Never before have we known as much about other cultures' perceptions of Reality...
and never before have we known so little about our own.
The previous ages were called the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Modern Age. What would we call the era we live in? The Scientific Age, the Information Age?
And are we closer to having Information about what really matters?
Are science and mythology mutually exclusive, or different lenses to view the same human experience?
What does psychology say to the East's insistence on cycle and illusion, and the West's insistence on one shot at individuation?
Fact: when certain people are hypnotized, they spout previously unrecalled memories that they claim come from previous lifetimes. And sometimes these facts are uncannily verified.
Fact: no one can verify what the true implications of this are.
1) Is it that the individual consciousness/entity gets transmuted from lifetime to lifetime, growing in wisdom until it reaches it's Nirvanic destination?
2) Is the subconscious a gateway to a reservoir of human memory spanning the depth of time?
[Maybe, like science and mythology, these first two perspectives are different lenses to the same human experience.]
Or 3) Do people traverse the Karmic realms until they come to the Realisation that the price has already been paid?
These things are beyond words.
Maybe the only thing that is, is God/Life/Existence. We survive through the connection with things that are eternal. To the extent that our essence is God's essence, that part of us will never die. Time is a construct that has gripped us way too tightly since the late Middle Ages, and it's hard to untangle our rational minds free from a concept that was birthed in rationality.
These individual existences of ours may try many paths. And until we realise it's not our trying that shatters the paradigm, we'll keep trying.
