The Source Field Investigations (16 page)

I think hope is a good thing, as it leads us into knowing, through direct experience, that all is well. And if we feel that everything is not well, then we can do something about it. Within this book is information that unites the 38,830 religious sects beautifully, and shows that each of them have the truth in some form . . . including their most magnificent prophecies of a Golden Age that will soon arrive in our future.

CHAPTER SIX

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as there an advanced ancient civilization on earth, much older than we normally believe could be possible? Did these ancestors deliberately create a wide variety of myths and spiritual teachings, worldwide, about the pineal gland? Could these cultures, or their forgotten creators, manipulate giant blocks of stone to build massive pyramids in two totally separate cultures—namely, the Mayan and the Egyptians? Did the people of these cultures enjoy direct contact with “gods”—human extraterrestrials who may have been far older, and far more advanced, than they were? Did these “ancient astronauts” understand that there was a Source Field we were all a part of—and in fact were using to think? And lastly, are there enough surviving traces of these ancient cultures left behind so we can figure out what happened—to understand who these people were, and what they might have known?

The earth almost certainly went through a catastrophe around the last Ice Age, some twelve thousand to thirteen thousand years ago. If there was an advanced civilization on earth before then, as many ancient astronaut theorists suggest, this Great Flood seems to have largely destroyed it. Rand and Rose Flem-Ath tied together a whole host of unique references worldwide, with impeccable research, to arrive at this conclusion.

Thanks to the best-selling
Fingerprints of the Gods
by Graham Hancock, the scholarly work of Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend is now central to any investigation of these ancient prophecies. Why? Their magnum opus
Hamlet’s Mill
tied together an incredible number of different ancient legends around the world—and found that they all had common roots. Author Colin Wilson stated it clearly.

What could possibly have caused all these different cultures around the world to end up with the same exact information—about astronomy? And what did all these different worldwide legends want us to know? The answer is deceptively simple: The myths encoded a long-term cycle in the earth’s orbit, which takes some twenty-five thousand years to complete. The prophecies also tell us these periods of great difficulty give way to what they often call a Golden Age. One classic example is the Norse legend of the Ragnarok. This is admittedly one of the most doom-and-gloom-sounding prophecies out there—but it does have a happy ending, as Bulfinch described in 1855:

Let’s consider the evidence we’ve examined so far. I do not believe these are literal prophecies, but they may be telling us a story about our future—using dreamlike symbolism. We have powerful clues that the basic energy of the Universe is conscious, and we all “think with the field,” to some degree. Could there be long cycles of time in which the character, quality and even
intelligence
of the Source Field change for everyone here on earth? Could these cycles drive our entire planet through a mass evolution—so we don’t all keep reincarnating again and again, learning the same lessons, for millennia? Many scholars agree this great twenty-five-thousand-year cycle ends in 2012, or thereabouts—which makes this a very cutting-edge and relevant discussion in today’s world.

The best way to understand this twenty-five-thousand-year cycle is to imagine the earth as if it were a spinning top. Let’s say you have a top that is spinning clockwise at a fast speed. At first it stands up straight, but then it starts tracing circles in the opposite direction—counterclockwise—as it slows down. Now imagine the earth is the top. Imagine you can see the earth’s axis, as if it were a solid bar running through the North and South Poles. Over the course of about 25,920 years, the earth’s axis makes a nice, slow circle in the opposite direction from the earth’s normal rotation—like the circles the top starts making as it winds down. Some ancient myths compare the earth’s axis to a long spoon in a pot of soup. The slow circular path of the earth’s axis is the stirring of the pot. (This visual only works if you keep the bottom of the spoon in one place as you make circles with it.) This slow movement of the earth’s axis causes the position of the stars in the night sky, during the equinox, to shift by one degree every seventy-two years. If you built your church or temple to line up with a certain star during every spring equinox, as many cultures, from the Druids at Stonehenge to Anasazis in Arizona, did, you’d be pretty unhappy when the stars started drifting away. By the time your grandchildren started growing up, your building would already be noticeably out of alignment.

In Western astrology, this master cycle is divided up into twelve “Ages of the Zodiac.” Though the earth changes its speed slightly over time as it moves through this cycle, most astrologers round it off to 50 arc seconds per year. This creates twelve ideal Ages of the Zodiac at 2,160 years each, adding up to a total of 25,920 years.
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If you calculate the cycle based on our current speed of 50.3 arc seconds per year, it would come out to 25,675 years—but since it fluctuates, most modern astronomers round it off at about 25,800.
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The technical name for this cycle is the precession of the equinoxes. The word
precession
essentially means “movement.”

Remember that Santillana and Von Dechend’s book is called
Hamlet’s Mill
? The Hamlet story is one of many ancient myths that describe the
axis mundi—
the earth’s own axis
—
getting disrupted in its orbital path. The earth’s axis is often described, in metaphor, as the axle of a mill for grinding corn. In order to build a mill, you have a horizontal wooden rod that runs through the center of a heavy stone wheel. The wooden rod is connected to a central, vertical axle. A strong worker then grabs the rod and starts pushing it around in circles. As the heavy stone wheel moves along, it grinds the corn underneath it.

Many myths set up a scene like this and then have the axle break. This is believed to represent the earth shifting on its axis. The myths then feature scenes where destructive Earth Changes seem to occur. Dr. Susan Lea, the Physics and Astronomy Department Chair at San Francisco State University, explains the deeper context behind this story—which is much older than the works of William Shakespeare.

Stone mill for grinding corn. This imagery was used in various ancient myths worldwide to describe a slow wobble in the Earth’s axis lasting 25,920 years.

Entire books could be written just on this one subject, and some already have been. One common symbol in these myths is the earth’s axis—or the
axis mundi.

Let’s not forget that in chapter 3, we saw how the
axis mundi
was often symbolized by a stone—such as the Primitive Mountain, Shiva lingam, Benben, omphalos or baetyl—and this symbol was directly associated with the pineal gland. Let’s also not forget that the Romans also used tall pyramid shapes to represent the baetyl on their coins. What we did not discuss in chapter 3, however, is that many of the Roman baetyl coins have a vertical axis running right through the center of the pyramid-shaped stone.

Precession of the equinoxes—a 25,920-year wobble in the Earth’s axis.

This suggests a curious, ongoing fascination in the top levels of the Roman empire with the movement of the earth’s axis, pyramids and the pineal gland. If the Romans inherited a greater, worldwide secret about the 25,920-year cycle, then they may well have believed there would be direct effects upon human consciousness at the end of the cycle. Let’s not forget that in the Egyptian mythologies, the Benben stone is surrounded by two Bennu birds. The Bennu is the phoenix—a bird that undergoes a radical transformation. The Egyptians also taught that the Bennu’s cry was responsible for creating great cycles of time that were ordained by Divine intelligence. We also saw teachings in the Egyptian Book of the Dead on how the seeker could achieve his or her own phoenix-like transformation—and when this happened, they could levitate, perform miracles and glow with bright light. The mystery schools and the major religions all seem to agree on the importance of the pineal gland in this spiritual awakening process.

Many authors want to sound the alarm about what they feel is imminent doom associated with this cycle—and its apparent due date of 2012. Some of the people I’ve spoken to who worked in various classified projects would agree with them. There is compelling evidence that significant Earth Changes do occur at the end of each of these cycles, but remember—we are already seeing those changes now.

According to Santillana, these ancient legends from all over the world describe the conditions on the earth getting worse and worse as we head toward the end of the cycle—much like the flaming death of the phoenix before it is reborn. These prophecies forecast a wide variety of problems in government and society—wars, famines, diseases and corruption, not to mention catastrophic Earth Changes—but the myths say they then usher in a stunning new Golden Age. Again, using our analogy of the lucid dream, it’s as if these events show us a worldwide reflection of who we are, and how asleep we have become—so we can be inspired to change our lives for the positive. If there is an intelligence throughout the Universe, and intelligent beings visited us who already knew about the Source Field, it seems quite ridiculous to consider that they would give us these prophecies just to tell us we were all going to die on a certain date—and that there was nothing we could do about it.