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* See The Lost Continent of Mu. The Sacred Symbols of Mu, Cosmic Forces of Mu, The Children of Mu, Cosmic Forces of Mu~Book 2, all published by Neville Spearman. Actually, there is considerable merit In Churchward** evidence, even though his conclusions and his bold statements about Mu history can be questioned. A fantastic culture of stone builders and mound builders, predating modern man by centuries or even thousands of years, obviously did exist all over this planet The only possible explanation for the many Pacific ruins, such as the huge stone arch found on the coral atoll of Tonga-Tabu (two upright columns weighing seventy tons each, topped by a crosspiece weighing twenty-five tons), is that these islands must have somehow been linked together by a land mass in the distant past. The culture of this mysterious land spread throughout the world. Then an unthinkable catastrophe occurred. A catastrophe which altered the face of the whole earth and wiped out everything but the most durable constructions of that doomed race. In effect the slate was wiped dean. The ancient world was destroyed and a new race slowly emerged. But we are still haunted by racial memories of our planet's .past. Every race and every culture has preserved - and even guarded - memories of that earlier epoch. Unfortunately, modern science has boxed itself in and dedicated itself to proving Darwin's theory of evolution and other theories which supply a rational, but not necessarily valid, explanation of man's origin and past. CHAPTER SIX Want to discover a lost city and be entered in the annals of archaeology? It's easy, according to James Randi, the famous magician and escape artist who has spent considerable time probing into the ruins of Asia and South America. Just visit an out-of-the-way place and ask the natives for directions to the nearest lost city, Randi explains. There are thousands of these structures an every continent, and only a comparative handful have been recognized by archaeology. Those prehistoric stonemasons were ubiquitous, and they left their works everywhere. A young geologist named Karl Mauch found the lost city of Zimbabwe in southern Rhodesia in 1871 simply by asking an ivory trader for directions. Mauch's story is filled with high adventure. The trader, a German-American named Adam Renders, rescued him from a tribe of hostile natives and led him to the site of the ancient ruins. Mauch decided Zimbabwe was actually the biblical gold centre of Ophir, where the fruits of King Solomon's mines were collected. But all he and Renders found were a series of granite structures on top of a steep bill, filled with winding passageways and tunnels. The largest was the Elliptical Building roughly 830 feet in circumference and thirty-three feet high. Nearby were two towers. A cave on a cliff some distance away has proven to have unusual acoustics. When someone speaks in the cave, his voice can be heard in the Elliptical Building but nowhere else. 'Doubtless, the native priests put this phenomenon to nefarious use,' L Sprague de Camp, a reformed science fiction writer, notes. Archaeologists have been arguing about Zimbabwe for one hundred years. The ruins have been dated variously from A.D. 700 to 1500. They have been credited to everyone from the Phoenicians and the Egyptians to the naked Bantu tribesmen. Their workmanship is rather crude when compared with the far more impressive structures of Asia, the Pacific, and South America. A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO EXTINCTION