Theos-Talk Archives (October 2002 Message tt00129)

An October 2002 poll among cult archeologists revealed the majority 
today, believe that if Atlantis is not a fictional account by Plato (as 
historians and archeologists worldwide claim) it should in the Bahama 
Banks area. 

Second in line are those who believe, Atlantis is Antarctica. But the 
popular assumption during the Renaissance that Atlantis is the current 
USA (see Nuovo Atlantis by Francis Bacon, John Dee, and others) has 
come down considerable. 

So also recent believes that Atlantis is identical with Africa, various 
islands of the coast of Africa, Peru, Indonesia, that it is England one of 
the islands of the English coast, or is somewhere to be found among the 
rocks on the bottom of the North See. 

New candidates turn up almost every day and seem as unlimited as 
human imagination, fueled by a psychological search for the noble 
savage/golden age. 

Three years ago a popular place for Atlantis was the coast of Japan. 
This started to change after "Der Spiegel" 23.08.1999 in "Japanische 
Unterwasser-Pyramide begeistert die Esoteriker" revealed the results of 
extensive Geological research including a computer diagram of the 
whole layered rock that left no doubt that it is a natural formation. 

So attention returned back to the Bahama Banks area. A search financed 
by Fidel Castro two years ago (1) spotted, what most specialists say is a 
natural rock formation that happens to be triangular shaped. 

However what probably gave the Bahamas its modern Atlantis aura is 
former psychic Edgar Cayce. Most Cayce biographers will deny Cayce 
read any of the popular books at the time like Phylos the Tibetan: 
Dweller on Two Planets by Frederik S. Oliver published 1886. Ore 
Blavatsky's 1888 The Secret Doctrine (allegedly also inspired by Masters 
in Tibet), however most agree that Cayce did work in a bookstore. 

According to Cayce, Atlanteans had gas balloons, airplanes, submarines, 
elevators, X-ray devices, "photographing at a distance machines" and 
yes, television. But what became a modern myth, is Cayce's claim 
Atlantis would "rise again - expect it in 1968-`69" (Reading 958-3,1940). 

Looking for this, two members of Edgar Cayce's organization the 
Association of Research and Enlightenment, spotted from an airplane a 
rectangular structure near Andros in the Bahamas. This was 1967, and 
in 1968 based on this sighting, zoologist Dr. Manson Valentine, who had 
been exploring the Bahamas for many years in search of lost civilizations 
examined the Andros and found a building, some 100 by 75 feet, 
overgrown with seaweed. 

In an interview published in 1984, Valentine made it clear that he saw 
the finds as confirmation of Cayce's prediction of Atlantis "rising." The 
claim has been repeated in literally dozens of books and magazine 
articles. Meanwhile diving for further traces of Atlantis has continued 
apace since the first discoveries and there has been an almost 
continuous stream of incredible claims. 

At the same time, many other psychics have picked up where Cayce left 
off and elaborated his case. After Valentine, the leading proponent of 
the Bimini-Atlantis link became Dr. David Zink, an English literature 
professor and accomplished diver whose expeditions regularly included 
psychics to perform readings on the spot. 

His main clairvoyant, Carol Huffstickler, revealed that the Bimini Road 
was actually part of a labyrinth, built by advanced beings from the 
Pleiades star cluster -on a kind of galactic missionary service. They 
constructed the labyrinth at the Bahamas as a sacred site that could 
utilize the Earth's magnetic field, "to raise consciousness and heal," as 
reported in a book The Stones of Atlantis (1978). 

The Bimini Road became the subject of a protracted controversy soon 
after its discovery . In 1971, a professional geologist pronounced it to be 
naturally formed limestone "beachrock." fractured and eroded to give 
the appearance of large, rounded budding blocks. Undismayed, Atlantis 
enthusiasts insisted that the joints between the stones were far too 
straight to be the result of natural cracking, and that no beach rock 
formations are known that are as regular or as elegant as the J shape of 
the "Bimini Road." 

The dispute promised to run for perpetuity until, in 1980, Eugene Shinn 
of the U.S. Geological Survey published a summary of conclusive 
evidence he had collected from the stones. If the "Road" had been man-
made we would not expect the grains and microstructure within the 
stones to be consistent from one "block" to another. Yet they proved to 
be so, in every conceivable test that Shinn applied, showing that they 
must have been laid by natural means. Further, radiocarbon tests on 
shells included in the stones gave dates that show the "Road" was 
formed between only about two to three thousand years ago-hardly the 
10,000 years required by Cayce (or the 28,000 by Huffstickler). 

The "Bimini Road" was clearly formed in the shallows of an old coastline 
only a couple of thousand year, ago. As for the underwater "temple" 
near Andro, that started the whole thing, Atlantologist David Zink 
correctly identified it as a sponge storage area built in the 1930s. 

Were it not for Cayce's predictions, it is doubtful that anyone would have 
associated the Bahama Banks findings with Atlantis in the first place. 
The shallow waters, of the world's coastlines abound with curiosities, 
from geological features to sunken forests and towns. Perhaps the real 
surprise is that despite all the intensive diving that has been done in the 
Bahama Banks area over the last thirty years, no evidence at all seems 
to have turned up of pre-Columbian activity. 

To often every anomalous rock becomes a "lost civilization," and every 
square stone becomes the Gateway to Atlantis. 

Like with the Bimini wall, the Cuban underwater formation will very likely 
be investigated. Investigating claims is different from "incorporating" 
claims into the historical record as cult archeologists seem to be to 
eager to do in what seems sometimes hastily produced books. 

Another example that might be looked at in a somewhat different 
context is the recent claim that Hindus built what would be the longest 
bridge in the known world, one million seven hundred and fifty million 
years ago. (2) 


(1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1697038.stm 

(2) The Hindustan Times 10-10-2 claiming NASA photos as evidence 


Brian

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