I am posting this for my husband Mike Brown. Mike passed away here recently.
He enjoyed posting for you and sincerely tried to find the truth in everything he researched. In time, I will try to post some of the remaining elements of interest I found that he was working on.
Thank you for finding his posts interesting and being a part of what he found to be fascinating.
Most sincerely,
Ginny Brown
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project
Three years ago, Utah Congressmen Rob Bishop and Jason Chaffetz came up with a proposal called the Utah Public Lands Initiative. This proposal would turn more than a quarter of the Ute Tribe’s land into oil and drilling zones. Now, after pining away for three years, the initiative has transformed into HR5780 and will be pushed through the US House of Representatives in just a few weeks.
This government grab of Native American land is the first of its kind in over 100 years.
According to the authors of the Utah Public Lands Initiative, it is to build consensus among stakeholders in eastern Utah to designate lands for conservation and development.
The Public Lands Initiative is a locally-driven effort to bring resolution to some of the most challenging land disputes in the state of Utah. The initiative is rooted in the belief that conservation and economic development can coexist and make Utah a better place to live, work, and visit
While Congressman Bishop’s proposal may sound fair on the surface, he is one of Congress’ top cheerleaders for oil and gas development and a dogged critic of environmentalists.
“There is some land that needs to be preserved and there’s nothing wrong with that,” Bishop said in an interview recently. “There’s also land that needs to be developed, and there’s no reason why the two can’t coexist.”
Given the recent destruction of sacred Native land at Standing Rock during the construction of the DAPL, the Ute tribe tends not to agree with the congressman and is already planning to fight it. They’ve since formed a committee to discuss how.
“The actions of Bishop and Chaffetz would seek to divest the Ute Indian Tribe of their ancestral homelands,” the committee wrote in an op-ed for the Salt Lake Tribune. The committee said that this proposal runs the risk of returning to “failed policies of tribal land dispossession that have had a devastating and lasting impact upon tribal nations for the past century.”
According to the tribe’s website, this bill would directly impact 100,000 acres of Ute reservation lands, home to more than half of the tribe’s population. This land has been inhabited by natives for more than 11,000 years as the rock paintings and petroglyphs show.
“This modern day Indian land grab cannot be allowed to stand,” the committee said. Bishop and Chaffetz’s actions also defy common sense. The bill involves seven counties in eastern Utah. Our 4.5 million-acre reservation overlaps these counties and makes up 26 percent of the total land area covered by the bill. Representing more than a quarter of these eastern Utah lands, the tribe should have been a major participant in the development of any bill to address problems in federal land management. We were not.
In the bill’s FAQ section, the authors claim the PLI Act benefits Native Americans by creating “a landscape-level National Conservation Area known as the Bears Ears NCA that encompasses areas of cultural significance, such as Cedar Mesa, Bears Ears Buttes, and Beef Basin. Native Americans would represent 50% of the Bears Ears Management Commission which is charged with developing a land management plan for the Bears Ears NCA.”
However, the Ute tribe is not buying it, noting how they’ve been kept out of the loop the entire time.
The area in question is also well-known for its rich mining deposits including uranium and potash with deposits of tar sands present as well. For years, oil and gas companies have been eyeballing the region for drilling. And, now, thanks to the power of corporatism, they will be able to act.
It is important to note that voluntary innovation and exchange of goods and services and legal land acquisition are not the problems in this scenario. The problem here is that oil and gas companies are able to use the power of the government to grant themselves special privileges and land rights not afforded to others. Some of these special privileges include acquiescing large swaths of land through federal land grabs like this one to provide a low cost alternative to actually paying willing customers to use their land.
As the Native American versus Big Oil issue continues to divide the country down party lines, it is important to note that there is nothing legitimate about taking land — be it for progressive causes or conservative ones.
Without the state as their strong arm, Big Oil, like everyone else, would have to ethically go about business. Instead of being given a pass by the government for their rampant pollution and unethical business practices, they would be held accountable by the citizens. Instead, we are held hostage thanks to their government-granted monopoly on energy.
Ironically, the only answer being given by the left in this vast criminal government enterprise is to use more of that same criminal government enterprise.
The outpouring of support over the DAPL is heartening, indeed. However, if ‘more of the same’ tactics are employed as ostensible solutions, any progress made by these protests will be temporary and in vain.
Three years ago, Utah Congressmen Rob Bishop and Jason Chaffetz came up with a proposal called the Utah Public Lands Initiative. This proposal would turn more than a quarter of the Ute Tribe’s land into oil and drilling zones. Now, after pining away for three years, the initiative has transformed into HR5780 and will be pushed through the US House of Representatives in just a few weeks.
This government grab of Native American land is the first of its kind in over 100 years.
According to the authors of the Utah Public Lands Initiative, it is to build consensus among stakeholders in eastern Utah to designate lands for conservation and development.
The Public Lands Initiative is a locally-driven effort to bring resolution to some of the most challenging land disputes in the state of Utah. The initiative is rooted in the belief that conservation and economic development can coexist and make Utah a better place to live, work, and visit
While Congressman Bishop’s proposal may sound fair on the surface, he is one of Congress’ top cheerleaders for oil and gas development and a dogged critic of environmentalists.
“There is some land that needs to be preserved and there’s nothing wrong with that,” Bishop said in an interview recently. “There’s also land that needs to be developed, and there’s no reason why the two can’t coexist.”
Given the recent destruction of sacred Native land at Standing Rock during the construction of the DAPL, the Ute tribe tends not to agree with the congressman and is already planning to fight it. They’ve since formed a committee to discuss how.
“The actions of Bishop and Chaffetz would seek to divest the Ute Indian Tribe of their ancestral homelands,” the committee wrote in an op-ed for the Salt Lake Tribune. The committee said that this proposal runs the risk of returning to “failed policies of tribal land dispossession that have had a devastating and lasting impact upon tribal nations for the past century.”
According to the tribe’s website, this bill would directly impact 100,000 acres of Ute reservation lands, home to more than half of the tribe’s population. This land has been inhabited by natives for more than 11,000 years as the rock paintings and petroglyphs show.
“This modern day Indian land grab cannot be allowed to stand,” the committee said. Bishop and Chaffetz’s actions also defy common sense. The bill involves seven counties in eastern Utah. Our 4.5 million-acre reservation overlaps these counties and makes up 26 percent of the total land area covered by the bill. Representing more than a quarter of these eastern Utah lands, the tribe should have been a major participant in the development of any bill to address problems in federal land management. We were not.
In the bill’s FAQ section, the authors claim the PLI Act benefits Native Americans by creating “a landscape-level National Conservation Area known as the Bears Ears NCA that encompasses areas of cultural significance, such as Cedar Mesa, Bears Ears Buttes, and Beef Basin. Native Americans would represent 50% of the Bears Ears Management Commission which is charged with developing a land management plan for the Bears Ears NCA.”
However, the Ute tribe is not buying it, noting how they’ve been kept out of the loop the entire time.
The area in question is also well-known for its rich mining deposits including uranium and potash with deposits of tar sands present as well. For years, oil and gas companies have been eyeballing the region for drilling. And, now, thanks to the power of corporatism, they will be able to act.
It is important to note that voluntary innovation and exchange of goods and services and legal land acquisition are not the problems in this scenario. The problem here is that oil and gas companies are able to use the power of the government to grant themselves special privileges and land rights not afforded to others. Some of these special privileges include acquiescing large swaths of land through federal land grabs like this one to provide a low cost alternative to actually paying willing customers to use their land.
As the Native American versus Big Oil issue continues to divide the country down party lines, it is important to note that there is nothing legitimate about taking land — be it for progressive causes or conservative ones.
Without the state as their strong arm, Big Oil, like everyone else, would have to ethically go about business. Instead of being given a pass by the government for their rampant pollution and unethical business practices, they would be held accountable by the citizens. Instead, we are held hostage thanks to their government-granted monopoly on energy.
Ironically, the only answer being given by the left in this vast criminal government enterprise is to use more of that same criminal government enterprise.
The outpouring of support over the DAPL is heartening, indeed. However, if ‘more of the same’ tactics are employed as ostensible solutions, any progress made by these protests will be temporary and in vain.
Three years ago, Utah Congressmen Rob Bishop and Jason Chaffetz came up with a proposal called the Utah Public Lands Initiative. This proposal would turn more than a quarter of the Ute Tribe’s land into oil and drilling zones. Now, after pining away for three years, the initiative has transformed into HR5780 and will be pushed through the US House of Representatives in just a few weeks.
This government grab of Native American land is the first of its kind in over 100 years.
According to the authors of the Utah Public Lands Initiative, it is to build consensus among stakeholders in eastern Utah to designate lands for conservation and development.
The Public Lands Initiative is a locally-driven effort to bring resolution to some of the most challenging land disputes in the state of Utah. The initiative is rooted in the belief that conservation and economic development can coexist and make Utah a better place to live, work, and visit
While Congressman Bishop’s proposal may sound fair on the surface, he is one of Congress’ top cheerleaders for oil and gas development and a dogged critic of environmentalists.
“There is some land that needs to be preserved and there’s nothing wrong with that,” Bishop said in an interview recently. “There’s also land that needs to be developed, and there’s no reason why the two can’t coexist.”
Given the recent destruction of sacred Native land at Standing Rock during the construction of the DAPL, the Ute tribe tends not to agree with the congressman and is already planning to fight it. They’ve since formed a committee to discuss how.
“The actions of Bishop and Chaffetz would seek to divest the Ute Indian Tribe of their ancestral homelands,” the committee wrote in an op-ed for the Salt Lake Tribune. The committee said that this proposal runs the risk of returning to “failed policies of tribal land dispossession that have had a devastating and lasting impact upon tribal nations for the past century.”
According to the tribe’s website, this bill would directly impact 100,000 acres of Ute reservation lands, home to more than half of the tribe’s population. This land has been inhabited by natives for more than 11,000 years as the rock paintings and petroglyphs show.
“This modern day Indian land grab cannot be allowed to stand,” the committee said. Bishop and Chaffetz’s actions also defy common sense. The bill involves seven counties in eastern Utah. Our 4.5 million-acre reservation overlaps these counties and makes up 26 percent of the total land area covered by the bill. Representing more than a quarter of these eastern Utah lands, the tribe should have been a major participant in the development of any bill to address problems in federal land management. We were not.
In the bill’s FAQ section, the authors claim the PLI Act benefits Native Americans by creating “a landscape-level National Conservation Area known as the Bears Ears NCA that encompasses areas of cultural significance, such as Cedar Mesa, Bears Ears Buttes, and Beef Basin. Native Americans would represent 50% of the Bears Ears Management Commission which is charged with developing a land management plan for the Bears Ears NCA.”
However, the Ute tribe is not buying it, noting how they’ve been kept out of the loop the entire time.
The area in question is also well-known for its rich mining deposits including uranium and potash with deposits of tar sands present as well. For years, oil and gas companies have been eyeballing the region for drilling. And, now, thanks to the power of corporatism, they will be able to act.
It is important to note that voluntary innovation and exchange of goods and services and legal land acquisition are not the problems in this scenario. The problem here is that oil and gas companies are able to use the power of the government to grant themselves special privileges and land rights not afforded to others. Some of these special privileges include acquiescing large swaths of land through federal land grabs like this one to provide a low cost alternative to actually paying willing customers to use their land.
As the Native American versus Big Oil issue continues to divide the country down party lines, it is important to note that there is nothing legitimate about taking land — be it for progressive causes or conservative ones.
Without the state as their strong arm, Big Oil, like everyone else, would have to ethically go about business. Instead of being given a pass by the government for their rampant pollution and unethical business practices, they would be held accountable by the citizens. Instead, we are held hostage thanks to their government-granted monopoly on energy.
Ironically, the only answer being given by the left in this vast criminal government enterprise is to use more of that same criminal government enterprise.
The outpouring of support over the DAPL is heartening, indeed. However, if ‘more of the same’ tactics are employed as ostensible solutions, any progress made by these protests will be temporary and in vain.
(Stillness in the Storm Editor) “All is being revealed.” Peaceful “protestors” were holding prayer and the police-state sent in militarized troops to disburse the gathering. While this is obviously troubling, it is making plain to see for the sleeping masses how nazi-like the world as become—especially the so-called land of the free and home of the brave. But without your help to share this story, we can’t alert others as to the grievous nature of what is taking place.This event is helping draw awareness to the current state of affairs, which is that we are considered enemies of the state. In this case, the people who are fighting big business for the basic human right of clean water are being trampled under the foot of tyranny. But when good people do something, evil cannot flourish.Thank you to those brave souls who attended this event and helped play their part in revealing the true nature of government for the world to see. The fact that those gathered were completely peaceful and non-violent lets everyone who sees this story know that things are not right and change is needed. Hence, the media black-out trying to keep it quiet ensure the sleeping masses don’t become aware.
Please do your part to share this story far and wide, especially with those sleeping friends and family who still think we live in a “free world.” When the illusion of freedom has been dispelled the sleeping giant will rise to secure the freedom that has always been waiting in the wings.
Source – The Free Thought Project
by Claire Bernish, September 29th 2016
Heavily-militarized police decked in riot gear and armed to the teeth, arrived by MRAP and other military-grade vehicles to a Dakota Access Pipeline construction site — not to crack down on a violent and destructive riot—but to break up … a peaceful prayer gathering.
Members of the Standing Rock Sioux and other Native American Nations and their supporters had gathered to pray and sing songs at the construction site Wednesday, when Morton County, North Dakota, Sheriff’s Office deployed an insanely disproportionate response to break up the unarmed and otherwise wholly peaceful gathering.
Witness and participant Thomas H. Joseph II broadcast the inexplicable law enforcement action using Facebook Live. In his post to the social media platform, noting women and children’s lives were threatened by the crackdown, he wrote:
“We gathered in prayer, un-armed, prayed, sang songs, and attempted to leave. No threats, No vandalism, No violence was taken on our part.”
At least 21 people were arrested in the needless clash — but divergent accounts from law enforcement and witnesses show continued misperceptions about the insidious pipeline which has drawn national attention despite a dearth of corporate media coverage.
Despite repeatedly proven claims from the over 7,000 water protectors — the term preferred over ‘protesters,’ since the pipeline slated to run beneath the Missouri River threatens to contaminate the tribal water supply and that of some 18 million people — that they are unarmed, both corporate and state response has treated them as terrorists.
A post to Facebook from Sacred Stone Camp — which, in April, became the first of a growing number of encampments intended to peacefully block pipeline construction crews — stated North Dakota law enforcement “deployed armed personnel with shotguns and assault rifles, military vehicles, and what looks like an aerial spray on peaceful Water Protectors gathered in prayer.”
“We had a really nice ceremony,” said a Sicangu Lakota grandmother in video footage from the scene. “Then we looked and over that way, there were a few police and the next thing we knew there were 40 police all in riot gear.”
Video indeed shows a number of armored vehicles blocking the road, as officers fit more for the streets of war-ravaged Aleppo advance on the gathering, and a helicopter hovers overhead.
Police swarmed the group — as water protectors and attendees stood calmly with hands clearly raised — and began indiscriminately accosting people while ordering everyone into their vehicles.
At least one officer pointed his weapon at an unarmed person, when, as the Morton County Sheriff’s Department alleged afterward in a statement, “a protester on horseback charged at an officer in what was viewed as an act of aggression.”
Video would seem to dispute this claim, as a number of people ride horses around the scene, but none appears to charge directly at any of the militarized cops.
Police admitted to the militarized deployment via a statement posted on social media, but clarified — amid doubts from those at the scene — the small plane was only a local crop duster spraying in the area.
Under the pretense the water protectors were trespassing on private property — and although those in attendance were only blocked and accosted once they began to disburse — the Morton County Sheriff’s Office acknowledged it sent armored vehicles, specialized equipment, and “less lethal ammunition using bean-bag rounds” to force people from the area.
However measured law enforcement’s official statements appeared, witnesses to the absurd and unnecessary action painted an entirely different picture of the incident.
As Red Warrior Camp alarmingly summarized in a statement on its Facebook page:
“Today Native ceremonies conducted along the Dakota Access Pipeline route were disrupted by militarized police. We have continued to declare ourselves to be non-violent and unarmed, the police, acting as private security and protectors of the corporations and their nefarious and destructive interests, responded in full force with armoured vehicles, shotguns, assault rifles, snipers, helicopters, tear gas, resulting in 21 confirmed arrests. There are also reports coming back that the police were snatching people’s phones and other recording devices, deleting pictures and video without permission and in direct violation of North Dakota laws. This response, these actions on the part of the police are clear evidence of the egregious and ongoing escalation of the violations of our Indigenous and Human Rights.”
Although corporate media has largely ignored the massive occupation and movement to halt Energy Transfer Partners’ construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, major outlets were forced to address the issue when, at the beginning of September, mercenaries hired by the company brutally attacked unarmed water protectors — including women and children — with vicious dogs, pepper spray, and tear gas.
As Native Americans and activists peacefully chanted “water is life,” a private security firm — linked to notorious international firm G4S, which once employed the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooter — unleashed dogs indiscriminately into the crowd to maul and maim anyone in their path.
That attack took place after a Standing Rock Sioux historian, who had only recently been permitted onto private property outside the reservation to survey the land for culturally and historically significant sites, discovered construction crews in essence used court documentation as a guide to decimate those sites in area 20 miles removed from ongoing pipeline construction.
Outraged water protectors flocked to the scene in protest, but although they remained peaceful and brought no weapons, the private security firm’s henchmen initiated the brutal attack.
Now, it appears, North Dakota law enforcement has picked up where private security left off — acting in the interests of Big Oil against peoples native to the land.
The ongoing dispute — in pure number of Native and indigenous peoples from around the country and world, and in callous and brutal governmental response — has been deemed the largest standoff between Native Americans and the U.S. government in over 100 years, evidencing continued exploitation of and violence by the same forces who historically committed genocide in battles over the same land.
“We are constantly fed the narrative that the police are armed and active in the protection of the public,” Red Warrior Camp’s statement continued. “Are we not the public? Are the violations of our rights so easily and repeatedly acceptable? Are you paying attention? The United States of America is occupying Indigenous Land and when their occupation and ruination of our lands and waters is challenged they respond with unprecedented violence, with kidnapping our brothers and sisters protecting us and our territories. They are incarcerating our Warriors, our Women, our Youth. Today’s ceremony should never have been interrupted, no arrests should have been made and certainly the military machine should not have been called in in response to our prayers.”
Federal and state courts along Dakota Access Pipeline’s planned 1,172-mile route have halted construction in a number of locations and permitted Native Americans to continue camping, provided they assume responsibility for any resulting issues of liability.
Water protectors from around the world at the various camps have repeatedly pleaded with the Obama administration to issue a permanent stoppage of construction. Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman David Archambault II even appealed to the United Nations to intervene, telling reporters “just because something is legal, does not make it right.”
“The world needs to know what is happening to the Indigenous peoples of the United States,” he told the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva in mid-September.
“This pipeline violates our treaty rights and our human rights, and it violates the U.N.’s own Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. I hope the U.N. will use its influence and international platform to protect the rights of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.”
Indeed the world — if not mainstream media, Big Oil, or the U.S. government — is watching, and sees how the State effectively dismisses the rights of Native Americans in favor of corporate profits. But the water protectors refuse to back down until the Dakota Access Pipeline project is forever tabled and can no longer threaten sacred sites and precious water supplies — no matter how violent the crackdowns on peaceful people become.
“We have no fear,” the Red Warrior Camp concluded its statement, “why should we when we speak and act the truth?”
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August 26, 2016
Over the years, I’ve been blessed to interview many exceptional people and share their wisdom with our community. Recently, I had the rare opportunity to interview one of my longtime heroes, Graham Hancock, and I’m really excited to share a powerful clip from our talk with you today.
Graham has been deeply investigating the mysteries of our human past. When I first read his bestselling Fingerprints of the Gods more than fifteen years ago, it changed my worldview dramatically. I had to rethink everything I learned in my college anthropology courses and was inspired to begin my own exploration into human origins and traditions, leading me to Peru in 2002.
In the video below, he explains that we’re missing some very critical information about our past, specifically the time period around the last ice age—which ended only 11,500 years ago. Graham’s investigations have led him to believe that a highly organized and technologically advanced civilization lived and thrived during this time, while simple hunter-gatherers simultaneously wandered other areas of the planet.
In the beginning of this lively 10-minute segment of our interview, you’ll hear Graham describe abilities like telekinesis and telepathy, which are beyond our current technological framework. If you’re short on time, make sure you don’t miss Graham’s fascinating take on reincarnation, which he calls “an incredible mechanism for immortality,” starting at minute 3:58. For mind-blowing discoveries about ancient visionary plants and their connection with the wisdom still accessible from Shamanic plants today, fast-forward to minute 6:21.
Get ready to travel back in time!
(We have included a transcript of this video below – if you prefer to read.)
To check out Graham’s new book Magicians of the Gods, click HERE
For other editions of the book, click HERE
To watch our full interview with Graham, click HERE
For a transcript of this clip, continue reading below:
NP: Do you feel that the lost civilizations were as technologically advanced or more than we were? Part B to that question is where are the buried computers?, where is the computer that’s like 18,000 years old?, There is sort of this notion that technology looks a certain way.
GH: My answer to that is if we really want to get to grips with history, let’s stop looking at history as a mirror. Let’s start looking at it as a window through which we actually see what happened rather than projecting ourselves onto the past. There’s no reason on earth why an earlier civilization should have followed the same technological route as us. Even if it had the capacity to do so, it might have chosen for moral or other reasons, to do with the sacredness of the Earth, not to exploit petro-chemicals, for example.
We’ve chosen to go that route, no certainty that an earlier civilization would have gone that route. And in the route that we have chosen to take, we have placed great emphasis on mechanical advantage. We do things by leverage, by mechanical advantage and we’re very good at that. We do amazing things with that.
But perhaps we’ve allowed other faculties of the human mind to lapse in the process. We’ve become dependent on mechanical technology and other faculties of the human mind, which are spoken of in traditions all around the world. Faculties of telekinesis, for example, to move objects with the powers of the mind, of telepathy and so on and so forth, are spoken of again and again in ancient traditions. Maybe human beings in general have those capacities, but maybe we’ve gone to sleep. We’ve been lulled into a state of sleep by our society. We’re so proud of our technology. We’re so impressed by its achievements and my goodness the achievements are extraordinary – they’re overwhelming actually – that we’re just forgetting what else we might have done if we’d gone a different way.
I think this is the answer. That the lost civilization, of pre-historic antiquity, was a very different civilization from our own and that it was not primarily about material things. It was primarily about the nurture and growth of the human spirit and that’s reflected in the myths too because it’s when the lost civilization Atlantis or whatever we wish to call it, strays from that path, when it plunges into materialism, when it loses sight of its spiritual goal, that’s when the danger occurs.
NP: Is there any possibility that members of the civilization in your opinion could have survived and be somehow hidden among us still?
GH: No, I think they were human beings just like us. But they are hidden amongst us in terms of their ideas – this is important to be clear. Ideas are what live or can live forever in human culture and the idea of the lost civilization, of the Magicians of the Gods, of the civilizers who went around the world trying to keep that light of civilization burning – that idea is very strongly impressed upon the memories of mankind and no amount of rationalizing or scientific skepticism is going to get rid of it. In our hearts, we all know it’s true.
NP: So I’ve heard you say and write, that the Egyptians have put their best minds to work for 3,000 years on the mystery of death.
GH: This touches exactly on what we’re talking about just now because the ancient Egyptians were the inheritors of an earlier tradition. It was the tradition I believe of a lost civilization and the primary focus of that civilization was not upon material things and physical life, but on eternal things and the possibility of eternal life.
Now typically in our society today, when we talk about eternal or immortal life, people start thinking in terms of trans-humanism – that we’re going to install all these gadgets in our brains (a ghastly horrible repulsive thought) or even download our consciousness into a machine. What selfish and narcissistic thinking is that?
We already have an incredible mechanism for immortality. It’s call reincarnation. Why would one wish to be a transhumanist and keep the same body forever or download one’s consciousness into a machine when the mechanism of reincarnation allows us to live many different lives and benefit from the learning experiences that those different lives offer? Now of course I can’t prove that reincarnation exists but I happen to think it does. I think it’s just as likely. I think it was Voltaire, who said “It’s no more improbable to be born twice than to be born once.” And actually why not? We could go into that. There are huge amounts of evidence for it.
There’s the thing, if reincarnation is possible, then we are not our bodies. Whatever we are we are not our bodies because those bodies surely die. We are not our bodies. There is some immortal part of ourselves, the soul, the essence, spirit – that’s what reincarnates and the focus I believe of the lost civilization was upon that immortal essence of the human being for a very long period of time, but that it gradually fell away from that and evolved into materialism but that primarily it was not a materialistic society. We should not expect to find recognizable material traces of the kind of industrial technology that we’ve created in the 20th and 21st Centuries.
NP: Do you feel as though Shamanic plants, visionary plants might have played a role in this study of our own mortality of death in Egyptian culture?
GH: I’m certain they did. Indeed the ancient Egyptians did put their best minds to work for three thousand years on the mystery of what happens to us when we die and in that project they had aid from a number of plant allies. We know that Nymphaea Caerulea, the blue water lily, is a mild visionary plant. Interestingly and it’s my friend Dennis McKenna who is an ethno-pharmacologist, who’s made this identification, which is that the ancient Egyptian tree of life, which you see in huge numbers of reliefs around ancient Egypt – and often you will see Thoth, the God of Wisdom, writing the name of an individual upon the tree of life – that means that individual has graduated from earthly life into the life of millions of years. Well it turns out that the tree of life is Acacia Nilotica according to Dennis’ estimation and that acacia nilotica is rich in dimethyltryptamine in DMT, the most powerful hallucinogen known to man. The fact that it’s the tree of life in ancient Egypt is really intriguing and we should absolutely consider the possibility that we do know what the ancient Egyptians were smoking.
NP: Did your experience with ayahuasca give you any extra insights as to what happens after we die, as to this possibility of reincarnation?
GH: Again, I can’t prove that this is correct. I can only tell you the impact upon me. My experiences with ayahuasca have made me understand that everything we do in this life matters. Everything counts, everything will be weighed out and considered. We are being given a precious opportunity to be born in a human body. It is a very rare opportunity in the universe as a whole to be a human being, to have the fine powers of discernments between good and bad, light and darkness that human beings do have, the capacity for love and sadly the capacity for hate. All of these things are part of the miracle of being born in the human body.
It’s up to us to live up to that miracle, to fulfill it. Do we want to spend our lives just pursuing material goals and objectives? If we do we will not be nurturing that non-physical part of ourselves at all and it seems to me that the ancient Egyptians were very focused upon this. That’s why actually you don’t find remains of peoples’ houses and personal possessions very much in ancient Egypt. I don’t think they cared about that.
Towards the end of Egyptian civilization, Herodotus visited that country and described them as the happiest people on Earth. They’d been happy for three thousand years and their happiness came primarily not from focusing on the material realm but from living life in a way that nurtures spirit. Ultimately what we’re all here to do is to give love, to act with love towards one another. That is the fundamental truth that emerges from ancient Egyptian civilization and from all the civilizations and the further that we move away from love and the more deeply we get drawn down into materialism, the less chance we have of fulfilling our mission here.
NP: I couldn’t think of a better way to end this talk. That was profound, thank you for that. Any closing thoughts?
GH: No I think we’ve wrapped it up in a fairly tight way, which is good, no need to ramble on endlessly.
NP: Absolutely. Hopefully we can do it again. This is like a dream come true for me.
GH: Well I’d love to do it again and we’ll definitely do that.
Nick Polizzi has spent his career directing and editing feature length documentaries about natural alternatives to conventional medicine. Nick’s current role as director of “The Sacred Science” stems from a calling to honor, preserve, and protect the ancient knowledge and rituals of the indigenous peoples of the world.
Pyramids have been found on every continent, so why not Antarctica?
Ancient maps show that is was not always covered with ice. There is an incredible amount of ancient civilizations all around the world, and many still remain hidden from us.
The claim is, three ancient pyramids have been discovered in the Antarctic by a team of American and European scientists. Two of the pyramids were discovered about 16 kilometers inland, while the third one was very close to the coastline. An expedition to the bizarre structures should answer the intriguing question whether they are artificial or natural. The first reports about the pyramids appeared in western mass media last year.
At the current moment little is still known about the pyramids and the team continues to keep silent about the discovery. The only reliable information provided by the scientists was that they were planning an expedition to the pyramids to research them more thoroughly and determine for sure whether the structures were artificial or natural. No details about the time frame of the expedition were offered.
In case the researchers prove the pyramids are man-made structures, the discovery may bring about the biggest revision of human history ever made.
Meanwhile, a number of strange but interesting discoveries have been made lately in the Antarctic. In 2009 climate scientists found particles of pollen there, which could possibly testify that palm trees once grew in Antarctica and summer temperatures reached 21C. Three years later, in 2012, scientists from Nevada’s Desert Research Institute identified 32 species of bacteria in samples of waters of Lake Vida in East Antarctica.
Pyramids have been discovered in the Antarctic, according to a news article on Scienceray.com. A team of 8 explorers from America and Europe claim to have found evidence of three man made pyramids ‘peaking’ through the melting ice, states the author:
“Can it be possible that Antarctica was once warm enough in the recent past to actually have had an ancient civilization living there? And even more perplexing is the question of if an advanced culture did develop there, are there any structures still remaining that are buried underneath the ice?
The shocking discovery of ancient man-made pyramids under the thick ice and snow of Antarctica would change our perception of human history forever.
Scholars and Egyptologists have long suspected that the Sphinx is far older than first estimated, possibly over 10,000 years old.Scientists discovered that evidence of water erosion on the ancient statue, still the world’s largest, tells a story of climate change from rainy hot jungle to desert in a few thousand short years.
If the climate in Egypt changed this quickly, is it not equally possible that the Antarctic climate could have also changed drastically in the same time? Legends speak of pyramids in the Antarctica, of the lost city of Atlantis being covered not just under water, but encased in ice.
If we go back to Africa, we know that Scholars and Egyptologists have long suspected that the Sphinx is much older than believed, possibly even over 10,000 years old. These theories are supported by the discovery of water erosion on the gigantic Sphinx, which according to scholars tells the story of extreme climate change in the distant past. So if the climate in Africa and other parts of the world changed drastically? is it possible that the same thing happened in Antarctica? And if researchers manage to prove that the pyramids of Antarctica are man-made structures, the discovery could cause major revision of the history of humanity.
Would modern-day researchers and archaeologists accept and acknowledge these findings? Well, probably not, as they would go against everything they know and believe, but then again, this isn’t a debate of beliefs, it’s a question of finding out the truth about countless ancient civilizations scattered across the globe, many of which still remain hidden.
What do you believe? Is there a possibility that there are actual structures beneath the thick layers of Ice at Antarctica? Is there a possibility that ancient civilization might have developed there thousands of years ago, when Antarctica had an entirely different climate?
Today’s archaeologists and researchers would be hard pressed to accept that conclusion because it would be in direct opposition of what they believe now. However, belief shouldn’t play into this considering this is about finding out the truth.In theory, there could be an incredible amount of ancient civilizations all around the world, and many could remain hidden.
There have been some other discoveries over the years in Antarctica, including pollen particles found by climate scientists in 2009, leading to the idea that palm trees could have once grown there and summer could have reached a temperature of 21° C.
In 2012, scientists discovered over thirty bacteria species found in samples of the water taken from Lake Vida (East Antarctica). Why would another fascinating discovery be out of the ordinary? Are the pyramids in Antarctica just naturally occurring, perfectly shaped mountains? If so, why do they almost exactly replicate the Egyptian pyramids? It is an uncanny and eerie likeness if they are. In fact, the only answer that it could possibly be (to make sense) is that they are man-made structures.
Underneath the thick ice layers an ancient civilization thrived thousands of years ago, building the pyramids of the Antarctica when the climate was appropriate for those conditions. Once this theory is proven correct, our perception, history books, and the world as we know it will need to be rewritten. I for one, can’t wait but seriously doubt that will ever happen!
Earlier this month we reported on an investigation into the story of Father Crespi and his missing artifacts. The story of Father Crespi is a mysterious and controversial account of a priest in Ecuador involving claims of unknown civilizations, strange golden artifacts, a subterranean cave system containing a metallic library, depictions of figures connecting America to Sumeria, symbols depicting an unknown language, and a Vatican conspiracy involving thousands of missing artifacts. Ancient Origins undertook an investigation to find out how much of the story is true. While our initial enquiries produced valuable information, our latest explorations resulted in threats and a warning to stop pursuing further investigations into the missing artifacts.
If you have not yet read the first article, please read it here before proceeding with this update.
To summarize the results of our findings, our investigations determined that:
On Wednesday the 30 th March, Dr Ioannis Syrigos, Co-Founder of Ancient Origins, arranged an appointment with Dr Luis Alvarez, expert on Father Crespi and Editor General of the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (a University founded by Father Crespi), to clarify a few missing pieces to the Crespi puzzle for a video Ancient Origin’s is preparing about Father Crespi’s life. This is an important video that will present the great personality of Father Crespi and his immense help to the people of Cuenca, Ecuador.
The missing pieces of the puzzle are of course the golden artifacts depicting hieroglpyhs and Sumerian figures, the ones that Crespi presents and supports in his videos with Stanley Hall and the ones that Professor Barry Fell of Harvard University identified as original. Some of these artifacts can be seen in the video below.
The missing artifacts consist not only of metallic (golden) tablets, but also clay and stone artifacts with unusual carvings, none of which were among the thousands of artifacts that we viewed in his collection held by the Central Bank of Ecuador. Some of the artifacts were accepted by Father Crespi as original and authentic, while others were fake, which he also knew and acknowledged. As a highly educated man – a scientist, educator, anthropologist, botanist, artist, explorer, cinematographer, humanitarian and musician – Father Crespi was in a good position to assess the authenticity of the artifacts.
After our arrival at the University, we met with Dr Luis Alvarez, who as always was friendly and welcoming, eager to help us complete our research and the video about Father Crespi. In our discussion, we explained the importance of having all the facts around Crespi clear in the video, otherwise the video would be incomplete. However, any reference to the missing artifacts made Dr Alvarez uncomfortable. Initially it seemed that this was because he preferred that we focus on the other aspects of Father Crespi’s life that he deemed more important than the artifacts – i.e. his charitable endeavours. However, later it appeared that there were other reasons he was
uncomfortable discussing the artifacts.
The official response of Dr Alvarez was that these artifacts simply went missing, never to be found again. His assistant kindly clarified that 2 years before the death of Father Crespi, all items in his collection were recorded apart from the missing artifacts, which according to her, were already gone by then.
While initially Dr Alvarez said he knew nothing about the location of the missing artifacts, later on he contradicted this statement by saying that he was not authorized to talk about them, suggesting that it was not that he did not know, but that he was not permitted to reveal anything about them and was withholding information.
At some point during our discussion, we asked Dr Alvarez about reports that the missing artifacts had been shipped to the Vatican in Italy. His response was not to deny that this took place, but to say that he was aware that pieces of art had been sent to the Vatican because Father Crespi was a collector of Art and he had many items in his possession.
Ancient Origins Threatened to Leave the Investigation Alone In the end, our persistence to clarify the situation led to an indirect threat that we should not question the Salesianos community because they are a very powerful religious community in Ecuador and therefore it is best that we do not look more into the missing artifacts, which are not important to their cause – making Father Crespi a Saint.
It was quite clear that during our conversation many contradictory statements were made, revealing that there is very obviously something that someone does not want the public to know about. Is there a cover up to hide the fact that the precious artifacts were stolen or sold for profit by someone? Or where they hidden away because they revealed something controversial about the history of the country?
In addition to our enquiries at the University, we also managed to get in touch with an investigator who came to Ecuador around a decade ago to carry out his own search into the Father Crespi mystery. While he asked to remain anonymous, he did allow us to relay some information he obtained during his enquiries. Upon visiting the Central Bank Museum of Ecuador, where Crespi’s artifacts are currently stored, he was told that the missing artifacts had been sold by the Chuch of Maria Auxiliadora, where Crespi carried out his charitable endeavours, to the Ecuadorian Military. He was also told that this information was confidential and not to be made public. We have been unable to verify the accuracy of this information, but it does add a new avenue to explore.
Despite the insistence by the University that we drop the investigations into the artifacts, we are now proceeding with further explorations through other channels and we will update on the results in due course. We will soon prepare a video showing the incredible life of Father Crespi, a multi-talented man whose main concern was to help the people of Ecuador.
The pdf here presents all the documented artifacts.
By John Black
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The Montauk Project was purportedly a series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero and/or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island.
SOME OF THE STORIES
•Homeless people and orphans were abducted and subjected to huge amounts of electromagnetic radiation to test mind control technology and remote brain programming. Few survived.
•People had their psychic abilities enhanced to the point where they could materialize objects out of thin air.
•Experiments were conducted in teleportation.
•A “porthole (portal?) in time” was created which allowed researchers to travel anywhere in time or space. This was developed into a stable “Time Tunnel.” Underground tunnels with abandoned cultural archives were explored on Mars using this technique.
•Contact was made with alien extraterrestrials through the Time Tunnel and technology was exchanged with them which enhanced the project. This allowed broader access to “hyperspace”.
•Mind control experiments were conducted on runaway and kidnapped boys where they underwent excruciating periods of both physical and mental torture in order to break their minds, then their minds were re-programmed.
Many were supposedly killed during the process and buried on the site. Others were released with programming as mind-slaves with alternate personalities to be sleeper cells who could be activated to perform missions. The first one through the tunnel was a large reptilian creature who looked like a lizard stuffed into a black uniform. He spoke with a hissing noise in a language that sounded severe. He was a member of a vast empire that spanned a large portion of the galaxy, his people are attempting to occupy all of the star systems on the outer fringes of this galaxy, eventually working their way inward. According to him, the Earth was invaded many thousands of years ago by an army of his people that arrived in a huge ship that is now the moon of Earth.
He also said that they travelled, using the stars as portals. These reptilians also maintain bases on Venus and on some of the moons of the outer planets. And they currently have bases underground here on Earth. He said he knew of 120 different civilizations in this galaxy.
Think about this.
The Space Station has been continually in the process of being built now for probably 20 or so years. Right now it appears to have turned into a large “coalition project” of the US, Russia, Europe, Japan and maybe others. Just how big the Space Station will eventually be or what is the ultimate goal of the space station is not told to The People, nor talked about in the media. Now how do all these billions of dollars being spent on the Space Station and space probes benefit the 6 billion poor human “slaves” on this planet? How is this benefiting the millions of human beings, mostly children, who die of starvation every year? So one may ask, who is making the decisions as to why all this effort is being done and for what reasons and goals? Who is planning and coordinating all of this? In other words “what is going on up there and for whose benefit is all this for? You may find yourself wanting answers to all these questions too!
The Reincarnation Deception Theory
Have you ever actually wondered why we reincarnate? Why is it that we have such short lives, and for the most part, the only spiritual paths are very dubious religions and teachers? Have you ever wondered why there is so much evil in the world? And why such evil people seem to become the leaders of men? And the big question concerning reincarnation: Why don’t we remember our past lives? How can we resolve our past if we don’t even remember it?
It is described in Vedic texts that humankind lived very long life spans during the golden age. They spent their lives in deep meditation and were in balance and harmony with Mother Nature. Then something happened. In ancient legends, myths and texts, there is described the fall of man. We can see that at one point, gods from the sky came, and humans were taught about agriculture, science and the enslavement of animals. With that knowledge came the cities, the kings, the hierarchal systems of control, armies, war, slavery and the worship and sacrifices of gods. This was the fall of man. Mankind fell out of balance and harmony with Mother Nature and thus began losing virtue. So who were these gods that came and gave humankind this knowledge? From where did they come? They are not of the Earth. They came to enslave humankind, to demand flesh and blood sacrifices, including human sacrifices.
They demanded to be worshiped. And, as we read in the old testament, Jehovah would destroy entire races, or have his “chosen people” destroy them for him. The Gnostics called these gods the archons. Don Juan called them the predators. These so called gods have been feeding off of humanity for thousands of years. They consider us their herd, just as we consider farm animals. They feed off of our negative emotions and energies. They especially like blood and suffering, so they create conflict, violence and wars between men. And then comes the question of why we don’t remember our past lives. Without any remembrance, we are imprisoned in ignorance, without the proper tools to break free. We find ourselves in a matrix, where an artificial light construct has been overlaid upon the real world.
As in the movie The Matrix, we are simply batteries that the gods feed off of. This is our plight, where we are born and we die in a matrix as food for these entities. So the next question is: What happens when we die? When we die, we enter the cosmic matrix, another false light construct which we call heaven. Our souls are trapped within this prison of the gods. After some time in the false heavens, we return again in the same cycle. This is called the wheel of samsara, the cycle of birth and death. In the Buddhist view, liberation from samsara is possible by following the Buddhist path.
The Unbreakable Free Will The Free Will is, allegedly, one of the unbreakable laws of our multiverse. Those who know the rules of the game (i.e the Archons) can bend them in their favor by using various tricks and smoke screens, but they can never break them. Unfortunately, most of the people love it here! This reality of pain and suffering suits them perfectly and they would never brake the spell, even if given the opportunity. This reality is a drug and too many people are addicted to it. But this also means that we are now, in fact, still dreaming and everything around us is virtual, non-existing. The software that we are now part of, is designed to trick us into believing that all of this is real when, in fact, it is not.
When we die, we are basically waking up from a collective dream. A very profound and intense dream.
The enslavers are basically broadcasting a web of negativity within this reality (and who knows within how many other), a low vibrational matrix of pain and suffering, with the intent of torturing our minds and making us generate negative energies. Which they feed on.
THE MOTHER GODDESS
Once upon a time there was a Great Mother Goddess who was worshipped all over the world. Under Her benevolent care, humans lived in peace with each other and in harmony with nature. Women were honored as her earthly representatives.
One day a band of male warriors with a violent male god invaded this utopia, destroying the Goddess and installing their god as the “one and only” deity. From that day forward, women were exploited, militarism was glorified, and sexual repression became the law. This new order is described in the Hebrew Bible.
So which culture did this story come from?
Or did every culture worship the same goddess at one time?
These are mother goddess artifacts from numerous cultures across the planet. Interesting that so many cultures are represented here.
THE SPHINX OF GIZA
So what is the Sphinx? A man, a woman, a serpent, none of the above.
Vivant Denon etched the image of the Sphinx of Giza around 1798.. What is most intriguing is that Denon does not mention any damage to the nose or lips of the Sphinx.“Though its proportions are colossal, the outline is pure and graceful; the expression of the head is mild, gracious, and tranquil; the character is African,”
Look at all the different views of the Sphinx and tell me that our perception of history may be incorrect! How could someone see a female and another see a male? Even the head on the Sphinx today, doesn’t look correct, it’s too small.
Hopi Legends and the ‘Flying Shields’
The Hopituh Shi-nu-mu (Hopi) people are one of the Native American tribes, descendants of the Ancient Pueblo people that lived in the South West Area of the US which today is called Four Corners (The cross between Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah). One of the groups of the Ancient Pueblo people was the mysterious Anasazi, the ‘Ancient Ones’ that flourished and disappeared mysteriously between 550 and 1300 AD. Hopi’s history goes back thousands of years making them one of the oldest living cultures in the world. The original name of the Hopi people, Hopituh Shi-nu-mu, means the ‘Peaceful People’. Traditionally, they lived according to the laws of the Creator, Maasaw. The Hopi believed that the gods came up from the ground, in contrary to other mythologies where their gods came from the sky. Their mythology suggests that the Ant People inhabited the heart of the Earth. When you see the Hopi Ant people you will find extreme similarities with what we depict today as ‘grey aliens’.
In the Hopi traditions there are cycles of time – similar to the Aztec mythology, as with many other mythologies. And they believed that at the end of each cycle the ‘gods’ return. We are currently going through the forth cycle on Earth. However, what is interesting in those cycles is the third one, where the Hopi talk about the ‘Flying Shields.’ This world of the forth cycle achieved an advanced civilization that was destroyed in the end by great floods, in a similar way as in many other traditions. In describing how advanced the third world was, advanced ‘flying shields’ were developed with the capability to attack cities that were far away and to travel quickly between different places of the world.
This is part one of my latest class. It’s over 600 slides from start to finish so I will do this as a series. I hope you enjoy it.
M. Brown
Our world is a magical place and we are just beginning to understand it. Science attempts to explain reality but it’s from a perspective created in our most physical and material age. We think of science as absolute truth, but if you look at the history of scientific development you’ll see that it is constantly revised, altered and often reversed as we learn more about our world. When we add more information or change the perspective a more complete truth emerges.
So we’re beginning to understand that matter at its very core is energy, directed by thoughts of an intelligent collective, which includes us. The frequency of molecular vibration determines its expression to matter. Our reality exists within a particular range of frequencies, giving it certain qualities, but also limiting creation with time and space. In other words our potential for creating our reality is limited by frequency ranges. The higher the frequency, the more complex the manifestation and the more capable we are of understanding All That Is.
The natural world is based on fractal patterns. Beyond man made timing is the timing of Nature, the days caused by the spinning of the earth facing away from and toward the sun, the months are measured by the cycles of the moon, the years are a complete revolution around our sun. We are also governed by a much larger cycle caused by an unknown factor that also regulates the precession of the equinoxes. This cycle has been called The Great Year by Plato and the cycle of the Yugas by ancient India’s wise men. References have been made to this knowledge in various ancient texts and mythologies.
Universal Myths Of The Ancient World
Imagine a gigantic comet strikes the Earth today. The event is so big and damaging that half or more of the human, plant, and animal population is wiped out instantly and in the following years. Our whole civilization will collapse. Try to imagine the entire world’s power grid is out. No more electricity, no food or water left in any stores and no iPhones or internet! People steal from each other and kill each other just to eat and stay alive. Governments and cultures break down. We are then back into a dark age. As the years pass, new generations forget everything that was before. Cities and buildings and highways are now crumbling. Nature is taking back everything. The catastrophe and aftermath is so bad that we are even pushed back to being again like cavemen. More generations come and go. Hundreds of years have past, and what was once a highly intelligent and technologically advanced society and civilization is now back to the stone age.
Somewhere in space, in orbit around the Earth or beyond or maybe in underground cities, there were survivors that managed to keep their technology. Things have finally calmed down here on Earth, nature is vibrant and full of life again. Time and erosion has hidden or erased almost all of the previous worldwide advanced civilization. Only the megalithic stone temples, monuments, and pyramids remain. The now clueless people witness something incredible. Strange helmeted, suited, men come down from the heavens, flying through the air. The “Star People” then teach them agriculture, introduce them to better tools and weapons for hunting. These men are the teachers and saviors of humanity. Such power and knowledge that came from the stars. They most surely are gods! Some of these human men, see an opportunity for power and control over a back to primitive, people and take advantage of them.
I believe in life on other planets. The universe, multiverse, dimensions, cosmos is too huge for us to be the only intelligent life, but I give our ancient humans more credit. To me, anything that can’t be explained is not always aliens. This has all happened before, and it will happen again. The question remains, are those myths something that existed in the minds of our ancestors, or were they based on true events? It is true that most of those stories appear to the scientific world as fictitious products of vivid imaginations whose goals were purely to explain phenomena beyond their comprehension. This only proves that our modern society is confused or has been mislead about our past.
The Great Flood
The idea of a flood that drowns the entire world pops up in almost every single culture. (281 cultures so far) Jews and Christians know it as the story of Noah, but other versions almost certainly predate the Genesis account. The Ancient Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, which includes the tale of building a boat, filled with animals to escape a deluge, and eventually comes to rest on a mountaintop. Other versions appear in Hindu, Mayan, and Native American legends. In 2009, National Geographic reported on the utter lack of evidence for a globe-destroying super-flood. Could this universal myth simply be the faded memory of a real event that occurred around 5,000 BC?
EXPLANATIONS 
Cultural myths don’t just entertain us and record historical events. They also serve to explain why the world is the way it is. Hence the prevalence of stories designed to give a reason for some mystery of existence. In the Bible, we have the Tower of Babel, which explains why we have different languages. God’s speech prior to expelling Adam and Eve from Eden is another example, giving a reason for both the agony of childbirth and why ancient man had to toil all day in the fields. The Pandora Myth gives a reason for the existence of disease and suffering. There are myths that explain why incest is forbidden, and how medicine came into existence. Anything you can think of has some poetic explanation somewhere
Everything that begins has an end, and our ancient ancestors knew that as simply as we do. No surprise then that most cultures carry an End of Times myth to counter their creation story, a sort of consolation prize for those who won’t live to see the actual end. For Christians, this apocalypse is a gigantic epic that plays out over many, many years and involves so many disasters, wars, and calamities that it’s hard to keep track. In Hinduism, it’s another epic battle followed by a rebooted universe, while Buddhism annihilates the world in a incredible atomic fireworks display. Most humans throughout history have lived with their own personal vision of the end of everything, one that makes sense in the context of their lives and cultures. And that’s all these myths really are: ways for us humans to make sense of the world we live in, no matter when or where we are.
“You remember only one deluge, though there have been many… Of all the changes which take place in the heavens this reversal is the greatest and most complete. There is at that time great destruction of animals in general, and only a small part of the human race survives.” – Plato 360 B.C.E
Man has existed millions of years on earth. He has attained magnificent advanced civilizations which eventually fall, sometimes almost causing humans to go extinct. This is the teaching of 2 of the world’s great religions, Baha’i and Hindu.
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There are some very interesting artifacts in this Chinese Neolithic jade culture collection.
Mike Brown
Source: Megalithic Evidence That Cusco Existed Before The Inca Brien Foerster
More great videos!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w_mEiT6a4M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGxRd8V1TEw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqKPbXwMdq0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZOIjYy8uL8
The idea that the Inca were the first civilization to inhabit Cusco flies in the face of the megalithic evidence in and around the city. It is clear that a very advanced people were there earlier, possessing technology more advanced than what we have today.
Keep up the great work, Brien!!!!
Göbekli Tepe is one of the most fascinating Neolithic sites in the world. It is a tell, an artificial mound dating
to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. It was not used for habitation; it consists of several sanctuaries in the
form of round megalithic enclosures. The site lies about 15km north-east of the Turkish city of Sanlıurfa,
at the highest point of an extended mountain range that can be seen for many kilometres around.
It is a landmark visible from far away. Its enormous deposition of layers, up to fifteen metres
high, have accumulated over several millennia over an area of about nine hectares. Even today, the place
has lost nothing of its magic appeal. For example, a wishing tree which stands on top of the ridge is still
sought out by the residents of the surrounding area.
Archaeologists found an important piece of the puzzle in the early history of humanity at the site, which
contributes to a completely new understanding of the process of sedentism and the beginning of agriculture.
The hill, which is strewn with countless stone implements and large-format, regular-shaped
ashlars, revealed its secret as a result of the excavations carried out since 1995 by the German Archaeological
Institute in cooperation with the Archaeological Museum in Sanlıurfa Remarkably, no residential buildings have been discovered. However, at least two phases of monumental religious architecture have been uncovered. Of these, the older layer is the most impressive. The main features are T-shaped monolithic pillars, each weighing several tons. They were erected to form large circular enclosures, at the centre of which a pair of these pillars towers over all (Fig. 2). The diameters of the circles are between 10 and 20 metres, and the ten to twelve pillars of the circle
are connected by walls of quarry stone. The enclosures have been designated A, B, C and D in a range according to the date
of their discovery in the first years of the excavations.
It has been a great advantage to archaeology that, after a period of unknown duration, the sanctuaries
of the older layer at Göbekli Tepe were intentionally and rapidly buried, a process which seems to have
been a certain part of their use from the beginning. The old surfaces that can be observed in the excavations
and the processes that occurred in the sediment have been subjected to pedological analyses, allowing the filling to be dated. Moreover, the circumstances in which the structure was filled are a matter for speculation: was the act of filling part of some ritual? Was this ritual carried out repeatedly? The origin of the filling material is unknown. The provenance of the material is not unimportant, as
some 500 cubic metres of debris would be required to backfill enclosure D alone. Moreover, the material
is not sterile soil. It consists mainly of chips and pieces of limestone – usually smaller than fist-size – and many artefacts, mainly of flint, but also fragments of stone vessels, grind stones and other ground stone tools. Beside the stone artefacts, there are many animal bones, mostly broken into small pieces as is usual for waste. The bones are primarily of gazelle, but in terms of weight of meat, wild cattle is the
most important species. Other species of importance are red deer, onager, wild pig, and wild caprovids
There are no domesticated animals or plants.
The transitional period of the late Pleistocene to the early Holocene in south-western
Asia saw the emergence of the first large, permanently settled communities. Permanent
settlements dating to 12 000–10 000 BP currently under excavation are producing
unexpected monumentality and extraordinarily rich symbolism that challenges
our ability to interpret. Especially in Upper Mesopotamia, in the centre of the so-called
Fertile Crescent, large sites with exciting finds have been unearthed in recent years.
The results of these recent and ongoing excavations have not turned our picture of
world history upside down, but they are adding a splendid and colourful new chapter
between the period of the hunters and cing and ‘reading’ symbolic material culture, that
enabled communities to formulate their shared identities, and their cosmos. There has been much progress in the investigation of the
earliest signs of symbolic behaviours (from 100 000 years ago), followed by the earliest figural representations
in European Upper Palaeolithic art from 30 000 years ago (Bosinski 1987). Now, the 12 000
year old sites in Upper Mesopotamia make us believe that something new and very important was happening.
We are finding our way back to a quite diffusionistic point of view, when we observe the success
of people in possession of the ‘Neolithic package’, which first occurred in its complete form in the
Northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia, between the Upper Euphrates and the Upper Tigris. From
these regions, the new way of life was disseminated across the Old World from the 9th millennium calBC
onwards, reaching Europe and Africa in the late 7th millennium (for north-western Africa, especially
Egypt, comp. Shirai 2010). Göbekli Tepe opens a new perspective on the Early
Neolithic: specialisation on particular tasks must have been possible in order for members of the community
to be able to erect these monuments and decorate them so elaborately.
We can assume that
much older traces and constructions have yet to be found at Göbekli Tepe, and it can be guessed that
the place has a history stretching back over several thousand of years to the Old Stone Age. The people
must also have had a highly complicated mythology, including a capacity for abstraction (Morenz, Schmidt
2009). The question of who is being represented by the highly stylized T-shaped pillars remains open, as
we can not say with certitude if concepts of god existed at this time. So the general function of the enclosures
remains mysterious; but it is clear that the pillar statues in the centre of these enclosures represented
very powerful beings. If gods existed in the minds of Early Neolithic people, there is an overwhelming
probability that the T-shape is the first know monumental depiction of gods. Further investigations will certainly provide us with more detailed information. But to understand the new finds, archaeologists need to work closely with specialists in comparative religion, architectural and
art theory, cognitive and evolutionary psychology, sociologists using social network theory, and others.
It is the complex story of the earliest large, settled communities, their extensive networking, and their
communal understanding of their world, perhaps even the first organized religions and their symbolic
representations of the cosmos.
Göbekli Tepe – the Stone Age Sanctuaries.
New results of ongoing excavations with a special focus
on sculptures and high reliefs
Klaus Schmidt
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Orient-Abteilung, Berlin, DE
kls@orient.dainst.de
ANCIENT ARCHIVES 