Evolution The violent spirit to forge a civilization vol 1

(Rodrigo GrandaB_hQJo) #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.

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