The subject of Atlantis has captured the imaginations of seekers after ancient wisdom and fascinated researchers for more than two thousand years. In the modern Info-Age, online New Age and metaphysical bookstore fans are able to choose from a massive list of publications treating different aspects of the riddle of Atlantis, both academically oriented and fantasy and science fiction novels.
There are more versions of what that realm was like and where it was located and how the remains can be recovered than virtually any other story of a Golden Age. Yet the tale of a Utopian culture which perished in a Deluge has engaged the imagination of generations precisely for the reason that it rings so true as our own culture reaches heights that may well presage catastrophe.
New Age icon Edgar Cayce conceived of Atlantis as a large land mass, about the scale of Australia. As recounted in the medium’s dynamic vision, the people of Atlantis were gifted with many advanced telepathic abilities and technologies, and were the progenitors of the strangely reminiscent pyramid building peoples of the ancient Egyptians and the pre-Columbian Americans. The theme is identified by many writers with past lives and reincarnation stories along with such diverse topics as auras, and is frequently alluded to in writings about Golden Dawn predictions of Mayan Calendar earth changes on December 21, 2012.
Prominent author of many canonical works, Plato, first began to write of a powerful race of builders, known as Atlantis, three centuries before the murder of Caesar. He claimed the undersea continent had been in the Atlantic Ocean and met a fateful end approximately one hundred centuries before his time.
Speculations regarding the position of the “Lost Continent” range from the coast of India to the Western Atlantic, though, naturally most of the focus centers on well-known options which are small local islands with a long tradition, especially the Azores and Cyprus.
It might never be certain the real history, nevertheless, the evidence appears overwhelming: our species has attained high levels of advancement rising and falling in a cycle of rise and decimation, maybe over and again, prior to that which we commonly think of as being earliest hint of history.