutionary fashion: more, betterand bigger crops than have ever been grown. With this aim in view, seven years ago I bought myself a secluded farm in the country near Bancroft,Ontario, retired myself from the unbelievably busy life of a fashionableinterior decorator in Toronto, and started planning for the monstergreenhouses I intended to erect upon my farm. Three incidents sufficed toredirect my planning. First, I read a book, Chariots of the Gods, by VanDaniken in which he postulated the theory that in incredibly long-gone aeonsextraterrestrial beings visited the earth--"gods"--and left part of theirbeings and of their intelligence as a legacy for the children they sired uponthe aboriginal earth inhabitants with whom they cohabitated. Part of thislegacy, it is postulated by some, may lie in the pyramids.
Secondly, after extensive and painstaking experiments with the pyramid, Iproved to myself, as others have done, that the pyramid is a blessing indisguise, one that could possibly be the ultimate saving of manking as far asthe growth and storage of food are concerned.
Lastly, I attended a lecture a few years ago in Peterborough, Ontario,Canada, sponsored by pyramid authorities Alfred Ward and Bruce Knapp.Alfred Ward operates a franchise for selling pyramid productsmanufactured by a firm in Glendale, California, and Bruce Knapp is anamateur pyramidologist residing in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
At the lecture I was astonished to hear my theories being spoken by Knapp.He too thought that the "gods," foreseeing the calamitous impasse to whichmankind would one day bring [them]sel[ves] by [their] unbridled sexualappetites and lack of planning for the future, decided to give their earthlingsuccessors an idea as to how they could raise vast amounts of food in smallspaces and, more importantly, how they could store that food by the use ofpyramidal shapes.This last incident was the impetus which finally turned my thoughts ofconventional greenhouses, already dented by Von Deniken's book, towards pyramidal greenhouses, to be built of wood in exact proportion to themeasurements of the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza in Egypt.
I felt that the pyramids of the world, brooding through the centuries, theirultimate secrets there to be seen but as yet unread by blind humanity,tourist attractions at best, were about to play their destined part in the"gods'" endeavor to save us from the reesults of our own folly. Humblyenough, I felt that maybe it was to be my part in the universal scheme ofthings to be the catalyst which would transform theory into fact, changepyramids from one of the wonders of the ancient world to one of the saviorsof the modern.Since nobody else seemed interested in trying the practical use of pyramidson a large scale for the growing the conservation of food, and since I hadthought of it, it was obviously up to me to initiate steps which might possiblyresult in the children being born today having enough food to eat when theyreached my age. Many people throughout the world were dabbling inexperiments with pyramidal shapes. It has been shown, conclusively enoughto satisfy me, that these shapes do have an effect upon plant growth. Sowhy not combine my dream of monster greenhouses with the demonstratedability of the pyramids to force plant growth? If the theories should notprove correct, only I would be the loser. If, on the other hand, as I stronglyfeel, the theories do hold water, mankind in general would be thebeneficiary.
These were the thoughts, then, behind the erection of the first of mypyramids in 1974. This pyramid has been the subject of a number of TV andradio programs and of magazine and newspaper articles. Some of you who arereading these words may already be acquainted with my dream and itsembryonic fulfillment. Insofar as is known, this is the first large- scalepyramid anywhere in the world for the express purpose of raising substantialcrops.
I have done much research along the way and so far have brought to lightseveral related and sometimes seemingly unrelated phenomena associatedwith the use of pyramids.
Since I have no wish to stir up hornets' nests andarguments with the scientific professions, I am waiting until thesephenomena are well enough documented for acceptance by the scientificcommunity and will then release them through the usual channels.
One of my strongest wishes today is to encourage others to experiment withpyramids, for I am convinced that there are unbelievably wide horizons to beexplored in this area, and only by countless people experimenting on theirown will new uses of the pyramids come to light. One need not hold adoctorate in physics or any other scientific field in order to experiment; aninordinary curiosity and the ability to make a simple pyramidal shape aresufficient to launch one into unravelling some of the mysteries left hiddenby the proposed extraterrestrial visitors of ancient times.
To be of anyvalue, however, the experiments must be meticulously documented. The day,the time, the weather, where the experiment is carried out, whether it isindoors or out, exactly what is done step by step, room or outsidetemperatures, or whether near to metals, electrical apparatus or wiring,metal fences or expanses of water are all factors which must be taken intoaccount and recorded, anything that later may help you to draw usefulconclusions about your results. Controls should be made, one subject under pyramid conditions being used simultaneously with one or more subjectsunder normal conditions.
In conducting pyramid experiments you should look daily for signs of changeand note them meticulously, and above all be patient. Don't plant a seed oneday and expect to have a plant six feet high the next. A plant takes just aslong to develop inside a pyramid as it does outside, but in time you will seethe tremendous difference in results, with respect to size. Also, don't keepmoving plants around inside your the pyramid during an experiment; leave pots stationary so what you see is what you are getting.
In later pages this book will show you how to make your own pyramids forexperimentation; they can be constructed entirely from inexpensivematerials equally as well as from costly ones. Cardboard, wire, plywood oranything rigid enough to retain the pyramid shape will suffice. The pyramiddoes not necessarily have to be solid; in many experiments just the outlineshape is sufficient, provided that it is jointed at all corners and at the apex.
Once you have made a discovery, record it on paper and put it into practice.Not only do you stand to gain a sense of achievement, but you might discoversomething of inestimable benefit to mankind in its titanic struggle forexistence.
In addition to showing you how to build pyramids of all types, this book willalso:1.
explore the source of pyramid energy;2.
discuss how that energy affects living cells;3.
look into the use of pyramids in food production;4.
discuss pyramids and food preservation;5.
discuss the many different uses of pyramids.6.
How to plan and execute an energizer to enliven any too-dormant partof your structure.
EDITOR'S NOTES: The author passed away in the 1990's and his work mustcarry on if humanity is to learn self-sufficiency.It is known from applying heat-conveying properties of glass structures tothe side of a building that an atrium or greenhouse heats the structure towhich it is attached. So, we have appended a simple houseplan to thispyramid-structure concept-- as the base upon which a pyramid-type glassgreenhouse will serve as 1) roof; 2) heat source; 3) garden-space food source3) interior-light source and 4) oxygen-source.It is for the reason that we have become an oxygen-deprived people that wemust change the way we live and exist on the surface of the ground, orperish from weakness, from pollution and from chemical intrusions.And now, the author's text.
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Over the past few years, since the first publicity on my pyramid inSeptember 1974, I have had literally hundreds of requests for informationon the subject of pyramids. It has become apparent that the only way I canaccede to all these requests and still have time to pursue my aims with thepyramid is to write small monographs in expensive book form.
These will getone started on building and using pyramids, and further discoveries will become the subjects of future books I am including in this book discoveriesI have made as well as those made by friends and acquaintances across theNorth American continent and in other parts of the world. For the latterreports I thank the discoverers and wish to take no credit myself.
I myself see the pyramid as a symbolic sunburst of knowledge, with raysemanating from the center. Following any one of these rays one would learnwho knows what, eacy ray being a new train of thought from a separateindividual. Somewhere along the line, finally, all the rays would beincorporated into a circle in which they would all be interrelated. My own"thing" is the search for bigger, better and more bountiful crops with whichto feed the growing hordes already beginning to crowd the earth beyondendurance.
We must prepare today for tomorrow. We must find new and unorthodoxways to produce nutrients, or possibly our children and for certain ourgrandchildren, will face a real and ghastly danger of ending up the image ofthe perambulating human skeletons we see so frequently on our TV screens,listlessly suffering and awaiting a miserable death. It makes me sick to seeit. Mankind must realize [they are] faced with a friehtening snowball, thisgargantuan increase in the number of human mouths to be fed. If it is a factthat we cannot feed our current population--and it is a fact--next year willbe worse, and ten years from now will be unimaginable. How then will we beable to cope in 50 years? Even with the latest technical advances--hybridization, multi-story greenhouses, fertilizers, automatic feeding andwatering, artificial lighting--we are falling further and further behind in ourbid to feed the world. If we do not come up with some solution--and soon--mankind seems doomed.
The politicians seem almost completely unperturbed, but then who everheard of a hungry politician?! Wherever I look, inertia and disinterest seemto prevail in high places. This is why I have decided it is up to us ordinarypeople to take the initiative. If the men and women we pay and trust toshoulder these burdens refuse to assume them, we will just have to fend forourselves.
It is my belief that the pyramid is the answer to current and future foodshortages. Using pyramids, I sincerely believe that I can grow 36 times more and better plants in a given area than any farmer or market gardener can inthe same area, using conventional methods.
CHAPTER II WHY A PYRAMID The energy that keeps this world in balance and maintains its position in theuniverse, the energy that keeps us alive, and which is part and parcel ofeverything in this earth, is magnetic energy. The magnetic field is of acertain intensity, but since some objects qare more receptive to it, they areaffected by the energy more than are other objects.
Paradoxically, thisinequality of energy attraction is precisely what keeps everything on earth inbalance. Man's investigation of magnetic energy has allowed him to progressscientifically to his present-day standard of living. That investigation led tothe development of electricity and the millions of machines, appliances,heating, lighting and power that it gives us. Without such progress we wouldnot know what a car was; there would be no television, radio, telephone orcomputers. We would be living in a world as untouched as the day it dawned.While such a world might seem highly desirable now, man nevertheless sawwhat he thought would better his life and he went after it. He realized thatthe magnetic force, if collected and condensed, would give him a force withwhich he could make inanimate objects move for him, and if he learned how to control it, the sky was the limit. But first he had to find a means ofcollecting and then boosting it to suit his purpose. So electricity was born.Man's progression since then is history.
That is, history as we know it. It is my theory, however, that long beforeman as we know him, from the Garden of Eden to the present day, was onthis earth, there were beings of far greater intelligence in residence, whooriginated outside this earth. I believe they may have begun as we did andprogressed similarly, often using their progress for the wrong purposes,seeking selfish gain for themselves as man so frequently does today.
I believe these beings became so advanced in their technology that they feltthey could do without God. They felt they knew it all, their inventions madethem wealthy, their wealth gave them power, and once that power developed,they believed they were masters of their own destiny. They felt they nolonger needed God's help, and as a result were destroyed.
Only those wholived in God's image survived. With His guidance they resided on earth andused their advanced technology to benefit mankind.
I believe these beings eventually escaped with their knowledge back towhere they had come from originally and, as evidenced by the numerouspresent-day UFO sightings, I believe they have been watching mankindprogress along a similar path toward destruction as did their ownpredecessors. They are warning us through psychics to change our waysbefore it is too late. In this modern age of greater acceptance of psychicphenomena, I suggest we heed such warnings, particularly those of suchnoted psychics as Edgar Cayce. History has always repeated itself, but nowwe have a chance to break the repetition, if only we will listen. I believethese people of long ago were Atlantians and that they will return in the not-too-distant future.
Not only are psychics trying to pass on the warnings of these people, but theAtlantians also left us, centuries ago, the Pyramid Cheops, also known as theGreat Pyramid. Their purported technology would have been the only suchadvanced technology in existence at the time, capable of building suchstructures as the pyramids. Even today's engineers admit that we could notduplicate the Pyramid Cheops with present technology. My belief is that theGreat Pyramid embodies pure truth and we will only survive if we use truthas our basic principle. Those who do not will perish just as the majority of Atlantians did before us. The Great Pyramid is a giant computer, built in thepast to contain our future. It is a great receiver and transmitter withtremendous power, far beyond present-day man's imagination, and in itsbeautiful lines it contains the solutions to most of man's problems, plus themost important content of all, teachings akin to those of the Bible, showingman how to live in peace and harmony. I feel very fortunate in being allowedto show you some of the Great Pyramid's teachings, its benefits, and itsperformance.
This book is only elementary in that its purpose is to introduce you to thebasics of the study of the pyramids. My next book will take you through aprogression of fields of which you may only dream. From my experiments andresearch I possess knowledge about the pyramids that I will impart in futurewritings. Such knowledge is far too much for you to accept until youunderstand something about the basics. That is the background I hope thisbasic book will give you.
Before we can discuss energy, we first must construct something with whichto collect it. All kinds of shapes; contain energy, even the materials theseshapes are formed with, and the very nature of the shapes themselvesdetermines the degree of energy they contain, that is, the shape determinesreceptability to energy. By shapes I refer mainly to cubes, spheres,triangles, pyramids and such. Each shape has potential, but they all havedifferent limits. Whatever we do in our everyday lives, we strive for thebest. So it is with shapes and the energy they contain; we should seek theone that offers the most potential.
Of all shapes, the pyramid will give us the best performance because it isreceptacle to the greatest amount of energy. It must be four-sided, ofspecific measurements and correct angles, and must be correctly oriented.Where do we look for this specific data? We know that the Great PyramidCheops at Giza in Egypt performs well today, but undoubtedly nothing like itdid when it was complete with smooth surface and capstone. It is now knownthat upon completion the Great Pyramid included a capstone and covering ofseven feet of white limestone alabaster. This material, which helped thepyramid function at its fullest, subsequently was robbed from the pyramidfor use as building material. Even without it, however, we can measureCheops, as many have, and come up with enough data to work with, but one must go further than the measurements themselves to understand whythese measurements have such meaning.
We must go back to the time when a much higher intelligence than ours hada pyramid on the drawing board. The pyramid was not built for its looks, orby accident or coincidence, and it did not simply start to perform to theAtlantians' amazement. Instead, it was built because they knew beforehandthat it would do all of that for which they planned it. In my research of thepyramid I have gone beyond where your wildest dreams might take you; butfor the present will stick to basics, taking you step by step, showing youwhat the pyramid does and why and how it works, so that you will be able tofollow up my studies in a safe and sensible progression. The word safe maysound a little ominous, and well it should because there are dangers in usingthe pyramid blindly without knowledge of its functions and its greatpotential.
Having set the stage, let's get to the pyramid itself. The pyramid is builtwith straight lines of specific length and orientation. This is how we arriveat the line proportions. (See Fig.
1.) Imagine cutting the world in half at theequator (try this with an orange), taking the top half and cutting it into fourquarters or quadrants, then taking one of these quarters and taking the peeloff. Flatten out the peel and you will have a triangle with curved sides; trimthe curve off without taking anything off the length and you will end up withone face side of a perfect pyramid.(NOTE:
If you constructed each triangle as the cone-shape without squaringthe bottom, energy yield as a direct-current battery would becomedangerous to life unless it was tapped off and used.
--Ed.)Having squared each triangle, put all four triangular shape pieces of peeltogether and you have transformed the northern hemisphere into a pyramid.The bottom corners of the base fit perfectly into the circle of the equator,and the sides lead up to its North Pole.
Using these proportions, any pyramid will function in unison with the naturalelements that we enjoy, the natural elements that keep us alive and theworld in balance. Change this ratio of measurement and you will drop belowpar in performance. The further you deviate from this formula the lessperformance you will get. Of course, we cannot build a pyramid as large as the northern hemisphere, but whatever size is built, if built in correct rationto the Great Pyramid of Cheops, it will give 100 percent performance.
I will not go into all the details of the Great cheops, but will mention a few, just to illustrate that this ratio was strictly adhered to, plus a few moreitems which indicate that it is not just a beautiful structure, but wasplanned for a purpose. Cheops covers approximately 13.1 acres and is squareat the base, as we shall see it must be. It has been measured throughout thecenturies by many brilliant men, using cubits, metrics and inches, and after years of controversy as to whose measurements were right, the consensusof opinion accepted inches as being nearest to the correct measurement.The distance around the base of Cheops is 36,524.24 inches, which coincidesremarkably with the 365.24 days of our lunar year. If we add together thediagonals of the Great Pyramid's base, we find the sum to be 25,827 inches,a figure which also represents the number of years in the precession of theequinox.
The pyramid has five points and four sides plus a base. The line extendingfrom the point sphere it would touch the Equator up to the North Pole (baseside corner to peak), leans in at 51 degrees, 51 minutes, 14 seconds. Sincethis book was intended to simplify matters so that you can conduct pyramidstudies with ease, here is a simple way to figure out a perfectlyproportioned pyramid of any size (See Figure 2.) Predetermine the length ofone side of your base (A). Now on paper, draw a square to your base, thendivide it into four quarters. Now, draw a diagonal (B) down one of the smallsquares and measure it. Mark that measurement from the base up thecenter line (C). This will be the length of the apothem, that is, the length ofthe center line down one of the sloping sides of the pyramid. Finish off thetriangle by drawing two lines (D) and (E), each running from the top of themark you have made on the center line (C) down to a bottom corner of yourbase. By measuring these lines you now have the length of the side edges of your pyramid, and you already know the base measurement.
When you look at the triangle you have just drawn, it may look too tall, butdon't forget that it has to lean in to join with the other three sides. Whenall four sides are put together you will have a pyramid the right height andleaning in at 51 degrees, 51 minutes, 14 seconds.
This method can be used for any size pyramid, whether it is two inches alongits base or 46'1-1/4". There are other methods of constructing a perfectpyramid, but this is the easiest.
Let's assume that you have not built yourpyramid, and we'll talk about the energy. I personally believe that theanswer to the puzzle of the pyramid's energy is right under our noses, butthat scientists are looking beyond the obvious.Until recently, comparatively speaking, it was assumed that the historicallyancient Egyptians built the pyramids at the orders of their kings asmausoleums for the latter. This theory has been proven false by the factthat, so far as I know, no traces of any mummified human remains haveactually been reported as having been found in any pyramid. It is highlyquestionable too whether primitive men, using bronze picks, wooden rollersand ropes, could possibly have erected these gargantuan edifices whichmodern civil engineers have declared would be almost impossible to constructeven with the most advanced technical methods of today. Why then shouldthe extraterrestrial beings have decided upon such a task, and how did theyaccomplish it?As to the how, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics depict many devices which arerecognizable as types of technological equipment in use today. Electricgenerators, electric bulbs, etc. However, there are others, obviously tools,for which no counterpart exists today and about which we can onlyconjecture. Possibly, even probably, they were devices which were used forsuch tasks as cutting, transporting and lifting the gigantic blocks of stonewith which the pyramids were built. These blocks range from two to 70 tonsin weight. The work forces, the laborers, were probably the aboriginalinhabitants the extraterrestrial beings met on earth, educated in the use ofthe building implements by the superbeings who were the designers of thepyramids (10,500 years ago--Ed.).
As to the why, it is certain that there were many reasons behind thebuilding of these unique edifices: landmarks, aerial beacons, trig points forcartographers, storage structures or temples, but more than anything else,for power of one sort or another. Each day gives birth to some newconception of the intended use of the pyramids.
CHAPTER III THE SOURCE OF PYRAMID ENERGIES In the preceding chapters I have mentioned pyramid energy. Of what doesthis energy consist? Whence does it come? Although I have no collegedegrees, I have an extensive education in practical experience. I have apractical and inquiring mind and have bent myself to searching for some kindof answer to these questions. The answers I have amassed are based onmuch research of my own particular brand, called performance. When youget exactly the same results with man-produced energy as you do with apyramid, then you can say that at least here is one of the energies of thepyramid. I say one because there is more than one type of energy involved inthe pyramid, but the main type is magnetic energy.
My theory is at least as good any anybody else's; for insofar as I am awareno one has been able to prove in a scientific manner what the energyundoubtedly generated by a pyramid consists of. There has been talk ofbiocosmic rays, cosmic rays and other esoteric forces, but the plain truth isthat nobody knows for sure just what happens inside the pyramid. Because of the experiments I have done and the results I have obtained, bothsuccesses and failures. I have abundant evidence to back up what I am aboutto say. I can prove conclusively that the pyramid receives and collectsmagnetic energy from the poles, cosmic rays, which is radiation coming infrom all angles in equal strengths, and radio waves. There is enoughinformation on these three energy forms to fill another book, but that wouldbe far too advanced for the beginner.the first two energies mentioned, magnetic and cosmic rays, enter thepyramid through the peak; radio waves enter through the sides. Since theseenergies come from many angles, there is a curling that takes place as theyare absorbed, and some reports I have read state that the energy swirlsclockwise on a sunny day and counterclockwise on a dull day or at night. Ipersonally can find no reason for it to change direction according to light,nor do I recognize this in my experiments. However, of importance is that itdoes collect down through the peak and continues coming in until it reaches acertain intensity, or the limits of safety, at which point the pyramid releasesall the energy and begins collecting it again. Kirlian photographs taken ofpyramid generators show this energy, invisible to the naked eye, beingreleased in jets up through the apexes of the pyramids. The pyramid is saidto release 80% of its energy through the peak and the other
20% via thefour base corners (See Figure 3).
Only a pyramid will perform this way, and even then the maximumperformance is obtained only by a perfect pyramid. So, when you start tobuild one, aim at perfection. The nearer you can get to a perfect pyramid,the more you will benefit.
CHAPTER IV HOW ENERGIES AFFECT LIVING CELLS The main purpose of this small book, in addition to acquainting you with thebasics of the pyramids, is to show you how you can grow bumper crops withthe use of a pyramid. The magnetic field plays a very important part in plantlife, animal life and of course human life. Nothing would thrive without it, infact nothing could l
