I like how not believing in somethings that has no evidence has now become a preconceived notion. That's how you know we've made progress

The ancients thought every rain or lightning bolt or successful hunt or forest fire (and on and on) was a separate god interacting with them. That's not because they had more touchy feelly going on, it's because they were ignorant with no other explanation for what they were seeing. The only difference between the pagan ancients and the Christian ancients was the number of gods they chose to believe in. Christianity just simpled it down to one. That doesn't make that one any more real or approachable to their senses, it was just streamlining their beliefs.

The simpler explanation for why modern people aren't feeling god is because they're more enlightened now to know whether or not they get rain today doesn't have to do with whether or not they pissed off their god.

Scientists and anthropologist agree that ancient humans had much more highly developed sensory perceptions than we do.

Excuse me? Care to support that with some kind of evidence?

They relied on their advanced senses for every facet of survival. And those advanced senses also allowed them to feel, hear, see, and communicate with the spirits of the dead easily and clearly, especially with no preconditioned beliefs telling them that the spirit communication was either inappropriate or just plain impossible.

You have literally no evidence for that. Ill buy the idea that because they relied on their 5 senses so heavily for survival they may have been more acute, and in our current cushy state of living where everything is catered to us we have dulled senses. But where the fuck did you get the idea that they could contact the spirits of the dead? Can you prove such spirits even exist? And can you prove that they contacted them? How did they contact them?

Mankind has grown past the point of needing to communicate with their ancestors to learn more about the world.

Because they realized you cannot in fact communicate with their ancestors and developed the scientific method which is much more useful for learning about the world then asking dead grandpa what he thinks.

We have large amounts of data recorded and quick access to much of that data.

Technology has separated us from God.

Prove god exists.

We preform less rituals and don't have to think as hard as we used to.

If anything with the amount of information we have today we have to think even harder than we used to. Back in the stone age the amount of thought that was necessary was "where can i find a deer to stab?" Now we have quantum mechanics and a plethora of other fields of study.

And the spiritual sense is like a muscle (any bodily function is), if you stop using it, then it becomes weak.

You have no evidence for this "spiritual sense"

In conclusion, this is a ton of baseless mumbo jumbo dressed up to seem scientific.

I wouldn't say Hogwash per say, it is certainly an interesting theory. The issue I have with it though are the rampant superstitions they had for most things that can now be attributed to natural occurrence instead of spiritual. When an earthquake happens, we now know it to be tectonic plates moving beneath the earths crust where as before it was believed to be the anger of the Gods. Droughts where chalked up to the Gods or spirits being displeased by sacrifices or worship or various other imagined slights.

Mental issues such as autism or schizophrenic tendencies were believed to be caused by spirits or the devil. Hell even having a strange dream about the relative was attributed more towards the spirit world then simply the human psyche.

I think we've lost a great deal of our senses needed to survive, simply because we see ourselves as being on the top of the food chain, safe in our houses. But that loss of survival in one location of the Earth isn't the same in other more primitive areas, such as that island that no one can step foot on due to the indigenous tribe killing any visitor.

Well, you began just fine, as this part is accurate..............

Scientists and anthropologist agree that ancient humans had much more highly developed sensory perceptions than we do. They relied on their advanced senses for every facet of survival. And those advanced senses also allowed them to feel, hear, see..."

But then you went off the reservation and devolved into hogwash when you continued with this...........

"..., and communicate with the spirits of the dead easily and clearly, especially with no preconditioned beliefs telling them that the spirit communication was either inappropriate or just plain impossible.

Well, I am a scientist and not only do I not believe that shit but I know of no colleagues who do.

So.......Care to tell me why you think or how you can prove that our ancestors communicated with the dead? Or with Spirits or gods or any other supernatural entities?

You cannot, because they did not. They only may have thought they did. Just like some people today believe in gods. It is an invention of the homo sapien mind, and has to do with our brain's attempt to seek purpose and order in a life filled with chaos and randomness. Our ancestors may have indeed prayed for rain or chanted to their Rain Gods for it. And then maybe once or twice it actually DID rain after their chants. SO they thought they were talking with gods. They may have also left written artifacts or petroglyphs or hieroglyphics depicting their make-believe communication with their gods.

But rest assured, those are no more real than other works of fiction such as the Bible.

Mankind has grown past the point of needing to communicate with their ancestors to learn more about the world. We have large amounts of data recorded and quick access to much of that data.

Technology has separated us from God.

Well, most rational and educated people have grown past trying to do this, and we realize that the dead do not speak, nor are their gods or spirits, and that this is all silly hocus pocus supersition. We may try to learn about our real mortal ancestors, as in genealogy, but this is the only type of "communication" with our predecessors that makes a lick of sense.

And technology cannot separate us from something that does not exist, like god. Or spirits. What IS happening here is that people are getting more educated and savvy and we are slowly learning that religion and talk of gods belongs in the mythology section of the Library of Life, and not in the Reality Section.

Ancient people DID have far more acute physical sensory skills than we, such as hearing and smell. We were more in-tuned with nature and with the land. This all makes perfect sense since we were living OFF the and were an agrarian-based society until the early 20th century.

So....yeah, there is a "use it or lose it" dynamic at work insofar as our once-acute sensory skills are concerned. Those sensory perception CAN be likened to a muscle in a very loose sense.

But as far as once being able to communicate with spirits, bullshit. I will only agree that the belief and the need in communicating with them may have been much greater than. Just like many things we now know are ignorant were believed back then, like a flat earth, or dragons, or Rain Gods, or once-dead Jewish carpenters who raise from the dead and invite doubters to stick their fingers in his sides! LOL

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(MY) reason is I haven't heard from "him" (I) haven't seen any action from him. (I) haven't seen him answer ANYONE's prayers. (I) haven't seen one iota of proof that IT exists. (I) can't see why an "allpowerful" can't straighten out the mess of confusion HIS believers have spread around the world. (I) do not wish to experience a cruel "god" (OR devil)! (I) wish he would just show up and show the people of the world some REAL "love". (I) will wait with an open mind, but I won't just believe what I am taught to believe, or what I read in a book.

I dunno, I don't usually feel things that aren't real. X'D

The above "definition" is not actually true, or even original, it's actually direct copypasta of the fifth paragraph of Chapter 2 of "The Truth About Psychics: What's Real, What's Not, and How to Tell the Difference" by Sylvia Browne.

This is a claim that is unsubstantiated, but worse, Sylvia Browne herself is a proven fraud, not only have several of her psychic predictions been proven false, but she was convicted of fraud and grand larceny by The Superior Court of Santa Clara County, California.

But that's just poisoning the well, let's look at the actual claim, do "scientists and anthropologists" agree that humans had stronger senses?

Well, according to some brief research I did of the brain, sensory input is a complicated series of processes utilizing the thalamus, cerebrum and neocortex; but, our current brains are more developed than the brains of our forebearers, and there's no proof that any part of our brains were more highly tuned or in any way better at sensory perception, so I can't accept that claim.

Not to mention, this is professing an additional claim, that this greater sensory perception includes an ability to see things beyond the natural world, which includes spirits, would only be believable if you presupposed that immortal spirits existed.

And finally, as a side note, if some ancestor of ours had "greater" perception, then that evolutionary characteristic would have been passed down to its descendants.

UNLESS that was a mutation that was not naturally selected to be fit for our descendants. Which is to say, even if I assumed that this claim is true - which I don't - it could only be true if the ability to perceive god was naturally selected out of our evolutionary line; which is to say that some of our ancestors could see god and others couldn't, and the ones that could were less likely to survive. What would that say about gods?

Thankfully, I don't believe this is true. It's total hogwash.

Your sin separates you from God, and as long as you love your sin you will remain separated from God and not experience knowing Him.