#55 January / February 2006 ® 23 42 ANCIENT MYSTERIES FUTURE SCIENCE 10 UNEXPLAINED ANOMALIES PUBLISHER & EDITOR 32 J. Douglas Kenyon CONTRIBUTORS John Chambers David H. Childress Michael Cremo Julie Gillentine 44 Will Hart Frank Joseph 24 Len Kasten John Kettler Peter King Cynthia Logan Jeane Manning 6 Letters 29 The Lost 42 Weather Wars Marsha Oaks Stephen V. O’Rourke Builders of Is There an Dr. Robert Schoch Unnatural Cause Steven Sora 10 Early Rays Skara Brae Behind Natural Carly Svamvour Who Were They Disasters? COVER PHOTO 17 Report from and Where Did Katrina (NOAA) the Front They Come From? 44 An Angry ATLANTIS RISING® Jeane Manning on Planet published bi-monthly 32 Voice Power Write PO Box 441, the Hard Fight for What Do Today’s Livingston, MT 59047 Electrogravitics Healing Secrets Headlines Mean COPYRIGHT 2006 for Mother Earth? 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In fact, much of the serious work on ID has to do with determining just what evolution itself may require in order to function. One needs a chicken to have an egg and an egg to get a chicken, so, clearly, evolution may occasionally need some help (i.e, an intelligent designer), but that does not mean evolution (i.e., progressive change) is not occurring. On the contrary, it is clear that such change is a fact, and serious proponents of intelligent design have no quarrel with it. To us—notwithstanding accusations that ID is anti-evolution and anti-science—it seems that, instead, it may offer more of an enlightened middle way between false choices. Hereto- fore, we have been told we must select either Biblical Creationism or Evolution. But, what is challenged in the current debate is not Evolution, but ‘Darwinism’—the idea that evolution could occur with only random and material forces at work, no intelligence involved. Ironi- cally, those who ‘believe’ the latter are in actuality staking out a metaphysical position and holding to it by faith without proof (i.e., adhering to a dogma) and are advancing a virtual re- ligion of their own, albeit, while claiming to reject the authority of any religion. The cult of Darwinism, it seems to us, has usurped the role of the priesthood which it has ostensibly overthrown, suggesting that it and only it can provide the answers the world is seeking. And, all the while, feigning an air of injured innocence when its integrity is questioned and its au- thority challenged. While the inner workings of minds at the upper echelons of the Darwinian religion may be difficult for non-believers to fathom, we can still study their influence at lower, less- informed levels of the ecclesiastical hierarchy and make some useful observations. For in- stance, when called to defend the ‘sacred’ cause of ‘science’—perceived as threatened by ID’s growing influence—much of the secular press has obediently rushed to the ramparts. The shrill, even hysterical, denunciation of ID as nothing more than a front for Biblical funda- mentalist creationism and the prophesying of doom—a virtual return to the dark ages— reveals, however, more than the ignorance of the accusers. Indeed, the cries of alarm over the imminent “death of science,” we suspect, reflect diminishing certainty and growing anx- iety over the authority of the entire Darwinian position. In such a state, argument based on merit alone is far too threatening and must be abandoned. Atlantis Rising Magazine exists because many of us have observed a deep disconnect in the orthodox truth-detection mechanisms of our society. The difficulty, we felt, wasn’t so much due to a conspiracy as to a schism tearing apart the very soul of civilization. The re- sult, it can be argued, has been a host of problems—alienation, wars, environmental collapse, etc. One symptom of the disorder is the elevation of the unworthy into positions of authority from which they—in an endless effort to preserve their own advantages—manipulate the levers of power. And where there is opportunity to corrupt, there is no shortage of willing corrupters. The condition is widespread and intolerable. But, hopefully, in the current con- flict over intelligent design, we are witnessing one of those extraordinary moments when the system, in the interest of its own equilibrium, is entering into some much needed self- correction. If that indeed is what is happening, we may witness some intense resistance. So, what else is new? PO Box 4 Lyndon, KS 66451 Publisher 4 ATLANTIS RISING • Number 55 Subscribe or Order Books, Videos and Much More! See Our Great 8-page Catalog Beginning on Page 74 Number 55 • ATLANTIS RISING 5 READER FORUM Fighting the Ignorance riting to Atlantis Rising, via snail who said, “You must mail or e-mail is the best, but reject the Church in not the only way to make your favor of Jesus.” What Wviews known to our readers. passes for the teach- There are also “forums” on the Atlantis ings of Jesus today is Rising web site (go to www. Atlantis- a travesty of dogmas, Rising.com and select “Discussions”). rituals, giant edifices, tithing, prelates and Intelligent Design Controversy bureaucracy, con- I have been reading your latest Issue. The gealed within blind information given is priceless. Our local faith. The Theosoph- Newspaper content is in the nature of mean- ical Society has tried ingless Pap!! to show that the life I am an older man, 85 going on to 86 and force that permeates your article about the Intelligent Design con- the universe is not an troversy and the insane beliefs of the “Estab- anthropomorphic lishment” scientists who state that no plan- personal god-made ning or design exists in the world we see, are image, but an imper- like the man/woman who has been placed in sonal, unknowable an insane asylum because of their sincerely principle in Divine held belief that they are Attila, the Hun!! Nature. Regardless, I am so sad that such ignorance of our Cayce people have re- being flourishes and is even justified by the jected Theosophy, establishment; and I shudder to think the ef- not realizing that fect it will have upon our already barbaric nearly everything civilization, and I thank you for publishing Cayce said had been the facts about these idiots and their theo- published in theo- ries. I ask, what material expression can exist sophical literature in without unseen mental designing? the last quarter of the Jon George 19th century. New Westminster, B.C. Here are some examples: Spiritual Choices “For verily all the I very much enjoy reading your magazine wonders or our age and in the last issue I especially enjoyed the are destined to be- article by David Lewis about the Dead Sea come but the Scrolls and the origins of Christianity (“East ephemera of the century that is slowly ap- of Qumran, Searching for the Roots of proaching us, [20th] while they remain but slain by thousands, “New” land appear and Western Faith,” A.R. #53). I think it would be the dreams and often the nightmares of the “old” subside, volcanic eruptions and tidal a good idea to let your readers know that if present era. All this will surely pass away and waves appall, but secrets of an unsuspected anyone is interested in learning more about be no more. A seismic breath in Egypt may past, will be uncovered to the dismay of the esoteric teachings of Jesus and the simi- occur tomorrow and the earth will then western theorists, and the humiliation of an larities of Eastern religions and original “open her mouth” and swallow the waters at imperious science. This drifting ship, if Christianity they should read “The Second the canal of Suez, and it will become an im- watched, may be seen to ground upon the Coming of Christ” by Paramahansa Yoga- passable bog. A Terremotos, or worse still, a upheaved vestiges of ancient civilizations, nanda, published by Self Realization Fellow- Succussatore, as they are called in South and fall to pieces. We are not emulous of the ship, Los Angeles. America, may lift the Long Island with its prophet’s honors, but still, let this stand as a This is a beautifully printed and massively “Liberty” and toss them both a hundred feet prophecy.” (from Damodar and the Pioneers annotated two-volume 1700-page work that high in the blue air, but to drop them down, of the Theosophical Society, by Sven Eek, is a revelatory commentary on the original covering their watery grave with the never- Adyar, lndia, 1965, p.