On the walls of Temple Edfu in Egypt:
We will keep building temples
until people recognize
they are the temple.
As reported by Freddy Silva
If so, it looks like this has never been the right place where we could be looking for heavenly realms:
Author unknown. And sorry for the stupid cat of the neighbor...
In a more recent past, this was the wrong kind of place we used:
Author unknown.
And nowadays some misled people seem to search for something in places like this (but this is a completely different story):
Author unknown. Epstein's Island.
More probably, this is where we could start our search:
Author unknown
Amazingly, the ancient Egyptians had numerous proverbs, that remind us of things we've forgotten since then:
If you search for the laws of harmony, you will find knowledge.or
The key to all problems is the problem of consciousness.or
The best and shortest road towards knowledge of truth is Nature.or
True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awaking of consciousness which goes through successive stages.or
All is within yourself. Know your most inward self and look for what corresponds with it in nature.or
Man, know yourself... and you shalt know the gods.
Just to come back to modern days I'd like to point out that this ideas have also very much concerned the best and most ingenious scientists we still recognize today, so here's some of their thoughts:
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
Max Planck
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein
Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.
Albert Hofmann
And now the question is, why don't we teach this at school, and why almost no research and funds are being invested into these aspects of the findings of our greatest scientists? Why are we only analyzing the physical and mathematical parts and do not even try to progress on this other path? And here we have to take into consideration the fact, that these observations are the ultimative results of the entire professional life of these gentlemen, which should lead to the conclusion that we're copying with the peak of their findings and not some quite negligible by-products.