As you leaf through the pages of our premier issue, I believe you'll sense what we have in mind, but lest there be any doubt, allow me to spell things out.

Most new age magazines focus strongly on holistic health and life-style matters, and well they should. If the new age is not about developing a higher understanding of the human body and its relationship to the world, then what is it anyway? So we agree with the preeminent importance of holistic health issues and we intend to give them plenty of quality space in this publication.

Having said that, though, it seemed to us that a couple areas very much neglected by most magazines with similar demographic intent were ancient mysteries and future science. We were at a loss to explain why. Here were two subjects which, by virtue of their broad appeal, have a greater potential to attract a large following to the new age banner than yoga or vegetarianism ever could.

Sadly, it appeared that both ancient mysteries and future science have, in fact, been co-opted by those notorious crowd chasers, the tabloid press. In the meantime, those with serious aspirations to raise the planetary consciousness seemed to find such matters somehow beneath them, choosing instead to concentrate on more rarefied concerns. The curious public is left to choose between interesting material presented without credibility or boring material presented in an apparently credible way. An unhappy state of affairs, indeed.

The public's growing fascination with the hidden secrets of our ancient origins and the extraordinary possibilities of our future is an open door to the kind of universal consciousness-raising that all of us hope to see in a dawning new age. Besides, we at Atlantis Rising share that fascination, and we can think of nothing we would rather do than cater to it. We do believe, however, that it is entirely possible to cover such areas with dignity and credibility, while avoiding the sin of becoming bland or boring.

Now you can now decide for yourself if we have succeeded. Be sure to write and let us know what you think. In the meantime, we'll keep raising our sights.

J. Douglas Kenyon
Publisher