| I don't know..it seems unlikely we could repeat that past...Nature grew our ancestors.... The old woman of a group or old man was the great grandfather of the group or grandmother, alive by uncanny wit and good fortune...caring for blood relatives... they were very closely kit on every level....and I think as importantly, there was no alternative view...
An example is found in "Shunning" among some primal peoples. If the group turns away, a person withers and dies. You see, that person has no where to be any more, has no imagined other life to seek out...they just die as no one will receive them, will confirm their life in the world...
Observers have reported something akin to hysterical blindness can effect the group...they no longer see the shunned...They attribute anything they do as the work of evil spirits and flee... they seem genuinely perplexed and frightened that the shunned (now a spirit) in haunting them....
Imagine a group making a decision that then alters every members perception of reality on the sensory level! To the extent that a former sister or brother is invisible to them or seen as something else, something bad.
If we were ever able ...or willing for that matter to return to a tribal mind,...I think we would have to be re grown from scratch...but what do I know! LOL
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