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What can the future hold? We have seen spooks develop from creators of magic into shamanic allies, mischief makers and even Gods in line with mankind's neurological, psychological and cultural development. As our nervous systems, information systems and cultural systems evolved, so new spooks sprang from within our psyches to personify that change and allow us to more deeply understand its implications. From hunter gatherer through primitive planter and city state citizen to industrialist, we have seen the spooks rise, reach their peak and decline in the face of the evolution of the gods, moral guardianism and literalist organised religion.
But now, as those structures begin to decline, we immediately observe that the ancient spooks are rising again, not in their ancient forms, but changed to fit our new post-industrial realities. They, like us, are individualist, immediately available, and most importantly, deeply within us. Their functions are transforming as mankind transforms, for it is true that we are on the threshold of something major in our evolution; the Internet, space migrations, artificial intelligence, higher neural circuit activation, feminism, maybe-logic - all are symptoms of the oncoming change.
And perhaps it is the spooks who in some sense point the way. The guardian angels, Reiki Guides, channelled songs and invocations seem to indicate in which way mankind's cultural flow of belief is heading, and the alien spooks are showing us something of our technological capabilities. Beyond that, in the far outposts of inner psyche reality, the Salvia beings and DMT hyperspace denizens seem to point out the ultimate destinations. The spooks are showing us what could be. They certainly are able to show us what was and what is now.
There is a saying among alien and UFO-enthusiasts that 'The Truth is out there' but as we survey our spooks of future and past, we find that they may not have been real after all. Spooks that became literally true to millions of believers became Gods, and therefore masters of religion, but the original spooks were never about that kind of idea. They were always about mythology, the primitive psychology and sense of history that expressed in simultaneously poetic and sacred form the spirits and energies that welled up from within mankind.
Spooks never made the world as the Gods sometimes claimed. They were the agents of our own creative power, which made and ordered the world in our own image, so that we could understand it in our own ever-changing way. That's why we always experienced spooks as something real, something external, but deep down we always remembered the truth of them, that they were us. This attitude survived up until the late Neolithic, and survives still among remote cultures (*13), but somewhere between modern Greece and modern Pakistan, some 5000 years ago, someone started smelting bronze, someone else started writing in clay and that's where we flipped out. That's where we forgot our own inherent, spooky creative power.
Only now are we experiencing the potential to leap out of that kind of literalism and at one time both return to our past and leap into our futures. For when it comes to the spooks, the Truth is not 'out there' at all...
it is very much...
within...
(c) Bruce Rimell, June 2005
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