Why do we lose and how to avoid losses? To know or to understand? The importance of understanding Why are we afraid to refuse? How to overcome your fear.

The author of the world bestseller “The Richest Man in Babylon,” Clayson George, revealed the secrets that anyone who wants to realize their most ambitious plans needs to know. They are the key to success and wealth. According to the author, and it is difficult for us to disagree with him, it is money that is the measure of a person’s success.

There are people who constantly stay late at work, wanting to complete a project ahead of schedule. Of course, hard work is commendable, but often passion goes beyond the scope of adequate activity. In some cases, this is due to the character of the person.

Did you know that peace and quiet are essential for mental health? Learn some useful rules for maintaining health and managing emotions.

How to regain peace of mind? 10 simple methods

Whoever the person is modern society, no matter what benefits he possesses, sooner or later he has to face the main problem of our society - stress. A person’s physical health directly depends on their mental state. In addition to depression and depression, stress also provokes more serious problems. To avoid diseases, you need to pay special attention to your emotional condition and put the nervous system in order in a timely manner.

Why are we afraid to refuse? How to overcome your fear?

“No” is such a short word, but for some reason instead of it we still more often say phrases such as: “maybe”, “I’ll think about it”, “perhaps”, “maybe you’re right”, “yes”... Anything, but not cherished and so simple - “no”. Why?

All the habits that we introduce into our lives, consciously or not, sometimes change and control it to a greater extent than we ourselves. That is why many researchers and scientists conduct all kinds of experiments, observing different habits different people to understand which of these habits are “correct” and will change your life for the better, and which ones are best to get rid of. Every person wants to improve themselves, and this article can help you with this.

Some of us, when we lose something valuable, say: “God gave, God took away.” Others complain about fate, that there are unknown forces that have been taken away and which we cannot influence. They regret the loss. Others blame only themselves for inattention and lack of foresight. In any case, we all know that losing is unpleasant. Without even saying what exactly, but losing what belonged to us is always sad. Well, isn't it sad when dear mobile phone accidentally drop it into a village toilet? Fate? Or inattention?

The phenomenon when a person puts everything off until later is called procrastination. This is not some rare disease, but a fairly common tendency to put off until the next day what you don’t want to do now. This attitude may be quite weakly expressed in some people, while for others it greatly interferes with their lives. Salvation is possible only for a person who is able to set the right priorities and not neglect secondary responsibilities.

There are six so-called “productivity killers”, and it is better to familiarize yourself with them in advance so as not to become victims of them and not to stop at the achieved level.

The MIYuFA website www.site and its board differs from other Russian sites in that articles always appear on it about what others are talking about, including television and the media different countries, they dare to speak only after only years. Today we present to your attention, as well as to the attention of various scientific circles and government agencies, another exclusive and unique article, which is not just an article, but the beginning of a new, seemingly anti-scientific, although deeply thought-out, direction of philosophy. The author of this article is the scientific secretary of the educational and educational organization Society “Knowledge for the People”, researcher and author of a number of books and articles on such sensitive issues of our time V.V. Podshivalova, which shows the meaninglessness of all modern “scientific progress”. She makes a well-deserved reproach to modern science for hiding the true knowledge necessary for the full development of society and for human life, and promises in a series of her articles to reveal that very hidden inner truth. A truth that each of us knows and understands on a subconscious level, but hides in the depths of our souls under the yoke of modern “scientific” “progress” and even pressure from such false scientists. The truth that gives anyone (even a completely uneducated person) the keys to unraveling the mysteries and mysteries of nature, and even anomalous phenomena that in fact are not such by nature, but turned into them thanks to the “diligent efforts” of scientists who erased and hid true knowledge from us in order to populate our minds with other “scientific” knowledge and values, to increase their personal well-being and imaginary authority.

Writer-publicist, author of theory and scientific works research of the energy-informational state of space, head of the board of IIYuFA, deputy. Chairman of the Board of the Society "Knowledge of the People"

Peter Iv. Kikilik

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Head of the Academic Council of MIYuFA, Chairman of the Board of the Society “Knowledge for the People”

Stanislav Nick. Nekrasov

Researcher, scientific secretary

regional educational and educational

organizations Society "Knowledge to the People"

Veronica Podshivalova

Who and why hides true knowledge from people and turns the obvious into secret, and the laws of nature into its mysteries and anomalous phenomena?

From the series of articles “No one is completely unconscious and unidentified, not subject to anyone, but completely life manager person"

Humanity daily, hourly, every second strives for knowledge of the entire surrounding world, tirelessly moving from ignorance to knowledge. And it sincerely believes that it solves the mysteries of nature and history. Scientists convince us that it was thanks to their merits that humanity received the necessary knowledge and enlightenment. As a result, what was frightening is already perceived in its “natural form”, the surprising and mysterious seems natural. For example, no one is afraid of an eclipse of the sun anymore, because we have been told that the cause of this phenomenon has supposedly been clarified. At the same time, scientists do not understand why the eclipse occurs and who is in charge. In addition, humanity is regularly told to enjoy regular technical innovations and supposedly has in its arsenal many cures for intractable diseases.

Unfortunately, I have to disappoint the entire scientific world. My many years of observations and research have shown two things:

1. Our ancestors had much more knowledge about everything than we have now; moreover, they had true knowledge.

2. For a number of reasons, this true knowledge was destroyed and erased in our memory (in our brains), but there are places where this memory was preserved, and every person can easily use it and for this there is absolutely no need to be a scientist or have any knowledge. then special abilities. Although there are limitations here too, the limitations are not the existing level of knowledge and understanding and the current level of development of science, but the level of what we are “allowed to know.”

It is precisely what we have all forgotten, what no one hides from us, but we do not see it at all, and who, what and why is still hiding from us, is the subject of a series of my articles “What is completely unknown and unidentified by anyone.” , not subject to anyone, but completely controlling a person’s life.” In these articles I will tell you something that no one wants to argue with, agreeing with every word of mine that does not contradict modern science, but at the same time my statements will debunk the high importance of modern science that is familiar to us. I will not provide numbers, dates, analytical tables and others necessary for scientific articles things, but I will try to explain everything as is customary among the common people “on the fingers”, in order to make my articles understandable to anyone, and not just scientific world. And for those who want to get evidence and facts, there is the Internet, which is filled with such facts and scientific articles with evidence in abundance.

To clearly show the absurdity of statements that science has gone far ahead, I will show you the example of two categories of our ancestors. The first category is “close” ancestors, those whom we remember from the stories of our older generation, passed down from mouth to mouth from generation to generation, roughly speaking, people of recent centuries and up to “modern” centuries. The second category is the most “distant” ancestors - which in science are called previous civilizations. Modern science does not deny the existence of ancient civilizations? No! This means that I haven’t written anything anti-scientific just now.

And now we move on to what is now considered to be the achievements of modern science. For example:

- technical progress. Progress has been made, but compared to what? WITH technical level previous civilizations? So now it is no secret for modern science that we have not achieved even a small grain of the technical progress that our “distant” ancestors, the so-called scientifically called previous civilizations, had. A striking example of this is Egyptian pyramids, the construction technologies of which are still not available to us. Progress compared to the technical level of “close” ancestors is obvious. Scientists beat their chests, receive awards and feel proud that they were able to achieve what our ancestors could not. And no one has any questions: why couldn’t “close” ancestors master that level? technical development? What was stopping them? Not enough resources? Underdeveloped brain? Illiteracy? Lack of necessary knowledge and awareness? Or maybe, on the contrary, the “close” ancestors had much more knowledge then than all the scientists in the world have now and today? Maybe they understood that it was precisely the current level of technical development that would destroy the main natural organism - planet Earth, thanks to which we continue to live, while destroying humanity itself? Yes, you heard right, modern scientists have finally “realized” that the Earth is alive. IN last years More and more scientists are declaring that the Earth is a living, intelligent organism that knows about the existence of human civilization and observes its activities. Water is compared to blood, mountain ranges to a spine, etc. That is, in fact, the Earth is exactly the same organism as the human one. And the ancient people, our “close” ancestors, knew this very well and used this knowledge in their lives instead of chasing some kind of progress, and did not try to start building their lives in a scientific way, violating the laws of nature, as our main organism . For example, the day-night phenomenon. “Close” ancestors did not need scientific knowledge in order to use this phenomenon correctly. They, not having modern technical innovations, lived “by the rules” of nature, woke up with the sunrise, and fell asleep with its sunset. All work was carried out only during the daytime. At the same time, they did not need a clue as to why the daylight hours are longer in the summer, when it is harvest time, and in the winter, when nature is hibernating, the days are shorter. The life of “close” ancestors followed the same rhythms as the life of the planet itself. Let's look at what technological progress has given us: humanity does not sleep at night, fascinated by modern achievements - TV, the Internet, communication and games in gadgets; the morning does not begin at dawn, but from the moment the working day begins, and the day also ends much later than sunset. At the same time, all scientists are sounding the alarm due to the fact that the number of various diseases is increasing, they do not perceive the real things, that this is happening from a simple systematic lack of sleep. Modern man does not hear the rhythms of the earth, scientists inspire him with something else, and gradually destroys himself. It’s like a disease called cardiac arrhythmia, the heart beats not according to the laws of the human body, but as it pleases or can for reasons of deviation of the diseased heart from the healthy one. Such an arrhythmic heart is considered sick even by scientists and a person dies earlier than people with a healthy heart. But no one notices the deviation of the human rhythm from the rhythm of the earth against the background of technological progress, only recording an increase in the mortality rate and a decrease in the birth rate. So were our “close” ancestors so stupid that they could not progress technically, or did they deliberately avoid such progress so as not to destroy themselves? After this, we can say with confidence that the “Close” ancestors were much smarter than our progressive technical generation. They adjusted to the rhythm of the Earth, and therefore could use its full potential. They did not disturb nature with modern vehicles and equipment for harvesting and planting crops in pursuit of increasing productivity, but being able to plant plants correctly, putting a certain energy in them, they received more harvests than the most modern farmers and farms using the latest technology now produce, modern highly effective fertilizers and seeds. And environmental scientists did not sound the alarm at that time, because no one polluted or violated the environment. So what is the progress achieved by modern scientists and technicians? Progress in the destruction of the natural, progress in transforming the healthy cardiac system of the Earth (humanity) into an arrhythmic one? Transformation of living nature into inanimate?

- modern medicine. She has reached, according to scientists, enormous heights. New medicines for various viruses and diseases are regularly invented, our pharmaceuticals are more developed in some places than industry, the number of pharmacies exceeds the number of grocery stores. The enormous progress of modern times. And how did our ancestors survive without such progress? How could they live without life-saving medications? Why didn’t they develop and come up with more and more new drugs? Firstly, most modern diseases were created artificially, for example, cancer, AIDS, urogenital infections, endless new influenza and ARVI viruses, etc. The creation of new types of diseases has always kept pace with the discovery of new drugs for them (the disease has not yet been discovered , but there is already a cure. And so, day after day, science moves forward, and the life of the planet and people is shortened due to this science). Just as, for example, in order to earn “a piece of bread and put the earned money into a bank account abroad, first scientists (supposedly hackers) create computer viruses, and then every day the same scientists and for the same purpose update anti-virus databases, showing a prompt response to modern computer evil. There are also other diseases not consciously discovered by scientists, diseases of civilization - hemorrhoids, osteochondrosis, etc. from a sedentary lifestyle, which is required by modern technological progress or neuroses, and the modern syndrome of chronic fatigue, which is familiar to everyone (here again the factor of disruption of the rhythms of nature is evident - sleep disturbances ). And our “close” ancestors did not have such an abundance of diseases as in the modern age of progress, and those diseases that did exist were treated, again, with the help of the natural capabilities of our planet, our main living organism, our nurse. “Close” ancestors knew which herbs or roots to cure this or that disease; they knew how to turn to the forces of nature for help. Modern progress has begun to call people who have retained such abilities of their “close” ancestors, “healers”, “shamans”, in general, anti-scientific and uneducated people. But why then, in those days of witchcraft, women, for example, did not endlessly lie in hospitals trying to get pregnant, carry and give birth to a child? Why, during the time of our “close” ancestors, did a woman continue to lead her usual way of life, without being distracted by pregnancy, and gave birth where labor begins? Why now, in the age of medical progress, a pregnant woman automatically turns into a sick person, requiring constant monitoring by doctors, special nutrition and necessarily treatment with at least vitamin preparations? Because the woman’s body has changed? Or maybe because evolution occurred and the process of pregnancy and childbirth changed? Or still, because those who came up with progress and medicines need funds for a comfortable life. For the process of giving birth, the “close” ancestors needed only a “grandmother-midwife”, who could deliver the birth correctly and correct the baby in the literal sense of the word, straighten his still soft bones as necessary for him to be healthy. And in the current age of modern medicine, not only is a child tortured with medications while he is in the womb, but he is also subjected to regular ultrasounds and other examinations on modern medical devices and instruments during pregnancy (otherwise, scientists become involved in the invention of these devices and drugs meaningless). But, despite such progress, during childbirth, most children are born with hematomas, oxygen deficiency and injuries received during childbirth in modern medical clinics, which, despite their “progressive” level, cannot gently straighten the bones and easily deliver birth like the old “midwives”. These modern clinics do not give the child and his mother what their “close” ancestors gave - the feeling of home comfort and family energy. In the hospital, these two closest people (mother and child) are in official conditions, isolated not only from their home, but also often from their native country, when women in labor go for help to “great specialists” of other countries. Or will scientists say that “close” ancestors had a high mortality rate of infants and women in childbirth? Or maybe the birth rate was low? And if you look carefully at modern statistical data? How many babies die in the womb in each maternity hospital every year? How many mothers die during childbirth? And all this is attributed to the unhealthy body of women in labor, while missing the mistakes of doctors and the result of the “progress” of medicine. The same nature and natural products, undisturbed by technological progress, made it possible for most women to give birth both at home and in the field and without consequences. Now it’s nonsense if a woman gives birth on the way to the hospital. Because we are used to most often forcing childbirth artificially and under the supervision of modern “progressive” and “competent” doctors in order to extort funds for “food”. The mortality rate was several times lower among our “close” ancestors, and the birth rate was higher. The only proof of this can be the fact that there used to be large families, albeit poor, but healthy, friendly and happy, but now families are “few children” and “childless”, and living in constant strife even within their own family circle. “Close” ancestors did not need medicines in the form in which modern scientists present them to us; they knew how to use not only the unique properties of nature - herbs and roots, but also the unique properties of water. “Living” and “dead” water were not just subjects for fairy tales, they were not yet forgotten and not lost abilities to be able to use the capabilities of nature, in particular water. Huge mortality in modern world With high level progress does not shock anyone, and the most common cause of death - cancer, tuberculosis, etc. - have become as natural as natural death from old age (like “close” ancestors). What did the “distant” ancestors have? No one knows for sure, but the absence of burials and cemeteries in the discovered remains of settlements of “ancient civilizations” of such a scale as in the modern world, I think, may indicate a developed level of natural medicine, and not the various drugs implanted by modern scientists. And again, to the level that was used by the ancient uneducated ancestors, to which our modern “progress” is still far away. Again, if we compare the Planet with the human body, then why doesn’t anyone treat the Earth, why can it restore itself, and human body supposedly not? Modern scientists will still prove the progressiveness and usefulness of the drugs they create, as something without which one cannot exist modern man(and all this with one goal - to extort funds from working person). But what about the placebo effect (a generally accepted fact when a patient is given a dummy pill, but he recovers from it as if he were given a real drug because the patient sincerely believes that he took the medicine and not the dummy)? The pacifier effect that even cures cancer? Isn't it proof that medical progress is unnecessary? Does this mean that “close” and “distant” ancestors were able to use not drug treatment, but the capabilities of consciousness for health? And even now, given the number of counterfeit drugs, many patients receive treatment precisely due to this “placebo” effect, using ordinary chalk instead of drugs. So what is the progress of modern medicine? In the treatment of diseases invented during this progress, in the creation of “drug dependence” and “hospital dependence” in humanity, with the aim of profiting from patients and destroying humanity?

- modern education. Modern progress in education is obvious, in comparison with the education of our ancestors, not only scientists, but also all ordinary people and housewives will say. Judging by the number of subjects taught in modern educational institutions and their complexity, then of course the science of “education” runs quickly and so far that no one can know and understand the words and terms used in science. And if judged by the results of the training received? Do educated people reach the level of knowledge that their “distant” ancestors had? Judging by the fact that humanity still cannot unravel the secrets of previous civilizations, no, they do not. What if you compare it with “close” ancestors? It would seem that, yes, modern educated humanity is ahead of them, but in what way? Can a modern graduate of an educational institution do what an uneducated “close” ancestor of that time could? For example, to survive in conditions wildlife, know how to plant and harvest crops correctly, find the necessary food in the forest, hunt, etc. without modern technical devices? Yes, modern educated people know how to do all this, but not in real, but in virtual reality, playing various simulation games using modern technical innovations. In other words, modern humanity not only did not develop those practical skills that “close” ancestors possessed, but also lost what they had. And I suspect that they were lost deliberately and precisely by these same scientists who diligently destroyed them, and all for the sake of “moving progress forward”! What else does modern education provide for the life of mankind? The opportunity to become modern scientists, to be proud of the fact that they are the ones making progress “to nowhere”? But it’s no secret that the majority of both student and scientific papers are often not written by the authors themselves, but someone does it for them for various reasons, while doing the same thing, copying each other, then quoting themselves. And teachers require that students always use references and quotations in their work, and work without the use of “other people’s words” is not accepted for credit. And what can such “educated” people achieve, whose education is expressed only “on paper”? I assert, and I think everyone will agree with me, that modern system education (from preschool to modern higher educational institutions) was created only in order to tear people away from true knowledge, to destroy all the knowledge of their ancestors. Students, in order to master all the knowledge necessary to successfully graduate from an educational institution, are forced to spend most of their free life time on learning, which they could spend on real research and knowledge of themselves and the world around them, on obtaining true knowledge, and not imposed on us by modern society scientists. But humanity has no time to do this, and it is not profitable for the inventors of more and more new drugs and technical devices; we need to master what modern scientists have come up with and are imposing on us, calling it population degradation a beautiful word"modern education". Another proof of degradation can be the fact that modern “developed” humanity has lost the ability of both “close” and “distant” ancestors to receive all the necessary information and all the necessary information from space (or as the writer-publicist, researcher of the energy-informational state of space writes .And Kikilyk that humanity breathes memory and drinks memory, since one copy of the Planet’s memory is embedded in space, the second in water). Nowadays, those who have such skills are called psychics and are considered someone special, beyond understanding. And before, every person was such a psychic, just as now everyone can become one. They just don’t teach this art in educational institutions, but rather lead them away from it. For what? And so that modern humanity does not recognize terrible secrets, but not the secrets of Nature, but the secrets of those who consciously and purposefully are engaged in the destruction of the knowledge of their ancestors, the knowledge of Nature, created false sciences that contradict the laws of Nature. Those who hid from humanity the real alphabet that was used by the ancestors throughout the entire territory of the Planet, and the real language that they spoke, and which kept the entire Planet and humanity in energetic balance. Those who removed many components from the concepts of physics, for example, the power of sound, without giving sounds and vibrations any role, while vibrations emitted by both man himself and nature are the basis of everything. I don’t even want and won’t now remember some scientists who replaced the speed of thought with the speed of light, thus setting humanity on the wrong path of development of both science and life. Is this modern educational progress? Select true knowledge, take time to study it, and instill artificially created knowledge, achieving progress in this artificial knowledge?

So what have you achieved? modern science in recent centuries? She gave me something that was completely unnecessary. She herself came up with new viruses - she herself came up with cures for them, she herself invented weapons - she herself figured out how to protect herself from them, she herself came up with gadgets - and continues to think about how to improve them... That is. science is busy wasting time - it artificially creates a “problem” and solves it itself, in other words, science is marking time, creating the illusion of achievements. And if it moves forward, it is not for the benefit of humanity, but in order to make more profit (for example, new gadgets are regularly invented). But in fact, modern science has not achieved even a fraction of what our ancestors, both “near” and “distant,” possessed. Because someone cleverly destroyed that knowledge and skills from the memory of the modern generation, replacing them with worthless modern ones. For what? Yes, in order to rule, to turn us from free and independent people (as our ancestors were) into their slaves (as is happening now). We are absolutely dependent on all the results of “progress”: household amenities, medicines, telephony, the Internet, the pursuit of education for a more prestigious job, etc. All this makes us slaves of this “progress” and eternal buyers of regularly improved new products that become unusable after six months, a year, i.e. people who are constantly forced to work “for their uncle”, and then give what they earn to the same “uncle”, buying what they need for life in a modern progressive society, or rather for profit certain people which are behind modern “progress”. These are those “ghosts” invisible to us, who call themselves “priests” from the world council of priests, who rule the world, who possess the knowledge of our ancestors, but skillfully took it away from us (See on the website www..

They take away knowledge from us by putting secrecy marks on “discoveries” and making them inaccessible to ordinary people (whom they call their slaves), or by declaring crazy those who still dare, without fear of persecution and stamps “secret”, to declare publicly about true knowledge and real discoveries (not new discoveries, but discovered “old” and long-forgotten ones). Yes, in principle, there is no need to declare people with true knowledge crazy. Most people, having received a modern education and thanks to “scientific progress” itself, consider this true information to be nonsense, and if they see evidence of this, in their opinion, nonsense, they consider them anomalous phenomena, since science cannot explain these phenomena, despite your “progress”. Well, if the attempts of our “ghost rulers” do not work, then the “knowledgeable” people are physically destroyed. Therefore, many people who have true knowledge are silent, afraid to show in any way that they are only playing the role of slaves in this world, in fact they are the freest, since they have true knowledge that is absolutely not similar to modern generally accepted “scientific” knowledge. Some of the “knowledgeable” people still cannot keep it to themselves, and finding a compromise, breaks the silence, becoming a science fiction writer. What are your complaints about the science fiction writer? You can’t declare him crazy - he’s a writer, maybe he came up with everything. Again, you can’t put it “secret” because these are just books and there seems to be no reason to destroy them for revealing a secret, because nothing has been revealed. But the books of science fiction writers, just like folk children's fairy tales, contain a truth hidden from us and make us think. “The fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it, a lesson for good fellows” - all folk tales (coming from “close” ancestors) ended with these words. These “ghost” rulers not only destroy the “secrets” themselves and people who have “secret” knowledge, they also hide fairy tales from us, filling the heads of modern children with new cartoons that do not carry information from the past. They take all scientific progress in a completely different direction, coming up with priority tasks for science, either finding a cure for a modern virus, or inventing a new necessary weapon, or something else. Because if all the modern “secrets of past knowledge” are revealed, then the modern system of human life will be destroyed like a house of cards, and this will begin with the sciences taught in schools, since their falsity will be revealed.

And now that I have shown the senselessness of scientific progress and talked about who is to blame for our real ignorance of nothing, I will reveal the secrets of correct knowledge without fear of being declared crazy. Since in each article devoted to a certain incredible - non-obvious, but vitally important, I will gradually clear grains with true titles from the scientific artificially inspired scientific husk, but this will absolutely not contradict modern scientific discoveries, and at the same time every reader will understand that he is either knows, or heard about it once, or guessed, and will always agree with my words, and at the same time it will not be similar to the knowledge that “scientists” regularly present to us.

To be continued…

Ural, Chelyabinsk. January 2016

The history of civilization can be expressed in six words: the more you know, the more you can do. E. Abu

A very bad person is someone who doesn’t know anything and doesn’t even try to find out anything. After all, two vices were combined in him. Abul Faraj

A soul that lacks wisdom is dead. But if you enrich it with teaching, it will come to life, like an abandoned land on which rain has fallen. Abul Faraj

No wonder that a large number of knowledge, not being able to make a person smart, often makes him vain and arrogant. D. Addison

School is a workshop where the thoughts of the younger generation are formed; you must hold it tightly in your hands if you do not want to let the future out of your hands. A. Barbusse

There are many types of education and development, and each of them is important in itself, but moral education should be higher than all of them. V. G. Belinsky

You will never know enough unless you know more than enough. W. Blake

True knowledge does not consist in the acquaintance with facts which make a man merely a pedant, but in the use of facts which make him a philosopher. G. Buckle

We often meet people whose learning serves as an instrument for their ignorance - people who, the more they read, the less they know. G. Buckle

Education may turn a fool into a scholar, but it will never erase the original imprint. P. Beauchaine

The source of true knowledge is in facts! P. Buast

Education is a treasure, work is the key to it. P. Buast

One should strive for knowledge not for the sake of controversy, not for the sake of contempt for others, not for the sake of profit, fame, power or other goals, but in order to be useful in life. F. Bacon

Knowledge is power, power is knowledge. F. Bacon

Knowledge and power are one and the same. F. Bacon

We are most willing to talk about what we don’t know. Because this is what we are thinking about. The work of thought is directed here, and it can only be directed here. P. Valerie

No one can be either omniscient or omnipotent. Virgil

Ignorance is not a lack of intelligence, and knowledge is not a sign of genius. L. Vauvenargues

The spirit is subject to the same law as the body - the impossibility of existence without constant nutrition. L. Vauvenargues

It is easier for us to acquire the veneer of omniscience than to thoroughly master a small amount of knowledge. L. Vauvenargues

There is no small virtue in recognizing as ignorance what others regard as knowledge, and in openly admitting that you do not know what you really do not know. P. Gassendi

Repeated reading of books already read is the most reliable touchstone of education. K. Goebbel

Whoever wants to achieve greatness must be able to limit himself. Whoever, on the contrary, wants everything, actually wants nothing and will achieve nothing. G. Hegel

Knowledge of some principles easily compensates for ignorance of some facts. K. Helvetius

Know-it-all doesn't teach intelligence. Heraclitus

There are no difficult subjects, but there is an abyss of things that we simply do not know, and even more that we know poorly, incoherently, fragmentarily, even falsely. And this false information stops and confuses us even more than that which we do not know at all. A. I. Herzen

Knowledge is power, and the most fossilized delusions cannot withstand this power, just as the inertia of the nature around us cannot withstand it. A. I. Herzen

If you lose interest in everything, then you lose your memory. I. Goethe

You can only learn what you love. I. Goethe

Experience is the teacher of eternal life. I. Goethe

Acquiring knowledge is not enough for a person; one must be able to give it away. I. Goethe

The theory, my friend, is grey, but green is the eternal tree of life. I. Goethe

What they don’t understand, they don’t master. I. Goethe

A person must believe that the incomprehensible can be understood: otherwise he would not think about it. I. Goethe

A person knows himself only to the extent that he knows the world. I. Goethe

The source of knowledge is inexhaustible: no matter what success humanity acquires on this path, people will still have to search, discover and learn. I. A. Goncharov

Proving to a person the need for knowledge is the same as convincing him of the usefulness of vision. M. Gorky

Knowledge is the absolute value of our world. You need to learn, you need to know. The unknown does not exist; we can only say that the unknown exists. M. Gorky

It is necessary to know not just to know, but in order to learn to do. M. Gorky

Going to replace their fathers and mothers, to help their older brothers and sisters in their great work, young people must tirelessly arm themselves with knowledge. M. Gorky

There is no weapon sharper than knowledge based on labor processes. M. Gorky

There is no force more powerful than knowledge: a person armed with knowledge is invincible. M. Gorky

The more a person knows, the stronger he is. M. Gorky

To live well, you need to work well, to stand firmly on your feet, you need to know a lot. M. Gorky

The more enlightened a person is, the more useful he is to his society. A. S. Griboyedov

Mental pursuits have such a beneficial effect on a person as the sun has on nature; they dispel the gloomy mood, gradually lighten, warm, and lift the spirit. V. Humboldt

Knowledge is a person’s companion on any path. D. Guramishvili

Education is a matter of conscience; education is a matter of science. Later, in an already formed person, both types of knowledge complement each other. V. Hugo

To educate people means to make them better; to educate the people means to increase their morality; to make him literate is to civilize him. V. Hugo

The true cure for all suffering is an increase in the activity of the mind, the soul, which is achieved by increasing education. J. Guyot

After bread, the most important thing for the people is school. J. Danton

The curious seeks out rarities only to be surprised by them; inquisitive in order to recognize them and stop being surprised. R. Descartes

Many know-it-alls have no intelligence. Democritus

Neither art nor wisdom can be achieved unless it is learned. Democritus

The essence of the matter is not in the completeness of knowledge, but in the completeness of understanding. Democritus

In spiritual life, as in practical life, he who holds knowledge always progresses and succeeds. W. James

Education gives a person dignity, and the slave begins to realize that he was not born for slavery. D. Diderot

Education does not consist in the amount of knowledge, but in the full understanding and skillful application of everything that you know. A. Diesterweg

Wrong knowledge is worse than ignorance. A. Diesterweg

The weakness of the mind and (note) the character of many students and adults depends on the fact that they know everything somehow and nothing properly. A. Diesterweg

Knowledge must necessarily be associated with skill. It is a sad phenomenon when a student’s head is filled with more or less knowledge, but he has not learned to apply it, so that one has to say about him that although he knows something, he can’t do anything. A. Diesterweg

Thanks to true knowledge you will be much bolder and more perfect in every work than without it. A. Durer

Education is the face of reason. Qaboos

Socialism is a society of science and culture. And in order to be a worthy member of a socialist society, you need to study a lot and well, you need to know a lot. M. I. Kalinin

False learning is worse than ignorance. Ignorance is a bare field that can be tilled and sown; false learning is a field overgrown with wheatgrass, which is almost impossible to weed out. C. Cantu

Experience charges more for teaching, but it also teaches better than all teachers. T. Carlyle

Learning is the sweet fruit of bitter wine. Cato the Elder

What could be more honest and noble than teaching others that you yourself know the best? Quintilian

Knowledge is needed in life, like a rifle in battle. N. K. Krupskaya

What we know is limited, but what we do not know is infinite. P. Laplace

Without knowledge, workers are defenseless, with knowledge they are power! V. I. Lenin

If I know that I know little, I will strive to know more. V. I. Lenin

You can become a communist only when you enrich your memory with the knowledge of all the riches that humanity has developed. V. I. Lenin

Our school must give young people the basics of knowledge, the ability to develop communist views themselves, and must turn them into educated people. V. I. Lenin

It is impossible to imagine the ideal of a future society without combining education with the productive labor of the younger generation. V. I. Lenin

Working people are drawn to knowledge because they need it to win. V. I. Lenin

To really know a subject, one must embrace and study all its sides, all connections and “mediations.” We will never achieve this completely, but the requirement of comprehensiveness will prevent us from making mistakes. V. I. Lenin

Knowledge that is not born of experience, the mother of all reliability, is fruitless and full of errors. Leonardo da Vinci

There are no clear roads to knowledge: here everyone has to work and climb to the top, no matter how good the guidebook is. V. Liebknecht

A more equal distribution of education is a cultural requirement. Only when the people win political power will the gates of knowledge open to them. Without power there is no knowledge for the people! Knowledge is power! Power is knowledge! V. Liebknecht

The rapid accumulation of knowledge acquired with too little independent participation is not very fruitful. Learning can also produce only leaves without producing fruit. G. Lichtenberg

To be human means not only to have knowledge, but also to do for future generations what those who came before did for us. G. Lichtenberg

Man was born to be the master, the ruler, the king of nature! But the wisdom with which he must rule is not given to him from birth: it is acquired by teaching. N. I. Lobachevsky

The great art of learning a lot is to take on a little at once. D. Locke

Nothing teaches a person like experience. A. S. Makarenko

The real end to education comes only from life itself and the conscious initiative of everyone. D. I. Mendeleev

The school is an enormous force that determines the life and fate of peoples and the state, depending on the main subjects and the principles embedded in the system school education. D. I. Mendeleev

And if it is true, as is often asserted, that one cannot live without faith, then the latter cannot be other than faith in the omnipotence of knowledge. I. I. Mechnikov

I have known many people who had enormous knowledge and did not have a single own thoughts. W. Mizner

I can’t imagine how anyone can be content with knowledge acquired second-hand; Although the knowledge of others can teach us something, you can only be wise by your own wisdom. M. Montaigne

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. M. Montaigne

You have to study a lot to know even a little. C. Montesquieu

Those who love to learn are never idle. C. Montesquieu

A person strives for knowledge, and as soon as the thirst for knowledge fades in him, he ceases to be a person. F. Nansen

Observation collects what nature offers him, while experience takes from nature what he wants. I. P. Pavlov

There is an abyss of poetry in any area of ​​human knowledge. K. G. Paustovsky

Happiness is given only to those who know. The more a person knows, the more sharply, the more powerfully he sees the poetry of the earth where a person with meager knowledge will never find it. K. G. Paustovsky

What good is it if you knew a lot if you didn’t know how to apply your knowledge to your needs? F. Petrarch

Knowledge is made up of small grains of daily experience. D. I. Pisarev

Knowledge, and only knowledge, makes a person free and great. D. I. Pisarev

You need to learn at school, but you need to learn much more after leaving school, and this second teaching, in its consequences, in its influence on a person and on society, is immeasurably more important than the first. D. I. Pisarev

General education is the consolidation and comprehension of the natural connection that exists between an individual and humanity. D. I. Pisarev

Very few people, and only the most remarkable ones, are able to simply and frankly say: “I don’t know.” D. I. Pisarev

Complete ignorance is not the greatest evil; the accumulation of poorly learned knowledge is even worse. Plato

Since the human mind can triumph over blind necessity only by cognizing its own, internal laws, only by defeating it with its own strength, then the development of knowledge, the development of human consciousness is the greatest, noblest task of a thinking person. G. V. Plekhanov

Education does not sprout in the soul unless it penetrates to a significant depth. Protagoras

Exercise, friends, gives more than good natural talent. Protagoras

Knowledge is not something completed, crystallized, deadened, it is eternally created, eternally moving. D. N. Pryanishnikov

It is better not to know something at all than to know it poorly. Publilius Syrus

The higher a person ascends in knowledge, the more expansive views open to him. A. N. Radishchev

We should treat knowledge the same way we treat food. We do not live to know, just as we do not live to eat. D. Ruskin

The main thing is not to accumulate as much knowledge as possible, the main thing is that this knowledge, great or small, belongs to you alone, is drunk with your blood, is the child of your own free efforts. R. Rolland

It is better to know the truth halfway, but on your own, than to know it entirely, but learn it from other people’s words and learn it like a parrot. R. Rolland

What makes a person educated is only his own internal work, in other words, his own, independent thinking, experiencing, perceiving what he learns from other people or from books. N. A. Rubakin

Any real education is achieved only through self-education. N. A. Rubakin

Knowledge must serve the creative purposes of man. It is not enough to accumulate knowledge; we need to disseminate them as widely as possible and apply them in life. N. A. Rubakin

An educated person is a person who has his own worldview, his own opinions about all aspects and areas of life around him. N. A. Rubakin

An educated person sees different sides where a dark person does not see them, but sees only one and judges all the others by it. N. A. Rubakin

An educated and intelligent person can only be called someone who is like that through and through and shows his education and intelligence both in large things and in small things, in everyday life, and throughout his entire life. N. A. Rubakin

Knowledge is armor against all troubles. A. Rudaki

Talent and knowledge are a bright light, without them there is no way out of the darkness. A. Rudaki

Knowing good things is more important than knowing many things. J.-J. Rousseau

A student who studies without desire is a bird without wings. Saadi

It is more useful to know a few wise rules that could always serve you than to learn many things that are useless to you. Seneca the Younger

An educated person differs from an uneducated person in that he continues to consider his education incomplete. K. Simonov

What could it be more harmful than a person who has knowledge of the most complex sciences, but does not have a kind heart? He uses all his knowledge for evil.

Francis Bacon

Many people have heard and know that knowledge is power. However, not all people make enough efforts to acquire certain knowledge that is useful to them. Therefore, I believe that this topic should be considered in more detail so that each of you, dear readers, clearly understands what exactly it is great power knowledge and what needs to be done to gain this power. On the one hand, it seems clear that you need to study, gain knowledge by all available methods in order to know a lot and, therefore, be able to do a lot. But on the other hand, what kind of knowledge needs to be acquired and how best to do it, and most importantly, how to then use it in your life, is not always clear to everyone. Therefore, this point definitely needs to be dealt with properly. And we will do this with you. We will look at this topic in detail and learn everything there is to know about knowledge.

What is knowledge?

Knowledge is information that, firstly, has been tested by practice, and secondly, and this is the most important thing, gives a person the most complete picture of reality. This is the fundamental difference between knowledge and ordinary information, which allows us to have only a partial understanding of certain things. Knowledge can also be compared to instructions for something, and information to ordinary advice. The knowledge that a person possesses is very well deposited in his memory, thanks to the fact that he repeatedly applied it in his life, consolidating this knowledge in practice and confirming its truth with his own experience. Over time, knowledge becomes an unconscious skill.

Types of knowledge

Knowledge comes in different forms. For example, there is superficial knowledge, and there is deep knowledge. Surface knowledge is knowledge that is based on visible relationships between individual events and facts in a certain subject area. For superficial knowledge, a good memory is enough - I read, heard, saw and remembered the information received, without thinking about why it is this way and not another. And you seem to know something. Superficial knowledge is often based on two, maximum three links in the cause-and-effect chain. The reasoning model of a person with superficial knowledge will be quite simple. It usually looks like this: “If [condition], then [action].” More complex mental constructions in this scheme, as you understand, are impossible.

Deep knowledge is a completely different matter; it already uses a more complex structure of thinking and reasoning. Deep knowledge represents abstractions, complex patterns, and deep analogies that reflect the structure and processes of a subject area. Deep knowledge relies not only on memory, but also on thinking. Moreover, they are not limited to the construction and analysis of cause-and-effect chains, but represent a complex web of thoughts/reasonings in which many facts and processes are interconnected. In this case, one cause may have several consequences, and one specific effect may arise from different causes. Deep knowledge reflects the holistic structure and nature of existing processes and relationships that take place in the subject area. This knowledge allows you to analyze and predict the behavior of objects in detail.

Knowledge can also be explicit or tacit. Explicit knowledge is accumulated experience, identified and presented in the form of instructions, methods, guidelines, plans and recommendations for action. Explicit knowledge has a clear and precise structure; it is formulated and recorded, both in human memory and on various media. Tacit knowledge is knowledge that is difficult or difficult to formalize, that is, to highlight with its help the most important characteristics of the subject of study or discussion. This is intuitive knowledge, personal impressions, sensations, opinions, guesses. They are not always easy to explain or convey to other people. They look like poorly connected pieces of information, rather than a complete and clear picture of reality.

Knowledge can also be everyday and scientific. Everyday knowledge is specific knowledge about something, which is based on random reflections and spontaneous observations. They are often intuitive in nature and can be highly dependent on the opinions of others. This knowledge is often irrational, that is, not amenable to explanation and full understanding. They cannot be applied to all situations, despite the fact that a person gained this knowledge through his experience, because this experience is incomplete, it only partially reflects the patterns of certain situations. And here scientific knowledge– this is more generalized, rational, thoughtful and justified knowledge by professional observation and experiments. They are accurate, universal, structured and systematized, they are easier to analyze, thanks to their systematic nature, to understand and convey to other people. Therefore, one must strive for precisely such knowledge in order to have a more complete and accurate understanding of various things in this world. There are many other types of knowledge, but we will not consider them all now; we will leave this matter for future articles. Instead, let's move on to issues that are more important to us.

Why is knowledge needed?

For a person’s thirst for knowledge to be especially strong and constant, he must clearly understand why knowledge is needed. Still, their value is not always obvious, since many people do not pursue them as much as, say, money. Some values ​​are clearer to us because we use them constantly and openly and see the benefits of them. The same money is the value that we all feel, due to the fact that money can buy a lot. Or, if we talk about what we are willing to spend our money on, then again, things like “bread and butter” or a roof over our heads seem to us to be fairly obvious values, since we need these things and cannot do without them. But the usefulness of knowledge is somehow not entirely and not always noticeable to the naked eye. But in fact, it is the knowledge a person has that determines whether he has money, bread and butter, that is, food on the table, clothing, housing, and many other important and useful things for life. Knowledge helps people achieve all this. And the more a person knows and the better his knowledge, the easier it is for him to come to the material and spiritual values ​​he needs. After all, the same money can be earned in different ways - you can do very hard, dirty and unhealthy work for it, or you can simply make the right decisions, give the necessary instructions, make several calls a day and in two or three hours earn more than many people earn from hard work in a month or even a year. And it’s not about labor productivity, it’s about the ability to do work that many other people cannot do, as well as the ability to outplay other people in the struggle for a place in the sun. And all this is facilitated by high-quality and extensive knowledge. So knowledge opens the door to a beautiful, happy, rich and bright life for a person. And if such a life is interesting to you, if you need it, then you also need knowledge. But not all knowledge is needed, but only that which can be applied in life to benefit oneself. Let's see what this knowledge is.

What knowledge is needed?

As much as some of us would like to have all the knowledge in the world in order to be very smart, it is quite obvious that this is impossible. We cannot know everything, because even the knowledge that is known to humanity is so much that just getting acquainted with it would take several lifetimes. And if we also take into account the fact that people do not know a lot about this world, then it becomes completely clear that knowledge must be acquired selectively. But this choice is not easy to make. To do this, a person must decide what kind of life he wants to live, what goals he plans to achieve and what is valuable to him in this life. His fate will depend on this choice. It is no coincidence that we cannot know everything, because we don’t need it. We need to know well the most important thing for us, on which our fate will depend. And this main thing must first be distinguished from everything else. And to do this, it is useful to turn to the experience of others. There are a lot of people around us who have already passed the nth part life path and from their example you can see what knowledge turned out to be useful for them and what was not. The lives of different people show us what knowledge can lead to what.

Today we live in a time when there is a lot of different knowledge everywhere. The Internet alone is worth something, where you can find a lot of interesting and useful things. But such an abundance of information and knowledge prevents a person from understanding what he really needs. I don’t think that this is such a serious problem as, say, the problem of lack of knowledge, limited access to information, censorship, lack of opportunity to receive education and the like. But we still must admit that the abundance of information requires us to take a serious approach to its selection. And the lives of other people, which I suggest you focus on, are the best way to understand what knowledge is important and what is not. All the mistakes that you can make have already been made by someone once. All the successes that you want and can achieve have already been achieved by someone in one form or another. Therefore, other people's experience is invaluable. Study it and you will be able to understand what knowledge you should strive for. At the same time, you shouldn’t just believe what other people say, even if it’s very successful people. Better look at what and how they live, where, how and what they studied and are studying, what books they read, what they do, what they strive for. Deeds are truer than words. Also keep in mind that successful people show through their experience what knowledge can be useful in life, so it is worth striving for. But losers, on the contrary, with their lives can show what knowledge is meaningless and useless, and sometimes harmful. This is not an exact indicator, but you can focus on it.

Knowledge and information

Let's, friends, see how knowledge differs from information. Still, we receive this or that information every day, but knowledge is not always there. There are several opinions on this matter. They usually write and say that knowledge differs from information in that they are part of human experience. That is, knowledge is information that a person possesses, verified by experience. This is a good definition, but in my opinion it is not complete. If knowledge were only part of our own experience, then we would not use such a phrase as “gaining knowledge”; we would be talking about obtaining information that can become knowledge only if we verify it with our own experience. But we, nevertheless, use such a phrase as “gaining knowledge,” that is, something already ready that can be used without testing it on our own experience. Therefore, in my understanding, knowledge is more complete, higher quality, more structured and systematized information that reflects a complete and holistic picture of a certain subject area as close as possible to reality. That is, this is more harmonious, accurate and quite extensive information. But simply information is pieces of knowledge, so to speak, elements of a puzzle, from which it is still necessary to create a more complete and clear picture of something. So knowledge is a picture of reality already compiled from various information, or you can also say, instructions for life that we can use. If, for example, I tell you that a certain instinct is responsible for some specific human behavior, then this will be information, because with this piece of knowledge about a person much will remain unclear. If I tell you everything I know about instincts, how they work, how they are interconnected, how they control human behavior, and so on and so forth, then this will already be the knowledge that I will pass on to you. That is, it will be a more holistic picture of human nature or instructions for a person, which will allow you to learn a lot about him, understand a lot, and most importantly, it will allow you to work competently with people and yourself. Information can also be used, but its range of possibilities is much lower.

The acquisition of knowledge

It is very important to be able to acquire knowledge correctly, so that with a minimum of time and effort spent, you can absorb the maximum of necessary and useful knowledge. Here, the method of conveying, and, consequently, receiving information, plays a very important role, be it with the help of books or with the help of any other sources. The emphasis should be on understanding, thanks to which a person does not lose interest in what he learns about. Because not many people have the sufficient willpower necessary to seriously delve into the subject being studied, while interest in something, fueled, among other things, by the clarity of the information being studied, can turn out to be an excellent motivation for learning. A person will greedily receive new knowledge if it is understandable to him and, in his opinion, useful. What differentiates high-quality education from low-quality education is how teachers present knowledge to their students, and not just what kind of knowledge they give them. Good teacher- this is a teacher who is able to explain material to students not only in complex scientific language, but also in the language ordinary people. You could even say that the teacher should be able to explain the material in the language of a five-year-old child so that everyone can understand it. If knowledge is presented in understandable language, then it will be interesting to people, and if it is interesting, then there will be more attention to it. If you present knowledge to people in a language they do not understand, then interest in it will be minimal, if there is any at all, and many will simply turn away from it, no matter how useful this knowledge may be.

Quality of knowledge

One cannot fail to mention such an important thing as the quality of knowledge, on which its effectiveness depends. After all, we acquire knowledge mainly for the sake of using it in our lives, and not for the sake of simply knowing about something. Therefore, knowledge must be practical and effective. Let's think about how to determine the quality of knowledge that we can receive from certain sources. Here, I believe, priority should be given to understanding the knowledge we receive. As I wrote above, understandable knowledge is not only interesting and you want to delve into it, but it is also well absorbed, and what is especially important is that it is easier to test. In addition, knowledge must be understandable so that a person can not only remember it, but also be able to develop this knowledge and draw their own conclusions based on it, that is, generate new knowledge with its help. Then, of course, it is important that the knowledge is complete, and not abrupt and not in the form of dry facts, which, again, you just need to remember, but in the form of a whole system in which the connection between the facts should be visible, so that it is clear why something is arranged or works one way and not another. And from this follows the next criterion of quality knowledge - its reliability. Why exactly is it leaking? Because knowledge that is presented primarily in the form of facts, and not in the form of a system of reasoning consisting of a chain of cause-and-effect relationships that leads to these facts and helps to connect them with each other, is quite difficult to verify for accuracy. You will only have to believe in such knowledge, which consists solely of facts, if you yourself have not witnessed these facts. The fact is that it either exists or it doesn’t. But how do you know if a fact actually exists? What is the most reliable evidence of its existence? Of course, you can test certain facts and knowledge based on them from your own experience, so to speak, conduct an experiment, as is done in science. But this will require a lot of time and effort from you. In addition, if you received low-quality and even harmful knowledge, then you risk making serious errors when checking it, which will not be easy to correct. Therefore, it is important to see those chains of reasoning that allow us to verify the truth of certain facts, at least at the level of theory, using logical thinking. And if possible, you can transfer this theory to more or less similar experiences from your life in order to use this transfer to determine the probability of the truth of this or that fact, and at the same time all the knowledge that we receive.

Often, for effective learning, we need the help of other people who help us assimilate certain knowledge by connecting it with the experience that we have witnessed and are witnessing. That's why we need teachers who explain to us what is written in books and what we see around us. They help us form a complete picture of something in our heads, supplementing with their explanations the knowledge that we receive from books. However, good books can also explain a lot, so independent learning can be no less, or even more effective, than learning with the help of teachers. But provided that the books and other sources of information from which a person studies are truly of high quality.

Knowledge is power

Now let's think about why knowledge is power. We have already touched on this issue above, but now we will look at it in more detail so that you have a powerful motivation to gain new knowledge, regardless of any obstacles. The power of knowledge lies in the fact that it allows a person to bring his plans to life using the necessary sequence of actions. Simply put, knowledge helps us avoid unnecessary mistakes when realizing our desires. Thanks to them, we navigate this world more easily and can influence a lot in it. Knowing something allows us to control it. But when we don’t know something, we are limited in our capabilities and then we can be controlled by those who know more than us.

Knowledge also makes us bolder and more confident people. And courage and confidence allow people to achieve success in many things. Let’s say, if you want to do something, then you need to think not about whether it can be done or not, but about how it can be done, what actions need to be taken for this. Before that, you need to think about where and what knowledge you need to get in order to take the necessary actions [sequence of actions] and do the job you need. That is, knowledge is the key to success in any business. Having necessary knowledge, you can turn any of your ideas into reality. And this ability to make reality the way we want it to be gives us strength. Let's ask ourselves this question: is it possible to build a time machine? What will be your answer? Think about it. If you think that a time machine cannot be built, then you do not realize the power that knowledge has. You are proceeding from the knowledge that you currently have, and it does not allow you to admit the possibility that such a thing as a time machine can be built. Although for this it is simply necessary to obtain other knowledge that is currently unknown to humanity. But if you are a thinking person and understand one simple but very important truth that we humans still do not know much about this world, then you can easily admit the possibility of creating a time machine and any other unusual device that can greatly change our lives . In this case, you will be faced with only one single question: how to do this? So the power of knowledge is that with its help we can make the impossible possible.

The power of knowledge is also very clearly manifested in cases where a person does not receive, but disseminates knowledge. The fact is that people are driven not only by their instincts, which determine their needs, but also by ideas, beliefs, and faith. And people are infected with ideas from the world around them, in which someone creates and distributes them. And it is the one who infects the minds of the majority of people with his ideas who receives the highest power over them. This is a great power that no other power can compare to. No violence and no fear can compare with the power of ideas, the power of persuasion and, ultimately, the power of people believing in something. Because such a force controls people from the inside, and not from the outside. So, in order to infect people with your ideas, you need to create them and distribute them in society. This is a very difficult task, which is why there are so few great ideologists in the world who decide the destinies of millions. If you only gain knowledge, then this, of course, is also very good. Thanks to knowledge, you will know a lot and be able to do a lot. But at the same time, you yourself risk becoming infected with other people’s ideas and, in a sense, becoming their hostage. This is not always a bad thing, but keep in mind that the highest manifestation of the power of knowledge is the ability to create and distribute it, and not to receive and apply it.

The price of knowledge

This is perhaps one of the most important questions, the answer to which every person should know. How much does good knowledge in every sense cost? Don't rush to answer this question, think better. Many of us know and understand that knowledge is needed, knowledge is important, knowledge is useful. But good ones quality knowledge, which a person will not simply receive using some source or in some educational institution, and which will be explained to him in great detail so that he understands them well, have their price. The price may vary, but it is important to understand the main thing - good knowledge is priceless! You know very well that good education is expensive, but at the same time you must understand that good knowledge, necessary knowledge, useful knowledge that can be obtained through quality education always pays for itself, always. Therefore, investing money and time in acquiring good knowledge is an ideal investment. In general, I believe that in this life you should never spare money on such things as health and education, everything else is secondary. After all, it is absolutely obvious that any person needs good health, without him there will be no normal life. To do this, he must eat well, rest the right amount of time, use quality medicine and, if possible, not work for harmful work. I’m not even talking about bad habits - they are definitely unacceptable. And having good health, a person must take care of the contents of his head in order to take a worthy place in this life. Therefore, in no case should you spare money or time on health and knowledge. These are not things you can bargain over.

How to gain knowledge?

To obtain good knowledge, you must first decide on the priority of those methods of obtaining it that are available to a particular person. And then use these methods in the appropriate sequence. In my opinion, the best way to gain knowledge is to get it from other people and with the help of other people. Only the point here is not that someone will decide for you what and how you need to learn, but that you will use another person, other people, as your teachers to learn the things you need. That is, it is you who needs to determine your training plan, as in the case of self-education - the most the best way education. But at the same time, you need to use other people as assistants, mentors, advisers, so that they tell you what and how it is useful to learn. After all, let’s say, if you are still very young and know little about this world, then it will be difficult for you to figure out what is important and valuable in it and what is not. You need to listen to the advice of other people, smarter and more experienced, but the responsibility for the knowledge you receive should lie with you. People are a source of knowledge that is very convenient to use. When a person explains to you what and how this world works, when you can ask him questions about points you don’t understand, you can ask again, clarify, argue, you can correct your mistakes in the learning process with his help - this is just a great way to learn something , and quite quickly.

Books also play a very important role in the process of acquiring knowledge - this, from my point of view, is the most preferable way of learning without the help of living people. Not video, not audio, but books, that is, gaining knowledge with the help of printed text, with the help of signs, symbols, that’s what is useful. Text, no matter whether it is on paper or on a monitor screen, is material that needs to be worked with. Don’t just look at it like pictures, but work with it - think about the written thoughts, words, ideas, laws, analyze them, compare, evaluate, check. The text is always before your eyes, it can always be divided into separate sentences, phrases, words in order to study it thoroughly. In some cases, it is more useful to read articles, including scientific ones, rather than books. They are useful because they convey knowledge in a condensed form; they do not contain as much unnecessary writing as in most books. Still, we all have limited time, so it may simply not be enough to read huge books. But the article can, although not always completely, quite quickly and accurately convey to you the very essence of certain patterns from which our knowledge is formed. And then you decide for yourself what you need to delve into and in what direction to expand your knowledge by finding Additional materials on a topic that interests you.

And one more good way acquiring knowledge, let's consider it the third most important - this is observation of what is happening. We all have some kind of experience, and continue to gain it every day, which can teach us a lot. Moreover, this is the kind of teacher who will never deceive. But in order for us to learn something from our own experience, we need to be extremely attentive to everything that surrounds us and what happens to us. Many people don't learn anything from their experiences simply because they don't pay enough attention to them. They do not observe everything that happens in their lives and therefore a lot of valuable information passes them by; They do not attach importance to important little things around them that can tell a lot. And, of course, they do not analyze well enough all those situations that happened in their lives and taught them something. But I believe that a person can and should learn from everything he sees and hears around him. To do this you just need to be attentive and observant. And everyone can develop these qualities. Sometimes you can learn much more with simple observation than with the help of many good books. Because it can show you such details in what is happening that other people may not pay attention to or not attach the necessary importance to them. In addition, one’s own experience, as a rule, gives more confidence in understanding something than someone else’s, whose sincerity and correctness can always be doubted for a number of reasons.

Knowledge and thinking

Knowledge is knowledge, but in our time, a person’s ability to think, including outside the box, creatively, and flexibly, is of particular importance. Thinking allows not only to effectively use the knowledge a person has, but also to create his own, to come to new interesting ideas that can radically change his idea of ​​something. And this, as you already know, is also very important, and sometimes much more important than the experience already accumulated by humanity. Knowledge, even very good knowledge, today quickly becomes outdated, albeit not completely, but to a significant extent. While thinking is always relevant, it allows you to adapt old knowledge to new conditions and, when necessary, create new knowledge that will help solve a current problem. Therefore, learning something once, and then resting on your laurels all your life, using your knowledge, while it is still possible, will in the near future become impossible for those people who want to live a good, quality life. The modern world clearly shows us that we need to learn throughout our lives. This is the only way to survive and achieve success in a highly competitive environment.

And I personally consider a good life to be a life in which a person does what he really loves, even for little money, and does not work all day long at an unloved and sometimes even hated job just to earn a piece of bread. Doing what you love in the modern world without adjusting to the labor market is a great luxury. If you come to this, you will feel happy.

So, friends, thinking definitely needs to be developed. Without developed thinking, even very good modern knowledge can become dead capital. And no one really needs dead knowledge. And in order to make them alive, you need to adapt them with the help of thinking to solve various current problems and problems. Just imagine a modern medium or large business in which there is fierce competition, and in order to win it, you need to produce results, and not dig up dusty knowledge in your memory in order to show it off in front of your competitors. Therefore, thinking comes to the fore, as it allows us to be more practical. And knowledge today can be obtained very quickly on the Internet, and many of it will be more modern and accurate than the knowledge that a person has in his head.

In general, most knowledge is something that not only one person has, but also many other people. And what more people they know about something, the weaker this knowledge. The power of knowledge is determined, among other things, by its accessibility. If some knowledge is available only to a few people, then it has a lot of power, and when most people know about it, it loses its power. Let's say someone knows about something useful, but others do not know it, and this someone has an advantage over the rest, thanks to his knowledge, which is available only to him. But as soon as this knowledge spreads, a person will lose his power, since his monopoly on this knowledge will collapse. After all, if everyone knows what you know, then what is your advantage, what is your strength? So, the knowledge that we obtain in standard ways is, as a rule, known not only to us, but also to many other people. This means that we don’t have a big advantage over these other people, other things being equal. By other things being equal, I mean such things as a person’s willingness and ability to apply their knowledge, as well as perseverance, hard work and the like. Without them, knowledge is useless.

So it turns out that what we know, some other people often know, and this, to a certain extent, equates us with them. But good, developed thinking can lead a person to knowledge that will be known only to him alone. After all, thinking can give birth to completely new knowledge, new solutions and new ideas. It can lead a person to insight - insight, epiphany, awareness, a breakthrough in solving some problem that cannot be solved by standard methods. Thus, developed thinking gives a person a serious advantage over other people. So knowledge is, of course, power. But together with developed thinking, they become a truly great and absolute force.

Systematization and connections

Foundations of philosophy

Obviously, knowledge is called secret not because it cannot be told. And not because they are impossible to understand. For those who understand symbolic language, this is theoretically possible. The reason is much deeper. I tried to explain it to my friend, but I couldn't find it the right words. “Oh, I understand,” he suddenly said, and told me a modern parable. It allegorically, but very simply and accurately defines the essence of the problem.

"Two cowboys entered the salon and ordered a glass of whiskey. Suddenly, Zhiik, something flashed past. What was it - asked Bill. This is the elusive John - answered Sem. And that no one can catch him. No - said Sem, he I just don't need anyone."

Sri Aurobindo formulated this problem as follows: “A mighty spirit always stands alone, for its attempts to create its own kind are in vain,” and gave the answer why: “He who chooses God is already chosen by God.”

What is the condition for gaining access to higher knowledge. Every teacher knows that reteaching is much more difficult than teaching. This is due to the fact that there is a belief in the infallibility of our knowledge. But faith is a terrible force and it is not easy to break it. Materialists are orthodox believers, no one knows what matter is, but everyone blindly believes in it.

Therefore, the main condition is to doubt everything. As the wise Greek said, “I know that I know nothing.” Only in this state can you begin to acquire knowledge from scratch. All gurus require the disciple to have the mind of a child. The child knows nothing and completely trusts his teacher. He does not have the old faith, which is the main barrier to true knowledge.

We believe our eyes and the hardest thing is to doubt it. We do not even allow the hypothesis that this could be an illusion.

Vitaly Andriyash, March 17, 2016 - 10:33

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Is it because no one needs them...?
Is it because they are understandable only to the one whose they are...?
Is it because the conditions for receiving them were not met...?

Vitaly, but give an example of some ancient secret knowledge (in the sense of some meaningful statement).

Yes, and it’s interesting, too Not Can ancient knowledge be secret? If so, is their mystery really not the same as that of the ancients?

The nature of our mind is such that we happily accept any knowledge that corresponds to our belief in anything, be it philosophical, scientific or religious doctrines. And we discard as unnecessary everything that does not fit into the system of knowledge in the truth of which we believe.

Now I bring specific examples: According to the Vedic tradition, matter is a psychological phenomenon consisting in the fact that we perceive what is happening inside our consciousness as external world. Or the perception of the continuity of the flow of time is an illusion that arose in the mind on the basis of successive static contents of consciousness, perfectly modeled by engineers when creating cinema.

Ancient or modern secret knowledge, it's all relative. It’s just that the laws of the evolution of consciousness are such that in ancient times they were more easily accessible than now. This is due to the fact that at this stage of the evolution of consciousness the main goal is to develop and improve the intellect based on ideas about the material world. This knowledge was called Avidya. Ancient knowledge is called Vidya. The divine goal is to master both.

This secret the words spoken by the living Jesus and written down by Didymus Judas Thomas. And he said: He who finds the interpretation of these words will not taste death.

In epithet "secret"(introduction) may have the same meaning as in saying 5. The words remain secret, hidden until man himself interprets them 6, until he masters the path of knowledge. (Trofimova I)

How can you give an example of secret knowledge? That's why they are secret, because they remain closed to the uninitiated. :) So how then can we determine that they are truly knowledge, and not just some random thing, if they are unknown to anyone?
This was the answer. I got there in the wrong place.

Ren, Your move may be inappropriate here, because The first thing the author's original post begins with is:
« Obviously, knowledge is called secret not because it cannot be told. And not because they are impossible to understand.”
Those. it seems like not" closedness"makes them secret... But what? (That was the point of my post to the author, they say, what exactly is their secret?)
With uv. D

(But I can’t write anything more here right now... I’m busy)

Ren, you probably didn’t read my post carefully, so you didn’t understand where the mystery was rooted. For you, a secret is something securely hidden in a place inaccessible to the uninitiated. But there is a rule: if you want to hide something safely, put it in the most visible place.

Therefore, Kabbalists claim that all the secrets of the world are hidden in obvious things. When you doubt your own eyes and ask yourself what I really see, then the secrets will begin to reveal themselves to you.

Well, yes. You're right. It's not that they are hidden. I'm making such a bad joke. In fact, I understand the essence of your topic: anyone believes so much in his ideas that are formed in him (whether by society, family, etc.) that he is deaf to other sources of knowledge, and ancient knowledge, without considering them as truth, and not even being interested in them. Something like this.
But the fact is that I have long been irritated by statements like “ancient knowledge”, “ancient wise people” and the like. Why is it “knowledge” and not “ancient misconceptions” and not “ancient fiction”? That is, in order to receive the proud status of knowledge, it must be tested and somehow confirmed. Otherwise, any sect can be called a carrier of knowledge, as they think of themselves. They like to refer to the “ancients”. Antiquity is not a sign of the truth of judgments.

Ren, the specificity of ancient knowledge is that it doesn’t just assert something. First of all, these are technologies for transforming consciousness. They say, do this or that and you will see that the world looks different. The knowledge that is given to us is milestones on the path of the evolution of consciousness; the walker needs them so as not to go astray. Therefore, all the ancients insist that only experience allows us to have knowledge that cannot be doubted.

This specificity Not only ancient, but also everyone in the world of knowledge. Because ANY knowledge is consequence cognition, i.e. process, procedure, epistemological technology, insofar as production and mastery any knowledge requires mastering this procedure, and therefore transformation of consciousness. For example, in order to master the knowledge of differential and integral calculus, it is necessary to transform your consciousness so as to understand infinitesimal data and infinitely large summations, mathematical analysis, etc. I assure you, you will never understand Shakespeare's sonnets without transforming your consciousness in the spirit of early romanticism.

Vitaly, you are again pretentiously pedaling the epistemological EXCLUSIVITY of the knowledge you have chosen, while All knowledge is technologically equal.

And if you go beyond the boundaries of one philosophical system (be it Aristotle or B-physics) and look at history of philosophy in general, we find that philosophical consciousness not only evolves from century to century, but also DEVELOPING.
Develops and technology (procedures, methods, forms), and its products (contents, meanings, knowledge).

To be honest, it remains unclear why ancient knowledge is called secret?
Either because no one needs them...?
Either because they are understandable only to the one whose they are...?
Either because the conditions for receiving them were not met...?

There's too much " either“in one question, when there is only one correct answer in the problem, and all the other answers are just adjustments to the correct answer.

Is it because they are understandable only to the one whose they are...?

Knowledge is understandable to the one who wrote it, or the one who drew up the diagram (TV, VCR) understands the diagram without question.

…give an example some ancient secret knowledge (in the sense of some meaningful statement).

The topic should be continued, and in the second part give the key to secret knowledge.

Just imagine, you used a key to open a safe (with a secret code). And inside there were scrolls (a sheet of writing material made from papyrus, parchment or paper), decaying manuscripts of ancient knowledge that had once been secret. It is no longer possible to understand what is written there, since time has not been kind to the manuscript and has destroyed the papyrus of the manuscript of ancient knowledge to the ground. Everything has its time. That’s how knowledge is, it is needed when there is a demand for it, when it can be applied, when it is useful and there is some sense in it, and not just as a set of abstruse symbols and signs, which mean absolutely nothing, because TIME has changed everything around.

You are mistaken, here we are talking about intuition, not intelligence. Both blood and body are not thought forms, but metaphors.

Both blood and body are not thought forms, but metaphors.

Well, yes, allegories. Spiritual knowledge is often expressed in allegories, metaphors, riddles, parables, fairy tales, and proverbs.

Adam's rib, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Eden, a cherub with a sword, the ugly duckling, the robber nightingale, the frog princess - all these are allegories.