Chapter 6, Part 2 Summary

"A History of Awakening", Part 2. At this point, the narrator has a vision of "the long saga of human history", reliving it from its earliest evolutionary dawnings of consciousness through the gathering of wandering tribes into larger and more civilized communities, the Fear distorting both interpretation of and action upon Birth Visions every step of the way. He describes perceiving the growth of democracy in Ancient Greece, Ancient Hebrew realizations of there being only one God, and Far Eastern realizations of the power of contemplation, enlightenment, and spiritual harmony as important steps towards realizing the World Vision, the Tenth Insight of full connection between human and divine. He describes the teachings of Christ as being the result of an individual coming into the world with full awareness of his Birth Vision, how the spread of the vision-inspired Christian faith eventually gave...