The Past That Never Was

Here we go again.

It would be interesting and perhaps important to know why men have such a perennial fascination with the idea of wildly spectacular events and civilizations in the distant past. Just in modern times, one thinks immediately of Churchward, Donnelly, Piazzi Smith, Mme. Blavatsky, Shaver, Velikovsky—and now von Daniken. Depth-psychological study might give to the works of people like these an importance as diagnostic material that would make up for their total lack of any other value.