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Laura Lee on why she is interested in Ancient
Mysteries Research: The puzzling artifacts and monuments are everywhere. Some suggest that our ancient ancestors understood and utilized principles of Nature that we have yet to discover. Many monuments hint at building techniques that we’ve since lost. (Try as we might, we cannot duplicate, even with modern machinery, those precisely fitted, oddly cut stones, on such a huge scale, for one example, and please don’t tell me they accomplished this with stone pounding balls!) Some artifacts speak of advanced metallurgy, and energy sources. Other artifacts and drawings of artifacts offer clues to a long-age, yet advanced understanding of mathematics, astronomy, and knowledge of subtle energies.
It all adds up to a need to revise our understanding of our past.
We ask those eternally important questions – "who are we?" and "where are we going?" We must also ask, "where did we come from?" There is so much depth in those musings contained therein; so much to draw upon, to reawaken. So much potential hidden deep in our roots. Can we reclaim some of it, and enter a new Renaissance, a rebirth and renewal?
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I also wonder if we in our our modern society has just gone off on some strange
detour as we hurtle towards self-destruction, obsessed as we are with creating
weapons of mass destruction and polluting the nest. Has some previous era
grappled with similar challenges because of an inherent flaw in our makeup, or
did some find ways to live in harmony with one another and with Nature? If so,
when and where was the Golden Age so many histories refer to? And what was their
secret? We could sure use it today
We don’t have much left from the wood based cultures – stone artifacts and monuments have a longer shelf life to speak to us today. I wonder what marvelous societies existed in the past, advanced in the ways of consciousness, and who didn’t feel the need to build in stone. I wonder too if building in stone, such arduous work, beautiful though it is, requires layers of society and hierarchies that go against the grain of a truly free and spiritually based people. Is the stone work so hard that you have to enslave people to get it done? Wouldn’t an enlightened society ‘just say no’ to that? I’m sure many intriguing, profound cultures have come and gone, leaving only a slightest of footprints.
Were former Golden Ages ones of spiritual awakening, or material and technical advancement? Are the two mutually opposed, or compatible only under certain circumstances?
And then there’s the artwork. The ancients really knew how to create beauty. So many of them followed the ‘golden mean’ proportion. Was that be design, or by an intuitive calling because Nature has designed our bodies along those same principles? If the Golden Mean and appreciation for it is built right into our very being, why don’t we follow it today?
So much to explore and question and marvel at and appreciate about our history. And it’s such fun! I go for the real life mysteries – who needs fiction in this mysterious world? -- Laura Lee
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