Early humans
"You are so used to thinking in terms of mechanics, that it seems to you
that uneducated people did not understand the connection between the sexual act
of intercourse and childbirth. You are so used to one kind of explanation for
childbirth, so familiar with one specific framework, that alternate explanations
appear to be the height of nonsense. So it is fashionable to believe that early
humans did not understand the connection between intercourse and birth....
"It is the height of idiocy to imagine that because of the time taken in
pregnancy, the female could not understand the child’s origin in intercourse.
The body’s knowledge did not need a complicated language. For that matter, your
literal interpretation of childbirth is by some standards a highly limited one.
In your terms, it is technically correct....
"For that matter, there is far greater leeway in the behavior of animals
than you understand, for you interpret animal behavior according to your own
beliefs. You interpret the past history of your species in the same manner. It
seems to you that the female always tended to the offspring, for example,
nursing them, that she was forced to remain close to home while the male fought
off enemies or hunted for food. The ranging male, therefore, appears to have
been much more curious and aggressive. There was instead a different kind of
situation. Children do not come in litters. The family of the cave people was a
far more “democratic” group than you suppose — men and women working side by
side, children learning to hunt with both parents, women stopping to nurse a
child along the way, the species standing apart from others because it was not
ritualized in sexual behavior."
—Seth/Jane Roberts, The Nature of the Psyche, Chapter 4: Session 765, February 2, 1976
I think, per Seth, when humans embarked on this "experiment," then stupid
things such as the division of labor by gender arose:
“An exterior separation had to occur for a while, in which consciousness
forgot, egotistically speaking, that it was a part of nature, and pretended to
be apart. It was known, however, that this procedure would only go so far...
Then the true flowering of humanity’s consciousness could begin.”
--Seth/Jane Roberts, The
“Unknown” Reality,
I, Session 687
I think, by now, we have taken it to its planet-destroying limit.
The Venus of Willendorf is an 11.1-centimetre-tall (4.4 in) Venus figurine estimated to have been made around 25,000 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf
Lion man takes pride of place as oldest statue; 30,000-year-old carving might be work of Neanderthals or modern humans.
https://www.nature.com/articles/news030901-6
The
oldest known ancient art is a set of zigzags carved on a mussel shell found in
Trinil,
Indonesia, which dates to some 540,000 years ago and is interpreted as the work
of Homo
erectus.
A 73,000-year-old hashtag-like mark appears to be a doodle
made by
early H.
sapiens in
the Blombos cave in South Africa. And a set of 65,000-year-old ochre sketches in the Cueva de los
Aviones in
southeastern Spain were possibly crafted by Neanderthals.
"There
were fully developed humans— that is, of full intellect, emotion, and will —
living at the same time, in your terms, as those creatures supposed to be
humankind’s evolutionary ancestors."
—Seth/Jane Roberts, The “Unknown” Reality, II Appendix 12: (For Session 705)
Seth maintains the earth is far older than we think, that there were
previous, technological civilizations on earth completely lost to us:
"I said that your conventional geological ages were faulty, along with your
theories of the age of the earth, for it is far older than is supposed.
Obviously it has changed geographically—that you know. There were vast
civilizations, however, where now there is only the endless expanse of the ocean
waves, and ruins that most likely will never be discovered, for they are
obliterated in the very life of the planet itself."
—Seth/Jane Roberts, The Personal Sessions, Vol 4, Deleted Session November 14, 1977
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