These truths and many more have been forgotten by us down through the ages as a result of having our entire civilization utterly destroyed over and over again every 14,000 years or so, in a great cycle of destruction that is as inevitable as the tide. And every time we manage to crawl back up to the light of knowledge, we make the same miserable mistakes our race has always made, ensuring that we will meet the same doom all over again. That's because we refuse to examine the occult forces affecting our destiny. By examining a number of these influences, we slowly see a picture emerging of a higher power at work in our lives and in our destiny as a race. Whether this force is supernatural or physical remains to be seen, but the end result is the same. We as a race have been carefully manipulated and herded along specific lines all through history from the earliest times. When we pick up a history book and read about some ancient battle or the rise and fall of some ancient city, we almost never get the whole story. Our race has been following certain lines of force in order for a specific destiny to result. For instance, how many of you knew that Alexander the Great was once poised to conquer India, but was turned back at the last minute by forces far more advanced than us? As his vast army neared the border to India, they were literally "buzzed" by UFOs, causing his battle elephants and horses to panic and bolt. In fact they became so terrified and unruly that the entire invasion had to be called off. Alexander's great army turned away from India at the last moment, never to conquer its vast reaches. What would have changed in history so radically that this had to be prevented at all costs? We many never know. The only thing we do know for certain is that there are other forces at work in our destinies, guiding and herding us to a specific end...

Or take the commonly known image of the Grim Reaper, that harbinger of death and doom. He is depicted as wearing a long black robe and carrying a wicked looking scythe with which to reap the souls of the dead and dying. For up until the advent of modern farm machinery, the scythe was the only tool used for harvesting crops such as grains and some vegetables. All done by hand, by swinging that evil looking blade on a handle. Hard, brutal work, but the only known way to do it. When the Black Plague struck Europe in the thirteenth century, it wiped out between a third and half the entire population of the known world. Some experts now argue that the numbers were even higher. And during this evil and terrifying time, one strikingly weird event seemed to portend the outbreak in a new village or town. People would spot a lone figure, dressed in a long black robe and carrying a strange "scythe-like" object in its hands. He was always small and frail in stature, and would swing this weird tool of his over the crops growing on the outskirts of the village. All settlements in those days grew their food crops just outside of town within easy reach of the populace. It was their lifeline during the hard winter months. And if a blight or draught hit those crops, starvation would quickly set in...

The appearance of this odd little being is recorded in dozens of town records from that period, and in every case he appeared just before an outbreak of the plague. Consequently his likeness was painted repeatedly in the oil paintings and books created at the time, though he was stylized to fit the era they lived in. It was a time of oppressive religious zealotism and everything was given religious overtones, including the Reaper. And since his strange device somewhat resembled a scythe, that's what it quickly became in the minds of the artist and the public. And to this day he is associated with death. Fitting actually, considering the original Reaper had to be an alien being of some sort, who was deliberately altering the course of history to ensure the deaths of certain groups of people at a certain time in our development. He would swing his deadly tool over their crops, delivering a deadly pathogen to the ground fleas living there, or by altering the genetic makeup of the bacteria infesting them. Either way the result was the same. Mass death all across the known world...

Mankind was herded along specific lines once again. By killing off all those millions of people, the population boom was staved off another century at least, For by killing off our forefathers while the population was still small, the impact on future generations was staggering. Mathematically it's the best time to do such a thing. And this dark figure of death appeared many times across Europe during the outbreak, which in my humble opinion was started by forces outside this world to begin with. Here again we see an outside force manipulating the history of mankind. For what purposes and to what end we can only guess at this point, but I for one don't like it. No one has the right to dictate the path we as a race should or should not take. It is up to us to decide if we make it or fail as a species...

Take the case of Nicola Tesla, the father of the electric motor and A\C electricity, both of which created modern civilization. Every machine and device man uses is based on these two inventions. Without them we would still be using the horse and cart, and huddling around a kerosene lamp in the cold winters. Tesla was born in eastern Europe at the turn of the last century. The younger of two brothers, he was not the shining star of intellect we known him for today. That spot was taken by his older brother Alexander, who suffered from strange fits where he was deluged with an intensely bright white light where strange images and mathematical equations would pop into his mind. Afterwards he suffered from debilitating headaches which would last for days. He was a genius of the top rank, and had revolutionary ideas for strange and wondrous inventions that he never had the chance to build. For at sixteen he was killed in a freak horse riding accident that broke his neck. It makes one wonder just how different the world would be today if both brothers had lived. But then things got weirder. Shortly after his death, his brother Nicola began having these same afflictions. An intensely brilliant white light and strange images and numbers filling his young mind, as if some higher power were literally "downloading" massive amounts of information into his young, empty head. Soon after he began building weird new inventions, even at the age of ten. He immigrated to America, where he set up shop and somehow managed to hook up with some of the richest, most influential men of that era. Every barrier was broken down for him, and every door opened, making it possible for him to bring his inventions into existence. Someone or something had made sure those inventions became available to mankind when they did. It's as if Tesla was simply a tool...

When one brother died, the other became the inventor as if some Power wanted those inventions made, and made right then at that specific point in history. This theory is validated again when we look at the humble radio. Contrary to the bull our history books taught us as kids, Marconi did NOT invent the radio. The wop swiped the design from an American white guy named Harding. The interesting thing about it though, was that Marconi had indeed been working on the same device, he was just far back in his research compared to the American. And there were two other men at different places on the planet at the same exact time who were also very near completing their first radios. It's as if that same Power had stuck the drive to built the radio and the knowledge into the minds of all these different men, to ensure it got built in the time frame desired. Or take the airplane. Five different inventors were working on a prototype at the same time the Wright brothers built theirs. It was simply a matter of who got there first. Or look at the atom bomb. Germany, Japan, and the U.S. were all working on it at the same time. Lucky for us we got there first. I could name dozens of inventions that changed history that had numerous people working on the same thing at the same time. This isn't my opinion, just a cold hard fact. Trouble is, most people don't want to hear about things like this because they find it deeply disturbing. The idea that there might be a higher power, whether it be supernatural or simply a higher form of being, scares the beejeebers out of them...

This is the reason many people reject even God. They don't like the idea of anyone telling them what to do or when to do it, or forcing them to answer for their actions. It's about that control thing again. But the wise among us know that there's a rat in the soup because too many pieces of the puzzle just don't fit. We know there is something or someone injecting there own will into world events and human history. For better or worse we have to deal with it. I have my own ideas as to their motives, but I prefer to keep that to myself. We as a species are being led to a specific destiny, following a specific schedule or timeline. I can't help but wonder where we'd all be as a species if none of this intervention had taken place. Would we have advanced much further? Would we have discovered other technologies, the ones the ancients used, or would we have been stunted in our development, still living in the horse and buggy age? We'll never know. The only thing we know for sure is that we did not follow the natural course of development. We had help and in some cases perhaps restraint. There are dozens of other examples I could give of outside intervention in the affairs of mankind, but I've already given more than enough to make my point. We are not alone. Now that's something to think about...