Altered History

If you think the dark ages were limited to the distant past, you are wrong. They still exist, but in a more subtle contemporary way of thinking. Our church dominated society is still manipulating our belief systems but mixing in just enough "science" and "philosophy" to make us unaware of just how much influence religious stories have on our thought patterns.

For 2,000 years the church and the people who serve it have gone to great lengths to create a story of world history that fits a Biblical mold. In more recent times, other theories, like that of the evolutionists influenced by the writings of Charles Darwin, have emerged.

Except for theories based upon archaeological finds, and the few surviving writings that remain in print, the fact remains that we have little knowledge of the real history of the human race dating back to even the time of Christ. The loss of an estimated 400,000 books when the great Library of Alexandria burned in about 270 A.D., and the destruction of other important books and records like those of the Mayans after the Spaniards invaded Mexico and South America in the Sixteenth Century, erased key historical records.

Sadly, the "official" historical, archaeological and geological discoveries have been required to fit certain approved templates or the "scientific" community does not give them serious consideration. Those who question the many anomalies that keep appearing in the dust are rarely taken seriously.

Thus school and college textbooks are filled with stories that mostly support the theories that a God created the world no earlier than about 8000 years ago, the world was subjected to a great flood about 4,000 years ago, and the God-man Jesus visited here 2000 years ago. The battle to teach the two theories concerning our origins, creationism vs. evolutionism, continues to rage. Because the evolutionists have gained much ground, however, there is a general belief that modern humans are an improved and more developed species than his ancestors, who once emerged from cave dwellings in what is referred to as "the Stone Age."

The non-conformists, however, continue to grow in number, especially in recent years. That is because the world is filled with those peculiar anomalies that do not fit the established belief systems. As our tools for discovery get more and more sophisticated, keeping those archaic stories intact is getting harder to do. For example, the recent discoveries of at least two great cities at the bottom of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans are a powerful indication that this planet and human history on it is much older than the church-inspired books would have us believe.

Japanese divers recently uncovered the ruins of several large structures in 70 feet of water near the island of Yonaguni. The lower levels of the buildings, estimated to have been submerged for 10,000 years, still bear carvings made by stonemason's tools, also unearthed on the sea floor near the site. The number of ruins suggests that a relatively large and developed culture existed that built them.

Then to top this discovery, undersea archaeologists revealed this spring that they found what may be the largest ruin in the western hemisphere. What is so amazing about this discovery is that it appears to be a city lying at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in 2,200 feet of water, off the coast of Cuba.

"It is stunning," said Canadian oceanographer Paulia Zelitsky of the Advanced Digital Communications Group in British Columbia, who has been reading video images of the area taken by underwater robots. "What we see in our high-resolution sonar images are limitless, rolling, white sand plains, and in the middle of this beautiful white sand, there are clear man made large-size architectural designs. It looks like when you fly over an urban development in a plane and you see highways, tunnels and buildings. We do not believe that nature is capable of producing planned symmetrical architecture unless it is a miracle."

So just what lies at such a depth, and if it is a city, how ancient can it be? Edgar Cayce once predicted that the lost continent of Atlantis would be discovered in this area of the ocean. Could this be it?

In an article published in Nexus Magazine, writer David Hatcher Childress makes a serious charge that the Smithsonian Institute has been hiding, destroying and covering up archaeological anomalies for more than 100 years, probably because their revelation would require a complete rewriting of school textbooks. What Childress fails to say is that the information also would require the psychological implanting of a revised "tunnel reality" for the brain-dead masses.

The cover-up has been so severe, Childress writes that there is some evidence that many important archaeological discoveries may have even been destroyed.

Not only has the Smithsonian, the most important archaeological institute in the United States been involved in this coverup, Childress charges that the Vatican also has been long accused of keeping artifacts and ancient books in its vast cellars, without allowing the outside world access to them.

"These secret treasures, often of a controversial historical or religious nature, are allegedly suppressed by the Catholic Church because they might damage the church's credibility, or perhaps cast their official texts in doubt," Childress writes. "Sadly, there is overwhelming evidence that something very similar is happening with the Smithsonian Institution."

He said that since about 1880, the Smithsonian has suppressed "any archaeological evidence that lent credence to the school of thought known as Diffusionism, a school which believes that throughout history there has been widespread dispersion of culture and civilization via contact by ship and major trade routes. The Smithsonian opted for the opposite school, known as Isolationism. Isolationism holds that most civilizations are isolated from each other and that there has been very little contact between them, especially those that are separated by bodies of water."

Consequently, Childress charges that all archaeological evidence, such as traded goods, that indicated that the mound builders of the Ohio Valley, for example, had contact with such advanced cultures as the Mayas, Ioltecs or Aztecs in Mexico and Central America, have been "lost."

Among the lost artifacts are the bones of giant men, some of them eight feet tall, uncovered in full armor with swords and even large treasures.

Childress said Ivan T. Sanderson, a well-known zoologist, once told about a letter received about an engineer stationed on the Aleutian Island of Shemya during World War II. While building an airstrip, the workers found human remains in an ancient Alaskan mound. The bones were of giants that had cranias measuring 22 to 24 inches from base to crown. Adult skulls normally measure about eight inches from back to front. The remains were turned over to the Smithsonian, where all trace of them disappeared.

Other lost artifacts include thousands of carved stone figures, some in jade and obsidian, discovered at Acambaro, Mexico in 1944. These figures ranging from an inch to six feet in height, depicted dinosaurs in active association with humans. Some showed the animals eating humans. Radiocarbon dating at the University of Pennsylvania indicated that the objects were made about 6,500 years ago.

Then there is the strange story that appeared in the Phoenix Gazette on April 5, 1909. It was a lengthy front-page article about an archaeological dig conducted by the Smithsonian at the Grand Canyon. The story gives a detailed report of the discovery and excavation of a rock-cut vault by a Professor S. A. Jordan of an Egyptian tomb. The Smithsonian today claims to have no record of such a dig.

"While it cannot be discounted that the entire story is an elaborate newspaper hoax, the fact that it was on the front page, named the prestigious Smithsonian Institution, and gave a highly detailed story that went on for several pages, lends a great deal to its credibility," Childress wrote. "It is hard to believe such a story could have come out of thin air."

That things are constantly being found where they don't seem to belong is a strong indication that the true history of this ancient planet is more complex and involved than scholars would like us to believe. I suspect we humans have been down some of these same roads numerous times in the past. If we aren't careful, we may be condemned to walk them a few more times until we get it right.