Cave of the Ancients
About This Book
Cave of the Ancients is one of T. Lobsang Rampa's most extraordinary and evocative books — recounting the discovery of an ancient underground cavern in the Himalayan mountains whose contents suggest the existence of a civilisation vastly more technically advanced than anything conventional history acknowledges, preserved in suspended animation in a sealed underground chamber to await the development of humanity to a level at which the knowledge could be received and used wisely rather than destructively. The cavern that Rampa describes, reportedly discovered by him and his lama teacher during a period of his training at a Tibetan monastery, contains not only the preserved artefacts and records of this advanced civilisation but working devices — mechanical, electronic, and subtle-energy — that demonstrate principles of physics and consciousness that contemporary science has not yet discovered or only recently begun to approach.
The book operates on several levels simultaneously: as a narrative of the discovery itself (full of the descriptive specificity and atmospheric vividness that characterise Rampa's best writing), as a transmission of the specific knowledge preserved in the cavern (including the advanced civilisation's understanding of consciousness, the subtle bodies, the nature of the universe, and the specific technical applications of these principles), and as an investigation of the question that the cavern raises: what happened to this advanced civilisation, why was its knowledge preserved in this way, and what is the appropriate time and condition for humanity to receive it?
What You'll Learn
• Understand the ancient advanced civilisation framework: Rampa's specific account of the civilisation whose knowledge is preserved in the cavern — when it existed, what its level of development was, what specific capabilities it had (in both physical technology and the application of consciousness principles to practical ends), and what the specific event or process was through which it was destroyed or transformed and its knowledge preserved for a future age
• Grasp the technical knowledge dimension: the specific principles and discoveries from the advanced civilisation that Rampa describes encountering in the cavern — including principles of subtle energy manipulation, consciousness technology, methods of preserving life and knowledge across very long time periods, and the specific applications of physics principles that contemporary science has not yet reached
• Recognise the guardianship teaching: the understanding Rampa develops of the role of the Tibetan monastic tradition in preserving and guarding knowledge — including the specific knowledge preserved in the cave and the more general understanding that certain dimensions of knowledge about consciousness and reality are preserved by specific custodial traditions against the time when the general human development will be sufficient to receive them
• Learn the consciousness technology dimension: how Cave of the Ancients addresses the specifically consciousness-based aspects of the ancient civilisation's technology — the ways in which the advanced beings could affect physical reality through developed consciousness, the specific practices and abilities through which this control was developed, and how these principles relate to the more modest but nonetheless real consciousness effects that Tibetan and other meditative traditions have documented
• Appreciate the narrative quality: how Cave of the Ancients exemplifies Rampa's particular gift as a writer — the combination of genuine inner knowledge (about the structure of consciousness, the nature of the subtle bodies, the principles of Tibetan metaphysics) with the narrative and atmospheric gifts of a gifted storyteller, producing books that are simultaneously informative in their specific subject matter and genuinely absorbing as experiences of a very different world
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