The Transformative Vision: Reflections on the Nature and History of Human Expression

Amazing book, a different take on history. Holistic in nature.

In February or March of 1992 I was given a copy of Earth Ascending. This book impacted me so strongly that I began a series of drawings and graphic black and white pictures that had the same obsessive quality as the pyramid sculpture in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Not art, but something else. The drawings were related to the I Ching and Mayan timing concepts and I guess they worked on my subconscious because on the night of July 25, 1992 I had a strange dream that I remembered very clearly. There were three parts to the dream, the details of which I won't go into now because they aren't important except to say that each section of the dream came true the following day, July 26, 1992, culminating in an experience I can only say was like being conscious simultaneously in the past, present and future, as if I was moving backwards and forwards in time while also being completely anchored in the present. Several days later I came across The Transformative Vision, where these words from the introduction seared themselves into my brain. "Fully entrained in the galactic beam, on July 26, 1992, Earth's portals will open so that the human race can enter the new time, Earth Time." He got the exact day, and somehow without knowing how, so did I. This is Arguelles most scholarly book, written for the most part in plain English. Highly recommended.

Arguelles gets right down to the root causes of the crisis of modern civilization.He calls the feminine element psyche(breath or soul) and the male element techne (skill).Since the Renaissance techne has come to dominate life, giving us a purely mechanical existence at the exspense of psyche, which has been relegated to the unconscious.There is no recognised relation between the two, and modern life "is the life of the waking dead, and it is no real life at all". Arguelles shows how art has manifested this split, culminating in the sterility of modern art today.He calls for the reconciliation of male and female in order to restore cosmic harmony.The true artist can plant the vision-seed that will take us forward.The scope of Arguelles' vision is fantastic.This book has real answers that show the way out of our dying civilization.