T he time has come to step back and examine this forest of undefined sensory experience for its underlying patterns.
Some large patterns emerge immediately.
The discovery of the trans-Saturnian planets, beginning in the late eighteenth century, clearly delineates periods of revolutionary change. These are useful signposts, but they are too broad in scope to be definite. Think of them as the greater wave front in which the smaller eddies of synchronicity are embedded. The culture using this current would then be open to the astral world, their consciousness a permeable membrane for the spirit, and at the same time part of a greater, perhaps galactic, community of such stable-structure sentients. When there is an interruption in the flow of self-verifying information exchanges, then, like a smoke ring in turbulent air, the structure collapses.