Digging for grandeur

Atlantis is one of those mythical, bigger-than-life, legends perpetuated into eternity because the people there were so advanced for their time that when it disappeared, the world lapsed back into darkness.  Something like that happened when the Roman Empire disappeared and the "Dark Ages" followed.  But the Roman Empire, as large and influential as it was, was not the stupendous, advanced place that Atlantis was.  It had knowledge of the universe that the Romans never gained.  But, myths are made of such stuff.

Troy also was a legendary city that hosted the fight of the millennium for an entire decade, then was burned to make it disappear for all time.  That was the myth anyway.  But Heinrich Schliemann found the Troy written about by Homer, and myth turned to reality in a heartbeat.  All the fictional characters suddenly became real.  Myth was founded on truth and reality.

Archaeologists have been digging around for years for the lost city of Atlantis.  Plato is the ancient philosopher who has perpetuated the myth.  He wrote, as Homer did, about a city that had been lost to history but that lived through literature.  What if Atlantis could share the same luck as Troy and "get discovered?"  Enter Richard Freund of the University of Hartford.  One day while viewing satellite photos of the coast off of Spain in 2009, he found anomalies in shapes that reminded him of the description of Atlantis in Plato's writings.  Could it be?

Over the last three years, Freund and others whom he asked to join his team have uncovered a number of indications that Atlantis had really been discovered.  The last word is not in, but how exciting it will be to find the city of the legend and myth.  And who knows but that some of the world's secrets, known so early on, will be revealed.  Exciting, exciting!

Tapping our oft-buried attributes of grandeur is hard.  It takes work... and faith that those attributes will surface... and hope that those attributes will illuminate what is possible for us.