Magic Monday
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The image? I field a lot of questions about my books these days, so I've decided to do little capsule summaries of them here, one per week. The book above on the left was my twenty-ninth published book, and remains far and away the most successful of my books from the peak oil era. Its genesis, like most of my other peak oil books, began on the blog I ran in those days, The Archdruid Report, with a series of posts on the appropriate technology movement -- one of the most promising of the movements of the 1970s ecological scene, which attempted to craft advanced technologies that could work within the limits of sustainability. Though it was erased from collective memory by mass media and corporate interests, it produced quite a few useful technologies, and this book was my attempt to bring those back to the attention of those who might use them. Given the steady sales of this book, I still have hope. If you're interested, you can get a copy here.
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Re: Occult & astrological history, part II
Date: 2024-06-03 11:22 pm (UTC)My hypothesis is that Atlantean technology peaked somewhere around where ours reached around 1900, and was much less widely distributed -- occult traditions have it that the high technology they had was monopolized by temple priesthoods, and the vast majority of people had no access to it. That would make sense of the sparse nature of the relict technologies, and also of the lack of large-scale earth traces (our giant dams, for example, have no equivalent in the late ice age -- but we couldn't have built them without diesel fuel). It probably included things we don't know about and missed some things we got, but that's the nature of the beast.
2), No, though if those hominids were more widespread in ancient times it might make sense of some branches of folklore. If legends are anything to go by, the people of Lemuria were early Homo sapiens, and very dark-skinned -- their descendants are to be found in Australia, some of the tribal peoples of India, and Africa.
Re: Occult & astrological history, part II
Date: 2024-06-04 02:24 am (UTC)Keep in mind that there's alot we don't know even about the Bronze Age. Our knowledge of the Minoans, for example, is limited to ruins, artifacts, written references, myths, and fragments. We can't read Linear A (although Linear B encodes archaic Greek), just bits & pieces, a few words and concepts here & there. Point is, the Minoans were a major civilization lasting a couple millennia within our own cycle, and our understanding of it is dim -- which only goes to show how much more obscured the pre-Bronze age civilizations are, shrouded by the mists of time.
Also, if Atlantean technology reached 1900, does that make them steampunk? lol
Re: Occult & astrological history, part II
Date: 2024-06-04 02:37 am (UTC)Re: Occult & astrological history, part II
Date: 2024-06-04 02:54 am (UTC)I have also seen persuasive arguments that the ancient Chinese aluminum artifacts are likely the result of some brilliant Chinese alchemists who figured out the high-temperature process downstream of the unique properties of the technologies of Chinese ceramics.
Re: Occult & astrological history, part II
Date: 2024-06-04 03:02 am (UTC)