The puzzle of a forgotten island has mystified seekers after ancient wisdom and baffled scholars for more than two thousand years. Fortunately today’s online bookstore, new age & metaphysical book aficionados can now enjoy a wide variety of works concerning the legend of Atlantis, both non-fiction and fantasy novels and science fiction.
There are more versions of what that fantastic island was like and where it was located and where the ruins might be encountered than virtually any other Greek myth. Indeed, the topic of a genius race which preceded ours has engaged the imagination of generations precisely for the reason that it seems to hold spiritual value in the New Age.
New Age icon Edgar Cayce wrote of the island as a large land mass, about the scale of Australia. As it is told in the medium’s amazing version, the Atlanteans made use of many advanced psychic abilities and technologies, and were the progenitors of the oddly congruent solar-worshiping peoples of the founders of Western Civilization and the pre-Columbian Americans. The subject is frequently associated with past lives and reincarnation stories as well as magic, playing a part in cosmic events predictions in Mayan calendar 2012 prophecies.
Prodigious philosopher Plato, originally wrote chronicling a sunken civilization, that he named Atlantis, around 355 BC. According to his account, the Island lay near the Straits of Gibraltar and thrived until about one hundred centuries earlier.
Hypotheses about the true whereabouts of this culture’s remains vary widely from the Pacific Ocean to the Americas, although, as might be expected most of the focus centers on well-known suggestions which are small local islands with a long tradition, most notably Crete and Cyprus.
The mystery may always remain concerning the actual details, but the evidence appears overwhelming: civilization has attained great levels of sophistication rising and falling in a cycle of rise and catastrophe, possibly many times, long before that which we usually consider as the earliest hint of history.