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The Smoky God: A Voyage to the Inner World Paperback – May 8, 2016

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THE SMOKY GOD is an Edwardian era "hollow earth" fantasy novel, presented as a true story. The narrator, Olaf Jansen, voyages through a polar opening in 1829 and spends 2 years in a strange underground world, believed to be the original Garden of Eden. This inner Earth is lit by its own sun, and here underground civilization has diverged from the ways of the surface. Here are giants, monsters, omnipotent High Priests, and lost races that speak Sanskrit—a world of wonders, which Olaf will be lucky to survive! Includes the original illustrations from the serialization in The National Magazine (1907-8).

"Fictional reconciliation of hollow-earth theories with eclectic Fundamentalism." —Science-Fiction: The Early Years

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wildside Press (May 8, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 56 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1479421855
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1479421855
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.77 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.15 x 9 inches
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Paul Amatucci is a Certified Reiki Master, Personal Trainer, Life Coach, Culinary Artist and Chess Aficionado.

He has studied many topics including anthropology, ancient history, ancient technologies, and afterlife and reincarnation studies.

Paul’s interest in researching the paranormal started as a child with a fascination for science fiction, astrology and all things hidden and mysterious.

Paul’s curiosity, along with his life experiences, are what led him to begin writing books in 2014.

His goal through his books is to help as many individuals as possible awaken to their own divinity and find everlasting peace and joy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Love this story!
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2024
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Always a fan of inner earth lore, and this man’s is no exception. His dying wish was for this to be told, and even after having spent 28years in an institution- sticks by his story!

Very intriguing. Highly interesting.
Short & yet, gripping!
Also, beautiful cover photo and pics as well!

Kudos <3
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JLacey
5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2020
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what an amazing book. It had me enthralled from page one. its is a very short book, as the author condensed the writing he was given. Very good book. The author says that he is telling olafs story.

That when he talked about it himself, a very wealthy prominent man who showed interest in his amazing account (yes, this is suppose to be a TRUE story, and weather or not you believe it, it truly is his truth), but the rich man ended up getting him locked in an insane asylum for over a decade. He kept the story to himself.

The author account his meeting olaf. Olaf was in his garden when he walked by and a conversation sparked. They grew to be friends. Olaf called for the author on his death bed to tell him this tell an give him his diary and notes from the years.

The author describes Olaf as a smart man. But traumatized by his betrayed and treatment in the hospital. How he vowed to never speak a word of it until he met our author, and felt he had to pass the tale on to him.

He could have gone to inner earth if it is real, or just the true north as depicted in old maps like on a flat earth, ormaybe there is an inner world on flat earth.

The most interseting thing is that a very wealthy powerful man showed interest in his story
That his account of what happend, was before JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH was written.
That JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH was written and published by jules, with according to him, the help of a powerful rich man who had great ideas for the book.
one in the same man?

I see this book as true, weather or not it was truly "inner earth"
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Robert Caldwell
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2023
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Great read
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V. Wells
4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2024
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I just wish there were more details about the inner world. But what is there is super interesting for sure.
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Michael
5.0 out of 5 stars Omg I love this book! 📚
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2022
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READ THIS BOOK EVEN IF YOU DONT BELIEVE IN IT! It’s a great story to read to your kids or you, and the imagery, in this book is amazing. Short amount of pages but definitely well well worth it. I had to follow along while listening to the auto book version (free on YouTube.) because the words were to hard for me to understand and read. But could easily understand it with the auto book while following along. Could read the whole book in just one day.
Sad but eye opening story, especially if you believe in it! MUST READ 🎉
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wiredweird
3.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinarily missable
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2024
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This story's greatest strength is its brevity - it got no better as it went along, and stopped before it had time to turn truly bad.

Out of 69 pages, the first seventeen and the last page set the "I got this from someone else" premise, possibly to avert blame for the writing. Once the tale gets under way, it continues a questionable habit of citing now-obscure sources to justify some of the stranger points of the story. There are more than twenty of these diversions. A quarter to half of a page each, I did not see them improving the telling.

About the first fifteen pages of the narrative describe the rigors sailing through ice-ridden seas, before seeing the first sign of the inner world, the "sun" at the interior sphere's center. Soon after the travelers see the inhabitants, human but gigantic. That seemed to be the pattern: grapes the size of ranges, lives in the 600-year range, elephants at least five times the size of our own, and so on. Oh, and gold. Lots and lots of gold, in extravagant display. That seemed to be a common feature of late-19th to early 20th century fantasies: a place would hardly be worth mention without extravagant display of the metal. Little seems to be said about the governance or social habits of the society, except that the Chief High Priest seems hold the most authority. I noted, however, that anything inexplicable to the 1908 author, like the energy of the sun-thing or motive power of their vehicles, was termed "electrical". Well, later authors did much the same. Mid-20th century, giant monsters and other weirdness had "atomic" sources. The word "quantum" is similarly used these days by people with no idea what the word means.

The last ten pages, give or take, detail the harrowing trip home. If you've kept count, fewer than half the pages actually describe the inner world. as a result, I came away with only a vague impression of how it differed from our own, except in matters of size and wealth. Someone with a passion for "hollow earth" stories might add this to their collection. I choose to spare my personal library the embarrassment, and will re-home the book in the first Little Free Library I see.

-- wiredweird
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M Pettus MD, FACP, ABIHM
5.0 out of 5 stars A tale of inner earth
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2023
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Regardless of where one’s beliefs may lay, it is not a stretch, based on other sources e.g. The Transylvania Sunrise series by Radu Cinamar that a deep inner world of life exists. We still know so little about the planet we inhabit.
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L. Davis
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice & New
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2023
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Came not crumpled & will read & keep.
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Nipper
3.0 out of 5 stars Here's What's Deep Inside
Reviewed in Canada on February 28, 2024
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Yet another tale of the hollow Earth.
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Sermorpat86
5.0 out of 5 stars Gran lectura
Reviewed in Mexico on July 10, 2023
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Muy difícil de encontrar en México gran historia para los amantes de este tipo de tópicos
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Abhishek
5.0 out of 5 stars Explore
Reviewed in India on September 26, 2020
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Very good for swift reading, substitute for bulk hundred odd pages but there r no maps in them so s little disappointed
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The wise old man
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book
Reviewed in the Netherlands on August 21, 2020
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A mystery true or not who knows , life is strand-Ger than you think
But any how its used by insider as a book of mystic learning
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andrea
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic and eye opening!
Reviewed in Germany on December 15, 2019
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On your way to the origins of this world and live itself, one can not miss this book.
It is short but to the point and the quotes and extracts Olaf Jansen has added in his Manuscript to point out similarities to other stories of origin and thoughts of great explorers and thinkers of our Time really helped putting the pieces of this mysterious puzzle that our world still is a little more together!
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