1.1.8 Sight, Insight and Beyond
Therefore, the serious step that should be taken in order to put cosmology on the right track is to engage the heart in observation, and take advantage of its intrinsic non-locality, rather than relying solely on the confined mind. In other words: we must use insight rather than sight and other rational sensations. With insight, the heart is capable of crossing through the vertical hierarchy of the cosmos, rather than only observing its outward manifestations.
The difference between insight and sight is like the difference between seeing and hearing. Hearing can manipulate one-dimensional sequence of data, while seeing is two-dimensional. When we open our eyes we instantly see an image which would require long time to communicate to someone who is blind or not looking at the scene, and it is impossible to be comprehensive. Likewise, insight, which is more like three-dimensional images, is capable of instantly conducting the meanings of things and their internal relations, rather than only their outer shapes and colors. It is worth mentioning here that some Sufis can activate four further spiritual levels of perception beyond insight, which they call the levels of certainty, that is the ultimate true level of knowledge, while everything below that is channeled through some distorted reflections.
This may initially seem to be artistic fantasy, but the laws of quantum mechanics can now provide the initial theoretical foundations in this regard, because the relation between the heart and the mind is parallel to the wave-particle duality, as it will be clarified further in this book. Moreover, it is overwhelmingly evident that all ancient civilizations, such as the Sumerians, the Babylonians, the Chinese and the Egyptians, had practiced such spiritual cosmology, but unfortunately it became quickly corrupted and driven away from its proper scientific procedures which had been lost with the passage of long time and reduced to astrology and various other occult practices. Nevertheless, if practicing such genuine creative heart cosmology seems to be remote at the moment, at least we must start taking more seriously the great authentic traditions of known past scholars in the field, such as Ibn al-Arabi and similar figures in Islam and other ancient civilizations.
The science of Time is a noble science, that reveals the secret of Eternity. Only the Elites of Sages may ever come to know this secret. It is called the First Age, or the Age of ages, from which time is emerging.
