Hi, Dean.
You wrote:
<Gerry,
<About your writing below on Armageddon - Are you sure that we can
<trust the authenticity of Byrd's diary?
<I've heard that there is something fishy about it, and about Harley
<Byrd, who touts it around.
<Dharma/Dean
No, Dean, I'm not sure about Byrd's diary being authentic at all! In
fact, I would go so far as to opine, judging from all I've heard and
read on the subject, that this particular "Diary" never existed, and
that the whole story was very likely a fabrication. Not necessarily
by Richard E.Byrd himself, but by someone trying to cash in on some
of his reported adventures and possible reports of odd and anomalous
sightings during his polar flights. I feel inclined to discount
these reports until more definitive evidence might be forthcoming
from the US Defense Department. Till then, I prefer to regard it all
as pure myth and invention.
Harley Byrd has been accused by some of actually authoring the Diary
(or Diaries) himself, but I don't know if this was ever proved to be
true. Anyhow, one just never hears anything of him these days, so I
doubt if we'll ever know the real truth behind it all.
There seems to be some element of "cross-pollination" between this
alleged Byrd "Diary" story of meeting the Master of the Arianni, and
Olaf and Jens Jansen's encounter with the Vedic-Hebrew Chief High
Priest of the Inner World. This makes me suspect that the alleged
Byrd "Diary" account really originated from Emerson's "Smoky God"
story.
BTW, I wasn't actually writing about Armageddon. I think someone from
the "Armageddon" list came across my article on Onelight.com and
posted it on their list, before I had time to tell you of it myself!
Regards, Gerry.
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