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& REVIEWS THE ORIGIN OF GOD bush" imagery may have sparked the by Laurence Gardner change from a corporeal to a spiritual Dash House, Brockenhurst, UK, 2010 perception of God, wrapped up in ISBN 978-0-9567357-0-6 (414pp tpb) supernatural trappings. That shift Available: dashhousepublishing.co.uk; May have happened c. 1400 BC. UK NEXUS Office, tel (0)I342 322854 After exhaustive analysis, Gardner concludes that there is no proof for the existence of the monotheistic God; he can only be said to exist y today as "an optional concept based on individual choice". It's a fitting legacy for Gardner who, sadly, died in Us < August 2010. No doubt his final book, The Revelation of the Devil, due out this year, will complete the circle. I —_ : CHALLENGES OF CHANGE .AURENCE GARDNER by Stanley A. Fulham -~ f Amisk Enterprises Ltd, Winnipeg, Canada, 2010 (3rd ed.) ISBN 978-0-968732I-2-0 (360pp tpb) ie his posthumously published Available: email dfulham@mts.net; eighth book, Laurence Gardner www.amazon.com muses on the origin of the idea of tanley Fulham retired in 1971 as a God which is at the core of the Captain in the Royal Canadian Air monotheistic religions. To find the Force, having also served at NORAD source of this male "one and only" where he saw evidence of UFO God figure, Gardner examines written activity on radar. His book, Challenges and archaeological evidence going of Change, is a record of 12 years of back well beyond the sixth century dialogues with the Transcendor BC Genesis narrative. He discovered — Group—members of a galactic that there's a difference between the —_ governance council—conducted via a way the Old Testament scriptures psychic medium. The information were written and how they've come to from these sessions covers warnings be taught and understood. concerning environmental pollution, Gardner takes us back to catastrophic Earth changes, terrorism Mesopotamia where, despite the hreats and financial meltdowns, and pantheon of the ancient Sumerians also shows the need to bring a new and the overlords of the Anannage, spiritual consciousness to mankind. there are obvious parallels between t seems that many galactic their stories of Shining Ones, civilisations have an interest in our creation and deluge, and those of Genesis. The figure of Adam seems to emerge around the same time as the Sumerian city-states c. 3900 BC. The earlier polytheistic traditions were supplanted by the Abrahamic Hebrew belief that this God, called El Elyon or El Shaddai, was the mos senior judge among the gods, but this was replaced by the Yahweh of the Mosaic Israelites, influenced by the monotheistic Sun-god worship espoused by the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten. The Moses "burning ate here on planet Earth. In September 2010, Fulham passed on a prediction that UFOs would be seen over key cities on 13 October. His sources were right: there were sightings over New York City that day. n early December, just weeks before his death, he issued predictions for sightings over Moscow in early anuary (correct) and over London a week later (too soon to tell as we go © press). Perhaps his prediction about a stepped-up ET "intervention process" in 2011 is on the mark. THE ORIGIN OF GOD by Laurence Gardner Dash House, Brockenhurst, UK, 2010 ISBN 978-0-9567357-0-6 (414pp tpb) Available: dashhousepublishing.co.uk; UK NEXUS Office, tel (0)1342 322854 ™~ LAURENCE GARDNER = ' CHALLENGES OF CHANGE by Stanley A. Fulham Amisk Enterprises Ltd, Winnipeg, Canada, 2010 (3rd ed.) ISBN 978-0-968732I-2-0 (360pp tpb) Available: email dfulham@mts.net; ie his posthumously published eighth book, Laurence Gardner muses on the origin of the idea of God which is at the core of the monotheistic religions. To find the source of this male "one and only" God figure, Gardner examines written and archaeological evidence going back well beyond the sixth century BC Genesis narrative. He discovered that there's a difference between the way the Old Testament scriptures were written and how they've come to be taught and understood. Gardner takes us back to Mesopotamia where, despite the pantheon of the ancient Sumerians and the overlords of the Anannage, there are obvious parallels between their stories of Shining Ones, creation and deluge, and those of Genesis. The figure of Adam seems to emerge around the same time as the Sumerian city-states c. 3900 BC. The earlier polytheistic traditions were supplanted by the Abrahamic Hebrew belief that this God, called El Elyon or El Shaddai, was the mos senior judge among the gods, but this was replaced by the Yahweh of the Mosaic Israelites, influenced by the monotheistic Sun-god worship espoused by the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten. The Moses "burning NEXUS ¢ 75 FEBRUARY - MARCH 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com