{"id":2354,"date":"2010-05-31T18:20:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T18:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:20:45","slug":"andrews-shirley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/andrews-shirley\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrews, Shirley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shirley <\/strong><strong>A<\/strong><strong>ndrews<\/strong> from Massachusetts is the successful author of two books<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/a\/\"><sup>057<\/sup><\/a><sup>][<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/a\/\"><sup>058<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> on Atlantis, but unfortunately she has completely devalued her work by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/shirley-andrews.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26649\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/shirley-andrews.jpg\" alt=\"shirley andrews\" width=\"100\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>using the output of what she refers to as \u2018intuitively gifted psychics\u2019 as research sources. This is a ploy used by those who are unable to produce anything new on the subject through conventional research or investigative methods. She also blindly follows the \u2018ideas\u2019 of the late <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sitchin-zecharia\/\">Zechariah Sitchin <\/a>and introduces extraterrestrial visitors<sup>(b)<\/sup> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cayce-edgar-2\/\">Edgar Cayce&#8217;s <\/a>alleged Atlantean use of crystals into the history of Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Her output is a poor reworking of old material covered with a heavy layer of conjecture and mystic waffle. Andrews is probably one of the better-known writers who blends channelled \u2018information\u2019 with the limited historical data at our disposal. Not content with writing bosh about Atlantis she subsequently extended her output of poppycock to include <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lemuria\/\">Lemuria<\/a>. A sample of this nonsense can be experienced on her website<sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120220192621\/http:\/atlantisinsights.net\/\">Atlantis Insights (archive.org)<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epinions.com\/content_158736748164\">http:\/\/www.epinions.com\/content_158736748164<\/a> (link broken)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shirley Andrews from Massachusetts is the successful author of two books[057][058] on Atlantis, but unfortunately she has completely devalued her work by using the output of what she refers to as \u2018intuitively gifted psychics\u2019 as research sources. This is a ploy used by those who are unable to produce anything new on the subject through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2259,82,595,388,3927,999,1662],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-edgar-cayce","tag-extraterrestrials","tag-lemuria","tag-psychics","tag-shirley-andrews","tag-zechariah-sitchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66440,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/66440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}