I always admire some of the primitive tribal stories and metaphors told to newer generations as time goes by of a single tribe.
What do others here believe the significance of such stories are on a tribe spiritually?
I truely believe that this is one of the first steps that constructed man’s consciousness.
Absolutely! These are more than mere “metaphors”; a rich oral tradition encodes an encyclopedic knowledge of herbalism, animal behavior and ecology in with a context of relationship that knits a human community into a more-than-human world.
If our ecology and sense of self are informed by a tradition that encapsulates the more-than-human-world,and not our vast distinction from it,it seems to me to be a world-view that would most certainly feel more instinctual,not one that would have to ‘learned’…it would be far more self-evident.
Are you in a way, asking if despcriptions of a thing made it come into being? Perhaps at a meta-level that no longer exists.
Surely, all things have energy flowing, all things radiate when in cooler environments, and absorb in warm environments. This energy is the root of consciousness.
Only our perception is cleverly crafted by the bells and whistles of DNA. Buddha-realization is the providence of all sentience, so therefore sentience isn’t require to be on the path of buddha-realization.
It is clear that a man or a dog or a rat can realize the Mind. It is clear that man, that dog, and that rat all came from non-sentience. Therefore, potentiality is a result of sesory perception, not of thought itself. Thought comes much later than sentience. It is show that the earthworm is the most complex isomorphic creature (which means that all earthworms of similar species and clines have the exact same brain, molecule for molecule)… But if the earthworm has potential to grow his family into sentience, as science shows, then what of that earthworm has the potential to know the Mind?
it is its atoms itself, energy itself, that is the potential for “the spirit”. We are in it, and have trouble ‘seeing’ it, but the dark night sky will teach you.