Of course, it's not even in 1995 the the notion of a lost civilization was not a new idea
That notion has been around for a very long time
We can take that notion
Actually back thousands and thousands of years the most famous example is plato the Greek Philosopher plato
who
Gave us the story of Atlantis from plato comes the story of Atlantis a great
Advanced civilization
Which had navigating in sea-fearing skills which could explore the world which built
gigantic buildings which had advanced knowledge in every area which was
prosperous and powerful, but then plato says that
corruption Crept into this society that it became
cruel and avaricious. It became greedy it began to impose its power
Around the world and he has a very ringing phrase he said that
Atlantis ceased to wear its prosperity with Moderation and
The suggestion is that it's this this Hubris this?
Conceit of Atlantis that had become so sure of itself that somehow the universe
Struck it down
and we have the the cataclysm of flood and and disaster and the
Atlantis is submerged beneath the waves now of course the view of historians and academics
Is that plato story is just made [up] he just made it up to make [some] political or philosophical point?
But this [cannot] be so that that that you can't be right?
I was very suspicious of that view the first time I heard it from a mainstream historian
I say that plato made this up plato repeatedly states that it is a true story
And as we look into it further we find something else that plato
Puts a date on the destruction of Atlantis he says Atlantis
Was submerged beneath the waves in a huge global cataclysm?
Nine thousand years before the [time] of soul on that gives us an absolute date for this
We know soul on we know who he was [Sollen] was a famous Greek lawmaker
He was an ancestor of plato as a matter of fact about 200 years before plato and around 600 BC
soul on the Great Greek lawmaker
Made a visit to egypt and in egypt the priests are the temple of [syce] in the in the Delta
Told him the story of Atlantis and they said that it was written on the walls of the temple
And he said when did this happen when was this great civilization destroyed and they said 9,000 years ago and that
[was] in 600 BC. So that's
9600 BC in our calendar that's Eleven thousand six hundred years ago
Plato is telling us a great civilization was destroyed in a global cataclysm of flood Eleven thousand six hundred years ago
He's laughed at by all academics and historians, but then geology comes along and Lo and behold. What do we find?
Eleven thousand six hundred years ago is a truly cataclysmic
Episode in Geological history, it's called Melt water pulse [1b]
We have a massive rise in sea level as the ice sheets on North America and Northern Europe just column
But crumble and collapse into the ocean if plato made the whole thing up
he was just
astonishingly on the money
with the latest geology
And I think that we [really] have to reconsider our attitudes to these stories that have come down to us from the past
Academics have been too quick to dismiss them too quick to say oh we figured the whole story out. There's no mystery there
Maybe there's a huge mystery there
Maybe we should listen to these clues and hints from the past that speak of a great civilization
so when I published fingerprints of the gods in
in
1995
It was at the end of a long lineage going back to plato and before and of course famously ignatius Donnelly in the 1900s
The early 1900s and late eighteen hundreds wrote Atlantis the antediluvian world which was a huge investigation of Atlantis
So this subject has been tackled again and again and again and again
Mainstream Academia has said no, it's impossible there could be no lost civilization
We know everything about the past and it's been dismissed
but the problem is that new evidence keeps coming out which can't be explained by
the existing historical model new evidence that just doesn't fit the picture and
My sense is that this evidence is now be coming overwhelming and that we're reaching a tipping point. Maybe not this year
maybe not next year, but
within our lifetimes we are going to see a
Complete the new understanding of the past or a radical revision of the past and therefore of our place in the world as well
