Hi Tom. Maybe The Antigone would be a good book to read.Thomas Hood wrote:Alas, Robert, had I but world enough, and time, I'd read everything at BookTalk, but Time's winged chariots are hurrying near. The solution to the redemption of technology is as old as The Antigone. The only secret is how closely Gaiman approximates the ancient answer. Technology can be redeemed by a successful technology of the self, productive of self knowledge, that is, a perfection of Tiresian learning.Robert Tulip wrote:Tom, yes I do have a suggestion, but it is a secret. . .Thomas Hood wrote:Robert, do you have a suggestion as to how this can be done?
Tom
Some info is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigone How do you see it relating to the redemption of technology?
How I think about this is illustrated at some recent comments
Robert Tulip wrote:The Diagram of the Vedic Yuga and the Great Year is a fruitful tool for analysis. We can see that the centre of the Golden Age, at +- 12882 years AD/BC, coincides with the time when the South Celestial Pole is closest to the star Canopus. Hence, the Golden Age of Awareness of God coincides with a time when Canopus is the Pole Star. Invisible from northern latitudes, Canopus is the star of Osiris. This is informative as a way to imagine how Egypt built the pyramids, which encode immense ancient wisdom. The pyramids link the earth at its central focal point to stars including Sirius, Orion and Draco. It may be that earth had links with these stars, but the knowledge of these links has been forgotten, and will gradually re-emerge as we move towards a new Golden Age.
A puzzle here is that writing was only invented about 5000 years ago, and it is hard to imagine how a Golden Age Atlantean civilization could have disappeared. How I imagine this is that Atlantis was built on floating freshwater sacks in the open ocean, deliberately avoided interaction with the continents, and was destroyed by a global tsunami, only remembered as the flood. This theory of Atlantis matches the Egyptian idea of the realm of the dead as the field of reeds, which could have been an Atlantean freshwater lens located in the Mediterranean Sea, due west of the mouth of the Nile, as a point of interaction between humanity and the Gods. This mythological speculation provides a hypothetical way that Osiris, Isis, Horus, Nephthys and Thoth could be refugees from Atlantis to Egypt, building the high ancient star wisdom into the pyramids. Without such a hypothesis, I find it hard to see how the Egyptians built the pyramids at such a large scale with such high precision and mystery.