Posted on 09/24/2005 3:55:47 PM PDT by NYer
p>World-renowned Los Angeles liturgical artist Isabel Piczek earned accolades for "opening new doors of research" at the Dallas International Shroud of Turin Conference held at the Adolphus Hotel Sept. 8-11. The landmark event drew 160 scientists, artists and physicians from around the world sharing the latest research on the shroud, believed by many to portray a full-length image of the crucified Christ.
Using a statue she created as a visual aid measuring one-third the actual size of the man depicted on the shroud, Piczek presented her explanation of the image's "Concealed Bas-Relief Effect." She theorizes the image of the shroud was transported onto a straight and taut linen above and below the man's hovering body.
"One of the puzzling mysteries of the shroud is that the image transported to an absolutely straight, taut surface is not flat. It is semi-three-dimensional, very much the same as a bas-relief is in art," explained Piczek. "In art, the bas-relief image always curves out of a straight background that radically eliminates the rest of the space behind the bas-relief."
Refuting theories that the figure on the shroud was painted, Piczek declared that the image's strong foreshortening of the body, combined with the lack of a continuous paint medium film on the cloth's surface, are "decisive arguments" that the shroud is not a painting. According to Piczek, the foreshortening of the legs, reflecting the reclined figure's elevated knees, excludes the possibility of a contact image of any kind. "An unknown system obeying laws different from optics created the image with strangely similar visual results," declared Piczek.
She came to this theory "at the cost of my whole brain" only one month ago during the creation of the shroud statue. "A heretofore unknown interface acted as an event horizon," explained Piczek. "The straight, taut linen of the shroud simply was forced to parallel the shape of this powerful interface. The projection, an action at a distance, happens from the surface and limit of this, taking with itself the bas-relief image of the upper and, separately, the underside of the body."
Piczek, who holds degrees in art and particle physics, thinks this new theory of how the image appeared warrants greater investigation of the non-image area of the shroud. Such research could yield scientific clues to the "unknown information field" which caused the projection, according to the shroud expert. A devout Catholic as well as a theoretical physicist, Piczek believes the image occurred at the moment of Christ's resurrection.
"The image of the shroud and its riddle cannot be solved through the science of the past," said Piczek. Concurring with French physicist and shroud researcher, Dr. William Wolkowski, Piczek believes that transdisciplinary study of the shroud will give birth to a new scientific age. "The shroud shows the future of science," declared Piczek.
She called the conference a "landmark event" due to the presence of Turin officials who fielded questions about the shroud, last displayed in public in 2000. Msgr. Giuseppe Ghiberti, adviser and spokesman for the papal custodian of the shroud in Turin, Italy, led the Turin delegation and delivered the keynote address.
According to Piczek, the Turin officials dispelled rumors about the shroud, including whether or not the shroud has been vacuumed. "The old thought that the shroud has been vacuumed is not true. The dirt on the cloth is historic," said Piczek, a founding board member of the Dallas-based American Shroud of Turin Association for Research. AMSTAR co-sponsored the event along with CENTRO, a 400-year-old shroud organization based in Turin, and the 50-year-old Holy Shroud Guild based in Esopus, New York.
During the conference, botany expert, Dr. Alan Whanger, indicated that pollen and flowers on the shroud reveal plants native to Jerusalem at the time of Jesus. Other conference presenters discussed their analysis of the shroud's human bloodstains as well as biblical references to the shroud and an explanation of the cloth's "lost years" before it resurfaced in France in the 13th century.
Next year, an international shroud conference will be held in Los Angeles. Dr. August Accetta, founder of The Southern California Shroud Center in Huntington Beach will be among the local organizers for the 2006 event. (For further information on shroud events, log on to www.shroud.com.)
Shroud ping!
Not meaning to be sacriligious...but have they ever taken a DNA sample from the Shroud?
How nice to find a image of a 1st century rabbi on a shroud that dates to 12th Century (the great age of religious fakes).
I am sure I will base my faith on that. Yeppers!
This is one of those threads, posted as news, that will lead to charges of religion bashing toward anyone who offers a criticism.
"They" meaning officials of the Catholic church, or maybe the family who actually own the Shroud?
"Not meaning to be sacriligious...but have they ever taken a DNA sample from the Shroud?"
That is a good question. I believe when they were last allowed to examine it was before PCR technology was practical. IF it is blood stains or other bodily fluids on the shroud, it should be possible to extract them and get DNA fragments. Of course, I'm not sure what that would tell us. Possibly, the ethnic makeup of the person?
Anybody.
That is a good question. I believe when they were last allowed to examine it was before PCR technology was practical. IF it is blood stains or other bodily fluids on the shroud, it should be possible to extract them and get DNA fragments. Of course, I'm not sure what that would tell us. Possibly, the ethnic makeup of the person?
Who knows? If something were to be found from Mary...then comparisons could be made. And then parsing out the mother from the Father...you might have a look at the genetics of God (or God making his Son human).
It just seems to me like that would be fascinating.
The owners haven't taken anything in more than a century, but that doesn't mean they don't have a stash somewhere else.
[She came to this theory "at the cost of my whole brain"...]
I don't know why, but I think that is very funny.
Well......the atheists found the thread, already.
Clone Jesus!
Whether the shroud is a fake or not (I don't have a formed opinion on the topic), your post appears not to account for this:
During the conference, botany expert, Dr. Alan Whanger, indicated that pollen and flowers on the shroud reveal plants native to Jerusalem at the time of Jesus.
Somehow, I doubt that 12th Century Europeans are so clever as to have manipulated the pollen in the fabric to consist of plants from the Middle East.
"I'm not sure what that would tell us. Possibly, the ethnic makeup of the person?"
Mitochrondia DNA should be revealing now that I think of it. Also, in that, as I and other Christians belive, the Lord Jesus had no earthy father, I would like to see what his Y chromosome looks like. Should it not be unique?
He could not have gotten it from Mary. It had to be totally miracuous in nature and specially created by God for the conception. Would it be like the original man, Adam? Would it be like Abraham, the father of the Jews? Or, would it be like King David? If the shroud is genuine, then a DNA study of the Y chromosome would be extremely interesting. Of course, to those that don't believe it would make no difference.
This "rabbi" of which you speak Is the Son of God
But, seriously...it is a question to be asked. If the DNA would show Mary and Joseph...what would we think? If the DNA shows Mary and someone else...what would we think? What if the DNA matched nothing known to humankind? Would that have made Jesus human? What would that do to our basis in faith?
Or, are we meant not to know?
you should be a little more up to date on your research.
I suppose one would have to live overseas to understand the true meaning of "The Ugly American".
This board - and others - epitomize why the rest of the world dislikes Americans. All you can do is hurl infantile and ignorant insults towards everybody's religious or cultural beliefs just because they don't fit into your narrow views of reality.
This is NOT just to you, mr meager --- there are a few other commentators in this string that it is directed towards.
I suggest that you read - THINK - then discuss merits or demerits of an article, religion or custom as you see them.
Then someone may actually care about your opinion instead of thinking which grade school you are currently enrolled in.
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