You will hear of wars and reports of wars; see that you are not alarmed, for these things must happen, but it will not yet be the end. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be famines and earthquakes from place to place. All these things are the beginnings of labour pains.
The Gospel of Matthew
. . .I am going to shake the heavens, why the earth will reel on its foundations, under the wrath of Yahweh Sabaoth, the day when his anger ignites.
Book of Isaiah
There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; on earth nations in agony, bewildered turmoil of the ocean and its waves; men fainting with terror and fear at what menaces the world, for the powers of heaven will be shaken.
Gospel of Luke
On the day Gog attacks the land of Israel -- it is the Lord Yahweh who speaks -- I shall grow angry. In my anger, my jealousy, and the heat of my fury I say it: I swear that on that day there will be a fearful quaking in the land of Israel. At my presence the fish in the sea and birds of heaven, the wild beasts and all the reptiles that crawl along the ground, and all men on earth will quake. Mountains will fall, cliffs crumble, walls collapse . . .
Book of Ezekiel
CHAPTER 2
One day I was bored, and solving this great mystery was the farthest thought from my mind. I craved something that would bring me immediate gratification; escaping into a movie has been a standard remedy during times of boredom and lack of initiative.
I went to a video rental store. Looking back at the day’s significance and the roundabout way I wound up where I did -- I must surmise I was unwittingly guided. I drove past several large video rental places -- I just kept driving -- quite far actually to the outskirts of town to a corner store that, as a sideline, also rented videos. Their selection was poor; I’d seen everything worth renting. I spotted a video that wouldn’t have appealed to me while looking for a first-rate action film in a proper video store. I had slipped into a second-best kind of mode.
It was a documentary called The Jupiter Menace. More precisely, it was classified as speculative science. When I first plugged it into the VCR, I was repulsed. I thought, “What kind of ‘B’ movie did I get?” Then on came George Kennedy, the narrator. I like his work, especially in cowboy flicks, and I felt the film’s credibility increase from that point on. The film was full of relevant information that had given me theory shocks in the past and was doing so again. The film was about pole shifting.
Then it happened! Zap-pow! Information and a theory shock touched me so deeply they caused a tear to roll down my cheek. Around the time of the beginning of the last Ice Age there had been a grand alignment, a conjunction of all the planets in our solar system.
Better yet, the film went on to explain that the next grand alignment will occur on May fifth in the year two thousand. This news caused me to feel relief and joy. Suddenly years of frustrating wonder were over and I knew an exact day the poles could shift again. If the original shock is correct and it does happen in my lifetime, I suspect the ingredients will be when conditions within the earth’s crust and conditions on the outside of the crust are ready, and, possibly, when a conjunction can provide a momentary lapse of our planet’s crustal centrifugal-gravitational balance.
The theory shock I received from Edgar’s warning for the year 2000 was enough for me to ‘feel’ the mystery was solved and, now my intellect had something tangible to help pacify it. An unusual event in the solar system might produce consequences for our planet. It’s not proof, but it’s sound logic.
As we know the sun and moon affect our oceans in the form of massive tidal movements, it made sense to me that all of the planets in our solar system lining up would have some kind of additional effect on our little planet. The fact that such a conjunction and an ice age happened at roughly the same time was too big a coincidence for me not to take notice. This news accompanied by a theory shock felt like more than a coincidence to me.
As we approach the time when a pole shift will happen I think we can expect the planet to show us signs of it’s unrest -- it’s need to blow off a little steam. This is what a pole shift is -- a natural phenomenon we have the ability to understand. Lets not deny its possibility because it’s a bigger geological event than we’re used to seeing. If we understand it, we can survive it.
I must share with you the experience of another theory shock. This shock occurred when I was working in a mechanical shop. Pausing from work, I watched my friend cutting a piece of steel with a torch. A shock went through me as I saw a piece of weld fly through the air and land on the garage floor. It was as though the electric tingle alerted me to watch the little steel ball.
I continued to watch the glowing red ball as it developed a grey crust. The thin grey crust would remain still for a time, then would rise and fall, releasing gasses trapped beneath the crust. Then it was still again, then rose again, cracking as it released more gases, and then appeared to be dormant again. The analogy was instantly obvious to me: the molten steel ball represented a miniature planet earth. Most of our planet’s mass is molten, so it makes sense there is a buildup of gases under the crust that requires periodical releasing.
I’m sure that, on the little steel ball, there were minute releases I couldn’t see that would represent volcanoes and earthquakes when scaled up to earth’s size. Overall, what I saw happening to the little steel ball were cataclysms in miniature. I believe I was watching what happens during a pole shift -- a scale version of a planet passing gas.
Seriously, physics will tell us anything hot enough to be molten gives off energy. To enclose this energy-producing source within a crust is asking for trouble. Should we be surprised when the earth’s crust finally tears apart to expel gases? Are ants surprised when their anthills are suddenly flattened by huge passing things like us? I bet they are because their lives revolve around their petty little problems and their petty little purposes for existing. Just like us with our problems, which seem so all encompassing and our intellectually developed ideas of purpose. Our cumulative human ego causes us to live in denial of our insignificance within the big picture. We think highly of ourselves and consider the gods or God to favour us above all. Even if something favours us above all else, I think earth’s crust will still be displaced once in a while. It’s a natural law.
There are many examples of periodically recurring natural phenomenon; these disasters come mainly in the form of fires, flood and weather. I’ve heard these recurring events described as cleansing. They provide a necessary function for the rebirth of plants and they benefit animals as well. Forest fires are required to release the seeds of the Sequoia tree. Grassland fires help one tribe in Africa rid grazing lands of disease-carrying bugs, so much so that, when nature doesn’t provide the annual fire, they’ll go light up the fields themselves. Annual flooding of the Nile is the reason Egypt thrived: the rainy season run-off naturally fertilizes their desert land. The same holds true for the Mississippi river, the reason we view its renewal as a disaster is because people build their houses on its flood plain. The reason the Mississippi bottomland is so fertile is because it is a flood plain and even billions of dollars worth of dikes and levies can’t stop the flood plain from doing its job as nature decrees.
If all the bugs, animals and people fully understood the nature of those periodic recurring natural phenomenon, they could remove themselves from harm’s way by simply moving out of the way. Death and destruction are prevalent during these cleansings, and that’s the way I view a pole shift. The law of nature presides over this planet; our life spans are too short to really grasp the wisdom. I think we should be surprised when we realize the earth will groom itself at our expense; yet, after the cataclysm, earth will not be barren and, with the help of our intellects, human beings stand the best chance to survive.
In all the versions of the pole shift theory I’ve listened to, rising and falling landmasses are expected. On the little steel ball there were seconds of dormancy between the little grey crustal upheavals. I listened when one pole shift predictor said, “there are roughly forty thousand years between pole shifts.” I assume his calculations are based on some sort of geographical evidence.
My assumption of fifteen thousand years for the next shift is based on my belief that the Ice Age marked the last pole shift calculated against my first theory shock, which told me another ice age would play a significant role in my lifetime. Backed up by the Cayce reading, and by the close proximity of the last Ice Age and a grand alignment, which seems significant to me. I’ve assumed this grand alignment of 5/5/2000 may play a role in the next shift. It may be the trigger that sets off the whole shebang; or have a more subtle affect. An experienced gambler would put his money on this geographical evidence, but I must side with my long shot. This isn’t far retched because in Hapgood’s theory, he postulates that pole shifts are not regularly spaced and his conclusions are also based on geographical evidence.
Our planet is billions of years old, yet it has cooled only three miles of crustal thickness below the Gulf of California and not more than fifteen miles below the surface at any measured spot on earth. If the earth were a twelve-inch basketball, the crust would be only ‘.001’ inches thick. At those points we reach an irregular dividing line separating the earth’s crust from its underlying mantle called the Mohorovicic discontinuity. From that point we enter the realm of theory of what the conditions are like -- how deep we have to go to find magma is anyone’s guess.
For us, a hundred years is more than a lifetime. Relatively translated, our lifetime compared to earth’s lifetime equals the blink of an eye during a week. I’d say that, while the little ball of weld was cooling, if any kind of cellular life had formed on its crust, its perception of time would be inconceivably quicker than our perception of time. Therefore, something much bigger than us might be able to watch our planet cool before their eyes through an electron microscope. Have you ever watched the dust particles floating in a ray of sunlight and wondered if it was another universe? Of course you have. We are all familiar with the “Horton hears a Who” theory postulated by Dr. Seuss. Lets not allow our concept of what is a long time blind us to reality -- leading us to believe the world is stable. The world will be stable only when the planet is dead, like our moon.
This is one way I think events could unfold. Several miles below our feet, gases are building pressure. This pressure is pushing outwards against the inside of the mantle getting stronger and angrier as it awaits release. The hardened layers of our earth are loosened and weakened by these gaseous pockets. Given enough time, the pressure would build and free itself, causing localized apocalyptic damage but it doesn’t have to wait; the pressure has allies.
The earth spins at a rate of one-thousand-seventy-five miles an hour at the equator -- actually it’s not a pure spin; it’s more of a distorted wobbling spin that contributes to the movement of tectonic plates. At present, the plates are locked in harmonious balance with the earth’s molten core. Though the plates are in motion, the motion is slow and deliberate. The inertial lurch of a pole shift will dramatically change this harmonious balance to devastating conflict.
The polar caps are growing at a rate of billions of tons per day. The polar caps are positioned perfectly within the wobble to attain the greatest amount of influencing momentum. They play with the earth’s wobble like a child hanging outward from a merry-go-round to increase its speed. We know the sun and moon play tug-of-war with the earth’s tides, and on May fifth, two thousand, the counterbalance of our solar system may not be there. All of our solar system’s planets will form a straight line through the sun. Earth’s harmonious wobbling spin will only need a momentary lapse to unlock its delicate balance.
The slightest shift of balance will set in motion a chain reaction. Once the balance is unlocked, the crust will travel over pressurized bubbles under the earth’s skin that are searching for a way out -- huge bubbles that will cause the rise and fall of land, cracking the land as it moves. Tectonic plates will be dueling above the Richter scale. The earth is not a perfect sphere: it is wider at the equator than it is around the poles and there is more mass south of the equator. Any significant movement of the crust will cause it to crack as it reforms to fit its new underbelly of centrifugally shaped magma. The atmosphere will fill with nauseous gases, acidic sulphur and ash that is escaping through these newly formed cracks.
Trillions of tons of seawater will be sloshing against our straining, weakened thin layer of crust. The weight of this water may add to the number of cracks by cracking the earth’s crust where it is weakest over top of the pressurized bubbles. (An astrogeophysisist I’ve met told me about a pocket of gas off the coast of Japan; he said that if the temperature it was stored at changed by only a couple of degrees, the explosion would be immense). Millions of gallons of water will be dumped onto molten rock through the newly formed cracks. In turn, steam will be spewed into the atmosphere causing torrential rains or steam mist. The torrential precipitation or steam cleaning effect is a blessing because it will gather molecules in the air and drastically reduce the hang time for volcanic gases and ash.
As the poles shift their latitude, the inertial force of moving land masses conflicts with the centrifugal spin of the earth. This causes ground water to erupt from the crust like Old Faithful. We can expect all of this to be described as a world flood, yet there is more. Huge slabs of crust will travel - racing to close newly formed gaps in earth’s crawling skin. Earthquakes! I hesitate to use the word: what we know to be an earthquake doesn’t begin to compare with horrific ripping, tearing and bumping that will be taking place.
Climatic conditions will change over areas as geography changes longitude and latitude within hours. Who would like to guess what these changes might look like? Oceans will spill from their reservoirs and wash over continents -- huge far-reaching tsunamis. Theses events are each in their own right disastrous, yet they will feed each other, ever increasing the magnitude of what I call the pole shift. I believe Noah and others were survivors of just such an event.
For the last couple of days I’ve been racking my brain trying to remember the exact moment I recognized Noah had been a pole shift survivor. But I can’t. It’s been too long. I’ve been carrying this belief and gathering the contents of this book for thirty years. My head has been my filing cabinet for all but the last five years. Although my interest in Noah has been obsessive, I’ve misfiled the moment it was sparked. I seem to remember making the connection and it hitting me like a “ton of bricks.” It was likely accompanied by a theory shock, but the memory of the moment eludes me.
Whenever it was, it created an insatiable appetite for learning the truth about Noah, the Ark and the Deluge. It was important and caused me in the beginning to create a working title for my book: it was to be called, Just Call Me Noah. Some may think all one needs to learn about Noah is to pick up the Old Testament. Not! Following the legends of Noah back into history is quite a trek.
Allow me to explain. Legends are like gossip: they travel the grapevine, quite often being embellished or suffering from a forgotten word or two. I remember a lesson from grade school where the teacher sat with our small class of about ten children in a circle. She whispered a short one-paragraph story from a card into the ear of the child to her left. Each child was expected to listen to the whispered story from the child on his/her right, and then whisper the story to the next in line on his/her left. The last child told the story aloud followed by our teacher reading to the class from the card. Similarities were there in a word or two, but the stories were extremely different.
This lesson taught me not to rely solely on what I was told, but to search deeper than words for truth. Believing a story verbatim puts an awful lot of trust in the storyteller. Embellishment, forgetfulness and ignorance are human weaknesses that play havoc with the facts. Changes to a story are not necessarily malicious in nature; they are natural because of human nature.
Some of you are open to all possibilities and decide within yourself what to believe, but others will wonder how I can question what many people believe without question. It is not my intention to offend anyone with my thoughts. I struggled with my own set of beliefs adopted during my life. Let me say my hat goes off to all religions for keeping such an accurate account of history. Accurate, but not exact. There are over two hundred and eighty cultures that have preserved great flood stories; we’ll get to some of the others later. For now, I would like to analyze the words in the legend of Noah’s Ark and trace its history.
The Old Testament’s version of the Noah’s Ark epic is the version with which I became most familiar. I was initiated into Catholicism at the age of eight when my Dad married a Catholic. When the marriage ended four years later, so did my exposure to the Bible. For a long time my only knowledge of Noah came from that one train of thought.
Essentially, the Old Testament says that Noah, his wife, three sons and their spouses built the Ark. Apparently God had a chat with Noah telling him something like, “Noah, the world is full of sin, the people of earth are evil and you and your family are the only people worth saving. So here’s what I want you to do. Build a big boat and load it with a male and a female of each species. There’s a storm a comin’ and with it I’m gonna kill every person and animal that’s not on your boat.”
In the Koran, the story of Noah includes the craftsmen who helped build the Ark. Forty men and their spouses joined Noah’s family on the Ark. The Koran’s version also says the number of each species saved was seven breeding pairs. It doesn’t claim a pair of each of the planet’s species were brought into the Ark; only animals that eat grass -- beasts of the field or, in other words, the kinds of animals we’d find on a farm. This is much more logical. Theses numbers provide a better chance for the healthy procreation of all survivors.
When a religion includes a story like Noah’s, it is natural for the reader to assume Noah was a direct ancestor of that particular faith. Hebrews, Muslims and Christians include the story of Noah in their books of worship, the inference being that each of these religions claim to originate from the loins of a righteous man called Noah. Well why not? Some believe Noah’s family were the only survivors of the deluge. Considering the number of people that have been involved in theses faiths, the story of Noah and his Ark must be the most talked about human undertaking in history. I believe Noah (we’ll discuss his AKAs later) did build an Ark, yet, after studying the three versions with the perception provided by my theory, I think some of the details have understandably been altered.
Looking farther back into history, these big three seem to have borrowed their versions from an earlier civilization known as the Sumerians. Yet even the Sumerian account was etched into clay several thousand years after Noah’s Ark made its voyage (if I’m right it was at the time of the last Ice Age). During those thousands of years I think it’s safe to assume this version is also somewhat compromised. The farther we go back into history we lessen the opportunities for compromise. We will find forgotten words; and what is different from what is consistent will help us recognize the embellishments. What I’m looking for is validating factors within varied accounts of hearsay.
Throughout the ages societies were predominately illiterate, a few literate men controlled the changes penned in humanity’s doctrines. By studying history we see that rulers often change doctrines to suit their purpose, making themselves and their cultures appear that much greater. Furthermore, throughout history, there have been men whose insight brought much needed change in the direction worship was taking. Once in awhile, one of these insightful individuals pops up to say, “Whoa! That’s not right. This is the way it should be.” These individuals preach love and compassion, yet, ironically, they cause quite a revolution in the direction of worship. Very usually after their deaths, doctrines are significantly rewritten. What we learn when studying the history of religion is that all current beliefs will eventually change. Sometimes these changes occur after hundreds or thousands of years, but they will occur.
The true story of the Egyptians is an example of change. Egyptians discovered mummification by accident when bodies buried in the sand were uncovered. They formed a whole belief system around it. It was their rational reality to believe that a properly prepared cadaver would allow time for their soul and their personality to find the cadaver and re-enter it to live again. Any derivation from this faith was considered contemptuous. Tomb robbers were the exception. They obviously didn’t put as much stock in an afterlife as they did in their present existence. They were olden day non-conformists (I guess in some ways, like me). Today, people who unquestioningly follow a religious belief share a bond with the Egyptian majority. Yet they’d have an easier time believing the tomb robbers held the more reasonable belief even though they would consider their behaviour sacrilegious. It strikes me odd that followers don’t stick up for other followers. When following we rely on information and take for granted that those who penned it are beyond reproach.
My own mind and soul are far from serene and so far I haven’t found the knowledge my soul is yearning for. But I know what I don’t like and I am forming conclusions that are steering the direction of my spiritual search. It is in this fashion I followed the legend of Noah back into history: by recognizing what I don’t like the sound of and trying to make sense out of what is left.
I used my own common sense and a very real intention to rebuild the ark to strain out unimportant yadda-yadda. I found that I was able to visualize a fairly clear picture of what may have happened to Noah; I’ve also drawn conclusions as to what might have caused some of the discrepancies in one of the accounts. Most importantly, I am satisfied with my analysis.