Myths act as a framework for people to construct their identities. People can displace themselves in a nostalgic past by employing myths of lost continents like Atlantis and Lemuria. When Western science confronts these views, occult information is moved to less accessible forms, such as below ground or on the astral plane. Therefore, those not ready for spiritual information will not gain access and cannot refute claims of its existence.
Edens, utopias, and Golden Ages are often placed in the distant past, future, underground, or on other planets. The Golden Age is always nostalgic because if it were placed in the present, the occultists’ idealized place would lose legitimacy. Mythical memory disregards the present time in favor of the past, which is then reconstructed in the present.