Many Pangaeas

You have probably heard of Pangaea, the supercontinent that existed about 250 million years ago. It included all the present continents in one land mass.

Map of Pangaea, from an online Wikipedia article

But did you know that not only did Pangaea break up into land masses that drifted apart to form continents, but, according to an online Wikepedia article on “Pangaea:”

The breaking up and formation of supercontinents appear to be cyclical through Earth’s 4.6 billion year history.

It appears that earth’s land masses drift over the surface of the earth. I find it interesting to learn that at one time, earth’s land masses were almost all concentrated at the north and south poles with only a narrow strip of land connecting them through the equator. What a strange world that would have been!

Knowing this, it is not so far-fetched to believe that lost continents such as Atlantis and Lemuria once existed.

Lemuria book update

Yesterday I visited with Una Marcotte, who continues to author her delightful book From Creation to Lemuria, which will be published by my company SunTopaz.

I am happy to say that we had a delightful visit and discussed not only the progress of the book, but also publicity. I always enjoy visiting with Una!

National Geographic Atlantis Documentary airs on March 13th

This sounds really good:

A new National Geographic Channel documentary, Finding Atlantis, which will be broadcast nationally on Sunday, March 13, at 9 p.m. ET/PT, follows a team of American, Canadian, and Spanish scientists as they employ satellite space photography, ground penetrating radar, underwater archaeology, and historical sleuthing in an effort to find a lost civilization.

Greenberg Center to Screen National Geographic Channel Film

The Geese are flying north!

I live in southeastern Virginia, and the last couple of days, poignant calls of Canada geese have periodically filled the sky as they fly in “V” formation overhead.

They are flying north. So, if you live north of here, know that the geese are on the way. Spring is coming!

I will miss them. Videotaped images of the geese floating at sunrise on a local river form part of my company, SunTopaz‘s, video logo at the beginning of the Yucatan Travel Movie.

Lunch with Melinda McKenzie, oboe-playing expert

Today I had lunch with Melinda McKenzie, who provided the wonderful oboe music in my video Yucatan Travel Movie. It was great to get caught up with her. She’s a great story-teller. I laughed and laughed.

Audio book version of When We Were Gods

At speaking events, people have asked me for an audio book version of my book, When We Were Gods. I am happy to say that the audio book is in the works!

We’re working on a new website

Clair Balsley, who works on my websites, is putting together a new website for my speaker site at CaroleChapman.com. I’ll let you know when it’s ready.

Archeologists need to explore underwater ruins more says Graham Hancock

Since a reviewer at Amazon.com has likened my When We Were Gods to books by the great Graham Hancock (how humbling and delightful), I am always interested and intrigued by Mr. Hancock’s observations. He writes about underwater archeological excavations pointing out that since much of the earth was at one time covered by ice, during the Ice Age, many ruins from that time are now covered by ocean water, as a result of the ongoing melting of the ice.

For example, on his website, in his Underworld archives he writes:

But now let’s remember as well that along continental margins and around islands across the world an area bigger than the Unites States of America was inundated at the end of the Ice Age: 3 million square kilometres (an area the size of India) was submerged around Greater Australia alone; another 3 million square kilometres went under around South-East Asia; the Florida, Yucatan and Grand Bahama Banks were fully-exposed off the Gulf of Mexico; huge areas of land were swallowed up in the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, the North Sea and the Atlantic, etc, etc, etc – the list really does goes on and on.
In my view the possibility of a serious “black hole” in scientific knowledge about recent prehistory is plausible, reasonable and worthy of consideration. I therefore propose that the conclusions of modern archaeology regarding the origins and early evolution of human civilisation should be treated as provisional until a comprehensive, global, marine-archaeological survey of continental shelves down to depths of at least 120 metres has been undertaken.

An Inspirational Poem

These inspirational poem used to be posted above the keyboard of Gerald Andress, one of my high school teachers. From what I know of him, he lived by the ideals in this poem:

Not what we have ~ but what we use,
Not what we see ~ but what we choose.
These are the things that mar or bless
The sum of human happiness.

The things nearby ~ not things afar,
Not what we seem ~ but what we are.
These are the things that make or break
That give the heart its joy or ache.

Not what seems fair ~ but what is true,
Not what we dream ~ but what we do.
These are the things that shine like gems
Like stars in fortune’s diadems.

Not what we take ~ but what we give,
Not as we pray ~ but as we live.
These are the things that make for peace
Both now and after time shall cease.

Graham Hancock and Carole Chapman’s books are similar according to Amazon reviewer

I love Graham Hancock’s books and felt honored when a reviewer on Amazon.com derided my book, When We Were Gods, by Carole Chapman as being in the same league as one by Graham Hancock!

In fact, the Amazon review, posted February 23, 2007 by William Podmore begins by saying,

Like Graham Hancock’s books, this is a load of nonsense. Any books whose titles include any of the words ‘quest’, ‘sphinx’, ‘Holy Grail’, ‘Ark of the Covenant’, ‘ancient’, ‘mysterious’, ‘secrets’, ‘Atlantis’, ‘Templar’, ‘alien’, ‘code’, ‘supernatural’, ‘mythic’, ‘cosmic’, are just giving away the fact that they are unscientific rubbish.

That’s the kind of unscientific rubbish I like to be aligned with. In my opinion, Graham Hancock is a marvelous researcher and explorer of unexplained mysteries.