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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6677520" data-attributes="member: 59082">Mythologically speaking, there are two versions of the Golden Age and historical ages in general. One version, more prevalent in the West (Greece, Abrahamic religion) is that the Golden Age was a one-time affair, it was Eden, and we fell from it. The other version, more prevalent in the East (especially Hindu), is that ages are cyclical: we "Fall" from a Golden Age to ages of less and less enlightenment until we come to the Dark Age, and then we rise back up again (there's a third version in which the "Golden Age" is more of a state of consciousness and thus ever-present, if we are only able to recognize it...but that's another conversation).I think there is truth to all versions, but tend to prefer the Hindu/Eastern version, because it mirrors the cycles of nature: day and night, the seasons, etc. Golden Ages come and go, and each time they are different. It is never how it once was, but there are also new things to explore and enjoy. There's a direct correlation between how much we live in the past, wishing for what no longer is and probably can never be again, and how much we enjoy the present.So maybe if we take a more linear, Western perspective, then the Golden Age is gone - but there are still "echoes" and renaissances in which that "golden light" is captured again, in a new form.</blockquote>