Theos-Talk Archives (December 2004 Message tt00240)

Seems to me that one might also find 
lots of esoteric flavoring in Graham 
Hancock's FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS. 
Towards the end of the book he tell's of 
how the last "ice age" was in keeping 
with where the positions of the poles 
were then (prior to about 13000 years 
ago, in very round numbers) so that 
lands that are now under ice in the 
Antarctic would have been habitable 
then. He says the north pole then was 
around the Hudson's Bay area. In other 
words today's continent of Antarctic 
could have been the fabled "Atlantis." 
Hancock, with help from geologists and 
scientists, seems to be leaning toward 
the theory that there may have been 
about a 30 degrees of arc shift in the 
earth's lithosphere (3 mile thick outer 
layer) that resulted in the shifting of 
the poles with respect to major land 
masses, resulting in the most recent 
"ice age." The shift having been 
promoted by the build up of ice in the 
poles. (Today's "ice age" being farther 
north, in and north of Canada, and 
farther south in the Antarctic.)

Page 474: <<Plate-tectonics and Charles 
Hapgood's earth-crust displacement 
theory are by no means mutually 
contradictory. Hapgood envisaged that 
both could occur: that the earth's crust 
did indeed exhibit continental drift as 
the geologists claimed---almost 
imperceptibly, over hundreds of millions 
of years---but that it also occasionally 
experienced very rapid one-piece 
displamements which had no effect on the 
relationships between individual 
landmasses but which thrust entire 
continents (or parts of them) into and 
out of the planet's two fixed polar 
zones(the perennially cold and icy 
regions surrounding the North and South 
Poles of the axis of spin).>>

Seems to me that some areas of the 
Antarctic might eventually yield som 
interesting clues about a lost civilization.

Anyway, Hancock seems to feel, (and I 
tend to agree, if somewhat speculatively 
...), that there are numerous 
pre-dynastic ("prehistoric") structures 
in Egypt that, on closer 
examination/interpretation, (as 
extensively detailed in FINGERPRINTS IN 
THE GODS), might yield that the so 
called "gods" or Neteru of the First 
Time or Zep Tepi in ancient Egypt 
(before and after the last "ice age," 
counter to the orthodox/linear bias) 
built structures as a form of 
communication for those who would be 
able to read them in the (distant ...) 
future, alerting humans (as I tend to 
interpet Hancock's words) to the bigger 
picture of evolution, Evolution, 
"Higher" realities, Theosophy and the 
Esoteric/Wisdom Tradition.

Speculatively,
Mauri