Message #17498

[Bianca]

Inner-world Inhabitants



Rampa introduced the inner-world inhabitants in "The Subsurface World" as: "...people who dislike those humans who dwell upon the surface of the Earth. They are not benevolent people at all: they have instead a horror dread of those who dwell in the sunlight. They are a small colony of people who live inside the Earth." Their flight capability was "a glorified type of air vehicle not a great deal better than the puny aircraft which we surface people possess, and these inner-worlders cannot travel any great distance into space". An extinct volcano had created many lava tubes through which the inner-worlders—"not unlike humans"—sometimes visit the surface. Although they dislike the surface dwellers, they never attack unless provoked. "Often they take flight, and with their abnormally high speed they can outdistance anything which the surface people have at present."

In As it Was, the Lama Mingyar Dondup took Lobsang to another complex of caverns near Lhasa which contained strange artefacts and carvings. He told him of tunnels reaching from the north to the south pole, while others, which were sealed, reached into the Earth's interior. Lobsang learned of a race of people who had once entered the caverns to escape the surface cataclysms, sealing the entrance behind them. Beneath the surface, they developed their own sciences which were often more advanced than those upon the surface. Dondup said: "We of the higher lama class have often visited this place and tried to commune with those below by telepathy…but they want nothing to do with us…and if necessary they will intervene." (p. 77)

Mingyar Dondup described the inner world and its inhabitants: "They have a sun something like we have but theirs is much smaller and much more powerful. They have much more than we have, but they are very much more intelligent." Long ago these inner-worlders discovered the principles of flight. "Sometimes they come out of the Earth in special vehicles…which fly around on the outside of the Earth to see what people are doing and to ascertain if their own safety is jeopardised by the folly of those whom they term 'the outsiders'." (ibid.)

In Feeding the Flame, Rampa had more to say about inner-world dwellers. "Yes there was an Atlantis, and there are living remnants of Atlantis still, deep underground in a certain part of the world, and let me make it clear that that part of the world is not Mount Shasta; this is just an ordinary area which has been over-publicised by people who wanted to make not just a quick buck, but a whole sack of them." (p. 148)