You know the Integratron because it’s a high desert institution on the short list of suggestions for visitors that want to have an experience that’s unique to the This Sunday, the family behind the Integratron is celebrating 25 years on the property, stewards of a building built by paranormal legend George Van Tassel but designed by out-of-towners.
Michael Aquino: “I mean the one thing we’ll always include the telling of the history here is that George was contacted by aliens and it was through that that the design for this building was was created. My name is Michael Aquino. I’m the son of Nancy Carl, one of the co-owners of the Integratron. The Integratron itself was built as a machine to rejuvenate the cells of the body so that human beings could live longer. Based on like how we understand the science behind all this this thing, it was, I mean it really would have worked and generated a lot of electricity. It’s this field that you’re supposed to walk into that’s still a little bit of a mystery to us that kind of died with George.”
That was in 1978 and the property in the building remained in flux until the three Carl sisters purchased it in 2000.
Michael Aquino: “They are the stewards of the Integratron. The anniversary is actually the the day that like escrow closed on the Integratron so that’s why it’s a it’s a pretty important day for us. On the 4th, our gates open at 10 o’clock. Our keynote speaker for the day, Daniel Paul, he’s an architectural historian. He’s an amazing guy and he’s going to be giving an entire whole talk in the downstairs of the dome for each of these three sessions. So he’ll give a really vast history about where this all started, you know, George Van Tassel even all the way back to the to the 30’s and then all the way to the 70’s until he passed away. And then everybody gets to go upstairs and experience the sound.
I got a tour of the Integratron itself and it does feel like being inside a giant vintage speaker. In the upstairs of the Integratron there’s 22 unique quartz crystal bowls that when played fill the warm wood room with a wall of sound that’s best experienced in person.
Michael: “It’s a 16-sided parabolic dome so it’s a perfect parabola of 16 times all the way across. All of these beams meet up into this ton of one and a half tons of concrete that was poured in place up in the ceiling that’s 38 feet high. That is basically the keystone that holds the entire building together.”
You can learn more about the Integratron on their website, or come by their 25th anniversary event starting at 10:00 a.m. Sunday (5/4) and open until 4:00 p.m. The sound baths frequently sell out weeks in advance and during the anniversary event there will be a talk and presentation before each session.
Their website is https://www.integratron.com/
