~

Now sometimes if I bother

My ear can hear the road

The gates of Graceland open

And I shutter to my bones

So I’m bustin’ out of Memphis

Wanna feel the night

Wanna find me someone

Who’ll help me feel all right

~

You know I –

Gotta beat the Devil

Gotta see the light

Gotta find salvation

Gotta set things right

And I gotta beat the sunrise

Gotta see my folk

Gotta find my Angel

Before the levee broke [chorus]

~

Ya know sometimes it’s the daughter

Sometimes it’s the wife

Sometime it’s the husband

Carrying a sharpened knife

And sometimes there ain’t no-one

Sometimes I’m just sad

And sometimes it’s just over –

A lost and passing fad

~

So I –

chorus

~

Ya know my name it don’t mean nothing

My face is all but gone

My soul is slowly dying

My Lord what did I do wrong

And I’ve been so sad and lonely

The dust has ate my boot

‘I died without my suit’

~

And I –

chorus

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

anything 4 u

~

in the dead of the night

I wake up ~ and you’re gone

in the dead of the night

I wake up ~ and you’re gone

and I wonder ~ wonder darlin’

how could I have ever been so wrong

~

so come home now darlin’

ya know I’ll do anything for you

so come home now darlin’

ya know I’ll do anything for you

so come home now darlin’

ya know I’ll do anything for you ~[chorus]

I feel that lonesome moon a shinin’

ya know it flows all over me

I feel that lonesome moon a shinin’

ya know it flows all over me

and I pray pray darlin’

your cold heart will one day see

~

(chorus)

~

now I hear a dog a howlin’

and I know just how he feels

now I hear a dog a howlin’

and I know just how he feels

cos without you darlin’ I’m nothing

my bleeding heart just never heals

~

(chorus)

~

ya know this here bed is so lonely

ever since you said we’re thru

ya know this here bed is so lonely

ever since you said we’re thru

so come home now darlin’

ya know I’ll do anything for you

~

(chorus)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

your kiss is just a lie
~
You held back that little lie
spos you just forgot
Then ya treat me like a foreign spy
afraid of being caught
So don’t cry me no crocodile tears
When you turned your back on me
I know how the clock does tick
I’ve felt it tock on me
~
HUGGA-LUG-AH- CHUGGA-LUG-AH
HUGGA-LUG-AH-LEE
I know when my back is turned
you’ll be playing games on me
BOOGGA BOOGGA BOOGGA BOOGGA
BOOGA BOOGAA-BYE
I’ve seen it all before
your kiss is just a lie [chorus]
~
We had some fun for a time ~
Spos I got what I need
Your love was no big crime ~
opening my heart to bleed
But now I got myself together
You know I’m suddenly sane
Got me a change in the weather
And I don’t need no extra pain
~
[chorus]
~
So now ya come round again
spose you’ve seen the light
Just trying to be my friend
while aiming to take a bite
Well I’ve grown a head or two
Since I was your favourite slave
So this line is especially for you
I’ll see you in your grave
~
[chorus]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

maybe baby[2]

~

when every yes is just a maybe

and every no wouldn’t let you go

I wonder where we’re headin’ baby

cos without a clue I never know

~

it’s just maybe, maybe, maybe, baby

it’s just wait, and wait, and wait and see

it’s just maybe, maybe, maybe, baby

i’m just wonderin’ when you’re gonna flee

~

whenever a full moon comes rollin’ around

whenever a new bud turns to seed

whenever a pink sun touches the ground

it’s just your smile that’s what I need

~

and [chorus]

~

when nothin’s workin’ – just what is the cost

when nothin’s happen’- just what remains

when nothin’s certain – all can be lost

when nothin’s showin’ – it drives me insane

~

cos [chorus]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In my secret dream[3]

~

In my secret dream ~ you’re there

In my secret dream ~ you care

We wander thru the night

The moon it shines so bright

And I’m happy just to be with you

And I know our love ~ It can be true
~

So let the bubbles burst

We’ll always quench our thirst

When we’re out together

In our world (chorus)

~

In my secret dream ~ you’re true

In my secret dream ~ I’m never blue

Your eyes they hypnotize

Your smile ~ it just beguiles

And I wonder how our life ~ will fare

And I’m waiting to see if you ~ really care
~

chorus
~

In my secret dream ~ you romance

In my secret dream ~ we dance

The stars they fall about

The moon sheds all your doubt

And I’m finally free ~ just to say
that together we ~ can own this day

~
chorus

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Pick It Up[4]

Now I’ve had my share of troubles

The good Lord watched me as I fell

And I cannot point my finger

At no other for my hell

But I seen a summer coming

In this darkest winter night

So I’m asking you my brothers

Will you stand with me and fight

~

Pick it up we’re moving forward if only for one day

Pick it up there’s no tomorrow we will die here if we stay

Pick it up we’re moving forward if only for one day

Pick it up there’s no tomorrow we will die here if we stay [chorus]

Now I got me some youngins

And a sweet one cross the shore

And I know they’re a watching

Just to see me free once more

And I know you have your own ones

With their stories waiting to tell

So let’s blow these God damn devils

And end this bloody hell

[chorus]

Now this battle was not our choice

But we’re here that makes it’s ours

And I hope an Angel’s watching

Through these months days and hours

I can feel the heat a falling

In the air and on the ground

And I pray no bullet finds me

Before we turn this war around

[chorus]

[2] lyrics inspired by Little Richard

[3] lyrics inspired by Billie Holiday

[4] lyrics inspired by Johnny Cash

Rand

Critics of earth crust displacement (ECD) have frequently tried to belittle Albert Einstein’s enthusiastic support for Charles Hapgood’s theory of earth crust displacement. If the theory of earth crust displacement is silly, as the ECD critics imply, then does that make Professor Einstein silly? They don’t want to say that. So instead they try to put words into Einstein’s mouth. They say Albert Einstein was not a geologist and if he had lived that he would have recognized that the theory of plate tectonics superseded Hapgood’s theory. They falsely assume that Hapgood’s theory is in conflict with plate tectonics. On page 3 of the first edition of When the Sky Fell we explained the actual relationship between plate tectonics and earth crust displacements:

“Plate tectonics and earth crust displacement both share the assumption of a mobile crust. The ideas are not mutually exclusive but rather complementary. Plate tectonics explains long-term, slow changes like mountain building, volcanic activity, and local earthquakes. Earth crust displacement accepts that these processes are gradual but posits a much more dramatic and abrupt movement of the crust that can explain different problems such as mass extinctions, glaciation patterns, and the sudden rise of agriculture.”

Moreover, Albert Einstein did not have to be a geologist to understand that Hapgood’s theory was addressing significant, long-standing, unsolved problems. For instance, the rapid, violent melting of the former ice sheet on North America some 11,600 years ago is something that plate tectonics is incapable of explaining. But there is even a more serious objection to the assumption that you have to be trained in the field of geology in order to be able to make contributions to the field. Alfred Wegner, the early pioneer of plate tectonics, was trained as an astronomer not a geologist. Under the criteria that the ECD critics make about Albert Einstein, Alfred Wegner wasn’t qualified to create his theory. Looking at the history of science in a broader perspective we see that Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions demonstrates again and again that major paradigm shifts are typically initiated by investigators untrained in the field where they make their breakthroughs.

While Albert Einstein may not have the geological credentials demanded by ECD critics, the other prominent scientist who ALSO wrote a Foreword to Hapgood’s book most certainly did. It is curious that ECD critics fail to report Professor Kirtley Mather’s support for Hapgood’s theory of earth crust displacement.

Kirtley F. Mather (1888-1978) was one of the most prominent geologists of the twentieth century. He was the Head of the Geology Department at Harvard University and served as the President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was elected four times to be the President of the American Academy of Arts and Science. He was one of the few scientists who stood up to Joseph McCarthy. He prepared the geological deposition for Clarence Darrow in the famous “Scope’s Monkey Trial” when the theory of evolution was challenged in the courts. Stephen Jay Gould regarded Professor Mather as his mentor. In his Foreword to Hapgood’s book, Mather wrote:

“The numerous unsolved problems to which Mr. Hapgood directs attention should be the subjects of intensified debate among scientists in very part of the world.”

Both Mather and Einstein knew something of the philosophy of science. They understood that the unsolved problem is the basic unit of scientific exploration. Theories are like nets designed to capture and explain problems. Hence the importance that Mather gave to the earth crust displacement theory’s ability to address “numerous unsolved problems.”

A brief look at some of the chapter titles of Hapgood’s Path of the Pole demonstrates the unsolved problems that he was addressing:

Chapter 2: The Failure to Explain the Ice Ages.

Chapter 3: The Failure to Explain Climatic Change.

Chapter 5: The Violent Life of the Great Ice Sheet.

Chapter 6: The Sudden Melting of the Ice Sheet.

Chapter 10: The Extinction of the Mammoths and the Masodons.

Chapter 11: The Evidence of Violent Extinction in South America.

None of these problems can be adequately explained by plate tectonics. That doesn’t mean that plate tectonics is wrong. It simply means that in order to address serious unsolved problems, like those listed above, we need an additional theory of how the earth works. Plate tectonic explains gradual changes and earth crust displacement explains abrupt changes. “The ideas are not mutually exclusive but rather complementary.”

In his second reply (24 November 1952) to Hapgood, Einstein wrote that the idea of earth crust displacement should not be ruled out “apriori” just because it didn’t fit with what we wanted to believe about the earth’s past. What was needed, Einstein claimed, was solid “geological and paleontological facts.”

For six months, Hapgood gathered geological evidence to support the idea of an earth crust displacement. On the 3rd of May 1953 he forwarded thirty-eight pages of this evidence to Einstein. Central to his argument was Hapgood’s evidence that Lesser Antarctica was ice-free at the same time that North America lay smothered in ice. Einstein responded (8 May 1953):

“I find your arguments very impressive and have the impression that your hypothesis is correct. One can hardly doubt that significant shifts of the crust have taken place repeatedly and within a short time.”
He urged Hapgood to follow up on evidence of “earth fractures”. A month later
(11 June 1953) Hapgood sent Einstein forty-two pages of evidence on earth fractures and the evolution of the ice sheets.
Einstein wrote (17 December 1953) Hapgood urging him to address the “centrifugal momentum” problem. Hapgood responded with four pages on this problem and thirty-seven pages of “paleontological evidence” including the frozen mammoths of Arctic Siberia. Einstein was now convinced. On the 18th of May 1954, Einstein wrote a very favorable foreword for Hapgood’s book EARTH’S SHIFTING CRUST: A KEY TO SOME BASIC PROBLEMS OF EARTH SCIENCE (published in 1958 by Pantheon Books, New York). The Foreword begins:

“I frequently receive communications from people who wish to consult me concerning their unpublished ideas. It goes without saying that these ideas are very seldom possessed of scientific validity. The very first communication, however, that I received from Mr. Hapgood electrified me. His idea is original, of great simplicity, and – if it continues to prove itself of great importance to everything that is related to the history of the earth’s surface. … I think that this rather astonishing, even fascinating, idea deserves the serious attention of anyone who concerns himself with the theory of the earth’s development.”
Hapgood and Einstein continued to correspond and finally met in January of 1955.
Einstein’s last letter was dated the 9th of March 1955 just weeks before the great physicist died on the 18th of April 1955.

Einstein’s Archives are held in Jerusalem (with copies at Princeton) where they hold the record of an unique and unheralded collaboration on the theory of earth crust displacement.

We began corresponding with Hapgood in 1977.

An excerpt from the new edition of When the Sky Fell is the cover story for the November/December 2009 issue of Atlantis Rising. Click on Cover.

Thanks for your patience.

Red = Tibetan Plateau

Yellow = Yana in “Arctic Siberia”

The Tibetan Plateau is on average 4500 meters above sea level and it often called “the roof of the world.” It is an extremely cold environment. Today the average summer temperatures range between 5 and 10 degrees C and in the winter it is usually 40 degrees below zero C.[1]

Until 2002 earth scientists believed that the first humans to arrive on the cold barren Tibetan Plateau only arrived there about 4000 years ago.[2] Then two scientists from the University of Hong Kong found the footprints and markings of at least six people who had stepped in mud some 20,000 years ago. Five years later, more scientists confirmed the evidence and claimed the humans were living on the Tibetan Plateau during height of the Ice Age. This evidence does not fit with anything earth scientists can currently explain.

This anomaly is easily explained once we realize that the Tibetan Plateau, like the Ice Age settlement in “arctic” Siberia at Yana, were, before the last displacement of the crust, some 30 degrees further south than they are today. Indeed, Lhasa, the capital of Tibet was on the equator when the North Pole was centered on the Hudson Bay.

[2] Ball, Philip “Humans dwelt in Ice-Age Tibet”, Nature, “Update” 27 March 2002.

At Kuk in the central highlands of New Guinea something remarkable happened around the time of the fall of Atlantis. So momentous are these discoveries that the area has been designated a World Heritage Site. [1]

New Guinea is the third largest island in the world after Antarctica and Greenland. A mysterious land, Europeans did not penetrate its central highlands until the 1930s and only then using air power.

New Guinea has been occupied for at least 40,000 years.[2] During the first 30,000 years the people lived by hunting and gathering. But then abruptly, around 10,000 years ago, they suddenly moved into the highlands, taking with them plants that had always been cultivated at sea level. They cleared the land and systematically drained a swamp that eventually would become the birthplace of several important domesticated crops, most notably bananas and sugar cane.

Why would people who had been living as hunters and gatherers for thousands of years suddenly climb high up to the central plateau of New Guinea, drain a swamp and plant bananas, a crop that can take twenty years to become viable?

Why would people who had been perfectly adapted to the land for 30,000 years suddenly abandon their long-established and successful means of subsistence and opt for agriculture?

And why did they find it necessary to leave the coastal regions at all?

These questions haunted the Australian archaeologist, Jack Golson, who has spent a life-time trying to solve this New Guinea riddle. [3] Golson and his partner on the quest, Phillip Hughes, became convinced of the radical idea that Kuk was deliberately created as a cradle for agriculture. At an early stage they made the remarkable discovery of a “palaeochannel” a sophisticated landscaping device for draining swamp to create tillable land. [4]

Once again, the occurrence of an earth crust displacement makes sense of the sudden appearance of these advanced tools.

Kuk lies at an altitude of 1,560 meters, making the temperature there several degrees cooler than the hot lowlands where its transplanted wild plants originated.

When it moved some 20 degrees closer to the equator as a result of the earth’s crust shifting around 9600 BC, the sudden rise in annual temperatures forced the New Guineans to adapt. Their obvious solution was to move to the highlands. For every 150 meters they climbed the temperature dropped by one degree.[5] At 1500 meters they could re-establish their settlements and enjoy the temperatures that had previously prevailed at sea level.

But there is something more here than just the adoption of agriculture by people who had lived by hunting and gathering for 30,000 years. We see the invisible hand of the remnants of an advanced civilization that sought to recreate the preconditions for a rebooting of civilization. It was the water management skills of the survivors of Atlantis that were used to drain the highland swamp and it was their botanists who recognized bananas and sugar as crops that could reboot agriculture. Banana trees can take twenty years to ripen before they yield their fruit. The drained swamp, the water cannels, the sudden adoption of agriculture are expected features if survivors of Atlantis made their way to New Guinea.

[2] Denham, Tim “Envisaging Early Agriculture in the Highlands of New Guinea” in Lilley, Ian (Editor) Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands, Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, N.J., 2006, 162.

[3] Denham, Tim “Food for Thought”, Nature Australia, 28, issue 4, 2005.

[4] One of their students, Tim Denham, was not convinced that the “palaeochannel” was in fact man-made. He undertook tests that called into question the artificial attributes of the channel. Nevertheless, whether it was by design or just good luck, the people of the highlands of New Guinea made very constructive use of a land that was once a swamp.  And they certainly did become very effective water manipulators as time went on.

[5] Temperature drops as one goes up in altitude varying from 1 degree Celsius in “dry” areas to half a degree in “damp’ areas for each 150 meters.  In the case of Kuk, the temperature is around 6-10 degrees Celsius cooler than temperatures at sea level.

The bones were that of a man about twenty years old who had died in that beautiful, isolated spot some 10,000 years before. The discovery of the oldest skeleton in Alaska/Canada generated much discussion within the archeology “club” and the media. The assumption was that the existence of this ancient mariner provided positive proof in support of the Pacific coast theory of the peopling of America. One of the stone tools found with the body was geologically unlike anything else from Prince of Wales Island, suggesting that this young man had not been a local.

A mystery emerged.  “Where did he come from?”

In 2008, DNA evidence extracted from the remains revealed that he was genetically unique and in all probability had died a very long way from home. Less than two percent of First Nation peoples hold the unique DNA signature of these bones. Known as Haplogroup D4h3a, this group:

… is mostly found in South America with the exception of eight samples from Mexico and two found in California.[1]

Our ancient mariner may have traveled from as far a way as Tierra del Fuego. It is here that we find the Yaghan people – one of the few groups who have this unique genetic make-up.[2]

Terra del Fuego is the closest large landmass to Antarctica. A large island[3] about the size of Massachusetts and New Jersey combined – it lies south of the South American landmass.

The Yaghan people have a rich and varied culture that may stretch back to 11,600 years ago, the very century of the destruction of Atlantis. They commonly cremate the bodies of their dead so no ancient remains from Tierra de Fuego have yet been found. But physical evidence for human occupation of this land, so close to Lesser Antarctica, date to 11,880 (plus or minus 250 years) at a site called “Tres Arryoyos.” [4]

Today there is only one person, Cristina Calderón still fluent in the Yaghan language which is remarkably rich in vocabulary and has been classified as an “isolate” – meaning that it appears to be unrelated to any other known language in the world. It contains more than 32,000 concepts and its unique grammar allows for the creation of several hundred thousand words.[5] When one considers that only 850 words are necessary to speak basic English,[6] the volume of Yaghan words is nothing short of amazing.

The Yaghan’ s rich mythology records:

three world cataclysms: a glaciation, a world conflagration and a flood. [7]

This association of a flood with glaciation is rare. In our research of world mythology we have only discovered one other instance: the ancient Vedic story of Airyana Vaêjo[8] which was said to be covered with a thick blanket of ice at the time of the flood when a “dire winter” destroyed the island paradise.

On of the modern features of ancient Atlantis was the role that women played in the community. Plato relates that they enjoyed equal rights:

In Critias he had spoken of the former primacy of the goddess and of the equality of men and women in ancient times. In the Republic he envisions a similar criterion for leadership and where women will have all the advantages of education and all the opportunities for advancement available to men. ‘Public offices are to be held by women as well as men,’ as was the way of the ancients.[9]

The Yaghan society is the closest place on earth to the former site of Atlantis. Women held powerful roles as shamans and dictated the final say over important matters because they were thought to rule the sea.[10] Only females learned to swim. Males were forbidden to marry within the tribe and were expected to embark on sea quests to find wives. The young mariner found at “Upon Your Knees Cave” may have been on one of these long canoe searches for a wife when he died on Prince of Wales Island.

In 1931, anthropologist E. M. Loeb presented his theory that the Yaghan of Tierra del Fuego shared cultural affinity with certain native people of California.[11] After years of study, Loeb concluded that there were rituals, ceremonies and rites of passage that the Yaghan shared with some of the tribes of California. In California many of the First Nations practiced the “Kukusu Cult.” A ritual of dance and masks and appeals to the spirit world.

Professor Loeb could not know, in 1931, that his theory of a connection between the Yaghan and the natives of California would be confirmed using genetic evidence. One of the tribes that practiced the Kukusu Cult in California was the Chumash. In 2008 it was reported that the Chumash possess the same distinct Haplogroup D4h3a as the Yaghan. [12]

Bears were important animals in the Kukusu Cult. Bear caves were considered ideal sites in which to follow spirit quests. Given what we know of the Yaghan’s mastery of the sea, their long quests for mates and their adventurous nature, it’s not impossible that the young man with the D4h3a genetic marker found on Prince of Wales Island may have traveled from Tierra del Feugo. If so, then this discovery, along with a host of other excavations, has the potential to break open the prevailing paradigm of the peopling of America.

This entrenched paradigm dictates that North America was colonized before South America.

On the contrary, human migration may well have moved in the opposite direction. Increasingly, evidence from South America points to this radical conclusion.

~ ~ ~ ~

This is an excerpt from the 2009 eBook edition of When the Sky Fell.

[2] Bryson, George “DNA tracks ancient Alaskan’s descendants,” Anchorage Daily News, December 28, 2008.

[3] 48,100 square kilometers or 18,572 square miles

[4] Miotti, L. and M.C.Salemme “When Patagonia was colonized: people mobility at high latitudes during Pleistoncene/Holocene transition” Quaternary International 109-10, 2003, 95-111, pages 97-98.

[5] Bridges, Rev. Thomas “A few notes on the structure of Yaghan”, Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, XXIII, No. 1, 53-81.

[6] http://esl.about.com/library/vocabulary/bl850_basics.htm  accessed  6 March 2009

[7] Loeb, E.M. “The Religious Organizations of North Central California and Tierra Del Fuego” American Anthropologist, 33, No. 4, (1931) 530.

[8] Please see Chapter Six: Aztlan and the Polar Paradise.

[9] Plato as cited by Davis, Elizabeth Gould The First Sex, Penguin Books, Baltimore, Maryland, 1973 (copyright 1971) page 28.

[10] http://www.meyna.com/yahgan.html accessed 6 March 2009

[11] Loeb op. cit. 517-556.

[12] Bryson, op. cit.

A 21^st century discovery in Siberia should throw this paradigm into a whole new rethink. Why? Because nine members of the Russian Academy of Science published an article in the world most prestigious journal, Science, demonstrating people where living at 71N (that is a full five degrees or 300 miles within the Arctic Circle) around 30,000 years ago.

The Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site, as we explain in the new edition of When the Sky Fell, completely undermines the notion of an overall drop in the world’s temperature since this site was clearly warmer during the last “ice age” than it is even today. Animals that the people hunted include: mammoths, rhinoceros, Pleistocene bison, horse, reindeer, musk-ox, wolf, polar fox, Pleistocene lion, brown bear, and wolverine.The authors of the report, most of whom are with the Russian Academy of Science, noted that:

…only the reindeer and wolf still inhabit this area.

The implications have not yet been fully appreciated. How could people be hunting temperate adapted animals within the Arctic Circle during an Ice Age? No answer has yet been forthcoming. Like the recent evidence from northern Sweden, the physical evidence seems to outright falsify the notion of overall temperature drops causing ice sheet formations.

A simpler idea, and one that two geophysicists are considering, is the notion that Siberia was not within the Arctic Circle 30,000 years ago when the people of Yana hunted bison, reindeer and horses. But how could this be?  The answer is that the earth’s crust, mantle or axis was shifted and that Siberia wasn’t in the polar zone when New York was. Such is the conclusion that we arrive at in the 2009 edition of When the Sky Fell.

We would like to show the implications for Antarctica from the Yana site. If we take a glass globe off its hinges we can peer through the image of Antarctica to see those lands that are on the exact opposite of the globe.

A Glass Globe with Yana’s position marked by the orange box  in green section of Siberia

If people lived in Siberia 30,000 years ago, as explained by the Russian scientists, then it stands to reason that it was possible for people to live in Western Antarctica at the same time. The Yana site provides climatic evidence for the possibility of people living on Antarctica at a time when Plato said Atlantis flourished.

Yana is a bit that doesn’t fit the prevailing earth science paradigm. Only a scientific revolution in our thinking will solve this mystery. We suggest that Charles Hapgood’s theory of an earth crust displacement (or mantle displacement) is such a revolution.

Raymo, Maureen E. & Peter Huybers “Unlocking the Mysteries of the Ice Ages.” Nature 541, (17 January 2008), pages 284-285 (on web)

Woelfi, W and W. Baltensperger “Arctic East Siberia had a lower latitude in the Pleistocene” March 30, 2006 (on web)