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Psychic Archaeology and the Tayos Mystery

Decades ago the U.S. government developed a program called “remote viewing” for its intelligence and military branches.

This program was developed by two physicists and a small group of psychics; its leader was the artist and parapsychology researcher Ingo Swann. Swann coined the term remote viewing, and he perfected this technique, which uses the longitudes and latitudes of our planet. It is a sort of invisible, transcendental mathematical technique that follows the universal laws both of the natural sciences and of what cannot be measured by our senses.

Unfortunately, from the Cold War up to our days, remote viewing has slowly degenerated because of the use that has been made of it in psychic espionage. This technology was at first monopolized by different government departments, which believed in the results confirmed between the seventies and the nineties.

Even if psychic archaeology existed before remote viewing, it was never developed as a discipline independent from the clairvoyants who created it.

Professor Norman from Toronto University was lucky enough to meet George McMullen, a psychic from British Columbia who not only helped find many aboriginal sites in Canada but also participated in international expeditions. One of them had to do with the discovery of the sunken palace of Cleopatra and Mark Antony along the coast of Alexandria. McMullen also participated in the search for the tomb of Alexander the Great, and he described in great detail the possible location of the remains of the Pharos (lighthouse) of Alexandria.

I had the opportunity to meet and test him when I was looking for an Atchumawi ceremonial site in Modoc County in northeast California. Thanks to his guidance, I was able to find the ceremonial stone circle. My partner at the time had been looking for this site since she had left the territory as a little girl. Her grandmother used to tell her stories of the healing ceremonies that took place in that circle and of the sacred waters visited by the Modoc and Pit River tribes every year. After studying the data, I found in the middle of a forest a nearly oval-shaped circle with vertical standing slabs that gave the feeling of a prehistoric tomb site.

Years later I started thinking I could use the help of psychics and remote viewers as a second option to the physical search of the lost treasure of the metallic library. I wanted to ask McMullen to use a map of Ecuador to find new clues to a new discovery or to confirm the Tayos mystery’s already existing clues. Unfortunately, the maps I had with me did not have the geographic precision he required, and when I got my hands on the sort of map he needed, I could not locate him in the west coast of Canada, where he lived. When I tried again, he had already passed away.

One psychic who helped me was none other than Ingo Swann, an unforgettable friend and mentor for many years until his death. Swann did not agree very often to probe or put his system to the test. But I told him about the Tayos mystery. Over the years I gave him and his best disciples the coordinates so they could help me, both when Ingo was alive and after his unexpected death.

The first one to help me was Robert Duran, who had been recently trained by Swann. (For over a decade Swann refused to train new candidates who couldn’t stand the cost of his training. It was not exorbitant, like some of the trainings today, but it was very exhausting.) Duran performed some experimental readings that matched the geography I would face a couple of years later. In our sessions, we discovered that along a river there were triangular or sagittal-shaped cuts over the land or coastal border. These cracks interpenetrated, like vertices that lined a “V” of inverted triangles.

When I reached that river (the Pastaza), I could not spot these formations. They were not in plain sight or hidden, but I believed these entrances opened to a subterranean chamber near the entrance of a Tayos cave system. This was near the latitude of the new Stanley Hall cave, which, according to Hall, was also Jaramillo’s cave.

Swann had also told Duran to continue the remote-viewing practice with me and to help me use the system for archaeological detection and solving the mysteries of the past. One of the first objectives of the remote-viewing program was espionage, both geopolitical and industrial. It could also be used to go back to the past or find lost artifacts, so I found it fascinating and believed it was capable of reviewing and solving historical or archaeological mysteries.

So I continued my search. The next step was to ask Paul Smith, the founding partner of the IRVA (International Remote Viewing Association) to help me. Swann always spoke highly of him and even gave me his phone number.

When I got in touch with Smith, I told him about my decade-long search. He found it interesting because he was also a Mormon. When I got in touch with him, he had just moved to Utah, the home of the church of the Latter-day Saints.

My patience was running short after months of waiting, because Smith needed to use a student from one of his yearly classes. Remote viewers had recently become money-making machines, for industrial espionage in particular. They were the new private investigators of the mind.

After talking to a couple of candidates, Smith finally found one who was available. This one ended up describing a semisubterranean nuclear rocket base. Smith ruled him out, because he had also studied the topic and used the system over the same latitudes and longitudes in question. After changing students, Smith determined they were not ready to help me with my task, so he focused on one student who gave us a random and confusing message. This is what Smith answered after several months of waiting:

My viewer made one more try at your cave. The session results had nothing about a cave or gold or records in it (in fact, far from any of that). Yet another session the viewer did around the same time against a target I knew was real-world was spot-on. He did an awesome job on it. That increases my conviction that there is nothing to the cave account that remote viewing can do. Not conclusive evidence, but enough for me. I’m not going to pursue this again.

So I was left alone again with my mystery, facing the danger of falling into a cloud of noise and confusion, as happens when one penetrates the worlds of the subconscious and the paranormal, of ancestral forces and energies. I was not satisfied with the viewer Smith had used. First he described a nuclear base with nuclear silos and rockets, something that was as unlikely in the Ecuadorian jungle of the past as it was today.

Even so, I did not give up and still hoped to find a viewer who was more conscious or efficient than the others. The next one I spoke to had started gaining popularity and came highly recommended by a friend from the IRVA. He had Chilean relatives, but he did not speak Spanish. I still felt he was honest and eager to collaborate and help us solve the mysteries of the world.

It took him a couple of days to confirm that the metallic library did exist, but it was beyond the domain of the dimensional vortices or the doors to parallel worlds.

According to this viewer, the metallic library could be explored every couple of years or decades, when the circumstances provided a sort of “combined art,” to use the term of the medieval Mallorcan philosopher Ramon Llull. Only those specific conditions would allow the explorer to find and see it for a limited time, within a specific space.

THE VOICE OF THE SPIRITS

I started thinking that traditional mediums could connect to Moricz and Aguado, but I wasn’t thrilled with this idea.

Even so, one cold and snowy winter afternoon, I was in the house of a father and son who were mediums, and I could see how they struggled to connect to Aguado and Moricz. Right away they described the two men to me and told me Aguado liked to dress well. According to them, he looked as if he had had severe health and behavior issues in his early infancy.

Aguado was the fastest one to reach and would not yield to the presence of a skeptical and defensive Moricz. They were angry with each other. They said I already knew the truth and asked why I was still questioning it. I honestly didn’t know any truths, and even today I question both their final testimonies, even if Aguado was such a good friend to me.

According to the mediums, Aguado was under the influence of Moricz, and Moricz was more than a father figure for him, even though Aguado was only twenty years younger. During the sessions the spirits didn’t want to answer, and they started criticizing each other, saying they had broken the pact of silence.

Those of us within the Tayos circle and who had frequented the Argentinian Center for Speleology in those decades knew that Aguado had sworn that he would always obey every order and wish of the Hungarian explorer. In the interview in this book in chapter 7, Aguado confirms this statement.

Years later, in Los Angeles, I met a beautiful psychic who came from El Salvador and who was highly recommended. After I had dinner with her, she connected with my thoughts on Moricz and Aguado and concluded they had been scammers. Everything had been a scam to get money: they used the idea of the golden library to find funding to explore real gold mines in the area.

Another psychic detective to whom I showed pictures of the two men agreed they had been scammers, but it was all Moricz’s idea. Aguado had agreed to the plan, and both were stuck in an irreversible situation. This was the view that many skeptics had voiced when they saw no hints of the treasure and started thinking the stories had no tangible truths behind them.

This psychic said Aguado had come up with the idea and had sent Moricz to Ecuador, and the latter, in spite of his metaphysical and spiritual searches, was hoping for a stroke of luck to find what he had lost in Central Europe.

I really cannot say remote viewing was effective because those who use it have probably gotten involved in the pragmatism behind it and cannot see beyond.

Previous experiments with gifted psychic archaeologists, as they were called thirty years ago, yielded better results.

Ingo Swann said we had to break the box of reality to be able to see, to see from the present to the past and to the future.

Most of the viewers I invited to help me, both veterans and beginners, agreed that the latitudes and longitudes of the two main caves of the metallic library had no tangible treasures in them.

Today, thanks to new technologies such as the Light Detection and Radar (LIDAR) system, we can easily and quickly confirm a rumor of a deposit or burial under the Amazon or African jungles, or in the high peaks of the Andes or European Alps.

As an example, I can mention my good friend Steve Elkins, who searched for the White City by land for a couple of decades and never found what was also known as the Lost City of the Monkey God in the Mosquitia region of Honduras.

The myths and legends of the indigenous population and the explorers talked about an advanced city that was very similar to those of the Mayas. Elkins preferred to use science, not intuition; yet something made him continue his search, and he accomplished his goal when he discovered a very ancient, supposedly proto-Mayan city that had universal symbols also found in Indo-European cultures.

In short, the use of psychic archaeologists is not that necessary for locating sites, but it undoubtedly will continue being a way to determine if others are telling the truth.

Even so, we hope we can find new inventions to link the mind with remote perception, such as the electronic one used by new remote viewers.