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I am following your logic here.. and agree with you 100%. I also have had experiences where a "higher power" communicates with me - both in words and inner feelings. Like you, I tell very few people because none of what I experienced fits into a mold. The first thing other people want to do is classify it into some preassembled mold of an idea. I resist that because I only know the way I feel, and have no idea of your "revelation" was the same, similar or completely different. In most cases I sense others do not experience what I do. That's all I will say about that.In a related area of this discussion, I recently read a book entitled, "Before the Dawn" in which the author analyzes a lot of recently developed genetic data to reconstruct how and when our ancestorial Homo Sapiens populated the earth and how their genes changed in response to changing circumstances. He was able to trace the timeline when the first religious ceremonial artifacts have been discovered at archaeological sites and matched it to the time when individual tribes first started sharing genes with neighboring tribes. The conclusion he draws is that the ability for tribes to peaceably interact with one another (particularly trade) was a great benefit to humans struggling to survive. Early mankind was very much inclined towards warfare - rape, pillage, take slaves as prisoners, etc. The idea of tribes interacting without destroying each other requires a moral code, which is the essence of religion. The author argues that a predisposition or inclination toward religion must have become dominant as genes were passed on to successive generations as trade flourished and the concept of religion spread.A interesting sidebar of this discovery is that Homo sapiens have become less inclined towards war over the ages. While each century has seen more bloodshed in absolute numbers, each century has also seen a fewer percentage of men die from battle wounds. Evidence suggests that the introduction of religion has indeed made the world more peaceful - regardless of popular belief to the contrary.
I am following your logic here.. and agree with you 100%. I also have had experiences where a "higher power" communicates with me - both in words and inner feelings. Like you, I tell very few people because none of what I experienced fits into a mold. The first thing other people want to do is classify it into some preassembled mold of an idea. I resist that because I only know the way I feel, and have no idea of your "revelation" was the same, similar or completely different. In most cases I sense others do not experience what I do. That's all I will say about that.
In a related area of this discussion, I recently read a book entitled, "Before the Dawn" in which the author analyzes a lot of recently developed genetic data to reconstruct how and when our ancestorial Homo Sapiens populated the earth and how their genes changed in response to changing circumstances.
He was able to trace the timeline when the first religious ceremonial artifacts have been discovered at archaeological sites and matched it to the time when individual tribes first started sharing genes with neighboring tribes. The conclusion he draws is that the ability for tribes to peaceably interact with one another (particularly trade) was a great benefit to humans struggling to survive. Early mankind was very much inclined towards warfare - rape, pillage, take slaves as prisoners, etc. The idea of tribes interacting without destroying each other requires a moral code, which is the essence of religion. The author argues that a predisposition or inclination toward religion must have become dominant as genes were passed on to successive generations as trade flourished and the concept of religion spread.
A interesting sidebar of this discovery is that Homo sapiens have become less inclined towards war over the ages. While each century has seen more bloodshed in absolute numbers, each century has also seen a fewer percentage of men die from battle wounds. Evidence suggests that the introduction of religion has indeed made the world more peaceful - regardless of popular belief to the contrary.
