1963 Pole shift book declassified in 2016

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JGeropoulas, in case we somehow lose the internet sometime soon (), I just wanted to thank you for this thread and all the valuable information contained here.

 

[MikaelYosef]

To be continued.....

It is a short book but I particularly found fascinating the re-interpreted Genesis chapters towards the end.

While it's an interesting theory, I'm not convinced it's entirely the whole truth. It was written several decades ago, and I still consider the astronomical rather than geological (even though they can be intertwined) hypothesis as more probable. That said though, there is an agreeable perspective of our history.

The main thought that comes from reading this book personally is that the Earth is a special place, and the idea that it periodically suffers cataclysmic events reinforces the idea that it is an important place of learning. While we have no concrete proof that other similar planets conducive to life exist, we can suppose that they do. There is no guarantee however that they undergo the same frequency of periodic cataclysmic events, if at all. Other solar systems may not have to worry about the asteroid fields or Oort clouds. It could be that Earth is unique in that it is conducive to life, but also undergoes regular and periodic struggles. Other planets may evolve without any astronomical issues, but in doing so miss out of the struggles and experiences that people here have to endure.

 

[Joe]

According to Joe, Chan Thomas and Charles Hapgood are the same person, with the former being a Pseudonym of the latter:

It seems Chan Thomas was a real person, full name Chauncey Powers Thomas. It does seem though that he took a lot of his ideas from Hapgood (and others, like Velikovsky).

Also, while the document/book was classified by the CIA in 1966, it was likely because he was at that time, working for McDonald-Douglas on anti-gravity tech and "UFOs" and at Bell Labs on missile guidance systems, and it was quickly declassified with copies available around that time. Thomas released an updated version in 1973 and there was no suppression of it.

 

[Joe]

There's a pretty good video summary on this topic here.

 

[Jacques]

There's a pretty good video summary on this topic here.

Indeed it is a pretty good summary but after reading the book, I have to say, as a layman in astronomy, that one thing in particular struck me and it is the behaviour of people when the magnetic field environment is lowering. Knowing what is going on in the world right now, you have to wonder if he wasn't right.

So, herer are some quotes from the book :

After some consideration, I gave them my conclusion. I would commit that a lowering or lowered magnetic field environment could give its occupants a sense of impending doom. Certainly there would be a feeling that something out of control was destroying them, so why not get what they want irrespective of consequences? In the case of humans, those without empathy turn criminal first. In the case of animals, it is probably proper to assume that there is little or no empathy there to start with.

Those of us who are old enough to remember see everyday traffic violations that would have immediately drawn citations now ignored by the police. They are simply too busy. It has gotten so that detectives are so busy that they cannot investigate your case if you are a victim of an attempted murder; they are too busy investigating actual murders. If you are a victim of a hundred thousand or a four hundred thousand-dollar fraud they cannot be bothered with you; they are too busy investigating frauds in the billions of dollars. That includes Attorney Generals and staffs plus District Attorneys and staffs plus the SEC and Federal courts. The crime side includes confidence artists, top executives, bankers, Savings and Loan executives, management personnel, family men, thieves, burglars, addicts, those who sell to addicts, murderers, and almost any level of society, from notables to homeless.

Remember that, especially in the years preceding and following a cataclysm, those without empathy turn criminal first. If there is any doubt in your mind about that, just read the newspapers. Watch TV news. Watch TV crime documentary programs. Think it over. Then draw your own conclusions.

Deterioration of our government is achieved by the people in it approaching a cataclysm, bringing down their nation, just like the mice in the extremely low-density magnetic field environment experiment.

In the mice experiment, we see universal forcible rape around the clock and cannibalism as the ultimate signs of criminality during a low-density magnetic field environment.

In humans, we can see different refinements of that degree of criminality. Remember, those without empathy turn criminal first. Greed is the most common denominator contributing to criminal behavior. Rape and beating and murder follow closely. Behind all of the billions of the financial institutions' debacle is the greed of those causing the disaster.

Common to all criminal disaster is the criminals' mental state that they will get away with their crimes, that "No one will ever know". That is common to just about every criminal's mind. When those in power in the financial world are touched with this thought combined with their lack of empathy, they have entered into the world of crime. They might as well stand alongside the rapists, beaters, thieves and robbers, murderers, and be counted. They're all non-empathetic, leveling criminally with the lowering magnetic field density of our planet as it approaches the next cataclysm.

During my conferences with them in Philadelphia, they told me that there was something which was not released to the press, and was not generally known.

They hoped I could help them with reasons for these results, which disturbed them.

The first thing they told me was that the mice turned criminal in their low-density magnetic field environment.

"Criminal!?" I exclaimed. "How in the dickens do you tell when a mouse turns criminal?" I asked.

"Very simple," was the answer. "There are basic end-cruelties for almost all mammals; mice and humans are no exception.

Cannibalism is the ultimate cruelty, and they turned cannibalistic. Even though they had plenty of the same food as the mice in the normal magnetic field strength cylinders, they indulged in cannibalism as a preference. The mice in the normal cylinders treated each other normally - and ate only their normal food." He paused a moment.

"There's another thing which really confounds us," he continued. "These same mice who turned cannibalistic indulged in forcible rape literally around the clock. That and murder are the other end cruelties."

"Is it possible that you can tell the difference between rape and forcible rape in mice?” I asked. "It seems impossible to differentiate in mice."

"Oh yes," he said, "It happens all the time in the animal world. For instance, sea lions and sea elephants. They use forcible rape commonly. In these mice, almost every act of sexual intercourse in the low-density cylinders was forcible rape, whereas in the normal cylinders, we never saw it. Of course, we must assume it may have happened when we weren't looking."

But what we're interested in here is why they resorted to forcible rape just because of the environment of a low-density magnetic field. We were hoping you could give us at least a concept to go on."

I told him that my work did involve the study of legends concerning civilizations in the years leading to cataclysms, when the Earth's magnetic field was decreasing at an increasing rate as they approached the null zone; and in every instance it appeared that criminality - essentially man's inhumanity to man -appeared to become overwhelming. Even the Navajo Indians spoke of it in their legend of their approach to a cataclysm, but they called it adultery. It's quite possible that their definition of rape in any form, be it forcible or not, was included in the term "adultery".

 

[Voyageur]

Indeed it is a pretty good summary but after reading the book, I have to say, as a layman in astronomy, that one thing in particular struck me and it is the behaviour of people when the magnetic field environment is lowering.

I could only get the short version of the book so far, so did not catch what you quoted. That said, society - what might be left following cataclysmic events, would likely act that way.

Here is another assessment of the book, done in 2021. One thing noticed was that in the show notes it has a link to Hapgood's Earth Crust Displacement Theory (see vid), where Hapgood's beginning is briefly discussed and one sees that in WWII he worked for the OSS, yet left - maybe, before the CIA came into being.

wiki

During World War II, Hapgood was employed by the Office of the Coordinator of Information (COI, which became the Office of Strategic Services in 1942) and the Red Cross, and also served as a liaison officer between the White House and the Office of the Secretary of the War. After the war, Hapgood taught at Keystone College (1945–1947), Springfield College (1947–1952), Keene State College (1956–1966) and New England College (1966–1967), lecturing in world and American history, anthropology, economics, and the history of science.

Had read many of his books over time, and did not know where he had worked.

Back to Chan Thomas. Note, he spends time talking on the subject of the Mammoth's demise, which Pierre covered really well (osit - see link). Another thing, the video leans on talks with Randall Carlson, yet the nuance there is Carlson is looking at landscapes in terms of the Younger Dryas impact events (hypotheses) - rapid cooling and later period fast melting of sheets of ice that flooded landscapes.

Of Flash Frozen Mammoths and Cosmic Catastrophes

For years I've been fascinated by what could be considered as one of the greatest mysteries of our planet: the demise of the woolly mammoths. Try to imagine the barely imaginable: millions of giant mammoths inexplicably flash-frozen overnight....

www.sott.net

 

[axj]

One thing noticed was that in the show notes it has a link to Hapgood's Earth Crust Displacement Theory (see vid)

One thing about the Chan Thomas book that many miss (including the Why Files video) is that it presents a crustal displacement theory that does not contradict the pretty well established facts about the location of the crust relative to the magnetic field - which is what disproved Hapgood's theory.

The difference is that according to Chan Thomas, the crustal displacement went back and forth within a relatively short time, like a yoyo. This can explain why there is no record in the lava deposits of a different orientation of the crust relative to the magnetic field. And it explains how large scale tsunamis could inundate continents, which seems to fit the evidence (mammoths, etc.)

 

[Ruth]

From what I've tried to understand (and really didn't to any particular degree at all, until I read Pierre's book - "Cometary Encounters"), is that it's a complex situation. Not only are there two types of poles (geographic and magnetic), but both can shift. Do they shift together, or separately, and is there some sort of a trigger? If we're talking about science and physics, then it surely mustn't happen by magic.

It seems to me that it would take an enormous impact to knock a planet off it's axis. A situation like that may have happened early in the Earth's existence and has produced the tilt that makes the seasons possible. Probably (maybe?) nothing would have survived that type of collision. But since then, we've had the Younger Dryas mass extinction in conjunction with the, maybe not so mythical, fall of Atlantis.

At that time, mutiple cometary impacts followed by (in approximately 350 years?) a very close pass of Venus to Mars and Earth.

What really amazes me is that it seems we (humanity) can't even work out what happened in the past (or agree on it) and all of a sudden we have talk of another cataclysm happening. They obviously don't happen very often, but have devastating results when they do. Surely humanity should try to work out what happend in the past (and why) before we worry about any potential future event?

The 'powers that be' obviously had a reason for classifying this book in the first place, and redacting much of it when they did declassify it. Perhaps it's because it tells a tale of their complete inconsequence and impotency against the physical Universe or even just the Solar System?

 

[axj]

Not only are there two types of poles (geographic and magnetic), but both can shift.

It seems to me that it would take an enormous impact to knock a planet off it's axis.

An axial tilt is not the same as crustal displacement where the crust moves while the axial tilt remains the same. The C's have said that both an axial tilt and crustal displacement happened during the Younger Dryas cataclysm.

 

[Voyageur]

The 'powers that be' obviously had a reason for classifying this book in the first place, and redacting much of it when they did declassify it.

Could be more in line with what Jacques quoted, don't know why otherwise. It is curious, though, and like Velikovsky, where in one of his books he looks at all the ways academia, publishes et cetera, the depth to which they went out of their way to discredit him was pretty serious, yet unlike Chan, his publicized books were not outright tampered with and suppressed.

 

[Voyageur]

I could only get the short version of the book...

Ended up with the long version, and will have to compare what was missing and perhaps see why.

So, herer are some quotes from the book :

In the longer addition, caught up to where you had quoted from. Interesting, that he shifts away from the main narrative while taking up the pre and post cataclysmic events in a social context. One can see the pre cataclysmic behaviors in the now, almost as if he was writing in the now.

His private experimentations factor (he was in the aerospace field), which he realized were being replicated elsewhere. The main finding between the two experiments independent of each other, was that animals and people. (in this sense) developed hyper criminal intent to do bodily harm, and even resort (as you mentioned) to cannibalisms.

Thomas spends time looking at Bode's Law - where it fails and how it can be corrected, in terms of planets and cycle positions; what is there, what is not there (lost) et cetera. I'm no physicist,

As a specific subject to that of Pierre's earth changes book, Thomas spends time looking at the "magneto-hydrodynamics"(or magnetohydrodynamic waves) following the experiments of the Swedish physicist Hannes Alfven (mentioned in video). The words in Pierre's book are that of a Stator, while Thomas looks to Alfven's work with mercury experiments and electrical discharge (that will take another read):

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364682607001794

Without saying it, at least not yet, the cataclysmic undertone also reflects the 'As above so Below' state of affairs'.

It seems Chan Thomas was a real person, full name Chauncey Powers Thomas. It does seem though that he took a lot of his ideas from Hapgood (and others, like Velikovsky).

Thomas does bring up a number of scientists of different types (and their work by title) that he recommends. He does bring up Velikovsky and Hapgood, yet seemed to be more focused on others (one gets the feeling there is a lot of borrowing of ideas though).

As for who he is, their is a short biography placed in the last third of the book (the organization of the book contents is not traditional, like sections were placed to fill the voids - first impression only and that may change:

THE AUTHOR

Dr. Thomas attended Dartmouth College and Columbia University, graduating from the latter in Electrical Engineering.

As a result of his research and analysis since 1949, Dr. Thomas has become recognized as the world's leading authority in cataclysm.

His cross-correlation research in the fields of stratigraphy, vertebrate paleontology, radiology, oceanography, glaciology, seismology, earth magnetism, anthropology, and other related fields has demonstrated that the concepts as presented by DeLuc in 1779 and Cuvier in 1812 are definitely more acceptable within international scientific circles than they have been previously.

Dr. Thomas' definitive efforts in integrating the various earth sciences have distinguished him as the only American with such a specialized scientific forte.

He devoted twenty years in the writing of The Adam and Eve Story, which included seven years in re-translating Genesis I, II, and III. He is the only person to have formalized the science of cataclysm, achieved through his first cross-correlating known, accepted data toward proving or disproving whether cataclysms have happened, then deriving the process of cataclysms, followed by the time schedule of cataclysms, and fifteen years of research in finding their trigger.

He does dig into the cataclysmic turnings; 7,000 (Noah), 11,500 (Adam & Eve) - younger dryas range, 18,500 ("barely mentioned in Geneses II"), 29,000, and 49,000 - claiming "Mathematically, its function is that of a helicoid" (this last dates were looked at through the lens of Shanidar Cave in Iraq or mathematically).

For linguists, the language roots through the ages was discussed. He breaks down Greek roots to suggest there is a Polynesian connection. The Mayans factor, as do others.