Archive for Thursday 18th April 2002 - Ancient worlds, sunken cities

These are exciting times in archaeology. New discoveries are completely changing the old-established view of prehistory. The official belief is that civilisation began about 6,000 years ago in the Middle East. Before that we were savages. That is what you learn at school.

Traditional astrology tells a different story. It reckons time and history in cycles. One of these is the period of 25,920 years, in which the Sun completes its course through the zodiac. Even thls is quite a short period in astrological time. Greater cycles extend history over hundreds of thousands of years. Throughout these ages, civilisations rise and fall. Our present system is just the latest in a long series. There have been many before us.

There is good evidence of this, but much of it is buried - in the basement of museums. Strange objects and instruments, dIscovered in ancIent geological strata, embarrass the professors. So they are hIdden.

But you cannot hide whole cities. There is great excitement in India, where two lost cities, each about five miles across, have recently turned up. They were found by scientists through sonar scanning, 30 miles off the coast, 120 feet below the sea. Objects dredged up from them proved to be 9,500 years old. The buildings themselves could be much older.

When we start seeing things from an astrological viewpoint, we can recognise the evidence of civilisations in far-distant ages. It is all around us, and it is growing all the time.

John Michell