APES OR DEMIGODS - WHICH ARE OUR ANCESTORS ?

Apes or Demigods – which are our ancestors?



Remember when the world was flat? Well,no,not really ,but most people believed it was- until science proved otherwise. Most people nowadays believe their ancestors were apes- but science now tells us otherwise. Thats according to Dr. Richard Thompson, a graduate of Cornell University and Michael Cremo ,an investigative journalist and research associate of The Bhaktivedanta Institue, co-authors of the book Forbidden Archeology-The Hidden History of the Human Race.The book is a collection and analysis of archeological reports from around the world of findings of bones and artifacts such as stone tools and utensils.So after eight years of research published in over nine hundred pages ,what do the authors conclude ? To quote "Over the past two centuries, researchers have found bones and artifacts showing that people like ourselves existed on earth millions of years ago. But the scientific establishment has suppressed,ignored,or forgotten these remarkable facts.Why ? Because they contradict dominant views of human origins and antiquity."The book comes highly recommended by top academics such as Dr. Phillip E. Johnson, University of California,author of Darwin on Trial,Dr. Pierce J. Flynn,Department of Arts and Science,California State University, San Marcos and Dr. Siegfried Scherer, Institute for Microbiology,Technical University of Munich, Germany. The World Congress of Archeologists asked one of the co-authors , Michael Cremo, to present a paper on the book at its fourth annual congress at the University of Cape Town. The book documents around 150 archeological reports that are all saying the same thing- our ancestors were not apes. So whose idea was it that our great grandparents high up in the family tree were apes? His name was Charles Darwin and in 1879 he published a book called The Origin of Species in which he proposed the theory of evolution whereby one species evolved into the next starting with the simplest of life forms up to the most complex,the human species. The followers of Darwin therefore believe that apes evolved into humans and that they did so on our doorstep , 40 kilometres west of Johannesburg in the area best known as Sterkfontein which has therefore come to be called The Cradle of Civilzation due to the number of hominid fossils discovered in that area.On the basis of such findings the Darwinians claim that uncivilized humans first evolved around 40 000 years ago.Next time you visit your doctor, why not ask him the question “Where do we come from?” More than likely he will reply that we come from the apes. That’s because current theory of the origins of man is based on Darwin’s theory of evolution. Wits Medical School, arguably the most prestigious in South Africa, teaches Darwin’s theory to it’s students. So what to speak of us mere mortals- dare we believe otherwise?


Certainly according to Thompson and Cremo and the archeological evidence they have uncovered,excuse the pun, we should believe otherwise. Actually in another sense the archeological evidence that man hasn’t evolved from apes comes as no surprise. Darwin himself admitted to the unscientific nature of his own theory in his book The Origin of Species in which he says,

“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light…could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.” Perhaps those who have accepted Darwinian theory have never read his book, which after all was just a theory.But according to Thompson and Cremo there has been a cover-up. They say that the evidence debunking Darwins theory has been there all along- its just been suppressed,ignored or forgotten. If I may quote one such example of suppression from their book."In the early 1950s, Thomas E. Lee of the National Museum of Canada found advanced stone tools in glacial deposits at Sheguiandah, on Manitoulin Island in northern Lake Huron.Geologist John Sanford of Wayne State University argued that the oldest Sheguiandah tools were at least 65,000 years old and might be as much as 125,000years old. For those adhering to standard views on North American prehistory,such ages were unacceptable.Thomas E. Lee complained that he was hounded from his Civil Service position into prolonged unemployment;publication outlets were cut off;the evidence was misrepresented by several prominent authors and that tons of artifacts vanished into storage bins of the National Museum of Canada.Futhermore Lee is quoted as saying that for refusing to fire the discoverer, Lee, the Director of the National Museum, who had proposed having a monograph on the site published, was himself fired and driven into exile." Lee goes on to say that,"..... Sheguiandah would have forced embarrassing admissions and the re-writing of almost every book in the business. It had to be killed. It was killed. " Chilling stuff....to be expected I suppose if you go tramping around glaciers. Seriously though, Thompson and Cremo quote other instances of deliberate attempts to conceal the facts in order to save face





Getting back to our flat earth example for a moment, science proved the earth was round. Similarly if we accept the findings of Thompson and Cremo that our ancestors are not apes then who , according to science,are they? What are the true origins of the human race? We get answers from two sources. One is archeology and the other is Harvard Business School and Microsoft . Well …indirectly. Lets start with the bones and artifacts. May we quote again from the book Forbidden Archeology. " In 1979`,researchers at the Laetoli, Tanzania , site in East Africa discovered footprints in volcanic ash deposits over 3.6 million years old. Mary Leakey and others said the prints were indistinguishable from those of modern humans.To these scientists, this meant only that the human ancestors of 3.6 million years ago had remarkably modern feet.But according to other scientists, such as physical anthropologist R.H. Tuttle of the University of Chicago, fossil bones of the known australopithecines of 3.6 million years ago show they had feet that were distinctly apelike. Hence they were incompatible with the Laetoli prints. In an article in the March 1990 issue of Natural History, Tuttle confessed that we are left with somewhat of a mystery. It seems permissible,therefore, to consider a possibility neither Tuttle nor Leakey mentioned-that creatures with anatomically modern human bodies to match their anatomically modern human feet existed some 3.6 million years ago in East Africa. Perhaps....they coexisted with more apelike creatures. As intriguing as this archeological possibility may be, current ideas about human evolution forbid it ."In other words Thompson and Cremo are saying that based on the archeological evidence we should consider the possibility that one species didnt evolve to another, but rather all species co-exist simultaneously. That view incidentally is the same as information given in the ancient Vedic literature,the oldest on the planet, which states that there are 8,400,000 species simultaneously existing in the universe from aquatics, plant,insects,reptiles animals, humans and demigods. More about that later.Now onto Harvard Business School and Microsoft.Both have been clients of Swami Partha Sarathi , the founder of the Vedanta Academy. He is much sought after by big corporations to help boost productivity. He teaches principles like Concentration, Consistency and Compassion as essential in any successful business. He extracts these principles not from current business surveys but rather from the Bhagavad-gita .Bhagavad-gita is part of the Vedas,hence the name Vedanta Academy.The foremost Vedic scholar of our time gives us a brief history of Bhagavad-gita. "... a rough estimate is that the Gita was spoken at least 120,400.000 years ago;and in human society it has been extant for two million years."Spoken originally in the mother of all languages , Sanskrit, there are currently over 600 translations of Bhagavad-gita in many other languages, including a soon-to-be published first Afrikaans edition we believe, provided funds are forthcoming. Vedic information covers all aspects of life on this planet. Everything from Ayurvedic medicine, political and economic systems, world history, military science, astrology, astronomy and self-realisation etc, is included in the Vedas. In Bhagavad-gita, the essence of Vedic literature, we find explicit information of how we humans came to be here. Shree Krishna, the speaker of Bhagavad-gita, says to Arjuna on the Battlefield of Kurukshetra ,

“In the days long past I illumined the Deity of the Sun with this understanding. He, in turn, gave instruction to the father of the human race, Manu, who in due course revealed these truths to Ikshvaku, the founder of the Solar dynasty.” Bg: 4:1 Interesting how there is the close similarity in the name of the demigod Manu and the word "man".Demigods ,by the way, according to Bhagavad -gita are empowered controllers of the various cosmic departments such as rain ,wind,the oceans,fire,light etc . The Vedas tell us there are 33million such demigods in the universe..Further detail of human origins is given in the commentary of Bhagavad-gita by Shrila Prabhupada." From Brahma(the original creature born out of the energy of the Supreme Lord),all the seven great sages, and before them four other great sages, named Sanaka,Sananda,Sanatana and Sanat -kumara,and the Manus,are manifested.All these twent-five great sages are known as the patriarchs of the living entities all over the universe." The Vedas go on to say that all these 8,400.000 species simultaneously exist; there is no evolution of the species, just an evolution of consciousness as the individual soul transmigrates from body to body,from the lower species to the higher, according to the laws of re-incarnation.

Furthermore Vedic literature gives detailed descriptions of such demigods and their abodes in higher planetary systems including historical accounts of their visits to the earth planet and their interaction with humans. Dr Richard Thompson in his book Alien Identities reveals striking parallels in modern UFO reports with Vedic accounts of inter-planetary travel and extra-terrestial beings. So its up to you now to choose - is it apes , is it demigods ? One things for sure, fossils dont lie.






The above is a summary of a talk given by Andrew Freedman on the 30th August this year at the Body Mind Spirit Tourism Forum at Erin Hall, Rondebosch, Cape Town. Andrew ,a Wits Psychology graduate is a motivational speaker on radio and television,singer/songwriter , editor of Rainbow News and a student of Vedic science. He teaches bhakti-yoga and meditation in Cape Town and his latest Cd "Time Stands Still" (recording name Ananda Vardhan) is available in record shops nationwide

For further information please email Andrew at freedmana@mweb.co.za