Author: Randall Carlson

Tunguska: The Great Siberian Thunderbolt – Part 4

Tunguska: The Great Siberian Thunderbolt – Part 4

I concluded last article on the great Tunguska Event by presenting preliminary information about the extraordinary optical phenomenon in the atmosphere with which it was associated. All over northern Eurasia in the days following the mighty blast the sky showed forth a striking spectacle of brilliantly colorful sunsets and silvery glows that lasted throughout the night. For several days there […]

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Tunguska: The Great Siberian Thunderbolt – Part 3

Tunguska: The Great Siberian Thunderbolt – Part 3

This article is the third in a series describing one of the greatest and most mysterious natural events in modern history. On June 30, just after 7 a.m. local time, in the year 1908, eyewitnesses in a remote region of Siberia experienced a demonstration of the awesome power of cosmic events to affect life on Earth. 107 years later we […]

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Ask Randall: Climate Change – Who Are The Real Deniers?

Ask Randall: Climate Change – Who Are The Real Deniers?

Editors note: The following is Randall Carlson’s definitive response to an affected attempt to label him as a “climate change denier.” Randall is of course more than happy to debate anyone from the pro IPCC global warming alarmist camp, brave enough to engage him in an open forum. Truly the debate is not over… but just beginning. Interested climate scientists […]

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Tunguska: The Great Siberian Thunderbolt – Part 2

Tunguska: The Great Siberian Thunderbolt – Part 2

On the morning of June 30 in the year 1908 a mighty explosion occurred in the skies over eastern Siberia. As a result of this explosion more than 800 square miles of old growth taiga forest was instantly blown over and nearly 100 square miles immediately below the blast epicenter was utterly incinerated. The cause of this blast has been […]

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The Great Tunguska Thunderbolt

Tunguska: The Great Siberian Thunderbolt – Part 1

In several previous articles I described some of the major climatic and environmental shifts occurring in the third and fourth millennia BC that were associated with dramatic transitions in human social and cultural patterns, shifts that led to the demise of the relatively harmonious goddess worshiping cultures and the rise of martially oriented patriarchal cultures. Significant changes in climate were […]

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Cycles of Global Change – Part 5 – Civilization of the Goddess

Cycles of Global Change – Part 5 – Civilization of the Goddess

Over the course of the last several articles I have been describing the emergence of a goddess worshiping civilization in the aftermath of a powerful series of catastrophes that terminated the great ice age between 11 and 13 thousand years ago. I have presented evidence that human populations may have suffered a significant decline in numbers across the transition, as […]

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Artifacts of Goddess Worship

Cycles of Global Change – Part 4 – The Rise of the Goddess Civilization

This article is the fourth installment in a series describing events that occurred in the four millennia leading up the beginning of recorded history when cuneiform writing first appeared in Sumer about 5000 years ago. As our knowledge of prehistory evolves we are realizing that there is far more to the story than has been recognized by previous generations of […]

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Cycles of Global Change – Part 2

Cycles of Global Change – Part 2

I wrote last month about the enormous changes that engulfed the Earth at the close of the last great ice age. I discussed the “double whammy” that knocked the planet out of the grip of glacial cold and ushered in the period of interglacial warmth called the Holocene, the name given to the present geological epoch. I stated that I […]

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Pleistocene megafauna (RIP)

Cycles of Global Change

As this article is going to press, yet another near miss of an asteroid has occurred accompanied by an apparent meteor strike. On Sunday, September 7, as asteroid 2014 RC was zooming by Earth at less than one tenth the distance to the Moon, what appears to be a meteorite struck the Earth blasting out a crater some 40 feet […]

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Randall Carlson amidst the Swan Falls Boulder Bar

Randall Carlson: The Making of a Catastrophist – Part 1

I spent most of my youth in rural Minnesota. The area where we lived, about 10 miles northwest of Minneapolis, was a rolling mosaic of hills, pasture, forest, meadow, agricultural fields, and countless lakes. The landscape was the product of the great ice age which came to an end only about 10 thousand years ago. The many hills were piles […]

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Responses to comments made about Joe Rogan Podcast – An open letter to a critic on the matter of chevrons, megatsunamis and bolide impacts.

Responses to comments made about Joe Rogan Podcast – An open letter to a critic on the matter of chevrons, megatsunamis and bolide impacts.

Responses to comments made about Joe Rogan Podcast An open letter to a critic on the matter of chevrons, megatsunamis and bolide impacts. Recently I did a podcast with Joe Rogan. In our wide ranging discussion we covered a lot of material. As pleased as I was by the positive response of many in the listeners, I also appreciate and […]

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Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: The Secret Abides – Part 12 (Final Chapter)

Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: The Secret Abides – Part 12 (Final Chapter)

Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: The Secret Abides – Part 12 (Final Chapter) This article will be the final installment in this series exploring the hidden science of the Holy Grail. There is a great deal more that could be said and at some point additional information will be forthcoming. For now I believe I have sketched the broad outlines and […]

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Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: Alchemical Evolution – Part 11

Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: Alchemical Evolution – Part 11

Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: Alchemical Evolution – Part 11 Last month I discussed some noteworthy etymological connections relating to encounters between the Earth and cosmic material, as well as some of the effects of such an encounter. I mentioned that an important constituent of this material delivered to Earth by way of comets and asteroids was the platinum group metals, […]

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Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: Sacred Language and Cosmic Alchemy – Part 10

Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: Sacred Language and Cosmic Alchemy – Part 10

Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: Sacred Language and Cosmic Alchemy – Part 10 Throughout this series of articles I have been building a case for the idea that celestial events have played a profound and critical role in the history of human as well as planetary affairs. I have invoked the remarkable stories of the Grail Quest as an example whereby […]

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Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: The Cauldron of Lugh – Part 9

Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: The Cauldron of Lugh – Part 9

Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: The Cauldron of Lugh – Part 9 In concluding last month’s article I quoted from 12th century Perlesvous describing the appearance of the Holy Grail: “The Grail appeared at the ceremony of the mass, in five different forms that none ought to tell. For the secret things of the sacrament should not be told openly, except by […]

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Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: Denizens of the Deep – Part 8

Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: Denizens of the Deep – Part 8

Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: Denizens of the Deep – Part 8 Someone once said comets are like cats — they have tails and they do what they want. As of this writing (late Nov. 2013) it appears that Comet Ison has not survived its close passage around the Sun intact and will not, therefore, provide the hoped for celestial display […]

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Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: Piercing the Veil – Part 7

Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: Piercing the Veil – Part 7

Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: Piercing the Veil – Part 7       In the previous two months articles I discussed the remarkable phenomenon of red rain. I quoted chemical engineer and archaeologist Patrick McCafferty who concluded in The International Journal of Astrobiology that the red rain particles were both extraterrestrial and biological in nature and that their source was the interior […]

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Sangreal, The Holy Grail: The Mystery of the Red Rain – Part 6

Sangreal, The Holy Grail: The Mystery of the Red Rain – Part 6

Sangreal, The Holy Grail: The Mystery of the Red Rain – Part 6 Last month I introduced the reader to a very strange meteorological phenomenon that occurred with surprising frequency throughout history. This was the phenomenon of rainfall that had the appearance of blood. A very interesting example of this genre appears in The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus, […]

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Sangreal, The Holy Grail: Recovering The Lost Science of Antiquity – Part 5

Sangreal, The Holy Grail: Recovering The Lost Science of Antiquity – Part 5

Sangreal, The  Holy Grail: Recovering the Cosmic Science of Antiquity – Part Five We left off last month with a synopsis of a portion of Chretien de Troyes account of the Grail quest. We learned how Percival became a knight in King Arthur’s court and subsequently set out in pursuit of adventure, whereupon he encounters a fisherman who directs him […]

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Sangreal, The Holy Grail: Recovering the Lost Science of Antiquity – Part 3.

Sangreal, The Holy Grail: Recovering the Lost Science of Antiquity – Part 3.

This article is the third in a series explicitly addressing the meaning of one of the most potent of magical symbols, the Holy Grail. I hope you have read the previous two from the months of May and June in order to pick up the thread of the narrative. If you have not read them, or have gotten hazy about […]

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