Banned from sale by the North Carolina Natural and Cultural Resources for the Pilot Mountain State Park gift shop run by Eastern National. Curiously, Eastern National is based in Pennsylvania with very little input from North Carolina venders.

Replied to your post on Reddit in r/selfpublish on January 28, 2025…

Do you know why the banned them book? You can DM me if you think it would be too identifiable for the sub's self promo rule.

Yes, I know why they banned the book because before the book came out, I had an hour and a half meeting about the contents that was taped recorded with permission. In the book I asked if something on the mountain was "man-made or natural?" They said although the book is professionally written, with 400 footnotes for the stories, that they could not support it since it questioned if the mountain had some aspects that were not natural.  The question was asked on the back cover of the book and seven times as text for images within.

Half of my book takes place before 1870 and there was a movement by the state Board of Education to not teach anything earlier than that in high school. So that was sort of a brick wall I headed into at 90 mph, so to speak.

Since the entire mountain is 99% pure quartzite shaped like a pyramid I do not think they were real keen on that rabbit hole either, but that went unmentioned. A university professor said in 1944 in a published journal that the mountain “was an almost perfect pyramid." So, this is a crystalline pyramid that is x3 the size of the Great Pyramid in Egypt that curiously also looks like the sphinx from a distance right here in the United States next to an expressway.  You can get to the top of the pyramid in your car in about eight minutes from the expressway which is sort of unique in this world.

I did go on a hike with the forensic geologist from the History Channel, Scott Wolter (and also Stefan Burns), on the mountain.  The hike lasted for a 2 1/2-hours in the middle of a hot summer day. When I got back to my car it was 99 degrees. Wolter's conclusion was that it is indeed all natural and I had already taken the seven times it was mentioned out of the book. It turns out at talks I have given that it is the first question asked anyway by people who have not read the book yet. I changed the back cover and asked if it was our minds making order out of chaos.

A few days before the hike both Randall Carlson and Dr. Robert Schoch were on the mountain together to see the pyramid shadow on the summer solstice.

Now, interestingly a Native American elder says the feature on the mountain that got me into so much trouble is alive. It is a frequency that all humans can communicate with when they quiet their mind and listen. That rock frequency has been on the planet for 1.6 billion-years on this mountain. This gets into the grit physics we have been taught (Age of Pieces) vs. ontology (Age of Aquarius).

I like to call the mountain sacred, but with a scientific foundation of that sacredness in the geology and crystalline nature of it that produces piezoelectricity for healing (well studied in Pub Med). There might be a PEMF aspect to the mountain and that charges mineral spring water on the mountain. The main reason I got into the research on October 2, 2012 is someone told me that the Native Americans feel you should take your moccasins off within 20 miles of the mountain out of respect for the sacredness.