Poemander

Why oppose technology to nature? I reiterate; humanity hasn't created anything and the technology we develop is just an extension or a replication of our very own faculties. One day we'll stumble upon one obvious fact – everything we have created has already existed in one or another form. It will take some time before we reach this point because while we are thinking that we advance things outwards, we, in fact, are in the process of self-discovery, digging deeper inwards. It will take time before we realise the transcendental nature of all connections in our environment and see the boundaries disappear. At that time we'll stop seeing things as items, but rather as potentials and faculties of our very own selves. This will not be a novelty or an eye-opener; instead, this will be what we used to know and now managed to re-discover.

Civilizations of the past had superior knowledge and the technologies unimaginable today. The fact that we fail to see the proper evidence only highlights our own blindness. We ourselves restricted the search to a minimal scope, failing to even consider the possibilities lying just outside of the established footpaths. Just imagine for a moment that there were civilisations before the known antiquity, so far back in time that only the myths hold the remaining accounts of them. What do we know? We look for structures, artefacts, hard evidence – that's all we know. But even those few structures and artefact, eclipsing our imagination today, are only a tip of the iceberg. Present technological breakthroughs are insufficient to explain, leave alone help replicate some of the most well-known structures in Giza, Luxor, Carnac, Cusco to name a few. We fail to see the connections the ancients have seen and extensively utilized, nor have we even tried to think along the lines they though and functioned. Those artefacts and the hard-evidence we have now, no matter how much modern people downplay their significance, are still only a distant echo reverberating from the summits reached by past civilisations. Their might has outpaced any of our current knowledge and it is only now that science started to gain sight of a plateau which ancients have confidently occupied. Their advancement cannot be judged by the tools and structures survived to our days, and it is the soft-evidence that we should be looking for instead. If our civilisation to suddenly perish, what evidence would survive to a progeny in a million years? Our structures would decay even before the time touches the ancient megaliths, satellites would be pulverised into a cosmic dust from continuous collisions, hard-drives would perish with all the books and libraries and this is even without a 'helping hand' of any major cataclysmic event. What evidence will be preserved of our computer networks, neuroscience, arts, quantum physics, the discovery of Higgs-boson? And the more we advance, the more value we place in these soft-artefacts, so why deprive ancients of the same, at least in conjecture? Have not we witnessed the diminishing sizes of our devices outpaced by an increased capability? Do not we see the cutting edge of our technology firmly on trend from the bulky materials and towards the fine, almost illusive fabrics of imagination? So, why do we confine the ancients' capabilities in their stone and iron tools? What material evidence do we expect to find of their intangible devices, advanced psychic abilities, direct insight, mind control? Only because we ourselves are far from such understanding, we attribute these phenomena to the realms of magic, occultism or pure fiction. Would a medieval man call it any different if presented with an idea of a mobile phone, nuclear fusion or a laser? And yet we dwell in prejudice, rejecting the possibilities of what we ourselves are aiming at. Won't be long before we'll develop a device consisting only of functionalities, a transportation without a vehicle, a mind without a hardware.

But If they were so advanced how would they perish without a trace, you may ask? Firstly, there is no technology or an advancement more powerful than nature; civilization, like any other entity, is bound by effects of their own enterprise. Secondly, they didn't have to perish at once, there are the remnants of this knowledge that have seeped through millennia and entered the folklore and myths, carved itself into rocks and people's imagination. The artefacts of Atlanteans may have not only been covered by the seas and stubborn disbelief, but the very tectonic plates of this globe; nevertheless, it is not the gross artefacts that would provide the evidence, but the fine intangibles of their knowledge and sciences still tepidly alive to this day – a trace understood and cherished only by few.

Yes, humanity has no choice, but to move to where they came from – up. Re-discover what has been left in a distant past by moving forward, advancing up the slope and leaving below the ravine filled with befuddling haze. However, those summits are not the mountain peaks, but the peaks of understanding, summits of realization. Therefore, our journey now is from tangible to intangible, from a thick and opaque haze to a thin and transparent aether. The terrain is harsh and air is cold, but it helps to sober up.