ref. # 16.0

ref. #16.0

Book Review / Interview with author Dr. George Ritchie:  
No truth to statement 'Dead me tell no tales,'  by William Gildea  1977, The Washington Post
from the Fort Worth Star Telegram, Wednesday Evening July 20, 1977  Page 2, Section D and Pg. 8 Sec. D
A review of the book 'Life after Life'  by author Raymond Moody
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I talked to George Ritchie on the telephone about 15 years ago, and tried to explain how Sam Henson saw the Devils in that realm making the inventions before they gave the knowledge to man. He got very upset with me and said he didn't see any similarity with what he saw.  My dad said he expected he would be like that, being a psychiatrist I guess.   It is amazing how such men of such intellect cannot understand this very obvious thing.  
  
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ref. #16.1


EGG FOR A HOT CHICK,  
SCIENCE, 
Life Magazine, Oct. 26, 1953
In the above interview of Dr. George Ritchie, on the first page where it is highlighted in Green
he mentions a Life magazine article.
However, there is a discrepancy in the name. Ritchie calls it the Nautilus correctly, but the article here called it Seawolf.
USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine. The new atomic powered Nautilus was authorized in 1951, with laying down for construction in 1952 and launched in January 1954. The Seawolf was not until 1983. Perhaps for security reasons they changed the name for Life Magazine, or else the submarine name was changed while being designed.  This may not be the same Life magazine he referred to, there might have been an earlier Dec. 1952 article showing the actual submarine. Then again, the Seawolf might have been started this early, and not brought to actual production until the 1980's.  It was an attack submarine. However, read the description in the excerpt from his book  Return from Tomorrow:



I am only going to refer you to a few pages in what constitutes a personal review of the book Return from Tomorrow  by George Ritchie which was part of a Guideposts 2-in-1 selection with Betty Malz's "My Glimpse of Eternity."  I am paraphrasing here except where underlined.   On page 69 he is talking about the very part depicted in the Movie Beyond and Back:   He saw some huge rooms with "complex equipment".  In some of these rooms "hooded figures" were looking over "intricate charts and diagrams", and some were at the "controls of elaborate consoles flickering with lights".   Page 71:  He was in one building filled with "technological machinery" and there was inside a "sphere-shaped structure"  a "catwalk" over a tank of water.  He describes what were "huge laboratories".    Page 119,120:  One day in 1952 he was looking at a Life magazine and on one page was a "drawing of a gigantic sphere-shaped structure cut away to reveal men and machines inside it".  It had a "traveling crane mounted on steel girders," "a huge circular tank,"  "catwalks," and "a small control room".  He wasn't disturbed at the "futuristic appearance" of it all,  but at the certainty that he had seen it before.

Last week the Atomic Energy Commission partially lifted its veil of secrecy and allowed Life's artists to make a drawing of some details of the prototype of the second US atomic submarine engine and the strange house that holds it.  The building, now going up near Schenectady, N.Y., will be the world's largest man-made sphere, a $2-million, two hundred and twenty-five foot steel shell.        Life magazine, 1952

He was so certain that he had seen all that,  but had never actually been to Schenectady.  Then he remembered that it was "in that tranquil campus-like realm inhabited by beings wrapped in thought as monks are wrapped in robes," where he had stood in 1943, "staring at a huge sphere-shaped building, walking through its intricate fittings....."




I happened to discover a copy of Life magazine, Oct. 26,1953,  that my father had among his papers that had the mailing label on it to a fellow employee at General Dynamics which he did not know that he had.  Again, this could only be the Lord preparing this.  But it shows an update on this project a year later from the drawing, showing the actual sphere,  to house the second atomic submarine engine, the Sea Wolf. [Nautilus]