The subject of an ancient civilization has mystified the metaphysically inclined and fascinated historians for a score of centuries. In the modern day, readers can now enjoy a veritable mountain of literature alluding to the riddle of Atlantis, both academically oriented and the best recent science fiction & fantasy novels.

There are more thoughts regarding what that legendary locale was like and where it was located and beneath which sea the wisdom of the ancients can be recovered than nearly any other of the many stories involving prehistoric superior cultures. Indeed, the topic of a lost continent which was destroyed in a cataclysm has endured exactly because it seems to hold spiritual value as we confront what may turn out to be our own Deluge or Golden Age.

Prolific author Edgar Cayce described Atlantis as a large land mass, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. As recounted in the prophet’s florid account, the Atlanteans were accustomed to powerful psionic qualities and technologies, and gave rise to the oddly congruent pyramid building peoples of the ancient Egyptians and the pre-Columbian Americans. The theme is frequently associated with reincarnation & past lives stories.

Plato originally wrote of a forgotten Paradise, called Atlantis, about twenty-four hundred years ago. Plato claimed Atlantis lay "beyond the pillars of Hercules" and thrived until approximately one hundred centuries prior.

Hypotheses suggesting the site of the remnants of the Island stretch from the Eastern Indian Ocean to the Bermuda Triangle, although, as might be expected the most promising locations which are small local islands with a long tradition, especially Sardinia and Cyprus.

We may never know the facts, nevertheless, the evidence appears overwhelming: our species has reached high levels of advancement in the distant past and the process of development and fall, maybe over and again, in the forgotten recesses of what we often think of as being first gasp of modern man.

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