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Bimini Road And, in a deft
stroke of synchronistic timing, an article appeared in the January,
1997 Harper's, just as I was first working on this piece
about Cayce. It examined the whole business of the stone road off
Bimini (and the reemergence of Atlantis) from the perspective of
a disenchanted son of an inveterate (and well-known) New Ager. Ptolemy
Tompkins, the author of "Lost Atlantis: Nude scientists, giant sharks,
bad vibes, and me," is the son of Peter Tompkins, who wrote Secrets
of the Great Pyramid and, with Christopher Bird, The Secret
Life of Plants. Many things to many people, the Road was to me one thing above all: boring. Try as I might, I could not conjure up, nor could I understand, the kind of anguish and enthusiasm that my father and his friends seemed to suffer over it. Swimming above this huge trail of squarish boulders with the other divers, I never failed to find them somehow uninspired, and I could not help but think that our time in the Bahamas would be better spent doing something – anything – else. And it turned out he was right, if proof of pre-Deluge road construction was the aim of the expedition, because geologists soon established the formation as entirely natural. But Tompkins the Elder had an even better reason for being there, as he explained to junior one day on the boat: "Do you know what all this is really about?" The man was just way ahead of his time. |