Intro to Our Past and Future

Imagine where we are as a worldwide society and where we've come over the past 12,000 years. Early societies formed, everything continued to grow. Sometimes slow, sometimes fast, but always growing, moving forward. Technology grew, our ability to access it grew, but at the same time much was lost.

Think about where you are today. Sitting in front of a computer, eating packaged food, never having to worry about finding, hunting and killing your next meal, or braving the wildlife to get your next drink of water. It's certainly not equal around the world, but the world has completely and totally changed since nomadic peoples started villages, cities, etc. thousands of years ago.

Now, imagine that suddenly everything changes. There's a catastrophic, worldwide disaster. Struggling survivors remain in pockets. Knowledge of how the world worked just days ago is suddenly scarce. Do you know how to take raw materials and rebuild the world? As the years pass most of the knowledge is quickly forgotten as you and your tribe focus on basic survival.

In that instant everything changes. The world's back to what it was before the first society. Eventually people band together, put the knowledge that they have into starting over. Certainly, nothing is the same, however. Without complex infrastructure, specialists in many fields, some of which probably don't even exist anymore, and leadership to make it all come back together...it all begins again. You start over just as the first villages thousands of years ago.

The more I research, the more I'm convinced that this is exactly what happens every 12,000 years. I think it explains out of place artifacts. I think it explains much of mythology, and particularly shared mythologies from many places. I think it explains megalithic constructions around the world. I think it might even put a bit of an interesting twist on Mac Tonnies' Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis.

In the end, I think it explains the information that the people from the distant past have tried to pass down in so many ways, but still was mostly lost, or misunderstood. I think it will hopefully even explain the importance of the year 2012, and what's going to happen to us all then when the stars, literally, line up in a very special way.

I'm working on it, and my problem with writing is generally that I have a pathological need to continue working beyond my original outlines, continually adding in new information as I get to it and process it.

At times, such as lately, I have writers block that completely stops me. I think, in an attempt to cure it this time, I'm going to release "chapters" at a time, as I get them done(a la Mac and the CTH), always open to rewriting and tweaking and addendums. At least I think I'll feel like I'm getting somewhere then.

Consider this the intro to the upcoming story of our past, and what it means for our future.