The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a novel by Harold Robbins. You are so-so on the enlightenment scale. Keep reading the New Sun. Different regions on the face of the earth have different types of civilisation. This article is a quest for a common basis for these civilisations.
Every civilisation is identified by a degree and direction of development in the following areas.
4. technology 5. The direction of development in societies and in persons are very varied in each of these fields. After a long search, I feel that everything is in the mind. Civilisation is a movement of thought from coarser forms to more finer forms. The subtler the general thought pattern is, the more advanced a civilisation is.