Atlantis
Atlantis is the sunken high culture handed down by Plato. At the Kyborg Institute we understand it as a worldview-based image of an earlier cultural epoch whose memory – according to this view – is preserved in the Akasha and can be sensed through schooled perception. This is expressly myth and tradition, not a scientifically demonstrated place and no assertion of fact.
What does Plato report about Atlantis?
Atlantis has been spoken of since Plato (in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias). His texts locate the island realm beyond the “Pillars of Hercules” – that is, outside the Mediterranean, beyond Gibraltar, in the Atlantic. Plato depicts a mighty, artfully laid-out sea power that finally sinks in a natural catastrophe.
Where is Atlantis supposed to have lain?
In a widespread esoteric reading, Atlantis was an island archipelago in the Atlantic whose highest mountain peaks today rise out of the sea as the Azores. Its sinking is connected with the great flood around 12,000 years ago. There is no evidence for this; it is an interpretation within the frame of tradition.
To the fascination of the theme, real find-sites still discussed today contribute – for instance the undersea “Bimini Road” off the Bahamas or the stepped formation of Yonaguni (Japan). Whether they are of human hand or arose naturally is disputed. They show above all how much we do not yet know about our distant past.
Atlantis in the worldview of the Kyborg Institute
From our point of view, the culture of the old Atlanteans was highly developed and worked with quite different methods from ours – large crystals played an important role in their technology. Today we live as quite different people; yet in contemplation we can, according to this conviction, connect ourselves with the moods of that time – “fish from the Akasha”. Early European cultural traces too, up to the great megalithic complexes and old sacred symbols such as the Irminsul, can be placed within this worldview-based narrative (cf. Anthropogenesis).
This is no historical science, but a spiritual narrative. To whoever wants to pursue it, we recommend less the mere collecting of “proofs” than rather the schooling of one’s own perception (e.g. through meditation and Energytraining).
What Atlantis says to the seeker of meaning
The Atlantis myth has always been at once a warning and an invitation: even a brilliant high culture can perish when it loses the measure – an image for humility towards what is greater than we are. And at the same time it reminds us that nothing is really lost: in the Akasha, so our view, every experience remains preserved. For the seeker of meaning the value lies not in the dispute over data, but in the question: what do I remember when I become still?
Note: This entry renders a personal, worldview-based view and understands Atlantis as a myth. It is no historical-scientific or geographical assertion of fact.
Frequently asked questions
What is Atlantis?
A sunken high culture handed down by Plato, beyond the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar). At the Kyborg Institute it is understood as an image of an earlier cultural epoch – expressly myth and a worldview-based view, not a scientifically demonstrated place.
Where is Atlantis supposed to have lain?
According to Plato's original texts, outside the Mediterranean, beyond Gibraltar. In a widespread esoteric reading it was an island archipelago in the Atlantic whose mountain peaks today form the Azores; its sinking is connected with the 'Deluge' around 12,000 years ago.
How does the Kyborg Institute see Atlantis?
As a highly developed earlier culture whose mood and memory – in this worldview-based view – remains experienceable via the Akasha. This is a personal conviction, not an assertion of fact; it cannot be demonstrated.
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- — First English version.
Sources
- Platon: Dialoge Timaios und Kritias.
- D. Harald Alke: Schriften zum Ursprung der Kultur (Kyborg Institut).
Autor: D. Harald Alke