Reflecting on our true origins
In life coaching, we place special emphasis on developing self-awareness; coming to terms with who we really are, what really drives us and what the purpose of life is.
A great many of us spend our time running from pillar to post, just trying to cope with all that life throws at us. Too seldom do we pause for breath and reflect deeply on who we are, why we exist, and the nature of our true origins.
A turning point
1996 was something of a turning point in my life. It was the year in which a deep curiosity about our planet, and our origins, was awakened within me.
I credit the start of that awakening to my reading of a book by Graham Hancock, titled ‘Fingerprints of the Gods’, first published in 1995.
In it, Hancock provides a mesmerising account of various mysteries that cannot be adequately explained by the conventional beliefs and teachings of historians and archaeologists.
An ancient civilisation?
He ventures around the world to investigate and document various anomalies that, when pieced together, point compellingly to the existence of a civilisation far, far older than we are led to believe possible.
Never much of a book-reading enthusiast before, I was surprised to find Hancock’s work so intriguing, so well-researched and so exciting that I simply couldn’t put it down.
The ancient map
In one account, Hancock discusses the existence of a world map, used by Turkish admiral Piri Reis in the sixteenth century, on which the outline of Antarctica is depicted.
That the continent of Antarctica had been mapped at all at that time was eyebrow-raising. But the real shock was the fact that it depicted an ice-free continent, a condition that was only known to have existed at least 9,000 years previously!
The pyramids and heaven’s mirror
Perhaps the most enduring mystery that Hancock attempts to unravel relates to the building of the Great Pyramids and the Sphynx on the Giza plateau in Egypt.
He points to the work of Robert Bauval, an Egyptian engineer, in identifying an intriguing correlation between the three main pyramids and the three stars that make up Orion’s Belt in the Orion constellation.
Bauval used sophisticated software to map what the night sky would look like in the past, taking into account the changes caused by precession (a very slight but consistent wobble as the earth rotates on its axis).
He got the software to wind back time until the current alignment of the pyramids precisely mirrored the position of the stars of Orions’s Belt. That turned out to be way back in 10 400 BC!
That is about eight thousand years before the pyramids were thought to have been built.
Either the builders chose to commemorate that specific year (which seems extremely unlikely) or that year happens to be when the pyramids were actually built. And if the latter is true, then by whom?
When it comes to evidence pointing to the existence of an ancient and very technologically advanced civilisation on Earth, the examples I have mentioned are just the tip of the iceberg.
The sleeping prophet
American clairvoyant, Edgar Cayce, also known as the ‘sleeping prophet’ was renowned for his predictions about the future. Many of those came to pass, including the Great Depression of 1929 and the beginning of World War 2.
Cayce predicted that a Hall of Records would be found under the Great Pyramids in the early 21st century. According to Cayce this Hall of Records would contain detailed records of the (supposedly ‘mythical’) Atlantean civilisation and how it was destroyed.
Myth or scientific fact?
Believe it or not, as recent as two weeks ago, a team of British and Italian scientists used a new form of tomography, or ground penetrating radar, to identify what they claim is a huge complex that lies deep underground, beneath the Great Pyramid.
The potential scale and implications of this ‘find’, are so shocking and immense that it has promoted a huge wave of scepticism and has largely been ignored, or treated as fake, by the mainstream media.
Natural scepticism
Human nature being what it is, anything that threatens to completely upend what we think we know about our history will naturally attract scepticism.
However, I am quickly reminded of many surprising ‘discoveries’, originally derided for upsetting conventional wisdom, that turned out to be true.
Perhaps the most famous of these was Copernicus’s proposal that our solar system was centred around the Sun and not the Earth as was believed to be the case at the time.
One ten-thousandth of one percent
We are told that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. We are also told that the Sumerian civilisation was the oldest to inhabit the Earth, dating back to around 4 500 BC.
This begs a question. Does it make sense that Earth has only supported civilisations for a mere .0001% of its lifespan?
I don’t know about you, but my intuition says that’s unlikely.
Shattered convention?
In fact, I firmly believe that with the advent of groundbreaking technology, and the new impetus given to space exploration, we are fast approaching the time when the conventional wisdom about our origins and their timeline on Earth, will be completely shattered!
Who knows? Perhaps not just one, but a great many as yet unknown but technologically advanced civilisations, pre-existed our own?
For now, much remains a mystery.
One thing is for sure, though: There is nothing dull about the amazing Universe in which we are privileged to live!
