The real sages do not collaborate, they know

Here is my latest comment on Huffington post in response to Alison Rose Levy's article Sages and Scientists 2011 with Deepak Chopra regarding some questions related to ultimate reality. It is a bit revised.

As Einstein would've said, 'You need a higher level of consciousn­ess to answer the question or questions which you have encountere­d at the lower level of consciousn­ess.' Deepak's sages and scientists cannot answer these questions (about ultimate reality etc) at their present level of consciousness. They may collaborat­e all their theories still they cannot have the vision of the complete elephant going by your Indian story.

The shift in consciousn­ess to the higher or highest level will first occur in a single person (all paradigm­-shifting experience­s of consciousness first occur in a single person) and only then if he happens to look at these questions from there will he be able to answer them, or have the vision of the complete elephant going by your argument.

It is an other matter though that then such a person will face the problem of conveying his vision to people including these sages and scientists if he happens to write about it. Only time will bring people to really appreciate his work when the general consciousn­ess of the whole age would have evolved to the required higher level.

Not for nothing most geniuses are recognized only when they are long gone.