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I've spent quite a bit of time over the past twenty years trying to make some sense out of the ancient Mayan world that appears to have been almost completely abandoned sometime in 8th or 9th centuries. My feeling that this dating is probably skewed by our own western timeline assumptions, and I...

This is a fascinating story published by the China Report, that I thought might be worth posting here. ------- China Report Vol 121 June 2023 Robert van Gulik - The Dutch Mandarin A Dutch diplomat and Sinologist whose writings during the mid-20th century offered the war-torn world deep...

So this is a question I have been trying to research for a while now, the symbolism of the snake is everywhere In all cultures, we find its symbolism in regard to Gods, Wisdom, and Mother Nature, we defeat the evil serpent in regards Apollo or Jesus, we think of evil like satan or Marduk but we...

Just finished this wonderful book, „Physics and Beyond” by famous physicist Werner Heisenberg (German orig. title “Der Teil und das Ganze”) and can highly recommend it for those interested in philosophy, physics and history. It’s kind of a mix between autobiography, recounting Heisenberg’s many...

In transcripts and in popular culture overall there is a huge overbalance of attention to the western side of the hemisphere in terms of ET connections, etc. I mean everybody talks about area 51, rosewell, secret US pact with aliens, etc. but there was also USSR who, even being on the second...

So, some time ago I've read Velikovski's book "Worlds in collision" after I saw it mentioned somewhere in this forum (maybe even CS session) In short, for those who is not familiar, one of the main points is that Bronze age (around 1500 bc for reference) collapse was caused by cosmic event. In...