Customer Reviews:
 As horrible as they come November 2, 2008
"Make two male and two female stand in an alternate position, around a chair at a particular degree to the chair, the energy dissipated by them will make chair rise in air with the push of their 2 fingers"
Should I need to write anything else as a review?
I have read better con books in my life.
 Don't Waste Your Time September 26, 2004
23 out of 30 found this review helpful
I was very excited about this purchase, but felt cheated when it finally arrived. I had hoped for a serious, systematic, scientific overview of the World Grid, and was sorely disappointed.
This book contained numerous grammar and punctuation errors, and shoddy images. It is difficult to take any book produced so unprofessionally seriously. If an individual does not attend to such details, how fastidious can they be about their scientific research? I try not to be completely superficial on this count, and have overlooked modest errors in small-press books that cannot afford top notch editing, but this level of incompetence is simply unacceptable.
I gave the book two stars instead of one because it does contain some useful information. For example, it includes a map of the grid as postulated by innovative Russian researchers, and correlates the locations of ancient monuments such as the Pyramids with node points. However, most, if not all, of this information can be unearthed with rudimentary web searches. The book does little more than make a flimsy circumstantial case for the existence of the Earth Grid, and most of the articles seem like drivel or filler.
I think the Earth Grid may exist. I was eventually able to find coherent descriptions that were not absurdly vague and are not the ramblings of lunatics. Not like most of Anti-Gravity and the World Grid, in other words. Books like this are the reason so many esoteric/alternative scientific theories have a bad rap.
One final note. I would exempt some of Bruce Cathie's work from these criticisms. The book contains articles written by different individuals, and Cathie is one of them. Cathie doesn't usually do a very good job of explaining things in laymen's terms, but I believe some of his claims/theories are correct.
Complete tripe August 27, 2004
20 out of 32 found this review helpful
I was given this book as a joke, and indeed it is laughable. I've read some ridiculous books in my time, but a greater load of tripe I have never encountered. And the worrying thing is, it's all written in deadly earnest, by borderline lunatics.
So what is this book about? It's a collection of essays by various authors about the 'World Grid', a mysterious grid of lines covering the earth and which are (inevitably) 'energetic' or something. Of course, the various authors don't agree with each other on just where these lines are located or what they are or do, but that doesn't seem to deter them.
The book relates the world grid to phenomena as diverse as anti-gravity, UFOs, the Philadelphia Experiment, acupuncture - I didn't spot crystals or rainbows but maybe I'm mistaken. Of course, this is mixed up with much misunderstood pseudo-science to lend it a veneer of credibility. Disingenously, the celebrated engineer R Buckminster Fuller is repeatedly cited simply because he invented a new cartographic projection (he did grids of lines covering the earth, see? QED!)
The quality of the reasoning in the book is best illustrated by a couple of examples:
The chapter 'International harmony based upon a music of planetary grid systems' presents the theory that political 'harmony' between nations is related to the 'harmony' (geddit?) of musical notes whose wavelength equals the distance between them. As if an extremely low note was resonating between the two nations, or something.
Apart from its patent ludicrousness, fully apparent to any sane reader, this theory raises numerous various questions which the author fails to address. E.g. Which part of the nations in question should the distance be measured from? (The pitch of the 'note' connecting New York and Moscow is very different from that connecting Washington and St Petersburg.) Are some of these individual notes meant to be harmonious and some dissonant? (Doesn't work musically as musical harmony requires more than one note.) What makes the sound wave reflect at each end?
And is she claiming that something is actually making these notes? If so, what? If not, are we meant to play these notes (with some vast foghorn or something), and if so what will then happen? (Actually she does give some advice on this last point: the note F 'represents the distance between Gomel in the Soviet Union and Sebha in Libya. Therefore [sic] the musical sound of F might be accentuated for harmony between these two countries'. Or then again, it might not. Probably not, actually.)
As another example, turn to page 46. Here we have a diagram of the 'Sefirotic Tree of the Kabbalah', which is a presumably ancient and mystical diagram of lines connecting virtues labelled Understanding, Mercy, Beauty etc. Then (inexplicably) we see the same diagram superimposed on a map of Europe and Africa, demonstrating how the lines intersect at various important locations such as Mecca, Rome, etc. Except that they don't. On closer inspection, the lines mostly miss these places and instead intersect in the sea or in the middle of nowhere. Never mind, eh, the theory still holds.
Basically, the authors of this book are extremely unintelligent (being unable to reason their way out of a paper bag), misinformed, and in many cases simply looneys. Buying their book will only encourage them.
 Anti-Gravity & the World Grid November 26, 2001
0 out of 10 found this review helpful
Aloha - after studying Bucky Fuller geodesic geometry for 25 years, i found AG & WG best explains how cosmic energy works thru our 'crystaline' earth evolving with multi dimensional systems of fractal geometry. David compiles a great collection of new science articles that support further research, i do with astrology, cosmic weather & geospasm of earth-changes. Its the best intro to the multi-energetics secrets that big $cience & military been using for centuries to access & channel earth energy for power controls. We can use eco-energy for positive,
growing, creating & healing functions, when we feel it flowing around us!
Could the geodesic earth-grids be what guides the formation of mountains, canyons, cataclysms, etc? evolving our infinite variety of bioregional terrain, species & cultures that rise & fall with astrological patterns of power. Like the current shifting of Pices/virgo into Aquarius/leo age now opening us up to cosmic consciousness of energy flows thru our earth grids!
Anti-Gravity Classic: 5 Stars January 2, 2000
51 out of 57 found this review helpful
David Childress compiled this now classis collection of works relating to the geometric structure of the planet, the "world grid". Ancient civilizations knew about this geometry and sited their monuments at its points, including the Great Pyramid, Easter Island, and the Chinese and Maya pyramids. The Bermuda triangle is one such point among many. Many unusual natural features also occur at points which correlate with the earth grid geometry. For example, the Hawaiian volcanic seamount occurs at a 'tetrahedral' point which will be of interest to readers of Hoagland's Mars materials and followers of Drunvalo's flower-of-life work. The book includes, among others, articles by Bethe Hagens & William Becker, who designed the EarthStar globe; Barbara Hero calculates and explains the musical equivalents of globe distances; Bruce Cathie's early method of detecting grid patterns through UFO sightings, and anomolies at other points, including nuclear testing. A.G.W.G. shows many maps of the geometric relationship of sacred places, including the world, Europe, Afica, and Cairo. Also shows the maps of sites in Somerset England in the pattern of the costellation Canus Major. I highly recommended it for students of Earth Mysteries, Sacred Geometry, and for alchemists.
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