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to scoped oid I'm Brian Dunning from

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Sceptre a dot. com. The

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secrets of the Integra

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try. Rising

1:46

from the desert and lenders California

1:49

is one of the world's truly unique structures.

1:52

It is brilliant white two story

1:54

dome, seventeen meters across

1:56

and twelve meters high and said

1:58

to be the most. The technologically

2:01

advanced machine ever conceived.

2:04

It is called the Integra drawn

2:06

and it's the product of years of labor by one

2:09

at George Vamp Tassel. One

2:11

of the most interesting man you will ever hear

2:13

about. This is in part because

2:15

his plans for the into were drawn. Came

2:18

to him. From alien visitors

2:20

to imparted him wisdom that if

2:22

you believe him. Will change the world.

2:25

Then and change the human

2:27

race. The

2:30

see and hear George Van Tassel. You'll

2:32

find that is probably one of the more sober and normal

2:34

seeming characters from the annals of

2:37

us all a. g. Well, groomed,

2:39

well dressed, well spoken. articulate

2:42

and projecting an air of intelligence and education,

2:45

it's little wonder that he amassed quite

2:47

crowd of admirers and supporters

2:49

over his career. That there was

2:51

another side to Van Tassel to

2:54

decide his best known for. That

2:56

was man who moved his family out of their house.

2:59

And into the desert to live literally

3:01

under rock. Where he channeled

3:03

Venusians and described

3:05

his visits board alien spacecraft.

3:10

them hassle had been a mechanic and inspector

3:13

for Southern California'is is crucial

3:15

aircraft industry since before

3:17

World War Two all the way through it's conclusion.

3:20

Then one day while visiting his uncle

3:22

in the desert, he chance to meet and

3:24

befriend minor named Frank

3:26

Crate's or. The was at the time.

3:29

Hollowing out home for himself underneath

3:31

and enormous freestanding boulder. Now

3:34

known as giant rock. In

3:36

the desert near Landers, California.

3:38

The all accounts Kreitzer was an eccentric

3:41

yet inoffensive character. It

3:43

was German, which was not good luck

3:45

in the days immediately following World War Two.

3:48

The was an amateur radio operator,

3:50

so we had a tall antenna atop the gigantic

3:53

seven storey boulder he lived under.

3:56

As minor, he had plenty of dynamite.

3:59

Finally this. The adjacent to what

4:01

was then the Naval auxiliary air station

4:04

twenty nine palms. All

4:06

of this was somewhat alarming to

4:08

the local constabulary. Though

4:10

one night, the sheriff sent three deputies

4:13

to see what crates or was really up to. The

4:15

council, what went down very?

4:18

That the bottom line is price or blew

4:20

himself up, killing himself and

4:22

injuring to the deputies. During

4:26

news George Van Tassel took

4:28

over crates or as lease on the giant

4:30

rock property he. quit his job

4:33

soldiers house Fact: His wife

4:35

Eva and three daughters into the family pick

4:37

up. And moved out there. They

4:40

literally lived in the pick up truck

4:42

and in craters cave as

4:44

Van Tassel cleaned it out and made it somewhat

4:46

habitable. These are the days when anyone

4:48

who knew Van Tassel probably wondered

4:51

what fuse he blows. There

4:54

was method to madness and apparently

4:57

it's good long list of frenzied made

4:59

in the aircraft industry because very

5:01

soon he'd cleared and airstrip.

5:04

Noted by the F. A. As giant rock

5:06

airport. The power and water

5:08

run out to the property and built an

5:10

airport cafe called the come

5:12

on in. staffed by

5:14

Eva, who made legendary burgers

5:16

and apple pie. It was

5:19

lively destination. (OP)

5:21

And dozens of light aircraft would be there.

5:24

It appeared that them Tas all had created

5:26

for himself the perfect retirement

5:28

plan.

5:30

Except that there was a lot more

5:32

going on below the surface, sadly

5:35

the warm personable intelligent

5:37

George Van Tassel. Probably

5:39

schizophrenia. the believes

5:41

himself in regular contact with

5:44

alien visitors from Venus. The

5:46

land worship at night right there at

5:48

giant rock airport. This

5:50

is from nineteen sixty four television interview.

5:54

The formula came from a ship

5:56

that landed of Meyer fortnight and

5:58

fifty three on Aug. as funny. Or it

6:01

which? had four people aboard at the

6:03

same from another planet The

6:05

two o'clock in the morning then the

6:07

approximately full moon, which is like

6:09

daylight on the said. They look

6:12

like. they were white people have good health and

6:15

After we got off the ship, the man

6:17

who are invited me board of

6:19

didn't have day over twenty years of

6:21

age. The told me that he was

6:23

over seven hundred years of age in our time.

6:26

Whether to guy fieri the formula for the time

6:28

as soon as he goes wanna wear t

6:31

f? thing frequency and saving time

6:34

It was from within the subterranean chamber

6:37

beneath a giant rock. Then

6:39

Castle regularly commune with

6:41

the venetian the. They shared with

6:43

him the secrets of the universe, and he

6:45

in turn shared them with the world.

6:48

It began hosting an annual you fo conference

6:50

at giant rock, you apologists

6:53

would fly in and drive in from all

6:55

over and Van Tassel would climb

6:57

atop stage built on the side of the rock.

7:00

The'and and actually channel the venetians

7:02

live to the attendees. We

7:04

were are. Created in space.

7:07

We have A. Little

7:10

use. They live on planet.

7:13

We have many types of

7:15

cry. visible

7:17

and invisible" The younger

7:20

than and live. The

7:22

understand. Creation.

7:25

The way counteract

7:27

destruction at every opportunity.

7:31

However, there were a war. That'the

7:34

the by our people. They

7:36

were back the I'm our recorded

7:38

history. We

7:40

have formulate are food. Though

7:44

an opening. There were all

7:46

mile. Though he never

7:48

other sound from it. Wait,

7:51

are not breathe air? If

7:54

you do. Are breathing

7:56

if you could term as such? It

7:59

is. Sergeant of

8:01

Live in the primary

8:04

stages. They do not

8:06

have to worry about moving

8:09

outside of Irish yet. Neither

8:12

code northeast and such as.

8:15

There are hours and hours of recordings

8:17

of and Tassel channeling the aliens. The

8:20

most dramatic of his claims is that

8:22

he was once transported aboard one of the ships

8:25

to meet with a group called the Council

8:27

of Southern Lights. In this

8:29

meeting he was given to the basic

8:31

schematic for what they termed

8:33

rejuvenation machine. We

8:36

know today. As be Integra

8:38

drawn.

8:41

My intended road map for this episode

8:43

was to find out exactly what kind of

8:45

machine the integrity is supposed

8:47

to be in a determine whether that's

8:50

real thing and whether the structure

8:52

itself actually represents the. Sadly,

8:55

this was not to be. The descriptions

8:58

Van Tassel gave for what the

9:00

integrity tron is. Are all

9:02

over the map. They're scattered,

9:04

nonsensical. The inconsistent.

9:07

Sometimes even self contradictory. They

9:09

come mainly from his typewritten newsletter.

9:12

The proceedings of the College of Universal

9:14

Wisdom. A branch of the Ministry

9:17

of Universal Wisdom. His

9:19

name for the Cave under giant rock.

9:22

Most of the newsletters consist of Bible passages.

9:25

And ads for him, Tassel's self published

9:28

books. The few photos and

9:30

incomplete layperson's descriptions

9:32

of the structure. What we know is that

9:34

around the circumference of the integrity

9:36

tron is a fifty five foot diameter

9:39

ring of horizontal metal bars

9:41

like short spokes, and when the machine

9:44

is turned on, this ring should

9:46

rotate. The A hassle never

9:48

finished building it and the alien blue

9:50

prints were in his head alone

9:53

but. what seems to be the case is that the integra

9:55

tron was intended to be an electrostatic

9:58

generator not too different From

10:00

the Van de Graaf Generators, you touch

10:02

the science museum to make your hair stand

10:04

on it. Van Tassel

10:06

spoke of the need to install a coil.

10:09

And often spoke of magnetism, so

10:11

it's possible he intended to create large

10:14

electromagnet alongside

10:16

the electrostatic generator. He

10:18

also talked about negative ion generators.

10:21

And once wrote. The effect

10:24

of our Integra tron will produce three

10:26

separate energies simultaneously

10:28

and the control of these will be automatic,

10:31

according to the capacity of the individual

10:33

passing through the fields. This

10:35

integrates the energies into the atomic

10:37

structure of the flesh directly. The

10:41

fact he discussed included time travel,

10:43

anti gravity. The cellular

10:46

rejuvenation. The

10:48

problem is it today, we're very, very familiar

10:50

with static electricity, negative

10:52

ions and magnetism. I'm

10:55

not one of them produces any of those

10:57

effects. So without

10:59

any evidence to the contrary. We

11:01

can confidently conclude that if the Integra

11:04

try and. Had ever been completed

11:06

and turned on. When you're done

11:08

anything at all except spin around

11:10

and. Probably cause people to shock each

11:12

other.

11:15

Throughout the documentation of the integrity, tried.

11:17

You'll find references to the famous electrical

11:20

engineer. Nikola Tesla. As

11:23

we discussed Ad Nauseum, an episode

11:25

number three hundred and forty five. Tesla

11:27

is the poor fellow who's good name has

11:29

been co and exploited

11:31

for a century more times

11:33

by every crackpot with crazy idea.

11:36

The day's proprietors of the Integra drawn.

11:39

Name drop Tesla in just about every

11:41

sentence even. though electrostatic

11:43

generators predated tesla by two

11:45

centuries That's what did

11:47

writing Nineteen Thirty Four article about

11:50

such generators? That he credited

11:52

Doctor Robert J. Van de grasse Who

11:54

developed the most common type in nineteen

11:56

twenty nine? Based on fifty years

11:58

of work by others. I know

12:01

remote extension of logic can anything

12:03

at the Integra tron. The said to

12:05

have been inspired by Tesla himself.

12:08

The either Tesla nor Van de Graaf. Never

12:10

discussed time travel. Age

12:13

reversal. Or anti gravity.

12:16

Nothing more than hijacking Tesla his name

12:18

in a bid to lend some authority. The

12:21

Integra drug. What

12:24

was not the only historical luminary

12:27

to have his name dragged through the Integra

12:29

Trans mud many, of the

12:31

people associated with the integra tron today

12:34

assert that Howard Hughes helps

12:36

to find it's construction. Based

12:39

on sort of apocryphal history of them,

12:41

Tassel and hughes having known

12:43

each other or flown or work together.

12:46

The even that Hughes used personally

12:48

fly and giant rock to attend

12:50

the U. F. O. Conventions. It

12:52

doesn't appear to be any truth to any

12:55

of this. The family's story

12:57

does recall that Van Tassel. Once

12:59

tried unsuccessfully to reach, used

13:02

to solicit contribution. It

13:04

would have been during user's recluse of years.

13:07

Despite claims to the contrary, all

13:09

over the integrity and marketing materials.

13:12

There is no evidence that Howard Hughes

13:14

ever had anything to do with. Or

13:16

even knew about. The integra

13:18

tron. The

13:21

closest thing I can find to a true

13:23

claim about the integrity or on. That

13:26

is situated on geomagnetic

13:28

vortex. The word "vortex"

13:31

is nonsensical and essentially

13:33

meaningless in this context. The

13:35

whole Earth is one great popery

13:38

of geomagnetic variances. There's

13:41

the integra drawn located on particularly

13:43

dramatic one. The fact check

13:45

this claim I turned to our in

13:47

house geologist Andrew Dunning

13:50

of the Better Geology You Tube channel.

13:52

Like and subscribe. It turns out

13:54

that two and a half kilometers from the

13:56

Integra drawn. Is one

13:59

such variants? Above an area

14:01

of igneous, intrusive diorite

14:03

and nice, which causes about one

14:05

percent compass variants. About

14:07

six point, seven, five mil gals. The

14:10

undetectable with hand held compass.

14:13

This is much less than other variances

14:15

in the surrounding area and it's unlikely

14:18

Van Tassel would have had sensitive enough magnetometer

14:20

to detect it. If he did, he

14:22

missed it by two and half kilometers.

14:25

But that's the closest thing to troop,

14:27

why am I could find? The either way

14:30

Van Tassel died in nineteen seventy eight.

14:33

That marked the end of any further

14:35

development. The

14:37

day the Integra tron still

14:40

nonfunctional but cleaned up for

14:42

tourists.

14:43

Is a commercial Healing

14:45

Center around, fifty

14:47

bucks. you join couple dozen other people inside

14:50

lying on mats and listen

14:52

to someone tones on quartz bowls

14:54

for an hour. called sound

14:57

bath. Here's sample from their

14:59

website.

15:15

One is forced to wonder that if rejuvenation

15:18

time travel and anti gravity. Or

15:21

even just any one of the three was indeed

15:23

so close to being realized. Would

15:26

sound baths really be the most

15:28

productive use of this machine? When

15:30

nobody have come to follow Van Tassel's

15:33

work. The answer, of course,

15:35

is it the voices and divisions that

15:37

dominated Van Tassel's time underneath

15:40

giant rock were probably products

15:42

of his own amazing mind and

15:44

not from enlightened ambassadors. The

15:47

planet Venus.

15:52

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15:54

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