Question: Ask The Nuwaupians, Did You Know Malachi York Plagiarized Parts From The Movie and Book Chariots of the Gods?
Answer: Most were't born when the movie was released, so they wouldn't know.
In 1970, there was a German film documentary which was based on the Erich von Daniken book "Chariots of the Gods" which theorized that Extraterrestrials had visited ancient peoples hundreds of years ago. The film was released in America in 1973 and nominated for an academy award. Malachi York lifted sections, lines and terminologies from the narrator of the American version of the film. York gave NO citations, NO references and NEVER mentioned a word about Chariots of the Gods in his book, "The Science of Healing".
Unfortunately this is nothing new with York, he has a long history of plagiarizing. In the revised edition of the "Science of Healing" book, he attempts to leave an impression with the reader that he has some ability to explain various aspects of "mystery schools" set up by indigenous cultures from around the world.
I was very familiar with this documentary because prior to cable television, my father and I would stay up late on Saturday nights watching Chariots of the Gods on the "late late show". I watched the film so much that I instantly remembered the comments from the narrator when I first read the revised edition of the Science of Healing. Eventually I rented the movie on video and read the book as the video was playing, and it was then that I realized that York copied sections of the movie and slightly altered words in the Science of healing book.
According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to "plagiarize" means,
to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own to use (another's production) without crediting the source to commit literary theft to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source. In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud.
1. Turning in someone else's work as your own.
2. Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit.
3. Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks.
4. Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation.
5. Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit.
6. Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not.
Now compare Chariots of the Gods to York's Science of Healing.
Example:
"In India, the wisdom of the Mahabarata commands great respect, it is the national epic poem, much loved by the people, it's 80,000 verses are 6,000 years old, this is a part of the Mahabarata in which we also come upon stupefying evidence of gods come to earth, the poem speaks repeatedly of Vimanas, these are vehicles which fly to great heights by means of Mercury and powerful upward wind currents...the author of this passage witnessed what today would be called a blast off Bimana flew away in his Vimana on a gigantic beam of light..."
Chariots of The Gods (video)
"In India, as well, they are waiting on the Elders. there is a poem called Mahabarata that consists of 80,000 verses. This poem is thousands of years old and speaks of Deities coming to earth, The narrator speaks of seeing a vehicle powered by Mercury and wind currents. He witnessed a blast off and a gigantic beam of light".
-Malachi York: Science of Healing pg. 40
This form of plagiarism;
1. to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own"
2. to use (another's production) without crediting the source"
3. Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks.
5. Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit.
Example:
"in the books of the Tibetan Kanchur, the Kanchur consist of over a 1000 volumes containing the holy text of Lamaism, the secret codes of these text is the most complex ever devised by man, only 1/100 of the Kanchur has been deciphered, the resulting, which we can now read are full of references to gods appearing in the sky of the luminous curls and transparent spheres..."
-Chariots of the Gods (video)
"In Tibet, there is a 1,000 volume set of tablets called the Tablets of Kanchur. These holy texts contain information of LIamaism, are the most complex secret code of information ever recorded. They are so complex that only 1/100th have been deciphered. These tablets make reference to Deities in the skies, luminous curls and transparent spheres".
-Malachi York: Science of Healing pg. 45.
Again, this type of plagiarism is,
1. to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own"
2. to use (another's production) without crediting the source"
3. Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks.
5. Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit.
Neither Eric von Daniken, the movie Chariots of the Gods nor the book Chariots of the Gods mentioned in York's Science of Healing. The narrators words aren't placed in quotation marks, or any separation of his words from York's writings. York continues the plagiary from this section of the documentary talking about Easter Island.
"...today, the natives still call their Island Mata ki te rangi, which means eyes looking up to the heavens..."
-Chariots of the Gods (video)
"the meaning of the name of Easter Island as translated into English as 'Eyes Looking Up To Heaven'.
-Malachi York: Science of Healing pg. 40
"the neighboring Atoll is called the Island of the bird people, here we see them, creatures with human bodies and the heads of birds"
-Chariots of the Gods
"in the legends of Easter Island, there is a story about a small Island that lies just a short distance from Easter Island. On this Island lives a certain bird...the bird nests...the priest received the egg that was laid by the bird man...this meant great power for the bird man and his tribe"
-Malachi York: Science of Healing pg. 40
"This is Maki Maki, the God of the Island"
-Chariots of the Gods
"the creator Deity called Maki Maki"
-Malachi York: Science of Healing pg. 40
York was changing words, and copying the sentence structure of the source and not giving credit to it's source. York took advantage of the very people who followed him, giving them poor information, using Eric von Daniken's fantasies of UFO/Extraterrestrial theories that's since been completely debunked. For more on the debunked sections, click on the link below.
http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/
