Time Travelling and Visions of the Future:

Pan-Antropos’ Path

Paula Soares
University of Evora (Portugal)
psoares21@gmail.com
Time Travelling and Visions of the Future:
Pan-Antropos’ Path

This paper aims at sharing some of the

results of a PhD research that focuses
within a Consciousness Studies approach,
through Time Travelling, on the evolution
of perception of Human Consciousness as
p o r t r a y e d i n A r t a nd A r c hit ec t ur e.
Time Travelling and Visions of the Future:
Pan-Antropos’ Path

The methodology used is

centered on a right
hemisphere basis
reaching out for a
macroscopic synthesis of
the Evolution of Human
Consciousness (21st
Century approach), rather
than a microscopic linear
analysis (20th Century
approach).
Time Travelling
There are several ways of
Time Travelling:

• Through the study and

experience of Quantum
Physics
• Through science fictional
approaches (e.g. The Time
Machine)
• Through a macroscopic,
panoramic view of Human
Perception along History in
search for the guidelines of
connection through the
Essences
What is important is that we see a
common thread running from the primeval
religious consciousness down through
modern cultural expression.
Geoffrey Hill, Illuminating Shadows. The Mythic Power of Film
Time Travelling and Visions of the Future:
Pan-Antropos’ Path
Content
1.Crossing the Contemporary Global Crisis

2.Time Travelling: Perceptions of Art

2.1. Perceptions of Art in Ancient Egypt

2.2. Perceptions of Art in Ancient Greece
2.3. Perceptions of Art in the Middle Ages
2.4. Perception of Art from the Renaissance up to Nowadays

3. Visions of the Future

3.1. Change of Paradigms for the 21st Century
3.2. Pan-Antropos’ Path
1.Crossing the Contemporary Global Crisis

The main stream research methodology of the

20th Century has been focused on specializing
in a specific area, corresponding to the opposite
pole that the Renaissance had suggested.
(e.g. The School of Athens, Rafael Sancti)
1.Crossing the Contemporary Global Crisis

The excess of specialization has created

huge walls of communication among the
different fields of research that now, at the
beginning of the 21st Century, start to
come together in search of a new ground
that eventually can lead to a new concept
of
Knowledge Fraternities (Soares, 2003).
1.Crossing the Contemporary Global Crisis

The theoretical support created by the

Post World War II generation that nurtured
the second part of the 20th Century
Academic Studies, doesn’t answer the
questions of the Generation born in the
late 60s, doesn’t answer the emerging
challenges of the 21st Century.
New Paradigms are to be born, New
Approaches are to be tested…
1.Crossing the Contemporary Global Crisis

The New emerging Academic Field of

Consciousness Studies brings along a
possibility of dialogue among the various
different research areas.
Its roots can be found, among others,
through the study of Carl Gustav Jung,
Roberto Assagioli, António Damásio and
Ken Wilber.
 Ken Wilber

American Philosopher,
Creator of the Integral Theory of Consciousness,
*1949
 2.Time Travelling:
Perceptions of Art

What is important is that we see a common thread

running from the primeval religious consciousness down
through modern cultural expression.

Geoffrey Hill, Illuminating Shadows. The Mythic Power of Film

 2.Time Travelling:
Perceptions of Art

The basis for this 2nd part is inspired in Gottfried

Richter’s outstanding book, Art and Human
Consciousness, where he approaches Art
History as a Mirror of Human Development.
 2.Time Travelling:
Perceptions of Art

From ancient cave paintings with elements of

sympathetic magic to modern performance art, art has
always served its culture as a carrier of myth.

Geoffrey Hill, Illuminating Shadows. The Mythic Power of Film

2.Time Travelling:
Perceptions of Art
2.1. Perceptions of Art in Ancient
Egypt

According to Richter,
the slowly moving
bodies of Ancient
Egypt correspond to a
Awakening
Consciousness out of
a Dream State that
the human being
recreates in the first
years of life.
2.1. Perceptions of Art in Ancient
Egypt
The Sphinx
represents the
movement from
animal horizontality
towards human
verticality. The
emerging Human
Head out of a
complex animal body.
2.1. Perceptions of Art in Ancient
Egypt

In terms of Architectural Perception in Ancient

Egypt, the movement focuses on the going
Inside.
 2.1. Perceptions of Art in Ancient
Egypt

Horus Heliopolis Sphinx

(Sun God) (School of Misteries) (Birth of
Verticality)
2.2. Perceptions of Art in Ancient
Greece

According to Richter
Ancient Greece
represents the
process of liberation:
liberation of matter
liberation of creativity
liberation of thinking.
2.2. Perceptions of Art in Ancient
Greece

The Centaur, a
continuity of the
Sphinx, shows
human head, chest
and arms and an
animal body.
2.2. Perceptions of Art in Ancient
Greece

In terms of Architectural Perception in Ancient

Greece, the movement focuses on the turning
point from the inside to the outside.
 2.2. Perceptions of Art in Ancient
Greece

Apollo, the Coachman Temple of Delphi The Centaur

2.3. Perceptions of Art in the
Middle Ages
According to Richter, the
medieval Knight,
symbolized by Parzival,
stands for the
development of virtue
qualities, such as
Courage, Charity, Truth
and Justice. The human
being now separated
from the animal trying to
control it through the will.
 2.3. Perceptions of Art in the
Middle Ages

In terms of Architectural Perception in the Middle

Ages, the movement focuses on the search for
verticality and the rerpresentation of the Virtues.
 2.3. Perceptions of Art in the
Middle Ages

The Round Table Parzival The Inquisition

2.4. Perception of Art from the
Renaissance up to Nowadays

According to Richter, the

Renaissance represents
the creation of the Inner
Space, the necessity of
human Transcendence,
the knowledge of the
human body. The Human
Being dives into
him/herself.
 2.4. Perception of Art from the
Renaissance up to Nowadays

In terms of Architectural Perception in the

Renaissance, the movement focuses on the
Creation of Inner Spaces.
2.4. Perception of Art from the
Renaissance up to Nowadays

The School of Athens

represents the coming
together of the Arts under
the same ceiling.
According to Rafael, the
Arts should contribute to
the revelation of the
mysteries of the Cosmos.
 2.4. Perception of Art from the
Renaissance up to Nowadays

The Essence of the Renaissance stands for the

beginning of the Individuation Process of
Humanity.
 2.4. Perception of Art from the
Renaissance up to Nowadays

Apart from few exceptions, Modernity brought up a

movement of disintegration of the whole a constant
testing of the human limits. The mythical experience of
the human Faust.
 2.4. Perception of Art from the
Renaissance up to Nowadays

The Faust human being is related to the death of

beauty, the solitude of the world. The ideal of Art
isn’t anymore Beauty, but the Will.
 2.4. Perception of Art from the
Renaissance up to Nowadays

The New Time brings along a Human Being that doesn’t experience
him/herself anymore as a Creature, but the great opportunity to
become a Creator him/herself.
 Evolution of the Mythic Creation of Humanity

Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece Middle Ages Renaissance Contemporanity

Higher Self/ God Ra, Apollo, the King Arthur, Man of Vitruvia
Superconcious Horus Coachman The Templars The School of
Heliopolis School Plato’s Academy Athens
Middle Self/ Self- Rêverie Birth of the Artist Parzival, the Awakeness Crossing the
Conscious (Dream state) Knight In search of the Horizons of
(Will) The Virtues Masterpiece Awakeness
Faust Human Being
Lower Self/ Sphinx Centaur Inquisition Scholars
Subconscious (Separation of
Areas of
Knowledge)
Leitmotif Fusion with the From the Inside to From the Outside Exploring the The Inside of the
Human Whole the Outside to the Inside Inner Space Outer World
Biography Verticality 2nd Seven Years Amplifying New Coordinate Loneliness of the
(Steiner/ 1st Seven years Verticality System World
Lievegoed) 3rd Seven Years 4th Seven Years Breakthrough Space
5th Seven Years
Inner Way
3. Visions of the Future
3. Visions of the Future
 3.1. Change of Paradigms for the
21st Century
• The School of Mysteries of the 3rd
Millennium is to be found inside of the
Human Being through Self-knowledge
• Art and Consciousness have to move
along in the 3rd Millennium
• A major reference within a Consciousness
Studies approach is the Integral Theory of
Consciousness developed by Ken Wilber
3.2. Pan-Antropos’ Path
Definition of Pan-Antropos:
The Pan-Antropos is the Human Being of
the Future that integrates a new dimension
of studying the individual as an entire being
through self-knowledge.
The Pan-Antropos develops both
Hemispheres of the Brain in a balanced
way.
The Pan-Antropos moves from an analytical
detail world picture towards a synthetic
world picture based on Essences.
The Pan-Antropos integrates the Four Pillars
of Education of the UNESCO:
1) Learning to Know.
2) Learning to Do.
3) Learning to Live Together. Learning to
live with the Others.
4) Learning to Be.
3.2. Pan-Antropos’ Path

Pan-Antropos Path leads

to an Integral Human
Development, to
Consciousness in Art,
to Knowledge
Fraternities,
to Spiritual Tolerance,
to

Pan-Antropolis, the
City of the Future…
3.2. Pan-Antropos’ Path

Examples of Places
of the Future:

Damanhur, Italy
3.2. Pan-Antropos’ Path

Examples of Places
of the Future:

Auroville, India
3.2. Pan-Antropos’ Path

Examples of Places
of the Future:

Picaranga, Brasil
3.2. Pan-Antropos’ Path

Paula Soares,
University of Evora (Portugal)
psoares21@gmail.com