The enigma of a forgotten island has mystified devotees of esoterica and perplexed scholars for over two millennia. With the availability of the world’s libraries, readers can now enjoy a vast array of literature dealing with the legend of Atlantis, both from a scholarly perspective and thebest recent science fiction and fantasy novels.

There are more ideas concerning what the nature of this legendary locale entailed and beneath which sea the remnants could be found than nearly any other Greek myth. Indeed, the topic of an advanced culture which preceded ours has endured precisely because it appeals so strongly to the quester after knowledge.

Speculations on the location of Atlantis range from the coast of India to the Carribbean, although, of course the most intriguing suggestions are small local islands with a long tradition, most notably Sardinia and Malta.

American mystic Edgar Cayce described the island as a vast continent, about the scale of Australia. According to the seer’s amazing vision, the Atlanteans were accustomed to supernatural telepathic qualities and technologies, and gave rise to the oddly congruent solar-worshiping civilizations of the early Mesopotamians and the Empires of native America. The subject is in many cases grouped with reincarnation & past lives stories Plato, student of Socrates, first began to write about a mythical continent, called Atlantis, about twenty-four hundred years ago. Plato claimed the lost Island was just West of modern-day Spain and met a fateful end about ten thousand years earlier. We may never know the actual details, nonetheless the literature seems to indicate: cultural innovation has achieved high levels of advancement in the distant past and the process of development and catastrophe, maybe over and again, prior to that which we generally regard as being origin of culture.

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