The Cygnus Mystery
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Cygnus X-3 taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2001.
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All around the world ancient peoples fixed the location of heaven - the source of cosmic life and death - in the same segment of sky, the constellation of Cygnus, the Swan. But why?
From the oldest temple in the world to the cutting edge of astrophysics, Andrew Collins sets out to find answers on an extraordinary historical quest to unravel the earliest beliefs of our most distant ancestors.
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COSMIC
RAYS AND THE CYGNUS MYSTERY
Did Cosmic Radiation change evolution and kick-start religion?
An in-depth report by Andrew Collins, showing that the idea of cosmic rays influencing evolution was proposed as early as 1930 and seriously put forward by astronomer and science writer Carl Sagan back in 1973. Click here to read.
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The Cygnus Mystery provides compelling evidence that … - Cosmic rays from a binary star known as Cygnus X-3 helped accelerate human evolution during the last Ice Age - The veneration of Cygnus as a bird associated with cosmic life and death goes back 17,000 years to when the constellation occupied pole position in the northen night sky - Cygnus is at the root of all the world's religions - The origins of astronomy, literature, ancient cosmologies, even transoceanic sea voyages all occurred some 17,000 years ago - Traces the very DNA of life from shamanic art in Paleolithic caves to the foundations of the Great Pyramid, from psychedelic journeys in the Peruvian Amazon to Francis Crick's discovery of the double helix - Reveals that our ancestors knew what science is now telling us - that life on Earth originated among the stars, a fact known and accepted by our ancestors |
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Pathway to the Gods x. Swan Knights and Swan Maidens xii.
In Search of Sokar xv. The Swan-Goose of Eternity xx.
Children of the Swan Postscript - Montgomery's 'Cygnus Event' SEE ALSO SWAN-UPPING 2006 ON THE RIVER THAMES. A report by Andrew Collins on an ancient custom associated with the cult of the swan. CYGNUS X-3 AND THE COSMIC RAY QUESTION. Read Andrew Collins's important paper on Cygnus X-3 as a cosmic accelerator producing ultra high energy and high energy cosmic rays. This paper was previously entitled 'In Defence of Cygnus X-3'. Click here to read. NEW - Looking for the Fifth Dimension in Cygnus X-3 Is
the key to finding the relatonship between mutliple dimensions
and matter out there in deep space? A report by Andrew Collins
based on new findings by a Hungarian research team. Click here
to read.
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'THE
CYGNUS MYSTERY is an intellectual adventure that considers shamanism
and the influence of the Cygnus constellation on the minds of our
Neolithic ancestors. Andrew Collins takes readers into deepest,
darkest caves in search of the sound of the universe, making a compelling
case for Palaeolithic CERNs.'
Jeremy Narby, anthropologist and author of The Cosmic Serpent and Intelligence in Nature
As early as Palaeolithic times, the stars of Cygnus - the ultimate expression of a widespread belief in the bird as a symbol of the soul - were seen as the gateway to heaven. Shamanic journeys, Native American funeral rites, the alignments of prehistoric standing stones, all pointed the way to this sky-world, accessed via the Milky Way or an imagined cosmic axis. This belief shaped cosmologies around the world; influenced sacred architecture from Avebury in Britain to the temples of Mexico, Peru, and India; and lie behind all major religions to this day. In The Cygnus Mystery, Andrew Collins traces this astronomic lore back to 15,000 B.C., when Deneb, the brightest star in Cygnus, was the Pole Star. At that time, our Paleolithic ancestors practiced their religious rituals in caves deep in the earth - caves whose bird-imagery art, anthropologists have found, was the creation of shamans under the influence of hallucinogens that let them travel in visions outside this world. And in that same era, humanity underwent a change in physical and neurological makeup so fast it seemed to occur virtually overnight. What caused this sudden leap forward? The Cygnus Mystery proposes that it was a dramatic rise in cosmic rays reaching Earth - and provides evidence that the rays, which left subatomic traces in those same deep caves, emanated from a binary star system known as Cygnus X-3. These findings, Collins explains, challenged the certainties of the scientific establishment - until, in 2005, a U.S. think tank went public with its own conviction that a binary system producing powerful jets of cosmic rays triggered a rapid acceleration in human evolution during the last Ice Age. Drawing on archeoastronomy, astrophysics, and a dynamic understanding of spiritual wisdom, this groundbreaking work takes us to the heart of an ancient mystery and the front lines of a battle over the force that changed humanity's course. |
All material is extracted from Andrew Collins new book THE CYGNUS MYSTERY, published in October 2006 by Watkins Publishing.
Please consult THE CYGNUS MYSTERY for details of all references and illustrations used in this article.
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