The Quest For the Sunken Civilization
September 8, 2007 3:58 pm MiscThe riddle of Atlantis has captured the imaginations of students of the unknown and intrigued scholars for over two millennia. With the availability of the world’s libraries, New Age readers have at their disposal a veritable mountain of volumes concerning the legend of Atlantis, both non-fiction and a more fantastic read.
There are more versions of what the nature of this legendary locale was like and where it was located and beneath which sea the wisdom of the ancients could be found than nearly any other of the many stories involving prehistoric superior cultures. Indeed, the topic of an advanced culture which predated our earliest records has engaged the imagination of generations exactly because it resonates so clearly to the quester after knowledge.
Socrates’ student, Plato, originally wrote detailing a forgotten Paradise, which he referred to as Atlantis, around 355 BC. According to Plato, the lost Island lay near the Straits of Gibraltar and had perished about ten thousand years earlier.
American mystic Edgar Cayce wrote of Atlantis as a vast continent, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. According to the medium’s complete version, the people of Atlantis had mastered supernatural psionic abilities and technologies, and seeded colonies to the oddly congruent pyramid building cultures of the ancient Egyptians and the pre-Columbian Americans. The subject is in many cases grouped with past lives along with such diverse topics as crystals, sometimes referred to in New Age prophecies.
Theories about the true whereabouts of this culture’s remains include the Far East to the Carribbean, though, as might be expected the likeliest locations which are small local islands with a long tradition, most notably Sardinia and Malta.
The mystery may always remain concerning where the Island lay, nonetheless one thing seems clear: our species has achieved high levels of advancement in the distant past and the cycle of rise and decimation, possibly many times, prior to that which we commonly regard as being origin of culture.