The International Fortean Organization (INFO)

Tributes to John Keel
from Ingo Swann, Jacques Vallee, Phyllis Benjamin, and Marc Coppola


FORTSCAPE 2010, from Prehistory to Posthistory!

July 17 & 18, 2010

55th Amazing Conference on Anomalous Phenomena

Peabody Court Hotel, Baltimore, MD

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John Anthony West returns from Egypt with new discoveries and from the amazing, newly excavated megalithic site of Gobekli Tepe (predates Stonehenge by 6,000 years) in Turkey with “Rethinking History, Rethinking the Future”. The Emmy Award winning world renown author of Serpent in The Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt, and The Traveler’s Key to Egypt, will dazzle you again !

Larry Arnold, Director of ParaScience International , author of the world’s most scholarly book onSpontaneous Human Combustion (SHC), Ablaze! on this baffling phenomenon, new mysterious cases and the continuing battle with close-minded skeptics.

Peter Moon, co-author and editor of an astounding series of books on time travel conspiracy theory, Montauk Project: Experiments in Time, Pyramids of Montauk: Explorations in Consciousness , and Montauk Revisited: Adventures in Synchronicity, on the Time Travel Project, mysterious pyramids inRomania, the holographic Hall of Records in Transylvania, time travel and the link to the ancient Egyptians.

William Fellows, Ph.D., NOAA physicist, engineer and inventor, Freemason and metaphysician will speak on “The Hidden Universe of Dark Matter” and will ask are we holograms?

Phyllis Benjamin, journalist/artist/producer, President of The International Fortean Organization(INFO) and Chair of the FortFests and FortScapes (with co-Chair Al Rosensmyle) will present “Looking Back to 7240 B.C. at Ain Ghazaal and the Strange Neolithic Little People of Jordan’s Valley of the Gazelles”.

Robert Swiatek, brings a new illustrated talk “From Grants Pass to Pasadena: UFOs Over America in2009. Rob, a long term, widely respected UFO researcher, is the Secretary/Treasurer of the Fund forUFO Research (FUFOR), is on the national Board of Directors for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) andworks as an examiner for the U.S. Patent Office.

Susan Swiatek, a publications specialist for a government contractor, State Director of VA MUFON and a founding editor of the Journal For Abduction Research (JAR), will present “The Big Birds of BlueBook & Other Tales From the Crypt(ozoo).”

Plus: Optional Lunch Buffet with dessert, The Phenomenal Book Sale, informal Friday in the hotel at the Georges Lounge and SATURDAY NIGHT FUN: Saturday Italian Buffet Dinner,cash bar and Interactive Games: The Tarot an & Mary Celeste Ship of
Disappearing Fools Mystery game in the fabulous rooftop “13th Floor “glass restaurant.


 

Science and the Unknown



The Legacy of Charles Fort
“One measures a circle beginning anywhere” — Philosopher Charles Fort

Charles Hoy Fort. Image copyright The International Fortean OrganizationFor 27 years, the American writer Charles Hoy Fort worked full-time researching scientific journals and old periodicals to gather material on phenomena on the borderland between fact and fantasy - the wide range of mysteries that orthodox science either ignored or improperly explained away. His pioneering researches appeared in four books: The Book of the Damned (1919), New Lands (1923), Lo! (1931), and Wild Talents (1932).

In these volumes, Fort gathered, organized, and commented on a wild host of phenomena: UFOs, falls of living animals; poltergeists, ghosts and psychic phenomena; earthquakes and volcanoes; astronomical and archaeological mysteries; stigmata; mass hysteria and panics; spontaneous human combustion; disappearing people; and much more. The Original Fortean Society founders included many leading literary lights of the day including Theodore Dreiser, Booth Tarkington, Ben Hecht, H. L. Mencken, Alexander Woolcott, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Fort's work also influenced science fiction and horror writers through the introduction of Fortean themes which is often evident in the work of contemporary luminaries such as Stephen King. Science fiction great Robert Heinlein was also a long-time member of the International Fortean Organization (INFO) until his death.

The International Fortean Organization (INFO) was incorporated as a non-profit educational society in 1965 in order to continue and expand the original Fortean Society. INFO is dedicated to disseminating Fort's work and continues his research into unexplained phenomena by holding annual conferences such as FortFest, FortNite and FortScape and by publishing the intriguing INFO Journal. Audio and video tapes of lectures by intellectual pioneers such as John Anthony West, Patrick Harpur, John Keel, Hillary Evans, John Michell, Mario Pazzaglini, Budd Hopkins, Paul Laffoley, Raymond Moody. Richard Hoagland, Sal Trento, Richard Greenwell, Gerald Hawkins, David Hufford, Ingo Swann, Alvin Holm, Colin Wilson and William Corliss are available from the organization at reasonable cost.  Intrigued by the baffling and often hilarious universe of anomalous phenomena?  You may want to find out more about INFO.


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>  The FortFest Tapes:  (Purchase lecture CDs from our 1989 through 2009 Conferences)
>  Past Conferences: Take a look at our recent work ...
  • FortFest '04   Here's what you missed at INFO's 2004 fall conference.
  • FortScape '04   INFO's Spring Conference held in the Mountains of West Virginia.
  • FortFest '03   INFO's 35th Annual Conference! See what happened.
  • FortNite '03   INFO's 33rd Conference. Click for what went on.
  • FortFest '02   32nd Annual Conference. Here are the details.
  • FortNite '01   Spring Conference on Anomalous Phenomena's featured speakers were...
  • FortFest '00   Annual Conference on Anomalous Phenomena -- Here's what you missed...
  • FortNite '00   Spring Conference on Anomalous Phenomena -- The featured speakers were...
  • FortFest '99   The 28th Annual Conference on Anomalous Phenomena -- Here's what you missed.
  • FortFest '98   The 27th Annual Conference on Anomalous Phenomena -- Here's what you went on.
  • FortNite '98    INFO's Spring Conference on Anomalous Phenomena -- The featured speakers were...
  • FortFest '97   The 25th Annual Conference on Anomalous Phenomena -- Here's what happened.
  • FortNite '97   INFO's Spring Conference on Anomalous Phenomena -- Here's what happened.
  • FortFest 1996   The 24th Annual Conference on Anomalous Phenomena ... See what you missed!

> Other Sites of the Paranormal Kind
Additional links for your perusal... 
Founding Fathers, Secret Societies by Dr. Bob Hieronimus. Click for full size image.


Check out

www.SecretDestiny.org
for information on Dr.
Bob's new book.


Dr. Bob Hieronimus with his fabulous Art Car, first shown at the FortNite '06 at AVAM!

Check out phenomenal 21st Century Radio at

www.21stCenturyRadio.com.



 
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The International Fortean Organization (INFO)

INFO OFFICERS
President/FortFest Chair - Phyllis Benjamin
Vice President - Dave Singer
Treasurer/Secretary - Allan Rosenzweig

INFO ADVISORS
John Keel, John Michell, Colin Wilson

SUPPORT
Library Committee Chair - James Boyd
New England Forteans (INFO-NEF) - Greg Sullivan
Advertising - Tom Ritchford

MUSICAL CHAIRS
Doug Skinner
Joscelyn Godwin

HISTORIAN
Marion Dolan, Ph.D.

SACRED ARCHITECTURE CHAIR
Alvin Holm, AIA

MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Larry Arnold

BigFoot Orienteering Dept.
Al McCann

Please send unknown animal reports to McCann via INFO so he can check out local reports. Indicate if you want to help with the investigation.

Special Correspondent
Ken Moak

Canadian Correspondent
Dwight Whalen

South American Beat
Antonio Huneeus

Open JAW
John Anthony West
JAW's Phoenixfire blog and pod cast


The International Fortean Organization (INFO) is a non-profit, educational corporation, a 501.c.3, donations are tax-deductible!

 
Photo by Marty Cain  
El Castillo, Xunantunich, Belize
Visited on 2005's phenomenal cruise.

Our late Mexican friend. Image copyright The International Fortean Organization (INFO)
Photo © INFO  
The Tecolutla Monster
Case investigation conducted by INFO.

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The International Fortean Organization published the bimonthly, then quarterly, INFO Journal continuously for over 35 years.

Our hardcopy Journal will soon be re-born as an online magazine!  Click here for a list of our extraordinary back issues!


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