Metaphorically speaking ... a cave represents portals of the mind. A cave can symbolize a place where sacred information has been stored or hidden, to be found when the time was right - a place in the unconscious you will access when your soul is ready.

Ellie and Steve Remote View - January 12, 2000

Scientifically speaking ... a cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. Some people suggest that the term cave should only apply to cavities that have some part that does not receive daylight; however, in popular usage, the term includes smaller spaces like sea caves, rock shelters, and grottos.

Speleology is the science of exploration and study of all aspects of caves and the environment which surrounds the caves. Exploring a cave for recreation or science may be called caving, potholing, or, in Canada and the United States, spelunking.

In the 14 years of research for Crystalinks, I have found caves one of the more fascinating subjects, creating a file called Sacred Caves.

Who can forget the Crystal Caves in Mexico with those enormous crystals, containing a chamber called the Cave of Swords.

It's "the Sistine Chapel of crystals". The cave contains some of the largest natural crystals ever found: translucent gypsum beams measuring up to 36 feet (11 meters) long and weighing up to 55 tons.The crystals, he said, thrived because they were submerged in mineral-rich water with a very narrow, stable temperature range - around 136 degrees Fahrenheit (58 degrees Celsius). At this temperature the mineral anhydrite, which was abundant in the water, dissolved into gypsum, a soft mineral that can take the form of the crystals in the Naica cave.

Also famous are the Qumran Caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found having great religious and historical significance.

Most of the scrolls are written in one of two dialects of Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew or Dead Sea Scroll Hebrew (on which see Hoffman 2004 or Qimron 1986). Biblical Hebrew dominates in the Biblical documents, and DSS Hebrew in the documents composed in Qumran. Some scrolls are also written in Aramaic and a few in Greek. Only a few of the biblical scrolls were written at Qumran, the majority being copied before the Qumran period and coming into the ownership of the Qumran community.

Caves as subterranean chambers, take us on all sorts of adventures, to underworld portals - such as the Mayan World - see news articles that connect different parts of the world and spell out hidden secrets if one were tempted to go exploring.

Subterranean Chambers take us on a journey to Hollow Earth Theories, Subterranean Civilizations and Agartha.

Agartha is a legendary city that is said to reside in the Earth's core. It is related to the belief in a Hollow Earth and is a popular subject in Esotericism. Agartha is one of the most common names cited for the society of underground dwellers. The myth of "Agartha" is also known as Shambhala, as it was known in India, the underworld realm peopled by initiates and lead by the Masters who are allegedly Spiritual leaders of humanity.

Shamballa (also known as Shangri-La) is sometimes said to be Agartha's capital city. The mythical paradise of Shamballa is known under many different names: It has been called the Forbidden Land, the Land of White Waters, the Land of Radiant Spirits, the Land of Living Fire, the Land of the Living Gods and the Land of Wonders. Hindus have known it by the Sanskrit term, Aryavarsha (literally: "The Land or Realm of The Aryans; the Land of the Noble/Worthy Ones") - the land from which the Vedas come; the Chinese as Hsi Tien, the Western Paradise of Hsi Wang Mu, the Royal Mother of the West; the Russian Old Believers, a nineteenth-century Christian sect, knew it as Belovodye and the Kirghiz people as Janaidar. But throughout Asia it is best known by its Sanskrit name, Shambhala, meaning "the place of peace, of tranquility."

According to Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, the secret world of "Agartha" and all of its wisdom and wealth 'will be accessible for all mankind, when Christianity lives up to the commandments which were once drafted by Moses and Jesus,' meaning "When the Anarchy which exists in our world is replaced by the Synarchy." Saint-Yves gives a "lively" description of "Agartha" in this book as if it were a place which really exists, situated in the Himalayas in Tibet. Saint-Yves' version of the history of "Agartha" is based upon "revealed" information, meaning received by Saint-Yves himself through "attunement". Alexandre and the Archeometre - 12 Spoked Alchemy Wheel or 12 Around 1 Geometry.

As I blogged about Paleontology this week, let's go back in time to the oldest petroglyphs ever found ... in the Cave at Lascaux, France

Lascaux is the setting of a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings. The original caves are located near the village of Montignac, in the Dordogne département. They contain some of the most well-known Upper Paleolithic art. These paintings are estimated to be 16,000 years old. They primarily consist of realistic images of large animals, most of which are known from fossil evidence to have lived in the area at the time. In 1979, Lascaux was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list along with other prehistoric sites in the Vézère valley.

  Fun Journey to Chichen Itza Maya Ruins, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Colonnade at Temple of the Warriors, Chichen Itza,
Maya Ruins, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Temples represent the Mind or Consciousness

Consciousness evolves through the Dome (Cave).

Consciousness Frozen in the Cave of the Mind (Time)

This is not a joke or another technique on the use of elevators as a means of accessing one's past lives. This article is about cave mentality and response behavior in an elevator - the way people act and emotions experienced within. Life is the evolution from the cave mind to present day consciousness and how that is influenced by primal negative emotions.

Going up ?

Why the Elevator Floor Is So Interesting   Wired - May 27, 2009

If the elevator is crowded, everybody stands still and stares at the ceiling, the floor or the button panel as if they've never seen it before. If two strangers ride together in the elevator, they stand as far as possible from each other, don't face each other directly, don't make eye contact and don't make any sudden movements or noises.

Much of people's behavior in elevators is not the result of rational thinking. It¹s an automatic, instinctive response to the situation. The threat of aggression is not real, yet our mind responds as if it is, and produces behavior meant to protect ourselves.

Elevators are relatively recent inventions, but the social challenges they pose are nothing new. Close proximity to other people in restricted spaces is a situation that has occurred millions of times in the history of humankind.

Imagine two Paleolithic cavemen who follow the tracks of a large bear into the same small, dark cave. There is no bear in there, only the other hungry caveman ominously waving his club: clearly an awkward situation that requires an exit strategy. In those Paleolithic days, murder was an acceptable way to get out of socially awkward situations, much in the way we use an early morning doctor¹s appointment as an excuse to leave a dinner party early. In the cave, one of the cavemen whacks the other over the head with his club and the party is over.

Our minds evolved from the minds of the cavemen, and their minds, in turn, evolved from the minds of their primate ancestors - apes that looked a lot like chimpanzees. Some of our mental abilities appeared very recently in our evolutionary history - like our ability for abstract reasoning, language, love or spirituality. But the way primate minds respond to potentially dangerous social situations hasn¹t changed in millions of years.

Evolution has been so conservative in this domain that the minds of humans, chimpanzees and even macaque monkeys - whose ancestors began diverging from ours 25 million years ago - still show traces of the original blueprint.

When two rhesus macaques are trapped together in a small cage, they try everything they can to avoid fighting. Moving with caution, acting indifferent and suppressing all the behaviors that could trigger aggression are good short-term solutions to the problem. The monkeys sit in a corner and avoid any random movements that might inadvertently cause a collision, because even a brief touch could be interpreted as the beginning of hostile action. Mutual eye contact must also be avoided because, in monkey language, staring is a threat.

The monkeys look up in the air, or at the ground, or stare at some imaginary point outside the cage. But as time passes, sitting still and feigning indifference are no longer sufficient to keep the situation under control. Tension between the prisoners builds, and sooner or later one of them will lose her temper.

To avoid immediate aggression, and also to reduce stress, an act of communication is needed to break the ice and make it clear to the other monkey that no harm is intended or expected. Macaque monkeys bare their teeth to communicate fear and friendly intentions. If this "bared-teeth display" - the evolutionary precursor of the human smile ‹ is well received, it can be a prelude to grooming. One monkey brushes and cleans the other¹s fur, gently massaging the skin and picking and eating parasites. Grooming can both relax and appease another monkey, virtually eliminating the chance of an attack. (You wouldn¹t bite your masseuse, would you?)

So, if you are a rhesus macaque and find yourself trapped in a small cage with another macaque, you know what to do: Bare your teeth and start grooming. If you are a human and find yourself riding in an elevator with a stranger, I recommend you do the same: Smile and make polite conversation.

One morning when I was living on the 20th floor of a high-rise building I rode the elevator with a middle-aged man who seemed to be particularly intimidated by my presence. As I stepped in, he smiled nervously and started talking immediately. He talked nonstop and managed to give me his entire medical history, complete with symptoms, diagnoses and treatments, before we reached the ground floor. I doubt that this man expected to receive medical advice from me. Rather, he was clearly an insecure and emotionally vulnerable person who used massive verbal grooming to appease a perceived potential aggressor in a risky situation.

Not all my experiences are like this, of course. When I ride in an elevator with an attractive woman, I¹m generally treated with indifference, which in this case is not a sign of fear or intimidation. When my girlfriend rides in an elevator with a man, the man often strikes up a conversation with her and ends up asking for her phone number. People's responses to potential mating opportunities are just as predictable as their responses to potentially dangerous situations.

The beauty of human nature, however, is that although the average behavior of human beings can be scientifically predicted, there is a lot of unpredictable variation above and below the mean. Once, on the way up to my apartment, I met an old lady who got in the elevator on the second floor, pressed all the buttons from the third through the 22nd floor, and got out on the third floor with a grin on her face.