The mystique of a forgotten island has stimulated wonder among seekers after ancient wisdom and attracted writers for more than two thousand years. In the modern Info-Age,New Age & metaphysics online book store browsers are able to choose from a wide variety of titles treating different aspects of the myth of Atlantis. There are more versions of what that early race was like and where it was located and how the remains could be found than nearly any other story of a Golden Age. New Age icon Edgar Cayce conceived of Atlantis as a vast continent, approximately equal in size to Europe. According to the seer’s dynamic vision, the Atlanteans were gifted with supernatural psionic talents and tools, and gave rise to the peculiarly similar pyramid building cultures of the early Mesopotamians and the pre-Columbian Americans.

Plato originally wrote about a powerful race of builders, called Atlantis, three centuries before the murder of Caesar. He believed the lost Island lay "beyond the pillars of Hercules" and thrived until about one hundred centuries earlier.

Speculations suggesting the site of Atlantis range from the Eastern Indian Ocean to the Bermuda Triangle, though, of course the most promising suggestions which are small local islands with a long tradition, particularly Crete and Cyprus. The topic is of particular interest to mediums and figures heavily in many past lives stories and reincarnation regression recoveries.

The facts might never be certain, nonetheless the evidence appears overwhelming: our species has achieved high levels of advancement rising and falling in a process of development and fall, maybe over and again, in the forgotten recesses of what we often consider as the earliest twinkle of time.

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