A fundamental, and yet simple paradigm shift regarding our view of the brain-mind relationship is presented in the first Volume of The Paradigm Shift Trilogy, The Global Mind and the Rise of Civilization. Since everything is connected a paradigm shift will have far reaching consequences influencing how we look at a wide range of phenomena. Based on this paradigm shift this book proposes explanations to the following phenomena:

Collective Consciousness

• The nature and origin of the human mind.
• When the mind first appeared: The relationship between brain and mind and how the mind influences the brain.
• Why there is such a thing as a collective consciousness, or common mind, affecting everyone.
• What direction the global mind has been evolving and why it continues to do so.
• The power of the four directions and how they influence human thinking.
• The divine origin of the human mind.
• Why mythologies from different ancient cultures have many traits in common.
• How the divine shapes the human mind and why humans are inspired by the divine whether they know it or not.
• The origin of orbs.
• The true meaning of the Mayan calendar and its Long Count of 5,125 years.
• Why it is only now that it is possible to summarize and synthesize the evolution of the human mind.

Ancient Civilizations

• Why the first real civilizations of our planet, in Egypt, Sumer and the Indus Valley arose simultaneously around 5100 years ago and why they shared many common traits.
• Why the early civilizations appeared suddenly like in quantum shifts with few preparatory forms.
• Why the Giza pyramids were built in the way they were and why they embody mathematical, geodesic and physical constants.
• Why the technology and art of the ancient Egyptians sometimes surpass our own in terms of precision and symmetry.
• Why the pyramid shape exists in so many different locations in the world and why it was chosen for erecting buildings mirroring the “heavens.”
• Why Stonehenge and the megalithic monuments in the British Isles were built and why they were built at the same time as the Egyptian pyramids.
• Why people started to build pyramids and why they stopped building them.
• Why ancient peoples built megalithic monuments heralding alignments with the four directions.
• Why the Great Pyramid is directed towards true north and not electromagnetic north.
• Why people later have not been able to understand why Stonehenge or the Giza pyramids were built.
• Why the ancients looked upon civilization as a gift of the gods.
• Why civilizations were originally organized as monarchies.
• Who the Plumed Serpent was and how it was represented in other cultures, other than of Mesoamerica.
• Why the Plumed Serpent was associated with Venus, calendrical energies and priest-kings and why it was seen as the bringer of civilization.
• Why both the Great Pyramid at Giza and the Pyramid in Chichen-Itza mark equinoxes.
• Why many ancient buildings were built in levels or terraces.
• Why the ancient Mayan kings ceremonially connected to a point in time 5125 years ago.
• The origin of so-called winged discs.
• The Flood and Noah’s Ark: the end to a floating state of consciousness.
• The tower of Babel: why a common human language split up into many different ones.
• Why Noah’s Ark was said to have landed in “The Mountain of Ararat.”
• Why the Tower of Babel was in Eridu in Sumer.
• Why civilizations rise and fall.
• Why the pendulum swings in history.

Humanity before the Rise of Civilization

• When and how humans gained a soul and became spiritual beings.
• Why humans in the Upper Paleolithic started to produce cave paintings– and why they stopped.
• Why humans started to practice agriculture approximately 10,000 years ago.
• Why so many of the large mammals went extinct 10,000 years ago.
• Why hunter-gatherers built what is now the world’s oldest temple in Göbekli Tepe.
• Why mythological pre-historic kings living more than 5100 years ago were said to have lived tens of thousand of years.

The Influence of the Geometric Structure of the Mind on the Brain

• How the pineal gland is related to the mind and to enlightenment.
• Why there is a difference between the functions of the left and right sides of the brain.
• Why the Greenwich meridian is not the dividing line between East and West and where it really is.
• Why the world is divided into an eastern and western civilization.
• Why during the past four hundred years Europe was the chief exporter of civilization.
• The delineations in space and time of the properties of the global mind field.
• How sacred geometry has shaped human civilization and why sacred geometry is sacred.
• Why modern worldly centers of power also utilize sacred geometry in their design.
• Why the Vatican is located where it is and how it expresses sacred geometry.
• Why Washington DC was built where it was and why it is a hub of sacred geometry.
• Why the depth perspective of art has increased over the past 5100 years.
• Why people started to use numbers and developed mathematics.
• Why labor suddenly diversified and many different professions emerged.
• Why and when the spoken language emerged.
• Why and how the written language first emerged.

The True Origin of the Mind and its Relationship to the Brain

• The origin of the different types of brain waves with their frequency ranges.
• Why humans experience dimensions of space and time.
• The speed-up of time.
• Why time is experienced as having an arrow and moving forward.
• Why human mental capabilities have evolved in the past 5000 years.
• The origin of human self-awareness and the ego.
• The origin of mental disorders and their consequences for cognitive functions and memory.

Fundamentals

• Why the different father gods of several different ancient civilizations unbeknownst to their citizens represented one and the same God.
• Why we are physically mortal.
• Why remote viewing, precognitions and psi phenomena are possible.
• Why there are synchronicities.
• Why humans have individually different fates and qualities.
• Where the collective memory of humanity, the Akashic records are stored.
• How the Akashic records may be retrieved by individual minds through reincarnation.
• Why and how the minds of human beings are connected to the earth.
• How global change occurs.