Unfolding the Map to Enlightenment
The riddle of a forgotten island has mystified devotees of esoterica and confounded philosophers for over two millennia. Thanks to the Ethersphere, New Age and metaphysical online bookstore browsers are able to choose from a large selection of literature treating different aspects of the legend of Atlantis, both non-fiction and a more fantastic or science fiction novel read.
There are more theories about what that realm engendered and where the lost continent might be encountered than nearly any other of the many stories involving prehistoric superior cultures. Indeed, the topic of a genius race which predated our earliest records has persisted exactly because it explains many mysteries as our own culture reaches heights that may well presage catastrophe.
New Age icon Edgar Cayce wrote of the island as a vast continent, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. According to the seerís vivid version, the inhabitants of the Island were accustomed to powerful psychic abilities and mechanisms, and gave rise to the strangely reminiscent pyramid building cultures of the founders of Western Civilization and the Empires of native America. The topic is in many cases grouped with past lives and reioncarnation stories along with such diverse topics as magic, sometimes referred to in New Age predictions from the Mayan Calendar prophecy of earth changes on December 21, 2012.
Prodigious Plato originally wrote of a forgotten Paradise, around 355 BC. Plato claimed the lost Island lay near the Straits of Gibraltar and met a fateful end approximately 10,000 years earlier.
Conjectures suggesting the site of the remnants of the Island vary widely from the Eastern Indian Ocean to the Western Atlantic, though, as might be expected the most popular locations that are Mediterranean islands, most notably Crete and Cyprus.
The mystery may always remain concerning the actual details, however, it appears difficult to dispute: our species has reached high levels of advancement in the distant past and the process of development and annihilation, maybe over and again, prior to that which we often think of as the first gasp of modern man.