wow,
extremely receptive audience considering the topic. refreshing.
I’ll try to answer the questions (for him) as best I can.
Andros, you asked a couple questions
- How did the tree of life come to be recorded as a creation myth.
He doesn’t address this, but I think he’d follow the logic of the children’s game “Telephone.” As “history” was simply oral and then remedially symbolic for thousands of years, the truth became distorted but still contained somewhat obvious fragments of the truth.
- Does he address other creation myths besides the Judeo-Christian one?
Sort of. He is very interested in the primitive. Thus, he draws extensively from two of the oldest of the major religions today- Judaism and Hinduism. Actually, he posits that the Tower of Babel was supposed to be a huge Shiva lingham (phallic statue). Unfortunately, as brain size grew disproportionately larger than the skull, increases in skull pressure caused seizures, and humans lost their telepathic ability. Language began after that.
At any rate, his retelling of the Creation myth and his other revisions of Old Testament stories were never cited as proof that his theory was true. It was more of a sidenote. He has plenty of those, including the identity of the Yeti and a very strange God/UFO connection.
Okay now the king of spain asked something to the effect of
“isn’t this just modified Lemarckinanism?”
Now, this is where I find Maerth’s philosophy to falter a bit. I think he would argue that eating brain was a drug; much like our generation’s ingestion of ecstacy- done for the euphoric feeling, but with consequences to our brains. Imagine a crack baby with a defect smoking crack, and his defected baby smoking crack…And add to this the fact that eating brains meant sex later…for sure. Rape, sex, whatever. The sexual rush guaranteed it. The problem I have with this theory is that the males were the primary ingesters of brain, not females… making for a huge contradiction.
Mangetout asked something like
“does the pituitary gland cause a sexual rush.”
This is a resounding yes. It is proven. In fact, gorilla brain is a delicacy because of the sexual rush. Maerth actually tried gorilla brain shortly after this theory came to him, and recorded his feelings afterward. He also added that the sexual rush increases with the increase in intelligence.
I’d like to add a couple more things, just to make it interesting.
*There are an increasing number of scientists who have (unknowingly) agreed with Maerth that the brain size and capacity for memory increased dramatically (exponentially faster than the speed of evolution for all other things, including ourselves before and after this period) between 1 million years ago and 50,000 years ago (when Maerth said the seizures came, and then the flood and guilt, etc.). These scientists do not have an explanation for this, but most likely would also find Maerth’s theory dubious.
*This book was published in the US by a publishing company that worked very closely with the CIA. Maerth himself speculates that the CIA and similar agencies will probably experiment with fruit flies, or some sort of short-lived, high copulating insect.
*Maerth begins the book beautifully. Here is a hasty, almost criminal synopis of the first pages, just because I think understanding his mindset is intregal in understanding the motives behind his theories.
We cannot remember our birth. Similarly, we cannot remember how our existence began. At a certain point, we began to wonder how it all started. So we made up stories. We naturally set ourselves on top of an invisible pyramid. We sere the best species on the only world in the universe, which was flat and we were in the center of, and which the sun revolved around. Then an astronomer discovers that there are other planets, and these planets have moons. We have to take a step down the pyramid. Then a seafarer in the 15th century discovers that the world isn’t flat, it is spherical, and we were merely on top of one small section on one arc- not in the center. Then another astronomer discovers that we actually revolve around the sun. We take one step down after another. And every step is grudgingly taken. Everyone throughout history who spoke out against the accepted norm (which placed us at the top) was deemed a heretic: Socrates, Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin… thousands others. He saw his theory as the final step down, realizing that we are actually the worst species on the world, in danger of destroying it all. We are psychotic sex-obsessed apes, and we are a virus to all living things living in the natural order.
By the way, the Devo thing is true, they say something to the effect of “we don’t necessarily believe the things in the book, but they the book is important because it reminds us that we really don’t have any idea what happened. What we think really happened probably didn’t.”
sorry, this is way too long,
and I used way too many off the cuff paraphrases
but I hope I was somewhat informative
oh, and my stand on the issue…I think his facts/methodologies are often times dubious, but he is probably closer than our conventional modern thought on the subject. It probably is a crackpot theory, but considering how disgusting human civilization has always been, we most likely didn’t come into existence in a pretty manner.
colin
