I dont know if ancient eastern civilization is more advanced than what we think it is. May be it was. But to discuss about that is actualy missing the point. May be for sociological reasons or since the western civilization is dominant in the culture in the world that we live in there might be people like you who need to justify the advanced civilization that "we once had." We may have great intellectual culture but hindsight is no justification. But I am simply uninterested in such reasoning. Frankly I dont even really care which civilization is superior. Thats the job of a historian, not mine and it really doesnt matter to me.To claim that everything was known in the past and we are just discovering what our ancestors have know millions of years ago is just preposterous. The sad thing about all this is that the claim you make are not even your original thoughts or what you claim "research". I am convinced that you dont even have any knowledge of your own theology. I just decided to google some of your writings in the post and it comes out of a singular propagandist website known as Hindu wisdom. To those who want to know more about such simpleton "wisdom" about the nature of reality, I will cite the solitary source of our "great" religious scholar: http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Glimpses_XIX.htm I have reasons to believe that some of eastern civilization had great intellectual independence but what is a threat to civilization in general is the irrational tendencies that has beset people like yourself which has a danger of permeating through the whole of humanity. May the Vedic god save you from these idiots. Best Regards, PaulMaurice