Pyramids :: Symbolism History Spirit Essays Research

Pyramids The image of the pyramid with the sun shinning behind it was taken from a 1996 brochure advertising a weekend seminar with Robert Kirby, an international speaker and author. Kirby's weekend seminar is titled "Manifesting Your Life - Purpose, Prosperity and Abundance." His self proclaimed fields of expertise include Corporate Negotiation, Accelerated Learning, Transformational Psychology, Kinesiology, Emotional-Spiritual Revitalism, and Energy Field Research, among others. The brochure states, "Newly researched evidence now permits you to unleash enormous latent creative capabilities through your body's dynamic electrical energy field." Robert Kirby is one of the many people currently making a living utilizing information associated with the new age spiritual movement. The new age spiritual movement is a very broad ideological umbrella covering the terminology Kirby uses, and much more. The new age movement seems to signal above all, an interest in the mind-body-spirit connection. People are pursuing the idea that the knowledge is within each individual to unite the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of themselves to create wholeness. The pyramid seems to have been adopted as a powerful symbol for these ideas. The pyramid of the 90's is a spiritual icon for health, power, abundance, and purpose. In our country riddled by me ntal and physical health-care crisis's, where traditional western medicine clearly lacks answers, the spiritual movement is becoming increasingly wide spread, and the pyramid carries the message. The pyramid symbol carries the traditional coding of the spiritual trinity. Each side of a pyramid is a triangle and the triangle stands for the trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The new age trinity is a somewhat different way of looking at the traditional religious trinity ideology. The difference is in the extension of the definition. The trinity in this case is the father (spirit), mother (matter), and son (consciousness, Christ). Interaction of father spirit, with matter (mother), creates the son. The belief is that this is true of everything that exists - - all life is formed within that trinity. So ultimately the pyramid is the symbol of creation, and the symbol of God. The new age spiritual movement of the 1990's definitely includes the notion that individuals have access t o God. Interestingly enough, the meaning of the pyramid in the 1990's is not that far removed from the meaning of the original pyramids of Giza. When first looking at the two images and deciding exactly what each represents, it seems at first as if the entire meaning of the original structure is lost in today's use; however, there is a connection of meaning on a deeper level on close examination.