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. It demands a new political wisdom, a wisdom that understands the importance of the free and open development of all individuals and cultures. It demands that careful attention be paid to the archetypal story of humanity. The signs are always there, they just need to be heeded.

[i] Post, Jerrold, ‘Terrorist psycho-logic: terrorist behaviour as a product of psychological forces’, in Reich, Walter, Origins of Terrorism, John Hopkins University Press (2001) pg 22 [ii] Wilber, Ken, Integral Psychology, Collected Works, Vol4, Shambhala (1999).

[iii] Ibid, pg 455

[iv] Ibid, pg 461

[v] For a detailed explanation of the anthropology of human evolution see, Johnson and Earle, The Evolution of Human Societies, Stanford University Press (2000)

[vi] Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn

[vii] Campbell, Joseph, The Mythic Image, Chapter 5 – The Revolving Sphere of Space-Time, Princeton University Press (1974)

[viii] Integral Psychology, op cit.

[ix] Johnson and Earle, op cit.

[x] Campbell, Joseph, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Fontana (1993)

[xi] It is interesting to note that many protestant churches are based around a strong idea of equality in faith and that the Puritans were instrumental in anti-establishment rebellions in England and America.

[xii] In fact Temenos contains several interesting harmonic patterns, each with distinct meaning. There is the standard division of 12 by the factors, 2, 3, 4 and 6. This is also a mirror harmonic which reveals a symbolic connection between 1-6, 2-5 and 3-4. There is also the disharmonic of 5 and 7, with 5 symbolic of descent and 7 of ascent. But these are all subjects for a larger work.

[xiii] Through the worship of shakti in the form of Kali/Durga

[xiv] Campbell, Joseph, The Masks of God, Vol I. Penguin (1964).

[xv] What is interesting is that the Hebrew for Saturn is sabbatai, from which is derived the word Sabbath, traditionally held on Saturday – Saturn’s day.

[xvi] Jung, CG, Symbols of Transformation, CW Vol5, Bollingen, Princeton University Press.

[xvii] Juergensmeyer, Mark, Terror in the Mind of God, University of California Press (pg 161).

[xviii] Ibid, (pg 191)

[xix] Quoted from The Terrorism Reader, Editor, David Whittaker. Routledge (pg 19)

[xx] Ibid (pg 131).

[xxi] This occurs in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships

[xxii] Juergensmeyer, op cit. (pg 203)

[xxiii] Johnson and Earle, op cit.

[xxiv] Juergensmeyer, op cit. (pg 167)

[xxv] Jung, CG, Mysterium Coniunctionis, CW Vol 14, Bollingen, Princeton University Press.

[xxvi] Corbin, Henry, Alone with the Alone, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi, Bollingen, Princeton University Press (pg 40).