J. Douglas Kenyon - Forgotten Origins: Rescuing Order from Chaos

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PART ONE:
CIVILIZATIONS GONE MISSING

PART TWO:
HISTORY BETWEEN THE LINES

PART THREE:
ANCIENT AMERICA REVISITED

PART FOUR:
THE FROZEN PAST

PART FIVE:
ALTERNATIVE PALEONTOLOGY

PART SIX:
THE OUTER SPACE CONNECTION

PART SEVEN:
EMERGING NEW CLUES

BY J. DOUGLAS KENYON

W ho we are and where we come from are the eternal mysteries that have engaged humanity for millennia. Evidence for human originsbiological, technological, intellectual, and spiritualspans realms from scientific research, to the bible, to mystical traditions, to clues that point us to extraterrestrial beginnings. Today's information highway has provided us with a chaotic amalgam of information; what we have been missing is the lens through which we can focus that information, and rescue order from chaos.

When, in 1964, Marshall McLuhan famously said, The medium is the message, television was the primary thing he had in mind. He was referring to the unspoken influence, which the very form of media's presentation wielded over the content that it carried. Movies and TV, he reasoned, could not be broken into parts for study, or quoting, like books. So people were more likely to be influenced by the entire package which gave the movies and related forms of entertainment a special subliminal influence. We wonder what McLuhan would think today of YouTube or the Internet in general.

Now, theoretically, everything can be aggregated or dissected without limit and served up on demand, whether there is any connecting thread to the story, or not. As far as the eye can seeand well beyondis a virtual ocean of information, coherent and otherwise, available without limit on demand. But what is the meaningor narrativewe are to take from all of this?

The ever expanding horizons of accessible information certainly do not promise any greater measure of understanding. In fact, the immense expansion of possibilities for exchanging data seems often to bewilder and confuse more than it enlightens. In the process, we learn more and more about less and less.

Another media expert of the 1960s Newton Minow, who served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, gave a name to television that still applies, we think, to the Internet and social mediaa Vast Wasteland he called it.

The wasteland image seems more than valid these days and has had much to do with why we made this book. The missing ingredient in the great stew of information around us, we think, may well be an enlightened perspective or point of viewa scope through which to view the world with all of it facets and contradictions and with which to extract some order from the chaos.

Culled from the pages of Atlantis Rising magazine, this collection of 34 concise and well-illustrated articles by world-class researchers and theoreticians offer thought-provoking insights from the lost secrets of ancient and primordial wisdom

Out of chaos, we believe, order can often arise unexpectedly. Indeed, geometric and mathematical principles hold sway even when it is not obvious just how. To rescue order from chaosto discern the pattern where most see only confusionmay require a formula, or grace, from higher realms; but we suspect that, like fractal geometry, it can be found, unexpectedly, among the lost secrets of our forgotten origins.

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BY COLIN WILSON

C harles Hapgood, an American professor of history, became convinced in 1989 that a civilization with high levels of science had existed at least 100,000 years ago.

In the mid-1950s, Hapgood had written a book called Earth's Shifting Crust, to which Einstein contributed an Introduction, arguing that the whole crust of the earth undergoes periodic slippages, one of which in 9500 BC had caused the North Pole to move from Hudson Bay to its present position. And in 1966, his Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings had suggested that mediaeval maps called portolansused by sailors to navigate from port to portproved that there must have been a worldwide maritime civilization in 7000 BC.

In 1989 he told the writer Rand Flem-Ath that he intended to bring out a new edition of Earth's Shifting Crust, containing his evidence that civilization had existed for over 100,000 years. But before he could do that, he walked in front of a car and was killed.

I agreed to collaborate with Rand Flem-Ath in trying to solve the mystery of the lost civilization, which Rand equated with Atlantis. But if Hapgood was correct, Atlantis was tens of thousands years older than Plato assumed.

After a long search, I was fortunate enough to track down the man who claimed to have convinced Hapgood that civilization, in fact, dated back 100,000 years. He was an eccentric recluse who lived in a small town in New England. When I asked him to explain what had convinced him that there was civilization 100,000 years ago, he specified two things: (1) that Neanderthal man was far more intelligent than we assume and (2) that ancient measures prove that man knew the exact size of the earth millennia before the Greek Eratosthenes worked it out in 240 BC.

Charles Hapgood

A little research of my own quickly verified both statements. Far from being a shambling ape, Neanderthal man had a larger brain than we have, was well acquainted with astronomy, played musical instruments, and even invented the blast furnace. As to the size of the earth, the ancient Greeks had a measure called the stadethe length of a stadium. The polar circumference of the earth proves to be exactly 216,000 stade. Yet the Greeks did not know the size of the earth. They must have inherited the stade from someone who did know.

On a cruise down the Nile in 1997 I stumbled on another crucial discovery: the Nineveh number, a vast 15 digit number found inscribed on an Assyrian clay tablet in the ruins of Assurbanipal's library. Yet the Assyrians were no great mathematicians. The French space engineer, Maurice Chatelain, who provided the first Moon rocket with its communication system, discovered powerful internal evidence that the Nineveh number must have been worked out about 65,000 years ago.