The Trail to the City of Gold
The subject of Atlantis has stimulated wonder among students of the unknown and attracted scholars for over two millennia. Thanks to the Ethersphere, New Age & metaphysical online bookstore connoisseurs can now enjoy a veritable mountain of publications concerning the myth of Atlantis, both non-fiction and fantasy and science fiction novels.
There are more ideas concerning what the nature of this legendary locale was like and where it was located and beneath which sea the wisdom of the ancients could be found than nearly any other story of a Golden Age. The legend of a lost continent which was destroyed in a cataclysm has endured precisely because it holds so much meaning in the New Age.
Prolific author Edgar Cayce wrote of the island as a a huge expanse, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. According to the prophet’s dynamic vision, the Atlanteans were accustomed to supernatural psychic talents and technologies, and gave rise to the oddly congruent pyramid building civilizations of the ancient Egyptians and the pre-Columbian Americans. The theme is identified by many writers with past lives and reincarnation stories as well as astrology, and is part of the mythos of Mayan Calendar prophecy of earth changes on December 21, 2012.
Socrates’ student, Plato, first began to write detailing a mythical continent, that he named Atlantis, about twenty-four hundred years ago. He believed the lost Island lay “beyond the pillars of Hercules” and had perished approximately 10,000 years before his time.
Theories on the location of this culture’s remains vary widely from the coast of India to the Bermuda Triangle, though, of course the most popular suggestions that are islands in the vicinity, particularly the Azores and Cyprus.
The mystery may always remain concerning the real history, but one thing seems clear: our species has attained high levels of advancement in the distant past and the cycle of growth and annihilation, maybe over and again, prior to that which we often consider as being first gasp of modern man.