Issue Number 9

Fall 1996

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Table Of Contents

 

Articles

ARCHEOCRYPTOGRAPHY According to Carl Munck By Laura Lee

There are tens of thousands of pyramids and earthen mounds scattered all over the world. They remain a mystery. Archaeocryptographer Carl Munck (a retired USAF colonel who has earned a considerable reputation in the ancient mysteries underground) says we lack suitable answers to these enigmatic monuments because we have been asking the wrong questions.

CAVE MYSTERIES OF THE STONE AGE By Joseph Jochmans

The distant period from 23,000 to 12,000 years ago, during what is today called the Paleolithic Era, saw the development of modern humanity's immediate ancestors, the Cro-Magnons, into a sophisticated prehistoric culture. This was also the Age of the Cavern Temple, epitomized in the magnificent wall paintings represented by the cave art found at such famous sites as Altimira and Lascaux in western Europe. It is believed by many modern prehistorians that these Stone Age cave paintings were more than for art's sake, that they had a very deep meaning and a purpose behind their production. One researcher who has perhaps done more than anyone else to prove this point is French art expert Andre Leroi-Gourhan.

Energy Set Free By Jeane Manning

Atlantis Rising's readers and writers are discovering the new science scene. A reader from Seattle reports on leading-edge biology, for example. And the emerging energy (electricity-used-in-machines-and-heating) technology is bringing forth new/ancient understandings of how the universe works.

From ATLANTIS to the SPHINX By J. Douglas Kenyon

For the first time since his massive volume The Occult (1971) Colin Wilson has another bestseller, at least in England. And, with any luck, come spring, that achievement will be repeated here when the fledgling New York publishing house Fromm International unveils the U.S. edition of Wilson's From Atlantis to the Sphinx (though not necessarily with that title).

MICROBES or MORE? By David Lewis

While Hollywood released films this summer about alien invasions, NASA held a real-life press conference dealing with life on Mars. Featuring such high priests of science as Professor Richard Zare, Chairman of the National Science Foundation, and Wes Huntress, NASA's chief scientist, a panel armed with a Martian rock the size of a small potato promoted the idea that microbial life may have existed on Mars 3.6 billion years ago. And while public reaction barely rose above a murmur, the ebullient NASA administrator, Daniel Goldin, characterized the theory as amazing. The upcoming press conference, we were told, would be exciting and controversial. It was, of course, neither to the man on the street inundated with space operas and cable TV documentaries about flying saucers, complete with evidence that would hold up in a court of law. Considering the ongoing media swamp, the ceaseless stories about alien abductions, the Roswell cover up, and so on, in the eyes of the general public NASA's announcement amounted to small potatoes indeed.

Moving Beyond Prophecies & Predictions By Cynthia Gage

In surfing circles, says author Moira Timms, there's a term that relates to the towering megawaves unique to certain beaches in Hawaii and Australia. The Impact Zone represents the instant in time and space when the wave crests at its climax. It's the space between synapses, the freeze-frame between neurons firing when body wisdom, impeccable reflexes, and raw instinct take over. Timms says we're all surfers, fully engaged in an accelerated flood of change, riding the big wave together, heading for the zone'. We are challenged by a rite of passage into the twenty-first century as our world approaches an inevitable cyclical event within the natural evolutionary scheme.

Of GODDESSES and RUNES By P.M.H. Atwater

Once upon a time, actually about twenty thousand to twenty-three thousand years ago, our forebears, the Cro-Magnon people, were an intelligent lot, sleek of body and immensely creative. Having invented the needle, they wore tailored clothes complete with decorated tunics and leggings, parkas, collared shirts with cuffed sleeves, and boots and moccasins. They built most of their dwellings facing south to take advantage of solar heat, fashioned ingenious cobblestone floors that were sturdy and dry, preserved food year-round in cold caves, ate diets so healthy we moderns would be wise to emulate them, crafted clever tools (such as a sewing needle complete with hole for thread), separated living spaces for greater efficiency, and eventually took to the water in boats for better fishing.

POLE SHIFT REVISITED By Len Kasten

With a rumble so low as to be inaudible, growing, throbbing, then fuming into a thundering roar, the earthquake starts...only it's not like any earthquake in recorded history. In California, the mountains shake like ferns in a breeze, the mighty Pacific rears back and piles up into a mountain of water more than two miles high, then starts its race eastward...

The Scars of Scientific Misconception By Dr. Joseph Ray

"Misconceptions about science are rampant. This is so, says Dr. Henry H. Bauer, according to tests of scientific literacy, even among science writers and scientists. Indeed, in 1988, when the United States scientific literacy rate was 5.6%, only 12.1% had any understanding of the scientific thinking process. For critics of the scientific establishment, many of whom read and write in Atlantis Rising, scientific illiteracy can be a significant impediment to being taken seriously: it behooves us all, then, to assure our scientific literacy. Bauer's book, Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method, published by the University of Illinois Press, will help educate us and is worthwhile reading for all thinking people who find science in some way deficient.

News Bulletins: Early Rays

Features

• Astrology: Uncovering The Secrets of the Mayan Calendar By Kathie Garcia

Commentaries

• Letters To The Editor

 

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