tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post564224432631139155..comments2024-03-18T04:55:23.399-04:00Comments on Terrierman's Daily Dose: Cheese, Choke Chains, and the ChurchPBurnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781540805883519064noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-31157636187809308222016-06-03T07:33:18.394-04:002016-06-03T07:33:18.394-04:00Interesting riff, Patrick. My reading into human e...Interesting riff, Patrick. My reading into human evolution indicates that our peculiar genius and many of its entrenched problems arose with our species' emergence 200,000 years ago. Principally ego and attendant ills, but of course also our cleverness and attainment fueled by ego too.<br /><br />There's some simian stuff very deep. But far outweighed by the 6-8 million years of our bridge species, hominins, more human than ape. Very little is known about them. My study indicates they are the source of what Jung called the collective unconscious. They were the opposite of egoistic or vain, real group-mind beings. When one died, there may have been no grief because they lacked much individual separation.<br /><br />They are not gone, but part of us. Probably our old mind in contrast to our new homo sapiens mind. Many ramifications. In my view religion arose to nurture and really worship the mystery of our better qualities—thirst for justice,in particular—and to foster community. We are inherently spiritual in that sense. What is this force within us for goodness?<br /><br />I understand your focus here on our faults. But to me the enduring news is, on balance, how good humans are. This is the mystery religion has tried to explain through myth and poetry. Richard Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02295157685034187345noreply@blogger.com