Map Of Lemuria

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Tibetan teachings -- Tibetan Buddhist Teachings in English with Khen Rinpoche Jangchup Choeden at 1520 Shasta Acres Road in Mount Shasta. Practice workshops in the afternoons; public teachings in the evenings. Participants may choose to attend individual sessions rather than all six. For details: 926-1271 or www.mountshastafriendsoftibetanculture.org Natural healthcare talk -- Dr. Arlan Cage, ND, LAc of Mount Shasta Natural Healing will speak on Health Insurance Coverage – The Medico-Politics of Natural Medicine, 6 p.m., Berryvale Grocery cafe, downtown Mount Shasta. Learn why your health insurance company isn’t paying for alternative natural healthcare and what you can do. Free; 926-1600. • Father’s Day brunch -- 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Coffee Connection, downtown Mount Shasta. All fathers eat free of charge. Menu: scrambled eggs, chile relleno, crepes, pancakes or waffles, turkey ham, sausage patties, biscuits and gravy, fruits, yogurt with fruit, applesauce, pastries, coffee/tea, orange juice. Soup and salads added at 11 a.m. Cost: $8, adults; $4, kids under age 10. Last brunch of season. Info: 926-2622. Carnevale -- Weed’s 57th annual Carnevale is set for July 7, 8, 9 and 10 and includes music, food, carnival rides, beer, vendors, bocce ball and softball tournaments, and Top of the State Race. Weed Chamber of Commerce is accepting applications for vendors and entertainers. For applications or to participate in any of the tournaments: 938-4624 or www.weedchamber.

The Lost Land of Lemuria. « She Thought

The Lemuria of monkeys?

First of all, don’t be silly, lemurs are not monkeys, they are from a different sub-order of primates. The lemurs’ haunting screeches; their nocturnal habits and their large reflective eyes must have seemed haunting to the first Europeans explorer of Madagascar that name the lemurs after the lemures, malevolent specters of ancient roman superstitions.

Now endemic to Madagascar, lemurs once flourished on a much larger range, leaving a trail of fossils in Africa and India. This trail, and its conspicuous absence in Africa (at the time, no lemur fossils had been found there) and the Middle-East was, for XIXth century Phillip Sclater only explainable in one way: Madgascar and India must have been at one time linked as one, allowing for the lemurs to travel and by-pass Africa and the Middle-East as he wrote in his 1864 article:

“The anomalies of the Mammal fauna of Madagascar can best be explained by supposing that… a large continent occupied parts of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans… that this continent was broken up into islands, of which some have become amalgamated with… Africa, some… with what is now Asia; and that in Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands we have existing relics of this great continent, for which… I should propose the name Lemuria ! ”

Most surprising, perhaps is that Sclater was actually right, sort of: while India and Madagascar were indeed once part of a same continental unit, their separation was not due to a land mass sinking under the waves (in fact, mapping of the region shows no sign of such a landmass, cf. figure 1) but through plate tectonics . Despite this slight technical difficulty, this lemurian hypothesis immediately had a profound impact on the booming occultist culture of the time…

 

The Lemuria of psychics.

By happenstance, the time of in which Sclater advanced his hypothesis coincided with the golden age of spiritualism. The religion of spiritualism had been founded in 1840 and was enjoyed its heydays; seances were a highly successful fad among the wealthy and the like of the Fox sisters were at their peak. It is in this context that Helena Blavatsky discovered Lemuria.

Born in 1831 from an influent Russian family, in what would become Ukraine, Blavatsky established herself as a successful medium in New-York city channeling ancient spirits. Quickly, these ancient spirits, and more specifically a small group called the “ascended masters” provided Blavatsky with what would become the foundation of a new Religion: theosophy. A currency, ancestral to many new-age concept, that mixed generously pseudoscience with religions and philosophies from around the world and “revelations” straight from the spirit world.

The lost land of Lemuria, fabulous geographies, catastrophic histories

Alexander Kondratov's The Riddles of the Three Oceans features on its inside cover a bi-colored map which shows Lemuria. In contrast to all other maps of ...

The lost Lemuria, With two maps showing distribution of land areas at different periods

If, however, an inference may be drawn from all the evidence before us, it would seem probable that the older of the two Lemurian maps represented the ...

Lost Lemuria

If, however, an inference may be drawn from all the evidence before us, it would seem probable that the older of the two Lemurian maps represented the ...

Legends of Atlantis and Lost Lemuria

From the older of the two maps it may be seen that the equatorial continent of Lemuria at the time of its greatest expansion nearly girdled the globe, ...

Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria

We were told that it was by mighty Adepts in the days of Atlantis that the Atlantean maps were produced, but we are not aware whether the Lemurian maps were ...