Hare Krishna!
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All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga!
We are extremely honoured to welcome HG Drutakarma prabhu(Michael Cremo) to ISKCON Scarborough coming Saturday – October 12th 2013.
A fascinating Power point presentation titled “Puranic Time and the Archaeological Record” will be presented by prabhu on 12th Oct starting at 7 pm sharp.
A brief overview of the Puranic Time and the Archeological Record power point presentation
The time concept of modern archaeology and modern anthropology in general, resembles the general cosmological-historical time concept of Europe's Judaeo-Christian culture. Differing from the cyclical cosmological-historical time concepts of the early Greeks in Europe, and the Indians and others in Asia, the Judaeo-Christian cosmological-historical time concept is linear and progressive. Modern archaeology also shares with Judaeo-Christian theology the idea that humans appear after the other major species. The Vaishnava perspective offers a radical critique of modern generalizations about human origins and antiquity. The Puranas and Ithihasas place human existence in the context of repeating time cycles called yugas and kalpas, lasting hundreds of millions of years. During this entire time, according to the Puranic accounts, humans coexisted with creatures in some ways resembling the earlier tool making hominids of modern evolutionary accounts. If one were to take the Puranic record as objectively true, and also take into account the generally admitted imperfection and complexity of the archaeological and anthropological record, one could make the following prediction. The strata of the earth, extending back hundreds of millions of years, should yield a bewildering mixture of hominid bones, some anatomically modern human and some not, as well as a similarly bewildering variety of artifacts, some displaying a high level of artistry and others not. Given the linear progressivist preconceptions of generations of archaeologists and anthropologists, one could also predict that this mixture of bones and artifacts would be edited to conform to their deeply rooted linear-progressive time concepts. A careful study of the archaeological record, and the history of archaeology itself, broadly confirms these two predictions. Linear-progressivist time concepts thus pose a substantial barrier to truly objective evaluation of the archaeological record and to rational theory- building in the area of human origins and antiquity.
Bio data of HG Drutakarma Dasa(Please also visit www.mcremo.com for more information)
All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga!
We are extremely honoured to welcome HG Drutakarma prabhu(Michael Cremo) to ISKCON Scarborough coming Saturday – October 12th 2013.
A fascinating Power point presentation titled “Puranic Time and the Archaeological Record” will be presented by prabhu on 12th Oct starting at 7 pm sharp.
A brief overview of the Puranic Time and the Archeological Record power point presentation
The time concept of modern archaeology and modern anthropology in general, resembles the general cosmological-historical time concept of Europe's Judaeo-Christian culture. Differing from the cyclical cosmological-historical time concepts of the early Greeks in Europe, and the Indians and others in Asia, the Judaeo-Christian cosmological-historical time concept is linear and progressive. Modern archaeology also shares with Judaeo-Christian theology the idea that humans appear after the other major species. The Vaishnava perspective offers a radical critique of modern generalizations about human origins and antiquity. The Puranas and Ithihasas place human existence in the context of repeating time cycles called yugas and kalpas, lasting hundreds of millions of years. During this entire time, according to the Puranic accounts, humans coexisted with creatures in some ways resembling the earlier tool making hominids of modern evolutionary accounts. If one were to take the Puranic record as objectively true, and also take into account the generally admitted imperfection and complexity of the archaeological and anthropological record, one could make the following prediction. The strata of the earth, extending back hundreds of millions of years, should yield a bewildering mixture of hominid bones, some anatomically modern human and some not, as well as a similarly bewildering variety of artifacts, some displaying a high level of artistry and others not. Given the linear progressivist preconceptions of generations of archaeologists and anthropologists, one could also predict that this mixture of bones and artifacts would be edited to conform to their deeply rooted linear-progressive time concepts. A careful study of the archaeological record, and the history of archaeology itself, broadly confirms these two predictions. Linear-progressivist time concepts thus pose a substantial barrier to truly objective evaluation of the archaeological record and to rational theory- building in the area of human origins and antiquity.
Bio data of HG Drutakarma Dasa(Please also visit www.mcremo.com for more information)
HG Drutakarma Dasa (Michael Cremo) was initiated by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1976. In 1977 he began writing articles for Back To Godhead magazine and has been an Associate Editor for BTG for over twenty years. In 1979 he began collaboratively writing books such as Coming Back and The Higher Taste Cookbook for the BBT. In 1984 he joined the Bhaktivedanta Institute, Srila Prabhupada's science preaching mission, working with Sadaputa dasa and others on the Origins magazine project. His books include Forbidden Archaeology, The Hidden History of the Human Race (both coauthored with Sadaputa dasa), Forbidden Archaeology's Impact, Human Devolution, The Forbidden Archaeologist, and My Science, My Religion.. He has presented papers at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the World Archaeological Congress, the European Association of Archaeologists, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the International Congress for History of Science, and other scientific institutions and conferences. He’s appeared on numerous documentaries such as The Mysterious Origins of Man, Ancient Aliens, Atlantis: Secret Star Mappers of a Lost World and hundreds of media interviews. He lectures widely at universities throughout the world. A member of the Sastric Advisory Committee for the GBC, he offers classes and seminars to devotees throughout the world on Science and Krishna Consciousness.
Some of the books authored or co-authored by HG Drutakarma prabhu
- My Science, My Religion: Academic Papers (1994-2009)
- The Forbidden Archeologist: The Atlantis Rising Columns of Michael A. Cremo
- Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory
- Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race
- The Hidden History of the Human Race
- Forbidden Archeology's Impact: Papers, Reviews, Letters and Interviews
- Divine Nature: A Spiritual Perspective on the Environmental Crisis
- The Mysterious Origins of Man(DVD)
We humbly welcome you, your friends and family to ISKCON Scarborough to be amazed by this presentation as well as to get a rare opportunity to associate with prabhu.
With best wishes from,
ISKCON Scarborough
3500 McNicoll Avenue, Unit #3,
Scarborough,Ontario,
Canada,M1V4C7
Email Address:
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