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originally posted by: Herolotus
Has anyone here ever read Buck Nelson? He's known for a short work called "My Trip to Mars, The Moon, and Venus", and the corresponding fame that followed.
I've been working my way through early Contactee works, mostly to enjoy their incredible weirdness, When I noticed something odd.
On Page 29 of the 39 page pamphlet, Buck talks about information that he was given by the humanoid space aliens about the distant past. He'll go on and talk about the flood and Atlantis, providing fuel for many popular concepts (secret underground tunnels, advanced ancient technologies, alien-assisted pyramid building, and lost knowledge), but here on page 29 he says the following:
"There is a shaft in one of the pyramids (or was in times past), through which one particular star could be seen. When this star was seen, the Nile would overflow its banks in three days."
So that sounded to me an awful lot like what Temple writes about in "The Sirius Mystery", what Bauvel writes about in "The Orion Mystery", and what Graham Hancock writes about generally.
Interesting and specific, but something seemed off. I've got a degree in Ancient History, specializing the the Ancient Near East, and while I knew the shafts in the pyramids were old news, and that there were many theories about what these shafts were for, that particular theory, I thought, was pretty recent.
So I checked it out. Looking it up, seems that the first "Star-Shaft Theory" came about in 1964 via one Alexander Badawy.
Buck Nelson published his pamphlet in in 1956. The published version I have in hand is copyrighted 1961.
So my questions to all stalwart ATS researchers are these...
How could, even if he was a fraud, Buck Nelson know about this concept before the advent of modern communication and nearly ten years before the theory was announced?
originally posted by: Herolotus
Can anyone find proof that the "Star-Shaft Theory" predates 1964, or better yet, 1956?
originally posted by: Herolotus
a reply to: draknoir2
Nicely DONE!
Seems these two were who Badawy studied and expanded on, and is probably the best bet for how Nelson could have the info. Rumors abound that he had research materials in his home.
Although...
He doesn't actually use the Soul-Shaft Theory, but the Star-Shaft Theory. I don't see where Capart and Steindorff actually said that the shafts aligned with stars, just as used as paths for the soul.
Still, maybe close enough, and I'll keep looking for more detailed info on what Capart and Steindorff actually proposed.
How could, even if he was a fraud, Buck Nelson know about this concept before the advent of modern communication and nearly ten years before the theory was announced?
originally posted by: Herolotus
a reply to: draknoir2
Regardless, you get the award - I call the issue largely solved unless someone can find a period publication that he would have known about, which is the kind of thing one may need the Library of Congress for.
Thanks for the suggested reading - I'm familiar with everything on the subject after about 1970, so the stuff from the 50'ss should give me some good background so I can keep myself informed on the subject.