
Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits

I suspect these may have been filled with a liquid that could reflect and catch the starlight as in a mirror
Gordon White • Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
Could this be the mysterious purpose of cup stones?
What we have with the Boorong is a proof of concept that star lore can be used to guide disparate populations to a specific site for a multitude of spiritual and practical reasons.
Gordon White • Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
you will also not find a single hunter gatherer society lacking in taboo areas, that is, spaces demarcated as belonging to the spirits rather than the tribe
Gordon White • Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
After more than two decades helming the august New England Journal of Medicine, outgoing editor-in-chief, Dr Marcia Angell, said in the January 2009 New York Review of Books that ‘it is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published.’ Science is now so riddled with corporate self-interest and falsified
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Over the last century, a new power narrative has emerged that warps archaeological data into a specific shape the way a magnet affects iron filings. It is the unspoken belief that humanity is on a journey from worse to better, from primitive to complex, uncivilised to civilised. Our civilisation of perpetual war, total surveillance, obesity,
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An interesting idea to explore. Is retrospective nostalgia in old age completely misplaced? Are politicians also guilty of this deliberate "the future is brighter" attitude?
Israel’s well-funded archaeological programme expands in lock-step with the growth of her illegal settlements, providing subtextual legitimacy for the Likud party’s aim of restoring her biblical borders. Take a closer look behind the confident archaeological headlines, however, and you often find evidence ranging from the tenuous to the spurious.
Gordon White • Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
Travelling at night, ancestral and totemic spirit constellations would pass overhead
Gordon White • Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
Göbekli Tepe is at least twelve thousand years old. That is seven thousand years older than the Giza complex. The Great Pyramid is closer in time to us than it is to the creation of Göbekli Tepe.
Gordon White • Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
Carrington level event reaching the Earth today, for which we are overdue, would fry the nerve system of the entire planet