Mysteries
My Little Oxford Dictionary defines the word mystery as; a revealed religious truth, especially one beyond human intelligence.
All religions have something in common. They are founded on the concept of existence beyond the physical life we know. Without that essential premise, I doubt that any religion would have much appeal. The central Christian mystery concerns Jesus rising from the dead. Christianity, however, developed from the mystery religions, as did all of today’s religions. The Eleusinian Mysteries was one of the most famous of the ancient world. Unlike today’s religions, which require faith from their followers, the mystery religions offered initiates a revelation. That is to say, when they had reached a certain point, the mystery or truth was revealed. That doesn’t happen anymore, though the ritual of drinking wine from the cup in the Eucharist, is a hint that it wasn’t always so.
It is the fascination with the unexplained that inspired me to begin writing the Black Sun series. I’ve always been interested in anything that suggests there is more to life than we know, but it wasn’t until I began to research the many and varied subjects that could be categorised as mysteries in this context, that I started to wonder if there was a common thread running through them all. Broadly speaking I lumped the unexplained under a few general headings. Here they are:
1) Physical ancient mysteries, such as The Great Pyramid, the temple of Jupiter at Baalbek, the megalithic ruins in South America etc.
2) Paranormal phenomenon of all kinds, and you might include UFO’s here.
3) Cultural mysteries such as religious ideas and texts, myths etc.
4) Natural or science mysteries. In other words, phenomenon that scientists accept is real, for which we don’t yet have an explanation, or for which the explanation accepted by the mainstream scientific community is clearly wrong. For example, it’s a mystery to me how many, many scientists fail to recognise that the main driver of Earth’s climate, is the sun! Duh!
The Black Sun series is an attempt to write a story that links all of these subjects, most of which scientists dismiss out of hand. I chose to do that because, the more research I did on any one topic, the clearer it became that it was impossible to look at any single thing in isolation, because they are all connected. Here’s an example:
If you take a look at the mysteries surrounding the Great Pyramid, of which there are many, you can’t help but wander into the labyrinth of mysteries surrounding ancient Egyptian culture as a whole. In doing so you will be inexorably drawn to look at their religious myths, which are astronomically based, like those of the Babylonians, Sumerians and everyone else. You’ll find yourself investigating the mystery religions themselves, and at various points you’ll be forced to look at our present day understanding of the various sciences. For example, among the myths of cultures across the world is a universal story of a global deluge, like the biblical flood, which scientists still dismiss, even though they have come to grudgingly accept there may have been large scale, localised events at the end of the last glacial period, around twelve thousand years ago. However, localised events fail to explain how the remains of an immense number of ice-age animals suddenly ended up buried around the Arctic Circle, or how all the large mammals suddenly became extinct.
Scientists also dismiss the myths that indicate the solar system was once arranged differently than it is today, because such a thing is impossible according to their theories of how the solar system was formed, based on Newtonian Mechanics. Yet scientists are observing phenomenon every day in space that are not predicted by the currently accepted theories. In other words, the theories are probably wrong.
In case you haven’t noticed, I have a healthy scepticism when it comes to dogma of any kind, and that includes scientific dogma. Dogma is defined as the official belief system of a religion or organisation etc. We expect it to be associated with religion, but not science, and yet there is dogmatic belief in the science community. Observations are made, and from them theories are proposed, and a key test of any theory is that it must be able to predict other, related, observations. If new observations contradict those predictions, a new theory has to be formed. That is not always what happens. Often, what happens instead is that something is literally invented to explain the new observation. Having invented the answer, a mathematical formula is devised to justify it.
This is theoretical science. It is changing the rules to comply with the current dogma. If you disagree with the current dogma, all of your research funding will vanish and you will find yourself unable to publish your work in peer reviewed publications. It’s similar to the methods of the religious fanaticism of the middle ages. Dark Matter is an example of this. It is the mysterious stuff astrophysicists have invented to explain observations in the universe that don’t match their predictions. They can’t see it or prove it exists, but they insist it is there and it accounts for most of the mass of our galaxy. It must, or their theories are wrong. They refuse to consider that the second option may be the right one.
The Black Sun series tells a long story in which unconventional theories explain what’s happening in our changing world right now, and what may happen going forward into the very near future. The story also explains how these unfolding events are linked to the unexplained phenomenon of the past and of the present. I could only do this in a series, because the subject matter is vast, and good stories are not excuses to download massive amounts of information. Show not tell, is the adage I plan to stick to. I will use this blog to talk about the topics raised in the series. As I said, the mysteries are all linked, they all part of one story.
Next time, a bit about the Eleusinian Mysteries, which are as good a place as any to start.
In the meantime, if you want an introduction into what’s happening with our climate, here’s a link to Utube video. It’s short and the guy is smart, definitely not flaky, though some of the people who comment are. Check it out. If the link doesn’t work, search Energy From Space by Suspicious Observers
