sources we might adopt to replace our oil- and
coal-based systems?
---------
An aside regarding peaceful uses of aircraft: early
in the 20th Century, one Alberto Santos-Dumont
dreamed of how world leaders would be able to
avoid war by hopping on planes and conferring
with one another when crises were brewing. Indeed,
in the weeks leading up to the First World War,
England's King George V and his cousin, Kaiser
Wilhelm II, exchanged letters in hopes of averting
war, but to no avail. Perhaps they would have
succeeded had they flown to a meeting place. It
was not to be, however, and the devastation began.
In 1932, before hanging himself, Santos-Dumont
cited his depression over airplanes being used
to kill.
> Ancient Flying Machines - Vimanas
> Contributed by John Burrows
> Slightly edited by Michael Dean Goodman
>
> The Hakatha (Laws of the Babylonians) states quite unambiguously: "The
> privilege of operating a flying machine is great. The knowledge of flight is
> among the most ancient of our inheritances. A gift from 'those from upon
> high'. We received it from them as a means of saving many lives."
>
> More fantastic still is the information given in the ancient Chaldean work,
> The Sifrala, which contains over one hundred pages of technical details on
> building a flying machine. It contains words which translate as graphite rod,
> copper coils, crystal indicator, vibrating spheres, stable angles, etc.
>
> The Indian Emperor, Ashoka, started a "Secret Society of the Nine Unknown
> Men": great Indian scientists who were supposed to catalogue the many
> sciences. Ashoka kept their work secret because he was afraid that the
> advanced science catalogued by these men, culled from ancient Indian sources,
> would be used for the evil purpose of war, which Ashoka was strongly against,
> having been converted to Buddhism after defeating a rival army in a bloody
> battle. The "Nine Unknown Men" wrote a total of nine books, presumably one
> each. Book number one was The Secrets of Gravitation! This book, known to
> historians, but not actually seen by them, dealt chiefly with "gravity
> control." It is presumably still around somewhere, kept in a secret library in
> India, Tibet, or elsewhere (perhaps even in North America somewhere). One can
> certainly understand Ashoka's reasoning for wanting to keep such knowledge a
> secret, assuming it exists.
>
> Ashoka was also aware of devastating wars using such advanced vehicles and
> other "futuristic weapons" that had destroyed the ancient Indian "Rama Empire"
> several thousand years before.
>
> This document has been translated into English and is available by writing the
> publisher:
> Vymaanidashaastra Aeronautics, by Maharishi Bharadvaja, translated into
> English, published by Mr. G. R. Josyer, Mysore, India, 1979. Mr. Josyer is the
> director of the International Academy of Sanskrit Investigation, located in
> Mysore. There seems to be no doubt that vimanas were powered by some form of
> "anti-gravity." Vimanas took off vertically, and were capable of hovering in
> the sky, like a modern helicopter or dirigible. Bharadvaja refers to no less
> than seventy authorities and 10 experts of air travel in antiquity.
>
> [Michael's note: When I was on the Vedic Science Course in Delhi in the 1980s,
> I slipped out one day and spent the afternoon perusing the shelves of Motilal
> Banarsidas, a great book store that shipped all over the world and was used by
> many Movement students of vedic knowledge - the Mecca of vedic booksellers. I
> found so many great books that I had to begin discriminating - putting some
> back - or I'd never be able to carry them home on the plane. I saw this very
> book by Rishi Bharadvaja that the author is describing above; it was
> exceptionally unusual in that it had been translated into English!, unlike
> many obscure, esoteric vedic texts. It gave explicit instructions on how to
> make the drive engine for the flying ships, what alloys to make the various
> parts out of, etc. - very technical and engineering oriented. Foolishly, it
> was one of the books I rejected that day, and I came to regret it. Over the
> years, when I sent friends who were traveling in India back to buy it for me,
> they couldn't find a trace of it! No one seemed to know anything about it.
> It was like a tease, a little taste of technology from another age, that came
> to open my mind and then vanished into obscurity again. So finding the source
> of it, in this essay, is the fulfillment of a decades-old desire.]
>
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