The Birth of Religion - Part 6
by Seeker
Now all of the above doesn’t really have much to do with the title of these posts. Religious thought gestated in the darkness of the hidden past of mankind; we know little about the time before Man started to record his life and thoughts, but when s/he did get around to it, spirituality was there.
How do we know? Well the first records we have of Man aren’t books or words at all. Cave paintings have been found across the planet, showing all manner of diagrams, animals and strange part human/part animal images that seem to have little basis in reality.
The orthodox view of the paintings is they started very simple a long time back and got more sophisticated as the artists became more ‘modern’ and sophisticated. This fits nicely with the extant view around the world that we live in the highest (read smartest) civilization that ever was, that with all our problems, we have come far beyond anything our ancestors could achieve.
Unfortunately for that view, science says it’s wrong. Some of the most artistically sophisticated images are from right at the dawn of time as far as Humanity is concerned – more than 40,000 years ago, men and women, just like you and I, sat in the dampness and coolth of the caves and painted down their thoughts or memories.
Graham Hancock has a book worth reading about this subject – Supernatural is a book about his journey to find out just what our spiritual sense, our wonderment of things beyond our mundane lives, is about and from whence it came. He has some very interesting things for anyone interested in spirituality to think about.
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