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Lemuria
Justin McHenry
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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Medien, Kommunikation
Beschreibung
Is Lemuria a real place or the fever dream of crackpots, mystics, conspiracy theorists, and Bigfoot hunters?
Below the waters where the Pacific and Indian Oceans lies a lost continent. One of hopes and dreams that housed a race of beings that arrived from foreign planets and from which sprang humanity, religion, civilization, and our modern world. It was called Lemuria and it was all fake.
What began as a theoretical land bridge to explain the mystery of lemurs on Madagascar quickly got hijacked to become the evolutionary home of humankind, the cradle of spirituality, and then the source of cosmological wonders. Abandoned by science as hokum, Lemuria morphed into a land filled with ancient, advanced civilizations, hollowed-out mountains full of gold and crystals, moon-beings descending in baskets, underground evil creatures, and a breast-feeding Bigfoot.
The history of Lemuria is populated with a dizzying array of people from early Darwinists to conspiracy spouting Congressmen, globetrotting madams, Rosicrucians, Hollow-Earthers, sci-fi writers, UFO contactees, sleeping prophets, New Age channelers, a “Mother God”, and a tequila swigging conspiracy theorist. Historian Justin McHenry provides a thoughtful exploration of how pseudo-science hijacked the gentle Victorian-era concept of Lemuria and, in following decades, twisted it into an all-encompassing home for alternative ideas about race, spirituality, science, politics, and the paranormal.
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“The expert touch of writer and historian Justin McHenry beautifully orchestrates the writings of Caroline “Danske” Dandridge into fluid narratives with vivid prose, giving the reader an experience much like reading a personal diary. Recommend for gardening and history enthusiasts alike.“ – <b>Kelly White</b>, Writer and Historian. <p><span><br></span></p> <p>"Justin McHenry has arranged, with great skill and subtle structural guidance, this interesting collection of poetic prose. It is a beautiful and engaging portrait rendered in words by Danske Dandridge and lovingly framed by Mr. McHenry."
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Cryptid, cryptozoology, history of science, victorian, new thought, I AM, lemurs, Madagascar, land bridge theory, early science, ufo, lizard people, alien architecture