"Dear Friends"

20 March 2006
Dear Friends,

Greetings, and Happy Spring Equinox! to one and all – a propitious occasion, I think, for the latest revision (V 3.1.1) of Metaconsciousness: Mythology for a Post-Civilized World. Mainly, I have rewritten and enlarged Chapter 14, which now bears stronger relevance than it did before to the entire work as it has unfolded since the original version of the chapter.

The main features of Chapter 14. Toward a Post-Civilized Mythology are:

1. An annotated and expanded list of Elements of the Metaconsciousness Myth so far identified;
2. A discussion of the extinct indigenous culture of Santiago Atitlan in the highlands of Guatemala;
3. A discussion of the causes of Social Survival and Collapse, illustrated by the histories of:
4. The settlement and collapse of Easter Island;
5. Three thousand years on the tiny South Pacific island of Tikopia;
6. An invitation to collaborate in moving Toward a Post-Civilized Mythology.

Taken altogether, it's a bit of a read; yet I think many of you will find it of absorbing interest. As a bonus, Chapter 14 now serves as a comprehensive overview of the entire work, and by way of footnoted annotations, points to numerous discussions of particular interest to be found elsewhere in Volumes I and II.

I would like to take this occasion to express the hope that my good friend Eduardo Griego has this day happily filmed the descent of the Plumed Serpent at the Pyramid of Kukulcan in Chichen-Itza.

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Harmon

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