The Real and Imaginary Atlantis

It has also been discovered that all tissues and organs produce specific magnetic pulsations, or biomagnetic fields. This is beginning to sound more like the aura of the New Age thinking.

THE REAL AND IMAGINARY ATLANTIS

The Heartmath Institute has done quite a bit of research on the energies of the heart. This tracking is only limited by the sensitivity of the instruments. The human body, it seems, is much more sensitive and has the ability to sense these energies and respond. If, as modern physics tells us, all matter and living organisms are made up of energetic and vibrational structures, then matter is not as solid and separate as previously believed. Then it would make sense that there is always a flow of information or energy between everything living, and perhaps even non-living objects.

It might be as if we are living in a great vibrational soup. The research from Heartmath clearly shows we do perceive some other frequencies, if only at an unconscious level. Researchers have found specific nerves in the eye that send signals when a magnet is brought close to the eye. This is a well proven fact of perception.

A tribe of jungle pygmies were taken to the plains. They thought the distant buffalo were ants because, in the jungle, they had never seen depth on that scale. Perhaps if we practiced sensing and were told subtle energy fields were perceivable, they would be part of our lives. One of the common techniques to learn to see auras is quite simple to practice.

As you relax your gaze, your vision may become unfocused. You may start to notice distortions in your vision, waves, or even shifting of the brightness or color of the light around your object. Another way to practice using feeling rather than vision is to use your hands. Rub them together briefly to warm them up and energize them. Then separate them and hold them a short distance apart from each other, palms facing inward.

Then relax, or even close your eyes, and focus on the sensation in your hands. Slowly move one hand away and then towards the other hand. Notice the subtle sensations you perceive in your hands as you do this. Many people feel a pressure, a lightness, or perhaps a warmth or coolness that shifts with the movement. If you attend to these kinds of sensations, you will become more aware when they occur.

I perceive it as a lightness, like a soft cloud all around the person. It may be closer or farther out at different times. If I focus on it sharply, it goes away. Our brain fills in much of our perception. If you see a glow around someone, it may not be evidence that you are seeing an actual energy field, but it may be something happening in your eyes or in your awareness. The light you see or energy you feel in the above exercises may be what he calls the projected aura, or the aura that you see on someone else, but is a result of your own mind and perceptions.

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Other ancient historians and philosophers who believed in the existence of Atlantis were Strabo and Posidonius. This would have placed Atlantis in the Mediterranean, lending credence to many details in Plato's discussion. The fourth-century historian Ammianus Marcellinus , relying on a lost work by Timagenes , a historian writing in the first century BC, writes that the Druids of Gaul said that part of the inhabitants of Gaul had migrated there from distant islands. Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe; but Ammianus, in fact, says that "the Drasidae Druids recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine " Res Gestae During the early first century, the Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo wrote about the destruction of Atlantis in his On the Eternity of the World , xxvi.

And the island of Atalantes [translator's spelling; original: The ocean which is impassable for men, and the worlds beyond it, are directed by the same ordinances of the Master. But more probably he contemplated some unknown land in the far west beyond the ocean, like the fabled Atlantis of Plato Other early Christian writers wrote about Atlantis, although they had mixed views on whether it once existed or was an untrustworthy myth of pagan origin.

The early Christian apologist writer Arnobius also believed Atlantis once existed, but blamed its destruction on pagans. Cosmas Indicopleustes in the sixth century wrote of Atlantis in his Christian Topography in an attempt to prove his theory that the world was flat and surrounded by water: In like manner the philosopher Timaeus also describes this Earth as surrounded by the Ocean, and the Ocean as surrounded by the more remote earth.

For he supposes that there is to westward an island, Atlantis, lying out in the Ocean, in the direction of Gadeira Cadiz , of an enormous magnitude, and relates that the ten kings having procured mercenaries from the nations in this island came from the earth far away, and conquered Europe and Asia, but were afterwards conquered by the Athenians, while that island itself was submerged by God under the sea. Both Plato and Aristotle praise this philosopher, and Proclus has written a commentary on him.

He himself expresses views similar to our own with some modifications, transferring the scene of the events from the east to the west. Moreover he mentions those ten generations as well as that earth which lies beyond the Ocean.

And in a word it is evident that all of them borrow from Moses, and publish his statements as their own. Some say that they [the inhabited regions] begin at the beginning of the western ocean [the Atlantic] and beyond. For in the earliest times [literally: There were scholars there, who isolated themselves in [the pursuit of] philosophy.

In their day, that was the [beginning for measuring] the longitude[s] of the inhabited world. Today, it has become [covered by the? Aside from Plato's original account, modern interpretations regarding Atlantis are an amalgamation of diverse, speculative movements that began in the sixteenth century, [51] when scholars began to identify Atlantis with the New World.

Athanasius Kircher accepted Plato's account as literally true, describing Atlantis as a small continent in the Atlantic Ocean. Contemporary perceptions of Atlantis share roots with Mayanism , which can be traced to the beginning of the Modern Age , when European imaginations were fueled by their initial encounters with the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Most of these interpretations are considered pseudohistory , pseudoscience , or pseudoarchaeology , as they have presented their works as academic or scientific , but lack the standards or criteria.

The Flemish cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius is believed to have been the first person to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions. In the edition of his Thesaurus Geographicus he wrote: The traces of the ruptures are shown by the projections of Europe and Africa and the indentations of America in the parts of the coasts of these three said lands that face each other to anyone who, using a map of the world, carefully considered them.

So that anyone may say with Strabo in Book 2, that what Plato says of the island of Atlantis on the authority of Solon is not a figment. The term " utopia " from "no place" was coined by Sir Thomas More in his sixteenth-century work of fiction Utopia. People had begun believing that the Mayan and Aztec ruins could possibly be the remnants of Atlantis. Much speculation began as to the origins of the Maya , which led to a variety of narratives and publications that tried to rationalize the discoveries within the context of the Bible and that had undertones of racism in their connections between the Old and New World.

The Europeans believed the indigenous people to be inferior and incapable of building that which was now in ruins and by sharing a common history, they insinuate that another race must have been responsible. In the middle and late nineteenth century, several renowned Mesoamerican scholars, starting with Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg , and including Edward Herbert Thompson and Augustus Le Plongeon , formally proposed that Atlantis was somehow related to Mayan and Aztec culture.

The French scholar Brasseur de Bourbourg traveled extensively through Mesoamerica in the mids, and was renowned for his translations of Mayan texts, most notably the sacred book Popol Vuh , as well as a comprehensive history of the region. Soon after these publications, however, Brasseur de Bourbourg lost his academic credibility, due to his claim that the Maya peoples had descended from the Toltecs , people he believed were the surviving population of the racially superior civilization of Atlantis. Inspired by Brasseur de Bourbourg's diffusion theories, the pseudoarchaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon traveled to Mesoamerica and performed some of the first excavations of many famous Mayan ruins.

Le Plongeon invented narratives, such as the kingdom of Mu saga, which romantically drew connections to him, his wife Alice, and Egyptian deities Osiris and Isis , as well as to Heinrich Schliemann , who had just discovered the ancient city of Troy from Homer 's epic poetry that had been described as merely mythical. The publication of Atlantis: Donnelly stimulated much popular interest in Atlantis.

He was greatly inspired by early works in Mayanism , and like them, attempted to establish that all known ancient civilizations were descended from Atlantis, which he saw as a technologically sophisticated, more advanced culture.

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Donnelly drew parallels between creation stories in the Old and New Worlds, attributing the connections to Atlantis, where he believed the Biblical Garden of Eden existed. Donnelly is credited as the "father of the nineteenth century Atlantis revival" and is the reason the myth endures today. The Russian mystic Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and her partner Henry Steel Olcott founded their Theosophical Society in the s with a philosophy that combined western romanticism and eastern religious concepts. Blavatsky and her followers in this group are often cited as the founders of New Age and other spiritual movements.

Blavatsky took up Donnelly 's interpretations when she wrote The Secret Doctrine , which she claimed was originally dictated in Atlantis. She maintained that the Atlanteans were cultural heroes contrary to Plato , who describes them mainly as a military threat. She believed in a form of racial evolution as opposed to primate evolution , in which the Atlanteans were the fourth " Root Race ", succeeded by the fifth and most superior " Aryan race " the modern human race.

Rudolf Steiner , the founder of anthroposophy and Waldorf Schools , along with other well known Theosophists, such as Annie Besant , also wrote of cultural evolution in much the same vein.

Some subsequent occultists have followed Blavatsky, at least to the point of tracing the lineage of occult practices back to Atlantis. Blavatsky was also inspired by the work of the eighteenth-century astronomer Jean-Sylvain Bailly , who had "Orientalized" the Atlantis myth in his mythical continent of Hyperborea , a reference to Greek myths featuring a Northern European region of the same name, home to a giant, godlike race.

Julius Evola 's writing in also suggested that the Atlanteans were Hyperborean , Nordic supermen who originated at the North Pole see Thule. Also some Esoteric groups including the Theosophic Society does not consider Atlantean society to have been superior or Utopian, on the contrary, they consider a lower stage on evolution.

Edgar Cayce was a man from humble upbringings in Kentucky who allegedly possessed psychic abilities, which were performed from a trance-like state. In addition to allegedly healing the sick from this state, he also spoke frequently on the topic of Atlantis. In his "life readings," he purportedly revealed that many of his subjects were reincarnations of people who had lived on Atlantis. By tapping into their collective consciousness , the " Akashic Records " a term borrowed from Theosophy , [68] he declared that he was able to give detailed descriptions of the lost continent.

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As continental drift became widely accepted during the s, and the increased understanding of plate tectonics demonstrated the impossibility of a lost continent in the geologically recent past, [70] most "Lost Continent" theories of Atlantis began to wane in popularity. The continuing industry of discovering Atlantis illustrates the dangers of reading Plato.

For he is clearly using what has become a standard device of fiction—stressing the historicity of an event and the discovery of hitherto unknown authorities as an indication that what follows is fiction. The idea is that we should use the story to examine our ideas of government and power. We have missed the point if instead of thinking about these issues we go off exploring the sea bed. The continuing misunderstanding of Plato as historian here enables us to see why his distrust of imaginative writing is sometimes justified.

One of the proposed explanations for the historical context of the Atlantis story is a warning of Plato to his contemporary fourth-century fellow-citizens against their striving for naval power. Kenneth Feder points out that Critias's story in the Timaeus provides a major clue. In the dialogue, Critias says, referring to Socrates' hypothetical society:. And when you were speaking yesterday about your city and citizens, the tale which I have just been repeating to you came into my mind, and I remarked with astonishment how, by some mysterious coincidence, you agreed in almost every particular with the narrative of Solon.

Taylor, who wrote, "We could not be told much more plainly that the whole narrative of Solon's conversation with the priests and his intention of writing the poem about Atlantis are an invention of Plato's fancy. Since Donnelly's day, there have been dozens of locations proposed for Atlantis, to the point where the name has become a generic concept, divorced from the specifics of Plato's account. This is reflected in the fact that many proposed sites are not within the Atlantic at all. Few today are scholarly or archaeological hypotheses, while others have been made by psychic e.

Most of the historically proposed locations are in or near the Mediterranean Sea: The Thera eruption , dated to the seventeenth or sixteenth century BC, caused a large tsunami that some experts hypothesize devastated the Minoan civilization on the nearby island of Crete, further leading some to believe that this may have been the catastrophe that inspired the story.

Bosporus and Ancomah a legendary place near Trabzon. Others have noted that, before the sixth century BC, the mountains on either side of the Gulf of Laconia were called the "Pillars of Hercules", [36] [37] and they could be the geographical location being described in ancient reports upon which Plato was basing his story. The mountains stood at either side of the southernmost gulf in Greece, the largest in the Peloponnese , and that gulf opens onto the Mediterranean Sea. If from the beginning of discussions, misinterpretation of Gibraltar as the location rather than being at the Gulf of Laconia, would lend itself to many erroneous concepts regarding the location of Atlantis.

Plato may have not been aware of the difference. The Laconian pillars open to the south toward Crete and beyond which is Egypt. The Thera eruption and the Late Bronze Age collapse affected that area and might have been the devastation to which the sources used by Plato referred.

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Significant events such as these would have been likely material for tales passed from one generation to another for almost a thousand years. The location of Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean has a certain appeal given the closely related names. Popular culture often places Atlantis there, perpetuating the original Platonic setting as they understand it.

The Canary Islands and Madeira Islands have been identified as a possible location, [83] [84] [85] [86] west of the Straits of Gibraltar, but in relative proximity to the Mediterranean Sea. Detailed studies of their geomorphology and geology have demonstrated, however, that they have been steadily uplifted, without any significant periods of subsidence, over the last four million years, by geologic processes such as erosional unloading, gravitational unloading, lithospheric flexure induced by adjacent islands, and volcanic underplating.

Several hypotheses place the sunken island in northern Europe, including Doggerland in the North Sea , and Sweden by Olof Rudbeck in Atland , — Doggerland, as well as Viking Bergen Island , is thought to have been flooded by a megatsunami following the Storegga slide of c. Some have proposed the Celtic Shelf as a possible location, and that there is a link to Ireland.

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In , a team, working on a documentary for the National Geographic Channel , [93] led by Professor Richard Freund from the University of Hartford , claimed to have found possible evidence of Atlantis in southwestern Andalusia. Spanish scientists have dismissed Freund's speculations, claiming that he sensationalised their work. A similar theory had previously been put forward by a German researcher, Rainer W. Several writers have speculated that Antarctica is the site of Atlantis, [] [] while others have proposed Caribbean locations such as the alleged Cuban sunken city off the Guanahacabibes peninsula in Cuba , [] the Bahamas , and the Bermuda Triangle.

Areas in the Pacific and Indian Oceans have also been proposed including Indonesia i. In order to give his account of Atlantis verisimilitude , Plato mentions that the story was heard by Solon in Egypt, and transmitted orally over several generations through the family of Dropides, until it reached Critias, a dialogue speaker in Timaeus and Critias. While it was never completed, Solon passed on the story to Dropides. Modern classicists deny the existence of Solon's Atlantis poem and the story as an oral tradition.

Hellanicus of Lesbos used the word "Atlantis" as the title for a poem published before Plato, [] a fragment of which may be Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 11, Writing only a few decades after the Timaeus and Critias , the historian Theopompus of Chios wrote of a land beyond the ocean known as Meropis. This description was included in Book 8 of his Philippica , which contains a dialogue between Silenus and King Midas.