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The constant and methodical observation of nature allowed, the ancient cultures of America, to acquire the wisdom necessary to understand that we are part of the intertwinement of life, in cycles of expansion and contraction, based on the principle of complementariness to assume what belongs to every being in the world as something incomplete that needs to be united to make up a whole. This deep knowledge is expressed in the sacredness and poetry of the facts of daily life, and in considering people not as individuals, but as members of a community. The apparent simplicity of a weave manages to explain the complex relation between society and nature and permits to understand history in its spatial—temporary relation, considering the past as the future, in the sense that it goes ahead and shows the way. The complementary thread intertwinement, starts from a similar basic structure for each space and each time, crossed by the diversity of threads that engage in a dialog with each other and reproduce the world’s happenings. In this manner, it is possible to observe how the human community has become or if it has become a cyclical spiral of continuous repetitions. The knowledge in the ancient cultures of America is based on three principles that are reciprocally complemented: emotion, intuition and reason, just as the human body is structured in three great centers: the navel, the heart and the head and how the world is structured in its vertical sense. “...emotion without intuition is impulse without encounter; intuition without reason is knowledge without an anchor; but reason without emotion is cold and generally vain knowledge”2. The inheritance of The Enlightenment, based on reason, has lead society to not being sure of its survival and to having knowledge against ourselves, requiring intuition and emotion to give art its leading role back in society.
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