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Extraterrestrial Visitations from Prehistoric Times to the Present
For the avid student of extraterrestrial visitors of historical and present times this book is a must. Think of how far ahead of his time Bergier was in presenting this comprehensive, brief but complete study in 1974. He was confirming with facts much of the Chariot of the Gods. I have the book on a christmas sale.
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181 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1973
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Jacques Bergier
103 books35 followersJacques Bergier (born Yakov Mikhailovich Berger) was a chemical engineer, member of the French-resistance, spy, journalist and writer.
He was a gifted child: at two he read his first newspaper and at four he could easily read Russian, French and Hebrew. He was a speed reader (until the end of his life he could read 4 to 10 books per day) and had an eidetic memory. He was a vivacious child, and he told fabulous sounding stories of discussing strategy with generals as well as talking with street prostitutes in Odessa. He never went to school but had private tutors.
He co-wrote the best-seller "The Morning of the Magicians" with Louis Pauwels of fantastic realism. "Le Matin des Magiciens" was very popular with the youth culture in France through the 1960s and 1970s. It was translated into English by Rollo May in 1963 under the title "The Dawn of Magic". It first appeared in the USA in paperback form in 1968 as "The Morning of the Magicians". This book spawned an entire genre of explorations into many of the ideas it raised, such as connections between Nazism and the occult.
Jacques Bergier died saying of himself: "I am not a legend."
He was a gifted child: at two he read his first newspaper and at four he could easily read Russian, French and Hebrew. He was a speed reader (until the end of his life he could read 4 to 10 books per day) and had an eidetic memory. He was a vivacious child, and he told fabulous sounding stories of discussing strategy with generals as well as talking with street prostitutes in Odessa. He never went to school but had private tutors.
He co-wrote the best-seller "The Morning of the Magicians" with Louis Pauwels of fantastic realism. "Le Matin des Magiciens" was very popular with the youth culture in France through the 1960s and 1970s. It was translated into English by Rollo May in 1963 under the title "The Dawn of Magic". It first appeared in the USA in paperback form in 1968 as "The Morning of the Magicians". This book spawned an entire genre of explorations into many of the ideas it raised, such as connections between Nazism and the occult.
Jacques Bergier died saying of himself: "I am not a legend."
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August 10, 2017
This book is sadly underrated, probably the most underrated book I´ve come across on Goodreads. It´s full of mysterious stories from history and archeology, and they might not all be the truth, but they´re interesting. I knew of many of them before but it´s always nice to refresh your memory on these things, especially since it´s more out in the open now how our science-stamped history is basically a lot of bullocks. This book was written in 1970, so it´s one of the earlier ones to shine a light on how much has been hidden and distorted, just so we can have a "clean" and non-complicated narrative of human history (if not something conspiracy driven just to keep humanity in the dark). It´s author brings forth many theories and his own ideas, and it all should add to the reader´s sense of wonder. I would have given it 5 stars if most of this UFO alien stuff wasn´t a bit contrary to my own ideas about these things. But as far as value and enjoyment is concerned, it get´s a solid 4+ stars from me.
August 25, 2023
OBSERVATIONS ABOUT EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND ‘ADVANCED CIVILIZATIONS’
Author Jacques Bergier wrote in the Prologue to this 1970 book, “The purpose of this book is to spot those extraterrestrial interventions, in prehistory as well as in history, the origin of which cannot possibly be restricted to our planet. This book maintains an exclusively rationalist position. The interventions I discuss here have been the acts of intelligent beings more advanced than ourselves: physical beings living in space. I will not be talking about so-called supernatural interventions… Nor will I be talking about ‘flying saucers,’ which have already been much discussed. Nor do I pretend to supply absolute proof of interventions by extraterrestrial beings in the course of our planet’s prehistory and history. Other researchers… will surely do this before the end of the century…
“For me, having extraterrestrial beings intervene in our =history is no more absurd than having microbes intervene in the state of our health…. Why hasn’t there been, and isn’t there, direct, open contact between ‘them’ and us? … For my part, I believe that these contacts do exist, but that they are hidden from man as a whole and have taken place, at well-defined periods, only with very advanced individuals who have been above the average of their fellows. Legends concerning these contacts are certainly at the base of numerous traditional stories. But since there is no formal proof in this area, I have preferred to limit myself here to studying … one-way contact originating outside earth. And… even so limited an approach offers material of great interest and further elaboration.”
He reports, “Two U.S. scientists … have observed stars that, when they explode, actually produce such radiation bombardments. The effect of a bombardment varies according to the intensity of the earth’s magnetic field…. Right now it is on a downswing and will reach a lowpoint about the thirty-sixth century A.D. … According to an East German scientist the bombardment originated at the center of our galaxy and was extremely powerful… we still must ask: What caused the massive explosion?... my hypothesis [is] that the star explosion that killed the dinosaurs was deliberately induced, designed to set off a slow process of evolution leading to intelligent life; that we were created by extremely powerful beings… these beings---who could truly be called gods---set in motion a series of events that will not stop with man but will continue until this evolution results in other gods, beings equal to their creators.” (Pg. 4)
He continues, “The creatures who built and modulated the star that killed the dinosaurs really were gods. They are probably the same Intelligences who regulate to a hundred billionth the frequency of those celestial objects called pulsars, and the fact it that more and more scientists admit, in private, that the pulsars are artificial---so many, indeed, that this hypothesis will probably soon appear publicly in most official publications.” (Pg. 9-10)
He recounts, “when a cylindrical iron object was found buried in a Ural Mountains coal bed several millions of years old, the Academy of Sciences was immediately informed…These objects … belong to private collectors, who refuse to entrust them to scientists… lacking a study actually demonstrating the contrary, we may still at the present time admit the possibility that these angled objects have come from the outside and were not manufactured on earth.” (Pg. 19)
He suggests, “A Turkish map dated 1559… shows Antarctica and the Pacific coast of the United States with extreme accuracy… we can see very well how… photographs of the earth, taken from … a flying vehicle… would give a more plausible explanation of the mystery than the hypothesis of an extremely advanced civilization, all trace of which has since disappeared beneath the Antarctic ice.” (Pg. 53)
He observes, “The hypothesis of an extraterrestrial intervention does not seem to me to contradict that of great civilizations that have since disappeared. I would almost say that they are the same hypothesis. The intervention of extraterrestrial beings could very well have accelerated the development of certain civilization that disappeared either through their own fault or through natural cataclysms.” (Pg. 55)
He adds, “I maintain that the lost civilizations, whether land or maritime, were watched over and perhaps aided by extraterrestrial beings, without coming to a conclusion on the problem of whether these were the same Intelligences who lit up and then extinguished the star that killed the dinosaurs---or were intermediaries between them and us, races more advanced than ours, who served the intelligences.” (Pg. 61)
He argues, “The medical explanation for ‘blue babies’ is well known, but it seems that there are also green children, whose coloring comes from another disease… of endocrine origin… There are many other hypotheses, including one that relates to the various hypotheses, including one that relates to the various hypotheses of this book: that the presence of these children was probably an experiment designed to provoke reactions in human beings…” (Pg. 144-145)
He concludes, “There is thus a kind of involuntary intervention by extraterrestrial beings. And when they realize this, perhaps they will send us devices so that we can receive these ‘courses in galactic culture’ regularly, leading us to progress a good deal more quickly than when science was the only source of information… We can also see interventions in phenomena that are unexplainable for the time being but that have been observed with regard to satellites… Generally speaking, I find it possible to hope that we are entering a new era in which interventions will be replaced by contacts; then we will be part of a galactic community.” (Pg. 169-170)
This book is one of the earlier ‘classics’ of ‘ancient aliens,’ and related subjects.
Author Jacques Bergier wrote in the Prologue to this 1970 book, “The purpose of this book is to spot those extraterrestrial interventions, in prehistory as well as in history, the origin of which cannot possibly be restricted to our planet. This book maintains an exclusively rationalist position. The interventions I discuss here have been the acts of intelligent beings more advanced than ourselves: physical beings living in space. I will not be talking about so-called supernatural interventions… Nor will I be talking about ‘flying saucers,’ which have already been much discussed. Nor do I pretend to supply absolute proof of interventions by extraterrestrial beings in the course of our planet’s prehistory and history. Other researchers… will surely do this before the end of the century…
“For me, having extraterrestrial beings intervene in our =history is no more absurd than having microbes intervene in the state of our health…. Why hasn’t there been, and isn’t there, direct, open contact between ‘them’ and us? … For my part, I believe that these contacts do exist, but that they are hidden from man as a whole and have taken place, at well-defined periods, only with very advanced individuals who have been above the average of their fellows. Legends concerning these contacts are certainly at the base of numerous traditional stories. But since there is no formal proof in this area, I have preferred to limit myself here to studying … one-way contact originating outside earth. And… even so limited an approach offers material of great interest and further elaboration.”
He reports, “Two U.S. scientists … have observed stars that, when they explode, actually produce such radiation bombardments. The effect of a bombardment varies according to the intensity of the earth’s magnetic field…. Right now it is on a downswing and will reach a lowpoint about the thirty-sixth century A.D. … According to an East German scientist the bombardment originated at the center of our galaxy and was extremely powerful… we still must ask: What caused the massive explosion?... my hypothesis [is] that the star explosion that killed the dinosaurs was deliberately induced, designed to set off a slow process of evolution leading to intelligent life; that we were created by extremely powerful beings… these beings---who could truly be called gods---set in motion a series of events that will not stop with man but will continue until this evolution results in other gods, beings equal to their creators.” (Pg. 4)
He continues, “The creatures who built and modulated the star that killed the dinosaurs really were gods. They are probably the same Intelligences who regulate to a hundred billionth the frequency of those celestial objects called pulsars, and the fact it that more and more scientists admit, in private, that the pulsars are artificial---so many, indeed, that this hypothesis will probably soon appear publicly in most official publications.” (Pg. 9-10)
He recounts, “when a cylindrical iron object was found buried in a Ural Mountains coal bed several millions of years old, the Academy of Sciences was immediately informed…These objects … belong to private collectors, who refuse to entrust them to scientists… lacking a study actually demonstrating the contrary, we may still at the present time admit the possibility that these angled objects have come from the outside and were not manufactured on earth.” (Pg. 19)
He suggests, “A Turkish map dated 1559… shows Antarctica and the Pacific coast of the United States with extreme accuracy… we can see very well how… photographs of the earth, taken from … a flying vehicle… would give a more plausible explanation of the mystery than the hypothesis of an extremely advanced civilization, all trace of which has since disappeared beneath the Antarctic ice.” (Pg. 53)
He observes, “The hypothesis of an extraterrestrial intervention does not seem to me to contradict that of great civilizations that have since disappeared. I would almost say that they are the same hypothesis. The intervention of extraterrestrial beings could very well have accelerated the development of certain civilization that disappeared either through their own fault or through natural cataclysms.” (Pg. 55)
He adds, “I maintain that the lost civilizations, whether land or maritime, were watched over and perhaps aided by extraterrestrial beings, without coming to a conclusion on the problem of whether these were the same Intelligences who lit up and then extinguished the star that killed the dinosaurs---or were intermediaries between them and us, races more advanced than ours, who served the intelligences.” (Pg. 61)
He argues, “The medical explanation for ‘blue babies’ is well known, but it seems that there are also green children, whose coloring comes from another disease… of endocrine origin… There are many other hypotheses, including one that relates to the various hypotheses, including one that relates to the various hypotheses of this book: that the presence of these children was probably an experiment designed to provoke reactions in human beings…” (Pg. 144-145)
He concludes, “There is thus a kind of involuntary intervention by extraterrestrial beings. And when they realize this, perhaps they will send us devices so that we can receive these ‘courses in galactic culture’ regularly, leading us to progress a good deal more quickly than when science was the only source of information… We can also see interventions in phenomena that are unexplainable for the time being but that have been observed with regard to satellites… Generally speaking, I find it possible to hope that we are entering a new era in which interventions will be replaced by contacts; then we will be part of a galactic community.” (Pg. 169-170)
This book is one of the earlier ‘classics’ of ‘ancient aliens,’ and related subjects.
August 14, 2013
EXCELENTE LIBRO ME GUSTO MUCHO EL CAPITULO SOBRE LAS TERRAZAS DE BAALBECK Y EL DESIERTO DE ARABIA SAUDITA DE RUB EL JALI
February 18, 2020
Basura de mercadillo pero por lo menos te entretienes leyendo las chorradas que cuenta este hombre.
January 4, 2018
El llibre no ha envellit bé, molts dels misteris ja s han resolt o s han trobat noves dades arqueològiques. és curiós el cas de l extinció del dinosaures, del que dóna una explicació totalment equivocada.
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