by J. Douglas Kenyon
Our compasses may already be tracking the forces at work, but the good news is: Earth’s North and South magnetic poles are NOT about to swap positions—at least not any time soon. That is the conclusion of a new study published in June in the journal PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of America (https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2200749119). Spotlighted in the study is something called the ‘South Atlantic Anomaly’ which some scientists have warned could signal an immanent and catastrophic reversal of the poles of Earth’s magnetic field that protects us from cosmic rays and space rocks.
While geographic pole shifts, as envisioned by the likes of Edgar Cayce, Charles Hapgood and others, are rejected by establishment science, no one denies that Earth’s magnetic pole is on the move. Triggered, it is believed, by molten iron at Earth’s core, the magnetic pole is distinct from the geographic pole which is determined by planetary rotation. Academic experts have predicted, in fact, that within fifty years, the north magnetic pole could shift far enough for Alaska to lose its famed northern lights (Aurora Borealis) to more southerly latitudes in Siberia and Europe.
Still, just as many worry about the dangers of catastrophic global warming, or the possibility of being hit by a space bolide (asteroid or comet), others are on the watch for a ‘pole shift,’ and they are not the first to worry about such a thing. As early as the 1950s maverick cartographer Charles Hapgood wrote that an advanced pre-diluvian civilization, possibly Atlantis, was destroyed by a sudden shift in the angle of Earth’s polar axis.
Also relevant may be Hapgood’s notion that significant periodic shifts in the planet’s geographic poles are at least one cause of what we call ice ages, where vast regions move quickly from temperate to cold areas and vice versa. Hapgood believed that the rapidity of this process accounts for the fact that undigested summer plants are found in the stomachs of mammoths frozen in Siberia. Incidentally many of Hapgood’s conclusions about pole shift were endorsed by Albert Einstein.
Harvard climate scientist professor Peter Huybers has used computer models to demonstrate that tiny shifts in Earth’s axis cause glaciers to either advance or retreat in cycles lasting either 10,000 or 40,000 years. In a 2011 paper published in the journal Nature, Huybers explained two cycles of tilt change, ‘obliquity’ and ‘precession’. When they align correctly, ice melts. When they oppose each other, glaciers advance.
Serbian geophysicist Milutin Milankovitch first argued the point a century ago. According to Milankovitch, Earth’s axis completes one full cycle of ‘precession’ approximately every 26,000 years. At the same time the elliptical orbit rotates more slowly. Milankovitch believed the combined effect of the two precessions leads to a 21,000-year period between the astronomical seasons and the orbit.
‘Precession’ is the cycle behind the so-called astrological ‘ages’ where the constellation which appears at sunrise, seems, over time, to shift slowly backward through the zodiac, at about two thousand years per astrological sign. By this reckoning we are now entering the age of Aquarius. Many modern alternative scholars, as well as ancient sages, have suggested that this ‘precession of the equinoxes’ tracks the rise and fall of civilizations.
Could pole shift have been behind enormous ancient catastrophic events, and should we be concerned about the possibility of history repeating itself? In Atlantis Rising Magazine #81, John White, author of the 1988 bestselling book, Pole Shift, wrote about what he called the “Doomsday Fallacy.”
“There are no problems,” he wrote, “there are only situations. Problems don’t exist in nature. Only situations exist, only sets of circumstances. It is the human mind which projects attitudes and values onto those situations and then labels them as problems. But that label doesn’t describe what nature is doing. It describes the state of mind of the human who labeled the situation.”
AR #127
POLE SHIFT AND THE PYRAMIDS
