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Like two lovers who had been uncomfortably
matched, endlessly engaging in argument and power plays, Science
and Spirit finally became separated. The Industrial Revolution
sealed the deal, and for a time it looked like this divorce was
final. But their tryst has begun anew, for they are, in
essence, inseparable partners. Science explains in facts
and findings, in reason and objective thought what Spirit stirs
through faith and intuition, through inner gnosis and through
divine revelation. Spirit gives esoteric meaning to the discoveries
of Science. Together they describe our relationsip to the
Deity and to Cosmos and to one another, and give our existence
meaning. Science, however, is still quick to mock as fanciful
the musings of Spirit, while Spirit is reluctant to reunite with
a lover who seems cold, self-absorbed, and decidedly unromantic!
Nevertheless, the time has come for Science and Spirit to be
reconciled. The wedding takes place when Neptune and Uranus
join forces in Aquarius, on January 30. Their union will
cause a social revolution in what is prophesied to be an age
of enlightenment and unprecedented scientific discovery.
Physics and Metaphysics are so akin that
they inevitably meet at the point of Why? Physics is intrinsic
to Metaphysics which actually means that which lies above or
beyond the physical world as the spiritual Cause preceding the
material effect. Two men, Dr. Paul LaViolette, a physicist
and systems scientist, and the late Dane Rudhyar, a metaphysical
astrologer, from their respective camps, have forged groundbreaking
work and have come to an exciting similar conclusion: to meet
the urgent demands of cycles turning and soon upon us, our heliocosmic
solar-based mentality will no longer suffice! The time
has come to understand our place not just within the solar system
but as members of the galaxy!
Rudhyar was one of a still rare but growing
breed of astrologers who perceive astrology as an ancient and
sacred science, a key in the process of unlocking an inner divine
and normally largely untapped potential. Rudhyar separates
himself from fortune-tellers and even well-meaning modern western
astrologers who for the most part are concerned with prediction
and base their art on Ptolemaic concepts from ancient Greece
and later from Rome. For Rudhyar the value of astrology
lies in helping people understand events and experiences in their
life as part of a lifelong process of self-transformation and
self-transcendence. In mysticism, such experiences are
called initiations, spiritual tests which step-by-step, test
the mettle of those aspiring to oneness with God.
Most people, says Rudhyar, are walking
their way on the highway of evolution. On the highway of evolution,
change and growth are slow and hesitant. One's life is caught
up in the common trends of the time. This would be your
average person, whose life and astrology is in fact highly predictable
from the natal chart. We can choose to leave this common
highway, however, and enter the Path. The Path is in essence
the Path of Discipleship. The Path implies a relationship
to a master teacher or guru, whether in embodiment or whether
instructing from higher spheres, as Jesus was instructed by the
Father. But above all, the Path implies a readiness and a will
to ascend toward a higher spiritual level of consciousness and
existence. At the same time, the Path implies that a being
of superior attainment, operating from a transcendental state,
descends out of compassion to assist in this spiritual unfoldment
those who make sincere and consistent effort. In Rudhyar's
astrology, this Path leads from a heliocosmic to a galactic type
of consciousness and activity. For the galactic and esoteric
astrologer, then, while the planetary bodies remain in their
place, their interpretation is greatly altered. The signs
become great hierarchies of light, the planets become agents
of the galaxy.
Dr. LaViolette is president of Starburst
Foundation, an institute that conducts interdisciplinary research
in physics, astronomy, geology, climatology, and systems theory.
LaViolette was courageous in that he looked to astrology
and mythology, considered bogus fields to the rational scientific
mind, to discover scientific answers that had eluded his contemporaries.
He focused on cosmology, the science of creation. LaViolette
also sought to give scientific explanation to the many reports
of world cataclysm, related in oral traditions from every corner
of the earth and from diverse peoples and times. In understanding
man's history of global cataclysm, LaViolette was especially
interested in determining the possibility and timing of such
a recurrence in this or future generations. LaViolette
noted that only in this century have modern science and astronomy
advanced to the point that we can now recognize in myth not a
fanciful cultural tale, but rather the outlines of a physical
science originating in prehistoric time which far exceeds our
current knowledge and understanding. We've canned such
stories to the level of myths and legends because we didn't have
the means to decode and understand what they are really trying
to tell us.
LaViolette, like Rudhyar, believes that
astrologers practice an outer form of an inner art whose original
meaning and purpose has become obscured or lost. Astrology
played a central role in the ancient Hermetic science, when disciples
were initiated into the Egyptian Osirian mysteries. Many
esoteric teachings and Plato suggest that astrology was handed
down to Egypt, China, and India and to former South American
and Central American civilizations that flourished before the
sinking of Atlantis, around 12,000 years ago.
LaViolette believes that ancient sages encoded into
the universally understood star map that the symbology of astrology
affords a testimony of an incredible history they survived. They
used astrology to ensure that their story not be lost through
the shifting sands of time but that people of all times might
have a record of their experience and receive an urgent warning.
Now, here's the catch: to decipher the hidden message,
one needs knowledge not only of astrology and mythology but also
of physics, astronomy, and nonlineal chemical kinetics. When
the riddle is resolved, one is left with a coherent theory of
how matter and energy first came into being eons ago and of the
continual evolution of physical creation. Moreover, a complex
and sophisticated astronomical and geological message emerges,
informing us and future generations of one of most horrific catastrophes
to afflict the human race: the occurrence of an explosion of
our galaxy's core. Moreover, the warning clearly states
that this disaster could repeat.
To summarize LaViolette's findings and the sequence
of his discoveries:
-- 1979: Galactic Explosion Hypothesis: At the time
that LaViolette begins his research, most astronomers agree that
the core of our galaxy is relatively quiescent and should remain
so for tens of millions of years. LaViolette, having cracked
the zodiacal cosmocreation cryptogram, does not agree. According
to the starscript, he interprets that an immense explosion occurred
at the center of our galaxy thousands of years ago. Moreover,
the story that unfolded suggests that the core of our galaxy
enters a cyclical explosive phase during which intense winds
of cosmic ray particles are released equivalent to the energy
released from five to ten million highly energetic supernova
explosions.
-- LaViolette concluded that these outbursts recur
every ten thousand years or more and last anywhere from several
hundred to several thousand years. Cosmic rays of this
sort travel outward from the Galactic Center at very close to
the speed of light. One such cosmic ray volley passed through
the solar system toward the end of the last Ice Age, injecting
large amounts of cosmic dust over a period of thousands of years.
This dust dramatically changed the earth's climate in a
period of less than one hundred years through its effect on the
sun and sunlight transmissions through space.
-- LaViolette formulates his hypothesis that a volley
of cosmic rays had bombarded the earth and solar system toward
the end of the last Ice Age causing worldwide destruction.
He theorizes that other such superwaves had passed the earth
at earlier times, triggering the onset and endings of the Ice
Ages. He then sets out to test his hypothesis by initially
analyzing Ice Age polar ice for traces of cosmic dust.
-- 1980: LaViolette is the first known scientist to
evaluate the extraterrestrial material content of prehistoric
polar ice. He finds they contain high levels of cosmic
dust, indicating that galactic phenomena may have affected our
solar system in the recent past.
-- 1983: LaViolette completes his Ph.D. dissertation
and presents his cosmic dust findings at the American Geophysical
Union meeting in Baltimore and at the Meteorological Society
meeting in Mainz, Germany. He presents data indicating
that debris from the nearby North Polar Spur supernova remnant
is presently engulfing the solar system. He finds he is a lone
voice in the wilderness. Despite LaViolette's evidence
to the contrary, his contemporaries are not concerned with the
threat of cosmic dust, since the prevailing view is that the
solar system resides in a predominantly clear interstellar environment.
-- Geological records support ancient myths and legends
telling of an Ice Age that abruptly ended in a period of excessive
warmth. This occurred about 14,650 ago. Climatologists
were stymied in that they could not explain what caused the earth
to warm up to present intergalactic temperatures at a time when
ice sheets still covered the surface of the planet. LaViolette
presents evidence that severe weather changes during this period
were global in nature and that global warming was due to a galactic
superwave-induced cosmic dust invasion that created an interplanetary
hothouse effect. (See Earth
Under Fire, pp. 177 -178).
-- 1984: LaViolette backs his thesis by working in
conjunction with geochemists at Curtin University of West Australia,
who have access to the rare and expensive spectrometric device,
confirming that tin dust sample is indeed of extraterrestrial
origin.
-- 1984: LaViolette analyzes zodiacal dust and finds
that interstellar dust has recently entered the solar system
from the Galactic Center direction.
-- 1985: Discoveries are made by high-level physicists
that the earth is being showered by cosmic ray particles capable
of traveling thousands of light-years through interstellar space
without being scattered by interstellar magnetic fields. This
confirms LaViolette's 1983 findings that cosmic rays are able
to travel all the way from the Galactic Center and impact our
solar system as coherent volleys. He is the first astronomer
to suggest this idea.
-- 1988: Astronomer H. Aumann publishes his observations
that the solar system is surrounded by an envelope of dust 500
times denser than previously thought.
-- 1993: Ulysses spacecraft team publishes findings
that interstellar dust is currently entering the solar system
from the Galactic Center direction and that most of the dust
is of interstellar origin. These findings confirm LaViolette's
statement of the interstellar origin of the zodiacal dust cloud.
-- 1987-1996: Climatologists publish temperature
profiles from around the world showing the presence of climatic
oscillation.
LaViolette not only corroborates and
is inspired by mythology and astrology. He also turns to hypnotherapists
such as Helen Wambach, who has not only regressed her subjects
into the past, many of whom recall tales of ancient cataclysm,
but also has brought into the future where their vision parallels
that of many of the prophecies of a world in turmoil. He looks
at the findings of seers and psychics. He studies Plato's teachings
on ancient Atlantis, the Tarot, the I Ching. He analyzes the
mysteries of the Sphinx to corroborate his zodiacal decipher.
He looks at revelation in the various world religions, Revelation
in the New Testament and the Fatima Prophecies. He concludes
that at the present time our solar system is transiting a region
containing dust and large frozen masses in quantities sufficient
to seriously affect the earth's climate during a galactic superwave
event. When? As the Bible says, "But the day of the
Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens
shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt
with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein
shall be burned up."
The zodiac panel appearing in the floor mosaic of the Beth
A/pha Synagogue from the book Earth
Under Fire by Paul LaViolette.
According to LaViolette, as many as two
superwaves may have already left the Galactic Center and be speeding
toward our solar system, but there is no way that we can see
them coming. A superwave shock would announce itself only minutes
before its arrival.
LaViolette concludes the beginning
phases of his monumental and lifetime work by warning that we
should take steps to investigate how modern technology might
be used to lessen the effects of an impacting superwave should
one arrive in the near future. How could this be done? Perhaps
by finding a way to create some sort of force field just outside
the solar system on the side toward the Galactic Center that
would act as a shield to deflect approaching galactic cosmic
rays so that they would pass around the solar system.
It seems as if LaViolette has left
no stone unturned. But for me, one of the most exciting parts
of his book Earth Under Fire was in a footnote. He explains that
we can easily understand that prehistoric people, frightened
by the traumatic effects of a galactic superwave, might deify
the galactic core and pray to it in hope of salvation from the
destruction it would otherwise inevitably bring. He points out
that Jose Arguelles, for his work on the Mayan Prophecies, "suggests
that a supreme Galactic mind actually resides at the core of
the Galaxy and that this intelligent consciousness has been emitting
a pulsating beam of radio signals which, for the past 5000 years,
has been sweeping past our Solar System programming human consciousness
by direct resonance with our DNA molecules." While LaViolette's
mind seems always open to new possibilities, this leap in consciousness
is too great or at least not as yet sufficiently scientifcally
proven for him to make.
This precise point, however, is where
Rudhyar's work comes in. Could not this force field of protection
come not from technology but rather from a humanity vibrating
at a higher and more powerful frequency than at the present time?
In our next article in Atlantis Rising we will explore what it
means for us individually and as a planet to move into a galactic
frame of reference and how astrological cycles predict the timing
that this change in consciousness must occur, lest we be found
unprepared to meet the challenges LaViolette describes.
It is astounding to contemplate that
only a hundred years ago, the very notion of meteorites falling
from outer space was unknown. A little over two hundred years
ago, Copernicus' book proving the earth revolved around the sun
was still on the forbidden Catholic reading list. It is as if
we are awakening from a long and drugged sleep.
As cosmic dust is thrown on our newly
weds, here's to the marriage of Spirit and Science. May they
live happily ever after!
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