"Paleo" is hot right now. There are magazines, websites, blogs and expensive conferences. The majority of these are concerned with two things: Diet and Exercise. Six-pack bellies and tasty food menus are everywhere. But there's more to learn from our ancestors in the distant past, hence this blog.
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If we call natural world "The Biosphere", then our world of machinery and money is "The Technosphere". The latter lives off the former, and rarely gives anything back to it. And, it's this obsession we have with the Technosphere that is dangerous. It literally puts us into a trance state. Money creates machines creates money creates machines while our living habitat deteriorates.
Do you know who you are?
Primitive people, defined by us as not having technology or money, nonetheless have much to teach, and one way is by
Ritual. We've all seen tribal rituals with dancing, drumming and body painting, and some may regard these activities as quaint but pointless--essentially meaningless superstition. But we have our own defining rituals even though we may not consciously accept them as such.
Do you recognize this as a portable shrine?
A tribesman conferring with ancestors through ritual is reinforcing a connection with the Universe, via Time, Space and Life. But we, by getting up each morning and turning on electronic devices, basically in worship of them, and then downing a sacrament of hot coffee to go out into the Technosphere to hunt wild Money, is no less a ritual, because it too
effectively defines who we are.
But we can create new rituals to define ourselves, or, we may borrow older ones.
More on this topic soon...
