{"id":3562,"date":"2010-06-09T16:47:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T16:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/laviolette-paul-a\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T11:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T10:06:31","slug":"laviolette-paul-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/laviolette-paul-a\/","title":{"rendered":"LaViolette, Paul A."},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul A.<\/strong> L<\/strong>a<\/strong>V<\/strong>iolette (1947-2022) <\/strong>held degrees in systems science and physics and wais an ardent catastrophist. He has published many books and articles on physics, astronomy, climatology, and psychology. He lived in New York and had an interest in metaphysics, mysticism, and music. His book on catastrophism<\/a>[<\/sup>432<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> has an extensive section on Atlantis. He accepted that the destruction of Atlantis coincided with the end of the Ice Age around 9600 BC agreeing with the date given by Plato in his dialogues. However, LaViolette \"LaViolette\"<\/a>insisted that the story must be taken metaphorically and on two levels. In the first metaphor, he sees Atlantis as the ice sheet that once covered North America, which bordered on the Atlantic northwest of the Pillars of Heracles. This glacier was linked to the European ice cover extending as far as Tyrrhenia<\/a>, as noted by Plato. However, he did not explain Plato\u2019s reference to \u2018Atlantis\u2019 also extending to Libya, where there is no evidence of glaciation during the last Ice Age. The second metaphor has Atlantis in Critias representing \u2018the first particle of matter that arose at the dawn of creation\u2019! In his book Genesis of the Cosmos<\/em>[<\/span><\/sup>433<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> he proposed that Atlantis as well as other creation myths were intended as a symbolic representation of the electric field that forms the structure of a subatomic matter(b<\/span><\/sup>)<\/sup>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For anyone still interested, LaViolette had a website(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup> outlining his radical ideas.<\/p>\n

It is worth noting that LaViolette has argued that ancient man possessed extensive knowledge, which he believed \u2018requires that we considerably revise our ideas about the level of technical sophistication that our prehistoric ancestors had achieved\u2019[<\/sup>432.<\/sup>264]<\/sup>. However, classical writers, such as Aristotle<\/a>, were quite ignorant of the fact that the earth revolved around the sun.<\/p>\n

In 2014, LaViolette visited the Visko pyramid in Bosnia<\/a> and published an extensively illustrated article in which he expressed his amazement at what he saw there and concluded(c<\/span><\/sup>)<\/sup> that he considers \u00a0“this to be one of the most important archaeological excavations going on at this time on our planet.”<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(<\/sup>a<\/sup>) <\/sup>The Sphinx Stargate (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n

(b<\/span><\/sup>)<\/sup>\u00a0http:\/\/etheric.com\/subatomic-atlantis\/ (offline?)<\/p>\n

(c<\/span><\/sup>) <\/sup>The Bosnian Pyramid Complex: Signs of Technically Advanced Ice Age Civilization \u2013 The Sphinx Stargate (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul A. LaViolette (1947-2022) held degrees in systems science and physics and wais an ardent catastrophist. He has published many books and articles on physics, astronomy, climatology, and psychology. He lived in New York and had an interest in metaphysics, mysticism, and music. His book on catastrophism[432] has an extensive section on Atlantis. He accepted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[133,335,4112,48,1755],"class_list":["post-3562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aristotle","tag-catastrophism","tag-laviolette","tag-pillars-of-heracles","tag-tyrhennia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","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=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69304,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions\/69304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}