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Welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori with you Mitch Horowitz, our special guest, the Seekers Guide to the secret teachings of all ages.

Manly Hall talked a little bit about Atlantis too, did he not Mitch?

Yes he did. He took very seriously the thesis of there being a vast seafaring civilization that disappeared somewhere in our primordial history.

Looking back on those chapters in Manly's book, induced me to want to revive a thesis that was very heavily talked about in the 1990s that was pioneered by the independent archaeologist, Egyptologist John Anthony West,

and the geologist Robert Shock. West and Shock discovered water erosion on the oldest, most beautiful, great sphinx at ESA.

And this water erosion indicated that the timeline of ancient Egypt would have to be predated to maybe 7,500 BC or maybe as a...

Or 10,000 BC.

And as I was reading Manly's chapters on the Atlantean thesis, which were written in 1928, you know, generations before Shock and West, I thought to myself,

you know, our culture has forgotten about the Shock West thesis and it deserves to be taken up again.

It was never really studied beyond their research which occurred in the 1990s.

And, you know, exploring the great monuments of Egypt and other nations is very political.

It's very hard to get greenlit. It's very hard to get funding.

These things are not open to study in the ways that we might assume.

And I would like to see our generation take up the Shock West thesis again because I think what they found really, it matches up with the timeline that Manly all offered for the possibility of an Atlantean civilization.

We've had both of them on the program over the years, Mitch, and their theories are just riveting.

Yeah, absolutely. And they've never been responded to by mainstream critics. Critics will always respond to them tangentially and say, well, you know, we haven't found corroborating evidence.

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