Jason Wilde
When the World Turned Over: Myth as Memory of a Broken Sky
Jason Wilde
Author & Researcher of Comparative Mythology
Across every ancient civilization, the same stories appear again and again—floods that reset the world, ages of light followed by ages of decline, knowledge descending from the sky or emerging from the waters after catastrophe. These accounts have long been dismissed as symbolic or mythological. But what if they are something else entirely?
In this presentation, independent researcher and author Jason Wilde explores the possibility that the world’s oldest myths are not metaphors, but fragmented cultural memories of real planetary disruption and celestial instability. Drawing on comparative mythology, Vedic cosmology, and global flood traditions, Wilde traces a recurring narrative pattern preserved from Mesopotamia to India, from Mesoamerica to the Mediterranean: a world altered suddenly, followed by the arrival of civilizing figures who restore order, law, and knowledge.
Beginning with a deeply personal encounter that set him on a decades-long path into Dharma and ancient cosmological study, Wilde connects lived experience with scholarly inquiry—examining why numbers such as 108 appear universally in breath, astronomy, ritual, and timekeeping, and how these structures may encode awareness of precessional cycles and Earth-sky relationships.
Rather than arguing for a single cause or interpretation, this talk invites a reframing of myth itself—as humanity’s longest-running archive of memory, preserving knowledge of cyclical time, catastrophe, and renewal across successive ages. In alignment with the Yuga framework, Wilde suggests that ancient peoples understood the world not as a linear progression, but as a repeating pattern—one in which consciousness, civilization, and the sky itself rise and fall together.
Myth as a Record of a Broken Sky
Jason Wilde’s presentation at CPAK explores the possibility that the world’s oldest myths preserve memory of a time when the sky itself behaved differently—when cosmic instability, catastrophe, and renewal shaped human history.
This talk examines:
- Global flood and sky-fall myths as shared narrative patterns
- Parallels between Vedic cosmology, Near Eastern traditions, and Mesoamerican lore
- Mythic numbers, cycles, and symbols as timekeeping devices
- The idea that catastrophe and renewal are recurring, not singular, events
Rather than isolating myths within individual cultures, Wilde traces them across civilizations, revealing a coherent narrative beneath the diversity of traditions.
More From Jason Wilde — Symbolism, Culture, and Ancient Knowledge
Through books and long-form research, Jason Wilde investigates ancient myth as humanity’s oldest record of catastrophe, cosmic cycles, and renewal—bridging global traditions into a unified exploration of deep time and forgotten knowledge.
