This is actually an important question spoken to throughout the ancient records whose outlines i could perceive but never take too seriously. However the case of intervention has become vastly more compelling although we have had to invent our own future ourselves. That intervention comes to us through a mathematica that was zero free. That appears to be our own unique invention that took off less than four centuries ago.
However it is also clear that all antique civilizations naturally waxed and waned for any number of reason. Their normal cycle appears to be about five centuries. None of this lasted long enough to be tied easily except randomly to climate and geology and bad luck.
So how do we treat the zodiac cycle? I suspect that we rotate around Sirius in a 24,000 year cycle. That does imply a warm period lasting centuries happening every 24,000 years. This is an interesting idea but may also be wrong in terms of the zodiac cycle. The Sirius cycle looks to be over 100,000 years old in terms of direct evidence...
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The Lost Cycle of Time - Part 1
http://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/lost-cycle-time-part-1-001494?nopaging=1
Ancient
cultures around the world spoke of a vast cycle of time with
alternating Dark and Golden Ages; Plato called it the Great Year. Most
of us were taught that this cycle was just a myth, a fairytale, if we
were taught anything about it all. But according to Giorgio de
Santillana, former professor of the history of science at MIT, many
ancient cultures believed consciousness and history were not linear but
cyclical, rising and falling over long periods of time. In their
landmark work, Hamlet’s Mill, de Santillana and coauthor Hertha
von Dechend, show that the myth and folklore of more than thirty
ancient cultures speak of a cycle of time with long periods of
enlightenment broken by dark ages of ignorance, indirectly driven by a
known astronomical phenomena, the precession of the equinox. This is
where it gets interesting.
We all know the two celestial motions that have a profound effect on life and consciousness. Diurnal motion,
Earth’s rotation on its axis, causes humans to move from a waking state
to a sleep state and back again every twenty-four hours. Our bodies
have adapted to Earth’s rotation so well that it produces these regular
changes in consciousness without our even thinking the process
remarkable. Earth’s revolution around the sun —the second
celestial motion, which Copernicus identified — has an equally
significant effect, prompting trillions of life forms to spring out of
the ground, to bloom, fruit, and then decay, while billions of other
species hibernate, spawn, or migrate en masse. Our visible world
literally springs to life, completely changes its color and stride, and
then reverses with every waxing and waning of the second celestial
motion.
The third celestial motion, the precession of the equinox,
is less understood than the first two, but if we are to believe ancient
cultures from around the world, its effect is equally transformative.
What disguises the impact of this motion is its timescale. Like the
mayfly, which lives but one day a year and knows nothing of the seasons,
the human being has an average life span that comprises only one-360th
of the roughly 24,000-year precessional cycle. And just as the mayfly
born on an overcast, windless day has no idea that there is anything as
splendid as sunshine or a breeze, so do we, born in an era of
materialistic rationality, have little awareness of a golden age or
higher states of consciousness – though that is the ancestral message.
As Giorgio and Hertha point out, the
idea of a great cycle linked to the slow precession of the equinox was
common to numerous cultures before the Christian era, but today we are
taught nothing about it. Yet an increasing body of astronomical and
archaeological evidence suggests the cycle may have a basis in fact.
More importantly, understanding its ebb and flow and the character of
each epoch provides insight into civilization’s direction. So far the
Ancients are right on; consciousness does seem to be expanding since the
depths of the dark ages, reflected as vast improvements throughout
society. So what drives these changes and what can we expect in the
future? Understanding the cause of precession is key.
Precession Observed
The observation of Earth’s three motions is quite simple. In the first, rotation,
we see the sun rise in the east and set in the west every twenty-four
hours. And if we were to look at the stars just once a day, we would see
a similar pattern over a year: the stars rise in the east and set in
the west. The twelve constellations of the zodiac — the ancient markers
of time that lie along the ecliptic, the sun’s path — pass
overhead at the rate of about one per month and return to the starting
point of our celestial observation at the end of the year. And if we
looked just once a year, say on the autumnal equinox, we would notice
the stars move retrograde (opposite to the first two motions) at the
rate of about one degree every seventy years. At this pace, the equinox
falls on a different constellation approximately once every 2,000 years,
taking about 24,000 years to complete its cycle through the twelve
constellations. This is called the precession (the backward motion) of the equinox relative to the fixed stars.
Precession of Earth's rotational axis due to the tidal force raised on Earth by the gravity of the Moon and Sun (Source: Wikipedia).
The standard theory of precession says
it is principally the Moon’s gravity acting upon the oblate Earth that
must be the cause of Earth’s changing orientation to inertial space,
a.k.a. “precession.” However, this theory was developed before
astronomers learned the solar system could move and has now been found
by the International Astronomical Union to be “inconsistent with
dynamical theory.” Ancient oriental astronomy teaches that an equinox
slowly moving or “precessing” through the zodiac’s twelve constellations
is simply due to the motion of the sun curving through space around
another star, which changes our viewpoint of the stars from Earth. At
the Binary Research Institute, we have modeled a moving solar system and
found it does indeed better produce the precession observable, while
resolving a number of solar system anomalies. This strongly suggests the
ancient explanation may be the most plausible, even though astronomers
have not yet discovered a companion star to Earth’s Sun.
[ the companion star happens to be Sirius. Except the time frames appear too large. The cycle of the Zodiac is 24000 years. That means we are presently far away and have made our turn and now speeding up on the way back. Yet it makes sense that we would now be traveling at a fifth of our average speed. Thus our real period could be 24000 years. - arclein ]
[ the companion star happens to be Sirius. Except the time frames appear too large. The cycle of the Zodiac is 24000 years. That means we are presently far away and have made our turn and now speeding up on the way back. Yet it makes sense that we would now be traveling at a fifth of our average speed. Thus our real period could be 24000 years. - arclein ]
Beyond the technical considerations, a
moving solar system appears to provide a logical reason why we might
have a Great Year, to use Plato’s term, with alternating dark and golden
ages. That is, if the solar system carrying the Earth actually moves in
a huge orbit, subjecting Earth to the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum of
another star or EM source along the way, and shaping the subtle
electrical and magnetic fields through which we move, we could expect
this to affect our magnetosphere, ionosphere, and very likely all life
in a pattern commensurate with that orbit. Just as Earth’s smaller
diurnal and annual motions produce the cycles of day and night and the
seasons of the year (both due to Earth’s changing position in relation
to the EM spectrum of the Sun), so might the larger celestial motion be
expected to produce a cycle that affects life and consciousness on a
grand scale.
Just recently NASA discovered (March
2014) that the earth’s rotation and motion through space rearranges the
electrons in the radiation belt into a zebra pattern! This was entirely
unexpected. It was always believed these particles were moving too
swiftly to be affected by the earth’s motion.
A hypothesis for how consciousness
might be affected by such a celestial cycle can be built on the work of
Dr. Valerie Hunt, a former professor of physiology at UCLA. In a number
of studies, she has found that changes in the ambient subtle electrical,
EM and magnetic fields (which surround us all the time) can
dramatically affect human cognition and performance. In short,
consciousness appears to be affected by subtle fields of light, or as
quantum physicist Dr. Amit Goswami might implies, “Consciousness prefers
light.” Consistent with myth and folklore, the concept behind the Great
Year or cyclical model of history is based on the Sun’s motion through
space, subjecting Earth to waxing and waning stellar fields (all stars
are huge generators of EM spectra) and resulting in the legendary rise
and fall of the ages over great epochs of time.
The Lost Cycle of Time: A Historical Perspective - Part 2
Current
theories of history generally ignore myth and folklore and do not
consider any macro external influences on consciousness. For the most
part, modern history theory teaches that consciousness (or history)
moves in a linear pattern from the primitive to the modern, with few
exceptions, and it includes the following tenets:
- Mankind evolved out of Africa
- People were hunter-gatherers until about 5,000 years ago
- Tribes first banded together for protection from other warring parties
- Written communication preceded large engineered structures or populous civilizations
The problem with this widely accepted
paradigm is that it is not consistent with the evolving interpretation
of recently discovered ancient cultures and anomalous artifacts. In the
last hundred years, major discoveries have been made in Mesopotamia, the
Indus Valley, South America, Turkey and many other regions that break
the rules of history theory and push back the time of advanced human
development. Specifically, they show that ancient peoples were, in many
ways, far more proficient and civilized nearly five thousand years ago
than they were during the more recent dark ages of just six hundred to a
thousand years ago. In Caral, an ancient complex of unknown origin on
the west coast of Peru, we find six pyramids that are carbon dated to
2700 BC, a date contemporaneous with Egyptian pyramids and that rivals
the time of the first major structures found in the so-called Cradle of
Civilization in Mesopotamia. Caral is an ocean away from the Cradle. We
find no evidence of writing or weaponry, two of the so-called
necessities of civilization, but we do find beautiful musical
instruments, astronomically aligned structures, and evidence of commerce
with distant lands (fabrics, seeds and shells not indigenous to the
area but no weapons)— all signs of a peaceful and prosperous culture.
Gobekli Tepe presents an even greater
challenge to conventional accounts of history. Dated to at least 9000
BC, this site in Turkey contains dramatic architecture, including carved
pillars of huge proportions. To find that something so large and
complex existed long before the dates accepted for the invention of
agriculture and pottery is an archaeological enigma. These sites defy
the standard historical paradigm. And what is stranger still is that so
many of these civilizations seemed to decline en masse. In ancient
Mesopotamia, Pakistan, Jiroft, and adjacent lands, we find knowledge of
astronomy, geometry, advanced building techniques, sophisticated
plumbing and water systems, incredible art, dyes and fabrics, surgery,
medicine, and many other refinements of a civilized culture which seem
to have emerged from nowhere and were completely lost over the next few
thousand years.
By the time of the worldwide dark ages,
every one of these civilizations, including the big ones in Egypt and
the Indus Valley, had largely turned to dust or nomadic ways of life.
Near the depths of the cyclic downturn, there were ruins and little
else, while the local populace knew nothing of the builders except
through legend. In some areas where larger populations still remained,
such as parts of Europe, poverty, plague, and disease were often
rampant, and the ability to read, write, or duplicate any of the earlier
engineering or scientific feats had essentially disappeared. What
happened?
While records of this period remain
spotty, the archeological evidence indicates that consciousness,
reflected as human ingenuity and capability, was greatly diminished.
Humanity seemed to have lost the ability to do the things it used to do.
Interestingly, this is just what many ancient cultures predicted.
Stefan Maul, the world’s foremost Assyrianologist, shed light on this
phenomenon in his 1997 Stanford
Presidential Lectures series. He tells
us that the Akkadians knew they lived in a declining era. They revered
the past as a higher time and tried to hang on to it, but at the same
time, they predicted and lamented the dark ages that would follow. His
etymological studies of cuneiform tablets show the ancient words for
“past” have now become our words for “future” and the ancient words for
“future” have become our words for “past.” It is almost as if humanity
orients its motion through time depending on whether it is going toward
or away from a golden age.
This principle of waxing and waning
epochs is depicted in numerous bas-reliefs found in ancient Mithraic
“mystery school” temples. The famed Tauroctany, or bull-slaying scene,
is usually surrounded by two boys, Cautes and Cautopetes. One holds a
torch up on the ascending side of the zodiac, indicating a time of
increasing light, and the other holds a torch down on the descending
side of the zodiac, indicating a time of darkness. These are further
broken into ages, which the Greeks deemed, “Iron, Bronze, Silver and
Gold”, a simple way to describe the epochs of the Great Year.
The Tauroctony from Sterzing in the Tyrol (colour is modern). Image source.
Jarred Diamond, well-known historian-anthropologist and author of Guns, Germs and Steel, makes a good case that it is primarily local geographic and environmental advantages that determine which group of humans succeeds or fails versus another. Those that have the steel, guns, and bad germs win. Although this helps to explain many regional differences of the last few thousand years, it does not address the macro trends that seem to have affected all cultures, including China and the Americas, as they collectively slipped into the last worldwide dark age. The cyclical Great Year model overlays and augments Diamond’s observations with a reason for the widespread downturn. It implies that it is not only the geography and environment on Earth that determines a people’s relative success but also the geography and environment of Earth in space that affects humanity on a macroscopic scale. Just as small celestial motions dramatically affect life over the short term, so it appears that large celestial motions color life over the long term, resulting in the seasons of a Great Year.
Understanding that consciousness may
indeed rise and fall with the motions of the heavens gives meaning to
ancient myth and folklore and puts anomalous cultures and artifacts,
such as the Antikythera device and the Babylon battery, into a
historical context that makes sense. For example, the battery was
developed at least 2000 years ago, lost in the dark ages, then
reinvented by Volta in the post renaissance period. The same thing goes
for prosthetic devices, brain surgery, and knowledge of a heliocentric
system and advanced engineering, etc. They were discovered, lost, then
rediscovered. It also speaks to why so many ancient cultures appear to
have been fascinated with the stars and provides us with a workable
paradigm in which to understand history. It could also help us identify
the forces that propelled the Renaissance and that may be accelerating
consciousness in our current era. Myth and folklore, the scientific
language of yore, provide a deeper look at consciousness throughout the
ages.
The Lost Cycle of Time: An Ancient Look at the Future - Part 3
The
Greek historian Hesiod spoke of the wonderful nature of the last golden
age, when “peace and plenty” abounded. The ancient Maya and Hopi used
names such as “worlds” and “suns” and numbered them to identify specific
epochs with the Hopi myths telling us of cities at the bottom of the
sea. It wasn’t just the Greeks and Mesoamericans that broke the great
cycle into an ascending and descending phases, with four periods each.
According to Vedic scriptures, when the autumnal equinox moves from
Virgo to Aries, humanity moves through the ascending Kali, Dwapara,
Treta, and Satya yugas, or eons, before slowly declining in
reverse order as the equinox completes its journey (the Satya Yuga marks
a golden era). These periods correspond neatly with the Greeks and
early Mediterranean civilizations.
Whatever language is used, the concept is the same. In his book, The Holy Science
(1894), Sri Yukteswar explains that when our solar system is at a point
farthest from its companion star, humanity’s consciousness is at its
lowest point (which last occurred around 500 AD), and when the sun is at
its closest point (which next occurs in 12,500 AD), consciousness
reaches its highest point in this cycle. These celestial points are
located at the intersection of the autumnal equinox sun and one of the
zodiac’s twelve constellations – the celestial clock. When the AE sun is
in Aries, which is almost always placed in the twelve o’clock position
of the zodiac, the Earth is in the best possible stellar environment,
making it easy for many people to experience an awakened state of
consciousness. When the AE sun is in the constellation Libra, conditions
are at their worst, and a dark age, a period of deluded consciousness,
prevails.
Please note that we are not saying the
stars or constellations cause the changes, or giving any credence to
horror-scope astrology. Rather we are pointing out that we can tell
where we are in the Great Year by using the stars as a celestial clock.
In fact we can do the same with the seasons. When Orion is high in the
evening sky we know it is winter. Orion does not cause winter but if we
just woke from a coma we could look at the sky, and with just a bit of
knowledge, determine exactly where we are in the earth’s revolution.
Presently, we are just a few hundred
years into the ascending age, crossing over from what the Greeks would
call the Age of Man (Iron) to the Age of the Hero (Bronze) – yet still
very far from the Age of the Demigods (Silver) and the Age of the Gods
(Gold), which are utterly inconceivable to us at this time.
Caption: The two equinoxes act as markers on the face of the celestial clock. The ancients used the autumnal equinox (AE) as the hour hand of the ages, with 500 AD as the low point. The renaissance represents the awakening from the Kali Yuga (Iron Age) to the Dwapara Yuga (Bronze Age). That process is now quickening at an exponential rate, akin to the Sun casting more light as it rises above the horizon.
According to Eastern teachings it means
we are now awakening from a time when individual consciousness
perceived itself as purely a physical form, living in a strictly
physical universe, to a time when we begin to see ourselves and the
universe as more transparent and mostly made up of subtle energy. This
began with the discoveries of the Renaissance (principles of
electricity, laws of gravitation, microscopes, telescopes, and other
inventions that expanded our awareness) and has accelerated since with
the emergence of quantum physics, which shows us that matter and energy,
are interchangeable and proves Einstein’s concepts that even time and
space are relative. In short, we are back on the upswing, just beginning
to “remember” ourselves as pure consciousness living in a world of
undreamed of possibilities.
According to Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi,
by the year 4100 AD (when we cross into the Treta Yuga proper, a.k.a.
the silver age), “telepathy and clairvoyance will once again be common
knowledge.” It may seem far-fetched, but according to myth and folklore,
there was such a time on Earth before, in about 3100 BC, the last Treta
Yuga. Some pre-Dark Age stories, such as Genesis, would designate the
Treta Yuga the pre-Babel age, when mankind communed freely with nature
before God “confused the tongues.”
People often forget what the world was
like just five or six hundred years ago, when every nation was at war,
plagues and poverty decimated large populations, lifespans were half
what they are today, individual rights were nonexistent, and justice was
doled out through torture, inquisition, or burning at the stake. Yes,
the world still has problems, but consciousness and awareness are
expanding rapidly, manifesting in many ways; in the U.S. alone, millions
of people are meditating, doing yoga, and using “nontraditional”
healing practices to maintain their well being. From the perspective of
technology, many believe we are now approaching the “point of
singularity” Ray Kurzweil explored in his book The Singularity Is Near
– an acceleration of intelligence which will blur the distinction
between man and machine. But it is so much more. Can there be any doubt
that improvements across all areas of society over the next five hundred
years will be off the charts compared to those of the last five
hundred?
Some advocates and astronomers use the
vernal equinox (VE), which is now in Pisces at the “dawning of the age
of Aquarius,” to tell precessional time. Thus, there is a kernel of
truth in the popular 1960s song “Aquarius.” Other cultures used the
solstices, which would be a line drawn perpendicular to that of the
equinoxes. Presently, the winter solstice intersects the Galactic Center
in Sagittarius. Because this happens in the precessional cycle within
just a decade on either side of 2012 (the Mayan calendar end date),
Mesoamerican scholar John Major Jenkins believes this culture used it to
delineate a “new time,” such as a quickening or spring in a Great Year.
Whatever solar marker is used (equinox or solstice), the celestial
clock is a simple way to tell time within a Great Year, and right now
all hands point to a brightening of consciousness. The importance of the
precessional clock can be seen in the system of time we use to this
day: 24 hours in a day, with 12 hours of ascending light, a.m., and 12
hours of descending light, p.m. It is a perfect microcosm of a Great
Year, with its 24,000 years, 12,000 ascending and 12,000 descending.
The cycles referenced in the Vedic scriptures (Source)
A New Spring
A deeper message than telling time in a
Great Year is recognizing that there is a grand cycle to life that
affects us all. Having lost this knowledge, we are a society that has
lost an understanding of its place in cosmic history. Like an individual
with amnesia, we forgot our past and therefore harbor a deep angst
about the future. But when we remember our rich and beautiful history,
we rediscover our incredible potential and begin to see and act with
clarity. The current time is akin to the last days of winter — things
are thawing out. Personally, I am very optimistic about the future. Of
course, all the flowers do not bloom on spring’s first day; nonetheless,
understanding our place in the Great Year assures us that it could soon
be brighter and more beautiful than we have dared to imagine. Our
ancestors tell us so.
Featured Image: A celestial clock found in Cathédral St. Jean in Lyon (14th century). Photo credit: Alex Quici
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