Our understanding of knowledge today is mostly based upon science. That is the study of facts based on observation and experiment. As a result we are able to build and fly airplanes or rockets beyond our stratosphere. We can engineer great marvels like bridges, electronic goods and all the rest. So our science is sound and it works with observable results. We appear to have harnessed the forces of nature to a high degree.
In the ancient past however, none of this was available, or so we are told. Some say that our pre-history has been forgotten and that there was a time when we had an ever better skill in science and engineering, so that our inventions were more subtle but more sophisticated too. We could fly and communicate across the planet thousands of years ago already, but that science was lost.
Some may not buy into this, but several sources mention it, like the ancient Sanskrit texts of India called the Vedas. The word Veda actually means “Knowledge” so the texts were the original books of the known science of the day. There are references to extra-terrestrial beings who moved between the planets, as well as powerful weapons that did not need combustion or the engineering tools of modern day. Instead they used far subtler techniques to harness the forces of the earth as well as forces of our own body and consciousness.
It is these latter forces that are also described in the ancient Vedas, along with how to harness them from within ourselves. That was considered the real science of the day. The real goal of life was to harness the powers of our human vehicle in order to lift consciousness to a far greater level than what we are aware of today. And thereby one could actually successfully leave the body, not only in the astral of subtle form, but ultimately at the time of death.
This was what actual science meant. It was the technique used to make a perfection out of our life by training one to leave the body in full consciousness and travel to the higher realms after death. Very little of this science is known today, and the substitutes we have in the form of our religion and psychology are actually quite primitive by comparison, if the Vedic references are anything to go by.
So it depends on which perspective you are using when you analyze our level of advancement today in modern society under our current level of technology. It is described that our combustion engines, gunpowder, and modern mechanical engineering may take us into space but they are actually less refined types of scientific means of engineering or technology compared to what is actually possible.
Some amazing stories of advanced yogis tell of how they can create entire palaces out of thin air. Or manifest items from far away without moving, and certainly without machinery. This kind of capacity to harness the natural forces of consciousness and “technology” are latent within all of us, but the techniques to access it have been forgotten of lost in time. However, they are coming from the Vedas, which are considered the original and oldest texts of knowledge on the planet.
In fact the Vedas are said to come from sources beyond this planet. They were passed down to humans from higher realms. So there are references to consciousness and existence far greater than we can imagine and originating from far beyond our material earth planet. Our modern culture is unaware of this or has perhaps forced us to spend time simply surviving, so that we have no means to live a life of meditation or study of those higher aspects of our human life.
Times have degraded, yet we think our science is advancing, simply because we have new technologies. We have actually sacrificed far greater technologies of consciousness, so the trade-off is not as good as we think. Still, there may be those who are harnessing the forces of consciousness, but they are apparently not about to reveal themselves to the world. They may be hidden in the mountain caves of the Himalayas for example.
To really harness these natural abilities latent within all of us, it may be necessary to retreat from this material civilization with all its distractions and degradation in order to live a pure life in meditation, thereby awakening our potentials. All that unused DNA within us is full of potential to go beyond our current state, but it takes more effort than we are familiar with.
Nevertheless, we can still tap in to the potentials, in our own small way, by spending some of our time daily in focusing thereon, either by studying the Vedas and learning about the original science, or by practicing our own mediation based on Vedic instruction.
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I quite agree with you that there are natural forces that science is yet to understand. Science itself did not exactly deny all these things, just that anything that cannot be proven by empirical evidence is not acceptable as science. They do not need to be named science before accepting their existence.
The ancients were much smarter than we give them credit for indeed, and they possessed skills and knowledge we've lost today.
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I think the quintessential issue with scientific exploration today, is that we have excluded other forms of exploration to the detriment of our approach to knowledge. Collectively, we have made a decision to lock onto answers instead of asking questions, regularly sideswiping any perspective beyond rationality and intellect.
This pattern has been degrading for a while, which is why the paradigm is shifting. Now science is starting to open up to other sources of information. It's a good time to be alive right now. Just today I found out that the guys at CERN have a statue of Lord Shiva in their backyard.
I agree, although I am a strong advocate of science, palpable evidence and evidence studying cases like this; in ancient times there was not the technology we have today and yet there are very relevant theories of mankind. They say that the three pyramids of Giza (belonging to the pharaohs Cheops, Chephren and Mycerinos of the IV Dynasty) are aligned with great accuracy, despite its monumentality, with Orion's belt, that is, they form an image of its stars on earth and like this, there are many cases in ancient Egyptian on themes related to the planets.
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