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    These ideas have become part of my own approach to understanding
what the myths can tell us about our solar system, and I believe we still have
more to learn from them than our present scientific knowledge suggests. To my
mind, the existence of an undiscovered planet of massive proportions was
suggested by many different legends and traditions, which have been chronicled
across the globe. 25

Synchronicity

     
    Just months before the release of John Murray’s paper, I had
reviewed a lecture given by the British researcher Alan Alford, and had used
this short review as a vehicle to formally propose the connection between
Sitchin’s planet Nibiru and a brown dwarf. Alan had once entertained the ideas
of Zecharia Sitchin and had written a very popular book on the subject. 26 He
then retracted those ideas, and had made his criticisms of Sitchin’s work
apparent during a lecture he gave in Gloucestershire in the summer of 1999.
    The
criticisms included, quite rightly in my opinion, the difficulties that Nibiru
would have sustaining life in the solar system beyond Neptune. In a letter
published by the British newsstand publication UFO Magazine, I discussed Alan
Alford’s lecture and suggested that Sitchin’s dilemma could be solved by
Nibiru’s planetary status being upgraded to that of a small brown dwarf, thence
allowing life to exist on its attendant moons:
    “Here
is the crux of the problem ― the world’s most ancient race, the
Sumerians, said that the gods came to Earth from a planet, describing a
comet-like orbit around the sun. To generate sufficient heat to have liquid
water, the planet must either be too massive gravitationally, or too
radioactive to support life. Case closed.
    But
modern astronomers are trying to grapple with the facts that the solar system
exhibits too much gravity, and that there is a huge amount of missing mass in
the universe. Brown dwarf stars have been proposed to account for both
anomalies. If our sun has a tiny sister star that is too faint and distant to
have been detected, then maybe this star is the twelfth planet.
    So
why would the Sumerians call a star a planet? In fact, they already included
the sun as a planet, as well as our Moon. That’s how they arrived at the number
twelve as the total number of planets in the solar system. They also said that
the Twelfth Planet had a number of ‘attendants’, which we could then consider
to be the brown dwarf star’s own planetary system. They said that the Twelfth
Planet was glorious to behold, with a great halo. Well, maybe they were
describing a brown dwarf that became visible to the naked eye as it traversed
the outer solar system as part of its eccentric orbit around the sun.” 27
    Although
I would have written this somewhat differently now, the basic points continue
to stand, and formed the basis of later articles released over the Internet
that would change many people’s notions about the nature of Sitchin’s Nibiru.
    The reason for including this here is to demonstrate that the
ideas behind the Dark Star Theory were published two months before John
Murray’s paper on his proposed Planet X, which was described by him as being
large enough to potentially be a small brown dwarf. We were tackling the
problem from different angles, certainly, but coming to similar conclusions at
the same time. Of course, the first mention of a ‘Dark Star’ orbiting the sun
as a binary companion was made as long ago as 1982, so none of this is entirely
new! But at the time, in 1999, this development seemed newsworthy.
    There was a synchronicity at play there, certainly, but I would
also like to emphasize the fact that I had not taken John Murray’s paper and
used that to re-write Sitchin. Rather, I had independently thought through the
‘habitable planet’ problem, come up with a viable solution, and then discovered
later that the basis for that idea could corroborate Dr. Murray’s