Last week, a British man announced he’d found the lost city of Atlantis using Google Ocean — the latest add-on to Google Earth that features 3D bathymetry, which lets you explore the ocean floor. The supposed ‘Atlantis’ image is about 620 miles off the northwestern coast of Africa and south of Portugal. It shows a rectangular grid with what looks like roadways leading away from it at the coordinates 31 15’15.53N 24 15’30.53W. According to The Telegraph, the newspaper that first reported the ‘discovery,’ the pattern is roughly the size of Wales (around 8,000 sq. mi.). Friday’s find sparked intense interest online despite the farfetched claim. Many scratched their heads wondering, what if? After all, this underwater discovery seemed to match the location Plato had described in his writings. Plato said Atlantis was a massive island that was ‘larger than Libya and Asia together,’ and located at a ‘distant point in the Atlantic Ocean…in front of the mouth of the pillars of Hercules’ (the Straits of Gibraltar). Google Quashes Atlantis Buzz Alas, the Atlantis discovery was not meant to be. Google quashed the idea a day later in a statement, ‘what users are seeing is an artifact […]
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Google Sinks Atlantis Discovery Buzz
Author: IAN PAUL
Source: PC World
Publication Date: 2/23/2009 9:44
Link: Google Sinks Atlantis Discovery Buzz
Source: PC World
Publication Date: 2/23/2009 9:44
Link: Google Sinks Atlantis Discovery Buzz
Stephan: Thirty five years of experience studying nonlocal consciousness has convinced me that Atlantis is, and always has been, at its essence, a precognitive myth albeit, in Plato's original formulation in Timaeus and Critias, possibly linked to the, then, historical catastrophe of Santorini.
There are surely major cultures as yet unknown, and there have been many cities destroyed by natural catastrophe. But the actuality of Atlantis as an anomalously advanced culture is impossible. We now have, from the mitochondrial DNA research, a pretty good sense of the human diaspora. For less than US$200 a person can send in a mouth swab, and learn from which Adam or Eve one descends. And, having lived through our own history we have a pretty good sense of how high cultures develop, and how long it takes.
But...
As an actual event, I think Atlantis is real, that we are Atlantis, and that Climate Change is the destructive event. In each generation many like Plato, or spiritual leaders, anyone in fact, capable of opening to the non space-time aspect of self, have articulated the catastrophe of a high civilization. It is a common myth and, I think, it is all about the same event. The one we are about to face.
In nonlocal consciousness there is no space or time. So those coordinates are not useful. What does matter is numinosity. Events which are the focus, at any time, of the emotionally charged and focused awareness of millions of people stand out -- they become numinous. There will be nothing in human history as numinous as climate change.