September 28, 2017
"Today, not only have the origins of civilization changed beyond all recognition, but even the word has begun to dissolve under a less Eurocentric analysis. Developments in geology, genetics, astronomy, archaeology and linguistics strain to breaking the underlying premises and assumptions of scientific materialism." (Gordon White, Star.Ships)
###Assignment
- research a recent discovery in physics/mathematics/cosmology that undermines a materialist model of reality
- Gordon White, Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, Preface and Chapters 1-3
- Graham Hancock, Quest for the Lost Civilization
- quantum computing
- 7D neural sand piles
Ch1
- breakdown of scientific materialism
- recontextualizing our stories
Ch 2
[] our place in the universe [] GT is the mangrove swamp between Paleolithic and Neolithic that changes our history [] functions of GT: ritual, technological [] cosmological interpretation of GT (Sirius arrives) [] the coming esoteric awakening (has it already happened? Burning Man?)
Ch 3
[] comparative mythology after postmodern relativism [] genetic trail synopsis [] Pan-Gaean, Gondwanan, Laurasian synopsis [] Laurasia > Alt-History [] the technē stack of the Paleolithic Renaissance: magic as an early shamanic technē that combines Gondwanan tales into "our first novel" through star lore and magic circles [] archeoastronomy and precession [] TCT notion: precession as migration magnet