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Born
in India in 1941 of European parentage, I am the eldest of 11 children. Right
from my very early childhood, the night sky was always 'home' to me. I loved the
starry sky so much that while only 6 years old, I pinched my grandmother's
bifocals and built my first crude telescope. When asked what I wished to be when
I grew up, I remember saying, "a scientus". I was quite young then, I
think I meant to say, “a scientist“. But now, I believe that was an inspired
answer, because at present I feel that to know the secrets of the universe we do
indeed have to combine science and religion, or at least spirituality. Astronomy
was not an easy profession to get into in India at that time, so I had to settle
for my second love, electronics. Now, a close-to-retiring electronics design
engineer, in Sydney, my heart still goes out to the cosmos. As indeed it should,
because like every other human being, there is in fact a little bit of stardust
in my veins. Why
do I believe this? Just look around, at the newspaper articles, the magazines,
books Internetand pages like thisand you will see why. Growing
up in South India (Madras) through the 50's and 60's exposed me to a lot of
spiritual activity. Hindu, Muslim and Christian spiritualists were very active,
in those parts, during those days. This set my mind travelling along the psychic
and occult roads, finally leading me to the works of Edgar Cayce,
Ruth Montgomery and scores of others.
My Christian roots, coupled with Hindu and Muslim environmental exposure
turned out to be a very fertile soil for the works of Cayce and Montgomery to
bear fruit in. Looking back, it was this beginning that set the foundations for
these pages. During
the early 1970s I published several articles in the English language
‘MIRROR’ magazine. These non-fiction articles were in the psychic and
similar fields. Through these articles, I had the privilege of meeting some very
extraordinary people. Over the years since, the urge to put all this together in
one book, has become just about irresistible. Contact the author
at this address: PO Box 107, Seven
Hills, NSW 2147, Australia.
Read a sample: INTRODUCTION
It is said that every time the great Galileo looked through his
telescope, he would tip his hat. He
did this we are told as a mark of respect to God and His astonishing creation,
the cosmos. A peek through a large modern telescope always fills
one with wonder and perhaps so it should, because within each one of us, we will
soon realise, is a little bit of stardust.
As we look at the awe-inspiring array of those majestic star clouds up
there, we could be looking at home …our natural birthright.
It is hoped that as we go through these pages together, we will be drawn
closer to that cosmic heritage of ours - closer to home. For
many years we have heard and read a lot about God, religion, heaven, etc.
In fact so much has been said, that many good people have been turned off
the very word, 'religion'. In
these enlightened days (?) people ask for reasons, but those who teach
us, unfortunately do not seem to have these reasons, or if they do, are not too
convincing, in their hard-to-understand explanations of them.
However basic facts do not need complicated explanations, answers ooze
out of everything and that's what we find when we try to look for answers to
these subjects. They come at
us from everywhere! Often,
it's a collection of different bits of evidence, from varied sources that form
the basis of a theory. Indeed, the
well-established fact that the Earth is round, cannot be proved with just one
experiment on it's own. Even a
photograph from outer space will only show one angle of the planet ...
True scientists speak in terms of evidence in support of rather
than definite proof. Likewise, here we are collecting evidence in support of our
hypothesis. The
purpose of this work is not to prove or disprove established religious and
theological beliefs but to look at these beliefs from a different point of view,
thus widening our perspective, resulting in a much deeper appreciation of life
itself! As we piece together these
many and varied bits of evidence they seem to point us to a simple explanation,
an explanation that drags us back … albeit kicking and screaming … to one
point … our common cosmic heritage. From this new vantage point a fresh
panorama opens up before us. An all-encompassing vista that places us slap bang
in the middle of this great oneness, squarely at the heart of the ultimate
family, the cosmic family. With this comes a sudden awareness of a frantic,
almost forbidding scramble against time to keep at least one branch of this
cosmic family from extinction. You and I, my dear readers, are vital elements in
this adventure. The
sixth man to stand on the moon, Edgar Mitchell, spoke for all the astronauts,
when he observed that, 'Each man comes back with a feeling that he is no longer
an American citizen, but he is a planetary citizen'. Our horizons have certainly expanded out of sight, over the
last few decades. For
centuries, people believed that the Earth was the centre of the universe and the
Sun, Moon and stars revolved around it. This
belief was so widespread and set in stone that it had become a 'reality'.
Then, in the sixteenth century along came Copernicus, who had the
audacity to declare otherwise, he was ridiculed and his theory, swept aside.
It took a HUNDRED YEARS of arguing, before the old assumption
was finally laid to rest. This
complete reversal in thinking did not come about by the sudden discovery of
startling new data. No, it eventuated simply by interpreting existing data in a
different way. The observed
phenomena was taken and a theory worked out to explain its behaviour, without
side stepping, or distorting the evidence in any way. Experts
refer to this process of formulating the framework for a new theory, as the
creation of a new PARADIGM. This
was a term coined by science historian and philosopher, Thomas Kuhn, in his book
THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS. A
Paradigm is like a scientific dogma, it forms the basis of future theories and
even the way in which scientific evidence is interpreted, a true form of self
perpetuating scientific doctrine. Phenomena
that do not fit a paradigm are just rejected - -swept aside and ignored.
In time however, someone like Copernicus comes along and draws attention
to a major anomaly in thinking, caused by masses of evidence being ignored.
Then, what Kuhn referred to as a PARADIGM SHIFT occurs - a change in a world
view; something that we are on the verge of experiencing - regarding our
understanding of humanity's place in the cosmos. We
will be referring to the Bible quite a lot in the next few pages, for a couple
of very good reasons. Firstly
because it is such a rich treasure chest of information, easily accessible to
the average person and secondly, when we wish to evaluate something, we have to
base our assessment on some standard and I could not find a better informed and
better known standard. We
need not feel bound to it of course, but use it as a starting point in our
discussion. I'm sure other
religious texts could be used with similar results, with one notable exception. Some
names have been changed, for obvious reasons, but I have used actual names as
far as possible. Much of what we
read here can be found in most libraries. Some bits are taken from books and
magazines, while others are drawn from my own experiences over the years.
Edgar Cayce’s
work has been a great inspiration to me and forms the basis for a lot of this
material. THERE IS A RIVER, by Tom
Sugrue and A SLEEPING PROPHET by Jess Stern, are two highly recommended
biographies of Edgar Cayce. All
of us at some stage in our lives, would have had experiences that should make us
think, as those recorded in the following pages would.
The question is, do we take the time to think!
We seem so hell-bent on carrying out our day to day affairs, to the total
exclusion of everything else, that occurrences like those described here are not
given a second thought. We let
ourselves get snagged by the prickles of life and turn a blind eye to the fruit
that are there for the picking. At
the end of this work, we will look at a very interesting possibility, perhaps a
way we can actually rejoin and work with our brothers and sisters of our
interstellar family, while still fulfilling our day to day responsibilities.
Once we begin to do this we will wonder how anyone could have ever been
so blind to the greatest realities of life. For a man who
cannot wonder is but a pair of
spectacles behind which there are
no eyes.
…THOMAS CARLYLE The
last few decades have seen a proliferation of books and movies about UFOs, ETs,
abductions, channelling, etc. This flash flood of information has taken us
completely off guard, so much so we have invented a new name for it, calling it NEW
AGE and of course, consigning it to the same bin as the occult and
superstitions and sweeping it away, out of sight of accepted wisdom. Even
science fiction seems to reflect this awakening of the human spirit.
The classic works of H G Wells and Jules Verne would hardly be called
fiction, if they were written today. This
we rightly admit is due to the triumphs of modern science itself.
Science fiction now echoes present day reality in its fantasising on the
infinitely more subtle subject of the human mind and the intangible realms of
event horizons and singularities. Could we be growing up at last, leaving our
fairytales behind us and finally waking up to reality? We
get started, by gathering as much evidence from as many sources and
cultures as possible. Just
gathering, without passing judgement, or colouring the information with our
preconceived opinions. Then we put
them together, picking up the common thread that seems to run through it all,
discarding the rest and finally interpreting the new picture that finally
emerges. If at times I appear to dwell too long on one particular subject, do forgive me, as I am probably at that stage, trying to stress my point extra strongly, perhaps even at the risk of being overly repetitive. I do feel very strongly on the subject of this book. It is this conviction that has propelled it to the stage of publication. There is nothing so powerful, they say, as an idea whose time has come. I think now is the time for us to realise who we are and where we are headed. The fact that you my dear reader have stayed with me so far, is an indication that you are ready for this idea to germinate within you. Welcome to what could be one of the most important mental expeditions you have ever embarked on. Read, experience and enjoy! For even the sky, is no longer the limit.
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