The thought of a drowned continent has captured the imaginations of seekers after ancient wisdom and baffled historians for over two millennia. With the advent of the Web, New Age and metaphysical online bookstore enthusiasts can now enjoy a massive list of publications alluding to the riddle of Atlantis, both from a scholarly perspective and reader of science fiction and fantasy novels.
There are more ideas concerning what the nature of this legendary locale was like and where it was located and where the remains can be recovered than nearly any other of the many stories involving prehistoric superior cultures. Yet the tale of a genius race which predated our earliest records has endured exactly for the reason that it rings so true as our own culture reaches heights that may well presage catastrophe.
New Age icon Edgar Cayce described the island as a a huge expanse, about the scale of Australia. According to the medium’s vivid version, the people of Atlantis had mastered supernatural psionic talents and tools, and were the progenitors of the strangely reminiscent pyramid building civilizations of the ancient Egyptians and the Empires of native America. The subject is frequently associated with reincarnation and past lives stories as well as auras, sometimes referred to in apocalypse predictions and the Mayan Calendar prophecy of world changes on December 21, 2012.
Socrates’ student, Plato, originally wrote about a forgotten Paradise, which he referred to as Atlantis, around 355 BC. He believed the undersea continent lay near the Straits of Gibraltar and thrived until over ten thousand years before his time.
Speculations regarding the position of the “Lost Continent” range from the Eastern Indian Ocean to the Carribbean, though, naturally the most promising candidates that are small local islands with a long tradition, most notably Sardinia and Cyprus.
It might never be certain the actual details, nonetheless the literature seems to indicate: human kind has achieved high levels of advancement rising and falling in a cycle of development and destruction, perhaps in a recurring pattern, long before that which we habitually think of as the origin of culture.