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Bioenergy talk in Sala Quetzal,
Jan 19, 2007
Bioenergy I, by Guillermo Galindo
Thursday, January 25, 5pm
Sala Quetzal, Biblioteca Pública
20-peso donation requested
Mexican physician Dr. Aureliano Horta has applied Einstein’s relativity theory to the atom, offering us a new way to understand nuclear energy and, further, its applications to biology. According to Horta, in addition to mass and energy, electromagnetism must also be considered.
Based on his findings, Horta has developed an electromagnetic medical appliance to increase bioenergetic levels in the human body. Successes using this therapy have been reported in the medical literature, especially in chronic, currently incurable diseases such as diabetes, cancer, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and osteoporosis.
Guillermo Galindo Endo has worked with Horta for more than 10 years and in this presentation will explain the basics of bioenergy and the impact of Horta’s scientific work on everybody’s life.
A donation to the library is requested.
Barham to speak on Islam
“15th-Century Islam Confronts the 21st-Century Western World”
By John Barham
Wednesday, January 24, 10:30am
Sala Quetzal, Biblioteca Pública
John Barham, familiar to Atención readers as the author of the regular column “North Looking South,” frequently writes about Mexican affairs. But as a retired professor of history, his knowledge ranges widely and also includes the world of Islam. During his 40-year career in higher education, he spent 6 years in institutional research at King Saud University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he formed his impressions of Islam and its place in the modern world.
Barham’s illustrated lecture, “15th-Century Islam Confronts the 21st-Century Western World,” is part of the Center for Global Justice’s Snowbird Symposium. It will explore the differences and the similarities between Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Are the conflicts that are the focus of much world politics today a clash of two religious cultures, or between a religious and a secular culture? Is it a clash of civilizations? What is their larger historical meaning? How are we to understand the present as history? These are the sorts of questions you can explore with John Barham.
Get to know our local pyramid complex
By Rossana Quiroz and Phyllis Pitluga
“Time, Landscape and Architecture at Cañada de la Virgen Archaeological Site”
By Rossana Quiroz and Phyllis Pitluga
Thursday, January 25, 5:30pm
Teatro Santa Ana, Insurgentes 25
50 pesos
Located in the municipal territory of San Miguel de Allende, west of the city, the Cañada de la Virgen archaeological site has been under interdisciplinary research for more than 10 years. From the many questions asked during this process, we have started to obtain answers. Each archaeological finding and hypothesis tested has slowly but persistently thrown light on the time of occupation, the ways of living and possibly the ethnic origin of those who constructed this enigmatic place, unique in the history of northern Mesoamerica.
What inspired the ancient architects at the ceremonial civic center of Cañada de la Virgen in their design, general orientation and spatial distribution of the buildings? Which are the most significant features of the landscape that surrounds this archaeological site, and what role did the sun, moon, planets and stars play? Cañada de la Virgen archaeologist/visual anthropologist Rossana Quiroz Ennis will reveal the temporal and geographic background in which the pyramids were constructed, the hidden sense of their orientation and disposition through a three-year astronomical photographic survey and the Mesoamerican cultural aspects that appear to be represented.
To substantiate the Cañada de la Virgen findings, Phyllis Pitluga, Astronomer Emerita of the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum in Chicago, will present an overview of examples from all over the world of archaeological sites aligned with the heavens. Cultures represented will be Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Stonehenge, Pawnee, Hopi, Navajo, Inca, Nasca, Mayan and Aztec.
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