Author Archives: Paul LaViolette

Just days before his death on December 27, 1944, well known Bulgarian mystic Peter Deunov had a vision which inspired him to relate a prophecy of what was in store for the human race in the century that was to follow. Deunov, also known to Bulgarians by his spiritual name Beinsa Douno, was a philosopher, musician and spiritual teacher who developed a form of esoteric Christianity. Curiously, his prophecy anticipated in great detail the concept of a superwave which he predicted was to purify the Earth in the very near future and not only bring about tremendous geological transformation, but also spiritually change the world, bringing into being a new human race, the “sixth race.” More →

A group of astronomers has observed an ultrafast wind of oxygen atoms blowing away from the active core of Seyfert galaxy IRAS17020+4544. The wind was observed to be moving away from the galaxy’s active core at a velocity of 23,000 to 33,000 km/s, or at about 10% of the speed of light. This galaxy is of particular interest because it has a shape similar to our own and a supermassive core of mass 5.9 X 106 solar masses, slightly more massive than our own Galactic core, Sgr A*. More →

The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) is another example of a galactic core fission event that resulted in the production of the dwarf satellite galaxy NGC 5195 which is seen at the upper left in the above diagram. This pair are located quite close to us about 26 million light years away. The conventional interpretation based on the standard big bang paradigm is that NGC 5195 was gravitationally captured by the Whirlpool galaxy. However, the Whirlpool galaxy, with its distinctive spiral shape, exhibits a striking lack of tidal disruption. Moreover its alignment with one of M51’s spiral arms cannot be passed off as just coincidence. It is as if this spiral arm forms a trailing stellar bridge linking this daughter galaxy’s supermassive with its larger parent galaxy from whose center it emerged long, long ago. More →

In the June 2015 issue of the Astrophysical Journal a team of astronomers led by Dr Julia Comerford of the University of Colorado, Boulder report their observations of the central region of the distant edge-on disc galaxy J1126+2944; see their paper at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.01391.pdf?. The arrow in the above composite X-ray and optical image of the galaxy’s nucleus points to an ultra luminous X-ray source (intermediate mass mother star) estimated to have a mass between 100 and 1 million solar masses. It is found to be situated within about 2.2 kiloparsecs (7000 ly) of the galaxy’s active core. More →

If we look at recent data from the Swift X-ray Observatory (see above), there does not appear to be much cause for alarm for activity at the galactic core. The X-ray output from
Sagittarius A* is seen to be relatively constant and hugging the long-term activity baseline (dotted line). However a recent report by a consortium of astronomers states that within the past year, there has been a ten-fold increase in the rate of bright flares from Sgr A*. More →