A Journey of Remembrance (What Modern Life Has Made Us Forget)

Life on Earth is complex, today.

Life is busy.

Life is overly full.

Our ancestors lived in simpler ways.

Think about a time, very long ago, before they started building buildings like we have today. They would have lived in close relationship with the natural world. (That would have been the only option!) The natural world would have been their “floor,” their “ceiling,” and the “walls” around them.

Beyond their connection to the natural world, there are likely many more things we can assume about our ancestors who lived in such a time.

We can assume that they would have known exactly where their food came from, as they would have been directly involved in every stage of its path to their mouths. Or that they would have gone to bed with the sunset… and awoken with the sunrise, as there were no lights to turn on, to illuminate the night, or shades to draw down, to allow for morning snoozes amidst the sunshine.

Given how closely people would have lived together in a time like that, and how precarious survival would have been, people would likely have understood how much supporting and caring for each other was essential to human life.

Yes?

Surviving without that sense of mutual care and responsibility for each other would have been next-to-impossible, I imagine.

A time like that seems pretty far away, doesn’t it?

Here’s the thing, though.

We haven’t evolved that far beyond the humans of that time.

We are still much the same.

Yet, we’ve forgotten that.

The more we sink into our bodies, into our beings, the deeper we go into our selves, the more we will remember who we were — and thus who we are.

Let’s go deeper together.

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