ANDREW WELBURN is a wide-ranging author of works exploring the history and evolution of consciousness. Starting out with a thesis on William Blake and the Gnostics, his main concern has been bridging academic and spiritual perspectives. He has been engaged particularly with Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy and esotericism, through which he has striven to illumine the Christian imagination in poetry and art, highlighting the Romantic writers. In his books The Beginnings of Christianity and From a Virgin Womb he has studied archaic traditions concerning the ‘transfiguration of the world’ in their relevance to Christian origins and a vision of future reality. In his most recent work he is extending the bounds of his researches into evolution and prehistory. He has been a British Academy Fellow and Frances Yates Fellow in the universities of London and Oxford.

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• Prologue: WHERE DO WE COME FROM?Chapter 1: EXPLOSION TO MODERNITYOurselves in the Mirror of Time—The Neanderthal’s Gift—An Idea of Darwin’s Goes ExtinctIntermission—MISSING LINKS—INTELLECTUAL REARMAMENTEvolution—Anthropic Science—Biological Imperative, Panpsychism, Complexity and What Next?Chapter 2: RUDOLF STEINER AND THE MAP OF ATLANTISA World within the World—An Emerging Story and a Startling MapChapter 3: STEINER’S CLAIRVOYANCE AND EVOLUTIONSuppressed Faculties—Consciousness and Evolution—Clairvoyance and Evolution—The Archetypes of LifeChapter 4: ANIMALS AND ATLANTISUnplatonic Ideas—Perspective: From Animal to Human—Animals and AtlantisChapter 5: LEMURIAN CHILDHOODBack to the (New) Beginning—an Improbable and Tenuous Humanity—Early Humans in Search of a Childhood—Material Progress?Chapter 6: NEANDERTHALS AND ATLANTISNeanderthals: Living with the Dead—Memory and MusicChapter 7: ORACLES AND FLIGHT-PATHS: THE NEANDERTHAL WORLDOracular Networks—The Dream of Flight—Territory and Conflict: Mythic Resolutions—Myths of AtlantisChapter 8: BREAKTHROUGH OR BETRAYAL? ASSESSING THE ‘EXPLOSION’Neanderthals: Who, Whence and Whither?—The Big Fish—A Birth of Images—Mind-Control and the Mysteries—BetrayalAppendix: TOO MANY MAPSThe Mystique of Maps

ANDREW WELBURN is a wide-ranging author of works exploring the history and evolution of consciousness. Starting out with a thesis on William Blake and the Gnostics, his main concern has been bridging academic and spiritual perspectives. He has been engaged particularly with Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy and esotericism, through which he has striven to illumine the Christian imagination in poetry and art, highlighting the Romantic writers. In his books The Beginnings of Christianity and From a Virgin Womb he has studied archaic traditions concerning the ‘transfiguration of the world’ in their relevance to Christian origins and a vision of future reality. In his most recent work he is extending the bounds of his researches into evolution and prehistory. He has been a British Academy Fellow and Frances Yates Fellow in the universities of London and Oxford.

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• Prologue: WHERE DO WE COME FROM?Chapter 1: EXPLOSION TO MODERNITYOurselves in the Mirror of Time—The Neanderthal’s Gift—An Idea of Darwin’s Goes ExtinctIntermission—MISSING LINKS—INTELLECTUAL REARMAMENTEvolution—Anthropic Science—Biological Imperative, Panpsychism, Complexity and What Next?Chapter 2: RUDOLF STEINER AND THE MAP OF ATLANTISA World within the World—An Emerging Story and a Startling MapChapter 3: STEINER’S CLAIRVOYANCE AND EVOLUTIONSuppressed Faculties—Consciousness and Evolution—Clairvoyance and Evolution—The Archetypes of LifeChapter 4: ANIMALS AND ATLANTISUnplatonic Ideas—Perspective: From Animal to Human—Animals and AtlantisChapter 5: LEMURIAN CHILDHOODBack to the (New) Beginning—an Improbable and Tenuous Humanity—Early Humans in Search of a Childhood—Material Progress?Chapter 6: NEANDERTHALS AND ATLANTISNeanderthals: Living with the Dead—Memory and MusicChapter 7: ORACLES AND FLIGHT-PATHS: THE NEANDERTHAL WORLDOracular Networks—The Dream of Flight—Territory and Conflict: Mythic Resolutions—Myths of AtlantisChapter 8: BREAKTHROUGH OR BETRAYAL? ASSESSING THE ‘EXPLOSION’Neanderthals: Who, Whence and Whither?—The Big Fish—A Birth of Images—Mind-Control and the Mysteries—BetrayalAppendix: TOO MANY MAPSThe Mystique of Maps

ANDREW WELBURN is a wide-ranging author of works exploring the history and evolution of consciousness. Starting out with a thesis on William Blake and the Gnostics, his main concern has been bridging academic and spiritual perspectives. He has been engaged particularly with Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy and esotericism, through which he has striven to illumine the Christian imagination in poetry and art, highlighting the Romantic writers. In his books The Beginnings of Christianity and From a Virgin Womb he has studied archaic traditions concerning the ‘transfiguration of the world’ in their relevance to Christian origins and a vision of future reality. In his most recent work he is extending the bounds of his researches into evolution and prehistory. He has been a British Academy Fellow and Frances Yates Fellow in the universities of London and Oxford.

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• Prologue: WHERE DO WE COME FROM?Chapter 1: EXPLOSION TO MODERNITYOurselves in the Mirror of Time—The Neanderthal’s Gift—An Idea of Darwin’s Goes ExtinctIntermission—MISSING LINKS—INTELLECTUAL REARMAMENTEvolution—Anthropic Science—Biological Imperative, Panpsychism, Complexity and What Next?Chapter 2: RUDOLF STEINER AND THE MAP OF ATLANTISA World within the World—An Emerging Story and a Startling MapChapter 3: STEINER’S CLAIRVOYANCE AND EVOLUTIONSuppressed Faculties—Consciousness and Evolution—Clairvoyance and Evolution—The Archetypes of LifeChapter 4: ANIMALS AND ATLANTISUnplatonic Ideas—Perspective: From Animal to Human—Animals and AtlantisChapter 5: LEMURIAN CHILDHOODBack to the (New) Beginning—an Improbable and Tenuous Humanity—Early Humans in Search of a Childhood—Material Progress?Chapter 6: NEANDERTHALS AND ATLANTISNeanderthals: Living with the Dead—Memory and MusicChapter 7: ORACLES AND FLIGHT-PATHS: THE NEANDERTHAL WORLDOracular Networks—The Dream of Flight—Territory and Conflict: Mythic Resolutions—Myths of AtlantisChapter 8: BREAKTHROUGH OR BETRAYAL? ASSESSING THE ‘EXPLOSION’Neanderthals: Who, Whence and Whither?—The Big Fish—A Birth of Images—Mind-Control and the Mysteries—BetrayalAppendix: TOO MANY MAPSThe Mystique of Maps