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Tricks of Light and Shadow; The Secrets of Carl Sagan Part 4—“The Persistence of Memory”

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“The ruins of the past are a constant record, of the individual’s inhumanity to man and the failure to keep the basic principles of his own survival.”— Manly P. Hall Litt.D

 

The “Dandelion Seed” Dr. Sagan planted was well secured in a fertile soil. From the hints he delivered in Cosmos about the “Pyramids of Elysium” my sub-conscious memory of that inspiration drove me on in a quest for truth, spurred on by Richard Hoagland’s revolutionary observations of the Cydonia area. I had always thought that if there were possible artificial structures on Mars, why not the Moon? Continue reading Tricks of Light and Shadow; The Secrets of Carl Sagan Part 4—“The Persistence of Memory”

Tricks of Light and Shadow; The Secrets of Carl Sagan part 3: A “Candle in the Dark”

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“BETTER TO LIGHT A CANDLE, THAN TO SIT AND CURSE THE DARK” —JOHN F. KENNEDY 1)Old proverb

By February 1995, I still did not yet believe that Dr. Sagan would have known about a potential “cover-up” dealing with enigmatic landforms on Mars (or elsewhere in the solar system for that matter). I was certainly aware of Dr. Sagan’s skeptical frame of mind but was also aware of his potential open-mindedness on the subject in general. Continue reading Tricks of Light and Shadow; The Secrets of Carl Sagan part 3: A “Candle in the Dark”

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Tricks of Light and Shadow; The Secrets of Carl Sagan Part 2—“A Personal Voyage”

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A seed for the future. The “Ship of the Imagination” begins it’s cosmic journey in “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” from 1980 on PBS

 

The lost Library of Alexandria, pyramids on Mars1)For Sagan’s video discussion from 1980 on enigmatic landforms see Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, episode 5: Blues for a Red Planet” at the 25-30 min mark, and pages 129-130 from the companion book Cosmos, by Carl Sagan, Random House, 1980 , alien life in the universe, astroengineering projects of immense scale, the sheer immensity of the “Cosmos” and the concept of multi-verses, were just some of the ideas from Cosmos that inspired and expanded my mind in the year 1980. Continue reading Tricks of Light and Shadow; The Secrets of Carl Sagan Part 2—“A Personal Voyage”

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1 For Sagan’s video discussion from 1980 on enigmatic landforms see Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, episode 5: Blues for a Red Planet” at the 25-30 min mark, and pages 129-130 from the companion book Cosmos, by Carl Sagan, Random House, 1980 

THE FALL OF LUCIFER: Dismembered Gods and Exploding Planets in Myth, Mysticism, Religion and Science: A Preview

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Anyone recognize the man in the above photo?

Meet Thomas Lake Harris who died on this day 110 years ago. Although not the first individual to mythologize an exploded planet, he certainly is probably the most astonishing example of one. Continue reading THE FALL OF LUCIFER: Dismembered Gods and Exploding Planets in Myth, Mysticism, Religion and Science: A Preview