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Summary: Very good stuff
Review: Thought-provoking, to put it mildly. A good combo of sciences including history, geology, archeology and astronomy. Fascinating because the story could be the stuff of hokum, but the information appears to come from solid scientific enquiry. And the lovely voice of James Earl Jones is always welcome.JD
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Summary: Awesome revelations in The Great Year
Review: Went to a movie last night called "The Great Year," a new documentary about the prehistoric stoneworks that are found all over the world. Some open-minded researchers have finally realized all those ancient monuments are not just fancy graves, but an intricate system laid out across the planet to reflect the 'procession of the equinoxes,' a phenomenon science has never quite figured out. Current thought is that the earth's axis wobbles because of the moon's gravitational pull, thereby causing a different astrological sign to be prevalent during different epochs. (age of Pisces, Aquarius, etc.) That explanation, however, doesn't actually work out on computer models. By finally putting all the pieces together, these archeologists now believe that the ancients were trying to tell us not to forget that we are part of a binary star system, and that our sun is on an elliptical trajectory that drags all the planets with it, creating the processional effect. This binary sun theory makes all kinds of cosmic equations suddenly fall into place, and also explains lots of celestial mechanics that have been eluding us And it appears that as we approach the midpoint in our sun's orbit around it's mate, all kind of things will begin to happen in our little neighborhood (time speeds up, gravitational force changes, comets veer off course, etc...). Great graphics made this whole concept very easy to grasp and it was amazing to see how quickly everything fell into place once you applied this model. The movie, narrated by James Earl Jones (love that voice!) also showed how this 'great cycle' possibly relates to the rise and fall of civilizations, because of the mounting evidence that there is a direct connection between this procession and our state of spiritual development. The Great Year is laid out as a huge 2400 year cycle, and is consistent in Mayan astronomy, the Vedic scriptures, Chinese astrology and Egyptian hieroglyphs, just to name a few. They showed how many myths directly relate to this procession, from the bull worship cults (the end of Taurus) to the flood stories (the beginning of Pisces) that pop up in every culture. The theory goes that we have a long Golden Age where we understand the whole cosmic scheme, then we begin a descent into darkness (Silver age) where we forget everything and fall into materialism and superstition (Bronze age). Then we slowly begin to figure out the bigger picture as we move back up into another Silver age. According to this system, we entered this final "silver age" during the renaissance and have been busy relearning our basic cosmic lessons ever since (like the fact that the world isn't flat and we aren't the center of the universe and that Columbus didn't discover America). And just to make sure we don't have to figure it all out again from scratch, the last golden age, which ended 9,500 years ago, left us a permanent world wide calendar system just to explain this phenomenon (awfully thoughtful of them, don't you think?). Once we get the gist of how it works, we might be able to predict future events mathematically, like the Mayans.
SO, that's certainly food for thought, and puts a whole new light on the cyclic nature of mankind's evolution, dashing Darwin's linear theory in the process. It does mean that things just get better from here, and the last vestiges of our descent into darkness are destined to fall away as we approach our rendezvous with our other sun. Of course, they haven't managed to find out which star that might be yet, but they're looking, at least. They've also discovered that lone solar systems are almost non-existent in our galaxy...almost every star has at least one mate...it's like a ballroom dance when they set the model in motion. Also goes back to what the Templars were trying to tell us, that everything is a duality, that monotheism is too limited as a cosmological concept. This non-linear aspect of development and our participation in the dance of the universe is blowing away the old paradigm of our lonely little solar system stuck out in the backwaters of the galaxy. It's pretty clear that we've got some serious re-thinking to do about our ideas of history, time and our place in the cosmic merry-go-round!
Rating:
Summary: Awesome revelations in The Great Year
Review: Went to a movie last night called "The Great Year," a new documentary about the prehistoric stoneworks that are found all over the world. Some open-minded researchers have finally realized all those ancient monuments are not just fancy graves, but an intricate system laid out across the planet to reflect the 'procession of the equinoxes,' a phenomenon science has never quite figured out. Current thought is that the earth's axis wobbles because of the moon's gravitational pull, thereby causing a different astrological sign to be prevalent during different epochs. (age of Pisces, Aquarius, etc.) That explanation, however, doesn't actually work out on computer models. By finally putting all the pieces together, these archeologists now believe that the ancients were trying to tell us not to forget that we are part of a binary star system, and that our sun is on an elliptical trajectory that drags all the planets with it, creating the processional effect. This binary sun theory makes all kinds of cosmic equations suddenly fall into place, and also explains lots of celestial mechanics that have been eluding us And it appears that as we approach the midpoint in our sun's orbit around it's mate, all kind of things will begin to happen in our little neighborhood (time speeds up, gravitational force changes, comets veer off course, etc...). Great graphics made this whole concept very easy to grasp and it was amazing to see how quickly everything fell into place once you applied this model. The movie, narrated by James Earl Jones (love that voice!) also showed how this 'great cycle' possibly relates to the rise and fall of civilizations, because of the mounting evidence that there is a direct connection between this procession and our state of spiritual development. The Great Year is laid out as a huge 2400 year cycle, and is consistent in Mayan astronomy, the Vedic scriptures, Chinese astrology and Egyptian hieroglyphs, just to name a few. They showed how many myths directly relate to this procession, from the bull worship cults (the end of Taurus) to the flood stories (the beginning of Pisces) that pop up in every culture. The theory goes that we have a long Golden Age where we understand the whole cosmic scheme, then we begin a descent into darkness (Silver age) where we forget everything and fall into materialism and superstition (Bronze age). Then we slowly begin to figure out the bigger picture as we move back up into another Silver age. According to this system, we entered this final "silver age" during the renaissance and have been busy relearning our basic cosmic lessons ever since (like the fact that the world isn't flat and we aren't the center of the universe and that Columbus didn't discover America). And just to make sure we don't have to figure it all out again from scratch, the last golden age, which ended 9,500 years ago, left us a permanent world wide calendar system just to explain this phenomenon (awfully thoughtful of them, don't you think?). Once we get the gist of how it works, we might be able to predict future events mathematically, like the Mayans.
SO, that's certainly food for thought, and puts a whole new light on the cyclic nature of mankind's evolution, dashing Darwin's linear theory in the process. It does mean that things just get better from here, and the last vestiges of our descent into darkness are destined to fall away as we approach our rendezvous with our other sun. Of course, they haven't managed to find out which star that might be yet, but they're looking, at least. They've also discovered that lone solar systems are almost non-existent in our galaxy...almost every star has at least one mate...it's like a ballroom dance when they set the model in motion. Also goes back to what the Templars were trying to tell us, that everything is a duality, that monotheism is too limited as a cosmological concept. This non-linear aspect of development and our participation in the dance of the universe is blowing away the old paradigm of our lonely little solar system stuck out in the backwaters of the galaxy. It's pretty clear that we've got some serious re-thinking to do about our ideas of history, time and our place in the cosmic merry-go-round!
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