The Qualities of Time (Vol. I) (eBook)

The Qualities Of Time: Contributions Towards A Modern Understanding Of How The Cosmos Works In Man. Some Results of Objective Self-Observation

The first volume of this series, introducing all that follows, lays the groundwork for understanding experientially man’s relationship to the universe. The author, after years of exploration, determined that the cosmic realities within which we live are not of a purely physical nature, but exhibit moral and living qualities as well.

Through twelve contemplations the author artistically evokes the cosmic forces working in the zodiac and the struggles and potentials inherent in each zodiacal region. Included is an autobiographical section revealing the spiritual discoveries, and a scientific section in which the detailed findings are presented in extensive tables offering a firm foundation for this new approach to the stars by grounding it upon direct and empirical methods of research expanded to include superphysical phenomena.

Finally, there a section containing more than 120 pages of charts which intend to serve as a perpetual calendar to guide the reader on his own path of systematic self-exploration in relation to the living process of time. In the words of New Visions editor, Ed Treitler, “It is perhaps one of the most complete and spiritually aware interpretations, by a living scientist of our cosmic experience.”

About the Author

Paul Platt was born and raised on the outskirts of New York City about the middle of last century. As a child of his time, he was both a good athlete (particularly tennis) and good student. He first attended Williams College and then Reed College, studying philosophy and religion. He graduated from Reed in 1970 with a degree in religion. Paul wrote his undergraduate thesis on the theme of Good and Evil as explored by the Jewish theologian, Martin Buber. Later, years after graduation (1970), while engaged in writing a novel about a young man coming of age in New York City, Paul had an ‘awakening’ to a larger part of his Self. This inaugurated the central motif which has guided his life during the previous thirty years. Simply put, it has been a self-exploration and self-development. Though conversant with a wide range of teachings and teachers, most fully perhaps, that of Rudolf Steiner, to whom Paul owes an inestimable debt of gratitude, Paul has largely charted his own course. See Paul’s full biography here: https://www.paulplatt.org/bio.html