ABSTRACT
Artifacts of cosmological reflection reach back perhaps 40,000 years, and some anthropologists surmise that our human ancestors have been gathering in caves and teaching each other for as long as 300,000 years. Modern humanity seems to be the first culture to break with this primordial tradition of celebrating the mysteries of the universe. Modern humans, instead of gathering in the caves or cathedrals to dance to poetry and music as a way of learning their place in the universe, sit in classrooms and study science. Certainly such education in the sciences is fundamental for the survival of humanity. During the modern period when materialism came to dominate, such a suggestion as this last would be rejected as “mere poetry.” It would be labelled a “projection” and ignored. In the cosmology of the new millennium, the Sun’s extravagant bestowal of energy can be regarded as a spectacular manifestation of an underlying impulse pervading the universe.
