Yes, I know that Edgar Evans Cayce believed that, and wrote as much in the seminal
Edgar Cayce on Atlantis, but he missed a few readings or didn't take them into account and it's easy to understand how and why. There was no
Edgar Cayce Readings Library: Atlantis Vol. 22 compendium or Cayce CD-ROM to aid his research back then. When he established the chronology of destructions he ignored the reading where Cayce was asked when the first destruction took place -"7,500 years before the final destruction" - or 17,500 B.C. Another reading states that awoman lived in Poseidia for 6000 years and witnessed 2-3 of the great destructions there. Dates seem to be 'flexible' things in the readings. The only ones worth trusting IMO are the dates for the final destruction as being around the 10,500 B.C. timeframe because they are repeated over and over again in the readings, and we know scientifically that the world was undergoing tremendous changes then. If one looks up Pleistocene, one will note that it officially ended in 9600 B.C. -that's not an accidental coincidence!
As for the high technology, some of that story may be true, and it's very likely that some of it may have been Cayce blending from a subconscious knowlege of
Dweller on Two Planets by Phylos the Tibetan (which he had read) and the Biblical Book of Ezekiel which he had memorized with the rest of Scripture. Both books include great crystals and airships!
When I undertook my training as a clinical hypnotherapist and began to really study the nature of the subconscious mind, the channelling process, and took a deeper, closer look into the readings and especially their background reports, it became apparent that the readings directly reflect many things that Cayce was exposed to in his waking life. Whether he consciously believed in the Rosicrucian literature flowing into the A.R.E. headquarters then, or agreed with his clients' beliefs (with whom he was in telepathic rapport)
is irrelevant because the job of the subconscious mind is to record literally everything, and access to this database is established with hypnosis -Cayce's method of access.
Basically, Cayce's readings are sufficiently close to the known truth to be interesting, and sufficiently far from the known truth to be somewhat frustrating and difficult to prove.
All that matters to me is what is actually found and what the evidence shows. All of us become emotionally attached to beliefs and ideas and that's not always a bad thing. But ultimately all there is left is evidence--real artifacts and real archaeological finds.
And that's the bottom line -at the bottom of the ocean or the bottom of the Giza Plateau!
