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ways be; and there f o re, we are always constantly
exploring our awareness, gathering data, gathering
insight, gathering vibration and internalizing
that vibration. We are always eve ry w h e re
and now h e re simultaneously” (Klimo, 1987).
See Also: Channeling; Ramtha; Seth
Further Reading
Klimo, Jon, 1987. Channeling: Investigations on Re -
ceiving Information from Paranormal Sources. Los
Angeles: J. P. Tarcher.
Martin, Katherine, 1987. “The Voice of Lazaris.”
New Realities 7, 6 (July/August): 26–33.
Pursel, Jach, 1987. Lazaris, The Sacred Journey: You
and Your Higher Self. Beverly Hills, CA: Concept
Synergy.
———, 1988. Lazaris Interviews. Two volumes.
Beverly Hills, CA: Concept Synergy.
Lemuria
Lemuria was the invention of British zo o l ogist
Philip L. Schattler, who conceived of it as
an Indian Ocean land bridge connecting
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Madagascar and extreme southern In d i a .
S c h a t t l e r, who was re s e a rching animal populations,
sought to explain why these two
widely separated locations shared many of the
same flora and fauna. (In the twentieth cent
u ry, continental drift theory re n d e red Schatt
l e r’s hypothesis obsolete.) He called the postulated
land bridge “Lemuria,” after the
lemurs, animals that the two areas shared in
common. Be f o re long, howe ve r, occultists
and mystics would incorporate the concept of
L e m u r i a — n ow conceived of as a lost continent
in the Pa c i fic Ocean—into their own alt
e r n a t i ve histories.
For a time, however, Lemuria remained a
scientifically respectable hypothesis. One
major champion, German evolutionary biologist
Ernst Haeckel, speculated that Homo sapi -
ens originated on Lemuria, though that could
not be proved because any remains had sunk
to the bottom of the sea along with the land
A science fiction novella about Lemuria by Richard S. Shaver and Ray Palmer in Amazing Stories, March 1945 (Fortean
Picture Library)