Gods from outer space [antikvár]

ForewordThe desire for peace, the search for immortality, hankering for the starsall these are deeply rooted in the human consciousness and have been ceaselessly pressing for realization from time immemorial.Is this urge for realization that is so deeply implanted in human beings something to be taken for granted? Is it reaUy only a question of human desires? Or does this striving for fulfillment, this nostalgia for the stars, conceal something quite different?I am convinced that our longing for the stars is kept alive by a legacy bequeathed by the "gods." Memories of our terrestrial ancestors and memories of our cosmic teachers are both at work in us. Man's acquisition of intelligence does not seem to me to have been the product of a long and tedious development. The process took place too suddenly for that. I think that our ancestors received their intelligence from the "gods," who must have possessed knowledge that made the whole process a rapid one.Obviously we shall not find proofs of my assertion on the earth if we stick to the existing methods of archaeological investigation. If we do, we shall simply and inexorably increase the existing collections of human and animal remains. Each find will be given its catalog number, put in a glass case in a museum and kept clean by the museum staff. But we cannotix