life in lemuria
When I lived on Lemuria I understood very clearly how man had evolved from spiritual beings, as in early Lemuria we were in a sense above the earth and not truly a part of it—sort of moving around . . . as etheric beings of light. I remember moving through the great forests as I floated to Earth, where we gradually learned to be human. During that time of the Golden Era at the very beginning, we were in harmony with the land and ourselves. Those memories of then are strong in me.
—heather robb
Just as a robin’s egg can never be reassembled perfectly from the pieces lying on a sidewalk, although the lovely blue color of the fragments offers an indication of the shell’s former quality, so we will never be able to construct a complete picture of the people of the Motherland of Mu, their dreams, and all their accomplishments. However, enough segments of information are available to appreciate and learn about their varied customs and beliefs.
Mu is often referred to as Earth’s cradle of the human race.15 Initially, as in Heather’s memories, spirits without physical bodies traveled to Mu, a concept which will be explored more carefully in chapter 11. When they assumed a solid form, humans thrived in Lemuria and, just as the size of insects increased in the favorable climate, so Lemurians prospered physically. Skeletons of men who were nine feet tall were buried on the Pacific Islands, and similar ones have been unearthed in California and in Arizona.16 On the banks of the Mississippi, in 1885, while quarrying rock for a dam, two feet below the level of the river, workers found the petrified remains of a gigantic human being. The ten-foot, nine-and-a-half-inch long skeleton, with a chest that measures fifty-nine inches around and a massive head that measures thirty-one inches around and was very flat on top, was in a grave that had been dug out of solid granite.17 Vague legends in Central America report that giants built the highest pyramids in the New World. Numerous references in mythology describe these very tall people, who are often called Titans.
Numerous myths and legends describe the people of the Motherland of Mu as intuitive and nurturing, but it is impossible to accurately picture the hair and skin color of those who lived so long ago. In the thousands of years that have passed since their homeland sank, the descendants of the Lemurians who survived its destruction have mingled with persons on other islands. In addition, these beautiful Pacific Islands have always attracted travelers who stayed, intermarried with the inhabitants, and produced offspring with varied physical characteristics.
Like Col. Churchward, W. S. Cerve also derived knowledge from ancient manuscripts, although he gained access to his information in a very different way. (The biography of W. S. Cerve in appendix II lends credibility to the information that follows about the Motherland of Mu.) Cerve describes an unusual physical feature of many of Mu’s people. He reports that at one period in their history, they had a protrusion in the center of their foreheads. Although it wasn’t exactly a third eye per se, it was a perceptive sensory organ that, when the person stood still and concentrated on it, offered long-distance impressions that escaped the individual’s other senses.18 It was especially valuable for sensing dangerous animals, who sometimes grew bored with wallowing in wet, marshy areas and went searching for a human being to toy with.
This “sixth sense” also enabled the people of Mu to communicate with the more agreeable animals and to transmit messages to each other when they were far apart. As long as they used the valuable organ, it was available to enrich their lives, but when they gradually failed to take advantage of it, its powers slowly declined and eventually almost disappeared. Many believe that this “sixth sense” or “third eye” was once connected with the pineal gland, which was considerably larger in people in some remote cultures. Scientists have recently begun to correlate the link between the pineal gland and the effect of seasonal variations, such as light on our bodies, as well as other mood changes. In addition to being light sensitive, the gland has many features in common with the retina of our eyes.19
When they concentrated on using all their six senses, the people of Mu sensed something more. If they focused on a tree, for instance, they saw its size and color, but they also perceived it as a living being with an intangible relationship to its environment, to nature, to the cosmos. As a result of their extensive knowledge, they believed in a four-dimensional world, and this spiritual aspect of life was of primary importance to them. Through meditation and their concentration on the spiritual, they believed in reincarnation—that they were are all beams of light that would inevitably leave their physical bodies and return to the source from whence they came. The knowledge that there was life after life was enhanced by their close contact with their ancestors who inhabited the other world.20 Some say the ancestor worship that prevailed until recently in China is a long-lasting remnant of the sensory skills of the Lemurians who long ago emigrated to the Asian continent.
When the people of Mu had accomplished what they believed was expected of them in this life, they were capable of leaving their bodies and making the transition to the spirit world.21 The symbol of a skeleton with upraised arms and crossed legs is an emblem from Mu that they used in their religious ceremonies to further the impression that there is nothing to fear when the soul leaves the mortal body, for another life awaits. This symbol from the Motherland of Mu, which is part of the Freemasons’ liturgy,22 is found in Egypt, and is repeated many times on the cornices of the west temple at Uxmal in the Yucatan.23
I had an Akashic reading and I received information about my soul’s experience in Lemuria, a place I had never heard of. I was told that when my soul was in Lemuria, I worked with Light. I assume this is Divine Light. Learning this has helped me to understand myself. I have always been very spiritual, but now it has really increased.
—anonymous
Fertile soil, readily available bananas, mangoes, cassava, plantain, taro, coconuts, cashews, and breadfruit assured that the people of Lemuria did not have to work hard to meet their daily needs. Spiritually evolved, they realized the importance of forgiveness, love, and patience in their relations with everyone. During most of their history, they were not interested in material possessions, since they knew their friends would consider only what kind of a person they really were inside—in other words, the level of their soul’s advancement. Considerate and kind, they lived together in groups where each individual spent their time contributing whatever he or she was best qualified to offer.24 Cerve tells us that in early Lemuria there was no money or other form of renumeration for one’s work. Members of a community shared everything. Those who enjoyed agricultural pursuits spent their time farming, and surplus was placed in storehouses or traded with distant places to obtain variety. Mining was available to those who wished. Arts and sciences progressed to a high level because talented individuals were free to devote themselves to these areas without concern for daily essentials. To heighten their states of consciousness, Lemurians created lovely gardens full of waterfalls and exotic plants that were available for contemplation and meditation.25
Irish folklore offers the following saying: “Knowledge, under the rule of the Golden Serpent, was mostly to be found in the West, while Wisdom, an entirely different thing, was to be found under the rule of the Golden Dragon in the East.”26 Esoteric sources, as reported by David Childress in Lost Cities of Ancient Lemuria & the Pacific, agree that the Lemurians applied their admirable wisdom to ruling their widespread kingdoms with excellent results. Their ability to govern was one of their finest achievements. Only one language was spoken, and compulsory education was the primary focus for everyone.27 As a result of the Lemurians’ thoughtful, uncorrupted government, their civilization progressed for thousands of years, steadily advancing in science and technology. As they developed their ability to travel on the ocean’s waters to other lands, Lemurians became world leaders in religion and philosophy.28 Many of them journeyed to Atlantis, where their kindly, loving natures merged with the more mental Atlanteans.
Austrian mystic Dr. Rudolph Steiner wrote that many Lemurians lived in underground dwellings.29 These homes, safely beneath the surface, offered them protection from unfriendly wild animals whose assaults were a constant threat. Their underground homes also protected them from the midday sun, which forced them to live indoors during much of the day. Due to the sun’s burning heat, the early morning or late afternoon hours were the only comfortable times they could work in their fields and orchards.30
Stories of ancient, underground dwellings and tunnels prevail worldwide. It is said that hundreds of thousands of years ago, when people chose to live under the surface, they acquired the ability to easily build their large living spaces and the tunnels that connected them. The huge network of caverns in the Yucatan as described in chapter 5 offer one example of extensive underground living spaces that people enlarged and occupied for hundreds of years until volcanic action and earthquakes subsided.
Cerve describes one of Mu’s interesting marriage customs, which he believes was practiced in some Pacific islands until very recently. On the day of the big event, everyone assembled in a circle in front of the village temple. The young couple was instructed to remove all their clothing and any other objects from their bodies. They were not even permitted to carry anything in their hands. Accompanied by flutists and drummers, the townspeople escorted the naked woman and man to the edge of the city and instructed them to walk together for at least fifty miles into the wilderness. They were told to stay there for two moon cycles. When the couple returned, they were required to be in good health, without wounds from wild animals, and dressed in protective clothing made from animal skins, feathers, or fibers. If this was the case, and each of them testified that the other had provided for and protected him or her during the ordeal, the wedding took place. If they returned separately, or were unwilling to praise their companion’s efforts, there was no wedding service, and they were never allowed a second chance.31
Aware of where they had come from, the priests of Mu perceived the laws of the universe and were in tune with all that is. They guided the people spiritually and taught them in simple, easily understood language. As in Atlantis, the sun was a focus of worship, for it was a physical manifestation of their primary god, the one incomprehensible creator.32 A picture of the sun, or a circle, which characterized this one god, became a symbol throughout the world. The Japanese flag still carries this ancient Lemurian emblem. A circle also represented their belief in reincarnation for, just as we live eternally, a circle has no beginning and no end.
Lemurian missionaries traveled everywhere to spread their beliefs. Edgar Cayce mentions their presence in the Gobi Desert, Peru, Egypt, the Yucatan, and the western United States.33 (Please see Cayce’s biography in appendix II.) The good people built temples, educated others and, realizing the ultimate fate of their country, constantly worked at imparting and preserving knowledge. When they realized that there was no hope for their beloved continent, to ensure that the Motherland of Mu would always be remembered, the missionaries made a point of carrying information with them and carefully concealing it for future generations like ourselves. The information Churchward discovered, which the Naacals had copied, is an example of the records Lemurians transferred to a safer place.34
Stone tablets which Scottish geologist William Niven uncovered in Mexico under several layers of civilizations may also represent Lemurian missionaries’ attempts to preserve information about the past when they reached other lands. In 1921, while he was excavating at a depth of twelve feet about five miles northwest of Mexico City, Niven discovered a number of tablets carved from volcanic rock with peculiar pictographs outlined in red.35 In the years that followed, while exploring in the nearby vicinity, often down to greater depths, Niven found more than 2,000 additional strange stones. From the height of the debris above them, he estimated they were over 12,000 years old and probably closer to 50,000.36
The ancient stones are in a variety of shapes and often have figures carved on them as well as strange writing. When Niven was unable to find an archaeologist who could decipher the pictographs, he sent tracings to his friend, James Churchward. Churchward said the writing on the stones was the same language as the Naacal tablets he had seen in India and, after deciphering them, he reported they confirmed his evidence from Far Eastern records. When Churchward said they contained the history of man for the last 200,000 years, the scientific community was disgusted and lost all interest in Niven’s find. The areas where the stones had hidden for thousands of years were destroyed by bulldozers as they prepared the ground for the new suburbs of Mexico City. Niven sold many of the tablets when he needed money, and he died in 1930 before scientists recognized the value of his historic discovery. Some of the unusual tablets are available in a private museum in Mexico City.37 It is reported that many of them were donated to the Museum of Natural History in New York where, in 1976, officials reported they had misplaced them.38
Another collection of prehistoric carved stones offers further evidence of the ancient civilizations in South America. Sometimes referred to as a “living library,” it is preserved in the Cabrera Museum in Ica, just north of the famous Nazca Lines in Peru. During the past thirty years, Dr. Cabrera has collected over 11,000 carved stones from nearby fields. Their images of medical transplants, people with dinosaurs, blood tranfusions, telescopes, and other advanced technology are truly amazing. Unable to explain the mysterious Ica stones, the Peruvian government once accused Dr. Cabrera of carving them, but that is physically impossible.
When people in the eastern regions of Lemuria realized a major natural disaster was imminent, many of them left their homes and joined their predecessors in Peru or moved to the thriving colony of Mayas in Central America. Widespread sources, including an ancient Hindu text, Chinese and Japanese manuscripts, the Central American Troano Codex, and carvings on a tomb at Chichén Itzá in the Yucatan refer to the dynasties of twelve kings who ruled over Mayas for many thousands of years. Knowledge from ancient Lemuria, which survived in Peru and has recently surfaced, will be described in chapter 5.
There is a belief that learned Lemurians also traveled into Mount Shasta, which rises to 14,162 feet in northern California. Here they used sound and vibrations to expand an already existing cavern and build the underground city of Telos in preparation for the time when the Motherland would sink into the sea. When the dreadful moment arrived, thousands of Lemurian refugees were able to seek shelter in Mount Shasta,39 where they were so isolated from their homeland that for several generations they believed they were the only residents of Lemuria who survived the terrible catastrophe that destroyed it. Tales of strange lights on the mountain, unusual visitors to the nearby town, tunnels into the mountain, and nearby UFO activity continue to reinforce the belief that descendants of Lemurians still live deep inside Mount Shasta.
15. Scott-Elliot, The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria, p. 85.
16. Countryman, Atlantis and the Seven Stars, p. 84.
17. Butler, Ancient American, p. 17.
18. Cerve, Lemuria, pp.123–127.
19. Hope, Time: The Ultimate Energy, p. 94.
20. Ibid., p. 130.
21. Ibid., p. 133. The procedure for permanently leaving one’s body is available to those who have learned to enter a deep state of meditation. The person must not “ground” him- or herself at the beginning of the procedure, and must sincerely plan and desire to allow his or her spirit to depart.
22. Churchward, The Lost Continent of Mu, p. 150.
23. From private correspondence. Gregory Berg is an e-mail friend who has extensively studied prehistory for many years. Currently he is learning to decipher Mayan glyphs.
24. Cerve, Lemuria, p. 152.
25. Ibid.
26. Wilkins, Secret Cities of Ancient South America, p. 72.
27. Childress, Lost Cities of Ancient Lemuria & the Pacific, p. 28, from The Ultimate Frontier (Childress says in the text that this is a work taken largely from the lessons of a group called the Lemurian Fellowship).
28. Scott-Elliot, The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria, p. 19.
29. Walton, Mount Shasta, p. 8.
30. Cerve, Lemuria, p. 112.
31. Ibid., pp. 157–160.
32. Churchward, The Lost Continent of Mu, p. 136.
33. Cayce, Readings 691–1, 962–1.
34. Churchward’s biography in the appendix contains additional information about the Naacals and their tablets.
35. Churchward, The Lost Continent of Mu, p. 223.
36. Tompkins, Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids, p. 358–363.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid. and Zapp and Erikson, Atlantis in America, p. 249.
39. The Light Messenger, February 2001, p. 5 (a newsletter from Beverly Dombrowski: pegasusiam@snowcrest.net).