READERS RENDER VERDICT

It didn't take long for readers of the premier issue of Atlantis Rising to make themselves heard, but we're not complaining. Here's a sampling:

A great idea for a magazine! We read it cover to cover...

Julia Jones, screenwriter

Winthrop, MA

Thank you for a great publication!

Richard Lampese

W. Babylon, NY

Internet Alert!

I've already mentioned your magazine on America Online and the Internet and have run into a couple other people who have received your promotional issue. Oddly enough, I (or rather my roommate) received your magazine's premiere issue the day after I began a folder in the New Age section on America Online entitled The Millennium Matters..., intending it to be a place to discuss all things millennial. Several of us are going to be subscribing to millennial newsletters, especially predictive ones, in order to track accuracy. We're also dealing with topics like Weird Weather, Historic Prophecies, Present-day Prophecy, Book Lists, and Newsletter Lists.... There is a LOT of millennium-related stuff on the Net'...

...the article choice for the premiere issue was just terrific!

Judith Paulson

New York, NY

Somehow my name got on the mailing list for your first issue. If it is a gift subscription, I would like to thank the person who sent it....An outlet for material such as your first issue is very much needed...

Don Pelton

Colfax, CA

No Boundaries!

This is the best magazine I have ever read. Every single article talks about different dimensions of our times in an objective manner. Also your magazine focuses more on the quality of the articles, not the quantity... This past year I subscribed to Archeology. I was very disappointed in their articles...they lacked depth. By contrast, ATLANTIS RISING has no boundaries to which it has to conform. It is when you start building walls upon (the) foundation of your knowledge, many potential discoveries are lost.

Tracy M. Markham

Mililani, HI

P.S. I told most of my friends about it on the Internet.

...I've enjoyed it tremendously.

Jacalyn Lantrip

Columbia, TN

Not Tabloid!

I really enjoyed the entire magazine! (So did my husband.) He is interested in ancient Civilizations and I am interested in anything we can learn from the past that will help us all grow spiritually.

I pray that your magazine grows big time...

Your magazine is definitely not tabloid or sensationalyzing. It's informative, causing all of us to question and search for truth, which is needed badly in these times.

Jo Wisor

Cortland, OH

On the Mark

Your magazine is very intelligent and on the mark as to realistic esoteric info and wholistic ideas. The articles are very good...I'm obviously impressed all-in-all, or I would not be subscribing or writing. Good Luck!

John J. Hvozda

West Palm Beach, FL

Most interesting and stimulating. I read it cover to cover...

Kent Broadhurst

New York, NY

It's a publication whose time has come...

Greg Steuck

Golden, CO

Likes Our Concept of History

I am pleased with your concept of history and new science. The idea of Quantum Physicist Dr. Fred Wolf that we are a dreaming universe could well be explored.

I am very pleased you will not concentrate on holistic health and various methods of living without pain. Our American society is inundated with the wish for immortality. On one hand they love hearing about angels and OOBE's yet at the same time want to live forever, certainly pointing to a lack of faith. Why such a desperate search in our culture for anything which will prevent death? It is a curious phenomenon. What has made us so fearful?

Adele McCormick, Ph.D.

Calistoga, CA

Soul Food

I enjoyed your first issue very much, agreeing with both your premise and purpose for existing. I stopped subscribing to other new age publications because I was bored with the same old wholistic health/lifestyle information that we should all be quite clear on by now. My physical self is doing just fine but my mind and soul seek expansion and expression. Membership in the Institute of Noetic Sciences has provided some benefit, but the tone and some of the materials tend to be a little stuffy at times. Your format and intelligent approach to a wide range of topics is exciting and I am thrilled to be aware that despite all of our knowledge many mysteries still exist.

Lynn V. Northrop

Rocklin, CA

I am impressed! Thank you.

R.B.

Altoona, PA

Friend of J. A. West

We do not know how we happened to receive the very first issue of ATLANTIS RISING, but we were very pleasantly surprised with the type and quality of the articles it contained. the book review by Dr. Joseph Ray, The Legacy De Lubicz, gave us a deeper insight into the books he reviewed, which we have in our home. It was a very scholarly review, well written and extremely interesting.

My wife and I have been studying metaphysical philosophy and related field for 46 years. I am a native Egyptian, Coptic Christian, and my wife is from Atlanta, Georgia. It was because of my metaphysical studies that I changed from my original specialty of surgery to that of psychiatry (including hypnotherapy) when I came to the United States permanently in 1960; I had become very interested in the working of the mind. I am acquainted with John Anthony West. He visited my sister in Cairo some years ago and sent me pictures he took of her in her home...

My wife and I wish you every success in the new magazine! We will be telling others about it.

Albert Hugh T. Doss, M.D.

Raleigh, NC

Great first issue!

Many thanks and much success in continuing the quality of the first Atlantis Rising issue in years to come.

Andris Priede

Murphy, NC

Your first issue was great! Keep it up!

Henry Kreiner

Raton, NM

This is the kind of magazine we've been looking for. Loved it! Am looking forward to coming issues.

Helen Talbot

Westminster, CO

I just finished Redfield's latest book the day before your magazine arrived. Coincidence?

Norman Knaack

Edmonds, WA 98026

Up the Cosmic Alley

Wow!

What a magazine! Don't know how you heard about me but ATLANTIS RISING is right up my cosmic alley! I'm a big Egypt nut (I was there in many incarnations) and am a fan of John Anthony West. I'm eagerly awaiting the opening of the chamber (have known about it for years, eons actually)...

Keep it up folks. I love it and I'll show your rag around!

Charmaine Marie Ferreira

Salinas, CA

Finally a magazine that feeds my curiosity as well as stimulates my intellect without all the scientific lingo that only a physicist can understand.

Sherri Johnston

Tecumseh, MI

Atlantis Rising is Great!

Dr. Kathy Hornbaker

Upland, CA

It is a fabulous publication.

Janis B. Hern

Rancho Cucamonga, Ca

I prayed for a RISING for 20 years. There is none happier than I to see a sober elite emerging in force from among the academic sleeping bags zipped up to the chin. It's about time.

Inge Marambio

Spring Valley, CA

Not the N.E.A.

I received your book, Atlantis Rising, today. To be very honest, I thought it was my N.E.A. magazine and started to throw it away. Then I noticed the spirit and some of the stories and thought, well at least they finally wrote about something interesting, still thinking it was an N.E.A. magazine.

To make a long story short, I really got into reading it and loved every bit of it...We have needed this kind of magazine for many years.

Barbara L. Williams

Roswell, NM

I don't know how I received the first issue, or whom to thank, but I must say I was thrilled with it. It was utterly fascinating, I couldn't put it down until I had read it from cover to cover.

You have certainly exceeded your goals of providing a publication with dignity and credibility, while avoiding the sin of becoming bland and boring. On the contrary, it is intelligent and exciting.

Ray Snow

Whitefish, MT

I like what I've seen. Keep up the good work.

A. H. Oberholtzer

Santa Monica, CA

Powerful Medium

I really enjoyed the John Anthony West article, also the Celestine Prophecy article. I'm glad you mentioned the Cydonia site or space archeology meeting with Richard Hoagland and company, however I would like to know much more about that. How about some photographs and a Hoagland interview. No doubt you'll try to get to it. I'm letting you know where my main interests are.

All of your articles were valid. Keep them rational and informative as they are in your magazine already and I will continue to appreciate it....

Something I'd like to add is that when I read your magazine, I had the realization and sense of what a powerful medium and focal point for change such a thing could be, especially the way you present it. Keep up the spirit of positive change.

Darren Hasting

Springfield, OR

Bringers of the Dawn

Congratulations on the launch of your magazine. Looks like a joyous meeting place a powwow in print for the tribe of souls who showed up to help at this, um, interesting turnover of millenia. Your title ATLANTIS RISING has a triumphant ring to it that I believe will resonate with all Bringers of the Dawn.

The mix of topics gave me reasons to recommend it to a variety of folks. In talking to new energy researchers, I cite the article on Searle as a welcome change its tone is neither credulous nor sneering. Too many other fellowjournalists think that they have to always affect the Amused Skeptic approach and take it to extremes, subjecting the inventor to ridicule if the academic authorities say that the invention is impossible. But finally we can read your David Lewis, who writes with a light touch yet in a credible, professional manner and leaves the door open to possibilities...

And I want to read the comix. The Atlantis Dimension hooked me in one installment!

JeaneManning

Writer/Researcher

Vancouver, B.C.

Psychological Contagion

Congratulation on your inaugural edition of ATLANTIS RISING! As far as I am concerned, it accomplished everything that you hoped that it would as outlined in your A Word from the Publisher....

I have a very strong feeling, as I think you, West, Redfield and Childress have each expressed in your own way, that the discovery and dissemination to the world of this kind of information may be the key to forestalling the apparent potential destruction of our current civilization either by physical catastrophe or further social erosion. I believe this because I also believe that, if people can come to know what has happened before to build and destroy great civilizations and can learn to recognize their causes and effects, we might be able to significantly enhance the spread of what Redfield called the positive psychological contagion that is desperately needed now and which is beginning to come about with astounding speed.

Thomas M. Henkel

Orlando, FL