We face eco-suicide in the C21st. Our urban way of life is destroying its own life-support system. Approaching Chaos examines an alternative: an ancient archetype dating from the Bronze Age that helped cities exist in harmony with Nature. This archetype influenced the ancient Greeks and Romans, often mistakenly admired as examples of civilized societies.

Approaching Chaos challenges our accepted view of ‘progress’ since the end of the Ice Age. By looking again at the origins of farming and cities, and focussing on Bronze Age civilization, we can see that it was not primitive and backward. For one thing, it had a zero carbon technology which is mysterious to us (for example the Great Pyramid).

Approaching Chaos explains how we lost touch with the archetype and its secrets (eg pyramid building) from the start of the Iron Age. In the end, Romano-Christian power combined to disconnect us from Nature. The Egyptians’ use of quantum physics and alchemy in megalithic building and shamanic ritual became esoteric, hidden knowledge; and we have been going in the wrong direction with regard to science and religion ever since.

Aspects of the archetype re-emerged at the time of the Gothic cathedrals, and again in the Renaissance. But now is the time to re-connect with all of the original model for us to have a future.