DR GREG LITTLE

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CAN GENETICS SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF ATLANTIS AND MU?

 

 This lecture will review current research and outcomes of mitochondrial DNA (mDNA) findings from around the world and provide an understandable explanation of how the research has traced ancient migrational routes. It will summarize the growing evidence that indicates one form of mDNA (X) appears to have migrated from a land between Europe and the Americas sometime around 10,000 B.C.

In addition, it will present evidence from both mDNA and human DNA research showing that an extremely ancient people migrated from the South Pacific region in two migrational waves beginning circa 50,000 B.C. All of these findings support Edgar Cayce's chronology of the ancient world.

For 70 years American archaeology has been dominated by a "Holy Writ" of beliefs that few professionals have dared to challenge. These beliefs, presented as indisputable facts by the American academic community, include the following: 1) That all the ancestors of Native populations in the Americas migrated from Siberian Asia starting no earlier than 9,500 B.C., 2) prior to 9,500 B.C. no humans resided anywhere in the Americas, 3) ocean voyages were impossible prior to circa A.D. 1000, 4) no one else entered the Americas from the end of the last Ice Age until 1492 (with a single exception of the Norse), and 5) North America was settled before South America. A series of discoveries beginning in 1997 showed that every major idea comprising the "American Holy Writ" to be false. These discoveries began with hard evidence from excavations, but in 1997 ongoing genetic research on American Indian tribes took an unexpected turn and subsequently threw American archaeology into a turmoil, which still continues. Starting in the late 1980s, geneticists researching diabetes and obesity began testing members of American tribes and collecting samples of mitochondrial DNA. The mitochondria are microscopic organelles and hundreds to thousands of them reside in virtually every cell of the body. Mitochondria convert dietary glucose into a usable energy form called ATP. The mitochondria are believed to be an adapted strain of bacteria that formed a symbiotic relationship allowing multicelled life to develop. As bacteria, mitochondria carry their own DNA. The early research on Native American Indians' mitochondrial DNA (mDNA) showed that four mutational variations of mDNA had developed over thousands of years. These types were called "haplogroups" and were labelled A, B, C, and D. Geneticists then discovered that haplogroups A, C, and D were also present in Siberian tribes and that B was found in parts of China and Japan. But in 1997, another haplogroup was found in Native American Indians. Because this type couldn't be found in Siberia, it was called "X."

Presently there are 42 major haplogroups known to exist and virtually every region of the world has had research published on living populations. But because mDNA is often preserved for extremely long periods of time, geneticists began testing for mDNA types in remains recovered from mounds, cemeteries, and ancient burials around the world. Literally thousands of studies have now been published on mDNA.

One of the most interesting and useful aspects of mDNA is that its rate of mutation is relatively rapid. Geneticists have been able, through astonishing methods, to trace the movements of ancient people who migrated from place to place by working their way back through each mutational strain and matching the findings to ancient remains. Thus, mDNA provides a "time machine" look at the ancient past. However, because mDNA is passed from mother to offspring, mDNA provides a look at only the female lineage.
Beginning in 1999, I began researching all of the mDNA studies published on ancient remains and comparing the results to ideas about Atlantis and Mu (or Lemuria) as well as information in the Edgar Cayce readings. Haplogroup X continues to be an enigma, but it has been found in ancient remains removed from the Iroquois lands, southwest America, Florida, the Andes in South America, the Pyrennes Mountains, Egypt and Israel, parts of Britain, and the Gobi Desert. Incredibly, all of these are locations where Edgar Cayce stated Atlanteans fled just prior to the final destruction of their land. Even more incredibly, the dates that have been estimated by geneticists for the entry of Haplogroup X match the timeframe of Atlantis given by Cayce. In addition, Haplogroup B is now believed to have originated in the South Pacific and entered South America at least 47,000 years ago. Other evidence points to Haplogroup B
as originating from Mu. This lecture will review current research and outcomes of mDNA findings from around the world and provide an understandable explanation of how the research has traced ancient migrational routes. It will summarize the growing evidence that indicates one form of mDNA (X) appears to have migrated from a land between Europe and the Americas sometime around 10,000 B.C. In addition, it will present evidence from both mDNA and human DNA research showing that an extremely ancient people migrated from the South Pacific region in two migrational waves beginning circa
50,000 B.C.


Dr. Greg Little holds a master's degree in psychology and a doctorate in counseling from the University of Memphis. He is a Nationally Certified Psychologist and has worked in criminal justice in the United States since 1975. He is affiliated with Louisiana State University at Shreveport. He is the first author of MRT®, a cognitive-behavioral treatment system employed in 45 American states and several other countries. He has published over 20 different treatment workbooks with over 600,000 offenders utilizing them. Little has also published five widely utilized college textbooks on the topics of psychopharmacology, criminal personality, and obesity with an emphasis on genetic effects on various traits. In the early 1970s he became interested in UFO phenomena and the effects of rituals on brain chemistry. He subsequently published dozens of articles on Native American mounds, ancient rituals, and strange phenomena as well as publishing five books on these topics. Along with his wife, Greg writes the monthly newsletter "Ancient Mysteries" for the members of Edgar Cayce's ARE and has published two books evaluating Cayce's history of the ancient world.

 

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