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Many legends, myths, and stories surround the island continent of Atlantis and the destruction of the Atlantean advanced civilization. Many sites have been suggested for its current location besides the middle of the Atlantic Ocean which include: Antarctica, the Azores, the Bahamas, Bolivia, the Caribbean, Cornwall, Crete, Cuba, the Celtic Shelf, North Africa, the Red Sea, Swedish Hyperborea, Thera, Troy, and most recently Ireland. From the time of St. Brendan's Voyage to the modern day, explorers and scientists have gone in search of the fabled land of Atlantis and earthly Atlantean paradise, travelling thousands of miles around the globe. Their quest has yielded many possible locations but no conclusive scientific evidence. Opinions are mixed about the authenticity and the cultural origins of the few buildings that have been discovered beneath the seas. Plato's dialogues "Timaeus" and "Critias" are the first historically verifiable writings about Atlantis and the Atlantean culture. Subsequent articles and books have been written by occultists, philosophers, theosophists, scientists, and lots of others that discuss sometimes divergent ideas about where Atlantis was situated, the Atlantean culture and its utopian political system, and the reasons for its demise. The most prevalent reasons cited for the destruction of Atlantis and the Atlantean culture were: the misuse of power and the moral decay of the Atlanteans themselves; the wrath of the gods; passing or impacting asteroids or comets; earthquakes, tidal waves and volcanoes; rising sea levels caused by the melting of the ice sheets; and, polar shifts and crustal displacements which resulted in dramatic climatic changes.
Countries and cultures
from every region of the globe have stories about massive flooding. The ancient
Greeks dated the end of a succession of worldwide inundations at around 10,000
B.C. Flooding was also recorded in Genesis 7:10-11 of the Old Testament, "And it
came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth
day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken
up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And it came to pass after seven days,
that the waters of the flood were upon the earth".
Although there is no verifiable scientific proof of the existence of Atlantis and Atlantean culture, when people search their feelings, they trigger memories deep within their cellular structure, and then they "know" that Atlantis and the Atlantean culture was real and that it was part of their glorious heritage. So they examine all the information about it, they shift though reams of data hoping to have an epiphany that fits all the pieces of the global puzzle together, forming a historically accurate picture complete with timelines. The process itself is important. Like a butterfly slowly breaking its way out of a cocoon, the truth seekers transform themselves, as well as, the mental awareness of the morphic field of the entire human species. Eleven of the most comprehension and persuasive theories about Atlantis and the Atlantean culture include: Plato's "Dialogues", Theosophical Viewpoints, Donnelly's "Antediluvian World" and "Age of Fire and Gravel", Edgar Cayce's Life Readings, Viatcheslav Koudriavtsev's "Celtic Shelf Hypothesis", Jim Allen's "Andes Solution", Otto Muck's "Asteroid Strike", Ulf Erlingsson's Ireland Atlantis, Minoan Civilization As Atlantis, and Atlantis In Antarctica. In Plato's Dialogues "Timaeus" and "Critias", the character Critias tells a 9,000 year old story about Atlantis which he heard from his grandfather, also named Critias, who heard it from Solon, who heard it from a priest when he visited Egypt. Since Atlantis was only one of the topics discussed in "Timaeus", it has been conjectured that Plato intended to devote the entirety of the unfinished "Critias" to the lost continent of Atlantis and the Atlantean culture. In the "Dialogues", Atlantis was portrayed as a powerful island empire larger than Libya and Asia Minor combined, where the god of the sea Poseidon fathered five sets of twins. The continent and surrounding ocean were named after Atlas, his firstborn son. Located west of the Pillars of Hercules, now known as the Strait of Gibraltar, Atlantis was divided into ten different territories.
Plato described the capital city in great detail
and depicted the Atlantean society as wealthy, thriving, political, and
militaristic. The Egyptian records told of a burgeoning war between the
Athenians and the Atlanteans which was abruptly halted when both civilizations
were destroyed following a catastrophic event which sank Atlantis in one horrendous
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