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Pyramid power refers to alleged paranormal properties of the ancient Egyptian pyramids and objects of similar shape. With this power, model pyramids are said to preserve foods,〔Bovis, Antoine. (Nice: Bovis, c. 1935). Translation by Jean-Paul Buquet. ''Skeptic.com.'' Retrieved November 24, 2008.〕 sharpen or maintain the sharpness of razor blades,〔Drbal, Karel. ''Patenti Spis c. 91304.'' (Prague: 1959).〕 improve health (some people "were so energized that they could not cope with the dynamo effects they experienced"〔Toth, Max, and Greg Nielson. ''Pyramid Power''. (New York: Warner Destiny, 1976). 165.〕), function "as a thought-form incubator,"〔Toth, Max, and Greg Nielson. ''Pyramid Power''. (New York: Warner Destiny, 1976). 177.〕 trigger sexual urges,〔De Mattia, Joan Ann. “Enjoying the Fruits of Pyramid Energy.” ''Pyramid Power'', edited by Max Toth and Greg Nielson. (New York: Warner Destiny, 1976). 198.〕 and cause other dramatic effects. Pyramid power is one of many pseudoscientific theories regarding pyramids. Such theories are collectively referred to as pyramidology. ==History== A French hardware-store owner〔 Drbal, Karel. "The Struggle for the Pyramid Patent." Pyramid Power, edited by Max Toth and Greg Nielson. (New York: Warner Destiny, 1976). 143. 〕 and pendulum-dowsing author, Antoine Bovis, developed the idea that small models of pyramids can preserve food in the 1930s. Unverifiable〔 Loxton, Daniel. (Altadena: Skeptics Society, 2006). 81–83 〕〔 Laigaard, Jens. (1999). Translation by Daniel Loxton and Jens Laigaard. ''Skeptic.com.'' Retrieved November 24, 2008. 〕 stories persist that Bovis stumbled across a paranormal force while standing inside the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid in Egypt. According to this legend, he saw a garbage can inside the chamber which had been piled with dead animals that had wandered into the structure. Bovis noticed that these small carcasses were not decaying, and inferred that the structure somehow preserved them.〔 Ostrander, Sheila, and Lynn Schroeder. Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain. (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1970). 340.〕 Contradicting this popular version, an account discovered by ''Junior Skeptic'' magazine〔 Loxton, Daniel. (Altadena: Skeptics Society, 2006). 83 〕 has Bovis denying visiting Egypt.〔 In this self-published French-language booklet〔 Bovis, Antoine. (Nice: Bovis, c. 1935.) PDF scan of original hosted at ''Skeptic.com.'' 〕 Bovis off-handedly ascribes the discovery of pyramid power to armchair reasoning and to mystical experiments in Europe using a dowsing pendulum:
Despite the legend, the idea that pyramids could preserve food was not a result of a chance discovery made while standing inside the Great Pyramid, but followed from Bovis's previous convictions regarding dowsing:
In 1949, inspired by Bovis,〔 Drbal, Karel. “The Struggle for the Pyramid Patent.” Pyramid Power, edited by Max Toth and Greg Nielson. (New York: Warner Destiny, 1976). 141. 〕 a Czechoslovakian named Karel Drbal applied for a patent〔 on a "Pharaoh's shaving device": a model pyramid alleged to maintain the sharpness of razor blades. According to the patent (#91,304), "The method of maintaining the razor blades and straight razor blades sharp by placing them in the magnetic field in such a way that the sharp edge lies in the direction of the magnetic lines."〔 Drbal, Karel. English translation hosted at www.amasci.com. Retrieved November 2008. 〕 Drbal alleged that his device would focus "the earth's magnetic field", although he did not make it clear how this would work, or whether the device's shape or materials exerted the effect.〔 Loxton, Daniel. (Altadena: Skeptics Society, 2006). 88.〕 Drbal's contention that razors could be sharpened (or have their sharpness maintained) by alignment with the points of the compass or the Earth's magnetic field was probably not original to him. ''Junior Skeptic'' magazine discovered〔 Loxton, Daniel. (Altadena: Skeptics Society, 2006). 82. 〕 exactly similar claims published decades earlier. In 1933, ''The Times'' of London carried letters claiming, "if I oriented my razor blades…N. and S. by the compass…they tend to last considerably longer"〔 Coleridge, Gilbert. Letter. ''The Times.'' 7 Oct. 1933. 〕 and "The idea of keeping razor blades in a magnetic field is not quite new. About the year 1900 I found this out…."〔 Grange, William D’Oyly. Letter. ''The Times.'' 19 Oct. 1933.〕 In 1968, paranormal authors Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder visited Czechoslovakia, where they happened across a cardboard pyramid manufactured commercially by Drbal.〔 Ostrander, Sheila, and Lynn Schroeder. ''Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain.'' (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1970). 339-340. 〕 They met with Drbal,〔Ostrander, Sheila, and Lynn Schroeder. ''Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain.'' (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1970). 342. 〕 then dedicated a chapter of their popular 1970 book ''Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain'' to pyramid power. This book introduced to the English-speaking world both the concept of pyramid power and the apocryphal origin story about Antoine Bovis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pyramid power」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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