Kevin Bohacz Civilization

Do you believe in lost worlds?

“I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?” ― John Lennon

Here’s one more example of spooky ideas in my new novel, Civilization, being hinted at by scientific findings. Even bigger examples of this, as well as predictions, can be found in my previous novels.

Fact: An invisible circulatory system called the interstitium was discovered in 2018 by scientists. Some scientists went so far as to refer to it as a newly discovered human organ. So it looks like we now have three major circulatory systems instead of two: cardiovascular, lymphatic, and interstitium. Like the lymphatic system, the interstitium circulates fluids and lacks a centralized pumping mechanism, but some type of dynamic (pumped) movement of fluid is occurring.

The fascinating thing is that scientists recently began experimentally turning up evidence that the interstitium circulatory system appears to be connected to the twelve Chi (Qi) meridians defined in acupuncture. This connection could help explain how acupuncture works.

Though not yet proven, there are studies underway that show that channels (vein analogs) exist in the interstitium and that these channels map to the twelve Chi meridians. So we have scientific discoveries that appear to mirror knowledge that is at least 4,000 years old!

The bigger mystery is how did a non-technological civilization in China discover a totally invisible circulatory system 4,000 years ago and developed a way to manipulate it using acupuncture needles? This feels like more evidence for lost knowledge from lost civilizations that were possibly as advanced as us in some ways.

Completely modern humans, indistinguishable from anyone you might meet, have walked this planet for 300,000 years, and new evidence could push that timeline back to 800,000 years or more. It is the height of arrogance to think that modern humans stumbled around as little more than dimwitted brutes for 290,000 to 790,000 years of prehistory, inventing nothing, writing nothing, organizing nothing, planting nothing, herding nothing, and improving almost nothing from one generation to the next.

In my new novel Civilization, one of the themes is that human society has cyclically evolved and rebooted many times in our 800,000-year-long history. How many great civilizations comparable to the Indus Valley, Ancient Egypt, or Ancient Greece might have arisen and fallen, only to be lost in a time before time? How many civilizations technologically equal to ours might have also arisen and fallen? It would not take long for any combination of decay, flooding, catastrophe, and scavenging to erase all evidence of a major modern city. A few thousand years is more than enough.

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