@benteh I should hope so!
"Jesus said, 'Let one who seeks not stop seeking until that person finds; and upon finding, the person will be disturbed; and being disturbed, will be astounded; and will reign over the entirety.'" -- The Gospel of Thomas, saying 2.
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/thomas/gospelthomas2.html
@tkk13909 @benteh it is what it is. The past moulds what we are today, does not matter if you erase it from memory -- this will only affect how it will manifest again. It's true for individuals as well as societies.
To gain knowledge on ourselves we need to learn to be agnostic about it and inspect our nature in the 3rd person.