Negative Geez by CH3SH1R3 M4TT	Last Updated: 04 July, 2010
Modern Philosophy

Psychic Cavemen 04/21/10 Early on, when man was man, but before technology, before society and before language, human beings must have been more in tune with their less obvious senses. Free from the distraction of what someone was saying, early humans with an ability to read one another's minds would certainly have had the evolutionary advantage and opportunity to be able to communicate before language. In fact I'd say that if there is any validity to my belief that all human beings are gifted to some degree when it comes to empathic psychic abilities, then it seems reasonable to assume that language itself was helped along in it's development by an ability to tell what someone is thinking. Perhaps it's even simpler than that: maybe it had less to do with an ability to read minds, and more to do with an ability to read body language - a language that is present in nature and does not require any codification or standardization. Either way you look at it, an ability to tell what a partner or adversary is thinking is surely a trait that would prevail through time in any dominant species. That is, of course, unless the very language that ability helped develop (I'm referring to the spoken word) is eventually used to educate others, and the message of the education is that psychic abilities do not exist. Imagine it this way: ancient man, a few generations after the dawn of mankind itself may have had abilities that would have been much more apparent to him than to a modern human who lives in a society. Society's primary function is to provide the whole of the group the benefits of working together, but in order to work together we must all agree on some of the more fundamental concepts of life. One of those concepts is the content and information we have gathered and classified, analyzed and recorded, the information we call science. Unfortunately when modern science began only a few hundred years ago, we did not have the tools to properly identify some of the more mysterious phenomena that occur around us all the time, but do not have run of the mill explanations. Psychic ability got lost in the mix and for hundreds of years of modern science things like telepathy and empathy were not studied, simply because we did not have instruments to measure such phenomenon and lacked the fundamental understanding of the laws of the universe which govern some of the stranger happenings around us. Only more recently have serious studies into these fields commenced, and while results are slow to reveal themselves, progress is being made. The point, however is that when we agree on what should be taught in schools and used as a basis for our belief, we usually utilize information gathered through modern science. This information, while as complete as current progress would allow, is never an all encompassing or even completely accurate picture of our world. So when schooling became legally mandated across the board in the modern world, the decision was made about what to include and what not to include in our textbooks as fact. What do you put about something that cannot be proven empirically? That it is impossible and therefore has no place in education. The fact that language probably began as an extension of some kind of empathic or telepathic ability provides a good deal of irony in that the written language, the very tool used to record and convey modern science, could in all likelihood be a logical extension of an ability we all have to interpret one another's thoughts. Essentially if we did/do have those abilities, and they did lead to language, it almost seems a shame that the very language those abilities led to has come to help us believe they didn't ever exist to begin with. -CH3SH1R3 M4TT Share

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