Patrick Flanagan (October 11, 1944 – December 19, 2019) was an American
New Age
New Age is a range of Spirituality, spiritual or Religion, religious practices and beliefs that rapidly grew in Western world, Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclecticism, eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise d ...
author and inventor.
Flanagan wrote books focused on Egyptian
sacred geometry
Sacred geometry ascribes symbolic and sacred meanings to certain geometric shapes and certain geometric proportions. It is associated with the belief of a divine creator of the universal geometer. The geometry used in the design and constructi ...
and
Pyramidology
Pyramidology (or pyramidism) refers to various religion, religious or pseudoscience, pseudoscientific speculations regarding pyramids, most often the Giza pyramid complex and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.Martin Gardner, ''Fads and Fallaci ...
.
In 1958, at the age of 14, while living in
Bellaire, Texas, Flanagan invented the neurophone, an electronic device that claims to transmit sound through the body's
nervous system
In biology, the nervous system is the complex system, highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its behavior, actions and sense, sensory information by transmitting action potential, signals to and from different parts of its body. Th ...
directly to the brain. It was patented in the United States in 1968 (Patent #3,393,279). The invention earned him a profile in
Life magazine
''Life'' (stylized as ''LIFE'') is an American magazine launched in 1883 as a weekly publication. In 1972, it transitioned to publishing "special" issues before running as a monthly from 1978 to 2000. Since then, ''Life'' has irregularly publi ...
, which called him a "unique, mature and inquisitive scientist."
Pyramid power
During the 1970s, Flanagan was a proponent of pyramid power. He wrote several books and promoted it with lectures and seminars. According to Flanagan, pyramids with the exact relative dimensions of Egyptian pyramids act as "an effective resonator of randomly polarized microwave signals which can be converted into electrical energy." One of his first books, ''Pyramid Power'', was featured in the lyrics of The Alan Parsons Project album, ''
Pyramid
A pyramid () is a structure whose visible surfaces are triangular in broad outline and converge toward the top, making the appearance roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense. The base of a pyramid can be of any polygon shape, such as trian ...
''.
Inventions and discoveries
In 1958, at the age of 13, Flanagan invented a device which he called a Neurophone, which he claimed transmitted sound via the nervous system to the brain.
[Ridder, Chris (September 5–11, 1996)]
"The Amazing Neurophone"
''The Anchorage Press''. Retrieved November 19, 2012.
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External links
PhiSciencesPatrick Flanagan Official site
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1944 births
Living people
American inventors
Pyramidologists
Sacred geometry