The History Of Futures Past

On Joseph P. Farrell’s
Genes, Giants, Monsters And Men
The surviving elites of the Cosmic War and their hidden agenda
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If your mind can travel time anywhere and any-when, you’re aware that true and deep knowledge is a process of remembering (not just in Socrates’ terms of souls regaining “ideas”). So you may sense, or even suspect, that much of what you’re taught is not what you remember, and what you remember you’re seldom taught.

Most people would hardly be bothered by such a vague feeling, since we are living — and more often than not surviving — the moment. How does it matter that there might be alternative histories, world events that may have happened different from mainstream textbook-tellings, or happened without us even “knowing” of them in the first place?

Reading Joseph P. Farrell’s books, it would seem it will matter, at some point in the future, maybe even sooner rather than later — not only because, as the saying goes, history is written by the victors. If Farrell’s speculations about humankind’s history should turn out to be more than just speculations, we may be confronted with some unsettling, if not horrifying questions that would affect every single soul, the most disturbing one being, in Farrell’s words, that all of us are someone else’s property — a result of genetic breeding.

Genes, Giants, Monsters And Men is an interlude in his Cosmic War series, developing an alternative perspective on the origins and history of humanity. Farrell’s vantage point is an interplanetary war, fought aeons ago and involving different races and elites, with one or more of them being preceding genetic cousins of man.

The text looks at the hypothetical aftermath of that war, and how the surviving elites would have tried to reconstruct civilisation so it would evolve back to the heights of the assumed pre-ear civilisation. Farrell, having a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford, doesn’t pull his theories out of thin air though.

The book contains an extensive bibliography, approximately a fifth of the 300 pages. The reading and reference list includes mainstream and fringe-scientific works, contemporary scholars and archaeologists, secondary literature on ancient texts as well as the Bible (especially the Old Testament) through to James Shreeve’s The Genome War (on the race to map the human genome that started on the eve of the 21st century).

“Pretty much everyone with half a brain…is agreed that something is wrong with our standard model of history, particularly the farther back it goes.”
— Dr. Joseph P. Farrell

Farrell’s hypotheses may seem wild and far-fetched to the mainstream-adopted reader, even unfounded and contrived to people with a hardcore scientific disposition that is rooted in materialistic and quasi-religious assumptions about reality. However, it occurs not least to Farrell himself that his speculations are somewhat hard to swallow as he admits to it and frankly asks us to make up our own minds: “Consequently, when it comes right down to it, we have a choice between fairy tales, or, if one prefers, between mythologies or dogmas.”

Farrell sees uncanny parallels between the ancient myths and lore of geographically and culturally disconnected civilisations (Greeks, Aztecs and Mayans, for instance), repeating very similar, if not identical, details that seem to imply modern humanity, following a Cosmic War, was genetically engineered — by superior beings that possessed technologies beyond comprehension and were, most legends have it, tyrannical giants.

Since ancient times, these beings, or their elites, presumably have had a long term agenda — using humankind to recreate a sophisticated civilisation scientifically developed enough to get the supreme rulers off the planet and back to interplanetary reign.

Inevitably, the enterprise had to be a covert one. As Farrell stated in an interview on Coast To Coast, those elites would “try and preserve knowledge for themselves and leak as much of it as they dare to the public to maintain their own power” and, referring to the reluctance of mainstream academia to talk about alternate interpretations and evidence, “there is a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, in maintaining the standard models of human evolution.”

In Genes, Giants, Monsters And Men, Farrell discusses some of the background stories of the apparent academic, in particular archaeological cover-up, some of them more than intriguing – for example artefacts found in geological strata sometimes hundreds of millions of years old. There seem to be many of those out-of-place artefacts, raising “a lot of questions about standard scientific models of history and religion” (Farrell).

Obviously, like those artefacts, Farrell’s interpretations are highly controversial. Doing some research myself, however, I found that neither side of the dispute has per se the stronger arguments. In fact, I keep wondering if modern science would serve itself by developing a spiritual maturity that allows for an open and fair controversy. After all, how many scientific discoveries do look more like an “approval” of once adept speculations and science fiction?

Scholars like Farrell offer vitally important perspectives — often with practical relevance. Given the developments in nanotechnology, quantum computing and transgenic research, it would seem that humanity is not far from being a sophisticated civilisation breaking dimensional barriers and returning “to the level of science implied by ancient texts” (Farrell). Looking at the ethical conflicts and spiritual imbalance of the modern scientific age, a new Cosmic War may not be as implausible as it seems.

Farrell’s argument is conclusive, convincing, and not least entertaining. Though some of his treatises, for example on the star-based system of weights and measures (needed to jump-start a trading civilisation) are rather meticulous, they are also revealing in the light of current globalisation.

He might meet some critics of the the “third kind” though. At times, I felt he didn’t go far enough in terms of transcending the human perspective, and given the facts he is presenting I thought many of his interpretations and speculations are more or less self-evident.

On this note, the possible agenda(s) of the hidden elite(s) might reach much farther than humanly imaginable. In admitting this, we could reach a perspective that allows us to see beyond our own origins, whether or not we were engineered into existence, are hundreds of millions of years old, or if there is a wider purpose we are meant to serve for those giants… and monsters.

In Tibetan Buddhism, there’s the notion of an Infiniverse, encompassing everything that exists, seen or unseen. From an “infiniversal” perspective, humankind might evolve into a race that can transcend physical existence, accessing energies of this and other universes directly. Whoever or whatever created man’s ancestors, should certainly be interested in such a trait, as it might allow for limitless power. In the end though, this is just speculation, and many others are possible. Like anything. Remember.