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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!

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6 thoughts on “The Truth About Our Origins”

  1. Joanne Robolakis

    Hi Bill, this blog is really interesting. I’d love to hear your thoughts about the biblical narrative and if and where it fits in?
    Thank you
    Joanne

    1. Hi Joanne,

      What a comment. I thought long and hard before responding!

      Let me start by saying I can only speculate and share my thoughts, given the little I know about the mystery of our origins. This is obviously sensitive ground and I would not want to offend anyone but rather offer some food for thought.

      I think the way that humans ensure that critical information about past events is not lost but passed on to subsequent generations is through storytelling and through establishing and maintaining cultural traditions and rituals that perpetuate the story through the ages.

      I believe that much of what we are told to regard as ‘myth’, really describes actual periods or happenings in our history, relayed through stories passed down through the ages. However, with the best will in the world, after enough time passes all stories will suffer some form of embellishment, dilution and/or adaptation.

      The Sumerian clay tablets, inscribed in cuneiform, impart information about an ancient civilisation that existed, the leaders of which were revered as ‘gods’ due to their possession of advanced technology and flying machines that made them appear as such to the locals.

      Plato talked at length about Atlantis and the Atlanteans, their incredibly advanced technology and feats, and the ultimate destruction of their civilisation.

      The Mayans, American Indians, Aborigines and other older civilisations have all passed down stories of an era where the ‘gods’ prevailed upon earth, followed by times of catastrophic flooding that destroyed virtually all remnants of that era.

      The Bible too, tells the well-known story of the great flood and Noah and the Ark. It is a vitally important repository of knowledge of ancient history – and of course the sacred book of the Christian religion.

      From all the many and diverse accounts, it seems there is little doubt that Earth endured an unimaginably catastrophic flood that all but wiped out pre-history.

      Many researchers, like Hancock, point to that time being around 9 000 to 11 000 years ago, at the end of a period called The Younger Dryas. This was a time of very sudden and rapid cooling. In his recent book, ‘America Before’, Hancock provides compelling evidence that this was caused by a huge comet impact in North America.

      So, for me, the issue is that, whereas we know much about the post-flood period, we know almost nothing about the pre-flood period.

      Could there have existed a highly advanced civilisation that knew of the impending comet, the resultant mini ice age and subsequent terrible flood that would follow as the ice melted? Did they, perhaps, create the pyramids as an enduring message to future generations? Did they create some Hall of Records documenting aspects of their existence? Has this information been – or will it be – withheld and/or suppressed? To suit whom?

      I don’t know the answers for sure, but let’s watch this space. Hopefully we won’t have too long to wait to find out!

  2. Thank you, Bill, for sharing such intriguing information. My response is to want to know more. How wonderful that it was a book that ignited your curiosity. Let us continue to ask ourselves probing questions. There is much inward and outward treasure yet to be discovered.

    1. Thank you Karen.

      Personally I get a little frustrated at how agonisingly slowly it seems for these mega truths to be revealed. But human time is but a blink of the eye compared with ‘Universe’ or ‘Divine’ time so, as Cayce suggested, patience is needed. More will be revealed as the general level of consciousness of humanity is raised!

  3. Charmaine Gilmour

    Hi Bill, I also read that book all those years ago and was hooked! There is so much yet to be discovered which really mirrors our own lives.
    Well done on the blog, it’s always a really good read.
    Thank you
    Charmaine

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