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Robert Schoch Lost Ancient Mysteries

Special Collector’s Edition, Robert Schoch, Ph.D. presented by The Atlantis Rising Research Group

Explore the planet’s greatest mysteries with the courageous and renowned geologist who challenged conventional Egyptology with undeniable evidence of water weathering for the Great Sphinx, proving that pre-flood civilization existed thousands of years earlier than once believed.

  • 309  fully indexed pages
  • 21 chapters personally researched and written by Dr. Schoch (previously published exclusively by Atlantis Rising Magazine)
  • Huge collection of spectacular photographs, personally taken by Dr. Schoch and his wife Catherine Ulissey, and published here in full-size HIGH-RESOLUTION for the first time.

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Chapters include:
• Return to the Great Sphinx of Egypt
• Easter Island
• The Underground Cities of Cappadocia
• Gunang Padang
• India’s Ajanta Caves
• Gobekli Tepe
• Nazca
• Newgrange
• Tiwanaku
And many more…

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The Quest for Lost Ancient Secrets
with Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D.

The Quest for Lost Ancient Secrets with Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D.

Special Collector’s Edition
presented by The Atlantis Rising Research Group

Explore the planet’s greatest mysteries with the courageous and renowned geologist who challenged conventional Egyptology with undeniable evidence of water weathering for the Great Sphinx, proving that pre-flood civilization existed thousands of years earlier than once believed.

309  fully indexed pages

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21 chapters personally researched and written by Dr. Schoch (previously published exclusively by Atlantis Rising Magazine)

 

Huge collection of stunning photographs, personally taken by Dr. Schoch and his wife Catherine Ulissey, and published here in full-size HIGH-RESOLUTION for the first time.

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Chapters include:
• Return to the Great Sphinx of Egypt
• Easter Island
• The Underground Cities of Cappadocia
• Gunang Padang
• India’s Ajanta Caves
• Gobekli Tepe
• Nazca
• Newgrange
• Tiwanaku
And many more…

Download PDF 309 pages, 8.5 x 11 format

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PDF Atlantis Rising SPECIAL ISSUE – Ancient Mysteries PDF Download

Atlantis Rising Magazine present this beautiful special edition of ANCIENT MYSTERIES. It features articles by some of the foremost researchers in the world about LOST TECHNOLOGY, LOST CIVILIZATION, SCIENCE AND THE VERY OLD, and EGYPT.

FEATURING:

LOST TECHNOLOGY
• Copper Mining in Ancient America
• Engineers of Puma Punku
• Maps from Before History
• 3-D Stone Age Art discovered at Gobekli Tepe

LOST CIVILIZATION
• Easter Island’s Astonishing Antiquity
• Journey to Gunung Padang
• Lost Tribes
• Giant Predecessors in America
• Did the Russians Find Atlantis
• The Search for the Garden of Eden

SCIENCE AND THE VERY OLD
• Riddle of Lost Civilization (Advanced Neanderthals)
• How Did the Ice Ages End
• Ice-Age-End Scenarios
• The Trouble with Timelines

EGYPT
• Ancient Genius (Imhotep)
• Return to the Great Sphinx
• Hidden Chambers in Egypt
• Crime in the Great Pyramid

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The Nabta Playa Revelations

The Oldest Archaeoastronomy Site in the World?

When Atlantis Rising Magazine published the “Astronomers of Nabta Playa,” by Mark H. Gaffney, in march of 2006, the idea that indigenous hunter gatherers in north Africa could have their eyes on the stars, was considered ‘controversial,’ to say the least. But like many such notions, our reporting has been vindicated by time. A recent study published in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Nature, now echoes the astonishing assertions of our Atlantis Rising cover story. In fact, Discover Magazine now trumpets “The world’s first astronomical site was built in Africa and is older than stonehenge. This 7,000-year-old stone circle tracked the summer solstice and the arrival of the annual monsoon season. It’s the oldest known astronomical site on Earth.”

Another problem for mainstream science though, could be that, once again they seems to be late to the party. At least one astronomically aligned stone circle, dating to 11,500 years ago, can now be found in Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, where researchers have documented a connection with the constellation Cygnus X. Indeed, if the Nabta Playa experience is any guide, it may take a few years for that knowledge to seep into the system. In the meantime a reference to Atlantis Rising back issues might be helpful.

The stone circle of Nabta Playa, says the new research, charts the summer solstice, a time that coincided with the arrival of monsoon rains in the Sahara Desert thousands of years ago. “Here is human beings’ first attempt to make some serious connection with the heavens,” says J. McKim Malville, a professor emeritus at the University of Colorado and archaeoastronomy expert. That makes the North African site “the dawn of observational astronomy,” he adds. “What in the world did they think about it? Did they imagine these stars were gods? And what kinds of connections did they have with the stars and the stones?” he wonders.

Discovered in 1973 by much traveled explorer Fred Wendorf, Nabta Playa has been a problem for conventional archaeology from the beginning. Former NASA physicist Thomas Brophy took up the challenge and quietly pursued his own astronomical study. Brophy had already reviewed the limited data published in Nature in 1998, and after Wendorf’s more extensive data became available, his own developing theories fell into place. In 2002 Brophy published his findings in a book The Origin Map. Because available astronomy software at the time was inadequate, Brophy had to custom-engineer his own. He did it, though, and was able to track star movements at Nabta Playa over thousands of years and he succeeded in decoding the stone circle and nearby megaliths. Among many the startling revelations made by Brophy, the Nabta Playa builders demonstrated knowledge of not only solar, but galactic astronomy. Academics my snicker at that, but, developments, so far, do not appear to favor the suppositions of the mainstream.

The Astronomers of Nabta Playa
(AR #56, March/April 2006

 

Atlantis Rising Research Group PAK #4 – 15 issues

Enjoy issues #1 through #15 of the ATLANTIS RISING RESEARCH GROUP REPORT.

Includes:

  • Is Proxima Centauri Calling?
  • ET Intelligence Evidence
  • New ET Documentaries
  • Spheres of Influence
  • Is Anybody Home?
  • Underworld Cretures
  • Betz Sphere Mystery
  • When ‘Potbelly’s’ Are Attractive
  • Light on the Plain of Jars
  • Master Tools of Skara Brae
  • The World’s Oldest Art
  • Who Were the Olmecs?
  • Scotland’s Stone Balls
  • Atlantis and the Neanderthals
  • The Pole-Shift/Climate-Change Connection
  • Warp Speed Possible?
  • Bahamas & Atlantis
  • Ancient American Copper
  • Pole Shift & the Pyramids
  • Indigenous Metal Industry
  • Ice Age Bahama Civilization
  • New Challenge to ‘Big Bang’ Orthodoxy
  • Cave Geniuses
  • Taming Aurochs
  • Ringing our Chime
  • Defying Gravity
  • Aiming at the Big Bang
  • Stone Age Temples
  • Ancient 3D Stone Map Excites Archaeologists
  • Glacier Viruses in China
  • Shackleton’s Lost Ship
  • The ET Threat
  • Lost Equator
  • Vostok’s Hidden Life
  • Socrates & His Inner Voices
  • Americans 26,500 Years Ago
  • UFO Disruption Factors
  • Conscious Universe?
  • The Talk of Tomatoes
  • Denisovans in America
  • Beyond the Brain
  • Invisible Warfare
  • ADVANCED ACOUSTICS AT STONEHENGE
  • Siberian Civilization
  • Fast Radio Bursts
  • Vanishing Stars
  • Ancient Acoustics
  • Last of the Denisovans
  • Pulsar Mystery
  • Evidence Found for Life on Venus? Maybe!
  • Brain/Machine Collision
  • Bible as History
  • Origins of Gold Mystery
  • Blue Martian Sky
  • Microchip Implants
  • God & Gold
  • TIME TRAVEL IS POSSIBLE!
  • Ancient Thule Located?
  • Making Energy Waves
  • Water on the moon
  • Time Tunneling
  • Antilia & Hyperborea
  • Secrets of the Moon
  • Americans 130,000 Years Ago?
  • Before Gobekli Tepe
  • Palimpsest Secrets
  • Indus Script
  • Atlantis and America
  • Explorer Priest
  • Writing on the Wall
  • Extinction Event
  • The Strange Case of the Disappearing Stars
  • Hunting for Artifacts in the Asteroid Belt
  • Hi Tech Painting in the ‘Primitive’ Past
  • Death and the Advance of Science
  • Could Nazca Be a Map of the World?
  • Nefertiti’s Lost Tomb
  • British Tin in Bible Lands
  • Midas Gold in Turkey
  • DESIGNING GÖBEKLI TEPE
  • The Fires of Top O’Noth
  • Fake Dead Sea Scrolls
  • Tiny Flying Dinosaurs
  • Cosmic Gobekli Tepe
  • Ancient War Fires
  • FATE OF PANCHEN LAMA REVEALED…or Not?
  • Antarctic Melting
  • Maya Discoveries
  • Lost African Civilization
  • Roerich & Tibet
  • Catastrophism
  • The Carbon Dating Game
  • Mother Goddess
  • Gauches & Atlantis
  • Syrian Comet Strike
  • Politics of Time
  • Berekhat Ram
  • Russia & Atlantis

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Comet strike may have sparked key shift in human civilization

A cluster of comet fragments believed to have hit Earth nearly 13,000 years ago may have shaped the origins of human civilization, research led by Dr Martin Sweatman suggests.

Possibly the most devastating cosmic impact since the extinction of the dinosaurs, it appears to coincide with major shifts in how human societies organized themselves, researchers say.

Their analysis backs up claims that an impact occurred prior to the start of the Neolithic period in the so-called Fertile Crescent of southwest Asia.

During that time, humans in the region – which spans parts of modern-day countries such as Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon – switched from hunter-gatherer lifestyles to ones centered on agriculture and the creation of permanent settlements.

It is thought that the comet strike – known as the Younger Dryas impact – also wiped out many large animal species and ushered in a mini ice age that lasted more than 1,000 years.

Since it was proposed in 2007, the theory about the catastrophic comet strike has been the subject of heated debate and much academic research. Now, researchers from the University of Edinburgh have reviewed evidence assessing the likelihood that an impact took place, and how the event may have unfolded.

The team says a large body of evidence supports the theory that a comet struck around 13,000 years ago. Researchers analyzed geological data from four continents, particularly North America and Greenland, where the largest fragments are thought to have struck.

 Comet Research Group)

Image shows: Archaeological site in Arizona, US, with a distinctive black layer, indicating substantial environmental changes beginning about 10,800 BC, with impact debris at its base (credit: Comet Research Group).

Their analysis highlights excess levels of platinum, signs of materials melted at extremely high temperatures and the detection of nanodiamonds known to exist inside comets and form during high-energy explosions. All of this evidence strongly supports the impact theory, researchers say.

The team says further research is needed to shed more light on how it may have affected global climate and associated changes in human populations or animal extinctions.

The research is published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews. An Open Access version of the paper is also available.

Dr Martin Sweatman said: “This major cosmic catastrophe seems to have been memorialized on the giant stone pillars of Göbekli Tepe, possibly the ‘World’s first temple’, which is linked with the origin of civilization in the Fertile Crescent of southwest Asia. Did civilization, therefore, begin with a bang?”

Source: https://www.eng.ed.ac.uk/about/news/20210624/comet-strike-may-have-sparked-key-shift-human-civilisation

Echoes of Lemuria
By Frank Joseph
The Forgotten History of a Lost Motherland Lives on in the Folklore of America’s Indigenous Peoples
Atlantis Rising Magazine #50, March/April, 2005


Issue #50
Echoes of Lemuria

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Lost Civilization in South Africa?

The accepted narrative for pre-historic South Africa makes it home for some of the oldest archaeological and human-fossil sites in the world. Indeed a series of caves in Gauteng Province, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is often called “the Cradle of Humankind.” Sterkfontein cave, for example, is one of the world’s best sources of hominin fossils. Other sites include Swartkrans, Gondolin Cave Kromdraai, Coopers Cave and Malapa.

From about three million years ago on, say the experts, many hominid species lived in South Africa, the first being Australopithecus africanus. Modern humans like us, the story goes, have inhabited Southern Africa for at least 170,000 years.  But some prominent researchers think the conventional story is just the tip of the iceberg.

Author, politician, explorer, musician and founder of the South African Ubuntu political Party, Michael Tellinger claims that stone ruins at Blaauboschkraal, at the center of a network of stone circles, also known as Adam’s Calendar, is a site of astonishing archaeological importance, and the remains of advanced civilization from a full 200,000 years ago (https://books.google.com/books?id=AWInAQAAIAAJ). The ruins, about 100 miles west of port Maputo, remain largely unexplored by orthodox archaeology. The go-to explanation is that the extensive structures found there were created by 16th century settlers who altered the landscape to increase agricultural yields in high-altitude grasslands. The stone rings were probably used as enclosures for cattle, the theory goes.

The area is near several gold mines, reminding some of claims made by the late best-selling writer Zecharia Sitchin who argued that ancient ETs who called themselves the Anunnaki came to Earth in search of gold, as long as 450,000 years ago.

If Tellinger is correct, the find completely overthrows orthodox timelines for the history of civilization. Even Turkey’s Gobekli Tepe in Turkey—12,000 years old, and predating Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid by thousands of years—is just a youngster. The area, however, is not the only South African locale challenging conventional timelines for human development.

In their 2008 book Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence, neuroscientists Gary Lynch and Richard Granger, make the case that a now extinct race of hominids near Boskop, South Africa, was smarter than we are—virtual geniuses by comparison—with an average IQ of about 150.

First discovered in 1913 by local farmers, the skull fossils—of which several examples have been found—possessed a cranial capacity about 25 per cent larger than our own, combined with a small child-like face.

In his book The Immense Journey, naturalist Loren Eiseley commented on the Boskops. “It’s all happened already. Back there in the past, ten thousand years ago. The man of the future, with the big brain, the small teeth. He lived in Africa. His brain was bigger than your brain. His face was straight and small, almost a child’s face.”

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Issue #94
The Tragic Saga of Great Zimbabwe

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The Tragic Saga of Great Zimbabwe

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The Tragic Saga of Great Zimbabwe

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EXTINCTION EVENT

Cosmic Impact and the Younger Dryas

Evidence published by South African researchers late in 2019 in the journal Palaeontologia Africana offers powerful new support for the once controversial notion that the great megafauna extinction event now called the ‘Younger Dryas,’ was caused by a cosmic impact event (https://phys.org/news/2019-10-hypothesis-asteroid-contributed-mass-extinction.html).

For many years ‘catastrophists,’ such as German scientist/engineer Otto Muck, argued that a cataclysmic episode—perhaps a hit from a large meteor or comet—about 12,000 years ago led to the destruction of an advanced civilization on Earth, while killing off the woolly mammoths, and sending humanity back to the stone age. From the Bible to Plato, innumerable ancient accounts have described immense catastrophes, but, until recently, academic science has rejected the notion that anything like that could have happened on Earth for at least millions of years. But, then, in 2018, the discovery of an enormous crater beneath the Hiawatha glacier in Greenland offered  long-sought evidence of an impact that could have destroyed any civilization, including Atlantis, that might have existed then. According to Plato, the lost continent went down around 12,800 years ago, the same time we now assign to the Younger Dryas event.

At a site called Wonderkrater in the Limpopo Province, north of Pretoria, South Africa, a team, led by Professor Francis Thackeray of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, discovered that samples taken from a 12,800-years-old deposit of peat brought up from the bottom of ‘White pond,’ showed significant anomalous traces—a “spike”—of platinum.

“Our finding at least partially supports the highly controversial Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH),” said Thackeray, observing that meteorites are rich in platinum. “We seriously need to explore the view that an asteroid impact somewhere on earth may have caused climate change on a global scale, and contributed to some extent to the process of extinctions of large animals at the end of the Pleistocene, after the last ice age.” In North America, South America, and Europe, many mammals vanished from the fossil record at the time.

Though avoiding any mention of lost civilization, the researchers concede that, in the Younger Dryas, even human populations may have been affected by cosmic impacts, albeit indirectly. In North America, for example, a dramatic termination of the stone tool technology of the Clovis people was noted. The abrupt end of much more sophisticated societies of that time, like Turkey’s Gobekli Tepe, remains a mystery.

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Issue #122
What Ended the Ice Age?

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What Ended the Ice Age?

 

 

Ghosts of Atlantis

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Rising editor J. Douglas Kenyon…

“A great new addition to the world of ancient mysteries, opening a fascinating chapter in the
mysteries of Atlantis.”

Andrew Collins, author of Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods


“Provides numerous insights and a fascinating path to navigate through the Atlantis phenomena.”

Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D., author of Forgotten Civilization


“…brilliantly elucidates how similar the fundamental ideological forces in the world play out.
Beautifully written.”

Chris Dunn, author of Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt

…a magical mystery tour through many of the great puzzles and enigmas of our world. A
deeply thought-provoking compendium and a tour de force that delivers a timely wake-up call.”

Scott Creighton, author of The Great Pyramid Void Enigma

“Kenyon has covered all the bases on Atlantis in this exciting new book!”
David Hatcher Childress, author and co-star on the History Channel Show Ancient Aliens

“Kenyon has written the widest-ranging, most comprehensive and most convincing argument
that a prehistoric civilization actually existed and was all but erased from human memory by a
natural catastrophe. A must read.”

Gregory L. Little, Ed.D., coauthor of Denisovan Origins


“No one handles the mysteries of protohistory more deftly than Doug Kenyon. He has done more
than any single individual in recent time to uncover the secrets of planet earth, once and for all
dispelling the orthodox myth of a barbaric ‘Stone Age.’ His new book is a magnificent synopsis
of our knowledge of the advanced arts and sciences of lost civilizations.”

Susan Martinez, Ph.D., author of The Mysterious Origins of Hybrid Man


“Skillful writing guides us smoothly through complex subjects towards an exciting place where
mysticism and materialism might intersect to provide a greater understanding of the universe.
An exciting book, wrapping deep subjects in a fascinating style that invites you to delve into the
writer’s intriguing multiverse vision.”

Rand Flem-Ath, coauthor of Atlantis beneath the Ice


“Kenyon offers us a thorough, up to date, survey of the current state of the world of alternative
science. He’s also an accomplished researcher and author, as convincingly demonstrated by this
book. May the ghosts of Atlantis continue to haunt a world gone astray!”

Michael A. Cremo, author of Forbidden Archeology

“Ghost of Atlantis is a fascinating read, integrating many threads of research. This book allows
for hope—we’ve collectively forgotten much wisdom, yet it’s not too late to recognize our
spiritual nature and choose to build a higher civilization.”

Jeane Manning, author of The Coming Energy Revolution


“… a riveting read. Kenyon presents non-stop and impossible-to-ignore evidence for humanity’s
amnesia and offers compelling arguments for what lost memory means to humanity—we ignore
the truth of the past at our peril.”

Julie Loar, author of Goddesses for Every Day


“Kenyon has an ability no one else has; to pull in the fullness of place, timeframe, stories, and
facts so a larger view emerges. Ghost of Atlantis is his capstone. This one book ties together how
the many worlds of the past reveal the singular path we humans have taken since the beginnings
of all beginnings. I give Doug a huge thank you for what he has done in this incredible book.”

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An intensive investigation into the evidence for a forgotten fountainhead of civilization lost at the end of the last ice age

• 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.

459 pages, paperback and Kindle

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A review of Ghosts of Atlantis: How the Echoes of Lost Civilizations Influence Our Modern World by J Douglas Kenyon

Geoff Ward
Writer, poet, tutor and mentor in literature and creative writing (MA and BA Hons degrees in English literature), editor, journalist and musician.

A crucial and topical thread running through this new book is how many researchers seeking genuine scientific advancement are thwarted by the reductionist-materialist paradigm of the establishment.

In referring to catastrophist Immanuel Velikovsky’s theory of ‘cultural amnesia’, Kenyon says that only by overcoming its ‘Great Forgetting’ can humanity rediscover the heights of spiritual and technological advancement of our distant ancestors’ Atlantean civilization — destroyed, under Kenyon’s discussion, 12,000 years ago by comet strike over the North Pole, solar storm (coronal mass ejection) or magnetic pole shift, causing devastating global floods and a rise in sea levels.

The idea is that unconscious memory is transmitted genetically from one generation to the next, over not just centuries but millennia, but that racial amnesia — caused by the trauma of an entire civilization being wiped out — has hidden the truth of human origins and held back spiritual advancement today. Velikovsky (1895–1979) believed that myths and legends about worldwide catastrophe in the distant past derived from literal records of such an event.

A fascination with spectacular doom, as portrayed in blockbuster disaster movies, might be one symptom of the amnesia that prevents the waking memory of, and confrontation with, the suppressed knowledge of an extinction event, says Kenyon: ‘Our deeply scarred collective psyche, it appears, compulsively seeks a return to the forgotten scenes of a destroyed past.’

For almost 25 years, Kenyon, who lives in Georgia, USA, was the editor and publisher of Atlantis Rising magazine. He is the author and editor of several books, including Forbidden History and Forbidden Science, and the writer, producer and narrator of several documentary films, including Technologies of the Gods, Clash of the Geniuses, and The Atlantis Connection.

Having thus explored the esoteric and spiritual knowledge of the ancients, Kenyon believes that Atlantis is symbolic of a quest for the ‘lost soul of humanity’, and that our forgotten history of the end of the last ice age is submerged in our collective unconscious, yet ‘constantly tugging at our awareness’ — not least in popular culture, I might say, ever since Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1869–71), but notably when interest in utopian and dystopian futures was rekindled after the Renaissance with Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis (1627) and Thomas Heyrick’s The New Atlantis (1687).

Lost-world archetypes

Kenyon sees us as living in the ruins of a civilization whose vast size has rendered it invisible when our DNA has revealed that humanity has had enough time to evolve a civilization and lose it more than once. Remembered in myth as Atlantis, Lemuria, or other ‘lost-world archetypes’, the remains of this civilization have lain buried for millennia beneath the deserts, jungles and oceans of the world.

For those who take the matter seriously — those broadly in the ‘alternative history’ sphere — Kenyon says there has been no shortage of clues that there was once such a global culture. One need only consider the advanced technologies, he says, that must have been employed in the building of ancient monuments such as the Great Pyramid, Angkor Wat and those on Easter Island to see we have forgotten a great deal.

He considers anomalous ancient maps, the possibility of extraterrestrial influence, time travel, crystal science and Atlantis in the Bible. He also reflects on the Sphinx being thousands of years older than conventionally accepted, high-tech finds at the 12,000-year-old settlement of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, the Zep Tepi monuments of Egypt, the mysteries of the Gulf of Cambay and what might lie beneath the ice of Antarctica.

A map of Lemuria superimposed over the modern continents according to William Scott-Elliot (1849-1919), from ‘The Story of Atlantis and Lost Lemuria’ (1925).

However, the very word Atlantis has been, and to a large extent still is, taboo. Modern scholarship has been guilty of projecting its own insecurities on to the past.

In a key passage, Kenyon writes that, in what might be called ‘first church of reductionist materialism’, a narrow worldview embraces a fundamental doctrine that must not be questioned. In the inquisitions of the Middle Ages, forbidden books and their authors were often consigned to the flames. Modern offenders might not be burned at the stake but they are, nevertheless, subjected to ostracism, rejection and academic sanction.

‘For those who long for a more enlightened era in which new ideas that could benefit the world can be examined on their merits, without subjugation to narrow doctrinal agendas, it is worth remembering that defensiveness of this sort is a sign of weakness, not strength. In their standard tactics, the current materialist establishment reveals an insecurity, doubtless born in the unconscious dread that nature itself, thus disrespected, could ultimately return the favour and render them powerless…’

Controlling the narratives

The politically correct ruling elite practice an intolerant ‘religion’. The powers that be, whether in church, state or academia, understand well the importance of controlling the narratives accepted by society, and they fully comprehend the perils of losing control of the argument, so woe to anyone who might challenge conventional wisdom.

Moreover, scientific misbehavior now seems endemic. Kenyon quotes a study by Raymond De Vries, an associate professor of medical education and a member of the bioethics program at the University of Michigan, who says intense competition between scientists is causing them to worry about things they shouldn’t be thinking about, such as how their data will be interpreted — whether their research will lead to conclusions their peers might not like.

*** It’s both interesting and significant that a nautilus shell is depicted on the cover of Ghosts of Atlantis for this is one of the most beautiful manifestations of the spiral form in nature, approximating closely to the proportion of the Golden Ratio which was integral to the geometry of antiquity in the construction of sacred buildings including the Giza Pyramids and the Greek Parthenon.

The spiral is the age-old intuitive symbol of spiritual development and our identity with the universe, being found in cultures the world over and reflected in shamanism, serpent cults, dragon lore, geomancy, magic, mysticism and ritual art and dance throughout history; indeed. in Hindu myth, Shiva holds a nautilus shell as a symbol of an instrument of creation.

The nautilus shell closely resembles the type of spiral which is called ‘equiangular’ because of a special property: if a straight line is drawn from the central point, or pole, of the spiral to any point on its curve, it always crosses the curve at exactly the same angle. Another remarkable feature is that this is the only mathematical curve which increases by growth at one end but keeps the form of the entire figure, a characteristic known as self-similarity.

Once, the pole of the spiral was known as the ‘eye of God’. But as an archetypal symbol corresponding to the underlying reality of nature, the spiral has fallen into the realm of Atlantean ‘forgotten knowledge’.

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Ghosts of Atlantis

How the Echoes of Lost Civilizations Influence Our Modern World

By J. DOUGLAS KENYON

An intensive investigation into the evidence for a forgotten fountainhead of
civilization lost at the end of the last ice age


• 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.

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Available April 2021
Bear & Company
ISBN 978-1-59143-391-0
$25.00 (CAN $31.50) Paper
Also available as an ebook
456 pages, 6 x 9
Includes 8-page color insert and
272 black-and-white illustrations

For almost a quarter-century, J. Douglas Kenyon was the editor and publisher of
Atlantis Rising magazine. He is the author and editor of several books, including
Forbidden History and Forbidden Science, and the writer, producer, and narrator of several
documentary films, including Technologies of the Gods, Clash of the Geniuses, and
The Atlantis Connection. He lives in Georgia.