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The Origin of Mankind, September 29, 2000
This review is from: Mysteries of Atlantis Revisited: The Century's Greatest Psychic Confronts One of the World's Oldest Mysteries (Edgar Cayce) (Mass Market Paperback)
This is an excellent book, but should be read after you read "Edgar Cayce on Atlantis". There is some redundancy but this book contains additional information and insight into the readings of Edgar Cayce, including an Afterward section that gives you a summary of recent archeological findings that support the readings of Edgar Cayce. In this book, you will find an attempt to categorize this history of early ancient civilizations into three categories related to the partial or complete destruction of ancient civilization dating from 50,000 b.c., 30,000 b.c., and 10,500 b.c. According this book, we are living in the fourth time period dating from around 10,500 b.c. to the present. Explanations of the various types of people (and/or beings) are given. The "Dead Sea Scrolls" and even the "Bible" also support these descriptions to some degree. If you are a hard-core evolutionist or creationist, this book will provide some support for both but you will quickly realize that a lot of what is taught in school, is not necessarily supported by recent archeological findings. You will also discover that we are all on a spiritual journey, possibly of our own choosing. The most interesting dilemma in the research in Egypt is that there seems to be an overwhelming amount of evidence that a "Hall of Records" that contains information about the architects of the Egyptian Pyramids, is buried under the Sphinx or nearby in a Pyramid "of it's own". Why don't we go over there and dig up the records? Cayce's claim is that these things cannot happen until the right time or until we are ready for the "next evolution of mankind." If in fact these records exist, we would have to re-write history and it would probably have a radical affect on our society, both scientifically and spiritually. This book also paints a picture of our own future that is bleak (although I found this particular chapter to be a little speculative for my tastes.) The Afterward is good but you will want to read other books that support these writings since they are vague and only summarized. Lastly, I have begun to really doubt the accuracy of Carbon-14 dating, not just from this book but from other archeological books I've read that draw conclusions based solely on dating research. The tests used to date the Pyramids, place the dates of the Pyramids 200 years before Kafu, the assumed builder of the Pyramids. Unfortunately, it also doesn't support the dates provided by Cayce either. The Carbon-14 dates really don't make much sense, especially if you consider that there are watermarks around the neck of the Sphinx, which can only be traced to the period between 8000 and 5000 b.c. The fact is, we still have a great deal to learn about the Pyramids and that the most incredible archeological finds, are still to be had right in Giza. Hopefully there is more to come.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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The latest and most accurate book on the Atlantis legend., July 30, 1998
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This review is from: Mysteries of Atlantis Revisited: The Century's Greatest Psychic Confronts One of the World's Oldest Mysteries (Edgar Cayce) (Mass Market Paperback)
The authors trace the legend of Atlants from Plato, who first wrote about it in Timaeus and Critias in the 5th century BC, through the ages to the present, discussing authors who: 1. Believed Plato and amassed data to substantiate his story 2. Thought there might be some truth in the tale but couldn't accept Plato's 9000 BC date and South Atlantic location and tried to rationalize the story by changing both the time and place. 3. Critics who believed Plato's story was just a myth and collected arguments to reflect their point of view. 4.The description of Atlantis provided by a study of 700(which mention Atlantis) of the 2500 Cayce "life readings". For those not familiar with Edgar Cayce and his work, there is a foreword by Edgar Evans Cayce (his son) which tells what Cayce did and gives examples of both a "physical reading" and a "life reading", to give the reader a feeling for the credibility of Cayce's work. The book compares archeol! ogical and geological facts with Cayce's statements about the past. New discoveries continue to show that many things Cayce said years ago, considered ridiculous by archeologists and geologists then, have since become accepted. Radio carbon dating has shown that man was in the places Cayce said he was at the times Cayce said he was. Originally published in 1988 by Harper/Collins, "MYSTERIES OF ATLANTIS REVISITED" was reprinted and up dated by St Martins Press in 1997. A new chapter describes the most recent discoveries between 1988 and 1997. Several exciting ones continue to validate Cayce's view of the past. Examples are: a. The discovery of an, up to now, unknown and unexplored chamber in the Great Pyramid b. Evidence for an older gae of the sphinx c. New discoveries off Bimini d. A study in 1987 of ther major fault zones in the eastern U.S. by the American Association of Engineering Societies, and their conclusions about the likelihood of of future earthquaks , co! incides closely with statements made by Cayce years ago ( m! aps of these fault zones published with permission of the AAES ) Comprehensive and well written, "MYSTERIES OF ATLANTIS REVISITED", is intersting and exciting reading for both amateurs and professionals. The book is available in German, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese as well as English.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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Good no nonsense overview of Atlantis, September 23, 2001
This review is from: Mysteries of Atlantis Revisited: The Century's Greatest Psychic Confronts One of the World's Oldest Mysteries (Edgar Cayce) (Mass Market Paperback)
Easy to read 200 page book that gives an overview of the Cayce readings about Atlantis. Considering how much garbage has been written about Atlantis just to sell books, this is an excellent place to start. Strength of the book is the author's attempt to present the Cayce readings objectively with comparisons to scientific thinking and that of other metaphysical writers on the topic, such as the Theosophists. The weakness is that some of the science is outdated, and it is presented incompletely. There are compelling scientific arguments against a mid-ocean continent 50,000 years ago containing an advanced technological civilization. This makes Cayce more difficult to believe than is acknowledged here. But there are real reasons to take Cayce seriously, both metaphsical and scientific. One of Cayce's claims to fame is his statements that the Sphinx and the largest pyramid at Giza are much older than archeologists believe, and that there is now---some 70 years later--geologic and astronomical evidence to support these claims for an age of 12,400 years (though these claims are vociferously denied by Egyptologists). An excellent book as a follow up to this one, exploring this geologic and astronomical (as well as common sense) evidence that support Cayce's claims for a vast age for some Egyptian monuments is "The Message of the Sphinx" by Hancock and Bauval. THAT book, about the ancient Egyptians, which gives Cayce credibility, is five stars.
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