The subject of a prehistoric advanced society has stimulated wonder among students of the unknown and perplexed academics for a score of centuries. In the modern Info-Age, New Age browsers have at their disposal a large selection of publications theorizing about the riddle of Atlantis, both non-fiction and a more fantastic read.

There are more thoughts regarding what that fantastic island was like and where it was located and beneath which sea the lost continent could be found than nearly any other Greek myth. Yet the tale of a genius race which predated our earliest records has persisted exactly for the reason that it rings so true to the quester after knowledge.

Plato originally wrote detailing a mythical continent, called Atlantis, around 355 BC. He believed the undersea continent had been in the Atlantic Ocean and met a fateful end over ten thousand years before his time.

Prolific author Edgar Cayce described Atlantis as a a huge expanse, about the scale of Australia. According to the medium’s amazing vision, the Atlanteans had mastered powerful telepathic talents and tools, and gave rise to the strangely reminiscent pyramid building cultures of the ancient Egyptians and the Empires of native America. The topic is often related with reincarnation as well as telepathy, and is part of the mythos of Golden Dawn 2012 prophesies.

Conjectures about the true whereabouts of the ruins include the Indonesia to the Bermuda Triangle, although, as might be expected the most intriguing possibilities which are Mediterranean islands, particularly Crete and Malta.

The mystery may always remain concerning the true story, nonetheless there is one lesson which is hard to deny: human kind has reached great levels of sophistication rising and falling in a cycle of expansion and fall, maybe over and again, long before that which we commonly think of as being origin of culture.