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LOBSANG RAMPA NEw AGE TRAILBLAZER A self-declared transmigrated high lama, T. Lobsang Rampa inspired readers and angered critics with his stories about old and new Tibet, ancient rituals, reincarnation, benevolent ETs and inner-world dwellers. Part 2 of 2 eedless to say, T. Lobsang Rampa's assertions are just as unpopular today with academia as they were in the 1950s. Surprisingly, however, new discoveries continue to bring into question the accepted chronology of human civilisation. The myth of Atlantis is just as enduring in the third millennium as it was in Plato's day, but today there is solid evidence that civilisations flourished upon the now inundated continental shelves of Asia and Central America. Graham Hancock's seminal book Underworld demonstrated conclusively that the flooded coastlines contain ruins from cultures older than the Sumerian. Hancock and his wife Saantha Faiia, both seasoned divers, have explored ruins that were discovered in 2001 in the Gulf of Cambay on the west and off Mahabalipuram on the east of the Indian sub-continent. The South China Sea around Okinawa and Yonaguni is peppered with megalithic-type ruins which were only discovered in the mid-1980s and 1990s. While these ruins are truly impressive, they pale in comparison with the deep-water ruins photographed by a Russian research vessel off the coast of Cuba in 2001. These ruins lie over two kilometres deep at the bottom of the Caribbean. As revealed by sonograph, they show grid-patterned streets and geometrical structures. Only tectonic forces, rather than coastal flooding, could have plunged a city to the bottom of the sea! In November 2004, it was reported that ruins beneath the Mediterranean Sea have been discovered off the coast of Cyprus, towards Turkey. There are also rumours of underwater ruins near Bimini, Malta and Britain. When Rampa published his first two books in the 1950s, few people believed that sudden and cataclysmic forces had shaped the Earth's past. Immanuel Velikovsky, a scientist who tried to prove that major upheavals have occurred regularly throughout the Earth's history, was vilified by the establishment, which tried to ban his books Worlds in Collision and Earth in Upheaval. He was also one of the first scientists to warn us of dangers from comets and asteroids, for they had struck our planet in the past. Velikovsky was the first scientist to hypothesise that Venus would be boiling hot and that Jupiter would possess a huge magnetic field. Both he and Rampa believed that the Earth had once been impacted by another planet which had emptied its petroleum oceans into our planet's crust. Archaeological evidence for ancient civilisations in Tibet is scant because Western archaeologists have never been allowed to excavate, and the current Chinese occupiers are far more interested in exploiting Tibet's resources. In Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harrer recounted how his friend Peter Aufschnaiter indulged in some amateur archaeology in Lhasa and discovered evidence of burial practices indicative of an earlier culture. Harrer as well as Russian explorer Nicholas Roerich acknowledged the rumour that huge subterranean caverns exist beneath the Potala Palace. In 2002, a report about anomalous artefacts in the Qinghai Tibetan area was posted on the Internet. Li Heng of People's Daily Online (25 June) wrote: "The widespread news of mysterious iron pipes at the foot of Mt Baigong, located in the depths of the Qaidam Basin, Qinghai Province, has roused concern from related departments. Some experts believe that these might be relics left behind by extraterrestrial beings, for the site, with its high altitude and thin, crisp air, has long been held as an ideal place to practise astronomy." He speaks of three caves, with the middle one being the largest. "What is astonishing is inside, for there is a half-pipe about 40 centimetres in diameter tilting from the top to the inner end of the cave... At the opening of the cave there are a dozen pipes, at the diameter between 10 and 40 centimetres, that run straight into the mountain... About 80 metres away from the caves is the shimmering Toson Lake, on whose beach many iron pipes can be found by Karen Mutton © 2005-06 Email: karenmutton@optusnet.com.au Website: http://www.tuesdaylobsangrampa.com Extracted from her 2005 e-book, T. Lobsang Rampa: New Age Trailblazer APRIL — MAY 2006 NEXUS + 51 RECENT DISCOVERIES www.nexusmagazine.com