Ghostly Talk - Ancient Mysteries

New show on travel chanel: "Paranormal Egypt"

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:01:03 -0700

Good: "Two great tastes that taste great togther."

Bad: "the UK's most acclaimed medium Derek Acorah"

http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Most_Haunted/ci.%22Paranormal_Egypt%22.show?vgnextfmt=show

Giant (human?) bones found in North America. And is there a show here Scott or Doug?

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:44:30 -0800

I have read many things about the unusual but this is the first time I have run across this and it comes up often if you Google it.

There are many old burial sites believed to be American Indian in many US states that skeletons exceeding 7 feet have been found.

Many comanalities in the reports. Including 2 rows of teeth. Red hair, Flat topped skulls.

Odd I can not find any mention of where we could view one of these skeletons.
I would like to see one as I am a skeptic at first and theres nothing like visual proof.

Has anyone heard of this before? I would think Bigfoot people would be all over this info.

Here is couple links

http://www.cavelore.com/giantus.htm

http://www.geocities.com/saqatchr/page46.html

http://www.burlingtonnews.net/centerindians.html

And of course Google north american giants or indian mound giants or think of your own.

what you know about Metaphysical teaching

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:05:54 -0700

I am intrested in knowing what you know
or are learning if you are still studying
Metaphysics. And how would you present
your findings.

Vortexes

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:22:36 -0700

Does anyone know where I could get a list or map of known vortexes around the world? I find these things very cool and would like to explore them first hand.

Multi-civilization starmap renditions in ancient monuments?

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:37:15 -0700

Ooh, this is rather interesting. Especially if you are into things Egyptian.

Or Kemetian, more accurately.

A South African dude has been overlaying starmaps upon numerous ancient monumental sites, and looking for correlations. (We all know about the "Orion's Belt" pattern that seems to explain the Giza Complex.) What he's suggesting seems to be that there are multiple renditions of similar ancient star maps in the architectural remnants from Egypt to South America, from England to Japan.

This - if true - is pretty cool.

What I want to see is time-corrected 3D versions of the starmaps to see if the patterns of the new 'expanded' Giza Complex (from somewhere called 'Abu Ruwash' to 'Abusir' apparently) create a map-to-origin for a time period in the past which can be locked down to a specific period.

I also wonder if the starmaps are depicting the stellar group from a POV (point of view) that is not actually from Earth at all, but from another point in space that - presumably - could be worked out. Perhaps this POV might be a point of origin?

This is like some cool, deleted scene from 'Stargate,' I know. (I liked the original, goofy, film, but can't comment on the TV series...)

You can listen to this guy over at (you guessed it) Wonderfully Whacky Whitley Strieber's site. (Right-click here to save to your computer, at least until next week.)

Professor challenges Mayan calendar opinion

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:55:12 -0800

Professor challenges Mayan calendar opinion

By MARK HARPER
Education Writer

The end of the world will come on Dec. 21, 2012. Or not.

While some New Age authors and teachers are touting that date as an apocalypse, a Stetson University professor is challenging the reasoning behind it.

At a public lecture at the Volusia County Library Center on City Island today, Robert Sitler plans to discuss "The 2012 Phenomenon: A New Age Appropriation of an Ancient Mayan Calendar," an article he wrote last month for Nova Religio, the Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions.

Sitler, an associate professor of Spanish language and literature, has been studying and teaching Mayan culture since arriving at Stetson in 1994. He contends the Mayan calendar has long been the subject of "gross misinterpretation" on several hundred Web sites and in a continuous stream of books.

Those postings and printings are evidence of a growing public interest in the Mayan Long Count calendar, which had fallen out of use by the Mayans of Guatemala, Mexico and Belize, long before the Spanish conquerors had arrived.

The 2012 date is the last day of the current "b'aktun" cycle, or period of 144,000 days, and the final day of an even longer period consisting of 13 such cycles. No one knows why the calendar is arranged with an end date, Sitler said. But the Mayans were known for their accurate knowledge of astronomy.

"It's a weird concept to many because the calendar seems to have a preordained ending date," said Jeremy Puma, a Seattle resident and St. Augustine native who writes Fantastic Planet, a "gnostic" blog. He noted in an e-mail interview that the Mayans used the calendar for planting crops and other purposes, but the New Age movement "seems to have glommed onto the calendar's more mythological aspects."

First and foremost, Sitler and Puma agree, is New Age author Jose Arguelles, most famed for his declaration of a "Harmonic Convergence" in August 1987. The Harmonic Convergence, Arguelles said, was the "exponential acceleration of the wave harmonic of history as it phases into a moment of unprecedented synchronization," and "a shift point into the last 25 years of the galactic beam."

Sitler says Arguelles' approach is Mayan culture with "creative abandon," and when challenged, will note that his version of a 260-day Mayan ritual calendar, which differs significantly from the actual calendar used by some Maya even today, is a version of the "Galactic Maya," rather than the indigenous Maya.

"Arguelles is merely the best-known teacher in an ever-expanding international group that includes dozens of highly inventive and often eccentric individuals reaching out to the New Age public with their ideas concerning 2012," Sitler said. He notes the existence of a Web site that features a running clock until Dec. 21, 2012, with links to another selling T-shirts bearing the 2012 date and featuring several pop-up ads.

Despite the blatant commercialism, there remains a lot of interest in the subject, said Jeff Dorian, director of the MetaScience Research Forum, a local group that meets monthly at the Edgewater Public Library. Dorian said he has long wanted to land an expert in the Mayan calendar to speak to his group.

"There is a percentage of people who believe the end of the Mayan calendar will be the end of everything," Dorian said. "There's about as many interpretations of the Mayan calendar as there are experts."

Inside an Ormond Beach New Age shop, the Crystal Connection, a thumping of drums, soft whistle of a flute and screech of an unidentifiable rainforest avian greets visitors. Books line the shelves, carrying titles such as, "The Fourth Dimension," "The Book of Thoth," and "Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma." Also available: pyramids, amethysts from Uruguay, angels and fairies (spelled "faeries", presumably to seem more Gaelic).

Roger Hollander, owner of the shop, said he doesn't believe 2012 will bring the end of the world. But, he adds: "There are many people that believe this. Some believe this strongly."

Hollander, who also owns similar shops in Indian Rocks Beach and St. Augustine, believes a change could be coming in 2012.

"The world will have a better, a deeper sense of consciousness. By then, (people) should be worn out doing it how they're doing it now. We'll either be here or we won't; we'll just have to experience it."

Sitler predicts the Mayans' culture could lend 2012 "an attractive power that may eventually even outstrip" Y2K, the hype surrounding the year 2000.

mark.harper@news-jrnl.com

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Local/newWEST04031506.htm

The Sphinx

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:34:57 -0800

Anyone ever stop to think that maybe the Sphinx had a FEMALE head? Originally. I mean, because the ANCIENT GODDESS Ishtar/Innana was associated with lions, she was the lioness...and her creation predates Egypt.
Just a thought...

Underwater relics

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:02:58 -0800

I am very, very heavy into Archeology and one thing I've been checking out alot is the submersed artificial structures off the coast of Cuba, and in deeper parts of the atlantic, etc.
I think it would make a great topic for Ghostlytalk in the future.

Knee injury infection killed King Tut

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 22:37:52 -0800

I noticed on /. that King Tut was killed by an infection of a knee injury according to Discovery.

The lesson is: bring Bactine® on your ghost hunts, okay?

Egyptian Ying and Yang statue

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:54:37 -0800

This is a very impressive statue that I saw in the Cairo Museum of Antiquities. Mind you this place looked like a huge warehouse rather than a museum... There were sarcaphogi in rows all down the hallways. People were walking around them, sitting on them, and resting their bags on them. it was dark in there, so most photos didn't turn out without a flash... and there is a rule of no flashes in there (cameras confiscated if you used it.) So, when no one was looking I snagged a couple pics here and there. This one I really liked. It showed what egyptians thought of as ying and yang, and where western society came up with the idea of the little angle and devil on your shoulder.

link: sculpture

The person in the middle is the pharoah, the person on his right is Horace (eagle head) and on his left is Set (the ardvark esque head). Horace is known for the light and good. Set is the dark and the god of death seen as bad. (anubis is the guardian of the dead he was the person that helped those that died through life) This is about 6 feet tall and very impressive. A little thing I wondered about was.. the pharoah seemed to be stepping forward with his left foot, which is the side that set is on. I know that the gods are also stepping with their left foot, but in a carving of a pharoah, that is kinda unusual, since most times it shows the feet straight together. Maybe the sculpture was trying to say that the pharoah leans or is leading towards bad... hmm.. just an idea.

Also... there were similar carvings depicting the same thing. All times Set is on the left of the figure. I couldn't help but think that the left is known as the sinister (latin word for left is derived from the same root) in early cultures in europe. It seems that it was the same way in egypt. Just a weird coincidence??? I really don't think there is coincidence anymore.

Just wanted to share

A couple pictures from Egypt

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:42:41 -0800

Thought I would post a couple pictures from my trip to Giza.

Here is a picture of the Great Pyramid. To help gain a perspective, the lower left area of the pyramid. That little blue thing. is a bus!

link: Great Pyramid

By the way this picture is actually from my balcony of my hotel room. To prove this fact, here is a picture from inside the hotel room to show you the pyramid.

link: inside the room

The annunaki.

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:21:34 -0800

Well, well, a virgin forum. I guess I'm not likely to find as suitable place for a virgin poster, eh? Hehe.

What do you guys think of the Annunaki, or Sitchin in general? Last time I visited Ghosttalk was a couple years back, back then you guys only had a few episodes in your archives.. I stumble back across the site by almost COMPLETE chance, and to my satisfaction found MANY new shows. Well, new to me, as I hadn't heard very many at all. But none on the Annunaki. Unless, of course, the episode was named after a speaker on the subject, in which case, I'd only recognize the names Martell, or Sitchin, unfortunately.