 AN EVENING WITH ROBERT LAWLOR
18th March, Wednesday Evening, Mid-Town Manhattan,
$35 at the door, 8-10pm, arrive 7.45pm for a 8pm start
Bookings: Roger Green, info@fengshuiseminars.com
Sponsored by The
Academy of Sacred Geometry and The New
York School of Feng Shui
Download brochure in PDF format.
Robert
Lawlor is the translator
of R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz's masterwork – The Temple
of Man-
the culmination of his exhaustive 12-year study at the great temple
of Amun-Mut-Khonsu at Luxor, which is revealed to be an architectural
encyclopedia of humanity and the universe.
 Robert Lawlor is the author of Sacred
Geometry: Philosophy and Practice. A ground breaking book which
introduces the mythological properties assigned to geometric forms,
and covers the Golden Section, gnomonic spirals, music, and the squaring
of the circle. The thinkers of ancient Egypt, Greece and India recognized
that numbers governed much of what they saw in their world and hence
provided an approach to its divine creator. This book explains the
numerical systems that determine the dimension and form of both man-made
and natural structures, from gothic cathedrals to flowers, from music
to the human body.
Robert Lawlor is a film producer,
anthropologist, mythographer, symbologist and author of several books.
He has lived in remote parts of Australia over the last 25 years,
and has studied aboriginal culture firsthand. Robert is the author
of the recently published the critically acclaimed Voices
of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime. Lawlor
seems well qualified to guide us on this journey. He
has spent much of his life studying ancient civilizations, particularly
ancient Egypt. He lived and worked for six years with Dravidian
village people in South India and has spent another ten years on an
island off the coast of Tasmania considered by the Aborigines to be
the sacred abode of their deceased ancestors. He presents a remarkably
comprehensive and fascinating account of the Aboriginal worldview and
its potential usefulness in imagining future directions for our own
faltering culture. The book explores the Aboriginal approach to such
concepts as the creation of humanity, time and space, the power of
the earth's magnetic forces, kinship, life cycles, male and female
roles, sexuality, death, and mysticism.
The Presentation
 Robert Lawlor will give you an over view of the last
30 years of his work as an author, scholar and researcher in the fields
of ancient knowledge, architecture, traditional cultures, cosmology,
and sacred geometry.
There will be plenty of time to ask questions, get insights into his
many books and writings, and listen to the stories of people and places
he has to tell.
Towards the end of his presentation,
Robert will lead you into his amazing past 6 years of research into
the GRAND CYCLES of TIME.
Planetary movements and the metabolism of
life and The Twilight of a Species
by Robert Lawlor
I will be exploring one of the most ancient philosophical
and numerical visions of the mysteries and nature of CYCLIC
TIME.
My approach will be to establish some of the harmonic
and resonance aspects of revolving and orbital systems beginning
with our planetary earth, sun and moon. The resonance harmonics
of this system are believed to shape and influence the lives and
destinies of individuals.
 I will then extend this harmonic concept of orbital
resonance to the larger cosmic cycles. I will be particularly dealing with the
precession of the equinox known as the Great Year which has an
ideal or average duration of 25,920 years.
In comparison with this I will place the Yuga Kulpa
system of India whose correct duration I will be attempting to establish
and verify and then reveal the harmonic principals which relate it
to the ‘Great
Year’.
I will also have time to touch upon the
relationship of the Mayan 13 Baktuns system to these other long count
cycles.
I will begin by demonstrating just a few of the many, many harmonic
interrelationships which are generated with the earth, sun and moon
with its seven-fold planetary system. This system of ten sets up ratios
of relationships which are the same as those which govern the metabolic,
hormonal, reproductive, genetic cycles and patterns of the human organism
and consciousness as it pulsates through the processes of life.
Both solar system and human consciousness
can be seen to be a field of simultaneously sounding ratios. These
ratios are the same as those that produce the tonal system of musical
scales.
The Pythagoreans in antiquity claimed that music made by human kind
is a pale reflection or substitute for the harmony occurring in the
space surrounding our solar system as well as deep within the functioning
of our organism.
 Pythagoreans propounded the same mathematic proportions which form
the basis of musical sounds, planetary movements and the metabolism
of life. Therefore, acoustical proportions are a universal organizing
principal which regulate both the macrocosm and the microcosm.
It can be argued that it is these complex planetary harmonic fields
pulsating throughout the heavens which establish chemically coded vibratory
functions and rhythms within the DNA of living creatures.
In conclusion I will show the harmonic interrelationship of the long
count calendars. This will be of critical importance because the Yuga-Kulpa
system of India indicates that we are approaching a concluding interval
in the last of ten Yuga cycles (Kali Yuga) and at the same time the
ending of an entire kulpa of over 60,000 years. I will situate the
potent intervals of the Yuga system and relate these intervals to events
of our history and of our approaching future.
Quote from…
Ancient Temple Architecture, by Robert Lawlor
 "We believe that time is passing only because our ordinary consciousness,
absorbed in the transiency of material forms, is capable of "illuminating" only
one particular moving cross section of space-time at each instant.
In other words, form and substance, including the brain and body through
which we perceive, are continually changing, and we experience time
as passing because each instant of consciousness is different. This
is because we are always thinking new thoughts, experiencing and noticing
new things, metabolizing new substances; and it is this constant sequential
difference of one instant from the last or the next that gives the
experience of time passing -- the mind-body relationship drives time
into its appearing and disappearing movement. But through meditation
techniques, in which perceptions and thoughts are trained to subside,
or through Mantra, by which each instant is made, through repetition,
to appear the same as every other instant, the sense of the irrevocable
movement of time can be arrested, and a "timeless" status
of consciousness experienced.
This is, of course, only a very external view of the mechanics of
meditation, such as is proposed by the physicist R. B. Rucker in his
book Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension, but it does lead
us to several exciting implications concerning the experience of time.
Clearly, variations in temporal perception are a factor separating
one individual consciousness from another within a species and, to
an even greater degree, separating the conscious awareness of different
species. It may be said, indeed, that each distinct variation in the
pattern of temporal recognition constitutes an entirely different universe
of perception. For example, birds have a capacity for temporal recognition
eight to ten times more rapid than we do. For them, pictures flashing
at twenty-four frames per second, which appear to us as a continuous,
moving picture, remain still photos until the velocity of 240 frames
per second is reached. Likewise, sounds which are to us a continuous
whistle are to birds separate and distinct peeps.
 In other words, birds are able to record ten times as many granulated
perceptions as we can in any given temporal interval, which accounts
for the acute rapidity of their reflex responses. It is even possible
to say this perceptual rapidity was not developed in birds to enhance
flight ability, but rather that birds fly only because it is a movement
which suitably embodies and expresses the perceptual rapidity.
The sense of time, then, is related to the rate
of change in phenomenal experience."
"It has long been recognized that bird navigation
is accomplished both by the bird's photo-sensitivity and its sensitivity
to magnetic fields, but only recently have the mechanics of this
magnetic sensitivity been revealed. It appears to lie in the most
characteristic attribute of the bird, its feathers. Bird feathers
seem to function as electromagnetic transducers, changing the dielectric
pulsation received from the atmosphere into piezoelectric signals,
which can be carried by the bird's nervous system.
Thus bird feathers appear to be not only selective receptors and filters
of the electromagnetic information contained in the surrounding environment,
but also energy transducers and lines of transmission.
In other words, birds use the underside of their wings for magnetic
sensing: which may remind us of Maat or other winged deities, holding
their feathered arms around the body of the initiate King, or protecting
the four corners of the coffin or canopic chest, or, as Nut, the sky,
standing with extended wings, welcoming the deceased to heaven. From
this we may speculate that the King or deceased is believed to receive
from the deity the initiatic training which heightens sensitivity to
magnetic fields and so leads towards a centering of the energetic body
in universal rhythms.
 The feather symbol of Maat supports the oscillating plumb-bob and,
because vibration is nothing more than rapid oscillation, this ideogram
reminds us that every living body vibrates physically, and that all
elementary or inanimate matter vibrates molecularly or anatomically
and that, since every vibrating body emits a sound, all such vibrating
bodies are thus musical in the widest sense of the word.
The weight of the plumb-line's end, Egyptologist
Lucy Lamy points our, is often shaped like a heart, and is given
the name ib , meaning dancer. Now, the plumb-line which oscillates
in the rhythm of the human heart has a length of 0. 69 meters, while
the human heartbeat itself, which is normally seventy-two beats per
minute, is in effect the plumb-bob of the vibratory universe--for
as physicist Lewis Balamuth has
pointed out the rate of seventy-two oscillations per minute falls exactly
on the midpoint of a chart which scales all observed periodicities,
from ultrasonic, subatomic vibrations up through the vast, galactical,
rhythmic frequencies.
The human heartbeat, in other words, is literally
the center of the vibrating cosmos.”
18th March, Wednesday Evening, Mid-Town Manhattan,
$35 at the door, 8-10pm, arrive 7.45pm for a 8pm start
Bookings: Roger Green, info@fengshuiseminars.com
Sponsored by The
Academy of Sacred Geometry and The
New York School of Feng Shui
Download brochure in PDF format.
About Robert Lawlor
In the late 60’s and early 70’s, after training as a painter
and a sculptor in New York City, he became a yoga student of Sri Aurobindo
and lived for many years in Pondicherry, India, where he was a founding
member of Auroville. In India, he discovered the works of the French
Egyptologist and esotericist, R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, which led
him to explore the principles and practices of ancient sacred science.
Along with UK’s Keith Critchlow, he is considered a major force
behind the re-emergence of the traditional sacred geometry arts in
our modern culture. |
