Hi, All. Here Goes Nothing!
I was interested in the point Leslee raised in response to Ralph's message concerning the Underground Entrances (Maltese Cave entrance) from Timothy Beckley's "Subterranean Worlds Inside Earth". I add my own voice to hers when she points out that the focus of the HE interest and research has been almost exclusively upon the Polar entrances - specifically the Arctic.
We have all been more or less inundated and might I say "brainwashed" with "Etidorhpa" in the past, but nobody seems to have really taken the hint that there are probably scores, if not hundreds, of such DRY-LAND "portals" via deep cave-systems, into the Hollow Earth! I get the feeling that some of us have developed "tunnel-vision" (forgive the pun!) in viewing the North pole region as being the "Number1" entrance, largely due to the influence of Emerson's "The Smoky God" - which, to my mind, is purely a work of fiction, written as fact - a common technique with early sci-fi writers - and Byrd's seemingly fictitious "Lost Diaries" about him finding his way into the HE inadvertently by airplane.
All subsequent embellishment of this "Polar-Hole" notion, by adding the reports of "turn-of-the-century" Arctic explorers to these two fundamental yarns, has really lead us nowhere. I believe that it really is high time for us to have a serious look at some other possible LAND-entrances, and put aside the Polar Ice Cap aspect as a truly viable proposition. Poor old Jan L.has had nothing but frustration and heartache in attempting to pursue this "Holy Grail" Polar route, and, as I said a long time back, even if we did locate the site of such a hole, I'd bet London to a brick that it will be a SUBMERGED one! In which case we would be looking for some sort of Jules Vernian vertical submarine or diving-bell to get through it!
There has been absolutely NO confirmatory official sighting of such a hole as we used to talk about - one 1,400 miles across - and I'm convinced that IFone DID exist, it would surely have been discovered a thousand times over by now! How many thousands of planes have overflown the North polar region since such Great Circle routes began to be used by commercial aircraft! Not to mention all the orbital satellites that have passed thousands of times over that same sector? We just can't go on believing it's all a big "NASA Plot" to keep us few Hollow Earthers from discovering the terrible truth! I hope that none of us is THAT paranoid ! Of course, for those among us who subscribe to Governmental "Cover-Up" theories, there's plenty of food for thought in the Brantonian "Underground Conspiracy" tales which continue to proliferate like mushrooms. They're probably all fed with the same perfect nutrient - "B -S-"!
I've suggested it before, and I do again, that we ought to try taking a different tack by looking into some of the great tunnels and caverns which are actually KNOWN to exist, and to use whatever means seem appropriate to search these. Either by actual speleological exploration - (a LOT cheaper and far more achieveable than the Polar concept) - and/or by exploration upon the psychic plane, via such experts as we already have among us! I refer to Leslee and Greg and others who are likewise psychically-gifted.
I know this latter may not sit too well with those of us who will only accept cast-iron mathematical and physical proof, with plenty of those 16"x12" glossy photos to back it up. But what OTHER means are there open to us? Really?
We will never get off First Base by arguing the toss about "What Nansen thought he saw, back at the turn of the century" or "What Joe Cater claims for his Soft Particles and gravitation". Surely we're all in this group because we ALREADY BELIEVE that the Earth IS HOLLOW, so why are we trying to prove it to each other by rambling semantic arguments and quoting fictitious fairy-tales? Isn't all that sort of thing really the bailiwick of the Fantastic Reality people? I also feel that we aren't listening anything like halfway enough to any of the other researchers in this field. God knows why not! Are we trying to hog all the Hollow Earth knowledge and secrets entirely for ourselves?
Matt and Kev Taylor, for example, have many brilliant ideas that have NEVER been discussed by this group, yet despite my repeated efforts to draw attention to their potentially unique input, as set forth in "The Land of No Horizon" (apparently still sadly unread by most of you) we still keep our noses buried in "Etidorhpa" and the "Smoky God"! Isn't it time we allowed a gust of new and original thought to blow into the limp-sails of our seemingly-becalmed ship of alleged-mental adventure?
I think that many of the recent "flare-ups" between members were probably founded upon nothing more than FRUSTRATION because we just AREN'T getting anywhere! Millions of wasted words continue to splash across our "AllPlanets-Hollow" craft every week. But, alas, the water-tight mental bulkheads still seem to remain firmly sealed against any fresh, and therefore possibly "Boat-Rocking" new ideas or concepts filtering into our thinking from outside our cosy, but STATIC little ark!
Anyhow, I guess I've just added a bunch more wasted words to that mighty ocean - though hopefully to some purpose! After all don't they say that "Constant Dripping of Water Will Wear Away A Stone"?
Forgive me for writing a short novel - and for mixing my metaphors a bit !
Gerry