On the planet we live on, this isn’t the first civilization to have been founded.  In the Holy Scriptures and the teachings of ancient communities and tribes and the channelings, we come across information and confirmation regarding the foundation and the culmination of at least a few civilizations.  Certainly since science is as yet young and has no proof regarding these civilizations it refuses their once presence.  However, despite not being based on scientific facts we know this to be true one way or another, intuitively.

We have to assume that with the fall of a civilization, its knowledge is also lost to us.  This is because we know that man has been able to accumulate knowledge only since the invention of writing; this being a tedious and hard work. Furthermore of this knowledge we can only be certain of the formal part.   Thus we come to the point of how and more importantly why the ancient knowledge has been lost; or rather whether it has been lost; or as I personally believe why it has not been shared by masses.

Knowledge has always meant force.  History is a written document narrating the reign of those equipped with technology over those that lack it.  He who sees the enemy farther away, he who produces cheaper, he who can surmise the more complex formulas, and most importantly he who better refrains from sharing and concealing knowledge has always been able to beat his rivals.  And most interesting is the fact that once best selling war tactics of Clausewitz, Atilla or Sun Tzu are all based on the concealment of knowledge and intelligence.

Knowledge has always brought about a feeling of envy-jealousy and this admiration has always culminated in a surrender and submisson under the will of those who know more.  “He who knows more can beautify our life faster, can save us from what we know less, and can protect us much better”.  This assumption has always been the hope of ordinary man and of lesser states.

This inclination of the handing over of responsibility can be seen in every walk of life and it has also taken its place in the spiritual community.  Master, teacher, mentor, imam, priest, rabbi, sensei, or guru; whatever the title we are inclined to hand over the responsibility of our spiritual growth to he who we think knows more.  What he eats-wears-does and what she doesn’t eat-wear-do instantly guides us and tends to define our life.  We are falling into the trap brought to our attention in the previous issue by my teacher Gülüm Omay whom I love and respect dearly. (See Fast-Awareness).  We assume that by wearing a certain guru’s shoes and walk in his footsteps, we will thus be able to spread light as he does.  Because he knows more, has reached the knowledge beyond us, from hence on we should let him decide on the matters regarding our marriage and work.  But humanity is unfolding.  Gurus, senseis, teachers and guides are now obsolete.  Knowledge is now cheap and easy attained.  We can now find in our homes the once secret hidden knowledge and information that would have taken years, only in seconds. And that is thanks to the communication and technology revolution.  This is a fast-information which can lead to Fast-Awareness.  The knowledge man has worked years to deserve is now on display on supermarket shelves.  Ordinary man for once in history can reach information without an intermediary.  Pure teaching not filtered by the humane weaknesses of the religious or mystic authority is now here and available.  Hence it may be possible that this for the first time destroys the caste system created by an illusions; the illusion being “how can he who knows be equal to he who knows not”.  He who knew and he who didn’t were always equal.  Both were One.  But for once it is possible thanks to the equal opportunity of attaining information.

I am certainly not claiming that the esoteric knowledge and its deeper secrets have all been revealed.  What I mean is that eight hour courses to learn kabala, or read loads of books to learn theosophy or internet lodges to learn Masonry are all meaningless and absurd. But without regarding those who are interested in these topics as chosen or special and the rest common, the content and the depth and the relative values of these topics are available to us all now.  Hence why should the fast-awareness not be possible by taking on ones own responsibity of personal growth without guru-master-sensei, without glorifying, worshipping one person?  Why the rituals? Why the years?  Today reiki self attunement is possible.  Perhaps tomorrow we will reach the symbols ourselves. It all lies with the 100th monkey who assumed his own responsibity.*

It is now meaningless to bow to teachers for years and do as they do.  If this were not so, if man were not awakening, could these teachings be so widespread?  Could these techniques we had no knowledge of, these incense, herb teas and books be attainable so fast?  Or rather had humanity not made an awareness leap, could we learn in a day the healing techniques which once took years to learn? Let’s be thankful to Usui’s bravery.  But now for those who have the knowledge there is an interest in seniority and a reaction to those who are now learning because these students will not go through the struggle they once had to go through.  Instead of a feeling of “Yes… True….we faced hard times.. But the new learners thanks to the progress of humanity will go forward faster and easier than we did” the feeling of “ Himm..they have a lot to learn and a lot to cover as yet” prevails.  There also exists the presumption that which is local should be held onto and is the prerequisite of being able to understand the universal meaning.

Times are changing.  Those who built their lives on the thought that after the Iron Curtain polarity will continue to be, those who resisted change have all been disillusioned.  Conventional Medicine, called modern medicine is bound to face the same bottleneck if it persists on disregarding soul and mind and pursue on living in the past.  Medicine will then follow the path of those who couldn’t foresee the future of television neither the wide usage of personal computers at home and those that couldn’t flow with the waves...

We have so far been told that to reach unconditional love years of purification and hardship and the thorough learning of ancient knowledge were required.  But we have always been kept ignorant of the fact that attaining some knowledge can be possible only and only after having experienced this unconditional love. If there are those who have experienced this then they should guide man to love instead of reminding them that they have to work as hard as their masters once did. They should praise the value of the knowledge following this love instead of giving them information anyone can find anywhere.

Yes reaching Love through knowing and information is a long path.  But knowledge attained through love is deeper and vast.  Let us not do unto them what the old and their followers have done to all in search of the ways of Prophets Christ, Moses, and Mohammed and Buddha or to those who are looking for newer easier ways of development which will enlighten develop and free them, so that knowledge will no longer be the distinction between the leader and the led....So be it...

As you like it.

Love and knowledge become abundant while sharing.

The Aim is one, yet legends many.

* In an experiment conducted in the pacific islands, after  a theoretic 100^th monkey learning a new competence, all the monkeys on the other islands have acquired the same competence through a leap of  conscious.