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Author New book Silbury Dawning claims aliens founded early human civilizations
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In the third edition of Silbury Dawning: The Alien Visitor Gene Theory, John Cowie presents further evidence that he argues points toward the arrival of aliens in the ancient human past.

According to the author these extraterrestrials sex-ually mixed or genetically experimented with Homo sapiens, changing the course of human evolution and supercharging our intelligence.

Cowie believes the enormous mound of Silbury Hill was built as a pyramid and served as a multi-functional device to ensure the survival of aliens and their human offspring on Earth some 13,000 years ago. In 2007-2008, an English Heritage Conservation and Restoration Project showed that Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, UK, was constructed to a pre-determined complex plan and is not simply a mound of chalk as previously thought.

Cowie says: "Incidentally, during the conventional time around 4,500 years ago when Silbury Hill, Avebury, Woodhenge, Stonehenge etc., etc., were built, there are no human remains or archaeological evidence for a large population living nearby at this time that would be essential to undertake these huge projects".

In the latest edition of his book, Cowie establishes whether Silbury Hill was one of the first pyramids built on Earth and also investigates the many newly discovered structures in countries from Bosnia to China, as well as the famous ancient pyramids in Egypt. "Why were hundreds, if not thousands, of pyramids built on every continent during our pre-history?" asks Cowie. "It seems that pyramid geometry and their amazing scientific properties were clearly understood by our ancient ancestors, which suggests they possessed more knowledge than we do today."

Cowie notes that in spite of a global tsunami disaster some 11,000 years ago that destroyed the earliest civilization; humanity has nonetheless shown an ability to recover the technology of alien knowledge in each subsequent generation. We seem to have inherited a trans-generational memory gene passed on to us down the centuries.

It seems each generation has progressively recovered some of this alien knowledge stored in our subconscious memory through a process of genius. The author states that intelligence is a measure of the ability to access knowledge stored in one’s conscious, unconscious and subconscious memory.

He believes that this alien genetic theory would go a long way in clearing up scientific confusion over why DNA studies point to all of humanity emerging from a single common ancestor. Those possessing this unique genetic lineage held a dominant advantage over those who did not. Per the rules of evolutionary biology, they soon began displacing other Homo species while deploying new technologies and founding new advanced societies along the way.

Daring and controversial, the thesis put forth in "Silbury Dawning" is sure to provoke skepticism in many. Yet as readers sink themselves into the multiple convergences in archaeology, genetics and civilization histories that this book entertains, they may never look at their world quite the same.

John Cowie is a veteran of the semiconductor revolution. As a former senior executive with Philips Semiconductor (NXP Semiconductors) and Intel Corporation, his original intention was to write a book based on the characters he met and his first-hand experiences during his many years in this exciting young industry.

But as he watched the remarkable evolution of the silicon chip and in turn the personal computer and telecommunications industries, he began to link these extraordinary envisioneering achievements with the human brain. Regular journeys past the ancient sites of Silbury Hill and the standing stones of Avebury prompted him to consider where our knowledge could have come from. So the seeds of the Alien Visitor gene theory began.

Now retired, author of Silbury Dawning, Cowie is living with his wife in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, UK, where he continues his global search for further evidence to support his Alien Visitor gene theory. In May next year he is planning to visit a number of uncovered Silbury Hill type pyramids in the vicinity of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China. This amazing complex has more than 16 pyramids to explore.

Chinese authorities are reticent with some of the recently discovered pyramids and it can be difficult to visit them. It is estimated there are over 300 pyramids in China. A few have base dimensions twice those of the more famous Egyptian pyramids.

Silbury Dawning: The Alien Visitor Gene Theory (Third Edition) is available for sale online at Amazon.com, and locally at The Henge Shop, Avebury.

[Can I leave some of the points in there for you, dear forum contributors to pick at - MegP Ed]


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 Posted 23-09-2012 at 22:22   
As seen in the Wiltshire Times
'Even closer encounters for Bradford on Avon man'

http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/inyourtown/bradfordnews/9941219.Even_closer_encounters_for_Bradford_on_Avon_man/




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... WoW ...




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On 2012-09-23 22:15, Andy B wrote:

[Can I leave some of the points in there for you, dear forum contributors to pick at - MegP Ed]


"Cowie notes that in spite of a global tsunami disaster some 11,000 years ago that destroyed the earliest civilization"

Poor bloke has probably been reading too much Hancock. Sounds like he might be rich enough to indulge his fantasies, though. It's just a pity he feels like he needs to inflict them on the public. (Does he mention the "Bosnian pyramid", too? Oh dear).





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Aubrey Burl " Decoherence :beyond Quantum Computing and the Higgs boson " (2013 )
After a lifetime looking at stone circles and old pots the author has concluded the next generation of computers are already neolithic , his radical solution , "grog " has already astounded the computertati with it's compactness ( half the size of Higgs boson ) and speed ( speed of light x16 ) .

george





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"no human remains or archaeological evidence for a large population living nearby at this time that would be essential to undertake these huge projects"

Ignoring the Palisade Enclosure site and all the long barrows in the area.

Jim Leary told me that the author turned up at the 2007 dig claiming to be a journalist and was given a 20 minute tour inside the tunnel.
He has since been giving lectures to local new age groups in Wiltshire where he has miss interpreted all that he was show. The 'Alien room' was in fact an excavation trench dug into the floor to examine the depth of the first ditch. The 'Alien artifacts taken way by EH' were normal finds, such as deer antler tines, taken to Fort Cumberland for radio carbon dating..






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Hi PeteG

My keen interest in the Silbury Hill Conservation and Restoration Project 2007-2008 was known by many of my local friends. I had spent a lot of time discussing the progress with the Skanska civil engineers and English Heritage personnel including Jim Leary. I had also kept up-to-date with the regular English Heritage progress reports. Jim knows I was a regular visitor to the site. Because of my known keen interest I was invited to join one of the Gazette and Herald reporters, so it is correct that this was one of the occasions I entered the tunnel. If you check the visitor’s book on this invitation day, I signed in as an author. I didn’t turn up claiming to be a journalist!

With regard to the ‘Alien Room’ Not sure why he wants to discredit this idea as interestingly on page 47 of Jim Leary’s interesting book “The Story of Silbury Hill” he relates the following:-

“Mrs L F Brooks of 22 Stratton Road, Pewsey, was quoted in the Marlborough Times in August 1962 as describing how during the First World War she used to live very near the hill and was told by her parents that there were caverns inside. When the entrance caved in, in 1915, a tiny passage led first of all downwards and then altered course and proceeded upwards. Eventually it forked, with one way leading to a dead end and the other to a cavern ‘about as big as a room’. Beyond this there was another cavern similar to the first: We took candles in with us and used to write our names on the ceiling with the candle smoke’.

I didn't mention anything about ‘Alien artefacts’ in Silbury Hill! I don't know anything about 'Alien artefacts' in Silbury Hill? I do however refer to the deer antler in my book. Most people are surprised to learn that there is, in fact, no way to directly determine the age of any fossil or rock”. Yet the conventional date of 4500 years for the construction of Silbury Hill, Avebury Stone Circle and Stonehenge is based on the radiocarbon dating of an antler found a few inches inside Silbury Hill. Even if English Heritage insists that the antler is 4500 years old, there is no evidence to show it was used as a pick in its construction. This is pure speculation!

Interesting you think this is enough evidence to explain the huge population necessary to undertake these huge projects? Where are the thousands of human remains and archaeological artefacts? I’m sure there is somewhere on this website that can explain the approximate number of people the Palisade Enclosure site and all the long barrows in the area could cater for?

The key word is in the book title - “Theory”. A great deal of what I have discovered by being open-minded seems to make more sense that many of the conventional views, made to sound like fact, which in spite of their academia are also only theory and supposition.


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apologies if I got somethings wrong.
I am going on what Jim leary told me about you and from what people who attended your talk in Yatesbury? (might have been Bassett my memory is not good) related back to me.

The description of a Room is just that, one persons description of the 1849 excavation tunnel. There was no Room in any phase of Silburys original construction.

The RC dates were Not obtained from one piece of antler found just inside the tunnel.
The date of 2400BC is from Alex Bayliss at EH who examined many antler tines from the central mound along with a pigs tooth, grass and various insects. This is from the very earliest phase of the building of Silbury so it cannot be any older than that.
The full monograph is about to be published which will give much more detail of what was dated to what period.

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On 2012-09-24 12:55, JohnCowie wrote:

... Interesting you think this is enough evidence to explain the huge population necessary to undertake these huge projects? Where are the thousands of human remains and archaeological artefacts? I’m sure there is somewhere on this website that can explain the approximate number of people the Palisade Enclosure site and all the long barrows in the area could cater for? ...



Good day, Mr Cowie.
Pardon my ignorance with regard to your new book - I haven't had the time to review it properly, and can only comment on your remarks here.

There seems to be a bit of conversation regarding the claim that there was a limited population at the time these extraordinary monuments were constructed, based solely on the number of grave-evidence within the long-barrows, etc. I hope this is accurate?

Clearly (in my view) Steve-The-Dustman didn't get buried in a Long-Barrow. Based upon what's found in terms of Grave Goods, the occupants were either people of Authority, and later, of Wealth.

As shown by the evidence, Cremation was a very popular method of 'disposal' at the time, and I suggest that Steve and his family were thusly burned and cast into the river, or somesuch, in an 'Earth-To-Earth/Dust-To-Dust' fashion.
This leaves meager evidence for us 4,000-odd years later.

Therefore, an estimation of population can be made by the amount of work, in terms of Man-Hours, required to erect the various Monuments over a certain length of time. This length of time can be verified to within a hundred years using the ever-improving technology presently available. Additionally, in many cases now, it can be determined to the actual season of the year, using the remarkable Dendro dating method.

There are also several other methods of determining, admittedly in rough terms, social structure, division of labor, as well as population.

I feel that they had plenty of people to go around, and that their abilities to design and construct were formulated over the period of time commensurate with the final project - which in many cases evolved to accommodate new ideas as time went on.

Best wishes,
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as is evident from the cut marks found on the bones inside West kennet Long Barrow quite a few people must have been eaten!




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 Posted 25-09-2012 at 21:24   
Alien Visitor gene theory...........Never heard of Michael Tellinger that's the man that makes it sound all most fact.
Very interesting theory never the less.




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No need to apologise. Information received second hand can often be misconstrued.

The problem with the antler, insects, grass, etc., you mentioned found in Silbury Hill is contamination. When I spoke to Dr Gill Campbell, English Heritage Palaeontologist on site in a portacabin at Silbury Hill in 2007 and peered down her microscope at the insects on the slide beneath, there were no face masks, rubber gloves, ‘bunny suits’, a ‘clean room’ or vacuum flask to be found anywhere near the Silbury Hill site when the samples were removed. It is unlikely that an oxygen free environment or vacuum exists within Silbury Hill, but anyway on exposure would immediately contaminate the samples! I was reliably informed if this was a murder scene the forensic evidence would be deemed inadmissible.

So, Gill and her fellow archaeologists at the site can be forgiven as the items you mention recovered from the mound had already been contaminated by rain water seeping through the hill over the centuries, from deer/sheep grazing on the hill to modern day pollutants, e.g., from the exhaust fumes from vehicles passing nearby on the A4. So even the latest Dendro dating method would not yield accurate information from these contaminated samples.

Contamination of samples is a recognised problem with bone (antler) samples. Despite its obvious appeal to archaeologists, most radiocarbon facilities date bone only rarely. The principal reason is often poor preservation of collagen in many contexts.

I had a similar problem with flint flakes found in small pits at the centre of Silbury Hill. When I met Barry Bishop the English Heritage Flint Specialist in 2007 he suggested that it was unusual for only a few flint flakes to be found in the hill and he had dated them to around 10,000 years old. So, I excitedly came to the conclusion that Silbury Hill is at least 10,000 years old. Sadly however even if the flint flakes could be accurately dated, there is no way of knowing that they were placed in the hill around 10,000 years ago. So I am still in the process of looking elsewhere for clues to the age of the hill - or hoping to get some help - hence my book.

I hope you will take my comments as being well-meaning.

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I was present at the dig from beginning to end and went into the tunnel on many occasions. Sometimes all on my own.
The primary mound was cored in many places. These gave totally uncontaminated samples which gave EH reliable RC Dates of 2400BC.
Cores taken from the top to the bottom at seven places throughout the mound also got pure samples with the same dates.

The mesolithic flints were almost certainly bought in with the turf stacks and basket loads of earth taken up from the surrounding landscape.
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Pardon my ignorance with regard to your new book - I haven't had the time to review it properly, and can only comment on your remarks here.



Hello Neil

Thanks for your very interesting comments. As I mentioned earlier, my alternative ‘alien visitor’ ideas can only be theoretical at this time.

I believe the same applies to the established traditional views. For example with regard to our early evolution and what happened at Silbury Hill, Stonehenge, etc., in our pre-history. Where is the evidence to show that Cremation was a very popular method of 'disposal' at the time? It would certainly provide a solution for the 'missing' human remains. You then go on to suggest that ‘Steve and his family were thusly burned and cast into the river’. PeteG suggested that quite a few had been eaten? Where are the bones?

Maybe you are right? Did they have plenty of people to go around, and that they, around 4,500 years ago, had the abilities to design and construct. We can suggest and speculate but do we really know?

I hope we can become more open-minded and exploratory with our own or the long established conventional views and maybe in the future we will have a better opportunity to answer the questions I pose in my book - or confirm the traditional beliefs.

Best wishes,
John


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like animal bones they would have deteriorated quite quickly when thrown on a rubbish pile.
I favour the idea of cremation and ashes being put into the river Kennet, although excarnation is another option which would leave no trace of remains.
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Hello Neil
Thanks for your very interesting comments. As I mentioned earlier, my alternative ‘alien visitor’ ideas can only be theoretical at this time.

I believe the same applies to the established traditional views. For example with regard to our early evolution and what happened at Silbury Hill, Stonehenge, etc., in our pre-history. Where is the evidence to show that Cremation was a very popular method of 'disposal' at the time? It would certainly provide a solution for the 'missing' human remains. You then go on to suggest that ‘Steve and his family were thusly burned and cast into the river’. PeteG suggested that quite a few had been eaten? Where are the bones?

Maybe you are right? Did they have plenty of people to go around, and that they, around 4,500 years ago, had the abilities to design and construct. We can suggest and speculate but do we really know?

I hope we can become more open-minded and exploratory with our own or the long established conventional views and maybe in the future we will have a better opportunity to answer the questions I pose in my book - or confirm the traditional beliefs.



Hi John - Thanks for the prompt reply and I apologize in advance for the length of the following. (I am known to be rather long-winded, and here's your first dreadful example!)

Firstly, with your published postulations, you must be handed a great deal of credit for stepping into no less a pitted morass of feisty contention than the Megalithic Portal Mysteries Forum!
As Obi Wan Kenobi said all those years ago: "... you will never find a more wretched hive of Scum & Villainy. We must be cautious!"

As a member in good standing of Villainous Scum, I point out that the 'Alien Angle' of your thesis hasn't, to the best of my knowledge, been mentioned.
Speaking solely for myself, I will studiously avoid it to the very best of my ability.

Traditional Views are always challenged, and the more the merrier, I say!
However, "Early Evolution" and "Silbury Hill" are mutually exclusive. There was no physical or mental difference between we and they. Being generous, the Hill was built only 5-odd thousand years ago. But if by some quirk of alternate reality it was found to be 20,000 years old, the premise would remain. No difference in ability or potential - only in accumulated knowledge.

Cremation exhibits itself in a number of ways - some are direct, some indirect, yet no less valid.
Directly, we see the evidence in places like the Aubrey Holes, Ditch & Bank at Stonehenge. It was, after all the theories are exhausted, ultimately a Cemetery. +/-32 of the 56 Holes have been examined and over 250 cremated individuals have been identified. Without doubt future excavation will reveal more. Apparently the Holes were in use as reliquaries for over 500 years.
Now, as mentioned, I doubt that these interments were random, in that we are seeing "Big-Shots" buried there. This was a very special place long before there were any Stones, and some evidence leads us to think that it was considered special even after its original purpose was muddied or even forgotten.

Indirectly, we see what appears to be Funerary Wickets of heavy timber placed here and there along the River Avon. It is thought that, early on, passed-away People of Status were placed upon these wickets for the purpose of excarnation, with their bones then cremated.
There are other indirect methods to deduce these things, though others here are far more qualified to discuss them.

The Barrows in the Stonehenge Landscape.
There are literally hundreds of them within sight of Great Henge, repeatedly dated across a very long span of time while demonstrating a consistent morphology from one style to the next. I'm afraid Steve The Dustman will never be found in one, but I would bet my reputation that he helped build them.

So if Ugge-The-Mighty was the Supreme Pooh-Bah over All he Surveyed, it follows that he would have an impressive grave. I have little doubt that Steve was on the gang that piled up the chalk. Sadly, Steve has no such marker, because, though bright and cheerful, and as kind as he was to children and the elderly, he was just the Dustman.
The Dustman gets no Chalk.

The length of time in which these Barrows occur tells us that the people had a lot of continuously operating Big-Shots. Over what did they 'Rule' if there were only a few folks kicking around? How can a hundred people laboriously dig a ditch and pile up all that earth if they also have families to feed? I have a pretty good idea that Ugge-The-Mighty didn't pitch a single shoulder-blade of dirt for his own grave, so how was it done without an integral cultural mechanism long in place for this?

I cite Durrington Walls as a place, that even if only used twice a year, accommodated literally thousands of people bent on Solstice Celebration.
This evidence is undeniable.
But also, this 'City' had to be maintained for the rest of the year, and it's thought that the folks who built the Stone Citadel lived here too. They had families they came home to, and a social structure no doubt similar to contemporary communities all across the country.

Were there Millions of them? Certainly not. But we know that populations will only grow to the point where the land will support them, and (for the most part) the countryside areas where these Monuments occur could support a lot of people.

So then, implied within the evidence is a significant, Culturally Stratified population that performed various functions over a lengthy period of time.
Do we find their graves?
Rarely.
Did they exist?
Definitely.

When we walk through these areas thinking about time-distant Cultures, we should always give faceless, graveless Steve a nod. His, and thousands like him, was the engine upon which this complex society ran.

Best Wishes,
Neil

EDIT: New name for my next Historical Novel: "The Dustman Gets No Chalk".
Good one. Yes? No?




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Feanor, you could review it for us if you like - I'm sure John would oblige us a review copy - although an ebook version would be cheaper to send to the US!




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Hi Andy,

More than happy to send a copy for review. It would be cheaper getting a Kindle copy to Neil, but I’m not sure how to get a complimentary copy from Amazon – [URL=http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0081L4V3W]/URL]

I have sent a number of copies off to magazines for review. However one of the reviewers is the website called Universe Today. Maybe when the book review appears on this website you will be able to link to it?

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Hi PeteG

Your youtube video highlighting your last visit to the heart of Silbury Hill sounds very interesting. I have tried to view it but having problems as you suggested. It is an unlisted video which seemingly means that only people who know the link to the video can view it?

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These gave totally uncontaminated samples which gave EH reliable RC Dates of 2400BC.



In my previous reply I mentioned a number of potential external sources of sample contamination in Silbury Hill. But it is also worth considering some of the internal contamination possibilities, wittingly or unwittingly left by these intrepid tunnelers /navvys during the various attempts to tunnel into the hill over the centuries. We can only assume a level of pollution had been inadvertently introduced into the hill as soon as a dig was started just through natural human bodily functions.

But what we do know is that the 2007/2008 dig uncovered several tobacco tins (e.g. “Old Holburn”) left by Welsh mining students during the Atkinson dig 1968-1970. Although these students were told not to smoke in the tunnel, it is clear some had disobeyed this instruction! Therefore it is ‘highly likely’ that tobacco smoke, with all its recognised toxins, was introduced into the tunnel and cavities in Silbury Hill at this time! This must be a serious source of contamination don’t you think?

Nevertheless I appreciate your determination to hold on to your views. We may have to wait a while for future advances in science and technology to explain which one of us is closest to the truth - or prove us both wrong!!

Best wishes
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 Posted 26-09-2012 at 17:05   
the tobacco tins were found just inside the door. Smoking wasn't allowed inside the tunnel. You seem determine to believe that the RC results are contaminated!

After the July 2007 collapse new parts of the tunnel previously unseen were revealed. These were cleaned scanned, photographed and sampled.
There is no way these were contaminated. If they were the RC dates would have given 1970 not 2400BC.

Sorry but your 10,000BC theory has no credibility and you seem to be the only person who believes it.

The YouTube link I posted should be visible to everyone by clicking on the link,
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