The New View Over Atlantis

Across much of the earth's surface are prehistoric sites, ancient earthworks, and stone monuments, built for an unknown purpose, whose shared features suggest that they were originally part of a world wide system. Perhaps the most intriguing such discovery in modern times is that of "lays," the mysterious network of straight lines linking the ancient places of Britain, and their counterparts in China, Australia, South America, and elsewhere around the globe. John Mitchell argues that these are the remains of the elemental science of the archaic, universal civilization that Plato referred to as Atlantis.The New View Over Atlantis explores traditional measures sill in use today, and the corresponding units of the Greeks, Romans, Jews, and Egyptians, pointing out that the same units recur in the dimensions of measurements all over the world, from Stonehenge to Teotihuican. In these measures, Michell uncovers the code to an ancient, elemental science; he suggests that such structures reveal their builders' knowledge of the size and shape of the spheroidal earth and actually embody the outlines of their cosmology.The New View Over Atlantis traces clues to the nature of prehistorical science, drawn from archaeology, mythology, astronomy, geology, and other studies and confirms that traditional sacred places were centers of natural magic, used as such by Druids and other ancient adepts who possessed knowledge—since lost—of the earth's vital energies. Michell's important research points to the rediscovery of a principle in nature that could revolutionize our understanding—and our treatment—of our native planet.