My new speculative fiction novel: The Legacy of Jaarqub the Atlantean

I am excited to announce that I have just published my first novel, The Legacy of Jaarqub the Atlantean.

It is a work of speculative fiction aimed at unpacking some of the lessons of Atlantis and how they might pertain to today’s society.

I drew inspiration for a number of elements of the story from papers that I researched and posted here on my WordPress sites over the past several years. So don’t be surprised if you find some familiar topics woven into the plot! At the end of the novel I provide a fairly detailed list of selected sources that served as inspiration.

It was a refeshing change to write a work of fiction and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I hope you get as much pleasure from reading my novel as I did writing it.

You can find my novel online as an ebook at several retailers, including Amazon, Kobo, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords. Here are 2 easy links if you would like to enjoy a good read:

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It is around 55,000 words and considered a 4 – 5 hour read.

Synopsis:

Long forgotten secrets of Atlantis and Lemuria are revealed in this engaging story of spiritual awakening told across three intersecting timelines and spanning thousands of years.

This short novel is a work of speculative fiction inspired by spiritual, cultural, scientific and scholarly themes. It follows the transformative journey of ambitious, quirky anthropologist Jamie Tawnhill and his three friends, Reiki Master and holistic health practitioner Tiana Raymond, sceptical geologist Sarah Rosans and spiritually inclined legal academic Paul Mannix. Revelations about long forgotten civilisations and peoples of the ancient past reveal deeper truths about humanity’s interconnected relationship with other animals and the underlying reality that if we are to survive, we must accept that we are all part of one natural world, one unity.

The Legacy of Jaarqub the Atlantean is the first work of speculative fiction by widely published cross-disciplinary author Dr Philip Jamieson. With undergraduate degrees in Law (with First Class Honours) and Arts (majoring in Anthropology), his interdisciplinary doctorate crossed the fields of history, philosophy and law. A cross-pollinator of ideas, he has been widely published over the past 40 years across a range of disciplines and subjects, contributing to numerous journals and magazines including Ancient Origins, Nexus and New Dawn. Born in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, he is honoured to have been initiated (to the first stage) into the local Tolai community.

Awakening our Spiritual Power: A Cosmic Seeing Eye Glass

Philip Jamieson and Marianne Schmidt

Featured image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay

As the search for the origins of the viral pandemic continues, one theory that resonates strongly with us is that put forward by Professor Chandra Wickramsignhe who (in a recent joint publication) concluded that it “was probably linked to the arrival of a pure culture of the virus contained in cometary debris”; interestingly an event that he had foreshadowed in 2019. This is a reflection of his broader thesis that life is distributed through the Universe by cosmic visitors such as comets and meteorites (‘Panspermia’). In New Dawn last year he commented that “[t]he evidence is stunningly clear that the first life on Earth in the form of bacteria came with impacting comets”. As Wickramsignhe and his colleagues noted last year, nor is this potential impact limited merely to the initial origins of life on Earth, but embraces equally its ongoing evolution.

Tunguska impact event

By ru:Евгений Леонидович Кринов, member of the expedition to the Tunguska event in 1929. – [1] (original, black and white version of photo) / Vokrug Sveta, 1931 (current, color version of photo), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=200531

The 1908 Tunguska impact event may provide evidence supportive of this evolutionary impact. Jacques Van Impe has recently suggested that genetic mutations resulting from the 1908 event provide the most likely explanation for the subsequent extinction of a particular species of goose. Van Impe’s theory draws upon the work of Zurab Silagadze who drew attention to genetic anomalies that had been reported in plants, insects – and people – in the Tunguska region after the event. Silgadze also noted that an increased rate of biological mutation was found not only within the epicentre of the impact event, but also along the trajectory of the cosmic body responsible. Even in its flight it appears to have been accompanied by “some unknown agent” capable not only of inducing remote ecological change but perhaps even genetic changes. Silgadze postulates that agent may be electromagnetic radiation – powerful ELF/VLF electromagnetic radiation from the cosmic body and ionizing radiation due to lightning accompanying the explosion. Certainly, this may well be part of the explanation, but is there perhaps some even wider agency also at work?

Continue reading “Awakening our Spiritual Power: A Cosmic Seeing Eye Glass “ →

Footprint of Comet Encke?

Featured image: Detail of Astrology Manuscript, ink on silk, BCE 2th century, Han, unearthed from Mawangdui tomb 3rd, Chansha, Hunan Province, China. Hunan Province Museum by Unknown author – China Arts, Volume 1st, Wen Wu Publishing, Beijing, China, 1979-10, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19264187

Philip Jamieson and Marianne Schmidt

In the last weeks of 2020 the Sydney Dance Company performed Indian-Australian Raghav Handa’s Cult of the Titans, a work exploring the Nazi appropriation of the swastika from Hindu culture. The Company was so concerned at the depth of animosity in the community towards the symbol that it provided a content warning that the work contained swastika images and invited concerned audience members to leave if they wished. In a video introduction, Handa explained his piece as an attempt to reclaim from its horrific association with Nazism the Swastika’s ancient symbolism in Hinduism of light and peace.

While this positive symbolism in Hinduism is indeed millenia old, the origins of the swastika are actually far more ancient and its original meaning still the subject of much speculation. While long found in Eastern religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, its use is also found in many ancient cultures around the world, in some cases dating from the Neolithic and even late Paleolithic Periods. The earliest known example, excavated at an Ice Age site at Mezin in the Ukraine and dating from at least 12,000 years ago (in some accounts 15,000 years old and possibly even older), is a bird figurine carved from mammoth ivory tusk, its torso displaying what Mukti Jain Campion has elegantly described as “an intricate meander pattern of joined-up swastikas”. Photos of the figurine can be seen in her article at https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591.

So what might this swastika imagery have been intended to represent in antiquity? Continue reading “Footprint of Comet Encke?” →