It's an amazing book. This book has a good picture and offer lots of stories and tall tales abouy my greatest athlete, Michael Jordan. Makes me inspirated on playing basketball. Buy this book and you will not regret it !

I think that no person that even thinks of him/herself as being a christian should study this 'bible'. In my opinion it is a very huge mockery of Christ and his life and doings here on earth. I have not personally read the book, but i have heard about it. And as a christian i don't even think it should be thought of like that book puts it, much less on shelves for anybody to be influenced by it.

Can be purchased directly from the author's community: Koinonia Partners, Inc. 1324 GA Hwy 49 South Americus GA 31709 (912)924-0391 Also many other books and cassettes by same author. (Even supposed out-of-print!)

Jordan Maxwell and his colleagues Paul Tice & Alan Snow are inspired by the late C19 diffusionist writer Gerald Massey, who believed he could trace all religions back to a small number of linked cults (stellar, lunar, solar). Massey was enthused by the then quite recent decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, and merged the genuine knowledge that was emerging from Egypt with the early modern fantasies - now largely debunked - about Egyptian mystery religions of vast antiquity. Maxwell et al. themselves focus mainly on the religious issues in the usual historical revisionist manner, finding a huge number of possible links but arguing persuasively for very few. They also draw from a three-volume work published around 1940, apparently anonymously. This book has the overall title Priesthood Of The Ills and contains a large amount of non-standard philology, adduced as support for these diffusionist theories of religion. This linguistic material cannot be taken seriously: it is on the level of Guido von List's absurd philology and similar British Israelite proposals. But Maxwell et al. believe that there is a Language Conspiracy, which involves (a) keeping humanity divided by forcing many mutually unintelligible languages on us and (b) blocking us from discovering the original ('true') meanings of words. This suggests that all changes in the meanings of words are somehow illegitimate, which of course is false; but Maxwell et al. hold that the meanings of some of the key words in ancient languages were very different indeed from those of the English words normally used to translate them. This has been concealed by the forces of Evil. These 'true' meanings are implicated in huge numbers of unrecognised links between languages; but focusing on pronunciation rather than spelling will apparently do the trick: you can then hear which words are really connected, because they sound similar! (Two hundred years of historical linguistic scholarship is simply ignored.) Then you can appreciate the 'true' form of Christianity and its links with earlier religions. Maxwell et al. also make a few other unintentionally entertaining statements about language matters. If these ideas are to hold up, it must be on grounds other than linguistic!

This book is a nice read and thankfully not too overwhelmingly exhaustive. That is not to say however that it is not chopped full of presentable information. As far as whether the information J. Maxwell and his colleagues present is credible and I cannot vouch for. In other words, I don't have the credentials, but I will say that I was deeply intrigued the the relgio-cultural parallels that J. Maxwell and his contributors suggested. It is truly an incredible read! Whether the information is true or just plain bunk the reader who considers purchasing this book will be glad to know that the book is a quick read. It takes no time at all to read because the info presented is concise.

If you are into this sort of thing, trust me, you'll love this book! I enjoyed the fact that we learn about things that we generally take for granted, without knowing their origin or meaning. A brilliant and fascinating expedition into the far reaches of religious thought.

This books is squarely in the corner of all the academics that say that Atlantis never existed. It's fine to have that that opinion, but the book is also overly dry, academic, and is much like a sleeping pill. It seems to be written more to impress academics (and for the author to hear his own, at times, overly pompous tones)than to inform the reader. The book doesn't explain, it tells. I also get the feeling that in each case the author was looking for the most mundane answer to every riddle. It is if, before printing, it was edited by a team the most narrow-minded (and dull) archeologists that one could find.

What a horrible book. Not only does the author not take a good look at any of the archelogical evidence relating to the premise of Atlantis, his writing style becomes quite irritating after awhile, like a college professor who thinks he's being witty and clever and really coming across as a pompous blowhard. Despite another reviewer's claim that this book dispels the myth of Atlantis, it doesn't do that at all. It simply spouts the same arguments that academics have been saying for years who haven't even looked at the evidence because the topic of Atlantis isn't respectable enough for them (sonar readings show no continent on the ocean floor, etc.). The real truth of the matter is that there has never been a single expedition into the Atlantic with the sole purpose of looking for Atlantis, and much of accepted, 'respectable' archeology, history, even geology is, in actuality, mere guesswork. Any author is entitled to his opinion, of course, but this book has no market. The bottom line is people who buy books on Atlantis do so because they're interested in the subject. There might well be an equal amount of people who don't believe in it, but I can't imagine they're willing to spend twenty dollars on a book like this for it. Nice cover, though, hopefully they'll keep that, at least, for the paperback version - if it even gets one.

This book so effectively exposes the pseudoscience behind the continued promotion of the lost continent of Atlantis -- in all its guises, old and new -- that it effectively leaves the matter case closed. I cannot recommend it highly enough, especially for people who believe that Atlantis (or some lost civilization) once existed and influenced the formation of the more familiar ancient cultures of the world (Egypt, the Maya, etc).

Jordan shows, in a lucid and entertaining style, how Plato dreamed up the Atlantis myth to make a politico-philosophical point; how the ancient and modern myths of Atlantis are entirely different and cannot be reconciled; how the modern version runs contrary to over a century of archaeological investigation into humankind's development; and how continued efforts to promote the Atlantis myth require such willful ignorance of masses of evidence and such bizarre "reasoning" as to border on the the deceitful. It is a tour-de-force book, and an essential read for anyone interested in the Atlantis myth.

i think that the guide that came with my book, which shows pictures of the slides that professors are supposed to use was completely usless, if you have to purchase this book for a class, try and get a used copy. It is not worth the price you have to pay. There is another book by Breyli and Meyers titles Corporate Finance which is much more comprehensive and much better.