PREDICTIONS – 10 Years Later - Santa Fe Institute

8. A COSMIC HEARTBEAT
The number fifty-six is the only integer which would ensure that lunar
phenomena repeated accurately over Stonehenge for several centuries.
If Hawkins’ postulations are true, the people of Stonehenge, which
was constructed sometime between 1600 and 2000 B.C., through observation
of celestial phenomena, had become conscious of a natural clock
whose hands make a complete circuit every fifty-six years, ticking away
periodic influences on life on earth.
Long before I knew of the fifty-six-year cycle I had been intrigued
with the possibility that Stonehenge hides secrets. But the mystique
around this monument dissipated once I came across Hawkins’ explanation
of the Aubrey holes and realized that I had something in common
with those prehistoric people. Of course, calendars and stone monuments
do not illuminate the causes of the cyclical nature of the human
activities charted in this chapter, but all these observations have raised
my awareness so that I can now easily recognize events that have occurred,
and are likely to recur, at fifty- to sixty-year intervals.
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