Signs of the Times: Unlocking the Symbolic Language of World Events

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Hampton Roads Publishing, 1. apr 2002 - 430 pages
“A unique and extremely interesting examination of both history and the unfolding present as seen through the prism of astrological significance.” —John Anthony West, author of Serpent in the Sky

We may live in astonishing times, but they are not incomprehensible when you know how to read the signs.

Everybody says we’re entering the Age of Aquarius, but when does it start, and how will we know what it looks and feels like? Ray Grasse deciphers the signs and correspondences of our nearing Aquarian future, using the tools of astrology, synchronicity, and mythology. He draws richly from contemporary religion, art, politics, science, even current movies, to show how the cultural signs of Aquarius and our likely future are already apparent and changing our world.

The Aquarian Age will be marked by its intensely mental quality, when information will be the driving force of society and the biggest challenges we face will be those of the mind. Decentralization will be the order of business, either the empowered individual will reign supreme, or the collective interests of globalized society will predominate. It could be both.

We are all participants in the global drama and all aspects of our inner and outer lives are bound up with the new Aquarian themes. Signs of the Times is the authoritative travel guide for the trip into our future—don’t leave the present without it.

“An attempt, firmly anchored in the age-old tradition of spiritual symbology, to make sense of what often strikes us as utterly chaotic, arbitrary, and senseless.” —Georg Feuerstein, PhD, author of The Yoga Tradition
 

Contents

Introduction
Tracking the Spirit of the
Birthing the Aquarian Spirit
Glimpsing the Cutting Edge of Long Range Trends
Insights from an Entirely New Art Form
Television Cyberspace and the Global Brain
The Glorious FlatlandA Broadening or Shrinking of Horizons?
The Spirit of Aquarian Science
The Challenger DisasterAnatomy of a Modern Omen
Ganymede and the Cosmic Brotherhood
Egypt Atlantis and the Coming Archeological Revolution
From Schizophrenia to Polyphrenia
Aquarian Concepts of Divinity
Aquarius and the Awakening
The Dual Zodiac Problem Just Who Isor Isntan
Seeds of Revolution Assessing the Effects of the

Drawing Down the Fire of the Gods
The New Aquarian Hero
Mysteries of the Double Helix
The Individual in a Mass Society
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author
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Ray Grasse worked for ten years on the editorial staffs of Quest Books and Quest magazine. His book The Wakign Dream (Quest, 1996), a study on synchronicity and symbolism, received favorable reviews in periodicals such as Booklist, Institute of Noetic Sciences Review, Gnosis, and Intuition. A professional astrologer, Grasse has lectured widely on the meaning and dynamics of the Aquarian Age and published many articles on the subject. He lives in Wheaton, Illinois.

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