The mystique of a prehistoric advanced society has captured the imaginations of seekers after ancient wisdom and bewildered scholars for more than two thousand years. In the modern Info-Age, metaphysical & New Age bookstore fans have at their disposal a veritable mountain of publications addressing the myth of Atlantis, both non-fiction and more fantastic novels and science fiction to read.
There are more theories about what that ancient civilization was like and where it was located and how the wisdom of the ancients might be encountered than practically any other of the many stories involving prehistoric superior cultures. Yet the tale of a lost continent which perished in a Deluge has persisted precisely because it appeals so strongly to the modern mind.
New Age icon Edgar Cayce conceived of Atlantis as a vast continent, approximately equal in size to Europe. As recounted in the medium’s complete account, the people of Atlantis made use of many advanced telepathic talents and technologies, and were the progenitors of the strangely reminiscent pyramid building peoples of the founders of Western Civilization and the Empires of native America. The subject is often related with reincarnation and past lives stories along with such diverse topics as parapsychology, and is frequently alluded to in writings about possible apocalypse or earth changes in Mayan 2012 prophesies.
Eternal philosopher Plato, originally wrote chronicling a forgotten Paradise, called Atlantis, during the height of his own Athenian civilization. According to Plato, Atlantis had been in the Atlantic Ocean and thrived until approximately 10,000 years earlier.
Hypotheses about the true whereabouts of this culture’s remains stretch from the Far East to the Carribbean, although, of course the likeliest suggestions which are European islands, especially Sardinia and Malta.
The mystery may always remain concerning the real history, nevertheless, the evidence appears overwhelming: cultural innovation has reached great levels of sophistication rising and falling in a cycle of rise and annihilation, maybe over and again, prior to that which we habitually regard as the “beginning”.