A.D. – 950 A.D.) Indian Civilization (1500 A.C. - present) • Short, cyclical counts for practical purposes • Long, linear counts for deep history: thousand and millions of years • Three Stela in Coba record 28 octillion years • Cyclical time is divided in long eras (Yugas) • Eternal return • Mahakalpa: 311 trillion human years.
life and customs where like... Then, how discipline relaxed and morals sank, until reaching these times in which we can endure neither our vices nor their remedies.” - Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, (25 A.C.) “The Roman people lived endlessly with the obsession of the Myth of Rome and sought innumerable systems of renovatio.” - Mircea Eliade, The Myth of The Eternal Return, 1949.
being merely a consequence of this speed; the latter is the inability to endure the stillness of expectation; the addiction to the surprising (over-rushing), to that which repeatedly, immediately, and differently sweeps [us] away and "strikes"; fleetingness as the fundamental law of "permanence." Necessarily, a rapid forgetting and losing of oneself in whatever is next. From this arises the erroneous notion of the lofty and the "highest" in the deformity of "peak performances" [or maximum achievements]; a purely quantitative escalation, a blindness toward the truly momentous—that which is not fleeting, but rather opens up eternity. For speed, however, the eternal is the mere continuation of the same, the empty "and-so-on"; hidden remains the genuine dis- quiet of the struggle, and in its place has stepped the restlessness of the ever-inventive enterprise, which is driven by the fear of boredom within itself. Martin Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy, 1936.
der Erde Calculative Thinking • Being as Standing Reserve • Absolute Ideological Primacy • Domination and Desecration of the Earth Time as Standing Reserve • Abundance of Scarcity • Managing and Allocating • Alienation from Existential Time
der Erde Death as the Ownmost Possibility of Being • Deadline vs. Possibility • Charateristics of the Possibility • Authentic Time Death – Alex Grey, 1990.
der Erde Gelassenheit (Releasement) • Karma Yoga • Renunciation to Fruits of Action • Surrender into Conscious Action The Soul Finds its Way – Alex Grey, 2001.
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