Robert Burns
At the time the earth first began to settle and form it's atmosphere, there was but one sea and one land. That land mass is referred to by science as Pangea. As the earth continued to cool, with volcanic activity going on miles beneath the surface, Pangea began to break up, dividing and separating into continents. The geological records shows that great tracts of high ground today were once part of the ocean floor. How could any intelligent individual possibly imagine that the exact reverse is not also the case? Illustrative of the even now "unquiet" earth are the examples of the Indian subcontinent having literally rammed into the bottom of Asia, raising the Himalayan Mountains as a result, and the great Rift Valley of east Africa which is slowly pulling apart, giving rise to yet a new land mass in the distant future. Looking at any map of the world, one can easily see exactly how the east coast of North and South America once fit into the west coasts of Europe and Africa. As snugly as a jigsaw puzzle but with one salient exception. The area defined as the Caribbean and the Sargasso Seas, including what has become known as the Bermuda Triangle, comprises what amounts to an anomaly in the geography. Here is a gap. An area which does not "fit." Before his death in 1945, the famous "Sleeping Prophet," Edgar Cayce, predicted that the first bit of Atlantis to be rediscovered would be found in 1968 off the island of Bimini. Right on cue, the "Bimini wall" was discovered in shallow, crystal clear waters off the island's coast in 1968. The professional skeptics dismiss it as a "natural formation" despite the fact that the massive stones of the fallen wall or road are each cut at all right angles. Furthermore, they are of the same huge "Cyclopean" variety common to great structures still standing in both hemispheres. Be that as it may, this was not the actual location of the homeland of Atlantis. Still relying on any good, contemporary map, one can transpose the Caribbean anomaly across the waters to where the two lands would have joined and see what is there today. Again, a really good map will show the great, submerged Atlantis Seamount. Any map at all will show the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores. Here are the peaks of the highest mountains of Atlantis. A little further east , in North Africa, are located the Atlas Mountains. Returning to the Western Hemisphere, there are the ancient Indian legends of a lost homeland called Aztlan or Atlava. We got the name "Atlantic," from the ancient Greek of Plato whose tale places it just outside and beyond the "Pillars of Hercules," what's known today as the Strait of Gibraltar separating Spain from Morocco, and pointing the way directly to the Azores, the Canary Islands, Madeira, etc. The Spanish, as they just embarking on their explorations after 1492, came upon the Canary Islands and found them inhabited by tall, blond, blue-eyed people called Guanches. This in a place just off the coast of North Africa. They conveyed to the Spanish that they were the descendants of shepherds who'd been tending their flocks high in the mountains of a once great land when the whole world seemingly came to a sudden end. Unfortunately that fragile remnant was quickly assimilated by the Spanish with next to no trace remaining today apart from dwelling carved out of solid rock and some burial sites. The Bimini location represents but one small part of a great, far flung empire that Altantis had been the center of. To gauge the approximate antiquity of all this, we can start again with Plato. He gained his information from one ahead of himself, Solon, who'd traveled to Egypt and talked with it's priests - the keepers of the wisdom and the history. Egypt itself, as Solon was told, had existed since before the sun had assumed the position where it now rose in the east and set in the west. The fact, it was but the inheritor of an even greater, far older civilization - now vanished - that had laid to the west. The sudden and inexplicable appearance of "Cro-Magnon Man" in Western Europe thirty thousand years ago coincided with one more of the major disturbances that accounted for the ongoing break-up of Atlantis. The "Flood of Noah" which signalled the end of the last Ice Age probably also saw the final demise of Atlantis as the seat of power and civilization. With the melting of the ice caps, the sea level around the world rose by six hundred feet. That date would have been approximately ten thousand years ago. This in no way matches up with science and history which claim civilization of any kind has only been around five thousand years at most. They claim that Plato's account is the only reference we have anywhere to Atlantis and that it was written as a piece of fiction. But of course the case for Atlantis is everywhere, all about us. Other detractors say that perhaps Atlantis was really Santorini in the Aegean Sea, destroyed by volcanic eruption about 1400 B.C. Still other insist it was Troy, located in western Turkey - itself dismissed as mere legend only a century ago. Yet mothers, that it was located on Antarctica before the ice. Why the reluctance to simply believe what was written by Plato? Dr. Robert Ballard, the man who found the Titanic and the Bismark, now announces that the technology currently exists to allow for 98% of the oceans to be explored. Any government anywhere in control, with any pretenses to humanitarian or scientific advancement, would immediately leap onto this opportunity with the watchword - "find Atlantis." The Pacific Ocean is a far different realm than the Atlantic. The former, blue. The latter, green. The great expanses of the Atlantic have very few islands dotting them while the Pacific is noted for it's countless chains. Particularly what are known as Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia in the South Pacific. Collectively, these too made the highest peaks of a land mass of far greater extent than Atlantis. This was Lumuria - or "Mu." We have no idea what it's inhabitant may have called it, the name "Lumeria" having been given it in most recent times by scientists who pondered the presence of ring-tailed lemurs on such divergent and utterly isolated spots. Their conclusion being that these places must at one time have been joined. Strange that the same science does an astounding about-face regarding the native populations of these scattered islands. Dark brown, very primitive and until very lately cannibalistic. It is assumed they each got to where they are by boat. But from where? The insistence to ignore the overwhelming evidence that mankind and civilization are far older than previously supposed gives rise to an equally erroneous and even dangerous misconception: That civilization is the only one that it has represented an unbroken and uphill climb from the basic beginning - a scant five thousand years ago. Egypt appearing in our history at it's apex and well into it's decline. This doesn't add up. "Cro-Magnon" types essentially identical to ourselves billed as "cavemen." refugee would be a more accurate term. The "Cro-Magnon" coming to displace in Europe one more dark and cannibalistic race of human types - the Neanderthals. While, on the far opposite side of the globe, in the area formerly occupied by Lumeria, no such displacement occurred. The inhabitants remain almost exactly as what they were back before time began. Not only an explosion of nature is pin-pointed by this, but the epicenter of all civilization can be determined by tracing back the enduring ripples. Back to Atlantis. -END-
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