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Precessional Time and the Evolution of Consciousness: How Stories Create the World
by Heath, RichardISBN13:
9781594773631
ISBN10:
1594773637
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Paperback
Pub. Date:
6/23/2011
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Inner Traditions
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Summary
All of culture can be said to be made up of stories. In fact it is stories, more than language, tools, or intellect, that make us human. Our Neolithic and Megalithic ancestors recognized this and stored, within their mythic narratives, an understanding of how sky changes evoke changes in consciousness as human cultures progress through each Zodiacal Age of the precessional cycle. As we enter the Age of Aquarius, it is time to recognize the profound power of stories to give our world meaning.
Author Biography
Richard Heath is a web developer with degrees in systems science and computer-aided design. The author of Matrix of Creation: Sacred Geometry in the Realm of the Planets and Sacred Number and the Origins of Civilization, he lives in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Language and the Consciousness within Stories | p. 13 |
| The Story of Life | p. 13 |
| End of Another Ice Age | p. 15 |
| The Values of Togetherness | p. 16 |
| The Structure of Stories | p. 18 |
| Languages for Telling Good Stories | p. 21 |
| Directly Viewing Precessional Time | p. 22 |
| Symbols of Precessional Myth | p. 24 |
| Intermezzo: The Galaxy Marks Time | p. 33 |
| Measuring The Cosmos in Taurus | p. 38 |
| The Development of the Day-Inch | p. 38 |
| Studying the Lunar and Solar Years | p. 41 |
| The Meter and the Moon | p. 49 |
| The Effect of an Intelligible Cosmos | p. 51 |
| The Longer Cycles of the Moon | p. 54 |
| The Moon's Relationship to Precession | p. 56 |
| Numerical Symbols of Cosmic Time | p. 61 |
| Intermezzo: A Moon that Created Earth | p. 64 |
| God as Harmony in Aries | p. 68 |
| From Metrology to Music | p. 69 |
| The Journey into Harmonic Numbers | p. 74 |
| Climbing God's Mountain | p. 78 |
| The Harmonic Limit for Precession | p. 82 |
| The Advent of a Single God | p. 85 |
| An Equal-Tempered Zodiac | p. 87 |
| The Impact on History | p. 91 |
| Crisis of the Mind Machine in Pisces | p. 94 |
| Technology and the Sorcerer's Apprentice | p. 96 |
| The Man of Many Media | p. 99 |
| The Emerging Science of Storytelling | p. 101 |
| Gurdjieff's Law of Seven | p. 104 |
| The Russian Version | p. 105 |
| A Harmonic Cosmology | p. 110 |
| The Lateral Octave of Life | p. 112 |
| A Revised Law of Seven | p. 117 |
| The Moon Changed the Law | p. 120 |
| The Problem of Objective Evil | p. 122 |
| A Tone-Mandala for Heptaparaparshinokh | p. 123 |
| Intermezzo: Gurdjieff as Avatar | p. 126 |
| Multiculturalism and the End of Traditional Knowledge | p. 129 |
| Gurdjieff, the Cultural Doctor | p. 130 |
| The Subjective Effort of Learning | p. 132 |
| The Original Impulse | p. 133 |
| Making Something Our Own | p. 134 |
| Going Beyond Ourselves | p. 137 |
| Megalithic Origins of Gurdjieff's Laws | p. 141 |
| A New Type of Intelligence | p. 146 |
| Intermezzo: The Precessional Dance of Sun and Moon | p. 149 |
| Precession as an Engine of Cultural Change | p. 152 |
| The Life of Impressions | p. 153 |
| Man Cannot Do without Innovation | p. 155 |
| The Arising of Form | p. 156 |
| Evolution from Below | p. 159 |
| Transforming Energies through Tasks | p. 162 |
| A Worldview for Precession | p. 166 |
| The Science of Structural Work | p. 170 |
| Epilogue: The Genius of Creation | p. 173 |
| Notes | p. 187 |
| Bibliography | p. 190 |
| Index | p. 192 |
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