THE BIG PICTURE

1. We don't know how old the universe is, nor whether it has a beginning or an end. There is no evidence to support the Big Bang. Any ideas about this are pure fiction and despite preposterous amounts of money being spent to “prove” it, there is no real evidence or any way to prove the big bang ever happened. Besides, what meaning is there in it?

2. Our world and Solar System have been modified. Our Moon is not a normal or naturally occurring moon. It is much too big and does not orbit the Earth in a normal orbit compared to other moons in our own Solar System. What exactly it is remains to be discovered.

3. We are not alone. There is a constant stream of sightings of UFOs that cannot all be explained away and thanks to the plentiful supply of mobile phones with cameras there is more evidence than ever before of many somethings or someones in our skies and out in space.

Life on Earth exists in almost every type of environment – extremes of heat and cold, high and low altitudes: why would we then assume that it stops when we leave the surface of Earth? More likely life exists everywhere in forms we don't yet know of, even out in space.

4. Humans have been on Earth for a very long time. There are fossils that prove humans, or something resembling humans have been living here for millions of years. Not thousands, MILLIONS of years.

5. We are not the same as all other life on Earth. Humans have two genes fused together which all other animals have separated. There are many other biological differences that suggest we are at least partly modified from standard Earth stock. Our mental capacity is clearly limited – we can know this yet we cannot surpass some serious limits.

6. We are probably not the most advanced culture to ever exist on this planet. There is plenty of evidence of previous cultures that could create advanced technology in our past.

In various places there are examples of advanced metalwork, stone and ceramic works that prove someone was here in ages past and they were not primitives.

7. Our societies are awful and primitive. Our sciences are primitive and so bad we haven't even got a workable theory of gravity. There is evidence that suggests previous cultures had nuclear power and nuclear weapons were used in places in Earth's distant past. Mars also has suffered from nuclear explosions in its distant past. Clearly these previous cultures were no better at keeping peace amongst themselves than we are. It looks like all previous cultures were smashed either by natural or man-made catastrophes and that this has happened repeatedly on this planet.

8. We are not just meat machines. There is plenty of strong evidence that we as beings remain in existence after body death and at least some of us come back again.

In addition there is the unsettling discovery that those who are killed violently may return with traumatic physical deformations that match the way they died in their previous life.

This means that any violence caused to people in one life can continue to adversely affect them beyond the grave – the message is clearly to be good to your fellow humans.

This also suggests that this world is only a small part of some bigger reality: the main problem we then have is that we don't know why or what is the point of the whole thing.

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Here I can theorise that we are here to learn how to get on with each other nicely despite our differences, do good things for each other and so on – and this then grows into much bigger questions we must deal with as humans – morality and justice, for example:

but these are all ideas formed from this existence. The fundamental problem is that we don't know what this other existence is all about.

Some think we are just here to experience but that does not have meaning for us here since we have it regardless.

The best overall theory of existence I have is this: Life here on Earth for us is a sort of training ground. We are being trained for some other, more complex existence. This may well be only one level of a series of training “schools”.

Where are the “Teachers”? They are never seen, never heard by us. If someone gets outside of the playground limits they may clean up the mess but we will probably never hear or see it happen. We will never get to the same level of “technology” as them because that would cause trouble for the Teachers. Perhaps these are what some people call the “Men In Black”?

We might make technological or social progress but the important part of this “school” is that we must learn how to deal with things like justice, morality, inequality and suffering, thus all of these things will remain with us here on Earth since they are “baked in”.

Key to this is our limited mental capacities and our combination of both intellectual and emotional minds in the one form.

These limits are one of the crucial matters to consider: in any game, the limits are what make the game. If we have a world where people can easily read each other's minds, for example, there is little need for verbal communication and if these mental messages are always perfectly remembered there is no need for writing or physical records of any kind: as long as someone around can remember what was said all those years ago, why bother writing it down?

Complete telepathy with all life would create a situation where killing or causing pain to any other creature would cause instant pain for yourself too: this could cause many other connected beings to die at the same time. This would therefore not be terribly practical.

This is by no means the end of the story: things are far more complex than the simple sketch provided here, there are more questions than answers but it does give me a starting point.

All of the claims 1 to 8 above are supported by real evidence but I am not going to provide bibliographic references: do your own research. 

You could, of course, email me and I'll provide clues , but I'm betting that you won't, so come on, prove me wrong!