Published on June 23, 2007.
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The earth is hollow! It’s surface is riddled with paths to the inside!

An interior world lies beneath the earth’s crust. Centuries of industrial mining have etched labyrinthine shafts and caverns throughout the world. Beneath it are vast cave systems, replete with underground rivers, seas, and waterfalls, where unique plant and animal life thrive.

Still deeper, the earth is hollow. A differentiated body, its interior is molten: a permeable liquid mantle encircled by a comparatively thin solid husk. At the inner edge of the earth’s solid shell, crystals sublimate, mingling with pockets of pressurized gas – heated and vibrant with the light of the molten interior.

For centuries, scientists, explorers, and writers have held that this fiery core is a small, inner sun, and that the inner edge of this shell of an earth is a balmy land with a surface area greater than that of the earth’s outer surface. This land, inhabited by a varied plant and animal life features seas and continents. Its geography, anthropology, and physics are the subject of hundreds of books published since the late 17th century.

Other writers theorize concentric spheres within the earth, lit and heated by a luminous substance that adheres to the outer earth’s inner surface. These spheres, also populated by abundant life are accessible through wide holes at the earth’s poles, where the polar ice caps give way to temperate polar seas.

The second issue of Subliminal Statements documents this interior world.

Contents

• “Shinane Underground,” excerpt from the memoir from George Shinane, a NYC-based scholar who traveled to the interior world, to be published serially by Subliminal Statements,
• “Tubes Under the Hudson,” on NYC’s tunnels by City Reliquary Resident Geologist Nik Sokol,
• “Cheek-Shoe-Lube,” on the Yucatan Peninsula’s Chicxulub crater by explorer and songwriter Hannah Marcus,
• “Not Thulin Around,” delving into the dark history of Thule and Bovril, by artist-researcher Matt Bua,

And much more.