Tadany Um refúgio para a alma e um convite à consciência.
By Acharya Tadany Cargnin dos Santos
Published in Diário de Santa Maria, February 12, 2026
We Are Living Through an Unprecedented Revolution
Never in the history of humanity has knowledge been so accessible. What once required years of study, long journeys, and immense effort is now just a few clicks away. We live in an era where information circulates faster than thought itself.
For instance, although the planet Earth is but a tiny speck in a vast universe, until recently, it still felt giant. Today, however, this world shrinks every day; we have fighter jets exceeding Mach 2, bullet trains surpassing 400km/h, instant audiovisual communication, and space research revealing distances never before imaginable.
Increasingly Intelligent Machines
Technology has not only accelerated communication; it has primarily accelerated our access to external intelligence. Artificial Intelligence is already capable of absorbing, organizing, and cross-referencing massive volumes of knowledge in seconds. Meanwhile, Generative AI does more than just store information, it creates, synthesizes, and presents ideas in a way surprisingly similar to human reasoning.
At the same time, quantum computing is beginning to open paths previously thought impossible. Problems that would take traditional computers thousands of years to solve can now be settled in a short span of time. In other words, technology has begun to operate at levels that defy our common logic.
The Great Paradox of Our Era
In the face of all this, an inevitable question arises: if we have managed to accelerate everything outside of us, why do we remain internally so slow?
Despite all the technological advancement, the human being remains trapped in the same conflicts, fears, insecurities, and sufferings of centuries ago. We still believe that maturity, wisdom, and emotional balance only arrive after much pain and repetition.
But why? Why don’t we educate the human mind with the same efficiency with which we train machines?
Information is Not Wisdom
Here is a fundamental point. Having access to information does not mean having consciousness or spiritual maturity. Artificial Intelligence can simulate intelligence, but it does not develop inner wisdom. Quantum computers can calculate infinite possibilities, but they do not choose values, nor do they discern what is right, true, or essential.
Only the human being can understand the knowledge that liberates, just as only we can unite technology with ethics, and speed with responsibility.
The Next Step of Evolution
I believe the true evolutionary leap for humanity will not be technological; it will be internal. It involves the development of inner skills such as attention, discernment, silence, peace, love, self-knowledge, and responsibility.
Without this, we run the risk of creating increasingly sophisticated machines while the human beings behind them become increasingly confused, anxious, and disconnected from themselves.
The Final Frontier
The acceleration of tools has already happened. The acceleration of intelligence is underway. But the acceleration of wisdom remains the greatest challenge of our time.
The future of humanity will not be decided by how much machines evolve, but by how much we evolve, by learning to use them with consciousness, balance, and humanity, while becoming wiser, freer, and more generous.
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