James Churchward - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

Churchward is mentioned in fiction in the short stories Through the Gates of the Silver Key by H. P. Lovecraft and Out of the Aeons by Lovecraft and Hazel Heald.

Churchward's writings are a key influence for the plot of the anime series RahXephon.

Churchward's writings were satirized by occult writer Raymond Buckland in his novel Mu Revealed, written under the pseudonym "Tony Earll" (an anagram for "not really").

In James Rollins' novel "Deep Fathom", Churchward is the great-grandfather of book character Karen Grace who takes part in revealing the mystery of Mu.

Churchward's writings are used as a source for the following books:

• Lemuria and Atlantis: Studying the Past to Survive the Future by Shirley Andrews.

• Lost Cities of China, Central Asia & India by David Hatcher Childress

• Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean by David Hatcher Childress

• Timeless Earth by Peter Kolosimo

• The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story ever Sold by Acharya S

• Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha, and Christ Unveiled by Acharya S

• Mu, a comic book from the Corto Maltese series, by Hugo Pratt

• The fantastical floating continent of Zeal from Chrono Trigger video game has several oblique references to a philosophy called "Nu".

UK-based electronic music record-label Planet Mu has released three compilation albums with titles copied from Churchward's own books: The Cosmic Forces of Mu (2001), Children of Mu (2004) and Sacred Symbols of Mu (2006).