George Van Tassel's
Amazing Integratron

George Van Tassel's Integratron & Giant Rock Photo Gallery


To UFO researchers, Giant Rock is significant for many reasons, for starters it was the home and workplace of the enigmatic George Van Tassel. Van Tassel allegedly made contact with extraterrestrials in the 1950's and was tutored by them on a variety of subjects, including human, cellular rejuvenation. And that led to the building of a structure called the Integratron.

[Giant Rock anomaly (upper left), car in lower center.]


After arriving in California from Ohio in 1930, Van Tassel, age 20, lived with an uncle who owned an automobile repair shop in Southern California. One day during that period, he met Frank Critzer, a down and out prospector who needed to have his Essex car repaired. Van Tassel found the prospector to be an engaging fellow and the two of them soon became friends. Owing to Critzer s financial difficulties, Van Tassel agreed to repair the car for free. Critzer was even allowed to sleep at the garage while repairs were made to his car.

Van Tassel s largess didn t end there: He gave Critzer a trunk full of canned goods along with $30., which, as Van Tassel put it, was a lot of money then. In return, Critzer promised to include Van Tassel and the uncle in any mining claims he might make in the future.

A year later, Critzer mailed a map to Van Tassel showing how to get to Great Rock, the place Critzer was living. Map in hand, Van Tassel set out to visit his friend. Van Tassel was surprised to find that Critzer had dug under the Great Rock in order to have a place to live. He had made a kind of cave for himself. It should be noted that Critzer was, technically, nothing more than a squatter, since he was living on government land.

According to Van Tassel, the idea of making a cave was a good one. In the summer the maximum temperature under the Rock is 80 degrees F. In the winter, the temperature is a minimum of 50 degrees F. In contrast, the temperature outside the cave swings between 25 degrees F to 115 degrees F.

The Giant Rock covers 5800 Sq. ft. of ground and is 7 stories high. The rooms that Critzer dug were no more than a total of 400 sq. ft.

During WWII, Critzer ran afoul of the government and was accused of stealing dynamite and later of being an enemy spy. Conflicting stories about this colorful character abound. But whatever the truth, a confrontation with the police resulted in his death in August of 1942. Interestingly, Van Tassel claims the prospector was an "advanced thinker" who researched innovative methods of manufacturing plastic. However details of that matter are sketchy.

Van Tassel continued to visit the Rock. And he reported that he and his wife even vacationed there. Van Tassel related that in 1945, he made an application to the Bureau of Land Management to lease the property. In 1947, George Van Tassel quit his job at a Lockeed aircraft plant and moved his family to the Mojave Desert, near Landers, California. He then leased four square miles of land surrounding Giant Rock from the government.

The area was covered with decomposed granite making it a natural site for a small airport. And Van Tassel, in fact, created one Giant Rock Airport--which he operated from 1947 until 1975.

In 1953, he started holding weekly meditations in the rooms under the Giant Rock these meditations he said led to contact with extraterrestrial beings. He first contacted them in August of that year. As Van Tassel tells the story, a ship from Venus landed. The occupants of the ship invited him onboard where they taught him the principals of cell rejuvenation and that those teachings led to the creation of the Integratron. The Integratron was designed to help carry out the cell rejuvenation process.

The family held many UFO conventions at Giant Rock, and thousands visited. In 1959 alone, 11,000 people visited his site. Throughout his life Van Tassel kept busy writing books about time travel and rejuvenation.

Van Tassel died in 1978. After his death, operations there were discontinued. Eventually the facilities were vandalized, causing the Bureau of Land Management to demolish most of what remained. However, the Integratron still stands and is maintained by a group that offers it for tours and other exhibitions.

The Integratron stands 38 feet high, is domed-shaped and has a 50-foot diameter, non-metallic framework. According to Van Tassel, the location of the structure was vital to its function. A complex formula involving the earth magnetic field and the position of the Great Pyramid in Egypt and Giant Rock provided Tassel with the correct coordinates. Tassel spent 18 years constructing it.


"The purpose of the Integratron is to recharge energy into living cell structure,
to bring about longer life with youthful energy."

~ George Van Tassel, Builder of the Integratron


All the Planets are Inhabited!

George Van Tassel was an airline mechanic for four years and has experience in flying and flight test work for such firms as Douglas, Howard Hughes and Lockheed dating from 1927. He and his wife came to Giant Rock with the intent of running a small airport, a restaurant and beer parlour; the last two, however, never materialised. His airport at Giant Rock, however, became famous as the venue for many flying saucer conventions at which most of the well-known contactees of the fifties could be found. He is the author of I Rode a Flying Saucer and The Council of Seven Lights.

His own contact occurred one night when he and his wife were sleeping outside the house. This was quite a common practice in those parts for houses without air conditioning, as they became unbearably hot inside. He was awoken by a man in a one-piece blue suit standing beside his bed who said "My name is Sylvanon, I'd be pleased to show you my craft". He tried to wake his wife but was unable to do so. The ship was standing about a hundred yards away, and on being taken aboard found it was very like the one in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still, except that this one had a column in the centre. He was shown how furniture could be brought out of walls, and instruments rose out of what had appeared to be shelves. He saw clothes hanging in wardrobes, and responses to his questions were given before he spoke them. He was then taken through a "manhole" below the deck and saw two rotors turning in opposite directions, and what appeared to be gear wheels which reminded him of the "wheels within wheels" of the Book of Ezekiel in the Bible. He was then accompanied out of the ship and the man said "We'll be seeing you". When he had re-entered his ship it took off and vanished in about seven seconds.

The rock the area is named after is a huge boulder with a small room carved in the bottom in which Van Tassel carried out thought communication sessions with space people. People who visited it said it felt very powerful. He said that when the space people gave information, it was a little at a time and they waited for each piece to be acted on before they gave the next. Van Tassel was also responsible for building the Integreton, a large observatory-like building about three miles from the Rock, intended to rejuvenate the human body.

Sources: Interview with Van Tassel on Contact, an American radio programme of the 1960s, The Flying Saucer Pilgrimage, by Bryant and Helen Reeve; Farewell Good Brothers

View photos from our recent visit to The Integratron and Giant Rock!


The Integratron is based on 16-fold hypercubus M-PHYSICS. See our series on the starglyph in Machu Picchu, Nazca Star Geoglyph, and the Monument of Humanity (grid coordinates) at Markawasi, for more on the tesseract, read The Trilogy.


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The Splitting Of Van Tassel's Giant Rock

On February 23, 2000, The High Desert Star newspaper reported that the world s largest, freestanding boulder broke into two pieces. A third of it broke off, exposing a gleaming white granite interior.

The Giant Rock is famous in Native American culture, since it and the surrounding land are Holy Ground. It was the place where the northern and southern tribes met each year. Native Americans call the Giant Rock The Great Stone. And to them, the Great Stone symbolizes the Great Spirit.

In times past, tribal ceremonies at this site often lasted up to three days. During the ceremonies, none of the ordinary citizens of the tribe were allowed to be near the Rock; instead, they had to camp a mile or so away from the proceedings. On the North side of the Rock is the Sign of the Scorpion, purportedly put there by an Indian chief . To the Indians, the sign signifies a good place According to reports; it is the only official Native American sign on the Giant Rock. No other markings were permitted. At the Giant Rock, the chiefs would commune with the spirits of the "Rock People" who prophesized that one day the Mother would split open and a new era would begin. Many see the recent splitting of the rock as a prophesy fulfilled.

In his book, "The Secret of the Beloved Disciple," James Twyman wrote extensively about two important and contemporary Shamans active in the Southern Calif. area: Shri Naath Devi and Fr. John, a priest from LA.

Twyman reported that on 19 and 20 February 2000, Shri Naath Devi gathered fellow healers to meditate near Giant Rock. She said that Native people had stopped holding ceremonies in the area and that violent upheavals would occur. She went on to say that if the Mother accepted the scheduled prayers, then the Giant rock would split at the side, relieving pressure on the Earth s tectonic plates. If the prayers were not accepted, then Giant Rock would split directly down the middle. Keep in mind that the Giant Rock had not moved for millions of years. Nonetheless, the next morning the boulder hadn t simply cracked; rather, an entire third of it broke off. Twyman reports that Devi interpreted the splitting of the Rock as a positive sign that indicated that the Mother had opened her arms to mankind.


Giant Rock Splits Open

Native American prophecys say
"the day when Motherearth splits the stone open, a new era will begin."

February 2000 James Twyman - Giant Rock was considered by many the largest boulder in the world, it is now two boulders. A slice of the rock fell off from the boulder monday morning February 23, 2000, exposing a gleaming white granite interior, and fulfilling Native American prophecy.

In ancient times "Giant Rock" was held sacred by the Native peoples of the Joshua Tree, California area. So sacred in fact that only the chief was allowed to go near it. Everyone else had to wait nearly a mile away while the Chief communed with the spirits of the "Rock People" who had prophesied "the day when the Mother would split open and a new era would be revealed."

Most other traditions have pointed to this time in our history as the awakening of the Divine Feminine, to a world based upon compassion and peace. Now that Giant Rock has split, many people believe that the prophecy has been fulfilled.

In my latest book, "The Secret of the Beloved Disciple," I wrote extensively about two important shamans in this area, Shri Naath Devi and Fr. John, a priest from Los Angeles. This e-mail is in regard to the important happenings that took place at the Integratron with Shri Naath Devi and Fr. John a mile away from Giant Rock, during the two days prior to the boulder splitting. I believe that this story needs to be shared with as many people as possible so we can focus our prayers and energy on the important era we have so recently entered.

On February 19th and 20th, Shri Naath Devi was inspired to bring a number of powerful healers to the desert near Giant Rock to pray, meditate. She said that the Native people were no longer doing ceremony in this area and that the earth itself was about to react with a violent upheaval. If the Mother accepted the prayers that were scheduled, then Giant Rock would crack at the side, relieving pressure on the Earth's tectonic plates. If the prayers were not accepted, then Giant Rock would split directly down the middle.

The fact that Giant Rock has not moved for millions of years made the likelihood of such a change remote. And yet, the next morning, to everyone's amazement, the boulder had not cracked; rather one-third of the rock had split and had fallen to the desert floor. Shri Naath Devi interpreted this in the most positive light. She said that the Mother had opened her arms to us, cracking open her heart for the whole world to see. Fr. John was there for part of the prayer. He too felt the incredible shift and joined two of my assistants, LaurieJoy Pinkham and Will Clark, who had participated in the prayers with Shri Naath Devi. They had gathered at her house less than 24 hours later.

As they stood in the kitchen discussing the events, lightning struck, sending a ball of light through the center of the house in a north/south direction. Within moments lightning struck again and shot through the house in an east/west direction. This was a very auspicious moment and was witnessed by all four people. Shri Naath Devi declared that the prayers were now complete and that the lightening was honoring the four directions as a sign from the Mother that supported this completion. The boulder had split open only two hours prior to this gathering.

What does this all mean?

We stand at the threshold of an amazing opportunity. This is the time when we rediscover within ourselves the peace and compassion of the Divine, and the earth itself will mirror this shift. There have been many signs over the last few years: the White Buffalo calf, comets that have come and comets will come again over the next few months. All these lead us to believe that the time the ancients have called the "Great Shift" is at hand.


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