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From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 10:09:47 -0500
Fwd Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 10:09:47 -0500
Subject: Giant Rock Sheds Slice


Source: http://www.emissaryoflight.com/giant_rock.htm

Before and after images are at the above site.

ebk

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The High Desert Star newspaper,
Wednesday, February 23, 2000

LANDERS, CA - Before Monday morning, Giant Rock, was considered
by many the largest boulder in the world. It is now two
boulders. A slice of the rock fell off the boulder at 8:20 a.m.
Monday, exposing a gleaming white granite interior.

In ancient times Giant Rock was held sacred by the Native
peoples of the Joshua Tree, California area. So sacred in fact
that only the chief was allowed to go near it. Everyone else had
to wait nearly a mile away while the Chief communed with the
spirits of the "Rock People" who had prophesied the day when the
Mother would split open and a new era would be revealed. Most
other traditions have pointed to this time in our history as the
awakening of the Divine Feminine, to a world based upon
compassion and peace. Now that Giant Rock has split, many people
believe that the prophecy has been fulfilled.

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Giant Rock was also the meeting place for the UFO 'Contactee
Movement' in the fifties and sixties... vis

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'The Encyclopedia of UFOs'

Edited By
Ronald D. Story

J. Richard Greenwell
Consulting Editor

Published 1980 by

Dolphin Books
Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
Garden City,
New York

Page 149


Giant Rock Space Conventions

Between 1954 and 1970, the major annual event in the world of
UFO contactees and their followers was the Giant Rock Space
Convention, convened by George W. Van Tassel (1910-78). Van
Tassel, himself a well-known contactee. was operator of the
Giant Rock Airport, located seventeen miles north of Yucca
Valley, California, on the Mojave Desert. Here it was that the
Space Convention assembled, generally in autumn.

UFO contact enthusiasts would gather for two or three days
during the convention in an atmosphere reminiscent of the camp
meetings of old, parking campers or pitching tents on the
airport grounds under the desert sky, perhaps a thousand people
(in the best years of the convention) would, during the day,
hear a nonstop series of speakers and, during the cool evenings,
enjoy campfire discussions of contacts and wait for signs of
recognition by the Space People themselves. It was widely
rumored in contact circles that the latter were aware of these
meetings and their importance for their work toward Earth; they
would, it was said, acknowledge the assembly by flashing lights
or flying in formation over the lonely airport.

During the day, most of the major contactees and
contactee-oriented theoreticians could be heard. Orfeo
Angelucci, Frank Stranges, Gabriel Green, and Daniel Fry were
regulars. In the isolated, intense setting - in which people who
usually find themselves a singular and often ridiculed minority
were now the majority community - their messages had an
unexpected ring of power. During the day, numerous UFO and
cognate groups would have booths set up where literature could
be obtained, and pins, bumperstickers, pamphlets, and books were
on sale. Giant Rock was, then, a real axis of the contactee
movement in its heyday.

By 1970, however, attendance had severely fallen off; Ufology,
while far from dead in either its scientific or spiritual
aspects, had taken other forms than the 'classic' contactees and
their narratives, told virtually as sacred histories, to which
Giant Rock catered. The conventions were not held after that
year.