Hey Hey!!…i have had my first complaint. Quite frankly i truly appreciated it too, in fact i felt quite honoured that someone in america had taken the trouble to write me a mail.

Basically the complaint was that i am not prolific enough!!…backhanded praise indeed. the jist of was a little presumptious in that i am just a typical beginner who just reads up a lot, gains a lot of knowledge and then fades away after a busy start.

Thankyou Miss C.

I know i have been a bit slack with the site, especially regarding my thoughts on the origins of man and my personal experiences and thoughts.

Firstly i have been battling with a shoulder injury recently and have really struggled to spend time writing. That coupled with the fact that to an extent writing about my readings, thoughts and experiences are great but i am finding sometimes that writing about something can detract from the actual living and experiencing.

Also, with regard to the origins of man, the direction and ‘mind’ journey process, or space that i am in right now due to the last few years readings on the translations of ancient writings is so mind boggling, so utterly alien to everything that we have been taught that i have had to take time to absorb it all and think it through.

At one point i began to find it all so overwhelming that i had to stop reading and thinking about it for a few months just to let it sink in and mature within me.

Not to mention finding the words to able to share the concept, talk about it and question it seriously without sounding like a complete whacko.

Make no mistake i will be getting it all down, putting in my own perspective and evaluations as well as asking any questions it has raised in my own mind.

Right now i have reached a point in my own mind whereby these ancient writings clearly and precisely fit ‘like a glove’ and provide answers to everything that historians, scientists, religious leaders and the like have to date, pronounced as so called ‘mysterys”

I could not resist taking this message from George Carlin, i simply could not of put it better myself.

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life. We’ve added years to life not life to years. We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We’ve done larger things, but not better things.

We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete…

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn’t cost a cent.

Remember, to say, ‘I love you’ to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. An embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
George Carlin

I remember when i first came to Africa nearly thirty years ago there was a story going around that, if i am honest had me chuckling at the time.

I still chuckle about it, but for very different reasons.

The story, which was apparently true goes as follows.

A family in Zimbabwe, then Rhodesia, were given a new house to live in, their first proper house by all accounts. The adults in the family were very poor with no formal education to speak of.

Winter came soon after they all moved in. It was a cold winter and by the middle of it the family were so cold that they started to use the wooden doors and window frames as firewood to warm themselves by lighting a fire inside one of the rooms.

That in essence was the story. It was basically told as a “racist” story, a joke. The stupidity of the occupants being the butt of the joke.

They had a perfectly good house to make their home in, one that would keep them sheltered and dry and they then trash it to keep themselves warm in the short term. It would seem that no thought was given by them to the consequences of their actions barring the notion that they survived the moment and lived to realise the consequences later.

The point of bringing the story up is that now today i cannot help but think that what that family did was in fact a mirror image microcosm of what the industrialised world has been doing for a couple of hundred years since the industrial revolution.

We have been ravaging the planet for fuels and materials at a completely unsustainable pace. It is nothing less than rape and pillage of our worlds’ resources.
In the last century or so we have pushed hundreds, if not thousands of plants, insects and animals into total extinction.

What is the difference i wonder?

Not much at all i would say.

Except that the industrialised world has acted, and continues to act, out of greed and largely hidden power agendas.

What a circus we live and perform in. Who is the joke really on?

As a footnote i thought i would add the following thought.

Lightening strikes the earth approximately 100 times every single minute of every single day somewhere in the world.

Millions of wattage of electricity. Is anyone working on harvesting this power?

Just imagine what the results would be if this ‘harvesting’ could be achieved!!!

One thing is for sure, if it can be achieved, and i somehow suspect it is achievable, the world from then on would most definitely look back on us today as uncivilised savages, who, in the curve of time are barely out of the crèche at this point.

Who am I, who are we, why are we here and where are we going??….The eternal question, the seemingly everlasting riddle. It certainly occupies my mind a great deal, not to a point that I am constantly walking around trying to fathom it all, not at all, but on the other hand the question is always there.

People say it is a waste of time to think about it too much, that it is not worth dwelling on, just get on with the life and make the most of your time here on earth. Well I do try to make the most of my time but I could not disagree more with that attitude. I guess it’s a case of each to their own, but for me it is the ultimate question, and one that we should be striving to understand. It proves to be very frustrating for me, when I discuss it outright or try to squeeze it into a conversation it generally takes between about 0 seconds to about 15 seconds before the eyes of those that I am chatting with start ‘glazing’ over. At best the conversation will go for about five minutes by which time I start to get the look that says I must be bonkers and boring! It seems that to most people it simply does not matter.

Well, as I say, to me it is crucial. If we don’t know who we are or where we came from how on earth can we ever expect to get anywhere? For all we know we might just be going in round in circles with no real direction whatsoever, when I look back over recent history I am inclined to think that we are doing just that…going nowhere.

If we don’t know where we came from how can we ever understand ourselves, how can we ever learn to use our full potential? Learned people tell us that we only use between 3% and 20% of our full capabilities, lately scientists categorically state that only 3% of our DNA is active and they cast the other 97% off as ‘Junk DNA’, how preposterous a statement is that. That just tells us that they don’t know the answers. If DNA is the ‘perfect’ genome which it appears to be it is simply illogical, if nothing else, that 97% of it should be ‘junk’.

No, I can’t accept it. Personally I think the answers are within us, we just don’t know how to unlock the secrets properly yet. To be perfectly honest I am often led to think that there are those who do not want us to evolve and learn how to fulfil our true capabilities. Although I can now hear folk saying “there he goes…conspiracy theories”, if I were to turn my back on these thoughts I would be being dishonest with myself and I might just as well plod along and believe in Father Christmas and the like.
There are approximately 100 billion neurons in the brain, it is estimated that our brains can perform several billion connections and calculations, in seconds, within the communication network of our grey matter. Phew!!

Now I am no scientist or doctor and these ‘alleged facts’ are from the writings of people who are far better educated than I in those fields, probably every field in fact, but even if a small percentage of that is true, it is surely quite acceptable and logical to suppose that we really do not come anywhere close to fulfilling our potential.

For me, that thought is one of the most exciting things about this life we have and leads me to my one and only true and enduring personal ambition, self discovery and enlightenment. If the brain is the computer and DNA is the software then I really want to be able to programme my brain so that I can learn to unlock some of the secrets entombed within that software, surely the most exciting challenge that we have.

I have long believed that the power of the mind is all powerful in our lives’, we are what we think we are and can do whatever we think we can. If we think we are lost we will lose, and vice versa when it comes to winning, only those who think they will win, will in fact win or come out on top depending on what the circumstances of that particular situation is.

I adopted a motto in life during my 20’s which were the words of Benjamin Franklin (I think it was him), conceive it, believe it, dream it, then achieve it. I took these words on board, lived by them and applied them in many different ways, work and play. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that they work, having proved it to myself on countless occasions.

I look back over my life and think about all the things I was taught as I grew up and matured, and quite frankly I am left incredulous at how much of it was a load of nonsense, much of it proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. It makes me wonder how much else of our teachings in general are relative rubbish.

One day we are told that something is good for us and then the next we are told that it is bad for us. We were taught that there is the sun and nine planets and the stars, and that the earth was the centre of the universe and there was not any other life out there. Stories that suggested anything different were considered the ramblings of mad men.

Now today we are told there are plenty of other planets and other solar systems, the earth is decidedly not the centre of the universe and even the Pope has come out and said that there is in fact other life out there. How does he know by the way?…is it possible that the Vatican has known all along?

Not so long ago they would of burnt people at the stake for claiming there was other life out there!

To be frank, if one just lays back and looks up at the stars at night, it seems outrageously arrogant and naive to me that anyone can possibly conceive the notion that we are the only life around.

Something is clearly not right isn’t it, and the fact is that the vast majority of us are so busy trying to survive that we cannot afford the time or energy to try and work things out, we just keep going on in the faith that those who teach us and ‘lead’ us are correct and are doing right by us. We just keep on doing things in the same old way, how can we expect different results. Who has not heard the saying that history repeats itself…as the talker generally shakes their head in dismay.

Staying with the universe as an example, it was not so long ago that man thought the earth was flat and ancient mariners were scared of sailing right over the edge if they went too far.

How can that be? What happened to make us think and believe such a thing…and so recently!!

The fact is that writings unearthed in archaeological digs have proven beyond all doubt that many ancient civilisations from as far back as 5000 years ago at least, possessed intimate knowledge of the cosmos. Ancient Greeks, ancient Chinese, the Egyptians, Mesopotamians, they all were well versed in such knowledge. The writings from the Sumerian people describe the solar system in great detail as well as outlining some of their other achievements from their past in medicine, surgery, eye surgery, genetic engineering, space travel and much more. There is, apparently, physical evidence to suggest that humans from many thousands of years ago knew more about science, medicine and astronomy than we know today.

Yet for all the proof that is out there, these thoughts are cast into the rubbish bin and labelled fairy tales. Imagine if fifty years ago someone stood up and tried to convince everyone that sheep, and therefore humans could be cloned!!, imagine if they said that surgery could be carried out without having to use knives, or that through technology we would be able to speak to anyone anywhere at any time through little black boxes we carried in our pockets, that also took pictures and videos, sent faxes, texts, e mails, calculated difficult arithmetic and much more. Try telling someone fifty years ago about the internet…try telling some of the older folk who are still with us today!!..Bless em. The people of fifty years ago would be looking at us with sad knowing eyes saying “bless him, sit down and have a cup of tea love, have you banged your head lately?”

I cannot help but think that the vast majority of the world today and the recent past is brainwashed by religion, tradition, and politics with media and advertising completely in control. Anything untoward is immediately cast aside as evil, mythological, totally ridiculous or worse.

We seem to think that we supersede all before us merely because we live now and they lived then. We claim to live in civilised societies and that civilisations before us were really savages of one sort or another. Civilised my ass! There is nothing civil about it. The word has somehow been twisted so that people think that the most advanced economies in the world are therefore by default the most civilised in the world.

Something like 10% of the world’s population has everything and the other 90% live on or below the breadline. If you can pay your rent each month, have something to eat and maybe afford the movies or a drink occasionally you are one of the 10%. What on earth is civilised about that I ask? Without wishing to get stuck into any detail at this point, I have to say this; one of the relatively few things that we know for absolute sure today is that a chain is as strong as its weakest link. Well let me tell you that the human race is a chain.

I reckon that in hundreds of years to come people will look back on us in much the same way as we look back on the darkness of the Middle Ages.

Staying with ancient civilisations it has always baffled me how our modern day scholars, historians, anthropologists and archaeologists alike wax lyrical about the wonderful civilisations of the past and their magnificent monuments yet treat their writings as mythical fairy tales and legends. On the one hand these scholars set out to prove to us how they managed to build these monuments with basic ‘pre historic’ tools and engineering, yet on the other the hundreds of thousands of writings that have been found are treated with complete disrespect and scepticism.

They want us to believe that the Stonehenge for example, with some blocks weighing 45 tons was built by folk who live in wattle and daub huts!!….why would they do that in the first place?

They want us to believe that the pyramids were built by thousands of workers who man handled blocks so precisely that even engineers of today are awe struck by the feat of construction, not to mention the astrological features to the building.
Some of the stone blocks in the ancient constructions to be found in the Lebanon weigh up to 600 tons!…and we must believe that it was built by ancient ‘savages’. Do me a favour…not even our modern day cranes could of lifted them, let alone quarry them from kilometres away and then move them into position!

No …as I say, something is very definitely not gelling here, there is much more than meets the eye.

I come back to the original question, who am I, who are we and where are we going? Whoever I am, whoever we are and wherever we are going I really don’t think we have got it right and we are never going to get there until we have the basics in place first.

Without knowing who we are or the reason for being, we will forever be trying to build on an unstable foundation and the very structures of our societies will continue to be fabricated by hidden agendas, exploitation, greed, lies and deceit to such an extent that at some time it will imminently come crashing down around our ears.

So the question of who I am is absolutely crucial for me to achieve the level of enlightenment that I desire, and it is something I will be writing a great deal about here on this site, with much to come very shortly. It may not fall within the realms of the African bush and the wildlife within it per se, but to my mind it certainly falls within the realms of wild life from a human point of view.

I would truly appreciate any comments or discussion that anyone would like to engage in with me on these subjects, no matter which direction they may come from, good or bad. Essentially I am a ‘sitchinite’ but it is still work in progress within my mind and I am very keen to ‘dig’ further.

Ciao for now.