Atlantis - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 5/17/23

Western intellectual history, US foreign policy. Michael is also a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly and was a one time research assistant for investigative journalist Whitney Webb while she was writing her best selling two part series One Nation Under Blackmail. Michael, welcome to the program.

of the human story that was not complete. And later when I became a professor, traditional mainstream college professor at Young Professor in Chicago for about twelve years, and I started to look more seriously into ancient history when I would teach a survey course, say on Egypt or ancient Greece, that there really was something to these seminole accounts that for the most part, were transmitted from two of Plato's iconic dialogues with Timaeus and Critias and a few others

anecdotally before that, and you know, it was just something that I kind of put on the back burner until one day I started to take this subject very seriously and it kind of led me down a seven year rabbit hole that was initially just a series of notes and kind of ideas that I just jotted down, and at the end of seven years, I realized, you know, you actually have a book if you sit down and

organize this. And you know, through the urging of my friends and colleagues, they said, you know, you should tell this story, and so I did it. I published it around Christmas last year. So here I am.

surveying the Atlantic Ocean. And to answer your question, just simply, if you look in the Middle Atlantic, you see actually the outline of an enormous continent that we call the mid Atlantic Ridge, which is a giant sunken what we call mountain range that has seamounts that pop out Bermuda, the Azores. So my first response always is, you know, let's just look at what we can look at, which is the ocean floors, and indeed there is a large

continental land mass there. Of course, the problem most people have is imagining, well, what kind of catastrophe could have befell the fall on the Earth to create that kind of flooding and those kinds of Earth changes to you know, completely submerge that part of the world. And I understand that, you know, that's that's absolutely understandable. And at the same time as I'm sure we'll get into a little bit more, you know, this whole idea, the language of this question,

you know, the lost continent, the lost island. That research really kind of took me on its own route, which which showed that there were more likely more than likely three at least that I can see destructions of this former continent that reduced it to the smaller island and surrounding archipelago that Plato, for example, was probably talking about when he described an island roughly you know, three quarters of the size of say, modern Spain, off the coast

of the Mediterranean. So yeah, I always tell people just look at the map, you know, look at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Which, again, where did that name come from?

got the story from the ancient Egyptians. And that's really critical because one of the four first sources that I could find dimensions a word similar to Atlantis and I had a similar civilization, would be an actual Egyptian document to turn king list from the thirteenth century BC. So

you're talking nine hundred years before Plato. The Egyptians were talking about this time roughly ten thousand BC in our timeline, just right around the same time Plato says the continent was destroyed, and he says six hundred but around that time, and the Egyptians said there were ten basically god kings, however you want to interpret that, but very powerful people that lived a long time, who ruled in a foreign land.

There were ten of them that was destroyed and that was a kind of golden age that they called zep Tepi. And then only thousands of years after that did the dynastic period that we call Ancient Egypt, with the pharaohs and things like this. Again, so that's one. And another one, just briefly is the Mahabarata from India, which could be as old as a thousand years BC eight hundred BC, but certainly about five hundred years at least before Plato.

And they mentioned a place called Attala, and they say this was an island to the west that was destroyed after a ten year war and sank into the ocean. So to me, these are very compelling pre plotonic sources that lend a lot of credibility to these later accounts that people think are the first accounts of this content.

hundreds to ten thousand BC. And I say most likely because you know, as many people know through the work of Graham Hancock and other people who brought to attention the fact that researchers in around fifteen years ago discovered fairly compelling evidence of you know, nano diamond fragments all over the globe that suggests an enormous catastrophe, celestial body hitting the Earth, who prod likely did it, and the final I stage and began the Holocene period that we

live in, which is not radically different than the previous let's say, roughly speaking, you know, for our verses one hundred thousand years, which themselves had ups and downs. But yeah, I think that's actually quite compelling. And you know, a lot of people suggest that that comment or asteroid could have actually hit on the North Atlantic ice sheet, why there's no impact crater, or some people suggest even off the Carolina coast. So yeah, I think that's actually quite compelling.

And indeed, in Plato's account, the Egyptian priest talks about that. He says, you Greeks call it the mint with faith on, but that mynth signifies an actual heavenly body falling to Earth and burning up everything on it. So I think there you go. You have two sources right there for at least final destruction of Atlantis.

and it was human cause. And so in Casey's timeline, it was the misapplication of a tremendously powerful what he basically describes nineteen thirties when he gave this reading, which is incredible, a sort of directed energy weapon that he claims was beamed from or to and bounced off the stratosphere into volcanic flows on different parts of the Earth, not for warfare, but to actually destroy the food supply, he claims, of the megafauna that were overrunning the earth,

because this is the ice age with favored to tigers and giant floss. And as strange as that sounds, in my research, indeed I did find unexplained like a final extinction From the Journal of Quaternary Studies peer viewed mainstream Journal at fifty thousand BC.

And he said that at the same time, actually there was a pull shift, magnetic pull shift that was already in progress, and that this weapon exacerbated the effects of that pull shift and basically dramatically altered the consours of the Earth and fractured even certain tectonic plates and basically broke this thing up. So answer your question, it's it's it's many things, because I believe there were at least three destructions of the civilization that spanned about forty to

fifty thousand years. As incredible as that sounds, can.

clairvoyant or channeled sources or remote viewing sources. And yeah, to answer your question, it's absolutely astounding, not just the level of detail that some of the channelers gave of this technology, but like you said, imagining, you know, what it would be like to have a weapon that's essentially a ground based death star or you know, stratospheric lessons that you know, we may possess today but have not deployed to our knowledge. You know, that's that's very interesting.

That absolutely describes lying machines and from my research into say the channelings from a dwell around two planets, which fun very compelling because that book was channeled in eighteen eighty six, before anybody had ever flown anything but a balloon. And he's describing cigar shape basically modern you know, cigar ufo type devices that can fly in the air, fly in the high stratgere, travel underwater, and that we're powered

by this very arcane crystal entrainment technology. So I absolutely think so, Yeah, I think it's absolutely possible.

we all have come back at this time? And in Casey's understanding of reincarnation and kind of the cycle of life, you know, people come back in soul groups, which I think is a very interesting idea, and if you multiply those soul groups enough, you have whole cultures coming back.

And this is something that not just Casey mentioned, it's something that many channelers have mentioned that perhaps entire elements of say a certain timeline of Atlantis have decided to come back as human beings in our timeline, you know, and play out the same drama, see if they can

get it right or learn something new. And I also think on a kind of negative answer to that question, you know, there's the love affair, and there's of course, you know, the more you love something, the more you probably are eventually going to you know, hate it if it turns on you. And I think, as we've seen from the tremendous criticism people like Graham Hancock have gotten just from proposing that there could be an ancient civilization

that predates, say, you know, with technology, right. I think that mainstream science is so challenged, and not just mainstream science, but entire mainstream you know, disciplines history, anthropology. They're so challenged by you know, an independent researcher or somebody who's claiming that, hey, there's actually corroborating evidence between clairvoyant or

remote viewed images from the past and archaeological discovery. That's very difficult to explain if you think this is fake, and you know, they don't want to admit that, Hey, maybe Kufu didn't build the Great Pyramid. Perhaps it was, as many people have suggested myself included, built by people from a much more advanced, much older civilization, and the dynastic Egyptians inherited it, you know, because people have built

careers on that. And I know for a fact as a historian, the profession does not generally like to change to change course.

not supposed to have had communication. You have the same etymology, you have the same imagery. And what's fascinating about that exact term that god is that In one of my main sources as well, around two Planets from eighteen eighty six, a seventeen year old kid with no education living in the wild West in Eureka, California, channels a book of a past life in Atlantis, and one of the things he said was he's looking back on the the final

destruction of it. And he says, you know, alas, I'm paraphrasing something like a Las Atlan, never to be seen again, which beheld the world at its heights in science, arts, and civilization. And it really it struck me because it's like we look at Atlas, or we look at Atlanta, Alto. Let me think, these silly people, they thought they were holding up the world, and you know, like Native Americans thought the earth was on the back of a turtle.

But think about a modern person who perhaps would portray the same thing, let's say, to represent the United States, you know, a superpower. And I think when you look between the lines like that, you see that these aren't just near symbolic and archaic representations of gods and you know, kind of from a primitive or superstitious people. These are actually more modern people than us in many ways.