Electric Dreams

The Waves: 07
Journey to Antarctica

Lunar Moon (August 23 to September 19, 2003)

Nick Cumbo


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The Waves is a newsletter reporting on the explorations of the Sea Life community. Sea Life, the main web forum at Dreampeace, aims to bring together a circle of dreamers from around the globe, collaborating in dreaming adventures, and 'dreaming with and for the earth itself'

Link: http://www.dreamofpeace.net/


This moon, the people at Sea Life, took a journey to the icy land of Antarctica. It was the atmosphere of mystery surrounding previous visits there, and the beauty of the Antarctic landscape that we set out to explore. Upon sharing an earlier dream about a monk showing me a map of Antarctica, with rivers and lakes running through it, Valter (Strawin) shared a fascinating story about 'The Ancient Map of Piri Reis'.

"In 1929 a group of historians found half of the map in Istanbul on a dusty shelf, still rolled up and drawn on a gazelle skin. The content of the map was amazing: it focused on the western coast of Africa, the eastern coast of South America and the northern coast of Antarctica. The most flabbergasting point is that the Antarctic had remained undiscovered until 1818, but its northern coastline, perfectly detailed, was shown on this map drawn in 1513. It shows the land mass that exists under the Antarctic ice cap (and Greenland), which were only visible before 4000BC."

Harold Z. Ohlmeyer, Lt. Colonel, USAF, Commander wrote: "The geographical detail shown in the lower part of the map agrees very remarkably with the results of the seismic profile made across the top of the ice-cap by the Swedish-British Antarctic Expedition of 1949. This indicates the coastline had been mapped before it was covered by the ice-cap. The ice-cap in this region is now about a mile thick. We have no idea how the data on this map can be reconciled with the supposed state of geographical knowledge in 1513."

What made this discovery all the more fascinating, was that a previous member of the forum - Phantom Spectre, had six months earlier shared dream experiences, with a similar message.

ANTARCTICA IN THE PAST

One dream I had about 3 years ago, I was only able to visit Antarctica in the past. I spent my time largely talking to the inhabitants. It was largely a tropical area, which was inhabited by a mixture of races. To them race did not matter. People lived very long. However there was not always peace; they said there were nomads who would visit every so often who were very powerful. These people called these men "fellers". I do not know the significance of this term. Only that they are said to like making people fall down.

Another dream I recall from memory was right after the tropical age in fact it was very strange for an old man appeared and told me that destruction was imminent. He said something about the formation of the earth, and that there was still much ice in the upper atmosphere which made the entire earth tropical. However when this fell to earth it caused a flash freeze at the poles. Freezing, destroying everything at the poles. He explained that even wooly mamoths were frozen with grass still in their mouth. I asked why this happened. There was no answer, Then I woke up.

Another dream yet, I was in a town on Antarctica. It was very modern brick building. Not anything like what we have but the inhabitants were modern enough to build these. They also had built pottery. I asked someone what year it was. They did not know how to respond. My guide appeared and made some comment about it being around or before 4000 b.c. give or take 2000 years. Then I said "Wouldn't it be around the time of the Ice Age? Around 10000BC?" She said "No. Carbon dating is not that accurate, plus the plates of the earth moved very quickly during that time which also threw everything off for todays scientists."

In another dream of my own, I decided to venture into dreaming, and check the computer for more info about Antarctica. I wasn't all that successful, and was even a little bewildered when I saw the name 'Megawati' in reference to Antarctica. However, when I decided to do a little search on the net, I turned up this interesting development.

"There are two Indonesian scientists aboard the Aurora Australis who are travelling as guests of the Australian Government. They will be the first Indonesians ever to set foot on Antarctica, as far as anyone can judge, and they constitute the Indonesian Antarctic Expedition 2002.

This Expedition was launched in Jakarta shortly after Christmas with the official inauguration of an inscribed granite plaque by the President, Mrs Megawati Sukarnoputri who has personally "signed" the plaque. The inscription - in Bahasa - speaks of friendship and cooperation between Indonesia and Australia."

http://www.ppk.itb.ac.id/~web/antartika/GALERY/DAVIS/
CAMPUR_3/INDONESIAN_EXPEDITIONERS_TO.HTM


And then there was the focus of the program; "to look at the community structure of phytoplankton in particular with regards to the increase in UVB radiation over the summer. This is important to us because we can make comparisons with UVB radiation in Indonesia where the increase in UVB is putting our archipelagoes at risk. The high intensity of light and high concentration of carbon dioxide threaten the life under our red-white flag, particularly in marine primary production which will, in turn, slowly damage our marine biodiversity."

In the words of 'Ascension', which were directed at myself "The fact it is to do with sealife is relevant of course, and the treaty between Indonesia and Australia also, considering you are an Australian Explora, and your site kind of offers a treaty that unites dreamers from all over the world. Way cool!"


Stay tuned next moon for the results of our 'Psychedelic Dreaming'. We welcome new dreamers to join us in our adventures.

Email: explora@dreamofpeace.net
Forum: http://www.dreamofpeace.net/sealife