Precessional Time and the Evolution of Consciousness

by Heath, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781594773631
• ISBN10: 1594773637
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-23
• Publisher: Inner Traditions

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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