In the mid-1930s, with support from geologists like Richard Field and William Bowie, Ewing secured ship time on the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s research vessel RV Atlantis.
After moving to Columbia University in 1946 (professor of geology in 1947), Ewing secured two months aboard RV Atlantis in summer 1947 for his first major post-war expedition focused on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The expedition, later called Atlantis Cruise 150, had support from the National Geographic Society.
Early observations of a deep valley with steep slopes on the ridge flank, which Ewing interpreted as possibly a fault scarp and rift valley linked to earthquakes (the feature turned out to be the east-west Atlantis Fracture Zone).
611–640), reports on the next Atlantis cruise.
It is in this second article that Ewing describes the sand most often cited in Atlantis discussions:
Atlantis proponents (in online discussions, books and videos, for example those referencing Randall Carlson) take the "beach sand" at depth as evidence that parts of the ridge or nearby areas were once above or close to sea level, and link it to Plato's sunken island.
He did not refer to Atlantis, Plato or any lost civilization.
It includes a reference to the "Atlantis-Plato-Cruiser-Great Meteor Seamount Chain" south of the Azores.
There are seamounts named Atlantis Seamount, Plato Seamount, Cruiser Seamount and others, part of a chain running from the Azores area toward the Great Meteor Seamount.
These names likely come from survey ships (such as RV Atlantis) or normal naming practice, with "Plato" possibly a light nod to the philosopher.
For more finds linked to Atlantis, see Atlantean remnants.
Ignatius Donnelly is best remembered today for his influential scientific and historical writings, particularly Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882), which popularized the modern theory of Atlantis as a real ancient civilization.
His most famous work, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882), argued that Plato’s account of Atlantis was largely factual.
He proposed that Atlantis was a real advanced civilization destroyed by a cataclysm (linked to the biblical Flood) and that it served as the source of all major ancient cultures through hyperdiffusion.
The book cited evidence from mythology, linguistics, and archaeology and became a bestseller that shaped popular interest in Atlantis for decades.
In Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel (1883), Ignatius Donnelly advanced a catastrophist theory, claiming that a comet’s near-collision with Earth caused the biblical Flood, the destruction of Atlantis, and the extinction of mammoths.
Literarily, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World revived interest in Plato’s lost continent and promoted ideas of cultural diffusion and ancient catastrophes that echoed in 20th-century history and works by authors such as Immanuel Velikovsky.
Scholars dismissed Atlantis and Ragnarok as lacking credible evidence and relying on selective or misinterpreted data.
Despite the criticism, his Atlantis book remained popular with general readers and helped establish themes still present in alternative archaeology today.
While his political influence waned and his theories were largely discredited by experts, his writings on Atlantis and ancient mysteries left a lasting mark on popular culture and continue to be referenced in discussions of lost civilizations.
What she knows about Atlantis and Lemuria (from the interview)
Halu Gamashi presents Lemuria and Atlantis as real civilizations that existed on the same planetary space as modern Earth, but at earlier stages when the planet was less dense (more water, less land).
Atlantis came later as descendants of Lemurians.
In Lemuria and Atlantis the third eye was open.
She stresses that artists often channel these ancient energies and that learning from the mistakes of Atlantis helps avoid repeating them now.
Atlantis:"The Lemurians were a people with impressive spirituality… They were hermaphroditic beings… The Atlanteans already had a difference.
Her sections focus on her background, the chakra and transmigration experiences, the detailed comparison of Lemuria and Atlantis, the inheritance of the spiritual mind, and the call to reactivate it in daily life.
Her most significant work, The Secret Doctrine (1888), presented a comprehensive cosmological system involving seven root races, cycles of evolution, and the hidden history of humanity, including references to Atlantis and Lemuria.
Rudolf Steiner devoted significant attention to the lost continent of Atlantis in his esoteric writings and lectures, particularly in Cosmic Memory.
Drawing on what he described as clairvoyant investigation of the Akashic records, Steiner portrayed Atlantis as a real historical landmass in the Atlantic Ocean inhabited by a spiritually evolved humanity during the Atlantean epoch.
According to Rudolf Steiner, the decline and submersion of Atlantis resulted from increasing materialism, misuse of spiritual forces, and moral degeneration, events he linked to a great flood marking the transition to the current post-Atlantean epoch.
His descriptions of Atlantis, Lemuria, and human evolution have been labeled pseudohistory.
It remains a foundational text in Theosophical, and Atlantis-related literature.
Central themes include reincarnation, karma (“whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap”), the moral and spiritual causes behind Atlantis’s cataclysmic fall, personalized afterlife realms, and a hidden Lemurian sanctuary beneath Mount Shasta.
A Dweller on Two Planets has exerted significant influence on Atlantis, Lemuria, Mount Shasta as a spiritual power center, and reincarnation.
Matías De Stefano (born August 4, 1987) retained detailed memories of past lives, pre-birth existence, and multidimensional realities, including experiences in Atlantis and other ancient or extraterrestrial contexts.
His content often addresses Atlantis (describing it as a civilization that grew significantly around 15,000 years ago during the Virgo era, with earlier roots), ancient civilizations, soul journeys, dimensions, and practical tools for conscious living.
Her expansive narratives on extraterrestrials, Atlantis, and multi-dimensional realities were often classified as fringe or pseudoscientific.
He became known as the “Sleeping Prophet.” His readings primarily addressed health diagnoses and treatments, but also covered reincarnation, past lives, dreams, ancient civilizations including Atlantis, spiritual growth, and some prophecies about future events.
These sessions introduced topics such as reincarnation and Atlantis for the first time.
Examples include the rediscovery of Atlantis records around 1968–1969, the return of Jesus in 1998, and China becoming a primary center of Christianity by 1968.
Critics described elements of the readings on Atlantis, Lemuria, and human origins as pseudohistory.
He refers to the Rosicrucian tradition and how knowledge from previous high cultures, including Atlantis, was passed down to various civilizations.
The mighty High Priest Imhotep of Atlantis was ruler of the tribe that took its wisdom to the west to form the Native American culture. The Cherokees were Wise Ones who carried the secrets of Atlantis. They brought their knowledge of shamanism and soul retrieval to the peoples, as well as their special abilities to work with dreams using dream catchers.
One of the gifts that was entrusted to them at the end of Atlantis was that of honouring the land including all things living in it and on it.
According to ancient Cherokee tradition, their ancestors came from the Pleiades to the five islands of Atlantis, where they settled. Then, at the fall of Atlantis, the tribe sailed to the Americas taking their wisdom with them.
Those who were there at the beginning and end of this phase of Atlantis were Thoth, Isis, Horus, Ra, Sett and Imhotep. They were connected to Egypt.
The Edgar Cayce readings describe Atlantis as going through three great destructions.
In the readings, Atlantis is one large continent "until the first eruptions brought those changes" (reading 364-6), after which it breaks into large islands.
The Atlantic seaboard formed the lowlands of Atlantis, and the Pacific coast of South America the western edge of Lemuria.
Atlantis ended 11,000 years ago of your time and it began 32,000 years ago.
Look it how Schlemmer describe the medical technology of the Atlantis:
In Schlemmer's book, The Only Planet of Choice: Essential Briefings from Deep Space, a compilation of earlier recorded channeling sessions, she was asked to describe numerous aspects of Atlantis, and regarding our topic, claimed, “In Atlantean medicine it was possible to replace even the true heart and the true brain.
This is why, even though it has evolved, the original reason for All Hallow’s Eve, Halloween, All Souls’ Day, and All Saints’ Day—October 31st, November 1st, and November 2nd—is in remembrance of the destruction of Atlantis.
This was approaching the end of the days of the Atlantis civilization, which had existed for many thousands of years.
And the change was brought principally by a vast comet that crossed the path of Planet Earth during the end times of Atlantis and which moved the civilization to a point of completion.
Question: Was hubris the vibrational aspect that drew the comet to destroy Atlantis?
There are many versions of Earth where Atlantis was not destroyed.
The leader is identified as “Tim from Poseidia, Atlantis.” The event involved representatives from various groups and nations who gathered to address the problem of large, marauding beasts overrunning parts of the earth, including areas associated with Atlantis.
The people of Atlantis constantly experimented with obtaining energy from natural sources.
Seafaring merchants brought uranium to laboratories in Atlantis from mines adjacent to rivers leading to the ocean, such as the one in nearby Gabon, West Africa, which was mined extensively in antiquity.
After the ceremonies in those halcyon days of Golden Atlantis, filled with light and joy, families and communities would cluster round the stones in groups and relate tales, sing and chant.
Zangger linked the symbol to the city of Troy, which he identified as Atlantis in an earlier study.
Several writers have suggested a connection between labyrinths and Atlantis.
Lewis Spence explored this idea in his book The History of Atlantis.
Brady discussed it in his book Atlantis and wrote that Atlantean gold treasure lies inside a labyrinth on the Greek island of Lemnos.
Cayce indicated that these were first used in Atlantis and then later became a part of Egyptian temple practice.
These temple-based ceremonies and devices originated or were already in use in Atlantis and were later developed further in Egypt under Ra-Ta.
Cayce stated that the misuse of the Tuaoi Stone (and similar crystals) was one of the major factors that led to the final destruction of Atlantis.
Atlantis possessed a sophisticated global crystal energy grid — a network of large crystals placed at key points across the planet, connected through energetic lines (similar to ley lines but crystalline in nature).
Over time, as Atlantis grew into a powerful empire, certain groups began using this crystal grid for control, domination, and personal power rather than for unity and service.
The Tuaoi Stone (also called the Firestone, Great Crystal, or Terrible Crystal) is one of the most famous and detailed elements from Edgar Cayce’s psychic readings on Atlantis.
The Tuaoi Stone was housed in a special temple or power station, often referred to in connection with the main temple complex of Atlantis.
Cayce stated that the misuse of the Tuaoi Stone (and similar crystals) was one of the major factors that led to the final destruction of Atlantis.
And this was a transmitter of the intergalactic forces that poured into your Earth’s atmosphere — solar, lunar, and stellar energies poured into Atlantis — and which generated a superpower beyond description, an electromagnetic force for all of the systems of energy that sustained the lives that you lived as Atlanteans.
Temple of Zul (Temple of the Lord of Light) in “Atlantis: The Book of the Angels” by D.
This is the temple from the 1903 visionary/interpretive work Atlantis: The Book of the Angels (sometimes styled Atlantis, the Book of the Angels), which presents a dramatic, often grim account of pre-flood Atlantean civilization centered on the characters Azta (Tizin Azta, empress/queen figure), Tekthah, Huitza, and others.
Zul functions as both the name of the sacred capital city of Atlantis (described as greater than Babylon, built by conquered nations) and the central deity — a hermaphrodite Sun/Lord of Light figure worshipped with awe, idolatry, and elements of obscenity.
First the Intergalactic Council built the Temple of Poseidon, sometimes known as the Cathedral of the Sacred Heights, which contained the Great Crystal, the generator crystal of Atlantis.
Atlantis and the new consciousness
I wrote separate pages about other temples linked to Atlantis.
Temple of Zul: This is the Temple of the Lord of Light from the 1903 book Atlantis: The Book of the Angels by D.
A 1975 novel about Atlantis uses the same name.
Some of my sources link it to Atlantis.
I place it between the first and second destruction of Atlantis.
Cayce placed this in the early development of Atlantis.
Genesis 1 (“male and female created he them”) corresponds to this early androgynous Sons of God phase in Atlantis.
According to Cayce, souls were still androgynous “Sons of God” during the early Atlantean era: in the time of Amilius, before the first major destruction of Atlantis (about 50,000 BC), and before souls became fully locked into separate male and female physical bodies.
In Edgar Cayce’s readings, “sons and daughters of men” (or “sons of men” / “daughters of men”) carries both a specific historical/esoteric meaning tied to Atlantis and pre-flood times, and a broader spiritual meaning referring to ordinary incarnated humanity.
He places this drama in Atlantis (which he called the “Eden of the world”).
The mixing (“pollution of lineages”) between the spiritual “Sons of God” and the more material “daughters of men” is portrayed as a major cause of Atlantis’s moral decline, internal divisions, wars, and eventual physical destructions.
Outside the Atlantis story, Cayce uses “sons and daughters of men” more generally to mean human beings living in the material, physical world — incarnated souls dealing with karma, doubts, fears, ego, and earthly limitations.
In Cayce, “Sons of God” directly names the spiritually superior group in the Atlantis drama.
On this site the early kings link Egyptian history to the esoteric and Atlantis-related topics, such as Manetho’s lists, the transition from predynastic times and the legendary unifiers.
The people of Atlantis, living at a fifth-dimensional frequency, worked with twelve chakras or spiritual energy centres.
When our spiritual connection lessened, during the fall of Atlantis, the three upper chakras fell dormant.
Many beings from different parts of the galaxy visited Atlantis, including those from Egypt and Europe.
Working through twelve advanced Beings (collectively called the Alta) they set up the new Atlantis in twelve regions.
Atlantis and the new consciousness
Because of the Veil of Amnesia, the people who were incarnate in Atlantis were unconscious that they were participating in a divine experiment.
They maintained intergalactic contact, reporting on the progress of the Atlantis experiment to the Great Council and taking decisions with them about the future.
The great High Priest, Thoth, channelled the Seven Spiritual Laws for Atlantis and a great many subsidiary laws.
Amongst the first 84,000 volunteers for Atlantis were those who carried the necessary skills and qualities to act as priests and priestesses.
All levels of the priesthood were the guardians of spirituality within Atlantis.
As Atlantis evolved, suitable beings who had the knowledge, wisdom and experience appropriate to command the experiment at that time were invited to take on this role.
Those who were there at the beginning and end of this phase of Atlantis were Thoth, Isis, Horus, Ra, Sett and Imhotep.
When Atlantis started to devolve, temples were more elaborately decorated and the clothing of the priests became richer.
Visions of Atlantis about Frederik Oliver's book
Shirley Andrews, in Atlantis: Insights from a Lost Civilization, argues that witchcraft began in Atlantis and spread to the lands on both sides of the ocean.
Witchcraft was a popular occupation in Atlantis … Prehistoric traditions of witchcraft in Spain, France, Britain, and the Canary Islands on one side of the ocean, and in the West Indies and Mexico on the other, are remarkably similar.
She goes on to say that no culture in western Europe was old and advanced enough to be the common source, so Atlantis is the only possibility.
Up to the decline of Atlantis, everyone was vegetarian, although they accepted the animals’ offerings, such as wool, milk, feathers or eggs.
Loving attention, plentiful rainfall, and ample sunshine contributed to successful agriculture in Atlantis, but it was the luxuriant soil that made unusually bountiful crops possible.
The five islands of Atlantis that made up Golden Atlantis were spread over a considerable area.
Fish was always a popular item on menus in Atlantis, but some descendants developed a tradition of not eating seafood, such as the Iroquois of North America and the Tuaregs who lived in the Atlas Mountains of Africa.
Some Native Americans believed that if they ceremonially speared the fish with a trident, the symbol of Atlantis, it became an acceptable meal.
Agricultural scientists in Atlantis experimented for many centuries and, probably with the help of extraterrestrials, developed plants for food and medicine.
We will never know how widely the visitors from outer space distributed goods and advanced knowledge, and to what extent the seafaring Atlanteans made them available to the rest of the world, but emigrants from Atlantis undoubtedly carried the roots and seeds of many plants to the lands around the Atlantic Ocean.
The source of the text is the book The Story of Atlantis (1896) by W.