Revolutionary Paradigm

Paradigm Shifter goes as far back as possible in history reaching the Maltese temples with a view to getting a grip on the future:

Sometimes when I am bored I try to imagine as much of human history as I possibly can going as far back as I can and play the movie in my mind in fast forward as far as I can into the future. Great Civilizations rise and fall like the ebb and flow of a spring tide yet all the while we are never really quite able to comprehend the forces at work. What was will be again and what is will be what was used to be. Who's on first?..

Some of the oldest ruins on earth are located on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean. The stunning thing about some of these stone temples is that they show signs of massive water damage; channels worn by water in solid rock monuments. The implication is that it took a lot of water a long time to cause such damage.

This loosely ties back into the flood stories. Many cultures have flood stories. They seem to date to about 7000 BC to 10,000 BC. That is about as early as we can seem to go in regards to our modern human history. This time frame may also fit well with Plato's story of Atlantis.

There has been rampant speculation about Atlantis. Some speculate they were a super intelligent race of human beings that ultimately destroyed themselves with their highly advanced technology. Others place Atlantis smack in the middle of the Mediterranean. The tale goes that a great earth quake ripped apart the strait of Gibraltar allowing the Atlantic Ocean to spill into the valley wiping out an entire civilization...