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Ben Carson: Joseph Built the Pyramids to Store Grain; Plus: Who Was Andrew Tomas?

11/5/2015

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Note: This post has been edited to correct information about The Planetary Doctrine​.
 
Man, it’s been a miserable week for truth. Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox completed its takeover of National Geographic’s media holdings this week, and the new owners quickly moved to fire hundreds of employees, including many of the National Geographic Channel’s fact-checkers. This makes it likely that NatGeo will now join the History Channel in being a fact-free zone. I can’t wait to see how they try to compete with Ancient Aliens and Curse of Oak Island.
But it gets worse. It turns out that GOP frontrunner Ben Carson has some opinions about ancient Egyptian history. He’s opposed to the ancient astronaut theory, for one thing, which would seem good. But the reason for that is pretty sad, and what’s worse is that he believes that “scientists” are advocates of the ancient astronaut theory. In a 1998 commencement address, Carson alleged that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain, following a medieval opinion first recorded by Gregory of Tours in History of the Franks 1.10, but possibly originating in illustrations to the fifth century Cotton Genesis. The tradition went out of fashion in the Renaissance. Here’s what he had to say, as transcribed in media reports:
My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain. Now all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs’ graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big if you stop and think about it. And I don’t think it’d just disappear over the course of time to store that much grain. … And when you look at the way that the pyramids are made, with many chambers that are hermetically sealed, they’d have to be that way for various reasons. And various of scientists have said, ‘well, you know there were alien beings that came down and they have special knowledge and that’s how-’ you know, it doesn’t require an alien being when God is with you.
The pyramids contain no hermetically sealed chambers, let alone numerous chambers. That’s an Arabic myth also of medieval provenance, but from a competing myth that rivaled the granaries of Joseph claim in the early medieval centuries. Oh, and just in case anyone cares, the pyramids are almost completely solid, excepting their small burial chambers, and offer no great way to store grain. This is so obvious that even Immanuel Velikovsky argued that the pyramids were too impractical to have been granaries!
 
Ben Carson literally has medieval ideas. But even medieval Jews and Christians didn’t share this opinion universally; Benjamin of Tudela for example distinguished between the pyramids and the granaries, though the fraud Sir John Mandeville did not.

​But enough about Carson, whose Biblical fundamentalism is well known.
 
Yesterday I traced a claim about ancient skulls shot with bullets back to Andrew Tomas, an ancient mysteries writer of midcentury. I discovered that there is apparently quite little written about this European rival to Erich von Däniken. What is written about him is often contradictory, especially when it comes to the details of his movements around the world. What follows is the best biography I can come up with based on an evaluation of these contradictory sources, primarily an account given by his wife in 2002. It’s a story of how global tragedy repeatedly knocked Tomas down, and these tragedies seemed to have left scars that made him look to the heavens for something grander and more permanent.
 
Tomas was born A. Boncza-Tomaszewski in St. Petersburg in Czarist Russia, but the year is unclear. His wife gave his birth year as 1906, but Tomas sometimes claimed in his books that he was born in 1913. His family moved to Russian-controlled Finland in 1911 so his father could take up a position as a civil engineer for the Czar’s government. The next year, the family ended up in Vladivostok, where Tomas’s father served as a Czarist official. His father wanted to take the family back to the capital during the First World War, but the Communist Revolution intervened. They remained in Vladivostok until the Red Army moved to take the city in the 1920s, at which time they fled to Manchuria, where Tomas attended a British missionary school and learned English, and eventually to Shanghai, where he graduated high school.
 
Full of hope, the young Tomas set out for the United States at the age of 21, landing on American shores in 1927. It seemed that his new life in America would be a success, but the stock market crash in 1929 and the subsequent Depression gradually made it impossible for him to support himself in the U.S. As a result, he returned to China in 1931, where he stayed until 1948. During that period, he experienced the Japanese occupation and then the civil war between Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao Zedong. When it became obvious that Mao’s Communists were about to take over China, the anticommunist Tomas decamped for Australia, where he lived from 1948 to 1966. One of his last acts before leaving Shanghai was to become the Freemason Grand Master of the Shanghai Lodge, or so his wife claimed after his death.
 
It was during these years in Australia that Tomas became involved in the UFO movement, co-founding the Australian UFO Bureau in 1952, in which position he apparently gained a degree of fame Down Under, interviewed for the country’s People magazine. But it was also the time when he started to make claims about UFOs and ancient mysteries. In the 1950s, he began to claim that while living in China in 1935, he had written a book called The Planetary Doctrine, which predicted the arrival of shiny, silver disks based on Asian lore. This book, totaling less than 80 pages, was published in Shanghai in a very limited edition, and it drew heavily on Theosophy and the occultism of Nicolas Roerich. Nevertheless, he alleged that he not only anticipated the flying saucer craze but found in them a reflection of the then-popular view of the UFO preachers like George Van Tassel that they were a cosmic herald of a battle between good and evil. In 1956, he wrote to the flying saucer advocate (and fraud) Gray Barker:
Saucers have been known in the East for thousands of years. Their present appearance in mass has been foretold long, long ago. They are only an effect, not the cause, and the cause is the great struggle between the Forces of Good, of Culture, of Enlightenment—and of Evil, of Hate, and Darkness.
To this end, in the mid-1950s Tomas planned a survivalist community in the Outback to preserve the “fruits of our culture” in the event that great war between good and evil resulted in the destruction of civilization. It’s not hard to see in this a reflection of the tempestuous struggles he had lived through in his youth. In 1958, he proposed a “Planetary Pact” that was essentially a more powerful United Nations that he hoped to charge with contacting aliens on other worlds.
 
As the 1950s UFO craze gradually subsided, Tomas found himself increasingly struggling to find an outlet for his occult beliefs. He traveled to India in 1956 and again in 1966 and began investigating Eastern spirituality anew—right at the time he began claiming to have known for 30 years that Indians had made contact with UFOs before Kenneth Arnold in 1947!
 
He left for Europe in 1966 and there discovered the ancient astronaut theory and the ancient mysteries school of nonfiction that had become inexplicably popular on the Continent. This was the time when Morning of the Magicians, Robert Charroux, and Peter Kolosimo were laying the groundwork for a New Age vision of ancient history as an alien-filled techno-paradise, and something in this appealed to Tomas. Shortly after Erich von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods became a bestseller in the year following its publication (this would be 1969), Tomas quickly capitalized on the book’s newfound notoriety by writing his own version, utilizing much of the same (borrowed) material as von Däniken and the authors of Morning of the Magicians. His book, We Are Not the First (1971), was filled with material borrowed from familiar sources: Manly P. Hall, the occultist; Charles Hapgood, the earth-crust displacement advocate; Nicolas Roerich, the occultist; I. S. Shlovsky, the Soviet scientist who speculated on ancient astronauts; and others. Like his fellow authors, he eschewed primary sources for borrowed learning.
 
Apologists for Tomas claim that he had been preparing his material long before von Däniken—as long ago as the 1930s—but a more realistic appraisal would argue that he had vacillated between the occult, UFOs, and ancient mysteries and then embraced ancient astronauts in order to take advantage of a hot new trend, much the way he had embraced UFOs shortly after the UFO craze began and shifted gears to New Age concerns in the late 1970s.
 
We Are Not the First was a minor success, garnering enough sales to justify sequels on the lost continent of Atlantis and other ancient mysteries. However, his writing career wasn’t nearly as prolific as those of his rivals, and over 35 years he published just seven books.
 
In 1975, he met his wife Heather, and they traveled the world touring ancient mystery sites. They settled in Chico, California, where Tomas made use of UC Chico’s library to research ancient mysteries until his death in 2001.
 
It’s hard not to see a reflection of Tomas’s turbulent youth on his later interests, particularly his quest to find a spiritually and culturally better world in the ancient past, one that was free of the types of ideological and political battles that drove his family from one home to the next and had destroyed his world over and over again. He projected this fantasy into the deep past, where it was safely permanent and unmovable, and into the sky, where it might benevolently hover above the fray. 

I found a copy of his We Are Not the First, and I plan to read it and see if there is anything interesting to say about it.
39 Comments
bkd69
11/4/2015 11:52:03 pm

Damn. That's a hell of a life story, and the only thing to show for it are some fringe history books that likely merit little more than a footnote in the corpus.

As far as the new Nat Geo magazine goes, I heard an interview with the new editor in chief on Fox Business Radio, and he said the plan is to simply have every page numbered as '6,' and just feature topless Africans on every page. The great thing about that, according to him, is that you can make the magazine as long or as short as you need, and since every page is numbered 6, nobody will notice the difference.

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Mike Riker
11/12/2015 01:25:22 am

"Smithsonian Admits to Destruction of Thousands of Giant Human Skeletons in Early 1900′s" Hey Jason, not only did the US Supreme get involved but the Smithsonian openly admits to destroying "tens of thousands" skeletons of GIANTS all over the world because of order from the "higher ups" Read it and weep

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Only Me
11/12/2015 02:24:47 am

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/how-david-childress-created-the-myth-of-a-smithsonian-archaeological-conspiracy

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/where-did-the-smithsonian-hide-its-giant-bones-this-shocking-answer-may-surprise-you

Read them and weep, Mike.

Pam
11/5/2015 12:01:48 am

The NatGeo news is distressing. It's pointless to hope they'll escape "Foxification" I suppose.

Ben Carson should know better...period.

I think your analysis of why Tomas embraced the beliefs he did was very insightful. I can see him from a more sympathetic perspective than the likes of von Daniken.

That may not have been your intention but it was the result for me.

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Joe Scales
11/5/2015 12:34:42 am

"The NatGeo news is distressing. It's pointless to hope they'll escape "Foxification" I suppose."

Would you rather it be Hearst/ABC/Disney that ruins Nat Geo, as they did with the History Channel?

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Pam
11/5/2015 12:46:59 am

Not really. I'd prefer that television producers/companies use their talents and resources to produce entertaining, educational programs in addition to the purely entertaining.

If they can make digging into the ground on Oak Island entertaining enough to warrant a second season they could also do the same for archeology, history, etc.

Even if it were only one of the type of shows I'd like to watch for every 4 reality /AA type shows I'd be happy.

Fox does entertainment well I suppose, I just don't care for their news delivery.

Nobody Knows
11/5/2015 07:20:49 am

I'd like to see educational documentaries on the lack of archaeological evidence on early Christianity.


Matt Mc
11/5/2015 10:27:03 am

This is the second Time Nat Geo has done this to the production staff. They used to have a full in house TV station at the DC headquarters, in 2002 they closed the production facility and laid off 100 people and farmed out all production work.

Not saying this is a good thing, but Nat Geo has a reputation of being one of the worst places to work in the TV industry so this is unexpected

Pam
11/5/2015 10:40:46 am

Matt Mc,

Aren't they a non-profit or am I wrong? I've heard they are not great to work for or intern for (daughter being offered internships).

I just hope Fox doesn't make NatGeo into the History channel.



An Over-Educated Grunt
11/5/2015 10:53:11 am

The National Geographic Society is still non-profit, and just doubled their endowment out of it. However, their media arm - which means TV, magazines, everything you see - has been spun off to Fox. As Matt said, though, there's a considerable amount of counter to this story coming out that basically said "they were going to cut anyway, only thing that changed was severity." Looks like they're a great place to be Bob Ballard, Zahi Hawass, or Bob Bakker, but not so great to be the line troops, which is unfortunate, because those are the people who get the work done.

Joe Scales
11/5/2015 11:44:31 am

"Fox does entertainment well I suppose, I just don't care for their news delivery."

Pam, do you mean the actual reporting of news by Fox, or their primetime news commentary shows? The latter are more entertainment programs in my view, as they are more akin to editorializing than what they actually report.

I see the Fox News Channel as a necessary evil, as it was born out of frustration with other news outlets editorializing within their very own reporting of the news; something one will never realize if they're on the same partisan wavelength.

There is always bias. There is always political intent. Best to see it from all angles.

Nobody Knows
11/5/2015 11:59:37 am

Walter Wymer, Patricia Knowles, Roger Gomes
Nonprofit Marketing: Marketing Management for Charitable and Nongovernmental Organizations (2006)


The National Geographic Society has grown aggressively, adding magazine extensions, television programs, and books; in fact, it has grown so much that most target publics are now more aware of its for-profit activities than its original efforts in exploration and education. And therein lies the trap of unchecked brand extension. Without careful planning and attention to mission, brand strength can lure a nonprofit into becoming what is predominantly a for-profit business (justifying ever more overhead and executive energy for commercial growth). This may or may not be true of the National Geographic Society, but aggressive brand extension is something to approach with caution and strict attention to the nonprofit's mission.

Pam
11/5/2015 12:13:52 pm

Joe Scales:

I mean the debates (so perhaps the commentary you mentioned?) where the guests shout each other down. I'd love to hear both sides or more of an issue, but it's often lost in the shouting.

Sometimes they offer specials where they explore an issue in depth and those are pretty good...I wish more of their coverage was like that.

I get the bias factor (MSNBC anyone?) and everyone has them. It's ridiculous to pretend that bias doesn't exist.

I'd like what is most likely "boring" coverage of facts. I'm in the minority, obviously. I do agree that Fox offers a counter weight to the other cable news station's coverage.

Like most things on TV these days, it's the oversimplification of issues I dislike and both sides tend to do this. In the news outlets defense, it's the public, in general, who wants everything simple/black and white and the issues on the news are rarely simple.

Matt Mc
11/5/2015 02:17:53 pm

I have only ever done a little freelance work with Nat Geo TV, the paid late and I basically stay away. The last thing I did for them was in 2011 and it was shooting a pilot for a reality show based on a group of dog walkers. The show was going to be for Nat Geo wild but really was awful and it was terribly scripted (even worse the most reality shows).

As for non profit, I thought they were. All that means is that at the end of the year all proceeds are funneled back into the company and not out to shareholders. I have been told that the advertising proceeds go to help fund the research they sponsor. Not sure how true or not that was. I mean I was just a freelancer who has some friends who worked there.

In the long run it will be business as usual there, in fact this merger might even benefit people like me in the long run since FOX news and FOX sports offer some of the best paying gigs and they always pay on time and offer the best compensation for overtime and other expenses.

All I can say is that since Nat Geo started there own TV channel it has been horrible managed and run. So who knows what will happen now, it cannot really be worse than it was. Content wise, ultimately that is up to the viewers and advertisers. Who knows what direction that could go in. For all the criticism of FOX, FX does a pretty good job of things and it Nat Geo follows the path of FX it might end up a better channel and have some decent quality programming.

Joe Scales
11/5/2015 02:44:30 pm

"I mean the debates (so perhaps the commentary you mentioned?) where the guests shout each other down. I'd love to hear both sides or more of an issue, but it's often lost in the shouting."

You know what I miss Pam? The old Firing Line debates on PBS where they would frame an issue (Resolved: That________) and have a panel debate accordingly. Many may have been turned off by its host, William F. Buckley, and though mostly polite in his discourse, he wasn't without fault for a loss of temper, though on very rare occasion, or a more frequent biting aside. Generally however, you'd have courteous debate between some very intelligent people from all sides, and fallacies were few and far between, as the guilty party would be called out for them with swift rebuke. Now that sort of thing has been replaced by the shouting matches both you and I abhor, where intellect is thrown out the window in favor of the best sound bite regurgitated to spur on whatever partisan audience is being pandered to.

spookyparadigm
11/5/2015 03:48:23 pm

"All I can say is that since Nat Geo started there own TV channel it has been horrible managed and run."

I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that Nat Geo the tv channel has from its inception been owned and run by Fox, with a license/cooperation with National Geographic.

The new deal with Murdoch means, if the above is correct, that the magazine is now going to the same home the tv channel always had, while the exploration part is now the only business of National Geographic.

Pam
11/5/2015 04:45:50 pm

Oh yes, Joe. Firing Line. Even when Buckley was pompous he wasn't horribly rude in my opinion.

Chris Wallace would do well in that format.

Anon
11/5/2015 01:22:08 am

grain. beautiful :-)

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DaveR
11/5/2015 08:29:13 am

Sad about NatGeo. Yet another station that will degenerate to mindless garbage for the dumbed down masses. I can see it now: Next on NatGeo, Nevada Sand Harvesters...who will take coveted first price spot for gathering the most sand in the Nevada desert? Will it be "Toothless Willie O'Brien" or "Blind Bill Jessup?"

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Nobody Knows
11/5/2015 10:10:01 am

It doesn't matter about the fantasies - what matters is that critical scholars are not invited to participate to balance the claims and arguments in these documentaries - that's the most damning of all

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Scott Hamilton
11/5/2015 08:44:54 am

And Ben Carson apparently still believes his Pyramid theory.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ben-carsons-unusual-theory-about-pyramids/

They give a little context to why Joseph might be associated with the Pyramids, but I still wonder where Carson could have been exposed to such a wack-a-doodle idea. Is this still taught in some Christian sects? Mormonism? Seven Day Adventism?

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Pam
11/5/2015 10:26:58 am

He's Seventh Day Adventist. I believe they are "sola scriptura" like most evangelical Protestants. I'm unaware of why this should cause his pyramid as granary belief.

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Nobody Knows
11/5/2015 12:50:29 pm

Seventh Day Adventist

a member of a strict Protestant sect which preaches the imminent return of Christ to Earth (originally expecting the Second Coming in 1844) and observes Saturday as the sabbath.

Pam
11/5/2015 02:51:14 pm

Nobody knows :

That's true. Still, besides the commentary from the Middle Ages, where would pyramid as granary come from? He stated it as a personal belief.

It's the first time I've heard that from any modern Christian, no matter what denomination.

I have been told I'm he'll bound by quite a few, though. :)

Pam
11/5/2015 02:52:49 pm

Should be hell. ..

Godless Heathen
11/5/2015 11:06:29 am

7th Day Adventists spawn from Millerites. Miller claimed to have decoded Daniel to determine the actual arrival date of The Messiah. (Isaac Newton also dabbled in this years before). So when the Millierites gathered and (you guessed it) no Messiah, he retooled his calculus and announced a new date less than 2 years later. Guess what? No Messiah again. One of those no-shows is actually called, "The Great Disappointment". So, FYI your republican front runner believes those ideas.

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lurkster
11/5/2015 11:16:24 am

When this story first broke I said to myself "Oh goody! Jason will be venturing into political commentary this week. That should be fun!!"

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Clete
11/5/2015 01:36:40 pm

Ben Carson. I guess the country really needs another Republican running for president. I suggest Scott Wolter, in fact I already have a campaign slogan for him "Everything I know is wrong!" This has instant appeal and states what most of those running for office should say, but don't.

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spookyparadigm
11/5/2015 02:09:22 pm

In case anyone has forgotten what the prize of this reality tv show is

http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Nuclearweaponswhohaswhat

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Mike
11/5/2015 03:14:08 pm

_mich28

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Mike
11/5/2015 03:16:32 pm

Actually own a copy of We Are Not the First. Mostly a listing of curiosities and not much argument for or against any specific one.

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FOREWORD BY SCOTT WOLTER
11/5/2015 04:42:55 pm


William F. Mann
Templar Sanctuaries in America: Sacred Bloodlines and Secret Treasures (2016)

http://www.amazon.com/Templar-Sanctuaries-America-Bloodlines-Treasures/dp/1620555271/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1446759665&sr=1-3&keywords=knights+templar+2016

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Susie
11/5/2015 10:26:26 pm

I am a skeptic, but I find it difficult to not take what is written in this blog with a grain of salt due to misinformation. I live geographically near one of the "areas of mystery" that has been critiqued in this blog, yet even with corrections from several residents of this are no corrections have been made. Credibility depends upon accuracy and fact checking. Making up information does not promote credibility.

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Pam
11/5/2015 10:44:06 pm

Do you mean this particular essay? Just curious because I have no idea what you're referring to.

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Nobody Knows
11/6/2015 05:27:21 am

You are not a skeptic.

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David Bradbury
11/6/2015 08:36:20 am

Why is "areas of mystery" in quotation marks? As far as I can tell, this blog has never featured any such phrase (singular or plural).

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Harry
11/6/2015 06:33:49 am

From what I understand, Carson was a top-notch neurosurgeon, but he is evidently woefully ignorant of a wide range of other subjects, including many public policy issues with which he will have to deal if he is elected president. For instance, (1) he expects to eliminate the budget by cutting "fat" from federal spending when, in fact, total federal non-military discretionary spending in fiscal year 2015 was slightly less than the amount we borrowed; and (2) he touted Health Savings Accounts by saying that they made every family its own insurance company, when the whole purpose of insurance is to spread risk widely among a larger publication. So his ignorance of history, archaeology and who qualifies as a scientist is not surprising.

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Mike Jones
11/6/2015 06:45:44 am

Saying the Pyramids were granaries is like concluding that a bowling ball is a vessel because you can pour liquid into the three holes. Sure, it would work, but obviously not what it was designed for.

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Bob Jase
11/6/2015 04:32:41 pm

Ah, but the presence of only three holes in said balls 'proves' they were not designed for human use as we have five digits on our hands. Also they are heavy. Must be a holdover from the Nephilim.

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