The enigma of a prehistoric advanced society has stimulated wonder among the metaphysically inclined and attracted archivists for a score of centuries. Thanks to the Ethersphere, New Age metaohysical online book store readers are able to choose from a vast array of works dealing with the myth and reality of Atlantis.

The seeker of wisdom will find more ideas concerning what that realm engendered and where the wisdom of the ancients could be found than nearly any other tale of primordial people. Indeed, the topic of a lost continent which preceded ours has lived on precisely because it explains many mysteries as our own culture reaches heights that may well presage catastrophe.

Prolific author Edgar Cayce wrote of the island as a large land mass, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. As recounted in the prophet’s amazing account, the inhabitants of the Island were accustomed to many advanced telepathic abilities and tools, and gave rise to the strangely reminiscent pyramid building peoples of the early Mesopotamians and the Empires of native America. The topic is identified by many writers with Mayan Long Count Calendar prophecy in 2012.

Plato first began to write chronicling a forgotten Paradise, called Atlantis, about twenty-four hundred years ago. Plato claimed Atlantis lay "beyond the pillars of Hercules" and met a fateful end approximately 10,000 years earlier.

Conjectures about the true whereabouts of the remnants of the Island range from the Far East to the Western Atlantic, although, of course the likeliest candidates that are Mediterranean islands, most notably Crete and Cyprus. The mystery may always remain concerning where the Island lay, nevertheless, the literature seems to indicate: our species has reached high levels of advancement in the distant past and the process of proliferation and fall, maybe over and again, in the forgotten recesses of what we generally consider as the "history".

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