Edgar Cayce's Atlantis. John Van Auken

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      The First Account of a Lost Civilization: Plato’s Atlantis

      Atlantis—next to God the most written about, debated, abused and ridiculed concepts on our planet.

      Andrew Collins (2002) Gateway to Atlantis

      ATLANTIS—it’s a legendary tale that has provided one of the most intriguing and enduring mysteries of all time while simultaneously provoking hostility from many archaeologists and philosophers. It’s been stated that more books have been written about Atlantis than any other topic except the Bible. The first written account of this lost land was produced 2,360 years ago, and from that brief story, countless researchers have claimed to have found ruins from Atlantis virtually everywhere around the world. But no speculations about Atlantis have sparked the imaginations of millions of people as have the psychic readings given by America’s famous “Sleeping Prophet,” Edgar Cayce. Cayce’s psychic readings include details from the day-to-day lives of the people of Atlantis and the actual dates of significant events that took place in that legendary land from its beginning to its fateful end. Cayce’s depiction of Atlantis as a highly technological maritime civilization shatters accepted archaeological timetables. It reveals the locations of important places related to Atlantis and even provides an account of the end of the Atlantean empire detailing where groups of Atlanteans fled to escape the final destruction. Cayce’s claim that Atlanteans carried out a plan to preserve records of their history and technology in three separate locations has spurred what many people consider to be the greatest archaeological hunt of all time—the search for the three Halls of Records. This search—at Giza in Egypt, near Bimini and Andros in the Bahamas, and at Piedras Negras in Guatemala—has been an ongoing quest from the moment Cayce first mentioned them in the 1930s. While many archaeologists scoff at Cayce’s history of Atlantis, the evidence that many of Cayce’s visions of the ancient world were correct has now accumulated to a level that is astonishing. This book presents Edgar Cayce’s story of Atlantis and examines the research that has been done to prove—or disprove—the details Cayce provided. But before we examine Cayce’s story of Atlantis and the evidence supporting it, the background of the story must be presented. That background is in the first two chapters of this book and summarizes what Plato and others believed about Atlantis.

       Plato’s Atlantis

      When Plato wrote the first known account of Atlantis, circa 355 B.C., it’s doubtful that he could have known the long-lasting effect of the story. Nor could he have predicted the controversy and intense interest in the story that would endure for the СКАЧАТЬ