Robert Baird and the Aliens

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Analysis of Baird's essay "Aliens in Archaeology" in connection with a Mt. San Antonio Archaeology class. Attempts to locate explicit references to his New Age theories on Tiwanaku, Lake Titicaca, Pumapunku, sites, Earth Energy grid, the Chachapoya people, Druids, Theosophy, and even Gurdjieff. I also take a stab at interpreting what Baird was trying to say (he doesn't seem to believe in space aliens) and how the logic (such as it is) of his essay goes.

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Robert Baird and the Aliens
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April 1, 2013 Robert Bruce Baird published in May 2005 an article titled “Aliens in Archaeology” on the web site Ezine Articles, a site that accepts articles from the general public, has no requirement of expertise, conducts no peer review, and only limited secondary editing. He is listed as an “expert author” and credited with 251 articles.1 On his “about” page, Baird says he is an “activist for ecumenicism with an esoteric insight and experience of a unique nature.” He lists no other credentials. His articles have included those in the categories of Arts and Entertainment: Movies TV; News and Society: Politics; Self Improvement: Inspirational; Self Improvement: Stress Management; Womens Interests; and Relationships: Sexuality. He begins the article: As you read this book you will have to suspend the disbelief you feel when confronted with my assertions that for at least 5000 years man has been in close contact all over the world. If you have read my other books2 you will know I have made the case better than any and that there are lots of good scholars who agree with me. At first it is unclear why one would not believe that men have been in contact with one another for 5,000 years. It turns out that what is at issue is what close contact involves. His theory seems to be that men have been in contact using some kind of communication technique that has been lost, a technique known in the past by means of esoteric wisdom. More generally, various ancient civilizations have been in communication with one another by some means now lost to us. Baird maintains that various archaeological sites in the Americas–primarily South America–contain artifacts that are evidence of these ancient communication techniques. He mentions without further analysis a site in Bolivia (Tiwanaku) and supposed remains in Lake Titicaca, which borders Bolivia and Peru. He further incorporates a host of other New Age or alien-related ideas linked to South American archaeological sites and artifacts. Because Baird gives no references or explanation whatsoever, the context of these sites is considered below. Pumapunku3 is a temple in and part of the Tiwanaku, Bolivia, archaeological site.4 It was featured in season 4, episode 6 (March 2012) of the television series Ancient Aliens.5 This particular episode features commentary by Giorgio Tsoukalos, David Childress, and others. None of the commentators are professional, academic archaeologists. The essential claim of the episode is that the site was constructed by aliens or with the use of alien technology. Claims about Tiwanaku stretch back to Erich von Daniken and earlier.6 Baird says that Tiwanaku “may provide the proof,” but he doesn’t even state what the proof may be of. Later it becomes clear that in spite of the spate of claims that Tiwanaku is alien-related, Baird rejects the fact of any alien involvement.
The articles were published from 5/7/2005 through 8/3/2006, a rate of almost one every other day. Many of his self-published books can be found at “Robert Bruce Baird’s Page” www.lulu.com/spotlight/ gaianinstituteof Lulu.com. 3 Baird uses the hispanicized “Puma Puncu” spelling. 4 See, Wikipedia “Pumapunku” 5 The site was also featured in the 2009 series pilot. 6 See, http://www.jasoncolavito.com/1/post/2012/01/tsoukalos-admits-being-wrong-about-tiwanakubut-still-aliens.html
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Baird refers to “spires of ancient buildings that fishermen have tied their boats to for millennia.” There is no readily available report on such spires. An October 2013 episode of Ancient Aliens titled “Peru’s Gate of the Gods”7 suggests that on the shores of the lake aliens constructed a “Star Gate.”8 However, this is at the shores of the lake, not a protruding spire. In any event, this production appeared after Baird’s article. One Brian Forster, who operates a business conducting UFO tours, refers to “ancient generating towers near Lake Titicaca in Peru.”9 What Forster claims to be such towers are in fact the Sillustani tombs, which are a good hour’s drive from Puno, and not exactly on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Because Baird gives no specific references, it is impossible to determine exactly what site or artifacts he is referring to, which will “provide the proof.” Whatever the proof is of, there appears to be a connection to an “Earth Energy Grid” and a link between archaeological sites in Peru to sites in Giza, Egypt. Baird now refers to ancient Andean astronomers who he claims could use and manipulate this device or phenomenon: Here high in the Andes we know there were astronomers who also were in Central America where the Earth Energy Grid allowed something fantastic to dovetail with other places including Giza. The Cosmic energy and earth energy in concert with their soulful energy was able to build psycho-spiritual attunements that have only recently been sublimated by most nations or our leaders. Baird offers no explanation of what this “Energy grid” is, but there are many sites referencing an “Earth energy grid” in spiritual or alien contexts. One explanation is10 Macchu Picchu and associated ruins are located on a series of energy nodes, for access to higher dimensional planetary planes, as well as, in the past, galactic consciousness. There is no explanation of what “soulful” energy is. Baird says that these energies, whatever they may be, have built “attunements” that have been recently “sublimated” by our leaders. It is not clear what this means. To sublimate means “to divert or modify (an instinctual impulse) into a culturally higher or socially more acceptable activity,”11 but Baird gives no explanation of what instinctual impulses may have been involved and into what they may have been transformed. On the whole, however, this sounds like nations or leaders have somehow become more civilized. But then Baird says, “Yet these leaders are members of cults or Christian Mystery Schools like the Rosicrucians who use this occult knowledge against us.” Evidently the “attunements” consist of occult knowledge or the mysterious man-to-man communication Baird alludes to. Baird does not say which of our leaders is a secret Rosicrucian. While Baird says that this occult knowledge has only recently come to various nations and leaders, he seems to say that this knowledge has been available before: I think there is a great chance that it was well understood 15,000 years ago by Andean astronomers who were Kelts and later became Chachapoyas and leaders of the Incas12 in a time when much of the real knowledge had diminished.
YouTube The terminology “Star Gate” arose from the movie of the same name released in 1994. 9 YouTube 10 http://www.anandasatara.org/ 11 Definition: Google 12 Oddly, the passage can be read to say that the Celts became Chachapoyas, and the Chachapoyas became leaders of the Incas, which is complete nonsense as the Incas were in fact conquerors of the Chachapoyas.
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Baird uses the alternative spelling for the European group more commonly known as “Celts,” a group whose early origins may be around 800 BC. Baird dates them to 15,000 years ago, which greatly precedes mainstream theories on the origins of the Celts. His notion of the Andean astronomers being Celts might be explained by his later reference to Chachapoyas, an ethnic group subjugated by the Incas by 1500 AD: Baird may be an adherent of the theory that the Chachapoyas were of European origin. The Chachapoyas were a tall, fair-haired, light-skinned race that some researchers believe may have come from Europe...[source: Fox News report]13 This is not the mainstream view. Baird’s theory here is something stronger than ancient civilizations were in contact with one another. It is rather more like the Babel story: these ancient civilizations were not disparate; these were all one people who somehow became disconnected, fragmented, and no longer communicated. The next sentence describes his notion of what the astronomers did: they looked at the Milky Way formation that looks like a serpent. But that’s all he tells us. The next sentence makes something of a jarring leap. Quetzalcoatl, Kukulcan, Viracocha, Xolotl and others are the ’travelers’ who I think I have proven are Druids through many sources in other books. Is he saying he has proved this in other books, or that he has proven it using sources in other books. Like much of Baird’s writing, the statement ends up being ambiguous and incapable of being interpreted within the four corners of the article itself. But what is it that he claims has been proven? He says that these are the names of ‘travelers.’ These are real entities then, not myths. In particular, he thinks they are Druids.14 This is not mere transmission as communication, but travel, whether physical travel or time travel (which is a common theme of UFO theorists discussing these cultures) or both. Next Baird provides a paragraph-long quotation “of the Theosophist viewpoint on the serpent or Dragon wisdom that led Central America and included people boarding their kid’s heads to look like serpents.”15 He quotes from Helena Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine (1888). The passage refers to a divine messenger, some kind of intelligent cosmic electricity that creates worlds, moves in a spiral path, moves in a serpentine path, and that a serpent means divine wisdom, and that Quetzalcohuatl is a serpent. To recapitulate, Baird has asserted (1) a phenomenon he calls cosmic energy, (2) such energy was understood by Andean astronomers, (3) the astronomers looked at the stars and saw a formation that looked like a snake, (4) Quetzalcoatl was in fact a Druid and a traveler, (and Quetzalcoatl was a snake), and (5) these ideas are supported by Blavatsky’s book. The form of Baird’s argument, if it can be so called, is to neatly segue from theme to theme, producing a merely suggestive juxtaposition of notions. It is not the record of a logical thought process. Finally Baird clearly states his theory: there was “an earth-based prior culture in places such as archaeology does now prove.” But Baird does not reference any proof. He does allude to having offered proof. He says, “I have documented these things in books starting with Diverse Druids.”16 But, he notes, he hasn’t been published, peer-reviewed, or taken seriously by the scientific and acacemic world. He says, “The chances of my work getting a real publisher are minimal as a result.” In Baird’s mind, this is the result of a conspiracy by mainstream academia, government, and media:
Wikipedia, Chachapoya Culture talk page Druids were Celts, and the earliest known reference to them is around 200BC. 15 See, http://doubtfulnews.com/2014/02/foerster-pye-and-ketchum-collaborate-paracas-elongatedskull-exposed-its/ 16 Reviewed at http://www.rambles.net/baird_divdruids03.html.
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“Archaeologists do not integrate all the discoveries throughout the world and the media in the US refuses to report on finds such as Yonaguni17 or tell us why Kennewick Man’s site18 was destroyed.” Baird mentions other writers who have examined the same subject matter but have formed alternative theories: There are many books that Adrian Gilbert,19 Robert Bauval,20 Robert Schoch21 and others have done which show the correspondences between Egyptian and Mayan prophecy. I regard a lot of this as mere rationalization of Armageddon type fear-mongering and ’miss’-story. Inevitably they draw alien influences into the game and often they see it going from Egypt to the Sarmoung Brotherhood22 ... Baird seems to feel that the imagination of these authors has somehow gone out of control but they do present facts that need to be explained (“The correspondences of the Mayan calendar with Egypt23 are real in some ways and I do not throw away the information provided”). Finally Baird makes clear his view on aliens and archaeology: I do however look for the science to explain these things rather than take the easy answer which fits a paradigm that has fed excrement to us about Elohim or other alien influences for the last five thousand years. It turns out that Baird’s conclusion about aliens in archaeology is that there are no aliens; rather, there are artifacts manifesting past civilizations, civilizations whose connections with each other were lost and forgotten, with communications abilities and knowledge now lost to us that we must recover through science. See also “The Enigmatic Robert Baird, Portrait of a Truth Teller.” illuminatusobservor.blogspot. com/2007/08/enigmatic-robert-baird-portrait-of.html (8 Aug 2007).

17 This is a reference to a submerged rock structure near a Japanese island that looks as if it could be of man-made origin and thus a token of another mysterious early and otherwise unknown civilization. Mainstream science believes it is of natural, geologic origin. There is in fact at least one video on YouTube, dating, however, to June 2006. 18 This reference may relate to a theory that the Kennewick Man’s remains proved the existence of a white presence in an area previously believed to have been populated by asiatics. This would betoken yet another unknown early civilization. 19 E.g., Adrian Gilbert, The Mayan Prophecies (1995) 20 E.g., Robert Bauval,The Orion Mystery(1994) (with Adrian Gilbert) 21 E.g., Robert M. Schock, Voyages of the Pyramid Builders: The True Origins of the Pyramids from Lost Egypt to Ancient America (2003). 22 This is a reference to an esoteric society encountered by G. I. Gurdjieff, who wrote about it in his book Meetings with Remarkable Men (1927). The brotherhood was supposed to have access to ancient esoteric knowledge. Gurdjieff is the earliest account of the brotherhood. It has also been the subject of writing by Adrian Gilbert. There is no mainstream acceptance of the existence of this ancient order. 23 These correspondences in calendars are unstated. In the previous quote he referred to correspondences in prophecy. These are really two separate topics.

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