…world such an escape into the intellectual or scientific realm has been for instance done by the society around Socrates and Plato in Greece that was an escape into the a pure men's society of philosophers and scientists among themselves and we know…

…periods of 4,320,000 years, the whole constellation began again. That is the birth of the myth of the eternal return. In Greece, Plato thought that we live in a cosmos below like cave dwellers, while there is above another eternal world the realm of the…

…and limitation. He therefore created this world as a moving image of eternity, and that is how, according to Plato, time came into being. In Chinese astrological cosmology, there was, under all the heavenly constellations, an underlying cosmic, psycho-physical…

…words of Socrates. When he was in prison shortly before he had to take the cup of poison, he spoke to his friends as Plato tells us in his famous lecture Phaedon. After having drunk the poison, he took leave of his friends and in the end he said,…