buildingcode
07-21-2009, 10:48 PM
I will put it out there on my own before my new book review -
buildingcode is a kind of odd person, nice, but odd
So knowing that fact in advance, feel free to be weirded out by the following book review.
The Sirius Mystery
Robert Temple
This book was originally published in the mid 1970s and has recently been released with addendums (for the spelling police please note that this is an accepted for by Merriam-Webster in lieu of 'addenda') by the author due to more recent findings.
The premise of the book is to hypothesize as to why the "sudden" advent of civilization. The author points out that the evolutionary time line has the split of humans and primates occurring approximately 5 million years ago. In the ensuing 4.995 million years, humans followed the same basic hunter/gatherer society model. Then within a time frame of a few thousand years there were pockets of civilization using advanced tools and mathematics to build pyramids and chart stars.
Okay, that isn't too weird of a musing. It is natural to wonder the why and wherefore of our species' growth. That is what history and archeology are concerned with.
The author then provides a hypothesis and supporting discussion to explain the very rapid change in civilization. It is suggested that the change was influenced by..........................
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a visit to earth by an extraterrestrial group.
The author then explains all of his reasoning for this suggestion. Much of this being based on ideas presented by a tribe of people unfamiliar with the sciences as we know them. Yet they are familiar with concepts that were not developed until much more recently than their tribal oral tradition. He is able to make some very interesting arguments in support of the idea. He also has to really stretch in order to make some of his 'evidence' fit.
If your able to approach it with out being set on the idea that any such theory is the work of a lunatic, the book is actually an interesting read and ties together many historical and mythological stories in such a way that one can see that there appears to be a common root to the stories. As to if that root is here on Earth or somewhere in space, I don't know nor does the author of the book.
buildingcode is a kind of odd person, nice, but odd
So knowing that fact in advance, feel free to be weirded out by the following book review.
The Sirius Mystery
Robert Temple
This book was originally published in the mid 1970s and has recently been released with addendums (for the spelling police please note that this is an accepted for by Merriam-Webster in lieu of 'addenda') by the author due to more recent findings.
The premise of the book is to hypothesize as to why the "sudden" advent of civilization. The author points out that the evolutionary time line has the split of humans and primates occurring approximately 5 million years ago. In the ensuing 4.995 million years, humans followed the same basic hunter/gatherer society model. Then within a time frame of a few thousand years there were pockets of civilization using advanced tools and mathematics to build pyramids and chart stars.
Okay, that isn't too weird of a musing. It is natural to wonder the why and wherefore of our species' growth. That is what history and archeology are concerned with.
The author then provides a hypothesis and supporting discussion to explain the very rapid change in civilization. It is suggested that the change was influenced by..........................
.....................................
.....................................
.....................................
.....................................
a visit to earth by an extraterrestrial group.
The author then explains all of his reasoning for this suggestion. Much of this being based on ideas presented by a tribe of people unfamiliar with the sciences as we know them. Yet they are familiar with concepts that were not developed until much more recently than their tribal oral tradition. He is able to make some very interesting arguments in support of the idea. He also has to really stretch in order to make some of his 'evidence' fit.
If your able to approach it with out being set on the idea that any such theory is the work of a lunatic, the book is actually an interesting read and ties together many historical and mythological stories in such a way that one can see that there appears to be a common root to the stories. As to if that root is here on Earth or somewhere in space, I don't know nor does the author of the book.