James Churchward

Biography

The colonel James Churchward (1852 - 1936) was a British writer specialized in the occult books. In 1926, it publishes Mu, the continent lost , in which it affirms that a continent, Mu, are absorbed in the Pacific Ocean. The work will be followed several others on Mu.

Churchward affirmed that an Indian priest had informed it in art to read the texts of this disappeared civilization. Spoken and included/understood by only three Indians in at the time, it is a dead language today. At the beginning, the priest had spoken to him about shelves, but without him to show one of them. Churchward managed to persuade it and the priest showed him these shelves, written by Naacals themselves. Always according to Churchward, the shelves, incomplete, belonged to a larger text. However, he affirmed that he had evidence of what he advanced and which other information was hidden in the files of other ancients.

According to Churchward, Mu extended from the north of the islands of Hawaii to the islands of Fiji and Easter. He affirmed that Mu was the Jardin of Eden, inhabited by 64 000 000 people, Naacals. This civilization had reached its apogee 50 000 years before our era. Same breath, it affirmed that their technology was sophisticated than ours at the beginning of the 20th century, and than old civilizations Indian, Babylonian, Perse, Egyptian and Maya are built on the remainders of its colonies of then.

Its writings try to depict the civilization of Driven, its history, its inhabitants and his influence on civilizations to come.

The term Driven, like name of continent, was proposed for the first time by a Médecin French, Auguste the Dive. It was a question of finding an alternative in the name of the Atlantis, another continent supposément lost in the Atlantic Ocean this time.

Mythomaniac Churchward or charlatan?

In its article the enigmatic Bird of Hiva-Oa, the amateur in Cryptozoologue Michel Raynal does not go there with died hand, it is true that it raises a whimsical scientific approach, many inaccuracies and a geological impossibility certainly unknown at the time of work of Churchward.

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