001 C&G Trade Paper - The Hank Harrison Portal Gateway

Foreword
intuitions was put forth by the ill appreciated, but
pioneering work of the astronomer royal Sir Norman
Lockyer in the late nineteenth century. The
aforementioned Hawkins, was influenced by Lockyer,
but Hawkin’s, endowed with twentieth century
technology, used a modern computer to “test” an
ancient computer. In other words it took more than
seventy years and amazing advances in technology to
find empirical support for Lockyer’s profound insights.
More importantly Hawkins was able to explain
Stonehenge to the American and European public for the
first time without the hocus-pocus. Almost overnight
Stonehenge grew into a spawning ground for science fiction
writers and quickly became a topic of heated
academic debate. Dozens of books and short stories appeared.
Pseudo-science soon collided with academia. The
science fiction faction took an immediate, “ I told you
so” posture. The academic community, frightened to
align with anything based on fiction, regrouped under an
even more conservative banner, both lost ground.
Obviously a new science was forming. Stonehenge is not
fiction.
In spite of the on-going media debate, or perhaps
because of it, I went on active lookout for more information
about the megalith builders. The astronomy wasn’t
as important to me as the reconstruction of their cultural
milieu. Since there are thousands of other rings and
standing stones dotted around the Atlantic seaboard,
many of them far more spectacular than Stonehenge, it
made sense to look away from England for clues.
Although each megalith seemed different to the experts I
saw the similarities and assumed, rightly as it turned out,
that there was a widespread and uniform religion prior to
the Celt in those areas, and that the people who built the
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