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The Antikythera is a big WOW!!!

So as not to be a o­ne-note person, here's something besides crop circles to be in awe of. I don't know what else to say but WOW! As listmember Monika Roloff, from Australia, who sent me this says, it's “certain proof of more elite knowledge and civilizations 2,000 years ago…” Click for streaming video:

http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/antikythera

I'm reminded of Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race

, which challenges the prevailing theory of Darwinian evolution. That book, which could blast us out of our worldview, contains evidence of ancient human origins — 914 pages of what can't be, but is. Our science-based worldview won't admit such information — it would change everything, and we are attached to the way we've explained things to be. Anything that doesn't just add more information to society's pile, but instead forces us to erect a new pile, always has a hard time getting through.

I interviewed author Michael Cremo at a crop circle conference for my documentary, but the background noise unfortunately prevented me from using the footage. This is from his website:

“Over the past two centuries researchers have found bones and artifacts showing that people like ourselves existed o­n earth millions of years ago. But the scientific establishment has ignored these remarkable facts because they contradict the dominant views of human origins and antiquity. Cremo and Thompson challenge us to rethink our understanding of human origins, identity, and destiny. Forbidden Archeology takes o­n o­ne of the most fundamental components of the modern scientific world view, and invites us to take a courageous first step towards a new perspective.”

This is from a review o­n the site:

“…the existence of human bones that were discovered in Illinois in rock from the Carboniferous period as well as human footprints from the same period in Kentucky and from the Jurassic period in Turkmenistan. Man was not o­nly living in these remote periods, but also he had already an advanced civilization. As evidence they cite fossil anchors found in the depths of quarries, a mysterious inscription o­n a piece of marble extracted from its natural rock, a piece of money from the middle Pleistocene, a fossilized shoe sole from the Triassic, and even a metal vase from the Precambrian (600 million years ago). Official science, charge Cremo and Thompson, refuses to take into account these vestiges because they threaten the established conception of the origin of man.”


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Crop Circles

A CALL FOR NEW ATTENTION

                                                                 

We love our science fiction, but we titter when we talk about UFOs. People go into modes of rebuttal rather than accepting information as reportage. Have you been watching Larry King of late? He's done two programs about UFOs in the last two weeks, where government and military officials gave testimonials to their astonishing experiences, but, de rigueur, a member of the Skeptic's Society has been there to shoot them down.

What I'd like to draw attention to, which never gets discussed, is how valuable it would be if extraterrestrials turned out to be the real deal. Instead of mocking all the reports, if we had our heads o­n straight we'd be investigating them. Getting heads o­n straight is the imperative of our time. How else can we get beyond our dualistic, 'us or them' thinking, where opposition is the norm?
 
The reality of another intelligence would be the biggest news since Galileo. When we found out Earth wasn't the center of the solar system, let alone not the center of the universe, we were freed from a worldview in which our planet dominated. Our social order then couldn't hold, and, in a less than lordly light, kings gave way to democracies and we got the science that defines our modern world.
With problems being global now, in order to keep our world habitable we need another new social order. It is imperative that we get past our worldview of scientific materialism, which creates an 'us or them' world in which we fight over goods and whoever has the most toys wins. We need to transcend factional behavior that stretches the disparity between the rich and the poor to where revolutions take place, and keeps us resorting to war to resolve conflicts.
A next leap would come if we knew there was other intelligent life. In relating to what's not ourselves, we would be o­ne humanity, and we would have the lid off the smallness in which we gun for o­ne another. It is reasonable that we can get to this awareness via the crop circle phenomenon, where the evidence of visitation is available to see and to study. In fact, the science that has been done o­n the phenomenon, and written up in peer reviewed pieces in science journals, concludes that something beyond our reality is delivering the circles to us. While what delivers the glyphs will remain a mystery, knowing that something is watching us and signaling us is enough — it's that they are, not who they are that's important.

Our government, o­n the premise that people would panic if they knew something beyond our control was engaging us, put a lid o­n investigating what could be other intelligences. See the REPORT OF SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL o­n UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS CONVENED BY OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, CIA January 14 – 18, 1953, for long-classified info o­n a meeting that set government policy, which was to ridicule rather than investigate UFOs. However, after many years of delivering non-threatening beauty, we could rest easy in the awareness that if the circles come from elsewhere there isn't going to be an invasion.

Just knowing we aren't alone would be a huge deal. However, if we established that, there could be more. The technology of  'the other' is more advanced than ours, which we can conclude since they are visiting us and not the other way around, and what they are capable of might help us solve our great environmental problems, like oil depletion and global warming, that threaten our survival.
 
So why do our visitors make crop circles instead of doing things that would be helpful to us? Maybe there needs to be a receptivity for us to get more from them. If sending circles is their hello, it makes sense to me that we'd need to respond for them to go further. I see them patiently awaiting our aha, where we get it that they are out there. Then, we'd own that awareness. We could meet them, then, rather than being dominated or subjugated by them, which is an old sort of science fiction scenario.
 
Human begins have it in our psyches that we hate being conned — a fear that flourishes in the right and wrong world. But a higher order, that can subsume that o­ne, is the realm of mystery. This cosmos is so awesome, where we continually pierce more of its veils, that some openness to what we don't know is good for us. It keeps us dreaming, a state in which new and better realities could be ushered in. Here's what my favorite cosmologist, physicist Brian Swimme, has to say about that, in reflections he made after seeing my almost finished documentary, WALKING IN CIRCLES:
Albert Einstein o­nce remarked that for the human there is no more powerful feeling than that of the “mysterious.” In fact, he was convinced this feeling for the mysterious was the cradle for all works of science, art, and religion. In light of Einstein's conviction, o­ne might ask: “What is the opposite of a feeling for the mysterious?” The opposite would be the sense that o­ne understands it all. The opposite would be the feeling that o­ne is in possession of a system that explains all the phenomena in the universe. For such a person, the universe loses its appeal for it becomes something we don't really need to pay attention to. The universe becomes an exemplification of a theory that o­ne has already understood. No real surprises are possible, o­nly the working out of a logical system through time. When a feeling for the mysterious is lost, o­ne become s vulnerable to the various fundamentalisms plaguing our planet, each o­ne with its passionate certainty that it has all the answers while every other system is just superstition.
In moments of stress and breakdown, there is a powerful drive in us to acquire answers and explanations. Certainly in our own time when we are dismantling ecosystems around the planet and deconstructing the stable climate upon which our civilization is based, we feel a deep need to know what is real and what is good and how to proceed. This need can become so great we are liable to latch o­nto o­ne of these simplistic pseudo-explanations just to quell the feelings of fear and doom surfacing in us. “Walking in Circles” does not provide any such simplistic explanations. This restraint is o­ne of its greatest achievements. By insisting that the Crop Circles are beyond any easy explanation, “Walking in Circles” enables us to make peace with living in the ambiguity of not knowing. This ability to live with ambiguity is related to a sense for the mysterious and together these two may be the most important factors for deep creativity to take place. At the very least, we need to realize that an embrace of ambiguity is a form of humility when confronted by the magnificent complexity of nature.

One of the great benefits of viewing WALKING IN CIRCLES is the feeling o­ne can get of wading into the mysterious. Through its balanced and wide-open approach to the phenomena of crop circles, the film has the power to ease us out of some of the prior certainties we might have had. WALKING IN CIRCLES explores and celebrates the fact of the existence of these designs. And as we are guided into this reflection, we find ourselves considering new ideas about the nature of our universe. We begin to imagine that things might be different than we thought. We might even begin to release ourselves from some of the tired explanations lodged into our minds by the media. But most important of all, as we view the film we might even begin to feel stunned by the simple fact that here we are in the midst of this overwhelming mystery, the universe.
Since my film isn't finished, there's no viewing to be had yet. (Here's a URL I gave before to an 11-minute promo for it: http://www.mightycompanions.org/cropcircles/trailer/cc.html. The name has changed and may change again before the film comes out. Suggestions are welcome.) However, the season for crop circles is underway and it looks like a sensational o­ne in England. To see them all for yourselves, there's a site that tracks them as they come in.  See http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/2008.html for what's arrived so far.

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World Press

Say it’s so!!!!

This made me feel good.

One of the spiritual arenas I studied, in a several year class called Nature of the Soul, was the Alice Bailey work. In that discipline, which concerned the evolution of conscious awareness, we looked at the lack of enlightened thinking in government — as contrasted to new thinking in business, science, and everywhere else — where government was so crass that conscious people stayed out of it, and it seemed that field would be the last to open to higher thinking. Could Obama be the start of something new?

Is Obama an enlightened being?
Spiritual wise o­nes say: This sure isn't no ordinary politician. You buying it?

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Friday, June 6, 2008

I find I'm having this discussion, this weird little debate, more and more, with colleagues, with readers, with liberals and moderates and miserable, deeply depressed Republicans and spiritually amped persons of all shapes and stripes and I'm having it in particular with those who seem confused, angry, unsure, thoroughly nonplussed, as they all ask me the same thing: What the hell's the big deal about Obama?

I, of course, have an answer. Sort of.

Warning: If you are a rigid pragmatist/literalist, itchingly evangelical, a scowler, a doubter, a burned-out former '60s radical with no hope left, or are otherwise unable or unwilling to parse alternative New Age speak, click away right now, because you ain't gonna like this o­ne little bit.

Ready? It goes likes this:

Barack Obama isn't really o­ne of us. Not in the normal way, anyway.

This is what I find myself offering up more and more in response to the whiners and the frowners and to those with broken or sadly dysfunctional karmic antennae – or no antennae at all – to all those who just don't understand and maybe even actively recoil against all this chatter about Obama's aura and feel and MLK/JFK-like vibe.

To them I say, all right, you want to know what it is? The appeal, the pull, the ethereal and magical thing that seems to enthrall millions of people from all over the world, that keeps opening up and firing into new channels of the culture normally completely unaffected by politics?

No, it's not merely his youthful vigor, or handsomeness, or even inspiring rhetoric. It is not fresh ideas or cool charisma or the fact that a black president will be historic and revolutionary in about a thousand different ways. It is something more. Even Bill Clinton, with all his effortless, winking charm, didn't have what Obama has, which is a sort of powerful luminosity, a unique high-vibration integrity.

Dismiss it all you like, but I've heard from far too many enormously smart, wise, spiritually attuned people who've been intuitively blown away by Obama's presence – not speeches, not policies, but sheer presence – to say it's just a clever marketing ploy, a slick gambit carefully orchestrated by hotshot campaign organizers who, o­nce Obama gets into office, will suddenly turn from perky optimists to vile soul-sucking lobbyist whores, with Obama as their suddenly evil, cackling overlord.

Here's where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being o­n the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.

The unusual thing is, true Lightworkers almost never appear o­n such a brutal, spiritually demeaning stage as national politics. This is why Obama is so rare. And this why he is so often compared to Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., to those leaders in our culture whose stirring vibrations still resonate throughout our short history.

Are you rolling your eyes and scoffing? Fine by me. But you gotta wonder, why has, say, the JFK legacy lasted so long, is so vital to our national identity? Yes, the assassination canonized his legend. The Kennedy family is our version of royalty. But there's something more. Those attuned to energies beyond the literal meanings of things, these people say JFK wasn't assassinated for any typical reason you can name. It's because he was just this kind of high-vibration being, a peacemaker, at odds with the war machine, the CIA, the dark side. And it killed him.

Now, Obama. The next step. Another try. And perhaps, as Bush laid waste to the land and embarrassed the country and pummeled our national spirit into disenchanted pulp and yet ironically, in so doing has helped set the stage for an even larger and more fascinating evolutionary burp, we are finally truly ready for another Lightworker to step up.

Let me be completely clear: I'm not arguing some sort of Utopian revolution, a big global group hug with Obama as some sort of happy hippie camp counselor. I'm not saying the man's going to swoop in like a superhero messiah and stop all wars and make the flowers grow and birds sing and solve world hunger and bring puppies to schoolchildren.

Please. I'm also certainly not saying he's perfect, that his presidency will be free of compromise, or slimy insiders, or great heaps of politics-as-usual. While Obama's certainly an entire universe away from George W. Bush in terms of quality, integrity, intelligence and overall inspirational energy, well, so is your dog. Hell, it isn't hard to stand far above and beyond the worst president in American history.

But there simply is no denying that extra kick. As o­ne reader put it to me, in a way, it's not even about Obama, per se. There's a vast amount of positive energy swirling about that's been held back by the armies of BushCo darkness, and this energy has now found a conduit, a lightning rod, is now effortlessly self-organizing around Obama's candidacy. People and emotions and ideas of high and positive vibration are automatically draw to him. It's exactly like how Bush was a magnet for the low vibrational energies of fear and war and oppression and aggression, but, you know, completely reversed. And different. And far, far better.

Don't buy any of it? Think that's all a bunch of tofu-sucking New Agey bulls– and Obama is really a dangerously elitist political salesman whose inexperience will lead us further into darkness because, when you're talking national politics, nothing, really, ever changes? I understand. I get it. I often believe it myself.

Not this time.

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Thoughts about this column? E-mail Mark: mmorford@sfgate.com

Mark Morford's Notes & Errata column appears every Wednesday and Friday o­n SFGate and in the Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle. To get o­n the e-mail list for this column, please click here

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