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Who we are and where we come from are the eternal mysteries that have engaged humanity for millennia. Evidence for human origins—our biology, technology, intellect, and spirituality—spans realms from scientific research and the bible to mystical traditions and clues that point us to alien beginnings.
Today's information highway has provided us with a great stew of information; what we have been missing is the lens through which we can focus that information, and rescue order from chaos. Editor J. Douglas Kenyon has culled from the pages of Atlantis Rising® magazine this collection of 34 concise and well-illustrated articles by world-class researchers and theoreticians who offer thought-provoking insights from the lost secrets of ancient and primordial wisdom.
Featuring:
- Alien Giants and Alien DNA. . . Or Not? by Zecharia Sitchin
- Atlantis and the Neanderthals by Colin Wilson
- Apostle of Mu by David Childress
- America's Mound Builders: The Mystery Deepens by Greg Little
- Echoes of Atlantis from Homer by Steven Sora
- Project Stardust: Accessing the Cosmic Hall of Records by William Henry
- Life in the Solar System Then & Now by William Stoecker
- Giza Underground by Philip Coppens
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780990690412 |
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| Publisher: | Atlantis Rising |
| Publication date: | 10/01/2015 |
| Series: | Atlantis Rising Anthology Library |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
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Forgotten Origins
Rescuing Order from Chaos
By J. Douglas Kenyon
Red Wheel
Copyright © 2015 J. Douglas KenyonAll rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-9906904-1-2
CHAPTER 1
Atlantis and the Neanderthals
A Best-Selling Writer Searches for 100,000 Years of Lost History and Outlines the Discoveries
BY COLIN WILSON
Charles Hapgood, an American professor of history, became convinced in 1989 that a civilization "with high levels of science" had existed at least 100,000 years ago.
In the mid-1950s, Hapgood had written a book called Earth's Shifting Crust, to which Einstein contributed an Introduction, arguing that the whole crust of the earth undergoes periodic "slippages," one of which in 9500 BC had caused the North Pole to move from Hudson Bay to its present position. And in 1966, his Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings had suggested that mediaeval maps called "portolans" — used by sailors to navigate from port to port — proved that there must have been a worldwide maritime civilization in 7000 BC.
In 1989 he told the writer Rand Flem-Ath that he intended to bring out a new edition of Earth's Shifting Crust, containing his evidence that civilization had existed for over 100,000 years. But before he could do that, he walked in front of a car and was killed.
I agreed to collaborate with Rand Flem-Ath in trying to solve the mystery of the "lost civilization," which Rand equated with Atlantis. But if Hapgood was correct, Atlantis was tens of thousands years older than Plato assumed.
After a long search, I was fortunate enough to track down the man who claimed to have convinced Hapgood that civilization, in fact, dated back 100,000 years. He was an eccentric recluse who lived in a small town in New England. When I asked him to explain what had convinced him that there was civilization 100,000 years ago, he specified two things: (1) that Neanderthal man was far more intelligent than we assume and (2) that ancient measures prove that man knew the exact size of the earth millennia before the Greek Eratosthenes worked it out in 240 BC.
A little research of my own quickly verified both statements. Far from being a shambling ape, Neanderthal man had a larger brain than we have, was well acquainted with astronomy, played musical instruments, and even invented the blast furnace. As to the size of the earth, the ancient Greeks had a measure called the stade — the length of a stadium. The polar circumference of the earth proves to be exactly 216,000 stade. Yet the Greeks did not know the size of the earth. They must have inherited the stade from someone who did know.
On a cruise down the Nile in 1997 I stumbled on another crucial discovery: the Nineveh number, a vast 15 digit number found inscribed on an Assyrian clay tablet in the ruins of Assurbanipal's library. Yet the Assyrians were no great mathematicians. The French space engineer, Maurice Chatelain, who provided the first Moon rocket with its communication system, discovered powerful internal evidence that the Nineveh number must have been worked out about 65,000 years ago.
He also learned that two more numbers, even larger, were found inscribed on stele in the Mayan sacred city of Quiriga. These shared with the Nineveh number a remarkable characteristic: they could be divided precisely by the number of years it takes the earth to complete its "precessional cycle" around the Sun, just under 26,000. (Precession of the equinoxes is the backward movement of the signs of the zodiac, so that in the heavens, spring begins slightly earlier each year.)
So it seems the Assyrians inherited their knowledge of precession from some early "founder" civilization — presumably the same civilization from which the Maya, thousands of years later and thousands of miles across the Atlantic, inherited theirs.
I came upon one more important discovery on that Nile cruise. It was something that happened in the temple of Edfu and it took six more years before its full significance dawned on me and provided a sudden insight into the secret of Egyptian temples. Of this, more in a moment.
I had come upon another interesting piece of evidence that high levels of science date back much earlier than we suppose. It started with the mystery of the Libyan desert glass. Two British scientists driving through the Libyan desert discovered large quantities of a fused green glass, highly valued by Arab craftsmen for making jewelry. Their first assumption, that these were tektites, a fused glass that comes from outer space, had to be abandoned since it lacked the typical air bubbles and left them with the only alternative hypothesis: that this glass had been manufactured by some strange industrial process around 6000 BC. But that would have required large quantities of water. It was Hapgood who was able to assure the investigators that there had been vast lakes in the desert in 6000 BC. When Lord Rennell of Rodd described the mystery to a scientist named John V. Dolphin, who had worked on testing the atom bomb in the desert of Australia, Dolphin told him that the glass looked just like the fused sand left behind after an atom bomb test, which led Lord Rennell to consider the possibility that the makers of the Libyan desert glass had mastered atomic energy. Hapgood dismissed this notion, being himself convinced that the ancients simply had some other method of producing very high temperatures — of around 6,000 degrees.
Unknown to Hapgood and Lord Rennell, a Bulgarian inventor named Ilya Velbov — who later called himself Yull Brown — had solved this problem. Brown made the extraordinary discovery that if the hydrogen and oxygen in water are separated and then re-combined in a kind of oxyacetylene flame, it will punch an instantaneous hole in a piece of hard wood, burn tungsten (requiring 6,000 degrees), vaporize metals, melt a firebrick, and weld glass to copper. Brown called this mixture "Brown's gas," and the Chinese used it in their submarines to turn seawater into drinking water. Yet because no one understands the process, science has shown total lack of interest in it. However, Brown had no doubt it was known to the ancients, who used it to extract purified gold from gold ore.
Brown's total refusal to compromise with American industry ruined his one excellent chance of achieving fame and riches and he died unknown.
But if Hapgood is correct about his 100,000-year-old science, what evidence remains? Well, a modern builder would admit that, for all our technology, he would have no idea of how to go about building the Great Pyramid. The same is true of the magnificent ruins of Tiahuanaco, in the Andes, whose harbor area has blocks so big that no modern crane could lift them. These builders seem to have had some technology for moving immensely heavy weights.
Lake Titicaca, on which Tiahuanaco was once a port, is full of sea creatures. At some time in the past, a geological convulsion raised it two and a half miles in the air. Geologists assume this was millions of years ago, but this is absurd. Who would build a great port on a lake with no other ports or cities? Surely, Tiahunaco must have been at sea level when the convulsion occurred. In their book When the Earth Nearly Died, Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe of 9500 BC (1995), D. S. Allan and J. B. Delair argue that the convulsion was probably due to the impact of a comet or asteroid. The date, of course, is the date Plato assigns to the destruction of Atlantis "in a day and a night."
The story of the great flood is preserved in the legends of the Haida Indians of Canada and of many other tribes. But which flood? Plato speaks of no less than four. The first of these was the Atlantis flood. The second is referred to in the Book of Enoch and the rituals of the Freemasons and it took place approximately 2,000 years after Plato's flood. "Seven burning mountains" fell to earth from space, according to the evidence of Professor Alexander Tollmann, the largest in the Sunda Strait and it set in motion a great migration north, which created civilizations in India and then in Sumeria (the Sumerians are regarded as the founders of European civilization). The third flood, around 6000 BC, created the Black Sea and was the flood of Noah and the Epic of Gilgamesh. The fourth, "Deucalion's flood," occurred in the Bronze age, around 2200 BC. Another vast catastrophe struck in AD 535, causing worldwide famine, drought and plague, which destroyed, among others, the civilization of the Maya in Central America and of the Nazca Indians of Peru, whose giant line-drawings on the surface of the desert, we now know, were designed to persuade the gods to send rain.
These drawings can be seen only from the air and have given rise to the theory that the Nazca shamans, with the aid of psychedelic drugs (which the Indians are known to have used) were able to achieve out-of-the-body experiences that enabled them to do this. The Indians of the Peruvian forest use a drug called ayahuasca, which (according to anthropologist Jeremy Narby) they claim taught them the properties of 80,000 plants and the structure of DNA.
I argue in my book Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals (2006) that shamans have a knowledge of nature that goes far beyond that of modern science. There seems to be no doubt that shamans possess powers that we would consider "magical," and many examples are cited. The healing abilities of shamans can also be used for the opposite purpose, to produce sickness and death. The Kahuna priests of Hawaii can use the Death Prayer to kill enemies. And it was when reading about their power to protect temples with a curse and the story of one rash youth who became paralyzed from the waist down after entering a "fordidden" temple in a spirit of bravado, that I suddenly saw the meaning of an incident that had happened in 1997 in the temple of Edfu. These temples were, indeed, alive; a certain ritual could summon the god or goddess as a living force. The curse of Tutankamun was undoubtedly more than a legend.
It is clear that the ancients possessed some extraordinary ability to multiply huge numbers, very like those possessed by modern calculating prodigies (such as 5 year old Benjamin Blyth, who took only a few minutes to work out how many seconds he had been alive). The Infinite Harmony by Mike Hayes, shows the intimate relation between the DNA code and the I Ching. This leads to a consideration of synchronicity, which modern science refuses to recognize, and the "certain blindness in human beings," which causes us to filter out so much of our experience. Goethe, like William James, was fully aware of this blindness and the scientific "filters" that cause us to see "God's living garment" as a world of dead matter. Consider Goethe's Theory of Color. We speak of "eidetic vision," the odd ability of certain people (like Nicola Tesla) to be able to recreate some object inside their heads. (It is also fundamental to training in magic.)
Julian Jaynes realized that man is trapped in a gray world created by the left cerebral hemisphere, the scientific part of the brain. But then, Annie Besant and C. W Leadbeater, two founders of the Theosophical Society, wrote a book called Occult Chemistry (1908) that describes quarks more than half a century before science posited their existence.
Another scientist Chandra Bose saw nature — even metals — as alive. And this takes us back to Hapgood, who after his retirement became interested in some very odd aspects of science — for example, the discovery by lie-detector expert Cleve Backster that plants can read our minds. While still a college professor, he did experiments with his students that demonstrated that plants that are "prayed for" flourish more than plants that are ignored, while plants that are "prayed against" often died. Hapgood became very interested in the "life fields" discovered by the American scientist Harold Burr and the recognition that these can be controlled by "thought fields." Hapgood's studies of anthropology led him to conclude that man has been as intelligent as ourselves for at least 200,000 years and perhaps for two million. There is, in fact, evidence that our ancestor Homo erectus was sailing the seas on rafts 800,000 years ago.
Most amazing are Hapgood's experiments with hypnosis, which proved conclusively that he could hypnotize his students to accurately predict the future.
There is, of course, a great deal more, which I cover in my book. In the final chapter are some of our most remarkable discoveries; for example, the unearthing of a half-million-year-old plank that had been carefully planed on one side. We also consider Neanderthal man and some facts that prove his high level of intelligence — and whose red ochre mines in South Africa date back 100,000 years. One sculpture, the Bearkhat Ram, has been dated back to a quarter of a million years ago.
We consider the fact that "shamanic" cultures take "group consciousness" for granted — the kind of telepathic awareness that enables flocks of birds and schools of fishes to change direction simultaneously. Ancient man almost certainly possessed this same telepathic ability. Kevin Kelly's book Out of Control describes how the whole audience at a computer conference in San Diego learned this ability in a quarter of an hour. In this sense, societies like ancient Egypt were almost certainly "collectives," which could explain their ability to lift massive weights.
We also investigate the extraordinary discoveries of John Michell, who pointed out that the "Nineveh" number can be divided by the diameters of the Sun and Moon and that a mathematical principle called "the Canon" seems to lie behind ancient science: the notion that our universe appears to be designed along mathematical lines — the "code of numbers that structures the universe," which implies that there is an intelligence behind this design. An example is the sequence of Fibonacci numbers that play such a basic part in nature, from spiral nebulae to seashells. We discuss the Anthropic Cosmological Principle, formulated by astronomer Brandon Carter, which states that the universe is compelled to propagate life, and at Fred Hoyle's statement that "Our planet is perfectly suited to the incubation of life," and that "it looks as if some superintendent has been monkeying with the physics."
In that case, what is it that makes human freedom so limited? Man is confined in "close-upness" which deprives him of meaning. In our book. We glance again at some of the evidence that man may have been around far longer than science supposes — such as an iron nail embedded in a piece of coal several million years old and a mastodon's tooth engraved with a horned beast, that came from a Miocene bed of 25 million years ago.
We quote the Nobel Prize winner Frederick Soddy, who discovered isotopes, on the "evidence of a wholly unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other relics have disappeared." And we end by quoting Plato: "that things are far better taken care of than we can possibly imagine."
CHAPTER 2NAVEL OF THE WORLD OR STARGATE?
The Argument over the Real Purpose of the Giza Pyramids Rages On
BY FRANK JOSEPH
The Great Pyramid has been many things to many people. Most Egyptologists are certain it is nothing more than the tomb of a megalomaniacal king. Less mainstream researchers are convinced it is a time capsule. Still, others conclude it is an observatory of some kind. A modern proponent of the Great Pyramid's astronomical significance is the famous construction engineer, Robert Bauval. He argues that the pyramid-builders oriented it to the Belt of Orion (Osiris, to the Egyptians) around 2450 BC. This is some 200 years later than majority scientific opinion claims the structure was built, a conclusion that went against the grain of conventional and unconventional researchers alike. According to Bauval, the placement and alignment of all three Giza pyramids were part of their function as funerary temples, in which the soul of the deceased pharaoh became identified with an immortal star in the heavens. He conjectures an elaborate ceremony, during which the royal mummy was transported from one astral alignment to another. His speculation is grounded in original source materials, such as Utterance Number 245 in The Pyramid Texts addressed to the would-be pharaoh: "Assume your place in heaven among the stars, for you are a solitary star, a companion of the Great Sphinx. You shall look down upon Osiris while he commands the spirits, yet you are apart from him, and not among them."
Supported by suggestive texts such as these, an Orion-Osiris Correlation Theory is at least superficially valid through simple comparison of the monuments with the stars in question. The three pyramids do indeed parallel the configuration in the Belt of Orion — if not precisely, then close enough for ritualistic reasons. Their similarity cannot be coincidental for a people as astronomically proficient and symbol-minded as the ancient Egyptians. "As above, so below" is a theurgic formula with roots lost in the depths of prehistory. But Bauval jumps to the conclusion that the 2450 BC date indicated by the declination of the so-called "air shafts" of the Great Pyramid and the height of the Orion-Osiris Constellation above the horizon infer the date of its construction and related historical data. He asks on page 195 of his book, The Orion Mystery (1994), "was the Giza Necropolis and, specifically, the Great Pyramid and its shafts, a great marker of time, a sort of star-clock to mark the epochs of Osiris and, more especially, his First Time?"
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Table of Contents
Contents
Rescuing Order from Chaos J. Douglas Kenyon,Part One: Civilizations Gone Missing,
1. Atlantis and the Neanderthals Colin Wilson,
2. Navel of the World or Stargate? Frank Joseph,
3. Atlantis of the Pacific? David H. Childress,
4. Apostle of Mu David H. Childress,
5. America's Mound Builders: The Mystery Deepens Dr. Greg Little,
6. Cities of the Deep William B. Stoecker,
Part Two: History Between the Lines,
7. Tales of Atlantis Frank Joseph,
8. Echoes of Atlantis from Homer Steven Sora,
9. The Beasts of Atlantis Frank Joseph,
10. Atlantis of the Sands? Frank Joseph,
11. Song of the Pheryllt Mark Amaru Pinkham,
Part Three: Ancient America Revisited,
12. Who Were the Earliest Americans? George Erikson,
13. New England's Mysterious Sun Temples Steven Sora,
14. Water Wizards of Ancient Arizona Frank Joseph,
15. Viking Runes: More Ancient than Imagined Frank Joseph,
16. What Happened to the Maya? Frank Joseph,
17. Who Were the Olmecs? David H. Childress,
18. A King of Atlantis for Colombia Frank Joseph,
19. Lost Civilization & The Bermuda Triangle Dr. Greg Little,
Part Four: The Frozen Past,
20. Mystery Under the Ice Len Kasten,
21. Between Ice Ages William B. Stoecker,
Part Five: Alternative Paleontology,
22. Scientists Challenge Darwin Atlantis Rising Staff,
23. The Other Evolutionist Michael Tymn,
24. Searching for the Little People Susan Martinez, Ph.D.,
25. Giants in the Earth Mark Amaru Pinkham,
Part Six: The Outer Space Connection,
26. Project Stardust: Accessing the Cosmic Hall of Records William Henry,
27. Life In the Solar System Then & Now William B. Stoecker,
28. The Secret of Cygnus X-3 Andrew Collins,
29. Alien Giants & Alien DNA ... Or Not? Zecharia Sitchin,
Part Seven: Emerging New Clues,
30. Giza Under Ground Philip Coppens,
31. 12,000 Years Old? Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D.,
Contributing Authors,