I took this picture about five years ago. It was the only cloud in the whole sky and it blocked the sun out perfectly! I also thought the cloud looked like a heart so it gave the picture an extra meaning. I think this picture goes with my post for today the best since the post is actually something I blogged about five years ago as well on my photography/writing blog. The post is a short fictitious imagining of life in an ancient tribe suffering through a horrible drought and famine. It goes well with the subjects I have been researching lately and its a good break from my usual, I hope you enjoy it.
PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can see the whole tribe, it is rare indeed to have them all together but then again this was a rare event indeed.  I scanned the crowd and quickly located my family; they of course had a front row seat for the celebration as I was the main attraction.  The sun was out and burning as hot as ever in the midday sky, beating us with the intense heat that had been responsible for almost two full seasons of drought.  Our once flourishing tribe was withering away under the scorching heat. Hundreds had died including my Mother.  Thoughts of her and how badly she suffered as she slowly wasted away to nothing in front of my eyes made what I was doing easier for me to accept. I wanted no one to suffer like that again.  I spent the last few days of her life gently stroking her hair reassuring her that the Gods would come back soon enough.  They didn’t hear our prayers that season as the crop failed to grow and the hunters returned empty handed.  The herds had migrated farther and farther south in search of grass to live on, if they didn’t succumb to starvation first.  Food was so scarce that first winter that we were forced to eat our dogs, it wasn’t easy but Father reminded me that our people are a strong people and that this was the result of the Gods testing our faith in them.  Somehow we survived that second winter but our numbers had been decimated, whole families were lost.  If the rains didn’t come this season all would be lost. Many were already packing up and getting ready to follow the long gone herds or die trying to get to them. My Father pleaded with them to wait, our ancestors had settled this land hundreds of seasons ago and he intended to keep this our homeland for all of time.  This was a very troubling time for my Father as he and I both knew what would have to happen if the rains didn’t fall that spring.  I spent those long, cold hungry winter nights praying for the Gods to let our crops come this year, to stop the suffering of our people and to bring us back to their good graces.  There was too much at stake to wait too any longer, my Father and the Priests chose the Summer solstice to conduct the ritual, since we had gone another Spring with no rain. it was under the sweltering midday sun that they would conduct the ancient ritual that they hoped would save their people. A sacrifice would be made to the Gods. They could not ignore a sacrifice, especially the one my father and the Priests had in mind. They would sacrifice a virgin and not just any virgin, the princess herself, me.  Father made me aware of the plan a few months prior and although I was afraid of dying I was happy to be chosen to represent my people as the greatest gift that could be given to the Gods, besides it was my duty as the princess according to my father and the Head Priest.  To die for the Gods was a great gift indeed and after watching my Mother die horribly and with no purpose I was more than honored to be chosen as the vessel to reach the Gods.  So I stand on the head of the Serpent Mound surrounded by priests chanting and I see my family watching with looks of pride etched on their faces, yet my heart aches when I realize my Mother won’t see this wonderful day and that makes me able to go on so bravely.   My Father assists me to the stone slab that will be my last resting spot and before he gently lays me on it I smile to the assembled crowd and lie down.  The priests close in around me chanting louder and louder, waving smoking herbs while sprinkling blood, oil and water on me.  The priests frantic movements caused a breeze to send a wisp of my hair over my right eye, instinctively I went to brush it off and almost chuckled as I had forgotten my Father hand bound my hands and feet when I had laid down.  I had always been annoyed when this had happened and I suppose it was ironic that it was the last thing I thought of as my Father’s blade drove through my chest and punctured my heart.  I hope the rains fall………………………………………….

The First Great Awakening

Part 2, The Toba Eruption.

     The first 130,000 years of Sapiens existence was relatively benign for the most part. We as a species had settled into a survivable niche in the ecosystem of ancient Africa, especially in and around the great rift valley, which is in present day Ethiopia. With a firm grasp on hand held tools (pun intended) such as hand axes, knives, spears, and scrappers we were capable of butchering scavenged meat and keeping other hungry species away while we were. I cannot forget to mention the importance of fire. When our ancient ancestors figured out how to harness and recreate fire at will truly put us on a course for greatness as a species. It was fire and our ability to control it that set us up for stardom as a species. Fire allowed us to cook our food, cooking makes more foods edible year round and releases more nutrients and calories from both meat and vegetables. All these extra calories gave us extra energy which in turn made our brains 20 percent larger than our closest evolutionary cousins. It was our larger brains that allowed us to develop complicated languages and to think cooperatively. It is our ability to work cooperatively and to communicate that made us who we are as a species, but as usual I digress, we must go back to 74,000 years ago, I will post about fire, tools and food at a later date. As I was stating before I went off topic, Homo sapiens had settled into a nice little niche as scavengers and gatherers (hunting small game occasionally) in the African savannahs and the Rift valley until the first real extinction level event came crashing down on us.

  Seventy four thousand years ago a volcano in what is present day Sumatra erupted. It was one of the largest eruptions the Earth had ever known and it spewed ash miles into the atmosphere causing a volcanic winter that lasted between 6-10 years. The earth was already in the midst of another Ice Age and it is believed that some places dropped 20 degrees almost overnight. This ecological disaster caused a world wide catastrophe that nearly led us humans to extinction. At the height of the volcanic winter it is purported that there may have been as few as 40 “breeding pairs” of Homo Sapiens left in the world. Think about that for a minute, 40 breeding pairs means under a hundred sapiens left alive. Remember we weren’t the only HUMAN species alive back then as I stated in Chapter One, there were at least four other Homo species wandering the earth when Toba erupted; Neanderthal, Homo Erectus, Homo Florensis (hobbit man) and the Denisovans, all of them except for perhaps Erectus, who had been around for nearly 2 million years and was the first Human species to leave Africa, lived through the Toba explosion. Researchers, including myself, believe that Erectus, if they were still around then were probably killed out by the eruption since they mainly resided in Asia and would most likely have been in the “kill zone”. Sad that after 2 million years they were wiped out by a volcano, again that is a post for another time. So within a few years of the eruption there were less than a thousand of us left and the landscape we were used to was gone. Lakes, rivers and savannahs just disappeared. North Africa became a desert wasteland cutting us off from escaping the continent so the few surviving Sapiens did the only thing they could, they headed for the coast. Why Sapiens hadn’t really adapted a coastal life before is a slight mystery but most researchers believe that sapiens were content inland in the rift valley and had no need to expand their ecology at the time. “Necessity is the Mother of all invention”, I’m not sure who coined that first but it applies here for sure. Sapiens were pushed out of the mainland and onto the coasts do to the natural catastrophe that had reshaped the landscape and the climate they were used to. Ironically it is our time in the caves of the Western and Southern shores of Africa that gave us what truly makes us stand apart from any other species of animal on this planet, culture. It was on the coasts that the rag tag bunch of survivors found our spiritual and cultural roots. In the caves where our ancestors not only survived but thrived after a near extinction level event is where archaeologists first discovered things like red ochre (primitive paint that could only be used for decoration or artistic expression) seashell necklaces, flutes made from bird bones and the other artifacts that would come to signify our cultural and spiritual awakening.

The shorelines were teeming with resources; shellfish, seaweed, seals, birds and a plethora of fish species, it was heaven on Earth to these people who had just crawled out of a barren wasteland nearly extinct and completely lost. Researchers believe it was the abundant shellfish and fish that made our ancestors even smarter as these highly nutritious foods became a staple of our diets, urging our brains to expand even more. It is my personal belief that the food may have something to do with it but what I think really spurred on our first great leap forward was the mere fact that we as a species had just survived an extinction level event and found a home that was like no other, the Garden of Eden if you will. As we began to settle and thrive on the coasts our ancestors retold the tale of the eruption the climate change and the resulting migration to the sea and all the blessings that came with it as a sort of spiritual tale. Our first religious story if you will. The coastal caves our ancestors fled to became our first spiritual or sacred lands, we began to paint ourselves and adorn ourselves with jewelry as a way to signify our connection to the land that saved us and gave us new life. Had our brave ancestors not made that difficult journey across the inhospitable landscape to the coast 74,000 years or so ago we would have never survived and you and I wouldn’t be here right now.

In conclusion, it is my belief that the Toba eruption actually spurred our spiritual and cultural evolution forward by forcing our ancestors to flee to the coasts. It was in these caves that we gave thanks and praise to the spirits for keeping us alive and helping us to not overcome the worst catastrophe we as a species ever saw but to thrive after nearly becoming extinct. I should note that every Homo sapiens alive can trace their mitochondrial DNA (the maternal DNA) to one African woman, known as Mitochondrial Eve, to about 75,000 years ago. This means you really do owe one of those surviving few people your entire existence. In the next Chapter I will take a closer look at the actual life in and around those caves. I hope you enjoyed this installment and cannot wait for you to read the next post. Until then have a great day and as always………………PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

above image: various perforated shells found in a cave in South Africa that date back about 70,000 years ago.

29 May 2017

Matilda O’Donnell Macelroy interview with alien at Roswell

And it’s strikingly true words about humanity

     While doing research for a future blog I came across some interesting articles from the Roswell Incident (only the most famous UFO incident in the world, in case you live under a rock) that I had previously never seen. That in itself is a rarity as I have studied and researched everything there every was on this infamous case, well at least I thought. Grated I have been a little slack on Roswell in the last few years as I have been busy with many other projects but none the less I chided myself for being so lackadaisical (thank you Word) on one of my all time subjects. What I was noticing as I scanned all the new stuff about it was the fact that a lot of the people involved were giving death bed confessions in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. I suppose they figured that the Government couldn’t hurt them if they were already dead, so many of them either filmed or wrote confessions with instructions to read or play upon their death. There are quite a few out now and I assume as a good skeptic should that 80-90% of them are fake but that leaves ten to twenty percent that are real. As a researcher it is my job to sift through all of these new reports and try to figure which ones fit with the “official” story and which ones fit with other eye witnesses, etc. This is going to take an extraordinary amount of time and research but I am more than willing to accept this task. One of the more intriguing confessions I found comes from an Army Air Corp nurse, Matilda O’Donnell Macelroy, who claims to have interviewed one of the surviving aliens from the Roswell crash over a six week period. Again I should mention this is probably old news for die hard Roswellians but I had been slacking and this “new” information was fascinating to me. I Googled her and viola!, Article after article began to pop up, most of course were researchers and mainstream scientists and news journals debunking the whole thing but I did find a website or two that I trusted with some good information. I came across an entire book written by Lawrence R. Spencer entitled Alien Interview . Which consisted of all of Mrs. Macelroy’s notes, transcripts and a few interviews with her. I have just begun to peruse it to see if it jives with other stories or if it is just another hoax. Well so far from what I can see I find it hard to believe this woman could make the stuff up the alien tells her. I am still researching and I will continue to do so with a skeptical eye but I do believe a lot of her story does fit the narrative other death bed whistle blowers have given in the last decade or so. I wasn’t even going to blog today and I didn’t want to stray from my ancient ancestor posts but there was one part of the interview that instantly caught my eye and I wanted to share it with you all. I will give just a little background on the alien, the nurse and the interview. Again this is just a minor slice of what I will get into at a later date when I can truly dig into this tale but this was so profound (whether real or fake) that I wanted to share. Okay, long story short, the alien tells Matilda through telepathy the history of the galaxy, etc. The people of Earth are all beings called Immortal Spiritual Beings (IS-Bes) and that Earth was at one time ruled by the Old Empire-the alien people’s enemy and that they had turned Earth into a prison planet where criminals, perverts, revolutionaries and so called untouchables (the dredge of their society) were deposited to spend eternity. It’s interesting that the “untouchables” of the aliens enemies were artists, poets, musicians, and other creative types. Anyhow the alien goes on to say that the enemy had created a shock barrier that imprisoned any IS-BE from escaping Earth’s atmosphere after death so their spiritual entity would be wiped clean of its memories and placed into a new human body. The process has been repeating itself for over 10,000 years. The Aliens people have fought many battles dislodging the last of the enemy out of hiding and away from Earth, most of these battles took place around 1500 BC, which coincides nicely with the Indian Vamanas which speak of spacecraft dueling each other and nuclear blasts, again that is for another post. Well as of 1947, the aliens people still hadn’t been able to figure out how to destroy or take down the shock field that keeps all of the IS-Bes on Earth so everyone who still lives on Earth is still a prisoner, doomed here for all eternity, or until the alien’s people can figure out how to get us out. Well as I stated I am a long way from being able to present any real research on this subject yet because I have just jumped down the rabbit hole but I do want to leave you with these words the alien supposedly said (or telepathed) to the nurse.

The kind and creative inmates of Earth are continuously tortured by butchers and lunatics who are controlled by the "Old Empire" prison operators. The so-called "civilizations" of Earth, from the age of useless pyramids to the age of nuclear holocaust, have been a colossal waste of natural resources, a perverted use of intelligence, and an overt oppression of the spiritual essence of every single IS-BE on the planet.

Pretty striking words. How true they ring, whether they are real or were made up by an old nurse looking for attention they sure do ring true, at least to me.

Well have a wonderful Memorial Day and as always……………………PEACE!!!!!!!

The First Great Awakening 70,000 years ago

Note: I attempt to use sapien to describe us and not human as there were other human species alive during this time. Using sapien should cut down on the confusion.

     No topic has fascinated me or captured my attention more than this. I have been a history buff since I was four or five but when it comes to pre-historic man and the Ice age periods it is an obsession. There are so many unanswered questions about our ancient history and how or why our ancestors got on the path that would eventually lead to us. I have read well over twenty books on ancient Man and evolution, I may not have a degree in it but I am confident enough to share and argue my facts with anyone. You see since Homo Sapiens had no written record that far back and there are few fossil records because the population was about 10,000 most if not all of the research ever done has been pure speculation. No one really knows how or why our ancestors began to think the way we do but all the evidence shows that it started 150,000 years after we modern humans first hit the scene in the Great Rift valley of Africa.

     Africa had a vastly different landscape 200,000 years ago when Homo Sapiens first showed up in the fossil records. Much of it was lush savannahs with plenty of lakes and streams, which in turn meant plenty of flora and fauna. We were not the only humans on the planet at this time either. To the North in what is now Europe a band of hearty, low browed muscle men called Neanderthals had been roaming the frozen countryside for over 300,000 years, the offspring of Homo Erectus, the first human to leave Africa and venture into Europe and Asia, that was about one million years ago. Erectus stayed in Europe and Asia, living side by side both Neanderthal and the Denisovans (another sub species of Erectus). While these humans found a way to survive the colder climates of the north Modern man, Homo Sapiens, which means wise man, was just starting to make a mark in east Africa. When we first came into the picture we were scavengers and foragers who lived in small family units. We stayed that way for 100,000 years, content with the life styles of scavengers but then something happened.

     It was at this time around 100,000 years ago when the climate began to change, drastically, as it would periodically over the next 100,000 years as well. This first major climate change turned the Sahara desert into the wasteland it is today, within a few hundred years the entire Northern part of Africa was an impenetrable desert, trapping our ancestors in Mid and South Africa. I should note that right at the time of change or just before a small band of modern humans had crossed the Sahara or made it to the Arabian peninsula by getting across the Mandeb straight which would have been much easier to cross since the sea levels were so low, however they did it these adventurous Homo sapiens made it all the way to Israel about 110,000 years ago. Fossils found in a cave near Schul verifies their journey and their ancestry. While this particular band did not survive, they were the first sapiens to leave Africa. We shift back now to the African continent thirty thousand years later and we find that Homo Sapiens are but extinct. The climate change was rough but they had found ways to adapt like sapiens always do but just when we were settling into our new lives a massive volcano eruption near Lake Toba in present day Indonesia caused massive chaos within the ecosystem of the entire world. Sapien populations dropped from twenty or so thousand mating ages individuals to about 1,000 in just a few generations. We were on the brink of extinction with hardly any place to go since they were literally trapped in Africa, there solution not only saved our species but more than likely propelled us into becoming who we are today.

     With no reliable hunting, scavenging or foraging areas in the interior of the continent our ancestors did the only thing they could, they fled to the coast lines of western and southern Africa. What they found was a virtual buffet of food and plants. The coastline was the most abundant area for flora or fauna Sapiens had ever come across. It was here in caves dotted along the African coast that about 1,000 Homo sapiens began the greatest leap forward of any species in history and it is their experiences in these coastal caves, the technology and spiritual advances and their eventual travels into Europe that I am going concentrate on in the next couple of installments. This era of modern man is the era that defined us, that made us who we are and that proved we could not only survive but thrive in any environment thrown at us.

     From humble beginnings as foragers and scavengers to the most dominant species on Earth in just 200,000 years, with a few very close calls to becoming extinct, our ancestors were truly remarkable individuals and I am honored to follow in their footsteps as a researcher in order to try to unlock all of their mysteries. I hope you will continue this journey with me in the next couple of days, it is a story that stands the test of time. My next post will dig deeper into the everyday lives of the sapiens who survived Toba and then thrived on the ocean’s coast. We will learn how the high-energy food like shellfish and other seafood helped kick our brains into overdrive and how our coastal ancestry gave rise to our religious and cultural evolution.  I really hope you guys will stick around because this is my all time favorite topic to write about and I have done years of research on the topic! So until next time Thank you all for reading and as always…..PEACE!!!!!!