The New View over Atlantis

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Summary: A breath of fresh air!
Review: Like many other readers, I agree with the reviewer who said that this book has 'revolutionary implications' for humanity and the sciences. I read the first edition - years back, and in its own way, it changed my entire perspective on life. One reviewer abandoned it as 'hippy dippy' nonsense - but, such ideas have been heeded and used in Asia, for millennia. Sorry, but 'hippies' did not invent it. Until modern times, such wisdom regulated the lay out of temples, even whole towns in Asia. Rather like acupuncture - the principles involved with 'feng-shui - ley-lines (lung-mei in China) defy strict logic - but, they can be divined in other ways - and work!

A word of caution, however. More than a few people refer to this lost-art as 'earth science' - but, that's too simplistic. From the Chinese point of view, it is an interplay between celestial and terrestrial energy (chi), and it seems that the caucasian practitioners of yore viewed it the same way.
It is not entirely lost to Western people. When push comes to shove, hard-headed business people in Australia have paid diviners to 'dowse' for water - and they are usually successful. 'Dowsing' is but one element - but it is a good place to put 'theory' to the test. As supplementary reading, I recommend Guy Underwood's 'Patterns of the Past' - because he 'dowsed' and mapped the energy-fields around many megalithic sites, cathedrals etc. - with fascinating results. At one time, the Russian Academy of Science sponsored research into such things, finding what were termed 'black pools' - nodes of negative energy which exerted a harmful effect upon humans, animals and plants. John Michell's 'The View Over Atlantis' was a ground-breaking work - and it is good to see this new edition.
Given the worsening picture - environmentally, it seems timely to review ways of thinking, taking man's interdependence with the terrestrial and celestial forces into account. The 'chopped logic' which has governed life since the Industrial Revolution can no longer serve us. Modern physics tells us that the perceived boundaries between things - are largely illusory, and we should explore the prospect of re-alligning science with the wisdom of the ancients. We need scientists who are shamans, to see us through the next millennium and beyond.

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Summary: Absolute nonsense
Review: After reading this book I went on to study Archaeology and History.

Looking back on it now, I can honestly say the book is full of absolute nonsense and Michell completly ignores over 100 years work by some of the greatest academics, archaeologists and historians. The book is packed full of New Age 'Hippy-Dippy' rubbish with no evidence whatsoever to back some it's outragous claims.

Avoid, find yourself a proper academic book to read instead.

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Summary: An excellent overview
Review: An excellent synthesis of the diverse phenomena that fall under the subject 'earth mysteries'. If you are new to this field or have been looking into one area or another about earth mysteries, this work will give you new insights or a better overview. I strongly recommend it.

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Summary: Shape the Earth and measure it
Review: Many things on Earth will remain unexplained for a long time. In the meanwhile we can entertain ourselves with the question of the Atlantis, its position and role in ancient world, its disappearance and with the remnants that were found around the world. Why would anyone want to make straight road that goes over high hills and unpleasant ground when he could simply make a road through most convenient terrain? And how has he (or she) made that road? What did stone circles serve for? No one can really explain this. Mitchell also noticed that whole world (ancient buildings on world, of course) follow some pattern, which is by no means incidental. He tries to figure out and comment this pattern and claims that there is some truth about Plato's Timaios and Kritias. Romans, which are "known" for building long straight roads, were just simply using and rebulding something that has been done long before them. We credited them for something which has not originally come from them without even thinking why would they do so (because they loved geometry:)). Now when Mitchell has shown us that work is much older than we thought, we get baffled. Question for 1,000 US$: Who did it, and why?

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Summary: Revolutionary implications for humanity and the sciences
Review: Our globe reflects the order of the universe, and that pattern is comprehensible to the earth's children. Our ancestors knew this, and lived by that cosmic order. To study it was to honor nature and the earth, as our word "laboratory" demonstrates: the lab was once a place where one not only studied and labored, but also orated and prayed to the power who made all things, a place where Creator and Creation were honored and contemplated, at the same time.

Evidence for a cosmic order is seen in the old straight tracks which one finds all over the world, and which are marked, as Michell demonstrates, by "mounds, old stones, crosses and old crossroads, churches placed on pre-Christian sites, legendary trees, moats and holy wells" as well as other points of interest, depending upon the native culture. These tracks mark the currents of energy which course through the globe, and to which our predecessors were attuned. The cosmic order is also reflected in the correlation between the height of the Great Pyramid and the earth's measurements, and the coincidence of patterns in the sky and those visible on the earth. Folklore also records the power which flows through the earth, in the form of dragon legends which appear with uncanny regularity along such tracks, but it is best experienced at such places as Glastonbury and Teotihuacán, which are alive with an energy not yet detectable by modern science, but which is evident to those sensitive to such things.

Modern science has, alas, seen fit to ignore all this information. The fact that there is an energy coursing through the earth has revolutionary implications for the fields of physics, archeology, anthropology, agriculture, ecology, and politics. It also offers hope for a "human society which is ordered and regulated on cosmic principle, demonstrably reflecting the order of nature and the heavens." Michell is correct in stating that such a society "is the only one which will attract and deserve general acceptance." Our fall from grace has many faces, but all of them are but reflections of the fact that we have forgotten that the universe is ordered, and that nature provides for her children. Our ignorance of the grid of energy beneath our feet is but one example of our lapse.

Here, then, is a book which will demonstrate to skeptics the cosmic order laid out on the earth. For many of us, the otherwise inexplicable body of evidence gathered from folklore, astronomy, geology, archeology and history and placed together in this book makes no sense: combined, they all reveal a pattern of power running through the globe, waiting until such a time as we are again in tune with the cosmos to make use of it. This book, then, is not only a scientific treatise, but a blueprint for the future and a prayer for balance and peace. It is especially recommended to those interested in earth mysteries, and to pagans of all kinds, as well as to those interested in finding a way out of the maze of thought which modern science has built up around us, and which prevents us from finding our way back to the garden.

Rating:
Summary: Revolutionary implications for humanity and the sciences
Review: Our globe reflects the order of the universe, and that pattern is comprehensible to the earth's children. Our ancestors knew this, and lived by that cosmic order. To study it was to honor nature and the earth, as our word "laboratory" demonstrates: the lab was once a place where one not only studied and labored, but also orated and prayed to the power who made all things, a place where Creator and Creation were honored and contemplated, at the same time.

Evidence for a cosmic order is seen in the old straight tracks which one finds all over the world, and which are marked, as Michell demonstrates, by "mounds, old stones, crosses and old crossroads, churches placed on pre-Christian sites, legendary trees, moats and holy wells" as well as other points of interest, depending upon the native culture. These tracks mark the currents of energy which course through the globe, and to which our predecessors were attuned. The cosmic order is also reflected in the correlation between the height of the Great Pyramid and the earth's measurements, and the coincidence of patterns in the sky and those visible on the earth. Folklore also records the power which flows through the earth, in the form of dragon legends which appear with uncanny regularity along such tracks, but it is best experienced at such places as Glastonbury and Teotihuacán, which are alive with an energy not yet detectable by modern science, but which is evident to those sensitive to such things.

Modern science has, alas, seen fit to ignore all this information. The fact that there is an energy coursing through the earth has revolutionary implications for the fields of physics, archeology, anthropology, agriculture, ecology, and politics. It also offers hope for a "human society which is ordered and regulated on cosmic principle, demonstrably reflecting the order of nature and the heavens." Michell is correct in stating that such a society "is the only one which will attract and deserve general acceptance." Our fall from grace has many faces, but all of them are but reflections of the fact that we have forgotten that the universe is ordered, and that nature provides for her children. Our ignorance of the grid of energy beneath our feet is but one example of our lapse.

Here, then, is a book which will demonstrate to skeptics the cosmic order laid out on the earth. For many of us, the otherwise inexplicable body of evidence gathered from folklore, astronomy, geology, archeology and history and placed together in this book makes no sense: combined, they all reveal a pattern of power running through the globe, waiting until such a time as we are again in tune with the cosmos to make use of it. This book, then, is not only a scientific treatise, but a blueprint for the future and a prayer for balance and peace. It is especially recommended to those interested in earth mysteries, and to pagans of all kinds, as well as to those interested in finding a way out of the maze of thought which modern science has built up around us, and which prevents us from finding our way back to the garden.

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Summary: An excellent overview
Review: This is a seminal work in the rediscovery of earth mysteries and sacred geometry in both contents and style. It is a complete re-writing of the author's first version "The View Over Atlantis", which literally "broke the ground" and introduced the New Age movement to Ley Lines and other "Earth Mysteries", and sacred geometry. By following the stories of the re-discovery of the megalithic temples of England, the author leads us into the very spirit of finding the keys to ancient mysteries. He continues, through the proportions of the Great Pyramid and Stonehenge, Plato's Atlantis and the gnostic codes of the Book of Revelation to the most astounding and original discovery - the "New Jerusalem Diagram". This diagram, derived from both abstract geometry and the actual earth and lunar measures proves the key for almost all the great monuments of antiquity - and a key for mankind's future. One of the most original books written this cen! tury.