The Flat Earth Lie
by Robert Bruce Baird

This is the introduction to my book The Flat Earth Lie: The Basis of Our Schooling.

The impact of the 'Flat Earth' monsters (Both those at 'the edge of the earth', and those who manipulated the fictions associated with it.) are still influencing the daily lives of everyone on earth today. The air we breathe and the way we think about risks and fears or our fellow lifeforms are inexorably involved with this legacy. To call the Americas the 'New World' or its' native people 'Indians' is something we should regard as heresy. There are very few people today that would say they know the earth is flat. Unfortunately there are many who think there was some one place called Atlantis.

"We know that it is extremely unlikely that Columbus could have been the son of humble wool-carders. He acquired too much (unexplained) education to have sprung from such origins in the Middle Ages. From his arrival in Portugal it is evident that he wielded some mysterious power, prestige and even wealth. This suggests to a number of modern experts that he could only have been the scion of some royal or noble family, a family just as obscure as Columbus himself. But his rank allowed him to marry quickly into Portuguese aristocracy when he took Felipa Perestrello as his wife, and, when she died, his rank allowed him to court several noble and wealthy women of Spain as mistresses. He was the favored friend of Spanish dukes and the Portuguese king and queen--not to mention Isabella herself. He hobnobbed with the richest men in Spain on an easy and familiar basis, and these men actually financed his voyage. In class-conscious medieval Europe, these cannot have been the accomplishments of a wool-carder's son who supposedly was only a merchant skipper from Genoa." (1)

The sails of his ships had a clue. Vasco da Gama's did too. It was the Templar cross. He was a 'made man' as they say in certain circles. He was not a 'nut' as the Britannica implicates. You can see similar guises with Jesus in the fable about a scion of the noble family of David being a shepherd or carpenter.

There are also a lot of people buying into other myths including the alien reptoid ritual mind-fogging that has been done to many people. The Biblical myth-makers talking about Elohim and their associated Christian Mystery School writers are not dragons or even as Noble blood as they think. It is a sad state of affairs even though there is loads of information coming forward that deserves to be accepted. Staying abreast of the longevity man's duration on earth is no easy matter. It has been accelerating in the speed it is pushed back, farther and farther into the ages or aeons. But history still is taught from much the same books it was decades before all this new knowledge came to be known. Nothing is absolutely black and white or certain. I hope we all can understand that the right answer is not as good as a decent question. But who gets to ask the questions?

You do not have to believe the Earth is flat to be a victim of the schooling or training which was going on throughout the Dark Ages and continues to the present. If you believe knowledgeable mariners like Cosmas Indicopleustas really thought the Pope was at 'the center of the universe' and the rest of that stuff, you are sorely abused. Bishop Ussher and Cosmas were given greater commercial or other recognition for their useful lies. In the case of Cosmas he was awarded a Nestorian priesthood. The Nestorians and Basilidae have a long relationship with those in control of China. We have archaeologically proven Byzantine coins to prove it, from the era when the Tarim Basin climate finally forced the red-heads out of that region - the fifth Century AD. I have addressed the origin of much religion and technology with these tall red-heads near the present Great Wall of China. You might have seen them in National Geographic.

Our reason (philosophy), should concern our 'selves' with the field of metaphysics. Metaphysics is the study of three entities: the 'individual being', the universe or what we call reality and what lies beyond the universe. Metaphysics is the study of how and why the 'individual being', the universe, and what lies beyond the universe interact with each other. Metaphysics is the study of whether or not all three, or for that matter if any of the three, exist. Metaphysics is the study of how and why the three interact, if in fact they do exist. Metaphysics is the pondering over the questions: Where are we? What are we? Why do we exist? It could be argued that Descartes was one of its more prominent figures with his initiation of the concept of 'knowing', of existing, when he said 'Cogito, ergo sum' (I think, therefore I am). Or, as Popeye said "I yam wut I Yam".

There are many people who are secure in the knowledge that all is right with the world and they feel good about how they personally think about themselves and their soul. I confess I have a lot of confidence but I am not so certain about what the human experience really entails. I see so much more all the time. The adept disciplinarian is adaptable to all learning styles. They are consciously aware of the unconscious aspects of brain and soul interface. It is not easy for many people to understand their ability to integrate. It threatens the initiate who sees intellect as more meaningful than creative learning styles due to the emphasis of our Industrial Age (need for those who punch time clocks) educational impetus. But I also wonder how reading minds and caring so deeply for every aspect of life can be useful in a 'get yours' world. I can remember when my own linear-logical nature struggled to integrate this other way of learning. My ego fought against the more passive and nurturing feminine side of the equation.

The early quantum physicists like Nils Bohr were ridiculed by those who could not comprehend the majesty of their attempts to explain our reality. The debunker's inductive reasoning which imposes direct inferential theory upon nature has caused a setback that science has yet to overcome. Despite their stated fear of religion these theories are in fact doing what the Dark Ages did to sincere seekers of truth. It was the dawning of a New Age which revived ancient Chaos Science. Our whole computerized creative and productive world is largely a function of these 'atom-mysticists'. In response to that epithet they have driven the message home by showing over and over again that most know-nothing scientists are in cahoots with ignorance or worse. Michio Kaku of Hyperspace does it well.

These giants of intellect found the soul of the Mandukya Upanishads (Wigner) and the S-Matrix math in the Tao Te Ching (Capra). Heisenberg 'observed' as the cat appeared, or did not, depending on whether Schrödinger was there to witness. All Zen aficionados were overjoyed to see the Western predilection for linear thinking in boxes was being changed from within. A far greater amount of possibility-thinking and real independent inquiry has resulted. All theatres of thought are now called post-Modern by 'experts' in ivory towers who are usually wrong. Bohr said, 'A great truth has an opposite which is also true. A trivial truth has an opposite which is false.'

The idea that a fully diluted homeopathic tincture might heal through some imprint left by Cyanide found in peach pits or laetrile is just one of the conundrums that science still struggles to face. But the fact is cyanide kills cells and results have been achieved by some people who might have attuned themselves with that small amount of Cyanide that Japanese researchers found in peach pits after the US researchers said there was no possible agent that could kill cancer cells in peach pits. The implications of this extend to genetic rituals that modern science cannot see the effects of, and other energy lattice memory or Intelligence.

The Club of Rome is doing a lot of good analysis of issues and the need for multi-disciplinarian principles in a new technological era. Here is something they say which I heartily approve of.

"Systems of education are less and less adapted to the new issues, to the new emerging global society we are presently involved in. New priorities force us to redefine the role of education, which should be conceived as a permanent learning process. Transmission of knowledge is no longer sufficient, and new objectives such as developing one's own potential and creativity, or the capacity of adaptation to change are becoming essential in a rapidly changing world.

The Club of Rome considers that education is both part of the global problematique and also an essential tool to become an effective actor in control of one's own life and within society. If there are "Limits to Growth", there are "No Limits to Learning" (titles of two Reports to the Club of Rome)." (2)

I think that if we don't understand our past we are unlikely to build or create the Joy of Learning necessary to address the future. I also know that history has a bad habit of repeating itself and there are those who chose to tell us things about our past that are only going to help build their own power.

1) The Columbus Conspiracy, by Michael Bradley, foreword by Dr. W. A. Douglas Jackson, 1991, Hounslow Press, Toronto, from the foreword by Dr. Douglas Jackson, pg. 1. 2) http://www.clubofrome.org/about/global_issues.php

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