The Insiders Report: 10 Part 2

Who Were This Ancient Civilisation?

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IN OTHER NEWS: In our last communication, we asked you to talk about the fact that there seems to have been an earlier civilisation, and you spoke of that. But we didn’t ask you anything about them as such. In this communication, perhaps you could describe this prior, prehistoric, that is prior to our history, civilisation. Just tell us in some detail about them.

THE INSIDERS: In fact, there have been several stretching back to the early times of your species. And although they could all be described as civilisations, they were, they have been quite different in their nature. There is one in particular that we will describe because it is most relevant to your own, and is your own civilisation’s, your own historic record’s immediate predecessor.

We will begin by saying that the people are, or rather were, physically the same as you. What you would define today as Homo sapiens sapiens, but they lived in a world very different to that which you experience today.

In their world, large areas of the planet were if not uninhabitable, were places where human life could exist only at its margins. The northern continents were frigid regions and the land resided deep below vast layers of ice, which stretched from the western most part of what is now known as North America, into eastern Europe and some parts of Asia. However, it is noteworthy that large areas of what is now Russia, that is, far eastern Europe/Northern Asia, were relatively temperate by comparison, with glaciation being limited to higher altitudes, while the lowlands were relatively benign climatically, at the time.

Similarly, southern latitudes experienced heavy glaciation in some areas, particularly at altitude, but it is in these areas of the globe that the climate was benign by comparison and allowed many species to thrive. At this time the shapes of the lands and the continents although recognisable to you today, were in fact very different due to far lower levels of the oceans, and in many areas coastlines extended far beyond the points where sea and land meet today.

The people of which we speak, although similar to yourselves in physical makeup, at their peak held very different views and values to those widely held by people today. This group arose some 35,000 years ago and met their final decline, although were never completely lost, at the time which separates your modern world from the prior “epoch”. A time marked by a series of global cataclysms that served to reshape the surface of the planet, the climate and the species that dominated.

The attribute that you would perhaps most recognise in these people is that they were seafarers and developed their ability to navigate the oceans to an exceedingly high degree. The values, or the skills rather, of these people extended into advanced mathematics. They were exceedingly strong in geometry and understanding celestial movements in the sky, and this contributed to their advanced ability to navigate and map the world to a degree that is not at all widely understood or accepted in your time. The sceptics will say for example, that any early people could not have mastered cartography or mapmaking without an understanding of longitude, and this requires accurate timekeeping. What this fails to recognise is that your modern society has changed its understanding of time keeping, its basis of time keeping from being based upon the revolutions of the earth, to being based upon other regular physical motions. Your time keeping today is based upon the regular vibrations of certain elements or particles, substances, but this has only occurred latterly and even now is used with reference to the revolution of the planet; day and night. This previous civilisation kept very accurate time through a similar yet less technologically advanced respect of certain natural rhythms that occur within nature and were able to harness those rhythms and put them to use in this way.

Other areas of knowledge that are highly valued by your society today, such as chemistry for example, were not so highly developed by this earlier group. They tended to use natural materials for example. They constructed with wood and stone but they did so with enormous precision and developed a mastery over stone that is unknown and unexplained to your current society.

These people through their navigation encountered many different groups of humanity existing at the time around the globe, but conquest was not in their nature. Rather, they sought exchange of ideas and commerce and thrived in this way. That is not to say they were timid or would run from a fight when challenged. They could be masterful warriors when required, when others threatened their wellbeing. But largely this was regarded as a last resort, rather than a means of imposing their will upon the others they met.

More often, they expressed a desire to share the advancements they had made and to learn from the other societies that they met. And one such area that they gained greatly from in meeting other societies was in the use of medicines, which were at that time, largely plant based and understood by groups in other areas to a far greater extent than the group of which we speak. We give this as an example of the way in which their preferred, let us say means of diplomacy, contributed to both their own wellbeing and that of others that they met.

The skill this group possessed for observing celestial movements, gave at least some degree of advanced warning of what was to occur to bring about the end of the world as it was then. And they were able to send what you might call emissaries to the many groups that they had encountered around the globe, throughout their history of navigation. Some groups accepted the forewarning of what was to come. Others did not. But you can see in the historical record and in those whose progeny survived, evidence of the groups who took onboard shall we say, the advice of what was to come. And you can see this in the early megalithic societies of your current era and in the seafaring abilities of eastern Asia and the Pacific. There were some who even took it upon themselves to send migrants from one continent to another, using techniques of navigation learned from this society, this civilisation of which we speak.

It is important to understand that at this time, its reach was essentially global, and although not known universally by all peoples of the Earth, they were very widely known and in general held in high esteem. The events that occurred at this boundary between that which you would describe as prehistoric and that which might be described as the modern era, were so vast and cataclysmic as to be beyond the imagination of anyone. The land itself was torn asunder. The great ice caps of which we spoke earlier all but disappeared in a very short period. Floods and storms of unimaginable scale destroyed everything in their path. Whole species made extinct and indeed humanity survived in only relatively small pockets, compared to its numbers prior.

But it is the work of the civilisation of which we speak, in sharing its knowledge and providing a forewarning, allowed those remaining pockets to retain something of a foothold and to, over time, claw back a foothold on the landscape. But those remaining would be greatly affected by what has occurred and what had been witnessed. And this effect would be felt and in a way retained through many generations.

Much of what is considered simply myth and legend by your civilisation today, is deeply rooted in these events of which we speak, and much could be learned by the humans of today, from that which was left by these early predecessors. Your current societies are almost across the board, marked by a certain arrogance about your own superiority, which makes many unwilling to look at the evidence of the past with open eyes. But there are certainly messages contained within what was left and what was created in the aftermath, that could contribute greatly to your wellbeing today. There is much to be gained from a greater understanding of that which occurred in the deep past, that could contribute to the quality and understanding of your civilisation and societies today and to your wellbeing.

But that is sufficient for this chapter.