A Book Review by Kartar Diamond

I’ve had Forgotten Worlds (Guide to Lost Civilizations and the Coming One World) in my library for many years.  After Nine Ki expert Heluo Hill recommended the book to others on Facebook, I decided to crack it open once again. This thin little book may be hard to find.  First published in 1992, it’s out of print on Amazon, but some obscure books can still be found elsewhere, such as on Ebay.

The book begins with descriptions of awesome astrological observations and enormous astronomical passages of time, laying the groundwork for theories about how repeating cycles can predict the return of both natural and manufactured events, types of civilizations and levels of human consciousness.  As the author states, “They (ancient people) referred to the 25,800-year cycle of the polar ecliptic as the Great Year and considered it to have a decisive influence on the rise and fall of culture and civilization.”   

Other sources refer to the Great Year as 25,920 years in length. He mentions the expected periodic pole shifts and the world-scale catastrophes which follow, including the multiple great flood accounts. He refers to even longer phases, such as a galactic cycle taking about 200 million years to complete. All life has its ebb and flow, time frames ruled by water or fire, waxing and waning, yin or yang.

How our ancient ancestors knew about (and could track) these solar, planetary, and galactic cycles is beyond me, but it’s just one argument in favor of the plausibility that even more advanced societies came and went before our latest version of humanity.

Kushi gained popularity in the 1970’s as a proponent of the macrobiotic diet. Partly because of this, he views human development and consciousness through the foods consumed by civilizations from long ago. For the adherents of macrobiotics, which relies heavily on whole grains, he implies that humankind evolved further with the introduction of grains as a mainstay in the diet. Unfortunately, in the 21st century virtually all grains have been exposed to cancer-causing glyphosate. Even organic grains have been grown with chemical-laden municipal water, depleted soil and under geo-engineered skies.

Never mind that this contradicts what others have said about the human brain developing rapidly once we became meat eaters.  Better nutrition all round through farming and animal domestication likely resulted in a higher functioning human. Just as a sidebar: we can thank industrialization for increasing the consumption of coffee, making it possible for workers to stay awake, work at night and sustain their focus much longer. Caffeine may be indirectly related to higher cognitive function, speeding up discoveries and innovations on a global scale.

The author continues to draw correlations, showcasing the ancient world calendar called Kanagi Guruma in Japanese, depicting it as points on a compass. Kanagi Guruma can also be displayed as the Mother of all Magic Squares.  He states that the Kanagi Guruma template dates back to an ancient “one world,” predating the I-Ching by thousands of years, but no doubt a blueprint for other metaphysical revelations to follow. He correlates it with the Aztec calendar and Tibetan mandalas.  And this is where Kushi begins to elaborate more about the forgotten world, when humans across the whole planet existed without the formalities or restrictions of an actual one world government. Rather, societies were guided by wise Elders and any hint of an organized government was designed to feed and educate people, without controlling or manipulating them.

This is a stark contrast to the current usage and meaning of the terms “One World Government” or “New World Order,” which is a dystopian corporatocracy where a minority of people are fighting against that right now, while most are sleepwalking right into all its trappings.  Kushi states that people who commit sinful acts used to receive their own self-inflicted justice by becoming sick (you are what you think) and that in today’s society people are rampantly sick because “you are what you eat.” Our food might only have a fraction of the good Qi it had long ago.

The author notes that Stonehenge, the pyramids of Egypt and other megalithic structures were often erected to receive energy from the Sun and that a distribution of this energy further vitalized the crops. Pyramids were situated on the cardinal directions and some were even painted on each side with the colors representing those directions, repeated later in Chinese metaphysics. (North side of the pyramid: painted black, South side: painted red, West side: painted blue and East side: painted green.)

Bottom line: our food had more vital Qi energy long ago and some of it had to do with farming techniques, harnessing the power of the Sun by placing stones on top of nearby mountains, charging the larger environment like an acupuncture needle. With crystals as powerful conductors of energy, pyramids (as man-made mountains) often had a flat top in order to place the crystals there.

In the ancient past of the forgotten world, people used closer to 50-70% of their brain power, compared to now where we use only 15-18%.  Naturally, some of that extra brain power manifested in people as more telepathic and capable of perceiving energy on a level we may only be approaching mechanically through computers. Kushi also has an intriguing section on the universality of language and how the alphabet system in several examples mirrors the consciousness of earlier civilizations.

In a section titled “Ancient Treasures,” Kushi explains how certain wide swords, surviving many thousands of years, were not used for fighting, but shoved in the ground to site the movement of the sun. In this section on ancient agriculture, mirrors were also used to track the sun.

Beads, which were later used as rosaries, were initially used to track the days of a solar year. This highlights how we probably miss many cues in archeology, how people lived and farmed, how the Axis shifts changed the climate and dietary patterns over most continents. Some areas became so cold that people resorted to living in caves and farming vegetables and grains much more difficult, if not impossible.  The dietary restrictions affected how people thought and this ended up affecting language as well.

He recalls a time when people lived happily and without fear or sickness. This was the utopian “one world” from the ancient past. Kushi outlines where we are currently, within a massive repeating timeline. We are on the precipice of a 12,000 year-cycle ending and another beginning, an age of world government which could go one of two different ways. He describes one option as an “artificial unification through law, political and economic power,” such as through the United Nations, NATO, etc. The other option is a natural unification by the order of the universe or God’s law, “accomplished by people who have no power.”

He continues with timelines for the next 2,000 years with “natural agriculture” and an age of prosperity (for all) 10,000 years from now. Kushi highlights what it will take to achieve this in areas such as: Food Distribution, Land, Education, Industry, Medicine, Trade and Commerce.  His ideas range from socialism (big government) to a drastically scaled back government, functioning best on a local level.

A section titled “The Tree of Life,” comes as a surprise to me as he quotes the Book of Revelation and ties it in with the “seven angels,” which is a reference to the seven stars of the Big Dipper constellation.  While this book never mentions Feng Shui specifically, the Big Dipper’s seven stars and two assistant stars represent the 9 stars we converse in that are integral to the Flying Star School. And yet, this is not a happy association, as he describes only negative attributes cast down to Earth by the seven “angel” stars. The influence of the seven stars will come and go, according to the cycles of the North Star, whether Vega or Polaris and the implication is that we earthlings have some harsh lessons to learn whenever we are in a phase that is influenced by the Big Dipper.  I have often wondered if Feng Shui exists on other planets and I have a partial answer here.

As we go through this transition, which the author calls “passing through the center,” there is a spiral centripetal effect which also contributes to the sensation that time is speeding up. With the book written in 1992, he notes that in “about 40 years,” we will reach the center of the spiral, representing “the conclusion of 32 million years of history.”  He notes that the speed of social change is ramping up and that in present times we are experiencing life three times more rapidly than those alive in the late nineteen century and that we are 81 times busier than people in ancient Greece.  Of course, with the rise of A.I. most people can feel this and many fear it is a runaway train already.

Michio Kushi presents much food for thought, all puns intended. Whether his accounts are real, channeled or just a sci-fi musing, Forgotten Worlds puts present-day humanity into perspective and 30+ years later his words and predictions for our current times definitely ring true.

Author: Kartar Diamond

Company: Feng Shui Solutions ®

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