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

Redeem the time – T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot, Ash–Wednesday

The Dream of the Cosmos and planet Earth The Dream of the

Cosmos

Day One

the Lunar Era

Original Participation

Roi Rene – the journey of the heart

The Journey of the Heart

Chartres entire picture day time

Chartres West facade

3 great mysteries Rose Window of Virgin

There are 3

great

Mysteries

Three great mysteries

There are Three Great Mysteries

The Mystery of the Starry Cosmos

The Mystery of Nature

The Mystery of our 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…

Vehicle for consciousness

Out of the Depths of the Cosmos

Out of the Life of the Planet

Out of our long experience as humans on this planet

The Great Epochs in the Evolution of Consciousness

and our 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.

4. 1700 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.

Great Epochs in the Evolution of Con. emergence

from Nature

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.

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.

2. The Bronze Age and later: the worship of many goddesses

and gods who personified the archetypal powers of the

invisible world and who are worshipped in India to this day..

The Four Main Phases of

Belief

the Great Mother

THE GREAT MOTHER

matrix and container

from 50,000 BC?

self

Cosmos

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.

The Moon

Mythic theme of lunar culture

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

The mythic theme of

lunar

culture and

4 myths

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

Green Man

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

Collins goddess and earth

Bramabau

Avebury in 18th century

Avebury, Wiltshire c. 2,500 BC

New Grange entrance Stone

and ray of sunlight at dawn

New Grange

Temple

2500 BC

Flower of Life

We carry within our psyche

a very ancient kind of consciousness or

experience of life that I call lunar consciousness

and associate with the

timeless wisdom of the soul

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.

2 kinds of consciousness

Lunar consciousness

The Great Mother of the Palaeolithic Era

The Great Mother

of the Palaeolithic Era

40,000 BC

25,000 BC 25,000 BC

Cave

Chauvet Cave Bison

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

Shaman of Lascaux

Bird Goddess Palaeolithic Amulet and others

25,000 BC

5,000 BC

2,500 BC 400 BC

Swallow crop circle

Map of Old Europe sites

Area of Old Europe, 7,000-3,500 BC

Neolithic Great Mother with door x 2

Danube Valley 5,500 BC South-Western Romania 5,000 BC

Circle of enthroned goddesses

Female figure from Old Europe

4,000 – 3900 BC

Pottery vessel Old Europe

Maltese Priestess Hypogeum

Maltese priestess undergoing rite of incubation/dreaming

Maltese Temple c. 3,500 BC

Inanna-Ishtar c. 2300-2000 BC

Tree of Life

Hathor lunar horns and sun disc

Isis and Pharoah

Sekhmet

Isis as Bird Goddess

The Dwat within the body of the goddess Nut

Artemis of Ephesus

Artemis of Ephesus and her second

temple, destroyed 356 BC.

Cretan Priestess

Athena

Cybele drawn by lions

Persephone

Persephone

Black Virgin of Chartres

Images of the Archetypal Feminine

Images of the Archetypal Feminine

Images of feminine Images of the Archetypal Feminine

The Moon, the Great Mother, the Sea,

Water, the Serpent

The Triple Spiral, the Circle, the Labyrinth

& the Vase or Vessel

The Heart

The Rose,

the Lily, the Dove

The Cosmos, the Soul, the Earth, Nature

Ab_bird.jpgThe Grail

Crop circle at Milk Hill

Crop circle Enlarged