The Time Travel Paradox
By James Donahue
The concept of time travel has been a frequent subject on this website since the beginning, and for good reason. There seems to be an important link between the present moment and the ancient past.
Because of many archaeological anomalies, we have had a sense that the human race has been down this road before. It occurred to us that, as happens with all time travel stories, within this link can be found a peculiar paradox.
Assuming that a small band of travelers have been moving backward and perhaps even forward through time. And they have done it not once, but numerous times. But rather than doing it for scientific purposes; or military, monetary or political manipulation as one might suppose, it appears that they did it to escape our own self-destruction.
Thus in our travels, humanity has been leaving its own footprints in the rocks. There have been such odd things as steel nails, cut pieces of jewelry, a spark plug found by miners so deep in the Earth. Such items had to have been left there at a time long forgotten by contemporary civilizations. We even have found evidence in the sand that atomic bombs were exploded at some early time.
Follow me as I attempt to explain this strange web of complex thinking, not only through time but perhaps even through dimensions of reality.
Our story should probably begin at a time before the great flood. The best surviving records of that period are found in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Book of Genesis. Both suggest alien visitation and some kind of DNA manipulation of the humanoid primates that existed on Earth.
Genesis, Chapter Six, reveals that the “sons of God saw the daughters of man that they were fair; and they took them wives of all whom they chose.” The story continues: “There were giants in the earth in those days. When the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men who were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
Remember that this story came from the religious inspired Bible and carries a slant of condemnation of the human race by a vengeful external god. It is a continuation of the story of the corrupted seed and that all men are born into sin. Thus it was God that was blamed for sending a flood that supposedly destroyed all living things on the planet.
But along came Noah, who was given instructions for carrying a remnant out of harm’s way. Could we suggest that instead of building a ridiculous wooden boat and loading humans and animals on it, Noah brought a remnant of humanity into a time machine. If it successfully carried enough individuals through time there would have been enough to re-establish the genetic diversity necessary to build a new world.
How did Noah acquire a time machine at that critical moment in history? He either discovered, or already knew of a way to summon help from an advanced civilization. At a critical moment Noah and his followers may have been picked up by an alien craft and carried through time.
The odds are that such a ship carried Noah and his followers into the future. This worked because the Earth had a future in Noah’s day. The so-called giants on the earth were not quite as wicked as today’s environmental criminals. They did not destroy the planet’s ecology.
The next interesting piece of our historic puzzle can be found in the story of Abraham’s decision to leave his home in the ancient Mesopotamian City of Ur. His adventures then led to the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
The seventh card in the Crowley Tarot deck, the Chariot, depicts four Sphinxes drawing a vehicle on two large wheels. The four beasts appear as a bull, a lion, an eagle and a man. The charioteer is dressed in a heavy protective covering that appears to be iron. He holds in his arms the Holy Grail. From the center of the grail shines radiant blood, symbolizing the presence of Light in Darkness.
All of these symbols offer significant esoteric messages. Among the most important for purposes of this article: The charioteer depicts Abram (later Abraham) leaving Ur. The Holy Grail in his hand is the destructive power over the atoms. In short, it is an atomic bomb. Its light is so intense it is blinding. The radioactive material in his hands is so deadly, Abram is wearing protective armor.
Thus we have understanding when we later read, in Genesis 19, the story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The story claims that God sent fire and brimstone down from heaven. But it also tells how Abraham “looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.”
He was describing the detonation of an atomic bomb. The blast destroyed at least two cities and “all the land of the plain.”
So if Abraham possessed an atomic bomb, where did that knowledge come from? Is it possible that it came from the past or from alien visitors?
Consider yet another ancient story. This one, from India, is The Mahabharate, a myth about a great war between the Vrishnis and the Salva. The Salva flew through the sky in chariots that carried them anywhere at will. They emerge from a flying city called the Saubha. The Vrishnis, lead by a hero named Krishna, defend themselves with “swift-striking shafts” that flash through the sky and destroy the invading chariots.
This appears to be a glimpse at contemporary warfare, with guided missiles or perhaps lasers shooting aircraft from the sky. Not only that, but the battle ends when a great explosion destroys three Vrishnis cities and their neighbors, the Andhakas, killing everyone and leaving no building standing. A description of the blast sounds like a nuclear bomb:
“An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousand suns, rose in all its splendor. It was the unknown weapon, the iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas. The corpses were so burnt they were no longer recognizable. Hair and nails fell out. Pottery broke without cause. Foodstuffs were poisoned.”
Is this another account of the Biblical story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, or something else?
Could it be that the Mahabharate is a description of a future war, one that has not yet been fought on this planet. Could it be that a future number of survivors of that war will travel back in time and carry the story with them as a warning? Or is it a war that actually happened in the distant past?
At this point, if anybody escapes the looming death of Planet Earth, they must travel back to the past. They are prohibited to move, like Noah, forward to a revived green earth. Since we have destroyed our ecological system, and consequently destroyed our home in the Universe, we have no other options.
The paradox then is this. If we are living now, just prior to the end of the life of our planet, suppose that some of the ones reading this report will be among the survivors that travel, via magical means, back in time? Are the odd artifacts we find evidence that we were successful and took our culture and our technical knowledge back with them?
Science fiction writers should be intrigued by this idea. Anybody that reads stories, or watches movies about time travel, knows that tinkering with the past has the effect of altering the future.
The question, then, is why are we still in this pickle? If we already have evidence in the rocks that we went back in time, armed with the knowledge of what we did wrong, why is it still going wrong? Are we so flawed that we cannot fix our dilemma? Or are we making the trip over and over again until we get it right?
Perhaps we are living a concept of the Christian hell. Or maybe it is the Catholic doctrine of purgatory, where we keep trying until we get it.
By James Donahue
The concept of time travel has been a frequent subject on this website since the beginning, and for good reason. There seems to be an important link between the present moment and the ancient past.
Because of many archaeological anomalies, we have had a sense that the human race has been down this road before. It occurred to us that, as happens with all time travel stories, within this link can be found a peculiar paradox.
Assuming that a small band of travelers have been moving backward and perhaps even forward through time. And they have done it not once, but numerous times. But rather than doing it for scientific purposes; or military, monetary or political manipulation as one might suppose, it appears that they did it to escape our own self-destruction.
Thus in our travels, humanity has been leaving its own footprints in the rocks. There have been such odd things as steel nails, cut pieces of jewelry, a spark plug found by miners so deep in the Earth. Such items had to have been left there at a time long forgotten by contemporary civilizations. We even have found evidence in the sand that atomic bombs were exploded at some early time.
Follow me as I attempt to explain this strange web of complex thinking, not only through time but perhaps even through dimensions of reality.
Our story should probably begin at a time before the great flood. The best surviving records of that period are found in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Book of Genesis. Both suggest alien visitation and some kind of DNA manipulation of the humanoid primates that existed on Earth.
Genesis, Chapter Six, reveals that the “sons of God saw the daughters of man that they were fair; and they took them wives of all whom they chose.” The story continues: “There were giants in the earth in those days. When the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men who were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
Remember that this story came from the religious inspired Bible and carries a slant of condemnation of the human race by a vengeful external god. It is a continuation of the story of the corrupted seed and that all men are born into sin. Thus it was God that was blamed for sending a flood that supposedly destroyed all living things on the planet.
But along came Noah, who was given instructions for carrying a remnant out of harm’s way. Could we suggest that instead of building a ridiculous wooden boat and loading humans and animals on it, Noah brought a remnant of humanity into a time machine. If it successfully carried enough individuals through time there would have been enough to re-establish the genetic diversity necessary to build a new world.
How did Noah acquire a time machine at that critical moment in history? He either discovered, or already knew of a way to summon help from an advanced civilization. At a critical moment Noah and his followers may have been picked up by an alien craft and carried through time.
The odds are that such a ship carried Noah and his followers into the future. This worked because the Earth had a future in Noah’s day. The so-called giants on the earth were not quite as wicked as today’s environmental criminals. They did not destroy the planet’s ecology.
The next interesting piece of our historic puzzle can be found in the story of Abraham’s decision to leave his home in the ancient Mesopotamian City of Ur. His adventures then led to the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
The seventh card in the Crowley Tarot deck, the Chariot, depicts four Sphinxes drawing a vehicle on two large wheels. The four beasts appear as a bull, a lion, an eagle and a man. The charioteer is dressed in a heavy protective covering that appears to be iron. He holds in his arms the Holy Grail. From the center of the grail shines radiant blood, symbolizing the presence of Light in Darkness.
All of these symbols offer significant esoteric messages. Among the most important for purposes of this article: The charioteer depicts Abram (later Abraham) leaving Ur. The Holy Grail in his hand is the destructive power over the atoms. In short, it is an atomic bomb. Its light is so intense it is blinding. The radioactive material in his hands is so deadly, Abram is wearing protective armor.
Thus we have understanding when we later read, in Genesis 19, the story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The story claims that God sent fire and brimstone down from heaven. But it also tells how Abraham “looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.”
He was describing the detonation of an atomic bomb. The blast destroyed at least two cities and “all the land of the plain.”
So if Abraham possessed an atomic bomb, where did that knowledge come from? Is it possible that it came from the past or from alien visitors?
Consider yet another ancient story. This one, from India, is The Mahabharate, a myth about a great war between the Vrishnis and the Salva. The Salva flew through the sky in chariots that carried them anywhere at will. They emerge from a flying city called the Saubha. The Vrishnis, lead by a hero named Krishna, defend themselves with “swift-striking shafts” that flash through the sky and destroy the invading chariots.
This appears to be a glimpse at contemporary warfare, with guided missiles or perhaps lasers shooting aircraft from the sky. Not only that, but the battle ends when a great explosion destroys three Vrishnis cities and their neighbors, the Andhakas, killing everyone and leaving no building standing. A description of the blast sounds like a nuclear bomb:
“An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousand suns, rose in all its splendor. It was the unknown weapon, the iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas. The corpses were so burnt they were no longer recognizable. Hair and nails fell out. Pottery broke without cause. Foodstuffs were poisoned.”
Is this another account of the Biblical story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, or something else?
Could it be that the Mahabharate is a description of a future war, one that has not yet been fought on this planet. Could it be that a future number of survivors of that war will travel back in time and carry the story with them as a warning? Or is it a war that actually happened in the distant past?
At this point, if anybody escapes the looming death of Planet Earth, they must travel back to the past. They are prohibited to move, like Noah, forward to a revived green earth. Since we have destroyed our ecological system, and consequently destroyed our home in the Universe, we have no other options.
The paradox then is this. If we are living now, just prior to the end of the life of our planet, suppose that some of the ones reading this report will be among the survivors that travel, via magical means, back in time? Are the odd artifacts we find evidence that we were successful and took our culture and our technical knowledge back with them?
Science fiction writers should be intrigued by this idea. Anybody that reads stories, or watches movies about time travel, knows that tinkering with the past has the effect of altering the future.
The question, then, is why are we still in this pickle? If we already have evidence in the rocks that we went back in time, armed with the knowledge of what we did wrong, why is it still going wrong? Are we so flawed that we cannot fix our dilemma? Or are we making the trip over and over again until we get it right?
Perhaps we are living a concept of the Christian hell. Or maybe it is the Catholic doctrine of purgatory, where we keep trying until we get it.