What are your achievements and discoveries?

[AndrewTheSinger]

Ah, from what I understood of the experience, and this is in no way a scientific explanation, is that the other breeds that lived alongside with the Neanderthals never went extinct. There was no superior race that replaced the former, instead, they mixed their genes, and that helped them adapt more successfully to the changing environment. Only the Neanderthals were more populous, and their characteristics carried over more predominantly.

[zareste]

Aha, that's the concept archeologists are leaning toward.  One thing I didn't expect: Neanderthals were more populous?  Archeology painted them as a secluded sub-species.  Interesting.

I guess the bigger question on everyone's mind is, where did they come from?  It's normal for a species to separate and cross-breed back together, so why were neanderthals special enough for this voice to tell you about them?

[AndrewTheSinger]

Indeed, I'm not sure if they were spoken of in higher regards than those of the other species, I just caught the word 'Neanderthal' as a fragment of the story that the voice was telling. Unfortunately I cannot tell how it happened, all I can consciously remember hearing is that it didn't happen like a single, new and independent group spreading throughout the world.

However, I don't recommend anyone believing this without scientific support, I've also heard once that lightnings are like an interplanetary chat 

[zareste]

Interplanetary chat?  Interesting.  It's important to consider these words - or at least record them for someone else to consider, because tossing them aside can set us back hundreds of years.

The Hindus, for example, knew about the evolution process and the Big Bang thousands of years ago.  They didn't have it down to a science - they were merely told about it by outside sources.  Had Europeans considered these concepts instead of deeming them heresy, we could have skipped 3,000 years of biological and astronomic advancement.  Instead we have Stephen Hawking shouting "look-at-me-I-single-handedly-found-out-the-universe-asploded."

[AndrewTheSinger]

You're right zareste, as an example, my grandfather was a native indian, and my mother use to say that when they were kids they never went to the hospital, because he knew treatment for many diseases within the plants. Infection, insect sting, sore throat, there was a different plant, or a different concoction for each case, knowledge that they've gathered for thousands of years.

I have never met him, for he died a few years before I was born, and it's sad to know that much of that knowledge has disappeared along with their land and culture.

[zareste]

Well lookit this, I did a search for thunderstorms and interplanetary communication and sure enough, there's a PDF article about radio systems receiving signals from other planets http://www.teslasociety.com/mars.pdf - and the signals seemed a lot like lightning bursts, but with sequential patterns.  Interplanetary lightning bursts in sequences.

Just something I found.  I was puzzled, at first, at how lightning could be any sort of communication.  Does it communicate between sky bases and ground bases?  Is lightning the actual communication or just a result of it? Astral messages like the one you heard tend to say very significant things in such a matter-of-fact tone you could take them as nonsense.

But it hit me:  Lightning bolts can be seen from space - their radiation can be picked up by another planet with moderate radio instruments, and one bolt can create several flashes for a morse code.  If someone could set off bursts using the ionosphere, they'd have a fast easy network of interplanetary communication using stellar energy instead of reserve energy.

[AndrewTheSinger]

Wow, this is getting very interesting. Unlike stars, I had no idea planets could excert any other measurable effect beside the gravitational pull, I'm one century late on this 

So, it was actually true, at least to some extent. What I felt during the experience, and this one was not a voice while in trance, but a teacher in a dream school, is that the Earth itself speaks by lightnings, it's the actual communication, she said that the other planets 'read' the lightnings like letters, much like the example you gave of the morse code.

At that time that information seemed to me too allegorical to be taken seriously, like something you could tell 5-year-olds when they asked about storms.

It didn't cross my mind that this could be a technology used by beings for interchange of information, but yes, it seems possible as an alternative, or complement for satellite communications, imagine, instead of stream, they pack all the data in a single lightning and zap, it's all in front of you!