Part Two of my conversation with Esoteric of Esoteric Thoughts: the Odyssey and related subjects!

Welcome back to visitors from the Esoteric Thoughts channel and to those finding my work perhaps for the first time based on my recently-posted two-part interview with Esoteric, which also featured Professor Dennis R. MacDonald of the Claremont School of Theology in Part One of the conversation.

Welcome also to returning friends -- I hope everyone will find this second part of our exploration of the Odyssey of Ancient Greece to be positive to your life in some way.

Here is a link to Part One of the conversation -- I will post both of these in the "Podcasts" section of the Star Myths of the World website for future reference. While visiting that Podcasts section, you can also find other previous discussions with Esoteric on his Esoteric Thoughts channel, as well as appearances I've made on other podcasts over the years.

The above Part Two conversation took place on 26 August, 2022.

Please share with those who would be interested in these subjects, and please consider giving some positive feedback to Esoteric for all his work that goes into making this channel for us and the world!

Back from another amazing Contact at the Cataracts adventure in the Channeled Scablands

Here are some photos from this year's epic Contact at the Cataracts event with Randall Carlson and friends, including members of the podcasting teams from the Grimerica Showand the Brothers of the Serpent Podcast. It was wonderful to meet new friends and reconnect with old ones during this week's adventure.

We explored the amazing Channeled Scablands of Washington State, scene of mega flooding catastrophes from the end of the last Ice Age, floods that may have been triggered by an impactor from outer space such as a comet, as argued by Randall and by Graham Hancock and by the scientists in the Comet Research Group, sometimes referred to as the Younger Dryas Impact Theory.

As Randall explained, catastrophic geology is everywhere on our planet, but here in the Channeled Scablands region the unique conditions set the stage for an unusually dramatic result. 

The events of the Younger Dryas may have ended a culture or cultures on Earth now forgotten to conventional history -- perhaps the source of the ancient system of celestial metaphor which forms the foundation for the myths and sacred stories we know today, which were preserved by cultures found around the globe, on every inhabited continent and island of our planet.

I have shown that this system of celestial metaphor is already operating in the earliest surviving writings of some of the most ancient cultures known to conventional history, including the texts of the Sumerians and other cultures of Mesopotamia, and of the ancient Egyptians, and of ancient India, and ancient China and Japan, and so on around the world -- suggesting that its origin and source lies far deeper in history, at a time that was already so ancient to those cultures that it was perhaps even more ancient to them than they are to us.

The scale of the catastrophe was simply enormous -- as evidenced by the geological record found here at the Scablands, and echoed in geological features around the world.

Enormous “haystack” boulders left by the melting glaciers.

One of the Drumheller Channels scoured out by the massive Mega Flood meltwater flows.

High atop Steptoe Butte overlooking the rolling Palouse.

Didgeridoo, overlooking the massive 500-foot cliffs of Potholes Cataract.

Kyle of the Brothers of the Serpent Podcast (and the band 50 Dollar Dynasty) on the catwalk over Dry Falls Cataract, Lower Grand Coulee.

Wyatt from Michigan atop columnar basalts in the Grand Coulee region.

Randall explaining the Mega Flood geology of the Banks Lake region, Upper Grand Coulee.

Sunset on the final day of this year's event, Kyle and myself atop a boulder left at the very top of Steamboat Rock, Upper Grand Coulee.

Welcome to new visitors from Esoteric Thoughts! (and to returning friends)

Big thank-you to Esoteric for inviting me over to his channel Esoteric Thoughts for another stimulating and enjoyable conversation, this time with Professor Dennis R. MacDonald of the Claremont School of Theology, whose area of scholarship involves the Iliad and the Odyssey of Ancient Greece and the evidence of undeniable parallels between these ancient poems and the texts which are included in what we call the New Testament.

The video of our conversation is entitled "Academia & Astrotheology Discuss Homer" and it was recorded on 25 August 2022.

There will be a Part Two of this interview to be posted later which will cover some of the evidence and artwork that I prepared for this conversation which we did not have time to address due to time constraints.

I very much appreciate Dr. MacDonald's scholarship and his courage in bucking the academic consensus of his area of study to present his evidence for the abundant thematic and structural parallels between the Odyssey and the Gospels -- evidence which I too have noticed and which I have addressed in previous blog posts such as "Parallels between the Odyssey and the Gospels."

While Dr. MacDonald was obviously very resistant to many aspects of the arguments that I am putting forward regarding the evidence that the characters and events in both the Odyssey and the New Testament texts are based on an ancient world-wide system of celestial metaphor which connects virtually all the world's ancient myths, scriptures, and sacred stories, I appreciate his willingness to discuss these subjects. I feel that there were also points during our conversation where he clearly seemed to pick up some of the arguments that I was making and "run with the ball" to offer some excellent insights related to the two sets of texts.

Welcome to any new visitors who are encountering my work and this site for the first time as a result of this conversation between me and Dr. MacDonald, facilitated by Esoteric. I hope that you enjoyed the discussion and found it valuable, and I hope that you will continue to explore these important subjects -- and share them with others who might find them helpful as well.

And of course, welcome to returning friends! You can find other previous conversations I have had with Esoteric in the Podcasts section of my website, or by searching the YouTube channel of Esoteric Thoughts. If you enjoy them, please take the time to thank Esoteric for all his hard work and effort in producing this excellent content!

September Equinox, 2022

The moment of the annual September Equinox is fast approaching, in which the sun's path crosses the celestial equator on its way to the December Solstice.

That moment will occur on 22 September at 9:03 pm in North America's Eastern time zone, which is 6:03 pm in North America's Pacific time zone on 22 September, and which is already 23 September in some parts of the world (although the moment that the center of the sun's disc crosses the exact celestial equator is the same moment in time no matter where you are on our planet -- the local time is different, but the moment in time is the same).

Above is a short selection from one of the chapters in my online course, Celestial Mechanics and the Myths, which explains some aspects of the way that the world's ancient myths use the framework of the Equinoxes and Solstices to convey profound truths for our benefit in this life.

That course contains eight full hours of on-demand video content which clearly explain what the celestial equator is and how to find it at your latitude, how the solstices and equinoxes create the framework of our year, and how the heavenly cycles (and especially the annual cycle delineated by the solstices and equinoxes) form the framework which the ancient myths use as a kind of language or code to convey their esoteric teaching.

In addition, it explores the cycles of the Moon and of the ages-long cycle of Precession, so that you can confidently understand all of the most important heavenly cycles used by the world's myths.

The September Equinox -- which is the Autumnal or Fall Equinox for the northern hemisphere of our globe -- plays an extremely significant role in the framework of the myths. At this important juncture, it is of course most appropriate to contemplate our role in this incarnate life and our place in the beautiful world through which we are traveling along with our fellow men and women and all of nature's beings.

And as we do so, we can also consider our responsibility towards maintaining and sustaining and indeed uplifting those around us and with whom we come into daily contact -- as well as the entire earth as it passes through this momentous point on its journey, and on all the other days as well.

Welcome to new visitors from the Esoteric Thoughts channel -- and to returning friends!

Above is an interview with the insightful Esoteric, recently published at his Esoteric Thoughts channel on YouTube.

It is one of a number of other recorded conversations we've had in the past month or so -- with more to be published soon!

Welcome to any new visitors to this site coming over as a result of this interview -- and of course Welcome Back to returning friends!

You can also hear my previous conversations with Esoteric which were published in November and December 2021, here and here (and embedded below).

Thank you to Esoteric for inviting me back! I hope you will enjoy all of our different conversations -- and please remember to give him some positive feedback for all his hard work producing this show!

Re-visiting the Tychos Model of our (binary?) Solar System

Above is a video that I posted almost exactly two years ago, around August 29 - 30, 2020, entitled: "Simon Shack, Tycho Brahe, Retrograde Mars, and the Vital Importance of the Moon."

Two years later, I still believe it is worth re-visiting this video in order to understand some of the grave problems with the conventional models used to explain the movements of the planets that we can observe from Earth -- and in particular the motions of the planet Mars.

Norwegian researcher Simon Shack has updated the model proposed by the great astronomer Tycho Brahe to argue that our sun -- like virtually every other star we can observe today -- is a multiple star rather than a solo star, and that it is involved in a binary dance involving Mars, with Earth "stuck" in the barycenter of that binary dance. He calls his model the Tychos Model, using Tycho's first name and adding an "S" at the end for Simon's.

This proposed arrangement has been modeled in a visual computer model by Swedish coder Patrik Lundqvist, in coordination with Simon, with the result that the model matches the observations and measurements of the data collected over the years by astronomers.

Recently, Simon and Patrik made two appearances with my friends Graham and Darren of the Grimerica Show podcast to have a conversation about the Tychos Model. I recommend watching my video, above (even if you have seen it already, a year or more ago), as well as listening to the first conversation (which is audio only), and watching the second one (which uses the visual computer model to illustrate the Tychos more clearly). 

I myself have so far only heard the first, audio-only, conversation -- but I plan to watch the second one soon as well.

Below are links to the audio interview and the visual presentation:

Randall Carlson, Clive Hustito, Robert Dakota and David Mathisen discuss our ancient hidden history!

Here's a brand-new video featuring Randall Carlson, Clive Hustito, Robert Dakota and myself discussing the importance of humanity's hidden ancient history, and introducing the upcoming Earth Origins Conference scheduled for this October 28 - 30, in Sedona, Arizona.

More details on pricing and reserving your spot can be found at the World View Media website.

In the meantime, I hope you will enjoy this conversation! Please feel free to share with those who would benefit -- and hope to see you in Sedona in October!