Why Imagination Is More Important Than You Think By Dorraine Fisher
Albert Einstein said a curious thing. He said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited, where imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”
And many inquiring minds have contemplated what he meant by this. And many have even disagreed. Certainly imagination plays a pivotal role in implementing new ideas. Nothing has ever been created or implemented without someone first imagining it. But isn’t that imagined image in the creator’s mind backed up by some kind of knowledge? Don’t they have to have a foundation of knowledge before they can imagine an idea into form? Well, not really, and the further your imagination can go in the absence of knowledge, the bigger and more amazing the creation can be.
Perception: The Roadblock To Logic And Critical Thinking By Dorraine Fisher
I’m out to prove that logic and critical thinking are the biggest ruses ever perpetuated onto the human race. Or at least to make people think about them a little bit deeper and question what these terms are really suggesting. Until we all turn into Vulcans like Mr. Spock from Star Trek and can stoically and methodically analyze our own thoughts, we need to scrap these ideas entirely.
According to Merriam-Webster, logic is a science that deals with the principles and criteria of validity of inference and demonstration: the science of the formal principles of reasoning.
I’ve always found this definition troublesome because it doesn’t clarify where these “formal principles of reasoning” come from. It doesn’t allow for the inevitable personal perceptions of the one who is attempting to be “reasonable.” Every single person you talk to believes they’re being reasonable or logical, but it’s based on their own perceptions of what reasonable and logical mean to them personally. And it’s based on their personal perceptions of the subject they’re attempting to be logical about.
Why Some Of Us Aspire To Conspiracy Theories By Dorraine Fisher
When you have a large population of people in the world as we do right now, it’s impossible to control them all physically. But they DO have to find a way to control us because they’re afraid of us. Because we have power beyond measure and they know it. So what do they have to do? They have to find ways to control our minds.
The term “conspiracy theorist” has often been used as a derogatory term to objectify a certain group of people and make them look crazy. But this is only another means of mind control. It’s an attempt to make one group of people who aren’t grounded in who they really are and who feel safer running with the herd believe that thinking for themselves isn’t acceptable. And it’s also an attempt to try and make the conspiracy theorists doubt themselves or suffer too much ridicule so that they give up their original ideas and give in to the mindset of the status quo.
Why You Should Love Being Called A Conspiracy Theorist
By Dorraine Fisher
Gaslighting is the act of telling someone they didn’t see what they think they saw and attempting to shut down the conversation and make them think they’re crazy for bringing it up. Paranormal witnesses and investigators know this all too well. People do it to them all the time. But they don’t care. Being called crazy in the paranormal community is a badge of honor they consent to wear. This is the price they pay for blazing the trails for true critical thinking.
The world is changing fast, and there’s a war raging right now on out-of-the-box thinkers. Anyone capable of thinking beyond what they’re being told on a daily basis by the media or any other of the powers-that-be, are being called conspiracy theorists, or just unintelligent. But why? Well, let’s be real here. Some of them have an agenda. And not a very nice one. Some of them would like to suppress any kind of critical or out-of-the-box thinking because it threatens their status quo and their ability to manipulate us.
Why is it so hard for us, as humans, to be authentic? To just be ourselves with no outside interference? It’s because we’re broken into hundreds or even thousands of pieces, literally. You not only have a dark side. You have many dark facets to your character. But the question is whether or not those dark facets are really bad like we’re taught to believe.
We’ve seen them in movies like The Three Faces of Eve and Sybil, people with such severe multiple personality disorder, or more correctly, dissociative identity disorder, that they have become completely dysfunctional in society. Their psychiatrists can summon any one of many of their personalities by asking to talk to him or her. And we watch as one person displays many different and opposing sides to him/herself.
And we think to ourselves, “Wow! I’m sure glad I’m not like that. I’m sure glad I’m normal.”
Does it seem sometimes like the world is going crazy?
You’ve felt it. We all have. Something strange is going on in the world.
We are rather chaotically slipping into a new age on planet earth. Experts can’t seem to come together on an idea about what that means, but they all seem to agree that the planet is experiencing a massive energy shift. Which means that the human race, profoundly affected by energy, is also changing at an accelerated rate.
Ego - The Scariest Monster Of All Is Inside You
Is Yours A Monster Too?
By Dorraine Fisher
Throughout our entire lives, we hear a lot about the ego. And we think we know what it is. Most people believe that a person with a big ego is a person with an over inflated view of him or herself, or a person who’s narcissistic or conceited. And, though those things are true, they’re not all there is to the ego. We all fall victim to our egos. Psychiatric professionals battle this monster throughout their entire careers, attempting to make people understand and conquer their egos.
Has The World Gone Crazy? It All Depends On How You Look At It
By Dorraine Fisher
We, the human race, have been asleep for centuries. But things are changing. The slumber is over.
I know you’ve felt it...like the world is spinning out of control.Time seems to be moving faster. It’s hard to keep up with technology. News travels at the speed of sound. People are angry. Paradigms and beliefs of every denomination are being thrown on their heads. Human history is being challenged. No one agrees on anything. Everyone argues about everything. What the heck is going on?
Are Scientists Acknowledging The Existence Of The Soul?
By Dorraine Fisher
After scoffing at the subject for many years, it seems that science is beginning to acknowledge the existence of the soul, however slowly. But I talked about this subject way back in 2013, and at that time, I was convinced that science would absolutely HAVE to acknowledge the soul at some point, and here’s why.
If you’ve ever read anything about the works of the great scientist from the late 1800’s, Nikola Tesla, you will have read that everything in our world is all about energy. Energy is what drives everything. And learning as much as we can about energy is what will lead us to the truth about everything else. All the unanswered questions start with understanding how energy works. And this started me thinking about what drives us humans. What kind of energy drives us?
Our Alien Origins, Intelligent Design, And The Smoking Gun Examining The Mysterious Human Chromosome 2
By Dorraine Fisher
According to a few courageous scientists, as soon as DNA evidence entered the arena of the human story, the theory of evolution, at least in humans, should have died a natural death. Because DNA evidence has shaken the foundation of a hundred years of belief, and albeit worship, of Darwin’s famous theory that humans evolved from apes. But Darwin is said to have always claimed that his theory could eventually be disproven. And not even he could have ever predicted what would happen in the future, and the information we would be able to derive from genetic material.
The famous founder of The Star Child Project and human origins researcher, the late Lloyd Pye, called this new evidence the “smoking gun” in the case against human evolution from great apes.
Evolution Vs. Creationism - What If They’re Both Right?
The Ancient Sumerians, Intervention Theory, and the Forbidden History of Our Origins
By Dorraine Fisher
Science and religion are often intertwined...whether they want to be or not.
And no matter what people believe about where we humans came from, there may always be disagreement. And the debate between religion and science is the biggest debate about our origins raging to this day.
Evolution vs. creationism is an argument with which most of us are familiar. And it can be a very angry topic for both sides. One side believes we evolved, as Charles Darwin theorized, gradually from great apes. The other side, the religious side, claims that humans and our planet are simply too profoundly amazing and unique that we must have been intelligently designed by a creator.
But what if they’re both right, in a sense? What if there were elements of both evolution AND creation that shaped who we’ve become?
And what am I talking about?
There is real-world evidence to support such an idea out in the fringes of historic record. And it’s called Intervention Theory. But first we have to look at what’s wrong with both sides of the argument.
Creationism is considered by many to be a wonderful story, a myth, if you will, though it neglects to explain important details scientifically. But since science wasn’t a prevalent endeavor at the time the Old Testament was written, this is to be expected. And I think the people of the time made an interpretation of events they saw take place in the only way they could understand. And they accepted stories that were handed down to them because this is how they learned about their history.
Evolution, on the other hand, relies on evidence that’s been found that shapes the idea that humans evolved gradually from great apes into what we are now. And there is a lot of evidence to support this theory, but it’s hard to find enough evidence to support the idea that evolution affected us in the same way as other animals. There isn’t enough evidence to support the idea that we evolved directly from great apes. The major hurdle that science can’t seem to resolve is that about 200,000 years ago, great apes made an enormous and somewhat unusual evolutionary leap, and humans, albeit homo sapiens, emerged seemingly out of nowhere, and became a dominant force on the planet in a relatively short time. After millions of years of lumbering along at an evolutionary snail’s pace, we suddenly burst onto the scene at an accelerated rate of speed.
Why?
Science has never answered this question satisfactorily. But what if the ancient myths have been telling the story all along and we’ve been ignoring it because of what we’ve been taught to believe? Now, we always shut down when we science-minded types hear the word myth, because it all seems so UN-scientific, but try to just stay with me on this.
When I was in grade school, and we learned about the first civilizations, we were always taught that the ancient texts they inscribed everywhere were just myths; like stories told to children that explained all the things to which they really didn’t know all the answers. But what if they aren’t myths at all? Inscriptions on stones were not the easiest thing to accomplish. There was a lot of labor involved in making them. Why would they tell mythical stories to them with no historical significance? Wouldn’t it make more sense to inscribe actual events? We assume that, since the texts often refer to “gods” that it must be their mythology. But what if they were telling about real people they believed to be gods? How would that change our interpretation?
This is the question that a man named Zecharia Sitchin wanted to answer. Sitchin, a Russian-born scholar, author, linguist, and researcher specializing in cuneiform writing, had been driven for years to meticulously study the Sumerian inscriptions and finally crack the code of those ancient texts like no one had been able to do before. He was one of only a couple hundred people in the world capable of interpreting cuneiform writing. And he eventually claimed he succeeded in interpreting the Sumerian texts in 1976, in his book, The Twelfth Planet, where he told a story from them that revealed a possibility so shocking that it rocked the scientific world and led it to dig in its heels and deny it all. But it also led many to question long-held scientific interpretations of the texts. This gave rise to what is now called Intervention Theory ....or the alternative story of how the world and we humans were “created”... by the so-called “gods.”
In these texts, Sitchin explains from his interpretation of The Seven Tablets of Creation also called the Enuma Elish, the Sumerian’s story of the Annunaki, or the gods they served. These were living, breathing, flesh-and-blood beings that were described as having the appearance of humans and the emotions and flaws of humans also. They told of the gods often being angry, selfish, or jealous. But they could also be benevolent, caring, and charitable. They were very tall, possibly 8 to 10 feet, as depicted in the texts, and believed to be immortal, but probably just had very long life spans. They were highly advanced beings that flew, not on their own, but with the aid of flying machines that the people may not have understood well enough to describe as anything except giant metal birds. And they had many other forms of technology.
The solar system according to Sumerian texts.
And they have depicted our solar system with twelve planets, counting earth’s moon, revolving around the sun. As the story goes, the earth, or the planet the gods called Tiamat was hit by one of the moons of a roving planet that had spun out of its orbit. The force was so intense that earth was broken in half and spun, on fire, out of control for a very long time before it finally reshaped itself and slowly became the living planet we know today, with water, living plants, and evolving wildlife, including some largely unimpressive primates believed to be some of our pre-human ancestors. Though they had a very long way to go to become what we are today.
In the meantime, according to the story, in our solar system, there was a twelfth planet the Annunaki called Nibiru, that would spin in and out of our orbit every 3600 years, and this is the planet they claimed they came from. And they were said to have come here to Tiamat or Earth looking for gold to fix the damage they had done to their own atmosphere on Nibiru.
The strange orbit of Nibiru was considered impossible in years past, but many astronomers now agree it's possible.
And it was at about this time 200,000 years ago history tells us that the ancient Sumerian culture seemed to appear out of nowhere in what is now Iraq, highly advanced, when the rest of the humanoid beings on earth were scattered and living in caves.
And as the story continues, their quest for gold continues. But extracting it is hard, tedious work, and the Annunaki don’t like doing it. So they devised a plan to take the little humanoid beings that already existed here, now believed by many to be homoerectus, and use their technology and their own DNA to genetically manipulate and hybridize themselves a worker race to mine the gold in southern Africa. This race needed to be just intelligent enough to follow instructions and do the work, but not so intelligent as to cause trouble.
And so it came to pass, these “gods” created the human race, probably in their own image, and they called them Adamu, a name curiously close to the name Adam from the Old Testament. And incidentally, the ancient Hebrews, having been exposed to this story through their enslavement, later appear to have created their own version of it which is now the Old Testament (I’ll be talking about that more in the future.)
The "goddess" Enki presenting the first human of their creation, curiously called Adamu. Does the equipment to the left appear to resemble a laboratory of some sort?
The Annunaki probably made many mistakes at first, but they finally came up with a “product” that could reproduce on its own. Us. A being far from perfect, with many genetic flaws, not quite suited to life on earth, but intelligent enough to utilize its own world and survive independently and procreate while doing the work of the gods.
But where’s the proof?
There is some very compelling evidence to support this.
First of all, humans have DNA that can’t be recognized as belonging in this world. It has often been called junk DNA, but is more often now curiously called “alien” DNA. Are they more right than they realize?
Second of all, if we, as humans on earth, had continued on the same trajectory and at the same speed as we had done on our early evolutionary path, it would have taken roughly 5 million more years for us to have reached the point of being able to build a real civilization than it did. And to reach the machine age and the space age might have taken another 5 million years. But something launched us forward at an accelerated pace. Think of early humans lumbering along trying to make better arrowheads, and then suddenly being launched into civilization. And only 66 years time elapsed between the Wright brothers first flight and the first man on the moon. How did we suddenly get so smart and so advanced? This all happened far too quickly for evolution to have taken place in the true sense of the word.
Thirdly, if you do your research, you’ll find that we humans don’t really resemble great apes in very many ways. Great apes are designed for their environment, have greater bone density, a covering of fur, better vision and hearing and olfactory senses required to live on this planet. If we humans evolved for life on this planet, why are we so poorly designed for the task? Darwin was correct and evolution is a real thing. It’s been proven time and time again in other species. But the very purpose of evolution is to create a better biological design in a species so it can better survive in its environment. Why do we need to wear clothes and shoes and sunglasses for protection on the planet on which we are supposed to have evolved? Why do we have hundreds of genetic defects? Defects that only usually happen in genetically modified species like pets and livestock that have been manipulated and hybridized? It doesn’t make sense unless intervention theory is true.
Though humans are supposed to have evolved from great apes, the real resemblances are few. As a species, we humans seem much more fragile at first glance.Though we have much larger brains and hands designed for tasks that are much more detailed like playing music or creating art.
And lastly, the most important and significant of all the evidence. The fused chromosomes. Great apes have 48 sets of chromosomes. We have 46, and were supposed to have evolved from these great apes. It isn’t possible under natural circumstances to lose two chromosomes and come out better. But maybe we didn’t really lose anything. We have fewer sets because the second and third of the old primate (possibly homoerectus) chromosomes were fused together. All humans have this, and it’s not something that happens naturally in any living species. That is something that only happens in a lab. Scientists have been working hard to come up with an explanation for this, but what if it’s simply because we’re a genetically manipulated species? This is what intervention theorists consider to be the smoking gun.
Human chromosomes. Notice the 2nd pair of chromosomes at the top. Great apes have 48 pairs. We have 46. How did we lose two chromosomes and become better? Perhaps the answer is, we didn't lose anything. The 2nd and 3rd ape chromosomes have been fused together to create us. This is a process that doesn't occur naturally. Only in a lab. The proverbial smoking gun.
So, could this be how the human race came to be...in such a short period of time? Are we half extra-terrestrial and half caveman? Are evolutionism and creationism both true in our origins?
Evolution is real. But could this mean creationism is real too? Just a little different than we thought?
The Old Testament said “Let us create man in OUR image.” Is that what they did, but in an unexpected way? Did they use their own DNA to create us? What if we actually were an evolved species like Darwin contended, but helped along a little in our advancement by “intelligent design” by the so-called gods who were actually just flesh-and-blood beings from another world so advanced as to be called gods? How would that affect the way we look at our history...and our spirituality? My guess is it wouldn’t really change anyone’s core beliefs all that much. But it might end the argument once and for all.
If you’d like to know more about the Annunaki and Intervention Theory, read the book by Zecharia Sitchin, The Twelfth Planet, or watch this video:
In the meantime, Intervention Theory and Zecharia Sitchin are still, after more than 30 years, subject to debate.
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Around the Campfire - 6 Reasons to Wonder if Humans Aren't of this World ( Ep10)
It's finally here! episode 10 of Around the Campfire with Dorraine Fisher! In this episode Dorraine asks some good questions and makes some good points concerning humans and where we really come from. I'm sure some of the 6 reasons Dorraine talks about, are ones you have never even thought of before. You might want to get a pencil and take some notes, this is a good one.
6 Reasons
To Wonder If Humans Really Aren’t Of This World
Or At
Least That We Might Be Genetically Modified
By Dorraine
Fisher
One thing that has always been in the back of my mind is finding the real truth about human origins. Where do we really come from, and why do we seem to have so many problems to overcome? Why are we such a unique life form on this planet? And, more importantly, why do we cause our planet so many problems?
Where did we come from? Why are we here? Have we always been here? And if we have, why are we so…defective? I’ve always wondered if we were a hybrid being of some kind. Perhaps even the living subjects of some big scientific experiment conducted by beings from another world.
Until we have real answers, no suggestion is off the table as far as I’m concerned. And even though science is doing its best to answer all the questions, some pieces of our evolutionary puzzle still don’t quite fit in the way we’re supposed to believe they do. It doesn’t seem we have the whole story, yet. We’ve never been given really satisfactory or indisputable answers for questions about where we came from or what we might be…besides a highly-evolved ape. That’s fine, but is that all there is to our story? I have to wonder, and here’s why. See if you’ve ever thought about these things.
Humans can grow
their head hair to undetermined lengths
We have weird hair. We’re the only hairless ape in our evolutionary line. But why? Most of us have very little on our bodies compared to other warm-blooded earth creatures. But what’s up with the hair on our heads? It can grow to undetermined lengths and then has to be cut before it gets out of control. There are no other animals that have hair that has to be cut before it reaches troublesome lengths except for one: dogs. More specifically certain breeds of purebred dogs; biologically engineered dog breeds such as Maltese’s, Shih-tzus, and Poodles. Have you ever wondered why this is? Is there some purpose for it that we don’t even know about? Or is it a throwback from some elusive ancestors of ours somewhere else besides earth? Or is this a defect from us being biologically engineered.
In I871, in The Descent Of Man, Charles Darwin suggested this happens because we’re the only creature on earth that has evolved the intelligence to cut hair. I’m not sure I buy this. He also suggested we humans may have evolved such hair as a means of sexual attraction. But Darwin also believed that many things we evolved were for the purpose of sexual attraction, but I tend to believe that we’d all be attracted to each other if we all looked like big raisins. Bottom line, Darwin really didn’t know either. The hair seems to have no purpose for our basic survival, and actually could undermine survival if it wasn’t kept under control by artificial means. So why IS our hair the way it is?
Humans have
numerous allergies
Humans, strangely, are allergic to lots of things in their environment. If we were really true creatures of earth, why are we often hyper-sensitive to or just plain allergic to our own world? It’s one thing to be allergic to our man-made substances, but it’s quite another to be allergic to the trees and plants in our back yard; all the flora of the planet we’re supposed to have come from.
Based on Darwin’s ideas about continuously-growing hair, these allergies could have plagued us because humans are the only creatures with the intelligence to invent allergy medicines. Do you see where I’m going with this? I’m trying to point out how ridiculous some of our traits are and how authorities attempt to explain them within a framework of reference to things with which we’re familiar. But the only other creatures on earth that have allergy problems to this degree are, you guessed it, purebred dogs and cats and other domesticated animals. Bio-engineered animals whose biology has been tampered with by another species: us.
Have we been tampered with by some other species? Are we part extra-terrestrial, or did we maybe bio-engineer ourselves in some way?
Other animals in their wild, natural environments don’t have these problems to any degree. And if they do, it makes their survival more challenging. We survive because of our intelligence and adaptability. Our bio-engineered pets and domestic animals survive due to our intelligence and intervention. So, are we another bio-engineered species, created by…some other species…from somewhere else besides earth? Or did we bio-engineer ourselves by accident? Who knows?
Humans Seem
Poorly Designed To Live On Planet Earth
Most people believe that humans now populate all the furthest corners of this planet. They believe we are everywhere and there is no part of the planet left that we haven’t conquered. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. There are still many places on earth that humans have not set foot on. And that’s mostly because it’s too hard for us to get there. We are simply not designed for it. And humans historically, instead of defining themselves by being in tune with nature, have often defined themselves by being able to conquer nature.
This is the exact opposite of the wild animals around us that seem to be perfectly suited to the world around them with the hearing, eyesight, sense of smell, body covering, subcutaneous fat, camouflage, size, shape, and reproductive traits to survive in their unique environments.
Humans are limited to where they can live on the planet. We don’t seem to be well- adapted to any particular terrain. Our hairless skin often burns in the sun if we lack enough skin pigment. Our lack of hair or fur would allow us to freeze to death without clothing in many areas of the world. We don’t have particularly keen eyesight or hearing or olfactory senses that might be helpful to our basic survival. And yet, here we are. A completely unique and weird being, separate from all the rest that live here, relying solely on our wits to remain here.
But instead of being tailor made for our world, we seem to have to adapt our world to us. Which can arguably make us the most invasive species on the planet. Why is this? Aren’t invasive species those that have been brought in to an area from somewhere else? And don’t they wreak havoc and upset the balance in their new areas? If we were meant to be here, and if we are natural inhabitants of the planet, why are we so invasive and destructive? As that destructive nature could lead to the end of our survival here, how does that make sense?
Humans have DNA
that can’t be recognized
Back in the 1970’s, when biologists had their first glimpse of the big picture of human genes, they saw small bits of strange DNA that seemed to be floating in a weird cesspool of unidentified muck. Since they couldn’t identify it and it seemed to have no real function, they labeled it as “nothing more than junk DNA.” And this phrase “junk DNA” stuck for decades afterward, and is still used occasionally.
And as the group at Scientific American known as Encode are trying to make sense of our genetic code, they are also systematically attempting to eliminate the term junk DNA. But the nature of this DNA is still mostly “not understood.” And some have described this DNA as being “otherworldly” or “not of this world.”
So, if this DNA truly may be “not of this world,” then the big question is where did it come from? What is our true inheritance? And until it’s identified positively, we need to ask whether it holds a great secret about our origins.
Human
intelligence has been forced to compensate for our many flaws
If we’re not truly
designed for life on this planet, then the only reason we’re still
here may be because of superior intelligence. But this “intelligence”
as we call it, revolves around molding our world to fit our flaws.
Why is this? And is it really intelligent after all? If we’re
supposed to be here, why aren’t we designed accordingly? Other
animals are designed to fit. Why aren’t we? Many people think it’s
reasonable to assume that our intelligence is enough to justify our
existence here. But it can be argued that our intelligence can also
be a problem. How good is it for the planet if humans are, by using
their intelligence, metaphorically bending the earth to their will?
Humans are
emotionally and intellectually conflicted.
Why do we always seem to have an internal conflict going between our logical side and our wild side? It’s almost like we have two beings inside of us. One that relies on instinct and does what comes naturally, something like an animal. And then there’s that logical side that tries to stop this kind of behavior. Are the rest of the animals in the kingdom so conflicted this way? I suspect not. They just do what comes naturally to them. We are in a constant struggle over this. Humans are the only animals on the planet that question their existence and question their own instincts.
In the famous novel about acquiring secret knowledge, The Celestine Prophecy, it explained that humans are in a constant state of resolution of the personalities of their two parents. We’re always trying to find a balance between the two. Is that us? Did we originally have one wild parent and one possibly more highly intelligent parent?
I’m sure there are many out there who will scoff at what I’m saying and they’ll go with the popular scientific explanations for my questions. And that’s fine. It’s comforting to think that everything in our world makes perfect sense in some way. But it doesn’t. Not yet, at least.
And my point is that until something is proved beyond doubt by anyone, it’s wide open for questioning, especially when you really look at the strangeness and the inconsistencies of everything around you.
Has Mother Nature been violated in some way? Is there an amazingly profound story of humanity we haven’t been told? Are we the upsetters of the delicate balance who maybe aren’t supposed to be here at all? I’m leaving it up to science to eventually answer all the questions. I’m just asking them.
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From
what I’ve read lately, it may be time to scrap most of our old beliefs about
human evolution and open our minds to MANY new ones. As rumors swirl of Bigfoot
being a primate that is more human than ape, new ideas develop about the human
story every day. But I found none more interesting than theater and film
director Danny Vendramini’s theories about Neanderthals that challenge some of
the greatest minds in the scientific and anthropological communities in their
traditional views of what Neanderthals must have looked like.
Vendramini
claims humans use anthropomorphism (the tendency to attribute human features to
other animals) as the reason science has “humanized” the appearance of
Neanderthals so much over the years. Neanderthals are usually depicted in
magazines and on TV as hairless like us, light skinned, and often fairly
attractive from a human perspective. They’re shown to look mostly like us
outside of a few prominent facial features such as flat, short foreheads and
heavy brow ridges.
But
Vendramini, in his book, Them and Us, in his background and working with movie
makeup artists, has taken a new look at neanderthal skulls from a more theatrical
point of view and has come to some interesting conclusions by using an
old-fashioned human super-power: imagination. And an open mind.
According
to Vendramini, science has no basis to believe that Neanderthals looked much
like humans at all. Neanderthals skulls have very large eye sockets, so they’re
eyes had to, he says, have been much larger than a humans, possibly for the
purpose of hunting in the dark of night. And like other primates, their eyes
may have been completely dark with no whites, since there is no evidence to
prove they had whites in their eyes. And he maintains we have no reason to
believe they had light, smooth skin like humans either. With only fossil
records to go by, we’re only assuming they had skin like ours.
And
Neanderthals are believed to have evolved in the colder northern climates of
Europe and Asia, so complete hair loss like that of humans, believed to have
evolved in the hot climate of Africa, would have been a huge mistake of
nature...which doesn’t generally happen. There’s a very good chance
Neanderthals were completely covered in hair just like any other primate except
humans. And when we look at a side view of a Neanderthal skull vs. a human
skull, we find the Neanderthal skull to look more like an ape than any human.
So their profile would have looked much different than ours.
So
when Vendramini revealed his version of what a Neanderthal likely looked like,
the picture was very different and, in my opinion, much more menacing than the
more humanized, National Geographic version. And I was shocked to see what
looked to me like a shorter, more fearsome relative of what Bigfoot is believed
to look like today. In fact, in photos of Bigfoot, I believe Bigfoot as we
understand him, appears much more human in that context than Vendramini’s
Neanderthal.
So
in light of new DNA evidence of a sister species that lived alongside
Neanderthals and humans tens of thousands of years ago, and all the
interbreeding between theses species’ that is now believed to have taken place,it only gives us another idea to ponder as we
wait for Dr. Ketchum’s DNA results. Is Bigfoot actually more human than
Neanderthals were?There are so many
questions that need to be answered here. And granted, Vendramini is NO man of
science, but his theories do make a lot of sense. And all we can do is
speculate anyway. ******
So
you think you saw Bigfoot, or a UFO, or a ghost? What are you supposed to do
now? Those things aren’t supposed to exist, and yet something deep inside is
saying, “Yes, I saw it and I know I didn’t dream it.” But still, you have to
find a way to process it. Because in the human mind, everything must make sense
and we must be able to relate it to something familiar. That’s how the human
brain works. It struggles for a logical explanation.
But
some things in this world simply aren’t logical, and some things will always be
a mystery.
And
I’m going to say something about this here that may not set so well with some,
but needs to be said nonetheless.
Great
intelligence can be a curse. As far as we know, humans are the only animals
intelligent enough to question their own instincts. We’re the only animals
cursed with this supposed “gift” of reason that will slow us down (by us
thinking too hard) just long enough for us to be knocked in the head by
reality! Logic can confuse us because it assumes it knows everything when
there’s no way it possibly can.
So
is it maybe easier to be any other animal? They seem to have such simple minds,
and they don’t seem to doubt their own instincts at all.
But
there’s a reason for that from which humans can learn a valuable lesson. We
have instincts or intuition for a reason.
It may have been designed to help us get through life, but we
“intelligent” humans seem to turn it into something far more complicated. We
over think, we doubt, and we question until we don’t trust ourselves to know.
That’s the curse of logic.
Logic
just creeps in. And you’ll use that logic essentially as a tool to torture
yourself over what your instinct already knows. You saw what you saw. Logic
really had nothing to do with it. So maybe logic isn’t as sound as we’d like to
think.
But
ironically it’s your distinctly human logical side that will argue with
instinct and tell you that logic should be the winner here. Logic should decide
what you saw, and logic tells you that Bigfoot shouldn’t exist. There’s no
concrete proof. Therefore Bigfoot doesn’t exist. Period. End of story. So you
must have imagined the whole thing.
Right?
Intuition
may seem intangible, but it’s very real. Humans, just like all other animals,
were designed with strong instincts as a survival mechanism. We were meant to
be able to perceive danger and make the decision to run or fight. Our instincts
were gifted to us with a very profound purpose.
If
you watch other animals, they seem to use their instincts effectively and they
don’t seem to question them. They rarely appear to doubt or over think. That’s how they survive. And on those rare
occasions when they do seem to question those instincts for even a split second,
they often die. So instincts are very important to every living creature. They
determine life and death. And what’s more important than that? So by that
“reasoning,” should we ignore them now?
We
need to be more like the animals we truly are.
We need to learn to trust our instincts and follow them, even though
that persistent logic we cling to will be screaming, “No!” Brushing logic
aside, you saw what you saw. You weren’t dreaming.
Your instincts already know what you saw,
while logic will forever be arguing the point. And none of us needs to spend
the rest of our lives arguing. So have
peace inside your mind, and surrender to what you know. **********
By TCC Team Member Dorraine Fisher Professional Writer, a nature and wildlife enthusiast who has written for many magazines.
If Sasquatches Are So Smart, Then Why……?
By TCC Team Member Dorraine Fisher
Just how smart are the hairy ones? That’s a subject that invites a lot of debate. Some say that a number of animals display the same skills as a sasquatch, so they’re not necessarily super intelligent. Some say they must be pretty smart since they’ve managed to stay hidden from humans for thousands of years. And the debate rages on. But how can we fairly measure the intelligence of any creature?
Someone once said, “If you judge a fish by how well it can climb trees, it’ll go through its entire life thinking it’s stupid.”
We can’t measure the intelligence of a sasquatch by our own standards.Just because we’ve conquered nature (we think) and civilized the wild world around us, doesn’t necessarily mean we have superior intelligence.
Probably the best way to measure the intelligence of sasquatches is solely on their success as a species. How well is they’re able to survive and even thrive in they’re own world?By this standard, they’re very intelligent, but yet, some would say not much more so than any other animals that still exist.
Sasquatch’s ability to hide is legendary, but a lot of animals are able to hide very well and they have very specialized camouflage. So does superior hiding ability suggest super intelligence?
Ongoing primate research suggests that the other primates we’re very familiar with are much smarter and even more human like than was originally believed. So why shouldn’t we believe the same about our big, hairy friends?
But maybe the biggest question of all is: Why have humans forged civilizations and performed great engineering feats while sasquatches and other primates have not?If sasquatches are more intelligent or even more humanlike than other lower primates like some believe, what would distinguish the difference between them and us?
A group of researchers wanted to find out what stops other primates from developing human capabilities. So they tested chimps along with 3 and 4-year-old children together to find out if other primates have a “cumulative culture” besides humans. They were given puzzle boxes to solve that offered progressively better rewards at different stages of their progression.
One chimp did reach the highest stage of progression, but the other chimps around him were not affected by this in any way and didn’t progress further like the first.But all the children, of course, were very successful. Why? Because researchers found they worked together and shared what they learned along the way, while there was no interaction or collaboration among the chimps.
So we can only wonder if sasquatches work together and share information. We can never simply assume that sasquatches are anything like other primates at all. This only gives us a frame of reference.
But what really seems to set them apart from us is their perception rate.They seem to perceive danger quicker than we do and they react with almost lightning speed.It’s possible that, while humans are standing around wondering what they just saw, the sasquatch has made his quick escape leaving his counterparts bewildered.And quite often, they don’t even move that fast, but the humans are still confused nonetheless. Humans are not able to process what they saw so quickly while the sasquatch has already processed it all and is on its way into the shadows. The human is still fumbling with the camera when the sasquatch is far away already and reduced to a blobsquatch on film.We have thousands of those pictures and videos on record. So who’s the smart one now?
They are a very large animal in a world with very few animals of equal size. And they need to possess a keen intelligence to be able to eat, reproduce and keep their hulking bodies out of sight.This is their brand of primal intelligence: quick wit, stealth, cunning, automatic and perhaps extreme mistrust of any new situation or experience, and keen observance of their world. We rarely see them, but we know they watch humans from behind the trees, and they probably are more familiar with our habits than we are with theirs.They are well suited to living in their world; a world that includes us.
And that’s probably a good thing.
It’s very possible that if they had always been easily seen throughout history, humans would’ve hunted them down and wiped them out purely out of fear very early on.But sasquatches seem to know enough to hide from us, and that has helped them survive, while many other species’ have been nearly eradicated simply because they dared to show themselves.
They are said to hunt other large animals, and yet skillfully avoid being seen.And they very curiously seem to avoid trail cameras. It’s almost as if they are suspicious of anything that doesn’t look natural, while other animals are more easily caught with any trap containing food.
Some say they use a kind of archaic language to communicate with each other. But do they have the ability to share information they’ve learned and articulate it to others like humans do? And if so, why have they not used that skill in the same way humans have?
It could be that they’re simply not quite as intelligent as we are, or, maybe they’re really smart and they simply use those skills to tell each other to stay the heck away from humans, all their little electronic devices, and their entire way of life at all costs.
But slowly the humans are getting smarter and more answers are coming. Hopefully soon. *********
By TCC Team Member Dorraine Fisher Professional Writer, a nature and wildlife enthusiast who has written for many magazines.
Have Humans Shaped The Evolution Of Sasquatch?
By TCC Team Member Dorraine Fisher
We humans impact our world every day in ways we don’t even realize. And one way is our influence over other creatures around us. We all live on earth together and we all need to find ways to eat, avoid danger, and reproduce. That’s the only way any species can survive. But we impact other species as well.
Think about all the wildlife that lives close to us in our backyards. In our advancements in civilization and mastery of our surroundings, we’ve actually changed the behavior and evolution of the squirrels and rabbits that live there?
In order for certain animals to exist close to us, they have to watch us closely and learn our habits in order to survive literally under our feet. It would be to their evolutionary benefit to observe problems we create for them and adjust their life patterns and adapt themselves in order to occupy the same spaces we do.
For instance they might learn the nature of vehicle traffic in order to cross the street without getting killed. And those that survived became the parents of the next, more evolved generation of traffic evaders. Those little animals on the bottom of the food chain that we believe to be much less intelligent than ourselves, have actually adapted a brand of their own super-intelligence in order to continue existing in great numbers in heavily human-occupied areas.
Our very own pet dogs are the most extreme example of this. Scientists theorize that dogs came to exist when certain groups of wolves began to follow humans and scavenge their camps. Particular wolves found they could make an easier living off food scraps left by humans, and they soon made a habit of following them.As time passed and they advanced closer to human camps and villages, some of the wolves realized if they endeared themselves to humans and acted friendly, they could get closer to food or even have food given to them. They gave birth to their offspring closer to humans and we found other benefits to having them around, and man’s best friend entered the human scene forever. Our species profoundly influenced the evolution of theirs. To this day our dogs watch us constantly and are always learning how to live with us better. It’s a true miracle of biology.
And it’s no different with sasquatches, though the reasons may be different. The Sasquatch is a very successful species that has evolved such amazing skills that some humans believe them to be almost magical. They move amazingly fast for their size, hide amazingly well, and are experts at hunting and finding many different food sources.In the interest of surviving alongside humans for thousands of years, it has been in their evolutionary interests to adapt those amazing skills.
Sasquatches are super-sized omnivores.And for very large animals to exist on earth requires a supreme ability to find enough food, avoid danger, and maintain a viable breeding population.And since sasquatches are dominant predators at the top of the food chain, humans are the only other species that present any real threat to them.
So it would certainly be in their best interests to study humans and observe the problems we create for them and adapt themselves around them.Sasquatches have evolved these incredible skills, at least in part, to live in a world where another highly intelligent species dwells also. According to legend, they’ve encountered humans regularly since the beginning of the human story. And due to their shy nature and their will to survive, they’ve evolved an amazing camouflaged appearance and superior skills for hiding and escaping. They need those skills to hunt, of course, but they also need them to avoid their only natural enemy: us.
Animals evolve themselves in relation to other animals all the time, and it’s very possible that sasquatches are no different.
They manage to stay hidden from us very well and yet still manage to be highly successful in their own world. But we don’t necessarily have the monopoly on intelligence or dominance no matter how much we’d like to think so. And interestingly enough, as we study them in the wild and learn their habits and begin to understand their rare talents and abilities and unlock all the mysteries about them, maybe they’ll begin to change our evolution also.
[*TCC - Dorraine Fisher is a freelance writer and nature and wildlife enthusiast who has written for many magazines.]
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150 human animal hybrid embryos secretively produced grown in UK labs for the past three years
Scientists have created more than 150 human-animal hybrid embryos in British laboratories.
The hybrids have been produced secretively over the past three years by researchers looking into possible cures for a wide range of diseases.
The revelation comes just a day after a committee of scientists warned of a nightmare ‘Planet of the Apes’ scenario in which work on human-animal creations goes too far.
Last night a campaigner against the excesses of medical research said he was disgusted that scientists were ‘dabbling in the grotesque’.
Figures seen by the Daily Mail show that 155 ‘admixed’ embryos, containing both human and animal genetic material, have been created since the introduction of the 2008 Human Fertilisation Embryology Act.
This legalised the creation of a variety of hybrids, including an animal egg fertilised by a human sperm; ‘cybrids’, in which a human nucleus is implanted into an animal cell; and ‘chimeras’, in which human cells are mixed with animal embryos.
Scientists say the techniques can be used to develop embryonic stem cells which can be used to treat a range of incurable illnesses.
Three labs in the UK – at King’s College London, Newcastle University and Warwick University – were granted licences to carry out the research after the Act came into force.
All have now stopped creating hybrid embryos due to a lack of funding, but scientists believe that there will be more such work in the future.
The figure was revealed to crossbench peer Lord Alton following a Parliamentary question.
Last night he said: ‘I argued in Parliament against the creation of human- animal hybrids as a matter of principle. None of the scientists who appeared before us could give us any justification in terms of treatment.
‘Ethically it can never be justifiable – it discredits us as a country. It is dabbling in the grotesque.
‘At every stage the justification from scientists has been: if only you allow us to do this, we will find cures for every illness known to mankind. This is emotional blackmail.
‘Of the 80 treatments and cures which have come about from stem cells, all have come from adult stem cells – not embryonic ones.
‘On moral and ethical grounds this fails; and on scientific and medical ones too.’
Josephine Quintavalle, of pro-life group Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said: ‘I am aghast that this is going on and we didn’t know anything about it.
‘Why have they kept this a secret? If they are proud of what they are doing, why do we need to ask Parliamentary questions for this to come to light?
‘The problem with many scientists is that they want to do things because they want to experiment. That is not a good enough rationale.’
Earlier this week, a group of leading scientists warned about ‘Planet of the Apes’ experiments. They called for new rules to prevent lab animals being given human attributes, for example by injecting human stem cells into the brains of primates.
But the lead author of their report, Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, from the Medical Research Council’ s National Institute for Medical Research, said the scientists were not concerned about human-animal hybrid embryos because by law these have to be destroyed within 14 days.
He said: ‘The reason for doing these experiments is to understand more about early human development and come up with ways of curing serious diseases, and as a scientist I feel there is a moral imperative to pursue this research.
‘As long as we have sufficient controls – as we do in this country – we should be proud of the research.’
However, he called for stricter controls on another type of embryo research, in which animal embryos are implanted with a small amount of human genetic material.
Human-animal hybrids are also created in other countries, many of which have little or no regulation. - dailymail
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