by Len Kasten
BIZARRE PHENOMENA
Very strange, Dali-esque things occur within the field surrounding the craft. Time appears to move more slowly. In one case, a bullet fired by a hunter slowed down and simply dropped to the ground about fifty feet from the rifle. Watches lose time or stop. In some cases, calendar watches on the wrists of abductees show that days have passed, while the abductees appeared to have been gone for only minutes or hours. In one case in Chile in 1977, an abductee, who witnesses claim was gone for only fifteen minutes, returned with a five-day growth of beard! Then there are those strange spatial distortions. Many observers have claimed that the space inside the craft seems to be tremendously larger than the exterior suggests. This was reported by one of the army officers first on the scene at the Roswell crash, who peered into the crashed disc. The fact that a space warp occurs when time is warped seems to validate both Wells and Einstein in their contention that time and space are inseparable.
Davenport claims that this ability to alter time is used by the extraterrestrials to change the perception of missing time by the abductees. He says that there have been numerous cases where the abductee was actually held for up to two hours, but then was put through some sort of time machine so that it appeared that only five minutes or so had elapsed. This brings to mind several cases in the abduction literature where the abductee observed that family members in the household were frozen in midmotion while the abductee was taken out of the house. Evidently, the abductors had literally stopped time and were proceeding with the abduction in some other dimension between split seconds. From the vantage point of the frozen witness, nothing would have appeared amiss except that the abductee would have suddenly disappeared.
Albert Einstein at blackboard
VISITORS FROM THE FUTURE
The possibility of the reality of time travel has opened the door to another theory of the source of UFOs. If they can indeed travel through time, why is it necessary to postulate extraterrestrial origins? What we call extraterrestrials could be humans from Earth in the future. Most people would probably have a lot of difficulty believing that we could develop into little grey guys with huge craniums, immense eyes, and leathery skin. Their intelligence is far beyond ours, and they have paranormal powers that could definitely be considered superhuman. But we don’t really know what genetic mutations might be in store for the human race.
Davenport, in a chapter titled “Impossible Variety,” makes some very persuasive arguments in favor of the hypothesis that at least some of the alien visitors may be from Earth in the future. He cites several cases where normal-looking humans, possibly from the very near future, were reported to be working with the Greys on the spaceships, and some of the humans appeared to be in command or leadership roles. In fact, in some cases in the 1950s and ’60s, the aliens that were encountered seemed like ordinary U.S. military pilots.
In one case given by Davenport, from 1966 in Temple, Oklahoma, an electronics instructor came upon a wingless, engineless, silver UFO by the side of the road with a military number on it. What appeared to be a G.I. mechanic in fatigues and a baseball cap was inspecting something on the bottom of the craft with a flashlight! When he realized he was being watched, he jumped in the craft, and it took off vertically at high speed, making a noise like a “high-speed drill.” Some would claim that this was simply a test vehicle from Area 51. But Davenport argues that the great variety of aliens seen, all basically humanoid, all breathing our air, many using CIA-type devices and techniques, and most understanding or speaking our languages, suggests that they may be coming from different eras in the future. Many contactees have reported being asked what time it was by ufonauts. This suggests visitors from the future who may not have precise control over their time settings. If they were simply spacefarers, a more natural question would be, “Where am I?”
Anyone who is still unconvinced by Davenport’s theory should consider the words of the aliens themselves. In a chapter in the book titled “We Are Guinea Pigs,” Davenport cites the case of a Wisconsin attorney who was abducted in 1970 by ETs who asked him what type of time we use. They then told him that time doesn’t really exist and that they could “distort time as we know it by speeding it up, slowing it down, or stopping it.” They also told him that they traveled faster than the speed of light. A contactee from Rhodesia in 1974 told hypnotist Dr. Paul Oberick, “They can travel on time. Speed of light is too slow to cover billions of miles in seconds . . . They are time travelers, not space travelers.”
Davenport’s arguments are very convincing. While it does boggle the mind to imagine that past, present, and future are all happening simultaneously, that may only be because of our limited consciousness. Davenport agrees that our perception of time is created by our consciousness and may well be an illusion. Such anomalies as dreams, synchronicity, dêjà vu, and remote viewing all point to this probability. Someday when we are more spiritually aware, we may look back and wonder how we could ever have allowed ourselves to be so tyrannized by time.
PART FIVE
Past and Future: New Views
Now in 2010, the “ancient astronaut” hypothesis seems to have become an established concept, rapidly gaining mainstream acceptance. Thanks to the groundbreaking work of Erich von Däniken and Zecharia Sitchin, among other notable writers and researchers, it is becoming clear that high-tech visitors from distant stars have stopped here at our little planet at various times since prehistory. For most of the researchers on this subject, the largest and most obvious clues have been in Egypt. When, in the early 1990s, Robert Bauval discovered that the three pyramids at Giza, when viewed from the air, were aligned exactly as the three stars in the constellation of Orion, an unmistakable link was established between Orion and Giza. In my interview with Bauval, which is in chapter 23, “The Monuments of the Gods,” he ultimately conceded that this link probably meant that spacefarers from Orion built the pyramids and the Sphinx. He pushed the creation of the Sphinx back to 10,500 BCE, but he wasn’t willing to grant the same antiquity to the pyramids. In any case, the sudden and spectacular rise to prominence and dominance of classical Egypt now appears to have been the result of extraterrestrial influence.
From the very outset, there was something different about World War II. It really wasn’t just a case of “the usual suspects” (i.e., Germany and France) attacking each other. The entire world seemed to go to war simultaneously! Only a few small nations stayed out of it, and even they were drawn into supporting or opposing the combatants. There seemed to be an invisible hand orchestrating the worldwide eruption of hostilities. There was unprecedented coordination between Asian and European nations on one hand, and European, Asian, and North American nations on the other. Somehow, it just didn’t make sense for all these countries to be angry at each other at the same time. The war had all the earmarks of the existence of powerful “outside” influences.
Furthermore, World War II had all the characteristics of what little we know about Armageddon—the final battle between good and evil. The moral battle lines were clearly drawn. Terms like “crusade” and “defense of freedom” were commonly used. When, three days after D-Day, Private Robert Healey returned to the invasion beach, walking among the carnage, he encountered a soul-stirring sight. “Lying on the beach was a young soldier, his arms outstretched. Near one of his hands, as if he had been reading it, was a pocketbook (what today would be called a paperback). It was Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner. This expressed the spirit of our ordeal. Our hearts were young and gay because we thought we were immortal, we believed we were doing a great thing, and we really believed in the crusade which we hoped would liberate the world from the heel of Nazism.”*29
On October 23, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said in his annual Navy Day address, “In the place of the churches of our civilization there is to be set up an international Nazi church, a church which will be served by orators sent out by the Nazi government. And in the place of the Bible, the words of Mein
Kampf will be imposed and enforced as Holy Writ. And in the place of the cross of Christ will be put two symbols: the swastika and the naked sword.” Hitler’s occult mentor, Dietrich Eckart, identified Hitler as the Antichrist. There was cruelty and oppression on one side and compassion and liberation on the other. If any war could be said to be Armageddon, it would certainly have to be World War II.
In the two “Battlefield Earth” chapters, all the evidence for extraterrestrial involvement in World War II is presented. The reader will learn of Hitler’s awesome space-age weaponry, which could have easily turned the tide of war if it had lasted only a few months longer, and his battalions of fearless, cloned storm troopers. It was said that President Roosevelt met with Pleiadian envoys in the mid-Atlantic early in the war. If there was indeed alien assistance on both sides, then we are left with the inescapable conclusion that there are both good and evil civilizations in the universe and that both sides chose Earth in the mid-twentieth century to confront each other. It appears that the “great war in heaven” descended to Earth and that the devil was vanquished on the European battlefields and on the islands of the Pacific.
In “The Web of the Spider Woman,” the final chapter of the book, we seek to learn the future of our planet from the Hopi, the descendants of the Anasazi, an ancient civilization in the Southwest dating back ten thousand years, who, in turn, came here from the Lyran star system, according to the Hopi belief. The knowledge of their stellar origins has been passed down mouth to ear over that vast stretch of time, as have their prophecies for the end times. The Hopi prophecy for the near future is not pleasant. There will be pain as we transition from the Fourth World to the Fifth World. But for the survivors, who will first be drawn to the Hopi lands in northeastern Arizona, the prophecies foretell our return to our original home in the Pleiades. At the end, say the Hopi, we will leave our hard-fought Earth experience behind us and rejoin our brothers and sisters on our paradise planet among the stars.
23
The Monuments of the Gods
According to author and astronomer Robert Bauval, the answer to the ancient secret of Giza is in the stars. When he came to the realization, one starry night in the Arabian desert, that the three pyramids of Giza were arranged on the ground to replicate the arrangement of the three stars in Orion’s belt, ancient astronaut theorization was the farthest thing from his mind. “Je tiens l’affaire,” he shouted excitedly when he understood the connection, deliberately mimicking Jean-Francois Champollion’s exclamation when he had deciphered the Rosetta Stone in 1823. At the time of his discovery, Bauval was a construction engineer working in the Middle East. In his subsequent book The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids, coauthored with Adrian Gilbert, Bauval demonstrated convincingly that the ancient Egyptians were sophisticated astronomers and that their religious beliefs and practices were far more profound and esoteric than previously believed. His thesis that the entire area of lower Egypt was laid out in emulation of the heavens is revolutionary, giving new meaning to the famous dictum of Hermes/Thoth, “As above, so below.” Furthermore, he too, as had John Anthony West, Graham Hancock, and Edgar Cayce, pushed the frontiers of high Egyptian civilization way back to 10,500 BCE.
Bauval was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to European parents and has retained a fascination with his native country that eventually nagged him to find the real truth about ancient Egypt. Dissatisfaction with conventional Egyptology was evidently lurking in the back of his mind when, one day in 1979, at Heathrow Airport in London, he picked up a copy of Robert Temple’s book, The Sirius Mystery: New Scientific Evidence of Alien Contact 5,000 Years Ago, first published in 1976 but since revised and expanded. Temple showed that the African Dogon tribe had extremely ancient religious traditions centering on the Sirius star system. To Bauval, this suggested a connection with the ancient Egyptian traditions concerning Sirius as well as the Orion star system. Thus began an investigative odyssey that culminated in one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century. Many believe that before all of the ramifications of his breakthrough have played out, the stage will be set for a totally new understanding of our origins.
THE SPHINX IN THE SKY
I met Bauval in July at an Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE) conference in Virginia Beach subtitled “Atlantis Rising” (purely coincidental). He was the featured speaker. I asked about the debate over the dates 2500 BCE versus 10,500 BCE for the building of the Giza pyramids. He said, “There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that the pyramids of Giza were built, physically built, in 2500 BC. We can’t escape that. The area is carbon-dated. But the knowledge of building it was known long, long before. I think that what you’re looking at is a blueprint that finally took shape. And the blueprint originated in the period of 10,500 BC.” But consonant with the evidence cited by John Anthony West, Bauval believes that the Sphinx was indeed carved out in 10,500 BCE. However, while West arrived at this date geologically, Bauval used astronomy.
Astronomical correlations are at the very heart of Bauval’s discoveries and theories. As an amateur astronomer, he has delved deep into the connections, but many of them are obvious. In fact, it is nothing short of astounding that for over two hundred years now, Egyptologists have avoided the stellar implications of ancient Egyptian beliefs and architecture when it appears that the entire Egyptian religious apparatus was based on the constellations. In The Orion Mystery, Bauval blames this on the longtime domination of Egyptology by one man, American James Henry Breasted, who adopted a monotheistic solar explanation that threw the star theory into disrepute.
Astrologers have long known about the 25,600-year cycle commonly referred to as the precession of the equinoxes. Every 2,160 years, the vernal point, moving along the ecliptic, enters a new sign of the zodiac, going backward, because of the wobble of Earth. According to Manly Palmer Hall, the legendary metaphysical author and founder of the Philosophical Research Society, and others, each change of sign ushers in a new religio-philosophical dispensation. In The Orion Mystery, Bauval makes the bold claim that the ancient Egyptian astronomer-priests knew about precession as early as 10,500 BCE, which was the time that the constellation of Orion was at its lowest point on the meridian and therefore started its upward cycle. This would be incredible, if true, because it would mean they had carefully observed star movements, without telescopes, for thousands of years. The importance of Orion to the ancient Egyptians is, of course, well known. It is cited in the Pyramid Texts, the oldest extant religious writings on the planet, as being the home of Sahu, or Osiris, in the sky.
In our conversation, Bauval elaborated on this, pointing out how precession was used. “At 10,500 BC when the constellation of Orion is at the low point, it also happens to be crossing the meridian at the time of the vernal equinox. On that day, the vernal point would be due east. That immediately draws your attention to the Sphinx, because the Sphinx looks due east. And when you investigate the position of that vernal point at 10,500 BC you’ll find that it is exactly between Virgo and Leo. The constellation was performing its first heliacal rising. This means that the Age of Leo was just beginning. Now, this coincidence is a million to one. It’s luring us to consider that the image of the Sphinx is a symbol of the lion in the sky, Leo. The message is . . . look at the Age of Leo.”
The Age of Leo: circa 10,500 to 8000 BCE
So according to Bauval, the Sphinx was built to establish the advent of the Age of Leo as a marker in precessional time and to identify it for future ages as what the Pyramid Texts call the first time. Then, says Bauval, eight thousand years later, the pyramid builders gave us further evidence that the plan was first hatched at 10,500 BCE. The arrangement of the Giza pyramids with respect to the Nile doesn’t quite match the pattern in the stars and the Milky Way at 2,500 BCE. But if the star map is rotated about 30° to conform to the stellar pattern at 10,500 BCE, it matches perfectly. Bauval says, “My conclusion about Giza is that we’re certain that it is a collecti
ve marker of Leo. They’re both linked, but if you look at it in 2500 BC it doesn’t match. You’re looking at the wrong time. The time that it’s telling you to look at is 10,500 BC. Now, how you explain that it took shape at 2,500 BC is another matter. But it did.”
ROADMAP FOR A TIME JOURNEY
In The Orion Mystery, Bauval points out that the importance of the Pyramid Texts has been trivialized by Breasted and the Egyptology establishment, but properly understood, he says, they provide the key to the symbolic purpose of Giza. He says, “There is a link between the Pyramid Texts and the pyramids, i.e., what one is saying textually, the other is saying architecturally, and we’ve proved this beyond any doubt. We begin to understand that the Pyramid Texts are not mumbo-jumbo at all. The message tells us that we are dealing with a dual landscape, two horizons. That is why the Egyptologists have missed out in finding the Sphinx in the Pyramid Texts, because the texts speak of the Sphinx and the pyramids in cosmic terms. When they mention Orion, they mean the pyramids. When they mention Horakhty [Horus as god of the rising son], they mean the Sphinx. Once you understand this trick you can make the correlations from the cosmic to the terrestrial.”
