Mysteries From Forgotten Worlds
Just finished reading "Mysteries From Forgotten Worlds" by Charles Berlitz, published by Dell Books back in 1973
Berlitz did have a strong academic background in linguistics and a thriving decades old family business in teaching others how to speak in languages other than their own mother tongue that gave him more "credibility" than Erik Von Daniken. Berlitz was perhaps the Graham Hancock of his era.
Now "Mysteries From Forgotten Worlds" was another book that Mom and Dad bought from Michele's Bookstore in the Bryn Myar Shopping Center in Jacksonville, North Carolina when it first was released back in 1973 and they passed it on to me once they finished reading it. It was first released in the Summer of 1973, so being on summer break from school, I didn't have to worry about any of my teachers calling up Mom and Dad because I was reading yet another "inappropriate book."
Selma Franz, my sister, once mentioned that she thought she and I were probably on some government list that is still being kept and that we're still being monitored because of reports we were required to write and present on various countries in the world when we were in the Sixth Grade. Nepal was the country I had been assigned to do a report on, so Dad helped me write a letter to the Nepalese Embassy here in the United States, and a couple weeks later, I received a nice big package with lots of information and photos about Nepal. Mrs. Sanders, the woman - I refuse to call her a teacher since she cared more about social position and how a person looked - in charge of my class at Stone Street Elementary School during that time, gave me a "B" on the report because I quoted too many facts about Nepal without talking to anyone actually from Nepal. She told Dad that I should have gone to Nepal and he reported her to the principal since none of my other classmates had to adhere to this crazy requirement. A fun fact, since that report counted for 90% of my grade that quarter, the principal made sure that I got an A that quarter in the class.
I think I can safely say that a majority of my psychological issues stem from my childhood as the only Jewish child at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina where I grew up in the 1960s-1970s. Selma never had half the problems I had, but a lot of her teachers, who had also been my teachers, were glad she wasn't like me in most matters.
Why the trip down memory lane. Because while Berliz does cover much of the same territory of Von Daniken's Ancient Astronaut Theories - he, like Hancock, believes that it wasn't ancient astronauts, but a lost super civilization that left behind traces of it's advanced technology.
Similar, but different.
Now, this will be the last book in this trip down memory lane from the beginning of the Ancient Aliens craze that I will be reading for a while. It was a fun trip down memory lane and a way to reclaim a tie with Mom and Dad through books we once shared and read together.
Berlitz brings a more scholarly approach to his theory, but like Von Daniken, believing and speculation is not proof.
Three Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-forg...
Berlitz did have a strong academic background in linguistics and a thriving decades old family business in teaching others how to speak in languages other than their own mother tongue that gave him more "credibility" than Erik Von Daniken. Berlitz was perhaps the Graham Hancock of his era.
Now "Mysteries From Forgotten Worlds" was another book that Mom and Dad bought from Michele's Bookstore in the Bryn Myar Shopping Center in Jacksonville, North Carolina when it first was released back in 1973 and they passed it on to me once they finished reading it. It was first released in the Summer of 1973, so being on summer break from school, I didn't have to worry about any of my teachers calling up Mom and Dad because I was reading yet another "inappropriate book."
Selma Franz, my sister, once mentioned that she thought she and I were probably on some government list that is still being kept and that we're still being monitored because of reports we were required to write and present on various countries in the world when we were in the Sixth Grade. Nepal was the country I had been assigned to do a report on, so Dad helped me write a letter to the Nepalese Embassy here in the United States, and a couple weeks later, I received a nice big package with lots of information and photos about Nepal. Mrs. Sanders, the woman - I refuse to call her a teacher since she cared more about social position and how a person looked - in charge of my class at Stone Street Elementary School during that time, gave me a "B" on the report because I quoted too many facts about Nepal without talking to anyone actually from Nepal. She told Dad that I should have gone to Nepal and he reported her to the principal since none of my other classmates had to adhere to this crazy requirement. A fun fact, since that report counted for 90% of my grade that quarter, the principal made sure that I got an A that quarter in the class.
I think I can safely say that a majority of my psychological issues stem from my childhood as the only Jewish child at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina where I grew up in the 1960s-1970s. Selma never had half the problems I had, but a lot of her teachers, who had also been my teachers, were glad she wasn't like me in most matters.
Why the trip down memory lane. Because while Berliz does cover much of the same territory of Von Daniken's Ancient Astronaut Theories - he, like Hancock, believes that it wasn't ancient astronauts, but a lost super civilization that left behind traces of it's advanced technology.
Similar, but different.
Now, this will be the last book in this trip down memory lane from the beginning of the Ancient Aliens craze that I will be reading for a while. It was a fun trip down memory lane and a way to reclaim a tie with Mom and Dad through books we once shared and read together.
Berlitz brings a more scholarly approach to his theory, but like Von Daniken, believing and speculation is not proof.
Three Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-forg...
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