Humanity’s Lost Skills and Abilities
Even the most cursory observation of the sensory responses of most animals to external stimuli in comparison to those of human beings clearly demonstrates that they possess far more keenly acute perception of sound and smell, by and large, than we do. Sight and to some extent, touch and taste, are perhaps the only senses which still remain reasonable acute in most modern humans, although hearing and smell are often found to be still keenly developed in primitive people, who have not had their sense of hearing dulled by artificial background noise such as machinery, traffic and the electronic media, or their sense of smell overloaded by artificial scents and odours, such as personal or deodorant perfumes, domestic polishes, antiseptics, household chemicals and cleaning agents, not to mention tobacco-smoke, exhaust fumes and other gaseous emissions from engines and fuels.

It would be fair to say that most of our human sensory failings are self-inflicted, being entirely due to our artificial, modern lifestyle and the ways in which we wittingly or unwittingly abuse our sensory organs. Listening to high-decibel rock-music would be a classic example of such abuse, with the resultant rapid increase in early deafness becoming increasingly endemic among young people. As a general rule, such abuse leads to irreversible damage to the sensory organs involved, although, fortunately, in modern artificial human society, the loss of these senses is not a matter of high-priority, or even any great indisposition to most people.

However, the loss of any of these five senses could be crucial to the very continued existence of a wild animal or a human native hunter, who both depend entirely upon the acuteness of their senses to survive in the wild. So much then for the more obvious and physical human and animal senses. But what of those hidden psychic inner senses which both animals and humans possess?

The Super Senses
Whilst many clinical physicians and hard-headed physical scientists still refuse to acknowledge their existence, most of us have, at some time or other, experienced the effects of these psychic “Super-Senses”. Typical examples of these arcane senses would be the feeling that someone is standing close behind you, even though entirely unheard, unseen and unsmelled in, say, a pitch-dark, thickly-carpeted room, for instance. Or the sudden, instant certainty that something has happened to a distant friend or loved one, which is later confirmed by phone or mail Or, perhaps the sense of dé-já-vu, when you inexpicably becomes aware of “having been here before” or of “something being about to happen”, either to you, or your surroundings. Many people have experienced these uncanny senses, especially of impending calamity or danger, either to themselves or to others with whom they may share a close affinity, and many have responded to such “feelings” to their thankful advantage.

There are also the spiritual senses, by means of which certain people and animals seem to be able to sense things not of this world at all. Call them “ghosts” if you will, although I prefer to describe them as “psychic phenomena or manifestations”. It seems that the evidence for the existence of a paranormal plane of perception is rapidly mounting, even in this highly-materialistic day and age, as more and more people than ever before are coming forward to recount their own strange experiences. There is a tendency to over-sensationalise such events or occurrences, which breeds a great deal of cynicism in the less-sensitive sector of people, and consequently casts a cloud of often unwarranted doubt or scorn upon all reference to such psychic experiences. Yet I know from personal experience that there is no doubt that we do possess, in company with the other animals, all of these latent super-senses. I will deal with these in more detail later in this article.

Sadly, the greatest inhibiting factors which suppress the development of such hidden super-senses in today’s scholars and thinkers are so-called “common sense” and the high emphasis placed by modern educators upon the physical sciences, which, by their very nature, are materially based. The average modern “person of higher education” finds him or herself afraid to “take on board” or even acknowledge any alternative science or belief in which they have not been formally educated or “brainwashed”. If such alternative science or philosophy was not included in their university curriculum - it simply doesn’t exist for them. Consequently, such persons are doomed to remain in total cynical ignorance of that vast, unfathomed and unseen immaterial psychic universe which lies all around them - even inside their very minds!

Animal Super Senses
Most animals still retain these super-senses intact. How often have domestic pets warned their owners of impending disasters or have sensed the death of a loved master or mistress from many scores or hundreds of miles away? Many people make the mistake of confusing acute hearing and scenting ability with psychic powers, and have therefore dismissed the animals’ very real psychic abilities as simply the heightening of ordinary senses. But what sense is it that can guide a left-behind family pet across a whole continent after his owners have moved house and inadvertently left him behind. Yet there are many such cases on record all over the world! And yet Science has not recognized it for what it is, and has instead suggested scent as perhaps being the guide! Scent of what? Truck tire-rubber on an intestate highway?

Then there are the curious cases of dogs and cats being able to see spiritual manifestations totally invisible to our human senses. I have myself, on various occasions, had the uncanny experience when I have been alone in the house in the late evening, of suddenly sensing an indefinable presence in the room, perhaps by a suble lowering of the room temperature, or a creepy feeling at the back of the neck. At the same time, my dog has woken up from some doggy dream to stand with hackles and ears raised and with his eyes staring fixedly at one point in the room, for long minutes on end. Then, as I have gradually felt the sense of a strange presence fade away and warmth return to my body, the dog has simultaneously lowered his ears and hackles and turned his attention away from where he had obviously clearly seen some humanly-invisible visitant, to come and quietly curl up at my feet again and fall asleep!

As I say, this has happened to me on quite a number of occasions, though I do not regard myself as a psychic or a “sensative” in any degree whatsoever. Of course one could easily say it might have been a mouse in the wall, or a distant sound outside the house that focussed the dog’s attention, but why should I sense some kind of presence sufficiently to chill my blood and make my hair curl - before knowing of or noticing the dog’s reaction to the same eerie stimulus? The only conclusion I can draw from these sort of experiences is that I was only faintly able to discern the visitants with my own atrophied psychic senses, whilst the dog was able to actually see, hear and perhaps even scent them! Nor were these experiences confined only to one dog. We have had a number of assorted dogs down the years, and some of them have been quite obviously more keenly equipped with these senses that others. I am sure that I haven’t been the only person to have such experiences, either! And I have heard of cats and even horses with exactly the same psychic senses. But these are only domesticated creatures! How much more sensitive must the creatures of the wild be?

Psychic Powers of The Ancients
Before launching forth upon a study of the strange powers which appear to have been in the possession of our ancestors, but are no longer within our grasp, let us first of all clarify the meaning of “psychic”. My dictionary defines this as “of the soul or mind. Concerned with processes that seem to be outside physical or natural laws. Having or involving occult powers.” Note my italicized words, “seem” and “natural”, and “occult powers”. The first key word here is “seem”, since there is no definite negation that psychic things are not “natural” (my second key word!). Likewise, according to my dictionary’s definition of “occult”, the term “occult powers” refers to “secret, hidden, or supernatural powers”, again there is no negation of “natural”, only the prefix “super” which means “above or beyond”. In other words, “supernatural” simply means what it says, “ beyond the known forces of nature”. And in my humble view, anyone who believes he knows every one of the forces of nature which operate throughout the universe, is deluding himself on a grand scale!

Dabblers in the Shallows of an Ocean of Ancient Knowledge
In terms of our knowledge of the mysteries of the cosmos, we are still as tiny infants playing with toy buckets and spades by the shores of a vast ocean of old wisdom. What we don’t know about the hidden mysteries of deep space and time, as well as invisible, multiple universes which could right now be occupying the space between our own atoms (but of which we are totally unaware), would surely fill many thousands of sets of encyclopaedias! We have a huge amount to learn - if we ever can - about all the myriad mysteries of nature, and the untold different sub-rules by which it operates, under what we might regard as “alien”, or even arcane circumstances, across the infinity of space. The only natural laws which we can identify with any degree of certainty are those which operate within our own local galactic backyard. Out there in the depths of the universe, “circumstances may very well alter cases” with regard to the natural laws of physics as we understand them.

However, having said all that, I still believe that there are certain constants which are fixed and immutable, underpinning the fundamental Laws of Nature, but they can probably be “bent” or “adjusted” to suit special unique situations. All laws, even those of God and the Tax Department have to be flexible to some degree, or they would be constantly being broken, and chaos would reign. Perhaps some of these “loopholes” in natural physical law, which would seem like magic to us, were known to the ancients, and were used to perform all those great constructional feats which still stagger and bemuse our imaginations today!

Users of Natural Magic?
Take for example the building of the Egyptian and Mesoamerican pyramids and temples, and the apparent ease with which massive blocks of stone, some weighing anywhere between 60 to 200 tons, were maneuvered and manipulated into minutely precise positions. Not to mention the ease with which they were accurately cut and dressed to millimetric tolerances, without the benefit of modern power stone-cutting equipment. Modern technology that still cannot equal the precision of those ancient craftsmen! Most of the marvellously fitted stone blocks in those amazing walls in Cuzco and Machu Picchu, laid by Inca masons appear to have been actually melted into shape (as if with some sort of superheated oxy-acetylene torch or laser gun), to ensure such a perfect, seamless fit that even a razor-blade cannot be inserted between them!

Legendary accounts tell of these feats of levitation being performed by holy men speaking “words of power” over the huge stones “which moved of themselves” as has been reported regarding the construction of Stonehenge, and I have read similar ancient accounts about the Egyptians employing similar mysterious mental levitational skills.
Such abilities would seem to have been widespread in ancient times. According to legendary accounts, the enigmatic giant stone heads on Easter Island were set up with the aid of a similar “magical skill”. It seems certain that there must have been a comparatively easy method available to the ancients for moving these enormous monoliths (teleportation) that has been lost in the mists of time, otherwise there would not have been such a universal upsurge of building on such an incredibly massive scale!

Other Powers of The Ancients
The easy cutting and movement of gigantic slabs of stone, and the carving of enormous statuary, were not the only strange powers and abilities of bygone early civilizations. They possessed many amazing skills in such matters as navigation and map-making, of which a few specimens are still preserved today, though countless extremely ancient yet marvellously accurate maps and charts were destroyed when the Great Library of Alexandria (which is believed to have been a part of the famous Lighthouse built by Ptolemy II on the island of Pharos in 280 BC), was very regrettably burned down by a mob of religious Muslim fanatics.

A typical well-known example of the amazing skill and geographical accuracy of these maps is the famous Piri Re’is map of the ancient Altlantic coasts from Spain and New England down to Antarctica. The Turkish “pirate admiral”, Piri Re’is, himself admitted that he had merely copied it, in 1513, from other, extremely archaic charts he had found in (or stolen from) an Arabian repository of art treasures. The astounding thing about this map was that the originals had been charted by some very ancient race who appeared to have possessed the ability to study the coastlines of the countries around the Atlantic from an aerial viewpoint!
This curious anomaly has since been proved to be the case after exhaustive examinations of the chart and its correlation with modern aerial and orbital satellite photographs by the US Air Force SAC Reconnaissance Technical Squadron, at the request of Professor Charles Hapgood (whom we shall hopefully be encountering again in another article). Could it be possible that an ancient civilization had discovered the ability to fly, either by some form of aircraft or perhaps by balloon?

The Enigma of Prehistoric Flight.
As we have learned from those indian epics, the Ramanyana and the Mahabharata, as well as from hints given in Churchward’s Nacaal tablet inscriptions, it appears that the ancient Ramans had the ability of powered-flight in “airborne chariots” called “vimanas”, or, in the case of the Atlanteans, “vailixi”. It also appears, according to Ethiopian legend, that King Solomon of Israel possessed such a craft, and used it to visit both the gold and diamond mines of Ophir in southeast Africa, and his supposed inamorato, the Queen of Sheba in Arabia. Although this is not recorded in the Hebrew Bible, neither are a great many other wonderful things which took place in other lands than those which occupy the very narrow geographic focus of the Bible.

That such aerial craft must have been available to the ancients, is self-evident from such amazing things as the enormous Nazca Plain markings which vary between marked double lines of small stones which run arrow-straight across the desert for many kilometres. They run through gullies and across hills and other geographical obstacles, without any kinks, curves or variations. More amazingly, they also form huge and very modernistically-stylized drawings of animals and birds, and gigantic yet precise geometric diagrams which cannot be descried at ground level. These are quite gargantuan feats that would have been impossible to accomplish without some form of high-altitude aerial direction!

It’s feasible that the Nazcans, or Incas, who laid out these uncanny lines and drawings, used some kind of hot-air balloon craft, since there is some mention in the Ramanyana and other texts that the vailixi of the Atlanteans may possibly have been lighter-than-air craft after the style of dirigibles or airships, and we have good reason to suppose there was a great deal of cultural and commercial exchange between them and the people of South and Central America - if not an actual, direct kinship of descent from the ex-Muvians who settled in the Americas.

There are several other great carvings and other inexpicable “glyphs” around the world which could only have been achieved by the aid of similar aerial guidance and direction. Glyphs like the giant “trident” carved into the coastal hills of Peru, which might well have served as a pointer toward the plain of Nazca for aerial visitors.

Also, such high-altitude vehicles would explain the detailed accuracy of those original ancient charts of the Atlantic coasts from which the Piri Re’is map was copied. It isn’t difficult to see how such high vantage-points would also have helped enormously in the planning of such great geometric layouts as those of Teotihuacan and other great Mesoamerican and South American cities.

Think how wonderfully such aerial overviews would have facilitated the setting out of the foundations of the pyramids, both in the Americas and in Egypt! Researchers have proved that such aerial craft would not have been beyond the mental reach of the Native Americans. A strong clue was discovered in the recurrent depictions of what appeared to be either kites or balloons flying high up in the sky on ancient Nazcan pottery. We needn’t look solely to people like Von Daniken for the answer!

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