My name is Marc Bergvelt, I live in Amsterdam.
I'm a Scorpio in Western Astrology, a Monkey in the East,
Leyrider was a BBS and Internet handle I started using many years ago.
I'm also known as Blunderbuss in on-line network games.
I have lived for stays of four or more years in Japan,
Taiwan, England, Hong Kong and the Netherlands.
I've also lived in India and the United States.
The last country I lived in was Hong Kong,
I left shortly after the Handover in 1997.
Though I am Dutch, I've lived here less than eight years.

I have worked as an executive multimedia consultant,
English teacher, script polisher, interactive scriptwriter
restaurant designer, reluctant copywriter, jewellery importer,
model, hotel cleaner and first-class dish-washer at Schiphol.

My height is 186cm (6'2"), I weigh about 75 kilograms,
I have blue-grey eyes and appear to have
a mix of curly blonde, brown, red and metallic grey hair.
I am considered lean by some and strong by others.
I'm afraid I don't have any current pictures of myself.

I got my first computer some time around 1984.
It was a Taiwanese Apple II compatible running early, early DOS.
Fifteen years on and I'm still working with DOS in Win95 -
on an old Pentium 133. My second computer was a 386sx DOS
laptop I used to work with on my bed overlooking the South China Sea.

Lightfall is my first foray into building a web site of my own. Apocalypse Aerie, the main part of this site, came from my lifelong interest in mythology and a decade-long pursuit after information regarding our world's Great Cycles.

The concept of pole shifts raised it's ungainly head often, but it took years to come across anything concrete on the subject. Edgar Cayce mentioned them, and I wrote to the Cayce Foundation, but they couldn't supply me with any further information. Once I found Hapgood's work, it didn't take me long to stumble upon Graham Hancock's 'Fingerprints of the Gods'. This was followed by 'an orgy of reading'.

I don't like the concept of pole shifts. I don't like the idea of large-scale urban destruction. I am not an anarchist or nihilist, I cherish yet abhor the civilization we live in, and thank my stars that I was born into it, at this time.

Yet something inside me, since I was a small boy, said that I should be prepared for an eventuality that may bring sudden change to the world as I know it, one day. It was something to do with staying aware, being alive, living, fit and learning for all its worth while its worth anything.

The world I grew up in was never particularly stable. Apart from moving all over the place and continually losing friends, the ethereal threat of nuclear war during the Cold War and the spectre of a post-Apocalyptic world burn easily in the mind of a boy growing up in a fluid environment like mine.

Besides this, there was this nagging sensation that the past as we are taught it is not necessarily the past that really happened - that history runs back further and holds more mysteries than we are taught. In short, I didn't accept everything I was learning, and suspected more than the world around me was prepared to teach.

Though I don't like the subject, and I will probably neglect the Apocalypse Aerie pages a little, I wanted to freely publish what I gleaned from my reading on the subject, for in some respects it can be quite important. Disconcerting as it is, this information  should be on the world wide web for others to check out, link to on the web, and ultimately research and verify for themselves.

So it became Apocalypse Aerie. It is the place from where we can view the possibilities of the future, a point we need only climb if we wish to look ahead in that direction. I hope with all my being that the so-called 'Warning of the Ancients' is merely a form of myth-backed millennial anxiety. I would like to think that the cataclysmic reports are inaccurate translations or exagerations of minor, localised events. I like to think that the earth does not react in sudden, violent ways in accordance with its own and the solar system's cycles.

I would like to see how we can build the future upon what the great minds behind our civilizations intended. I would like to see us and the planet we live in prosper for the future of the generations that arrive now, and the many more that will follow.

I would like that. But I publish these pages herewith, perhaps only as a reminder of how good we have it now, but also to serve as reference for those who have come across similar theories, and wish to share their knowledge in their own way.

That's all for now - already more than enough. I expect the rest of my web site explains much else about who Leyrider is.

Enjoy your visit. Stop at my scriptmonkey pages - http://stop.at/scriptmonkey - for more!

LEYRIDER

Post Script: This entire site was designed off-line using Netscape Composer 4.0, Geocities' on-line Advanced  HTML editor, a little bit of Photoshop, LView Pro, a lot of research and a lot of typing.

Since I don't yet have access to a scanner, the Internet has served as my image library. My thanks to those whose work I have silently been able to blend with my own in order to produce this site. I hope you'll agree that the two go together well.