Bill D. Schul - The Psychic Power of Pyramids

This book made available by the Internet Archive.

Foreword

What kind of person would write a book like this?

What kind of person would read a book like this?

Perhaps these questions can be answered by words which are engraved on a plaque that hangs on the wall of my office just above my desk. The words, attributed to the Greek slave-philosopher Epictetus, are:

It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Yes, you, the reader of this book, and Bill Schul and Ed Pettit, the authors, share an all too rare quality the willingness to admit there are things you do not know. And, you must also have the capacity to wonder about your world, your universe, and yourself.

Whether or not anything in this book ever proves to have a sound scientific basis is, to me, relatively unimportant. What is important is that Bill Schul and Ed Pettit have provided a vehicle for further stimulating the wonderment of each person who reads what has been written here. And the more you wonder, the less you are afraid to say "I don't know," the more you will allow yourself to discover.

Hugh R. Riordan, M.D.

Introduction

DEAR BILL and ED:

"You likely have sustained some flak from some who have read your book. I was about to write you one of those letters but decided, in all fairness, to try a pyramid beforehand. Fm glad that I did becausewhatever the causes, whatever the reasonssomething does happen inside of pyramids. Will write you later about some of the results, but just wanted to say that the best reply you can give to your critics is, Try it.'

"Gratefully,

TJ.

Rochester, Minnesota"

"In your book The Secret Power of Pyramids you mention the use of water charged in a pyramid as a facial lotion. Well, I have suspected for some time that many of the cosmetics on the market are harmful to the skin, at least

with prolonged use. For the past four weeks I have used nothing but pyramid water on my face... Maybe it's positive thinking, maybe it's just giving my skin a chance to breathe again, but whatever, my skin hasn't looked this good in twenty years!

, "Sincerely, Mrs. CM. Miami, Florida"

In The Secret Power of Pyramids we invited readers to write us if they had any questions or information they would like to share. We were not to be ignored.

Some of the letters were of the enjoyed-your-book-and-wish-you-well sort, certainly to be appreciated, but many of the notes described experiments. "What's happening?" some asked. "I constructed a pyramid according to your plans, put some water under it for a time, and now the water is doing all kinds of fantastic things..."

Some of the phenomena described are familiar to us but certainly not all. The ingenuity of the human mind is the most astounding phenomena of all. Sometimes the most creative projects are those designed by persons with little formal education in the physical sciences, such as the twelve-year-old youngster who told us that he was testing the life span of houseflies in pyramids and other containers. A fifty-year-old steelworker, who claimed only five years of schooling, wrote to us that he was closely watching the behavior patterns of ants in a hill over which he had placed a pyramid as compared to another anthill a short distance away. He is also planning to place pyramids over half of his ten beehives. These creative individuals may well come up with some valuable reports.

One is reminded of the story of Bill Lear, inventor of the car radio, the eight-track stereo, the Learjet, and many other things. Lear, who has little formal education, stated that he was able to accomplish these feats because he didn't know they couldn't be done.

We don't always know what the letter writers have done in their experiments. Maybe they have inadvertently or by design altered some component of an experiment in such a fashion as to produce a different result. It may be of no consequence; it may be of great significance. There is a need to explore further and we write asking them to supply further details.

For the most part, the writers describe results confirmed or confirmable by others. Such reports are helpful,* as they reflect a consistency in phenomena occurrence. But the bizarre... arms levitating inside pyramids, objects materializing, the occurrence of strange light... the product of hallucination? mental aberrations? imagination? How can we evaluate these experiences; they did not occur to us. We might say that if these events happened, they did so for other reasons than pyramid influence. Yet, how do we know? Maybe their pyramids are different from our pyramids; certainly the writers are different people. Perhaps the phenomena they report are just as explainable as sharpening razor blades, at least to some people.

We tend to like tidy little reports that fit neatly within the perimeters of our understanding of forces at work in the universe. We talk about the movement of molecules and the interaction of energy fields and think that in doing so we have offered a rational explanation of why things behave the way they do. If somebody were to say that his pyramid destroyed an apple instead of preserving it, we would prefer to shuffle the heretical report to the bottom of the pile and not think about it. We are used to thinking of pyramids preserving things. Instead, we should be listening to our inner voices saying, "In order to understand pyramid energy you may have to readjust your ideas of physical laws."

There may be something sacred about the design and purpose of the pyramids, but there is nothing sacred about our views concerning them. We have to be open in our appraisal of every report we receive and every opinion offered, and this includes that of the individual who states that the pyramid is a spaceship and wonders why we

haven't understood this all along. It was Einstein who said that anything that can happen in the universe will happen in the universe. What we refer to as physical law is not truth qua truth; it is merely our ideas of how things work. Inasmuch as our observations are limited, the manner in which we perceive cannot possibly be the correct one. Physical law is subject to the intellectual growth of the observer and isn't going to be the same tomorrow as it is today. The moral of the story is openness to new ways of looking at things. What we say about pyramid behavior isn't what we'll be saying next year or five years from now, or we've missed the message in the experiments. All we have to say at this time is that this is the evidence. Further, we can offer some interpretation drawn from our own knowledge and experience, and after that we can say, "Okay, now you know what we know and the rest is up to you."

Some people insist on closure. They feel psychologically insecure unless the gate is closed. Questions without answers frighten them and they will assign answers regardless of how indefensible they may be. Their vested interest is security and greater truth is not worth the gamble. It is difficult for such people to consider that truth, to the extent that we can understand it, is dynamic and not static. As Einstein put it, "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and so far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."