vimana

Years ago, I told our helper who belonged to one of the Indigenous tribes of Davao that I met a European friend who has been inventing a futuristic spacedrive vehicle with a technology that literally lets the car "float." It was far from a naive conversation for I had been doing personal research and some of my sources revealed that in the ancient of days, there were indeed eras when such level of advancement did occur prior to Humanity's downfall into lower dimension, and then its supression and eventual loss of such knowledge from among the unknowing mainstream. I surmised that the indigenous peoples of Mindanao with their culture and legacy that survived (and thrives) for centuries, or millennial, may have preserved knowledge about these forgotten eras, unlike what conventional history books inform to the supposed "modern" society.

Her face somehow lit up, not out of surprise but rather out of seeming familiarity, and she replied, "That's what our ancestors used to ride during ancient times!" Actually, I half-expected her reply. The knowledge must have been reserved only for her tribe and not intended, for the meantime, for those outside who may mock or ridicule such knowledge due to ignorance of the once grandiose, but long forgotten past. She desisted from further sharing details about it when I inquired again, and I let her be.

Ancient texts and narratives did mention about these otherwise highly advanced contraptions. In the Vedic literature of India (considered to be the oldest of all Indian texts), these flying machines were even detailed into two categories, those that were manmade crafts that resembled airplanes, and those mysterious crafts not generally made by humans, and were identified into at least four different types replete with detailed descriptions. These were called the Vimana. From among the Maharlika Indigenous Peoples, these "flying boats" were called Sarimbar.

This is an image of a vimana:



The vimana had intrigued me, for I suspected that some temples from mainland Asia whom our Maharlikan ancestors originated from seemed to be shaped like a sort of 'rocket' launching into space. Observe these temple images from India and Thailand and notice the eerie similarity with that of the soaring vimana above:





Ironically, some of these temples were also called "Vimana."

past and future

My researches about the country's past was partly culled from personal requirement for the composition of some of my science fiction stories. It gives personal proof and inspiration to my endeavors. Another is through the mentoring of my inventor friend from a small country in Europe. We established rapport since year 2000, and since then had been in communication for about 9 years now. He has prepared the blueprint for a vehicle that I considered my ideal 'dream car,' a futuristic contraption capable of 'levitation' by magnetic propulsion thereby using, virtually, "free energy". It was from him that I noticed firsthand attempts at deliberately supressing ideas and technologies like his by the political agenda of the vile opposite force. I vowed to be an 'internet activist' and confront those forces that supressed my otherwise quaint dream car with advocacies through internet forums and chatrooms, and witnessed the drastic stirring of world politics unfold before me, as intended.

The legacy of his nation's Viking heritage still managed to thrive with more preserved ancient insights to compare with other European places, although we both shared sentiments about threats to such legacies from infiltrating influences to our countries. I have noticed that his country's history had similarity with ours, being seafarers, especially with the Maharlikans, and even in contemporary in time as to the early stages in the creation of our nations.

This rings with a quote I composed nearly a year ago and posted at my other blog:

"The measure of how deep you probe the past will determine how high you aim for the future." -Ric Vil Hori