Seven Days North Of Tibet

BY DHARMAPADA DASA/DEAN DE LUCIA

EDITORIAL, Feb 27 (VNN) — Much energy has been spent by adherents to the Hollow Earth Theory in order to localize the polar entrances, specifically the northern one, to the hollow portion of the Earth. Their research material has come from many sources- for example, modern scientific methods of gathering information have been employed, from satellite pictures to seismological sound wave surveys. But earlier on, Hollow Earthers have looked towards legend and folklore, as well as the results from polar exploration, as their sources of information.

The Bhagavat Purana, for example, contains the story of the sons of Maharaj Sagara, who were ordered by their father to search the entire globe for the sacrificial horse which had been stolen by Indra. At one point, the Bhagavat tells us that the sons of Sagara went off in the northeastern direction and entered into the interior of the Earth, where they found the horse at the hermitage of Kapila Rishi ( they were not nice about it to the rishi ).

“In Hollow Planets, Jan Lamprecht touches on

Tibetan Buddhist beliefs regarding the city of

Shambala, where the Bhagavat Purana says the

Kalki Avatar will appear, and the kingdom of

Agharta, in which the city is situated.”

Other Puranas offer a bit more detail- they tell that the Sagaras came upon a northern ocean, which they crossed over, and that they then entered into the bowels of the Earth.

In Hollow Planets, Jan Lamprecht touches on Tibetan Buddhist beliefs regarding the city of Shambala, where the Bhagavat Purana says the Kalki Avatar will appear, and the kingdom of Agharta, in which the city is situated. Specifically, Jan tells of some conversations held by Nicholas Roerich, a patron of culture, with various Lamas and Tibetans as he traveled in that region with his wife in the 1920s. ( His artwork is still displayed at the Nicholas Roerich Museum at 319 West 107th Street in New York. ) Roerich wrote: " I remembered how during our crossing of the Karkaroum Pass, my sais, the Ladaki, asked me.' Do you know why there is such a peculiar upland up here?

Do you know that in the subterranean caves here many treasures are hidden, and that in them lives a wonderful tribe which abhors the sins of the Earth?' And again when we approached Khotan the hooves of our horses sounded hollow as though we rode above caves or hollows. Our caravan people called our attention to this, ... When we saw entrances of caves, our caravaneers told us ' Long ago people lived there; now they have gone inside; they have found a subterranean passage to that subterranean kingdom.'"

Jan Lamprecht recounts the most important passages of a conversation which Roerich had with a Tibetan Lama in 1928: Roerich: " Lama, tell me of Shambala.

Lama: " But you Westerners know nothing about Shambala- you wish to know nothing. Probably you ask out of curiosity; and you pronounce this sacred word in vain.

Jan tells that after some cajoling by Roerich, the Lama studied him and said: Lama: " Great Shambala is far beyond the ocean. How and why do you people take interest in it? Only in some places, in the far North, can you discern the resplendent rays of Shambala [ aurora? ]. ... The secrets of Shambala are well guarded." Roerich: " Lama, how does it happen that Shambala on Earth is still undiscovered by travelers? On maps you may see so many routes of expeditions. It appears that all heights are already marked and all valleys and rivers explored."

Lama: "But as yet ... people have not found all things - so, let a man try to reach Shambala without a call! You have heard about the poisonous streams which encircle the uplands. Perhaps you have even seen people dying from these gases when they come near them. ... Many people try to reach Shambala, uncalled. Some of them disappear forever. Only a few of them reach the holy place and only if their karma is ready."

More recently, a Tibetan Lama,who is a renowned teacher of Vajrayana Buddhism and a Tibetan doctor, lectured in the San Jose, California area, and made a reference to Shambala. His title is: His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa," so it seems that he belongs to a certain lineage and might be privy to ancient information on the matter. While lecturing in San Jose, this Lama stated that Agharta could be reached from India by flying northwards for seven days. I would assume the Lama's references were to the speed at which the bird might fly. If that is so, then the average bird flying northwards from India for seven days could easily reach the Artic " ( Related in Hollow Planets, page 391 ).

At a different place, and a different time, not at all seven days North of Tibet, the deck of the ship Fram was packed with visitors wishing a last farewell. They had to board the launch and leave, and join the crowds waving good bye from the quays. It was June 24, 1893, in Pepperviken, Norway, and the Fram weighed anchor. Doctor Fridtjof Nansen stood on the deck of the ship as it rounded the point on the creek where his house stood, and spotted his newlywed wife through his spyglass. It would be the last time for a long time, as he would spend years in the Artic.

The Fram's course took it across the Northern coast of Russia, across the Kara Sea, past the Taimyr Peninsula and on over to the New Siberian Islands.

Nansen and his crew proceded northwards until about 79* latitude, at which time the ship was purposely allowed to Freeze onto the Artic ice packs.

Why did Nansen allow this? It was part of his plan, no less! His mission was to explore the Northern Sea, pass over or near the pole, and make an attempt on the pole itself should this be possible. He was to accomplish this by verifying the existence of a current which runs from the Siberian side of the pole, past the pole itself, then outwards between Greenland and Iceland, and then on out into the Atlantic. Actually, it was already known that such a current passed between Greenland and Iceland, but it wasn't understood wherefrom it originated. It was Nansen who theorized that the flow was all the way from the Siberian side of the polar basin. He felt this way because a ship had recently sunk near the Siberian Islands, the Jeanette, and artifacts from that ship were found about three years later on the Western coast of Greenland. Thus instead of making a frontal assalt on the pole, working against nature, Nansen decided to harness the action of nature itself and drift up to the poles while his ship was perched on ice floes.

A special ship was built for the purpose, with a triple hull, special supports and extra bulkheads. The slope of its hull was more horizontal than any other ship so that the squeezing ice would force the ship upwards by pinching it from the bottom. They carried five years of supplies, including coal, coal oil and kerosine. Unlike any previous Artic explorers, the crew was comfortable all the way through the journey.

So there they were, locked into the ice by September 25th, 1893. It is interesting, though, that the polar anomolies had started before, while on their way up from the New Siberian Islands. Nansen reported on these anomalies in his notes which became the basis of his book Farthest North. We shall include the page notes in order to better facilitate any verifications which the readers may wish to make : Page 97: Monday, September 18th, 1893, Bielkoff Island. Latitude 75.5 degrees North.

Page 98: [ Still same entry as above. ] " It was a strange feeling to be sailing away North in the dark night to unknown lands, over an open, rolling sea, where no ship, no boat had been before. We might have been hundreds of miles away in more southerly waters, the air was so mild for September in this latitude.

Tuesday, September 19th, I have never had such a spendid sail. On to the North, steadily North, with a good wind, as fast as steam and sail can take us, with an open sea mile after mile, watch after watch, through these unknown regions, always clearer and clearer of ice, one might say! ... We see ' nothing but clean water ' as Henriksen answered from the crow's nest when I called up to him. When he was standing at the wheel later in the morning, and I was on the bridge, he suddenly said: ' They think little at home in Norway just now that we are sailing straight for the pole in clear water. ''No, they don't believe we have gotten so far.' ... Now we are almost at 77* North latitude. ...

I have almost to ask myself if this is not a dream." Page 99: " We have almost reached 78*

" I seemed to me that there might be land at no great distance, we saw such a number of remarkable number of birds of various kinds. ... They were probably on their passage from some land in the North. ... Again, later, we saw small flocks of snipe, indicating the possible proximity of land. " Although Nansen did not realize it, the anomalies that he was experiencing and would continue to experience, as well as the anomalies experienced by other Artic explorers, would inspire further hollow Earth reseach and, indeed, become part and parcel of hollow Earth lore. This is only natural, because one has to search for an explanation for such strange experiences, i.g., for the fact that they didn't find ice until 79*, even though ice was to be found at much lower latitudes all around the polar circle. For example, until they came over as far East as the New Siberian Islands, they had to closely hug the coast of Russia in order to aviod the ice which impinged itself upon them. So how could it be that they encountered open, rolling seas as they shot northwards towards the Pole?

Those familiar with the Hollow Earth Theory would explain that the polar opening, which they have always had reason to believe is located near the area where the Fram was navigating, serves as a conduit for warmer air which can have a dramatic impact within certain Artic areas. And as for the observations of bird life coming from the North? Did the flight of these birds originate from the other side of the pole, from deep within the Artic wastelands of North America? Probably not; but the close proximity of a polar opening, leading to closer lands, would certainly provide the platform needed to explain the direction and origin of the birds flight. In fact, according to recent radar mapping which indicated low and weak echo responses in the area, the polar opening could be centered at 141* East longitude and 84.4* North latitude.

Page 101: Here it is related that by September 25th the Fram was " frozen in faster and faster."

Page 122: " Today, moreover, we took solemn farewell of the Sun. Half of its disk showed at Noon for the last time above the edge of the ice in the South, a flattened body, with a dull red glow, but no heat."

" So I travel North, to the gloomy abode That the Sun never shines on- There is no day "

At this time, their position was just a little above 78* 15' North, only six degrees from the suspected center of the polar opening, and a degree or two less from its diameter. ( They had temporarily back drifted ) The fact that the Sun had disappeared below the horizon, introducing the long Artic night, at that time and from that latutude, indicates that the curvature of the Earth flattens out a bit at the poles, which is something that science certainly accepts- such flattening can even be seen in astronomical photographs of other planets. But what is not understood is that such flattening is indicative of a curvature which actually rounds gradually inwards.

Page 123: [ Still from 78* 15' of latitude North ] " Sunday, October 29th, Peter shot a white fox this morning close in to the ship. For some time lately, we have been seeing fox tracks in the mornings, and one Sunday Mogstad saw the fox itself. It is remarkable that there should be so many foxes on this drift ice so far from land."

The question that Hollow Earth thinking raises is this: Were they really so far from land? A huge and broad land formation was seen at the threshold of the polar entrance by polar explorers Cook and Peary, albeit from a long distance and through atmospheric layers which funnel light ( the source of the oh-so-common Artic mirages ). Anomalies in terms of wildlife led Nansen to suspect the existence of uncharted land among the ice all through his journey.

Page 123: On December 2, 1893, a bear was encountered by " ice station Fram. Again they were at 79*. It once again struck them as so unusual to find bears at this latitude, not only far from the New Siberian Islands, the closest point of land, but with a " rolling, open ocean " between their position and that nearest point of land.

On page 126 of Nansen's book, disappointment is described as the navigator all of the sudden determines the ship's position to be various degrees South of where they had calculated. It is not reasonable to assume an error which had not been caught until this moment: could it be that the curvature of the polar opening was playing havoc with the indications derived from the angle of their sextant readings? Could it be that the current had carried them a bit down the side of the funnel-like opening, then back up towards the rim of the funnel?

Page 154: [ On the 17th of January, 1894, his position had been 79* 41'North Latitude, 135* 29' of longitude East. Now it is the next day. ] " Thursday, January 18th. The wind that began yesterday had gone on blowing from ... S.S.E., S.E., and E.S.E. [ But now he anticipates a change ] Let us hope it is not bringing a Northerly wind ... It is curious that there is almost always a rise of the thermometer with these stronger winds, today it rose to 13* F below zero ( - 25* C ). A south wind of less velocity generally lowers the temperature, and a moderate North wind raises it."

Again we run into the temperature anomaly, along the lines of the " mild air " reported not far from there, but back in September. Now the phenomenon is more pronounced- warmer winds from the North in January of 1894. It is a phenomenon which has been encountered by all Artic explorers. Although there could be various explanations for this, the explanation according to a Hollow Earth understanding practically arrests one's attention, and it is this: That since the polar opening was nearby, probably centered at 84.4* North, while Nansen was at 79* North, then a North wind would be coming out of the interior, which would account for a warmer temperature.

And just to get an even better idea of how unusual the wildlife anomaly was deemed to be, we'll reproduce this statement from page 154, also made from 79* North: " But who expects to meet a walrus on close ice in the middle of a wild sea of a thousand fathoms depth, and that in the heart of winter? None of us ever heard of such a thing before; it is a perfect mystery." And it would be a perfect mystery, unless there were a land mass nearby; maybe coming up to the tip of the polar opening, but not extending out much along the surface.

And now we introduce a totally different anomaly, one which has great implications for the Hollow Earth understanding, and one which makes Nansen and the crew a rather special group of Norwegians. Stand by as Dr. Fridtjof Nansen recounts their sighting of the interior sun: Page 160: Friday, February 16th. Hurrah! A meridian observation today shows 80* 01' North latitude ... Today another noteworthy thing happened, which was that about midday, we saw the Sun, or, to be more correct, an image of the Sun, for it was only a mirage."

Page 162: " Monday, February 19th. ... Both today and yesterday we have seen the mirage of the Sun again; today it was high above the horizon, and almost seemed to assume a round, disk-like form." Initially, the good doctor became rather depressed when the sun appeared low on the horizon, as that would be an indication of yet another supposed error in navigation and place them quite to the South. But it was noted that the image was appearing in the wrong location, on the wrong side of things, which led the Norwegians to conclude that it was a mirage. We will come back to this phenomenon as it may be the most singularly spectacular event, and the event most pregnant with meaning, to ocurr during the entire trip. But one thing is for sure- Nansen and his crew were practically broadsided by a phenomenon so stunning and shocking in scope that they did not even suspect the true nature of what they were witnessing. The fact that the inner sun was seen a bit higher from the 16th to the 19th is explained by their movement, which must have brought them a tad bit closer to the opening.

Now we have further demonstration that not all anomalies are confined to wind and overly adventurous wildlife:

Page 182: [ From 80* 20 N ] " I take into consideration the striking warmth of the water deep down ... This warm water can hardly come from the Artic Sea itself ... It can hardly be anything other than the Gulf Stream which finds its way hither " As part of their scientific investigation, they documented depth soundings, temperature readings from the water at various depths, temperature readings from the deck, and even temperature readings from the crow's nest. So it was not unusual that they concerned themselves with the temperatures in the deep, it was a part of their rountine. But insofar as the interpretation of those temperatures are concerned, what else is Nansen going to conclude given his restricted perspective? He was sent by the Norwegian crown to investigate the Northern Sea; why would he suspect any openings to the hollow portion of the Earth in the middle of the Artic ocean? He had probably never imagined such a thing in his wildest dreams.

Towards the end of winter, on May 13, 1894, more wildlife anomalies began, still in the middle of an Artic wasteland. They can be best explained by a polar opening nearby: Page 192: " We had not expectd to meet with much bird life in these desolate regions. On May 13, 1894, a gull paid a visit ... After that date, we regularly saw birds of different kinds in our vicinity until it became a daily occurrence." On July 18th Doctor Nansen brings our attention to yet other polar anomalies quite noticed and well documented by other explorers, at this point the ship was just above 81* North:

Page 201: " Wednesday, July 18th. Went on an excursion with Blessing in the forenoon to collect specimens of the Brown snow and ice. ... The upper surface of the floes is nearly everywhere a dirty, brown color, or, at least, this sort of ice preponderates, while pure white floes ... are rare.

....; but the specimens I took today consist, for the most part, of mineral dust mingled with diatoms and other ingredients of organic origin." [ Dr. Nansen mentions in the footnotes that ] " larger quantities of mud, however, are also often to be found on the ice ... but are doubtlessly more directly connected with land." Page 488: " Siberian driftwood, ... as well as the mud found on the ice ...

even when we were as far North as 86*."

The question always arises in relation to how one interprets such data. The sediment types from the mud typically found on the ice floes seemed to correspond to Siberian rivers, wherefrom some ice could have broken off. But the sediment types also correspond to Alaskan sediments- they did not correspond to European sediments. Driftwood found near Greenland was definitely of Siberian and Alaskan origin, not European. Therefore, a Hollow Earther asks, why couldn't such evidence also correspond to a land mass at the entrance to the hollow world? The problem is that we have no sediment samples from such a place to compare with the mud from the floes, but since the suspected entrance lies in the same part of the polar basin as Siberia and Alaska, why wouldn't such a place provide a more likely explanation for the mud found on the ice floes? It would be a closer source.

Granted that sediment types from the mud found on the icebergs do not constitute such strong evidence. But what about the pollen dust which covered the majority of the exposed surface of the ice? There may have been land masses which could have accounted for the existence of a bit of mud on the ice, but there was certainly not much in the way of vegetation which could have produced such a covering of organic dust all over the ice. Has any observer ever noticed huge clouds of pollen dust traveling from the Artic ocean in order to deposit themselves on the ice up at 82* North? Since the ice has movement, such clouds of pollen would have to be constant in order to re-generate their dusty cover on the ice. Would not a polar opening, through which the winds of a continent are funneled, better account for such an observation? Pollen dust was not the only dust encountered by the Fram and its crew.

Clouds of Volcanic dust were found, too, consisting or iron and carbon particles. These huge clouds descended on the Fram and settled everywhere and enveloped eveything, causing discomfort and irritation. Nansen noted: Let us go home. What have we to stay for? Nothing but dust, dust, dust." There were no active volcanoes at this time, certainly not for thousands of miles. But the Fram wasn't the only ship to encounter such dust, so any source for the volcanic dust found in the Artic would have to be typically active and any route which the dust might travel would have to display regular traffic in this regard, which is something that we don't see. A polar opening to the interior of our planet, with an associated land mass, provides a plausible explanation.

We shall examine one more Artic anomaly which has been typically reported by Artic explorers- that of an erratic compass.

Page 216: " ... there is a perceptible deviation of the compass with every degree of longitude as one passes East or West." ( Sadek Adam, Hollow Earth Authentic, page 25 and 26 ). "A magnetized needle free to pivot in a vertical plane would indicate the angle the magnetic field makes with the surface of the Earth- This is called magnetic inclination or dip. At or near the equator the inclination is zero and the dip needle takes a horizontal position. At the magnetic poles, the dip needle takes a vertical position. ... It is not the nature of magnetic meridians to reach a single converging point at high latitudes. In other words, a compass needle will point straight down all along the circumference of the polar opening giving, as with the false geographic North Pole, a circle of magnetic North Poles, as the lines of force traverse the interior of the Earth. ... And furtghermore, when one travels beyond the lip of the opening ( now going South/inwards ) past the point of maximum strength, the compass points upwards to North. This has confused many explorers. The compass cannot lie, of course. Reed says what seems to be a defective compass turns out to be a powerful truth to substantiate a great truth." This polar anomaly, besides being referred to as the anomaly of the erratic compass, is also the anomaly of getting lost! Just see: In March of 1895, Nansen finally decided to set out in order to conquer the pole over the ice by dog and sled. They would have to make it back to land on their own as the Fram's position would not be stationary on the ice- they couldn't return to the same place and find her. Although the westward motion of the ship was good, it didn't seem to them at the time that the ship would go much further North. So he set out accompanied by Peter Henriksen. They quickly encountered two unforseen problems once they were on their own. For one, the layout of the ice change as they went North. It developed ridges and troughs which were painstaking and time consuming to pass over. Their northern most point was reached on April 9, 1895, at 86* 10' North.

Their second problem was that they ended up rather lost and stayed that way for a long time. As an example, by June 14th, Nansen recorded his position to be 57* 40' of longitude ( not latitude ). Later on, once he got home, he felt that it had been more like 6* further East of that. He even realized at the time, though, that he was lost because, as he headed South towards Franz Josef on the Russian side, he wasn't even sure on which side of the archipelago they would come down on! Suffice it to say that these men were no amateurs as navagaotrs, but their problem was still being compounded by the flattening of the curvature in the vicinity of the opening, which begins to occur as much as 400 miles out from the opening's center. Although the two had traveled to the side of the opening now, towards the pole, they were farther North than ever at 86* N Nansen and Henriksen both made it back alive by way of the winter hut of Frederick Jackson, a British explorer, in Franz Josef Land. The ship Fram finally broke out of the ice on the Atlantic side of ice on August 13th, 1896, and made its way back to Norway.

But now let us go back to February 16th and 19th of 1894, to when the mock sun was sighted. The Fram lay ice-locked at 80* North. Its position in terms of longitude seems to have zig zaged a bit, but the ship's position was at about 135* East longitude. Remember that the Fram was very close to the opening that moment, the center of the opening being around 141* East and 84.4* North. So the zig zag that the navigator represented in terms of longitude could have been na error due to a dip along the curvature as the ship moved North upon the ice.

Assuming that the Fram was well within the bounds of the curvature maybe the crew was not actually looking at a mock sun. This " sun " was observed just above the horizon. Maybe from the Fram's angle of view along the side of the funnel-like opening, the crew was peering through the hole and into the hollow world, such that they saw the inner sun close to the rim of the opening. Had they been directly above the opening, they might have seen the interior sun in the center of the opening. But their view of the ninety-some-mile wide opening was foreshortened due to their sidelong angle from their point along the rim. Nansen and the crew saw the inner world through the Artic mists caused by warmer, humid air mixing with the colder air of the exterior. This seems to be a typical if not permanent condition, otherwise perception of the inner world might be an easier matter.

Of course, if all this talk of longitude, latitude, curvature and magnetic dips is a bit confusing at first, the hollow Earth theory can always present the matter in a slightly easier-to-understand manner- Maybe now the reader has anticipated that the Fram's position was about seven days North of Tibet, in a northeastern direction, in a Northern ocean.

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