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    NEWS October 2024

    OCTOBER 2024 The recent cyber attack on the Internet Archive is deplorable and can be reasonably compared with the repeated burning of the Great Library of Alexandria. I have used the Wayback Machine extensively, but, until the full extent of the permanent damage is clear, I am unable to assess its effect on Atlantipedia. At […]Read More »
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    Joining The Dots

    I have now published my new book, Joining The Dots, which offers a fresh look at the Atlantis mystery. I have addressed the critical questions of when, where and who, using Plato’s own words, tempered with some critical thinking and a modicum of common sense.Read More »
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Magic Mushrooms and Atlantis

Magic Mushrooms and Atlantis is the unlikely subject of one dedicated website(a). John Allegro raised hackles in 1970 when he published The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, in which he claimed that Christianity had been derived from a sex and mushroom cult.  Although I would be highly sceptical of both suggestions, there is little doubt that psychoactive plants have been used from prehistoric times(b).

(a) https://mushroom-atlantis.blogspot.ie/

(b) https://www.scribd.com/doc/77677062/M-D-Merlin-Archaeological-Evidence-for-the-Tradition-of-Psychoactive-Plant-Use-in-the-Old-World