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Family behind The Integratron inviting locals to help celebrate 25th year at hi-desert institution
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2025-05-03 14:00:00
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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.”

The 10 acre property has over 100 trees planted on it by the Karl sisters in the last 25 years.
Michael Aquino points to a section that was originally designed to float and spin – a feature that died with George Van Tassel in 1978.
The property is more than just the Integratron and the family has spent the last 25 years planting trees and rehabilitating the land.

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.

The Integratron is now home to sound baths in its upper section, which frequently sell out weeks or months in advance.
The parabolic dome creates sound effects best experienced in person, and this Sunday you can visit during their 25th anniversary event.

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/
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