Riddle of America, The - Waldorf Research Institute

then contract again as they enter Mexico. The widest section is five hundredmiles between Denver and Salt Lake City. Seen in its entirety, it is like thelumbar region of the spinal column of the earth’s skeleton. It is aligned withcurving force lines between the Earth’s vagrant and reversing magnetic poles;the polarity is further experienced from the chill of Alaska’s frozen polarregion to its ending in the solitary coccyx of Tierra del Fuego—the land ofearthly fire.Rocky Mountain National ParkOn the eastern flanks of the Rockies once roamed the ancient dinosaurs.A high inland salty sea existed before the earth’s volcanic forceserupted, transformed, and drained it. On the western slope of the Rockies,we find yet a second basin that stayed much longer beneath the ocean andbecame covered with layers of dead fish, plants, and sediment on top of thegneiss/granite. This became compacted and provided later generations withcoal, oil, and natural gas. Within the Colorado Rockies we also find a valuablepegmatite zone that stretches from Durango in the south to Boulder inthe north. Here massive amounts of gold, silver, and tungsten have beenremoved. In the land under the connected cities of Blackhawk and CentralCity, so many valuable minerals were extracted that it was called the richestsquare mile on earth.The gray, moonlike landscape of Nevada and the uranium-rich fieldsaround Moab, Utah, breathe a dry, hot breath, suggesting an atmosphere ofapproaching death. Here the U.S. military has silos with missles poised and32