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The Origin of Art and Religion

Here is a quote from Graham Hancock's great new book, "Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind"

Arguably, art and religion are our two most prized cultural institutions, the saving human graces from which have arisen many of the most noble virtues and glorious achievements of our species. But if Lewis-Williams is right, we need to be brutally honest about where the first incarnations of these institutions came from. Their birth was not assisted by the operation of any of the faculties that we admire in the twenty-first century -- such as reason, intelligence, the scientific applicaton of logic, sensitivity to nature, or even consciously driven creativity. Instead, it seems that art and religion were bestowed upon us like secret and invisible powers, by inner mental realms that our societies now despise and legislate against -- the realms of altered states of consciousness, most commonly entered (by us as by our predecessors) through the consumption of potent hallucinogenic drugs. (page 212)

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