"Beacon Stone Artifact" ======================= Note: this article is over a year old so the gentleman in question may no longer be available at the addresses listed. Please be advised that an anonymous Orange County, CA gentleman has, some years ago, made a phenomenally fascinating archaeological discovery on the Island of Java which, in a display of uncommon brilliance amongst the naive souls of the scientific community who still trust our government, he decided to keep hidden from the terrestrial powers that be. He alleges to have found an extraterrestrial artifact which possesses some incredible properties and has made a full-scale graphic video presentation which he has placed in the public domain. The Omni / Antimatter Files section of AOL contains these presentation files which are available for public d/l. The only caveat is that the files will correctly operate only on a PC (sorry, MacUsers) equipped with Windows and a 16-million color VGA card and driver. Since I only have a 256 color driver, I have only been able to observe small portions of the presentation before encountering countless GPFs, yet what little I have seen I find extremely convincing. Following is an excerpt of some of the text of the presentation: "Human perception has its limitation. To the casual viewer, the artifact looks like nothing more than a collage of lines. Looking closer it becomes obvious that the lines have symmetry. Nature, ancient humans nor computer graphics created these images. These images were created by a superior intelligence that wanted to preserve and convey a very important message. WARNING: some images may not be pleasant to look at, others may invoke fear and awe. "1) The artifact is an ancient image projector. The appearance of the artifact dramatically changes when light of different colors and intensities is passed through it. When light is passed through the gemstone, it illuminates and presents pictographs of animals, humans, humanoids and saucer-like shapes. "2) The artifact is as large as an adult's closed hand. The size of the artifact demands the use of macro photography. A Leica 35mm camera has been used with a macro lens to clearly capture and document the pictographs and other intelligent alterations. "3) The entire surface of the artifact has been "worked". The complete surface of the artifact is permeated with thousands of carved and inscribed micro-images. An area the size of a dime may have as many as 20 images inscribed within it. "4) A larger pictograph is the sum of many smaller pictographs. The pictographs are interwoven into each other. A large pictograph can be built of many smaller images. To an un- trained observer, the artifact's surface appears as nothing more than a collage of intersecting lines." The anonymous gentleman may apparently be reached via the following addresses which he provided in the presentation: The Beacon Stone PO Box 18024 Anaheim Hills CA, 92807 Compuserve : 74224,3313 American On Line: Beconstone@aol.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This was the actual text file which accompanied the 5 meg or so "BeaconStone" presentation: The nature of the Artifact makes it is necessary to have this orientation before viewing it. Please be aware that the intent of this orientation process is to assist you in viewing and comprehending the properties of an artifact that was created by an Alien intelligence. "Artifact #1" Many of you might be wondering, "If this is a genuine extraterrestrial artifact why doesn't the author go to the government or to the scientific community?" My answer to that obvious question is this: The artifact is much more than just a thing. It has a personal message to all of us and in my opinion it is paramount to share it with the public domain. Do you sincerely believe that governments and certain institutions want the general population to have knowledge of and from another world? I think you can answer that question yourself. This is not just another extraterrestrial story. This is the exhibition of physical proof of Extraterrestrial intelligent life. What you are about to experience is an event of millennium magnitude. In 1974 in a remote area of Java Indonesia I acquired an artifact that is from another time and another world. For over 20 years I have intentionally hidden this artifact from the world and I have even attempted to destroy it. Since 1974 I have carried in silence a guarded secret. At times this secret has been very difficult to carry. I am compelled after all these years to share with you and the world this profound secret. It is easy to dismiss this fantastic claim as fiction, but seeing is believing. You will be the first to see with your own eyes and to judge for yourself if this is fact or fiction. Please be informed it will not be what Hollywood has conditioned our minds to expect. What you will experience is an exercise in journeying to the outer boundaries of human perception. In a sincere effort to assist you in experiencing something not from this world it is necessary for me to act as your guide. Sure, if it was just Hollywood and fiction I could just say HERE IT IS! This is real, and what you are about to experience is unlike anything you have ever seen before. You must know that it is extremely difficult for me to make this effort. I have great reservations due to the complicated nature of the artifact and its implications. My reluctance is not motivated by the inevitable ridicule of skeptics. My hesitation has been rooted in the belief that this artifact ushers in a tide of great change. I present this artifact to you, now, in the hopes that the knowledge gained from your experience will help us all cope with the changes that are upon us. This is not a story about me. I do not care to tell anyone my name. This is not a commercial venture to entertain you for hopes of economic rewards...this is real life. We live in cynical times when few people can afford to trust their fellow human without the risk of harm. I declare to you that my efforts are sincere. I reach out to you and ask you only to open your eyes and mind to what is about to unfold before you. It is easy to shelter our minds and our eyes from the unknown and it is always reassuring to have an answer. You probably wish you could turn to the last page of this presentation to read the last sentence. I can not blame you for your need to know the answer. This need is a part of being human. You must be informed that there may not be an immediate answer. For those of you who can look with open eyes and mind I invite you to enter a realm of perception hereto never experienced by humans. Only you and you alone will be able to find your personal answer. However amazing and incredible the claim I make to you is, be assured, it is not fiction. Sure, we constantly hear and read of fantastic unbelievable events of encounters with Aliens and many are laughable. There will always be fantastic stories that lack physical evidence of such claimed events. It is easy to attempt to discredit me and to write this off as just another UFO enthusiast that has looked at sun spots too long. The physical evidence I am about to present to you will speak for my claim. You and the scientific community can be the judge and the jury. This is history, and you are the very first to enter through the doors of a new era of human perception and thought. We are all an active part of the making of history and the doors you now enter through have been waiting since the dawn of humanity to be opened. "#2" This presentation is a photographic exhibition of an ancient "Artifact" that was created by an intelligence that was not human. The physical existence of this "Artifact" and its alien characteristics will be presented for your viewing. The challenge of this work is a difficult one as it must not only orientate you to the viewing of an alien artifact, but it must also lay a credible foundation. The subject matter of this presentation by its very nature defies credibility. My ongoing challenge is to bring to you the facts that will support the credible. This work is a labor that will exhibit the facts to you by using the tools of modern photography and computer technology. The evidence presented to you will prove that the Artifact is the creation of an alien thinking, feeling, creative being. Your exploration will require an open objective mind. It is sometimes difficult for us humans to be objective, because of preconceived notions, labels and generalizations we place on things. Sure we can look and our eyes can see, but when our minds are closed do we really see? Many of you have already made your own generalizations and drawn your own conclusions without having ever viewed the Artifact. I will inform you that in order to see the profoundness and beauty of this remarkable discovery leave your mental baggage and labels behind as we begin this presentation. In this age of technological miracles we would certainly like to believe that modern science has all the answers. The oldest question of humankind has yet to be answered, "Where do we come from and where are we going?" The sad truth is that our sciences and technologies are bringing into question our survival as a species. We all know modern science does not have all the answers. This artifact is ancient and could possibly be as old as humankind. The answers of how it has withstood the vicissitudes of time and where and from whom it comes from may possibly be found within it. (Ancient Books) It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. The use of pictures and symbols to convey concepts are as old as humankind. We know that early prehistoric humans recorded events and exchanged thoughts by the use of pictures and symbols. Some of the oldest records of human thoughts are found carved into the stone walls of caves once inhabited by prehistoric humans. New and old archeological discoveries of prehistoric people's artifacts weave together a very broad record of human development throughout the ages. This record of ancient human culture and thought tells a story not in words, but in symbols and pictures. Until recently, it was believed that prehistoric humans during the Paleolithic era (40,000 years ago) used tools to carve pictures and symbols in stone. This theory is now obsolete as it has been discovered that Neanderthals over 100,000 years ago recorded intelligent concepts by inscribing pictures and symbols on the hard surfaces of bone and stone.Our earliest ancestors had to survive in an inexplicable and hostile world. In their struggle for survival early humans out of necessity developed and used and endowed ability, the picture. The use of pictures and symbols ensured the survival of the family and the tribe. With the utilization of the symbol the early ancestors of humans began to convey thoughts and communicate to each other. This process helped them to cooperate in the hunting and gathering of food. Somewhere in dawn of humankind it was discovered that the symbol could be recorded on stone and other portable hard materials. These portable messages were passed on to others to warn of danger, tell of good hunting areas, or where water could be found. Such recorded messages conveyed important information that could act as a safe guide for the tribe. The recorded written symbol could thus ensure the survival of the tribe long after the original author of the information had passed away. It would appear by the artifacts left by ancient humans that there is an instinctive need to pass knowledge of an important event or an idea to future generations. By using tools to inscribe pictures and symbols on stones and other hard materials ancient authors successfully preserved their thoughts and ideas. Physical evidence supports the fact that prehistoric humans have successfully passed their knowledge through time with the power of the symbol. Ironically, another seemingly innate characteristic of humans is to destroy past knowledge and to manipulate new knowledge as a tool for human exploitation. The great libraries of Alexandria and Constantinople were put to flames by conquering armies. The burning of books and the destruction of preserved knowledge has been repeated throughout recorded history. The most ancient of known books are found inscribed in ancient Sumerian and Egyptian stone. Archeologists understand that because of a stones hardness and it's ability to withstand the destructive forces of man and nature it makes an excellent material to use for preserving recorded information. Archaeologist call stones that have been "worked" with inscriptions of symbols and pictures on their surface, petroglyphs. The oldest examples of recorded thoughts expressed by ancient humans are petroglyphs. For Archaeologists petroglyphs are ancient books that open a page to our past. These ancient books allow them to get a small glimpse into the minds and cultures of prehistoric humans The "worked" symbols or pictures that are found on a petroglyphs surface that take the shapes and forms of animals, people, or things are what Archaeologists call pictographs. Often just one simple pictograph may express very complex concepts that would take 1000's of words to explain.Maybe that is why we say "a picture is worth a thousand words." Conventional Archaeological wisdom holds that before agriculture and the first cities Neolithic humans lived at the mercy of the forces of nature.Their chief concern was with sustaining and increasing their food supply.In their struggle to survive they sought the protection of a supreme deity the Great Mother-source of all life, creator and destroyer, mistress of death and resurrection. The oldest known artifact that gives a physical reference to the symbol of the Great Mother is dated over 24,000 years old! These ancient stone petroglyphs are testimonies to the fact that carved symbols in stone are the most ancient books we humans have to read and to learn about our lost past. (caption picture of Voyager Space craft) "Technicians dressed in a cleanroom carefully mount the Voyager interstellar record on one of the space craft." Each Voyager spacecraft carries on it a record that tells of us humans. The instructions on how to get access to the information stored on these gold plated digital records are symbols. Our greatest scientific minds concluded that the symbol is the universal language.Each Voyager is like a bottle with a note inside it, thrown into the cosmic ocean. Perhaps in a few million years it will wash up on some interstellar shore. Maybe, just maybe intelligent beings out there will find it and know that they are not alone in the vastness of this galaxy. Pictures and symbols are the oldest most universal form of language. "#3" (Precious Stone) Since the dawn of human kind people the world over have valued precious stones. Ancient as well as modern people harbor beliefs that certain gemstones carry magical protective and healing qualities. Recorded history tells us that many past civilizations sought protection from the trepidation of life and death by the wearing of precious stones. Six thousand years ago the inhabitants of Ur of Chaldees (Sumerians) attributed magical protective properties to the wearing of gemstones. They believed that certain colored gemstones were the embodiment of the Sun, Moon and Stars. Gemstones were fashioned into seals and jewelry objects which it was believed would bring their owners good fortune and health. This ancient civilization had an industry of stone carvers and cutters who inscribed magical symbols into rock crystal, band agate, amethyst and other hard gemstones. Many cultures even today still believe in the lore of the healing and luck properties associated with the wearing of certain gemstones that have been inscribed with magical symbols. Carved and Inscribed gemstones that are carried and worn by people are called amulets and talisman. In ancient Egypt craved talisman in the shape of the scarab beetle carried hieroglyphics inscribed on their surface. These were buried with the dead to assure eternal life. An entire industry of gemstone cutters and inscribers flourished for centuries due to this religious belief. The scarabs for the common Egyptian were usually carved from very soft quality stones. For the rich Egyptians and the Pharaohs family only the hardest and most beautiful of gem stones were worked into the scarab beetle shape. These finer scarabs were usually carved from carnelian, crystal, lapis and sometimes turquoise that took months of work to craft.Examples of these fine inscribed gemstone carvings have survived man and time for over 4,000 years. During the Han Dynasty of China (206 BC-200 AD) not only was the great stone wall of China built, but also a great civilization. At the time of the first Great Han Emperor gemstone carvers flourished as it was a common belief that jades carved with certain "magical" symbols would bring the wearer good luck and fortune. The earliest origins of China's gemstone traditions are believed to be as old as China. Fantastic examples of jade talisman and amulets with micro inscriptions and micro 3D base reliefs is a legacy of China's master artisans. This Chinese tradition of carving and wearing jade gemstones still survives today. The ancient Romans also were excellent gemstone cutters and carvers. During the Roman Empire a noble citizen wore their family's seal carved in a gemstone and mounted in a ring. The high nobility and the wealthy houses possessed the finest and rarest gemstone insignia. Many of the Roman insignia that have survived the millennia are an expression of highly sophisticated artistic skills. Before the Spanish invasion of the conquistadors into Central and South America there were great centers of civilization. The Incas, Mayans, and Aztec (BC-AD) were sophisticated societies that left a treasure of beautiful gemstone carvings. Very hard gemstones such as jade, hematite, carnelian, serpentine, crystal and agate were carved into figures of humans and animals that carried symbols inscribed on their surface. Many extraordinary examples of amulets and talisman that have been uncovered from the ruins of these past Central and South American empires express a highly developed gemstone cutters art. In the ancient middle east lived mysterious people called the Gnostics. These nomadic people flourished in western Asia and Egypt between 250 BC and AD 400. They believed in the magical properties of carved gemstone amulets and wore them for protection as they traveled the ancient world in their quest for a higher knowledge. Some of their beliefs centered around the conviction that certain gemstones possessed the powers of the heavenly bodies and that they could heal and protect the wearer. The Gnostics attached great importance to the name of GOD and the Archangels. Many of their amulets were inscribed with God's name (IAW) in Greek uncials. The Gnostic carved gemstones that survive today are living expressions of a skilled people. On the subcontinent of India ancient Buddhist and Hindu civilizations held gemstones as the highest pinnacle of worldly wealth. Great Empires flourished from the soil of India that have given the world some of it's most wonderful carved gemstone treasures. All over the world throughout the existence of humans there is a reoccurring act of labor that survives the test of time and leaves the legacy of humans behind. This act of labor is the carving and inscribing of pictures and symbols on gemstones. New archaeological finds continue to rewrite our story of man and his passage through time. The famous Ice Man discovered Frozen in the Swiss Alps in 1991 clearly demonstrates how limited our Knowledge is of our ancestors. This Neolithic man carried with him to his icy grave artifacts that have allowed us to get a glimpse of his ancient world. Of interest he wore around his neck a gemstone amulet that had carved on its surface symbols. Maybe this was his magical shield of protection for his life's and death's journey. Gemstones have a great attraction and lore to them. History has recorded many wars that have been fought for their possession and history itself tells us that a Kingdoms wealth is represented by it's crown jewels. As recently as the 1990's we have witnessed the New Age movement that harbors beliefs in the healing powers of crystals and other gemstones. Imagine, modern educated 20th century people from all walks of life superstitiously believing in the mystical powers of gemstones! Could it be that even modern humans can not break away from the power of ancient beliefs? Gemstones are actually a composite of minerals that are the most erosive resistant materials found in nature. The beauty of such mineral compositions depend upon their transparency, luster, or color. In some cases the play of color, due to the modification of rays of light reflected from the surface or transmitted through the stone gives a gemstone it's depth of beauty. The Artifact you are about to view is an exquisite translucent gemstone petroglyph. When Light is transmitted through the artifact it emanates the color of the sun and projects 3- dimensional holographic images. A technology is demonstrated that transcends ancient or modern man's capabilities. The pictographs (symbols and pictures) inscribed and carved into its surface convey concepts of an exceptional intelligence. The past civilizations of the world although they possessed extremely sophisticated gemstone craving skills did not have the intellect nor the technology to create this ancient gemstone petroglyph. Modern industry and science with all its fantastic gem cutting skills and technologies can not duplicate the processes employed in the "workings" of this ancient gemstone petroglyph. The following photographic exhibition of this ancient gemstone artifact will analytically prove to you that it can not be a freak of nature or the work of an ancient human nor a hoax. As you will experience, it is an ancient book, unlike anything you have seen before. What you will experience when viewing "Artifact #4 and #5" will undoubtedly exceed your expectations. The Artifact, as you will discover, is a gateway to new thought and perceptions. The pictures that are recorded on its extremely hard erosive resistant surface carry to you a message that I have no intent to interpret. You will be your own interpreter and those of you who have left your preconceived notions and labels behind will be able to "read" from the pages of this ancient book. IF YOU HAVE THE GIF/TXT VERSION ALL YOU NEED IS A GIF VIEWER AND A TEXT READER. BOTH A MAC AND A PC CAN READ GIFS AND TXT FILES. The authors of this ancient book took great efforts to preserve this information. This is history of millennium proportions. This is public domain so share it with a friend. AUTHORS COMMENT: AS your guide to this new realm of perception images that appear exhibited by the ARTIFACT I will lend my description. It is not my intent to lend interpretation or meanings to the Images. It is highly recommended to view the actual photographs with high resolution 24bit graphics or actual photographs which are available on request. Your comments and interest are welcomed: The Beacon Stone PO Box 18024 Anaheim Hills CA, 92807 Compuserve 74224,3313 American On Line: Beconstone@aol.com