ARE YOU WHAT YOU IMAGINE YOURSELF TO BE OR IS YOUR REALITY SOMETHING ELSE?

There are no impossible enterprises, only people incapable of carrying them out.

No one does what they don't know how to do.

No one makes wooden furniture without having previously trained in carpentry techniques.

In the same way, no one can know themselves without first having trained in the techniques of Self-knowledge.

Therefore, the undertaking of Self-knowledge becomes possible and accessible to all those people who have been trained in the techniques of Self-knowledge.

Let's look at the basic techniques of Self-knowledge: Analysis, Retrospection, Concentration, Meditation.

Analysis: ability that allows us to evaluate what is useful and what is not useful for a purpose, an undertaking, a job, etc.

Retrospection: ability that helps us review and understand our own life, our qualities and defects, our limitations and possibilities.

Concentration: ability that allows us to know anything that interests us about ourselves.

Meditation: ability that allows us to know the reason for the existence of all things.

Our idea of Self-knowledge is based on our own capacity for learning. That is, on the art of learning to know how our person works, that human being that we are with all our hopes and sorrows, fears and challenges, successes and failures.

Samael Aun Weor, in his book “The Revolution of the Dialectic”, makes a reflective introduction that draws and guides each seeker of themselves:

“Our position is absolutely independent. The Revolution of the Dialectic has no other weapon than intelligence and no other system than that of wisdom.”

In this sense, we can say that our approach for any person interested in Self-knowledge is to offer Self-knowledge techniques that anyone can use according to their own interest.

We firmly believe that all human beings, under normal conditions, have an infinite potential for development.

Samael Aun Weor tells us: “All the laws of nature exist within us and if we do not discover them within ourselves, we will never discover them outside of ourselves." “Man is contained in the universe and the universe is contained in man."

People often doubt that Greek maxim engraved at the entrance to the great temple of Apollo, in the Oracle of Delphi: "Man, know yourself and you will know the universe and the Gods."

Why not believe that just as knowledge and observation have been the source of solutions to improve our living conditions, Self-knowledge and Self-observation are also the source of solutions to improve our human condition?

What do we understand by the human condition? We said at the beginning that every human being has an infinite potential for development. These possibilities are in a potential state. If we activate them, we transform the current human being into a better human being. This is what we refer to as the human condition.

What do we understand as a better human being? A human being with a higher percentage of intelligence, will, initiative, creativity, etc.

The survival instinct that we currently possess is also possessed by all living creatures in the animal kingdom. For this reason, all living beings seek to live life in the best way that they understand it.

However, to practice Self-knowledge we need all those possibilities that are found in a potential state and that are beyond the survival instinct.

We do not consider it possible that through Self-knowledge we can know the universe. Nevertheless, it is completely believable and acceptable to us that the human being of today has improved his living conditions, based on knowledge and observation of the world in which we live.

Why did the ancient Greeks believe that if a human being knew themselves, they could also know the universe? Exactly because of these already mentioned qualities in a potential state, that by being activated make us better human beings than we are. That is, with a higher percentage of intelligence, will, initiative, creativity, etc.

It is also important and timely to highlight here that Self-knowledge is a highly demanding study since its cultivation and development are based on the practice, interest, and responsibility of each interested person.

Self-knowledge is the study and development of ourselves by ourselves. No one, absolutely no one, can do this work for us.

The amount of knowledge we have about the world around us always depends on the knowledge we have about ourselves. Every human being, under normal conditions, knows what he knows and what he doesn't know, what he is and what is not. That is to say, all human beings, to a greater or lesser extent, possess by nature the qualities of discernment and learning, among many others. Therefore, we are able to learn everything we set our mind to.