The subject of a drowned continent has stimulated wonder among students of the unknown and perplexed philosophers for over two millennia. With our own rapid "magical" advances in communication, New Age & metaphysical nline book store aficionados can now enjoy a wide variety of publications dealing with the enigma of Atlantis. There are more versions of what that early race entailed and how the remains might be encountered than nearly any other tale of primordial people. The legend of a Utopian culture which perished in a Deluge has lived on exactly for the reason that it seems to hold spiritual value as we confront what may turn out to be our own Deluge or Golden Age.

Renowned prophet Edgar Cayce conceived of Atlantis as a large land mass, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. As it is told in the medium’s inspired vision, the inhabitants of the Island made use of powerful psychic abilities and mechanisms, and were the progenitors of the oddly congruent solar-worshiping cultures of the ancient Egyptians and the pre-Columbian Americans. The topic is often related with Mayan Calendar prophecies of earth changes in 2012.

Plato first began to write about a sunken civilization, which he referred to as Atlantis, during the height of his own Athenian civilization. According to Plato, Atlantis lay "beyond the pillars of Hercules" and met a fateful end over ten millennia before his time.

Theories regarding the position of the ruins include the coast of India to the New World, though, as might be expected the most intriguing options that are European islands, especially the Azores and Malta.

It might never be certain the real history, nevertheless, it appears difficult to dispute: civilization has achieved high levels of advancement in the distant past and the process of proliferation and fall, maybe over and again, in the forgotten recesses of that which we commonly regard as the earliest hint of history.

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