Traveling Through Time

Traveling Through TIme: Exploring Ancient Creativity and Consciousness

Traveling through Time: Exploring Ancient Creativity and Consciousness

by Todd Swanson

This is a tale of an interior and exterior journey over the course of a year through myth, mysticism, Mysteries, madness, and the Middle East.

I spent two weeks at the archaeological site of Eleusis timing my visit to be there during the days the Mysteries would have been held had they continued to the present day. At Delphi, I consulted the oracle. While seeking another hallowed oracular site in Lebediea I found the pools of memory and forgetfulness mentioned by classical authors. I explored archaeological areas over 3,500 years old in the Aegean and wandered along a cliff of a locale often proposed to have been the lost continent of Atlantis.

The connecting thread is the ancients’ discovery and use of altered states of consciousness. This change of consciousness was brought about through meditation and ritual behaviors and continues to form the foundation of our perception of reality today. The book examines the intricate filigree of thought and supposition that weaves the fabric of illusion and reality and poses the question: What is real?