Welcome back to visitors from the Esoteric Thoughts channel and to those finding my work perhaps for the first time based on my recently-posted two-part interview with Esoteric, which also featured Professor Dennis R. MacDonald of the Claremont School of Theology in Part One of the conversation.
Welcome also to returning friends -- I hope everyone will find this second part of our exploration of the Odyssey of Ancient Greece to be positive to your life in some way.
Here is a link to Part One of the conversation -- I will post both of these in the "Podcasts" section of the Star Myths of the World website for future reference. While visiting that Podcasts section, you can also find other previous discussions with Esoteric on his Esoteric Thoughts channel, as well as appearances I've made on other podcasts over the years.
Please share with those who would be interested in these subjects, and please consider giving some positive feedback to Esoteric for all his work that goes into making this channel for us and the world!
Here are some photos from this year's epic Contact at the Cataracts event with Randall Carlson and friends, including members of the podcasting teams from the Grimerica Show and the Brothers of the Serpent Podcast. It was wonderful to meet new friends and reconnect with old ones during this week's adventure.
We explored the amazing Channeled Scablands of Washington State, scene of mega flooding catastrophes from the end of the last Ice Age, floods that may have been triggered by an impactor from outer space such as a comet, as argued by Randall and by Graham Hancock and by the scientists in the Comet Research Group, sometimes referred to as the Younger Dryas Impact Theory.
As Randall explained, catastrophic geology is everywhere on our planet, but here in the Channeled Scablands region the unique conditions set the stage for an unusually dramatic result.
The events of the Younger Dryas may have ended a culture or cultures on Earth now forgotten to conventional history -- perhaps the source of the ancient system of celestial metaphor which forms the foundation for the myths and sacred stories we know today, which were preserved by cultures found around the globe, on every inhabited continent and island of our planet.
I have shown that this system of celestial metaphor is already operating in the earliest surviving writings of some of the most ancient cultures known to conventional history, including the texts of the Sumerians and other cultures of Mesopotamia, and of the ancient Egyptians, and of ancient India, and ancient China and Japan, and so on around the world -- suggesting that its origin and source lies far deeper in history, at a time that was already so ancient to those cultures that it was perhaps even more ancient to them than they are to us.
The scale of the catastrophe was simply enormous -- as evidenced by the geological record found here at the Scablands, and echoed in geological features around the world.
Enormous "haystack" boulders left by the melting glaciers.------
One of the Drumheller Channels scoured out by the massive Mega Flood meltwater flows.
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High atop Steptoe Butte overlooking the rolling Palouse.
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Didgeridoo, overlooking the massive 500-foot cliffs of Potholes Cataract.
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Kyle of the Brothers of the Serpent Podcast (and the band 50 Dollar Dynasty) on the catwalk over Dry Falls Cataract, Lower Grand Coulee.
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Wyatt from Michigan atop columnar basalts in the Grand Coulee region.
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Randall explaining the Mega Flood geology of the Banks Lake region, Upper Grand Coulee.
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Sunset on the final day of this year's event, Kyle and myself atop a boulder left at the very top of Steamboat Rock, Upper Grand Coulee.
Big thank-you to Esoteric for inviting me over to his channel Esoteric Thoughts for another stimulating and enjoyable conversation, this time with Professor Dennis R. MacDonald of the Claremont School of Theology, whose area of scholarship involves the Iliad and the Odyssey of Ancient Greece and the evidence of undeniable parallels between these ancient poems and the texts which are included in what we call the New Testament.
There will be a Part Two of this interview to be posted later which will cover some of the evidence and artwork that I prepared for this conversation which we did not have time to address due to time constraints.
I very much appreciate Dr. MacDonald's scholarship and his courage in bucking the academic consensus of his area of study to present his evidence for the abundant thematic and structural parallels between the Odyssey and the Gospels -- evidence which I too have noticed and which I have addressed in previous blog posts such as "Parallels between the Odyssey and the Gospels."
While Dr. MacDonald was obviously very resistant to many aspects of the arguments that I am putting forward regarding the evidence that the characters and events in both the Odyssey and the New Testament texts are based on an ancient world-wide system of celestial metaphor which connects virtually all the world's ancient myths, scriptures, and sacred stories, I appreciate his willingness to discuss these subjects. I feel that there were also points during our conversation where he clearly seemed to pick up some of the arguments that I was making and "run with the ball" to offer some excellent insights related to the two sets of texts.
Welcome to any new visitors who are encountering my work and this site for the first time as a result of this conversation between me and Dr. MacDonald, facilitated by Esoteric. I hope that you enjoyed the discussion and found it valuable, and I hope that you will continue to explore these important subjects -- and share them with others who might find them helpful as well.
And of course, welcome to returning friends! You can find other previous conversations I have had with Esoteric in the Podcasts section of my website, or by searching the YouTube channel of Esoteric Thoughts. If you enjoy them, please take the time to thank Esoteric for all his hard work and effort in producing this excellent content!
