Our Hollow Earth
J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings gives us a fascinating look into a “mythical world” rarely matched in the scope of fiction or imagination. Now, if you look at the company of futurists Tolkien is generally grouped with, you might start to wonder if there isn’t much more to it. {*1} This brings us to topic of “hollow earth.”
For those unfamiliar with the concept, here’s a good intro by Michael Tsarion:
The most obvious reference throughout Lord of the Rings is the one to “Middle Earth.” Where is this “middle earth?” Recall the scene from the movie where Gandalf falls into the “bottomless” pit with the beast? He falls and falls and falls, until eventually he ends up on a mountain top. Huh?
I’ve been reading Admiral Richard Byrd’s diary, which covers his exploration of the North Pole, and his search for the opening to hollow earth. {*2} The diary begins, “I must write this diary in secrecy and obscurity.” Trying to remain skeptical, we are faced with the mystery of why even islands from the official expedition log, are nowhere to be located on any public map.
Our first impulse might be to look it up on Google Earth, but as this video points out … that won’t reveal anything: {*3}
If you also recall from Lord of the Rings, as the Elves were preparing to leave the Earth to the age of men, they went to the docks and boarded a boat. A boat? That’s interesting. {*4}
The following video does a pretty good job of showing many old references and ideas. It includes some amazing pictures of the Aurora Borealis (which is theorized to be caused by gases emanating from the openings and being heated/lit up by the Earth’s central sun).
If you look at the Nazi lore, they believe that once they established their 1000 year Reich, a race of supermen would rise up from inside the earth and join them on the surface. Now, I’m not talking about bed-times stories the Nazis told their children. This is what the core leadership of the party believed.
In the following clip, Michael Tsarion talks briefly about the Nazis as well as many other Hollow Earth connections:
The problem with trying to research the concept further, is that much of the information one encounters runs counter to rationality; it seems highly implausible or speculative. {*5} Erich von Daniken’s Gold of the Gods is pretty straight-forward, but many other avenues of research inevitably lead to stories of Duros (some type of super-intelligent mutants), death-rays, Nazi UFO’s and all sorts of other weird stuff.
Well, 2008’s right around the corner and Brooks Agnew will be embarking on North Pole Inner Earth expedition. Will this be allowed to succeed? Will the general public be allowed to learn the findings? I can’t imagine it.
A few months ago, I watched a presentation made by a computer engineer from South Africa, which covered how scientific analysis of seismic waves (p-waves and s-waves) and how they travel through the earth. Any reasonable analysis of that data proves that the earth must be hollow and could also be used to calculate approximately how much of the earth is hollow. I would have included the clip here, but can’t seem to find it anywhere anymore.
A slight sense of paranoia could lead me to conclude that a solid scientific argument for the earth being hollow is far more dangerous to the consensus than the overabundant stories of little people and aliens, hence the scarcity of the former. And, on the other side of the fence, you’ve got “men of science” lined up and indoctrinated to a notion of layers and magma and strata, that few remember is based solely on Henry Cavendish’s 18th century calculations and the propaganda machine reinforcing such effervescent “truths” through indoctrinated and unyielding ego-driven assumption, foundation-funded textbooks, and nonsensical media movies like “The Core.”
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*1: These “Futurists” would include Tolkien’s contemporaries such as Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, as well as their predecessors like HG Wells and Jules Verne. As time moves forward, we must reflect on whether their “visions” were based on pure fantasy or indoctrination into the world of arcane knowledge. Interestingly enough, Jules Verne, who so correctly “fantasized” the idea of submarines, also wrote “Journey to the Center of the Earth.” [LB]
*2: According to most tenets of the theory, the openings to the center of planets would be located in their two poles. This site has a pretty good compilation on Admiral Byrd and other supporting Hollow Earth information. [LB]
*3: And if you looked on Google Earth last night (Christmas Eve), you’d have been able to find Santa’s home. But, don’t bother looking for “real” structures in Antarctica or the Northern Polar region. [LB]
*4: Could the old Norse legends about sailing off the edge of the earth, refer to the Northern Polar opening? For those unaware, the “flat earth theory” is a hoax perpetrated on modern man. It’s purpose is likely to generate some feeling of how far we’ve come and feed our sense of our own greatness. If even primitive man knew the earth was round, when did man “forget” this truth, and start thinking it was flat? Columbus discovered nothing. [LB]
*5: Yet, even Admiral Byrd wrote in the beginning of his diary, “There comes a time when the rationality of men must fade into insignificance, and one must accept the inevitability of the Truth!” [LB]
*6: One of the photos came from this site. I haven’t had a chance to read all of the text, so can’t endorse it. However, the beginning section which covers the topic of shedding your mental programming and explaining how “truths” are subjective is excellent. The second image is from another site providing Hollow Earth mythos. [LB]
