Lemuria

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Lemuria at its greatest extent

Lemuria is an ancient lost continent that sank into the ocean. It has been said to have been the homeland to an advanced race of beings who died along with the island continent. It was supposed to be located between Africa and India in the western India Ocean.

1 Origins
2 Scientific origin
3 Occult notions
4 See also
5 External sites
6 Relevant discussion threads

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Origins

Stories of Lemuria have evolved from 1864 to present, both in scientific and occult senses.

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Scientific origin

Lemuria has a basis in scientific theory. Before Plate Tectonics was understood, most scientists beleived that continent periodically submerged and rose into and out of the sea. This was used to explain certain puzzles of biogeography, such as; how did land animals walk to Australia and the Americas? Scientists, namely Philip Sclater, noted that there are Lemurs in both Madagascar and southern India, but not in appreciable numbers inbetween. He postulated that a land bridge or land mass once existed and eventually sank between the two regions, and dubbed it Lemuria. Sclater's theory dates back to 1864.

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Occult notions

This concept of Lemuria was picked up on by the Theosophist community, groups of esoterically and occultically thinking individuals. The most influential of which, Helena Blatvasky, supposedly channeling psychic contact with ancient sages, told the story of an ancient advanced civlization that inhabited Lemuria in her book The Secret Doctrine, which was published in 1888. Theosophy sought to integrate all religions and science as each containing some portion of truth.

Blavatsky believed that Lemuria was home to the Third Root Race, giant hermaphroditic creatures with 3 eyes, among other features.

This brought in a more fantastical element to the concept. Some of the Lemurians, as the inhabitants were called, managed to survive the disasterous sinking of their continent, so we are told, and made their way to the continental United States, where they established a secret hidden base inside of Mt. Shasta on the West Coast.

This notion seems to have originated with Frederick S. Oliver's book "A Dweller On Two Planets", which he claimed was given to him by a sage named "Phylos the Tibetan".

From time to time they communicate with human beings, both in the form of Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sightings at the mountain, and telekinetic communication abroad.

The I AM Activity, supposedly in contact with a sage living in Shasta named "St. Germain" followed Oliver's storyline.

The theory has revived in more recent times, often with the names of races from popular science fiction being used instead of Lemurians.

For some time, the concept of Lemuria has been used in modern Indian nationalist movements. These organizations claim that Lemuria was real and that it was inhabited by an ancient Indian civilization. This is then used as the basis for claims to territory and independence.

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