Spirit Stones

Through Darwinism, we were taught that intelligence, along with its attendant appreciation of the aesthetic and the divine, evolves over time ~ the subtext of which is that our earliest ancestors must have been grunting, monosyllabic cave men and we ourselves the pinnacle of cognitive achievement. However, it cannot escape notice that human beings, hundreds of thousands of years ago, managed to live sustainably on the Earth and pass on to us a pristine, lush and fertile environment in which to thrive. This is something we haven't yet managed to achieve for our grandchildren's grandchildren.

We now realise that not only did our ancestors exist at a much earlier time than we originally thought, but also that they were extremely intelligent and in touch with a greater and deeper spiritual reality than the limited viewpoint that we are left with today.

There is evidence that the ancients were living in organised communities and making fire and tools for hundreds of thousands of years before they was supposed to have been - according to the established orthodox viewpoint which dictates consensual reality. And it is inconceivable that they didn't sail the oceans, given the easily discernible breadcrumb trails of archaeological artifacts, cave paintings, temples aligned with the stars, musical instruments, songlines and leylines, genes, myths, languages and spiritual and ritual burial practices across the Earth. However,

"Because we have separated humanity from nature, subject from object, values from analysis, knowledge from myth, and universities from the universe, it is enormously difficult for anyone but a poet or a mystic to understand what is going on in the holistic and mythopoetic thought of Ice Age humanity. The very language we use to discuss the past speaks of tools, hunters, and men, when every statue and painting we discover cries out to us that this Ice Age humanity was a culture of art, the love of animals, and women." The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, by William Irwin Thompson

My thanks to Ishtar.