Metaphysical Cavemen

When Charles Darwin published his The Origin of Species in 1859 he fully realized it would revolutionize scientific thought, and it did. As it concerned human beings, Darwin said “Much Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history” but it wasn’t until 11 years later that Darwin addressed human origins in his book The Descent of Man which caused so much controversy. In divergence to his theory of evolution, the Abstract herein, creative and unique, exhumes this controversy for reconsideration. So in the aftermath of Darwin’s prophesy--we shall see who actually throws this light.

In order to challenge his scientific notion that mankind descended from ape-like humanoids, now a commonly held belief but which is a particularistic error, every conceivable aspect surrounding the issue is addressed herein. This is not from a biblical point of view either, or based on any religious tenet, but rather a common-sense approach, metaphysically in depth and surrounds factors previously overlooked or underestimated.

Because of the nature of evidence, to overcome the expected initial resistance from science, it is necessary to present it in an unusual format. Oftentimes to demonstrate the credibility of new evidence which, in this case, was never seriously applied before, the direct approach must surrender to finesse. To convince those with a fixed mind-set, evidence of a less obvious nature must be demonstrated in creative ways, each a little different, because, as an example, two or more analogies for comparative purposes is always better than one.    

This book has been prepared with that in mind, especially since metaphysics is involved, not an easy subject to discuss as it relates to the caveman or anything else. You will witness different styles of delivery within the general text, in the narrative and within the incorporated fictional account and will soon appreciate the necessity for such creativity. A fictional account was necessary for effect and is incorporated throughout the book, coming and going as need be, but easily recognizable. The fictional account surrounds the life of Ashy, which begins when he was a young caveman, recently orphaned.

To academia, the century in which Ashy lived long ago would be considered largely irrelevant because there wasn’t any difference from one century to the next during the Stone Age, or so we’re told. This attitude and allowing only for the differences in tool-making capabilities has academia limited our knowledge. To say there wasn’t any difference would be misleading, imperceptible and therefore, as a historical abridgement, consistent with what else we’ve been taught. Within these very active times were cavemen far more intelligent than we’ve given them credit for and who had a far higher level of sophistication than ever before revealed.

This will be demonstrated throughout the book and will return honor to our forefathers instead of them forever being held in low esteem as academia would have it. We will regain a sense of pride in our heritage, subjugated for 5,000 years and actually a process the ancient Egyptians began. The cavemen were not stupid as most believe but were more astute than modern man in some areas, understanding metaphysics and other phenomena such as the true concept of time.

Before the concept of ‘time’ became corrupt in later civilizations, cavemen had a deeper understanding albeit lacking was a way to measure it. The concept the cavemen understood had nothing to do with a beginning or end and it wasn’t one dimensional as our current concept.  Just how this and his other profound realizations were possible will be demonstrated throughout the book.

Except for being cognizant of the seasons, the lunar cycle or pegging a year to an particular event that he could recall, or his parents recalled, a caveman didn’t bother with ‘dates’. Of those cavemen I refer to within, it would be those from the Lower Paleolithic times, commonly known as the Old Stone Age, or prior to 10,000 B.C.

The Stone Age itself was broken down into various times in different scientific ways and was largely determined by the apparent skills the caveman had in making stone tools. The level of sophistication applied to make these stone implements determined the times they belonged to, subdivided often, and all these divisions belonged to either the immensely long Lower Paleolithic (Old Stone Age, or everything prior to 10,000 B.C.), followed by the much shorter periods of the Upper Paleolithic, then the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age, which adds fishermen), then the Neolithic (New Stone Age, which adds farmers) which were all after 10,000 B.C. but with the regional variations in progress these applications often overlapped. There are still further refinements but are not applicable to this book since we’ll be dealing almost exclusively with the Old Stone Age; or everything prior to 10,000 B.C.