POLAR AXIS SPIN

THE COMING POLE SHIFT

COMPILED BY DEE FINNEY

4-18-2001

updated 6-15-05

POLAR MOTION

Scientists have also been intrigued by a weakening in the pole's intensity: It has lost 10 per cent of its force in the past few centuries. That could be a sign that the poles are preparing to reverse, a phenomenon that has occurred many times in Earth's distant history, said University of Alberta geophysics professor Moritz Heimpel.

But the pole's continuing movement away from Canadian soil likely won't affect anyone, beyond perhaps affecting the northern lights. The magnetic pole draws the charged particles from the sun that create the aurora, and "the people in Fort McMurray might not want it to move away very much," Heimpel said, lest it dim their light shows.

But Canada prides itself on being a northern nation -- it's part of that nebulous identity we spend so much time thinking about. Does losing the pole mean losing a piece of ourselves? Will we be launched into the throes of another identity crisis, now that the world's compasses no longer point to us?

Carolyn Relf, a geologist with Indian and Northern Affairs, says no.

"As long as Santa's still in the North, I don't care about the pole," she said.

Besides, there's not a whole lot we can do to get it back. The liquid iron that creates Earth's magnetic field is located so far beneath the planet's crust it's beyond the reach of even our most ambitious and patriotic leaders.

Col. Norm Couturier, commanding officer of Canadian Forces Northern Area, is the man charged with protecting Canada's Arctic sovereignty -- but guarding the pole is beyond his pay grade.

"It's a force of nature that we're not equipped to deal with," he said, laughing.

And though Couturier says it is, of course, sad to lose the pole, there is a sunny side. With the pole gone from Canada, it means we have less responsibility for the ill-prepared adventurers who go on half-crazed skiing adventures to reach the magnetic pole.

"It will probably mean now that we'll have to stage less rescue missions," he said. "When it was over in Canadian territory, every year we would have to go and assist somebody or recover somebody that was trying to get there.

"Now that it's in international waters, a little bit of the pressure is off us."

Still, it could be just a temporary reprieve. The forces that are pushing the pole away from us could just as easily pull it back inside Canadian borders one day.

"I'm sure we can share it for a little while. But it's coming back," said a hopeful James Pugsley, president of Yellowknife's Astronomy North.

"We did such a good job of managing it while it was here. It will be back."

nvanderklippe@globaltv.ca

WHY IT MATTERS

In an age of satellites and computer technology, why do we still care about the magnetic North Pole anyway?

For most of human history, we needed the pole for navigation, since compasses pointed to it and directed us north. But satellite-based navigation, using GPS (global positioning system) devices, has gained near-universal acceptance in planes and ships.

Doesn't that make compasses a relic of the past? Hardly, says Larry Newitt, the Canadian geophysicist who measures the pole's location. Figuring out exactly where the pole is allows map-makers to draw what's called "magnetic declination," which is the number of compass degrees that separate the direction of magnetic north from True North, which points to the geographic North Pole.

Subj: Re: Polar Motion - A prophecy and new reference pages
3/6/2001 4:10:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, Dee777 writes: Hi all: This morning, I sent out an e-mail to a few people, and received one back that blew me away as it was so coincidental ... I could hardly believe it... the topic was the exact thing I had seen in a vision before I got up this morning. I was compelled to make a web page about it so others can track it .. I don't know how one prepares for such a big event ... I don't want to call it a magnetic pole shift, such as the one the sun just had, but I don't know what else to call it. See for yourself.

http://www.greatdreams.com/motion.htm
POLAR MOTION - A PROPHECY - THE SCIENCE

I then had some conversations with Michael Mandeville and he told me about the spin axis motion that he was tracking. I already knew about the pole shift, but I didn't know about spin axis motion. That got me looking up other information that fit in with what I knew about the pole shift. While I was doing that research, Gordon Michael Scallion came on the radio in an interview with Art Bell. I've known about GMS a long time, in fact, I had a vision about how the earth was going to look after the pole shift prior to GMS publishing his well-known map. My map and his map match pretty closely. Lori Toye's map is a little more extreme than GMS's map. There are other pole shift maps out there as well. Lots of them. MAPS

On 4-17-2001, I listened to Gordon Michael Scallion on the Art Bell show on (http://www.coasttocoastam.com) I took notes as he spoke, so the following is paraphrased and not direct quotes. I suggest that anyone interested in his exact words listen to the show, which is archived at the above url.

Notes: The core of the earth is plasma (not iron). It is a mirror of the sun. "As above - so below". There are 7 levels within earth as in the atmosphere. We don't know exactly how many levels there are or how thick they are. We hvae theories but we don't have facts.

The teutonic plate system as Pangea is the current theory, but this is not a fact either, even though the map looks like it might have been.

11,000 years ago, a quick event caused mass extinction. 97% of the species died. Cataclysm though does not make science, but everything works in cycles. All the massive animals died. Now everything is smaller and mankind appeared only a few minutes ago in the passage of time.

Layers of earth: Shock waves and earthquake waves have been studied which gives us an idea of the layers of the earth. The lithosphere (the ground beneath our feet) is full of life and electricity. This is the thinnest layer, like an eggshell that floats on the next layer. There is a separation between layers. Each layer is warmer than the layer above it. The movements of layers along with the effects of the sun, creates the magnetism of the earth. These layers, however, do get stuck from time to time, rather than moving at a regular speed. If the magnetism declines we know that a layer is stuck somewhere. When there is such a decline, the magnetic pole will shift will occur.

Magnetic pole shifts of a small amount such as the 7 degree shifts Gordon Michael Scallion has seen will occur. This shift can happen more than once. They don't necessarily have to be 180 degree shifts. (Note that Ed Dames stated on an Art Bell show the previous week that his remote viewers see a pole shift of 16 degrees) This would not only change the magnetism but will change weather, animal behavior, etc.

Besides a magnetic shift Gordon Michael Scallion believes that the lithosphere will move as well. This is a true pole shift. Because a layer gets stuck, when it releases, this is what causes a cataclysm. The lithosphere contains 75% water which is VERY heavy, and when water gets moving on its' own, it has tremendous force. Water tends to seek its own level, and it MUST do this. If thick ice lets loose all at once and falls into water, it creates tremendous water movement.

Gordon Michael Scallion has predicted a 1998 to 2002 window for this to occur and we are still within that window. All physical manifestations are increasing. Tornadoes, earthquakes, and volcanoes are all at record levels. So are sun spots at a record level and still increasing.

He predicted: 3 major quakes in California and a splitting of the earth. Three quakes have occurred, but the earth only split 44 miles. He believes this will still occur. This seems to be the time for the pole shift.

A new vision which occurred in March of 2000 seems to point this out. GMS was out for a walk on his property, heading north along a lane. He started feeling electrical sensations in his legs, which is a clue that a vision will occur within a moment, so he had to sit down. In the vision, he found himself in the same location, the trees were blooming like it was early summer and the sun was at 11:00 o'clock position in the sky. The sun moved slowly then from the 2:00 p.m. o'clock position, back to the 11:00 a.m. position, but instead of going in the correct direction, it move a whole new direction. It moved south.

The vision switched to a car wash is which he interpreted to be the lithosphere was slipping over the layer below.

The the vision went back to the 11:00 a.m. o'clock position and he saw the wind started blowing with a massive wind. He figured it was probably about 300 MPH.

End of vision:

An art Bell listener had called right before GMS came on the air. The man said he was 45 when he had the vision.
This is the listener's vision:

He saw a man with a beard standing next to a globe. The man hit the globe and made it turn a different direction. The man then said, "In your lifetime".

End of Vision

The axis would not change much, but the lithosphere would slip, giving us a new north pole, but GMS doesn't know if it will happen this year.

The Chandler wobble of the earth is 6 different wobbles, not just one. This is cyclic, and not all at the same time. This wobble causes the El Nino cycles as well.

The earth will react differently at the equator than it does at the poles, so we can't say exactly how the changes will effect everyone. However, there will be climatic changes and volcanism. There is already weather changes because of volcanism. If 6 or 7 volcanoes go off at the same time, weather will be disastrous. It will cause freezing/cold weather. Maine and New Hampshire is a month behind now from just a couple volcanoes. (Note: California is much cooler than normal at this time also) When the magnetic field changes and the earth change alters the jet stream in the atmosphere, the wind will be tremendous.

There could also be massive melt-off of ice as different areas change position of land masses.

With this type of total event, because most of mankind lives on the coastline, these are the people that will be the most affected in all parts of the world. With small water raises, we try to stop it, but when it is sudden, we can do nothing. When you look at the damage from hurricanes or tornadoes and floods, you can just imagine what the devastation will be.

Civilization will not end, but the losses will be great. Many species of animals and flora will just disappear. Mankind will live further inland and in higher land masses and will live in harmonious communities.

The timing of his vision shows 1 1/2 years. It will either happen in 2001, or this will set the stage for the big event.

Ruth Montgomery: A shift of the Earth on its axis is the way they say that. They say it will slope to its side, but they don't say how far. That is why it is so important to say, 'a shift of the Earth on its axis.' I used to say 'a shift of the poles' until certain scientists pointed out to me that that was pretty impossible. So it is a shift of the Earth on its axis. The axis itself doesn't shift. It will be a real upheaval, and temperatures will change. Some areas will be in a warmer climate, and some will be in a colder climate. They say that the new south pole will be in the southern part of South America, the North pole will be somewhere in the Pacific. They can't locate it because there will be such a shift in the way the Earth looks from outer space. I can tell you that not too long ago in one of my books, The Guides said that a Walk-In President would come in to alert people as to where they should go and will give enough warning so that some businesses could become established in these safer areas. They've predicted that for some time. As I said before, I type out my questions first and I typed, "I have looked over all of these candidates who are declared for Presidency and I can't see a single one of them who seems to me like a Walk-In. Could it be that the shift will occur after another election, rather than at the turn of the century?" After I meditated and the writing began, they answered, "Yes, it could be. We have always told you that we could not give you the exact date for the shift, we don't know it ourselves. We have, however, for a long time seen an American President who is a Walk-In and who is telling people where to go and what to do." So, the shift could very well be delayed until sometime after the next election. The Guides have said repeatedly that man cannot change God's Will, that this is a Universal Law, and man has no control over it. That is the shift that they are talking about. Is it God's Will that the Earth shifts? It is part of the universal plan, yes. They say that Earth is overdue for a cleansing. It's happened a number of times before, yes, and the Earth needs that cleansing again. They say, that in a lot of areas, the waters will be where land is, and vice versa. Lands will rise from the sea.

The earth will be broken up in many places. The early portion will see a change in the physical aspect of the west coast of America. There will be open waters appear in the northern portions of Greenland. There will be new lands seen off the Caribbean Sea, and DRY land will appear. There will be the falling away in India of much of the material suffering that has been brought on a troubled people. There will be the reduction of one risen to power in central Europe to naught. The young king son will soon reign [See Par. 13-A below]. In America in the political forces we see a re-stabilization of the powers of the peoples in their own hands, a breaking up of the rings, the cliques in many places. South America shall be shaken from the uppermost portion to the end, and in the Antarctic off of Tierra Del Fuego LAND, and a strait with rushing waters. [See 4/61 EARTH CHANGES booklet report, p. 30. Also see 5/64 A.R.E. issue of THE SEARCHLIGHT "Updating Earth Changes."]

DREAMS AND VISIONS OF THE EARTHCHANGES

DREAMS OF WATER

THE EARTH

THIS IS THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE

Does the earth wobble?
How does the earth grow and die?
What are the polar caps?
What is the magnetic North Pole?
Why doesn't the magnetic North Pole center the polar caps?
What does the position of the magnetic North Pole indicate?
What would be the consequences of a sudden polar shift?

This picture could be of an atom, an element, a planet, a solar or stellar system, the galaxy or a single musical note. All waves and spiral systems are alike and universal. To understand one wave is to understand the process of creation. The principles in the following discussion of the earth can be applied to the octaves of elements, to music, or to human relations. Eventually someone will apply them to the transmutation of the elements and the production of free energy.
Remember, light is all there is. Matter is motion only. Mind creates matter by dividing and multiplying light into waves. All motion is two way, curved and spiral, to and from points of rest to create the illusion of substance.

1. DOES THE EARTH WOBBLE?

"No. The earth only appears to wobble in relationship to other objects in space.

Other than the Precession of the Equinoxes which is one wobble in 25,800 years, the earth doesn't wobble. The earth's rotational spin doesn't wobble in relation to itself or in relation to its own orbit, nor does the orbit itself wobble around the sun.

The earth rotates/spins daily on its North/South polar axis which is 90° to its equator every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds. This rotational time may change one second in one hundred years or more likely, in several hundred years. The rotational speed at the equator is 1040 miles per hour.

(If you lay flat out on the grass at night with your arms spread out and eyes closed, you can sense what this feels like. Whether this is an illusion or not I don't know, but I've experimented with it and I swear I could feel the motion of the earth through space)

This N/S polar axis (true North) is tipped and spins at a 23° 27' 08" angle to its own ecliptic plane. This ecliptic plane is a track in space: an ecliptic orbit; a prescribed locked circuit of pressure walls; a fixed invisible floor in space, in which and on which the earth is held firmly in place by the constant interchange of all the planets of this system and the universe as a whole, as it rolls around the sun yearly at a speed of 66,600 miles per hour over its 595 million mile orbit.

If a giant hand could push the earth off its orbit, it would snap right back again, as this orbit is the perfect balance point for the mass called earth in this solar system . . . and perfect means to a milligram of weight.

Since the earth's ecliptic plane is tipped 7° to the sun's equator, the earth is above and below the sun's equator for six months each. This may give the appearance of a wobble as in the Northern Hemisphere we see the sun rise north of the equator in the summer and south of it in the winter. But the earth isn't really wobbling.

Over millions of years as the earth evolves further away from the sun, its orbit and year will lengthen, its axial spin will speed up (shortening its day), its mass expand, and it will continue to turn upside down as the N/S polar axis tips further from the ecliptic plane. This gyroscopic unwinding of the planet's density is consistent and orderly, balanced and controlled from without by the solar system and the universe as a whole, of which the earth is but a speck.

NOTE: Current encyclopedias, based on Newton's false concept of matter attracting matter, assert that the earth does wobble on its orbit. Nutation is the sun's "pull" of gravity on the earth and moon as a single body. Based on their individual mass and distance apart, their common center of gravity is 1000 miles below the earth's crust. Both the moon and earth oscillate around this common center of gravity, in essence, wobbling together as they orbit the sun. If this were true, the same principle must apply to all the planets and their multiple moons and to pairs and trios of planets.

2. HOW DOES THE EARTH GROW AND DIE?

The earth was born from rings of light, perhaps millions of miles long, thrown off from the sun's equator. The interchange between the hot sun and the -200°C of space creates tornadoes which wind up that light, freeze it into solid mass, which then becomes a planet. The process is called prolating.

At maturity the spin axis and the magnetic North Pole were one-both at 90° to the earth's and sun's equator. The earth in that position was hot and dense and probably about 25 million miles from the sun. (Universal One (U1) p. 223)

"The Earth Is Now Melting." It is an oblating spheroid meaning its poles are flattening, its equator bulging, and its liquid blue oceans cover 71% of its surface. The earth's rotational axis is tipped 23-1/2° towards its ecliptic plane. It is 90+ million miles from the sun and presumed to be 4.6 billion years old.

Rotation of the earth - The rotation of the earth is slowing down due to gravitational forces of the sun, moon and other factors. If the rotation of the earth had been slowing down at a constant rate for billions of years it would have stopped by now. Alternatively, the initial speed of the rotation of the earth would have been so great that the shape of the earth would be more like a pancake (Wysong, 1981).

Accordingly, some theorists say that this proves that the earth cannot be older than 10,000 years old, compared to some theorists who use other measuring systems which show that the earth is several billion years old.

3. WHAT ARE THE POLAR CAPS?

Cold space is compressed into the polar caps-that's why they are cold-by invisible centripetal tornadoes, to become the greatly compressed heat of the Earth's core and equator.

It is the charging area where gravity squeezes the holes out of rings, compressing a large volume of space into a small volume of dense matter.

4. WHAT IS THE MAGNETIC NORTH POLE?

The North point is a charging pole, not a magnetic pole. The scientific meaning of magnetic does not work in the Universal Law and Natural Science of his cosmogony which explains this two-way universe as an optical thought-wave one vs. the traditional electromagnetic one.

It is the still eye like the eye of a hurricane or tornado, around which the invisible electrical stream of compression flows and toward which the stillness within compass needles point (like conditions seeking like conditions).

It is the valve stem for the basketball. The point of charging. The point where the vortexial umbilical cord from the sun attaches to the earth. It is the off-center gravity shaft which meets its mate coming from the South charging pole at the center of the earth, creating the center of gravity.

This charging pole is in Canada's Arctic Circle Queen Elizabeth Islands at 105° longitude and 80° latitude.

5. WHY DOESN'T THE CHARGING NORTH POLE CENTER THE POLAR CAPS?

Our Earth is past maturity. Russell says it is in the position of manganese on the elemental chart. This is like a man of 50, past his prime but still strong and positively charging, though closer to death than birth.

Earth's N/S poles are predominately centrifugal (C/F) and radiating. (U1, p. 213) Since gravity shafts never center their twisting charging or discharging vortexes except at maturity and centrifugal means center fleeing, Earth's gravity shaft will be closer to the vortex perimeter-"the inclination to lie down".

A better example is from page 7 of FULCRUM, Vol.3, #3. When pushing on a swing (an overall C/F motion), the push creates 1/4 of the cycle. This first 1/4 cycle reaches a major amplitude. The rest of the cycle is reaction, like one down thrust of the bicycle pedal will create a whole cycle of motion. The swing reaches a minor amplitude on the back swing. Connecting these two amplitudes in a three dimensional spiral will put the major and minor compression points and likewise gravity shafts on opposite sides of the vortex, as Russell depicts on page 174 of The Universal One.

A side note: Tesla used this "power of only the 1/4 cycle" concept in the construction of his magnifying resonant transformer and his mechanical oscillator.

6. WHAT DOES THE POSITION OF THE NORTH CHARGING POLE INDICATE?

In fact, everything. Its angle from the spin axis determines the positive/negative preponderance of the mass, its age, form, tonal sound (Russell says Earth is an F), temperature (the Earth's mean temperature is 57°F), color (Earth is blue), and odor-who knows?

As the Earth ages, bloats and turns bottom up-South Pole toward the sun, the South charging pole will become the dominate one whereas the North one is now. (U1, p. 225)

Transmutation will be aided by knowing the angle of the charging pole from the spin axis and the speed of revolution.

7. WHAT CAUSES THE EARTH'S SPIN?

Simply, caught between and within two spinning tornadoes, one on each side, both turning the same direction, it has to spin.

* In Russell's universal directions, centripetal compressing spirals turn North by way of East (from West to East toward the centers of mass). Centrifugal radiating spirals turn South by way of West (from East to West toward space). While the earth is now slightly predominately centrifugal, the two North and South centripetal compressing vortexes continue the West to East turnings. The stronger centrifugal motion serves to increase the speed of rotation.

* Rotation is caused by resistant pressures which are greatest toward the sun where the centripetal vortexes from the sun charge the Earth, slowing down its rotational speed while trying to speed up its revolution. The centrifugal radiation from the dark side of the planet releases the stored-up charge-like a jet exhaust-thereby increasing the speed of rotation and decreasing the speed of revolution. The rhythmic balanced interchange between those two forces keeps the planet spinning. A radiometer whose vanes turn in the sunlight exemplifies this process.

* Planets generate in preponderance North and South of the Cancer/Capricorn belts on day-light hemispheres and radiate preponderantly within the boundaries of the Cancer/Capricorn belt on their dark hemispheres.

8. WHAT WOULD BE THE CONSEQUENCES OF A SUDDEN POLAR SHIFT?

In a clock, all the many gears are synchronized. It is impossible for one gear to suddenly begin running faster.

The universe of spinning gyroscopic planets and suns are all geared together. If one tries to speed up, the others will act as brakes. Only slow, gradual changes are possible over millions of years.

BUT-IF, as forecast by some futurists, even the slightest sudden variation to our earth's axis should occur, the earth would instantly:

Flatten at the poles; expand its mass and diameter; swell its oceans till they covered all continents; lengthen the year and shorten the day; and get much colder. Your body and all life forms would instantlly swell up like a helium balloon rising in the thinning atmosphere, pop and disappear. As they did, your body pattern would refold into your seed to await its next cycle of emergence from you, the centering, eternal, knowing consciousness.

As long as the earth has earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, rainfall and seasons, you can know it is constantly readjusting its balance to that of itself and the universe. "Every star in the heavens must readjust itself to so slight an activity as that of a man walking across a room." "A child moves the Pleiades and all the stars of heaven with his slightest movement." (HSC pp. 633 & 418)

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The North Pole has not always pointed at Polaris. As the Earth precesses and its spin axis traces a circle in the sky, the North Pole points at different stars and constellations. In 3000 B.C., it pointed at the star Thuban in the constellation Draco, and in 14000 A.D. it will point at the star Vega in the constellation Lyra.

Precession can have quite an effect on the Earth. As the spin axis of the Earth wobbles along its circular path, it will cause the natural tilt of the Earth to increase or decrease. Since the seasons and their severity are caused by the Earth's tilt, a change in the tilt will cause a change in seasonal temperatures. Over long periods of time, Precession combined with eccentricity variations in Earth's orbit and obliquity variations in Earth's tilt, cause seasonal changes which include cool summers in the northern hemisphere, a necessary factor for glaciation. In this sense, precession plays a role in the glacial and interglacial periods of the Earth.

Edgar Cayce's Pole-Shift Readings
Edgar Cayce is America's best documented psychic. Before he died in 1945, he gave over 14,000 "readings," dealing with clairvoyant analyses of physical ailments and cures for people, with the former lives of individuals (reincarnation was assumed to be true for all), and a variety of spiritual and other subjects. A small number of readings describe a pole shift, and historically-unprecedented Earth changes to occur before the end of next year.

Almost no research has been done on the sources of information coming through Cayce for specific readings of interest. Gina Cerminara (trained in general semantics and now deceased) made a survey of Cayce's sources, as explained in the readings themselves. She concluded that he had six sources:

(1) the subconscious mind of Cayce himself;
(2) the subconscious minds of other individuals in the Earth plane,
(3) the subconscious minds of disincarnate entities in the spirit plane,
(4) the soul minds of higher masters,
(5) the akashic records, and
(6) the Universal cosmic consciousness.

Many familiar with Cayce's readings assume there will be no pole shift because, they say, none of Cayce's historically-unprecedented Earth change predictions have been fulfilled. Before providing information that contradicts this position, let's review the three readings that together say - or imply - that a shifting of the poles will occur sometime before the close of 2001.

Q What great change or the beginning of what change, if any, is to take place in the Earth in the year 2000 to 2001 A.D.?
A When there is a shifting of the poles. Or a new cycle begins. 826-8 (8/11/36)
For, these [records] were to be kept as had been given by the priests in Atlantis or Poseidia ... when the records of the race, of the developments, of the laws pertaining to One were put in their chambers and to be opened only when there was the returning of those into materiality, or to Earth's experience, when the change was imminent in the Earth ; which change, we see, begins in '58 and ends with the changes wrought in the upheavals and the shifting of the poles, as begins then the reign in '98 (as time is counted in the present) of those influences that have been....kept by those sojourners in this land of the Semitic peoples. 378-16 (10/29/33)

As to the changes physical again:....There will be the upheavals in the Arctic and in the Antarctic that will make for the eruption of volcanoes in the torrid areas, and there will be a shifting then of the poles -- so that where there has been those of a frigid or the semitropical will become the more tropical, and moss and fern will grow. And these will begin in those periods in '58 to '98.... 3976-15 (1/19/1934)
These readings predict a sequence of geophysical events, beginning in 1958 to 1998, that culminate in upheavals in Earth's polar areas, increased volcanic eruptions in the torrid areas, and then, a shifting of the poles in 2000-2001. As indicated, one knows next to nothing about Cayce's sources for these readings, but here is a short list of events that fit with Cayce's 1958-1998 predictions.

 

Geological Events of 1958-1998

May 1960: A giant, M9.5, earthquake hit southern Chile. This was the strongest quake in the entire world in the last century. Catastrophic changes (upheavals) occurred to the land surface and sea floor, and tsunamis killed people as far away as Hawaii.
March 1964: The Good Friday earthquake and tsunami of March 27 devastated Anchorage and the surrounding region. At M9.2, this giant quake was the largest in North America in the last century, and the Earth's crust beneath Prince William Sound and vicinity was upheaved, twisted and broken.
1970-1971: These years bracket unusually frequent eruptions of the volcanoes Krafla and Hekla on Iceland (65šN), and Beerenberg on Jan Mayen Island (71šN) in the Arctic region. They can be considered to be precursor eruptions for "upheavals in the Arctic."
June 1994: The great (M8.2) Bolivian quake of June 9 occurred at an enormous depth of nearly 400 miles. It was felt throughout much of the western hemisphere, and even made the Earth ring like a bell, exciting modes of vibration never before seen. Also, in reading 3976-15, it is said that, "South America will be shaken from the uppermost portion to the end." Such shaking occurred during the Bolivian earthquake, which presages the future for South America as the Earth changes accompanying pole shift intensify.
1993-1996: Extremely strong seismic activity occurred in northern Honshu and Hokkaido, Japan, during this interval. Five M7.2-M7.5, and one M8.1 earthquake were accompanied by more M6 or larger quakes than at any time since 1926. Also, the land surface over a wide area on the Pacific side of northern Honshu was found to have been sinking over the 30-year period from 1966 to 1995.
July 1996: Hawaii's Kilauea and Loihi volcanoes are two of the world's most active torrid-area volcanoes. Kilauea has erupted continuously since January 1983. Submerged Loihi -- just offshore of Kilauea -- has erupted almost continuously since 1982. Seismic and eruptive activity peaked in July 1996. These volcanoes reflect the predicted worldwide increase in eruptions of torrid-area volcanoes, both on land and beneath the sea.
March 1998: The great Balleny Sea earthquake off Antarctica, was the largest ever detected within an oceanic crustal plate. It's location and strength were completely unexpected by the world's seismologists. At M8.2, it was also the largest quake to occur worldwide in the last five years. Located near the south magnetic pole, the quake may be considered to be one of the "upheavals in the Arctic and the Antarctic" to occur just prior to pole shift.
October 1998 - October 1999: An unusual cluster of 17 light earthquakes (M4.5-4.9) and 23 moderate quakes (M5.0-5.5) occurred in the high Arctic, centered approximately at 85.7N and 81.4E. This cluster may be a precursor of crustal uplift, or mass movements in the mantle, beneath the Arctic Ocean. The quakes occurred north of Severnaya Zemlya, near the top of the world.

Upheavals Since 1998

Listed now are upheavals that have occurred since the end of the 40-year, 1958-1998 interval. They seem to fit the "upheavals" mentioned in 378-16 above.
Northwest Turkey was shaken by an M7.4 earthquake on August 17, 1999. The magnitude of the tremor tied that of the 1912 Turkey temblor for the strongest quake of the last century in that country. Horizontal offsets along various segments of the North Anatolian fault approached 16 ft. and vertical upthrusts of up to seven ft. were noted. Perhaps 20,000 people were killed, and considerable earthquake damage occurred in Istanbul. Then, on November 12, 1999, an M7.1 quake occurred 70 miles east of the August shock, on the same fault, producing additional crustal changes.
On September 21, 1888, the largest earthquake of the last century in Taiwan struck near Chi-Chi. Extensive surface ruptures occurred over 53 miles of the Chelungpu fault. The maximum horizontal displacement of 32 ft. is among the largest fault displacement ever measured in modern earthquakes. The Tachia River was cut by a 25 ft. vertical upheaval that created a new waterfall.

Possible Pole-Shift Mechanism

Pole shift is generally believed to be due to the gradual redistribution of mass in outer Earth's mantle and the crust. Our planet is most stable when its most massive parts are farthest from its spin axis; that is, on the equator. If mass redistribution were to occur somewhere on an otherwise uniform Earth, the planet would reorient itself so that the mass concentration would move to the equator. Over the past century, the north pole moved about 33 feet toward eastern Canada. Most geophysicists believe the movement is due to true polar wander (TPW), or a shift of the Earth's entire mantle and crust relative to Earth's core.
Think of Earth ’s spin axis being fixed relative to the stars and the crust and mantle slowly moving like the skin and flesh of a peach over its pit. If we observe the point pole where the spin axis meets Earth’s surface, the pole will appear to shift if the crust and mantle move horizontally beneath it. This is pole shift of the TPW type. The other type of pole shift, not considered here, involves the movement of the Earth's spin axis relative to fixed stars..
V. Courtillot and J. Besse wrote a provocative paper on TPW in 1987. They proposed that the emission of hot thermal currents of material in the boundary layer between Earth’s core and mantle leads to increases in mantle convection, to mass anomalies near Earth’s surface, and, ultimately, to true polar wander. I’ll assume here that the scientists’ “hot thermal currents” are equivalent to the “upheavals in the interior of the Earth” mentioned in the following reading.

Q What will be the type and extent of the upheaval in ’36?
A The wars, the upheavals in the interior of the Earth, and the shifting of same by the differentiation in the axis as respecting the positions from the Polaris center. 5748-6 (7/1/32)

These "upheavals in the interior of the Earth" were in turn seen as due to
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......the catastrophies of outside forces to the Earth in '36, which will come from the shifting of the equilibrium of the Earth itself in space, with those of the consequential effects upon the various portions of the country -- or world--affected by same.
3976-10 (2/8/32)
Because there seems to be no credible evidence that Earth's rotational axis was significantly differentiated as respecting positions measured relative to Polaris in 1936, we will assume that "the shifting of same" refers to a shifting of the axis of Earth's inner core. Since 1996, seismologists have known that Earth's inner core of solid iron is spinning freely within an outer core of molten iron, making the inner core virtually a planet within a planet. Also, the axis of the rotating core is tilted a few degrees with respect to Earth's north-south axis of rotation. A sudden shift in the axis of the inner core in 1936 -- if that's what happened -- might well have engendered an explosion of hot thermal currents at the core-mantle boundary, producing new mantle plumes and accelerating the upward movements of existing plumes. Furthermore, such rising plumes could redistribute enough mass to cause pole shift around the present time, some 64 years after the inner-Earth upheavals and shift in the core's axis in 1936. In light of reading 5748-6 above, the new research on the Earth's core, and the work of Courtillot and Besse, we might expect that the type of pole shift predicted to occur before the end of 2001 will involve movement of Earth's entire mantle relative to the core; that is, the shift will occur by true poler wander (TPW).
Geophysicists think that TPW is driven, ultimately, by cycles of heat flowing from Earth’s core to the mantle, and then to the surface via rising plumes of hot mantle material. A layer referred to by seismologists as the D'' layer marks the boundary between the core and the mantle. The heat-conducting capabilities of this layer have recently come under scrutiny by O. Anderson at UCLA. His analysis of recent theoretical and laboratory data for D'' led him to conclude the following:

. . . I assume that the number of plumes associated with hotspots [such as the Hawaii, Yellowstone, and Iceland hotspots] is substantially lower than the total number of active plumes. Some numerical models imply that immature plumes may be 50 to 75% as abundant as hot-spot plumes . . . Furthermore, convective heat may be delivered in cycles to Earth’s surface, at intervals producing immense eruptions far above today’s level . . . This episodic production of convective heat means that today there must be more [thermal] power in the plumes [already in the mantle] than measured by the [existing] hotspots.

B. Malamud and D. Turcotte (Earth and Planetary Sci. Ltrs., 1999, p. 174) estimate that Earth's mantle contains around 5,200 plumes. If convective heat is delivered in cycles to Earth’s surface, "at intervals producing immense eruptions,” we may have the physical basis for reading 3653-1. It says that the next destruction of most life on Earth will be “not by water . . . but rather by the elements, fire.”

Speculative Pole-Shift Model

Here follows a speculative picture of what might be taking place between now and the end of 2001, assuming that a TPW-type pole shift will indeed be taking place. It’s a picture based upon a combination of the Cayce readings and the scientific information given above.
Since at least 1936, rising, pole-directed plumes of dense mantle material have begun to produce increasing mass anomalies in the Arctic and Antarctic regions near the Earth's axis of rotation. Plume heads impacting the base of the crust in the polar regions are beginning to cause earthquakes and upheavals there, making plume presence known. The majority of these rising masses of poleward-directed mantle material will soon cause the Earth to rotate slightly faster, just as figure skaters develop high-speed spins by bringing their arms inward and then up over their heads. An increase in Earth’s spin rate of only one second per day can increase the Earth’s equatorial bulge by about 20 inches.
Our planet’s equatorial bulge is due to the centrifugal force of its spinning body, a force that is strongest at the equator. The force is so strong that the figure of the Earth is like a slightly squashed sphere, its diameter at the equator being roughly 27 miles longer than a diameter joining the poles. The liquid ocean responds instantly to changes in planetary centrifugal forces. If Earth’s spin rate speeds up by a few seconds per day, hot magmatic liquids in the volcanoes of the equatorial zone will also respond, only slightly less quickly than ocean waters, to the increased centrifugal force there. This will cause volcanic eruptions in the “torrid areas” bordering the equator. Such a situation should be occurring about now. If so, it will last only a short time.
This is so because the masses of mantle moving up in the polar regions will affect more than just Earth’s spin rate. Such redistributed masses will affect the ongoing wobble of the axis of rotation, and the ongoing TPW, which over the last century saw the north pole drifting south along the 79.2šW longitude. Upheavals of mantle material in the Arctic and Antarctic regions will change the character of the wobble and cause the present, slow TPW to develop a new direction of motion, and to increase in speed. We will then be able to say that pole shift is indeed underway.
Geophysicists are leaning now toward top-to-bottom mixing of the Earth's entire mantle. This means that mantle plumes rising near to the surface in the polar regions will cause new concentrations of mass in the polar areas and movements of the lithospheric plates there. And compensatory mantle return flows will affect the lithosphere in other areas. But what do we know about 1) any accelerating upward crustal movements ("upheavals") in the Arctic and Antarctic and 2) any increasing frequency of volcanic eruptions in the torrid areas?

Polar Upheavals And Torrid-Area Volcanism

Reading 3976-15 above says that the upper portion of Europe will be changed as in the twinkling of an eye. This statement relates well to the part of the reading that says there will be upheavals in the Arctic. There is an "upper portion of Europe" that lies above the Arctic Circle. It consists of northernmost Norway, Sweden, Finland, and (European) Russia. But here, the rates of ongoing post-glacial uplift seem slow enough to require that if upper Europe is to change suddenly, only a sudden shift of the poles could cause it. The change would be caused, apparently, by movement toward or away from Earth's equatorial bulge. This is so because any axis movement , whether by TPW or shift in Earth's overall true rotational axis, will result in changes both in latitude and elevation of any point on the surface.
As for acceleration in upward crustal movements in Antarctica, I referred on page 39 to the fact that T. James and E. Ivins mentioned in their 1995 paper on present-day Antarctic ice mass changes and crustal motion that

If Antarctic deglaciation history portrayed in the ICE-3G crustal rebound model is realistic...., then a vast geographical region in West Antarctica is uplifting at a rate in excess of 20 mm/yr, and the predicted changes in polar motion are quite substantial. [Edited composite of quotes from the paper].
Updates to the latest crustal-rebound model (ICE-4G) have been made since 1995. They show predicted uplift rates that are somewhat smaller than those first given for crustal upheavals due to the slowly melting Antarctic ice sheet. But according to James, "the newly computed uplift rates are still quite substantial" (personal communication).
Note that volcanic eruptions can reflect the onset of crustal upheavals. In April 1997, French scientists visited the Beerenberg volcano on Jan Mayen Island, above the Arctic Circle. It is the northernmost active volcano in the world. Eruptions on Beerenberg occurred in 1732, 1818, 1970, and 1985, the latest two being within the readings' 1958-1998 time period for gradually increasing Earth changes. The French group found only weak emissions of gas and steam on their visit. But in a September, 1997, paper in EOS (v. 78, no. 35), entitled "Center of the Iceland Hotspot Experiences Volcanic Unrest," we are reminded that the volcanoes of Iceland, located near the Arctic Circle, can "produce catastrophic events of global importance....[and]....there is every reason to worry when they become restless." Simply put, a plume of deep mantle material may be close to erupting extensively in Iceland. Perhaps the first impulse occurred with the recent eruption of Iceland's Mt. Hekla (2/2/2000), which previously erupted in 1991.
In the south polar region, Mt. Erebus, on Ross Island, is the most active volcano in Antarctica and the world's southernmost active volcano. A lava lake has been active within the crater for at least several decades. No special activity is occurring at Mount Erebus at the present time. But in 1992, scientists detected currently active volcanoes beneath the Antarctic ice in both in Marie Byrd Land and the Transantarctic Mountains areas.
Finally, evidence seems to be accumulating for accelerating volcanic eruptions in the torrid areas, lying roughly between the equator and the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn (latitudes 23.5^oN and 23.5^oS, respectively). Kilauea continues its eruption that began in 1983. Merapi, on Java, is the most active volcano in Indonesia, and its current eruption began in 1994. The Rabaul caldera in New Guinea also erupted strongly in 1994. Normally submerged Metis volcano in the Tonga Islands erupted in June, 1995, building a cinder cone island. Barren Island, in the Andaman Islands, erupted in December 1994, and Fogo volcano in Cape Verde erupted in 1995. More recently, we have the eruption of Fuego (7/26/00) and Pacaya (3/2/00) volcanoes in Guatemala, Colima in Mexico (11/4/00), Telica in Nicaragua (8/111/99), Mt. Cameroon in Cameroon (6/99), the explosion of Nicaragua's San Cristobal volcano (2/28/00), and eruptions of Popocatepetl near Mexico City (4/18/00), Mayon (2/28/00) and Taal (9/30/99) in the Philippines, Soufriere Hills in Montserrat (3/20/00), Nyamuragira, Congo (1/31/2000), Guagua Pichincha and Tungrahua in Ecuador (4/18/00), and various Indonesian volcanoes.

Latest Scientific Pole-Shift Research

Geophysicists meeting in San Francisco in late 1997 gave several talks on " pole shift" in a session on true polar wander (TPW). The sudden blossoming of research -- especially via numerical modeling techniques in the hands of knowledgeable geoscientists -- is encouraging to those who wish to understand Cayce's psychic visions of a pole shift in 2000-2001 A.D. Here's a composite of interesting findings from the December session, as they were reported by R. Showstack in EOS (1997,. v.78, no. 47).
A recent 10^o shift that may be due to TPW over the last 30 million years could still be in progress. Present-day TPW is occurring at a rate of about 11 cm per year. The Earth's dynamism and constant rearrangements of its internal mass indicate a strong potential for rapid shifts due to TPW. Rapid TPW could allow a continent "to swing from pole to equator in as little as 5 to 10 million years, and new data are beginning to support....the theory."
Interesting indeed, but the Cayce readings suggest an Earth even more dynamic than the scientists do, one that could experience several pole shifts over, say, a 300,000-year interval. We'll now cover the latest thinking about a potential new pole shift, beginning with the views of a popular author who just happens to have picked 2000 A.D. as the year in which a pole shift will lead to a "worldwide disaster in our lifetime!" The author makes no mention of the coincidence of this date with the year 2000-2001, pole-shift vision in Cayce reading 826-8.

Planetary Alignments And Pole Shift?

It's extremely doubtful that a pole shift in the year 2000 could be induced by a planetary alignment. We've heard before predictions of disturbances to Earth by such alignments. In 1974, John Gribbin, an editor of Nature, the international journal of science published in London, and Stephen Plagemann published The Jupiter Effect. Gribbin received his doctorate in astrophysics at Cambridge. Plagemann received his doctorate there also, where he worked at the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy. These men are intellectual heavyweights. In The Jupiter Effect (Walker, New York), they spent much time on a planetary alignment, including especially Jupiter, that would cause a great (M8.0+) earthquake on the San Andreas fault in California in 1982. On page 116, we read:

Now we can predict this apocalyptic date to within a couple of years. A remarkable chain of evidence, much of it known for decades but never before linked together, points to 1982 as the year in which the Los Angeles region of the San Andreas fault will be subjected to the most massive earthquake known in the populated regions of the Earth of this century. At the end point of the chain, directly causing this disaster, is a rare alignment of the planets in the Solar System. By disturbing the equilibrium of the Sun, which in turn disturbs the whole Earth, the planets can trigger earthquakes.
But nothing of the sort happened. Why not? In 1983, Gribben and Plagemann published The Jupiter Effect Reconsidered (Vintage, New York). In this book, the authors consider many reasons why their predictions for 1982 failed. Then (p. 161), they say:

Almost everything we forecast for 1982 actually happened -- two years early. Events came to the boil in the second half of 1979, as the Sun's activity rose rapidly toward peak levels. Sticking only with the western seaboard of the United States, the region we concentrated on in our original forecast, three moderate earthquakes in the Transverse Ranges near Los Angeles in 1979 were put in the shade by a pair of jolts that struck near Gilroy, south of the San Francisco Bay area, on Monday, August 7, 1979.
The authors then go on, justifying further their two-years-too-soon Jupiter-effect prediction. They cite quakes in 1979 near Livermore, California, and the 1980 Mt. St. Helens volcanic eruption. But to conclude this section, it's an enormous jump from hypothesizing that a planetary alignment may set off an earthquake or two, to asserting that an alignment can cause a pole shift.

What Causes Earthquakes?

There is some credible and interesting information in portions of Gribbin and Plagemann's second book. It consists of several examples of historical correlations between earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the positions of the planets, the sun, and/or the moon. These examples lend support to the following Cayce reading, given in 1936 (no. 270-35).

Q What is the primary cause of earthquakes....?
A. .....The causes of these, of course, are the movements about the Earth; that is, internally -- and the cosmic activity or influence of other planetary forces and stars and their relationships produce or bring about the activities of the elementals of the Earth; that is, the Earth, the Air, the Fire, the Water -- and those combinations make for the replacements in the various activities.

This reading says that even the positions of stars (probably in conjunction with the planets, moon, and sun) are important to earthquake generation. I know of no credible research in this area and would welcome any scientific insights readers might care to offer.

As for the other "elemental" causes listed in the reading, Earth would refer to movements of plastic mantle rocks, Fire would refer to the heat constantly being generated by radioactive decay within the Earth, Water would refer to lubricating capabilities of this "elemental" substance, and Air would refer to gases within the crust that might facilitate earthquake events. In 1997, fluid was injected from the surface into the German Continental Deep Drilling Borehole, to a depth of around 28,000 ft. This pressurized fluid induced almost 400 microearthquakes at distances up to 2,200 ft. from the borehole. And geoscientists have recently determined that at more than 250 miles inside the Earth there may be enough water to replace the surface oceans more than ten times (New Scientist, 08/30/97). And so, there's enough water in the crust to play a major role in earthquake, volcano, and crustal-swelling processes.
A role for gases in earthquake generation may strike one as a little strange. But the New Scientist for 11/22/97 carries an article subtitled, "Gases under incredible pressure could cause California's quakes." The article covers work by a team of geologists at the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) who show that carbon dioxide, at earthquake-focus depths in the San Andreas fault, is under such pressure that it could push apart the lithospheric plates on either side of the fault sufficient to reduce friction and produce earthquakes every century or so. "That timescale means it's possible that this gas could alone be the trigger behind the earthquakes," says geologist Y. Kharaka, USGS team leader.
As for early manifestations at Earth's surface of mass redistributions in the mantle, we have the following extract from reading 3976-15:

The upper portion of Europe will be changed as in the twinkling of an eye......There will be the upheavals in the Arctic and the Antarctic that will make for the eruption of volcanoes in the torrid areas, and there will be a shifting then of the poles--so that where there has been those of a frigid or the semi-tropical will become the more tropical, and moss and fern will grow....

But how do "upheavals in the Arctic and Antarctic" link to the sequence of events outlined above? Why would upheavals be located in the polar regions? A possible answer is found in a paper published by M. G. St. Pierre, entitled "On The Local Nature Of Turbulence In Earth's outer Core" (1996, Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dynamics, v. 83, pp. 293-306). I'll quote directly from the paper's abstract, putting readings-related quotes in brackets.

Numerical simulations are described that strongly suggest that any large buoyant mass in the Earth's outer core [an upheaval in the interior of the Earth] will be rapidly broken up into plate-like structures elongated in the directions of the rotation axis and of the prevailing magnetic field....[that is, elongated toward the Earth's polar regions].
Now in the text of his paper St. Pierre is not saying that hypothetical buoyant masses actually manifest themselves beyond the core-mantle boundary. But his findings prompt one's thinking process. There may be characteristics of flow in the outer fluid core that lead to symmetrical pulsings of the lower mantle in the northern and southern regions of the core-mantle boundary. Such internal pulsing might induce rising mantle plumes to be directed toward Earth's polar regions. Years later, "upheavals" would occur at the surface in the Arctic and Antarctic areas.

More On Upheavals In The Arctic and Antarctic

Reading 3976-15 above says that the upper portion of Europe will be changed as in the twinkling of an eye. This statement relates well to the part of the reading that says there will be upheavals in the Arctic. There is an "upper portion of Europe" that lies above the Arctic Circle. It consists of northernmost Norway, Sweden, Finland, and (European) Russia. But here, the rates of ongoing post-glacial uplift of this portion of Europe seem slow enough to require that if upper Europe is to change suddenly, only a rising mantle plume could cause it.
As for acceleration in upward crustal movements in Antarctica, I referred in my book, Coming Earth Changes (p. 39), to the fact that T. James and E. Ivins mentioned in their 1995 paper on present-day Antarctic ice mass changes and crustal motion that

If Antarctic deglaciation history portrayed in the ICE-3G crustal rebound model is realistic...., then a vast geographical region in West Antarctica is uplifting at a rate in excess of 20 mm/yr, and the predicted changes in polar motion are quite substantial. [Edited composite of quotes from the paper].
Updates to the latest (ICE-4G) crustal-rebound model have been made since 1995. They show predicted uplift rates that are somewhat smaller than those first given for crustal upheavals due to the slowly melting Antarctic ice sheet. But according to James, "the newly computed uplift rates are still quite substantial" (personal communication).
Note that volcanic eruptions can reflect the onset of crustal upheavals. In April 1997, French scientists visited the Beerenberg volcano on Jan Mayen Island, above the Arctic Circle. It is the northernmost active volcano in the world. Eruptions on Beerenberg occurred in 1732, 1818, 1970, and 1985. The latest two were within the readings' 1958-1998 time period for gradually increasing Earth changes. The French group found only weak emissions of gas and steam on their visit. But in a September, 1997, paper in EOS (v. 78, no. 35), entitled "Center of the Iceland Hotspot Experiences Volcanic Unrest," we are reminded that the volcanoes of Iceland, located near the Arctic Circle, can "produce catastrophic events of global importance....[and]....there is every reason to worry when they become restless." Simply put, a plume of deep mantle material may be getting to erupt extensively in Iceland.
In the south polar region, Mt. Erebus, on Ross Island, is the most active volcano in Antarctica and the world's southernmost active volcano. A lava lake has been active within the crater for at least several decades. No special activity is occurring at Mount Erebus at the present time. But in 1992, scientists detected currently active volcanoes beneath the Antarctic ice in both the Marie Byrd Land and the Transantarctic Mountains areas.

Pole Shift and Earth Changes

The distance of the Cayce readings'-predicted pole shift, its direction, its duration, and the location of the poles' ultimate resting places are unknowable. I think that the shift would probably be less than 10š because previous shifts preserved the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, over the last 100,000 years or so. The accompanying Earth changes, however, would be catastrophic. Initial days of the pole shift seem described in parts of 3976-15, as well as the Earth changes to follow.

As to the material changes that are to be as an omen, as a sign to those that this [return of John the beloved] is shortly to come to pass -- as has been given of old, the sun will be darkened and the Earth shall be broken up in diverse places -- and THEN shall be PROCLAIMED -- through the spiritual interception in the hearts and minds and souls of those that have sought His way -- that HIS star has appeared....

The Earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea. The upper portion of Europe will be changed as in the twinkling of an eye. Land will appear off the east coast of America.

Such historically-unprecedented Earth changes might occur over several hundreds of years. This is so because geological evidence of tectonic, volcanologic, and seismic activity during the period about 19,000 to 8,000 years ago shows that such pronounced Earth-change activity occurred many times in several-hundred-year-long intervals. The activity was a follow-on, presumably, to the pole shift that began around 19,400 years ago, according to Cayce's readings. We could expect the same duration of continuing planetary effects coincident with -- and following -- pole shift 2000. Furthermore, the expected activity seems clearly referenced in the following reading.

Q. Please explain what is meant by 'He will walk and talk with men of every clime.' Does this mean He will appear to many at once or appear to various peoples during a long period?
A. As given, for a thousand years He will walk and talk with men of every clime. Then in groups, in masses, and then shall reign of the first resurrection for a thousand years; for this will be when the changes materially come. 364-8 (April 15, 1932).
Other readings suggest that this 1,000-year period began in 1998 with the advent of the 'entrance of the Messiah in this period --1998" 5748-5 (June 30, 1932).

I was praying ... "Our Father which art in Heaven,
Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as
it is in heaven "... and my mind went blank...

I saw a golden cage with two white birds in it.
Someone opened the cage and the birds flew out...
A voice said, "The father has set two birds free ...
They are called "Polar Motion" ...

I got up, typed these notes on the computer and
went back to bed.

As soon as I closed my eyes, I saw the white birds
again ... and they flew to opposite sides of my vision

NOTE: I received the following e-mail right after
I typed up my vision. A coincidence? I think not ....

TRACKING THE NORTH POLE

The world is a giant magnet and from the day you are born
until the day you physically die you are constantly under the
influence of the earth’s magnetic forces. While the magnetic
fields that surround the earth protect you from many harmful
radiations from the sun and other harmful emissions from
outer space, they also affect your mental functions and your
health and welfare each and every day of your life. Plants
and lower animals are also affected by this invisible energy
that passes through all material and immaterial matter.
The science of how magnetism affects biological systems is
called biomagnetism or biomagnetics.

We can harness nature’s greatest energy and use it for the
benefit of all mankind. In fact, many nations of the world are
racing to determine to what extent man can utilize the new
and important discoveries of biomagnetism. The scope of
biomagnetism is unlimited. In over 40 years of applying our
basic discoveries we have not found any field of human
knowledge that is not affected. In many years past, and
through the work of dedicated scientists for over 4,000
years, magnetism was considered a child of electricity.

Unlike in physics with inanimate objects, experiments
could not be reproduced on biological systems with the
same expected results. In 1936, we made our basic
discovery that there are two distinct magnetic poles that
affect animal systems in two distinct and opposite manners.
From developments since then, it is now definite that
magnetism is the father of electricity, rather than the child.

ASTRONOMY_INTERGALACTIC SPACE

Magnetic Anomalies

*What are magnetic fields doing in the middle of nowhere?

The next time you visit deep space, don't forget to pack a compass. It might not be much use for navigation, but it will be one of the few ways you can take in one of space's sublimities, the magnetic fields. The lines of magnetic force twist and wind through the interstellar miasma and arch over millions of light-years of intergalactic wilderness. They are, astronomers have gradually realized, one of the great shaping forces of the universe. Now it seems that even the outermost of outer space-the chasms between clusters of galaxies-is pervaded by magnetic fields of unforeseen power and unknown origin. "These magnetic fields are the dominant free energy of the universe," says astrophysicist Stirling A. Colgate of Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Magnetism had long been considered a side attraction in astronomy-hard to measure, hard to master, seemingly easy to neglect. The basic trouble is that the fields are invisible. To infer their presence, astronomers must make do with such compasses and filings as nature has haphazardly provided, including dust grains and charged particles. By aligning dust grains or diverting the paths of electrons, for example, a magnetic field can effect the emission of polarized radio waves or skew the polarization of light passing through a region of space, rather like a weak pair of polarizing sunglasses.

Gradually astronomers have deduced that the Milky Way has a magnetic field of roughly five microgauss, generally directed along the galaxy's spiral arms. (By comparison, the earth's north-pointing magnetic field is about 500,000 microgauss.) If you had a compass sensitive to this field, in our corner of the galaxy it would point toward the constellation Cygnus. Other galaxies have similar fields.

When researchers began to look for fields in between galaxies in the late 1980s, their expectations were low. After all, cosmic magnetic fields are embedded in plasmas, which are much thinner in intergalactic than in interstellar space. According to x-ray telescopes, even the thickest intergalactic plasmas-found in the cores of galaxy clusters-are a hundredth as dense as interstellar plasmas. So it came as a surprise in 1990 when Philipp P. Kronberg and Kwang-Tae Kim, both then at the University of Toronto, announced the first magnetic readings of the interstices of the Coma cluster. The cluster's field is nearly as strong as the Milky Way's.

Puzzled theorists took refuge in the thought that Coma was a fluke. But that escape hatch slammed shut when Kronberg, Tracy Clarke of Toronto and Hans Böhringer of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, reported their latest findings at a meeting of the American Physical Society this past April. The 24 other clusters they probed all have galactic - strength fields, too. Such fields are as potent as other cosmic forces, so they can no longer be ignored in models of galaxy formation and other celestial goings-on.

Kronberg also unveiled new measurements of the space beyond clusters of galaxies, made with a special low-frequency radio receiver installed two years ago on the Very Large Array telescope in Socorro, N.M. Kronberg and the rest of his team-Torsten A. Ensslin of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Richard A. Perley of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Namir E. Kassim of the Naval Research Laboratory-found that magnetic fields just outside the Coma cluster are 0.01 to 0.1 microgauss, also too strong for many theorists' comfort.

Explaining cosmic magnetism has never been easy, and now the task is even more daunting. A galactic field must somehow be generated from scratch, amplified to the strength now observed, ejected into intergalactic space and further amplified there. Each stage poses problems. And some worry that ordinary galaxies simply lack the oomph to magnetize the huge space between them. Colgate and his colleague Hui Li think it is a job for the biggest guns in astronomy, the black holes at the heart of so-called active galaxies. "The only place where you have that much energy is a supermassive black hole," Colgate says.

For all the questions they raise, the intergalactic fields might resolve a separate mystery: the origin of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays. None of these superparticles has come from the direction of a plausible source, such as the nearby active galaxy M87. But, as Glennys Farrar of New York University and Tsvi Piran of Hebrew University of Jerusalem argued in Physical Review Letters in April, sufficiently strong intergalactic fields would deflect the particles' paths. If so, M87 can't be ruled out after all.

Alas, the proposal immediately ran into controversy. The Milky Way is not part of a cluster, and magnetic fields in its vicinity have yet to be measured. Arnon Dar of the Technion in Haifa, Israel, argued that the fields cannot have the requisite strength, as that scenario would contradict other observations. Kronberg thinks the same process that amplifies the intergalactic fields might also be responsible for the particles. In any event, it looks like cosmic magnetic fields will retain their lure for some time to come.

--George Musser