Susan B. Martinez - Delusions in Science and Spirituality: The Fall of the Standard Model and the Rise of Knowledge from Unseen Worlds

For Dan Winner,
Creative genius, friend, humanitarian

DELUSIONS IN
SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY

Susan Martinez has gifted us with another brilliant work. In a nonthreatening and nonjudgmental manner, Martinez methodically and masterfully presents her thesis that almost everything that we have been taught about our species evolution, our planet, and our cosmic origins is totally wrong. With balanced displays of wit, wisdom, and intelligence, Martinez provides the reader with the rise of knowledge from unseen worlds and deftly demolishes the delusions in conventional and orthodox science and spirituality. This is a must-have book for anyone who wonders about our true history on this planet and the interconnectedness of all life. We highly recommend it.

BRAD AND SHERRY STEIGER, AUTHORS OF REAL ENCOUNTERS, DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS, AND OTHERWORLDLY BEINGS

Martinez, trained in the theories of elite universities, has turned the tables on their ill-rooted assumptions. She demonstrates how their conclusions do not match reality. This volume crowns her triad of books that upheave todays illusionary views about humanitys origins, place on Earth, and role in the universe. Scholars and other readers thirsty for a new multidimensional cosmology will react to Martinezs work as a parched straggler seeing an oasis. One will be intellectually nourished and find stepping-stones to a better set of answers to our present mysteries of life.

PAUL VON WARD, AUTHOR OF
WEVE NEVER BEEN ALONE
AND THE SOUL GENOME

Martinez avoids going too deeply into scientific jargon, making Delusions in Science & Spirituality palatable for a wide audience. Great food for thought and a wonderful reference work, too. I highly recommend this book. It is liberating!

JAMES WEBSTER, AUTHOR OF
LIFE IS FOREVER

Martinez takes no prisoners.

MICHAEL TYMN, AUTHOR OF
RESURRECTING LEONORA PIPER

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense; and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Conventional wisdom has a way of being wrong.

DAVID RAUP, THE NEMESIS AFFAIR

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank Jon Graham for having faith in my ideas and helping to make the publication of this book possible; and many thanks to Mindy Branstetter, a godsend from editorial heaven. My gratitude also to Torri Beck: Who says librarians are plain?

Thou hast quickened my members to be dissatisfied by the old revelations.

OAHSPE, BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE

When Death Is Not Death: A Parable

Master Abu-Ishak Chisti once told of a certain man who was believed to have died, and was being prepared for burial when he revived. The man sat up, but he was so shocked at the scene surrounding him that he fainted. He was put in a coffin, and the funeral party set off for the cemetery. Just as they arrived at the grave, he regained consciousness again, lifted the coffin lid, and cried out for help.

It is not possible that he has revived, said the mourners.

But I am alive! shouted the man. He appealed to a well-known and impartial scientist and lawyer who was present.

Just a moment, said the expert. He then turned to the mourners, counting them. Now, we have heard what the alleged deceased has had to say. You fifty witnesses tell me what you regard as the truth.

He is dead, said the witnesses.

And so he was buried.

Are the experts still burying the truth?

INTRODUCTION

THE FIX IS IN

Myth has its charms, but the truth is far more beautiful.

J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

It is said that the first casualty of war is the truth. let me open with this. Around the time I began writing Delusions in Science and Spirituality, a congressman from my own state (Georgia), Paul Broun, who is also a medical doctor, publicly announced, All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and big bang theoryall that is lies straight from the pit of hell, adding, Global warming is a trick. Broun, as it happens, sits on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

Although my political views are probably far from Rep. Brouns, I, too, have had my fill of fundamental farces. They are everywhere and they are squarely in the way of truth. Until they are cleared off the table, we cannot move forward. In these pages we will confront and debunk the grandest myths of our timealbeit the current alpha dogs in human knowledgetheories so self-congratulatory, so cosseted, so well-inked and oversold as to become Fact. Todays science magazines are one big commercial for the Standard Model (SM). As a result, everyone believes in evolution, ice ages, global warming, and so on. These solutionsunctuously labeled attractive, elegant, sophisticated, robust, muscularare shot down tomorrow. Meanwhile, the alternatives to these moribund theories are ignored and despised, even though the improbabilities of today are the elementary truths of tomorrow, as sagely declared by Charles Richet, 1913 Nobel Prize winner in medicine, in his book Thirty Years of Psychic Research (2003).

Scientific debate? Academic freedom? Not really. Turf wars and quarrelsome factions are only internecine, infighting, that is, within the Standard Model.

Scrambling to break recordsas if knowledge were a race or a contestthe mainstream offers us progress in science in the form of

a particle that travels faster than light

the largest map ever made of dark matter

the biggest structure in the universe

the most massive star ever seen

the most powerful gamma ray burst ever observed

the largest color image of the universe

the brightest supernova ever recorded

the most massive black hole

the earliest version of Australopithecus

the first hominid to use fire

the worlds oldest jewelry, oldest wine cellar, oldest pair of pants

the hottest summer on record

the biggest underwater volcano

If this record-breaking game is really progress, whom does it enlighten? Besides, some of these breakthroughs are less smashing than their blazing headlines suggest. In 2012, for example, archaeologists found evidence of 6,700-year-old corn in Peru, which was trumpeted as the oldest ever found in South America, 2,000 years earlier than previously thought. But as we will see, maize is quite a bit older in that region than 6,000 or 7,000 years. Headlines have even been made with the supposedly oldest turd in America: startling evidence from a cave in Oregon, these coprolites (feces) are hailed as comprising the oldest evidence of human presence in the Americas, at 14,300 years old. But not really; that date is still a conservative figure, considering that 50,000-year-old flake tools have been found in our hemisphere (much more on all this in chapter 8).

In the seventeenth century, the giants of science set the pace for us moderns by reducing the universe to fixed secular laws: Religion was hokum, it was science that should be trusted. And by the nineteenth century, God was driven out altogether, no longer needed to explain nature. Though some toyed with a certain double truth, trying to combine science and religion, intellectual confusion reigned, and even the physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton showed signs of the split mind, according to historian Lloyd Moote in The Seventeeth Century. Also critiquing medieval cosmologists, author and activist Arthur Koestler found them still wed to Ptolemys geocentrism (see ). Koestler remarks that They knew that the sun governed the motions of the planets, but at the same time closed their eyes to the fact. As Koestler saw it, the secret appeal of the Earth-centered (geocentric) system lay in the fear of change, the craving for stability... in a disintegrating culture. A modicum of splitmindedness and doublethink was perhaps not too high a price to pay for allaying the fear of the unknown (1959, 73, 76). Might this analysis apply as well to the twenty-first century?