As we take a more educated look into remaining ancient sites & places on our planet, we find our instinctual, more-deeply-rooted intelligence giving us clues to our connection with the everything.

Unhindered by a mind heavily involved with the work of accepting and rejecting information and an intelligence deeply-scattered by trust issues, the ancient person would have had all possibility to immerse themselves in the all-that-is and applied wisdom. Of course, life on this planet of temporariness and death can never bring an absolute peacefulness, but relative to our experience, theirs would certainly have been more immersive.

There has been a ton of speculation around what the purpose of these sites was; astronomical observatories, gathering places for tribal festivals and ritual and many more ideas, but my take on them is that they were places of gathering and rituals on the wheel of the year, where people could come and immerse themselves in asking the question, ‘How does our experience here of bringing children into the world, securing food and water to sustain us and experiencing conflict relate to you, the huge vast horizon of eternity with all your variegatedness and beauty? what is the connection between us and you? you are the strength of eternal mother and eternal father – please protect us & guide us!

The movements of the shining celestials were noted year after year after year until their paths and cycles become clear. Then stone structures were erected to connect the movements with the lives of the people and the people would gather at certain times to see the movement of the bright luminaries in the defined boundaries of correctly-aligned standing stones. I can just imagine that at such times, those people would have felt a strong sense of belonging to the eternal vastness and it’s mysterious life force.

Is that not the same strong desire to feel connection with eternity as we feel, even in our dissociated and impersonal world?

Images depict Gobekli Tepe in modern day Turkey