Evolution The violent spirit to forge a civilization vol 1

listened to birdsong and identified different beasts not only by their

size, discovered the types of fur and antlers that served as weapons,

and later began to use tools. This hominid began to dream, and in the

process of dreaming he found the emotions that led him to manifest

the stuff of dreams. Little is known about the ecstasy that

psychoactive substances provoked in him, or if this natural state of

"ascetic practices" originated in the brain functions, the quality of

making irrational and emotional aspects emerge. Perhaps his first

ingestion of a psychoactive plant triggered reflection and the exercise

of thought (^) [ 3 ].

Perhaps by watching the fading, the lack of breathing or the

lack of sounds and movements of his prey, his adversaries or

members of his community, he began to have the sensation of internal

stimuli. By externalizing these emotions it could be that these

reactions would be the basis of a shaman's experience. Distinguishing

that a living form is entering another world led him to the basis of the

reflection of a spiritual world or a reality parallel to the ordinary one.

The idea of the indissoluble relationship that exists for Homo sapiens

between altered states of consciousness (which he achieved through

intoxication with plants) and the natural state of sleep has no name for

lack of a structured language, he knows and knows the plant but not

the formula of the substance.

Without a manuscript of historical approach, shamanism and/or

animism is a complicated subject for our time to understand and

resolve the meaning it had for primitive individuals. How does the

hominid who knows the handling of plants help them to cope with

adversity and daily tragedy, what gives them hope that things will get

better, the shaman can get inside people and mobilize their emotions;

their joy, their anger; probably their sense of justice and goodness is

born with these first spiritual consultations.