Theos-Talk Archives (June 2003 Message tt00169)

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Subject: Theos-World RE: Dallas re references re footprints


> Tuesday, June 17, 2003
>
> Dear Mauri
>
> Dallas re references re footprints
>
> The reason is plain.
>
> Established academic Science tries to limit itself to the
> theories made by its pioneers of 100 or more years ago and does
> not fully recognize the advances made in certain areas, because
> it upsets those.
>
> There is a record of neglect and non-consideration starting as
> early as H P B's days.
>
> Science when it confines itself to the description of facts
> cannot be challenged.
>
> When Science begins to theorize about the sources and antecedents
> of present day conditions often goes astray because all they have
> to base themselves on is PHYSICAL matter relicts, artifacts,
> etc...
>
> Call it a series of educated guesses. But they are still
> guesses.
>
> H P B devotes much of the 2nd half of the 2nd Vol. of The SECRET
> DOCTRINE to demonstrating those errors in many areas, She was
> not popular !
>
> The "descent of man" is a crucial one. In the 1870/1880 period,
> De Quatrefages demonstrated that the Man skeleton could not have
> "descended" from that of an ape.
>
> The Ape is a specialized form. The Man skeleton is primitive,
> and is therefore under the law of development, it has to be prior
> to that of the ape. One of the laws of descent shows that a
> primitive form cannot be descended from a specialized form. The
> Ape skeleton is shown to be SPECIALIZED, and is descended from
> man, skeleton, physiologically. That upsets the Darwinian
> theory. S D II goes into detail on this. But it has not been
> pursued by Science.




>
> In the early 1900s Charles FORT wrote several books [THE BOOK OF
> THE DAMNED, LO!, etc...] full of facts and reports taken from
> observations on the spot and reported in local newspapers. These
> were reports of strange phenomena all over the world, that
> science neglected (or concealed), because they did not conform to
> accepted theories and hypotheses. There continues an active
> "Fortean Society" in New York which continues to record such
> anomalies for the past 80 or 90 years.

This book is currently in print in hard cover from
www.doverpublications.com

Other sites that are interested in those things are;

Atlantis Rising magazine
www.aa.net/~mwm/atlantis/arise2.html

Fortean Times
www.forteantimes.com/index3.html

Strange Magazine
www.strangemag.com/

I haven't been to all of them recently, so I don't know if they are
still in print.

Dennis