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