5500 Years From Home

5500 Years From Home

In addition to the 250 plus Lyrical Pieces that I have written and received Copyright Protection from the Library Of Congress - I have, also, written a Novel (copyrighted but not Published) entitled 5500 Years From Home. I am currently working on a 2nd Book entitled The Island that I am about 1/2 the way towards completion, at this date.

I have decided to, occasionally, post excerpts from 5500 Years From Home in this Blog space.

Today, we peruse the partial pre-page Forward. Enjoy !

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5500 YEARS FROM HOME

Forward

My love of the Time Travel theory began for me with the 1968 book, Chariots Of The Gods written by Erich von Däniken.

It’s centered on the hypothesis that many ancient civilizations' technologies and religion were given to them by Extraterrestrial Space Travelers who were welcomed as Gods.

The types of evidence he cites can be categorized as follows:

* Artifacts have been found which represent higher technological knowledge than is presumed to have existed at times when they were manufactured. von Däniken maintains that these artifacts were produced either by Extraterrestrial visitors or by humans who learned the necessary knowledge from them. Such artifacts include the Egyptian Pyramids, Stonehenge, the Head Statues of Easter Island and the Antikythera mechanism. Further examples include a medieval map known as the Piri Reis Map, allegedly showing the Earth as it is seen from space, and the Nazca lines in Peru, which he explains as landing strips for an airfield.

* In ancient art throughout the world themes can be observed which can be interpreted to illustrate Astronauts, air and space vehicles, non-human but intelligent creatures, and artifacts of high technology. von Däniken also points out details that are similar in art of unrelated cultures.

* Origins of religions as reaction to a contact of primitive humans with an alien race. The humans considered the technology of the aliens to be supernatural and the aliens themselves to be Gods. According to von Däniken, the oral and literal traditions of most religions contain references to visitors from 'stars' and vehicles traveling through air and space. These, he says, should be interpreted as literal descriptions which have changed during the passage of time and become more obscure, rather than symbolic or mythical fiction. One such is Ezekiel’s revelation in Old Testament, which he interprets as a detailed description of a landing spacecraft. As a real-life example, von Däniken uses the ‘cargo cults’ that formed during and after World War II when once-isolated tribes in the South Pacific mistook the advanced American and Japanese soldiers for Gods.

The two most controversial proposals were that Biblical characters were inspired by the Extraterrestrials, and humans acquired their superior intelligence by mating with them.

I liked everything von Däniken had to say .. EXCEPT my theory interjects Earthlings from the future in place of Extraterrestrial from other Planetary Worlds.

Our civilazation may mentally evolve over several thousand more years to the point where we can go back in time.

If that’s true, then our future peoples may be the ones that erected the Pyramids, etc. using tools and methods that are invented or discovered after we have evolved to a higher intelligence. That increased intelligence may increase our brain size and therefore our head’s size. I think that’s why images of Space Aliens is one of the large head.

I feel that it’s entirely possible that time is a circle as opposed to a straight line.

Regardless, this is my theory and for those that may say that I’m crazy – I say they are thinking in the present .. while I’m thinking in the future.

Can you imagine our civilazation in the 1800s or 1700s or even 1600s being told that some day we would be flying from city to cities or talking on cell phones or traveling to the Moon or using Satellites for the ultimate in communication. And the things that we can do with Personal Computers in 2008 would be unheard of in 1950s.

LARRY CURTIS SPURLOCK