Seeking the Primordial: Exploring Root Concepts of Cosmological Creation - Softcover

Scranton, Laird

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1977950922 ISBN 13: 9781977950925

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Einstein believed that matter must arise from a simple set of physical dynamics. So did many of the classic ancient creation traditions, such as the Buddhist and Hindu traditions in India, the Kabbalist tradition of Judaism, and the Dogon and Egyptian creation traditions of Africa.Priests of the modern-day Dogon tribe of Mali point to a set of primordial processes of matter that go well beyond what modern popularizers of physics typically discuss. Techniques of comparative cosmology help us to align those processes with likely scientific counterparts, based on a consensus of ancient views.What's revealed are new and compelling perspectives on how our universe is said to interact with a non-material twin universe, how the dimensions of time and space are understood to emerge from non-materiality, and how these seemingly scientific archaic concepts formed an enduring foundation for ancient and modern religion.This book is the most recent in a series of comparative studies of ancient cosmology and language by independent researcher, Laird Scranton.

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The priests of the modern-day Dogon tribe of Mali say that their ancient symbolic tradition describes how matter forms. It does so in terms so seemingly scientific
that we can actually compare them side-by-side with modern scientific descriptions
and diagrams. The Dogon recitation of the stages of matter establishes a credential
of correct knowledge for the archaic source from which they ostensibly originated. Remarkably, the Dogon accurately define and diagram the stages of matter from
its primordial wavelike state, all the way up to the concept of an atom. They
understand their ancient symbolic system as a deliberately instructed tradition,
one whose elements seemingly survived as the symbolic archetypes that Carl
Jung widely correlated for ancient cultures. This system of scientific symbols was perhaps best preserved by the outwardly-primitive Dogon tribe, and in the closely matched stupa tradition of ancient Buddhism.

The focus of this book, however, is on an even more essential body of knowledge
that is also reflected in the Dogon symbolic tradition, one that arguably goes beyond
the usual limits of our current understanding. This deeper knowledge centers on underlying questions that are typically taken for granted in the traditional viewpoints
of science and religion. Such questions include:

How do concepts of our material universe relate to non-materiality?
How does space come to be evoked in our material universe?
What concepts underlie the figures of Sacred Geometry?
How can we reconcile the odd effects of the quantum world with the material world?
Why do we experience time as a directional, forward-moving arrow?
Is there, as ancient philosophers thought, a primordial aether and what is its nature?
How does the concept of a dimension relate to concepts of measure?
By what process does quantum entanglement accomplish its very odd effects?
Is the Yuga Cycle a reasonable scientific concept, and if so, what perpetuates it?
What impact does the Yuga Cycle have on human consciousness?
On what structures of the universe do the most ancient concepts of deity rest?

About the Author

Laird Scranton is the author of a series of books and other writings on ancient cosmology and language. These include articles published in the University of Chicago’s Anthropology News academic journal, Temple University’s Encyclopedia of African Religion and the Encyclopedia Britainnica. He is featured in John Anthony West’s Magical Egypt documentary series and in Carmen Boulter’s documentary The Pyramid Code. He is a frequent guest on a wide range of radio and podcast interview shows including Red Ice Radio in Europe, Art Bell’s Desert at Midnight, and Coast-to-Coast Radio with George Noory. He is also a frequent presenter at conferences whose focus is on ancient knowledge. These include Walter Cruttenden’s Conference on Precession and Ancient Knowledge (CPAK), the A.R.E.’s Ancient Mysteries Conference, Scotty Roberts and John Ward’s Paradigm Symposium, the Fringe New Jersey Conference, and James Swager's Megalithic Odyssey Symposium, in Marlborough, England. His books include: The Science of the Dogon (2006) (Republished edition of Hidden Meanings (2003)) Sacred Symbols of the Dogon (2007) The Cosmological Origins of Myth and Symbol (2010) The Velikovsky Heresies (2012) China's Cosmological Prehistory (2014) Point of Origin(2015) The Mystery of Skara Brae (2016) Decoding Maori Cosmology (due May 2018) His work is also featured in two books called Forbidden Science (2008) and Lost Secrets of the Gods (2014). He helped co-author Ed Nightingale’s book The Giza Template (2014).

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1977950922
• ISBN 13: 9781977950925
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 220