We have reached a turning point in our evolution as conscious human beings on this planet. Our technologies have allowed us to create civilizations unlike any known in recorded history.Yet, there is both an economic and environmental chaos.
Technologies of Outwardness—the tools we employ to comprehend nature are not balanced by technologies of Inwardness—the means the great Masters have devised through the millenia to understand, control, and enhance ourselves as conscious and self-conscious human beings. The outer forces by which we command nature are not rooted in the inner capacities we possess to define and express ourselves as free and balanced human beings.
Cultivating these inner capacities is invariably healthy and vivifying. What could be simpler than a philisopher's following remark:
“How strange that people desire the world, a place where the destiny of all things is death.”
There is a telling Proverb which speaks to us:
He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not
Is a fool—shun him.
He who knows not, and knows that he knows not
Is a child—teach him.
He who knows, and knows not that he knows,
Is asleep—wake him.
He who knows, and knows that he knows,
Is a wise man—follow him.
So, without cultivating the technologies of inwardness, it would be meaningless to develop the technologies of outwardness. Only then can we begin to contribute to the greater good of the society and eventually the humanity.
