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Ancient Inventions and Anthropology



*ANCIENT INVENTIONS:* - In Alexandria and in the Cave of Hathor there appear
to be reasons to believe we had electricity. There is no doubt that
fraudulent traders were using electrum plating techniques to make gold plate
on other metals to sell as pure gold. Some think the cave drawings show
electrical wiring conduits, and I think it might be phosphorous slush in
hoses to make the light by which the cave was painted by artists. There are
professors who would have us believe the reason there is no carbon deposits
from oil or wax burning lamps has to do with blind artisans. Thales had a
small steam engine, the lighthouse at Alexandria and their tri-level
sea-going ships, slot machines and other things lead the authors of Ancient
Inventions to say they could build anything we could build until the
mid-20th century. They detail the skill of port construction and many other
things. There is much more than they talk about for us to re-learn or know,
and many whole disciplines or things we've not yet re-discovered.

*ANTHROPOLOGY:* - There are so many examples of forced 'direct inference'
theorization rather than 'observation and conclusion' to fit all facts in
every area of science. Anthropologists in Polynesia kept telling the native
people that they came from S. E. Asia despite the native assertions that
they came from South America or even the Nootka/Haida nation of the Pacific
Northwest. Thor Heyerdahl proved the natives were correct. The lack of
willingness to accept that humans were inventive and ingenious enough to
create rafts is nearly funny. There is botanical proof that Hawaii's
vegetation is not all indigenous and came from the Caroline Islands of 1500
miles away. A cable TV documentary showed how the rites of the Caroline
Islanders involve a bailing kind of movement and they established that as
long ago as 150,000 BC these islanders traveled to Hawaii on huge rafts with
outriggers. The jungles' vines and logs would make a raft in even the
earliest times of hominid development.

The anthropologists as a whole are more open-minded despite having made many
judgement errors that conventional thinking and the funding process have
contributed to in a big way. We are constantly finding the facts and
opinions of what academia calls mavericks are able to enlighten the past in
all disciplines of anthropology and archaeology. Gimbutas and Campbell have
followed a long line of independent thought from Humboldt and Hawkes through
Petrie and Marshack. In the end they have brought mythology to the
foreground through the use of techniques like the space photos and now we
have solid state chemistry and genetics to blaze new trails. There is still
a lot of small-minded provincial 'pissing-contests' between the differing
disciplines but there are a lot of exciting things being achieved. The cases
of researchers spending up to twenty years working and living with natives,
who tell them what they want to hear because they are gracious and kind, are
numerous. (6) The value systems of our researchers who want to position
themselves and the Euro-Centric financial backers as more civilized are rife
in the annals of what some say is far from a science.

When a native group being held under academic scrutiny and subject to
logical linear mindsets actually is able to educate the 'experts' about
their culture it is the exception. Often such things are not funded because
the data doesn't 'fit' the prevailing literature. Carlos Castaneda was an
anthropologist from UCLA who made a major breakthrough on his own. Even his
debunkers have to admit he has brought a great deal of insight to the field
as a whole. Dr. Wayne Dyer owes a great deal of the thought involved in his
You'll See it, When You Believe It! to the work of Carlos Castaneda and his
Toltec mentor Don Juan. It is possible that all of our research into human
behavior has more to learn than we think we already know. That might mean we
are wrong about many key things. One of the most obvious things that our
cultural bias foists upon the data is the relative importance we place on
intellect rather than spirit.

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