Years ago, I happened to come across a book on pyramid power that gave the exact dimensions for a cardboard scale model, complete with a small cardboard platform to be installed inside.

I decided to try it out and followed the measurements exactly. I plucked a leaf from the lilac tree in our front yard, and placed it inside. To my astonishment, the experiment worked, and the leaf remained flexible and green, days after it should have dried up.

You don’t hear as much about the extraordinary power attributed to pyramids as you did in the 1970’s and early ‘80’s, so it was refreshing to see a book that outlines in easily readable form what information that does exist on this unusual topic.

A number of backyard inventors have advocated tapping into so-called “free energy,” which would solve all of our energy problems.

To the best of my knowledge, few if any researchers have made the connection that the human body may in fact be a free energy receiver, in and of itself.

Perhaps this influx of energy may be responsible for the cases of spontaneous human combustion that have popped up in the back pages of newspapers for the past century and a half.

The author mentions the ability of Tibetan adepts to generate the universal life energy known as Tumo. It is said practitioners are able to sit naked, surrounded by snow in sub- zero temperatures, and yet generate enough heat or warmth to melt the snow around them.

That energy is known by a number of names prana, ki, bioplasma, mana, and odic force, to name a few. Controlled, this force can work wonders, from generating rapid healing to psychic perception.

Perhaps those unfortunate victims of spontaneous human combustion did not realise they opened a door to an ability which normally should be assimilated slowly, and with conscious deliberation.

It has been theorised the shape of the pyramid acts as a lens to focus these energies.

Some people, including Napoleon, report strange experiences after they entered the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Wearing a pyramid hat may not be such a strange idea when you consider the statement made by the author that a person who could not develop the alpha brain wave, while trying out an alpha feedback machine, was able to do so when a 60cm base pyramid was lowered over his head.

There is a chapter on the theories of energies, including the much neglected notion of the “ether”, a form of energetic substance that pervades everywhere and everything.

The closest popular concept we have of it is “The Force” in the Star Wars movies. There appear to be naturally forming vortices in it.

The mathematics involved is not for the amateur, as it has been very difficult to understand and codify. It may however, provide possibilities for interstellar travel in the future.

The ancient Egyptians appear to have had an intuitive knowledge of such matters and could have used the flow of the ether to transport the huge blocks of stone used in the construction of their pyramids.

No doubt they were superior mathematicians as among other things the Great Pyramid was aligned within four minutes of the polar axis or True North, perhaps being knocked off kilter a little by a great earthquake in the 13th century.

It is safe to say we do not know all the uses pyramid energy may be put to.

On the lighter side, although there have been no real experiments with animals, the author claims a pyramid may have made a vegetarian out of a friend’s pet cat.

The cat liked the pyramid and began to sleep in it, whereupon after 6 weeks the cat stopped eating meat and seemingly would rather starve than continue to eat it.

A similar test on another cat and a poodle produced the same results.

The author has an advanced technical background, inventing a device known as the Neurophone which transmits sound directly to the brain without hearing.

The results were covered by the old Life magazine and had immediate implications for the deaf and hard of hearing.

One side effect was that occasionally the device stimulated telepathy between one or more persons.

This in turn led to an interest in Kirlian photography, the human aura and ancient means of generating power, such as the Ark of the Covenant, and the pyramids.

I was interested to see this book includes the diagram for the Hieronymus Machine, which was basically a device for the detection of emanations from the basic elements, patented in 1949.

I once sent for the diagram, as I had heard it was being used for psychic purposes. I showed it to a cousin who had a good deal of electronic knowledge, and he felt there was really nothing to it.

Flanagan agrees with my cousin, stating:

“There are many pseudo-technical or parapsychic instruments in use throughout the world. I do not validate their use as scientific instruments however I do recommend them for use in a pseudo-scientific manner.”

In other words their value is symbolic, activating the potentials of the human mind, just as one would do with dowsing, or scrying by means of a crystal.

I did like the easy to read type-face and the care taken by the author to explain complicated matters to the layman, although some of the math is a bit dizzying.

An essential book for carrying out your own experiments with this mysterious power.

– Reviewed by W. Ritchie Benedict in New Dawn No. 91