An Allegory of Faith and Atlantis

“Then they began to move. That is to say, they weren’t exactly moving, but against the black backdrop, stars, galaxies, and nebulae began to emerge with a sharpness and intensity of color and light that gradually increased. They felt they were traveling through space because the background was changing gradually, and distant objects were drawing closer. They bypassed others, leaving them behind. Alongside the sublime feeling of floating, which they gradually grew used to and came to love, there was a slight yet certain sense that their feet were on the floor of the room and that everything happening was a highly advanced form of virtual reality. Gradually, the four let go of their worries and doubts and lost themselves in the wonder of the experience. They sank into the magnificent reality, and soon could no longer discern the contours of the room. In their eyes they were truly floating in space, as if it was a tangible fact.”

Let us posit a scenario in which a highly advanced extraterrestrial civilization – one that embodies a flawless sociopolitical utopia – offers Earth’s inhabitants the opportunity to join its world and embrace its high ideals and alternative way of life. Our world, with all its mysteries and secrets, is intimately known to them, for they have monitored our progress since the end of the last Ice Age. How would humanity respond to such an offer? And what disastrous shift in our world would finally compel them to break their silence and reveal themselves, after 13,000 years of unwavering observation?

“This book is dedicated to the young in years and the young at heart—those who possess the power to repair what authoritative men, wise only in their own conceit, have corrupted throughout the generations.”