Change Does Not Mean An End.
No matter what doomsayers claim, the physical world will not end next year. As the scales of accumulated knowledge continue to tip in favour of earlier wisdom, the present understanding of our place in the world will end. Many people think and feel that a major change in attitude and understanding of their place in the universe has already begun. Support and encouragement for such change continues to amass from a variety of scientific fields. The most interesting part of the recent discoveries is how they are doing no more than repeating the knowledge offered by ancient wisdom.
Astrophysics, Astronomy, Biology, Archaeology, Psychology and branches of physical sciences are a few of the disciplines validating the earlier recorded wisdom. With the growing body of knowledge no longer are the gems of wisdom sounding so preposterous. Where did the original wisdom come from and why had it been discarded? The answers to these questions, and more, will be the focus of this 3 part series.
The wisdom referred to comes from the Vedas and Puranas of ancient Bharata, a country better known as India. In the simple terms the Vedas are the recorded knowledge of an ancient people which focuses on the interconnectedness of all creation. The Puranas are a large collection of stories supporting and illustrating the data offered in the Vedas. Topics stemming from these sources cover everything from creation, consciousness, food preparation, life cycles and what we would call civil law instruction and spiritual instruction.
When first discovered the ancient knowledge was rejected simply because the information did not fit the existing idea of how the world and universe worked. For example, the Vedas state the Universe and this world is many billion years old. The newcomers to this knowledge knew that statement was wrong, because to them, the world and the universe was 6000 years old. Today it is known the age of the earth and universe is in excess of 13 billion years. For more information about how this time frame has been arrived at the reader can start at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe.
Not only did these so called deluded savages, as the early Vedic people were first referred to, have the age of the earth wrong they were wrong about lots of things. Another of their errors was suggesting that all creation began from the eruption of a single dot of massive energy. The name they applied to their imaginary initial explosion was Vishpot Bindu. Today we know that explosion as the Big Bang. Although the theory of the Big Bang was put forward in 1927 it was not accepted until 1964 when it was proven that space wasn’t empty……rather space is an area of high energy. More details can be read on this topic by searching either Big Bang or Vishpot Bindu. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang)
Another concept presented within the Vedas was one dealing with cycles, cycles of energy and cycles of time. It seems the ancients had no difficulty with the idea of the end of the world or the end of anything for that matter. They even have names for the energies associated with various stages of being and to facilitate understanding the flow of energies the energies were deified. The energy of creation was called Brahma, the energy of sustenance became Vishnu and the energy of destruction was Shiva. Once again the new-comers, to this ancient knowledge, rejected the idea of there even being a constant and cyclical motion affecting all things let alone naming such energy. A glance in the mirror or at a child, the pattern of the seasons or of simply fashion styles more than confirms the existence of multiple cycles. Next month information supporting the power and consciousness and the existence of our spiritual natures will be shared.
