Armchair Archeologist

According to the Official Story, Darwinian evolution, human beings descended from apes into our current form over millions of years. The modern homo-sapien entered the world roughly 200,000 years ago. The date is not exact, but as we shall see, nothing in the world of archeology is exact. It’s a ’science’ of stories and sometimes shoddy detective work. Basically, it superimposes our current reality, our current paradigm of what is possible, onto bone fragments and pottery shards. Nonetheless, we base the belief in our origins on the Official Story.

200,000 years ago, homo-sapiens arrived on Spaceship Earth. They were just like us physically–the same body shapes, the same brain, the same biology. There was no distinguishable difference between them and us. But for the following 160,000 years, 75% of our time on the planet, human beings had no culture, no language, no artistic drive. Nothing. We were animals in every sense of the word. We were driven by instinct and living in the present moment with no concern for yesterday and no hope for tomorrow. (Funny, how esoteric practices strive to devolve us into this primordial state of eternal awareness of the now.)

Between 50-40K years ago something happened. A switch flipped and human kind began their journey. In a phrase, we woke up. This is the beginning of history and they began in caves here in the South of France. (Also seemingly simultaneously in the outbacks of Australia.) Incredible drawings, paintings on cave walls are the first movements of man to mark his world, to scratch a lasting tag on the world around him. All of a sudden, a spark ignited in the mind of man and history began. Mankind started to keep a record of himself. He began talking, constructing language, the most magical of all tools, the ability to create pictures, images, sounds, realities in another’s head.

Science has no idea why this happened. They have no good explanation for why, suddenly, after 150K years of normalcy, the species would suddenly rocket into a world of limitless possibilities. There are ways to reconcile this major shift into a conscious living, but ’science’ will have none of them.

The least shocking is the introduction of psychoactive plants into the human diet. According to Terrence McKenna, as the food supply changed, humans descended from trees onto the African plains in search of new sustenance. As they followed herds of wild cattle, they noticed, then ate, small mushrooms that grew from the dung of these docile creatures. These mushrooms contained a substance very similar to a nuero-chemical in the human brain called DMT, which despite its presence in every single human being on this planet, is a Schedule 1 drug. This mushroom, as some of us know, stimulate amazing perceptions and incredible experience, which could does, theoretically, resolve this mystery of where our abrupt shift began. Although perhaps uncomfortable, this outlandish theory accounts for the sudden eruption of human consciousness.

The most shocking of all theories for the origin of mankind, which may actually be the most plausible, is presented by a man named Zacharia Sitchin, who is one of only a handful of people who can read ancient Sumerian cuneiform, the oldest written language on the planet. According to this educated researcher, who most regard as a quack because of his outlandish theories, the human story has extra-terrestrial roots. There are many who believe, often backed by staggering evidence, that the ancient world was visited by aliens. Sitchin translates the Sumerian texts to read as such–that an alien race, called the Annunaki. The Annunaki came to the planet Earth in search of gold, which they needed in order to save their atmosphere. (Funny enough, modern science tells us that gold is an excellent element to block cosmic rays, hence the presence of gold foil on many of our own space missions.) As they mined gold in South Africa, the Annunaki began to experiment with local animals, and to cut to the chase modern human beings emerged on the scene as a hybrid between some lost ape and an alien race.

I know, I know, totally unbelievable. Kinda like the Big Bang Theory–that all the matter in the Universe existed in a tiny particle the size of a pinhead.

Don’t worry, I don’t believe any of these theories, not even the Official Story. But what these competing versions of our origins teach us is that anyone with an open mind and a bit of reading can see is that we don’t know. And if we don’t know, it’s not logical to throw out any possibility simply because it’s uncomfortable. Isn’t it refreshing to bathe in infinite possibilities?

Ancient Astronauts

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