Vision...

.... ahhhhhh!!!...

From the moment we are born to the moment we die: each living string of events that give shape to our consciousness can be full of detail or vague, large and wide in scope or focused in a small part of reality.

As animals, as human beings, as biological minds born of the struggle for physical survival, our mental objects are always narrow minded. There is only so much we can put in a homo sapiens brain. These texts and landscapes, and even the great works of science and art than mankind as achieved in the peak of its effort and inspiration, is only a shallow picture of what is. Today our best pictures of the world (like M theory, history (from the big bang to the 21st century), molecular biology, computation, mathematics, futurology, etc) point to the incongruence and incompleteness of our knowledge.

One thing seems very clear: we are very small animals in a very vast universe. We are very rare and precious, but at the same time we know almost nothing of what surrounds us. We are the first beings in our planet of which we are aware, that have started to look beyond food and mating and rearing and playing, we have started to look at the stars and rivers and rocks and tried to see what they really are. Not only as tools, as instruments to our well being, but in themselves.

What must have seemed clear, a million years ago and today, is that the world is huge and we only know a very small part of it. When we look at the huge universe that surrounds us, with it billions of billions of stars, we can only understand that, through the course of our entire life we will only see a very small part of the whole world that spreads its wings in space, time and scale.

It is as if we will only see a single music, or a single face, and, from that, we must try to imagine what lies beyond, the whole multitude of faces with their histories and problems and wants and fears, the whole multitude of melodies, from Bach to The Doors, passing through Regina, Vangelis, Nirvana, Satie and others.

Likewise, what we can see in our human societies, or even in this planet, with its gigantic history, much richer than we will ever be able to imagine, is just a minute part of what there is, and even less of what there will be. If we have the hope, the desire, to know what the universe is like, what what it is is like, if we want to be able to have the widest pictures in our mind, with the most amount of detail, then we must understand that we are small, that the world is unimaginably bigger than what we can conceive, that there is no end to our growing in vision and understanding.

Man has just begun, and the road seems infinite, at least as far as we can see...