Woman Recalls Atlantis Past Life as Extraterrestrial

Woman Recalls Atlantis Past Life as Extraterrestrial. I was not a human being in Atlantis the way I am now. In Atlantis, I was an extraterrestrial. Atlantis was very different from the way things are now! I traveled to Yucatan to search for images of my memories of Atlantis.

Origin of KUKULKAN: Feathered Serpent from ATLANTIS

Origin of Kukulkan: Feathered Serpent from Atlantis? Don’t you think that it’s strange? Could the Mayan God have come from the lost city of Atlantis? Join me to search in Mayan ruins.

Kukulkan Feathered Serpent God & the Lost City of Atlantis

Kukulkan Feathered Serpent God & the Lost City of Atlantis, a Quest for Atlantis Influences in Mayan Ruins Mexico. Join me as I search for a feathered serpent with a man in its mouth, (my past life memory of Atlantis), in Mayan Ruins in Yucatan, Mexico.

Many Reasons to Love Yucatan

There are many reasons to love Yucatan. In this video, narrator and co-writer of the travelogue, Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza, Miriam Balsley describes 12 of the reasons she loves Yucatan Mexico.

From swimming and snorkeling in the warm tropical waters of the Riviera Maya, to exploring mysterious lands and ancient Mayan ruins, to the shopping and nightlife of Cancun, to the rich cultural heritage of the Maya peoples, to the world-renown Chichen Itza pyramids, the Yucatan Peninsula is a magical place. Here’s a short video showing the many things to love about Yucatan:

14 Reasons You’ll Love Yucatan

Pyramid of Kukulcan, Chichen Itza

14 Reasons for loving the Yucatan? Let me count the ways. From swimming and snorkeling in the warm tropical waters of the Riviera Maya, to exploring mysterious lands and ancient Mayan ruins, to the shopping and nightlife of Cancun, to the rich cultural heritage of the Mayan people, to the world-renown Chichen Itza pyramids, these are just some of the 14 reasons the Yucatan Peninsula is a magical place.

Testimonials for Yucatan Travel

Yucatan Travel Movie

Check out these testimonials that came in support of the Yucatan Travel Movie during local showings of the DVD:

“The images are awesome!” ~ John Rich

“Wow, this is a real movie. It’s much better than I expected. It’s great. I love it!” ~ Jean C. Keating, Pulitzer-Prize-nominated author, Animal Heroes and Friends

“I like that everyone in the movie is so genuinely happy to be there rather than the canned, phoniness you see on many travelogues. Miriam is really a trip—she amuses me.” ~ Leslie, Gloucester, Virginia

A Short Video on the Maya and the Yucatan

This video, which provides an introduction to the Maya and the Yucatan, was recorded during a talk I gave in Toronto in May of 2012. It shows where the Maya live in the Yucatan states of Mexico, the adjacent countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize  and also tidbits on Cancun, Mayan history, the place where the first Crystal Skull was found, and the Pyramid of Kukulkan the Feathered Serpent in Chichen Itza.

Movie Trailer: Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza

Curious about what to expect when traveling in Yucatan, Mexico? My video, Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza explores familiar travel destinations, such as Cancun, Tulum, and Chichen Itza, as well as little-known gems such as Ek Balam, Valladolid, and Izamal. Here’s the official trailer of the travelogue:

Only three Maya “books” or codices survived the Spanish conquest of Yucatan

A page from the Dresden Codex showing images from Maya civilization. ~ from Wikipedia commons–this image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

The Maya, an indigenous people of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico plus Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, made folding books written on the inside bark of certain types of fig trees.

Called “codices” (codex in the singular), many were destroyed by the Spanish conquistadors and priests.

For example, in July of 1562, Bishop Diego de Landa ordered the destruction of all of the codices in the state of Yucatan.

De Landa also destroyed a Maya temple in Izamal, using the stones from the temple to make an elegant convent, which we visit in the Yucatan Travel Movie. Izamal is a gorgeous colonial city only about an hour and a half drive from Chichen Itza and well worth the visit.

The three codices that survived the Spanish conquest are named by the location of the museum where they presently reside.

• The Dresden Codex, is housed in Germany, is made of 74 pages (39 leaves written on both sides), contains descriptions of rituals and astrological information on eclipses of the sun and moon as well as the cycles of Venus.
• To my way of thinking, the Paris Codex, in France, is the most interesting since it deals with the Maya calendar and includes prophecies for various tuns and Katuns.
• The Madrid Codex is the longest at 112 pages and is housed in Spain. Researchers believe it was put together quickly after the Spanish conquest.

Occasionally, hopelessly decayed codices are found in Maya ruins:

Given the rarity and importance of these books, rumors of finding new ones often develop interest. Archaeological excavations of Maya sites have turned up a number of rectangular lumps of plaster and paint flakes, most commonly in elite tombs. These lumps are the remains of codices where all the organic material has rotted away. A few of the more coherent of these lumps have been preserved, with the slim hope that some technique to be developed by future generations of archaeologists may be able to recover some information from these remains of ancient pages.

Maya Codices

Some artifacts in Mayan ruins discovered by using intuition

In yesterday’s post, I referred to August and Alice LePlongeon, explorers of the Mayan ruins in Yucatan. While we were in Yucatan filming the Yucatan Travel Movie, we visited Hacienda Chichen, the place where many of the original explorers of Chichen Itza stayed. There we learned of Alice Le Plongeon’s psychic talents and how she had found a Chac Moll buried deep in the ground purely by intuition.