Distinctly Montana Magazine

73 w w w . d i s t i n c t l y m o n t a n a . c o m even be able to tell? How much, in fact, of our own civilization would endure a century or two from now if we disappeared from the planet tomorrow? Eventually, all that would survive would be the artifacts made of enduring materials: things made of bronze and stone. In the end, it could be that humanity in all its sophistication and advance- ment will be memorialized to our succeeding replacements as a producer of stone points and metal trinkets. If that. All of our stadiums, shopping malls, service stations and supermarkets would amount to no more than a thin layer of weird dirt after a few hundred years. Hancock theorizes that ancient shamans, agents of that now-vanished superpowerful lost civilization, traveled the earth in the wake of that earth-shattering apocalypse (flood? Aster- oid? Something else?). They benevolently sowed the seeds of knowledge in the form of megaliths they built or otherwise con- vinced the surviving local humans to build, from which can be derived the fundamental axioms of math and geometry. Over the years we have forgotten them, but signs of their existence are covered-up, ignored, and/or misunderstood. So I visited the Sage Wall for myself, bringing a buddy named Matt Orson, as well as Ted Antonioli, geologist and member of the Tobacco Root Geological Society. We arrived to the Sage Wall at ten or so in the morning, and found its grounds beautiful. Chris Borton, founder of the Sage Mountain Center, musician, and one- time board member of the Butte Symphony, met us in the parking lot, in front of the beautiful house he has built by hand. Borton explained the history of the property and of the wall he found, hidden by trees, back in 1996. In his own words from the Sage Mountain Center website, "People are traveling from all over the world and are expressing a variety of views of what they are seeing on this site, which include: a sacred structure of time- less spiritual healing, an ancient megalith built by early beings, or just another pile of rocks." He almost seemed disappointed that so many of the visitors to his Sage Mountain Center, which focuses on sustainability and green living, are there to see the Sage Wall, but is eager to add that he will have the results of recent ground testing uploaded to his website soon, so that it can be ascertained how true are the rumors, parroted by Rogan, that the Sage Wall extends deep underground. (Note: as of the time of this publication, no such report was ever uploaded to the website, and if he is in possession of ep- och-changing results he has so far decided not to publish them.) Borton reported that the Sage Wall has continued to take off lately, and that visitors were becoming more frequent. Indeed, while we were on our hike to the wall another interested party, a family with mom, dad and two kids arrived, cell phones in hand, to look at the enormous structure. My buddy talked to their dad about (what else?) the work of Graham Hancock, which had in- spired the family to make the trip. DisƟncƟve CraŌsman CoƩages in a 55+ Pocket Neighborhood Planned Community "Downsize Beautifully" Phase 2 Now Open!! www.riversidecrossing.org riversidecrossingcoop@gmail.com 406.369.4630

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