Yes I've heard about the role of dreams in major discoveries, and it's very interesting. Still, my main point was that maybe the 'Bronze Age Priests' were ahead of us in certain ways we can't imagine. Although as you know I'm with you on space exploration and science generally, I still suspect that the downside of the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolutions, is that we are tending to mistake earlier spiritual 'superconsciousness' for mere superstition. - Now in many cases that's all it was: superstition. But I also suspect that the ancients were conscious of some things which are - whoosh - right over our heads, and which we can't see clearly enough. So, to our modern minds it seems like crap.
But you know, think of religious nomads living in the desert - they might come up with valuable spirituality and awareness .. that night sky alone would awaken hidden depths of the soul ..
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