Atlantis: Insights from a Lost Civilization [Paperback]

Shirley Andrews (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 8, 2002

The legend of lost Atlantis turns to fact as Shirley Andrews synthesizes a wealth of information from more than one hundred classical and Atlantean scholars, scientists, and psychics to describe the country and its inhabitants.

Review the scientific and geological evidence for an Atlantic continent, which refutes the popular notion that Atlantis was located in the Mediterranean. Follow the history of Atlantis from its beginnings to its destruction, and see a portrait of Atlantean society: its religion, architecture, art, medicine, and life style. Explore shamanism, the power of crystals, ancient techniques for health and healing, pyramid energy, ley lines, the influence of extraterrestrials and the origin of the occult sciences. Learn what happened to the survivors of Atlantis, where they migrated, and how the survivors and their descendants made their mark on cultures the world over.

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About the Author

Shirley Andrews (Massachusetts) has had a passionate life-long interest in prehistory, and has conducted research both in the U.S. and at the British Museum Library in London.  Her investigations have led her to ancient monasteries high in the Himalayas, the Azores, the Andes, Central America, and the Tio Bustillo cave in Spain.  She  has appeared on numerous radio programs and gives popular lectures on Atlantis.  She is also the author of Atlantis: Insights from a Lost Civilization.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 1st edition (September 8, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156718023X
• ISBN-13: 978-1567180237
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,506 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quite Interesting!, April 23, 2005

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Katie "book worm" (PA , USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Atlantis: Insights from a Lost Civilization (Paperback)

This is the first book I've read on the subject of Atlantis, and I found it quite interesting indeed!

Because I am not sure about my thoughts re: aliens being behind the amazing achievments attributed to this "lost civilization", I was happy to find that the author does not dwell on this possibility (although it's clear that she does believe in the theory of aliens bringing their technological info. to several areas during the time of Atlantis). Instead, the idea of aliens is brought up only briefly, and then scattered here & there throughout the book - but not in an overbearing sort of way.

I read this book at the same time as "Finger-Prints of the Gods", by Graham Hancock (In fact, I am still finishing up reading "Fingerprints"), and I found that these books tend to complement eachother. The one main difference being that Graham Hancock takes the reader on a journey with him to places where there is still evidence that such amazingly brilliant cultures existed in our far-reaching past. Also, I have not yet come across any mention of aliens in his book (although I haven't completed it yet).

I would recommend this book, as well as "Fingerprints of the Gods", to anyone interested in this subject. Both of these books have a lot to offer and, in the end, will make the reader think about the various possibilities, and come up with their own theories. In my view, this is what a good book does - encourages the reader to really think about things both as they were, and as they currently are. And both of these books "fit the bill".

21 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Three Worlds Down, One More to Go?, October 28, 2000

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"billiusmax" - See all my reviews

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First of all, let me state this was a wonderful, insightful, and very easy book to read. Amen! Shirley Andrews has done a really excellent job of stating her hypothesis of Atlantis, then proceeded to lay out anthropological findings to support her views. The book read like a light history book of man and his evolution (and de-evolution) on a planet called Earth. Ms. Andrews painstaking research is explained and laid out for our analysis in a pleasingly down to earth format. I got through this book faster than most others.

The four maps detailing how the land masses appeared at 50K bc, 25K bc, 10K bc and currently really set the stage for easy comprehension of the facts she was about to lay on us. The analogy of Noah's flood ending the third world and bringing about this, the fourth world was very thought provoking. The comparison of how the Atlantians survived and escaped two previous disasters and how their influence, society, and technology lived on and has become apparent in other prehistoric cultures is just amazing. To me now, its not a matter of "did Atlantis exist?", its a matter of how we, as contemporary man, can learn from the positives and negatives of our human ancestors. Its maybe a gauge as to how our evolution can handle these precedences.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS BOOK IS ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING!, August 1, 2000

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The Aeolian Kid "the-aeolian-kid" (WAMESIT) - See all my reviews

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... If you have EVER been captivated in any way by the myth of "the lost continent of Atlantis", here is your chance to satisfy your curiosity! Indeed, after reading this book, you will come to realize what most scholars of classical antiquity take as second nature: It is a VERY gray area between where ancient mythology ENDS and where ancient history BEGINS. Reading this book brings the 'myth' of Atlantis ever so much closer to us out of the mythology of the FAR past and up into the ancient history of the more RECENT past. It is the wonderful work and lifelong dedication of Shirley Andrews that has accomplished this for us. This book IS, truly, "a labor of love".

... As some of you read this book, you may begin by thinking to yourself: "WELL... this is going to be a FUN read, but I SERIOUSLY doubt that I am going to end up BELIEVING in the reality of any 'lost continent of Atlantis'!" ... However, when you are THROUGH reading the book (and you WILL finish reading the WHOLE thing!), you will definitely find yourself wanting to not only read MORE about Atlantis, but also wanting to go on any number of excursions to MANY of the places where Ms. Andrews herself has gone to in order to personally do her firsthand, primary research for this wonderful book.

... I, myself, am very tempted to take a trip to the Canary Islands in order to see for MYSELF all of the evidence that the author has most generously shared with us all. ... At one time in my life, I, too, merely thought of Atlantis as being that great, mythical place that the folk singer, Donovan, sang of with such eloquence and respect - a song that still, to this day, always makes the hairs stand up all over my body whenever I hear it playing! After reading this book, the 'myth' of Atlantis has become a REALITY for me. ... See if it does the same for you. - The Aeolian Kid