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If you want to create a micro nation, start with a big nation and mismanage it.
No mention of Bimini Road. Nor Edgar Cayce's predictions. Nor the selling of futures when Atlantis arose.

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/a-profile-of-leicester-le...

Nor the sonar detected "nartual rock" pyramids under the ocean. This happened more recently but I digress...

Don't understand this comment. Did Leicester believe the Atlantis nonsense? Why bring this up? I would imagine, if he lived in Bimini, he would've seen enough beachrock to know better.
> Did Leicester believe the Atlantis nonsense? Why bring this up?

Cayce's predictions of Atlantis emerging were primary motivations for Leicester to live in that area. He created the micronation New Atlantis. The Smithsonian could have gone deeper with their journalism because there is more to the story than a "conservation project".

> I would imagine, if he lived in Bimini, he would've seen enough beachrock to know better.

Bimini Wall was discovered by Dr. J Manson Valentine, Jacques Mayol, Harold Climo and Robert Angove under 10 feet of water off the coast of Bimini in 1968. Four years after Hemingway founded New Atlantis.

https://atlantipedia.ie/samples/bimini-roadwall/

> Given that so much is passed down within the Hemingway family – immense physicality, depression, storytelling talents – it's no surprise that Les and Hilary's connections to the paranormal can be traced back to Grace Hall Hemingway, Ernest and Les' mother. "Gracie" had regular conversations with the famous early-20th-century spiritualist Edgar Cayce. Digitized archives of his correspondence confirm that the two communicated. Gracie was hoping the spirit world could help her cure Clarence of physical and financial ailments.

> One of his [Cayce] predictions was that the Lost City of Atlantis would be found in the Caribbean, and he also foresaw that the Bimini islands were mountaintops.

I heard somewhere that he sold futures to the Atlantis land that Cayce predicted would emerge in the Caribbean. But I can't find anything to verify that claim. I misread the article I posted above, thinking it did verify that claim. But it didn't.

I heard these claims among others in this episode of the "Dark Jounalist". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRIyt8Jvp70

Presumably he has sources for his claims. I didn't find the sources for some of the more interesting claims with a casual web search.

Seems like a precedent for the Conch Republic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conch_Republic