Binary Research Institute founder Walter Cruttenden joined guest host Lisa Garr (email) to explore how ancient cosmology preserves a cycle of rising and falling human consciousness (Related Graphic). Cruttenden argued that many ancient cultures shared a common view of time as a vast repeating cycle of rising and falling ages, often described as dark ages and golden ages. He said this Great Year, which he links to the precession of the equinoxes, lasts about 24,000 years, with roughly 12,000 years of ascent and 12,000 years of decline. In his view, these cycles do not just shape history externally, but also influence human consciousness, innovation, and civilization's overall development.
Cruttenden suggested humanity is only in the early stages of an upward phase after emerging from a low point in the dark ages. He sees the Renaissance, the Copernican revolution, and later scientific breakthroughs as signs of this gradual awakening, but believes current human abilities are still rudimentary compared with what lies ahead. He described future ages as bringing expanded awareness and capacities that today might seem extraordinary, such as stronger intuition, telepathy, or clairvoyance becoming more common.
Cruttenden challenged the conventional explanation of precession as mainly caused by Earth's axial wobble. Instead, he argued that the solar system itself is moving through space in relation to another star, and that this changing proximity to greater stellar light indirectly affects consciousness in the same way sunlight shapes waking, growth, and activity on Earth. According to Cruttenden, examining cosmology, ancient knowledge, and mythology in this way show that humanity is still near the beginning of a much larger evolutionary climb.
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In the second half of the program, author Daniel Bourke described deja reve as something more specific than deja vu: not just a vague feeling of familiarity, but a strong certainty that a present moment was previously experienced in a dream. He explained that this experience can involve recognizing a person, place, or event exactly as it appeared in a dream, and he emphasized that this phenomenon has often been confused with deja vu in both popular discussion and historical accounts. For Bourke, the key distinction is that deja reve carries an explicit memory of having dreamed the event before it happens in waking life.
He connected these experiences to a broader range of visionary and precognitive phenomena, including near-death experiences, crisis apparitions, and dreams of future relationships or life-changing encounters. Bourke suggested that such experiences may point to a deeply interconnected universe in which inner experience sometimes corresponds meaningfully with external events. Rather than insisting on a single explanation, he focused on collecting large numbers of reports across history and cultures, arguing that these accounts deserve serious attention because they often have profound effects on the people who experience them.
Bourke noted that belief in dreaming the future was far more accepted in many earlier cultures and traditions than it is in the modern West. Drawing on examples from Ireland, Turkey, Europe, and beyond, he said people historically used rituals, prayers, and dream practices to invite such experiences, whether to discover a future spouse, a teacher, or even a future leader. He argued that deja reve has been neglected not because it is rare, but because it has been scattered across folklore, religion, and psychical research without a clear modern category, even though it appears to be a widespread and recurring human experience.