Coming to Understand the Forgotten Culture
The riddle of an ancient civilization has captured the imaginations of the metaphysically inclined and confounded history-buffs for more than two thousand years. There are more ideas concerning what the nature of this ancient civilization entailed and how the remains can be recovered than virtually any other story of a Golden Age. Indeed, the topic of a lost continent which perished in a Deluge has engaged the imagination of generations exactly because it seems to hold spiritual value in the New Age.
New Age book enthusiasts have at their disposal a wide variety of literature alluding to the mystery of Atlantis, both from a scholarly perspective and fiction. The subject is in many cases grouped with past lives, and is sometimes referred to in Awakening Movement prophecy.
Plato originally wrote detailing a sunken civilization, which he referred to as Atlantis, around 355 BC. Plato claimed the lost Island lay near the Straits of Gibraltar and thrived until over ten thousand years before his time.
New Age icon Edgar Cayce described the island as a a huge expanse, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. According to the seerís florid vision, the inhabitants of the Island were accustomed to powerful psychic qualities and technologies, and gave rise to the oddly congruent solar-worshipping peoples of the ancient Egyptians and the pre-Columbian Americans.
Conjectures about the true whereabouts of Atlantis stretch from the coast of India to the Bermuda Triangle, though the most promising candidates, naturally, have been Mediterranean islands, particularly Sardinia and Malta.
The world may never know the facts, nonetheless there is one lesson which is hard to deny: the cycle of proliferation and annihilation has played out before, possibly many times, before the earliest hint of what we generally reference being the origin of culture.