The power of not knowing

“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. There is no other way. [continue]”

 

The first time I read this sentence, I was marvelled by the discovery of the author it is ascribed to. I thought it could have been something Igor Sibaldi, Gustavo Rolle or Gurdjieff have said, and I would have mistaken.

Science, and technology with it, are progressing so quickly, discovering more and more details that, throughout centuries, sustain new lifestyles and modalities to approach reality. Knowledge is a precious conquest, but it should not become a golden cage beyond whose borders is not allowed to venture.

Has never happened to you to start studying a new topic or to approach a new practice and feel, after a while you get into it, that your ideas about it are more confused than when you just started?

Research is discovery, but it is also questioning. It is understanding, but it is also opening to new points of view. It is a source of clarity, but it is also exploration of the dark sides. It is scientific evidence, but also awareness that a phenomenon is not less true or real just because we haven’t scientifically proved yet.

Evolving means integrating new discovering with the wisdom coming from ancient cultures and traditional practices, which often reached same or similar conclusions to the current ones through empiric pathways.

When knowledge becomes closeness of the mind, limiting our capability of doubting about ideas and thoughts, risks to be an evolution’s slowdown. Knowledge that benefits of an open vision, that despite the specialization, does not lose the whole overview, leads to reach those boundaries, where expansion to new territories starts from.

The position of not knowing is a free field, brim-full of opportunities and innovative and untraveled roads, and holds an infinite potential of knowledge. Grounded in what we have discovered so far, let’s not castle on fixed and irrefutable positions. One conflicting example is enough to demonstrate that a theory is not valid, and each theory is valid till the opposite is proved.

“Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn’t know came along and did it” Einstein said. He also said, continuing the sentence above, that

“[continue] This is not philosophy. This is physics.” – Albert Einstein

 

 

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