Monthly JMG Book Special!

[ecosophia]

As mentioned earlier, the folks at Llewellyn have obligingly given me a set of discount codes for my backlist, one per month, 20% off if you order it directly from the Llewellyn website. For the month of September, the book on sale is Atlantis: Ancient Legacy, Hidden Prophecy, my book on the Atlantis myth and the unexpected realities behind it. You can order a copy here; enter the discount code JMG0918 at checkout for the 20% off. 

While you're waiting for it to arrive, if you've got questions about the book, why, I'm the one to ask. ;-)

Comments

[charm_of_making]

(I've previously commented as "Twilight", but I was unable to use the OpenID so I created an account. I may even post a few things eventually!)

I read your book Atlantis a few months ago once I realized you had written one, and recently re-read a few sections. I thought it was excellent and see you were years ahead of me as usual. I think it’s held up exceedingly well in the 11 years since it was published. It was very useful to learn of Blavatski’s legominism, as I now understand that I've been exposed to these ideas for all my life, and they’ll likely always color my thoughts.

Still, regardless of her reasons for pushing that narrative I do believe there was a world-wide “advanced” civilization, and civilizations far older than conventional wisdom, as there seems to be much compelling evidence for it. How advanced I don't know, and one would not expect a duplication of all our technologies, but there are certainly things that cannot be explained.

Of late I've been considering the idea that one reason we seem not to see evidence of these civilizations is partly du to the very long time scales, and also that some civilizational collapses are so extreme that almost nothing gets through beyond a few garbled stories and some objects made of stone.

Which leads me to a recently published paper that caught my eye: post-Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck

This may be evidence for what looks like a dark age from hell. Or it may be a misinterpretation. Apparently geneticists have determined that male (Y chromosome) diversity plummets beginning 10,000 years ago, while female (mitochondrial) does not. This paper presents a hypothesis to explain that, namely a patrilineal, tribal social organization where warfare between competing clans results in the males of the losers being wiped out, while the females are taken and incorporated into the victor’s tribe. The time scales are interesting. I have more thoughts on the study, but this is long enough.

[ecosophia]

I think it's quite probable that there were high civilizations during the last Ice Age, and several lines of evidence -- especially the maps examined by Hapgood in Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings -- are hard to explain in any other way. The thing to keep in mind when looking at prehistory was that at various points while our species was around, the planet has gone through drastic shifts, which probably caused massive dieoffs -- and of course we've added to that via such entertainments as invasions and conquests.