The puzzle of an ancient civilization has captured the imaginations of students of the unknown and perplexed philosophers for over two millennia. With our own rapid “magical” advances in communication, Online book store readers can now enjoy a vast array of titles dealing with the enigma of Atlantis, both from a scholarly perspective and best recent science fiction novels.
There are more theories about what the nature of this ancient civilization was like and where it was located and beneath which sea the ruins might be encountered than practically any other story of a Golden Age. Indeed, the topic of a lost continent which preceded ours has endured precisely because it explains many mysteries as we confront what may turn out to be our own Deluge or Golden Age.
Renowned prophet Edgar Cayce described Atlantis as a a huge expanse, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. As it is told in the medium’s inspired vision, the inhabitants of the Island made use of powerful psychic abilities and technologies, and seeded colonies to the oddly congruent pyramid building peoples of the founders of Western Civilization and the Empires of native America. The subject is often related with reincarnation.
Some modern advocates suggest the people of Atlantis built their technology on alternative energy, exceeding us in controlling solar power.
Plausible guesses on the location of Atlantis stretch from the Far East to the New World, although, of course the most promising suggestions that are European islands, most notably Crete and Cyprus.
It might never be certain the true story, however, we’d be foolish to doubt: cultural innovation has achieved high levels of advancement in the distant past and the process of development and catastrophe, possibly many times, long before the hazy halls of time we often are used to thinking of as being origin of culture.
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