Looking for the Forgotten Island
The mystique of an ancient civilization has mystified devotees of esoterica and attracted researchers for a score of centuries. Fortunately today’s Metaphysical book store readers have at their disposal a large selection of literature regarding the riddle of Atlantis, both non-fiction and science fiction books.
There are more ideas concerning what that ancient civilization entailed and how the wisdom of the ancients might be encountered than practically any other tale of primordial people. Yet the tale of a Utopian culture which perished in a Deluge has endured precisely because it seems to hold spiritual value to the modern mind.
New Age icon Edgar Cayce wrote of the island as a a huge expanse, approximately equal in size to Europe. As recounted in the medium’s vivid vision, the inhabitants of the Island were gifted with many advanced psionic abilities and technologies, and gave rise to the oddly congruent solar-worshiping cultures of the ancient Egyptians and the pre-Columbian Americans. The theme is in many cases grouped with reincarnation.
There is even some evidence that the Atlanteans built their technology on environment-friendly energy sources, mastering technologies based on solar power.
Hypotheses about the true whereabouts of this culture’s remains range from the coast of India to the Western Atlantic, although, naturally the likeliest locations that are European islands, particularly Crete and Malta.
We may never know the real history, however, it appears difficult to dispute: civilization has reached high levels of advancement rising and falling in a cycle of growth and annihilation, possibly many times, in the forgotten recesses of the hazy halls of time we generally regard as the earliest twinkle of time.
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