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Aug. 2006

Quest Magazine

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The History Channel's Josh Bernstein: Explorer and anthropologist - yes; Indiana Jones - no.

The star of 'Digging for the Truth' shares with us what he is and isn't.

News and Articles*

The Knights Templar and hashish?

The High Desert

In Nevada an initiative to decriminalize possession of one ounce or less of marijuana will appear on the November ballot. Conservatives join with liberals to support this. Colorado also has a ballot initiative to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana.

Is the Holy Grail a whirlpool? This Scottish folklorist thinks so.

Pope replaces Jesuit astronomer who is an opponent of 'intelligent design.'

Young women and girls defend polygamy.

Archaeological evidence shows that the Aztecs were cannibals and ate the raw hearts and cooked flesh of hundreds of Spaniards.

Here's another look at Rennes-le-Chateau and the Knights Templar.

It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's an alchemist!

In Florida, Scientology becomes a campaign issue.

1930s Scotland and its ghosts.

Multitude in India flock to see icons of Hindu gods drink.

African priests should give up moonlighting as witch doctors, according to their bishops.

The Vatican's powerful telescope in Arizona.

Before there were advice columnists, there was the Delphic Oracle.

They aren't your parents' psychics.

An apple a day may keep Alzheimer’s at bay.

Where are these 80s icons now?

Pat Robertson now agrees there's global warming. Pro environment evangelical leaders welcome his conversion.

U.S. Senate votes unanimously to save the San Diego cross that an atheist sued to have torn down.

Whips and spikes. No, it's not an S&M club in L.A., it's The Da Vinci Code's Opus Dei.

Is Madonna a blasphemer?

Has Marilyn Monroe been reincarnated? Malibu psychiatrist Adrian Finkelstein says yes.

The quest for spirituality in California.

This author feels he has located the Holy Grail.

'80s music is back with "We Are The '80s" tour and CDs.

Medieval book of psalms discovered in a bog in Ireland.

The Da Vinci Code ban in Iran makes it a bestseller there.

Backlash against Bush for stem cell veto and anti-environment acts.

This Masonic building in Washington, D.C. is modeled after the tomb of King Mausolos at Halikarnassos.

Travel writing for the thinking person.

It's ghost month in Taiwan.

Cafeteria spirituality.

The legend of Spring Heeled Jack.

Muslim women don new full body bathing suits with hoods.

Pursuing tomb raiders.

Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith and the supermarket.

"Tune in, turn on, and drop out," magic mushrooms create a mystical experience according to this study. Maybe Timothy Leary was right after all.

Pope Benedict venerates the Holy Grail. (Does he know something that Indiana Jones didn't?)

Freemasonry is doing well in the UK. "A lot of people are finding in the 21st century that organized religion is not answering their needs, and for some people Freemasonry is that answer," Diane Clements, Director of the Library and Museum of Freemasonry stated.

Anglican clergy consider removing St. George as England's patron saint because he's too "warlike," etc. This would require the English flag to change if this is done as it has the cross of St. George on it.

The Da Vinci Code is scorned by some Medieval scholars.

Sex, witchcraft, and the killing of a Druid.

Relic from Colorado is declared not a Spanish conquistador cross but part of a scabbard from a 150 year old Masonic Knights Templar sword.

The Presbyterian Church (USA) becomes the seventh major religious organization that supports the use of marijuana for medical reasons.

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