Introduction to The Seekers of Truth
Striving To Learn About Real Events Which Have Taken Place In The Past
Greetings and welcome to The Seekers of Truth, a place where I’ll be sharing content about the perennial wisdom of the ancient world and its relevance to us modern people.
You don’t need to venture out too far to see that we live in interesting, but turbulent and nearly unhinged times.
This is evident on social media, in the news, in our art and architecture, and in our leadership. Technology, news cycles, and social media move at breakneck paces, but we’re all left wondering, ‘what for?’
It doesn’t seem like anyone has an answer to that question because our civilization lacks a telos or aim, which means we are, by definition, aimless.
Modern humanity is missing its inner compass and internal mooring because it lacks the mythology, institutions, rituals, and quality of human leadership necessary to serve as the living examples of transcendent ideals; the information absolutely essential for any developing human being to sense and feel that they can be much more than they are because there is living proof of that miracle around them.
We fool ourselves into thinking that our exciting new technologies will solve all our problems or that the next election cycle will resolve our existential angst. We measure ‘progress’ with quantitative metrics like real GDP per capita and other metrics of external wealth.
Yet it seems obvious to any sane-thinking person that we don’t collectively or individually incarnate the wisdom necessary to use the technology and wealth that we currently have, let alone the powerful technologies our leaders predict we’ll have tomorrow.
I think we once embodied that wisdom, but it was lost to cataclysm, war, revolution, forgetfulness, and distraction. The line was broken, but we can dig into our past and reclaim it.
How can we do that?
It begins with humility through some realizations:
Why do I think I’m so ‘progressed’ and ‘advanced?’ Is it just because I live in the 21st century and I can look up any so-called ‘fact’ with ChatGPT?
Aren’t Homo sapiens not really anatomically different today than they were 100,000 years ago?
Wasn’t the ‘content’ that was passed down by the ancient world from generation to generation through mythology, art, architecture, etc. created by sages and wise people, like Pythagoras, Socrates, Ibn Arabi and plenty of more people I haven’t heard of?
The further back we go, communication about abstract metaphysical truths tends to be symbolic, allegorical and catered to the particular mindset of humanity at that time. Didn’t Jesus teach in parables?
To understand that content, don’t we need to perceive the world through the eyes and ears of the people who produced it?
Who am I to judge otherwise?
We’ll be examining these questions, the frame of perception of the ancients, and much more along the way in order to understand the past and relate it to our present and to the future, not in longing for a bygone era, but to remember what was lost and reclaim the glory deserving of a creature made ‘in the image of God.’
I think it’s our duty and imperative to do so because civilization requires a hierarchy of motivations to properly function in order with cosmic harmony. What motivations we act on are what we value.
All past sages and wise people understood that a civilization needed to nurture and cultivate the highest impulses for its people to fulfill their spiritual potential.
We can’t change the world, but we can start with ourselves.
Answers and help exist if you know where to direct your attention.
You can find guidance in many places, like the Gospels: “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all else will be added to you.” Mt 6:33
And if Jesus isn’t your thing, the spiritual sage Snoop Dogg once said, “If you stop at general math, you’re only going to make general math money.”
And if I have any useful insights or perspectives along the way, it is because I have received an inordinate amount of help outside of myself; from men I never personally knew like Gurdjieff, Schwaller de Lubicz, John Anthony West and from personal family, friends, and mentors who will go unnamed, but know who they are.
May your inner sun grow ever larger.
- Dino
Winter Solstice 2025