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Who Was Moses?

March 22, 2013 By davidjones

By Robert Temple— When people are spoken of constantly, we feel we know them. Christians and Jews have been talking about Moses for thousands of years, so they assume they know who he was. But is this an illusion? Is it possible that no one really knows who Moses was? That the evidence about him is contradictory and enigmatic? Is it even possible that he never existed except in fable? Even religious fundamentalists have an immediate problem with Moses, and the accounts of him in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ancient Civilizations, Articles Tagged With: Bible, Moses

The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls

March 22, 2013 By davidjones

By Chris Morton & Ceri Louise Thomas— An old native American legend describes the existence of thirteen ancient crystal skulls, the size of human skulls, with moveable jaws that were said to speak or sing. The legend tells that these crystal skulls contain important information about some of the great mysteries of life and the universe. They contain knowledge about the past history of our species on this planet, and information about mankind’s true purpose and future destiny. The … [Read more...]

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Atlantis in Antarctica? Tracking the Myths of a Lost Island Paradise

March 22, 2013 By davidjones

By Rand and Rose Flem-Ath— Our exciting adventure tracking the history of the Ancients began in 1976. It was then that we read Plato’s account of an Egyptian priest’s description of the lost continent of Atlantis. We were intrigued when we realised that the account reflected a picture of the world as seen from Antarctica in 9600 BCE. That fascination culminated in the January 1995 publication of When the Sky Fell: In Search of Atlantis. The idea that Antarctica was home to Atlantis … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ancient Civilizations, Articles Tagged With: Antarctica, Atlantis

11:11 Is it Happening to You?

March 17, 2013 By davidjones

By MARIE JONES & LARRY FLAXMAN — Imagine waking up at exactly the same moment night after night for years and seeing the same time appear on the alarm clock beside your bed. For those who experience this strange occurrence, their first thoughts might be that it was random chance, or simply the product of an overactive imagination. But is it? Is there perhaps a hidden message that is encoded within these mysterious events? It is most assuredly not their imagination causing them to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Mysteries & Unexplained Tagged With: 11:11, numerology

Mysterious Celtic Mummies of the Gobi

March 17, 2013 By davidjones

By PHILIP COPPENS — The discovery of Caucasoid mummies in China shows that East and West have been meeting since the Bronze Age. Do they validate some of our most ancient legends? Christopher Columbus is said to have been the first to break down the barrier that was the Atlantic Ocean, that massive body of water separating two continents. But such a physical obstruction never existed between Europe and the East – one could always travel over land. The discovery of Caucasoid mummies in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ancient Civilizations, Articles Tagged With: Lemuria, Mummies

Credo Mutwa & the Alien Agenda: UFOs & Alien Abduction in the Eyes of a Zulu Shaman

March 16, 2013 By davidjones

By LOUIS PROUD— The Zulu sangoma (a shaman or healer) and high sanusi (clairvoyant and lore-master) Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa is recognised by many as one of the most distinguished African traditional healers around today. He is, in fact, the spiritual leader of the sanusis and sangomas of South Africa. As well as being a successful artist, author and historian, Mutwa is also an outspoken victim of alien abduction, having allegedly been in contact by entities his people call the mantindane … [Read more...]

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The Problem with Paradigms: In Search of Earth’s Hidden History

March 16, 2013 By davidjones

By J.S. GORDON— Mainstream orthodox (or ‘physical’) science contains as many paradigms as it does supposed facts, if not more; but it still tends to treat the former as largely substantiated facts. However, a paradigm – as the dictionary confirms – is merely a model, involving one or more assumptions. In fact, it is representative of the seemingly best functional theory or hypothesis available with accessible data in the face of ignorance of the true facts, which may in fact be quite … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Hidden History & Secret Societies, Spirituality & Metaphysics Tagged With: Atlantis

C.W. Leadbeater: Saint or Sinner?

March 16, 2013 By davidjones

By FRANK JOSEPH— Rare is the man or woman whose controversy in life outlives their death into the next century. But such were H.P. Blavatsky and C.W. Leadbeater, the founder and promoter, respectively, of Theosophy. Their legacy of notoriety and fame are generated less by the unorthodox, even heretical ideas they espoused with such unrepentant vigour during an era of Victorian sensibilities, than their outrageous personal behaviour which, even today, would have gotten them both into deep … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Hidden History & Secret Societies Tagged With: Australia, Blavatsky, Theosophy

Mankind’s Cradle of Civilisation Found in Java?

February 3, 2013 By davidjones

By FRANK JOSEPH— "Men fear time,” the old saying used to go, “but time fears the Sphinx.” That famous statue and Egypt’s Great Pyramid before which it has reclined for thousands of years have been long regarded as the most ancient monumental structures on Earth. Indeed, their late 20th century reappraisals indicated that they were even older than suspected. Beginning in 1974, a medical physicist and colleague of Albert Einstein, Kurt Mendelssohn, showed that the Great Pyramid was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ancient Civilizations, Articles Tagged With: Lemuria

Political Secret Societies: The Hidden Paths of Power

January 13, 2013 By davidjones

By JAMES WASSERMAN Did Zanoni belong to this mystical Fraternity, who, in an earlier age, boasted of secrets of which the Philosopher’s Stone was but the least; who considered themselves the heirs of all that the Chaldeans, the Magi, the Gymnosophists, and the Platonists had taught; and who differed from all the darker Sons of Magic in the virtue of their lives, the purity of their doctrines, and their insisting, as the foundation of all wisdom, on the subjugation of the senses, and the … [Read more...]

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