வியாழன், 30 டிசம்பர், 2010

Daily bell After thoughts

http://www.thedailybell.com/1612/Jeffrey-Armstrong-on-the-Mysteries-of-Indian-Culture-the-Relevance-of-Hindu-Vedas-and-the-Realty-of-Ancient-Flying-Machines-.html

What a wonderful interview. Jeffrey Armstrong is evidently an American master of Hindu history. What we find so very interesting and compelling is that some technology in ancient times was, according to scripture, far more sophisticated than technology even available today. Being professional meme watchers we believe it is no accident that popular books have been written claiming that certain impossible-to-explain ancient phenomena were the work of alien spacemen. How else to explain Hindu blueprints for flying machines and 100 ton blocks of stone that the ancients move with ease.
In fact, from our point of view, "aliens-did-it" is a convenient explanation that obscures the reality of ancient-human sophistication. While ancient Hindu texts do describe the reality of alien beings, as we understand it the context is spiritual in nature. That still leaves us with flying machines, nuclear power of some sort and ancient lifting devices capable of moving 100-ton rocks, something still beyond today's technology.
There are of course other technologies and other countries. In fact, there are perfectly believable books written by engineers explaining the use of power-tools that cut ancient Egyptian granite. At least one book of which we are aware (there are several presentations on Youtube) shows fairly clearly the traces of the use of power tools on stone. There is also evidence that the Egyptians had created a form of rudimentary electricity and used it to power lightbulbs that lit up their dark tombs.
In South America, there are undated cities (so ancient are they) where 50 ton stones are used to create an outer wall and fitted together precisely as a modern jigsaw puzzle. Small, golden, handmade "insects" have been found in South American ruins that on further study turn out to be tiny models of what once could have been flying machines. Scale models have been built (again you can see them on Youtube) and turn out to fly miraculously well. Indian flying machines, Vimanas, are said to have come in at least five varieties and are mentioned throughout Indian scripture. So ubiquitous were these vehicles, that they were ceremoniously parked on the tops of Hindu temples. You can see these hypothetical replicas on Youtube in a video entitled "Vimanas-Advanced Vehicles of the Gods symbolic parked on Temples in India."
The cutting and hoisting of impossibly heavy stones is to be found in Egypt, India and South America. There are plenty of archaeologists who will explain in patient tones that ancient cultures around the world are disparate and unrelated. Does this also mean that they developed these incredible technologies in isolation? No, we would tend to think that there was an initial culture that propagated these techniques. We would tend to think it was initially located in India, since India is where humans apparently first settled after leaving Africa, and it was from India that the culture and technology may have broadened.
This is not a fantastical hypothesis by any means, and we have written about archeologist Graham Hancock whose career until recently was devoted to establishing this ancient culture. Here is Hancock: "Between 17,000 years ago and 7000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, terrible things happened to the world our ancestors lived in. Great ice caps over northern Europe and north America melted down, huge floods ripped across the earth, sea-level rose by more than 100 meters, and about 25 million square kilometers of formerly habitable lands were swallowed up by the waves."
The discovery of the ancient city of Dwarka off the coast of India, submerged in a 150 feet of water is further evidence of a network of sophisticated coastal cities. There are apparently evidences of similar cities off the coast of Spain and, famously, off the coast of Japan as well. What has been observed is consistent and features megalithic stone construction. One can hypothesize that certain Egyptian technologies were the result of this ancient technology, perhaps in vitiated form.
We realize that this commentary only scratches the surface of what Jeffrey Armstrong has provided. And of course Armstrong's viewpoints extend far beyond the technology of pre-history to include philosophy and spiritual enlightenment. But we find the technological aspects to be fascinating. As Hancock postulates, there was probably at least one human culture that existed worldwide some 15,000 years ago; in fact we have written in other articles about how advanced Cro-magnon societies were even 30,000 years ago (evidences of phenomenal cave-art proving this to be so), and thus the evolution of human culture to a pre-neolithic peak is certainly credible.
In fact, you would think the idea that neolithic civilization could be extended back another 10,000 years would be world-shattering news. You would suppose the ancient, submerged city of Dwarka would already have attracted a swarm of scuba-diving archeologists. However, coverage remains sparse in the mainstream press, as does funding. This is evidently yet another secret that the power elite families of the Anglo-American axis want to keep hidden. The current Western model is supposed to be the culmination of civilization, with all its ruin and increasing tyranny. Nothing came before and there was no greatness not directly supported by modern regulatory democracy, which is the best of all possible worlds. The Internet increasingly shows us it is not.
Edited on date of posting.

Jeffrey Armstrong on the Mysteries of Indian Culture, the Relevance of Hindu Vedas and the Reality of Ancient Flying Machines