Chapter three

PYRAMIDS

Basic Description:

Tetrahedral pyramids made from electrically non-con­ducting materials have been used to maintain sharp cutting edges on steel instalments, dehydrate or mum­mify organic materials, and improve the growth rates of plants. The precise mechanism(s) by which a hollow pyramidal shape accomplishes these things is unknown.

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It appears to be a passive concentrator of energy, but the mechanism and type of energy has not yet been thor­oughly defined. However, a large number of confirming experiments have been carried out to verify the perfor­mance claims of investigators, advocates, and individu­als applying for domestic and foreign patents. These experiments tend to confirm the existence of some manner of energy concentration and the reality of the claims.

Historical Background:

Many advocates and proponents of "pyramid power" tend to base their hypotheses on elements from Egyptian history and mythology. Some of these people believe that the ancient Egyptians possessed arcane knowl­edge that led this early riverine culture to build the fabled pyramids of Giza on the basis of either scientific prin­ciples unknown to us today or empirical data acquired by means often classified as "bizarre" by the detractors of the Egyptian hypotheses.

Regardless of whether or not any of the hypoth­eses derived from ancient Egyptian history may be true, the demonstrable fact remains that tetrahedral pyramid shapes appear to do something to objects placed inside them and offer a subject amenable to experimentation by modern techniques carried out by both professional and amateur scientists.

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The modern historical background of pyramid research began in the 1930s. Antoine Bovis, the owner of a hardware store ("Quincaillerie Bovis et Passeron") in Nice, France, took a trip to Egypt in the 1930s and visited the "great pyramid" of Cheops at Giza. While inside the King's Chamber of the great pyramid, Bovis noticed a garbage can filled to the top with dead small animals which the guide told him wander in the struc­ture from time to time, become lost, and die. It seemed unusual to Bovis that these dead animals appeared to be completely desiccated (mummified) with no trace of decay or putrefaction. Upon his return to Nice, he built a plywood pyramid in which he placed a dead cat. The carcass of the cat did not decay but became desiccated. Unfortunately, Bovis did not believe in the scien­tific method nor in conducting proper scientific experi­ments with full documentation. He made no attempt to present papers before scientific societies where his work would have been subjected to peer review, comment, and criticism and so others could duplicate the experi­ments for verification of results. Bovis preferred to be­lieve in intuition and faith. Although the synthesis of seemingly unrelated data by intuition is the basis for all great advances in science, pioneers such as Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Charles Darwin, Edwin Hubble, Marie Curie, and Sir Alexander Fleming followed their intui­tive discoveries by publication, permitting and encourag­ing others to verify and expand their results and hypoth-

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eses, while at the same time opening their work to com­ment and criticism. The failure or refusal of Bovis to do this probably resulted in a fifty-year set-back to the serious scientific examination of his data.

Following World War II, a Czechoslovak radio engineer, Karel Drbal, read some of Bovis' material. Drbal worked in the Radio Institute of Research in Prague. Radar and microwaves were part of the technology that had mushroomed during the war. Many microwave antennas and other devices are horn-shaped or pyrami­dal in nature. Drbal began to experiment with small pyramid models for desiccation and dehydration be­cause he either suspected some phenomenon connected with microwaves or wanted to prove Bovis wrong ~ we 11 never really know for certain.

As has happened, to so many others who have researched the pyramid phenomenon with the goal of proving that it was a hoax, Drbal discovered that tetrahe-dral pyramid shapes did desiccate both organic material and fine crystalline structures. Metals and metallic alloys are basically crystalline in nature and structure. The steel alloys used in fine cutting tools are composed of very small crystalline structures throughout. Drbal discov­ered that he could shave with the same razor blade 1 00 to 200 times if he placed it inside a cardboard pyramid each day after use. More as a joke than anything else, Drbal applied for a Czech patent on a "Pharaoh's Shav­ing Device" on November 4, 1949. Normally, Czech

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patents are granted after an examination period of two to three years, but it took Drbal ten years to get his patent. It was granted on August 15, 1959 only after he'd proved to the Chief Examiner, Engineer Vrecion, that a pyramid did indeed maintain the edge on a razor blade. In the course of this decade-long examination period, Drbal performed some experiments and made some measure­ments that will be discussed later.

Cardboard pyramids came into use in the Czech army as a way for soldiers to keep their razors sharp. Soldiers in the Soviet army picked up this concept in later years. The Soviet soldiers would get only one razor blade per month, so it's important to them to keep their razors sharp. However, no company has placed pyramids on the market anywhere, including eastern Europe. Drbal believes his invention has been suppressed by razor blade manufacturers who do not want to see their products used ten times as long. This reaction, however, is typical of some inventors of strange machines who often believe there are paranoid plots to keep their inventions secret. The lack of pyramid products more likely arises from the fact that they are so easy and simple to quickly build using available materials.

A number of European researchers began to experiment with Drbal's pyramids. Drbal came into correspondence with pyramid researchers in Sweden, West Germany, France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. In the United States, little was known of the

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pyramid phenomenon even though Nobel laureate (phys­ics, 1968) Dr. Luis W. Alvarez attempted to locate hid­den chambers inside the Chefren's Pyramid (near the Cheops' Pyramid), using cosmic ray absorption mea­surements, was unable to correlate his data, and stated that "something outside of known science is happen-ing.

In the United States, pyramid research was taken up by Dr. G. Patrick Flanagan who had been interested in electromagnetic energy fields connected with living organisms. When he was fourteen years old, Flanagan began experimenting with a phenomenon discovered and reported by Count Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) in 1800 and tagged "electrophonic hearing." By 1962, Flanagan had perfected his "neurophone," a device which electronically stimulates the skin to produce hearing. Dr. Flanagan is a very private individual not totally unlike many inventors. The author has known him personally since 1962. Flanagan prefers to carry out research on his own, seeking knowledge for the sake of knowledge with second priority being given to reporting his results in scientific journals.

In 1980, Flanagan presented his results in a book, Pyramid Power, which he published himself. His second book, Pyramid Power II, was published in 1981 and reports on pyramid experiments performed by eight qualified and respected scientists who were funded by grants from the Mankind Research Foundation, 1110

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Fidler Lane, Suite 1215, Silver Spring, MD 20910, from February to April 1975. These tests were properly de­signed and conducted according to the strictest scientific and statistical protocols. They revealed increased growth rates of pea and bean plants, improved preservation of raw hamburger meat, and decreased growth rates of throat and yeast bacteria placed inside a structure shaped as a tetrahedral pyramid. Less definitive results with a lower level of confidence indicated that the weight of crystals formed from the cooling of supersaturated solu­tions might have been increased, that dead organic materials might have been preserved longer, and that the death or decay rates of live plants might have been de­creased. Tests on human volunteers who slept for several nights inside pyramidal tents provided a subjective con­sensus that there had been a change in the quality of sleep, vividness of dream recall, overall emotional state, and openness to new experiences. However, the changes were not in the same direction for all group members.

Author's Experience:

The author has built miniature pyramids with 6-inch and 12-inch bases as described below, fabricating them from both shirt cardboard and Crescent No. 201 hot press medium weight illustration board. Each had access holes with a diameter of 2 inches and 4 inches respectively on all four surfaces. The author determined

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to repeat the Drbal experiment with razor blades since this test is easily conducted and the results unambiguous to anyone who has ever shaved with a dull razor. When a razor's edge is dull, there is no doubt whatsoever of this because of the extreme discomfort associated with shav­ing one's whiskers with a dull razor blade.

Six Gillette one-shot razors were selected at ran­dom from the display at a convenience store. One of these was selected at random and visually tagged to iden­tify it. Each morning, the author shaved with the two razors using Gillette "Foamy" shaving cream. One razor was used to shave the left side of the face, and the other was used to shave the right. On a day-to-day basis, razors were used to shave alternate sides of the author's face. At the end of each shaving session, both razors were simul­taneously cleaned in hot, running water. The tagged razor was placed inside a 6-inch cardboard pyramid as instructed by Drbal - i.e., with the pyramid aligned to magnetic north and the razor placed in the center of the base of the pyramid with the edge of the blade aligned to magnetic north. The untagged razor was placed in a drawer of the bathroom washstand.

The author shaved twenty-four times with the razor kept inside the pyramid. It was impossible to shave with a control razor more than three times. Four control razors were used up while the experimental razor inside the pyramid was in daily use.

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Figure 3-1: Experimental cardboard pyramids used in the author's re-run of the Drbal razor blade test.

Figure 3-2: Template for constructing pyramid sides. See Table 3-1 for dimensions.

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A repeat experiment was conducted with six more disposable razors but with the base of the pyramid not aligned with magnetic north. The same number of shaves (twenty-four) were possible with the experimental razor kept inside the pyramid, while the control razors could be used only three times before becoming painfully dull.

The gross results from these simple experiments caused the author to conclude that "pyramid power" was not a hoax.

Further tests were conducted by the author and by other individuals using the pyramid matrix made by Flanagan and shown in the accompanying photograph. The basic fact that a pyramid shape does indeed main­tain the edge on a razor was confirmed.

Instructions for Fabrication:

The fabrication of a miniature model of the Cheops' pyramid is not difficult.

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TABLE 3-1: DIMENSIONS OF EXPERIMENTAL PYRAMIDS NOTE: Refer to Figure 3-2 for dimensional symbol references, All dimensions in inches.
Base	Height	Side	Hole Dia	Center	of Hole
X&B	Y	H	A	D	C
	3.82	5.71	2.00	1.60	3.00
	7.64	11.41	4.00	3.20	6.00
	11.46	17.12	6.00	4.80	9.00
	15.28	22.82	8.00	6.40	12.00

Figure 3-3: Basic three-view and isometric drawing of the experimental pyramid shape.

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To make it easier to gain access to the interior of the pyramid, cut circular holes in all triangular faces. The diameter of the access holes can be as much as one-third the base dimension of the pyramid - i.e., two inches diameter for a six-inch pyramid, four inches diameter for a twelve-inch pyramid.

There is nothing critical concerning the material used to fabricate a pyramid. However, for test purposes, they can be easily made from shirt cardboard, corrugated cardboard, or stiff manila. The only requirement is that the complete pyramid be sturdy enough to be picked up, moved, and otherwise handled. For advanced experi­mental purposes, pyramids can be made from sheet plastic (plexiglass, fiberglass, sheet styrene, etc.). Readers may wish to experiment with pyramids made from sheet metal and welded or soldered together along the edges.

Using a rule and a pencil, lay out the dimensions of the pyramid on the material and then cut the square base and four triangular sides from the material. Accu­racy of dimensions and straightness of cuts are not criti­cal, but try to measure and cut accurately in order to make parts fit better parts fit betterand assembly easier.

Cardboard and paper pyramids of sizes up to twenty-four inches can be assembled using cellophane tape to hold the parts together at their edges.

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Figure 3-4: This plastic pyramid matrix produced by

Flanagan was also used to conduct the Drbal razor

blade tests with the razor placed as shown.

Lay the square base on the table and place the triangular sides flat on the table with each of their bases flush with the sides of the square base piece. Fasten each triangular side to one edge of the base piece using cello­phane tape.

Fold each of the triangular side pieces upward so they meet at the apex of the pyramid. It may be easier to do this starting with two adjacent sides, then bringing each of the two other sides up one at a time.

Fasten the edges of the triangular side pieces to­gether using strips of cellophane tape.

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If you have been careful while measuring and cutting, the pyramid should be neatly even and come to a uniform apex.

The test pyramid is now completed.

Operating Instructions:

Early experimenters such as Drbal maintained that a pyramid had to be aligned with the local magnetic north. Flanagan discovered that this orientation was not necessary. Other researchers believed that the object to be processed should be placed at the scale location of the King's Chamber of the Cheops' pyramid - i.e., about one-third the height of the pyramid up from the base directly beneath the apex. However, Flanagan again showed that an object could be located anywhere within the pyramid and be subjected to the same unknown energies.

The easiest and most dramatic experiment that can be conducted with a pyramidal shape is the classic razor blade experiment. This requires a 12-inch or an 18-inch pyramid.

Obtain at least six good quality razor blades or disposable razors.

Select one at random and mark it for identifica­tion.

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The experiment may be conducted by either men or women. Men will want to shave their faces. Women can conduct the experiment by shaving their legs. For the sake of clarity and brevity herein, the experiment will be described as it is conducted by shaving the face; the same procedure can be used to shave legs.

Each morning, shave one side of the face with the razor kept inside the pyramid. Shave the other side of the face with one of the "control" razors.

Alternate the side of the face shaved each day with each razor.

Use a good quality shaving cream, and use the same shaving cream product each day. Don't shift from product to product during the test.

After shaving each clay, wash out both razors with hot running water.

Place the marked razor inside the pyramid. Place the unmarked control razor in the normal place you would store a razor.

Keep a written record of your shaves and of your subjective reactions to the sharpness of each blade.

If the control razor becomes dull and therefore painful to use for shaving, substitute a fresh new control razor. Be sure to note this in your record.

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Experiments:

The razor blade experiment is perhaps the classic one. But there are several others that can be conducted to verify the results of the tests conducted by the eight scientific researchers for the Mankind Research Founda­tion.

1. Growth of bean sprouts:

Obtain a package of bean seeds. Place the seeds on a wet sponge and permit them to germinate. Once they have developed their rudimentary roots and stems, di­vide the group randomly in half. Place each experimental group on its own sponge soaked in 50 milliliters (about 2 liquid ounces) of water. Cover both groups with a wet paper towel. Place one group inside a pyramid and the other in another location in the same room. After five days, measure the length of the bean sprout roots. Ref­erence points for measurement are defined as the dis­tance from the point where the root leaves the bean to the tip of the root.

2. Decay of hamburger meat:

Obtain a quarter-pound of hamburger meat. Divide the sample into two equal portions of about an eighth of a pound (100 grams) each. Place both samples in shallow

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saucers. Place one sample inside a pyramid shape. Place the other in another location in the same room. After five days, compare the appearance and odor of the samples.

3. Yeast bacteria:

Mix approximately 1/4-ounce of Brewer's Yeast with one-half cup of water heated to a temperature of 1 00 degrees Fahrenheit. Allow the culture to grow for six hours. Divide the culture into two equally-sized portions and place each in a clean saucer. Place one sample inside a pyramid and the other in another location in the same room. Each 24 hours, observe the two samples and note differences in growth, appearance, or other physical fac­tors.

4. Bacteria growth:

Crack two fresh eggs into separate clean saucers. Place one drop of saliva in each saucer in contact with the egg material. Place one saucer in a pyramid and the other in another location in the same room. Observe the ap­pearances and physical attributes of each sample daily. The author does not recommend conducting experiments using dead animals because of potential health problems to say nothing of the reaction of neigh­bors or colleagues.

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What If It Doesn't Work?

If negative results are forthcoming from any or all of the experiments suggested above, the first step is to try them again. Something (we don't know what) might have gone wrong in the preparations for the first tests. If negative results are obtained on the second try, give the pyramids to an acquaintance and have them perform the experiments. If the materials in suggested experiments #2, #3, and #4 show no significant differences, try run­ning the experiments in a room heated to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Try enclosing both samples by placing an­other saucer inverted over the sample saucers.

Hypotheses:

When it comes to speculating why pyramids work as they appear to do, there are about as many hypotheses as there are investigators. Some hypotheses are, frankly, quite speculative.

In many cases, investigators utilize scientific ter­minology such as the word "energy" to describe some­thing that may not be energy at all as physicists and engineers know it. This happens to be the case when it comes to discussing many of these strange machines and, in fact, unknown or "psychic" phenomena in gen­eral. One should always keep in mind that terminology is often borrowed and then used with perhaps a different

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meaning in mind because people have an overwhelming tendency to name the unknown, thereby giving them the belief that they partially understand it. It is not that investigators of strange phenomena are too lazy or igno­rant to develop their own terminology because they often do, coining words to describe phenomena yet with little or no attempt made to carefully define or quantify these new terms.

The terms "energy," "power," "radiation," and other words pertaining to unseen and non-physical manifestations of the universe are most usually "bor­rowed" to describe the unseen, non-physical, and un­known phenomena associated with strange machines and other discrepancies in the Universe as we perceive it.

As scientific research proceeds as a result of the investigation of machines such as pyramids and others described in this book, you can rest assured that the new fields of scientific research will indeed develop their own jargon as factors and phenomena are identified and quantified.

Be that as it may, in the case of pyramid phenom­ena, it is obvious that the shape of the pyramid acceler­ates, retards, or concentrates some physical factor that results in change. Therefore, perhaps the word "energy may be appropriate along with the word "radiation"

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which applies to the carrier of change-causing energy that creates action at a distance with no apparent intervening physical means.

In the matter of razor sharpening, the affected material is crystalline in nature. All metal alloys are. The crystalline structure of razor blade steel is very small. The atoms of iron, chromium, nickel, molybdenum, and other elements that make up the alloy are locked together by interatomic bonds in a lattice-like arrangement char­acteristic of a crystal. (Some crystals such as diamonds, salt crystals, gems, etc. are large enough to be readily visible.)

Research may confirm that water has a strong effect upon the interatomic crystalline bonds of razor steel. Water rather than comparatively soft protein ma­terial of hair may be the factor that dulls the sharp crys­talline edge of a razor.

Scientists who cany out research in solid-state electronics know that nearly all the electronic phenom­ena associated with transistors, diodes, etc., take place at or on the surface of the crystalline solid-state material. On the surface of any crystal, especially those which have been cut from larger crystals, there are many loose or unattached crystalline bonds that have been physically severed in the cutting and/or polishing operation. The nature of crystal surfaces is still an area of intense scien­tific study about which little is yet known.

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However, it is known exactly how much energy is required to break a crystalline bond. In the micro­scopic world on the edge of a razor blade, there are many severed crystalline bonds created by the sharpening of the edge by grinding. This produces a surface with un­satisfied bonds that will link with anything, especially water. When a water molecule bonds to the crystalline structure of razor steel, it softens the steel. Research in this area has been done in Germany.

In the case of the bond that develops between a water molecule and anything else, the energy in the bond is extremely small, being approximately 1.0 to 1.5 elec­tron volts (eV). Scientifically, this is the amount of energy acquired by an electron when accelerated across a poten­tial difference of one volt. It is a veiy small amount of energy, amounting to 1.602 x 10'¹⁹ to 2.4 x 10'¹⁹ watt-seconds. That's 16 or 24 with 18 zeroes in front of it before you get to the decimal point.

This minute amount of energy is present all around us in the form of "sferics" or the discharges that take place between the Earth and its charged ionosphere. Lightning is an intense form of sferics. Sferics have a broad radio frequency spectrum; sferics are "noise" in the e-m envi­ronment. The minute energy of sferics could be easily concentrated or focused. There is indeed energy avail­able because there's a potential difference of about 100 volts per foot in the vertical electrostatic field of the Earth. This means that there is an electrical difference of 600

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volts between the top of the head and the soles of the feet of a 6-foot person standing on the surface of the Earth. This potential difference is enough to be detected by suitable solid-state electronic devices and used in a simple autopilot to keep the wings level in radio controlled model airplanes, for example.

Most sferics come from thunderstorms, and there are about 300 thunderstorms in progress at any given moment in the Earth's atmosphere.

Very well, if there is enough energy present in the environment to break the crystalline bonds that may form between the ground sharp edge of a razor blade and water molecules, how does a pyramid shape affect this?

Speculation:

1. The pyramidal shape is a resonator to the fre­quencies present in sferics. The bigger the pyramidal shape, the broader the bandwidth of sferics to which it is resonant.

2. It isn't necessary that a pyramid be made of metal to be an effective resonator of electromagnetic energy; it is only necessary that its surface have a dielectric constant that's different from the surrounding air because high-frequency radio waves (including microwaves) can be bent or reflected by anything having a dielectric constant different than the surrounding air. (If this were not so, radar wouldn't work.)

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3. A pyramidal shape can therefore serve as enough of a resonator of electromagnetic energy present in sferics to break the crystalline bond between the razor blade steel alloy and the water molecule, thereby restoring the original crystalline structure of the edge. (Eventually, because the pyramid shape cannot concentrate enough energy to break all the steel-water bonds, the build up of softer steel-water crystals on the edge causes the edge to become soft and dull.)

The apparent ability of a pyramid shape to dehy­drate or mummify organic material may be due to the ability of the shape to concentrate, focus, or otherwise resonate with the microwave frequencies of sferics. This can be measured with modem instrumentation. And it should be. The various characteristics of purified (distilled) water placed in a pyramid shape should be investigated and measured to determine such gross and easily-measured factors as surface tension, which is a measure of the internal energy of the water molecules. It should also be possible to accurately measure the frequencies and inten­sities of electromagnetic radiation at various points in­side a pyramid shape.

Much of this has been done, but little ifit has been openly reported in the scientific literature because of the " peer review" process in which other scientists read and comment upon all submitted scientific papers. It's quite likely that most of this material has either been rejected with the derisive snort, "Huh? Pyramid power!

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Ridiculous!" Or it has been accepted and lies buried unrecognized and uncorrelated somewhere in the enor­mous mass of wall-to-wall data that characterizes modern scientific research.

If the data isn't there, it should be gotten.

Conclusions:

1. It works.

2. There may be a simple physical explanation for it if anyone bothers to look for it.

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