Archaeology & Cyclical Perception
The Cycles of Time offer insight into the array of often bewildering theories of
ancient and lost civilizations. How is it possible for so many researchers to
come up with such diverse conclusions? Why has the ‘modern’ mind been so closed
to the idea that previous civilizations were more advanced than ours? Rene
Guenon, the brilliant French metaphysical author, sheds light on our capacity to
understand the past in his book ‘The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times’
(1945).
In 'The Limits of History and Geography' (chapter 19), Guenon states that there
are ‘qualitative’ differences in the four cycles of time. These qualitative
differences are expressions of a vast spectrum of ever altering frequencies,
reflecting varying states of consciousness. Even
within each cycle there are cycles within cycles that produce qualitative
variations, both in manifested 'appearances' and perception.
According to the theory of the Cycles of Time found in the ancient Sanskrit
texts, we begin in the higher states of consciousness and devolve. Contrary to
current scientific opinion, we are not evolving — rather we are experiencing the
ongoing processes of increasing limitation in perception, as we descend through
the stages of ‘The Solidification of Matter’.
Beginning in 3606 BC, we have been living in the last and most dense cycle, the
Kali Yuga, the Age of Confusion and Conflict. Therefore our perceptions are
atrophied and more limited than ever before. In the previous cycles we are not
trapped in and limited to five-sense differentiated perception. In previous
yugas remote viewing, telepathy and other so-called paranormal abilities were
‘normal’ and are called the Siddhis
in Sanskrit.
Perhaps our most absurd limitation is to imagine that the ancients possessed a
similar mentality to our own. We judge the past and the people of antiquity
through our ‘modern’ western scientific filtered conditioning. We assume that
our mentality is superior, advanced, and from this false premise we judge and
dismiss what in fact we are incapable of understanding. Because we exist within
a cycle of density and confusion, a period advanced into the solidification of
matter, we confer on all our perceptions corresponding appearances “according to
quantitative, mechanistic, or materialistic conceptions.” Guenon points out that
while this is what makes the practical applications of modern science succeed,
however such narrow vision also results in wrong conclusions and blinding
delusion.
The World is Consciousness
In the previous cycles of time, the ancient world was not as ‘solid’ as it has
become today and our conditioned perception of the separation of what is
corporeal and what is ‘subtle’ (beneath the curtain of each atom) had not yet
become so completely atrophied. “It was not only that man, whose faculties were
then much less narrowly limited, did not see the world with eyes that were the
same as those of today, and perceived things which since then have escaped him
entirely; but also, and correlatively, the world itself, as a cosmic entity, was
indeed qualitatively different…”
Guenon states that even the archaeological remains of ancient civilizations have
been affected by ‘the solidification of matter’ as we have descended down
through the Cycles of Time. If as he says, these ‘vestiges’ had not participated
in ongoing ‘solidification’ they would have simply and completely disappeared.
In fact many ancient structures
did disappear, but only to our modern
defective eyes. This understanding is beyond the capacity of most archaeologist
and researchers, who don’t have an understanding of traditional metaphysics and
therefore do not have the consciousness necessary to perceive through the Veils
of Time — and as one master has said, “the ears to hear”!
According to Guenon as we reach back into the ancient world, barriers arise.
Attempts to establish chronology before the 6th century BC diverge
into a plethora of estimations, “so much so that divergences in the estimation
of the dates of objects and events amount to centuries and sometimes even to
whole millennia…” Contradicting theories abound and recently even carbon dating
has become suspect.
Miasma & Delusion
The typical reaction of modern scientific thinking is to deny whatever may be
quite beyond them, thus the ancients are accused of being primitives, lacking in
modern scientific procedure and technology. However it is only our own
continually weakening faculties of perception that allow us “to hold the
accounts of the ancients in derision.” As our world has moved deeper into
‘solidification’ our “faculties of conception and perception that allowed man to
reach out to something other than the coarsest and most inferior mode of reality
were totally atrophied…”
Guenon also gives evidence of similar misconceptions in geography and states
that there is a ‘sacred’ geography, which is the basis for the establishment of
traditional sacred centres.
Guenon concludes that chapter with the understanding that we cannot expect much,
if any change in ‘modern’ thinking and scholarship: “…they will naturally adhere
to this negative attitude until some changes in the ‘face’ of the world come to
destroy once and for all their deceptive security.”
In a recent online article describing the failure and destructive influence of
‘elaborate econometric models’ used by the Federal Reserve to predict human
events and behaviour, the author D. Devine quotes F.A. Hayek, a Nobel Laureate.
Hayek predicted that people in the future would look back and “discover that the
most widely held ideas which dominated the twentieth century (like scientific
planning) were all based on superstitions…an over estimation of what science has
achieved.”
Hayek was quite prescient and correct, only he did not grasp that larger view —
that this process has been ongoing for the last 6000 years, throughout the
current Kali Yuga, the Age of Confusion. The planet Neptune has been in Pisces
since 2012 and will remain so until 2025. Neptune in Pisces can bring the world
into a greater expanded consciousness, or into a tsunami of delusion both
religious and scholastic.
V. Susan Ferguson
The Reign of Quantity and The Signs of the Times, by Rene Guenon, 1945; Sophia
Perennis, NY, 2004.
Can We Finally Retire Scientific Superstition? By Donald Devine
http://www.libertylawsite.org/2013/11/04/can-we-finally-retire-scientific-superstition/
| Questions
or comments about articles on this site: Email V. Susan Ferguson: Click Here |
Copyright© V. Susan Ferguson All rights reserved. |
Technical questions or
comments about the site: Email the Webmaster: Click Here |