Friday, January 4, 2008

Part Three: Cetacean Humanoids of The Depths

Dedicated In Memory of Ivan Sanderson.




Is this image that of a terrestrial cetacean humanoid or a phantasm or a projection of ourselves or a sentient extraterrestrial?

Which is more likely, traversing the vast stellar distances between stars hoping for a 'hit" or, navigating the ocean floor?

The classic alleged phantasm or sentient humanoid irritatingly nicknamed The Grey, has always fascinated me as an object of speculation in terms of sensate anatomy inasmuch as hearing or receiving sound in an atmosphere would require some sort of ear, however they appear, on the surface, to be absent, which is rather odd regardless as whatever gaseous atmosphere they require would carry sensate sound to be received by an appropriate organ akin to our own. Yet, they are absent, or are they?
If their natural enviromental medium is a liquid, perhaps this accounts for their apparent absence. Then again, perhaps not. However, it is provocative as one portion of constructing a speculative possibility as a medium to explore possibilities. Is this Grey a branch of an evolutionary tree that has vanished beneath depths of the ocean, only to resurface when threatened by extinction? When I first viewed this photograph of a dolphin ear, I was struck by the visual kinship of similarity to a "Grey."


One asks; Are Dolphins and Humans descendants of a common ancestor, rather than the theory that makes the critical assumption of the "ape" as a sole actor within the dynamic of evolution?
Recent research seems to indicate the connection between humanoids and cetaceans will eventually replace or at minimum, significantly revise the "ape" theory.
If so, perhaps to speculate upon another variant of nature which may be genetically linked to our own aquatic phase, which is said to have occurred possibly between 3 and 7 million years ago is an interesting scenario.
A potential linkage between the sonics of aquatic images as a form of communication and the terrestrial cymatics in the form of the symbolics within the pictographs of formulations known as "crop circles" may exist.
When taken in the light of the USO phenomenon, this creates a theoretical basis for speculation upon a sentient creature that spans cryptozoology and ufology in the sense that it uses a technological extension of it's organic senses in the same sense that I use a laptop to produce these images that are transmitted to and received by you. A Cetacean humanoid may use others.
In this case the images transposed in a terrestrial form to communicate with us, their atmospheric cousins with sound as a predominate feature or perhaps more accurately, a source of energy capable of manipulating imaging materials with ultrasonic waveforms as in the pictograms in crop circles. Or, is there some other means to produce them to the degree of precision that some examples manifest, given a unreasonably finite amount of time to produce them?


What is interesting is that the human brain operates at a range well below that of hypersonic sound waves,and the effects of exposure to inaudible high frequencies was previously thought or shall we say assumed to be non-existant.
Our cousins, the dolphins are capable of a 8 - 200 kHz range. The human mind operates between 3-13hz. The previous assumption that these hypersonic waves have no effect has recently been revised by new research that does indicate significant effects as covered in detail in The Journal of Neurophysiology in a study entitled "Inaudible High-Frequency Sounds Affect Brain Activity: Hypersonic Effect"
Results in other newly published studies suggest that the intensity of inaudible HFC modulates human sound perception as well as effects that "inhibit the para-sympathetic nervous system." which is responsible for the lowering of our heart rates and "when sufficiently intense, appears to result in a syndrome involving manifestations of nausea, headache, tinnitus, pain, dizziness, and fatigue." which is a uncanny close match to the after effects of an abduction event. We can only wonder what other results further research will bring to light.

Another striking set of speculative connections between ourselves and dolphins are the dolphin's organic capabilities to transmit images in real time as their "language" and the internal manifestation of images in remote viewing within ourselves. This capability we already have as a process we experience nightly in "dreams". Perhaps dreaming is a intermediate evolutionary capabilty that manifests images as self referential representations which lack the input of further organic receptivity.
Considering that we have a much shorter evolutionary history, the rare ability of remote viewing may be an advanced example at the cutting edge of evolutionary human potential, while a dolphin may consider this experience as mundane.
By extension we look in our mirror to The Grey and consider their capability to walk through walls as well as alleged telepathic capability as their sole means of communication. This brings to mind the possibility that they are present only in our cognition as a received projection that has been presented within us as a receiver by their organic capability to induce holographic experiences. Or, they actually walk through walls. Your choice. Abductions as I have covered in other posts are similar to an induction of state and interestingly, that modality of communicating conceptually in images is what the cetaceans use among themselves.

All of this considers the possibility that what comes out of the oceanic waters as a UFO is in fact, the product of a highly evolved mammal akin to that of a dolphin with humanoid characteristics.

In the arcane science of Legominisms, the conceptual encapsulation in the creation of the Tritons, the Merrow, Selkies and the Sirens all have, as their nexus, an amphibious creature much like the one observed for two hours by the Naturalist George Stellar in 1741, who, for lack of any comparative accuracy coined the pseudo referential name,"Sea Ape.", which one imagines to be a sentient humanoid adapted to an aquatic enviroment.

Our Naturalist having encountered one in the Northern Pacific, south of the Aleutian Islands, noted it had a asymmetric tail like that of a shark incorporated into a formulation of a aquatic humanoid. This observation was theorised as having been mistaken for a Sirenia, one of many such herbivorous mammal whose natural environment encompasses rivers, estuaries, coastal marine waters, swamps, and marine wetlands. However, there are no such creatures known to inhabit those waters.

Of the 70 known sightings of these elusive creatures, 52 have been sighted in environments where there are no candidates for factoring in the probability of mistaken identity. In addition, this attempt to overlay the classification of pinnipeds upon our mystery humanoid has one glaring error, they lack arms. However it is interesting to note that like our aforementioned dolphin, the "sea cow" is also a mammal. This in of itself launches us into the conceptual hyperspace of psychological associations and identifications that trigger us like fish caught in a net by language.

As in Ufology, within cryptozoology, ad hoc proper nouns and terms take on a life of their own, often creating barriers or the projection of archetypes which then evolve into a bizarre defacto and self referential reality. Greys, Skunk Apes, Drones, Mothman are a plague upon us. I really struggled with how to term a speculation, which in of itself, is counterintuitive.

"Our words have not and cannot have any constant meaning, and to indicate at every word the meaning and the particular shade which we at­tach to this word, that is, the relations in which it is taken by us, we have in the first place no means; and secondly we do not aim at this; on the contrary, we invariably wish to estab­lish our constant meaning for a word and to take it always in that sense, which is obviously impossible, as one and the same word used at different times and in various relations has differ­ent meanings." -GI Gurdjieff

Of course, then we ask ourselves, where in all of lies the root of origin that predated this enigmatic creature? In the case of the Nummo, one author felt that these creatures are, in effect explorers who exploit the lessened gravitational forces that water provides, inasmuch as they are a aquatic species who have migrated
here from the stellar region of Sirius, as outlined in the remarkable and provocative Dogon mythology which had somehow gained in it's corpus, astronomical data that we only recently have discovered.

Theories abound in the realm where the truth is hidden in plain sight, or at least is considered a possibility.

"Anthropologists are not certain when hominids quit growing thick fur, or why they developed an opposable thumb and the "S-curve" of the spine for upright bipedality. I have a novel concept, an hypothesis, that may account for the upright bipedality and the bare skin of Homo sapiens. Of course, the reasons of their development is meaningless concerning the cause and course of latter developments. There is a group of monkeys that is currently undergoing the change to bipedality; an occurrence that I have noticed but many others have not. They live near a permanent water hole, calm river, or estuary. The trees that grow near the pond drop fruit into the water, especially when the monkeys are shaking the limbs of the tree as they climb for the fruit. Once the monkeys have cleaned the tree of fruit, the ones that can wade farthest into the water and retrieve fruit will eat more and have a better chance of survival. Wading is a bipedal activity. The farther one of the monkeys can wade, the more protection they gain from predators that will not swim for game. When accidentally falling into the water from the fruit tree, upright bipedality increases the monkey's ability to get out of the water. I wonder if baby chimpanzees can swim in the manner that infant Humans do? The ability to walk upright and greater manual dexterity allows them to gather more food, avoid predators, and survive drowning. Considering hippos, elephants, and other amphibious mammals, I imagine that fur would be a hindrance for life in and out of the water, and it was eventually lost by the small pongid as it evolved upright bipedality in its aquatic environment."

-William Steele 'The Aquatic Primate' http://compuball.com/Inquisition/hominids.htm

Maybe we should reverse course entirely based on the evidence as well as a series of assumptions of equal value that we stood on the shore of the sea, while others, sought their fortunes in the ocean.. Mounting evidence suggests that human's are more closely related to dolphins, far more than they are related to apes, if you've studied the latest scientific research, you would be impressed. Genetic research into the genetics of dolphins have just begun. Monkeys wading into the water? Perhaps.

There is an influx of research that indicates humans, dolphins, and apes evolved from a common ancestor.There are studies comparing humans and cetaceans (dolphins and whales). These studies focus on the similarities of the brain, especially the neocortex. In this regard the cetacean brain is nearly identical, and superior to the human brain according to the latest research. It is now common knowledge that research into the skeletal structure of Cetaceans shows vestiges of toes (fingers?) and dewclaws . These evolved into powerful flippers and tails, indicating that dolphins and whales once lived on the land.

In the studies of Dr. Michel Odent - world famous surgeon and pioneer into human water births - dolphins, humans and apes are likely to have evolved from a common ancestor millions of years ago.One of the most noticeable differences between human and ape is the lack of hair. However, consider the gray, hairless skin of the dolphin. Did I say grey?

One wonders if this theory is a shadow image of some path we cannot traverse as perhaps something similar but more fully fleshed toward George Stellars sighting of a "sea ape" may have happened in the dim light of the past. Another factor in all this, which is all the rage, in the babble between Creationists and Evolutionists which presents the issue of vestigial mammalian gills and tails found in the early developmental stages of a human foetus, albeit in a silly escapade akin to a twice told tale.

Another factor that swirls in this whirlpool of artifacts, observations, theories which includes our disjointed and incomplete evolutionary matrix, is the provocative enigma that ufology and cryptozoology commonly faces is the resolute determination of their target to remain at arms length. However, perhaps if we are sharing this planetary sphere with another species, the content of such alleged contacts may have a more practical and less altuistic perspective.

"Mr. Mutwa and the children were both distressed by their experiences. But they also spoke spontaneously of receiving powerful communications from the alien beings, especially through their huge black eyes, about the failure of our species to take proper care of the earth. This unsolicited information is quite consistent with what I have been learning from American experiencers. A recently interviewed geologist and abduction experiencer wrote me that his experiences have taught him that "We are a run-away species bent on self-destruction, because we (collectively) are unwilling to impose self controls to stop our growth and to plan for our future with forethought and higher purpose" (Bruce Cornet, letter to the author, December 1994)."
-Dr John Mack



First human-caused dolphin extinction reported
Aug. 11, 2007
World Science staff

Sci­en­tists this week re­ported the first hu­man-caused ex­tinc­tion of a dol­phin.
The fresh­wa­ter Yang­tze Riv­er dol­phin, al­so known as baiji, seems to be no more, re­search­ers said. The an­i­mal in­hab­it­ed the mid­dle and low­er Yang­tze Riv­er and neigh­bour­ing Qiantang Riv­er in east­ern Chi­na. It “has long been rec­og­nized as one of the world’s rar­est and most threat­ened mam­mal spe­cies,” wrote Sam­u­el T. Tur­vey of the Zo­o­log­i­cal So­ci­e­ty of Lon­don and col­leagues in the Aug. 7 on­line is­sue of the re­search jour­nal Bi­ol­o­gy Let­ters.

When I read this, and as I type this, I am disgusted, frustrated and angry.

Each year as many as 50,000 species disappear and this rate is rapidly increasing. I think it reasonable to consider that any unknown species worth it's salt has every reason to avoid us.
Others sense that this tact of avoidance by our prey, in of itself, "proves" that we are chasing a Chimera.
We may be chasing a projection that has been intentionally foisted into the range of our vision, in it's hydra headed manifestations as an emblematic lure of a transpersonal and transcendant nature. This object of fixation is intended for a target who is addicted to empirical and materialist physics, which, as we all know, is destroying the very organic nature it is composed of. What is more frightening, is that this chilling recognition has become just another obscure sidebar on page 15, lost in the media deluge of trivia.
I began all this as the kid in the theater rooting for Godzilla, thinking to myself,I hope he kicks their ass. And so it goes.
If USO is a vehicle, and the vehicle's occupants are members of a species who call the waters of the ocean home, then why do they not have fins? Perhaps at one point in time they did. We are all a work in process, a potentiality. The evolution of a oceanic society and the technological path of such a society must remain as we found it, out of reach as to produce more grist to mill.
We mine the facets of the unexplainable and the speculation upon the variations of shooting arrows into the sky, hoping against hope, we can hit the target. In a sense, perhaps this quest of holy fools reserves a portion of wonder for the future.

If you want to read all three posts on this subject, go to the Home Page, then scroll down the page.Part One covers USO phenomenon in general terms. Part Two covers interspecies communications.

As for me, I will be writing the next post which will explore recently discovered astronomical anomalies in regard to the evolution of our planet in the near term. Perhaps it will not be the end of our planet but our celestial basis of the calendar may require a serious revision. Then again, perhaps not.

13 comments:

Artificial Petrofertiliser said...

Thanks for sharing the info on the Chinese River Dolphin.

Can't say I'm suprised. Thanks to the Dam, a number of other amazing and on-the-brink fish species are probably goners too.

The Global Power Elite that are running the show are supressing beneficial alternative and clean energy solutions (see the URL attached to this identity) that could help(maybe) save what's left of our shrinking world. Instead they attempt to control everything, including the weather, and keep us ignorant, overworked, and fighting each other so we don't come together for real solutions.

I can only hope something gives us a helping hand, we sure could use it. Otherwise, expect diseases (man made and natural) along with starvation to follow suit.

Don't trust those pesky greys either, they're too many reasons to consider them other than benevolent.

Anonymous said...

Hello
As far as the Global Power Elite and the Greys are concerned, while I cannot vouch for the "reality" of either one as a discrete phenomenon, I think this is a case that is similiar to the one I discussed, the use of conceptual short hand which lacks any consistant meaning.
Frankly, and I mean no disrespect for your views, from one perspective ( among many), the psychology of social responsibilty is a case of"everyone is responsible so no one is" Its easier to point the finger of responsibility at extraterrestrials and conspiracy theories than it is to simply say, as in my case, "I screwed up" by providing lip service to global issues as a "Hail Mary Pass" in my self delusion that play acting was an acceptable substitution for my actually doing something about it. I reached a point as in B Dylan's lyric, "Come let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." and applied this attitude toward myself. I don't have a horse in the alien sweepstakes so you could say I am just an observer sharing observations.
Best Wishes
Bruce Duensing

Anonymous said...

Occam's Razor dictates that humanoid cetaceans from under the seas are VASTLY more likely than extraterrestrials.

Bruce Duensing said...

Hello
I agree. But....there are many more questions than answers. When I began this exploration I did not have this theory in mind as a conclusion for the framework of this series..but the further I went, the pieces seemed to fit in an uncanny manner, which, while this rings a certain knee jerk reaction of self skepticism in having a conclusion first and then finding evidence to support it, I surprised myself in that I was playing a devils advocate on both sides of the equation and yet the terrestrial side "clicked." The more I know, the less I know.

Best Wishes
Bruce Duensing

Paul78 said...

Hi interesting article, but i'm a Star Wars fan and i as i have mentioned a number of times in Star Wars forums, i believe that it is likely impossible for a technologically advanced species to evolve under water. Think about all the things Humans required to become advanced; fire, materials, metal working etc.

NickL said...

Hi Bruce,

I've been catching up with your blog over Christmas. I'll respond to your earlier posts soon but this new 3 part series is most intriguing.

I was re-reading Robert Temple's 'The Sirius Mystery' in its 1997 reprint and thinking that he seems to have assembled the best historical evidence for non-human interaction with our ancestors. His background in the history of science makes him uniquely qualified for this.

Even his comments on the amphibious physiology of the ancient gods - the ones the Babylonians referred to as "Beasts endowed with reason" - seemed spot on.

The only major problem I had was that Temple seemed to take the Sirius identification too literally and assume these well-adapted denizens of the ocean originated on another planet. As you say, it's vastly more likely that they come from our own oceans. I'm fairly confident that since there are so many examples of parallel evolution (icthyosaurs and dolphins spring to mind) then why not two parallel lines of intelligent life?

You've taken it a step further by identifying salient aspects of dolphin communication: the idea that humans might respond to their ultrasound strikes a chord for some reason. This connection between ultrasonic imagery and our mental images is a strong possibility and the broadcasting of images via sound is an entirely new concept to me.

The only slight disagreement I might have with your "civilised cetacean" concept is whether they'd end up with a semi-humanoid form, like the classic Triton. Wouldn't they have to re-evolve forelimbs with hands or similar structures?

Far more likely in my view is that a fully aquatic hominid would acquire a streamlined rear body but retain fingered forelimbs for manipulating objects. I think the fossil record suggests that whales took to the sea long before the hominids emerged, so any common ancestor of humans and dolphins must be very remote.

Also, Steller's "sea ape" sighting gets some coverage in Biofort here: http://www.strangeark.com/nabr/NABR2.pdf and it appears that whatever Steller saw, it was closer to a pinniped than anything else. However monkeylike aquatic creatures have been sighted in the Caribbean and Ivan T. Sanderson references these (and so some books on the Bermuda Triangle!).

Thanks for your insightful articles and I look forward to discussing more with you.

Bruce Duensing said...

Hello,

The research on the origin of the common ancestry, and family tree of the dolphin-homid-human is only now being unravelled and will more than likely revise the current thinking on the dating of both humans and dolphins. Current thinking as noted in the post, is that the origin of the dolphin far predates humanity.I wasn't there so I don't know. The genetic linkage is stronger for dolphin-human than human-homid. They all arose on land. One possibilty is this ancestor did nor lose the front limbs same as in our case. Perhaps both developed in a similar phase with the Dolphin being at one point an amphibian. At this point its all open territory and all speculative. Dophins are so comparatively more ancient than we or at least thought to be, one could consider the short span of planetary time it took out own technological explosion to occur in perhaps this accounts for that this
creature is much further along than we are on many technological levels. Its a fascinating topic to speculate upon.

Best Wishes
Bruce Duensing

Bruce Duensing said...

PS To Niki

Another interesting observation gleaned from your letter struck me as well...it all felt intuitively "right" for a parallel path of sentient evolution. It's interesting on a instinctual basis. Someone said Occam's Razor is another at least on a more reasonable basis, one that I had not considered. This is why I appreciate comments.

Best Wishes
Bruce

Bruce Duensing said...

Paul78

Hello,

Another odd possibility is that some ancient structures or at least some technological "impossibilities"may have been aided and\or directed by this terrestrial alien. The mythology, which I tend to discount as too empirical, may be correct. An amphibious aspect may be a "solution" to your observation. I dont know. They certainly may have had a huge advantage in potential as perhaps having arrived at a technological phase much earlier than ourselves. Does this account for highly accurate yet terrestrial maps that we cannot account for? The problem I have with this is we have a tendency to discount the intelligence of our ancestors.

Best Wishes

Bruce

Nick said...

Hi Bruce,

Yes, I agree that if a dolphin-derived intelligence has existed for much longer than humans on this planet then it would've had plenty of time to evolve beyond our current capabilities. Perhaps it also engaged in a little genetic tinkering with its own relatives or land-based hominids too?

And it would explain why we don't see relics of any very ancient (i.e. pre-human) civilisations: they're all on the sea floor!

Also, maybe dolphins are that race's sentinels and "pets". Just like we tamed and trained dogs to be our allies, so the undersea species makes use of dolphins. With greater intelligence and capabilities than dogs, plus a natural attraction to (and for) humans, dolphins could easily keep tabs on human intrusion into oceanic areas and relay information back to their "owners".

Another quick thought: in most of the proposed historical global catastrophes (asteroid strike, superwave or giant flood), oceanic creatures seem to survive much better than terrestrial ones.

Andy said...

One of my primary questions about the existence of an intelligent, underwater species is how they derive their energy, or even how they derived it in the early technological stages of their civilizations.

As societies become more and more advanced, they require exponentially greater quantities of energy to sustain their activities. An obvious solution to such a question is energy derived from geothermal vents and tectonic plate margins. Basically, their energy would have to be almost entirely supplied by heat from inside the earth. Does this mean that if we WERE to even begin a cursory search for them, it would begin in such aforementioned places? Is it even possible to obtain enough energy from geothermal vents to support the energy demands of a highly advanced society?

I suppose they could be harnessing energy from currents, but I'm not sure deep ocean currents could even provide a noteworthy amount of energy, and any energy harnessing devices closer to the ocean's surface would have been easily detected long ago.

Occam's Razor would seem to dictate that it is much more likely that "aliens" come from our oceans rather than space, but the practical feasibility of such a civilization should also be considered. Do they have war? Did they have war? Would we feel the effects of it? Why haven't they revealed themselves to us? I think these are all questions to consider. But the energy question is the most important, because without sufficient energy no society of that nature could ever even exist.

- Andy

Bruce Duensing said...

Hello Andy

I am trying to submit a FOIA to the Navy on "unidentified submersed objects" I think it reasonable that it would be very difficult should this theory be true, that they have eluded our nuclear fleet.
As far as energy needs and so forth, you raise an interesting subtopic. Geothermal is certainly one. The mineral deposits in the ocean especially of rare minerals such as magnesium which has been found in fragments of high purity, allegedly from UFOs.Minerals are certainly down there in abundance according to what reading on this I have done by looking at this angle.
There are terrestrial devices applicable to undersea generation such as devices that use the temperature differentials in ocean salt water also to produce energy. There is one photograph I cannot relocate of a strange unknown device allegedly found on the ocean floor quite awhile ago.. It resembles a series of protuberances mounted to a central shaft.

Best Wishes
Bruce

Anonymous said...

Hello Bruce-- Just a quick note-- the strange underwater artifact you are referring to is known as the "Eltanin antenna"