If you’ve seen one Mayan Temple, you’ve seen them all. They all had the same plan, just as all temples everywhere are built on the same plan, which could be typically described as “something entirely overwhelming and impressive, with, if possible, a touch of weird.”
We’ll start our journey with the Mayan Culture, but before we begin, I’d like to explain the format and rationale of the present volume.
Even with the advent of satellite imaging, explorers on foot in jungle, swamp, desert and mountain have been finding ancient “lost” civilizations going back as far as humans can be found. Early settlements of the recent crop of humanity can be found dating back to about 30,000 B.C.E., but historical records only go back about 8,500 years, a pitiful number, archaeologically speaking.
Jungle-encrusted mounds containing kingly crypts, palaces, temples and monumental government buildings are being discovered every single day, somewhere in the world. Human beings are just now beginning to dig themselves out of the Dark Ages, but they won’t have time. Nuclear weapons are itching to get launched, and those red buttons are in the hands of at least one wildly insane megalomaniac despotic dictator, actually about a dozen such creatures.
It doesn’t matter. Earth never makes it past the nuclear wars. Yes, I said “wars” — there are about 30 of them over the next few decades, ending with … well, let’s just say that humans never had a chance in the first place.
Nothing about human civilization requires the presence or absence of aliens. There is no good reason why humans could not have developed their technology on their own, and absolutely no good biological reason why humans should not have sprung out of the primordial ooze just like any other species on Planet Earth.
Here are several fundamental principles you won’t want to ignore as you read through this little handbook for time/space warp jaunters like yourself — no one else reads this book.
- Nature likes symmetry. Remember that.
- Self-Replication is not necessarily good.
- Life tends to copy itself.
- The entire universe is a living, conscious being.
- There is only the grid, and its name is quantum.
- Infinity is NOT a number. Infinity is Infinity.
- If something happens once in infinity, it happens one times infinity times, get it?
- Not every effort can be a crackerjack.
- Sometimes it’s better to let go than to grasp.
- There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
- Eternity is NOT a long, long time. Eternity is Eternity.
- Rule Two: Never Tell Everything You Know.
- A yardstick cannot objectively measure itself.
- There is no way to determine whether a message heard got understood by another.
- There is size and shape and scale and little else.
- Only one electron at a time can pass through a quantum gate.
- It is likelier to pass a thick rope through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom.
- The Kingdom is always in plain sight.
- The Ultimate Answer is always in plain sight.
- GOD is always in plain sight.
- You will never actually be able to see yourself in the mirror, only an illusion.
- All phenomena is illusion.
- Some non-phenomena might not be illusion — it isn’t covered by Rule #1, above.
“When people fear government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.” Sounds terribly far out, doesn’t it? But it was a phrase used by one of the principle founders of America, Thomas Jefferson, and it was his intention to build into the new American government some powerful insurance against tyranny, hence the tripartite sort of system we have today.
Most ancient civilizations had some sort of foundational life-goal, along with a powerful religious ritual and the force of peer pressure for the regulation of daily life, and especially the distribution of wealth and the inheritance of said wealth by the succeeding generation. In the end, it’s all about who inherits, and that depends on family tree, witnessed documents, statements of intention and taxation regulations, which every government enjoys and exercises, in much the same way that gangs of criminals have always excised tribute, called today, “protection”.
Every government in the history of the world has been essential in the Protection Racket, meaning that they will protect your shop and home and garden and livestock against vandals and raiders including their own army, in exchange for which you give the king however much they can carry away, with no regard for your family’s survival in the coming year.
This is the basic model upon which all civilizations ancient and modern are built, and although it seems unfair to the masses, it answers all of the requirements for racial survival — fear, hatred, hostility and a special brand of wildly insupportable and totally unbreakable religious and social superstitions.
Why did so many ancient civilizations suddenly abandon their cities, sometimes leaving behind pits of golden treasures, sometimes leaving no trace whatever. In this volume, we will examine in depth a group of 28 very different ancient civilizations, all of which have one thing in common:
Each of these incredibly advanced civilizations, with populations of several hundreds all the way up to 100,000 and even 5 million bewildered citizens vanished literally overnight, without a trace.
To an archaeologist, the answers are unknown, because archaeology is only one small branch of one aspect of science, and the answers here need to come from a multiplicity of sciences, and that’s where I come in.
With a blend of archaeology, language, history, math, physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, radio research, theater, literature, the arts and more, I can answer many of the questions left unanswerable by archaeology alone. Archaeology is not a stand-alone science, although that idea is slow in coming.
I have another edge on modern archaeologists. I can read the stones, all right, but I have the advantage of having been there.
I lived in that culture and remember it well. I was there at the end — I always am, because I’m always doing a paper on some lost civilization, and that definitely includes the present civilization on Earth — plus, of course, the Western Hemisphere.
In some cases, people merely abandoned their cities because of over-farming soil depletion caused by dibble-stick farming methods, but there are a lot of other reasons for 5 million people to pick up their skirts and run for the hills, and I’ll explain each one as we go through the list.
In an infinite universe, if time travel ever existed, it always has. Keep that in mind as we jaunt merrily from one time-frame to another, in the web of timespace we call the Newtonian or Einsteinian Universe, on our very temporary Home Planet, Earth.
See You At The Top!!!
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