Rising Spirit wrote:Global wrote:I'm not suggesting that it was purposefully eradicated so much as perhaps it was allowed to become extinct without pursuing its protection and cultivation.
Hmmm... I have my serious doubts about such a theory, which was proposed in this documentary series. In our culture, the contemporary Western World,
illegality attempts to do the very same thing and it can't effectively do the job. Why would the Rishis voluntarily hit the self-destruct button on
Soma???
For the life of me, I can't picture a sect of religious visionary zealots, letting the central axiom & source of their spiritual insight, disintegrate just because other folks used it to irreverently party. It's just too simplistic an idea... too damn convenient. Would you do so? I certainly wouldn't.
It could be a cultural thing, and I think you're projecting your standards on an ancient people.
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
"The Mighty One appears, the horizon shines. Atum appears on the smell of his censing, the Sunshine- god has risen in the sky, the Mansion of the pyramidion is in joy and all its inmates are assembled, a voice calls out within the shrine, shouting reverberates around the Netherworld." - Egyptian Book of the Dead
"Man fears time, but time fears the Pyramids" - 9th century Arab proverb