Excerpted from Pyramid Rising~It Isn't The End of The World! How We'll Survive 2012 & Beyond by Zach Royer, a new two-part Kindle eBook exclusive.

The planetary clock is moving inexorably closer to the winter solstice of 2012. Prophecies about “the End of the World” and the inevitable destruction of the greater part of the human race have become the most discussed topic on our TV screens, internet chat rooms, and in the media generally.

In the scenarios most often suggested the Earth’s future is presented as a succession of planetary-scale catastrophes, in the face of which a considerable portion of humanity helplessly awaits “the End”. But the “End of the World” is not coming and the vast majority of the Earth’s population will not perish, although serious trials and tribulations do lie ahead for humanity. Coming events will unfold in close connection with processes taking place on the sun which will really begin in late December 2012, when solar activity reaches its peak. Between 16 and 28 December (the phase of the winter solstice) the planet’s core will begin to radiate a flow of energies that, overlying the solar radiation, will stimulate the activity of processes in the Earth’s bio- and geospheres. Super-powerful coronal discharges will bring our planet magnetic storms of unprecedented force that will cause climatic and shorter-term weather anomalies, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, fires, diseases and local conflict.


By correlating many large earthquakes that took place at or near specific 'World Grid' sites from throughout history, such as Giza, Stonehenge, Tiahuanaco, and from many other grid locations (there are 62 in all), I have observed and plotted a definite relationship between these megalithic sites and heightened global seismic activity; an interconnectedness between the cyclical earth changes and these magnificent structures built by man(?) has become apparent. Modern day researchers are just now beginning to theorize about this, investigating what is referred to as the "Planetary Grid".

Two immediate theories came to mind when pondering WHY someone would go out of their way to place megaliths and pyramids all throughout the world, and my overall conclusions were startling, published in my first official paper as an aspiring researcher.

By Zach Royer

Seventy million years ago, the earth was inhabited by giant reptiles: gigantic lizards, colossal saurains, who slithered, swam, flew. Their reign lasted one hundred million years - whereas, according to the most optimistic estimates, man has had barely six million years.

This means that these species of reptiles had in order to become adapted and to evolve, an infinitely longer time than man. Furthermore, it is impossible to pretend that they represented an evolutionary failure: any species that lasts a hundred million years must be considered to be fully adapted. Yet few species that were contemporaries of those reptiles survive -- for example, certain crabs, which have not changed in three hundred million years. In fact, in less than one million years the giant reptiles entirely disappeared.

How and Why?

We can scarcely maintain that it was because a change in climate; for even when the climate changes, the oceans hardly vary, and many of these reptiles lived in the oceans.

It is impossible to believe that a higher form of life was able to exterminate them. This would have required a considerable army, whose traces we would certainly have found.

One amusing hypothesis is that our ancestors, the mammals, might have fed on dinosaur eggs. But it is only that: an amusing hypothesis: the icthyosaurs deposited their eggs in the oceans, out of their adversaries' reach.

It has been said that the grasses changed, and that the new grasses were too tough for the big reptiles. A completely unlikely hypothesis: large numbers of vegetation types have survived, on which they could have fed perfectly well. The giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands, the ones that interested Darwin so much, did not die of hunger.

One could say that species grow old, become senile, and die. But this is bad logic: the preservation of the genetic code prevents a species from dying out. And why haven't those species that are still living after several hundred millions of years, such as crabs and cockroaches, become senile too?

None of these hypotheses hold. But something happened. What then? An ingenious hypothesis has been outlined by two Soviet scientists, V. I. Krasovkii and I. S. Chklovski, both of whom are eminent astrophysicists -- especially the latter, who is the author of some extremely important works in astrophysics and radio astronomy. It was Chklovski, in fact, who studied synchotron radiation and showed that relatively rapid and extremely violent events can be produced at the center of galaxies as well as in space in general.

Contributed by Zach Royer

(AA) There’s talk all over the internet about pyramids in Antarctica, something we at Apparently Apparel love to write about. What appears to be causing all the discussion is this picture, showing what looks like two, possibly three pyramids lined up Giza style, nearly covered in snow and ice.

Frankly, I think we’re looking at plain ordinary mountains here, albeit ones of unusual apparent symmetry. But suppose we ARE looking at pyramids (and I think the size of these mountains would preclude that, but that’s just me), or, to put it differently, supposed there WERE pyramids in Antarctica? What would it mean?

Well, for one thing, it would confirm the speculations of many Atlantologists (including, incidentally, the Nazis), who believe that the ice-covered continent was in fact Atlantis, the continent literally being “sunk” under water, in this case, ice. The presence of such structures would raise the bar considerably not only for Atlantology but also for the possible motivations of the Nazi expedition in late 1938 and early 1939, and make it likely – if they discovered such structures during their aerial reconnaissance flights over the southern continent – that they decided to follow up with further investigations.

The reason any discovery of such structures on Antarctica would be significant is rather obvious, for the possibility would be quite strong that if they could be excavated (a mighty big if in Antarctica’s case!) the sites might yield some significant records or artifacts of a lost human past. One might even speculate that the discovery of ancient records and technologies might be considered a top prize. Such a discovery could rationalize not only the curious Nazi expedition, but also the postwar attempts not only to internationalize the continent but to keep the curious visitor OUT of the continent.

While I remain skeptical at this moment, the story is nonetheless worth watching, providing, of course, that we don’t get the usual mix of internet hysteria and hype (and yes, already the story has been predictably linked to extra-terrestrials and secret Nazi flying saucer research bases.)

Another story that just surfaced today is about palm trees having once thrived in Antarctica, when it was much warmer of course, which included the image below by Etienne Classen of Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. The picture shows a pyramid structure surrounded by ice right in the center of the shot, right on the coast, as if this was what they were trying to photograph, an obvious clue which prompted the research and writing of this story.

[Author's Note: I've Googled the supposed photographer Etienne Classen and the only thing coming up is the article about palm trees and the image below, no profiles or bio, basically it's as if Etienne is a new name given by whoever submitted this photograph. In order to go to the Antarctic, don't you think you have to be a scientist with a verifiable background?  Anyone else notice this, or is it just me? ZR]

                                                                by Zach Royer

From the canyons of the mind
We wander on and stumble blind
Through the awful entangled maze
Of starless nights and sunless days
While asking for some kind of clue
A road to lead us to the truth

As all of you know by now, the infamous Bermuda Triangle is the area where ships and planes have been disappearing, compasses have been malfunctioning, and it was the subject of the first Pyramids of Glass Submerged in the Bermuda Triangle article I wrote, which has made its way around the internet, to say the least. This is a follow up to that article and will hopefully answer some of your questions that have been asked in the recent days.

The Power of the Bermuda Triangle

    The power within the Bermuda Triangle has a very important connection to earth's past, present, and future. A part of the sunken continent of Atlantis lies beneath the Bermuda Triangle. There is a huge pyramid beneath the waters and within this pyramid is a 'Needle' which generated all the power needed on the continent of Atlantis. When the continent submerged, this great pyramid with it's huge storehouse of power, was lowered into a huge crater. From time to time, due to certain atmospheric and other conditions, such as wind currents, sun spots, positions of planets, and so on, the power of the needle is activated and moved into position which causes ships and aircraft to be pulled into a vortex. There are three such places on this earth, where these needles of power are hidden. The other two places are in the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Devil's Sea off Japan.

I cannot believe why people do not believe in Atlantis. There is so much evidence to prove that this continent did indeed exist! For instance, sightings from aircraft of undersea buildings and cities have been reported around Bimini and the Azores. The Azore mountain range was once above water and was attached to the lost continent. News reports from the Bahamas show that there have been stones and other artifacts found to prove that Atlantis extended all the way down the Eastern Coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

An excellent article by the Post-Tribune entitled "Pursuits of Atlantis Lead to Pyramids of Egypt" corroborates this information.
   
The article reads: "Is it possible the great pyramids of Egypt are guarding clues to the "lost continent of Atlantis?" Dr. Maxine Asher, director of the Ancient Mediterranean Research Association in Los Angeles, believes there is a good chance that this idea may be true. She has already made a preliminary investigation of the pyramid complexes near the Sphinx of Giza. She has pursued the Atlantis legend from Central America to the Bahamas, Ireland, Spain, and now Egypt. She is undaunted by many other researchers that claim Atlantis is a myth perpetrated on the world by the Greek philosopher, Plato. In an interview, Asher said she was "convinced that Atlantis was a super-civilization that existed about 10,500 - 10,000 B.C. and was overwhelmed with a catastrophe, possibly the great flood of Noah". The trouble is she says, is that they cannot find anything that is labeled "Atlantis". "I admit the evidence for Atlantis is skimpy, consisting mainly of large stone structures found under the sea at places like Bimini Island in the Bahamas, and off Cadiz, Spain. Dr. Asher believes that the survivors of the flooded Atlantis spread out to plant new seeds of civilization in such places as Malta, Algeria, Crete, Greece, Central America, and even Egypt. Furthermore, she noted that there are megalithic structures in the valley temple west of the Sphinx that seem to be akin to those same stone structures found beneath the sea at Bimini, Cadiz, and other places.

                                                Contributed by Zach Royer

      (AA) There are many different sizes of pyramids you can build, and different ways to build them. The faces in a pyramid are not needed to produce the energy, only the edges, and so a pyramid "frame" can be built. It is interesting to note that a pyramid with faces but no edges doesn't work. All the pyramid designs here are based on the great pyramid's ratios. Any pyramid will work to some degree, but the Cheops pyramid works best.

The great pyramid is believed to be built to Phi or the Golden Section (Phi is 1.6180). I will cover how to figure that out later. I will also cover construction of small solid faced pyramids, as well as larger frame ones. Additionally I will show you how to build tetrahedrons and cones, which work too.

HOT!  Melting Polar Ice Caps Reveal Antarctic Pyramids

Contributed by Zach Royer | March 29th, 2012


(AA) These strange underwater pyramid structures at a depth of two thousand meters were identified with the help of a sonar according to oceanographer Dr. Verlag Meyer. Studies of other structures like Yonaguni in modern day Japan have allowed scientists to determine that the two giant pyramids, apparently made of something like a thick glass, are really impressive - each of them is larger than the pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.  

Recently American and French scientists as well as other countries that are conducting surveys in areas of the seabed of the Bermuda Triangle, claim to have found a pyramid standing upright on the seabed that has never been discovered. The length of the base of this pyramid reached 300 meters, 200 meters height, and distance from base to the tip of the pyramid is about 100 meters above the sea floor. Preliminary results show this structure to be made of glass or a glass-like (crystal?) material, as it is entirely smooth and partially translucent.


When talking about size, this newly re-discovered pyramid is larger in scale than the pyramids of ancient Egypt. On top of the pyramid there are two very large holes, sea water at high speed move through the second hole, and therefore the raging waves roll by forming a giant vortex that makes the waters around this cause a massive surge waves and mist on the sea surface. This new discovery makes scientists wonder if this is having an affect on passing boats and planes and could be the reason for all the mystery surrounding the area.