From Neolithic Spirals to an Idea of Immortality on Darwinian “Rite” (By Christian Horgos)

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A fundamental miracle is the very appearance of the first living cell in conditions in which organic substances must have aligned extraordinarily favourably, for the emergence of life.

So why hasn't another miracle of the same magnitude happened?

It is a problem of belief to think about an afterlife based on Evolutionary Law. And some clues might come from the Neolithic.

Let's say there are one in a thousand billion chances, but on what basis can you say with absolute certainty that some kind of afterlife based on the laws of evolution has not or will never appear?

This essay aims to explore such a tiny possibility, but which can offer a shred of hope for those who are seeking a purpose in life. 

Modern thinkers of the world have glimpsed a possibility of the individual soul's "imprinting" of a great universal consciousness, transcending time.

Nikola Tesla said:

"My brain is just a receptor, in the Universe there is a nucleus from which we obtain knowledge, power and inspiration. I have not penetrated the secrets of this nucleus, but I know that it exists".

Aldous Huxley emphasized the "collective subconscious" in his book "The Gates of Perception. Heaven and Hell", which he concludes, by the way, with a plea for the survival of individual souls in a "congregation" of all souls. Rupert Sheldrake was a supporter of the idea of ​​a collective subconscious, as well as the famous Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, the parent of the current of analytical psychology based on the subconscious collective.

The basic idea is that maintaining an imprint of the individual soul on the horizon of a collective subconscious independent of temporal boundaries would practically ensure a kind of "immortality".

A fundamental question would be how it is possible, strictly under the conditions of Darwin's evolutionism, for a "world beyond" to have emerged.

Here is a possible answer, not necessarily the only or a certain one. Ancient man imagined, intensely desired, practiced multimillennial rituals and above all believed in various forms of heaven. And because of this neurological need, the brain, with its amazing possibilities, may have created at some point the "psychic dough" necessary for the baking of a surviving consciousness, just as the ancestral biological brain designed and made each new organ: eye, nose, ear.

Carl Jung’s synchronicity for ‘significant’ adaptations

Such an idea seems particularly bold, so I appeal, in support of it, to the chapter "Science and the Unconscious" written by Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz for the book "Man and His Symbols", coordinated by Carl Gustav Jung.

Thus, we find at page 306:

“Physicist Wolfgang Pauli has pointed out that, due to new discoveries, our idea of ​​the evolution of life requires a revision that could take into account an area of ​​interrelation between the unconscious psyche and biological processes.

Until recently, it was assumed that the mutation of species occurred randomly and that a selection took place by which the ‘significant’, well-adapted species survived and the others disappeared.

But modern evolutionists have pointed out that the selection of such mutations by pure chance would have lasted much longer than the known age of our planet allows. Jung’s concept of ‘synchronicity’ could be helpful here, because it sheds light on some rarer, ‘limit’ phenomena, some exceptional events, in this way, it is therefore possible to explain how ‘significant’ adaptations and mutations occurred in a shorter time than would have been necessary in the case of random mutations (...)

It seems, therefore, that such anomalous accidental phenomena occur when there is a need or a vital need, this fact could further explain why a certain species of animal, under great pressure or in urgent need, could produce significant (but acausal) changes in its external material structure".

These would be the neurological premises of the emergence of a possible "afterlife", as a spiral survival of energetic consciousness.

Neolithic Spirals Symbolizing the Immortality

Spirals are found in many Neolithic megaliths such as at Tarxien (Malta), Castelluccio (Sicily), Newgrange (Ireland), Piodao/Chaz D'Egua (Portugal), Pierowall (Scotland), Bardal (Norway), Göbekli Tepe (Turkey), La Zarza-La Zarcita (Canary Islands) etc.

It is illogical to think that people moved and carved huge blocks of stone just for some random ornaments so that the spirals must have had a close connection with their consciousness. A provocative explanation was offered by researchers D. Lewis-Williams and David Pearce, in their book “Inside the Neolithic mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the realm of the Gods”.

According to this book the spiral is associated with a stage of altered consciousness that leads to visionary experiences.

There are also other authors who see spirals as a symbol of the passage of souls to immortality. Looking at the ancient megaliths scattered throughout the world, there is a general perception that the carved spirals would have reflected eternity.

It is also remarkable that in regressive hypnosis experiences, when you come to stand in front of the essence of your own consciousness-soul, perceptions of spiral vortexes are frequent.