Visiting the Angkor Wat exhibit at the Science & Nature Museum this week once again challenged my mind to see things in a different way.
The photo above is one I took of a harp. This was not the most amazing piece, just one I liked the look of, the elegant shape of the instrument.
Most of the stone carvings from this ancient city were done in sandstone, which is a soft stone, and yet they were not all eroded by water after centuries. That was fascinating to puzzle over.
Another aspect was that for centuries, people of several different religions all managed to live together in peace in this city. And they created water systems and agriculture that supported everyone.
One of the reasons that I find documentaries about ancient civilizations interesting is that we recognize amazing feats these people accomplished without all of our modern technology.
It is mysterious thinking about how Angkor Wat, Pyramids, Macchu Picchu, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon Newgrange, Stonehenge, Gobekli Tepe and other famous places from history were created.
Of course, many people have theories, such as ETs building all this. Who knows?
All over the world, ancient sites are coming to light because of droughts, earthquakes and other earth changes.
It is not just the engineering and architecture, it is also the sunken ships revealing the cargoes that those people traded, or where exactly, events occurred.
It is also the energies in a place, which manifests in the energies of the guardian spirits of those places.
As we consider these things, we realize that our ancestors knew things about our planet that we are now just realizing or discovering.
When we are trying to learn something new, or figure something out, we can Google it, get a book or watch a video about our quest.
Our ancient ancestors had to make greater use of their psychic and intuitive abilities to survive and thrive. Inventors always dream or have visions, then create solid matter. Given that they created things thousands of years ago that we still haven't figured out, their abilities were quite advanced.
And we all love a good mystery, don't we? Even those old cave paintings are now recognized as more of a communication method than we originally thought.
Another way that the phrase hidden in plain sight comes to life, isn't it?