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India Lecture Tour
On January 26, 2011, I arrived
in Mumbai, India from Los Angeles to start a three week lecture tour
that would take me to six India cities (Mumbai, Chennai, Warangal, Suratkal,
Belgaum, and Pune), where I lectured at dozens of universities and institutes
about my latest book The
Forbidden Archeologist. Sometimes I was traveling by plane, sometimes
by overnight trains, and sometimes by overnight buses. In my lectures
I addressed three questions. The first question was the age of the Rg
Veda. According to mainstream academics, it is less than 3,500 years
old. I showed it is at least 5,000 years old. Second, the antiquity of Vedic
culture in India.
The
Kailash Temple carved out of stone block at the Ellora Cave Temples Site
According
to mainstream academics, Vedic culture first appeared in India no more than
3,500 years ago. I showed it has been there for at least 5,000 years, and
in reality much longer than that. The third question was the antiquity of
the human species in India. All over India there are temples and sacred sites
that according to traditional sources are millions of years old.. Most academics
today believe humans first appeared on earth less than 200,000 years ago,
and they would therefore regard as mythological the accounts of temples
and sacred sites in India millions of years old. I showed there is
evidence that humans like us have existed for many millions of years and
that these accounts are not mythological. Among the institutions I lectured
at were the Indian Institute of Technology at Chennai,
the National Institute of Technology at Warangal, and the National
Institute of Technology at Suratkal. All the lectures were very well
attended, and many people purchased copies of The Forbidden Archeologist.
During my free time, I visited some archeological sites in India. I visited
the Elephanta Cave Temple, on an island near Mumbai. I visited the
Ellora Cave Temples near Aurangabad. At Ellora there
are dozens of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples carved in the side of a mountain.
The most amazing is the Kailash temple. It is a huge, elaborate temple carved
out of an enormous single block of stone. Inside are many intricate carvings,
including the avatars of Vishnu.
Anjana
Mountain
I also visited the Kishkinda area, which is a couple of hundred
miles inland from Goa. Kishkinda is connected with the epic Ramanaya.
It was the place inhabited by the Vanaras, the race of intelligent
humanoid apes that assisted Rama in his battle with Ravana. The
events of the Ramayana took place during a Treta Yuga, which is millions
of years ago. In Kishkinda is the Anjana Mountain, which is the
place where Hanuman, the Vanara companion of Rama
appeared. I climbed to the top of the hill, and visited the Hanuman temple
there. It was nice to see many young European people visiting the place.
The
temple of Vitthal at Hampi
I also visited the nearby site of Hampi.
There one finds the ruins of the ancient capital of the Vijayanagara Empire.
When Europeans visited this place five or six hundred years ago, there were
amazed at its wealth and opulence. I was especially impressed by the temple
of Vitthal (a name for the Hindu god Krishna). While I was
in Mumbai, I attended a spectacular flower festival at the Hare Krishna
temple in the Chowpatty district. The deities of Krishna and his consort
Radha were showed with hundreds of pounds of flower petals, and then the
flower petals were thrown from the altar into the crowd of people in the
temple, who then began throwing the flower petals at each other. It was
an amazing experience.
The
Flower Festival at the Chowpatty Temple in Mumbai
On February 20, I flew back to
Los Angeles.
UFO X-Fest in San Leandro
The weekend of February 25-27, I gave a lecture and workshop
titled Forbidden Archeology: Evidence for Extreme Human Antiquity
and the Extraterrestrial Intervention Hypothesis at the UFO X-Fest,
organized by Dan Dillman at the historic Bal Theatre in San
Leandro, California. Today some researchers propose that extraterrestrials
had something to do with humans origins. I accept that general idea, but
for me extraterrestrials include not just flesh and blood extraterrestrials,
but God and demigods. And I do believe they had something to do with human
origins, as I explain in detail in my book Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative
to Darwin’s Theory. Some researchers believe that the process
of Darwinian evolution went on up to the time of the apeman Homo
erectus (about 400,000 years ago), and at that time they say ET’s
manipulated the genome of that apeman to produce human beings like us.
I do not accept that idea. In my book Forbidden Archeology,
I documented archeological evidence showing that humans like us have existed
for millions of years, going all the way back to the very beginnings of
life on earth.
Re-examining the Origins of Man Conference
in Richmond, British Columbia
On March 5 and 6, 2011, I gave
a talk on my book Human Devolution at the conference
Reexamining The Origins of Man at the Delta Hotel
near the Vancouver, Canada airport. The conference was hosted by the
Science to Sage
organization. I also did a book signing event at the Banyen Bookstore
in Vancouver. The Banyen is a bookstore with a spiritual,
metaphysical focus.
Heartland Tour
Chatting
with students after lecture at University of Southern Illinois
On March 16, 2011 I flew from Los Angeles to State College, Pennsylvania.
The next day I lectured on my book Forbidden Archeology at Pennsylvania
State University. My book Forbidden Archeology documents
human bones, human artifacts, and human footprints tens of millions, even
hundreds of millions of years old. This evidence contradicts the Darwinian
evolutionary theory of human origins, and is consistent with the accounts
of extreme human antiquity found in the ancient Sanskrit writings of India.
This was the start of a three week lecture tour of universities in the Midwest
USA.
From State College, I went to Detroit. In the Detroit area, I spoke
at Wayne State University. I also gave a talk about my latest book,
The
Forbidden Archeologist, at the Detroit Hare Krishna temple, which
is located in the old Fisher Mansion. It was acquired for the Hare Krishna
movement in the 1970s by Alfred Ford, of the Ford auto family, and
Lisa Reuther, daughter of Walter Reuther, president
of the United Auto Workers Union. Alfred and Lisa were both members of the
Hare Krishna
movement, as am I. Back in the 1930s, the auto workers and the Ford
auto company were sometimes engaged in heavy disputes.
Then I went to Ann Arbor, where
I spoke at the University of Michigan. From Ann Arbor, I went Angola,
Indiana, where I spoke at Trine University, as part of the university’s
distinguished lecturer series. Some fans who had heard me on the Coast
to Coast radio show were there to hear me. Another fan tried to organize
a university lecture for me in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, but experienced what I
call the “knowledge filter” problem. The faculty members he approached did
not want to have me lecture. Something similar happened in Bloomington, Indiana.
There someone had set up a lecture for me at the University of Indiana,
working with a professor there to book a room. But it seems that other people
in the university objected, and the lecture was cancelled. Anyways, that
is why I sometimes call myself The Forbidden Archeologist (the title of my
latest book and the column I write for Atlantis Rising magazine). I
did, however, give a talk at the public library in Bloomington. I
also gave a talk at the small Hare Krishna center there. Then I went to West Lafayette,
where I gave a talk at Purdue University.
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The
State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin
From there I went to the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and gave a lecture there. The next stop
was St. Louis, where I lectured at Washington University. Then
I went to Carbondale, Illinois, where I spoke at
Southern Illinois University. From Carbondale, I
traveled by train to Chicago, where I stayed at the Hare Krishna temple.
In the Chicago area, I gave a lecture at Northwestern University,
which is one of the top schools in the nation. After that I spoke at the
Illinois Institute of Technology. I also gave a lecture on my work at
the Hare Krishna temple. From Chicago, I traveled by bus to
Madison, Wisconsin, where I gave a lecture at the
Community for Conscious
Living. Madison has been the center of political unrest for
the past couple of months but it was peaceful during my visit.
Lecturing
at the University of Mminnesota
In Minneapolis, I gave a talk at the University of Minnesota.
That wrapped up the tour. I flew back to LA from Madison, and near the airport
I saw a street called Darwin Street, and felt a kind of strange feeling that
this was a sign to me that this was the beginning of the end of the road
for Darwinism.
Truth Event
On April 30, 2011, I spoke about my book Human Devolution: A
Vedic Alternative to Darwin’s Theory, at The Truth Event, a conference
held at the Wheeler Theater in Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend,
Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula.
Lecturing
at UCSB
Events in Santa Barbara
On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 I did an author event on my newest book,
The Forbidden Archeologist, at The Book Den, one of California's
oldest used and eclectic bookstores, in Santa Barbara. The
next day I gave a powerpoint presentation entitled “The Knowledge Filter
in Academia: Human Origins Studies as an Example” at the University of
California, Santa Barbara sponsored by the UCSB Kirtan Yoga Club.
It was well attended, with many nice questions. Before and after the
lecture I interviewed on shows at KCSB, the campus radio station.
Hungary Trip
On August 2, 2011 I arrived in Budapest, Hungary. I
stayed at the Bhaktivedanta College, an educational institution affiliated
with the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, of which I am a
member. The Indian ambassador to Hungary had read my book Human Devolution:
A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory and wanted to meet me. The
College arranged for a public symposium at which the ambassador and I spoke
and answered questions. Afterwards, I had lunch with the ambassador at his
embassy residence. He is very much interested in the scientific evidence for
a conscious self that can exist apart from matter. During my stay in Budapest
I also worked with a scholar there who had photographed archeological artifacts
for me. We selected photos to include in my next book, a collection of papers
that I presented at major international scientific conferences, such as the
meetings of the World Archeological Congress and European Association of
Archeologists.
Michael and AAPS Conference organizer
Judy Johnson on a piece of huge float copper at Presque Isle Park
Marquette, Michigan Conference
On September 16, 2011, I spoke on Forbidden Archeology
at the 7th Annual International Conference on Ancient America. in
Marquette, I introduced the auidence to many cases
of archeological evidence for extreme human antiquity, going back millions
of years. Marquette is located in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan,
bordering on Lake Superior. I visited the Pictured Rocks national park.
There are stone cliffs that fall to the lakeshore, carved by the weather into
interesting shapes. The day I went, there was a srong north wind blowing,
and there were huge waves coming in. The conference was interesting. Many
of the presentations were related to the ancient copper mines found in the
Upper Peninsula. The mines, thousands of years old, dating back to prehistoric
times, are a source of very pure copper. Some researchers think that some
of the copper was exported to Europe during the Bronze Age. After the conference
a small group hiked around Presque Isle Park and examined the largest piece
of float copper known to exist that
the Ancient Artifacts Preservation Society has on display there.
Colorado Lectures
On September 22, 2011 I arrived at the Denver airport. That evening
I lectured on Forbidden Archeology at the University of Colorado
at Boulder. It was not my first visit to Boulder. In the late 1960s,
I went there to meditate in the mountains outside the town. My lecture in
Boulder was organized by the Bhakti Yoga club. The next day I lectured on
Forbidden Archeology at Colorado Mountain College near Vail, a really
nice mountain resort town. On Sunday September 25, I lectured on my
newest book, The Forbidden Archeologist, at the Hare Krishna temple
in Denver. Before the lecture I went on a hike at El Dorado Canyon, near
Boulder. I like getting out into nature whenever possible.
View
from El Dorado Canyon hiking trail
CPAK Lecture
On October 1, I spoke on Forbidden Archeology and Vedic Time Cycles
at the Conference on Precession and Ancient Knowledge at the Sedona
Hilton Resort in Sedona, Arizona. It was nice to connect again with Graham
Hancock and Robert Schoch, who also spoke at the conference.
UFO X-Fest and Earthkeeper
Lectures
On October 22, 2011, I gave a lecture at the UFO X-Fest in
San Leandro, California, near Oakland. The
title of my lecture was "Forbidden Archeology and Planet of the Apes."
The novel Planet of the Apes and its film adaptations have captured
the minds of people around the world. In the original 1968 film, the
ape rulers share their planet with a primitive subordinate human population.
The apes believe they have always been superior to them. Among
the civilized apes are scientist apes, including an ape archeologist named
Cornelius. The arrival of human astronauts on the planet of the apes sets
off a chain of events that leads one of the astronauts and Cornelius to the
Forbidden Zone, where there is an archeological site with evidence that contradicts
the ape scientists' view of their history and relationship with the primitive
humans on their planet. There is today on our planet the equivalent
of a forbidden zone of archeology that challenges the authority of the now
socially accepted view of the human past. In San Leandro I presented evidence
for extreme human antiquity from my forbidden archeology research.
With
Sam Osmanagich at the Earth Keeper Conference
On November 11, 2011, I attended the opening of the 11/11/'11 Earthkeeper
Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas. On November 12, 2011, I gave
two lectures. The first was on my book Forbidden Archeology, which
documents archeological evidence showing that humans like us have existed
for millions of years, going all the way back to the very beginnings of life
on earth. This evidence contradicts the currently dominant Darwinian evolutionary
theory of human origins. In my second lecture, I spoke about my book Human
Devolution, which offers a Vedic alternative to Darwin's theory.
At the conference I met one of the other speakers, Sam Osmanagich,
discoverer of the Bosnian pyramids.
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