The enigma of a forgotten island has stimulated wonder among students of the unknown and attracted archivists for more than two thousand years. With the availability of the world’s libraries, New Age book readers have at their disposal a vast array of volumes theorizing about the legend of Atlantis, both academically oriented and best recent science fiction novels.

There are more versions of what that realm entailed and how the ruins can be recovered than nearly any other story of a Golden Age. Yet the tale of a Utopian culture which was destroyed in a cataclysm has endured precisely because it holds so much meaning as our own culture reaches heights that may well presage catastrophe.

Renowned prophet Edgar Cayce conceived of the island as a a huge expanse, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. As recounted in the medium’s astounding account, the people of Atlantis were gifted with many advanced psychic qualities and technologies, and were the progenitors of the oddly congruent solar-worshiping cultures of the early Mesopotamians and the pre-Columbian Americans. The topic is frequently associated with parapsychology.

Many historians believe the inhabitants of the island were centered on environment-friendly energy sources, making advanced use of geothermal power.

The most popular positions regarding the position of the ruins vary widely from the coast of India to the Bermuda Triangle, though, of course the most promising locations which are small local islands with a long tradition, most notably Crete and Malta.

We may never know the facts, nonetheless it appears difficult to dispute: human kind has reached high levels of advancement rising and falling in a process of development and fall, maybe over and again, long before what we often regard as the the genesis of.
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