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Submerged Atlantean Pyramid in the Bahamas?

Today I thought I’d just check out Crystalinks to see if there was anything new on that site that I haven’t seen before on Atlantis. Well, I am glad I did because I found this amazing article about a Dr. Ray Brown who evidently found an amazing crystal inside an underwater pyramid in the Bahamas while scuba diving. You’ve got to read the article.

I am amazed that Dr. Brown had the hutzpah to go inside this strange pyramid. Maybe scuba divers are naturally braver and more curious that ordinary folk.

If it was me and I came across a totally never-before-seen pyramid sticking out of the earth, I wouldn’t go charging inside it.

When I visited the Great Pyramid in Egypt, even seeing the three great pyramids from a distance awed me to my bones because they are so absolutely strange compared to any square or even dome building I’ve ever seen before.

I can’t imagine approaching and climbing into something that unusual without at least calling some friends to join me. And, why didn’t he take pictures? Don’t scuba divers bring underwater cameras with them?

Furthermore, this Dr. Brown had the audacity to take away a crystal he found held by life-size hands that appeared to be burnt. I think I’d be fainting about now. Life-size hands that appear burnt inside an underwater pyramid! Run away, run away!

And, whatever you do, do NOT touch the crystal! Oh no, but not only does Dr. Brown have to touch the crystal in the weird hands, but also he has to take it away! It supposedly has been examined by someone at the Smithsonian Institute. Is this for real?

Here’s the beginning of the Crystalinks article. The rest of the article is at the link below.

Allegedly in 1970, Dr. Ray Brown, a naturopathic practitioner from Mesa, Arizona, was scuba diving with friends near the Bahamas, in an area 20 miles from the edge of a submarine drop-off called the Tongue of the Ocean.

During the dive, Brown became separated from his companions, and in trying to rejoin them, suddenly saw a strange pyramid shape looming up against the aquamarine light. The pyramid was situated 22 fathoms down, stood 120 feet high, with only 90 feet projecting out of the sea floor shifting sands. Brown was at first struck by how smooth and mirror-like the stone surface of the structure was, with the joints between the individual blocks almost indiscernible.

Dr. Ray Brown’s Subterranean Pyramid Diving Experience

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Atlantis Found in Indonesia?

I remember an incident when I was speaking at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia, for the Edgar Cayce Forum. Since my topic dealt with Edgar Cayce’s psychic readings on Atlantis, I opened by asking the audience to name a number of places that have been publicized as “Atlantis Found.” I received suggestions from numerous people such as in the Atlantic Ocean by the Sargasso Sea, the Azores Islands, the Caribbean Sea around Bimini Island – all mentioned in the Edgar Cayce readings as locations where Atlantis once existed. In the middle of this introduction, one man stood up, and he would not sit down but he insisted that Atlantis was in the Indian Ocean in Indonesia.

Well, today I found what may be the source of that man’s certainty that Atlantis had been in the Indian Ocean. This theory is based on the work of Professor Arysio Nunes dos Santos who says that the world during Atlantean times was very different. He reminds us that much of the time during the existence of Atlantis, the world was in the Pleistocene era, a time when the Ice Ages dominated the earth. Because of the ice, the water level was much lower than it is now. He also says that there was much more ocean and much less land at that time (which doesn’t really make sense if the water level was much lower, there would have been much more ocean floor exposed) and that the Atlantic Ocean would have extended into the Indian Ocean.

I only viewed the first part of the videotaped interview with the professor. However, I find his theory intriguing and thought you might also. Here’s the link: http://www.atlan.org.

Atlantis Colony in Africa According to Plato

I enjoyed the well-written summary of Plato’s information on Atlantis in the following blog. It especially interested me because Plato evidently said that Atlantis conquered parts of Africa.

This information agrees with my past life regressions in which I had past life memories of travelling from Atlantis to Egypt. My story is in my book, Arrival of the Gods in Egypt. In 2000, I traveled to Egypt to look for evidence of Atlanteans in the paintings in the pharaoh’s tombs in the Valley of the Kings.

The Greek philosopher Plato was the first to acknowledge the existence of Atlantis in his dialogues “Timaeus” and “Critias”. Plato’s accounts have Atlantis lying “beyond the pillars of Hercules” and being a island of great naval power that conquered parts of Africa and Western Europe.

The Ongoing Search For the Lost City of Atlantis

Special Feature: Music in Yucatan Travel Movie

I am in the middle of editing the special feature of the Yucatan Travel Movie called, “Music in the Yucatan Travel Movie.”

So far, I have acknowledged Tom Petrachenko for his lovely songs, “A Moment,” and “All These Ghosts.” Tom not only composed and played these songs on the guitar, but he also wrote and sings the lyrics in “All These Ghosts.” Lovely. I have received many compliments for these tunes.

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Maya Actors Used in Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto

A blog post by Erick Laseca who works for Burson-Marsteller as public relations liaison for the Mexico Tourism Board in Chicago begins with:

The height of Mayan civilization may have ended some 1600 years ago, but this enigmatic empire seems to be making a come-back. This past Friday, December 8th, movie theaters across North America released Mel Gibson’s much-anticipated feature, Apocalypto, filmed in Mexico, bringing the late, great Mayan civilization to life on the big screen.

Mexican Mayans Descendant Make Debut in Apocalypto

Although I disagree with Laseca’s calling the Maya, “Mayans,” nonetheless, I found his comprehensive article on the Maya informative, entertaining and interesting. After all, it might be that Laseca uses the term “Mayans” since it works better as a keyword search phrase, “Maya” more often bringing up Maya Angelou.

During filming of the Yucatan Travel Movie, we visited the ruins at Edzna, which is supposed to be the ruin Mel Gibson chose as the model for his Mayan ruin set in the movie Apocalypto. We loved Edzna. The Palace of the Five Stories is gorgeous.

Scary, Powerful Creatures Scream in the Yucatan Jungle

When filming the Yucatan Travel Movie, we had an encounter with some of these creatures in Palenque . . . just as the mist was rising at the site at the end of the day . . . definitely spooky.

In the pitch black night, deep in the verdant rainforest of the Yucatan Peninsula, a furry creature swings swiftly from branch to branch, calling so loud, you can hear it from five kilometers away through deep jungle growth. The question is though, what is it coming from? Wait, it sounds like a jaguar. No, it cannot be, it’s a monkey?

Yucatan Peninsula – Screams of the Mayan God

Touring a Beer Factory in Guatemala

If you’ve ever hankered to tour a beer distillery in Guatemala as a field trip when learning a Spanish language intensive, take a look at today’s blog post from Miriam Balsley who is the narrator and hostess of the Yucatan Travel Movie. She writes:

Next we headed to the actual factory where the bottles are cleaned, filled, topped, and labeled. The above is a photo of one of our teachers, Miguel, who has a nickname of Gato, or Cat. He is one of the handful of Guatemalans who have intense green eyes, hence his nickname. He’s hanging out with one of the old bottling machines.

Beer

I didn’t know that there are a handful of Guatemalans who have intense green eyes. Did you? How do you like that!

Sea Turtles at Akumal

Yesterday I referred to the sea turtles coming ashore along the Caribbean Coast of the Riviera Maya between June and October. That reminded me that in the Yucatan Travel Movie, we visit Akumal, a lovely vacation location. Akumal also hosts a number of dive shops and a center for studying sea turtles.

Yucatan Caribbean Sea Turtles Nest in the Summer

I knew that sea turtles laid their eggs in the sand along the Riviera Maya Caribbean coast but I did not know when. According to this 1 Person Tent blog, the time to see the nesting turtles is from June to October. The sea turtles come onto shore from the sea at night. However, it is important that you not use a regular flashlight if you want to see them laying their eggs, and no flash photography:

There are a few factors to consider when searching for nesting turtles. The foremost is never disturb them throughout the nesting process. That includes no flash photography and you will want to have a red lens or film paper over your ordinary flashlight. Regular light can disorient the turtles, but they cannot see the red filtered light. If you choose to go turtle searching, under the radiance of a full moon, a flashlight is not required.

Travel to the Yucatan and Step Back in Time

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In the UK, they call it a Fly-drive

How interesting. In the United Kingdom, they have a type of vacation called a “fly-drive.” My guess is that this means that certain fly-drive travel companies book both your flight and your rental car and your lodgings and provide you an itinerary of where to go. Am I right? Here’s their listing for an exotic fly-drive in Yucatan.

Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula is the location for a new fly-drive this year from Journey Latin America (020-8747 8315; journeylatinamerica.co.uk). The itinerary weaves through Tulum, Chichen Itza and the lesser-known, jungle-enveloped ruins of Coba.

Hit the open road with a new breed of exotic fly-drives

From reading the article by Mark Rowe, it seems as if your rental car in a “fly-drive” is an exotic sports car. That makes me wonder because, on one of our filmmaking trips for shooting the Yucatan Travel Movie, we had the opportunity to rent an Alpha Romeo sports car. However, when we saw it did not have license plates, we declined. We didn’t want to be blamed for the missing license plates when we returned the car to the car rental agency.