The mystery of an ancient civilization has captured the imaginations of scholars, history-buffs, and the mystically inclined for over two millennia. There are more versions of what that ancient civilization was like and where it was located than virtually any other Greek myth. Yet the tale of an advanced culture which preceded ours has persisted precisely because it rings so true to the modern mind.

Plato’s Atlantis

Plato first began to write of a mythical continent called Atlantis around 355 BC. He believed that the land, which he described as being made of alternating rings of land and sea, lay near the Straits of Gibraltar in the Atlantic Ocean until it was destroyed 10,000 years earlier. Plato addresses Atlantis specifically in two of his dialogues, Timaeus and Critias.

Edgar Cayce on Atlantis

Edgar Cayce described Atlantis as a vast continent, approximately equal in size to Europe. According to the seer’s florid vision, the Atlanteans were gifted with many advanced psychic abilities and technologies, and gave rise to the peculiarly similar civilizations of the ancient Egyptians and the pre-Columbian Americans. More books by & about Edgar Cayce

The ancient Egyptians, according to Critias, described Atlantis as an island stretching approximately 700 km across, made mostly of mountains along the shore and in the northern regions, and “extending in one direction three thousand stadia [about 600 km], but across the center inland it was two thousand stadia [about 400 km].”

Atlantis - A World Beyond Words

Speculations on the location of Atlantis range from the Eastern Indian Ocean to the Americas, though the most intriguing candidates, naturally, are islands, most notably Crete and Sri Lanka. The prevalence of Flood mythology in the annals of the all the world’s earliest literature suggests that cultures as diverse as the Maya and Incas of the New World and the legendary builders of the Nile and the Fertile Crescent, all were seeded from a thriving antediluvian people with powers we can only guess at today. Naturally, the speculation runs rampant: some popular ideas associate the Ancient Atlanteans with psychokinetic “technology” utilizing the power potential of crystals, an elemental theology of solar/lunar mythology and astrological genius, and a mastery of reincarnation.

We may never know which next stunning archeological find can be identified with Plato’s tale, but one thing appears likely: human kind has achieved high levels of advancement, possibly many times, long before what we commonly think of as “history” even began.

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