Ancient Wisdom
1 think they must have had something right, these ancient people and their lore. they were certainly more in tune with themselves and the world around them. It seems today as if we rush headlong into the challenge of managing ourselves and our environment, flush with the technology and zeal to master if all. We have done this now for several generations. So much so that it has altered our Collective consciousness. We assert ourselves over nature- the outside world and ourselves. Then, when we stop we wonder that we can no longer figure out who we are. We have lost our understand ing of who we are in relationships -- between people, between ourselves
and nature,and between ourselves and God. we scorn the ancients for their seeming lack of technology, for their limitations and superstitions. yet who are we to say that they did not understand themselves better. Understand their relationships better. Perhaps even comprehend the truth of the divine better. In their ignorance they created gods to worship. Beings larger than themselves to whom they ascribed the capacity to control their own destiny. Yet in their ignorance they perceived a divine truth. that Being exists. We don't understand that in part because we no longer understand ourselves. We Know that the thunder in the sky is the percussion of colliding air masses. We fail to recognize it as the drumbeat of God. We have forgotten how to listen when we hear. [or a brief moment, snowflakes do fall from thunderclouds. We moderns don't know every thing.
and nature,and between ourselves and God. we scorn the ancients for their seeming lack of technology, for their limitations and superstitions. yet who are we to say that they did not understand themselves better. Understand their relationships better. Perhaps even comprehend the truth of the divine better. In their ignorance they created gods to worship. Beings larger than themselves to whom they ascribed the capacity to control their own destiny. Yet in their ignorance they perceived a divine truth. that Being exists. We don't understand that in part because we no longer understand ourselves. We Know that the thunder in the sky is the percussion of colliding air masses. We fail to recognize it as the drumbeat of God. We have forgotten how to listen when we hear. [or a brief moment, snowflakes do fall from thunderclouds. We moderns don't know every thing.