Amy

The Gestalt of History

History forms a gestalt that parallels the development of a single individual. The speed at which historical time proceeds mirrors the individual’s experience of time. All of history adapts to this gestalt. History’s dramas and traumas correspond to those of the individual as he/she ages. If there is a point to this, it is that historical time and individual time converge as individuals consciously harmonize with eternity.

Eons of prehistoric unconsciousness…

Conception and fetal development…

The Garden of Eden.

Newborn bliss.

The Fall

Primal self-awareness.

The Flood

The infant catastrophically experiences its otherness, but then learns to accept it and receives a rainbow.

Egypt

The infant has become a tot, is becoming aware of opposites and of the grandeur of size and shape.

The Jews

The tot is pharaoh to itself, just as its parents are also pharaoh. God resolves this—a force that transcends the stalemate of wills in parent/child interaction. The child grapples to obey Law.

Greece

The child is four. Like the ancient Greeks, it is preoccupied with drama. A Platonic appreciation of form arises.

Jesus Christ Superstar

The child may experience the majesty of love.

The Dark Ages

The child is 6-7. Chaos and cruelty on the playground. Barbaric behavior.

The Renaissance

A renewed appreciation of life. Mastery. The child is 8-10.

The Emergence of Romantic Love into Consciousness.

The child is 11-12 and has severe crushes.

1800: perhaps the most dynamic period in all of history. The advent of freedom, democracy, modern science, childhood, romantic love as the reason for marriage, feminism, the industrial age, Romanticism…

13-15 The teen is an adult, but lacks adult knowledge.

War, the Great Depression, mass oppression and Communism.

The teen is 16-17. It is a time of adolescent tumult.

The Awakening of the 1960s. The seeding of Kingdom Come.

The freedom of being 18.

From this point on historical time begins the process of being deconstructed by consciousness. Various historical periods overlap and clash with each other as time deconstructs.

An age that might personify this period is 27, the dead-rock-star age: Jim, Jimi, Janis, and most notably Kurt Cobain, rejecting the world, embracing Nirvana through suicide.

Eternal Global Awareness: Gaia.

Ageless Global Awareness: Gaia.

 

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