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.

The Great Pyramid of Egypt: A “Time Machine” Resurrecting Past Consciousness?

Dr Philip Jamieson and Marianne Schmidt

Marianne and I published the following jointly authored paper on this topic in Nexus: The Alternative News Magazine 29(5) (August-September 2022) 61-68, 87 (available, as published, at https://nexusmagazine.com/product/the-great-pyramid-and-consciousness/?v=6cc98ba2045f). Philip enjoyed the opportunity to present on this paper to the Australian Homeopathic Association QLD on Sunday, 28 August 2022.

“Pyramid Power” is often categorised as a “New Age” pseudoscience. Popularised in the 1970s, the idea that the very shape of a pyramid can act as a source of energy remains widely disputed despite growing evidence of its reality.[1] That evidence is also suggesting that it may do so through resonance[2] (where the vibration of one object is used to increase the amplitude of another that is vibrating at the same natural frequency). The Great Pyramid of Egypt is arguably the most well known pyramid structure in the world and might be expected to provide some of the best evidence for this ability. We were not surprised therefore by a report in 2018 of research using 3D modelling of the Great Pyramid that found that it could have resonant properties when interacting with external electromagnetic waves of the radio frequency range. It was observed that “these resonant properties open the way to control the propagation and concentration of electromagnetic energy in the Pyramid’s vicinity in this spectral range”: not only can the Pyramid’s chambers concentrate electromagnetic energy at the resonant conditions, but the Pyramid scatters electromagnetic waves into the limestone plateau on which it is built.[3]

The Great Pyramid “Power Plant”

This would appear to bolster the claims of the various researchers and others who have published a range of theories over the years supporting that at least one of the possible functions of the Great Pyramid may have been as some form of “power plant”, operating as a power generator and wireless energy transmitter.[4]

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The Memory of Water: A Dawning Recognition of Ancient Understanding

Dr Philip Jamieson (with Marianne Schmidt)

The following jointly authored paper was published in Nexus: The Alternative News Magazine 29(3) (April-May 2022) 27-33, 84-85 (available, as published, at https://nexusmagazine.com/product/the-memory-of-water/?v=6cc98ba2045f). Philip enjoyed the opportunity to present on this paper to the Australian Homeopathic Association QLD on Sunday, 28 August 2022.

Water is fundamental to our existence. We are organisms principally composed of water, ultimately dependent upon water to live out our existence upon a planet primarily covered by water. Little wonder that water features prominently in myths, religious beliefs, folktales and other traditions.

Water and knowledge in myths and traditions

While water is central to many ancient myths, from creation to its role in healing and cleansing, one perhaps less well explored theme in that mythology and tradition has been its role as a source of knowledge and wisdom.

Water in wells[1]

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