ATLANTIS IN THE CARIBBEAN

During the Ice Age, the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico stretched out nearly to Cuba, which was a larger island than today, and the Key West chain of islands was a land bridge that stretched almost to the northern coast of Cuba. A long mass of land, with only two or three breaks for rivers, ran from Jamaica, across what are now the Lesser Antilles Islands and continued all the way to Venezuela. Atlanteans thrived in all these areas.

Edgar Cayce predicted that in 1968 or 1969 Poseidia, a portion of Atlantis would rise. He describes Poseidia as one of the five islands that resulted from the breakup of the main island of Atlantis around 50,000 B.C. This large land area in the Caribbean, that included Bimini, became an important center for Atlanteans after 28,000 B.C. when natural catastrophes or unpleasant social conditions pressured many Atlanteans to flee their sinking country. (Readings 587-4, 877-26, 2157-1.)

In 1968 airplane pilots sighted what appeared to be cut stone blocks and columns in the ocean north of Andros Island, about 50 miles to the west of Nassau in the Bahamas and 150 miles east of Bimini. The numerous explorations which followed have resulted in the discovery of what many believe are the remains of a megalithic city beneath the water not far from Bimini.

Edgar Cayce frequently refers to Atlanteans moving to the Caribbean, and scientists have recently confirmed that, as Edgar Cayce described, people settled in Belize on the southern coast of the Yucatan peninsula before 9,000 B.C. Cayce depicts one small band whose leader Iltar led them to the Yucatan, and states that a temple Iltar built will rise again. (Reading 5750-1.) One can imagine the destitute people who sailed in fragile craft toward the setting sun for many weeks on end with little food and water, before finally reaching the lovely lands of Central America.