Back to the Future

Where have I been for the last two years? I wasn't abducted by aliens. I wasn't in hibernation. I was in fact busy trying to flog a dead horse... trying to build a career in education. I probably couldn't have chosen a worse time and circumstances haven't been entirely kind to me either.

Anyway, let's not make this fresh post too morose. I have created two shiny new forums, where I'm still in the early stages of trying to establish a membership. I have however built them around subjects which are very close to my heart and they look quite nice too, so I'm hopeful that they will spring to life.

My first forum is called "ancientstuff" and the main theme is the probablility that planet Earth has seen the rise and fall of advanced civilizations in the distant past. The evidence is fairly substantial and you don't have to believe in Atlantis to make this hypothesis work.

This is the URL: http://ancientstuff.maxforum.org/



The other forum I have created is for people with an interest in UFOs or alien lifeforms in general. It's called "iSAWaUFO" and it is a place to share personal stories of sightings, theories about UFOs and evidence including images and video.

This is the URL: http://isawaufo.lefora.com/

I would be more than happy for anyone of you to drop by my forums and participate freely, if either of these subjects are of interest to you.

The Search For A Lost Continent!

I just don't get the efforts being made to place the lost continent of Atlantis in the Mediterranean, specifically Santorini. Sure, Santorini blew up in a very destructive manner, but it was a volcano, that's what they do. Atlantis apparently sunk completely beneath the waves in a day and a night, and Santorini is still there in a large part. So, that doesn't really match up with Plato's account, especially the part which places Atlantis to the West of the Pillars of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar), in the great Western ocean. That and the fact that the natives of South America also retained similar tales about Aztlan, a lost continent in the Atlantic. Too much of a coincidence if you ask me.

Taken at face value, as Heinrich Schliemann did with Troy, and Arthur Evans did with Knossos, there is no real reason why we should disbelieve the tales that have been handed down to us from ancient times. Once again, I'm talking about things that we find hard to believe can be true, and so are generally assumed to be myths and legend. How many myths must be proved to be true before academics begin to realise that our ancient forebears weren't liars and storytellers like modern-day archaeolgists, anthropologists, geologists, etc perpetuating their own myths of pre-histroy to suit an ulterior agenda.

The fact is ruins have been found in the mid-atlantic (near the Azores), and at great depths, signifying that they were not merely submerged by rising sea-levels, but due to some geological cataclysm which must have sent them plunging into the depths. Hang on, isn't that what Plato reported that the Egyptians had told his Gt Grandfather Solon?

There have been many discoveries of ancient ruins, off the coasts of countries facing on to the Atlantic sea-board, on both sides of the Atlantic, but I suspect that these were simply the victims of rising sea-levels at the end of the last Ice-Age. The ruins lying on the sea-bed near the Azores testify to the possibility that Atlantis was where we have been told it was all along, and in light of the discoveries of Troy and Knossos, why should we believe otherwise?

My Ancestors Built Newgrange!

Continuing from yesterdays megalithic coverage, the image shows the Megalithic Passage Tomb at Newgrange in Knowth, Ireland. My parents went to the site 2 years ago, on a holiday in Ireland, but it was raining so they stayed in the nearby Bru na Boinne visitor centre, something for which I roundly chastised them, knowing as I do a little bit about the significance of the place.

Anyone who's read "Uriel's Machine", will no doubt hold the same fascination with the location as I do, enhanced in my case, because my ancestors lived in the vicinity, certainly at Ardee and Drogheda (5 miles away), and for all I know may even have numbered among the builders.

The site is especially significant as, being built (allegedly) around 3200 BC, Newgrange is older than the Great Pyramid (600 years older), although there are no signs of a large community ever having lived there, perhaps never more than 300. We're speaking about a period in which the average life expectancy was 25 and metal tools were non-existent (again allegedly). That shows how commited they must have been, and over generations. Consider that another 2 ruinous mounds of similar dimensions lie in the vicinity also. Like the pyramids and other ancient structures, Newgrange was previously considered to be a burial mound, but it was plainly a religious structure, like the pyramids, with corpses being added later, when the religious significance had been long forgotten.

The roof space of the passage is grooved so as to make it water-proof, and the passage is lined up diretctly with the Winter solstice. These guys who built it weren't stupid cavemen. The fact that megalithic cultures rose up independently of each other, all over the World, surely testifies to the fact that all of them were somehow connected to each other. It's almost as if they were part of one ancient race, which had been scattered across the face of the Earth, by some global catastrophe, and wherever the survivors found themselves, they sought to recreate what they had known before. Am I talking about Atlantis? Figuratively, yes! Call it what you like, but an ancient race with advanced technology clearly existed, and it's only a matter of time before conclusive proof of that fact comes to light. the truth can't be hidden forever!

Atlantis beneath the Ice!

The map you see above, is perhaps one of the most important cartographic legacies we have from our distant past. It is indeed, the Piri Reis Map. Piri Reis was a Turkish Admiral who drew this map in 1513. So, you ask yourself, what can be so important about an old map? Well, the map shows the Northern coast of Antartica, which wasn't even discovered until 300 years later. Not impressed by that eh? Then consider this, the map shows an ice-free Antartica, in a condition that could only have been seen as recently as 4000 BC.

What implications does this have? Well it does raise the following questions:

• Did an ancient mariner race map an ice-free Antartica?
• Did priceless fragments of ancient maps and copies of them exchange hands for thousands of years?
• If so, what were the originals likes?
• Were continents such as Antartica and the Americas frequently travelled to in ancient times?
• Could an ice-free Antartica have been the fabled Atlantis? (bearing the theories of Charles Hapgood in mind!)
  

These are questions that have never been addressed by people of note. Because, people of note are afraid to stick their noses out (in case they get them cut off). In future posts I'll get into some of the finer lies that historians continue to perpetrate. What do you think happens when an archaeologist presents evidence that threatens to overturn everything we believe about history. I'll tell you! It gets buried and they get discredited and vilified by the establishment. Career over effectively. I promise to give you some classic examples in the near future. These ones are just for fun however: Archeological Anomalies!

World In Collision V's Earth Crust Displacement

Perhaps I just come from a strange family, but my father and I hold widely separated views regarding the ending of the last Ice Age, and the global flooding events, volcanic activity etc. which accompanied that era. While my father is a proponent of Immanuel Velikovsky's "Worlds In Collision" theory, aseerting that a large comet impacted the Earth, I myself, am a fervent supporter of Charles Hapgood's "Earth Crust Displacement" theory, which suggests that the massive volume of Ice, which covered North America, pulled the Earth's crust around to displace that mass. Much evidence backs up that theory:

• The rapid freezing of animals in Siberia
• The mystery of Atlantis (could have been Antartica)
• The global mythology of flood events
• Einstein, like me, thought it was a great theory

Of course, it's possible that some combination of both theories actually happened, or neither, but that's the beauty of theories, if no-one can disprove them, then they stand the test of time !