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Through millions of years, it still works; everything is intact." engineered the terrestrial hominids to produce a new species, (p. 19) This cave was part of a network created millions of years Homo sapiens, about 200,000 years ago. Sitchin's influence in ago when Tibet was a low-lying land. It contained a space vehicle alternative history is undeniable, as terms like Annunaki and “about four or five men tall and looked something like two dishes, Nibiru have passed into the New Age lexicon. However, Lobsang one on top of the other" (p. 23). The similarity of this description Rampa, whose book The Hermit tells us who the aliens are, where with the one given in "Home of the Gods" in My Visit to Venus is they are from and why they are visiting and abducting humans, is obvious. These extraterrestrials had the technology to melt solid virtually unknown. rock and heal traumatic wounds with a special bath. They were able to suspend life so that people could exist for millions of years, SUBTERRANEAN WORLDS "receiving adequate nourishment to keep the body functioning on "There are passages which reach to the ends of the Earth. The a minute scale" (7S, p. 28). These suspended bodies were being Earth has a spine just as we have, but the spine of the Earth is made kept alive in tubs in order to provide bodies for aliens to of rock... This tunnel was man-made in the days of Atlantis when transmigrate into at a future date. they knew how to make rock flow like water without generating The Lama Mingyar Dondup could read their inscriptions and _heat. I have travelled extensively and I know that this rocky spine learned that the suspended aliens were actually evil Gardeners who extends from the North Pole to the South Pole." (As it Was, p. 75) had raped human women and performed genetic experiments. Lobsang Rampa wrote extensively of inhabited, underground They were a renegade faction who had waged many wars against caverns, tunnels and cities in Twilight, As it Was and "The the other Gardeners—wars that Rampa Subsurface World" chapter of My Visit to observed on one of their devices which Venus. In Twilight, he introduced the topic of contained the Akashic records. (This is the the subterranean realm of Agharta (or fourth time Rampa claimed to have viewed Agharti) with its capital city Shamballah (or the Akashic records; he had described them . . . . Shambhala) and omnipotent ruler, "the King " the Venusan np. ne Cave a the Sitchin's influence in ofthe worl, Rampa stronly hinted thatthe ncients and the orbiting observatory.) As . . . mysterious (unidentified) islan tima Rampa and his Guide “eparted from the alternative history Is Thule and the loss of the US nuclear raves: the whole complex was destroyed by undeniable... Submarines Thresher and peorpion were ooby traps. somehow connected with this undergroun However, Lobsang civilisation and its denizens. Even i Rampals stories are dismissed as Rampa, whose book ; Is to Shamballah and Aghart science fiction, there is merit in some of his * unnels to amballan an gnarta original themes. His warnings from the The Hermit tells us In occult and Buddhist lore, the realms of extraterrestiials (0 st0P our nuclear foly were who the aliens are, Sampath and hana are ually situated not original, as other contactees in the underground in the Himalayas or 950s—particularly Daniel Fry and where they are from Central Asian deserts. In the earlier Richard Miler tad said tne sme. and why they are decades or ne “an Som Russian sians ry popular wit sags . explorers Ferdinand Ossendowski an contactees in the 1950s before space visiting and abducting Nicholas Roerich travelled throughout humans, is virtually unknown. robes revealed Venus to be an Central Asia seeking the fabled land inhospitable planet. Frank Stranges and city. Ossendowski first mentioned said he had been in contact with Val Agharta in his 1922 book Beasts, Men Thor, and George Adamski claimed to and Gods. Tibetan lamas had told him ave flown to Venus with friendly that the thousands of people living aliens years before Rampa's jaunt to our underground in Agharta were ruled by closest neighbour. Nor was Rampa the "the King of the world". The first to speak of levitators and telepathic inhabitants of Agharta are believed to communication with aliens, as George possess advanced powers capable of Van Tassel and George King had made destroying whole areas of the planet, earlier claims. Furthermore, in 1953 in Flying Saucers Have although they choose to live in peace. Roerich, a respected Landed, Desmond Leslie first popularised the notion that the traveller, mystic and Theosophist, also believed in these ancient Indian scriptures contained many references to the vehicles subterranean lands but was unable to provide any scientific of the extraterrestrial gods. evidence of their existence. In his 1929 book Heart of Asia, his However, some of Rampa's ideas were original and may have _ main interest centred on the spiritual dynamics of Shamballah and influenced later writers. His descriptions of Earth from space and its importance as a symbol in the coming "New Age" of warp travel with anti-magnetic propulsion were quite novel for the enlightenment and peace. pre-space-flight era. The Hermit described alien abduction, In a booklet titled Agharta (1951), American Buddhist Robert experimentation and genetic engineering at least a decade before Dickhoff wrote: "Agharta began some 60,000 years ago when a Whitley Strieber wrote his influential Communion. Recently the tribe led by a holy man disappeared underground. The inhabitants idea that extraterrestrials were responsible for the evolution of were said to number many millions and had a science superior to humans and other animals has been incorporated into anew theory any found on the surface of the Earth... The few remaining called "interventionism" by Lloyd Pye, who challenges Darwinism tunnels open to the surface world are in Tibet, Siberia, Africa, and creationism. Zechariah Sitchin, one of the proponents of this South and North America and on remote islands which were once theory, claimed that the Mesopotamian gods, the Annunaki, were the mountain peaks of Atlantis." In 1960, Dr Raymond Bernard extraterrestrials from the 12th planet, Nibiru, who genetically | commented in his book The Subterranean World: "Belief in the engineered the terrestrial hominids to produce a new species, Homo sapiens, about 200,000 years ago. Sitchin's influence in alternative history is undeniable, as terms like Annunaki and Nibiru have passed into the New Age lexicon. However, Lobsang Rampa, whose book The Hermit tells us who the aliens are, where they are from and why they are visiting and abducting humans, is virtually unknown. undeniable... However, Lobsang Rampa, whose book The Hermit tells us where they are from and why they are visiting and abducting humans, is virtually unknown. APRIL — MAY 2006 NEXUS * 55 Sitchin's influence in alternative history is who the aliens are, www.nexusmagazine.com