by David Lockwood
A talk to the Tamar Dowsers
at North Hill Village Hall
Dowsable information comes in all shapes and sizes, from the mundane and everyday to the profound and universal. This presentation dealt with matters that are positively cosmic, but included definitive dowsing material nonetheless.
D avid's talk was based on a series of books written by Zecharia Sitchin (1920-2010), of which The 12th Planet (1976) is the first and The End of Days (2007) is the last of the seven volumes.
It is Sitchin's contention that the history of humankind on the planet we now call Earth is significantly longer than most mainstream archeologists would consider possible.
He asserts that a moon of the yet-to-be discovered planet Nibiru collided catastrophically with the former solar-system planet Tiamat back in distant antiquity - and that one part of the remnants of this apocalypse is now the Asteroid Belt, situated between Mars and Jupiter.
The rest became planet Earth.
He further proposes that astronauts from Nibiru, who are described as Gods in some Sumerian texts, interbred with the indigenous earthlings back in the era of homo erectus to produce a hybrid population, who were the precursors of modern day humanity.
Sitchin's references for this astonishing series of suggestions lie in the thousands of clay tablets, still being discovered in the land previously occupied by the world's oldest recorded civilisation, the Sumerians, who lived in historical Persia - which is mostly concurrent with modern-day Iraq. He also refers to passages in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, which has close parallels to the Jewish Torah, and purport to corroborate some of the interpretations of the tablets. He also cites references in the ancient Hebrew Book of Enoch (300-100BCE), found in caves near Qumran, close to the location where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the 1940s.
Needless to say, this entire thesis has been panned by both mainstream archaeology and by fellow conspiracy theorists - mainly on the grounds that Sitchin's interpretation of the clay tablets is at best selective and allegedly often incorrect - at least by current linguistic standards. Sitchin is a self-taught ancient Sumerian scholar and the academic gatekeepers may have a vested interest, as well as a personal involvement, in keeping that door firmly shut. After all, if Zecharia was right - or even a little bit right - then much of what we consider to be the solid history of pre-ice age humanity would become anything but.
As with all such proposals - from Erich von Daniken in the 1960's to Graham Hancock today - however extreme the ideas, the fire behind the smoke resolutely refuses to go out. There will always be those who are genuinely convinced by the argument and the worldview, but also those who want to believe the concept, even though it is effectively unprovable - again, at least from a current scientific standpoint.
Despite all of the obvious issues, extra-terrestrial scenarios such as the Twelfth Planet have a long history of recurrence. The same questions tend to arise and the same rebuttals are encountered. Whatever your starting position, there are several issues worth noting and dowsing:
The dawn of mankind as we know it is believed to be concurrent with the end of the last main Ice Age. However, discoveries at Ban-Po in China, Lascaux in France and now Gobekli Tepe in Turkey give tantalising glimpses of more ancient lost civilisations. Similarly, the myth of pre-deluvian Atlantis has acquired great longevity. Are these trace cultural memories or just wishful thinking? Has modern man established the empires of the Gods into the information field, or has mainstream archaeology chosen to disregard uncomfortable evidence for non-academic purposes?
Various neo-philosophers have been questioning the standard dogma of evolution in recent times. To be fair to Darwin, he never said that evolution explained everything - merely that it provides a contributory element to the selective progress of the species. What he could never have appreciated was that in order for the scale of change and species development to get from marine worms to chimpanzees to modern humans in the available millennia seems all but impossible. However, if the DNA of homo erectus did encounter a step-jump from elsewhere then the pace of terrestrial evolution would make more chronological sense.
While it is difficult to phrase dowsing questions to such massive concepts in a simple manner, you can get credible responses if you take it bit by bit. Whether you can get your own ego and preconceptions out of the way is another matter entirely!
Many thanks to David for such a thought-provoking presentation.
Nigel Twinn
Tamar Dowsers
May 2024
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