
Cliffs, caves, caverns and cathedrals. That sort of sums it up … religion, I mean, along with thousands of variants of spiritual teachings. It’s not that the teachings are wrong or unreal, none of that.
It has to do mostly with the control of mobs. “The Public” is actually a mob, but one which is typically not driven by a single focus or idea, such as “revenge” or “fury”.
Back in cave-man days, how you controlled the mob was with a king and a shaman, or a shaman-king, someone to get the attention and help of a variety of gods, goddesses and assorted deities.
But how…??? Continue reading