Jason Quitt | The Atlantis Myth, Cosmic Cycles, & Astral Abductions

Summary

Author and lifelong entity experiencer Jason Quitt argues that Plato's Atlantis was never meant as a literal sunken continent, but as a celestial allegory for the precession of the equinoxes and the shifting North Star across the roughly 26,000-year Great Year. He ties the story's concentric rings, Atlas as world axis, and the orichalcum pillar to Plato's model of the world soul in the Timaeus and to older Egyptian and Mesopotamian creation myths. He also proposes that most alien abductions are 'astral abductions,' out-of-body experiences that follow nearly the same step-by-step pattern as classic abduction reports.

Key takeaways

• 1In the Timaeus, the Egyptian priest prefaces the Atlantis story by telling Solon that the myth of Phaeton crashing the sun's chariot really signifies 'a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens' and recurring destructions by fire and water.
• 2Atlantis is named after Atlas, the Titan who holds up the heavens as the Axis Mundi. The orichalcum ('mountain bronze') pillar at its center is compared to the Egyptian Djed pillar, the spine of Osiris.
• 3Plato's Critias breaks off as Zeus convenes the gods to judge Atlantis, a cliffhanger Quitt calls a literary joke, since the dialogue claims a finished Atlantis tale by Solon would have rivaled Homer.
• 4Quitt claims Vega was the bright North Star at Atlantis's peak, and that the 11,600-year-ago destruction date aligns with Hercules in the northern sky, mirroring 'just outside the pillars of Hercules.' Civilization restarted when Thuban in Draco became pole star around 3000 BCE.
• 5Egyptian mummification took 70 days, matching the 70 days each year when Sirius, the star tied to Anubis, is hidden behind the sun. Ka statues were believed to house the spirit of the deceased.
• 6Comparing notes with abductee researcher Bob Mitchell, Quitt found that abduction reports (paralysis, metallic clicking, beams of light, floating through walls) match out-of-body experiences step by step. He and his wife also reportedly saw two different UFOs, one resembling a TR-3B, from the same car.

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