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Vyamanika Shastra: A discussion


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reply posted on 11-12-2008 @ 04:01 PM by Harte


Originally posted by spacevisitor
Originally posted by Harte
Wendell Stevens is one of Meier's mouthpieces.


You are twisting the facts.
US Air Force Lt. Col., USAF (Ret) Wendelle Stevens is an investigator and sorely not a mouthpiece of Meier as you call it.
And he studied the case very thoroughly.

Having spent 8 years on this case, 7 trips to Switzerland and 81 days on site, interviewing 29 eyewitnesses, 5 photographers, 4 recorders of the spacecraft sounds, and dozens of observers, I feel that I am as qualified as anybody in these United States to draw some conclusions from what I have learned.
Somebody not of this Earth is indeed visiting Switzerland, and those extraterrestrials were contacting Eduard "Billy" Meier living in Hinterscbmidruti.



Believe me, I know Stevens' story well.
Stevens is the one that claimed that meier's "prophecies" See article HERE (aka the Henoch prophecies) and reiterated and embellished HERE by Michael Horn were true and were given over to him by Meier before any of the prophecied stuff occurred.

However, Ike42's investigation of these "prophecies" - see article HERE showed all three men men were lying.

My understanding is that Stevens and Meier had a falling out at some later date. I believe (but I may be misremembering the story) that it had to do with another person that also claimed to have been contacted by the same group of (nonexistant) aliens that Meier claimed.

Ain't that always the way it is, one guy wants to hog the aliens (translation - cash cow) all to himself?

Originally posted by spacevisitor
Originally posted by Harte
Not that I dispute them, necessarily. But I myself wouldn't rely on a proven liar such as Billy Meier or his sidekicks to provide my evidence for me.


Billy Meier is not a proven liar, but much of his work is sorely falsified to make it look faked and him a liar.
I assume you aren’t interested in reading a brief written to Wendell Stevens in February 1989 by a security agent then whose name is not published in the book for obvious reasons of course about how and what measures where used to make Billy Meier look a liar.
Just as they done and still do with anyone who comes forward with so called interesting Ufo information.

Nobody had to go to any "measures" to show Meier was a fraud. He took care of that himself with his outrageously hokey pics of so-called "beamships" that he created out of trash can lids and various and sundry other things.

There's almost an entire section here at ATS on Meier, with J Ritzmann - the guy that exposed most of Meier's fraudulent photos- and Michael Horn both weighing in.

Horn eventually threw a fit and ran away.

Originally posted by spacevisitor
I never can and even will claim here that all the things Meier said are 100% true, but who of which case is?
Look for instance to your own matter of interest, Egyptology, can you claim here that all what is said or written in books by the Egyptologists about the Egyptians is 100% true?
That all what Hawass and Co and those before them are telling and claiming is true?

Of course not. But Hawass is not claiming to have actually witnessed anything that happened in 2600 BC.

Remember, Meier says this all happened to him He's not making any educated guesses, the way archaeology is required to.

Your analogy is hardly an analogy at all.

Meier is a liar and a fraud. Hawass can't be either, as far as his archaeological pronouncements go. He can only be wrong or right.

Originally posted by spacevisitor

Originally posted by Harte
There must be a hundred Billy Meier threads here at ATS. Check them out. Meier made the entire thing up. No question about it.


Not for me.

You should look into some of what's been posted over the last five (or more) years here at ATS on the subject. We're not all just a bunch of dweebs, each trying to out-argue the other. Major players in the controversy have been here and had their say.

But for your perusal, let me give you this link to a UFO website that trashes Meier because of what he is.
UFOWatchdog hall of shame 3
Assuming you would assume that I would simply send you to a skeptical site pretending to be a UFO site, check out this page at the same site:
UFOWatchdog hall of fame page 1

Originally posted by spacevisitor
Originally posted by Harte
Are you not aware that you can quote from and link to any page of the Mahabharata you want through Sacred-Texts.com?


Believe it or not but even my housecat is aware of that.

Perhaps you should ask your cat for the book and verse for some of the quotes in question then.

Originally posted by spacevisitor
Originally posted by Harte
There are also many websites that give the same info Mr. Stevens did that actually include the book and verse of the quoted Mahabharata verse in question.


Really, you must be joking, right?

No. But I will admit it's a lot of work to find them.

Also, even when the book and verse is given, checking at Sacred-Texts can sometimes come up empty handed if the reference is to a different version.

The Mahabharata has several versions, only one in English and in the public domain. So if you get book and verse from one scholar or author, he may be using the "southern Mahabharata" whereas I believe the one at Sacred Texts is the "northern" version.

Same book but the verse numbers and chapter numbers might differ in lots of particulars.

Anyway, there are several threads here that point out various phrases from the Mahabharata regarding the wars of the Gods and they (several of them) give book, chapter and verse or link to the page quoted in the thread.

Point is, you don't have to wander far from here to get this info. And you don't have to quote a person that sold his credibility to Billy Meier.

Hell, even Childress is better than that, though he still "quotes" a passage from the Mahabharata that doesn't actually exist!

Anyway, this is far enough off topic now, wouldn't you say?

Harte



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reply posted on 11-12-2008 @ 04:05 PM by Harte


Originally posted by Hanslune
Professor Harte

Do you know of a non-UFO site that has a collect of the M & R quotes?

None that quote the verses we're talking about.

Most scholarly sites concerning the Mahabharata (I've been exhausted by that book and never really even got looking into the Ramayana because of it) are basically critiques of the work itself, laying out what it's about, the storyline, plot, characters, themes, etc.

It would require a great deal of work to collate and cross reference, with links or book, chapter and verse, the many things of interest in that work which is, I believe, over 20,000 pages.

Maybe after I retire...

Harte



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reply posted on 11-12-2008 @ 04:19 PM by Hanslune


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Yes I've seen it off and on and spent some time with it today. Well it reads better than the VS!

However I member the Homeric stuff in verse instead of book verson was pretty horrid stuff too.

What Childress or whatever his name was... makes up stuff - who would have thougth!



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reply posted on 6-1-2009 @ 01:31 PM by YoungStalin


Well these veda documents are much older than they are said to be. We have been looking at the written ones but as with most of the Veda docs they were passed down verbally for generations before they were ever written down.



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reply posted on 6-1-2009 @ 01:34 PM by Hanslune


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Howdy Ioseb Besarionis

Care to venture an age and why you think it might be accurate?



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reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 05:37 PM by YoungStalin


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Not sure on age and im not going to make a wild guess.



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reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 05:39 PM by Hanslune


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The best at the moment I believe is that they were formed orally during the Harappa civilization and may of course have earlier roots.



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reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 07:25 PM by YoungStalin


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Thats probably the most educated guess anyone can make with the present data.



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reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 07:37 PM by Hanslune


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I read somewhere some material on a convoluted theory that threw more development on the Dravidian proto-civilizations. They probably shared in development. Unless we can find more examples of the Harappa language we're stymied.

Cannot find that now.



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reply posted on 8-1-2009 @ 12:03 PM by YoungStalin


you should check this out has a section the subject its a good read if you want to read the whole thing. It kind of goes along with the MUCH older theory.
www.thecrowhouse.com...



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reply posted on 8-1-2009 @ 01:30 PM by Hanslune


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Yes I've seen that publication before - a complilation of fringe thought.



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reply posted on 8-1-2009 @ 05:48 PM by coredrill


The Indian Institute of Science had done a study of the Science and practises referred in the Vaimaika Shashtra and had come to the conclusion


3. General Comments and Conclusions Any reader by now would have concluded the obvious – that the planes described above are the best poor concoctions, rather than expressions of something real None of the planes has properties or capabilities of being flown; the geometries are un imaginably horrendous from the point of view of flying; and the principles of propulsion make then resist rather than assist flying.
The text and the drawings do not correlate with each other even
thematically. The drawings definitely point to a knowledge of modern machinery. This can be explained on the basis of the fact that Shri Ellappa who made the drawings was in a local engineering college and was thus familiar with names and details of some machinery. Of course the text
retains a structure in language and content from which its ‘recent nature’ cannot be asserted. We must hasten to point out that this does not imply an oriental nature of the text at all. All that may be said is that thematically the drawings ought to be ruled out of discussion. And the text, as it stands, is incomplete and ambiguous by itself and incorrect at many places.
A large number of verses has been devoted to the metallurgical and
material aspects, as stated earlier.

Complete Pdf Copy of the IISC Study on the Book- Vaimanika Shastra



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reply posted on 9-1-2009 @ 04:26 PM by Harte


Nice!

Thanks for that PDF coredrill.

Harte



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reply posted on 14-1-2009 @ 04:52 PM by YoungStalin


Maybe its true meanings were lost after years of being passed down verbaly and poorly translated you know like the bible in english. Da Vinci had specs for flying machines that did not work and the egyptians have a picture of a helicopter in the temple of Abydos. So nobody will ever know if it came from real knowledge or bad planning, except for davinci that was just bad planning

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reply posted on 14-1-2009 @ 05:01 PM by Hanslune


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The, "they saw it somewhere" argument always assumes that these people would have had access to some document or record - that nobody else did, and they didn't mention it. Even weirder they could read not having knowledge of ancient languages.

Oh and no helicopter in Abydos, just a damaged hieroglyph, a palimpsest.



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reply posted on 25-1-2009 @ 07:23 AM by endless_observer


The information provided in the preface of this book regarding the origins of its contents being "channeled" is FLATLY FALSE. I've read, in hard copy, the original publication, and the original manuscript (written in sanskrit) was found in an unrevealed location in Mohenjo-Dara and was originally of great interest to certain American reporters. The individual who had possession of the manuscript and who was working with someone else to translate it asked, in one communication with one reporter, that before he came to view the manuscript, he send a sum of money, and bring another sum with him. This money was intended to both offset the cost of the research, and to serve as living expenses. The reporter took it to be a scam, and even published a story calling it such. My guess is that the information in this preface is another attempt to discredit the manuscript, but my belief after reading it for myself (though I'm no expert), is that it is definitely authentic. While I'm no expert, I am in school studying to be a physicist, and I do believe that the principles that are VAGUELY described in the manuscript are accurate.

For example, in the book is information about a method of generating power that is loosely translated as "by combination" and "by division". You get the idea....

EDIT TO ADD: Oh, and the argument that these things couldn't fly neglects the fact that if you sufficiently charge something to a positive voltage, it stops falling to the earth. In other words, it floats.

[edit on 25-1-2009 by endless_observer]



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reply posted on 25-1-2009 @ 08:56 AM by coredrill


Originally posted by endless_observer
The information provided in the preface of this book regarding the origins of its contents being "channeled" is FLATLY FALSE. I've read, in hard copy, the original publication, and the original manuscript (written in sanskrit) was found in an unrevealed location in Mohenjo-Dara and was originally of great interest to certain American reporters.
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Care to back your Statement above???

In ATS itself, a sort of brief History is given by The Vagabond at
www.abovetopsecret.com...

So, you have read the hard copy of the Vymanika shastra which was found in Mohen-Jo-Dara of all places.

perhaps, you would be enlightened to know that the Indus valley Civilisation of Mohen-jo-dara and harrappa didnt have Sanskrit as a spoken or written language!!

Ha!

The indus Valley Script is yet to be deciphered.

So? Whats the source of Vymanika Shastra????

From a study on the Vymanika Shastra by Scientists of Indian Institute of technology, Bangalore, India's foremost Scientific organisation/institute,
is this section about the origin of the book

1.1 ORIGIN A book titled “Brihad Vimana Shastra” by Shri Bramhamuni Parivrajaka was published in the year 1959 [1]. It contains verses in Sanskrit (describing aircraft) with their Hindi translation. Recently, another book titled “Vymanika Shastra” by Shri G.R. Josyer has appeared [2], which contains the same Sanskrit verses with their English translation. One notable feature of this English version is that it contains drawings of some crafts too, something not to be found in the Hindi version. Also, the English work by Josyer makes no mention whatsoever of the earlier work in Hindi.

cgpl.iisc.ernet.in...


Again, Just to be clear,

"You read " in hard copy, the original publication, and the original manuscript (written in sanskrit) was found in an unrevealed location in Mohenjo-Dara and was originally of great interest to certain American reporters."

So, you read the original manuscript in Sanskrit too...right??:

Do you know Sanskrit?? I am asking because i am originally from India and had studied there for all my educational life and have a working knowledge of Sanskrit. may be we could hold a debate in Sanskrit on the topic?? What about it???

edited : to keep in line with the rules on quoting from external sources and to add links.

[edit on 25/1/09 by coredrill]



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reply posted on 25-1-2009 @ 12:33 PM by Hanslune


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Howdy EO

I have to say that is one wild claim, LOL

Sorry as the astute coredrill notes, the implausibility of your statements are immense and the evidence against you so formidable we'll need a heavy duty apomecometer to measure the distance from reality on that one.



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reply posted on 25-1-2009 @ 07:09 PM by endless_observer


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1. I never stated that I had read the original manuscript. I stated that I had read a copy of the original publication, and that publication stated that the original manuscript had been found in the area of mohenjo-dara.

2. I never stated that the inhabitants of mohenjo-dara had composed the original manuscript, only that it was found there.

3. I'm only relaying the information that I did, in fact, read. You needn't be such an absolute jerk when replying to a post on a web forum.



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