Well! How much fun is this book? A lot! How fatally flawed is the ultimate premise of the book? Let me put it this way -- this guy's theory is on life support. But wait! Let's not pull the plug just yet!
I'll be honest. After reading every page, I am almost ready to consider that some kind of cosmic war involving super advanced extraterrestrials took place in our solar system a long, long time ago.
A lot of things in this book made me sit up -- such as the picture of the ancient Babylonian god Ninurta wielding a "thunderbolt" that is a dead-solid ringer for a plasma discharge produced in modern labs by physicists. Take that, Carl Sagan!
And there's also lot of other stuff in Dr. Farrell's book that's uber-tough to explain away in terms of mainstream science -- but any thorough review would have to be half as long as this lengthy, wordy tome to cover it all, so let me get to where Farrell stumbles so badly, it makes it impossible -- beyond a reasonable doubt -- for anyone to even so much as consider his total premise to be an accurate one.
It's the time frame, my friends. Farrell suggests that two cosmic wars took place, one 65 million years ago, and another 3.2 million years ago. He then asserts that the echoes of this cosmic war are reflected in the ancient texts of the Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Biblical texts, Vedic tradition and also New World mythology, from the Maya and Aztecs, to the myths of some North American tribes.
But think about it: The oldest texts from the ancient Mideast are perhaps 4,000 to 5,000 years. Vedic texts may go back as far as 5,000 or 6,000 years. And sure, purely oral traditions may push it back a few thousand more years. That's a long time, certainly-- but it's nothing compared to 3.2 million years, and ridiculous beyond belief to consider a connection between a 6,000-year-old text with events that happened 65 million years ago!
There is just no chance -- none -- that there could be an unbroken continuity of human story tradition over those millions of years. Think about all of the civilizations, high and low, that have come and gone in just the past few thousand years. The Egyptians, the Mongols, the various Chinese dynasties, the Roman Empire, the Inca, the Aztecs. The Soviet Union lasted only 75 years! Yes, traces of traditions and mythology have survived thousands of years -- but again, that's nothing!
My friends, a million years is a long, long, long time, and 3.2 million years is even longer, and 65 million years only has meaning in terms of astronomical and geological reckoning. To say that oral or written mythologies could have survived in any coherent form 3.2 million years, passed down from one human generation to another with never a break in the chain is, quite simply, impossible by any conceivable standard whatsoever. Period.
The ancient mythologies of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India or any other high civilization simply could not be a record -- even metaphorical or allegorical renderings -- of events 3.2 million years ago! Accept it, people! It's impossible! (I won't even address the egregious problem of the age of the human species itself, alternative archaeology authors such as Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson not withstanding).
What's tragic is that (and I can't believe I'm saying this) Farrell may be onto something in this book. But what the author needs to do is jettison the dubious fringe theories of the (admittedly brilliant)astronomer Tom Van Flandern who posits the explosion of two former planets in our solar system 65 million and 3.2 million years ago -- and find some way to frame his cosmic war scenario in a time frame of perhaps 10,000 to 15,000 years ago.
If Farrell would only do this, so much about his overall theory would start to make a lot more sense and fall into place-- as outrageously astounding as it already is.
Despite all, I am easily comfortable granting this book a 4-star rating, if nothing else, for the pure entertainment value delivered by Farrell's wild and audacious ideas, and the obvious zeal in which he lays out his thesis. Hey, brother, you don't have to believe to be intrigued! At the very least, this is like reading an exciting science fiction scenario with an added edge that it may contain the seed of real world plausibility -- the teeny-tiny possibility that, by gum it, there really may have been a cosmic war fought by super-advanced aliens in our solar system a long time ago in a galaxy not so far, far away -- in fact, the Milky Way galaxy we call our home.
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Farrell's Foray Into Ancient Antiquity Is Scholarly In It's Precision & Thought-Provoking In It's Ramifications
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2016
Oxford educated researcher Dr. Joseph P. Farrell unleashes a reverberating hypothesis regarding ancient history whose echoes will be forever heard.Cosmic War - Interplanetary Warfare, Modern Physics & Ancient Texts by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell is an extremely intriguing incursion into the possibility of a very ancient war in high antiquity.Dr. Farrell's hypotheses of an Ancient Interplanetary War is argued in an in-depth, precise and reasonable approach. The extensive evidence Farrell collates and synthesizes in this particular book will leave the reader aghast with the possibilities.Intriguingly enough, many ancient cultures stated that the 'Wars of the Gods' were quite real. Predictably, even though there's extensive evidence for advanced physics, advanced weapons, ancient [millions and BILLIONS of year old artifacts found by reputable sources], the establishment has painted all over ancient history with myth.Regarding this very issue, Jim Marrs in his book Our Occulted History, sets his cross hairs on this very issue:"The term mythology stems from the Greek word mythos, simply meaning words or stories reflecting the basic values and attitudes of people. In past ages, when the vast majority of humans were illiterate, easily understood parables were used to educate people about history, science, and technology. During the Dark Ages, when most of people were taught that the Earth was flat, the word mythology was changed by the Roman Church to mean imaginative and fanciful tales veering far from truthfulness. This small change in semantics has caused untold damage in current perceptions."[1]Ironically enough, there is starting to be more and more evidence of 'myths' now turning out to be fact.As Chris Hardy Ph.D remarks in her poignant book DNA Of The Gods:"...let's remember that, before the discoveries of loads of ancient tablets written in the pictographic Sumerian language (Late Uruk period, fourth millennium BCE), the kingdom of Sumer was believed to be a myth. We had already discovered Akkad and deciphered Akkadian, and still archaeologists wouldn't give credence to the numerous carved references, within historical dated records, to a line of kings whose title was "King of Sumer and Akkad".[2][3]Or how about the "myth" of Troy:"This myth collapsed in 1865 with archeologist Frank Calvet's discovery of the historic ruins of not only one city of Troy but nine layers of it! The city, whose siege is recounted in Homer's Iliad, is only Troy VII, the seventh level underground, dating to the thirteenth century BCE."[4]And notwithstanding:"...according to geologist Robert Schoch, who, in 1990, worked with the renowned pioneer Egyptologist John Anthony West, the vertical erosion of the Sphinx was due to heavy and extensive rainfall that happened in the region between 10,000 and 5,000 BCE, thus dating the Sphinx's construction to at least 7,000 to 8,000 years ago ) according to Schoch's conservative estimate). What was the reaction of conventional archaeologists? Here is one: Zahi Hawass, Director General of Giza, was asked in an interview on the PBS series NOVA if it was possible that a more ancient civilization might have built the pyramids and sculpted the Sphinx. Hawass replied: "Of course it is not possible for one reason...No single artifact, no single inscription, or pottery, or anything has been found until now, in any place to predate the Egyptian civilization more than 5,000 years ago."[5]That last passage in particular showcases the inherent dogma that we as a society have had to deal with.The gatekeepers, for many reasons, want to keep established history in a nice little box. Fortunately, as anyone who has extensively research these topics know, there's more than ample evidence that shows that at minimum history isn't what we have been told.In any case, Cosmic War covers wide ranging but pertinent topics such as Van Flandern's exploded planet hypothesis, an analysis of plasma in relation to weapons that employ scalar physics, petroglyphs which show plasma instability glyphs that were recorded by ancient cultures, remnants of giants in ancient history, optical phase conjugation, the story of the 'gods' as related through ancient texts, pulsars, generational charts of the 'gods', the scarring of The Valles Mariners being possibly from a weapon, Iapetus and its hexagonal craters, and a LOT more.The ramifications of this book abound, and filter in all aspects of our lives. Dr. Farrell gives is more reasons [coupled with countless others in his other trenchant books] as to why we need to give history, particularly ancient history, a very long and thorough look.In its totality, this book is a veritable fountain of information that is scholarly in precision, and thought-provoking in its ramifications. This book is a must read for anyone interested in ancient history, ancient civilizations, and any of the topics there in. There is more than enough information to make the reader curious about our past in more ways than they can really imagine.Kindest Regards,Zy MarquiezTheBreakway.wordpress.com__________________________________________________________________________________Sources & References:[1] Jim Marrs, Our Occulted History, pg. 168.[2] German businessman and archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann also played a role in early excavations of Troy.[3] Chris Hardy Ph.D, DNA Of The Gods, pg. 11.[4] Ibid., pg. 11.[5] Ibid., pg. 11.
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