Jun 01, 2006 07:21 PM
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Hi Friends,
This is a very futuristic book and gives a theory that might be called fantastic but it is very difficult to overlook. With the kinds of supporting arguments and evidence that the author has provided it is very difficult to just close your eyes and say that this is trash. A lot of academicians have already rejected theory which was given by others as well before this author but just because some academicians didn’t agree doesn’t means that you and me also disagree. A reasonable and fair evaluation of this idea will make us all think twice before rejecting this thing as crap.
The Theory
I just talked about a fantastic, unbelievable theory. Obviously, the people who haven’t read the book want to know what the theory is. In coming sentences I will give you the idea and a rough sketch of the theory. I will not provide you with any of the evidence and arguments that have been given be the author because it will spoil the interest of any person who gets interested in this idea and wants to read the book.
The author alleges in this book, that we on earth haven’t developed the way we are traditionally told. According to him, certain space travelers who knew how to travel at a speed just below light came to earth in times immemorial. When they saw that people on earth are good enough to mature and live in a developed social order, they left the seeds of development on earth. They taught our forefathers in ways of life, medicine and social orders and law. They gave them valuable lessons to proceed. And then they went away in their spaceships. Our forefathers who were not in any way advanced enough in any sense to be able to foresee that one day their own successors will be able to travel in space, thought that it was the Gods who gave them visits and went again to the heaven where they came from. They worshipped those space travelers like Gods and followed what they directed like Gospel Truths.
Now in present times when we have landed on Mars, it is much more required that we dig into our past to find solutions to problems of present and to make a better future. The author is of the view that without knowing our past completely, how can we research into the future. Instead of spending so much money in trying to land a man on Mars, author says, we should try to spend some money to research our past and answer all the questions that have been left unanswered for hundreds of years. May be a lot of our questions in present will be answered then.
The Evidence
Just to give you an overview of what the author has provided to support his rather unconventional theory, let me tell you some of the items in evidence. The admissibility of these evidence depends on a lot of things, your own belief included. But go through them nevertheless.
Author goes into history and asks all the questions which have been left unanswered. The asks questions about “The Stonehenge”, certain strange idols and calculations found on old civilizations – as old as Incas and Sumerians and their contemporaries. He asks questions about Pyramids of Egypt, a lot of things from “Mahabharata” which didn’t seem abnormal back when I saw the television series when I was young but in the light of this theory certainly seem worth giving a second thought.
Author goes on to provide a lot of such instances from past civilizations which can be constructed to be a possible visit from such extra-terrestrial body with persons from civilizations much more advanced and intelligent that us.
After giving all them a concentrated reading I was quite convinced that some of them are really inexplicable and in the event of them not being explained by anything else, the probability of this explanation, the one which author is giving, is certainly low but is not zero.
The Writing Style
Though the contents of this book have been deeply researched, the book is not a research report. The author seems to have a flair for the narrative and keeps you hooked. The way he tells his story, and puts forward the arguments supported with evidence, you really want to read more of it. This is an exciting book, and the fact that whatever the author is advocating is not just science fiction, it might as well be true, gives the reading not just a fictional thrill, but as the book proceeds you will automatically get more serious with the arguments advanced. At one point you will certainly put the book down and give it a serious thought. This is the beauty of the book.
Not many non-fiction authors can do this – stop reading and make you think. This author does.
The Pace
Pace of the book is very fast. It is not a long book – just 153 pages excluding the Table of Contents, Index and a Bibliography. It is divided in 12 chapters all very finely arranged. The sequence of the chapters is great and aids the speed of the book plus the book is written in a language and in a way that anyone can go and pick it up and read it and can understand every single thing. No complex jargon has been used unless necessary and even then the meaning for a lay man has been explained with good examples.
The conclusion
I will conclude by saying that this is a very entertaining book and yet gives you a great deal of knowledge about astronomy and the questions that have not yet been answered – rather were chosen to be left unanswered because academicians were not able to come up with a possible reasonable explanation. This man tries to give an explanation. In the light of the fact that up till yet no answer has been given to us, and at times the questions themselves have been ridiculed does not means that we also start looking at the questions skeptically. We should use our own intelligence and try to give merit to every argument that has been advanced to us and in the light of that, should only we accept or reject anything.
Some of the things in this book, I found them to be quite contradictory. I am not writing them here, but you are free to discuss them with me by mailing me or leaving them in the comments area. I am not advocating this theory, the one given in the book. I am not telling you to believe it. Neither do I believe, nor do I disbelieve. Either I know or I not.
Apply you own intelligence, and then either accept it or reject it. But however mind-boggling this theory might be, it is not completely unacceptable.
Happy Reading,
Khagesh Gautam
