Atlantis: OK...Where was it?

[Anteros]

Hi folks,
Long time no see.....
I will keep it short.....wifey was watching a documentary on yet another Atlantis story/idea.

So OK....there are numerous books and vids out there....mostly people trying to sell their book and that's it!

So for all those at CH in the know and all the wise one's on CH....put an X on the map please

If you think it was an other worldly place then please explain as well.

Atlantean spirits are offered here on CH.....so please settle this once and for all.....I promise I won't tell LOL.....where was the great city and just how big was it and the island?
Or was it part of some far off mainland?

Thanks a million

[Lewk]

I got into reading Michael Moorcock fantasies when I was 17 (long time ago). One of the main recurring themes was the eternal city of Tanelorn, which is a kind of hub city for the multiverse.

Parallel universe theories differ but they would support the idea of there being many Atlantises in existence in the multiverse. For me the resonance of Atlantis on a spiritual level is strong. But I have found it hard to reconcile that with what I think is a lack of good evidence for a physical location on this planet that anywhere matches the power of Atlantis in magical or psychic terms.

I've got a book called Practical Atlantean Magic and have enjoyed doing some of the rites in it. The energies seem more real than the place.

I know historically the story passed down to us comes from Plato, based on a fragment of knowledge gleaned by a Greek historian Solon, who was fortunate to be given access by Egyptian priests to one of their historical records that mentioned Atlantis. (If I remember correctly.) The full contents of the library of Alexandria were later lost.

A key phrase about Atlantis's location seems to have been that it was in 'the one ocean' (from memory).

This lead one author to speculate that it was on the continent that is now under the Antarctic ice cap, before the poles slipped. (Because if you turn the planet around when Antarctica was unfrozen, that land mass might have looked central in the world's oceans.)

Call me a typical Libran if you like, but I'm not certain. I'd probably come down in favour of it being more a spiritual location.

[Alys-RaccoonReadings]

Given the context of Plato’s mention of it (in an allegory) and the dearth of any further empirical support, it has probably not existed physically in this reality. I think Lewk’s ideas are the right direction.

[Anteros]

Lewk & Alys....thanks very much for your thoughts....much appreciated.