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By Richard C. Cook, Author of Return of the Aeons: The Planetary Spiritual Ascension
April 8, 2012
SYNOPSIS: While the world did not end on December 21, 2012, mainstream scientists are increasingly warning of large-scale environmental threats to earth and humanity. There are not only warnings about global warming, but also of potential disasters to mankind from celestial bodies, including the sun, asteroids, meteors, and comets. As “catastrophism” approaches a consensus level, the greatest dangers appear to be emissions from the sun such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that could disable electrical systems and destroy computer technology. Some of the great turning points in geologic and human history are being shown to coincide with celestial events reminiscent of the descriptions of “End Times” in the Bible. Several major spiritual figures from the 20th century also made projections of the same type. Is there some significance in the apparent confluence of scientific evidence and spiritual prophecy? Do governments know things they are not telling the rest of us? And how should individuals and communities respond?
December 21, 2012, was the most famous date in history when nothing seemed to happen. The “end of the Mayan calendar” was a bust when, contrary to media hype, the world did not self-destruct. Yet a major disaster to world civilization may still loom, according to both modern environmental scientists and several prominent 20th century spiritual figures who made similar prophecies that may come to pass in our time.
Coinciding with rising concerns about global warming, the last twenty-five years have seen an explosion of interest among academic and government scientists in the effects on earth’s climate of celestial objects such as the sun, comets, meteors, and asteroids. Among them is Dr. Robert M. Schoch, a geologist and geophysicist from Boston University.
Dr. Schoch is the author of numerous books on paleontology, geology, and environmental science. He became known beyond the halls of academia for pushing back the date of the Great Sphinx thousands of years beyond the dynastic period of Egypt, contrary to the assumptions of orthodox Egyptologists. He has now published some startling suggestions of potential worldwide calamity in his new book, Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future (2012, Inner Traditions).
Dr. Schoch has examined the geologic record to demonstrate that at key points in the distant past, worldwide disasters have resulted from solar outbursts, possibly combined at times by impacts of comets and space debris on the earth’s surface.
We began as a culture to consider such possibilities through scientific evidence presented in 1980 that the Age of Dinosaurs may have ended due to an asteroid strike 66 million years ago. At first, scientists scoffed:
Then, in 1991, researchers found evidence that the giant crater near the town of Chicxulub (pronounced CHEEK-she-loob) in Mexico came into being about the time of the mass extinction. The explosion that created the crater, which is more than 110 miles (180 kilometers) wide, likely involved a hit from an object about 6 miles (10 km) across. The crash would have released as much energy as 100 trillion tons of TNT, or beyond a billion times the power of the atom bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (“Chicxulub Asteroid Impact: The Dino-Killer That Scientists Laughed At” by Charles Q. Choi,www.space.com/19681)
Now, using data from Greenland ice cores, Dr. Robert Schoch hypothesizes that a sudden warming of climate around 9,700 BCE may have occurred due to solar activity “within an incredible three years.” (www.robertschoch.com)
At first, Dr. Schoch believed a comet alone may have been responsible for an event that would have had disastrous effects on whatever human civilizations may have existed at the time. Now he believes the cause was more likely “plasma bombardment…due to solar outbursts and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the sun, or possibly emissions from other celestial objects.” (Ibid)
Plasma is recognized today as a fourth state of matter, consisting of electrically charged particles found in such phenomena as lightning or auroras. Regarding what seems to have been the gigantic event of 9,700 BCE, Dr. Schoch writes, “Plasma hitting the surface of Earth could heat and fuse rock, incinerate flammable materials, melt ice caps, vaporize shallow bodies of water creating an extended deluge of rain, and send the climate into a warming spell. The release of pressure that follows the melting of thousands-of-meters-thick ice sheets can induce earthquakes and even cause hot rock under pressure to melt and erupt to the surface as volcanoes.” (Ibid)
Dr. Schoch and other experts, such as Dr. Anthony L. Peratt of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, claim that records of such a mega-event can be found in ancient petroglyphs, including the Rongorongo script at Easter Island. Some of the images found at Easter Island and contemporaneous sites elsewhere may be depictions of actual visible plasma eruptions in the atmosphere. Dr. Schoch also says, “Plasma and electrical discharges hitting the surface of Earth may have been responsible for the vitrification (melting into crude glass) of ancient stone structures seen in some parts of the world, such as various hill forts in Scotland.” (Ibid) He also suggests that the 9,700 BCE disaster may be the source of ancient legends of the destruction of Atlantis. REST of ARTICLE HERE:
By Richard C. Cook, Author of Return of the Aeons: The Planetary Spiritual Ascension
April 8, 2012
SYNOPSIS: While the world did not end on December 21, 2012, mainstream scientists are increasingly warning of large-scale environmental threats to earth and humanity. There are not only warnings about global warming, but also of potential disasters to mankind from celestial bodies, including the sun, asteroids, meteors, and comets. As “catastrophism” approaches a consensus level, the greatest dangers appear to be emissions from the sun such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that could disable electrical systems and destroy computer technology. Some of the great turning points in geologic and human history are being shown to coincide with celestial events reminiscent of the descriptions of “End Times” in the Bible. Several major spiritual figures from the 20th century also made projections of the same type. Is there some significance in the apparent confluence of scientific evidence and spiritual prophecy? Do governments know things they are not telling the rest of us? And how should individuals and communities respond?
December 21, 2012, was the most famous date in history when nothing seemed to happen. The “end of the Mayan calendar” was a bust when, contrary to media hype, the world did not self-destruct. Yet a major disaster to world civilization may still loom, according to both modern environmental scientists and several prominent 20th century spiritual figures who made similar prophecies that may come to pass in our time.
Coinciding with rising concerns about global warming, the last twenty-five years have seen an explosion of interest among academic and government scientists in the effects on earth’s climate of celestial objects such as the sun, comets, meteors, and asteroids. Among them is Dr. Robert M. Schoch, a geologist and geophysicist from Boston University.
Dr. Schoch is the author of numerous books on paleontology, geology, and environmental science. He became known beyond the halls of academia for pushing back the date of the Great Sphinx thousands of years beyond the dynastic period of Egypt, contrary to the assumptions of orthodox Egyptologists. He has now published some startling suggestions of potential worldwide calamity in his new book, Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future (2012, Inner Traditions).
Dr. Schoch has examined the geologic record to demonstrate that at key points in the distant past, worldwide disasters have resulted from solar outbursts, possibly combined at times by impacts of comets and space debris on the earth’s surface.
We began as a culture to consider such possibilities through scientific evidence presented in 1980 that the Age of Dinosaurs may have ended due to an asteroid strike 66 million years ago. At first, scientists scoffed:
Then, in 1991, researchers found evidence that the giant crater near the town of Chicxulub (pronounced CHEEK-she-loob) in Mexico came into being about the time of the mass extinction. The explosion that created the crater, which is more than 110 miles (180 kilometers) wide, likely involved a hit from an object about 6 miles (10 km) across. The crash would have released as much energy as 100 trillion tons of TNT, or beyond a billion times the power of the atom bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (“Chicxulub Asteroid Impact: The Dino-Killer That Scientists Laughed At” by Charles Q. Choi,www.space.com/19681)
Now, using data from Greenland ice cores, Dr. Robert Schoch hypothesizes that a sudden warming of climate around 9,700 BCE may have occurred due to solar activity “within an incredible three years.” (www.robertschoch.com)
At first, Dr. Schoch believed a comet alone may have been responsible for an event that would have had disastrous effects on whatever human civilizations may have existed at the time. Now he believes the cause was more likely “plasma bombardment…due to solar outbursts and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the sun, or possibly emissions from other celestial objects.” (Ibid)
Plasma is recognized today as a fourth state of matter, consisting of electrically charged particles found in such phenomena as lightning or auroras. Regarding what seems to have been the gigantic event of 9,700 BCE, Dr. Schoch writes, “Plasma hitting the surface of Earth could heat and fuse rock, incinerate flammable materials, melt ice caps, vaporize shallow bodies of water creating an extended deluge of rain, and send the climate into a warming spell. The release of pressure that follows the melting of thousands-of-meters-thick ice sheets can induce earthquakes and even cause hot rock under pressure to melt and erupt to the surface as volcanoes.” (Ibid)
Dr. Schoch and other experts, such as Dr. Anthony L. Peratt of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, claim that records of such a mega-event can be found in ancient petroglyphs, including the Rongorongo script at Easter Island. Some of the images found at Easter Island and contemporaneous sites elsewhere may be depictions of actual visible plasma eruptions in the atmosphere. Dr. Schoch also says, “Plasma and electrical discharges hitting the surface of Earth may have been responsible for the vitrification (melting into crude glass) of ancient stone structures seen in some parts of the world, such as various hill forts in Scotland.” (Ibid) He also suggests that the 9,700 BCE disaster may be the source of ancient legends of the destruction of Atlantis. REST of ARTICLE HERE:
