![]() ![]() This awareness – now for modern man – of the limits of our science, of our understanding and of our consciousness, has encouraged what I consider a very healthy re-awakening of interest in that other quest which so fascinated our ancestors – the exploration of man’s inner space. As we look outward today at the world of quarks and black holes and anti-matter, we are beginning to acknowledge (with more modesty than was fashionable a few generations ago) that we have barely begun to understand our cosmic surroundings and our place in the universe. Ten billion light years do not bring us to the end of the universe but only to the limits of our present probes.Ĭuriously enough, the fantastic successes of outer space exploration seem to have unveiled more mysteries than they have solved. But man’s awareness of the cosmos continues to expand. Its thrust has been outward in conquest, commerce and conversion: until today its outreach has brought man to the moon. Since the time of the Renaissance, Western culture has been on the way out, in the sense of being centrifugal. It is included here in its original unedited form with his kind permission. ![]() James George sent this draft to Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1976. Lake Baikal Mountains The following is an early draft of Searching for Shambhala, an article that was later published in Search: Journey on the Inner Path. ![]()
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