Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Atlantis and Lemuria craze: pseudoscience, pseudohistory and baloney

Stanzas of Dzyan From The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- [1888]
From Helena Blatavskys' "The Secret Doctrine" which was 'channeled'.
Lemuria?
http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/dzyan/dzyan.htm





The Sacred Symbols of Mu by James Churchward [1933]
Mu was a lost continent in the Pacific Ocean, which was destroyed in a global cataclysm tens of thousands of years ago; Mu was the original home of mankind, and all subsequent civilizations descended from it. The Pacific islands and their inhabitants are supposed to be the last survivors of this primordial motherland. It employs circular and tautological reasoning but no real proof. Pseudoscience or pseudohistory of the 1933’s
http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ssm/index.htm


James Churchward (1851- 1936) is best known as a British born occult writer. However, he was also a patented inventor, engineer, and expert fisherman.
According to Churchward, Mu "extended from somewhere north of Hawaii to the south as far as the Fijis and Easter Island." He claimed Mu was the site of the Garden of Eden and the home of 64,000,000 inhabitants - known as the Naacals. Its civilization, which flourished 50,000 years before Churchward's day, was technologically more advanced than his own, and the ancient civilizations of India, Babylon, Persia, Egypt and the Mayas were merely the decayed remnants of its colonies.
Improvements in oceanography, in particular understanding of seafloor spreading and Plate Tectonics, have left little scientific basis for geologically recent lost continents such as Mu.

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