What is Religion? (Part Four)
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.
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