02.16.11
South India, ‘out of Africa’ tracks, and religion
It is not clear why the Indian religious tradition has been able to maintain itself from almost primordial eras, in the Neolithic and before. In the West the coming of monotheism is a very late development, and more a form of ideology than religion.
The traditions of meditation and self-transformation were suppressed in the totalitarian systems that developed from the (Axial Age) starting point.
I have often wondered if the tradition of consciousness doesn’t go back to the dawin of man as man, and India, especially in the South, has ancient roots in the great migrations of first men in the ‘out of africa’ scenario. That could be speculative, but South India is relatively close via the coastal route, and humanity seems to have parked its primordial religious templates in that zone (the myth of the Aryan creation of yoga millennia later is a ridiculous distortion), as those spread across the planet in further travels were soon reduced to the robotic consciousness that dominates most cultures.
The Gurdjieff Con » Out of Africa, and Indian religion said,
February 17, 2011 at 12:10 pm
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dandy said,
March 20, 2011 at 8:56 am
Where across the planet does this robotic consciousness not reside?