Here are some examples.

Eden Rubble On Mars

Mars today is a barren planet covered with rocks and marred by craters. NASA orbiters offer some of the best snapshots… like this one showing dry lake-beds that probably flourished with life several billion years ago. (Credit: NASA/JPL/ImperialCollegeofLondon)

A recent space.com article analyzed pictures of ruts and grooves behind some of the Mars rocks, suggesting the rocks had slid downhill recently, maybe as a result of a marsquake. (Credit: NASA/HiRISE image)

Read the space.com article

As I see it, when planet Eden was destroyed 4 billion years ago by advanced technologies of its superhuman inhabitants, the nearest planet, Mars, must have received the brunt of the blast.

Physical life on ‘the red planet’ was obliterated as it was pummeled by debris from the explosion… before most of the debris settled into an asteroid belt that today fills Eden’s former orbit.

Before that, Mars was one of several planets in our solar system that flourished with life, as shown in this artist’s rendition of Mars several billion years ago. (credit:WikimediaCommons/ Ittiz)

Reviving Ancient Life Forms

Global warming, like most crises, may have some opportunities. Ancient life forms that have been buried under arctic ice for tens of thousands of years are suddenly making themselves known.

This narrow-leaf campion hasn’t flourished on Earth for 32,000 years… until Russian scientists excavated seeds from thawing tundra in Siberia a few years ago and were able to nurture the seeds to life. (Credit: Svetlana Yashina)

This is by far the oldest terrestrial life form ever to be rejuvenated, so independent scientists are suppressing their enthusiasm until further tests are done.

Read a related New York Times article

I’m confident that advanced life was flourishing on Earth 4 billion years ago, when superhuman Edenites were colonizing our world. The colonists became marooned here after the destruction of their home world and set about nurturing terrestrial life and charting a course for the evolution of humankind.

As a result, life on Earth (and humanity in particular) has a rich, flourishing history tracing back billions of years, and it will all start to come together at a quickening pace in the coming years as science uncovers more clues like the narrow-leaf campion.

Engineering at the Atomic Level

As microchips continue to get ever smaller and more densely populated by digital circuits, scientists now have developed a working transistor using a single phosphorus atom placed on a silicon crystal. For someone like me who’s spent most of his adult life involved in the high-tech industry, this is big news… maybe a big step toward quantum computing.

Read the related article from TG Daily

ITC contacts from The Seven ethereals suggest that the ancient Edenites and their latter-day descendants, the Titans of Atlantis, were accomplished at microcosmic engineering. We modern humans, with our comparatively short lifespans and intellectual gifts, are quickly rediscovering the knowledge lost by our superhuman ancestors.

Contending with Our Noble-Savage Nature

As one of many species of social animals, how social are we, really? How strong is our noble side in relation to our savage side? When kids get together, who well do they share the marbles? When adults live together, how well do the rich share with the poor?

Behavioral scientists in Germany are studying a situations in human affairs that seem to promote or obstruct altruistic behavior among us humans. When kids cooperate on a task, they share the rewards. When they work independently they tend to horde.

This simple finding, if given the attention it deserves, could have tremendous impact on social and political systems in the future. It could bring together the best qualities of capitalism and communism… of democracy and autocracy… in order to create social and political systems best suited to our noble-savage nature… striking that perfect balance between people’s need for freedom and society’s need for stability.

Read the related New York Times article

(Note: I’m planning my next article series, which will take a closer look at the spirit face photographs I gathered over the years using the luminator and a Polaroid camera… and what I learned from those pictures about our nature has multidimensional human beings. I hope to launch that series next month… so stay tuned.  MM)

Times have been hard for many, many people lately, here in the USA and around the world… and I’m right there among them. Investments gone bad, dwindling finances, job loss, loved ones going through crises, a world that seems to be falling apart…. Darkness just seems to be overwhelming at times here on Earth for so many of us!

I’ve always had a certain sensitivity, so that when troubles are brewing in my life I get a discomfort in the pit of my stomach. It’s not a constant thing, but more of a twinge that comes and goes at various times through the day… especially in the evening when I’m getting ready for bed. Needless to say, I don’t get a lot of sleep during these times.

Usually one situation of my life creeps into my mind when I get these twinges —a losing investment, a troubled family member, a problem with someone at work… so I have a pretty good idea what the problem is at the moment.

I learned long ago not to ignore the twinges, because they don’t go away until the problem is resolved, one way or another.

I’ve also learned during the past 20 years that there are good ways and bad ways to deal with the discomfort, and I’ve tried most of them.

Alcohol or some kind of blissful drug can numb the discomfort, but of course the problem doesn’t go away. It usually gets worse.

My most natural reaction has always been to immerse myself in the problem and try to figure out a rational solution… but that often leads to more discomfort and bigger problems. What seems like a rational decision turns out to be a bad decision, especially if there’s fear or anger or animosity or greed wrapped up with my thinking.

There’s only one thing I’ve found in recent years that can defuse the troubles completely, almost without exception: Going to the source.

I don’t mean going to the source of the problem. I mean going inward to… The Source.
Meditation.
Closing down the conscious mind to let the subtle mind figure things out.
Turning the problem over to a higher power.

Or as I like to think of it, letting my spirit guides take over.

It’s gotten better as Regina and I have grown more comfortable with each other through three decades of marriage. She’s developed a close connection to the Source and attracted a group of gifted spirit guides through her healing work. So when I get these twinges, I have my people talk to her people, and things usually get resolved quickly.

Case in point: A close friend with a substance abuse problem. Should I try to intervene or let the friend find his difficult way through this? (Well, Regina and I tried intervening and persuaded the friend to go through treatment a few months ago, but now we need to back out of the situation. Our friend also has a higher power—everyone does—and it’s time now for Regina and me to turn it over to the higher power. Other than my people and her people talking to our friend’s people, there’s not much more we can do.

Case in point: A recent investment that I felt very strongly about, but that’s quickly sucking away part of our nest egg. Should I hang in there with this “inverse ETF”—this bet against the market—or should I sell now and cut my losses, assuming that the market will continue to go up? A part of me—admittedly the fear part—has been urging me to cut my losses and sell the investment as the market keeps going up. I was thinking of doing that this coming week. But Regina described a vivid dream she had last night in which the market does indeed have a huge, overdue correction sometime fairly soon, and then my investment soars back to life very quickly. So I’m going to hang in there.

Case in point: Rejection of the patent application for my vitality ratio, which took me 20+ years to perfect. Should I abandon the idea of patenting it, or should I try again? I wrote the patent application in 2008, amended it last year with the help of a patent attorney, and last month it was finally rejected. I have a choice now to rewrite and resubmit it, or abandon it. If I resubmit it, I’ll have to do it alone, as we can’t afford the patent attorney at this point. (More on that situation in a future article.)

These are three sources of big discomfort for me at the moment (there are others), and meditation is the only way I can find relief from any of them, especially when they gang up on me like this.

Until recently, meditation at times like these seemed impossible. My rational mind would be a storm center as I tried desperately to unravel each problem, understand it, and fix it.  When that uneasiness in the pit of my stomach showed up, it was always the ruler of the roost.

The good thing about meditation is that the more you practice it, the easier it gets. Yesterday when I was hit by the stock market twinge, I stretched out on the bed, closed my eyes, moved my awareness from the head to the heart, and five minutes later I was in a meditative state. The twinge evaporated and I had a feeling I’d get an answer to the problem in the next day or two.

Well, I was feeling the butterflies again this morning while reading the paper, and that’s when Regina told me about her stock-market mini-crash dream. That was five hours ago, and the twinge hasn’t returned. I’m going to hold onto my investment until the market does indeed go down… as I think it will do fairly soon, fairly fast.

Meditation really is the best way to connect the limited conscious mind to the higher mind within, which has no limitations at all. Meditation lets wisdom and solutions stream into the conscious mind in the right way at the right time. It really is the answer to everything… including my investment dilemma.

That problem is resolved now, I think, so I’d better get back to the patent.

Twinge.

I posted my new ebook on amazon.com yesterday.

It’s called “The Noble-Savage Project,” and it’s a polished-up version of the “Human Story” series I just published on this blog. You can take a look here:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Noble-Savage-Project-ebook/dp/B0072L8E4O

So… if you have a Kindle (amazon’s ebook reader), and if you buy my book, and if you like it (3 big IFs, I know…), then please spread the word.

Hope you’re having a great weekend!

Mark

It’s 9am, and here’s what’s happened so far.

Got an email from a friend that ended with a nice greeting that wished Regina and me well.

I replied with another short email and tried to type, “hope your weekend glows.” Instead I typed:

… hope your weekend blows.

That was at 8:15.

At 8:30, Regina answered a phone call in which an automated voice asked if this was our son “Aaron Macy” on the phone: “press 1 for yes, 2 for no.”

Regina pressed 2.

“Is Aaron available? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no.”

Regina pressed 2.

“Tell Aaron we suspect fraudulent activity in his credit union account and ask him to call 1-800-xxx-xxxx”

Call ended.  Hm, I was suspicious, even though…

We’d received another similar call earlier this week, regarding our own bank account, which turned out to be a legitimate call from WalMart. (That phone number was 866-371-1946, and if you get a WalMart call from that number, you should follow up on it. We saved $600 in fraudulent charges on our bank account.)

I’m always suspicious of these kinds of calls, since fraud is becoming so widespread here in the States as the economy continues to tank, people get desperate, and the savage side rears its head.

So, since our son is not here at the moment, Regina returned this urgent 800-xxx-xxxx number from our home phone (that’s the phone they made their original call to), and at the same time I called that 800 number from my cell phone. We both received automated messages, but they were different. Apparently our home phone number is “in their system,” and so that was where the main scam was going to take place. Since my cell phone number is not in their system, my scam was a little more transparent.

When I called the number, an excited voice recording said I had a chance to join a lottery… and I hung up.

When Regina called the number, the automated voice said it’s important to immediately call:

1015158000… (DON’T CALL THAT NUMBER)

… to clear up the fraudulent activity in Aaron’s bank account. Since he’s unavailable today, Regina decided to call that number.

A woman with a crass (from thesaurus.com: asinine, blundering, boorish, bovine…) voice said she was a directory assistance service. Regina demanded to know who she worked for and what this was all about, and the woman growled, “Sorry, we don’t give that sort of information,” and hung up on Regina.

I told Regina it was probably a toll-charge number she called, and we might find a charge for several hundred dollars on our next telephone company statement. I’ve heard of such scams, usually originating somewhere in the Caribbean where regulations are lax.

So, I quickly googled “1015158000” on my computer and found a long list of web posts from people who’d been scammed by this number. Their phone bills had been charged between $4 and $10 as soon as they called that number. So, at least it’s a small amount, the reasoning being (I’m sure) that most people won’t go to the trouble of sorting out the problem with the phone company over a small amount.

The original 1-800-xxx-xxxx number that had called victims of this scam varied in many cases, so the scam artists have acquired a long list of toll-free numbers from which to place their original phishing call. (Another quick google showed that the 1-800-xxx-xxxx number that called our phone was owned by a resort in (where else… the swampland scam capital of the world…) Florida.

Anyway, long story short: As things in society unravel in the coming years, the dark side becomes more active, and it behooves us all to recruit a little healthy suspicion.

Regina clearly felt violated by the ordeal, but I suggested we might both look at it as an important, inexpensive lesson that can help us be more careful in the future. We both tend to be too trusting by nature, although I’ve developed a suspicious alter-ego over the years out of necessity.

As the ethereal being Nsitden told us 15 years ago:

Children of Earth, People of Terra…, have no fear of doubt. It is not love alone that advances the world but also doubt. Doubt is the price of freedom. There is doubt that is just and results in enlightenment, and there is poisoning doubt that only sows discord. If doubt works against you, your life becomes confused. If doubt is on your side, life becomes an adventure.

So, we’ve learned another important life lesson. We’ll call the phone company on Monday and try to cancel the charges, whatever they turn out to be.

On with the adventure!… and off with the computer.

MM

Know what the email said?

(answer to be posted in the Comments section below)

(This is the final article in “The Human Story” series. As the sun begins to set on the Second Epoch, these are some of the things we can do if we really want peace, order, and abundance to spread around the world… unlike Atlantis, which closed the First Epoch amid destruction and chaos. — MM)

Like Lakota Ghost Dancers and 2012 Apocalists, there are times I wish that divine forces could sweep away the world’s problems. Scoop up the chosen ones, transform Earth to a paradise, then set us back down gently amid meadows, streams, songbirds, and rich forests.

Impossible dream, that… even for ethereal beings. The world would no longer be a dangerous place, and in order to get along with each other we’d suddenly have to lose our compulsions toward danger and desire. No easy feat. The ethereals would have to unravel each of us biologically, neutralizing the ego, rebalancing the hormones and neurochemicals in a way that we react to our surroundings with trust and empathy and good will, instead of fear and aggression and lust.

In reality, nothing could make these physical bodies and minds of ours suitable for paradise. Short of some radical hormone replacement therapy of celestial proportion, none of us will enjoy true paradise until we’ve shed the physical body and resume living in an astral body.

That has important implications for us.

As far as humans on Earth are concerned, the ball is in our court. Our fate is in our noble-savage hands. We’re children of the Earth, and our mission (which we apparently chose to accept at some spiritual level long ago) is to figure out how to adjust ourselves and our societies in suitable ways to make the Earth a place of peace and order to the greatest extent possible… given our animal nature and the limits imposed on us by a finite, unforgiving physical environment.

That’s our challenge as we approach the end of the Second Epoch:  Maximize peace and order on Earth… putting our greatest strengths to use… despite our weaknesses.

Our Personal Fate

At a personal level, of course, the best solution is meditation, in which the ego and most of the hormones shut down as we connect our conscious mind to the eternal oneness of pure love and bliss. (Sounds a little woo-woo, I know, but meditation really does work that way. It lifts our spiritual vibration.) Meditation (and prayer and other inner works) can make our life happier and ensure a grand personal destiny—a paradise home after we die… but let’s face it, our own inner work barely makes a dent on the world at large.

Our Global Fate

At the level of nations and the world as a whole, things are more complicated, involving social, political, economic, and religious systems. To make the world a better place in a sweeping kind of way, these macro systems are the sweeping kinds of areas that need to be looked at and transformed.

Atlantis: That Was Then, This Is Now

The Atlanteans had their successful techniques that might have worked well for them, but they won’t work for us. Different times, different conditions, different people. Their space-time portals, or “Halls of Amenti,” are a good example. The titans of Atlantis (a.k.a sons of men, gods, giants, superhumans…) apparently didn’t procreate from one generation to the next, and they could recharge their physical bodies to live tens of thousands of years by periodically entering the portals. We modern humans live fleeting lives and tend to have lots of kids, so that the world quickly fills up with lots of little people… and soon there are too many mouths to feed. Space-time portals for us modern humans would probably just make matters worse by giving us longer lifespans… and the capacity to have even more kids with more mouths to feed….

Bottom line: We modern humans need solutions appropriate to our lives in these times.

Fortunately, this is a subject that’s preoccupied my thinking for the past 35 years, so I have some ideas about that, which I’m going to share here.

Standards

The main thing we’ll need is a set of standards to help us humans be compatible with each other and with the environment. It certainly worked for the technology industry. Thanks to standards, anyone in the world can talk to just about anyone else in the world, wherever there’s an infrastructure for Internet and cell phones. Standards ensure that phones and computers can exchange information (voice, text, images…) instantly, regardless of distance, cultural differences, political boundaries… or product brand. All high-tech product manufacturers conform to global standards, or else they quickly go out of business because their products don’t work in the global grid.

Incompatibility has been one of the biggest sources of conflict and mistrust in human affairs down through the ages… and standards break down incompatibility. If standards can solve the incompatibility problem in communication technologies, I know for certain they can also break down political, economic, cultural, and religious incompatibilities.

I’ve gone into some depth about standards elsewhere, so I’ll just round up the main ideas here. These are the kinds of standards that can ensure a future of peace, order, and abundance in our world. If we enact them in the near future, our future generations will see the most beautiful epochal sunset imaginable. If we disregard them and continue on the current course, the end of days will be a lot stormier.

A Social Standard. Foster noble values such as love, contentment, honesty, and good will in every person, starting at the youngest age and continuing through life.

That should be at the core of every family and the primary purpose of all schools, taught at a higher priority than conventional curriculum. Within a generation, noble values would be spilling out into societies everywhere. Our savage side would quickly retreat into the shadows of our mind… where it belongs.

A Political Standard (1). Every decision should be made at the lowest possible level, but high enough to take into account the needs and well-being of everyone affected by the decision.

Most decisions in human affairs, day in and day out, are made by individuals. That’s the way it’s always been, and that’s the way it probably will always be. But, as societies get congested and people start bumping into each other and stepping on each other’s toes (metaphorically speaking), larger regulatory groups have to be set up to help sustain peace and order.

It’s time now to transform the United Nations into a sensible world government. Nations would still make most decisions for themselves, and individuals would continue to make most of the decisions within humanity… but a world government would provide a stable umbrella for everyone.

A Political Standard (2). Decision-making bodies should reflect the diversity of the people they represent.

A society of men and women shouldn’t be regulated by a group of men. A society of blacks, whites, and Orientals shouldn’t be regulated by a group of white people. A world of rich and poor shouldn’t be managed by a group of rich people. A world government shouldn’t be run by a bunch of Nazis or Romans or Egyptians or Americans; it should consist of representatives of all nationalities, cultures, and religions. (Say, that sounds kind of like… what… the United Nations?)

An Economic Standard. The Vitality Ratio: redefine a society as a living system composed of people and products; redefine resources as the “food” that societies “eat” (petroleum, iron ore, timber….); and calculate the economic vitality of society using the ratio between 1) the available resources and 2) the resource needs of society. (V=R:N)

Today more than ever, different societies have to contend with economic crises such as inflation, recession, depression, famine, overpopulation, environmental destruction, mass execution, mass emigration, and war. The Vitality Ratio would solve them all. Here it is in a nutshell:

People and products are to a nation what cells and molecules are to a biosystem like the human body. Resources are to a nation what food is to a biosystem.

A nation consumes resources to sustain its system of people and products, just as a person consumes food to sustain the cells and molecules within. The Vitality Ratio would consider all aspects of population (demographics), products (manufacture, recycling, usage…), and resources, and it would track a running ratio between 1) population and products on one side of the equation, and 2) resources on the other.

Someday monitoring the economy of a nation will be as precise as monitoring the vital signs of a patient in a high-tech hospital. The Vitality Ratio is to society, what nutrition and metabolism are to a human being. You simply define society’s needs for oil, fertile farmland, forests, ocean fish, and other resources, and make sure it’s getting an appropriate diet. You monitor a nation’s needs, and adjust the “metabolism” of the nation to be in line with resources… always keeping an eye out for future resource possibilities. And you do it all with a computer network.

Whether it’s adopted or even acknowledged as a useful tool in my lifetime is doubtful, since it’s such a radical departure from mainstream growth economics. (More on that below.) Anyway, there are certain variables within that ratio that, by themselves, ARE of critical concern at this time.

A Population Standard to Adopt Now. Maintain a fertility rate close to 2 in every country.

The fertility rate is the number of children the average woman will bear in her lifetime. If a society maintained a fertility rate of 2, the population would stay about the same over the years, assuming all kids grew up healthy and no one moved in or out of the country. Those would be unreasonable assumptions, of course, so a fertility rate “slightly above 2” or “about 2” would be healthy enough.

Currently, several African nations have fertility rates of 7+, and it’s in those countries that famine, genocide, and bulging refugee camps have become a way of life and gruesome death in recent years. To deny the connection between chronic overpopulation and these perpetual economic catastrophes, a person would have to be blinded by stupidity, ignorance, dogma, ideology, or some other debilitating condition.

An Economic Growth Standard to Adopt Now. Replace growth economics with the Vitality Ratio.

Under growth economics, a social system is deemed healthy and vital only when it continues to grow, to use more resources, to produce more products, and to show higher profits, greater value, and more wealth. There’s no consensus among growth economists on how best to manage a nation’s economy. Faced with today’s crisis in Europe, for example, half of them propose “austerity” (reduced government spending), and the other half propose “stimulus” (increased government spending). Simplistic, wishful thinking, at best.

Under the Vitality Ratio, a social system is healthy and vital when there are ample resources to satisfy its needs. Very simple, very natural.

Growth economics is to a nation what cancer is to a biosystem like the human body.

The Vitality Ratio is to a nation what nutrition and metabolism are to a biosystem.

Religious Standards. Adopt a set of global spiritual values that all religions can agree on. My recommendations:

1—Yes, there is one source that’s the source of all.

2—Yes, we each are a part of the source and the source is a part of us, so at the center of our being we are all one.

3—Living by such noble virtues as love, respect, good will, and friendship can bring us peace and joy during our lifetime and beyond… while preoccupation with such savage attitudes as fear, animosity, vengeance, desire, and ill will bring us chaos and unhappiness not just in this lifetime but the next.

4—Know these basic spiritual truths and practice time-proven techniques to foster the noble side. Every religion has such techniques to choose from—prayer, meditation, contemplation….

These four standards would take precedence over the more exclusive religious tenets.

Christians claim to have God’s chosen savior? Fine.

Muslims claim to have God’s chosen prophet? Fine.

Jews claim to be God’s chosen people? Fine.

That’s all fine… as long as they take all that, and all of their other exclusive creeds, and move them gently to the second seat… and put in the driver’s seat a simple set of mutually acceptable standards like the ones above.

Good Luck With All That!

To get these standards in place would take popular, sensible, effective leadership on many fronts. Frankly, I wouldn’t know where to start looking for leaders like that nowadays. Maybe someone knows where they’re hiding… and what their email address is?

Other posts in the “Human Story” series:
Introduction: Pursuing Life’s Purpose Amid the Drama
1 – From the Source of All-That-Is
2 – Physical Life and Spiritual Life
3 – An Ancient Timeline
4 – The Edenites and Their Descendants
5 - The Seven Ethereals
6 – The Afterlife Eden
7 – The Afterlife of Jules Verne
8 – The Afterlife of Arthur Moos
9 – The Afterlife of Sir Richard F Burton
10 – The Afterlife of Anne de Guigné
11 – Afterlife Wrap-Up
12 – Atlantis and the First Epoch
13 – Thoth the Atlantean
14 – Modern Civilization Sprouted from Ancient Pyramids
15 – Hands that Caress and Strangle the World

When guided by our finer spirit, or noble side, our hands can make the world a better place through creativity, trust, and good will.

But when guided by our hormones and egos, we manipulate the world in savage ways… driven by fear, greed, and animosity.

Does the Freedom of One Guy’s Fist End at the Other Guy’s Nose?

The debate has raged among leaders, businessmen and citizens since Babylon: Does society need more freedom, or more regulation? Many of us have our political opinions on the subject, but there’s never been any clear consensus.

Why the endless debate, anyway? Why can we never decide which is more important: individuals’ right to be free or societies’ right to be stable?

Simple. We need both. Our noble side needs freedom to explore the outer bounds of human creativity… to spread beauty and order in the world…

(If modern architecture were the only indicator, it would seem that humans today really are worthy of our mission—creating paradise on Earth.)

… while our savage side needs restraints… to limit the chaos it can cause.

(Sadly, unlike the ancient pyramids, our noblest creations are fleeting. We soon destroy what we’ve created, sometimes by ignoring restrictions and abusing our freedoms… suggesting paradise is still out of reach for us humans.)

So the noble-savage debate rages on, as our fate hangs in the balance.

Haves and Have-Nots

Again, since Babylon, we humans have never come up with a viable system of economics. We either overpopulate or overconsume beyond the limits of the environment.

(The crowds in Africa contrast sharply with the crowds in Costco.)

(As seen in Brazil, there’s a stark contrast between rich and poor of this world.)

Late in the Second Epoch, world affairs are unraveling. As in Atlantis long ago, at the end of the First Epoch, our technologies are getting out of control…

… and the environment is quickly destabilizing.

Can we turn things around, or is the time running out? There’s a lot working against us, but there’s also reason for hope… as we’ll explore in the next article.

Other posts in the “Human Story” series:
Introduction: Pursuing Life’s Purpose Amid the Drama
1 – From the Source of All-That-Is
2 – Physical Life and Spiritual Life
3 – An Ancient Timeline
4 – The Edenites and Their Descendants
5 - The Seven Ethereals
6 – The Afterlife Eden
7 – The Afterlife of Jules Verne
8 – The Afterlife of Arthur Moos
9 – The Afterlife of Sir Richard F Burton
10 – The Afterlife of Anne de Guigné
11 – Afterlife Wrap-Up
12 – Atlantis and the First Epoch
13 – Thoth the Atlantean
14 – Modern Civilization Sprouted from Ancient Pyramids
16 – End of Story, End of Times

Advanced civilizations appeared suddenly, mysteriously more than 5,000 years ago in at least six places around the world—Babylon, Egypt, China, India, Peru, and Mexico… and they came with a flourish! Lavish temples and majestic pyramids emerged suddenly, inexplicably out of barbarianism and nomadism.

Peru

Moving these massive stones and surgically tailoring them to fit together perfectly without mortar could have been done only with highly advanced technologies. Even today it would be a near-impossible feat. These are among the Sacsayhuaman ruins near Cusco, Peru. The general consensus is that the stones were assembled 500 years ago by the Incas, but that’s not even close. When reliable dating is done someday, archaeologists will probably discover that this wall is at least 5,000 years old. After all, some of the oldest known pyramids on earth were built nearby (also in Peru) at that time… and I suspect the Atlanteans had a giant hand in it all, as we saw in the previous article.

Babylon

The hanging gardens of Babylon and the famous tower of Babel are believed to have been built at least 4,000 or 5,000 years ago. Again, the Atlanteans (or some other superhuman force) had to have been involved.

Egypt

Building the Great Pyramid at Giza, the ultimate landmark of this world, would have required herculean strength and technology as well. Egypt was the primary beneficiary of Atlantean knowledge.

China

Unlike desert ruins, which stand the test of time, temples and pyramids in more verdant areas are soon overrun by vegetation and covered in fertile soil. The Chinese pyramid of Qin Shihuangling, for example, doesn’t stand out as starkly today as the Great Pyramid at Giza, but it covers about twice as much ground. Though it’s age is officially estimated at 2-3,000 years, I suspect it’s at least 5,000 years old.

India

Most of the ancient temples in India, likewise, have been overrun with soil and vegetation over the millennia.

Mexico

The Pyramid of the Sun in Mexico (background) is another testament to Atlantean technologies. Like its Egyptian cousin at Giza, the Pyramid of the Sun has a passageway below it, perhaps where an Amenti-like portal allowed the ancient gods (Atlanteans) to rejuvenate their bodies.

From Around the World

This diagram shows the relative shapes and sizes of some of the world’s most notable pyramids, including a less heralded (and controversial) Bosnian pyramid that dwarfs the rest.

Science today can’t venture a reasonable guess as to how these and other ancient wonders were created. Archaeologists simply call it “crossing the great divide” from cave-dwelling to civilization.

Exactly how civilization emerged from barbarism and nomadism is the guiding question of all archaeology. Suddenly, 5,000 years ago crowds of people were congregating in organized cities with lavish infrastructures, involving themselves with writing, math, pottery, art, and monumental architecture. They had leaders to keep order and armies to protect society from invasion.

The original infrastructure and leadership that opened the Second Epoch in various parts of the world were provided by Atlanteans who, after destroying their own advanced culture, committed themselves to lifting the “hairy barbarians” out of darkness. They planted seeds of wisdom, knowledge, and technology in those early cities that would slowly sprout, over the centuries, into modern civilization.

Other posts in the “Human Story” series:
Introduction: Pursuing Life’s Purpose Amid the Drama
1 – From the Source of All-That-Is
2 – Physical Life and Spiritual Life
3 – An Ancient Timeline
4 – The Edenites and Their Descendants
5 - The Seven Ethereals
6 – The Afterlife Eden
7 – The Afterlife of Jules Verne
8 – The Afterlife of Arthur Moos
9 – The Afterlife of Sir Richard F Burton
10 – The Afterlife of Anne de Guigné
11 – Afterlife Wrap-Up
12 – Atlantis and the First Epoch
13 – Thoth the Atlantean
15 – Hands that Caress and Strangle the World
16 – End of Story, End of Times

The Edenites were timeless ethereal beings who could don physical bodies for awhile (perhaps a few hundred million years at a time). The Atlanteans were descendants of the Edenites—superhumans with technologies to revitalize their physical bodies to subsist for thousands of years at a time.

According to many sources (some listed at the end), Thoth was one of the more notable Atlanteans who, after the main destruction of Atlantis 10,000 years ago, resettled in Egypt to get that great civilization on its feet. Thoth and other Atlanteans helped all of the great civilizations early in the Second Epoch—Babylonians, Chinese, Mayans…—to build magnificent infrastructures of temples, pyramids, and radical technologies.

View some of those Atlantean technologies

Mayan Pyramid, Mexico (artist rendering)

Aztec Pyramid of the Sun, Mexico

Chinese Pyramid (artist rendering)

Egyptian Pyramids. Modern scientists have no sensible explanation as to how these massive, magnificent structures could have been put together by our primitive ancestors, yet they continue to ignore our Atlantean heritage... which IS the most sensible explanation.

The intent of the Atlanteans (and their Edenite guides) after the fall of Atlantis was to turn the stewardship of Earth over to mortal humans. So paradise technologies were to be mastered during the First Epoch, in Atlantis, and they were to be re-engineered and deployed during the Second Epoch, which started with ancient Babylon.

Ancient texts refer to Atlanteans such as Thoth as “children of men,” and the Edenites themselves as “children of God” or “children of the light.” While the Edenites were virtually immortal and the Atlanteans could live thousands of years, we mortal humans have been locked into short lifespans, giving us little opportunity to achieve any serious level of wisdom without a lot of scrambling and dedication during the fleeting years of adulthood.

When Atlantis was destroyed by its massive technologies, the Edenites withdrew immediately from the physical Earth after directing the Atlanteans 1) to teach the mortal humans well, and then  2) to also vacate the premises. Before leaving, the Atlanteans were to plant the secrets of the ages in the great, ancient civilizations of the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and the Americas… as fertile seeds of enlightenment to sprout in the ensuing centuries.

So, the Edenites and the Atlanteans no longer have a physical presence in our world, and the ball’s in our court. Fortunately for us, Thoth kept a journal of sorts. It’s said that he recorded his experiences, assignments, and aspirations on a set of 15 indestructible emerald-green tablets. His writings help put things into perspective concerning the Edenites (“children of the light”) and The Seven ethereals (“lords of cycles”), who were so active with our INIT group 1995-2000.

Read the Emerald Tablets

Below is a synopsis of Thoth’s journal:

I lived among other mighty ones long ago in the Atlantean city of Keor on the island of Undal, where we renewed our lives across the eons in the Halls of Amenti. I myself went through more than 1,000 such revitalizations. Mortals today in the Second Epoch, with their fleeting lives and small stature, can only imagine the mightiness of the Atlanteans.

Living among us, in the Great Temple situated atop the highest mountain of Undal, were the Edenites (Children of Light), who imbued us with wisdom and power from the Primordial One.

My father Thotme, as keeper of the Temple, was a link between the Edenites in the Temple and the races of humans inhabiting the 10 islands below. The Edenites were no longer in physical bodies as in bygone ages but living now in their ethereal splendor. Few Atlanteans could directly behold the powerful energies of the Edenites and survive.

My life-long dream was to attain wisdom, so I was assigned to study for many ages with one of the Edenites, in order to become immortal and omniscient. Eventually, I no longer had to revitalize my body and reincarnate in the Halls of Amenti, and I learned to travel by thought among the stars beyond space and time.

When the upheaval came and Atlantis sank beneath the great waters, only the mountaintop temple was left, along with myself and other Atlanteans living in the temple at the time. My Edenite master told me to quickly gather up the other Atlanteans, board his great air ship, and travel to the land of hairy barbarians living in caves in the desert. Ascending, we watched below as the waters washed over the temple and mountaintop… to remain submerged until the appointed time.

We traveled eastward to the land of Egypt, where barbarians, filled with terror and rage, charged us with spears and clubs. I stopped them in their tracks by raising my staff and directing a ray of vibration, then I said in a calm and peaceful voice that we were sent from mighty Atlantis by the Children of the Sun. When I showed them examples of our scientific magic, they were in awe, and I released them.

I stayed in Egypt for a long time, helping the Egyptians to find the light of knowledge. They gradually developed their spiritual powers and military might, and they conquered the barbarians around them.

As directed by my Edenite master from beyond, I sent the other Atlanteans to all parts of the world to help other civilizations get started on the path of knowledge.

I created another hall of Amenti in Egypt so that I could live from age to age to retain my powers, keep the wisdom, and preserve the records. I raised a mighty pyramid over the underground passage with various passageways inside, including the passage downward into the hall of Amenti. In the eye of the pyramid I placed a crystal that sent a ray beyond time-space to draw the necessary powers from the ethers and focus them on the portal. I built upon my knowledge of the magic sciences so that I can periodically return from Amenti to incarnate to dwell among humans in this form or another.

While in Amenti my Master introduced me to the lords of the cycles. Seven are they, mighty in power, speaking their words silently through me to mankind. They told me to seek wisdom and knowledge from the Source through my heart, where the living flame resides. The Seven taught me other-worldly wisdom, saying:

“We have come from far beyond time and space, from where you and all your brethren were once formless. We can help you travel to that finest of realms where all are one.”

I told the children of Egypt that I knew their ancestors long ago, having been deathless through the ages, living among them since their knowledge began, leading them ever upward out of darkness to the light.

Know that we of the Great Race had and have knowledge far beyond that of humankind—knowledge we gained from the star-born races, who are as far beyond me, as I am from you.

It all started long, long ago, when the Children of Light looked down on the material world and saw humans bound by dark, troubled forces from beyond. Only by freedom from bondage can man ever rise from the Earth to the Sun. The Children of Light came to Earth, took on bodies resembling humans, and said to humankind:

“We are they who were formed from the space-dust, partaking of life from the infinite ALL; living in the world as children of men, like and yet unlike the children of men.”

Sources:
http://www.atlantis-and-atlanteans.org/emerald-tablets.htm
http://www.lovecenter.bravehost.com/article/emerald.htm
http://www.encyclopedia-of-religion.org/thoth-the-atlantean.html

Other posts in the “Human Story” series:
Introduction: Pursuing Life’s Purpose Amid the Drama
1 – From the Source of All-That-Is
2 – Physical Life and Spiritual Life
3 – An Ancient Timeline
4 – The Edenites and Their Descendants
5 - The Seven Ethereals
6 – The Afterlife Eden
7 – The Afterlife of Jules Verne
8 – The Afterlife of Arthur Moos
9 – The Afterlife of Sir Richard F Burton
10 – The Afterlife of Anne de Guigné
11 – Afterlife Wrap-Up
12 – Atlantis and the First Epoch
14 – Modern Civilization Sprouted from Ancient Pyramids
15 – Hands that Caress and Strangle the World
16 – End of Story, End of Times

Atlantis is more than a myth. Here’s what we can deduce so far about that First Epoch of modern humanity, after correlating contacts from spirit group Timestream with information from various worldly sources (listed at the end).

Backstory

Edenite colonists became stranded on Earth long ago when their home planet Eden, or Marduk, was destroyed by powerful technologies.

Read more about Planet Eden

The Edenites were brilliant, formless spiritual beings involved in a project to spread order into the material realm of solid forms. They weren’t just passing through (as spirits tend to do in our universe), but were committed to the long-term project… and for that they needed physical bodies. Like modern astronauts donning space suits to subsist on the moon, the Edenites donned superhuman bodies as outer garments, or carnal vehicles, that let them reach out, touch and manage the material structures around them while living on planets like Eden and Earth.

After the destruction of Eden, Earth was the only planet left in our solar system that would support physical human life. So the project became focused on Earth. It was quite a down-shift, considering that the Earth was so much smaller than the Saturn-size Eden… like a grape next to a basketball. The goal of the stranded Edenites, then, was to nurture a terrestrial paradise that would eventually be inhabited by humans well suited, in terms of biology and disposition, to serve as stewards of Earth.

Edenite genetics—what Plato would later refer to as “divine and heroic lineage”—was diluted and shaped over many millions of years through genetic engineering and mixing with human stock, producing various human and superhuman hybrid species.

Despite occasional setbacks—impacts by Eden-rubble, ice ages, volcanic convusions—paradise was sustained on Earth for quite a long time. Edenites and their various human hybrids actually lived at peace with each other and with animals. But things were a lot different then. For one thing, population must have remained fairly stable. Gender and sex apparently were not yet part of the human experience. The superhumans enjoyed lives more like spiritual beings, moving among dimensions, beyond time and space, frequently rejuvenating their physical bodies to youthful vigor, enjoying lifespans of many thousands—even millions—of years. A day passes for us today, perhaps, as 10,000 years passed for the Edenites. They were timeless spiritual beings simply enjoying illusory physical experiences in a paradise setting on Earth.

But all that ended with the last ice age (360-260 million years ago). The Edenites were experimenting with hydrogen fusion and other powerful technologies around that time, and a series of calamities caused severe geologic upheavals. Those upheavals contributed to the end of the ice age, and probably caused bizarre mutations throughout terrestrial ecosystems as well. From the mayhem, dinosaurs lumbered onto the scene some 230 million years ago, and paradise was lost. Earth got rowdy as a predator-prey scenario became a way of life here, and the various hybrids of humans and superhumans had no choice but to protect themselves and fight back. Eventually, their higher intellect won out and the dinosaurs were vanquished.

Once the dinosaurs were gone, some 60 million years ago, the Earth began to settle down, and the paradise project resumed, although now the goal was no longer to sustain paradise, but to restore it. It wouldn’t be easy, since killing to survive had become a way of life since the upheavals.

A new human being would have to join the project—some kind of noble-savage  creature with an elevated IQ fueled by wisdom, love and good will that could someday restore paradise to a troubled world… and survival savvy triggered by fear and aggression that would ensure survival in a ruthless environment. The new human would be kind and empathetic one moment, lusty and aggressive the next… depending on the surprises going on around him and the hormones coursing through him.

Enter Atlantis and the Cro-Magnon

The hybridization of humanity came to a head some 36,000 years ago when the Cro-Magnon man appeared in Europe. The Cro-Magnon marked the dawn of Atlantis—the beginning of the First Epoch of modern humanity.

Atlantis was a large island colony—part of a flourishing civilization that was sprinkled across most of the Earth’s land mass. The reigning creatures on Earth were now descendants of the Edenites—giant superhumans that the Greeks would later call Titans. The Edenites themselves apparently had left the Earth, probably returning to the finer realms of spirit, monitoring the paradise project from there, and perhaps visiting Earth periodically by incarnating into a physical body for a lifetime… to get a “hands-on” experience of what was going on.

Titans from the province of Altima were designated as the overseers of Atlantis and its new race of Cro-Magnons. The Atlantis colony was housed on a group of islands in what today is the Atlantic Ocean. Again, the underlying purpose of the Titans was to guide and support the humans on the paradise project.

Atlantis was a large island continent that filled most the gold area shown on the map.

Atlantis wasn’t always an island. Long ago, North America and Europe were coonnected by an expanse of land between them, to form one massive continent. Geologic convulsions from impacts and volcanic instability caused separation, first of North America, then of Europe, from the central land mass. It was that central land mass that then became the island continent of Atlantis, which was roughly the size of South America, stretching almost to the US in the west, Greece in the East, and Greenland to the north.

The Atlantis colonies started out as the epitome of human nobility, but careless curiosity and misguided science would lead to savagery and a series of geological disasters.

Early on the Atlanteans excelled in medicine, electronics, telekinesis, and teleportation (moving by thought). Organ transplants were routine, replacing normal or defective brains and hearts with far superior ones… and not just the physical organs. The spiritual essence, or soul, would accompany the living organ during the transplant, so that the recipient was enhanced spiritually as well as physically.

Troubles began when the savage side began to override the noble side. For one thing, the Titans apparently became preoccupied by sex. Eventually their medical genius was applied less to holistic human well-being, and more to refining the reproductive organs… their own as well as those of the Cro-Magnons. There developed an obsession with human emotions and sexual passion… which is apparently why ancient legends often center around powerful bad boys gone wild—gods battling gods, having sex with Cro-Magnon women, squabbling over territory….

They also developed a fascination for strange interspecies hybrids, transplanting a human head on the body of a lion or cow, for example.

The Atlanteans became curious about and careless with Earth’s elements. They conducted hydrogen fusion experiments, triggering chain reactions that caused a series of geologic upheavals. The first occurred some 16,000 years ago. The second one—some 10,000 years ago—destroyed most of Atlantis, causing the bulk of the continent to sink hundreds of feet below sea level. As the mud and debris settled over the decades, the Atlantic Ocean came to be.

The new, down-sized Atlantis was then located in the North Atlantic, with its capital of Basileia near modern-day Helgoland… off the coasts of Germany and Denmark. The area was rich in amber, which was as valuable as gold at the time, contributing to the wealth of latter-day Atlantis.

By now Atlantis had become a war-like culture, and additional wealth came from looting civilizations along Europe’s west coast and throughout the Mediterranean region. Egyptian stone reliefs tell of invaders from the north wearing horned helmets and arriving in long boats with animal heads carved onto the bow. These were the Atlanteans.

Egyptian stone relief from Medinet-Habu shows boatloads of attacking Atlanteans.

Detail from the stone relief shows Atlanteans in horned helmets being killed and captured by the Egyptians.

More cataclysms in Atlantis between 2400 BC and 1220 BC destroyed what remained of the civilization, bringing the First Epoch of modern humanity to a close. Powerful aftershocks resumed for centuries. Major earthquakes rattled Europe in 465 BC, 426 BC, and 373 BC.

Some of the Titans who survived the fall of Atlantis emigrated to the Mediterranean area and became key figures in the emergence of great civilizations early in the Second Epoch. Ninus helped develop Babylon, while Thoth and Horus settled in Egypt.

The fascinating story of Thoth will be the subject of my next post.

Sources:
Plato’s Atlantis
Edgar Cayce’s Atlantis
The Only Planet of Choice
Thoth, The Atlantean
Viking Amber Traders and Ancient Egypt
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (film)

Other posts in the “Human Story” series:
Introduction: Pursuing Life’s Purpose Amid the Drama
1 – From the Source of All-That-Is
2 – Physical Life and Spiritual Life
3 – An Ancient Timeline
4 – The Edenites and Their Descendants
5 - The Seven Ethereals
6 – The Afterlife Eden
7 – The Afterlife of Jules Verne
8 – The Afterlife of Arthur Moos
9 – The Afterlife of Sir Richard F Burton
10 – The Afterlife of Anne de Guigné
11 – Afterlife Wrap-Up
13 – Thoth the Atlantean
14 – Modern Civilization Sprouted from Ancient Pyramids
15 – Hands that Caress and Strangle the World
16 – End of Story, End of Times