The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim (3 page)

Cultural traditions from all around the world have myths and legends telling of angelic beings who descended to the earth and interacted with human beings, ushering in some sort of cataclysmic, worldwide destruction of humanity that left scant few survivors. When analysis of the languages used in the various accounts is compared, blatantly similar facts emerge, revealing a commonality between the varied cultural tales, substantiating a corporate mythos: flesh and blood beings who were revered as gods, interacted with humanity in the most intimate of ways.

While there is a lack of scientifically repeatable evidence, there exists a sum of recorded history combined with diverse extant religious texts that comprise a broader picture of antediluvian races and events. Because these things cannot be quantified by the standards of the scientific method, do the plethora of ancient accounts establish any sort of verifiable proof of a crossover between inter-dimensional or interplanetary races? I believe yes, and that is what I will address in
the pages of this book. While the data is not repeatable for scientific experimentation, the historical annals speak loudly and clearly. When there exist such localized myths in geographical regions, repeated by other localized myths in other, far away geographical regions, over and over again, there is a certain scientific methodology at play. There is a message revealed.

Almost more importantly than the physical, textual references and evidences are the spiritual implications that can be drawn. Beyond the accounts of giant beings and extraterrestrial intercourses with humans, we have the spirituality of the matter, spanning the gaps between dogmatic theologies and firmly held systematic beliefs, spawning a broader interconnectivity between religions, cultures, and spiritualities. It is my personal belief that there is much more to discover than has been revealed, and the more we hypothesize, ponder, explore, research, study, and meditate on this wide array of scriptures, facts, folklore, stories, and writings, the more we engage in a responsible dissecting and evaluation of the living, breathing existence of these beings.

Now, you may well ask what qualifications and credentials I possess to write of such things with any modicum of authority. I could hold up my years of incomplete, degreeless education in Bible College and Masters program in seminary as sources for much of what I learned about biblical scripture, but as I have alluded to previously, that education simply left me wondering
more
about the things I had
not
been taught. If exploration and discovery is at the core of every heart and mind, then seeking out the answers by means of personal study and research is what I am presenting here in this book. We are
all
scholars, and we
all
bear a responsibility of rooting out the facts and seeking truth. While this book certainly should never, ever be held up as a quotable resource for universal truth on these matters, it is one man’s attempt to find answers that do not simply and blindly follow the dictates of a single belief system. While this effort may represent my early years of speculative imaginings, rounded off by more years of education and scholarly research, I would call this a work of my heart as opposed to a scholarly tome that will be held as
the
absolute authority on the topics contained herein. I have many more questions than I have answers, but
these pages represent honest, educated research that will—hopefully—lead you down a path to your own conclusions and discoveries.

There is so much more out there than what we have been taught. There is so much more out there to discover, uncover, and seek-out.

And then, there is that still, small voice.

My friend, Craig Hines, author of
Gateway of the Gods
, made reference in his book to a “small, quiet voice” that had been speaking to him—not audibly, but deep in his subconscious—telling him to “square the circle.” Like Craig, I have struggled with seeking and finding the answers to questions that delve much deeper than what seems to be lying on the surface. My entire life I have known that there is something lying just beyond the borders of the familiar, reaching far beyond systematic theologies and entrenched dogmas. Before we ever met face-to-face, I found in Craig, through the vehicle of his writing, an able, unwitting ally in my quest to make the square peg of my quest fit into the round hole of the universe.

There is an Old Testament passage where the prophet Elijah, desiring to have a face-to-face encounter with God, is shown a phenomenal sequence of divine events passing by him as he is standing in the cleft of a rock face: wind, earthquake, and fire. The noise of theophany is overwhelming, but it is only with the palpable quiet of the aftermath that God spoke in the sound of sheer silence. It is that same stunning silence, that “still small voice” that has whispered in both Craig’s ears and my own. When you experience the calm stillness of an almost revelatory realization that the seemingly random dots connect, a complete picture starts to materialize and come into full view. As a result, both Craig and I have, in a sense, stumbled upon the conclusion that we have been asked to “square the circle”—something Craig reminded me of in his private, hand-written note on the title page of
Gateway of the Gods
, the copy of his book he gave to me.

For most of my life, I have insisted that as much as we live and dwell in a natural world, we live and dwell in a supernatural one. The natural and Supernatural are one-in-the-same, and do not exist and function independently of each other. In fact, there is no “supernatural.” There is only the living, breathing, substantive world and universe around us,
that ebbs and flows in it’s own mysterious ways. For me, this book is all about coming to terms with the religious efforts of man to explain the misunderstood, and find a better understanding about the things we thought we once knew all there was to know about.
Squaring the circle
is my realization that all things are connected, all religions are connected, all spiritualities are connected in a great web of understanding what and who we are, where we are going, and how we are supposed to get there. I want this book to stand as another effort in attaining that equation, and there may even be theories put forward in these pages that cause you to wince in pause as you attempt to assimilate the information and conclusions offered.

Ancient mankind was visited by beings of another dimension, or from a distant star, who intermingled, seeded, receded, and in some cases reemerged in their interaction with the human race. There are remnants and evidences all over the world in every culture, all one need do is look. Ancient biblical and apocryphal texts tell us that the Nephilim “were on the earth in those days, and also afterward…” And “as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be [in the end times].”

So sit back in your favorite reading chair, grab your itty-bitty book light. Devour, absorb, and cogitate. Agree or disagree. Above all else, examine and dissect the materials in this book by going to that place where the trappings of societal sterility cannot reach your desire to see things with “older” eyes. Discard what you think you know and see the world and universe around you with a fresher-yet-ancient, un jaded view. Draw your conclusions based on an openness to know, rather than allow current thought to dictate where you take your beliefs. Ask questions and seek the answers to those questions. Enjoy and ask yourself how
you
can find a way to
square the circle
.

“Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”

—Henri Poincaré,
Science and Hypothesis
, 1905

“I spent a lot of time at age eight experimenting… commanding stones to levitate: ‘esir, enots.’ It never worked. I blamed my pronunciation.”

—Carl Sagan

So, I have this pile of stones, each one representing a scientific fact that could be used to build a solid foundation for what I’ll call the “House of the Origins of Humanity.” Yet, they remain in an unstructured heap, because-although each stone may be individually factual, they can be loosely mortared together only by hypothesis, built on the presupposition that humans evolved from lesser forms of primates, who in turn evolved from emergent aquatic species, who themselves evolved from primordial slime. Though these individual facts may indeed comprise my pile of stones, they cannot construct an unshakeable foundation, for they lack concrete coherence. So the house remains in the architectural phase. We know where we want to put the stones; we just are not yet sure how they all fit together.

Science, as we know it, is defined as a branch of knowledge or study of the physical or material world, dealing with a body of facts and/or
truths systematically arranged, showing the operation of general laws gained through observation and experimentation, reflecting a precise application of said fact and/or principles. Science is also the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena, restricted to a class of natural phenomena.

Although science is continually uncovering facts as to variant species that on a hypothetical level demonstrate a mutation within the species, they still lack that definitive link that results in an exclamation of “Eureka!”

This does not nullify the facts—that metaphoric pile of stones—but it certainly wreaks havoc with the proposed hypothesis.

To continue following my House of Humanity construct: Science has proven that there are five characteristics that separate man from other hominoids: a large neocortex, bipedality, reduced anterior dentition with molar dominance, material culture, and unique sexual and reproductive behavior.
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Science has yet to demonstrate that the discovered variants are actual linkages within the Human species. All we know with certainty is that scientists have uncovered numerous forms of fossilized prehistoric skeletal remains, leading them to conclude that they are substantiating the line of human evolutionary ascendancy, albeit with many gaps in the progression, and therefore no real linkages. But they are pretty damned sure that they are correct in their hypothesis.

What science and its practitioners have demonstrated is that fossils exist that provide incontrovertible evidence that various hominid species walked the earth in our primordial past. What they have
hypothesized
is that they are all linked to human evolution. Even the DNA findings at best are interpolated from what scientists
think
maybe appears to be sort of connected to human DNA. They make the stretch to linkage based solely on the educated “hope” that it is “probably so,” despite not having evidence to make it so without a shadow of a doubt. And isn’t that the very same way religious believers cling to their particular version of God?

Science has a love affair with itself. It loves to puff out its chest and declare for itself (as do many religions), yet with the last 150 years of research since Darwin’s
Origin of Species
(1859), their accumulated facts have still not gotten them past their original leaping-off point—their educated guess that all these finds are somehow linked, demonstrating an unbroken chain of evolutionary mutation resulting in modern man.

Although science has made great advances in the quest for the identification of linkages in the line of human evolution, science has also been forced to make quantum leaps of faith in order to adhere to pre-established hypotheses. Of course, members of the scientific community wouldn’t call it
faith
, but that is the practical outcome.

In a very real sense, science (and I use the term
science
here as representative of the accumulated collective of thought, hypotheses, research, and conclusion embodied in a single entity/word) rose up to find and identify fact, and has established its own “truth” in a sometimes-overt, sometimes-unwitting desire to do an “end run” around spiritual and religious belief. Spirituality existed long before established science, but somewhere at the very roots of understanding, science kicked in as soon as someone raised his or her head and said,
“Hmmm. I know the stars are the placental remains of the Great Goddess in the sky birthing the sun and moon. But…is that just a story, or is there something more…?”

A conflict has existed between science and spirituality—reason versus faith—since the beginning of recorded history, and it seems as if that fight will continue until time itself ends. For many in the scientific fields, there is a need to eradicate all that is not fact, including faith-based spirituality or its organized religious practices, as well as a denial—at least on an intellectual level—that there is some powerful, divine creative force at play in the universe.

According to evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, scientists never need to rely on faith, at least “not in the sense of faith as meaning
belief in something for which there is no evidence.”
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Dawkins, being a self-acclaimed atheist, says that any expression of “faith,” on his part, is based upon his confidence in the scientific method alone. In agreement with Dawkins is pop cultural skeptical icon James Randi, who by trade is a stage magician and scientific skeptic. He has made a notable name for himself out of debunking the paranormal and the pseudo-scientific—which is not in and of itself a bad thing. Randi says, when hailing to his experience of being tossed out of Sunday school as a kid, “I am an atheist, tried and true.”
³
Since then he has dedicated his life and career to finding ways to prove that science is the end-all and be-all when it comes to the great controversies surrounding the big questions of faith, religion, and the great mysterious unknowns of life and the universe.