Integratron

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The Integratron in January 2012

Coordinates: 34°17′39.99″N 116°24′13.34″W / 34.2944417°N 116.4037056°W / 34.2944417; -116.4037056 The Integratron is a structure designed by George Van Tassel claimed to be capable of rejuvenation, anti-gravity and time travel. He built the structure in Landers, California (near Joshua Tree) supposedly following instructions provided by visitors from the planet Venus. The structure was financed predominantly by donations, including funds from Howard Hughes.[1]

Following Van Tassel's death in 1978, the building was owned by a series of individuals (and was left in various states of disrepair) before sisters Joanne, Nancy, and Patty Karl purchased it in the early 2000s. The sisters promote The Integratron as an "acoustically perfect structure," give tours and offer "sound baths" they describe as "...meditation-like sessions accompanied by tones from quartz bowls."[1]

Construction

Ceiling of the Integratron, January 2012
An elevation view of the Integratron

George van Tassel was a former aircraft mechanic and flight inspector who moved to California's Mojave Desert to operate an airport and inn. While there, he began meditating under Giant Rock, which the Native Americans of the area held to be sacred. In August 1953, Van Tassel claimed that he had been contacted both telepathically and later in person by people from space, who gave him a technique to rejuvenate human cell tissues. Van Tassel, acting on these instructions, began constructing the Integratron in 1954. Construction costs were partly paid for by an annual series of successful UFO conventions, the Giant Rock Spacecraft Conventions, which continued for nearly 25 years. Construction of the main structure of the Integratron was complete circa 1959, but Van Tassel continued to work on the device until his sudden death in 1978.

Claims

The workings of the Integratron, according to Van Tassel, rely on the generation of a strong electric field resulting in the generation of plasma in the form of a coronal discharge and negative air ionization inside the building. The Integratron is based on the Multiple Wave Oscillator invented by Georges Lakhovsky. The Multiple Wave Oscillator is a combination of a HV Tesla coil and a Split-ring resonator that generates ultra wideband electromagnetic frequencies.

Van Tassel speculated that EMF affects biological cells, and believed that each individual biological cell has a unique resonant EM frequency. According to Van Tassel, the generation of strong ultra wideband EMF emitted by the Integratron "resonates" with the cells individual frequency and "re-charges" the cellular structure, as if it were an electrical battery. Van Tassel claimed that human cells "rejuvenated" while inside the structure.

Van Tassel claimed the Integratron is intentionally constructed atop a powerful geomagnetic anomaly and its construction is entirely of non ferromagnetic materials, the equivalent to a modern radome.

Historical marker near the Integratron

Modern uses

After van Tassel died, there was a proposal to turn the Integratron into a Disco, but these plans were never realized. New owners now operate the Integratron as a tourist attraction and offer "sound baths" where groups of people are "exposed to harmonic sound frequencies" produced by quartz bowls, claimed to have a deep calming effect. The Integratron website claims "it is the only all-wood, acoustically perfect sound chamber in the U.S."

Integratron in popular culture

Music

  • The band Zwan filmed the video for their song "Honestly" inside the Integratron.
  • The English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys recorded part of their song "Secret Door" at the Integratron in 2008.
  • The band The Good Listeners recorded a song for a segment of their movie "Don't Quit Your Daydream" inside the Integratron.

Television

  • The Integratron was featured on season 7, episode 13 of "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations".
  • Huell Howser visits the Integratron in the "Giant Rock" episode #3011 of California's Gold.

Movies

  • The Integratron building was used as the set for an abandoned android manufacturing plant in the B grade cult Sci-Fi classic movie Cherry 2000 starring Melanie Griffith and David Andrews.

References/Links

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Integratron.com page: "Timeline."
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