Petroglyphs, myths, and rituals
around the world are composed of the
same motifs: the ladder to heaven,
the great star, and the
thunderbolt—to name only three. The
motifs are linked within each
ancient society’s oeuvre and
therefore are implicitly defined:
the thunderbolt springs from the eye
of the hero as he descends the
ladder from heaven. Furthermore, the
linkages are the same around the
world.
This is not a new insight. Many
mythologists have remarked on the
one story told around the world. The
difficulty lies in explaining that
pattern of recurrence. There would
seem to be only three possibilities.
One Story: Some physical event
with a global occurrence inspired
the anthropomorphic narrative. If
the story were about sunrises and
thunderstorms, there would be no
difficulty. However, the story is
about planetary gods hurling hammers
and fiery wheels from a celestial
column that is fixed along the axis
of heaven. If those planetary gods
are the same planets that we see
today, the story violates the Law of
Gravity and is impossible.
One Storyteller: This was the
first story told by the handful of
first humans as they huddled around
the first campfire in Africa. Their
descendants took it with them as
they spread around the world. They
changed the names of the characters
as they invented different
languages, but they kept the motifs
and plots and even the specific
details of the images and
interrelationships.
Thus, a primitive tribe in the
Amazon today tells of the same
ladder to heaven as the ancient
Babylonians told of because their
ancestors carried it unchanged
across the Bering land bridge during
the Ice Age. This explanation trades
impossibility for incredibility.
One Storytelling: The human brain
is hardwired to generate this myth
in all its details. Then why did it
generate those myths and glyphs only
during the Age of Mythmaking, not
before, not now? Today’s comparable
creation myth, the Big Bang, retains
the explosive initial event but puts
it far in the past beyond human
witnessing and devotes most of the
narrative to slowly changing
uniformity.
For ancient people as for modern,
their myths are the explanatory
foundation for their world and their
behavior in it. How can people today
be so smart if their ancestors were
so stupid? How could the ancestors
have survived? Why would not natural
selection “deselect” them? This
explanation suffers from the same
problem as the first: If the world
then was the same as now, the story
is impossible.
The key is the conditional: if.
Already the world today is not the
same as it was just a few years ago.
The growing awareness of plasma
behavior in the laboratory and in
space correlates with ancient art
and artifacts, and it undermines
Presently Accepted Theories with
their P.A.T. answers.
The technologically enhanced
vision of space telescopes and
trans-optical detectors “see” polar
configurations and thunderbolts
throughout space. Herbig-Haro stars
and active galaxies sport rope- and
snakelike columns of plasma along
their spin axes, often with bright
knots of plasma entwined along them.
In an Electric Universe, these
structures are the “wiring
harnesses” that power the star or
galaxy below them pushed into
visibility by a surge in the
current.
Gravity cannot explain such
structures. Astronomers have
invented all manner of ad hoc
excuses, magnetic artifices, and
arbitrary mathematics to justify
ignoring the plain sense of the
observations. Similarly,
mythologists have ignored the plain
sense of myths and petroglyphs. The
result has been the denial of a past
that imbues the present.
An electric view of the world
unifies past and present. It
explains why our ancestors were not
crazy and why modern humans act
crazy. It explains why thunderbolts
of the gods are matched with
thunderbolts of the galaxies.
Gravity whimpers into oblivion;
electricity floods the universe of
explanation with the flip of a
cognitive switch.
Dare to flip the switch: the
universe will never again look the
same.
Mel Acheson
A video documentary that could
change everything you thought you
knew about ancient times and
symbols. In this second episode of
Symbols of an Alien Sky, David
Talbott takes the viewer on an
odyssey across the surface of Mars.
Exploring feature after feature of
the planet, he finds that only
electric arcs could produce the
observed patterns. The high
resolution images reveal massive
channels and gouges, great mounds,
and crater chains, none finding an
explanation in traditional geology,
but all matching the scars from
electric discharge experiments in
the laboratory. (Approximately 85
minutes)