Jacques Ravatin & novel about J.E.W. Keely
Jean-Pierre Lentin ( lentin@imaginet.fr )
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 19:16:40 +0200 (MET DST)
Hi all, and wow ! After all those years, I finally met Mr Jacques Ravatin.
Just got back from the meeting, and oh-boy-am-I-thrilled ! Now, the name is
probably unknown outside of France, but wait... I kept hearing about
Ravatin, his group Ark'Hall (now named Eurek'All), his books (some of them
under the pseudonym of Vladimir Rosgnilk), his theories and experiments...
He is a 63 years old mathematician and physician, one foot in conventional
university, the other in weird science BIG TIME - shape power, sacred
geometry, lost technology, incredible devices that warp space-time... He dug
out an impressive quantity of obscure patents and forgotten inventors, some
of them you all know (like Keely, Lakhovsky, Schauberger), some others you
probably don't (like Leon Sprink, Louis Boutard, Max Picard). He
experimented with the Leon Sprink device, an orthogonal electromagnetic
array that, correctly oriented, produces spectacular and very weird
antigravific and bio-chemical effects. Sprink died in poverty in the early
1970's. There are patents for his devices, rumour said the patents
mysteriously disappeared, but Ravatin just told me the rumours are crap and
the patents are still available. I'll have to check that at I.N.P.I., the
French patent office... Stay in tune !
Anyway, I bought all the Ravatin books that are still available and will
digest them in the weeks to come. The Ravatin group just put up a small
website, with an English version. Check it at :
http://www.eurekall.com/socuk.htm
Last surprise of today was when I found out that Ravatin published a novel,
called "Les Desintegrators" (Editions L'Originel), and it's actually a
fictional history of J.E.W. Keely ! Keely is named "Samuel Krels" in the
novel. Apparently Ravatin found the story was so strange that fiction would
be the best way to get the facts and ideas across. At the end of the book,
there's a small note stating that everything is based on real events and
people, and a short English-language bibliography on Keely.
What a day !
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Jean-Pierre Lentin
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