What You Must Know to Survive 2012!

There is continuing evidence for a coming potential global disaster that some say is just around the corner. According to the Mayan calendar, it may take place on December 21, 2012. There are new and terrifying epidemics. Wars are increasing in number and ferocity. We run the risk of destroying ourselves by using up natural resources and exacerbating global warming. What lies ahead is unprecedented and has never happened before...or has it?

In Atlantis, author J. Allan Danelek not only explores the theories and beliefs about the Lost Continent, but presents some startling new concepts that are so clear and so obvious that they may finally answer the question of why, after thousands of years, the story of Atlantis still fascinates us.

Danelek reveals that the tale of Atlantis is not only about a potentially lost past, but more importantly, it speaks to our present and future as well. Atlantis beckons us to consider just how very little we really do know about the world in which we live, and forces us to ponder the possibility that our modern civilization may not be the first to have reached such heights of technological sophistication, but is merely the latest to have done so!

Plato's Predictions
Although many people are knowledgeable about Plato and about his writings, few people actually read his works. Plato was the first to write about Atlantis in his dialogues known as the Timaeus and the Critias (both are included in the appendix to Atlantis). In the Timaeus, Plato wrote, "There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind..." Plato is not talking about just an island, but of all humanity. Many cultures have described Earth as an island. Is it possible, then, that Atlantis is a metaphor for the entire world and the destruction of Atlantis was not only a representation of worldwide disaster, but also contained warnings that it could happen again?

According to Plato, Atlantis was destroyed by floods and seismic events. Certainly the notion of a worldwide flood is found in many cultures. But what if this was just a description of events that had happened more than once before? In the Timaeus Plato further wrote, "...you remember a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones...there formerly dwelt in your land the fairest and noblest race of men which ever lived, and that you and your whole city are descended from a small seed or remnant of them...the survivors of that destruction...leaving no written word."

Evidence of Advanced Civilization
Is there any evidence to support the idea that there were highly advanced civilizations before our own? Indeed, there are, including:

• A two-thousand-year-old electric battery in the Baghdad Museum
Modern batteries weren't invented until the nineteenth century

• The Antikythera device from the time of Julius Caesar, a complex clockwork device that allowed easy and accurate computation of the movement of the sun and moon.
Clocks of this complexity weren't invented until the nineteenth century

How could ancient civilizations invent and use devices that weren't "invented" for thousands of years? Is it possible that "primitive" societies were not as primitive as we previously thought? Is it possible that Atlantis was just one advanced society that was overwhelmed by natural and human forces?

A New Look at an Old...Myth?
Is Atlantis just a myth? Is it a metaphor for society, and does it contain a prediction of what may be coming soon? In Atlantis, Danelek answers these questions with an objective eye, and reveals why, if Atlantis actually existed, it is unlikely that we will ever find extensive physical evidence for the Lost Continent.

More importantly, based on the best evidence, Danelek proposes what could have happened and how this information can aid us, today, in preventing it from happening again. Atlantis is a must for those who want to know about the past as a way of surviving the dangers of an unknown future.