The Birth of Religion - Part 7
by Seeker
SO just what is it that started us on the spiritual path as a race? Graham Hancock started as an investigative journalist and has a string of books behind him that have a common thread – that we have, as a race, a history that has been forgotten.
He has travelled the world looking for clues to what we have lost, and he seems to have found them all over. Geologist Dr. Robert Schock has cast a skeptical eye over the Sphinx and provides convincing expert testimony that the erosion on both it and the cutting in which it stands (or crouches) has been caused by long term heavy rainfall. This erosion also interestingly calls into question the face and head of the sphinx – it shows much less weathering than the rest of the monument.
This immediately moves the sculpting of the sphinx back prior to the last time Egypt had such weather – prior to about 6,000BC – and given the heavy weathering along with the evidence it has been restored a couple of times, probably a long time before 6,000BC. You can see the erosion and some of the old restoration work in the photo above.
Hancock, Ralph Ellis and Robert Bauval, among others like Charles Hapgood and Christopher Dunn have caused controversy and name-calling among the orthodox historians and Egyptologists by pointing out, with what must be agrannoying insistence, the inconsistencies in the ‘normal’ historical view of the history of Man.
There are mysteries about the Giza plateau pyramids, about Stonehenge and the knowledge they encode, with Tiahuanaco on the shores of Lake Titicaca and the pyramids at Teotihuacan in Mexico; some of these are known about by most people, even if not in detail. But there are many other places and mysteries that seem to point as well to a forgotten history, as well as reasons why we may have forgotten. And consistently we find these mysteries and histories tied up with a interwoven thread of spirituality and the quest for immortality.
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