Ghosts of Atlantis: How the Echoes of Lost Civilizations Influence Our Modern World
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Overview
• Reveals evidence of advanced ancient technology, anomalous ancient maps, time travel, crystal science, ancient Armageddon, and Atlantis in the Bible
• Explores the true age of the Sphinx, the Stone Age high-tech found at Gobekli Tepe, the truth of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the Zep Tepi monuments of Egypt, the mysteries of the Gulf of Cambay, and what lies beneath the ice of Antarctica
• Examines the advanced knowledge of the ancients and how the search for Atlantis and other lost worlds reflects the search for the lost soul of humanity
We live within the ruins of an ancient civilization whose vast size has rendered it invisible. Remembered in myth as Atlantis, Lemuria, or other lost world archetypes, the remains of this advanced civilization have lain buried for millennia beneath the deserts and oceans of the world, leaving us many mysterious and inexplicable clues.
Investigating the perennial myth of a forgotten fountainhead of civilization, J. Douglas Kenyon presents extensive physical and spiritual evidence of a lost great culture, the collective amnesia that wiped it from planetary memory, and the countless ways ancient catastrophes still haunt modern civilization. He explores evidence of advanced ancient technology, anomalous ancient maps, extraterrestrial influence, time travel, crystal science, and the true age of the Sphinx. He examines evidence of Atlantis in the Bible and ancient Armageddon, the Stone Age high-tech found at Gobekli Tepe, the truth of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the Zep Tepi monuments of Egypt, the mysteries of the Gulf of Cambay, and what lies beneath the ice of Antarctica. He looks at extinction events, Earth’s connection with Mars, and how our DNA reveals that humanity has had enough time to evolve civilization and lose it more than once.
Exploring the advanced esoteric and spiritual knowledge of the ancients, Kenyon shows that the search for Atlantis and other lost worlds reflects the search for the lost soul of humanity. Drawing upon Velikovsky’s notion of a species-wide amnesia caused by the trauma of losing an entire civilization, he reveals how the virtual ruins of a lost history are buried deep in our collective unconscious, constantly tugging at our awareness. As Kenyon reveals, by overcoming “the Great Forgetting,” humanity can find its way out of the haunted labyrinth in which we find ourselves lost today and rediscover the heights of spiritual and technological advancement of our ancient ancestors.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781591433910 |
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| Publisher: | Inner Traditions/Bear & Company |
| Publication date: | 04/06/2021 |
| Pages: | 456 |
| Sales rank: | 300,445 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d) |
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Read an Excerpt
From Chapter 1.
The Atlantis of Our Dreams
In the Atlantis myth itself we are left with a persistent tale that, while widely shared, is seldom taken seriously. Yet, no matter how much it is dismissed by academic authorities as nothing more than a kind of cartoon, its deep effect on our culture is undeniable. And while legitimate debate over the facts may rage, some of us believe that deep in the ocean of humanity’s unconscious are the virtual remains of a lost history that still makes its demands on our thoughts and sensibilities.
The notion of a great lost civilization and our society’s demonstrable amnesia on the subject eventually inspired me to launch a bi-monthly magazine focusing on ancient mysteries, unexplained anomalies, and future science, which I dubbed Atlantis Rising. After 25 years of continuous publication and several spin-off books and videos, in the spring of 2019 we closed our doors. But I continue to believe that the echoes of long forgotten worlds still reverberate and if we could only translate their siren songs we might exorcise some of the strange ghosts that trouble us yet.
Planetary Amnesia
Probably no one in the past seventy years is more directly linked with the notion that Earth’s forgotten history has been punctuated by memory-destroying catastrophic events than Immanuael Velikovsky.
When the late Russian/American scientist’s Worlds in Collision was published in 1950 it caused a sensation. His subsequent titles Earth in Upheaval and Ages in Chaos further elaborated his ideas and expanded the controversy. Here was a scientist of considerable authority suggesting, among other things, that Earth and Venus might once have collided, leaving a vast chaotic aftermath that could have done much to explain our peculiar history. For such arguments, Velikovsky was, ever afterward, roundly ridiculed. Surprisingly, though, many of his predictions have now been verified, and some of his critics, including the late Carl Sagan, have since been forced to concede that he might, after all, in some ways, have been on to something.
Velikovsky, a psychoanalyst and associate of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, offered great insight into the psycho/sociological impacts of cataclysmic events. The psychological condition and case history of planet Earth is, he said, one of “amnesia.” The planet, he believed, is in a near-psychotic state, left so by traumatic events of an almost unimaginable magnitude. We must now wonder: have we compulsively closed our eyes to certain painful realities? Have we, moreover, cloaked that intentional blindness with an aura of authority, thus, effectively turning things upside down?
The victim of a near-fatal trauma is driven, apparently by fear, both conscious and unconscious, to exorcise the record of such experiences, lest he be overwhelmed. To fully forget such an experience, though, it turns out, is not such an easy thing. There are heavy consequences. Much more than the record of the trauma can be lost. In fact the very identity—what some would call the soul—can be a casualty.
What is true on an individual level, Velikovsky believed, was also true on a collective level. The process might move more slowly and allow for personal exceptions, but the institutions of society would, in time, come to reflect and to enforce a deep collective subconscious wish that, for the good of all, certain doors stay closed and certain inconvenient, and terrifying, facts stay forgotten.
Along the way the incoherent fragments of a lost identity—the artifacts of forgotten worlds—haunt our dreams. Whispering sadly of a lost state of grace, we spin tragic tales of a “Garden of Eden” from which we have been ejected by some cruel and heartless god. Driven by ancient longings, we have carried on—often blindly—in the attempt to penetrate at last the darkness and to learn the secret of our birth—our origin.
The Mythic Records
Until we uncover something more concrete, some wonder if the guidance we need could be found in our myths, legends, and dreams—also termed the universal unconscious. Could our planet’s tragic history be unraveled from such subjective records?
Giorgio de Santillana, an authority on the history of science at M.I.T., hypothesized in his great work Hamlet's Mill that an advanced scientific knowledge had been encoded into ancient myth and star lore. Clearly written into the mythology of many societies are stories of cataclysmic destruction.
If we accept that mythology may have originated with highly advanced people, then we have to think about what the myths are saying, that a great cataclysm struck the world and destroyed an advanced civilization and a golden age of mankind. And, moreover, the bad cataclysm may be a recurrent feature in the life of the Earth. The messages from many ancient sources, including the Bible, some believe point to a recurrence of such a cataclysm in our lifetime.
When the violent death of an entire civilization has proved too painful to deal with consciously, society has often suppressed the memory—by force of inquisition or academic sanction, depending on your historic period. Nevertheless we are driven by irresistible subconscious forces to reenact the ancient tragedy again and again until the spell is broken and at last we awaken from our coma.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
The Great Forgetting: The consequence of collective trauma
1 The Atlantis of Our Dreams 10
Searching for clues in the unconscious mind
2 Memory under Assault 20
To whom do we owe our condition?
3 The Search for Lost Records 29
Could Atlantis have left us a library?
Artifacts of Knowledge: Evidence of the superior technology of the past
4 The Crystal Planet 40
What might the ancients have known that we don't?
5 Wisdom of the Ancients 51
Following the clues to a lost science
6 Secrets of the Portolans 63
Where could the sailors of the Middle Ages have learned their tricks?
7 Ciphers of the Initiated 74
How much can the rest of us expect to learn?
Untaught History: What might really have happened
8 Time Line Tangles 86
How ancient is human history in the Americas, really?
9 The Neanderthal Connection 97
Has civilization's missing link been found?
10 Biblical Proportions 109
Is Plato supported by the Good Book?
11 Jesus and the Gnostics 119
Is there an Atlantis connection to the story?
12 The Gods of Atlantis 131
Where do heroes come from?
Domains of the Lost: Forgotten civilizations from around the globe
13 The Great Atlantis Hunt 142
Is new research getting us any closer to an actual location?
14 The Polar Continent 153
What still lies buried beneath miles of ice?
15 Egypt and Zep Tepi 163
The search for monuments of the First Time
16 The Redemption of Rapa Nui 173
New evidence rules out "ecocide"
17 The Pillars of Mu 184
What does a hill in Java say about prediluvian civilization?
18 Tales of the Saraswati 195
Clues from a lost culture emerge from the Gulf of Cambay
19 Göbekli Tepe and Stone Age High-Tech 206
Couid history be due for some serious rewriting?
Inner Connections: How advanced civilizations have left their mark on our bodies
20 The DNA Chase 220
Have our genes had enough time to evolve civilization and to lose it, more than once?
21 Mind Fields 232
Consciousness and reality
22 Return Engagements 243
Could humans get more than one crack at the challenges of life on Earth?
23 The Battle of Light and Darkness 254
Tracking the ancient struggle for control of the self
Other Worlds: Lost civilizations from outer space
24 The Nukes of Mars 266
Is there an ancient connection with Earth?
25 Searching for ET 277
New research aims to find an elusive quarry
26 The Planet X Conjecture 289
Are we close to finding Nibiru?
27 Ancient Astronaut Theory 299
Reality or science fiction?
Signs of a Crime: Cover-ups and conspiracies to bury the truth
28 Once and Future Psychos 312
Considering the pathological factor
29 Dark Genetics and the Nazis 321
Has ancient evil come back to haunt us?
30 The Trouble with Peer Review 332
Are the authorities of science to be trusted?
31 Twisting Wikipedia 344
Slanting the facts on the online encyclopedia
Ancient Doom: The end of civilizations past and present
32 Cosmic Collisions 358
Science takes a new took at threats from space
33 Extinction Event 369
New light on the mystery of the Younger Dryas
34 Fires of the Underworld 380
What history can be found beneath the surface?
Stellar Dimensions: How we might rediscover our history- and avoid destruction
35 Archaeology from Space 392
Could satellite imagery fill in the blanks of the Atlantis story?
36 Paranormal Portals 405
The role of special senses in the quest for lost knowledge
37 Tunneling through Time 416
Could visitors from the past and future be here after all?
38 Wheel of the Ages 427
Is the story of Atlantis written in the stars?