From Ancient Wisdom To Present Knowledge
I was never appealed by science in general as a child. Being bad at maths didn't help me to develop an interest in chemistry as I only saw living beings or random items being broken down into complicated formulas of the elements composing them.
I understood that water can be called H2O because it's the chemical definition of it, but it feels so senseless to know this. I can understand how an entire community of people is interested in knowing what things are at their core, chemically speaking, but I would rather be interested in knowing what things are at their core, symbolically speaking.
I understood that water can be called H2O because it's the chemical definition of it, but it feels so senseless to know this. I can understand how an entire community of people is interested in knowing what things are at their core, chemically speaking, but I would rather be interested in knowing what things are at their core, symbolically speaking.
Science comes from the Latin word 'scientia' which means knowledge. I feel more drawn to wisdom. This is why this pursuit of knowledge without wisdom seems pointless to me. I sure appreciate the progress of science, that we are able to cure certain illnesses with a given chemical compound. But didn't we used to have the same knowledge already, with herbal medicine and ancient remedies that were full of wisdom before this science era? We respected what a particular plant meant, what it was offering to us. It was not just a lifeless tool used for example to quickly heal a wound. I feel the scientific mindset lacks the respect that goes along with the acknowledging of a plant's value.
Some scientists are today baffled by the recent realization that some vegetables or fruits resemble human organs and that they in fact can help or heal the related organ. For instance, the kidney beans have an accurate name as they can restore and improve kidney function, or the celeri: a vegetable couldn't be more specifically designed to strengthen our bones - as apart from their appearance similar to bones, they contain the exact same sodium percentage (23%) as the human bone!
Other experts are puzzled by the fact that we can replace blood by sea water to maintain a propper blood volume in cases of urgent transfusions and that it cures a number of defects. I smile when I read these articles because even though I did not know about those natural elements having such properties, it feels so natural and logical. It makes me sad that scientists refuse to acknowledge that our planet is alive and breathing, and that She is taking care of all its children - humans and animals alike.
A study from the 1900's, pioneered by René Quinton showed in this regard that draining a dog from its blood and replacing it completely with seawater worked perfectly.
Just two days after the transfusion, the body had produced half of the dog's blood usual components again. Four days after, the blood was back to normal and the dog went on to live a happy life for many more years.
All animals know what to eat or drink instinctively. It's by this instinctive wisdom that a koala eats eucalyptus leaves because they are the only ones with a digestive system capable of transforming this toxicity into the perfect nutriments. I don't feel it's by knowledge they chose to eat this particular food. Nor by evolution, which theory doesn't appear to be logical to me. That's just my point of view, learning through thousands of years by trial and error, as in by knowledge, instead of simply being given the natural, instinctive wisdom by the Earth... I chose the later because once again it appears logical, it resonates within my heart, testifying of the beauty and power of Nature.
This pursuit of knowledge without wisdom induces skepticism. I despise seeing some men of science even refusing to consider anything that would challenge their pre-conceived beliefs. For instance, let's look at what is referred to as 'forbidden archaeology': scientists, with the common sampling methods and the standard equipment for analysis sometimes find results that their community isn't ready to accept. Even if the carbon-dating is done a number of times and by independent laboratories.
If a discovery is too 'wild' for their take on history and doesn't fit the evolution scheme, they will either come up with a simple, pleasing and non-disturbing explanation to them. The Klerksdorp Spheres case comes to my mind: those are spheres made out of various irons, measuring between 0.5 and 10 cm, and they feature parallel lines at or near their equator.
Nothing out of the ordinary, right? It must simply be ancient manufactured relics from South Africa then, found by the hundreds.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that they are approximately 2.5 to 3 billion years old. It's a scientific fact. Carbon-dating the mineral deposit their were found in says so.
So... Scientists had to come up with a sensible, and serious explanation for those disconcerting items. So an accepted theory is that worms dug those lines with a particular compound they secrete or excrete. My theory is that it must have been a social worm, as there are more than one line and that they are parallel - maybe two worms or more would have a chat while they would slide along those objects. Or it's maybe a solitary worm, that was looking for something he lost on the surface of one of those spheres. But he couldn't remember which sphere it was. So he checked them all. Twice, at least.
There is also the fact that they had been kept for a long time in the back of a museum, being too out of the ordinary to be displayed to the public without causing too much questioning. I wonder what else is stored behind those 'authorized personnel only' doors, but I hope they can soon come up with their usual 'sensible' explanations so we can have a look at those artifacts and decide by ourselves what to believe.
There is a positive aspect in the scientific mind that I appreciate: the faculty of doubting even of itself - it's not uncommon for tests to be ran multiple times and by separate labs. Such a doubt proved essential uncovering a new element that should rewrite history: traces of cocaine and tobacco were found on an Egyptian mummy. At first the person conducting the tests thought the tobacco must have come from the frantic waving of an archaeologist's pipe during a heated discussion taking place near the body.
However her scientific instinct pushed her to investigate further: after the hair sample, she analysed a piece of the stomach - and the test was positive again. Needing to get to the bottom of this, she hypothesized the mummy she tested must be a pale Arabic-era imitation. So she ordered the similar tests to be run on several authentic mummies from other museums. It revealed it wasn't a sole occurrence, in fact more than 80% of the tests were positive.
But unfortunately it's impossible for contemporary science to admit there is yet another proof of intercontinental travel before Christopher Columbus - even if the evidence is right under their nose, as it is known in the mainstream that the Vikings achieved this before him.
A scientist has also the tendency to doubt his or her fellow human being - an some are prepared to go to incredible lengths to impose their narrow-minded point of view into the mainstream knowledge. I'd like to illustrate this willingness to sometimes simply disregard human account with how The Dogon tribe, from Mali, is considered nowadays.
This west-African folk revealed to the first anthropologist ever to visit them that they were possessing a particular galactic knowledge. To the surprise of western civilization, they knew the star Sirius A had a companion star (Sirius B), how heavy those celestial bodies were, and their orbital cycles precisely.
Impressive, for a 'primitive' community that has no astrological measurement tools to know that much about such a remote place in our universe. The first day Sirius B becomes visible in the sky is an important festival day on their calendar.
Which is funny because Sirius B is not visible to the naked eye. How could have they possibly figured all this information about this star system without our modern equipment?
Which is funny because Sirius B is not visible to the naked eye. How could have they possibly figured all this information about this star system without our modern equipment?
They claim to have been taught this from their amphibian creator gods - the Nommo - that came from the sky and acted as teachers and bringers of civilization to their tribe. I say let's be scientific and dismiss this tradition as simple made-up mythology. Alien teachers? Nonsense! So let's just create a controversy and say that the anthropologist made up all of this to make 'his' tribe famous.
I hope we will re-enter a wisdom-oriented era, so that mankind can come back to its roots, closer to Mother Earth. An era where an unusual discovery is met with respect, consideration and interest. I feel we need to let judgement, pre-conceived ideas, and our societies' current inside-the-box thinking aside, and that we have to simply be ourselves, full of instinct and wisdom, using knowledge as a tool for everyday life and not as a goal to attain solely.
Overall, I feel that while the scientific mindset has the capability to bring good to mankind it can also have the tendency to cause harm and separation, e.g. refusing to consider natural herbal treatments as serious equivalents to their own 'artificial' compound formulas, most of the time not deprived of side effects.
It is also most of the time reluctant to update itself whenever a rather 'disturbing' artifact or construction in unearthed. It is a shame that many archaeologists lost their jobs and reputation once they published unusual findings, and that unless you are specifically searching for discoveries that aren't mainstream chances are you will never hear about them. This does not particularly encourage those researchers to share the results of their studies if it goes against the current scientific mindset.
Perhaps a more humble consideration of our civilization is necessary, we are not exactly at the peak of civilization, and I would rather admire our ancestor's legacy - we are for example not able to reconstruct the Great Pyramid of Gizeh even with our current technology - than to accept the common idea that we are living in mankind's greatest era, rich of our antibiotics and moon landing.
Sirian-Traveler
Sirian-Traveler
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