was reached during the classical period. It covered more than a thousand years of impressive humanist progress in the Anahuac. All “Mother” world civilizations sought in the apogee of their development the spiritual significance of the existence. Ancient Mexicans were not the exception. Their knowledge of the human spirit, of the world conception as energy fields, of the micro—cosmos and macro—cosmos relationship and of the responsibility of “humanizing and balancing” interaction between nature and cosmos, is striking and astonishing.
These one thousand splendor years are fundamental to explain what "Mexicans" or rather anahuacas, are today. We need to deeply know by ourselves, this luminous period. Make our own conjectures with our own values; leave behind the vision of the foreign colonizer.
Middle ages Europeans sought inspiration in their past to build a bridge to take them out of the dark ages. The question is, why we cannot, likewise look for a past source of inspiration from the values, principles and attitudes created by our old grandparents, to reach the evolution and cultural development zenith. And with these values design and build the future. An “own future”.
Currently we do not know the outreach of their energy and spiritual achievements, but the truth is that the ruinous material vestiges of their development leave us breathless and exalt our spirit. While visiting Teotihuacan, for example, we can’t help thinking about their intangible achievements, while facing their impressive matter handling. If their knowledge pyramid was aimed at attaining spiritual consciousness and its significance, when we reflect with an uncolonized mind at the top of the Sun pyramid, we must think about the scope and achievements that they must have had on the intangible level of knowledge, especially in the field of energy.
When the conception of our old grandparents is decolonized, despite denial and destruction of their knowledge, we shall understand that they remain alive in our hearts. That the Anahuac civilization is not
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