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According to the geological evidence of huge deposits of lost dog which had crawled up a chute hole into the cave-like manganese, containing human and animal bones, spread _ structure. It all sounded a bit too incredible. across the huge mountain chain under the Pacific Ocean that We were definitely on the case for archaeological anom- conjoins Easter Island, Hawaii, etc., we have a carbon dating _alies, but a clear example of Egyptian hieroglyphs sounded of 27,000 years since the sub-continent of the Pacific tectonic too good to be true. Yet, over a few years we had collected plate collapsed. Other evidence suggests the sudden demise _ in our files some remarkable examples of odd Egyptian arte- of a large land mass in the Atlantic Ocean only a few thou- —_ facts turning up in Australia. These range from the finding of sand years later. a statue of the Egyptian god Thoth near a pyramidal hill in _ So, following a synchronistic trail, we began to explore the Gympie, south-east Queensland, by Rex Gilroy in the early Grid locally, looking for missing links. As my researcher ‘70s; and two cartouches of the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses I, friend Paul Cadwallader remarks, "There are temples and found in Arnhem Land and northern Queensland early in the ancient artefacts everywhere else in the world; why not century. I have even photographed an Egyptian identity Australia?” In fact, it was Paul Cadwallader's work that led amulet, found in Kyogle, northern New South Wales, and . us to the extraordinary ancient carvings we found in the dated at 5,000 years by the Department of Mines. , South Australian desert at Grid Point 44 (so-called)—as David offered to meet us and take our camera team to the reported in a previous issue of NEXUS forest location. Having (vol. 2, no. 13). Mh irckked to more remote-parts The non-Aboriginal writing and BR ] of Australia, it seemed hieroglyphs he found, carbon dated at almost a luxury to travel forty thousand years, displayed the pil- only a couple of hours from grimage of other ancient cultures to our base in the Blue this major Power Place on the Grid, | Mountains. Like some that used writing forms tracing back to cheap adventure novel, we the Mother culture through Vedic, arranged to meet David Mayan, Easter Island, etc. early one morning at a As in other parts of the world the § garage off the northem free- ancient archaeological evidence, as way. He led us into the well as the local indigenous people, national park and off onto a displayed some kind of working bush track where we were knowledge of the Grid and world swerving to avoid lizards Power Places. Stone circles and stand- and large potholes in the ing stones litter the Australian country- dust haze of the lead car. side, as much as England and Europe, | We pulled off the track a marking the interconnecting energy § few kilometres into the for- pathways that undulate snake-like f est and unpacked our cam- through the landscape. Local era gear for the ek up onto researchers can locate such structures f; the ridges. David had come in the forest using simple dowsing § in a buoyant mood, wearing rods. Aboriginal shamans smear their his American Indian Eagle t- hands with metallic-oxide red ochre, to shirt. He was in 'teacher feel the invisible flows that define spe- mode’ and obviously very cial energy points, portals and sacred F keen to tell us what back- places. ground he could—especially Across Australia we have persistent concerning Aboriginal legends and tales of strange and magi- : knowledge and protocols. cal happenings at local Power Places Photo: Paul White According to David, it on the Grid, from the legendary was not exactly a cave we appearance of sky-beings to contemporary UFO reports. And were climbing to see, but more of a ‘crypt’ roofed-in with stories of instantaneous travel down the Song Lines abound large boulders. The more he described, the more enigmatic it in shamanic traditions worldwide. On line with these goings- sounded. He said there were other special Aboriginal sites in on, my researcher friend Ray Stark introduced me to "David", __ the area, including a sacred cave with animal carvings only a a white man who was custodian of a very unusual site in the _ half-hour's walk from where we had parked the cars. The Hunter Valley, about 100 km north of Sydney. ancient carvings we were going to see were significant David was very much into ancient knowledge. He was a _ because they were non-Aboriginal. practicing naturopath who, coincidentally, like myself, had It was a relatively short walk and climb to an area of rubble been an apprentice to an Elder of the Bundjalung Tribe for below a ridge, that looked like a landslide from the cliffs ten years. David's teacher had also made him aware of the above. The landscape shifted sharply from coastal forest to a damaged Earth energy Grid and special Power Places that cluster of cracked and broken sandstone rock formations, were the ‘Keys’ to the whole system. We had common links. covered in moss and lichen, After negotiating the ridge with David spoke of having found some Egyptian carvings in our camera gear, we found ourselves confronted by huge the coastal forest near Gosford, that he felt sure we would sandstone boulders with a cave-like mouth. find significant. He had known of the site for several years— "This is it!" said David. “You climb through here." And it was originally discovered by a bush walker looking for his he disappeared up a rock chute. With mounting excitement NEXUS¢17 APRIL - MAY 1994