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Everyone could look after children in those times. You're imagining the modern nuclear family with mother, father & child, that is not how the family structure was at the time: biological fatherhood was unknown so the mother's brother(s) took the role of social fatherhood because they were the...

Oh yeah, they were. :) Tents have been found not only by humans but by Neanderthals as well. You did indirectly: "while the so called matriarchal women cared for the home/cave/whatever. They also probably gathered berries. Light work because women are generally naturally physically weaker...

Because the "men would hunt while the so called matriarchal women cared for the home/cave/whatever" is a typically patriarchal and sexist attitude that, like so many other still common imaginations of prehistory, comes from the 19th century where researchers just believed that men did all the...

Also, if you refer to me blaming everything on men to my reference on 19th century science, it is a plain and simple fact that the 19th century was patriarchal and that men oppressed women at the time which led to the rise of the feminist movement. Also, as someone training to become a Medical...

Now you're projecting modern social structures into prehistoric eras. First: women did hunt, there is scientific evidence for that! Also, a successful hunt was a rare event. It's not like hunter came back every day with fresh meat like we come home from the supermarket. So yeah, gathering was...

Thank you for the threads! And I don’t blame everything on men but the systems that they created: patriarchy and hierarchy. Men are trapped in those the same as women are. We need to overcome those together so blaming individuals or even groups of men would be counterproductive.

I really like this idea because I wanna live in Çatalhöyük in one of my next lives as this prehistoric egalitarian settlement fascinated me ever since I found out about it. Also, it would probably be a good change to live the childhood that I want since children were likely raised in a more...

I would agree with you on that! I think people are projecting their lives onto the afterlife with their hiearchies and lessons learning (school in its present form is, after all, a micro-version of our society intent to prepare us for the job life) which is an arrogant position to take because...

Which is ironic since originally humans believed in a cycle of life where virtually EVERYTHING reincarnates, from the sun and the moon to the seasons and of course mushrooms, plants and animals including humans. We can still see this in the earliest Chinese calendar known as the sexagenary...

Does it have to be a pre-determined future? You’re right, the future has yet to be created but which future is that? Every decision we make creates one future but there could be dozens of parallel futures alongside it. So the glimpses that people get could be of one possible future which would...

Oh, that‘s good to know, at least humanity will still be there in 2102, at least in California. I wonder what the world will be like at that time? Better or worse?

Then that would lead me to the question: are there any books that describe the afterlife/time between lives etc as neutral as possible or with as few judgment as possible. I had the thought that maybe if one compares accounts that one can see behind the judgement by the similarities the Accounts...

The gladiator fights were more than 2000 years ago! That's a long time between reincarnations. Do you remember any other incarnations between that life and your present one? :)

Hey Oscar, I've found a clip of Nosso Lar which is very interesting. Like the person in front of the Rectification Chambers said: this may not be the heaven that you dreamed of but we'll care for everyone with love. As someone who doesn't believe in hierarchies, this would be especially...

that's very interesting! :D Thank you for suggesting the novel. :) I already googled it.

Well, someone has to be interested in the strange topics because everybody else is already interested in the other topics. ;) I've always been interested in unusual topics and tended to ask philosophical questions (for instance, as a small child I've already wondered what would happen to the...

That interesting because "more eccentric, not interested in money and career - being even "lazy" etc" fits me very well: I don't believe in money (in fact, I envision a society beyond the needs of money, work, borders etc) and I am more interested in following my hobbies and interests than a...

I imagine that this must we a weird concept to our physical selves. Speaking of which, you said that those needs are dropped on the astral plane but that doesn't mean that you could still choose to eat...something on that plane or have sex if you wanted to or is that no longer possible on the...

Hi everyone, while I don't have any memories of either my past life or lives nor my time in between lives, I wanted to ask you what it felt like to die (both positive and negative experiences) and how you experienced the afterlife. Was it like a proper location with architecture and gardens...

So what you're saying about the rigid rules (and the descriptions of afterlife itself as a place) are more metaphors than actual descriptions to sort of describe the indescribable? Because I'm ready to believe in an instant that what we call afterlife is infinitely more complex and weird to...