"A natural crystal from the earth demonstrates the capacity for information storage, amplification, and transfer, but it is unable to cohere that energy. Coherence, the transfer of a single frequency or narrow band spectrum energy, is an important factor if the energy or information is to be stored or transferred while maintaining its integrity. Of equal importance is the fact that no two unfaceted crystals are the same and therefore they are incapable of producing the same precise effects. In the process of c..."

"Did the Vatican steal Jesus' foreskin so people would shut up about the savior's penis?..."

"While periodic claims continue to surface purporting to debunk the Shroud of Turin as a hoax — including one made earlier this year by an Idaho academic — one local scientist has no doubt that the cloth covered the crucified Christ and has survived intact for nearly two millennia. Photo Deseret Morning News graphic DNA testing of blood found on the fibers of the Shroud of Turin has been inconclusive. Eugenia Nitowski, an archaeologist and former nun, bases her conclusion as much on science as on faith: Th..."

"Every culture I can think of has produced some form of talisman: fertility charms, phallic symbols, fetishes, rabbits' feet, four leaf clovers, totems, crosses. The Jewish culture is no exception. Within the practical Kabbalah there is a history of amulets, or kame'ot (singular kame'a)...."

"Just last month, a 23-year-old mechanic from Peterborough, Canada discovered Atlantis in the Bahamas by looking at satellite photos on the Internet. Chris Shearer says last year's hurricanes shifted ocean sands south of Andros to expose the concentric ring canal system of Atlantis - for the first time in thousands of years...."

"There have been many attempts to understand and explain fascism in purely materialistic and economic terms, and perhaps as many analyses looking beyond conventional socio-economic factors to more unusual origins. The problem is that 'fascism,' like communism, has several flavors and varieties, some of which (like Maoism and Leninism) are somewhat at odds with each other. Clearly, some of the purported influences on German Nazism, such as pan-Germanism and neo-paganism, had not played as much of a role in Spanish, I..."