On Fri, 31 May 1996, Jan-Erik Nilsson wrote: >How about souls? I have a Chinese Tang dynasty (ca 750 AD) stone >figure of a >young girl. Technically I think it4s a fake but it4s still a good sculpture. >This thing has such a presence that I can feel this "girl" looking a me >across the room. >Does someone else have this feeling about things? >JEN >Jan-Erik Nilsson In a message dated 96-05-31 03:22:25 EDT, [log in to unmask] (Gerhard Dangel-Reese) writes: >Thats waht I'm talkin about. >In our ethnographical collection people don't want to work longer than 30 >minutes. They begin to feel ill, have circulation problems, heart >pounding and a lot of indiffernt symptoms. >They now try to locate the origin of this and a incredible high output of >PCP and dioxins was found on the obviously good conservated items. >We have the same output on our sculptures, but no such symptoms. >Thats the reason why we speculate about the activity of all the once >stolen sacral objects from all over the world. Y'all are gettin' spooky on me, now. Am I to understand that (like the Celestine Prophesy type stuff) there seems to be a harmonic convergence going on with sacred stolen artifacts that have yet to be repatriated around the world? I want more stories! If this is a phenomenon, then we cannot afford to not investigate it! (I honestly cannot decide whether I am skeptical or a believer - more stories, I say!) - Adrienne