Precessional Time and the Evolution of Consciousness: How Stories Create the World

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All of culture can be said to be made up of stories. In fact it is stories, more than language, tools or intellect, that make us human. Our Neolithic and Megalithic ancestors recognised this and stored, within their mythic narratives, an understanding of how sky changes evoke changes in consciousness as human cultures progress through each Zodiacal Age of the precessional cycle. As we enter the Age of Aquarius, it is time to recognise the profound power of stories to give our world meaning. Exploring how ancient myths, megalithic structures, the formation of language and even prehistoric cave art are narratives shaped by sacred proportion, Richard Heath explains that stories enable us to identify the inner spiritual aspects within our material world and participate in the evolution of human consciousness. He reveals how the precessional myth of the hero's journey to steal fire from heaven describes a necessary search for new cultural modes that occurs at the end of an Age as the dominant culture begins to falter - and how the massive information bubble created by our modern world, while drowning us in meaningless narratives, also' contains the components for an evolutionary shift in consciousness. Presenting key principles advanced by G. I. Gurdjieff and John Bennett to help us awaken to the continuing evolution of our consciousness, Heath shows how to access the spiritual intelligence and heightened creativity available during the galactic alignment of the current 'twilight' between two precessional ages. * Explores how myths, megaliths, language and cave art enabled narratives shaped by sacred proportion

Richard Heath is a web developer with degrees in systems science and computer-aided design. The author of Matrix of Creation: Sacred Geometry in the Realm of the Planets and Sacred Number and the Origins of Civilization, he lives in Dunkeld, Perthshire.

"Using precession as a key, Richard Heath has harmonized the revelations of those great originals G. I. Gurdjieff, Alexander Thom, Ernest McClain, and the authors of Hamlet's Mill. This is the kind of synthesis one has long hoped for and a worthy sequel to Heath's own cosmological revelation, The Matrix of Creation." * Joscelyn Godwin, author of Atlantis and the Cycles of Time * "All mythology is rooted in the relationship between Earth, Moon, Sun, and Stars, and these stories are at the very core of human experience. In this book Richard Heath draws these ideas together to create a vivid and inspiring narrative that reconnects us with our true origins and future potential." * Paul Broadhurst, coauthor of The Sun and the Serpent * "Readers will benefit from a good grasp of math and astronomy, or an in-depth knowledge of constellational astrology and galactic structure. Health supports the theory that the shifting ages have an influence on the development of human civilization . . . " * Elizabeth Hazel, FacingNorth.net, September 2011 *