This is what I know (or believe strongly) to be true about our ancient past, based on messages our INIT group received in the 1990s as ITC contacts from The Seven finer beings, who say they’ve been quietly supporting and inspiring humanity across the eons:

Long, long ago humans came to Earth from Eden (or Marduk), got marooned here, and lost mastery over nature after their dissension with the serpent. The Edenite castaways eventually birthed a race of humans whom we’ve come to call Titans. The Titans governed the war-like civilization of Atlantis with its powerful technologies and birthed a third generation (or variant) of Earth humans—us.

There are lots of holes in that true story—Where was Eden? What were the Edenites like? When did they come to Earth? How and when did they get marooned here? What was “the serpent?”—and I’ve tried to answer some of those questions with physical evidence of the Edenites’ presence (pyramids, hieroglyphs…) and with knowledge from science, especially archaeology and astronomy. Then, I’ve tried to fill in the rest of the holes with my own hunches of what must have transpired.

The overall story is a mind-boggling drama that could stir mixed feelings in many people. In any case, I updated the story in 2026, based on recent scientific evidence. You can review the reasonably complete (though somewhat speculative) story of our ancient past in the 2026 article Earth’s Long Lost Legacy.

The human puzzle gets more mind-boggling as the pieces come together. Many of the pieces in this article have been hauled in from the dusty archives of museums and labs where scientists tuck away inconvenient evidence that clashes with the prevailing paradigm. The most reliable puzzle pieces come from ITC contacts received between 1985 and 2000 from superhuman beings calling themselves The Seven. As I assembled the pieces for this Human Story, this is the best timeline I can come up with for now.

Disclaimer: To say any timeline is accurate, especially this one, is like trying to define the sun by its glimmering reflections on a mountain lake. Time is just an illusion of our world. The destruction of nearby planet Eden (Marduk) some 800-million years ago was a horrific event that, I suspect, may have “ripped the fabric” of space-time as we know it… so that trying to quantify the distant past scientifically would produce unreliable results at best. Still, modern science is the best tool we have today to define our illusory world, so this timeline looks at scientific and nonscientific evidence through the measurements of scientific dating methods.

An aside: As an example of time’s illusory nature, ITC researcher Adolf Homes received four computer contacts from a deceased Greek woman named Konstantina Gilaidos… apparently via what our spirit friends at Timestream called a “shadow world” of the Earth. The stream-of-consciousness information discusses the illusory nature of time; one contact, in fact, apparently was “sent” by the spirit group in earth-time 2007, and was “received” through ITC equipment in earth-time 1996. The information is at the same time fascinating, informative, confusing, and troubling… referring to the nuclear annihilation of Greece by the USA. This was supposed to have occurred in 1953. The contacts were published in the authoritative book Instrumental Transcommunication, whose author (German physicist Ernst Senkowski) suggests the event may have actually occurred on a parallel world of the Earth… or it may yet happen in the future… or Konstantina may actually have died in an earthquake that hit the Ionian islands in 1953 that, amid the chaos, she mistook for a nuclear explosion. In any case, the information is moving, and the concept of time seems ambiguous at best. Fortunately, a US nuclear attack on Greece seems absurd… even today, when the world is in a conniption over Athens due to the euro debt crisis.   :-)

Read the ITC messages from Konstantina Gilaidos

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TIMELINE FOR THE HUMAN STORY

13,700,000,000 (13.7 billion) years ago. The material universe was formed… bodies spinning in space everywhere… moving apart like shrapnel from an explosion… at the same time pulled together by gravity into clusters of debris… the clusters collapsing around the largest spinning objects into flat planes we call galaxies and solar systems.

4,000,000,000 years ago. The solar system was formed. The molten cores of all 8 planets are believed to be that old. Moonrocks brought home by Apollo astronauts in the 1970s were determined to be that old.

(As of 2026, here’s what I think happened: A planet called Eden or Marduk circled the sun in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter. Eden was pulverized some 800 million years ago, creating the asteroid belt, Kuiper belt, and Oort cloud, and cluttering up our solar system with wayward asteroids. Some of those asteroids consisted of core material from Eden, so when they smashed into the moon and formed moonrocks, they carried a 4 billion-year-old imprint of Eden’s core.)

2.800,000,000 years ago. Researchers Michael Cremo and R Thompson write about hundreds of grooved spheres, about an inch (2-3 cm) in diameter, dug up in South Africa in the 1980s. Although science has offered explanations for such spheres forming naturally in age-old Precambrian strata, the small items certainly have the appearance of being manufactured. The spheres might have been used in some way by extraterrestrial visitors to old Earth.

(I originally believed the spheres might have belonged to the Edenite colonists on Earth long, long ago… but that would probably mean they were on Earth more than 2 billion years before their home planet was destroyed. It’s possible, I suppose.)

 800,000,000 (800 million) years ago. Planet Eden was pulverized in its orbit between Mars and Jupiter, where the asteroid belt is today. A 2007 moon exploration by Japanese lunar orbiter Kayuga discovered massive craters that were all formed simultaneously, suggesting that our solar system was bombarded by asteroids some 800 million years ago, badly disrupting Earth’s climate. (Again, see the details in the article Earth’s Long Lost Legacy…)

600,000,000 years ago. In June 1968 William J. Meister, a teacher and rock-hound, found a fossil of what seems to be a human sandal stepping on an ancient trilobyte in what is now Utah. Scientists reject the rock as a sandal-like impression created by natural causes, but hey, you’d almost expect to see a Birkenstock logo. (Edenite colonists? Your guess is as good as mine.)

360,000,000 years ago. The paradise qualities fostered on Earth by the Edenites came to an end. In a 1987 ITC contact received by Maggy Fischbach of Luxembourg, superhuman Technician said, “The animal consciousness has been forced on humanity, humans themselves are not bad. Prior to the last ice-age men lived peacefully together, man with man and man with animals.” So, before the Karoo ice age began 360 million years ago, the Edenites lived at peace on Earth with each other and with the other inhabitants of Earth. That would imply that the savage side of human nature—the drama-possessed part of us that’s stirred up by fear, suspicion, and greed and drives the financial markets and the movies and generally stirs up strife in society—hadn’t fully developed among the humans living on Earth before the Karoo ice age began… but more noble people (Edenites) definitely were here at that time… if you believe the Technician… as I certainly do!

280,000,000 years ago. Researcher Ed Conrad discovered what seem to be petrified human bones between veins of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania. Coal was formed in the Carboniferous period some 280 million years ago, which means that the original owners of those bones and organs must have lived and died at that time. Again, scientists for the most part shrug off the findings with natural explanations, but I’ll give Ed the benefit of the doubt. I have no doubt whatsoever that human remains got caught up in the sludge that became coal.

250,000,000 years ago. The Wilkes-Land crater in Antarctica was formed, probably by an asteroid (Eden shrapnel) colliding with the Earth.

245,000,000 years ago. Dinosaurs emerged from the chaos.

65,000,000 years ago. Dinosaurs died out around this time, when another asteroid impact created the Chicxulub impact crater in Mexico and caused another mass extinction. There’s some really “hard” evidence that humans were alive during the time of the dinosaurs. Stones etched with detailed pictures of people and dinosaurs might trace as far back as 65 million years. Tens of thousands of these stones have been found in Peru, near the desert town of Ica, with ancient carvings showing people fighting dinosaurs, performing modern surgeries, and watching Eden’s wayward comets through telescopes. The Ica stones are dark volcanic andesite, as hard as granite, ranging from baseball-size to chair-size.

In an ITC contact received in 1996 by Maggy Fischbach as a computer text file, the superhuman being Thfirrin reported:

Long, long ago when humans came to Earth from Eden (or Marduk), they lost mastery over nature after their dissension with the serpent…. Humans had to fight against nature and some of its most dangerous creatures. You call them monsters, but they were only life forms which defended themselves and their kind. These creatures did not subject themselves to the intellectual superiority of humans and had to be defeated and destroyed by cunning and strength. Human civilizations prevailed… We know that many among you will not believe us. This does not bother us. We know that this is how it was. Today you may consider it science fiction, but you too will one day, once more, recognize its validity.

That contact tells us that 1) humans came from Eden (Marduk) long ago, 2) for a period of time they had mastery over nature, and 3) they later lost that mastery and had “dissension with the serpent.”

I interpret it to mean 1) Edenite colonists became marooned on Earth when their home planet was destroyed hundreds of millions of years ago, 2) they managed the world with some success, and 3) they lost control 250 million years ago when an asteroid impact caused the largest mass extinction… and after that humans had to contend with dinosaurs for millions of years… and it was that event that made way for the first epoch of modern humanity—the civilization of Atlantis.

The first human epoch. In a second computer contact, Thfirrin reported:

The “fall of Man” is a legend handed down from Greek mythology. It was maintained by the “Mysteries” and found its way into the schools of philosophy during the Greek classic period. Humans were considered to be descendants of Titans who had killed the young Dionysus-Zagreus. The burden of this crime weighed heavily on them. In a writing by Anaximander it is said that the unity of the world was destroyed by a prehistoric crime. In reality, these legends are based on a factual incident: the downfall of the civilization you often call Atlantis (also known by other names). This downfall was brought about by the descendants of the last inhabitants of Marduk who became marooned on planet Terra. This downfall came through reliance and blind trust in a massive technology.

Based on other information we’ve received through ITC contacts, I interpret the above message to mean 1) over millions of years the Edenites were involved in genetic engineering and cross-breeding to create various races of humans, 2) the first generation of descendants were what we today refer to as Titans or gods (suggesting that the Edenites themselves must have been, like, supergods), 3) those god-like descendants of the Edenites were still alive during the time of Atlantis, and 4) it was the destruction of Atlantis that was the “fall of man”… when the Titans finally left the Earth, and we animalistic humans at last became troubled stewards of a troubled world.

So, after spending many millions of years on Earth and setting a course for human evolution, the Edenites and their gifted descendants ultimately retreated to the spirit worlds, where some of them continue to interact with our world at important times from their invisible realms. As Technician said in a telephone contact in 1995:

This is the seventh time that we accompany and guide you on your path toward a free, wealthy, and sane future in which humanity would have stripped off the chains of intolerance and cruelty—a future in which it will be able to establish fruitful and durable relationship with the light, ethereal realms of existence….

More on the Edenite castaways long ago and the superhuman spirits involved with our world, in the next two articles in this series.

(This article was updated in 2026.)