Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    From $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Primal Wisdom of the Ancients: The Cosmological Plan for Humanity
    Primal Wisdom of the Ancients: The Cosmological Plan for Humanity
    Primal Wisdom of the Ancients: The Cosmological Plan for Humanity
    Audiobook6 hours

    Primal Wisdom of the Ancients: The Cosmological Plan for Humanity

    Written by Laird Scranton

    Narrated by Micah Hanks

    4.5/5

    ()

    Switch to ebook

    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInner Traditions Audio
    Release dateDec 29, 2020
    ISBN9781644113677
    Author

    Laird Scranton

    Laird Scranton 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. He lives in Albany, New York.

    Related to Primal Wisdom of the Ancients

    Related audiobooks

    Body, Mind, & Spirit For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • UNLIMITED

      The Emerald Tablet

      Mar 27, 2020

      The Emerald Tablet
      1 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS

      Jun 11, 2020

      EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS
      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Alchemy in Europe

      Feb 28, 2020

      Alchemy in Europe
      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Science of Early Buddhism

      Feb 6, 2018

      The Science of Early Buddhism
      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Michael Wood On…

      Sep 1, 2022

      In my job, travelling the world making films on history and culture, I’ve spent a lot of time exploring religion in its many manifestations. Religion, after all, is a gift for the camera: full of colour, action and often moving rituals. It’s also a c

      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Unlocking Sacred Geometry

      Feb 27, 2020

      Unlocking Sacred Geometry
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Philosophy of Ancient Greece

      Feb 28, 2020

      The Philosophy of Ancient Greece
      11 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Reality of Color Is Perception

      Jan 11, 2018

      Philosophers have a bad reputation for casting unwarranted doubt on established facts. Little could be more certain than your belief that the cloudless sky, on a summer afternoon, is blue. Yet we may wonder in earnest, is it also blue for the birds w

      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Reality of Color Is Perception: An argument for a new definition of color.

      Jul 23, 2015

      Philosophers have a bad reputation for casting unwarranted doubt on established facts. Little could be more certain than your belief that the cloudless sky, on a summer afternoon, is blue. Yet we may wonder in earnest, is it also blue for the birds w

      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Transcendent Brain

      Dec 5, 2022

      The Transcendent Brain
      15 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Reality Ouroboros

      Sep 4, 2024

      “Among the roots of your classicism you must include your passions for the stars.” —Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living What is reality? And is there just one reality or many, perhaps infinitely many? And how should we describe these realities, wi

      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Kia Whakanuia te Whenua: People, Place, Landscape

      May 2, 2021

      New Zealand’s Landscape Foundation has produced a deeply rigorous and challenging book with an overtly optimistic and generative tone, which deserves to be read widely by landscape architects. It provides a rich documentation of the landscape and cul

      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      What Is the Buddha in You?

      Sep 14, 2021

      What Is the Buddha in You?
      9 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      A Bongard Problem

      Jun 4, 2018

      This text adopts the form of a Bongard problem, which is a kind of puzzle with two sides. In Bongard problems, the viewer is meant to decipher the singular difference between two sets of geometric forms. They have been used as a way to illustrate met

      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Pottery: A Tool for Cultural Preservation in Some Niger Delta Traditions

      Nov 1, 2019

      Indigenous art forms have become part and parcel of today’s cultural development. It is the symbolisation processes that were replete with physical qualities in traditional civilisation. These attributes are found in clothing, housing, objects of rel

      13 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      YOUNG & EMERGING

      May 1, 2018

      YOUNG & EMERGING
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      My 3 Greatest Revelations

      Feb 1, 2024

      My 3 Greatest Revelations
      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      We Have to Talk About Doubt: How to tell the difference between scientific and conspiratorial skepticism.

      Sep 1, 2021

      What is the role of reasonable doubt in advancing science? And how should we contrast scientific doubt with the cavilling doubt of conspiracy theories which play little part in advancing understanding? Over the last year we have seen the scientific m

      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Book Briefs

      Jun 28, 2022

      AS A STUDENT and teacher of Zen, Joan Sutherland has spent her entire adult life with koans. That she has “loved and struggled” with koans for so long is evident in her lush and evocative Through Forests of Every Color: Awakening with Koans (Shambhal

      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Big Bang Is Hard Science. It Is Also a Creation Story.

      Aug 8, 2019

      In some ways, the history of science is the history of a philosophical resistance to mythical explanations of reality. In the ancient world, when we asked “Where did the world come from?” we were told creation myths. In the modern world, we are inste

      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Flower Power

      Jul 6, 2022

      Flower Power
      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Primal Wisdom of the Ancients

    4.5/5

    11 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words