The subject of a prehistoric advanced society has stimulated wonder among the metaphysically inclined and attracted academics for over two millennia. With the instant availability of the world’s libraries, online New Age & metaphysics book aficionados can now enjoy a veritable mountain of literature regarding the legend of Atlantis. The Greek philosopher Plato first began to write detailing a sunken civilization, known as Atlantis, during the height of his own Athenian civilization. His version suggests Atlantis lay "beyond the pillars of Hercules" and thrived until approximately ten millennia earlier. There are more theories about what the nature of this early race entailed and how the wisdom of the ancients could be found than virtually any other story of a Golden Age. Yet the tale of a lost continent which perished in a Deluge has endured exactly because it resonates so clearly to the modern mind.

American mystic Edgar Cayce described the island as a large land mass, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. As it is told in the seer’s inspired version, the inhabitants of the Island were gifted with powerful telepathic qualities and tools, and were the progenitors of the strangely reminiscent solar-worshiping cultures of the ancient Egyptians and the pre-Columbian Americans. The theme is often correlated with reincarnation and past lives stories.

Conjectures suggesting the site of Atlantis stretch from the Indonesia to the Western Atlantic, although, naturally most of the focus centers on well-known options that are European islands, especially Sardinia and Cyprus.

The world may never know the facts, however, it appears difficult to dispute: human kind has achieved great levels of sophistication rising and falling in a process of expansion and fall, perhaps in a recurring pattern, in the forgotten recesses of what we habitually regard as the earliest twinkle of time.

Technorati Tags: New Age, Metaphysics, History, reincarnation, science fiction, myth, philosophy, prophesy, past lives, magic, paranormal, spiritual