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The Mother of all Theocratic States: Lemuria
The Secret Doctrine,
the foundational narrative for modern occultism, claimed to be a commentary on
the "Archaic Records" contained in the Stanzas of Dzyan.
As occult place making gathers momentum over the course of the century, other
such fantasies of Lemuria's landscape follow. Although they lack the intimacy
of the ancestral homeland of the Tamil devotee in Sri Lanka.
September 2004, Cult Archeology: Civilization One Book (excerpt)
Megalithic pint,
anyone? Although it is true that peoples had contacts through trade, and
therefore the sharing of ideas, however megalithic structures on Malta most
likely are not connected to the British Isles and vice versa. Instead
Christopher Knight and Alan Butler create a new myth: ”Like the British Isles
and Brittany, Malta and Israel have Megalithic structures scattered across them
and the Old Testament gives detailed evidence of how the Canaanite rituals were
adopted for king-making. The memory of these prehistoric secrets was
transmitted by the remnants of the Order of the Knights Templar who took their
rituals to Scotland at the beginning of the 14th century.”
Case Study 1: Cult Archeology
Neo-Paganism
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Like
other ideas under discussion on this web site also Neo Paganism’s doctrinal
and ritual elements are taken from the most diverse sources. From Mircea Eliade to Carlos Castaneda One of
the first signs of our fascination with all things 'shamanic' in the second
half of the twentieth century, is Mircea Eliades 1964 Shamanism: Archaic
Techniques of Ecstasy. The Truth About Carlos Castaneda "Increasing
speculation, based on mounting evidence, leads me to the conclusion that the
five women who left Los Angeles shortly after Carlos' death have committed
suicide. Daniel
Pinchbeck is not the first who might be responsible for a popularization of
mind altering substances, in fact and earlier "Noble Savage"
popularization of native drugs took place during the second half of the 20th
century by Carlos Castaneda. Reader Comment: The Myth of the Noble Savage J: When
I was running a spiritual type bookstore in a good sized city, Marol Morgan's
book Mutant Message Down under was still a self-published book that was doing
quite well. Although
for example many South American shamans incorporate elements of Catholicism,
astrology, mesmerism, Kardecism, etc. to enhance
their power and authority. |
From N. Pennick to Celtic/Northern Literature Nigel
Pennick's work and other similar writers today, give the impression of
presenting a singular 'truth' about the past, but maybe the more obvious aim
of such writers is more concerned with the present than the past, and how the
past can be used to empower current ideas. The Temple of a Nation, Stonehenge Stonehenge
has been a site of political contest. On 25 March 1997, Kevin Carlyon
'illegally' entered the stones of Stonehenge to raise a Union Jack; he stated
this was in reaction to the suggestion by archaeologists that Stonehenge was
built by migrating people from what is now France 4,500 years ago. Reburial'
has been a central issue for archaeologists and anthropologists in the USA,
Australia and elsewhere where the lobbying of indigenous communities for the
repatriation and/or reburial of human remains and artefacts held by museums
(and other institutions) has met increasing successes. Neo-Shamanists and Pagans Today First,
the FSS portrays its core-shamanism as 'shamanism' to indigenous people, when
it is, as argued, a Western construction - indeed its appeal to 'core'
features is reminiscent of Buhner's universalist approach. |
Case Study : Cult Archeology, Atlantis
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Numerous
attempts have been made to rationalise Plato's myth
and find a kernal of historical truth in it. Noble
attempts to find this reality have been made by amongst others, J.V. Luce
(1969) and Peter James (1996). All have failed. Atlantis
started with Plato and in his hands it was never a supercivilization of the
sort conjectured by later authors; perhaps in strictly Greek terms it was no
civilization at all but rather a fatally luxurious elaboration of an
essentially barbarian way of life, for all its inception by a god. Earlier
the Theosophical, and next the Nazi ideology, horribly romantic, has been the
most extreme and pernicious expression of the myth of the divinely sanctioned
elite to date, and a far cry you might think from ideas of some secret
brotherhood of wise old priests struggling to carry the torch of learning and
spirituality down all the dark ages of prehistory and history. The Atlantologists frequently present themselves as hurt and affronted
by the rejection - or worse still the indifference - of the professionals.
(Their hurt on occasions can take an oddly childish turn, like a schoolboy
sulking over a low mark.) They put the professionals' attitude down to,
at best, an unadventurous conformism that blinds them to the insights of the
"alternative" camp. |
Cuba's Gateway To Atlantis P.1 The
search for Atlantis will never end. And not all its searchers will wind up in
outer space. Cuba's Gateway To Atlantis P.2: Cocaine For
Collins the considerable distance between the Sargasso and the Bahamas is
accommodated by the suggestion that "in singling out the Sargasso
Sea" (which is a huge assumption on Collins' part since there is nothing
at all to suggest Plato was talking about the Sargasso) Plato was just trying
to indicate the general location of his sunken island. Gateway to Atlantis P.3: Seven Cities, El Dorado There
follows in Collins Gateway to Atlantis, a detour into pre-Columbus legends of
Antilia and the Seven Cities, El Dorado and the
like. Gateway to Atlantis P.4: Urheimat der Arier In
Collins’ Gateway to Atlantis an unusual landscape feature of the region,
called the Carolina Bays in the Bahamas, is brought on as possible evidence
of some antique commentary impact, rather like the Tunguska event of Siberia.
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. |
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