Cosmic Connection

Cosmic Connection

Primitive society was an organizational attempt to elevate wo/man to divine status. It is only in modern society that the mutual imparting of self-importance has trickled down to the simple maneuvering of saving face.

Primitive rituals were designed as an attempt to bring life in harmony with the cosmos; it was "carried out according to a particular theory of prosperity. It was an attempt to get nature to "give more life to the tribe".

Ritual displayed, to the educated eye of the anthropologist, the fact that rituals were meant to determine the principles of the cosmos by trying to promote them while impersonating them.

A heightened sense of self-feeling comes not only from physical prowess but also by any kind of demonstration of our own excellence. Wo/man achieves this demonstration by games, taunting and humiliating an adversary, killing or torturing others;