Decoding the Key to the Sunken Continent
The riddle of a drowned continent has captured the imaginations of devotees of esoterica and attracted philosophers for a score of centuries. Thanks to the Ethersphere, New Age & metaphysical online bookstore browsers are able to choose from a large selection of literature treating different aspects of the riddle of Atlantis, both academically oriented as well as fantastic novels and science fiction.
There are more theories about what that early race entailed and beneath which sea the wisdom of the ancients could be found than virtually any other story of a Golden Age. Indeed, the topic of a lost continent which preceded ours has lived on precisely for the reason that it resonates so clearly as we confront what may turn out to be our own Deluge or Golden Age.
Renowned prophet Edgar Cayce described Atlantis as a vast continent, about the scale of Australia. As it is told in the seerís amazing vision, the inhabitants of the Island had mastered many advanced psionic talents and technologies, and gave rise to the peculiarly similar solar-worshiping civilizations of the founders of Western Civilization and the Empires of native America. The subject is often related with past lives and reincarnation stories along with such diverse topics as astrology, and is frequently alluded to in writings about cosmic events predictions in Mayan 2012 prophecy.
The Greek philosopher Plato originally wrote chronicling a mythical continent, that he named Atlantis, around 355 BC. His version suggests Atlantis lay near the Straits of Gibraltar and had perished more than one hundred centuries earlier.
Speculations suggesting the site of this culture’s remains range from the Eastern Indian Ocean to the Western Atlantic, although, naturally the most popular options that are small local islands with a long tradition, particularly Sardinia and Malta.
The world may never know the true story, but the literature seems to indicate: cultural innovation has attained high levels of advancement rising and falling in a process of proliferation and destruction, possibly many times, long before what we commonly regard as the initial spark of society.