The enigma of a drowned continent has captured the imaginations of students of the unknown and confounded writers for over two millennia. Thanks to the Ethersphere, Online bookstore fans can now enjoy a massive list of volumes treating different aspects of the legend of Atlantis, both academically oriented and science fiction books.

There are more versions of what the nature of this fantastic island engendered and where the remnants can be recovered than practically any other of the many stories involving prehistoric superior cultures. Yet the tale of a genius race which perished in a Deluge has lived on exactly for the reason that it resonates so clearly to the modern mind.

American mystic Edgar Cayce wrote of Atlantis as a large land mass, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. According to the medium’s florid version, the people of Atlantis were gifted with powerful psychic abilities and mechanisms, and seeded colonies to the oddly congruent pyramid building civilizations of the early Mesopotamians and the pre-Columbian Americans. The theme is often related with 2012 end times predictions.

Many historians believe the inhabitants of the island were pioneers of sources of alternative energy, growing their empire from the sun’s light.

Plausible guesses on the location of the “Lost Continent” stretch from the Indonesia to the Western Atlantic, although, of course the most promising suggestions which are European islands, most notably Crete and Malta.

It might never be certain the true story, however, it appears difficult to dispute: our species has achieved high levels of advancement in the distant past and the process of development and fall, perhaps in a recurring pattern, in the forgotten recesses of that which we generally think of as marking birth of society.
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