The secret power of pyramids
For example, the Harry Potter Alliance focuses on the topics of equality, human rights and literacy, as well as engaging in activism through stories.Įvery year they organize the Project 4 Awesome, a 24-hour fundraiser with a live stream on YouTube.įor example, when Arthur Canon Doyle killed his famous detective, many people mourned the death of Sherlock Holmes publicly and urged the author to resurrect him until he eventually gave in. Star Trek is often cited as one of the first modern fandoms and the community was mostly built by women. They actively use platforms like Twitter, which give creators the opportunity to communicate with fans without an intermediary like an agent. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file. This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. About Julia FellnerJulia is a published writer of novels, blogger and digital marketer whenever she can get the cat to move off her laptop. People have considered themselves fans of pieces of media for a very long time, even though they might not have used the word fans. Another example for a fan community’s impact is the Nerdfighter fandom, which was founded around the YouTube videos of self-proclaimed nerds Hank and John Green. The power of fandom also reaches beyond the realms of their own community through their involvement with charities, that they often even found on their own. There are content creators who have caught on to their audience wishing to be involved more actively and having an opinion. When first built, the Great Pyramid.It has not only been the Internet and the digital revolution, which have empowered consumers. In leaps of 100 years, you'd have to make 45 jumps to watch the construction of the Great Pyramid. Six jumps and most Europeans don't know North America even exists (or vice versa). Three jumps-just 300 years-and Benjamin Franklin is a newborn infant. Two jumps and they're in wooden sailing ships, while the first steam trains are just being invented.
One jump back, and the people you see ride in steam-powered trains and horse drawn carriages. Now imagine that you are going to use your time machine to travel back to witness the construction of the Great Pyramid.
Imagine you have a time machine that can take you back in history in jumps of 100 years at a time. That's old-so old it's hard to wrap your head around it. At the time of Jesus, the Great Pyramid was already 2,500 years old. WORE OFF, MAKING THEIR INVENTOR A VERY WEALTHY MAN.įor almost 5,000 years the Great Pyramid of the Pharaoh Khufu has loomed large in the human imagination. OVER A MILLION HIGH-PROFIT PET ROCKS WERE SOLD BEFORE THE JOKE. WITHIN A FEW WEEKS, THE WACKY PRODUCT HAD TAKEN OFF LIKE, A WILDFIRE. SOON, HE BEGAN TO MARKET ORDINARY GREY BEACH ROCKS, PACKAGING EACH IN A GIFT BOX WITH A TONGUE-IN-CHEEK PET ROCK "TRAINING MANUAL." THEY STARTED AS A JOKE: OVER DRINKS ONE NIGHT, AN ADVERTISING GUY TOLD HIS BUDDIES THAT HIS "PET ROCK" WAS FAR BETTER THAN THE MESSY, EXPENSIVE, BADLY BEHAVED PETS OTHER PEOPLE HAD.
PET ROCKS WERE A NOVELTY GIFT FAD THAT SWEPT THE NATION IN 1975. Internet businesses market plastic, cardboard, and even gold-plated pyramids with which to harness something that some still consider an unexplained force of the universe.Ĭould they be right? Can pyramids preserve food, sharpen steel, and cure illness? Can people really "enter the Alpha State of Consciousness faster and easier when in, or under, a pyramid," as The Great Pyramid Company's website claims? Is it tree that "As a pyramid pours positive energy, onto your crystal, it washes the negative energy away"? Can a pyramid really "draw down the powers of the heavens"? Let's find out. Still, there are those who swear even today that the magical effects of pyramids are real. Today, the pyramid power idea is usually thought of as just another silly and forgotten 1970s fad, like Pet Rocks. It was claimed that fruit or meat stored in a cardboard model of a pyramid would never get moldy or rotten Pyramids were even said to increase psychic powers and sharpen razor blades! People thought that pyramid shapes could generate special kinds of energy. In the 1970s, a far-out New Age fad called "pyramid power" swept through North America. Have you ever heard that pyramids have mysterious powers? Is there something about their shape that generates supernatural forces or focuses a powerful energy field?