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Where Did the Road Go?

Laird Scranton, Author of the Velikovsky Heresies - March 2, 2013

Where Did the Road Go?

Seriah Azkath

Edge, Society & Culture, Aliens, Ancient, Philosophy, Lost, Ghosts, Civilizations, Metaphysics, Atlantis, Cutting, Ufo, Paranormal, Alternative, Tv & Film, Science

4.5 • 621 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2013

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Laird Scranton is the author of a trilogy of books about the Dogon tribe in Africa. Laird showcases their extensive scientific knowledge and goes far to show that their knowledge is ancient by connecting it to Egyptian and other civilizations symbolic structures. He shows complex ties to Egypt, as well as India. We discuss all of this in the first half of the show, including;

  • Who were the original researchers of the Dogon?
  • The Dogon Creation Story and it's connections to modern science.
  • The role of Sirius in their mythology.
  • The Nummo Fish.
  • Egyptian connections.
  • The dual meaning of symbols.
  • How they retained the purity of their symbolism.
  • Connections to Quantum, String, and Torsion Theory.


After that, we moved on to Laird's latest book, The Velikovsky Heresies. In this work, Laird compares the theories of Immanual Velikovsky, as presented in Worlds in Collision, published back in 1950 with current science and attempts to find if there is anything we have learned in the last 60 years that definitely proves or disproves Velikovsky's theories. Among other things, we discuss;

  • Velikovsky's theory.
  • The scientific world's reaction.
  • What may have happened to Mars.
  • The change in the length of the year.
  • Characteristics of Venus that still resemble that of comets.
  • Why he was attacked and the lengths his attackers went to.
  • Carl Sagan's role.


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0:00.0

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0:09.0

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0:15.1

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0:22.2

live chat room and remember to subscribe to us on iTunes. And now welcome to this week's edition

0:31.8

of Where Did the Road Go? And this week on Where Did the Road Go? We have Laird Scranton, who has written a number of books on the Dogon, the Cosmological Origins of Myth and Symbol, which is his latest, as well as sacred symbols of the Dogon and the science of the Dogon. And he's also written, his latest book is actually on Velikovsky. And Laird, are you with us? Yes, I'm with you. Thanks.

0:55.4

All right. And that's all the books you've done so far, right? These four.

0:59.8

That's right. These four so far, there's also an earlier self-published book called Hidden Meanings that got republished as the Science of the Dogan.

1:06.8

Okay. All right. And when did you get involved in this subject matter?

1:12.7

Actually, I can thank my wife for that. She gave me a book called Unexplained by Jerome Clark one time.

1:18.8

And one of the chapters in this book was about the dogan and about how they had some astronomic knowledge they shouldn't really have without access to major telescopes.

1:30.8

Okay.

1:31.7

And you're just doing research on your own?

1:33.9

Yeah, I thought, well, if they know things about astronomy, they shouldn't.

1:37.1

That's got to be interesting, no matter where it leads.

1:39.6

And started digging into it and discovered all sorts of, that was just the tip of the iceberg of the

1:44.5

interesting things about this tribe.

1:47.0

Okay.

1:48.0

And did you plan on writing books about them?

1:51.8

No, actually, I never did.

1:53.7

It sort of happened by accident.

1:55.3

I was keeping notes for myself about what I was learning and trying to keep the notes organized.

2:00.4

And after a while, realized that I haven't had enough material to write an article if I wanted to.

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