Pole Shift

This paper examines the Local Content Policy in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry and its implications for intercultural communication. It interrogates how the policy, designed to promote indigenous participation and reduce over-dependence on foreign expertise, has influenced workplace dynamics across cultural lines. The study highlights challenges such as communication barriers, cultural misunderstandings, and organizational conflicts arising from the interaction of expatriates and local workers. It further emphasizes the importance of intercultural competence, negotiation, and adaptation in fostering mutual understanding and effective collaboration. The paper concludes that successful implementation of the Local Content Policy requires not only structural and legislative measures but also deliberate efforts to bridge cultural divides, promote inclusivity, and enhance communicative practices within the industry.

The phenomenon of 1I/'Oumuamua introduced the interstellar object (ISO) class of celestial body into the astronomical lexicon, those objects with heliocentric speeds clearly in excess of that required to parabolically escape the Solar System -and therefore of extrasolar origin. A vogue topic at this moment in time is the possibility that some ISOs may impact with Earth, where they would be observed as bolides (meteor fireballs). There is the claim for instance that a meteor listed in the NASA-JPL CNEOS (Center for Near Earth Object Studies) database, CNEOS 2014-01-08 was interstellar, and additionally four further meteors from the database with interstellar origin have been proposed. This paper postulates that the origin of yet another meteor from this catalogue, CNEOS 2017-10-09 (observed over Bolivia, South America), was interstellar, as it may have been associated with 'Oumuamua. Note there is no direct velocity data for this object available, yet its observation time corresponds to the expected arrival time of an object ejected from 'Oumuamua and intersecting Earth's orbital position.

The Sargasso Sea, a vast area of the Atlantic covered in floating seaweed, has long been associated with the lost continent of Atlantis. While modern vessels can navigate through it, ancient accounts suggest it posed significant challenges for smaller ships. The seaweed, believed to be replenished by coastal currents, may have extended closer to the Straits of Gibraltar in ancient times, supporting Plato’s account of impassable waters.

The Sargasso Sea, a vast area of floating seaweed in the Atlantic, is believed to coincide with the location of the sunken continent of Atlantis. The presence of the Sargasso Sea, along with submerged oceanic shoals and evidence of landmass uplift, supports the theory of Atlantis’ existence. Further research into the Sargasso algae and its connection to Atlantis is necessary.

This white paper introduces the Core Displacement and Geodynamic Rebalancing (CDIGR) theory, a multidisciplinary framework synthesizing Earth Orientation Parameters, GRACE satellite data, sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies, geomagnetic vector shifts, seismic-volcanic activity, glacial mass loss, and historical cosmic trigger events. We propose that a destabilizing shift in the Earth's inner core, documented through changes in UT1-UTC and polar drift acceleration (notably around 1998), initiates a planetary rebalancing process observable across tectonic, magnetic, hydrologic, and atmospheric systems. We present 15+ integrated datasets-ranging from INTERMAGNET geomagnetic plots to glacier mass balance charts (2025), SST collapse zones, and newly reported volcanic instability at Axial Seamount-supporting this claim. Each dataset independently shows anomalies, but together form a cohesive temporal and spatial fingerprint consistent with a core-driven geodynamic reordering. Further, we correlate this with esoteric historical warnings (e.g. Younger Dryas extinction, prophetic cycles), proposing a return to a long-lost axial alignment. This paper outlines the scientific evidence, predictive implications, and survival strategies, and introduces CDIGR as both a geophysical and existential hypothesis.

This paper explores a unified geophysical theory based on Yu. V. Barkin’s Core Displacement Hypothesis, which proposes that Earth’s inner core underwent a directional shift between 1997 and 1998, initiating a cascade of planetary effects. Drawing from satellite data, peer-reviewed research, and observable field phenomena, this report connects the displacement to the subsequent emergence of the South Atlantic Anomaly, the accelerated migration of the magnetic north pole toward Siberia, and the rise of subcrustal thermal activity in the Arctic. Newly documented mud volcanoes beneath Siberia’s thermokarst lakes and methane blowouts are analyzed as potential surface expressions of a reactivated mantle plume. The report also correlates the timing of the core shift with the 1997–1998 El Niño event, suggesting a planetary rebalancing process that spans atmospheric, magnetic, and geological systems. The findings propose that Earth’s internal architecture is undergoing a long-term realignment, with the potential for magnetic instability, crustal upheaval, and climatic amplification. This paper calls for expanded global monitoring, cross-disciplinary awareness, and public engagement in interpreting these converging signals.

The possibility of an eclipse reference recorded in the Bible [Isiah 38:5-8] has attracted considerable interest in the past, but the discussion seems to have generated more heat than sunlight. However, it is only one among many references from historical sources that can be investigated to verify the stability of the Earth’s rotation and the length of day back into the first millennium BC. In theory the circumstances of any eclipse can be retro calculated to a precise date and time of day that could tie the historical chronology to the Julian calendar. Much of the older discussion is now moribund since the realisation that tidal slowing affects where the moon’s shadow would actually fall on the surface of the earth. Whereas other ancient eclipses, both before and after this period, have been shown to correspond to retro-calculations, this one has ‘gone missing’.

The following combines two articles that were originally webpages to illustrate the possible source of high-energy phenomena from space that would have the potential to change the Earth’s rotation axis – yet without leaving any physical scar on the surface. These could explain many fabled catastrophic Earth-changes found in myths of prehistory, together with their secondary effects in later centuries.  The articles are not primarily written for astronomers (although I hope they would find the discussion of interest) but for the the general reader and the catastrophist researcher. The articles build on the concepts  touched-upon in my 2006 book: Under Ancient Skies. I hope that the discussion here will give some answer to those nineteenth-century academics who declared that pole-shifts and axis-tilts cannot happen; negative pronouncements that even today hold back discussion by modern science.
The first article concentrates primarily upon the dangers posed by fast supernova ejecta, while the second also briefly explores other high-energy phenomena recently discovered by astronomers. Thanks to new space-based telescopes, the discoveries are coming so fast that they appear in publication faster than one can write about them.

In 1966 a well-known engineer released a book with information that could impact everyone on earth. But before anyone could read it, it was classified by the CIA.

We only learned of its existence a few years ago because of a Freedom of Information request.

The CIA only released 57 pages of the original 284-page manuscript. And those pages have been, in the CIA's own words, "sanitized".

Why does the CIA think this book is so dangerous that they had to hide it from the public for 60 years; and continue to hide most of it?

It's because the man who wrote it describes the end of the world.

Between 1999 and revised up to 2018 a series of papers proposing the Planet-Z Hypothesis were published by a group of physicists and astronomers, including the eminent astronomer Willy Woelfli; these would seek to revise and augment the ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky with more realistic physics. This article seeks to constructively compare and contrast the strands of enquiry to date. The Planet Z hypothesis is granted a greater degree of scientific credibility and exposure than it might otherwise attain, due to the eminence of the authors and its presence on the Cornell University online archive. Physics professors can perhaps cite Velikovsky without risking credibility but no-one else could expect to have similar work published on such prestigious platforms.

Chinese mythology offers us a myth of the earliest times that is quite different from that found in western mythologies. Rather than a memory of a great flood at the dawn of time, we find instead a memory of a time when the sky leaned over, and rivers changed their courses. Typically, this is treated as a creation myth, or as primitive cosmology, rather than as recording a real event. This article will investigate the astronomy associated with the ancient event as it is described; how it may be coordinated with the western myths; and suggest an approximate calendar date for the cosmic event based upon modern evidence of archaeology, climate and sea-level changes in East Asia. This event may also be equated with the emergence of Pacific islands and the dispersal of the Polynesians from the China coast.

In his retirement up to 1959 the Australian astronomer George F. Dodwell conducted extensive research to check whether the standard formula for the secular variation of the obliquity of the ecliptic could be proven by ancient observations of the sun at the solstices. He came to a conclusion that the formula could not be proven; and that in fact the data showed the likelihood of a catastrophic event around 2345 BC, which he equated with the Flood of Noah. His work was never published, but it continues to be cited in all sorts of contexts despite being based upon science that is now (2005) half a century old. This article will examine how well his conclusions stand up after fifty years of new discoveries. This version is revised and formatted as at 2020 to include Dodwell's own graph, which is now in the public domain.

The oft-maligned ancient historian Diodorus Siculus who lived in Sicily during the first century BC, leaves us numerous references to pre-historical events that survive from no other source. These can now be compared to the ever-improving record of archaeology and earth sciences. Among them is an account of the flooding of the Bosphorus strait and Dardanelles from the Black Sea, together with a foundation myth for the city of Troy. However, his version does not quite fit the model of flooding for the Black Sea since the Ice Age that specialists now accept. Of course, it is always the mythology that is dismissed by the modern specialists! Although modern geology denies the possibility of a ‘Great Flood’ event in human history there remain glaring inconsistencies in the sea level science that are glossed over. The following is a review of a few of those anomalies and a critique, which argues that we should look deeper into the geography and events recorded by ancient human witnesses.

A collection of the author’s smaller webpages and articles on the subject of Atlantis in the Irish Sea 2017-2020. In 1995 the author published The Atlantis Researches, later republished in UK and USA as Atlantis of the West. These more recent articles extend that earlier work and fill some of the gaps. Central to the theories was the case that indicators of time and place (based on a comparison of the ancient sources and modern science) pointed towards a location for Plato’s lost city in the eastern Irish Sea; following a pole shift event that occurred towards the end of the fourth millennium BC. This event submerged the low-lying plains around the British coast ‘in a single day and a night’. The submergence is related to the memories of an Otherworld beneath the sea in Irish mythology and the Annwn of equivalent Welsh myths.
A summary and links to other pages may be found in my article 15 Years on from Atlantis (of the West).
The three articles combined below are:
1) R. K. Gresswell and the Irish Sea Coast
2) Patterns on the Irish Sea Floor
3) Plato’s Impossible Plain.
recently added:
4) The Isle of Man Legends and Sea Views

This discussion compares the popular-academic rationalisation of Plato's Atlantis as a fictional memory of the Thera-Santorini eruption with the alternative based on a stricter adherence to the internal statements within the narratives. It also posits that the ultimate source is Libyan-Egyptian rather than Greek and that any solution must also comply with the additional semi-historical information supplied by Diodorus Siculus in his Histories. This is taken together with an analysis of the known geological and climate events of prehistory as compared to those suggested in the narratives.

Recent investigations into the cause of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake have brought focus upon the fault lines and seamounts opposite the Strait of Gibraltar and the threat to Iberia from future mega tsunamis. These may be compared to ancient reports of such earthquakes and catastrophes that suggest earlier episodes, as well as the probability that the seamounts were islands above sea-level during earlier human prehistory and are remembered in myths and legends.

Plato’s dialogues give a clear indication of where he believed the sunken island of Atlantis to have been situated. However, modern commentators have sought  alternative  locations  within  the Mediterranean and elsewhere. So firstly, examine what he actually says. "…in  those  days  the  Atlantic  was  navigable;  and  there  was  an  island  situated  in  front  of  the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles;...and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent, for this sea which is within the Straits of Heracles  is only a harbour…" In the Critias he describes a peninsula of Atlantis: “facing the country which is now called...Gades [Cadiz] in that part of the world”. [Timaeus, Jowett translation] Therefore it is clear that Solon’s Egyptian sources describe a location just outside the Strait of Gibraltar. So where might we find these lost islands?

This article is now attached to Earth-Impact Dangers from Ancient Supernovas (2) above in this list and should now be downloaded there along with the update of the relevant discoveries in recent astronomy.

The focus of this article is less about explosive supernovas and star-mergers, rather the possibility of high-energy matter ejected from them impacting the Earth. Here we examine these as one possible source of extra-solar impacting bodies that might explain ancient changes to the Earth's rotation and the origin of tektites. To date, the tendency has been to look for impact 'craters' formed by relatively slow asteroid impacts. However, the small impactors travelling at high velocity, perhaps approaching relativistic velocities, would punch through the crust, leaving little or no surface evidence. Interest in this subject has been increased by the recent observations of Oumuamua as it passed through the solar system

Astrophysical research papers are typically not written for the benefit of the general reader or even for the cross-disciplinary researcher, but for their specialist colleagues.  For the benefit of the general reader scientific terms are kept to a minimum here and explained where necessary, or may be pursued in the suggested links as a starting point for further research.

Updated as at November 2024 .This article is a work-in-progress was originally published as an interactive web-page. The map below shows the principal locations where submerged forests are found around British and Irish coasts; giving hyperlinks to both popular and specialist reports; some of these sites will then give further detail and maps together with photographs.

The list is not intended to be exhaustive of either sites or of links and will  be updated as and when new sites or relevant reports emerge. The intention here is merely to give an entry point for the general reader and researchers to the photographic evidence of submerged forests and relevant studies.

This analysis of Holocene sea-level changes offers an overview for the general reader; use of specialist terminology has therefore been held to a minimum. The purpose is to question some of the assumptions underlying modern theories about the causes of Holocene sea-level change. Under gradualist geology there is no mechanism that properly explains the formation of raised beach terraces. For the sea to cut cliffs and form beaches at the shoreline requires a stable sea level to prevail for hundreds of years and then to rapidly fall to cut a terrace at a lower level, without leaving transitional features. If sea level were gradually changing, as the glaciologists tell us, then no intermediate beach terraces would be able to form. Also around modern coastlines are sometimes found the 'submerged forests'; a term that applies to any land-based vegetation found below beach sand. Usually however, it is the presence of mature tree roots, still in their position of growth that draws attention to such features. Young trees cannot grow in salt water, so again it implies a rapid rise of the sea to submerge the mature woodland and bury the roots with sand. Gradual flooding would have allowed them to be eroded away by the tides. How can we explain these curious anomalies?

The Long Meg standing stone in Cumbria, North-west England holds some of the best examples of Neolithic spiral carvings. Moreover, unlike so many other monuments, the stone circle of Long Meg and her Daughters has never been disturbed or reconstructed, thus allowing archaeologists to determine the prehistoric horizon alignment of the stones. It would seem that: wherever we find spirals then we also find astronomical alignments!

This article expands upon the author’s previously published theories regarding the significance of spiral carvings and the calendrical function of the Long Meg circle and other Neolithic sites in Britain and Ireland. These would suggest that when the stone circle was built, during the early third millennium BC, the annual seasons were not so regular and predictable as they are today due to transient astronomical factors. The prehistoric alignments, together with the many legends may be the only surviving record of these short-lived climate events.

This document was reformatted in 2023 to assist readability without material change to content (V1.4). It was originally a web-page format from 2019.