Atlantis Rising Magazine

George Washington and the Hand of God

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:58:05 +0000

George Washington was indispensible to the American Revolution and to the first years of our fledgling republic. Instance after instance has been reported of what was widely recognized as divine intervention to protect him for a purpose. In a letter to his wife Martha, written after the Continental Congress selected him to lead the Continental [...]

The Devil’s Triangle Revisited

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:56:00 +0000

It would seem that everything known about the disappearance of ships and planes in the so-called “Bermuda Triangle” has been repeatedly published or discussed for nearly seventy years. Not so, according to a U.S. Army Master Aviator with twenty years in the military, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, two Bronze Stars, four Purple Hearts, and [...]

Who Killed Tycho Brahe?

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:52:39 +0000

CAPTION: Tycho’s skull in a jar from the 1901 exhumation. (Photo: Jacob C. Ravn, Aarhus University) Peter Bros, the late alternative science historian and regular Atlantis Rising contributor, believed that mainstream science was not to be trusted. Citing such unsung heroes as Immanuel Velikovsky and Halton Arp, Bros argued that modern academic science behaves [...]

Thoth & The Grail

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:50:29 +0000

CAPTION: Just before press time, we learned of the sudden passing of Phil Coppens from cancer. He was a wonderful reporter and we will miss him very much. He was 41. R.I.P., Phil. —Ed. The very name, “alchemy,” it has been said, is derived from the land of Egypt: “Al-Khemit.” Egypt itself was a [...]

Physics and the Unconscious

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:47:08 +0000

A strange phenomenon stalked the ground-breaking, Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who won the Nobel Prize in 1945 for his discovery of the exclusion principle: often, when Pauli appeared, catastrophes, such as mechanical breakdowns, took place in his vicinity—though they always excluded Pauli himself. On the same afternoon that Pauli visited the astronomical observatory at Bergesdorf, [...]

The Marian Apparition Enigma

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:40:54 +0000

On October 13, 1917, in Fatima, Portugal, 70,000 people witnessed a miracle of the sun “dancing.” All who were present reported that they could look directly at the sun without blinking or hurting their eyes. While they were watching the sun, it appeared to come close and move far away, get larger and smaller, change [...]

Tales of the Real Ulysses

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:35:32 +0000

CAPTION: Ulysses and the Cyclops (Arnold Böcklin, 1896) Homer may be regarded as the greatest poet of the ancient world. The stories, however, are not his own. He took the imported tales of a great war that happened long before and far from Greece, took some of the gods and heroes that existed among peoples [...]

The Very Strange Case of Çatalhöyük

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:41:49 +0000

Off the modern beaten path, on the Anatolian plain southeast of the city of Konya (south-central Turkey), are found a couple of large and rather nondescript hills surrounded by fields. For seven millennia these mounds held a secret—buried within them are the material remains of a large and complex community dating back to what conventional [...]

Updating the Dating Picture

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:18:53 +0000

Back in the nineteen-fifties, when, to paraphrase poet Robert Burns, “God was in his heaven and all was right with the world,” mainstream archaeologists, physical anthropologists, and geologists thought they had it all figured out—or, at least, so it seemed. Civilization—agriculture, woven fabrics, fired ceramics, large stone buildings, and writing, they argued, dated back only [...]

Rama’s Bridge

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:58:24 +0000

CAPTION: Adam’s bridge viewed from the air on the Indian side. Historians, archaeologists and researchers into our distant past insist that civilized life began on the Earth about five thousand years ago. They point to an absence of hard evidence supporting the existence of a preexisting culture prior to the rise of the Sumerians and [...]

The Oldest Stone Spear Points? Really?

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:17:01 +0000

In the November 16, 2012, issue of Science, Jayne Wilkins of the University of Toronto and her coworkers announced what they considered to be the oldest example of stone spear points. The spear points, which were found at a site called Kathu Pan 1 in the country of South Africa, are about five hundred thousand [...]

The Many Dimensions of Breakthrough Thinking

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:25:38 +0000

The Global Breakthrough Energy Movement conference in Hilversum, Holland, in November was a breakthrough in itself. The three-day event broadened and deepened communication between advocates of new, clean-energy inventions, on the one hand, and thought-leaders who are passionate about other ways to improve our world. This month’s column will listen in on some of that [...]

Waiting for the Apocalypse

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:45:40 +0000

In Timaeus and Critias, Plato’s account of Atlantis (written in 360 BC), the island nation, was said to have sunk around 9600 BC after millennia of history. In the seventeenth century the Bishop of Ireland, James Ussher, published a biblical chronology declaring that the creation occurred on Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC (Julian calendar). Today [...]

News

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:23:27 +0000

Temple of Atlan, in the Bahamas? CAPTIONS: Diver and site discoverer Krista Brown points to an anomalous opening beneath quarried stones. (All photos by Dr. Lora Little or Krista Brown) A discovery of massive ruins of quarried stone about 30 miles south of Bimini in the Bahamas has been reported by underwater archaeologists [...]

More News

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:21:56 +0000

Is Piltdown Hoax Now Solved? CAPTION: “The Piltdown Gang.” (back, left to right) F. O. Barlow, G. Elliot Smith, “discoverer” Charles Dawson, Arthur Smith Woodward. Front row: A. S. Underwood, Arthur Keith, W. P. Pycraft, and Sir Ray Lankester. Note the painting of Charles Darwin on the wall. (John Cooke, 1915) When first announced [...]

Still More News

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:18:11 +0000

Lunar Vacations Coming Soon CAPTION: Artist’s Conception of the Golden Spike Moon Lander If you have long dreamed of personally traveling to the Moon, don’t despair. Anyone who can afford the price of a ticket soon may be able to do just that. About 1.4 billion dollars should be enough, so start saving. Claiming that [...]

Late-Breaking Stories

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:09:51 +0000

• Philip Coppens (1971–2012) The popular alternative science reporter and frequent Atlantis Rising contributor died suddenly in December 2012 of angiosarcoma, a rare form of cancer. He is survived by his wife, the novelist Kathleen McGowan. http://www.dailygrail.com/Hidden-History/2012/12/Vale-Philip-Coppens-1971-2012 • Roswell Officer Speaks from the Grave A Lieutenant and Press Officer at Roswell Army Air Field [...]

Iconoclasts Take on Darwin

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:04:46 +0000

At Atlantis Rising, we like to focus on facts, whether appreciated by the main stream or not. Conventional thinking, though interested in many things, seldom appears to include facts on the list, at least not unless preconceived notions are supported. This month’s DVDs may not appeal to conventional thinkers, but we think those looking for [...]

Gender Issues on Olympus

deniswo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:02:02 +0000

“The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.” —Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own” Half of the world is female, and in astrology the zodiac signs are six male and six female—or projective and receptive polarities—which alternate polarity as they progress from [...]