YOUR MIND WONDERS, and ponders, when suddenly wham, an epiphany strikes. Your eyes widen and jaw drops.. It seems so clear..!
You rush to grab a pen and paper, but by the time you’re ready, you don’t have a clue of what you were thinking just a minute ago.
It takes practice to eventually discipline the mind to overcome this barrier, and when that happens, it is worth the effort because of the way sensitivity is enhanced. While in this state, time slows to allow a closer look at details.
It is me following the example set by Demosthenes with his pebbles-in-mouth, oratorical exercises.
- Example: Earth is said to be about 4.5 billion years old, but this assumes there was only one episode of earth’s primitive material in melted state congealing into a mantle and core. The 4.5 number is how long it has been since the last time this happened, with the assumption that it only happened once.
Nobody knows, but let’s imagine there were earlier cycles, where life may have existed, say, 10 billion years ago and became advanced enough to know earth would turn molten again and hopefully reemerge in time, and so they devised this “strong-box” of sorts to survive the calamity and preserve memory of their culture, and that this strong-box is located, about midway down inside the earth..!
All that is needed to leap into a world of fame is for some budding geologist to find any anomaly — anything in the structure of the earth that can’t be explained — and build a theory around the claim that this anomaly is evidence of a lost culture much older than the earth itself was thought to be..! Life, from an earlier geologic age..!
(sigh)
That took mental discipline.
Thwarticus 