Human Galactic History: Part 3 - Coherence and Contradiction

In a previous post I described a number of ways to explore human galactic history. However this is a complex topic and there are challenges when attempting to integrate different sources into coherent stories that fit within a consistent bigger picture. 

It's common to encounter apparent contradictions between sources resulting from misconceptions, or differences in language, perspectives or assumptions. These apparent contradictions can sometimes be resolved resulting in a richer and more nuanced galactic history.

The following illustrates some issues that may give rise to apparent contradictions in data or narratives.

1. Accurate dating is difficult

An Earth year is specific to Earth's revolution around the sun. Some channelled sources give time periods converted to 'Earth years' such as "30,000 Earth years ago". Other sources make no mention of the need to convert to 'Earth years'.

In Book 1 of The Law of One, considered by many to be one of the more accurate channelled sources, we find the following response to a question about when something was constructed. "This approximately was 60,000 of your years in the past time/space of your continuum." 

Channelled sources often admit that dates are approximate. In The Law of One for example several dates in Earth history are given and then corrected later in the text by as much as 30%.

Past life experiences retrieved through hypnotic regression may link to Earth eras/events such as "when Atlantis existed" or "when Atlantis sank". Authors then make their own assumption of the dates which can be a complex task given that various Atlantean civilisations probably existed over many tens of thousands of years and likely experienced at least 3 cataclysmic destructions. According to Edgar Cayce these destructions occurred approximately 50,000, 30,000 and 12,000 years ago and each involved portions of Atlantis sinking. 

Sometimes it's possible to correlate dates or events obtained through consciousness studies (channelling,  hypnosis, remote viewing) to generally accepted geologic dates such as magnetic pole shifts, volcanic activity or ice ages. This is also becoming possible for other planets such as Mars as knowledge in astrogeology increases.  

2. Differences in terminology

This issue is common in information received through channelling or hypnotic regression. A good example is the use of the terms 'universe' and 'galaxy'. 

Some sources or receivers or editors use universe and galaxy as synonyms even in the same paragraph. This seems to be more prevalent in sources from the 20th century when perhaps many receivers didn't have a clear understanding of the difference. 

In Books 1 and 3 of The Law of One this issue is specifically addressed when it becomes clear that the term 'galaxy' was sometimes being used to represent the Milky Way Galaxy, sometimes our local group of stars and sometimes a complex planetary system.   

3. Multiple similar epochs 

History often repeats itself - and so it seems does galactic human history. Contradictory accounts of an advanced civilisation or a high-tech war in space may be about different though similar events.

For example, it's very likely that Lemuria and Atlantis on Earth each went through several cycles of civilisation, and that there were even earlier civilisations. And galactic wars such as the Great Lyran War or the Orion Wars have probably come and gone over millions of years. It's easy to align narratives with the wrong event. 

In addition, stories obtained through consciousness studies can be referring to different dimensions (frequencies) of existence where experiences can vary considerably. Some very early civilisations described on Earth, Mars and other planets and moons in our solar system are often said to have been existing within dimensions 4, 5 and higher. 

Accounts of the destruction of a planetary environment (eg Mars) or even the planet itself (eg Maldek - now the asteroid belt) in the 3rd dimension may be experienced very differently within the 4th and 5th dimensions of the same planet. (Planets and humans are often described as being multidimensional.)

4. Time is neither linear nor sequential

Near death, UFO and extraterrestial experiencer accounts have described missing time, travelling in time and multiple timelines. Many spiritual texts and channels describe how the perception of time changes depending on levels of consciousness or dimensions.

For example Sal Rachele in The Mystery of Time explains how "a being in the 12th dimension might experience a million Earth years in the blink of an eye". Apparently high dimensional beings "have the ability to expand or contract time consciously".

The following table adapted from Rachele gives an illustrative example across the first 7 dimensions as follows. These time equivalents are not meant to be taken literally - "one month in the 5th dimension probably does not exactly equal one year in the 4th". 

For these reasons it may not be possible to accurately arrange human galactic history in simplistic sequences of linear Earth 3rd dimensional time. 

5. Over generalising one perspective of one experience

When using experiencer narratives it's important to obtain information about an event or place from as many sources as possible. One person's or even one group's perspective of an experience in galactic human history may be quite different from another's. 

This is usually well understand in the contest of Earth but sometimes authors can over generalise when hearing an account of life on Mars or in the Pleiades by one person or group with particular worldviews located in one place at one time - in one dimension.

Summary 

For some, contradictions between sources may indicate a lack of reliability and this may be true. 

However contradictions can also provide powerful insights into the complexity of a topic, pointing to ways in which they may be held within a more integrative framework.

Read Part 1