M.J. Rose

“…the Celts have always been a people to contend with. As the saying goes, “God gave the Irish whiskey to keep them from taking over the world.” I wonder how the whiskey was in Atlantis?”[…]

Presented here in this fun article from Woodstock Times is an interesting and rather scholarly theory from Dr. Ulf Erlingsson, a paleogeographer and author of the book Atlantis from a Geographer’s Perspective: Mapping the Fairy Land, in which he makes a compelling case for Ireland as potential source of the Atlantis stories!

I just love a good Atlantis theory.

I have always believed that the great Sphinx is much more ancient than the Egyptologists claim. Perhaps as much as 10,000 years old, or older – the Sphinx may have been carved to resemble an unknown being, person, god, or animal before it was recarved in a pharoah’s image long after its creation…

Author, lecturer, and guide, John Anthony West agrees –

“Egyptian civilisation was not a development, it was a legacy”

West’s (and his colleague’s) theories are discussed in an article from Cosmic Log by Alan Boyle:

“Rethinking the Sphinx: After years of fighting the critics of his controversial theory on the age of the Great Sphinx, John Anthony West wants them to join him[…]”

I read a line recently in a wonderful book about a young woman’s spiritual quest (EAT, PRAY, LOVE) that said something like “if God is infinite, than the world’s religions ought to be infinite too” – and that includes, as far as I am concerned, infinite tolerance for the beliefs of other religions. And yet, here is a prime example of the finite coming to us straight from the Vatican this week…

6 Nuns in Ark. Excommunicated for Heresy

By ANDREW DeMILLO

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Six Catholic nuns have been excommunicated for heresy after refusing to give up membership in a Canadian sect whose founder claims to be the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, the Diocese of Little Rock announced Wednesday.

The Rev. J. Gaston Hebert, the diocese administrator, said he notified the nuns of the decision Tuesday night after they refused to recant the teachings of the Community of the Lady of All Nations, also known as the Army of Mary.

The Vatican has declared all members of the Army of Mary excommunicated. Hebert said the excommunication was the first in the diocese’s 165-year history […]

Click here to read the complete article from The Guardian UK.