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Just as sugar continually attracts ants, so, over a long period of time, portions of the North American continent that escaped the damaging Ice Age enticed people from Mu, the Atlantic Ridge, the Caribbean, and Central America. Evidence of their presence is slowly emerging. Every year archaeologists and other scholars push back their dates for civilization in areas where descendants of Atlanteans and Lemurians once lived. Human bones in the Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pennsylvania date to 12,500 b.c., and debris indicates that human beings were living there for thousands of years before that time. Tools and other residue found at Cactus Hill and Saltville in Virginia, and at the Topper site in South Carolina, confirm that people settled in this country long before 10,500 b.c.
Not only do researchers regularly uncover older sites, but scientists have recently proved that radiocarbon dating, which had been accepted as a rough guide to the age of an object, can be inaccurate by thousands of years. British and American scientists, checking with uranium dating, a newer and more accurate method, found that radiocarbon dating became more out-of-date as they went further back in time.99
Dr. Johanna Nichols of the University of California, Berkeley, after analyzing the way languages have changed and diversified in this country, suggests that people have been here for 30,000 to 40,000 years. Theodore Schurr of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, reached a similar conclusion after studying the DNA of the hair of wild goats in prehistoric sites where humans made their homes.100
Just as the first Atlanteans to move to Poseidia and the Yucatan were those who unselfishly focused on loving and caring for others, so spiritually attuned Lemurian priestesses who taught the Law of One were among the early settlers in the lands of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah.101 Legends of the Hopi and Zuni Pueblo allege that their distant ancestors came from Mu and traveled to Arizona and New Mexico.102 These memories are reinforced by the Maya of Central America, who believe that Lemurians came to the land where the Hopi now live and, as they deposited their knowledge, activated it as a new spiritual place.103
On a cliff in Grapevine Canyon, Nevada, Lemurians carved the ground plan of a temple they erected as a tribute to the innumerable souls who perished as the Earth shook and their Motherland sank into the sea. Another story on stone in Nevada says that Mu, the Empire of the Sun, which lies across the ocean in the direction of the setting sun, is now in darkness.104 Throughout the southwestern United States and Central America, Lemurians and their descendants enhanced rocks and temples with carved backwards swastikas; their beautiful, sacred lotus flower; and the plain equal-armed cross that represented the four great creative forces of earth, air, fire and water.
Like bee colonies searching for a new homesite whenever their nests are disturbed, when unstable conditions disrupted their lives, thousands of Atlanteans and their descendants left their homelands between 50,000 b.c. and 10,000 b.c. Some crossed the ocean from the Atlantic Ridge, while others traveled northward from Poseidia and the Yucatan on a land bridge that stretched from Cuba almost to the Key West chain of islands. In small boats, different groups reached and traveled up the Mississippi River. The variety of their tools, teeth and bones, legends, and earthworks reflect this long period of time during which the habits and physical characteristics of the incoming refugees changed.
The Cherokee were among the first to reach North America. In her recent book Voices of Our Ancestors, Cherokee Dwyani Ywahoo reveals her decision to share teachings her people have carefully preserved since the beginning of their time. Dwyani received the knowledge from her grandparents and great grandparents, who learned it from their grandparents. The Cherokee history begins with the people from the stars known as the seven dancers (the Pleiades), who settled in Atlantis and lived there happily for many generations. When the islands began to disintegrate, their descendants moved westward to the American continent, where they were known as the Cherokee.
The Cherokee’s way of life and their advanced mathematical skills, detailed knowledge of astronomy, and legends of their sources of power reflect the wisdom and accomplishments of their Atlantean ancestors. The Cherokee believe that mindfulness and love and care for others and for their natural environment maintain the balance of the planet, and therefore harmony in the universe. Their medicine people once utilized crystals to capture and manage the Earth’s positive energy for their own use. They believed this positive energy came from forceful dragons they called Ukdena, who represented the wave pattern of the Earth’s magnetic energy. With crystals and ancient sacred rituals, the Cherokee controlled that energy and maintained a harmonious balance of power from the sun, the moon, the Earth, and the universe. They grew bountiful crops and lived happily. Immersed in their natural world, they led full, satisfying lives until Western civilization encroached and the number of Cherokee medicine people decreased, the rituals diminished, and the shamans lost the dragon power and their beneficial relationship with the energy currents of the universe.105
Edgar Cayce describes another group of early visitors from Atlantis who camped at a site near Talladega, Alabama, to make use of healing techniques they brought with them. The waters of a nearby river were helpful in offering relief to people with fevers, infections, and digestive disturbances. Following the instructions of a tutor from a temple in Poseidia, the Atlanteans built cedar conduits that would carry the beneficial water to people’s homes.106
The Dakota remember that their forebears once lived in cities on islands to the south, many of which are now beneath the sea.107 Legends of the Iroquois, Sioux, Mandans, and Delaware refer to the home of their ancestors as an island that sank but was once in the Atlantic Ocean “in the direction of the sunrise.”108 These people all retain the aquiline noses, high cheekbones, and long skulls of their Atlantean ancestors,109 physical characteristics that are completely different from immigrants from the Far East who settled in the western United States.
Large numbers of big game hunters, known as the Clovis people, first appeared at the mouth of the Mississippi River in about 10,000 b.c., when Lemuria and Atlantis disappeared. Their weapons, called Clovis points, were bifacial, fluted stone points, often ten inches long. Archaeologists used the word “points” because they weren’t sure of the size of the Clovis people. If the hunters were tall, the points were arrowheads, if the hunters were short, the weapons were spearheads. From the mouth of the Mississippi, the Clovis people spread to the southeast and eventually over much of North America.
Although they were not the first to migrate to this continent, a variety of sources indicate that the Clovis people came from the direction of Atlantis. The weapons of the Clovis are identical to the older ones of the Solutrean people who lived in southwestern France and Spain on the seacoast and along the banks of rivers that led to the Atlantic Ocean before the final sinking of Atlantis. No Clovis points have ever been found in Siberia or northeast Asia. Experts believe it is highly unlikely that the similarity in the complicated, intellectual process of duplicating the Clovis and Solutrean stone weapons was a coincidence.
The Clovis on the North American continent and the Solutrean people in Europe practiced many similar customs. They both buried their dead with exquisitely fashioned stone tools in caches filled with red ocher and used similar items in their ceremonies. Both groups shaped mammoth ivory in the same way to weight their weapons, and they straightened their spears with shaft wrenches. Genetic research also points to their common place of origin, for these people who entered the Americas in 10,000 b.c. were from a DNA European Caucasian group labeled haplogroup X.110 The island of Atlantis, in the ocean between their continents, is a likely possibility for their initial homeland.
Evidence of a previous civilization is being discovered beneath original Clovis sites of 10,000 b.c. The tools of these earlier settlers, such as those archaeologists are studying near Allendale, South Carolina, which dated to at least 16,000 years ago by optically stimulated luminescence, were very different from the stone tools of the Clovis.111 The pre-Clovis people were more dependent on fishing, which indicates they probably came from an island home, where the ocean waters surrounding the land made fishing a natural occupation.
Shamanism, which until recently was the most practiced method of obtaining healing advice on this planet, is widespread in Africa, the South Pacific, and South America, all places where Lemurians and Atlanteans lived. For over 12,000 years, Native American shamans, following in the footsteps of their intuitive ancestors, have used their minds to travel to the shady area where the mundane and spiritual worlds overlap and mingle. Drumming, chanting, dancing, sweat lodges, and specific drugs made from plants and herbs enable them to enter that mysterious place and seek the assistance of spirit helpers. Once they are there, the shamans receive guidance in healing and access to the infinite wisdom of the ancestors.
Edgar Cayce explains that archaeologists find few remains of the bodies of the early settlers on this continent because the first Atlanteans who came here, and their immediate descendants, cremated their relatives when they died.112 In North America, bones of prehistoric inhabitants occasionally appear but, due to the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, study of them is almost impossible. Native Americans who believe their people did not migrate from another continent, and that they have been here “since time began,” were instrumental in passing legislation which states that all prehistoric skeletons found in the United States must be reburied. Even though archaeologists demonstrate that the features of these skeletons exhibit no relationship to any modern tribe who lives in the area where the bones were found, the scientists do not receive permission to test them. The intention of those who advocated the law was to protect their ancestors’ sacred remains from grave robbers but, in practice, it has enabled tribal activists to prevent the study of the DNA of ancient people, making it difficult to learn their place of origin.
In July 1996, along the bank of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington, two men discovered the skeleton of a five-foot, nine-inch man who fished in that river about 9,300 to 9,600 years ago. The skull’s long, narrow face is completely different from the nearby American Indians in the northwest United States, and scientists are hopeful thay will receive legal permission to study it fully. Seven complete skeletons similar to “Kennewick man” have been found in North America, as well as fragments of at least twenty others. Two ancient American skulls, which are very different, also remain a mystery.113
Edgar Cayce says that second-generation Atlanteans who journeyed northward from the Yucatan were among the mound builders of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio.114 Long before written history, people throughout the south, central, and eastern United States moved tremendous quantities of earth to erect immense artificial hills. Early Europeans referred to these strange constructions as “mounds.” Exactly when the mounds were built is difficult to determine and estimates vary, for new ones were often constructed over remains of ancient sacred structures. In the same way, Christians placed the cathedrals of St. Pauls in London and Chartres in France at strong spiritual sites where prehistoric pagan people, who sensed the areas’ high energy, once built temples.
Atlantean descendants in North America erected numerous mounds in the shape of a pyramid, whose sides were often oriented to correspond exactly with the cardinal points of the compass.115 A pyramid as large as the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt once stood at the intersection of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers in East St. Louis. When this huge mound was decimated in the nineteenth century, it contained embroidered materials, beautiful gold, silver, and copper jewelry, and parchment that appeared to have writing on its surface.116
In 1890, on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution, Cyrus Thomas made systematic “explorations” of hundreds of these artificial hills in the southeastern United States. His work consisted of gutting and demolishing the ancient structures. In the same area, well-meaning people also destroyed huge towers, walls over 800 feet in length, and canals as long as fourteen miles.117
The innumerable ley lines in the United States may help to explain the Cherokee’s Ukdena, the dragons who represented waves of the Earth’s magnetic energy. Ley lines, perfectly straight manmade paths that are visible from the air on every continent, were first documented in England by Alfred Watkins in his book The Old Straight Track. The lines stretch for hundreds of miles over all sorts of terrain, deep into valleys and directly up high hills in Great Britain, Germany, China, and the United States. In Great Britain, churches, mounds, crossroads, cemeteries, mark-stones, castles, and fords continue to identify the ley lines that are always perfectly straight.118
The large mound at Portsmouth, Ohio, from which groups of mounds extend in concentric circles into West Virginia and Kentucky, is located on a ley line which runs from Marietta, Ohio, over 65 miles away, to Lexington, Kentucky, 190 miles in the other direction. The line is 59 degrees from true north, the exact angle of the sunrise at Marietta on June 21, the day of the summer solstice.119 We do not know the purpose of ley lines, but this angle correlates with the legends in Great Britain that assert when the sun shined directly down one of these courses at sunrise, the Druids rose in the air and moved along them. Scientist John Mitchell suggests that ley lines were built to channel the flow of the Earth’s magnetic energy.120 In 1987, officials of the city of Seattle, Washington, began a comprehensive project of mapping the lines in their vicinity. They plan to place a series of environmental artworks at key power spots to mark and perhaps enhance the invisible energy.121
Prehistoric builders often constructed mounds where ley lines crossed, for they believed that enormous vortices of energy were created at these sites. As we learn more about the mysterious lines and the magnetic energy grid which surrounds the Earth, it may be possible to perform rituals at powerful places that would send energy along the ley lines to promote peace and compassion.
99. BBC News, Sci/Tech, June 29, 2001.
100. The Economist, February 21, 1998, “The First Americans.”
101. Cayce, Readings 851–2.
102. Red Star, Star Ancestors, p. 213.
103. Mayan elder Hunbatz Men to Nancy Red Star, Star Ancestors, p. 91.
104. Churchward, The Lost Continent of Mu, p. 206, p. 203.
105. Ywahoo, Voices of Our Ancestors, p. 16.
106. Cayce, Readings 707–2.
107. Hansen, He Walked the Americas, p. 76.
108. Goodman, American Genesis, p. 37.
109. Hansen, The Ancient Atlantic.
110. Little and Van Auken, The Lost Hall of Records, p. 269.
111. Neara Transit, Spring 2000, p. 6.
112. Cayce, Readings 914–1.
113. The Economist, “The First Americans,” February 21, 1998, pp. 79, 80.
114. Cayce, Reading 3528–1.
115. Hansen, He Walked the Americas, p. 181.
116. Hansen, The Ancient Atlantic, p. 39.
117. Mertz, Atlantis: Dwelling Place of the Gods, p. 103.
118. Watkins, Ley Hunter’s Manual, chapter 2.
119. Ted Bauer in The Marietta Times.
120. Michell, The New View Over Atlantis.
121. Plantier, Ann, “Finding Places of Power In Your Own Backyard,” Fate Magazine, May 2001, p. 25.