The mystery of an ancient civilization has captured the imaginations of the metaphysically inclined and confounded philosophers for over two millennia. With the advent of the Web, metaphysical & New Age book store enthusiasts are able to choose from a veritable mountain of volumes addressing the legend of Atlantis, both academically oriented and reading science fiction and fantastic novels.
There are more ideas concerning what the nature of this realm was like and where it was located and beneath which sea the ruins might be encountered than practically any other tale of primordial people. The legend of a Utopian culture which preceded ours has lived on exactly because it holds so much meaning to the quester after knowledge.
Renowned prophet Edgar Cayce conceived of the island as a large land mass, approximately equal in size to Europe. As it is told in the medium’s inspired account, the people of Atlantis were gifted with many advanced psychic abilities and mechanisms, and gave rise to the strangely reminiscent solar-worshiping peoples of the ancient Egyptians and the pre-Columbian Americans. The topic is often related with reincarnation & past lives stories and auras, and is part of the mythos of Golden Dawn Earth changes predictions in Mayan Calendar 2012 prophecy.
Socrates’ student, Plato, originally wrote chronicling a mythical continent, which he referred to as Atlantis, three centuries before the murder of Caesar. He believed the lost Island had been in the Atlantic Ocean and had perished more than 10,000 years prior.
Theories on the location of the ruins include the coast of India to the Bermuda Triangle, although, of course the likeliest candidates which are small local islands with a long tradition, most notably Crete and Cyprus.
The world may never know the facts, nonetheless one thing seems clear: our species has attained high levels of advancement rising and falling in a process of development and catastrophe, possibly many times, prior to what we commonly regard as the dawn of civilization.