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Primal Wisdom of the Ancients: The Cosmological Plan for Humanity
Examines how the similarities of symbols and wisdom across many cultures point to an ancient civilizing plan and system of ancient instruction
• Reveals the shared cosmological knowledge of Dogon and Maori cultures, ancient Egypt, Gobekli Tepe, Vedic India, the pre-Indian Sakti civilization, Buddhism, the Tibetan Bon religion, and the kabbalistic tradition of the Hebrews
• Explores symbols and techniques used to frame and preserve instructed knowledge as it was transmitted orally from generation to generation
• Explains how this shared ancient knowledge relates to the precessional year and the cycles of time known as the yugas
Exploring the mystery of why so many ancient cultures, separated by time and distance, share remarkably similar cosmological philosophies and religious symbolism, Laird Scranton reveals how this shared creation tradition upholds the idea that ancient instruction gave birth to the great civilizations, each of which preserves fragments of the original knowledge.
Looking at the many manifestations of this shared cosmological knowledge, including in the Dogon and Maori cultures and in ancient Egypt, Gobekli Tepe, Vedic India, Buddhism, the Tibetan Bon religion, and the kabbalistic tradition of the Hebrews, Scranton explores the thought processes that went into formulating the archetype themes and metaphors of the ancient symbolic system. He examines how commonly shared principles of creational science are reflected in key terms of the ancient languages. He discusses how the primal cosmology also transmitted key components of sacred science, such as sacred geometry, knowledge of material creation, and the nature of a nonmaterial universe--evidence for which lies in the orientation of ancient temples, the drama of initiations and rituals, and countless traditional myths. He analyzes how this shared knowledge relates to the precessional year and the cycles of time known as the yugas. He also explores evidence of the concept of a nonmaterial twin universe to our own--the “above” to our “below” in the famous alchemical and hermetic maxim.
Through his extensive research into the interconnected wisdom of the ancients, Scranton shows that the forgotten instructional tradition at the source of this knowledge was deliberately encoded to survive for countless generations. By piecing it back together, we can discover the ancient plan for guiding humanity forward toward greater enlightenment.
• Reveals the shared cosmological knowledge of Dogon and Maori cultures, ancient Egypt, Gobekli Tepe, Vedic India, the pre-Indian Sakti civilization, Buddhism, the Tibetan Bon religion, and the kabbalistic tradition of the Hebrews
• Explores symbols and techniques used to frame and preserve instructed knowledge as it was transmitted orally from generation to generation
• Explains how this shared ancient knowledge relates to the precessional year and the cycles of time known as the yugas
Exploring the mystery of why so many ancient cultures, separated by time and distance, share remarkably similar cosmological philosophies and religious symbolism, Laird Scranton reveals how this shared creation tradition upholds the idea that ancient instruction gave birth to the great civilizations, each of which preserves fragments of the original knowledge.
Looking at the many manifestations of this shared cosmological knowledge, including in the Dogon and Maori cultures and in ancient Egypt, Gobekli Tepe, Vedic India, Buddhism, the Tibetan Bon religion, and the kabbalistic tradition of the Hebrews, Scranton explores the thought processes that went into formulating the archetype themes and metaphors of the ancient symbolic system. He examines how commonly shared principles of creational science are reflected in key terms of the ancient languages. He discusses how the primal cosmology also transmitted key components of sacred science, such as sacred geometry, knowledge of material creation, and the nature of a nonmaterial universe--evidence for which lies in the orientation of ancient temples, the drama of initiations and rituals, and countless traditional myths. He analyzes how this shared knowledge relates to the precessional year and the cycles of time known as the yugas. He also explores evidence of the concept of a nonmaterial twin universe to our own--the “above” to our “below” in the famous alchemical and hermetic maxim.
Through his extensive research into the interconnected wisdom of the ancients, Scranton shows that the forgotten instructional tradition at the source of this knowledge was deliberately encoded to survive for countless generations. By piecing it back together, we can discover the ancient plan for guiding humanity forward toward greater enlightenment.
224 pages, Paperback
Published July 7, 2020
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About the author
Laird Scranton
28 books54 followersHe is an independent software designer who became interested in Dogon mythology and symbolism in the early 1990s. He has studied ancient myth, language, and cosmology since 1997 and has been a lecturer at Colgate University. He also appears in John Anthony West’s Magical Egypt DVD series.
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September 24, 2020
Laird Scranton continues his series exploring an ancient cosmological plan for mankind. This is a book that brings it all into a wider focus, and the implications are astounding!
May 2, 2022
This is another rehash of French/Russian 19th century esoteric & occult beliefs. It's so easy to rehash the same ideas, since future generations are ignorant, and you can twist facts to meet your own conclusions & interpretations, so it sounds fresh to a new audience. People in 2022 are depressed, anxious, and looking for meaning. These con artists like Scranton are happy to sell things to people to hustle the desperate masses. I doubt Scranton has helped anyone with his writings.
The book is more accurately titled: "My Speculations on Dogon & Buddhist Symbols: How I Think They Are Secretly Teaching Astrophysics." I should've looked at the author's previous works first; it's clear that he's focused on the 1950s French take on the Dogon "religion." The whole interest in the Dogon people is connected to 19th century French occultism, which is related to Napoleon visiting Egypt, Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, and root race philosophies. It's branched off into things like the "Traditionalist Catholic" movement of French Catholics (i.e. SSPX/ICKSP/FSSP). France has been such a cancer on the planet (French monarchy, colonization, wars, occult nonsense), it would be good for everyone to understand the roots of so much of this thinking & to openly criticize every last variation of 19th century France.
He doesn't answer why the book is needed or what people should do with this knowledge. He's just giving random speculations & facts (e.g. litanies of interpretations of symbols and numerology), without coming out and saying something directly like this: "you should embrace Dogon or Buddhist cosmology to give you a meaningful life and to teach you about science." With these New Age books, they just give a bunch of speculations, but don't give you a community or way of life, so it seems pointless. Anyone can speculate on symbols and numerology. The whole numerology thing seems absolutely pointless, and I'm immediately skeptical of anyone who thinks numerology is worth discussing.
This book sounds like a lot of speculation & wishful thinking. It's the usual "the Vedas teach nuclear physics" which is standard New Age stuff, but nobody else really buys it, because that's not the purpose of the Vedas. The truth is, all "religions" and "spiritual teaching" are largely worthless in 2022, and should be tossed in the trash, doesn't matter if it's Kaballah, Catholicism, or esoteric New Age distortions of Native American "religion." People are trying to salvage what they can of previous esoteric & religious traditions, but I don't see the point today. So let's say the Dogon religion is teaching angular momentum (which I doubt). So what? Should we become Dogon initiates? Is there something the Dogons are teaching that is helpful today? Is their way of life & ritual superior and does it give humanity a real purpose? Does it satisfy human longing? I could understand if someone is saying "become an initiate" but they're not saying that.
The icing on the cake was when he said that the sexism of the Dogon people is ok, because it was part of teaching their hidden cosmology. Right.
The book is more accurately titled: "My Speculations on Dogon & Buddhist Symbols: How I Think They Are Secretly Teaching Astrophysics." I should've looked at the author's previous works first; it's clear that he's focused on the 1950s French take on the Dogon "religion." The whole interest in the Dogon people is connected to 19th century French occultism, which is related to Napoleon visiting Egypt, Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, and root race philosophies. It's branched off into things like the "Traditionalist Catholic" movement of French Catholics (i.e. SSPX/ICKSP/FSSP). France has been such a cancer on the planet (French monarchy, colonization, wars, occult nonsense), it would be good for everyone to understand the roots of so much of this thinking & to openly criticize every last variation of 19th century France.
He doesn't answer why the book is needed or what people should do with this knowledge. He's just giving random speculations & facts (e.g. litanies of interpretations of symbols and numerology), without coming out and saying something directly like this: "you should embrace Dogon or Buddhist cosmology to give you a meaningful life and to teach you about science." With these New Age books, they just give a bunch of speculations, but don't give you a community or way of life, so it seems pointless. Anyone can speculate on symbols and numerology. The whole numerology thing seems absolutely pointless, and I'm immediately skeptical of anyone who thinks numerology is worth discussing.
This book sounds like a lot of speculation & wishful thinking. It's the usual "the Vedas teach nuclear physics" which is standard New Age stuff, but nobody else really buys it, because that's not the purpose of the Vedas. The truth is, all "religions" and "spiritual teaching" are largely worthless in 2022, and should be tossed in the trash, doesn't matter if it's Kaballah, Catholicism, or esoteric New Age distortions of Native American "religion." People are trying to salvage what they can of previous esoteric & religious traditions, but I don't see the point today. So let's say the Dogon religion is teaching angular momentum (which I doubt). So what? Should we become Dogon initiates? Is there something the Dogons are teaching that is helpful today? Is their way of life & ritual superior and does it give humanity a real purpose? Does it satisfy human longing? I could understand if someone is saying "become an initiate" but they're not saying that.
The icing on the cake was when he said that the sexism of the Dogon people is ok, because it was part of teaching their hidden cosmology. Right.
August 16, 2020
It is great to see Laird connecting Gobelki Tepe with sub-atomic quantum physics and potential parallel universes. Not for the faint of heart. So much to consider.
April 2, 2022
whilst hard to read in parts, the philosophies opened my eyes to the possibilities of what really happened, which is not what the history books account. lots to think about with this text.
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