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What do you know?. And how do you know that you know it?. Knowledge. You’ve been to school. You’ve gained a fantastic amount of knowledge based on the latest reports from western civilizations greatest scientists. But what AREN’T you being taught?. The sun.
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What do you know? And how do you know that you know it?
Knowledge You’ve been to school. You’ve gained a fantastic amount of knowledge based on the latest reports from western civilizations greatest scientists. But what AREN’T you being taught?
The sun Let’s start with common knowledge. Everyone knows that the Earth and everything else revolves around the sun, right? DUHBut what you probably were not told is about an ancient bunch of wacky scrolls called the Vedas.
The Vedas Vedas (Sanskrit for knowledge) are a collection of ancient scrolls containing explanations to the universe. The part we’re going to focus on is their idea of how the solar system works. They state that the solar system is not “solar” but “polar”. A ‘pole star’ sits atop a carousel of planets and stars, all revolving endlessly. The Earth sits in the middle, giving the illusion that everything revolves around it.
Geocentric universe? Isn’t that old and dumb? Yes and no. It is old, and conventionally believed the be disproven, however, it is no less dumb than the heliocentric model. Fact is: nobody knows. Due to the nature of relative motion (and the fact that space doesn’t come with ‘you are here’ maps) nobody can prove or disprove the motion of celestial bodies.
What’s my point? You probably wont be taught that. Western academia has certain boundaries in place for thought. You won’t learn about the Vedas in your Global History classes. You won’t learn about relative motion in Earth Science. You have a certain set of theories presented to you as facts, and it’s your job as a student to accept these theories and trust them.
But then how do we know anything at all? We don’t. A fundamental pillar of the scientific process is observation. There is actually a school of thought called “Empiricism” based on sensory proof. A hardcore empiricist probably will not believe anything unless they have proof right in front of them. These people question the essential foundation of the social structure of ‘knowledge’.
