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BOOKS pregnancy complications, demanding to know if one of her kittens had died (it had); and the family dog concerned about his teenage charges’ pot-smoking. Hiby says we can all learn how to converse with our dogs, cats, horses, birds and pet iguanas, and she advises on techniques, processes and provisos that will change how you relate to your animal friends. DAY OF DESTINY: Where will you be August 13, 1999? by John Mini Publisher: Trans-Hyperborean Institute of Science (THIS), USA, 1998 ISBN: 0-9657825-8-1 (350pp tpb) Price: USD$14.95 + p&h Available: USA—THIS, PO Box 2344, Sausalito, CA 94966, tel (415) 389 1764, fax (415) 389 6790, website http://day- ofdestiny.com edictions abound as to what may befall humanity and our planet Earth in July/ August 1999. Nostradamus prophesied the return of the "king of terror from the sky" in July, and astrologers point to the date of August 11 as being the last solar eclipse of the 20th century. The chart for that day con- tains an archetypal grand cross of planets in the fixed zodiac signs—a portent of earth- quakes, political turmoil, financial melt- down, or perhaps all of these and more. According to John Mini in Day of Destiny, at the apex of the Aztec Sun Calendar is the glyph for the 13 Cane, which he claims can be translated into our system as the date August 13, 1999. This date signifies to the Aztecs a transformational point between © REVIEWS worlds, something of enormous significance not just for their culture but for the world at large. To try to make sense of it, Mini takes us on a journey into Aztec teachings on the nature of space/time, of cycles and motion, of chaos and balance, of the underlying dynamic principles and forms encoded in the calendar. The Aztecs foresaw that their own empire would fall on August 13, 1521—so, Mini asks, why shouldn't we give some cre- dence to this August 13, 1999 date if they've been right before? A complementary medical practitioner, Mini includes a variety of physical and men- tal transformation exercises to help us adapt to our ever-changing times with vitality and to connect with the universal purpose and consciousness as the Aztecs did. THE GODS, GEMINI, AND THE GREAT PYRAMID by James Bowles Publisher: Gemini Books, USA, 1998 ISBN: 0-9666371-1-9 (277pp tpb) Price: USD$16.00 + USD$2.00 p&h in US or USD$4.00 p&h elsewhere Distributor: USA—Gemini Books, PO Box 648, Grass Lake, Michigan 49240-0648, tel (877) 243 6464, 1-877-2GEMINI (toll- free in US), e-mail gemini@dmci.net 'o the irritation of academia, advances in knowledge often come from thinkers with a nuts-and-bolts grasp of the way the world works. One from that mould is James Bowles, a retired engineer/physics teacher (among other achievements), who, in The Gods, Gemini, and the Great Pyramid, pro- poses the Rotational-Bending (RB) Effect to explain the natural forces that inevitably cause the Earth's crust to bend and break as a function of combined internal stresses and constant planetary rotation. (See two-part article by Richard Noone starting this issue.) Bowles, who has also had a lifelong inter- est in the Earth sciences, began research for his book to find a solution to Prof. Charles Hapgood's unanswered questions on the mechanics of the Earth's shifting crust. But not only has he found evidence of past cata- strophes and erratic planetary rotation in the geological record, he has also found a rich chronicle that tells of when the North Pole was in Alaska, when Egypt and Peru were both on the equator, and when the Sphinx faced due east—a grand terrestrial triangle relationship, important for our understand- ing of the antediluvian world. Bowles has identified links between the Great Pyramid geometry, the messages of the ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, the NEXUS - 75 FEBRUARY — MARCH 1999