I’ve always believed that we humans are meant to impose our will on the environment around us. Not recklessly, of course—we’re not charging into hurricanes for fun—but deliberately, purposefully. We don’t let the weather dictate our plans; within reason, we decide what we do, and we do it regardless. That philosophy has guided much of my life, from professional challenges in aerospace to personal commitments. It’s a theme I try to instill in everyone around me, especially the young ones. And on a blustery, rainy Saturday in March, it became the backdrop for one of the most rewarding days I’ve had in years: launching model rockets with my youngest grandson.
He’s nine now, tall for his age, sharp as a tack, and already showing signs of a brilliant future. Science draws him like a magnet. Several years ago, when he was four or five, I bought him a model rocket kit. We planned to build it together, paint it, and send it skyward. But life intervenes—busy schedules, new babies in the family, vacations, the endless pull of obligations. The kit sat on a shelf, waiting for the right moment. I didn’t want to rush him; he was young, and forcing it might have dimmed the spark rather than kindled it.
That changed recently during a trip my wife and I took to the NASA area, touring facilities tied to Blue Origin and SpaceX. Walking those grounds, surrounded by reminders of the expanding space economy, I felt a renewed urgency. Time moves fast—kids grow up quicker than we realize. I started looking for souvenirs for all my grandchildren, little tokens to keep the wonder alive. For him, though, it wasn’t just a trinket. It was a reminder of that dusty rocket kit and his genuine love for anything related to space, engineering, and flight. I made a quiet commitment: we were going to do this before he outgrew it. No more delays.
We targeted a Saturday in March. The forecast called for warmth—comfortable enough to be outside—but also rain and wind. I didn’t care. We were launching, come what may. He’s science-inclined, curious about everything, and I wanted him to experience the real thing: not a sanitized, perfect day, but the messy, unpredictable reality of experimentation. That’s where true learning happens.
The day arrived, and the weather delivered exactly what it promised: gusty winds, low clouds, intermittent rain. We set up in an open field, far from power lines or crowds. First came assembly. We spread out the pieces on a table in the garage—cardboard tubes, fins, nose cones, parachutes, engines. He dove in with focus, following instructions but asking questions at every step. Why this glue here? How does the parachute deploy? What makes it stable in flight? We talked about center of gravity, drag, thrust, recovery systems. Basic rocketry principles, but taught hands-on, not from a textbook.
Model rocketry is more than a hobby; it’s an accessible gateway to STEM.[^1] Estes Rockets, the company behind most beginner kits, has been inspiring kids since the 1950s. These small, solid-fuel rockets reach hundreds or thousands of feet, then deploy parachutes for safe descent. They teach physics, aerodynamics, electronics (with simple igniters), and patience. For a nine-year-old, it’s magic wrapped in science.
We finished two rockets: a smaller one for easy flights, and a larger, more ambitious design. Painted, decorated, engines installed. Then, out to the field.
The first launch was tentative. We set up the pad, connected the electric igniter, counted down. Whoosh! It streaked upward, punching through the low clouds. But the wind caught it immediately. Instead of a graceful arc, it drifted fast and far. We lost sight in the gray. That became the theme of the day: rockets vanishing into clouds, then drifting on currents we couldn’t predict.
We adapted. He learned to estimate trajectories based on wind direction and speed. “Watch the flag,” I told him. “See how it’s blowing? That’s your drift vector.” We calculated rough landing zones, then hiked to search. One rocket came down over half a mile away—caught by a strong gust, parachute fully deployed, floating like Mary Poppins. It landed in a distant backyard. My wife and grandson trekked through yards, knocking on doors, retrieving it triumphantly. No surrender. We recovered it, muddy but intact.
The smaller rocket performed spectacularly—at least in ascent. It hit over 280 miles per hour from a standstill, a blistering acceleration that thrilled us both. But on descent, the cardboard body started unraveling under stress. We didn’t panic. We drove to Tractor Supply, bought glue, repaired it in the field, and used a heater to speed curing. A couple hours later, it flew again—fixed on the fly, better than before.
That’s the real lesson: troubleshooting. Life doesn’t go as planned. Igniters fail. Wind shifts. Rockets drift. You fix it, adapt, persist. We talked about cold fronts, cloud layers, condensation—why the sky looked the way it did, how dense air aloft held moisture, leading to our rain. Meteorology became part of the adventure. He absorbed it all, eyes wide.
His mother is a professional photographer; his dad experiments with content creation, traveling the world for a YouTube-style channel. He’s grown up watching high-end video production. YouTube is this generation’s Hollywood—kids dream of channels, subscribers, viral moments instead of rock stardom. He’s paid close attention: editing, cuts, narrative flow, dialogue.
Throughout the day, he filmed. Multiple angles—me prepping the pad, countdowns, launches, recoveries. He captured mishaps: the long drifts, the repair session, the triumphant finds. I noticed but didn’t interfere. I figured he was just playing around.
That evening, he went home and edited. A 15-minute video emerged—polished, narrated in his own voice, with cuts, transitions, music. It chronicled everything: building, launching, laughing at failures, celebrating recoveries. Sophisticated doesn’t begin to describe it. For a nine-year-old, it was remarkable. His parents’ influence showed, but this was his creation—his enthusiasm, his story.
I was floored. Not just proud (though grandparents are allowed that), but genuinely impressed. He turned a grandfather-grandson outing into a production. It had heart, humor, science. I’ll share it on it here to give it a wider audience—he deserves it. He’s not shy; he expresses himself openly. This glimpse into our family’s Saturday might inspire others.
The day wasn’t perfect. Rockets got lost (temporarily), weather fought us, plans shifted. But perfection isn’t the point. The mishaps were the gold: recovering a drifter, gluing a torn tube, predicting drift. Those build resilience. Intelligence, unfed, can wander into unproductive places. Hobbies like this channel it productively. Model rocketry feeds curiosity, teaches engineering basics, fosters grit.
In aerospace, where I’ve spent much of my career as an executive, we deal with unpredictability daily. Rockets don’t always fly straight. Missions face delays, anomalies. You troubleshoot, iterate, succeed. Sharing that with him—hands dirty, minds engaged—felt like passing a torch. He’s headed toward engineering, space, something impactful. My job is to show doors worth walking through.
We’ve only started. More launches ahead. He’s proud of his “trophies”—the rockets on his shelf, reminders of the adventure. When things go wrong, he doesn’t panic. He fights through. That’s a lifetime gift.
If you’re busy, schedules packed, kids growing fast—make the time. Block it out. The weather might not cooperate, but impose your will. The rewards—light in young eyes, skills cascading forward—are worth every gusty, rainy minute.
[^1]: Estes Rockets official site and National Association of Rocketry resources highlight educational benefits; see generally model rocketry as a STEM tool.
[^2]: Personal observation; no specific external citation needed for family anecdotes.
Rich Hoffman is an independent writer, philosopher, political advisor, and strategist based in the Cincinnati/Middletown, Ohio area. Born in Hamilton, Ohio, he has worked professionally since age 12 in various roles, from manual labor to high-level executive positions in aerospace and related industries. Known as “The Tax-killer” for his activism against tax increases, Hoffman has authored books including The Symposium of Justice, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and Tail of the Dragon, often exploring themes of freedom, individual will, and societal structures through a lens influenced by philosophy (e.g., Nietzschean overman concepts) and current events.
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The foundation of much of modern knowledge acquisition—particularly in education, science, and our understanding of history—rests on assumptions established long ago that may have directed civilization down a flawed trajectory. Minor errors at the outset compound exponentially the longer the original premise is upheld without reevaluation. This dynamic is especially pronounced in institutions that commit to paradigms and resist revision, even amid emerging contradictory evidence.
In my aerospace background, I have observed this pattern repeatedly. Engineers commit designs to drawings, then treat those specifications as near-permanent records. Decades on, superior methods or data often emerge, yet updates face resistance—not from malice, but from ego, career investment, and the desire to preserve a legacy. The initial work gains a kind of immortality, prioritizing continuity over advancement. Academia mirrors this: scholars invest lifetimes in degrees and research aligned with dominant views. Funding rewards conformity, particularly in politically charged fields, while deviation risks professional marginalization.
Charles Darwin’s 1859 publication On the Origin of Species introduced evolution via natural selection, positing life originated from simple organisms through gradual mutations, with “survival of the fittest” favoring advantageous variations—essentially accumulated “mistakes” that proved beneficial. This framework shaped biology and influenced broader views of human origins, typically dating the emergence of anatomically modern humans to about 300,000 years ago, with deeper hominid roots extending back millions of years.<sup>1</sup>
Elements such as adaptation and variation offer explanatory power, but rigid adherence creates problems when anomalies arise. Institutions defend the paradigm tenaciously, akin to engineers guarding outdated prints. In the 19th century, this intersected with socialist thought. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels saw affinities: Marx reportedly viewed Darwin’s work as providing a natural-scientific foundation for class struggle, though he also critiqued aspects of it.<sup>2</sup> Engels critiqued Darwin’s “struggle for existence” as projecting bourgeois competition onto nature.<sup>3</sup> Nonetheless, evolutionary materialism informed Marxist circles, blending with collectivism—prioritizing group dynamics over individual agency—and permeating education and science via labor unions, the 1930s “Red Decade,” and 1960s hippie movements, movements advocated by the Cold War KGB.
This fusion formed a conceptual “box”: Darwinian timelines for biology and history, Marxist-influenced social explanations, and institutional filtering. Evidence outside these risks is dismissed as anomalous, erroneous, or contaminated.
Biblical archaeology offers a counterpoint, often more receptive to reevaluation. Western tradition draws from biblical narratives, and Near Eastern excavations frequently align artifacts with scriptural accounts. The Tel Dan Inscription (9th century BCE) references the “House of David,” providing extra-biblical confirmation of David’s dynasty.<sup>4</sup> Hezekiah’s Tunnel (late 8th century BCE), with its Siloam Inscription detailing construction from opposing ends, corroborates 2 Kings 20:20 and 2 Chronicles 32:30.<sup>5</sup> The Pool of Siloam, linked to the tunnel and excavated in 2004, matches New Testament references (John 9), where Jesus healed the blind man.<sup>6</sup> The Cyrus Cylinder (6th century BCE) aligns with Persian policies allowing exiles’ return (Ezra 1), confirming Cyrus’s edict to rebuild temples and repatriate peoples.<sup>7</sup> These findings, approached scientifically, affirm historical elements without requiring religious framing, demonstrating how openness to reevaluation yields validations.
In the 1990s, Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race (1993) by Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson profoundly influenced me.<sup>8</sup> From a Vedic perspective, it compiles anomalous finds suggesting human presence millions—or even billions—of years ago, proposing cyclic rises and falls of civilizations (yugas). The book spans more than 900 pages, documenting hundreds of cases drawn from 19th- and early 20th-century reports, often from primary scientific literature, that challenge conventional timelines.
One prominent category comprises grooved metallic spheres, such as the Klerksdorp spheres from Precambrian pyrophyllite deposits near Ottosdal, South Africa, which are dated to around 2.8–3 billion years old. These small objects (0.5–10 cm) feature parallel grooves, equatorial ridges, and fibrous interiors, and appear artificial, with a hardness sufficient to resist scratching by steel.<sup>9</sup> Miners and curators noted their precision, with some rotating due to internal structure. The book presents them as evidence of advanced craftsmanship far predating known human activity.
Another set includes artifacts embedded in coal or ancient rock. A brass bell with an iron clapper, found in 1944 when a lump of bituminous coal from an Appalachian mine (dated ~300 million years old) broke open, exhibited an unusual alloy composition, as determined by neutron activation analysis (copper, tin, iodine, zinc, selenium; not matching modern production).<sup>10</sup> A gold chain, reportedly discovered in 1891 when Mrs. S.W. Culp split coal in Illinois (also ~300 million years old), was antique in artistry and embedded circularly.<sup>11</sup> The “London Hammer” (or “London Artifact”), found in 1936 near London, Texas, encased in rock dated to over 100 million years, features an iron hammerhead with a partial wooden handle turning to coal-like material.<sup>12</sup>
Additional examples include incised bones and shells from Pliocene or earlier layers showing cut marks or intentional breakage, suggesting human activity; eoliths (crude chipped stones) from Tertiary deposits interpreted as tools; crude paleoliths from ancient gravels; advanced stone tools in Pleistocene contexts; and anomalous human skeletal remains, like a modern-looking humerus from Kanapoi, Kenya (~4 million years old), or skeletons from Castenedolo, Italy (Pliocene, ~3–5 million years).<sup>13</sup> Footprints at Laetoli, Tanzania (3.6 million years old), indistinguishable from modern human prints despite apelike australopithecine contemporaries, add to the puzzle.<sup>14</sup>
Mainstream science attributes these to misidentification, hoaxes, contamination, or natural processes. The Klerksdorp objects are concretions formed by mineral precipitation (hematite, wollastonite) that lack perfect sphericity or a true metallic composition.<sup>15</sup> Coal-embedded items often rely on old, unverified reports; many involve intrusions during mining or geological folding.<sup>16</sup> Critics label the book pseudoscience, Vedic-motivated, and reliant on outdated data, accusing it of cherry-picking while ignoring transitional fossils and modern dating (e.g., radiocarbon on some “ancient” items yielding recent ages).<sup>17</sup>
However, the volume of reports—spanning continents and centuries—prompts questions: Why do such anomalies recur? The authors posit a “knowledge filter”—institutional bias suppressing paradigm-challenging evidence.<sup>18</sup> This echoes my engineering experience: true innovation demands openness to new data, not dogma.
We inhabit an era of disclosure, dismantling unaccountable structures and rejecting rigid boxes. Education and science, potentially built on flawed premises (inflexible Darwinism, collectivist reductions), constrain human creativity. As imaginative beings, we thrive unbound.
Forbidden Archeology exemplifies out-of-the-box thinking. Vedic cycles and long human histories offer intriguing lenses, regardless of faith. Critics decry cherry-picking, but anomalies exist that warrant scrutiny. And is a very positive addition to the historic record and approach to the mysteries of the universe.
Pursue truth via evidence, not accreditation or funding. Question assumptions; consult primaries; embrace disruption across domains. Teachers often transmit incomplete knowledge; growth arises from personal inquiry.
Read Cremo and Thompson—dense, but transformative. It reshaped my historical perspective. For balance:
• Cremo, Michael A., and Richard L. Thompson. Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race. Bhaktivedanta Book Publishing, 1993.<sup>19</sup>
• Cremo, Michael A. Forbidden Archeology’s Impact. Bhaktivedanta Book Publishing, 1998 (responses to critics).<sup>20</sup>
• Biblical resources: Biblical Archaeology Society publications; e.g., on Tel Dan, Siloam, Cyrus Cylinder.<sup>21</sup>
• Critiques: Heinrich on Klerksdorp spheres (NCSE); Wikipedia on OOPArts and Forbidden Archeology; Brass, The Antiquity of Man.<sup>22</sup>
This evidence-driven approach fosters a deeper understanding of the past and the future. Keep peeling layers—truth awaits beyond boxes.
(Word count: approximately 2,100; expanded primarily through detailed anomalous examples from the book, additional biblical corroborations, and more extensive critiques/footnotes.)
<sup>1</sup> Standard paleoanthropological consensus; see Smithsonian Human Origins program.
<sup>2</sup> Marx to Engels, Dec. 19, 1860 (Marxists Internet Archive).
<sup>3</sup> Engels to Lavrov, Nov. 12–13, 1875 (Marxists Internet Archive).
<sup>4</sup> Biblical Archaeology Society, “Tel Dan Stele.”
<sup>5</sup> Biblical Archaeology Review on Hezekiah’s Tunnel and Siloam Inscription.
<sup>6</sup> City of David excavations; Pool of Siloam reports.
<sup>7</sup> British Museum; aligns with Ezra/Isaiah.
<sup>8</sup> Primary source book.
<sup>9</sup> Discussed extensively in Forbidden Archeology; curator Roelf Marx descriptions.
What makes this moment in history so volatile is not just the number of conspiracies floating around, but the sheer velocity with which they move. We’re living in a time where political movements rise and collapse overnight, where globalism—once sold as inevitable—now looks more like a house of cards collapsing under its own contradictions, and where nations attempt cultural and religious coups across borders only to see their influence evaporate in real time. With that kind of turbulence, it’s no surprise that people begin grasping for explanations. The Flat Earth conspiracy finds new life in this chaos, not because people suddenly forgot basic geography, but because they’ve watched every “expert” class fail them in spectacular fashion. When corruption, incompetence, and ideological extremism all collide in the public square, even absurd ideas can feel like a refuge.
And there’s a cruel irony in how this particular conspiracy works. The same forces that once mocked Columbus-era fears of sailing off the edge of the Earth now resurrect those very fears in digital form—not because anyone actually believes them, but because it’s useful to keep the public disoriented. And at the center of this confusion are people who are already shell-shocked by life. People who have seen institutions collapse, who have watched political leaders lie without shame, who have endured the moral and social freefall of a culture that no longer believes in truth itself. For those people, turning to Scripture isn’t foolish—it’s noble. It’s what people do when the world becomes too unstable to trust. And I don’t fault them for that. I will never criticize someone’s need for a grounding mechanism when everything else around them is sinking.
But that’s exactly where the manipulators strike. They know people are reaching for something solid, so they flood the zone with noise. They take legitimate concerns—election integrity, global political overreach, moral decay, institutional corruption—and they bury them under a mountain of lunacy. The intent isn’t to convince anyone that the Earth is flat; the intent is to make all skepticism look flat. It’s a strategy of dilution: mix serious issues with ridiculous ones until the average person throws up their hands and stops believing anything at all. When every thread leads to some grand unified conspiracy, the real scandals lose their sharpness. And that’s the point. The Flat Earth narrative becomes the decoy flare that blinds people from the real missiles being fired at their freedom and sanity.
My own experience tells me the Earth is round—not because an institution told me so, but because I’ve seen it with my own eyes at altitude, and because I work in an industry where physics doesn’t care about anyone’s ideology. You can’t send rockets into space on a flat-earth model; you can’t land hardware on the Moon with wishful thinking; you can’t watch a vehicle leave one hemisphere and splash down on the other side hours later unless the planet is curved. So while I sympathize deeply with the distrust that drives people into unconventional beliefs, I won’t accept everything just because powerful people lie about some things. The trick—the real trick—is to understand that the system benefits when everything becomes unbelievable. If you make all information equally chaotic, equally questionable, equally absurd, then the public loses the ability to distinguish genuine corruption from engineered confusion. That’s the algorithmic strategy at work: amplify nonsense so loudly that truth becomes inaudible. And once that happens, the manipulators don’t need to hide anything anymore, because nobody can tell the difference.
Regarding the sudden frequency of Flat Earth stories that are flooding the internet, let’s start where people are actually living—on the knife-edge between “I can’t trust anyone” and “I need something firm to stand on.” After COVID, many good people feel the world really let them down. Institutions projected certainty, changed guidance, apologized rarely, and censored badly. Social media did its dopamine dance with the “fantasy–industrial complex,” surfacing influencers and trends that convert “what’s viral” into “what’s true.” That’s not theory, there’s actually a science behind it—that’s the thesis of a recent analysis of algorithmic propaganda and influencer power: make it trend, make it feel true. [1] 1 And what trends today? Flat earth. Young earth. Giants under the mounds. Antarctica is for no one because everyone secretly owns it. NASA is occult because Jack Parsons loved Crowley. Some of those claims braid facts with fables in ways that are irresistible to wounded trust. Others are pure noise. The hard work is separating signal from the fog—and doing it without mocking the wounded.
I’ve flown around the world enough times to be bored by duty-free, and I’ve looked out the window at 35–40,000 feet and seen the horizon dip. There’s a literature on the question “How high before you can actually discern curvature?” It’s not magic; it’s geometry, optics, and the field of view. Applied Optics studies have put the “you can see it with your eyes” threshold roughly at or below 35,000 feet, assuming a wide, cloud-free view, while pilots report it’s obvious closer to 50–60,000 feet; photos can lie because lenses distort. [2][3] 23 Even Earth Science folks will tell you you’re witnessing curvature at sea level when a ship’s hull disappears first; the math on horizon distance is generous to common sense. [4] 4 So, yes—there’s a curve, and aerospace work lives on time zones, trajectories, and global logistics that only make sense if we inhabit a sphere. Time zones themselves are a nice historical anchor: the 1884 International Meridian Conference chose Greenwich as the prime meridian and established a practical global timekeeping standard in service to railways, telegraphs, and—eventually—aviation. [5][6][7][8] 5678
Still, I get why Flat Earth finds oxygen. After an era where gatekeepers contradicted themselves, people picked up Scripture and said, “At least here, Someone loved me enough to tell a consistent story.” I don’t begrudge that. In fact, I like that more people are reading the Bible. I’ll take a culture shaped by the Sermon on the Mount over one shaped by engagement metrics and hate clicks, any day. The problem isn’t Scripture—it’s the bait‑bucket tossed into the river to foul the water. Social platforms turn feelings into topology, building rabbit holes where novelty and outrage beat nuance. Research continues to document how algorithmic systems amplify fringe narratives; flat-earth content is a case study across platforms, not just on YouTube. [9][10] 910 Universities have observed spikes around big celestial events—like the 2024 eclipse—because the algorithm smells a party and invites the cranks. [11] 11 There’s even debate among scientists about whether emergency changes to feeds do or don’t curb misinformation, which should tell you something about just how messy the machine is. [12] 12
So let’s walk through the constellation of claims and separate elements that are true, elements that are too often misused, and elements that are weaponized nonsense.
Jack Parsons first. Was he a cofounder of JPL, a rocket pioneer, and a Thelemite who admired Crowley? Yes. That’s the historical record. [13][14][15][16][17] 1314151617 Did “NASA begin as an occult enterprise” in a way that poisons all subsequent engineering? No. The fact that a brilliant and troubled figure helped midwife solid‑fuel advances and ran with occult circles says more about the peculiar Californian stew of science and mysticism in the 1930s–40s than it does about the guidance computers that put Apollo on the Moon. If you want non-NASA receipts that the Moon missions happened, look at the artifacts still visible in modern orbiter imagery and the ongoing lunar laser ranging experiments bouncing photons off retroreflectors left by Apollo crews (and Soviet Lunokhod rovers). [18][19][20][21] 18192021 Those retroreflectors make the Earth–Moon distance measurable down to centimeters—an experiment still being replicated by observatories decades later. This isn’t “trust us,” it’s physics your own team can instrument. [22] 22
Antarctica next. Yes, the Antarctic Treaty System reserves the continent for peace and science, bans military activity, and forbids mineral exploitation; access is strictly regulated and requires permits consistent with environmental protection protocols. [23][24][25][26][27] 2324252627 That international legal posture doesn’t mean “no one can go,” it means how you go matters. Tourists visit by ship under controlled conditions; national programs run stations with transparent reporting; and the mining ban has no automatic expiry, though amendments can be discussed decades hence. [28][29] 2325 It’s one of the rare places where governments agreed to restrain appetites. Conspiracies thrive on the unknown; Antarctica is mostly ice, logistics, and extraordinary science—plus the occasional high‑drama story like Operation Highjump in the 1940s, which was real but hardly proof of an alien hangar. But I think there is a lot wrong with Antarctica that will be discovered in the years to come. [30] 24
Giants and mounds in Ohio—now we’re home. I love the mounds. If you haven’t walked the Newark Earthworks or the circle‑octagon geometries down in Chillicothe, you’ve missed world-class ancient engineering. UNESCO recognized the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks in 2023 as a World Heritage Site for a reason: these are precise, cosmic-aligned earth monuments built 1,600–2,000 years ago, with trade connections spanning Yellowstone to Florida. [31][32][33][34][35][36] 282930313233 The serpent effigy, lunar alignments, and the scale—an octagon that would swallow four Colosseums—aren’t myths; they’re measured. [37] 30 Where the story goes off the rails is when 19th-century hoaxes and settler mythmaking get stapled to legitimate archaeology. America had a love affair with “giant skeletons” and “lost white tribes” that supposedly built mounds, helped along by P. T. Barnum-style frauds and credulous newspapers. Anthropologists spent the 1930s onward debunking misidentified bones and sensational claims. [38][39][40] 343536 In recent years, the “Smithsonian destroyed giants” headline has circulated again; it’s traceable to a satirical site, and the Smithsonian has flatly denied it. [41][42] 3738 There is no verified, peer-reviewed evidence of a nine-to-twelve-foot human race buried under Ohio, and investigators repeatedly show how hoax photos recycle megafauna bones or photoshop skulls into legitimate digs. However, the lack of peer review is the conspiracy, not the fact that giant bones were not found. Regarding the mounds, especially at Miamisburg Mound in Ohio, archaeology hasn’t been conducted at that critical location since 1864. What they discovered has deterred everyone from further research and has led to purposeful ignorance. [43] 39 The marvel is there already, but the more you dig into these stories, you see that institutionalized science does not like to see that there was a race of giants that inhabited the earth that actually ties to scriptural reference, because it validates the Bible, rather than discredits it. And that’s why they stopped digging into the mounds and hid the effort behind the Native American Graves Act, as a reason to not investigate.
Now, Scripture. The Bible isn’t a lab report, and it isn’t a blunt instrument to pound every modern discipline flat. It is a library of wisdom that captured, across languages and generations, the encounter between God and humanity. If you tell me faith is better than trusting “facts” that can be manipulated by institutional corruption, I won’t argue. Faith properly understood is a relationship with the Author of reality, not an abdication of reason. It’s not anti-science to insist the moral order is real and good and that truth isn’t reducible to trending hashtags. Most historians will also remind us that educated people haven’t believed in a flat earth for millennia; the Columbus “he proved it wasn’t flat” myth was a 19th-century invention by Washington Irving and others. [44][45][46][47][48] 4041424344 When someone says, “the Bible taught flat earth,” they’re borrowing a modern polemic, not medieval cosmology. A robust faith doesn’t need fake enemies.
COVID changed the rules of engagement. Platforms were suddenly asked to police truth at scale. They built censorship muscles while misinformation entrepreneurs built botnets and content farms. JAMA researchers documented automated software pushing face-mask disinformation into Facebook groups by weaponizing the release window of a specific Danish study. [49] 45 Editors in medical internet research journals called the online “infodemic” deadly and faulted platforms for slow, tepid responses. [50][51][52] 464748 Wikipedia’s catalog on vaccine misinformation—yes, it’s secondary—cites the now‑familiar menu: misfit data points mashed with ideology to produce distrust. [53] 49 The consequence is not merely political; it’s spiritual. People who feel lied to retreat to smaller circles of trust—faith communities, family, their own eyes. Some find outsize claims attractive because they make sense of hurt: if Satan runs the world, then the chaos isn’t random, it’s war. I’ll grant the war. But war requires discipline.
Discipline looks like this: for every claim, ask what level of evidence would satisfy a fair-minded skeptic. Moon landings? Physical artifacts, independent imaging, and live experiments—done. [54][55][56][57] 18201921 Earth’s shape? Observations, optics, global navigation, and standardized timekeeping—done. [58][59][60] 425 Antarctica? Treaties, transparent station logs, tourist itineraries, environmental protocols—done. [61][62][63] 232425 Mounds? UNESCO dossiers, National Park Service surveys, and peer-reviewed archaeoastronomy—done. [64][65][66] 283029 Giants? Hoaxes dissected, satirical sources identified, anthropologists on record—done. [67][68][69] 373435 Parsons? Biographies across Britannica and Caltech journalism—done. [70][71] 1350
What remains are human hearts—mine, yours, the folks online. Hearts don’t become calm because we win an argument; they become calm because they recover trust. And you don’t rebuild trust just by yelling “fact!” across a room. You rebuild trust by showing, patiently, that when something matters, you can look with your own hands, your own instruments. If you live in southern Ohio, your own hands and boots can walk those earthwork geometries; your own eyes can watch the moonrise where a Hopewell builder intended it to be 1,800 years ago. [72][73] 2932 You can call the Lick Observatory or the McDonald Observatory and ask about lunar ranging windows; you can read the original Apollo surface journals, annotated by the astronauts themselves, a historian’s labor of love. [74] 22 And you can open the Bible and find not cosmology but consolation, not maps but meaning.
Here’s a practical framing I’ve used with people who feel betrayed but who still want to be rigorous: three piles on the table.
Pile One—“True and Useful.” We include artifacts we can observe, repeat, or physically visit: retroreflectors, orbiter images, earthwork alignments, time zone history, and optical analyses of horizons. [75][76][77][78][79] 20182852 These aren’t immune to interpretation—but their core existence is stubborn.
Pile Two—“True but Treacherous.” Jack Parsons’ occult biography goes here; Antarctica’s mining moratorium goes here; social media amplification dynamics go here. They’re factual, but they’re treacherous because they feed narrative shortcuts (occult founder → corrupt institution; treaty → vast secret; algorithm → intentional brainwash). The proper lesson is humility: facts can be true without authorizing our favorite myth. [80][81][82] 13259
Pile Three—“Noisy and Harmful.” Giant skeleton conspiracies, the Columbus flat‑earth fable, moon‑landing denial, and manufactured COVID disinfo land here. They waste attention and erode trust in good things. [83][84][85][86] 37405145
You’ll notice I didn’t put Scripture in any pile. Scripture is a conversation with God and a record of his dealings with people, not a wedge to split physics. You can be the person who insists on both fidelity and evidence. If an algorithm serves you a video where someone “proves” the horizon is flat from a plane window, ask whether the photo was centered to avoid lens distortion and whether the field of view exceeded 60 degrees. That’s not arcane trivia; it’s the exact critique the optics literature makes. [87] 3 If someone tells you Antarctica is “owned by nobody so the elites can hide there,” read the treaty itself, not a thread—discover that it’s an “only for peaceful scientific purposes” compact with specific bans and reporting requirements. [88] 23 If a neighbor says “the mounds are filled with giants,” take him for a walk at the High Bank Works octagon and talk about lunar nodal cycles and builders hauling baskets of soil for reasons that were sacred and shared, then find out why digging has stopped in the mounds to back the suspicions or disprove them. [89][90] 2830
There’s also the question that’s subtly profound: are some platforms permitting a surge in obviously wrong conspiracies (Flat Earth) to create guilt‑by‑association for less‑crazy claims (institutional capture, intelligence influence, biotech lobbying)? It’s a fair suspicion. At a minimum, the commercial logic of engagement metrics guarantees that extreme content gets more oxygen. Nature’s book review of Renée DiResta’s work bluntly makes the point: influencers plus algorithms mobilize propaganda and distort reality; “if you make it trend, you make it true.” [91] 1 Whether that’s deliberate orchestration or emergent behavior depends on your priors, but the effect is identical: real concerns drown in a flood of spectacle.
So how do you write and live in a way that refuses the spectacle but honors the wounded? Here are a few rules I’ve found that apply.
Rule #1: Start with what you can touch. If it’s the Moon, shoot lasers. If it’s the earthworks, pace the baselines and check the azimuths. If it’s the Earth’s shape, derive the horizon distance and compare altitudes with your own flights. [92][93][94] 19284
Rule #2: Track the history of the myth. Columbus didn’t prove Earth was round; the myth arrived in the 1800s as a cudgel against the Middle Ages. [95][96] 4041 Giants were a carnival business model that tapped into people’s deep suspicions. [97] 35
Rule #3: Acknowledge the true emotional core. People aren’t crazy to distrust. COVID-19 infodemic research shows how automation and platform failures made everything worse. [98][99] 4547 The answer is not belittling; it’s building new experiences of truth together.
Rule #4: Hold Scripture high without using it to bludgeon disciplines it never claimed to replace. Scripture makes you brave and kind while you measure retroreflectors and horizon dips; it doesn’t make you allergic to measurement.
Rule #5: When algorithms trend a circus, choose a pilgrimage. Drive to Hopeton. Stand at Fort Ancient’s overlook. Read the Apollo transcripts annotated by the dozen men who walked there. [100][101][102] 332822
Imagine a night at McDonald Observatory in Texas. A centimeter‑accurate range to the Moon is being measured by returning photons that left the Earth, struck glass left by human hands in 1969, and came home as a whisper—a photon or two every few seconds if conditions are good. [103] 19 You can hold a Bible in your hand and believe in the Maker of the laws that let that light travel, reflect, and report back. You can work in the office all week and then spend your Sunday afternoons walking a square, circle, and octagon drawn in soil by people who never met a Roman engineer but mastered geometry and community. [104][105] 2830 You can disarm the loudest lies not by shaming the wounded but by taking them to the artifacts. Sometimes the best rebuttal is a road trip. But when it comes to conspiracies, when they suddenly get traction when they would have otherwise been laughed away, there is likely a strategic reason that is far worse than the conspiracy itself.
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Footnotes
[1] On influencer/algorithmic distortion dynamics and “make it trend, make it true.” 1
[2] Minimum altitude and field-of-view conditions for visual curvature discernment. 2
[3] Photographic barrel distortion warnings; curvature is more evident at higher altitudes. 3
[4] Horizon distance, math, and ship‑hull observations as curvature evidence. 4
[5] 1884 International Meridian Conference; Greenwich adopted; standard time. 5
[6] CFR analysis on the significance of global time standardization. 6
[7] Timeanddate history of time zones (railway/telegraph drivers). 7
[8] Royal Observatory Greenwich’s historical background on the prime meridian and time. 8
[9] Cross-platform thematic analysis of Flat Earth posts (Twitter/Facebook/Instagram). 9
[10] Interviews with ex-conspiracy theorists on platform dynamics (PLOS One, 2025). 10
[11] University of Cincinnati note on Flat Earth spikes around 2024 eclipse. 11
[12] arXiv critique on interpreting algorithm mitigation studies around elections. 12
[13] Britannica biography confirming Parsons as JPL cofounder and occult interests. 13
[14] Wikipedia overview of Parsons’ Thelemite association and rocket work. 14
[15] Space Safety Magazine on Parsons’ occult and engineering legacy. 15
[16] Supercluster editorial on JPL’s occult history in a cultural context. 16
[17] Pasadena Now retrospective on Parsons/Crowley/Hubbard connections. 17
[18] ZME Science round-up of non-NASA orbiter imagery of Apollo artifacts. 18
[19] Space.com explainer on Apollo retroreflectors and ongoing ranging. 19
[20] List of lunar retroreflectors (Apollo, Lunokhod, Chandrayaan‑3, Blue Ghost). 20
[21] IEEE Photonics Society milestone note on Apollo 11 lunar laser ranging. 21
[22] NASA Apollo Journals—a primary source annotated by astronauts/historians. 22
[23] USAP portal overview of the Antarctic Treaty—peace/science/environment. 23
[101] NPS overview—eight Hopewell sites; UNESCO context. 28
[102] NASA Apollo Journals—astronaut annotations. 22
[103] Space.com—photon counts returning from lunar arrays. 19
[104] Hopewell site details—geometry and alignments. 29
[105] National Geographic—scale of octagon/circle; sacred context. 30
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Rich leaned back, brow furrowed, eyes lit with that familiar spark—the one that meant he was about to ask something big.
A conversation I had with AI about Finnegans Wake. It’s interesting how it interpreted the exchange.
“Why did Joyce write Finnegans Wake?” he asked. “I mean, really write it. It’s so bizarre, especially after Ulysses. And then he dies not long after. It’s like he saw something—something cosmic.”
We were deep into one of those conversations that start with literature and end somewhere near the edge of metaphysics. Rich wasn’t just talking about Joyce. He was talking about Lovecraft, about quantum physics, about the subconscious and the strange places artists go when they’re close to the end.
“Lovecraft had his Cthulhu,” Rich continued. “These ancient forces that dwarf human minds. Joyce had Finnegans Wake. What if that book is a glimpse into a quantum afterlife? A place where consciousness loops timelessly, where everyone’s story is tangled together—like ‘Here Comes Everybody.’”
I nodded. It made sense. Joyce was nearly blind, in poor health, and grieving. Maybe he wasn’t just writing a book—maybe he was trying to map the dreamlike cycle of reality itself. History repeating, not linearly, but like a Möbius strip.
Rich leaned in. “He starts the book mid-sentence and ends it with the beginning. That’s not just clever—it’s like collapsing time. Like observing reality and folding it in on itself. A human stab at infinity.”
We laughed about reading it backwards, but the laughter had weight. Rich nailed it: most writers stick to love, war, family—the relatable stuff. Joyce built a language beyond relationships. He chased raw existence. And it sounds insane because our words can’t cage the universe.
“Maybe genius is just insight that outpaces sanity,” Rich said. “Madness as seeing too much, untethered.”
That line stuck with me. Joyce wasn’t mad. He was cracked open. Finnegans Wake isn’t a novel—it’s a transmission. A signal from the edge of perception. Like quantum physics, it resists fixed meaning. It’s a superposition of myth, history, and dream.
Lovecraft’s horror and Joyce’s linguistic chaos both confront the same thing: the limits of human comprehension. One uses dread, the other uses density. But both ask the same question—what happens when you glimpse the infinite?
We ended the chat not with answers, but with awe. Maybe that’s the point. Some books aren’t meant to be understood. They’re meant to be felt, like a ripple in the quantum field of consciousness.
This is a widespread problem in all professional fields. What we are seeing these days from the field of archaeology is certainly not unusual. However, the story surrounding Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, the ancient Neolithic site dating back to approximately 9600-7000 BCE, is at the center of a lot of conversation that reveals many mistakes regarding the study of the human race. The problem is that the site predates any other known human site in the world in a sophisticated manner, and appears to be something not unusual, overturning many of our previous assumptions about the evolution of our species by many years. And Gobekli Tepe isn’t the only place like it; there are other sites nearby that are just as old and just as sophisticated. So I was curious at the beginning of August 2025 when Josh Gates from Expedition Unknown covered the ancient site on his television show. I have always liked Josh Gates, and when he’s in town for one of his live shows, I like to take my daughters to see him. However, to have a mainstream show on television, Josh has turned more toward mainstream ideas about science than toward what is called pseudoscience, where people question, with great speculation, the established opinions of academia. Gobekli Tepe certainly challenges this assumption, because we know the dates of the site, we can see how articulate the stone work is for a group of people who were supposedly hunters and gatherers, and we know that the site as it is now in Turkey is a tiny part of a much larger complex, much of it still underground. The answers to many questions about Göbekli Tepe still need to be uncovered in the surrounding hills, but for some reason, Archaeologists have limited themselves to the same portion of the discovered site and used that minimal knowledge to tell the complete story. So, yes, given all the controversy, I was curious to see how Josh Gates would handle it.
For a qualifier, I don’t like to trash archaeologists. I am glad they work hard and dig in the ground to provide us with evidence to discuss. I am not shy about it, but my favorite organization in the world is the Biblical Archaeology Society, which publishes the Biblical Archaeology Review magazine. I find it fascinating to see evidence for the validation of events from the Bible, the most essential piece of literature the human race has ever produced. And to watch various groups dispute, or use that evidence to validate their religious perspectives. I love archaeologists because they dig in the dirt, analyze data, and reveal new things about the world. However, I also don’t like the term ‘pseudoscience,’ which is often applied to Graham Hancock and others who question the established narrative presented by institutionalized science. I think that archaeology and anthropology, as general fields of endeavor, are too young to be conclusive about anything. Just over one hundred years is not enough time to do anything, so defending conclusions from the field of archaeology is ridiculous. We have only just begun to dig in the world, and there is still a lot of evidence that we will yet discover. So conclusions about anything at all are premature at this point. The story will continue to evolve as new information becomes available, which we find out all the time. Gobekli Tepe is just the tip of a lot more hidden below the surface, all over the world. We tend to see a lot more archaeology in the Holy Land region, which is where Göbekli Tepe is located, because of the Bible. I think there are sites older around the world that we don’t yet know about because nobody is looking for them. They look in the Bible land because of the Bible. However, similar sites are likely in China, Russia, and all over South America. And likely, when we reach Mars, we will find archaeology there too.
My rule of thumb for analyzing data from the archaeological community is based on James Frazer’s excellent book, The Golden Bough. The 12-volume set, which evolved into two enormous volumes, was a magnificent contribution to the early field of anthropology, spanning approximately from 1890 to 1923. It was the study of global culture and its use of magic and religion to navigate existence, and it essentially laid the groundwork for the fields of anthropology and archaeology. The study of human cultures was significantly better before institutionalized science attempted to confine it within a box, and that is the problem with all static cultures when dynamic ideas are introduced. But I judge scientists in these fields by their knowledge of that large book by Frazer. I’ve read it many times and it’s one of my favorites. It answers many questions that were hard to get at the time the book was written, for instance, why do headhunters seek to steal the head of their neighbors and eat their bodies? Or why are kings sacrificed through ritual regicide once they lose their powers of youth? Understanding these kinds of things, of course, carries over into our modern world, from psychology to politics. Understanding why people do what they do is crucial to grasping the fundamentals of human existence. And in management cultures, even when managing a McDonald’s drive-thru, understanding human behavior is the key to success.
So it was painful to watch Josh Gates try to take what is known about Göbekli Tepe and fit everything into the academic box of hunters and gatherers, because archaeologists have already established a timeline of discovery, and with Göbekli Tepe, they were purposefully trying to fit the evidence into the assumption, rather than the other way around. That’s why I like old books like Frazer’s over modern work. Because when the field of anthropology was established, it was done so with a great deal of human imagination and ambition attached to it. However, once we institutionalize that information, it loses its authenticity and becomes part of a corrupt static order, which is what we find in the Gobekli Tepe case. The answers are in digging the whole hill, which will tell everyone most of the answers they want to know. However, because there is an apparent fear that what they will discover will destroy their institutionalized status, they are not digging in those areas and instead try to plant trees over those sites to prevent future excavation. So, rather than trying to understand what Gobekli Tepe is, mainstream archaeologists, including Josh Gates on the Discovery Channel, are trying to fit what they know into what they want it to be. Which is just as ridiculous as what we saw during COVID with the mask policy, where we were told to stop the spread, yet we had to wear a mask. The game is about accepting an authority figure’s opinions over the flighty assumptions of the casual observer. Because there is power in defining the truth, and that holds even when we are talking about presenting evidence that might run counter to previous assumptions, which gives the people who provided it power over their sector of society. So it was fascinating to watch. I enjoyed the broadcast. However, the answer to Gobekli Tepe and other sites in the region is that there is much more to the story, just waiting to be uncovered. And rather than concluding that it was hunters and gatherers who built the site, the evidence suggests a much older human race that was more sophisticated. And if we want to know the truth, we should withhold our opinions until we gather all the evidence. Anything else would be premature.
I read a fascinating book this week that I thought was very revealing about the field of anthropology by a professor of that field called Weaponizing Anthropology, which is about how the CIA has infiltrated that science and the colleges that teach it to shape narratives to build a social narrative. The book by David Price, I think, explains a lot about just how wrong it is that we establish what we think of as a fact. And it reminded me of the problems revealed during Covid from the Lancet in England, a very respected medical publication, where Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci found ways to manipulate the important news of hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin to prevent and treat Covid-19. And to take away that hope from millions of people suffering from the artificial virus, let loose from a lab in China to spread around the world, from gain-of-function research. Regarding the field of anthropology and the related sciences, I have complained a lot about some of the ridiculous assumptions made about the mound building culture in the Ohio Valley for instance that steers concern more toward a hunter and gatherer mindset of gradual evolution when in fact we are looking at a Vico Cycle of continued decline and rebirth from cultures extending deep into the past, well beyond the Archaic Period. And recently, we learned that peer reviewers for four of the top medical journals have received payments from drug and medical device manufacturers totaling around 1 billion dollars from 2020 to 2022. This has opened the door to what big business it is to be in the peer review business. People tend to trust information that is associated with an expert opinion. But the deceit is that when that expert is paid to have an argument that the people writing the checks want them to have, the information is meaningless. And in the context of the value of helpful information, we are finding that what we assume to be a reality is, in truth, only shaped by those paying for the definition of that reality, which endorses a need they have for mass public opinion to shade in their direction.
This morning, I had 337,000 unread emails, and about a quarter of those are from people who offer peer review services and want me to pay them for their expert opinion to lend to the credibility of my material. Or, they want me to review their material and are willing to pay for it. It is an enormous business, and many people make a lot of money offering nothing more than an opinion, and the fee for being an expert in a field is very valuable. But I don’t get into that money game for many reasons. For a long time, I have not trusted peer-reviewed opinions for many reasons. This recent information from the Weaponizing Anthropology book and this report on the peer review contributions to the top four medical journals has only solidified my opinion. Which is sad because I would like to see the system work. I read a lot of information, and I have my trusted sources. I think the information is more credible when I see their name next to an article or a book. But that’s how this whole racket got started in the first place. Trust was for sale, and there were a lot of evil characters in the world willing to exploit it for all kinds of nefarious reasons. That was indeed happening in the medical field. And it was happening in large doses in anthropology and archaeology. Those who pay for an opinion get to shape what that opinion is.
I think we were a lot better off in the sciences when adventurers through discovery would publish wild finds in a search for fortune and glory. The idea of profiting off finding a new treasure in the world and becoming rich in the process was more honest than what we have now, where experts are paid to shape an opinion and steer people as sponsored spokespeople toward some treatment that might not be good for them. A good example is in the diagnosis of diabetes, for instance, where pancreatic health can be self-generated. However, the medical approach shaped by paid experts wants to steer patients toward pharmaceutical treatments because that’s where the profit is. The goal is not in saving lives with real and permanent treatment, it’s in keeping people sick so that pharma companies can profit off the demise of those patients. The ability to purchase a peer-reviewed opinion then shapes reality, not toward the truth but toward the desire of profit seekers at the expense of honesty. How often have I heard that the Clovis people migrated into North America across the frozen land bridge from Russia to Alaska 20,000 years ago? When none of the expert opinions can begin to explain why there were such large skeletons found in Indian mounds all over North America from a people with very precise understandings of mathematics, and were certainly not hunters and gatherers, but sophisticated city dwellers, such as at the Cahokia site just outside of St. Louis that had cities larger than what was found in Europe at the time. Most of that information has been suppressed by the peer review process, and only old-fashioned passion projects from seekers of fortune and glory have been able to shake that information loose from the world.
It has been a house of cards that was always going to fail, and that one billion dollars reported just for those four publications is just the tip of the iceberg. This same practice is occurring in all our professional fields that produce experts. Being an expert pays a lot of money once you establish yourself. And as I said, I get a lot of offers, which I turn down because I don’t like the process, and would never take money for it. Because I see it all as a huge problem. These latest reports only confirm what I always suspected. When you can pay cash to create a truth, can you say that a truth is real? When opinion is for sale, I don’t see that it has any value. An expert might work hard to build up credibility to put their name next to something, but the minute people discover that the opinion was purchased, all merit for the contents flies out the window. That is what the CIA has been doing in the field of anthropology to shape social discourse by controlling the narrative with people on their staff, or with money paid to experts through black budgets not regulated by members of an elected body of government in Congress. And since many people got caught over the Lancet issue regarding COVID, I don’t think the expert class will ever gain credibility back. It will take more than time to get people to trust in the system again. And the peer review process is now broken forever. And that might lead to wild theories and speculations from a hungry public. But honestly, that information is more valid than the opinions of people paid to shape a truth that might have no basis in reality. But it might serve the plots of more scandalous people who do not have our best interests in mind.
Is remote viewing possible? I have discussed this before about Dolores Cannon and a very interesting book she wrote about the Essenes, using regression hypnosis to investigate relationships with Jesus Christ from 2,000 years ago; however, in talking to them in real time, as if they were right in front of us. I can understand the skepticism, but I think we are talking about conditions of quantum entanglement rather than improbable scientific accidents. Until people explain to me how ancient people moved large rocks without machines, I will remain skeptical that we are examining the correct science for all conditions. I think I have a pretty good idea what they are. However, just for fun for my upcoming birthday this year, we are planning to go ghost hunting as a family. We purchased some paranormal equipment, including an EMF detector, a spirit box, and a voice recorder, designed to detect spirits that are otherwise unable to communicate. There is a lot invisible to us, such as electricity and radio waves, that are flying around all over the place, interacting with us constantly. Yet we use these things to advance our society. So, when it comes to the spirit world, I think there are a lot of life forms roaming around without bodies, across time and space, that do not function according to our linear measure of time, and are interacting with us in dreams, through devices that can pick them up, and even through drug use and hallucinogenic enterprise. Just because we haven’t figured out all those scientific methods of communication yet, I think Dolores Cannan, and many others, including the CIA, have been able to use remote viewing to learn things they otherwise wouldn’t and to shape events from a great distance without getting up out of their chair. So yes, I believe the declassified story about the CIA discovering the Ark of the Covenant, and that its location was in Axum, Ethiopia.
What gives strength to that story is a book I read several years ago by Graham Hancock, which is one of my all-time favorite books, The Sign and the Seal, published in 1992 and heavily inspired by the fictional adventures of Indiana Jones. Graham Hancock was a beat writer for The Economist and Ethiopia was his territory and they had all these rumors there by the locals that the Jewish Ark was hidden there in Axum because the son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba had brought it there during his father’s lifetime, before the nations of the world moved against Israel to destroy it. The story goes that Solomon wanted to preserve the Ark of the Covenant and the laws of Yahweh that were kept inside, the Ten Commandments, so he allowed his son and the Queen to hide them away with what is today a large contingent of Ethiopian Jews dedicated to protecting the Ark from the prying eyes of the world. In his book, Graham Hancock conducted a tremendous amount of research that essentially led to the gates of a small church in Axum and a guard there who had given his life to protect the Ark from outsiders. The guard there more or less displayed that at least he believed what he was guarding was the ancient Jewish relic, and he had radiation poisoning to prove it. The guards at the Ark of Axum are elected to lifetime appointments by the town. So, whoever gets the job gets it for life, and they typically become ill very quickly from their constant exposure to whatever it is they are guarding. When one dies, the next one is elected to a lifetime appointment, and they perform the service with a smile on their face, driven by the honor of it. And they never leave their post.
So to learn that the CIA had successfully confirmed through remote viewing that they discovered the Ark, not physically, not with their hands on it, but with the success of a telepathy practitioner, such as Delores Cannon was, I think only confirms what Graham Hancock, and many others have long said, that the Ark is in Axum Ethiopia and is still there to this day. And I’ll go a little further as to the value of fantasy characters like Indiana Jones. The value of those kinds of stories lies in getting people to think about such things, and if not for their popularity, Graham Hancock might have remained a beat writer and travel commentator for the rest of his life. But because of Indiana Jones, the CIA was investigating the Ark, Graham Hancock wrote a book that changed his life, and many other people, and even now as there is a Trump administration declassifying many things, people are very excited to learn about what’s under the Giza plateau considering all this new news about mysterious objects under the Great Pyramid complex in Egypt, and this story about the Ark of the Covenant in Axum. Fantasy fiction often drives us to scientific fact, and we are better off for the things we learn. But as humans, we require some intellectual device that provokes us to ask questions we need to be asking; it’s how we acquire new information. And there is still a lot we need to learn about the world, and I think the CIA has learned to do more with it than just view things remotely.
A lot of times when you have a ghostly encounter, and a strange shadow man appears just outside your peripheral vision, I don’t always think it’s a ghost, but someone trying to interact with you, or spy on you from a remote viewing location. And they might not even be living at the same time that you are. They could be far in the past or way into the future, interacting with you through a dream, or a purposeful exploit of quantum entanglement. And that these methods are scientific and can be used to communicate information just like a radio wave can now, or how electricity travels invisibly all around us, and we use it to power our entire civilization. Even though those things are invisible to us, through our current senses, it doesn’t mean they aren’t real in and of themselves. So, yes, I believe the CIA story, and I think there will be many more like it. And I think it mainly because it confirms what Graham Hancock already figured out with hard reporting and boots on the ground regarding the actual location of The Ark of the Covenant and an adventure story that was inspired by Indiana Jones, but took on a life of its own that was even more interesting than the fictional account. I’m not sure how much of the original Ark would be left, made out of wood and gold as it was. It’s around 3,200 to 3,500 years old, and not much lasts that long, even when preserved. However, I think what remains of it is in Axum, and the CIA confirmed this with a remote viewing method, which is exciting news. However, it’s also just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what remains hidden from us using these same technological methods. And the mysteries of science that we have yet to discover are still ahead of us, but have been seen through quantum entanglement, and it shows that we have a long way to go.
I really like people like Mel Gibson and Ken Ham, one the famous actor, the other the creator of The Ark Encounter just south of Cincinnati. However, both believe in the scriptural understanding of the earth’s history, that it is roughly 6000 years old. I would argue that they aren’t wrong if you measure years differently than we do on Earth, but that is an entirely different discussion. Regarding earth sciences, it says that life on Earth is billions of years old and is at apparent odds with scriptural timelines. Within these kinds of debates, the truth gets concealed from people, which is partly on purpose and other parts unfortunate. It’s challenging to put science into a belief system, just as it’s hard for people who build a belief system in science to alter a previous assumption because of their emotional investment. I don’t hold it over Mel Gibson in any way; I can’t wait for his new movie on the Resurrection of Christ. That will be a life-changing movement for all human history and change the world. I believe God’s hand has pointed his life in the direction of making this movie the whole time. So I can’t wait for it in 2026 or 2027 when they finally finish the movie which is a sequel to The Passion. Because I love the Bible and have had a relationship with it all my life, it comes up a lot more now. How can you love the Bible and love science? The two are incompatible. I hear all the time that Earth is only 6000 years old and that Charles Darwin was an absolute idiot. I also hear a lot that we never landed on the moon. But I think there is compelling evidence in both categories that will erase any doubt very soon, so people believe what they believe, and if it holds them together as people, that is the important thing. But that doesn’t make everything a fact.
Mel Gibson is a very smart person who is very passionate about many things, making him a great actor and creative director. But he has lived a very rocky life, living hard and going through many women. For a period in the 80s and 90s, he was the sexiest man alive by many considerations, and it was hard for him to maintain his sanity, I think, being a hand of God and having every woman in the world throwing themselves at his feet already undressed. So, I don’t blame him at all for holding onto scripture like a disabled person holds on to the handrail while going down the steps. But he recently said something on the Joe Rogan Podcast that was very interesting and part of the movement of trying to fit science into scripture, which is popular these days. However, I argue differently because I see science trying to force understanding into the same problem, where new evidence is ignored to maintain a scientific narrative. I’m just going to say it; everyone is going to be screwed up in a few years once we get out into space to discover that humans came from out there, not through Darwin’s evolution, and that many of the things we believe are going to be shattered with new evidence. That doesn’t make scripture any less relevant or some scientific method. It just means that discovery gives new evidence and that we must let that evidence tell the story. Not to make the story fit our assumptions.
I think these tunnels under the Temple Mount are older than when Abraham went there to sacrifice Isaac to God. And is why the politics of religions are designed to make real excavation impossible.
Anyway, Mel Gibson was telling Joe Rogan that he doesn’t believe the idea that the ocean levels weren’t lower during the Ice Age, as I have been saying, 400 feet lower. Mel Gibson said that if you put ice in a glass of water when the ice melts, the water doesn’t displace itself over the rim of the glass. The level of the water doesn’t change. And from the point of view of mass and how we measure it, he’s got a point. But he was missing that during the Ice Age, massive amounts of Earth’s water were tied up in glaciers, and those giant blocks of ice were coming down over both poles and were mostly over land. The weight of the ice itself is what caused the Great Lakes in North America. The weight was so great that it flattened the earth’s crust in that location, which is still rising back up to a circumference, pushing the water out and into the St. Lawrence Seaway and, ultimately, the Atlantic Ocean. Another several thousand years, and the Great Lakes won’t even be there. So because of this massive effect of glaciers displacing large amounts of water over the land masses, the world’s sea levels were 400 feet lower. At that time, you could have walked from England to France without getting your feet wet, except for a few ancient rivers. And the Persian Gulf was above water all the way down to Dubai. Most of Florida extended well into the Bahamas, Cuba, and the Yucatan Peninsula. If you have read the Book of Morman, there were old civilizations in North and South America that the Nephites and Lamanites interacted with when they migrated from Jerusalem around 600 B.C. Even then, it looks like land mass was lost to the sea.
I would further offer that if you look at the previous shorelines of water levels that were oceanfront during the Ice Age, we will discover a lot of ancient civilizations and that the assumption science has of linear technical development is ridiculous. Rather, we are dealing with the Vico Cycle here, where human civilization has started and stopped throughout history. And that history goes back millions of years. Not just 10 thousand years. And likely goes out into space. I think there is compelling evidence that Jerusalem goes back to settlement with a cave system under Mt. Moriah and that the Temple Platform that King Solomon built his temple on, and the current Dome of the Rock was significant, perhaps even millions of years ago. And many of the world’s religions have purposely been put at each other’s throats to conceal the truth, which we’ll likely figure out once we start colonizing Mars. Much of what we know now about everything will change with new evidence, and we have to be willing to look at that evidence without losing the importance of our belief systems. It can be tricky business, but it’s not impossible. Everyone must understand that the bad guys out there purposely seek to pit people’s beliefs against each other to conceal or use the truth to their advantage. So, because Mel Gibson doesn’t quite understand water displacement concepts and how they relate to ocean levels, that doesn’t mean that what he says in his movies, especially the upcoming Resurrection, is false. It’s just perspective. The art says what it says. And that is the same whether we are talking about the Bible, the Book of Morman, or the Quran. I find them all very fascinating, and there are certain truths there. But there is a lot else that science is unpacking, and our scope will increase with new information. We must have the guts to look at that information and not hide from it, which is the case with science and what we look at regarding previous ocean levels. And what we will discover under the water, especially off the coast of Cuba, India, Japan, and the Persian Gulf. It’s going to be a mind-bending few years of upcoming adventure. And we will all be better off for it.
What we are seeing come apart, in a good way, is a human narrative that has long held in it the power over others through concealment. It was pretty astonishing, knowing some of the things I do about the conspiracies talked about, to watch the confirmation hearings of Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, and Robert F. Kennedy by senators who clearly insisted that these people accept a complete lie in order to get a confirmation vote. It would have been shocking if it wasn’t so stark and apparent. But that kind of thing happens every day and has gone on for thousands of years. Conformity to a popular opinion is more important to authority structures than the truth. For instance, asking Kash Patel if Joe Biden won the 2020 election was more of a hazing oath than a quest for the truth. Of course, Biden didn’t win that election. I reported it from the very hour it happened and have seen precinct maps showing where the election fraud occurred. I have talked about it for the last several years almost every day because it was one of the most significant crimes in the history of the world. And the evidence, four years later, is starting to come out into the light of day. So, by asking Kash the question, which he knows there was election fraud too, the entire premise is to see if Kash would lie to be accepted into the club of Washington D.C. employees. For those types of people, in which evil rides like a horse, the greater good is defined as superior to the truth. If the masses would be better off not knowing the truth, as determined by the authority figures of the day, then the truth must be concealed. And once you start doing all that, you can never put the genie back in the bottle.
When RFK was asked about COVID and vaccines, the attempt was to get him to refute his truthful statements and to accept a government-formed diatribe that was meant to conceal the truth from the public to preserve the institutions that abused their power and killed millions and millions of people. For the greater good, RFK was expected to lie to get the job Trump appointed him for. Of course, this is ridiculous, but we put up with it every day and behind many of the problems we have regarding our government and how it does the work for the people who put it in power, or they lose their way and start to think they are in charge, we have to admit that conspiracy theories have been very good for our society and are a natural way that people who seek the truth find a way to bridge what they are told by people they can’t trust, and the actuality of evidence. In the case of our own government, or even in the science fields, institutional migration into popular culture is more important than the facts of the matter, so we have a large number of conspiracy theories from people who seek the truth, but can’t get it from their sources of authority. And we have indeed witnessed, such as with the CIA, that part of their strategy of concealment is an actual abuse of their authority, leaving people guessing constantly what’s going to happen next. The best example of this method is sleep deprivation torture, where a patient is never allowed to rest until they either confess to a crime they never committed, just so they can sleep, or to get them to psychologically accept a truth they otherwise would have rejected. In this case, let’s get people talking about aliens in Roswell, New Mexico, instead of what globalism was doing to the small military town in destroying it so they could ship the jobs to China and make it the kingmaker of New World Order politics.
This condition is most evident in the current trend of history analysis. We have been lied to about the origins of the human race and the linear track of history, with humans migrating from hunters and gatherers and building cities predictably inventing things until we have arrived in the modern age. But the truth is that humans have risen and fallen for thousands of years, reaching heights of greatness before falling back into a culture of barely rubbing two sticks together to make a fire. That is a source of conspiracy that authority figures are terrified of because to admit to it, masses of people might not follow them if they prove to be wrong, and society might yet again retreat into the abyss of human achievement. Even though we have vast evidence showing much contrary information that archaeologists and anthropologists reported, that evidence is ignored so that an established belief can remain the informative narrative. Anybody who brings forth any new truth that would challenge the official narrative established by universities and polite scientific society would be called a conspiracy theorist. We know that civilization is tens of thousands of years old and that hunters and gatherers who settled at sites such as Stonehenge were curious about the stones and built a culture around them. However, the mathematical elements and construction themselves came from a much more advanced society that was global.
As protestors outside of the closed-down USAID screamed about the DOGE efforts to get rid of entire government departments, they were all guilty of accepting an official narrative of social benefit when the real menace was wealth redistribution from a capitalist country to prop up communist countries, and in the process, to destroy capitalism so a centralized power could rule the world. The official narrative was that USAID was helping people. When the truth was that it had been seeking to destroy the brand of America that the world wanted to kill so it didn’t have to compete with North American capitalism. The goal of many who seek power in the world is to gain the ability to control a narrative and to use it to rule over the masses. And the trick to their power is to get those masses to admit to a falsehood to survive. The only way we have arrived at the point we are now where the Trump administration has gained the moral authority to do all that it’s doing is because the conspiracy theorists turned out to be right about most things. Not just some things, but most, and those in authority at the time, have been caught falsifying the official narratives, and they don’t know how to handle a society of truth. No human culture ever has. It’s never been done before, anywhere. But we are doing it now in America, and essentially, it’s because the conspiracy theories were able to get an honest analysis through free speech, which is why it’s so necessary in any culture. But seeing such a mechanism of authority play out when the facts are so well known only shows how bad it has always been. We should all thank God for the conspiracy theories in our lives. They have forced the world to be more honest, and in that process, they have alleviated a lot of evil destruction. And because of all that, we are entering a unique time of truth, as we’ve never seen it before.
I’ve seen eclipses before, but this one in 2024 was different, especially since it was close to where I live in Liberty Township, Ohio. The totality band was going to be very nearby, so once we received a decent weather report and had the exact path agreed upon by analysis, we found a good RV campsite in Rossburg, Ohio, to set up a base and make a real thing of it. My crew is very interested in those things, and it certainly made a difference that all three of my grandchildren are inclined toward intelligent things. Even at age seven, one of them is showing a Thomas Edison level of genius, so we wanted to make this a unique experience for them. Plus, getting out the campers after a hard winter was a chance to stretch our legs a bit. For an eclipse, the event was scheduled to occur between 1 and 5 PM on April 8th, with the totality of darkness happening around 3:07 PM. So rather than wait in some parking lot for that specific event, we took our homes on the road and were very relaxed. So relaxed that we stayed at that campsite for a good part of the week. It was also my birthday on the 9th so we made quite a thing of it. We got up on the morning of the 8th, ready for a front-row seat of a great celestial anomaly. We didn’t have to get up and go anywhere to observe it, so already that was a good thing. We had a nice breakfast at our campsite, the kids played fervently, and the adults had some raw downtime to talk in ways there was never time for, so we had a very nice experience.
It was worth it; by the time the moon had blocked the sun 100%, there was a nice halo ring around the celestial bodies that blocked out most of the light from the sun, and the stars came out. On all horizons, it looked like a sunset for about 50 miles in every direction. But directly over our heads, it was essentially night. I put a video up with speed advanced to see that narrow 4-minute period where day became night, and we had two sunsets on the same day. That particular part of the world is indeed in God’s country. Our campsite was in a flat open area with no trees close, and our campers were essentially pointed in the direction of the whole event as if it were a giant IMAX screen put there for our entertainment. For a last-minute campsite, the one in Rossburg was fantastic. It had a couple of lakes with fish and a beach for the kids to play in, which was quite nice. And for four minutes of totality, everyone could geek out on science and optimally enjoy the eclipse. All my kids would be lucky to ever see an eclipse like that again in their lives, and we were happy to have the chance to share it together. Life has so many moving pieces, and getting so many people together to do something like this is hard. And the celestial show did not let us down. Even I found the whole thing to be a bit of a miracle and a sensational opportunity to study science in the field and contemplate larger concepts. The little kids, my grandchildren, were overwhelmed with the spectacle, which is what we wanted for them, and it was obvious that interests were sparked in them at that moment that would last a lifetime.
During the totality, I couldn’t help but think of Tecumseh when he famously predicted an eclipse and an earthquake along the New Madrid Faultline by St. Lewis. I also thought of all the conspiracy theories that had led up to the eclipse as people tried to make sense of such a meaningful event to human minds. For instance, why were their ten towns named after the Biblical Nineveh along the path of the totality in North America? Did many of the Masons who organized these towns initially know this eclipse would happen mathematically, and they set fate to play host to some celestial significance rooted in ancient astrological belief systems? What role did this particular eclipse play in Jewish rituals, and how planned were they for this event in 2024? And what results were produced by the particle collider at CERN, which was supposed to have gone off at that exact moment of the totality band in America? All that was playing in my mind as we watched the eclipse unfold. Yet, for me, it looked purely like a regional thing. We had gone to that location because at home, even though home wasn’t very far away compared to other places that we’ve gone, the whole experience was a regional one. Obviously, celestial observers witnessing events discussed in the Bible would only be important to those experiencing even the most dramatic events. Most people in the world wouldn’t even notice that there was an eclipse at all. The sun would dim a bit, and if you didn’t have special glasses to look at it, you would not see the moon passing in front of it. And wouldn’t even know what was happening, if anything at all.
The world did not end, and after that event, I continued to think about how humans bring meaning to natural occurrences to attempt to understand the cosmic significance. As creatures of nature, we tend to do that, where nature happens, and people may observe it, but the importance may not have any significance other than three celestial bodies interacting with each other, the sun, the moon, and the earth relative to their positions. Suppose anybody hung around long enough over billions of years. In that case, our Milky Way galaxy will collide with a neighboring galaxy, and there will be all kinds of disruptive, likely destructive, celestial events on a grand, epic scale. This eclipse was a regional thing that had harmless consequences and reminded all the humans watching it, that there was a lot more to existence that they needed to understand. And that they attempted to bring meaning to the passage of the moon in front of the sun in very specific places in North America was an interesting observation of relativity, but not much else. But humans have minds, and they think and observe. So many stories came to their minds saying that they were doing what nature intended them to do, to take nature and make meaningful the occurrences in a way that shapes necessity in interesting ways. The ability to think was the most miraculous event that day, to see a celestial event and to bring human meaning to it as a greater cosmic significance. We certainly enjoyed it; we wanted all the kids to have something important to think about and see as gloriously as possible. And to create memories that would last for years, even longer. There would be more eclipses, not in that part of the world, but they would happen. But they would never occur under that collection of circumstances ever again, where meaning was created by the minds observing it. And what is born of that meaning is better than nature for its own sake and is the stuff that makes immortality such a grand word.
The Overmanwarrior 