Redeem the time; redeem the unread vision in the higher dream

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1 Redeem the time T.S. Eliot Redeem the time; redeem the unread vision in the higher dream T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday

2 The Dream of the Cosmos and planet The Dream of Earth the Cosmos Day One the Lunar Era Original Participation

3 Roi Rene the journey of the heart The Journey of the Heart

4 Chartres entire picture day time

5 Chartres West facade

6 Rose Window of Virgin 3 great mysteries

7 There are Three Great Mysteries Three great mysteries The Mystery of the Starry Cosmos The Mystery of Nature The Mystery of our Consciousness There are 3 great Mysteries

8 Vehicle for consciousness Our physical body the vehicle for cosmic consciousness has evolved out of the life of this planet over some four billion years. It has evolved Out of the Depths of the Cosmos Out of the Life of the Planet Out of our long experience as humans on this planet

9 The Great Epochs in the Evolution of Consciousness and our Emergence from Nature Great Epochs in the Evolution of Con. emergence from Nature 1. 2 million? to 10,000 BC: The Hunter-Gatherer Stage. From 50,000 BC the emergence of homo sapiens sapiens 2. 10,000 BC The Agrarian Stage: the beginning of settled communities, domestication of plants and animals, growth of population. In Phase 1 and 2 the focus was the Great Mother. 3. 2,500 BC: The rise of the Warrior Civilizations: expansion, conquest, exploration and discovery. Formation of huge empires; movement to cities. Worship of goddesses and gods; then the Great Father God of the three Patriarchal Religions AD: The rise of Science, Technology and the Industrial Era movement to cities. Increase in speed of communication. 5. The Electronic Era and the digital revolution. Huge cities and mass communications. Accelerating industrial and population expansion; domination of the Earth.

10 The Four Main Phases of Belief The Four Main Phases of Belief 1. The Lunar Era: The Great Mother of the Palaeolithic and Neolithic Eras. Spirit is both transcendent and immanent in the phenomenal world. The visible and invisible worlds are connected as they still are in shamanic societies today. 2. The Bronze Age and later: the worship of many goddesses Four Main Phases of Belief and gods who personified the archetypal powers of the invisible world and who are worshipped in India to this day.. 3. The Solar Era and the Iron Age: from 2500 BC. The Great Father God of the three Patriarchal Religions. The Separation of Spirit and Nature, Creator and Creation. The loss of divine immanence and the emphasis on collective belief. 4. The Present Secular Age of Scientific Rationalism: Spirit does not exist; there is no transcendent dimension of reality. Nature serves Man. Life is a competitive struggle for survival.

11 the Great Mother THE GREAT MOTHER matrix and container Cosmos self from 50,000 BC?

12 Lunar Experience Creation emerges from the Womb of the Great Mother worshipped as the Ruler of the Sky, the Earth and the Underworld Life is an organic, living and sacred whole. All forms of life participate in the Web of Life that is the Life of the Great Mother The Milky Way is the passageway by which souls enter and leave this world The shamanic journey into the Otherworld is the spiritual experience throughout this time.

13 The Moon

14 The mythic theme of Lunar Culture is A cyclical process of Birth, Death and Regeneration that arose from the age-old observation of the recurring phases of the moon: its birth as the crescent, its waxing to fullness, and its waning into the three days of darkness Mythic theme of lunar culture

15 The myt hic the me of luna r cult ure and 4 myt hs The Moon was the inspiration for the greatest myths and rituals of ancient cultures Sumer: The Descent of Inanna Babylonia: Ishtar s search for Tammuz Anatolia/Rome: Cybele s search for her son Attis Greece: Demeter s search for Persephone The Christian myth of Christ s birth, death and resurrection

16 Green Man

17 The Unity of Life The Unity of Life Just as the stars emerged each night from the darkness of the night sky, so the visible universe was born from the dark mystery of the invisible. Everything was infused with divinity because each and all were part of a living, breathing, connecting web of life animated by spirit. The air was sacred; the water was sacred; the rocks, plants and trees were sacred. The hidden dimension of spirit was present in every atom of the manifest world. People lived within a Sacred Order the Order of the Great Mother

18 Collins goddess and earth

19 Bramabau

20 Avebury in 18th century Avebury, Wiltshire c. 2,500 BC

21 New Grange entrance Stone and ray of sunlight at dawn New Grange Temple 2500 BC

22 Flower of Life

23 We carry within our psyche a very ancient kind of consciousness or experience of life that I call lunar consciousness 2 kinds of consciousness and associate with the timeless wisdom of the soul Lunar consciousness It is an instinctive, participatory, holistic, relational way of knowing, mediated through instinct, sensory observation, intuition, feeling (the heart) and is still found in Shamanic cultures today.

24 The Great Mother of the Palaeolithic Era The Great Mother of the Palaeolithic Era 40,000 BC 25,000 BC 25,000 BC

25 Cave

26 Chauvet Cave Bison Bison from Chauvet Cave, near Rhone Valley c. 32,000 BC

27 Shaman of Lascaux

28 Bird Goddess Palaeolithic Amulet and others 5,000 BC 25,000 BC 2,500 BC 400 BC Swallow crop circle

29 Map of Old Europe sites Area of Old Europe, 7,000-3,500 BC

30 Neolithic Great Mother with door x 2 Danube Valley 5,500 BC South-Western Romania 5,000 BC

31 Circle of enthroned goddesses

32 Female figure from Old Europe 4, BC

33 Pottery vessel Old Europe

34 Maltese Priestess Hypogeum Maltese Temple c. 3,500 BC Maltese priestess undergoing rite of incubation/dreaming

35 Inanna-Ishtar c BC

36 Tree of Life

37 Hathor lunar horns and sun disc

38 Isis and Pharoah

39 Sekhmet

40 Isis as Bird Goddess

41 The Dwat within the body of the goddess Nut

42 Artemis of Ephesus and her second temple, destroyed 356 BC. Artemis of Ephesus

43 Cretan Priestess

44 Athena

45 Cybele drawn by lions

46 Persephone Persephone

47 Black Virgin of Chartres

48 Images of feminine Images of the Archetypal Feminine Images of the Archetypal Feminine The Moon, the Great Mother, the Sea, Water, the Serpent The Cosmos, the Soul, the Earth, Nature Images of the Archetypal Feminine The Heart The Grail Ab_bird.jpg The Rose, the Lily, the Dove The Triple Spiral, the Circle, the Labyrinth & the Vase or Vessel

49 Crop circle at Milk Hill

50 Crop circle Enlarged