"It has been 3,000 years since my brothers last came here, 3,000 years since we've seen this." So what happened 3,000 years ago and how did we get here, where we stand mouths agape waiting for the feast of fire to fall upon us and cleanse our tongues of deceit?
History tells us that David, follower of El/Yahweh, entered Jerusalem and set up the first Kingdom of Israel in 1009 BCE. At the same time the High Priests of Amun, a politically ambitious cult, rose once again to primacy in Egypt following the death of Akhenaten.
El the Canaanite god of gods, and Yahweh a desert war god from Edom, were conflated to make one, god the father caring for his children/his chosen, and simultaneously an angry, jealous god of wrath and war. Yahweh appears to suffer from alter ego.
Similarly, Amun has a second nature. He is merged with Ra the sun god, to increase his power and influence. Amun is also known as Amun-Ra, "the hidden aspect of the sun."
The seeds of duality appear to sprout here. Western society as we know it, over 25+ centuries, grew from these roots.
Julian Jaynes posits a theory that modern consciousness developed in the human mind quite recently. You can see it truly taking over around this time, and going forward from here. In the period prior he states that humans possessed something he calls the bicameral mind.
The term bicameral refers to a state where the mind was split into two segments, one side giving orders and the other side following them, with no introspection or self-reference. The voice giving orders was assumed to be the voice of god, and man followed the commands of this voice without questioning.
The falling away of this bicameral mind gave rise to oracles, high priests, and prophets. Men turned to them as a coping mechanism. No longer able to hear the voice of god they relied on those who still could for direction.
This is a highly simplified version of a complex and controversial hypothesis. I don't personally subscribe to it for a variety of reasons, but I do believe Jaynes stumbled upon something.
What if rather than the fall of the bicameral mind giving rise to men looking outside of themselves for the voice of god, looking outward for god was enforced upon them by men in positions of power?
I put this in the context of David and the High Priests of Amun, because they both embrace duality, religious violence, and in the case of the cult of Amun excessive duplicity for political expedience. This must filter down through society and leave a stain.
Eastern forms of religion, in the main, still understand that god is found within. God is in everything, and everything is in god. God is energy. Their society grew from different roots than our own.
Muslims claim to be an "Eastern" religion, but their beliefs also grew from the seeds of Abraham, and their faith follows the same pattern.
Consider the power one has when they demand a society look outward, rather an inward, for the presence of god, when they look outward to see not only who they are, but who they should be.
What does this have to do with an old indigenous spirit guide? Absolutely nothing, but it has everything to do with us, our duplicity, and the blindness in our third eye.
For 3,000 years now we have been relying upon other men to tell us about the nature of god, while those same men have murdered, raped and pillaged over the earth.
Why do we believe we can trust them more than we trust ourselves?
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