This is an excerpt from parts of the chapter, “Was There Really an Atlantis and Lemuria?” in my upcoming book: Why Are There So Many Cleopatras?         

I overheard my 9-year-old grandson ask a family member if Atlantis was a real place. He was told it wasn’t. I wanted to rush in and say–“Wait! That’s not true!” But I realized that it wasn’t my place to do so as that would have caused more harm than good. Still, I couldn’t let it go, so when I had the chance, I took my grandson into my office and pointed to the shelf that contained several books on Atlantis, and its lesser-known counterpart, Lemuria. I opened one to show him the map of where Atlantis would have been and told him when he was older, he was welcome to read those books, and left it at that, knowing my miniscule library was nothing considering 20,000 books have been written about Atlantis alone! That intimidating fact was one of the reasons condensing the high points into one chapter was such a daunting task!
In my life, I’ve had several impressionable encounters with the subject of Atlantis and Lemuria. The first came from Dick Sutphen, who wrote that almost all Americans are former Atlanteans. That statistic made quite an impression on me, especially after I began studying the Edgar Cayce readings on Atlantis.
Before that, however, I met past-life therapist and author Carolyn Gelone, who was a keynote speaker for the A.R.E. in the 80’s and 90’s. I invited Carolyn to do a program and private regression sessions with members of my past-life group in Naperville. While she was there, she did a private session with me. In it, I clearly saw myself sitting on some long white stairs leading to a temple-like structure. There were young children surrounding me and I was doing something funky with my hands and a bubble of light. I usually am not animated when I am in a regression, but afterwards Carolyn said she had only seen the gestures I was making with a few other clients. As we dug a little deeper, I understood that what I was doing was teaching the children how to manipulate the light. This apparently was something I did in Lemuria and in Atlantis, but the scene I was recalling was in Egypt. It would be a few years before this made sense to me.
A big connection to Atlantis and Lemuria came up when I met T.J. Davis in 1996. During research for his biography, Edgar Cayce and the Unfulfilled Destiny of Thomas Jefferson Reborn,  I obtained more information about his—and subsequently my–Atlantean life. Cayce gave a reading for two-day old T.J. and identified four past lives. One was in Atlantis as Sululon.
Frank Joseph, writing in his book, Edgar Cayce’s Atlantis and Lemuria, wrote about Sululon, calling him an aggressive leader of the Sons of Belial, who had a torrid affair with a female follower of the despised Law of One. This was the same soul that would become T.J.’s Aunt Gladys in their last incarnation. Cayce described the Sons of Belial as “those that sought more the gratifying, the satisfying, the use of material things for self, without thought or consideration as to the sources of such or the hardships in the experiences of others. Or, in other words, as we would term it today, they were those without a standard of morality.” (877-26)
Sululon was forced to leave Atlantis as he was under the accusation of “traitor.” He fled to the shores of Yucatan with a few friends who became the first Atlanteans to arrive there. Sululon was welcomed as a god. He and his friends formed work parties among the populace and created the first stone temples and palaces in America. They “established law and order, temporarily put an end to human sacrifice, instituted agriculture and irrigation, astronomy, literature, the arts, metallurgy, medical care, and all the advantages of the distant home left behind forever.”
Sululon left the Yucatan a few years later, and traveled south into Bolivia and Peru, where he repeated “the same series of culture-founding events.” A few years later, he traveled north into what is now the state of Virginia and repeated his civilizing mission for the last time.  This is somewhat ironic, considering T.J. had one of his most famous past lives as Thomas Jefferson in Virginia, and then returned to Virginia to live with Edgar Cayce and Gladys Davis in his last incarnation.
I apparently knew Sulonon well enough that when it came time to leave Atlantis, he acted on my behalf, asking a friend of his to make sure I had safe passage to Egypt. This would then tie into what I experienced in my regression with Carolyn Gelone, as I knew the students I was teaching were in Egypt.
In looking at the parallels of Atlantean and Lemurian culture with our own, it is clear we are at the precipice of a significant turning point. The consensus about the destruction of both continents had to do with their turning away from their spirituality and embracing greed and power. Whether you believe there really was an Atlantis and Lemuria, the lesson–even as fable–is clear. As our civilization is at the same place technologically as they were when the destruction occurred, it is up to us to decide if we’ll learn those lessons, or continue to repeat them. I pray it’s the former.