In Search of Lemuria: The Lost Pacific Continent in Legend, Myth and Imagination

by Mark R. Williams

In Search of Lemuria by Mark Williams explores the fascinating
yet little-known mystery of a lost Pacific continent. The book is
structured around the author's quest to find the lost Pacific continent,
as he travels to India, Sumatra, Tonga, Easter Island, Bolivia and many
other places near and far. Along the way he undertakes an inner journey
of discovery as well, while exploring evolution and plate tectonics,
quantum mechanics and holograms, Eastern mysticism and "New Age"
metaphysics.

In Search of Lemuria is intended for a general readership intrigued by
lost civilizations, exotic travel destinations, and bizarre customs. Yet
it will also appeal to readers curious about the New Age and all it
entails, from trance-channeling and fire-walking to reincarnation and
manifestation techniques.

In Search of Lemuria fills a profound gap on this important historical
subject. Currently in print are James Churchward's classic series of
"MU" books, written in the 1930s and quaintly dated. Likewise the
Rosicrucians' odd little tome, Lemuria, The Lost Continent of the
Pacific (1931) is strictly for MU buffs. David Hatcher Childress's Lost
Cities of Lemuria and the Pacific (1988) is an interesting travelogue
discussing many related subjects, but it is very different in approach.

Finally, there are a number of occult titles about channeled lives in
Lemuria, Ra Mu Speaks, and so on. These appeal to special pockets of
readers who have already made up their minds about the lost continent.
In Search of Lemuria was written for those who want proof that such a
place really existed. And more importantly, readers who seek to know why
the lost Pacific continent is still important today.

About the Author:
Mark. R. Williams is a freelance
writer living near San Francisco. In Europe he was a regular contributor
to the International Herald Tribune (Paris) and staff writer for Lookout
Magazine (Spain). Later, he was editor of Chevron USA/Odyssey magazine
and a contributor to the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San
Francisco Chronicle, and many other publications. Williams' published
books include Northern California: Off The Beaten Path and The Story of
Spain. He has an M.A. in history from the University of California,
Santa Barbara.

320 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2001

About the author

Mark R. Williams is a freelance writer living near San Francisco. He has also worked as a contributing writer for the International Herald Tribune (Paris) and senior staff writer for Lookout Magazine (Spain). Williams has a Masters degree in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Reviews

[The Esoteric Jungle · Rating 3 out of 5]

For someone wounded perhaps a bit too much by the human all too human, modern, superflously unfounded and semi-automatic “skepsis” in his mentation (which Nietszche so beautifully already derailed a century ago), the author has, nonetheless, a good heart and fairly open mind one will see when reading this work of his (regardless what was automatically imbibed by him from being born when and where he was).

If he didn’t start from such limitations of conception (which Buddha centrally said he came to transform) he would have found more as he jetted around the globe...looking for?

While I appreciate people’s love for more materialized and not always just testimonial “facts;” You have to find the right testimonies first usually in searches or you can’t even begin aright. It saves time from going in circles. Only then will you find all material data confirming what many ancients already knew if what they say is so - or not if not. As a journalist you would think he would have known this. He needed the full map before compassing about.

So he approached this search very much cart before the horse prematurely and found little for he started in his understanding inside himself with little overall conception, far from the vast fullness; and so, little materiality could do for him in light of that.

He just didn’t know that over 20 writings in each of all 12 of the main cultures’ lore collections around the globe speak fairly extensively on Lemuria (or “Patala that became Atalas”).

There are a few bits and pieces found in his searches to be commended though. And it is good that he tried.