Cosmic Catastrophe: Occluded History of our Solar System

Cosmic Catastrophe

Occluded History of our Solar System 

By Gerard Deva

   

 

“All cosmological theories assumed that the planets have evolved in their places for billions of years… Venus was formerly a comet and joined the family of planets within the memory of mankind… We claim that the Earth’s orbit changed more than once, and with it the length of the year; that the geographic position of the terrestrial axis and its astronomical direction changed repeatedly and that at a recent date the polar star was in the constellation of the Great Bear.”     

- Immanuel Velikovsky in Worlds in Collision, p.361    

Dr Immanuel Velikovsky was one of the twentieth century’s great scholars. He sought to solve a mystery and in the process generated enormous controversy in the fields of archaeology, astronomy, history, geology, theology and cosmology – among others. The extraordinary attack by many members of the scientific community on his work, their attempts to intimidate his publisher and suppress his evidence have made Velikovsky the Galileo of his time.   

The story starts in 1939. Dr Velikovsky, a practicing psychoanalyst who had studied with Freud, went to the US to research a book on three dominant figures of the ancient Mediterranean world – Moses, Oedipus and Akhnaton. When he was nearly complete a question arose about the timing of the Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt. Although recorded in detail by the Hebrews, there was no equivalent record in Egyptian history. Why not?

  

  Under the conventional chronology of Egyptian history, the time period usually considered for the Exodus causes problems. For many other events in Hebrew history there appear to be no Egyptian counterparts either – but these two nations existed beside each other for centuries, according to the Hebrews.  Velikovsky’s answer to this lack of correlation was to suggest that the accepted chronology of ancient Egypt was out by five hundred years. He noted that our dating of Egyptian periods came from the dynastic records handed down by Aegyptus and Agrippa, and that the reins of the Pharaohs – used to date Egyptian history – had been strung together one after another to arrive at our modern conventional chronology.

 

 The key to the ‘missing’ half millennium was that there were many ‘co-regnal’ periods when the reins of monarchs overlapped or were indistinct. In Velikovsky’s revised chronology many events in Hebrew history were found to have their counterpart in the Egyptian record. He found papyri that described the events of Exodus, relating descriptions of the ‘plagues’ as they occurred in Egypt and the death of a pharaoh and his chariots in a watery vortex - and dated the fragments to the reign of Akhnaton - the ‘Heretical Pharaoh’ who ruled in times of utter chaos – and his father, Amenophis III.

  The new chronology was built from the archaeological evidence found in the ruins of ancient Egypt. From remaining papyrus and pottery, tomb paintings and monuments a new story emerged. Because the histories of Greece, Assyria, Babylon and Judea were all dated from the dynastic records of Egypt, Velikovsky’s work became highly controversial. In 1945 this was limited to a specialist field, but his next publication in 1950 aroused widespread controversy.   Worlds in Collision was Velikovsky’s explanation of the cause of this amnesia in our collective memory.   

The Comet Venus

   

 

The ancient civilization of Egypt was nearly destroyed in a cosmic catastrophe that endangered the entire planet, according to Velikovsky. Everywhere, huge resources were devoted to the study of the skies. It’s widely known that ancient civilizations in Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East were highly advanced in astronomy. While we accept this as a common feature of our past, why were so many people interested in the study of the movements of the planets?

 

   Why is the alignment of astronomical instruments found in Babylon 2.5 degrees out from the present alignment of the Earth? Why did calendars constructed between the middle of the second millennium BCE and 800 BCE have 360 days and month of thirty days? Why do even earlier calendars have days, months and years of different lengths again?  Velikovsky’s answer was that the Earth and Mars had been involved in repeated near collisions with a gigantic cometary body since recorded history began.

 

 The events described in the Exodus and in Egyptian papyri are a vivid description of an age in chaos – plagues, turmoil and darkness, and the flight of the Hebrews from Egypt toward a ‘column of fire’ in Sinai.

  The Earth was momentarily slowed down and its axis slightly altered as the comet passed by. Electrostatic forces caused discharges to arc between the Earth and the comet, turning the skies to fire and the forests to flame. The crust was rent, volcanoes erupted, earthquakes rocked and darkness enveloped the world – the time of Exodus.

 

 Seven hundred years later Isiah, Joel and Amos described another series of upheavals; the Sun appeared to stand still in the sky. Although slightly dislodged from its axis and orbit again, the Earth fared better this second time. These were, in fact, the last two acts of a cosmic drama; the earliest act of which we have records is called ‘The Deluge’.

  Velikovsky believed that the origin of the comet that was responsible for changes in the Earth’s orbit was the proto-star we know as Jupiter. This idea enraged the scientific community, but his theories about the natures of Jupiter and Venus have not yet been proven wrong. He said that because Venus was younger than the other planets, its surface temperature would be much hotter and its atmosphere denser than astronomers believed; these predictions were proven correct. 

    He predicted Venus would be found to have orbital anomalies in relation to other planets. Venus has since been found to rotate on its axis in reverse direction to the other planets, and its day is longer than its year. We now know that parts of the atmosphere of Venus rotate in four days (with winds of up to 400 kilometres per hour) while the planet itself rotates in 243 days. Both these rotations are retrograde.

 

 One of Velikovsky’s hypotheses for the slowing of the Earth’s rotation which made the Sun appear to stand still was that the planet was engulfed in the extended atmosphere of the comet Venus. Some of the diurnal rotation of the Earth was imparted to this dust cloud according to Velikovsky, which fits the eccentric characteristics of the Venusian atmosphere.

  The comet spiraled past the Earth in an ever-decreasing path around the Sun before taking up its present orbit as the planet Venus. He cites further evidence to show that the Earth interacted with Mars on a number of occasions when writing was better developed than during the times of the Venusian encounters, after Venus flipped Mars out of its orbit. Disturbances caused by the passages of Mars consisted of earthquakes and electrical discharges. Most of the ‘Mars events’ took place within a ninety year period.

      This may all sound far fetched, but Velikovsky’s evidence and the predictions he made from it have stood the test of nearly six decades of investigation. As in his previous work, Velikovsky amassed an impressive range of evidence to support his case.   

 

Mythic Keys

 

  

To support his interpretation of the Hebrew and Egyptian histories Velikovsky searched the records of the civilizations of the eighth and fifteenth centuries BCE. In his last book he described his many years of research as sitting at the feet of sages “to listen to those who lived close to the events of the past… I realized very soon that the ancient sages lived in a frightened state of mind”. What became quickly apparent was the similarity of the events these people had experienced, and the fear that global upheavals associated with planetary encounters had inspired.

 

 The legends of the past are folklore, but the similarity of motifs from five continents and the Pacific Ocean islands is striking; witches on brooms, the dragon and the scorpion, an animal with many heads and a winged body, a woman whose veils stream behind her – these images are universal cosmic myths recording the characteristic shapes possessed by comets.  Velikovsky tracks the motif of the Sun being trapped in its movement through the tales of the Polynesians, Hawaiians and North American Indians. Like Middle Eastern civilizations, they have the story of the Sun being snared and freed by a mouse. In the Hawaiian version Mauii caught and beat the Sun, which begged for mercy and promised to go more slowly ever after. At the same time new islands appeared.

 

 The Ute tribe of North America tell of a piece of the Sun setting fire to the world, which was broken off by a rabbit after the Sun rose, went down and rose again. Cultures on the other side of the globe speak of the Sun setting, rising and setting again, when the solar orb remained an extra hour in the sky during Joshua’s famous battle.

  The legend of the cosmic battle of the planetary gods is familiar to us all. In the Homeric epics the Greeks choose Athena/Venus for their protector, the Trojans Ares/Mars – and they fought their battles while the gods struggled in the skies above. A similar situation existed in ancient Mexico. The Toltecs worshipped Quetzal-couatl/Venus, but the later Aztecs revered Huitzilopachtil/Mars. The identity, conflict and features of the planetary gods are consistent across the ancient world. Similarly, many potentates across the world named the cometary newcomer after themselves.

 

  Chinese chronicles record two suns doing battle in the sky and the disturbances of the other planets this caused. Mars was pursued by Venus, the Earth shook, glowing mountains collapsed, “the customs of the age are thrown into disorder… all living beings harass one another”. An old textbook of Hindu astronomy has a chapter on planetary conjunctions. A planet can be struck down or merely vanquished, and the victor in these encounters is usually the planet Venus. A juncture of the planets is called a yuga in Hindu astronomy; the ages of the world are also called yugas.

 

  An association of the planet Mars with the wolf is also common. In Babylon one of the seven names of Mars was ‘wolf’. An Egyptian god with the head of a wolf prowled the land and the Romans used the wolf – the legendary wet-nurse of Romulus and Remus, who are said to have founded Rome in 687 BCE - as the animal symbol for Mars. Slavic mythology has a god in the shape of the wolf, Vukadlak, who devoured the Sun and Moon. In the Icelandic epic the Edda, the god that darkens the Sun is the wolf Fenris, who battled the serpent Midgard in the heavens above. A Chinese astronomical chart quotes ancient sources in saying “once Venus ran into the Wolf Star”.    

 

Nature’s Evidence

 

 In Earth in Upheaval, Velikovsky excluded all references to ancient literature, tradition and folklore; “This I have done with intent, so that careless critics cannot decry the entire work as tales and legends. Stones and bones are the only witnesses.”  All over the coast of Alaska there are great heaps of smashed bones of extinct animals mingled with uprooted trees and the occasional flint spearhead. Four layers of volcanic ash can be found in these remains of splintered trees and dismembered bodies. In polar regions of Siberia and on the Arctic islands there are hills of broken wood piled hundreds of feet high, and beyond them hills of mammoth bones cemented together by frozen sand.

 

 On one island the bones of these animals were found with fossilised trees, leaves and cones. When the mammoth lived in Siberia there was abundant vegetation.  Spitsbergen is nearly 76 degrees north latitude; yet fossil flowers and corals and beds of coal thirty feet thick have been found there. Antarctica is known to have seams of coal at a latitude of 85 degrees. For this coal to have formed, the southern polar region must have had great forests in the past. How can relatively recent and sudden changes in the Earth’s climate and simultaneous widespread destruction of plant and animal species be explained?

 

  The violence of this destruction can be seen across Western Europe, where every major rock fissure is filled with the bones of animals, splintered and smashed into fragments. One 1,400 ft hill in France is capped by the remnants of mammoths, reindeer, horses and other animals. America has beds of fossil bones containing a hundred bones per square foot, deposited in sand. Some of these are over two hundred feet high. The hills of the Himalayas and Burma contain similar beds of bones. In China, among these fractured bones, the skeletons of seven humans were found. European, Melanesian and Eskimo types were lying together. Extinct and extant species of animals have been found mixed together in English deposits.     

Wreckords

 

         

The conventional theory of slow and uniform geological processes cannot explain these deposits – instead, they are evidence of major catastrophes, many of which have struck the planet during the time of modern humans’ existence. Velikovsky suggests a giant tidal wave engulfed the world that picked up and carried plants and animals over a great distance and smashed them intermingled into common graves.

 

 This and the transformation of the Earth’s climate are explained as consequences of the rapid change of the Earth’s axis brought about by a near-collision with another planet.    [The fact that the axis has tilted in relatively recent times is hardly in dispute – one must only glance at the distribution of ice sheets during the last glaciation to show that the poles must have titled about twenty degrees since the ice age principally ended about 13,000 years ago. Einstein wondered at the cause of a tilt of such magnitude, and conducted a protracted correspondence with Velikovsky and Charles Hapgood – who theorised that the crust regularly tilted around the mantle when the axial wobble became too pronounced – regarding their ideas about global catastrophe. Much of this debate has been somehow forgotten or misplaced in the new millennium, and Velikovsky’s ideas of smaller, more recent and repeated axial tilts have barely been considered – Ed.]

 

    The geological record tells a similar compelling story to that which paleontologists have unearthed. At 1,400 ft (over 400 metres) altitude in the Andes there are high water surf marks lined with undecayed seashells. There are many ruins surrounded by terraces for cultivation on the now high and dry western side of the Andes. On the east side, cultivated terraces continue far past the permanent snowline. Before the last lava sheet spread over Columbia human settlements were there, the remnants of which have been found. That the Andes Mountains were raised in fairly recent times by unimaginable forces is one conclusion.

 

  The ocean floor around the globe also bears witness to flows of lava and volcanic ash which covered a violently shifting bedrock while tidal waves battered the continents. There were once large areas of dry land and relatively recently formed beaches lie preserved in many places where the Atlantic Ocean now lies.

 

 The bottom of the seas show that the Earth has been showered with meteorites on a very large scale, leaving clay deposits rich in nickel, radium and iron.  When the Earth’s axis was shifted by the interaction of the Earth’s and the other planets’ magnetic fields, magnetic eddy currents formed in the atmosphere. These generated great heat and melted rocks on the surface. As this rock cooled, it reformed with a different magnetic polarity to surrounding strata. All over the world, similar local rock formations are found with their magnetic polarities reversed. For this to be the case the Earth’s magnetic field must have been reversed when these rocks were formed. Also, rocks with this inverted polarity are far more strongly magnetised than the Earth’s magnetic field alone can account for.

 

  Why was volcanic activity so common in the recent past? How was the sea floor raised and lowered around the world? As the Earth’s axis shifted in earlier times, the inertia of air and water caused hurricanes and tidal waves; the stress on the planet caused vulcanism and an outpouring of magma, sending up clouds of volcanic ash that threw a cloak of darkness over a sunless world.    

{As the Earth is not perfectly round but an oblate spheroid with an equatorial bulge, when the planet tilts on its axis areas which move off the raised area of the bulge will sink in relation to the sea level, and areas that tilt onto or nearer the equator will usually rise – up to two miles or more. Thus a continent can easily sink in the span of a single night, leaving only the mountaintops of Cuba and a few smaller islands as evidence of its former existence - and Lake Titicaca is full of salt water and contains species that have elsewhere become extinct since the ice age; its bed and the entire surrounds have been abruptly tilted, it’s surrounded by extensive ruins and the vast irrigated areas of an advanced civilization - and the irrigated areas and the lake itself are located above the point where rain ceases to fall; the lake has had no inflow for around 13,000 years - Ed}

 

  The heat generated by these forces evaporated seas. In some places torrential downpours formed great streams running through recently opened fissures in the Earth’s crust which suddenly eroded the landscape. Elsewhere, snow fell and covered the land with continental ice sheets. At the poles, permanent snow cover grew as the land cooled.  Climatic changes, ice cover, mountain building and the reverse magnetic orientation of contiguous strata of rocks are explained by Velikovsky’s theory of cosmic catastrophe. However, the accepted view of the Earth’s geological history is known as uniformitarianism; where the gradual workings of natural forces have produced the world as we know it. Needless to say, Velikovsky aroused as great a controversy in geology as he had previously in archaeology and astronomy. The defenders of uniformitarianism disliked Velikovsky’s ideas at least as much as their fellow scientists had.       

 

Velikovsky Attacked  

       

 

Publication of Worlds in Collision caused a violent reaction; astronomers everywhere denounced and decried the book. They threatened to blacklist Macmillan, the publisher, which was forced to withdraw the book from circulation. Under pressure, Macmillan transferred publication rights to Doubleday - who did not have a textbook department - and burned the unsold copies.  In reviews in reputable journals and public statements, academics and scientists even criticized some of Velikovsky’s works before anyone had read the manuscripts.

 

 Vehement conferences were held to show that Velikovsky’s theories were wrong.  Dr Immanuel Velikovsky died on November Seventeenth,1979 at the age of eighty-four. As more is learned about our solar system, some scientists have realized that his theories might conflict with accepted ideas, but not actually conflict with the facts.     

 

Rising From Amnesia          

Velikovsky theorized that humanity suffered a collective amnesia on the subject of catastrophes. As a reaction to the repeated near-destruction of human civilization, a deep scar has been left in the human psyche. Although the solar system has been settled for 2,700 years, he notes a seven hundred year cycle in the human collective consciousness. Christianity in the first century CE and Islam in the seventh were both founded in apocalyptic visions of the transformation of the world by fire. The fourteenth century was the time of the Black Death and the Hundred Years War, which reduced the population of Western Europe by two-thirds.  

 

Velikovsky’s fear was that in the Twenty-First Century this trauma would be reenacted by humanity, who are now in possession of the means of our own destruction. 

An examination of the facts may help the recall of our racial memory, the suppression of which could be the cause of great violence in our history.   

  

The Books of Dr Immanuel Velikovsky    

Worlds in Collision – 1950    Ages in Chaos – 1952   

Earth in Upheaval – 1955   

Oedipus and Akhnaton – 1960   

Peoples of the Sea – 1977   

Ramses II and His Time – 1978   

Mankind in Amnesia - 1982

 By Gerard Deva     

  

Editor's Note: I first published this article in NEXUS New Times Magazine (Vol. 1) No 7, 1988; it’s been slightly edited for the new millennium. Since Dr Velikovsky’s time our discoveries in the solar system have tended to confirm his theories rather than refute them - including many observations of evidence of relatively recent catastrophes in the tortured terrains of Mars and Venus, the obvious catastrophic damage to many of the solar system’s myriad moons, the discovery of numerous hitherto unsuspected dwarf planets and last century’s paradigm-altering collision of the String of Pearls comets with the planet Jupiter.

Many ‘cometary’ bodies have been shown to have ‘planetary’-scale masses and many scientific assumptions regarding the stability and formation of the solar system have been proven incorrect. Recent carbon dates assigned to many sites and artefacts also conform with Velikovsky’s theories and many of the challenges he has made to conventional theories have remained unanswered - except by his theory.

   Readers familiar with the works of Zechariah Sitchin will note the parallels between his translations of Sumerian cosmological records and the hypotheses of Velikovsky. Hapgood’s The Path of the Pole is also an excellent read, and Worlds in Collision is an excellent place to start for anyone who intends to read Velikovsky’s extraordinarily erudite, detailed and fully footnoted works. His detractors should read his evidence before criticising it – but although many of these books were once found everywhere, most are now out of print and only available second hand. Is anyone out there dedicated enough to scan heaps of pages - and proofread and correct the resultant OCR text? The web awaits…   

- R.A.

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Hidden History of Interplanetary Chaos: Velikovsky - the Bonds of the Past

Velikovsky: the Bonds of the Past

Hidden History of Interplanetary Chaos

 

Immanuel Velikovsky - His Work

Through his work on psychoanalysis and especially on Freud's heroes Oedipus and Akhnaton, Immanuel Velikovksy got deeply involved in the study of ancient history and of the Near East in particular. On this occasion he came across an Egyptian papyrus which described events that were surprisingly similar to the book Exodus of the Old Testament.

Thus put on the scent, Velikovsky studied sources from all cultures around the Earth in a meticulous 10-year research project. Everywhere he found reports about great natural catastrophes impressing by their similarity and therefore giving rise to the assumption that there must have been dramatic events encompassing the entire globe.

This was in clear contradiction to the usual theory of uniformity according to which the state of the Earth today has been produced by a series of minute changes over very long periods of time, allowing only such processes as can also be observed today. But what was even more surprising was the dating of these catastrophes in historical times, when according to the generally accepted knowledge everything was quiet and normal.

At the same time as he found out about the global catastrophes, Velikovsky discovered that the generally accepted chronology of the history of Ancient Egypt was wrong by several centuries. In detailed research reminiscent of a criminological investigation he reconstructed the actual course of events and could find a simple and straightforward solution to many known inconsistencies.

In order to verify his findings from the study of ancient sources, Velikovsky also comprehensively dealt with geological, palaeontological and archaeological facts, which strangely enough from the point of view of the accepted teachings led to similar conclusions.

The unique feature of Velikovsky's approach was that he didn't try to interpret the traditional human testimony, nor to understand it in a metaphorical sense, but that he took it as literally as it had been written down.

This approach led him to an even more far-reaching conclusion about the cause of the described catastrophes. It appeared that the planets Venus and Mars played a crucial part in these natural events totally incompatible with their actual status as quiet neighbor planets of the Earth. The mythological and historical traditions of our ancestors described events in the sky that turn our entire concepts of the origin and history of our planetary system upside down.

Velikovsky was well aware of the importance of his findings and conclusions and only published elements that he could definitely prove, often by several independent indications. Nevertheless his first book Worlds in Collision caused an outcry among experts and the public alike that hadn't been seen in the history of science since the days of Galileo. After a partial prepublication, Macmillan, the publisher who was about to publish his book, was forced to cancel the project because of a joint blackmailing campaign by major American Universities. And even though the book later was on the top of national bestseller ratings for weeks and saw over 20 editions in the US alone, the resistance and uproar didn't die down until after Velikovsky's death.

The greatest stress in this campaign was caused by the personally slandering nature of most of the reproaches and discriminations, unworthy of any scientific approach and often made by persons who themselves hadn't even read Velikovsky's books.

On the other hand Velikovsky's theories also found enthusiastic, even exuberant supporters, and the result were vehement public controversies for several decades.

Velikovsky himself was interested in a serious, scientific (in the proper sense) discussion of his theories and made repeated efforts to initiate specific investigations, especially within the emerging space program, which however mostly were rejected. Nevertheless the explorations of Venus, Mars and also of Saturn and Jupiter by space probes brought about findings, which Velikovsky – based on his studies – had postulated already years before. At the time he had earned fierce derision for it, and now these confirmations were mostly dismissed as chance hits. Even since the 80s, when natural catastrophes became generally acknowledged as part of the history of the Earth, Velikovsky continues to be defamed or passed over in silence.

One of the few scientists that objectively and seriously dealt with Velikovsky's work was Albert Einstein. In the last 2 years of Einstein's life the two met regularly for scientific discussions and even developed a personal friendship. After Einstein's death Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision was found open on Einstein's desk.


In the last decades the general tactics of letting the grass grow over this unwelcome mind had an ever growing effect. For today's scientists the name "Velikovsky" mostly doesn't mean anything any more, even more so since hardly any encyclopedia makes any mention of him.
It appears all the more important that now his complete works are being published again. The publisher Paradigma Ltd. says that they have taken the task to make these works, which are so important for the way we see and understand ourselves, available for the public and for scientists, hoping that this will help to make them accessible for the serious and objective examination and assessment appropriate for them.

 

Immanuel Velikovsky - His Books

• Worlds in Collision (original edition 1950, new edition 2009: 978-1-906833-11-4)
   
• Earth in Upheaval (original edition 1955, new edition 2009: 978-1-906833-12-1)
   
• From the Exodus to King Akhnaton, Vol. I of Ages in Chaos (original edition 1952, new edition 2009: 978-1-906833-13-8)
   
• Ramses II and His Time, Vol. II of Ages in Chaos (original edition 1978, new edition 2010: 978-1-906833-14-5)
   
• Peoples of the Sea, Vol. III of Ages in Chaos (original edition 1977, new edition 2011: 978-1-906833-15-2)
   
• Oedipus and Akhnaton: Myth and History (original edition 1960)
   
• Mankind in Amnesia (original edition 1982, new edition 2010: 978-1-906833-16-9)
   
• Stargazers and Gravediggers: Memoirs to Worlds in Collision (original edition 1984)

The complete works of Immanuel Velikovsky will be published soon by Paradigma Ltd.

About Immanuel Velikovsky

• Velikovsky and Establishment Science (Kronos Press, 1977)
   
• de Grazia, Alfred: Velikovsky Affair (1978)
   
• Goldsmith, D.: Scientists Confront Velikovsky (1979)
   
• Greenberg, Lewis M.: Scientists Confront Scientists Who Confront Velikovsky (1986)
   
• Ginenthal, Charles: Carl Sagan and Immanuel Velikovsky (1990)
   
• Milton, Earl R.: Recollections of a Fallen Sky: Velikovsky and Cultural Amnesia (1992)
   
• Pensee: Velikovsky Reconsidered (1994)
   
• Velikovsky Sharon, Ruth: Aba – The Glory and the Torment: The Life of Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky (original edition 1995, new revised edition 2010:
  978-1-906833-20-6)
   
• Bauer, Henry H.: Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy (1999)
   
• Velikovsky Sharon, Ruth: Immanuel Velikovsky – The Truth behind the Torment (original edition 2003, new revised edition 2010: 978-1-906833-21-3)
   
• Marriott, David: The Velikovsky Inheritance (2004)

• Internet: www.varchive.org
   
• The Velikovsky Encyclopedia: www.velikovsky.info

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The Black Goddess & the Sixth Sense

The Black Goddess & the Sixth Sense

What Our Self-Blinding Societies Fail To See:

 You Can't Know What You’ve Lost When It's Gone  

   
Some books alter the way you view the world forever. The Black Goddess and the Sixth Sense by Peter Redgrove demonstrates the inherent selective blindness of modern Humanity, and shows how things that are repressed – symbolised by the ‘dark senses’ and the hidden female forces that shape the world – are rising to balance human vision once again.  

  

    Redgrove paints breathtaking pictures of the modern mindscape in relation to the myths of Oedipus and the Sphinx and shows how, like Oedipus, self-blinding, self-mutilating patriarchies have led humans to believe they are the end-point of evolution, having solved all ‘important’ mysteries. Historically, this view has led to very real ‘end points’ of another nature entirely.

  

       These deeply embedded and psychically active symbologies also indicate how warrior religions overturned earlier, widespread, more homogenous cultures all over the world, which were more in tune with their environment – cultures which had day-to-day access to the self-evident ‘mysteries’ were systematically eradicated and subsumed by more violently aggressive groups. The conquerors had numbed their true ‘sensuous perceptions’ by alienating the sexes from each other and their senses from themselves, in their daily habits and taboos.  

  

    This schism in the species is slowly being healed from within, according to Redgrove, by the sublime senses and supersenses that we have submerged – but fortunately have been incapable of eradicating.  

  

    He explores the multi-channeled communications systems of nature, many of which we are still rediscovering in ourselves and other species. His elegantly flowing prose illuminates a living planet aswarm with multifaceted symphonies that surround and interpenetrate all of us. He takes us swimming through a dazzling spectrum of sensory modes, pointing out;  

  

    “There are more than seventy octaves of electromagnetic radiation, and the human being acknowledges the visibility of less than one octave, our sight being cramped, as it were, between the red and the violet; the colour of our arterial and intravenous blood.” Sight itself takes up about eighty percent of ‘normal’ sensory brain function; like Oedipus, ‘civilised’ humanity has been blinding itself to the bulk of information that’s always been bombarding and informing us.    Our immature worldviews have relegated most of the actual universe to the status of the peripheral and unimportant – and yet we are not ‘naturally’ blind to these vast forces and energies that surround and interpenetrate us; we have deliberately blinded ourselves to any so-called anomalies that don’t fit into the arbitrary jigsaw puzzles of our religious beliefs and pseudo-scientific dogmas.  

  

    Redgrove – co-author with Penelope Shuttle of the widely-acclaimed Wise Wound, that deals with the rediscovery of the rhythms of the female body – describes studies of animal intelligence and the sophisticated versatility of animal communication forms, touching on the nature of instinct as an agency of the multi-channeled life force of Gaia, our living planet.      He claims modern humans have willingly separated themselves from much of their environment, consciously acknowledging only a tiny portion of reality.  

  

    Visual, audible, tactile, infrared, chemical and electromagnetic sensitivity are discussed and explored as modes of perception and communication – an example being the ‘external hormones’ or pheromones which allow communication between humans, other animals, insects and plants – even across species, phylum and order boundaries.  

  

    “The chemical constituents of animal and plant hormones, sex pheromones and messenger systems in plants and animals are all closely similar. This is why, for instance, the pig responds to the truffle – the latter emits a sex odour-chemical almost identical to the pig’s own; and why you find human insulin in a common bacterium.” There is a near-universal communications system continually functioning between all plants and animals, and one which humans are implicately involved within at all times – yet this ‘hidden, dark’ mode of seemingly extra-sensory communication, that determines many of our actions and reactions, remains almost totally unacknowledged and unexplored.
 

    The Taoist and Tantric schools of knowledge - which were actively investigating these and other vitally important levels of reality and consciousness for millennia - were all destroyed by self-blinded militarists and unquestioning religions. The numbed conquerors feared any deep investigations of the self, seeing sex and sensuous reality as a threat to their domination and control of the womb and society.
 

    This continues to the present day with the persecution and destruction of groups such as the followers of Rajneesh/Osho, the spiritual practitioners of Falun Gong, Tantra, shamanism and ‘new age’ explorers of all hues. Instead we prop up the pernicious fantasies of pathological liars, supporting pedophile religionists and destructive money-mad technologists with our precious time and energy. As a result we have misplaced more than mere access to our supersenses and sensitivities; we have alienated Humanity from itself by driving impermeable wedges between female and male, child and adult, emotion and intellect, self and other.
 

    Humans have cut ourselves off from our ability to consciously control our own fertility and we do not allow ourselves or our children to see or hear vital subtle aspects of reality always perceived by our native cousins and ancestors, who evolved detailed descriptions and sciences of the unseen. The implications and realities of deep empathy and even telepathy are ignored as inadmissible data, despite the fact that everyone experiences these things all the time; we’ve all been carefully taught to ignore obvious truths and to mimic the emperor’s love of invisible clothes, and his immature desire for superfluous gewgaws.
 

    Chimpanzees don’t copy useless or superfluous behaviours; they only mimic things that appeal to their common sense and fit into their societies without disrupting or destroying them. Yet ‘more evolved modern’ humans engage in self-destructive behaviour and copy pointless and even painful fashions and activities without question.   We fail to see that we share the world with a myriad of unseen forces and entities while we fill our children’s open minds with lies about the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, Gentle Jesus and Wise Mohammed and the Angel Moron(i) - that inevitably lead innocents to distrust their elders and become cynical materialists, denying their inner awarenesses of the unknown.
 

        Modern processes of education and training also automatically blind children to the unexplained, unacknowledged realities they see and feel all the time. Each generation puts out the eyes of the next to arrest evolution and humans maintain their shuffling stumble through darkness, wondering where the light we all knew and faithfully followed as children has gone.   All alterations to the perfected temple of the human body are suspect. Genital mutilation has literally cut humans off from their supersenses while numbing the species’ feelings and emotions. We have mutilated our bodies and our minds to fit into a sterile, desert-making hierarchical pyramid kingdom of blind termites, in which the one-eyed obsessive always manages to remain King.       

       From the healing of warts and cancers by hypnosis and the nature of the immune system, to the human effects of modern mass communications, and insect antennae being morphically tuned to the electromagnetic spectrum, The Black Goddess and the Sixth Sense is a goldmine of interconnected facts and scientific revelations. For instance, keratin – a common protein found in your hair and nails – is piezoelectric. It actually generates electricity – and radio waves – under pressure, or, for instance, when long hair is waving in the wind or moving. We literally cut off a multileveled mode of communication when we cut ourselves off from our hair. 

  

    “Gases containing free-flowing organic materials, like pheromones, are especially voracious of infra-red and microwaves, and the organic molecules will re-radiate this energy that is poured into them, although it will be transformed by the vibratory system of the particular molecule.” The radio waves generated by our hair cause our pheromones to fluoresce in the ultraviolet range, making our ‘auras’ glow just at the edge of our accepted perceptions. 

       Pheromones are a form of chemical communications transmitted from most of your body, passing through us as hormones and traveling between almost all species as aerial pheromones. Pheromone receptors are found wherever we have mucous membranes and these substances are passed into and through us from all other lifeforms. Modern drugs and cosmetics mute and conceal these substances and serve to further cut us off from each other and the living world, while blocking our pores and receptors. As every young child knows, your hair and nails are integral and important components of a whole, unsullied being.

        Science is coming to tentative explanations of such concepts as auras and the existence of aspects of an underlying morphogenetic field or collective consciousness, and researcher have found ways to actually detect such fields within the well-known electromagnetic spectrum. “One view of atomic structure is that matter itself is like an interference pattern between waves… matter is a particular form of electromagnetism…” 

       The ‘onlooker’ or ‘spectator’ consciousness prevalent in the Western paradigm and science from Aristotle to today is reviewed by Redgrove. It is compared with such self-integrating concepts as Chi and Feng-shui from ancient China - and other cultures more aware of the “radiant continuum” of life than our ‘modern scientific’ viewpoint, with its blinkered attempts to monopolise knowledge into a simplistic, dead-end materialistic coffin.  

  

    In our pursuit of knowledge we have been led inexorably toward recognition of ‘invisible’ forces. In our denial of the sensuous invisibles we create invisible terrors, due to the blind spots we refuse and fear to see and the numb places we refuse and fear to feel.   The Black Goddess shows how culturally implanted anti-sensual isolation and guilt has led to the repression of our supersenses, magical belief systems and even non-abstract Romantic and representational art and music. All apparently ‘acausal’ phenomena are tidily and fixedly ignored in the inaccurately neat Aristotelian worldview, whose denizens ignore their imaginations and therefore ignore an organ of perception into unknown realms.   From this deep pit of sublimation, the ‘Black Goddess’ of our suppressed nature rises all-pervasive; like the Sphinx, She is a mediatrix who can reconcile apparent opposites into a fused complementary whole, freeing females and males, humans and animals, intellect and emotion from their unreal abstractions of each other.
 

        We populate the unknown with programmed fears and mythological angels wielding flaming swords that bar us from the Paradise that surrounds us - instead of exploring the dark, ‘subconscious’ realms of our world with unrecognised senses and supersenses already tailored to its infinite depths. Darkness is not an absence, not the enemy of the light; it is its palpable, unexplored complement.

         
The Black Goddess and the Sixth Sense is a book destined to radically change the perceptions and beliefs of any who read it.    

Your parents and grandparents were happy and satisfied to be lied to by those who still get away with stealing the wealth and knowledge of the Earth (and everywhere else) for themselves  – are you?

Turn on. Tune in. Opt OUT!   

-               R. Ayana  

-                This article is NOT a paid ad for this publication, but a genuinely appreciative appraisal of a landmark work by an insightful author. A shorter version was published in NEXUS New Times magazine, Vol. 1, No 5 

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