WNYC and the Land of Mu

  
Colonel James Churchward (1851-1936)

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Title sheet to an unpublished 251-page collection of handwritten and illustrated radio scripts by James Churchward .
 
(A. Lanset Collection)

Between 1924 and 1925, world traveler, inventor, geologist, archeologist, metallurgical chemist, and researcher James Churchward delivered more than two dozen lectures over WNYC. A former colonel in the British Army, Churchward gave talks based on decades of research that focused on what he called, 'the motherland of man,' the lost continent of Mu.

According to Churchward, some 25,000 years before the common era Mu had been a Pacific Ocean mirror to Atlantis, with its northern reach just beyond Hawaii and the southern boundary between Easter Island and Fiji. Before its destruction from a volcanic explosion, Mu was home to as many as 64,000,000 people whose culture and inventions, he argued, far surpassed those of the modern era.[1]

Churchward began his quest to prove the existence of Mu in 1868 as a young English officer on famine relief duty in India.  There, he befriended a high priest at a temple school monastery who revealed to him ancient tablets written in Naacal, a language known only to a dwindling few. The priest reportedly taught Churchward how to read this language and the tablets which described the lost continent of Mu. So began Churchward's lifelong project to corroborate the tablets.

In his WNYC talks, Churchward discussed his discoveries and findings of Mu as well as lecturing on his travels through the Himalayas and India. Covered too are various natural phenomena such as electricity, lightning, earthquakes, and volcanoes. Heading to the fringes of scientific and anthropologic inquiry Churchward outlined his firm belief that the sun is actually a cool body and that man was civilized before he became a savage.

Churchward's radio lectures received some national notice through the syndicated newspaper outlet Universal Service. They published a piece on Churchward's November 12, 1924 WNYC lecture that ran in Nebraska's Grand Island Daily Independent. Headlined, "New Location Given to Garden of Eden," the article outlined the colonel's talk "The Motherland of Man," where he declared that years of research had led him to conclude that Eden was indeed in the Pacific but had been submerged by volcanic activity. The same story appeared in Louisiana's Shreveport Times.[2] In April 1925, The Hartford Courant's radio columnist made note of an upcoming Churchward talk on 'the great magnetic cataclysm,' that it said, promises "very surprising facts and finding as substantiation for extremely unorthodox explanation of the glacial period."


Not long afterward Churchward's research and conclusions were detailed in the book The Lost Continent of Mu: Motherland of Man, published in 1926. This work was followed by The Children of Mu, The Sacred Symbols of Mu, and two volumes on The Cosmic Forces of Mu.


Col. Churchward, Author, Dies at 86," The New York Times, January 5, 1936, pg. N10.

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