Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals: 100,000 Years of Lost History

This is a hard review to write. Did I enjoy reading Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals? Absolutely, without a doubt. Did I feel that the author made a good case for a connection between Atlantis and Neanderthals? No, not really. He never really got to that part in any real depth.

I started reading Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals with great interest and enthusiasm. The author discussed the concepts that in the past our continental plates have shifted and that the earth's tilt has also changed. These are scientific facts that most people learn in high school. I was eager to see an examination of this movement as relates to Antarctica, how the author would place Neanderthals on Antarctica, how he would connect the two.

Unfortunately, the book quickly evolved in an attempt to present as much information as possible about every ancient mystery know to man: the pyramids of the Piri Reis map, Egypt, Mu, the Biblical floods, the man in the iron mask, the death of Jesus, and the Priory of Sion. Information about these topics ranged from scientific reports and solid data collection methodology to popular ancient mystery books and PBS specials to hearsay and theories by author friends.

My best advice is that you don't pick up this book because you wish to find out the connection between Atlantis and Neanderthals. Instead, pick up this book because it is full of interesting theories, summaries of information collected about a number of ancient mysteries, and contains a really great bibliography of like minded material.

Scatter your brain... all over the Global Village (7/8 people found this helpful)

This is apparently the missing part of his collaboration with Rand Flem-Ath from a few years back, and does obviously cover similar ground. Think of it as part of a trilogy with '...Blueprint' & '..Sphinx'. Here, Wilson maintains that ancient peoples lacked our 'individualistic' psychology and rational values yet were the custodians of a globally held tradition of a deluge, preserved in myth and by sects such as the Essenes, Templars, Masons etc.
Unlike our embittered previous reviewer I enjoyed this book very much. Wilson can still combine intuition with skepticism to create a synthesis which continues to enrage commited rationalists everywhere....

Should Have Known Better (16/26 people found this helpful)

I had bought Colin's 'From Atlantis To The Sphinx' years ago and gave it away due to its lack of depth.
The same will happen with 'Atlantis And The Kingdom Of The Neanderthals'.
Colin does not write his own theories solely but keeps reffering to other peoples books and even Plugging his previous 'works' so any gullible seeker of truth will buy them and be led on a wild goose chase.

I found it hilarious that he regurgitated C. Hapgood's idea that the 16th century 'Piri Reis' map is derived from the sea faring knowledge of a 'lost civilization'...
...Anyone who has read Gavin Menzies '1421: The Year China Discovered The World' will now know the origin of these ramshackle Veneto-Genoese maps are Chinese in origin.
I am surprised Colin did not reffer to Gavin's work, but then it does not tie in with 'Atlantis' 'Out Of Body Experiances' etc but is grounded it hard reality.

The idea that the so-called 'Neanderthals' were capable if speach, making clothes and other items and living in a structered society is more than plausible, however Colin does not develop the theory into anything other than brief quotes in chapter 12 (The Old Ones) almost at the end of the book, for God's Sake!!!

Again if anyone is seeking anything tangible as to 'Atlantis' they are left with nothing to hold onto and will sink into the Depths of Delusion.

And quite what Roslyn, the Templars, Jesus and the Essenes have to do with the Neanderthals and Atlantis is anyones idea, but the real idea is to Ride on the Wave of Da Vinci Hysteria...
And also fill up an otherwise empty book.

The book is Scatter Brained, with no real direction.

And if Colin mentions Gurdjieff he should at least let the 'uninitiated' know who he was, what he did, and his own works, far superior to anything Colin is ever likely to produce.

With all due respects Mr Wilson, you may have written over 172 'books' but they pale in depth compared to the works of Gavin Menzies and G. I. Gurdjieff.

Note: I had to give it a "1 Star" otherwise the review would not be accepted with "0 Star"

Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals: 100,000 Years of Lost History

Colin Wilson

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