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John Jay Harper emerged from the landing pad—also called a “delivery room”—of Providence Hospital in Seattle, Washington hungry, tired, and disoriented. Indeed it had been a dark bumpy ride the past nine months and in a cramped capsule, too. John simply wanted a shower, a shave, and a solid meal. Then he remembered our predicament: human beings are still in the infantile stage of consciousness development. That is, we think we are caterpillars when we are butterflies. So he spent his early years refreshing his latent memories on how the reincarnation process works. He played with crystal radio sets, relearning the body-mind-spirit building-block properties of light: electricity, magnetism, and their polarized effect—gravity. John was stimulated by the ideas of Albert Einstein and Werner Von Braun. He began to carve model airplanes and rocket ships out of balsa wood, even mixing batches of volatile fuel made of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur—gunpowder. In the third grade during the 1950’s he wrote a 20-page “trip report” on his visit to the moon given his imaginary ability to take flight out-of-body. The teacher singled him out to the whole class as an example of a creative, albeit very fanciful, writer. However, on May 5 th , 1961 science fiction met science fact. Freedom 7 Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida into space and returned safely to Earth. Less than a decade later Neil Armstrong landed on the moon July 20th , 1969. Now man had only one more obstacle to hurdle. He had to fly into the cosmos without a rocket ship strapped to his back. This therefore is why John Jay Harper wrote Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21 st Century: It is to teach us how to travel “consciously” into the fifth dimension—the outer reaches of inner space.


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Grof, M.D. given in his book Psychology of the Future, and to the

best friend George Sebastian Viguet (pronounced “Vee-gay”) had died that

Louisiana on January 24th, 1947 he was a vibrant, young man of 40 when

November 9th, 1987.

assigned to the same military unit, the 116th Ordnance Detachment

Merrell Barracks now. I was really looking forward to this field trip of sorts

So at the crack of dawn on January 28th, 1970, I kissed my wife of 2

not. In my opinion, there is no greater sacrifice than to be involuntarily

Notwithstanding, the sight and sound of the U.S. 7th Army and

the calling cards left behind by Allied GI’s who captured it from the former

German occupants in 1945. The single guys had to make this tomb their

door: “Martha Stewart Does Not Live Here.”

Preface • xxxiii

survive this Animal House environment (very much like that college-based

Then our wives arrived on April 10th, 1970 on a chartered flight out of New

me but they ended abruptly on May 7th, 1971—to be exact. Connie and

liked to talk to folks about the big ideas of life rather than tinker with

asking myself over and over again: Where is George? Where in the world—

paid dividends, as George was not dead. Indeed I can say with confidence

them. They are not lost in space! How do I know this is true?

experiencing. Yet there he stood: plain as the nose on his face.

Image Credit: The Abyss, Twentieth Century Fox

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non-threatening crystal-clear water creature did in the movie The Abyss.

Painted Arrow, in his book Being and Vibration, told co-author Mary

mold matter. Jung said the “unitary substance,” the Mercurius

Philosophorum sive quadratus of our soul was in fact “as much a metal as a

experiments performed by psychic Uri Geller too. As I see that his shenanigans

that spiritualists called the ether.

photons of light still vibrating at the Kelvin temperature scale of absolute

zero degrees (-459.69o Fahrenheit; -273.16o Celsius) from which everything

that we are finally rediscovering is the holy “ghost in our machines.”

Thus in CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, Dr. Richard F. Haines,

them [aliens]. It had no apparent effect. However, when the boy

approached the stranger, the boy was ‘flung to the ground as if by an icecold

invisible force.’” (Case No. 215)

Haines also documents in CE-5 these daytime observations of 51-year

why the temperature drops, folks report getting chilled to the bone, while

in Before The Big Bang: The Origins of the Universe: “The basic assumption

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of division processes. They were formed out of pure space as vortices

Ph.D. in his book Genesis of the Cosmos: The Ancient Science of Continuous

Creation, in the spell-binding chapter called “The Thermodynamics of

In a 1950 book titled Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, esoteric scholar

Preface • xxxix

spirit concepts, this was the topic du jour to explore. So I did. I started

hyperspace” Terence McKenna stated in California UFO, 2:2 (1987) in

the article he called Oversoul Takes Shape in an Archetypal UFO, we must

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wrote in The Ether Ship and Its Solution: “The shapes and vehicles and

next higher form of existence as an etherian at the End-Time? I think so.

Earth, as he wrote in My Descent into Death and the Message of Love Which

Brought Me Back. After folks took care of their kids, “What people did

The “inner voice” that is our conscience. The Gnostic Nag Hammadi

Scrolls, and this one especially called the Gospel of Twins, are in some mysterious

book, The Lost Secret of Death: Our Divided Souls and the Afterlife. He has

selves (lower and higher). Clearly this gnosis of our bifurcation is the missing

his theory as he does in his marvelous text, Of Two Minds: The

Revolutionary Science of Dual-Brain Psychology. “The dual-brain model

(See www.traumahealing.com and the book Waking the Tiger: Healing

Trauma by medical physicist and NASA consultant to the Space Shuttle

Perhaps unknowingly, but Ned Dougherty speaks to this fact in Fast

Lane to Heaven when he had an epiphany while drinking what turned out

was an Irish Mist. But there in Ebbitt’s Grille in Washington, D.C., he

also www.divisiontheory.com to review The Division of Consciousness, The

Lost Secret of Death, and Original Christianity)

taught that we were to “make the two one again” in the Gospel of Thomas.

Gnostics went so far as to claim that Judas Thomas was the other Jesus.

Recall that Thomas means twin in Aramaic. There was a double meaning

to the use of the name Didymos Judas Thomas then that literally translates

as “Twin Judas Twin.” Didymos is Greek for twin. Indeed Peter Novak

world at the beginning and end-of-time, the Garden of Eden, or paradise

Research Institute, and author of the Lost Star of Myth and Time. As he so

in his DVD, The Great Year, our Golden Age to Dark Age to Golden Age

knowledge stated in her writings such as Initiation, Human and Solar: “In

xlvi • Tranceformers

called it. The underworld was that unlit region of space that a celestial

signified darkness but not necessarily evil. (See The Sirius Mystery: New

Scientific Evidence of Alien Contact 5000 Years Ago by Robert Temple at

Carl Sagan wrote in Intelligent Life in the Universe: “Some 25 million years

Preface • xlvii

system by harmonic resonance.” My hunch is this is correct, resonance is

xlviii • Tranceformers

the Vesica Pisces, and you’ll get the picture.

book Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an

African Shaman, reveals how such wisdom could be accumulated on a

named Burkina Faso), West Africa, in what we would call poverty in the

the USA, Somé became a medicine man through a stringent series of rituals

that directly tapped our inner space subway system to the stars.

In the chapter Somé titled “Through The Light Hole,” he tells of seeing

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“spiritual eye” open is necessary for us bats to see Heaven on Earth?

Is this a mass illusion? I don’t think so, or at least not anymore. For what

Preface • li

to identify it, right? How do you say duck in Aramaic?

lii • Tranceformers

towards our eternal home among the stars of heaven. Author of The Death

of the Gods in Ancient Egypt, Jane Sellers, concluded, “I am convinced that

I also refer you to The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secret of the

Pyramids by Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert for all the glorious details

in space with respect to these four markers of time. 1) The center

starlight hits these “sacred stones” at the most focused angle of concentration

The Giza Power Plant. (See www.gizapower.com)

For instance, Graham Hancock documents in Heaven’s Mirror: Quest

for the Lost Civilization that at precisely sunrise on the spring equinox in

symbol of the “ouroborus” portrays, the circular snake eating its tail. Is it

old, when our “gods roamed the earth” and talked with animals, angels,

and aliens. But can you imagine a civilization dedicated knowingly and

Nabta Playa. He ruminates in his new book The Origin Map: Discovery of

a Prehistoric, Megalithic, Astrophysical Map and Sculpture of the Universe,

spectrum.” Brophy’s findings were the proverbial last straw that broke the

writes in the classic text, The Holy Science, that in this age that we are

University psychiatrist John E. Mack, M.D., wrote in Abduction: Human

Encounters with Aliens: “The transmission of information from the alien

southern college town who lost “six or more” hours on Easter Sunday,

1990. In the chapter of Mack’s book he titled A Being of Light, he paraphrased

but also have signed on as a mythmaker in the 21st century.

Joseph Campbell defined it in The Power of Myth, and comes back to

Preface • lix

them old pabulum. In fact, some of this spiritual food was so rotten it

philosophy,” in his treatise On the Myths. So here is the question: What

truth is being concealed within the mythology of the New Testament? It is

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the 14th century! Moreover, the Greek name Jesus Christ is a numerically

In the Old Testament, the Savior was called the idealized “Son of Man”

his book The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Christianity Before Christ.

word Christ in this manner, Chrest. The people of Loretto had a black

“root” of Christ goes back to Adam Kadmon for the Jew and Christian but

Writing in The Myth of God Incarnate, Frances Young confirms that

mankind,’” and says so in his book The Pagan Christ. This is gnosis, this

deep knowing that we all hunger to rediscover now. It is “Even the mystery

which hath been hid from ages and from generations; Christ in you, the

hope of Glory.” (Colossians 1:26-27)

what Elaine Smitha outlines in If You Make the Rules, How Come You’re

Not Boss? She writes: “Perhaps junk DNA contains all the secrets of the

lxii • Tranceformers

liquid crystalline.” (See The Rainbow and The Worm: The Physics of

Organisms by Mae-Wan Ho, Ph.D.)

McTaggart of London, England published The Field: The Quest for the

Secret Force of the Universe, and confirmed to my demanding satisfaction

Preface • lxiii

at his demise; and equally important to my visions of our future, he had

read my mind. That is to say, I later realized that mind-to-mind communication—

Getting There Without Drugs: Techniques and Theories for the Expansion of

Consciousness: “Maybe the brain serves merely as a link from the fifth

lxiv • Tranceformers

at his demise; and equally important to my visions of our future, he had

read my mind. That is to say, I later realized that mind-to-mind communication—

Getting There Without Drugs: Techniques and Theories for the Expansion of

Consciousness: “Maybe the brain serves merely as a link from the fifth

lxiv • Tranceformers

at his demise; and equally important to my visions of our future, he had

read my mind. That is to say, I later realized that mind-to-mind communication—

Getting There Without Drugs: Techniques and Theories for the Expansion of

Consciousness: “Maybe the brain serves merely as a link from the fifth

lxiv • Tranceformers

it the old fashioned way: I’ll have to earn it—people’s confidence. If noth-

Preface • lxv

here and hereafter. That is my only agenda in case you were wondering. I

I trusted my observation. Now I needed a new paradigm—a model of reality—

So I began in 1989 to review hundreds of books includingMass Dreams

of the Future by Chet B. Snow, a clinical hypnotherapist that had documented

VHS tapes on The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers.

lxviii • Tranceformers

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Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Prophetic or Pathetic
Chapter 2 - The Science of God
Chapter 3 - God’s Brain
Chapter 4 - Bogus Beliefs
Chapter 5  - The Case For Christ
Chapter 6 - The Great Esoteric Jigsaw Puzzle
Chapter 7 - Pages of Truth?
Chapter 8 - Flood or Fantasy?
Chapter 9 - Science or Sci-Fi?
Chapter 10 - Creative Evolution
Chapter 11 - God's Abacus
Chapter 12 ? Conclusion
Appendix 1 ? The Da Vinci Code
Appendix 2 - The Truth Inside Your Skull - The Ancient Mystery of the
Skull Cup
Bibliography
Introduction

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he
will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
Francis Bacon, 1561-1626.

If you have bought this book then you are asking questions. These same
questions have been asked for thousands of years and it was due to these
questions that I too was thrust into the search for ultimate truths.
From the first Shaman and Medicine men of primitive cultures to the high
philosophers of the Hellenised world these questions have caused
consternation and even warfare.  I can guarantee that almost everybody
who reads this book will have ‘issues’ with it because of the divisive
nature of religion, belief and faith. With each passing generation we
seem to be no closer to the truth of whether god exists and these wars
rage still in the name of god.

What does change is our perception of what this god is or should be. In
the beginning we may have held the gods or god to be Animistic, Totemic
or even plain agricultural deities. Attributing all-manner of special
and wonderful meanings to their persona. In many instances astrological
or astronomical ideologies were placed over these early beliefs. This
gave real life to the flames, light and heat of the sun, resurrecting
nightly the cold light of the moon. Our systems developed and evolved as
we learned more and more about the world around us. Eventually we
supposedly became more rational and literal. At a unique period of time
the gods were themselves rationalised into just one all encompassing
god, which just happened to be male. Of course this was after the
destruction of the idea of the balancing goddess, Sophia. She has been
hidden within the Gnostic surviving traditions as Mary, Isis and various
other female deities. For those among us who are literal fundamentalists
this female counterpart or Lilith, was simply in the way and we were
left with one, male god. This god, because he was the accumulation of
all the ideas and symbols of the other deities also held all the answers
to all our questions ? a super god.

This one super god could have emerged from anywhere at any time, had
that time been right. But the time was right in the Middle East. There
was a power vacuum and an Empire sufficiently placed to help this new
way grow - Rome. Eventually this new faith manifested itself around the
globe as Christianity. After this eruption of new ideology and with the
world rapidly becoming a smaller place it became increasingly less
likely that any other monotheistic religion would ever be quite as
successful. Any successor would have to wage war with the might of
Christianity in the new guise of Catholicism. This is one of the reasons
I have chosen to keep the focus of this book more towards Christianity
rather than say, Islam or Buddhism.

There has, however, been a war raged, as we all know. Not just the
physical battle of the strongest, but also a more subtle psychological
battle of propaganda. This makes sifting through the evidence more
difficult than it would otherwise be, due to the layers of lies and
deceit always present when propaganda is utilised.

With this in mind and using history as a tool we can only forecast a
balancing out of beliefs and a coming together of world religions. The
opposite is almost too bloody to bear. Hopefully a rationalism of this
long-term propaganda will fuse the minds of these otherwise intelligent
people. If we fail to show that all faith comes from an initial core
then we are left with the stark fact that man will go on fighting for
belief until the end of time.

For now we have to use the evidence at hand to decide for ourselves what
the truth is. We can take no relevance or help from how intelligent a
believer or non-believer may be. There are many millions of highly
intellectual people who hold to the faith of either god or atheism. We
cannot say that just because a Professor believes in god then we should
also. As Carl Gustav Jung, the infamous psychoanalyst told us, we are
all unique individuals and we all wish to fit in with whatever social
order just so happens to be around us.

There are a many great reasons for the emotional state of belief. And
that is exactly one of them. Belief and faith are emotional states, not
intellectual property. Something inside of us is said to demand an
answer. Something, possibly part of an evolutionary instinct, emits a
strong desire for there to be more to life than that which we have. Many
believe this to be part of the cyclic problem, that we have a beginning
and an end, and we cannot deal with this. As if to circumnavigate the
problem we give our gods the ability to resurrect, just as do the sun
and moon and stars daily and nightly. We then claim this as a gift from
our god, that we may also be miraculously resurrected. In Egypt the
great deities were part and parcel of an incredible system of daily and
yearly re-creation and systems akin to this are to be found across the
world. Thinking outside of this cyclical world is left to physicists and
quantum theorists who develop modern scientific thoughts along the lines
of evidence, but which mirror the philosophies of our ancestors.

The sheer terror of there actually being an end to life is often too
much for us to bear and religion claims to have the answer. Now, in this
modern age, we also cling to other more peculiar belief systems such as
Alien worship and seeing the Universe as a living organism. These become
easier to believe due to the perceived rationalism behind them. In time
these ideologies will alter into something else we cannot even imagine.

I would also like to draw a distinction between religion and
spirituality. A religion is something we join or conform to. It can be
controlling, because it has rigid age-long doctrines and dogma that must
be must be adhered to by the member. In this way it is no different to
communism and in more subtle ways the capitalist world, which controls
us with our inner desires. Spirituality is different. This is an emotion
or feeling that there must be more to life than our physical forms. The
fact that we can place one brick upon another and create a beautiful
cathedral, designed from within ourselves to meet with the beautiful
order of the universe, is evidence of this spiritual side. Art, writing
and a closeness to the natural world are elements of the spiritual
sense. None of this requires a god and could easily adapt to any new
circumstance or evidence. It matters not whether evolution or creation
are real, as both are beautiful in their own way and in both we can, in
the spiritual sense, feel a connection. The fact is though, that our
spiritual nature has been for thousands of years stolen by the Church in
one form or another. The clever manipulation of our psyche, using love,
fear and guilt, to bolster the coffers of the orthodox religion, has
been in place and copied since man began to think. It is time to think
again and to judge in balance the reality of life.

In all things we need balance, careful consideration and an analytical
mind to help us see beyond the emotional states of not just ourselves
but others also. We need to first discover who we are before we can move
forward and discover what god is. We cannot look to others for this
process because we are all very different, with different genes and
different upbringings. Religion in this way can actually be harmful, for
it brings together all mankind into a social construct that evades or
rides over the question of difference. It attempts to make us all steer
the same course and where varying ethnic backgrounds are found this
course creates severe problems. Only with dictatorial empires was it
possible to stamp Christian, Islamic or even Hindu authority upon the
immense variety of cultures within any given empire. Today there is a
war at play between Christianity and Islam, being played out upon the
world stage because of the cultural obstacles. In truth these religions
are often used by power brokers to rally the masses, but on another
level belief and faith without evidence are themselves divisive.

So just what is the purpose of religion?

Is it god’s answer to the questions man cannot answer? Or is it simply
man’s answer to those same questions?

In this book we are looking for the answer to two questions. What or Who
is god? And what are we to understand represents proof?

Firstly then to god. What is the Christian point of view?

God is our concept of the Supreme Being, the creator, lord and manager
of our lives. He made everything. He is omnipotent, all seeing and all
knowing, the beginning and the end. We cannot hide from god. He is to be
worshipped for all he has done for us. He is to be petitioned in prayer
and we are to place faith in him for all our needs. He is our saviour,
taking away all our sins so that we can reconcile ourselves again with
him.

We cannot, yet, explain god in scientific terms. Whoever does will make
a lot of money. There are moments of quantum understanding that one day
may bring us close, but however close we do get, it may still be a
million miles off the mark.

Humans are finite beings; we are still, after all this time trying to
understand what must be an infinite being, if indeed he exists.

We, as finite beings, look for a beginning and an end. The Bible even
tells us that god is the Alpha and Omega (the first and last letters of
the Greek alphabet). Life must start somewhere and end somewhere; we
simply cannot understand it any other way.

Yet, if we were gods, we would possibly exist in some other dimensional
state that mere humans simply could not comprehend. We would know
everything, in all time, all at once, present, past and future. We would
hold the power to create life and take it away again. To choose life or
death for billions is the kind of power only mad men dream of.

That is why we would also be love. According to the Bible, god is love.
This would be just as well. The power to create and destroy life needs
the taming of love.

Hopefully now we have a better understanding of what many Christians
believe to be god.

So what about proof?

I have been accused, mostly by Christians who are afraid of the word
‘evidence’, that I should not even question the existence of god. God,
they say is the subject of faith and faith does not require proof. Alas,
I have a left-brain, logical impulse that does not and will not agree
with such sentiments. Proof is evidence that something is true and if
one searches for truth, then one must seek out proof. But how do we know
what is true? It can be two ways. For instance I am a white man, and yet
I am also a sort of pink colour. Which is true? Both are obviously true.
One is true symbolically and one true literally. These are the truths we
have to sift through when reading the Bible or any other ancient
tradition or myth.

I cannot prove to you that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, it is something we
have faith in. There is evidence that Marlowe also had a hand in many of
Shakespeare’s works. What is true? There have been many thousands of
researchers look into this mystery and still no hard evidence has
emerged, and so in ‘truth’ we can only say that we ‘believe.’ How much
more important then is it that we discover the author or authors of the
Bible? Was it man or god?

Philip Gardiner
England 2006





Chapter 1
Prophetic or pathetic
Prophecy can be a very powerful way of showing that the Bible / Koran is
the word of god. Many theologians argue that some Bible prophecies were
written after the event however, and point to prophetic self-fulfilment.

For Christians prophecy ensures the strengthening of faith as St Peter
wrote:

“..and we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will
do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place,
until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.” 2 Peter
1: 19.

When we begin to take a deeper look into Biblical prophecy we find
ourselves startled at the immense scope and the intricately detailed
DNA-like structure that it weaves through the centuries. Surely if there
is a god - and that is the question of this book - and if that god is
the Biblical god, we must believe that he gave us his word through
prophets or men of his word. However, to be totally fair we must look at
other, non-Biblical fortune telling, for in doing so we should be able
to discern the differences between the prophecies of god and the
childlike grasping of man. This in itself has been used as strong
‘evidence’ for the existence of god, albeit circumstantial. The very
range of subject matter is both bewildering and ridiculous. Of the
following you will surely have heard of a few: - Divination,
clairvoyance, augury, astrology, horoscopy, palmistry, crystal gazing,
dowsing, and tarot card reading.

Prophet or Profiteer?

From Biblical days monarchs have seen fit to employ so-called prophets
and seers. Even in our contemporary age the illustrious leaders of
western and some eastern countries employ people to read their
horoscopes or palms and tell them whether to have a hair cut or press
the big button and nuke the world. Many stars and personalities join in
with ‘New Age’ fortune telling and end up making stars and personalities
out of the fortune-tellers, who then, make huge amounts of money. Each
week in many countries we now have Astrology television programmes,
telling us our fortunes and listening to the wonderful coincidences week
in and week out.

Back in the sixteenth century much the same thing was happening with the
rulers of England. The prophet of the day was a man named John Dee
(1527-1608) who, although failing to predict the death of King Edward VI
correctly, was employed for a time by Queen Mary, in order that she may
have her and her husbands horoscopes read.

Dee fell in with a man named Edward Kelly who claimed to see spirits in
crystals and held long conversations with dead people. Things did not
turn out well for Dee when a spirit called Madimi told Kelly that Dee
should share his wife with him.

Dee, a spy of the realm and also known as 007, was taken in by a
trickster. Kelly can be shown to have deceived Dee. Together they
managed to manipulate dozens of Royalty including the Polish King and
Holy Roman Emperor. It was the clever workings of a government spy and a
superb con man in the guise of Kelly that managed to be the talk of
Europe. Eventually Dee lost his home in England and became almost
secondary to the legend of his previous underling Kelly. In the end
there is no proof that any of the Dee/Kelly scenario is true prophecy
from spirits or god. It is in actual fact a sad story of deceit, Dee, an
otherwise brilliant man, succumbed to the tricks and tactics of Kelly.

In the fifteenth century a woman by the name of Janet Ursula Southiel,
now commonly known as Mother Shipton, supposedly predicted the Great
Fire of London in 1666AD and the English Civil War.

Even at birth rumours of ‘the Devils child’ and ‘Lucifer’s daughter’
were abound and her mother was accused of copulating with the Devil. Her
mother vanished to a convent and a nurse took Ursula in as her own.
Ursula went on to marry Tobias Shipton and moved from Knaresborough to
Skipton in England.

However, any keen historian upon closer inspection will find that the
prophecies are so obscure that they could mean anything from making
telephone poles to the invention of satellite dishes. With the advance
in science and technology, interpretations of Mother Shipton's
prophecies are updated still by her ardent followers to fit with the
times in which we live. Take for example the following rhyme which, has
since been “attributed” to Mother Shipton, and therefore ‘becomes’ hers:
-

“Carriages without horses shall go,
And accidents fill the world with woe,
Around the earth thoughts shall fly,
In the twinkling of an eye;
The world upside down shall be,
And gold found at the root of a tree,
Through the hills man shall ride,
And no horse shall be at his side,
Under water men shall walk,
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall even talk,
In the air men shall be seen,
In white, in black, in green,
Iron in the water shall float,
As easily as a wooden boat,
To an end the world shall come,
In the year two thousand and sixty one.”

Sounds wonderfully authentic doesn’t it? She must have been in touch
with god himself. No, afraid not. This magnificent rhyme of doom was
created centuries after her time and attributed to her. Were you
wondering over the words? Were you imagining the telephone as being the
thoughts flying around the earth? This is how we are sucked into
believing.  A little at a time, with words placed into the mouths of
prophets. Now after all this time it is hard for the onlooker to discern
between fact and fiction. Did she really predict the Great Fire of
London? Highly unlikely. And this gives us a clue about the Bible, for
Mother Shipton lived only a few hundred years ago, whereas the Bible is
two thousand years old or thereabouts and we most prophecies appear to
have also been written down after the events in question. Other
prophecies are so obscure that they can be interpreted in hundreds of
different ways.

The same is true of Michel de Nostradame or Nostradamus, who has lately
taken an upsurge in popularity. He is from the same period as Mother
Shipton and again much of his work is attributed to him and may not even
be his, let alone from his period. Also his words are most often so
obscure as to be able to be interpreted in any way at all. He supposedly
predicted the death of the French King Henry II, but again it is
concealed in such cryptic language that it only serves to give it a
taste of the mythological and surreal. This is basically why the work of
Nostradamus can be re-released every century because it will always find
a subject matter with which the vagaries of his language can adapt.

From profit and fame, attention-seeking individuals, sincere mystics,
and just plain fools, we turn now to a totally different aspect of
prophecy. Richard Brothers (1757-1824) surprisingly anticipated the
death of King Louis XVI. He then went on to claim that he was a direct
descendant of King David and the nephew of the almighty. Needless to
say, whatever spirits Richard Brothers had been listening to were
probably out of a bottle. Eventually he was committed to an asylum and
declared insane.

We may laugh and mock the people of ages past, but are we any better? In
fact we seem to be worse. At least our ancestors had the excuse of low
technology and lack of information. What is our excuse?

Are there simply too many problems with prophecy to use it as proof?
There are no live witnesses, no scientific analysis and simply too many
other reasons for people to create the myth. Whoever uses prophecy as a
proof for the existence of some higher being is simply perpetuating that
myth. And yet Christianity maintains this element as part of its
weaponry for conversion. How does this weaponry hit the target? Why are
we still affected by prophecy? Indeed, why do we seek predictions?

Horror-scopes!
Today 91% of people in the UK alone read their star signs which only
leaves 9% that do not. This of course means that people of all faiths
are also doing so. Of this 91% who do read them, 70% read stars for fun
and 20% really believe them. Eight million people in the UK read their
horoscopes daily in newspapers. This is just a hint at how big this
business is.

Historically it all began some three thousand years ago (and highly
likely more - see The Shining Ones by same author), with Babylonian
priests. They watched the night sky and noted the seven wanderers that
turned out to be the planets (less the obvious ones that were discovered
later). They then divided this heavenly map into twelve segments, and
used it as a kind of calendar.

A few people were chosen and their birth days logged, then they were
closely watched and their traits of anger, loyalty, patience and so on
were carefully written down. This is where the equations used today
originated.

Even if those big rocks out there in space could somehow guide our life
and help us make decisions we would be making the wrong decisions now.
The star signs are exactly one month out from when they were firsts
created. So whatever star sign you think you are, you’re not. Of course
there may be some truth in the electromagnetic and gravitational energy
created by these massive objects in our sky having natural effects upon
our body and therefore our psyche. Being born at different times of the
year has often been shown by scientists to create different emotional
states and hormonal characteristics are also created by the power of the
sun and moon. Tabloid astrology is worthless, but clear, precise and
scientifically analysed data is revealing that our ancient ancestors
were able to predict annual or even longer-term effects upon the human
mind. So, in essence, the science of the mind in conjunction with
electrical and chemical reactions within the body may indeed have some
relationship with the planets ? in just the same way that the menstrual
cycle matches that of the moon. The message is to balance out the
‘belief’ with good evidential science.

People still joyously go ahead even today and lay out the Tarot cards
and truly trust in the upturned pictures of chance. They will watch the
mass of twinkling stars in the ‘heavens’ and put money down on their now
ever so sure futures. With upturned palms people are preyed upon by
professional fair ground Machiavellian storytellers. And yet it is
easier for the sake of our conscience to not believe in god, to go on
enjoying ourselves in iniquity, but deep down we seem to have a need to
be sure of the future, of why we are here. It is also often easier to
just believe in god, because we are told to do so. In all these methods
we fail to listen to our own true judgement and rely on another for our
daily lives.

Take a look outside your window. There may be trees and plants or maybe
you live in a city and all you see are buildings and concrete. Wherever
you live, you will notice one thing. There is, even at our level, a
massive amount of order. The trees have branches and leaves, all with
wonderful symmetry. In the concrete landscape we see man’s
interpretation of our own in-built order. The precise number of windows,
the angles, the colours, all balanced.

This wonderful order follows through, in everything, from the grass we
walk on, to the stars in the sky. The much credited chaos theory has
little to do with the order we are talking about here. In fact the chaos
theory merely backs up the balance of life and its almost thermodynamic
order. There is even a mathematical underlying symmetry to chaos theory,
which has recently been proven by scientists. Chaos really is
unrecognisable order.

So what is the meaning of all this order? Why is the universe so
ordered? Why do we have symmetrical bodies, hands, feet, arms etc? This
question supposedly cannot be answered without putting a meaning into
existence - the all-important question, what is the meaning of life?
This eventually leads us to a belief that order has been created, that
order came from chaos.

This question has tormented mankind ever since we could walk and talk.
Yet, even now, in this scientific age we are told that we still have the
questions unanswered. Is it in fact unanswerable? Is there simply no
meaning to life? And why do we have such a hard time believing that? Are
we simply just walking bags of chemicals and water that have come
together just perfectly over millions of years? Or is there some great
universal law and plan behind all of this? After all, we seem to be
comfortable with anything when we can tie it down with a law or two.
Every generation seems to come up with new laws and theories and so our
reality alters from what it was to what it is. When the Romans invaded
Britain we were worshipping pagan Sun gods and Moon gods amongst a
pantheon of deities. Now WE have a different reality, changed vastly
over a long period of time. Gradually we have taken the answers away
from deities and found them in science and rationalism. Then the cycles
kick in again and we move back to god and victimise science.

And yet, science still cannot provide the answers to the very
fundamental questions at the root of all life. Why are we here? What is
it all about? Who or what started it all and why? And so again we keep
coming full circle, asking the same questions without answers. The truth
has never been answered and probably never will, because the answer
simply must be that the question is wrong. To ask why is a philosophical
question, to ask how is a scientific one. This divides.

Will we find a balance some day? A balance between spirituality and
science? There does seem to be something very special about being human
? our knowledge that we are alive. We must ask, is there a reason for
this? Will we find, as some Christians say, that the spiritual element
of our life cannot be explained scientifically. They explain their
experience as if god was broadcasting a radio signal and they had to
tune into him. Sometimes, they say, the signal is confusing and all they
get is static. But other times they get a clear signal and really
understand god. Maybe mankind has forgotten how to tune himself in.
Maybe god is still broadcasting to a reducing audience?

Many people do say that their minds were more aware and in a higher
state of consciousness when they became Christian. Is this because they
finally tuned in their signal? Or is it a chemical and psychological
reaction to the religious experience? Finding a natural state of bliss?
And yet atheists I have spoken to have exactly the same answers ? that
they too now feel free.

Two thousand years ago in the arid desert of the Middle East, Hebrew
priests and prophets wandered around issuing forth proclamations of
truth from god. Radio messages of the future. Their reality was very
different to ours today. There were far fewer other signals around
blocking those of god, if indeed there were any. Maybe Bible prophecy is
the evidence for that signal having been picked up all those years ago?
And then again, maybe it is just as flawed as the other prophets of the
globe.

Bible Prophesy

“For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will
be able to resist or contradict.” Luke 21:15.

Let us look at the prophet Isaiah, who, writing in around 700 BC,
apparently accurately predicted the following:

“Who says of Cyrus, “He is my shepherd and will accomplish all that I
please”; he will say of Jerusalem, “Let it be rebuilt” and of the
Temple, “Let its foundations be laid””, Isaiah 44:28

When Isaiah supposedly wrote this, there was no such King as Cyrus,
Jerusalem was fully built and the Temple was standing. However, 100
years after writing these fateful words the city and Temple were
destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC. After this it was taken by
the Persians in 539 BC and their King, named Cyrus, gave a decree to
rebuild, as in Ezra 1:2:

“This is what Cyrus King of Persia says: “The Lord, the god of heaven
has given me all the Kingdom of the earth and has appointed me to build
a Temple for him in Jerusalem in Judah.”” (See also Chronicles 36:22)

So Isaiah apparently prophesied a whole 160 years before the event with
a name, a place and what would happen. That is of course if we believe
Isaiah.

Herodotus the fifth century Greek historian records that the Euphrates
was diverted from running through the centre of Babylon by Cyrus in
order to allow his Persian army to enter under the walls by means of the
riverbed. This proves that there was such a person as Cyrus, at the
correct time, took the Babylonian Empire and incorporated Jerusalem.

Of course there are numerous accounts of the exploits of King Cyrus,
even his own words say, “I also gathered all the former inhabitants and
returned them to their habitations.” He was of course speaking of the
return of the people of Judah from Babylon, itself a fulfilment of other
Bible prophecies.

Now what about Nebuchadnezzar? In Jeremiah 15:8 we read:

“I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler
at noonday: I have caused them to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors
upon the city.” Which if we were to take the word “mother” to mean
Jerusalem or metropolis of the land, the passage might then read, “I
have brought against the Mother City a spoiler at noonday.”

However in chapter 21:7 he speaks in straight language leaving no doubt:

“After that, declares the Lord, I will hand over Zedekiah King of Judah,
his officials and the people in the city who survive the plague, sword
and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon and to their enemies who
seek their lives.”

Now all this is very interesting, especially when we consider that
Jeremiah was supposedly writing this at least thirty-four years before
the actual event. The prophet Daniel confirms the truth of the event in
Daniel 1:1:

“In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim King of Judah,
Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.”

In the book of the minor prophet Nahum we find the foretelling of the
downfall of Nineveh. Lo and behold we now find in the chronicles of the
Babylonian King Nabopolassar that indeed the combined forces of the
Chaldeans and Medeans did actually destroy Nineveh in 612 BC. In fact it
was so devastated that Xenophon did not even recognise it as the site of
a city when he passed in 401 BC.

Continuing the theme we find Joel, another minor prophet in the Biblical
sense predicting a major Christian event,

“I will pour out my spirit on all people, your sons and daughters will
prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see
visions.”

If we then read Acts 2:14 onwards we see this wonderfully
self-fulfilling at Pentecost, when god apparently pours out his spirit
on the gathered Apostles.

In the New Testament we see John the Baptist also self-fulfilling Old
Testament prophecy. Isaiah said:

“A voice of one calling; “In the desert prepare the way for the Lord;
make straight in the wilderness a highway for god.””

In John 1:23 this self-fulfilling prophecy is seen with:

“I am the voice of one calling in the desert, “Make straight the way for
the Lord.””

Of course it was that now famous foreknowledge of Jesus that John was
talking about.

On the face of it all this prophecy is tremendous stuff. All this
predicting must surely be from god. Well lets carry on a little and look
at the most famous prophecies - the amazing 300 plus prophecies of
Jesus.

Prophecy - Virgin Birth
Isaiah 7:14:

“The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will
call him Immanuel.”

Which means god is with us and is derived from Egypt.

Fulfilment
Luke 1:26-32. The angel tells the Virgin Mary that she will “be with
child and give birth to a son.”

There are of course many religions that had this prediction. Zoroaster
was born of a virgin on December 25th. Virgin Birth and cave instances
in birth can also be found with Isis who immaculately conceives Horus.
Virgil said the messiah would be born of the Virgin Lady. Abraham was
born in a cave. Muhammad was enlightened in a cave. Fatima the Shining
One gave birth to three sons and is said to have been a virgin. In China
the Virgin birth consists of treading in the footprint of god which the
mother of Hou Chi did and was born like a 'lamb'. He was born amidst
sheep and cattle just like Jesus. It was a basic Shamanic tenet and is
linked to astrotheology (Virgo being in the correct position) and the
inner wisdom traditions, whereby the enlightenment of self knowledge is
born in union with the inner divine. Our biblical prophets were fully
aware of these concepts and wrote about them. Later generations
misunderstood because the Catholic Church stamped out the Gnostic
organisations and placed literalism in the space provided.

Prophesy - Born in Bethlehem
Micah 5:2:

“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the rulers of
Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel,
whose origins are from old, from days of eternity.”

Fulfilment
Luke 2:1-7, Joseph and Mary go apparently to Bethlehem because of the
census and Mary gives birth to a son.

It is very much disputed now that Bethlehem even existed at the time.
Mary was in a cult of the Virgins, hence the title, created around
prophecy and ancient and traditional religious practices akin to the
later Gnostics.  As Jesus was the ‘sun-god’ he was associated not just
with Horus, but also Adonis and he was also known as Tammuz. Bethlehem
means a lot more than ‘house of god’ as propagated by Christians, it
also means ‘house of bread-corn, wheat or grain’. Adonis and Tammuz were
fertility gods ? a function of the sun ? and were also therefore the
spirits of the corn. The sun will rise from the house of corn, gives us
a new perspective on the ancient tale. Of course now we know this, we
can also see why Jesus/Adonis was born to Mary, because Adonis was in
fact born on the 25th December to the Virgin Myrrha/Mary.

Prophecy - Seed of Abraham
Genesis 22:18:

“...and through your seed all nations on earth will be blessed.”

Fulfilment
Matthew 1:1:

“A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of
Abraham...”

Well if we are to believe that Abraham was the ‘father of nations’ then
we are all his sons and anybody could then be the one to be blessed.

These are just a few samples. There are over 300 more, which Christians
have been using for 2000 years to convince the world of their belief.
They say that even Christ himself predicted his own death and
resurrection. Well, if he had planned it with his fellow conspirators,
as many now believe then of course he could have predicted it. Even so,
the New Testament was written after the event and could have easily been
made to fit with the facts. And unfortunately the same is true of all
Bible prophecy. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest anything
other than self-fulfilling and fictitious writing has occurred after the
events, if indeed any of these events were real and not symbolic in the
first place.

And then there are those Bible prophecies still to come true.

We are lead to believe that Christ will return and on that day, his feet
will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of
Olives will be split in two from east to west. Strangely geologists have
discovered a geometric fault line running east to west right through the
Mount of Olives. Could Zechariah have known this without scientific
evidence? Or is it really proof for the existence of god? Of course we
will not really know until Jesus returns and splits the mountain in
half. Of course when he does I will personally eat my hat and a few more
besides.

In Zechariah 14:12 speaking of the day of the Lord:

“This plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that fought
against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are standing on their
feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets and their tongues will rot in
their mouths.”

Sounds like nuclear war or even biological or chemical warfare,
something unknown when written. Every generation since the text was
written has said the same thing. Plague, small pox or any manner of
wonderfully unhealthy phenomena. Are you convinced yet? This is some of
the best evidence Christianity has; you should be signing up to the
Salvation Army by now.

Let’s continue.

Now Christians point at the mathematical probability of all the
prophecies of Jesus to be true. It goes like this: -

For all the prophecies concerning the crucifixion to have come true on
the same day, to the same person, from writings by 60 different men, who
never even knew each other (an assumption), were from totally different
backgrounds (now being disproved) and were written over a period of 1400
years (also not entirely true) would work out to be one in one hundred
billion.

But then, it is now the belief of many that; Jesus was part of a long
ranging and powerful plot to implement a new religion. That he fulfilled
prophecy ‘on purpose’ for various reasons. There is also growing
scholarly evidence to show that Jesus may in fact have been a fictitious
creation of the Essen scribes from Damascus who forged a semi-divine
deity from pre-existent pagan, Egyptian, Indian and Semitic beliefs.
That these people were not from different backgrounds and were in fact
trained under the same roof and that their very simple titles of
‘fishermen’ etc are in actual fact religious titles. To be a fisherman
was simply to be a converter of men to the faith or Baptiser. It was one
who could enter the Otherworld (symbolised as water) on our behalf, like
the modern priest or the ancient Shaman. Now the mathematical
improbability becomes highly likely.

So the prophecies in this old book are convincing to many but none of it
would stand up in court and many of the prophecies could be interpreted
in many thousands of ways. This is the major problem with any religious
text and therefore it simply cannot be taken as proof for god. We need
instead scientific hard evidence in mathematical possibility and
probability. We need modern day convincing we are wiser now, we need
more than riddles interpreted by biased believers. Yes Jesus, I am
afraid we do now need to see the holes in your hand.

Bible Code
So now, what about the famous Bible Code? This is possibly, one of the
most astounding discoveries of mankind, or simply one of the most
astounding inventions of mankind. It appears to be an in-built prophecy,
which has been locked within the structure of the Bible for thousands of
years. The peculiar thing is that it is only now, in our modern computer
literate age that we are able to decipher the code.

In the beginning of his book, The Bible Code, Michael Drosnin quotes
Albert Einstein as saying “The distinction between past, present and
future is only an illusion, however persistent.”

A not unusual philosophical statement for a scientist of Einstein’s ilk,
who worked hard on some quite profound scientific theories. And yet
Einstein was human too and free to theorise about god like the rest of
us. The quotation however sums up the Bible Code quite well. Maybe it is
all an illusion, however persistently provable the maths may be. Using
some extremely clever mathematics, it appears there may well be
something unexplainable within the hidden depths of the Bible.

We have to temper our judgement by remembering who is behind the
discovery of the Bible Code. Michael Drosnin is a respected journalist.
Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg are all respected Jewish
mathematicians. These are clever people with a lot of respect. However
we have to wonder, because of their faith, whether they have a vested
interest in ensuring that the Bible continues to be utilised by the
worlds Jews and Christians. Michael Drosnin however still fails to come
to a belief in god, even with all the evidence he displays. He remains a
little short of blaming it all on aliens.

I have read the book, and the other books, which duly followed, I have
done the maths and yet I still cannot bring myself to believe the Bible
Code as a prophecy from god.

There is not enough space in the pages of this book to outline all the
evidence for the Bible Code however I can say that further research into
the esoteric, hermetic and ancient alchemical traditions show some
remarkable similarities in structure. The Jews had specific methods of
copy writing material with in-built mathematical structures to ensure
perfect copies. This in turn gives the effect of a purposely-structured
text, built around a peculiar written language, which can be read in
many different ways.

I would however seriously advise anybody to read the book and make up
his or her own mind.

So just how does this famous code work?

Firstly and importantly, only the book of Genesis was checked. In
Statistical Science 1994 Vol 9, No 3, 429-438, Witztum, Rips and
Rosenberg put forward their case for the Equidistant Letter Sequences in
the book of Genesis. Originally discovered by Rabbi Weissmandel who
found “interesting” patterns in the five books of Moses.

Taking Weissmandel’s discovery further the three mathematicians went on
to prove that by choosing equidistant letter sequences in the text, not
counting spaces, they found that the letters spelt out words with
related meanings. For example “Yitzhak Rabin” and “assassin that will
assassinate”, “Amir”, “In 5756” (Hebrew year for 1995), “Tel Aviv” and
Rabin Assassination”, were all found hidden in the depths of a book
written thousands of years before the actual assassination did take
place by a man called Amir in Tel Aviv in 1995.

Also included are the assassinations of Kennedy, both of them, Anwar
Sadat and many more. In fact according to Drosnin probably everybody on
the planet is in there somewhere. It all seems amazing. Indeed, so
amazing that I have been waiting for his follow up book, “My Famous
Hoax”.

The problem is that there seems to be very few serious and none
religious mathematicians and scholars interested in getting to the
bottom of this ‘probability factor’. It is my belief that this is simply
down to the mathematical structure of the language, the method of
copying and our modern day interpretation, seeing what we want to see.
This kind of configuration is extremely difficult to find in English as
there are very few of our words which actually have different meanings.
In the language of Genesis we almost have a religion created language
that has many meanings ? thereby allowing many modern interpretations in
much the same way as we do with Nostradamus or Mother Shipton. Apply a
mathematical structure to the text, any mathematical structure, and you
will find something.

This is one of those kinds of evidence that is almost too amazing to be
true. Maybe we are simply finding what we want to find. Or maybe god is
actually giving us some clues.


Chapter 2
The Science of god
In the previous chapter we looked at prophecy in all its myriad forms.
From con-men of the 16th century to garbled messages from individual
mystics we found that there was little factual proof for god’s
existence. Even Bible prophecy fell short of good legal evidence
admissible in a court of law. And so I want to interject a little
chapter here on science and its relationship to the supernatural. I am
of the opinion that if we were to understand some basic elements of
science better than we do on average, then we might not be so submissive
to the supernatural or even miraculous claims of the devout.

My own view of god has in fact almost always been a scientific one. If
at all, I imagine god as not so much a being, but a universal energy of
particles, waves, electromagnetism and resonance; something
interconnected with everything because of these elemental connections; a
quantum connection. To me, the expression ‘Christ is all and in all’ is
the enlightenment experience which is possible for all of us to reach ?
an experience which connects us to the universal resonance and to our
own inner self. This inner self I believe our ancestors termed ‘god’ and
from here on in this concept became something much more than the basic
fact that we can achieve knowledge of self and knowledge of our own
connection to the universe in which we have evolved for millions of
years.

It is not the standard orthodox belief, if it is a belief at all. In
fact, I am on the one hand sure of this scientific answer to what god
may be, and on the other, always open to new information and discovery.
This is something that orthodox religions simply cannot be.

Mankind has developed over millions of years to arrive where it is are
today, and even now he is not yet at the pinnacle of evolution, if such
a thing exists. We are evolving daily. Maybe not enough for us to see in
our short lives and maybe not overtly physically changing with each
generation, but we are evolving ideas and technical abilities: new and
truly wonderful tools which help us, force us even, to change and adapt
in a pseudo evolutionary way.

Regardless of whether or not there is a god, simple human knowledge of
self, rationality and emotions all contribute to our present
revolutionary pace. And yet, we still need to answer the most
fundamental question of where we come from with the idea of god. Perhaps
we should try to look at the whole thing in a different way.

To understand the beginning of space and time, our perception of
‘beginnings,’ ‘ends,’ and what came before must be challenged. There are
many theories within this arena, some more acceptable than others. For
thousands of years our views of where we came from were basically
religious. From the Middle Eastern ‘Word of god’ creation to the myriad
Hindu beliefs which claim that existence is but a dream in the mind of
the creator ? all of them have certain common themes but with local
ethnic differences. The teachings of the hermetic sects claim the
creation to be god’s artistic side coming out, although he gets so
involved, he can no longer separate himself from his creation. As we
will see, it is quite within the Laws of Quantum Physics for thought to
have created the Universe. With quantum theory, it is possible for
anything to occur, even for a universe to come into existence on its
own.

On the face of it, there does not seem to have been much of a challenge
to these faith-oriented beliefs until the enlightened age of philosophy.
This appears to be the time when man challenged all ideas, even his own.
The early philosophers required their students to assume what they were
being taught was wrong and to come up with their own ideas.

We can get an idea of how developed our ancestors were and how deep
their understanding of the Universe was when we discover ‘why’ and
‘when’ they built and utilised the celestially-oriented temples and
megalithic structures. Apart from what can be learned from their
buildings, new understanding can come from the early writings in which
secrets have been locked away for thousands of years, only to be
understood by those with the eyes to see.

We can see from these writings and structures that man has understood,
or found the need for, a clear beginning and end. A cycle of life
emerged and with it came a religious copy of this cycle, more complex
and intuitive than we could ever imagine. Recently emerging data has put
the beginning of civilisation further back in time, and has proved that
there was greater knowledge among early peoples. With every passing day
we find new evidence for the purpose of megalithic structures. The
secret resonance, the effects of radiation causing lights in the sky;
the planetary alignments, Earth energies and pathways, the symbolism of
life and death ? all these things are coming under closer scrutiny and
many are being proven.

The fact that our ancestors knew so much about the cycles of life is
partly the cause of the problem of understanding our beginning. These
ideas and beliefs in life cycles over many thousands of years and our
own in-built cyclical nature will not allow us to comprehend anything
without a start and finish.

Accepting that we do not understand is a good foundation. We, by the
very definition of being alive, with ‘life and death’ cyclic patterns,
simply cannot understand the beginning, if indeed there was one.

Our whole lives are based around cycles. The element of time causes
cycles to come into existence. Without time there are no cycles, without
cycles there is no time. To some non-academic and alternative authors
the earth was once upright and they claim that the earth tilted within
the lifetime of the history of man. However, the very life on earth
would not exist if this were so, for it is the precession or wobble of
the earth due to its tilt that gives us cycles and indeed may have
helped to begin the cycle of life in the first place.

On a simple level, cycles are about birth and death, sunrise and sunset,
the waxing and waning of the moon, the changing of the seasons, the
tides of the sea, the reproductive cycle of females and much more. All
these are inexorably linked to each other and with the entire universe.
The difference between our ancient ancestors and us is that we have
forgotten about these links ? while their whole lives revolved around
this understanding. Our ancestors understood that the universe and
everything within it revolved around a massive repetition of cycles. We
on the other hand break down our perception of life into a spectrum of
‘sciences’, ‘philosophies’ and ‘religions’. We thereby cause division in
our understanding and yet our ancestors told us again and again to mend
this division and bring unity back to our lives in a balanced way.

The greatest of these cycles however was of course the cycle of the sun.
Every single great deity is linked to this magnificent orb in the sky.
It is imaged with wings as it takes flight; it makes the sun god Apollo
appear like a young male; it is the deep red of menstrual blood in the
evening as it takes on a feminine role. It gives us all life on earth
and energises everything in the solar system. We are only beginning to
understand the harmony in which we have lived and the disharmony we are
causing with our constant damage of the finely balanced environment,
which has taken the last 15 billion years to achieve. And yet, as any
Native American Indian will tell you, the ancients understood and
respected this balance. They will also tell you that they understood the
living earth, the power within.

This earth force is made up of subtle energy waves which some today
mistakenly call Ley Lines and which the Chinese call Feng Shui or Dragon
Paths. These forces are scientifically proven to exist as
electromagnetism, although much that is blatantly unscientific is
claimed for them (not all Ley Lines or Dragons Paths are true, and
mathematical probability allows for them to appear accidentally.)

When we alter the environment, we alter the balance of these paths, and
in turn, the subtle balance between the earth and the universe. The same
effect occurs when there is tectonic plate movement. We are also
beginning to understand the effects we are having, not only on the
environment but also on our own psyches. It is emerging that the energy
of our surroundings does have an effect upon our minds. For example,
some people suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) as a result of
the lack of sunlight. This recently discovered cyclic problem affects us
all to some extent, although some medical professionals in the sunnier
parts of the world deny its existence. This shows that if we can suffer
from problems because of a loss of sunlight (which is on the
electromagnetic spectrum) then we could theoretically, suffer other
problems caused by imbalances in electromagnetic radiation. The reverse
of this is that a balanced electromagnetic state implies health and good
living. In a scientific manner then, the sun truly can rule our daily
lives and therefore there is no wonder that mankind imagined the solar
orb to be a deity and worthy of worship.

Our ancestors have shown that they understood these subtleties. They
placed clues for us to find. All of their rituals, their religions,
cults, gods, demigods, all of their lives, were linked to the cycles of
the universe.

Without these cycles, there would be no life. The entire universe would
be one great chaotic soup, and according to scientists, this is how it
all began. Over the course of billions of years it settled down into
regular patterns. The Law of Thermodynamics shows us that when two
systems come together ? for example hot and cold ? equilibrium is
naturally achieved, albeit dependent upon many factors such as
environment, velocity, mass and much more. This follows through from the
universal scale right down to our own bodies and lives, which find
equilibrium with the rest of the universe. Taking into account all the
factors that affect us: the solar wind and flares, electromagnetism,
gravity, heat, radiation, we still manage to come into balance with
these things. It makes perfect sense then to remember that of Gnostic
ancestors developed natural methods to come into balance both with
themselves and with their environment.

It is in fact our understanding of these facts, which has altered over
time and the language has changed from one of awe of the power and
supernature of a deity’s hand in the whole creation to one of awe at the
nature of it. We have come through thousands of years of beliefs, and
then through a hundred years or more of rationalism and this ancient
perception has been all but lost.

The Thermodynamic Cycle shows how nature, in relation to heat and cold,
constantly repeats itself. We can see this in the broader aspect of the
Earth's seasons. The perfect man-made engine would reveal the
Thermodynamic Cycle where all heat would be converted to energy without
loss ? although in the 19th Century, scientist Sadi Carnot showed how
this would be impossible, as all engines must lose some heat. The same
applies to the planet Earth, which we know only has a certain life span.
If the Earth kept all of its energy it would be perpetual and would
cycle forever. As it is, the energy will eventually be converted into
something else the universe needs. On a smaller scale, this cycle also
applies to us. At death we will convert to some other form of energy.

Electromagnetism also has a striking and profound effect upon us.

Electromagnetic Radiation waves are produced by the acceleration, or
oscillation, of an electric charge. These waves are, as the name
implies, both electric and magnetic. The frequency of the waves can
range from high to low. Visible light is a small part of the
electromagnetic spectrum, as are X-rays, gamma rays, ultraviolet
radiation, infrared radiation and micro and radio waves.
Electromagnetic waves need no medium for transmission. Therefore they
can travel through almost anything. Virtually everything gives off
electromagnetic radiation, including the sun, the moon, stars and the
Earth.

To call electromagnetic radiation ‘waves,’ however, did not account for
all the properties discovered. Physicist Max Planck showed that
radiation occurred in finite quanta (smallest possible observable
phenomena) of energy and were, therefore, also particles. We now
understand radiation in two ways, particle and wave, although they react
together. The quantum theory can now be brought into line with
electromagnetic radiation. A wave/particle is daily bombarding us and we
have almost no idea what it is doing nor the effect it has on us. In
fact it even reacts differently when observed, as if the energy were
somehow aware of the observation.

There are various ways of observing the nature of electromagnetism. In
geophysics, we study the phenomena of the Earth's magnetic field, the
heat flow, seismic waves and the force of gravity. We also look into the
outer-space activity that can affect us, such as solar winds and
manifestations of cosmic radiation, which affect the Earth’s own
radiation.

In terrestrial magnetism (magneto hydrodynamics or hydromagnetics) we
have found that the magnetic field is related to the motion of fluid,
which conducts electricity within the Earth. The rotation of the Earth
within the gravitational pull of the moon and sun periodically imposes
gravitational effects upon the earth, the changing tides and solid Earth
tides, which in turn alter the electromagnetism of the earth. All these
things happen cyclically and all these things affect us.
Every time a volcano erupts, the Earth’s magnetic field alters
orientation and strength. The depth of the mantle increases or decreases
the conductivity of the electromagnetic wave. When the solar wind
approaches, the Earth forms a magnetic sheath, called the magnetosphere,
which acts like a giant natural dynamo more than 60,000 miles across.
When the high-energy particles of solar radiation penetrate this sheath
and enter the radiation belts we see the beautiful phenomenon called the
aurora.

The electromagnetic wave possesses energy according to its wavelength
and frequency. This energy is imparted into matter when the radiation is
absorbed. Michael Faraday said that the electromagnetic field was the
lowest form of physical reality. [1] The resonance caused by the various
frequencies of the particle/waves affects the molecules within our
bodies. Every molecule in our body is held in place by various methods.
When we are bombarded daily with fluctuating and cyclic, electromagnetic
radiation these molecules are moved, including those in our brains,
which scientists admit we know relatively little about. We have lived
with this bombardment since the dawn of life. It must have affected our
evolution, and we must retain some natural and ‘deep link’ with this
phenomenon. In essence then, our physical structures ? our bodies ? are
connected subtly to the environment around us and this environment
changes our lives, attitudes and therefore beliefs. We, as conscious
beings somehow become conscious of this connection at the quantum level
and a sense of ‘knowing’ or Gnosis emerges. This is often called the
‘enlightenment’ and has many names around the globe. It is a perfectly
natural phenomena and we are aware of it because we are conscious and
because we are conscious we need to explain it. We have done so with the
term god.

A better understanding of these effects upon us could be gained by
research into such phenomena as Kirlian photography.

Kirlian Photography
Discovered by Semyan Kirlian in 1939, when either he or another (it is
disputed) received an electric shock whilst undergoing electrotherapy.
The shock caused a spark and Kirlian wanted to see what would happen if
he put light-sensitive material in the path of the spark. After much
experimentation Kirlian managed to photograph an aura around his hand.
Dr Victor Inyushin of the Kirov State University in Russia, a
biophysicist, concluded that the photograph showed the existence of what
he called biological plasma. This concept relates to healing powers,
where better photographs have been achieved using the hands of healers.
[2] Plasma, in this context, is the name given to the collection of
positive and negative ions and is neither molecular, solid, liquid nor
gas. It has no charge due to there being equal amounts of positive and
negative ions, in other words, it is ‘neutral’ as these positive and
negative ions are in equilibrium. This perfect balance, has remarkable
implications for the experience of enlightenment, which brought about
the term  -shining. Added to this was the fact that it was also
discovered that Kirlian auras increased at the same time as the cyclic
solar flares ? therefore bringing a remarkable union with the human
enlightenment or illumination and the illumination of the sun.

All of this neatly relates to some research I carried out on a couple of
other books. This ‘healing’ energy Kirlian picked up would relate to
electromagnetic, or what the scientist Dr. Callahan would term
paramagnetic energy. It is found peculiarly in the round towers of the
world, and especially volcanic rock such as granite - the energy being
imparted into the rock over millions of years of constant grinding and
crushing. This same energy has been shown to make plants grow faster and
to help heal the sick. Although still on the fringes of science, this
new ‘psuedo-science’ as it is often called, is creeping into the
mainstream as every year passes by.

The Foundation for the Study of Cycles found evidence that sunspot
activity, and therefore electromagnetic energy, is intimately related to
mass reactions within both the human and animal populations of the
world. Research that stretches right back to 500 BC has shown that every
11.1 years, major upheavals and unrest has risen. It brings a whole new
meaning to the various religious beliefs about the ‘controlling god’ of
our lives that manifests as ‘the Light.’

So what effect is all this radiation having upon us? Will Kirlian
photography ever raise its head above the paranormal shelves in the
bookshops? What effects have the radiation and cyclic patterns had upon
our evolution? The complexities of the formulae and ingredients are
immense and too much for any computer model to predict the effects.

Computers are already finding it very difficult to predict the next
day’s weather. The chaos theory with the butterfly, which flaps its
wings in the Amazon and affects the weather patterns of the entire
world, is very real and is unpredictable at present. We would,
therefore, find it almost impossible to predict the outcome and effects
of so much data from the electromagnetic/cyclic scenario. We would have
to take into account the weather (which we already know is at present
fairly unpredictable;) the gravitational pull of our cosmic neighbors;
the Earth’s magnetic core movements; the temperature, our own daily
effect upon the globe, manufacturing output, war, in fact you name it
and it probably has an effect upon the planet's electromagnetic fields.
And yet our ancient ancestors could predict with alarming accuracy the
precise cyclic effects upon the globe.
They predicted from the stars the subtle gravitational forces, and
understood the physical and mental effects that would have upon us. They
created vast amounts of information regarding astrology and the
understanding of the patterns. Is there some clue here that shows us the
secrets of the ancients? I am constantly amazed at just how much our
ancestors knew without modern science. Are we yet to be even more
astounded? We may find there is much we can learn from them.

In the next chapter I will look at the brain and its evolution. We will
see what subtle effects the life of the universe can have upon us as far
as science and psuedo-science is concerned in-order to give us a better
understand of just how we could be controlled through these amazing
energies. We are in fact, beginning to see that science is explaining
the many wonders of the world and universe around us and our own subtle
part we play in the whole thing.

Notes

1. Quantum Theory. Encarta Ency.1997.
2. The Paranormal. Stuart Gordon. Headline.1992.
Chapter 3
God’s Brain
In the last chapter we discovered that we are subtly connected to the
universe around us in ways our ancestors could not have understood.
Instead they comprehended these connections in intuitive ways and seemed
to have explained them with deities. Each and every natural area of life
was issued with a name and a human characteristic matching the natural
one. The volcano god was a crazy, mad old god who needed to constantly
take revenge upon mankind, whereas in fact it was just a volcano. The
sun god too gave us life, but also took it, especially in the arid areas
of the globe. Nature and the order of the universe settled down over the
course of billions of years and in the last few million man emerged from
star-dust and gained consciousness. This beautiful element of evolution,
this seemingly ultimate role of the human is in fact a huge paradox. For
consciousness gives us power and authority over beasts that would devour
us and tiny bacteria that would do the same, and yet it also gives us
pain and when out of balance forces us to kill ourselves. Not by
accepting the given free will of a god can we explain this paradox, but
instead by understanding the brain’s role in the universe in which it
exists.

In this chapter then I wanted to understand the brain a little more in
relation to the information we discovered in the previous chapter and in
relation to our beliefs in god.

The brain reacts strongly, though elusively, to cyclic patterns in the
environment, although we are yet to fully understand this. Functions
such as sleep, consciousness, memory, imagination and our creative
ability are all extremely complex and poorly understood. They too are
affected by our reaction to cyclic patterns and electromagnetic
radiation.

In all cultures, approximately 90 per cent of people use the right hand
for manual actions such as writing. This has been linked to the brain’s
processing of language. In right-handed people, language tends to be
mediated by the left hemisphere of the brain, the side that controls the
right side of the body.

The cerebrum is symmetrical in structure. The two lobes are attached to
the brain stem. The dominant hemisphere is occupied with language and
the operations of logic, while the opposite hemisphere controls emotion,
spirituality and artistic flair. The left hemisphere in these modern
times is usually dominant and is, in the majority of cases, the logical
side. But this may not have always been so.

The grave in Swaziland of a small Neanderthal child laid to rest over
80,000 years ago provides evidence of early religious burial, [1] which
shows that Neanderthal man was connected with his more spiritual or
artistic side ? the right side of the brain. The Neanderthal man also
had a large cerebellum or old brain. This has been shown by the British
psychologist Stan Gooch to be the more creative and instinctive element
of the brain, especially in relationship to the right side. Gooch argues
that evolution came about through the battles in our own brain between
the cerebellum and the cerebrum. Any added input from cycles and
electromagnetic effects upon the brain could produce subtle changes to
our evolutionary path.

The arguments for this assumption are good and should not be dismissed
by scientists simply because of the link with the paranormal. In fact,
to the credit of scientists, there are ongoing trials at various
universities across the globe looking into paranormal activities and
related scientific phenomena.

The evidence currently shows that women, who are by most accounts more
in tune with nature and more intuitive than men, have larger cerebella.
Historically, many of the great mysteries of the religious world come
from the east and it would, therefore, be no surprise to find Asiatics,
Jews and Aboriginals possessing larger cerebella than Europeans.

It is believed that the cerebella is more in use during hypnosis, which
is the state associated with imagination and removal of responsibility.
The ancient word for hypnosis is mekhenesis, which means to ‘remove
responsibility.’ Tapping into the brain like this has been used and
abused over the centuries to great effect. The speeches of Adolf Hitler,
for example, produced mass hypnosis on a grand scale.

Man has always revered birds. From the Shaman, supposedly flying in a
trance state, across the land, to the artist’s depiction of ‘winged
angels,’ something has always attracted us to these creatures. Maybe it
is the way they can just take flight and disappear. Maybe it is a shared
understanding of travel and migration, which speaks to our nomadic
hearts. Or maybe it is the desire to join the great sun god in the sky,
who was often depicted with wings.

The bird is basically reptilian and therefore lacks a mammalian cortex
and mid-brain. Their migratory instinct comes from the cerebellum or old
brain, the same part of the human brain, which governs our instinctive
and spiritual element. Are we therefore working on an instinctive level
in the same way as the bird, which is instinctively in touch with nature
and the electromagnetic frequencies of the globe and sun? Are we
occasionally ‘conscious’ of these moments and find a need to explain
them, whereas the bird does not?

It is claimed that many birds navigate using the sun and moon ? others,
the North Star. Research has shown that birds are also sensitive to the
Earth’s magnetic field. Lately it has been shown that they also follow
human roads, however this is due to the fact that these roads are really
ancient track ways or Ley Lines and in all likelihood also have
electromagnetic properties. A homing pigeon that was blinded by frosted
glass contact lenses and taken 1,000 kilometres away from home, made the
return journey without error. The reason for this is that between its
eyes there is an area of tissue with over a million bar-shaped pieces of
magnetite or lodestone. [2]

Magnetite is a magnetised mineral of iron oxide and was used by the
ancients as a compass because it naturally swings northward. The Chinese
knew of its properties and thought it magical. They used an implement
containing magnetite in the shape of the Big Dipper constellation on
divining boards. Although we have not yet discovered exactly how the
bird uses the magnetite, we have seen that amazing feats of navigation
are possible. In theory, the magnetite picks up the Earth’s magnetic
currents and triggers directional messages to the bird’s brain.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have
authenticated incidents of psi trailing ? the ability of animals to find
their way home even when lost. There have even been cases of lost or
abandoned animals tracking down owners who have moved to new homes
without them. It is also possible that this homing instinct exists
within us humans.

In 1970, Dr Robin Baker of Manchester University, England, experimented
on people to discover whether this was the case. Blindfolded volunteers
were taken from their homes, disorientated, and then asked to point the
way home. A majority ? above the accepted mathematical probability ?
pointed correctly. When, in later tests, bars of magnets and brass were
attached to the volunteers’ heads, only the ones wearing brass could
point their way home. The magnet had affected their ability to ‘see’ the
way.

A Czech physicist, Zaboj V. Harvalik, found that a percentage of the
people tested could actually detect changes in the magnetic field as
small as 1/1,000,000,000 of a gauss. A typical child’s magnet is 1,000
gauss. If, in our ancient past, we actually did have this directional
compass within us, would it be possible to get it back? I would pose the
hypothesis that some do have this ability, but by surrounding ourselves
with all-manner of electromagnetic equipment and raising mobile phone
masts around the world we may be in danger of losing any connection we
have with the earth.

Maybe we have actually tried to retrieve the ideal. In alchemy, the idea
of the spirit of the world or Anima Mundi claims there is a world-wide
spirit which gives us information, including our whereabouts and way
home. The Anima Mundi is indeed electromagnetism, and this is another
example of how spirit lead explanations evolve into scientifically
explainable elements of nature.

Many para-scientists have discovered electromagnetic effects emanating
from ancient standing stones. The Dragon Project, specifically set up to
monitor energies from such structures, states that all stone circles in
England and Wales occur within a mile of surface faults, which are known
to cause certain electromagnetic effects. When these energy lines cross
Ley lines and other ancient energy centres, many strange phenomena
occur. A large cross-section of scientists and para-scientists have
reported that peculiar effects upon humans can occur due to the
radiation produced. These effects include dreams and psychic abilities,
lights and noises. All of these occur more frequently at times of
greater importance such as the Solstice. And this is important ? the
effects on the mind are heightened by solar activity ? the great sun god
in the sky aids our enlightenment process! No wonder that ancient man
hoped to attain godhead and worshipped the sun god as the highest of
deities.

Our connection with the Earth’s electromagnetism can also be seen in the
ancient practice of dowsing. Today we use dowsing to discover
underground fissures, water, artefacts and minerals. The dowser uses
rods or a weighted pendulum and walks across an area. The rod or
pendulum then moves accordingly at the precise spot. Dowsers say that
the instruments are incidental and react only to the vibrations, waves
or electrical magnetism, which is being picked up by their bodies.

Scientists have shown that some people are sensitive to 1/1,000,000,000
of a gauss of magnetism; therefore there is a strong possibility that
dowsing is a practical and measurable skill. This would explain how the
ancients could plot Ley Lines and understand Dragon Paths or Feng Shui.
When working in conjunction with a German dowser, the Czech physicist,
Zaboj V. Harvalik, suggested that the adrenal gland was the organ used
to detect the magnetism. He reached this conclusion because positive
results increased when the dowser drank more water. This theory seems
unlikely now ? unless it is in some way linked with the pineal organ. In
later experiments, aluminium foil was wound around the head of the
dowser and this blocked the signal. Strangely, so did a block of foil
placed on the dowser’s forehead in the area of the pineal gland. This is
the same location as a pigeon’s magnetite. Another strange and telling
piece of evidence comes when we find that solar flares can upset the
dowser’s abilities ? thus showing that mankind could theoretically
actually physically measure the holy serpentine energy of the sun. In
this way then, we can begin to see how our ancestors, magicians,
medicine men, shaman and priests were able to appear to be in-touch with
god. They physically manifested magic before the eyes of the masses via
methods found across the globe. Much of this energy is now understood to
be picked up by the pineal organ.

The pineal organ is one of the outgrowths of the pineal apparatus. In
aquatic and gill-breathing creatures, it can form a photosensitive
eye-like structure, which is involved in the diurnal rhythm of colour
change. In ancient reptiles, and still in the Tuatura lizard of New
Zealand, it formed a separate eye on top of the head ? a third eye. It
persists in higher vertebrates and may function as an endocrine gland ?
internally secreting into the blood and affecting distant parts of the
body. In humans, this organ is buried deep within the brain, located in
the Limbic system, which helps us to learn and has emotional
capabilities. The pineal gland exerts some chemical reactions, which are
not fully understood. Autopsies on mediums and spiritually inclined
people have revealed larger pineal glands that contain a clear fluid
called seratonin, which in turn makes melatonin. [3]

Seratonin, when depleted by amphetamines, causes mild psychedelic
effects, which is why the drug ‘Ecstasy’ is so popular. The
administration of melatonin can help prevent jet lag and SAD. Strangely,
it is also thought to influence our rhythms of activity. Some believe it
is sensitive to the rhythms and cycles of nature and is responsible for
transferring that information to us. The pineal gland is associated with
colour recognition, and reptiles can even change the colour of this
‘third eye.’ It is also associated with measuring the length of the day
and keeping track of the seasons.
Hindu tradition claims this area to be the centre of the sixth ‘chakra’
? the ‘ajna’ ? the centre of man’s spirituality and psychic abilities.
This is the reason why people of many faiths wear a red dot on the
forehead. ‘Chakra’ means ‘wheel’ and ‘energy centre.’ The initiated are
trained to perceive chakras as whirls of altering colours ? which
relates to the idea that the pineal gland is associated with colour
recognition.

In ancient Cabalistic theology, the Kether, or Crown chakra, is just
above the head and therefore is said to relate to the pineal gland. The
Kether is the crown of pure brilliance or Shining One. It’s centre,
known as the bindu, is the point where it is said all life’s energies
spring from the Godhead. We therefore now begin to see how these very
scientific effects twist and turn into religious metaphors.

In Deuteronomy 6:8, the priests of Israel are said to have worn a
phylactery on their foreheads, and in ancient Egypt we find the royal
Nemes head cloth ? a piece of striped cloth with the Uraeus serpent
insignia at the centre of the forehead ?mimicking the serpentine
Kundalini aspect of the chakra system. In many Christian Cathedrals,
there are portraits of Christians with strange marks on their foreheads.
Carved stone statues with circles, diamonds and triangles on their
crowns or hats, are everywhere. [4] There is no explanation for these
images, no reason given for these marks; they are just there and in some
very symbolic positions. At Lichfield Cathedral in England, the pictures
of Bishops are enhanced with these marks and face a large mystical image
of the Virgin Mary with the bright rays of the sun shining from behind
her. This can only be a symbol for the illumination - an emblem of the
sight that is perceived through this third eye ? the conscious
perception of connection to the universe.

At this point we should be aware of how far from science we can stray.
Map dowsing, for instance, cannot be explained scientifically, and some
scientists point to the nose as the organ responsible for our
directional senses. Many animals have a variety of senses, which we are
yet to understand, such as the ability to emit small electrical
discharges, underwater vibrations, infrasound and ultrasound. Some birds
can detect polarised light, which helps them to see the fingerprint of
their prey as it leaves a pattern across the ground. Snakes can see and
produce images in infrared radiation. Can man use more senses than we
know and could he pick up some of these images emitted by the likes of
the snake? Should we believe that the dowser’s skill is simply in being
more acutely in touch with their senses? As we move forward through the
evidence the answers to these questions may arise.

The term to be ‘mesmerised’ derives from the Austrian physician Franz
Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) who believed the human nervous system to be
magnetised. He coined the phrase ‘animal magnetism’ and claimed that
magnetism from the planets had actually caused healing at one church in
Austria. He developed a therapeutic regime, which incorporated iron
magnets, magnetite and the laying on of hands. Mesmer built up a large
following ? many of which claimed to have been healed by his ‘animal
magnetism.’ The modern day term for mesmerism is ‘hypnotism.’ Although
using magnets and the left side of the brain to achieve a therapeutic
response is still a relatively untried method, there is some evidence
that our ancestors may have dabbled in it. As the famous Methodist John
Wesley said, ‘consider how far bodily disorders are caused or influenced
by the mind.’[2] If many illnesses are caused by the imbalance of energy
such as electromagnetism, then perhaps the brain can help to cure itself
by utilising or balancing out this disparity. Alchemists hinted at this
kind of belief many centuries ago.

New and modern techniques are emerging which might offer hints as to how
our ancestors used their healing powers and allusions to the prayer life
and meditative practices of the more spiritual ancients.

With Biofeedback, individuals mechanically monitor their own states of
mind and body to gain self-control. This is similar to the Buddhist and
Hindu methods of self-control via meditation, where not only do they
control worldly desires but also bodily functions, such as appetite and
body temperature. You will note that Hinduism and Buddhism stem from
some of the oldest roots of mankind’s religious mythology, rooted I
might add in the worship of the serpent and the sun.
These modern day counterparts use scientific tools to the same ends.
They control heart rate, blood pressure, stress levels, halt the attacks
of headaches and even monitor and alter their own brainwave patterns. In
days gone by it was believed that god’s spirit would aid this process,
but now we are beginning to realise that it is the mind in union with
nature.

Medical specialists the world over are interested in this supposedly
‘new’ technique for cures of cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
This brainpower can release endorphins into the body, which have
pain-relieving and mood-elevating effects. The miraculous healing
abilities of our religious avatars now has a different light.

With Biofeedback, and an understanding of our environment, and utilising
biorhythms in conjunction with the cosmic cyclic patterns, we may
re-discover what we have lost.
Biorhythms were discovered by Dr. Hermann Swoboda and Dr. Wilhelm
Fleiss, who found that the human body is subject to a twenty-three and
twenty-eight day cycle. Added to this was the thirty-three day cycle
discovered by Dr. Alfred Teltcher who observed the fluctuations in the
intellectual performances of his students. These cycles lead us through
peaks and troughs, mood swings and various other activity patterns.
Japanese employers who lay off staff in regular cycles because of low
mood swings have in fact achieved greater efficiency. There are now even
small computer devices available, which can monitor menstrual cycles as
a method of birth control.

In 1981, the biologist Rupert Sheldrake put forward the hypothesis for
what he called ‘morphogenetic fields’ (Greek morphe for ‘form’ and
genesis for ‘coming into being.’) Sheldrake claimed that these fields ?
unrecognised by modern science ? were as real as magnetic or
gravitational fields. He claimed that by morphic resonance, forms and
behaviour patterns are transmitted across space and time, and that
growing embryos of the same species could tune into the morphic
resonance and learn from the past, to give evolution that ‘helping
hand.’ If we consider that we have problems with the huge gaps in
evolution, and the fact that many evolutionary scientists are looking at
the ‘big leaps’ theory as being more acceptable, it may be that by
learning from the past and adapting our genes while still an embryo, we
could make these leaps. Sheldrake supposed that this morphic resonance
came from the memory bank of the past species. So when a species has
learnt a new behaviour pattern it is passed down and effects a change in
the future. This falls in line with Lamarck’s evolutionary hypothesis of
acquired characteristics. Let us look at evidence for such an idea.

The phenomenon called ‘The Hundredth Monkey’ has been put forward by
adherents to Sheldrake’s idea as being evidence for such a brain/mind
transmitter/receiver. On an individual level we obtain new knowledge,
which then erupts suddenly throughout the species. This comes from the
explanatory folk tale of how a monkey in a cage is joined by an
ever-increasing number of monkeys. When the hundredth one arrives, the
cage bursts and all the monkeys escape ? suddenly knowledge is
widespread, where before it had been known to a select few.

Modern research, especially that undertaken by the anthropologist and
biologist Dr. Lyall Watson, has shown a remarkable similarity in effect
by observation. In 1952, the Macaca Fuscata monkeys of Koshima Island,
Japan, were under close observation by primatologists. To get the
monkeys to come closer to the researchers, sweet potatoes were placed
before them. The potatoes proved unpalatable until a female monkey named
Imo learned how to wash them. The young monkey taught the skill to her
mother and other female monkeys, and by 1958 all the young monkeys were
doing this. They also found that washing the potatoes in salt water had
added more flavor.
The primatologists then noticed that the practice, once restricted
primarily to the under-fives, had now become common knowledge amongst
the monkeys, virtually overnight. The phenomena did not stop there. The
practice also erupted on wholly isolated neighbouring islands.

This was not a solitary observable incident. In Britain, in the same
year as the primate study began, dairies first began to deliver milk in
bottles topped with foil, through which birds can peck and drink the
milk. Blue tits were first to learn how to do so. The initial spread of
this practice was normal and comparable to previous observable examples
and nothing was out of the ordinary. That was until 1955 when suddenly,
and again virtually overnight, all blue tits and most of the great tits
of mainland Europe were practising this. Could Rupert Sheldrake’s theory
of morphogenetic resonance be true? Is this a hypothesis that science
should take seriously when considering new ways to explain our
evolution?

Early on in his career, the psychologist Carl Jung described a
manifestation he called ‘potent primordial images.’ He believed that
there is a vast, universal store of memory and images locked away deep
within our unconscious. Sigmund Freud, however, considered them to be
archaic residues, something we no longer need. This was in disagreement
with Jung who saw them as vital to our psychic life, a ‘collective
unconsciousness,’ which we all shared, added to and took from. The idea
was that many religious and primordial beliefs in ‘spirits,’ ‘souls,’
‘gods’ and ‘demigods,’ ‘ancestor worship’ and ‘heaven’ were gleaned from
our ‘unconscious mind’ tapping into the ‘collective unconsciousness.’
This may explain some of the shared images that Shaman and magicians
experience when under the influence of psychoactive drugs, or the
world-wide common images of ‘near death experiences’ and even ‘alien
visitation.’

Scientists are now pointing to the passing on of residual memory within
our genes, and this may explain some of the strange effects, although we
should consider that there could be truth in both ideas: genetic
modification from memory and modification from a handed-down shared
consciousness.

Science is looking into some of the more common paranormal experiences
in relation to the brain. Extra Sensory Perception, or ESP, is one such
area. This is the phenomenon where information is supposedly transmitted
or received from one brain to another. Scientists have, as yet, been
unable to prove the existence of true ESP, although they have had some
unusual and unexplainable results. As I write this down, scientists in
Beijing are working on the ‘Quantum Entanglement theory.’ In this
scenario, they put two people into separate rooms and connect them up to
the scientific apparatus. One person is flashed one hundred times with a
bright light while the other person’s reactions are being monitored.
Amazingly the results were beyond doubt that the emotion of the flashing
lights had transferred into the other chamber and into the mind of the
second person. The scientists have called it ‘Quantum Entanglement’ and
they are even now researching how this amazing particle effect can be
used in communication devices. [5]

There would be little point in looking to the future or at modern
rationalism for answers. The beliefs of ancient man came about through
his understanding of the world around him. There was no science book to
learn from and understand what the stars really were. He simply had to
work it out for himself and attribute his own interpretation to the
natural phenomena around him.

Now we understand that god could easily have derived from man’s attempt
to explain perfectly natural phenomena I want to look into the very
beliefs themselves. We have seen the wild array of prophets; we have
seen the wonder of nature and the quantum world, now it was time to
compare this with the current beliefs in god.

Notes
1. Lifetide. Lyall Watson. (Coronet Books. 1980.)
2. The Paranormal. Stuart Gordon. (Headline. 1992.)
3. The Secret Life of Plants. Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird.
(Harper and Row. 1973.)
4. Lichfield Cathedral, Staffs, England. Remarkable imagery, Geoffrey de
Bouillon statue, numerology, symbolism, cross, trees, mountains, Marian
cults, Illuminati, and much more. I have spent days at this Cathedral
and have still not collated all the relevant symbolism contained within,
well worth a visit.
5. From a paper by Gao Shan entitled A Primary Quantum Model of
Telepathy ? The Scientists Work Team of Electromagnetic Wave Velocity,
Chinese Institute of Electronics, Beijing.

Chapter 4
Bogus Beliefs
No book about the proof of the existence of god can be written without
some reference at least to world religion. Indeed nor should it. For by
investigating the many and varied beliefs of man, we can highlight one
truth at least. Mans relentless search. From the beginning man has
sought after god. He has built great monoliths at the dawn of his age,
buried riches and tools with him in preparation for the next life and
sacrificed animal and human to appease the mighty gods. Does this not
reveal man’s need to Know? His craving for reason? Why do I exist? What
purpose can my life have? Where am I going after this?

Even distinguished so-called atheists, are so-called because they have
made some kind of search and found, for themselves nothing. Take Darwin
for instance and his theory of evolution. When his last days came and
his maker called, he cried out for the local Gospel Hall attendant and
choristers in order that he might repent of his misgivings.

Most of us when pushed to the very limits of our beings call out for
help, be it in a war situation, close to death or psychologically need.
Why is this? If we are so sure that god does not exist, why do we, and
in our deepest need call out to him? Is it because within us there is an
empty space, a void caused when we walked away from god? Or is it, as
some say, an evolutionary thing, a totally natural process and we all
have to fill our own void as we mature? Now in the confusion of a
multitude of faiths and non-faiths we search and strive to either, get
back to god or discover peace, once again to find that ‘lost age’ which
mankind supposedly once knew.

In the following pages you will see the various ways in which man has
tried to get back to god. It is my hope that in comparing mans attempts
at explaining what life is all about, we shall see if any one shines out
as being true. On the one hand, maybe letting his imagination run riot
and inventing all kinds of rituals that meet his needs and on the other
maybe god.

When we look at the world’s religions it is as though we are seeing them
through a cloudy mist. Mankind has heaped so much mystery onto the
basics that we are no longer looking at that, which was meant to be.
Take Christianity for example, now to many almost a dirty word, bringing
to mind such things as the struggles in Northern Ireland and the
so-called Holy Crusades. But when we look at the founding fathers we see
a peaceful tradition trying to grow. So what happened?

We need to address this issue strongly from the beginning as it can
cause much misunderstanding. We need to look back and see just what did
the originators say and do. On this basis only, should we make our
stance, not on what is now perceived of the specific religions? We must
not take for instance, what the Bishop of Durham says is the Gospel, but
take only the Gospel as gospel. (Not forgetting that the same applies
for all religions.)

The following study has been approached upon this basis, taking only
those religions that are deemed historically and spiritually relevant
enough to obstruct truth or maybe obviously are the truth. Of the
abundance of religions available to us I have chosen the two largest
(other than Christianity), using the conclusion at the end of the
section to pick up on a few points from the other, smaller faiths or
cults.

Please keep in your thoughts (while reading these religious answers) the
questions you would have for a god and try to recognise that thing
called the ‘Ring of truth’. Remember also that if god has made himself
known to us then one of the religions of the world could be right. Can
we afford therefore, to ignore what these religions have to say?  .

Buddha or Bible?
The Buddhism of today has deep and varied roots that according to
tradition began around 600 BC with the birth of a young man by the name
of Siddhartha Gautama.

His father, called Suddhodana was Rajah of a small principality at the
foot of the Himalayas and was married to a woman called Maya. These
respectable, high classed parents wanted their son to become the future
heir and Rajah. As Suddhodana had awaited the birth of the child he
traditionally said:

“The love of a son cuts into the skin; having cut into the skin it cuts
into the flesh, the ligaments, the bones; having cut into the bones it
reaches the marrow.”

But his son was not meant for Rajah status, as such things are too
worldly for a future holy man.

Many myths have become attached to, and enveloped the true story of
Gautama, making his actual history almost impossible to trace. Much like
the tales of Robin Hood or King Arthur which we know are based on
certain truths, but alas have been clouded in the mysteries of mans
romantic imagination. It must be pointed out that the two aforementioned
tales are much younger historically and thus ought to have more factual
connotations attached to the stories. This I hope gives you some idea as
to the difficulty of gaining actual facts about this man who lived
around 600 BC, came from a small provincial area and claimed mystical
enlightenment.

There are few on the ground witnesses, little or no contemporary
history, (apart from supposed writings by a few disciples that have very
little scholarly backing) and scriptures which came a whole 400 years
after his death, all making Buddhism a step of great faith. However when
one talks to Buddhists one finds a lack of concern for proof and
historical facts. They are more concerned, and rightly so, about their
spiritual growth and living a compassionate life. They are very relaxed
and compassionate people, however they are still human, and being this
are open to all the same temptations as the rest of us, they also
succumb to these temptations like the rest of us. Therefore this
religion, like all the others, does not set its people apart.

However, based on such writings and scriptures that we do posses I will
endeavour to find certain events for the historically minded among us.

According to the traditional writings it seems Gautama wanted very much
to find happiness, both for the people and his own inner self. Having
found it, he would then pass it on, so that others might receive it
also.

At that time and in that area the spiritual leaders preached that the
road to happiness was through asceticism (not allowing oneself pleasures
or luxuries), and thus Gautama joined this path by following one called
Alara Kalarma who taught the “consciousness of nought”. After having
discovered all he could learn about “nothing” Gautama moved on to follow
Uddaka who taught “neither perception, nor non-perception “. Which must
have been equally enlightening. In fact taken properly these ways are no
different to the early Gnostics and speak of balance and compassion
within ones self. They are often methods of self-improvement and there
are very deep understandings of how this work on the self actually
resonates outward into the society at large and also the universe.

It was broadly recognised in India at this time that asceticism lead to
happiness because by starving oneself, beating oneself and generally
wearing down the body one allowed the true spirit to emerge. Gautama
tried all this and found it wanting ? for the physical activity was not
the true way. Instead the true way was to be ones self and not take on
the desires of the world, which confuse the mind and simply make us
stray from a path of righteousness.

Having discovered that asceticism was not the road to “True Reality” he
eventually found “Release from the Weariness of Existence” whilst
sitting under a Bo tree near the River Gaya. It should be acknowledged
that this was the meditative culmination of years of searching and is
probably only symbolic, but nevertheless it may have been where Gautama
finally changed his mind or had the revelation that beating oneself was
not the way. The tree is also highly symbolic from a shamanistic point
of view. The World tree is said to hold knowledge and is the key to the
wonders of Heaven.

Anyhow he was suitably enlightened, and having discovered that the root
to all evil was greed and desire, he preached a wonderful compassion,
not only for mankind but also for all living things.

He said that the common and noble, beautiful and ugly, happy and
sorrowful would all have their souls depart at death. However if you are
evil in words and thoughts then you will go to a mental hell. Whereas
the ones who live right and think right shall enter a heavenly realm.
This was the original Righteous Order of the Universe or Cosmic Law
Sublime before it was eventually altered until it is now unrecognisable
in its present state.

We see that time and man has altered this into a myriad of varying
beliefs within the title of Buddhism.

For the purpose of this book I shall try to place as many of the similar
beliefs together as possible.

There are, Buddha says, several truths:

Firstly that we are all born for trouble.
Secondly the cause of unhappiness is the pursuit of pleasure.
Thirdly that we must break free of our physical desires in order to
attain the freedom of our soul.

In some aspects of Buddhism there is the eight-fold path to
enlightenment which some seem to follow as if it were law and some tend
to almost ignore. It is as follows: -

Right beliefs
Right ideals
Right speech
Right efforts
Right actions
Right living
Right thoughts
Right meditation

For the Buddha to come up with this path it took the “Immortal One” to
enter his soul. I will now set you a task. Go and get a pen, a piece of
paper and give yourself ten minutes. Now write down eight ways to a
better life. No, not winning the lottery, pretend you are setting up a
religion, imagine you’re a nun or monk.

Quite simply and without trying to sound too condescending, how many of
us, given a pen, a piece of paper and ten minutes would come up with
similar ideas? I have tried it on a wide range of people, from Christian
to Atheist and found that at least five of the eight are normally
written down. A Christian would replace meditation with prayer, but
apart from that they sound fairly straightforward. No matter how
wonderful and well-meaning these words were, the words of Buddha are not
difficult to imagine as being the words of man and are thus not
substantial enough to act as proof for god ? at least not a god external
to the mind of man.

Buddha was living in a spiritually buzzing and confused land; people
beat themselves to achieve greater spirituality and fasted for years on
end. Gautama saw need and tried to fill the gap, a gap which many have
tried to fill over the years.

In all my research on Buddhism what keeps coming home is the openness to
myth, legend and interpretation. There are so many different kinds of
Buddhists that to label them all Buddhists is now all most a farce. It
is like naming the cults of the Mormon and Moony as Christians,
alongside Catholics and Protestants, but we don’t. A Christian is a
believer in the Nicene creed which states that Jesus Christ is the Son
of god, born of a virgin and crucified on a cross etc. Whereas Mormons
also believe in the book written by Joseph Smith and orthodox Christians
do not.

However, Buddhism seems from the outside to be able to skirt such creeds
and flow along, as the individual requires. In a way we have to admire
this free spirit, but what about truth? It is true that an apple is
green, but it can also be red. Indeed on the inside it is white. Surely
god is not like this sort of truth. God should be one kind of god only,
if he exists outside of us. Should god really be what we want him to be?
As the famous Highlander film once said “there can be only one.”

Some Buddhists deny the existence of a god, some do not. Some believe in
salvation through works, others by faith. They have a mixed bag called
Heterodox, which is a sublime mix of ideas such as materialism and
Jainism (asceticism). Buddhism is apparently the middle way. There are
two main Buddhist traditions. Mahayana and Hinayana, or liberal and
conservative beliefs. As for the scriptures of Buddhism, which would
have been useful tools on checking out which of the many Buddhists were
right, we find that none of them can be trusted. In this, Buddhism does
not differ at all from any of the other religions. The scriptures were
blatantly adapted and changed without apology. It seems that Buddhist
monks were not quite as scholarly in preserving their scriptures as were
the Jews for example.

Now we must turn to the Buddhist ideology of rebirth. There are problems
here. It is the Buddhist idea that we are on a continual cycle of life,
death and rebirth. Each turn of the cycle we are meant to improve
ourselves and eventually achieve release from the cycle. However, we
have to ask ourselves the following questions: Why do we not remember
our past lives? What happens when the sun finally burns up and life on
earth is no more? Where do we go then? There are supposedly six realms
after ours, where are they and why have we not yet found them whilst
exploring the local parts of our galaxy? We could very well be eating
our Grandmothers every time we bite into a Big Mac as Buddhism allows
for rebirth as animals. Indeed, somebody may very well eat you in your
next life, especially if you have not been good enough in this life.

The Dalai Lama claims that the meaning of life is as follows: -

If all these rebirths keep happening and everybody’s Karma keeps getting
better and better then eventually the world will be perfect.

There is an unfortunate problem here. Things are not getting better. We
still have wars, terrorists still hurtle planes into populated
buildings, nuclear war and accidents are still not a thing of the past,
forest fires, earthquakes, murders, rape, disease child abuse and much
more are still very much a part of our lives. History is a cycle, it
repeats itself and we never learn from it. There are simply too many
years of evolutionary constraints upon our minds to stop us fighting
each other. The world is still a volatile place, even after millions of
supposedly Karma improving rebirths. It seems to me and from the
evidence of the last two chapters that the reincarnation hypothesis is a
method of explaining the perceptions of the cycles by ancient man and
his ‘hope’ of escaping death. He knew that there was birth, life and
death and the ultimate question arose in his non-scientific but still
very conscious mind ? what comes next?

Whichever way we look at it, Buddhism, through Mahayana, Hinayana, Zen
or Tao, we come across problems. There is a lack of historical data.
There is no scientific basis for rebirth and scriptural evidence is
patchy. There are contradictions just like any other religion and to top
all of that the orange robes would clash awfully with my hair.

When a young man called Sariputta said to the Buddha, “Lord, such faith
have I in the exalted one that methinks there never has been, nor will
be, nor is there now any other who is greater and wiser than the exalted
one,” he was contradicted by the Buddha who replied that to make such
statements one must know all Buddha’s past, present and future. Here we
have an insight. That Buddha knew he was not the only “special” person
in the world or indeed history. That there had been spiritual leaders in
the past, in the present and that there would be in the future. The
future was wide open to new possibilities. Maybe we should take this
Buddha at his words and keep a look out for the next one.

Is Allah the Answer?
Islam is one of today’s strongest and most powerful religion’s, with one
in seven people, or over 500 million devout Muslims and growing by the
day.  The word Islam means literally to surrender and thus a Muslim is
the name given to those who submit in surrender to Allah.

From thousands of Minarets the words “god is most great” cry out as the
Muezzin or crier calls the people to prayer. In droves they come to
prostrate themselves towards Muhrab or the wall that faces Mecca. The
great Imans, Ayatollahs or Mullahs hold sway over millions of people
world-wide and guide mighty armies of believers in whatever course Allah
decides.

But why? Where did all this originate? And from whom?

The monotheistic religion of Islam springs from the same source stream
as Christianity and Judaism and originated in around 571AD when a man
called Muhammad was born to a family named Hashem in or around the city
of Mecca. According to Dr Bouqet in his book Comparative Religion when
speaking about Muhammad “there is little known that can be called
history”.

At this time there was a vacuum of power between the two great
imperialistic nations of Persia and Byzantium, leaving the area around
Mecca vulnerable to great change. It was a prosperous area, but as
Muhammad grew to find out, it was anarchical in its way of life. People
worshipped many gods or demigods, and raised great monoliths in order to
appease these wild human-like deities.

Against this background little Muhammad was raised. His parents had died
whilst he was still young and he appears to have been passed around the
remaining family until eventually he ended up with his uncle, Abu Talib.
Whilst under his care, Muhammad was employed in the family firm and
travelled up and down the country and into Syria with the camel trains.
Of course this lead to him receiving all kinds of early influences from
Arabs, Jews and Christians, and probably being totally confused as to
which one was right. Although there is evidence that he saw Christianity
as a rather corrupt guise of the true religion. Imagine then, seeing
your own kind worshipping a bewildering variety of gods and then these
foreigners worshipping their gods also, in your land.

Muhammad was a strong willed young man by all accounts and like you or
I, had ideals. He seems to have had respect for the Jews and Christians
but wanted to find some way of bringing the faiths together under one
powerful new religion, that was acceptable to the Arabs.  At least that
is the official line of the Islamic historians.

During all this, Muhammad, now a man of 25 was proposed to by a 40 year
old woman called Khadija. He accepted and they were married, having six
children, one of them being Fatima (meaning The Shining One).

He became a hanif: a kind of wandering ascetic or mystic, and he began a
growing fear of demons, hearing voices in his head. Of course we only
have the Islamic history textbooks to prove this and it seems there can
be only a few rational explanations. He was going mad, there really were
demons talking to him in his head which is scientifically impossible,
this is the addition of a later scholar to make Muhammad seem more
plausible as a spiritual leader, rather than a warrior leader which he
surely was, or he had mystical visions which have been known throughout
time and are a human phenomena. I plump for the latter two.

The rest of the story of Muhammad is simply a collection of traditions,
which are equally as unbelievable. It seems that after retreating to a
cave one day he was called upon by the angel Gabriel (a Jewish and
Christian character also used by the secret societies of the Jews as a
messenger to install the next line of leader). Gabriel revealed to
Muhammad a scroll of flaming words. Now, even though Muhammad could not
read, he read this. Please note at this juncture that there were no
witnesses, much like the Mormon Joseph Smith finding his tablets of god.
So we are left with 500 million people living according to the words of
a man (or group of men) who claim that Gabriel revealed flaming words in
a cave. We only have the words of Muhammad. Not admissible as evidence
in a court of law I am afraid.

Admittedly when Muhammad told people this he was persecuted, that is,
according to the texts we have. Eventually however people came around
and started to believe this strange man. At first it was just his wife,
but then came the slaves of Mecca, who, not surprisingly, wanted to
follow this powerful orator who promised freedom.

In due course Muhammad upset too many people and found himself
ostracised from Mecca and moved with his converts to Medina. Here the
Jews rejected him as a heretic, but ultimately he gained support amongst
the more dejected Arabs.

Problems arose for various reasons and a small battle ensued between his
followers and the merchants of Mecca. At this pivotal point the history
of the world changed as Muhammad was victorious and in the eyes of the
Arabs that could only mean one thing: god was on his side.

At the age of 60 he took an army and marched upon his designated holy
city of Mecca. He took it without mercy, his followers killing man,
woman and child. Two years later he died. Now the converts of Islam had
a prime example to follow.

Before he died however, this great religious leader supposedly wrote the
Koran (Qu’ran, meaning that which is uttered) which in part, is a
collection of fragments of other beliefs.  Muhammad reportedly went into
a seizure prior to reciting the book. This book in turn was then copied
with true fundamentalist fervour and is, according to Islamic scholars,
as good a record of the original as possible. Of course, for the most
part, having been copied from other beliefs and altered to suit, many of
the stories are in parallel to the Old Testament. Such as Abraham having
two wives, one named Sarah and one called Haggai. The Koran tells us
that Haggai having given birth to Abraham’s child was sent off into the
wilderness where her offspring became the forefathers of the Arabs.

In fact, much interbreeding still occurred in Muhammad’s day between
Jews and Arabs and thus traditions were easily passed on, such as Old
Testament stories. It is plainly obvious upon reading the Koran and the
Old Testament that they are intrinsically linked together both in
content and spiritual ideology.

The Koran account of Jesus is claimed to be the true story of this
enigmatic individual and although the Bible is believed to be a
god-given and god-inspired book, Muslims believe it is only second best
and that the Koran is the latest revelation of a most high god. Indeed,
they claim that the Bible had been altered much. A claim, which has
stood the test of time, especially when we understand that people in the
west would not have realised that the text of the Bible had in fact been
altered much. Muhammad was in the prime location to utilise this
information to enable his own power base to be built.

In the section of the Koran called Sura 19:92 it states, “Jesus Christ,
the son of Mary, was no more than an Apostle of god.” This obviously
contradicts the New Testament, which states Jesus to be much more, at
least by the Pauline creed.

Muslims also say that Christ was not crucified, but that somebody took
his place. Almost 1500 years before the internet these Muslims seem to
have developed their own idea of a conspiracy theory, coming remarkably
close to the truth and giving us an insight into what really occurred at
“Golgotha”.

Of course, it may be that this was just Muhammad’s attempt at bringing
the religions of the world together. However these ideas were not
original and probably not even his. Gnostic’s had been following a
similar belief for many years, spreading their apocryphal word across
the length and breadth of Arabia.

Being fair to Islam, we certainly can see the strength of belief and
conviction inherent within the structure of this system. There may be
many things wrong with Islam, I am not an Islamic scholar, but there are
a lot of satisfied people within Islam. The very fact that Muslims are
so fundamental in their beliefs, devout in their worship and patient in
carrying out their creeds is commendable. It shows, at least, the deep
held belief of 500 million people that there is a god and although this
is not proof of god’s existence it is strong circumstantial evidence.
But control of the mind is control of the mind, regardless of whether we
call it Buddhism or Islam and to follow a belief without evidence is
control in anybody’s book. I will not say I believe something unless I
have evidence, in this way I am not controlled by another man’s creed,
dogma or doctrine. I am an individual and whether this is in god’s eyes
or not, matters not to me. To give away that individuality and to follow
the words of a man from 1400 years ago is not something I will do
lightly, if at all. But answers to the paradoxical questions of life are
not answered by simply remaining unique.

Could it be that there is an empty space or vacuum, inside each one of
us that just cries out for god and knows that he exists in one form or
another? But is this evidence for god? No. It just shows that we, as the
highest level of life on earth, even now, in today’s age, still need a
god of some kind. It may be some kind of evolutionary survival trick,
which our minds play on us. If it is then it has been playing that game
for a very long time. From the early beginnings, from the beliefs in
solar and lunar deities, anthropomorphic figures of power have held our
imaginations. Religion, like us and with us has evolved.

Had we still held to our belief in a lunar deity then we would now have
our answer as to whether there was a god or not because we landed space
ships on the surface. But the evolution of religion and belief remained
one step ahead of us and when we finally set foot on the grey dust of
our moon’s surface we found that she was nothing more than an old
spherical pile of space rubble. Of course we already knew.

In conclusion and for the purposes of this book we can see that millions
of people believe in something and that they believe they see a
wonderful order and course to our lives, even amidst such obvious
turmoil. It is not surprising when we consider the numerous other
defence mechanisms our physical body utilises to defend us from invading
armies of bacteria that our mental body defends us against the invading
doubts and worries of a fragile life. Even statistical data backs this
up, as older people, closer to death, tend to turn to god more than the
young who have many years remaining.

We still however have no proof one way or the other for god.
Chapter 5
The Case For Christ
Christianity is one of the world’s largest religions. Within the title
fall many denominations such as Catholicism and Anglicanism and most
(but by no means all) follow the Nicene Creed. However, we are not, in
the context of this book interested in the various splits and
separations which have occurred over the past two thousands years,
unless they hold some kind of evidence for or against the existence of
god. The majority of the splits have been created by the dogmas,
doctrines and power hungry acts of man. We are interested in what
Christianity has to say about god.

Christians say quite simply that they are born again of the Spirit of
god and believe in Jesus Christ as their saviour and creator. A tall
order for any man, unless of course he were the son of god.

We have stories from the Bible about Jesus, which we will draw strongly
upon. The reason for this being quite simply that there is precious
little said about Jesus in other texts and that it is the Bible that is
utilised by Christians to prove his existence. There are stories of his
birth and life, which we should all be familiar with by now and none of
which can be proven.

He is known by many names and each name explains a different aspect of
the belief of Christians. This is partly due to the Hebrew language,
which has many more levels than our simple English in comparison and
partly due to the fact that we are talking about an amalgamation of
religious ideas.

The name Jesus means ‘saviour’ and when used in conjunction with Christ,
which means ‘anointed’ one we simply have ‘anointed saviour’. In Hebrew
the term messiah also means anointed one. To be anointed means to be
god’s chosen one. One thing that Christians forget to tell us is that
there were many chosen one’s and messiahs spilling in and around the
Middle East at this time, and indeed for hundreds of years. Jesus was
almost a common name and he would have had to have been something
special to have made his mark. As we saw even Buddha said that there
were many before and many after, a true understanding of the nature of
mankind and we must also be aware that the concept of the coming messiah
was something common to most of the world’s religions.

Another phrase in Matthew 16:16 is Immanuel, which means ‘god with us’
and which could have immense scope and meaning in itself. It is taken
from Amun-U-el, an Egyptian phrase also meaning the Shining One is with
us ? the enlightened one. This of course reveals in a simple fashion,
that much of Judaism is derived from the times spent in Egypt and that
we may also find certain truths about Jesus in Egypt too.

The manhood and godhead of Jesus is shown also in the label ‘son of
god’, which supposedly reveals the distinctive relationship between god
as father and god as son. Indeed anyone who makes such a claim must
either be mad, telling the truth or have some kind of hidden agenda. The
truth? Judaism preached that all Jews were indeed the sons of god and
this title was nothing more than a description of membership to the
guild of Judaism. It also has another meaning. In Egypt the great god of
the Underworld was Osiris and he had a son called Horus, who wasn’t
really his son, but himself reincarnated. Horus was there god and the
son of god. There are many more parallels to the Horus myth I do not
wish to go into here, but the fact has been solidly confirmed by many
scholars that Jesus was in part based upon the Horus/Osiris myth.

Jesus was no lunatic, but neither was he any more the son of god than
you or I. Indeed he (or those who placed the words in his mouth on
parchment) even went as far as he could to bring this ideology home to
the masses, only to be hijacked later by Pauline doctrine overlaying the
message with stronger methods of power control. This power control being
used to its ultimate effect in the later Roman Empire and Catholic
Church.

Many diverse titles give us yet more insights to this enigmatic
character. ‘Son of David’ manifests the role of the coming messiah which
Jews believed strongly should have been a warrior king and in the line
of David. There is evidence to show that the man Jesus was based upon
may indeed have been a warrior king, with even scriptural evidence of
his disciples carrying swords, and indeed using them.

The ‘Servant’ description is the fulfilment of the Jehovah servant role,
which had been prophesied in the Old Testament, and anybody interested
in writing up the account of Jesus would have been obliged to include
this description in his biography.

The very fact that Jesus came, in order to bear our transgressions,
instead of the usual sacrificial lamb offering of the Jews at the time,
explains the identity ‘Lamb of god’. In becoming the offering himself,
Jesus is said to take away the need for a mediator and priest, becoming
the High Priest himself on our behalf. Ultimately Jesus falls in this
sacrifice and is called the ‘Last Adam’, the righter of the wrong.

Thus in the very names applied to him, we see the fulfilment of much so
called prophecy and much need. The prophecy of the Jews however is like
any other, changeable with the times and perfectly self-fulfilling.

According to the legend Jesus was rejected by the people he came to
serve. Did he know that he would be rejected? Is that the idea? That
only those with real faith would believe in him? Theologically it could
make sense or it could simply be that even the people from his period
did not believe in him and therefore why should we?

So, lets now have a look at what he did to receive these names. We all
know those now famous nativity scenes. The manger with a few lambs, a
goat, a donkey and a bull, a window through which we can see a shooting
star, Mary and Joseph stood adoringly above the cot within which lies
the baby Jesus. However, looking into the actual writings from the
period and forgetting all the man made marketing nonsense of the past
hundred years we suddenly find that our memories are filled with a false
record. Which in itself is not a major problem, it just means that the
very first encounter with Jesus turns out to be nothing more real than
Santa Claus. There are many reasons for the symbols within the myth,
none of which goes any way towards proving the existence of god.

“The ritual of the nativity, as it appears to have been celebrated in
Syria and Egypt, was remarkable. The celebrants retired into certain
inner shrines, from which at midnight they issued a loud cry, ‘The
Virgin has brought forth! The light is waxing!’ The Egyptians even
represented the new-born sun by the image of an infant which on his
birthday, the winter solstice, they brought forth and exhibited to his
worshippers.” The Golden Bough, Sir James Frazer, Wordsworth, 1993.

In fact many messiah’s and deities were born or even worshipped in
mangers or caves. Adonis, Tammuz, Apollo, Cybele, Demeter, Herakles,
Hermes, Mithra and Poseidon. There is little surprise in this as the
cave was seen as the womb of the mother earth and thereby the deity
would be born from this other-worldly location. The sun itself was
believed to go underground and not ‘around’ the earth.

From the Bible we learn that the Magi see the new baby as an
illustration that the existing mystical hierarchy of religion rejoiced
in the Lord’s coming. Of course, we must remember that much of this was
written many years after the death of Jesus. The three Magi are in fact
representations stellar deities themselves, being the three belt stars
of Orion, whose rising announces the coming of Sothis, the star
associated with Osiris-Horus. In truth, the real Magi were of course sun
worshippers and the three gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh were
their usual offering to the sun god. The star that announced this new
messiah or Horus-Jesus was Orion itself, known as the star of Horus.

Jesus escaped the threat of Herod and ran to Egypt with his parents.
There it is believed Jesus learned from the Essene group known as the
Theraputae. The great knowledge of Egypt was a draw to many mystics and
centres of learning were set up everywhere. These Theraputae were
especially skilled in healing, a remarkable and miraculous gift
identified in Jesus later in his life. It is without doubt that Jesus
must have learned this skill here in Egypt if he existed as a real man.
A remarkable revelation, which pours cold water on the idea that Jesus,
had miraculous healing powers from god and thereby reducing the evidence
of miraculous powers. We also learn that both Joseph, the father of
Jesus and Zechariah the father of John the Baptist, were members of the
Theraputae. And these Theraputae are accused by many scholars of
actually creating Christianity itself.

“The Therapeutae of Egypt, from whom are descended the vagrant hordes of
Jews and Gypsies, had well found by what arts mankind were to be
cajoled; and as they boasted their acquaintance with the sanative
qualities of herbs of all countries; so in their extensive
peregrinations through all the then known regions of the earth, they had
not failed to bring home and remodel to their own purposes, those sacred
spells or religious romances, which they found had been successfully
palmed on the credulity of remote nations.” The Diegesis, Rev. Robert
Taylor, Health Research, 1977.

In fact these Egyptian Theraputae, linked to the Essene of Syria, had at
their disposal the full resources of the libraries of Alexandria, which
their later created Christian empire would proceed to wipe out of
existence for fear of being uncovered. Now we can begin to see where the
many myths of the globe were collated and assimilated for the Gospels ?
Alexandria. These myths and beliefs, many in worship of the sun and
stars were used in the Christian story.

At the age of 12 Jesus is found in the temple and this we find is linked
yet again to the sun, as at midday the sun would rise in the temple. Now
have a reason why Jesus only appears at birth, midday and then 30, where
30 degrees is the amount of degrees that the sun must move through
in-order to progress to the next sign or house in the 12 zodiacs. The
movement of Jesus is thereby being associated with the progression of
the sun itself.

Next we find Jesus ready for his appointed ministry, missing many years
of his life in-between. Many years spent learning the healing ministry,
scriptures and leadership qualities, that is, according to the
Christians. Jesus was baptised by the one called John in the River
Jordan, again self fulfilling as much prophecy as possible. John of
course is also another version of Jonah or Oannes, the fish deity who
represented rebirth from the sacred waters. A dove then descends upon
Jesus in the same way that Horus was baptised in the Nile. The dove
descending is in fact a divine union of male and female principles ?
igniting Jesus with the powers of the gods. The powers of healing showed
by Jesus at this time were so great that even the occupying Romans were
said to have begged him to cure their sick.

Slowly now, approaching the end of the great play he moved towards
Jerusalem, apparently knowing what the outcome was to be. This is
plainly evident in his words to his disciples. It proved to be bitterly
true as the Pharisee joined with the Sadducee and Herodian in a terrible
plot that would inevitably fulfil the greatest of prophecies. I must say
that I have a totally different opinion to the normal view of this part
of the life of Jesus, as much of this seems to be a propaganda slur
against the Sadducee and Herodian. I am of the opinion that Jesus was
part of the plot and a conspirator himself in a much larger plan of
control, with a long and far-reaching global ideology and that the
character of Jesus has been manipulated on paper to conform to the
predicted messianic role. However I must confine myself to the remit of
this book, which is evidence for the existence of god.

So what is said about the character of this founder of faith? Above all
he had integrity, a trait much admired by many that wrote of him. He had
courage, strength and compassion for mankind. Buddhist’s say that Christ
was enlightened - a great compliment. The Muslims and Jews say that he
was surely a great prophet. Even the great cults of our age misuse his
name because of the idea of what he was.

What about the cultures of the day? Here, we find that Romans were
occupiers of the Jewish nation and thus held them under oppression. They
were taxed heavily and their own spiritual leaders, it seems, had sold
out. There erupted various sects within Judaism such as the Zealots and
the Essenes who were partially violent and erratic, although they were
also adapting and moving with the times. There is much evidence that
once their plans were complete they simply disbanded, changed names and
became something else.

We should also remember the origins of the literal view of Jehovah. This
vague fertility god was instigated as the Jewish and Christian god by
the writers of the texts as an answer to the idea of one god. In truth,
attributes of many gods were included into the remit of Jehovah. Ra,
Horus, El and many other Middle Eastern gods were chosen and their
ideologies incorporated for popular success. This is why the god has so
many names in the Bible, and many, almost Egyptian deity traits as we
have seen. But we lose sight of the fact that Jehovah was a vengeance
god. In the first book of Samuel he takes vengeance on the men of Gath
and gives them all haemorrhoids. In Deuteronomy the Israelites are
ordered to destroy the people of cities that he bestows upon them. Men
are ordered to be stoned to death, plagues are sent, first-born children
massacred, human sacrifice, and we are even to have no contact with
menstruating females. Not to mention that we can buy slaves, give the
death sentence to people who work on the Sabbath and that eating
shellfish is an abomination. These are all human traits, not those of a
loving god. It is therefore no surprise that we expect this very human
god to supply us with a vengeful and warrior like human messiah.

God had indeed been promising the people a messiah. Or to look at it
another way, the people writing the prophecies had been keeping the
people happy and looking forward to the saving graces of a warrior
leader. This was applied on many levels, both through the auspices of
standard religion and as an undercurrent of rebellion. However it was
put across, the people wanted it. He was going to unite the various
sects and lead them to a glorious victory. Much like the revolutionary
figure of Muhammad six hundred years later.

Whatever is believed about Christ, we are told not to think of him as
the victim of a cruel plot,
but rather the victorious leader in all events. This is biblically
evident in all he supposedly said and did. It is beyond doubt that
Christ was to hand over his life as the definitive sacrifice, this,
after all, had been prophesied, and we all know by now that if it is
prophesied it just has to come true, even if it is made to happen.

However much we argue the minor elements of the passion play though we
cannot argue with the final tenet: That Christianity states simply that
it is purely by believing in Jesus Christ as saviour that we are
fulfilled. This is the only way of truly knowing that god exists.

We can prove or disprove, relative to whom wishes to believe, that god
exists or not simply by mathematics and causal effects, but why should
this prove Jesus? Well it doesn’t. But surely, as the argument goes, if
we can prove the scriptures through history, science and mathematics
then we are also proving that Jesus existed as it states in the Bible.
Other secular writers did speak of a Jesus; they did show that what had
occurred was indeed significant. We are still uncovering evidence about
the life of the real Jesus (if indeed there was even such a man) and we
may yet prove that there was something very special about him. After
all, he has changed the face of the world and he still changes people,
whether for good or ill. But there are a few problems.

1) Jesus was just a good man.

The Christian answer to this one is that firstly he not only taught how
to live; he supposedly lived it himself. He called us to lay down our
lives for our sisters and brothers and did so himself in the greatest
sacrifice, whether a true death or mock sacrifice. He forgave people
their sins, something according to Jewish Law at that time and still
today is the sole role of god.  He claimed to be the truth, life and the
way of god. He allowed people to worship him as if he were god, was this
delusion of grandeur or simply excellent propaganda? Either he was
deranged, very clever, made up or he was god. Everything he did and said
was calm and calculated, especially when compared to some of the worlds
other religious leaders. But what if Christ was in it for the glory and
the fame? Any psychological study of the mind of Jesus will and has
shown a stable, truthful man. But all this could simply be the result of
good writing; there is no proof either way for the existence of god.

2) Christ's virgin birth.

The people in the time of Christ would have been just as sceptical of
this as many are today. The people would have thought Mary to have been
unfaithful to Joseph and indeed so would Joseph. They knew too then,
that virgin births were just not possible. Yet we have many people
writing about it alongside perfectly ordinary facts. We cannot believe
one without the other, if one is proved correct the other must also be.
Either that, or there must be another reason for this strange entry into
the world.

According to Christians Jesus was not an ordinary person. He was the son
of god and perfect. He had already pre-existed in the beginning as the
Word. Through this word all things were made, it is not then a far leap
for this Word to become flesh. If we cannot believe in the Virgin birth
then we cannot believe in the creation and we are left with a Universe
that only theoretically exists. Only by granting god the power of
creation can we grant him the power to intercede in such a way. If it is
true then we should say Mary is blessed, as she had that power of god
within her when he altered DNA and became flesh.

However there is another explanation. There was at the time of Christ a
cult within the Jewish faith called “the cult of the virgin". This was a
female sect, well respected and well known at the time and indeed well
before.

The basic precepts of the cult were also well known and world-wide. For
instance Isis immaculately conceived Horus in Egyptian mythology and we
have already seen some of the links between Horus and Jesus.

Virgil had said that the Messiah would be born of a virgin, Zoroaster
was born of a virgin and later Muhammad's daughter Fatima (meaning
shining one) gave birth to 3 sons and was said to be a virgin. It all
revolved around the fact that the sun-god, Horus, was to be seen born
anew each day from the virgin moon. But more than even that at the
moment of the winter solstice the constellation Virgo (virgin) would
rise with the sun in her bosom. Of course Isis was both this virgin and
the moon and her son (the son of Osiris and Osiris reincarnated) was
Horus, who became Jesus.

It seems then that the virgin ideal, was a predominant idea for any
messenger or messiah of god copied from the solar cults.

3) Why is this Jesus relevant? The Christian response.

Firstly, although it is a little used word in this modern age, the Bible
says all have sinned and fall short of the glory of god. Is there
anybody out there who thinks they are better or equal to god? How can we
cope with all our imperfections, meet a god of holiness and expect
mercy? Can you imagine the holiness of the god who created everything?
We cannot meet god by ourselves, in that sinful state, so therefore we
need help or saving. So therefore, apparently, Jesus is our saviour?

Secondly, he is an example to us, the way we ought to be. If only we all
turned the other cheek and loved our neighbours as ourselves. If only we
loved, even unto death. The way of Christ is the way of god. Jesus is
relevant if I want to alter the world and make it a better place to
live, that is of course if I believe in god? But it must be belief,
which is faith not proof.

4) Why is there evil in the world?

Firstly I would like to throw one question back at you. If god were to
wipe out all the evil in the world today, right now, at this moment in
time, where would that leave you? It would leave the world without human
beings, for where does this evil manifest itself unless it is in us?

Secondly, let us then agree that there is such a thing on the planet
called evil. Now let us agree that we do not need gods help to stop it,
after all we are doing a good job now are we not?

Who then shall we turn to? The gods of our television screen? Mad Max or
Rambo? Or maybe plump for the old crystals to calm ourselves down and
smoke an illegal substance for relaxation?
So what have we replaced god with? Are they not all empty things? Are we
not perpetuating evil ourselves?

Why do we sense goodness in ourselves when we have helped another in a
needy situation? Why do we feel guilt when we have refused that person
help? Ever since mans beginning he has rebelled against god. But some
say, “Why didn't god create man perfect?” The Christian answer is he
did. But he had to give us free will, so that we were not zombies and
loved him by ourselves and not because he commanded us to.

It is man who is at fault for the state of the world. That by our sin,
by our greed and lust, we allow evil to take over in our lives. This in
itself shows that unique link between man and his surroundings. It is us
who affect the Earth and all that live upon it, it is us who can make it
better. In faith god supposedly gives us the power to do this, for
surely in our power alone we cannot, this we have already proved with
every life that is lost through war. All of this you understand, is the
Christian response I lay before you. It is not my own and the sole
purpose is to judge for our selves whether we can glean any evidence for
the existence of god from these theological statements.

According to Christians, god gave us a way out of the vicious cycle of
hate and intolerance. We can never understand all that god does for us,
but according to Christianity he bore the evil in death and defeated it
in his resurrection. He proved that we could succeed with his help. Does
this have a ring of truth? Remember you will be asked for a verdict, if
not by me, then you’re own sub-conscious.

All these reasons have been used now for thousands of years against us.
Convincing us that we are not good enough to better the world on our
own, that we need to tie ourselves to a religion and follow dogma and
doctrine to see a more peaceful existence. This could all so very easily
be put down as good propaganda, as clever usage of the facts to get us
to follow. It could just be that we are who we are because of evolution.
The simple survival of the fittest, the strongest gains all the power
and wealth.

No god here, no amount of humility will help us, apart from make us feel
more relaxed with being controlled by those with the power. Giving us
good reason to do as we are told. We still have no hard evidence either
way for god’s existence. In fact what I want to do now is to take a look
at the real Jesus, from real evidence.

Would the Real Jesus Please Stand Up
I have spoken of the biblical and Christian version of Jesus ? the
version we are told to have ‘faith’ in. But alas, we are left with no
evidence ? not just for the existence of god, but for the very existence
of the man whom they claim to be god’s son. There is though another and
this man can be found in texts outside of the Bible as thankfully the
Orthodox Christian Church failed to totally eradicate him from history.

Born 3rd or 4th Year BC in Tyana in Cappadocia, at 16 Appollonius of
Tyana became a disciple of Pythagoras, renouncing flesh, wine and women.
He wore no shoes and let his hair and beard grow long.

He soon became a reformer and fixed his abode in the Temple of
Aesculapius - the serpent healing deity I discovered to be of paramount
importance in The Serpent Grail, and who himself originated from the
Egyptian architect Imhotep.

It was claimed of Appollonius that he was one of the wisest of all men
and in all likelihood he gained his immense wisdom whilst at the feet of
the wise serpentine Naga sages of the Indian sub-continent.

We can see evidence of this from Philostratos [1], the biographer of
Appollonius, who tells us of the journey to Kashmir to meet the Naga
sage Larchus and of the “emerald valley set in a rim of pearls” and of
the tales that Apollonius told his travelling companion, Damus, of
dragons which lived in the hills. Both emerald and pearls have symbolic
resonance with wisdom and knowledge and the dragons, which lived in the
hills, were nothing more than the Naga, or serpent followers of the
region.

The hill where these wise men lived [2] was defended on all sides by
immense piles of rocks. As soon as the travellers had dismounted a
messenger from one of the Masters appeared, wearing of all things, a
serpent Caduceus on his brow - an obvious allusion to the enlightenment
process via the Indian Kundalini, or coiled serpent.

Platitudes were given and when in conversation Apollonius learned from
Larchus, that these Nagas had delivered their wisdom to the Egyptians
and even Ethiopia, which as Hivviah or Cush was named after the worship
of serpents.

Eventually Apollonius became a wise sage himself and his own notoriety
grew. Aurelian vowed to erect Temples and statues to his honour “for was
there ever any thing among men more holy, venerable, noble, and divine
than Apollonius? He restored life to the dead; he did and spoke many
things beyond human reach.” (Vopiscus in Aurelian, cap. 24)

Truly, Temples and statues were erected to Apollonius in many places,
including his own town of Tyana. Unlike Jesus, there is evidence to
prove that Apollonius actually existed. As Moncure D. Conway said in his
book Modern Thought:

“The world has been for a long time engaged in writing lives of Jesus.”

The library of such writing has grown since then. But when we come to
examine them, one startling fact confronts us: all these books relate to
a personage concerning whom there does not exist a single scrap of
contemporary information ? not one! Nobody can say with any conviction
that Jesus was a real person.

On the other hand and by accepted tradition, Apollonius was born in the
reign of Augustus, the great literary age of the nation of which he was
a subject. In the Augustan age historians flourished; poets, orators,
critics and travellers abounded. Yet not one of them mentions the name
of Jesus Christ, much less any incident of his life. The Emperor Marcus
Aurelius admitted that it was to Apollonius that he owed his own
philosophy, and erected Temples and statues in his honour. No statues or
Temples were erected to Jesus.

Faust said, “Everyone knows that the Evangeliums were written neither by
Jesus nor by his apostle, but long after their time by some unknown
persons, who, judging well that they would hardly be believed when
telling of things they had not seen themselves, headed their narratives
with the names of the apostles or disciples contemporaneous with the
latter.”

On the other hand, the written record of the life of Apollonius is very
sound and Philostratos who wrote the Life of Apollonius was the close
friend of Damus who had related the whole thing in person.

Philostratos said, “Some consider him as one of the Magi, because he
conversed with the Magi of Babylon and the Brahmans of India and the
Gymnosophists of Egypt. But even his wisdom is reviled, as being
acquired by the magic art, so erroneous are the opinions formed of him.
Whereas Empedocles and Pythagoras and Democritus, though they conversed
with the same Magi, and advanced many paradoxical sentiments, have not
fallen under the like imputation. Even Plato, who travelled in Egypt,
and blended with his doctrines many opinions collected there from the
priests and prophets, incurred not such a suspicion, though above all
men on account of his superior wisdom.”

The very fact that Apollonius was in danger of usurping the ‘idea’ of
Christ with his own ‘factual’ life caused much consternation amongst the
early Christians. Justin Martyr, one of the Church Fathers of the 2nd
century said, “How is it that the talismans by Apollonius have power
over certain members of creation, for they prevent, as we have seen, the
fury of the waves, the violence of the winds, and the attacks of wild
beasts. And whilst Our Lord’s miracles are preserved by tradition alone,
those of Apollonius are most numerous, and actually manifested in
present facts, so as to lead astray all beholders?”

The book by Philostratos was therefore, and not surprisingly, kept back
from translation and distribution. In fact, the books of the New
Testament did not appear until at least one hundred years after the Life
of Apollonius.

Even the birth of Apollonius bears some remarkable similarities to the
fictional life of Christ. Whilst his mother was pregnant with
Apollonius, Proteus, the Egyptian God, appeared to her and said, “Thou
shalt bring forth me!” The mother of Apollonius was to bring forth God.

Incidentally, Proteus was known to take the form of a snake.

According to Phillimore, Apollonius actually founded a church and a
community, made up of his disciples. It is highly likely that these were
connected to a branch of the Essene, known as the Therapeuts and
Nazarenes.

Indeed there was a group known as the Apolloniei, the adherents of
Apollonius, who actually survived some centuries after his death. These
constituted what became the Christian Church, after the Council of
Nicaea ? so Apollonius did indeed begin Christianity, based upon
serpentine myths and traditions of the oldest order.

In fact Eunapius stated that Philostratos should have called his book
“The Sojourning of a God Among Men.” However once the decision had been
made to plump for the newly created Christ, cobbled together from
various deities, Apollonius was repressed. It is basically because of
books like the one of Philostratos that the ancient libraries at places
such as Alexandria were torched. Destroy the evidence of the opposition
and there appears to be no opposition. But they missed one vital piece
of evidence in their own book.

In 1st Corinthians 3:3-6 it says, “for while one saith, I am of Apollos,
are ye not carnal? Who, then, is Paul, and whom Apollos, but ministers,
by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted,
Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.”

I could so easily have overlooked this had it not been for a chance
discovery of an ancient version of 1st Corinthians found in a French
monastery by a Huguenot soldier entitled the Codex Bezae. The name
Apollos is spelt Apollonius! In fact in the Encyclopaedia Britannica the
name Apollo in this context can also mean Apollonius. Indeed this
Apollos was said to have even visited Paul (the apostle who did not
suffer from snakebites) and he was called an Alexandrian Jew. It is
possible that Apollonius brought back a new gospel of Chrishna from the
Kashmir interlude with the serpent sages and it was this, which gave
birth to the Christ that was in reality based upon serpent worship. Now
we know why Christ sloughed off his shroud in the tomb, just as the
snake sloughs its skin and is resurrected.  Now we know why the early
Christians were known as Ophites, it simply means serpent worshippers.

Notes

1 In De Vita Apollonii (The Life of Apollonius) Philostratos tells us of
the superstitious practices carried out by those of Arabia and India
with some remarkable tales about “eating the heart and liver of
serpents, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge of the thoughts and
languages of animals.” Philostratos wrote extensively on Apollonius of
Tyana, the great sage who is seen by many as being the true Christ.

2 Taxila was the capital of ancient Punjab (Hindus). In the Sanskrit
language it was Takshacila or simply “Prince of the serpent tribe.”
Taxila was a famous place, having been mentioned in several languages
and connected with the infamous Silk Road between the Far West
(Babylonia) and the Far East (China). Here lies the oldest known Hindu
shrine in the Pillared Hall, on the site of the western end, said to
have had a ceremonial function. The king of Taxila was called Taxiles
and in 329 BC he invited Alexander the Great to support him against
aggressors. In 184 BC the Greeks invaded and placed Demetrius on the
throne. The town was rebuilt and strangely it was called Sirkap (severed
head). It was a multi-ethnic area now with Greeks, Bactrians, western
Iranians and Hindus all living together. There was a great mix of
Hinduism, serpent worship, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and Greek religious
beliefs all mixing together—a place very much like Alexandria.

Apollonius of Tyana went to Taxila as we find in the Life of Apollonius
of Tyana by Philostratos. “I have already described the way in which the
city is walled, but they say that it was divided up into narrow streets
in the same irregular manner as in Athens, and that the houses were
built in such a way that if you look at them from outside they had only
one storey, while if you went unto one of them, you at once found
subterranean chambers extending as far below the level of the earth as
did the chambers above.” (Section 2.2). It was the King of Taxila
(Phroates) who wrote a letter of recommendation for Apollonius to
Iarchus in-order to have him learn the wisdom of the Nagas of Kashmir.



Chapter 6
The Great Esoteric Jigsaw Puzzle
From the religions of ages past we can glean certain truths that man in
his searching has either come across or been given. These examples
remarkably resemble other beliefs, making one wonder, where did they
originate and why? Whatever the answers are, we can at least see that
they stand alone in certain statements and that sometimes religions get
close to the ‘ring of truth’. These cross-references with ancient belief
are claimed by Christians to be proof in themselves that, there must be
something more than fanciful imagination.

Could it be that these are echoes from the past? That the word of
creation spread around the planet as people migrated? Passing on
knowledge by word of mouth in this great, esoteric jigsaw puzzle?

Was there some great and ancient universal religion or priesthood
managing our beliefs?

Take for instance the following-

1)The Satapatha Brahmana  tells us quite specifically how god spoke
everything into existence, the Earth, air, sky and animals. This is
fairly similar to the Bible as so far as god spoke creation into
existence with the Word. (“And god said ......” Genesis 1:3)

2) The Taittiriya Brahmana tells us again that the entire Universe was
created by god and gives account of him breathing life into a child,
thus becoming the father. (“..breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life." Genesis 2:7)

3) The Satapatha Brahmana says that god made man from his soul, then due
to mans loneliness he caused the man to fall into two parts, “Thence
arose a husband and wife. From them men were born.” (“Then the lord god
made a woman from the rib he had taken out of man.” Genesis 2:22)

4) According to the Vishnu Purana, Brahma (god) exists as spirit. (“god
is spirit.....,” John 4:24)

5) In Egyptian mythology Khepera (god) formed the whole world “out of
his mouth.” He apparently laid first the foundations and then all
things, as the sequence of the Bible shows.

6) In Celtic folklore there was primarily just god until he again spoke
existence into being. (“And god said.....”)

7) In ancient Peru they stated that all things were created by the word
of the spirit or creator. Such words as “Let a man be. Let a woman be.”
Also, man was made of clay as in the Biblical creation and possibly also
a belief many thousands of years old.

8) The south American Indians believe that the material Universe was
first created, then man and woman were formed from the clay and split
apart, therefore making them separate and able to produce offspring.
They still hold to this belief and the immortality of their soul depends
upon it.

Notice that the above comparisons are about creation. This is something
that all mankind has to have before his religion can begin. It is not
specific to Christianity or Judaism. Each and every person on the planet
has the same origins. Therefore the various stories should all lead back
to the one basic truth. But is everything truth?

Many religions hold dear the idea of a ‘ring of truth’. That a certain
ideal sounds true and therefore must be true. This is used as evidence.
But it isn‘t evidence is it? Would a judge allow this kind of proof?
Well lets take a look at some that simply ‘sound’ unfeasible and judge
for ourselves.

Is there such a thing as a ring of truth?
There is a bewildering complexity of organisations; establishments and
fanatics all geared up with an array of imaginative ideas. I want to
have a look at the extremes of these faiths, as I have at Islam,
Buddhism and Christianity to test the ‘ring of truth’ hypothesis.

1) Scientologists believe that an alien named Xenu was the leader of the
Universe about seventy five million years ago. One day he decided that
he needed more dwelling space and nuked Earth, thus creating Thetans or
spirits which attach themselves to our bodies making us unclean.
Speaking about the creation of all things the holy words of Ron Hubbard
(Creator of Scientology, a science fiction writer) states, “Loud snap.
Waves of light. Chariot comes out, blows horn, comes close. Shattering
series of snaps, Cherub fades back. Blackness dumped on Thetan.” Need I
say more?

2) The followers of Krishna have some unusual beliefs as explained by
the Divine Grace Bhakdivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Jesus Christ was not
god, but a devotee of Krishna visiting from another planet! Men are
superior to women. ANY action done for Krishna cannot be bad. Needless
to say there are only 15000 followers world-wide and this mainly due to
the now deceased ex-Beatle George Harrison.

3) Another famous personality who followed a cult is Pete Townsend of
the rock band The Who, a devotee of Meher Baba. This strange Indian was
one of the latest self-professed saviours. Apparently his soul will
return to stone from whence it came. Meher Baba died of natural causes
surprisingly and is buried.

4) More stars again as we turn to the Osmond’s, the teenage idols of the
seventies. They were supposedly devout Mormons (The church of Jesus and
the Latter Day Saints,) Donny however has revealed sordid tales of his
youth and so I thought it only fitting to investigate the Mormons a
little closer.

The book of Mormon was (supposedly) written during, and covers the
period between 600 BC and 400 AD, yet surprisingly contains many Bible
passages in the exact same translation as that of the Authorised King
James Bible of 1611 AD, therefore either the King James Bible is stolen
from the book of Mormon (which can be proved to be untrue) or the book
of Mormon is stolen from the King James version (which is more likely).

They claimed that the book was error free. Since 1830 AD there have been
3913 changes, most of these changes were the very parts that had been
changed from the King James Version. They claimed archaeological
evidence existed for their belief that an ancient tribe of Jews lived in
America. No such evidence exists and this is attested to by all Americas
leading historians.

Between 1809 and 1812 AD a man called Solomon Spalding wrote an
imaginary history of two civilisations coming to America (remarkably
like the book of Mormon). Solomon died, but the manuscript was left in
the printer’s office where another man called Sidney Rigdon worked.
Later Sidney met Joseph Smith, who later still went on to write the book
of Mormon. Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were jailed awaiting
trial, but on 27th June 1844 two hundred men broke in and shot them both
dead. Well, I can’t say that I find Mormonism particularly attractive,
can you?

5) The Hindu’s have literally hundreds of god’s. They are dressed in
pretty clothes, coloured brightly and fed expensive food. They are
probably the best-kept dolls on earth.  If you are going to believe in a
god it may as well be a Barbie doll.

6) Koreshian’s believed that everything was within the confines of the
earth. That when you look up, you are actually looking inward, towards
the sun, which is at the centre of all things.

In 1908 the leader, Dr Cyrus Tweed died 3 days prior to Christmas day.
His followers wholeheartedly expected him to rise again on Christmas
day. Strangely he failed to do so.

7) The Flat Earth Society is still crusading against the damnable,
heretical, globularist conspiracy. In other words, they say that the
earth is flat, we never went to the moon, that Arthur C. Clarke scripted
the whole thing and the rest of us are mad.

This last exercise is purely and simply to show how witless and
lamentable man can be in his exorbitant efforts of searching. The
western world has now taken into it’s heart the new religions, the
television, the Internet, gadgetry, high powered jobs. The rest of the
world is too busy trying to kill each other or catch up with us (while
we sell them the arms and keep them back through corrosive interest
payments). Never the less, eyes are taken off that thing we once called
god, let alone our real selves. And yet, there is still something
missing. Evolution has played us a cruel card with this device, this
mechanism of self-control. We fill in this gap with our modern day
gimmicks, failing to fulfil the real need. Christian’s say that this gap
only appeared when we walked away from god. They also say that the
answer to all our questions came 2000 years ago and we failed to see it.

Atheists on the other hand are just as happy to do their best for
mankind, without the need for a god and somehow seem to be just as happy
and fulfilled as Christians are. (I know I have over generalised, but
the argument would be too long without.)

Christ’s Conclusion
From the above study then, we can draw certain conclusions. First and
foremost is the plain fact that man is searching.

What is he searching for? Fulfilment?

Why would man be searching for fulfilment? Is it because he has an
emptiness within that needs to be filled? A subtle awareness of an
awesome presence and a need to know his future due to his fears of the
unknown? The unfortunate reality is that man first looks to the world
for this need and then, when he finds that this cannot fulfil him he
then turns to god. It could very well be that neither of these are
correct! It may very well be that we should listen to our elders from
the past and search inside ourselves for our own fulfilment. As many
have said, we are our own gods.

However, man has done a pretty good job so far of distracting himself
from the very questions, which burn inside of him.

These questions are answered to varying degrees by all the religions of
the world. Our question here is surely, which one is right?

Let us then lay out the questions we need to ask to enable us to choose
which, if any, of the religions are correct.

Does the chosen religion sound right? Does it have a ring of truth? Be
careful here, a ring of truth is different to many cultures. This truth
can only properly be understood when we know ourselves and are not
distracted by other input.

Is the religion simple enough for everyone to understand? Surely, if the
religion is from a loving god then it needs to be for everybody, both
intellectual and simple?

Is the originator of the religion worthy of our praise? How can we judge
this? Was he (or she) peaceful? Surely, religious leaders should not be
war like? Were they in the business of belief for their own benefit, or
those of others? Were they trying to glorify a god, or themselves? What
would they gain from their leadership? How far were they prepared to go?
Even to death?

If they did go to death, then what for? Did they steal something, kill
someone or just speak the truth? Did they basically die for what is
right?

Did the death have a reason? Were they totally sane? What influences
applied? What hope does the religion give? How can we get it? Will we
have to buy it? What is the currency? Hard work? Labour? Money? Or love?
Or is it by the grace of god?

Surely we must not pick on the religion, but the originators. It was
they who set the thing in motion and it is to them that we must
attribute blame, shame or glory. Each and every religion has been
sullied by man’s foolishness at one point or another and it is for this
reason that we must clear away the mess and get back as close as
possible to the originator.

In essence then, we are looking for fulfilment in the very real man of
Buddha, Muhammad or Christ. We look to them for our needs, hoping that
they will have the answer that we can understand that they will lead us
to god.

So just what are our needs?

Everybody needs love. Why? Because quite simply it makes us tick. Love
is an evolutionary tool, which drives us as a species and as an
individual. Love is one of those bewildering words, which makes you sit
down and actually think about your life. It causes pain and joy. Without
it we suffer, with it we rejoice. According to most religions, god is
love. Therefore, when god is in control, love is in control. A good
thing, many of us would agree. However, blind love in faith and under
doctrine can also make us do things we would normally not do, such as
invade other countries, kill out of jealousy, be proud and delight in
the downfall of those we inevitably end up hating. That is why religious
writings talk about a perfect love. One that is painless giving,
enduring, never failing, always kind, not proud or self seeking
(selfishness), does not delight in evil and always hopes. Yes, you
guessed impossible love.

However, if we were to believe that this kind of love were impossible
then we would need help. Lo and behold we have god, who can help us with
this love. He can pass us the power of his love via his Holy Spirit.

Surely then, the proof for god, is not in the practical things, like
trying to find proof, but maybe the proof has always been in us? In the
love that we always have trouble explaining. We recognise our own love
for one another, we would die to save our wife or child and according to
the religions of the world that’s what god would do for us - his
children.

Everybody needs security. Why? Because we live in an unsure world. We
could be mugged tomorrow or run over by a bus. Our seemingly small,
insignificant lives become more than significant when confronted with a
lack of security. It is one of those marvellous false ideals that our
parents can give us this safety. That they can put their loving arms
around us and protect us. There is, according to various religions, at
the end of the day, only one father who can protect us properly. Only he
can guide us through the turmoil we call life. But this may just be
applying a false hope, a false person onto an imaginary problem. Nobody
else on earth can fulfil all requirements we have for god and so we
create one.

When we are children we make up imaginary friends. Will give them all
the various attributes required to be our special friend. We never tell
our children to stop doing this, because we know it can often be good
for them and their development. It can give them a sense of security. If
they are still talking to shadows at thirty then we must worry and talk
seriously about where things have gone wrong. Surely now, mankind has
grown up and no longer needs imaginary friends? Or has it?

According to Christian’s today, god came to earth in the manifestation
of Jesus Christ because we are those little children and he recognised
that we could not be left “home alone”. That we needed his company
again, just like in the Garden of Eden. Even Lord Byron wrote “If ever a
man was god or god was man, Jesus Christ was both.” Christianity has
used the imaginary friend of Jesus Christ ever since and for every
occasion.  But it also had an added incentive for us to believe that he
was the true guide. He was the “son” of god. Muhammad was just another
prophet, Buddha just enlightened. Neither was the son of god.

On the simple level that this statement exists then this was a major
coup to Christianity. Unfortunately it was a vastly over simplified
statement. According to Jewish tradition, we are all sons of god. In
fact, at the basic root of all religions, we are all sons of god.

However, here we have found one of the major problems with religion.
Over simplification. Necessary oversimplification.

There are so many faiths, so many subtleties with each faith, so many
splits in each faith, so much to learn, that we by needs sake,
oversimplify. And by allowing ourselves to be caught in this web of
deceit we throw away an exciting ride of discovery. Of finding a
fantastic world of adventure along the byways of religion. We have one
life, why choose one religion? Journey through them all and become a
master initiate. Find your own path by walking the many paths of the
world. There are without doubt, many thousands of years of truth and
mystery tied up in the texts of our world’s religions. It can be a very
fulfilling trip of discovery to journey with them.

Some say it is through an inner revelation of the truth, a being born
again to a new life that is now possible to us, through their own chosen
religion. But in the end, this is only possible through a belief system
and not through proof. Proof talks to the brain. Belief talks to the
heart. When you find belief, you will eventually find faith. If that is
what you want.

So, in conclusion. Which god to choose? Which one is real? If any? What
price shall we pay for our belief? Shall we have our Thetan’s removed by
the Scientologists? Shall we remain sceptics, sit on the fence or fall
off altogether? Shall we follow the Buddha, the enlightened one? Or are
we more inclined towards the very human Muhammad? Maybe, because of our
western cultural backgrounds we will follow the way of Christ, and try
to forget all that has been done in his name. Or maybe we should look to
our own inner mind and gather knowledge, grow wise and become
enlightened through the process of growing as unique individuals free of
the controls and dogmas of religion.

The choice is, as always, yours. But you must so far do this, still,
without any proof.


Chapter 7
Pages of Truth?
A very close relative of mine once said, “You cannot prove anything,
religion is a sham.”

This is a popular belief. Religion however is far from a mere sham.
Nothing so highly organised, on such a vast scale and lasting for such a
long time could possibly be called a sham. And yet there is a certain
element, which is true. It is sham that religion now fails to address
problems today in so many ways. It is a sham that we no longer relate to
it, and yet we still need it. It is a sham that we feel we need it at
all. And it is a sham that religion has controlled our minds for so long
and sent us off to war, or taken our money and lands.

God has been put on the shelf and forgotten, along with history. We
somehow have neglected the ability to learn from either. As the
historian, Derek Heater said, “To many of the modern generation,
history, like god, is dead.”

But, just for argument sake, lets take them both back down off the shelf
for this next section and see if we can somehow resolve some historical
arguments ? remembering that I am here bringing many arguments to the
table, the decisions as to whether god exists remains with you.

So why is the Bible relevant to us today? Why not forget the Bible and
go along with the new religions the world will undoubtedly throw at us
in the next few years?

According to Christians it is because it tells us the truth, it tells us
about god and it tells us about us.

Frank Morrison attempted to write a book condemning the resurrection as
a fallacy. However he had to change his mind. It seems he found so much
evidence in favour of an actual supernatural resurrection that he became
a Christian and wrote the best selling book Who moved the stone?

The very same thing applies to numerous authors, lawyers, scientists,
mathematicians, doctors and professional men and women alike. Indeed, I
was so surprised upon reading the Lancet (medical professional magazine)
at just how strong the debate was still that I was quite disturbed. Does
this prove then that we have committed intellectual Christians? And does
this prove that there must be a god?

No. There are just as many atheist professionals with just as strong
views. Indeed, there are now many hundreds of extremely plausible
answers to Frank Morrison’s question about who moved the stone.
Unfortunately Frank Morrison did not have the Nag Hammadi texts (Dead
Sea Scrolls) fully deciphered to help him in his research like many have
today.

So, let’s have a look at some of the well-known historical evidence (so
called) for the Bible, which Christians throw down as their gauntlet of
evidence.

1) Jonah

When Jesus walked the planet, the scriptures concerning Jonah were not
doubted. In fact Jesus himself spoke of him as if he were an actual
character from history (Matthew 12:40). Quite a statement! Let’s just
take it apart. Jonah is in actual fact Oannes, the Merman and god of
Nineveh. Identified with Hea one of the Babylonian trinity and was
symbolised as a serpent. Hence Oannes/Jonas being swallowed by a large
serpent (Just as Osiris and many other gods of the ancients were).
Oannes was a god and a man, like Jesus; he was also a craftsman, of
woodworking. In actual fact, what the words attributed to Jesus were
really saying is quite simple. That he would be greater than a serpent
god of the Babylonians, or even of a prophet of this god.

Christians also hold up 2 Kings 14:24 as if this backs up the Christian
ideas. However this is just a line about the prophet/god called Jonah.

It must be remembered that we have a giant problem with names in the
Bible, and other old texts. To put it simply, many titles and names are
not as they seem. Real men of old lost their actual identities through
manipulation of their real lives into the old mystery plays and
traditional pagan religions. Jonah literally took on some of the
‘mysterious’ elements of Oannes. Just as Jesus takes on many other
characteristics which make him more ‘believable’.  Many times these men
of renown become giants, and via pagan hating Judaism and Christianity
become slow and dumb.

This is also a Gnostic initiation tale. Where there are subtleties of
the story of ourselves coming into play. The elements of our own
personal subconscious and conscious coming into understanding of who we
are. It is a standard method of hiding the truth where only those with
the eyes to see will be able to see it. It is the mystery of the
understanding of ourselves which is truly at stake here. The real Jonah
or Oannes was the part of ourselves that needed to submerge in wisdom
and be reborn or spewed out again like being born again or resurrected
in fresh knowledge or Gnosis of our selves and our connection to nature.

The Whale
The animal itself need not have been a whale. This is a mistranslation
as the Bible actually calls it a large fish, or serpent. This fish
swallowed Jonah and hung on to him for three days and three nights.

So is there or has there ever been a fish or whale which could swallow a
man the then spew him out three days later?

The answer remarkably is yes. The anatomies of several species are
sufficient for the production of oxygen suitable for breathing. Four
just such species are the whale shark, the sperm whale, the white shark
and the cachalot whale.

In fact this is known to have happened to several seamen of history. The
best known and most often quoted by Christian apologetics is the case of
James Bartley. Indeed Bartley told his own tale of how when he had been
a member of the whaling ship Star of the East, he had fallen overboard.
After a day and a half the whale they had been chasing was hauled onto
the ship and cut open. Out fell James Bartley. His skin was pure white,
having been parched by the gastric juices of the whale’s stomach.

Apparently the very same species of whale is known to have swallowed
sharks whole and to have vomited them onto the shore later, just as
Jonah/Jonas is said to have been spewed ashore.

It is not a stretch of the imagination then for this to have actually
happened. However it is part of popular mythology and Shaman magic lore
for a prophet or magic man to enter a dark place, cave or womb like
structure (such as a pyramid) and remain there for 3 days, prior to
being symbolically resurrected from the Otherworld inside his mind ? the
true heaven. Indeed it is part of Judaic mythology as we see with the
myth of Lazarus.

Nineveh
Strangely, in the very place Jonah ended up, archaeologists found a
bas-relief on a wall of a man sticking out of the mouth of a large
serpent like fish. This relief is dated to around 800 BC, the very
period some say Jonah lived.

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resonate with the music of the spheres 1. Without warning, they arrive. He is surrounded

subconscious at full throttle, or, maybe the greys 1 are at it again. Either way, it

Freeman!. It’s SOP, FREEMAN, SOP 2!!!"

angular momentum1. As Peabody sits staring at the hole on the verge of a

There are invisible worlds, and the militaries and governments of the world have

way once, long, long ago. He thinks to himself - surely, the Nazca Lines1 and the

realizes that the Shaman is really a voice for the Elementals2 , who cannot be directly