8. Astro-Meteorology ~
For many centuries, astrologers and astronomer have sought to detect
relationships among planetary influences and sunspot cycles, weather
and seismic activity.
In 1975, the prominent astronomers, Drs. John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann, presented a hypothesis, called "The Jupiter Effect",
synthesized from numerous observations by other researchers, that
the gravity vectors and magnetospheres of the planets affect sunspot
activity. These in turn produce major changes in terrestrial
weather, which cause minor but sudden alterations in Earth’s spin.
These alterations aggravate seismic activity, which is reinforced by
peaks of activity --- a "beat effect" --- in the 180-year sunspot
cycle.
A major conclusion of the Jupiter Effect theory is that sometime
between 1989 and may 2000 particularly close groupings of the major
planets will exert their most focused magnetic and gravitational
influence. (39)
Dr. Gribbin retracted his theory in 1980, but the popular press
continued to propagandize the original idea. Also in 1980, the
Belgian astronomer Dr. Jan Meeus published a review of several
studies that failed to show any correlation among planetary
positions, solar activity, and earthquakes. However, several other
studies show clear relationships between the Moon and
seismic
activity.
In 1933, Father Rhodes showed that there is an increase of seismic
activity when the Moon is near perigee; there is less activity when
it approaches its apogee. In 1935, Harlan Stetson (Harvard
University) reported his investigation of some 2,000 deep-focus
earthquakes (those with epicenters more than 100 km below the
Earth’s surface):
"The frequency of their occurrence with the Moon’s
position referred to the epicenter at the time the shocks occur.
There is a striking correlation between the frequency of these
deep-focus quakes and the horizontal (East-West) components of the
tidal forces in operation at the time."
The Soviet geophysicist
Dr. G.P. Tamrazyan developed statistical
heterodyning methods to show the relationship between earthquakes
and the tidal influence on lunar and solar motion. By integrating
lunar phases and orbital eccentricity into his statistics, Dr. Tamrazyan found that the number of earthquakes in Nevada increased
about 800% within a few days after lunar perigee.
Similarly, Dr. T. Simkin, et al., (Museum of Natural history, DC),
directly observed volcanic activity in tectonic plates in the
Galapagos Islands in 1966. The scientists witnessed the collapse of
a volcanic caldera, and found that for the first 42-hours of the
event, the associated earthquakes "occurred only at each extremium
of the local ocean tide." The volcanic eruption and collapse of the
caldera occurred at the exact time when the solar tidal force was
maximal, and the Moon was at perigee, thus producing maximum
horizontal and vertical compression and tension.
Several other studies have shown possible correlations between
sunspot activity and planetary positions, while some studies found
no clear relationship. A few researchers have shown a definite
effect of solar activity on terrestrial weather (i.e., Markson &
Muir: Science 208 (#4447): 979-990 (30 May 1980). (42-50)
Careful study of the ancient scientific art of astrology can reveal
millennia of accumulated wisdom and observational data to its
students. However, astrology is commonly abused, misunderstood,
misinterpreted, and often fraudulently exploited. Modern astrology
has gained a modicum of scientific credibility insofar as solar
flares and planetary magnetospheres have been shown to
affect human
behavior.
For example, Dr. Arnold L. Lieber and Carolyn R. Sherin (Univ.
Miami) analyzed all of the murders committed over the 15-year period
from 1956-1970, and discovered that peaks in the murder rate were
associated with both the new and full moon by a small statistical
significance. Examination of homicides committed during a 13-year
period (1958-1970) in Ohio revealed similar peaks that approached
statistical significance.
Dr. Lieber hypothesized that because humans contain about the same
proportion of elements (80% water, 20% organic compounds and
inorganic minerals) as the earth’s surface, the moon might influence
the mass of water in human beings in the same manner as the ocean
tides.
Astro-meteorology concerns the art and science of forecasting
weather, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. By means of this
knowledge, the great natural scientists Johannes Kepler and
Isaac
Newton made accurate long-range forecasts of European weather. In
1704, Newton forecast the exact date of the earthquakes and
hurricanes which struck London in 1750 (23 years after his death).
The major astronomical aspects which Newton saw as indicators of
this disaster were the appearance of the aurora borealis, and the
Moon in perigee during a solar eclipse while Jupiter was closest to
Earth. The exact time of the earthquake was determined by
calculating the transit of the next planet to the point in space
where the eclipse took place.
Joseph Goodavage reviewed the subject in detail in his book,
Our
Threatened Planet. According to Goodavage, the ancient Greek
Anaxagoras, and other astrologers, earthquakes occur when any of the
following aspect are in effect:
1.
The perigees of the heavy planets are in Taurus and Scorpio 2. The Moon is in "fixed signs" or eclipsed in Scorpio, especially
in the first decan 3. Uranus, Saturn,
Jupiter or Mars are in Taurus or Scorpio, with other planets in
fixed signs 4. Several planets are
on or near the equator 5. Great
comets are in their perihelion and within the orbits of Uranus
and Saturn 6. Uranus squares or
opposes Mars, Jupiter or Saturn or is conjunct with an eclipse
of the Sun or Moon 7. Luna is in
perigee directly over the stricken area 8.
Saturn is at the nadir when Sol is at the equinoxes or solstices 9.
Saturn and Jupiter are within orb of aspect to mean longitude
135º (Leo) and 265º (Sag.) 10. Major planets are
square, opposite, or form a Grand Cardinal Cross --- earthquakes
are triggered by the transit of Mars across an arm of the Cross 11.
The Sun and moon are eclipsed while conjunct Mercury 12. The full or new Moon aspects planets in 1º Taurus, or is
conjunct the Pleiades
Statistical studies have shown that 12% more earthquakes occur in
syzygy weeks than in perigee weeks. During the 5-day period after
the highest tide, there is the greatest likelihood that earthquakes
will occur in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere,
more quakes occur in the 5 days after the lowest tide. When the Moon
is on the Equator, the next two days are the period of the greatest
likelihood of earthquakes in both hemispheres.
In the opinion of George Hadsill, author of Eclipses 1865-2000,
solar eclipses are causative agents of human events and seismic
activity:
"In connection with earthquakes, eclipses are most powerful, when in
fixed signs and in a part of the world where, at that time, fixed
signs are on the meridian or horizon. Planets in fixed signs in
connection with earthquakes, are more powerful than others.
"When the Midheaven or Ascendant are in an aspect with the eclipse,
as a rule there occurs a very heavy earthquake... From all the many
aspects you may take conjunctions, oppositions, squares, semi- and sesqui-squares with an orb less than 5º. All earthquakes are in a
similar way connected with the previous eclipse and the heavier the
earthquake the closer the connection, and the stronger the
connecting aspects usually."
A Chaldean astrologer-priest and historian named
Berosus (2nd
century AD) was so accurate a prophet that the Athenia Greeks
erected a statue of him with a gilded tongue to symbolize and honor
his accuracy and truthfulness. Seneca quotes him thus:
"These events take place according to the course of the stars; and
affirm it so positively, as to assign the time for the Conflagration
and the Deluge... All terrestrial thing will be consumed when the
planets... shall coincide in the sign of Cancer, and be so placed
that a straight line could pass through all their arcs."
Many occultists, mystics and prophets have assigned various dates to
mark the beginning of the Age of Aquarius, the New Age for which
peace-lovers wait. Most opinions date that advent about 100 years
before or after 2000 AD.
The eminent occultist Manly P. Hall wrote an authoritative study of
the Cosmic Ages in A System of World Prophecy, in which he offered
his version of the schedule of events leading up to the next era:
"The astrological prophecies of
Albumazar, Nostradamus, and William
Lilly are famous as examples of long-range prediction. Many efforts
have been made to reconstruct from the scattered hints in their
writing the system which they used. In some of the old manuscripts
in my own collection, and others which I have consulted, I believe
that I have discovered an important key to the ancient system of
mundane prediction.
"The Egyptians taught that the history of the world is revealed
through the precession of the equinoxes. By astronomical
calculation, they discovered that the duration of the Great Year of
the Precession is approximately 25,920 years. They referred to this
cycle as the Divine Year or the Year of the Gods...
"This Great Year the ancients divided into 12 parts or ages of
2,160
calendar years each. Zodiacal rulerships were assigned to the ages,
as for example, the Taurean Age, the Piscean Age. As the precession
of the equinoxes retires through each of the zodiacal signs of the
Great Year, the constellational power is said to be released into
worldly affairs according to the sign of the zodiac in which the
equinox occurs...
"It is the consensus of ancient and modern astrologers that the
equinox is now taking place in Pisces. According to my research, the
Piscean Age began in 325 AD and will end 2485 AD. By this
calculation, the much heralded Aquarian Age will begin 2486 AD and
continue for 2,160 years...
"According to the calculations which have been able to reconstruct,
the vernal equinox now is taking place in the 7th degree of Pisces,
which will bring the emphasis upon social and economic
reconstruction from 1981 to 2052...
"The keynote for the 360-year period from 1765 to 2124 is
Liberation. This entire period is under the rulership of
Sagittarius, a positive sign. The keywords of
Sagittarius are:
expansion, inclusion, ambition, and aspiration. The planet Jupiter,
which expresses the quest for universal peace, dominates the entire
Sagittarian cycle... From 1981 to 2052, a Virgo sub-period, will
come the war against industrial tyranny. And in the final division
of this sub-period, from 2053 to 2124, under the royal sign of
Leo,
will be set up the first relatively permanent system of world
government --- the battle against political tyranny.
"In all probability, it is this emphasis on
Leo that caused Nostradamus to predict the rise of the "King of the World’.
"The year 2125 will usher in a completely new cycle of power under
the great rulership of Cancer. Each time the precession of the
equinoxes has passed through a Cancer subdivision, there has been a
great revival of old wisdom and learning. This marks the last 360
years of the Piscean Cycle as a period of restoration." (53)
On May 5, 2000 AD, the planets formed a
Grand Cross: Sun 17º
Scorpio, Moon in Scorpio, Mercury 10º Taurus, Venus 7º Taurus, Mars
28º Taurus, Jupiter 16º Taurus, Saturn 19º Taurus, Uranus 21º
Aquarius, Neptune 7º Aquarius, Pluto 12º Sagittarius. "Nothing"
happened.
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9. Pole Shifts ~
Several passages in the Bible appear to be prophecies to the effect
that during the Tribulation period, planet Earth will roll over in
its orbit, turning upside down:
"Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the Earth shall move out of
her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his
fierce anger."
(Isaiah 13:13)
"Behold the Lord makest the earth empty, and makest it waste, and
turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants
thereof. The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the
earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be
removed like a cottage... Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the
Lord of hosts shall reign in Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his
ancients gloriously."
(Isaiah 24: 1, 19, 20, 23 )
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be
darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall
fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be shaken."
(Matthew 24: 29)
"And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a
great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and
the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree
casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken by a mighty wind. And the heavens departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and
every mountain and island were moved out of their places."
(Revelation 6: 12-14 )
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which
the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth also and the works
therein shall be burned up."
(II Peter 3: 10)
"Shall not the land tremble for this, and every onemourn that
dwelleth therein? And it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it
shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I
will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth
in the clear day."
(Amos 8: 8-9 )
A considerable amount of evidence is available to support arguments
for the Pole Shift Theory, that many in geological history, the
earth has moved suddenly to a new orientation, with the former poles
at the new equator, or even completely reversed. Such a catastrophe
would generate volcanic explosions, global earthquakes, vast lava
flows, electrical storms, and clouds of toxic gases and dust. The
oceans and seas would rush from their beds, and tidal waves
thousands of feet high would roll across the continents and destroy
much of life on earth. The evidence that catastrophic crustal shifts
have occurred in the past includes flash-frozen mammoths, coral
reefs in Alaska, and well-preserved trees (some still bearing fruit)
thousands of years old and buried under the Arctic tundra. Extensive
coal deposits are found in temperate and frigid zones, but seldom in
the tropics, which contradicts the conventional theory that
attributes coal formation to massive forestation --- unless the
lithosphere has shifted radically.
The Pole Shift theory was developed in 1911 by Hugh A. Brown after
he read about the discovery of frozen mammoth in the Arctic tundra.
Brown was an electrical engineer; he died at 97 in 1975. According
to Brown, the entire planet rolls over about 90º approximately every
7,000 years, "due to the off-center mass of the polar ice caps."
Brown explained:
"Because of the curvature of the globe, the centrifugal forces of
the rotating ice sheets which initiate the careens soon reach a
maximum and then diminish.
"When the ice caps have migrated 45 degrees of latitude, their
centrifugal force responds to the combined motions of careening and
rotation. Between the sun latitudes of 45 degrees and 0 degrees they
change from being upsetting to being stabilizing forces.
"Equatorial forces then start to form, and the centrifugal forces of
the ice caps and of the new bulges are soon working in unison to
bring the reeling motions of the globe to a rapid slow-down and
stop...
"Following the next careen of the globe the present continent of
Antarctica can reasonably be expected to become the center of a land
hemisphere --- because of the centrifugal force of rotation which
shall be created by its weight and speed of motion...
"The area of the globe now occupied by the Arctic Ocean will
probably become the center of a water hemisphere --- like the
Pacific Ocean today. What is now northern Siberia, northern Canada
and Alaska will probably become parts of the submerged ocean
floor...
"According to this hypothesis, Brazil would roll to the
South Pole
and the Philippine Islands would become the land area nearest the
North pole... It would be equally valid speculation to say that some
area of the globe within about 2,000 miles of Lake Chad will be at
the North Pole during the epoch of time following our own, and that
this would occur as a result of the past --- namely, the Hudson Bay
Basin careened to the North Pole axis of spin, then Lake Chad moved
in, only to be supplanted by the present Arctic Ocean area. This
shows a tendency for land areas to roll back to nearly the same
position of latitude and longitude that they rolled away from."
(27-30)
Brown’s theory was developed further by
Prof. Charles Hapgood
(history & anthropology, Keene State College, NH) with mathematician
James Campbell. in Earth’s Shifting Crust. Prof. Albert Einstein
wrote a forward to it. Hapgood was of this opinion:
"The ice caps could not generate enough centrifugal force to shift
the Earth’s crust... The force is probably provided by vast currents
of magma moving under the Earth’s crust... The Earth’s crust is a
loose shell, floating on a semi-liquid layer underneath... This
whole shell --- the whole outer crust of the Earth --- has been
frequently displaced over the soft layer as one unit, much as if the
skin of an orange were loose and could be moved around without
breaking or disrupting the fruit within... [Pole Shifts] might have
been due to unbalanced effects deep within the mantle, which
disturbed the thixotropic solid of the interstitial magma into
becoming fluid, and hence slippage toward a new equilibrium..."
The wave-guide layer [in the
athenosphere] is of great advantage for
the concept of displacement. It suggests an easy zone of shear for
the movement, wherein all frictional effects will be minimized...
The shifts of the lithosphere have at times attained extraordinary
speeds as compared with the speeds of the subcrustal currents now
estimated by geophysicists. The combination of the geometrical
progression of centrifugal effects with the zone of easy shear in
the wave-guide layer opens up the possibility of extremely rapid
movements of the Earth’s outer shell. The Earth’s equator is
centrifuging at 1,040 miles per hour. The imbalance of Earth’s crust
is estimated to possess a torque of about 48.6 x 1015 ton-miles,
enough to turn the crust along the meridian of greatest eccentrific
force (longitude 96o E.). Hapgood and Campbell have reasoned that
Rangoon, Burma will be the new North Pole. (31-34)
Chan Thomas (The Adam and Eve Story, 1963) has suggested that
Earth’s magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) force field maintains the mantle
in a semi-solid state until the earth periodically crosses zones of
"zero magnetic energy" (as yet unknown to science), which changes
the MHD state. The plastic mantle then suddenly becomes liquid, and
the shell of the planet moves.
The great catastrophe theorist
Immanuel Velikovsky suggested that
Earth’s rotation could be slowed down, even halted, if the planet
passed through a powerful magnetic field:
"Eddy currents would be generated in the surface of the Earth, which
in turn would give rise to magnetic fields, interacting with the
external field, and would slow down the Earth or bring it to a
rotational stasis.
"Such a rotational slowing would cause friction between the various
liquid and semifluid layers, creating heat; on the outermost
periphery the solid layers would be torn apart, causing mountains
and even continents to fall or rise... If the magma inside the globe
continued to rotate at a different angular velocity than the shell,
it would tend to set the Earth rotating slowly."
J. B Jeunemann (Dir., Hydrogen Research Inst.), suggested that a
phase lag would have to be created to perform the work involved in
this theory. He opined that an extraterrestrial body (i.e., a
passing asteroid) could provide the necessary energy.
The movement of the ice sheets also could be initiated by nuclear
explosions, and be sustained by gravitational energy. The last polar
ice surge occurred about 90,000 years ago in Queen Maud Land and the
Wilkes Land section of eastern Antarctica. Underground testing has
been linked to a direct cause-and-effect relation to abnormal polar
motion, according to research by Shigeyoshi Matsumae (Pres., Tokyo
Univ.) and Yoshio Kato (Dir., Dept. Aerospace Sci., Tokyo Univ.).
They plotted North Pole motion and found that "The position of the
pole slid radically (up to one meter) at the time of nuclear
explosions" of more than 150 kilotons.
In The Path of the Poles, Prof. Hapgood produced new evidence based
on studies of fossil magnetism, indicating that some 200 pole shifts
have occurred during geological history, with 16 in the last few
million years, 3 times during the past 100,000 years, and most
recently at the end of the last Ice Age, 15-18,000 years ago.
Hapgood warned of a possible forthcoming pole shift:
"My research has indicated that an earlier shift of the crust took
place between 50,000 and 45,000 years between the shifts. However,
it is not impossible that another shift may be very close upon us,
and there are two lines of evidence that indicate this.
"The first line of evidence is the rising curve of great earthquakes
since 1900. A leading specialist in earthquakes, H. Benioff, has
pointed out that these are great earthquakes that are global in
their implications and that have not yet been explained. According
to Benioff, these great quakes have not only been coming in at
shorter and shorter intervals, but they have been increasing in
violence."
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In the 50 years between 1897 and 1947, an average of 3 earthquakes
over Richter-6 were observed each decade
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This number increased to
an average of 7 between 1946 and 1956
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Seventeen quakes measuring
greater than Richter-6 were observed in 1967
Since then the annual
number of Richter-6 or stronger quake has increased:
The trend continues to increase in the number and magnitude of
quakes.
Several passages in the Bible warn of gigantic earthquakes in these
latter days: Joel 2:10; Ezekiel 38: 19, 20; Isaiah 24: 18-23;
Matthew 24: 7; Revelation 6: 12; ibid., 16: 17-20; ibid., 18: 1-24.
The National Earthquake Information Center has found a relationship
between a 7-year cycle in seismic activity and the 7-year maximum in
the daily Chandler Wobble of Earth’s axis of rotation.
Prof. Hapgood claimed that the Earth’s crust is already moving, and
increasing its speed. Data provided by Munk and McDonald indicates
that the North Pole moved 10 feet towards Greenland from 1900 to
1960 (about 6 cm or 2-1/2 inches/year), and Markowitz suggests that
the Pole moved about 20 feet from 1900-1968. It is now moving about
10 cm (4 inches) per year. These observations reveal a geometrical
8-fold acceleration of the rate of motion of the pole. Furthermore,
the international Polar Motion Service has collected observations
since 1940 showing that the secular motion or progressive drift of
the North Pole meandered about 8 meters toward Greenland from
1903-1973, and more than one meter between 1965-1973 --- a
considerable increase. (38)
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10. Extinction Events ~
Geomagnetic Depletion
--- Earth’s magnetic field shields lifeforms
from the mutagenic effects of solar and cosmic radiation. But the
geomagnetic field is not stable over long periods, and some of the
known reversals of the geomagnetic fields have been linked to the
extinction of simple life forms such as Radiolaria (a monocellular
order of marine fauna). It is thought that their demise was due to
depletion of the ozone layer. The subsequent onslaught of solar
protons and cosmic-rays destroyed the Radiolaria.
The geomagnetic field has reversed at least 20 times during the past
4 million years. The field may remain neutral for 1,000 years before
it regenerates. The field is currently diminishing at an exponential
rate and may begin to reverse itself in the 21st or 22nd century.
Studies by physicist Thomas Barnes (Univ. of Texas) have shown that
the geomagnetic field is decaying at such a rate that if the process
does not limit itself or reverse, the present polar magnetic field
strength of 0.62 gauss will decrease to less than 0.001 gauss during
the next 7,000 years. The magnetic field has an apparent half-life
of 1,400 years and is governed by the exponential decay law.
Back-calculation of the rate of decay indicates that Earth would
have been a "magnetic star" about 50,000 years ago. Since that was
not the case, then only a catastrophic cosmic event could have
produced the present magnetic situation. As early as 1883, Sir
Horace Lamb speculated that,
"The initial currents in the Earth’s
magnetic core could have been induced by the sudden removal of an
external magnetic field."
Dr. Robert Langel (Goddard Flight Center, MD) estimated that
magnetic pole reversal will occur in approximately 1,200 years,
"based on the assumption that the current rate of declining
intensity of force lines in the Earth’s magnetic field... would
remain constant. It is possible that the reversal would come much
sooner or much later."
Meteor Impacts
--- In 1984, astronomers Richard Muller and Luis
Alvarez (Univ. California) and others reported that mass extinctions
of the dinosaurs (and most other animals and plants) occurred about
every 26 to 28 million years, according to the fossil records. The
impact craters formed by very large meteorites closely follow the
same pattern, as too does the distribution of iridium in sedimentary
layers of those geological periods. The most recent extinction
occurred about 11 million years ago.
According to geologist Alfred Fischer (Princeton Univ.), the
periodic mass destruction of life on Earth seemingly operates on two
different cycles. His analysis of extinction events distinguished a
37-million year cycle in addition to the 26-28 million year cycle.
The two cycles reinforce each other approximately every 75 million
years, producing a super-mass extinction; in the last such some 65
million years ago, 99% of all species on Earth disappeared. The same
thing happened 77 million years previously and 76 million years
before that.
"A mass extinction of species is taking place today without cosmic
intervention. The wanton destruction of tropical forests represents
the greatest extinction to occur since the end of the Cretaceous
Age. Plant species are dying at the rate of 10,000 per year, one per
hour. About 2 million species will have been lost by 2,000 AD."
Many of the disasters attributed to nature actually are caused or
worsened by human activity. The number of deaths from droughts,
floods, earthquakes and other natural phenomena increased six-fold
in the 1970s, due to human vulnerability resulting from poverty and
poor land use. Disaster relief often is useless or even
counterproductive.
Ice Ages
--- According to John Hamaker, the build-up of atmospheric
carbon dioxide is influenced critically by the progressive
demineralization of the soil in a long cycle; glaciation and
vulcanism are the natural remineralizing processes. Human industry
has aggravated the problem in recent years. There has been a 13%
rise in atmospheric CO2 since the industrial age began; nearly half
of that rise has occurred since 1962! Hamaker contends that we are
in an extreme crisis, facing the very sudden onset of a new Ice Age:
"Glaciation occurs whenever the soil minerals left by the last
glacial period are used up and the plant life can no longer regulate
CO2 in the air. A United Nations report estimates that by the year
2000, 90% of the agricultural land and two-thirds of the tropical
forests will be destroyed by wind, fire, disease, and insects... the
winds will increase to 100 mph and up, and they will increase in
frequency. For this and other reasons, agriculture and industry will
be so crippled that the effects of man on CO2 will be nullified and
the increase of CO2 will take place at a slower rate. By then most
of the world’s population will be dead.
"Excess heat from the
Greenhouse Effect (due to the accumulation of
atmospheric carbon dioxide) causes more water to evaporate from the
oceans. This humidity is condensed as snow in the polar regions.
Meanwhile, the temperate and tropical zones suffer the other
extreme: drought. Forest fires rage out of control. When the ice
sheet is formed, its weight depresses the lithosphere and forces
underlying magma to erupt. Volcanic activity in a glacial period is
several times that of interglacial periods, and adds great
quantities of CO2 and SO2 to the air. The resulting acid rain
leaches the remaining soil minerals, and more plants die. The level
of carbon dioxide may rise to several time the interglacial average
of about 290 ppm. Raging winds will grind glacial rubble to dust and
spread it about the planet to remineralize the soil over a period of
several thousand years. Carbon dioxide levels will drop to about 200
ppm as the soil begins to support more forests, which absorb CO2
.
"The change from inter-glacial to glacial conditions can happen very
quickly. At the end of the last glacial period, vegetation
deteriorated over a span of 150 years, and changed from temperate
zone to subarctic vegetation during the last 20 years of the
transition stage."
Several other models have been proposed to explain the scientific
mystery of cause of Ice Ages. Some theories invoke cosmic influences
such as variations in solar output, interstellar dust clouds which
block sunlight, and reversals of the Earth’s magnetic field. J.D.
Hays, et al. showed that for the past 500,000 years, major climatic
changes such as the Ice Ages have followed variations in the
obliquity and precession of Earth’s orbit. Hays monitored the record
of the past 450,000 years in Southern Hemisphere ocean floor
sediments and determined three indices of global climate at periods
of 3,000, 42,000, and 100,000 years. The peaks corresponded to "the
dominant periods of Earth’s solar orbit, and contain respectively
about 10, 25, and 50% of climatic variance:
"The 42,000 year climatic component has the same period as
variations in the obliquity of the Earth’s axis, and maintains a
constant phase relationship with it.
"The 23,000 year portion of the variance develops the same periods
(about 23,000 and 19,000years) as the quasi-periodic precession
index....
"The dominant 100,000 year climatic component has an average period
close to, and in phase with orbital eccentricity...
"It is concluded that changes in the earth’s orbital geometry are
the fundamental cause of the succession of Quaternary Ice Ages.
"A model of future climate based on the observed orbital-climate
relationships, but ignoring anthropogenic effects predicts that the
long-term trend over the next several thousand years is toward
extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation."
Don Anderson (Cal. Inst. Tech.) has shown that correlations between
long-term variations in the speed of Earth’s rotation (the length of
day) are due to increased vulcanism, which changes wind circulation
patterns.
Volcanoes along the Pacific rim follow a 65-year cycle of eruptions
with increasing intensity at alternate peaks of 130 years. The next
such cyclic peak is expected in 2045 AD.
The situation could be sorely aggravated by a Nuclear Winter, which
could caused by an exchange of such weapons in World War III.
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11. The McKenna/ I Ching Apocalypse ~
The brothers Dennis and Terence McKenna made a computer analysis of
the Chinese oracle system of the I Ching (Book of Changes), which
dates to circa 1,000 BC. The I Ching consists of 64 arrangements of
6-line hexagrams (kua). The permutations of the lines express
universal archetypes which illustrate fate. The McKennas discovered
that the I Ching also represents a highly accurate lunar calendar of
384 days, divided into 13 months. The calendar was lost in a mass
book-burning in the 3rd century BC, after which it was replaced with
a less accurate 360-day calendar. Further research revealed that the
I Ching calendar ends in the year 2012 --- within a year of the end
of the South American Eagle Bowl Calendar! The McKenna’s offered an
explanation for this synchronicity in their book, The Invisible
Landscape:
"Such a hierarchy [of 64 codons] would require 26 levels to describe
the totality of temporal existence... Our view is that various
temporal levels are overtonal harmonics of a quantum-mechanical flux
of cyclical and irreducible variables. If one entertains the idea
that our universe may possess such a time scheme, one is led to
contemplate the problem of the nature and necessity of the final
time such a theory requires...
"In a modular hierarchy of space-time such as we propose, the total
resident in the continuum can be supposed to be totally resident in
each resident subset. this idea follows necessarily from the
assumption of organismic thought that the entire hierarchical
continuum is resident in its modular parts. The fold of temporal
limitation and particularly that which defines a nexus of space-time
is the place where nodes of connection typical of higher spatial
dimension ingress into the world of normal space-time... The
cessation of boundary constraints imposed by higher levels in the
hierarchy causes a quantized drop toward the zero state each time
that a cycle enters its terminal phase on any level in the
hierarchy. Such quantized transitions from one modality to another
are called "changes of epochs" by Whitehead... Terminations of
cycles or epochs of really long duration cause extreme accelerations
toward the zero state. This idea is similar to Whitehead’s
conception of concrescence and the Vedic conception of
world ages
which grow shorter as they tighten around an axis point. The spiral
image of the Christian Apocalypse is another example of this
intuition that time is a series of tightening cycles around a
quantized transformation...
"The critical role of our own era is a fact only if the assumption
of the cyclical, ever-condensing nature of time is correct. If time
is an eternal process, then it may be open-ended or cyclical, but
not the latter in such a way as to ever yield the actual concresence
this idea calls for. That could happen only if the temporal cycles
were to constantly shorten themselves aroundtemporal axis... Such a
leading of energy toward a center can only end in transformation...
"Any date might be studied as a possible date of major concresence...
The problem with this, and all approaches of this sort, lies in
finding a method of quantifying historical data. [Aleksandr
Tchijevsky developed such a method for the Universal Historical
Process.]
"The second approach to a search for possible dates of future
concresence is more subtle and takes account of the precession of
the equinoxes. Because of the precession, the solstice and the
equinoctal nodes precess or move backwards against the background of
the fixed stars which comprise the zodiac. In a 26,000-year zodiacal
great year, the solstice and equinoctal nodes move around the entire
zodiac. It is a coincidence then that in our own time, the winter
solstice is placed in the constellation Sagittarius, only about 3º
from the galactic center which, also coincidentally, is within 2º of
the ecliptic. Because the winter solstice node is precessing, it is
moving closer and closer to the point on the ecliptic where it will
eclipse the galactic center. This will occur sometime within the
next 200 years. It is difficult to be more accurate, since the term
"galactic center" is ambiguous. A degree covers a large area, and
the galaxy may be presumed to have a gravitational center, a radio
center, and a spatial center. Nevertheless, we suggest that the
transition from one zodiacal era of approximately 2,200 years
duration to the next may be hinged on the conjunction of the
solstice node and the galactic center. It is useful to examine
winter solstices on which solar eclipses will occur over the next
200 years, during which the earth’s solstice node will be slowly
transiting the area of the galactic center. The eclipse of the
galactic center by the solstice sun, which is itself in eclipse
relation to the earth, might be an event unusual enough to signal an
onset of concresence...
"The universe is subject to cycles of temporal variables, occurring
on many levels and generating appropriate forms of novelty on each
such level. Life’s epoch began one to two billion years ago --- 1.3
billion years on our scale. Eighteen million years ago brings one to
the height of the age of mammals. One 64th of this 18-million year
cycle is a cycle whose inception was 275,000 years ago, a time which
corresponds well with the emergence of homo sapiens. One 64th of
this cycle brings us to the cycle which epitomizes what might
properly be called historiculture, that cycle which began 4300+
years ago, around 2300 BC. The duration of the cycle next
encountered is 67+ years, and we have assumed the most recent epoch
to have begun in 1945. The end of World War Two and the development
of atomic weapons and their use in warfare forms a novelty whose
appearance attended the shift of epochs that created the post-modern
world. If our understanding is correct, then this same 67+ year
cycle at, or near the end of a 4300-year cycle, will terminate
around the year 2012...
"Achievement of the zero state can be imagined to arrive in one of
two forms. One is the dissolution of the cosmos in an actual
cessation and unraveling of natural laws, a literal apocalypse. The
other possibility takes less for granted from the mythologems
associated with the collective transformation and entry into
concresence and hews more closely to the idea that concresence,
however miraculous it is, is still the culmination of a human
process, a process of toolmaking, which comes to completion in the
perfect artifact: the monadic self, exteriorized, condensed, and
visible in three dimensions; in alchemical terms, the dream of a
union of spirit and matter. Presumably, were such a hyperspatial
tool or process to be discovered, in a very short time it would
entirely restructure life’s experience of itself, of time, space,
and of otherness, and then it would be these effects which would
follow rather than precede the concresence, and which, through their
atemporal influence on the content of visionary experience, would be
seen to have given rise to the "apocalyptic scenario" in the
expectation of so many ontologies. The appearance in normal
space-time of a hyperdimensional body, obedient to a simultaneously
transformed and resurrected human will, and able to plumb to
obligations and opportunities inherent in this unique juncture in
energy’s long struggle for liberation, may be apocalypse enough...
"Until we understand that there is a teleological object at the end
of human history, and it can be known, we will continue to live the
kind of limited intellectual existence that has characterized the
last 500 years or so of western development...
"Human history is a lunge across 15 or 20 thousand years of time
from the primitive stone-chipping primate to that creature which
will walk into a transdimensional vehicle and leave the solar system
and human history and the concerns of the human monkey far behind...
"The human soul, essentially, the
oversoul of mankind, is calling
history toward itself across the dimensions... History is the shock
wave of eschatology... It is the great, great adventure of becoming,
and we are very privileged to be in this final ticking out of the
last seconds of the third act." (54)
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12. The Physics of Time ~
The physics of time complicates the dating of prophecies; time is
very flexible, and it will accelerate as the present era draws to a
close. The McKennas explained it eloquently in The Invisible
Landscape. The Latin Tiburtine Sibyl explained it thus:
"The years
will be shortened like months, the months like weeks, the weeks like
days, the days like hours, and an hour like a moment."
The New
Testament also suggests something of the sort in Matthew 24: 22.
In the 1960s, the Soviet astrophysicist N. A. Kozyrev made an
experimental study of the properties of Time. He used electrified
gyroscopes and pendulums to demonstrate the density or intensity of
time:
"There also exists a variable property which can be called the
density or intensity of time.... The density of time changes within
broad limits, owing to the processes occurring in nature... It
proves possible to have one material influence another through time.
Such a relationship can be foreseen, since the causal-resultant
relationship phenomena occurred not only in time, but also with the
aid of time. Therefore, in each process of nature, time can be
extended or formed.
"The effect of the causal pole depends only on the distance
(spacing). Repeated and careful measurements demonstrated that this
effect diminishes, not inversely proportional to the square of the
distance, as in the case of force fields, but inversely proportional
to the first power of the distance...
"The results indicate that the nearer the system with the
causal-resultant relationship the density of time actually
changes... there occurs a thinning (rarefaction of time), while near
the energy receiver its compaction takes place. The impression is
gained that time is extended by a cause and, contrariwise, it
becomes more advanced in that place where the effect is located."
In other words, time condenses or accelerates at the effect.
Kozyrev’s research also offers a straightforward explanation for the
phenomenon of prophecy:
"The effect of time differs basically from the effect of force
fields... The effect of the causal pole immediately creates two
equal and opposite forces... there occurs a transmission, without
momentum, and hence also without delivery... The transmission of
energy without momentum (impulse) should... have the following very
important property: Such a transmission should be instantaneous...
Time in the universe is not propagated but appears simultaneously
everywhere. On a time axis the entire universe is projected by one
point. Therefore, the altered properties of a given second will
appear everywhere at once, diminishing according to the law of
inverse proportionality of the first power of distance... Such a
possibility of the instantaneous transfer of information through
time should not contradict the special theory of relativity --- in
particular, the relativity of the concept of simultaneity. The fact
is that the simultaneity of events through time is realized in that
advantageous system of coordinates with which the source of these
effects is associated.
"The possibility of communications through time will probably
explain not only the features of biological relationships but also a
number of puzzling phenomena of the physics of man. Perhaps
intuitive knowledge is obtained specifically in this manner. It is
quite likely that in this way are realized also the phenomena of
telepathy: i.e., the transmission of thought over a distance. All
these relationships are not shielded and hence have the property for
the transmission of influence through time."
Kozyrev also determined the speed of time: C2 = +700 km/second in a
left-hand system. He also discovered several other properties and
effects of time, including:
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weight loss in gyroscopes (proportional
to the weight and linear rate of rotation)
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different speeds in the
N and S hemispheres
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a deflection of pendulums to the south
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time-shielding by dextro-rotary organic molecules (sugar)
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time-absorption by laevo-rotary molecules (turpentine)
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time
relaxation (inversely proportional to the square root of the body’s
density), and rotation moment (55)
Physicist Frank J. Tipler has described a theoretical two-way time
machine comprising a cylinder spinning at a rate of at least
one-half the speed of light. Thus, a time-television could be built
without great difficulty:
In 1936, van Stockum solved the
Einstein equations for the
gravitational field of a rapidly rotating cylinder. It is shown that
it allows a closed time-like line to connect any two events in
spacetime. This suggests that a finite, rotating cylinder would also
act as a time machine, causing nontrivial causality violations ---
time travel. (56)
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13. Time Cameras ~
The Benedictine Father Marcello Pellegrino Ernetti (d. 1997)
invented a method of recovering sound waves from the past and
converting them into visual and acoustic reconstruction of history.
Father Ernetti, a professor at the Venetian Benedetto Marcello
Conservatory and Fondation Cini (and director of the Italian
Conservatory of Religious Instruction for Men), accomplished his
research in collaboration with 12 physicists who remain anonymous.
In 1956, Father Ernetti began to investigate the possibility of
reviewing the past with a television-like device. In 1957 he began
collaborating with the Portuguese Professor de Matos, who was
researching the same problem.
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Fr. Ernetti’s theoretical approach was based on
Aristotle’s concept
of the disintegration of sound, according to which light and sound
waves do not disappear after being produced, but are transformed in
some way and remain present indefinitely. According to Ernetti,
sound waves subdivide into harmonics that can be recovered with
appropriate instruments.
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Fr. Ernetti claimed that,
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"Every human being traces from birth to
death a double furrow of light and sounds. This constitutes his
individual identity mark. The same applies to an event, to music, to
movement. The antennas used in our laboratory enable us to tune in
to these furrows of picture or sound."
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Fr. Ernetti recovered "photographs" of events such the
Crucifixion
of Christ, and reconstructed acoustic events such as Quintus Ennius’
tragedy Thyestes in the original Latin from a performance in 169 BC.
He also claimed to have recovered the original text of the Ten
Commandments given to Moses. However, he refused to reveal any
details of his invention, and it has been suppressed by the Italian
government. He warned that "The machine can produce universal
tragedy."
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In 1934, William D. Pelley, editor of Liberation magazine, reported
on his experiments with a form of time-camera which he called
"Ultra-Vision", allegedly developed in collaboration with
Thomas
Edison and Steinmetz. The apparatus was confiscated by the
FBI.
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In 1912, Baron Ernst von Lubek published an account of his accounts
with trans-time photography. His equipment included a cathode ray
tube with lead and dysprosium electrodes, energized by an Oudin coil
(a modified
Tesla coil).
The Radionic Camera developed by George De La Warr was intended to
detect disease by a suitable photographic method. It also is capable
of photographing the past and the future. In the opinion of De La Warr,
"Time is a vector of the magnetic spectrum and that spectrum
has a place in itself for events... There is a pre-physical world in
which the camera might be expected to operate."
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14. Time & Mind ~
In 1982, architect Alton DeLong (Univ. of Tennessee) found that the
smaller the scale of your environment, the faster your internal
clock will run. DeLong tested the time-sense of volunteers who
imagined themselves to be "in" small-scale rooms used as
architectural models, and found that people estimate the passage of
time at a faster rate in proportion to the model scale of the room.
People in a one-sixth scale room guessed that 30 minutes had passed
after only 5 minutes actually had elapsed. Time seemed to pass 12
times as fast in one-twelfth scale rooms, and 20 times faster in
one-twenty-fourth scale rooms. In an ordinary room, the subjects’
estimates of time closely approximated regular clock time.
The psychobiological nature of time changes with our age and
mindset. In human society, the solar day defines our inherent sense
of time. Psychological time consists of the continuation of
metabolism between conception and death. True age is a functional
organic state; tests of cellular reproduction rates have shown that
aging proceeds much more rapidly in childhood than at the end of
life. Thus, in terms of physiological time, infancy is very long and
old age is very short. In terms of inner, psychological time,
however, infancy seems to be very brief, while old age seems very
long. Psychological time is mind observing its own motion through
the series of its states. In youth, time flies; in middle age, time
crawls; in old age, time runs out...
In a profound study of An Experiment With Time (1927), British
aeronautical engineer and physicist William Dunne propounded a
theory of time, called "serialism". His theory is based on
experimental evidence of the "displacement in time" that occurs in
dreams, resulting in a mingling of both past and future images which
are about equal in number. (57)
Perhaps someday we may achieve some form of control over the great
energy of time, with predictable consequences that cannot be
foreseen at this time.
The foresight of most prophets is atavistic, spontaneous, and often
unwelcome. However, it is possible to develop and exercise one’s
prophetic capabilities in a controlled manner. In his edifying book
The Practice of Magical Evocation, the great German Hermetic adept
Franz Bardon introduced several angelic intelligences who specialize
in prophecy:
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Eneki (22º Gemini)
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Rimog (21º Leo)
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Elipinon (23º
Virgo)
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Ugolog (25º Pisces)
Bardon also revealed select keys to
release prophetic powers in his Key to the True Quabbalah. (58)
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15. The End?
Each of us successfully predicts the future many times daily and in
many ways. The talent of prophecy, however, is atavistic in most
people, and not very reliable. The most difficult past of a
prophet’s task is to date the prediction. Nostradamus accurately
dated more than a dozen of his quatrains with astrological
configurations, but even some of his schedules were canceled. Very
few other seers assign dates to their prophecies. Most prophecies
are not time-specific in any case; rather, they represent conditions
that will be reached at some time.
Perhaps it is sufficient for God to know and for people to heed the
warning. Some prophecies certainly are conditional and can be
canceled or averted if slackers amend their ways --- or else face
"merited disaster".
Prophecies are open-ended and subject to revision or annulment ---
until it is too late. We can avert some impending disasters, such as
nuclear war. We can fulfill the prophetic promise of long-lasting
peace on Earth. These dark times need the bright hope promised by
many prophecies. The choice and the responsibility belong to us
individually and collectively. In any event, pray for God’s Grace to
preserve us from ourselves and our pretensive leaders.
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