Robert Schoch: Forgotten civilization

[anartist]

This book, subtitled "The role of solar outbursts in our past and future" was published in 2012 and brings together many of the threads readers on and in the Forum will be familiar with! A list of the Appendices gives a flavour of the book. 1 was the great sphinx surrounded by a moat? 2 politics, money and science. 3 a note on the naming and dating of the last ice age. 4 moving the Moai:Easter Island and psychokinesis. 5 did a comet hit the earth at the beginning of the younger Dryas, circa 10,9000 B.C.?
In the Ancient wisdom chapter he covers the problem of radiocarbon dating, discrepancies in basic natural processes, Extremely Low Frequency, the problem of Time, influence of the future on the past, etc
He also looks at the archeology around the Great Sphinx, Easter Island, and Gobekli Tepe.
Chapters on The Carrington Event, Ice Ages, our Not-So-Eternal Sun, Cosmoclimatology(IPCC, scientific fraud, ideas that seem to lean towards the electric universe), Galactiv Superwaves, Ezekials vision, fire from the sky, ZepTepi/Tep Zepi, and more.
He references many of the ideas he presents, and the references are listed in the bilbiography.
Robert Schoch seems a bit all over the place, and it seems he is putting out ideas that fascinate him, but doesn't go into much detail about each one, with the exception of the archeological information with which he is very much familiar. Still it is a good introduction to various ideas making inroads on the prevailing scientific paradigms/orthodoxy flowing from his work on the Great Sphinx, and investigations of Easter Island and Gobekli Tepe.

 

[Mal7]

I am reading this at the moment. The book has many references to comets and to plasma events. One hypothesis made by Schoch's wife was that the glyphs of the Easter Island rongorongo script look similar to the petroglyphs that Peratt believed are a record of plasma discharges and configurations.

The short appendix on "Did a Comet Hit Earth at the Beginning of the Younger Dryas?" mentions some of the controversies about the work of Firestone and West, but ultimately Schoch comes out in favour of their hypothesis:

Ultimately, at this point I believe that, looking at all of the evidence, there is a very strong argument that catastrophic events of an extraterrestrial nature occurred at both the beginning (circa 10,900 BCE) and end (circa 9700 BCE) of the Younger Dryas. The evidence strongly suggests a major solar outburst and plasma event at 9700 BCE.

- page 299.

Schoch also mentions that their could be a correlation between solar activity and cometary activity:

It is also conceivable, in my opinion, that in some cases comet impacts on Earth and solar outbursts could be correlated, for instance, in a situation where "space debris" enters the solar system, some of which hits the Sun, resulting in solar destabilization and increased solar activity, and some of the debris also hits Earth directly as a comet or meteorite.

- page 300.

Schoch is most well known for his theory that the Sphinx probably dates to earlier than 5000 BC, based on his examination of the weathering due to water erosion. This weathering is from rainfall in periods when Egypt had a wetter climate, rather than from flooding or submergence. In this book, Schoch writes that he was conservative in his method of dating the age of the Sphinx, and it is possible that it, along with the Easter Island moai culture, are both as old as the recently discovered Gobekli Tepi, or circa 10,000 - 9,000 BCE. (The Easter Island moai are dated "conventionally" to about 1500 BCE, but Schoch thinks they, like the Sphinx, are probably much older, in this case due to the amount of material deposited around and half-burying them.)

Schoch is not averse to catastrophism, and thinks that solar activity may end our own cycle of culture as it ended cycles in the past:

It is imperative to acknowledge that out planet and all of life on it, including humanity, are much more intimately connected to, and affected by, the cosmos than most people realize. We do not live in isolation. Consequently, the coming changes could hit hard, impacting our way of life and threatening our very existence.

- page 254.

 

[Mal7]

Schoch's book has a chapter on the Carrington Event of 1859. Research suggests this was the largest Coronal Mass Ejection event in the last 450 years. It resulted in auroral displays being visible at unusually low (i.e. closer to the equator) latitudes. The telegraph systems went haywire, with telegraph stations burning down, some telegraph operators nearly being electrocuted, and people being able to send messages on the network even with the batteries disconnected. Schoch thinks a similar event today would have far greater consequences, causing transformers to blow up, complete failure of the power network, and possibly nuclear accidents due to the over 400 nuclear power stations, and the containment ponds where spent nuclear fuel rods are kept, that rely on electricity to keep these rods cool. The banking and financial system could also be brought down, with the loss of all electrical records that are not adequately shielded from radiation.

Schoch thinks a much larger Coronal Mass Ejection and Solar Proton Event may have caused the changes in climate circa 10,000 BC. It may have caused the unusual vitrification of rock walls, as found in some hill forts in the UK and Europe, or at sites where some have suggested the vitrification may have been caused by an atomic explosion. Surface radiation may have reached lethal levals for humans, with the only survivors being those living underground in tunnels.

There is also a chapter on how the local (in our solar system) solar event could have been caused by incoming galactic superwaves, as described by Paul La Violette.