7. The Hologram Of Time

If we put this sentence of William Blake at the beginning of this chapter, it is because it marvellously introduces the idea of a universe, which in the words of David Bohm is, “an undivided whole”. So far, we have left aside the justification for the duration of the small 2160-year cycle that we chose to retain. If we have delayed so far the time to examine this problem, it is because there is a good reason: we are not able to give an explanation which has a physical base, and the only hypothesis that we can offer is the extrapolation of the theory of holograms to time. The only astronomical or physical long cycles that we know today have a duration that is ten to twelve times longer, namely between 19,000 and 26,000 years, as we saw in the first chapter. To our knowledge, no cycle has been discovered which we could relate in one way or another to the functioning of the two brains, with a duration approaching 2160 years.

But the symbolists at least since Plato himself, who inherited this division of time from the ancient Egyptians or Persians (although he himself never indicated a precise duration) have always considered, that the great cycle of 26,000 years to which they also attributed a precise duration of 25,920 years, was divided into twelve minor cycles of 2160 years each. Hence the symbolic eras, beginning with the oldest ones: Bull, Aries, Pisces, and that of Aquarius in which we are supposed to enter at the end of this millennium. These periods follow each other, unlike the months of the year, in the retrograde direction, because the vernal point moves in the direction opposite to that of the sun. It is therefore this symbolic period of 2160 years that we have retained throughout our historical study, because it is the one that seemed to correspond best to the movements of civilisations, although a duration of 2140 years often seemed more appropriate.

To date, we have found no scientific or astronomical explanation for such a division of this period into twelve equal parts, except, of course, symbolically. It is generally accepted that the number twelve is a characteristic of time, but this does not mean that an explanation has been given. It is possible to imagine that this division comes from the cycle of seasons: four seasons each with a beginning, a middle and an end, which makes twelve. However, some civilisations did not use the solar months for the division of the year but the thirteen lunar months. Is it by analogy that the day has twelve hours, the hour twelve periods of five minutes, and the minute twelve times five seconds? We do not know. What is certain, however, is that on the symbolic plane, the number twelve was not only recognised as a divisor of time, but also as a symbol of its twelve particular properties, perhaps in affinity with the twelve months of the year. Astrology, the science of resonances between the universe and the individual, based on the conception of the Unity of all things, has used it as a fundamental figure of progression over time. Everyone knows the twelve signs of the Zodiac, which succeed each other through the year, from Aries to Pisces.

Mythology and different cosmogonies place a lot of emphasis on these symbols. The Taurus era corresponds to the period between -4350/-2190, according to our division. If we believe the myths, the influence of this period was still very much alive in the time of Tutankhamun (around 1350), who gave himself the title of “Bull that subjugates the country,” and Moses, less than two centuries later, which incited the Hebrews to renounce the idolatry of the golden calf. This period was to give way to the Aries era, from -290 to -30 BC. The examples here are even more numerous: the large alley of Karnak is lined with hundreds of ram headed sphinxes. “Peace my sheep” said Jesus, who closed this era to open that of the Pisces, symbol of the last two millennia.

If the twelve zodiacal signs thus colour long periods of time, the number twelve has also been used to characterize the twelve symbolic stages of maturation of any cycle: the life of man is counted in twelve septens (84 years). Hercules must accomplish twelve labours, that is, face twelve maturation challenges. Christ had twelve disciples, representing twelve difficulties to overcome, and so on.

But all these symbols do not help us progress in understanding the division of the great cycle. At best, if one admits a relatively arbitrary division by 12, one does not really see why each part of the cycle would reproduce the fusion/separation movement of the great cycle. Except to consider that time, like space, has the same properties as a hologram, one of which would give to each of its subdivisions the same movement as that of the totality. We see no other explanation to date, although the scientific demonstration has yet to be done, in the footsteps of physicist David Bohm. The latter states his theory that, the universe would function as a hologram in motion or holomovement in his book “Wholeness and the Implicate Order“. He introduces the notion of an implicit and underlying order of our reality and suggests that at the sub-quantum plane, each point of space is consubstantial with all the others. A “total order” would be implicitly contained in each region of space and time. To speak of anything as distinct from this whole becomes absurd.

To consider the universe as a hologram is to say that everything acts; the slightest gesture, the least thought. We join here the affirmations of many mystics who say that everything is acting.

David Bohm, although sparsely followed by his peers, is one of the contemporary scientists who does not tire of inviting humanity to stop “fragmenting the world”, to get rid of the illusion of separate entities, and to accustom our mind to the idea of a world that is an undivided whole. There is probably a long way to go to prove the theory of holomovement and to understand the internal structure of time; nothing prevents us from considering what we have suggested above as a possibility.

Continuing in the direction of holomovement and qualified time, i.e. considering for example that one hour in the morning does not have the same quality as one hour at sunset, that the energy in December is not that of spring or summer, it must be deduced that the great periods or the great cycles also have a particular colour. If one uses the current knowledge of astrology, one can deduce from it the recent steps taken by humanity in the last millennia:

• The Taurus era (Taurus/Scorpion axis -4350/-2190) was that of learning rooting, sedentarisation, perseverance and the awareness of a hereafter, as evidenced by the development of the worship of the dead.
• The Aries era (Aries/Libra axis -2160/-30) marked the beginning of individuation and the awareness of justice.
• The Pisces era (Pisces/Virgo axis -30/2130) was the experience of self-giving, sacrifice…
• The Aquarian Age (Aquarius/Leo 2130/4290 axis) would then be the work towards human unity through the resolution of conflicts and the renunciation of the ego.

If we accept the hypothesis mentioned above and the reality of cycles of 2160 years, we are forced to seriously consider the cycle of 26,000 years, which corresponds to a physical reality. This cycle would be the bearer of the fundamental Fusion/Separation movement, of which each of the 2160-year parts would be only one stage, as one of the twelve labours of Hercules that humanity must accomplish in order to reach full mental maturity.

If so far we have been able to draw elements from history to support our intuition, it is no longer the case for the major cycles. Indeed, the known history barely covers a period of 6000 years, that is, less than a quarter of a 26,000-year cycle. In other words, statistically, if two periods and a half were already a very small quantity to support our argument on the 2160-year cycle, what can we say about a quarter of a period!

It is no longer just to logic, but also to intuition that this chapter appeals. Not the intuition of men of the twentieth century, which has well diminished – and we will see later why – but to that of all those who, in the past millennia, participated in the development of myths. More familiar than we are with their intuitive abilities, because they were closer to the bottom of the great fusional curve, we think they were able to approach truths that our logic cannot perceive. For various reasons, they did not judge it useful to transmit them clearly to posterity, but only through schools of mystery which themselves disappeared without revealing anything.

Logically, what should have developed over the ages is a constant exchange between the esoteric schools and the public religious teachings, so that they are constantly revived by the spirit, and as we would have hoped, deepening their knowledge. But it was not so, quite the contrary. On the one hand, there was a gradual decline of schools of mystery, and on the other hand, the initial texts were constantly reworked and distorted to the point of losing all intelligibility. Not by malice but by progressive loss of meaning. Not that the wise had totally disappeared, but rather because the transmission or the testimony had to be done in a different way than in the past. It has been said that the teachers found fewer and fewer disciples able to receive their teachings, and that this process continued to grow over the centuries.

Before continuing, we must linger on this problem, namely the gradual loss of knowledge.

It could be argued that never before has the knowledge of humanity been so developed. Since the appearance of man, the acquisition of language at the time of the Neanderthal, and then that of writing around -3300, knowledge seems to have followed an uninterrupted progression. But we think that it was not so, and that entire sections have sunk well and truly into oblivion.

To understand this phenomenon, it is necessary to refer to the two modes of apprehension of reality, each related to one of the fundamental movements – fusion and separation – or if one prefers, to each of the two brains.

• Understanding through distancing, objectification, linked to the separating movement. This understanding is based on logic and reason. It has all the characteristics of the left brain. It has no direct access to reality. It proceeds through trial, error, and experimentation. We call it “knowing”. It is this branch of knowledge that is valued in the separative periods of the cycles. Its great flaw is inducing men to believe that they are separated from each other and from nature, and, given the current evolution of mankind, an unbridled practice of a predation policy. At first glance, this knowledge only increased in the course of known times, i.e. since 10,000 years, although it went through long phases of sleep that correspond roughly to the fusional periods of the small sub cycles of 2160 years. The results on which the previous separative phase of a small cycle had stopped served as the basis for the new development of knowledge during rebirths. This is an observable process in historical periods.
• The second mode of apprehension of reality is knowledge by identity, linked to the fusional movement. The tool used by this knowledge is intuition. It has all the characteristics of the right brain. It goes straight to the point, perceives the object in its essence. The dictionary gives intuition the following definition: “clear, straight, immediate knowledge of truths, which do not need the intermediary of reasoning or experience to be grasped by the spirit.” This knowledge is accompanied by a sense of absolute certainty. It is independent, not related to logical and temporal prerequisites. It is immediate and powerful. It is valued in the fusional periods of the cycle. Its great flaw is that it makes individuation very difficult and encourages a policy of immobilism and refusal of any type of progress.

When we talk about the gradual loss of knowledge, we are talking about the knowledge by identity, and not about the knowledge that has kept growing.

Our society is not even able to imagine a time when man was functioning differently, where his knowledge was different. Our arrogance is such, and our openness of mind so weak, that the current human functioning seems to be the norm to us, of all past and future times, by which we judge all things. The knowledge of the past, acquired by the process of intuitive identity, apart from medical knowledge, is purely and simply classified as myths. And if some isolated researchers tried to bring the remnants of shamanic knowledge and witchcraft to light, or break the frontiers of “ready made thinking”, they were met with irony and contempt.

But which domains of knowledge are concerned by this loss? All those related to the phenomena of communication by identity and to the perception of the essence of things. This includes:

• All that is related to the physical nature: knowledge of the power of minerals and plants on man and his diseases, knowledge of the sacred places resulting from the perception of space and energy currents, the latter including how to handle these energies.
• All that is related to the perception of vibrations: circulation of energy in the body and acupuncture points, Chinese knowledge of the psyche and its animating breaths, knowledge of spiritual hierarchies (Gods of India and Western angelic hierarchies), knowledge of the spirits of nature (elves, gnomes, sprites, fairies, sylphs, … which have become nothing more than words to us.)
• All that is related to communication between men: powers which would be called paranormal nowadays, such as the transmission of thought, the vision of auras (colorful energy vibrations emitted by each living being and highlighted by the Kirlian effect), or powers of all kinds, that we would now call miracles.

If there were no other cycles than the small cycles of 2160 years, this loss of knowledge that occurs on a half alternation, i.e. on the 1080 years of the separative phase, would be little perceptible given the memory of the generations, and would have not deserved a special place in the first texts written by mankind.

The elders confirm that this gradual occultation of truth is not linked to the short cycles of 2160 years: Hesiod complained of being already “in the Iron Race”, and the ancient Vedic Rishis said, more than 3000 years ago, that mankind had since a long time entered the age when the truth almost completely disappeared and heralded darker times still. All the oldest traditions mention this lost Golden Age.

An example that might help us understand better this process of loss of knowledge: until very recent times, before synthetic molecules, mankind had a pharmacopoeia essentially derived from the plant kingdom. Even today, the majority of medicines come from plant extracts or are synthesized according to the same formulas. If one thinks about it, given the immense variety of plants, it would be unthinkable that mankind would have tested each one of them on each disease and, after countless trials and errors, had finally derived statistics, as this would imply the existence of a very strong centralising organisation.

On the other hand, nowadays only few people are capable of walking around in nature and saying instinctively: “Hey! This plant must be good for that.” It is therefore probable that there was a time when, like animals, man could intuitively know what was good to cure him, by the perception of the essence of the plant and the failing organs in his own body. Whoever has observed animals in the wilderness can see this easily.

These days, people who are attentive to their bodies may feel something similar when they have a particular craving. Pregnant women know it better than anyone else. In ancient times, all “felt” that such plant was good for such disease, as they had similar or complementary vibrations. Then the perception faded, we will see how later. Only tradition often distorted by a few mischievous spirits to conform it to the times remains. Despite this distortion, knowledge is still being transmitted, most often in the country, left mostly unscathed by doubt. The time of reason, despite its massive rejection of obscurantism, i.e. knowledge that has already lost its intuitive support, will still retain the knowledge that is useful to it. At the extreme point of the separatist movement, only few individuals, perhaps a little crazier or more sensitive than others, can imagine that there must have been a time when the above was real.

Then, during the reappearing fusional period, this knowledge by identity is reactivated: the witchcraft of the Middle Ages was probably initially nothing but a method of healing based on instinctive knowledge. Many shamanic techniques also use processes of knowledge by identity: totem animals, places with certain powers, etc.

If we now consider that we have reached the top of the separative phase of the 26,000-year cycle, i.e. 13,000 years after the lowest point of the curve, it is easy to imagine that the power of fusional communication, with its ancillary faculties such as telepathy, clairvoyance, clear audience, etc., makes language and writing secondary. They become necessary only when these faculties of communication began to diminish and became increasingly imprecise.

Associated with the left separative brain, language becomes all the more necessary as direct modes of thought to thought communication and exchanges of similar vibrations, such as what we assume takes place in the animal kingdom disappear. On the other hand, language helps to structure a conceptual thought. In ancient times, thought had to intervene much less between the intuition of what has to be done and its execution.

The fusional periods being associated mainly with the functioning of the right brain, which manages symbolic communication, it seems natural that the first signs of the primitive scriptures which appeared at the end of a great period were symbols that represented the highest ideas and concepts.

If we therefore accept that there is indeed a gradual loss of knowledge by identity, we must find out for how long this phenomenon has been occurring and whether it has stopped today.

Apart from the mythological texts that we will study later, we have little elements for this research, as if the intuitive knowledge slipped into oblivion without the knowledge of all, not being recorded. Of course, some results persist such as the knowledge of the plants or meridians in acupuncture, which is transmitted from generation to generation. But the way through which these results were found has completely disappeared. It is logical to infer that most of this knowledge, of a more subtle nature, or related to the simple domain of human relations, disappeared without leaving any trace.

In fact – and our time shows us the phenomenon in an accelerated manner – what disappears is the relationship of man with Nature, with the other, with the cosmos, and with all that is of the order of unity, namely the sacred. The sensation of what can be a sacred place or thing becomes imperceptible for many, and inconceivable to some. The unity of the world, of all living beings, and of men in particular, no longer belongs to the domain of sensation, and is almost rejected by that of intelligibility. The way animals are treated illustrates this better than anything. And man ends up calling practices that no longer have anything sacred “spiritual”. And no one saw this happen. Man is so completely oblivious to the process that it is confusing. This is what Genesis expresses when it says that God “brought down a torpor on man”, before the existence of the human couple, i.e. the consciousness of duality. Perhaps we can very vaguely apprehend this loss of knowledge by remembering the sensations of childhood that we are quite unable to reproduce as an adult.

If we believe the first texts written by mankind, this phenomenon of loss was already known. The ancient wise ones placed its beginning when man left the Garden of Eden, or Paradise, or towards the end of the presence of the golden Race on land, in very remote times. That is, before what they could know of the oldest Egyptian civilisation, more than six thousand years before us. It was at this time that according to some authors, a slow transition from the cults of the Mother Goddess to that of the male gods took place, as well as the shift from matriarchy to patriarchy for some people.

David Bohm, whom we talked about at the beginning of this chapter, associates the development of language with this loss of contact with reality. In his work Wholeness and the Implicate Order, he tries to argue that it is language that was at the origin of the fragmentation of thought – and it would seem that the beginning of the Neolithic saw a brutal development of the language – thought which is so because we take it for a model of what the world is. He tells us that science, with its materialistic atomic conception, which fragments everything, has greatly contributed to supporting this false image of the world. He explains that with their subject/verb/object structures, modern languages imply a process of fragmentation that opposes the wholeness that is, according to him, the undivided fundamental nature of the universe. These two words, fragmentation and undivided plenitude, echo our “separation” and “fusion” appellations. With a nuance of value, however, because for us, wholeness or co-birth can only arise from the integration of the two fusion/separation terms and not from alternation to fragmentation.

Unlike David Bohm, and it will seem obvious to the reader who has followed us so far, we believe that the fragmentation of language is not the cause, but rather the consequence of a vast movement of separation which began about 13,000 years ago. Since this date, indeed, mankind must have known only a constant progression in separation, in the transition towards patriarchy, towards the God-father, with, of course, all the temporary resting phases brought about by the fusional periods of small cycles. This point at the lowest of the curve is in fact only the germ of the separative movement that matures a quarter of a cycle later, or about 6000 years ago, when our history begins.

According to our hypothesis, this period, 12,000 or 13,000 years before our time, marks the lowest point of the curve, thus the strongest point of an intuitive fusional period, era of earthly paradise where men were one, and where God walked among them in the Garden of Eden. Thirteen thousand years later, we are at the top of the separative curve, at the point where the perception of reality, unity and the essence of things and beings is the weakest.

Another researcher, Julian Jaynes, a psychologist at Princeton University in the 1970s, interested in the issue of the genesis of consciousness, proposed in his book “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” a surprising explanation of evolution which in many ways echoes our proposal and can contribute to the understanding of this loss of knowledge.

Indeed, without addressing the problem of cycles, he proposes a theory which provoked a radical change in the use or rather the predominance of the two cerebral hemispheres during the last millennia. The title of the book alone almost explains the meaning of the terms “consciousness” and “mind” as he conceives them, because this meaning is indispensable to the understanding of his presentation. According to him, consciousness, associated with language, implies a process of distancing – which can only be obtained using the logical and separative left brain – and it associates consciousness with this process. We will see in a next chapter that we have a conception of consciousness that encompasses both the separative process and the fusional process.

And the mind, which in the original English title is in fact the “bicameral” mind, represents this faculty of communion with the gods – which we call intuition as an intuitive right brain faculty. His thesis thus illustrates the way in which the conscious logical mind has supplanted over the millennia a double but unconscious and uncoordinated operation that he calls bicameral, i.e. that has two compartments or chambers. One, the right hemisphere, receives the orders of the gods in the form of auditory hallucinations. The other, the left brain, is used for daily management, execution of orders, objective consciousness and language. Over time, the logical brain took over, to the detriment of the bicameral mind that allowed communication with the gods, and this, he said, was probably because of the development of language.

His study of the disappearance of the bicameral mind is fascinating in that it very exactly echoes the process of loss of knowledge that interests us: he finds that the 2nd millennium marks the almost total disappearance of this bicameral mind. Then, the theme of the abandonment of man by the gods starts to appear in religions. During the 1st millennium, it definitively makes way for the omens, spells, auguries and spontaneous divinations that are transmitted to men and interpreted by the voices of prophets. But the latter also disappear after the exodus. In Greece, the Oracles are replaced by trances and then by interpretations. During the 1st century, the Oracle of Delphi no longer functions. Then come the hallucinogenic idols that mark the definitive end of the attempts to receive the Divine orders.

If the reader has followed us in the presentation of the cycles, he will easily understand that we cannot agree with Jaynes ‘ thesis, even if we agree with him on many points. And this is because we do not have the same vision of consciousness and human evolution. Indeed, if we follow Jaynes, we are directed to admit that the separative consciousness as he defines it has only appeared very recently, approximately 7000 years ago and that it is an evolutionary progress. The world would therefore continue to deploy on the basis of an endless separative process.

We agree with Jaynes on the idea that the elders worked more easily than we do using their two cerebral hemispheres evenly, at least at the time that corresponds to our great curve at the point of equilibrium, i.e. about 6000 to 8000 years ago, and it fits our thesis exactly, but we refuse to associate that the force of distancing was totally absent. According to us, man had a certain ability of individuation and of distancing, probably much weaker than the one we see nowadays but nonetheless present, but on the other hand, the man of the past had a much stronger intuitive ability and perception of Unity. Despite the external difficulties, he had to create a harmony within relations, – the researchers who examine the paintings of the cave of Lascaux are surprised to find that there.

This research on cycles has therefore led us to consider the existence of a great cycle of 26,000 years which punctuates the stages of the mental development of mankind. If we match the initial separative impulse with the Mesolithic (Intermediate period between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic which marks the very beginning of agriculture), about 13,000 years ago, the present humanity would be roughly at the top of the separative cycle, under the influence of a large shift, a radical change in the orientation of the impulse.

According to the Genesis, it seems that this is the first time that mankind has consciously entered into such alternation. Not that the alternation did not exist before, but mankind was not sensitive to it. According to Genesis, it had not yet emerged from childhood, from this period before the age of seven when the consciousness of duality does not exist. This non-dual period is of course what all traditions call Golden age or Paradise. But this golden age could just as well be the fusional period of the Great Cycle, any vestige of the previous major cycles having completely disappeared. From our point of view, and considering the current average mental state of the world, which has not yet reached the stage of individualised thought, we are tempted to believe the authors of the Genesis.

Let us take a closer look at how we can understand the myth of Genesis in light of the elements we have now, and if it speaks of the precise moment when the energies reversed, of the shift that occurs when we move from the fusional part of the cycle to its separative part. The narrative begins as follows: “At the time when Yahweh God made heaven and earth, there were still no shrubs on earth (…) And there was no man to cultivate the soil.” He who presides over evolution and the construction of personality is no longer Elohim, but Yahweh, the creator God. Yahweh is also most likely the masculine form of the great Sumerian goddess Iahu, in the civilisation that preceded the times of Genesis. He represents the same function as Zeus (= Deus = God) who belongs to the third generation of the Greek gods. He is a jealous god who possesses discernment (separator pole), and treats man like a child.

Then, Yahweh plants a garden in Eden and there he puts the man he has shaped, not the conscious man of duality, which appears later (the text differentiates them by different names), but the unified man who has not yet left the vital sphere, that of childhood. In Greek mythology, the garden of the Hesperides, i.e. Paradise, was on the island of Erytheia, which means red earth. Located in the far west, it is the glowing land, the land where the sun dies every night. Adam, the first man, also means red earth. Eden is also the Sumerian flat country, located in Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and the Euphrates.

Yahweh also plants the two trees, the Tree of life, and the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil in Eden. Man was therefore not yet subject to the influence of the two spheres of the mind, the poles of reason and intuition. Knowing the process of alternation that will highlight the separative side for a long time and will “seduce” mankind, the author of the Genesis, through the voice of Yahweh, imposes a clear prohibition (because man is still in childhood and his social life is essentially regulated by prohibitions): if mankind, instead of remaining on the pillar of equilibrium (the Tree of life, static expression of the caduceus of Hermes, has three axes or pillars, one of separation, the second of fusion and in the middle that of equilibrium), on the middle path, lets itself be drawn by what shines, by the sphere of separation which leads to discernment, “by the knowledge of good and evil”, and uses the fruits of knowledge for its own use, then, it “will die”. That is, it will lose all its intuitive abilities, contact with its soul and the Real, with the consciousness of the One, the truth, whichever name we give it.

Then emerges the consciousness of duality: mankind comes out of undifferentiated childhood. Ish and Isha appear. The two “sides” of the Tree of life reveal themselves, but without man being aware of this transformation, for Yahweh had “caused a deep sleep” to fall over man (We have already mentioned this unconsciousness of the evolutionary process when we talked about the loss of knowledge). A translation error misrepresented that the woman was drawn from a “rib” of Adam, while it is obviously only the appearance of the other “side” of the Tree of Life, the pole of intuition, in relation to the separative pole or pillar.

At this stage in the history of human evolution, mankind is still very intuitive, very close to the contact with the Real. Two indications come to confirm this: man is able to give a name to the birds of heaven and to all the wild beasts, and Yahweh still walks in the garden, in the breeze of the day. The name represents the vibration of the one who bears it. To name a living being is to know its profound vibration, its soul. If mankind has become aware of duality, it has not yet strayed from the middle path, from the pillar of equilibrium. ‘For both were naked (…) But they felt no shame”.

This is where the fall comes in. The serpent which, in all traditions, symbolises the movement of evolution, of alternation of energies, will lead the dance. Humanity, without any resistance, is dragged into what shines, in the budding separative phase of a great cycle. “For the fruits of the tree are desirable to make one wise.” This is the entry into the other phase of the alternation that we have been talking about since the beginning of this book. Because there are two trees in the garden but visibly, the other one, the Tree of Life, is not attractive; so much so that it is not even forbidden to eat its fruits. And this, of course, because this tree of life represents the phase of the alternation from which mankind is born. On the other hand, all the interest goes to the tree whose fruits are good to gain discernment. And all this happens long before the flood! The myth of the flood seems to recount not one but several floods which took place since the last known atmospheric warming, circa -8000 BC, and the last of which is known as the deluge of Deucalion, in Greek mythology, which probably relates to a Mesopotamian deluge from the 3rd millennium BCE.

It was the woman who invited the man to taste the forbidden fruit because, being on the intuitive side of the Tree of Life, in the mental plane in evolutions, the woman or rather the intuition always precedes the man, the mind of reason. Man is always behind, always slower, even if it is he who makes this evolution concrete and visible.

The evolutionary energy, which was symbolised vertically by the “standing serpent”, i.e. in the order of things, becomes horizontal, as a symbol of duality. Thus it was said to the serpent, “you shall walk on your belly.” This is the shift from the standing serpent to the lying serpent that we find in the Chinese tradition, in the shift from the anterior sky to the posterior sky.

And if Yahweh said to the serpent, “I will put enmity between you and the woman,” it is because the transition to a new, intuitive, fusional era was not expected any time soon.

Two of the negative attributes of the separative mind is the quest for power and appropriation. So he said, “Thy lust will push thee towards thy husband, and he shall dominate thee.” Finally God said, “Behold, man has become like one of us, to know good and evil”; Yahweh thus identifies himself to Zeus Jupiter who presides over Olympus, seat of the gods who govern the human mind and passions.

From that moment on, Ish and Isha became Adam and Eve, the separated couple. It seems that Adam and Eve had no desire to touch it, Yahweh, symbolically protects the access to the second tree, the Tree of Life, with the flame of a blazing sword. From this entry into the separative mind, Man loses his harmonious relationship with Unity, hence with the nurturing of Nature and the animals. Man, who was a vegetarian before, became a carnivore, after Yahweh had given him permission, signifying his exit from the vegetal childhood and his entry into the animal mental world.

It would seem, however, that there was a certain resistance from man to leave Eden. This is what the story of the Tower of Babel seems to tell us. If one reads the text carefully, it is said that men chose to remain united, which displeased Yahweh, who had descended to see what was happening: “Behold, all make one people and speak only one language. Now no design will be unfeasible for them. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech”. In fact, time was no longer to fusion. It was absolutely necessary for man to individualise, to extract himself from the grip of the clan, to enter the separative process. The trial of freedom was just beginning: the Conquest of physical freedom by escaping from Egypt under the guidance of Moses was only one of the first symbolic steps of a process that continues until today.

Apart from the ancient texts, a number of phenomena can be cited in support of our thesis, namely that we have reached the top of a great cycle, at the height of the separative movement. First, historians agree to credit the fourth millennium BC with an extraordinary acceleration of “humanisation” in the social and ideological fields. This phase is homothetic with the Renaissance periods of the small cycles, with the same overflow of creativity. A quarter of a period later – six thousand years later – is the twentieth century of our era.

Secondly, nothing else can explain the constant masculine domination throughout “history”, that is, during the last five millennia. Physical strength is not a sufficient element to establish this dominance, when one knows the psychic power of the woman. According to the elements that we were able to gather, it would seem that the Neolithic, from -9000 to -4000 BC was rather, as a whole, still of a matriarchal nature, which corresponds to the first upward quarter of the curve, homothetic with the second part of the Middle Ages.

Finally, the purpose that nature seems to have set throughout the last twelve millennia, namely the realisation of external human unity, is about to come to an end. The world market, the economy or the reign of money, is the last tool that it used to achieve its goals. The separation between men is almost at its maximum: it is difficult to imagine more solitude, more indifference than what men experience in major cities worldwide, (although some science-fiction films push the logic of this process to the extreme). The separation between men and women is a symptom of the same movement. The urge to return to barbarism has never been so powerful.

If unity of the outer world is achieved, at least in the consciousness of belonging to the same solitary destiny, it should be at the level of the great cycles, in analogy with the small cycles, the radical shift towards a quest for the divine within man. There is nothing left to conquer. The conquest of the moon sounded the death knell of the space dream. Even if close planets represent an economic stake for the future, this cannot be a solution to the demographics. Man will remain an Earth dweller for a long time. And he cannot continue to destroy it indefinitely. Man’s unbridled thirst for conquest must imperatively give way to the inner conquest, that of the depths of the spirit, of the soul, with all the unknown powers which it conceals and which the sages have announced. The Earth has reached a state of saturation. Saturation of the population in view of what mankind is today, rapid destruction of the natural ecosystems, pollution of all kinds that are regularly described by the United Nations’ reports.

When it comes to the use of the two brains, there is no reason why the current dominance of the left brain should last forever. Perhaps the massive arrival of the world of image will finally put a gradual end to the preponderance of the written word which was the prerogative of the last millennia.

On the other hand, the conditions are ready for the woman to gradually take over. The man who has been able to lead mankind through the individuation process got caught in his own predatory trap: the Earth will no longer be able to endure what man inflicts onto it. The woman, implacable and nurturing, will have to succeed him. Finally, it seems obvious that man is not able to end or to reverse the separative movement by himself. It is childish to believe in “never again”, because man is a child who plays with fire. It is to be hoped that the fusional forces will be powerful enough in their germ to give rise to a grain of wisdom within all. Individual and collective selfishness, and special interests, in the current state of the mental development of mankind, are far too powerful not to provoke disasters. The peaks are always moments of complete destructuring where man finds himself absolutely alone facing himself. That is why these periods are dangerous.

Finally, as a last argument, in the economy of Nature, no separative movement can continue indefinitely. Even the universe breathes, shrinks and relaxes. It seems to be a fundamental law. Necessarily, one day, the logical separative process must give way to the reuniting movement.