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Issue #12 Cover *Cataclysm! 9500 BC*

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David Lewis

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In recent prehistory, possibly as late as 9,500 B.C. (the date ascribed
by Plato to the sinking of Atlantis), a profoundly traumatic phenomenon
plagued the earth. This event, the result of a distant cosmic explosion,
caused severe volcanic eruptions, massive earthquakes, catastrophic
flooding, and the upheaval of the world's mountain ranges. The earth's
axis may have tilted, or its crust been violently displaced. Continents
rose and sank. Mass extinctions of plants and animals followed, and a
period of eerie global darkness.

The catastrophe struck suddenly, researchers report. Those that survived
sought refuge in caves and high mountains, the record of their plight
preserved to this day in hundreds of ancient deluge/conflagration myths
from virtually every cultural tradition. Scientists gathered the
evidence for such a catastrophe in the last century, and more recently,
but explained away parts of it through ice age theory, now known to be
fundamentally flawed. The rest of the evidence, until now, science has
been unable to explain.

No, this is not the synopsis of Hollywood's next disaster extravaganza,
nor a rehashing of Immanual Velikovsky's catastrophe theory, but the
product of serious research and the subject of two soon-to-be released
books written by independent experts in the field of recent prehistory.
The compelling evidence assembled by these authors reveals the existence
of a prehistoric reality that casts orthodox notions about early man
into the realm of mere guess work. The books are: Cataclysm! Compelling
Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9,500 BC, by D. S. Allan and J. B.
Delair, and Earth Under Fire: Humanity's Survival of the Apocalypse, by
Paul LaViolette.

ORTHODOX ASSUMPTIONS

With its long-standing preference for uniformitarianism (the doctrine
that nothing sudden occurred in prehistory, only slow evolutionary and
geological changes), modern science has discounted what was taken for
granted in the last century: that hard evidence reveals a global
catastrophe occurred recently on Earth. That bias, coupled with the
dogma of scientific materialism, the presumption that all existence,
even consciousness, evolved from matter alone, remains the unproven
basis upon which conventional theories of human origins rest.

Ice age theory was born about 180 years ago, in connection with studies
carried out in the Alps. Geology was then only just being born. Pioneers
of the day took most fossil evidence as having resulted from the Great
Flood of tradition, the benchmark in world history before the birth of
modern science, promulgated by classical writings and religion, and tied
to beliefs that the world is a mere 4,000-6,000 years old. Geology,
however, as a systematic science, found the earth was millions of years
old, and that rain-induced flooding could not account for much of the
geological devastation that occurred at the time of the mass
extinctions. As the scientific movement adopted its uniformitarian
dogma, it sought to explain away all prehistory in purely materialistic
terms, discarding anything that smacked of superstition or
catastrophism. Scientists of the day, in effect, threw out the baby with
the floodwater, adopting prejudices about human origins and past
civilizations that dominate to this day.

Within this skewed climate, science ascribed some of the hard evidence
of a great cataclysm in recent prehistory to the movement of glaciers,
which undoubtedly took place in some areas. But relying on this theory
alone necessitated a full blown ice age, then ice ages of greater
duration and severity to account for mounting evidence that something
extraordinarily severe had struck the planet, something that wiped out
most of the world's mammals, uplifted mountain ranges, caused widespread
volcanic explosions, carved valleys and fjords, and left massive
deposits of stone and gravel strewn across the globe's land masses.

LETTING THE FACTS SPEAK

To understand more fully the story told by the scientific record, rather
than what may be described as the contrived positions of orthodoxy, we
spoke with J. B. Delair, a long-time researcher in the field of recent
prehistory, and coauthor of Cataclysm!, published in '95 in the U.K. (to
be released in the U.S. early this fall by Bear & Co. with introduction
by Rand Flem-Ath).

Delair told us that in his career as a researcher he had come upon many
very strange anomalies including massive fossil records in bone caves,
where the remains of countless numbers of incompatible prehistoric
animals, saber-toothed tigers, lions, wolves, bison, rhinoceros,
mammoth, were found washed into deep subterranean recesses, animals that
perished in recent prehistory all over the world. Human beings, in many
instances, were found in similar conditions, radio carbon dated to times
consistent with the animal deaths, and from ethnic groups as diverse as
European, Eskimo and Melanesian, as in the case of a find in China.
Similar finds have been recorded in India, Brazil, North America and the
Balkans. Geologists have also recorded finding the remains of hundreds
of humans who died from natural causes in caves, apparently seeking
refuge from the catastrophe.

As a result of this, I wasn't at all happy with some of the
explanations, Delair said. One of these being the ice age, another being
the chronology.

The key to unlocking the problem of the anomalies proved elusive. But
Delair discovered he was not alone in his quest. He received a phone
call from Dr. D.S. Allan, a biologist and researcher in the field of
earth severance (shifting land masses), who shared similar interests,
and a partnership was born. Coupling their talents and interdisciplinary
backgrounds, they labored for years and found what appears to be the
missing link that unlocks the secret of recent prehistory, global cataclysm.

Allan and Delair discovered that, contrary to scientific dogma, certain
events took place very rapidly in earth's prehistory, such as the
shifting of land masses, as in the case of their own British Isles,
detached from the European mainland just 6,000 years ago.

Allan, a Cambridge University doctor of philosophy, versed in physics,
chemistry and biology, had already discovered that many of the same
types of plants and animals have existed in different parts of the world
when they should not, being separated by deserts or water. Delair
characterized his knowledge of anomalous fossil evidence and Allan's of
biological as two sides of the same coin....bits and pieces of the same
puzzle.

After years of work, those pieces would fit together, buttressed by an
ignored scientific record that, when fully revealed, proved stunning.

It throws a monkey wrench into almost everything, even evolution, Delair
told us, when asked about the implications of his work. Evolution cannot
always be a question of the survival of the fittest. You can have a
sudden event that can wipe out the best and worst, the survival of the
luckiest in those instances. he said.

Using carbon dating, the resources of the British Museum and the
Cambridge University library, Delair and Allan established a time frame
for the anomalous fossils, which in turn set a time frame for the event
that caused their sudden demise.

The main thing is the dating of the fossils, Delair said. They are very,
very recent in geological parlance, although quite old in human history.
The changes they signify are enormous, because there are dislocations in
entire faunas and floras by thousands of miles. There are also a lot of
very abnormal burials. You get sea animals alongside birds and land
animals, coal alongside tropical sea urchins, and all sorts of funny things.

CONTRIVED SCIENCE

It (the ice age) was an invention, Delair stated flatly, and in part a
reaction to what early geologists and the scientific movement as a whole
considered superstition, the Flood/Conflagra-tion legends. The original
idea of an ice age going back millions of years, ebbing and flowing
across the northern and southern hemispheres near the poles, just
doesn't stand up to scrutiny, as you can see from our writings. We've
drawn upon the literature which was, in fact, full of objections (to ice
age notions), on geological and biological grounds.

Many Norwegian fjords, for example, thought to have been carved by ice
sheets sliding down from mountains, are open ended. There is nowhere for
the glaciers to have come down from, Delair said. The fjords were
gigantic fissures, filled up with ice at some later time and smoothed by
some ice action, but not caused by ice. So-called evidence for an ice
age having occurred, more over, such as striation (grooved or ridged
rocks) and erratically strewn boulders, supposedly the result of glacial
movements, occurs in parts of the globe where an ice age is known not to
have taken place.

Research funding that rewards conventional results, Delair told us, is
partly responsible for perpetuating erroneous assumptions, along with
trying to fit all the evidence into the same worn out theory,
necessitating longer, geographically broader, and more numerous ice
ages. Also, Delair notes, fitting the pieces of this grand puzzle of
prehistory together requires expertise in a variety of fields. Dr.
Allan, what's more, devoted his retirement to this study, a
concentration of effort few, if any, conventionally employed researchers
would be able to accomplish.

The picture Allan, Delair and others paint, supported by a great deal of
field evidence, resembles a catastrophe of mythic proportions. Ice age
theory, on the other hand, fails time and again to account for the
overwhelming field evidence. The devastation proves to have been so
great, in fact, that nothing of earthly origin could have been
responsible. Not even a comet or asteroid, Allan and Delair say, could
have wreaked such severe damage. The destructive agent, they tell us,
would not have been necessarily very large, but would have been
magnetically powerful, an exploding star, a supernova, that hurled one
or more pieces of its fiery mass our way, upsetting the axes and orbits
of various planets through magnetic influence, as it moved like a
pinball through our solar system for about nine years. The event wreaked
horrific trauma upon various planets, and caused Earth to convulse, they
say, but amounted to a minor incident in cosmic terms.

COSMIC EXPLOSIONS

Evidence of a supernova explosion, in the form of aluminum 22 (along
with other scientific and mythological evidence), found in concentration
at the edge of our solar system, helped Allan and Delair conclude that a
stellar blast probably caused the massive destruction. Iron ore in the
earth from 11,000 years ago, its magnetic polarity violently reversed,
also testifies to a powerful, extraterrestrial encounter with a
magnetically powerful agent at the same time period.

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Dr. Paul LaViolette, author of Earth Under Fire, discovered evidence of
a different sort of cataclysm, a volley of cosmic waves resulting from
an explosion in the galactic core. Entering our solar system, this
galactic super wave (the most powerful energetic phenomenon in the
galaxy) would have interrupted the solar wind's ability to repel most
intruding cosmic dust particles, letting the interstellar wind, in
effect, have its way with us.

LaViolette, a systems scientist and physicist, found high concentrations
of cosmic dust in undisturbed polar ice from Greenland at ice-age
depths. He determined the amount of cosmic dust in the ice samples by
measuring the amount of iridium, a metal that is rare on Earth but
abundant in extraterrestrial material. The old uniformitarian assumption
was that the rate of cosmic dust depositing in the earth would not have
change over millions of years, but LaViolette found unusually high
concentrations in his samples, and other evidence of a cosmic visitor
during ice age times.

In Earth Under Fire, a synthesis of astrophysics and ancient mythical
and esoteric traditions, LaViolette details the case for the super wave
phenomenon having recently passed through our solar system. He includes,
in his body of evidence, the discovery by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft of
narrow grooves, like that of a phonograph record, in the rings of
Saturn, which, if millions of years old as uniformitarians maintain,
would have banded together by now. LaViolette explains how the super
wave would have caused the rings to appear as they do, even as Allan and
Delair describe how a super nova chunk, would have disrupted the orbital
paths and axial rotations of neighboring planets, indications that
something of immense proportions came our way in recent prehistory. Some
researchers stated, even before the Voyager visit, that Saturn's rings
may be a mere 10,000-20,000 thousand years old, within the time period
LaViolette, Allan, and Delair say the cataclysm took place.

Within months of the event, LaViolette says, a shroud of cosmic dust
would have caused severe climatic changes on Earth, periods of darkness,
severe cold, and then extreme heat, massive flooding, and incendiary
temperatures as the dust interacted with the Sun, causing it to go into
an active, flaring state, LaViolette said in a recent interview. If you
could imagine the worst solar storm that's ever occurred and beef that
up a thousand or hundred thousand times, that would be going on
continuously...And then you have the possibility that a flare event
could engulf the Earth.

WHAT THE ANCIENTS KNEW

LaViolette builds a scientific and mythological foundation for cataclysm
as a cyclical event, a recurrence of galactic core explosions in 26,000
year cycles, a period that relates to the precession of the equinoxes.
This is the duration of one Great Year recognized by the ancient Greeks,
Zoroastrians, and Chinese. Hindu scriptures recognize the same cycle, a
succession of declining and advancing ages that seem to relate to our
solar system's orbit around the galactic core, the apparent astrological
focus of the Central Sun of existence, Brahma, conscious experience of
which results in transcendental ecstasy and liberation from cycles of
mortal suffering, or karma, not the least of which would be recurrent
cataclysms.

The Galactic core explosion cycle is another important cycle that Earth
must reckon with, LaViolette urges, citing numerous ancient traditions,
many of which reveal that advanced astronomical knowledge, and therefore
advanced human beings, existed in precataclysmic times.

The zodiac, in fact, LaViolette says, probably came down to us as a
cryptogram, a time capsule, designed to alert us to the ongoing
emanations from the galactic core, and that the sphinx and pyramids of
the Giza plateau stand as an astronomical memorial to the great
catastrophe. The figures of the zodiac, Delair told us, appear in most
catastrophe myths. And the universality of this time capsule's message,
the knowledge of cosmic cycles, is hard to ignore. LaViolette and others
find it encoded in numerous myths, in cultural and mystical traditions,
and in the world's megalithic architecture (see The Orion Mystery,
Robert Bauval, Fingerprints of the Gods, Graham Hancock, and The Message
of the Sphinx, Hancock and Bauval). As these commentators point out, the
ancient myths speak universally of a sea-faring people who seem to have
been the guardians of advanced knowledge. Their universal message,
apparently passed down from a forgotten pre-cataclysmic world, urges
human progress and harmony with the source of all creation.

Almost unavoidably then, LaViolette, Allan and Delair, Hancock, and
Bauval (see also Thompson and Cremo's Hidden History of the Human Race)
reveal that recent prehistory was not at all what modern science,
burdened by its prejudices, has erroneously assumed. A past cloaked in
mystery comes to light, objectively, and the way mankind sees himself
must profoundly change. A rich, diverse body of work has accumulated,
interdisciplinary in nature, filled not only with ancient lore but hard
evidence that supports timeless traditions. This body of work, moreover,
discredits the dogma western science has promoted regarding human
origins, the very nature of man.

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