Atlantis Rising is a newsstand magazine that focuses upon alternative scientific perspectives, especially anomalistic events, ancient mysteries, and those scientific findings that appear to contradict current scientific consensus. The issues the magazine highlights are those that would, if accepted into contemporary science, most likely force scientists to alter their views of the world. Among the issues frequently touched upon are Atlantis, catastrophism, cold fusion and free energy, time travel, ancient astronauts, the unexpected wisdom of ancient peoples, parapsychology, and UFOs.
Founded in 1994 as an oversized quarterly, Atlantis Rising has given support to writers such as Graham Hancock and Zecharia Sitchin who have championed an alternative view of history. Hancock emerged in the 1990s as the major voice challenging the common view of historians that Western civilization emerged approximately 5,000 years ago. Rather, Hancock argues, civilization is much older and the ancients possessed a dramatically higher level of technology than we have supposed. Sitchin, whose initial book, The 12th Planet, appeared just as the ancient astronaut hypothesis appeared to have run its course in the 1980s, has subsequently published a series of popular books arguing for extraterrestrial intervention in the human past. While finding a popular audience, as a whole the views championed by Hancock and Sitchin failed to find any support from mainstream academics.
Each issue of Atlantis Rising carries a set of feature articles on alternative science and reproduces news reports that tend to confirm views of the world outside of the current scientific consensus. Each issue also carries an extensive catalog of books and audio visuals that support the magazine's general editorial position. With issue 22 in 1999, the magazine dropped its over-sized format in favor of a more conventional one in order to overcome objections of distributors who refused to handle oddsized publications. Its publication headquarters may be contacted at P.O. Box 441, Livingston, MT 59047. Its webpage is at http://www.atlantisrising.com/.
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Atlantis Rising. http://www.atlantisrising.com/. February 28, 2000.
