Forbidden History: Prehistoric Technologies, Extraterrestrial Intervention, and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization

Table of Contents

Title Page

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE • The Old Models Don’t Work: Darwinism and Creationism under Fire

1. Darwin’s Demise: On the Futile Search for Missing Links

• Will Hart

2. Evolution vs. Creation: Is the Debate for Real?

• David Lewis

WHAT ABOUT THE BIBLE AND CREATIONISM?

NEW GROUND OR ANCIENT WISDOM?

LOST CIVILIZATIONS, THE REAL MISSING LINK?

WHY LIMIT THE DEBATE TO WESTERN MODELS?

3. Exposing a Scientific Cover-Up: Forbidden Archeology Coauthor Michael Cremo Talks about the “Knowledge Filter” and Other Means for Cooking the Academic Books

• J. Douglas Kenyon

PART TWO • Making the Case for Catastrophism: Earth Changes, Sudden and Gradual

4. In Defense of Catastrophes: Pioneering Geologist Robert Schoch Challenges the Conventional Wisdom on Natural History

• William P. Eigles

5. Cataclysm 9500 B.C.E.: Two New Works of Immense Scholarship Throw Orthodox Ice Age Theories into Question and, in the Process, Corroborate Plato and Many Other Ancient Sources

• David Lewis

ORTHODOX ASSUMPTIONS

LETTING THE FACTS SPEAK

CONTRIVED SCIENCE

COSMIC EXPLOSIONS

WHAT THE ANCIENTS KNEW

6. The Case for the Flood: Exposing the Scientific Myth of the Ice Age

• Peter Bros

7. The Martyrdom of Immanuel Velikovsky: As Catastrophists Gain Ground, an Early Hero Gets Some Long Overdue Credit

• John Kettler

INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS; SCIENTIFICALLY DAMNED

VELIKOVSKY: INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENTIFIC HERETIC

8. The Perils of Planetary Amnesia: As Evidence of Ancient Cataclysm Mounts, the Legacy of a Rejected Genius Is Reconsidered

• Steve Parsons

OPENING THE MIND TO THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE

UNLOCKING AMNESIA THROUGH MYTH

9. Thunderbolts of the Gods: Does Growing Evidence of an Electric Universe Reveal Previously Hidden Meaning in Ancient Mythology?

• Mel and Amy Acheson

COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY

THE WEAPON OF THE GODS

ELECTRICITY AND ASTRONOMY

PLANETARY PLASMA EFFECTS

THE LIGHTNING-SCARRED GOD

THE LIGHTNING-SCARRED PLANET

PART THREE • Exploring the Greater Antiquity of Civilization

10. The Enigma of India’s Origins: The Dating of New Discoveries in the Gulf of Cambay Upsets the Orthodox Scenario for the Dawn of Civilization

• David Lewis

11. Pushing Back the Portals of Civilization: For John Anthony West, the Quest for Evidence of Advanced Prehistoric Civilization Is Bearing New Fruit

• J. Douglas Kenyon

THE LEGACY OF SCHWALLER DE LUBICZ

SECRETS OF THE RED PYRAMID

TOWARD A PROPER EGYPTOLOGY

12. New Studies Confirm Very Old Sphinx: Orthodox Protests Notwithstanding, Evidence for the Schoch/West Thesis Is Growing

• Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D.

PHOTO INSERT

13. R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz’s Magnum Opus: The Keys to Understanding the Wisdom of the Ancients Have Been Preserved

• Joseph Ray, Ph.D.

14. Fingerprinting the Gods: A Bestselling Author Is Making a Convincing Case for a Great but Officially Forgotten Civilization

• J. Douglas Kenyon

15. The Central American Mystery: What Could Explain the Failure of Mainstream Science to Unravel the Origins of Mesoamerica’s Advanced Ancient Cultures?

• Will Hart

16. Destination Galactic Center: John Major Jenkins Thinks Today’s World Has Much to Learn from the Ancient Maya

• Moira Timms

A VISION QUEST

THINKING AND KNOWING

THE BEGINNING IS NEAR, THE BEGINNING IS NEAR!

PART FOUR • Searching for the Fountainhead

17. Megalithic England: The Atlantean Dimensions, a Conversation with John Michell

• J. Douglas Kenyon

18. Plato, the Truth: How Does the Credibility of the Best-Known Chronicler of Atlantis Stand Up?

• Frank Joseph

19. The Aegean Atlantis Deception: Was Plato’s Grand Tale Nothing More Than the Saga of an Insignificant Greek Island?

• Frank Joseph

A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY

AN OCEAN OF SUNKEN ISLANDS

A LABYRINTH OF MISINFORMATION

A CONFUSION OF DATES

20. Atlantology: Psychotic or Inspired? Media Stereotypes Aside, What Kind of Person Pursues Knowledge of a Forgotten Civilization?

• Frank Joseph

21. Atlantis in Antarctica: Forget About the North Atlantic and the Aegean, Says Author Rand Flem-Ath

• J. Douglas Kenyon

22. Blueprint from Atlantis: Doments of Ancient Monuments Have Something to Tell Us about the History of Earth’s Shifting Crust?

• Rand Flem-Ath

23. Japan’s Underwater Ruins: Have Remains of Ancient Lemuria Been Found?

• Frank Joseph

24. West, Schoch, and Hancock Dive into Lemurian Waters

• J. Douglas Kenyon

25. India 30,000 B.C.E.: Do the Roots of Indian Culture Lie Drowned beneath the Indian Ocean?

• David Lewis

MOTHER OF ALL MOTHERLANDS

THE KNOWLEDGE FILTER

WHERE HAVE ALL THE MAMMALS GONE?

DISTANT LEGACIES?

PART FIVE • Ancient High Tech

26. A Conversation with Peter Tompkins: Secrets of Forgotten Worlds

• J. Douglas Kenyon

27. Ancient Agriculture, in Search of the Missing Links: Is the Inescapable Evidence of a Lost Fountainhead of Civilization to Be Found Growing in Our Fields?

• Will Hart

28. Atlantean Technology: How Advanced? What Does the Evidence Really Show?

• Frank Joseph

29. Archeology and the Law of Gravity: Orthodox Theory of Ancient Capability Tends to Cave In under Its Own Weight

• Will Hart

WHAT MORE PROOF IS NEEDED?

30. An Engineer in Egypt: Did the Ancient Egyptians Possess Toolmaking Skills Comparable to Those of the Space Age?

• Christopher Dunn

31. The Giza Power Plant, Technologies of Ancient Egypt: A New Book Challenges Conventional Wisdom on the Intended Purpose of the Great Pyramid

• Christopher Dunn

THE GIZA POWER PLANT

32. Return to the Giza Power Plant: Technologist Chris Dunn Finds New Fuel for His Thesis

• Christopher Dunn

THE GIZA POWER PLANT: THE PROOF

33. Petrie on Trial: Have Arguments for Advanced Ancient Machining Made by the Great Nineteenth-Century Egyptologist Sir William Flinders Petrie Been Disproved? Christopher Dunn Takes On the Debunkers

• Christopher Dunn

34. How Did the Pyramid Builders Spell Relief? Do We Really Know Why the Ancients Used Such Giant Stones in the Pyramid’s So-Called Relieving Chambers?

• Christopher Dunn

35. Precision: Did the Ancients Have It? And If They Did, Should It Matter to Us?

• Christopher Dunn

THE SERAPEUM

36. The Obelisk Quarry Mystery: Do Egyptologists Really Know How These Monuments Were Created?

• Christopher Dunn

37. Behind the Pyramid’s Secret Doors: What Does Astonishing New Evidence Reveal about the Great Pyramid’s True Purpose?

• Chistopher Dunn

38. The Case for Advanced Technology in the Great Pyramid: What Does the Evidence Really Show about the Advancement of Its Builders?

• Marshall Payn

PART SIX • New Models to Ponder

39. Visitors from Beyond: Our Civilization Is a Legacy from Space Travelers, Says Zecharia Sitchin, and His New Book Offers to Unveil New Secrets of Divine Encounters

• J. Douglas Kenyon

40. Artifacts in Space: For Author Richard Hoagland, the Trail of Ancient ETs Is Getting Much Warmer

• J. Douglas Kenyon

41. The Pulsar Mystery: Could the Enigmatic Phenomenon Be the Work of an Ancient ET Civilization? A New Scientific Study Makes the Astonishing Case

• Len Kasten

GALACTIC EXPLOSIONS

CONTINUOUS CREATION VS. BIG BANG

FIRE AND FLOOD

LITTLE GREEN MEN

SIGNAL COMPLEXITY

MARKER BEACONS

42. The Physicist as Mystic

• David Lewis

A MORE PROFOUND UNDERSTANDING

HALLOWED SPACE

ANCIENT WISDOM AND MODERN SCIENCE

BEYOND THE VEIL

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