After the Nazis occupation of Austria he fled to London where he spent the remaining years of his life finishing Moses and Monotheism.  It was released in May 1939. Freud died in September, the month World War II was unleashed.  Catastrophe swept away any serious consideration of his last book.

Freud never identified the murderer.  Surprisingly, he overlooked the significant fact that Moses masked his face during the final years of his reign.  The Forbidden Manuscript explores, for the first time, the profound significance of that mask and its role in concealing the murder of Moses.

The people lived in terror of direct contact with God, believing that the sight of Him would bring immediate death.  They had been warned, “man shall not see Me and live.”  Moses became the exception.  When he descended from the Mountain of God carrying the Ten Commandments, “the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.” Exodus 34:30

To calm their fears Moses “put a veil on his face.” The tribe would never see his face again.  Little did they suspect that by accepting a masked man as God’s singular representative they had set themselves up for rule by a despotic outsider.

It was immediately apparent that the prophet had undergone a dramatic personality change.  The ‘first’ Moses had been a quiet, almost shy, shepherd who rarely spoke publicly – probably due to an embarrassing stutter.  After concealing his face the “second” Moses became a dynamic and unpredictable extrovert who repeatedly demonstrated a powerful speaking voice that held no trace of a stutter.

The first act of the “new” Moses was to order the death of three thousand Israelites.  It was just the start of a series of mass murders.

What was the source of this brutal change in the leader?  Did the mask inspire in Moses a more dynamic, eloquent personality who used its anonymity to enforce his power in a new and violent manner?

Or was there another man behind the mask?

Prime Suspect:  Motive

Our prime suspect in the murder is Reuel, a Prince of Edom and an Egyptian-trained magician.  Reuel’s father was Esau, the first of twins born to Isaac, the founder of the Jews.  The second born twin was Jacob whose name means ‘deception’.

Reuel’s grandfather, Isaac, favoured Esau while his grandmother, Rebekah, wanted Jacob to inherit the leadership.  When the time came to bestow the final blessing from his deathbed Isaac was virtually blind.  Rebekah carefully groomed and coached Jacob to take his brother’s place and succeeded in misdirecting the old man to bless the wrong son.

Thus, deception and impersonation robbed Reuel’s father of his inheritance as the leader of the Hebrew people.  Reuel’s skills of hypnotism and illusion, learned from the highest-ranking Egyptian priests, would propel his ruthless drive to reclaim that loss.

The Egyptian myth of Osiris provided Reuel with a blueprint for murder.  Osiris, like Reuel’s father, lost his leadership through an act of deception.  Tricked by his younger brother, Seth, into climbing into a chest, Osiris died when he was locked inside.   Seth then mutilated the body.

Osiris’s son, Horus, later took revenge on Seth.

The story of an avenging son seeking justice against a deceitful uncle resonated with Reuel.

Impersonation and deception had cost him leadership.

Impersonation and murder were the weapons he wielded to seize power.

Contents of the Ark of the Covenant

Several authors have proposed that the Knights Templar recovered the Ark while secretly digging beneath the ruins of the Temple in Jerusalem around 1100 AD.  Only the most elite would have been present at the opening of the Ark.  What they found remains a continuously fascinating enigma.  What is known, however, is that following their stay in Jerusalem, the inner circle suddenly adopted a bizarre burial ritual.

It is the Christian custom to preserve their deceased in preparation for the final resurrection.  Elaborate measures are taken to create the illusion of sleep.  This makes the bizarre rites introduced by the Knights Templar most extraordinary and out of character.

They initiated a practice of mutilating their comrades’ remains by amputating the legs enabling them to lay the bones across the torso.  The skull was placed above the crossed bones.  (The skull and bones emblem flew as the flag of the Knights Templar.)  Templar coffins were truncated because they replicated the Ark of the Covenant.

Traditionally, the Ark is believed to hold the tablets recording the Ten Commandments.

The Forbidden Manuscript suggests, for the first time, that the true contents of the Ark of the Covenant were the skull and bones of the murdered Moses.

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This was a fun interview that aired on Saturday the 12th of September 2009. To listen now click on the “DREAMLAND RADIO (LISTEN NOW) icon and that will take you to the Dreamland homepage. The icon is located at the top right hand corner of the Dreamland webpage. You are then able to select the 12th September 2009 interview.

Also ~ please watch for the recorded chat session after 19 September 09.

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In TOP 10 of Mobipocket’s Suspense and Thrillers category!

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When Anne Fawcett, a radical Biblical theorist, is murdered in the Tower of London, her estranged daughter is pulled into a struggle to unearth a relic sacred to three religions.

Seona has made the trip to London from the U.S. for a much-anticipated reunion with her mother. Instead, she-s forced to embark on a risky journey with Anne-s friend, Garrick Keller, an underemployed English actor. They must piece together the clues to Anne-s death – little suspecting that every hour they are wandering deeper into a conspiracy spun by a rogue faction (the Headhunters) within the most secret of secret societies – Yale’s Skull & Bones.

Bonesman Anthony Wharrie is aware of the sensational aspects of Anne Fawcett-s research about the present-day location of the Ark of the Covenant. He must find the critical missing chapter of the forbidden manuscript so that the Headhunters can claim this most coveted of all artifacts.

With only a passage from the Old Testament to guide them, Seona and Garrick must track the clues to what Anne knew on the day of her brutal murder. The trail leads them through the ancient streets of London, to Seona-s birth father in Edinburgh and on a race to New York.

Against a background of little known ancient and medieval history, the puzzle of Anne Fawcett-s obsession comes to dominate the life of two strangers thrown together by their grief. Seona and Garrick must embrace the dangerous roles that fate has cast for them – or die.

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Gobekli Tepe is older than Stonehenge, older than the pyramids of Egypt and not by just a few years.  It is thousands of years older. The site is discussed in the new eBook edition of When the Sky Fell.

Thanks to Steve Detwiler for the following link.

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 1886, the American historian Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918) related the Okanagan myth of their lost island paradise of “Samah-tumi-whoo-lah”:

“Long, long ago, when the sun was young and no bigger than a star, there was an island far off in the middle of the ocean. It was called Samah-tumi-whoo-lah, meaning White Man’s Island. On it lived a race of giants – white giants. Their ruler was a tall white woman called Scomalt. … She could create whatever she wished.

For many years the white giants lived at peace, but at last they quarreled amongst themselves. Quarreling grew into war. The noise of battle was heard, and many people were killed. Scomalt was made very, very angry … she drove the wicked giants to one end of the White Man’s Island. When they were gathered together in one place, she broke off the piece of land and pushed it into the sea. For many days the floating island drifted on the water, tossed by waves and wind. All the people on it died except one man and one woman.

… Seeing that their island was about to sink they built a canoe [and] … after paddling for many days and nights, they came to some islands. They steered their way through them and at last reached the mainland.”

The Okanagan feared any dramatic change in the heavens as an ominous portent of another Great Flood. The fear that the sun might once again wander or the sky might fall became an obsession. And they believed that in a time to come,

“…[the] lakes will melt the foundations of the world, and the rivers will cut the world loose. Then it will float as the island did many suns and snows ago. That will be the end of the world.”

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The territory of the Okanagan First Nation includes parts of British Columbia, Washington and Idaho. Their story of a lost island paradise in “the middle of the ocean” may refer to Antarctica before the “foundations of the earth” “cut the world loose.”

Antarctica is an island in the middle of the ocean, just like the lost land of Okanagan mythology.

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Please see also the lost island paradise of India.

This is an excerpt from When the Sky Fell.

In 1922, Mahatma Gandhi, about to be sentenced to six years in prison, said to the judge:

“Since you have done me the honor of recalling the trial of the late Lokamaya Gangadhar Tilak, I just want to say that I consider it the proudest privilege and honor to be associated with his name.”

Bal Gangadhar Tilak forged the tactic of passive resistance as a means of overthrowing British rule in India. He was held in such esteem that Gandhi used the title “Lokamaya” (“Beloved Leader of the People”) when referring to him. Tilak earned his title while imprisoned in 1897 for seditious writings. The British hoped to curb his role in the rising tide of Indian nationalism by locking him up. The harsh conditions of his Bombay cell took their toll. Tilak’s health waned. Fearing that his death in custody might spark a general uprising, the British moved the “Beloved Leader of the People” to a safer prison in Poona. Helped by donations of fruit and vegetables Tilak partially recovered his health. But soon a new hunger overtook him – the need for intellectual stimulation. Relief came from an unlikely quarter: England.

Tilak had published a respected work on India’s oldest texts, the Vedas, and Sanskrit scholars at Oxford and Cambridge were outraged by his imprisonment and treatment. Professor F. Max Muller, the world’s leading authority on the Vedas, was successful in having Tilak’s case reviewed by Queen Victoria. She shortened his sentence and granted him a reading light in his cell. Denied access to newspapers or any other current material, Tilak used this “privilege” to continue his studies of the Vedas.

Upon his release Tilak retired to the mountains to rest at a favorite family retreat. In 1903 his great work, The Arctic Home in the Vedas, was published. In it he argued that the remains of an island paradise could be found beneath the Arctic Ocean:

“It was the advent of the Ice Age that destroyed the mild climate of the original home and covered it into an ice-bound land unfit for the habitation of man.”

Tilak summarized a key passage in the oldest saga of Iran, the Zend-Avesta:

“Ahura Mazda warns Yima, the first king of men, of the approach of a dire winter, which is to destroy every living creature by covering the land with a thick sheet of ice, and advises Yima to build a Vara, or an enclosure, to preserve the seeds of every kind of animal and plant. The meeting is said to have taken place in the Airyana Vaêjo, or Paradise of the Iranians.”

Tilak chose the Arctic Circle as the location of the lost island paradise because he was influenced by the whole earth theory of the founder of Boston University, William Fairfield Warren.

Warren believed that the polar paradise was destroyed when a critical temperature drop resulted in a worldwide geological upheaval. A huge mass of the earth’s interior collapsed inward, pulling sections of the planet’s crust with it. The ocean rushed to drown the sunken areas. The globe then cooled – suffocating the original island paradise in snow and ice.

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The theory of a collapsing polar crust has been falsified by modern exploration of the Arctic Ocean floor.

We suggest that the evidence that Tilak culled from reading the Vedas points to Antarctica as the site of the lost island paradise covered in snow and ice. Please see Earth Crust Displacement and Atlantis in Antarctica.

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This is an extract from the new editon of When the Sky Fell.

We are proud to have an article in Haida Laas! (click on cover)

Using contemporary historical sources, we show how the 1862 British government in Victoria, British Columbia was responsible for spreading smallpox to Haida Gwaii. This was an early attempt at genocide using bioterrorism.

So how does Roland Emmerich end the world in his upcoming epic “2012″? “Pole reversal,” he said in an interview this week. “All kinds of stuff going on. But it’s basically major earthquakes and volcano eruptions which kind of cause this global flood.”

“We found this obscure theory of ‘Earth crust displacement,’ written in the ’50s by someone called Professor Hapgood. Albert Einstein wrote the foreword to his book. It pretty much [says] every X number of years the whole Earth’s crust shifts, all together. We thought that that was a great underlining theory that can explain why there can be a flood.”

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We thought important to add to Mr. Emmerich’s statement that neither Charles Hapgood nor Albert Einstein ever suggested that there would be an earth crust displacement in 2012.

Also Charles Hapgood never connected his earth crust displacement theory with the Mayan calendar.

While we look forword to seeing the 2012 movie, especially what looks to be terrifc special effects, we must remember it is just a movie!

We fully expect to be buying the DVD in 2013.

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Please see: Earth Crust Displacement for an explanation of the theory.