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A teenager, hiking in an uncharted territory among mountains, valleys, and rainforests, encounters wise prophets and the light of God in a dream while sleeping in a mountain cave. On his way home he stops to rest on a rock and uncovers an ancient, concealed time machine. He is taken…

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There have been many descriptions of Atlantis published before, but very few have been written by someone who has actually been there, via psychic time travel, or at least via a series of dreams inspired by Atlantean stone furniture in Bolivia.

Fortunately, Walter F. Laredo has left us just such a book, and if he sometimes plays coy (maybe it was all just a dream???), he wonderfully includes an appendix of technical schematics of Atlantean inventions (bionic eyes, “chemical laser” beams) alongside full-color paintings of Atlantean architecture and the occasional nude Atlantean woman.

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