Does the collective memory of mankind harbor deeply disturbing afterimages of cataclysmic disasters that resonate millennia later and affect our thoughts and actions to this day?
In this volume titled "Ghosts of Atlantis," the publisher of the former Atlantis Rising magazine gathers together accounts of lost civilizations like Atlantis that may have perished catastrophically and posits a collective amnesia brought on by horror. "We once rose to the heights," he suggests, "but we then plunged into an abyss from which we have not recovered."
Drawing from the archives of his magazine, J. Douglas Kenyon synthesizes the disappearance of prehistoric societies around the globe from Easter Island and Egypt to the Pillars of Mu in Java and Gobekli Tepe in Turkey to advance the theory that advanced cities and their technologies were traumatically destroyed.
