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Book Review: Lost Star of Myth and Time by Walter Cruttenden

by JM

Walter Cruttenden is someone I have seen mentioned in a couple of other places on the internet; there’s an interview on http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/home.htm that I viewed with interest.

But hearing, even from his own mouth, about his ideas of why we have mysteries about our past is nowhere near enough preparation for the entirety of the theory accompanied by detailed exposition of the evidence he and his team have uncovered.

The book is an interesting read, able to hold my attention almost from the start. He begins logically with what is basically a review of how things are from the orthodox perspective, then steadily sets out his reasons for why it isn’t correct.

The science about Precession and orbits may be daunting for some; I’m a bit of a science buff and as I said to my wife after reading through that section, ‘My head hurts’ but it is worth persevering through the section. It might help to get some bits and pieces of junk and model out what he is saying or perhaps download an astronomical program to look at what is going on as the Earth orbits the Sun.

For those with a science bent, the book may seem to venture too far into the mystic side, or perhaps the myths may leave them wanting to discard the theory as irrelevant – to those I say that Science shouldn’t judge data by where it comes from, only by accuracy and relevance.

Lost Star in Myth and Time hasn’t fully answered the questions about who we are and why we have so many mysteries about history, but it has redefined the field and asks questions that are going to require hard answers. His theory is only bolstered by recent findings that show the Solar System to be an immigrant to the Milky Way. Detailed surveys of the sky show that it is very likely that our system and others close to us have come from the Sagittarius galaxy currently being destroyed by the superior gravitational pull of the Milky Way.

If what Cruttenden and others have to say about our past is in any way truth, there is knowledge bequeathed to us by our ancestors which is being passed over by researchers perhaps too blinkered by the idea that our society is the best of a long line of societies advancing steadily from cave to shopping mall.

For those with a bent towards the history mystery, this is a must-read; for those who think they know how history went, this would be an eye opener. Only solid certainty and belief in conventional history as taught in schools could leave a reader of Lost Star in Myth and Time without questions.


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