STUDIO ROBERT, 1983
Robertino "Rob" Solàrion was born and educated in Texas. He was a 1964 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, majoring in Russian and minoring in French. He joined the Peace Corps that same year and was assigned to Massaua, Eritrea (then a part of the Empire of Ethiopia), where he taught English, science and mathematics at the local high school. Subsequently he attended the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, D.C., and was assigned to the Refugee Program in South Vietnam during the war. Fluent in both French and Vietnamese, Rob also served as a translator for the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. He has studied a number of other foreign languages, has graduate credits in linguistics from UCLA and has widely travelled across 50 countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Rob became interested in "catastrophism and ancient history" in 1972 and avidly pursued the ideas of Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky. He became a part of the so-called "Velikovskian School" as propounded by the former KRONOS Journal. Following the death of Dr. Velikovsky in November 1979, this "school" fractured into smaller, often rival groups. After a hiatus from 1980 through 1993, during which time he worked as a professional photographer and writer, Rob became fascinated by the books of Zecharia Sitchin concerning Planet X Nibiru. His original website was uploaded in 1996, after he had made the assumption, now shared by many, that the "cosmic cataclysm" described by Dr. Velikovsky was caused by the "comet-planet" of Mr. Sitchin. Subsequently Rob developed his theory of "The Cosmic Tree" by integrating both these men's ideas with those of Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend in Hamlet's Mill. Rob's theory of "The Cosmic Tree" is unique and has not been explored by other researchers on the Internet.
In June 2003, Rob was interviewed for the video "Planet X Nibiru - Assessing The Science" which is available for sale on the Web.
Rob Solàrion is also one of the world's leading authorities on the life and times of Apollonius of Tyana.
