Atlantis Rising Magazine 89 September October 2011

In This Issue: Early Rays Jeane Manning Michael Cremo: What Do We Really Know About Ancient Giants? The Enigma of the Carpathain Sphinx: Following the Neanderthal Trail in Eastern Europe Mitterrand’s Monuments: Esoteric Architecture Still Lives Frederic W.H. Myers: Psychology’s Forgotten Man Roerich and Tibet: Traveling the Road to Shambhala Legend of the Three Marys: There’s More to the Story than Dan Brown Told Us Gods of the Runes: Is There Power in Ancient Letters? Out-of-Body Experiences Ancient Astronauts or Guiding Spirit? The Mysterious Origins of Ancient Technology Nuclear Meltdown and Time Dilation: Did Japan’s Tragedy Modify Space-Time? Atlantis and the Stars Should the Search Be Directed Upward?

INSIDE ISSUE #90 November/December 2011: ET PRESENCE: Indians & Aliens GREATER DIMENSIONS: Return Engagements The Paraffin Mold Experiments The Brownings and the Medium Did Ancient Shamans Know Secrets of the Wave? When Three Is a Charm Dating the Oldest Cut Marks on Bone NEW AGE ADVENTURE: The Perilous Plight of Rockall Island Mysteries in the Fields

In this issue: Letters Alternative News Jeane Manning Michael Cremo - Psychic Archaeology Cornered Zahi Hawass Lashes Out - Author Robert Bauval Attacked in Egyptian Press Acupuncture & the Ice Man - How Could a Prehistoric Body Be So Treated? Tragic History of Great Zimbabwe The Black Cross of Scotland - Has the Lost Relic Been Found? Rescuing Rapunzel - Why Do Some Ancient Tales Still Resonate? The ‘Future’ of Science Fiction Puma Punku Still an Enigma Solar Catastrophe - Could the End of the Last Age Be Repeated in Our Time? Paradox of the Cathedrals - Were They Simply Monuments to Faith or Something Else? Tracking the Piri Reis Map - Does It Hold Clues to the Origins of Civilization?

In this Issue: Letters Early Rays Jeane Manning - Italian Cold Fusion? Michael Cremo - Thoughts on Ancient Aliens Egyptology on the Brink A Political Earthquake Rattles Mainstream Archaeology Gardens Under the Sea Have the Answers We Seek Been Drowned for Millennia? Easter & the Rites of Spring Mysterious Celebrations of Rebirth and Renewal Lineages of Spiritual Power The Secrets of Passing the Torch The Lost Legacy of Freemasonry NDEs in the Olden Days Is Modern Research Late to the Game? Mirror Factors What Do They Really Reveal? Hitler’s Last Card Did War’s End Prevent a Nasty Surprise? The Icon that Saved Russia The Real Story Behind the Tangled International Politics Secrets of the Geoglyphs The Ancient Designers Clearly Knew a Few Tricks

In this edition: Letters Alternative News Jeane Manning - Tiny Tornadoes of Magnetism Michael Cremo - The ‘Tooth’ Is Out There Hominid Hokum - Do We Know What We Think We Know About Our Ancestors? Subterranean Cappadocia - Mysterious Ancient Underground Cities—Ice Age Shelters? Soul Stuff - Are Deathbed Mists the Soul Departing? Jesse James: Secret Agent- Preserving the Confederacy with Bank Robbery and Murder Plato and the Near Death Experience Rudolph Steiner and Visible Speech Norsemen in Minnesota The Atlantis Connection? - Strange Genetic Links Between North America and the Ancient Middle East The Great Pyramid’s Missing Capstone - It Was There Once, but What Happened to It? Lucid Dreams - When the Stuff of Dreams Becomes More than Real

Millions are wondering what the future holds for mankind, and if we are soon due for a world-changing global shift. Paramhansa Yogananda (author of the classic Autobiography of a Yogi) and his teacher, Sri Yukteswar, offered key insights into this subject. They presented a fascinating explanation of the rising and falling eras that our planet cycles through every 24,000 years. According to their teachings, we have recently passed through the low ebb in that cycle and are moving to a higher age—an Energy Age that will revolutionize the world. Over one hundred years ago Yukteswar predicted that we would live in a time of extraordinary change, and that much that we believe to be fixed and true—our entire way of looking at the world — would be transformed and uplifted. In The Yugas, authors Joseph Selbie and David Steinmetz present substantial and intriguing evidence from the findings of historians and scientists that demonstrate the truth of Yukteswar’s and Yogananda’s revelations.

The Rise of Victimhood Culture offers a framework for understanding recent moral conflicts at U.S. universities, which have bled into society at large. These are not the familiar clashes between liberals and conservatives or the religious and the secular: instead, they are clashes between a new moral culture—victimhood culture—and a more traditional culture of dignity. Even as students increasingly demand trigger warnings and “safe spaces,” many young people are quick to police the words and deeds of others, who in turn claim that political correctness has run amok. Interestingly, members of both camps often consider themselves victims of the other. In tracking the rise of victimhood culture, Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning help to decode an often dizzying cultural milieu, from campus riots over conservative speakers and debates around free speech to the election of Donald Trump.

This provocative account of our obsession with neuroscience brilliantly illuminates what contemporary neuroscience and brain imaging can and cannot tell us about ourselves, providing a much-needed reminder about the many factors that make us who we are. What can't neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI -- functional magnetic resonance imaging -- was introduced in the early 1990s, brain scans have been used to help politicians understand and manipulate voters, determine guilt in court cases, and make sense of everything from musical aptitude to romantic love. br In Brainwashed, psychiatrist and AEI scholar Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld reveal how many of the real-world applications of human neuroscience gloss over its limitations and intricacies, at times obscuring -- rather than clarifying -- the myriad factors that shape our behavior and identities. Brain scans, Satel and Lilienfeld show, are useful but often ambiguous representations of a highly complex system. Each region of the brain participates in a host of experiences and interacts with other regions, so seeing one area light up on an fMRI in response to a stimulus doesn't automatically indicate a particular sensation or capture the higher cognitive functions that come from those interactions. The narrow focus on the brain's physical processes also assumes that our subjective experiences can be explained away by biology alone. As Satel and Lilienfeld explain, this "neurocentric" view of the mind risks undermining our most deeply held ideas about selfhood, free will, and personal responsibility, putting us at risk of making harmful mistakes, whether in the courtroom, interrogation room, or addiction treatment clinic. Although brain scans and other neurotechnologies have provided groundbreaking insights into the workings of the human brain, Brainwashed shows readers that the increasingly fashionable idea that they are the most important means of answering the enduring mysteries of psychology is misguided -- and potentially dangerous.