The riddle of a forgotten island has captured the imaginations of devotees of esoterica and confounded writers for over two millennia. There are more theories about what the nature of this fantastic island entailed and how the wisdom of the ancients might be encountered than practically any other Greek myth. The legend of a lost continent which preceded ours has endured exactly because it seems to hold spiritual value to the modern mind.

New Age book fans have at their disposal a wide variety of literature concerning the riddle of Atlantis, both academically oriented and novels. The topic is identified by many writers with reincarnation, and is sometimes referred to in Awakening prophecy.

The Greek philosopher Plato first began to write chronicling a forgotten Paradise, known as Atlantis, around 355 BC. His version suggests the lost Island was just West of modern-day Spain and met a fateful end over ten millennia prior.

American mystic Edgar Cayce conceived of Atlantis as a vast continent, about the scale of Australia. According to the seerís amazing account, the Atlanteans had mastered many advanced psionic abilities and tools, and were the progenitors of the strangely reminiscent solar-worshipping peoples of the early Sumerians and the Empires of native America.

Speculations about the true whereabouts of the remnants of the Island vary widely from the coast of India to the Americas, although the most promising options, as might be expected, are islands in the vicinity, most notably Crete and Cyprus.

We may never know the truth about these legends, nevertheless, we’d be foolish to doubt: the cycle of rise and destruction has played out before, perhaps in a recurring pattern, before the first gasp of what we generally reference being the beginning of history.