Ancestral Astronomy Life and the Soul

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The connection between Astronomy and Life on Earth was, and remains, the most challenging mystery for which Humanity seeks a plausible scientific and spiritual answer.  From the ancestral world to the modern one, from science to spirituality, the question remains the same: where do we come from, where are we going, and what are we doing here?

When we reflect on this, we are drawn to physical Life, but also to the Life of the Soul. After all, what is our connection to Nature, to Heaven, and to Earth? What is our relationship with Space and Time, with Astronomy and the Universe?

Ancestral Astronomy and the study of Calendars make it clear that the answers found by ancestral cultures regarding the scientific and spiritual meaning of Life on Earth found no boundaries between the material and spiritual Universe.The different manifestations and forms of life in the Universe were identified as chains of universal evolutionary events—physical and psychic, complementary and simultaneous.

It was a culture where science and spirituality were developed in an integrated way based on the knowledge of Astronomy. An Astronomy that knew the pattern generated in the dynamics of astronomical cycles during planet Earth's journey through the Universe, and which scientifically explains that life and nature on its surface are generated upon this very same cosmic pattern.

For ancestral cultures, planet Earth and the nature on its surface are thus a creation of the Universe, a structure built upon a specific dynamic in the cosmos.

A three-dimensional fractal described at every moment in the Space and Time of the Earth, in a perpetual, constant, and evolutionary movement, where Humanity also emerged.

We are natural systems created on Earth upon the same Space-Time pattern found by Astronomy, with the same order, harmony, and proportion of the orbital dynamics between the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun, on their journey through the Universe.

It was through the techniques of observing the Sky and the Earth that ancestral cultures could conclude that the study of planetary cycles and orbits could offer many important clues and teachings about the true identity of the Universe.

By studying Astronomy and the circular system, ancestral cultures could learn Mathematics and Geometry from the Universe, explaining a three-dimensional Universe organized by chains of "systems upon systems," of various orders and dimensions, recognized also in nature.

The study of planetary cycles revealed a mathematical and geometric Universe, which provided the learning of basic principles of mathematics, as well as knowledge of current plane, three-dimensional, and sacred Geometry.

The way the Universe mathematically and geometrically organizes orbital systems and nature was a pattern recognized in Heaven and on Earth by Humanity as early as ancestral cultures.

The study of calendars shows that the patterns found in Astronomy in antiquity, which are at the origin of the foundations of Mathematics and Geometry, are the same ones used today. The pillars of modern and ancestral human knowledge correspond, after all, to the laws and forms of manifestation of the Universe, finding their justification and explanation in Astronomy.

In Modern Science and Astronomy, the expansion of the Universe is observed as a physical and chemical laboratory of cause and effect, of light, energy, and matter.

The knowledge and technologies developed by modern culture regarding Life and Astronomy are very advanced; however, it is a knowledge stripped of any meaning for the life of the Soul.

With modern scientific models and knowledge, it is difficult to establish a line of correspondence between the Universe and the Natural and Spiritual life felt here, on the surface of the Earth.

The modern scientific astronomical system describes increasingly distant Universes, in dimensions and spaces increasingly difficult for Humanity to conceive, thus creating an ever-widening void between the Universe and the meaning of life in our daily lives on Earth.

A scientific gap that returns us to a feeling of non-belonging to the Universe and makes us feel like true aliens, lost somewhere in Space and Time, surrendered to a difficult, intense, and meaningless life—which we fiercely defend even knowing that we are all going to die.

This is a pragmatic and non-spiritualized scientific view of Life and the Universe. A thought that represents the pillar of modern culture, with an important influence on the development and structuring of the life of Nature, the Soul, the Earth, and Humanity.

Modern science does not include Spirituality and the life of the Soul in the study of the order of the Universe—a theme considered transcendent, left to Masters, Sages, and religions.

These are themes and teachings transmitted through sacred scriptures, history manuals, metaphors, and prophecies that explain how life on Earth and Humanity are governed by Laws and commandments of Order and good Conduct under divine command.

This corresponds to the Human need to connect with something greater in their lives, even if outside scientific parameters. Teachings with a religious and spiritual focus reveal profound knowledge about the Laws and Order of the Universe, in which Ancestral Astronomy knowledge is included and can be recognized.

The search for a transcendent sense that returns a spiritual or sacred meaning to our lives does not seem to be a Human invention; on the contrary, it is an existential manifestation innate to humanity—an intuition that finds us without asking permission.

In ancestral cultures, emotional experiences, consciousness, and spirituality are identified and observed as manifestations of the Universe itself.

A Universe of a transcendent, spiritual, and material character, observed and studied through the astronomical system, where orbits, events, and planetary cycles can be related to the order and forms of life found in matter, as well as in the distribution of the flow of physical and psychic energy.

These manifestations are noted across multiple dimensions and forms, in each particular segment of Earth's Space-time.

Physical life and the life of the Soul, in ancestral cultures, were thus observed in an integrated and inseparable way within the parameters of the study of the Universe and Astronomy, under the same laws and order of cosmic expansion.

It was a scientific system that studied and observed the manifestations of the Universe in a circular and cyclical way, defined by Time, Space, Movement, and Expansion, where the spiritual and emotional cycles and experiences felt in the life of nature were also included simultaneously.

The study of calendars invites us to observe how ancestral knowledge about the Universe and Astronomy relates to natural and emotional life under the same proportions. This leads Humanity to a physical and psychic fusion that culminates in the highest character of the relationship between life and physical and psychic nature: Spirituality.

A relationship of Astronomy versus Spirituality that explains the presence and constant references to themes and knowledge of Ancestral Astronomy in scriptures and spiritual teachings across almost all cultures and religions on Earth.

Ancestral cultural knowledge and references continue to be transmitted and taught by modern cultures, even if their sources of origin are not identified or known.

These are enigmatic teachings and knowledge that can be explained and confirmed through the ancestral astronomical system that forms the basis of calendars.

This knowledge reached us in a fragmented way, through symbols and codes, where there is no common thread that allows us to establish a line of reasoning leading us back to Astronomy.

Einstein and Jung are the great inspirations of the 20th century so that, today, the contents of this study and of Ancestral Astronomy can be understood.

With the development of concepts such as 'Quantum', 'Space-Time', 'Archetype', and 'Synchronicity', which represent new paradigms for our culture, they indicate new scientific and existential paths where it may be worthwhile to consider and include the knowledge of Ancestral Astronomy.

The concept of 'Quantum' is one of these references. It was introduced by Max Planck, considered the father of quantum physics at the beginning of the 20th century, who proposed the idea that energy was not emitted by the Universe continuously, but in 'packets'.

A theory that can remind us, even if through different dimensions and languages, of ancestral astronomical teachings, which explain that the Universe expands and evolves through chains of "systems upon systems" of various dimensions, which articulate with each other in a cyclical, ordered, and proportional way, rather than in a linear or cause-and-effect manner.

Quantum Physics had Einstein as a founder and, simultaneously, as a critic. He believed that the Laws of nature were not governed by probabilities or chance, but by a natural order, claiming that "God does not play dice with the Universe."

With this expression, among many other possible interpretations, Einstein may be proposing the idea that there is an established relationship of Order between the Physical Universe and the Sacred.

Possibly just an intuition on the part of this great physicist, suggesting that the dynamic between God and the Universe should not be random or by luck, but ordered, systematic, and also spiritual.

The 'Quantum' meaning in our culture remains a concept at the level of ideas and of a subjective character, not yet having been concretely integrated into our reality or nature, perhaps because it emerged adjusted to Modern Science.

To better understand life and matter, the modern scientific observation system is fundamentally performed at microscopic, molecular, or atomic levels, translated into complex equations and irrational values. Thus, the concept of 'Quantum' became a prisoner of the modern scientific system, which describes the behavior of matter and energy in forms and scales unimaginable to the human mind.

It is increasingly common to use the 'quantum' metaphor outside scientific contexts to transmit existential or philosophical ideas related to a kind of non-linear evolutionary leap, applicable across multiple and different existential dimensions. A philosophical 'quantum' concept quite close to the ancestral scientific meaning, explaining that the Universe and Nature do not expand or evolve linearly.

Contrary to modern science, ancestral scientific observations were performed on elements of a singular and whole character, considered sacred and indivisible. Integrated into systems with dynamics organized in a circular and cyclical way on a journey through the Universe.

Systems formed by whole and indivisible structures, inserted into a cosmic evolution of a cyclical character, which expand and articulate in the Universe simultaneously with other systems, larger or smaller than their own, crossing inside and outside themselves across multiple dimensions and different speeds.

These dynamics were observed individually or simultaneously, through structures and systems articulated in a circular and cyclical way, on evolutionary scales and dimensions proper to each one, described at every moment in Space and Time. 

This is how Science and Ancestral Astronomy describe a universal system that creates and expands all forms and manifestations of life, physical and psychic, in Space and on the surface of the Earth; which manifests, evolves, and expands in a quantum way.

The theoretical formulation of the existence of a 'Space-Time' in the cosmos is also one of the essential concepts for the possible integration and understanding of the knowledge that Ancestral Astronomy can provide us.

In Classical Physics, Space and Time were considered separate and immutable entities. In 1905, Einstein gave rise to the Special Theory of Relativity, where he suggests that Space and Time are relative to the observer's positioning.

The concept of 'Space-time' as an inseparable, uninterrupted, and four-dimensional duo was suggested in Physics only in 1908 by Hermann Minkowski, Einstein's professor. Later, in the General Theory of Relativity (1915), Einstein added Matter to Space and Time, explaining how Gravity is not a force, but the curvature of Space-time caused by the passage of matter (mass and energy) in the Universe.

It thus became possible for the first time to have a geometric interpretation of Space-time in Modern Physics—a conception very close to the ancestral geometric and mathematical Space-time, even if observed from different perspectives.

In psychology, Jung introduced the 'Archetype' and 'Synchronicity' into our culture's thought. The 'Archetype' invites us to observe how there are universal patterns that innately influence behaviors, thoughts, and emotions; the psyche and the collective unconscious of humanity.

Psychic patterns that manifest through images, dreams, and symbols, where elements of Nature and Astronomy are the primary source of universal inspiration.

A paradigm that invites us to observe how physical and material reality and psychic and emotional reality are both created and manifested by the Universe—they are merely two sides of the same coin.

There is a direct and simultaneous correspondence between physical reality and psychic reality, revealed by dream images or 'Archetypes' expressed by emotions; the Prima Materia transformed into alchemy in the creation of the great work that represents the fusion of physical and spiritual life within the Universe.

Meanwhile, 'Synchronicity' is explained by Jung as the bridge that establishes the connection between the subjective emotional experience and the objective external reality, justified by the significant correspondence that exists between thoughts, emotions, or dreams and events in the physical world.

Where once again the idea that anything can be random or by luck in the Universe is rejected, but rather the opposite, as there is a pattern and an intrinsic connection between all things in Nature.

With the integration of the concept of 'Synchronicity' existing in the Universe into our 20th-century culture, and the explanation that there is a synchrony between physical and psychic reality through the definition of 'Archetypes', these are possibly the new paradigms that will bring us closer to the astronomical and scientific contents of ancestral cultures.

Cultures that habituated us to relate, in a symbolic or concrete way, Astronomy and Nature on the surface of the Earth.

The scientific and philosophical dynamic offered by Einstein and Jung in the 20th century can be compared to the meaning and complementarity between the physical and psychic life of the Universe. If Einstein's journey is physical and mathematical, Jung's is led by the Soul, the Spirit, and the Self.

Jung identifies different perspectives, positions, and dimensions in Space and Time in the relationship between the Soul, the Spirit, and the Self.

Three psychic structures that expand like matter, in a circular and cyclical way, in life on Earth and in the Universe.

The Soul is explained by Jung as the broadest manifestation of a sacred character of human life, which identifies and transports us to a dimension beyond the Earth.

While the Spirit is a dynamic identity, always in transformation, that communicates, conducts, and evolves during the process of expansion of the life of the Soul, and the conscious and rational life generated by the Self on the surface of the Earth.

The Soul communicates with the Self through dreams, using symbols and abstract images of a universal character.

The Spirit is the manifestation that acts unconsciously upon the Self, gaining form and transforming within the conscious and rational life of the Self, allowing the Soul to be present.

In this way, Jung invites us to accompany the journey of the Soul, in a dynamic and integrated way with the Spirit and the Self through Space and Time—a path manifested in an evolutionary way, in full expansion through the Universe.

And if, for some reason, at any point in history, Humanity felt the need to separate Science from the life of the Soul, perhaps now we have the opportunity to bring them back together.