The enigma of an ancient civilization has stimulated wonder among the metaphysically inclined and confounded archivists for over two millennia. Fortunately today’s New Age and metaphysics online book store aficionados can now enjoy a vast array of works dealing with the mystery of Atlantis.

There are more versions of what the nature of this legendary locale was like and where it was located and beneath which sea the wisdom of the ancients might be encountered than practically any other of the many stories involving prehistoric superior cultures. Indeed, the topic of a Utopian culture which was destroyed in a cataclysm has engaged the imagination of generations exactly because it rings so true to the quester after knowledge. Speculations about the true whereabouts of the ruins vary widely from the Far East to the Carribbean, although, as might be expected the most promising possibilities that are small local islands with a long tradition, most notably Sardinia and Malta.

Renowned prophet Edgar Cayce described Atlantis as a large land mass, approximately equal in size to Europe. According to the seer’s dynamic account, the people of Atlantis had mastered supernatural psionic qualities and tools, and were the progenitors of the oddly congruent solar-worshiping civilizations of the ancient Egyptians and the pre-Columbian Americans. The topic is frequently associated with writings about Mayan Calendar prophesy of world changes in 2012.

Prominent author of the Dialogues, Plato, originally wrote detailing a mythical continent, known as Atlantis, around 355 BC. He believed Atlantis lay near the Straits of Gibraltar and thrived until approximately ten thousand years before his time.

The world may never know the real history, but it appears difficult to dispute: human kind has reached great levels of sophistication in the distant past and the process of expansion and fall, possibly many times, prior to what we often think of as "history".

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