Atlantis, Lemuria, and the Third Story We Must Write
A Mythic Warning, A Modern Invitation: Balance or Repeat the Fall
We are living in an interesting era.
Perhaps mythically repetitive, even.
Amongst the collective are three types of people.
Tech lovers, nature lovers, and the bridge — those who admire both.
Some parents give their children iPads in the hope of claiming a moment’s peace.
Others refuse technology in the house, because ‘it was better in their day’.
Some companies are pushing the human body to the brink with biotech.
Others are campaigning about the damage of EMFs; advocating a return to a simpler way of living.
What’s interesting about these divides is that their sentiment is not new.
Their prophesied endings were foretold across mythical texts long ago.
Most notably and captivatingly, the civilisations of Atlantis and Lemuria.
Most concerningly?
Both ending in flood and fire.
Atlantis: When Power Outran Wisdom
The main and earliest surviving reference to Atlantis comes from Plato, in his texts Timaeus and Critias, 427-347 BCE.
Plato claims his story came through Solon, a famous Athenian lawgiver who had heard it from Egyptian Priests at Sais.
His texts outline the tale of a civilisation that existed beyond the ‘Pillars of Herakles’ (the Strait of Gibraltar)
Atlantis was said to be a mighty seafaring civilisation.
A highly organised society with advanced architecture, canals, temples, and governance systems.
Solon told how Atlantis became power hungry, arrogant and sought to dominate the Mediterranean.
Its existence reached its bitter end when it was destroyed in a cataclysm in ‘a single day and night’.
Edgar Cayce, an American clairvoyant, also spoke of Atlantis.
He shared how the Atlanteans had ‘firestones’: crystal grids used as energy sources, comparable to nuclear power.
He also said Atlantis had flying machines, advanced healing chambers, and ways to harness planetary energy.
His conclusion?
That misuse of tech, overharvesting energy and the immoral use of frequency weapons were the ultimate cause of its downfall.
Sound familiar?
From Firestones to Algorithms: The Atlantean Echo in Our Tech
Modern tech presents interesting parallels to Atlantis.
Fossil fuels are depleting, AI is writing our books, and transhumanism aims to merge man and machine.
The speed at which technology is accelerating is (for some) a growing cause for concern.
I was born the same day the first text message was sent — and I’m 32. (yes, I share a birthday with the very first text message — perspective, right?)
Just three decades since the first SMS, we are handing over our thinking, memory and decision-making to algorithms.
What took thousands of years of evolution for humans has been simulated by machines in less than a lifetime.
Where the myth of Atlanteans tells of externalising consciousness to frequency tech, modern people are following the same trajectory with code and silicon.
Lemuria: When Wisdom Refused to Adapt
Lemuria has no clear origin in classical texts.
The name was coined in the late 1800’s by zoologists trying to explain how lemurs were found in both Madagascar and India but not in Africa or the Middle East.
They theorised a now-sunken landmass in the Indian Ocean as a land bridge.
Mainstream science abandoned Lemuria when tectonic plates and continental drift explained this without a missing continent.
But Helena Blavatsky revived it during the Theosophy movement of the late 1800s.
She described Lemurians as empathetic, spiritually sensitive and instinctive.
Rudolf Steiner echoed her beliefs, claiming Lemurians had strong clairvoyance and elemental connection.
He saw them as matriarchal, intuitive and deeply embodied with nature’s rhythms — but without the necessary balance of intellect and reason.
Their downfall was framed as a natural catastrophe: their civilisation wiped out by rising tides and volcanic fire.
Their end mirrors their inability to balance intuition and reason. Being with doing. Spirit with system.
The Lemurian Return: Nature, Intuition, and the Rise of the Feminine
In the modern world, the Lemurian impulse is rising again.
Slowly, but surely.
There is a movement focused on returning to self, to nature.
Women are leaving corporate city jobs to grow food in the country.
Spiritual communities are rejecting 5G towers and WiFi.
Not only is there a reluctance towards AI, but a deep fear of its trajectory, and small towns are abuzz with paranoia.
Where the tide of technological growth peaks, so too do the calls for restraint.
A doomsday clock nuanced by the pendulum swing.
The Third Story: Choosing Balance Before the Fall
These myths offer a dramatic storytelling in the nature of balance.
Where Atlantis leaned yang, Lemuria swung yin.
Where one fell from tech without wisdom, the other from wisdom without adaptation.
Both poles, isolated, destroyed by water and fire.
An echo of a planet more versed in balance than its inhabitants.
The modern collective sits on both sides of these poles, though if I had to guess, it’s the Atlantean trajectory that dominates the global stage.
Where opposers clash, the weight of polarising opinions serves as a kind of balancing catalyst.
The rise of the nature lovers adds much-needed balance to the snowball trajectory of the techies.
And then, there are those who have chosen the middle path.
Embracing technology alongside intuition.
Using tools not as masters, but as mirrors.
Balancing the masculine traits of drive and innovation with the feminine traits of reflection and wisdom.
Perhaps this is how we’ll avoid the same fate.
Not by repeating Atlantis, nor by retreating like Lemuria, but by daring to weave a third story.
Hmmm…interesting analysis and informative perspective. Everyday there is something new to learn and some new POV. Thanks for the insight!! Keep the good work flowing….
Interesting. Are you family with the book The Yugas by Selbie and Steinmetz? The cyclic nature of the great ages.