The thing with pandemics is that they are far from being ‘unprecedented’ as many politicians offer as an excuse for making mistakes. Historically there is a long list including the plague or ‘Black Death’ as it was known in England.
So aware are public health experts today that, certainly in the UK, pandemics are regarded as the number one risk. Governments have to be prepared for even the most unlikely eventualities and there will be a plan, somewhere. This will describe the risks – particularly the level of harm – and how to mitigate and eventually, eliminate, those risks.
A well thought out emergency plan will include the ‘hardware’ and ‘software’ needed. Warehouses across the country will store vast quantities of ‘just in case’ resources, from dried baby milk to personal protective equipment. Software will be posters and public information announcements already prepared for broadcasting to worried populations. It’s a whole area of expertise and those trained will be employed in all levels of government, from national to local. Protecting the population of a country is, after all, one of the primary functions of government.
Let us examine, pandemics caused by viruses. To mitigate and plan for a new viral infection there are six stages;
Identify the origin of the virus and strictly control the contributory factors.
Analyse the virus and it’s methods of transmission between hosts.
Analyse the effects of the virus on the human body.
Identify ways of preventing and treating the virus and it’s transmission.
Share all of the hardware and software between countries of the World to do the above.
Initiate prevention and treatment programmes throughout the global population.
At the time of writing there is a pandemic which is estimated as causing between 100,000,000 and 400,000,000 infections a year, according to the World Health Organisation. There has been a dramatic growth of cases in recent decades and at least half of the world’s population are at risk.
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The virus causes mild symptoms but in some cases can produce acute flu-like symptoms in humans. There are four serotypes meaning it is possible to be infected four times. According the BBC News App, ‘explosive outbreaks can overwhelm hospitals.’ In it’s most lethal form, fatality rates are 1% of the population when proper treatment and care is available.
Readers will probably have realised by now that I am describing dengue fever or DENV.
It’s a viral infection that you certainly do not want to experience. It’s commonly known as ‘break bone fever’ as it causes severe pain in muscles and bones. Like all viruses it poses a significant threat to the human population.
The good news for those living in high risk urban areas in the tropics, is that a new method of prevention has given very promising results in trial. The BBC News App reports that infections in the city where the trial took place were cut by 77%.
The method used ticks item 4. in my list above. Researchers used a ‘miraculous’ bacteria (Wolcachia) to infect host mosquito’s that spread the virus. The bacteria makes it much harder for the DENV to survive in it’s shared host so the mosquito is less likely to cause an infection. The trial set about introducing this bacteria into the local mosquito’s; fighting fire with fire.
What we can learn, in common with most viral outbreaks is that the origin of the virus and it’s method of transmission must be thoroughly investigated (1. above).
With this understanding, whenever new virus’s are discovered, pandemics can be prevented more quickly and as we know – speedy intervention is vital to reduce transmission. In an ideal world, governments will work together. Knowledge and resources should be immediately sent to the centre of any outbreak and paid for by global contributions rather than the host country, in my view. NGOs and strategic public health organisations, I believe, should be given overall control of treatment of the outbreak, with politicians merely signing off the allocation of national resources. Each country contributes according to it’s means, the rich and those without any outbreaks (pre-pandemic) pay more.
And if one pandemic is given disproportionately more publicity and resources than equally serious concurrent pandemics, what could possibly be the reason? Mind the mind gap!
The following is one of many interpretations of the mystery that is the Great Pyramid on the Giza Plateau, Egypt. The fascination thing is that there are many levels of knowledge inherent in it’s construction which do not contradict each other. The creators of the pyramid were able to think multi-dimensionally, that is like a three dimensional chess player. Modern rational thinking usually asks the question, ‘which one is true?’ when the answer is simply, ‘all of them’.
The personal interpretation that I shall discuss in this essay, is how the pyramid creates, attracts and stores static electricity. This is not to ignore electromagnetism, gravity, sound, ‘chi’ and the earth’s magnetic flux, all of which I believe also have a function in the design.
Radio Waves within the Great Pyramid at different frequenicies
Before making any new theories and dismissing others, it is important to examine and understanding our ‘thought patterns’. Archaeologists present themselves as scientists practising scientific method. This is clearly sometimes true, but regrettably their own specialism has suffered from assumptions, rationalising and political suppression when it comes to Egyptology.
As an example, the most common rationalisation amongst academics, is that pyramids are ‘tombs’. Archaeologists in all fields inevitable come across ancient human remains, but it does not mean the place in which they find them was intended and constructed to be a tomb. A Christian church for instance is usually surrounded by burials, but the church was not built only to bury the dead. It has multiple functions.
Even more glaring in the case of the Great Pyramid of Cheops is that there is no evidence it was a tomb. No bodies were ever found inside and no inscriptions exist on the walls in the manner of other Ancient Egyptian burial sites. In fact burials were conducted in the Valley of the Kings to divert grave robbers from the pyramids.
The so called ‘ventilation shafts’ in the King’s and Queen’s chambers were never intended to ventilate as some academics have suggested. Dead people do not breath.
These are just two examples of how ‘scientific’ myths have been created to explain the unknown. It is what humans do. If something is mysterious, we tend to try to offer an explanation however absurd in order to gain peace of mind.
I have therefore tried to examine what we know about the Great Pyramid with an open mind. Very often the very best clues are those the present the most mystery and this is where I shall begin.
Here is a strange fact. The Ancient Egyptians referred to the pyramid as ‘Ta Khut‘ which means ‘the light’. What are we to make of this as there is no light visible from the outside or inside it? Clearly we are missing some information. In addition, the word ‘pyramid’ means ‘fire in the middle’, giving us a real riddle to unravel.
The most glaring incongruity is the use of pink granite from the quarries of Aswan over 500 miles away, to construct the massive walls of the chamber. This choice is clearly not a decorative aesthetic for which a simple granite lining would have sufficed. There are five granite block courses forming the King’s Chamber walls. Above these are five further stories of granite beams, topped by a limestone gable.
King’s Chamber Cross Section
Conventional theory is that this extraordinary construction was to spread the enormous weight of the pyramid above and from earthquakes. Neither of these is correct otherwise the Queens Chamber below and under greater weight above, would have a similar construction. The limestone gable spreads the load as a diagonal vector away from the chambers below.
Now let us consider the selection of the type of rock, that is pink granite. It is piezoelectric; that is, it creates electricity when compressed under extreme weight. It is reasonable then to explore whether this was in any way an intention of the ancient constructors. If electricity was being created by pressure would the granite be able to store it? The answer is yes, as the other characteristic of granite is that it is dielectric, that is it is an insulator that can hold a charge, as in a capacitor.
The third thing we observe about the blocks is the smoothness with which they are built giving perfect contact and conductivity between each block. It has been said that a razor blade can not be inserted into the joints.
Given the massive size of the chamber and the one hundred, over 70 ton granite blocks there could be tens of thousands of volts being generated. Perhaps similar to the voltages carried by the wires of national grids, supported on ‘pylons’ as in the Ancient Egyptian ‘pylon’.
In the King’s Chamber there are two, so called, ‘air shafts’ shown with dotted lines above. This name is yet another assumption by ‘scientists’ which has been repeated without justification. They are not positioned at ceiling height as would any ventilation shaft but at ‘table height’ perhaps for ease of access. They are not continuous so do not admit air. When photographs were taken by exploring robots, a limestone block bars the way. What is most interesting and is largely ignored, are the two copper wires penetrating the block, and the discovery of a length of copper wire in one of the shafts with some cedar wood. If these shafts were intended to carry electricity then two wires would be prudent in case one was broken over time.
Copper wires set into the stone: electrically distanced
Electrical circuits require two polarities and there are two shafts in both chambers. The positive and negative wires (if that is what they were) would be ideally positioned to enter the chamber.
In any electrical circuit we can also expect to see a connection to earth. Sure enough there is the existence of the ‘well shaft’ linking downwards from the Kings Chamber, through the Queen’s Chamber down to the Subterranean Chamber; when viewed looking north in section. It would be interesting to know is any remnants of copper wire or their fixings survive in this shaft.
Finally, a switch would be expected to be found but of course all wires have been removed. But perhaps, if there ever were copper wires, these and the switches have been purloined long ago by thieves. Interestingly, in the King’s Chamber one ‘air shaft’ is horizontal where it goes through the wall with a shallow dome shape above. Could this have been where a switch once was?
The last feature in the King’s Chamber not mentioned so far, is the so called ‘sarcophagus’, an empty, lidless box with no hieroglyphs so is not a tomb. It is moveable; sliding on it’s integral granite base, so may not be in it’s original position. What was this for?
The Spark of the Ark
Here I have to introduce the celebrated Ark of the Covenant. The Old Testament story of it’s theft by Moses from the pyramid shows it’s importance. The loss threatened the ‘power’ of the Ancient Egyptian State so much, that the Pharaoh risked and lost an army trying to get it back.
The Ark is 2 ½ cubits long by 1 ½ cubits square in cross section. To enter the Kings Chamber by the low entrance it would have to be smaller and sure enough the entrance is 2 cubits by 2 cubits. This also allows the ‘sarcophagus’ to be slid inside as well, just.
The Ark could then be place on the sides of the ‘sarcophagus’ and sure enough it does this neatly with outside edge sitting in the centre of the 6 inch thick sarcophagus wall.
The next part of our theory requires the understanding of a ‘Leyden jar’. The image below amply describes how a static charge is built up and discharged in a glass jar.
There is a physicist on You Tube who explains very well how the Ark operated as a large Leyden jar and I direct the ready to this link;
Ancient Aliens: Mysterious Powers of the Ark
The two angels on the lid lean towards each other and their wing tips almost touch leaving a ‘spark gap’ as you would have at the end of a spark plug in an internal combustion petrol engine.
There are accounts in the Old Testament of the Ark being dangerous and able to emit light and smoke. We have to wonder what unique characteristics of the Ark produced this?
Is there a clue in the name? Is an electrical ‘arc’ why it was appropriately named ‘Ark‘?These ancient descriptions suggest a high voltage discharge of static electricity, similar to lightning, causing the air to be super heated. The effect in an enclosed space would have been awe inspiring! No surprise that the Ark is described as the ‘eye of God’.
Any priest entering the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle, would have a rope tied around one leg. This was because if he was knocked unconscious or killed by the Ark, his body could be retrieved without risk to others. The Ark was even used in battle in some manner according to the biblical story of the fall of Jericho. The accounts suggest it’s function was beyond purely ceremonial.
I hypothesise that the entire King’s Chamber is also a Leyden Jar. I have described the necessary elements already. The granite walls and ceiling are the equivalent to the glass in the jar. Granite has a relative permittivity of 5.45 and glass between 3.7 to 10. Copper wires, which the ancient Egyptians were perfectly able to make, may have connected the outside of the chamber to the outside via the ‘air shafts’ to the pyramidal summit as a positive and the same of the other side as a negative charge. The limestone smooth facing blocks would have acted to insulate the wires, as would the air.
The missing pyramidion peak of the pyramid of Cheops suggests that either it was removed or was never installed. If there was an electrical function to the peak of the pyramid then this might explain why it is flat. There are stories of the pyramidion being gold, fit the theory that gold’s function as the ideal electrical conductor was why it was there.
With the copper wires terminating there and probably extending a short way into the air, a natural charge would have entered the wires just from the ionised air, as described by Tesla in his ‘Tesla Tower’. We should remember that the pyramid was the world’s tallest building for 3800 years until our modern era. Clearly height (481 feet) was an important function of the pyramids specification.
Imagine what may have then happened. It is possible that this arrangement would also have enabled to pyramid to emit lightning at times; again as did the famous Tesla Tower in Newhaven, New York State.
The Tesla Tower
Even today, the pyramid is described by visitors in a curious way. One party who ventured to the summit to have a picnic, found their bottle of wine wrapped in a wet cloth for cooling, gave off an electric spark when drunk from. It was being charged as a Leyden jar.
During electrical storms lightning would have been attracted to the copper conductors and been either earthed or directed into the Ark depending on the position of the switch/es.
The ‘Eye of God’ is seen at the top of the pyramid on the dollar bill (see below) and perhaps this is a reference to ancient knowledge by the masonic founding fathers of the USA. Clearly with or without the Ark, the King’s Chamber could have been the centre of the power of the Ancient Egyptian State both literally and metaphorically. It would have been the peak of their technology and kept the population in reverence and respect for all things ‘royal’.
If the King’s Chamber was the charging point, could the Queen’s Chamber have functioned as a neutral place where the Ark of the Covenant could be stored safely. This chamber has no heavy granite beams and walls and therefore had a difference function. Just the presence of two ‘air shafts’ indicates it could discharged static electricity in the direction of precise stellar constellations, as all the shafts are astronomically aligned.
The Stellar Alignments of the Shafts
Moving from conjecture to a natural conclusion, sparks emit radio waves and directional electromagnetic waves could have contained information. Could there have been messages sent to ‘mother’ civilisations and / or to other pyramids around the globe. Tesla, again predicted this possibility using his Tesla Tower and others around the globe. Could this be why we find pyramids today on every continent, including Antarctica?
In my third and last essay on this subject I shall conjecture upon a most esoteric clue hidden inside the Ark itself. Could this enlighten us as a practice that the Egyptians would have inherited from the Sumerians and their overlords, the Anunnaki. It also answers the question many scholars ask which is, ‘where has all the world’s gold gone?’ Could the ‘cow goddess’ Hathor and the fire inside the pyramid, be clues?
A very famous playwright coined this idea many years ago;
All the world is a stage
and all the men and women merely players,
Each has his entrances and his exits,
A friend of mine, who lived alone, wanted to move house. The reason was that one of her neighbours had lost her husband. Maybe her friend would now sell up and move away. The pond in which she swam was now missing a fish and more might go. Soon it would be empty. Moving house and finding new friends seemed a good idea.
I suggested that moving house may not solve the problem. I proposed that our lives consist of three things. The ‘scenery’, the ‘actors’ and the ‘story’. Each is as important as the other and all are fundamental to enjoying life. Merely changing the scenery will not necessarily invite new characters and a new story.
For example, foreign holidays are popular with many people. It’s a way of packing up and ‘leaving everything behind’. As I once overheard a man say in the queue for passports about his holiday, ‘you have to get away from staring at the same four walls.’
The backdrops to our lives do become visually repetitive.
‘Either this wallpaper goes or I do!’ – Oscar Wilde
Even the daily journey to work becomes an extension of the wallpaper and we begin to detest it, whether it is the inside of a car or private Lear Jet. So the simplistic solution we take is to change it; even if only for a couple of weeks each year. Off we go to the Balearic’s with all our ‘bare necessities’ in a suitcase or three, our beloved partner and a smile of expectation. Expectation because you know the hotel; you should do…it’s been your holiday destination for the last fifteen years.
For some, this is all the scenery change they can handle. There is comfort when they know what to expect. They know where their favourite restaurant is, the best bars. Some vacationers are more adventurous in their scenery choice. They go to different hotels each year or even different countries. If you have enough money, today the sky is no longer the limit. You can ‘Spacecation’.
But again, life or rather our expectations of life, let us down. After two weeks we are bored walk of the beach and the frog in the shower and the hotel mini bus that is always full. We begin to long for home.
Going abroad has not even changed the people in our lives, unless we were lucky enough to find a ‘holiday romance’ or get the phone number of the ‘nice couple we met on the plane’. We went with the wife or husband and we return with the wife or husband. The rows on the hotel balcony pushed down into the suitcase of our mind, strapped up and locked away until another time.
It is easy to change the scenery but changing the characters, that is something different. Families are by definition almost, designed to stay together whatever happens. They are our insurance policy to support us through whatever troubles life brings. Families do break up but it is better they do not.
Friends are great but from the day we are capsized out of Junior School, we realise friends we love, disappear. Only the very best of friendships will sustain you through all of your tempests and becalments.
And the world of work will treat us with more indifference than is good for us. If there is a reason why the company needs to cut staff, then the company comes before your mortgage repayments. You are out.
The characters in our life are born and pass away before our eyes, sometimes quite literally. We become resigned to the phases of life. When we are young new characters keep appearing. They amuse and delight us and then are gone.
When we are old, the characters who we have held dear, fall off the calendar until we are left alone and awaiting our cue to exit, stage left or right.
And as if this warp and weft of life is not complexity enough there is the third dimension, and the one which troubles or delights us most; the story.
Think back to your favourite movie. Whilst you will remember some of the backdrops to the scenes, some of the performances and appearances of the actors, it is the story which holds fast in your memory. Human beings are hard wired to remember stories as we do melodies.
We spend our childhoods dreaming of what we are going to become; explorers, pilots, politicians, film stars! The stories we aspire to are almost always unrealistic. That is after all, the nature of dreams is;
” If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend:…’
from ‘Midsummer Nights Dream’ epilogue, William Shakespeare
We watch one or two grown ups who have been in the right scene at the right time with the right character and have been given an opportunity to reach for a goal they never dreamed would come. It did, which makes the rest of us think our ‘fifteen minutes of fame’ will come to us to. Perhaps it will.
But the movie in which you have the staring role, is not remotely likely to bring you fame. Be it ever so humble, we should not be ashamed of an uneventful life. While we are responsible for how we respond to opportunities in life, we are not responsible for the ‘hard knocks’, false starts, mirages, tricksters, fraudsters, liers, cheats, charlatans, and ‘low ballers’ that knock us off our feet.
Two dimensional life is just about management. Holidays are fun. But when you add the third dimension of a narrative, you had better be ready to run. And remember, like Tom and Jerry, the wallpaper of life is on a very very very long roll.
The standard monkey cage encloses a space using three dimensional planes; x,y and z.
Take one standard monkey, place him in the cage and it’s game over for monkey freedom.
Humans also occupy a cage only it is less simple to observe – because it is infinite. We live in an ‘infinity monkey cage’ in which we can travel in any direction – but with the restrictions of always coming back to the start.
Then it gets complicated. Scientists measure time; from leaky water clocks to atom accurate atomic clocks. This single act of measurement creates a past and a future – pressing our minds into an ever smaller space, or is that a larger one? Either way it puts human endeavour into a tight spot.
Things must be done ‘on time’. In a kind of cosmic act of cookery, we are placed in a dome shaped oven to cook for a measured period and then emerge as plump loaves of bread. The cosmic clock is not our friend but our enemy, for it cannot be beaten. It ticks inexorably in the background of all our endeavours.
picture credit My Modern Met
This dominant dimension in our lives – I would argue it is not a dimension at all. The act of measuring a thing will not make it real if it is imaginary. Can you measure freedom?
Time picks us up and places us in a social order on a point of singularity within the Universe; it is called ‘being born’.
And as we grow into adults we accept this social order. We indulge in it’s whims which are justified as ethical (providing complexity and contradiction are ignored) and therefore acceptable. If you reject the ‘normal’ of that moment, you must risk being regarded as ‘not normal’.
An 18th century normal is not a 19th century normal. Slavery – which had been around for thousands of years – was voted out as unethical.
Humans were not learning but unlearning bad habits. It was never ‘natural’ to enslave your own species. Nature (if ever) rarely does it. This change in human consciousness was restricted by time. Slaves had been enslaved for millennia. Eventually, for ethical reasons – slaves were released to live in social equality.
It was just an imaginary game that had been played out by the victors at the cost of ruining millions of lives and their descendants.
Were there Roman aristocrats who refused to have slaves? I don’t know but such a person would have been described as ‘out of their time’.
Human societies evolve – not because of time but despite time. Some evolutionary steps are incredibly slow, but if you can not measure time, that is an invisible transition.
There is no ‘one direction’ for human evolution. We have freewill so do not hit the bars of the space cage, just as we do not hit the bars of the time cage. This fact alone should make us query the reality of space and time.
Are they not mere conventions?
Of course without matter and gravity we could not walk to the shops for a pint of milk, but physicality was only ever, a compromise. By shedding our acceptance of what is ‘normal’ or ‘fixed’ or ‘normal’ we edge closer to the reality of an infinite space.
The ‘man of the age’ who is lauded as a hero, is not a better human being. They are simply so much caught in the conventional illusion of what matters and what does not – that they go along with the fickle opinions of others – especially if they are being flattered.
The true ‘hero of the age’ is not of the age they appear to others to be in. Such a person acts independent of time either as a scientist like Nicola Tesla, an artist like Leonardo de Vinci or any of the prophets.
picture credit: Ivanep
Examine the words of their words and their thoughts are independent of space and time.
They uncover / reveal / expound truths which are out of ‘time’ and ‘space’. Their starting and finishing point is infinite and exist in every reality.
Such truths as ‘love one another’ and 1+1=2, subvert corruption in human societies. They ‘unpeeled’ coverings that have been revealed as real in previous centuries. They will always be true.
Man has not been on Earth for long. If Earth was created in 1000AD then we came along on 22 December 1999. We are no more than a passing thought created just in time for the end of the year. It would do us well to remember how truly insignificant humans really are but some of us, sometimes, get a glimpse of infinity, a quality which is not ours to hold.
My personal interpretation of the flood-myth story departs from the account in the Old Testament of the Bible. I take issue with the simplistic account of wild animals compliantly lining up in pairs. We are told that the majority (seven of each) of the animals were domesticated, not wild and selected as food for Noah and his tribe. Therefore, I suggests that the only live animals taken onboard the ark were domesticated. Could it not have been that a considerable amount of work had gone into transforming wild species into domesticated varieties?
There was a strong motive to harness the power of a giant Aurochs in a ‘lite’ version which we now know in bovine form as bulls and cows.
picture credit Wikipaedia An Auroch
Animals supported the burgeoning transition into settlements and farming. There is evidence from the excavations at Gobleki Teke in Anatolia that the monolithic structures there were created by agricultural communities 5000 years before the ‘official’ date. Nobody knows who these communities were but the appearance of the Mullilu ‘bags’ carved onto one stone, suggests an intriguing link with the Annunaki.
picture credit: Wikipeadia – Goblekli Tepe in Anatolia Turkey – the so called Vulture Stone
So we should not be surprised when we see mummified pussy cats in Ancient Egypt. Domestication of big cats to, presumably rid grain stores of vermin, lead to the creation of the domesticated feline. She was even elevated to the position of ‘god’ and many statues of her exist, as do mummified cats in such numbers their bodies were once burnt for heating.
The final step in this theory and certainly the most disturbing and controversial is that homo sapiens are ourselves domesticated animals, not for food but also as genetically engineered ‘gods’. Animals so beautifully perfect in their form that cosmic consciousness felt free to enter and inhabit human bodies as ‘soul’.
Let us return to the animals being selected to be preserved in the Arc. Should we take at face value the account in the Bible?
The reference to the animals going into the arc ‘two by two’ is a conspicuous detail. Why state this? Why not explain what happened to the plant, reptile, bird and insect kingdoms? And there is surely a fascinating tale to tell about the animals that did not survive, such as Unicorns.
The omissions are glaring, including the assumption that Noah and his family were the only humans at that time to own a boat. Many other races survived to tell the tale, one on similar lines as Noah only perhaps with smaller boats and their own food banks; we have their stories so no proof is needed on that point.
With reference to the Biblical version, we might ask why the precise dimensions of the ship were worth recording. If there is any detail we require it is its means of propulsion, navigation and anchoring. If we are examine the credibility of the Arc’s uncontrolled travels on a tempestuous ocean, it is hard to take it literally.
A boat, loaded with wild carnivorous animals, was always going to be an impossibility. How do you stop the animals eating each other like they do in nature? A powerless and rudderless ship was more likely to hit a mountain top and sink, than preserve life with a big L.
Picture credit: Pinterest King Solomon’s First Temple with the Molten Sea supported by animals in the foreground
Was the Arc really a ship? Since the proportions of the Arc in the Bible are given as a cubic rectangular shape, I personally think it more likely it was a giant building. The dimensions of the Arc are exactly proportional to the First Temple of Jerusalem, which of course, was a building. Not only that but there is a truth in the creation of similar geometric forms at different scales, what we call today, fractals. The proportions demonstrate a complete understand of the Divine mathematics that governs all Creation. Perfect mathematical proportions are beauty and beauty is Divine.
So perhaps the Arc was a beautiful and functional building. Perched on a mountain top it would have had a far better chance of surviving. There might even have been several such buildings scattered around the globe around the world erected by different cultures and described, we know, in their own myths. After all, there was no real rush. To flood the world would have taken several hundreds if not thousands of years.
What we are missing in the Bible is an overview. Perhaps it has been over redacted over time, but certainly the Annunaki put a lot of effort into fine tuning a wobbling world so that it could emerge from catastrophe completely cleansed of impurity.
An Annunaki with Tree of Life in background
When we look at the records of how the Annunaki Sumerian gods are repeatedly depicted in pictures, they are standing either side of a flowering tree, a ‘tree of life’. This firstly gives us an idea of a ‘family tree’ with it’s various branches – genetic connections – as in ‘royal family’. The ‘blue blood’ of the modern royals might well be a linguistic remnant of the reptilian DNA in humans.
The pictures are intriguing. In one hand the ‘god’ or ‘demi-god’ is holding one of those bags already mentioned, and in the other, something resembling a fir cone. The bracelet contains a clue; an eleven petalled flower and a central ovary, one for each month of the solar year.
Pine cones are counter clockwise spiral forms that obey the arithmetical, Fibonacci growth patterns. They hint, symbolically, of the process of genetic engineering and or horticultural hybridisation. The seeds of a pine cone are fractals of a tree in nascence, and seeds is where this hypothesis goes next.
There are very few contemporary descriptions of what the ‘fir cone’ and ‘bag’ represent. However there is one translation from the Acadian language which uses the word, BANDUDDU or ‘Turkish Pine Cone’. The bag is a MULLILU or ‘purifier’. If we accept that the Sumerian gods were active in global DNA management, part of that process would be to eradicate unwanted elements of DNA, or as it is known today, ‘gene editing’. It was vital that disease and inferior life was eradicated or ‘purified’, for future generations, whether prior to a catastrophe or in micro-management of earth’s delicate ecosystems. At another level it was vital that humans became able to access ever increasing levels of consciousness.
picture credit: Wakehurst Place, Sussex, the Millenium Seed Bank
The subject of genes returns us to this ‘two by two’ anachronistic detail. It is an interestingly similar mathematical picture of the double helix of mitochondrial DNA. Could Noah’s Arc have been a bank of DNA? Does the Mullilu contain genetically altered / improved pollen to fertilise the tree of life? Small bags, even today, usually contain light, high value items. (One of the strategy’s adopted by the scientists today in order to preserve life in the event of a global catastrophe is to create seed banks.)
Should we be surprised that DNA codes are binary and there are two sets of two letters to describe them; A and C = 0 / G and T = 1. As we know, 0 and 1 is the binary language of computers. This code and it’s most recent ‘quantum’ addition (neither 0 nor 1) is now understood by many scientists to be how not only life forms are described, but the whole fractal universe. This is why beings from infinitely large distances away can come to our small planet and know the deep structures, or programming, of our three dimensional existence. It’s the same everywhere in the binary code Universe…two by two.
Adam and Eve were having a blissful time in the Garden of Eden. They had booked to visit the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys and were not disappointed. However hotel hospitality standards fell when Eve leaned over the balcony and was faced with a firey eyed reptilian. She was reassured when she saw it wore a elegant bow tie and a wide jawed smile. It held a shining fruit in it’s jaws, as if it knew she had missed breakfast that morning. The rest, as they say, is history.
Within all the stories of the beginning times of humanity there is one scientific question that as yet, needs proof. It is the ‘missing link’. The problem is that homo sapiens appear to have no ancestor. We may be 98% similar in our DNA to our Chimpanzee cousins but compare the two species, and the difference is obvious.
If no ‘missing link’ is to make an appearance in fossils, let us test another hypothesis. Suppose that homo sapiens were visited by beings from other dimensions and / or space time realities? Well, yes, that is a big leap into the unproven, but no more than Conquistadors landing in Central America or Captain Cook landing in North Island, New Zealand. Cultures historically, attract unexpected visitors. Sometimes the meeting is destructive bringing plague and disease and sometimes constructive, bringing new technology and ideas. Usually it is a mixture of both and those who think it shouldn’t happen or apologies are due, might reflect on this very human vulnerability and how blame is not the solution.
So here we have these early humans romping around the Garden of Eden without a care in the world. That is until the rules changed. The new rule, a poisoned chalice in effect, was ‘freewill’.
Such a gift, if humans are involved, was always going to get out of control. A ‘guide’ was needed and one may say that time was right for a radiant being or beings to appear, in computer terms, a ‘security patch’ for humanity. Fairly far fetched hypothesis you might say, but then, so were ships with sails appearing on the horizon for the Aztecs.
If this hypothesis deserves exploration, we need evidence. Well there is evidence but not conclusive evidence. We might start with the Bible as a source.
In The Book of Daniel we find a race known as ‘The Watchers’ meaning ‘those who are awake‘ or ‘guardians‘. Nebuchadnezzar described them as ‘a watcher, a holy one come down from heaven‘. Biblical scholars want to interpret Watchers as ‘angels’. Whatever they were, we are told that they came from above.
How can we be sure of that? Well, if we change sources to earlier writings, then the Sumerian texts record the presence on Earth of a race they call the ‘Anunnaki’. Translated this also means, ‘those who came from Heavens to Earth‘ – remarkably similar to TheWatchers. A Victorian scholar name Nathaniel Schmidt was one of the first to translate the Sumerian cuneiform tablets; some of the earliest written records. He read of contact between humans and the Anunnaki They appear to have been a benign influence whose intent was to aid the development of humans.
If we seek evidence other than the written Sumerian records, then there are thousands of ancient visual depictions of ‘non-human beings’ in pictures and sculptures. If we dismiss these as ‘myths’ or ‘imagination’ how can we account for those that are from different cultures?
These figures are often oversized, that is several times the average height of a homo sapien. Could this genetic mix account for why the skeletons of ‘giants’, found all over the world. The presence of giants such as Goliath fighting in warring armies, gives a reminder that size is just a matter of scaling up. This is more practical for cold blooded rather than warm blooded creatures…hence the giant reptilians of the Carboniferous era.
Giantism; a genetic characteristic that is still with us
Gilgamesh is a well known character who appears on the Sumerian ‘Kings List’. He is described as a hybrid between human and non-human. It is undeniably possible that Anunnaki bred with humans either physically, or genetically using techniques common today that we call ‘test tube babies’.
If the ‘missing link’ is ever to be explained, could this be it?
Humans went from being descendants of the Garden of Eden to being a ‘super race’ who lived for hundreds – even thousands of years as, ancient texts record, were the Sumerian Kings. One early such king was recorded as living for 43,200 years. Should we dismiss this as fantasy? Sumer gave us the sexigesimal system of time recording and were exact and prolific at recording in general, so we must have good reason to dismiss their historical records as wrong.
The Sumerian texts shows us a dark side to the Anunnaki. In their version of creation myth there are two demi-gods. Enki wants to upgrade humans to enjoy a more conscious life and this conflicts with Enlil, so Enki breaks ranks. Enlil wants to destroy the planet. Enki gives instructions to Noah for his family and farm to be saved.
Those lead by Enlil wanted to use humans as a work force to mine minerals such as gold in South Africa, on behalf of their non-human superiors. Following the ways in which colonies change over time, the the colonisers returned to their own dominions while still receiving the riches of Earth for their own purposes.
All of this was happening pre-flood. The last Sumerian dynasty before the flood lasted 241000 years and was shared by 8 kings each reigning 30000 years! This dynasty ended in the flood.
If this date is the same on the time line as the end of the last Ice Age, then at around 10600 BCE sea levels rose dramatically around the globe. This is recorded by many and diverse cultures;
Mesopotamia
Hinduism
Gun-Yu in China
Deucalion and Pyrrha in Ancient Greece
Genesis in the Old Testament
Bergelmir in Norse myths
Nuh (Noah) in the Quran
Polynesia
Hawaii
Mesoamerica the Mayan peoples
La Courte Oreilles Ojibwa tribe in North America
South America the Canari Confederation
Africa
Australian aboriginal tribes.
This level of ancient cultural agreement over a global flood supports the hypothesis that it occurred in large parts of the world, rather than ‘everywhere’. We are proof that most if not all of the peoples alive at that time, survived.
The Sumerain, Babylonian and Assyrian have similar flood stories to Genesis in the Bible and it is likely that the Bible referred to these for it sources. We know that the Bible was redacted in the 6th century AD so is the most recent version of events and furthest from them.
Now my version of the flood-myth story departs completely from the Bible. I take issue with the simplistic account of wild animals compliantly lining up in pairs. The majority (seven of each) of the animals were selected as food for Noah and his tribe. Therefore, I suggests that the only animals taken onboard the ark were domesticated. The Annunaki’s skill at genetic engineering was surely applied to animals as well as humans. Domesticated ‘beasts of burden’ were not just fresh meat but worked for humans, in the way humans worked for the Anunnaki.
Proof of this hypothesis? Well the reference to the animals going into the arc ‘two by two’ requires challenging. Why state this detail? Why not explain what happened to the plant, reptile, bird and insect kingdoms? There is surely a good tale to tell about those animals that did not survive, such as Unicorns. Since communities all around the world record the same event, it is likely that there were thousands of human survivors and multiple lineages of life on earth.
If we are examine the credibility the story of the Arc as a wooden ship and it’s uncontrolled travels on a tempestuous ocean, it is hard to take it literally. A boat loaded with wild carnivorous animals was always going to be an impossibility. How do you stop the animals just eating each other like they do in nature? A powerless and rudderless ship was more likely to hit a mountain top and sink, than navigate to a safe harbour.
picture credit: UCA News The rainbow is also an arc – part of a circles circumference – the route of the Arc on the globe.
We have to ask whether the Arc could really have been a ship? Since the proportions of the Arc in the Bible are given as a cubic rectangular shape, I personally think it more likely it was a giant building, or perhaps several such buildings scattered around the globe by multiple cultures when the rains started. To flood the world would have taken several hundreds if not thousands of years, giving humans time to preserve life, as best they could. The reference to forty days in the Bible is of course numeric code in the same manner as the whole of creation taking six days.
The dimensions of the Arc are proportional to the First Temple in Jerusalem, which of course, was a building. Not only that but there is a truth in the creation of similar geometric forms at different scales, what we call today, fractals.
The Bible omits to point out that plants were as vital to preserve as animals, fungi, insects and reptiles, all of which were at risk of extinction. The Sumerian gods are repeatedly depicted in pictures as standing with flowering tree and attending to it. In one hand they hold a bag and in the other, something resembling a fir cone.
Pine cones are counter clockwise spiral forms that obey the arithmetical, Fibonacci pattern of growth. They are perfect symbols of the process of genetic engineering and / or horticultural hybridisation. The seeds are fractals of a tree / Tree of Life, in nascence, and seeds is where this hypothesis goes next.
to be continued mid May 21 on this theme and the meaning of ‘two by two’ explored to reveal something extraordinary
There is presently being considered in the UK parliament a ‘Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill’. It is wide ranging in it’s intended effects. So much so that citizens are worried and they are asking questions are;
Are these new legal powers necessary and if so are stricter legal powers the best way to achieve the intended result?
In other words, is shooting the cockerel the best way to have a lie-in?
It is coincidental that the timing of these proposals coincided with a public vigil for a murdered woman, Sarah Everard. Sarah was tragically murdered, allegedly by an off duty police officer, whilst walking home.
The vigil was held in Clapham Common in South London. Unfortunately there were ugly violent scenes when police enforced the Covid regulations, which ban such public events. The confrontation had been foreseen. Prior to the vigil, an organisation called ‘Reclaim These Streets’ approached the police and then the High Court. The High Court told the organisers to sort it out with the police.
The question has to be asked, how ‘negotiations’ failed to find a solution that eliminated the risk of confrontation and violence.
picture credit: thedailymail comment: how the media encourage dualistic thinking
People with an iota of problem solving sense and mediation skills, will know that if you set up two sides with conflicting agendas, they will always disagree with each other.
The BBC News webpage comments; For almost a year, the ambiguities and omissions within the coronavirus restrictions have left both the police and the public grasping for answers as to what is possible in public. It’s so complex we’ve even seen people fined for walking while holding a cup of tea.
The Covid ‘regulations’ are already a cause for antagonism between the public and the police. The police are having a hard time maintaining public confidence in their impartiality and fairness. The Police are currently lumbered with issuing Enforcement Notices, fines of £200, under the Covid Regulations.
Personally, I can see good reason to remove the police from the enforcement of Covid rules.
Police are principally responsible to protect the public from those breaking criminal law. They stopped being responsible for lost dogs and parking on double yellow lines long ago, so why are they involved with Covid rules?
One possible solution would be to create a new temporary role of ‘Covid Enforcement Officers’. This process of specialist enforcement officers has already been successfully with non-criminal offences, such as parking fines. Police used to issue parking fines decades ago. Then Traffic Wardens were created for this purpose and currently used ‘Parking Enforcement Officers’ have the role.
The Home Office might be able to recruit volunteers to enforce Covid Rules, given the large number of community spirited citizens who have already put their names forward for public service during the emergency. Alternatively, or as well as, the Home Office could pay CEO’s in the full time role. Alternatively or in addition, the Home Office might use the services of those currently paid to ‘furlough’ at home. This at least would be a better use of tax payers money. The role might also be given to a strictly selected portion of those ‘homeless’ and living in hotels at public expense and even released prisoners. Both groups who might well rise to the being awarded public trust and benefit for the rest of their lives for some experience of employment. My point is that there are many avenues to explore before dismissing the role of CEO.
Let us next examine the subject of public protests during the Covid state of emergency. It cannot be denied that where there is a public protest planned over an issue of current high public interest, there is good reason for respecting public feelings. If the government restricts the human right of protest it runs the risk of appearing draconian. When the government and rule of law is perceived by citizens to lose the high moral ground, ‘policing by consent’ becomes difficult to impossible. We see this in Hong Kong and Myanmar at the moment where protest has effectively been made illegal.
The problem for the British government that the vigil in Clapham Common posed, was for a potential ‘mass Covid spreading event’ to take place. This was the fear and Police had a duty to prevent such an outcome. They would be sure to be blamed for not using their powers should there be a subsequent localised outbreak of Covid infection.
The problem solving method used was for both sides to line up against each other like in a medieval battle. Even the High Court ran from this confrontation. All were victims in my view of the process of dualistic thinking or ‘either or’ solutions.
The way I would look at this problem is that it is not only a ‘police’ responsibility. In most problem solving processes, problems will be found to be widely shared. Who might the other stake holders be?
Just of the cuff I would suggest that the problem was owned by the organisers, those attending, the Park Authorities and the by-laws, the National Health Service (local hospitals), Human Rights organisations, the Courts, scientists of the health and social variety, the local MP and London Mayor’s Office, Legislators and the Home Secretary.
The only intervention the government could conceive was a new law, because that is what governments do; a classic case of ‘digging the hole deeper’. This is how they intend to make the present police powers more stringent;
The Bill being proposed wishes to prevent public protest that creates “serious public disorder, serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community”.
The lack of any nuance to this ‘nail – hammer’ thinking was, in my opinion, is woeful. If the complexities of solving a problem are embraced, then solutions are abundant.
For instance in the case of this public vigil by, say one thousand people, it can be be managed to achieve the clearly set out objective…to let people have their moment of remembering peacefully and without disproporthionate harm to themselves or others. After all, if strangers mix inside a supermarkets without creating mass Covid spreading events each day, then a single outdoor event is considerably less risky. Experience of public gatherings outdoors, including when not socially distanced, has shown that mass Covid events do not take place afterwards. This was shown to be the case at recent public protests in the USA such as the Black Lives Matter marches or the infamous storming of Capitol Hill.
Aside from the spread of infection it is hard to see why any peaceful outdoor protest should culminate in;
“serious public disorder, serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community” if managed properly.
There are clear Covid rules of social distancing, mask wearing and hand washing and the attendees would willingly follow such rules as they Sainsbury’s where public disorder is not considered an imminent threat.
A vigil by definition, is a passive affair where people sit or stand with candles and placards to express their feelings of solidarity, sadness and, in this case, discontent that a young woman’s public murder makes many women feel unsafe.
Imagine how a Problem Solving / Protest Management Meeting that I am envisaging, might have taken place. There would be numerous attendees with multiple points of view but with a overlapping and shared desired outcomes. The aim of the meeting will be to express and examine all views in a spirit of co-operation to solve a shared problem. The fruit of such meetings is that solutions can be just as impactive as force, but in a subtle and almost invisible way.
So if you were the Superintendent of Parks, would you not be a good person to involve in how to make this peaceful event as safe as possible whilst supporting the Human Right to protest? You could provide detail maps of the park showing entrances and exits, toilet facilities, how previous public events had been managed, first aid and other emergency considerations (normal for large gatherings), catering etc. etc. in as much detail as you need and that’s just the Park Keeper.
The Fire Service say they could provide sand bags for people to sit on at the required distances…good idea…and safe bins to dispose of used candles. The local press and police might hire a drone to take photographs from above. The police use it to monitor events and the press get some great photograhps. Those attending are told that by staying on their sandbags they images will be spectacular visually, whilst respecting privacy and not spying on indiviuals. Instead of a grid, an local artist might design a shape for the sandbags and candle holders, like a flower of rememberance. You get the idea. It’s soft management designed to delight not draw battle lines.
The Covid Enforcement Officers might have produced some posters which will be clearly displayed at the entrances to the Vigil Arena, reminding attendees of the Covid safety rules and the fines for infringement.
I could list the inputs of each party but you get the picture. Towards the end of the meeting the person representing the local police, shares that there is intelligence that the an anarchist organisation are planning to attend. There is a history of them creating public disorder and damage to property. A few mug shots are shared.
Are These People Mourners or Political Activits?
The Police therefore commit to having 200 riot trained officers on hand but out of view, in case of “serious public disorder, serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community”. They confirm that there are existing laws under the Public Order Act, Criminal Damage Act and Breach of the Peace to make arrests and allow the vigil to continue peacefully.
Dame Cressida Dick, Metropolitan Police Commissioner, is at the meeting and says that she intends to take part in the Vigil. Everyone applauds. Apparently, several other celebrities and leaders of Human Rights and Women Safety organisations are also going to take part. There is decided to be a VIP area next to the area designated for the Press.
In this hypothetical scenario the event takes place and the Anarchist ‘rent-a-mob’ do make an appearance. They are ‘kettled’ away from the vigil into an area that the Park Superintendent recommended which is surrounded on three sides by high fences. Flood lights had been secretly positioned their and their switching on allows for CCTV surveillance to begin and the press to get some good pictures. The police keep them there until the vigil has ended and the park is clear. Two anarchists are arrested are, both for previous offences using outstanding warrants.
My conclusion is that any public protest with warranted public interest and sympathy, should be allowed to take place under Covid regulations, and the Regulations should be amended to permit this. It is for the committee of interested parties to decide what level of public interest and support exists, not the courts or the police.
In summary, when the only parties involved are cast as protagonist and enforcer, the result will tend towards the violent scenes sadly witnessed on Clapham Common. Giving the enforcers more powers to enforce is no solution, and leads to the very thing purported to avoid, that is;
“serious public disorder, serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community”.
So in answer to the question at the top of this essay which was;
Are these new legal powers necessary and if so are they the best way to achieve the intended result?
…my answer is no. The existing laws were sufficient for the nine arrests made at this vigil. Next time, organisers should seek the help of the ‘partnership approach’ to public protest event planning. Use it or ignore it at your peril.
Those who remember the transition from the 20th to the 21st century will remember what was then dubbed, ‘the millennium bug’. Nobody quite knew how it would manifest itself. Would it crash the world’s computers because their clocks had not been told about centuries? Would aircraft be stranded in the sky until they run out of fuel and fall like stricken angels?
As it happens, nothing happened…or did it? Perhaps we should have been more prudent because on September 11th 2001, something momentous and unexpected did happen. The two towers of the World Trade Centre and two other buildings were attacked using hijacked aircraft.
picture credit: Esquire.com
Was this the millennial disaster foreseen in Mayan calendars? Perhaps the millennial bug laid an egg at the end of the year 2000, which hatched nine months later? Whatever the timing, stay with me, because this speculation becomes more intriguing.
In the murder scene on a theatre stage, a door opens and the victim enters. The other actor on stage raises a gun and shoots the victim dead. All eyes are on the murderer and the rest of the play runs it’s course. However, the play would have been a lot shorter, if the detective had shrewdly asked this question;
Who opened the door to let the victim-to-be in?
This is a sure fire way to investigate tragic events and find the conspirators supporting the shooter. In the case of the twin towers, the door was opened by whoever ordered the fighter jets to be on exercise hundreds of miles from the city they normally protected. In the case of the death of the Princess of Wales, the door was opened by whoever ordered the CCTV cameras to be disabled and the ambulance to stop on the way to the hospital.
Whoever conceived and executed these and similar tragic events is not the subject of this essay. What interests me here is the question of what happened to the collective consciousness of mankind after 9/11, that is, as we pivoted into the new millennium?
Suddenly, the United States of America changed status from being free from the horrors of global terrorism to being a perceived victim of global terrorism. Whatever you believe happened what is more important here is what is perceived to have happened, on the world stage. The revenge game that followed was then ‘justified’. Certain countries and their dictators were delivered a dose of ‘shock and awe’ by the mighty USA armed services and their allies. This of course, continues in Afghanistan and several countries to this day.
How ironic, it seems to me, that Saddam Hussein’s summer palace looks out over the present ruins of Ancient Babylon.
Looking back in time, you might still be wondering what has been achieved by the various USA and coalition invasions of sovereign states? Suddenly the cowboy in the white hat is doing things only the black hats try to get away with. Who are the good guys and who the bad guys? Why is Saudi Arabia, (a state run by medieval Wahhabi clerics with the nod of royals) still an ally of the USA? We all know the reason for that question but see little offered in answer.
The world has tipped on it’s head. Shadows have been filled with light and light has filled with shadows. Everything and nothing can be believed as ‘true’. We don’t trust each other any more.
It is the area of ‘communication’ that this confusion is most evident today. The Tarot card from the Major Arcana depicts an uncanny picture of the Tower;
picture credit: Crone Confidence
Think back briefly to the story in the Old Testament when man developed new technology. In ancient Babylon the early mighty towers or Ziggurats were built from unbaked mud bricks. Then something extraordinary was discovered. The verses specifically state;
‘and they said to one another, go to, make brick and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone and slime had they for mortar.’
This new technology was specifically conceived by human rather than Divine consciousness. This was a fatal transgression from God’s will. God conceived that an already proud human race would become uncontrollably self centred and conceited, or as Flavius Josephus put it in the 1st century A.D, man committed the deadly sin of pride.
The Tower of Babylon was proposed by academics to be an attempt to connect humans with Heaven, but in my view the opposite is more likely. Towers, or pyramids were built by corrupted nations in order to commit ritual sacrifice of humans, as in the Mayan and Aztec civilisations. The towers were for black, not white, magic. The smell of blood was to attract power from other dimensions in the same way sharks converge on a meat feast in water.
This evil was countered by the Almighty very subtley, so the Bible tells us. Before the building of the Tower of Babel humans spoke and thought with ‘one voice’. They understood each other using a common language for the common good. The ‘correction’ for the sin of pride delivered to humanity by God, was for them no longer to understand one another.
Start examining our recent history from the same perspective. What happened after 9 September 2001? The new technology of computing and it’s changeling*, artificial intelligence, has introduced multiple forms of communication to the common man. Whether in the grasslands of central Africa or the underground stations of New York, people can talk to each other using micro computers posing as telephones.
Note: *definition of changeling; ‘in pre-modern European folklore an infant or magical creature that was secretly exchanged for a human infant…the exchanged infants were thought to be those of fairies, sprites or trolls…demons, devils or witches’.
The potentiality of this freedom of communication however, has not lead to a ‘greater good’ in my view.
The rise of rival messaging, speech and video communication applications is changing humanity radically. Young people are checking their phones on average every ten minutes. Their ‘reality’ is entering syberspace.
Typed messages replace face to face communication between friends over a relaxing cup of coffee. Misunderstandings on a colossal scale now haunt humanity every second of the day. You cannot switch off your phone even when you asleep.
‘I sent you a message, didn’t you see it?’
‘Where was that? A text?
‘No’
‘An email?’
‘No’
‘Oh, Messenger?’
‘No’
‘WhatsApp?‘
‘Did you check your answer phone?’
‘I have two phones, which one?’
‘The one in my contacts…I can’t be sure.’
Compounding this floundering potential for constructive communication is it’s opposite, so called ‘fake news’. Not only pictures and speech can be altered for malign purposes, but now videos of well known figures talking, can be convincingly created using artificial intelligence. Who is telling the truth?; is the question on everyone’s lips. AI just smiles devilishly at the camera.
The result of all of this, is a level of stress and anxiety probably never experienced before… except perhaps after a large construction project in ancient Babylon was reduced to rubble by a freak thunder storm.
Thunder bolts descended from anvil shape thunder clouds turning fired clay bricks into dust. From that time, people entered a thought scape of confusion.
Today, are our small voices more powerful than the technology that is overtaking us? Are we all currently being churned into dust by the real Millennium Bug?
The Gunpowder Plot was possibly conceived and attempted by a group of provincial Catholics in England against King James I. They met secretly to plan an execution of the protestant King by blowing up the House of Lords. The plot was thrawted on the 5th November 1605.
The Cambridge English Disctionary defines a ‘plot’ as;
The difference between a plot and a conspiracy is not clear from these simple definitions.
Please bear with the writer for one final definition as this essay is building up to something which affects us all. What is meant by the term ‘conspiracy theory’ and should we dismiss such theories as ‘conspiracies’?
The Cambridge English Dictionary definition of a theory is;
A conspiracy theory is therefore not a description of truth, although some may take it to be so. It is a ‘suggestion’ which is being applied to explain facts. This may be in a way previously discounted as new facts emerge or are reinterpreted.
Conspiracy theorists are easy prey for derision because of this confusion between a theoretical and and accurate description of an event. Wikipedia describes this well;
‘The term (conspiracy theory) has a negative connotation, implying that the appeal to a conspiracy is based on prejudice or insufficient evidence.’
The notion of a conspiracy theory has itself become the subject of biased logic, when it is derided out of hand without a fair hearing. An example might be it’s use as a term of derision by the United States CIA. They used and perhaps coined it, to discredit disbelievers in the findings of the Warren Commision. This was set up to investigate the assasination of President Robert Kennedy.
The use of the term as an emotional form of ‘mud slinging’ by those convinced to be on the side of rational argument, shows how the accusers can sometimes be as misguided as those they accuse of bias.
When bad things happen, such as a plane crash, there is often ambiguity due to the absence of information from a thorough investigation. Theorists have to match a set of facts with a most likely explanation of what happened.
During the sequential investigation process, various theories will adapt to facts. Eventually investigators will propose a theory that fits the facts more closely than previous theories.
Scientists produce theories which are reviewed by their peers and proven beyond doubt before being adopted as a scientific ‘law’. Einstien’s Special Theory of Relativity is a good example of a theory that could not be proven in his time. Einstien used mathematics to determine the proof of his theories but because the technology of the era was not able to test the theory by experiment, it was long after his death before his theories were proven.
Is it fair that conspiracy theories are given a reputation for being innacurate merely for being supposed to be conspiracy theories. The use of the term as derision is in itself troubling because logically, there is only ever one correct interpretation of events and a so called ‘conspiracy theory’ may be that one. Just as aircrash investigators reach a logical explanation of events so may conspiracy theories, eventually be revealed as true.
The State, or organisation within a State, which attempts to deny events that the theorists are getting right, puts loses trust.
Conspiracy Theories gain considerable credence by focusing on events for which there is no evidence to disprove the theory. For instance, you might suggest that Aliens are already on the planet Earth and have been for a very long time. The subject is so ‘taboo’ in modern societies that governments conspicuously share very little of what they know. Rationalisations are made to ‘explain away’ what witnesses have observed as being something else. For instance a moving light in the sky is explained to be a ‘weather baloon’. If the serving press officer admits on You Tube decades later that this was what he was told to say rather than the truth about a real crashed Alien craft, who are the public to believe?
We live in a time when information is being smoke screened as ‘fake’. We do not know what to believe. It used to be that books and newspapers, that is the written word, were trusted to report the truth. Authors and journalists would lose their reputations and careers if they printed as facts, something which was not from mulitiple, trusted sources. Since the rise of the internet and the general ease of access to all kinds of ‘information’, it is hard to determine between the real, the fake and the absurd.
This phenomenon has been compounded by a growing public distrust in ‘experts’. This is despite the fact that the training and experience of experts means they are right most of the time. After a small amount of research, it is possible to believe you have discovered a truth. What is commonly discovered is that after a large amount of research, you begin to doubt.
Conspiracy theories suffer from this ‘instant expert’ phenomenon and exploit the doubt of reasonably minded people. Complex events, such as the events of 9/11, require observers to be air traffic controllers, communication experts, pilots, air force strategists, architects, engineers, demolition experts, emergency reponse planners and practioners, intelligence officers, politicians, journalists and investigators. There are certainly more areas of experties than these but the point is that investigating the event and it’s motives are highly complex and require meticulously unravelling. Complexity can itself become a smokescreen to baffle the casual observer.
Even simple questions such as, ‘how could two aircraft be used to bring down three buildings?’ are ignored. When there is a pronounced silence from people who should and might know, or worse they start disappearing, citizens should become suspicious.
Fortunately the so called ‘free world’ is open to scrutiny at many levels and Freedom of Information Acts in countries like the USA and UK testify to this. However when clauses are written into these Acts that prevent the release of information publicly for ‘reasons of national security’ there is a window for suspicion to open.
The whole story around ‘Wikileaks’ is a testament to how there will always be room for alternative intepretations of facts or what is termed, ‘my version of the facts’.
picture credit The Westar Institute
If your government derides conspiratorial theories just for being ‘conspiracies’, ask yourself the question, who is hiding what? Perhaps by hiding the truth harm is being caused to citizens of that country? If your government acts in secret and causes harm to it’s populations by an act or ommission or failure to be timely in either or both, is that a plan, plot or a conspiracy?
For instance:why is the Gunpowder Plot so called? Gunpowder is inanimate and does not plot. Surely this was a conspiracy planned by the Spanish Catholic monarchy against the Protestant English monarchy? Or are we not meant to say that?
A ghost walks into a bar and asks, ‘do you serve spirits?’
Humans have currently been obliged to believe in invisible beings, viruses. We believe that the Corona virus is everywhere as if it were a spirit. The only difference is that with a microscope you can see viruses and know that they exist.
The similarity of this belief to the ancient understanding of the spirit world is uncanny. Modern science has not been able to prove ‘spirits’ exist, therefore we are encouraged to believe that they do not. But logically, not being able to prove something exists, does not prove it does not exist. Perhaps the observer has the wrong sensing equipment or it is not sensitive enough, or too sensitive?
If we take a more rational approach, based on the acceptance that what the ancients believed, may still be true today, we can explore the existence of spirits further.
A friend of mine found himself, many years ago, in a monastery in Tibet. He casually opened a cupboard and was shocked to be staring at a human skull. He closed the door hurriedly and moved on. He returned the next day but the skull had been removed. Had he been seen by a spirit in the skull? The Sumerians of 3250 B.C kept a spirit in their homes, tempted there to occupy a statue, figurine or sometimes – a human skull.
I recently watched the ‘Magic Flute’ by the Master Mozart. The music is wonderful but my principle interest is the story. The first scene in Act One shows three witches destroying a serpent that has captured the hero, Tarantino. The opera sends him through an initiation process from darkness into light. He is able, when necessary, to annul the influences of evil spirits by playing a magic flute.
My own interpretation of the flute is that it symbolises the energy centres of the human body known as seven chakras. The flute plays a seven note scale by vibration of a column of sound and is similar to the hollow human spine in it’s construction.
Such control of energy within the human chakras affects our moods, feelings, physicality and state of mind. When mastered the adept in Tantric Yoga completes the journey from darkness into light.
Tarantino’s companion is a humble bird catcher. He represents the ‘ordinary’ man who goes through live mechanically. He fails the initiation tests preferring wine, women and bird song.
Let us move on to consider spirits outside of the story book, real live spirits. They love to do human things and are generally envious of the joys humans have from living in a physical world. The ancient Greek gods appeal to us because they behave as badly as humans. Lepricorns and other nature spirits adore dancing in rings in the moonlight to fairy fiddles. They look into our dimension with envy for they too enjoy nothing more than ‘wine women and song’.
Just as the ordinary human is enslaved by the five senses, so are spirits enslaved to us. The Genii in the story of Aladdin is in service, not a master. But secretly they long to occupy our living bodies for the same reason that God created the physical world – experience of physicality.
Sometimes they do – when someone is intoxicated for instance; which is the esoteric reason for alcohol being forbidden to Muslims. An intoxicated person often changes character quite noticeably and their bodies have super human strength, causing the North American Natives to name alcohol ‘fire water’.
Carl Jung concluded at the end of his life, that psychological complexes were outside of the human mind. When someone is ‘not themselves’ we should take this quite literally. Many Shamanistic rituals such as Voodoo, concern the removal of malign spirits or the placement of unwanted spirits for malign effects. Even modern Christianity has continued belief in the efficacy of exorcism and certain sensitive priests are trained in it’s practice. If it did not work, surely it would not have continued into the present day.
When a spirit is invited into a body as a Faustian ‘pact with the Devil’, the human party assumes magical powers. They may use these powers for entertainment as a magician or more worryingly, to gain political power. Should we accept the extraordinary rise of Adolf Hitler in 1930’s Germany as at least in part, being due to his thirst for occult powers? Why else did he send expeditions into Tibet and Antarctica, if it was not to gain occult power?
You might wish to believe that the modern psychiatric view that external beings are manifestation of our own minds. A vision of an etheric being by a single observer may occur when there is a conflation of the inner and outer worlds in that persons perception.
‘That way madness lies’
To which my reply is both yes and no. Yes, because all of our perceptions are no more than stimulus, decoded by bodily senses, into electrical pulses which are streamed into the brain. They are no more real than the images on our television sets are real. No, because the Universe is so large that there must be consciousness outside of human minds.
Part of the vanity of humans is the conscious or unconscious belief that we are alone. If we have never seen a spirit then it does not exist, is the false logic. It is false because there are many things we do not see that we use everyday. Our eyes only perceive a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum. We use infra-red ovens in the kitchen without a thought of whether infra-red energy exists. We use the effect and that is proof enough.
So it will come as a shock to humans when beings from other planets in our galaxy, appear on Earth, shaking the hands of heads of State. In doing so they will also shake the belief systems of every society, family and individual to the core. Present dogmas of belief whether in religion or politics or science, will be realised to have been at fault all along. For this reason governments seek to manage the time and place of this information. But it must be revealed and I sense that the present pandemic is building a global consciousness of cooperation that has never existed in history.
Accepting that consciousness exists outside of the human body, whether in spirit form or in another corporeal body, is the next step for humans.
The Old Testament describes how our forefathers experienced gods thousands of years ago but like the magic of the micro wave oven, they did not understand the causes of the manifestations.
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