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Summary: FASCINATING
Review: "The Great Year" presents its theory progressively and rationally, and resonated with me from the beginning as scientific truth. Competently resolving quite a few enigmas, this important message is unfortunately decades ahead of its time; but such is normal in the realm of scientific progress. "The Great Year" deserves a large audience of openminded thinkers. In time these views will gain wide acceptance. I feel grateful that it came out in my lifetime.
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Summary: FASCINATING
Review: "The Great Year" presents its theory progressively and rationally, and resonated with me from the beginning as scientific truth. Competently resolving quite a few enigmas, this important message is unfortunately decades ahead of its time; but such is normal in the realm of scientific progress. "The Great Year" deserves a large audience of openminded thinkers. In time these views will gain wide acceptance. I feel grateful that it came out in my lifetime.
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Summary: A great explanation!
Review: I finally understand the Yuga Cycle! I had read about it in many books, including "The Holy Science" by Swami Sri Yukteswar. Somehow, just reading about it wasn't enough. The computer animation that accompanied the explanations really made it all come together in my mind. I can visualize what the Precession of the Equinox actually looks like. I highly recommend this DVD for anyone interested in a deeper understanding of the Yuga Cycle.
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Summary: A great explanation!
Review: I finally understand the Yuga Cycle! I had read about it in many books, including "The Holy Science" by Swami Sri Yukteswar. Somehow, just reading about it wasn't enough. The computer animation that accompanied the explanations really made it all come together in my mind. I can visualize what the Precession of the Equinox actually looks like. I highly recommend this DVD for anyone interested in a deeper understanding of the Yuga Cycle.
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Summary: A mesmerizing film that challenges the establishment
Review: The Great Year is an engaging film that provokes one to think about time and our being in a grand scale rather than from a myopic perspective. It is beautifully produced film that helps us rediscover a great cycle of time that spans thousands of years and its affect on human consciousness. The best hour I have every spent! This documentary offers an elegant solution to observed phenomenon that had been clumsily "explained" by modern scientists who have been unwitting slaves to flawed axioms and theories. Embedded in the films celestial truth is the connection between the movement of the stars and our human history. The Great Year is for those who are unafraid of putting aside hubris and opening their minds to the possibility that the ages bring forth human advancement and decline in cycles! James Earl Jones magnificent voice rivets one attention to all the fascinating thoughts this pictures evokes. You'll watch it over and over...
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Summary: A mesmerizing film that challenges the establishment
Review: The Great Year is an engaging film that provokes one to think about time and our being in a grand scale rather than from a myopic perspective. It is beautifully produced film that helps us rediscover a great cycle of time that spans thousands of years and its affect on human consciousness. The best hour I have every spent! This documentary offers an elegant solution to observed phenomenon that had been clumsily "explained" by modern scientists who have been unwitting slaves to flawed axioms and theories. Embedded in the films celestial truth is the connection between the movement of the stars and our human history. The Great Year is for those who are unafraid of putting aside hubris and opening their minds to the possibility that the ages bring forth human advancement and decline in cycles! James Earl Jones magnificent voice rivets one attention to all the fascinating thoughts this pictures evokes. You'll watch it over and over...
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Summary: A Great Film
Review: There have been a number of books published that try to explain why ancient civilizations show evidence of advanced technology and remarkable achievement. Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, John Anthony West, David Hatcher Childress, Eric von Daniken and Zacharia Sitchin have come up with various theories from Alantis to Aliens to explain what most traditional scientists call these "anomalies" in the archaeological record. The Great Year adds another dimension to the discussion by pointing out that the number one myth of ancient cultures: "civilizations rise and fall with the precession of the equinox (Ages of Man) in a great year cycle", is not just a coincidental fabrication of multiple cultures but an actual phenomenon due to our Sun's binary motion around a companion star! They point out that the current theory of precession has significant flaws and that a better explanation is the ancient Sumerian and Mythraic answer: our Sun is gravitationally bound to a nearby star and this motion drives the planet through periodic Golden Ages and Dark Ages based on the 24,000 year cycle of precession. It is a novel but ancient answer to the main question behind the alternative science movement: how much did the ancients really know? This film shows how the Vedic cycle of the Yugas, Mayan concept of "suns", and the Greek notion of Iron, Bronze, Silver and Golden Ages (Plato's great year) is one and the same - a great clock, all based on the motion of the stars. With narration by James Earl Jones, interviews with experts in history and astronomy, and some very cool animation, this is a compelling film. The Great Year is a great film.
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Summary: THUMBS UP
Review: This is science; it is an entertaining and well-researched story, very satisfying. The presentation is mind-expanding. Alas, one needs a mind to begin with in order to benefit from this compelling message. "The Great Year" is highly recommended.
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Summary: Absolute rubbish in the service of Mammon
Review: This program mixes a number of interesting historical facts with absolute rubbish based on dubious theories, past and present. It makes absolutely no effort to distinguish between what is known to be true, and what might or might not be true. Instead, it relies on the all too human desire to believe in the unbelievable, simply because it is more fascinating than what we already know to be true, and uses that desire to promote a theory to which no reputable scientist gives even the smallest iota of credence. Most specifically, the program resurrects a completely discredited theory that there is a binary companion to the Sun which is in some way responsible for a portion of the precession of the Earth's axis of rotation. THIS SUPPOSED COMPANION ABSOLUTELY CANNOT EXIST! The gravitational effects which cause our precession are an almost infinitesimally small portion of the overall effect of gravity, and if a binary companion to the Sun had enough of an effect on us to be in any way measurable, it would have far greater effects on the orbital motions of the planets -- effects which are NOT observed, and the lack of which absolutely proves the falsity of this theory. The only reality to this theory is that well-meaning people are deluded into wasting their time and money watching and buying this trash; which is, after all, all that the producers of such programs care about, in the first place.
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Summary: Corian Valsentres - you're an idiot....
Review: This was a WONDERFUL documentary that made total sense. Unfortunately, the world is full of negative fools such as your self who have a severe, limited understanding of science. I would recommend this DVD to anyone who is interested in learning more about the 24,000 cycle. You, my friend, are rubbish.
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