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Modern industrial technology, the unique achievement of our age unmatched in Earth's
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long history.
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But maybe not.
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Today, a growing band of scientists and researchers have begun to wonder aloud if advanced technology
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could possibly have existed on Earth thousands of years ago.
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Impossible, scoff the experts.
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Only in the last few generations, they say, has humanity learned to harness the forces
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of nature and only in recent decades developed what we now proudly call high technology.
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The history and the evidence, they assert, is clear on the point.
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But is it really?
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Today, state-of-the-art tests in cutting-edge research facilities and modern engineering
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laboratories have begun to confirm the incredible, the existence in Earth's ancient past of
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what can only be called space age technology.
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Could it be that at a time when our ancestors are credited with being little more than hunter-gatherers,
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high-tech engineering methods equal to, if not superior to, our own were being applied
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on a worldwide basis?
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Could today's scientists and academics actually learn something from their ancient forebears?
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Hi.
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I'm Doug Kenyon, editor and publisher of Atlantis Rising Magazine.
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This is Stonehenge in southern England, one of thousands of mysterious megalithic sites
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around the world built by ancient engineers using methods which remain a mystery today.
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While it's true that many attempts have been made to explain how primitive cultures could
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have moved, placed, and aligned such giant blocks of stone with a skill and precision
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which we would be at pains to duplicate today, the fact is that nobody knows for sure how
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it was done.
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Today, astonishing new evidence is emerging to show that the ancient builders were far
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more sophisticated than has previously been supposed.
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In fact, there are some, including for example many top government defense scientists, who
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have employed advanced mathematics and engineering tools to demonstrate achievements in ancient
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technology which our own science has yet to equal.
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For the next hour, we'll look at startling new answers to many troubling and persistent
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ancient riddles.
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So keep your mind open and your reason clear and join me now as Atlantis Rising presents
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clearly a technology that we absolutely don't understand.
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One of the reasons why it is so difficult to approach Egypt because their way of going
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about their lives was so very different from our own that if you can't begin to experience
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on that level, and usually that experience comes out of a sensitivity to great works
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of art, if you don't have that sensitivity, Egypt remains to you forever opaque.
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In 1994, author and Egyptologist John Anthony West won an Emmy Award for research on the
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NBC television special, The Mystery of the Sphinx.
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West and Boston University geologist Dr. Robert Schock had jolted the orthodox academic establishment
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with powerful geological evidence that the great sphinx of Egypt was thousands of years
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older than has been taught.
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West believes that not only was ancient civilization on earth much older, it was also much wiser
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than orthodox scholarship is maintained.
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One of the problems of Egyptology and archaeology and the study of ancient civilizations in
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general, and that is the modern conceit shared by virtually all academics, all official
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academics, that we represent the apogee of civilization and that everything else that
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happened before us are sort of lesser breeds without the technology as it were.
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When you come from my point of view, you tend to take an opposite tack, which is that for
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all our technological and even scientific brilliance, we don't know what the hell our
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lives are all about and we should look, if we have any sense at all, before we self-destruct,
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to these ancient cultures for guidance as it were and not for comparisons of us against
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them.
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John Anthony West is not alone in his challenge to such arguments.
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Now one of the main problems is the size of blocks involved. We're dealing with the
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Sphinx temple for example, where blocks are in the region between 50 and 150 tons, some
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of them going much higher to 200 tons. Now the confines of the Sphinx temple is very,
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very tight. So in order to move blocks in that very confined area, we cannot see, I
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cannot see how one can use the kind of primitive conditions that is traditionally allocated
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to the pyramid buildings.
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Oftentimes archaeologists find information and evidence that shows that they're wrong,
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particularly that civilizations were more advanced in ancient times. The Antikythera
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device, which is today in the Athens Museum, is such a device. It's a highly machined
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computer of dozens of cog wheels fitted together in a very precise astronomical computer.
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When scientists examined this in the 50s, they declared that it was tantamount to finding
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a jet plane in the tomb of King Tut.
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They don't know how to move 200 tons. And what's more, when you get down to the question
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of how you build a pyramid, the Japanese found they could only do this by using giant cranes,
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and even then they built a sort of tiny little pyramid. They couldn't do it, they didn't
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know how to do it.
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When I have discussed the lifting of these stones with individuals who actually do some
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lifting and do it for a living, we call them riggers, they express amazement, especially
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when we're talking about 200 ton blocks being lifted and also talking about the 43 granite
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beams that were installed above the king's chamber in the Great Pyramid, weighing up
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to 70 tons each and raised to a level of over 175 feet in the air. The technologists
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or the individual who would actually be doing the work express amazement that it could
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be done, and it's very, would say that it's almost an impossible task in this day and
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age.
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This structure, more than any built example on the face of this planet, is your proof
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positive of a technologically advanced civilization that existed prior to the first dynastic
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period in ancient Egypt.
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In his haunting classic science fiction novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz, author Walter M.
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Miller Jr. envisions a post-apocalyptic future in which a few fragments of our present civilization
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survive.
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Hundreds of years after a nuclear holocaust, humanity has again fallen into the barbarism
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of a dark age. Struggling to preserve the fragile relics which remain from a more advanced,
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albeit forgotten era, a handful of cloistered and dedicated monks seek to stave off the
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looming threat of total amnesia for humanity.
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The brothers themselves unfortunately have lost most of the keys to understanding the
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mysterious culture which preceded an ancient deluge of fire. Their mistakes of interpretation
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are many. An electronic schematic diagram, for example, though incomprehensible, is seen
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as a thing of mystical beauty, and one consecrated monk spends a lifetime lovingly illuminating
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it with gold scrollwork. And within the cloistered walls of the monastery, tales of the fallouts,
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those dreadful monsters which once devoured the ancients, are whispered about with much
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fear and trembling.
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Ages pass in Miller's story, and understanding of nature's processes once again begins to
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dawn. Electricity is rediscovered. Mechanical transportation developed. Even powered flight.
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Technology is born again. And even as in a flawed and distorted way, the knowledge of
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the ancients is slowly reconstructed. Odd patterns of the previous order ironically
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appear. A theological dogma, for example, forbids recognition of the true nature of
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ancient advancement. And an arrogant new order seeks by claiming the unprecedented nature
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of its own achievements to buttress its own authority.
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Somehow though, as Miller tells it, despite ignorance and tyranny, civilization painfully
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climbs once again to the heights and finds itself at a crossroads where, like its forebears,
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it must confront terrible dilemmas or die. If society was to survive, Miller believed
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it must somehow come to understand and overcome the challenges which destroyed its predecessors.
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Well, so much for science fiction. Nothing of the sort is happening on earth today, right?
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The authorities have told us as much. To hear some tell it, the late Dr. Jacob Bronofsky,
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for one, the story of human evolution is one of almost unbroken ascent from the darkness
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of the Stone Age to the so-called enlightenment of our present age. Certainly there have
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been setbacks. Wars, plagues, dark ages and the like. But we've continued on relentlessly
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moving up the ladder and just a few thousand years after cowering in the caves, here we
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stand, masters of nature, technology and all that we survey, alone at the top. Or so we
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have been led to believe.
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In Egypt near Cairo, towering over the Giza Plateau, stands what the Encyclopedia Britannica
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calls the greatest single building ever erected by mankind. Taller than a 40-story skyscraper
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it is, according to the Encyclopedia, a masterpiece of technical skill and engineering, containing
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approximately 2,300,000 blocks of stone, weighing an average of 2.5 tons each. Many
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weigh much more than that. All this, we are told, was accomplished without wheels, pulleys
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or block and tackle. Moreover, often forgotten is the fact that the entire surface of the
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pyramid was once covered with 16-ton limestone blocks, polished to the tolerances of a contact
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lens and fitted together so tightly that a sharp knife could not penetrate the joints.
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An achievement far beyond the capability of any Bronze Age implements that we know of,
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if not today's high-tech tools.
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In Peru, near Lake Titicaca, the Coliseia Temple has been dated by astronomical methods to
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almost 17,000 years BC. Its massive stone blocks are held tightly together by bronze
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staples poured from some kind of portable smelter many millennia before the so-called
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Bronze Age. At the nearby Acapana Pyramid, stone blocks at the base are still so tightly
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fitted that a 50th of an inch thick playing card cannot be inserted between them. While
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at Pumapunku, work stone blocks lie about which weigh in excess of 100 tons.
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Throughout the world, and especially in the British Isles, giant standing stones and other
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ancient monuments are precisely aligned along perfectly straight tracks. For many hundreds
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of miles. The existence of this vast network of what are called lee lines suggests at
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a minimum the high development of mathematical and surveying skills. And just as mysterious
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are the stones themselves, which it is said were moved into place on primitive wooden
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rollers. The blue stones at Stonehenge, for instance, were brought over 150 miles from
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Wales and lined up with a precision which at the least allowed the site to serve as
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an astronomical observatory. Boston University astronomer and mathematician Gerald Hawkins
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is among those who have demonstrated that Stonehenge could, with astounding exactitude,
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predict both lunar and solar eclipses. But even if we concede Stonehenge to conventional
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Stonehenge construction theories, what about the Grand Menhir breeze of La Cmerokure in
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Brittany, northern France? Once more than half a football field tall, it has been felled
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by some earthquake or other natural disaster and broken into four pieces. When standing,
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it weighed 340 tons, more than doubled the lifting capacity of today's largest commercial
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construction cranes. When standing, the Grand Menhir could also be used to predict lunar
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eclipses. How high did the sciences of the ancients once rise, and what could we learn
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from them today?
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We're standing right now in the ruins of Old Serham Castle, just a short distance over
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that way. This Salisbury Cathedral, in a short distance that way, Stonehenge. All
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three are on a perfectly straight line, an ancient leeline. Though Salisbury Cathedral
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was built in the 13th century, the site on which it is located is really much older,
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serving some kind of ancient ceremonial function for perhaps thousands of years before
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construction of the cathedral. The same is true for many churches throughout England.
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When the Christians arrived, they recognized the high esteem in which certain locations
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were held by the locals, appropriated them for their own purposes, and thus permanently
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marked such spots for posterity. In the 17th century, observers of the English landscape,
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primarily William Stokely and John Aubrey, noted that many ancient sites appeared to
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be aligned along straight tracks of considerable length. Two centuries later, Alfred Watkins,
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a Herfordshire businessman and amateur photographer, discovered what he called the Lee system,
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a vast grid of perfectly straight lines, uniting all of England's ancient sites. British author
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and Cambridge train scholar John Michele has investigated the Lee system and other ancient
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lore and now argues that not only in England but across much of the earth are ancient earthworks
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and stone monuments built for an unknown purpose whose shared features suggest that they are
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part of a worldwide system which served the high elemental science of a civilization now
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lost to history.
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The Caesar said himself to the Druids, knew the size and shape of the earth and talked
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about those matters. I've got examples of, say, island territories where you can tell
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the boundaries, they're defined by nature, where the surveyed center is actually on
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the main axis of that island, the very center, not an inch off.
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See, all the roads, all the old tracks lead to here.
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They converge.
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Yeah, and they're very old too. Right from the main axis goes from East Anglia along
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something called the Icneel Way, a prehistoric path that falls on the whole axis which goes
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right to the west, extreme west of Cornwall. And all along it there's shrines and sometimes
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evidence of tracks and then other trackways converge upon this place. So it's much older
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actually than these stones as a sanctuary.
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While the exact purpose of the Lee arrangement may be unclear, that does not mean it had
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no purpose. Some think it might have served to guide souls after death. Others believe
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it might have been some kind of power grid, harnessing subtle earth currents in some useful
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way which we have long since forgotten.
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For John Michel and his kindred researchers, the lost ancient order is envisioned as vast
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and complex, to a degree which is difficult to grasp today. The suggestion is that we
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are literally surrounded by the ruins of its legacy. But like bats in a haunted house,
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we have failed to comprehend the design and purpose of the great structure in which we
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find ourselves. Only when we rise above the stereotypes of a more primitive way of thinking
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do we behold the grander landscape and discover where the rotting building timbers lie buried.
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The Lee-line structure investigated by Michel and before him by William Stokely, John Aubrey,
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Alfred Watkins and others implies nothing so much as the presence of a vast but coherent
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prehistoric order or civilization whose existence is difficult to deny.
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I would speculate that there was a very high evolved civilization running around 10,500
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BC, still active and somehow was perhaps eradicated by catastrophic events.
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And the remnants of this civilization and its knowledge found itself in Egypt.
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Robert Beauval is an engineer and an astronomer who has produced extensive evidence that
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the ancient Egyptians were attempting to build on earth a subtle and mysterious reflection
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of patterns in the stars, especially the constellation Orion. He finds their technology equally mysterious.
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One of the questions that Israeli asked is why did they use such large sized blocks
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to construct temples. There is a very annoying question that Israeli asked because you can
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build temples, in fact you should build temples, but with much smaller blocks. So that is
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the problem. We seem to see people who for reasons that are inexplicable made their
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work process extremely difficult and took it to a point where conventional explanations
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do not fit. So researchers who are bold in exploring this need to break through this
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convention and say well they must have had the technology. They must have had the technology
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that fitted.
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I believe there is evidence that civilization on this planet goes back many, many thousands
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of years, even hundreds of thousands of years. David Hatcher Childress has personally investigated
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the remnants of lost civilizations in many parts of the world and has written numerous
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books on his findings.
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There's a number of unusual artifacts that are found and more importantly there is the
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evidence that comes from the ancient traditions including ancient histories and texts which
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also indicate that civilization has gone back many, many tens of thousands of years and
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not just the six to seven to eight thousand years that mainstream archeologists say that
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civilization is going back.
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There is no doubt whatever that civilization is far, far older than we ever thought.
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A prolific writer on the paranormal and unexplained anomalies, Colin Wilson has been fascinated
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by the mysterious capabilities of lost ancient civilizations for many years.
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It's impossible that Egyptian civilization could reach that point of sophistication in
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such a short time. You see it's supposed to have started around about 3000 BC. This is
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when the legendary King Menes, the first Egyptian king, is supposed to have appeared. Before
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that there were supposed to have been Bedouins on horseback and nothing else in Egypt. And
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then quite suddenly, a mere four centuries later, you get the great pyramids and the
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Sphinx. Well it's preposterous.
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I mean essentially to me they're saying that well history is a straight line graph where
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we have caveman down here at the bottom and then up at the top of the graph there's modern
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man, I maintain and others do of course as well, that history is this roller coaster
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of ups and downs and these peaks and valleys in this roller coaster have been going on
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for tens of thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years and not just the last few
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thousand years.
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What seems to be the case is that a very quick upsurge of such construction technology, there
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is no evidence of a build up towards it or at least the period that is involved between
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the construction of earlier pyramids and Giza is very very short to allocate a progression.
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It seems that there is a knowledge, a technology that came from outside that was already pre-available
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and was imported or came and was brought into Egypt. Where it came from I would not
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venture to suggest but there's been many suggestions of an earlier civilization.
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The old slave ramp roller theory is little more than pablum spooned up and fed to children.
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It's like a Grimm's fairy tale.
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Selling author Richard Noon has made the case for Advanced Ancient Achievement, a
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personal crusade for over 20 years.
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I believe that I have a massive amount of data in the book that supports the theory
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that the Great Pyramid was built by survivors of a technologically advanced civilization
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that entered into Egypt and chose this one single spot where the Great Pyramid sits.
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It's at the exact center of the planet's land mass and I believe that it was built
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by survivors of a technologically advanced civilization and they incorporated in the
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structure all the knowledge of their science and they built it so that it would survive
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practically any disaster on earth and it patiently sat there for thousands and thousands
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and thousands of years until man re-obtained a state of knowledge where he could begin
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to see that there was something extraordinary about this massive structure.
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The orthodox version of the origins of the Great Pyramid is made clear in this 1950s
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film prepared by the academic establishment to teach the public just what the ancient
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builders supposedly could and could not do.
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On the plateau of Giza we find the full flowering of pyramid tomb construction
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and the mightiest of all, the Great Pyramid of Chios, one of the seven wonders of the
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ancient world. Here great blocks of stone were used weighing several tons each, stones
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which could not be raised by muscle power alone. The engineering principles of ramps,
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rollers and levers were employed in this stupendous architectural feat.
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Stupendous indeed, yet despite overwhelming evidence for the magnitude of the accomplishment,
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accepted theory among today's most influential Egyptologists remains unchanged. The Great
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Pyramid was nothing more than a large tomb constructed by slaves working with primitive
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tools, mud ramps and rollers.
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I think the mainstream establishment finds it difficult to look at the world in a different
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way than they have. And this is very much the story of ancient technology and particularly
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advanced ancient civilizations. It's a way of looking at the past differently than our
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high school teachers or TV has taught us how to do.
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The modern scientific establishment is only now being dragged, kicking and screaming to
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the table.
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Mainly because of the media, combination of the media and the internet, it's now impossible
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for the opposition, they don't own the show anymore, they own the mainstream media. The
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mainstream media is still basically newspapers and so on, perfectly tame and parrots, the
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stupidities of the Egyptologists and the archaeologists as though they were gospel truths. But we
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now have the internet and television which actually has a huge advantage. Television
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catches a lot of flak because it is quite, in one sense quite rightly, it is absolutely
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amoral. Television doesn't give a damn about whether things are right or wrong as long
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as they make money. So as soon as they get ideas such as some of these avowals which
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are glamorous, they also happen to be right, television doesn't care if they're right
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or wrong. As long as people are going to watch, they'll put it on there. So it becomes possible
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actually to present right ideas even responsibly, present them even responsibly to enormous
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audiences whether the establishment likes it or not. So in fact you get the establishment
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kicking and screaming at the hardcore Nazi edge of science where you have the sort of
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the savages of the skeptical inquirer, you find them actually trying to campaign to
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force television not to air this kind of material which is an indication of how very
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frightened they are and for good reason. So we probably don't have to wait for all of
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us to die for these ideas, for these valid ideas, for the ideas let's say to prove themselves
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valid and to then get accepted in due course. When the conflict between orthodox and unorthodox
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is so sharp, where does one go for truly authoritative answers? We decided to go where any modern
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real estate developer with much at stake would go, to the experts of the engineering and
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building professions.
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James Hagen is designer and builder of some of the most outstanding architecture in the
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world today. Among his creations is the Walt Disney World Shopping Center near Kissimmee,
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Florida, the Federated Department Store building in Cincinnati, Ohio and MARTA, Atlanta's
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gigantic state of the art subway system. When it comes to computing the logistics and engineering
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requirements of a major construction project where most Egyptologists must be considered
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mere amateurs, Hagen is an expert. That's all stainless steel skyline, all set within
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that segmented drum precast post tension, each one of those slices was brought to the
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side independently, fastened together, strung together in post tension with stainless steel
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cables, a series of cables. Heavy engineering, I can't tell you how much engineering is
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doing, how much design work went into fabricating each one of these pieces. If you try to transfer
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that to the dialogue that must have taken place at the construction of the Giza pyramid,
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it's impossible to do it in a rudimentary way. Our design statement for this was to
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build something that would last a hundred years. We selected the granite and the brick
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and the marble and the precast, the man cast stone. You can see each one, you can see how
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large each one of those stones is and that's smaller than what would be in a pyramid. When
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we talk about the Great Pyramid at Giza, I would have to say it's impossible to build
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by modern devices and therefore impossible by any primitive methods. When we go back
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to the earliest known architectural vocabulary of ancient Egypt, they deal with small pieces,
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relatively small columns and small masonry units. The pyramid is different than that.
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It has none of those pieces. It has no small repetitive pieces. These are very large, very
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complex pieces to even conceptualize, much less translate that into something that is
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quarried by primitive society with limited tools. The things I'm concerned about are
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the elements of the construction and how they came to be. That's what I have to deal with
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in my world and those are the principles that I'm trying to apply to this building.
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The placing of the stones would be impossible by today's standards. We have no cranes,
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no mechanical devices that are up to the task. We could not place them with the precision
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where we find them. The alignment buildings today are simply not situated that perfectly
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on their site. We don't even try for that degree of accuracy in buildings today. There's
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really no reason to do it. To try to determine what was the reason and why did they try
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to accomplish it is the first mystery. I can tell you that these Egyptians or whoever
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it was that built the pyramid, they could build anything they wanted to. Robert Boval,
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an engineer himself, sees similar challenges for the builders of the Valley Temple near
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the Sphinx. The difficulties are, for example, the number of men that you need to move these
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size of blocks. A very quick calculation shows that taking the friction of the soil and the
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maximum angle of ramp to move a 150 ton block, you would need in the region of about 800
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men towing at the same time at precisely the same traction force. Now, assuming that you
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would have four rows of men with a distance of approximately one, one and a half meters
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away, you're talking about lengths that far exceed the size of the temple. They would
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actually have to fall on the other side of the temple. We cannot see how that type of
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ramp methods could work. So we have to consider that there may have been some other technology.
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For every mysterious megalithic site, there is a standard set of conventional primitive
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scenarios, most of which have never been subjected to a rigorous engineering analysis. A professional
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toolmaker and engineer, Christopher Dunn, has subjected many ancient Egyptian artifacts
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to state-of-the-art laboratory testing. When I was in Egypt in 1986, I was absolutely
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astounded by some of the artifacts that I saw in the Cairo Museum and also the Great
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Pyramid itself and around the Great Pyramid. Specifically, I was looking at some of the
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granite stones that were broken off the second pyramid and the sharpness of the corners,
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the flatness of the surfaces. So when I went back to Egypt in 1995, I took some tools with
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me, some instruments with which I could check the precision of these artifacts. I had in
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front of me an artifact that had a contour and it showed that it was actually, it must
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have been cut using some mechanical device that traveled or guided a tool in three axes
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because the tool marks and the contour of the artifact itself created a contour that
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was repeatable across a length of about 29 inches. Also, the tool that cut this contour,
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when it came to a corner, it left a radius and that radius was consistent around the
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entire block. But I wanted to measure it against what I knew to be a true radius and
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so I measured it against a standard gauge that you would find in a machine shop, which
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is a radius gauge. But you can see that that is actually a true radius. You bring it away
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from the radius and you see the light disappearing or you see the light appear and then you
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bring it into the radius and the light disappears. And so what we had on that particular block
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was a true radius that went completely around the corner blend, evidence of machining,
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clear evidence of machining. It was repeatable and precise.
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There are fine grooves that one sees cut in this kind of work, but the reproduction itself
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is a duplication that requires, that would require a template, a machine template to
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reproduce it. And that is what Chris brought out. The other thing is planing. He convinced
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me, at least at one stage, that the kind of planing of stone, such as granite, would
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require machine planing to the precision that some of the blocks have been found. For example,
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some of the granite blocks in the Great Pyramid and more precisely, we examined together
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some sarcophagi in the Serapium where the planing is almost so smooth, flat, almost
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like a mirror within the kind of precision that one wouldn't expect by hand planing.
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So that's the kind of thing that began to convince me of something, of a greater technology
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than mere hand technology. The inside of the sarcophagus in Cephas Pyramid
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is extremely precise. I used the precision ground parallel on the surface, on the inside
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of the sarcophagus, and found it to be so flat that you could not see light pass through
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the interface where the metal actually met the granite. Sliding that parallel along
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the surface was like sliding a gauge along a precision ground surface plate that you
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would use in a tool shop. Regardless of where you moved this parallel, whether you moved
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it horizontally or vertically, up and down, it was so precise. I was absolutely amazed.
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I exclaimed, space age precision. And it's not just the tools for cutting. Even if you
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would accept that they were able to machine this or to actually cut this using sand and
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using bone or using other rocks and bashing it or using copper chisels, even if we were
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to accept that, to be able to create these artifacts and create these perfectly flat
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surfaces and repeat the precision over a large area would require other instruments, metrology
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instruments, because these were not done coincidental. They were done intentionally.
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They had to be intentional. So it would have required other metrology equipment.
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Not content with simply saying that Egyptologists are wrong about the capabilities of the ancient
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builders, Don makes the astonishing assertion that the ancient Egyptians used at the least
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high speed drills and even ultrasound. As I was reading William Flinders Petrie's
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book on the pyramids and temples of Giza, one of the artifacts that he was describing
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was a core that was taken out of a hole drilled into granite. Some of these cores were up
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to four inches in diameter. The feed rate, which was what puzzled Petrie so much, for
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every revolution that the drill turned, it sunk into the granite one tenth of an inch.
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The feed rate could be an indication of the method that they used to advance the tool
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into the workpiece. With ultrasonic machining, it is a totally, it's a different than conventional
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methods of machining. Essentially what you have is a vibrating tool bit and the tool
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actually cuts through vibration and an abrasive slurry would be fed into the workpiece to
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assist and accelerate the cutting action. So this is fairly strong evidence that the
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ancient Egyptians were using ultrasonics for the drill. I have yet to have anybody come
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forward with a conventional means or a primitive means to actually reproduce these artifacts.
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The work that Chris Dunn is doing, proving, as far as I'm concerned, proving that a very
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sophisticated machinery of some sort was used to cut and polish those stones is, I think,
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extremely compelling. The evidence comes from where evidence is supposed to come from,
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from somebody who actually cuts stone himself and who works with machines. Egyptologists
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and archeologists do not cut stone and do not work with machines and their opinions
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in such matter, as with the weathering patterns on rock, are basically of no particular value.
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Their PhDs in Egyptology does not give them any expertise, whatever, in the machining
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of very hard rocks that we can't machine today. When you look at the precision, the high
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precision of these artifacts and the photographs and the evidence that I have collected while
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I was in Egypt, it's still there and people can still go over and they can still look
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at this material, they can take measurements and then they can look at the evidence and
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say, yes, there's no way this could be done by primitive society. We have to revise the
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theory. Inventor Patrick Flanagan is best known for his book on pyramid power. He believes
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the ancients possessed an insight into the capabilities of the pyramidal form itself,
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which is only beginning to be rediscovered today. In my research, I further established,
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for example, that if you were designing a pyramid microwave horn, the impedance of free
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space is about 377 ohms. This is well known. In a pyramid, if you change the angle of
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the pyramid, what you find out is that the impedance, the matching impedance, will change.
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This is well known in electronics. Basically, if you take the geometry of the great pyramid,
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the apex is 377 ohms, which is the impedance of free space, which means that it's a perfect
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resonator matching the impedance of free space. So there are many possibilities that the pyramid
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can resonate not only known radio frequency type energies, but also other possible energies,
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for example, scalar signals. We now know that we have a lot of scalar energy fields, which
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is zero point energy, for example, and that the pyramid could be resonating because it
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is resonant to the impedance of free space. They used a chemical engine at the heart
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of the building site to build the building up from the middle and outward. Richard Noon
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believes the great pyramid was built using hydraulic techniques. The technology used
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was not rediscovered until a man by the name of Edward Kunkel, who I tell his story in
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my book, spent 30 years of his life, up until the time he was 80 something years old, deciphering
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how the building of the great pyramid took place by an ingenious use of water, applied
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physics, compounded atmospheric and gravitational pressure, and an ingenious use of vacuums
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where water was used as the lifting medium. With this hydraulic system of engineering,
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you can lift 70 ton stones up, move them, set them gently in place with no handling
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scars. Colin Wilson believes the advanced capabilities of the ancients are best understood
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in terms of highly developed psi powers, which are now latent. These peculiar powers,
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I'm sure the Egyptians didn't know they were performing magic. They did these things probably
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under the guidance of a priest. They did them all together singing as they did it. They
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heaved these great 6 ton blocks into position, or in the case of the Sphinx temple, 200 ton
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blocks. They thought the god did it or whatever, and suddenly the block was in place. When
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we do these things in this strange state of sheer happiness, I'm sure everything works.
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Writer David Hatcher Childress believes that every technology known to man was as familiar
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to the ancients as it is to us. However, according to many of the ancient sources,
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including legends, there is evidence that such things as levitation and kind of sonic
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or sound technology has been used in levitating stones. Similarly, we know that the ancient
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Romans and the Mayans used concrete and cement quite a great deal, much the same way we
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did today. Similarly, there is evidence that some ancient structures have actually been
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molded into place and are a very sophisticated form of concrete. I think we have a combination
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of different building techniques, which include everything from pouring concrete, much like
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we do today, to even levitating stones with sound and other high tech devices, to even
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just simply moving massive stones by truck or train or by crane.
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But if the ancients possess such advanced knowledge, the question remains, when, where,
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and from whom did they get it?
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For Zachariah Sitchin, there is no mystery regarding how the ancients came by their
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advanced knowledge. The leading scholar of the ancient astronaut school of history,
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Sitchin uses his formidable knowledge of Sumerian cuneiform and other ancient texts to argue
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that all human achievement is a legacy from extraterrestrials.
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In order to understand the so-called ancient myths, which I take as factual records, one
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has to factor in into the ancient past of our planet and of mankind. The acceptance
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as a reality that people from another planet, much more advanced than us, had come to Earth
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starting about 450,000 years ago, coming and going between Earth, our planet, and their
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planet, which was called Nibiru, every 3,600 years, and every 3,600 years, the
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ancient civilization was worth more knowledge, more technology, more science, more advancement.
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They gave it to us, and that was the basic premise of all the ancient writings.
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Since it's not my direct experience, I want to see some evidence. So that, when you extrapolate
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out of that and say, well, were these ancient civilizations terrestrial or extraterrestrial,
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well, that just simply magnifies the problem of origins exponentially. We don't know the
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problem of documenting extraterrestrial life as itself is another big, huge problem. I
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mean, you put those two big, huge problems together, you get a huge problem squared or
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cubed, and it's simply an unanticipated problem.
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You don't have to believe in ancient astronauts, however, to explain the source of ancient
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wisdom.
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There is a certain amount of documentation. The Egyptians themselves, for example, talk
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about their, they say in their text quite openly, that their own civilization extends
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many, many thousands of years further back than the time of the pharaohs. This is simply
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discounted by archaeologists and Egyptologists. But when you look at the figures that the
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Egyptians give, which unfortunately are not in very close agreement with each other,
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but they're talking in the neighborhood of 25, 35, 40,000 years, and oddly enough, the
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Vedic texts also talk about origins of civilization, and they're also giving a period of around
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40,000 years or so. So actually, this still earlier cycle is not, it shouldn't be dismissed
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as nonsense piled upon nonsense.
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This technology was known in the ancient land of Atlantis and Lemuria, and at that
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time we applied those powers to shape the pyramids as a record to us of a long forgotten
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time when we were wiser and more closely connected to the creative forces. But we're evolving
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back to that now. In fact, we're fast approaching an era in which we'll regain that wisdom.
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Author and researcher John Van Auken is executive director for ARE, the Association for Research
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and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Established to pursue the work of Edgar Cayce,
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ARE preserves in its library transcripts for thousands of clairvoyant Cayce readings given
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in the first quarter of this century, dealing with everything from health to Atlantis. The
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material, where testing is possible, has proven uncannily accurate. Today, researchers
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carefully comb his words for clues to many mysteries, including the scope of ancient
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achievement.
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According to Edgar Cayce, much of the sophisticated technology we see represented on the Giza
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Plateau was actually because we were more sophisticated consciously in ancient times
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I know right now we hold to the theory that everything old is primitive and that only
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the more modern things are more sophisticated and wiser. But the truth is there was a time
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prior to this evolution in which we were highly sophisticated and could use the forces of
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nature and of the universe to actually affect matter and material.
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Edgar Evans Cayce, the youngest son of Virginia Beach's famous sleeping prophet, has recently
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collaborated with his daughter, Gail Cayce Swartzer and writer Douglas Richards, in
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the re-release of their book on the Edgar Cayce readings on Atlantis.
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According to Cayce, it was at least as advanced or maybe more so than ours. He talks about
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in the very distant past, 50, 30,000 years ago, flying machines and talks about technology
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that sounded like gene research, it sounded like development of lasers, amazes, atomic
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power. He talked about things that were very scientific, especially when you consider these
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readings of some of them were given in the 20s and 30s and some of the technology hadn't
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been developed yet.
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I mean what they talk about, about that crystal being able to drive, to actually do, would
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you drive things through air, underwater, it was like it was the central force for
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everything. I mean you didn't need gas companies or whatever, it all happened through that
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somehow. Now how, I don't know.
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What the Cayce readings talk about of course is some rather high technology in Atlantis,
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but the interesting thing about the technology is that many of the readings that were given
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about the technology, there were actually only a few, were given for the same person,
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a man whose reading number is 440 who was an engineer. And he was interested in all
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kinds of technological things and so he's got readings on building radionics machines,
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on the great Atlantean crystal and this sort of thing. And so a lot of people are surprised,
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they expect there are many Cayce readings on Atlantean technology, whereas the more
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you search the readings, the more you keep hitting against Mr. 440's readings. And those
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are quite interesting. Cayce encouraged him to work on developing technology and also
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put in some strong warnings because he said that he was one of the people involved when
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they tuned the crystal too high and destroyed Atlantis. So the readings combined this encouragement
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in working with technology and warnings that he'd better be a little more spiritual this
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time around.
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What he said was that some of this technology would be discovered in the next 25 years.
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Well, almost exactly 25 years to the date after that reading, there were two things
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that were discovered that might relate to what he was talking about. One of them was
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the discovery of antimatter. And of course the combination of antimatter with ordinary
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matter would be the complete obliteration of all the matter into energy and it would
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be a much greater explosion than an atomic hydrogen bomb. Another thing that happened
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almost exactly 25 years later was the development at Bell Labs of the first Mesa.
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Writer Tom Cay is a lifelong student of the Edgar Cayce readings.
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It just destroyed itself. It just literally brought itself down because of the misuse
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of its technology and it eventually, I guess just the powers to be or the energy that
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it misused eventually destroyed the country.
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Cayce is not the only source for information on Atlantis. Among others, Helene Petrovna
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Blavatsky, an intuitive and founder of the Theosophical Society, wrote voluminously about
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Atlantis and its history. The source most trusted by scholars though is the Greek philosopher
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Plato, whose vivid description of an advanced island civilization in the middle of the great
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ocean beyond the pillars of Hercules haunts us still. And while it is true that no one
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has produced tangible physical evidence which can be certified as from Atlantis, there
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are some who would say that advanced knowledge among ancient people is itself an artifact
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of Atlantis.
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Anyway, all disputes in the matter may soon be over. That at least is the view of Cayce
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true believers. According to Cayce and others, the Atlanteans left behind a hall of records
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which fully explains their history and their achievements.
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The nearest thing he said to where they might be was that there was a passageway to this
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chamber of pyramid that these records are in from the right forepaw of the Sphinx.
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And evidently according to him it was in front of the Sphinx somewhere. Until somebody finds
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that we won't know if he was right or not. Of course he said that Atlantis wasn't destroyed
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in one day as Plato said, but over a period of time and that the inhabitants went both
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east and west and that they carried some of their history with them. And some of them
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went into Egypt and Spain and Portugal, some of them went into South and Central America.
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And that they wore records in Central America somewhere, they wore records in Egypt.
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My expectations from everything that has been suggested in ancient legends, in ancient texts,
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is that we may find records, may find writings. If there's anything, now what would be certainly
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very interesting is that something was concealed that required to be preserved other than
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written documents. Something of material importance. It's certainly very exciting if there is
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something that shouldn't be there that we discover, like a piece of steel for example
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or some manufactured material that could not have been manufactured at that time.
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Throughout history knowledge has been destroyed. Not only has the great library at Alexandria
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been totally destroyed in the 4th century AD, but the Emperor Qiwangti of China who
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built the Great Wall, he also ordered every book destroyed in China in 500 BC. Certain
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times Sir Oral Stein in 1910 discovered an ancient library in the Gobi Desert which had
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been walled up in some ancient Buddhist caves. We know that these secret libraries do exist.
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And certainly these ancient libraries existed as well with hundreds of thousands of books
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on history and what happened in the world before and books on technology as well. A
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number of archaeologists are actively searching the entire world for these halls of records.
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I do believe that many of them will be found in the near future.
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I am very excited about these times. Every week we hear of a new discovery. Every week
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there's something new occurring. It's like time has sped up and everything's revealing
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itself very quickly. I think we're going to see over the next 20 years the greatest
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discoveries ever seen on this planet.
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If as Van Auken and others believe a new era of discovery is dawning, it's possible we
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may soon behold the gods of antiquity for who they truly were, our magnificent predecessors.
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Maybe then we will understand at last the lessons they have to teach us.
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Could an ancient civilization have risen to heights similar to our own and perhaps have
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traveled a different road? What would we understand of a world which might have employed
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fundamentally different, though no less effective, techniques to harness the forces of nature?
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Would we understand a world which could for example achieve and transmit energy by means
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other than a power grid? Are we capable of recognizing achievement along different lines
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than our own? Or would we resort to the convenient pigeon holes provided by theories of mumbo
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jumbo and mysterious religious practice?
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The Church of the Middle Ages underscored its own authority by insisting that Earth
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was the center of the solar system and burned at the stake those who differed, no matter
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what the evidence might show to the contrary.
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Could today's reigning conception of the limits of prehistoric society be but another
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in the long line of self-serving conceits to which our race is heir?
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Much as I delight in tweaking the noses of the academic establishment, in fact it's rather
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more violent and I like doing a lot more damage than that, but much as I enjoy that, that's
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not the objective of the exercise.
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In the past, people had an idea, a very good idea or knowledge, understanding, wisdom,
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that we are on this Earth for a very real purpose and that civilization can only occur
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when we are trying to achieve that purpose. And so the ancient civilizations stand as
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models for understanding that ancient wisdom.