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Aug 14, 2024 • 1h 41min

130. Atlantis Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight – Jack Kelley

Like most people, writer and filmmaker Jack Kelley thought Plato’s account of Atlantis was just an allegory when he, during a vacation on the Greek island of Santorini, was drawn into a world of research that takes the Platonic story seriously. Even in that world, however, there are diverging opinions about the location of the lost civilization. Jack came across the work of Greek engineer and linguist George Sarantitis and thought: “This guy might actually have cracked it.” He made contact, and the collaboration that followed resulted in the newly released documentary The Atlantis Puzzle, based on Sarantits’ groundbreaking findings (watch and give a review here or here). Taking Plato’s account seriously is controversial. “The very idea of Atlantis is frightening to mainstream academic researchers. They could easily end up looking like fools. The risk-reward is not there. That keeps a lot of first-class minds from seriously addressing what this subject is really about. And Sarantitis is a first-class mind”, Jack says. George Sarantitis refused to believe the two Plato dialogues Timaeus and Critias, where Atlantis is discussed, were just nonsense fables. He retranslated the texts and realized that important concepts had been misinterpreted for centuries. For example, an ‘Atlantic pelagos’ does not mean ‘The Atlantic ocean’. ‘Pelagos’ is a lesser sea. Earlier translators had only made an assumption, because nobody had ever heard of an ‘Atlantic pelagos’. Sarantitis found a few other things that hadn't been well delineated. For instance, three words for ‘island’ are being thrown around. This retranslation led him to the conclusion that ‘the pillars of Herakles’, a crucial reference, probably doesn’t mean the strait of Gibraltar, which completely changes the idea of where Atlantis may have been located. Sarantitis’ surprising hypothesis is that the ‘pelagos’ was a series of navigable inland megalakes in northwest Africa where one could sail to the empire known as Atlantis. It is a fact that there are a series of huge salt lakes in the area that indicate that there was once a large body of water, and we now know that the Sahara was a lot wetter at the time Plato points to. Then there is the much-talked-about Richat structure, the ‘Eye of the Sahara’, which well matches Plato’s description of the Atlantean capital. So, if there was a civilization in this area, why did it disappear? If the extreme climatological changes during the latter part of the Younger Dryas (matches Plato’s time frame) were accompanied by earthquakes, tsunamis and other geophysical disasters, a civilizational collapse is plausible. Jack engaged preeminent earthquake expert Dr Scott Ashford for the documentary. “According to Ashford, Plato is accurately describing what the effects of the combination of these natural disasters would have been”, Jack says. Was Atlantis advanced? In Jack’s mind, it was sort of advanced for its time but probably more of a hunter-gatherer than a bronze age kind of society. He does not subscribe to the more grand theories out there. But he does give other independent researchers credit for pushing the idea that mainstream academia is ignoring many signs of lost human worlds in lands that are now below water, not just the one Plato is talking about. There are hundreds of ancient flood myths, for example. “Clearly there were kingdoms, tribes, even empires that we don’t have any names for today”, Jack says.
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Jun 26, 2024 • 1h 7min

129. Wikipedia Is a Materialist Bastion – Craig Weiler

Everybody who has looked into parapsychology knows that it is a long-standing scientific discipline and that new fascinating findings are published in scientific journals regularly. Yet there are tenacious materialists out there who still believe that this whole field is woo-woo and pseudoscience. And they are influential. Craig Weiler is a journalist specializing in parapsychology and psi phenomena. He discovered the stubborn and angry skeptics when he was blogging about psi sixteen years ago. And he was taken aback by their arrogant stance. “They were stubborn and irrational. They weren’t looking into science. They weren’t even close. Which was weird, because they said they were defending science”, Craig says. He started studying the skeptics and their behavior and discovered that they always approach things in the same manner. He concluded that they basically represent one personality type. “Key elements are stubbornness, a lack of ambiguity, and great difficulty saying ‘I don’t know’. They have this materialistic background, and everything has to be shoved into that”, Craig says. “It becomes obvious that we are dealing with people with an authoritarian personality type. Lack of ambiguity, hostile tone, arrogance. If you look at what authoritarian personality types are, these people tick an awful lot of those boxes.” How have you been able to assess this? “I ve been arguing with them on social media since 2008. Over time I have had hundreds of conversations with skeptics. I was getting kinda hooked into it. I’ve freed myself of that now, but it allowed me to eventually see them more clearly, not just lock horns with them. It was a bit of a personal journey.” It wouldn’t be so much of a problem if these materialist skeptics weren’t so active and didn’t have so much influence in the public debate. They are organized in outfits like Center for Inquiry and its program Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and they run the Skeptical Inquirer magazine. They control the narrative on psi and other topics at the intersection of science and spirituality in various ways. One of the most salient ways is their iron grip over Wikipedia. An activist group advocating for materialist atheism called Guerilla Skepticism on Wikipedia has virtually gained full control of a couple of thousand articles about psi phenomena and persons studying them The group, run by former photographer Susan Gerbic, is intent on ridding Wikipedia of anything that in their worldview resembles pseudoscience. They kick out others from the platform. “They make sure there’s nobody there to disagree with them.” Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales himself encouraged GSoW from the beginning to “protect science”. Wikipedia has become the go-to source of information for millions, if not billions of people. Craig Weiler and I agree that idea as such is wonderful. It is only sad that it in some areas has been turned into a propaganda tool. “I want to educate the public: you have to be very careful when you look at these topics on Wikipedia, because you’re literally getting somebody’s quasi religion.” So, what can be done? Craig is part of a group that aims to expose the physicalist “police” on Wikipedia. They are now documenting GSoW’s biased editing, their omissions and their blocking of other editors. There are many other contentious topics that certain skeptics are “policing“ on Wikipedia, such as alternative medicine, the UAP phenomenon and alternative archaeology (lost civilizations), but Craig focuses on his area of expertise. Paranormal Daily News (featuring Craig's work) Craig on XCraig on Linkedin
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Jun 18, 2024 • 1h 19min

128. How Astrology Is Misconstrued – John L Lash

At the end of our previous conversation (released April 2023), mythologist, modern shaman and author John Lamb Lash and I had a brief exchange about astrology. It revealed an apparent difference in how we view some aspects of it. Some time later, we decided to have another conversation to sort those differences out. So, in this episode John takes a deep dive into some basic misunderstandings about astrology, in particular the fact that zodiacal astrology and astrological ages are two completely different models. Main point: ordinary astrology does not have anything to do with star constellations. “How does astrology work?” John asks me, teasingly. I try to present my view, which of course doesn’t offer a comprehensive explanation. “It’s a trick question”, John says. “I have used astrology for decades, and I can definitely say that it does work. But how? I can assure you, Anders, that no one understands why astrology works. No one.” But the topic of this conversation is not zodiacal astrology, it’s the astrological ages. And John makes clear that the two are not the same kind of phenomenon and cannot be interpreted in the same way, which is a common misunderstanding. It’s not helpful to conflate the astrological ages with the zodiacal signs and their association with certain characteristics, John explains. Doing so creates a lot of confusion. Here is one a-ha insight: Ordinary, zodiacal astrology, in the Western world primarily tropical astrology, is a misnomer, because there are no stars in it, except for the sun. The constellations the signs are named after are not neatly placed within each sign, and not only that, they are moving, one degree every 72 years. “Unfortunately, there is a muddled zone, where the ages, the language and the discourse are confused.” Zodiac astrology and astrological ages are two different operating systems. “The operating system of the signs is about psychology, but when you talk about the operating system of the constellations, you’re talking a combined language of history and myth.” To differ between the two, John has decided to name the ages not by the Zodiac signs, but by the “storybook names” of the constellations: the fishes, the ram, the crab, the lion, etc. “We’ve lost a lot of ancient skywatching knowledge.” Here’s a crucial difference, according to John Lash: The astrological ages are not exactly the same size (length in time). As opposed to the zodiacal signs, the ages are in alignment with the expansion of the constellations, which come in different sizes and have differently sized gaps between them. In some cases there is also an overlap. Are the actual stars influencing us? “It’s not a causal relationship, it’s a mirroring relationship. The constellations are signals. The cosmos is a mirror of the psyche.” Do they have certain properties? “They’re all about lessons. Lessons for humanity.” So. Everybody wants to know about the age of aquarius. There has been a hype for at least 50 years. It turns out the constellation of aquarius (which John calls manitu) is overlapping the age of pisces (the fishes). So when does it actually begin? You’ll get John Lash’s answer in this episode. You’ll also get his interpretation of the lessons we are supposed to learn. Plus, as the cherry on the cake, John reveals something fascinating he found in the Egyptian Dendera Zodiac. John's website Nemeta John's book Not In His Image
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May 29, 2024 • 58min

127. Dare to Choose New Paths – Agneta Sjödin

Agneta Sjödin is a media celebrity in Sweden. She started out her career as a tv entertainer and to some extent she also worked with journalism. But she was always a seeker, and lately, she has focused on her inner journey, which she has also shared with her fans in several books and in a podcast. She has evolved into something of a Swedish Oprah, if you will. I got to know Agneta earlier this year, and it was obvious that we have similar worldviews and share many thoughts, ideas and musings. It shows in this conversation (I sometimes talk as if I were the guest …) Spirituality was always there, from early childhood, she says. Her father took her to Sunday school. She never became a “proper” Christian, but she kept the spiritual side of it. “I knew I wanted to serve in some way.” Agneta rose to fame early on in her career. Her authenticity and presence made her greatly popular. She mainly hosted entertainment shows but also a morning news show. Do you follow the news today? “No. The news is rehashed, and they don't give you any hope or energy.” One trend Agneta has noticed with certain unease is the demand from activists that you take a stand in every new conflict. As a celebrity, she is particularly vulnerable to it. “The wars today are not only taking place on the ground, they are in people’s heads all over the world”, she says. “As a public figure, you are harassed if you don’t take a stand. Why don’t they demand we take a stand against war in general?” Agneta has become ever more interested in ETs and the UFO/UAP phenomenon. We talk quite a bit about that, and we delve into information about wars in outer space that would be considered controversial to most people. Her latest book, Våga välja nya vägar (Dare to Choose New Paths), focuses a lot on the inner journey. It’s important to find your higher purpose, Agneta points out. But that doesn’t mean to divorce yourself from everyday life. “There is a Zen saying that before enlightenment you chop wood and carry water, and after enlightenment you chop wood and carry water.” Agneta and I agree that pain is inevitable but suffering optional. We suffer when we linger on pain. “But it’s difficult to tell people that they don’t have to suffer. ‘How can I not suffer when the world looks like this?’, they say” Love is the creative force of the universe, but most of us don’t fully realize that. “We live more in fear than in love on this planet. Even if you fall in love, you instantly start worrying: ‘what if he/she leaves me?’.” “I have struggled with relationships”, she says. “But I have had things to learn in that area. I am good at loving myself now.” Is consciousness God? “I don't use that word a lot. But for me it’s more like divine love”, Agneta says. “It's the intelligence of everything. We’re all a part of that intelligence. Nothing ever dies.” In our conversation we also touch on – all too briefly – another topic that both Agneta and I are passionate about, the origins of civilization. She recently visited the enigmatic megalithic site of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. Agneta's website Agneta's books Agneta on Instagram Agneta on Facebook
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May 15, 2024 • 1h 41min

126. Civilization is Insanely Old – Mario Buildreps

For general info about Mario and his work, check out the first episode with him, including show notes: In this second episode we touch on a few novel issues: ✔ Mario and his associates have now found evidence of up to twelve ancient positions of the north pole, including the present one (every shift from one position to the next is associated with an expansion phase, which entails cataclysmic events). ✔ The so-called great unconformity in geology is something geologists are reluctant to discuss. It refers to a huge “missing link” in the earth’s layers (rather a massive void): anywhere from several hundred million years up to one and a half billion years of geological history is missing. Periodic expansion could explain this, says Mario. ✔ Ice ages are not what we have been taught, a recurring enlargement of the ice sheets around the poles due to colder climate. No, it is basically the same “ice age”, forced to shift position every time the earth is in an expansion phase. Only when the north pole is positioned on land will glaciers build up and eventually form an ice sheet. The last position before this one was on Greenland. Hence the lingering ice sheet there. ✔ The earth expands due to two forces that have the same source: • Flares from solar storms add to the planet’s mass in the form of subatomic particles that easily penetrate the crust. • The same solar storms also blast away the earth’s atmosphere, little by little, which causes decompression. ✔ The giant floods described in myths and legends may not have been the result of rapidly melting ice caps. The water masses may have erupted from inside the earth. The equivalent of ten oceans of water is trapped in a mineral called ringwoodite in the planet’s mantle. ✔ Many independent archaeology and anthropology history researchers over interpret the significance of the Younger Dryas period. While dramatic, it is not even the most dramatic climate event during the latest ice age (latter part of Pleistocene), says Mario. ✔ Mario is still working on his magnum opus, the book about his theory on an expanding earth and its surprising connection to evidence for extremely ancient civilizations. Hopefully out in 2025. First episode with Mario Mario’s website Antiquity Reborn Mario’s Youtube channel Mario’s email address: buildreps@gmail.com
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Apr 24, 2024 • 1h 22min

125. "Paranormal" is Perfectly Normal – Dean Radin

Professor Dean Radin is one of the world’s leading authorities on psychic phenomena. He is the chief scientist at IONS, the Institute of Noetic Sciences. “I don’t like the word ‘paranormal’ when referring to these experiences”, Dean says. “Paranormal phenomena cover such a huge range of things that are strange, that it tends to collapse psychic experiences into things like search for Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster. But psychic phenomena, like synchronicities, are extremely common.” Are psychic phenomena akin to spiritual experiences? “I would say there is an overlap.” The overlap, he explains, is when people say they have felt a strange, very intimate sense of connection with other people or with things elsewhere. “The line between science and spirituality is arbitrary. There is a spectrum.” A synchronicity can be described as ‘smart luck’, as opposed to ‘dumb luck’. “In many ways the kind of research that I do attempts to evoke synchronicities in the laboratory. What some would call a coincidence we would call a synchronicity when we study for instance telepathy”, Dean says. As we record this episode, Dean Radin is conducting an experiment aimed to test the quantum observer effect. “To test it properly it takes an act of subjective awareness of what is going on. It is correlated to brain activity, but it is not physical. Maybe that’s what will break the chain and cause the measurement to actually occur.” “If the results are replicated in lots of different laboratories, it directly informs an outstanding and long standing problem in the interpretation of quantum mechanics.” The ‘Sigil’ experiment, as it is called, is due to be finished by the end of April. The placebo effect is basically the same phenomenon – mind affecting matter. “Can we see differences in the behavior of cells, be it plants or the human body, depending on what people are beaming mentally at them? The answer is yes.” “For everything from photons, to chemical processes, to cells, to small animals, to human physiology and maybe all the way up to the global level, we do see that consciousness seems to be involved at every single stage.” And yet there are so many skeptics, and so many psi researchers are being mocked. “In mainstream science, these things are taboo. I know many academics have these experiences themselves, but you can’t talk about it, at the risk of your career”, Dean says. “Materialism is an extremely powerful worldview. So powerful that it has given rise to the technologies we have today. But it leaves out something.” However, in the last 30 years, the philosophy of idealism has begun to penetrate within the sciences, according to Dean Radin. Idealism posits that consciousness is fundamental and that matter arises from it. “You see it in physics, in psychology, in neuroscience and in mathematics.” There is a materialist ‘police’ that is active on Wikipedia and in public debate. But it is a vociferous minority, Dean thinks. “They are only maintaining the taboo. But taboos don’t last forever. When you talk to academics privately after a couple of beers, everyone eventually reports they have experiences of this kind, and most are actually interested.” So, if idealism is penetrating science and things seem to be changing, what will be the final nail in the coffin for the taboo? Judging from the brief opening in consciousness studies that was seen in the 60s and 70s, Dean thinks the renewed research on psychedelics might be that nail. Another candidate is quantum biology. Scientists now suggest that the brain operates in quantum ways. “That was a very fringy idea 30 years ago.” Dean’s personal website IONS website
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Apr 12, 2024 • 1h 22min

124. Love and Time – Julia Mossbridge

Julia Mossbridge is a scientist in the true sense of the word, a curious and open-minded investigator and seeker. She has balanced beautifully on the perceived border between traditional science and the esoteric realms. She has created two institutes, whereof one bears the intriguing name The Institute for Love and Time (TILT). It is about creating technologies that support wellbeing related to feeling unconditional love. How can love and time go together? “Both are powerful and healing to humans”, Julia says. On a deeper level, she explains, people experience that when the boundaries of time are removed, the conditions of connection are also removed, which opens the door to unconditional love. The way Julia describes the experience of time is somewhat at odds with the “live in the now” mantra. We can extend the self in time, she says. And by doing that we break down boundaries. “It gives you a lot more chances to do good for yourself and the world. It doesn’t have to be all at once. We have all this time.” “Folks say you can’t do anything about the past, and the future is all about potentialities, so you can only do something about it in the now. The reason this is so enticing is that we’re built to experience free will. So that’s how we’re gonna make a lot of money on self-help books”, Julia laughs. “I think it’s a racket. I think it makes people look for control rather than take responsibility.” In reality, we are not in control. Everything we experience has already happened. That has even been measured (the thought of doing something sudden arises after we’ve done it). “To even come close to being in control, we must extend the definition of ‘I’. To really be in control we must extend it indefinitely to include the whole universe and everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen.” The Iroquios have a word for this extension: the long body. Julia Mossbridge has done extensive research on precognition, the intuitive knowledge about a future event. She uses a metaphor: An event that triggers precognition is like a stick in the stream of consciousness. The stick creates a wake, which is the slowly fading memory of the event after it has happened. But on the front end it also creates an area where the “arrow of time” is reversed. “There's backpressure. The stream of consciousness ‘prepares’ itself to go around the stick.”  Precognition most commonly appears in dreams. “The conscious mind is like our story of what is happening, but the unconscious mind really has access to all the incoming data from the universe”, Julia says. She agrees with psychology pioneer William James that the brain is like a filter. “When your brain is damaged, you're not changing consciousness, you're changing the capacity to receive it.” She is also in agreement with the theories of cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman, who describes physical reality as an interface, where living beings are “conscious agents”. If we were to look “under the hood” (which may be what enlightenment entails), we would see a completely different reality that doesn’t make sense in the physical world. Mossbridge also delves into what AI does to us, and with us, and what we can do with AI. “Human potential is going to explode with AI if we do it right. It can be a partner in our evolution. We are in this together.” Julia’s bio: Affiliate professor in the Dept. of Biophysics and Physics at University of San Diego Senior consultant with Tangible IQ Co-founder of TILT: The Institute for Love and Time Founder of Mossbridge Institute Author and co-author of multiple books and scientific articles related to time travel, artificial intelligence and unconditional love PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders (Northwestern University) MA in Neuroscience (UC San Francisco) BA in Neuroscience with highest honors (Oberlin College) Julia on Linkedin Julia on Medium The Institute for Love and Time (TILT) The Mossbridge Institute
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Mar 28, 2024 • 1h 3min

123. There Is No Death – Craig Hogan

Why are we so afraid to die, I ask afterlife expert, researcher, coach and writer Craig Hogan. “It’s a misunderstanding. People think this life is all there is. But we don’t die. Transition happens seamlessly. There is no pain.” Craig Hogan and his associates try to teach people about this. If we knew we were immortal, we would arguably live our lives differently. We wouldn’t pursue things selfishly. We would realize we are on this journey together with the people around us. There are innumerable reports from people who have been in contact with deceased loved ones. Craig has himself had many experiences in which he has communicated with the other side. There are also many widely known accounts of contacts with the afterlife, such as the ones of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, Raymond Moody and J.B. Phillips. Anybody can get in touch with the deceased, says Craig Hogan. You don’t have to go through a medium. But you need to go into a meditative state and empty your mind. Ask a question or make a statement to the deceased person you want to contact. “You will get responses immediately, in one chunk, not in words. It’s telepathic”, says Craig. So what is the afterlife like? “We need consistency, so it’s very much like our earth life. People have bodies. There are houses and streets and different cultures and nationalities. People first use the language they are used to, but after a while they drop language, because they don't need it. It is like earth but without the problems. There is no old age and no ailments.” When we pass, we don’t actually go anywhere, Craig explains. It’s already here. It’s all about a change of focus. It's like changing the frequency on the ‘life radio’. For some there is a ‘second death’. These people don’t understand that they have passed at first. Or they don’t want to leave the earth plane for some reason – they may have unfinished business, or they don’t want to leave the sensual pleasures, or they are afraid they are going to go to hell. “So they stay earthbound for a while. They walk around, ride buses, and go to church. Some become poltergeists.” “Then there is another category of almost demonic influences. These are negative thought forms produced by people or groups of people who want to impede other people’s progress because of the anger and violence that exist on earth.” But eventually, all go to life after this and get to have a respite. There is no hell. “This earth plane is a school. The purpose is to teach us lessons. We are growing in love and compassion”, says Craig. Before we are born our souls and guides get together and plan the circumstances and the kinds of struggles we will have in life. Afterwards we can share our learning with others that are within our higher self. Reincarnation is misunderstood, according to Craig. We stay the individuals we are, but we are part of a higher self which has thousands of people in it. When a new life is planned, the planning group will take pieces from other lifes, so that the new person will learn lessons that were not previously learned. That is where past life regression comes from, Craig explains. Lives are intertwined. You tap into experiences of another life. “So, we don’t come back as some other person.” Humanity once knew about the afterlife but forgot. However, when we regain that knowledge, it will be on a higher level. We have understandings today that humankind has never had, Craig points out. “We are in the most mature state of understanding the life after this life. We are going far beyond the insights we used to have.” Within a few centuries, a new kind of earth will arise, he thinks. “There is no need to feel fear about the end of this life. There is no end.” Craig's organization Seek Reality
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Mar 13, 2024 • 1h 25min

122. The Maya Saw this World Coming – Carl Johan Calleman

The ancient Maya taught that consciousness is primary, and that matter is the manifestation of a thought, if you will, that arose in the all-encompassing primordial consciousness. This knowledge is at the core of the work of Carl Johan Calleman. He is originally a trained biologist and chemist, but he has dedicated most of his career to studying the wisdom of the Maya and has written eight books on the subject. There is a hidden meaning behind the mythical plumed serpent, theme of the Kukulcan pyramid in Chichen Itzá, Carl Johan explains: Consciousness has expressed itself gradually in the universe – it has come in nine waves. The first wave was what modern science calls the Big Bang. This worldview means that evolution undoubtedly takes place, but it is purposeful, not random. “Established science has been fighting this idea of a living universe for a long time”, says Carl Johan. Why do the structures of the universe on all levels hold together? Because there is an underlying purpose, and because the universe is holographic: an atom is subordinate to a molecule, which is subordinate to a cell, which is subordinate to a whole organism, which is subordinate to a planet, a solar system, a galaxy and so on. “Otherwise everything would be just floating around in a soup of nothingness.” Evolution is quantized, as Calleman sees it. It takes quantum leaps, namely in the form of the Mayans’ nine waves, which in turn have peaks and valleys. This entails that technically advanced civilizations could not have existed before the sixth wave, which was activated in 3,115 BCE. “Yes, this is what you should expect if you adhere to the idea of a quantized evolution. It should not happen gradually.” With every new wave, a new state of consciousness becomes downloadable. The human mind changes. The peaks and valleys correspond to creative and destructive periods in humanity. The rise and the collapse of empires, for instance. The ninth wave is the final one. And it is already here. Forget the trope around 21 December 2012 – the ninth wave was activated in March of 2011. That year was indeed eventful. All the earlier waves are still running. Not every human and not every other organism will be fully influenced by the most recent wave. Some remain in a lower vibration. Myriad animals and plants that came into creation with earlier waves are still here. But the ninth wave makes it possible to reach peak consciousness. “That’s where we’re meant to go. That’s the highest frequency.” This ascension, as some call it, will be easier for the younger generations, Carl Johan Calleman thinks. “They will be able to create  peace and unity, a form of heaven on Earth. But the time period until that happens will be very difficult. Maybe we will see a global dictatorship.”
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Feb 29, 2024 • 1h 38min

121. Alternative Archaeologists are Also Wrong – Robert Schneiker

Geophysicist Bob Schneiker stumbled upon the debate about the age of the Sphinx by chance. He got hooked, and the more he found out, the more convinced he became that Robert Schoch and other maverick researchers are wrong about the dating. “I was surprised to know that Schoch used erosion on the Sphinx as evidence of an older civilization than the dynastic Egyptians”, Bob says. The geology and the surface patterns have been interpreted wrongly, according to Schneiker. The geological history of the area reveals that the Sphinx cannot be older than about 5,500 years, he claims. Schneiker (and others) conclude that the Nile flows during the African humid period 12,000 to 5,500 BCE would have inundated the Sphinx and consequently destroyed its brittle limestone, had it been carved out during that period. (Not all studies conclude that the water table of the Nile actually got that high, however.) Another site Bob has looked into is Göbekli Tepe. He agrees that this construction has upended much of what archaeologists used to believe about our past. But he points out that it cannot be linked to the Younger Dryas and its purported cataclysm, because it is probably much older than that. This also goes for the channeled Scablands in the northwestern USA, another place that some alternative researchers tie to the Younger Dryas. Certain “smoking guns” indicate that something very dramatic happened on the planet during that period, like the ubiquitous “black mat” soil layer and the sudden disappearance of megafauna. One mainstream theory regarding the latter is overhunting by humans. Schneiker concurs with that theory. He is not as impressed as most other independent researchers by advanced megalithic sites like Giza, Baalbek, Ollantaytambo, Sacsayhuaman, Tiwanaku and Easter island. “Most of them are not that old”, he says. Scientists and researchers on all sides have blind spots. Bob is an honest truth seeker, just like the independent researchers he challenges. It’s likely that he sees things they haven’t acknowledged. Which is interesting, because they often point out that because of the fact that academia stonewalls its research, the only ones who can push the boundaries are the mavericks. “Yes, that happens, but how many mavericks do we not hear about because their ideas are so crazy?” __________ ✅ Resources Bob's website • Alternative researchers that Bob challenges: Randall Carlson's Youtube channel Robert Schoch's website

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