Watermark: The Disaster That Changed the World and Humanity 12,000 Years Ago

by Joseph Christy-Vitale

THE ECHOES OF OUR PAST
Twelve thousand years ago, the human race barely escaped annihilation when a piece of exploded star passed through our solar system, unleashing an apocalypse. Great fires raged, mountains rose and fell, a maelstrom of cosmic debris bombarded Earth, continents broke apart, and oceans swept across the land. Millions of people, animals, and plants perished almost overnight. Entire societies, cultures, and belief systems were lost forever. The resulting aftershock shaped humanity for thousands of years, and continues to haunt us to this day. This is not fiction. This is history.
THE TRUTHS OF THE PRESENT
Using authoritative source material and an understanding of mankind's aptitude for the transmission of factual knowledge through myth and legend, Joseph Christy-Vitale dramatically unveils a past unlike any proposed by either religion or science, viewing the global catastrophe as living history, since the traumatic effects of that terrible event affect us as a species even today.
THE PATHS OF THE FUTURE
Providing an insight into where our troubled view of the world originated, Watermark tells the true story of how humanity's brush with extinction still pervades our lives -- and offers the first step to recovering what we lost so long a healthy, balanced view of the world.

224 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2004

Reviews

[Bold Bookworm · Rating 3 out of 5]

... This book needs more citations. It reads like an excellent work of fiction and has endnotes that list books supposedly referenced. But it has an absolute dearth of internal citations. Were the author a little less informal and a little more academic in his style, this book would be a paradigm-destroyer.

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[Tom · Rating 2 out of 5]

This review contains a few spoilers which doesn't matter. I have had the pleasure of reading 1000's of books over my lifetime. This work falls into a very, very small number of works that share one common element. As I read parts of this book, I could feel the intelligence being pulled from me in a vain attempt to make me more stupid.

I had to double check when this book was published. If it was published in the 1800's, parts of it would be defensible as science was still in infancy in some hard sciences. No, this book was published in 2004. There is no excuse for questioning the age of the Rocky Mountains, The Andes, or the Himalayas. By any measure of hard science, they are older than 12,000 years. There was an Ice Age over 12,000 years ago and this too is not an assumption, but a proven fact.

When it come to advanced civilizations in prehistoric times, I believe there is a hidden in plain sight civilization that degree level researchers and scientist refuse to look at in the light of new evidence that questions the very basis of the traditional timelines of human history. This does not mean that ancient man had telescopes that could determine the rings of Saturn or the moons of Jupiter, let alone seeing a planet that later became the asteroid belt. There is absolutely nothing that denotes this level of science or technology. Wishing it was there or just stating it does not make it a fact as the author did.

I will say that there is a plethora of facts that I know to be true. It is a shame this author doesn't know about footnotes when stating them. Some of this book is very well researched and makes some very strong arguments about history. The real problem with this entire work is you have known science and known facts intermixed with speculations made to appear as facts.

All I would tell you is to take copious notes for further research.

[Kristi Cz · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an odd book. It's not a science or history book, but I hesitate to call it fiction. I guess you could say that it's a suggestion for what may have really happened in the past. It can't be entirely true, as some of the events defy what we know (e.g., you can't hear noise in space because sound waves don't travel there). But the general idea? Maybe it's time to question what we think we know. We weren't there 12,000 years ago; scientists interpret the evidence and draw conclusions, but nobody can know for sure. So it's a little bit like, "Here's an alternate idea that may or may not have happened."

It was an interesting concept.

The book dragged on in places, and I found myself pushing to get to the end, but it gave me interesting food for thought.

[Kevin Barnes · Rating 3 out of 5]

The idea that what happened 12,000 years ago was world changing, I can believe in. The idea that it was caused by an out of the Solar System item is a bit hard to except. The author does make a good case, but just a bit low on hard facts for me to buy it 100%. I need to do more research and the bibliography he provides is a great place to start.

[noah · Rating 5 out of 5]

More "alternate history/science" that should be given more credence; if for nothing else than to be proven wrong. Compelling theory. Einstein "supposedly" had been reading Worlds in Collision, when he died. And I mean book open in front of him.

[Drew Swearingen]

Somewhere out there with, Gold of the Gods. OK for a light read. But he will need a lot more facts, before I believe him. Points out things that are common to early myths around the word and try's to tie them together with a space disaster cause.