ROSEMARY ELLEN GUILEY NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2010
Hi Folks,
Imbolc greetings this month – February 2 marked midwinter. I’ve been deep into writing since the turn of the year – just as well with all the snow!
In this issue, some announcements, upcoming events, and my recent personal experience with “money apports.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS
I’m pleased to join the new UFO Research Center of Pennsylvania as a paranormal consultant. UFORCOP is founded by Butch Witkowski, director, and John Bainbridge, assistant director, and features some of the finest researchers in the field. It is independent of MUFON. UFORCOP is refreshingly multi-disciplinary in approach, covering the paranormal and cryptozoology as well as ufology. Pennsylvania is a highly active state on all fronts, and the new team is an exciting advancement in objective research. A website is in progress.
My “Encyclopedia of Dreams: Symbols and Interpretations” is now published in Estonian!
The newly revamped TAPS Paramagazine will be out soon, featuring my cover article on The Evil Eye. www.tapsparamagazine.com
EVENTS
I will give classes on vampires, werewolves, demons and psychic protection Feb. 23-25 at the International Metaphysical University in Parkersburg, WV. All classes are in the evening and are open to the public as well as students. I’ll be covering history, myth, folklore, pop culture, cases, and practical considerations. Check out the details at www.myspace.com/hauntedparkersburg
Coming up in March…
I will present at EPIC Con at the Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach March 12-14, www.epiccon.com
Unfortunately I have to miss the annual memorial tribute to HP Lovecraft, “The Ineffable, Inscrutable, Intriguing Mr. Lovecraft!” on March 14. If you are in the Providence, RI area, check it out at the Ladd Observatory, 210 Dole Avenue, at 3 PM, and come in your Goth or fantasy best! This free public event will be a celebration of the unique literary contributions of H.P. Lovecraft (born August 20, 1890, died March 15, 1937) and his life in Providence. Noted historian and author Christian Henry Tobler will preside as Master of Ceremonies. The hour program will feature dramatic readings from the horrific fiction of Lovecraft, recitations of Lovecraft poetry, plus original material created for the occasion. Respects will be paid at Lovecraft’s grave in Swan Point Cemetery.
The annual tribute is organized by my friend Carl L. Johnson, founder of the H.P. Lovecraft Commemorative Activities Committee, who can be contacted at carcosan@live.com
Radio shows and other events are posted on my calendar page, http://www.visionaryliving.com/calendar/
MONEY APPORTS
An apport is an object that seems to materialize out of thin air, and is a phenomenon of mediumship, hauntings and paranormal “hot zones.” Literally anything can be an apport. In mediumship, apports appear at seances, the implication being that spirits produce them at the behest of the medium, and to demonstrate otherworldly contact.
Apports are also associated with poltergeists, ghosts and other entities who haunt places. Rarely does one actually see an apport manifest. Rather, an object is suddenly noticed, or is found in an unlikely spot. It may be an unknown object, or something that has been moved mysteriously from its regular place to a bizarre place. The object might even go missing for a time before it reappears.
For some unknown reason, many spirits like to deliver coins as apports. Maybe they think we will pay special attention to money. There is usually no apparent explanation behind the apports, other than a means to get attention, and perhaps cause puzzlement on the part of the recipients.
I have been working on a case for about a year now that is in a “hot zone,” that is, all manner of paranormal activity takes place on site and in the surrounding area. About four months ago, I started getting coin apports, mostly at home, even though I live hundreds of miles from the site. The coins came frequently at first – pennies, nickels and dimes, all dated to the 1950s and 1970s. They all have a curious appearance: Their surfaces are very rough and abraded, as though they have been vigorously rubbed by a coarse sanding block, or pounded by something coarse.
The apports started just before I met and interviewed an experiencer in the hot zone – a woman who told me she has had a long history of paranormal activity, including coin apports. She has filled jars with them. On the eve of our interview, she received a 1957 penny. A few days earlier I had also received a 1957 penny that appeared mysteriously on a carpet. We could arrive at no significance of the date, other than we both had 1957 pennies appear.
There were more coins for me, although they started slowing down in frequency. Some coins materialized in my wallet at a time when I had no change. One morning I came downstairs after getting up and found a nickel sitting in the middle of my sofa. A few weeks later, I was rifling through clothes in my closet and a penny and nickel fell out from among them and dropped to the floor.
I don’t keep change in my clothing, so I am at a loss to explain why these coins appear, other than as attention-getting devices. I have wondered that if they are true apports, perhaps the rough surfaces are caused by their interdimensional transport.
Perhaps the small change is just a Trickster prank, which is so characteristic of paranormal phenomena in general. “They” or “It” might just be having a laugh at our expense, as we pick up the coins and try to figure out where they came from. Of course, talking about money apports brings the inevitable jokes from the living, too. Usually I get comments along the lines of, why are the spirits so cheap? If they’re going to hand out money, can’t they leave large bills?
Go figure!
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Posted on February 5th, 2010 by rickmoran in
Rick Moran 
Raising of Lazarus by Carl Heinrich Bloch
In our journey through the Western World’s catalogue of what are commonly called miracles, we have turned our back on some rather striking examples of what fits our definition in Eastern culture. We have discussed the creation of the Tulpa in previous papers, as well as other rarely discussed mysteries found largely in the Orient. But those are topics to be revisited sometime in the future, or by those better versed in those cultures. For the moment, I would like to take a look at the largest single set of miracles we encounter, a phenomenon we see virtually every day; the miracle of spontaneous healings. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on February 5th, 2010 by rickmoran in
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Knock Basilica Visitations Ireland
Last time, we discussed Marian visitations such as Lourdes and Fatima, a religious theme that is well known worldwide, but was limited as far as actual viewers. This section on miracles will look at another kind of visitation, those involving mass sightings where multiple witnesses, sometimes in the thousands report seeing the identical apparitions. Please remember, it is our purpose here to investigate such cases with an eye to strictly paranormal explanations. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by webmaster in
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On January 23, 2010, New Zealand-based news reports stated “The military is all set to release hundreds of pages of secret documentation on UFO sightings across New Zealand. The papers will be released during this year itself. After nearly 30 years of concealing the facts, previously classified details of UFO and extraterrestrial-related files. will be available for scrutiny.
Suzanne Hanson of New Zealand’s UFO Research, Support and Resource Network states “UFOCUS NZ’s own archives contain credible and detailed UFO sighting reports from New Zealand pilots, air traffic controllers, and military personnel. In addition, the research network holds sighting reports from members of the public who experienced significant UFO sightings dating as far back as 1908. Some of these prominent cases were investigated by NZ Air Force personnel, and she is hopeful the MOD files may contain their reports.
Ms. Hanson reports “It is likely the files will also contain additional information about the renowned ‘Kaikoura lights’ sightings which made world headlines in 1978/79.”
UFOCUS NZ staff member and former Chief air traffic controller of Wellington International Airport, John Cordy, witnessed the Kaikoura lights on airport control centre radar, and states, “I hope the files will validate the reality of the sightings, and vindicate key witnesses who observed them, and faced ‘trial by media’.”
Stay tuned for more information, as the facts reveal themselves.
Published with permission from Examiner.com
Posted on January 31st, 2010 by webmaster in
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FATE magazine January 1954
Did you know that Jackie Gleason comedian, television star, and motion picture actor of international acclaim, was a collector of paranormal books, journals, magazines, and publications. He had collected over 1,700 volumes on a broad and ecclectic interest in the paranormal.
The Jackie Gleason Collection includes approximately 1,700 volumes of books, journals, proceedings, pamphlets, and publications in the field of parapsychology, and a lesser quantity of titles relating to the entertainment industry. The Gleason Collection includes both scholarly and popular works published in the United States and abroad. Within the field of parapsychology, the collection offers materials on such topics as: witchcraft, folklore, extrasensory perception (ESP), unidentified flying objects (UFOs), reincarnation, mysticism, spiritualism, mental telepathy, the occult, ghosts, clairvoyance, cosmology, demons, hypnosis, life after death, mediums, psychical research, voodooism, and others.
His wife Marilyn donated his entire collection to the University of Miami Library, Coral Gables, FL in 1988.
Fate magazine has been reporting on the evidence of the afterlife since 1948!
Evidence of the Afterlife - Dr. Jeffrey Long, Jody Long, and Paul Perry
Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiencesby M.D. Jeffrey Long, was an instant best seller - having researched some 1,300 near-death experiences, Long present compelling proof ot the afterlife. His book is considered the largest research project on Near Death Experiences (NDEs) with over 1,300 NDEs researched by the Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF).
Crossing boundaries of age, gender, culture and time, Long says that the similarities recounted by near-death survivors are too similar to be chalked up to mere romantic, imagined, or cultured experiences, projected as defense mechanisms or the swansong of a dying brain.
Arguing that the accounts of young children hold the key to overcoming skeptical notions of ingrained cultural descriptions of what heaven “should be,” Long states that children age five and under hold true to explaining a world beyond that hasn’t yet been spoiled by the conventional wisdom of their cultures of origin.
In the September 2007 issue of FATE magazine, Brad and Sherry Steiger wrote Children and the Near-Death Experience
Here is an excerpt: While few adults would claim to have memories stretching back beyond four or five years of age, a number of respondents to our Steiger Questionnaire of Mystical, Paranormal, and UFO Experiences say that they are able to recall dramatic near-death experiences (NDEs) that they experienced as young as two or three. Because both of us had near-death experiences as children, we have taken a personal interest in such reports of childhood NDEs. Of the approximately 36,000 individuals who have responded to our questionnaire since 1968, 69 percent state that they underwent a near-death experience—82 percent of that number had an NDE before the age of 12. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on January 26th, 2010 by rickmoran in
Rick Moran 
Marion Apparition - Fra Bartolomeo 1504
Last time, we discussed bilocation, a religious theme that is common around the world and similarities between that phenomenon and later Out of Body and Remote Viewing projects. The time, we will be looking at another religious phenomenon, the apparition.
Apparitions were a part of the Bible, as well as many other religious texts over the centuries and are not exclusive to Christianity by any means, but the claims of religious apparitions seems to be greatest in Catholic history, the centerpiece of which is what we call Marian apparitions or the visitation of Mary the Mother of Jesus throughout the last 2000 years. While the apparitions of saints and even Jesus himself are recorded, by sheer numbers the Marian apparitions overwhelm all others, spanning the globe to every continent in a more or less constant timeline. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on January 23rd, 2010 by rickmoran in
Rick Moran 
St. Alphonsus Liguori 1696 - 1787
Some time ago I penned an article on miracles as they relate to the paranormal. This is a topic of great fascination, but it is often sidelined when someone suggests that they have no place in the secular research into the unexplained. As I suggested in that article, nothing could be further from the truth: some “miracles” are indeed topics for our study, but under a different name, while others beg to be researched from our unique prospective. To better illustrate the point, let’s take some time to look at several different kinds of miracles.
Probably the best miracle to begin with is bilocation (or in some cases trilocation); the ability of a person to physically be in more than one location at a time. The bible is filled with these accounts, but within the Catholic Church we find some of the best research on the topic, simply because bilocation is considered a sign of high religious precept in an individual, and is thus meticulously catalogued in the process of sainthood. Thus we have volumes written about saintly bilocation over a period of a thousand years or more.
What kinds of case studies exist? Let me give you just one. On September 22, 1774 Alfonsus de Liguori was meditating and fasting in his cell at the Palace del Goti in Arezzo, Italy. After several hours he left his room and announced to his fellow residents that Pope Clement had died in Rome. But Rome was a day’s journey away back then; the monks only received official work of the Pontiff’s passing late the next evening. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on January 20th, 2010 by rickmoran in
Rick Moran
- Rick Moran the newest FATE blogger
Whatever you call it, dowsing, divining, or scrying, the meaning is the same; the use of the subconscious mind to read “something,” that as of yet, I can’t interpret. The skeptics will say the practitioners are simply venting their own subconscious, the believer will tell you they are in contact with some higher knowledge that exists outside their host bodies. Objectively, I would have to say that what happens in many of these cases tends to dispel belief in the former, but there is no proof of the latter, either.
I suppose some cases in point are in order here. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on January 18th, 2010 by webmaster in
News FATE is excited to announce the launch of our new website! FATE moves into a new era of reporting of the strange and unknown. FATE will continue to have articles of True Mystic Experiences, My Proof of Survival, Ghosts, Hauntings, Paranormal Investigation, UFOs, Aliens, Angels, Mysticism, Magick, Religion, Spirituality, Mystics, Mediums, Psychics, Cryptozoology, Ancient Mysteries, Crop Circles, Ancient Archeology, Pyramids, Telekinesis and much more.
Look for new blogs from our wonderful contributors:
Chris Anderson, One Feather, Astrologer and Spiritual Teacher
Rick Moran, ASUP, Ghost Hunting and Hauntings
Robert Goerman, Paranormal Investigator
Derrel Simms, Alien Abduction Expert
Rosemary Ellen Guilley, Paranormal Expert
Phyllis Galde, Editor in Chief, FATE magazine
David Godwin, Managing Editor of FATE magazine and Caballistic Expert
Another great feature of FATE is our interactive capabilities. Post comment to our bloggers, and on our articles and sign up as subscribers to the FATE website blog. Share and sent articles to friends. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
Look for more content, more questions to answer, more investigative reporting of the strange and unknown. And look for ways in which we can improve our website for you. Contact us with ideas, suggestions and news scoops!
Posted on January 13th, 2010 by rickmoran in
Rick Moran 
“Is anyone here?” the intrepid ghost hunter asks while walking into an empty room. Nothing is heard, but later while listening to audio recordings of the session, there can be heard a faint response. The presence says very clearly, “No, I am not here!”
Some may interpret that answer as a lie; I tend to think of it as a great sense of humor.
If you subscribe to the theory that ghosts are the energy form of a deceased human, then you also have to deal with the reality of individual personality. The world is full of humans, some happy, some sad, some helpful and some basically nasty. We can expect nothing less of their earthbound spirits. We all know people who can’t lie, it is not in their nature to tell a fib, while we all also know habitual liars whose very existence depends of the game of misleading those around them. So too with ghosts, we can only assume, with every other variation in between. Read the rest of this entry »
by Robert A. Goerman
I get mail.
Not so very long ago, a woman from Roswell, New Mexico sent me a quaint handwritten letter (remember those?) that divulged her very interesting secret.
I appreciate what you might be thinking.
Roswell, right?
Wrong!
Allow me to share this July 23, 2009 correspondence with you.
Dear Mr. Goerman:
I don’t know if you will consider this a monster activity or not, but here it goes. This happened in Roswell, N. Mex. In the summer of 1997, at about 5:30 A.M., I took my cup of coffee outside to a picnic table in the back yard. My Chihuahua Bella followed me. At first, I thought my neighbor had bought a dog, a little Schnauzer. Taking a better look, I noticed it was not a dog but a “little man.” Bella thought it was a dog also as she ran to the fence to get a better look. We both noticed a little man about 12 inches tall, stocky built with bushy eyebrows (gray) and a beard. He was wearing a gray woolen type shirt (no buttons) and gray pants with a rope for a belt. He had brown boots that looked like socks.
Bella ran back into the house and under my bed, shaking, and remained there most of the day. The little man had a funny walk from side to side and quickly ran into a big Chinaberry tree and disappeared. I could not see a door or entrance but the little man disappeared into the tree.
I will never forget this as long as I live. Thank you for taking the time. You may use my story.
Sincerely yours,
Minnie Simpson
First things first. Thank you, Minnie, for having the courage to share your encounter with us. Your bravery might persuade timid witnesses to step forward. As a professional investigative scholar of the unknown and unexplained, I inform my readers that I respect all confidences and honor every request for anonymity.
Secondly, as we celebrate the arrival of 2010 and a new decade, Minnie’s testimony is a sobering reminder that, even in our techno-wondrous society of wireless laptop computers and cellular telephones, people can still report being startled by the sudden appearance of diminutive creatures, generally in humanoid form.
Tales of “wee people” have been recorded by most, if not all, cultures throughout human history. Some of our ancestors called them fairies. Medieval fairy-faith populated our world with a puzzling array of visitors (elves, gnomes, goblins, leprechauns, pixies, and others) from the fairy realm or fairyland. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on January 4th, 2010 by webmaster in
News
UFO Witness Paintings of Sightings in Brazil in the 60s and 70s
The Brazilian Government has just declassified a new set of significant previously secret UFO documents
, now covering the 80s. We already had disclosures covering the 50s, 60s and 70s, all with very important documents and information. So far over 4,000 pages have been disclosed. This material is public thanks to the efforts of the
Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU), and the Brazilian UFO Magazine, as a direct result of the campaign UFOs: Freedom of Information Now.
The recent disclosure is particularly powerful because it contains dozens of reports of UFOs on May 19, 1986, considered the “Official UFO Night in Brazil”, when 21 spherical objects, estimated 100 meters in diameter – according to military sources – were detected by radars and spotted by civilian pilots, and literally jammed air traffic over the major Brazilian Airports, such as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Then, several Mirage and F5 jets were scrambled to pursue them.
As a result of that “invasion”, the Air Force minister brigadier Octavio Moreira Lima went public about it on the national TV network, declaring all facts openly. The pilots who took part in the pursue and their commanders also spoke freely about the pursuits, which occurred over several hours.
We’ve had several other disclosures since 2007, all as a direct result of the campaign UFOs: Freedom Of Information Now, promoted since 2004 by the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers. The latest disclosure comprises over 2,200 new pages of formerly secret UFO documents that were given to the Committee and also sent to the Brazilian National Archives.
In late July, hundreds of papers from the Brazilian Air Force’s official System for the Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (SIOANI) have demonstrated how the nation’s military authorities dealt with the UFO Phenomena in the 60s and 70s.
SIOANI and civilian researchers took part in the investigation and as a result of this combined effort, Brazil was the first country in the world to officially and publicly admit the reality of the UFO Phenomena, and the first to investigate it openly.
For instance, where have you ever seen color drawings of flying saucers reported by witnesses and investigated by military personnel, such as these one in this post?
These are only a few links to recently discovered colored drawings of UFOs seen in Brazil and investigated in the 60s and 70s by the Brazilian Air Force’s official System for the Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (SIOANI). Much more is about to be disclosed.
The Brazilian UFO Magazine website – www.ufo.com.br – already has thousands of pages for download, such as over 1,200 pages of documents, 200 photos of SIOANI’s activities and Operation Saucer, carried out in the Amazonian region in 1977. Along with documents received by the Committee from other military sources.
Included in the recently revealed documents are the detailed research proceedings carried out in dozens of UFO-related incidents which had not been made public previously. Some of the colored sketches of UFO incidents investigated by SIOANI are on the website.
Please note: PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD TO YOUR MUFON GROUPS AND CONTACTS. Download, print, publicize and otherwise share these documents, but please do not fail to mention the source, Brazilian UFO Magazine, and emphasize that this material is public thanks to the efforts of the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU), as a direct result of the campaign UFOs: Freedom of Information Now.
A. J. Gevaerd,
Editor, Brazilian UFO Magazine
Coordinator, Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU)
National Director, Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)
www.ufo.com.br
gevaerd@ufo.com.br
aj@gevaerd.com
Posted on January 4th, 2010 by rickmoran in
News Equipment for paranormal investigators has come a long way and is now growing by leaps and bounds as interest expands to tens of thousands of everyday folk. Gone are the days when a handful of writer/researchers dominated the landscape, and the best one could hope for was a new approach using the same limited tools. No one was creating new gear, at best we learned to modify what was already available to other fields. Today of course, it seems that there are as many qualified engineers working to keep us supplied with the new necessities of the growing market place as there are users. Some of the things you find on sale are useless, others so innovative that they boggle the mind. Here is a little look at what I think are possibly the most innovative as we enter a new decade. Read the rest of this entry »
Close encounters
Submitted by David Godwin, Managing Editor, FATE magazine:
I suppose I have a skeptical attitude about some things, particularly the wilder fringes of the paranormal, but I would certainly not classify myself as a skeptic. The term has come to mean a disbelieving, atheistic, supercilious, debunking jerk whose only purpose in life is to disabuse people of their comforting illusions. Ironically, it is the hard-line skeptics themselves who have popularized this stereotype—which they have a tendency to counter with empty denials.
But how could I function as managing editor of Fate if I were a true skeptic? After all, I have a heavy hand in selecting and editing the articles. If I were someone like Michael Shermer or the late Phil Klass, I would accept only articles that debunked the supernatual and paranormal. Or I would be compelled to deface the articles with endless footnotes saying things like, “This has been disproven,” “This isn’t true,” or perhaps “Get a load of this guy!” Read the rest of this entry »
Phyllis’ Strange Experiences
FATE magazine September 2003
A warning from Phyllis Galde, Editor in Chief, FATE magazine:
This blog is for entertainment purposes only and should not be used for diagnosing possible abductions or visitations – or neuroses.
I grew up in a haunted farmhouse in North Dakota. Some of my earliest memories were of a ghost, but that is a subject for a future blog. This one deals with aliens.
My family was fairly open-minded about other dimensions, even back in the late forties when I was born. Growing up in this environment probably fostered my interest in all things strange. We lived in a very rural, sparsely populated community of farmers, mostly levelheaded and very conservative. The school I attended averaged from three to seven students in each grade, one through twelve. Read the rest of this entry »
Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Rosemary Ellen Guiley is one of leading experts on the paranormal and supernatural. With 42 books – including 9 encyclopedias – and hundreds of articles in print on a wide range of paranormal, spiritual and mystical topics, she possesses an exceptional knowledge of the field. She has approximately one million copies in print.
Her popular encyclopedias on ghosts and spirits, angels, demons, vampires and werewolves, magic and alchemy, witchcraft, dreams, mystical and paranormal experience and saints are considered essential sources for authors, researchers, film and documentary producers, and paranormal investigators. Read the rest of this entry »
Rick Moran
Well, 2009 is coming to a close and as in years past, folks expect that I will have some profound words of wisdom, possibly the paranormal investigator’s equivalent to Jean Dixon…sorry it doesn’t work like that! In fact, while preparing to write this blog I considered several year-end topics, but frankly my personality really detests retrospectives, so I will not allude to cheap tricks on Ghostie shows or pompous soothsayers who have to remind us how great they really are. Read the rest of this entry »
Rosemary Ellen Guiley
By Rosemary Ellen Guiley
FATE Consulting Editor
Gabriel, whose name means “hero of God” or “the mighty one,” is the angel of revelation, wisdom, mercy, redemption and promise, who sits at the left hand of God. His trumpet-blowing image is prominent at Christmastime, for he is considered to be the angel who tells Mary that she will bear a son named Jesus. Gabriel also figures in the angelologies of Judaism and Islam.
Gabriel is mentioned four times in the Bible, and always in connection with important news. In the Old Testament, he is named as Daniel’s frequent visitor, bringing prophetic visions of apocalyptic proportion (Daniel 8:16, 9:21). Angelic attribution of the visions, which were treasonous at the time of the writing of the book of Daniel, might explain Gabriel’s prominent presence. In the New Testament, Gabriel’s name is given to Zechariah: “I am Gabriel who stands in God’s presence” when he announces the coming birth of John the Baptist (Luke 1:19) and cited in the annunciation to Mary (Luke 1:26) of the coming birth of Jesus. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on December 14th, 2009 by webmaster in
News 
View of Earth from Space
Planetary Change and the Real Catastrophe
Oil, Coal and Crustal Displacement
by Jonathon Spinney
There is no doubt that the burning of fossil fuels and the resulting carbon monoxide releases in our atmosphere are rapidly changing our planet’s ecosystem. However, there is a much more serious fossil fuel issue that has been almost completely ignored by scientists, environmentalists and politicians. In fact, with few exceptions, almost nothing has been written about the more serious issue of crustal displacement. Read the rest of this entry »
