Above the entrance of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, where you could seek divinations from the Oracle already 600BC, visitors received a word of caution: ”Gnothi seauton”.
Know thyself.
Self-inquiry is not a new phenomenon. So how come we need reminding? What makes this practice so hard?
Why is it even important?
The Greeks knew that you had to know yourself in order to make sense of the world around you. In the Delphic Temple, you were warned that without a solid self-awareness, you could easily misread the divinations of the priestess and fail in your endeavors.
This space is my personal continuation of that call from Apollo and the Greek gods. I will make it into an art project and let the exploration of the concept of self-inquiry lead me into the universe of ideas and practices around self-inquiry. What it is and why we should care. It will be a journey with multiple discoveries, old and new. The purpose is the process. I will trust it and let it bring me along.
Anna Thurdin Hedblad, founder Paxsum AB