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held a fascination for people as long as they have tried to span space with their thoughts. The ancient Chinese, for example, at least as far back as the time of Christ, used a meditative process called feng shui to determine everything from the best location for a new village to the most propitious site for a new house, and even the placement of objects within the home. These decisions would be made by a village shaman sitting by himself in the dark, and visualizing the answer. In their cosmology, all power came from the north, and they oriented their maps by the North Star. However, they had also found that if they carved a Chinese soup spoon to look like the Big Dipper in the sky, this magic spoon would swing around and point to the north all by itself. (This was, of course, because they had learned to carve the so-called magic spoons out of lodestone  later used to make the first compasses.)
Another application of this approach to location has been pioneered by Stephan Schwartz, former president of the Mobius Group, an international association of archeological scientists and psychics based in Los Angeles, which has now disbanded. Schwartz has had a lifelong interest in pursuing psychic archeology, and he has written two books about his spectacular discoveries, The Secret Vaults of Time and The Alexandria Project. 17 In one of his many adventures, Schwartz was looking for a buried Egyptian temple in a desert region called Marea, outside Cairo. Our indefatigable friend Hella Hammid was with him in the desert, along with psychic archeologist George McMullen, to do the actual psi locating.
Schwartz's research had led him to believe that the temple was somewhere near their encampment in the trackless sand. Although the Egyptian authorities kept assuring him that there was nothing to be found, Hella sensed otherwise. She made a promenade back and forth in the 105 degree temperature, over a quarter-mile area. She dropped the tent pegs onto the sand to mark the locations where she sensed that the temple walls would be found. By the time Hella was finished, she had marked out a long rectangle, and had described a specific location inside the building where she predicted they would find green tiles. After the tent pegs had been driven into the ground to mark the perimeter, and the backhoes had cleared away the

 
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