This is the forward to Atlantis. It's just an early series of thoughts that I am expanding on for my book.
What follows is fiction. Or, is it?
Isn't it funny how the human body starts to break down after a while? That was the current thought on my mind. I had just seen a program on the history channel about a study on human cells. In a pee tree dish the cells could stay alive indefinitely, as long as they were kept flushed with clean water to remove the waste and toxins that the cells had generated. I thought that that was fascinating. If they only knew.
It is a frustrating thing, trying to tell someone something when they won't listen. They wont even consider that it might be the truth. This is the story of Atlantis. It begins with the generational memory's of our race. The memories that are still being carried by the few of us who have survived from the beginning.
It began when a mammoth meteorite made up of about 90% salt entered the solar system. A freak collision with a comet set it off course about two hundred and fifty million years before. Approximately the size and shape of the state of Texas it was approaching the end of it's journey. Larger fragments missed the planet, what hit us was just a piece of the massive meteorite that impacted the agricultural planet of Mars and then wiped out the heavily forested moon.
Originally the planet was covered in fresh water. It was every where, only the highest peaks were exposed. A few thousand square miles of dry lushly forested land is all there was. That's why Atlantis didn't sink, it rose. When the piece of massive meteorite hit, it caused a fault line to rumble to life with the impact. The initial collision evaporated 25% of the earths surface water, the salt content of the meteorite was absorbed into the remaining fresh water. The newly opened faults were spewing magma straight from the earths mantel into the newly made salt water seas. The impact didn't knock the earth of axis, the iron rich magma shifting it's magnetic properties did. Some of the vaporized fresh water fell as rain and created lakes and rivers on the newly exposed high grounds. On the axis's sides that were coolest the rain and standing waters froze, these became the poler regions of the planet.
During the initial impact millions died instantly, millions more died slow and painful deaths over generations. It was truly a dark age for the survivors of the great civilization. The animals that were already adapted to dry land and that had survived the impact flourished. The seas were not so lucky. Atlantis was the capitol of several hundred large city states that were destroyed when the impact occurred. The new mineral that was deposited by the meteor, crystallized on every thing. It plugged up critical filtering systems and other machinery. It seemed to break down metals and dry out what ever it touched. A slow death ensued for the surviving residents of the once great city states. There heroic attempts to save them selves can be seen in the ancient pyramid structures. They are still found today in parts of Mexico, Egypt and to an extent Africa proper. These are, or were, huge desalinization plants. These attempts only prolonged their fate. The key to their survival was not to change the planet first. That would take millions of years to do. They needed a short term solution, a tactic that would expand, that would extend millions of years into the future in a self perpetuating way. The body had to be modified. The new mineral called salt would have to be assimilated. The first draw back to this is longevity. The sodium reduces the body's life span to about 100 years, give or take a little. A few machines were used to flush the body of salts while the individual slept, but this was very uncomfortable to say the least. Over generations fewer and fewer people used the filtering systems on a regular basis, over time the average life span fell. It fell at such a slow rate that it was not alarming to them. Finally it settled in at around where it is today.
Another major draw back was that when the body was saturated with sodium, it interfered with the neuron receptors that were needed for telepathic communication and telekinesis. Things had to be built and manufactured more and more using mechanical energy and machines.
The key would be to hold out until the planet could be returned to a state closely resembling what it was like millions of years ago. The problem was that most of the population had forgotten.
There are a few of us that have been using the filtration technology on a regular basis. We have come to be in positions of power and great wealth due to our longevity and ability to accumulate fortunes over long periods of time. Our people are as divided as any civilization is. Some times the power is used for good and sometimes it is used for evil. Some factions are called by names such as the Illuminati, Nights Templer and the Free Masons. The names change over the century's but the leaders stay the same. Even with the extreme differences between the factions, all the clans work in their own way to bring the planet of Atlantis back, back to the way it was.
In the following pages I will narrate the history of the human race as it truly was and will be again. Now begins the story of Atlantis and hope for the future.
By the way, if you haven't figured out where Atlantis is yet, your standing on it and global warming is a good thing.
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