Distinctions: your access to the mysteries of the universe
Distinctions are like a hole punched into a yet solid wall. When you look through the hole, you see stuff that you could not see before. You may have seen it from the side, you may have seen it from above, from below, but that certain angle gives you a view that goes deep into the mysteries of the Universe.
Every major discovery, every major “invention” started from a distinction. The distinction may have come from a book, from someone else, but the looking, the going deep came from the person.
Lots of discoveries you learned in science classes came through distinctions from The Zohar.
The Zohar is a book documenting a group of friends of Simeon bar Yochai conversing about life, how it all works.
It is the end result of an oral tradition.
People in olden days saw more than we do. Definitely.
There have been a few generations of humanity before ours, and if there remained an orally inclined person who was aware, like Noah, then we have glimpses of knowledge that belonged to the generation before ours.