Author: ECKANKAR

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Ever since I can remember, I’ve been able to see colors emanating from everything. Often it’s the color amethyst. Why do I see all these colors other people can’t? What do they mean, and how can I use this sight so it may benefit me?

Thank you for your letter about the colors you see. It’s an ability you developed during several lives in Atlantis, where crystals were the power that propelled those times, much as electricity and nuclear power are a mainstay today. Seeing the ECK Current as big and little explosions of color was a common ability among all in Atlantis.

The spiritual lesson in Atlantis was for those who specialized in harnessing the power of crystals—scientists, priests, and engineers—to learn how to use it for the good of others.

It’s the same challenge today for those who bring a special gift into this lifetime.

The color amethyst has a natural affinity for the Etheric Plane. That’s the fountain where intuition originates. The lesson is how to use that potential to help others and not control them in any way.

That is the lesson for all people, for all have gifts and talents unique to them. But it’s in the manner of their use that determines whether they, the users, wish to go the way of love or power.

The ECK will help you deal with your gift, if you so wish.

—Sri Harold Klemp

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I am very drawn to stories about Atlantis. Can you tell me more about it?

A lot of people in the world today have quite a strong attraction to Atlantis. There are two good books on this subject written by a man by the name of Frank Joseph.* One is The Destruction of Atlantis, and a couple of years later, he wrote The Survivors of Atlantis. He puts together all the different information available from geologic surveys, people who study myths, historians, astronomers, and archeologists.

He says that Plato got the date wrong for the final sinking of Atlantis. Plato put it at about eleven thousand to twelve thousand years ago. But what Plato didn’t know when he got the story from Solon, who got it from one of the Egyptian priests, was that the Egyptians had four different ways of reckoning time.

Plato was thinking in terms of the way we think of a solar year—three hundred sixty-five days or so. But the Egyptian priests had another way of looking at it where a year was about a month, which was a lunar year. And when you apply this time calculation to twelve thousand years, you come up with a date as recent as about 1200 BC for the actual sinking of Atlantis.

This was during the Bronze Age. And it fits. Eleven thousand or twelve thousand years ago, there would still have been Stone Age people. To suddenly have a big, strong empire with all the enormous buildings Plato spoke of would have been totally out of time and place then. Things don’t happen like that.

There’s a good argument for the sinking of Atlantis having occurred in 1198 BC. In fact, by different evidence gathered from astronomy, myths, and elsewhere, the author even narrows it down to November of that year.

There were four cataclysms in Atlantis. Three of them had happened over the previous several thousand years, and then came the final one around 1200 BC. The final one was also accompanied by a comet that had been going around the earth and getting closer and closer, so that people were literally scared to death.

The Atlanteans were much bigger than the indigenous people of any other lands. To some, they were giants. The Bible mentions something to this effect: “There were giants in the earth in those days.” That’s in Genesis.

Frank Joseph also points out that Atlantis wasn’t actually a continent. This land mass just west of the Pillars of Heracles, or Gibraltar as we know it today, was an island about the size of Portugal. It was a maritime nation, and the Atlanteans traveled widely. They went up by the British Isles (though the land masses were a little bit different then) and all the way to the Americas. They were widely traveled people. They went over toward the east also, and they came to Egypt. There’s a record in Ramses III’s victory temple of a battle that had been fought with the Sea People. The Egyptians had another name for them, but it equates to the Sea People.

It’s just a fascinating history. The Egyptians were defeated at first, time and again, but Ramses III was a very wise and clever general. Eventually he arranged it so his forces overcame the invading Atlanteans. The Egyptians asked, “Why did you come here?” And the Atlanteans said, “Because our homeland sank. We had to go somewhere.”

The Egyptians even drew pictures of what the Atlanteans looked like. You can’t really tell what dress they would have worn, because when they were captured, they were put into chains. After that, they were executed, and that was the end of it.

In Frank Joseph’s next book, The Survivors of Atlantis, the author makes a very compelling case as to why the Bronze Age had flourished during the time of Atlantis—how the Atlanteans were key players, and how there are mines in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that were worked at that time and which were abandoned at the time of the sinking of Atlantis.

It’s all a very intriguing story. And the reason people have such a strong affinity for Atlantis today is that so many of today’s people were Atlanteans.

* Use discretion in considering this author’s other titles. His works on Atlantis and Lemuria are well documented and support a compelling case. However, the author has been known for criminal behavior and extreme political views that Eᴄᴋᴀɴᴋᴀʀ completely rejects.

—Sri Harold Klemp

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Can you mention any reading material other than ECK books to help me spiritually?

I’d like to mention two books. I sometimes mention books or other sources of information that will help you spiritually. They may push the envelope of some of you into areas that you’re unwilling or uncomfortable to go. If you don’t want to go, don’t go. That’s how it is.

I think you will find these books very interesting. Both have been published recently. The first is Atlantis in the Amazon, by Richard Wingate.

Atlantis has been the stuff of legend ever since Plato wrote of it in Timaeus and Critias, about 360 BC. Plato wrote about it, and I believe it was an ancestor of his, Solon, who had gone to Egypt. There, Solon had met an Egyptian priest-historian who told him how the Greeks had been a great nation once. He went into quite some detail.

Mainline archaeologists who accept the idea that there was an Atlantis are in the minority today. These archaeologists are pretty much the way archaeologists were at the time of Heinrich Schliemann. He was a very successful German businessman in the middle of the 1800s. Then he sold his business; he had become a very wealthy man.

For years Schliemann had read accounts of Troy and all the poetry of Homer. He looked closely at what others had considered just the stuff of legend. Schliemann put together the clues and financed an expedition. He went looking for Troy. And he was one of those lucky archaeologists. He didn’t spend much time searching. He got there, and a short time later he found a site that turned out to be Troy. Troy then became the stuff of history. Maybe someday Atlantis will too.

The book Atlantis in the Amazon goes into a very fascinating look at signs of a colony that the Atlanteans may have established in South America. Wingate goes further and speaks of traces of Atlanteans in India. It’s a very wonderful book—a fascinating one. And for those of you who are interested in this sort of thing, I think you’ll enjoy it. Because once you get a handle on some of the events that took place there, I think this will help you out with your dream state—help you make sense of some of the dreams you’ve had where you were an actor back in a different time.

I’ve mentioned other books on Atlantis in the past and said the author got a lot of the points right. This book gets a lot of the points correct too. This is another take on Atlantis, and it’ll be fun, I think, for you to dig around and see how you do.

The second book is The Phoenix Lights. This is by a medical doctor, Lynne Kitei, and she writes about having seen UFOs, unidentified flying objects. She calls them something else, but they are UFOs.

On March 13, 1997, thousands of people across the state of Arizona saw a spectacle in the sky such as they’d never seen before. It was a mile-long, V-shaped formation of lights flying close to the ground.

Thousands of people reported this. They flooded the local police stations and the military with all kinds of calls.

The author photographed these lights over Phoenix. She makes a point that such sightings take place nearly daily around the world. And some of you have seen them, or think you’ve seen them. Some sightings are dismissed as merely swamp gas and the like.

But it’s funny—the media did offer coverage of the Phoenix lights, but not too much. They skimped on it. The military denied, debunked, and tried to explain away the sightings, as usual. I find it interesting that in Europe there is a more open attitude about UFOs. There they say frankly that we don’t know what they are.

There is a section in the book that gives a lot of statements by people. Jimmy Carter was one of the people who had seen UFOs. Statements by other important people also left open the possibility that there could very likely be people from another place.

Reagan, when he was speaking with Gorbachev, brought up a hypothetical situation at one of their meetings. He said something like, “You know, we’re sitting here squabbling about one little thing or another. How much more quickly would we draw together if we were faced by a threat from outer space?” It was just put out there as a hypothetical thing. And some people will say, Well, that’s not what he meant at all.

I think you’ll find this book can inform you about the great variety of consciousness all around us, because the book goes further than just UFOs. It goes into other states of consciousness, out-of-body experiences that people have, and other things. Just to stretch you a little bit.

—Sri Harold Klemp