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#FamilyIsEverything. APL = 9.747/10 *Authorized conspiracy theorist *Not an authorized preacher.
I would say this has been known since at least the writings of the Upanishads in the East, or the Allegory of the Cave in the West.
I consider those to be recent iterations of much older understandings.