Chronos Apollonios' "Home on Olympus"
With Ancient wisdom, that's what it's about: rediscovery, reclaiming what is lost... there are books that are huge lists of signs of intelligent life on earth long before modern man, of equal or greater technological prowess. Books like "We Are Not The First" by Andrew Tomas or "Morning of the Magicians" by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier are still somehow timely after about three decades... even though they only represent the tip of the iceberg.
Suffice it to mention our society seems to place so much competitive emphasis on almost anything, perhaps, that maybe treasures don't seem as golden if we're not the first. Or maybe there is some other explanation why our science minded persons might hear of these ancient sciences and we hear nothing about them having done so.
Looking at Time-Life's "Mystic Places" (pg 106-107), reading the anecdote of levitation at Chanctonbury ring, should perhaps make one exclaim, 'That's the Meissner effect; that's Superconductive Levitiation"; likewise, the interesting claims about electric shocks from spiral stones at Newgrange (Reader's Digest, "Earth's Mysterious Places pg 29; 22-32) might easily register as very much what Ken Whitesides once discussed in an Omni magiazine interview about superconductors.
For each and every citation of this nature, one might find a growing sense of not just the gifts of arts and stories and herbalism and culture allowing one to feel part of something greater and immeasurably older, immortal even amongst mortals, but
that such pride in pagan heritage and pride in diligent effort to preserve long-stanging standards are available to and rightly belong to those of gifts in science as well.
All of these gifts in their true form may be seen as a single synthesis of each of these elements, and there are no monopolies on inspiration...
For many people of the earth-centered traditions, we can find humility and sanctuary in knowing that our mad modern race to be the first at anything may fall far aside from truth.
We can possess the freedom and the strength that comes from knowing that the ancients could have had the things we have now, but they deliberately chose deeper and more meaningful options.
“Time is an enormous long river... of important events and important ideas... and I’m
standing in it just as you’re standing in it... my elders were the tributaries....and everything
they thought and every stuggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to
and song they created and every poem that they laid down flows down to me and if I take
the time to ask and I take the time to seek, if I take the time to seek and if take the time to
reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs, I can reach down into that
river and take out what I need to get through this world.. bridges from my time to your
time as my elders from their time to my time... and we all put into the river and we let it go
and it flows away from us and away from us until it no longer has our name, our identity;
it has its own utility, it’s own use and people will take what they need and make it part of
their lives“....
Utah Phillips & Ani DiFranco, “Bridges”,
from “The Past Didn’t Go
Anywhere”
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