Story of Lemuria
Lemuria is the name of a fabled ancient civilization believed to have sunk beneath the Pacific Ocean many thousands of years ago. The volcanos of Hawaii and other Polynesian islands are thought by some to be the tops of the ancient Lemurian mountains.
Lemuria is remembered as a civilization with a different kind of consciousness —much more centered upon the emotional and spiritual dimensions than is our mentally based modern world. This deeper connection with the emotional/spiritual domains correlates with the idea of the Garden of Eden, a paradisiacal place or state of being in which one felt in touch with the Divine and at one with our fellow beings, from the blades of grass to the animals to our human family. There is a sense of innocence and an almost instinctual level of awareness that characterize our impressions of both Eden and Lemuria. Some would say that Lemuria was the basis for the stories of the Garden of Eden.
A catastrophe, occurring on both inner and outer levels, befell the Lemurian people and their level of consciousness, and humanity ‘fell from grace.’ The Atlantean world is seen as one in which the attempt was made to ascend once more to the level of the Divine, this time using the powers of mind and invention. What Atlantean awareness lacked was the heart connection with Spirit and the deep emotional centering it evoked. Though psychic and paranormal abilities in Atlantis were strong, without the inner knowing of the heart’s truth, the Atlanteans are said to have brought about their own doom.
Our time and culture offer us a unique choice. Although we, like the Atlanteans, tend to rely too heavily upon the mind and technology, there are many who have learned to connect with and trust the intuitive, emotional knowings of our souls and Spirit. To reach the next rung on evolution’s ladder and to save ourselves from yet another catastrophic ‘fall,’ we must learn to fully experience and integrate both the emotional/intuitive and the rational/mental aspects of ourselves and reach with all our intensity for the connection with Spirit.
– Book of Stones