Don Marquis once said, if you make people think they're
thinking they'll love you, if you make
them really think they'll hate you. I'm
gonna try for the latter and try not to
hate me if I succeed. The mission of the
Thunderbolts group, at least as we set
it up ten or eleven years ago, was to
reconstruct the catastrophic past of our
geophysical world and our predecessors
and bring this knowledge into the public
domain because it has been forgotten,
lost, suppressed, whatever. The purpose of
course is to better understand the
religious, psychological, cultural,
physical environment in which we find
ourselves which, need I mention, is pretty
confusing, pretty chaotic, hundred, thousand plus
different religions out there in the
world,
we're all aware of the strife and
confusion going on in our geopolitical
world of today.. The major premise here is
that in the not too distant past, humans
experienced the breakup of the Saturnian
configuration ending in
the great catastrophe, the end of the end
phase of the Golden Age, and then also a
later series of lesser but still globally
devastating catastrophes. The minor
premise is that the breakup of this
alignment was so extensive that it
involved the transfer of the Earth away
from the ancient better sun Saturn, to
an eventually circularized orbit
around our current sun in a reorganized
solar system.
Taken as a whole, these catastrophes
changed not only the surface of the
earth, its environment and its
ecology, but a lot of things about
mankind and its culture. The minor
premise again is, this series of
catastrophes had an extensive profound
effect upon the human race in every
aspect of our thinking, psychology,
culture, communication and behavior.
Ancient writing attests to belief of
ancients that antediluvian conditions had
been paradisiacal in some sense, yet
there is an obvious conflict in evidence
for this issue, it's hard to picture any
of Earth's carnivores ever living on a
veggie diet,
there is evidence of Cro Magnon having
exterminated the Neandertal and most
other hominids, and it is known that
there was warfare in late Neolithic
times. Context for consideration here as
well is that the end of the Golden Age
inaugurated major changes for mankind
that we have taken for granted as always
having been in existence. Geologists,
paleontologists report that there have
been seven extinctions, five major at
least, of animal life that have resulted
in 99.9% of all known species having
been lost and with multiple ice ages. A
working conclusion is that the end of
the Golden Age inaugurated major
changes for mankind that we have taken
for granted as always having been in
existence, again. So, what I am proposing
is that there is a huge catastrophic
cultural carry-forward that we're largely
unaware of and we are largely unaware of
why we're doing things that we're doing
today. So this involves possible effects,
factors and mechanisms, implications
questions, probabilities. So I'm gonna try
to paint a picture in your mind
through suggestions, questions,
conjectures and some claims.
This is the brief list of categories and
possible sub-aspects. There are of course
environmental/ecological factors,
physiological factors, psychological,
philosophical, esoteric, socio political
and finally religious/cultural factors.
So, starting right in. Major change in an
otherwise benign or benevolent life
support environment. Our life support
environment now is not benign nor benevolent.
We have to scramble and we have used an
ongoing upward march of technology to
ameliorate the conditions on Earth as
we find it and to make our lives more
comfortable and better sustained. Maybe
one of the most significant factors is
that we've undergone an oppressive
gravitational force change probably by a
factor of four. Exposure to new and
dangerous climatic and seasonal
temperature changes, exposure to hitherto
un-encountered toxins, maybe
contamination or widespread of
certain toxic metals like cadmium or whatever.
Exposure to hitherto unencountered
radiation mix. Exposure to hitherto
unencountered electrical field level.
Animal extinctions, species changes,
plant extinctions and changes. Shift
from a perennial food source supply to
seasonal food crops. That takes a
learning curve, that doesn't happen
smoothly. Significant overall increase in
stress on living structures. Reduction in
size limits of many/most creatures due
to increased gravity. Some changes in body
chemistry, significant increase in
fertility rate tied to the new lunar
cycle, evidently. Significant increase in
birth defects and malformed human aspects,
significant increase/decrease in sex
drive. I'm not sure which it is. You can
pick your own flavor there. Significant
reduction in availability and
consumption of a balanced healthy diet.
Any major disruption in the ecology and
overnight development of new species
would indicate a new dietary learning
curve. Possible increased physiological
and sexual maturation rate. We've seen an
increase in the maturation rate or the
sexual development rate just in the
time that the United States has been
in existence. Reduction in human life span.
Major factor number three, major change
in the attitude toward life and its
value. The population was no doubt
decimated with the attendant depression
of the survivors. Today's ratio of
maturity to lifespan is down to 1:4 from
what, 1:15 or one to a hundred, we really don't
know, what the original lifespan of human
beings was during the Golden Age.
Significant increase and exposure to
violent, premature death, including
increased child mortality, the loss of or
a significant reduction in a sense of
security, a heightened sense of
personal, familial and societal vulnerability. Don't
ask me what the differences between
those last two are but.. The sudden
extreme transition from a life
of leisure and hedonism to survival
struggle, the sudden rise and use of
escape mechanism; chemical agents, alcohol,
other substances.. The sudden rise in
the use of escape mechanism focus,
activity for distraction. Significant
increase in the value of and indulgence in
risk-taking. Societal value changes, such
as practical ability over artistic
ability.
Major factor number four, the blunting/
stunting of the development of the
humane virtues such as kindness, compassion,
empathy etcetera. An increase in the
short-circuiting of rationality, logic
and reason. A general increase in the
valuation of competitiveness, all the way
to military capability. A general
decrease in the evaluation of
sensitivity, restraint, peaceful
amelioration. The development of the "if
you're not part of the solution, then you're
part of the problem" mentality. The
increase of the valuation of human life
in terms of productivity. Five, the
overwhelming sense of loss and ensuing
depression for the survivors. Probably an
initially huge depression rate. Probably
an initially huge suicide rate. There's
always survivor guilt. I've got to suggests
as the author of the book, I think
Maccoby, wrote
The Sacred Executioner. Great book. The
inauguration of mercy killing. The
inauguration of human sacrifice which
maybe morphed from assisted suicide and
mercy killing.
Development of desperate or psychotic
systems of thinking/behavior to regain
paradise. 6, in an environment of ordeal and
harsh survival, the development of
patriarchy from the now greater
valuation of the male characteristics.
Probably an initial and ongoing warfare
between families, tribes or cultures
over inadequate resources in a post-
catastrophic world. Development of male
domination. Development of greater social
segregation of the sexes. Domination of
male developed religion, mythology and
suppression of the female. Where
everybody is sitting around the campfire
there's kind of a natural segregation
takes place,
the males tell their version of what
happened and the females tell their.
So the development of his story and her
story, well, does that suggest the
fundamental root of the word history?
Which one of these two competing visions
of what happened and why, do you think
prevail, which one do you think God
suppressed? Change in relationship
rationale. Significant increase in the
valuation of physical attributes.
Significant increase in the valuation of
provider ability. Significant increase
in the valuation of status based on
material wealth. Significant increase in
the valuation of leadership capability.
If there's nothing pressing down
or where urgent to go and everybody's having a
good time you don't need a lotta
leadership. Number 8, a radical shift in
artistic subject emphasis. Take note of
the inexplicable change from the
Paleolithic to the Neolithic art forms
and expressions. Number 9, development of
addiction to drama. I won't dignify it
by calling it drama, it should be called
dramma.
The struggle between good and evil, the
eventual development of the warrior hero
motif and the hero syndrome. Mix in the
ongoing meaninglessness of dying and
death,
read Ernest Becker's Pulitzer
Prize winning, The Denial of Death.
Number eleven, the continuous incessant
ego problem causing corosion of our
psyches, from: a) the human condition of never
receiving everything that we legitimately
want and need to sustain and
enhance our lives. b) The message of
relentless indifference from the
experience of a harsh material and
psychological reality because we are all
under natural law and it never affirms
our value or worth. We never get to
abrogate or violate it. When you step
over the edge of the cliff, the law of
gravity never says to you, you're such a
great wonderful person, I'm gonna soften
your landing. Doesn't happen, ever!
Major implication. Taken as a whole, the
catastrophes with the resultant disrupted
and harsher environment and wounded
ecology could have been a filter that
selectively favored the survival of those
humans that were: more competitive and
combative, less sensitive, less virtuous,
less contemplative, less spiritually
inclined. New "counterproductive" ideas
that may have gotten started and adopted.
Development of a concept that "God" became
angry with the human race.
Development of the concept that God
decided to punish and/or cleanse us
severely with a violent global genocidal
or homicidal catastrophes. By the way, God
to the ancient people was represented by
that huge glowing orb in the sky, Saturn.
That was the visible presence of God generally
conceived. c) The development of legalism,
the idea that Man was meant to
live under and obey invasive "moral"
law vs that should be external and
eternal inspirational principles.
Development of the idea of punishment as
the proper response to unacceptable
behaviour. Development of "God"-placating,
guilt-
and fear-based religions. 13, the
expression of violence toward mankind
from "sky god". New and increased adoption
of outlandish, violent, capricious creator
concepts along with rejection, probably,
of more sensible ones. An explosion of
anthropomorphic planet-god mythologies,
resulting in the pantheon and other
religious god planet hierarchies. An
explosion of confusion, mysticism and
superstition. The loss or breakdown of a
collective consciousness resulting in
collective amnesia, collective guilt,
collective denial. The loss of an
effective ideal telepathic communicational
system. We have vestiges of telepathy that
are active in our world today but it's
the vestiges are so.. so unusual, that we
have a hard time really coming to any
solid conclusions about it.
The sudden communicational isolation of
the individual. Possibly the loss of
communication
with / control of the higher animal
life forms. It's one thing to live with
lions and elephants and maybe even
dinosaurs when you can control them and
it's another thing to live with them
when you have no control over them.
The sudden need to develop or greatly
expand the verbal, sound-symbol language
and phonetic alphabets. The sudden onset
of psychological pathologies that is,
schizophrenia, autism, bipolar depression and
manic expression, psychoses, neuroses,
phobias. The development of psychotic
systems of thinking. The loss of
effective or productive brain-mind bicamerality.
The development of arcane
systems for inducing trances, dampening
self-consciousness and behavior to
regain the connection, such as prophecy,
oracles, familiar spirits, idolatry was
probably always the form of altered
consciousness focus. Probably using mind
focus, white noise, self-hypnosis,
focus on very very powerful symbols that
represented the devastation of the
catastrophe to mankind. The gradual
development or redevelopment of greater
self consciousness as we know it.
There is significant evidence that the
form of self-consciousness we take for
granted today just re-emerged few
hundred years ago. Some kind of morphic
resonance carry-forward that our subconscious
or bicameral mind taps into? Possibly
supported by the, what I call, the
Sheldrake-Thornhill morphogenetic
resonance field concepts?
Or, possibly supported by the Holographic
universe paradigm Record supported.
Possibly some other inheritance type
mechanism. Major factor number seventeen,
development of organizations as top-down,
hierarchical, authoritarian, coercive,
including majority rule, people's central
ruler, as above so below. By the way
everybody should look down, at this point,
and notice the big bold nested circular
patterns on the carpet. That's, that's a
carry forward of what I'm talking about.
Kings, presidents, bureaucracies,
chief executive officers vs bottom-up,
networking, voluntary, mutual agreement,
familial type support in endeavors which
have sub aspects of regulation planning of
multitudinous individual economic
activities. Here,
herding cats vs decentralized economic
activity. Invisible hand or emergent
order of the price system without
interference, regulation, obstruction from
government.
An explosion of civilizations with cities/
city-states. Many ancient ones up until
today centered around a, civic or
business or city-hall, hub. Development of
social classes by wealth, race, ancestry,
equalling some kind of special descent
from the gods. Development of competitive
sports. Probably, most probably, from
initially sacred ball / planet games.
Twenty, an explosion of
monument building with an inordinate
percentage of gross productivity devoted
to it. Whole cultures devoted any access
of productivity and capability at just
building monuments, pyraminds for instances. In Chaco
Canyon people labored under harsh
conditions for 800 years building weird
unusable buildings. And then at some point
set fire to the roofs of them and left.
What was that all about?
Well,
most probably some charismatic leader
had a vision that if we do this, the gods
will return or we'll reenter the Golden
Age. We'll recover all that we had, back
when, that we lost. 21, the development of
technology. We've developed a need-based
technology to deal with the new
exigencies. We've developed a
"replacement" based technology to deal
with what was lost. For instance; now we
have cell phones, computers, the world
wide web, we can have pretty much
instantaneous communication, one to one, one
to many, via cell phone or the
internet. With no doubt it went to a rapid
march from the Stone Age to the Copper
Age to the Bronze Age and so on up to
whatever the latest stage is, information
age,
technological age, I don't know. 22, the
stark
bias of survival or survivor religious
testimony. When there's going to be a
catastrophe delivered from the sky and
there's not a blessed thing you can do
about it, except maybe get under a
pyramid or in
heavy caves and people do things that
they think is going to help them survive
or they get drunk and hope they wake up
alive ok, and if they don't they don't know
about it and so on. Some people crawl off
and try to have one last glorious
romantic session, whatever. The point is
that only the survivors get to tell
what they did and claimed that that
helped them to survive. The people that did
the same exact thing aren't around
anymore to say, wait a minute I did that
and it didn't do anything.
23, the development of formal religions,
the major part of which is always in
explanations of what went wrong. Along with
an explanation of how to fix it or
induce god to fix it and then a
whole variety of coping mechanisms. 24,
the development of holy days or now use
the word holiday. Sabbaths and other holy
days / periods, the Roman Saturnalia the
Greek Kronia, these were pretty much
identical the latter two and of course
dedicated to the great God planet Saturn.
Holy days have now morphed into western
culture, particularly into secular
holidays like New Year's Day,
where we do a dim reenaction of
the catastrophe. Fireworks, lots of noise,
celebrating the dawning of a new age and
always with the dropping of the great
glowing ball down the side of the
building in New York. That was Mars by the
way.
25, the acceptance of formations in the
sky primarily involving Saturn, Mars and
Venus with their plasma discharges,
actually inaugurated the world's major
religious symbols such as the Ankh, the
Cross, the Celtic Cross, the Yin-yang, the
Star, Moon and Crescent etcetera. 26, the
development of ritual. The institution of
God-ordained rites, ceremonies, chants, etc.
A focus of concentration or worship on
idols and/or "sacred icons" leading from
mild to severe altered states of
consciousness. The development of
sacrifices, strictures, ordinances and
sacraments to help "God" love or feel
better toward us.
27, the development of clans, tribes and
tribal warfare. 28, the ultimate
development of celestial, magical or
exotic living entities. For instances,
hierarchies of angels, demons and devils,
ifrits, jinns and genies, fairies
leprechauns, elves, goblins, ghouls, witches
etcetera.
29, construction and architectural
developments. The inauguration of a
monolithic monument building
technology; stone, mason, that was a lot of
science and art and knowledge and learning
that went into all of that. Maybe even
things that we have lost today. It's
still unknown how they, how they moved
such massive stones such distances and
across rivers and so on. The
development of architectural
elements from basically the Stupa,
which Tony Peratt showed us was an
upside-down model of the polar
configuration. A golden dome at the
bottom, with pyramidic color, leading up
to a reddish ball where the pillar,
pyramidic pillar
leading, I'm sorry, leading up to a bluish
greenish ball from the golden dome and
then another one leading up to a reddish
ball which was the view that one had of the
polar configuration from Earth. And there
were attendant domes and pillars, spires,
cupolas, nested circle layouts etc.
The inordinate time and attention to
producing petrographs and petroglyphs.
You can't just go out and in a half an
hour with a stone, make a nice
petroglyph. It may take a
month to do any such thing as that. And
Peratt showed us that the petroglyph or graph
makers had to be protected from
radiation from the southern polar region
while they were doing that. Again,
estimated that it took months under
harmful conditions to produce many of
these. Has modern man overcome the mythological mindset or just gone
through an extended period of forgetting
and burying knowledge of what really
happened in the ancient times. Can we be
more intellectually responsible in our
belief systems? That's the question I
leave you with, thank you!
