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| Articles about Chapter Three |
| CHAPTER THREE | | 2005-09-04 00:22:00 | | SOCIALIZATION: FOR BEGINNERS Once set in motion, the intent of permanence took relatively few generations to be actualized. The pervading challenges found in these pre-village environs fostered a supply and demand approach to nearly every need and was soon met with a rate of expansion toward satisfying that cause with a response not witnessed before. Even in the beginning, location was everything. It was no accident, even from the narrow perspective the “now”, that these settlements should spring up near bodies of fresh water. Besides the obvious use for personal and livestock demands, its proximity enhanced the chances of a successful hunt and provided fertile ground for the wild grass seeds collected for the consideration of cultivation. All the vital steps along the path of socialization, including the continued enhancement of trade, would require the utilization of water, more to the point, fresh moving water such as a river or tributary system. Finding themselves dependent on the resources available in the region they’ve settled, challenged their adaptive qualities daily in a way that, in time, established routines that would evolve into standards identifiable as indigenous to those people, of that area. Being independent of the familiarity and wisdom of a clan elder, summoned latent talents from the depths of souls that might not have been realized under less stressful circumstances. Imaginations were exercised to meet the most basic of needs. Group memories and time honored lore had to be recalled, sometimes in detail, when searching out remedies and potions for the protection or health of anyone who may fall victim to any one of a variety of potential illnesses waiting for a host to fulfill its own Divinely Guided life cycle. A few, we can be sure, creatively filled that dispensatory niche as medicinal requirements presented themselves, and moved ever slowly toward the initiation of one of the many manifestations pharmacology would assume, before soph... | | By: THE HIGH WATCH, a View of God's Unfolding Divine P | | |
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