Everything You Know is Wrong: Bk. 1: Human Origins (Human Origins, Book 1) [Paperback]

Very interesting read. Lloyd Pye is a very articulate and persuasive speaker (see his presentations on You Tube, Google, etc)., and he delivers this book in similar vein.

The thrust of his argument is that there is no Missing Link - the human race is unique and there is no evidence of any gradual transition between the Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons and others, through to ourselves. Darwin, he theorises, was only partly correct in his theories concerning evolutionary changes, for example, giraffes growing long necks, birds developing different beaks, etc., but modern man possesses a certain amount of DNA simply not seen in the various races of hominoids that inhabited the Earth in prehistoric times.

A good deal of space is given over to the intriguing topic of Bigfoot, Sasquatch, etc., which Pye contends are the true descendants of the ancient hominoids.

Modern man appeared "all of a sudden", as did the various domesticated and farm animals, food crops such as wheat, barley etc.

Pye's theory is that an extraterrestrial race colonised this planet in remote antiquity and created "us" by genetic manipulation using partly their own genes and partly those of the indigenous man-like creatures found on Earth at the time. "We" were created basically to act as slaves for the master race who arrived here. The various farm animals and crops were likewise "imported".

His evidence? The writings of the Sumerians, who, again, seemed to have arrived here out of nowhere about 6,000 years ago. Pye draws heavily on the writings of Zecharia Sitchin and subscribes to the idea that the Earth was struck by a rogue planet, known by the Sumerians as Nibiru, which apparently circles our Sun in an eccentric orbit and passes close by the Earth about once every 3,600 years. Nibiru was inhabited by a race known as the Annunaki, who were the Earth colonisers as described above.

All fascinating stuff, but for me, the big question is, were these Sumerian writings meant to be reality or myth? We'll never know, of course. Scientists seem to agree that there certainly were planetary collisions in the early Solar System, resulting in the Earth missing a large chunk of its crust, as evidenced by the huge expanse of the Pacific Ocean, for example. Another obvious query springs to mind, namely how could the inhabitants of Nibiru survive if their planet's orbit goes way out beyond the orbit of Pluto? Surely it would need the warmth of the Sun?

Pye draws some interesting comparisons between Biblical terminology and the Sumerian writings, e.g. the Sumerian homeland was known as Edin (hence Garden Of Eden) and the genetically manipulated humanoids the Adamu (Adam).

The arguments will go on, and the archaeologists and scientists will no doubt make new "finds" giving more credence to one theory or the other.

As Graham Hancock has often said, we are "marooned in the present" and simply don't have much of an idea about our origins.

It's certainly true that the writers of the Bible, the Epic of Gilgamesh, etc., wouldn't have had the first idea concerning DNA and genetic manipulation, so we are better placed nowadays, to draw more modern, realistic conclusions as to what these ancient writings were referring to in their various versions of the origins of mankind.

Does this book give a realistic explanation as to "How It All Began"? I have my reservations but it's entertaining and stimulating nonetheless.

I read this book a while ago and it is a lucid, but detailed analysis of the possible links between Ancient Astronaut Evidence, the Bigfoot/Sasquatch evidence and human genetics.

Lloyd Pye gives a super overview of the research of Zeccariah Sitchin, whose detailed examination of the Sumerian Tablets over quite a number of years, lead him to conclude that the "Ancient Astronaut" hypothesis is correct - and an advanced race of beings came here many thousands of years ago - to mine gold. As part of this mammoth project, they decided that they needed to genetically engineer "the locals" to help in this task. That part of the plan started some 350,000 years ago and eventually resulted in Homo Sapiens - with its 4000 genetic problems (far more than other mammals).

One of the central questions the book raises is: If chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, then how come they have 48 chromosomes and we have only 46? What happened to make those 2 Chromosomes disappear? I haven't seen any better answers than those Lloyd presents in his book.

Lloyd also describes his viewing of the Minnesota Iceman in the trailer which was used to drive it round the USA. He describes how the blood from the gunshot wound had floated up and the wispy trail was frozen in the ice. Lloyd presents a lot of other evidence that "Bigfoot" and its relatives are real creatures and they have had multiple well-documented encounters (sometimes lasting several days) with people.

This book may open your eyes to new ways of looking at things you might previously have thought were "way out nonsense" and how they make a lot more sense when connected together.

So, read this book - connect the dots and see where the trail leads...

I like to think of myself as someone with a deep respect for science and logic but this book turned a lot of what "I know" on it's head. I don't necessarily agree with all of the conclusions that he draws but everyone should read this. This is the first scientific attempt I have read to disprove evolution and in that I think it succeeds whether you take that to the next step and agree that humans were genetically engineered to be slaves is something you can only decide after reading the book. A large portion of the book is devoted to cryptozoological creatures like the sasquatch and abonimable snowman but it does argue that they exist in a very convincing way. The book then seems to change subjects completely and switches to the ancient writings of Sumeria but it does then link them together in a logical way. For anyone with an open mind this book is a must read for anyone else I would ask that they do give the book the benefit of the doubt you never know it may change the way you think about everything it certainly has had me thinking a lot over the last month.