Underworld: I don't love mysteries, but I love surprises of the unknown

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Opening this book, Underworld: The Human World Beneath Our Feet, the first sentence in the table of contents attracted me.

It is human nature to prefer hiding.

—Heraclitus

The opening words of the first chapter are also heartwarming.

There is another world in the world, but it does belong to this world.

--Paul Arya

I believe that many people love the underground world, and I am even more certain that when we were young, we all hid in some underground corner or a pit. Therefore, I think it is human nature to prefer hiding and to have curiosity and yearn for the unknown.

The book Underworld: A History of Humanity At Our Feet is a book full of curiosity and the unknown.

In explaining why many people like to go underground, the author even quotes Leonardo da Vinci — yes, the same Leonardo da Vinci you know who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

Leonardo da Vinci, who had been hiking in Tuscany, Italy, came across a hole as he slowly passed through several connected boulders. Standing in the shadow of the entrance, Leonardo da Vinci felt a cool breeze blow over his face, and he stared into the darkness and found himself in a dilemma. He later wrote: "I have two opposite emotions within me, one fear and the other desire, both fearful of this terrible dark cave and wanting to find out if there is anything amazing hidden in it." ”

The author himself describes why he has this desire in this way.

Notice the space beneath our feet and feel that the world is unfolding before our eyes. When we turn our minds to physical underground tunnels and caves, we adapt to the invisible forces that shape our real lives. Our connection to the underground opens a door for us to the mysterious areas of the human imagination. We go underground to see what has not yet been discovered, what is not visible in everyday life; we go underground in search of inspiration that can only be found in darkness.

We go deep underground in search of inspiration that can only be found in the darkness!!!!!!!

The real world makes us numb and habitual, our lives solidified, our minds solidified, our souls and aesthetics solidified.

In the dark, not only can we "see" another reality, we can make our senses sharper — yes, feelings.

Outside of the real world, there is indeed another world, which exists in both another reality and another reality that does not exist.

The book was a huge success in the United States, and its author published articles or pictures in the leading American journals The Economist, Nature, and Exploration, which you often read.

Just doing this is the equivalent of being recognized.

After the English version of the book was published, it was also recommended by many top media, such as the New York Times, National Radio, Forbes, Cox Review of Books, Toronto Star, etc., and it was on amazon's best-seller list.

I used to buy books without reading the list at all, but after reading this book, I sometimes feel that the recommendations of some authoritative media are also reliable, after all, they do not want to smash their own signboards.

Finally, this book is worth reading both from the point of view of opening your vision of reality and from the perspective of opening your spiritual horizons.

Ending with a passage from the author —

The underworld teaches us to respect secrets. We live in a world obsessed with light, and we illuminate every secret with floodlights, trying to reveal every gully and eradicate every trace of darkness, as if darkness were a pest. In our connection to underground space, we reduce our suspicion of the unknown and recognize that not all things need to be revealed. The underworld helps us accept the fact that things will always have flaws, there will always be blind spots. It reminds us that we are disordered, irrational creatures, susceptible to magical thoughts, fleeting dreams, and repeated losses, which are our greatest talents; it also reminds us,

Our ancestors have always known that there is eternal power and beauty in unspoken or unseen places.