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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.”
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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. |
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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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