Hidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other Worlds

Jerome Clark

Description

The secrets of mystical and legendary places—revealed!

Have you ever wondered about mythical and legendary worlds such as the lost continent of Atlantis? Have you ever heard of Mu and the Lemurians, who some say still exist among us? Respected researcher of unexplained phenomena, Jerome Clark, provides a comprehensive and trustworthy look at ancient mysteries, fictional fantasy lands, and extraterrestrial civilizations in his book, Hidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other Worlds.

Claims of supernatural realms, parallel worlds, and legendary, lost civilizations are put to the test in this well-researched guide to the unexplained. Firsthand accounts and historical documents are explored, and in-depth coverage is provided on the mysteries of imagination, culture, perception, consciousness and more. Beliefs, doctrines, experiences, and places are described and explored in this truly comprehensive guide to the wacky, weird, and otherworldly, including:

The hollow earth populated by a rich natural world and inhabited by an advanced civilization

The amazing powers of psychic healer Edward Cayce, who gained healing and prophetic abilities by connecting with “The Source”

Encounters with peoples of the alternate solar system, and the amazing worlds of Meton, Lanulos, Nibiru, Clarion, Maldek, and Kazik

Richard S. Shaver’s personal experiences in an underground hell—replete with demons and ghouls

The evil plots of the Snake people to destroy our planet

Witnesses testimony of meeting fairies, goblins, and other mythical folk

Ancient Celtic seers

Life on Mars and encounters with Martians

Alien worlds

Parallel universes

Mystery airships

And much more!

With many photos, illustrations, and other graphics, this tome is richly illustrated, and its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. Highlighting news articles, historical accounts, and first-person interviews,Hidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other Worlds will leave you wondering what is and isn’t real!

Sujets

• Unexplained Phenomena
• Conspiracy Theories
• Body (disambiguation)
• Lemuria
• Mount Shasta
• Conspiracy theory
• Erich von Däniken
• Mont Shasta

Informations

• Publié par: Visible Ink Press
• Date de parution: 01 juin 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781578593408
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

Extrait

About the Author

(photo by Carmen Ronan)
Jerome Clark is a prize-winning author of the multivolume UFO Encyclopedia (1990–1998) and other books, including Unexplained! Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena (Visible Ink Press, 1998) and Unnatural Phenomena (2005). A former editor of Fate magazine, he serves on the board of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies and co-edits its magazine, International UFO Reporter. In June 2008 the Society for Scientific Exploration, an organization of professionals in the physical and social sciences, gave him its Dinsdale Award for “significant contributions to the expansion of human understanding through the study of unexplained phenomena … which have brought to the general public comprehensive and trustworthy information presented from a sophisticated perspective.”
Clark is also a songwriter (Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Tom T. Hall, Seldom Scene, Mary Black, and others) and a prolific writer on roots music. He pursues a wide range of interests—political, historical, and literary—from his home in Minnesota.
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  Clark, Jerome.     Hidden realms, lost civilizations, and beings from other worlds / by Jerome Clark.            p. cm.   Includes bibliographical references and index.   ISBN 978-1-57859-175-6   1. Lost continents. 2. Geographical myths. 3. Extraterrestrial beings. I. Title.   GN751. C6 2010                                                            398.23’4—dc22                                                                                                 2010000785
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For Arthur & Vivien Larson
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE Earth’s Secret Places
Lemurian Mountain: Outpost of the Lost Continentals
A Sunken Continent of the Mind: Cayce’s Atlantis
Cities of the Poles: Voyages by Exclamation Point
Living Hell: The Demons beneath Us
PART TWO The Alternate Solar System
By the Light of the Moon: Lives of the Lunarians
Shrouded in Mystery: Venusians in All Their Variety
The Not-So-Dying Race: Martians Envisioned and Encountered
Extremophile Living: Life and Love on the Outer Planets
PART THREE Between This World and the Otherworld
The Road to Fair Elfland: Fairies Experienced
Ghost Riders in the Sky: Spectral Armies on the March
Sky Serpents: The Horror of the Heights
Mystery Airships: Aeronauts from the Twilight Zone
Endnotes
Index
Acknowledgments
T o Chris Aubeck, Henry H. Bauer, W. Ritchie Benedict, Lucius Farish, Kevin Hile, Theo Paijmans, Mark Rodeghier, Nick Sucik, David Sutton, Michael D. Swords, and Robert Wood, who all, in one way or another, knowingly or unknowingly, made this book possible. And especially to my publisher, Roger Jänecke, for his saintly patience and splendid ideas, and to my wife, Helene Henderson, for putting up with years’ worth of an author’s complaints and frustrations. And finally, to two great men, the long-gone Charles Fort and the longer-gone Rev. Robert Kirk, for setting the thoughts in motion.
Introduction
A t most given moments, human beings live in two worlds. One is pedestrian reality, the other the one we experience in dreams and speculations. Each world has its wonders and its horrors, and each can elevate or bring us down. Both are tricky to negotiate. To the unwary, both offer false certainties that, just as we are most sure of them, can fall out from under our feet.
Tricks of certainty respect no educational level or social class. Anyone can become obsessed with a belief that seems sensible, even empirically grounded, and some go to their graves unabused of a notion even when most other observers think it has been conclusively discredited—for example, Percival Lowell and his Martian canals. So unyielding was his advocacy, even in the face of what others saw as growing disconfirmation, that it lived on decades past his death and was at last abandoned in the face of evidence that even the most resolute could no longer deny. On the other extreme, many followers of flying-saucer contactee George Adamski, who claimed associations with Venusians, Martians, and Saturnians, refused to be persuaded by clear and specific indications that his stories were conscious fabrications.
If some things are purely imaginary—and no less interesting and revelatory for that—other things are something else, something not quite wholly real and something not quite wholly dreamed up. Something, in other words, that can be experienced vividly in ways that resist both prosaic explanation and lazy categorization. Call them encounters of the liminal kind, visions on the threshold of possibility, or—as I prefer—experience anomalies, as opposed to anomalous events. The latter can be demonstrated, or at least potentially demonstrated, to have occurred in consensus-level reality. They exist in the world, and you can prove as much, even if not always easily.
Experience anomalies, on the other hand, are visions of the otherworldly, and nothing brings them into or keeps them inside this world in any but an experiential sense. They are preserved in memory and testimony and nowhere else. That, however, makes them no less mysterious. Indeed, they are highly mysterious, so much so that they transcend language itself. To the extent that vocabulary tries to encapsulate them, it conjures up the noun and adjective “visionary,” which translates as “powerful hallucination,” except that hallucinations by definition are subjective and personal. The contents of experience anomalies are subjective—in the sense that (as this book will demonstrate) they tend to be culture-specific—in other words, in forms that are at once supernatural and recognizable—but they are also collectively observed. More than one person can have the experience of “seeing” a strange being, creature, object, or landscape. Ordinarily, collective perception settles the issue of whether or not the perceived something is “real,” but not in this third world. Here, we learn that an experience of the otherworldly can be, indeed, experienced. We also learn that an experience is not automatically an event, and it is all the more mind-bogglingly puzzling for that.
Among the consistent themes of the human presence in all times and places is the longing for fantastic places with populations of fantastic beings to match. Such realms may well exist on extrasolar planets astronomers are now discovering almost daily and in parallel universes about which physicists continue to theorize. But if they exist as so-far-unproved possibilities, we human beings are not content to await validation from authority. In the meantime, we do as we have always done: explore those hidden realms of the imagination. Even more evocatively, those realms enigmatically continue to open themselves to our experiences of them, and for a brief time, before they fade back into mist and memory, we live them.
—Jerome Clark Minnesota August 31, 2009

S ituated near the southern end of the Cascade range, in Siskiyou County, Mt.