18 Feb 2008 04:53:16 | Robert Bruce Baird
ANCIENT INVENTIONS:
In Alexandria and in the Cave of Hathor there appear to be
reasons to believe we had electricity. There is no doubt that
fraudulent traders were using electrum plating techniques to
make gold plate on other metals to sell as pure gold. Some think
the cave drawings show electrical wiring conduits, and I think
it might be phosphorous slush in hoses to make the light by
which the cave was painted by artists. There are professors who
would have us believe the reason there is no carbon deposits
from oil or wax burning lamps has to do with blind artisans.
Thales had a small steam engine, the lighthouse at Alexandria
and their tri-level sea-going ships, slot machines and other
things lead the authors of Ancient Inventions to say they
could build anything we could build until the mid-20th century.
They detail the skill of port construction and many other
things. There is much more than they talk about for us to
re-learn or know, and many whole disciplines or things we've not
yet re-discovered.
ANTHROPOLOGY:
There are so many examples of forced 'direct inference'
theorization rather than 'observation and conclusion' to fit all
facts in every area of science. Anthropologists in Polynesia
kept telling the native people that they came from S. E. Asia
despite the native assertions that they came from South America
or even the Nootka/Haida nation of the Pacific Northwest. Thor
Heyerdahl proved the natives were correct. The lack of
willingness to accept that humans were inventive and ingenious
enough to create rafts is nearly funny. There is botanical proof
that Hawaii's vegetation is not all indigenous and came from the
Caroline Islands of 1500 miles away. A cable TV documentary
showed how the rites of the Caroline Islanders involve a bailing
kind of movement and they established that as long ago as
150,000 BC these islanders traveled to Hawaii on huge rafts with
outriggers. The jungles' vines and logs would make a raft in
even the earliest times of hominid development.
The anthropologists as a whole are more open-minded despite
having made many judgement errors that conventional thinking and
the funding process have contributed to in a big way. We are
constantly finding the facts and opinions of what academia calls
mavericks are able to enlighten the past in all disciplines of
anthropology and archaeology. Gimbutas and Campbell have
followed a long line of independent thought from Humboldt and
Hawkes through Petrie and Marshack. In the end they have brought
mythology to the foreground through the use of techniques like
the space photos and now we have solid state chemistry and
genetics to blaze new trails. There is still a lot of
small-minded provincial 'pissing-contests' between the differing
disciplines but there are a lot of exciting things being
achieved. The cases of researchers spending up to twenty years
working and living with natives, who tell them what they want to
hear because they are gracious and kind, are numerous. (6) The
value systems of our researchers who want to position themselves
and the Euro-Centric financial backers as more civilized are
rife in the annals of what some say is far from a science.
When a native group being held under academic scrutiny and
subject to logical linear mindsets actually is able to educate
the 'experts' about their culture it is the exception. Often
such things are not funded because the data doesn't 'fit' the
prevailing literature. Carlos Castaneda was an anthropologist
from UCLA who made a major breakthrough on his own. Even his
debunkers have to admit he has brought a great deal of insight
to the field as a whole. Dr. Wayne Dyer owes a great deal of the
thought involved in his You'll See it, When You Believe
It! to the work of Carlos Castaneda and his Toltec mentor
Don Juan. It is possible that all of our research into human
behavior has more to learn than we think we already know. That
might mean we are wrong about many key things. One of the most
obvious things that our cultural bias foists upon the data is
the relative importance we place on intellect rather than
spirit.
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