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Peter Kolosimo mentions a theory that Christ's words on the cross (Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? or 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' were really Mayan (Hele, hele, lamah sabac ta ni or 'Now I feel weak and my face is hid in the darkness').

In the eighteenth century, circle-squaring became a universal pastime. One Frenchman tried to sue the French government for not rewarding his solution, and a Jesuit missionary sailed from South America to England, hoping to collect his reward.

Wilhelm Reich postulated a kind of energy discharge during orgasm, which he called 'orgone energy'. It was blue. He claimed that it could be seen under s microscope and detected by Geiger counters, thermometers and electroscopes. At the same time, orgone was altogether different from light, heat and radioactivity. Only Reich and his disciples ever managed to observe and measure orgone energy by any method.

Spirit: Greetings, my dear. This is your father.

Mrs Jarman (née Schmidt): Guten Tag, Vater. Ich bin froh, dass Du hier bist. Ich hoffe, dass Du in Deinen neuen Leben glücklich bist.

Spirit: Speak English, dear. I speak English now.

A certain TV actress recently said that she didn't eat white sugar, "because it was made of chemicals". This is absolutely true. White sugar is 100% made of chemicals, as are brown sugar and TV actresses.

The alchemist Basil Valentine is said to have tried fattening groups of pigs and groups of monks on antimony. The pigs prospered but the monks died; hence the name antimoine.

The Fifth Root Race, the Aryans, went from Egypt to the Gobi Desert, where they developed their first five sub-races: the Indians, the Egyptians, the Persians, the Celts and finally the Germans. According to Annie Besant, the sixth sub-race is now being born, in Southern California. Out of them will develop the Sixth Root Race, expected to inhabit a new continent which is just about to rise out of the Pacific.