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Mound Builders: Edgar Cayce's Forgotten Record of Ancient America

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You know what you know - don't you? Do you know what you don't know? You probably know by now everything the teachers told you in school was not true, a product of ignorance or just plan wrong (if not then you are indeed in for a shock with this book). Get ready to learn some truth from this book. These authors are not shy about being straight forward with their assertions, for example: "...just about everything archaeologists have ardently believed about ancient America is wrong" or "Finally, it is important for readers to understand that the vast majority of 'facts' recorded in history books about ancient America simply aren't true. Since 1997, almost all of the most sacred 'truths' in academic archaeology have been proven false by archaeologists willing to risk their reputation and academic standing." The authors report, "...the events that occurred in the Americas in the remote past were far more complex than had ever been imagined." This work of Greg Little, John Van Auken and Lora Little further the 1960s adage "question authority" while following the key principle of get your facts straight and document your facts. This book is a shot across the bow of established archaeology, anthropology, history, political correctness, and those who think of psychic phenomena in general and the famous American psychic Edgar Cayce as nothing but nutty business perpetrated by nutty people. The evidence is very carefully presented in this book. This evidence will be very difficult for the orthodox scientist to reject if they are interested in truth and the scientific method. I bet your teachers did not teach you about Atlantis, Mu, and ancient Egyptians, Chinese, Japanese or the Lost Tribes of Israel involvement in ancient America and how that influenced the mound building cultures of America (shucks, my teachers never even told me about mound builders period). Your teachers may have mentioned the Norse people visited America a few hundred years before Columbus - although they probably did not tell you of evidence of the Norse being in Oklahoma! Mine sure did not. The authors are intellectually honest saying clearly when the evidence is lacking and/or Cayce was wrong (not that Cayce ever claimed to be infallible). For me the underlying context of this book is spiritual. Yes I was interested in the archeology, anthropology, historical and educational aspects of this book, however, the book gives rational/scientific evidence that support spiritual concepts that I have interest in as well. All the above is a long way to say I found the book a good factual read and food for though that will grow me spiritually. Who could ask for more than that from a book?

This book is fantastic. I have done quite a bit of research on the Adena and Hopewell earthworks. I have been to most of the major sites in Ohio and have acquired many large scale drawings. This book did an excellent job of explaining the mysterys behind most of the earthwork configurations. One of the earthworks is an exact match to Plato's description of Atlantis. This is a good book and a real treasure!

This book was a joy to read and had depth and insight into the subject of the mound builders that history books never told me. I think it is one of the best books inspired by the Edgar Cayce readings I have read. Buy it! You will enjoy it tremendously.

This book is a joke to be put in the trash with other garbage like books by Eric von Daniken. NATIVE AMERICANS built the mounds and were not influenced by Atlantians, Celts, Romans, Hebrews, or anyone other then Native American mound builders to come before them. To say that Native Americans could not have conceived the mounds is racist, pure and simple. This debate was put to rest over 100 years ago and it is laughable that there are still books and "scientists" disputing the FACT that Native Americans built these mounds.