Synopses & Reviews
THE ECHOES OF OUR PAST Twelve thousand years ago, the human race barely escaped annihilation when a piece of exploded star passed through our solar system, unleashing an apocalypse. Great fires raged, mountains rose and fell, a maelstrom of cosmic debris bombarded Earth, continents broke apart, and oceans swept across the land. Millions of people, animals, and plants perished almost overnight. Entire societies, cultures, and belief systems were lost forever. The resulting aftershock shaped humanity for thousands of years, and continues to haunt us to this day. This is not fiction. This is history.
THE TRUTHS OF THE PRESENT
Using authoritative source material and an understanding of mankind's aptitude for the transmission of factual knowledge through myth and legend, Joseph Christy-Vitale dramatically unveils a past unlike any proposed by either religion or science, viewing the global catastrophe as living history, since the traumatic effects of that terrible event affect us as a species even today.
THE PATHS OF THE FUTURE
Providing an insight into where our troubled view of the world originated, Watermark tells the true story of how humanity's brush with extinction still pervades our lives -- and offers the first step to recovering what we lost so long ago: a healthy, balanced view of the world.
Synopsis
The true story of an exploded star that passed through the solar system 12,000 years ago--nearly destroying Earth and all of humanity. Twelve thousand years ago the human race, ancient and intelligent, barely survived the near annihilation of the Earth. Great fires raged over the world, mountains rose and collapsed. A maelstrom of cosmic debris bombarded Earth, continents broke apart, and oceans swept across the land. Millions of humans, animals, and plants perished almost overnight. The resulting trauma shaped human society for thousands of years and continues to haunt us today. With an unparalleled, almost poetic mastery of its source materials, Watermark compares details of this event--the passage of a piece of an exploded star through the solar system--revealing a past more remarkable and inspiring than any portrayed by religion or mainstream science. Watermark examines this catastrophic event as living history (because the traumatic effects of this terrible event can still be seen today) and explains the contradictions readers see every day began, offering the first step in recovering a healthy, balanced view of the world.
Table of Contents
Contents1. In the Beginning
2. A Fantasy for Tomorrow
3. The Tale of the Living and the Dead
The Living EvidenceThe Evidence of the Dead
First Meditation
4. Phaeton, the Shining One
5. Earth's Story
UpheavalCosmic Assault
Ice
Scale
Second Meditation
6. Phaeton: Into the Breach
7. Our Ancient Ancestors, Part I
MythParadise
Language
Health
Spirit
Domestication
Medicine
8. Phaeton, the Planet Killer
9. Our Ancient Ancestors, Part 2
EnergyArchitecture
Mathematics
Astronomy
The Flood
Third Meditation
10. Phaeton and Earth
11. After the Flood
The HeroesThe Teachers
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Fourth Meditation
Chapter Sources and Notes
Acknowledgments
Index