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I wondered if anyone had any thoughts on whether of not the author Rene Noorbergen had an agenda when he wrote 'Secrets of the Lost Races'. If so what was it?
For those who've not read it:-
The structure of the book uses biblical legend (flood etc), Hindu (flying craft) , along with other world legends to argue a case for an ancient, global, pre-ice age civilisation that had some form of high techonolgy and were wiped out in some global cataclysm, leaving a few artifacts and legends amongst the dregs left (Sound familiar people?) The usual suspects are in there; the arabian battery, the greek astronomical computer, vitrified forts, buildings made of huge stones. Pretty well written and undeservedly (IMHO) neglected
I first read the book in about 1978, and it was, for a long time, the only book I saw arguing that man was a lot older than current orthodoxy thought, rather than us getting a leg up by the greys (or fish men from Sirius).
These days we have Cremo (Vedic), Hancock (left field and tending toward space gods even as I type) et al, yet I've not seen a reference to Noorbergen among them, nor any opinion ventured about his motives, be they creationist, fundamentalist, just plain odd or a lover of mysteries.
Over to you guys
H 8¬)
For those who've not read it:-
The structure of the book uses biblical legend (flood etc), Hindu (flying craft) , along with other world legends to argue a case for an ancient, global, pre-ice age civilisation that had some form of high techonolgy and were wiped out in some global cataclysm, leaving a few artifacts and legends amongst the dregs left (Sound familiar people?) The usual suspects are in there; the arabian battery, the greek astronomical computer, vitrified forts, buildings made of huge stones. Pretty well written and undeservedly (IMHO) neglected
I first read the book in about 1978, and it was, for a long time, the only book I saw arguing that man was a lot older than current orthodoxy thought, rather than us getting a leg up by the greys (or fish men from Sirius).
These days we have Cremo (Vedic), Hancock (left field and tending toward space gods even as I type) et al, yet I've not seen a reference to Noorbergen among them, nor any opinion ventured about his motives, be they creationist, fundamentalist, just plain odd or a lover of mysteries.
Over to you guys
H 8¬)