History
_I: I liked what you said, that when we change our perspective of the world in which we stop living life as processes that must end in order to rest, and begin to live it as a constant process of innovation, we will be able to live Paradise here and now . I think it is something important to recognize, because it empowers us with every act we perform.
_AM: You have spent a long time projecting things outside, seeking harmony in subsequent situations, in external, divine and intangible realities. It is time to start seeing reality from a less hopeful vision.
_I: In what sense?
_AM: Hope is the attribute of Waiting. It places expectations in others, in the future, leaving it in the hands of outside forces to resolve the circumstances, almost like a kind of relegation to a supreme power that will decide our destinies. Hope is a useful code for Pisces daydreaming, but it is not practical for the innovation of air signs like Gemini and Aquarius. Hope is replaced by Realization, by Responsibility, that is, the ability to give an answer. Therefore, if you want something to happen, you must do it for yourself.
_I: It is the key to the future that we are beginning to live, not to wait for the other to do what we intend, but to do it for us. That is something necessary to work on today, because in delegating responsibilities to others, we tend to fall into a lack of power. This is what I've been feeling lately.
_AM: Delegating is not bad, as it helps network tasks, the problem is delegating your power and ability to the other completely. Societies have been organized in such a way that, pretending that each person is responsible for their life, they end up not being so, but rather they end up being egoic lives, of personal survival, where there is no coordinated delegation to sustain the whole. Therefore, working on responsibility is essential, recognizing that there is no escape route from the evolution or acceleration of a process to reach a specific place. There is no objective, the objective is to live, and every moment of stability is nothing more than a neutral point in an eternal wave. As we have said, innovation is living the constant of the new, and each step we take in life leads us to a new experience. Recognizing this will help us see that there is no objective other than the same journey, in constant learning, which gives us wisdom, and that is what writes our History.
_I: Our history… What can we consider “history”? Are they things that have happened?
_AM: With the passage of time, the concept of History has been attributed to the past, to something that has already happened. But I would like us to change our point of view on this as well. And to understand it, we must turn to its etymology. History comes from the Greek “istoria”, although the formation of this term is much more complex. “Istory” comes from the Indo-European verb “weid” which means “to see.” The word see implied an image, something observable, which could also occur in the mind through imagination, creating mental images. For this reason, “weid” not only described the verb “to see” of what was outside, but the ability to see what was inside, giving rise to the word “idea.”
_I: Seeing and Idea have the same origin…
_AM: The concept of “seeing an idea” is summarized in the verb “oidó”, which can be translated as “know”. That is, if you have seen something, you now have the mental image of it, and therefore it is part of an idea.
_I: It makes sense.
_AM: The verb evolved to be a synonym for “know.” “Oida” is “I know”, and the concept of knowledge is “ideía” (idea).
_I: “I only know that I don't know anything”…
_AM: “En oida oti ouden oida”, as Socrates said. To know, you have to observe, you have to witness the facts. Thus, a new concept was formed: the witness observer, the one who knows from experience. The subject particle in the Greek language is “-tor”, as in farmer, builder, painter, driver (which in English also derived to “-ter or -er” depending on the case), that is, the person who performs the action. . Thus, “eyewitness of the events” would be called “oidtor” which, due to a drag of consonants, would become “oistor”. This word would define two interesting concepts: the witness and the wise man. Well, whoever observes, knows, knows the facts. Thus, the concept of the wise man, the attribute that defines the observer, knowledgeable and wise of the facts, would add the particle “-ía”, which leaves us “oistory”. With the passage of time, the “o” would become an aspirated sound, which among Greco-Latin would end up sounding like “h”.
_I: …Story…
_AM: Exactly.
_I: Wow… I love it.
_AM: To your question about what history is, the answer is now simple: it is the attribute of the wise man who has witnessed the events, who has seen them.
_I: So defining History as the narrative of the past, or the measurement of events, falls short of what it really means.
_AM: That's right, then, history is the result of wisdom. Each cell protects the story inside, everything you do, know how to do, your gifts, abilities, are memories of the story alive in you in the form of wisdom.
_I: History lives in me…
_AM: And it becomes History only when you assimilate the knowledge. History does not exist without an observer who incorporates it as an idea, as wisdom. Without a reader, a researcher, an explorer, a questioner, there is no story. This will open your mind: History is not the past as long as someone discovers it.
_I: Wow… Wait… how?
_AM: You know what Roman history is because you have studied it, you know it, and for you it is already history. But, if I mention the word Annamita or Piripkura to you, what can you tell me?
_I: More like nothing, absolutely nothing…
_AM: So, for you, these two cultures of history are the future, because you have not seen them, you do not know them, they are not past history, but new things to discover. In the relationship of Time and Space, you cannot call History what has happened, but rather what you have observed and known. Your history is defined by what you have experienced, and History is defined by what you know has happened.
_I: This breaks my head a little. But of course, I understand that I cannot call history what I do not know.
_AM: Therefore, you will always be innovating, even if you go back in time. There will always be something to learn, someone to take advice, ideas from. Reading books from the past, knowing what has happened, investigating the different events that transformed peoples, individuals and nations, provide tools for the future, and become new practices if a conscious mind takes them and transforms them properly. History does not have a direction, although we can classify it.
_I: Can a historical line be made then?
_AM: Making “the historical line” is probably the challenge of every Historian, since history is not a line, but a tree. The conceptual error of the historical line is due to the fact that we observe reality as a constant of progress, and not of expansion. This orders time in a kind of linearity, from a beginning to an end. But so many facts overlap, that this line has no choice but to branch, and eventually, you will get a tree.
_I: The Tree of History…
_AM: The Tree of Life and Knowledge. What you call origin is the central trunk, which does not have one origin, since it has hundreds, coming from its roots. In this tree a common point is sought, but what makes it up is not common as central, but expansive. Historical roots spread because they get their data from the nutrients that fill the soils. And these nutrients come from the leaves of the tree itself, or the changing environment. Thus, history is a cycle in which future and past (top of the tree and its roots) interact, nourishing each other. What can be done is to define historical periods. Historians try to define these periods with names related to the notable and known facts of each experience, all of which is placed in “chronological” terms (from khronos = Greek god of time). The chronology of events is determined by two main agents: the reading of carbon on Earth, and the speed of light in space. The speed of light helps us know how long ago certain stars lit up, which can help determine their distances and when they began to shine. In this way, by going to the depths of space and the furthest speed of light, it is possible to identify, although not exactly, the time that light circulates in space. This defined that the visible Universe is approximately 13.7 billion years old.
_I: And the Earth?
_AM: Well, let's go to the Solar System, about 4,570 million years ago, when the Sun appears, and a few 30 million years later, 4,540 million years ago, the Earth. The History of the Earth is divided into 4 great Eons, or Eras, called Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic and Fenerozoic.
_I: What happened in each one?
_AM: In the Hadean (between 4,540 and 4,000 million years ago) something fundamental for life happened: the formation of the Moon. This brought a gravitational counterforce that led to the cooling of the planet and the formation of oceans as well as volcanic currents. During the Archaic period (around 4,000 to 2,500 million years ago) the chemical reactions of water and lava produced the development of microbes that gave rise to life, the appearance of cells, carbon cycles and development. of photosynthesis. The first formation of continental plates generated the first great ice age. During the Proterozoic (between 2,500 and 500 million years ago), a catastrophe called the Iron and Oxygen Crisis occurred, which led to the reproduction of cyanobacteria that would produce the so-called Great Oxidation, something that would regulate freezing and the production of eukaryotic cells that would give place to sexual reproduction and multicellular and complex organisms. The formation of the first supercontinent, Rodinia, produced a cooling that turned the Earth into a complete snowball. This begins the Phanerozoic period (from 541 million years ago, until today), beginning with the Cambrian explosion, where life reemerges in every corner of the planet, beginning to fill the surface of the continents leaving the oceans. This regulates the level of oxygen in the atmosphere as it is processed, and the carboniferous period arises, in which forests fill the world (leaving what will be today's coal and oil reserves). Around 250 million years ago, Pangea appears, and with it a new great extinction of the Permian period that gives rise to the great beasts of the Jurassic and then the Cretaceous.
_I: The Dinosaurs!
_AM: Large Reptiles, which disappeared 65 million years ago due to the collision of an asteroid. This begins the Quaternary period in which mammals rule. Approximately 1.5 million years ago, Homo Erectus began to manipulate fire, and began a new diet that would generate the hominids, who would populate the Earth starting 750,000 years ago. The development of these species gave rise to Homo Sapiens, who 300,000 years ago began the period called Paleolithic, in which tools began to be used. Around 15,000 years ago, the Mesolithic period is recognized, the beginning of agriculture and livestock, as well as the first formal cultures and civilizations. 7,000 years ago, the Neolithic began with technological developments in different areas of the world, which take us to the Copper, Bronze and Iron ages, due to the materials that were manipulated in said periods. These three times define what you know as the Ancient Age, from about 6,000 to 1,000 years ago, the time when the first nations and states developed. And here, of course, begin the local stories of each continent and territory populated by humans, this entire period called Holocene (from 15,000 years ago to the present day).
_I: Wow…
_AM: And all this is nothing more than a schematic summary of an infinite number of facts that we do not know. Other stars, galaxies, worlds, the interventions of said aliens in our world, the advance of human development superior to that thought of the Mesolithic period, and so many other data from each of the stories. To this day, events from recent history continue to be rewritten, such as the Second World War, and so many subsequent secrets, international conflicts, technological advances, so many things that escape us and that are being discovered about events that did not happen more than 50 years ago. , imagine what there is to discover in the entire journey of existence. It is something impossible to measure, to know in its completeness.
_I: “I just know that I don't know anything.” But as long as I search... I will see, I will know, I will know... And I will discover the story.
_AM: Start with yours. Know yourself. Discover what has made you who you are. Investigate the history of your parents, the origin of your family. Ask yourself the historical context in which they have lived. Do research to find out what your cells have inside.
_I: That's interesting, following these contexts. For example, there was a time when my great-grandmother told _I: “I remember that when Hipólito Yrigoyen was elected president…”, and then I didn't hear anything else, because, when I saw the name Yrigoyen, I could only think of the name of one of the streets. from my city, and someone who I saw very far away in the past, as impossible to relate to my life, but when my great-grandmother told me that she had seen him, since his presidency of Argentina was in 1928, it broke my mind. And I began to discover that my great-grandmother was born at the time of World War I, she was alive when the Titanic sank, and her parents were from the 1800s! I mean... From the 19th century, it suddenly seemed so close to me... I saw that my great-great-grandparents on my grandfather's side emigrated due to the Naples War, during the Unification of Italy, that is to say that not even Italy existed as such... So they had still born with parents who were from the Kingdom of Naples. All this brought me closer to my story, and I realized that all those events lived in me. Hunger due to war, uncertainty, migrating on a ship for 35 days without knowing where they were going, learning another language... At the same time, the Second World War, something so far away that I thought it was, came to me fully when I knew that My grandfather, with whom I lived until I was 9, had grown up playing with the children of Nazi immigrants, exiled from Germany in 1945. Everything that seemed far away, like a movie, was so close.
_AM: And you can still dig deeper into the past, knowing that your family was part of Magna Graecia, and that some of them have been immigrants from Mediterranean peoples, Phoenicians, Hebrews... Knowing all this places us in a historical context that does not live in the events of the past, but in the cells that make you up in the present. Knowing history is knowing your existence and the potentials that you contain in you, it makes you see yourself empowered in the life of Earth, instead of believing yourself to be a separate and weak individual.
_I: I am a Product of History…
_AM: And therefore, you can build it in each act. Every step you take, builds history, every look at the past, present or future, leads you to discover a new reality, innovate your world, to become wise through Time and Space.
_I: I am ready to generate my own story with wisdom and consciousness.
_AM: You are History, and that is why you are alive building the future.