Beyond the Homo Sapiens
Outline

The Prologue describes the deep emotional upheaval Ariadne experienced when she gave birth to Alexiara and how the overwhelming love that exploded within her sparked the need to find a better path.

In the First Chapter, Ariadne explains to her daughter how nothing made sense to her in her childhood and adolescence. This lack of understanding is the very thing that now, as a young mother, led her to dive into the eternal knowledge of the mystics, mythology, symbolism and philosophy to help her daughter grow up with Truth, despite the lies that reign in the world. She also describes the first bread crumb she found that led her to the beginning of her psychological quest.

In Chapter Two Ariadne narrates the transcendental dream that destroyed any chance she might have had to live the easy existence of unquestioned beliefs. Ariadne tells Alexiara about the beginning of her spiritual search; her glimpses into a larger reality; and how she used her craft as a painter to freeze the messages that came to her from the subconscious, which would have other wise disappeared from her memory.

In the Third Chapter, Ariadne describes her second momentous dream, which complemented the first and helped her begin to understand what mysticism is all about. This chapter also depicts how Ariadne struggled to live her new found inner life at the same time that she emigrated from Bogota, Colombia to Caracas, Venezuela with Alexiara and her sister Selene to pursue an opportunity for her art career.

In the Chapter Four, Ariadne tells Alexiara how they left Caracas and arrived in New York, only to find that in this new country people live by yet another set of lies. Ariadne keeps on studying and trying to understand the wrongs of society by digging into her own psyche and concentrating on her inner life.

In the Fifth Chapter Ariadne remembers how she and Alexiara returned to Colombia. Alexiara needed to recuperate her roots and language. Ariadne explains to Alexiara the need to begin the task of psychological reversal from exclusive attention to the world of the senses (or effects), to attention to the archetypal world of Causes.

In Chapter Six they return to the United States. Ariadne marries a New York lawyer and is faced with the destructive turmoil of alcoholism and addiction. Alexiara, now an adolescent, has to grapple with the effects of this situation as well.

In Chapter Seven Ariadne perceives that history is the key to the comprehension of our inhuman condition. She takes her daughter through prehistory, realizing that until we understand all the archeology of the psyche, we cannot liberate ourselves from the burden of erroneous thought. History began with the entrance onto the world stage of men and women who glimpsed at Spiritual Reality. Their Ideas began the redemptive process of history. Moses came from the Hermetic Egyptian tradition and decided to bring a people out of slavery, not only slavery from Pharaoh, but slavery from erroneous opinions. He symbolizes the bringing of Spiritual Law into the world: Torah. Then Ariadne shows her daughter how Consciousness began then the alteration of the animal automatism of the subconscious through Krishna in India, Orpheus in Greece, and others.

In Chapter Eight Ariadne explains to Alexiara the Humanist Ideas of Zoroaster, in Persia, Lao-tzu and Confucius in China, Buddha in India, and the Ionic Philosophers; the Socratic revelation of the world of Ideas. She goes on to discuss the opening of Helenism and the spread of the philosophical ideas in the world; the Revelation of the Human Spirit brought by them and the unfortunate incapacity of the masses–even of their followers–to understand their message.

Chapter Nine starts with the New Era. Ariadne shows Alexiara that Jeheshua was the flower of Jewish Spirituality and how he brought to the world the Idea that only the Human Spirit, the Lamb, can domesticate the wolf in us. This fresh way of thinking opened a new stage in the evolutionary process of consciousness as it became inhabited by Consciousness, or the Human Spirit.

In Chapter Ten Ariadne shows Alexiara how Christianity would have been impossible without the synagogue and the Jewish Diaspora. Paul, a Jew from the tribe of Benjamin, decides to eliminate circumcision to make the acceptance of Spiritual Law to the pagan world easier.

In Chapter Eleven Ariadne explores for her daughter the two contradictory impulses with which Homo Sapiens struggle: We want to follow the heroic warrior while at the same time hearing the call of Spiritual Ideal that makes us yearn for the Spiritual leader. Only the Spiritual leader can lead us to our spiritual awakening. Ariadne begins to see how the Spiritual leader is defeated over and over again and yet continues the struggle. Constantine defeats Christianity and its true ideal by accepting it as the religion of the Empire and turning it into an institution. Later, the Roman Empire is divided into the East and West, which has marked the world to this day; the Germanic tribes invade and dismember the western empire; Islam (which also sprang from the spirituality of Judaism) comes into the world; Christianity and Islam help spread Spiritual Law to the pagan, or wolf, mind by imposing monotheism and the Ideal of the resurrection of the Human Spirit.

In Chapter Twelve Ariadne continues with the new world of the Christian Byzantine Empire, the Islamic Arab Empire and the barbarians who became the nobility of the conquered lands in territories that had begun to be called Europe. The Madonna, as the symbol of the purified subconscious, and her child the Human Spirit (which affirms the real life of Spirit), is enthroned in the European cathedrals, as is the cross (which symbolizes the renunciation of the animal nature).

In Chapter Thirteen Ariadne discusses the crusades and how the Jewish people were forced to become the lenders of money because they were not allowed to own land and the Christians were forbidden to lend it. Thus, because of the needs of the crusades, commerce begins in Europe and with it a new class emerges. The people of the towns or bourgs, who backed the kings against the feudal lords because of their need to unify coinage and taxes, became the middle class or bourgeoisie. With that, the concept of the Nation appears. The successful Italian Compagnia (company) in the Mediterranean attracts the envy of all other European Nations and the renaissance of the money economy brings about the Modern Age.

In Chapter Fourteen Ariadne deals with Portugal challenging the cities of the Mediterranean by perfecting navigation and searching for new routes to the riches of the orient. European Navigation initiates that continents supremacy in the world. Then Spain challenges Portugal, so the Pope divides the world between those two countries. The gold taken from Central and South America pours into Europe giving birth to Mercantilism. Luther challenges the Papacy, and the nations competing with Spain and Portugal discover that if they support Luther, they don't have to accept the Papal decree that the world belongs to Spain and Portugal. Protestantism and commerce combine to challenge Catholicism and feudalism. Holland becomes Protestant and begins to take Portugals ports. Mercantilism in Holland gives way to the birth of capitalism as industry expands to continue selling goods to Spain. Holland produces the first bourgeoisie revolution against the crown of Spain. Cervantes writes Quixote about the decaying feudal world of Spain incapable of confronting the machines in the form of windmills and the capitalism of Holland. At the same time, Shakespeare writes about the modern man that emerged from the Italian Compagnia, a man who begins to doubt the beliefs of the time. England challenges Holland and starts to take the ports away from Holland, Portugal, and Spain. Capitalism in England produces the second bourgeoisie revolution against its own nobility. Then comes the birth of radical Protestantism as well as of the ideal of Utopias. Thinkers prove that the Earth is round and that it revolves around the Sun. Science begins to overturn the primitive taboos we once held about the objective world.

In Chapter Fifteen Ariadne shows how, having achieved the reversal of the objective world, great thinkers went on to overturn those of the subjective world. America, following in the footsteps of the Whigs of England, condemns the concept of the Divine Right of Kings. The American Revolution makes the third bourgeoisie revolution. France follows with the fourth. The Century of Illumination begins a New Order of the Ages. The ideal of Reason is extended to purify or illuminate emotions, with the ideals of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, as achievable on Earth. The Deist resurrects the purity of Jeheshua's ideal of Love. The radical movement to bring a paradise on Earth threatens the power of the bourgeoisie and the nobility, who respond in kind against the people. Germany initiates its nationalization process. Goethe and the Myth of the Modern Man selling his soul to material goods comes to the fore of the Worlds stage.

In Chapter Sixteen Ariadne covers the beginning of the United States imperialism. South America goes from a land feudalism owned by Spain to a land feudalism owned by England, to the economic feudalism of the United States. The radical humanist movement resurrects itself, but continues to be cut down by the wolf mentality.

In Chapter Seventeen Ariadne looks at how the wolf takes off its mask, as those who identify with the primitive taboos begin the Fascist movement. Fascism is accepted by the elites of the world. The wolf again eats the Lamb.

In Chapter Eighteen Ariadne reviews the first half of the XX Century. The clash of the titan wolfs to keep, take over, or defend their pieces of the world. Ariadne begins to explain the role of the plastic arts throughout history, and how they fell into total decadence in the twentieth Century. The heroic warrior, or the wolf showing off, starts the first world devastation with modern war technology (W.W.I).

In Chapter Nineteen Ariadne delves into the second half of the XX Century. Ariadne narrates to her daughter how the wolfs psyche accomplishes the second world destruction and how he shows off his atomic power to annihilate all of life. The Human Spirit seems chained and the Lamb appears ready for crucifixion. The Universal order cannot be reflected in the psyche of man because the wolf in us refuses to align itself with truth. The empires (G-7 countries) have triumphed over Latin America and the rest of the developing world. Capitalism becomes the feudal lord of the world, presiding over the old colonies, which are now called Third World Countries.

In Chapter Twenty, Ariadne portrays the vital role that the feminine language of the arts plays in bringing our emotions to purification. Pure intellect or pure emotion cannot work. We need to bring about their union in order to win over the wolf nature in us. This way we will initiate a whole New Era in the evolution of our species, as we understand the need for a planetary consciousness of the brotherhood of man. Only in this way can we erase the automatic animal reactions that drive us, and begin to educate ourselves as humans so we can move on to becoming Homo Spiritus. This goal can only be achieved through conscious evolution, using all the knowledge left by the psychotechnologies of the world, from alchemy to Yoga, from Astrology to Kabala, philosophy and science. Educating ourselves with Ideas that will encourage the unfolding of our potential from the physical to the psychic and from the psychic to the Spiritual. All through the book Ariadne points out the actions and opinions that throughout history have belonged to animal automatism, as well as the Ideas that belong to the Human Spirit in all of us. And, as Ariadne talks to her daughter, she makes continuous references to the present and how that history affects us to this day. She demonstrates the struggle between the will of Spirit for the redemption of the masses, and the will of elites to usurp the power of Spirit by imposing their own. How the blind masses follow blind leaders because both have the same inverted value system that puts matter and material things before Spirit

The book narrates only the history that is essential to demonstrating how mankind's contradictory nature has brought us to this pivotal moment in time. Part of mankind has striven for Truth, while our animal instincts keep us in the shadows of misconceptions, greed and fear. The book shows how the progressive Ideas of Truth manage to inch their way forward despite always being pushed back by the prehistoric taboos that live in us all. The triumph of the Human Spirit can bring us out of the labyrinth of animal instinct.

Beyond the Homo Sapiens
© 1996 Mariu Suarez
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.