The enigma of a drowned continent has stimulated wonder among students of the unknown and confounded academics for more than two thousand years. In the modern Info-Age, Online book store readers have at their disposal a wide variety of literature theorizing about the myth of Atlantis, both from a scholarly perspective and a more fantastic read.

There are more ideas concerning what the nature of this legendary locale engendered and beneath which sea the wisdom of the ancients can be recovered than virtually any other story of a Golden Age. Yet the tale of an advanced culture which preceded ours has lived on precisely because it resonates so clearly in the New Age.

New Age icon Edgar Cayce wrote of Atlantis as a vast continent, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. As it is told in the seer’s amazing version, the Atlanteans had mastered powerful psionic abilities and tools, and were the progenitors of the strangely reminiscent solar-worshiping civilizations of the early Mesopotamians and the Empires of native America. The topic is frequently associated with reincarnation as well as the paranormal, and is part of the mythos of Awakening 2012 prophesies.

Plato, student of Socrates, first began to write detailing a mythical continent, known as Atlantis, during the height of his own Athenian civilization. He believed the lost Island lay near the Straits of Gibraltar and thrived until approximately ten millennia before his time. Hypotheses on the location of the "Lost Continent" stretch from the Far East to the Western Atlantic, though, as might be expected the likeliest candidates that are islands in the vicinity, most notably Sardinia and Malta.

The mystery may always remain concerning the actual details, however, the evidence appears overwhelming: human kind has attained great levels of sophistication rising and falling in a process of development and decimation, maybe over and again, long before that which we commonly regard as being "beginning".

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