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PAST FIVE In a television broadcast in March of '96 entitled Mysterious Origins of Man, physical evidence was shown which places him squarely in the time of the dinosaurs. Namely, side-by-side footprints embedded in the once soft sandstone of a dry Texas riverbed. Ruth Montgomery gave the same revelation in her Fawcett Crest book of 1976, The World Before. How did she know of this, twenty years before it was broadcast? While some may insist it could have been discovered by any avid researcher, Mrs. Montgomery had an unusual source -- spirit guides. What does this evidence ultimately mean? Simply this: if one might estimate the time of the dinosaurs at roughly 165 to 65 million years ago, man's age on this earth would have to be at least 65 million years. Modern science, in its meticulous but plodding fashion, has only recently come to a new revision of the age of Homo sapiens. Despite the work of DuBois, Leakey, Dart, Koenigswald, Johanson et al., anthropology can not yet place man much further back than about five million years. But it's a long span from T. Rex to there, especially since the Texas prints are fully human. 2 Current science now traces man from Australopithecus ramidus to A. afarensis (Lucy) to Homo habilis to H. erectus, from which line come the branches of Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, and their smarter cousins ... us. Considering that our oldest evidence is of the transitional hominid, A. ramidus, and that fully human Cro-Magnon is only a generous 100,000 years old, a question blares: if man walked in the Jurassic, how can his transition from lower forms have occurred only five million years ago? The answer is unsettling: it's not the first time. We've done this before. The Maya were convinced that earth life goes through great cycles, long epochs of civilization ending in destruction. Four other great cycles, they said, have already come and gone. We are in the Fifth ... and it is already quite old. Whether man starts over again from scratch, primordially, or some fortunate few survivors provide a leg-up, one thing is clear ... engraved in Mayan stone ... Cycle Six starts December 23, 2012. |