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The Great Year and the Rebirth of Civilization | important new information on cosmic cycles

June 25, 2025·1 hr 12 min·4 clips

Peter Dawkins ties galactic alignments to “a channel” opening between the Milky Way and Earth.

1. The Wisdom Tradition | a philosophy podcast episode centers on Alex Sackin’s “The Great Year and the Rebirth of Civilization” from The Coming World Nation. 2. Alex Sackin is the host and reader, and he says this extended conclusion essay is “almost a chapter into itself.” 3. The episode’s purpose is to connect Armageddon, the Great Year, and human civilization through a cycle of death and rebirth. 4. Sackin opens with “The Philosophy of Armageddon,” saying every ancient religious tradition has its own battle of good versus evil. 5. He quotes Manly P. Hall to argue that Armageddon is “a sequence of events,” not a single date. 6. He also links Carl Jung’s “fight with the shadow” to the same inner battle between light and darkness. 7. Sackin says negative karma can accumulate across “a sequence of lifetimes” and then erupt at an Armageddon-like breaking point. 8. He applies the same pattern to social collapse by citing Skid Row drug addiction and an empire under an avaricious leader. 9. He then says these events tend to happen at the midpoint of a cycle or at the transition between one cycle and the next. 10. Sackin uses astrology to illustrate the idea with Saturn returns in a person’s late 20s and the United States’ Pluto return. 11. He says the U.S. is confronting hidden power structures tied to “black budgets, financial hegemony, covert wars, and corporate imperialism.” 12. He adds that America’s unrealized potential lies in a “technocratic superstate” and an “ongoing disclosure of the UFO mystery.” 13. The next section defines Plato’s Great Year as a roughly 25,800-year precession cycle tied to Polaris, Alpha Ursae Minoris, and the North Celestial Pole. 14. Sackin explains that the Sun takes about 72 years to move one degree and about 2,160 years to pass through a zodiac sign. 15. He cites Peter Dawkins on two zodiac crossings at the Gemini-Taurus cusp and the Sagittarius-Scorpio cusp, which he calls the galactic center and galactic anti-center. 16. Sackin says Dawkins sees those alignments as moments when “a channel opens up” between the heart of the galaxy and Earth via the Sun. 17. He then brings in Bipu Dev Misra’s Yuga Shift and its 24,000-year cycle with 12,000-year descending and ascending halves. 18. Sackin says Misra pairs that model with Cataclysmos and Ekpirosis, two 900-year purging periods that stretch the cycle to 25,800 years. 19. The tone is lecture-like and densely referenced, with Sackin reading long passages from Hall, Dawkins, Misra, and Plato. 20. Listeners interested in esoteric cosmology, astrology, and ancient cycle theories will find it useful, while listeners wanting a short, practical philosophy discussion may skip it.

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A broad synthesis of the Great Year, Atlantis, and civilizational change.

Alex Sackin ties the Great Year, the Younger Dryas, Atlantis, America as the New Atlantis, and the philosophic empire and world nation into one wide arc.

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