I'm not saying it was crustal displacement, but it was crustal displacement

“Atlantis Rising” is a magazine devoted to ancient mysteries, the unexplained and future science. This is the current issue, dated November-December 2017. I admit that I didn't find it *that* interesting, give or take a few articles.

Most of it feels like all the usual mysteries (some of them convincingly debunked) recycled all over again: pyramids at unusual places, ancient aliens at all the usual places, man-made structures at other planets, ancient technology, sunken continents, Nephilim, the Mayan calendar, Templar conspiracies, you know the drift already! Tesla isn't mentioned in this issue, but Camille Flammarion is. Velikovsky is also notable with his absence, but instead we get references to Charles Hapgood. I was surprised to find that some people *still* insist that the Shroud of Turin is authentic…

To give the Atlantean devil his due, I will now list the contributions I did find interesting. Maverick scholar and geologist Robert Schoch is back, together with his esoteric friend John Anthony West, and together they present supposed evidence that there *is* a hall of records below the Sphinx's paws, after all. This issue contains an article by Schoch himself, and a shorter news item introducing his and West's recent book “The Origins of the Sphinx”. The article on Easter Island by Martin Ruggles argues that no ecocide took place at the well known outpost of Polynesian civilization, while connecting the stone giants to speculations about lost high cultures in South America and the Pacific. Farfetched? Maybe, but probably not as farfetched as I previously imagined. There is also an article about Skara Brae, the Neolithic settlement in Scotland, arguing that Stone Age man had better astronomical knowledge than hitherto acknowledged.

Overall, I feel that this magazine only deserve two stars, but since I enjoyed some of the contributions, I give it three. If you are into “alternative knowledge”, you will probably enjoy it much more, and criticize the magazine primarily for having so short articles! Can be downloaded to your alien Tesla-Kindle device right away.