By: Walter Cruttenden Publisher: St. Lynn's Press Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Format: Illustrated Label: St. Lynn's Press Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 340 Publication Date: September 22, 2005
The myth and folklore of ancestral peoples around the world hints at a vast cycle of time, with alternating Dark and Golden Ages. Plato called it the Great Year. Long believed to be a fairytale, there is now new astronomical evidence to show it has a basis in fact. Moreover, because it is caused by the acceleration of our Sun around another star, we learn that the Earth should soon be carried into a region of space that will have a beneficial affect on our atmosphere, nudging mankind into a higher age of consciousness.
Lost Star of Myth and Time weaves together some of the latest archaeological evidence with cutting-edge astronomy to reveal a history of the world that finally fits with myth, folklore and the archaeological record. While this book explores some of the most interesting aspects of a once advanced civilization that covered the Earth, it is really about what happens to the Earth and consciousness as our solar system moves through space in the mysterious motion known as the "precession of the equinox". This astronomical phenomenon has since Newton been attributed to local gravitational forces wobbling the Earth s axis. Lost Star now shows us in no uncertain terms that the Earth s axis does not change orientation relative to objects inside the solar system at the same rate that it changes orientation to objects outside the solar system, meaning precession must be due to our Sun s binary motion around another star.
Chapter by chapter it becomes clear that ancient cultures knew of precession, used it as the clock of the ages, understood it to be due to the solar system s motion through space, and realized this subjects the Earth to a cycle of waxing and waning stellar influences. It is these forces that affect our magnetosphere, ionosphere and indirectly create the larger seasons of the Great Year. As you will see this not only gives cause for a major rethink of human history and potential, but indicates we are approaching a tipping point in the awakening of consciousness.
All 6 Billions? I may very well be wrong, but the impression I have come away with reading this book is that: If we all sit tight on our butts, humanity as a whole will ascend to the next height of our civilization on autopilot. As our twin star approaches ours in the endless cosmic dance, the sky will open and everything will take care of itself. Happy times are here again...
I respectfully disgaree with the author on this sanguine collective outlook. Our souls have different origins. We entered this planetary realm with varying levels of spiritual awareness. Should we expect the next stage of soul evolution be identical for all of humanity? All 6 BILLIONS of us?
PMS Yuga 3rd day of descending menstral cycle
Fascinating & amazing theory This book was so fascinating and based on factual theories! Very interesting and easy to read. I couldn't put it down!
A company star to our sun The author's idea that Earth's precession could be due to the gravity of a companion star to our sun is interesting. Indeed the laws of mechanics are not able to account for it. On the contrary, it is strange that such a companion has not been discovered yet, and Sirius, the author's proposal, seems a bvit to far away. Globally speaking, a book that makes one thing, and that is never a mistake.
compelling and makes a great deal of sense I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It has a simple hypothesis that explains many of the great mysteries of the ancients. It provides convincing evidence for the rise and fall of civilisations and bucks the well-known and rather arrogant view that our current civilisation is the most evolved.
Often the simplest explanations are the most likely to be true and this book is no exception. Our solar system orbits a companion star every 24000 years and hence moves Earth through increasing and decreasing solar activity that has profound effect on human awareness, growth and decline.
The beauty of the book is it's inclusion of many thought-provoking ideas on the purpose and creation of the thousands of megalithic structures found across the globe that today's engineers would be unable to reproduce.
welcome to the age of Aquarius...
An excellent companion to this book is 'The Secret History of the world - and how to get out alive" by Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Breathtaking Revelations About the Cycle of History With dread I expected to read the wild speculation of a sensationalist b-author. For the fun of it. What a surprise or rather what a shock to get a revelatory science based work which beats anything contentwise I have read so far! And I have "revealed myself" a lot via books and other sources.
This book is well structured. First it goes into the cyclical nature of human history instead of the modern Western proposed linear one, i.e. that progress in any way conceivable is made in cycles - or rather a spiral - than the steady build-up construct. Next, evidence is provided that this is based on a binary (or multiple) star system we live in, i.e. astronomical proof that our solar system is circling in connection with another. After that the search for the most likely candidate goes into full gear, including verification through ancient (obviously superior) knowledge. As I am a known critic of astrology, I was REALLY dreading to find out about the supposed reason, why on Earth the proximity to another sun is supposed to dramatically influence humanity. I was shocked next to find the reasoning very convincing. (Even though much more scientific research has to get done in that area.) The book closes with some notions of how the ancients attempted to counteract this cycle at the descending age as long as possible, until the inevitable scientific prophesy fulfilled itself. Plus some more advanced overstandings by the ancients, still unsolved today (2007) are provided.
This book really stunned me. A lot of previous bits of knowledge, usually not fully overstood, suddenly made perfect sense. I had read an entire (German) book before about the difference of Western thinking about linear history and basically anybody else's thinking in cycles. Quite frankly, before "Lost Star" I never really grasped the concept of what exactly is supposed to cycle. I had also informed myself on the ancients' concept of expecting an ever deteriorating future. Which remained alien to me as sick, as the other books never grasped the cyclical nature of that concept, i.e. that before the last "Golden Age" there was a lesser one and after the long (now retrospect) abyss, there will be an ascend once again. I had informed myself on the astronomical sources of the astrological and religious evolution of the age of the bull (Taurus) finishing and getting villified (by symbols etc.) in the process. Yet, none of the sources connected that with the very real cycle of history.
In other words, during the descending age, knowledge about the scientific reasons for all of that got lost and astrology emerged without full overstanding. Which is the same principle with ancient cartography getting copied and not overstood anymore (read Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age) and ancient measurements getting decadenced (read Civilization One: The World Is Not as You Thought It Was), two books I highly recommend to read in tandem with this one. Actually, "Lost Star" provides a lot of bibliograpyhy, referencing books which elaborate on many separated issues, without seeing the holistic picture yet. I ordered myself crazy, I couldn't help it.
"Lost Star of Myth and Time" takes the phenomenological approach, i.e. jumps right into the viewpoint of the ancients, which once and again turns out to be absolutely necessary to comprehend them. As such, a spiritual approach isn't neglected, though it isn't necessary to count oneself spiritual in order to follow this book. However, personally, I take the spiritual path and could appreciate the occasional revelation in that light, even though when not directly pointed out by the author. The Age of the Lion - and in fact the Age of Pisces - have impact for RastafarI symbols. As a Rasta, I got even challenged here and there, e.g. about the real worth of jewelry, which got utterly lost as sick in the mean-while.
There isn't an end to the search for reality and the author closes with some theories and speculations after all the science. Which is necessary to give a direction for further science projects. Even though such speculation usually turns out to be hilariously off the mark, without them, the path which leads to knowledge for the better would not have entered. Still, I have to say I am not quite sure what the author is insinuating by stating that odd archaelogical findings would suggest a high civilization on Earth 65 million and 600 million years ago in previous cycles. I am seriously concerned, what species exactly would have had to produce these items found in granite etc., as the author fails to mention that humans are considered to be 195,000 years young only. His numbers clearly leave the ape species, even the next related mammals in line. I suggest there are rather as of yet unknown reasons, why certain artefacts ended up in rock stratum millions of years old instead of thousands. But I shall forgive that brain storming...
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