What if Storms Fell Up? A stormy forecast on another Earth

Snow and Swearing...snow and swearing...

Spending hours and hours clearing something (snow) falling from the sky can make you wonder about strange alternate realities where storms make things spring UP from the ground. Let's hop the vibrational boundary to visit such a reality and an Earth much like our own. We join your local nightly news already in progress:

"This just in, town officials have yet again had their bacon saved by farmer Johnson’s psychic potbellied pig, Mr. Furry McTumtums. The sleuthing swine broke the case of Town Hall’s missing clock tower after spending three days in a deep meditative trance communing with several technologically enhanced non-corporeal entities, said farmer Johnson beaming proudly from behind his vegetable stand. We’ll have more for you at 11:00 as details unfold.

And now it’s time for your weather.

The National Weather Service has issued a warning for our viewing area that late winter, early spring storm Janus is expected to bring as much as two feet of plant growth during the overnight. Light sprouting is expected to begin early Monday evening and intensify overnight into early Tuesday morning. Lawn, playground, and golf course travel is strongly discouraged due to the potential of hard to get out stains, so if you have to go out remember to wear old clothes or perhaps shorts. Local hardware stores are seeing the usual shortages of lawn mowers, clippers, gas cans, and beer helmets while grocery stores are reporting runs on milk and bread despite the fact that roads, sidewalks, and power lines will be completely unaffected. The storm has already dumped unruly shrubs, poking branches, and unwanted weeds all along the East Coast. Wind gusts of up to 7 mph have been reported and found to be not really worth mentioning except as a passing side note. Janus, while large, pales in comparison to the Tropism of ’98 where five feet of plant growth in just forty-eight-hours. Some viewers might remember the Scythe Clubs that became fashionable for a time afterwards. Dressing in medieval period clothing, members roved from community to community offering cut the walls of grass in exchange for wine and cheese.

Stay tuned for updates."

What If Storms Fell Up?

If you place your ear close to the screen you can hear me swearing. A lot.

Spending hours upon hours clearing something falling from the sky can make you wonder about strange alternate realities where storms make things spring UP from the ground. Let's hop the vibrational boundary to visit such a reality and an Earth much like our own.

We join your local nightly news program already in progress:

"This just in, town officials yet again have had their collective bacons saved by farmer Johnson’s psychic potbellied pig, Mr. Furry McTumtums. The sleuthing swine broke the case of Town Hall’s missing clock tower after spending three days in a deep meditative trance communing with several technologically enhanced non-corporeal entities, said farmer Johnson beaming proudly from behind his vegetable stand. We’ll have more for you at 11:00 as details unfold. 

And now it’s time for your weather.

The National Weather Service has issued a warning for our viewing area that late winter, early spring storm Janus is expected to bring as much as two feet of plant growth during the overnight. Light sprouting is expected to begin early Monday evening and intensify overnight into early Tuesday morning. Lawn, playground, park, and golf course travel is strongly discouraged due to the potential of hard to get out grass stains, so if you have to go out remember to wear old clothes or shorts. Local hardware stores are seeing the usual shortages of lawn mowers, clippers, gas cans, and beer helmets while grocery stores are reporting runs on milk and bread despite the fact that roads, sidewalks, and power lines will be completely unaffected. The storm has already dumped unruly shrubs, poking branches, and unwanted weeds all along the East Coast. Wind gusts of up to 7 mph have been reported and found to be not really worth mentioning except as a passing side note.

Janus, while large, pales in comparison to the Tropism of ’98 where five feet of plant growth in just forty-eight-hours. Some viewers might remember the Scythe Clubs that became fashionable for a time afterwards. Members roved from community to community dressed in medieval peasant garb offering cut the walls of grass and fauna in exchange for wine and cheese.

Stay tuned for updates."

Planet X, you say?

 (Image copyright NASA. Artist’s conception based upon how nice dark blue looks. Pretty.)

Headlines and news vids around the net recently announced the findings of two California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists which point toward the possible existence of a Neptune sized planet well beyond the orbit of Pluto. Dubbed “Planet Nine”, this object, if it exists, fits the mathematical models Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin used to explain some of the more unusually organized behavior of known objects in the massive, debris filled area called the Kuiper Belt.

Think of it this way. You are playing pinball. You are in the zone intertwined with ball and the board on the way to claiming that sweet, sweet high score. But something is wrong. With unusual regularity, the pinball moves in a way it should not. In an open area of the board the ball moves as if it is striking an invisible bumper. You drop quarter after to quarter in order to study its movements before coming to the inescapable conclusion that there IS a bumper there, just not visible to the naked eye. That’s what these researchers did. The wobbles of these celestial objects were so regular that the only logical explanation that fit the math was the existence of a Gas Giant class planet well beyond the orbit of the dwarf planet Pluto tugging and pushing its neighbors with its gravitational well. The object is so far out, according to their simulations, that its orbit would take anywhere from 10, 000 to 20,000 years to complete.[i] That’s still a better margin of error then some weather forecasters. 

(Read out loud in using your best Christian Bale impression.)

The public has responded with its usual lackluster response to space news. “Come on,” people carp. “It’s a bazillion miles away and the Middle East is burning and Trump is a lunatic and Bernie is a communist and the Oscars are too white and I’m getting older and I can’t shed these last ten pounds and my spouse hasn’t touched me in weeks and blah blah blah.” Nobody cares about what’s out there because of all the crazy we have to sort through right here.

Well, not everyone.

Around the globe, a not so small group of humans with a penchant for the unconventional fell off their collective chairs when the news hit. Most stood back up on shaky legs but some stayed on the floor rocking to and fro in a tight fetal position. 

Planet Nine could actually be PLANET X. 

(Artist Unknown. Image not to scale.)

This next bit is a simplification of a great deal of information. My goal here is to whet your appetite so you peruse libraries, bookstores, and the Interwebs to learn more on your own because the subject of Planet X, in both mainstream and fringe studies, has a long history. There have been dozens of books written on the subject, along with hundreds of hours of video produced. Most of it planted enjoyably on the fringe side of the aisle. 

The idea of planets in the outer reaches of the solar system is not new. Astronomer Percival Lowell in the early 1900’s was one of the first who brought the idea of a Planet X-like object to the larger public. The idea itself, however, dates back to the mid-1800’s and the work of European astronomers who, like the pinball metaphor above, noticed Neptune’s obit was not regular. While Lowell’s work poured the foundation for the discovery of Pluto, he was known during his lifetime largely as a proponent of life on Mars and then a proponent of the Planet X theory. He built the observatory which bears his name in the hopes of finding this new world. He never did. Lowell died in 1916, but in 1930 a researcher using newer tech did find a celestial body whose initials are a nod to Lowell. Pluto, however, was found to be far too small to explain what astronomers were seeing. The search continued. Mainstream astronomers paid fleeting attention to the Planet X theory during the next few decades. But our next actor in the drama earned a degree in economics before teaching himself the Sumerian system of Cuneiform writing. Enter stage left, Zecharia Sitchin.

 

(Sitchin)

Cuneiform was a method of writing, as well as a style. It was largely done by pressing shapes representing letters or concepts into a clay tablet. If left undisturbed, clay tablets have a fantastic lifespan. Sitchin translated the origin stories of the Sumerians (which date before 2500 B.C.) in the frame of mind of alternate historians/ancient alien theorists like Erich von Däniken who claim ancient humans documented, as best they could, actual events using the words and concepts at their disposal. Sitchin, therefore, postulated if the Sumerian text said a god flew down on a fiery chariot then that’s exactly what happened within the contextual and technological understanding of the observer. No metaphors. No symbolism. Just the facts, ma’am. It is a tempting way of looking at stories and legends from the past, if you think about it. Ask yourself how often you knowingly chose symbolism as your means of documenting your life. Not often, I’d wager. Try if for a week on social media and see how it flies. See how long it takes before friends ask you to stop screwing around and say what you’re trying to say. That’s something to remember when we’re tempted by the ‘those dumb people in the past’ siren. We may have more facts and the accompanying larger vocabulary than our ancient brethren, but we aren’t smarter. I coined the phrase “temporal-centricity” in a novel I wrote to describe the, “My time is the most enlightened time!” fallacy.[ii] Lest we forget, one day, we will be those ‘those dumb people in the past’. 

The story he found through his translations, and which he argued for and expanded upon for the rest of his life is, is that we are a created race. Humans were literally crafted by combing alien DNA with proto-humans some 450,000 years ago in order to create a slave race for the purposes of mining gold. Our creators are a race called the Anunnaki. They harken from, wait for it, a planet that lurks most of time in the far reaches of the solar system called Nibiru. I say most of the time because Nibiru reportedly has a wide orbit that brings it into the core of our system every 3,600 years. You may be thinking to yourself, “Self (which is an odd way to start a sentence), that sounds like that is a very BAD thing.” You and yourself would be right. The gravitational forces would cause wide weather disruptions at best and possible planetary destruction at worst. Some veins of the Nibiru story suggest the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter used to be a planet which fell victim to Nibiru. So you can understand why some believers of the Nibiru theory think its closing time for the human race. Need more reason to worry? David Bowie died. Some believers are so going far as to claim the recent rash of celebrity deaths (Bowie, Rickman, Lemmy, Angelil, Haggerty, and Frey) is all part of an elaborate escape plan by the elite! I know what you’re thinking Dan Haggerty? Grizzly Adams? An Elite? I only report on this stuff. Don’t stone the messenger. But. Why else would David Bowie name his “last” album BLACK STAR while the track most closely inspired by his impending death, LAZARUS, is titled after a man who died and then stood back up?[iii]  And then there’s this tidbit. On January 7^th, three days before Bowie’s death, NASA stated it has, “… formalized its ongoing program for detecting and tracking near-Earth objects (NEOs) as the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO).”[iv]  Planetary Defense Coordination Office. What a great name. What a great What aren’t they telling us? sort of name. Just a coincidence of timing, I’m sure. Yes. Move along citizen…    

So, there’s the landscape for you to digest. We have mainstream theories about a massive, far flung dark world whose gravity makes Neptune wobbles like a drunk freshman. We have fringe theories about a far flung planet whose inhabitants not only messed with Earth in the distant past, but whose existence could spell doom for us all. Both parties seemingly had a major breakthrough with the announcement of Planet X. I find that fascinating. It is why I wrote this blog, honestly. I wanted to put forth both schools of thought in the hope you, gentle reader, might use them as a springboard into enjoying both main street science along with the free range thinking of the fringe. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. We can enjoy both. The world is a much stranger and wonderful and unknown then we give it credit for. I say kudos to expanding our knowledge while flexing our cross-referencing skills to mix and match ideas that normally would not be caught dead together.

NOW GO EXPLORE!

Two quick notes before you GO EXPLORE! First, Sitchin’s own niece Janet Sitchin doesn’t think Planet X is Nibiru due to the difference in the orbit durations: 3600 vs. 10,000 to 20,000 years. Unless something, she notes, happened to Nibiru.[v] Yikes. Maybe the gold the needed to fix their atmosphere didn’t work. Second, here’s a link to a song by one of the most interesting creators I’ve ever found. He called himself Doctor Phineas Waldolf Steel . His music and videos productions introduced me to the Anunnaki theory amongst other things. In fitting fashion he retired/disappeared several years ago and has not formally been heard from again. I interviewed him once. Here’s the link. http://strongarmlabs.blogspot.com/2008/12/strongarm-interview-3-dr-steel.html

 

Fan made video of Planet X Marks the Spot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0dOUX46e2o

The Lyrics:

Mission Control, this is Mars Two-Niner-Five, ready for departure.
Uh, Earth. The planet Earth.
Roger, countdown is go in T Minus five, four, three, two, one.

Through space I shall roam
From the base to my home
In my rocket I soar in a daze

Blastin' the asteroid field
I'm trying not to get killed
I'm dodging Mars bars and old Milky Ways

This planet's stinky
I should call up Enki
And say "What were you thinkin'?
Look at the mess you made!"

Disposable humans that you made from a monkey
This planet has gone to the apes

Planet X marks the spot
Planet X marks the spot

So I'm ditchin' and hitchin' a ride
I got my Sitchin guide
He's my Nibiru guru

To endure three thousand, six hundred years
Is far too long, I'm gone
I'm knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door

Planet X marks the spot
Planet X marks the spot
Planet X marks the spot
Planet X marks the spot

Walk through the gate
(Eeaaa)
Welcome the creature you made
(Eeaaa)
Embrace your disgrace
(Eeaaa)

You took your pinches of clay
You made us, raised us in days
And then you threw us away

And now you're scouting with Greys
And simply counting the days
Down till you cruise back by and blow us away

And we dance
Blissful unawareness as we dance

Planet X marks the spot
Planet X marks the spot
Planet X marks the spot
Planet X marks the spot
Planet X
Planet X
Planet X, X, X
Planet X[vi]

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[i] http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/2016/01/21/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-of-a-real-ninth-planet

[ii] http://strongarmlabs.blogspot.com/2014/08/this-book-is-free.html

[iii] http://beforeitsnews.com/christian-news/2016/01/elite-preparing-to-escape-nibiru-planet-x-celebrity-death-connection-the-bowie-breakaway-lazarus-space-flowers-gods-wrath-2522280.html

[iv] http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2016-007

[v] http://www.sitchin.com/

[vi] http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Dr._Steel:Planet_X_Marks_The_Spot

The 12,500 yr old Interview. Kind of…

 

I took another stab at scoring an interview last month.

YAY!

But to no avail.

Boo.

Several weeks have passed since my initial request and subsequent follow up with no reply. I knew it was a longshot before I rolled the dice. No big surprise here. I craft these interviews for fun and a quick excuse to research topics that interest me so I see no reason to stop trying. Besides, who can resist the thrill of checking their email every five minutes for weeks and weeks in the vain hopes of a reply? Not me!

Here’s the wording I sent to researcher and international best selling author Graham Hancock.

Enjoy!

 

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Asking questions is a dangerous hobby. Poking a religious, governmental, or academic school of thought is not the best way to make friends. The pages of history, and some of the jails and unemployment lines of the world today, are peppered with people who asked too many questions and paid the price. In extreme cases some even develop a bad case of death. This interview, however, will stay within the less lethal realm of academia, though I am not sure Socrates would totally agree with the last part of assessment.

Graham Hancock, completely ignoring my advice above, has spent almost three decades asking questions, and even worse he has tried to answer some of them. I will do my best to summarize his long career for those not familiar with Graham, but I fear your best course, gentle reader, is to set aside some time and visit his website. His work is voluminous and you should review it for yourself.

Graham’s background lies in journalism where he wrote for bastions of the mainstream like The Times, The Guardian, and eventually The Economist as an East Africa correspondent in the late 1980’s. This led him to write Lords of Poverty in 1989 chronicling the abuses and misuses of international aid. His turn from journalist to alternate historian came from his time in Africa when he learned of the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum, Ethiopia in which the Ark of the Covenant is reported to rest. Yes, THAT Ark of the Covenant. This got his curiosity going, as it should yours. The history of Judaism and Christianity is Ethiopia is fascinating and more than a little odd. But I digress. Researching this claim started him questioning our understanding of human history. This grew into the mother lode question that has consumed his time and mind ever since: what if there is more to the story of humanity than we have ever realized?

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Flash forward to 1995 and Graham publishes Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth’s Lost Civilization. The book is an international success, which causes the weight of mainstream academia to come crashing down upon him. Graham’s theory, and he is honest enough to refer to it as just that, is that human civilization is much older than the five-thousand year timeframe we are taught in schools. He uses his own research and the research of alternate and establishment historians to highlight a trail of traces left behind by a vast, yet unidentified civilization that was nearly decimated by a world-wide catastrophe approximately 12, 500 years ago. The remnants of this civilization, scattered and broken, spread around the world teaching what it could to what was left of humanity. In this theory, he attempts to unify what he sees are common themes, such as the proliferation of flood myths around the world, the construction of ancient monuments whose size and complexity are out of place given the supposedly low station of ancient humanity, archeo-astronomical markers, and a growing body of evidence that some of the dates attributed to monuments, such as the Sphinx, are completely wrong. This is but a very brief summary, of course.

Mainstream academics were, and are, largely unaccepting of his theory. Google it and see the reactions and refutations for yourself. What I find interesting is the range of reactions. Some are merely unconvinced by the evidence, which is fair. Graham refers to it as a theory, let us not forget. Others I would describe as furious. Actual anger at the proposing and popularization of an idea counter to the establishment’s norm. History is not a block of dead matter that occasionally has a new inch dusted off by an archeologist’s brush. It is often taught that way but it is not. History is a living field. Each generation has a few mavericks who find their own meanings, uncover new evidence, dig up old theories, and utilize new technology in the hopes of illuminating the human story. The history I was taught is not the same history my children are being taught, nor will their children learn the same material. We don’t know everything. I would argue we are only starting to learn how to learn. Why, then, limit our ideas? I’m open to considering Graham’s theory because it is not impossible. It could easily be fact. Let us not forget how Troy was found. Besides, there is something to be said for shaking up puzzle pieces to see if they make a new, better picture.

Undaunted by the continuing backlash, Graham has continued his research and soon his sixteenth book Magicians of the Gods will be available. It will contain all new information learned in twenty years since Fingerprints, including what the massive 12, 000 year old Gobekli Tepe site in Turkey (which is amazing) might mean to the development of human society, and to paraphrase Graham, what we as a species may have forgotten about our past.

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I cannot stress how much I am condensing the Graham’s work. Do yourself a favor and look him up. Judge for yourself. https://grahamhancock.com/

On to the questions!

1. The alternate history field is by its nature a scattered field. It covers a wide range of ideas postulated by an equally wide range of individuals with varying backgrounds and personalities. The quality of its research and presentation, therefore, is also scattered. Is there any type of peer-review process behind the scenes in the alternate history field to address this? If not, would one not be beneficial? Or, would it go against the free-thinking nature of the field and threaten to create a new “establishment”?

2. Let’s talk about smoking guns for a moment. Given the timeframe in the distant past your theory centers around, do you hope to find physical proof for your theory that is not made of stone, or consists of a possible message rendered in stone? I understand the practicality of using stone in building and the corruptible nature of most materials given enough time, but humans are creatures of comfort. We like art, music, soft places to sleep on, and warm places to share with our loved ones. Do you hold any hope of finding an daily life artifact of the culture which inspired so many ancient works? Is it a type of proof you give any thought to at all?

3. What would you do with an unlimited research budget? I know some people consider questions like this as fluff, but to me learning a person’s BIG DREAM or BIG PLAN is like sneaking a peak into the scope of their thinking.

Those are the questions! Again, I appreciate your time and I look forward to hearing back from you soon.

Thanks, Graham.

>>> And there you have it, gentle reader. Not too bad, I think.<<<

1.Photo from a 9/15 mirror.co.uk.com article. Copyright SWNS.com

2.Graham at the completely understood and easily explained megalithic walls in Sacsayhuaman, Peru. Photo by his wife Santha Faiia.

3. Photo from www.globalheritagefund.org