About Cygni

The word cygnus is the Latin word for swan. Hans Christian Anderson wrote about a swan in his fable The Ugly Duckling, which grew up to be a beautiful bird. The name Cygni has also been applied to a nearby solar system that is located eleven light years from earth and contains an earth-like planet. Cygni, has also another astrophysical meaning as the name of a nova occurrence that became visible on earth in 1992. It is the authors hope that you will find all these elements reflected in the Cygni Communications' Web presentation. The presentation is focused on the four key elements of civilization: spirituality, science, economics, and politics.

The association of Cygni with a galactic explosion in which an entire star disintegrates does not mean that this Web site is focusing on the death of civilization. To the contrary. In astronomic cycles the occurrence of a nova signifies the end of a self-collapsing process, and the beginning of a process of a new creation. A nova occurs when the solar furnace of a star has fused its hydrogen atoms into helium, and the helium gets fused together into heavier elements, and so forth, until iron is formed. When this happens, and the size of the star is large enough, the internal pressure causes the iron atoms to collapse by which an enormous amount of energy becomes released so that the entire star literally explodes.

The image at the top of the page has been taken app. two years after the Cygni Nova explosion occurred. Eventually the dispersed materials recombine, out of which new planets are born. Our earth may have had such a history, which now supports life.

One can find a parallel to this process in our civilization. We have presently come to the end of a six hundred year cycle during which the ideas and principles that came to light during the Golden Renaissance became progressively overburdened with the reassertion of feudal ideologies and imperial power. The 'gravity' of this process has become so great that entire nations are beginning to be crushed by the weight of it. The world financial and economic system, too, is barely surviving under the pressure of a near infinite financial inflation that has been building up within the system. We have a three-hundred trillion dollar speculative bubble leveraged onto the back of a collapsing physical economy. Eventually, the still growing weight of this burden will cause the entire structure to collapse, which may then explode, possibly unleashing a global nuclear war that would end human civilization.

Fortunately, humanity isn't a star. Humanity has the capacity to control its destiny. It has the tendency to react to great pressures with its potential to bring about enormous changes as the result of intelligent action. The potential is very real that the political and economic gravitational systems which are now crushing humanity, may be dismantled judicially by humanity itself before the human world disintegrates in the chasm of their explosion. When this new renaissance of intelligence happens, a new era of civilization becomes born.

That this phase change is already happening is evident by the evermore rapidly moving events that are now changing the world. The trend that is still largely moving in the background will no doubt accelerate as the pressures behind the scene are mounting, and this is already happening on all fronts simultaneously. The terrorist actions in such places as East Timor, Dagestan, Chechnya, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and many more in Africa, hint of massive movements beneath the surface in the escalating war against humanity, as well as the military terrorism of big governments and world organizations which are murdering large masses of people. Today we see the hoarding of physical assets by the rich, and the collapsing economies and financial systems that threaten society. But all these are all interlinked and fall by the wayside as humanity claims its right in the sun.

Actually, this movement is already happening. In the background, one can recognize an awakening in some key positions within a few nations, even a faint stirring at the grass roots level of society. If this unfolding "spark" unfolds into a fire, it could unleash a cultural renewal that has the potential to overturn the six hundred year long escalation of wars against humanity that has become increasingly intolerable.

The name Cygni has been chosen to signify a phase shift towards a brand new future for humanity that has the potential to be brighter than everything we have yet dared to imagine. Here the name Cygni becomes most meaningful. Also, the name is significant because it is linked to a solar system that is located just a few light years from earth. Today, this distance appears to be infinite. Tomorrow this infinite barrier may be crossed, just like the sound barrier was crossed that once seemed absolute. Today, we look at this far away world and see it as but a distant star. Some day humanity will look out from the planets of this star upon a universe that has become suddenly smaller and much closer to our grasp. Thus, with the correct shift in perception, infinity lies within our reach.

Rolf Witzsche

Statistics: The ring image shown above is of Nova Cygni, produced with the aid of the NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The image shows a rapidly ballooning bubble of gas blasted off the exploding star. The shell surrounds Nova Cygni, which erupted on February 19, 1992. 

The HST image was taken in ultraviolet light with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera (FOC) on May 31, 1993, 467 days after the explosion. 

The ring is the edge of the expanding shell of hot gas which measures app. 37 billion miles across, or 400 times the diameter of the solar system. Nova Cygni is 10,430 light years distant, located in the summer constellation Cygnus.