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The Lost Continent of Mu

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I first read Churchward's "Lost Continent of Mu" when I was about fourteen years old... It was kind of my introduction to anthropology and ancient history... I found Churchward to be a fascinating writer... He apparently was in the British army in India as a Colonel and met a "Rishi"... who told him about some ancient records guarded in some temples about a lost continent ... Actually Hindu legends does talk about an island kingdom that sank at the beginning of the Kali Yuga...

Churchward also identified the flying chariots mentioned in the Ramayana and Mahabharata as early scientific wonders...

I was thoroughly entranced by Churchward and reading him influenced some of my early views about ancient civilizations... I still think there might be something to it!

A more recent book that takes Churchward's line of thought and casts it in a more contemporary mode is Stephen Oppenheimer's "Eden in the East"... You might first read Churchward and then "Eden in the East"...

Great book for the open minded. However if you are devoute in your religous beliefs and feel that there is no other explaination except the Bible then this book may not be for you. I found the theory of Mu very interesting and enlightening.

This is the kind of book your parents told you not to read as a child, your professors told you not to read as a college student and that you know you want to read as an adult. Sure, some of the archeology isn't completely sound, and for that matter the racist stereotypes could have been omitted as well, but it really has nothing to do with the entire work. What we have here is an explanation and a direction, where we were is where we need to be. Read the book, learn, and expand your universe.

I had read Churchward's early work, THE LOST CONTINENT OF MU, so long ago that my paperback cost 39 cents; I was a college student in those days. I have since read most of his body of work and find it interesting in that he ties together those civilizations across the planet that were offshoots of MU and shows a continuous development of them. Churchward's work is valuable because of his research (which continues to be built upon) and because there is so little written about this 'fabled lost continent' by those who, like Schliemann, are able to see beyond the myth.

Though a book written some years ago, it is a very good investigation around the world of the similarities among different cultures.

Maria Boulton Benedetti.
Mexico City, Mexico.

Churchward wrote in early 20th Century .His book is excellent for adults as well as teenagers who want to see the world's history from a different standpoint.Just imagine !

if you read about atlantis .then you should pick up a copy of this book.the author gives a good idea about a continet that sunk in the pacific over ten thousand years or so.a must read.

Quite frankly, when I recieved the book and saw the picture of the man, I was a bit nervous. Then, after reading, I understood why. His fantasies of Mu are just that, fantasies, and there is no sound proof or third party backing of any kind. In every other book about the lost land, most of these books end up validating other books because they share common true knowledge. THIS,...content, and I use the term loosely, is just ridiculous. I knew I was in mirky waters when he referred to it as the 'motherland'. Hmm

I was also disturbed with the racial tone he took when discribing the people. (certain cultural groups being italisized for emphasis) I am an extremely open-minded person, but after the first fourty+ pages, I could no longer read. It is almost seemingly wishful fiction and insulting to anyone who has devoted time and effort to studying the lost civilization, much less wasted their money on it.

Simply put, wishful fantasy written by a man who, if I am not incorrect, was not even a Colonel in the first place! How I wish I could return this book and get something else!

Churchward is the kind of "scholar" who gives citations like "Ancient Egyptian record". This is Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy presented as serious history and archeology. Enjoyable as fiction, but that's as far as it goes

Hard to review this, really, but since it packages itself as "history" then I'm forced to give it one star.

Churchward was a classic crackpot of the late Victorian age. He often signed himself "Colonel" Churchward even though he never saw military service. His books on the "lost continent" of Mu are reportedly based on the "Naacal tablets" which nobody other than himself ever saw, and after he died no trace of them was found. It's generally accepted that the Naacal tablets existed only in his imagination and that all his information on Mu was made up.

The big question is whether this was a deliberate hoax or the ramblings and fantasizings of a mentally unstable man. It's hard to tell.

Churchward's books are NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY, yet some people do seem to take them at face value. Please, folks, don't do that. They do have some entertainment value as classic examples of kook lit, though, and for that I might give them three stars.

PLEASE, DO NOT TAKE CHURCHWARD'S BOOKS SERIOUSLY!