Reflections on class discussion and reading assignment

In reading "Reaching for the Sky" by Charles Moffat, conclusions can be assumed that there is a direct relationship between the past and present. Although ambiguity exists in determining the purposes of architectural feats such as the pyramids of Giza and Machu Picchu, the drive to essentially "build up," or build to battle against the forces of nature, is characteristic of human nature then and now.

Relating back to class discussion in terms of scale and interconnectedness, Moffat mentions that structures nearly identical in design and material are found in different parts of the world, in roughly the same time frame. What is astonishing about this fact is that language barriers and lack of sophisticated communication during those time periods, leave an interesting concept to consider. That concept is that humans operate on a grander scale of the universe than just our immediate time and space.

Although we are influenced by our past and our individual subsidiary cultures to construct the present and proceed into the future in our immediate environments, there lies a connection between our beings and the outside universe, in real time. We operate in unity on all levels of scale, in the past, in present, and will continue to do so in the future.