On History Samantha: History is a puzzle, especially the history of our beginnings. There is so much information that contradicts other information. Where did we come from? What is the history of humanity on Earth? Ibiru: History is not a single line, starting at the most simple and ending at the most complex. There are many factors in history. People are so used to thinking in linear ascent terms, however, that the overlapping and spiral natures of history are rarely given much thought. Added to the above problem there is also the political agenda issue. As has been said, the history books are written by the winners. This puts a basically adversarial spin on all of human relationships - a spin that is not true for the majority of people. History is a series of spiral waves, with new options and actions opening up at each turn. At the same time individual histories seem, in a four dimensional context, to be distinct. For example, let's look at the recent histories of the North American continent. To one group of people, those being the folk who came over from Europe, America was a virgin, undiscovered land, full of riches and promise for those who "settled" it and relieved the native peoples of the burden of development. To another group, the people who called America home, this was as invasion and they experienced their lands taken by force and their families destroyed by strangers. Whose accounting was correct? Depending on how you look at it, both are. And you have two primary and distinct versions of a particular set of events. Contained within these primary versions there are many individual versions that, to one degree or another, differ on the particulars. When you look at the whole history of the human species it becomes vastly more complex. I will first give you a history, as I know it. When Earth was just beginning to be home for the first single celled creatures, the people you call the Gardeners came. These people are starfarers who seek out worlds that can support life and, in effect, seed them. The goal is to create an environment where Consciousness can flourish in many forms. Some part of the Gardeners is always encoded, genetically, into the DNA of the lifeforms on the planet, to be accessed when a certain level of awareness has been reached. When this happens the species begins the process of learning to become Gardeners themselves. During the time between the first seeding and the development of a truly sentient species there are many variations on themes created. In the human family there have been many variations, from the earliest hominids to Homo sapien sapiens. All are related in terms of form, but few are related in a direct line. The same thing happened with the creatures you call dinosaurs, as well as with other species in other waves of history. In fact, there were members of the dinosaurs that did reach the sentience necessary to activate the Gardener DNA and they have themselves, become Gardeners. As they were part of an earlier spiral wave, so you are a part a wave that will come to an end, only to make room for yet another new sentience. Before that end, some of you will take to the stars as Gardeners and will seed other worlds. Others will return here as part of the next wave. Now, according to your anthropologists, biologists and paleontologists, life appears to be a random series of mutations. A linear march from protoplasm to Man. That is another view of history. And one which makes a certain sense from a four dimensional perspective. Unfortunately, there is little in the way of proof that will support this view in the long run. From a much larger perspective, history looks like this: All is because Consciousness must express itself. The forms change both because Consciousness grows and because Consciousness can never be contained or expressed in any one form. The humanoid archetype is just one of an infinite number of possible archetypes, each containing infinite possibilities as well. Therefore, history is a constant, spontaneous and ever-now event, with all times happening simultaneously. In a real sense each individual species and culture chooses an historical "line" that it plays out. So do individuals within those cultures. You have an historical line that includes ET contact, relationships with people, such as myself, who are not physically located, struggles with early family, memories of other live. And that line is as real and valid as the history of someone who remembers nothing of other lives and comes from a family which believes that any technological advance is an offering of the Devil. In yet another sense, history is nothing more then a changing panoply of viewpoints, each contributing to the overall experience of Consciousness. As these viewpoints change or meet events that create new perspectives are acted out. Choices that are not made in one history become an integral part of another. Samantha: Have human cultures been affected and changed by contact with non-Terrestrial cultures? Ibiru: Yes, of course. It is a rare thing when any world that houses life and sentience escapes notice. Eventually, all such worlds are visited. Some of the visitors, like some people of Earth, have no goodwill towards the worlds they visit, seeking only to use their resources. Other visitors are either neutral or friendly. Samantha: How are the different forms within a given archetype created? I mean, you have, say, Homo Erectus. During and/or following Homo Erectus there was Neanderthaler, who was still around when Cro-Magnon came into being. Yet we do not seem to be related to Neanderthaler at all, or only distantly. Ibiru: When a given variation of the humanoid theme has reached its' potential, new variations are created using some of the basic humanoid DNA and activating more of the Gardener DNA. Doing this actually overwrites some of the more limited DNA of the earlier variation. The new variation carries the genetic memory of the earlier form, anchoring it in time and space, and the newer information of the Gardener DNA, which creates new avenues of growth and evolution. This is also timed to coincide with climatic changes, giving the new form an advantage that the older one did not, in terms of the ability to survive. And the challenges of the climatic changes force the new human to use and become familiar with the expanded abilities. Eventually, a few of you will decode the DNA language that still eludes you and you will discover that it is Gardener and contains possibilities for your future that you don't even dream of yet. At this point in your history a new variation of the human form is already co-existing with its parent form on Earth. This new variation is more attuned to what you call psychic life and will, in the near future, develop the ability to experience more than the dimensions and awarenesses that are presently considered human. These people will be able to conceptualize and move in what you call hyper dimensional awareness. Evolution at work again. Samantha: Well, I gotta go eat something. I will be here tomorrow - same medium time, same medium channel. Ibiru: Until then.