REMEMBER OR DIE / One Last Try

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In the spring of 2003, I experienced intense emotions which activated a process culminating in the complete recovery in my mind of our lost memories of the emotional states of the Universal Infant. The rest of you do not remember your infancy in this survivalist-mode civilisation which has prevailed on this planet for the past eleven thousand years.

It’s best to remind you right now that the phrase ‘eleven thousand years’ is meaningless in the sense that it cannot be quantified. The length of the year has changed many, many times. The most recent change in the length of the ‘year’ is clearly recorded in historical documents on all continents. It took place about 2,700 years ago, when new calendars had to be formulated all over the world, radically different from the previous calendars. Obsolete sundials and water clocks are the ‘smoking gun’ evidence to prove that the concept ‘eleven thousand years ago’ has no quantifiable meaning. Although clearly recorded in the historical and geological records, as well as in religious rituals and even in the language we still use, these changes are shrouded in a cultural amnesia. Thus, our official ‘historians’ are forever informing us of innumerable ancient civilisations which abruptly disappeared or declined (for example the Etruscans being replaced by the Romans about 2,700 years ago), and our so-called ‘historians’ always add: "and nobody knows why.”

But we do know why all these ancient civilisations abruptly disappeared. Dr Immanuel Velikovsky overcame the cultural amnesia in the 1940s and shared his insights with us in three revealing books: “Worlds In Collision,” “Earth In Upheaval,” “Mankind In Amnesia.” Critics of these books always avoid any analysis of “Earth In Upheaval” and “Mankind In Amnesia,” and concentrate on obscure and non-essential details of astrophysics, about which Velikovsky may have been wrong. Always the non-essential, never the essential. The undisputed historical fact of the abrupt changes in the calendar 2,700 years ago is always avoided by Velikovsky’s critics, because it is too close for comfort and in fact it proves Velikovsky’s central thesis of instability in the solar system and offers us the best chance of overcoming our cultural amnesia.

Although Velikovsky originally trained as a psychoanalyst, he did not make the connection between our historical amnesia and our personal amnesia relating to the mother-infant relationship. It was left to me to make that connection when I overcame the infancy-related amnesia in 2003.

How are the two amnesias interlocked?

Briefly, the interplanetary near-collisions identified by Velikovsky resulted in the recurring destruction of the earth’s ecosystem every few thousand years (sometimes at shorter intervals), precipitating a series of survivalist emergencies among the life-forms that remained. That is how animals, including humans, first became carnivorous. That explains where vampires, cannibals and parasites came from. The ancient cannibalism and vampirism which secured our ancestors’ survival are still celebrated daily as the Christian ‘communion.’ “He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood shall have life……”

In a survivalist emergency, pre-existing morals and ethics are inverted. The physical survival of the tribe trumps all other moral considerations. Producing hate-crazed soldiers to fight off other tribes competing for insufficient resources became the top priority. The emergency male leadership quickly perceived the causal link between child abuse and the calibre of their soldiers - the viciousness of the soldiers was directly proportional to the degree of maternal abuse and neglect. Thus, child-rearing degenerated into a competition between the surviving clans to see who could abuse their children the most cruelly so as to produce the most ferocious warriors.
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Before the series of survivalist emergencies, love flowed freely between mother and infant and throughout the tribe; ‘we were naked and we were not ashamed;’ the infant was free to return the mother’s physical caresses as he wished; there was no loneliness, no sexual frustration, no incest taboo, no marriage, no exclusive relationships. The concept of ‘you cheated on me’ could never arise back then. Everybody’s needs were fully met and exploitation was both non-existent and unthinkable. Written laws were unnecessary; the law was written on our hearts; we simply knew what to do, because our mothers had not yet been trained to extinguish the primal love burning in the heart of every infant to turn the infant into soldier material. Thus the very concept of police or soldiers was equally unthinkable at that time.
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Then came the survivalist emergency. War was deemed to be inevitable as resources were insufficient to sustain all the survivors. If our ancestors had been more mature and evolved, there WAS a workable alternative to those ancient wars for limited resources, as explained later in this article. As it happened, the mother-infant relationship was transformed from a loving, nurturing relationship into a machine for generating hate-crazed soldiers. Thus the mother-infant relationship degenerated into systematic child abuse, and it has been so ever since.

We never came out of survivalist mode, although the vegetation grew back for the last time 2,600 years ago. So, still today, the mother-infant relationship is systematic child abuse. Every mother in this civilisation, without any exception, is a child abuser, because the purpose of motherhood for the past eleven thousand years is to generate hate-crazed soldiers. The lesson was too well learned in the survivalist emergencies. We never unlearned it, although the vegetation grew back.

We don’t remember our infancy in the present civilisation. No plausible biological explanation has been offered for this universal amnesia. THE EXPLANATION IS PSYCHOLOGICAL. Amnesia occurs when an experience is so terrifying and so traumatising that it is too terrible for the human mind to contemplate. That is what the mother-infant relationship is. That is why we don’t remember our infancy in this civilisation.

If you are reading the statements in the last few paragraphs for the first time, they may seem shocking and unbelievable. BUT YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO MAKE ANY PRONOUNCEMENT ABOUT SOMETHING YOU DO NOT REMEMBER. You do not remember your infancy. I remember my infancy, and I remember your infancy too, because it’s the same for all of us in its essentials. Your mother didn’t know what she was doing and still doesn’t know. Both mother and child surrendered to the universal denial and amnesia eleven thousand years ago, and it’s been the same ever since. I recovered the memories in 2003. Therefore I am qualified to make these statements. I am qualified to help you to remember your infancy as I remember both mine and yours. Remembering is the only realistic healing formula. It is your discharge ticket from the lunatic asylum that is the present civilisation.
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In the book “The Voice of the Voiceless,” which explains at great length both the historical amnesia and the personal amnesia, and how they are interconnected, the logic is sequential and easy to understand. The book is deliberately ‘informal’ in places, for good reasons. It’s there for anyone who wants it.
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Such an obvious question: why do we not remember our infancy? How could it be that the finest minds in the world never thought of the obvious answer? Because no matter how clever you are, you cannot speak of what you don’t remember. I remember it all now. I have been offering to help you to remember. As always, truth is stranger than fiction. No one could have invented this.

When you overcome your double amnesia, you will feel a great sense of achievement, wholeness and fulfilment, as I do. The pain is still all around, but now it’s been explained, now the bewilderment is gone, and there is the beautiful awareness that all our pain can be cut off at source, just as soon as we choose to do so.

Why does the knowledge of who you are frighten you so much? We are descended from a collection of vampires, cannibals and traumatised lunatics, who did not have sufficient maturity to deal intelligently with a survivalist emergency and so they reduced us to the state we are in now, so that our mothers are still today tormenting and rejecting their babies to turn them into soldier material. These fundamental facts of life are concealed by a double amnesia. BUT THIS IS OUR IDENTITY. THIS IS WHO AND WHAT WE ARE. Don’t you want to know yourself? People pay a lot of money to discover their true ancestry. Go back a bit further and this is your true ancestry whoever you are: vampires, cannibals and traumatised lunatics. There’s your family tree. That’s why we don’t remember.

The good news is that we can be better than our ancestors, because we can bequeath to our own descendants a legacy of which they will not be ashamed, a legacy that will not cause our descendants to take refuge in amnesia and to deny their past as we have been denying our past.
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WHERE ARE WE GOING?

We have nowhere else to go. We are trapped on a planet in an unstable solar system. Periodically the earth is grazed by one or more other massive bodies, and civilisations are swept away. These events and the survivalist emergencies which follow, and the degrading, destructive mother-infant relationship that was considered necessary for generating soldiers - these events are our identity, these events are who and what we are, these events are largely what it means to be human. And yet the events which give us our identity have been buried under a shroud of amnesia.

What then is the task of human evolution? Crucially it centres around what happens after a poleshift, because poleshifts - more than anything - have given us our identity and our human traits and our pain-generating societal arrangements. If we can overcome our amnesia - both the collective historical amnesia and the personal amnesia concerning infancy - then perhaps we can grow sufficiently so as to behave differently after a future poleshift. That is where all of this is leading. Everything hinges upon how we conduct ourselves after a poleshift.

After the previous poleshifts, our ancestors fell upon each other like savages, drinking the blood of the weaker members of the clan, then of competing clans, then warring for fertile land as the vegetation began to reappear and the new river basins took shape (the ‘promised land’ of the Hebrews; the same drama was played out everywhere, but the Hebrews had the best scribes). Alongside of this, the mother-infant relationship degenerated into a hate factory, a competition to see who could abuse babies the most so as to produce the most ferocious soldiers.

Our evolutionary task is to become better than we were.

When you overcome your double amnesia, your perspective on life will change. Then two major ideas will arise in your heart and in your mind:
-----A deep nostalgia and longing to return to the way we were eleven thousand years ago;
-----A desire to grow and to progress, attaining such a state of evolution that after the next poleshift we will not degenerate into savages but will behave maturely and with dignity and respect toward one another, EVEN IN A SURVIVALIST EMERGENCY.

That is where the Christian ‘communion’ comes in. The communion ceremony arose from a compulsion to ‘act out’ the parasitic vampirism and cannibalism whereby the more ruthless of our ancestors stayed alive in the forgotten emergency. Apart from helping us to remember our true history, the Christian communion can point toward something better, a far-off event toward which we are moving, because we must. We have nowhere else to go.

The solar system is inherently unstable. We have to expect another ‘Ishtar’ in the sky at some stage. What the Christian communion is leading up to is a future time when we will have matured to such a highly evolved state that we will NOT fall upon each other like savages in the event of a survivalist emergency. We are evolving toward a time when in a survivalist emergency, no one will steal blood without permission, but the older and weaker members of the tribe will VOLUNTARILY invite the more sturdy and youthful of the survivors to bite into our necks and to partake of the only food available, to offer ourselves VOLUNTARILY as a living larder, until our lifeblood is drained away, when the entire body is then presented to the more youthful survivors as the last gift we older ones have to offer, to enable our youthful brothers and sisters to survive until the vegetation reappears. That is where we are going. That is the hope which the Christian communion holds out to us: the prospect of behaving in a mature and dignified manner after a future poleshift. We disgraced ourselves after previous poleshifts. Consequently we have no escape, we have nowhere else to go. Our destiny is to do it again, and to keep on having to do it again until we finally learn how to cope in a mature, respectful manner in a survivalist emergency.

THE LAW OF THE SEA

Seafarers can relate to this. It was known as the Law of the Sea. Until recently, all sailors understood the unwritten contract they had with their fellow sailors in the event of a shipwreck. If they were dignified and mature about it, the sailors ‘drew lots’ after a shipwreck, and the loser willingly submitted to enable his companions to survive. Legal systems turned a blind eye to the Law of the Sea. It was not considered a crime. If the survivors of a future poleshift can be dignified and mature with one another, we wont draw lots; the older, less productive survivors will instinctively and lovingly volunteer to offer their necks to the vibrant, youthful men and women of the tribe, whose strength will be needed for the task of rebuilding. In this way we will atone for the disgraceful scenes which followed previous poleshifts, events so shameful that you refuse to remember them, but feel compelled to act out daily in the Christian communion.

The other desirable outcome after a future poleshift is NOT to go to war with competing tribes over limited resources, as we always did after previous poleshifts. If we can be dignified and mature next time, we will come together, all of us, as one global family, all children of the same God, and apply ‘the Law of the Sea’ in a dignified and loving manner everywhere in the world after a future poleshift. If we can achieve that, we will never lose the Garden of Eden again, because we will have atoned for the dreadful crimes of our ancestors. That is where we are going. And we have nowhere else to go. Your only freedom is to delay our progress. But haven’t you suffered enough by now?

WHAT IS RELIGION?

Think about it if you attend Christian rituals. Now that I’ve thought it through, I no longer regard the Christian communion as obscene. Yes, what happened after previous appearances of ‘Ishtar’ WAS an undignified scramble for blood and flesh by the more ruthless among our ancestors. But we can interpret the Christian communion constructively as referring to the future as well as to the past, as an aspiration toward a decent and dignified way of conducting ourselves in a future survivalist emergency. I shall be able to bring myself to approach the altar on my next visit to church, not just to see if it’s a good wine but also to assert and proclaim the solemn aspiration toward a more dignified human performance after the next appearance of the ‘Shining Cross’ in the sky. So perhaps we don’t need to abolish all our religious rituals and images but only to understand them correctly. The communion ceremony is fine if you see it for what it is. It even has a terrible beauty, a bitter sweetness. The images of Ishtar / Mary can be retained, if we understand who “Mary” really is: a snapshot of the continually changing shape of the rogue planet which grazed the earth 3,400 years ago, complete with the crescent disc at her ankles and the ‘dragon’ under her skirt. The tortured man images have to go, and the cross will have to be illuminated to resemble more accurately what the cross actually represents - a composite rogue planet which periodically approaches the earth and is seen as a shining cross in the sky at a certain distance. Thus we need to understand that “the cross” and “Mary” are one and the same: the image of “Mary” represents the Shining Cross when it was closer to the earth.

Other religions can be straightened out on the same basis.

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This article also explains why I was so incensed by … (a certain person’s) antics in 2003. She was only a figurehead, but the purpose behind her antics was to condition her readers to expect “business as usual” after the next poleshift, thus consigning us to thousands of years of pain and humiliation, for the sake of keeping the present ruling group in control after the next poleshift. That was partly what motivated me to publish “The Voice of the Voiceless.” It’s there for anyone who wants it.
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So again, where are we going? We’re going back to the Garden. It’s worth repeating, because after all this time it’s so difficult to remember how lovely it was:
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Before the series of survivalist emergencies, love flowed freely between mother and infant and throughout the tribe; ‘we were naked and we were not ashamed;’ the infant was free to return the mother’s physical caresses as he wished; there was no loneliness, no sexual frustration, no incest taboo, no marriage, no exclusive relationships. The concept of ‘you cheated on me’ could never arise back then. Everybody’s needs were fully met and exploitation was both non-existent and unthinkable. Written laws were unnecessary; the law was written on our hearts; we simply knew what to do, because our mothers had not yet been trained to extinguish the primal love burning in the heart of every infant to turn the infant into soldier material. Thus the very concept of police or soldiers was equally unthinkable at that time.
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The only way back to the Garden is to remember everything, to overcome the two amnesias, the historical amnesia regarding an ancient orgy of vampirism and cannibalism and the personal amnesia surrounding the mother-infant relationship. After that, we have to correct our ancestors mistakes, by making a conscious decision to behave with a bit of decency toward one another in a future survivalist emergency, as prefigured by the Christian communion. Then we will never expel ourselves from the Garden again.

Interestingly, we are doing our best to bring about another survivalist emergency. We are offering no effective opposition to the accelerating pollution and destruction of the environment. In the book, I emphasised one aspect of our compulsion to pollute our ecosystem: pollution wrecks our bodies and gets us into a nursing home where we act out the forgotten horrors of infancy, as amnesia victims always do. The other side of the coin is that if we continue to destroy our ecosystem, we will soon bring about another survivalist emergency, without any help from ‘Ishtar’ this time. Again, we are amnesia victims unconsciously striving to relive the disgraceful behaviour of our ancestors in an earlier survivalist emergency. Our shame was unbearable after that display of savagery. We had to forget, although we act it out in the Christian communion, which did not originate with Constantine but goes back all the way, eleven thousand years, though in earlier versions a different liquid was in the chalice. But now, as the environmental crisis deepens, we are close to staging a full-scale action replay of the ancient shame we have tried so hard to forget. In this way we are striving to relive both the historical and the personal amnesias: the historical amnesia will be relived in the coming survivalist emergency which we are so determined to bring about; the personal amnesia is already being relived through wrecking our bodies so as to recreate the worst horrors of infancy in a nursing home.

Many great and good thinkers have struggled to find an explanation of why the entire human species, while convinced it possesses a rational mind, is striving to wreck the ecosystem on which we depend, while ‘good citizens’ offer only a token, deliberately ineffective ‘protest.’ Now the mystery is solved, thanks to Dr Velikovsky. We are amnesia victims behaving as amnesia victims always do – striving to relive the buried memories by recreating them in a real-life action replay, both in the nursing homes as at present and in the global survivalist emergency which we will bring about soon if we continue on our present course.

The major orgy of vampirism and cannibalism came eleven thousand years ago. That shameful event was the starting point, the IMPRINT, the template for our civilisation. It made us who we are. Our present exploitative societal structures and international relations, as well as our destructive child rearing practices, all are rooted in that ancient orgy of vampirism and cannibalism. And because we have repressed the shameful memory of that time, we find it impossible to reform or replace our present destructive societal arrangements.

THE ULTIMATE TEST

It is often said that you can judge a society by the manner in which it treats its more vulnerable members. Here in England people pride themselves on how we care for the disadvantaged. It is easy enough to do that in prosperous times. THE REAL TEST of who and what we are is the manner in which we treat each other in a survivalist emergency. That’s the real-life ‘Room 101.’ And the result of THAT test was so shameful that we have taken refuge in amnesia – because in the last major survivalist emergency we fell upon each other like savages and bit into the necks of our more vulnerable brothers and sisters, to suck out of their living bodies the only food available. Like all amnesia victims, we have a compulsion to relive the buried memories, both in the simulation via the Christian communion and in the real-life rerun of our past which we are determined to bring about, by destroying our ecosystem so as to precipitate another survivalist emergency in the near future.

HAUTEUR

Our only hope is to remember our past. Remembering entails acknowledging that we are not as nice as we thought we were and that we are not as clever as we thought we were. Our hauteur / haughtiness / “pride” has always been only a smokescreen to conceal our shame at the buried memory of the disgraceful scenes of wanton vampirism and cannibalism following an ancient poleshift, and also our shame at the forgotten horrors of the mother-infant relationship. So remembering our past automatically cures us of our hauteur, and conversely dropping our hauteur is an essential aid to remembering our past. The only alternative is to remain in amnesia and to continue our compulsion to recreate our past, as amnesia victims always do, with disastrous results not far away now.
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Please don’t be afraid. Remember with me. This is our identity as inhabitants of earth and as human beings. We have nowhere else to go. Your only freedom is to delay our progress. We may as well remember who we are and start being ourselves. I feel the better for it. So will you.