stop reading ancient texts looking for The Answer and start reading them for resonance.
chronological regression is the belief that ancient people knew more about the mysteries of life and the universe than you do and it’s shaped by the assumption that history is a downward slope along which fundamental truths have been lost to modernity in our spiraling societal decay.
stop! let’s not intellectualize why you might find this compelling, or where valid points concede to uncritical reverence for the past. let’s talk about what this frame of thinking actually produces in your embodied experience.
it insinuates one capital-A Answer that you must search for. when you only have eyes for The Answer, you overlook profound, challenging, and transformative kindling that fuel your process of becoming and offer the answer you need right now. short of dogmatic willfulness, you can surely see how cultivating and trusting your own discernment in the face of multiple compelling answers is as close to god as you’re likely to get in this plane of existence...?
what’s more, if the ancients had The Answer to the mysteries of life and universe, how could society decay? possession of The Answer would surely produce an enduring utopia. its hard to imagine how such a precious thing was lost by such wise people.
maybe they did have The Answer. but god, as such, changed up the rules because what’s the point of playing if you've already beat the game?
...isn't that when you start locking your Sim in a room with no doors or windows to break the rules and watch how the game reacts?
you've read the bible—an enclycopedia of human fallibility. in fact, that seems to be the point. isn't it true that we can channel the divine and still have good days and bad days? i don't get the impression that god necessarily avoids the bad days to deliver his messages. a certain margin of error is to be expected.
plus, there’s a fundamental barrier: language. that limiting tool that can't fully express the full essence of a thing. “once you teach a child the name of the bird, the child will never see the bird again”—are you really asking the cage of language to reveal the unfathomable freedom of the universe?
then we get into the business of translating languages between one another and as you know that creates a meaningful chasm in something already inadequate (see the bird quote above)...how might you balance the nuance between "virgin", "maiden", "young woman", and "unmarried woman" if all god gave you to work with was "parthenos"?
so, remember: all texts, ancient and otherwise, channeled and otherwise, are limited by the very fact that their creators are humans, not god.
finally, at least for now, you must remember that everything is god. sometimes you forget, naming only the mysterious and miraculous but, truly, all things come from One.
the sacred is merely the mundane given special status through meaning. let all things be the word of god, your own discernment a holy act. after all, god is revealed through direct revelation, not a user manual.