This question is, of course rhetorical. That is, it is stated for an effect. The answer is obvious, and it is the obvious that the question is intended to emphasize. Was Man without God, or a Creator for the many thousands of years before Man found religion? The answer is no, but then what external, or physical evidence do we have that Man had a relationship with a Creator prior to the invention of the first religion?
The problem Man has is an essential problem built-into the Creation itself. That is, if you identify yourself as a human being, the fact that you can use your intellect to make this identity is part of the problem each of us has being human. As long as you and I confine ourselves to use of our brain and thinking, we prevent ourselves from discovering the very thing we seek. What do we seek? An answer to who and what we are, and why we exist?
My point is this. Name me a philosopher who provided Man with answers to the who, what, and why of Man.... in any definitive way? There is a built-in problem that most people fail to recognize in the discovery of who, what, and why Man is what Man is. How often have you read some intellectual state that it is not possible to discover who and what Man is by use of the intellect? Not likely, is it? Why not?
The answer is fear, but the nature of this fear is such that hardly anyone is brave enough to not be influenced by the largely Unknown fear within him/herself. This fear is a subtle and rarely identified fear of the Unknown within oneself. What Unknown? Those subtle realms that most believe exist as part of Man, but whose existence cannot be proven or demonstrated physically. That is, to ones brain and physical senses.
It is also rare that someone spontaneously realizes that it is ones MIND that causes one to fear the Unknown [which includes ones MIND]. How ones MIND causes one to fear itself is also generally Unknown... and this only exacerbates the problem.
So, within each of us is a MIND realm, and the energy of this MIND of ours is such that our brains cannot perceive its energy. We can think about the MIND because at some point in time someone came up with the abstract label MIND and this label was designated to refer to the existence of this subtle realm within us [which is believed to exist]. So, we can think about the MIND even though we have no idea what the MIND is, or how it operates... or more importantly, why it exists? Does this fairly well lay out the case of the MIND for most people? I believe it does.
Also within Man is believed to exist a Spiritual realm. Within this Spiritual realm is believed to exist a Soul, but this Spiritual realm is no more real to us than is our MIND realms.... because the Spiritual realm is just as inaccessible to our intellect as is the MIND realm. Just imagine for a while that two-thirds of who and what you are.... are inaccessible to you. Does this bother you at all? The fact that two-thirds of yourself are hidden and Unknown?
The MIND of each person subtly feeds thoughts to ones brain that are intended to divert ones attention from dwelling upon the disturbing fact that two-thirds of yourself cannot be known. I refer to these thoughts as D-Think, which stands for Delusional Thinking. The purpose of these thoughts is to keep you focused outside yourself, on people, places, and things of the physical plane. To prevent you from wandering around within yourself, in other words.
Occasionally, some of us are born with psychic holes in the screen that keeps the majority of people separated from the subtle realms within themselves. Those with psychic holes can see something of the subtle realms within themselves. But when they report these to those who are unable to see what they do, they are called names, treated as misfits, and often locked up.... for their own protection of course.
What causes the intellectually superior to treat these people with psychic holes as misfits is fear. An odd paradox exists wherein the more intellectually gifted one is [which is evidence that ones attention is fixated to the Left-Hemisphere of ones brain] the more fearful one is of the Unknown hidden within oneself. The person with psychic holes causes an intense [but usually unknown] fear in the intellectual person.
Well, the fear is actually generated within the MIND of the intellectual, and this is the reason the brain of the intellectual is unaware that he/she is so fearful of the person with a psychic hole. Only someone who has worked to rise above this automatic fear of the Unknown will be able to recognize the actions of the intellectual as fearful. Most people observing the actions of the intellectual would agree with the actions because they are just as fearful of the Unknown as the intellectual is.
The unfortunate fact is, for the last century the field of mental health has been dominated by intellectuals whose intense fear of the Unknown within Man has caused them to do everything in their power to deny, eliminate, and prevent any reference to the two-thirds of Man they find frightening. The result has been that the original Psychology given to the West by the ancient Greeks has pretty much been buried... and is almost forgotten.
Religion was created by Man. If one studies religion carefully, one finds that each religion was created in the wake of some great personage whose qualities are considered those of a Saint, or great prophet. Unfortunately, those creating the religion where guided by their inability to access the Unknown within themselves as did the Saint whose work they strove to emulate. The Esoteric truths the Saint sought to share with those with whom he spoke.... were not the Truths, but merely physical plane words pointing to the Esoteric Truths themselves. Alas, the followers of the Saint were unable to differentiate the words from the Truths hidden within themselves, and the Truths were soon lost in physical plane ritual.
Is there no way to get to the Truth hidden within oneself from outside oneself? No, there is no way to do this.... although the intellectual will argue otherwise... due to the unknown fear he/she has of the Unknown hidden within him/herself. The closest one can get to the Unknown hidden within oneself is to seek within oneself... and this is quite difficult to achieve, particularly without help from a Saint [or someone who has risen above the illusion of fear that prevents one from accessing the fearful Unknown within].
But do not be depressed or saddened over this situation. There is a reason and a purpose for all that exists. Each human being in turn will be introduced to the way and means by which he/she can begin the discovery of the Unknown within him/herself. In the meantime, seek to live ones life as the Saints prescribed. Live life so as to harm no one, and to be of help to all. Appreciate the Soul within yourself, even though being physical, you are unable to see it, or touch it. The Soul is Perfect, and we live life to eventually wear away the delusional wrappings that surround it.
James W. Patterson, Ph.D., Esogist, or docjp, is founder of Esochology, EsoEducation, and is a student of the Esoteric realms [the MIND and Spiritual realms within Man, or those
two-thirds of the human being that many believe cannot be accessed], and Western mysticism. Click Here , or Here for additional research in Esochology and the "Unknown" in Man.
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