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    Default Gigantic Unfinished Stone Structures: the Yangshan Quarry in China

    The Yangshan Quarry is famous for an unfinished stele of huge size that was abandoned there during the reign of the Yongle Emperor, the third ruler of the Ming Dynasty in China, reigning from 1402 to 1424.



    Source: http://www.ancientpages.com/2015/09/...ng-techniques/


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    Default Re: Gigantic Unfinished Stone Structures: the Yangshan Quarry in China

    Wait a minute!

    This needs to be read very carefully, maybe several times. Here's the salient part, abbreviated for clarity:
    The Stele Base weighs 16,250 tons. Its body weighs 8,799 tons. The stele’s head weighs 6,118 tons.

    After most of the stone-cutting work had been done, the architects realized that moving stones from the quarry to Ming Xiaoling and installing them there in a proper way, would not be physically possible.

    What's wrong with this picture?

    These vast stones are many times heavier than the giant blocks at Baalbek. Did the architects wake up one morning and have it suddenly dawn on them that they couldn't be moved?

    That's nonsense. It makes totally no sense.

    These guys were highly intelligent. They knew exactly what they were doing.

    They must have reasonably planned on moving thembut how?? Presumably, something went wrong with their well thought-out plan. NONE of this seems to have occurred to whoever wrote the article.

    Even more intriguing is the recent date... these don't date from thousands of years back, when giant stones were being moved around effortlessly all over the ancient world. This was just 600 years ago. The entire thing is an enormous mystery.

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    Default Re: Gigantic Unfinished Stone Structures: the Yangshan Quarry in China

    Well, I got highly curious here, and started searching. There's not a lot on the net about this.

    The source article quoted above copied most of it from Wikipedia. (Which may explain why it's so unquestioningly unintelligent.)
    But there's an interesting discussion on the Graham Hancock forum about this, here. (To follow the replies, keep clicking 'Next Message'.)
    Here's one post that mirrored mine above, presented in a slightly different way:

    ~~~

    So, the architects and masons who could make these things:





    Spent all that time carving the largest blocks on Earth only to get almost all the way done merely to say to themselves "Oh__!. We just realized there is no way we can move these 16,250, 8,799, 6,118 ton blocks. I know we had only moved up to 50-100tons max ever in our entire history, but for some crazy reason we just thought we could pull off moving these 6,000-16,000 ton blocks this time".

    "Oops".

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    Default Re: Gigantic Unfinished Stone Structures: the Yangshan Quarry in China

    I do believe those blocks are larger than the ones at Mt Shoria. My oh my. And as you say Bill, rather new. There is no way they make 'em unless they can move 'em.
    So let's speculate:
    How did they move such humongous pieces of stone? The 1200 ton block in the wall at Baalbek is perfectly placed. The beautiful wall at Ollantaytambo boggles me too. There are no tool marks on the H blocks at Puma Punku or Ollantaytambo. Stonework of all kinds moved anywhere they wanted.
    Some might say a particular chant.
    Or the joining of hands followed by a chant and then the block seems very light.
    Aliens. Certainly seems to be the good guys. Joseph Farrell would disagree on the Great Pyramid but it appears that many teachings and uses on several different levels were incorporated.
    Like pyramids, all over the planet. Common knowledge to many.
    There appear to be no residual marks on the hillside leading up to Ollantaytambo. Not much evidence of movement over ground anywhere. The old roll it over logs fails in many ways.
    I notice what I call nubs sticking out of the stone. These appear all over the planet so are important, I am guessing, for moving them.
    The South American stonework and so many outstanding sites wows me.
    How was this knowledge disseminated? The wall of the inner courtyard at Tiawanaku with all the different races on the wall speaks dissemination.
    Obviously this requires something many magnitudes greater that the Coral Castle.
    Two thumbs up for ground penetrating radar.
    Off topic just a bit but my favorite unexplored (barely) site is the pyramid complex off the west end of Cuba.
    What other ways do you suspect might have been used to move such stones?
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    Default Re: Gigantic Unfinished Stone Structures: the Yangshan Quarry in China

    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    These vast stones are many times heavier than the giant blocks at Baalbek. Did the architects wake up one morning and have it suddenly dawn on them that they couldn't be moved?

    That's nonsense. It makes totally no sense.

    These guys were highly intelligent. They knew exactly what they were doing.

    They must have reasonably planned on moving thembut how?? Presumably, something went wrong with their well thought-out plan. NONE of this seems to have occurred to whoever wrote the article.

    Even more intriguing is the recent date... these don't date from thousands of years back, when giant stones were being moved around effortlessly all over the ancient world. This was just 600 years ago. The entire thing is an enormous mystery.

    I've read descriptions of how the Great Pyramid was built or how the ancient

    builders managed the megalithic stones in Peru and I have come to realize that

    most people that write on these topics have not done their homework.

    Many archaeologists and historians either skip over these problems or they

    dance around the real issues and simply give some unsupported scenario of how

    these massive blocks of stone were transported and lifted.

    There is an unavoidable physical problem that engineers are very aware of and

    that is the density and relative compactness of stone versus the manpower

    needed to exert enough force to move or lift it. The two simply do not go

    together. Even if we scale things way down the problem does not go away.

    There is an equally serious difficulty that precedes the transport and lifting

    of megaliths that takes place in the quarry. The only tools the ancient

    Egyptians had were very small copper chisels and rounded hammer-stones. The

    inflexible and insurmountable problem that the Great Pyramid presents is the

    fact that 43 blocks of granite weighing from 30 to 70 tons were quarried,

    lifted out of the bedrock, transported 500 miles and raised 150 vertical feet

    to the King's Chamber.

    Take a modern locomotive off the track with the wheels off and give a large

    team of men some ropes and let's see how far they can pull it or if they can

    lift it up at all.

    Anyone that believes manpower alone could have moved these monstrous blocks
    of stone using ropes and manpower is living in a fantasy world.
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    If these massive stone items where moved just by brute strength and man power, they would simply break under the effort, something other must have been used/added?

    Add the many negative political possibilities as to why they where unfinished.
    Like a way to destroy the commissioners/emperors reputation, to make him/her look stupid and unsuitable to rule, in attempt to help depose him/her, just maybe.

    Like the Egyptian Pyramids where never used/built to actually bury Egyptian pharaohs in. Did that mean the pharaohs where duped or the populous or just our MSM professionals and so on?

    Where the Architects paid upfront ? 0.o
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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    The Stele Base weighs 16,250 tons. Its body weighs 8,799 tons. The stele’s head weighs 6,118 tons.
    The stele's 8,799 tonbody made it into this list, as the largest known cut monolith:
    Interestingly, the stele's 16,250 tonbase did not... presumably because it was doubted (on this page, not the Yangshan Quarry Wikipedia page) whether this really was a monolith.

    But the reason for this post is below. The Wiki list of largest monoliths (that's the link above) is fascinating.

    It culminates in this section, which is well worth copying. Read and be amazed. (Even so, all the stones moved were relatively small, except for the giant Thunder Stone, the first one on the list.)

    * Note: this does not mean that I believe that raw manpower (or horsepower) was used to move all the giant stones of antiquity. In engineering terms, it makes total sense to create a great many small blocks, all of which can be transported simply. Giant blocks are engineering nightmares... unless, somehow, they were also quite easily moved in those days.

    ~~~

    List of efforts to move and install stones

    These are listed with the largest experiments first; for additional details of most experiments see related pages.
    • Marinos Carburis, Greek lieutenant-colonel in the Russian Army, organized the move of an enormous boulder called the Thunder Stone (Russian, Камень-Гром) from the Gulf of Finland in 1768 to Saint Petersburg, Russia for the purpose of using it as a pedestal for the Bronze Horseman statue. Based on the density of granite, the mass of the Thunder Stone has been estimated to be around 1500 tonnes. This was done by rolling it on bronze ball bearings on a track. It took an estimated 400 men nine months to move it.[81]
    • In 1997, Julian Richards teamed up with Mark Witby and Roger Hopkins to conduct several experiments to replicate the construction at Stonehenge for NOVA's Secrets of Lost Empires mini-series. They initially failed to tow a 40-ton monolith with 130 men but after adding additional men towing as well as some men using levers to prod the megalith forward, they succeeded in inching it forward a small distance.[82]
    • Roger Hopkins and Mark Lehner teamed up with a NOVA crew to conduct an obelisk erecting experiment; they successfully erected a 25-ton obelisk in 1999. They also managed to tow it a short distance.[83][84][85]
    • Charles Love experimented with a 10-ton replica of a Moai on Easter Island. His first experiment found rocking the statue to walk it was too unstable over more than a few hundred yards. He then found that by placing the statue upright on two sled runners atop log rollers, 25 men were able to move the statue 150 feet (46 m) in two minutes. Approximately 2.5 men pulled each ton.[89]
    • Austen Henry Layard organized an effort to transport two 10-ton colossal statues of a winged lion and a winged bull with a group of 300 men in 1847. He loaded them on a wheeled cart and towed them from Nimrud to the river and loaded on a barge, where it was sent to London. Approximately 30 men pulled each ton.[90]
    • Paul Emile Botta and Victor Place attempted to move two additional 30-ton colossi to Paris from Khorsabad in 1853. In order to facilitate their shipment to Paris, they were sawed in pieces and they still ran into problems. One of them fell into the Tigris river, never to be retrieved. The other made it to Paris.[90]
    • Giovanni Battista Belzoni organized an effort to pull a 7.5-ton fragment of a statue of Ramses on rollers with a group of 130 men in 1815. This statue was towed to the river and loaded on a barge, where it was sent to London. Progress increased with practice as they went along. Approximately 17 or 18 men pulled each ton.[91]
    • Henri Chevrier organized an effort to pull a 6-ton block on a sledge with a group of six men. Approximately one man pulled each ton.[92] Other reports claim that Chevier's experiment required three men to pull each ton.[93]
    • Josh Bernstein and Julian Richards organized an effort to pull a 2-ton stone on wooden tracks with a group of about 16 men. Approximately 8 men pulled each ton.[94]
    • Mark Lehner and NOVA organized an experiment to tow stones and to build a pyramid 9 meters wide by 9 meters deep by 6 meters high. They were able to tow a 2-ton block on a sledge across wood tracks with 12 to 20 men. Approximately 6 to 10 men pulled each ton. The pyramid was 54 cubic meters total estimated weight 135 tons. It was built out of 186 stones. The average weight of each stone was almost 1,500 lb (680 kg) (.75 tons). They found that four or five men could use levers to flip stones less than a ton and roll them to transport them. 44 men took 22 days to complete the pyramid, including the carving of the stones. They used iron to carve the stones that wasn't available to the ancient Egyptians. Egyptians had to use copper. They also used a modern front end loader to accelerate the work on the lower courses. They were unable to use the front end loader to install the capstone, since it was too high and had to use levers to raise it to 20 feet (6.1 m).[95]
    • In a 2001 exercise in experimental archaeology, an attempt was made to transport a large stone along a land and sea route from Wales to Stonehenge. Volunteers pulled it for some miles (with great difficulty) on a wooden sledge over land, using modern roads and low-friction netting to assist sliding, but once transferred to a replica prehistoric boat, the stone sank in Milford Haven, before it even reached the rough seas of the Bristol Channel.[96]
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    Default Re: Gigantic Unfinished Stone Structures: the Yangshan Quarry in China

    The civilizations of old obviously had levitation to help them and probably also lasers of several kinds.

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    Default Re: Gigantic Unfinished Stone Structures: the Yangshan Quarry in China

    In strong agreement. As soon as I read 16,250 tons, I think I had to do a double take. Even in what I would term genuinely 'ancient' times, a block that large and that heavy would smash records, in the 15th century - absolutely no way. Simply because the knowledge to move such immense objects was long lost by that time.

    I cannot say for certain whether the following is correct, being an actual past life memory, or just fantasy, but as radical or bizarre as it may sound, consider the possibility:

    The method and means to move impossibly large objects, I personally believe (along with a little faith), was done with a combination of advanced sonic resonance, coupled with collective thought, or telekinetic power. Picture a dozen high order adepts, or priests, of what we today might term 'the Mysteries', gathered together at the site of, for example, a vast stone to be lifted out of a quarry. Standing alongside them, around the stone in geometric arrangement, musicians of a very special type. The closest analogy would be say, 100 persons or so with an instrument like a didgeridoo. Circular breathing was very important. With some method we don't understand today, a deep, solid, continuous note from a concert of these didgeridoos somehow changed the 'frequency' of the stone. I see this in my mind's eye but don't know how it works exactly, but you can shatter glass if the pitch hits the right frequency. The stone vibrates and becomes pliable in this state, and next, the adepts would levitate the stone out of place with their collective minds.

    There were perhaps other methods for moving very heavy stone blocks in the distant past, maybe some were more technological. The above was just one method (or so I believe), used in at least one place at one time. And it was in an ancient time, somewhere in the region of 10,000 years ago. The knowledge may or may not have been extra-terrestrial. It may or may not have been related to something passed down by survivors of the Atlantean cataclysm. But all theories of pyramid construction from the 4th dynasty etc is I promise you incorrect. Dating them to this period is to simply conform to historical convention, and deny antediluvian high civilization. The pyramids were standing long before 'Egypt'. Also, the pyramids, and the Sphinx, were standing long before the 'changes' that turned Egypt into an arid desert (originally, it was nothing like it is today - it was wet, and green). I am very certain that Khufu, and all the Egyptian pharaohs and kings before him and after him, looked upon the pyramids in amazement, confusion, and awe, wondering where they had come from, who had built them, and why. They would make good tombs indeed. But this certainly was not their original function.
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    I just assumed the 15th century date was complete guesswork and absolutley wrong. I imagined the Chinese stonemasons re-discovering the quarry and being utterly perplexed at what they saw, they worked alongside it but it had nothing to do with their efforts. (shrug )

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    Quote Posted by Star Mariner (here)
    The method and means to move impossibly large objects, I personally believe (along with a little faith), was done with a combination of advanced sonic resonance, coupled with collective thought, or telekinetic power. Picture a dozen high order adepts, or priests, of what we today might term 'the Mysteries', gathered together at the site of, for example, a vast stone to be lifted out of a quarry. Standing alongside them, around the stone in geometric arrangement, musicians of a very special type. The closest analogy would be say, 100 persons or so with an instrument like a didgeridoo. Circular breathing was very important. With some method we don't understand today, a deep, solid, continuous note from a concert of these didgeridoos somehow changed the 'frequency' of the stone.
    You do know about this, do you?

    Monastery construction, Tibetan style
    according to Swedish Designer Henry Kjellson




    The steep mountain side is on the right. In the centre is the stone block, and on the left are the priests and musicians.

    S=big drum, M=medium drum, T=trumpeter. Inset shows method of suspending drum, and gives an idea of its size.

    As shown here, Kjellson says, the 200 priests are waiting to take up their positions in straight lines of 8 or 10 behind the instruments, 'like spokes in a wheel.' Unlikely as it may seem, this operation has an intriguing precision, made slightly more so by Kjellson's meticulously detailed description.

    Tibetan Monks levitate stones by using an acoustic levitation technique with the aid of drums in this 1939 sketch by Swedish aircraft designer Henry Kjellson.

    ~~~

    A New Zealand scientist recently gave me an intriguing extract from an article published in a German magazine, relating to a demonstration of levitation in Tibet. After obtaining a translation by a German journalist, in English, I was amazed at the information contained in the story, and was surprised that the article had slipped through the suppression net which tends to keep such knowledge from leaking out to the public.

    All the similar types of stories that I had read up until now were generally devoid of specific information necessary to prove the veracity of the account. In this case a full set of geometric measurements were taken, and I discovered, to my great delight, that when they were converted into their equivalent geodetic measures, relating to grid harmonics the values gave a direct association with those in the unified harmonic equations published in my earlier works.

    The following extracts are translations taken from the German article: 'We know from the priests of the far east that they were able to lift heavy boulders up high mountains with the help of groups of various sounds... the knowledge of the various vibrations in the audio range demonstrates to a scientist of physics that a vibrating and condensed sound field can nullify the power of gravitation. Swedish engineer Olaf Alexanderson wrote about this phenomenon in the publication. Implosion No. 13.

    The following report is based on observations which were made only 20 years ago in Tibet. I have this report from civil engineer and flight manager, Henry Kjelson, a friend of mine. He later on included this report in his book, The Lost Techniques. This is his report:

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    A Swedish doctor, Dr Jarl, a friend of Kjelson's, studied at Oxford. During those times he became friends with a young Tibetan student. A couple of years later, it was 1939, Dr Jarl made a journey to Egypt for the English Scientific Society. There he was seen by a messenger of his Tibetan friend, and urgently requested to come to Tibet to treat a high Lama.

    After Dr Jarl got the leave he followed the messenger and arrived after a long journey by plane and Yak caravans, at the monastery, where the old Lama and his friend who was now holding a high position were now living.

    Dr Jarl stayed there for some time, and because of his friendship with the Tibetans he learned a lot of things that other foreigners had no chance to hear about, or observe.

    One day his friend took him to a place in the neighborhood of the monastery and showed him a sloping meadow which was surrounded in the north west by high cliffs. In one of the rock walls, at a height of about 250 meters was a big hole which looked like the entrance to a cave. In front of this hole there was a platform on which the monks were building a rock wall. The only access to this platform was from the top of the cliff and the monks lowered themselves down with the help of ropes.

    In the middle of the meadow, about 250 meters from the cliff, was a polished slab of rock with a bowl like cavity in the centre. The bowl had a diameter of one meter and a depth of 15 centimeters. A block of stone was maneuvered into this cavity by Yak oxen. The block was one meter wide and one and one-half meters long. Then 19 musical instruments were set in an arc of 90 degrees at a distance of 63 meters from the stone slab. The radius of 63 meters was measured out accurately. The musical instruments consisted of 13 drums and six trumpets. (Ragdons).

    Eight drums had a cross-section of one meter, and a length of one and one-half meters. Four drums were medium size with a cross-section of 0.7 meter and a length of one meter. The only small drum had a cross-section of 0.2 meters and a length of 0.3 meters. All the trumpets were the same size. They had a length of 3.12 meters and an opening of 0.3 meters. The big drums and all the trumpets were fixed on mounts which could be adjusted with staffs in the direction of the slab of stone.


    The big drums were made of 3mm thick sheet iron, and had a weight of 150 kg. They were built in five sections. All the drums were open at one end, while the other end had a bottom of metal, on which the monks beat with big leather clubs. Behind each instrument was a row of monks. The situation is demonstrated in the following diagram:


    When the stone was in position the monk behind the small drum gave a signal to start the concert. The small drum had a very sharp sound, and could be heard even with the other instruments making a terrible din. All the monks were singing and chanting a prayer, slowly increasing the tempo of this unbelievable noise. During the first four minutes nothing happened, then as the speed of the drumming, and the noise, increased, the big stone block started to rock and sway, and suddenly it took off into the air with an increasing speed in the direction of the platform in front of the cave hole 250 meters high. After three minutes of ascent it landed on the platform.

    Continuously they brought new blocks to the meadow, and the monks using this method, transported 5 to 6 blocks per hour on a parabolic flight track approximately 500 meters long and 250 meters high. From time to time a stone split, and the monks moved the split stones away. Quite an unbelievable task.

    Dr Jarl knew about the hurling of the stones. Tibetan experts like Linaver, Spalding and Hue had spoken about it, but they had never seen it. So Dr Jarl was the first foreigner who had the opportunity to see this remarkable spectacle. Because he had the opinion in the beginning that he was the victim of mass-psychosis he made two films of the incident. The films showed exactly the same things that he had witnessed.

    The English Society for which Dr Jarl was working confiscated the two films and declared them classified. They will not be released until 1990. This action is rather hard to explain, or understand.


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    You do know about this, do you?
    I'd never heard of this before, thanks Bill! I'm amazed to hear an account of this process taking place in modern times, and thrilled that this Tibetan technique so closely matches the scene in my mind. Oh my God, seriously... Wow. But why am I not surprised to learn that footage of the levitation was confiscated and classified. I would love to see that some day.

    One slight observation that in my opinion needs correction, is the part that says "It appears, from the calculations, that the prayers being chanted by the monks did not have any direct bearing on the fact that the stones were levitated from the ground." I would have to disagree, and state that collective 'prayer', as he puts it, or mental or psychic energy, is a definite component for the levitation to work.
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    Ancient Mysteries of Sound Levitation

    The mysteries and numerous capabilities of sound have intrigued mankind for millenniums. Einstein thought nothing was faster than the speed of light. But in 2007 a team of US physicists discovered that “superluminal acoustic sound waves” can actually out-perform light in speed and velocity under certain conditions. With that finding, the potential for sound-based technology became even more apparent.

    In 2014 a Japanese team of scientists from the University of Tokyo used sound to levitate objects as big as a small screw in mid-air, moving them not just up and down but also to-and-fro and side-to-side. They used an array of four audio speakers, generating inaudible high frequencies sound waves that intersect inside a confined space.

    The crossover of these intersecting waves creates “standing” waves. Some standing waves are kept in constant position, serving as a suspending force, while other waves are used to support a floating object within the standing waves.

    Unfortunately, science has still not been able to figure out how to levitate larger heavier objects. Yet, history suggests the Ancient Egyptians might have already cracked this secret in their building of the pyramids and other megalithic monuments. Did they have some advanced form of sound levitation to move thousand ton stones—a task that present day builders admit would be difficult even with the use of modern cranes?

    I found an interesting account of sound levitation in the book The Lost Technique by Swedish civil engineer, Henry Kjellson. Kjellson recounts the experience his friend, a Dr. Jarl, had while staying at a Tibetan monastery in the 1930’s.

    In the middle of the meadow, about 250 meters from the cliff, was a polished slab of rock with a bowl like cavity in the center. The bowl had a diameter of one meter and a depth of 15 centimeters.

    A block of stone was maneuvered into this cavity by Yak oxen. The block was one meter wide and one and one half meters long.

    Then 19 musical instruments were set in an arc of 90 degrees at a distance of 63 meters from the stone slab. The radius of 63 meters was measured out accurately.

    The musical instruments consisted of 13 drums and 6 trumpets (Ragdons).



    Eight drums had a cross-section of one meter, and a length of one and one half meters. Four drums were medium size with a cross-section of 0.7 meter and a length of one meter.

    The only small drum had a cross-section of 0.2 meters and a length of 0.3 meters. All the trumpets were the same size. They had a length of 3.12 meters and an opening of 0.3 meters.

    The big drums and all the trumpets were fixed on mounts which could be adjusted with staffs in the direction of the slab of stone.

    The big drums were made of 1mm thick sheet iron, and had a weight of 150kg. They were built in five sections.

    All the drums were open at one end, while the other end had a bottom of metal, on which the monks beat with big leather clubs. Behind each instrument was a row of monks.

    When the stone was in position the monk behind the small drum gave a signal to start the concert. The small drum had a very sharp sound, and could be heard even with the other instruments making a terrible din. All the monks were singing and chanting a prayer, slowly increasing the tempo of this unbelievable noise.

    During the first four minutes nothing happened, then as the speed of the drumming, and the noise, increased, the big stone block started to rock and sway, and suddenly it took off into the air with an increasing speed in the direction of the platform in front of the cave hole 250 meters high. After three minutes of ascent it landed on the platform.

    Continuously they brought new blocks to the meadow, and the monks using this method, transported 5 to 6 blocks per hour on a parabolic flight track approximately 500 meters long and 250 meters high. From time to time a stone split, and the monks moved the split stones away.”

    This account is quite incredible. It reminds me of the biblical stories of “trumpets” bringing down the walls of Jericho. Nikola Tesla also talked about experiments he made with acoustic sound waves which started an earthquake in the building of his New York City laboratory. He recounted how the beams in the building started to shake as if their molecular structure was being affected. No doubt about it—sound is very powerful. But, does it have the ability to neutralize gravity?

    What caught my attention in the Tibetan account, was the mention of using a large size stone bowl (underlined above).

    Similar stone basins (actually quartz) have been found scattered around the pyramids of Egypt and I remembering seeing one on my last trip there in December 2014. While their purpose remains a mystery to modern-day Egyptologists, the theory is that they were used for blood collection during ritual sacrifices.

    This is a weak hypothesis since no trace residues of blood have been found on any of the stone basins. This explanation is further discounted by the fact that each basin has three holes that are located near the upper rim of the basin, not at the bottom. These holes were not designed to let out blood from animals placed in the huge basins. If so there would be an obvious drain hole at the bottom.

    So what or how were these curious quartz basins used? The clue is that they were made of quartz, which creates piezoelectric charge—especially when under pressure or sound is applied.

    Author and researcher, Dr. Alex Putney, explains his take on the bowls in human-resonance.org:

    “The huge quartz basins have a borehole centered on each of the four sides of the square bases of the instruments, while the comparable limestone examples display three machine-drilled holes on just one side of the square blocks.



    The diameters of the bowls appear to be uniform, suggesting they were part of a large array that once surrounded the pyramids before being collected in groups by Egyptian authorities for present-day public display.



    The identical dimensions and curvature of the many stone basins, with perfectly rendered geometric forms, gives the appearance of having been serially manufactured through mold-making processes rather than being quarried and carved in a solid state.

    Abundant evidence of this fact has been ignored for close to 30 years by much of the academic community, despite publication in scientific journals. The geopolymer research of Dr. Jacob Davidovits documents the lower density of the limestone blocks of the Great Pyramid, showing them to have been synthetically cast using a concrete-like slurry composed quite differently than all naturally sedimented limestone.

    The pyramid’s massive limestone blocks contain an exotic admixture of opal CT, hydroxy-apatite and silico-aluminates that enhance the limestone’s natural capacity to convert all atmospheric acoustic energy into an electrical current within the crystals, inducing a strong electromagnetic field around the pyramid structures and within their passages and chambers.



    The modular nature of the blocks suggests they were distributed around the pyramids as part of the original walled enclosure that once surrounded each of the three pyramids on the Giza plateau.

    The specific and exclusive use of piezoelectric calcite and quartz crystals for the construction of the pyramids themselves, and the large basins that once surrounded them in great numbers, relates to their transducive capacity to focus and amplify acoustic waves.

    Mechanical flexing occurs in the quartz and calcite crystals as a uniform structural deformation that generates standing waves within the stones’ crystalline lattice, eventually building a strong electromagnetic field that allows acoustic levitation.”



    A similar mystery surrounds the building of the infamous coral castle in Florida in the U.S. The coral castle is a stone structure that was built by one man without any help. The Latvian American, Edward Leedskalnin, said that he had discovered the techniques that Egyptians used to build the pyramids—techniques related to levitation and anti-gravity technologies.

    He also used a bowl-like device (see picture) with magnetic spokes. He never revealed what the round device was, nor his building secrets.



    It took him 28 years to build the castle from about 1923 to 1951 and he refused to allow anyone to view him while he worked. He built the castle completely on his own carving more than 1,000 tons of rock. He was known to work at night, yet neighbors reported they never heard any construction noise. If he used sonic levitation methods, the sound waves used were inaudible to humans.

    Arab historian, Abul Hasan Ali Al-Masudi, has written about Ancient Egyptians using a metal rod to strike stone, causing stone to levitate. The stones would move along a fenced path that was lined with metal poles on both sides of the path. The metal poles created vibrating frequencies in such a way that they would provide a moving runway for the stones. I have no idea how Al-Masudi arrived at this conclusion, or whether it is true or not, but the use of the “metal rod” is interesting.



    The Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics often display a metal rod called a Was Scepter. Only the gods, pharaohs, and priests were allowed to carry such a sacred instrument. It symbolized “power and dominion.”

    The bottom looks suspiciously like a tuning fork which might have had some magnetic properties. The head of the scepter resembles a pteranodon, the largest “flying” reptile that ever existed. Was it in honor of the flying gods who could easily carry aloft large objects?

    This would explain why only the powerful few could carry it. It might have been used to strike up an earth resonance which somehow defied gravitational forces. The whole science of gravity and anti-gravity has yet to be fully understood. And I’m sure the Ancients kept this knowledge in guarded hands.

    Time unlocks all mysteries. I think we are getting closer to re-discovering the answers to this lost science. Just imagine the possibilities when we, too, can briefly release large stones from the confines of gravity. Yep—we could literally move mountains.

    Dr. Kathy Forti is a clinical psychologist, inventor of the Trinfinity8 technology, and author of the book, Fractals of God. amazon.com/author/k

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    Excellent find Bill!

    If objects can be moved by frequency, pushed or pulled, I wonder if that means gravity has a frequency too? What if the frequency to push something is the polar opposite frequency to pulling something? Just speculating, all very very fascinating. Thanks again I am going to do some research on this!

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    Good find indeed, thanks Bill! I am positive that a collective drive to research and unravel this process, perhaps by a well-funded university for example, could pretty quickly and officially identify this science. I think it is absolutely achievable. But...

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    Time unlocks all mysteries. I think we are getting closer to re-discovering the answers to this lost science. Just imagine the possibilities when we, too, can briefly release large stones from the confines of gravity. Yep—we could literally move mountains.
    The possibilities are immense, potentially world-changing, therefore I am also quite positive that 'they' have already unlocked these mysteries, only to lock them up tight again. I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn there are papers and studies that already exist which fully describe this technology and its applications, but are buried deep and dark in the patent office, filed under 'Classified'.
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    Along the side of Yanmen Shan mountain, located twenty kilometers to the east of Nanjing, China, the legendary Yangshan quarry can be found. Although it is believed to have been in use from at least the time of the Six Dynasties (220 – 589 AD), the majority of the work at Yangshan is still attributed to the wave of construction that took place after the Ming dynasty was founded in 1368 AD, when the new emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang, chose nearby Nanjing to become his capital city.

    As the story goes, the Emperor’s son ordered the construction of a gigantic stele in 1405 AD for the Ming Xiaoling mausoleum; which had been built for his father, by his father, and was then later completed during the reign of his son. The Yangshan mountain quarry was chosen by the city’s stone-masons. They were then said to have cut and crafted three enormous blocks from the mountain side before finally coming to the realization that the blocks they’d been cutting were far-too big. At which point, they abandoned the effort in favor of a more realistic project.

    he stele that these masons did end up creating for the Emperor is 6.7 meters tall—8.78, if you include the height of the stone tortoise it’s perched on—and, altogether with the tortoise, would weigh right around 100 tons. If assembled, the stele that they were said to have mistakenly attempted would have been over eight times as tall—73 meters high—and over three-hundred and ten times its weight—31,000 tons. For reference, a typical car weighs between 1 and 1.5 tons; the largest monolith, in the ancient and modern world, is the 1,250-ton Thunder Stone moved by Russia in 1770, resembling a rough outcropping that was never carved.


    The stele that was built for the Emperor’s mausoleum



    One part of the stele that was claimed to have been cut out for the Emperor;
    it is hundreds of times bigger than anything man has ever been known
    to have moved



    A Monumental Failure

    If taken as the authentic history it’s presented as, this story should be alarming for a number of reasons:

    What could have led the Emperor’s master masons to believe that they could transport three blocks, totaling 31,000 tons, twenty kilometers through the mountains?

    How could the construction of the Emperor’s grand gift to his father have been entrusted to such a thoroughly incompetent group? Especially when considering that, overall, this was many, enormous blunders taking place over a very long period and would have involved a substantial number of people: it seems preposterous that the effort wouldn’t have been halted almost immediately, let alone being allowed to begin in the first place.


    Enormous cut stones at Yangshan



    The severe differences in the size, placement, and shape of the cuts indicates that they were never meant to be placed together or even moved. If they were, they also wouldn’t have all been cut at the same time and in such disparate fashions.

    Consider the long-running conflict that was being fought with the Mongols, which was soaking up much of their resources and attention, and the fact that, only years later, the country’s bankrupt treasury couldn’t even manage to find the funds to create a single print of their newly created encyclopedia. This strenuous period doesn’t exactly appear to be the time to embark on one of the most immense engineering projects known to man, a project that would have amounted to nothing more than an art piece.

    More Than a Quarry

    There hardly seems to be a need to reconcile this curious tale as a quick review of the site reveals a multitude of inclusions that would never have been made if the site was simply a quarry.

    For instance, in the image above, three outcroppings of rock can be seen. These, at first, might be seen as sites to attach ropes. However, their placement quickly deflates this idea. They can only be found on some of the stones, and they’re also clustered on a single side on some of those stones. Many of the protrusions are also fully rounded and would make for poor grips for rope. Certain ones are also beneath the area where the block would have been cut.

    Also, as can be seen in the same image, smooth cylindrical segments have been removed in a place that would serve no purpose if the blocks were to be removed.

    It becomes even harder to accept that these blocks were ever intended to be moved when examining the patterns carved into the walls of the rooms that have been created beneath these giant masses of stone—as seen in the pictures below.


    Patterns carved into the walls of the rooms that have been created beneath these giant masses of stone



    A Display of Entopic Phenomena?

    Engraved a centimeter or more, and sometimes deeper than an inch, these patterns appear to have been worked into the interior surfaces of these structures much in the same way that entoptic phenomena was incorporated into some of the oldest cave art sites in the world. Entoptic phenomena, in an archaeological context, are patterns that naturally occur within the eye or brain which are then used as a motif for art when their occurrence in a normal human’s experience is greatly increased due to that person undergoing an altered state of consciousness; in other words, our ancient ancestors used to put themselves into altered states of consciousness—typically, through the use of naturally occurring psychedelic compounds—and they would then carve or paint entoptic phenomena, among other things, inside of caves and on rock faces. If the engravings at this site are truly indicative of entoptic phenomena, this realization might help to place the site into a much deeper period of antiquity as the other examples of entoptic phenomena in cave art typically receive dates on the order of tens of thousands of years old. [For more on this, look to the work of David Lewis-Williams]

    To be clear, these long, engraved patterns of lines are certainly not the aftermath of the stone in these openings simply being removed—at least not by any tools or techniques attributed to ancient man; though many, particularly along the side walls, do resemble what remains after a pass by a modern heavy excavator. So why would the workers, said to be quarrying these blocks, go through the trouble? The designs appear artistic, similar to what might be found in a ritual space. Additionally, and strangely enough, they don’t appear to have been made by a basic chisel.

    A Staggering Amount of Rock Moved

    One particularly bizarre aspect of the site is just how much stone appears to have been moved. Looking at the spaces between the major blocks and the surrounding mountains, it looks as if millions of tons of rock has been removed. The region is known to have been a quarry for some time, though this explanation would hardly seem to account for the staggering amount of rock that appears to have been moved. In addition, if the site was used to quarry rock then take it elsewhere, it was done so in a very bizarre fashion; as if there was a contrived effort to leave behind towering, flat walls—this isn’t found at any other ancient quarry.

    A more reasonable explanation would seem to be that whoever initially worked at this site did so to create the structures found at the site. It’d be an immense project, though not entirely without precedent. The Longyou caves, which are a few hundred miles away, are considered to be one of the ancient world’s biggest engineering projects, though no one can determine who made them or why. A similar amount of stone would have been displaced in the area around Yanmen Shan. As well, the Longyou caves have very similar patterns of engraved lines like those seen in the previous images.


    This image gives an indication of just how much rock was carved and moved



    If the site really is the ruins of some incredibly ancient culture, there’s a possibility that they might have lessened their work load by using rubble-masonry stonework and rammed-earth building techniques to shape different parts of the area. The techniques are rather simple—rubble-masonry, for instance, is the process of mixing small rocks with cement then using that material to fill in wooden frames to make walls or blocks—and would have been employed in an adding-subtracting manner; as the workers would break apart certain areas of rock, they’d use the rubble to fill in other areas of the site: piecing together giant stone creations while they carved out others.


    Left: Examples of the Rammed Earth Method. Right: Example of the Rubble
    Masonry Method



    Unanswered Mystery

    There’s more to this site than it being a simple quarry. However, its original purpose is tough to discern. What is known is that at least some material has been taken from this site; so it’s likely that those operations would have taken apart any smaller stone structures as well as removing anything that might be considered valuable or precious—such as what might be found in a temple.

    Further shrouding the site in mystery is the intense level of secrecy China maintains in regards to some of its strangest ancient ruins. Many sites are completely restricted, and in general, it’s almost impossible to gain permission to dig at or research any historical site.

    Even more frustrating, as well as bizarre, is that the existence of certain megalithic sites is simply denied. For instance, the hundreds of pyramids that cover China’s landscape weren’t acknowledged until more recent times; and, at first, these structures were downplayed as a handful of small Han-era burial mounds. To this day, the areas with the largest and most interesting structures are off limits. A few well-known burial mounds are available to the public, and it’s explained that any other pyramid-like structures that exist are just like the ones that can be seen.

    Also, interesting to note is that the Chinese government has since gone out of their way to cover some of these pyramids with a fast-growing species of conifer, seemingly for the purpose of masking their presence from aerial photography while also degrading their structure.


    The ruins at Yangshan



    As is the case with most of our world’s oldest existing works of art and architecture, this creation seems to belong to a disparate culture that embodied a way of life radically different than our own. And, just like other ancient megalithic sites, it would seem its builders utilized techniques that have long since been lost; a body of techniques that likely arose from an entirely different tree of engineering which allowed for the working and movement of enormous stones to be a far more practical endeavor.




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