Aug 29, 2026

Gods or Archetypes, Myths or Science in Ancestral Astronomy

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Acrylic on canvas painting "Gods or Archetypes", by Joana Burnay.

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Part I — Celestial Mechanics and Circular Science

I - 1. The 1440-Minute Matrix and the Cosmic Harmonic Order

I - 2. Circular Science — The Transition from the Skies to Earth I - 3. The 1440-Minute Matrix — The Reference Frame for Integrated Evolution I - 4. The Three-Dimensionality of Space-Time — Solar and Sidereal Directions

I - 5. The Synchronicity and Proportion of Orbital Dynamics

I - 6. Natural and Cyclical Systems

I - 7. The Paradigms — The Ancestral Method and Modern Mechanism

I - 8. The Horizontal Projection — Space-Time as the Generator of Life

I - 9. The Psychical Dimension of Matter and the Cognitive Intelligence of the Universe


Part II — Living Nature, the Psyche, and the Emotionality of Matter

II - 1. The Psychical and Emotional Network of Matter and Spiritual Sublimation II - 2. The Emergence of the New Paradigm — From the Deconstruction of Descartes to the Recognition of the Rights of Nature

II - 3. The Modern Energy Paradigm — From Quantum Mechanics to Holistic Approaches

II - 4. Ancestral Technology and Nature as a Cosmic Laboratory

II - 5. The Dual Cosmic Manifestation — The Dialogue Between the Visible and the Invisible

II - 6. Self-Regulation, Resistance, and Cyclical Adaptation of Life

Part III — Archetypes, Mythology, and the Paradigm Shift

III - 1. The Geometry of Space-Time in Mathematics, Architecture, and Spirituality

III - 2. Gods as Archetypes and Alignment with the Cosmic Order

III - 3. Mythology as a Psychical Science — Bridges with Jung and Joseph Campbell

III - 4. The Cycle of Paradigms: Kuhn and Planck's Principle




Ancestral Astronomy logo by Joana Burnay.


Part I — Celestial Mechanics and Circular Science

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I - 1. The 1440-Minute Matrix and the Cosmic Harmonic Order

Understanding the underlying system of Ancestral Astronomy, as developed throughout this research on calendars, is essential to comprehend why ancient civilizations attributed an absolute cultural, scientific, and spiritual significance to astronomy.

It was within the orbits of the planets and their interactions with one another—traced and described across space and time—that these cultures identified the pattern through which the universe manifested in the sky, replicating those same laws and expansive order onto the surface of every planet.

The astronomical pattern upon which this study is grounded stems from a circular ancestral observation, employing the 1440-Minute Matrix as its primary operational tool.

This investigation focused on discovering and interpreting the mathematical and geometric patterns that formed the foundational structures of ancient calendars—which proved to be authentic manuals of astronomy.

The analytical method and the findings of this research centered primarily on the system formed by our planet Earth, the Moon, and the Sun.

It is from their respective orbits that we can confirm, based on ancestral methods and calculations, how the various movements, cycles, and alignments of this celestial mechanics—such as the translation and rotation of the Earth and the Moon, solar cycles and movements, lunations, tides, lunar nodes, and eclipses—articulate within a harmonious dynamic described through space-time patterns.

The ancestral planetary cycles and orbits considered in this study align precisely with those established by modern astronomical science. However, within Ancestral Astronomy, orbits and their mechanical dynamics are consistently described using whole, rational values; failing to achieve such figures simply indicates an incorrect approach in our observational calculations.

In this astronomy, it is an absolute law that the dynamics manifested by the universe correspond exclusively to perfect, harmonious, and proportional values across space-time, mathematics, and geometry—making it a self-correcting methodology.

The correspondences and insights offered by this astronomy extend even further: beyond the perfection and harmony of whole numbers used to calculate planetary orbits and cycles in coherent patterns, its methodology allowed the entire system to be identified three-dimensionally within space-time.

Thus, astronomy mapped the web woven by planetary dynamics upon organized, consistently proportional patterns rooted in fixed numerical values, dimensions, and amplitudes derived directly from planetary motion.

This web—where the circular, cyclic repetition of celestial patterns shapes its underlying structure—reproduces and multiplies into sequences of interconnected systems, systems within systems, across all scales and dimensions. These can be observed and integrated from multiple perspectives, alignments, and articulations—be they binary, ternary, quaternary, decimal, or duodecimal—all mathematically and geometrically perfect, perpetually proportional, and in complete harmony.

A cosmic blueprint provided by the universe—uncovered by Ancestral Astronomy.

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I - 2. Circular Science — The Transition from skies to Earth

Although the astronomical system of ancestral cultures differs considerably from the modern framework, the two never contradict one another. While planetary orbits are described using distinct methodologies, their final calculations ultimately coincide. Beyond the strict boundaries of astronomy, however, we can recognize within the operational foundations of modern culture core values and fundamental systems that correspond directly to the celestial dynamics explained by ancient traditions.

The equivalences identified between the scientific models of ancestral and modern cultures are constant and remarkable. Yet, despite these striking similarities, they do not always align within the same cultural, scientific, or spiritual domains.

Numerous teachings from ancient astronomy remain embedded within modern culture, science, and spirituality.

Many of these established concepts and conventions mirror the principles of this ancient astronomy; however, they are rarely recognized as such, nor are they attributed to any scientific origin within the foundational frameworks that justify their current use.

While the modern astronomical framework demonstrates absolute precision regarding planetary cycles and orbits, the ancestral method matches it with astonishing rigor and computational exactitude. Furthermore, delving deeper into these ancient scientific methods allows us to venture far beyond astronomy itself.

This research reveals that ancient civilizations operated under a scientific paradigm focused on the cyclical nature of reality—an observational framework where planetary expansion was not the only phenomenon proceeding circularly.

For these cultures, every phenomenon and event in the universe, across all scales and dimensions, evolved according to cyclical patterns of order.

This represents an ancestral scientific framework—a Circular Science—wherein any natural or planetary phenomenon was observed through the cycles governing its expansion and evolution throughout the cosmos, both in the skies and on Earth's surface.

A unified observational method applied seamlessly across culture, science, and spirituality.

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I - 3. The 1440-Minute Matrix — The Reference Frame for Integrated Evolution

In terms of calculation and celestial mechanics, ancestral cultures utilized a circular observational instrument—which we might consider an instrument of circular meditation, analogous to the modern Cartesian coordinate system. These represent distinct analytical tools tailored to different observational perspectives in each culture — the ancestral circular model and the modern linear framework.

It was upon this circular reference frame—the 1440-Minute Matrix—that ancient cultures organically studied and interpreted the laws and manifestations of the universe. This system allowed them to observe the cyclical order governing the evolutionary unfolding and expansion of natural events across all scales and dimensions.

Under this methodology, no event or phenomenon could be evaluated in isolation, linearly, or as a detached entity. Instead, everything was understood through a fixed, fundamental pattern of natural evolution, faithfully reflected within the 1440-Minute Matrix.

This constitutes the core foundation of Circular Science, where life and nature are explained and observed as an integrated evolutionary system. It is built upon cyclical models manifested across all forms of existence, in which everything abides by the same circular template of beginning, middle, and end—represented by the zero point, the 720-minute mark, and the 1440-minute completion on the Matrix.

Within this scientific framework, any universal element or event was analyzed comprehensively alongside its inherent natural cycles: birth (the zero point), maturity (720 minutes), and death (1440 minutes).

Ancestral knowledge was never restricted to purely physical or mechanical observations. In these cultures, every material and physical phenomenon was simultaneously accompanied by its psychical dimension. Reality was understood as a duality where any natural occurrence manifests across two complementary, inseparable domains: the physical plane and the psychical plane.

Consequently, any physical manifestation and expansion was always accompanied by its corresponding psychical expression and transformation, calculated and operated as a dual system of natural evolution.

For ancestral science, natural events developed along proportional patterns of simultaneous physical and psychical evolution—a universal condition and manifestation spanning all orders and dimensions. This was an essential equilibrium for any natural experience or event to be considered complete.

The findings of this study rest upon two main pillars — the first is dedicated to translating and detailing the ancestral astronomical system found within ancient calendars — the second focuses on interpreting and understanding the broader scientific concepts derived from this astronomical knowledge, articulating them with the laws and order of life and nature on Earth's surface.

Restoring the ancestral system of planetary cycle calculation stands as the central objective of this research. Deciphering this ingenious astronomical method made it possible to obtain a complete view of the true scope and rigor of the scientific knowledge these civilizations were able to achieve—an understanding that could open new possibilities and perspectives for different studies across all research areas related to astronomy and ancestral cultures.

While the primary pillar of this study rests upon celestial mechanics and its flawless, rigorous mathematical and geometric model, the second pillar builds upon the conceptual architecture supporting it — an integrated network of concepts derived from astronomy that gives rise to a coherent scientific paradigm: Circular Science.

It is within this conceptual network that the foundations of all ancestral science and knowledge reside—a system structured upon universal laws and validated by the teachings of astronomy, its true source of wisdom.

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I - 4. The Three-Dimensionality of Space-Time — Solar and Sidereal Directions 

Thus, the first and most important concept to consider within this network of knowledge derived from astronomy is the fact that these cultures attributed a dual character to the universe—physical and psychical—manifesting simultaneously and complementarily.

This is a fundamental concept in ancestral science, understood and confirmed by astronomy through its most critical convention, which defines space-time as a dynamic, three-dimensional network built upon three coordinates — two of space and one of time.

In this system, the same time coordinate was combined with two opposing and complementary spatial dimensions. This practice established two orbital directions that were always recognized by astronomy—the solar directional motion and the sidereal directional motion—thus revealing the inherently dual nature of space, time, and planetary movements.

It is important to emphasize that the ancestral sidereal motion referred to in this Ancestral Astronomy project does not correspond to the modern astronomical model, where distant stars serve as reference points for measurement, which diverges from the framework of this study.

In astronomy, motion in the solar direction establishes a correspondence with the manifestation pattern of the physical and material plane on the surface of the Earth and throughout the universe.

Meanwhile, the sidereal direction of the planets relates directly to the model of the universe's psychical plane.

These are concepts belonging to astronomy and space-time that anatomically align with the dual expression of natural events and phenomena, both physical and psychical. The solar and sidereal directions exist in perfect harmony with the physical and psychical manifestation of the universe.

The solar direction describes the orbiting planet in a direct and objective manner—an astronomical model that establishes a close conceptual analogy with how physical phenomena manifest and expand through the universe.

On the other hand, the meaning of the more creative character corresponding to the psychical plane manifested by the universe aligns with absolute precision to the concept attributed to sidereal direction in astronomy. This describes the secondary movement of any planet which, to avoid falling out of orbit, adds extra movements to its original path, allowing it to ascend, descend, spin, or wobble.

Solar and sidereal movements emerge in ancestral astronomy explained through speed dynamics—opposing, complementary, and simultaneous movements that grant space-time its creative and three-dimensional character.

This same system, stimulated by celestial dynamics, reproduces and manifests itself physically and psychically. It is a duality manifested by the universe and understood by ancient cultures, where the physical dimension acquires emotions and emotions take on a physical body, articulated proportionally in both expressions.

A template of life and of physical, psychical, and emotional form that is born, grows, and dies, strictly within the universal parameters and laws to which it belongs and which determine it. This was a pattern expressed by cosmic dynamics, continuously confirmed by nature on the surface of the Earth.

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I - 5. The Synchronicity and Proportion of Orbital Dynamics 

The conceptual relationship between the solar and sidereal directions in astronomy and the physical and psychical manifestations of the universe was not limited to their corresponding duality. This correspondence is also found within the mechanical forms that determine them.

The mathematical and geometric patterns through which astronomy describes space-time follow parameters of correspondence governing planetary orbits, how they intersect with other planets, and the dynamics established among them. This entire mechanics weaves a structure of consistently proportional patterns, articulated across multiple dimensions in complete harmony and synchronicity.

This reality expressed in the sky can also be observed on the surface of the Earth—a system developing through living, physical structures that expand and interconnect. It is a diverse network of systems that reproduce, intersect, and evolve both collectively and individually at the same time.

When we introduce sidereal motion to planetary orbits, we begin to comprehend the three-dimensional depth of their mechanics—revealing their obliquity and the creative variations added to their regular movement, as observed in astronomy. The orbital oscillations recorded during these sidereal movements do not occur randomly; rather, they follow an order of proportionality and equilibrium established relative to the structure of orbital movements in the solar direction.

This is a fundamental principle of astronomy, a pattern that can be clearly recognized in the growth processes of natural phenomena on Earth.

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I - 6. Natural and Cyclical Systems

On our planet, natural physical and material systems do not develop in an entirely identical manner; there are always minor differences in their structure and specific identity—whether observed within the same species or order, individually or systemically.

The specific conditions to which natural systems are subjected during their evolution influence and alter their development. These emerge as small variations that can be identified along their progression—a phenomenon that occurs within restricted bounds, proportionally to their original trajectory.

Just as in astronomy, where planets—to avoid falling out of orbit—add small movements in opposing directions to their regular paths under strict, essential laws of equilibrium and proportionality.

The same happens in nature on the surface of the Earth. Even if phenomena undergo minor alterations along their natural course, this remains a fundamental property of physical and material manifestation, establishing itself strictly within the patterns of balance and proportionality integrated into the basic parameters of their primary structure.

The cycles and orbits to which natural events on Earth and in astronomy are subjected throughout their physical existence are not merely simple mechanical transits. They are accompanied by a continuous shift in circumstances—resulting in the constant alteration of the qualitative experience within all events and phenomena at every given moment.

Solstices and equinoxes offer a prime practical example to illustrate this complementarity between mechanical evolution and the variations in the natural properties of events. The orbital mechanics of the Earth around the Sun, through its translational motion, generates a constant and gradual transformation of its natural qualities—the cycle of the seasons.

The changes manifested by the different positions along our planet's orbit are felt both by the planet itself and by nature, altering the character of phenomena—globally, individually, in an integrated and continuous manner—in their perceptions, impressions, and stimuli as their activity unfolds.

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I - 7. The Paradigms — The Ancestral Method and Modern Mechanism

In ancestral cultures, nature and the universe were not viewed as manifestations driven by purely physical mechanisms observed through abstract forces—such as energy, light, or gravity. These concepts did not exist within their scientific framework; they are specific phenomena and magnitudes explained from the perspective of modern science and culture.

Ancestral science was entirely founded upon the vast teachings of astronomy, with a profound and decisive emphasis on the concept of space-time—developed by these cultures in direct integration with their understanding of planetary mechanics.

This system of scientific observation explains how modern and ancestral sciences can describe the exact same phenomena using virtually incompatible methods. Although both are correct, they are built upon divergent paradigms—which do not contradict one another, but can perfectly complement each other.

The primary cultural, scientific, and spiritual divide between ancestral and modern civilizations is fundamentally determined by how each explains and articulates the physical and psychical manifestations of life, matter, and nature.

Modern science explains the manifestation of the universe mechanically from a physical and chemical perspective, where events emerge as a natural sequence of linear cause and effect.

The ancestral method, by contrast, describes the universe as a dynamic system organized upon structured patterns in the sky, manifesting in a physical, psychical, complementary, simultaneous, and proportional manner—across all scales and dimensions.

This is an order essentially explained by astronomy, where the laws and manifestation patterns of the universe are understood through shared reference points between heaven and Earth, establishing a direct relationship between the vertical dimension of the cosmos and the horizontal plane of life on the surface of our planet.

It is a scientific model confirmed and comprehensively observed within the systems of development and evolution of nature on Earth's surface, which also encompasses the evolutionary process of humanity's cultural and spiritual life.

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I - 8. The Horizontal Projection — Space-Time as the Generator of Life

A dynamic reality, multidimensionally constructed and generated from the structure of space-time, articulated and organized within its mathematical and geometric molds and patterns.

Nature was thus understood by ancestral cultures as a structure deeply rooted in the Earth, even though it was created upon the laws and dimensions dictated by the heavens. Earth's natural systems emerge seamlessly articulated and integrated with one another under the same laws, across all orders and dimensions, always operating within the parameters of balance and integrity expressed by space-time.

From this scientific perspective, whether observing events, animals, plants, or materials individually or collectively, nature was regarded as a single, integral structure spanning the horizontal space and time of the Earth's surface. Reality resembled a mantle cast by the heavens, unfolding across a mesh of integrated, cyclical, and evolutionary events—a dynamic with apparent life and willpower of its own, even while fully subjected to the laws and order of the universe.

It is from this correspondence between heaven and Earth that life and nature emerge, intrinsically bound to the space-time patterns described by planetary dynamics—a body of knowledge treated with deep scientific rigor by ancestral cultures.

This concept decisively rejected the notion that nature on the surface of our planet established itself autonomously. Instead, it was viewed as an extension of the astronomical events generated by its own orbit, translated into a reality projected onto a new, horizontal dimension.

The natural system of Earth's surface was explained by these cultures as a dynamic transmitting network aligned with the heavens—simply another dimension of the same space-time. However, while the space-time of the heavens is mapped by the planets, space-time on the horizontal plane functions in reverse: it acts as the direct generator of life and form.

On the surface, this space-time shapes and determines the patterns and laws governing how nature manifests across its multiple orders and dimensions. It is here that life, matter, and form arise, expanding and multiplying through mechanical, geometric, articulated, and proportional structures in their purely physical dimension.

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I - 9. The Psychical Dimension of Matter and the Cognitive Intelligence of the Universe

However, within this universal network established in space-time, in the heavens and on Earth, where systems expand and manifest according to laws of complementarity and dynamic equilibrium, the pattern repeats itself in its physical dimension—that of life, matter, and form. Yet, although driven by its own flow of evolution and development, this physical dimension only becomes truly complete with its counterpart: its psychical dimension.

The properties that determine space-time as the builder of life and nature in its purely physical dimension—even in full expansion and abundance—actually operate as a blind mechanism. It is functional, grandiose, and structurally harmonious, yet entirely incapable of expressing its qualitative dimension.

It is within the psychical dimension of the universe and of space-time, both in heaven and on Earth, that nature acquires the perception of the quality of experience. Ancient cultures considered this psychical system as deeply integrated with the physical dimension, like two sides of a single coin—fundamental manifestations of the universe that are complementary, simultaneous, and inseparable.

This scientific explanation of nature's psychical quality marks the sharpest point of divergence between ancestral and modern thought. For ancestral science, the physical manifestation of the universe is always accompanied by its psychical faculty—an essential property of matter that allows it to transcend its purely mechanical potential. Thus, it achieves its cognitive dimension, enabling it to perceive and comprehend the cyclical variations to which it is subjected during its processes of expansion and evolution, whether in the sky or on Earth.

The psychical dimension completes the operational code through which the universe manifests and creates life, matter, and nature. It adds an innate, organic sensitivity and emotionality to the dynamics of its natural systems—acting as the sensor that empowers nature to detect the stimuli received during its evolutionary mechanical experience.

Psyche is the natural quality of the universe that allows it to grasp and recognize the shifting variables and diverse aspects it encounters and interacts with—the very elements to which its system must adapt throughout its evolutionary cycles in space-time.

Thus, the dual physical and psychical dimension of the universe transforms nature into a dynamic endowed with its own intelligence. Through its internal sensory, cognitive, and emotional abilities, nature is able to process and respond to the stimuli detected at every moment of its expansion, translating them into varied experiences within its evolutionary system across space and time.

It is a system driven and woven by celestial dynamics—where matter becomes psychical and bodies acquire emotions. An evolution that unfolds simultaneously and completely integrated within the exact same space-time.

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Part II — Living Nature, the Psyche, and the Emotionality of Matter

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II - 1. The Psychical and Emotional Network of Matter and Spiritual Sublimation


The frameworks shaping the ancestral principles that linked matter with the psyche and astronomy are the exact same ones that characterize the universe's patterns of expansion and manifestation. These unfold in a circular, cyclical, mathematical, and geometric manner, operating upon models of multiple orders, dimensions, and scales that remain perpetually proportional and in complete harmony and balance—this is space-time, the stage upon which Earth's journey unfolds across the universe and upon its surface.

Physical life and the life of matter establish themselves within the very same structure where the psychical and emotional system develops. They operate upon the same laws, patterns, dimensions, and scales, maintaining the exact same perfect mathematical and geometric harmony, balance, and proportionality determined by the universe—two complementary dimensions functioning simultaneously and proportionally.

It is a visible and invisible universe, multiplying from two dimensions that interact within a dynamic, three-dimensional network of shared space-time—where matter and bodies expand and evolve both internally and externally, whether individually or systemically.

Accounts of experiences induced by psychedelic substances in altered states of consciousness—whether in clinical, therapeutic, spiritual, or transpersonal contexts—frequently reveal the presence of natural organisms interconnected by webs and geometric structures.

There are also reports in which elements such as stones, earth, or vegetation are perceived as a living, intelligent presence, possessing a tangible capacity to transmit profound feelings and emotions—of affection, joy, welcoming, and unconditional love.

The scientific system underpinning the ancestral principles regarding the web extending through nature on Earth and in the heavens, along with the interconnection of their systems, was not explained through random energetic forces. Instead, these phenomena were understood through far more organic models—manifestations explained by dynamically interconnected physical and psychical patterns and structures, in a state of constant mutation.

It is upon this connection between the psyche and matter that natural possibilities and experiences multiply exponentially. It is a dynamic wherein different emotionalities articulate across all scales and forms of life, generating an immense organic flow. This elevates the universe and nature into a vibrant spectacle of life, color, and emotion—one that, in its essence, feels, laughs, and cries, far beyond simply being born, growing, and dying.

And when reality presents itself in this way—through models of sensitivity, intelligence, and emotionality that connect matter, celestial mechanics, and life on planet Earth—we find the scientific justification for why ancestral cultures framed nature as a multidimensional physical and emotional phenomenon, meant to be experienced consciously and as an evolutionary journey for humanity.

It is within this cosmic model—where emotion, life, and form intermingle and elevate themselves upon patterns of balance and harmony—that spirituality emerges. This is the third ancestral dimension, the process of sublimation. It is the result of articulating the physical and psychical dimensions of the universe, ultimately offering a sacred meaning to life, to nature, and to evolution.

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II - 2. The Emergence of the New Paradigm — From the Deconstruction of Descartes to the Recognition of the Rights of Nature


It is fascinating to observe how many recent advances in modern science conceptually bridge the gap between two sciences and Eras as distant as the ancestral and the contemporary.

From the ancestral scientific perspective, their understanding of the universe's essence rested upon dynamics of emotionality attributed to all phenomena—at all times, across all dimensions and scales of nature, experienced either individually or collectively. It was an integrated system where form, matter, life, and emotions manifested across a seamless, unified network.

The evolution of science over the last few decades has been remarkable, moving beyond the classical perspective that confined emotion as a privilege of the human mind, and progressively restoring it to nature.

In the 17th century, philosopher and scientist René Descartes severed body and matter from mind and reason, framing emotion as an exclusive attribute of the human mind.

This view dominated Western science for over 300 years, even though it was challenged throughout this period—first by Charles Darwin in the 19th century with his publication The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, and later in the 20th century by researcher Jane Goodall, who demonstrated that animals also possess emotions.

However, the definitive, formal scientific blow to this model was delivered by António Damásio with his 1994 publication Descartes' Error, in which he demonstrated that emotion is a biological regulatory mechanism in the response of the body and matter. By removing emotions from humanity's exclusive domain, he initiated the process of returning them to all living organisms—recognizing them as an essential survival resource of nature itself.

In 2010, this understanding expanded into biology and ecology when biologist and professor Stefano Mancuso of the University of Florence laid the foundations for plant neurobiology, later detailed in his 2013 book Brilliant Green.

Concurrently, ecologist Suzanne Simard of the University of British Columbia published her pioneering studies in her 2021 work Finding the Mother Tree—demonstrating that plants and forest ecosystems communicate, respond to stimuli, and exchange information through integrated subterranean networks.

The early signs of a paradigm shift were consolidated on July 7, 2012, with the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness. In this manifesto, the global scientific community officially recognized that the structures generating emotional states and consciousness are shared across the entire animal kingdom. It was a formal ceremony bringing together an international group of neuroscientists, attended by physicist Stephen Hawking.

This topic has seen considerable progress at the dawn of the 21st century. Modern scientific evidence is increasingly validating ancestral concepts, demonstrating their importance and their subsequent impact on global legislation since 2008.

This has held clear relevance in Latin America, where nature has been recognized as a subject of rights. Examples include Ecuador's 2008 Constitution incorporating the concept of Pachamama; Bolivia's Law of the Rights of Mother Earth in 2010 and 2012; Colombia's recognition of the Atrato River in 2016 and the Amazon in 2018; as well as in Mexico and Peru, granting legal personhood to rivers and ecosystems.

In Europe and the Anglo-Saxon world, the shift has focused on removing living beings from the category of "things" and defining them instead as "sentient beings"—such as in France in 2015, Portugal in 2017, and both Spain and the United Kingdom in 2022.

These attitudes and legal amendments serve as inspiration for ecological movements and climate debates worldwide, exemplified by lawsuits regarding the rights of rivers in New Zealand, India, Ecuador, and Canada.

These are innovative movements. Even though their implementation may face serious challenges and governmental inertia, we are witnessing—both scientifically and culturally—the decline and overcoming of the dogma of anthropocentrism, a deteriorating worldview that has proven so reductive to the life of the Earth, nature, and humanity.

This is the confirmation that we are taking rapid strides toward a new paradigm, wherein humanity finally embraces nature as an integral part of itself—renewing the way we understand it. It is a revitalized scientific model where human life and the laws of the universe align and correspond—where the teachings of ancient civilizations will be able to offer a profound contribution to the building of a new Era and a heightened cosmic consciousness.

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II - 3. The Modern Energy Paradigm — From Quantum Mechanics to Holistic Approaches


The technological model of modern observation is based on the detection of energy and light waves—a system of measurement, calculation, investigation, and explanation applied across all scientific fields, from astronomy to medicine. It is an approach wherein the forces and transformations of natural events are observed through the energetic fields that surround them, relying on abstract concepts and measurements.

This scientific and cultural perspective has also been adopted by modern philosophical practices and holistic approaches. These disciplines observe the universe's influence on the human mind through concepts of energy and vibrational frequency—which, much like in modern science, are evaluated, interpreted, explained, and grounded in abstract concepts and references.

Modern science explains the universe by unifying the concepts of matter and energy as two sides of the same coin, where matter is understood as a manifestation of condensed energy. This system finds the laws of the universe in the speed of light and quantum mechanics, observed through the behavioral dynamics of matter (atoms) and energy (quanta, or energy packets), as well as in wave-particle duality—which manifests both in energy (photons) and even within matter itself (electrons).

This scientific framework, based on the dynamics of energy and light upon matter, has naturally influenced and transformed the current cultural paradigm. As a result, concepts and terms such as vibration, energy, and frequency have emerged to describe psychological and spiritual states within social or individual interactions.

Consequently, in both science and modern culture, reality is recognized and defined through paradigms rooted in energy—whether physical or psychical.

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II - 4. Ancestral Technology and Nature as a Cosmic Laboratory


In the science of ancestral cultures, concepts such as energies, light waves, or abstract forces like gravity, magnetism, or friction were not considered. Instead, natural events and phenomena were explained through the knowledge of space-time and astronomy. It was a cultural and scientific system that understood the laws and manifestation of the universe through ordered, dynamic, and cyclical patterns and structures. These were determined by the space-time of both the Earth and the heavens—expressed in their complementary dimensions, physical and psychical alike.

A deeply organic scientific model that turned planet Earth, nature, and humanity into its laboratory. Its foundations rested upon astronomical teachings, which were mirrored in the behavior of natural processes across all phenomena, planes, scales, and terrestrial dimensions.

These cultures understood the frameworks through which nature develops and expands. They studied the profound meanings and relationships between elements, recognized the influence of time cycles upon events, and comprehended their ordered functioning in direct analogy with the structures and patterns woven by celestial mechanics.

They scientifically associated natural elements and phenomena with astronomical objects and events—establishing direct relationships between them. Nature served as the great cosmic clock, setting the rhythm for both physical and psychical events on the surface of the Earth. It was by observing these cyclical occurrences and natural behaviors that they studied and identified the appropriate forms and moments for human intervention—whether cultural, scientific, or spiritual.

These cosmic cycles and events, which were foundational to the construction of space-time, were also confirmed and observed in the celestial vault through the construction of observatories, temples, and monuments. Erected along multiple alignments between heaven and Earth, they confirmed the extreme punctuality and rigor of our journey through the universe. Consequently, ancient civilizations built grand astronomical centers equipped with high-precision scientific observation instruments, whose functionality is comparable to that of our modern telescopes.

Ancestral cultures possessed the profound awareness of inhabiting a natural system where no phenomenon or event exists in isolation. On the contrary, within this reality, all phenomena reveal themselves in a state of reciprocal interdependence—whether through connections forged among elements of the same kind or between distinct elements, spanning the animal, vegetal, and material kingdoms.

It was a continuous network of connections invisible to ordinary human perception, yet scientifically recognized and deeply considered by a cultural system that utilized nature as its primary laboratory. Their cutting-edge technology consisted of specific plants, mushrooms, and cacti provided by nature itself. Through altered states of consciousness, these tools granted them the ability to transcend the limits of the human dimension, enabling them to conduct experiments and observations of a genuinely scientific nature.

This confirmed that nature was a living organism defined by organic and dynamic interactions. Their system of scientific observation, though operating across vastly different dimensions, can be compared to the particle accelerators of modern science, where humanity pushes the very boundaries of nature in order to understand it more profoundly.

These experiences proved that all entities—whether animals or plants, stones or rivers on the surface of the Earth—were not merely connected to one another. Instead, they acted as intersections traversed by a latent and living emotionality. It was a vision of nature where every element manifested its own emotional expression—a process of continuous transformation that resonated and reverberated throughout the entire network.

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II - 5. The Dual Cosmic Manifestation — The Dialogue Between the Visible and the Invisible

It is precisely the emotionality in which life on Earth is submerged—and which ancestral cultures understood and studied scientifically—that profoundly alters the system upon which cultural, spiritual, and artistic knowledge is structured, as well as its influence on the life and history of these civilizations.

A scientific development of a natural model, grounded on the principle that the universe has two forms of manifestation—one visible and material, and another invisible and psychical—that expand and evolve in a complementary manner.

The material manifestation is defined in the process of growth and evolution of the physical body, combined with the successive orbital dynamics and evolutionary cycles that determine the natural rhythm in which birth, development, and dissolution unfold—an order to which all phenomena are subjected during their journey through space-time, whether on Earth or in the heavens.

Meanwhile, the psychical manifestation emerges as an organic reflection upon these exact same orbital dynamics and evolutionary cycles, revealing itself emotionally in a process of constant mutation. This materializes within the physical body, modifying its development according to the laws and orders of its formation, transformation, and transmutation—a natural psychical expansion and amplification to which all bodies are subjected.

This is a sensitive and physical perception of nature that can be identified at every moment—in space and in time, in heaven and on Earth, across any dimension—transmitting and triggering cognitive alterations throughout the entire material system.

It is an emotional and intelligent natural system that reacts to the stimuli provided by its mechanical dynamics, in an articulation that unites the psychical with the physical—forming and being born, transforming and developing, transmuting and dissolving. It exists in a universe where all things possess simultaneous emotional and material projections across all dimensions.

All of this amplifies the importance and relevance of life and form—across multiple planes, colors, sounds, and feelings—making this journey far more than a purely individual mechanical experience. It transforms it into a shared adventure, a manifestation of beauty and perfection, a stimulating commitment between each element and the whole, where every part must fulfill its role.

It is, therefore, an integrated system where each part fulfills its fundamental purpose within the whole, regardless of its final destiny. It is a living nature that transcends mere contemplation, compelling all of its elements toward active participation.

In this universe, at every moment or event in space and time, life manifests through cyclical processes, both physical and psychical—whether in sickness or in health, in joy or in sorrow, across all forms of life and matter. It is a continuous movement that we are compelled to integrate into, in an unceasing action until the very last heartbeat.

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II - 6. Self-Regulation, Resistance, and Cyclical Adaptation of Life


Life is a constant impulse felt by physical bodies and living beings; however, it is never a passive process. Instead, each phenomenon or event is invited by reality itself to persist, adapt, and multiply both materially and physically. It is a circular and cyclical natural system with the power to provoke and stimulate the entities that inhabit it. This generates an internal emotional reaction that they must process—a dynamic that drives them to seek equilibrium, awakening their capacity for independent action and enabling them to alter the course of events without collapsing.

These constant and continuous cosmic and natural challenges manifest across all dimensions in a cyclical manner, operating under varying magnitudes and intensities. Through a scientific lens, one can identify precise patterns within the rhythms and stimuli driving nature's operations, as well as within the organic processes and responses through which different entities restore their balance—continuously modifying their capacity for action until reaching their point of return.

This is the process through which life permeates all phenomena and entities: they detect stimuli and respond by seeking a new equilibrium that amplifies their capabilities. Through this, they expand and evolve—regardless of their condition or dimension, at any point or moment—always within the structural patterns of space-time.

When living beings and natural phenomena experience disturbances, they never return to their original starting point; rather, it is through the process of readaptation that they expand and evolve. It is a system of life—of psychical and emotional form—that is born, develops, and ultimately concludes its trajectory by either collapsing or initiating an entirely new cycle. Regardless of their condition, all evolutionary readjustments invariably occur within models of proportionality strictly tied to the parameters and magnitudes of the space-time to which they belong.

It is a dynamic pattern of matter and emotion that must constantly self-regulate to avoid falling out of orbit or imploding. This occurs within a dynamic where everything is dimensional and cyclical, both physical and psychical. Here, all moments and events expand and multiply in an emotional, creative, and intelligent manner—yet always operating within the precise proportions, restrictions, and limits established by the very structure of their space-time, according to its inherent laws and order.

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Part III — Archetypes, Mythology, and the Paradigm Shift

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III - 1. The Geometry of Space-Time in Mathematics, Architecture, and Spirituality


This is the universe that ancestral cultures knew and explained scientifically, culturally, and spiritually. A paradigm in which knowledge rested upon the web of space-time—whose measurements, magnitudes, and proportions could be found in all natural processes and dimensions on Earth's surface. These were mechanisms triggered within nature by external challenges and events, cast upon life and form, restructuring and driving their evolution, yet always operating strictly within the framework and order of their primordial origin: space-time.

It is through this study and Ancestral Astronomy that we can understand the precise ways in which the foundations of mathematics and geometry are unequivocally linked to the concepts that determine the fabric of the Earth.

Through the knowledge and methods of this astronomy, mathematics ceases to be merely a structure of numbers and logical, abstract sequences constructed from rules defined by the human mind. Instead, it becomes a model erected upon the very observation of the cosmos—described by the dynamic web of space-time, establishing a pattern that is equally reflected in geometry.

Architecture, too, reveals authentic astronomical representations. Its structures, measurements, and proportions leave no doubt as to how these ancient civilizations profoundly understood the necessary alignment with the pattern traced by the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun across the sky.

Likewise, it is within mythology, religions, sacred scriptures, oracles, and everything related to both ancestral and modern spiritual life that we find references aligning perfectly with astronomy. Interestingly, even today, religions and numerous millennial spiritual teachings continue to explain their faith based on ancestral patterns and forms of space-time—rather than relying on the modern model of abstract energies.

The astronomical correspondences we can identify between cultural systems, mathematics, and geometry are not based solely on the alignments and structure of space-time. They also encompass the relationships established within the planetary order and dynamics of the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun—the celestial mechanics that unfolded astronomically in the skies and archetypally on the surface of the Earth.

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III - 2. Gods as Archetypes and Alignment with the Cosmic Order


The physical projection of the archetypes related to the mechanics of the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun onto the surface of our planet was recognized by ancestral cultures across all forms of life and dimensions—interpreted scientifically, culturally, and spiritually.

The correspondences and meanings attributed to mythological figures in ancient civilizations are profound lessons on astronomy and the laws of the universe, explained in a scientific, archetypal, and spiritual manner. The ancestral 'gods' represented patterns of manifestation and development of nature and the universe—they were, after all, living archetypes, models that also served as artistic and mythological inspiration. This was their way of illustrating and expressing their immense knowledge about the universe, the skies, and the Earth.

It is an ancestral scientific model which, when fully understood, makes it possible to explain the frameworks within which their entire cultural, spiritual, and artistic system was structured and developed—revealing itself to be brilliant and profound, far from rudimentary, a true treasure waiting to be unearthed.

More than merely recognizing that the heavens determined life and form on Earth, ancestral cultures understood that the natural functions of any living being were not limited to responding to the stimuli through which nature propelled them to evolve by restoring a new harmony. This readjustment could only be achieved strictly within the parameters of space-time itself, where, even in a more evolved version, its inherent order and laws could never be corrupted.

This is an unalterable law of nature and a fundamental principle of ancestral science, positing that the space-time pattern is the creative mold of nature. It operates through a process of dynamic growth, expanded by its own creativity and intelligence, where its primary function is to evolve—always seeking a perfect and proportional alignment with the original structure, fully integrated into the whole.

These same principles were applied to and explained the laws and order upon which humanity's life was established. The structure of space-time and its multiple dimensions served as both the template for birth and the model for evolutionary adjustment, driven by a constant pursuit to regulate and align with the pattern, laws, and order dictated by the cosmos—manifested physically, culturally, and spiritually.

This commitment can also be confirmed in the theoretical foundations of mathematics and geometry developed and applied by humanity, as well as in architectural structures and monuments—consistently built upon astronomical alignments and models. It is equally evident in various forms of art, which frequently feature illustrations representing astronomical symbols and concepts.

Furthermore, it is possible to recognize—in symbols, oracles, parables, and myths—spiritual practices and teachings framed and structured within graphical and mathematical dimensions. These conform anatomically to astronomical laws and order, coinciding perfectly with the planetary cycles and events of Earth's space-time.

A cosmic, unified, and entirely organic perception of life and nature on the surface of the Earth, to which humanity had to correspond and continuously readjust in full consciousness—throughout their lives and daily existence—in a cultural, familial, scientific, and spiritual manner.

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III - 3. Mythology as a Psychical Science — Bridges with Jung and Joseph Campbell


The difference in the paradigms through which ancestral science and modern science explain the universe was the primary reason for the divergence of these cultures—rather than the time that separates them. The distinct perspectives and dimensions upon which their methods of study are founded drive their results and conclusions far apart. The ancestral system is purely organic and astronomical, whereas the modern method explains nature and the cosmos through mechanisms of physical forces and chemical interactions.

In modern culture, science and the spiritual plane are subjects that do not mix. This cultural division alienated philosophical knowledge and spirituality from the scientific system. In this modern framework, the phenomena and concepts upon which its foundations and principles rest are considered exclusive creations of humanity—without recognizing any mathematical and geometric justification or relationship between the patterns of space-time and the whole, as was customary in ancestral cultures.

From the 20th century onward, modern science has expanded its horizons in new directions, making it possible to establish bridges and correspondences with ancestral knowledge, so that we can finally evaluate just how advanced those ancient civilizations truly were.

Around 1912, with the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, 20th-century psychology developed upon new paradigms that bridged the conceptual gap between contemporary cultures and ancient civilizations. This was a crucial evolution that offered modern thought new horizons and the necessary openness to finally understand and integrate ancestral science.

Jung revolutionized modern thought by proposing the concept of archetypes—elements and patterns of nature itself that find correspondence in the human mind through images and symbols.

This is a conceptual model that aligns precisely with the ancestral system, in which the various manifestations on Earth and in the universe were identified by those cultures in an archetypal and philosophical manner, represented and characterized by their gods and multiple sacred entities.

Years later, the American mythologist Joseph Campbell, in his classic work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, brings us closer once again to the rigorous essence of ancestral knowledge. He invites us to reflect upon ancient gods and myths—which should not be interpreted as failed scientific explanations, but rather as universal psychological symbols.

Campbell immortalized this concept decades later in his synthesis work The Power of Myth (1988), where he argues that ancestral mythological representations and narratives were not primitive fantasies, but authentic "clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life."

For Campbell, ancestral myths arose in those cultures because there was no separation between the spiritual dimension and physical reality—a unified vision where the invisible plane and the material world were one and the same. The author explains that ancient peoples translated the impact of their environment into a common symbolic language, metaphorically illustrating the direct relationship between human beings and nature, built upon the knowledge and teachings portrayed through their mythology.

Influenced by Carl Jung, Campbell argued that, far from being local inventions, myths express archetypes—universal mental molds shared by humanity that influence and operate in a cyclical and circular manner through repetitive psychical patterns of departure, initiation, and return. Inspired by both nature and the mind, this Hero's Journey is a continuous cycle where each overcome stage paves the way for the next crisis, generating a spiral of maturation throughout the stages of life.

By intersecting Campbell's thought with the knowledge offered by Ancestral Astronomy, we find concrete confirmation that mythology was, in fact, not only a psychical language but also a scientific one. It was capable of explaining how the mechanics of the heavens intertwine with the life of nature and humanity, operating within a unified dynamic that attributed a sacred character to the universe.

For those cultures, myth explained how astronomical concepts—such as alignments, intersections, and other planetary events—manifested as dynamics rich with teachings about the laws and order of the universe, and how they were reflected in nature on the surface of the Earth.

The translation and full comprehension of this system allowed humanity to integrate itself into the universe in a higher and far more conscious manner.

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III - 4. The Cycle of Paradigms: Kuhn and Planck's Principle


Circular Science is the framework that supports and explains the entire cultural and spiritual system of ancient civilizations—it is Ancestral Astronomy, through its teachings and knowledge, that reveals the mathematical, physical, and archetypal consistency upon which the meaning of life, art, and spirituality was established and articulated: the foundational pillars of their paradigm and its ultimate consecration.

In contrast, the paradigm underpinning modern cultural knowledge focuses on the physical dimension of matter and concrete reality. It is a linear and vectorial scientific model, grounded in direct cause-and-effect relationships and the calculation of physical forces and chemical reactions—a system operating upon theoretical values spanning from microscopic scales to immense dimensions, relying on formulas, equations, and mathematical operations, supported by supercomputers and cutting-edge technology to explain the universe.

In 1962, physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn argued that science advances through "paradigms"—the conceptual models that guide and define the scientific thought of any given era.

This principle, articulated by Kuhn in his 1962 publication The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, revolutionized how we understand humanity's scientific development. Kuhn broke with the traditional view that science advances in a linear, cumulative, and continuous manner. He explained that the transition from one paradigm to another is not a purely logical or mathematical process, but rather a shift in social and historical perspective.

Kuhn argued that systems based on different paradigms are characterized by mutual incomprehension, distortion, and rejection. They represent two distinct worlds, where differing concepts convey entirely distorted realities to one another.

To illustrate and complete this thought, Kuhn invoked Planck's Principle, explaining that a dominant scientific culture is rarely convinced by logical debate—the new system only prevails when the defenders of the old paradigm pass away, and a new generation grows up familiarized with the new ideas.

This concept was formulated by the German physicist Max Planck in his Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, published in 1949, and is most commonly summarized by the famous expression: "science advances one funeral at a time.

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