Is Lemuria Calling You?

Written By Sarah Read
 

“You have been here before. You know the way back. In the quiet spaces between mythos and memory, Lemuria is beckoning.”

JULY 2025

 

The Legacy of Lemuria: Earth’s Forgotten Garden of Light

There are whispers in the wind and echoes in our DNA—faint traces of a time before time, when humanity lived in harmony with the Earth, with spirit, and with each other. Before Atlantis rose in all its grandeur, before Babylon and Rome laid their bricks of empire, there was Lemuria: a civilisation not built on power or conquest, but on unity, intuition, and deep spiritual knowledge.

The story of Lemuria is older than history, yet it does not come to us through archaeology or textbooks. Instead, it arrives as a sacred whisper from esoteric teachings, indigenous traditions, channelled wisdom, and the dreams of mystics. The name “Lemuria” was first coined in the 19th century by zoologists searching to explain the distribution of lemurs across Madagascar, India, and Southeast Asia. The missing landmass they proposed would later become a symbol of a forgotten paradise—a vanished continent once believed to stretch across the Pacific or Indian Ocean.

But what was Lemuria? According to various spiritual traditions and metaphysical scholars, Lemuria was more than just a land—it was a state of consciousness. A civilisation said to have flourished tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years ago, Lemuria is often portrayed as the Earth’s first great experiment in unity consciousness.

A Civilisation of Heart, Harmony, and Healing

While modern civilisations are built on logic, hierarchy, and control, Lemuria is said to have embodied the sacred feminine—the intuitive, nurturing, and heart-led way of being. The Lemurians were believed to be highly evolved beings, deeply connected to nature, the cosmos, and their inner multidimensionality. Their society was not focused on material wealth or technological advancement, but on spiritual expansion, energetic healing, and communal harmony.

According to clairvoyants and mystics like Edgar Cayce, Rudolf Steiner, and more recently, channellers like Drunvalo Melchizedek and Sri Ram Kaa & Kira Raa, Lemurians were telepathic, empathetic, and operated from the heart chakra. Their technologies were not mechanical but crystalline based on vibration, resonance, and light. Their spiritual sciences allowed them to live in alignment with the Earth’s energies and to maintain balance within themselves and their environment.

Where Lemuria thrived, forests were lush, waters clear, and animals lived alongside humans in mutual respect. They were said to be guardians of sacred Earth knowledge—aware of the planetary grids, ley lines, and the crystalline consciousness of Gaia herself.

Where Was Lemuria?

The exact location of Lemuria has been a topic of debate and mystic interpretation for over a century. Some place it in the Indian Ocean, stretching from Madagascar to India. Others locate it in the Pacific, extending from modern-day Hawaii to Easter Island and even parts of Australia and New Zealand.

Ancient traditions from Indigenous Australia, Polynesia, and even the Andes, speak of ancestral lands that sank beneath the sea , lands that closely echo the mythos of Lemuria. The Hawaiian word “Mu” refers to an ancient motherland, and Aboriginal Dreamtime and Polynesian stories speak of a land called “Mu” or “Moo” where the first people lived in divine harmony. These oral histories, passed down through generations, may hold fragments of truth lost to modern memory.

Lemuria vs Atlantis: Two Paths, Two Lessons

Lemuria and Atlantis are often seen as twin souls—two great civilisations that rose and fell in ancient prehistory, but with fundamentally different orientations. Where Lemuria represents the heart, Atlantis symbolises the mind. Lemuria’s gift was spiritual wisdom and unity; Atlantis’s was technological brilliance and analytical prowess.

Atlantis is typically portrayed as more hierarchical and driven by innovation, crystal technology, and structured knowledge. While Lemurians sought harmony with nature, Atlanteans, according to many channelled accounts, sought to control it. Some stories suggest that Atlantis, in its quest for domination and scientific control, even sought to manipulate natural energies in ways that ultimately led to its downfall.

In contrast, Lemuria is believed to have lived in peaceful coexistence for eons—until Earth’s shifting energies, or perhaps a series of cataclysmic events, caused their lands to sink. Some accounts suggest a conflict or divergence between the two civilisations, a karmic split between heart and mind that still echoes within humanity today.

What Happened to Lemuria?

Lemuria’s fall is wrapped in the same fog that obscures its rise. Theories abound: rising sea levels from shifting poles, tectonic upheaval, cosmic cycles, or even the misuse of energetic technologies. One spiritual teaching suggests that as the Earth moved into denser frequencies during a cosmic cycle of involution, the Lemurians—high-frequency beings—could no longer remain in the physical form they once inhabited.

Some Lemurians are said to have ascended into higher dimensions, continuing their existence in the inner planes or the spiritual realms. Others are believed to have migrated to what would become Mount Shasta in California, a place often considered a portal or remnant of Lemurian energy. There are tales of Telos, a subterranean Lemurian city beneath Mount Shasta, where these ancient beings continue to live, guiding humanity’s spiritual evolution from behind the veil.

Still others believe Lemurian souls reincarnated into various Earth cultures—bringing their wisdom into the temples of Egypt, the healing practices of India, the mysticism of the Andes, and the ceremonies of the Pacific Islands.

Lemuria’s Legacy in Today’s World

Whether Lemuria is a literal lost continent or an allegory for a forgotten way of being, its message is deeply relevant for our times. In a world increasingly driven by technology, disconnection, and linear thinking, the Lemurian way calls us back to the heart—to unity, intuition, and a reverence for life.

The rise and fall of Lemuria can be seen as a cycle we are destined to repeat—or rewrite. As we face global ecological crises, social fragmentation, and spiritual hunger, the Lemurian memory whispers to us.. You’ve been here before. You know the way back.

Crystals, sound healing, energy medicine, nature-based spirituality, and the resurgence of divine feminine wisdom—all echo the Lemurian path. These are not new age trends; they are ancient truths reawakening in the collective field.

The Lemurian frequency lives on in those who feel the pull toward sacred earth practices, who dream of watery temples and crystalline cities, and who walk softly, listening for the pulse of Gaia beneath their feet.

Musing In Summary

Perhaps the greatest truth of Lemuria is this: It’s not just a place that once was. It is a vibration, a state of being that lives within each of us. When we choose compassion over judgment, presence over distraction, and connection over separation—we awaken the Lemurian within.

When we honour the Earth as sacred, treat our bodies as temples, and view all life as interconnected—we begin to live in the Lemurian way once more. And when we gather in conscious community, attune ourselves to the cycles of life, and open our hearts to higher wisdom—we remember.

In remembering Lemuria, we remember who we were, who we are, and who we are becoming. Let the memory inspire your path—through heart, harmony, and through the healing of all that has been lost.

May it awaken within you the wisdom of the Earth, and light up your soul.

“May it awaken within you the wisdom of the Earth, and light up your soul.”

 
Sarah Read
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