ATLANTIS AND THE DRUG CULTS (SEARCHING ATLANTIS Book 1)

A great enigma surrounding the origin of Civilization is the fact that
in all places – Egypt, Mesopotamia, Palestine, India, Pakistan, Europe,
etc. – what is actually observed is not a slow, painful progress, but an
abrupt discontinuity in passing from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic.
In no place that we know of is there a gradual evolution of the type one
should expect, with the type of painful trial and error process that
characterizes seminal inventions of great import such as the invention
of agriculture and the development of domestic plants and animals.
In
no place of the world do we witness the continuous ascent of Man
leading from and apelike animal to the semi-divine being who became the
master of fire, of the arts, and the techniques. The archaeologists who
will – perhaps a few tens of thousands of years from now – excavate the
sites of the present American civilizations will find precisely what we
normally observe everywhere in the Old World: they will observe a
substrate of primitive cultures above which is placed an entirely new
cultural horizon, often racially and technologically quite distinct from
the previous one, and often far more advanced than their predecessors.