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Edgar Cayce’s Atlantis

by Gregory L. Little, Ed.D., Lora Little, Ed.D., & John Van Auken

A.R.E. Press • 215 67th Street • Virginia Beach, VA 23451-2061

2006, 278 pages, $14.95 • ISBN: 0-87604-512-3

Website: http://www.edgarcayce.org

Reviewed by Brent Raynes

The definitive books detailing Edgar Cayce’s story of Atlantis have—until now—been those by his son, Edgar Evans Cayce. But the last revision of Mysteries of Atlantis Revisited was in 1997. Since that time an amazing amount of progress has been made in researching Cayce’s Atlantis readings. Edgar Cayce’s Atlantis, a new ARE Press book, is truly a genuinely comprehensive tour de force compilation. It contains extraordinary information and even apparent prophetic insights documented from the vast and fascinating psychic readings of the renowned “Sleeping Prophet” Edgar Cayce. Greg and Lora Little and noted author John Van Auken tackle their assignment in a straight-forward, no-nonsense and aggressive manner. Not only do they immerse themselves in thousands of hours of extensive research and inquiry, but they also grapple the proverbial bull by the horns and, with passports in hand, leave their comfortable armchairs behind and go diving into the waters of the Bahamas, investigating the legendary Bimini Road and the apparent remains of an ancient seaport off of Andros Island that they helped discover, as well as drudging through the jungles of the Yucatan and Guatemala, and trekking across the desert sands of Egypt to gaze at pyramids and the Sphinx. These authors are not content with a superficial overview or a generalized assessment or summation of the facts. Their focus is direct, thorough, objective and to the point, and never waivers from carefully collecting and confronting hard facts and the possible consequences pro or con.

They begin our introduction into the mystery of Atlantis by exploring what the legendary Greek philosopher Plato said on this subject way back in 355 B.C. As the Plato material is reviewed and then the reader is exposed to the Cayce readings on Atlantis, it comes readily apparent that the Cayce material appears to complement Plato’s account. In addition, the Cayce readings also provide us with a rather mind-boggling history of our world, to put it mildly, that takes us way, way back before the presumed Atlantean era, back to 10.5 million years ago. Back then, according to Cayce, higher evolved energy beings—individualized “thought forms”—projected their consciousness into primitive life and matter. This process was called “involution” and according to Cayce this first involution happened in an ancient place called Mu or Lemuria. Presumably, the name Lemuria is derived from the primates of Madagascar that are called lemurs. In fact, the authors speculate that these small primates may have been among the first bodies to become inhabited by these energy beings. The Cayce material states that these beings “pushed” themselves into all variations of physical matter, into animals and into the elements. In addition, lemur also means “ghost,” which adds an interesting and suggestive twist to this part of the story.

The Cayce readings also describe two other later soul influxes. In the second one, 10 million years ago, the incoming beings decided to create physical bodies for themselves, bodies that initially ranged from small midget sized creatures to 10 or 12 foot tall giants. The third influx began with the foundation of Atlantis in 210,000 B.C., when more “perfected bodies” were manifested.

The third influx or involution of souls is the primary focus of this book. The authors engage in the arduous but crucial and necessary task of making critical correlations between the many remarkable dates and historical events cited in the Cayce readings and innumerable independentally confirmed historical accounts and confirmative scientific and archeologcal discoveries that seem to agree with the Cayce material.

While many of these readings were initially viewed as containing preposterous and impossible statements, time eventually brought out the proverbial truth, so to speak, and has reflected very favorably upon those controversial readings. For example, back when Cayce first described the midget-like creatures and the 10 to 12 foot tall giants that existed some 10 million years ago, this was not considered possible by the science of that time. Today, however, scientists accept the existence of pygmy-like hominids some nine to ten million years ago, and in 2005 McMaster University scientist Jack Rink reported on Gigantopithecus blacki, a giant ape that stood some 10 feet tall and has been found in the fossil record going back to at least 6.3 million years ago. While Cayce described the first perfected human bodies (homo sapiens) as first appearing in Atlantis in 106,000 B.C., modern science now agrees and states that homo sapiens appeared an estimated 100,000 years ago. Also the Cayce material describes ancient Atlantean migrations to various parts of the world, and the authors believe that they my have found documented genetic patterns that correlate with those migrations in the form of a specific mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) called haplogroup X. In addition, since 1997 archeology has broken the 9500 B.C. Clovis Barrier and recognizes that people came to the Americas much earlier—just as Cayce stated. Haplogroup X has been turning up everywhere where Cayce stated Atlanteans migrated and now the other dates from Cayce’s readings, like two races appearing in the South Pacific and the Caucasus Mountains in 50,000 B.C., are almost completely supported by modern archeology. Prior to 1997 such assertions would have been rejected and dismissed as lunatic fringe.

According to Cayce’s readings there were major migrations associated with three destructions of Atlantis. The first was around 50,000 B.C., the second around 28,000-22,006 B.C., and the final one—and largest—around 10,000 B.C., just before the final destruction of Atlantis. Interestingly, geneticists have noted that the largest migration of haplogroup X into America occurred around 10,400 B.C.! Cayce’s date for the final destruction of Atlantis circa 10,000 B.C. is very close to Plato’s (which was 9,600 B.C.). On top of all this, the authors speculate that the final destruction may have descended from the skies in the form of a large comet or meteor that reeked great catastrophe upon the eastern half of the U.S., creating the Carolina Bays and the Puerto Rican Trench. Though many people are not familiar with this event, the authors present a great deal of evidence that has been accumulated about this ancient cataclysmic event.

Throughout the pages of this remarkable book the authors take you on an unforgettably awesome journey across time and space to consider startling new possibilities that can now be gleaned in the light of modern discoveries in science and archeology. A hundred photographs and illustrations (some never before published) are contained within this fascinating book. Many of the photographs were taken by the author’s themselves at some of the exciting, important sites that they’ve personally visited and explored up close and personal, some located in very difficult, dangerous and hard to reach places, like Dr. Greg and Lora Little’s adventures in Piedras Negras, Guatemala.

Fortunately for most of us, we don’t have to leave our comfortable armchairs and risk life and limb to pursue these particular mysteries . All we have to do is lift a finger or two periodically to flip through the pages of this thought-provoking book and your mind and imagination will seem almost magically transported around the world and across the cosmos as you read about the most incredible historical events ever described. It gives a whole new meaning to that old expression: Truth may be stranger than fiction!