Prologue
Time is a manmade concept. But from the beginning of time, man has attempted to speed it up, slow it down, go through it, divide it, add to and subtract from it, and generally manipulate it in a myriad of creative and scientific ways.
For more than thirty millennia time has manipulated man. And those who looked up, down, and around, have been fortunate to discover a fraction of this elemental mystery.
Where we are today in the 21st century, is essentially where we’ve already been. Technology, wars, politics, expansion, and ideologies we experience now are not new. They have only been conveniently repackaged for our benefit. All that we know today, man has already known.
Simply put – if you want to understand today, look into the past. “History repeats itself.” To prevent making cataclysmic or life-altering mistakes, look into the past, because someone has already made them for you! Learn from their sorrows.
All we need to function and expand, we already know. The trick is first, to know where to find “it,” and second, to know how to creatively use “it.”
Let us first address, knowing where to find “it.” What is, “it,” exactly?
“It” is time. “It” is the ages. “It” is lessons learned, which should never be repeated, as well as, lessons lost, which could have prevented years of suffering.
Time. We complain we don’t have enough of it. Or, that we have too much of it. Or, that somewhere, we’ve lost it!
No, my friend. To find “it,” you only need to look at history and those who had the luxury to study “it.”
Plato, Archimedes, Copernicus, Aristotle, and Galileo are just a few who studied “it.” Empires have risen and fallen, due to the misuse of “it”. Generals and chiefs have conquered “it” and have died because of “it.”
Wars have been, and are still, fought over “it.” Wars fought in the Middle East now are reflections of thousands of years. They have just been packaged differently for us, today. The argument is the same. Only the characters have 21st century bodies and faces. Otherwise, they are reminiscent of past leaders, theorists, fanatics, lunatics, evolutionists, and reactionaries; Genghis Khan, Hannibal, Nero…
Moses parted the seas. Did he? Or did he have technology aiding him that just failed to be recorded? Armies today use cardboard and crystal shard, disposable bridges. Are we so sure, Moses and the ancients did not have similar technology beyond the rod and staff?
David slew Goliath with a pebble. Valiant, indeed! But what contraption did he use? Ah, yes…the sling. Correct? Was it just a tool of worn leather? That’s what we’ve been told, but do we know that for sure? How can we be so egotistical to believe that there was not greater technology than the wheel and fire then? We have effective, low impact weapons today that operate on the slingshot principle. They are no more complex than David’s weapon, and they only require average skill.
And what of Alexander’s acute vision? One of the greatest military strategists of the times looked into a bright light, which blackened his eye. As a result, his one eye was blue and the other was black. The black eye afforded him telescopic vision. He could see the eagle carry caught prey up to lofty mountain nests. Many lay claim to inventing superior magnification processes and enhanced high-powered scopes. But who’s credited with initial insight to use the eye’s lens for magnification?
Healing potions and modern medicine. Do you credit Gothic alchemists? What about mindreading, ESP, and psychology? Do you instantly shout out, ‘Freud’, ‘Jung’, or ‘Casey’? Ancient alchemists bonded protoscience and philosophical principles. They combined metallurgy, chemistry, astrology, spiritualism, and medicine. The arts were practiced in Mesopotamia, Islamic Caliphates, Babylonia and Persia, Alexandria, China, and India; in the jungles of the Amazon and on the plateaus of the Andes. We still use many of the same techniques today. Why? Because they have withstood the test of time.
Who showed the ancients how to mix, interpret, and heal? What prompted instinct and clairvoyance to become fashionable in Freud’s, Jung’s, Casey’s, and Adolf Hitler’s days, or when Nostradamus had to conceal his writings, and Rasputin was feared, literally, to death?
Politics and politicians, leaders and supporters, human strengths, pitfalls, and addictions, have evolved into the 21st century world. But time has only recycled the basic principles.
So, who, or how, did we acquire the basic principles, and developed mechanisms, in the first place? How did the ancients know?
There are approximately 30,000 years of history, which have continually been recycled. Men, such as Einstein, tampered freely with the concept of time. Others have pursued time travel, time machines, wormholes, and parallel universes. Governments have harbored scientists and researchers on the subject. Hollywood has produced countless movies using it as the theme.
But where did “it” come from and who or what regulates “it?”
Extraterrestrial research purports that time is not manmade. Rather, “it” was given to man, to do with what he would. That is, until “governments” captured and devised means to control “it.” Lacking a better explanation, and given political history and wars that have been fought over “it,” the extraterrestrial bestowment theory is a possible consideration.
Why else would our ancestors so intently focus on the sky and map the stars? How did the Romans and Greeks have such sophisticated technology more than 2,000 years ago, which, only now, modern engineers have finally “reinvented,” and embellished to suit our time? The architect of the pyramids has not been revealed. And, every continent has pyramids.
Why are we still fighting wars? Politics aside, wars are part of the time cycle. Each generation for thousands of years has experienced several wars in their lifetime.
What’s all the fighting about? Land? Natural resources? Dominance? Ideology? Why have certain governments banded together, while others remain detached? Why did the West invade Iraq? Saddam? Are you sure? Oil? Have you seen any increase in supply or decrease at the gas pump? Human rights? Have you seen any less suffering?
Why was the first structure to be secured during the initial Iraq invasion, the Museum of Baghdad? And what does the U.S. government keep, twenty-seven stories down below the desert at Nellis Air Force Base and Groom Lake…a.k.a. Area 51…that presidents refuse to declassify?
Sam Rutherford knows. Students in Hamburg know too. The Cartagena to Malaysia heroin-for-weapons connection knows, but won’t tell their nemeses, the CIA, Interpol, or western governments.
The story of empires does not begin, but rather, picks up in, Las Vegas, Nevada. Before time can cycle through the anticipated Mayan calendar date of December 21, 2012, the race is on to find the 30,000-year old lost artifacts, amid wars, politics, addictions, extremist groups, and history.
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones” – Albert Einstein.
