Spirituality Guide

By: Seeker
Each year, as Earth travels its almost eternal circle round the Sun, there are some events that proceed like clockwork. There are a couple of annual meteor showers that happen regularly, causing streaks of light to cross our night sky and drawing wonderment from those looking up.

If the Earth is precessing in orbit, which pretty much means it isn’t in exactly the same place on a given date of the year, then the meteor events should be changing their dates, slowly but steadily across the years – and they aren’t.

There’s a longer term confirmation of this as well. Earth and Venus both travel around the Sun, and orbital mechanics says that Venus must travel faster than Earth. Those same orbital mechanics say that every 105.5 years or every 121.5 years, Venus will pass between the earth and the Sun. This can only happen in early June or early December and the transits occur in pairs eight years apart.

The issue here is that if earth were really moving backwards in orbit each year as current Precession theory assumes, we could not have regular transits at all – the transit is partly due to the different speeds at which Earth and Venus travel and partly to do with just where the orbit of Venus ‘crosses’ the plane of Earth’s orbit. Move earth even slightly away from the June or December point in space & the ‘crossing’ will not occur when Earth is there to see it.

So it seems that Precession cannot be as we think it to be. If it isn’t a wobble due to external planetary or mass influences from the rest of the Solar System, what causes it? And why is it changing?

By: Seeker
There are a couple of things that don’t quite fit with the Precession theory. One is the accuracy and how we’ve been adjusting the theory of why it happens.

Currently the idea is that Precession occurs because the Earth wobbles as it orbits, like a spinning top wobbles as it spins. Newton thought this was because of the gravitational effects from the Sun and Moon. Earth travels around the Sun with a ‘counterweight’ swinging around it. This causes effects in the Earth orbit as the Moon pulls on the Earth just as Earth pulls on the Moon.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t account for all the effects we observe, so over the recent centuries since Newton, various people have added in extra effects caused, including the other planets and even larger asteroids. And still the calculations don’t quite work out.

Another problem is that the apparent length of the time for 1º of Precession is changing. This is rather hard to account for as the Solar System seems a fairly settled place – it’s not like there’s mass being added to change the balances. And we measure fairly carefully so it isn’t that the orbit of Earth around sun is changing, nor the days getting shorter or longer.

There’s also a problem that it seems, until Cruttenden and his team saw it, nobody else had thought about. If Precession is simply the Earth changing its precise place in orbit for a given time each year, (the vernal equinox is where it is traditionally measured) then events based on fixed orbital location relative to the sun should also be changing dates – and they don’t.

By: Seeker
Walter Cruttenden has a theory. He has devoted considerable time and effort into trying to disprove his theory. Instead the group he founded has been moving steadily in the direction of firmer ground, finding more corroboration of the theory and nailing down the details.

This is how Science is meant to work, but there are groups around who have corrupted the process and so many now don’t have the respect for Science that it (mostly) deserves.
An example of how NOT to do Science is to have an hypothesis, look around for data, discard all the data that contradicts the hypothesis, modify measurements that may falsify your hypothesis, then perform inappropriate analysis and use incorrect statistical methods to ‘prove’ your original claim. Add to that the suppression of any and all opinions and research that might count against the original claim, indulge in extensive propaganda to promote the idea and use standard propaganda techniques to convince the people who don’t know the Science of it all of how right you are about it.

In other words, be the IPCC (Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change) trying to convince the world that human carbon dioxide is responsible for sending Earth into a runaway warming that will bake us all and make life unlivable and that the only way to stop it all is to tax everyone for producing carbon dioxide.

Real Science is about having an idea, then going out to find what might make the idea wrong. If the data doesn’t fit, discard the idea, not the data. Walter Cruttenden has walked this path and his idea is rather startling, to say the least.

By: Seeker
How is it possible that the ancients could have achieved so much? Why is it there seems so little of what they had left behind? How can we have forgotten so much of our past?

The only reason it seems a huge amount for ancient Man to achieve is because we have assigned them the time frame that says, around 4,000BCE, we first stopped being hunter-gatherers and we began to farm. We have this concept that somehow, farming is the beginning of civilized history. To hold this belief, we must necessarily ignore the inconvenient findings around the world of things that pre-date our supposed conversion to farming life.

We have another concept and that is that our way of life is the only and best way to have a high quality of life. To do this we have to ignore a lot of what is wrong with our society. If we look around with a critical eye, this is distinctly NOT a happy world. We have so many problems confronting us that most people have long since stopped looking and retreated into one or another form of escapism. It is a human condition to want to think of what we have as being better than what went before. Imagine the psychoses we’d be facing if it was widely accepted that our society is worse than ones built many thousands of years ago?

I’ve talked in earlier posts about why we’ve forgotten so much of our past. Catastrophe tends to leave the survivors focused on the immediate needs of survival; detailed information about things now irrelevant gets lost, relegated to stories told around campfires or to children late at night.

One man who has another idea about this is Walter Cruttenden. Like many men and women who find out new things, Walter began with a mystery and began a journey that has taken him a long way from where he started.

By: Seeker
The Ancients knew many more things than modern views of history give them credit for – there are mysterious ruins and monuments built using either means beyond what we allow them or involving moving multi-ton stone across many kilometers. There’s the way they carved and shaped stone for which they had no tools to use. And there’s anomalous knowledge, things they provably knew but which they couldn’t have known given how we think they lived.

We have maps dating from the 15th century, based on older knowledge, that incorporates mathematics only discovered a couple of centuries later, showing not just the Antarctic, (yet to be discovered) showing not only a fairly accurate rendition of the coastline, (considering it was a copy of an older map) but showing that coastline as it is without the ice! That has to qualify, according to what we think we know, as impossible.

As it turns out, that section of the Antarctic has more evidence to offer us from modern times. Core samples taken off the coastline show river sediments, (interestingly, just where the old maps show there were rivers) that give a time of around 7,000BCE when the rivers were flowing and carrying life sediments into the sea. The implication is that for a considerable period, at least that part of Antarctica was ice free.

But, and it’s a big but, that means someone in 7,000BCE was around with the skills to navigate the treacherous Southern Ocean and the society behind them capable of building vessels capable of surviving the trip PLUS having been around long enough to develop the various parts of knowledge needed to map accurately, to determine accurate latitude and longitude and, more significantly, the mathematics to transcribe global maps to a flat plane, as that is precisely what the 15th century maps show.

By: Seeker
If we have evidence of prior civilizations, what happened? How could we reach such pinnacles and fall back into the dark? Why do the mystics tell us of times when we were much more than we now are, when we knew and could do things that sound, to we sophisticates in the modern societies, like made up fantasies?

One thing the Ancients knew about that is indisputable is the Precession of the Equinoxes. Now it isn’t impossible to notice how, on a given day of the year, the constellations appear to move slightly in the sky. Across the lifetime of a modern man, a constellation will move about 1º ‘backwards as compared to the way Earth’s rotation and orbit make it seem to move.

Over many centuries, the movement is obvious – Christ was born around the time the constellation in the East just before dawn on the vernal (Spring) equinox was changing from Ares to Pisces. Currently we are changing from Pisces to Aquarius.

But there comes a number of questions – 1º is not a large movement to notice across seventy years. According to our view of history as taught conventionally, the ravages of life in ancient times meant short life spans. So it would take quite a number of lives before the apparent movement could be large enough to notice. Also the complete cycle is over 25,000 years long; conventional history says we only kicked off civilization about 7,000 years ago.

The questions are, how did the ancients find out and accurately map the Precession? Why did they find it so important they incorporated it into myth and stone?