Beyond the Big Bang: Ancient Myth and the Science of Continuous Creation

Many thinkers have speculated that the remnants of an an

Many thinkers have speculated that the remnants of an ancient science survive today in the form of mythology and esoteric lore. In their symbols and structure, such myths are believed to portray a set of simple laws describing the processes of physical and spiritual change. Yet until now the scientific basis of those laws has remained cloaked in mystery.

Paul LaViolette, bringing to the study of myth a scientific sophistication rare among mythologists, deciphers ancient lore and reconstructs its forgotten cosmology in a groundbreaking scientific tour de force. Blending modern systems theory with the ancient notion of an underlying medium, or ether, LaViolette explains in direct, nontechnical language how ancient myths and esoteric lore encode a theory of continuous creation, one in which matter is coninually growing from seeds of order that emerge spontaneously from the surounding subquantum chaos.

This cosmology stands in stark contrast to the big bang theory, whose reliance on a mechanistic model of an expanding universe has increasingly come to be seen by many scientists as a fatal flaw. LaViolete exposes the contradictions that bedevil the big bang theory, while showing how the ancient science of continuous creation corresponds with recent astronomical data in a way that supersedes the explanations of general relativity.

Beyond the Big Bang is engagingly written and spiced with more than 140 thought-provoking diagrams and illustrations. It demonstrates how ancient mythology describes a coherent science that encompasses and exceeds our present-day understanding. By restoring and reanimating this ancient scientific worldview, Beyond the Big Bang leads us beyond the restrictive metaphors of modern science into a new science for the next century.