Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00096)

RETURN TO THE SOURCE
  Rediscovering Lost Knowledge & Ancient Wisdom

September 27-29, 1996
John M. Clayton Hall
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware

World myths all tell of high vanished civilizations in the distant,
pre-historical past - civilizations that vanished in deluges, earthquakes,
fire.

Long dismissed as fictions or exaggerations by two centuries of modern
scholars, these old legends have recently been infused with life as independent
researchers in geology, astronomy, comparative mythology, mathematics, and
ancient cartography uncover powerful new evidence supporting the ancient view.
As materially based contemporary science reaches beyond its own self-imposed
limits, its finds itself confronting the consciousness-based sacred science of
the ancients.

A picture now emerges of a magnificent global civilization that vanished in a
series of cataclysms about 12,000 years ago. Human beings at least as
"advanced" as ourselves (and perhaps wiser) may have inhabited the earth long
before history, as we currently understand it, was ever recorded. This new
evidence contradicts the prevailing view of a slow, steady, linear ascent of
human civilization from "primitive" Neolithic beginnings to our modern
technological society.

RETURN To The SOURCE draws together leading-edge researchers and thinkers who
have challenged the accepted paradigm to advance the frontiers of this new/old
science. They share the conviction that any viable future civilization must
combine the best of the new with a new understanding of the old.

These researchers/authors are:

LEE DAVIS
Assistant Director for cultural resources with the National Museum of the
American Indian. An anthropologist who lived and worked with the Hopa Indian
people for twenty years, she has over twenty publications on Native American
worldview, ethnogeography and precontact mapping.

RAND & ROSE FLEM-ATH
Rand and Rose Flem-Ath are librarians in Ladysmith, British Columbia and
co-authors of When the Sky Fell: In Search of Atlantis

ROBERT JAHN
A professor of aerospace science and Dean Emeritus of Princeton University's
School of Engineering and Applied Science, directs the Princeton Engineering
Anomalies Research laboratory and is co-author with Brenda Dunne, of Margins
of Reality.

PAUL WILLIAM ROBERTS
Taught at Oxford University, studied Sanskrit at Benares University, and is
author of three philosophical travel books: River in the Desert (Egypt),
Empire of the Soul (India), and In Search of the Birth of Jesus (Middle East).

JOHN ANTHONY WEST
Author of Serpent in the Sky and The Traveler's Key to Ancient Egypt and holds
an Emmy Award for the NBC documentary The Mystery of the Sphinx.

ROBERT SCHOCH
Geologist and associate professor of science and mathematics at Boston
University, is author of many scientific papers and books, including
Stratigraphy: Principles and Methods.

ROBERT BAUVAL
An Egyptian Belgian engineer and author of The Orion Mystery and with Graham
Hancock, The Message of the Sphinx.

PAUL DEVEREUX
A cognitive archaeologist, director of The Dragon Project Trust, editor of
The Ley Hunter, and the author of Symbolic Landscapes, Earth Lights
Revelations, Shamanism and the Mystery Lines and other books.

GRAHAM HANCOCK
An investigative journalist, author of The Sign and the Seal, and Fingerprints
of the Gods, and co-author, with Robert Bauval, of The Message of the Sphinx.

JAY KAPPRAFF
A professor of mathematics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, is
author of Connections: The Geometric Bridge Between Art and Science, numerous
articles on fractals, design science and plasma physics and the forthcoming
book Mathematics Beyond Measure.

COLIN WILSON
A philosopher and author of numerous books on a wide range of topics,
including The Outsider, The Occult and most recently, From Atlantis to the
Sphinx.

This groundbreaking symposium, sponsored by the Society for Scientific
Exploration, will examine the evidence for such lost civilizations, the extent
of this knowledge, and its relevance for the millennium to come.

For Further Information:

Call Carole Seifred at (302) 831-2216 between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm, Monday
through Friday. FAX (302) 831-2998; e-mail CAROLE.SEIFRED@MVS.UDEL.EDU

Symposium organized by MetaMedia Communications, Inc. Contact MetaMedia
President Barbara Keller at (609) 965-3657, FAX (800) 425-3118 or e-mail at
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