The Veiled Pulse of Time: Life Cycles and Destiny

by William Cullen Bryant

Our biography is our most precious, intimate possession, yet how much do we really know about ourselves? With a little work, we can discover in the unfolding of our biography the traces of a marvelous, cosmic patterning--the cycles of our life. The seven-year cycle converts experience into psychological faculties; the twelve-year cycle marks the way changing self-awareness of the personality is translated into our life's work; the thirty-year cycle marks a major turning point in life.

The Veiled Pulse of Time explores these cycles, as well as the questions of freedom and destiny, transformation, reincarnation, and karma.

"Bryant writes with force and beauty. His deep insights into the elements of rhythm, the "time body," and the cycles in human life, combined with examples from biographies as diverse as Nehru, Marilyn Monroe, and Leo Tolstoy, make for a book that cannot be put down until finished. An invaluable work for counselors, educators, and those who wonder about their destiny." ― Robert Sardello , PhD, author of Facing the World with Soul

Paperback

First published December 1, 1993

About the author

William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.

Reviews

[Sharon Borjas · Rating 5 out of 5]

A poetic description of human perception of time throughout history and how that perception, coupled with biology, has created what we now call biography, leading to the question of how much control we really have over our individual destinies. Bryant shows how the cycles of Jupiter and Saturn parallel specific internal and external changes in various stages of human growth and how these changes drive us to act out our personal story on the stage of life. He calls this process the "creation of the soul", as if the soul is not necessarily a birthright, but something that grows in substance through various incarnations of human, earthly experience.