One of the problems in the modern world is that people now tend to believe that science and technological inventions can solve problems that exist on much deeper and much greater levels. As Albert Einstein expressed it: “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” In the upward and onward at all costs rush of the modern world, it is the heart and soul of humanity that most often becomes lost. Science cannot produce a unifying center and in the long run modern technologies tend to divide more than unify people. In that sense, the antidote for the conflicts, the isolation and the dissociations that have become so characteristic of modern life lie in finding again the ancient wellsprings of human imagination and the personal thread that secretly ties each of us to the underlying continuity of life.

Technology has been with us from the very beginning with the Greek root “techne” referring to practical ways of “making and doing things.” The deeper and wiser roots of knowledge involved “gnosis,” a kind of knowing that would not be limited to the brain or abstract logic. Gnosis involves seeing beyond the practical and the factual to ways of imagining and understanding  that can connect a person to their deepest sense of self, but also connect to the origins of life. Before the modern world, it was intuitively understood that there are other dimensions of life that abound with meaningful things, important ideas and compelling images that are saturated with being and are therefore more real than common reality.

Fortunately, it turns out that the missing elements that make life meaningful, purposeful and beautiful do not simply disappear. Rather, what is sorely missing in the outside must be sought in the deeper, greater sense of self that is the natural birthright of each human soul. Times of radical change and great uncertainty can become the exact conditions in which we each become the potential recipients of messages from the cosmos that remind us that what we are most desperately looking for already exists inside us in the form of a unifying and guiding sense of self and soul.

If a person cannot imagine a creative self or deep soul within there can be no consistent source of inner peace or being centered in life. When we become aware of this deeper sense of self and soul, any event in life, inner or outer, can be opened to reveal meanings that otherwise would remain hidden. When the world has gone wrong, it is the deeper forms of knowledge and the wiser ways of being that are the inheritance of our souls that are most needed.