Theosophy and its various offshoots are the original source. The thing that first drew my attention to the whole business, in fact, was the simple point that Blavatsky's comments about Lemuria were accurate, if mythologized, as a description of Sundaland, the drowned subcontinent where the island chains off Southeast Asia are now -- and she manhandled the scientific concept of Lemuria to move it to where, generations after her time, geologists discovered that Sundaland had been. Factor in the point that Plato was right about date of the drowning of "Atlantis" -- sea levels shot up worldwide at the end of the Younger Dryas cold period, right when he put the submergence of Atlantis -- and it became clear to me that somebody had some accurate information.
Unfortunately it all got jumbled up by the attempt to use clairvoyance to perceive the hidden past, the great collective project of the Theosophical era, and so you get absurdities like Scott-Eliott's The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria, with eight-foot-tall egg-laying Lemurian hermaphrodites taking pet plesiosaurs for walkies, and the rest of it. In all that, the scraps of information that Blavatsky seems to have gathered in central Asia got very thoroughly obscured.
One of my current research projects is gathering data on out-of-place technologies that will help put those scraps of information in context. Did you know, for example, that there are plenty of references to aircraft in old Chinese records, and more in other parts of Asia? To judge by the descriptions, they were monoplanes capable of carrying a very few people, made of wood and fabric, and powered by engines that apparently used metallic mercury in some way. They were thought to exist somewhere in central Asia, well west of China. It's quite plausible; take a good look at this image of the Persian god Ahura Mazda -- -- and tell me it doesn't look like somebody in a single-seat airplane, drawn by an artist who has no idea what he's looking at.
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Re: Occult & astrological history, part II
Date: 2024-06-03 10:25 pm (UTC)Unfortunately it all got jumbled up by the attempt to use clairvoyance to perceive the hidden past, the great collective project of the Theosophical era, and so you get absurdities like Scott-Eliott's The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria, with eight-foot-tall egg-laying Lemurian hermaphrodites taking pet plesiosaurs for walkies, and the rest of it. In all that, the scraps of information that Blavatsky seems to have gathered in central Asia got very thoroughly obscured.
One of my current research projects is gathering data on out-of-place technologies that will help put those scraps of information in context. Did you know, for example, that there are plenty of references to aircraft in old Chinese records, and more in other parts of Asia? To judge by the descriptions, they were monoplanes capable of carrying a very few people, made of wood and fabric, and powered by engines that apparently used metallic mercury in some way. They were thought to exist somewhere in central Asia, well west of China. It's quite plausible; take a good look at this image of the Persian god Ahura Mazda --
-- and tell me it doesn't look like somebody in a single-seat airplane, drawn by an artist who has no idea what he's looking at.