Archaic Revival

There is this super dumb modern idea that in the ancient past of Earth's history, people started out very advanced with great true spiritual knowledge, and then this devolved and digressed into our modern stupid religions.

The notion is called 'archaic revival' and is responsible for people sitting around in sweat lodges smoking dope and feeling they are getting back to basics. The notion began in France in 18th century philosophy like that of Rousseau and his notion of the noble savage. The idea became even more wide-spread in the 19th century, and by the time of the Macey Conferences after WWII this was the standard line being marketed to the public, a cultural relativism, or even a superiority given to primitive people who were 'in touch with nature.'

All this is BS. Ancient religion still exists. A paradigm example is West African Vodun.

Primitive religion is marked by primitive conceptualization skills, as opposed to higher order abstract ideas. The developed great religions (in their mature form as understood by theologians) are subtle and complex. The include issues of epistemology, ontology, and teleology. Primitive religions think in terms of reifying ideas into actual spirits. Their gaze is toward the external, vivifying things in nature. Baba said that nature is God's fart. That is true. Look it up. You are buying a lot of horse doodoo. You are being lied to.

Now religions do digress and decay, into primitive thinking, not at all unlike voodoo. That is why they must be renewed from time to time by some figure or event, and revitalized. Baba talked about that. But their voodoo state is not their high state, as we have been told.

Taking drugs is sold to the public largely under the lie that it is part of 'close to nature' 'natural religions.'

Real religions always teach sobriety and restraint, never doping the mind into dullness.
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Now here's what Baba taught. It's quite the opposite of the archaic revival myth. Baba says that the first humans were cannibals. (See Early Messages to the West, p. 178) It is likely there was some religious meaning to this zombie behavior.

Next, when men got tired of eating others for religious purposes, they began sacrificing virgins -- into volcanoes, into lakes, wherever.

That was when the 'natural religions' who were 'in touch with nature' weren't cutting the hearts out of living people and sliding them down chutes.

Human sacrifice in Mesoamerica

What about the ancient Indus Valley religion. They wrote a lot about their drug 'soma.' What did Baba say about them? He called them "drug addicts."

Now, in India . . . since ages, there are those who have been used to drugs, they are drug addicts. They are the ones who take ganja [sanskrit word for marijuana]. (No Plane for Zagreb, 1967)

So much for the early Indo-European religion.

At some point, Abraham came along and told the people to cut it out with sacrificing virgins and kill an animal instead. It makes the real god just as happy we learned. This of course is buried in a fable. So from then on the religions sacrificed bulls and lambs. Sad, but it was better than people.

Anyway, maybe 3 or 4 thousand years ago, Zoroaster came along and told people about good and bad, and it was better to be good. 'Natural' religions didn't know about good and bad. No. Really! They actually didn't!!!

Buddha gave some of the earliest techniques for liberation, and even much of the science of our binding too. This was abstract and subtle. Not as fun as smoking pot and sacrificing virgins.

About the time Jesus came, most religions (Greeks and Jews, Hindus too in far away India) still sacrificed animals to appease gods or 'the god.' This had been Abraham's legacy, remember. Well Jesus, knowing people can't give up old habits all at once, suggested 'he' be the lamb, and he'd be the sacrifice that keeps on giving. And all you have to do is eat a bit of bread and drink some wine. This new 'sacrifice' was a giant improvement. And the bulls and sheep were very appreciative.

Finally Mohammad came, and seeing that everyone seemed to worship just about anything external except God, he said God was the only one worth worshiping, which in fact Zoroaster had said at the very beginning. Mohammad was very against superstition, and for a while there were great developments in science, medicine, statecraft, and philosophy due to these emancipated people.

But all things wither right before a new advent. And hence many religions are today hardly distinguishable from voodoo. But that does not make voodoo the aim, like the archaic revivalists and relativists tell us. It means we must again have a revitalization, and we must go on with our ascent.

The path is not to return to worshiping nature and getting high. It's not to turn on, contemplate your navel, and drop out. That's what the CIA wanted you to do so that you would be ineffectual. 'Nature religion' is a lie. Nothing like it ever existed. Nature is harsh and brutal. That's why even dogs can't wait to return from their walks, so they can sleep in the air conditioning on the couch.

So in Baba's account it is quite different than the public trend in weaponized anthropology of the elite, trying to dumb you down and turn you into a savage. From Baba's perspective, the Avatars come and take man out of darkness and point him to the light, and lead him from the jungle, and slowly help him to tame his brutal instincts, and helps him to sober his mind from drug contamination. And it is the Avatars that lead us from primitive 'outward' looking toward physical environment, and turn to the much for subtle internal within ourselves. And he brings very abstract and fine ideas, slowly and in stages, and more than ever in this advent.

There is nothing wrong with nature, and it is good to eat trendy and expensive health-food store food. However, only God is worthy of worship. Not nature. Not invented 'gods.' Not money. Not our stomachs. Not our vulgar desires.



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