{"id":2856,"date":"2010-06-05T18:16:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T18:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/blair-nigel\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T16:40:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:40:25","slug":"blair-nigel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/blair-nigel\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair, Nigel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nigel <\/strong>B<\/strong>lair<\/strong> (1946-2005) <\/strong>was a British researcher, who among other matters, was a keen student of the Atlantis enigma. He was a founder of the Wessex Research Group(d)<\/sup>, which appears to have aimed at producing a synthesis of the spiritual truths, underlying all the major religious and philosophical movements. His interest in Atlantis led him to gather material for publication on the subject but death at a relatively early age has thwarted this. Some of his opinions are to be found on the Internet(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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Blair supported an early date for Atlantis with an Atlantic location and has drawn his views from such writers as Egerton Sykes<\/a>, Otto Muck<\/a> and Christian O\u2019Brien<\/a>. He also wrote a review(<\/sup>b<\/sup>)<\/sup> of Allan & Delair\u2019s<\/a> book C<\/em>ataclysm<\/em><\/a>, that advocates the idea of a near collision of the Earth with a celestial body, which in turn triggered worldwide catastrophes.<\/p>\n

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In a paper entitled Plato’s Atlantis<\/em>(e<\/span><\/sup>)<\/sup>, <\/em>Blair was greatly influenced by Michael Baigent<\/a>‘s Ancient Traces <\/em>[141<\/a>] <\/sup> and the Piri Reis Map<\/a>, which convinced him that the Azores<\/a> had held the location of Atlantis at the end of the last Ice Age<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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(a<\/span><\/sup>)<\/sup> https:\/\/archive.is\/s0Gw (link broken) *<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(<\/sup>b<\/sup>) <\/sup>https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2412\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(c<\/span><\/sup>)<\/sup> http:\/\/www.wessexresearchgroup.org\/articles1.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(d<\/span><\/sup>)<\/sup> http:\/\/www.wessexresearchgroup.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(e<\/span><\/sup>) <\/sup>http:\/\/www.wessexresearchgroup.org\/download\/pdf_platos_atlantis.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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