Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Last night, I watched Nova on T. V. The presentation offered a theory for the extinction of the "large land animals" (wooly mammoths and giant saber tooth tigers) in the Arctic some 12,900 years ago, an event which has puzzled science for years. Part of the evidence had to do with infinitely tiny diamonds recovered from the ice. The theory held that these miniscule gems (seen only through extremely powerful electron microscopes) indicated that a large meteorite had exploed in the area at exactly the same time period these animals disappeared.
Now, as I was mulling over this intriguing theory, I seemed to remember that some historians posit approximately the same date for what is called the "Neolithic Revolution," the period when humanity shifted from a nomadic hunter/gatherer society into an agrarian culture which allowed for the taming of animals and the planting of crops . This transition led, ultimately, to the creation of language and the rise of cities and organized units of government as well as the creation of myth and legend, the efflorescence of the arts, and the introduction of new technologies, particularly in Sumer (now southern Iraq). And then I thought of the various science fiction notions that we as humans were in fact "star seeds," some holding that life on our planet began with material which arrived on earth from fragments of bodies from outer space which impacted earth, and others, even more dramatic, speculating that actual beings from other planets arrived here and implanted new genes into existing life forms (us, in our early physical bodies) and instructed us as to how to advance in our evolutionary progress.
And then my thoughts roamed even further. If, indeed, civilization had its earliest beginnings in the Nile Valley some 12,900 years ago, could it be that "diamond dust" from this massive Arctic explosion drifted into the Nile Valley, and that this plus other accompanying factors literally brought about a mutation in our species, so that we became capable of transformations which formed the basis for later accomplishments such as writing, advances in technology, poetry and the like. This growth in species development occurred over thousands of years, but the crucial beginning was the same time period as the Neolithic Revolutiona, which laid the foundation for all that followed. Many of these later advances seemed to be spontaneous leaps, with little preliminary buildup. No one has explained why.
Then, this morning, when I went to the Wikipedia site to check on something else, I found this astonishing entry under the caption
NASA reports a shower of diamonds from the sky.
(D)esignation 8TA9D69) was a meteoroid 2 to 5 meters (7 to 16 ft) in diameter that entered Earth's atmosphere on October 7, 2008, at 02:46 UTC (5:46 a.m. local time). It exploded an estimated 37 kilometers (23 mi) above the Sudan desert. Searches of the impact zone later turned up 8.7 pounds (3.9 kg) of rocks full of minuscule diamonds in 280 fragments, which were leftovers from the meteoroid.
So--diamonds do fall from the sky after all. And, indeed, perhaps we are all star seeds, connected in ways we had not suspected to sources in distant space.
And, since I am on this line of thought and since I like to link everything to Kundalini, I wonder if our "bliss states" occur when our inner "diamonds" begin to glow and allow us to feel our "radiant bodies".
I wish the anthropologists and the the archeologists and the geneticists and the geologists and all the other "ists" would have a serious conversation about all of this and tell us--do we in fact come from outer space?
Perhaps we are "star seeds" in more ways than we imagine.
Now, as I was mulling over this intriguing theory, I seemed to remember that some historians posit approximately the same date for what is called the "Neolithic Revolution," the period when humanity shifted from a nomadic hunter/gatherer society into an agrarian culture which allowed for the taming of animals and the planting of crops . This transition led, ultimately, to the creation of language and the rise of cities and organized units of government as well as the creation of myth and legend, the efflorescence of the arts, and the introduction of new technologies, particularly in Sumer (now southern Iraq). And then I thought of the various science fiction notions that we as humans were in fact "star seeds," some holding that life on our planet began with material which arrived on earth from fragments of bodies from outer space which impacted earth, and others, even more dramatic, speculating that actual beings from other planets arrived here and implanted new genes into existing life forms (us, in our early physical bodies) and instructed us as to how to advance in our evolutionary progress.
And then my thoughts roamed even further. If, indeed, civilization had its earliest beginnings in the Nile Valley some 12,900 years ago, could it be that "diamond dust" from this massive Arctic explosion drifted into the Nile Valley, and that this plus other accompanying factors literally brought about a mutation in our species, so that we became capable of transformations which formed the basis for later accomplishments such as writing, advances in technology, poetry and the like. This growth in species development occurred over thousands of years, but the crucial beginning was the same time period as the Neolithic Revolutiona, which laid the foundation for all that followed. Many of these later advances seemed to be spontaneous leaps, with little preliminary buildup. No one has explained why.
Then, this morning, when I went to the Wikipedia site to check on something else, I found this astonishing entry under the caption
NASA reports a shower of diamonds from the sky.
(D)esignation 8TA9D69) was a meteoroid 2 to 5 meters (7 to 16 ft) in diameter that entered Earth's atmosphere on October 7, 2008, at 02:46 UTC (5:46 a.m. local time). It exploded an estimated 37 kilometers (23 mi) above the Sudan desert. Searches of the impact zone later turned up 8.7 pounds (3.9 kg) of rocks full of minuscule diamonds in 280 fragments, which were leftovers from the meteoroid.
So--diamonds do fall from the sky after all. And, indeed, perhaps we are all star seeds, connected in ways we had not suspected to sources in distant space.
And, since I am on this line of thought and since I like to link everything to Kundalini, I wonder if our "bliss states" occur when our inner "diamonds" begin to glow and allow us to feel our "radiant bodies".
I wish the anthropologists and the the archeologists and the geneticists and the geologists and all the other "ists" would have a serious conversation about all of this and tell us--do we in fact come from outer space?
Perhaps we are "star seeds" in more ways than we imagine.
