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Highlights of Metahistory.org

In Metahistory Quest we explore the beliefs that drive human behavior,
and look beyond those beliefs toward a meta-story, a tale to guide humanity
that grows out of the wisdom innate to the species. Because the material of the site develops in depth, some highlights of this quest may not be immediately obvious. Quick Find directs visitors to the core features of the site. Several routes of immediate access are proposed. Some routes lead to the beginning
of key essays, and some lead straight into the material, and some lead
into the maze to Lexicon entries.

The Logo, combining two mythic images, shamanic Tree and sacred Well, represents the basic credo of Metahistory.

The Guidelines explain the power of scripted beliefs in human experience, and propose how to get to the other side of that power: i.e., to use it consciously, rather than be blindly manipulated by it.

The five Themes of Metahistory — Sacred Nature, Eternal Conflict, Origins, Moral Design, Technology — are summarized under the "ARCH."

Metacritique, the method for examining beliefs to determine if they are insane and inhumane, includes various approaches, such as an inventory and three basic procedures, but essentially it is a way to facilitate belief-change.

The Lexicon is not merely a collection of definitions but a language tool that builds certain key ideas (such as behavior and learning) into an organic sequence. See also the Lexicon Leap on the home page.

The meta-story to guide the species, called the Gaia Mythos, is a reworking of the Gnostic myth of the Fallen Goddess. Framing the story are two essays on sharing and sourcing the activity of mythopoesis.

The Commentaries on the Gaia Mythos present state-of-the-art astronomical lore in complement to the mythological narrative of the Goddess Sophia. Also, the brief introduction to the Commentaries establishes the Buddhist-Gnostic parallel to be developed throughout the site.

The Magdalen Connection, initially signalled in a review of The Da Vinci Code, is an expanding facet of the site, dedicated to the myth and mystique of Mary Magdalene and celebrating the heroine's return from the depths of the historical unconscious.

Coco De Mer (I) is the first part of a trilogy of Gnostic themes. Expanding on the obscure and fragmentary clues found in the Nag Hammadi codices, it explains how Gnostic cosmology carries a world-changing message, because it can radically shift the way we respond to the natural world.

Coco De Mer (2) explores the mythology of Eros and the daunting issue of erotic disability in the human species. The impedence or atrophy of erotic sensibility is a serious obstacle to the path of sacramentalism — a path that represents, in metaphysical terms, both the far past and the possible future of the human presence on earth.

Metahistory.org is a teaching site that affirms the wisdom endowment of the human species. One-time visitors and returning readers are encouraged to pay special heed to the Sophianic principle that informs the site.

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