Lucy Wyatt
Approaching Chaos by Lucy Wyatt
Could an ancient archetype save C21st civilization?
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Twenty-first century civilization faces economic, ecological and spiritual meltdown. To survive this century as civilized people, we need to refer back to a time when city life was in harmony with nature and the wider environment.
We cannot dismiss the ancients as 'primitive' when they had a blueprint for civilization that first appeared over 5,000 years ago. Perhaps we should look at the ancient past for solutions, such as the possibility of an unknown zero-carbon technology. Did they really build giant pyramids with blocks of stone weighing hundreds of tonnes using only slaves, hemp rope and copper tools?
For the last two thousand years, however, much has remained hidden – primarily because the Greeks and the Romans did not have access to the whole archetype. The Church then further compounded the loss of knowledge under layers of misinterpretation.
This book reveals more about the original concepts going back to the end of the Ice Age, identifying the earliest principles and what happened to them. -
Lucy Wyatt grew up in the English university town of Cambridge. After leaving Sussex University with degrees in International Relations & Italian, and an MA in European Studies, she followed a varied career path that included Sir Terence Conran's design empire, and ended up with her editing a magazine for a City of London stockbroking firm. She is married with two daughters and now lives in Suffolk with cattle and horses on an eco-farm that generates its own electricity from home-grown bio-fuel. Her enquiry into origins and nature of ancient civilisation grew out of an interest in alternative medicine.
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Endorsements:
A thoughtful, provocative and inspiring book, which offers an understanding of history that can help us negotiate the enormous challenges of our own times.
I have read most of the book in about 6 hours continuous reading, and am tremendously impressed, an amazingly bold work which must surely be one of the most fascinating published in the past ten years.
In 'Approaching Chaos' Lucy Wyatt offers a provocative new interpretation of the rise and decline of civilization as humanity emerged from the last Ice Age. We live during troubled times, and arguably we have lost as much, or more, in terms of core values and a holistic approach toward working with Nature, as we have gained through modernization and technological advances. Studies of the past encourage us to learn from previous mistakes as well as emulate ancient achievements, and offer hope as we face an uncertain future. We need the broad perspective that Wyatt outlines as we attempt to regain lost ground. Engaging and thought-provoking, 'Approaching Chaos' is sure to leave the astute reader with a new outlook on the big issues that really matter.