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.