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GODS
OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM
A SELF-CRITIQUE
By Alan F. Alford
Welcome
to my Self-Critique of 'Gods of the New Millennium'. This may well
be a first in modern publishing, but it is a necessary first. As
most of my readers will now know, I have changed my views considerably
since writing this book in 1996, and I have set forth some substantial
contradictory arguments in my subsequent books 'The Phoenix Solution'
(1998), 'When The Gods Came Down' (2000), and 'The Atlantis Secret'
(2001).
But these
contradictory arguments represent only a partial retraction of the
original thesis and I have certainly not rejected everything
that I wrote in 'Gods of the New Millennium'. Broadly speaking,
I remain favourably inclined towards the ancient astronaut hypothesis
for one very simple reason - the numerous unexplained anomalies
in the Darwinian theory of our origins.
So, here
goes, with no blushes spared!
GENERAL
INTRODUCTION
(Please note: all of the following page references are to the hardback edition of 'Gods of the New Millennium'.)
Firstly,
let's take a look at 'Gods of the New Millennium' in overview. Having
begun with a wide-ranging introduction in Chapter 1, the
book adopts the following logical pattern:
Chapter
2 presents the book's central thesis - the anomalous origins
of Homo sapiens. These anomalies are combined with ancient
legends which speak of the creation of mankind in the image of the
gods, thereby suggesting that the large-brained Homo sapiens
was genetically engineered 200,000 years ago.
Chapters
3-5 cite evidence of astounding technology in the ancient world.
The intention is to prove the capability of the gods to have carried
out genetic engineering on Earth some 200,000 years ago.
Chapter
6 marks a watershed in the development of this book. It asserts
that the answer to the mystery lies in ancient Sumer, and it begins
to tell the story of the Sumerian gods, based largely on the works
of Zecharia Sitchin.
Chapter
7 addresses as a priority the question of where the gods came
from.
Chapters
8-10 attempt to validate the Sumerian legends of the gods (and
the interpretation imposed upon them) by connecting the legends
to physical sites around the world.
Chapters
11-13 weave a fantastic scenario of gods with genetically engineered
life spans, who passed on their longevity genes to the first generation
of mankind (whom they created in their own image). This scenario
of 'immortal' gods is connected to the 25,920-year precessional
cycle and it is postulated that the gods might have used this cycle
as a kind of long-term 'star-clock'.
Chapters
14-15 attempt to explain why the gods came to Earth. These chapters
weave an imaginative story of the interaction between gods and men
from 200,000 years ago until 2,200 years ago.
Chapter
16 summarises the arguments in 'Gods of the New Millennium'
and uses the star-clock to speculate that the return of the gods
might be imminent.
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