This is my personal rendition and in random order of ten unsolvable mysteries:
Religion
I have written notes on all of the below first before I try to tackle religion. I can only relate it to my own experience. I recall I was in Hong Kong and I suddenly had the realization that life makes what the cosmic mind is. Life on earth and throughout the universe is what keeps the world and cosmos going. We are all a part of the god we believe in.
Aliens
Have you seen that old ‘news’ photo of Hitler shaking hands with a big eyed Grey? Seen headlines of ufos over the White House, heard thousands of stories of contactees, abductees, lights in the sky, saucers landing and taking off. ? There are paintings that go back forty thousand years to the Aborigine rock showing peopld dancing around what appears to be a saucer. It appears perhaps more than one deal with aliens in the past has happened. Currently it looks like our keepers don’t want us to know . But inevitably ‘the truth will out’ and today’s secrets will be revealed regarding all this worldwide phenomenon of ufo nonsense, for thousands of years?
Asteroids
It began with Armegedon and then a slew of movies of lesser versions of the same theme. During the asteroid and marauding comet era, we were horse-whipped into the realization that we could be wiped out at any moment. That can’t be good for the psyche. Best I can muster on the violence front is a good murder mystery. And while I’m sitting there engrossed in my reading, perhaps a meteorite will come through the roof and go right through my book before it buries itself in the basement. Tesla said that if he could put a wire ribbon around the earth he could steer her like a spaceship. If we can do it wirelessly we can probably do it now with all the linked satellites around the earth. Asteroid problem. Solved.
Plague Pandemic
Some people think the word pandemic is over-used but during the SARS pandemic the fear was genuine as they witnessed hospital staff succumbing to the sars virus as they were admitting sars victims. Whether sars came from mirkats or civekats or some jungle root laying dormant for millions of years, and although sars was like a rehearsal for swine flu, the word pandemic has slipped from the headlines. I take this to mean they snuffed it in the bud and as the weather heats up everywhere in the northern hemisphere it is said this bug takes a nap. For how long? No one knows. Unsolved.
*Update: The WHO has continued its Phase Five out of six on the pandemic scale, new cases since June 5th, 2667 worldwide. Not an epidemic but worldwide. They say swine flu hibernates in warmer weather but comes back later.
Earthquakes
There is a man who was successful at predicting earth quakes by checking the Lost column for runaway pets. It may not seem scientific but if he noticed a spike in lost dogs and cats he would calculate that an earthquake would hit on a certain day. And it did! Earthquakes are unsolvable because Mother Nature always wins. Today we can detect rumblings from land sea and space but these things weren’t in place or were not being monitored as the 2004 Sumatra Tsunami wiped out hundreds of thousands. I can only believe that the monitoring has tightened up. Meanwhile, it’s good to know that if your pet leaves you and suddenly there are no birds (for those fortunate enough to live where there are wild birds),
it’s time to pack the kids in the old winnebago and quickly go for a ride up that craggy peak only 20 minutes away if you do ninety. Obviously the place to be during an earthquake is not above it, somewhere in the open with no big powerlines, preferrably some solid piece of turf with a bedrock bottom so you don’t end up on land that might liquefy. If you’re lucky to be in a location described above, all you have left to worry about is the ground opening beneath you. Earthquake science has come a long way but it still has a long road ahead.
Volcanos
Like earthquakes, volcanoes are hard to predict to the moment but you can visually see that the magma inside the mountain makes it swell up. When you see that it’s time to distance yourself from your verandah with a full view of the bulging mountain. Part of global warming predicts more earthquakes, storms and volcanoes.
In 1980 I was a journalist for a Vancouver, CA, radio station and as we were driving up the road to Mount St. Helen’s just before she blew, we were stopped by soldiers who said, you can’t drive any further, the mountain is throwing off chunks of ice the size of a house. We turned our vehicle around and as we were driving down the mountainside a huge wind came up and ‘stuff’ started to fall from the sky. It turned out to be ripe fruit blown right off the trees. Mount St. Helen’s didn’t erupt till the following week as I was making my way back from Las Vegas. The pilot’s voice came on and said, ladies and gentlemen we’re going to have to make some corrections in our flight path. Mount St. Helen’s had just spewed up a plume of rocks and gases somewhere ahead and our flight correction saved us from riding into that ash which would have clogged the engines. It’s hard to predict volcanoes but it’s best to be elsewhere when they happen. Unsolved.
Fairies
There was an age of fairies when many believed and a famous old photograph of fairies on the side of a big tree. This proved to be a hoax but many people still believe there are fairies, leprechauns and will o’ the wisps. Unsolved.
Time Travel
Ah, time travel, the last remaining exploit of science fiction. Traveling through time has been the wondering of the ages, if not the wonder. The Time Machine (1960) was probably the first and the best movie on time travel. And why not? Written by H. G. Wells. In Startrek they often used the time travel theme but for some reason they always travelled to earth in the 20th century, modern times.
Time travel involves issues we don’t yet know about such as the theories on the twin paradox and killing your own father in the past where you erase your future and can’t go back. These kinds of stories are mentally stirring and confusing but it may be a while before the general populace can pay to go back in time and see the dinosaurs.
Sea people
Mentioned in the bible and other works, not the reptilians, more from the mammal side of sea people. And how about those mermaids. Were they all just hallucinations of nice looking fish? I give odds to all of the above but, not solved.
Dimensions
Dimensions and the doors that open them are supposed to be all around us but operating at a different frequency than our reality. We might occupy the same space but at different frequencies we are unaware of each other, like walking through radio waves. You don’t feel them and you can’t see them but they’re there. Unsolved. In comics there was Mandrake the Magician who dealt in dimensions and there was Stargate. This was not time travel but a journey to a civilization existing now, a different dimension. Perhaps in the region of Egypt but operating at a different frequency so we don’t know it’s there.
I don’t feel qualified to talk about dimensions or anything else for that matter.
But the good news is that Gwandau is coming with a blog presentation for Unity.
We were limited on the GC forum but you can see parts of Gwandau’s work there now. And stay tuned for Gwandau’s full presentation on this blog.
The eleventh unsolvable mystery, gravity control, seems to be in good hands aside from all the conspiratorial points of view. Not solved, yet. But with great people around the world working on it, how long?
