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442 Lost River
of the Vedas
New Evidnce for
the Reality of the
‘Mythical’ Sariswati
32 The Lines of
Nazca and the
18 Michael Cremo
Solar Factor
444 Evolution
22 Defying Gravity 34 The Cremation
The Search for a
Dilemma
446 Atlantis in
Sweden
Way to Get Off the
Planet Accelerates
25 The Illusions
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Does Science
Understand It
or Not?
Doing Right by Our
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ALTERNATIVE NEWS
NASA lab test of
EmDrive shows
that it works
Chinese Make Advances
with ‘Impossible’ Space Drive
T
he latest developments driving the proponents of old-think crazy,
y surrounds the
so-called space travel technology called the
EmDrive. In a closed, cone-shaped chamber
microwaves are fired in such a way as to cause
more force at one end than the other. The
machine, say proponents, could provide virtually fuel-less propulsion for space travel, capable of acceleration to near light speed—what
Star Trek used to call warp speed. Under the
rules of Newtonian physics, which demand
the ‘conservation of momentum,’ all of that
is deemed impossible.
The drive was invented in 1999 by
British aerospace engineer Roger Shawyer.
Like ‘Cold Fusion’ 10 years earlier, the EmDrive has been sneered at by conventional scientists everywhere. The problem—some might
say ‘the embarrassment’—for them is that it
seems to work. No less an authority than
NASA has produced a peer-reviewed study
clearly presenting evidence that the thing actually works.
The latest reports come from China in
an article published in December, 2016, the
Science and Technology Daily, the official news-
paper
p
aper of
of China’s
China’ss m
ministry
inistr y of
of Science
Science and
and
Technology.
have
successfully
T
Te
chnology.
y “We
W hav
a e successfu
f lly developed
several specifications of multiple prototype
principles,” says the head of China’s communication satellite division Chen Yue. “The establishment of an experimental verification
platform to complete the milli-level micro
thrust measurement test, as well as several
years of repeated experiments and investigations into corresponding interference factors,
confirm that in this type of thruster, thrust
exists.” It is indeed, say the Chinese authorities, at the later stages of ‘proof-of-principle.’
Some sources say the Chinese have tested the
Em at their Tiangong-2 space laboratory.
This is all too much for the church of
science. The website Futurism.com calls the
Chinese untrustworthy in such research and
writes that, “Despite NASA’s recent publication of their peer-reviewed study, experts remain skeptical about the EmDrive. They are
also taking the NASA study with a sizable
grain of salt.”
For another take on the coming technologies of space travel, see W
William B.
Stoecker’s article on page 22..
Mysterious Metals in Martian Sky
A
NASA satellite orbiting Mars fo
fforr the last
ffive
ive years is sending back unexpected
data about electrically-charged metal alloys,
now being fo
ffound
und in the Martian atmosphere,
unlike anything fo
ffound
und on Earth. So fa
ffarr exbaffled
perts are baff
f f led by what they are learning
from the Mars MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere
and Volatile Emission) spacecraft.
Joseph Grebowsky, a scientist at the
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in
Greenbelt, Maryland, is heading up an effort
to explain the discoveries. Unlike Earth, Mars
has no strong magnetic field to pull in particles from interplanetary space. But, still, the
magnetic particles have formed layers that, so
far, defy conventional explanation. Grebowski
says it is all “very exciting.”
Former NASA physicist, John Branden-
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NASA’s
MAVEN
Spacecraft
burg, has long argued that in very ancient
times, Mars was the site of multiple nuclear
explosions that, he says, destroyed an advanced civilization then existing there. For
more on Brandenburg’s arguments see “Ancient Nukes on Mars,” AR #107 (September/October, 2014). So far, however, there has
been no comment from Grebowski about
any role that nuclear events could have
played in
magnetic anomalies detected by
n the m
MAVEN.
N.
Vehicle Wheel Ruts Are Millions
of Years Old, Argues Geologist
T
he anomalous tire and tread tracks of
what could be ancient machines, fo
ffound
und
mostly in Turkey
T rkey and Spain, and other places
Tu
as well, are providing a major archaeological
mystery. Now a respected Russian geologist
says he believes the tracks could be 12 to 14
million years old.
Dr. Alexander
Dr. Koltypin
Koltypin, director
of the Natural Science Research Center at Moscow’s
International Independent University
of Ecology and Geology, has been
studying ancient
ruts appearing in
ground that has
been petrified since
the middle to late
miocene era. Often
intersecting very ancient
geological
fault lines, which
they, thus, must
predate, the tracks cannott be
b dismissed
di i d as off
recent origin.
Koltypin has investigated numerous petrified sites in Malta, Italy, Kazakhstan, France
and even in North America. In Turkey, one
cluster near Sofia covers an area of about 450
square miles. In Cappadocia are several such
areas as large as 300 square miles. Some of the
tracks are comparable in width to modern vehicles with tires about nine-inches wide.
The conventional theory, found in the
very few works previously discussing the subject, was that the tracks were caused by lightweight carts or chariots (of course, according
to orthodoxy, modern humans were not
around at such early dates). The ruts are far
too deep, says Koltypin, to be made by such
small conveyances—even those that could
have been drawn by camel. After conducting
many field studies in various locations and
extensively reviewing scientific literature on
the local geology, he speculates that the
tracks might have been left by the builders of
underground cities found in places like Cappadocia but says they are are far older than is
conventionally believed, and could only have
been left by heavy machinery.
Dr. Koltypin’s research and many pictures can be found on his website www.earthbeforef lood.com and in several YouTube
videos.
For more evidence of Miocene humanity
anity
see Michael Cremo’s column on page 18..
Petrified track marks in
Turkey (Photos by Dr.
Alexander Koltypin)
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RISING 11
SpaceX
Conducts
Historic
Re-Flight
of Used
Booster
& Lands
it Again
SES-10 Launches
O
n Thursday
h d March
h 30, 2017 the priv
private
vate
took
space launch company SpaceX too
ok a
giant step into the future as it reused—for
reused—
—for
the first time—the recovered first stagee of
a previously-flown
i l fl
SSpaceX
X FFalcon
l
9 rocket
k t
after a rocket-powered return. The satellite
launch mission, carrying the SES-10 communications satellite, lifted off from Pad
39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at
18:27 local time (22:27 UTC) and once
again landed the booster.
The mission, making use of the Falcon
9 orbit-capable rocket was the first—since
the Space Shuttle—to achieve even partial
reusability, and the first to do so with
rocket-powered reverse descent. The Falcon
9 rocket was launched from Complex 39A
at the Kennedy Space Center, the same
pad from which the Shuttle began eightytwo of its missions, including its first and
final flights.
Reusability has long been a key objective for SpaceX, which company founder
Elon Musk has argued will reduce the cost
of spaceflight by orders of magnitude.
Previously SpaceX had successfully recovered five of its booster rockets. The
rocket used in April’s launch was the second that SpaceX had recovered. It had
been the vehicle used for the company’s
eighth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station.
After launch, the rocket landed on
SpaceX’s drone ship, facetiously titled ‘Of
Course I Still Love You.’ SpaceX had decided to relaunch this particular Falcon 9
again first, since the company wanted to
save the first rocket it had ever landed—a
vehicle that sent 11 satellites into orbit for
the company ORBCOMM in December
2015. That stage is now on display at
SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
a.
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ERNAT
A IVE TECHNOLOGY
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The Search for a
Way to Get Off the
Planet Accelerates
• BBY WILLIAM B. STOECKER
T
o date, all space missions, manned
or unmanned, have been lifted into
orbit and beyond with rockets in
one form or another. They work but
are dangerous and expensive and very limited
in their capabilities, in large part because in
the vacuum of space, they must carry an oxidizer along with the fuel. They use highly explosive propellants and are dependent on
high speed, high pressure pumps and engines
that can withstand enormous
pressure and high temperatures.
They need fuel to lift the payload,
and more fuel to lift the superstructure that contains the tanks,
pumps, engines, and payload.
Then they need fuel to lift the
fuel, and fuel to lift the fuel that
lifts the fuel, and so on. So the
engineers must resort to staging,
with a big rocket lifting a smaller
one, and so on; and, since it is difficult to retrieve and reuse the
stages, they are usually discarded,
analogous, as Elon Musk points
out, to flying coast to coast and
then discarding the airliner. The
shuttle was supposed to solve this
problem, but its technical problems were so great that it was even
more costly rather than less.
Some of the technical problems have been solved, and it
looks as if reusable rockets will become feasible after all (as Musk’s
company SpaceX demonstrated in
March with its first relaunch and
recovery of a used rocket), but
they will still be dangerous and
expensive. The British and others
are developing scramjets, which
use atmospheric oxygen to reach
very high speeds and altitudes; a
reusable scramjet first stage and a
reusable rocket second stage
would certainly reduce costs.
Once in orbit, only a very low
thrust is
required to slowly accelerate substantial payloads to escape vellocity.
ocity.
y A photon sail, pushed by sunlight and
byy solar wind, can do this, or an ion or
b
o
plasma
electric
p
lasma rocket that uses ele
i fields to acpayload
very slowly to enormous
ccelerate
elerate a p
l
velocities. But space flight would still be expensive and dangerous, and these technologies do not allow us to land on other planets.
There have even been proposals for a
“space elevator” making use of the enormous
strength of new materials currently being developed. A weight would be placed in an
orbit a little higher than the geosynchronous
orbit used by communications satellites,
which orbit Earth every 24 hours as it rotates
at the same rate beneath them, so they stay
above one point on the equator. It would be
attached by a light but strong cable to a
ground base. But proponents of this idea
have been a bit vague about the means to
propel a vehicle up and down this cable. At
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Conjectural
depiction
of a space
elevator
(NASA)
Aerial view of Nazca Lines
(photos courtesy of Robert Schoch
and Catherine Ulissey)
ANCIENT MYSTERIES
the Lines of
NAZCA
and the
Solar Factor
Searching for a Scientific Answer to an Ancient Enigma
• BY ROBERT M. SCHOCH, Ph.D.
L
ocated in the desert approximately
400 to 450 kilometers southeast of
Lima, the lines and geoglyphs are
found spread over an area of some
450 square kilometers. The straight lines extend in virtually every direction, many radiating from common points or centers. Some of
the lines are kilometers long. There are gigantic trapezoids, spirals, and other geometric
shapes. In addition, there are representational
geoglyphs on the desert floor depicting various animals and plants, including a monkey,
spider, whale, dog, lizard, human (known colloquially as “the astronaut” or “owl man”), a
pair of hands, a variety of birds (such as a
humming bird, a condor, a heron [also
known as a flamingo or pelican], and a parrot), and a tree—to name just a few of the
more famous shapes among the many dozens
that have been discovered. These representational geoglyphs vary in size from about 32
meters for the astronaut (constructed on the
side of a hill), 45 to 46 meters for the hands
and the body of the spider (not including the
perpendicular extension of one leg), to 110
meters for the monkey, to over 200 meters for
the partial parrot, and some 280 meters for
the full length of the heron with its long, zigzag neck. The lines and geoglyphs were drawn
on the desert floor by removing dark-colored,
weathered stone from the surface (placing it
in piles along the lines) to expose the lighter
32 ATLANTIS RISING • Number 124
stone and silt underneath; thus the lines are
surface
very shallow surfa
f ce fe
ffeatures.
atures. The lines and
ffigures
fi
gures are conventionally attributed to ancient peoples living in the region, and specifically to the Nazca people and their culture,
and are dated broadly to circa 500 BCE to
800 CE (such attributions and dates remain
circumstantial and questionable). They are
best seen from above, either from a hilltop or
from an aircraft. Indeed, one of the mysteries
is why anyone would create such geoglyphs
on the ground without having a good vantage
point from which to view them.
Numerous theories have been put forth
to explain the Nazca lines and geoglyphs. The
“classical explanation”, espoused by the early
pioneers of Nazca lines studies Paul Kosok
(1896–1959; faculty member at Long Island
University) and Maria Reiche (1903–1998; she
devoted the majority of her life to studying
and protecting the Nazca lines and geoglyphs) is that the lines are primarily of an astronomical nature, marking solstices,
equinoxes, the risings and settings of various
stars, and lunar movements. In this context,
it has been suggested that various representational geoglyphs may be renditions of constellations in the sky. However, numerous
studies have failed to convincingly demonstrate the “astronomy textbook” theory for
the lines—there are so many lines in so many
directions that even by chance some will correspond to astronomical phenomena while
most apparently do not. And there is no clear
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The Monkey
The Dog
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ynchronicity is an acausal bond linking two or more apparently unconnected events, combining them into a
meaningful coincidence. They are
components of something greater than themselves, pieces belonging to a puzzle that may
only become comprehensible when fitted together as separate parts of a broader whole.
It is in the nature of this definition that synchronicity appears to transgress time or, at
any rate, the inviolable boundaries dividing
past, present, and future, as delineated by con-
would make final docking before attempting
her transatlantic crossing, he stopped in Paris.
There he purchased a Grand Prix sweepstakes
ticket, deliberately choosing number 13 just
to prove to his friends that he was not superstitious. “Watch and see what it does for me!”
he exclaimed. Several days later, Wick went
down with the vessel.
A fellow passenger who lightheartedly
challenged the deadly number was British
journalist, William Thomas Stead. He demonstrated his contempt for superstition by deliberately concluding a story with which he
sioned, he published a prophetic story in his
own periodical, Review of Reviews. Although
From the Old World to the New was written as
fiction, it told of a huge passenger ship of the
White Star Line, commanded by a Captain
Smith. More than a decade after the story
appeared, R.M.S. Titanic sailed under the
White Star Line, commanded by Captain Edward J. Smith. Stead described the hazard of
icebergs, writing with unconscious foreboding, “The ocean bed beneath the run of the
liner is strewn with the whitening bones of
thousands who have taken their passages as
• BY FRANK JOSEPH
The Powerful Evidence
for Paranormal Forces
ventional understanding.
Hardly any other single occurrence during modern times generated a more significant conglomeration of meaningful
coincidences than R.M.S. Titanic. Indeed, her
loss was foretold by more than fifty recorded
premonitions, making it among the most
uniquely documented incidents of its kind.
The significance of particular numerals also
played its part during the Titanic sinking—
namely, the classic bad-luck number, thirteen.
That this traditionally unfortunate numeral
was factually associated with the most infamous of unlucky ocean liners should come
as no surprise. Two separate examples serve
to illustrate. Originally from Youngstown,
Ohio, George Wick had been traveling with
his family through Europe for several months
and booked a return voyage on the Titanic.
While in transit to Cherbourg, where the ship
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had been amusing friends on April 13, 1912.
His narration described the discovery of an
ancient Egyptian sarcophagus and the curse
of violent death alleged to overtake anyone
who verbally translated its inscription. The
next day, R.M.S. Titanic met the disaster in
which Stead perished.
He appears to have had a fateful, synchronistic relationship with the doomed liner
long before her death at sea. As far back as
January 1897, a palmist, Robert Machray, who
examined Mr. Stead, was so impressed with
what he saw he published a photograph of
the journalist’s hand in the January issue of
Pearson’s Magazine. Machray commented that
the so-called “life line” clearly indicated death
at 63, Stead’s precise age when he, in fact,
died aboard the Titanic.
Around the turn of the century, and
long before the superliner was even envi-
we have done, but who never saw their destination.” He might have been writing of himself in the distant future.
But Stead did not take his own precognitive fiction seriously. In the year prior to
boarding the doomed vessel, he was cautioned that “travel would be dangerous in the
month of April 1912,” and that he would find
himself “in the midst of a catastrophe on
water,” where several thousand persons would
perish. A clergyman was so overcome with
premonitions for tragedy when Titanic was
being built, he informed Stead that the ship
would never complete her crossing to New
York. None of this fazed Stead, who expressed
his excited sense of anticipation for the voyage to Shaw Desmond, another writer. For no
apparent reason, Desmond was suddenly
overcome with a dark certainty that his friend
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Hercules
Slays the
Lion (Peter
Paul Rubens)
• BY STEVEN SORA
T
he ‘Pillars of Hercules’
was once the name of
the narrow water passage
between Europe and
Africa. The modern name is the
Straits of Gibraltar. A ship heading east would pass from the Atlantic
Ocean
into
the
Mediterranean Sea. Cities of the
Atlantean coast from Cadiz in
Spain to Lixus in Africa traded
with cities in the Mediterranean
Sea. These seaports may have existed before even the Phoenicians
arrived.
The tradition is that Cadiz
was founded by Hercules, a
flawed hero conceived by a god
and a human. Like other heroes,,
Hercules found himself victim off
a goddess who drove him mad
d
causing him to kill his own chil-dren. His penance was to per-form twelve heroic feats. The firstt
was the barehanded killing of a
lion, whose skin he would alwayss
be depicted with on his shoul-ders. The other labors could onlyy
be done by someone with superr
human strength.
Such tales can often havee
three distinct purposes. The real-ity could be that Hercules was a
king or a warrior in his home-land. The tale could also be en-tertainment, a version thatt
inspired people to excellence in
strength and cunning. A third is
a combination of both with the
addition of a hidden message
aimed at those who were initiated
into a higher form of learning.
Hercules’ twelve labors have
been compared to the adventures
of Ulysses, and both were said to
reveal knowledge of the stars, particularly the zodiac. A book titled
Homer’s Secret Iliad said Homer
identified 650 stars within 45
constellations. Hercules may have
become Ulysses in Homer’s
poems, wandering a wide expanse
of the world. Both shared similar
adventures, such as a visit to
Hades, and stealing cattle.
The Trojan War
The Trojan War is said to
have been fought in 1200 BC. It
pitted the Greeks against the Trojans whose home was believed to
be in modern-day Turkey. The
Greeks were victorious, if we put
our faith in the two Homeric
tales recorded 400 years after the
the Legend of
Hercules
Was He Just a Greek Myth,
or an Atlantean Hero?
war. Homer,
war
Homer the
H
th author
th off the
th
Iliad and the Odyssey, was believed
to be a blind poet from the
Greek island of Chios, which is
closer to the Turkish mainland
than to Athens.
But Homer was wrong.
What he described as massive
waves, changing tides, and raging
sea was unlike any place along
the Turkish coast. There were no
massive waves and tides in the
inlet of the straits of Bosphorus
where he placed the story. The
place he called Troy is about as
large as a modern strip mall.
There is no room for 50 sons and
daughters to have palaces. When
Alexander the Great reached the
place that the locals said was
Troy, he was disappointed, so he
built a “Troy.” The place called
Hissarlik today, that is claimed to
have been Troy, might have supported a population of two to
five thousand, not an army of
50,000 or a total population of
250,000.
The stories were given to
Homer from the Sea Peoples of
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h Atlantic,
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l i to the
h Greeks
G k b
by the
h
Phoenicians, who also brought
the alphabet to Greece. Homer
then created his own history. He
said that the Greeks defeated the
Trojans. The Greeks, in fact, had
been decimated by a war that
happened circa 1200 BC. Most
of their coastal cities were in
complete ruins, the population
having fled inland. Homer may
have taken the legend of Hercules and made him into Ulysses.
Diaspora
The Trojans of Turkey were
said to have been killed or have
fled with their city in ruins, as
well. The truth is, they never existed. The Hittites of Turkey who
were meticulous in recording
everything from trade to history
never heard of them or wrote
about them. Legends recall people exiled because of a great war
going to England, Italy, France,
and Scandinavia.
In England, Geoffrey of
Monmouth said Aeneas and his
son Ascanius, who had first set-
tled
t in Italy before an heir named
Brutus,
laid claim to England. In
B
Italy
they became the Etruscans.
I
In
I Scandinavia they founded
Trondheim.
In France the survivT
ing
i Trojan King Priam settled in
the
t north where Troyes would become
a center of learning. The
c
place
called Ypres stood for
p
Priam’s
Place. The future capital
P
Paris
would be named for the
P
man
m responsible for the war.
The only place that no Trojans
fled to was Iberia, which was
j
the
t land of Hercules. The Portuguese
coast had been the scene
t
of
o massive earthquakes in its history.
It is more likely that such
t
an
a event sent Iberian populations
fleeing
into the Mediterranean
f
Sea.
S The Shardan settled Sardinia,
the
t Sekelesh settled Sicily, and
others
went to war even in Egypt.
o
Europe’s
oldest continually
E
occupied
occup city, Cadiz, founded by
o
Hercules,
barely survived the
Hercu
H
earthquake
and tsunami that foleearthq
lowed.
llowed There was no way of estimating
matin the number of the dead
m
or
the earthquake on
o measuring
me
scale. However Portutthe Richter
R
Ri
a massive quake in
ggal suffered
su
AD 412
A
41 and another in 1755. In
that
quake 60,000 people
tth
hat last
l
were kkilled in six seconds. The
w
quake
qu
q
uake destroyed seaports in
Spain,
SSp
pain, Portugal, and Morocco. It
was fe
w
ffelt even in Finland. The
tsunami
tts
unam that followed had waters
rushing
h from 120 miles away and
even sweeping up rivers inland in
Europe. In the other direction
the tsunamis reached the West
Indies and raised the sea level in
the Caribbean three feet.
It was after 1200 BC when
the Phoenicians gained control,
that they called the city Gadeira,
and dedicated a temple to their
Hercules, who they called Melkarth. The Iberian people had
called him Ercules, and there are
numerous statues to him in the
parks and museums. Here myth
is older than history, but the
myths may tell a tale of the true
ancient past.
Cadiz today has a huge
causeway built out into the sea.
At the end of the causeway is a
walled fort and a lighthouse
named for St. Sebastian. This
saint was persecuted as hundreds
of arrows were shot into his
body. He may be the Christianized version of Ulysses, the hero
of the Odyssey who, like Her-
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ANCIENT MYSTERIES
• BY CYNTHIA LOGAN
W
A NASA satellite image of the
Indus River Valley near the border
of India and Pakistan
Lost River
of theVedas
hat is the difference between
na
yogi in a cave and a caveman?
n?
Wisconsin born Sanskrit
rit
scholar and internationally
lly
renowned Vedic teacher and historian Dr.
David Frawley isn’t making a new-age joke—
e—
he’s questioning our ability to interpret findndings and determine dates relating to ancient
nt
civilizations. “We tend to identify advanced
ed
civilizations with technology, but that may
ay
not be the indicator we should be looking
n
ng
for,” he cautions. “Besides, would an aaddvanced civilization leave a mess? Maybe they
e
ey
would clean up after themselves, leaving little
t
tle
evidence.” He’s referring to the Indus Valley
e
ey
(Harappan) civilization, considered by orthoho
odox archaeology to have existed from 2600 to
1900 BCE in western India and eastern Pakakk
istan, which mysteriously vanished.
Frawley recently returned from a threeday conference in India, where the InDr. David
dian Council of Historical Research
Frawley
and the Archaeological and Geological
(YouTube)
Surveys of India got together to discuss
the latest developments on the Indus
civilization, including the 2001 discovery of an underwater city near Gujarat
and the so-called Aryan Invasion/Migration, the idea that India was taken
over by Western migrants around 1500
BCE.
Frawley thinks that hypothesis is
preposterous, and in books, such as
The Myth of the Aryan Invasion of India
(1994) and In Search of the Cradle of Civilization (1995) he and co-authors Subhash Kak and the late Georg Feuerstein
criticize the theory of a conf lict between invading Caucasoid Aryans and
indigenous Indians, or Dravidians, supporting
instead the idea that the Vedic people were
indigenous to India. “Behind this Aryan-Dravidian divide idea is the historical debate
whether the so-called Aryans invaded or migrated into India from the north and pushed
the Dravidians to the south, as western historians have proposed,” states Frawley, adding,
“there is no archaeological evidence that
shows an Aryan invasion or migration, nor is
there genetic evidence. Those who support a
migration scenario say the Vedas came from
the outside; yet the question of Aryans and
Vedic culture revolves around Europe, not
just India. The West does not want to accept
what has been discovered. Instead, it wants to
hold onto the idea that civilization came
from the Near East.” On the other side of the
pond, Frawley thinks Americans’ knowledge
of history is “pretty dismal,” noting that the
word ‘Arya’ is a generic Sanskrit term for
‘noble,’ and has no racial or linguistic connotations prior to European adaptation.
The Ruins of Mojendro Daro
“Some linguists posit that German is
more ancient than Sanskrit—the only lan-
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guage for which we have such a huge literary
record,” he explains. “Sanskrit remains one of
the great wonders of the world. Its grammar
is so precise that NASA can use it for calculations” (perhaps why, in the 2016 Academy
Award nominated film Arrival, characters
seeking to unlock an alien code, ask the Sanskrit word for war). Interestingly, in an extensive report published last year in Britain’s
New Scientist, author Andrew Robinson notes
that the Indus civilization appears to have
survived 700 years without war or social inequality. Excavated artifacts include gemstone
jewelry and children’s games, but few
weapons. There is, however, evidence of indoor plumbing, irrigation, sewage treatment
and sophisticated urban planning. Multistory
brick structures and long streets aligned with
a grid indicate an adherence to the principles
of Vastu, an aspect of Vedic culture mentioned in the epic Mahabharata. In particular,
notes archaeological researcher Michael
Cremo, Lothal, a Harappan city that flourished in the third millennium BCE, is laid
out in a manner consistent with Vastu principles, indicating the city was part of the Vedic
culture and suggesting that the Mahabharata
may be traced to the same time period.
”The Vedic culture is said to have been
founded by the sage Manu between the banks
of Saraswati and Drishadvati rivers,” says
Frawley, who has been interested in India all
his life. In fact, he often refers to himself as
“an Indian in an American body” and remembers a seminal moment when, as a
teenager hiking a mountain near Denver, he
felt a strong sense of being immortal and that
he “had been here many times.” He discovered Yogananda’s teachings while studying the
philosophies, religions, and science of the
world. Having memorized all the Egyptian
Pharaohs as a child, Frawley began his Vedic
studies in the 1970s by translating Vedic
mantras, guided by the teachings of Sri Aurobindo. He researched the Vedas, India’s
most ancient scriptures, believed to have been
revealed to seers, or Rishis, and preserved by
oral tradition. Written in early Sanskrit, they
contain hymns, philosophy, and guidance on
rritual for Vedic priests. The four main
ttexts are the Rig Veda, Sama Veda,
Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda. “I started
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with the Rig Veda because of its antiqw
uity. I felt the ancient teachings had a
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message for us about where we came
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The Vedas provide a record that has
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ssurvived the course of history because
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Could the Indus civilization be
cconsidered the Saraswati Vedic civilizattion? “Vedic literature is clear on
SSaraswati river geography,” says Frawlley, who earned a Doctorate in Literatture from the Swami Vivekenanda
Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana. “NuY
merous Vedic texts locate it west of
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tthe Yamuna and east of the Indus, exactly where the main set of ancient ruins have
been found. Lauded as the main river in the
Rig Veda, the Saraswati is said to be wide and
vast in size and ‘pure in course from the
mountains to the sea.’ “So the Vedic people
were well acquainted with this river and regarded it as their immemorial homeland,” he
points out. Modern land studies reveal the
Saraswati to have been one of the largest, if
not the largest, rivers in India before drying
up in the desert in 2000 BCE. In ancient
times, it drained the Sutlej and Yamuna,
whose courses were much different than they
are today. Later Vedic texts including the Mahabharata mention that the Saraswati dried up
and no longer reached the sea. Frawley cites
this as evidence bolstering his opinion that
the Saraswati-Indus civilization was intrinsically literate and self-developed. “How could
the Vedic people know of this river and establish their culture on its banks, if it dried
up before they arrived?” Indeed, he says, the
Saraswati as described in the Rig Veda appears
to more accurately show it as it was prior to
the Indus Valley culture, as by then it was al-
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CONSCIOUSNESS
An
Enlightened
Perspective
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• BY JOHN WHITE
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cience without religion is lame; religion without science is blind,” said Albert Einstein. Can science that
attributes human origin to evolution
and religion which attributes human origin
to special creation ever agree on the subject
of humanity’s genesis? They can if they recognize a transcendent perspective which recconciles them. It is found in many
ny
enlightenment traditions.
Human evolution is characterized primaa
arily by our ascent in consciousness to everr
rgreater degrees of intelligence and noetic
ic
power. Cro-Magnon, for instance, are distinnguished from Neanderthal not so much by
physical body design as by their greater intelelligence which resulted in the world’s first art,
t,
statuary, engravings, music, personal ornaamentation, and star charts. Their superior
or
toolmaking ability gave us the bow and arrow.
w.
They were the first to domesticate animals,
s,
invent fishing as a food supply, create calenndars, and bury their dead with funerary obbjects. (Neanderthal were the first to simply
ly
bury their dead.) Anthropologists also infer
er
that Cro-Magnon had more highly developed
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social systems. Altogether, they showed a suuperior degree of consciousness and qualify to
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be called a newer species.
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From “The creation of Adam” (Michelangelo)
Homo sapiens
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But evolution has not stopped with us, ennlightenment traditions say. Higher forms of
humanity await future emergence. Our race is
evolving to a godlike state, marked by states
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of consciousness which include the rationalityy
and intellect of Homo sapiens but go beyond
d
that with new faculties and depth of intelli-igence.
In the strict scientific sense, evolution
n
means a process by which life arose from nonnliving matter and subsequently developed as
a succession of types, entirely by natural
al
means—i.e., no supernatural factor was innvolved.
On the basis of my reason, research,
h,
and personal experience with enlightenment
nt
traditions, I reject the part which prohibits suu
upernaturalism. From the perspective of enlighttenment, all is divine and everything in thee
cosmos is the work or play of God the Cree-
ator-Spirit—what
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Declaration of Independence, called “nature’s
God.” Nature is God in material form; God
or what might be called Supernature infuses
and pervades all of nature.
That means evolution is a divinely
driven process by which God as Spirit expresses itself through the production of evermore complex forms. Natural processes are
really acts of God. The process of change in
Nature from a lower, simpler, or worse state
to a higher, more complex, better state (which
is how Mr. Webster defines evolution) does
not happen because blind forces and random
events propel it on the basis of mere chance.
They happen because God wills it intelligently, creatively, and lawfully—that is, according to first principles and laws.
Science has recognized some of the laws
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