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ANCIENT
MYSTERIES
FUTURE SCIENCE
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ANOMALIES
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CONTRIBUTORS
Michael Cremo
Jerry Decker
Larry Flaxman
Marie D. Jones
Julie Loar
Cynthia Logan
Susan Martinez, Ph.D.
Patrick Marsolek
Marsha Oaks
Karen Ralls
Martin Ruggles
Robert Schoch, Ph.D.
Freddy Silva
Steven Sora
William B. Stoecker
Carly Svamvour
COVER DESIGN
Ryan Hammer
GRAPHICS
Randy Haragan
Denis Ouellette
Ryan Hammer
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17 Jerry Decker
Nuclear Dangers
19 Michael Cremo
Oldest Human,
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23 Fighting to
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Is Terrorism a
Symptom of
Planetary Amnesia?
24 Surveillance
State
How Much of
Your Freedom Is
At Stake?
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29 The Otherworld
in Ancient Peru
Were Ancient
Initiations the Same
Around the World?
32 Gothic Wonders
Why Does the Ancient
Magic Still Amaze Us?
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442 How Did the
Ice Ages End?
A Conversation
with Randall
Carlson
445 Ice-Age-End
Scenarios
Geologist Robert
Schoch Weighs in
on the Evidence
35 Fairie Factors
One Man’s ‘Fantasy’
Another’s ‘Fact’ but
What’s the Truth?
39 The Foundation
of Reality
41 Hominids
and Humbug
Trouble in the
House of Darwin?
446 Columbus &
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America’s Other
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ALTERNATIVE NEWS
Ruins at Chauvain
de Huantar in the
Peruvian Andes.
Ancient Greeks in Peru?
W
hen
h
en Hesiod,
Hesiiod
d, the
the Greek
Greekk
poet of the eighth century
BC, spoke of Theogony and its
labyrinths at the end of the
world, was he actually describing
the ruins of Chauvain de Huantar in the Andes of Peru? A retired professor of physics at
Federal University in Rio de
Janeiro, Argentina believes he
was. In his 2011 book Journey to
the Mythological Inferno, Dr.
Enrico Mattievich claimed that
there are surprising similarities
between Hesiod’s descriptions
and key locales in ancient Peru.
The dwelling place of the demonic gorgons, for example,
Mattievich
Mattievich said
said closely
closely resembles
resembles
the dank region around the
mouth of the Amazon River.
Some have argued that the
Greek philosopher Plato’s description of Atlantis could be applied to the altiplano of Bolivia
(see “Searching the Andes for Atlantis,” AR #28). In a another example, archaeologist George
Erikson has written that America
is the true location of Atlantis,
and he points to, among other
things, the potential ancient navigational usefulness of Costa
Rica’s mysterious stone balls (“Atlantis: the American Connection,” AR #17). The late Peruvian
sscholar
c holar
Ar t hur
Poznansky
Arthur
Poznansky
claimed that lake Titicaca and iits
surroundings were artifacts of a
civilization going back 30,000
years. Some believe that the connections between America and
the old world most deserving of
our attention are the product of
universal spiritual practices. Elsewhere in this issue (page 24), researcher and author Freddy Silva
points out that many of the
iconic sacred sites of South
America are part of a global tradition of secret initiatory rituals.
Indeed, unusual round towers,
found all over the world, Silva reports, served such purposes, and
Winged goddess with a Gorgon's
head wearing a split skirt and
holding a bird in each hand, type
of the Potnia Theron. Probably
made on Rhodes. From Kameiros,
Rhodes.
the Chullpas found near Lake
Titicaca are prime examples.
The emergence of similar
motifs in many, otherwise unconnected, areas of the world, is also,
some believe, strong evidence for
the existence of universal archetypes, which psychiatrist Carl
Jung believed to be at thee root o
of
all human consciousness..
NEW LIGHT ON THE MAPS OF COLUMBUS
T
he maps which Columbus used in his fa
ffa-mous voyage of discovery in 1492 have
been a constant source of debate. As Rand
and Rose Flem-Ath reported in Atlantis Rising #78, “The Lost Map of Christopher
Columbus,” there is evidence that the explorer had access to a world map predating
all widely available sources of the time, yet
showing details as yet unknown. It is believed
by some scholars that the famous Piri Riis
map was a portion of that lost map. President
Dwight Eisenhower was persuaded by Charles
Hapgood of its existence, and he took some
unsuccessful steps to find it.
Now researchers at Yale University are
using multispectral imaging to examine an-
10 ATLANTIS RISING • Number 113
other map to which it is believed Columbus
had access. The world map drawn by Henricus Martellus in 1491 is now yielding a great
deal of new insight into the general cartographic knowledge of the time. Previously too
faded for proper reading, the Martellus map
is now becoming legible and providing some
interesting tidbits, such as naming Asians the
people of “Balor”, and stating that the “Panotly” people had ears so large they could be
used as sleeping bags—nothing, however, like
the Piri Riis map which shows details of
Antarctica beneath the ice, unknown before
modern investigation.
For more on the trials of Columbus,
olumbu see
Steven Sora’s article on Page. 46..
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MODERN INDIA REAWAKENS TO ITS ANCIENT
ACHIEVEMENTS
W
ith Nobel Prize-winning
breakthroughs in cancer research, rockets to Mars, and even
startling discoveries in zero point
energy (see A.R. #112, p. 10),
modern India advances to the
heights of economic power and
cutting-edge scientific achievement, and interest in the forgotten advancements of its ancient
past has also risen to new heights.
A growing consensus recognizes
that previously unappreciated
technical knowledge in medicine,
metallurgy, and mathematics can
be extracted from ancient texts,
and, indeed, there are some who
Ancient Indian bas relief depicts devotees welcoming
go even further. Even the most
Krishna in a flying machine
radical research, it seems, can find
a hearing, if not tacit approval, from India’s Padang, etc.), science in America and the west
will hear no talk of high ancient advancegrowing scientific establishment.
In January, the prestigious Indian Sci- ment. Instead, clinging stubbornly to an outence Congress listened to a paper by Captain worn paradigm, it maintains a virtually
Anand Bodas, a veteran of India’s pilot train- religious dogma that, prior to the end of the
ing academy, and Mumbai college professor last ice age, humans on Earth were no more
Ameya Jadhav on “Ancient Indian Aviation that primitive hunter gatherers. For greater inTechnology.” Citing sources in the Sanskrit sight into the world that existed before the
Vedic scriptures, Bodas argued that seven- to great catastrophes which preceded our world’s
nine-thousand years ago, flying machines accepted history, see, elsewhere in this issue,
called Vimanas were developed and used ex- Cynthia Logan’s interview with researcher
tensively. “Aviation technology in ancient Randall Carlson on his case for an ice-ageIndia is not a tale of mythology;” the abstract ending cometary impact, and read geologist
reads, “it is a total historical document giving Dr. Robert Schoch’s article on the great detechnical details and specifications.” While struction that may have been brought about
disparaged by some as “pseudo-science,” the by a forgotten Solar Outburst. All of this,
paper was, nevertheless, heard by an essen- many of us believe, signals the coming to an
end of the great amnesia that, for millennia,
tially tolerant audience.
In the meantime, despite many ir- has blocked all efforts to learn the truth of
refutable archaeological discoveries (i.e., who we are and why we are here on this
Turkey’s Gobekli Tepe, Indonesia’s Gunang planet..
a
actual
individual
identified in the Bible
id
aas a son of Saul—predecessor and rival to
d
David, the legendary
D
warrior king of anw
ccient Israel. Even
tthough the large pottteryy jar can be dated
tto
o tthe tenth century
BC, which matches
BC
B
tthe
he time of Saul, this
particular Eshbaal,
par
p
archaeologists
ssay
Yosef
Yo
Y
s Garfinkel and
SSaar Ganor, was only
a landholder—but still, one wealthy enough,
at least, to have his name inscribed on his
property. Researchers are, nevertheless, excited
because such markings are very rare. In fact,
this is but the fourth such inscription ever
found from the period.
d.
Name of King Saul’s Son Found
on Ancient Hebrew Pottery
I
n Israel’s valley of Elah, archaeologists have
uncovered a 3,000-year-old pottery jar with
an inscription matching the name of a known
character from the Old Testament. Scholars,
however, say they don’t think the “Eshbaal
Ben Beda” named in the inscription was the
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• BY
Y MARTIN RUGGLES
I
n May the terrorist army calling itself
the ‘Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’, aka ‘ISIS’ captured the historic Syrian desert city of Palmyra and soon
began to trash its ancient ruins. The mostly
Roman-era ruins at Palmyra are classified as a
United Nations World Heritage Site which
must be protected by the civilized world. ‘Civilized,’ alas, is not a term that can be applied
to Palmyra’s new bosses.
For the invaders, the sites and statues are
nothing more than heathen temples and
idols, deserving destruction. For the rest of
the world, however, such ruins serve as a window into the past—they are our very memory;
lose them and we may never learn who we really are.
The demolishing of ancient ruins has become a hallmark of the truly terrifying ISIS
campaign to establish a new caliphate, like
that of centuries past, in the Middle East. In
videos distributed on the Internet, a horrified
world has now witnessed—in addition to the
savage murder of many innocents whose only
crime was to be in the path of the marauders—the systematic destruction of numerous
major archaeological sites. Men with bulldozers, sledgehammers, and drills have attacked
sites. such as Aleppo, Khorsabad, Jonah’s
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lization.’
Some of the more valuable pieces, however, may yet survive, as ISIS—seeking to generate cash flow for its operations—works to
sell them on the international antiquities
black market. Some believe, in fact, the entire
campaign may be nothing more than a cover
for sophisticated looting on a grand scale.
The Thieves
In the videos that appeared in April, before the entire site was destroyed with explosives, militants could be seen attacking
Assyria’s famous winged bulls and sawing
apart floral reliefs in the palace of Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud. According to Qais Hussein
Rashid, head of Iraq’s State Board for Antiquities and Heritage, that was all just the final
step in a deeper game.
“The Islamic State started days before,”
Rashid told the Associated Press, “destroying
this site by digging in this area, mainly the
palace.” He had watched from his office next
to Iraq’s National Museum—itself a target of
looting after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that
ousted Saddam Hussein. “We think that they
first started digging around these areas to get
the artifacts, then they started demolishing
them as a cover up.”
While there is no firm evidence of the
amount of money being made by the Islamic
State group from looting antiquities, satellite
photos and anecdotal evidence confirm widespread plundering of archaeological sites in
areas under ISIS control, the AP reported in
May.
Nimrud was also the site of one of the
greatest discoveries in Iraqi history, stunning
golden jewelry from a royal tomb found in
1989, and Rashid is worried that more such
tombs lie beneath the site and have been
plundered. Income from looting throughout
the area, some believe, could be in the millions of dollars.
Experts speculate that the large pieces
are destroyed with sledgehammers and drills
for the benefit of the cameras, while the more
portable items like figurines, masks, and ancient clay cuneiform tablets are smuggled to
dealers in Turkey. (http://www.usnews.com/
news/world/articles/2015/05/12/iraq-says-isdemolishes-ruins-to-cover-up-looting-operations)
Rowan Moore, Architecture critic for the
UK’s Observer magazine, says the ancient
Roman site in Palmyra is “exceeded by very
few others: those in Rome itself, Pompeii,
possibly Petra in Jordan. Its temples, colonnades and tombs, its theatre and streets are
extensive, exquisite, distinctive, rich. The loss
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SECRET GOVERNMENT
How
H
ow Much
Much of
of
Y
Your
our F
Freedom
reedom
IIss at
at Stake?
Stake?
• BY MARIE D. JONES
& LARRY FLAXMAN
T
he concept of personal privacy has
changed drastically in an era of explosive technological advancement
that includes drones and satellites
that see through walls, cameras on every city
street corner, cyber spies lurking behind your
computer screens, and cell phones that track
your every move. Nothing you do is done in
private, not even in your own homes. In
many ways, even your thoughts, behaviors
and actions are being exposed to a variety of
powerful sources that want nothing more
than to control some aspect of your life...if
not every aspect.
Domestic surveillance after the terrorist
attacks of September 11, 2001 increased to a
point where anything was acceptable under
the guise of protecting the nation from future
terrorism. The Patriot Act initiated far-reaching measures that, at the time, made people
feel safer, even as their own civil liberties were
being stripped away.
But the problem was, the vast majority
of the citizens being spied on had nothing to
do with any terrorist organization. Fourteen
years later, the train is still speeding away from
the station. Just recently in May of 2015, Boeing was awarded a patent for an autonomous
drone that can be recharged while in the air.
While civil libertarians were screaming about
the loss of privacy rights, Boeing was assuring
us that they can now “keep us safe/spy on
us” 24/7, because up to this point, drones
were limited to the amount of airborne time
by their need to drop down and refuel.
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Without that need, we can now look forward to drones powered by batteries that can
be recharged via a number of methods that
don’t require them to land. While these
drones might also provide some benefits,
such as providing Wi-Fi services or product
delivery that makes all of our lives easier, no
doubt there will be more invasive purposes
for such technology. A June 8, 2015 article
for Disclose.tv.com referred to this new unmanned aerial drone as something straight
out of the Matrix movies (remember the Sentinels?), especially if these drones are armed.
“Do we, as a society, really trust a swarm of
autonomous drones, potentially armed, which
in theory could almost never need leave the
sky?” the article asks.
As early as 1998, we were reading news
stories of spy satellites orbiting the earth peering into our homes and down into our streets
to the point of being able to see the license
plates on our vehicles. Today, we can only
imagine what is possible.
Spy satellites and drones alike have been
put to use by the Department of Homeland
Security right on our home soil, although
some “in the know” admit that we still aren’t
quite near the capabilities often portrayed in
spy movies and television series. But we are
close. Normally satellites are not geosynchronous over any particular place for more than
a few minutes, and they don’t take color photos, or full motion imagery...or so we are told.
Back in 2007, in an article for NPR titled
“What Can Satellites Do for Domestic Spy-
ing,” then Director of GlobalSecurity.org
talked about the limitations of satellites. The
focus at that time was on repeated images
that would spark further DHS interest, allegedly to allow DHS to pinpoint where to
send rescue people in a mass casualty event,
like a terrorist act, and where to evacuate
them.
In 2008, “Slate” reporter William Saletan
wrote in “Nowhere to Hide: Killer Drones
That Can See Through Walls” of the use of
unmanned drones in both Iraq and
Afghanistan, able to track human targets via
“STTW,” or “Sense Through The Wall,” technology that utilizes radar to detect people
within rooms, even through walls over a foot
of concrete thick. According to Saletan,
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency) was using this technology, or at the
very least testing it, as far back as 2006. He
refers to a 2006 “Operational Needs Statement” by the Joint Urban Operations Office
calling for the use of STTW on both manned
and unmanned vehicles. The Navy followed
suit with a call of their own. Using potential
sensors distributed on and around buildings,
these drones could then provide intelligence
on what is inside a building, who is inside,
and what they are doing.
This same technology was being developed in the early 2000s by Boeing, and by
Defence R&D Canada, as per a 2002 report
stating the desire for a “through-the-roof” sur-
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THE INVISIBLE WORLD
Fact or Fantasy:
What’s the Truth?
Fairie
Factors
John Hyatt’s Photograph
• BY PATRICK MARSOLEK
I
n the spring of 2014 John Hyatt, a lecturer with Manchester Metropolitan
University, UK, published a series of
photos of small winged creatures that
look like very small flying people or fairies.
Hyatt said he was taking photos through the
trees at sunset, trying to capture fast moving
insects. The photos weren’t doctored in any
way other than enlarging the size and the resolution of the images. These “Rossendale
Fairies,” similar to the famous Cottingley
fairy photos taken in Yorkshire in 1917, have
excited many believers and have been widely
ridiculed as well by skeptics. In an interview in International Business
Times, Hyatt said, “I am an artist. These are
honest photographs with no trickery. Fairies
certainly exist in art and within culture and,
for those that believe and those that disbelieve, they act on many people’s decisions and
ways of life. Are they materially real? I have
merely placed some interesting evidence before the public. Let the people decide. I never
claimed to prove anything but simply to offer
gifts of great beauty and interest to the people
of the world.” Many have already decided one way or
the other. Hyatt said that since posting his
photos people from around the world have
thanked him on behalf of their children and
themselves. They’ve also sent photos and
their own stories of encounters with fairies. If
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vs.
you search
“fairy”
earch fo
fforr “fa
f iry” or “elemental” online,
you can find
f nd many sites showing images in
fi
which
h the faces
f ces and bodies of “spirits” are visfa
ible in
n plants, water, trees, and other natural
forms.
s. Of course, skeptics have had a fi
ffield
eld
day, too,
oo, quickly pointing out that the photos
could
d simply be of midges or another small
flyingg insect. Plus, there’s the fa
ffact
ct that no one
has ever fo
ffound
und any material evidence of
fairies.
s. Yet,
Y t, belief in fairies
Ye
f iries and other nature
fa
spiritss is very high all across the world and
has been
een fo
fforr a very long time.
The folklore
f lklore of the Persians, Mongolians,
fo
Chinese,
ese, Japanese, Indians, and Egyptians all
contain accounts of such nature spirits. The
Celtic druids had tree spirits that inhabited
sacred groves and special trees. The Teutonic
tribes had their gnomes and dwarves. There
are also many indigenous cultures with animistic beliefs about the world who experience
spirits inhabiting all forms of nature. With
the rise of Christianity worldwide, these kinds
of beliefs were labeled “primitive” or “superstitious.” Anyone who publicly held such beliefs might have risked persecution for their
association with such “demonic” forces. For
1500 years the belief in these kinds of creatures in the West continued, though was kept
more private. Natural healers, who were labeled as witches, gypsies and alchemists, continued to interact with them in their hidden
practices. In the sixteenth century, Paracelsus revived interest with his fairy book Liber de
Nymphis, sylphis, pygmaieis et salamandris et
materialism
de caeteris spiritibus where he describes “creatures that are outside the cognizance of the
light of nature.” In his book he catalogued
beings belonging to the fo
ffour
ur elements:
Gnomes, of the earth; Undines, of the water;
Sylphs, of the air; and Salamanders, of the
fire.
f re. These “divine objects,” though generally
fi
invisible, were believed to be beings between
creatures and spirits, corporal and etherial.
Later in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, as the power of the church declined
and the study of science increased, there was
a resurgence of belief in fa
ffairies,
iries, spirits, and
other mystical forces.
f rces. At the turn of the twenfo
tieth century, the spiritualist movement and
the Theosophists were applying scientific
methodologies to the realms of spirit, subtle
energies, and consciousness. Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock
Holmes mysteries, was a spiritualist and was
drawn into the mystery of the Cottingley
fairies. In his 1922 book, The Coming of the
Fairies, he said, “We see objects within the
limits which make up our color spectrum,
with infinite vibrations, unused by us, on either side of them. If we could conceive a race
of beings which were constructed in material
which threw out shorter or longer vibrations,
they would be invisible unless we could tune
ourselves up or tone them down... there is
nothing scientifically impossible, so far as I
can see, in some people seeing that which is
invisible to others.”
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ALTERNATIVE
SCIENCE
Hominids
&Humbug
Trouble in the House of Darwin?
• BY SUSAN B. MARTINEZ, PH.D.
I
t may be a truism that
when we are committed to
something, we tend to work
everything else around it.
This would hold for personal as
well as public strategy. We all do
it—to some extent. And that is
fine. Unless … unless there’s
something amiss with the premise itself. So let’s cut to the chase.
Let’s look at the premise, taken
for granted by those who subscribe to the theory of Evolution,
the premise that man “evolved”
and that he did so in one particular place. Called monogenism,
this is the earmark of Darwinism
past and present; it holds: That
that place was Africa.
—That mankind is found on
other continents only because
groups of humans moved out of
Africa to populate the world.
—That the most recent of
those migrations (apart from the
one to Oceania) was to the Americas—otherwise virgin land until
some 15 or 20 thousand years
ago.
—That these future American Indians crossed the Bering
Strait from Siberia.
These are the premises of
Darwinian monogenism. Everything must conform to it, follow
suit. None of the world’s people,
accordingly, are actually aboriginal to their home. Only Africans.
Even the Australian aborigines,
theory insists, came originally
from Africa, perhaps 60,000 years
ago. We’re all made-over
Africans—supposedly.
Which
brings us to the first little problem:
Since our ultimate forefathers were Africans, we must—if
the theory is to be upheld—have
acquired other racial traits—
whether Mongoloid, Caucasoid,
Australoid, etc.—by mutating into
those types; i.e., by changing
through the alleged process of
natural selection. But we have a
problem right here because, given
the evolutionary timetable, there
just wasn’t enough time after
leaving Africa to do all that
evolving. Stripped of certain ad
hoc manipulations (like “punk
eek”, see below), Darwinian evolution requires very large blocks
of time, many millions of years.
The 50,000- or 80,000- or even
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Fossil Hominid Skull Display,
Museum of Osteology,
Oklahoma City, OK
100,000-year window for changing, say from black to white,
doesn’t even come close.
If early man evolved only in
Africa, what are the actual facts
that support this premise? The
out-of-Africa doctrine, though
floated for decades if not centuries, did not become an idée
fixe until less than thirty years
ago. In fact, before then, there
was a vague consensus among
scholars that the first humans
came out of Asia, that Adam and
Eve were brought forth somewhere in the dim East.
And yes, there are hominid
remains in China (Hubei and
Guangxi provinces) and other
parts of the Orient. Homo erectus,
even australopithecine traits, have
been recognized in fossil specimens as far afield as Micronesia
(Palau Man) and Australia (Kow
Swamp Man). But those facts
along with that entire line of inquiry went down the memory
hole once “African Eve” (“mitochondrial Eve”) became de rigueur
in the late 1980s.
Everything is made to fit the
favored theory, presented quite
sseriously
eriously as unassailable fact
f ct by
fa
ttheorists
heorists who are not above calling their opponents “fruitcakes”
or outright frauds. Of course,
that’s where the research money
is—the favored theory. That’s
where the promotion is—in both
senses of the term. That’s where
the books and journals and jobs
and lecture tours and awards and
TV shows and even fame and fortune are.
But as a result, it has become hard to find information
on early hominids in non-African
locations. It is buried. But it is
there. Take America, for example.
In his book, Forgotten Worlds
(Inner Traditions, 2012, p. 162),
my colleague Patrick Chouinard
notes “examples of people who
shouldn’t be in pre-Columbian
America but seem to creep from
the undergrowth to stun the
world … Belief in Asian migration
across the Bering Strait has
reached almost biblical proportions. It is a story that most
archeologists … are trained to
prove beyond a shadow of a
doubt. But why?”
The answer to that question
is—because the premise demands
it; monogenism cannot survive
unless it can be proven that
everyone (except Africans, of
course) migrated into their present lands.
But there is an alternative,
called polygenism (in the last several decades it has also been
known as the “multiregional” approach). There is no ax to grind
here, no premise to prove; the
data simply suggests that man
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Gathering the
de ce
Evidence
ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE
J
ohn Anthony West has complained that
Ph.D. candidates in Egyptology spend way
too much time on subjects like Tutankhamun’s underwear, and far too little on
subjects of real significance, like the true
meaning of Egypt’s monuments. We end up
knowing more and more about less and less,
he has argued. The pattern is repeated
throughout the entire scientific establishment, as researchers, in order to advance
their careers, feel the need to specialize in
ever narrower areas of interest. The smart
doctoral candidates politely defer to experts
in other fields, and stick to their specialty.
Nobody seems willing, or able, to address
the big picture. The consequence: certain entrenched mythologies are never challenged.
One of the most persistent, is the notion
that there is NO real evidence that the ice
ages ended with great planetary catastrophes,
as recently as 12,000 years ago. At least one
scholar, however, begs to differ.
Randall Carlson, an
independent researcher in
the tradition of John Anthony West, Graham Hancock, or even nineteenth
century scholar Ignatius
Donnelly (Atlantis: The
Antediluvian World), has
taken up the challenge of
finding out—big-picturewise—what we actually Randall Carlson
know and what we do not. Working diligently—albeit outside the academic system—
for over a third of a century, Carlson has
applied his formidable intellect and energies
to analyzing the vast array of peer reviewed
scientific literature in many related fields. In
the process, he has uncovered a mountain
of startling research, which, though fully vetted, has been virtually ignored by an establishment, seemingly more devoted to
preserving paradigms and privilege, than the
truth.
To collect even more compelling evidence, Carlson has deployed a small army
of volunteers to pursue some large-scale field
research, mostly in America’s Pacific Northwest. Not surprisingly, he has become something of an authority on the case for a severe
planetary cataclysm at the end of the last ice
age, as well as such hot-button items as
global warming. A familiar presence on the
Internet, Carlson is consulted by many, including popular YouTube host Joe Rogan.
Graham Hancock swears by Carlson’s research and devotes a major part of his forthcoming book The Magicians of the Gods to
it.
Recently, Atlantis Rising Magazine
asked longtime contributing writer Cynthia
Logan to catch up with Randall Carlson and
get his story for our readers. —ED
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ow’s this for an inconvenient
truth? Carbon dioxide accounts
for just .04 percent of atmospheric greenhouse gas. And
while methane has been introduced as a
major contributor (often with a good deal
of smirking), the dominant greenhouse gas
is, according to climate scholar Randall
Carlson, water vapor. So why are we all
counting our carbons? The lay geologist believes we have a climate bureaucracy whose
‘Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory’
employs tunnel vision when it comes to the
bigger picture.. “Since the advent of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC)… it has become typical to denigrate
anyone who questions the consensus that
carbon dioxide is the sole or even the dominant driver of climate change,” he writes.
He believes global warming is driven by political interests to control energy distribution and consumption. He scoffs at the
claim that the climate debate is over; in his
mind, it’s barely begun. “The so-called consensus is completely manufactured. It doesn’t exist. Solar physicists say the IPCC
leaves out the Sun, so how realistic are
those models? Questionnaires sent out to
obtain consensus were slanted.”
Seems radical, but before dissing or
dismissing his viewpoint, a few facts are in
order. First, he does believe humans are affecting the climate, but would like our con-
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made “by those who clearly stand to gain
by the implementation of carbon remediation measures.” He also believes we should
consider dissenting voices trying to remind
us the climate has always changed, and that
sometimes those changes have been extreme and catastrophic. Third, for nearly
forty years Carlson has interviewed scientists from many disciplines, and has traveled
to see and explore evidence for himself. He
doesn’t watch much TV (unless it’s something relevant to his research, usually on
PBS) and reads constantly. In fact, he’s read
two or three scientific articles almost every
single day since the 1970s. Asked about his credentials, he responds; “I have a command
of the facts and thousands of references at
my fingertips. I’m willing to sit down with
anybody and discuss any of this.”
When he says ‘any of this,’ he means
more than climatology. Randall Carlson is
a curious person and has from an early age
sought to assemble a vast cosmic puzzle
whose pieces include astronomy, history,
geology and mathematics (all of which he
has studied formally), as well as architecture, archaeology, ancient civilizations, sacred geometry, numerology, literature,
mythology—and catastrophism. And he’s
not just an eclectic; the guy connects the
dots. “There’s an overspecialization in science today,” says Carlson. “An oceanograSubscribe or Order Books, DVDs and Much More!
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looked at geology? Don’t bring in ad hominin arguments—I’ve invested huge
amounts of time—this is what I do for recreation. I’m obsessively curious about these
things.”
Carlson traces his interest in catastrophism to the plastic View-Master he received for his fifth birthday. Essentially a
stereoscope utilizing circular reels with
paired images on color film, it shows scenes
in 3D. “My favorite set of View-Master reels
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picting an encounter and impending battle
between a Triceratops and a Tyrannosaurus
Rex, the narrative introduces the imagery
of global Catastrophe, way ahead of its
time in the early 1950s.”
After high school, Carlson spent three
months hitchhiking through Colorado,
Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon.
“I came back with the impression that there
is a story in this landscape; it felt compelling,” he recalls. “Ancient history,
mythology, and symbolism interested me as
well.” Carlson was also curious about the
‘lost continent’ of Atlantis and read numerous books on the subject, including Ger-
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broke up, and pieces were splayed across
the southeastern United States, creating the
Carolina Bays—tens of thousands of shallow
elliptical depressions along parallel axes
from northwest to southeast.” Since ‘the
Bays are basically his backyard, Carlson
began to research them during the 1980s at
Fernbank Science Center, a resource established for the public.
Carlson had learned that in 1908 in
Tunguska, Siberia, a bolide (the term encompasses ‘all species of cosmic creatures’:
asteroids, meteorites, comets, etc.) had exploded in the atmosphere with the force of
a large hydrogen bomb, leveling 830 square
miles of old-growth forest. He thinks the
event “ranks up there in importance with
the moon landing, the World Wars, and the
invention of the atomic bomb.” The area
was so remote it wasn’t until 1927 that the
first Russian scientists got to the site. Once
they did, they found numerous, shallow elliptical depressions similar to the Carolina
Bays: Carlson surmises they were produced
by shockwaves hitting the ground. He notes
that after the Apollo mission, there was a
major shift in the prevailing paradigm;
“moon craters had been thought to be volcanic. After Apollo we knew they’d been
created by meteor strikes. Since Earth is
much bigger than the moon, it would be
more vulnerable than the moon, so there
was nothing fantastical about thinking
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ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE
• BY ROBERT M. SCHOCH, Ph.D.
T
he end of the last Ice Age, nearly
12,000 years ago, was a pivotal period not only in the history of our
planet but also for early cultures and
civilizations living during those tumultuous
times. There were rapid climatic and environmental changes as well as catastrophic geologic changes. Massive ice sheets (on the
order of kilometers thick) quickly melted at
high latitudes in the northern hemisphere;
pressure was released from the crust setting
off increased earthquake and volcanic activity.
Tremendous amounts of moisture in the atmosphere fell to the surface of Earth as torrential rains, causing widespread deluges and
flooding. Huge quantities of fresh water
flowed into the oceans, upsetting and changing ocean circulation patterns, which in turn
had further effects on the climate as well as
raising sea levels around the globe on the
order of a 120 meters or more, inundating
low-lying coastal areas.
The exact dating of the end of the last
Ice Age has been subject to increasing refinements over the last few decades. In recent
years, based on ice core data from Greenland
and other detailed evidence, the end of the
last Ice Age has been dated to “11700 calendar
yr b2k (before AD 2000) . . . with a maximum
counting error of 99 yr” (M. Walker et al.
2009, Jour. Quaternary Science ). Studying a
Greenland ice core utilizing ultra-high-resolution laser sampling techniques involving hundreds of samples per centimeter and year of
ice time (measuring such markers as calcium,
sodium, and iron concentrations), P.
Mayewski, et al. (2014, Jour. Quaternary Science)
have pinpointed the abrupt end of the last
Ice Age to within a year. Inspecting their published data, it is evident that they have refined
information documenting the end of the last
Ice Age at the level of months, weeks, and
possibly even days. The Ice Age ended quite
suddenly indeed!
The last Ice Age did not just “warm” and
end. Rather, in the Northern Hemisphere
there was a warming period toward the end
of the last Ice Age followed by a cold spell
(cold even relative to those glacial times),
known as the Younger Dryas, before the final
warming. The onset of this cooling event was
also quite abrupt, although perhaps not quite
as abrupt as the dramatic warming that ended
the Younger Dryas (thus ending the last Ice
Age). Based on Greenland ice core data, this
cooling event is dated to approximately
10,900 BC (J. Steffensen, et al. 2008, Science).
The Younger Dryas cold spell lasted for 1,200
years before Earth was suddenly snapped out
of the last Ice Age circa 9700 BC. What are
the explanations for the beginning and end
of the Younger Dryas? These are topics that
have baffled geologists for decades.
Perhaps one of the best known and most
controversial theories to explain the onset of
the Younger Dryas is that a comet, meteor,
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asteroid, or other extraterrestrial (ET) object
(a bolide) either hit Earth or exploded in the
atmosphere 12,900 years ago, thus inducing
the abrupt cooling event that marks the onset
of the Younger Dryas. Although there were
earlier theories along these lines, this idea
gained widespread attention with the 2007
publication of an article by R. Firestone, et
al. that reputedly reported evidence for such
an impact event. These authors (Proc. National
Academy of Sciences) proposed, “that one or
more large, low-density ET objects exploded
over northern North America, partially destabilizing the Laurentide Ice Sheet and triggering YD [Younger Dryas] cooling. The shock
wave, thermal pulse, and event-related environmental effects (e.g., extensive biomass
burning and food limitations) contributed to
end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions and
adaptive shifts among PaleoAmericans in
North America.”
The impact hypothesis has aroused
heated controversy, with arguments and counterarguments flying back and forth in the scientific literature as well as in the popular
press. Initially I found the arguments for such
an impact at the beginning of the Younger
Dryas quite intriguing. However, as more researchers have studied the issue, much of the
data supporting the impact hypothesis has
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been questioned. For instance, D. Kennett, et
al. (2009, Proc. National Academy of Sciences)
published an article apparently documenting
the presence of “shock-synthesized hexagonal
nanodiamonds (lonsdaleite)” from the base of
the Younger Dryas on Santa Rosa Island, California. This, if true, would strongly support
that an impact event occurred, as lonsdaleite
is known on Earth only from meteorites and
impact craters. However, as pointed out by
M. Boslough, et al. (2012, Geophysical Monograph Series), it has since been determined that
the supposed lonsdaleite is not lonsdaleite
but a misidentification of other material, and
the same holds true of other supposed reported occurrences of lonsdaleite in sediments dating to approximately 12,900 years
ago. With the invalidation of the supposed
lonsdaleite finds, one of the strongest lines of
evidence supporting the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis has evaporated. Furthermore,
various studies have demonstrated that nanodiamonds per se (as opposed to lonsdaleite)
“do not provide unique evidence for a
Younger Dryas impact” event (H. Tian, et al.
2012, Proc. National Academy of Sciences).
Other evidence put forth to support the
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis has not
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