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The Gods, Gemini and the Great Pyramid

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This book is nothing but geological quackery! If Bowles had any real evidence for his claims there would be a guaranteed Nobel prize in it. As it stands his "theories" haven't even been submitted to the peer-review process. This book isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

This weird piece of fiction flies in the face of everything we understand about the way the Earth evolves. The best that can be said of it is that it a flight of fancy, and not a particularly good one. Save your money, or better yet, invest it in a book that veers somewhere near common sense.

Geological research developed over the past 50 years indicates that the Earth's crust, [which we might liken to a loose film] has moved over the viscous inner layers of the Earth's mantle many times in earth's history. The fascinating evidence for these events was first discovered by Professor Charles Hapgood who later published the findings [with forward by Dr. Albert Einstein] in the first of his two landmark books, "Earth's Shifting Crust," and [now back in publication] "The Path of the Pole."

Einstein did not endorse Hapgood's theory without reservation, however, stating, "The only doubtful assumption is that the earth's crust can be moved easily enough over the inner layers."

Einstein's reservations on this issue went unanswered for three decades ... that is until a new author/researcher by the name of James Bowles published his findings. Now, in this intriguing and well researched book, "The Gods, Gemini, and the Great Pyramid," Bowles presents, [in complete agreement with Hapgood's treatise] the determining cause of these crustal shifts. In a fascinating piece of detective work [conducted as methodically as the best Sherlock Holmes novel] Bowles follows a trail of clues that ultimately leads him to the process that conditions Earth's inner surface for crustal displacement. Called Rotational-Bending, or simply the RB-Effect, this natural [gravitationally induced] process once and for all settles the debate [in favor of Catastrophism] that has raged for centuries.

In the Introduction Bowles writes:

"We rotate, tilted at an angle of 23º 27' [24 hours a day, year after year, millennium after millennium] while the moon, pulling relentlessly at us, circles the earth. With no change in time we orbit the sun and again we experience the relentless pull of gravity. The combined gravitational effects from the sun and the moon, and to a lesser extent that of the planets, pull at the crust from this oblique angle, relentlessly wearing the crust down until it is wrested from its moorings and fails from fatigue."

As valued as this work is, Bowles has also discovered that the line figures that are scribed on the barren Pampa above Nasca Peru are an ancient Bible whose parent texts [which they serve to illustrate] are those found on the walls of the Fifth and Sixth Dynasty pyramids in Saqqara, Egypt. In Part III of this well illustrated, well documented book, Bowles shows how these two sacred sites, Nasca and Giza, unite with a third site in Alaska to form a Sacred Triad with the angular dimensions of the Great Pyramid. Bowles goes on to show how this Sacred Triad lay [circa 30,000 BC] with both Nasca and Giza, [and fascinatingly enough, the Great Sphinx] on the Equator during the early epoch when [as demonstrated by Hapgood] Alaska occupied the Polar position.

This is absolutely a must book for readers interested in Hapgood's work, in man's origins, and in Earth's future.

Richard W. Noone, author, "5/5/2000, Ice: The Ultimate Disaster."

It's a well-written and deeply interesting book, and its semi-autobiographical approach gives it an important personal touch.

[Reviewer: Colin Wilson, author of, "From Atlantis to the Sphinx," "The Atlas of Holy Places and Sacred Sites," & "Unsolved Mysteries past and Present."]