Hi Lucy, I guess we can't be sure that there was a sudden enlightment 40000years ago. We just have such extreme little archaeological findings of that time. And of course no one knows what shamans did and believed in that time, we don't know how the cave paintings relate to beliefs and rituals. Or the workshop hoster is a nonphysical-akashic chronicle archaeologist?
Spooky

Hi Lucy,
can't say if the comparison with the Venus is right; I say a further exploration of Venus and Mars is not as exciting as a deeper exploration of the oceans because in the oceans I expect are much more interesting things than on other planets, on the latter there are just deserts in various forms, you can't make a cute animal movie there or find something from our elders (at least I don't believe it).
There are indeed mysterious ancient things and of course I too want to know "How did they do it?"!

I recently saw a in tv a report about mummies found in China. Well I couldn't believe it, no one could, but it seems to be true, one of these mummies was more than 1000 years old (or even 2000years?) and it looked like a body dead since only a few days, they showed a movie of the dissection, really! They called it "wet mummie" because it actually was wet. All the organs were there, in shape. (That's a different league than the egyptian mummies, which are just dried out and covered with resin. No real big deal in my opinion) So how did they do it? How did they know? Why did they do it? Or is it only an occasional lucky case of coincidental conservation? I want to know! (And why couldn't they heal her (the mummie's) arteriosklerosis, that's what they found out from the dissection.)
Spooky