Month: September 2020

“So let us stop talkin’ falsely now, the hour’s getting late”  –Bob

There will always be those few people who look beyond the superficiality of everyday life in search of a deeper meaning. They instinctively know that there is a reason and purpose to existence, but at the same time realize that such deeper meaning does not yield itself up to mere cursory consideration.

To obtain a measure of this deeper understanding of existence is to attain wisdom. Continue reading 5. “On things dug up from the Earth”

“So let us stop talkin’ falsely now, the hour’s getting late”  –Bob

Is it time to rethink prehistory?

This is the question I raised at the conclusion of my last post. I can say that the answer to that question is an unequivocal yes.

I would even go so far as to say that understanding of our own human past on this planet is only in its infancy. I have referred to the veil that separates this world age, the age of the ‘whole recent’ that is, the Holocene Epoch, from that which came before, a world dramatically different from the one in which human culture ostensibly rose from a primitive, nomadic, hunter-gatherer existence to the pinnacle of the global civilization upon whose threshold we are now poised. Continue reading 4. RETHINKING PREHISTORY