Many ancient cultures spoke of the universe  being an  enclosed unit  with lower , middle, and upper planetary systems within a “shell ” , this indicates that the original cosmological knowledge of the Vedas , in former times was  widely distributed and worldwide cultures were influenced by it due to the distribution of it . This was done by ancient trade routes as well as wondering  mendicants as well as exiled kings forming new kingdoms .

Outside of a universal shell , within which the upper , middle , and lower planetary systems were situated ,  cultures aligned with Vedic cosmology  understood was a place where  Divinity and His  super subjective planes existed , with all the splendour of  its  spiritual varigatedness , unaffected by time or any physical laws .

The Greeks and later the Arabic cultures as well as a  Vedic culture and other cultures from the South Americas all held this  similar understandings , thus  cultures were intertwined and evidence for  a much earlier concept of a global world can be thought of .

When the Roman empire  conquered most of  Europe, having  taken in previously within their own cultures some aspects of Christianity,   blind unscientific religious fanaticism began to develop , some or most of the traditional Vedic ways  of understanding our universe , along with a  greater scientific approach  to consciousness in general came to  decline , as unscientific fanatical religious doctrine was forced by use of militant might onto the public . Later , when the  Roman empire came to an end , Christians predominanted and scientific thinking outside the bible came to a complete halt .  But the old Arabic and Greek texts were still available, and  the  Mogal empires preserved  some of this  thinking of our universal structures .which was essentially theological in nature . In India, of course, this Vedic cosmological remained in tact .

The Renaissance period gave a rebirth to science and shunned religious fanatical 7 a  rethinking of  the universe was formed  .Modern geometric systems and euclidean math was the new way of looking at life , so much so , that God was pushed out the picture, and so was dualism , the mind and body as a seperate unit .  The mechanistic Darwinian world had begun, scientific materialism, that used  math and mechanistic thinking  , placed our stars millions of miles away,  and a concept of an infinite space,  with no God outside of a universal shell was developed and taught in educational systems. If there were a God ,  some thought,  it’s  probably an impersonal energy . The idea of a separate mind to matter was written off  because the mind could not be measured , and math could not be applied .

Measurements of the distance of planets in a multidimensional space,  as spoken about by Lisa Randall the Harvard Prof,  may not be so easy to calculate ,   the laws of physics are said in the Vedas to operate differently in different parts of the universe, so what  is far is near ,what is near is far in a multidimensional universe.

The ancient culture and sciences should not be hastily discarded and rubbished , or  replaced by scientific materialism , which in itself is dogma , it cannot even account for a mind , but rather believe  it to  only be simple neurons firing in a mechanistic mathematical brain , these events all supposedly happening by chance in a chance universe . This mechanistic veiw could be said to be  ludicrously absurd , and discards the notion of the  intelligence and obvious design in just about everything we see ,  as well it ignores the perfect math in nature , where there is perfect mathematics you can bet your bottom dollar there is a perfect mathematician behind it .