“Consciousness Aspects in the Golden Age”

Dr. Rowena Kryder. PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Dr. Rowena Pattee Kryder presented at the 2012 Cosolargy Conference on “Consciousness Aspects in the Golden Age.” Her talk addressed the historical perspective of the “four ages,” the geometric matrix and aether, subtle energy “elements,” the twelve archetypes that will be relevant in the Golden Age, and provided a practical, hands-on exercise to enhance consciousness from her recent oracle book and card pack, Soul Fire. Dr. Kryder opened with a discussion of the four historical ages of changes in human consciousness since 11,000 BCE, laid out and described by Robert Cox in his book Pillar of Celestial Fire, as a review of the large-scale “cycles of civilization” in order to point up the importance of the present quantum shift toward a new Golden Age in consciousness that we are presently participating in, an age in which humans have greater opportunity to know how to be one with the “Source” and cosmic Love acts as a tendency of Aether to vibrate in harmony with Eternal Light.

In line with her talk, Dr. Kryder, an accomplished visual artist, provided intuitive depictions of the four tattvas of Vedic thought and a series of painted archetypal images from her book Soul Fire that depict meaningful functions in the Golden Age as part of an exercise with the audience to determine what function each person in the audience most related to intuitively and to help each person answer questions related to that archetype for practical purposes in the future.

Biographical Note:
Dr. Kryder, in addition to being the author of some fifteen books by numerous major publishers, has been an active artist all her life, lecturing and teaching workshops worldwide. The former chairwoman of art and creativity at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, she later founded the Creative Harmonics Institute in Mount Shasta, California, where for 12 years she was program director for ten-day intensives. Her PhD is in cross-cultural religious studies from the Union Graduate School and her bachelor’s and MFA are from the University of Oregon in symbolism. She has been a teacher at the Subtle Energy Conferences in Boulder, Colorado, Transpersonal Psychology Conferences, and Conferences on Shamanism for several decades and has also been an invited speaker to the Medical and Scientific Network in Great Britain.