When humanity lost its soul (Alternate History #3)
Channel: Kirael doAni
Date: 01/06/2016

I told you a story a long time ago, a story I remember from another lifetime, of coming to this world as a non-human, an Anu. A story of coming as a scientist to explore this world and study its people. We respected sentience, the ability to think, above most other things. And so the arising of sentience in a species was a miraculous thing. And so we came here to study for 100.000-200.000 years, and watched as humans struggled towards sentience. It was a really big deal.

Things went wrong. One of the things we did, was to meddle with human DNA. We forced them to arise sentience ahead of time, not because it was good for them, but because something was going wrong and our people were going crazy. And this was the arising of homo sapiens on your planet, from homo erectus to homo sapiens. Only 130.000 years ago, the 1/3rd of the Anu that remained on the ship meddled a second time to shift humans. The second reworking was done to take away human power. It made them less strong, less durable, shortened their lifespan, made them more vulnerable to their environment so they'd die out faster and the population wouldn't grow, it made them more aggressive and more sexual so they would fight amongst themselves and control their population, and it took away their magic.

Before this, the homo erectus tribes were sentient and had language, but they didn't build structures because they lived in the trees, and they spoke to the trees, and the tree spirits and the waters and the plants. They basically had magic, they were a primitive magical tribe. However, these things made them dangerous to the Anu. They would have been a powerful and peaceful race, that was in touch with nature and as a result had what you might call magic.

Humans had great power and potential in their connection to nature, in their empathy with one another, and that was intentionally broken down. It is where your mythologies about soul mates and a missing part of yourself comes from. So all the humans that are seeking magic now, reading Harry Potter and so on, they are coming to a place where they are craving again that wholeness they should have had, that was taken away by that shift from the early, primitive homo sapiens to the modern homo sapiens sapiens. And this is why humans have had so much trouble finding magic, why you hear so many people say that something's missing and they don't know what it is. This is the root of the behaviour of all mystics, a sense that there is something far greater that they can't find, and they're seeking it.

All of this because of the forced evolutionary step to so called modern humans. This is where humans lost magic, and so in regaining it, it is not enough for us to want it, it is not enough for humans to lay the groundwork by making changes at the meta level. There is going to be a need to find the part that was cut off by this last shifting, by what the others did when they took away something that made humans unable to feel the planet, to sense one another, to communicate more directly. They took that away from them. Some large part of you was cut away, though the Angel feels that it was not removed from the system. That kind of thing would have been too damaging. Rather, it was just separated, so that the two separate parts can no longer touch. And so in the ability to regain magic, we will need to develop a way for people to begin to put these pieces back together, and as they heal this in themselves, then they can begin to re-touch the energies of nature, the spirits out there, to speak mind to mind with one another.

Yes, we're touching the fringes of that now. I feel the reason we're not having more success is because of the work that was done approximately 130.000 years ago, that changed the biology. So we are going to have to find a way to repair that damage in each of us, and in doing so, regain access to the things we lost so long ago.

Angel, 2014-04-14