GLPVC Presents - Lucy Wyatt /Approaching Chaos 6-27-2012

Lucy Wyatt and family live on an unspoilt farm by the east coast of England. The farm was derelict but had 600 year-old oak trees, woods, hedgerows and old buildings. It was a chance to explore living in harmony with Nature. The Wyatts restored it using mostly eco-materials and now share this special place with many animals (horses, cattle, pigs, chickens, dogs, cats). The experiment includes the collection of rainwater for animal drinking; a 3-pond sewage system with Steiner-inspired flowforms; and a processor that uses Oil Seed Rape for high grade bio-fuel in farm machinery and a large electricity generator.

Apart from a grandfather who gave Lucy her love of horses, her family were not farmers. She grew up in the University town of Cambridge where her father was an architect (now in his 80s, he drew the illustrations in her book). Lucy, however, studied International Relations and Italian at Sussex University, aiming to work in Europe but instead ended up in London at Conran Group, and followed that with editing a magazine for a City of London stockbroker firm where she met her husband. They moved to the countryside after their first daughter was born. As well as researching the ancient past, Lucy is also interested in Earth energies and now leads local Gatekeeper Trust pilgrimages on equinoxes and solstices.
[link to www.approachingchaos.co.uk]

the book
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We face eco-suicide in the C21st. Our urban way of life is destroying its own life-support system. Approaching Chaos examines an alternative: an ancient archetype dating from the Bronze Age that helped cities exist in harmony with Nature. This archetype influenced the ancient Greeks and Romans, often mistakenly admired as examples of civilized societies.

Approaching Chaos challenges our accepted view of ‘progress’ since the end of the Ice Age. By looking again at the origins of farming and cities, and focussing on Bronze Age civilization, we can see that it was not primitive and backward. For one thing, it had a zero carbon technology which is mysterious to us (for example the Great Pyramid).

Approaching Chaos explains how we lost touch with the archetype and its secrets (eg pyramid building) from the start of the Iron Age. In the end, Romano-Christian power combined to disconnect us from Nature. The Egyptians’ use of quantum physics and alchemy in megalithic building and shamanic ritual became esoteric, hidden knowledge; and we have been going in the wrong direction with regard to science and religion ever since.

Aspects of the archetype re-emerged at the time of the Gothic cathedrals, and again in the Renaissance. But now is the time to re-connect with all of the original model for us to have a future.
[link to www.approachingchaos.co.uk]

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Last Edited by Phennommennonn on 06/27/2012 06:36 PM