The puzzle of a drowned continent has captured the imaginations of the metaphysically inclined and intrigued scholars for over two millennia. With the advent of the Web, online New Age & metaphysical book store connoisseurs have at their disposal a vast array of publications theorizing about the enigma of Atlantis. There are more theories about what that fantastic island engendered and beneath which sea the wisdom of the ancients could be found than nearly any other Greek myth. Indeed, the topic of a genius race which perished in a Deluge has endured precisely for the reason that it resonates so clearly as our own culture reaches heights that may well presage catastrophe.

New Age icon Edgar Cayce wrote of Atlantis as a vast continent, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. As it is told in the medium’s dynamic vision, the people of Atlantis made use of powerful telepathic qualities and mechanisms, and gave rise to the peculiarly similar pyramid building peoples of the founders of Western Civilization and the pre-Columbian Americans. The topic is identified by many writers with reincarnation and past lives stories and crystals. Well-known philosopher Plato first began to write about a mythical continent, which he referred to as Atlantis, about twenty-four hundred years ago. According to Plato, the lost Island lay near the Straits of Gibraltar and had perished about 10,000 years prior.

Hypotheses about the true whereabouts of the remnants of the Island range from the coast of India to the New World, though, naturally the most promising suggestions which are European islands, especially the Azores and Cyprus.

The world may never know the actual details, nonetheless we’d be foolish to doubt: cultural innovation has achieved great levels of sophistication in the distant past and the process of rise and decimation, maybe over and again, in the forgotten recesses of what we often regard as being initial spark of society.

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