Feeling like if you are handed one more shoe box of receipts, you’ll likely launch them into outer space?
Halfway through the tax season and desperately needing a quick rejuvenating getaway to get through the dog days of March?
Well, for those of us living in Southern California, the answer may just be a few short hours away. And even if you don’t literally make it to the stars, you may be able to ride the sound waves to an altered state of mind.
I’ve lived in San Diego for 25 years now and thought I’d discovered all of the quirky out-of-the-way places to go, but last week I uncovered something that had previously escaped my radar: the Integratron.
Located near Joshua Tree National Park, the Integratron, a large white domelike structure, was built by George Van Tassel. Van Tassel was a former aviation engineer for Lockheed and Douglas Aircraft (of Howard Hughes fame), who felt compelled to build the structure after having had an encounter in 1953 with Solganda, a 700-year-old visitor from the planet Venus. The meeting occurred after Van Tassel had sat for several hours under Giant Rock, a seven-story high boulder in the Mojave Desert, to commune with Native American spirits.
According to Van Tassel, Solganda’s space craft landed on an airstrip located next to Van Tassel’s home and that Solganda wore a gray-one-piece bodysuit, spoke perfect English, and had come to Earth because “Earthlings’ reliance on metal building materials was interfering with radio frequencies and disrupting interplanetary ‘thought transfers.’”1 But the greatest takeaway that Van Tassel got from his meeting with Solganda was that he was given a formula to build a “machine that would generate energy to suspend the laws of gravity, extend human life, and facilitate high-speed time travel.” Hence the Integratron, which took over 20 years to build.
Unfortunately, Van Tassel died in 1978, alas, not having been able to extend his life and, as far as we know, without having been able to time travel. However, all is not lost. Three sisters, originally from the East Coast, have purchased the Integratron. And although not claiming to offer exactly all that Solganda had promised, the sisters do offer amazing sound bath experiences that I’m sure can elevate you to another plane psychologically, make you feel younger (at least for a moment or two), and, most importantly, transport you away from your computers for at least a day or two.
I for one am signing up! Care to join me? Details are available at www.integratron.com/.
