The puzzle of Atlantis has stimulated wonder among the metaphysically inclined and confounded historians for a score of centuries. Thanks to the Ethersphere, New Age & metaphysical book store on-line aficionados have at their disposal a vast array of volumes alluding to the myth of Atlantis, both non-fiction and such genres as science fiction and fantasy reading.
There are more versions of what that early race was like and where it was located and where the ruins might be encountered than practically any other of the many stories involving prehistoric superior cultures. Yet the tale of a Utopian culture which perished in a Deluge has lived on precisely for the reason that it appeals so strongly in the New Age.
Prolific author Edgar Cayce conceived of Atlantis as a large land mass, about the scale of Australia. As it is told in the medium’s complete vision, the people of Atlantis had mastered many advanced telepathic abilities and technologies, and seeded colonies to the oddly congruent solar-worshiping civilizations of the founders of Western Civilization and the Empires of native America. The theme is in many cases grouped with past lives and reincarnation stories along with such diverse topics as the paranormal, and is frequently alluded to in writings about apocalypse predictions of Mayan Calendar world changes on December 21, 2012.
Plato, student of Socrates, originally wrote detailing a forgotten Paradise, called Atlantis, around 355 BC. He believed the lost Island lay near the Straits of Gibraltar and met a fateful end about ten millennia prior.
Conjectures suggesting the site of this culture’s remains stretch from the Pacific Ocean to the Americas, though, naturally most of the focus centers on well-known candidates which are European islands, most notably the Azores and Cyprus.
We may never know where the Island lay, nonetheless the literature seems to indicate: civilization has reached great levels of sophistication rising and falling in a process of rise and decimation, perhaps in a recurring pattern, prior to what we habitually consider as the earliest hint of history.