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Across much of the earth's surface are ancient earthworks and stone monuments built for an unknown purpose. Their shared features suggest that they were originally part of a world wide system; and John Michell argues that they served the elemental science of the archaic civilization which Plato referred to as Atlantis. In this connection the most significant modern discovery is that of 'leys', the mysterious network of straight lines which link the ancient places of Britain and have their counterparts in China, Australia, South America and widely elsewhere.
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A New View Over Atlantis,
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This review is from: The New View over Atlantis (Paperback)
John Michell documents startling revelations relating to alignments and dimensions of many ancient monuments, along with evidence of ley lines in the South of England. Written in an evocative and understandable style, Michell opens up these supposedly 'mystical' and 'unscientific' theories into a convincing and understandable format which can only serve to inspire and enthuse.With exciting evidence suggestive of a former global civilisation, or at least global communication, this explodes the myth that somehow our predecessors were crude natives who just threw a few rocks together in their spare time. I would heartily recommend this book to anybody, it has the clarity of writing to engage a newcomer to the subject and the detail to satisfy an expert - in a few years time writers like John Michell will be a LOT better known than they are currently.
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The window opens...,
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This review is from: The New View over Atlantis (Paperback)
This is a magnificent introduction to the thought and - more importantly - the vision of John Michell, the most influential thinker of what has become known as the New Age. A number of academic disciplines have changed in response to the ideas first outlined here - where are the archaeologists now who, for instance, poo-poohed astrological alignments so heartily in the 1970s? His vision is alternative in the true sense of the word - 'radical traditionalist' as he terms it - offering the perennial cosmology of Plato enlivened with that of Charles Fort.
Perhaps it is the democratic nature of his vision that is most moving and most useful for our times: just as everyman can go out and discover the ancient monoliths buried in Cornish hedges, as he did, so he believed that our great prehistoric structures were designed and sited in response to human feelings and for human purposes, and therefore the Blakean visions of landscape were as valid as Rationalist/materialist ones. As he put it himself: "...As descendents of their builders, separated from them only by the small matter of some 120 generations, it is not unreasonable to suppose that our own impressions of [these sites] might in some degree relate to those of the people who first selected it. And when it comes to feelings and impressions, the people to consult are those whose profession it is to express them - artists and poets." If you are thinking of exploring that inheritance read this first.
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A dreamlike wander along the leylines...,
This review is from: The New View over Atlantis (Paperback)
This is the first John Michell book I have tried. I wasn't too sure what to expect, possibly something along the lines of Julian Cope's The Modern Antiquarian (which I very much enjoyed).Although I found a lot of The New View Over Atlantis highly speculative, Michell is such an engaging and likeable narrator that it didn't seem to matter. The book reads like an extended lecture by a slightly loopy yet beloved professor, which is not intended as a criticism - I would read Michell again.
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