Antarctica – A Whole New World
What makes Antarctica a whole new world or as some would say “out of this world?” Recent discoveries converged with ancient folk lore have created this recipe of present intrigue for only those who have stumbled upon the information. We will take an historical, theoretical as well as witness a modern account into what may transform this cold and desolate continent into a whole new concept for humankind.
Old Meets New
From old maps to recent news, clues about the history of Antarctica is slowly being tied together. Information about the alleged, once-warm landscape, along with ancient artifacts and aliens, has been floating around cyberspace and periodicals. News of important visits from government officials, royals and astronauts have perplexed viewers. Post century, Nazi involvement connected with ancient mysticism is now being revisited. Ancient written accounts from Bible stories as well as fictional tales make some hypothesize about the great flood and the correlation of Atlantis being Antarctica. All of this creating a very interesting soup for the truth seeker.
Historic Maps
The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 from military intelligence by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer, Piri Reis. The map is a surviving fragment of a larger world map drawn on gazelle skin parchment and was found in Istanbul in 1929. A continuous shoreline along the north and east coast of South America suggesting the presence of the coasts of Antarctica, a continent unknown at that time, is depicted bending eastward sharply into the Atlantic Ocean.
The Oronteus Fineus map was drawn in 1532 and illustrates Antarctica ice-free. The map shows rivers, valleys, and mountain ranges as well as a detailed coastline before it was trapped under ice.
The same happens for other famous maps, such as the one drawn by French cartographer, Philippe Buache, dated 1739. Buache is said that he produced his maps using, “geographic knowledge, scholarly research, the journals of contemporary explorers and missionaries, and direct astronomical observation.”
The first discovery of Antarctica was not until 1818. The year 1853 was the first time anyone set foot on the desolate, icy continent.
According to Charles Hapgood, author of “Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings,” those maps contain a precise representation of Antarctica as it was before the last ice age. He suggested that Antarctica was warm at one time and the pole shifted about 11,600 years ago creating a flash flood into ice. Ancient astronaut theorist, Erich von Däniken, in his “Chariots of the Gods” book written in 1969, suggests a similar idea. The hypothesis is that maps were drawn by ancient civilizations and the view of the landmasses was seen from above by those in spaceships.
The Parallels of Ancient and Contemporary Writings
The Book of Enoch was written around the time of Genesis, with the texts found in Ethiopia as well as parts of translated versions discovered amongst the Dead Sea scrolls. Enoch describes hallucinatory visions of fallen angels, giants, epic heavenly battles, and more. He was the great-grandfather of Noah and was described as the seventh from Adam.
One of the books within is called “The Book of the Watchers.” The word, “Watchers,” translates to Sumerians. The Book of Enoch was supposed to be a warning regarding the Sumerians. Because of its controversial teachings, the Book of Enoch became discredited by the Jews and the powers of Rome.
Lithograph by William Blake. Image courtesy of NASSR.
This is a drama about good and evil. A tale is told that lustful fallen angels descended upon Earth and went on to have children with the ‘daughters of men’. The offspring became evil giants, with insatiable appetites that devoured all food from animals to eventually humans. God’s mighty Archangels appealed to the cries of man and were sent to “clean house” through a heavenly and earthly war. The destructive giants were then wiped away by a great flood sent by God.
But were they wiped away? According to lore, Watchers were not all destroyed but were separated throughout the world and continue to this day to haunt mankind. The book goes on to foretell a prophecy about the return of the evil and the proposed final judgment of the fallen Angels.
The Nephilim (translated as Giants or Titans) are the sons of the God formed by the union of “daughters of man” according to the Bible in Genesis 6:4. This is a very similar account as in the Book of Enoch but the book of Enoch is written with greater detail. Then there is the famous biblical tale about David and Goliath which describes a battle with Goliath, a Philistine giant. A mythical giant (called Rephaim in Hebrew) whose name was Og, was also mentioned in the Torah. Ancient writings depict giants throughout the world from the beginning of time.
Contemporary scholar, Zecharia Sitchin made connections between aliens, Sumerian gods called the Annunaki and giants in his 1976 book titled, “The 12th Planet” and the book, “There were Giants upon the Earth.” Through the many years of deciphering ancient Sumerian cuneiform clay tablets, he theorized that the Annunaki came to the Earth and formed a genetically engineered slave race for mining gold. Today, biblical scholars like, Michael S. Heiser, speculate about the accuracy of his credentials and his writings along with the legitimacy with his translations.
Gaia’s series Hidden Origins by Michael Tellinger shares fascinating details about the ancient gold mines of South Africa and the correlation to the Annunaki and a human slave race.
A Giant World
These giants, who have been mentioned in various texts and ancient lore for centuries, have left evidence through remains and ancient art that have been scattered across the world. The evidence through their large bodies and elongated skulls have been found throughout the world from Asia to Paracas in Peru.
The ancient Egyptian royalty such as Nefertiti and her husband, Akhenaten along with their children are usually depicted in artwork being of tall and thin stature with elongated skulls. Ancient alien theorists consider Akhenaten to be the last pharaoh that was a descendant of extraterrestrial origin. We also see traces of evidence with the giant, god-like monoliths left at Easter Island.
Later in this article, we will revisit the correlation between giants and make the connection to Antarctica.
Is There an Atlantean Connection?
Throughout thousands of years, Atlantis has been thought to be a parable opposed to being taken literally. History enthusiasts have been left with curiosity since the time of Greek philosopher, Plato, who wrote Timaeus, back in 360 BC. According to his writings, the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together.
With this being the case, any small Mediterranean or Caribbean island would not fit the description. It was said to be situated in front of the straits of the Pillars of Hercules. To summarize, Atlantis was a great empire having vast power and rule over much of the lands with military might and highly advanced technology. Due to violent earthquakes and floods, the island disappeared into the depths of the sea.
Then, there has been an associated and unimaginable tale of mixed beasts being what we would refer to as ‘engineered’ in this mysterious place called Atlantis. The Edgar Cayce readings had talked about Atlantis and some of the horrid that came to be through human cloning and the beasts created.
“Edgar Cayce’s Story of the Origin and Destiny of Man (1972),” written by author Lytle Robinson talked about the combining of man and beasts based on the Edgar Cayce readings:
“Overcoming the monstrosities, the mixtures and the animal influences was accomplished through rebirth, surgery and evolution towards a more divine purpose. The animal influences finally disappeared about 9000 B.C. Remnants of these creatures, with their appendages of wings, tails, feathers, claws, and hooves were later depicted accurately in Assyrian and Egyptian art. The sphinx is a notable example of one of the earlier monstrosities.”
So what does this have to do with Antarctica? Keep reading and connecting the dots.
The Nazi Connection
As written in an article by Massimo Polidoro back in 2013, Hitler allegedly had ordered an expedition to find the inside of the Earth and that it was located at the South Pole. Admiral Karl Doenitz told of this during the Nuremberg trial when he stated: “The German submarine fleet has even now established an earthly paradise, an impregnable fortress, for the Fuhrer, in whatever part of the world.” Although he did not specify where the exact location was, many believed it was Antarctica.
The theory is that the Nazis mapped out a region that included rivers and caves along with a large geothermal lake that they claimed under their rule. “New Berlin” and Base 211 were the names associated with this alleged Antarctica base with extraordinary rumors of Germans having access to ancient alien technology, spaceships, higher mathematics, inter-dimensional travel, and advanced physics.
From breakaway societies, the hunt for esoteric relics to reverse engineering, the Nazi’s have created a unique storm of intrigue and controversy. According to Gaia’s program, Deep Space, the Germans were keepers of secret technology which was locked away after they fled to Antarctica after World War II. The episode shares that the Nazis fled after the war and headed for an Antarctica base in what they called, “Neu-Schwabenland.”
It also goes on to tell the story about Operation High Jump, in 1947. This was led by U.S. Admiral Byrd, along with 4000 military troops to Antarctica. They encountered heavy resistance from “flying saucers” and had to call off the mission. Admiral Byrd conveyed his story to the South American newspapers but the U.S. government advised him to remain secret about the operation. In later accounts, he had also reported seeing a massive hole near the South Pole that was the entry to the “Inner Earth.”
Hollywood’s Take on Antarctica
The creation of movies with aliens emerging from ice has been produced since the time of black and white films. In 1951, “The Thing from Another World,” was one of those chilling tales. Then the 1982 adaptation of this movie became “The Thing,” which was set in frozen Antarctica starring Kurt Russell alongside a parasitic extraterrestrial life form. And who could forget about one of the most famous sci-fi movies ever produced about aliens and Antarctica, “Alien vs. Predator.” Curiously in this movie, its storyline involves not only unknown alien species but also a pyramid buried underground.
History Channel’s Ancient Aliens, aired “Pyramids of Antarctica,” on May 6th, 2016. It exposed photos of a potential 4 sided pyramid structure viewed from satellite along with other pyramid formations that can be perceived as mountains. Linda Moulton Howe also described on this episode, the testimony of a squadron pilot’s expedition that revealed a massive hole in the ice with an estimated entrance cave of over 200′ diameter. This whistleblower was the eye witness of multitudes of silver darting flying objects during a previous expedition.
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Are Crop Circles Real?
A design appears in a field. For some it is a sign, a message from beyond. To others it is yet another hoax. Either way, the phenomenon of crop circles is as mysterious as it is actual. There is no question that crop circles are real – unlike other strange phenomenon, when crop circles suddenly appear in a farmer’s field they are documented, walked into, flown over and studied.
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The real mystery is who is making them and for what reason?
What do they mean? Are they man-made? Are they messages from ETs? Or from Mother Earth herself? Or something even stranger? Is there an unknown science hidden with the circles, waiting to be discovered? Or are the hoaxes a psychological operations of some kind?
Circular Beginnings
“Crop Circles” is a name coined by Colin Andrews for the unusual geometric formations that have been discovered in various crops since the 1960’s, although there is some historic evidence via woodcuts and the like that dates them back to the 1600’s. Most researchers agree that the modern crop circle sensation began in 1966 with the Tully event in Australia, when a farmer named George Pedley heard a sound and saw a UFO rising from a swamp. He then found a circle of pressed reeds that was photographed and documented. Subsequently, other circles started to be discovered. Throughout the 1960’s and 70’s the formations consisted of mainly circles and rings.
Many theories abounded as to what was causing these “saucer nests”; natural meteorological events such as lightning or wind were put forward as possible causes, which seemed to be accepted by most people.
In 1991 all that changed with the appearance of the Barbury Castle formation. This formation contained not only straight lines, but appeared to most as being intelligently designed and containing some kind of message.
This particular formation was obviously not the result of weather: it divided people between those who thought a deeper mystery was presenting itself and those who maintained the simple designs were natural occurrences and the more complex designs must be man-made.
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This idea was reinforced when, in the same year, two men came forward, Doug Bowler and Dave Chorley, who claimed they had been making the circles for 13 years. They disclosed themselves as the creators of several formations that had been deemed “genuine” (unexplainable and/or not man-made) by Pat Delgado, one of the experts at the time. Using boards, ropes and a sighting device, they gave a demonstration to the press. This demonstration convinced some and was scoffed at others.
It was pointed out that circles had been starting to appear all over the world and in several locations on the same night, so the claim they had made all of them prior to 1987 was questioned. However most mainstream sources considered the “case closed” on crop circles, despite the occurrence of increasingly complex designs in the decades that followed.
Crop circles today are still routinely written off as hoaxes by the mainstream media and other scientific institutions such as the Smithsonian.
Going Around in Circles
Bowler and Chorley’s admission sparked a new wave of crop circle artists, or “Doug & Daves” and since 1991 the occurrences of crop circles has boomed all over the world. For some, creating crop circle designs became a form of “Land Art.” There were others who saw the crop circle phenomenon as a communication between humans and ETs; therefore started to create the designs as a way of answering back. Others simply like to create them as a joke or a hoax. However there is also a marked military interest in crop circles; many times military helicopters are seen overhead when a crop circle appears.
This has created a more conspiratorial point of view for some… has the military “cracked the code” and crop circles are being studied as an actual form of communication with an unknown source? Or perhaps they being created by the military as a psychological operations to monitor public reaction, or to test or measure advanced secret technology?
It began to become apparent to some that there was indeed some sort of technology involved that could not be explained.
Far from being trampled, as would be the effect from boards and ropes, some crop circles began to display an amazing flow and weaving of stalks that had been flattened within the circles. The plants were bent without haven been broken and were still alive and flowering. Despite this, the average man on the street still overwhelming believed that the crop circles were man-made.
As an average of 200 crop circles were and are occurring every year in over 60 countries, serious researchers began to find ways to assess if a crop circle was genuine or man-made by more stringent methods rather than by the complexity of the designs alone.
Enter the Doctor
As it turns out, in that same year of 1991, a biophysicist named Dr. William C. Levengood began to study the stalks found within crop circles and almost immediately found anomalies. Over the next 10 years, thousands of samples of stalks within and outside the crop circle formations were sent to his lab to be studied. What he discovered was a lengthening of the apical nodes (the first “node” of a plant stalk beneath the seed-head) which seemed to be the result of some kind of electromagnetic or microwave energy exposure.
This exposure caused the stalk to bend at various angles, sometimes as much as 90˚, depending on the degree, without killing the plant. This “expulsion of the node” sometimes affected only a single row of cells within the stalk, something that we do not currently have to technology to recreate.
Another discovery made almost by accident was that the seeds within the crop circle seemed to have been exposed to an “electron-ion impulse,” an effect subsequently repeated in the lab and dubbed MIR. Seeds exposed to electron-ion impulse caused the resulting plant to have increased growth-rate, increased yield and increased tolerance to environmental stresses. This effected all the seeds within the crop circle whether the stalk had been flattened or not, as some of the formations had “standing parts” at the center of the circles.
Around the same time, attempts to witness crop circles as they were being formed were attempted by various groups led by Colin Andrews, Pat Delgado and Terence Meaden. None succeeded, although each group came away with enough equivocal data to suggest a non-man-made phenomenon had been observed had been observed.
Colin Andrews, who was actually quite critical of Dr. Levengood’s work, concluded after decades of research that 20% of crop circle formations were indeed “genuine” (unexplainable and/or not man-made).
In 1992, an investigation dubbed “Project Agnus” led by Michael Chorost also found anomalies in the plants and soil of crops within crop circles, although they concluded that they had failed to find the “smoking gun.”7 Despite the inconclusive evidence it seems fairly clear that some crop circles contain features that can not be hoaxed and should alone provide a basis of physical proof that something else besides boards and is creating a certain percentage of crop circles. Why then, does the “hoax” verdict dominate the mainstream?
Social Circles
Perhaps because the initial crop circle that was found in Tully, Australia was discovered alongside a report of a UFO sighting, causing the first circles to be dubbed “saucer nests,” as well as other sightings of balls or light or light beings above or within the circles, UFOs and aliens have become linked with the crop circle phenomenon. After the famous Roswell UFO crash in 1947, “belief” in UFOs was deliberately ridiculed and became socially taboo; any professional who admitted their belief could damage or lose their career. This is still true today for many in the mainstream, although worldwide sightings, scientific discovery of thousands of earth-like planets and the sheer numbers of people who have had direct experience has skyrocketed, causing a slow but persistent shift in social acceptance.
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However it would seem that the connection of crop circles with UFOs and ETs provides enough “taboo” contamination for any actual scientific research to be taken seriously.
Much of the western world’s social stability is strictly secular and relies on the scientific method, with no room for the magical or mysterious.
In short, western culture relies on facts, or at least, facts that support the status quo. There is, of course, the fact that many crop circles are indeed man-made. Documentaries such as the one produced by the National Geographic Channel in 2009, “Crop Circles: Is it Real?” provide the skeptic with an abundance of assumptions that support the dismissal of crop circles as supernatural. For those who do not give the subject of UFOs a second thought and feel the “more intelligent” way to go is to assume the crop circle mystery has been solved, or at least can be explained by existing technology, there is ground to stand on, and those people are, in fact, in the majority. The psychology behind this cognitive dissonance is perhaps the subject of another article.
Meanwhile as researchers and enthusiasts continue their studies of crop circles, the ET connection is coming into question.
There is no doubt that something unexplainable is happening, but current research is showing an emergence of what can only be described as a “psi connection” between people and whatever force is at work.
Gary King, a crop circle tour guide and researcher, sites an example of a Mexican group interested in ancient Mexican history who visited the Wiltshire area, only to have a beautiful Mayan design appear the very next day, seemingly “just for them.” Researcher Lucy Pringle recalls a time in 2013 when Peter Knight, a expert on the “Long Barrow” (an ancient edifice in Wiltshire) was speaking at the WCCSG Conference in Marlborough. He had led a talk and meditation the night before and had “prayed for a crop circle.” Amazingly, the next day one appeared near the Long Barrow. Colin Andrews for his part is convinced that some sort of communication is taking place. They are far from alone.
Many other people, from curious visitors to other dedicated researchers, have reported similar experiences and impressions, causing a consciousness link to be considered as an integral part of crop circles phenomenon.
The issue, of course, is when creation and meaning are not actually scientifically provable and the arena of consciousness is introduced into the mix, it’s a bit of a game-over as far as reaching a unified understanding.
Like any kind of symbolic interpretation, crop circles mean different things to different people, although some have displayed mathematical language and computer code, which leave almost no room for speculation.
The famous 2008 Pi Crop Circle formation, the 2002 Chilbolton Crop Circle featuring an alien face and a disk containing ASCII code, and the 2001 Arecibo Message Crop Circle that seemed to be a direct response to the message sent by SETI from the Arecibo radio telescope in 1974, are but a few.
The Chilbolton Crop Circle features an alien face and ASCII code. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
Markings of an Agenda?
So at the end of the day, who is making the “genuine” or unexplainable crop circles, and what they mean, continues to be a mystery. The skeptics have their arguments on hand and ready, for example, “Why are there never any witnesses?,” “If they are trying to deliver a message why use such obscure symbolism?” “The science hasn’t’ been proven.” These are valid questions and concerns, however, there is evidence that a larger manipulation may be taking place.
According to researcher and best-selling author Freddie Silva, the origin of “Doug and Dave’s” pranks traced back to the British Military.
Other exposed hoaxers, such as Robert Irving and Jim Schnabel, admitted on a secretly recorded tape that many hoaxes and debunking efforts were being carried out by the American, British and Germany Secret Services, under a larger “super-national” organization, and that hoaxers often received large amounts of money for their services.
Farmers are not exempt, according to an ex-police sergeant whistleblower some are “paid off” to immediately mow crop circle formations.
And as documented in Episode 3 of Gaia’s Crop Circles: Embrace the Mystery crop circle enthusiasts sometimes encounter men in newly discovered formations that claim to be the creators, identifying the formation as a hoax in order to dis-empower it. Although, their claim as the “creators” may itself be a hoax.
The Enigma Continues
Ultimately the choice whether to believe crop circles are the work of over-enthusiastic graduate students, land artists or other jokesters, a communication from an unknown cosmic, spiritual or earthly source, or a military psy-ops of some kind, is up to the observer. Being confronted with scientific facts does not necessarily make people change their minds.
One thing is for sure, crop circles continue to emerge and engage the imaginations of many. It is up to each one of us whether to embrace the mystery or not.
