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The
Andrew Collins Newsletter - July 2014
Andrew
standing within the doorway to Harran's astronomical tower (pic credit: Hugh
Newman).
In
this newsletter: Andrew visits Cape Town and Johannesburg, gets very ill,
has strange visions and delusions featuring chameleons, hominids and wraith-like
beings. Download MP3s of Andrew's two Cape Town gigs. Read a full run down of
upcoming conferences and tours in which Andrew features, and get the latest on
Andrew's Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods and Greg Little's Path of
Souls.
London, Wednesday, July 11, 2014. Hi, I have just
returned from South Africa following the Science, Consciousness and Ancient Civilizations
Conference, which took place in Cape Town and Johannesburg. All went well at Cape
Town, and free MP3s of both lectures are available at the following links:
1. LightQuest, Cygnus X-3 and Compact Stars as Intelligent Beings
https://www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive/share?s=n3vJJbjORtMg4VLYHMWcy0
2. Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods
https://www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive/share?s=DrccSY_eQhgiiLWs9A__vQ
Enjoy!
A DVD of the Gobekli Tepe lecture only will be available shortly,
along with those of other speakers, the details of which I'll provide when they
become available.
Then after the conference at Cape Town, where both the
venue and guest house was constantly cold, we visited an area of the Cape's famous
Table Mountain, climbing that before lunchtime on a quite beautiful day. After
reaching a site of natural beauty, a three-legged table stone mounted on a stone
platform, with alignments to the equinoxes and solstices, I slipped away and entered
a rock shelter that faced out across a valley with the Atlantic Ocean on the right-hand
side (the Indian Ocean was just out of visibility on the other side).
Left,
the view from the rock shelter on Table Mountain looking out toward the Atlantic
Ocean.
Right,
the tripod stone nearby, Professor Robert Schoch walking away on the left-hand
side.
Cape
Chameleon
Here I conducted a meditation and saw some rich imagery
indeed. I saw a chameleon, and felt it was an important totemic symbol to local
populations in the past. I felt it was seen as a symbol of the transformation
of the soul due to the colour changes its body undergoes in order to create the
perfect camouflage. I saw the chameleon in the night sky as a constellation, its
curled tail wrapped around a tree branch, which I felt signified the cosmic axis
or sky pole. It formed a tunnel highlighting the position of the southern celestial
pole. Beyond this tunnel was, I sensed, a supposed place of the ancestors, and
the fact that we were at the very southern tip of Africa made me realise that
any ancestors thought to have existed in the south would have been connected with
Antarctica, located immediately south of here! I am not sure whether the ancient
peoples of the Cape really did see their ancestors as coming from Antarctica,
but it was an odd thought never-the-less. Plus I sensed that if any of this was
real, we were going back in terms hundreds of thousands of years, not just a few
thousand years.
That night I attempted to check out a few of these ideas.
Somehow in the back of my mind I must have known there was a chameleon constellation,
but what I certainly didn't know is that it is made up of minor circumpolar stars
that turn about the southern celestial pole. Although this asterism was created
only in the seventeenth century, I sensed that the connection between the chameleon
and the southern celestial pole was far older. I found also that there are a number
of native South African folktales featuring the chameleon, including one in which
the supreme god at the beginning of time sends the chameleon to inform humankind
that following death comes resurrection and new life. However, the lizard overtook
the chameleon on its journey and told humanity that there was only death after
this life, which is why we don’t properly understand about the after life.
Clearly, this tale makes its clear that the chameleon IS linked with the transmigration
of the soul, most likely through its colour changes.
Another tale speaks
of how the chameleon was sent by the supreme god to help instruct the first man
and woman on what to do. In other words, it played the same role as the serpent
of the Garden of Eden, but in reverse. It was a good influence, not a bad one,
instructing humanity on the wisdom of life. (in contrast, correspondent Gavin
Hanks tells me that in Zimbabwe the chameleon is greatly feared by people, perhaps
because of its association with death and the afterlife.)
| The other strange thing is that after leaving Table Mountain local earth mysteries researcher-writer Dean Liprini, who was conducting the tour, took the party to see another local site. It was a strange pyramidical hill with an eye-like hole penetrating its apex (see montage picture, which also shows the bead and wire chameleon). He later told me that this eye is aligned on the southern celestial meridian, on which lies the southern celestial pole, and around which revolve the circumpolar stars of the southern night sky. Dean believes this site would have been important to the local population thousands of years ago, even though the rock itself with its strange hole is almost certainly natural. He said it is also the site that naturally follows in his local matrix of sites after visiting the table stone, so he felt it important that I had picked up the chameleon material just before visiting this pyramid site. Apparently, a local species of chameleon, known as the Cape dwarf chameleon, is indigenous to the area, and has been seen in the vicinity of the pyramid site. |  The pyramidical hill with the hole through its apex, which is apparently aligned toward the southern meridian line, around which the circumpolar stars revolve. It is located between Table Mountain, Noordhoek and Chapman's Peak on the Cape peninsular. |
 Wire and bead made chameleon. | As
soon as we had left the mountain I saw and bought a wire and bead framed chameleon
from a street vender. Dean and I spoke to him, and the man said that his true
home was Zimbabwe, and that his father had told him stories about the chameleon
when he was young. He couldn’t remember them now, but the memory was enough
for him to include the creature among his creations today. The upshot of all this is that Dean and his friends will look closer into the importance of the chameleon as a totem among the ancient peoples of the Cape area, while I suggested I would try and create a picture showing a background of stars with the chameleon's tail spiralling inwards, the southern celestial pole as its centre (if we have any budding artists out there who might like to take up this job, let me know). |
A Great Illness
All this was on Monday, June 30, a beautiful and very
memorable day. That night I started to cough slightly, and then by the time our
traveling party, which included Brien Foerster and his wife, Robert Schoch and
his wife Katie; Dean Liprini, speaker Dan Schrieber, Hugh Newman, Hugh's friend
Gary King, who was filming the event; and the organisers Nash Singh and his partner
Nisha, got to the airport for our transfer flights to Johannesburg, I was feeling
rough indeed. On reaching the hotel I went straight to bed and experienced high
fever as the rest of the tour party went out to Adam's Calendar and the Giant
Footprint recently promoted by Michael Tellinger.
The next three days
were simply awful, and quite terrifying. I couldn't really eat anything, and felt
like death warmed up. I had strange delusions and hallucinations, in one of which
I had to make this leap of faith through a hole into a primeval quagmire. I achieved
this and found myself in a watery realm in which were tall wraith-like beings
called "Anagwas," who started to move toward me. I didn't know whether
they were friendly or hostile, and just wanted to get out of there. So I tried
desperately to find the hole I had entered to reach this strange realm, otherwise,
I felt, some part of my soul would be left behind here. Luckily, I did manage
to find the hole, and so was able to raise my mind back into consciousness. I
immediately checked out “Anagwas” and found it was a real African-rooted
word, and can relate to a mythical creature of some kind. My own intuition is
that the Anagwas are a messed up memory of something real that once existed in
South Africa in a physical form, perhaps even the Homo erectus mentioned
below.
At another point I found myself in a cave, being carried
in there as a child on a fur blanket by tall hominids, whom I felt were very likely
Homo erectus, who thrived on the Cape ca. 1.76 to 0.5 million years ago
(I didn’t ask for this - I really didn't!). They laid me down among their
group, and simply carried on their lives, which involved either sleeping or sitting
down and gazing out on to the bay area beyond. This I recognised as a place called
Noordhoek, which we had passed by the previous day.
I felt these hominids
would not harm me, and sensed also that they were responsible for creating the
large quartzite (Acheulean) handaxes found in the area. Somehow these beings saw
them as the teeth of creatures, such as the shark. They served the save purpose,
which was cutting, piecing and tearing. In Tibetan lamaism, so-called phurba daggers
are thought to be the teeth of demons. I felt it was a similar case with the remarkable
tools of these homininds, who pre-existing the arrival of anatomically modern
humans by many hundreds of thousands of years.
Anyway, I came out of this
vision and immediately starting feeling better. I actually felt as if I had broken
the fever, sweating now as opposed to shivering as I had done on and off for the
past three days (actually a sign of a high temperature).
The next day,
the fourth, I finally got to see a doctor who confirmed I had an infection of
unknown origin, as well as chronic bronchitis and an inflamed throat. He put me
on a five-day course of antibiotics, and I did feel better.
Yet then,
the next day, the first day of the Johannesburg conference, I got up and felt
dreadful. I started experiencing terrifying hot flushes that surged through my
body, as if something was trying to take me over. I started to panic, so tried
to calm down and rang the doctor immediately. He came across, saw that my blood
temperature had plummeted, and gave me an anti-inflammatory injection, which stabilized
me. However, he insisted that I did not do the lecture that day, which was a great
disappointment, but seemed the only option in the knowledge that my health had
to come first.
The next day he returned. I felt better, and my blood pressure
had risen again. My chest was better, and he admitted that the previous day he
had begun to suspect that I might have pneumonia, but that thought had now passed.
I was able to do my lecture, the second scheduled, on "Gobekli Tepe: Genesis
of the Gods," but in all honesty I felt totally disconnected from the entire
event. I simply could not get into it, and felt the venue dark and oppressive
(unlike Cape Town, which was a great place, even though it was so, so cold there).
Anyway, I am back in the UK now, and under the care of the doctors here. I
still feel pretty rough, but any symptoms seem at least do-able.
A few
announcements....
Garden
of Eden Tour
The Megalithomania Garden of Eden Tour, which visits
a large number of prehistoric, sacred and ancient sites begins on September 1st.
So if you want to go with myself and Hugh Newman to Göbekli Tepe - Karahan
Tepe - Harran - Nemrut Dag - Çayönü - Sanliurfa: Nimrod's Castle,
Pools of Abraham, Archaeological Museum - Diyarbakir Museum - Aktamar Island Church,
Lake Van - Gate of Mehr - The Garden of Eden Monastery, Mus - Fountain of Immortality,
Mushka - Bingöl Mountain, terrestrial Paradise and birthplace of the Anunnaki
and Watchers (Ankara start). Plus a four-day optional extension to Petra, registar
now at:
http://www.andrewcollins.com/page/articles/origins_tour_0914.htm
Any
questions regarding the tour, address them either to me or Hugh at Megalithomania.co.uk.
Origins 2014 - the Origins of Civilization Conference
For
a long time, it was thought that ‘Giants’ were simply fairy stories,
but recent research into old documents, newspapers, journals, first hand reports
and old academic publications, suggests these may be in fact be a reality. There
are accounts in the Bible referencing giants, and Stonehenge was said to be built
by Titans. Now there are archaeological reports from both areas that support this
conclusion. Yet it is the discoveries in North America that have created the biggest
controversy, because there are now at least 1,000 reports of a powerful giant
race, some with double-rows of teeth, red-hair, elongated skulls and six fingers
and toes, who existed across the continent from at least 8,000 BC. This evidence
is putting the orthodox origins of human history into jeopardy.
At this
year’s Origins 2014: the Origins of Civilization Conference in London on
November 15, Hugh Newman will give us a whirlwind tour worldwide, focusing on
giant skeletons found in the vicinity of ancient sites that may give an insight
into how and why these prehistoric sites were built, as well as delve in to why
this mystery was deliberately covered up.
Hugh is a writer, explorer,
conference organiser, international lecturer. He is co-founder also of the Megalithomania
conferences, and author of the book Earth Grids (2008). The talk is based on the
work he has done with Jim Vieira for new book Giants on Record. He is just one
of the speakers at Origins 2014. Others include Irving Finkel, Robert Temple,
Brien Foerster (by skype), Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton and myself.
For
registration and info on Origins 2014, click the link below:
http://www.andrewcollins.com/page/conference/origins2014.htm
Edgar Cayce's ARE Ancient Mysteries Conference, Virginia Beach,
VA
I will try and highlight a few of the upcoming conferences I appear
at later this year. The first is Edgar Cyace's ARE's Ancient Mysteries Conference
on Oct 9-12 at Virginia Beach with Erich von Erich von Däniken, Giorgio A
Tsoukalos, John Anthony West, anthropologist Dr. Susan B. Martinez, astronomy
expert James Mullaney, FRAS, and more. I shall be talking about Gobekli Tepe:
Genesis of the Gods. For info and registration go to the link below:
http://www.edgarcayce.org/are/conferences.aspx?id=8705
Paradigm Conference, Minneapolis, MN
I shall also
be attending the Paradigm conference in Minneapolis on Oct 2-5, with a whole host
of speakers including Erich von Däniken, Robert Bauval, Richard Dolan, Graham
Hancock, John Anthony West, Nick Redfern, and many, many more. See the link below
for more information and registration.
http://www.paradigmsymposium.com
IMAC Conference, Southend, Essex, UK
I am also at the
Interdimensional Minds of Awareness Conference in Southend, Essex, UK, on Saturday,
August 23rd, alongside a whole host of speakers on alternative topics. This is
one of the best organised events I attend, and would fully recommend it to all
my friends in Essex and the UK in general. It is a great opportunity to get together
to exchange ideas, and for a general get together and reunion. I shall be giving
a newly revised LightQuest lecture, which features Gobekli Tepe, Cygnus X-3 and
the connection between compact stars and the appearance of plasma-based UFOs and
proto-intelligences existing beyond normal space-time.
Link for this conference
is:
http://imoaconference.co.uk
That's about it for now.
Books
Hope you have now
had a chance to read your copy of Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods. If you have,
do let me know your verdict. I would be interested to have feedback. Also can
I ask you to write a review for Amazon or Barnes and Noble. This is now very important
for authors like myself to increase the ranking and promotion of books.
Also
I shall be selling signed copies of Greg Little's new book “Path of Souls”
shortly. This includes a substantial section by myself on giant skeletons as human
hybrids, and the Paleolithic origins of Native American star myths featuring Orion,
Cygnus and the Milky Way. When the copies are here, I'll write again. In the meantime,
read more about the book here:
http://www.amazon.com/Path-Souls-American-Skeletons-Smithsonian/dp/0965539253/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405040850&sr=8-1&keywords=path+of+souls
Best wishes,
Andrew
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