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Mythadventure Just exactly when do we learn about Atlantis, and from whom? I don't recall it taking up much discussion across the dinner table. I remember reading Plato's Republic in highschool, but I don't think I ever read "Critias" or "Timeaus" or any mention of Atlantis from the ancients. In modern times, Ignatius Donelly apparently brought a lot to the story, but perhaps the best known Atlantis evangelist was Edgar Cayce, the 'Sleeping Prophet'. Many people have taken his descriptions as gospel, but gleaning Atlantis from his readings is a lot of work and open to much interpretation. Of late, the Atlantis threads seem to be Donelly and Cayce revisited, I gather. Of course, Hollywood has had a few takes on the Atlantis story as well. Quite truthfully, I never dug around in anything of this nature much, not just Atlantis but other esoteric topics that have fascinated people. The only thing I played in was Astrology and it was mostly for the interesting patterns, the glyphs, the 'language' of it, I thought. But I never put any energy into the alien abduction stuff or tall tales about underwater civilizations. I was fairly content to poke around in things we had some evidence for, like Ancient Egypt, when I had a taste for something unusual. But, a few years ago when my actual soul journey got a kickstart, I ended up looking around at a lot of things I had previously ignored. In brief, I spent almost three years in something like a refresher course of esoteric info. Through dreams, synchronicities, and 'serendipitous' personal contacts, I started to investigate topics which were new to me in this lifetime but they began to feel very much like things I just temporarily forgot. Atlantis has definitely become one of them and it only recently surfaced. I guess I finally peeled enough of the forgetfulness away to find it again? As with other topics of this sort, I spend half my reading time shaking my head. Many things do not sound right or true to me. Anything heavily laced with the specific language of a particular religion or culture is definitely incorrect, or at least, incomplete. Even before what folks would call my awakening, I knew that the big picture was much bigger than any culturally-biased view or antiquated teaching meant for shepherds and farmers. And, there was simply no way that one group had all the answers, leaving the rest of the world clueless. That's ridiculous and exceedingly arrogant. Anyway, as I began to focus my thoughts on Atlantis, I knew from within that it was not a watery world inhabited by gilled people. Nor was it an undersea dome. As I thought about a possible ancient civilization prior to what we have acknowledged. I just knew there was a reason for the various temples and pyramids across the planet, in quite different cultural areas, sharing haunting similarities, and all of that now felt related to Atlantis as a global civilization. I just wasn't quite sure on the details. I intuitively agreed that Atlantis may have worked out many problems of human habitation as well as understanding technology, in some ways advanced from where we are today. Furthermore, I began to feel that the original Atlanteans may not have been from this world and were perhaps viewed as gods... But even as I thought these thoughts, I shook my head. It all still sounded quite imaginary against the accepted and commonly taught views of the world. Next in Sequence Select From Menu |
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