Earth Ascending: An Illustrated Treatise on Law Governing Whole Systems

I first read Earth Ascending in 1992. At that time everything in it was so unfamiliar to me that it was like reading a foreign language. Fortunately it is filled with diagrams and drawings to help drag the kicking and screaming left brain into a whole-system view of the world that is nothing less than astonishing. In the intervening years I have read and re-read the book and each time my mind has somehow stretched to contain a little bit more. Earth Ascending is to Jose Arguelles as Ulysses is to James Joyce. It should be required reading in every school and translated into every language.

Likely to prove the most important book ever published. Imagine Plato's Timaeus updated for the information age with full-page illustrations & graphs & you have a good idea of Earth Ascending. Unifying cultural artifacts from around the world in a whole-systems perspective, Earth Ascending offers the possiblility of transformation from a planet of war and misunderstanding, to a single unified Earth. It is highly doubtful that the mayan-calendar / 2012 movement would have progressed beyond such mundane topics as GMT correlations and mushroom-induced fantasies if not for this incredibly illuminating textbook on the re-orientation of the human mind & the return of the psyche to its natural state of harmony. highest possible recommendation for all earthlings.

EARTH ASCENDING illustrates the mathematical correlations of the binary computer code, the I Ching hexagrams, Ben Franklin's magic square, the DNA code, the Mayan Sacred Calendar, the fluxuations of the Van Allen radiation belt, historical epocs, pristine civilizations, the terrestial seasons, and the governing geomagnetic features of the planet, among others. The author's noetic vision has a density like Mahler's music and Finnegans Wake. This reviewer dares venture that it will prove to be the single most seminal book published in the 20th century. Do yourself a favor: buy it, read it, let yourself be enlightened by it. Not to know it is a sign of intellectual backwardness. Not to ponder it is to walk in spiritual darkness. Not to own it is a mark of cultural poverty.

I read this book when it first came out, and it's the bomb! If you liked that movie PI, you should peep this. It looks into the cybernetic feedback loop between the microcosm and the macrocosm/art and nature.It looks into the way humans transpose microcosmic "pure" math onto nature in order to better understand chaotic macrocosmic natural systems.for example he corralates the I Ching Hexagrams, Binary computer code, DNA, and the polarization fluxuations of the Van Allen Radiation belt.It has kind of a steep curve at first, but once you get it, the book is very profound.