Some people say proof of man's predatory dominance as a species is not continuously evolving weapon systems but man's prehistoric mastery of the plants, minerals, and animals of his environment;  humanity's innate awareness of nature, the elements, the spirit, of how they combine to make life. Awareness lost to  the continuing war, famine, and plague of ancient history. Awareness symbolized, ritualized, and retained as faith by a surviving prehistoric animistic belief system. Its disciples performed the birthing rite of the ‘ta shen ling‘, the 'she...