Atlantis not really a ruin after all!

What intrigues me the most is that not only has Google Maps found Atlantis, but also, Atlantis appears to be a thriving community. I always thought that when Atlantis was finally found, it would be a ruin and be found by underwater archaeologists. But the Atlantis in the Weekly World News online article ATLANTIS FOUND ON GOOGLE MAPS! does not look like a ruin at all. And, it is above the water on an island–the great Island Nation. Take a look at this amazing image:

Atlantis found off the coast of Ireland, image from World Wide News

I’m looking forward to the time when Weekly World News reporters and photographers can visit the antideluvian lost continent and interview some of the inhabitants. I want to know: What have they been doing all these years!

Atlantis is off the coast of Ireland after all!

How do you like that? After all these years with claims that the ruins of Atlantis were actually in all these diverse places, such as the Azores, Santorini, Cyprus, Bimini, under the Sargasso Sea, off the coast of Cuba, and even Antarctica and the East Indies, it turns out, the people who thought Atlantis was off the coast of Ireland (some even thought Ireland had been Atlantis!) were right!

A January 11, 2011 article posted on Weekly World News called Atlantis Found on Google Maps! pin-points the lost continent of Atlantis is off the coast of a tiny town in Ireland called Dingle, population 300.

Well, that’s a relief. At last, an end to all the conjecture, an end to all the exploration, an end to all the headlines saying, “Atlantis Found.” Now, it’s really found.

And wasn’t that a purrty picture from Google Maps of it in yesterday’s post?

Google Maps has found Atlantis off the coast of Ireland!

Weekly World News reports that Google Maps has found Atlantis. In an article entitled, Atlantis found on Google Maps!, J.B. Smitts writes that:

“The photo taken by Google Maps is most definitely the Lost City of Atlantis,” said Yale Mythologist Anthony Braxwell. “It displays all the trademark characteristics of the legendary metropolis. A shimmering castle, glistening drawbridges made of gold, crystal spires – yep, it’s all there.”

“I’m just surprised it took so long to find,” added Braxwell.

According to sources, the Google Maps satellite was performing a routine scan of the Atlantic Ocean when it came across the strange, previously uncharted Kingdom of Atlantis.

The satellite images, which have been proven accurate to within 1/100th of a millimeter, show the island of Atlantis sitting just 10 miles southwest of Dingle, Ireland, a small township with a population of 300.

“I’ve lived here for 75 years,” said Brian MacElhose, a farmer and lifelong resident of Dingle, “and never noticed that gigantic city floating out there in the ocean. How could I have missed it? Oh well, I guess that’s what Google Maps is for.”

Weekly World News says Atlantis found by Google Maps

All that I can say is that it’s about time someone found something definite that is truly the lost city of Atlantis. There have been so many hopeful and fanciful claims, I am happy to see that not only have Google Maps found Atlantis, but they have provided actual photographs to corroborate their wonderful discovery.

I especially love how the photograph has a misty quality almost as if it is a piece of art. But what else do you expect of such a mystical, magical kingdom as Atlantis. Check out the link for the whole “photo,” which shows Atlantis off the coast of Dingle, Ireland.

Inspirational quote from oboe player

“You can’t save people from themselves.”
~ Melinda McKenzie

Melinda is a marvelous musician and music teacher who provided oboe playing for one of “Prayer, Duet, and Dance,” one of the musical numbers used as background music in the Yucatan Travel Movie.

Atlantis and the Flood in the History of Geology

Here’s a neat online article on the History of Geology website. The following quote is extracted from David Bressan‘s From Contractional theory to modern geology. It is a theory explaining the location of the lost continent of Atlantis.

Already after the first maps of the American continent were published (1507 and after) and become public, the similarity between the coast of Africa and America intrigued geographers and naturalists, and this fascination continued in the following centuries. In 1620 the English philosopher Francis Bacon noted the jigsaw form in his “Novum Organum” and claimed that “it’s more then a curiosity”, and 38 years later the munch Francois Placet published a small booklet entitled “The break up of large and small world’s, as being demonstrated that America was connected before the flood with the other parts of the world.” He argued that the two continents were once connected by the lost continent of “Atlantis”, and the sin flood beaked them apart.
The idea of the biblical flood explaining the shape of earth remained popular for the next 250 years.

This is a great site with great information and lovely illustrations. Check it out.

Inspirational Quote on how to overcome perfectionism

“I have learned that there is not time in these days in life to make things perfect. Good enough almost always works just as well and no one knows the difference except you.”
~ Miriam Balsley

Miriam Balsley is the co-writer, narrator, and hostess of the Yucatan Travel Movie. She knows how to get things done.

Copyright (c) 2011 Miriam Balsley used with Permission

Taos New Mexico bareback riding

The Life Science Top Ten Unexplained Phenomenon article on the Taos Hum brought back memories of a phenomenal horseback riding experience I had there.

The Beautiful Taos Pueblo in Taos, New Mexico, Photo Credit: Dreamstime

While visiting Taos, New Mexico, a number of years ago, the children and I also received unique riding lessons. During my first visit prior to the visit with my children, I had seen a sign saying that a certain Taos resident, a pueblo Indian, could teach a person to overcome horseback riding problems. Among the list of riding problems enumerated, I saw fear in mountainous regions alongside cliffs.

My riding problems were banal in comparison to mountain-riding fears. I usually fall off or the horse refuses to move while I’m sitting on it. I also knew that my children, who have an innate ability to ride, would enjoy the experience of learning from a skilled Native American horseback riding instructor, we signed up for the class.

It turned out to last 4 hours long, during which my three children and I rode bareback through ravines, pinon forests, and open fields. Our Indian riding instructor kept coming over to me and reminding me that when I fell, I should keep my elbows close to the body so I wouldn’t hurt myself or break an arm. He said that I was bouncing all over the back of the horse … and we were only walking!

At one point, our instructor who was wearing a cowboy hat and had long raven-colored hair, made me get off the horse and walk it, the seat of my jeans wet with the horse’s sweat because we had been riding bareback.

I had been afraid of the horse moving at a faster pace than walking because I, too, felt I would surely fall off. Nonetheless, when our instructor helped me back on the horse, the horses all began to trot.

Even though I had no saddle or stirrups, I after 4 hours of being either on the horse or walking it, I was too tired to care. Amazingly, my body simply knew how to ride in harmony with the horse’s bouncing. I stayed on the horse as if I knew how to ride!

For me, it was a phenomenal experience. I wish I could have lived nearby and received on-going lessons from this amazing teacher. Although Taos is small, it brought me some amazing experiences.

Memories of taos new mexico do not include the hum

I read with intrigue Live Science’s online article on The Taos Hum in their list of Live Science‘s list of Top 10 Unexplained Phenomenon because it included such broad and well-known topics as ghosts and intuition instead of giving specific relatively unknown unexplained phenomenon in those categories. However, it was a delightful surprise for me to see The Taos Hum” in the list, because I visited Taos a number of years ago.

I don’t remember hearing a hum. However, I do remember exploring inside one of the pueblo houses, something tourists seldom have an opportunity to do.

A retired “Governor” of the pueblo invited me and my children into his parent’s house. At the time, he lived in the town of Taos, but maintained the house after his parents’ passing. The children and I enjoyed climbing onto the roof of his ground-level home, and the children climbed the ladder on the roof to the next house.

He also played a ceremonial drum for us. It was covered with a gorgeous hand-woven tablecloth and looked like a round coffee table until he unfurled the cloth.

Taos New Mexico has a mysterious hum

In yesterday’s post I said I felt disappointed when I read Live Science‘s list of Top 10 Unexplained Phenomenon because it included such broad and well-known topics as intuition and the body/mind connection. I guess I expected items that were more specific and also something I didn’t know about.

However, I was not disappointed with their Number 10, because it was very specific, and it was a surprise to me: The Taos Hum.

Even though the online article says that only 2 percent of people can hear this hum, still, it is intriguing to think that many people agree on hearing this low-grade hum when they are in Taos, New Mexico.

Top 10 Unexplained Phenomenon

I felt a little let down when I read Live Science‘s list of Top 10 Unexplained Phenomenon because it included such broad and well-known topics as:

1. The mind/body connection including the placebo effect

2. Psychic powers and ESP

3. Near-death experiences and life after death

4. UFOs

5. Deja vu

6. Ghosts

7. Mysterious disappearances

8. Intuition

9. Bigfoot

I also felt disappointed because the list did not include crop circles and orbs.

However, when I got to Number 10, I felt a jolt of delight because they actually did list something I had never heard of before.