Temple of the Rising Sun
For the past three decades Canadian chemistry professor Gordon Freeman has spent his time wandering and visiting the local archaeological rock site near his home in southern Alberta.
Although mainstream archaeologists believe the site is a simple piece of indigenous art, Freeman believes it is a technological healing device or sun temple.
At 78 and retired from his career, Freeman is advocating for better preservation of the ancient site, which some researchers believe could predate Stonehenge and the Pyramids of Giza.
Story via The Daily Grail.
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Pretty cool. I wonder if Valve knows about this...
"You have tasted death now," said the Old Man. "Is it good?"
"It is good," Mossy replied. "It is better than life."
"No... only more life."
Interesting
The wonderful Stan Gooch has pretty much convinced me that neolithic peoples were tuned in to the cosmos in ways which we are barely able to imagine. Who knows, perhaps the Neanderthal are the lost civilisation remembered in the Atlantis myths. Stan's book Cities of Dreams deserves to be read by any student of Robert Graves' The White Goddess...
Freeman's findings are perfectly appropriate in the Gooch context. Perhaps our remote ancestors were not primitive savages, eking a meagre living from the berries and bones of a nature "red in tooth and claw." Instead they were sensitive and sophisticated telepathic stargazers, living breast to breast with the cosmos, marking time to honour and celebrate the matrix from which they had temporarily emerged.
The long "fall" into agriculture and linear time has caused us to forget our original atemporal existence. But the traces remain in myth, folklore and fable.
Civilisation is a euphemism for amnesia.
In wildness is the preservation of the world - Thoreau
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This is not too far from my house!