Let´s be honest: nobody cares about viruses in Lake Tanganyika six million years ago. Or fish. Or whatever they have in that darn waterhole. No, what everyone wants to know is: did human evolution "kickstart" due to that supernova and its cosmic rays? And if so, CAN IT HAPPEN AGAIN???
Did a supernova kickstart evolution six miillion years ago?
Eh? Thomas Sheridan is really out on a limb here, which says a lot! Not sure what he is trying to accomplish, and somebody in the commentary section even wonders whether the whole thing is parody. An Erich von Däniken parody, to be more exact. Or was it Velikovsky? Or maybe both.
My man Sheridan believes that the Victorian era is far too short. It must have been much longer in real time, perhaps two centuries or more. There is no way so much progress and population growth could have happened within so short a time span. These musings *do* sound like the "arguments" true believers in ancient aliens use when dissing, say, the Egyptians: "Surely, they can´t have moved so many bricks in so short a time to build the pyramids". Sheridan´s fanboys concur and believe that the Victorians were simply restoring stuff from the Roman Empire (which in this scenario must have been super-advanced).
Sherdian also wonders whether the population of Britain really is 68 million. He believes it must be much smaller, while the fans in the commentary section rather hold that it´s much larger, perhaps 80 million, which makes more sense (think illegal immigration).
And yes, Sheridan´s camera is malfunctioning. Perhaps this peculiar episode of his never-ending out-put really should be seen as art...
Scientists have spotted a "black hole jet" that is 23 million light-years in length, erupting from a super-massive black hole God knows where. It´s been nicknamed Porphyrion, after a titan in Greek mythology.
A powerful argument for atheism and the pitiless indifference of the cosmos? Maybe. But interestingly enough, black hole jets may have been instrumental in spreading magnetism throughout the universe. And without magnetism, ultimately no life.
So perhaps a bizarre phenomenon like Porphyrion is really the cradle of our existence...
Fill in alternative scene speculations about pillars of light, axis mundi, plasma and the Shiva lingam here.
A Nibiru-level conspiracy theory? Or an attempt to reconcile the realities of climate change with climate change denialism?
This is a somewhat eclectic conspiracy theory "iceberg", or actually alternative knowledge "iceberg". I have grouped various controversial speculations in three groups: Most likely, In the middle and Least likely.
I have *not* arranged the individual items in each category from most to least likely, since I´m too tired right now. But sure, doing that could be interesting. Obviously, this is based on my subjective speculations and conjectures. Feel free to disagree! Also, the "iceberg" is obviously not exhaustive.
Most likely
Bigfoot
The Honshu wolf is still extant
The thylacine is still extant
The Ivory Billed Woodpecker is...guess what
Ball lightning
Earth lights
Portugal discovering the New World
Portugal discovering Australia
Phoenicians in Scandinavia
9/11 was an inside job
JFK wasn´t shot by Oswald
Hitler had part Jewish descent
Pearl Harbor was provoked by FDR (and I fucking like it)
Pygmies and Giants
Near Death Experiences (NDEs)
Ghosts
Near-global flood
Jesus Mythicism
Buddha Mythicism
Teleology in evolution
Rupert Sheldrake
Parapsychology
Peak oil/Limits to growth
Fascism
Gnosticism
Ukraine blew up Nordstream
The Dems were behind the BLM-Antifa riots
Lenin got German gold
Nemesis
Big Bang denialism
Theosophy
Joe Biden cognitive decline
Hunter Biden´s laptop
Wuhan lab leak
The Event
Brahman real and Thou Art That, Shvetaketu
Everything is suffering
Known civilizations older/more advanced than we think
Migrant crisis planned by certain elite groups
Both Karl XII and Gustav III were victims of vast conspiracies
Woke is a CIA psy-op
Woke is a Chinese psy-op
Election fraud is as American as apple pie
Midwits are a thing
People who want to abolish age of consent laws are usually paedophiles
Russia is winning the war in Ukraine
Fermi´s paradox has been solved, but people don´t want to hear the solution
Operation Stay Behind went rogue and killed Olof Palme
Actual Masonic conspiracies
George Soros is a bad boy
Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro´s love child
Richard B Spencer is a fed
Richard B Spencer actually is a Neo-Nazi carrying out deep entryism in the Democratic Party
Belief in UFOs is fostered by US intelligence agencies as a cover for military test flights
In the middle
Lost Civilization (Atlantis)
Lemuria
ETH
Fairies
Cryptozoology in general
Old Earth Creationism
Intelligent Design (as understood in the US)
Marxism
Anarcho-syndicalism
Christianity and main-line religions
Panspermia
Channeling
Most COVID-related alternative theories
Netanyahu had foreknowledge of 10/7
"Centuries of Darkness"
Afro-centrism
Climate change real, but not caused by humans
Climate change real, but Ice Age rather than warming
Juan Posadas
The Moon eats people
Magick
I AM Movement
Chemtrails
Astrology
Eugene McCarthy (the maverick scientist)
Trotskyist/Neo-Con connection
The Knights Templar are not what they seem to be
The hydrogen economy
Least likely
QAnon
Ancient Aliens (Däniken)
Reptoids (Icke)
Biblical literalism
Puranic literalism
Flat Earth
Hollow Earth
Apocalypticism
Charles Hapgood
Velikovsky
Trump collusion (2015-21)
Young Earth Creationism
Fusion power
Cold fusion
Libertarianism
Cornucopia
Mandela Effect
"Starseeds" and such
Lilac unicorns from Lakuma channeled by Diana Cooper
Aquatic Ape Theory
Mothman
UFO contactee cases
The Da Vinci Code
"Professor" Dave is a nice guy
AI will turn the Terminator franchise into reality
Name it and claim it
Taylor Swift is an op
The Singularity
Stargates
The Green transition
Nibiru and the Annunaki
Breakaway civilization
The Mud Flood and Great Tartary
Phantom time (most versions)
Kensington Rune Stone
Anthroposophy
Hare Krishna
Scientology
Babylonian Brotherhood or Illuminati behind everything
A race of land-lubbing intelligent cetaceans once created a highly advanced civilization in Siberia
The Moon is a UFO
The Moon landing was a hoax
The Face on Mars
Fox News alien autopsy video
Bob Lazar
Antarctica was Atlantis
Time travel
Jews are evil aliens controlled from the planet Pluto
Ashtar Command (the blogger) is more than one guy
Materialism
The recession is over
Formscapes talks for over one hour about what he calls "divergent science". Topics covered include Lamarckism, bio-electricity, the Electric Universe, the collapse of the bicameral mind, integrated information theory and archetypal astrology.
Formscapes defines himself as an evolutionary Neo-Platonist and is inspired by the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. The unifying theme of his "divergent science" content is that the cosmos is really teleological and in some sense "organismic".
While I kind of like this perspective, this doesn´t mean that the Cosmic Organism is God. It may simply be one of the Divine´s many limbs...or a fallen Demiurge who is frantically trying to find his redemption in an even higher state of being.
Judging by other videos, Formscapes is more into, say, Teilhard. Wherein humans are a central part of a teleological process culminating in the Omega Point. But what makes us think we´re so special or necessary? Or even that the Organism itself is?
But sure, Formscapes are pretty "far out", heh heh.
Formscapes blends Whitehead´s process philosophy with Jungianism and outright occultism, so it´s hardly surprising that a Skeptic (TM) like Dave would go bonkers watching it. Also, Formscapes have a positive attitude towards the Electric Universe, a hypothesis Dave positively hates, and this may have been what triggered the reaction in the first place.
For those who have nothing else to do on a snowy and chilly Swedish Wednesday evening...
The Why Files tackles the vexing question of the Electric Universe (Velikovsky version). As usual, the moderator first presents the case *for* the "theory", and then proceeds to debunk it. He also makes a pitch for freedom of inquiry and freedom of speech more generally at the end of the show. And yes, his muppet companion Hecklefish is crazier than usual!
I´m skeptical of Velikovskianism since it strikes me as a secularized mythology or, to be more blunt, a pseudo-religion. It´s an all-encompassing belief system which purports to explain everything (including the Bible) and hence re-enchant the world, a belief system proposed by one man who claimed extraordinary inspiration. In other words, a prophet. That´s not how science is done...or rather, that´s not how science *should* be done. It´s also worse than religion, for if God isn´t real, how did Velikovsky get his inspiration?
A universe filled with plasma might of course be real, but only real science can prove it, not the wild guessing of a Russian-Jewish psychoanalyst...
"Answers in Jenesis" is a humorously titled YouTube channel featuring Jen Fishburne, an otherwise unknown content-creator based in Texas.
She deconverted from Christianity two years ago, probably under the influence of Hyper-Preterism, a Christian "heresy" which argues that all Bible prophecies have already been fulfilled (including the Second Advent).
Rather than becoming a standard atheist, however, Fishburne has become a kind of extreme Velikovskian and neo-catastrophist. There are also some references to Graham Hancock. Not my cup of tea, frankly, but there you go! Her most extreme statement is the claim that the Earth was much smaller in the past, situated inside a relatively small universe. The expansion of the universe happened later, due to some kind of cosmic disaster...
I frankly wonder whether Fishburne has simply secularized certain Biblical notions? For instance, the lady still attacks evolutionary theory from a kind of crypto-creationist viewpoint, but since there is no god, presumably the mechanism behind the origin of species is nevertheless wholly natural (perhaps some kind of Lamarckian macro-mutations).
I found this channel when looking for info on Preterism, btw.
Some hard core historical revisionism concerning Islam...on a Christian channel. Which makes it problematic. Note that the Christian apologists don´t mind using a *heavy* dosage of the historical-critical method when discussing Islam, but what if an atheist (or even a Jew!) would apply the same technique to their own religion?
I think all (or most, or many) religions started with genuine spiritual experiences and/or paranormal events, but then each got their own little "Mecca"...and here we are.
And can do no other?
Below I
link to three articles written by a French chronological revisionist, who
unfortunately also seems to be a historical revisionist (think Holocaust
denial). Still, his contributions are interesting and to a large extent based on
the alternative history views of Gunnar Heinsohn, a recently deceased sociology
professor in Germany. The author, Laurent Guyénot, actually complains in another
article that Heinsohn was pro-NATO and pro-Israel!
There are
several versions of the so-called “phantom time hypothesis”, according to which
a large portion of the Middle Ages (and perhaps even Antiquity) never actually happened.
I have previously commented on German chronological revisionist Heribert
Illig´s speculations, defended in English by Emmet Scott in “A Guide to the
Phantom Dark Ages”. Heinsohn´s version is somewhat different. In contrast to
Illig, who posited a vast medieval conspiracy to invent three centuries of fake
history, Heinsohn apparently took the more sensible position (relatively
speaking) that the whole thing is a misunderstanding of sorts. Around the year 1000,
European civilization was almost destroyed by a comet impact that led to
widespread famines and pestilence. The survivors had only garbled memories of
what had transpired before. Still, at least in Guyénot´s exegesis of Heinsohn,
elements of a conspiracy still exist, for instance the Catholic Church rewriting
both its own history and that of the Byzantine Empire (which the Catholics opposed)
and various Renaissance humanists forging the ancient Roman manuscripts they
supposedly “discovered”. Guyénot seems very pro-Byzantine and pro-Greek in his
orientation, while somewhat curiously not sounding pro-Christian. The website that
publishes his contributions, the Unz Review, also publishes pro-Russian content.
On one
point, Heinsohn is more extreme than Illig. Heinsohn believes that the phantom
centuries span a period of 700 years, not just 300! Thus, the Church Father
Cyprian (3rd century) really lived during the 10th
century (a plague that badly affected Rome is named after Cyprian). Jesus was
crucified during the 8th century. An original take is that Heinsohn
believed that the original Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire and the “Early
Middle Ages” existed simultaneously. Augustus and Diocletian were contemporaries,
and Charlemagne was a Roman vassal. The Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain at the
same time as the Romans, both of them fighting the Celts. Arab civilization was
never primitive during the period in question, so presumably Islam was the
religion of an advanced high culture from the beginning. Heinsohn claims that
there is archeological evidence for this, or rather that there is a noticeable lack
of archeological evidence for a 700-year period…
I find all
this difficult to believe, but some of the arguments are interesting in their
own right (for instance about the Greek and Latin languages). It´s also fun to
speculate what this means for Scandinavian history. Presumably, the Vikings and
the Heruli are the same people, and the Old Uppsala mounds really are Viking. The
famous settlement of Birka was abandoned due to the comet impact. That Theoderic
the Great and Attila are prominently mentioned in much later Norse sagas may be
because the sagas were written shortly after their time.
Make of
this material what you wish!
A form of "chronological revisionism" á la Velikovsky. Probably wrong, but it does raise some interesting questions about Rome and Byzantium.
The Romans did seem to have been strange, with an obsession with all things Oriental, from Greek mythology to Semitic and Egyptian deities. And, ahem, Christianity. Ex Oriente lux? Note also the curious origin story of Virgil...
Were the Romans renegade Etruscans, I wonder? And where did *does* guys come from?
Please disregard the French author´s pro-Nazi comments in the introduction. Note that the object of his admiration, chronological revisionist Gunnar Heinsohn, was a pro-Israeli German!
Intressant sammanfattning om skillnaderna mellan "plasma universe" och "electric universe". På svenska. Och nej, "plasma universe" verkar inte vara skit... 😉
Diverse reflektioner om den velikovskianska pseudo(?)vetenskapliga teorin "Electric Universe" och näraliggande frågor. Från en grannblogg. (Läs även trådarna.)
Anthony Peratt kapitulerar för "Electric Universe"
Electric universe, plasmakosmologi, Velikovsky och Hannes Alfvén
"The Cosmic Secret" is a two-hour presentation (or "film") made by David Wilcock and Corey Good, who both belong to the channeling-New Age-UFO milieu. Unless I´m mistaken, Good is the channel, while Wilcock is the theoretician, although he also claims to have met extraterrestrial intelligences. The borderline between contactee and abductee isn´t entirely clear in this case. Both men are inspired by the Law of One, a neo-Theosophical channeled message hailing from a Venusian named Ra. Good claims that the Ra collective visited him in the form of the so-called Blue Avians, bird-humanoid aliens with blue feather covering. Wilcock in particular is controversial, due to his conspiracy theories and pro-Trumpista orientation.
The material in "The Cosmic Secret" is highly eclectic and frankly a bit confusing. It´s a kind of stream-of-consciousness smorgasbord of alternative ideas mined from a wide variety of sources: Zitchin, Hancock, Cremo and something akin to Velikovsky. We´re talking really hard catastrophism, complete with UFOs and alien civilizations landing on Earth, living inside the Moon, etc. Instead of Nibiru, we get two primordial planets, Maldek and Tiamat, which both exploded in an ancient cosmic cataclysm. Conspiracy theories featured include the Mandela effect, the secret space program, and alien abductions. One of the interviewees say that the "Chabad" (i.e. Hassidic Jews) are part of the Illuminati conspiracy, being "a Khazar cult". Ooops.
There is also a somewhat unexpected Christian aspect to this material, although a "heretical" one. Wilcock is clearly fascinated by the apocalyptic aspect of Christianity. I suppose there is a similarity of sorts between the Rapture and the Ascension (the new agey concept of that name), but in Wilcock´s case, it goes beyond this to the apocalypse as such. Interestingly, Wilcock identifies the apocalypse with a major solar flash or solar flare, destroying most life on Earth, and claims that this pivotal cosmic event is predicted by many different religious traditions.
The last ten minutes or so of "The Cosmic Secret" are the most surprising, since all the interviewees suddenly start talking about love, forgiveness, the unity of the human race, and similar New Age concepts. The contrast to the more "hard" conspiracist-alien abduction ideas is glaring (I wonder what Trump or QAnon would think of this!).
I can´t say I particularly *liked* this production, but it shows that - surprisingly enough, at least to yours truly - the contactee and "shift of consciousness" milieux are still going strong, eight years after the 2012 fiasco. I´m not sure what to think of that, really, but there you go...
