This book is a journey to the edge of knowledge, where the boundaries between science and myth dissolve. Together, we will walk in the footsteps of ancient priests reading omens in the entrails of birds and soar with quantum physicists searching for parallel universes in particle accelerators.
On this journey, we will discover that the line between "myth" and "wisdom" is but a matter of time: what was magic yesterday may become science tomorrow, and what we believe to be absolute truth today may vanish like smoke a century from now.
We will not merely recount history; we will embark on a personal experiment with the eternal question: How do we think like atomic scientists yet feel like monks and mystics? How do we read the Quran and the Torah with eyes searching for a hidden thread that binds them all?
At the dawn of time, when humans named the wind that carried the breaths of the dead "spirit" and the sun that knew not why it rose "god," questions were born that still elude us today: Hermeticism What is the essence of existence?
Where hides the secret that connects the visible to the invisible?
This book is not a court to judge the unseen, but a mirror reflecting our minds: a mind that screams, "I need proof!" and a soul that whispers, "I need to believe!"
Before we begin, let me remind you of this: The ultimate truth belongs neither to laboratories nor temples—it belongs to the questions daring enough to shake certainty. Are you ready to lose some answers to gain deeper questions?
In the story of creation, when humans first opened their eyes to the universe, they saw a dual world: a visible face touched by hands and a hidden face conversed with in dreams.
They did not yet know the sky was not a stone ceiling nor the earth an unmoving bed, but they sensed instinctively that there was "something else." Something that eludes the five senses yet appears in the heart’s tremor at sunset or in the night’s silence when stars speak a language unfathomed but familiar.
This book is a journey into the depths of that "something else." A voyage across time and space, from ancient caves where shamans1 danced around fires to hear ancestral voices, to modern telescopes probing endless space for "dark matter.
¹ Shamans: Spiritual mediators in ancient cultures who communicated with the spirit world through rituals.
" We will ask together: Were our ancestors, who worshipped fire and read omens in birds’ entrails, mere victims of primitive imagination? Or did they grasp truths we still fumble with today?
In these pages, we will put the "unseen" on trial—with the rigor of reason and the tenderness of spirit. We will view Islamic mysticism2 not as a haze of dreams but as a logical system (as in Ibn Arabi’s³ writings on "the unity of existence").
We will analyze Kabbalistic rituals⁴ not as black magic but as mathematical codes to decipher creation’s mystery.
We will place quantum physics theories side by side with soothsayers’ prophecies to see which is stranger!
Yet this book is not mere historical narrative. It is a mirror reflecting our modern contradictions:
How we mock those who believe in horoscopes yet pay thousands to self-help gurus promising "cosmic secrets" in three-day workshops.
How we reject "spirits" while drowning in virtual realities crafting artificial souls.