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The Lost Importance of Ancient Oral Tradition in Modern Spirituality
And Why We Should Bring it Back
Have you ever read something and shrugged it off only to later hear it from someone verbally (or have it visually communicated through sign) and then feel it in an “Aha!” moment?
Sometimes we can see information that has been written but that information doesn’t feel like it’s been fully integrated until we verbally, or physically, experience its communication through another human being.
This person-to-person exchange of information, through the sounds and motions of our bodies, extends back in time to our pre-homo sapiens days. It sits at the foundation of our humanity and has set the stage for the myriad of communication forms that have evolved with us over time.
However, as our ancestors began to experiment with the dispersal of information over large distances and in mass quantities we lost an important piece of the information that was being shared.
Ancient oral traditions are seen by elders and keepers across the globe as incredibly important to the continuation of our species and for good reason. This personal exchange not only communicates the information itself but the moral, emotional, ethical, historical and vibrational knowledge that cannot always be adequately passed on by written…
