So some 
      from page 126 in Rampa-book 
       BEYOND THE TENTH
      
       
      
      
      "About astral travel and research into far past and the origin of things"
      
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      here also about the origin of oil 
      - "the black gold"- this is not as told by the 
      "experts on earth"
       
      
      Astral travel. Keep this 
      in mind; when doing astral travel we are not in a flesh body, we are in a 
      body, which can penetrate materials which, to the flesh body, would be 
      solid. Do you understand the implications of that? It means that one can 
      sink downwards at a controlled rate, sink down through the Earth and 
      through solid rock. One can see with perfect clarity, although to a flesh 
      body it would be complete and utter darkness. One can sink down and see 
      perhaps here a giant figure, which was trapped half a million years ago 
      and became em-bedded in what is now solid coal. In this solid coal, then, 
      there is a giant figure intact, perfectly preserved, as mastodons and 
      dinosaurs have been preserved intact.
      
      For years scientists 
      have thought that the advent of humans, or humanoid races, on the Earth 
      was fairly recent. But they have now come to the conclusion that humanity 
      on Earth is much, much older than previously thought. Our travels through 
      solid rock can tell us that, our travels can indicate to us this; after 
      thousands and thousands of years the Earth goes into a sort of periodic 
      convulsion during which the whole surface of the Earth trembles, during 
      which waters recede here and waters rise there. The surface of the Earth 
      seems to boil and seethe, and every trace of the Works of Man upon the 
      Earth rises up and falls down, and gets buried hundreds, or thousands, of 
      feet below the surface of the Earth. Housewives will understand when I say 
      it is similar to making a big cake; you have a basin full of all sorts of 
      unmixed ingredients, and then you insert a big spoon from the bottom and 
      raise up, gradually mixing everything so that all the components, all the 
      constituents, are distributed throughout the cake mix.
      
      So, every half million 
      years, or so, the Earth gets rid of unwanted stock and prepares the 
      surface of the Earth for the next bunch, who, it fondly hopes, might be 
      more successful. Life on Earth is old, the Age of the dinosaur and the 
      mastodon and all those creatures was just the start of yet one more 
      experiment, just as in thousands of years to come, this Earth will end as 
      we know it at present. The whole surface will seethe and bubble, and the 
      cities and Works of Man here will tumble down, and be buried thousands of 
      feet below the surface so that anyone coming to Earth would say it was a 
      new world which had never been inhabited.
      
      It takes a lot of 
      experience to do this type of astral travel. But I can do it, and I can 
      tell you that you can do it also if you will practise sufficiently, if you 
      will have faith in your own ability, and if you will remember that you 
      cannot do it to bring back messages for other people at so many dollars a 
      visit!
      
      I have seen deep down in 
      the Arctic ice, hundreds of feet, or even thousands of feet below the 
      surface, strange forms A different form of human, a purplish type of 
      person with different characteristics from present day humans. Present-day 
      humans have-just for example-two breasts and ten fingers. But I have seen 
      purple people entombed absolutely intact, and they have had eight breasts 
      and nine fingers on each hand. Probably some day research will exhume some 
      of these people, and then there will be a nine-day wonder about it all. 
      Some day there will be an atomic digging machine which will be able to 
      excavate the ice, and show some of the people and some of the cities 
      buried incredibly deep in the ice, cities of a people who lived and walked 
      the surface of this Earth hundreds of centuries before there was any 
      recorded history whatever on this Earth.
      
      This was a time when 
      there was only one continent on the Earth, and all the rest was water. 
      When South America and Africa were one, and when England was just a part 
      of mainland Europe; when Ireland was just a mountain peak stretching miles 
      - yes, miles up into the very different air. At one time all the world of 
      land was one mass extending from the North Pole to what is now the South 
      Pole. It was like a bridge linking one side of the Earth to the other. 
      Australia, China, and America, all were one, all joined to what is now 
      Africa and Europe. But in the earth-shakes, in the shivering tremors, 
      which threw down civilisation and threw up fresh earth and rocks to hide 
      that civilisation, and because of centrifugal effects, that one solid 
      mass, that one continent of Earth, broke up. And as the Earth shivered and 
      trembled, the seabed crept along, taking bits of land with it, land which 
      became Australia, America, Europe, Africa, and so on.
      
      With practice in astral 
      travel, with considerable practice in meditation, and combining the two 
      together, you can actually see all this as if you were in that item 
      beloved of the Science Fictioneer - a time machine. There really is a time 
      machine, you know, a very definite, working, time machine; it is the 
      Akashic Record, wherein everything that has ever happened to this Earth is 
      recorded. It's like having an endless number of cine cameras recording 
      everything that ever happens, day or night, and blending them all together 
      into one continuous ever-running film which you can 'tap into' by knowing 
      how; and by knowing the age at which you desire to look.
      
      It is truly a 
      fascinating thing to see a civilisation upon the Earth, a flourishing 
      civilization, but one in which the people are very different from the 
      humans whom we now are accustomed to see. In this particular 
      civilization, for example, people moved about not in motor cars, but on 
      what may well be the origin of the old story about the flying carpet; they 
      moved about on platforms which looked for all the world like mats. They 
      sat cross legged on these things and, by manipulating a little control, 
      which looked like a woven pattern, they could rise and soar off in any 
      direction. In the Record we can watch all this, and then as we watch we 
      have an effect just as if some clumsy per-son were shaking a chess board 
      on which all the men were set up for a good game. As the chess-board men 
      would tumble so did the people of the then-Earth tumble. The Earth itself 
      yawned, great gaping chasms appeared, and buildings and people toppled in, 
      and the Earth shuddered and closed up. And after a time the heaving and 
      rolling of the surface ended, and the Earth was ready for the next 'crop'.
      
      In this form of astral 
      travel, also, one can go deep deep down into the Earth, and one can see 
      perhaps intact afterfacts of that Age, or remnants of large buildings. 
      One can go to Arctic or Antarctic regions, and go deep down and find 
      people and animals who have been quick-frozen to death, and because of the 
      cold and the quickness of the onset of the cold, they have been preserved 
      utterly intact as if they merely slept and waited a shaking hand to awaken 
      them.
      
      As one looks one can see 
      different chest developments, different nostrils, because the atmosphere 
      of the Earth a few million years ago was very different from what it is 
      today. People of today would not be able to live in the atmosphere of 
      those times, just as people of those times would not have been able to 
      breathe the atmosphere which we now optimistically call 'clean air'. Then 
      there was far more chlorine, far more sulphur, in the air. Now we get the 
      stink of petroleum fumes.
      
       
      
      Petroleum is not 
      native to this Earth
      
      Another thing that you 
      can see, and which you, like. I, will no doubt find fascinating, is that 
      petroleum is unnatural to this Earth. Petroleum is not native to this 
      Earth. By the Akashic Record, a planet collided with this Earth and caused 
      this Earth to stop for a moment, and then spin in the opposite direction. 
      But the collision disintegrated the other planet, and much of its seas 
      poured down through space on to this Earth. The seas of that planet were 
      what we call petroleum. It poured down and saturated the Earth and sank 
      into the Earth, and went on down until it found a level and a strata which 
      it could not penetrate, and there it lay and collected, and awaited the 
      coming of humans who would one day pump it up and invent a perfectly 
      horrible machine or machines, which would use this petroleum. When all the 
      petroleum has been used up there will be no more made, because, as I have 
      said, it is just spillage from another world
      
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      think it sounds far out....- well - on the 
      website of the norwegian spacesenter- we can read about just such oceans 
      of oil on the MOON OF SATURN- TITAN !!! -
      
      LINK ON NORW |
      
      engl link on that.|
      
      alt.