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Forbidden Archeology NewsFLASHFebruary 19, 2013Issue No. 17 www.mcremo.com |
“I now believe that the universe was brought into
existence by an infinite Intelligence. I believe
that this universe’s intricate laws manifest what scientists have called the Mind
of God.” –Anthony Flew
Dear Friends, hoping this finds your heart and minds aligned
during this amazing moment of unparalleled opportunity
within the eternity of cosmic time. –Lori Erbs, Newsflash Editor
To read this or previous
Newsflash issues go to: http://www.mcremo.com/newsflash.html
CONTENTS
NEWS – Michael
Cremo’s book release: My Science, My Religion
NEWS ROUNDUP –
Toothed wheel discovered in 300-million-year-old coal
FORTHCOMING EVENTS –
Michael Cremo at 2013 New Living Expo
REFLECTIONS OF THE
FORBIDDEN ARCHEOLOGIST
MCREMO.COM – Travel
Diary update: Jordan and Chichen Itza trips
WEBSITES OF INTEREST
– Ancient Mysteries International
COMRADES IN THE
EVOLUTION REVOLUTION FORUM
ANOMALOUS DISCOVERIES
NEWS
My Science, My Religion
Michael A.
Cremo’s newest work, My Science, My Religion: Academic Papers 1994-2009, was
released on
November
16, 2012 by Torchlight Publishing, Inc. To order or learn more, please visit http://www.mysciencemyreligion.com
Michael Cremo Makes Dissident
Scientists List
Jean de Climont associates Ltd included Michael Cremo in
their dissident scientists list of over 7000 profiles:
http://editionsassailly.com
2013 Kickoff at the World
Archaeological Congress in Jordan
Archeologists from around the globe converged at the archeological mecca of Jordan for the Seventh World Archaeological Congress in which Michael Cremo presented a paper at Session 4.3A [Senses with Senses: The Sensorial Archaeology] entitled “J. T. Robinson’s Use of a Psychic for Archeological Research at Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa.”
Gaiam TV Interviews
GaiamTV.com’s Open Minds features two interviews with
Michael Cremo and Regina Meredith on February 5th and
26th, 2013 that can be accessed using a 10-day free trial subscription to their
videocasts: www.gaiamtv.com/video/defying-darwin-michael-cremo?chan=Amb_Outreach&utm_source=AMBOutreach_MichaelCremo&utm_medium=Web&utm_campaign=10day
NEWS ROUNDUP
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Toothed Wheel Found in 300-million-year-old Coal Komsomolskaya
Pravda reported that a resident of Vladivostok discovered a
metallic-looking rail or rod pressed into a hunk of coal he had obtained to
heat his home during the winter. Initial examination of the strange object
led researchers to assert it looked "very much like a toothed metal
rail, created artificially…like parts [that] are often used in microscopes,
various technical and electronic devices" Full story at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/300-million-year-old-tooth-gear_n_2527424.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share |
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Are Nazca Lines A Desert Labyrinth? Dr Nicholas Saunders of the University of Bristol's
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology and Professor Clive Ruggles of the
University of Leicester walked 1,500 km of desert in southern Peru, tracing the
lines and geometric figures created by the Nasca people between 100 BC and AD
700. Their new conclusions are discussed in Antiquity: antiquity.ac.uk/ant/086/ant0861126.htm |
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Ancient Russian Fossil Machine In the remote Kamchatka peninsula University of St.
Petersburg archaeologists discovered a strange fossil composed of hundreds of
toothed cylinders that appear to be parts of a machine. According to
archaeologist Yuri Golubev all the pieces of this machine were dated at 400
million years. Full
story at: http://topalternativenews.com/2012/03/10/400-million-year-old-geared-mechanism-found-in-russia/ |
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
New Living Expo in San Francisco
Michael Cremo will be a keynote speaker
at the New Living Expo on Friday, April 26, 2013 in San Francisco, with a
workshop on Sunday, April 28 and UFO
Panel discussion on Saturday, April 27. Full details at: http://www.newlivingexpo.com
Ancient Mysteries International
Conference
Ancient Mysteries International hosts Michael Cremo, Stephen
Knapp, Frank Joseph and other noted speakers at their
2013 Conference in Ft. Wayne, Indiana on April 13th: http://www.ancientmysteriesinternational.org/april132013/april132013.html
Contact in the Desert Features Michael Cremo and George Noory
Michael Cremo joins George Noory
and other noted speakers at the Contact in the Desert Conference in Joshua Tree
Retreat Center August 9-13, 2013: www.jtrcc.org/retreat-and-event-info/ufo-retreat-and-conference-contact-in-the-desert-august-9th.html
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REFLECTIONS OF THE FORBIDDEN ARCHEOLOGIST |
One topic in which I
have become interested in recent years is what I call extrasensory archeology.
Most archeologists believe that archeology means studying the material remains
of the past with our ordinary material senses and instruments. But in
traditional cultures people have used other methods. For example, in sixteenth
century India, saints located lost sacred images through dreams and visions, and
then excavated them. Some of the papers published in my most recent book (My
Science, My Religion) explore this topic. On hearing about these
things, some people might think, "Well, that is just something that people
in pre-scientific cultures did. But such things are not part of modern
science." But that is not true. Last year, after reading something I had
written about extrasensory archeology in medieval India, a young European
archeologist wrote to me, asking if I was aware that J. T. Robinson had used a
psychic in his research in the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa in the early
1960s. J. T. Robinson is famous for his discoveries of fossils of the apeman Australopithecus.
I was not aware of his use of a psychic. It is not mentioned in any of the textbooks
of archeology. The European archeologist directed me to some sources of
information about Robinson's work with the psychic, and I followed up on them.
Robinson had become acquainted with a psychic named Geoffrey Hodson. He brought
him into the Sterkfontein Caves. Hodson lay down on the floor of the cave in a
trance. Robinson would put a small fossil of Australopithecus on his
head. In his trance, Hodson could see what the creature looked like and what it
was doing millions of years ago. Robinson said that all the information
provided by Hodson was consistent with the fossil evidence. In January 2013, at
the meeting of the World Archaeological Congress at the Dead Sea in
Jordan, I presented a paper about Robinson's work with Hodson. So it is not
only nonWestern people who lived long ago who used psychic techniques in
archeology. Some modern Western scientists have also done so, although this is
not very well known. I intend to pursue further research in both ancient and
modern examples of extrasensory archeology.
mcremo.com update
News http://www.mcremo.com/news.htm
New
and updated links at http://www.mcremo.com/links.htm
Read
about Michael Cremo’s Travel Diary tours of Jordan, Chichen Itza and Norway:
http://www.mcremo.com/darwin.htm
Check
on forthcoming and archived interviews at:
http://www.mcremo.com/interviews.html
Review
Michael’s travel schedule at:
WEBSITES OF INTEREST
Internet Archive Wayback Machine http://archive.org
Ancient Mysteries International http://www.ancientmysteriesinternational.org
Robert Sitler’s website http://www.robertsitler.com
FORUM: Comrades
in the Evolution Revolution
Letters to www.mcremo.com
Hello, Dr. Cremo,
Where exactly in the Vedas does it say that life began 2 billion years ago? Is
it not true that Hindu literature says it began 1 billion years ago and that
human life began 120 million years ago? That the Earth formed in the 2nd
manvatara (about 1 and a half billion years ago), that plants began in the 5th?
(Ancient Science at www.world-mysteries.com). And you say that life began 2
billion years ago, but it began 3.8 billion years ago (the 1st bacteria) as any
biologist will tell you.
Also, are not the dating methods subject to error because of false assumptions,
etc., even with the use of several methods?
Michael Cremo responds:
The Bhagavata Purana (also called the Shrimad
Bhagavatam) relates the history of Dhruva Maharaja, who lived during the
Svayambhuva manvantara, which is this first manvantara. He was living in a city
and went into the forest to meditate. The first manvantara goes from 1.7 - 2.0
billion years ago. There are 14 manvantaras in a kalpa, or day of Brahma. At
the beginning of each kalpa, there is creation of bodies of plants and animals
and human beings.
sri-rajovaca
devasura-nrnam sargo
naganam mrga-paksinam
samasikas tvaya prokto
yas tu svayambhuve 'ntare
The blessed King said to Sukadeva Gosvami: My dear lord, the demigods, demons,
human beings, Nagas, beasts and birds were created during the reign of
Svayambhuva Manu.
(Bhagavata Purana 6.4.1)
Today's biologists say they can detect the first chemical signs of life at more
than 3 billion years ago, but the oldest undisputed fossil evidence for single
celled life is about 2 billion years old, in my opinion. In any case, when we
get back that far in time, there is some chance that the dating methods are not
entirely accurate.
But people can have different opinions about these things.
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Dear Mr. Cremo,
Thank you for your fine book, Forbidden Archeology. I was wondering if
the sequencing of DNA has changed your view that Homo Sapiens Sapiens
has lived alongside other species for tens of millions of years.
I am a retired farmer with no involvement in paleoanthropology. I know little
about the subject; however, I was fascinated with the anomalous evidence
presented in your book. There is some evidence of evolution since earth’s
formation over 4 billion years ago; however, I don’t buy the homo timeline that
the majority opinion has ruthlessly defended.
My gut feeling is that it would take hundreds of millions of years for a Ramapithecus
to possibly evolve into a modern man, not the relatively short period since the
Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary. Any thoughts you might have with respect to DNA
sequencing would be most appreciated.
Michael
Cremo responds:
The sequencing of DNA has not
changed my ideas about the human species being many millions of years old.
There are many problems in associating changes in DNA with changes in time. I
deal with this issue in chapter four of my book Human Devolution: A Vedic
Alternative to Darwin's Theory.
Sincerely yours,
Michael A. Cremo
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Hello
Dr. Cremo, Attached
are photos, and what I have put together as a draft of "my
observations" of such. [Excerpts from Observations:] The place
of the most intriguing finds, I have painstakingly learned, is a
sedimentary layer said, (by the head layer, said (by the head of the Natural
Science Museum), to be 10 million years old in this particular location. (On
being told about these finds, the afore-mentioned expert will not return calls). These 'finds' are so extremely
delicate until first dried then rinsed in neutral water, and left to dry.
Many did not make it. Once dried, they are of such description: *Most have appearance of being burned on one side,
blackened. *All have either embedded sand attached, or were made of
a sand type cement mixture. *All came from an eroding ocean shore cliff that is
eroding, and giving up her secrets, willingly. Had
these not been collected by myself as 'rocks', they would have been lost
forever. *All samples were taken in a manner to not further erode,
disturb, not disrespect the cliff
containing these items. (When collected as just rocks, I had no knowledge of the
privilege, and, obligation, of this history.) This history needs to preserved,
and with no Historians of such in the United States, I have been extremely
frustrated, but will not give up in having this History documented. Experts have
told that me, and I quote, "how did ancients - Aztecs, or those from
South America get to San Mateo County, California". I am sure that your answer is
close to as mine was. There was no "America"
then.
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