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Randall Carlson tells host Michael Phillip that the Atlantis story belongs with large geologic disasters. He claims Solon, four generations before Plato, heard in Egypt of a destruction about nine thousand years before his own day, near 9600 BC. He claims that window sits within roughly a century of a proposed violent meltwater surge at the end of the ice age. He treats the Critias speech as a demand that the account is true, while still allowing Plato to shape some parts as allegory. He claims the lost land was a chief island with lesser islands around it, and that broad island groups such as Micronesia show the stated size need not be silly. Huge moved stones and drained ice age lake beds in North America are the field marks he stresses. He claims spoken memory can endure for many thousands of years, so Egyptian and Native stories should not be waved away. Temple measures and Earth numbers, he says, echo Platonic and Hermetic ratios. These are Carlson’s claims, not settled science.
Key points
- Carlson claims Plato’s Atlantis account lines up with real catastrophes near 9600 BC.
- He claims that timing falls close to a violent meltwater surge at the end of the ice age.
- He claims the story can be rooted in events and still be shaped as allegory in places.
- He claims the land was a main island with smaller islands, not a trivial speck.
- He claims megaflood scars in North America show water powerful enough to wipe out cities.
- He claims long oral memory and harmonic measures in temples keep parts of the account alive.
Short quotes
I think that I'm right and everybody else is wrong.
Randall Carlson, Randall Carlson on Atlantis and Cataclysms
He states his claim that his reading of Atlantis is the one other views have missed. Watch at 2:25
Maybe not in every detail and that did not exclude the possibility that Plato was using it allegorically.
Randall Carlson, Randall Carlson on Atlantis and Cataclysms
He claims a core of real events can sit beside allegorical shaping. Watch at 6:00
And that's the idea that there is a proposed extreme meltwater event at 11,600 years ago.
Randall Carlson, Randall Carlson on Atlantis and Cataclysms
He ties the Platonic date to a late ice age meltwater pulse he says researchers have proposed. Watch at 11:30
He went abroad and he ended up in Egypt.
Randall Carlson, Randall Carlson on Atlantis and Cataclysms
He traces Solon’s travel as the route by which the Atlantis report reached Greece. Watch at 17:01
Video by THIRD EYE DROPS with Michael Phillip. Watch on YouTube.