It's the hypothesis of the chief principles and of the Thunderbolts project
that within human memory in only the last several thousand years
the earth's sky and the inner solar system looked profoundly different than they do
today.
An epoch of planetary instability
resulted in extraordinary electromagnetic events and global
catastrophes,
recorded in myths and legends around the world. Today
we shift our focus to perhaps the most important question one can explore when
considering this thesis.
What were the effects of these events on humankind
and to what extent do they shape our world and our species to this day?
At the recent Thunderbolts Project Conference EU2015
"Paths of Discovery"
I presented a 43-minute discourse concerning the catastrophism carried
forward effect
upon modern man that dealt with a multitude of questions left largely
unaddressed by the academic community.
We members and colleagues of the Thunderbolt Project
mostly agree that within the relatively recent past
most likely in the prehistory era
of perhaps several thousand years the inner solar system was very different
than it is today.
Human beings on planet Earth
experienced and witnessed the events almost unimaginable
in their destructive scale and shockingly adverse affect on life as
they had known it for a thousands of years.
The evident injury case that these
events occurred including the compatible mytho-historical reconstructions
offered by such scholars
as David Talbott, Dwardu Cardona,
Dave Cochran and others and originally inspired by
Immanuel Velikovsky is undeniable
to anyone who honestly acknowledges the evidence presented.
Those who wish to learn more about the Electric Universe
catastrophist model
have at their disposal a plethora
of published materials. It is not my purpose to try to convince anyone that
these events occurred,
rather I seek to illuminate
the most vital issue. What were the artificial religious
and psychological effects of the ancient catastrophes
on human thinking and behavior and to what extent they have these effects
carried forward to today. The end of the so-called Golden Age
culminating in the great catastrophe was the most collectively traumatic
event that
humankind has ever experienced. The near decimation of the global population
carried with it effects so significant
that they touched literally every aspect of human life.
These include environmental,
physiological and psychological factors
that would have transformed the human condition in extreme ways
and about some way which we can only make educated guesses.
Today I would like to focus specifically on what I consider the most penetrating
and important element of
this transformation and that
is mankind's ideas and perceptions of what we call God
and the development of certain religious themes.
Please note, that I encourage the viewer not to form
any presumptions about my own beliefs or lack thereof.
For those familiar with the respective works of our mytho-historians,
many of the counter productive ideas that got started
and adopted in the wake of these global catastrophes
may seem self-evident. These include
the development of the concept that God
became angry with the human race
and the development of the concept that God
decided to punish and / or cleans us severely
with violent global genocidal or homicidal
catastrophes. Part of what followed was legalism,
the development of the idea that man was meant to live under
obey invasive Fiat moral law
versus eternal inspirational principles.
Thus we see the bedrock of
much of modern society, the idea that law is the backbone of order
and punishment is the proper response to unacceptable behavior.
An expression of this mindset was a
course seen in that development of god placating guilt
and fear based religions. Humankind in various cultures rapidly adopted
outlandish violent capricious concepts to the creation
while rejecting more sensible ones.
This era produced an explosion of
anthropomorphic planet God mythologies
along with mass confusion, mysticism and superstition.
The subsequent religious and cultural factors could include
the general bias of catastrophe survivor
religious testimony. That is, I did thus and thus prior to the
impending catastrophe,
such things as prayer, fasting, warship etc.
Got affirmed and I survived.
Of course no rebuttal is possible from those that did likewise
but didn't survive.
Also the development of formal religions,
a major part of which is always an explanation of why it all went wrong,
along with an explanation of how to fix it or induce god to fix it.
The development of holidays including sabbath
and other holy days periods, the Roman Saturnalia and the Greek Chronia
for instance.
Holy days morphed into secular holidays like New Years Day,
Halloween, All Saints Day, Day of the Dead,
Easter etc. Mankind's exposure to formations in the sky
primarily surrounding Saturn and involving Mars and Venus with their
plasma discharges
inaugurated the world's major religious symbols
such as the Ankh cross and Celtic Cross
yin yang, star and crescent,
the ancient and modern swastikas et c.
The apocalyptic planetary catastrophe can also explain the development of ritual.
God ordained rights, ceremonies, chants etc.
all much infused in formal religion seen to this day
along with sacrifices, strictures, ordinances and sacraments to help god
lover feel better disposed toward us. A focus of concentration of worship
idols and sacred icons
leading from mild to severe altered states of consciousness,
the development of more intense clannish
tribal identification and intertribal competition in warfare,
the ultimate development of celestial,
magical or exotic living entities such as
disanthropic angels and hierarchies of angels,
the devil, demons and imbs,
the efrits, jinns and jeannie's,
fairies, leprechauns, elves, goblins and ghouls, witches etc.
an obvious visible testimony of the planetary configuration just previous to
the catastrophic epoch
can be seen in global architectural developments.
These include the inauguration
of an edifice monument building technology
and a monument building era with pyramids being a major theme.
The development of architectural elements from the prototypical stupa
upside down model of the polar configuration.
Replete with domes,
pillars, spirals, copulas, nested circle layouts.
Another factor is the inordinate time and attention to produce
in petrographs and petroglyphs.
It is estimated that it took months under arduous conditions
to produce many of these.
I conclude with two questions for the viewer to ponder.
Has modern man overcome the mythological mindset
or has modern man just gone through an extended period of forgetting
and drifting adaptation, not really dealing with what happened and why?
Whatever the answer, another important question we can ask ourselves ears -
can we be more intellectually responsible in our belief systems?