" I personally hate the darkness and morbidity of the mind . I like the vastness of thinking ." Carlos Castaneda
K nowledge is analogous to the light , a strange and small good in a Universe dominated by obscurity . Light illuminates what we see , it gets us out of the darkness of ignorance and allows us to understand the nature of things or its own existence . Us human beings have struggled to improve our understanding , our ability to interact with the visible world , so we have come to achieve some remarkable success , although , seen in perspective , many of them are something illusory with no background .
Mystery remains in the essential and so far we haven ' t been able to respond to almost any of the big questions . Yet , since a few decades ago we light ourselves with the light bulbs that released us from the tyranny of the circadian cycles , we move in motor-powered vehicles , we can communicate remotely by technical means rather than shrieks and we use special arsenals against the " enemies " of our species .
The visible Universe however , keeps hiding the mystery of our existence ; its meaning is just a sea of hypotheses , as it happens with our origin and destiny . Science itself finds it hard to simply define what is " life ". We know much more than before about life mechanisms , but we are unable to determine what finally encourages them . The realm of the unknown has been reduced somewhat concerning the visible , but we are pretty much the same as before in the face of the invisible .
The problem is that we have progressed very little in this area since the times in which the priests and shamans of old decided to explore the mystery with much more determination and common sense that our current scientists , more centered in demonstrating whether " there is or there is not ", rather than trying to find an access to interact with it .
The guts , the infinite courage and determination of those ancient sages , made possible that leap in the void for two reasons : the first and foremost of them was the pragmatism of shamans in front of the mystery , and the second , perhaps paradoxical reason , was their own ignorance , which forced them to search in the invisible all of the reasons of the visible , something that , in any case , science today achieves with relative success and in a very relevant way in relation to the visible world , a luxuriousness old sages couldn ' t dream of .
For the Shizen Miryoku , as well as for the American shamans , all knowledge came from their relationship with two essential types of force : the one inherent to the material realm , and the energy that animated things from the Invisible .
When they set out in search of answers , they used their inner perception tools : their unmistakable and deep capacity of observation was channeled through an analogic method of interpreting reality . Instead of the analytical method ( starting from the unity to understand ), they tried to decode the interactions of the unity through the similarity and difference of the forces that made up the Universe . Since they were dealing with undifferentiated forces , they assumed that all other worlds , the invisible ones , would operate in a similar way with those great forces , these being but the polarization of a great force that underlies everything and all things . Resulting of their research they found a whole Universe of different invisible dimensions , which they called the Spiritual World .
Centuries of searching and interaction with these invisible planes , gave rise to large cultures , many of them already lost and forgotten , and reduced in the best case to archaeological monumental remnants , but unknowable in its true essence . It was so because those who held the knowledge were just a few priests who only passed on their wisdom to others orally , from master to disciple and in the frame of sacred initiations .
Knowledge thus remained confined to a guild or caste and within it ; its very essence belonged only to a selected core of pyramidal hierarchies . Everything bears in itself the seeds of its own destruction , so it was that same staunch secrecy what advocated for a long time its validity and perpetuation , but paradoxically , it was also what in turn led to its extinction ...
Most of these cultures left no written records and if they ever they did , they used a language totally incomprehensible meant to perpetuate the secret , and the reader should have the key to decipher its meaning ; in that way they guaranteed the secrecy of their writings in case these fell in the wrong hands and their knowledge would remain impervious to the eyes of the enemy .
The second reason that assisted to the extinction of such a vast information , was perhaps that the human nature of these individuals ( or could it be their own evolution itself ) was not ready to assume the consequences of its practice , but that ' s another story . The arrogance and ethnocentrism of our modern culture , do not help to the interpretation of the limited data available to us when it comes to understand those cultures , because we assume that they were ignorant and , of course , we are very clever .. It si paradoxically , however , that the yardstick of science continues to fail to explain or equate to some of their material achievements , not to mention some of their scientific or mathematical knowledge , much more advanced than ours at that time , like , for instance , the concept of number zero within the Maya culture , the perfect location of their buildings respect to the cardinal points , the celestial vault and so many other things that even today fascinate scholars . Religion and science ended with the little that remained of that ancient wisdom , perpetuating the ignorance of the invisible world to ordinary mortals .
Ancient traditions as those of the Shizen people are still a great enigma . Woody Allen said that tradition was the illusion of permanence . But from modernity , all we have is indictment and complaint about something we don ' t even receive any more . The traditions of the
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