You realize this is the part of the book where the interviewer reporter took
license with the material Olaf had related to him. The reporter couldn't
understand a constant sun concept, even though thousands of legends and
reports to a land of continuous light existed. To him there had to be an
eclipsing, or a night and day cycle that allowed him to accept the story.
This is unfortunately the most damaging aspect of the Smokey God book. This
and the perforated shell twinkle star effect. In context of the book, this
description leaves Olaf's account and delves into the author's imagination of
what might give the inner earth a similar presence to that of the outer
world. The tone and nature of the whole story here leaves Olaf's style and
demeanor, and wanders through this pseudo scientific explanation of
something, that Olaf had no need or reason to have to explain. Anything else
that Olaf related he just told us about, instead of trying to explain it's
scientific significance. The awkward, and even preposterous nature of this
explanation exposes the source as other than Olaf Jansen. Again,
unfortunately, this is the very type of ammunition that the skeptics rely
upon to discredit the whole of the account. In the book, after this
explanatory diversion is concluded, the book returns to the temperament and
style of Olaf again. I think I recall, that this was addressed in a Fate
magazine article, or maybe even Palmer's Flying Saucer magazine, where the
author of the article claimed to have had the author of the Smokey God admit
to this digression. Maybe someone could follow up on or can corroborate that
article. Thanks.
Norlan
Norlan,
When I wrote to Cater about a nighttime in the hollow Earth, he wasn't very
big on the idea. He kind of left open a possibility, though:
" The side of the central sun facing the real sun will receive slightly more
particles from the inner shell than from the opposite side. As a result,
that side might be brighter than the opposite side." This could account for
some kind of nighttime, although maybe not a pitch black nighttime like we
have. I mean, Olaf described the brightness of their day as two full moons
of light, so their nighttime could be maybe one full moon, who knows.
In this first description of the inner sun, from within, the tone of the
narration doesn't break stride or change really.
" In the meantime we had lost sight of the sun's rays, but we found a
radiance 'within ' emanating from the dull-red sun which had already
attracted our attention, now giving out a white light seemingly from a
cloud-bank far away in front of us. It dispensed a greater light, I should
say, than two full moons on the clearest night. In twelve hours this cloud
of whiteness would pass out of sight as if eclipsed, and the twelve hours
following corresponded with our night. We early learned that these strange
people were worshipers of this great cloud of light. It was ' The Smoky God
' of the ' Inner World.'".
In the second description, he breaks the storyline to give a brief, simple
explanation of gravity, but I don't know if I would conclude that it was
here where the narrator got involved. I mean, the short explanation which he
gave, just in one sentence, contains a concept about gravity which current
science soundly rejects, but which is much in keeping with Cater's concept-
Olaf reported that gravity does, in fact, exhibit repulsion. Now, how did he
know that? And why would the narrator have said such a shocking,
unacceptable thing if he were trying to water down the story and make it
more acceptable. That litle explanation about gravity, explaining why the
central sun stays in place, simply made it more difficult for the modern
mind to accept.
Cater's musings above leave open the possibility of a darker side and a
type of night, so it might have just been this which was meant by Olaf.
I do not discard the possibility, though, that the narrator tried to make
the narration more palatable in some places, maybe even with Olaf's
approval. I mean, for the rigid mindsets of those times, and given the
treatment that Olaf had when he initially tried to communicate his
experience, maybe they felt they had a reason to tone it down. For example,
the name of Olaf's guide, Jules Galea, sounds very Westernised. But I'll
have to get a hold of a person who knows Sanskrit ( anybody? ) and ask
about some of the vocabulary used, because Olaf reported that their language
was similar to Sanskrit.
Dharma/Dean
From Vedic Culture Remains in the Hollow Earth:
http://skyboom.com/hollowearthpuranas/index6.html
What exactly about Olaf's report was suggestive of Puranic culture, as it
was before the beginning of Kali Yuga, in the hollow Earth? Well, we already
know that Olaf reported giant human beings. Among other things he also
reported that they enjoyed a life span of around 800 years, had photographic
memory, great intelligence, that they spoke Sanskrit or a close derivative,
were of a Northern European stock of race, worshipped the inner Sun and a
pantheon of gods at least similar to the Hindu, if not the same. ( Remember
that he was young when he went there and could not communicate too well with
them, nor absorb everything that he saw around him. So it might have been
hard for him to interpret exactly what he saw. ). He reported that the
flowers all had tremendous fragrances and that the fruits were more tasty
than on the surface.
" Vegetation grew in lavish exuberance, and fruit of all kinds possessed the
most delicate flavour. Clusters of grapes four and five feet in length, each
grape as large as an orange, and apples larger than a man's head typified
the wonderful growth of all things on the "inside" of the earth. The great
redwood trees of California would be considered mere underbrush compared
with the giant forest trees extending for miles and miles in all
directions. In many directions along the foothills of the mountains vast
herds of cattle were seen during the last day of our travel on the river."
It suffices to say that to anyone familiar with the puranic descriptions of
human beings before the advent of Kali Age, Olaf's testimony provides a
shocking correspondence.