The Triad

We are the triad. 

The Valkyries. 

The Furies. 

The Wayward Sisters.

The Witches of Dathomir.

The Mystics.

Though one begat the other two, we are soulfully sisters.
We have the gift of foresight. We are old souls.
We have been in this world for a long time, and we know that this world is unfair. It only 'takes from us'.
We are not here to learn or experience anything, We already know!
And We're here to put down others in their place.

And I of the triad is the extra perceptive one - So treat me with reverence!

"Hell is other people"

...Said some stupid philosopher once.

People have only been bad to us, all experiences with 'the others' were only negative. The rest of the world we have tried to shut off and we have made good work of it - We try hard to avoid people, even our own blood-relatives. We have set ourselves in a remote inaccessible place. Though the elder one dont fully agree to me, the two of us made sure we literally even seal the windows and doors of our lairs lest we allow the pests and pestilence in.

Rage against the machine

Normality sucks. So we go against the flow. 

All the others are zombies. Puppets!

But a few times in our existence we allowed ourselves to explore the outside, the others, and all the time it ended up in disasters. 

The two of us siblings have been tricked into becoming so dependent on other people (and even each other) that life now is literally hell for us. This was obviously done by the manipulations of the others. 

Facade

In my past life, I was treated with utter disrespect. 

Irreverence. 

Insignificance. 

Indifference.

So I demand respect in this life. I will not stop till people respect me.

I don't care if I have nothing to offer in return, nothing of advantage, nothing of any warmth. 

People better like my abrasiveness and respect me.

House of Cards

We don't learn, We dont have to because we are right. 

And how can we not be, we are always in the side of wisdom and truth. 

We, the Triad, construct mental models to fit our narrative, rationalize our 'intuitive' thoughts and justify our beliefs. 

If these models seem to be compromised or challenged it means the models need slight improvement. Such age-old constructs cannot be wrong or ineffective as it has helped us all through our existence against the onslaught of the others.

Recently a spell of a whirlwind crashed into all the constructs we had built over the span of our existence. For a moment I thought I should maybe run away and be independent, but no I will be safer if closer to my sisters. So we all decided to rebuild the constructs around each independently yet close to one other. Reinforced we survive. 

Letting Go Not

Being special has its limitations. With us alone ...  and sometimes us too with differences, Existence has been so dull and made so boring. 
So for us, every trauma is an episode to be remembered. True that some consider these trauma as only insignificant events in their own lives. To me, these minor events are memories to be relived. Of course, I can't let go of these events, for these very few knot-like feelings on the long bland rope connecting the vast ocean called existence connecting the event birth and death. They make me feel like I was alive. And as I flip through my thin memory album the feelings are regurgitated out in all their morass, and this time with added flavors from my imaginative (but true) thoughts.

Muhammad on the Mountain

 Shiva on Mount Kailash

Jesus sermonizing on the mount

Krishna and Govardhan

 

Macroscopic view is as important as microscopic view. One must be on ‘top of things’ (to see the bigger picture) and ‘at the grassroots’ (efficient act) as well to achieve fruitful outcomes.

The eye on the pyramid provides an apt symbolism – the far and wide and the relatively Wiser perspective.

DIY

We may have just stepped into the age of empowerment – well more and more power seems to be disbursed onto the individual. More information available at one’s fingertips – more power. More countries maturing to liberty – more freedom – more power. Whether we realize this fact and are prepared to handle this power, is the real question.

Agents, brokers and consultants are on the ramp down. Those that are left are armed only with the same tools we citizens have – and its mostly Google. So the power is with us.

 

"When in the lake of information, discernment is your only hovercraft."

Cutting the Clutter is a skill we will need to develop. Simplifying the complexity in front of us. What is right and what is wrong? Even to search out something meaningful, we would need to develop the skill of the ‘right combination of keywords'. The millennials are on top of this but not yet the earlier generations. Search for a recommendation on any topics and you’ll be swamped with too many opinions, another puddle of opinions that again we need to deal with at an individual level. Decision making will be impaired if cannot assimilate the right set of information.

Macroscopy, and not microscopy alone - learning to see the whole and the interactions with other 'wholes' too. I guess starting sometime during the 70s-80s, an increased emphasis on super-specialties gripped the Generation Ys. Super-specialty doctors, cutting-edge technologies – more specialist and little generalists. The result is we have too many recommenders with their magnifying glasses. People with their own microscopes and totally oblivious outside of it. Macroscopic views and integrative approaches are things we will have to familiarize ourselves with.

Have you tried repairing a bug on your android TV? It’s likely that neither the TV technicians nor the net-provider will be able to help. You will have to rely on the web and your discernment on which search results to follow or try out.

Looks like even treat your own ailments (TYOA) is dawning on us too. A hell lot of experiences on youtube tell of simple changes that transformed people lives - simple vitamin deficiencies that looked like grave immunology ailments! 

I have had some firsthand experiences myself that may make my long-time specialist physicians look like fools.

My (fully automatic) car recently exhibited a strange behavior - engine shut off with A/c fan on, but the display on the dashboard showing 'Check ignition system'. Its at their service center for 4 weeks now and they cannot isolate the problem. For all you know the display error maybe a case like of 'referred pain' as in physical ailments - the issue maybe elsewhere.  

Another area - the disturbing statistics on general mental health and the appalling lack of preparedness to deal with this world over makes me feel that there’s only us to help ourselves. Hacking your own mind (HYOM) I guess though is as old as humanity – isn’t that what philosophers and monks tried to achieve. Hope all that wisdom will be translated into the digital language soon for us mere weaklings to search out.

Comrade Jesus : Part 2

Despite my atheist inclinations I cannot simply discount the aura surrounding such God-characters. There was something about them. In fact, there was something massively-great about them to have their names survive across the tempest of history, when it could easily have been rubbed out in a minor accident. They were popular enough for their times to have recorded in oral or written history, whether written by the discounters or by the worshipers. Let’s go back to our thread on Jesus.

I look at some of the pictures (Google “Early Christian Martyrs”) and wonder what Jesus would have preached to have inspired so many early church martyrs so much to brave the pride of hungry lions, cauldron of boiling oil, flaying and other unspeakable torture. It cannot just be zealotry because many of these martyrs were also gentiles (non-Jewish). Just another rebellious Jewish cult (there were many in the first century) wouldn’t have survived history without solid fundamentals. And we know Jesus’s ideas were not about Jewish fanaticism.

We now know how a local hero can become a legend and over time achieve god-like status. A fun video from YouTube explains it best without many paragraphs from me. Many Indian gods may have been such heroes from the distant past. Legends become Lords … White and Dark, Dracula being a dark one from the recent past.

To appeal to the mass, one must be a hero model. And to be a hero one must do (or at least attempt) an almost impossible act … or maybe even introduce a radical idea! And that maybe what Jesus really did.

But to appreciate the radical-ness of the Jesus-speak, one must imagine the economic, cultural and political situation of the region in the first century:

A lower-class Jew was oppressed by the rich and priestly.

An outcast (leper, prostitute, ‘sinner’) was considered doomed, shunned from the Kingdom of God.

A slave (gentile) was nothing but a furniture or appliance with no independent aspirations … now or even in the afterlife.

Perfect storm-clouds for a revolution … if only someone could sow the right seeds.

And along came in Jesus, opened the eyes of the outcast and the downtrodden, said “…the Kingdom of God is within you” and not elsewhere.

He dared to call the brahmins in the Jew community, the Pharisee and the Sadducee, a bunch of show-offs and "... yee of unclean minds".

He told the oppressed and the tired to not worry as their “...treasure awaits...” and so be resilient.

And if that was not enough for the perfect storm, the Apologetic Paul took the ideas to the gentiles in the then Western world (modern day Turkey, Greece and Rome). Paul attributed his inspirations as coming from Jesus. And this was the critical mass. 
To such a large (and mostly illiterate) crowd, these words were liberating, for once there is something to life and its worth dying for.

Acknowledgements: Thank you Shanty Mathews for the image. You rock dude!

Dusthāna

Anything that hurts, challenges or limits is bad - this is what we have come to believe. Avoid risks, don’t fight, don’t question, stay secure is what our good-intended parents (especially of the developing nations) taught us.

Unfortunately we are not only defined by what is our exterior, our formal-education, our successes or our good-parentage or the company we keep - these are all the known, which we see in the light. We are also what we are not and that includes:

1.    What we know that we are not, and
2.    What we don’t know we are not!

To complete the picture we the inclusion of one’s fears, resistance, conflicts, weaknesses – that is the ugly dark side is essential. And there is a bright side to the dark side J it’s also part of our foundations

·         Fears define behaviors … very early in life
·         Traumas temper character
·         Enemies build strength

Sportspeople will relate to this quicker, a win is more celebrated if its over a ‘worthy opponent’. In fact the stronger the opponent, epic the victory.

·         Fear of the failure -> change strategy
·         Opponent strength -> harder they train
·         Trauma of the past failure -> recognize one’s weaknesses and become humbler

Unlike the light side, the dark contours can only be identified by persistent (and sometimes prodding) introspection. There would not be a human without an inherent fear. One need not have an enemy in real life, but he/she will definitely dislike some times of characters. We are all susceptible to certain kinds of ailments and/or face similar impediments recurring in life.

“Your weirdness will make you stronger
Your dark side will keep you whole
Your vulnerability will connect you to the rest of our suffering world
Your creativity will set you free
There’s nothing wrong with you” -Andrea Balt

The Tool Makers

One of my favorite beats CD has a cover of an obese man with a T-Shirt that says "I'm No. 1 so why try harder". The name of the album is: You've Come a Long Way, Baby. The first song in that album is tied to a cool video that depicts, in a funny way, our evolution from amphibians to this obese man.

The transformation is unbelievable when the very-slow changes are scaled to such very-short duration. From what to what have we become! From where to where have we arrived!

And if the physical transformation is not enough, in the last few millennia sapiens seems to have turned even magical – almost godly. They seem to have conquered it all – earth, wind, fire and space. Long abandoned the ant-hole poking stick of their ancestors, now they are on the light (moon) that dot the dark curtain (sky) of the night!

If somebody from the dark ages could observe the present us (plausible if we ever learn to warp time too) they would run back to tell their folks that the future people have it easy and many of them labor throughout the day by punching or scraping a luminous surface (tablets/laptops/smartphones);

And that they have unlimited supply of meat from (broiler) chickens that do not run away;

And that luxury is available to all (Consumerism) … and not just the Queen;

And that they have machines (Photo-camera) that can hold us still in strange leaves and others that can even store the past (Video-Camera);


And that they can fly like the birds (airplanes);

And that they can conjure a spell that will enthrall you for hours (Movie);

And that they can stop the goddess from havoc (medicines for infectious diseases);

And that they can talk to anybody, even at the world’s end, by just speaking into the air (Mobile phones);

Even simpler insignificant stuff we use now is amazing to a time-traveler relative from a distant past say 200,000 B.C. Then they would say that we know to carve sound (pen) J Even a button would then be an immensely delightful finding.

A tool making animal is an animal who is self-conscious and wants to improve its current living situation. It’s probably this faculty, as a function of some accidental circuits in the brain that identifies humans from the rest of the earthlings.

Yeah, guess we can all pat our own backs in gratitude for ‘those who walked before us’.

...Or walk on water

"We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it " - Billy Joel

Imagine a clear and still lake. 
 

A child touches the surface of it - a small but a definite ripple is created. Though weaker by the minute, it will nevertheless traverse the whole of the lake.

Now imagine a million such touches at many parts of the lake - now no point on the lake's surface is immune to some ripple confluence. In such a situation of continuous ripple creations: at any given point on the surface of lake, every second, a floating but environmentally-sensitive being would experience seemingly random ups and downs. It could complain as much as it wants but its futile.

 

The way out is to accept that those so 'random' movements are naturnal or eternal: so learn to enjoy floating (like a duck) or enjoy surfing/sailing (like humans do) :)

Its futile and unproductive to think: "why do I have to go through all this pain & trouble?" or "why do I be the carrier of that burden of the cross on me?" Every second then becomes excruitiating.

Instead accept the situation and think "How do I pass over this?" or "What is it that I have to learn from this?"  OR even better: focus on a bigger goal... like getting onto the lakeshore. 

 

Our 'collective karmic veil' is dynamic and confluent of the multiple energy expression its exposed to since even the big bang . What one does or 'causes' is not even of one's own volition. Its like a dynamic script that changes with more conscious beings' participation.

All's well and right as the scheme of things should be. So float or surf!

Could divination work?

What is unexplainable today need not be out rightly wrong.

Astrology¹ is said to be among the oldest of sciences. Some consider it a pseudoscience at least. The similarities, in the basic structuring and techniques, across astrology’s many variants (from Native-American to Mayan to Tajik to Indian to Chinese) that too in seemingly disparate communities) is fascinating. 

Even attempting to prove that such divinations (or superstitions) may work do sound preposterous and even embarrassing to rationalists (that includes me). But what if there is a perspective we simply missed!

Let me even try: 

Erase-off the proponents’ common explanation that astrology works because light from the other planets in our solar system affect the living things on earth. A simpler mind may be happy with this line of explanation just as most believers are happy with the Genesis story of human origin.
The real obstruction to our explanation-attempts is our mental paradigm (rather our belief) of the universe. In our current belief everything is separate – God, you, me, the planets, earth, oceans, animals, space. What this model makes us believe is that we are the center of the universe and everything else revolves around us humans. Its a model we are used to for so long.
What if it’s a model that could use some improvisation?

For the sake of my attempts here, let’s try switching to a monistic² model. By monistic here I mean that all of the universe is one entity – imagine it as a cosmic clock or say a gigantic jukebox J or maybe even the body of the Almighty!

If that can be imaged - hold that model in your head and realize that this cosmic-entity’s constituents are sub-systems. They should be interconnected and interdependent – say like the organ-systems of a human body. 

Yes? If this much can be realized, then we have progressed much. Many of these constituent-(sub) systems within may be individually deterministic³

Now zoom in to our solar system. So its now (in this model) just another cog in the bigger machinery. It is a sub-system which has further, almost infinitesimal layers of constituent, sub-systems – one of level being us as individuals. So if this Solar system is like a human body, we are then just cells within!

In this model, the planets' state maybe more like positions representing the overall system status at a point of time (like an LED blink-pattern on a panel in a control room) . Which in turn translates to a situation at our realm. And this is the information that  an Astrologer tries to use.

A pulse check is not the cause of a hypertension, a scan picture is not the cause of a tumor – they are the lights patterns on the panel that depicts the current state of the overall whole.

Occult (hidden) connections could be plausible. Omens may be useful. A divination stream may be a case of someone happening to decipher the patterns on the panel. Like using eyes (one constituent of the human body) to see rashes on the skin (state of another constituent) and analyzing that the soup had shrimp in it (interpretation) and predicting the run to the nearest toilet (fortune-telling) J

It’s what I call a side-effect of singularity.



¹ Astrology is just one among the many divinations practiced around the world; there are numerous other fortune telling systems like readings based on geckos, entrails of sacrificed animals, tea leaves, coffee-dust patterns, omens or just rants of a person in trance – many of these traditions on the decline. Some ex-believers have just degraded Astrology to a pseudo-science, and not a full-blown .

² Monism is a philosophical view. One of its regional definitions is called 'Advaitham'. For our purpose this essentially means: Everything is one, and the one is part of everything else. In the east they call the 'everything' as the 'Supreme Being’.

³ Based on the system’s general behavior, given its state at a point of time one could determine its status in the next. Here in this example assume the solar system is deterministic and its constituents works interdependently. Why? For a reason perhaps, which is beyond a mere human’s imaginative capacity. 

Babel

What makes perfect sense to one may be utter nonsense to another.

Monistics consider the dualists to be inferior. Monotheists consider themselves superior to polytheists. Puritans are generally in contempt of traditionalists and liberalist. Scientists cannot agree with Occultists. Why, husbands will never understand wives and vice versa J

Not only do each of the sets speak a different language, but each also on a different paradigm of thought. Many of these sets inherently have a particular model of the world; consider that both theology and science are essentially doing the same thing – figuring out the world and our position in it!

To unravel bigger questions, first step would be to release oneself from the confines of the paradigms (and labels) one is familiar with and start testing the world out of that box.

“Problems cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them” is what Einstein said.

Lila

Abuna Tuma, the Christian priest noticed the opening-crack atop this rocky hill when he first ventured here alone. He was only ten when he discovered it when a hyena emerged out of it with a strange object in its mouth, something almost like a crucifix. He would later fix his calling to priesthood at this ominous sign. He still visits this small opening in the rock on his spiritual retreats. The priest has led the local parish to believe that this was a spot where Jesus spent his ‘wilderness’ days and that there used to be an ancient church at the same spot, the remnants of the church intact underground he said. The strange tiny engravings, he believed, just inside the mouth of the opening were faded-writings in a language long lost. To keep it intact and as pure as he found it, he fixed a glassy covering over the opening, closing it to any further curiosity.

Lieutenant Mattias is a geologist in the Imperial forces, operating in and around Sudan. His job was to help the Engineering team blast a road through this treacherous land. The road will quickly transport necessary supplies to northern front. While surveying this rocky hill, he observed something like a fault line at the base of a rocky hill, like a vertical cleft. When the torch was shone into it, he observed a cave-like interior with chalky markings on the walls and some shiny powder on the ground. But too narrow for most humans to squeeze through the opening. Lt. Mattias decided to work around this rocky hill, leave it alone and record the location as potential crystal mine.

It was not long before the archaeologists of the area stumbled upon another cave-like opening just a bit uphill of the cleft at the base. What they found in this one was spectacular: there were Lascaux-like figures and that too with colors & pigments that were never known possible during ‘pre-history’. The paintings stretched inwards some 200 metres of twisting walls, like a museum of events across a time period.

Some years later, an eccentric ancient astronaut theorist raked up some noise on social media about this hill. He claimed that the whole hill is nothing but hardened sandstone but burying a large disc shaped alien ship that crashed into this location just before the last ice age. The cleft, the cave and the church openings were nothing but the cracks into the disc-like ship. He proposed that stone-age timed humans, unaware of this fact, had used one of its opening into its interiors as a dwelling and later some Christians Stylites would have possibly used the hill top too.

Recently, Dennis, a nine year old of Father Tuma’s parish, ventured atop the same hill one day and decided to remove the covering. In his innocent curiosity, he even crawled down into the opening. There is no school at this time of the year and he had all the time in the world discovering it. By evening, his absence from meal-times caused a commotion back in his village. His parents and friends, along with the priest, combed the area. Towards dusk the priest, saddened now almost sure that the boy was lost to the hyenas, went out to the hill top to pray. To his astonishment he saw the boy crawl out of the opening, just as he saw the hyena 20 years ago.

The boy was smiling, he said “Abuna, I had the time of my life!”

The priest, furious that Dennis defiled the holy place, shouted back “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!”

The boy was still gleeful “There is no church there Abuna! But a long slide that speeds you all the way to the bottom and then there is way to climb up through another tunnel. Looks like the rock termites took a long time to build it”

The Chinese Finger Trap

At a fundamental level both theology and science strives to make meaning of the world (physical or mental) humans live in...Funny, but that what they are for.

Theology was most human-digestible of the two; for the survival-focused masses this was therefore the alpha and omega for a very long time. They offloaded all brain-racking' mysteries onto the biggest mystery of all : God. Religious institutions ruled the roost for most of history and tried its best to snuff out all scientific temper.

Science, in the mean time, survived the oppression and painfully evolved into the new-age religion! It is what now ALMOST EVERY human truly believe, live and breath. Scientist, thinkers, consultants and researchers are the new monks, priests and bishops. They turn all magic to drab logic.

Will the twain meet?

Analysis leads to Paralysis

Which leg should I put forward first?
If it should be the right, how would I know its the right thing to do?
And if its right thing to do, will it end up with the right result?


And even if it ends rightly, will I have missed out a paths leading to a better result?
Above everything else how do I know this is the path destiny intents for me?
So Should I even put anything forward?

Headspace Bandwidth

“Your mind is like this water, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But, if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear” ~ Oogway to Shifu in Kung Fu Panda

Are we clear?

I mean are we clear of the clutter in our heads?

How can I not be preoccupied, not be lazy, not be tired and ultimately not be happy … with a mind like below

Inhibiting Initiative

For many there is this noise between their ears that is eating up all their creative space. They frequently complain that they are too exhausted to do anything at all.

Observe if you are continuously justifying, reasoning, rationalizing, reconfirming (your point of view), planning, scheming and not the least judging. These internal dialogues waste our precious thought space.

Observe that sometimes external (work or otherwise) trauma/pressure can change these dialogue-threads’ noise. A trauma (say a personal accident) can temporarily kill all the conversation threads, but none for too long.

Stalling Decisions

Noise and too much chatter do not allow for decisions; without a stand - vacillation between places causes another tempest within the mind’s ocean.

Impedimenta

to self-realization, improvisation and progress is what I am referring to here. Keeping out the simpler analogies like the fence, the boulder and the mountain, here are some of my categorizations of life-impediments (and all at the 'self' level) that we should learn to overcome. Some of them may be related and frequently

Imagine a mental construct such as a giant Cloche over an individual and you can get to understand the impact of an invisible but artificial ceiling of performance. Like the elephant that believes it cannot move the small log (chained to its leg) which was originally meant to restrain it when a calf, one builds such mental entrapments over the formative years and sticks with that belief to the detriment of one's progress. ‘I haven’t done this before’ is a statement coming out of people in such glass-ceilings. ‘Nobody does it this way’ is another such statement which translates to the ceiling: ‘I can’t do it’.

Observe our behavior and realize that we, in some situations, act or speak as if there is a deadly Sword over us; like Damocles’. Here we are fearful of the cutting pain of retribution if ‘inappropriate’. The fearful here has compromised his/her integrity in the past and not ready to own and settle it.

Some prisoners, in the past history, were restrained by the Ball & Chain. Well many of us are still prisoners and will never be truly free unless we do the simple (mental) act of letting go of the past. Settle your conflicts - internal & external, clear the air, throw out your garbage, acknowledge the right and unshackle the burdens you have always been carrying around … unnecessarily.

This is interesting that it could happen to whole communities :) nations even. The question to ask is ‘Am I in a Pit?’ Like frogs in a well, put in by somebody, the newborns of the older residents cannot image they are in a hole and therefore believes there is no world but this. A variant of the pit if the Cave; the difference being that latter is opted for. Isolation is safe as change is risky; therefore such inhabitants never ventured out like The Croods. The cave dwellers are escapist, they do not need the external hand for help out and may even sting the hand like a scorpion would. Actually being in such a construct is the so safe that is it one of the most dangerous: one would be safe from life and any improvement itself!

The most prevalent one of all: the illusion probably ALL of us live with but what most never realize is that one I call the (colored) Spectacles; the filter we apply on our sensory inputs, particularly on our vision and hearing. It is the input signal-distortion circuitry one has introduced by themselves; much like the Malayalam proverb of the bad-colored vision of the jaundiced.

OK, being able to identify and remove the spectacles is one achievement but it’s a tendency for bipolar disorder if one is able to see life as a coin: head or tail, right or wrong, good or evil, saved or infidel, truth or lie. Such dualists have difficulty accepting ‘shades’ of color; for them the OR operator functions more than the AND operator.

If one feels like in a Maze, then he/she is bored of following destiny’s path like cattle-path. It’s time to get into the driver’ seat take control of the steering of one’s destiny!

The Crown is like the Ball & Chain, a burden on one’s head either as expectations set by the environments or as an artifact of one’s past achievements (Bask and Waste off like the celebrities who did that one time hit) or simply because one has put him/herself on a high pedestal (The faster one goes high, the more deadly the fall)

Whirlpool is the mother of them all: the combination of all (or most) of the above especially with one being the cave. Being trapped into one of these powerful black holes is unfortunate, chances of succumbing to a fall is high. One would, at the minimum, need the experience of negotiating each of the above in order to effectively fight this monstrous-one out.

The God that evolved

Let’s rewind back to the beginning of human consciousness, some millions of years back in history; back in Africa, back to the time when the then hominids’ brains just about evolved to point that they realized they could understand their environment better than the other creatures. At this point (rather period) in human history the requirement was only survival. It is unlikely that they needed any god, life was mostly instinctual.

 

Forwarding a couple of million years the hominid brains almost tripled in size and this was key to self-consciousness historian say. But the world was still an unforgiving place. Only might was right; hunting and foraging was survival. Staying in groups ensured better survival and having a strong leader for the group helped well. The leader possibly became the origin of lords; Servility and condescension to the lord(s) of the group, most of the time, guaranteed security of both food and life.

 

Moving ahead in time, generations’ later, and our still-crude almost-human ancestors realized that there are forces of nature that were way more powerful that any of their group-lords. Earth (quakes), Wind (storms) and Fires were definitely on top of the list.

With the advent of agriculture on the fertile banks of rivers, human physical and belief evolutions took a fast pace. Agriculture and social structures brought security (relative to the past) to food supply and otherwise. Our ancestors had now some time to imagine: and so they thought that dark-forces (it still being a rather pessimistic time) governed the uncertainty (in harvests and in health) to life and so were gods. The earlier-identified powerful awe-elements (Earth, wind, fire & water) were never fully understood and so never discarded, just associated with these new inventions.

Wind is the carrier of disease (and of locusts), lightning the spear of the gods and volcano the seat of the gods. In fact, the then insurmountable mountains were all the seats of the gods, in most cultures.

 

A few thousand years back time was right for the need for stability and direction. The more time certain humans had at their disposal then more they wanted to make sense of the chaos of the world: Gods, sacrifices, fluid kingdom-lines, etcetra. And so arose the concept of Godhead of the gods. The creator of the minions, the more-powerful and higher in the escalation matrix! It was only logically to amalgamate the gods, based on their creative/preservative/dissolutive natures, under any of the three or two hoods. Most spiritually-progressive religions of the world had come up to this realization quite early. A good comparison is in India: over the last thousand years all the individual gods, prevalent across south Asia, were assigned as a manifestation of one of the Godheads of the Hindu trinity.

 

Last two thousand years: we contemplate that there can be only one God who is most powerful and most merciful. Notice the shift from a negative to a positive God; the One positive for humans. Now the three is boxed into One with each head being simply a face of the ultimate. That’s again only logical :)

 

Hinduism achieved this heap-to-singularity; so did its sister religions: Buddhism and Jainism; and so did the Abrahamic religions.

 

The next logical phase in the spiritual evolution is blending everything into the One! There can be no distinction between us and That; between good and evil. I am That. No duality. In this level of spiritual-maturity-model, only the eastern philosophies come close.

 

We have come a long way baby; why try harder :)

 

So I ask: what changed over the course of history? God or our concept of God? For instance, observe the character change of God/god from the Old testament to the New Testament: from a jealous, capricious, vengeful one to a gracious and merciful one.  If God is infinite how can he change in this short time-period. Its absurd to think in such lines.

The funny fact is that humans created this being(s) and changed the definition over time to rationalize the world.