On Science throughout History and the Modern-Day Ego

Sometimes, I think we forget what a blip we are on the spectrum of human evolution.

Modern science has only been around for the past 500 years.

Compare that to the roughly 200,000 years that humans have been on this planet.

Our present-day experience with technology and innovation has allowed us the resources to explore the curiosities of the human mind regarding the nature of reality.

And an important consideration is that our present-day perspective has still been limited in relation to the history of human civilization prior to the scientific revolution.

From my observation, there is a pervading ego of what modern-day science has discovered. One that is fixed on (and perhaps, identified with) what has been discovered within this short period of time in Human History.

Many aren’t aware that the existence of water on other planetary bodies, the concept of gravitational force, the nature atomic structure, and other findings regarding quantum mechanics which have been ‘discovered’ by modern-day science were recorded in The Vedas (1200–155 BCE).

Or that the I-Ching (1000 BC), a divination tool known as ‘The Book of Changes’, has mathematical associations with present-day understandings of molecular biology/the genetic code, as both utilize a quaternary system of numbers (4 bases in DNA and RNA, and 4 bases in the I-Ching), and both have 64 combinations (64 codons of DNA and 64 Hexagrams of the I-Ching).

Or how the Australian Aboriginals (a culture which has been around for 60,000+) utilized what they called ‘Song Lines’. Songs passed down by Priests/Elders, which when sung, would assist them in navigating the vast geographical landscape of which they traveled. Yes, Vibrational/Sonic GPS, using spatial awareness and memory. They were able to transmit an encyclopedic-level understanding of the land, the animals, and the environment, through song. This is a technology in and of itself.

The concept of that may be unfathomable to those who are limited by the particular constructs of modern-day science.

Yet there are those, who know that if there is something that exists (or has existed) that they can’t explain, it is only because they don’t have an understanding of it yet (along with the awareness that perhaps there are some things that can not be understood).

I believe that this is the precept of real science. And it has existed for millennia.

Even the Laws of Physics are not absolute, as they can be defied with concepts like quantum entanglement, quantum super-positioning, and the nature of muons.

And at times, definitions that have claimed to be absolute have already ceased the natural unfolding of curiosity and exploration.

This isn’t to say that we should keep our minds so open that our brains fall out.

But we must keep them open enough to have a balance of what is proving true in the now, while being open to knowing that we do not know everything (nor can we), while still continuing on the path of discovery.

There have been (and are) people and cultures on this planet with great technologies and understandings of the nature of reality — ones that modern-day science may only be (re)discovering.

So amongst all knowings, regardless of your preferred ideology, institution, religion, or political preference — humility is key.

But don’t take my word for it — what do I know ; )

After all, I am no scientist.

But I am, and will always be, a seeker.