The Pandemic, 930,000 BCE

Private Live Chat
May 12, 2026

MEntity: Hello to you, Connor. We are here, now. We can begin.

ConnorB: 

Hello again, Michael!

Can you offer a comprehensive account of the extinction-level pandemic that nearly destroyed our species around one million years ago?

MEntity: At the time, many advanced coastal civilizations had emerged among a fair minority of more "advanced" humans. They had developed extensive trade networks, biologically sophisticated agriculture, psychoactive fermentation systems, and social structures organized around specializations. The food system became increasingly conscious-altering. At first this amplified creativity, empathy, ritual, and collective awareness, but over time, the more unstable genetic hybrid human genome began to react catastrophically. Infertility spread, along with neurological instability, cross-species experimentation intensified, and psychosis or fragmentation of the psyche increased. Entire populations became dependent upon these altered biochemical states. We think the pandemic came out of this excessive fermentation process that got infected with a prionic element that spread through communal food-processing and because much of the food systems at the time were "globally" networked, collapse spread rapidly. Most advanced populations died or became nonviable and the other smaller humans populations survived because they had remained outside of the integrated system, though it did reach many of those groups, as well.

What came out of this was a sharp and nearly immediate drop in rapid evolution of humans as the surviving members of the species were "slow." Human evolution then slowed dramatically and has remained slow. We are unclear why, but when any rapid evolution occurs among part of the species, they destroy themselves by creating technologies that outpace them and become their demise. This has happened repeatedly.

ConnorB: 

Atlantis in a nutshell.

The mind-altering food is an angle you have not shared before, which is interesting. Seems they did not learn from (or did not remember) the 1,500,000 BCE fermented food crisis that prompted Caretaker intervention.

MEntity: These may have been closer together in time than previously mapped. Accuracy of time frames is difficult to convey on such a scale and from outside of time. We know that 500,000 years is a vast span of time within the physical plane, but we often see the events of history and all of their variations in a more condensed form of archiving.

ConnorB: Are you saying the ~1,500,000 BCE Third Intervention food crisis and the ~1,000,000 BCE food pandemic were the same event?

MEntity: Not so much the same, but that they were more interconnected. This was a long arc of destabilization, collapse, and reseeding.

ConnorB: So was there recovery after the 3rd Intervention for a while, only for the 1,000,000 BCE pandemic to come along and prompt another severe population drop? Just trying to understand the basic chronology.

MEntity: As you explore more of these undocumented events that we extract from within akashic records, the more refined the timeline may become, though we cannot say for sure as we are also learning how to read and sort the records in a way that can be returned to a more precise period of time. They key here is that "interventions" are long stabilization eras, not single moments and the advanced civilization rose and fell within that broader epoch. We might suggest that timeline looks like a second intervention around 3 million years ago, then a long recovery and expansion period from about 3 million to 1,500,000 years ago with a huge developmental arc, then increasing instability that leads to the third intervention at about 1,500,000 years ago. The pandemic was a culminating crisis that led to that intervention. After this came a population crash and many advanced societies disappear, population begins to reseed, and spreads farther into Eurasia, within a more stable biology, and civilization simplifies dramatically.

ConnorB: 

Something else to consider. Three years ago, a team of Chinese and Italian geneticists published a research article concluding that “human ancestors went through a severe population bottleneck with about 1280 breeding individuals between around 930,000 and 813,000 years ago. The bottleneck lasted for about 117,000 years and brought human ancestors close to extinction.” Do you agree with these conclusions? Would you adjust the timeframe based on that?

If that bottleneck wasn't caused by the pandemic, I'll eat myself.

I didn't expect to focus so much on chronology today. But it sounds like you are saying the pandemic happened BEFORE the caretakers implemented changes to human DNA per the 3rd intervention, not after.

MEntity: 

Though not entirely accurate, there is great validity to the research. When we consider these details from inside your time, let us try to adjust the timeline to experiment. This adjustment does lend a surprisingly elegant sequence:

Rise of accelerated coastal civilizations - 1.5 - 1.0 million BCE; increasing food-system and biological instability - 1.1 million - 950,000 BCE; pandemic and reproductive collapse (severe bottleneck and near extinction) - 930,000 - 813,000 BCE; 3rd Intervention during or immediately after this "bottleneck"); recovery and reseeding - after 800,000 BCE; music and renaissance or 4th intervention around 750,000 BCE.

We also note that BCE and "years ago" are fairly interchangeable on this scale. We think you may find some relevance in this timing if you explore the emergence of other variations of human/homo lineages. It would likely coincide more accurately to the interventions.

ConnorB: So then, was Kr (3rd infinite soul) and the "Integrator" groups of Caretakers you've described previously (who lived alongside humans in anticipation of an eventual reunion) present as part of the 3rd intervention and not a separate project?

MEntity: We think Kr, the integrator caretaker populations, and the 3rd Intervention stabilization era were all overlapping parts of the same broad evolutionary recovery project, rather than as entirely separate episodes. It is easy to separate these into separate descriptions, but the 3rd Intervention was not a single event, but an extended period with many layers of approach, from genetic stabilization to cultural reseeding to consciousness management. None of this could be done quickly. Integrators helped preserve some continuity, knowledge, moderated social development, and helped prepare humans for eventual independent recovery.

ConnorB: One last question, no need to go into detail, but I'm curious. Did the pandemic happen in all parallels? Were there parallels where it never happened at all?

MEntity: Of course.

ConnorB: Of course to which one? It happened in all parallels?

MEntity: Troy entered before we completed our response: Of course. There are some parallels where this never happened at all. They are in a completely separate timeline now.

ConnorB: Juicy. Thank you.

MEntity: Good day to you, Connor. Goodbye, for now.

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This is hardly a new topic. Martha and Geraldine discovered it back in 2009. Michael's first reference to the population collapse was on November 23 in a session with Martha. Then Geraldine followed up five days later on the 28th and uncovered a pandemic as the reason for that population collapse. Since then, Michael has described the Pandemic in various contexts, usually as part of a larger session about the coastal civilizations or as part of an exploration of a student's past lives. But I felt it should receive a dedicated session.

I intended for this to be more of a narrative session, but as you can see, our focus quickly veered into chronology and cleanup. 1,500,000 BCE has been the accepted timeframe for the Third Intervention since Michael first provided that timeframe in a foundational Human Timeline Project session back in 2011. Shifting that timeframe to ~900,000 BCE is frankly a bit dizzying, but I'll get used to it quickly because at least it is backed (for the moment) by science.

One of the oldest variations of genus Homo, Homo habilus, emerged more than two million years ago, only to disappear around a million and a half years ago, when the food systems supposedly started to break down. Homo ergaster disappeared around the same time. But other species began to emerge during or after the time period of the genetic bottleneck, such as Homo antecessor, which emerged after 800,000 BCE (and possibly a bit sooner) and was described by Michael as a "transitional variation" that emerged from the Third Intervention. Sure enough, the antecessors disappeared by 750,000 BCE, the supposed time period of the Fourth Intervention, which in turn heralded the arrival of Homo heidelbergensis.

The living through-line existing across this entire time period would be Homo erectus, which emerged nearly two million years ago and persisted until a mere 110,000 years ago. This suggests erectus formed some of the smaller (perhaps inland-dwelling) populations Michael mentioned, the ones spared from the pandemic due to existing outside of the network of coastal civilizations.