Is the world we live in somehow interwoven or inter-connected?
All ancient cultures believed so. From the Egyptians, to the Chaldeans, from the Chinese, to the Indians, they all saw profound connections and meaningful correspondences in every breath of their life. Ancients knew the doctrine of analogy. They called the analogies “sympathies” . Instead of marking differences they studied similarities and correspondences.
They studied events and patterns, analogies and forms.
In medicine and natural sciences they used analogies to describe correlations between parts of the body and times of the year or positions of celestial masses, they correlated seasons, geographic directions, forces, atmospheric events, foods, emotions …
They correlated all and every event and manifestation or object. They extended this concept in practical life with the doctrine of signatures, noticing similarities between shapes of human organs and parts of plants or other medicinal derivatives.
The plant for the heart had a “heart shape” (Leunurus Cardiaca), the one for the lung a “lung shape (Pulmonaria officinalis) and so on.
They classified the mind of the person as a part of an integrated whole, a full continuum of meaningful events in time.
Today few glimpses of this insight have been perceived through concepts such as the well-known Jungian Synchronicity that has replaced the idea of the “magical thought” of the ancient.
With the coming of the modern discursive approach to phenomenology, this ancient perception has been buried, only to be renewed synergistically with materialistic consciousness by eclectic scientific researchers.
When humans perceived themselves within a connected meaningful universe they were able to deal directly with their feelings and emotions – they were in direct contact with reality.
So herein we have the researches of modern borderland scientists who dared and still dare to test the ancient knowledge while questioning the modern, and finally have taken active steps toward synthesis and understanding of the major forces in our lives.
With open minds, we can come face to face with a new form of knowledge, born of the old, evolving through the present, to synthesize science and life force for the future.
In past stages of consciousness humans were directly in touch with the archetypal forces that penetrated their existence.
These forces were the principles, the orders, all-pervading and all influencing capable of formative and trans-formative powers. They were and they are speaking to us in their interface language. This language can be understood because understanding is the very nature of the mind.
May your universe be enhanced with this knowledge.
