How, for instance, is it possible for humans to have flourished on the Arctic coast of Russia in the middle of the last Ice Age?  Check out the implications of the Yana site.

Or how did a young man make his way to the northern tip of Prince of Wales Island in the Alaskan panhandle some 10,000 years ago? And why does the DNA evidence point to South America, not Asia, as the lad’s homeland. Check out the implications of On Your Knees Cave.

At Kuk in the central highlands of New Guinea something remarkable happened around the time of the fall of Atlantis.

And why were there humans on the high elevation Tibean Plateau during the last Ice Age. That has long thought to be impossible.

These are some of the topic covered in our new book Atlantis Beneath the Ice.

It starts with a drought that feels like Lucifer has arrived to take his revenge. It’s driven by a curse that cuts through the population like a scythe, taking no prisoners. It ends with one woman clinging to survival at the edge of the world. A woman who has left a dead body sprawled across her kitchen floor. Time is on nobody’s side. (Canada Arts Council Winner)

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Rand recalled that, in a book called The Giza Necropolis Decoded, (1975), Rocky McCollum had noted that he could draw a Fibonacci spiral that would touch the apex of all three Giza pyramids.  It folds in on itself, as can be seen, at a spot south-east of the pyramids, between the Sphinx and the Nile.  It is Rand’s conviction that Thoth’s Holy Chamber lies at the centre of this spiral.

Rand comments:

This solution to the location of the Holy Chamber breaks Thoth’s magic spell by revealing that the pyramids and Sphinx are the most amazing case of misdirection ever conceived.  . . .  Thoth hid his treasure well.

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In 1922, Mahatma Gandhi, about to be sentenced to six years in prison, said to the judge:

“Since you have done me the honor of recalling the trial of the late Lokamaya Gangadhar Tilak, I just want to say that I consider it the proudest privilege and honor to be associated with his name.”

Bal Gangadhar Tilak forged the tactic of passive resistance as a means of overthrowing British rule in India. He was held in such esteem that Gandhi used the title “Lokamaya” (“Beloved Leader of the People”) when referring to him. Tilak earned his title while imprisoned in 1897 for seditious writings. The British hoped to curb his role in the rising tide of Indian nationalism by locking him up. The harsh conditions of his Bombay cell took their toll. Tilak’s health waned. Fearing that his death in custody might spark a general uprising, the British moved the “Beloved Leader of the People” to a safer prison in Poona. Helped by donations of fruit and vegetables Tilak partially recovered his health. But soon a new hunger overtook him – the need for intellectual stimulation. Relief came from an unlikely quarter: England.

Tilak had published a respected work on India’s oldest texts, the Vedas, and Sanskrit scholars at Oxford and Cambridge were outraged by his imprisonment and treatment. Professor F. Max Muller, the world’s leading authority on the Vedas, was successful in having Tilak’s case reviewed by Queen Victoria. She shortened his sentence and granted him a reading light in his cell. Denied access to newspapers or any other current material, Tilak used this “privilege” to continue his studies of the Vedas.

Upon his release Tilak retired to the mountains to rest at a favorite family retreat. In 1903 his great work, The Arctic Home in the Vedas, was published. In it he argued that the remains of an island paradise could be found beneath the Arctic Ocean:

“It was the advent of the Ice Age that destroyed the mild climate of the original home and covered it into an ice-bound land unfit for the habitation of man.”

Tilak summarized a key passage in the oldest saga of Iran, the Zend-Avesta:

“Ahura Mazda warns Yima, the first king of men, of the approach of a dire winter, which is to destroy every living creature by covering the land with a thick sheet of ice, and advises Yima to build a Vara, or an enclosure, to preserve the seeds of every kind of animal and plant. The meeting is said to have taken place in the Airyana Vaêjo, or Paradise of the Iranians.”

Tilak chose the Arctic Circle as the location of the lost island paradise because he was influenced by the whole earth theory of the founder of Boston University, William Fairfield Warren.

Warren believed that the polar paradise was destroyed when a critical temperature drop resulted in a worldwide geological upheaval. A huge mass of the earth’s interior collapsed inward, pulling sections of the planet’s crust with it. The ocean rushed to drown the sunken areas. The globe then cooled – suffocating the original island paradise in snow and ice.

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The theory of a collapsing polar crust has been falsified by modern exploration of the Arctic Ocean floor.

We suggest that the evidence that Tilak culled from reading the Vedas points to Antarctica as the site of the lost island paradise covered in snow and ice. Please see Earth Crust Displacement and Atlantis in Antarctica or Atlantis Books.

The greatest mass of an iceberg lies hidden unseen beneath the surface of the water.

Likewise, underlying the search for Atlantis are many deep unseen prejudices. Atlantis is a ‘where is here’ riddle. To unravel this riddle we need to be willing to challenge what we have been taught.

Below is a map showing our common perception of separate continents and oceans.

Below is a US Naval projection of the world centered on Antarctica.

From a southern perspective we see that our planet has only one ocean. The unity of the world’s “oceans” is central to the oldest account of Atlantis.

An Egyptian priest entrusted Plato’s ancestor, Solon, with the legend of Atlantis. In Solon’s time (c.600 B.C.) the words Libya and Asia had a different meaning as did the term – Pillars of Hercules.

The Greek worldview of 600 B.C.

At this time Libya referred to a landmass the size of present-day North Africa. Asia was the size of what we know as the Middle East.

The red dot (on the map) between Libya and Europe was called the Pillars of Heracles, today’s Strait of Gibraltar. It’s second meaning to the ancient Greeks is ignored in almost all theories of Atlantis. It meant ‘the limit of the known world’.

The Atlantean Worldview

The ocean level at 9,600 B.C. – when Atlantis perished – was lower than today. Below is a map showing the world before the Flood as seen from Antarctica. Also shown are the Greeks’ notion of Libya (yellow) and Asia (green). This area is approximately the size of Antarctica (red).

Plato wrote that the island of Atlantis was “… larger than Libya [yellow] and Asia [green] combined; from it [Atlantis - red] there was passage for the sea-farers of those times to reach the other islands, [tan – now under ice] and from them the whole opposite continent [white] which surrounds what can truly be called the ocean. For these regions [turquoise] that lie within the strait we were talking about seem to be but a bay having a narrow entrance; but the other ocean is the real ocean and the land which entirely surrounds [white] it may with fullest truth and fitness be named a continent.”  Plato Timaeus

Every search for Atlantis must explain these words. We submit that the map above accurately depicts Plato’s 2400 year old account of the location of Atlantis. This implies the existence of a long lost advanced civilization that possessed an accurate knowledge of our planet’s geography.

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Athanasius Kircher

In 1665, the German Jesuit priest, Athanasius Kircher, published Mundus Subterraneus, a massive book which included a reproduction of an ancient Egyptian map of Atlantis.

The Latin label translates: “Site of Atlantis, now beneath the sea, according to the beliefs of the Egyptians and the description of Plato.”

Kircher mistakenly believed Atlantis was an island in the North Atlantic Ocean.

In 1665, when this map was first published, Antarctica had not been discovered.

Below is Kircher’s Egyptian map of Atlantis compared to a modern geophysical globe showing Antarctica without its ice and with south in the “up” position.

The present shape of ice-free Antarctica as depicted in this modern view is based upon the current ocean level, not that of 9600 B.C.

Atlantis did not actually sink beneath the waves. Instead, as the old ice caps melted, the ocean level rose, covering parts of the continent.

Further distortions in our modern map, compared to Kircher’s, are a result of the massive weight of today’s Antarctic ice sheet which depressed parts of the continent, causing more and more land to fall below ocean level.

We believe that Kircher’s Egyptian map of Atlantis represents in size, shape, scale and position an ice-free Antarctica.

So what happened? How did Atlantis become Antarctica? Please see Earth Crust Displacement.

See Atlantis Books.

Rand

Critics of earth crust displacement (ECD) have frequently tried to belittle Albert Einstein’s enthusiastic support for Charles Hapgood’s theory of earth crust displacement. If the theory of earth crust displacement is silly, as the ECD critics imply, then does that make Professor Einstein silly? They don’t want to say that. So instead they try to put words into Einstein’s mouth. They say Albert Einstein was not a geologist and if he had lived that he would have recognized that the theory of plate tectonics superseded Hapgood’s theory. They falsely assume that Hapgood’s theory is in conflict with plate tectonics. On page 3 of the first edition of When the Sky Fell we explained the actual relationship between plate tectonics and earth crust displacements:

“Plate tectonics and earth crust displacement both share the assumption of a mobile crust. The ideas are not mutually exclusive but rather complementary. Plate tectonics explains long-term, slow changes like mountain building, volcanic activity, and local earthquakes. Earth crust displacement accepts that these processes are gradual but posits a much more dramatic and abrupt movement of the crust that can explain different problems such as mass extinctions, glaciation patterns, and the sudden rise of agriculture.”

Moreover, Albert Einstein did not have to be a geologist to understand that Hapgood’s theory was addressing significant, long-standing, unsolved problems. For instance, the rapid, violent melting of the former ice sheet on North America some 11,600 years ago is something that plate tectonics is incapable of explaining. But there is even a more serious objection to the assumption that you have to be trained in the field of geology in order to be able to make contributions to the field. Alfred Wegner, the early pioneer of plate tectonics, was trained as an astronomer not a geologist. Under the criteria that the ECD critics make about Albert Einstein, Alfred Wegner wasn’t qualified to create his theory. Looking at the history of science in a broader perspective we see that Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions demonstrates again and again that major paradigm shifts are typically initiated by investigators untrained in the field where they make their breakthroughs.

While Albert Einstein may not have the geological credentials demanded by ECD critics, the other prominent scientist who ALSO wrote a Foreword to Hapgood’s book most certainly did. It is curious that ECD critics fail to report Professor Kirtley Mather’s support for Hapgood’s theory of earth crust displacement.

Kirtley F. Mather (1888-1978) was one of the most prominent geologists of the twentieth century. He was the Head of the Geology Department at Harvard University and served as the President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was elected four times to be the President of the American Academy of Arts and Science. He was one of the few scientists who stood up to Joseph McCarthy. He prepared the geological deposition for Clarence Darrow in the famous “Scope’s Monkey Trial” when the theory of evolution was challenged in the courts. Stephen Jay Gould regarded Professor Mather as his mentor. In his Foreword to Hapgood’s book, Mather wrote:

“The numerous unsolved problems to which Mr. Hapgood directs attention should be the subjects of intensified debate among scientists in very part of the world.”

Both Mather and Einstein knew something of the philosophy of science. They understood that the unsolved problem is the basic unit of scientific exploration. Theories are like nets designed to capture and explain problems. Hence the importance that Mather gave to the earth crust displacement theory’s ability to address “numerous unsolved problems.”

A brief look at some of the chapter titles of Hapgood’s Path of the Pole demonstrates the unsolved problems that he was addressing:

• Chapter 2: The Failure to Explain the Ice Ages.
• Chapter 3: The Failure to Explain Climatic Change.
• Chapter 5: The Violent Life of the Great Ice Sheet.
• Chapter 6: The Sudden Melting of the Ice Sheet.
• Chapter 10: The Extinction of the Mammoths and the Masodons.
• Chapter 11: The Evidence of Violent Extinction in South America.

None of these problems can be adequately explained by plate tectonics. That doesn’t mean that plate tectonics is wrong. It simply means that in order to address serious unsolved problems, like those listed above, we need an additional theory of how the earth works. Plate tectonic explains gradual changes and earth crust displacement explains abrupt changes. “The ideas are not mutually exclusive but rather complementary.”

In his second reply (24 November 1952) to Hapgood, Einstein wrote that the idea of earth crust displacement should not be ruled out “apriori” just because it didn’t fit with what we wanted to believe about the earth’s past. What was needed, Einstein claimed, was solid “geological and paleontological facts.”

For six months, Hapgood gathered geological evidence to support the idea of an earth crust displacement. On the 3rd of May 1953 he forwarded thirty-eight pages of this evidence to Einstein. Central to his argument was Hapgood’s evidence that Lesser Antarctica was ice-free at the same time that North America lay smothered in ice. Einstein responded (8 May 1953):

“I find your arguments very impressive and have the impression that your hypothesis is correct. One can hardly doubt that significant shifts of the crust have taken place repeatedly and within a short time.”
He urged Hapgood to follow up on evidence of “earth fractures”. A month later
(11 June 1953) Hapgood sent Einstein forty-two pages of evidence on earth fractures and the evolution of the ice sheets.
Einstein wrote (17 December 1953) Hapgood urging him to address the “centrifugal momentum” problem. Hapgood responded with four pages on this problem and thirty-seven pages of “paleontological evidence” including the frozen mammoths of Arctic Siberia. Einstein was now convinced. On the 18th of May 1954, Einstein wrote a very favorable foreword for Hapgood’s book EARTH’S SHIFTING CRUST: A KEY TO SOME BASIC PROBLEMS OF EARTH SCIENCE (published in 1958 by Pantheon Books, New York). The Foreword begins:

“I frequently receive communications from people who wish to consult me concerning their unpublished ideas. It goes without saying that these ideas are very seldom possessed of scientific validity. The very first communication, however, that I received from Mr. Hapgood electrified me. His idea is original, of great simplicity, and – if it continues to prove itself of great importance to everything that is related to the history of the earth’s surface. … I think that this rather astonishing, even fascinating, idea deserves the serious attention of anyone who concerns himself with the theory of the earth’s development.”
Hapgood and Einstein continued to correspond and finally met in January of 1955.
Einstein’s last letter was dated the 9th of March 1955 just weeks before the great physicist died on the 18th of April 1955.

Einstein’s Archives are held in Jerusalem (with copies at Princeton) where they hold the record of an unique and unheralded collaboration on the theory of earth crust displacement.

We began corresponding with Hapgood in 1977.

See Atlantis Books.