Lost Star of Myth and Time by Walter Cruttenden
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- ISBN: 0976763117
- Publisher: Ingram Pub Services
- Pub. Date: September 2005
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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.
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Lost Star of Myth and Timeby Anonymous
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10/19/2005: This well presented thesis bodes nothing short of a ?2nd Copernican Revolution? in altering humanity?s view of itself and the macrocosm. As Copernicus shook the medieval mindset with his pronouncement that the earth revolves around the sun, we are now to consider that our local sun and its solar system revolves around its binary companion! Most importantly, as the author asserts, this celestial motion is considered responsible for the cycles or ?cosmic seasons? that drives the waxing and waning of human civilization. The reader is introduced to Copernicus? 3rd motion of the earth - ?Precession of the Equinoxes? in a most profound and fascinating manner. ?Precession? is not a new knowledge, just as the heliocentric model was ancient in origin, what is new is the author?s binary star theory to account for this phenomenon in the light of modern astronomy. The reader?s mind is expanded beyond its pedestrian world to re-discover the grand cycles of the cosmos that was known to the ancient cultures. ?Lost Star? holds ones interest like a detective story as each new piece of evidence whets the reader?s appetite for the next shard. The author engages the reader in solving no less than a cosmic mystery story. The prize is nothing less the reconciliation of an ancient sacred science with today?s understanding of a materialistic-based science. The author cites a variety of excellent sources, a notable one, ?Hamlet?s Mill? which was a seminal work by Giorgio de Santillana, professor of the history and philosophy of science at M.I.T. and Hertha von Dechend, professor of the history of science at the University of Frankfurt, which explored the encoding of precise astronomical knowledge into the worldwide myths and folklore. Typically, although this was written in the 1970?s, mainstream academia has given little attention to this fact, as few people want to upset the status quo. Mr. Cruttenden?s breadth of intellectual curiosity culls from the ancient traditions of India to the most cutting edge think tanks of astrophysics. His cross-disciplinary approach adds considerable fortitude to his thesis as he explores the phenomenon of ?Precession? in the light of ancient mythology, archeology, and astrophysics. The enigmas of archeology with its many ?out-of-place? artifacts fall squarely into place should we tentatively accept the thesis of this book ? the rise & fall of civilizations is a product of a grand cosmic cycle that was intimately known in the far distant past. How could the ancients have known so much without the aid of our current technology? As the author suggests, perhaps there have been cultures so advanced as to use the rarified technologies of the mind and spirit in a time more conducive to the full development of those subtle qualities. Which brings to my mind, was this what Plato was referring to when discussing the possibility of attaining absolute knowledge via a ?Science of First Causes?? Contrast this a-priori (before-fact) or ?consciousness-based? science with our current ?trial and error,? a-posteriori (after-the-fact) science and I am reminded of Arthur C. Clarke?s quote, 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.' Prior to the rise of our western view of linear history the ancients? perspective of human history was a cyclical one. Plato expounds this view in his famous dialogues in an attempt to recapture a long lost Golden Age. The are many anomalies in the...
Lost Star of Myth and Timeby Anonymous
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09/18/2005: Absolutely worth my time and focus.Awareness is the key to true sight,beautifully presented and tastefully written.So much,in insight and in passion,Mr.Cruttenden has set the bar very high with this prestigious book.
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