This is not the first time I've found confirmations for stuff in this book. Kerner insists in the book that human lineage includes a Neanderthal input. Research into mitochondrial DNA claimed to prove that this was impossible. But research published this year suggests that Neanderthals may well have contributed to the human gene pool after all. In fact several of Kerner's suggestions in the book seem to have come almost prophetically true since the book was written. I read it last year and the amount of things he mentions that have already happened is unbelievable.

Kerner's not a creationist though thank God!! If he were I'd have put the book down sharpish. He suggests that the difference between us and the animals is freedom of scope, freedom to know, be aware of and make a vast range of choices outside the status quo. So, if we are 'devolving', we had more freedom of scope in the past and if you trace that right back to our beginnings , we would have been perfectly free with no limit. That perfect freedom you could call 'God', and Kerner does. But the refreshing difference is that he says we made our own free choices to understand what it might be like not to be perfectly free. We chose to experience the one thing we couldn't, from the state of perfect freedom – limit. If 'God' is all knowing, says Kerner, then that knowing would kind of have to include a knowledge of what it's like not to know all. Sound strange? It won't if you read the book and see the full argument. It was just what I was looking for, as I could never relate to a creator God, but could never figure how our existence could be explained without one.

So basically, Kerner says that humankind in the past was a less hard wired more ephemeral sort of being that gradually devolved into a more and more physical type of being, through the action of the second law of thermodynamics, with time, to a point where we became a sort of monkey man.

Another angle on this is his radical and extraordinary theory involving the Grey aliens that feature in reports of alien abduction.

He suggests that when we reached our current devolutionary point we became susceptible to interference by these entities that come from elsewhere in the universe. These alien biological robots (he calls 'roboids') are, he says, genetically engineering us to serve their purposes to this day. This interference has modified our present form of Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Could the creation story of Adam & Eve describe just such a genetic engineering exercise, he asks. Could the taking of Adam's rib to make Eve describe a cloning procedure? He claims there were many more of these genetic interceptions previous to this. All of them leading to a point where these alien things harvest some of us for what he calls our 'soul fields'. A 'soul' is the only eternal mechanism in 'a universe of diminishing returns', as Kerner puts it.

He gives evidence to show that the great religious teachers including Christ came to warn us of this fact. More disturbingly he claims the UFO phenomenon is in fact the harbinger of this mal-intent on the part of this alien power and it continues to this day. A continuity that may well end in the final harvest of those whom he suggests are the more suitable types of human for an alien purpose: The 'Euro-Caucasian' genotype.

Read this hugely interesting book and you'll find it explains most of the conundrums we now face, through scientific discoveries, and actually ties in and affirms religious belief in a Godhead, in a way that is quite brilliantly logical.

Bigger brains than necessary, shrinking brains with time, evolution? I don't think so.

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