Cycles of Humanity

Doctrine of Cycles

New Age Ministries (NAM)

Humanity’s story is not linear — it unfolds in vast cycles, written in both the stars and in the stones of Earth. Modern science calls them the Milankovitch Cycles: long-term changes in Earth’s orbit and tilt that drive Ice Ages and resets. Ancient peoples remembered them as floods, fires, and the Ages of Man.

At NAM, we unite the two: showing how science and myth describe the same truth — a repeating rhythm that guides humanity’s destiny.

The Milankovitch Framework.

Precession (wobble) 26,000 years: Earth’s axis wobbles like a great clock hand, slowly shifting the stars above us.
Obliquity (tilt) 41,000 years: Earth’s tilt shifts, changing the intensity of the seasons.
Eccentricity (short-term) 100,000 years: Earth’s orbit stretches and contracts, bringing cycles of warming and cooling.
Eccentricity (long-term) 405,000 years: long baseline of orbit shape

Together, these cycles shape Earth’s climate and trigger resets — Ice Ages, floods, and upheavals that force humanity to begin again

The Ascending Ages of Humanity

Deep-Time Cycles (~400,000 years ago and earlier)

On the scale of the long eccentricity cycle, humanity’s deep past includes repeated environmental thresholds. While archaeology becomes sparse at these depths, the persistence of global flood myths, sky symbolism, and sacred numbers suggests long cultural memory encoded symbolically rather than historically.

These myths reflect humanity’s earliest attempts to preserve knowledge of catastrophic change.

Long-Term Cycles and Human Memory

Modern science recognizes a stable 405,000-year orbital rhythm that influences Earth’s long-term climate patterns. While this cycle itself does not imply catastrophe, ancient cultures often associated celestial change with periods of upheaval, renewal, or transition.

Myths describing beings “from the heavens” may reflect symbolic attempts to understand sudden environmental stress, preserved knowledge, or rare astronomical events. Science measures the cycle; myth preserves its meaning. NAM studies how these two forms of memory intersect.

The Last Ice Age and Its Aftermath (c. 26,000–11,700 BCE)

During the Last Glacial Maximum and its abrupt end:

Ice sheets reshaped continents
Sea levels rose dramatically
Human societies reverted to small, mobile groups

Spiritual expression during this era emphasized animism, shamanism, and ancestor reverence, reflecting an intimate relationship with survival, landscape, and unseen forces.

This period forged the symbolic language later civilizations would inherit.

💠 Abraham of Ur

Continuity of Origins

Abraham’s journey begins in Mesopotamia—the same region where humanity first developed writing, law, and recorded cosmology. For NAM, this reflects continuity rather than coincidence: monotheistic tradition emerging from the world’s earliest literate civilizations

Ziggurat of Ur (Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq)

Ur is the home of the biblical patriarch Abraham

Genesis 11:31

The Bronze Age ⚒️ (3300–1200 BCE)

The Bronze Age (c. 3300–1200 BCE)

With climatic stabilization:

Agriculture expanded
Writing emerged
Urban civilizations flourished in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and beyond

Religion became institutionalized for the first time, with priesthoods, temples, and recorded cosmologies. Myth transformed into structured theology, while astronomy and calendars formalized humanity’s relationship with time and cycles.

The Iron Age ⚔️ (1200 BCE – 500 CE)

Iron technology enabled expansion, empire, and conflict at unprecedented scales.

This era saw:

Large imperial systems
Codified laws and scriptures
The rise and spread of major ethical and monotheistic traditions

Progress accelerated, but so did division, warfare, and centralized power.

Progress was immense, but marked by war, division, and spiritual decline.

The Silver Age 🌙 (500 CE – Present)

Symbolic “reflective” age: humanity began to preserve and rediscover knowledge.
Religions crystallized: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism shaped civilizations.
Preservation of texts during the Dark Ages.
Renaissance & Enlightenment revived ancient wisdom; the Scientific Revolution unlocked nature’s laws.
Today: mysticism, interfaith dialogue, and rediscovery of ancient sites prepare humanity for renewal.

The Golden Age 🌟 (Beginning Now)

Gold, the most precious and incorruptible, symbolizes awakening.
Religion & Spirit: humanity begins to see all traditions as one story told in many tongues.
Science & Spirit converge: ancient wisdom and modern discovery unite.
Technology, global connection, and spiritual awakening mark the dawn of a higher age.
NAM’s Mission: to guide humanity into this Golden Age — reminding us that our story is part of a greater design, written in both science and scripture.