The mystery of a drowned continent has stimulated wonder among seekers after ancient wisdom and confounded historians for a score of centuries. With our own rapid "magical" advances in communication, paranormal buffs are able to choose from a veritable mountain of works dealing with the legend of Atlantis, both non-fiction and the best recent science fiction & fantasy.

There are more versions of what that ancient civilization was like and where it was located and how the lost continent can be recovered than virtually any other tale of primordial people. Yet the tale of a lost continent which preceded ours has engaged the imagination of generations precisely because it resonantes so deeply within the modern mind.

The Greek philosopher Plato originally wrote of a powerful race of builders, called Atlantis, around 355 BC. Plato claimed Atlantis had been in the Atlantic Ocean and thrived until about ten thousand years prior. American mystic Edgar Cayce conceived of Atlantis as a vast continent, about the scale of Australia. According to the prophet’s astounding vision, the inhabitants of the Island had mastered powerful psychic talents and tools, and gave rise to the strangely reminiscent solar-worshiping cultures of the founders of Western Civilization and the pre-Columbian Americans.  The topic is often related with apocalyspse prophecy related to 2012 & the Mayan Calendar.

Theories suggesting the site of the "Lost Continent" stretch from the Eastern Indian Ocean to the New World, though, of course the most promising suggestions which are small local islands with a long tradition, most notably the Azores and Malta.

The mystery may always remain concerning the real history, however, we’d be foolish to doubt: human kind has reached high levels of advancement in the distant past and the cycle of rise and decimation, possibly many times, prior to what we habitually consider as the earliest twinkle of time.

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