Atlantis

by Ashe, Geoffrey

• ISBN13: 9780500810514
• ISBN10: 0500810516
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-19
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Summary

The mythical lost island of Atlantis haspreoccupied thinkers from Plato to RudolfSteiner (and a fair number of eccentrics aswell) for more than two thousand years.

Table of Contents

Theme and quest	p. 6
Atlantis portrayed	p. 16
Shambhala: an outpost?	p. 28
Mu: an alternative?	p. 32
The wilder shores	p. 36
Voices of prophecy	p. 40
Plato and his story	p. 42
Responses and interpretations	p. 52
The rough road to Atlantology	p. 56
Atlantis transferred	p. 60
Plato's imagination	p. 64
Entertainments	p. 82
Perennial vision	p. 88
Themes	p. 94
Plato's paradox	p. 96
The making of a myth	p. 98
Death by water	p. 100
When and where?	p. 102
Earthly Paradises	p. 104
The myth re-made	p. 106
Trans-oceanic echoes	p. 108
Atlantic's imprint	p. 110
Revelations to come?	p. 112
Occult approaches	p. 114
Lemuria and Mu	p. 116
Shasta: a Lemurian colony	p. 118
Lunar upheavals and hidden spaces	p. 120
The place of quietude	p. 122
Realizations	p. 124
Further reading	p. 126
Acknowledgments	p. 127
Index	p. 128
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