Michael Smith

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Captain Francis Crozier was a major figure in 19th century Arctic and Antarctic exploration who led the doomed Franklin Expedition’s battle to survive against the odds. It is a compelling story which refuses to be laid to rest and recent discovery of his lost ships above the Arctic Circle gives it a new urgency. The ships may hold vital clues to how two navy vessels and 129 men disappeared 170 years ago and why Crozier, in command after Franklin’s early death, left the only written clue to the biggest disaster in Polar history. Drawn from historic records and modern revelations, this is the only comprehensive account of Crozier’s extraordinary life. It is a tale of a great explorer, a lost love affair and an enduring mystery. Crozier’s epic story began comfortably in Banbridge, Co Down and involved six gruelling expeditions on three of the 19th century’s great endeavours – navigating the North West Passage, reaching the North Pole and mapping Antarctica. But it ended in disaster.

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What is the true nature of reality? How does consciousness fit in? Why is love the most powerful force we feel? In this paradigm shifting book you will discover a remarkably simple and profound answer to all these questions and more: everything is consciousness emerging from love. By imagining the simplest conceptual way of creating "something" from "nothing," as cycles of prime numbers in base-12, Michael Smith reveals the elegant vibrational pattern which emerges. Taking the shape of a double-helix probability waveform which manifests as a torus in physical 3D, this base-12 prime vibration seems to be the fundamental creative blueprint of reality itself. The prime vibration not only explains what we see at all scales of nature but also what we don't see: the wave-particle duality of consciousness in action and our eternal spiritual nature. Unifying science and spirituality through the vibrational geometry of numbers, this compelling "Theory of Everything" suggests how love may indeed be at the heart of it all. Most importantly, it shows how we can expand and master love in our personal lives and create a more harmonious world together.

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