>>4097144Not a new theory. There's that whole thing about the religious part of the brain that lights up in religious fervour, which can be artificially induced to light up with LSD or that mushroom.
However what's more interesting to me is an archaeological site in Anatolia where a discovery was made that is, archaeologically speaking, earth shattering.
It was unearthed ages ago but it's only relatively recent revelations upon further study that are of interest.
I paraphrase but it goes something like this: it's a megalithic structure dating from the 11th Millennium BC, comprising of some high stone blocks with carved animals arranged together in a chamber. Problem is this structure pre-dates metallurgy, writing, pottery, farming, the domestication of the wolf etc., because the only humans around at this time everywhere are known to have been primitive semi nomadic hunter gatherers who had only just begun living in very primivite settlements which they only lived in part for of the year.
And yet these "primitive peoples" took the extreme effort of hauling these hundreds of tonnes of rock from a nearby quarry and with shitty tools created this structure which can be nothing else but some kind of religious site.
Why this is interesting is that it challenges the accepted notion that man only developed complex religion (involving temples such as this) waaaaay later, and only when he'd moved out of the huntergatherer stage and erected more complex and permanent settlements, developed farming and all that stuff that makes up civilisation. This was the case in basically every instance known to archaeology. And yet here was a place, dated before all those known instances, where a group of people barely out of the trees came together to create, with great pains, a religious center *before* tending to those things archeologists had deemed prerequisite to complex religion. Basically, the drive to worship predated civilisation itself.
Hence
>>4097376Is not surprising
