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Are we facing another current cataclysm?
The alternative record points to cyclical, geophysically-driven cataclysms operating on timescales that institutional risk metrics entirely ignore. Randall Carlson, Paul LaViolette, and the Comet Research Group argue we are still inside the tail-end consequences of the Younger Dryas impact event — and that the cycle that caused it is not finished. The question is not whether cataclysm is possible, but whether we are approaching another node in a recurring cosmic clock that dwarfs nuclear or AI risk.
Evidence
- Randall Carlson's work on Milankovitch cycles, mega-flood geology, and the Younger Dryas Boundary layer ties terrestrial catastrophe to predictable astronomical periodicities.
- Paul LaViolette's galactic superwave hypothesis extends the frame further: he argues that periodic outbursts from the galactic core send cosmic ray volleys through the solar system, triggering solar flares, crustal instability, and extinction-level climate disruption.
- Robert Schoch's re-dating of the Sphinx and analysis of plasma events at the Younger Dryas boundary — drawing on evidence from Göbekli Tepe's sudden burial — suggests a solar outburst, not merely a comet, may have ended the last high civilization.
- Graham Hancock synthesises these threads, arguing in America Before and Magicians of the Gods that roughly every 12,000 years a civilisation-ending reset occurs, and that we are currently midway through the next half-cycle window.
- Catherine Austin Fitts has noted separately that elite underground construction programs and continuity-of-government infrastructure spending — documented in black budget analyses — suggest that some institutional actors may already be positioning for a discontinuity event that goes beyond nuclear or AI risk.