Spirituality Guide

By Seeker

It would seem, if we seek the media and not the messenger, Religion is about finding ourselves, not as mortal bodies in a physical world, but rather seeking the purpose behind who we are. If Graham Hancock sees any Truth, we were, in this chain of history, ‘awakened’ through trance. Somehow in Trance we found new knowledge, new paths and ways of expression that showed us a world beyond this one.

If we look at the physical evidence, the relics and monuments, we see that those who had (as far as we know) few of the technologies we now have, were able to at least equal and in all truth surpass projects of which we are not capable. If we look at the peoples of the past that are only now becoming known, we see people who venerated those who brought knowledge so highly they formed civilizations to provide for the needs of those they called Gods.

If we read our myths, we find stories so fantastic they are treated as legend, yet they seem to tell of the times when the civilizations that built the megalithic monuments, who hauled stones in the hundreds of tonnes across vast distances, and who mapped the world in accurate detail before we think there was a people capable of so doing, fell from their sophistication because of cataclysm.

Over and again the stories are of Flood and Deluge. In our knowledge of Science we now have a process by which these two events can occur and they attach directly to events we know to have happened. The evidence of the passing of the most recent Ice Age is all around us. Go to the shoreline of the sea and you will see such evidence. Ten thousand years ago you could have walked out miles further than you can do now – the sea has risen that much.

So, what is Religion? Well, what it is now for you depends on what your parents believed to be true. Very few people have the strength of mind to stand aside from what they were raised in to view Truth as it might be. But at its root, in the beginning, from all the evidence, Religion appears to have been meant as a means to preserve the knowledge of the Fall… and perhaps a forewarning of what is still to come.

By Seeker

So, what is religion? This can be broken down further – what is religion NOW and what did it begin as? In Supernatural, Graham Hancock looks into the hallucinatory drugs, how they work (from the inside rather than a chemical treatise on body effects) and why we find similar visions across the world using drugs like DMT or LSD to those painted on cave walls dating back to, as far as we can tell, the dawning of Consciousness.

There appears to be information and answers available in trance state. The ‘Sleeping Prophet,’ Edgar Cayce, would go into trance to find answers for petitioners to resolve problems ranging from illness to a life direction to follow. Shamans down the ages use trance to delve into a person and help their soul on its path through life or lives.

It goes further – Edison and other inventors deliberately pushed what is called the Hypnagogic state to find new ideas and come up with inventions. Societies around the world use various methods from drugs through dance and drums to chanting to find a path into trance. They are all firmly convinced that in trance they can find new information, new paths and ways to follow for the betterment of others.

Hancock is not saying drugs equal religion or god, he is suggesting they offered one path very early in our development to open up a facet of ourselves that we have been exploring ever since. The Indian experience, both recent and from the Vedic times, tells us that people can be happy, or at least content, with very little in the way of material things if they are actively pursuing a spiritual path in life.

Reading across the internet it is fairly easy to find references to the fall of Atlantis 12,000 years back – the tale is one of spiritual beings becoming enamoured of the flesh, finding overmuch attraction in the things of this world and seeking power for its own sake. The bible and other religious texts also talk of the Fall of Man. It can, on one level, be talking about the destruction of the ‘golden age’ of Man by consecutive cataclysms that wiped out civilization not just once, but possible 3 times within eight or nine thousand years, but it could also be talking about a more spiritual fall.

If Man was once focused on the life beyond this, on the pursuit of the development of an immortal Consciousness, and somehow we lost that focus and started to think the merely physical was all that mattered, maybe having such a view triggered by the disasters around us followed by the herculean efforts needed to regain survivability for the race, this could be a Fall from the heights.