Edgar Cayce’s
Atlantis
Edgar Cayce’s
Atlantis
Gregory L. Little, Ed.D.,Lora Little, Ed.D.,and John Van Auken
Copyright © 2006
by Gregory L. Little, Ed.D., Lora Little, Ed.D., and John Van Auken
2nd Printing, November 2006
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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Little, Gregory L.
Edgar Cayce’s Atlantis: / by Gregory L. Little, Lora Little, and John Van Auken
p. cm.
ISBN 0-87604-512-3
ISBN 13: 978-0-87604-512-1
1. Atlantis. 2. Cayce, Edgar, 1877-1945. I. Little, Lora. II. Van Auken, John. III. Title.
GN751.L52 2006
001.94—dc22
2006002728
Cover design by Richard Boyle
Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993-2007
by the Edgar Cayce Foundation.
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Contents
1 The First Account of a Lost Civilization: Plato’s Atlantis
2 From Plato to the Americas—Atlantis Discovered?
3 Edgar Cayce’s Story: How the Father of American Holistic Medicine Envisioned Atlantis
4 Cayce’s Dates, Geography, and Descriptions of Atlantis
5 Cayce’s Story of the People of Atlantis
6 Atlantis and the Legend of Lilith
7 Atlantis Technology and the Evidence for Ancient Flight
8 Reincarnated Atlanteans in the Cayce Readings
9 Hidden Records of Atlantis: The Three Halls of Records
10 Research on the Giza Hall of Records
11 The Search for the Yucatan Hall of Records
12 The Search for Atlantis in the Bahamas Leads to a Stalemate
13 From Andros to Bimini—The Skeptics’ Claims Collapse: But Proof of Atlantis Still Lacking
14 Assessing Cayce’s Most Important Atlantis Statements—Conclusion
Appendix Other Atlantis Speculations—Current Status
1
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 next 2360 years. Many modern philosophers assert that the story of Atlantis was a complete fiction, which Plato devised to impart moral lessons for the Greeks, but countless others—including archaeologists, scholars, and researchers—are convinced that Atlantis actually existed.
Plato was born around 428 B.C. in Athens. After his father died, Plato’s mother remarried a politically influential man who urged Plato to enter Greek politics. But Plato instead joined his two older brothers and became a student of Socrates. Plato, considered a moralist, was deeply concerned with precise understandings and definitions in both science and philosophy. Eight years after Socrates’ death, Plato founded a school in Athens, the Academy, which was the forerunner of modern universities. He directed the school and lectured frequently in science, mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Plato’s lectures were never documented. What does survive serves as a very valuable contribution to our understanding of the ancient world. For example, most of what we know about Socrates, who died in 399 B.C., was recorded in Plato’s Dialogues. While many