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OCTOBER 2024 The recent cyber attack on the Internet Archive is deplorable and can be reasonably compared with the repeated burning of the Great Library of Alexandria. I have used the Wayback Machine extensively, but, until the full extent of the permanent damage is clear, I am unable to assess its effect on Atlantipedia. At […]Read More »
Joining The Dots
I have now published my new book, Joining The Dots, which offers a fresh look at the Atlantis mystery. I have addressed the critical questions of when, where and who, using Plato’s own words, tempered with some critical thinking and a modicum of common sense.Read More »
John Van Auken
Van Auken, John
John Van Auken is a well-known lecturer on the ‘readings’ of Edgar Cayce. He is a Director at the Edgar Cayce organization, the Association for 
Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E) having been associated with the A.R.E. since the late 1960s. He is the author of many books dealing with mysticism and ancient mysteries. He co-authored with Greg and Lora Little, Edgar Cayce’s Atlantis and Ancient South America[0889]. The latter mentions Plato just once, while an article on Van Auken’s own website(a) entitled Atlantis & Mu (Lemuria) has Plato completely ignored, which in my opinion leaves him unfit to discuss Atlantis. The article has been removed since.
Even more disturbing is his association with the rather dubious ‘diploma mill’, The International Metaphysical University(b), considered by some(c)(d) to be fraudulent.
Some years ago Van Auken was challenged by William Hutton to give the references of the six Cayce ‘readings’ that he had referred to in a lecture. The readings did not exist and the best that Van Auken could do was claim to have “misspoken”(e)!
(a) https://www.johnvanauken.com/
(d) https://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2697.0*
(e) https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/atlantida_mu/esp_atlantida_11.htm
Language of Atlantis
The Language spoken in Atlantis is, obviously, unknown. However, as Atlantis was a military alliance and according to Plato, spread over hundreds of miles, it is likely that its territory included a number of different spoken languages. Nevertheless, readers might be entertained by some of the wilder speculation (a) that the subject has generated.
Edgar Cayce ‘revealed’ that the Atlanteans did not need language as they used telepathy to communicate!*John Van Auken , a director of Cayce’s A.R.E., tells us that this changed when “As we Children of God, or “Morning Stars” as the book of Job referred to us, pushed our minds deeper and deeper into matter (this third dimensional plane), we became more individualized, and our expansive consciousness was narrowed into this world of form and physicality. When we were finally ‘out of Spirit, out of the ability to have all the attributes of the spiritual or unseen forces…’ (Cayce Reading 364-10) and more fully in matter, then we moved toward writing and speaking.” There is lots more balderdash like that on the same site(c).*
In the seventeenth century, Olof Rudbeck concluded that Swedish was the language of Atlantis and the foundation for Greek and Latin. In recent times Felice Vinci claimed that Homeric Greeks spoke Finnish, while Skender Hushi thinks Albanian was the language of Atlantis[899].
Atlantean (Dig Adlantisag), was a language created for the film Atlantis: The Lost Empire by Marc Okrand, who worked with John Emerson, a designer at Disney, to produce an alphabet for the language.(b)
(a) https://occult-advances.org/languages.shtml (link broken Nov. 2019)
(b) https://omniglot.com/conscripts/atlantean.htm
*(c) https://www.edgarcayce.org/about-us/blog/blog-posts/what-was-the-language-of-atlantis-lemuria/*
Hutton, William
William Hutton is the pen-name of Dr Wyman Harrison (1931-2014) who was the principal contributor
P.W. Harrison
to The Hutton Commentaries, an extensive website(a) that contains many articles on the subject of Edgar Cayce, Atlantis and Pole Shift.
From December 31, 2012, Hutton ceased contributing to the ‘Commentaries’ and Jonathan Eagle, the webmaster, has continued to maintain it as an archive of all the early material.
Hutton wrote an interesting article in 2001 and revised it in 2004(b) in which he takes issue with the accuracy of details in the A.R.E. newsletter Ancient Mysteries. He further claims that some of Cayce’s ‘readings’ have been distorted and some even invented! In this regard, he challenged Cayce supporter, John Van Auken who had referred to six readings that did not exist. In response, Van Auken claimed that he had ‘misspoken’.
Hutton, who has had an academic career as a geologist is also the author of several books relating to catastrophism[407], one of which was the result of collaboration with Jonathan Eagle, which produced the large 2004 offering Earth’s Catastrophic Past and Future[408].
(a) Hutton Commentaries – Archives *
(b) https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/atlantida_mu/esp_atlantida_11.htm