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One is that, while I and others believe the thesis to be correct, we
view it as a theory and nobody is jumping up and down demanding that any
of this be taught as a fact in public schools at public expense (like
evolutionism); the time machine you'd need to PROVE any sort of a thesis
like this one does not exist.
The second caveat is for the benefit of certain kinds of simple-minded
individuals (democrats, evolutionists etc. etc.) who would no sooner
read about such a thesis, than they would think to themselves "GEE! If I
just had enough ELECTRICITY, why, I could do nifty things like Joan of
Arc or them prophet guys in the bible used to do; why I could go to the
racetracks and really clean up!"
My advice: *DON'T DO IT!!!* I am not aware of any kind of a story like
that which ends happily for the protagonist.
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Everybody who follows the evolution debate knows by now that evolution
doesn't work for animals; it turns out that it doesn't work any better
for human languages.
There is in fact a natural disconnect between certain groups of
linguists and what is known about anthropology. The sci.lang FAQ and
similar literature make it clear that many if not most language scholars
have major problems with the methodologies used in reconstructing the
so-called super-families of languages such as Nostratic or
"proto-world", nonetheless the people who do propose such
super-families, working from what is known about the rates at which
languages disperse, place them anywhere from 25,000 to 150,000 years
back. There is, of course, no realistic evidence of modern man being on
the planet more than 25,000 or 30,000 years. That is what you would call
a disconnect.
For somebody who believes that human languages have to have evolved,
life is full of such unpleasant little enigmas. For instance, when
Europeans first came to Australia, they found hundreds of aborigine
languaes, no two of which apparently resembled eachother any more than
English and Japanese resemble eachother. You have total isolate
languages such as Basque which should not exist if languages evolve, you
have languages like Lithuanian which, other than for having a small
number of things you might call IndoEuropean roots, resemble nothing
around them very much (English is closer to Russian than Lithuanian is),
and you have the curious non-relatedness of the IndoEuropean and Semitic
groups.
There is no meaningful racial difference between IndoEuropean and
Semitic peoples and you'd not figure that more than 5,000 or 6,000 years
or so had passed since the two groups split up. The two language groups
should be strongly related but, in real life, other than for a few
borrowed words, they are not related at all.
Moreover, amongst the few borrowed words, there are a sizable number of
what are called "reversals". In other words, when IndoEuropean, Semitic,
and other peoples met in the Mediterranean basin, since some of them
wrote from right to left and others wrote from left to right and since
vowel sounds were not written at first, when one nation borrowed a word
from another, the order of consonents frequently got reversed.
These reversals included names of gods and godesses (Anath/Athene,
Hermes/Mercurius etc.), and any number of common conceptions:
* aresko please, Gk.; kasher, pleasing, right, Heb.
* balta axe, Arabic; dolabra, Lat.
* cepen priest, Etr.; Nephesh, spirit, Heb.
* cherebh hand, arm, Heb.; bracchium, arm, Lat.
* keneset church, Heb.; sancio, bring to life, Lat.
Now, according to standard theories, these languages should have been
reasonably complete at the fairly recent time during which such
borrowing took place; in other words, these nations should not have
needed to be going to such lengths to be filling in gaps in their
languages for such common words. What we see is what we might expect if
these languages were still in the process of being invented.
In fact, what we see in general, particularly in the case of the
IndoEuropean/Semitic non-relation, is what we would expect if human
communications had been of some entirely different type or nature until
some very recent point in time at which, in a single day, whatever
humans had been doing for communications broke down forever, and humans
were forced by dire necessity to invent our present kinds of spoken
languages, starting from scratch.
Given that kind of hypothesis, the only thing necessary to explain the
IndoEuropean/Semitic disconnect is the fact that the two groups were
separated by the Caucassus mountains for the critical 100 - 200 year
period during which spoken language was being developed. Likewise,
Lithuanians and old Prussians can be seen to have been living in some
isolated area during the same time with enough contact with IE groups to
pick up a few early IE root words, but nothing more, while the Basques
were on their own.
The tale of the tower of Babel and of the fragmentation of the original
human language is universal and not something found only in Jewish and
Christian holy books. The Czech scholar Jan Sammer
massively documents the reality of
this tradition:
Thoth: Words of Power
The King James version of the tale reads:
GEN 10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their
generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided
in the earth after the flood.
GEN 11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
GEN 11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that
they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
GEN 11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and
burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had
they for morter.
GEN 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we
be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
GEN 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which
the children of men builded.
GEN 11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have
all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be
restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
GEN 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language,
that they may not understand one another's speech.
GEN 11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face
of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
GEN 11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD
did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence
did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
"...of one language, and of one speech..."
Probably not the worst possible translation of the original text, but
not the best either. Lisa Beth Liel , an
acknowledged expert in Hebrew language, assures us that:
What the verse means to anyone with the slightest familiarity with
the Hebrew language is that at the time in question, there was but
one language, with a very small vocabulary. Safah achat = one
language, devarim achadim = few words.
One Language, Few Words
In other words, what is being described is not a transition from one
language such as ours to many languages such as ours; what is being
described is a total change in the manner in which humans communicate,
going from some fairly recent point, to the present.
Is there any other body of evidence or theory describing any such
massive change in human behavior in the recent past?
Ancient literature described a number of things which we do not see in
our present world, including:
* Cosmic-scale catastrophes such as
the flood in Noah's time, the catastrophe at the time of Exodus,
the meteorite storms of Joshua's day:
JOS 10:11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before
Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD
cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and
they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they
whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
etc. In other words, the kinds of things Velikovsky wrote about.
* Astral religion. The association between planetary bodies and the
major gods of antique religions was primordial.
* Electrostatic components of ancient religious practices. It turns
out, that electrostatic phenomena in the very recent past on our
planet were significantly more of a factor and a thing to be
contended with than they are now.
* An antique and radically different paradigm for the use of the
human brain and mind, and a number of phenomena, including
idolatry, prophecy, and oracles, which went hand in hand with that
different paradigm.
Hypnotism and schizophrenia, which still exist, are also remnants of the
antique paradigm for the use of the human mind.
Prophesy originally involved a trance state, and the prophet attempting
to join his mind to that of God in order to know God's intentions, or
what he would have us do. The OT prophets speak of "visions", and
prophets of a somewhat later time came to be like the Greek oracles in
that they did not recall what they had said during the trance. Seeing
into the future was a fringe benefit of joining ones mind to the mind of
God, presumably since God exists outside our notion of time, but was not
the main point of the whole deal.
There are two starting points for understanding this ancient paradigm of
the human mind. One is a curious book titled "The Origin of
Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by a psychology
professor at Princeton named Julian Jaynes
. Nobody can
easily remember a title like that but if you tell the folks at Borders
or Barnes/Noble that you need a copy of Jaynes' "Origin of
Consciousness", they'll get one for you. The second starting point is a
series of pamphlets written by Al DeGrazia and Hugh Crossthwaite on the
general topic of electrostatic phenomena in ancient times, and the role
they played in antique religious practices. Those works I have in PDF
form on my own site Click here to download from Bearfabrique
. The two,
taken together, tell a story.
Jaynes was a classicist and, reading through numerous ancient sources,
began to notice the curious absence of decision making which you observe
in the Illiad and in basically everything prior to it, i.e. the fact
that at every point at which you or I would have to stop to consider how
to proceed, the people in these ancient narratives are being told
precisely what to do by inner voices, which are described as Gods and
godesses.
It began to dawn on Jaynes that what we would call schizophrenia today,
hearing voices, was the normal state of affairs in ancient times. He
also noticed, in odd places such as Assyrian bass reliefs, references to
a particular point in time at which these voices ceased, people were
left to their own devices, and the gods and godesses which had formerly
guided humanity vanished, so that an Assyrian sculpture might show a
king pointing to an empty throne which his god had vacated:
There are two kinds of crime in the Old Testament, i.e. minor crime such
as rape, robbery, and murder, and then your really bad, serious crime
such as making up little dolls and idols to worship. Jaynes noted the
big, hypnotic eyes which these idols seem to have more often than not:
and it occurred to him that something a lot more serious than just some
sort of archaic pop culture was going on. Could it possibly be that
these people were really hearing voices emanating from these idols? Not
only does that turn out to be the case, but it also turns out that a
voice which is inside somebody's head cannot easily be disobeyed, hence
such primordial formulations as "to hear and obey" in English, or the
verb to obey being a reflexive form of the verb to hear in Russian
(slushats/slushatcya).
Now, fighting wars and sacraficing children at the behest of wooden
idols is not a formula for success in life and, it is for this reason,
i.e. the fact that the tendency to idolatry turned the world into an
insane assylum for the thousand or so year period between the flood and
the time of the Trojan war, that idolatry is viewed as the ultimate
crime in the Old Testament, and the first commandment reads as it does.
I assume that at this point, Jaynes, working at a large university, went
to the people in neurophysiology and asked them what, if anything could
there be in the human brain which would cause people to hear voices.
What they told him was that there is an area on the right side of the
human brain which appears to be an analog to the speech center (Wernicke
area) on the left side, and a bridge cropssover between the two. This
right side analog appears to be like the human appendix and serves no
known purpose; nonetheless, when this right side analog to the Wernicke
area is stimulated with electrical probes in experiments, subjects more
often than not claim to be hearing voices, as real as if you or I were
speaking to them.
Jaynes naturally enough surmised that this right side analog area had
been in regular use during biblical times, hence his use of the word
'bicameral' to represent the "two chambered" nature of the human mind in
antique times.
Now, Jaynes assumed a purely evolutionary model and assumed that all of
the phenomena which he described were "auditory hallucinations", and
that mankind had simply evolved into a state in which human societies
were governed by a well-ordered system of such auditory hallucinations.
That is clearly unworkable, since 200 people in a village heeding inner
voices would amount to 200 Sons of Sam walking around. To the extent
that evolution ever works at all (microevolution) it works by favoring
progressively greater levels of functionality. You cannot evolve INTO a
disfunctional state, and the world of the Old Testament was intensely
disfunctional. Jaynes did not investigate the following possibility:
that in an age just prior to the age he studied, i.e. the true
antediluvian age, the kinds of phenomena he describes might have
amounted to a normal and functional means of communication, and that
what we note in most of the OT descriptions are vestiges of a system in
an ongoing state of breakdown.
That is one problem with Jaynes' analysis. The other is that he does not
offer any sort of a believable rationale for the breakdwn of the
bicameral system, and the development of the individualized
consciousness which we experience today. He vaguely ascribes these
massive changes to changing social and cultural conditions, which is not
credible simply because the change he describes is an overwhelming
biological change. He is claiming that the entire manner in which the
human mind and brain are used has totally changed over a period of just
a few thousand years and he backs that claim up with massive scholarship.
This is where the works of DeGrazia and Crossthwaite which I mentioned
above come in. DeGrazia and Crossthwaite heavily document the fact that
many of these phenomena which Jaynes describes as bicameral were also
electrostatic phenomena, and you don't really need to be Albert Einstein
to put two and two together for four. The basic reality is that the
electrostatic nature of the planet itself, vastly stronger just a few
thousand years ago than it is now, ENABLED the bicameral phenomena and
that, as this archaic electrostatic field broke down, the bicameral
phenomena broke down with it and died out.
DeGrazia and Crossthwaite note that the pyramids were basically huge
lightning rods, the conductive golden tips of which glowed eternally,
the root of the Greek word 'pyramid' being the same 'pyr' which we note
in 'pyrotechnics' or 'pyromania', i.e. 'fire'. The ark of the covenant
amounted to an exercise in miniaturization of such religious
electrotechnics, i.e. a leydon bottle or primitive capacitor, the two
golden "cherubims" being electrical conductors:
EXO 37:7 And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece
made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;
EXO 37:8 One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on
the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the
cherubims on the two ends thereof.
And then we read things like:
2SA 6:2 And David arose, and went with all the people that were with
him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God,
whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth
between the cherubims.
from which it is pretty obvious what these people were looking at (i.e.
what do you see between the two terminals of a capacitor?).
This doe not mean that Moses, Joshua, Solomon, David and all those
people were a bunch of ignorant rednecks worshipping an electrical arc;
it DOES mean that communication with the spirit world at that time was
getting harder. Again, there is no mention of anything like this in
Genesis because there was no need for it, particularly before the flood,
when communication with the spirit world was believed to be natural and
freely available to any and all.
All of these phenomena in fact were associated with static electricity.
Hugh Crossthwaite documents the manner in which Greek oracles were
located in areas of heightened electrostatic charge (making the job of
oracle a somewhat dangerous one):
"Good electrical effects could be obtained on high ground, e.g.
Parnassus, Cithaeron, Mount Sinai, etc.. Cithaeron, as well as being
the scene of The Bacchae, had below it the town of Erythrae. There
is another Erythrae in Asia Minor. Clefts in rock if possible
combined with water, as at Delphi, would be helpful. Homer speaks of
"rocky Pytho." Such places, together with oak groves, as at Dodona,
were likely to be enelysioi, containing Zeus Kataibates, Zeus the
sky god who descends in a thunderbolt. One may compare the
mysterious flame that burned in Thebes on the tomb of Semele, mother
of Dionysus, killed by a thunderbolt from Zeus, and also the fire
round the head which did not burn [7]."
Starting around page 300 or so of Origins, Julian Jaynes documents the
manner in which all of these kinds of phenomena became progressively
more difficult to accomplish and finally broke down. The inner voices
first became inconsistent from person to person, and then inconsistent
in the mind of the same person, the information obtained from such
practices became totally unreliable, and finally people who kept on
trying to use their minds this way began to be viewed as we view the
occassional throwback like Son of Sam now, i.e. as lunatics, so that the
Old Testament is replete with stories of some judge or king driving
large numbers of them out of the country or killing them:
SA1 28:3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and
buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away
those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
1KI 18:4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the
LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty
in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
1KI 18:40 And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let
not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them
down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
and, at long last, we read Zechariah describing prophets as unclean
spirits, categorizing them as part and parcel of the same thing as
idolatry, and advocating that parents kill children who use their minds
this way:
ZEC 13:2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of
hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land,
and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the
prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
ZEC 13:3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet
prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say
unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of
the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust
him through when he prophesieth.
ZEC 13:4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets
shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied;
neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:
Lisa Beth Liel (the Hebrew language expert mentioned also above) informs
me that at the time of Zechariah, the Jewish council asked the Lord to
lift the curse of idolatry from the world and that he did, but that they
lost prophecy at the same time. I interpret this to mean that, with the
final breakdown of the antique electrostatic fields, all such phenomena
finally vanished.
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Like I noted at the beginning of this discourse, everything you see here
is basically a theory and not anything which anybody could easily prove.
That being said, the most expansive and liberal interpretation one could
make of the things noted above would be as follows:
Communications amongst humans before the flood were telepathic in
nature, other than for a small vocabulary of spoken words used by
priests for ritualistic purposes. This was enabled by the electrostatic
charge near the Earths surface and by the plasma of the antique solar
system in general, and involved the use of the right side of the human
brain as Julian Jaynes notes. When this system of communication broke
down after the flood due to electrostatic collapse, humans were forced
to very quickly develop the kinds of speech we use now. There never were
super-families of languages; the main language families are unrelated.
This subordination of consciousness to groups and possibly to a
planetary mind provided the raw compute power needed for the genetic
engineering and re-engineering which we observe in the fossil record.
After the flood and the event described in the story of the tower of
Babel, continued attempts to use the human mind and brain as mankind
once had led to the disfunctional state of which we read in the main
books of the Old Testament and to the gradual breakdown of the
"bicameral system" which Julian Jaynes described, until the very
capability of using the human mind that way was, in all but the rarest
cases, ground out of the human race by a process of attrition.
The words "prophet" and "prophesy" which permeate the later books of the
Old Testament are missing in Genesis other than for the one vague
reference to Abraham as God's prophet. This is likely because
communication with the spirit world was natural and easy prior to the
flood and no such contrivance as prophecy was needed.
The clear references in antique literature (e.g. Plato's "Statesman") to
humans being able to communicate with animals prior to the flood
indicate that telepathic communications were not limited to humans.
Other animals today can deal with human speech only with great difficulty.
Naturally, the evolutionist who is left with the question as to how such
an immensely complex capability could feasibly evolve, is FUBAR. But
then, we KNEW that all along.
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Other telepathy/paranormal links:
* The Nkisi Story
* US Military Interest Paranormal Topics ("remote viewing")
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