title: Strange Creations: Aberrant Ideas of Human Origins from Ancient Astronauts to Aquatic Apes
author: Donna Kossy
description: Curiosity about the origins of human life has birthed some strange theories, and Kossy examines a fascinating cross-section of them. Concentrating on espousers as much as espousings, she profiles the likes of spiritualist Madame Blavatsky, artist Stanislav Szukalski, and Marshall Applewhite. While Blavatsky pioneered polite modern occultism, Szukalski warned that humanity was under attack by a racial offshoot of apes that interbred with it--an odd theory promulgated in an "illustrated treatise" called <i>Thoughtful of Pearls/Behold!!! The Protong</i>. Applewhite, of course, led the notorious asexual sect involved in the Heaven's Gate mass suicide. Kossy objectively outlines each strange dogma in the appropriate thematic chapter ("Extraterrestrial Origins," "Race," "Creationism," etc.) and, while mindful of odd and tortured logic, never mocks. Good entertainment for weirdness fans and a genuine resource on such phenomena as <i>The Urantia Book</i> and <i>The Isis Papers</i>. Be sure to dig Kossy's take on individual European cultures' views of their own privileged places in the Bible. Seems each bunch of white people constitutes, somehow or other, God's chosen tribe. <i>Mike Tribby</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
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  # Table of Contents
  
  
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  INTRODUCTION
  
  
  
  
  
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  Ascended Apes or Fallen Angels?
  
  
  
  
  
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  Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race
  
  
  
  
  
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  [The Extreme Antiquity of Nonhuman
  Species](dummy_split_001.html#filepos189975)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Genes, Design, and Designer](dummy_split_002.html#filepos223153)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Beyond Stones and Bones:](dummy_split_002.html#filepos354388)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Alfred R. Wallace and the Spirit World](dummy_split_003.html#filepos354671)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [What is a Human Being? Matter, Mind, and
  Consciousness](dummy_split_004.html#filepos446289)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [The Cosmic Hierarchy: A Cross-Cultural
  Study](dummy_split_006.html#filepos769035)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Apparitions, Angels, and Aliens](dummy_split_008.html#filepos1030818)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Paranormal modification and Production of biological
  form](dummy_split_009.html#filepos1277797)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [A Universe Designed for Life](dummy_split_009.html#filepos1412404)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Human Devolution: a Vedic 