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BOOKS WHEN TIME BEGAN - The First New Age by Zecharia Sitchin Published by Avon Books, New York, USA, 1993 ISBN 0 380 77071 7 RRP: $12.00; 410 pages, soft cover Available: Sydney Esoteric Bookshop. This, the fifth book of Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles series, is yet another absorbing, startling work that attempts to explain where we've come from and where we may be going. In When Time Began, Sitchin draws on evi- dence of texts and depictions from Sumerian and Babylonian clay tablets, Egyptian hiero- glyphics and the Bible to support his thesis. Given that our most ancient civilisations were seeded by ‘gods from the heavens’, Sitchin postulates that Celestial Time was as important as Earthly Time. Stonehenge, for instance, appears to have been constructed primarily as an astronomical computer to help determine the arrival of new astronomi- cal ages—e.g., the zodiacal shift from Taurus to Aries around 2,100 BC—and, thus, who would rule the Earth. He also speculates that migrating Sumerian exiles were involved in building and/or repairing Stonehenge and other stone monu- ments in disparate parts of the globe. All in all, a highly recommended book! & REVIEWS had a lifelong interest in the paranormal, and here she recounts mysterious and often baffling events experienced by a selection of 88 famous people from all walks of life. Presidents, scientists, inventors, musicians, actors, religious leaders, and royalty are represented. Amazing Psychic Experiences of the Famous contains fascinating glimpses into the supernatural world: how inventor Nikola Tesla's visionary abilities helped him obtain and work up his ideas before ‘actually constructing any such devices; how actor James Dean knew he'd be killed in a car crash—and how resold or dis- played wreckage caused injury and death for years after the actor's death; how a psy- chic successfully completed a test devised by Josef Stalin in passing by all his security men without a question. This book does serve to enlighten the reader to the diversity of possibilities that exist, and to inspire further research into life's myriad mysteries. WHENTINE BEGAN | donate peat of he extrecarresed | charged theccurse of Ferman AMAZING PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES OF THE FAMOUS by Julie Byron Published by Tynron Press, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, UK, 1993 ISBN 1 85646 034 7 RRP: $19.90; 234 pages, soft cover Available: Stafford Books, St Leonards, NSW, phone (02) 906 4322. Whether sceptic or believer, this book is bound to stir the imagination and tingle a few spines! Canberra-based author Julie Byron has THIRD PARTY RAPE - The Conspiracy to Rob You of Health Care by C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD Published by Galde Press, inc., St Paul, Minnesota, USA, 1993 ISBN 1 880090 07 4 RRP: $26.00; 216 pages, soft cover Available: Sydney Esoteric Bookshop. This is a book that demands to be