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Thanks. For reasons of brevity, I probably didn’t make the point about red ochre as explicitly as I should have done.

Magnetite oxidises to haemetite when it comes into contact with the air. Stan Gooch, who spent many years researching what he considered Neanderthal sites, artefacts and remains, made the point that large red ochre deposits often lie between those of magnetite and the Earth’s surface. (In fact, there are extensive paleolithic red ochre mines that may have been worked by hundreds of people at a time). Gooch put forward the theory early peoples might have been able to find the red ochre through an ability to sense magnetic anomalies arising from the underlying magnetite stratum. As I hope to explain below, magnetite can affect the nature of our consciousness,, and as haemetite is often found in close proximity to magnetite in nature, red ochre came to be associated with psychic ‘travel’ – whether at death, or by journeying into the spirit world.

In my own research I have come across magnetic anomalies at several megalithic sites in South America. I believe that those who built a site like Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco), for instance, had constructed it so as to engineer the natural fluxes in the Earth’s magnetic field in such a way as to achieve particular ends. Many of Tiwanaku’s megaliths are rich in magnetite and display considerable magnetic anomalies that interact with the prevailing atmospheric conditions dynamically. One of the purposes of this technology was to induce altered states of consciousness, with a view to facilitating what we would call today remote viewing and/or out-of-body experiences.

My point about entopic images is that they can occur immediately prior to the two phenomena I’ve just mentioned. Often, the phenomena may be induced by entheogens such as DMT, but alterations in the fluxes and resonance of the local magnetic field play their part in this too. We go to the trouble of producing magnetite in our bodies; something that conventional science has largely failed to explain. It’s found in its highest concentrations in brain cells and around the pineal gland, which produces both serotonin and an endogenous form of DMT. They are both hormones that alter the quality of our consciousness and are actually very similar to each other chemically. Hence, I think one of the purposes of the engineering of the magnetic field at Tiwanaku, and other sites, was to create the conditions for shamanistic journeys.

I take your point entirely about the need for shamans to eat, but in doing so I shall turn it on its head. In the 1990s or 2000s, physicists John Burke and Kaj Halberg did extensive field work on the electro-magnetic properties of various megalithic sites across the world, including Tiwanaku. Their work found what I stated earlier; that theyhad been engineered to amplify the Earth’s natural electro-magnetic fluxes in particular locations. They placed seeds of maize, for instance, inside stone chambers within Tiwanaku’s Akapana Pyramid as a thunderstorm approached and found that these seeds produced much more abundant crops than their control seeds when subsequently germinated. So the shamans of Tiwanaku did have to eat, but they did so by enabling the whole of Tiwanaku’s population to eat in abundance through their skill at engineering electrical and magentic fields. In later times, priests probably did operate in the way you suggest, though.

Apologies for having been so long-winded, but all of this is quite technical. I’ve drawn on my own extensive observations, as well as bone fide research done by others to reach these conclusions. I hope it amounts to rather more than some New Age clap trap, because I certainly did not anticipate reaching these conclusions before I started my research!