Cayce on Atlantis: Bimini & Cuba?

About 700 of Cayce’s readings mentioned Atlantis. He stated the size of Atlantis (prior to disturbances in 50,000 B.C.) was similar to Europe combined with the portion of Asia considered to be part of Europe (Eurasia). Its position “was between the Gulf of Mexico on the one hand - and the Mediterranean upon the other.” Some islands were mentioned by Cayce as once being mountaintops or “protrusions” of Atlantis: The British West Indies or the Bahamas and Bimini.

In March 1927, a Cayce reading (996-12) referred to “adjacent lands to the west and south of the isles” (Bimini) as a portion of Atlantis that “will be uncovered.” Cuba lies to the west and south of Bimini and is between the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean.

According to Cayce, the first two destructions of Atlantis resulted in it becoming islands. The final catastrophe caused the major civilization centers of Atlantis to submerge as well as be subject to destructive forces. It isn’t suggested that Cuba was Atlantis. It is logical to assume that those fleeing prior to the final destruction would seek the highest ground and Cuba may well have been a place where some survivors went.

Overview of the Bimini Search

The Bimini Road consists of rows of stone blocks about a half-mile from Paradise Point in North Bimini. The longest row is about 1600 feet long. It has a J-shaped turn on one end. The blocks vary considerably in size and shape.

“And Poseidia will be among the first portions of Atlantis to rise again. Expect it in sixty-eight or sixty-nine [1968 or 1969].” (1940 Reading 958-3)

* In 1957 Joe Gouveia (an A.R.E. member and pilot) searched around Bimini and reported finding columns and blocks.

. * A team member of the 1957 expedition (Dr. William Bell) found a vertical column rising from the seafloor. He also found several stone slabs and a gear-like structure. David Zink’s book, The Stones of Atlantis, published some of these pictures.

. * In 1968 pilots Trigg Adams and Robert Brush spotted what appeared to be a building structure near Andros Island.

* Later in 1968, biologist J. Manson Valentine and Dimitri Rebikoff, discovered the “Bimini Road.” Valentine also reported that he found over 30 other sites with structures that appeared to be manmade.

* Valentine, Rebikoff. Adams, and Brush formed the Marine Archaeology Research Society (MARS) and tried to obtain permission to excavate the road.

* The owners of the shore at the “road site” were given control of the “road” and excluded the MARS team from having access to it.

* Numerous other amateurs visited and made wild claims.

* In 1971, an article in Nature by the Virginia Beach-based Geologist Wyman Harrison reported that the “road” was natural beach rock.

* In the early 1970s, a team (SEAS ­ Scientific Exploration and Archaeology Society) led by geologist John Gifford discovered another site called “Proctor’s Road” consisting of clumps of stone at intervals running in a straight line for a mile.

* In 1974, Dr. David Zink (an English professor at Lamar University) met J. Manson Valentine at Bimini and performed the first full survey at the Bimini Road.

* In Zink’s “Poseidia ‘75” expedition he assembled a dozen divers, archaeologists, and geologists to study the road. Zink concluded that, rather than a road, the site was a megalithic site. A 300-pound marble “head” sculpture was found along with a grooved building block.

* In 1976, Zink’s “Poseidia ‘76” expedition included zoologist Dr. Doug Richards. The Bimini Road was more accurately surveyed and mapped and magnetic anomalies were found.

* In 1977, the marble “head” was raised and a coring of the rocks was made. The results of the coring were inconclusive. The head may—or may not—have been a carving.

* In 1980, geologist Eugene Shinn and archaeologist Marshall McKusick published a report in Nature that the road was beach rock.

* In 1984, armed with satellite photos from Landsat 4, an A.R.E. team including Doug Richards, Marty Obando, and others were able to view possible sites from a plane. Subsequent on-site investigations from a boat were disappointing. A land excursion was also made with nothing of relative importance found.

* In 1989 an A.R.E. group led by Joan Hanley discovered a sand-formed “shark mound” in the middle of mangrove swamps on Bimini. The 500-foot long mound has yet to be excavated or professionally examined. Raymond Leigh had an infrared photo of the mound taken.

* In 1996 Doug Richards and Joan Hanley led an A.R.E. expedition to Bimini funded by Don Dickinson and the Law of One Foundation. Side sonar scanning was done in several areas around Bimini. A host of rectangular and anomalous features were found in deeper water. Dive time to inspect the anomalies was limited because of the depths. However, several members believed the features to be manmade.

* In 2002 the A.R.E. completed a 630 sq. km IKONOS satellite imaging project of the Bimini area.

* In March 2003, Greg and Lora Little flew over the largest circle found in the Bimini satellite project and obtained high resolution digital video the circle. Computer analysis revealed that the circle showed unusual characteristics.

* In April 2003 Greg and Lora Little visited several of the Bimini circles discovering that the smaller ones appeared to have been made by a "cookie cutter." These smaller circles had well-defined walls and a bottom with inner walls two to three-feet deep. The large circle was actually raised off the sea bottom about three feet with a well-defined outer wall.

Note: information above comes from Mysteries of Atlantis Revisited by Edgar Evans Cayce, Gail Cayce Schwartzer, and Douglas G. Richards. Other information and photos come from the A.R.E. bimonthly magazine, Venture Inward. All photos and text © by the A.R.E. or the authors. Reproduction is prohibited.